For a while I would work as a coder during the day, and in the evening I would work in the mines, for my son. "Dad we need more iron ore. Dad, make sure the furnaces have coal in them." Eventually my kid worked out that you can build generators, effectively coding it in MC bricks and providing infinite resources. Probably the first time he's coded something, he just doesn't know it. This made my evenings a bit less m…
You might be looking for a kind of deliberate planned game design that just isn't really there in Minecraft. The world is destructible so why not have a block to blow it up? TNT takes gunpowder to create because why wouldn't it? Gunpowder comes from creepers because they're around and they explode. Minecarts are for riding in, but the first thing Notch demonstrated for them was a rollercoaster. Horses weren't added u…
I remember wondering so many times, yet it makes so much sense.