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Before getting into a world, it is helpful to define what your world is. Minecraft has infinite possibilities and play styles, and playing single player allows you to define the rules for your own world. I take full advantage of this.
Survival:
I should first explain that I am NOT against cheats. I have stopped disabled them in my long-term survival world, if for the reason that if there is ever a glitch or issue i want access to admin commands to fix it. I have also decided using world edit commands to manipulate the terrain to sculpt them into more natural terrain is an acceptable use of commands in *my* world. not everyone plays this way, but it is not cheating since i define the worlds of my own world :)
Goals:
So let me mention the goals i have for my own world. I actually enjoy survival resource games. where you gather resources, set up industry to better attain said resources, and acquire renewable ways of replenishing items. Minecraft vanilla has some of these goals achieved naturally, but not all of them actually. There is a startling number of resources that are non-renewable and not 'farmable' without destroying the terrain. I very much find the idea of striping for example the desert dry to build a giant glass cloud over a volcano a terrible use of resources in my world and my IRL time. But I don't want to just play in creative because it takes the resource management and survival element out of the game and that is one of my favorite parts. But I also don't want a game that takes the time use of a IRL job grind to produce enough items to build epic amazing things. So let me list the goals and rules of my own Single Player world:
-Enjoy Survival challenges, including:
-chance of dying and overcoming 'bad guys' or mobs in-game
-resource building and management
-managing farms
-creative use of command blocks:
-to produce farms that still require some work to produce goods
-animate elements of the world to be more realistic / or even fantastical
-Limit the vanilla use of griefing such as by enderman or creepers
Building Aspirations:
Ok, with an idea of what the rules are in my world, what about my dreams? In this game, even with these loose rules, I could still literally create anything! from a floating island with waterfalls and mountains, to a steampunk dwarven fortress berried deep in the core of the world.
-Midieval Fantasy / history
-large changes in theme will be separated by space
This gives me the ability to still tie everything in, with still some creative ability to go off and build a new world :) There i think im set!
Datapacks
Ok, now that I have figured out how I want to play my world, and a general theme to use the world for, what tools can I add to my world that helps? My goals especially effect this. Here are the datapacks I have decided on (though I do frequently change or add some). I tend to add things that make sense or were in the game in previous versions such as wool to string. Some of the datapacks I add allow me to craft things back into previous states for the purpose of storing things in a more confined space.
-Vanilla Tweaks datapack mods:
-anti creeper grief
-anti enderman grief
-anti ghast grief
-double shulker shells
-villager death messages
-silence mobs
-dragon drops (though i would love a better one that just drops wings, not the stupid egg)
-armored elytra
after selecting them all you download them, you need to unzip them and drop them into your minecraft world save 'datapack' folder (or create the folder).
-Vanilla Tweaks Crafting pack:
There are so many on this page that are of vallue, and they all download into a tidy singular zip file :) you don't even need to unzip it, you just drop them into the datapack folder. The ones I decided on are:
-quality of life: back to blocks, straight to shapeless, blackstone cobblestone, universal dyeing, coal to black dye, charcoal to black dye
More Blocks: more trapdoors, more bark, more stairs
Craftable: craftable coral blocks 3x3, craftable blackstone, craftable gravel
unpackable: unpackable nether wart, unpackable ice, unpackable wool
-One Player Sleep datapack: Ok, I know there is now (or soonish?) a gamerule to change it so you don't need everyone to sleep to skip night. And I do sometimes play this world with my family. I chose this specific pack though, cuz it works on single player and includes funny comments. I don't just skip the night I "saw logs" or "snuggle up with my teddy" the little flavor adds so much I love this pack and will probably continue using it as long as I can :)
-Dark Loading Screen: And lastly, I cannot stand the bright eyebleeding red loading screen. there are more and more datapacks to fix this issue, but here is the one I found.
Launcher:
a note before actually launching the game, Vanilla Minecraft by default only uses 2g ram. In order to change this go into installations > edit > advanced options > scroll to the bottom. In the line with lots of code, the first set of characters defines the ram the game is allowed to use. I recommend setting this higher if you have more ram, though you want to make sure not to set it to the max of your pc. i have 16g ram, so i put 10g as the max because i tend to run MC and a browser but not much else. If i was streaming i would drop that a bit more probably. But 2g can barely function generating new chunks in 1.17.1 on a beast of a gaming PC. Just replace the number with how many gigs ram you want allocated to MC in that version (you will need to do this for every version of MC you have installed.)
Commands:
I like to use a few of these either all the time or most of the time. Here's the ones I use and what they do, they are ready to be copy pasted:
Gamerules:
turns firespread off. Nothing worse than realizing your crop town was struck by lightning and burned away. doesn't stop all damage, but helps a lot.
I turn this off, because in my world with it on I was getting a patrol about every three or 4 days. There isn't a way to lower the spawn rate so I just turned it off. I like the mechanic and may try to find a way to more specifically control this, but for now turned it off because I want to build, not be jump scared by day time mobs.
I believe this is infact vanilla default, but I set it as such just in case. It means when the player who angered a mob dies, the mobs cease being angry. If I play with family I want this already set up.
This makes sure your inventory isn't deleted when you die. I may not always use this rule, but I currently need it to help with my mental anxiety issues.
I want to note this because I did not initially know about Spawn Chunks. And manually setting the world spawn, does NOT in fact move this location. Spawn chunks are always loaded when the dimension is loaded, meaning entities built here will always be loaded causing lag. You can build mob switches here to limit mobs on the entire map, or farms such as iron or wool farms that will not turn off. Now personally I have found that if no players are in the overworld spawn chunks do unload when the dimension is unloaded. If you want it always loaded you can use /forceload ~ ~ ~ true (look at a block in the chunk you want to keep loaded when u start typing and it will auto fill the coordinates. I have found on single player that thunder happens far too frequently to keep the overworld loaded without someone ready to sleep at any point. I have lost 2 villagers to becoming witches in probably 200 MC days. Having changed my spawn location, I now am not sure where the world spawn and spawn chunks are specifically. So make sure you note the current generated world spawn location before changing the player spawn location with this code.
Survival:
I should first explain that I am NOT against cheats. I have stopped disabled them in my long-term survival world, if for the reason that if there is ever a glitch or issue i want access to admin commands to fix it. I have also decided using world edit commands to manipulate the terrain to sculpt them into more natural terrain is an acceptable use of commands in *my* world. not everyone plays this way, but it is not cheating since i define the worlds of my own world :)
Goals:
So let me mention the goals i have for my own world. I actually enjoy survival resource games. where you gather resources, set up industry to better attain said resources, and acquire renewable ways of replenishing items. Minecraft vanilla has some of these goals achieved naturally, but not all of them actually. There is a startling number of resources that are non-renewable and not 'farmable' without destroying the terrain. I very much find the idea of striping for example the desert dry to build a giant glass cloud over a volcano a terrible use of resources in my world and my IRL time. But I don't want to just play in creative because it takes the resource management and survival element out of the game and that is one of my favorite parts. But I also don't want a game that takes the time use of a IRL job grind to produce enough items to build epic amazing things. So let me list the goals and rules of my own Single Player world:
-Enjoy Survival challenges, including:
-chance of dying and overcoming 'bad guys' or mobs in-game
-resource building and management
-managing farms
-creative use of command blocks:
-to produce farms that still require some work to produce goods
-animate elements of the world to be more realistic / or even fantastical
-Limit the vanilla use of griefing such as by enderman or creepers
Building Aspirations:
Ok, with an idea of what the rules are in my world, what about my dreams? In this game, even with these loose rules, I could still literally create anything! from a floating island with waterfalls and mountains, to a steampunk dwarven fortress berried deep in the core of the world.
-Midieval Fantasy / history
-large changes in theme will be separated by space
This gives me the ability to still tie everything in, with still some creative ability to go off and build a new world :) There i think im set!
Datapacks
Ok, now that I have figured out how I want to play my world, and a general theme to use the world for, what tools can I add to my world that helps? My goals especially effect this. Here are the datapacks I have decided on (though I do frequently change or add some). I tend to add things that make sense or were in the game in previous versions such as wool to string. Some of the datapacks I add allow me to craft things back into previous states for the purpose of storing things in a more confined space.
-Vanilla Tweaks datapack mods:
-anti creeper grief
-anti enderman grief
-anti ghast grief
-double shulker shells
-villager death messages
-silence mobs
-dragon drops (though i would love a better one that just drops wings, not the stupid egg)
-armored elytra
after selecting them all you download them, you need to unzip them and drop them into your minecraft world save 'datapack' folder (or create the folder).
-Vanilla Tweaks Crafting pack:
There are so many on this page that are of vallue, and they all download into a tidy singular zip file :) you don't even need to unzip it, you just drop them into the datapack folder. The ones I decided on are:
-quality of life: back to blocks, straight to shapeless, blackstone cobblestone, universal dyeing, coal to black dye, charcoal to black dye
More Blocks: more trapdoors, more bark, more stairs
Craftable: craftable coral blocks 3x3, craftable blackstone, craftable gravel
unpackable: unpackable nether wart, unpackable ice, unpackable wool
-One Player Sleep datapack: Ok, I know there is now (or soonish?) a gamerule to change it so you don't need everyone to sleep to skip night. And I do sometimes play this world with my family. I chose this specific pack though, cuz it works on single player and includes funny comments. I don't just skip the night I "saw logs" or "snuggle up with my teddy" the little flavor adds so much I love this pack and will probably continue using it as long as I can :)
-Dark Loading Screen: And lastly, I cannot stand the bright eyebleeding red loading screen. there are more and more datapacks to fix this issue, but here is the one I found.
Launcher:
a note before actually launching the game, Vanilla Minecraft by default only uses 2g ram. In order to change this go into installations > edit > advanced options > scroll to the bottom. In the line with lots of code, the first set of characters defines the ram the game is allowed to use. I recommend setting this higher if you have more ram, though you want to make sure not to set it to the max of your pc. i have 16g ram, so i put 10g as the max because i tend to run MC and a browser but not much else. If i was streaming i would drop that a bit more probably. But 2g can barely function generating new chunks in 1.17.1 on a beast of a gaming PC. Just replace the number with how many gigs ram you want allocated to MC in that version (you will need to do this for every version of MC you have installed.)
-Xmx10GCommands:
I like to use a few of these either all the time or most of the time. Here's the ones I use and what they do, they are ready to be copy pasted:
Gamerules:
/gamerule doFireTick falseturns firespread off. Nothing worse than realizing your crop town was struck by lightning and burned away. doesn't stop all damage, but helps a lot.
/gamerule doPatrolSpawning falseI turn this off, because in my world with it on I was getting a patrol about every three or 4 days. There isn't a way to lower the spawn rate so I just turned it off. I like the mechanic and may try to find a way to more specifically control this, but for now turned it off because I want to build, not be jump scared by day time mobs.
/gamerule forgiveDeadPlayers trueI believe this is infact vanilla default, but I set it as such just in case. It means when the player who angered a mob dies, the mobs cease being angry. If I play with family I want this already set up.
/gamerule keepinventory trueThis makes sure your inventory isn't deleted when you die. I may not always use this rule, but I currently need it to help with my mental anxiety issues.
/setworldspawnI want to note this because I did not initially know about Spawn Chunks. And manually setting the world spawn, does NOT in fact move this location. Spawn chunks are always loaded when the dimension is loaded, meaning entities built here will always be loaded causing lag. You can build mob switches here to limit mobs on the entire map, or farms such as iron or wool farms that will not turn off. Now personally I have found that if no players are in the overworld spawn chunks do unload when the dimension is unloaded. If you want it always loaded you can use /forceload ~ ~ ~ true (look at a block in the chunk you want to keep loaded when u start typing and it will auto fill the coordinates. I have found on single player that thunder happens far too frequently to keep the overworld loaded without someone ready to sleep at any point. I have lost 2 villagers to becoming witches in probably 200 MC days. Having changed my spawn location, I now am not sure where the world spawn and spawn chunks are specifically. So make sure you note the current generated world spawn location before changing the player spawn location with this code.
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