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What's a good game you played with an awful tutorial? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Either it didn't teach you anything at all, or it taught you the most irrelevant parts of the game.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think the issue was it wasn't clear what items were available to craft. If I had known that axes, pickaxes, shovels, etc. were all in the game then it might have been easier, but even making the crafting table (2x2 wood planks) wasn't very intuitive. Honestly, there wasn't much of a clear path forward with most of the recipes. Advancements and the recipe book later helped a lot, but it was pretty hard to play during beta and alpha without the wiki or a mod like TMI.

Then there's redstone. I feel like even today, redstone is completely unexplained in the game, and while you can kind of figure it out on your own, many of the intricacies are left unexplained (repeater locking, timings, comparators, how redstone is passed/not passed through different kinds of blocks, gates, etc). Without taking some time to learn about digital logic and basic computer engineering concepts on your own, redstone is basically magic dust that does a thing when put in a specific configuration.

Also, being pedantic, but shears weren't added until beta 1.7. Wool dropped from sheep before that. That being said, alpha had a lot of really weird mob drops (why did zombies drop feathers?) and there wasn't much use for wool anyway beyond decorative purposes and hiding doorways with paintings until beds were added in beta 1.3.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah, I forgot, it's been a decade you used to literally just punch sheep and I vaguely recall when that update dropped. I recall eventually just looking stuff up, but a lot of it I figured out on my own first. Redstone is absolutely something that really needs an in game guide that the game completely lacks, nothing about it is intuitive at all, even if you know how digital logic works it behaves a little strangely.

I always played the game to build cool forts and castles so wool was definitely useful to me to make them look good.

zombies dropped feathers because the game didn't have chickens until sometime after 2012 (0.3?) and you needed them for arrows alphas are just like that. The Rust alpha was similarly nonsensical.

I always thought part of the appeal was just discovering the world and how it works, but it's so established at this point it's better to just have a guide in game.