Minecraft for Beginners

Lew Zealand

Helper
If you have the right mods, the game can look like this (Don't ask about the NASA supercomputer totally "regular" PC I used to take this)
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The funny thing about terrain mods (I've used a lot of them) is they functionally make you smaller. Along with the blocks you use but what are they really doing?

Making everything else bigger. Farther away. Larger. Takes longer to get there (that's the part that started to annoy me about Terralith and Tectonic with Distant Horizons). It functionally makes Minecraft into smaller blocks that take longer to traverse because you're functionally smaller than the terrain now. Sure you get finer a grained-feeling building and there's demand for that with the vertical slab resurfacing recently, but it makes the traversal part of Minecraft feel a bit too much.

So I stopped using them and find MC to be more manageable now. I think for creative builds and adventure maps they're great but very large terrain generation kinda kills MC's vibe for me. Though I'd like a few more giant tree options, like with the option to span from ocean level to build height.

I love huge trees, I'd like a mod that just added configurable ones in because I'd probably love 300m high trees for an hour and then need to tame them down to a normal-ish level.

Like only 280m. That's totally good.

 

WynnicWithered

Farmhand
The funny thing about terrain mods (I've used a lot of them) is they functionally make you smaller. Along with the blocks you use but what are they really doing?

Making everything else bigger. Farther away. Larger. Takes longer to get there (that's the part that started to annoy me about Terralith and Tectonic with Distant Horizons). It functionally makes Minecraft into smaller blocks that take longer to traverse because you're functionally smaller than the terrain now. Sure you get finer a grained-feeling building and there's demand for that with the vertical slab resurfacing recently, but it makes the traversal part of Minecraft feel a bit too much.

So I stopped using them and find MC to be more manageable now. I think for creative builds and adventure maps they're great but very large terrain generation kinda kills MC's vibe for me. Though I'd like a few more giant tree options, like with the option to span from ocean level to build height.

I love huge trees, I'd like a mod that just added configurable ones in because I'd probably love 300m high trees for an hour and then need to tame them down to a normal-ish level.

Like only 280m. That's totally good.

The tallest trees in the screenshot are ~100m tall, while the mountains are at y=400
 
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