alt Hacker NewsThat feels so weird. Isn't the whole premisce of these things "this is a game where each block must be placed with purpose", and so using anything automated literally takes out most of that sentence and it just becomes "this is a game". I don't get the appeal or the expectation of triumph.
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Don't overcomplicate it. There is no one true way, for Minecraft or for anything.
I don't get it
You're actually allowed to play video games the way you want to.
"this is a game where each block must be placed with purpose"
You lack the hacker mindset if you think you "must" do anything the way it was designed.
Think you are missing a couple decades of Minecraft automation. Its been done since the beginning. This is just cool example of taking it to extreme.
The game generates the worlds using automation even when playing normally. Have you even played Minecraft?
People have been doing this for a LONG TIME
Here's a video of Yosemite Valley from 2014:
> I did not build this by hand. That would take decades! Instead, I wrote an MCEdit filter that took images and elevation data from Google Maps and turned them into blocks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jWAwWD47OE