Poll: Do you "cheat" on minecraft? (Poll request)

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Requesting poll of:

1) Always
2) When building large projects
3) Never


Hey guys, well I've been quite enjoying minecraft recently after having dipped into it previously and stopping and I wondered just how you lot play.

Personally I really quite enjoy not cheating and mining out the materials. At the same time I don't think I have the patients for large projects. Until recently I had been minding my own mining iron for a minecart system and I got about 200 bars. Then I hooked up with a friend and put my world online and since then we have only been building big things and I've been cheating instead.

The mine cart system I've been able to create as a result of infinite materials is vastly superior and I have thoroughly enjoyed building it, but at the same time I wonder if I would have more so if I hadn't of cheated or if I simply would never have even built it due to the work needed to get the materials.

So what's your take on it, do you mine out your materials regardless of how big you want your castle to be? Do people cheat on big minecraft servers like the ocuk one where if you were to mine for the materials you'd just destroy the world in the process?


Do not turn this into a discussion about if it's cheating or not when the game is ultimately about building structures. Personally I feel you can do what ever you want.

 

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Didn't even know it was possible to cheat

So no

There are several ways, I simply started cheating when I hosted my world up on my own server and thus am the admin so I can do what I want to the world.

I think I might section a part off my world where I don't cheat and start over, but at the same time i've now tasted easy mode I might be tainted for life :'( haha.

Collecting the resources is half the fun for me, so no I tend not to cheat. I still run with stone tools as iron ore and diamonds are so precious to me

Yes I did used to feel that way, I'm unsure now. There are things I want to build and there is also the fact that it some of them would take anywhere up to 1000 blocks to build them.

I too used to stick to iron and stone. My god mining with a diamond pickaxe is A LOT faster haha .

I have a world i don't cheat on and one when i just want to jump in and build massive projects.

Why not put it all on one world and just section it off? Or would temptation be too great haha.

 

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I played on a server i built a massive caslte made out of sandstone took me ages but every one else was cheating so it spoiled the wow factor of a lot of the stuff they had built.

In the end they wanted money towards server cost and i didnt want to play on a server where everyone cheated.

So my castle remained unfinshed

Yeah I do feel the wow factor of my giant minecart system was some what demimished. I think in the end I probably needed another 100 iron to complete the tracks and probably another 400 smooth stone.

I suspect I might start over again where I make mini projects in an area which I worked for all of it and build a roller coaster and stuff like that on the cheating one as I want to use a lot of glass and lava etc and it may go horribly wrong if I take short cuts isntead of cheating .

 

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I think it spoils a lot of the game, they had it on daylight constantly spwaning items and stuff it really takes the fear out of death and the joy out of finding a good haul of resources that you need.

True that, i've currenty got mobs set as off on my sever. Means you can't die evenfrom falling damage really as your health regenerates. Can't drown either.

At the same time I think mobs might have destroyed what I was doing and due to it being so complex with redstone logic gates i'd of rage quit!

 

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why not just play creative mode, where you have access to unlimited quantities of all materials?


I get slaves to help me on big projects, it's why I play mp.

Haha this is true but I play with a friend so that is why I play survival. However he would much rather cheat and I would rather not really. However if he is going to help me on my project and cheat then I might as well too otherwise it's meaningless.

You should come play on the ocuk server mate

No cheating

You must have huge underground farms for wood and cobble stone then? You know I might join you guys on that server some time after my exams. I do greatly enjoy team work and provided I had my own area where I could easily get the materials I wanted I'd be content, though if it was miles out I might not as I';d like people to see my work too haha .

On the ocuk server do you lot have minecarts to get to places in the map? I noticed skyrails are banned so I presume you have to make the minecarts go down to bedrock to prevent them getting in the way of peoples projects?

you could always build a cobble stone generator


you have to manually "mine" the cobble it produces but it means you can build it in a room ,then during the night just safely mine out stacks of cobble easily and quickly

This is a good idea, I presume you do it by having water and lava constantly flow into each other? Though I'm unsure as to how you make it so you get cobbles and not obsidian. I think it's water ontop of lava gives cobbles and lava ontop of water gives obsidion?

 

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Poll is up!

 

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How does PVP work on servers? A server where you have two teams wouldbe kinda cool but I can imagine it would just turn into greafing the moment it's opened to public. You'd have to cover the walls of your castle with water to stop tnt attacks and put a big base of obsidian in to stop underground assults with tnt traps in it too as a warning so you can hear if they mine under you.

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There are some very impressive buildings on that server. How comes some people build so far away where no one else will ever venture and see?

Or are these traps and what not for TNT? I made my own trap in my world but then we started cheating so it was ultimately pointless haha.

 

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there are lots of rail systems going up.

people also have access to tp which lets players teleport to each other (with permisio nfro mthe person being ported to) , and a home setting so /home will take you back to your building.

Yeah i've noticed that, looks pretty cool. Well after my exams I shall come poke around and If I see a nice area that takes my fancy I may set up shop and build something.

currently we have pvp off.

but there used to be mods where you could designate areas to pvp zones for arenas etc, and have teams.

Tnt cannons would be fun laying siege to a castle.

Yeah i've been thinking about it and there are a lot of cool possibilities for PVP but it requires reliable people who will play by the rules. Would require a modified map so that the starting areas contain a reasonable amount of iron and coal to begin with and have like an hour start with 20 people a side if you were organised you could easily have quite a lot built and have a group of people working on an underground mob spawner for the tnt cannons, which would be kinda late game items in a way. Make it so you have to destroy a diamond statue in the other persons camp to win.


Are there any servers which can handle a lot of tnt though?

 

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Have you seen the 360 degree cannon on youtube? It's so rediculasly accurate and extremely long range. Highly reccomend it. Would be a brilliant defence ontop of a castle.

 

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I thought that too tbh. Why is the pancake even on any poles? I want to be able to see clearly the percentages of people doing each thing and I can't. I didn't ask for it, it shouldn't have been put in tbh but I guess you can still work it out, it's pretty clear the majority don't cheat or only do when its a huge project.

 

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I see why it's a harmless joke in most cases. This one however would have been good without. Oh well, not going to loose sleep over it.

I should have added "Never - I don't build large projects" and "Never - Even on large projects"

Yeah, I use singleplayer commands and toomanyitems in my large projects, although when actually 'playing' those projects upon completion, or simply playing a normal survival game, I won't cheat. Unfortunately the area I need to clear to build my current project has taken upwards of 30000 blocks of TNT and is nowhere near completion. I couldn't mine that much normally, it would take far too long.

Oooo do explain this project. Do you have a youtube channel with them on?