Minecraft without mods is SO FRUSTRATING

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You only have to figure out the crafting for yourself in the PC version. The console version just uses drop-down menus. Drives me crazy, but new players would find it useful.

I think the reason why the PC version has no tutorials is because there's already 10 squillionty videos and tutorials and guides and databases and wiki pages, so that it's just never been needed for it. But consoles arent used to browse the Net even close to as often, so they do need a tutorial as the devs cant just assume that the player will easily find info on their own.

The reason the PC version uses the grid is because it actually ends up just being dramatically faster, and it's easier to memorize crafting recipes that way. Something like Terraria? I cant memorize any of them, beyond like, torches. I have to look them up. But Minecraft? I know all of them. There's an actual visual aspect to them, with shaping them on the grid, so I can actually memorize them.

On the note of the combat, I agreed with that one for the most part, but they overhauled it recently. Nobody actually liked the "click-spam" combat it originally had (many mods, thusly, changed it around). So that actually got replaced.

Yeah, I know, but at this point it'd be wasted development time to do that; wether small or huge, no developer wastes time when they dont have to.

And I tell ya, tutorial-related standards have dropped hard these days, as PC gaming goes. Alot of them dont HAVE tutorials, even when they're complicated in the way Dwarf Fortress is. I suspect they figure that by now people are used to looking up tutorial videos and guides for all sorts of games, so why bother putting a tutorial IN the game in question? Bah.

I just find it frustrating having to go back and forth between a game and a browser in order to know what I'm doing.

Unfortunately, you're right. I just find it frustrating having to go back and forth between a game and a browser in order to know what I'm doing.