The randomly generated worlds of Minecraft have captivated gaming audiences for years. To some, what draws them into this game are the exploratory aspects. To others, they're more interested in creating. Regardless of why they're playing, Minecraft has something for everyone.
As Minecraft's many worlds receive praise from gamers all around the world, most players can agree that living in these worlds would have plenty of upsides. Other games could also argue about the many downsides living in these worlds would have, ranging from minor inconveniences to life-threatening danger around every turn.
10 Perk: Exploring And Charting The World Could Be Fun
If there is one word that can be used to describe the experience of Minecraft's open world, it's vast. These worlds spawn at nearly infinite intervals and with so much variation that players are guaranteed to not see the same sight in every world, no matter how slight the difference. Being in these worlds and taking in the sights would be breathtaking. With the proper tools, one might even be able to chart their way through the world and map out each location worthy of looking into more.
9 Harsh Reality: Getting Lost Is Fairly Easy
Exploration also comes with the major issue of getting lost. Now, while compasses in Minecraft point back to the spawn point or where the player slept, not having one and wandering around the world is akin to running through the woods in all directions and getting lost.
What would make matters worse is once someone is lost, there are no guaranteed means of finding a way home unless they purposefully set some waypoint systems up. But as a newbie, wandering this vast world, the average person wouldn't think twice about doing that.
8 Perk: Plentiful Resources
A Minecraft world comes with a rich collection of resources waiting to be gathered up by someone willing to brave the underground or the surface. There's plenty of wildlife to hunt for food, potential crops to farm and completely edible bread to be found in old treasure chests, so food isn't much of an issue.
Valuable resources like iron, gold, and diamonds are waiting to be discovered. The number of items to collect is just limited to how much can be held.
7 Harsh Reality: Gathering Resources Would Be Exhausting
The caveat to bountiful resources is that someone has to gather them, and unfortunately in Minecraft's world, that someone has to be the player. While finding and spotting these resources sounds fun at the outset, having to do that all in-person is a chore.
If that isn't exhausting enough, tools would eventually break and wear down and if there's no crafting table around, the person doing all these tasks has to tire themselves out more by running back and forth. The work being done, might not equal the reward obtained for it all.
6 Perk: The Freedom To Build A Dream Home
With a free world that lacks many structures, the player can leave their mark by building the home of their dreams. This can be as simple as a cottage, or as huge as a skyscraper. The only thing truly limiting the player for what they could make is their imagination. Being an architect in a Minecraft world would easily be the perfect match when it comes to building a beautiful and liveable shelter.
5 Harsh Reality: The Feeling Of Isolation Would Be Upsetting
A free world to do whatever someone wants might sound great, but if this is a single-player Minecraft world, then loneliness would set in pretty quickly. There might be other mobs and NPCs to make the loneliness subside, but being the only real person with any agency in the world would be maddening.
Not every person would be lucky enough to spawn with a village right next to them. Some people may spawn in a desert where there's nothing but sand and husks everywhere to terrorize them.
4 Perk: No Actual Rules To Restrain Choices
One of the more freeing aspects of existing in one of Minecraft's worlds would be how freeing it is to have no rules to follow. The only rules are those learned from observing the world. Things like not looking an Enderman in the eyes could be easily learned and self-enforced. Morals wouldn't play too much of a role considering how neutral most of the world is to the player.
3 Harsh Reality: Tough Environments Wouldn't Be Easy To Live Around
Building a home in the Overworld might seem easy, but not every biome is hospitable. Colder biomes would come with the potential obstacle of mountain goats, while swamp-living people might have to do battle against some witches.
Most people wouldn't even have thought of building a house in the other dimensions either. The Nether is an inhospitable hellscape of a world, and the End is full of Endermen that would have any player constantly staring at the floor in fear, only for them to get shot by a Shulker and launched into the sky.
2 Perk: Being Able To Own Many Pets
Pet lovers would be right at home in a Minecraft world. Although, it would be challenging trying to tame the pets in the wild, but once that's been done, the pet will follow their new owner around and even fight with them, depending on the type of pet they are.
Pets in Minecraft also don't have to be fed like normal pets in the real world do, only when they need to be healed up, and typically what they eat are things that aren't too hard to find. Anyone with a love for animals can return to a house filled to the brim with pets of all types, ranging from fish and axolotls to cats and wolves.
1 Harsh Reality: Hostile Mobs Would Make Life Miserable
An unavoidable factor of Minecraft's worlds is the hostile mobs. Plenty of them are neutral or friendly, but the ones that aren't friendly have it out for the player. They will find where the player is and with all of their power, try to destroy them.
Creepers would blow up any beautifully built house, Pillagers would start trying to occupy a home, Endermen would take pieces from a house, and Phantoms would make sleepless nights that much worse. This is all just the mobs that would be encountered in the Overworld, the hostile mobs in the likes of the Nether and The End would be worse in some cases.