Thank god, someone aknowledges the solo world

I've been playing singleplayer mode all my life, and i still find it funny when someone says they can't play singleplayer because its "lonely" or "boring"

This video feels like the windows xp wallpaper, quiet yet welcoming, nostalgic and calming

I started a solo world 2 days ago after playing SMP for the past few weeks. It's so relaxing. Everything is at my own pace, no need to rush for rare items. The sense of accomplishing goals and projects as a solo is nice. I'm keeping a book and quill on me to record ideas and events, it helps to keep a sense of ongoing tasks.

Delaying the endgame for as long as possible is the key for me to stick to a world. The second I get elytra, it’s like a switch trips in my brain and it decides I’m done. Getting a large build project and future goals established early on, and make THAT the “end goal” of the world, rathe than just moving through the games progression. Once I get some builds up and running, the inspiration keeps going. I try to wait until a project requires me to need shulkers or wings before I decide to enter the end.

Moving to a new biome is a great idea. That's what the different biomes are for after all. I like to start off in one village and then move to another village

Something I recently started doing was changing the difficulty depending on what I'm doing. If I'm building a mob farm, I'll put the game on peaceful mode so I don't get ganged up on by Creepers or set alight by Blazes. I plan on moving some villagers into my base and infecting/curing them for better trade prices, so I'll be switching to hard mode for that. i guess my tip is; certain things are just easier on different difficulties, so don't be afraid to switch it up every now and then (unless you're playing hardcore, in which case good luck with nether-based spawner farms. They are annoying as balls to build lol)

As someone who has basically no one to play Minecraft with, this is going to help me a lot- Thank you! 😊

My solo creative world is like 6 or 7 years old at this point. I still remember what videos i watched when i was sculpting that one cave years ago, or making the ruins of a ceremonial site. Longevity breeds nostalgia, and its a good feeling.

I've played singleplayer survival for 95% of my minecraft days and this video brings up a ton of points that I knew but never thought about

minecraft is for anyone. it's not everyone's cup of tea, but anyone can find a type of minecraft that suits them. i never "got" server play (i was voted most likely NOT to get along with others three years running in school), but i was always curious as to its appeal. a few years back, i asked some of my minecraft acquaintances why they only played on servers. i thought their answers would boil down to a preference for social play, but was surprised when the recurring nub for most was that solo required more effort or skill to be fun (!?!). these were supposedly adult players, some quite the rugged individuals, too. perplexed, i just buried that knowledge and never questioned it again. your video finally explained their answers to me. thanks...

I've always enjoyed playing by myself. It's just more fun for me personally. I've always wanted to have a connected world so I'm going to start a new world and build a custom village in every biome. I think it would be fun to travel between them once it's all done. Plus it's not just gonna be one in each biome. I'd like to build types of villages too. Like a fishing village or a mining town. Figure that would keep things interesting

> start singleplayer world > Get quite far and it's fun > Friend starts a survival server > Want to support the server's existence > Want other people people to see your creations > Play on server instead > Make more progress than you did in singleplayer > Server dies > Unfamiliar with singleplayer world now > Have also outperformed yourself and focused on your builds in the server. > Eventually start a new singleplayer world > Tell friends about it > A friend starts a server The cycle continues

I've been playing mostly single player for years, probably have 3-4k hours easily. The problem I see with most players is how frequently they start over on new worlds instead of actually sticking with one. I do rush through the start of the game and in a few days have defeated the dragon, got full enchanted armour with elytra, a bunch of shulker boxes, a villager trading setup and a simple xp farm. This enables me to actually launch into huge projects that take months to finish. I gather resources to build stupidly efficient farms then use those resources to make bigger builds. It's honestly a ton of fun automating everything and then having their convenience help out while building whatever I want like mega bases, scaled cities, entire castle complexes or simply custom biomes.

If I could also suggest something... Explore. When I started my bronze age Minecraft world I hated the seed. However, the more I moved away from spawn and explored the world, the more I started liking it. The world generation is fantastic and there's so many interesting things to see. The world that Minecraft makes for you is HUGE! So, go find cool things, record them, map them, build something neat there!

I created a world with which I intended to be my forever world but I made one critical mistake. I explored too much of the world. I even mapped 3 x 3 full sized maps worth with my trading villagers and my industrial area smack dab in the middle. What happened was I saw so many opportunities that it slowed down my decision making. I couldn't focus. I started a new world with the new update going even smaller. Just for fun I tried using an old seed number I had because I remember it had mountains with villages and Cherry as well as the Deep dark had been added since then. I just may have a forever world on my hands but my old one is not going anywhere. It will provide me with a tableaux of my old work, help jog the memory. Keep up the good work

My personal favorite tip for enjoying singleplayer is to turn on hard and not sleep. Turn off Phantoms, let the night happen. The danger of mobs is what drives you to build a base and get equipment. Without the threat of night, a house is just a pretty thing that is functionally identical to some chests, furnaces, and crafting tables in an empty field, but with night your home is your stronghold against the dangers of the world. Night is a problem with an open ended solution, one which sparks your creativity and drives you to survive and thrive through the game's strength of building and creativity, but simply rushing to get beds and sleeping through every night takes away your incentive to build

As someone who doesn't really have friends. I honestly think its pretty peaceful when you play alone, it might be a bit lonely and creepy but you'll get used to it eventually. You can do much more when you're playing alone in my opinion

I started a single player world after getting exhausted on our server. It’s so relaxing. No hassle from players, just sit down and remember what it was that first drew me to the game. Great video Marlow.

what me and a buddy do, and enjoy minecraft sooo much more because of it, is we hop into discord, and screen share each other, while we play on our own solo worlds. we started doin it because we were just testing a few mods out in our own worlds while screen sharing each other, and then realized how awesome it is to just have our own worlds while still being able to chat together and still show each other builds and stuff whenever we want. if you have a buddy, and playing on pc, then id highly recommend trying this out.

0:08 it was fun and all until he killed my pet fox

Thank you for this video. I am one of those players who is continually starting a new world, getting bored and then starting again. In fact after my last world I stopped playing for months, but I came across your video and decided this time I will start a new world and make it my 'forever' one. I love Minecraft as I find it so relaxing to play so thank you for this video it has spurred me on :) xx

A reverse situation to burnout is when you don't know what you want to do and it causes you to wander or farm for too long when you wish you could be building. Taking a break can help you get new ideas.

I have never been able to quit playing Minecraft by myself. Escaping into the beautiful world that is entirely mine has always been a comfort to me and I’m not at all ashamed of it. Love Minecraft and always will.

I love single player Minecraft, I often don't even end up progressing, I just play for like 6 hours in a new world while listening to KZfaq videos or Twitch VODs and I fully relax.

5:06 That squid needed a reason to keep playing

Hey Marloe, one of the things I collect in bedrock is a tall grass. In bedrock you can't hold a tall grass anymore. But you can find one that you can hold in a acacia village in a chest. It's not always there but sooner or later you should be able to find one. Thanks Marloe you have a wonderful day!

This helps so much thanks marloe!!!

I've had my main survival world for about six years now (pre-aquatic definitely), back on the Playstation 4. I've had multiple survival worlds during its time but always return to that one, even converting it to Java edition (which gave the nether and end a few quirks to add). Its so satisfying seeing how much has changed and how much the lore, if you will, has evolved.

I have the opposite opinion on what phase is fun, the begging is the obligatory slog that you have to get through and then after like 100 hours or so is when your set up and all the fun stuff begins, then the next few years of a world is where all the fun is, watching your building empire expand.

Thank you, Marloe for the motivation 😊

Back then I merged the builds from the servers I played with my friends in a survival world, so that I can still see the builds I had with my friends from the different smp servers we made back then and the neat thing is I get my friends stuff for free haha

This is such a lovely, calming video. As a kid I was always scared of playing survival minecraft alone, and it was only in recent years that I revisited minecraft without any of that fear to hold me back. This is a good reminder of the value I can get from that experience

i really like the 'forever world' concept; it reminds me of having a forever island on animal crossing!

I lost my "forever" world a month ago and have been really struggling to start up a new one again but this vid helped out. recently found this channel and already love it.

Marloe knows exactly how to make single player entertaining. I ought to start doing this stuff as well.

I’ve made a habit of listening to podcasts while playing, just enhances the experience for me I guess. It’s interesting to visit certain spots in my world and remember what conversations I was listening to when in that area or while building certain structures.

its crazy how much this applys to real life. thank you for this calm video. W

(formerly excessexpress) I've struggled with loneliness my whole life, so playing single player is a little hard for me. I realize that I probably need to accept myself and be more happy with myself but it's kind of difficult to get to that point with everything I've been through, so it's comforting to listen to someone explain how nice playing alone can be, thank you.

It’s intimidating to start a new “forever” world after you’ve been playing for 12 years. It feels like no matter what or how much time passes I’ll always be missing those first 12 years of my minecraft journey.

I'm part of some technical Minecraft servers, but my singleplayer world is where I truly thrive. I've been playing on my world for two years straight, with 4,000 hours and 45 million digs. I built it all by myself and can look back on 15,000 days with pride, knowing every achievement is mine alone. My main goal is 250 million digs. It frustrates me when people say the game is boring after beating the dragon. Come on. Even if you max out early game in two days, there's so much more to do in the late game. Minecraft is a sandbox game with endless possibilities. If you're struggling to be creative, try a modpack like GregTech. People just want to relive their childhood experiences. Make new ones. You don't need to stay in the early game. Late game is so much more fun with all your resources at your disposal. When I started my world, I beat the Ender Dragon in an hour. The next 100 days were spent building farms, maxing out armor, and getting backups to move past the boring early phase and start grinding. Right now, I'm working on an 816x816 hand-dug perimeter, planning to put in overpowered farms like a Y0 gold farm. I'm also mining end stone and obsidian to surpass my friends. I have 3 million end stone and 150,000 obsidian mined, with 12 more perimeters planned. I honestly find it hard to find singleplayer boring. (I don't like tnt duping lul)

I find it interesting that there is a need for videos like this to tell people how to have fun with the game.

Just a hint for anyone that doesn’t know for treasure chests there is a couple numbers right after your xyz coords when you get close to the treasure chest if the first number and last number match up to 9 on the block you are standing on or looking at then that means the treasure chest is directly underneath that spot

i'm a 37y gamer dad and for the longest time, I just played Minecraft on my phone for about 2years now, on and off. I can say it's truly relaxing. Sometimes it's kinda boring too, but come to think of it at least I can try building stuff on my own.

love this dude's vids

Thank you so much! I have been feeling the burn out,,trying to force myself to play so I can finish that project,, and my love for this game has suffered,,I feel like this video has made me see that problem I have been having,,so again thank you 😊

This video is really helpful for people! I say the same things to my friends!

#3 is more important than people realize. I still have my very first world, and my very first hardcore stil going. I rarely play them, or actually add much to them, but I DO go back just to afmire them, even if my first builds were very lacking, and the amount of blocks to use very limited. My first hardcore I specifically made a whole treetop village in a large jungle, with each large tree platform being either a house, animal pen, shop, storage, ect. I still love that world just for the asthetic

Being alone is where i find solace. I often go up to my cabin alone in the middle of no where and work on things and im truly at peace. I get the same feeling playing Minecraft alone. Its like my weird computer zen garden.

I've been playing as you suggested, and my map has now reached 200 days in the game, it's been pretty fun so far, and in that time I've kept changing the mods I use on that map

I know that modding is limited to java but being able to add mods is the reason I still play Minecraft regularly.

This is such a good vid and i play solo most of the time and i love medival so im making villages all custom and when he said just start again somewhere else i Can! Thats why i love medival!!!

My biggest struggle is I love building cool stuff for people to gaze at, I love the feeling of being the “better” builder in a world

That was one of the best videos ive watched for in like a month bro 🔥

Thanks to this video I just had an idea for a challenge that I might actually try, a normal minecraft singleplayer world but with a diference, I will not mine any ores, if I want coal I'll chop down some trees and make charcoal instead, if I want iron I'll explore the world and later in the game I can make a farm, same for gold, I can explore for Lapis, I can take the redstone not only from loot but also from structures like ancient cities and jungle temples, for emeralds I'll trade with villagers, for diamonds I could find them on structures around the world, but end cities are by far the ones where you can find diamonds more easily so I'll fight the ender dragon with iron armor and last but not least, for netherite I would just explore even more bastions. I apologize for any mistakes I might have made, english is not my first language.

Tip for world longevity: Treat Nether Portals as time travel ... Finding this "work around" for explaining why I'd randomly want to go from building a modern desert oasis to a medieval castle in the woods to a cyberpunk city has allowed me to basically "connect" my worlds through this extra dimension. Even currently in the process of changing the minecart system I use for "time travel" into trippy skulk hallways

About to start my first playthrough on Minecraft and this is the only video I will watch before I start. I picked one at random, and this is it. Going to record it and if it’s entertaining, maybe I’ll post it on here.

Thanks so much Marloe as this helped me! 😊

What I do now is just have fun and try to get the achievements, I think that makes it much funner since instead of speedrunning Minecraft, go slow and try to get all the achievements, it’s made me come back to my OG Minecraft days where I had more fun

Amen 🙏 thank you for this, this is the year I set out to learn Minecraft much more indepth, redstone etc. and I think I've been pushing myself to hard, I'll start setting smaller more focused goals and maybe just do more exploring 😅

i can’t thank you enough for the clarity you bring to your topics! ☀️

Ive beaten the game many of times with my cousins, never by myself. But recently after playing with my siblings and having to wait for my sister to get on to play the world, i started a hardcore world on the java version by myself and honestly its been some of the most fun ive had on the game. Everything feels so rewarding and since i cant die once its a but of a challenge that idk why i have never tried before. Im glad im addicted to Minecraft again even if it is for a bit, the occasional addiction to Minecraft continues lol

I've been focusing on building on a solo world just for fun, surviving and building, sometimes redstone. Spent 3 irl days building and decorating one house, it turned out nice, now i'm trying to replicate other stuff like the xbox360 tutorial spawn. Sometimes i start building some certain stuff in creative too for lack of materials, cause i'm yet to have farms for said materials, small stuff though, i dont overdo it. Its my world so i get no pressure with how people could think i'm cheating and all. Haven't had fun in a solo world like this for a while.

Part of the reason I dislike singleplayer is Minecraft is so vast and knowing there's no one here but you just feels weird, I prefer being able to go to a friend's base and help them with projects.

Jesus thanks! I am currently playing alot of singleplayer and sometimes, it really gets boring. I have searched for some tips for a long time and I think I found it in this video, thank you very much for giving me motivation and something to look forward to, I'll start minecraft in a few minutes, thanks.

I love solo minecraft and just solo survival sandbox in general. My friends are always asking to play games like Minecraft, Terraria, Vrising and so on but they are just more fun for me by myself. They can't or won't understand why but it just feels so good.

I play online in many games, but just not minecraft. Minecraft is my chill by myself and create stuff time. I take it slow and have a world that is about 2 years old and still going strong. I started it in large biome mode to give me the impetus to go and explore on the way to material gathering. I still haven't been to the End in that world, I enjoy the travelling by boat, horse or foot. Every update I just trim to get the new features a little closer to home. There's no mega builds, but rather a lot of terraforming to suit the builds I do. If I need a break I have go and play a challenge map like Skyblock or Superflat as I really enjoy the challenges on those worlds or even my Bedrock world which has its own set of challenges compared to Java.

Wow. I never thought that such an video can be this kind and nostalgic. I really love it and will comtinue with my solo wold.

I tried to play on servers, as a result, on April 1, all my then "friends" blew up ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING that I built, all my resources, etc. Yes, they then gave me more than I had, but the bottom line is that I play without mods, and there were many buildings that I made spontaneously and loved, but I don't remember them anymore...

What an amazing video! it really inspired me to go and play Minecraft with these things in mind. Thank you!!! ❤❤❤

With so much to do and build it never gets boring. Great video. Thanks for sharing!

It's great to see minecraft videos these days. keep it going my man

I tried a few long term worlds around 2019 and 2020 but kept getting bored. I eventually figured out that I CAN play my own way. I don't need to play the first world I generate, I can take my time to find a seed I like the starting region of, and stay there as long as I want. During this discovery process I also altered the way I played to see what might be a fun challenge or mode, such as no-regen, a tiny world with a slowly growing worldborder, and creative. I also tried some modded starts, but managing mod compatability and worrying that they might not stay updated as Minecraft changes ruled that out. The end result is my world of about 3 years now, which I get into a binge of every several months, with what I call "citybuilder mode". I always disliked night purely because creeper danger to builds, and the nether, but didn't want to play on peaceful, and wanted villagers to still breed. I ended up keeping a permaloaded chunk with a daylight sensor to make the game day whenever night comes, disabled pillager patrols, and only allow myself to travel through the nether by ruined portals generated in the overworld. Oh, and "hard" difficulty. The result is that my spawn is a village that I've turned into a city that I grow over time and is full of life, with no need for walls or covering everything in torches, and all the monsters spawn underground, making the mines a place where I can be challenged instead of scything through them with impunity. I'm on burnout for now, but I've invested enough time and made enough nice builds in it to want to continue playing it indefintely. Now if only I could get out of burnout so I could work on my short list of projects to mark the time in my life that I'm playing it... I can hardly wait to look back on it several years down the road.

Man I really need like a wholesome progression type of video that gives you milestones or a checklist. I haven't played minecraft in such a long time all I know is go to nether, find fortress, find end, kill dragon.

Great video... Suggestion for those 'Survival Players' who might get a bit bored (late game) exploring with your full netherite etc - try turning natural regen OFF and stick to it. This brings a whole new dimension - it makes beacons and potions actually useful. You can use the new crafter to make suspic stews of regeneration. I've been doing this for well over a year, and it's really engaging. You'd think totems would be more useful, but I'm not sure I've used a single one (but they are vital for feeling safe when cave exploring etc).

My solo survival game ends when I’m spawning making wooden pick going mining finding like half a stack of iron getting out of the cave and dying to the skeleton or every other mob

Omg Marloe I used to watch your videos was even in your discord then left minecraft, now I’m back and I see you popping up in my recommendations, I completely forgot bout your channel but I’m so happy to find it again!!

you made me want to play Minecraft again

i have very sharp memories of my first world wayyyyy back in the old beta days.... i really wish i could go back and visit

I have a forever world I started back in uni, as I just came out of highschool. I made it during COVID and played on it quite extensively for a while. I switched to more infrequent sessions, coming back from time to time finishing some things and starting new projects. Initially I wouldn't think it would become a forever world but since I'm too lazy to start over I just come back to that one and add some new touches. If I'm able to play Minecraft for many more years, it can be very interesting to see how things have changed and what was left from the past, especially that last section. It's similar to archeology, but whereas you don't have a special connection with whatever civilization built whatever temple, here you do since YOU made the structure.

i had an old singleplayer world in 1.15 a few years ago, on which i had played for 2 years, but sadly windows wiped the disk clean, and i didn't have any offdrive backup, so it's completely gone. But since, i've started another world, on which i've been for 2 years, and the goals are mostly similar, though i do set some extra restrictions on myself there since i find it more enjoyable this way. i'm at the spot where currently anyone would consider the situation of the world to be very comfortable, i have all the basic necessities automated, and am now ready to take on some bigger projects, which i will, it's nice honestly also, i see a lot of comments about delaying the endgame, but honestly, that doesn't really work for me, since what i consider the endgame is so far that nearly nobody achieves it, even less so in singleplayers, so i will probably never reach what i consider as endgame, i can get close however

After feeling alone in minecraft for so long, it just came to me now. I didn't feel alone in minecraft, because I was alone in minecraft. I felt alone in minecraft, because I was alone outside minecraft.

Used to watch you at 1k subs, tektopia now you got 267k dayum 🔥

I have been playing the same vanilla solo world for around 7 years at this point. I don't get how people think single player is boring, I constantly get ideas of stuff I wanna do

I always play solo and have for years, never been bored. No mods, shaders, add one. Just pure old fashioned Minecraft.

gonna be starting two solo worlds, one vanilla on my phone, and another modded on java. excited to finally do one again, and hopefully i can have at least one of them be long term

I turned keep inventory on on my longterm world a few weeks ago and OH MY GOD i don't hate playing now. I'm never going to be good at not dying, i constantly take stupid risks and misjudge distances, and after 3 years i still can't seem to git gud at Minecraft combat, nor do i have the time to. I turned it on on my first world for laziness reasons, but it felt like cheating and I abandoned that world after a while because my investment in it was gone. For this current world i was more considered about it. I teetered on the edge of turning on keepinventory for about 8mo. Finally, it got too much. I was digging a giant hole and just kept dying. Realised it felt like i was spending more time recovering my gear and creating replacement gear than digging the damn thing. Then i lost a brand new set of netherite armour to the end void when i forgot i wasnt wearing my elytra and was incredibly demotivated. I was like, I'm 32, i want my relaxing time to be relaxing. I'm too old for this. Turned keep inventory on. Literal and figurative gamechanger. I can just dig my hole now and be slightly more successful at staying out of trouble. Havent replaced the netherite armour yet but i dont really need to atm. I once also summoned the wither too near my base and turned on godmode to defeat it when i realised i didnt have the armor or potions to defeat it properly. I was going to lose everything and i didnt want to, and couldn't fix it in game. My advice for cheats in existing worlds, especially long term worlds, is don't turn on a cheat or customisation if its going to feel to YOU like cheating. Only turn it on if and when it gets intolerable for you to play without it. Then, give yourself a break and turn it on. If you are starting from scratch, do a test world, figure out what you like, and then start a long-term world with those conditions from the start. That way you wont feel like you are cheating either.

That's was lovely to watch and listen to, good advice and great back music, lovely

I started my online journey in 2015, posting minecraft shenanigans to instagram. I met my long time friends doing this. And all those worlds and realms we played together, did in fact become something much bigger. My friends and I all have been working on a fictional universe that each person can separately write stories and play D&D within. It's been 8 years now, and I hope that we can publish its stories someday...

Playing games like warthunder or many a like, i tend to come to this game when i need a break, its more relaxing besides getting jumped by 30 creepers in one setting, over all this game has been apart of my life since the early days of its release. Great memories.

For me, it is the small details that make Minecraft fun in singleplayer. The sort of stuff that on a server would never be noticed. For instance, I was making these dank dark catacombs beneath a cathedral, and I put water above the catacombs to add a dripping effect. It's a really small detail, but it does a lot for the ambiance.

I'm blind, and use accessibility mods to play. The mod has been developing over a number of years now, and I started out when it was much less sophisticated, so I took things very slowly in singleplayer. I'd stop to listen to the rain, or the music. I played on Peaceful difficulty so I could take my time without stressing. I turned on cheats for that world and disabled fall and fire damage so I wouldn't accidentally die because I wandered off a cliff-before the mod could detect drops and warn me of them, at least.. I turned on KeepInventoryOnDeath because I had one truly rage-inducing incident where I suffocated in sand and lost two diamond pickaxes... The world I have now I've had since 1.16.5, and I often leave it for months at a time. I am in the process of building a tall tower that probably looks terrible because again, I'm blind, and am just using blocks I happen to have a ton of. I'm very proud of my storage area, though-it's a long cavern carved out underneath my tower base and I've used deepslate tiles for the floor and deepslate bricks for the walls, with the ceiling of smooth stone and lit by lanterns. One wall is lined with three-high stacks of double-chests. I'm thinking of building an autosorter along the other wall at some point. All this took me ages to dig out and fill up, and there's still a lot of stuff I want to get hold of, but it's gonna take time and practice.

Class video mate! I’ve just started my single player let’s play and loving it. But definitely looking to join a server soon!

The thumbnail is so cinematic. Love it!

I have been playing my survival world for years, I have like 15 villages I added to my kingdom, built them castles, walls and custom banners and connected them all with roads. I have so many things on my idea board that it never gets boring.

My world is 6 years old now. I played it on and off, but stayed in my own world. Last year I didn’t played it for a year and now I’ve got several new stuff build, that I can make a video about it. Maybe I need to make 2 about it as there is quiet a lot of changes. And I like to watch my own videos back now and then to see how much has changed over the year. I will never be as big as hermitcraft but my world and videos will be there to play and see.

Thanks bro I thought i can get bored in Single player but now i know it's fun So thanks

I used chunkbase to find a world with a zombie village not too far (within 1000 blocks) from spawn. I blocked the zombies in their houses, and covered any gaps that let the sunlight in, to keep them safe. And now I work at collecting materials to rebuild the village, improve it, build myself a base, and eventually I'll journey to the nether to get the materials to turn them back into villagers. I have 7 waiting for their freedom. My village is on the divide between ice spike biome and beach/plains biome. It is really neat the shift, and occasionally I get polar bears in the one side of the village.

after the years of being gaslit by many Minecraft videos saying the game stopped being fun, I've overcome my burnout wave and I'm starting to love Minecraft again.

my favorite thing about singleplayer is being able to add my favorite mods to any modpack. my least favorite thing about singleplayer is not being able to progress with people and see the stuff they build and show them the cool mods :(