TerrafirmaPUNK (emphasis mine) neatly sidesteps the unending tedium of survival simulation by sprinkling with a generous hand a heavy helping of the fantastical across the countryside. Ultimately, no matter how interesting the individual systems of chopping trees, making fires or preparing meat and food might have been to read about, the actual grind tended to be a mite too slow-paced for me and there was rarely anything to look forward to in these simulationist survival games of “everyday life in a wilderness, where farming and making shelter is a full time job.” While I was impressed at how elaborately it changed vanilla Minecraft towards something more akin to Wurm Online or Unreal World or A Tale in the Desert – that is, along the lines that longer, more complicated and realism-simulating something is, the more rewarding and desirable it is – I was always lacking that little bit of oomph to get me over the initial learning curve of hardcore wiki reading. I’d tried Terrafirmacraft alone before, on and off. This week’s game obsession is a Minecraft modpack that blends Terrafirmacraft, a heavily simulationist mod conversion for Minecraft, with all things fantastical and steampunk.
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