Am I the only one who feels kinda overwhelmed by minecraft nowadays? /u/NFfan2232 Minecraft on reddit

Please bear in mind that in this post, I’m calling anything past 1.13(Aquatic Update) “new,” as it is new to me, and feels like it’s been installed in one massive update.

Up until recently, I’ve been playing Minecraft on the Playstation 3, which stopped getting updates as of 1.13. I got a ps4 a decided I’d check out the new minecraft updates to what they’re like for myself, and I feel completely overwhelmed by the amount of new things to do, to the point that it feels like even playing the way I used to is impossible. All the new biomes, structures, and other things feel like it’s just made the game way overcomplicated. Caves go way deeper, for some reason skeletons are sniper accurate and shoot way faster now, even using shields feels weird and clunky to me. Anybody else feel this way about minecraft lately?

Edit: Don’t get me wrong, I understand why I may feel overwhelmed as people who have been playing on non-legacy systems have been gradually introduced to these updates and was able to learn about them as they came out. But as someone who just started playing these updates, it just feels like there’s too much to do, to the point I can’t even ignore these new updates as they’re now kinda vital to progression.

And one other thing that kinda upsets me is that it seems in one of the updates, they messed with a sensitivity setting and now the sensitivity curve is way too sharp. Looking around at max speed is fine to me, but making fine adjustments on controller is difficult now, as it feels much faster and less smooth, making combat and mining, two core concepts of the game, quite difficult.

Mob spawns feel much more brutal too, even on easy mode. It feels like they’ve been amplified 10x, as has the danger of said mobs. As I mentioned, skeletons are sniper accurate, creepers seem to explode faster, zombies spawn in absolute hordes and everything feels more dangerous. I cant even have a decent mining trip anymore.

As one other comment mentioned, I think the real biggest throw off was the Caves and Cliffs update. It feels impossible to find decent terrain to build a base, not to mention ores aren’t even close to where they used to be. Y13 used to be the best place to find diamonds, but I don’t think they even spawn there anymore.

Also, the health regen is way different from eating. On ps3, you gain health rather quickly when you fill your hunger bar, gaining (I think) around 1 point of health per second. Now, it’s massively slowed, and on top of that, in a fight with mobs, I feel like I don’t really get a chance to eat anything to try to get some health back.

Sorry about the really long post, honestly it’s probably gonna get longer as I think of more things that make the game feel way different than what I’m used to.

Please bear in mind that in this post, I’m calling anything past 1.13(Aquatic Update) “new,” as it is new to me, and feels like it’s been installed in one massive update.

Up until recently, I’ve been playing Minecraft on the Playstation 3, which stopped getting updates as of 1.13. I got a ps4 a decided I’d check out the new minecraft updates to what they’re like for myself, and I feel completely overwhelmed by the amount of new things to do, to the point that it feels like even playing the way I used to is impossible. All the new biomes, structures, and other things feel like it’s just made the game way overcomplicated. Caves go way deeper, for some reason skeletons are sniper accurate and shoot way faster now, even using shields feels weird and clunky to me. Anybody else feel this way about minecraft lately?

Edit: Don’t get me wrong, I understand why I may feel overwhelmed as people who have been playing on non-legacy systems have been gradually introduced to these updates and was able to learn about them as they came out. But as someone who just started playing these updates, it just feels like there’s too much to do, to the point I can’t even ignore these new updates as they’re now kinda vital to progression.

And one other thing that kinda upsets me is that it seems in one of the updates, they messed with a sensitivity setting and now the sensitivity curve is way too sharp. Looking around at max speed is fine to me, but making fine adjustments on controller is difficult now, as it feels much faster and less smooth, making combat and mining, two core concepts of the game, quite difficult.

Mob spawns feel much more brutal too, even on easy mode. It feels like they’ve been amplified 10x, as has the danger of said mobs. As I mentioned, skeletons are sniper accurate, creepers seem to explode faster, zombies spawn in absolute hordes and everything feels more dangerous. I cant even have a decent mining trip anymore.

As one other comment mentioned, I think the real biggest throw off was the Caves and Cliffs update. It feels impossible to find decent terrain to build a base, not to mention ores aren’t even close to where they used to be. Y13 used to be the best place to find diamonds, but I don’t think they even spawn there anymore.

Also, the health regen is way different from eating. On ps3, you gain health rather quickly when you fill your hunger bar, gaining (I think) around 1 point of health per second. Now, it’s massively slowed, and on top of that, in a fight with mobs, I feel like I don’t really get a chance to eat anything to try to get some health back.

Sorry about the really long post, honestly it’s probably gonna get longer as I think of more things that make the game feel way different than what I’m used to.