Twig said:
Yes. And I play on the hardest.
In the beginning it might be difficult because you haven't built up your base or mined anything, but then you get a diamond sword and lay waste to the world.
Super easy.
Besides that, I doubt this is about making the game more difficult. It's about making the game MORE, period. Stop crying and figure out how to craft a weapon.
But this is where Minecraft fails. It doesn't scale in difficulty. You started mining diamonds, you got a diamond sword, etc.? Spawn new types of monsters.
It would be REALLY easy to balance the game. It is not balanced at all.
Notch should be focusing on: more enemy diversity and stronger AI as well as more emphasis on monster spawn locations, weapons (including possible traps) and armor diversity, new things to craft, and of course balanced and scaling difficulty.
With all this you would at least have a REAL game, with player-set goals: I want to clean up the region and make it safe, make better weapons and armors, then explore other areas where monsters are stronger, craft new tools and weapons to face the new enemy type I encounter, clean up the region, find some treasures, move to more difficult areas, etc. Of course through all this you craft everything imaginable to get things done.
Right now it's very chaotic, very unbalanced, and objective-less. I find it as a result easy to get sick of the game. I see myself having way more fun with the multiplayer once it is fixed because at least we will end up naturally settings ourselves objectives, finally giving some meaningfulness to the game. But until then, don't fucking unbalance the single player when there's no objective to begin with, otherwise you'll just lose people. There's a limit to how much time I'm willing to invest in a game if I see no point in playing it. Right now the fun I had was discovering the game, but this torch modification will make it more of a pain in the ass than anything, which is completely unwarranted considering there's still no point in playing the game.
