Concept17 said:
Personally, I've found Minecraft to be WAY more addictive than Terraria. I bought Terraria during the recent Steam summer sale, and I'm already bored with it. Personally, I've got no desire to build in that game, and once I got all the weapons and armor, I found I just didn't want to play any more. If they ever add a bunch of harder bosses or enemies, I'll go back, but for now, I'm done with the game.
Compare that to Minecraft, where for the almost the last whole year, it's been the only game I've played. Sure, there is a lot less variety in monsters, weapons, items, and blocks, but it's just more satisfying to play. Building in 3d is way more satisfying to me, and there's the advanced stuff like redstone (I'm on a huge piston kick at the moment).
For me, Minecraft is still sometimes difficult. Even if you're fully decked out in full armor, and weapons, being out at night is still pretty dangerous. Unlike Terraria, it's really hard to see at night, so you won't see enemies other than spiders (their eyes glow red) until they're right on top of you. Also, since it's in 3d, you've got a lot more places enemies can come from. You can't just swing your sword and run forward, since monsters can come from your sides or behind you.
And yeah, if you love having to cower inside at night, you'll love Minecraft.
The actual thing with the difficulty in Minecraft is that even once you get "good" at it, your own worst enemy tends to be your own complacency. Most of the time, when I die, it's because I got overconfident and did something stupid like get too close to a lava pit, or get zoned out while mining and get buried in falling gravel.
On top of that, death is a lot harsher in Minecraft than it is in Terraria. In Minecraft, you drop everything in your personal inventory when you die, and it disappears after a few minutes. So, on respawn, you first have to hope and pray that it's daylight so that you can safely run to where you died, but you have to actually FIND where you died. If you die in a cave (which will happen regularly), it's possible that you'll have been so deep that you simply won't be able to remember exactly where it was that you fell. The cave systems in Minecraft can be very deep and twisty, and even when exploring them you have to be careful to be able to find your way back to the surface without just burrowing back out.
Eh, when just starting out I'd recommend just going with vanilla everything. There's a ton of texture packs out there, and that really boils down to personal preference. Just browse around the texture pack section on the Minecraft forums and see what looks good to you.
As far as mods go, I'm personally a fan of BuildCraft and Better Than Wolves, but again, I'd recommend putting in a few (hundred) hours into the main game first.
Very. You could just set up your own server if you want, or join us on Ark's server. Another nice thing about Minecraft compared to Terraria is that there's always somewhere open to build. The world generates as people explore it, so there isn't really an "end" to it.
Well, that depends on what you're trying to do/get. You need to do some mining and poking around underground if you want the good stuff for armor and weapons, but it also depends on what you want to build out of. Want to make a huge stone castle? Then you'll probably end up making a quarry. However, if you're going for wood buildings, then you'll most likely end up starting a tree farm.
Thing is, if you just end up running your own server for you and your friends and you REALLY don't feel like mining stuff, then you can just spawn things via text commands.
Still, building in the game is far more satisfying when you mine the stuff yourself.
