#there's some stuff that's like. intellectually i know that mob spawning can only happen within a certain radius for computing reasons

[shadeswift99]

A few months ago I realized something I couldn't un-realize about Minecraft and that is that villagers being killed by mobs is a direct result of the player's existence. Hostile mobs only spawn within a certain radius of the player. Villages are so unprotected because they straight up don't ever have to deal with monsters before I get there. They live, they work, undiscovered, and then I bring them apocalypse by walking slightly too close at night.

Knowing that, the least I can do is help villages I find to survive it, so I build them a wall and new homes and traps for the creatures of the night - but all that time, they're creatures I created. To the villagers it must seem like the world started ending, hoards of the undead pouring out of the earth, and then this hero emerged to save them from it all, but the danger and the rescue are one and the same and they will never really understand that, and THAT makes me go completely feral. The player is a thing of infinite life which death follows like a shock wave in the fabric of the Universe. We are a self fulfilling prophesy. How is this a thing we've all just gotten used to in the funky cube game

#Minecraft #shade rambles #there's some stuff that's like. intellectually i know that mob spawning can only happen within a certain radius for computing reasons #to cut down on processing power and all that #same reason why mob AI freezes outside a certain zone #but on another level it means that the player is a sphere of safety within a wider sphere of destruction that sweeps across the landscape #the world compensating for their power with a vacuum of monstrosity to preserve the natural balance #and the idea that one day you could just be vibing in your village working leather or whatever #and suddenly zombies spring from the earth and walking bones start taking down your friends and loved ones #and you run for cover while your sole protector is overwhelmed and cracked by the horde #and then this guy who never says a word materializes out of the night with a sword and starts dispatching monsters #and the creatures won't even spawn within 16 meters of him?? is the menace that afraid? #are you? #and you'll never know #you'll just never know that one of these things couldn't have happened without the other #it'll be the worst and best day of your life and you'll NEVER KNOW - #that's it you guys have humoured my thoughts about villagers for too long now you have to deal with me #(oh also i imagine they have the golems to deal with pillagers since pillager spawns aren't always player dependent) #(being tied to structures and all that) #but uh. yeah. #every time i see a village i either stay for long enough to make sure everyone is safe or leave immediately #before the curse can take hold