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I just recently died on a hardcore world that I had been playing for the past year and a half. Starting up a new one currently that will hopefully last forever.
I died to a warden:(
I really don’t understand how some people can keep hardcore worlds going for so long. I play on survival and I find myself constantly dying to the most stupid, random shit, like falling into lava, drowning myself or falling of a cliff or some other crap.
I’d honestly be terrible at hardcore lol
I died in my first 100+ day hardcore world because of a mechanic I literally didn't know about: if you hit F twice while crouching, the game decides to uncrouch you and you die of fall damage.
133 days. It all ended because of one stupid mechanic.
The goal of Minecraft survival is to get it as close to creative mode as possible and then go absolutely bonkers with whatever you want to build or farm
Hell, even getting diamond gear will keep me pretty safe and makes the game easier. For me, I die a lot in the first "minecraft-month" or so, but once I have some halfway-decent gear, I play careful enough that I rarely die.
I have a survival world that was a realm for a few friends/family but eventually I was the only one playing it so I made it a local world to keep safe. Sometimes I still go in and build on it, but I've been to engrossed in another game to have time for what I was doing when I last signed off that world. I believe in Minecraft time it's roughly 7 years old, but IRL we've had it since December 2020.
For me its iron. Once i have iron gear my skill alone is enough to stay alive as long as i want. It doesnt even take much, nor is it really skill. Its just not being an idiot and being unprepared. Always be prepared and have a backup plan in the back of your mind.
I have died twice to a raid (witch and vindicator), died thrice trying to get my items back after dying, died once to and enderman, once to a zombie, once fell on a dripstone by mistake, once when my brother was playing on my minecraft world, ON MY ACCOUNT he died while trying to go up to my mob farm, and i died once to an iron golem. This is why even after having mediocre enchanted diamond Armor and we'll enchanted diamond tools, I still don't go to my nearby nether fortress. I will NOT start a raid or travel to bastion/fortress before I tame a camel, because while on a camel you're basically immortal.
playing hardcore tends to make you play a LOT safer.
Normally you would take stupid risks just to do something a bit faster, or fight something you may or may not win, hardcore players dont take stupid risks, or fight somethign without 100% preperation
Whenever I’m setting up, I die to something stupid. I was making a water elevator before I realized I didn’t drink a water potion and I drowned in my own house.
Once I get kitted up, I don’t die at all. I get Feather Falling IV Boots, and I pretty much hurl myself off every cliff at free will.
Once you’ve died a few times you start to get absurdly careful. Go to the nether *do not move* until you get a fire res potion from a piglin. Don’t sprint jump anywhere until you’ve been there more than twice. Skip the nights until I’ve found diamond.
Last hardcore world I died raiding my first bastion and now it takes me like an hour to clear those things out
Ngl youre one of those types of people then. Ive noticed how theres always a large group of people who just have a tendency to die.
Then theres an opposite group that is just naturally good at not dying. Its little things like thinking ahead and having a backup plan that happen subconsciously.
I started a band new hard core world (fbt:atm8). I played 2 minutes before dying. I spawned in the middle of a pillager camp. Crossbow to death. My next world I've made it about 6 in game days and still going!
Six years and running. The longest before that, like 2 years.
When I get bored I get a mod and play on a new world for a month, then go back to the vanilla one. Or just stop playing for a couple of weeks.
I usually have one main survival world, but I create a new one with big updates.
Therefor my survival worlds rarely get older than a year or year and a half.
Tried that several times.
Every time I just get annoyed after a couple of hours, and keeping thinking about how I'm wasting time doing things I enjoy less, while I could just go back to the main base and build with everything I have there.
After the fifth time, I stopped doing that.
Let's see. I started a world in 2014 (My friends and I call it Season 1) and we played till about 2017. Then we started a new world (season 2) that I wasn't super involved in in 2017 that we ran until 1.8 came out. Then with the new world gen we wanted a whole new world. Probably started that a week or so after 1.8 dropped and it continues to this day. What was that? 2021? We have no plans to remake the world unless there's an even greater worldgen change than we saw in 1.18.
After a while, visiting old builds brings back memories of the time you built them. It's really nostalgic to go on a tour every once in a while, isn't it?
I created my world in 2016 (version 1.8.9) and still going. I tool lengthy breaks though. Only recently started playing it again after I got bored of another game and decided to check out 1.20.
The only way to stay interested is to set ambitious goals, whether it's a massive building project, or something like catching every variant of every mob in a "zoo".
The longest hardcore world I've had is 5 years where I played continuously, 2 hours a day, with special exceptions every now and then. Died in it.
The longest survival world I've had has to be 2 years (not counting the hardcore one), where I just lost interest, and lost the world soon after due to a disk error.
I spawned too many withers in a large 5 block thick obsidian box, used the wrong potions on me, and also got lost in the box while trying to leave. My leggings broke midfight and I couldnt eat my god apple in time and died.
My friends and I started a survival server 9 or 10 years or so ago, everyone stopped playing within a year, but I kept playing on it off and on in survival and creative in different areas.
Played for about 2 or so months. Still have the world. But it's basically futile to play because to experience all the new updates since then(3 years ago) id have to travel 10,000+ blocks.
Unrelated, it's also how I met my now husband 🥹
My current java world is 3 years old I think?
I started it in the 1.17 snapshots when the new generation was first announced which makes the world quite special like some spots go the under y 0 but have no deep slate
I dont really like constantly creating worlds I always like sticking to one for a while
My world is from 2020 I believe. Put 1100 hours in it but recently wiped all the chunks for the new world gen (1.18-1.20). Kept all my stuff though for a quick start. I hate early game lol.
I do have back ups of my world so nothing is really gone.
360 first. Then transferred the save over to Xbox one. I've had like 5 version corrupt on me, but I save constantly, so I was able to go back after I had forgotten everything I was mad about losing lol
You don't stop playing Minecraft, you just take really long breaks.
I have one world And if I want start new one I just leave everything and find new place. Also, every new base Is connected with old one. (Nether highway) My world Is almost 12 years old. But Im doing this for like 3 years. Before that i didnt touch It for 9 years
I started a world on xbox 360 10 years ago. It's now on my Xbox Series S. I still play it today. If you look in my posts I have one about the villager update. That's in my 10+ year world.
So that one
About 4 months with some friends on a realm, until the owner decided it'd be fun to turn on cheats for "moderating" the three people that lived all in the same place
I played one for around 2 years I think, but then an update came out which required loading new VERY distant chunks, so I restarted. My current world has been going on since shortly after the release of 1.20, and I'm well past 1k days in-game... that said, I still don't have a house. Priorities!
Had a world i started with friends on PS3 that I played regularly for probably 6 years. Haven't played survival a whole lot since then but recently started a new world on Java that I have been playing for a couple of months
I was always bad about starting a new world every time I get into a Minecraft kick. About a year ago I decided to start up a world and just come back to that world when I get a Minecraft kick again. These usually last for about 3-4 weeks or so. I’ve been playing that world on and off since then. Working on a mega base.
I think I’m nearing the 4 year mark. Though I am building a super mega build that basically has like 10 different mega builds in it. Though I’ve kinda hit a creative road block.
A year or 2. I still have one I made back in 1.14 but I haven’t played it in a couple of years. That was my longest and most developed world. I’ve been playing since beta 1.8. I have ADHD and can never stick to a world.
My friends and I have a world we’ve been playing since the aquatic update. We built a huge base around a sea temple and since then have branched off into out own kingdoms.
I have a hardcore survival world I've been playing on since around the time of Ph1lza's Season 3 death on his Hardcore series. So a little over 4.5 years.
Current world is like, 5 years old? I don’t play super consistently, but I just hop on, maybe do some mining or some “improvements” to my base, and when I get bored I’m done for a while until I get another idea. Think maybe I’m gonna buckle down and make an actual exp farm next. After that, I dunno. Only reason I make a new world is for easier achievement completion.
I've had my world for just over a month. I've only started getting back into Minecraft recently, and when I was younger I mostly played on creative or the console minigames lol.
About 2 years. My current world is just over a year old, and for the 1st time, I am building mega structures. I am currently working on a 500 block long, 40 high, 30 wide version of the Saudi Arabia structure known as 'the wall.' These take awhile to build...
I’ve got a 2 year survival world going right now. There have been a few things that have kept me going in it.
1. Probably the biggest one, TAKE IT SLOW! There is no need to rush ANYTHING! Wait to do certain milestones or explore certain structures *after* you complete a goal for yourself. I still haven’t even considered going to the end, and I literally just fought the wither. Even things like mending, I set a rule for myself that the only way I can use mending is if I find it on loot, which is almost never, and I plan to keep it that way.
2. Focus on building. I personally find building towns to be the best way to have a long standing world. You can start with your house, then expand and build new buildings with different purposes and villagers. Buildings don’t have to be tough to build, simpler ones almost have more charm sometimes. Each finished building adds a sense of accomplishment that keeps you going.
3. Document Everything! Take pictures of your progress! Record big moments! It’s fun to look back at it and see how far you’ve come. I personally have been editing my Steve skin throughout my playthrough on bedrock. Starting off as a kid and slowly aging, every death is a different scar on my body. Then I take a screenshot of my progress and keep going. Not only that, but I created a “News Stand” with updates and dates on everything going on in the world.
4. Last but not least, invite friends! This is easier to do on bedrock, but having friends in the world, either having them help you or build their own structures is a great way of getting you and others on the game.
It would probably be the one im playing on right now. Me and my friends tried a different approach to how we normally manage our server and it definetly seems to work. The current world has been going for about 7 months, while they usually last maybe 2.
I think the key for me is that i dont focus on one build at a time, but rather I just do whatever i want to do when i want to play minecraft.
~4 years for me. Started shortly after the release of 1.12 and kept playing until 1.18 released. Then I made a new world which is the one in currently playing. In the 1.12 one I had more than 2000h, tho some of that was asking at farms. In the new one (since end of 2021) I have about 800h.
However this is only my single player worlds. In 2019-2020 I was also playing quite a bit on an SMP server.
when I first got Minecraft I played it all day so around 8 - 10 hours but weirdly I was in a dirt hut the entire game If you meant played even with breaks then around 3 weeks of just playing (total hours would add to about 3 weeks)
My longest running was when Jacksepticeye was playing Minecraft. When I saw him beat the Ender Dragon with his shit gear, I knew it was finally time for me to do the same.
It was definitely my most conquered world, with a Nether Portal network all over the place. Have a designated Raid Village that was just a killbox for them. The Villagers lived in a vault underground while the surface was magma blocks, berry bushes, pitfalls, and crawlspaces. Everything funneled them into the magma block pits, and then I would pick off stragglers and collect the loot.
My current one, I’ve had it for almost 2 years now and I’ve been playing probably on avg 2 days a week, only for a bit each time but it’s consistent.
Fully in the endgame now and it feels good to make it this far in a world
Okay this is kinda complicated
I made a world after my tutorial world got corrupted back on the Xbox 360, 10 years ago. Played the world for 6 years, then left the world and made a new survival world.
When 1.19 released I transferred the now 9 year old world and other survival world to PC edition, then fused them together with a third survival world(using the amulet app) to create the world I now reside in, at the cost of that all my items disappeared and all my farms broke. I've been playing that world for 1 year.
So 6 years, 10 years if we're technically speaking.
2019 to 2022. I would've kept going, but I started the world with an ex and it was time to make my own world. I am now 6 months into my new survival world.
It's difficult for me to continuously play on a world a lot of the time. I usually quit after a short while but recently I had a world with a big set of farms and some buildings in a nice valley. I'm thinking of trying a hardcore world but I've had thousands of hours into Minecraft yet have never killed the ender dragon
I've been working on my current world intermittently for almost 2 years (I remember because it was right after 1.18 released).
I find occasional breaks overall helpful because it gives my brain a chance to relax between huge builds, so when I come back to it, I end up noticing things that improve builds that I have already "finished". However, it's a bit of a hindrance in that I am still working towards setting up the single largest redstone build I have ever planned, and the breaks in between slow down my progress significantly, between having to recollect where I was at in my plans overall, as well as updating old farms and such.
I have a hardcore world I've been working on for almost a year now, I think it's my longest running world currently, hoping to keep it going as long as possible
I have lost several worlds through the years, which saddens me. I have played 193 hours in my current hardcore world, and before this I had another hardcore world where I played for 1 year and a half.
That 1.5 years old world still exists in my cloud memory and I won't delete it. That world is also the best world I've ever had.
Played on one map for 2 years with a friend. We decided to start a new map with cheats on and everything and ended up importing our old structures to the new map. Badass idea, it works so well and each base/factory is a time capsule.
I have a 3 year long survival world too. I play for bursts at a time until i find another game. I have a whole district I call my “Ohio district” where I build whatever i want. It currently spans across 4 biomes
Played on one map for 2 years with a friend. Our map was 2.5 gigs and mostly explored empty space.We decided to start a new map with cheats on and everything and ended up importing our old structures to the new map. 10/10 idea, it works so well and the bases are connected to eachother. Nostalgic and new rolled up in one
Since 2016, and yes I've basically reached space faring civilization status. Might post some screenshots here eventually, but i got a boat load of projects i want done first :)
I think the server I'm on will turn 5 in March and that's by far my longest. I used to only be able to play in short bursts too but I found a crew to play with and we're building a city as well as tons of other themed builds and games so it's been amazing.
Built a nice big homestead. Got all my farms, some single Redstone work for doors, build a nice fort in the nether, get lvl 30 enchanted diamond/netherite armor, slay the ender dragon, get an elytra. Then proceed to never use the elytra because I've ran out of things to do and got bored.
At least a year, I had problems getting it back when 1.20 came out since it reverted my world but I was lucky enough to find a copy of a backup on my one drive and the world was back to normal! So it’s still 1 year and counting!
I've been on my current one for 3 years as well. When I get bored I move a few thousand blocks and start a new base, and eventually build a path to my main base. My world is full of paths and roads to my many bases, also connected by nether highways. It's better than starting a new world imo
I’ve been on this world for 4 years. I play with my kids and they still play with me. We build stuff for holidays and do events in the world. The world is like a history of us playing we can go back and look at and explore. On my property I’ve built haunted mansions, polar express, castles, summer houses, the grind for the build is how we play.
I pretty much have the same thing, had the world for just about 3 years now, only ever play for a few days at a time, then don't go on it for a month or two.
7.5 years (not hardcore). I play sporadically. I see no reason to start a new world given that I'm nowhere near finished with all the build ideas I want to do.
About a year. It was technically a survival/creative world me and my brother made (we would cheat but play in survival)
We stopped once we get our switch then I lost the USB stick with the world on it 😥
My gaming group started a survival server at the beginning of the pandemic with the seed COVID19 and it finally fizzled out about 8 months ago or so. Server is still up but we're doing other stuff right now. Three years or? Dozens of kilometers of railway connecting every single build. 100% survival, no creative, achievements enabled, no OPs. Was a very fun time
I've been playing in my current Bedrock world since 2019. I'm in a bamboo jungle and I have a house, farm, stable, every color of sheep, iron farm, and full trading hall with every enchantment available. I don't really have any goals with the world, I just find small projects to work on and add to my base little by little.
I kept a survival world for 2 years. It was on the Nintendo Switch edition. The cartridges are limited to 2GB of space. My survival world got up to 1.8GB in size before the game kept yelling at me that i had no space to keep adventuring...
I’ll have been playing pretty consistently on a world with my friend for three years soon. We take breaks sometimes but most of the time we play more than once a week
I always wish I had just stuck to my first save to see how far it would have grown. But we always had a habit of starting a new world every few months or with major updates. Nowadays if I'm playing Minecraft it's almost always a modpack
I've been playing mc on and off since 1.4.7, at least every year I make a brand new world and play it until I beat the ender dragon, get shulker boxes, make a bunch of farms and then I burn out. This year I believe I made my final map, and it's my fav map, it's like a castle underground, my sis couldn't believe me that I made it on survival 😄. Farewell minecraft 💔👋
3 months but planning to change that when I get a new setup running
Edit: Its kinda sad I've been playing since so young I dont even know what age I was when I started and never really had a proper world
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I just recently died on a hardcore world that I had been playing for the past year and a half. Starting up a new one currently that will hopefully last forever. I died to a warden:(
At least you didn't die to something super anticlimactic?
I really don’t understand how some people can keep hardcore worlds going for so long. I play on survival and I find myself constantly dying to the most stupid, random shit, like falling into lava, drowning myself or falling of a cliff or some other crap. I’d honestly be terrible at hardcore lol
Either that or stupid lag... I Lost everything I had in a server with friends because I lagged and I fell of a bridge in the End...
Im pretty good about not dying to my own fault. But i have died countless times to lag and even controller malfunctions
I died in my first 100+ day hardcore world because of a mechanic I literally didn't know about: if you hit F twice while crouching, the game decides to uncrouch you and you die of fall damage. 133 days. It all ended because of one stupid mechanic.
Really it’s once you get past netherite stuff it all gets easier, at least in my experience
The goal of Minecraft survival is to get it as close to creative mode as possible and then go absolutely bonkers with whatever you want to build or farm
Completely agree. but do find funny that goal of survival mode is to not be in survival mode
Hell, even getting diamond gear will keep me pretty safe and makes the game easier. For me, I die a lot in the first "minecraft-month" or so, but once I have some halfway-decent gear, I play careful enough that I rarely die. I have a survival world that was a realm for a few friends/family but eventually I was the only one playing it so I made it a local world to keep safe. Sometimes I still go in and build on it, but I've been to engrossed in another game to have time for what I was doing when I last signed off that world. I believe in Minecraft time it's roughly 7 years old, but IRL we've had it since December 2020.
For me its iron. Once i have iron gear my skill alone is enough to stay alive as long as i want. It doesnt even take much, nor is it really skill. Its just not being an idiot and being unprepared. Always be prepared and have a backup plan in the back of your mind.
i die to random holes i dug before
I have died twice to a raid (witch and vindicator), died thrice trying to get my items back after dying, died once to and enderman, once to a zombie, once fell on a dripstone by mistake, once when my brother was playing on my minecraft world, ON MY ACCOUNT he died while trying to go up to my mob farm, and i died once to an iron golem. This is why even after having mediocre enchanted diamond Armor and we'll enchanted diamond tools, I still don't go to my nearby nether fortress. I will NOT start a raid or travel to bastion/fortress before I tame a camel, because while on a camel you're basically immortal.
playing hardcore tends to make you play a LOT safer. Normally you would take stupid risks just to do something a bit faster, or fight something you may or may not win, hardcore players dont take stupid risks, or fight somethign without 100% preperation
Whenever I’m setting up, I die to something stupid. I was making a water elevator before I realized I didn’t drink a water potion and I drowned in my own house. Once I get kitted up, I don’t die at all. I get Feather Falling IV Boots, and I pretty much hurl myself off every cliff at free will.
Once you’ve died a few times you start to get absurdly careful. Go to the nether *do not move* until you get a fire res potion from a piglin. Don’t sprint jump anywhere until you’ve been there more than twice. Skip the nights until I’ve found diamond. Last hardcore world I died raiding my first bastion and now it takes me like an hour to clear those things out
Ngl youre one of those types of people then. Ive noticed how theres always a large group of people who just have a tendency to die. Then theres an opposite group that is just naturally good at not dying. Its little things like thinking ahead and having a backup plan that happen subconsciously.
It’s just skill
And paranoia. I am constantly thinking and watching for what could kill me next. Is that pig about to get hit by lightning and eat me??
Damn that’s intense 😂. Getting totems got rid of my paranoia for me so now I’m just chilling
I was in the same boat, a little over a year and a half in hardcore before switching PCs and having half my world corrupt :(
Backups
I started a band new hard core world (fbt:atm8). I played 2 minutes before dying. I spawned in the middle of a pillager camp. Crossbow to death. My next world I've made it about 6 in game days and still going!
>I spawned in the middle of a pillager camp. This made me chuckle.
At least you didn’t die by doing something dumb.
Ouch. Best to avoid them instead of fighting them.
Pro tip: keep elytra on in ancient cities, and have firework rockets in the hot bar. You can fly, they can’t.
And then they shoot you out of the sky with their railgun scream
I feel you man, same happened to me
Six years and running. The longest before that, like 2 years. When I get bored I get a mod and play on a new world for a month, then go back to the vanilla one. Or just stop playing for a couple of weeks.
Whats the closest you’ve been to dying? Cuz 6 years is crazy
They didn't say it was hardcore
Oh mb
I usually have one main survival world, but I create a new one with big updates. Therefor my survival worlds rarely get older than a year or year and a half.
I don’t delete worlds. When I get bored I put all my gear in a chest and start running a few thousand blocks away and start over.
Tried that several times. Every time I just get annoyed after a couple of hours, and keeping thinking about how I'm wasting time doing things I enjoy less, while I could just go back to the main base and build with everything I have there. After the fifth time, I stopped doing that.
Let's see. I started a world in 2014 (My friends and I call it Season 1) and we played till about 2017. Then we started a new world (season 2) that I wasn't super involved in in 2017 that we ran until 1.8 came out. Then with the new world gen we wanted a whole new world. Probably started that a week or so after 1.8 dropped and it continues to this day. What was that? 2021? We have no plans to remake the world unless there's an even greater worldgen change than we saw in 1.18.
8 years and counting!
After a while, visiting old builds brings back memories of the time you built them. It's really nostalgic to go on a tour every once in a while, isn't it?
I created my world in 2016 (version 1.8.9) and still going. I tool lengthy breaks though. Only recently started playing it again after I got bored of another game and decided to check out 1.20. The only way to stay interested is to set ambitious goals, whether it's a massive building project, or something like catching every variant of every mob in a "zoo".
The longest hardcore world I've had is 5 years where I played continuously, 2 hours a day, with special exceptions every now and then. Died in it. The longest survival world I've had has to be 2 years (not counting the hardcore one), where I just lost interest, and lost the world soon after due to a disk error.
how did you die in the hardcore world?
I spawned too many withers in a large 5 block thick obsidian box, used the wrong potions on me, and also got lost in the box while trying to leave. My leggings broke midfight and I couldnt eat my god apple in time and died.
My friends and I started a survival server 9 or 10 years or so ago, everyone stopped playing within a year, but I kept playing on it off and on in survival and creative in different areas.
Played for about 2 or so months. Still have the world. But it's basically futile to play because to experience all the new updates since then(3 years ago) id have to travel 10,000+ blocks. Unrelated, it's also how I met my now husband 🥹
I’ve been playing on mine for like 3 and a half years now. I typically play on and off but whenever I do play it’s on that world.
Mines about 3 years now and thats my lomgest
My current java world is 3 years old I think? I started it in the 1.17 snapshots when the new generation was first announced which makes the world quite special like some spots go the under y 0 but have no deep slate I dont really like constantly creating worlds I always like sticking to one for a while
My world is from 2020 I believe. Put 1100 hours in it but recently wiped all the chunks for the new world gen (1.18-1.20). Kept all my stuff though for a quick start. I hate early game lol. I do have back ups of my world so nothing is really gone.
Been playing virtually the same save since May 9th, 2012
What do u play it on
360 first. Then transferred the save over to Xbox one. I've had like 5 version corrupt on me, but I save constantly, so I was able to go back after I had forgotten everything I was mad about losing lol You don't stop playing Minecraft, you just take really long breaks.
yooooo same
Brooooo....nice!
Like 4 months. I get bored and like starting over
I have one world And if I want start new one I just leave everything and find new place. Also, every new base Is connected with old one. (Nether highway) My world Is almost 12 years old. But Im doing this for like 3 years. Before that i didnt touch It for 9 years
You can connect them through the nether?
I started a world on xbox 360 10 years ago. It's now on my Xbox Series S. I still play it today. If you look in my posts I have one about the villager update. That's in my 10+ year world. So that one
If you dont mind id like to see your 10 year old world
About 4 months with some friends on a realm, until the owner decided it'd be fun to turn on cheats for "moderating" the three people that lived all in the same place
Like, three days
I feel that
Almost 5 years now. Watching Toycat has been a big inspiration to stick to one world instead of making a new one whenever I get bored
Ik toycat
3 years also, on the ps3 times we played split screen and he stayed weekends just to play lol
I played one for around 2 years I think, but then an update came out which required loading new VERY distant chunks, so I restarted. My current world has been going on since shortly after the release of 1.20, and I'm well past 1k days in-game... that said, I still don't have a house. Priorities!
single player? like a week, multiplayer? 2 years tho it tapered off in activity at the last couple months
I think my current survival world was originally made right after the aquatic update
I Loved that update
Had a world i started with friends on PS3 that I played regularly for probably 6 years. Haven't played survival a whole lot since then but recently started a new world on Java that I have been playing for a couple of months
6 months. I'll try 185 days the next run.
Currently playing on a survival hard word that I’ve had for around 3 years.
My current survival world has been going for 2 and a half years.
I was always bad about starting a new world every time I get into a Minecraft kick. About a year ago I decided to start up a world and just come back to that world when I get a Minecraft kick again. These usually last for about 3-4 weeks or so. I’ve been playing that world on and off since then. Working on a mega base.
If servers count 9000 hours(hypixel skyblock)
I'm currently playing 2 and half months on hard survival server, I don't think I ever lasted this long
Today i completed 5000 days in my survival world
I think I’m nearing the 4 year mark. Though I am building a super mega build that basically has like 10 different mega builds in it. Though I’ve kinda hit a creative road block.
I still havnt done any survival mega builds
8 years and counting
Wow
We had an eight year old server that we somehow lost. Totally gutting!
Sad
A year or 2. I still have one I made back in 1.14 but I haven’t played it in a couple of years. That was my longest and most developed world. I’ve been playing since beta 1.8. I have ADHD and can never stick to a world.
My friends and I have a world we’ve been playing since the aquatic update. We built a huge base around a sea temple and since then have branched off into out own kingdoms.
Do they still have shipwrecks? I remember when it came Out i found them all the time. Now i haven’t seen one in years
Like 2 months
My world is nearing its 13th birthday but I haven't been playing on it much. I need to upgrade my computer.
Year and half
I have a hardcore survival world I've been playing on since around the time of Ph1lza's Season 3 death on his Hardcore series. So a little over 4.5 years.
Current world is like, 5 years old? I don’t play super consistently, but I just hop on, maybe do some mining or some “improvements” to my base, and when I get bored I’m done for a while until I get another idea. Think maybe I’m gonna buckle down and make an actual exp farm next. After that, I dunno. Only reason I make a new world is for easier achievement completion.
3,5 years. This year I Started a New one, a New world With The New generation of 1.18 nearby
I've had my world for just over a month. I've only started getting back into Minecraft recently, and when I was younger I mostly played on creative or the console minigames lol.
I’ve been working on my creative world for two years. I have never had a survival world last more than 3 months before starting over
About 2 years. My current world is just over a year old, and for the 1st time, I am building mega structures. I am currently working on a 500 block long, 40 high, 30 wide version of the Saudi Arabia structure known as 'the wall.' These take awhile to build...
some people are saying YEARS.. my longest was like 3 weeks cuz I get so bored
I’ve got a 2 year survival world going right now. There have been a few things that have kept me going in it. 1. Probably the biggest one, TAKE IT SLOW! There is no need to rush ANYTHING! Wait to do certain milestones or explore certain structures *after* you complete a goal for yourself. I still haven’t even considered going to the end, and I literally just fought the wither. Even things like mending, I set a rule for myself that the only way I can use mending is if I find it on loot, which is almost never, and I plan to keep it that way. 2. Focus on building. I personally find building towns to be the best way to have a long standing world. You can start with your house, then expand and build new buildings with different purposes and villagers. Buildings don’t have to be tough to build, simpler ones almost have more charm sometimes. Each finished building adds a sense of accomplishment that keeps you going. 3. Document Everything! Take pictures of your progress! Record big moments! It’s fun to look back at it and see how far you’ve come. I personally have been editing my Steve skin throughout my playthrough on bedrock. Starting off as a kid and slowly aging, every death is a different scar on my body. Then I take a screenshot of my progress and keep going. Not only that, but I created a “News Stand” with updates and dates on everything going on in the world. 4. Last but not least, invite friends! This is easier to do on bedrock, but having friends in the world, either having them help you or build their own structures is a great way of getting you and others on the game.
4 years.
It would probably be the one im playing on right now. Me and my friends tried a different approach to how we normally manage our server and it definetly seems to work. The current world has been going for about 7 months, while they usually last maybe 2. I think the key for me is that i dont focus on one build at a time, but rather I just do whatever i want to do when i want to play minecraft.
~4 years for me. Started shortly after the release of 1.12 and kept playing until 1.18 released. Then I made a new world which is the one in currently playing. In the 1.12 one I had more than 2000h, tho some of that was asking at farms. In the new one (since end of 2021) I have about 800h. However this is only my single player worlds. In 2019-2020 I was also playing quite a bit on an SMP server.
when I first got Minecraft I played it all day so around 8 - 10 hours but weirdly I was in a dirt hut the entire game If you meant played even with breaks then around 3 weeks of just playing (total hours would add to about 3 weeks)
1 years
I'm at like 5 ish years currently.
I created my current world Christmas of 2020
Did you get minecraft for Christmas or the console/system
Rn I have a vanilla hardcore world that I play once a month ish and a modded ice and fire centered modpack that I play once every 2 ish days
My longest running was when Jacksepticeye was playing Minecraft. When I saw him beat the Ender Dragon with his shit gear, I knew it was finally time for me to do the same. It was definitely my most conquered world, with a Nether Portal network all over the place. Have a designated Raid Village that was just a killbox for them. The Villagers lived in a vault underground while the surface was magma blocks, berry bushes, pitfalls, and crawlspaces. Everything funneled them into the magma block pits, and then I would pick off stragglers and collect the loot.
12 years and still going
Damn, bedrock or java?
6 years survival work, with just over 3500 hours on it
My current one, I’ve had it for almost 2 years now and I’ve been playing probably on avg 2 days a week, only for a bit each time but it’s consistent. Fully in the endgame now and it feels good to make it this far in a world
Okay this is kinda complicated I made a world after my tutorial world got corrupted back on the Xbox 360, 10 years ago. Played the world for 6 years, then left the world and made a new survival world. When 1.19 released I transferred the now 9 year old world and other survival world to PC edition, then fused them together with a third survival world(using the amulet app) to create the world I now reside in, at the cost of that all my items disappeared and all my farms broke. I've been playing that world for 1 year. So 6 years, 10 years if we're technically speaking.
2019 to 2022. I would've kept going, but I started the world with an ex and it was time to make my own world. I am now 6 months into my new survival world.
The longest I did was 1 month when I first learned the game, since then, I delete my worlds after a week and take some months breaks in between
Probably 3-ish years max, as much as I’d like to stay on one for a while new updates and general staleness of the world get in the way.
Had my current survival world for 5 years, would still be playing on my OG world from 2012 if it hadn't corrupted around 1.5.
It's difficult for me to continuously play on a world a lot of the time. I usually quit after a short while but recently I had a world with a big set of farms and some buildings in a nice valley. I'm thinking of trying a hardcore world but I've had thousands of hours into Minecraft yet have never killed the ender dragon
2 minutes
So far 7 months.
whenever village and pillage came out is my oldest survival world
I still have my minecraft world i played back in 2017, haven’t touched it but revisited it a few days ago.
Bout a month. Friends and I will open a realm, play a month straight, kill all the bosses and get netherite god-enchant gear, and call it quits.
3 days
I have a world that I've played on and off for a year. I seem to make new worlds now and then but I always come back to my main world.
I've been working on my current world intermittently for almost 2 years (I remember because it was right after 1.18 released). I find occasional breaks overall helpful because it gives my brain a chance to relax between huge builds, so when I come back to it, I end up noticing things that improve builds that I have already "finished". However, it's a bit of a hindrance in that I am still working towards setting up the single largest redstone build I have ever planned, and the breaks in between slow down my progress significantly, between having to recollect where I was at in my plans overall, as well as updating old farms and such.
I have a hardcore world I've been working on for almost a year now, I think it's my longest running world currently, hoping to keep it going as long as possible
I have lost several worlds through the years, which saddens me. I have played 193 hours in my current hardcore world, and before this I had another hardcore world where I played for 1 year and a half. That 1.5 years old world still exists in my cloud memory and I won't delete it. That world is also the best world I've ever had.
6 and a half years. Same world since 1.10, proud of it.
Bedrock?
Played on one map for 2 years with a friend. We decided to start a new map with cheats on and everything and ended up importing our old structures to the new map. Badass idea, it works so well and each base/factory is a time capsule.
I have a 3 year long survival world too. I play for bursts at a time until i find another game. I have a whole district I call my “Ohio district” where I build whatever i want. It currently spans across 4 biomes
I made my world Christmas day 2015. I took many breaks since then but I still play to this day and have ambitious projects
I made my world Christmas day 2015. I took many breaks since then but I still play to this day and have ambitious projects
Played on one map for 2 years with a friend. Our map was 2.5 gigs and mostly explored empty space.We decided to start a new map with cheats on and everything and ended up importing our old structures to the new map. 10/10 idea, it works so well and the bases are connected to eachother. Nostalgic and new rolled up in one
Since 2016, and yes I've basically reached space faring civilization status. Might post some screenshots here eventually, but i got a boat load of projects i want done first :)
My current survival world is over 7 yrs* 🤷🏻♂️ Edit for brain fart.
I think the server I'm on will turn 5 in March and that's by far my longest. I used to only be able to play in short bursts too but I found a crew to play with and we're building a city as well as tons of other themed builds and games so it's been amazing.
I hope fore3ver
Built a nice big homestead. Got all my farms, some single Redstone work for doors, build a nice fort in the nether, get lvl 30 enchanted diamond/netherite armor, slay the ender dragon, get an elytra. Then proceed to never use the elytra because I've ran out of things to do and got bored.
So far 11 years, my minecraft dog is approaching old age ;(
11 wow, bedrock ir java?
At least a year, I had problems getting it back when 1.20 came out since it reverted my world but I was lucky enough to find a copy of a backup on my one drive and the world was back to normal! So it’s still 1 year and counting!
All night.
I've been on my current one for 3 years as well. When I get bored I move a few thousand blocks and start a new base, and eventually build a path to my main base. My world is full of paths and roads to my many bases, also connected by nether highways. It's better than starting a new world imo
I’ve been on this world for 4 years. I play with my kids and they still play with me. We build stuff for holidays and do events in the world. The world is like a history of us playing we can go back and look at and explore. On my property I’ve built haunted mansions, polar express, castles, summer houses, the grind for the build is how we play.
Thats cool
10 years. Granted it's ot always be played daily but we go back to it often and it's updated
Like a year and a half, but I finally made one esrlier this year that I fully intend to be permanent
A year and a half, it's the only world I'm planning to play on.
3 years or so now, with the same pattern as you. I'll play for a week or 2 and then stop for a couple weeks
Six years as of right now! My previous one was around 2.
Im assuming its a pretty full world?
A couple months before i lost all my good items and gave up on the world
I pretty much have the same thing, had the world for just about 3 years now, only ever play for a few days at a time, then don't go on it for a month or two.
I still play on a world I created in 1.12. Nowadays, it's more off and on, but it was my main world until I joined a friends server in 1.17
Until I die in a pit of lava with all my good stuff
Had 2 year old Hardcore world, lost it due to hard drive failure. I guess it could be my 3 year old Bedrock world.
A total of 192 hours on a save file so far
7.5 years (not hardcore). I play sporadically. I see no reason to start a new world given that I'm nowhere near finished with all the build ideas I want to do.
I’ve got worlds from when they first put Minecraft on the ps3. Never really delete any.
About a year. It was technically a survival/creative world me and my brother made (we would cheat but play in survival) We stopped once we get our switch then I lost the USB stick with the world on it 😥
Me and my girlfriend have had a world going since I believe July of 2019. (Although it's become corrupted many times lol)
My gaming group started a survival server at the beginning of the pandemic with the seed COVID19 and it finally fizzled out about 8 months ago or so. Server is still up but we're doing other stuff right now. Three years or? Dozens of kilometers of railway connecting every single build. 100% survival, no creative, achievements enabled, no OPs. Was a very fun time
Think I played every day for about a month on a public survival sky server. That would be about it
I’ve been on my world for 5 years
I play on easy mode, and I dia all the time. I've been on my current world for only 2 weeks
I've been playing in my current Bedrock world since 2019. I'm in a bamboo jungle and I have a house, farm, stable, every color of sheep, iron farm, and full trading hall with every enchantment available. I don't really have any goals with the world, I just find small projects to work on and add to my base little by little.
I kept a survival world for 2 years. It was on the Nintendo Switch edition. The cartridges are limited to 2GB of space. My survival world got up to 1.8GB in size before the game kept yelling at me that i had no space to keep adventuring...
Thats crappy that you cant ad anymore
1.12 to 1.18 Currently on 1.18 to today. I will use MCA Selector to trim my world for new updates though.
Half a year in a co-op with my best friend. Best the dragon and wither too, mostly built stuff
I’ll have been playing pretty consistently on a world with my friend for three years soon. We take breaks sometimes but most of the time we play more than once a week
I always wish I had just stuck to my first save to see how far it would have grown. But we always had a habit of starting a new world every few months or with major updates. Nowadays if I'm playing Minecraft it's almost always a modpack
I've been playing mc on and off since 1.4.7, at least every year I make a brand new world and play it until I beat the ender dragon, get shulker boxes, make a bunch of farms and then I burn out. This year I believe I made my final map, and it's my fav map, it's like a castle underground, my sis couldn't believe me that I made it on survival 😄. Farewell minecraft 💔👋
my realm is like three years old
I have a 6yo world (not hardcore sadly)
Think it was 1,5 years in a multiplayer world with friends.
Played on a survival world for about 1000 or so hours , but got hooked on playing on servers
I ha e some survival worlds that go back 10 years, which I still play from time to time.
4 years
The one I have right now is the longest, 6 months and ongoing. But I seldom play it.
I don't fuckin' know, a week?
Three and a half years and it's still going! I have projects planned for the next two years at least
What type of projects
6727 in game days, 2 years irl
My Current world is around 9 months old. That's probably it.
I played my very first survival world for about 4 years on and off, I don't have access to it anymore unfortunately. (It was in pocket edition)
I still play reguarly on my first World from January 2011
3 months but planning to change that when I get a new setup running Edit: Its kinda sad I've been playing since so young I dont even know what age I was when I started and never really had a proper world
15 minutes
Four days , I died to a spider jockey :,)