People still playing this?

[Imortalin]

Played Minecraft modded for a while and have had this since its release on Steam but have not played in a very very long time. How is the game and is it a simple survival base building game or has some complexities similar to Minecraft and even modded MC?

[entuland]

The best way to get a feeling is to play it first hand - it's free to play and you can also access Creator Mode in some worlds even if you don't have the Pro DLC, such as Playfulverse RW4 by Valentina, which has Creator Mode enabled by default for everyone.

The wiki is a good spot to get a feeling of the amount of items, mobs, biomes and whatnot that you have available without actually having to discover / unlock them in game:
https://creativerse.fandom.com/wiki/Creativerse_Wiki

Creativerse has no modding mechanics of any kind, but it has more than 1K different blocks / items, among natural ones and craftable ones, this webtool lists pretty much them all and more get added regularly with updates:
http://entuland.com/creaticount/

Creativerse is mainly building focused, the survival mechanics are somewhat secondary, but there is a good deal of stuff to experience and learn, and quite a bit of progress to be made, regardless of the main focus.

Many players still play the game, but it varies wildly depending on the time of the day, the day of the week, the month and so forth, so even if the average may be about a few hundreds per day, the total of active players at different times is likely much higher than that - the Discord server has an average of 1000 accounts online and about 5000 accounts total.

One major difference you may find is that worlds are in general less populated than other games, because all worlds (including the ones owned by Free to Play players) are always available online, hosted by Creativerse servers, whereas in other games you have to pay to put your world online or host it somehow, causing the online players to cluster together more easily because there are less online worlds to play on.

Being a voxel based game, directly or indirectly inspired by Infiniminer just like Minecraft and many others, you'll find a lot of similarities but also a lot of differences in the various mechanics, so as above, the best way to get a feeling is really to play it first hand and see for yourself if you would enjoy it or not.

[Queen Droxxanna]

of course we are still playing it, i think its better then minecraft, and it doesnt cost an arm and a leg for every new update

[Imortalin]

Cool just a quick question how do i enter combat mode and pull out my weapon?

[entuland]

Originally posted by Artanis:

Cool just a quick question how do i enter combat mode and pull out my weapon?

You TAB through mining gauntlet / weapon / any third tool (plow, taming bell, wiring tool) - but you can't do that in Creator Mode - in CM you can only mine / build and use the third tool.

[Imortalin]

Ok great I am playing now have pro version. I also would like to know the best way to keep mobs from spawning when Im caving? How do I keep safe and not die when looking for materials in caves etc?

[entuland]

Originally posted by Artanis:

Ok great I am playing now have pro version. I also would like to know the best way to keep mobs from spawning when Im caving? How do I keep safe and not die when looking for materials in caves etc?

The easiest way is to disable mob spawning altogether - you can do that both at the global level (entire world) or locally (each claim).

Mobs that have already spawned will remain there until the area gets fully unloaded and reloaded, to make them despawn.

Mobs spawned in another claim may still walk into a claim where spawns are disabled.

The pure survival way of avoiding spawns is placing at least one light in each chunk (this mechanism is quite different from MC), more info about chunks, since that concept as well is different from MC:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/280790/discussions/3/2145343313160830833/

Mobs shouldn't spawn on crafted blocks or on pure natural Stone, but that's a quirky mechanic and you may still have mobs glitching or spawning in the wrong spots due to some bug - the best thing is probably to gear up the best you can as you progress, keeping food or potions to regenerate your health, and throwables (stun bombs) if you're in a very tight spot and need to flee or something.

Food is Over 9000 in Creativerse. Try and get Mushroom Sandwiches or at least Mushroom Soup as soon as you can for the health regen, then aim for the other Sandwiches starting from the Wholesome one - I won't spoil more, but there is definitely more to tackle harder areas of the worlds.

[Imortalin]

Awesome thank you so much, and now for my last question for now... Do you recommend a nice server to play with others or better solo?

[entuland]

Originally posted by Artanis:

Awesome thank you so much, and now for my last question for now... Do you recommend a nice server to play with others or better solo?

You're welcome!

Playing solo is totally okay, and when you are ready, you could as well open your world and advertise it (but beware that administering a world isn't little work).

Unfortunately I can't point out any world in particular, the only ones I can advise are the official Playfulverse ones (the original one by Brainsloth, then the RW5 to RW8 ones by APlayfulGuy, and finally RW4 by Valentina) - all of these have admins which will not ban you on a whim and will be available in case of need for problems with other players.

Definitely take your time and get to know a world and its administration before investing any meaningful amount of time in any world you don't own - each world owner has full powers and full rights, they could lock the world, delete it, reset it, ban or kick, even for no reason whatsoever other than simply wanting to, and they are totally free to do so.

In case you decide to go public with your world, to protect it properly:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1518738176

[Imortalin]

So as far as what you said earlier if I have 1 light source like a torch or a lamp per chunk which is 16x16 blocks I should be ok?

[entuland]

In theory a single light per chunk will do, but as long as you don't overdo, you can add more just for the sake of good looks / decoration - or for not being forced to keep your flashlight on all the time.

[entuland]

Saw the edit afterwards :P

[Imortalin]

OK cool thank you... Game is fun :)

[entuland]

Glad you're enjoying it, if you need any help feel free to get in touch anytime (here, or on Discord, linked in a pinned thread here, or via [e-mail] if it's something strictly tied to your account that can't be discussed publicly)

[Imortalin]

Thank you and will do.

[Queen Droxxanna]

if you get tired of playing by yourself , my world CREATIVE FUNNY FARM is open for new players. Check out my post in public worlds section first. Its a peaceful world so you wont die while mining, and we are very friendly and helpful.