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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I admit I have not paid enough attention to what my kids are doing on Minecraft.  It's on my to-do list.
But my son did comment that he was going to let the peasants live, for the moment, and I was like "Whaaaat?  Is there some reason you would kill mindless peasants wandering around?" It was explained to me that the random wandering peasants consume resources that could otherwise be used for building.  I may have that wrong, as I was a little confused by the whole thing.

Can someone more knowledgeable explain to me?  Is there some incentive built into the game to kill off living things?  If so, it reminds me of some dystopian robot future, where the machines are so set on building for the sake of building, and view the sentient beings as hindrances to their mission.

Although it also reminds me of Sim City, which folks used to play in the 80's....I had friends that regularly let the city go to hell and all the folks would die.  But none of those friends turned out to be psychopathic city planners, so that's encouraging.[/quote]

There are sim city minecraft mods  :)  Minecraft is NOT sim city but if you add a sim city mod, you can make it into sim city.

Peasants can be good/bad/neutral - depends.  You can barter/trade with them.  Kill them all off and take over their village.  Ignore them completely....  Whatever.  Depends on what you want to accomplish.[/quote]

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