TIL: 5 year old kids play Minecraft.
Even younger. The touch screen version is easy enough for a 4 year old or maybe younger, depending on what you constitute “playing”.
Now I think about it, I’m certain I’ve had this conversation, except it was cats not cows.
Oh, yes! And they’re really good at it for their age. They’re little sponges with everything they see.
I guess they need a break from all that GTA griefing
It’s a whole business, selling skins and other “resource packs” aimed to kids.
And then they can enhance that business by turning around getting pedophiles to subscribe and pay for in game credits so that they can interact with a bunch of undersupervised children.
Assuming the cows are causing a lot of lag, so he’s upset that he can’t clear them out and play the game
The obvious solution then is just using a command to kill the cows… and probably tell the other kid not to do that again x3
Make a pen outside the house, cut a hole in the house to let the cows out, free farm.
Assuming they’re playing on a device that can handle 80 cows yes :3
If they’re playing bedrock on a tablet or something it may need to be downscaled a bit
lol good point.
I remember when alpha 1.8 was released and mobs would drop enchanting XP as multiple orbs worth one point each. It was fine for cows, but killing even a moderately high level player would drop thousands of orbs and basically implode reality in a radius of several chunks. Good times.
That ultra-amplified TINK, I can still hear it echo along with the gut-drop of anxiety wondering if my cheap laptop was going to keep up or crash out… Good times, genuinely.
Real x3… I still sometimes go back and replay the old versions of minecraft, and there’s a lot of interesting stuff to them that I had forgotten
This is an opportunity to teach them about the command line, so they can use their powers for revenge.
80 cows? Ha! How about 8,000 cows!
I read that in the cadence of “500 cigarettes” from the orville
Sounds like the perfect opportunity to have the adult conversation about what constitutes a socially acceptable number of cows to have in your house. It’s a very important conversation.
I’m sure we all remember when our parents had the talk with us about this.
That’s why we all check for creepers hiding on our roof before we go outside…
Torches everywhere
1 is very weird, 5 is totally crazy, 80 is derangement.
But hey, 88 is double happiness, almost there.
Is 2 weirder than 1? I feel like that would make more sense…
But when does the “parabola-of-acceptable-amount-of-cows-in-a-house” top out?
Asking for a friend of course…
1 is acceptable when you’re a medieval peasant.
2-4 is never OK.
5+ is fine, but it turns the house into a barn.Very true, after a certain number of cows they stop being inside your house and you start being inside their barn lol
My dad used to live in the country, and a single cow got into a semi-abandoned old ranch hand house. (We assume some one left the door open. It was in there for a day or so.
That cow absolutely wrecked the place. Walls kicked in, windows smashed (frame and all), floors ripped up, table in 2 pieces, just an absolute disaster. Also, the poop.
So. ONE COW. If unsupervised.
Something like this poor Montana family’s house? (Article with pictures)
Indoor cows obviously require more supervision than outdoor cows. That’s just common sense.
Not every cow is suitable to be an indoor cow. They all have different temperaments like any other pet. Most cows do better outside or in a barn.
Get a donkey instead
Lmao this has the same energy as me learning about the concept of loaning money for interest at the same age and deciding to put it in action by lending my brother bells in Animal Crossing and deciding that he needed to pay me back twice what I had lent him, a fact that I only informed him of after I gave him the money. We had a big fight about it and our mom had to get involved. Good times lol.
Well it’s good your mom was the judge, interest that high is criminal
With fees capped at 14% and interest capped at 35% APR, a doubling could still be legal if they have 2 years to repay, especially with frequent compounding.
Not that children have the patience to wait 2 years for a return on their investment, though.
What was the loan period?
Sounds more like you were a loan shark.
I hadn’t learned about repayment periods or anything I just said he had to pay me back double, I didn’t think about interest rates or anything but yeah I definitely was a loan shark.
This is where you have a talk about griefing and consent before the 5yo turns into an open world PvP advocate
But open world pvp is super fun!
(But high risk)
For a game like minecraft where progression is so quick does it really matter? Oh no I lost an iron sword. That won’t take 5 minutes to replace…
That is pretty much how our lunchtimes went in the school computer room around 2011 or so.
Free meat and leather
Okay, I am the only one thinking that a 5 and a 7 yo shouldn’t play Minecraft alone?
I haven’t played Minecraft really since the alpha, but I can’t imagine why they shouldn’t. What am I missing?
What could possibly threaten children by playing Minecraft?
It’s not Minecraft especially, it’s the computer. I never played Minecraft so it may be suitable for a 7 yo (depending on the child), but at 5 no child should in my opinion play video games alone, only for small periods of time and always accompanied by an adult as their brain is not mature enough to grasp the concept of virtuality.
I’m not convinced that a 5 year old can’t grasp the concept of virtuality. Minecraft on peaceful mode is just giant blocks being picked up and placed. Even if it were true they don’t get that it’s virtual (that I don’t really understand how that could be true), I can’t imagine what long term damage could possibly be done by believing the blocks are real.
I know it’s only anecdotal but I was gaming at age 5, and I definitely knew the difference between games and real life.
You’re getting a lot of downvotes, which I think is related to the audience you’re talking to (computer and game affine) and the fact that Minecraft is generally considered a kid friendly game, so what’s the harm?
That being said, it has zombies, creepers etc. and a 5yo can definitely get scared by it. I’ve seen it happen.
However, I believe any unattended screen time at age 5 to be a much bigger issue in general. The AAP / AACAP recommends a maximum of 60 minutes a day of screen time at that age, and that includes the combined total including TV etc. Many European institutions advocate for a limit of 30 minutes (the AAP recently increased the limit in their recommendations).
Minecraft is a game suitable for kids, but unsupervised media consumption is definitely not a thing at age 5.
I played some games at 5 years old; mainly Pac-In-Time and Mario Teaches Typing on MacOS, and Super Mario Bros on the NES with my grandpa helping me on the hard parts. My own kids when they were 5 played curated video games like Minecraft, Lego Worlds, and the other various Lego titles. Screen time limits are important until kids learn time management, at one point I had some software I found to give warnings and lock them out once their account time was up.
Once kids are old enough to understand the need to prioritize other aspects of life it’s beneficial to have had some base level of computer experience. One example, my now older kid asked me the other day about how to set up an autoclicker and we walked through choosing a keyboard shortcut to trigger an Autohotkey script to spam clicks, and how to add other hotstrings and functions. I truly don’t know shit about programming, but functional versus object oriented programming seems both more approachable and more of a practical tool for kids of the next gen who will likely need some understanding of how programs work to sort out good advice from hallucinations in whatever AI tool their employer uses.
My 10-year-old and 8-year-old have been playing Minecraft, both alone and with me, since they were 5 and 7. I don’t see a problem with it. As long as they’re not on public servers, there’s really no harm that can come of it.
My oldest and his buddies used to dig extensive tunnels under their friends “houses” (more like gigantic palaces of the flashy kind), filled those tunnels to the brim with explosives and just for shit and giggles blew up the estates above.
Medieval war tactics rediscovered by preteens. My inner historian held several celebrations.
I remember selling god gear to a rather small faction, so that they’d fight another. Then as they died and were focused on that, I just claimed their land. Of both.
I also raided an ally’s secret area that their youngest leaked, then conviced them to join me by promising to give them shelter and loot - as a kind ally.
I just kept absorbing factions. Only one man made me ask politely, the one who outwitted me by being a pacifist. Hugger of war, lord of conquest completely enthralled by that which he could not have. He had conquered me and in doing so, conquered the server.
I was reading this reply from my inbox and took longer than I should’ve to realize this was about the Minecraft post.
The 5-year-old probably thought it was hilarious. I think the answer is to fill the 5-year-old’s house with 80 chickens.
He’d probably think that’d be hilarious too. Win-win.
