#or thinking that somehow this detracts from minecraft as a whole or smth…

[me-william]

so as we all know, you cannot sleep in the nether. you place your bed down, and it explodes.

why, though? why does specifically sleeping in a bed in the nether cause it to explode? not in terms of raw game mechanics, I mean why as in “give me your best narrative explanation.”

for example, I think the question of sleeping in the nether is often circumvented by an explanation like, “sleeping in the nether in general is a bad idea due to the dangerous conditions,” wherein a bed in a more secure location, say a cleared-out nether fortress, no longer poses a problem. no explodey. but in reality (or. the game, obviously), you’d still explode.

i think the next easiest explanation to go to would be something like, “notch specifically cursed beds to be dysfunctional in the nether,” which works, but isn’t as fuuun.

this brings up questions like, “well, what actually counts as a ‘bed’ in the nether?” and “what actually counts as sleeping?” i have some half-baked thoughts, likely with glaring holes, but i am as usual curious to see how other people might work around/think about this game-mechanic in a narrative way =v=

thanks @goldenblackhole for the worms I really appreciate it

#another day another pondering game mechanics/magic that don’t need an explanation #like to be clear. to be really clear bc idk some people get weird about these things for some reason #this is all in good fun for me personally LOL #i don’t intend to like…be meanly um whats it called #nitpicky about these kinds of details. i don’t really care #this isn’t me being like ‘ur not allowed to have unexplained things EVER’ #or thinking that somehow this detracts from minecraft as a whole or smth… #if that were the case we’d have much bigger fish to fry than beds exploding. #it is just genuinely fun for me. to think about how these things would work in a ‘practical’ sense #as practical as…beds exploding in an alternate hell-like dimension as one can get anyway #minecraft #text #will.chat