Since Minecraft's initial release over 10 years ago, the game has evolved quite a bit. With the introduction of new biomes, items, and areas to discover, the game has managed to stay surprisingly fresh in a highly competitive market. Perhaps one of the most significant changes has been the introduction of other game modes and types.
With Minecraft story mode, adventure mode and even the upcoming dungeon mode, the game maintains its versatility as a sandbox that can do just about everything. When it comes and adventure mode, which allows players to play a more RPG-oriented game, and survival mode, which is the standard version of Minecraft, there's a few pros and cons on both sides to consider.
10 Survival: Blocks Can Be Broken
One of the main differences in the two modes is the fact that in survival, players can actually break blocks. This means that they can interact with the world freely, even if it's not super realistic to be able to punch down a tree when first spawning in.
In adventure mode, blocks can't be broken unless they marked as breakable blocks or players use a tool that's marked as one that can break blocks. It takes away from the original Minecraft experience quite a bit, which is why survival is better in that regard.
9 Adventure: It's A Nice Challenge
While breaking blocks is definitely not a possibility in adventure, it does provide a really nice challenge. The player needs to focus on other aspects of Minecraft to survive in the same way as they would in survival, which requires a lot of creative thinking.
For once, players can utilize creepers to blow up certain objects in order to harvest them. By using the environment to their advantage, players are encouraged to come up with unique solutions to stay alive.
8 Survival: Building Is Possible
One of the main strengths that survival has is the aspect of building. Since blocks can be broken and harvested, players can gather resources to actually create something. Ultimately, building is one of the cornerstones of the Minecraft experience.
Players are able to make precisely the kind of base they want, or build massive roads leading from village to village. The sky's the limit (literally) when it comes to building in survival mode.
7 Adventure: Focus On Exploration
In adventure mode, the environment can't exactly be harvested in the same way as survival. This means that all resources should be gathered as loot. Thankfully, due to various different structures that spawn around the world, this isn't as tough as it sounds.
Players can find shipwrecks, jungle and desert temples, and villages to fill up their inventory. This is a great way to focus only on exploring the world of Minecraft, rather than just exploiting its resources to quickly get the items needed.
6 Survival: Mining Is Possible
It even states in the name of the game that in Minecraft, everything is all about mining and crafting. Well, primarily mining. It's a key component of survival, which isn't possible in adventure mode, and seriously determines the player's experience.
Mining is not only great for experience points, it also allows the player to quickly find useful ores like iron, coal and even diamond if they're lucky enough. Without this aspect of the game, finding ores is much more difficult.
5 Adventure: Features Cool Maps
While adventure mode can be turned on in just about any normal Minecraft world by using commands, it originally exists in service of adventure maps. These are usually player-created worlds which have a story to them, or just focus on exploration. Due to being so elaborate, adventure mode prevents players from griefing the structures.
There are tons of cool adventure maps available that completely change how Minecraft is experienced. From classic medieval RPG stories to mysteries and elaborate quest-based adventures, there's something for everyone.
4 Survival: Finishing The Game
It should go without saying, but the core game of Minecraft can only be completed in survival. Sure, there have been some incredible players out there who have challenged themselves to beat the game without breaking a single block, but that requires an extreme amount of luck.
The original Minecraft experience is irreplaceable and priceless. It's what everything was founded upon, long before elaborate adventure maps and even story mode was available. It's a classic that no other mode can beat.
3 Adventure: An Alternative To Hardcore
Another difficult part of adventure is surviving. If the player spawns into a regular world and puts on adventure mode, finding food is going to be extremely challenging without the right tools or enough structures to loot.
This could be considered as the ultimate survival experience, better than even Minecraft hardcore. There are ways to make it work, but it does require a lot of thinking outside of the box on how to survive and even thrive in a world on adventure mode.
2 Survival: Tons Of Freedom
When it comes down to it, survival provides so much more freedom for the player than adventure mode. Basically everything is available in survival mode, as long as the player has the right tools in hand. Theoretically, however, there are no limits to how far a player can go.
From covering a village in lava to creating a machine that's sole purpose of which is to kill creepers, these are the luxuries only those in survival mode (or creative, for that matter) can experience to the fullest degree.
1 Adventure: Mob And NPC Interactions
If there's one thing that Minecraft needs, then it's interaction with villagers, mobs and other NPCs. A Minecraft survival world can feel surprisingly lonely for the player, which is why adventure mode's ability to bring in a story, some lore, and real interaction through books and dialogue is so powerful.
Adventure mode is not perfect, but many map makers have become very creative when it comes to creating compelling adventures that suck the player in. This is something that just doesn't exist in survival, and is perhaps the primary reason why everyone should give adventure mode a try.