All of the troubles they've faced thus far are things you have the power to address with built-in systems, but they've become accustomed to bypassing them with admin access. You can't put the game genie back in the bottle. They're not playing Minecraft anymore
I've played plenty of minecraft with plenty of people on plenty of servers since beta and I can pinpoint the downfall of several servers to the moment where someone (sometimes me) uses admin commands to do something small, which opens the floodgates into more and more things until eventually you run out of motivation to do anything because it's all there with the click of a button. They're not at that point yet but I am worried it'll get that way.
(Also fuck me, who cares, play how you like)
For real though make some maps, it's a fun long term goal to explore them, and they link together perfectly so you can build out a huge world map by sticking them in item frames, it's also super handy to see where everyone is and to work out if you've been somewhere before. Also if you right click a banner with the map open it marks a waypoint on the map, so you can be like "oh this is where the ocean monument is" and you'll always know (I learnt this last week, minecraft isn't great at teaching you things tbf). You can rename banners on anvils to dictate what text shows up on the map too.
All this talk about having an external program to bring up a map - there are maps in game too guys! You can put waypoints on it and everyone that has a copy of the map shows up on there too.
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