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Despite the blocky graphics, TerraFirmaCraft's been fun. It makes survival in the wilderness more believable and (to me) more satisfying than the base game. If you spawn in a temperature range far enough from the equator, winter is cold enough to kill your crops so preserving food or hunting is necessary. Crafting tools, weapons, and armor is a more involved process than vanilla. It encourages the player to value what they've made instead of stuffing chests full of easily created items.
When excavating a mine wood supports are needed to prevent a deadly cave in. When mining you'll sometimes hear a collapse happening nearby, it all helps create the impression that this is dangerous and that there really is tons of rock above you just waiting to come down. Torches go out after a couple days, so re-entering that mine and hearing monsters somewhere nearby can be unnerving. And there's no towns or villagers, so it's just you and the wilderness. I didn't install a map mod or look at the spawn coordinates, so making visible markers and observing the terrain is important if I want to explore and find my way home again.
A game like this with even more survival aspects and TES:Oblivion level graphics would be great.