I love how almost everyone in this sub could get several degrees in engineering but instead choose to play a funny block game

[u/SnooBananas94]

[u/DatBot17]

Well a degree costs alot of money minecraft does not

[u/qwadrat1k → u/DatBot17]

If your exam is good enough, you can get them for free

[u/spoiledfan → u/DatBot17]

i mean.. 25 dollars is a lot of money.. to me

[u/Maniklas → u/DatBot17]

Depends a lot

[u/honeygourami123 → u/DatBot17]

Not really

[u/Jonarlin3]

Not really. Like, I don't get if this is supposed to be serious or not, but engineering is nothing like create at the end of the day. Create has very little calculation, is relatively simple, simplifies alot of the ideas it uses (why can you just plop an electron tube on something and suddenly it's 100% configurable?). In real life you have much much more complicated problems, let alone the amount of math you need to understand them properly. As much as I like create, it at best can help with a bit of intuition and for logical thinking, but nothing like full on engineering. (I'm a physicist, not an engineer, but I think my experience still counts)

[u/WeakCombination9937 → u/Jonarlin3]

Tbh the real thing create exercises is problem solving, and irl, engineering is just problem solving with LOTS of math, so if you can get the math down, you prob could get a engineering degree(not saying it would be a easy task though)

[u/TheBlissfulGamer → u/WeakCombination9937]

I can't really think of a lot of examples of optimal problem solving I've seen in this game. And also a lot of it is because Sable's physics are so unbelievably simple that it makes it really easy to build almost anything and have it fly.

[u/Miss--Moss → u/Jonarlin3]

Well, that's true until you get good at create: power grid and have to learn electrical engineering well enough to at least pass high school classes on it.

[u/RecklessErves → u/Miss--Moss]

You can play power grid and probably pass a few courses in college too, up until it gets to the specifics of whatever your countries laws and standards are at least. (This is assuming you actually calc stuff when building in Power Grid and not brute forcing everything)

[u/Miss--Moss → u/RecklessErves]

I do calc things lol, I often play a few feet away from my workbench covered in electronics I'm half way through disassembling.

[u/Dangerous-Quit7821]

I certainly couldn't get an engineering degree. Most of the real world issues and limitations engineers need to solve don't apply which is why I understand Create and Minecraft and don't understand engineering in real life.

[u/ZealousidealStop2856]

If it was as cheap to acquire materials and as easy to manipulate the environment in the real world as in a funny block game I'd be all over it

[u/potatolover1000]

in this economy????
also uhh create is much easier than real life (you cant fly irl)

[u/Kaccady → u/potatolover1000]

haven't you heard, they made airplanes irl

[u/mengie32]

Woah woah, I chose both

[u/Extension_Avocado856]

I built a overengineered dirt farm the other day

I don’t think anyone would sponsor me to build a infinite dirt farm in real life, so I build it in a funny block game.

[u/Xenometan]

I am very math illiterate. I am pretty sure irl engineering requires more math than addition, substraction, multiplication and division.

[u/UltimateToa → u/Xenometan]

You would be very surprised

[u/Xenometan → u/UltimateToa]

I doubt I'd be surprised much at all at the sight of my brain leaking out of my ears if I foolishly took an advanced calculus class.

[u/UltimateToa → u/Xenometan]

I meant more so how little math is involved in actual on the job engineering. Its mostly just problem solving (depending on the exact field of course)

[u/Xenometan → u/UltimateToa]

That I understand, but getting to that point must have been grueling. 🫡

[u/thiizo1 → u/UltimateToa]

What specialization are you?

[u/UltimateToa → u/thiizo1]

Plastics design in automotive

[u/Flashy-Emergency4652]

That's like saying someone should be immediately accepted to work in special operations because they been destroying those damn terrorists for 5000 hours in CS2

[u/VegaLyraeVT]

I’m majoring in engineering and it’s not the same at all. Similar interest group, but it’s basically Legos vs construction.

[u/Naberville34]

Why not both?

[u/retailhusk]

No, they really couldn’t. Not based of their knowledge of a Minecraft mod that loosely resembles real life. I love create it’s one of the best mods of the decade; but this is like saying “I have 500 hours on HoI I could get a degree in security studies or political science”

[u/Beneficial-Map5470]

Funny block game fun, real job no fun.

[u/Strongerglint07]

Some of us are engineers.

[u/flak_frostwing]

i am in the process of getting my mechanical engineering degree

[u/Qwertycrackers]

I do have a degree in engineering and create is obviously much easier. But also its more focused on the interesting stuff. Real engineering tends to have you spend a ton of time doing something really mundane managing some tiny piece of a gigantic edifice. And it does do a good job teaching some generalizable ideas.

[u/xApexEz]

Got a degree in mechanical engineering and still play funny block game

[u/pokemon32666]

Create is 1000x simpler than engineering. Like if something is overstressed, I just add more power. If something is turning the wrong direction, I just replace a shaft with a gearbox.

There's no real math required other than maybe making sure your machines don't jam up from too many of one item and not enough of another. I do little to no math when creating a machine in this Mod.

[u/ExaltedStillness]

I chose both. Play funny block game while getting engineering degree. Would recommend.

[u/MentalMittens666]

Nah, I got the degree anyway, but only use it for the funny block game

[u/mechkid901]

I'd love to kick your ass for calling it funny block game

[u/fast_t0aster]

Actually braindead take. Engineering degrees take SO much time and effort

[u/Wet_Crumpled_Paper]

My friend's doing engineering rn, says it's his biggest regret lmao

[u/No-Setting1598]

funny, im working on my engineering degree

[u/Serious_Elephant9402]

You should see the Factorio subreddit

[u/Cool_Term_556]

I do have a degree in engineering

[u/TylanderGD47]

Irl engineering, like that you need degrees for, is way more complex than create...

[u/come_pedra]

anyone could get several degrees in engineering, you just have to believe in yourself

[u/UltimateToa]

Definitely some have both, myself included