I did the “pick a direction and run that way until I find something cool” play last fall, and to be honest, I got bored before I met my objective.
Minecraft is a neat toy and I love burning a Saturday playing it, but their world generation is based on a really bad noise function. Nothing the game produces resembles real land masses and after about 15 minutes of running you’ll realize that even though no two mountains look exactly the same, all of them are generated by the same code so it all “feels” the same. The only treasures out there are the rare biomes, which are extremely tough to find without spoiler tools.
