Venture

Venture is a sandbox game and is heavily inspired by Terraria.

Initially released on May 17, 1999, the game was officially released on November 18, 2001.

Venture focuses on allowing players to explore, interact, and modify a map made of realistic materials. In addition, the environment features plants, enemies, and items. Activities include mining for ore, fighting terrible enemies, and crafting new materials and tools by gathering random resources found in the game. The open ended module allows players to create structures, creations, and art on random multiplayer servers or single player worlds. Other features include circuit boards made of cogs for logic computations and remote actions.

Gameplay

Robert Jacob is the person that the user controls in the world. When the user starts a game, the player is put in a world, generated by a varying seed, with an empty inventory. The player has a health bar with 20 half hearts, and can be hurt by falls, suffocation, drowning, fire, lava, falling into the Void, and being hit by enemies. Damage to health can be mitigated by armor, and health can be restored by eating food.

The player can change their page on the profile page at Venture.net.

Materials

Materials are the objects that make up Venture's world which were borrowed from Venture's influence, Terraria. There are different materials; natural ones like grass, rocks, and ores are variously generated within the world. There are also objects players can craft, such as a workbench or an oven. Resources can be extracted by hand or by using tools. These resources are either simply objects that can be placed elsewhere, while others are used as blocks to create other materials or tools. Others yield no use whatsoever. Some resources can't be broken (bedrock).

Mining

Mining is the main aspect of Venture. Mining is done to extract ore from below the surface. These ores include coal, iron, gold, and diamond. These are crucial in making many useful items. Mining can involve digging a pit from the surface or going down through a cavern.

Crafting and Smelting

Crafting allows players to create new tools and blocks using items from their inventory. The crafting recipes have been expanded with new versions, materials, and items. To craft, a player can use the average grid in the inventory or the larger grid provided by a workbench. Smelting requires an oven in addition to fuel, and processes iron ore into a useful form (iron bar).

Creatures

Creatures are the animals that inhabit the map. These include cannibals that attack by melee and summon other cannibals; shooters that have a bullet, crawlers that jump large distances and can climb walls, and Pipipis that explode when at the player.

To aid the player there are many passive creatures: oinkers and ewe. Passive creatures yield resources when killed, whicj are bacon and cloth. If killed when on fire, the meat drops is changed cooked bacon.

Multiplayer

The multiplayer feature was introduced early on, and has been the popular part of the game ever since. Venture multiplayer servers have developed to include their own customs, guided by their administrators and moderators. The term rogue, meaning a player who causes grief, is a typical term, but has taken up its own definition on Venture servers: a person who defiles other users' creations on servers.

Rogues are the reason many server administrators make rules, but this has been taken a step further with modifications to the Venture server. New user-created features have shown up in Venture. These are dollars, vehicles, protection, Role Play elements and more. These features do not require modification to a client and can be accessed by using commands. With the default controls, the chat screen is brought up by pressing T.

The popular game on multiplayer servers is Serial, a game where the player's aim is to make another player drop through the floor by destroying materials beneath their feet. This is played in a designated area.