This has been a recent topic interest to me, and out of curiosity, here is a poll I'm curious to see how the stats of EMC turns out! note: this is primary, not everyone is 100% one but pick the one that has the highest % of accuracy
Horde stuff then build storage for those things then make more farms to Horde then make more storage etc etc
For me it's been years of gathering and developing our outpost. I am looking to do some serious building on my res's and the amount of materials is staggering. Doesn't help I either auction stuff off or give it away lol.
I'm mainly a builder, but I'm bad at redstone. I'm also a survivalist and resource gatherer, and I try to be an economist (often with little luck). Indeed. It was hard for me to pick just one or even two, too!
Mostly resource gathering (aka hoarding), closely followed by building but I'm on a long term procrastination with that. Also a fair bit of maintenance/janitorial/community work - going around waste and frontier filling creeper holes and tidying up trees etc.
My typical Minecraft play style is: Dig a big hole somewhere with the plans of building some new revolutionary farm, then by the end of digging, I forget what I was going to build. Then I get the idea for a new farm, and start digging a new hole somewhere else. Repeat
From top to bottom on the poll list... 1,2,3,4,7. In no particular order order. I'm eclectic. Also, trying not to die myself and lose things.
You have special swords and fly. I call hijinks of a minty flavor! As far as the rest of the list, I agree that one choice is very limiting. Can you create a weighted poll? Using ranks for 1, 2, 3. With 3 being the most-likely and then the higher favored choices just have the highest numbers? Or does numbering multiple choices even work? Sorry, been a while since I made one of those.
3. Must gather and gather. 2. Must create storage out of chaos. You never label stuff. 1. Oh hey!! Looks there. It's enough stuff to build a decent **** with this couple chests. Let's try that and see if we can keep some baddies off us while we're building. Oh and don't forget your bed this time.
To me, building is the best thing to do in Minecraft. That's why I always go around to see other players' builds. In 2019, I found a way to boost my creativity, and that is to be distracted while building. I don't know why, but it works perfectly for me. Otherwise, it takes while to come up with a design.