Let's Actually Play Minecraft Again: The Treasure is Real

Welcome back to a Minecraft Let's Play in 2024, where I actually play the game again for the first time in 10 Years. Today we discover The Treasure. The Donut Theory was real. God I love this game.
Watch my entire Minecraft Let's Play series in order here: • RTGame Minecraft Let's...
I don't think anything will ever top the Treasure segment of this video. That's one of the coolest and most surreal payoffs I've ever had in a video game. The Treasure is real. Thank you Minecraft
The Chapters of Part 4 of my Adventure:
00:00 The Lava Spire
10:22 The Mesa Desert
26:14 The Minecart Track
34:53 The Quest for Bees
41:04 The Long Adventure
58:56 The Far North
1:09:01 The Swiss Alps
1:16:03 The Ancient City
1:30:05 The City That Died
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Edited by Ashtaric (Cloé), you can find her here: / xashtaricx
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Everything in this video was recorded live on my Twitch Channel. My schedule is Tuesday & Thursday @ 7pm, Saturday & Sunday @ 3pm - all times based in Ireland.
Music includes the Minecraft Soundtrack, Dark Souls 3 Soul of Cinder, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - Cent-Omnia Region.

[@RTGame]

THE TREASURE IS REAL. WE ARE THE PIONER. Thanks as ever for the support on the Minecraft Let's Play. You can watch my entire playthrough here: kzbin.info/aero/PLliBvQE3gg9d3YWgJ11i7FDpWOT9lcPs5

[@Arcana_zero_studios]

Oh god he's back on this bullshit again ain't he?

[@StickMaster500]

CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER

[@Yecze]

🐧🐧🐧🐧

[@kirklinguinihoodinithecubo8525]

Please keep up the good content and take care.

[@DarkMatter_Official]

I think from your 2nd or 3rd vid, when the pillagers are in the trees I made a short and was kinds expecting you to stumble upon it... haha...😅😅😅

[@elid6577]

Dan saying "Just a quick adventure" while the chapter title appears with "The Long Adventure" killed me.

[@deusgamer4922]

gives me real “This is the Part when He kills You” vibes lol

[@RF-Ataraxia]

​@@deusgamer4922Hmm, I kinda forgot what that whole part was about...

[@markbertrand6052]

​@@deusgamer4922 *achievement unlocked The part where he kills you "Hello :) this is the part where i kill you"

[@j0ee07]

@@markbertrand6052 OST: the part where he kills you

[@thegreatchipman]

@@j0ee07 "Well, this is the part where he kills us.." *CHAPTER 9: THE PART WHERE HE KILLS YOU*

[@NotASovietSpy1]

90% OF DWARVES QUIT BEFORE THEY FIND THE TREASURE. KEEP GAMBLING

[@yaboipktendo]

WE'RE RICH

[@Punched_Kuze]

WE’RE RICH

[@cheesedip3864]

WE’RE RICH

[@1th_to_comment.]

Ai! ai! A Balrog is come!

[@lorenzonoce9352]

Keep digging

[@sienaberry464]

Butter getting trapped in powder snow had my heart racing so fucking hard

[@HazeEmry]

2 hearts left 😭

[@bengal4047]

Mine too. I have a mule who 'reincarnates' into every new world with me, and over the almost 4 years she's been with me, she's only died a single time. Guess what it was to? That's right, feckin powder snow. I was so mad

[@robynsnixersnaxk9483]

same!!

[@banann_ducc]

Swamp scene from never ending story flashbacks

[@konumbra]

I had to lower down the volume in case butter died cause the horse dying noise is so horrible

[@DataDigi151]

Missed opportunity not naming the Ancient City chapter “It All Comes Full Circle”.

[@yaboipktendo]

Shoutout to the chapters having unique names every episode that fit the theme fully

[@RTGame]

Thank you! I wanted to break down the super long videos as if they were a more typical Minecraft Let's Play from back in the day. Every part is what I think would've been a self contained video you'd see on KZbin 10 years ago. So each one of these supercut videos is effectively 8-9 classic ones

[@NUCL3AR991]

​​@@RTGame seen playthroughs that have just part 1-10, so it's nice to see you have fun with the small details

[@EmberTheShark]

​@@RTGame thats actually really neat. Thanks dan and cloe, i feel like i'm twelve again when minecraft first came out

[@glumbortango7182]

​@@RTGame It's nice to see that even with all the jokes about playing classic Minecraft in 2024, you still respect the classics and try to make sure the charm of the early let's plays is still alive and well.

[@davidz9659]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@glumbortango7182I think that’s probably why these videos are so well made and successful, beside Dan just being a charming character. These videos approach the game with the base knowledge most people would have from the popular era of the game, circa 2012, clad in the raiment and aesthetics of the popular let’s plays of that foregone era. It’s incredibly nostalgic and Dan’s irony is made in jest and not in temper. At least that’s what I think. I am really enjoying this series.

[@kyahearly8224]

Whoever posted that square peg through the circular hole last stream was a GENIUS. Absolutely hilarious.

[@r0b0t_j0n3z]

The moment I saw that in the last highlights video I started crying with laughter and was on the verge of an asthma attack. So fucking hilarious

[@AbyssalSkum-gd5ly]

I legit thought Dan’s lung was going to hurt him again…

[@tenacity25]

I really appreciate how they made this horrific endgame city with a creature that is stronger than anything else in the game by far (the warden). And they made this SUPER crazy important and epic structure in the middle of it. What's the reward for getting inside the structure? A basic redstone tutorial.

[@kiyopawn]

I found some enchanted diamond leggings in every ancient city I've been to, so I'll assume that that's one of the big loot there. I would've wanted loot that repels monsters as it fits how the deep dark does that.

[@SimonSaysDeath]

To be fair the game never tells you how to use Redstone on your own, so for some people this is how they learn it.

[@Jude_5555]

@@SimonSaysDeath Yup! they often use structures to teach you various mechanics. Last redstone based one was jungle temples I think so been a while.

[@tenacity25]

@@SimonSaysDeath True, but it feels like it should be in an easier to access structure at least. (edit: other than just jungle temples)

[@beanofknowledge2125]

It's because Redstone is the most difficult thing in the game

[@Cheeziswin]

I totally respect that Dan doesn't want to share his seed info so that people can have their own adventure/no risk of people spoiling him. It's just REALLY hilarious that he's got such an insanely lucky seed that he's not planning to share. 😂

[@RTGame]

no one can doubt a Savannah biome start again

[@smack1]

⁠@@RTGameit would be so awesome

[@MisterBlackNight]

@@RTGame i just restarted minecraft after a few years break, and guess what, started in a fecking savannah :))

[@cornblaster7003]

@@RTGame ya gotta put the seed out one day when you're done with your let's play, it's genuinely a neat world

[@theKungFuFerret]

@@cornblaster7003 he’s clarified in his latest Minecraft stream that he doesn’t plan too even when this series inevitably ends, and he hopes people respect that decision

[@Droub_]

Can we PLEASE talk about that hole that went from the PEAK of the world to *an ancient city* ????? It felt like infiltrating ganondorf’s lair in ToTK. I love Minecraft sometimes, and we are the Pioner.

[@polkarfield]

That’s actually pretty common to happen, ancient cities are set to spawn under mountains more than anywhere else because it makes em feel deeper

[@cosmiccomet2327]

​@@polkarfieldthat's only partially true; ancient cities just need a lot of space and an appropriate deep dark biome, which means a mountain (which has both a lot of width and a lot of height) is perfect. I haven't fact checked this, but it's coming from my experience

[@quetzalcoatlustheflyinggir5111]

My first thought was to get the caves and cliffs achievement that happens when you jump from the build height to the bottom of the world. Easiest way to do that here probably.

[@danzoom]

​@@cosmiccomet2327 the height doesn't matter though, since it only spawns in the deepslate layer and that is the same across the world.

[@Mimmfy]

It's so cool cuz earlier too he was asking for "I'll only go back into the caves if I'm pulled into it by something big" and that is how the world responded

[@Mimmfy]

Hearing him actually swear instead of censoring it after he found the ancient city was such a shock. Really added to the intensity I love it

[@wilk746]

I first thought that was just an oversight and RT was about to be plundered and bankrupted by KZbin execs again.

[@flamingscar5263]

RT has said that the youtube swears aren't really about KZbins policy anymore, youtube reverted that long ago and it seems it will stay that way (the amount of backlash and severity of it scared advertisers into complacency (btw to not cause any confusion RT didnt say the part about advertisers, that was an insert from me)) instead feels they add to the content, your comment proves as such, on stream he swears like, well like the Irishman he is, but having the censors on youtube allows for him/Cloe to chose when to not have it censored for dramatic effect

[@roobeedooo]

youtube allows a certain amount of swears per few minutes, but they dont disclose the actual numbers

[@darksoulsismycity]

The interjection of that mundane "youtube" on top of any swear is just plain funny to me, specially when it doesn't match the tone of the original sentence He did right keeping it

[@TheDusk]

@@darksoulsismycity i'm surprised people like it. drives me up the fucking wall.

[@alespic]

Dan, there is a very important feature for your maps. If you create a banner and rename it, you can go place it in the world where you want and it’ll show up in the map with it’s name tag. You can use this to make points of interest like your house or the spire!

[@lucyarisato6850]

Gods this really is so so important.

[@KentoKei]

Don't forget you have to right click the banner with the map after placing it

[@justanotherguy55]

Dan takes a breather and finds a beautiful village at the bottom of a basin surrouded perfectly by a mountain range. After tangling with an unhappy goat he ascends to the tallest of peaks and finds the answers he'd been searching for. Falling from heaven above to the darkness below the stage was finally set. The Ancient City was real, and our young adventurer knew it all along. What. An. Episode.

[@kingofgames-sq6ks]

As above so below

[@StickMaster500]

Most people rejected RT's message of Advanced Geometry and Donut Theory to find the ancient treasure. They hated RT because he told them the truth. _Look who’s laughing now._ *The One Piece is Real*

[@mavisseafoam]

bro had this pretyped 💀

[@jonahthelad]

that's kinda his thing yeah he shows up first and everywhere

[@Nik1_]

Hello Sitckmaster500 :D . Pretty cool that you typed it in the first minute of this video mde by the drift king himself.

[@stevenbills2600]

The circles...

[@someoneghvjvj1808]

CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER?

[@pand3sal]

There's something so HORRIFIC about jumpy music playing while Dan's in the darkness getting hunted by the Warden LMFAO

[@lzrshark617]

I love dissonance in music and horror like that. Reminds me of how Lethal Company's supply drop theme is literally the ice cream truck song, and calling it can distract certain enemies attracted to noise. It's 100% possible in that game to be crouch-walking for your life, surrounded by monsters, while hearing the cheerful ice cream song blasting from nearby as your teammate desperately tries to save you

[@charisz595]

1:27:00

[@dallor09]

reminds me of double life when grian and scar (I think) were watching the ship burn to otherside

[@gridddo]

its like how mr blue sky (incredibly wholesome and upbeat british song about the sun coming out after a storm) is sometimes played to accompany absolutely brutal scenes in movies.

[@kiyopawn]

probably made it scarier lol

[@DerAnanasbaum]

Deepslate has some of the most intersting derivative blocks and RT builds a cobble shitstick from it... Truly a Dublin moment.

[@afinnishfishnet7366]

Just like the spire

[@dolovo_gaming3081]

When I saw he had that much deep slate I was like build a japanese castle

[@userofusername4981]

Of all the music discs that RT chose to use to distract, it was the cute and bubbly music. It worked so effectively that he didn’t even realize the warden was super close to him and he was just stuck in darkness, terrified.

[@GeremyG]

Finding a woodland mansion is pretty rare. Finding 3 of them is absurd. Glad you stuck with this world after spawning in the savannah biome!

[@denos1699]

Glad he is someone who defies us when he so pleases

[@YOGI-kb9tg]

I found 3 on my world. All in close proximity as well

[@t0rya]

Ikr id delete the game the second id see savannah! He is so brave!

[@OriginalGameteer]

​@t0rya and then there's me who spawned in miles of desert, and was ecstatic to find a savanna just for some wood I'm now slowly building a castle in said savanna

[@t0rya]

@@OriginalGameteer based don't let other people dictate your life's beauty!

[@cairoraiser9338]

Dan would love a sniffer, but I don’t think he’d want to do archaeology long enough I actually think it’s really sweet that Dan saved an iron golem and took him home.

[@lzrshark617]

It balances out his karma for what he did to the rabbit later lmao

[@MusicComet]

He killed a rabbit and an axelotl, almost killed Butter multiple times as well. If anything he'll make the Sniffer extinct for good lol (mostly joking but yeah).

[@dat_fast_boi]

spoilers for Daniel [if you are RTGame, click off] It was cut out, but he wanted to dig out the sus sand in the warm ocean ruin that he found, however he'd left his blue shulker with the brush in it at home. I imagine he plans to go back there at some point, so don't speak too soon.

[@thinkwithvideos2238]

I don't trust him with archeaology after what he did last time.

[@_marshP]

Fun fact: The Minecraft music is programmed to have a chance to play specifically at sunrise, sunset, midday, midnight, and it's done to intentionally help you make mildly emotional, heavily nostalgic memories. iirc it also plays a track at random occasionally but i couldn't find much on that one.

[@bricelory9534]

My head canon lore for RT's world is that the geode in the Ancient City actually fell from the sky and in it was the first skulck and Warden, which led to a horrible, hopeless war where the civilization learned about the power of wool but were ultimately doomed, umable to fight off the corruption. A few hapless members of that managed to escape and were able to band together to build the Woodland Mansion. And over time they forgot about the horrors below them but the reverance for wool continues in their culture, which is why to this day they fashion sculptures of wool - dereft of its original purpose, they use it for art and possibly ritual. However, they were unaware that they were not as free from the corruption as they had thought, and it has poisoned their minds over the centuries, and over time they have become the monsteous race known as illagers that plague our aboveground world this very day.

[@queenchaosyet]

Thats fairly close to the actual lore of Minecraft tbh

[@KirbyCoder]

Ah, I love a good headcannon

[@FireFox64000000]

I love how Chloe's response to the phrase I'm just going to be doing the same thing over and over is dark souls boss music.

[@christianulrich8234]

genuinely laughed at it

[@Cobalt360Degrees]

I got so excited hearing Dan say 'Cloe I don't know how you're going to make it exciting', because I just knew in my heart Cloe's natural response would be 'just watch me'.

[@NickAsNickName]

_i'd love to point out_ - the subtitle for whatever the camel's charging thing was, is, and i quote... "camel yeets"

[@r0b0t_j0n3z]

That's absolutely incredible oh my god

[@Person_Personson]

11:55 there’s more of that kind of stuff in the lolcat joke language, one of the subtitles literally calls the warden Shrek

[@mawwie-w-]

1:12:58 I staryed crying actual tears when the music kicked in. Moments like these in minecraft are beautiful. The generation in this game is gorgeous, and every once in a while you'll find an absolute gem like this spot, right here, and in the moment, while you're taking it all in, nothing else matters. For a fleeting moment, you lose yourself at the sight, and when the music softly fades in, that's one of the most beautiful moments you can possibly experience. It doesn't matter that it's a blocky world, it doesn't matter that you're just playing a video game, or even watching someone else play a video game. Minecraft has this unique ability to create incredible things, and if you let yourself stop, and take it in for just a few seconds, that's enough to make a grown man cry.

[@atrebuchet5267]

The Dwarves lore is my favorite part of this because about a year ago me and my friends were on a Minecraft SMP and we had a drwaven themed faction called bjiorkhuldor a city within a mountain, connected to a large labyrinthine maze of 1x1 tunnels that stretched for thousands of blocks in every direction we called the Rat mines, one day I found an ancient city while digging and we turned it into our new base and even repaired most of it, however we had missed a small spot and we' we're all killed by the warden.

[@smack1]

You were the dwarf who found *the treasure*

[@skeletonbuyingpealts7134]

Rad

[@deeji6098]

That sounds so cool and fun

[@mememan5466]

Why do so many people think that aqua affinity makes you breathe longer underwater? That's respiration! Aqua affinity makes mining underwater faster

[@Falkflip]

Truly, these fake news need to stop

[@pascaletje9]

It was actually told to RT like 5 seconds after that on stream lol

[@mememan5466]

@@pascaletje9 idk why he just kept the misinformation though lol

[@pascaletje9]

@@mememan5466 nope same tbh

[@IC-23]

​@mememan5466 becuase people like you comment and the original commenter comment. it's literally free interaction.

[@DaveTheVader]

Bro, surface exposed Ancient City is INSANE already but having the opening be on top of a 200 blocks tall mountain range is B O N K E R S

[@sarcastic_ocupie1669]

Finally he found the Ancient City. You see, the wool silences your footsteps, the theory is that the Ancient Builders used wool to counter the Warden, which is believed to have come from the large “Donut” portal. Surrounding the censors in wool will stop them from sounding an alarm for the warden.

[@aaronlaughlin2389]

I’m so glad nobody spoiled the ancient city or dropped coordinates to one, seeing you finally find it and realize that the treasure does exist was awesome

[@afinnishfishnet7366]

We dont have the seed so no one could give coordinates but i do agree

[@nixel1324]

@@afinnishfishnet7366 Don't say that too loudly, I remember when people doxxed Pewdiepie's minecraft seed from his videos.

[@edvinkaziunas5847]

​@@afinnishfishnet7366if people wanted his seed they absolutely could find it

[@KirbyCoder]

Yeah, he kinda just spoiled himself on the name, but was completly shocked as to what it was

[@aaronlaughlin2389]

@@KirbyCoder see I’m okay with that, he still discovered everything through in game information

[@eloizeaubin8724]

Fun fact! The Warden has over twice the amount of life that the Ender Dragon has (500 points vs 200 points). Dan did well to not try to kill it. EDIT: If y'all won't stop arguing about the Warden's lack of drops in the responses, I swear I'm gonna delete this comment.

[@finjaquetemumnomeaqui4838]

In java edition, The Warden (500) has the same amount of health as the Ender Dragon (200) and the Wither (300) combined

[@lzrshark617]

I play with a health bar mod (added to my mod roster after a tragic incident involving a pet sheep), and I can say from personal experience that there's nothing more pants-shittingly intimidating than hurriedly crouch-sneaking through an ancient city, watching a giant health bar reading '500hp' slowly approaching you in the darkness, and slowly realizing 'oh god, it's faster than me and is closing the distance'

[@r0b0t_j0n3z]

That's shocking but also not very surprising to hear since like, a few years ago my friends and I found the ancient city, and for some God forsaken reason we decided to try and kill the warden Which, as you might expect, took a *really* long time with us basically throwing ourselves at the fucker and dying repeatedly. Until I somehow managed to kill it in the nether by shooting a bunch of arrows at it with my crossbow

[@tenacity25]

@@r0b0t_j0n3z And your reward for that is literally just a block you can mine in the biome, because mojang logic. I wish they would treat it like terraria treats the dungeon guardians and let it just drop like a souvenir that isn't available anywhere else. Nothing that's like actually useful, kinda like the dragon egg, but something that only comes from the warden - a trophy. For context, the dungeon guardian in terraria exclusively exists as an "unkillable" enemy that insta-kills you to prevent you from exploring the Dungeon before killing skeletron (a boss), but if you do manage to live long enough by not getting hit even once while doing enough individual hits (at 1 damage each) to do thousands of damage to the dungeon guardian, actually killing it, it will drop a cosmetic pet of itself, added after someone managed to do it (for no reward).

[@louis1001]

@@tenacity25they do have a reason, though. They said the warden is not something you want to fight. It shouldn't be. Adding a one of a kind reward would, in fact, incentivize people to like it and make farms. I think they just want a force of nature more than a mob.

[@enjoyerofgames2638]

9:12 Only the Minecrafter, master of all forms of combat, could save them. But when the village needed him most, he vanished.

[@fyra_cat2119]

Moreso he showed up, brought them trouble, and left

[@Hamza2_7272]

pvpers, redstoners, builders, coders, long ago the four nations lived in harmony

[@dallor09]

@@Hamza2_7272that all changed when the pillagers attacked

[@VoicedOvered]

100 minecraft days later, a few cows found a new crafter, a builder named Dan

[@thepokemon0822]

And although his building skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone

[@guardianofthehill]

The Swiss Alps-esque region in your world is just so uniquely beautiful, I think I've never seen world generation that's more beautiful than it in all my years of playing Minecraft. Truly, you have a blessed world seed!

[@carysk4083]

Dan I do need to warn you, your bees are not smart enough to avoid that nether portal. They will go through and get trapped if they have access to it

[@tea_n_ink]

41:05 "just a quick adventure" paired with "THE LONG ADVENTURE" KILLED ME

[@gentleseal1778]

His treatment of butter stressed me out so much man, especially in the snow and the mansion

[@GedanJ]

Man was doomed by the narrative (and chapter card)

[@derphunk5338]

2:32 I'm so used to hearing RT say "KZbin" as a censor that I thought this was one for a bit.

[@Ellisepha]

"The FUCKING highlights"

[@gigabit5958]

​@@Ellisepha If rtgame was written by Vivziepop

[@kaiyencastus]

Can't wait for dan to spend 15 minutes bowing down a single warden only for him to discover they keep spawning

[@Glory2Snowstar]

I actually work now as an intern for a coral lab and I’ve loved marine biology my whole life. Seeing Dan discover a coral reef here made me all sorts of happy :,)

[@dachking6657]

The editor that put the Cent-Omnia theme for when you reach the Ancient City is actually my current favorite person, that was perfect and served exactly the same purpose that it did in its original context.

[@RTGame]

Thank you, that'd be myself for that part haha. Love Xenoblade

[@heroinhero]

The Xenoblade is real

[@Hideyoshi1991]

​@@RTGame I like you're attitude!

[@M4-Z3-R0]

@@RTGameDid you live stream it?

[@PieDivide]

​@@RTGamebased king

[@SirTacoVr]

This is probably the coolest world I’ve ever seen, giant mountain ranges, tons of structures, especially the desert, his desert is so full of life when usually it’s just a barren wasteland

[@msiio]

I don't know about you, But ever since 1.18 exploring the desert has always been fascinating, Like the biome is of course empty but the World generations makes up for it atleast from my experience

[@SirTacoVr]

@@msiio most of my deserts are either tiny or have like 1 temple and a village and that’s it and it’s usually just flat with a few hills

[@bigdon001]

Rt has the literal luckiest world. I never saw any world with 3 woodland mansions, several monuments, a house near the nether, gigantic mountain ranges, and a huge ancient city. This world was made for twitch streams.😂

[@mikomakowski7907]

Here’s a tip for if you ever explore the deep dark. Cover everything in wool. If you surround a shrieker with wool, it will never activate. Doing the same with chests will also make it so nothing gets set off

[@yaelbecache5975]

He was told at some point on stream so he has done it but we’ll probably only see it in the highlights next time he goes to the deep dark

[@KnightandDay33]

THE MINECRAFT IS REALLLL

[@jos10ac]

CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER

[@superamogusbros5594]

Can we get much higheeeeer, so hiiiiigh

[@toby4784]

CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER

[@Noko28077]

(aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh)

[@CATibal]

CAN WE GET MUCH MINER

[@superkooper6594]

Wealth… Fame… Power… Rumble Tumble, the King of Drifting, attainted this and everything else the Minecraft world had to offer, and his dying words drove countless players to Minecraft. “You know, they used to call me the Drift King back in college, I’ve left the secret to my drifting in one place, now you just have to find it.” These words lured players to Minecraft in pursuit of drifts greater than they’d dared to imagine. This is the time known as the great Minecraft era.

[@Droub_]

“So come on board and bring aloooong, all your hopes and dreams” *flashes to Mareep, Cupcake, the discord professors and butter* “Together we will find everything that we’re looking for” *”ANCIENT CITY”*

[@thepokemon0822]

"Butters left behind, he'll only slow us down. Math will be our guide, so raise the pick and mine a tunnel"

[@BlueInsomniac_]

"that legendary place... that the middle of the map reveals! is only legendary, til' someone proves it real!"

[@megagallade4757]

“Through it all, through all the warden deaths, through the blindness, and through the dark. Know that I, will be there, to sneak by youuuuu... just like I know you’ll sneak by me!”

[@BenCarsonPinkie]

"So come aboard, and bring along, all your hopes and dreams! Together we will find everything that we're looking for! There's always room for you, if you wanna be my chat!"

[@Dopesaur]

When I decide to play Minecraft myself again, I'm going to mark all my discoveries with "we are the pioner". It gives me vibes of like a mantra of an explorers guild or like signs of life for other passing pioners. A reminder of community in a lonely and hostile world. On another note, I am in awe of how much fun watching this series is. It's very well edited with tense moments, triumphant music (special shoutout to when (spoiler) Dan noticed the brickwork in the ancient city, that music creeping in was tearjerking I can't believe how good it was) and many funny moments. But I think the majority of why this is so enjoyable is how RT is finding wonder in things that I've sort of ruined for myself. I am just a different kind of gamer I guess. I've long de-mystified the world of minecraft, by becoming a Wiki-warrior and craving knowledge and certainty above mystery and adventure. So I'm jealous, but also vicariously enjoying the ride. I remember when I first stumbled upon the deep dark, I almost immediately found an ancient city, by sheer luck. The first time I found shulks I saw an opening to the brickwork below. It was a completely new thing to me. I had just started playing Minecraft again out of nostalgia, and I didn't know what new stuff was in. I was excited to dig through and find any secrets hidden inside. After a while, I had found all the easy stuff, chests scattered about and the like. Then after exploring the place for a while, learning to avoid the wardens and sensors, I sort of gave up on the mystery and searched the wiki for what I'm supposed to find here. I'm so accustomed to coming across a problem, and finding the solution online, that in the process I remove all the mystique for myself. Now, that is a problem with my attitude to some extent. It is a problem with my tenacity to endure not knowing the correct answer. That's a problem I can work on myself. But I cannot simply forget all the knowledge I already have. I don't have a couple thousand(?) people I can ask for vague advice. It's a common wish in the world to say something to the effect of: "I wish I could experience this for the first time again" and boy do these videos make me think that a lot. I'm really enjoying these videos, they're a fun romp, an enjoyable mess and a reminder that the world of minecraft is not just about math and logic. Even if I can't engage with that wonder the same ever again. If you're still reading, search for the game Tunic, it's fantastic, one of my top 5 games of all time.

[@trevorransford]

1:16:15 I LOVE this reveal! The absolute ELATION as the ancient city comes into view

[@trevorransford]

and 1:17:22 ... the way the chapter name comes on screen as RT turns around to reveal just how huge the place is!

[@foogles1526]

This series made me realize that RT is like, a really really good streamer in general? Like, more than i already thought, he is really funny, his chat while weird at times, is mostly fun and maintains a healthy banter with RT most of the time. RT i also like, really good at games, but he still makes mistakes, makes bad moves and all that, and it just makes it so there is tension on certain moments? And all that makes for one of the best series of Minecraft videos I've seen, it's so fun, and it keeps me engaged, the editing is also great, so both Ashtaric and RT are making a great job at just, making this the most enjoyable it can be. Thank you for this series, is just, really nice.

[@r0b0t_j0n3z]

You can also like, see him learning from his mistakes, especially with the warden segment where he learned that wool muffles any noise he makes when walking on or placing them This series is really good overall, reminds me a lot of my childhood where I used to play Minecraft with my friends or binge Minecraft let's plays

[@gameworldjt]

ngl RT is probably one of THE best lets players. There's just something about him that makes it very entertaining to watch any game he plays

[@sun_serega]

THIS. You put it into words better than I ever could. I went into the first episode thinking he would just look like a noob to me, because I'm a surv+tech player, but it's really fascinating how he's actually handing things decently at the end of each arc. And now here I am, having spent ~7 hours on this in total, despite generally not watching any videos >30 mins long, let alone streams, because I usually start feeling like I'm wasting time.

[@aaajeear8654]

His chat is a little bit worse than highlights makes it seem, there are a few times on every stream where someone comments something they shouldn't, gets a more "cold" response from RT and bad vibes ensue for a few seconds, but RT's comedic timing quickly lightens the mood. Most of the time his chat is alright tho, probably courtesy of RT's years of streaming already, that time cut most of the "bad apples" out.

[@kathl.5598]

His style for any Let's Play is so unique with making reoccuring bits that add onto the gameplay instead of distracting from it

[@SunsetCompass]

1:13:12 I’ve never seen a moment as clear as this one of the universe telling someone “It’s gonna be ok” it’s genuinely so beautiful

[@CinqAssocSouthSect5DonQuixote]

ISHMAEL MENTIONED

[@LL-cu9gn]

I honestly couldn't relax at that moment bc I was expecting another goat to throw him off the mountain

[@Picobits]

RT's reaction to various recent additions to the game has made me realise that an update should not be judged on how cool YOU find it but how likely a new player is to go "that's so awesome!" when they see additions from it for the first time

[@tallemajas]

i mean, i think making the existing playerbase enjoy the game and want to play it more often should also be a goal

[@xSharpW]

Can I just say that first of all, Dan going "This is just Attack on Titan" to the diagram of the walls, is hilarious. But then I don't think I've ever heard Dan genuinely laughing so hard before. I might just be forgetting but honestly it's just really contagious laughter. Oh and also the fact that he's now saying the Treasure is Real is akin to: "THE ONE PIECEEEEEEEEE THE ONE PIECE...IS...REAL!!!"

[@runtergerutscht4401]

41:05 "Ok just a quick adventure" Title: The Long Adventure This is certainly one of those 'narrator: "It was, in fact, not a quick adventure"' moments

[@deadalpeca8099]

The great RT descended back into the depths of the deep dark. But then, chat pleaded: "We beseech you not to go back there!" RT said unto them: "Throughout the overworld and the nether, I alone am the pioner" Chat asked: "But what would you do if the Warden showed again? Wouldn't it kill you?" RT replied: "Nah, I'd win"

[@catrinasmith5311]

Despite these videos being almost two hours long, I always get sad when I reach the end. I always say: "It's already over?" Absolutely love this series Dan.

[@Mystery-pd6jc]

I can't believe Dan went through all that effort building bridges over the void in the end but he never got wings. Like everytime he pulls out a Shulker box I'm reminded he's post endgame but he doesn't have any of the post-endgame gear. He's still in plain old diamond armour lmao

[@mariotheundying]

Just give it time, hes probably gonna explore the nether at some point, the wings aren't there but you know what is

[@iexplainjokesforaliving.5415]

​@@mariotheundyingAnd given his luck, I'm somewhat already expecting him to find boatloads of that in just a short span of time.

[@flamingscar5263]

Yea feel the same way, it certainly feels strange to see him have Shuler boxes but not even full Dimond armor, let alone what I'd have at this point, it's given me a lot of inspiration for my current playthrough, don't rush to the wings as fast as possible, take it slow

[@ubblebungus]

@@flamingscar5263 you younguns play minecraft too fast. take it slow. enjoy the game.

[@krullachief669]

@@ubblebungus I enjoy the game by flying.

[@casualbread3305]

41:40 I didn’t see the skulk before he put the torch down, beautiful comedic timing.

[@gabrieloviedocasanas4977]

1:31:45 RT: He didn't took notice of me placing a torch, did he? *Warden takes notice angrily*

[@kiranaun9593]

Dan discovering the second desert temple filled me with a sense of nostalgia for Minecraft that I haven't felt in years. This is beautiful.

[@BlobbiTheBlob]

Fun fact, if you break the shriekers with a silk-touch tool then they become shriekers that *do not* summon the Warden when activated!

[@lzrshark617]

One of my friends on our server snuck over to my base while I was away on errands and hid a sculk sensor in the main structure. I activated it when I came back and damn near had a war flashback as I froze in place. While I recognized that the sound wasn't a shrieker and knew from messing around in creative that harvested shriekers can't summon danger, the instinct to immediately stop moving had been hard-wired into me. He hid that thing _well_ too. Like, I spent at least a good 45 minutes searching the place, trying to find it, bc I was confused on how I hadn't spotted it yet

[@daymuntaku6590]

if and when I finally get this game I'm totally just harvesting the deep and building my own little glitter cave near my house, cuz damn if it ain't pretty

[@FirebaII0]

@@daymuntaku6590yup

[@nahrikkon8355]

so disappointing that u cant move them to summon wardens

[@mgdeerla1525]

sounds like something a warden would say

[@Starling8563]

This series has genuinely rekindled my love for Minecraft. Didn’t think I’d be saying that about a let’s play in 2024 lmao. Thanks drift king

[@TheSprintingGamer]

Honestly, same. Taking it slow has made the game so much better for me than "gotta get an elytra and build giant automated farms ASAP for resources"

[@smashmuffins]

I started playing again after watching the first of this Minecraft series. We are building Steve the Redeemer with different colored wool and we built our home in a Cherry Blossom biome. :) It's truly one of the most special games ever created!

[@dat_fast_boi]

​@@TheSprintingGamer It's made me realise that the game really needs overhauls to change up the meta. Approaches to building can vary on terrain, niche uses for blocks, and literally anything added in an update. Redstone designs can always be improves and use mechanics in unintended ways, and when redstoners get a single new thing their contraptions get 10x better. But it feels like for a lot of people, myself included, survival gameplay has become a checklist of things to do to enjoy the game; it's less meaningful when you trick yourself into thinking the best choice is the only one. I guarantee this many years of the meta not really changing is also why people get so hung up on new stuff. Optimal mobs, optimal loot, and an optimal amount of content is all needed in the community's eyes for an update to be good, but here RT is enjoying the fact that camels exist because they are cool.

[@3nowStorm]

Likewise. I usually think Minecraft is really only fun for the Hermitcraft people who are really good at the game anyway. I kinda forgot you can play the game without being amazing with huge farms and stuff. I guess that was what’s always intimidating about it for me.

[@smashmuffins]

@@3nowStorm I can't even make redstone contraptions or farms, and I've been playing for 12 years. I strugglebus my way to fun lol

[@Sam-gs8iw]

The music when he found the treasure is "Cent-Omnia" from Xenoblade 3, the music that plays in the centre of the map, which is a circle. Damn you chloe.

[@paulrance5445]

Even though in a reply to another comment, Dan said he put that music in himself?

[@Sam-gs8iw]

@paulrance5445 Huh, didn't see that. Guess that means he finally finished them all lol

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

41:06 “Just a quick adventure.” *Chapter 31: The Long Adventure* I love you, Cloe.

[@prismbladez4982]

The corner cut out of the lava in the thumbnail angers me on many levels

[@totallynothatguy1698]

It’s got the fans all fired up You lava to see it

[@dimbus7936]

Plus the front of the lava doesn't line up with the grass block... but the back does 😭

[@prismbladez4982]

​@dimbus7936 I didn't even notice that, and now I'm gonna lose it

[@SonicBoss1991]

The cheek for RT to heart this comment is killing me

[@pitchvantablack7005]

Man, that part where the sun rose above the mountains, with one of the classic songs playing in the background, it put a huge smile on my face.

[@r0b0t_j0n3z]

Same here, made me feel emotional since it took me back to when I was 7-9 and used to play Minecraft on my Xbox 360 with a couple of friends

[@mybeme9130]

The actual real joy that you can hear in his voice when he found the city is actually a really powerful emotional moment. I love this game so much. All of the awe and beauty of it. It's just fantastic. Watching Dan take pride in something he built and making it look good and then struggle to find the things he needs has been great. It's been such a pleasure to watch Dan rediscover Minecraft.

[@sushipog]

it's heartbreaking that daniel recognised that the thing in the middle of the ancient city looked like a portal but it isn't a portal

[@val8715]

When he says just a quick adventure and the title card pops up with "The long adventure" it gave me portal 2 vibes when Wheatley says Hello this is the part where I kill you and the title of the chapter is literally "The part where he kills you"

[@e2gaming337]

And then you get the achievement called "The part where he kills you."

[@val8715]

​@@e2gaming337the ost as well

[@unaminggaming]

I was thinking of that exactly since I've been playing Portal Revolution recently!

[@BananaWasTaken]

8:25 Aqua affinity actually just lets you break blocks faster underwater. Respiration is what let’s you breathe longer underwater. (And you can also have depth strider to move faster underwater). Edit: although apparently someone corrected him in the stream immediately afterwards and it was just cut anyway

[@giuthais]

as soon as he asked the question I KNEW someone would get it wrong 😭

[@mariotheundying]

Apparently he knows because someone told him seconds later, I wasn't there in the stream but someone in the yt comments said so and nobody ever lies

[@BananaWasTaken]

@@mariotheundying Yes, just checked it. In his 11th minecraft stream, he finds the helmet at 2:10:46, and someone corrects the definition at 2:11:26 saying “wrong info” and then explaining what it actually does.

[@ethanrapp6998]

The alps is one of the most beautiful biomes I've ever seen. Between that and the mansions, RT's world could probably win a "best seed" competition. 1:13:18 was pure magic. Spoilers... Edit: And below all that beauty, was the depths of hell and the treasure he had been looking for all this time. Absolutely spellbinding. Best minecraft playthrough I've seen in years.

[@FrogHoarder]

My dad recently passed, and this has very quickly become my comfort series. Keep up the good work, and thank you for doing your magic, funny Irish man

[@sc9x986]

bless your heart

[@kristofertaft194]

Hope you're doing okay.

[@vampireopossum]

seeing rt finally find the city made me genuinely emotional . between that , the goat death , and butter's predicament , my heart was racing for the whole episode . fantastic

[@onniantikainen2948]

The moment of Dan finding the ancient city is filled with such childlike wonder I haven't experienced in a while

[@tobyh.6713]

1:09:26 is so funny to me. The quick turn around to check for goats as he pulls out the spyglass so he doesn't have a repeat of the last incident. Just incredible accidental comedy.

[@camelat7228]

woodland mansions are one of the absolute rarest things you can find in minecraft. over the at least 3000 hours i have put into minecraft over the last decade, i can count the amount i've found naturally on one hand. on daniel's first attempt to commit to a world and make a playthrough in it, he finds three. luck of the irish

[@Drazil232]

Hey Dan, just wanted to say thanks for this, the series actually made me go back to play the game (in vanilla) again, it's honestly great to see someone so excited about cure things to find and the cool game mechanics

[@Drazil232]

oh great, i love that moment I get a heart, just to realise a typo, knowing that editing it out removes that... >:(

[@Foolish_Spoon]

​@@Drazil232 suffering from success

[@facelesskawei4560]

Yea, this series was a reason I came back to the game.

[@Everythingisnumbers]

For me it broke me out of the habit I’d gotten into of I have to play it this way for it to be fun. But watching him just going full oblivious to the mainstream way of playing and having the best time made me start a new world and just build how I want and what I want and it’s become so much more enjoyable

[@Yakasuki]

Literally this, saw the first video and was thinking when the last time I just sat down and played was. Made a Fabric vanilla+ modpack that added a bunch of QoL, performance fixes, generated structures, and expanded features without adding a bunch of blocks or items to the game. Been playing at least an hour or two a night just to make sure it doesn't get stale and I'm quite happy with how its turning out. By far the longest I've played Minecraft in years.

[@athenablade5172]

I love how the moment Dan says "Okay, just a QUICK adventure" the title of the chapter appears as: "The LONG adventure". That's the level of foreshadowing I enjoy

[@novanay8000]

The part where Dan was sneaking around both of the wardens was INSANE

[@username5155]

Last episode’s description: A heartfelt explaination on how he wants to continue but also how he doesn’t plan for the series to last forever This episode’s description: I am the god of this world and the One Piece is real #YouOnlyLiveOnceSoBeAPioner

[@sushiproductions1696]

I find it rather concerning the thumbnail has so much fire and a lava block on it…

[@enderboy1824]

Min-Maxers: BEES ARE USEFUL FOR THEIR HONEY AND ACHIEVEMENTS AND VILLAGER TRADES!!! Dan: 6:11 I just think he’s neat!

[@knarli8408]

I wonder if Dan ever tried to put cobbled deepslate in a stone cutter. It's kind of sad to see it all going on a giant pile, although I never would dare to speak out against the spire

[@Quyzbuk86]

41:06 In and out, 20 minute adventure *TITLE* 46:45 I hope you have family, cause I'm taking them instead 1:05:05 THE GOAT

[@ChiefPineapple]

Hearing Daniel's genuine shock and awe when he got to the desert made my day

[@mariotheundying]

He should make a map expansion after finishing the rest just to have the desert, mesa biome, and the mountains (Idk if it's on the map he's making, but if it is, then even better), it's just wonderful landmarks, specially with the loads of villages and temples

[@lzrshark617]

Same; that mesa biome is one of my favorites. One of my best friends made his base out there on our previous server, and it was one of the coolest places to visit. Dude even had a lush cave under his plateau and a river winding past on the surface

[@etman05]

Cant believe RT would break the archeology sand and our trust like that.

[@Spheal-Gaming47]

Truly the worst moment of the episode

[@ender_expert1391]

Truly a youtube moment😔

[@lzrshark617]

I mean, he *was* outside of the 'circle of trust', as demonstrated in the end of the last episode lmao (god that section *broke* me. My face hurt from laughing so hard)

[@blarg2429]

@@lzrshark617 Broke you like RT broke the sand.

[@shastaskywalker]

Ngl RT has managed to find some of the best editors for stream recaps. “Just a quick adventure, gang, it’ll be just a quick adventure” CHAPTER 31: THE LONG ADVENTURE.

[@alexv1154]

Dan fighting for his KZbin life while jazzy synth music plays in the background has to be such an amazing piece of tonal clashing I applaud whoever suggested it

[@alterranlongbow5067]

writing as it happens so unsure if its explained by chat later the tags referring to the ancient city in the F3 menu are used to find blocks by definable categories EG: "moss_replaceable" refers to blocks that can be replaced by moss when grown with bonemeal. this means that you dont need to define every single block moss can replace when spreading, instead only needing the tag while i dont know for certain, i assume ancient_city_replaceable means the game allows it to be destroyed if an ancient city is generated in its place

[@haryadisantoso7792]

😂❤❤😅😅😅❤😅😅😅😊

[@randomdudd2611]

The warden music disk section actually made me laugh out loud while eating dinner. RT being on edge while it the music jammed was hilarious

[@Tiro_Chopper]

1:13:10 is my favourite moment of any minecraft let's play. I love that i've grown old enough to appreciate those moments, despite enjoying a little manor bonfire every once in a while :)

[@peaceandraven119]

I really admire RT's ability to create a narrative in whatever game he's playing- to find little running jokes and bits and string them together so that there's always kind of a metaplot going on at the same time as the game's plot. And I love how the "circle" plot turned out, how the snowballs he happened to gather while saving Butter ended up saving him in some of the ancient city sequences, how it all ended up being a circle, how he slowly figured out more and more about the underground even while trying to avoid it until he just happened to stumble upon the city when he wasn't even looking for it.

[@Let_Toons]

About the woodland mansions, some seeds are glitched in a way that spawns a specific structure in a line over and over again, wich could be the case. I've seen it with ravines (just a bunch of paralel ravines few chunks apart) and ruined portals, but never Mansions!

[@lzrshark617]

I wonder if that's similar to whatever happened with the world in our current server. There's literally 5 ocean monuments all within spitting distance of each other. I was interested in basing in one and setting up a farm in the other, and I had to label each individual monument on my map bc they were close enough for me to repeatedly get the waypoints confused

[@galaxychill9578]

But would the inside of the mansions be different or the same?

[@jessywessy5196]

I believe that's only a bedrock thing, right?

[@Let_Toons]

@@jessywessy5196 The change of the exact same glitch is low, but for a simmilar one is never zero!

[@michaelr280]

Dan is a dwarf is and he is digging a hole, diggy diggy hole. Love the classic unadulterated let's play, and appreciate the editing.

[@UnstableStrafe]

My favorite part about the Ancient City is that there is wool lining the floors and stockpiles of wool in the ruins of buildings, meaning that the sculk was there when it was inhabited.

[@TheOnlyUmbrilla]

13:43 >feels bad for taking from the coral reef >feels like it's a bad image to take from them the same man who has killed three axolotls so far

[@choochoobby]

"It's only been an hour since we said that..." *six minutes into the video* I get most of that hour was just building the spire, but I think it needs to be said again how masterful of an editor Cloe is.

[@Minty7602]

The joy I felt when he looked through his spyglass and saw a deep slate brick, Glorious

[@haimaar8404]

PLEASE keep making these vids. Your playthrough seems so genuine, like a kid in a toy store, we love it so much. And thank you Cloe for your amazing work as always

[@alexwalker5716]

I love this, I could hear Dan shouting "THE TREASURE IS REAL! I WAS RIGHT!" before I even opened the video. I was filled with excitement when it got to that part. see this? this is what Minecraft is all about, at least to me. we are, indeed, the pioner.

[@EntrerrianoMapper]

The Goat yeeting Dan off a cliff was amazing

[@dallor09]

a goat once did that to me when I was trying to pvp my friend my friends were laughing for the next 15 minutes

[@TemporaryViewerHandle]

The way he pulls away from his spy glass as he looks back to the cliff he now wasn't standing was cartoonishly hilariouse

[@nixel1324]

@@TemporaryViewerHandle Your comment reads kind of like a Douglas Adams line. I don't know, it just has that energy.

[@amandajones2096]

I legit gasped. I forgot goats could do that, but once it did I auditable said out loud "that fucking goat!" I'm surprised Dan didn't kill it

[@chaze3dragon]

Gotta say, this is my favorite RT series thus far. Nothing captures how appealing he is as a content creator like this. The tranquility, the chaos. the KZbin funny moments tm, it's all here in equal measure.

[@glauberglousger956]

Game gives cat discs, cats deterr creepers, you found a jungle Game gives you creepers I think something's obvious here

[@aceunavailable9141]

I did cry a little when Dan discovered the wool stuff on his own (holy shit good job on that btw and cheers to chat for not spoiling it) and then he didn't use it 😭