Minecraft's Adventure Update: The End of an Era

[@iDeactivateMC]

Beta 1.7.3 was the last version of Minecraft before it became an entirely different game I'll never forget how 50/50 the community felt when Beta 1.8 dropped (love the endermen tho)

[@Bugaboo8]

Woah, it's cool seeing you here!

[@itsatomiccc]

yep, I enjoy modern minecraft but I love the simplicity and freedom of beta 1.7.3 and older. not that freedoms isn’t present in modern minecraft, cuz it is, but the open endedness of beta minecraft is just something that doesn’t compare to the modern verison of the game. it feels like 2 completely different games to me tbh lol

[@joffnatic]

100% bro, I remember the update drop I tried finding a way to revert back and I was like 9 lmao

[@klaykid117]

The hunger mechanic really changed the feel of the game.

[@joffnatic]

@Kit The thing is tho, beta 1.8 was an overhaul, and not really a slight change. That update changed everything, which lead to the community being split

[@danielburns4483]

this part of my life felt like an eternity. I am blown away that alpha and beta were such short periods of time- i was 9 or 10 when i joined alpha, and only 11 for beta??? It felt like it went on for YEARS. Such a privilege to enjoy minecraft at this simple and exciting time.

[@blvdes]

same here, it's very strange

[@slob5041]

It felt like it took forever but also the updates were a lot worse. You’d have like, a mob and a block. I recall it being hyped up and then sort of dying between the 1.7 and 1.8 lull

[@BraveCat9927]

same! I remember watching paperbatvg back in the day it felt like they had endless content, not to mention yogscast. So many good mods back then too I remember manually dropping files into the .jar and game files and feeling like a genius.

[@pelehami14]

I know right. I swear I have distinct memories of 1.8.1 lasting FOREVER.

[@AngerMaker413]

@@pelehami14 I remember waiting for creative mode and 3D dropped items was an obsession of mine (for some reason) that my 9 year old self couldn’t WAIT for. I swear it felt like an eternity until we got texture packs

[@ChanceTheCheetah]

4:22 This screenshot is still etched into my mind all these years later in a way none of the other teasers did. It was so mysterious with so many new blocks, and the way it broke through the surface in a manner that doesn't seem like it was randomly generated.

[@higueraft571]

Honestly, in my case it's the Green-Eyed Endermen. I dont remember the source, but it was a video, someone was inside a Villager house, and one started teleporting closer(?). But generally, the Look's always stuck, even though i know the Purple is more "traditional" now...

[@robocu4]

@@higueraft571 Same, I didn't even know I remembered the green eyed endermen screenshot until I saw it in this vid

[@sirokami2992]

I really wished they kept strongholds to generate with a surface entrance. Not only do you need eyes of ender to find the stronghold without stumbling upon it, you need it to enter the portal. It's much cooler to enter through the top and find it incase the eyes are glitched, and strongholds generate with an entrance but it's underground so it's kind of inconvenient to enter. also above ground, it's much cooler looking. Reminds me of exposed mineshafts in mesa biomes. I think above ground stronghold entrances are much cooler, the screenshot of it looks so cool!

[@sieghart9433]

This is the first time that I'm seing this screenshot and I loved it! Wished they kept this in the game, feels so natural, ads a ton of mistery to just walk into some ruins and find a dungeon, looks amazing!

[@zombieford]

When Minecraft was developing in 2011 my older brother was like 12, he introduced me to a cracked and beta versions of the game and I played that shit like a drug-addict lol But honestly, it was the best thing he ever introduced me to. I was only 4, but I was building and crafting away, it felt awesome. I'm 16 now, reflecting on all this, knowing that I'm gonna reflect even more when I'm an actual adult.

[@MG-mh8xp]

I also had a brother that gave me a cracked version of the game! It wasnt beta version, but i also played the fuck out of it as a 10 year old kid

[@viefcheesecake]

I also have a brother who introduced me to this in very early minecraft!

[@FTAsh]

Literally same but i was 7 when i started

[@therealmistermemer]

Ha, I introduced my brother to Minecraft when he was three. It's like a fun virus.

[@autocorrect2313]

I find this funny because this exact thing happened to me

[@ThePanMan3000]

Its so weird to realise how short the beta stage of minecraft was. I was 10 years old when i started playing in December 2010, and it honestly felt like YEARS between beta 1.0 and full release. Even though I've been playing modern minecraft far longer than beta, beta still feels like true "classic" minecraft to me.

[@MariusBoss11458]

Back then. Time went by much slower. Now? I think ever since Covid, it goes by a lot faster.

[@Masori-vn8bp]

​@@MariusBoss11458 man I was 8 when I started playing Minecraft in 2018 now I'm living in 23 and I have spend half of my life playing Minecraft and it has drastically changed the drowns and those conduits still bring me nostalgia

[@slappytheclown4]

@@MariusBoss11458 It's just a side effect of getting older, has nothing to do with covid. Ever go on an hour long car ride with your parents as a kid and it felt like it took forever? Our perception of time speeds up as we age. Thats why old people tell you to cherish your youth.

[@MariusBoss11458]

@@slappytheclown4 You're probably right.

[@FoxamPL]

Minecraft went through so many eras it only makes me interested in seeing its future

[@youtubesucks1821]

With the building height increase I feel like it's only a matter of time before they add a sky island biome

[@nexemisroguelikes234]

​@@youtubesucks1821 Waiting for 10+ Years now!

[@rubykanima]

@@youtubesucks1821 makes too much sense

[@FoxamPL]

@@youtubesucks1821 gotta get that aether!

[@user-jl8wj8fz5q]

Golden age: Alpha-beta 1.7.3 Old Minecraft :pvp b1.8- 1.8.9 Minecraft: 1.9-1.12.2 New Minecraft: 1.13-1.20

[@MightyElemental]

3:45 you know, I really miss the old world generation. I agree that the world felt lonely, but I really loved that feel to the game. I felt like I was exploring a land lost to time that used to be inhabited, but now only remnants exist. My favorite seed of all time was in beta 1.8: maryanddadsos Truly an amazing seed.

[@alperd459]

lol do you remember worstseedever

[@MightyElemental]

@@alperd459 nah, can't say that I do unfortunately. I didn't really watch people playing it, I just heard about maryanddadsos from a friend.

[@MariusBoss11458]

I still feel like the "story" of Minecraft is that somehow you ended up on this abandoned land and you're just there exploring it, trying to survive and try to restore it. Yeah unlike y'all. I'm very much fine with the hunger system.

[@MightyElemental]

@@MariusBoss11458 I'm fine with the hunger system. In fact, I'm fine with most changes up until around the combat update. Doesn't mean I'm not very nostalgic for the old versions though.

[@theorphanobliterator]

lmfao the old terrain generation was goofy AF the new version was so much better

[@mooncatcher_]

I would personally love to watch a let's play with you as a host. Not any regular playthrough but starting way back in the alpha and upgrading one or a couple versions at a time, giving your thoughts on new features and exploring the feelings of players at that time. With this type of relaxed editing, interesting insights and beautiful beard.

[@Alanboss777]

Bugmancx already did that, you can watch his videos on his channel and it is very interesting

[@awyrlas]

I remember being really excited for all of the changes in 1.8 and release. I say this as someone who has generally be a huge fan of every addition to the game, but as the years have gone by and as I've revisited some of the old versions of Minecraft, I think I can really pinpoint a handful of changes that have created the most friction for me over the years and if they had to go back and do it all over again, I wouldn't mind not seeing. 1) Beds and Phantoms Make the game very, very easy. This is one of the older additions, but I think it set the tone of a lot of these problems by making the game a bit *too* convenient. They really should have made skipping the night require a bit more effort than collecting 3 wool and some wood Moving onto Phantoms. On their own, I think Phantoms are a great mob, but the way they were implemented. You either never see them or are dealing with them pretty much all of the time. It's just exacerbates the effect that sleep has on the game by effectively putting players on a timer to skip the night or be punished 2) Hunger I feel like it needed more time in development as the hunger and saturation system has grown a bit tedious. Sprint and natural regeneration are great QOL features, but the hunger system makes them easy to use but tedious to maintain. Not to mention that it sort of broke combat by making mobs easy to kite without much effort. I do like that it's allowed for more food variety, but it's not much when you can get the best food in the first minute of gameplay. 3) Elytra Flight I think people massively underestimated the power of Elytra flight as it almost single handedly invalidated every mode of transportation the player has at their disposal. They felt underwhelming as just a glider, sure, but having so much flight time at your fingertips is pretty insane. A big part of Minecraft pre-Elytra was building roads and railways and post-Elytra this need just vanished. It's not a good or bad change, though I feel like I preferred the feeling of needing to invest in a world and build infrastructure to have easy means of transportation rather than the feeling of unlimited flight at your fingertips as soon as you find an end city (as fun as that feeling can be). 4) 1.14 Villager Trades Just straight-up destroyed progression. There's really not much else to say about this.

[@haiperbus]

Mojang doesn't think things through if they see kids are hype about it sadly. I wholeheartedly agree with your entire post, especially the villagers and elytra. Those 2 systems just straight up encourage players to bypass the game's content, and for what? The endgame has nothing besides a mediocre boss fight. Some players find joy in building, but it takes someone with lots of patience and stubbornness to actually put effort into building. Survival mode is extremely hostile towards the sandbox aspect while trivializing the combat and exploration. I've been preparing to start a modded server with friends and decided that it was my chance to fix some of these specific issues. For elytra, I'm removing firework boosts all together, instead you need to srart up high or set up some kind of infrastructure that launches you. This forces players to have to travel by foot when exploring new places and only using elytra for pleces where constant travel is necessary. Second is villages. Remove them entirely, and adopt the terraria system where occasionally a lone wanderer shows up to your base and you can offer shelter. Giving them a workstation and custom house, lord knows the game needs more reasons to build stuff. The code is already there in wandering traders, and I miss the almost oppressive loneliness of beta.

[@weegie3343]

@@haiperbus suddenly, TERRARIA!

[@sealco]

For elytra and villagers, you can ignore them, thats the best part of minecraft, nearly every eddition is something you have to choose to explore for, and honestly villagers are fine, they allow for cool bases and markets, if you dont think it feels vanilla or breaks your playstyle, then play an older version

[@awyrlas]

@BT-7274 This reasoning always falls flat for me as a game designer. Players are always going to go with the path of least resistance and will optimize the fun out of a game without even noticing. There is no ignoring a feature because you don't like it because most players want to actually, ya know, play the game. It's the responsibility of the developers to curate this experience. This is why I consider them both to be such "problems." They're too good not to engage with. Who wants to walk or build infrastructure when you can fly? Who wants to mine diamonds or set up an enchanting table when you can just trade for what you need? They both undermine core aspects of the game so substantially it can feel like you're wasting your time not to chase after them.

[@awyrlas]

@Box I think the problems with the hunger system are smidge deeper than its interactions with combat, though it certainly should help. Now here's hoping it's not another 4 year wait for those changes to be implemented.

[@VenseyNess]

I wasn't active with the whole community when it dropped, but you've awoken memories of running around the strongholds trying to figure out what exactly was supposed to be going on with them. The library made our minds run wild. _It's made of wood, the new abandoned mineshafts are made of wood, they must be connected somehow_

[@Horizon209]

I'll always miss the old world gen in beta 1.7.3 so fun jump off cliffs to get away from creepers,zombies and skeletons including spiders

[@chipklip2]

I really miss when new minecraft features felt.. special :(

[@ideac.]

That literally makes no sense

[@chipklip2]

@@ideac. I know it sounds like nostalgia bait but I just don't get excited by the new minecraft updates, it doesn't feel like there's been anything groundbreaking in ages (except the nether update, that was huge) also I probably just grew up

[@ideac.]

@@chipklip2 i think you are tripping, every update until 1.6 was pretty damn mediocre, mainly for today's standards also, 1.18 and 1.20 are huge, idk what are you talking about, just play the game

[@chipklip2]

@@ideac. again you're probably right and I just got older

[@ideac.]

@@chipklip2 i mean, ive been playing since early 2014, i grew up with pocket edition in its early years that was pretty much beta/alpha i played every version of the game, from classic, indev, infdev, alpha, beta to release and well i still think the new updates are absolutely amazing

[@ArrowVelocity]

I grew up with minecraft, started playing in 2011 and felt so primitive just surviving. This is sort of a collective experience that we all felt, survival when we first started out in minecraft, that “fresh new” feeling with a whole world at our hands. It was really cool to see people branch out into different subcommunities such as building, redstone, pvp, survival, rp, to name a few. Glad to experience such a wonderful game.

[@JJAB91]

3:40 When you talk about how "creepy" the beta villages looked and the overall "implication of life but lack of" in Minecraft at the time you hit the nail on the head of what I miss from Minecraft. Back then Minecraft had an overall creepy or unsettling atmosphere. You were alone in this vast but empty world with nothing but the occasional animal or zombie or creatures that hunted you at night. I miss that. In modern Minecraft with bustling villages and monuments and pillagers etc. instead of this isolated feeling it just feels like you're some kind of wild mountain man living in the woods avoiding civilization for no reason. Thinking about it the isolated feeling of old Minecraft gives me similar vibes to Metroid Prime, same type of deal where you're alone isolated on a world hostile to you where there are signs of life once being there but mysteriously now all gone. Modern Minecraft no longer has any of that. EDIT: "I wasn't active in the Minecraft community when the adventure update dropped because I was 8" Jesus Christ just drive a stake through my heart why don't you? I'm not old, all of you are just too young.

[@slob5041]

I was there and remember the pre releases being incredibly strange and not being received that well. Endermen could remove every block so there was a lot of drama around them being griefer mobs. Also the villagers were deemed to be too ugly and jeb actually promised to look into making them look better. Obviously never happened

[@MattTOB618]

Well, the Village and Pillage Update made them more stylish....

[@CurseKingdom3445]

You started 2 months ago and you're already growing pretty fast, keep it up!

[@thetallpancake]

There is absolutely no way you do not have KZbin experience before this channel, you're way too good. Edit: this comment has more likes than all my videos combined how, ty so much

[@binguschondo]

i mention this in my outro, but i’ve been making youtube content since 2011! it just wasn’t very good. these are my first attempts at making content that is up to this level of quality, and with this amount of work put in. before this, it was just a few let’s plays, and other content that i didn’t put as much effort into. thank you for the kind words!

[@thetallpancake]

@@binguschondo No problem, my attention span wouldn't allow for this kind of effort.

[@TheRealHusk]

Lol

[@coflyerinc.9367]

I can’t believe the endermen were added with the enderdragon, but I guess the “ender” in their name makes sense now lol

[@joshjmilli]

To me, the adventure update is Minecraft at its core. It was the first version I played on Xbox, and the version I have the most nostalgia for. I think it also struck the right balance between RPG and survival elements.

[@Dahomeyian]

Really good video, subbed! This update is very controversial for me, on one side I do really much enjoy modern minecraft and argubly these updates put it on that path, but on the other side I think it really removed minecraft's original feel of surviving and building yourself up overtime and instead put it down a path of becoming a game where its mostly about just getting the most op stuff you can get and then building whatever you want. I think notch and mojang wanted to make minecraft be a bigger more replayable game then beta, which yeah is kind of lacking in features and can get old after a few weeks. And Beta 1.8/1.9/1.0 did that for the most part, but really started to sacrafice the original "feel" and gameplay loop of minecraft was. I wonder if they knew that they were making such a gigantic and game changing leap back then, and if they did, what did they think the future of minecraft would be. That being said, I don't think minecraft before beta 1.8 is way better than minecraft after, they both have their good sides and downsides. As iDeactivate said, their kind of different games, and the community should really start recognizing and treating them as such. Anyways thats all I have to say for now, I would really like to see a video about minecraft from 1.0 to 1.8 and 1.10 to 1.12 when the game had updates that were really directionless, since I think that really disproves the argument of microsoft ruining the game.

[@TheHobbyExpert]

I wish you went more into the addition of SPRINTING into the game. That was probably the biggest feature of 1.8 and one of the most monumental changes in Minecraft HISTORY. It drastically changed world traversal and platforming as a whole and ultimately, increased the PACE of the game. It was a pivotal moment for the game and while relatively simple, it definitely deserved a bigger mention for the Adventure update

[@woutervn]

When I was 10, I didn't really own any games but watched a lot of let's plays. I watched tons of Minecraft video's and played the Minecraft demo countless times. Eventually my dad agreed to buy the game for me and I could finally play the full version. Apparently the adventure update just released around the time that I first got the game and I didn't even know there was an update system back then. When I saw the hunger bar and XP bar for the first time I was very confused. I had never seen any video's with this UI. IMO the vibe of the game really changed with that update and I'm kind of bummed that I didn't play any of the previous beta versions. These previous versions and the atmosphere that the game had back then was the image I had of the game but never really got to experience myself.

[@Nacanaca12]

I remember watching a Beta 1.9 Prerelease Let's Play series on KZbin in 2012. I had just heard of the game in school and wanted to check it out. It seemed glorious! The building, the exploring, the infinite world... And then I, a kid who had never been allowed to play many video games before, sucked at it. I was just awful. My hobbies at the time were Legos, hiking, and reading. I just hadn't developed the reaction time needed to fight monsters. So I played in Peaceful mode... and Minecraft was infinite again. I didn't have to feel like I was bad at the game because I couldn't kill the ender dragon, because the ender dragon didn't exist. I was good at the things I wanted to be good at. I built, I explored, and I told my own story. ...and then the guys in my class introduced me to multiplayer Infected and I started sniping people from rooftops instead. I still feel an odd disconnect between the different versions and playstyles. Beta was different from today's Minecraft, but I can see a lot of it in Peaceful too. No hunger. No potion-making. No dragon. No End. It's the sort of split that also exists between survival and creative modes, too. It's a split between different games. Minecraft is a sandbox game. A schoolyard game, in a sense. Most people may choose to play a certain way, but you don't have to join in. You can make your own rules. You can still open the launcher and run the old beta 1.8.1.

[@christophfischer2773]

You say the 1.8 Update was handled badly. I see where you are coming from. BUT: When Endermen came out they were *SCARY* . They were all we talked about. Nobody knew anything about them, but we were sure that there was more to come. It was without a doubt *the most exciting* time for Minecraft. If the End had released at the same time, its inhabitants wouldn't have been nearly as interesting. There would have been a dragon to steal the show, after all. But loading up Beta 1.8 and hearing that horrifying shriek for the first time, with absolutely no context... I really want to experience that time again.

[@gamerintrepidYT]

For perspective, I graduated high school in 2011. I started playing Minecraft when snow was added. It was free to play then! Your world was either completely snow or had none at all. My brother, my best friend, and I went and played Minecraft for months straight when this came out. It truly changed how I felt about Minecraft. It went from a pure sandbox to an adventure game, in my eyes. Now my annual Minecraft binge always devolves into getting a "god" version of every item and beating the game. Then laying it to rest until I need to play again. I'm definitely of the adventurer arch-type.

[@pumpkinwastaken1881]

Way back when the adventure update was announced, me and my friends were really really excited for it. It had new terrain generation, village structures which we found awesome to say the least. Giant mushrooms! And ofcourse hunger which was said to be a toggable option if i remember correctly. In retrospect i really miss the old world generation most but the all the content they were adding for the adventure update got us all very excited and i have some fond memories watching all those blog screenshots and speculating about the update.

[@kice1102]

I was playing Minecraft around the time the adventure update was being teased (I was 11). This was when I was most enthusiastic and active with the game. At the time I was excited about anything Mojang would put out. I had no real reason to expect an update could have negative consequences since all the other updates were consistently positive. During the reveals at Minecon 2011 I got a distinct feeling that this was *modern*. A feeling that the game was becoming something brand new and polished. My first thoughts weren't that it was the death of an era, it's rather that the game was sprouting into new exciting directions. The hype build up for this update was so extreme that there weren't really any concerns about how much the game was changing. At the time preservation wasn't really the goal since it didn't seem possible that added features would actually have some kind of meaningful consequence. Rather, I think we trusted that the brain behind Minecraft knew what he was doing and we were just all in it for the ride. When I first tried the update I do admit to feeling like the game felt very foreign. The vibe of the game was completely different from that moment on. However, I didn't necessarily translate that difference to "worse". I just thought it's basically a new game that I'll be getting used to. Somehow I couldn't really shake the feeling that I wasn't really enjoying the experience as much though. The new features were fun and all, but it felt like the game lost its "subtlety". It felt very videogamey. The sentiment now is very different. I think people are becoming aware that Mojang actually doesn't know what they're doing and it feels like they need to be carefully micromanaged by the community to prevent them from making poor decisions. The Adventure Update was most likely the *first* poor decision, but no one really noticed it at the time. You can't convince a mob of happy people that the update that releases Minecraft is a bad one (at least in some ways).

[@lsv_invisible_city]

Man, I was 10 when Beta 1.8 came out and I remember it feeling kinda underwhelming? It's strange actually, I only did the End Dragon fight for the first time a couple months ago, even though it's been around for the majority of the time I've been playing the game. Stuff like Hunger and the new food and bow mechanics felt really really strange, but QoL stuff like sprinting I am so glad they added these days. I think this was when they started to diverge from focusing on the stuff I really liked about the game, but the QoL changes since beta make it very hard to go back to 1.7.3 or so on. The mention of Pocket Edition was a real blast to the past too, I remember playing it when it first got released on general android devices and it was such a surreal game. Really short render distances and limited mechanics so that the whole world was just kinda covered in fog was super creepy.

[@slob5041]

The dragon and villagers genuinely felt alien at the time. Like it was a transplant from an entirely different game. It got criticism for being like Skyrim but I think it’s because notch always intended for the game to be more fantasy mmo esque but it wasn’t done in time. Like why do you start with full hearts and have a slow base speed. These things feel like upgrades that never happened

[@Infantry492]

I remember when the adventure update was announced and how excited I was about it. When it was released I was very underwhelmed by it. I wasn't a fan of the new world generation and there was just a weird feeling I had about the whole thing. I'm not sure if it was giving into the hype or what, but I certainly got burnt out after the update was out for a month or two. I only recently started playing Minecraft again and I'm having a lot of fun, but I still don't think I'm a huge fan of the world generation, or of the approach to many things Mojang takes with the current iteration of the game. Something's seem so obvious and they just throw them to the wayside, like with the mob votes or introducing glow squid ink when glowstone already existed

[@llucmou]

I recommend you to play the "Better Than Adventure" mod. It's a 1.7.3 beta mod created in 2021 that basically modernizes beta minecraft without losing the gameplay "feel" that beta mc had. I remember being excited about the b1.8 adventure update as well, and I played the subsequent versions a lot also, but the game truly and irreparably changed from that point on. It had an objective, one that I myself never felt pressured to achieve as that wasn't the game I played since alpha (I only killed the dragon 4 years after release 1.0). The game before beta 1.8 was eerie, it was only you and your friends in an empty world, that tried to kill you at night and in the dark. Mobs had almost the same speed as you, there was no running out, you had to fight or die. Then, you could sprint and avoid combat, there were villagers, and you now have to use them in recent versions for your progression. Enchantments felt unbalanced and still are until this day, enchanted armor protects almost all damage and enchanted swords kill almost everything in one or two hits. The game nowadays feels full of items and mechanics yet very boring. Beta minecraft was also boring, but it owned it. The world was yours, you shape it the way you want it. The game wasn't trying to be something that it's not (a RPG).

[@Infantry492]

@@llucmou I'll have to try it out, thanks for the recommendation. Beta 1.8 was a really weird turning point for Minecraft. I think in all the time I've been playing I fought the ender dragon maybe twice. It's not a fun boss to fight. I'm not a huge fan of the way enchantments are set up, like you said they are broken and really need fixed. Plus if you're like me and play java, the combat needs fixing. I agree that the beta combat system wasn't optimal and needed improvement, but what they ended up doing was more like moving backwards. It just doesn't work for me. There's all kinds of new blocks to build with but I still mainly build with the same block types I always did in beta, wood and stone. I don't know why but a lot of the new blocks just don't really interest me and the ones that do look out of place in builds that I make.

[@kice1102]

Yea I had the same experience. The hype was crazy. I thought it was cool as hell, but when I played the novelty kind of wore off over time and then I lost that interest I had when I first played. I still think Minecraft is cool but what made it really special was lost.

[@janAlekantuwa]

I started playing Minecraft in July 2011, so Beta 1.7 was my first version of the game. I was just about to turn 13 when Beta 1.8 came out, and holy Hera I was confused. The whole hunger mechanic absolutely threw me for a loop (but being able to stack food was nice). I remember absolutely hating the change to lighting, where light produced from blocks would be tinted yellow, while sunlight remained the classic greyscale. The addition of villages and endermen was interesting though (and I remember originally thinking that it was the endermen who built the villages). I especially miss being able to use Bows like machine guns

[@kice1102]

Never forget the lighting changes ✊

[@blib3786]

I remember being a little kid when 1.8 dropped and thinking it was the coolest thing ever, it wasn’t until a few years later that I realized there was even any controversy surrounding it.

[@ThatTravGuy]

This was a stellar trip down memory lane, thank you so much for this piece. Beta 1.8 was where the hype around Minecraft was at its peak for Me and my friends growing up, and it was great reliving that excitement a bit through this video.

[@3snoW_]

No one is talking about how much more brutal Minecraft was before the adventure update. You couldn't sprint, meaning you couldn't outrun spiders, so wandering outside during the night was very dangerous, you were almost guaranteed to be forced into a fight. There was no hunger bar, meaning there was no health regen. Instead food would instantly heal you for some amount, which sounds better except that food didn't stack. If you wanted to bring more resources you had to leave food behind. Food was also harder to come by, the only animal that dropped food was the pig and we couldn't breed animals, farming was much slower since there was no bone meal and zombies didn't drop rotten meat, so if you ran out of food while caving you couldn't heal. Arrows didn't reach as far, were slower and did less damage. This includes skeleton arrows, but they shot like one arrow every second, they could be super annoying to deal with. I love how the game evolved but I also sometimes miss how much more challenging it used to be.

[@haiperbus]

That and the lack of minimum brightness. When it was dark, it got DARK

[@carlosnn8150]

b1.7.3 did have bonemeal, otherwise agreed

[@youraveragedoomeramirahmed4332]

I am 25 now, dont know how young I was but I was like around your age but I had minecraft since its first alpha release and made all my friends get it, hell I even managed to figure a way to build them computers out of parts I had to play. You have awaken so many memories dreaming with my friends of the adventures we could go on and build in this game. These updates were like the best and most epic things in our little lives back then. Wish I still had the imagination and enthusiasm I did as a kid.

[@minimalist...6203]

The KZbin algorithm really blessed me with finding your channel dude, I love your down to earth tone and paired with such a nostalgic topic for me this video was really nice. Glad you're living out your childhood dream of video making!

[@voxelescent]

I really like how this video was formatted. The language use and, in general, the nonbiased demonstration of knowledge was really good. You have my seal of approval.

[@violentincantation]

NGL when minecraft 1.8 came out it was exciting in a sense of like "oh cool, this little indie game became so big that not only is it launching officially but it had a convention for it that was huge" but like... the actual contents themselves were not as interesting as its own success story. It was just kind of like "oh hey go find this dungeon thing" and I remember I just kinda continued doing what I usually did in minecraft back then which was get on a server, mess around with friends, and call it a day.

[@prmskates4919]

The people in this comment section really are top tier. I started playing in mid 2010, it was so beautifully simplistic- the community flourished and it was insane. I cant believe how much its all changed for good or worse. At the end of the day, I love the fact that I am able to read so many other comments coming from my perspective as well. We were a part of history- and it was an honor.

[@ultanoka]

I was there during the beta rollout and I didn't feel disappointed that the update was split in half. Like you mentioned, back in alpha/beta updates were much more common so usually we'd just go a few months at most without an update. Because updates were only a few months away from each other it meant time from the announcement of features to implementation was short as well. Compare that with today how updates get announced at minecon usually around 6-8 months before release and how caves and cliffs was split across 3 different updates that took over a year to roll out and it makes sense why people don't like split updates now. I didn't actually like the adventure update (like a lot of people back then) but I can respect and appreciate what it tried to do

[@slob5041]

I remember it felt weird and half baked but had a lot of details in the initial update that went missing. Creepers could scare away certain mobs and arrows could actually stick into mobs. Cauldrons had the ability to brew potions. It was really exciting but also limited from what it could be, the Mojang special at this point.

[@novemharrison4524]

it was only split into two parts caves and cliffs

[@RafaelMunizYT]

you defined perfectly what makes an update great, something no one at the time would've imagined but nowadays can't imagine living without it

[@Tsskyx]

When beta 1.8 dropped, I was 11 years old and was aware of the game's existence for a few months at that point, and I distinctly remember a friend from school telling me that the game now sucks since if you don't eat, you die. I know I was excited for the update and loved exploring the new additions, but it didn't feel the same to me anymore in some sense. At first I accepted this as the natural progress of the game, but looking back, some of those changes weren't all that good.

[@maaszeltov]

As someone who has played since Beta 1.4.4, I had a lot of mixed feelings around the adventure update, and still do. I was only 12-13 at the time, and I was very much against change whatsoever. I liked the new mobs and loved the new things I could find, but boy howdy did I hate the hunger mechanic. It just felt so unnecessary and contrived. Being able to sprint was nice, but tying health regen to a separate bar was confusing and really put me off. It felt like the game I had fallen in love with in the last 8 months had become a separate game entirely, and I actually went back and played mostly on 1.4-1.7 for a while cuz of that as well, resisting playing the new update. Now, I'm still not a big fan of hunger. It still feels like unneeded complexity for the sake of complexity. But I love the game as a whole.

[@shalom1523]

I remember so vividly the 1.9 pre release era of the game, as it's when I started playing. I was around 12 years old back then. I've been so obsessed with Minecraft since the alpha of the game, just from watching KZbin content. I saw from a 3rd person perspective how Minecraft was shaped up to be what it is until 1.8. I remember seeing a video with Minecraft 1.8 in the title, immediately clicked it, and the first time I saw the running feature I was like 😮, endermans scared the living shit out of me, and everything in this update just filled me with a sense of wonder, it was so good. 1.9 pre release had me even more excited, as the beloved game finally got a proper end to it. I really felt it was the end is the classic Minecraft era. From then on, I grabbed a cracked version of 1.9, and was immediately hooked into it for years to come (btw don't worry, I did buy the game after a few years 😊). It was the golden era for me. Thanks for talking about this! Liked an subbed. Keep up the great job. The videos are really high quality, and it is obvious that you put allot of effort into them. and that's the main reason the channel is growing fast. GJ man!

[@MustachedMedia]

Huge W, congrats on becoming a partner. You deserve it! Another great video, cannot wait to see more!

[@KickMinecraftPL]

I started playing around beta 1.4. When you said that 1.7 released in 2011 i felt so old (i’m 23). Great video dude

[@CoolKidMethew]

I was a very young child when I started playing Minecraft Beta. It really imprinted itself into my mind though. Even though I've played a huge amount of the game since then, I've never really gotten used to certain features like the hunger bar.

[@kumchi2]

your brand is actually really unique, love the videos

[@GuzRoca]

God you sent me on such a nostalgia trip. I’ve come to love the game Minecraft became post Beta 1.8, but I remember feeling such a sense of loss when the release version came out. It was a fundamentally different game than the one I’d been playing with my friends for so long. You highlighting how short of a time the game spent in alpha and beta really put some things into perspective. I started playing at the tail end of 1.3 but really got into it around 1.5. It’s crazy to believe all the dumb fun that my friends and I got onto from then to 1.8 was such a brief period of time. We all stopped playing for a while after release 1.0. I want to try to get the band back together now 😭 Thank you for this vid bro! All happy tears revisiting this 😭😭😭

[@awkwardsilence4427]

This is hugely nostalgic, as this was actually around the time that I _stopped_ playing Minecraft. I was super hyped for all the stuff being added to 1.8, and after it’s reveal that went over how the terrain generation would be overhauled, if I remember right I had decided that I would make a brand new world when it released (I had only ever play on the one world). And since I would be doing that, in my mind there was no real reason to keep playing on my old world when I would soon be abandoning it, so I decided to take a break from it until it released. And then I heard the news that the update was going to be split in two. Okay…so yeah, a part of me was disappointed that we weren’t getting the full update, but I understood. And I figured that since it was only a half update and I had waited this long already, I’d just wait until that second part came out…which shouldn’t take long, right? Well, unfortunately those 5 months did feel like years, and after having waited that long I had kind of gotten into other things. Plus, I think there was already talks of the next update, and so I thought I would maybe just wait until the game was _complete_ before jumping back in in case there was another generation overhaul or something. So yeah…in a way, it being split in half did indeed hurt the game as far as me playing it was concerned; just not quite for the same reasons you gave. I did a few years later try playing it again. I started a new world, which put me right in the middle of a jungle. Of which I struggled in - it felt so cluttered and claustrophobic that I had a hard time even moving around and got hopelessly lost. I also was struggling with the new hunger mechanic as I had a really hard time finding food. The cows, chickens, and pigs that I was so use to finding an abundance of were much rarer, and didn’t seem to respawn after I had eliminated them for their food (I also assumed that I would outright die from hunger when it started taking out my hearts). Eventually I found my way out of that jungle, and right next to it found a hill with snow on top. That’s where I tried making my first base. First and foremost though I wanted to craft a bed so that I could respawn there upon death and NOT back in the jungle again wherein I may very well not be able to find my way back to my new base. But once again, I was finding it hard to find sheep to get the wool needed for it from. I think I played it for like a couple of days before giving up again. Sure, I could probably have played a bit more and eventually get myself settled…but at the same time it just didn’t feel at all the same as the game I remembered, though I wasn’t sure why exactly. In hindsight I think it was the fact that none of the terrain generation would make terrain that was anywhere close as the kind I remember (as I think technically that hill I found was considered a full on mountain). I say that because once the caves & cliffs update was revealed (I would check in on the game from time to time to see generally speaking what kind of new stuff was being added to the game) and I saw that video of someone gliding through mountains before diving into a giant cave system that just kept going on and on, I actually got super excited and felt the desire to play it again. So I figured that I would do just that once the update released. Ironically though, it in itself being split into 2 parts (technically even 3 or 4 parts given that the Warden and archaeology didn’t even make it into that 2nd part) killed a lot of the enthusiasm I had for the update, and didn’t jump in to play again. After this most recent update finally gets released though, I think I’ll finally pick the game up again. Which I’m sure will be quite the experience given that there’s literally over a decade’s worth of content that will feel new to me when I play.

[@slob5041]

It’s when a lot of people dropped Off.

[@novemharrison4524]

@@slob5041 the caves and cliffs where just split into two parts 1.19 and 1.20 have nothing to do with the caves and cliffs

[@McArg_]

@@novemharrison4524 both the warden and archeology were revealed for 1.17

[@novemharrison4524]

@@McArg_ still 1.19 and 20 had nothing to do with the caves and the cliffs so please don't call them caves and cliffs

[@Saavik256]

I've been playing Minecraft since 1.1.2_02 Alpha and Adventure update/Full release was a literal gamechanger. And the stage at which we're now compared to 1.1.2_02 Alpha is like day and night.

[@Vsolid]

Cool channel. I started playing Minecraft around when the Xbox 360 release went live and it was always a few versions behind. I barely remember bows not having the charge mechanic and basically being a machine gun.

[@Blue-bv1ur]

Beta 1.8 is when I started playing the game I remember it like it was yesterday, I personally prefer that version to 1.7.3 since it gives a lot more longevity and lot more things to do to in your world.

[@Roy-mt5ju]

Dude, you make banger videos of course you will receive a lot of subs. Your videos are very informative and you explain everything in an interesting way. Love your MC content but I can't wait to see what videos you will make on other games. Keep up the good work my man

[@Roy-mt5ju]

I would personally love to watch videos of NieR: Automata and Persona 5 Royal if you've played them

[@amirhosseinmaghsoodi388]

Thanks for the video. I didn't know about this and always find it interesting to learn about the game's early history. Also I think the description of this video is the best I've seen on KZbin. I'd say it's quite underutilized nowadays.

[@biraven3763]

I love the vibe you got going here!! And I must say your hair be looking fabulous ✨️

[@Beastmodemax]

I forget how long I've actually been playing Minecraft. Back before the launcher looked good and the login consisted of 3 tabs. Using my mom's email address, having her pay for it through PayPal, back in August of 2011, on the family computer. It was a different time and going to my grandparents then back to her house on the weekends only to see that so many things were added I was ecstatic, at 10 years old this was a point in my life that I not only enjoyed but look back on with fondness. I love that game and still play it over a decade later with the same account now migrated to my email since the original was deleted. Thank you for reminding me of a time that I'd long forgotten about.

[@optimise.]

Awesome video as always, each upload from you has been extremely high quality and it's honestly really surprising to scroll down and see you 'only' have 4k subscribers, since it really does feel like you should be in the hundreds of thousands with what you're putting out. Good luck on the journey, as from the way it's looking it'll be a long and successful one, really looking forward to seeing more stuff from you:)

[@binguschondo]

thank you so much :’) i’m so happy to have you here!

[@sashahenriksen]

i do remember the adventure update i remember watching a trailer for it and thinking it looked cool, the ravines were especially cool. i played minecraft quite a lot after that and while i certainly do play a lot of beta minecraft today i think its more because the modern game just has too much and it gets a bit overwhelming and like you said its more like a sandbox rpg rather than sanbox building game, like its the same game but obviously different vibes. I dont mind the adventure update, i dont like the hunger system and trading but thats just my own personal gripes. i enjoy your content, keep it up.

[@anty.]

I kind of get the "sandbox building game to RPG" analogy but at the same time I don't. Isn't the entire point of playing survival mode over creative is that it is a challenging adventure; due to the implemented limitations of having health and needing to obtain resources? I believe hunger builds upon that. However, it's true that there would only be so many survival mechanics you could add before it reduces too much freedom. But I guess the line where that gets drawn is subjective (for example i think if vanilla were like RLcraft it would be too unapproachable for most people).

[@anty.]

A possible solution for this would be enabling/disabling more features based on one's difficulty setting. The three main non-peaceful difficulties are mostly the same except with changed variables. It would be nice if Easy disabled hunger and maybe made food work like before the adventure update, Normal was mostly the same as it is now, and Hard added more survival features for people who are interested in those aspects of the game.

[@slob5041]

We’re now genuinely at that point where 1.8 gen was teased to be but never was. Minecraft lost its subtlety and charm because it became a lot more action oriented and also began to take itself very seriously. Like in the same game where the warden exists you can put lava in a bucket.

[@aliiravani198]

Just recently found your channel and it's super cool seeing you develop and grow your style :] I'm 20 too and started playing back in elementary with a cracked version on 1.5. But as with my interest in older games, I grew more and more fascinated with the older version of Minecraft despite all the new updates! Even now I still play either Beta or 1.5 cuz playing the new versions is so intimidating rip, I used to religiously read the Minecraft wiki but know idk wtf a Strider is.

[@rapid4188]

Amazing quality video once again! Great stuff :)

[@Unelith]

I had first started playing on my own server with a few colleagues, somewhere around Beta 1.7, then stopped sometime during the Beta 1.9 Pre-Releases. My reaction to the Adventure Update was mostly that: - potions and enchanting were cool (I've always wanted more magic), - the villagers felt very strange, - the giant mushrooms growing randomly were annoying and ruining the view from my castle, - Iron Bars were great cause I could now build the kind of gate that I wanted to, - it was neat that they were adding stuff and the potential seemed limitless. That was about it, I wasn't reading much about the development plans at the time. Some time later, one of my friends was like "hey, did you know you can actually beat Minecraft now?", and the concept was insane to me. It didn't make sense to me that this game has an "ending" now. I then checked it out and it didn't take that long to beat either, and I remember being rather unimpressed with what the process looked like. Since then, I'd play Minecraft sparingly, here and there, on whatever version there happened to be at the time, and I didn't really have particular memories with any of them. Until 1.19.2, which I've been playing for a year with a shitton of mods (including my own). Whatever the version might have been, I haven't really ever cared much for the Ender Dragon. It's cool that she's in there, but when I went to the End in my recent playthrough, it was primarily just to explore the modded End In retrospect, I like the vast majority of the things that the Adventure Update did, it added much needed depth and variety to an otherwise barren game. The same thing over and over again would have gotten boring to me. If there's anything I personally actively dislike from that update, it's that it enabled people to build all those villager farms and otherwise abuse the game in numerous ways, which has kinda become the meta. I find no fun in that and I think these contraptions are too thematically ill-fitting and immersion breaking. Of course, I am free to just not do those things if I don't want to, but it remains a consideration for larger multiplayer servers

[@Viridiyan]

Ah man beta Minecraft still gives me so much joy to this day. I was 8 at the time that I first started playing Minecraft, and I started playing during beta 1.6.5 which also came out earlier in May 2011. I just remember being extremely excited by the idea of what "The Adventure Update" could entail. I was imagining them adding all sorts of dungeons similar to something you would've seen back in the Aether mod, so ultimately I was a little bit disappointed in the end. I was mostly really excited about sprinting when I found out about that though, that probably excited me the most. Being able to run endlessly through a world generating in front of me was something my little 8 year old self loved and it's something I still appreciate. There was also all the new forms of food which was pretty cool honestly, but there were also really subtle changes that I absolutely loved like pigs noses actually becoming 3D instead of a flat texture as well as chests no longer being a full sized block with a flat texture

[@snivy2002]

I was around 7-8 when I first started playing and a neighborhood friend introduced me to Minecraft. I can't pinpoint the exact version I started playing, but I think it was around the start of Java alpha 1.0.0. I also played the browser Indev version back then too. Those are some of my fondest memories in singleplayer Minecraft until I got a little older, got good internet and figured out servers which was at least a year or two after the adventure update.

[@JoaoGabrielSoaresdaCosta]

Loved your video man! The 8-bit music you use in your videos create an really great atmosphere, and the outro is really good! Keep up with the good work!

[@PhattyBolger]

I was 16 when the Adventure Update came out. I was eagerly awaiting it and was amazed when I finally played it. I do remember being annoyed that you couldn't spam arrows anymore though lol. I started playing in Beta 1.6 after watching the Yogscast and KurtJMac. I stopped playing around 1.5 and only picked it up again last year. I was surprised there were horses and my friend told me they'd been in the game for years. I love Minecraft and I'm glad it keeps getting updated. It's the ultimate creativity game. I grew up playing with Lego and imagining worlds like the ones I build now in Minecraft. Such a revolutionary game.

[@FFMA28060]

i just finished watching the video.. and i am awestruck at the fact that you only have 4k subscribers?! you deserve way more for the amount of effort and love you put into your video! i am definitely becoming one of those subscribers

[@LemonMoon]

I find it interesting how much the version number of the game is important to the audience of minecraft. Like most video game communities don’t pay attention to version number because it doesn’t matter, but with minecraft, people know every update and what version it had. The only games I see where people care about the version is stuff like stardew valley, Skyrim, and cyberpunk, and even then it is really only because they’re either fixing bugs, and/or fucking over the modders. Stardew is the closest to Minecraft in this way jn that each update brings pretty substantial content.

[@ryan_3113]

I remember playing Xbox 360 Minecraft for hours after school with friends. I remember trying to get past the tutorial barrier for so long till I begged my parents to buy it. Remember all the updates that world went through? That era of Minecraft will always be special. There was so much with so little. There was SO much KZbin content, it was really beautiful, hopefully we’ll see it again with MC or another game.

[@laurenlinterfree6624]

Congrats on your growth! Your videos already have a level of professionalism and style which is very appealing. Your videos were also recommended to me a few weeks ago when I was recovering from glandular fever, so it helped in passing the time. Hope to see another video soon ☺️

[@binguschondo]

i hope you’re doing well now! thanks for being here

[@awizard72]

loved the video, but was even more grabbed by your channel aesthetic. no tacky background music, jumpy cuts, and a concise color scheme right down to your outfit. absolutely love it, instant sub

[@SquirrelWitch]

I was really excited for 1.8 to come out! I remember looking at those teaser images and getting so excited for exploration. I remember feeling very underwhelmed when strongholds were so rare and villages were so useless. Hunger, new bows, and ravines were the big takeaways for me at the time. It really seemed to split my friend group but I enjoyed it.

[@Brazenel]

I see everyone at 1k+ subscribers and they always say it took em round 2 years to do it. I don't think I'll make it as far as I'd like as a minecraft channel. But I'm glad you made it to where you are! =D

[@tommyyates3129]

Great video man! Definitely subscribing👍

[@cameronjonezy5448]

First video I've watched by you, I love your style and delivery, Wasn't too fussed on the topic of the video, have seen a lot on Minecraft history recently, will definitely check out more videos though!

[@SkyeLimelight]

I was just a year older than you were when the update came out, I had been playing since Alpha and was addicted to the game. I remember being the the only person amongst all my friends to have played it and having to convince my friends to get it when it finally came to Xbox. I was very unhappy when the update came, it felt odd and not like the game I had loved but at the same time being young and in love with the game I quickly came to enjoy it and all the new features it added. I recall having to build exp farms since the best enchantments were 50 levels each and the big achievement it felt like to beat the game. Now I do feel like Minecraft has a lifespan and oddly enough it starts once you “beat” the game. Once you kill the ender dragon you’re already in the post game, the wither is just an endgame bonus. I think that why I’ve been playing the older beta 1.7.3 for so long now, it feel like the game goes on forever since there’s nothing to do to beat just enjoy your time and relax with however you want to shape the world

[@silverseergriclav]

I started playing Minecraft in Beta 1.4 or so, and though I wasn't very active in the online community (I never saw the teasers), I was incredibly excited when Beat 1.8 came out, and was waiting for Beta 1.9 (which then became 1.0) really expectantly. Exploring the stronghold for the first time, seeing the End for the first time, these were things that I will never forget, and I have really fond memories of those updates. I do remember hating how the new food worked, though liking how it stacked now, but as for the rest of it it was a very positive experience.

[@STALeader]

This was a great video, thank you for how you presented all the information and timeline of this era of the game. Just based off old bits of memories I have along with looking into when certain updates were released, I have come to the conclusion that I likely began playing during the fall of 2012 when 1.3 was the newest update and I would've been 9 years old at the time. With all of that said, this means I never really got the chance to see this early part of development so it's really fascinating to get a glimpse of what I had missed. Thank you again!

[@Fusorf]

I was in high school when adventure update released, I remember being SO HYPED because the game was cool and we played it a lot with friends (we had an old laptop running our servers jar 24/7 at a friends house lol) but we felt for the first time we wanted the game to evolve a bit, and honestly those first 1.8 teasers were so enigmatic. I also vividly remember upgrading our server to one of the beta 1.9 pre releases, risky move but somehow nothing went wrong haha Awesome video :)

[@ethanhill1268]

Hey just wanna say your videos are great and I’m glad I could I found you before you blew up! Keep up the good work

[@PixelCollie]

Your videos are so well put together and interesting, I'd love to hear you talk in depth about other topics you're passionate about!

[@gtPacheko]

I was 10 when this all was happening. I remember being so excited after playing beta 1.8 and talking to my mom about full release 1.0 whilst we were walking to her workplace at a public healthcare unit (still her job 11 years later!) She didn't really understand much of what I was saying, but seemed happy that I was happy. I remember trying out a preview for beta 1.8 on a Brazilian server called Craftlandia, where they had a stable branch and a preview branch with no rules or anything for newer versions - even with pvp on, people mostly just talked and explored the new version. It was so cool. I miss my childhood man.

[@rebirthphoenix5646]

I was 10 when Beta 1.8 dropped and me and my bro barely started playing just before it’s launch. It feels like yesterday that we discovered our first ravine and mineshaft as well as a village before villagers came out. Glowstone and Diamond blocks were the coolest blocks ever, building the first skyscrapers or underwater biodomes before sponges had a use, idk it felt so magical. To me it still feels crazy how much time has passed and also to this day content like anvils, desert temples, ocean monuments hell even elytras still feel like new features even though I’ve been playing the game for 10+ years. At my job, it feels surreal seeing kids coming in with their phones or tablets playing Minecraft when I’ve been playing the game way before they were around too. I feel old lol

[@jessezimmerman540]

Amazing hair and beard. 10/10 subbed.

[@twomur_]

man you’ve become one of my favorite youtubers! the topics you cover are great and the way you present them is amazing!! i’d love to hear you talk about your own ideas or what you would have added to the game and what direction you would have taken it after beta 1.7.3!!

[@camillaspud]

I remember waiting for the Adventure Update to finally come out on the Xbox 360 version and being blown away when it finally did come out. I was already in love with the game before, but the Adventure Update was an amazing one imo

[@colehaney8836]

The first time I ever played minecraft was in 1.7. I remember the first thing I did was hop on a horse and wander around for hours. It was a wonderful adventure :D

[@zOOpygOOpert]

Ur videos scratch the right itch in my brain, I can't wait to see what other topics you cover.

[@NerdieBirdie]

Awesome to see a fellow small channel have so much success! Best of luck man, and great video!

[@doblefazz]

Imagine if there are actual early builds of Beta 1.8 in existance. I'd be MIND BLOWN if I saw that. There's something so interesting in the idea of two entirely different versions that mark the end and the beginning of two eras, just mashed together in one incomplete mess. Old school world generation combined with those wide rivers, ravines, random giant mushrooms here and there, those old villages populated by.. pigmen? Surface dungeons and of course, green-eyed endermen. Maybe running doesn't make your FOV change? Maybe there's no eating animation despite there being a hunger bar? It'd be like the holy grail of lost Minecraft versions. or I'm just a nerd lol But sadly, those builds most likely don't exist anymore.. hope I said it well, I'm not good at english

[@blakewalker3941]

All I can remember playing was 3 very different versions because I live in a place were internet can be hard. The first was when you are in the browser and only had one hotbar of items and the terrain was horrible, old alpha stages if im correct.Second was the pumpkin beta update, the coolest thing you could do was make paintings and pots for your rose or dandelion lol. Then the Third; horses, donkeys, mules, and enchanting came. I can't even explain the amount of time I spent on that update because of no internet, but wow it was the best years. I had always stayed up to date with minecraft through social media at that time and it was always fun watching other people enjoy the game. Eventually I had got my game up to date just around the combat update, somewhere in the 1.7's. Sorry for the total tangent, regardless Minecraft has become far greater then what it was and I love how far it has come, hell even writing this i almost tear up a few times lol. I can't wait to see where it's going to go from here. (p.s. I love your videos already.)

[@Tamed_Delirium]

this video was very concise and educational, really liked it. I only experienced Minecraft on the 360 and xbox one, java later on when i got a pc. it was really nice to hear about something I missed out on

[@Thxtnt]

I’m really impressed by your growth, I’ve watched you since you had around 2K subs and now you have 5K, great work!

[@Rivr_Shen]

1.7 (not beta) feels like a lifttime ago. I remember my friends and i finding out they added horses and screeching bc they were so fast

[@ST4RSH4PED]

YES !! i was so exited when they added horses as a kid, and when they added rabbits i was PSYCHED i kinda miss the simplicity of the older versions e.g. 1.6-1.9

[@AKaufDawg]

Awesome content! Keep up the great work I see a bright future ahead for you!!!

[@maemothdemonkat]

i had no idea there was an old village design before the villages of pre 1.14! (for clarification, i mean the ones from the betas, not the ones pre 1.14 !) your videos are always bangers, love your content

[@turtleburger200]

Wow you're making me feel really old

[@jankauza8694]

Same lol

[@czpiaor]

Really? Honestly, it is crazy how many new players there are since 1.14. You have no idea how difficult breeding and trading with villagers were back then.

[@maemothdemonkat]

i mean the ones from the beta, not the design pre 1.14 haha

[@novemharrison4524]

@@maemothdemonkat yeah they look very uncanny

[@vegascvpiaaron4026]

I remember that time so vividly. i was about 11 when Minecraft "released" and damn it was a time, that's when i first started playing myself but i had lived and breathed Minecraft KZbin content with people like the Yogscast and so many other people from the time. I always feel like everyone remembers that time but then i realize how old i am now when some kid doesn't know anything about old Minecraft or has no idea what a Yogscast is 😂😂or are shocked when they do know them but didn't know Minecraft was their bread and butter for so long. I definitely miss those times.

[@laslosermcuseless1574]

As someone who grew up with legacy console Minecraft mentally the update that makes the game go from old Minecraft to modern Minecraft is the update that changed the world. I guess its hard to explain a feel for something like that but that update added so many new bioms to the point where it didn't really feel like the same game.

[@BMarie774]

I have to believe we got Tails and Trails to add more lore/history, and it’s simply a precursor to a much larger update where we explore more about the ancient cities and deep dark, and Warden origin. I also believe this is why “Legends” now exists. They warm us up to the alternate dimension thing, and how there’s not just a singular world (which we’ve always “known” since all of us have different worlds). I think some of the archeology will somehow lead us into finding answers for the deep dark etc.

[@KingOskar4]

in 2011, when the Adventure Update came, I was....... 13 years old, and I vaguely remember playing a modpack (or just a massive overhaul mod) called "Adventurecraft". It got stuck at version Beta 1.7.3. mechanics . It had the first, early implementation of an adventure mode, with NPCs to talk to, monsters to fight, swords to collect, and not being able to break blocks! At all!

[@omoriboi]

That original 1.8 update was absolutely massive. Though it obviously wasn't done, it changed SO much about the game, and honestly made it feel a lot more completely, despite the meager amount it held in comparison to modern updates. I still remember being super giddy about the addition of creative mode being finally official.