Minecraft's first world was just discovered. Here's how.

Last year, I accidentally found the oldest Minecraft world, at the time. This blows it out of the water. With the help of Elin Zetterstrand and the Omniarchive team, we've now discovered (as far as we can tell) the first Minecraft world ever made.
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[CREDITS]
GraySlicer09 for a look at Minecraft's source code ➵ • Looking at the Minecra...
[SOUNDTRACK]
Machine Girl - Ringer of Bells
ELFL - First Horizon
HOME - Tides
AGST - Ultimatum
Hampus Naeselius - My Moon and Your Sun
Machine Girl - Light in the Fog, Pt. 2
Machine Girl - Heaven Central Authority
C418 - Subwoofer Lullaby
[CHAPTERS]
0:00 - Introduction.
0:12 - The hunt begins.
1:02 - A short history lesson.
2:26 - Who is ez?
3:08 - Time to get to work.
4:43 - Success!
5:18 - What is Betacraft?
6:16 - Exploring Minecraft's first world.
7:23 - Outroduction.
bye love u

[@Awol1010]

Well done! The first map has been found! Its even awesome that people made it so we can play it as well. The MC community always surprises me in a good way.

[@Marbowls]

Hi awol

[@chloewatkins138]

is this an ai generated comment

[@maxmc4780]

@@chloewatkins138 ikr npc ah comment

[@talling]

This comment has zero brain cells behind it.

[@kalttor]

@@horrifyfish .... its a map... not a server

[@Juliemc]

Rd actually stands for rubydung notch’s old game. Minecraft (cave game) was originally meant to be a test for rubydung stuff

[@stanleybochenek1862]

pretty cool

[@vistabuntuu]

To be more precise, it stands for Ruby Dungeon. Notch had planned to make his own 3D tile-based version of Dwarf Fortress. That idea went away when he found his testers really enjoying the 3D creative building aspects

[@bearishplane17]

Pretty interesting.

[@elio7610]

That explains a lot.

[@asocos]

No, it was originally mean’t to be a clone of infiniminer

[@kapifromnevada4697]

First we found the seed from a image in the menu Now this Minecraft community has one the best archeologists

[@bezimen1]

In release 1.7 there existed a bug that would remove the blur over the menu screen world and I've always wondered when someone may find it

[@Anonymous4045]

I mean the former was significantly harder lol, this one was just asking the right person

[@sleetskate]

literally just concentrated autism

[@somerandomwindowsguy3725]

@@sleetskate Im guessing you are insinuating that autism is an insult, and it seems your using it as such.

[@sleetskate]

@@somerandomwindowsguy3725 you guessed wrong. its not an insult, its noticing that certain traits of autism are very prevalent in the community and are beneficial to the project. im diagnosed autistic

[@Arseniy_Arsenicum]

Wait... So ez is the sister of Kristoffer Zettersrand? The artist behind minecraft paintings? That is so cool! Minecraft's earliest history is so interconnected!

[@user-un5xj1wl6p]

Almost like European aristocracy XD

[@minidreschi2]

@@user-un5xj1wl6p Minecraft aristocracy :D

[@fabian2062]

@@user-un5xj1wl6p Sweet home Austria

[@plighting_engineerd]

YEAH

[@sourlemon360]

If you gave me 5 years I would've never guessed to make such a big discovery by messaging notch's ex-wife.

[@floobix1]

didnt even know that mf ever married

[@Justin71248]

Didn't expect the world to look as good as it did knowing it was the first world ever.

[@Stiky_Piston]

I wonder if you could slowly upgrade this world to 1.20 It may not be possible, but I wonder what it would be like

[@fjaps]

that would be so funny lol but it would corrupt so many times

[@mcbyt]

Yeah, it is possible I believe but WOW it is a process. Somebody should really make a streamlined world conversion tool, since right now you have to go through like 5-10 stages of conversion to play in modern versions

[@miojo157._.]

you could convert it but everything would problaby look like stone, cave game pre-classic into pre-classic breaks the world alredy, because notch changed the way textures and "block ids" worked

[@fjaps]

@@mcbyt please try this for the funny

[@Pizzablud]

I could probably be able to do it using a world editor tool if you want!

[@MacheTheFerret]

would be funny if someone made a huge custom world filled with various ruins, and hidden off somewhere is an entirely cobble/mossy cobble ruin that's identical to this world's structures, plus some hidden treasures and traps would be pretty neat i think

[@sovb]

i've actually been doing this with one of those wonderful pandemic minecraft servers that popped up on some free server host! i took a world download of the vast spawn village, from sky limit to bedrock, and all of its history, and implanted it into a brand new world. in said world, i implanted treasures and traps in the existing buildings + a crapload of brand new ones to explore and find stuff in too before the server regrettably died someone made a massive lavacast next to spawn, i basically deconstructed it and left only a pillar which i hid a massive jungle themed ruin base thing directly inside for someone to excavate and find it's unreleased but proves good ideas transcend just one mind

[@crazycat7584]

@@sovb I feel like I just discovered a bit of history hidden in the comment section, cool to hear about your work sovb! :D

[@bedfrogpersonstove9586]

damn the betacraft launcher is really a throwback to the old launcher from before 2017

[@breezetix]

ikr, i used to play mc like a lot in 2014-2015

[@ethanator4051]

This is amazing! I didn't even know you could save worlds in the first version

[@barrybenbart]

Awesome documentation Aidan! Love these new kind of video's & great edits! Also appreciate the text showing longer now (which makes it better readable 😃) 10/10

[@mcbyt]

Thanks so much, I'm glad you're liking it :)

[@fountainredhaiter9882]

This is one of the greatest things to happen in minecraft gaming history! These people deserve recognition for the work they have done! We should have a new group of archeologists called "Gameologists"

[@TheCookiePup]

The way you described the parts of the world at the end reminded me of my first few days of playing Minecraft way back when you could play the demo on the website. Imagination carried a lot of what little I had done in the time limit, where a few missing leaves in a tree cluster was a treehouse and a small underground tunnel was a "secret entrance" inside.

[@RadioactivFly]

Fun fact: That world may look like it's made of grass and cobble, but if you load that world in a later pre-classic version, you'll see that it's all stone. In early pre-classic versions, every solid block in the game would render as cobblestone, unless it was in one layer at the surface of the world, in which case it would be grass. You couldn't choose between grass and cobble, it was determined by the Y-level. Once more block types were added in the a later update, the block id used for cobble/grass in the older versions became stone.

[@StereoMadnessss]

I really wonder if the data could be used to find missing jars for versions like 0.0.3a (I came across Hacker on a Hypixel parkour house a few days ago which I thought was fun)

[@cakecheese2895]

Well world data is different from version data, so we probably wouldn't get a lot of mileage on that end. (I rammed my knee into the wall the other day, which hurt.)

[@bettercalldelta]

@@cakecheese2895 considering ez had this old world still around, why wouldn't she casually have some lost versions aswell (I ate chocolate chip cookies today)

[@cakecheese2895]

@@bettercalldelta That's fair. The most reliable way to get missing versions is for someone who downloaded it back then to make it public. (I ate food earlier, which was something)

[@miojo157._.]

how would you even want that without even having classic 0.0.10a and the past versions from that?

[@bettercalldelta]

@@miojo157._. you broke the chain, you were supposed to include something completely unrelated in parentheses like everyone else did

[@StarNightGaming]

Great video as always but that was not what I was expecting from the title

[@ProdRapid]

did he change the title? I just clicked

[@mcbyt]

​@@ProdRapidNah, same title as before. I'm confused too lol, like it is the first world, that's not bait or anything. Maybe because this was found a few months back? (took me a while to finish the video)

[@NoNameTaken117]

It even looks better than my first house💀

[@misterk7_-]

Wow. That’s crazy. And from that iconic screenshot? Had no idea it was that old. amazing.

[@edtof3]

Finally, a KZbinr who lists their background music so I don’t need to struggle to use trial and error.

[@issad3543]

Great video, always look forward to your content!

[@mcbyt]

I appreciate that man

[@avaracemaclamara2807]

yo my guy, you got a subscriber just outta the fact you know your stuff and you explained it as well, very well done, props

[@mcbyt]

appreciate it my brother :)

[@moonribbon7476]

You have done it! After 14 years, one of Minecraft's earliest puzzles has been solved. An amazing achievement!

[@BakeBakePi]

That's so cool! Great video!

[@Edi__]

I loved your vids man! And now i love them even more

[@mcbyt]

Haha, good to hear brother :)

[@Nugcon]

It looks like some ancient ruin. Quite fitting.

[@AshishXMC]

Damn! I was wondering when another discovery of a seed of something OG finally came into play, and this was amazing!

[@FeZerret]

i just got my old minecraft saves back from 2011. good times :´)

[@TheRealOfficialGator]

the "treasure room" looks like it might have been inspiration for the end portal room

[@extremelyfoggy]

You're awesome and really underrated, enjoyed this video a LOT! I've subscribed, goodluck on your youtube journey :) (PS nice mrfeast skin)

[@zmilosh]

Thats awesome! GG MCBYT

[@Bradley_Potter]

I really wasn't expecting a Professor Layton reference there! 😅 It's also weird, because I've been thinking about Layton a lot today.

[@mcbyt]

Such a fun game series, I haven't played in like a decade though

[@Bradley_Potter]

​@@mcbytThis is the first time I've seen your channel, and I really enjoyed watching this video. Thanks for putting a smile on my face. 😊

[@mcbyt]

@@Bradley_Potter Haha, of course :) Very happy to hear you enjoyed it so much!

[@dadude123equals5]

Love the vids!

[@mcbyt]

Thanks so much!

[@randomname3566]

6:03 I don't know if it was intentional but you just made me laught impossibly loud. You've created the best parody of a tutorial I've ever seen!

[@grayslicer09]

Hey there, love the video! It's honestly pretty incredible how Ellen still had that world file after all these years. I noticed that at 2:52 you used footage from one of my videos called "Looking at the Minecraft Source Code from 2009! (UHD)". I nearly fell off my chair when I realized it was mine, since I never expected that video to gain any traction or get noticed by anyone! With that being said, I would really appreciate it if you credited me with a link to my channel or the video itself in the description. Thanks in advance and again, great vid man :)

[@mcbyt]

Yeah absolutely man! Sorry I haven't already - it is basically impossible to keep track of all my sources since there's like 100+ every video lol. Should be good now in the description :)

[@grayslicer09]

​@@mcbyt No problem man, I get that videos like these require a ton of research. I appreciate the quick response. Keep up the great work!

[@mcbyt]

@@grayslicer09 Thank you brother :)

[@depraved420]

I remember playing when you had to have a server and client to play. There was like 8 different blocks to build with, flat land and no mobs. Ppl made like giant earths and all kinds of stuff. All there really was to do was build pixel art but it was still pretty cool.

[@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]

MCBYT makes better entertaining documentaries than actual businesses.

[@mcbyt]

MCBYT Netflix docu when

[@potatoplayer6475]

Nice and calm video.

[@ProGremlinPlayer]

Out of all the peculiar bits of Minecraft lost media to exist, I wasn't expecting the very first Minecraft world to ever be actually found.

[@crazy]

Love the vids as always! 100K checkmark soon! ✅

[@mcbyt]

Hopefully 🤞 and thank you my friend :)

[@Core_Of_The_Void]

The deepest mystery has been solved.

[@doofenw]

nice video !!

[@SuperLlama88888]

Great job!!!

[@afonso.mp4]

MCBYT is back, yessir.

[@Dogrub]

Its Amazing how far Minecraft has come

[@gui18bif]

I was thinking "its probably a boring as fuck map" but no, it actually reminds me of the good old days of minecraft

[@1598hi]

Wow what a find! I'm so happy this minecraft history has been preserved

[@tmtmtg]

really charming old world

[@post-transitional_metal]

This is more important to me than anything I have ever or will ever learn in history

[@SevdenCrown]

Its always a good day when MCBYT Uploads (:

[@erotech1]

Actually you can build and brake blocks in the VERY, VERY first Minecraft Version!

[@maksiksq]

Damn really hope you get more views

[@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui]

I’ve created my own tech demo featuring a block character, trees and a randomly generated world.

[@equilibrum999]

from the last King of Babylon to this, archeology updated many.

[@Toerce]

I’d be curious to see what the first Adventure map is. I feel like it might not even exist anymore, but it’s just food for thought.

[@theamazingcj2748]

I wanna see a "Transforming minecraft's first house" video.

[@ODINSHARKMAN]

world you were talking about in another video was in the game one year before bionic even played Minecraft

[@PepekBezlepek]

this is absolutely fascinating ♥

[@jonapoka7109]

The legend has uploaded

[@mcbyt]

I'M BACK BABY THE ONE AND ONLY

[@FemboyTails]

3:51 I made that bridge!! :3

[@xuus]

i really love the fact you used one of HOME's songs :D

[@mcbyt]

they are BANGERS

[@NotBlazerMC]

This is for real impressive how we managed to find a map that was supposed to be deleted back in 2009 :0

[@peanut7098]

7:34 So we just aren’t gonna talk about that SMOOTH transition?

[@PedroBastozz]

The fact that I was 2 months old when minecraft was released is kinda fun to thing about.

[@mcbyt]

fr. i wasn't even in kindergarten

[@XxEdwardDeGamerxX]

this is freaking epic

[@OpsMasterWoods]

So close to 100k

[@WalterWipe]

4:30 this part is just too funny

[@Superfish72]

You should do every update to the map

[@joshfoustcommunity8928]

It would be pretty awesome if you could provide a step-by-step tutorial of how to make this for those who can’t download and play it!🙂

[@Achromatic_0]

love that shader

[@theamazinghippopotomonstro9942]

Mad respect to ez for sharing this stuff

[@theblindsniper9130]

I subscribed because you told me to. I stayed because the video was great. I'll binge because I like your stuff.

[@mcbyt]

Haha, I appreciate that brother :)

[@arandomboi3353]

This is amazing

[@oobie4914]

Something tells me the screenshot of Steve chilling in his house with the other Steve in the back is what inspired Herobrine.

[@soundsfordogs]

Loving the video, BUT HOLY CRAP MACHINE GIRL?!?!? YOU GOT GOOD MUSIC TASTE MY MAN

[@v2cvalorant]

I MISSED YOUUU UPLOAD MORE PLASE

[@mcbyt]

Will do chief 🫡

[@elitecereal]

good video bro I enjoyed it

[@mcbyt]

let's gooo

[@mysteryboyee]

Better launcher: multi-mc, its compatible with mac os and linux, can run every version of minecraft, and makes mod installation easier then making a phone call, and extra bonus: doesnt look sketchy as all hell, unlike betacraft there

[@PLANDerLinde99]

"give file" "yeah bet" That was easy

[@ronture8279]

*hits Staples Easy Button*

[@PottedInvis]

Great video 👍

[@mcbyt]

Thank you :)

[@0atch]

Damn it was 1 year before bionic started minecraft

[@The_DemonKing]

Minecraft hasn't even been out for 14 years

[@woooooooooooooooooooooooo]

2023-2009 = 14

[@elbladel]

No way, I'm recreating that house in my world like some ancient ruins

[@win7best]

There's something about this map that makes it feel like a garry's mod mc map

[@mcbyt]

Yeah I agree, it reminds me of a valve map like dust on cs:go or something

[@maplechei]

thank god I’ve been here to witness this

[@local_furry_SCOTLAND]

looks good

[@fleainfestedmongrel]

i discovered it before this video was even uploaded, which my friend sent the dat file to me, and it looked like this aswell.

[@sona_the_persona]

"give file" "yeah bet"

[@mezproductions9214]

yo i just saw smthn in the sky when u were going around the map

[@findablebuckle2]

so that's where my profile picture is from. cool

[@TomMine]

I love looking at real survival maps

[@ocelottv6549]

the floor is missing because at that time you couldnt choose what you want to place so when you placed a block in the grass layer it would automatically be a grass block

[@beargreen1]

Okay this is cool

[@dailysandwich4838]

Where do I find the betacraft folder, It is just an app for me it has no folders

[@shunyaku7759]

WHY DO YOU WANT TO INDUCE MOTION SICKNESS WITH THOSE CAMERA MOVEMENTS OH MY GOD

[@BaccaDeww]

babe wake up new mcbyt upload

[@mcbyt]

hey babe, wanna "Minecraft's first world was just discovered. Here's how." and chill?

[@vistabuntuu]

Bless you for documenting this and raising awareness of Omniarchive & Betacraft 💯 Helped them a while in 2020 (was me who disproved brown spiders in released versions). Had a feeling EZ was the source here, since she was one of the the only people we know of who playtested for Notch in the first week or so

[@apgde]

thats absurd!

[@tlazo3627]

Hey MCBYT, how were you able to get those final, modern-version shots in the Outro? If it is a separate world or one you made, could you make the download available for it?

[@mcbyt]

I just rebuilt the main building, wasn't too difficult! I believe someone in the Omniarchive Discord has converted the entire first world to modern versions though, so I'd definitely check that out :)

[@tlazo3627]

@@mcbyt Got it, thank you!

[@barns8200]

I’m more curious if you tried to run that world in the newest version of Minecraft, and go to new unloaded chunks. What would happen? Would the world generation be crazy, file corruption?

[@zackeryvalenzuela1677]

i played old minecraft almost 1 year ago