How Minecraft is Secretly A Horror Game

If you've ever played Minecraft Single player, you've at one point likely felt... off... In today's video I'll be answered the question nobody asked: "Why is Minecraft so Terrifying?" We're doing spooky month earlier this year, and considering how long this took me to make, we probably won't be doing anything like this for Halloween! I hope you enjoyed the video, and remember to like and subscribe!
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[@PiyanistMC]

Yooo, gr8 video!

[@racoonviktor6005]

My bigest fear in Minecraft is laaag

[@Mentelgen-1337]

theres this thing that i call the source game syndrom... where as much as it is populated with pigs, villagers and monsters. you always find yourself alone.

[@Mentelgen-1337]

also i do believe in my memories that i have of this games knowledge is that at one point the moon was planned to be an eye watching you or some sh*t but notch took it out of the game because he thought events wouldnt fit the game. (really unsure tho)

[@alexcole9325]

Very relatable, especialy since I already had a streak of paranoia, glad to see someone actually addressing this! :D

[@llaniguezhumphrey1477]

The actual fear, for me, comes from the fact that no matter how much far you travel in a singleplayer world, you'll always be alone. You're the only one that is "sentient".

[@DishonorableMentions452]

Or are you

[@fluffykafi]

For me im afraid that something else is sentient aswell and its out to get me

[@stunfill4697]

Are you really?

[@bobebobo2643]

@@stunfill4697 you know what you have to do and that you have to build like you were *programed* for that

[@Lahiyajuga352]

Not so different from you irl

[@ecstaticryan4369]

When you first join a world, and there’s no music and no ambience sounds, the silence is deafening.

[@RandomSageless]

So true

[@itsalio8387]

Hyperbole.

[@InsufficientYarsago]

Then the sun goes up, and you hear the soundtrack. Finally, you feel free. Those skeletons whose legs were crambling above you, are burning. Flowers are in front of you. You eat your steak and continue the adventure. And yes, you can finish your house now.

[@boppitybippitybop1829]

Not even any mob is around you whether it is hostile or passive. There is just you and the endless block world. But then you survive your first night and it feels much more alive

[@InsufficientYarsago]

@@boppitybippitybop1829 Nah after 9 years and

[@godofcookies3257]

for me its the times the music just stops, like absolute silence and when you notice its really unsettleing

[@TofuSG98]

Campfire in the house with rain outside is nice though.

[@thejaguarsultima2655]

Yeah when the music is switching the sound will glitch so sometimes if you break a block at that time and it won’t make a sound

[@mirkopoznanovic1147]

As a bedrock player,whats music?

[@PatricutPatPat]

​@@mirkopoznanovic1147 I play bedrock and I always hear music, what you on about?

[@mirkopoznanovic1147]

@@PatricutPatPat uh bro,ive been playing bedrock for two months rn,there is absolutely no music while playing,i checked settings and music is set to max

[@ghostember1506]

I don’t think Minecraft having a horror vibe is bad, I think it adds a charm or flair, it gives you a reason to want to make a base, to feel safe.

[@Thegrimm52]

it doesnt make me feel lonely, just empty.

[@fishnetsrp0g197]

my exact first thought

[@thejaguarsultima2655]

The base doesn’t feel safe though you can see the vast emptiness and feel that someone else is in there with you

[@anotherwofartist5895]

I think the scariest part of Minecraft is more of an existential terror. It’s the realization that you’re completely alone in single player. You can get your pets, the villagers, and all the mobs, but that’ll never fill the void of missing players. It’s terrifying when you realize that as long as you’re in single player, you can build the most extravagant castles, the most impressive bases, and the most amazing temples and shrines, but it’s all an attempt to fill the void of loneliness. It’s the thought that, eventually, you will run out of ideas. You’ll run out of mobs to kill. Run out of achievements to to get. Run out of builds to make. Run out of things to farm. You’ll run out of things to do and then, sitting in your massive cities and looking over your empire, you’ll realize that you may be at the top, but it’s easy to be number one when you’re the only number.

[@TrainerGoldAlt]

You could write a book about this

[@kabal6331]

damn bro

[@milanesaderes1654]

Dayum dude

[@Okcoolguy]

The last part tho 'sitting in your massive cities and looking over your empire, you’ll realize that you may be at the top, but it’s easy to be number one when you’re the only number.' it gave me the chills 😭

[@thatonecubchoo1541]

This. This is why I don’t play survival much anymore. I usually just follow build tutorials in creatuve

[@Zistrius]

For me, it isn’t about the creepy sounds or feeling alone; it’s about knowing you’re in single player and still feeling like someone else is in your world.

[@comedyreliefguy5112]

Considering all the structures that naturally generate, it’s hard not to think there’s somebody else.

[@fatal30]

same, could never play singleplayer back then and even now i still cant. I always felt like someone was watching me 😅

[@its.astro.]

Once I convinced my parents to get minecraft for me a few years ago, I never touched it unless my best friend was online. It always felt so lonely without anyone to play with you

[@helloworld-sl2lw]

Or the realization that you're completely alone in your world.

[@sparkyzkid2798]

In real life, it’s related to agoraphobia. The fear of being in wide open spaces, and feeling either completely alone, or like… you aren’t

[@randomgaming763]

Scariest part of minecraft is oak forests for me because u feel like there is always someone watching even tho no ones watching it doesnt takes long for ur paranoia to take obver and start seeing things etc.

[@OasisFn-rz3hc]

The scariest thing in Minecraft for me is a fully enchanted diamond armored baby zombie.

[@skypie5374]

😂😂😂

[@JohnKimble-bl9wv]

Annoying little shits

[@InsomnicKing]

I think the cave sounds are one of the most unnerving things to hear just imagine just searching for iron or coal and then you hear something unnatural coming from the dark.

[@Smileythebuilding]

I used to always leave my world when I heard a cave sound, and then I decided not to turn my sound up

[@chazzistheman]

I turned the cave sounds off for a good reason

[@jamiereddy5726]

One time I heard it I was like nope peace out!

[@ahmedshawki7632]

I was mining then I saw a skeleton and it scares the absolute fuck out of me

[@OnLYJInX]

Is it just me or does anyone else hear cave noises in the End? It might just be me or a bug or even just that world but while going about the end islands, it’s very unsettling-

[@transbender5906]

I think the scariest part of Minecraft is when you’re playing late at night and you’re mining, and while the random cave sounds are terrifying, there isn’t a bigger jumpscare than when your pickaxe breaks. Makes my heart short circuit every time

[@phantomgaming9771]

Finally someone who gets it. Bro singleplayer feels like it is designed to give as many heart attacks as possible.

[@emmahealy4863]

I go caving for fun in real life, but Minecraft cave noises still scare me

[@DrSpaceman69]

FR!!!!!

[@jaybosstv9324]

Why did i feel that?

[@erinbathie-moore8478]

Try facing the Warden at night....

[@AidamnSkams]

The spongebob glove world Rollercoaster type video

[@Parky64]

*Insert the video of SpongeBob and Patrick on the kiddy ride*

[@MrPigeon01]

YOOO YOU KNOW THE VID

[@user-gu5js8qo7n]

literally saw that vid after watching this

[@hydrabruh]

LOLLLL I SAW THAT TOO

[@Guernica4u]

I saw that

[@omega5455]

I think the scariest thing in minecraft is those moments where there is absolutely nothing but yourself and your footsteps, no mobs, no animals, no players, just you, honestly horror games should use complete silence more often, silence is terrifying

[@dfquartzidn6151]

Oh that explains a lot actually. Even while playing on creative peaceful mode with cave sounds off, I still get pretty scared when I venture too far into a cave. Lately, I’ve just been building on the surface so, caves sounds are on because I still they’re cool, lol.

[@RinkuStars]

The movie A Quiet Place uses silence perfectly to build tension so I completely agree

[@ADieVentures]

The worst horrors are those our own minds create.

[@6fejmk]

so any game with footsteps is scary? Lmfao

[@BLET_55artem55]

@@6fejmk *angry silence noises*

[@rosyasia5969]

I think another reason it feels so eerily lonely is because of the abandoned structures. The desert/jungle temples, underwater ruins, strongholds, etc. It makes you think that there must have been something there at one point, but all that's left is its empty home.

[@showtimeruler_rui]

When I'm near there the game starts making the creepy noises bro😭

[@riyqn]

@@showtimeruler_ruiyou can turn them off :)

[@linneyxxalt]

True. Also, im the 666th person who liked this comment!

[@SavathunSussyImpostor]

@@riyqn It turns off other sounds though. Wish it was a separate setting

[@marikkelaszlo3355]

That’s the same reason why people say “I spy books” are creepy, the pages of those books are so busy-looking and populated with so many objects but yet it still feels very lonely.

[@OfDream8811]

Is nobody gonna talk about that lava reflecting onto the floor at 5:36? That’s insane

[@SummerFlowyYT]

because of shaders but yeah

[@DerKilianist]

Some shaders work magic

[@skypie5374]

Shaders my friend!

[@narwhalocean791]

the scariest part is how lonely beta and alpha is, with no villages and oddly disturbing cave sounds. the fog adds to it too

[@user-gu5js8qo7n]

the fog is coming.

[@dgamer1654]

Who remembers the days when villages had no villagers? That was an eerie feeling😬

[@ZealousElit3]

You can still come across them, I call them ghost villages. They are villages that have houses that are destroyed, empty, and filled with cobwebs, sometimes a zombie villager will be in the house but no living villagers are anywhere to be seen. They are way more common in Bedrock than in Java.

[@jasonoy3142]

@@ZealousElit3 no but we talking about Villages that supposed to have villagers. in my Xbox one version of Minecraft, i had a house near a village, it had villagers but when I hopped in one day, all the villagers were gone, really eerie

[@fromplanetearth]

Moved to villager because, yk, they feels like your friends because you're not alone, after that they're suddenly disappeared lmao

[@ZealousElit3]

@@jasonoy3142 oh ok thanks, yea that sounds pretty creepy

[@kezottle]

@@ZealousElit3 No those are supposed to be in the game the other stuff was like a bug

[@Axel-teh-axolotl]

The creepiest part is about when your on single player it’s completely silent and you feel like something is watching you

[@ailoriarayne5086]

What makes it terrifying is one of my worlds I was building on I came across a tame wolf that wasn't even mine. Nor any of my friends. That is when that world was deleted

[@NotCreeper78]

@@ailoriarayne5086 thats terrifying

[@cici1474]

@@ailoriarayne5086 wtf that’s so creepy

[@dfquartzidn6151]

@@ailoriarayne5086 My God, that is extremely terrifying. In my 5+ year old creative world, I had a small army of dogs that won’t listen to me as if they were never mine. I don’t know if they were mine before when an earlier update suddenly made them not mine or if one of my visitors tamed them all so, I just gathered them in my first basement. Same thing happened in one of our previous iPad’s worlds too. Eventually, I just built them gazebos to stay dry under.

[@ailoriarayne5086]

@@NotCreeper78 What makes it more terrifying is that it was a relatively new world and none of us had any wolves yet cause we was still gathering materials

[@meatball2304]

I think the scariest part of minecraft single player is the thought of not being alone.

[@SpaceAndWicca]

Scariest part of Minecraft is when a random block just breaks in front of you. But you didn’t press it at all so it’s just so confusing 💀💀

[@Ditchiladatoca]

LMAO

[@kittyqveen3249]

Fr 😭😭

[@fromplanetearth]

I heard baby villager when I'm walking, idk maybe it's just me miss heard it

[@solitaryfps]

FR BRU

[@malvadochefe]

The terrifying fact of Singleplayer is that even knowing you are alone, sometimes you have the feeling you're being observed. And to make it worse, the sounds, the circunstances, you know, it's like a beginning of a pannic atack... Every one, especially those who started playing as a kid had that feeling. The horror is all on our mind.

[@pearlysoap7095]

Yess

[@rominarahbar2011]

damn bro that's so true it gave me the chills the way you wrote it

[@EdwardDominicElFrancis-tf9jz]

Yes i played Minecraft when I was 11

[@pearlysoap7095]

@@EdwardDominicElFrancis-tf9jz I started playing Minecraft when I was 11 too

[@ichiminty8240]

and every now and then you hear a shrieker and "drop a load" in your pants

[@holden_mokok]

The ambiance of the cave terrifies me. When your just mining your own business then out of nowhere some minecart will echo through the depths of the cave 😭😭

[@coochieisyummy]

Honestly, minecraft scared me whenever I played it as a kid, the loneliness in single player felt so suffocating

[@B0R3D_2.O]

Same I used to play Minecraft alone and it was so lonely and terrifying but if played with friends it would be funny

[@GabuzonX]

I can't tell you how many times I got scared in caves or in the overworld just with paranoid feelings or with the background noises, jesus, but I was so fascinated at the same time

[@TheFrozenBoiTF2]

agreed

[@zagnose]

I used to watch my brother play games, and whenever he opened Minecraft I would immediately run away. I was SO scared of it.

[@B0R3D_2.O]

@thisapplejudges6553 bold of you to assume I played Minecraft with friends lol /jk but the friend part ain’t a joke unfortunately

[@Sh1ryyu]

Minecraft, even in broad daylight, can sometimes make me feel more uneasy than most horror games do.

[@minerana285]

Sameee

[@Simply_taheem]

Same

[@alltypevideos9520]

Same

[@gillkara]

That’s real life for me

[@Blexxstar]

I know you noob

[@user-AADZ]

I saw this next to the SpongeBob roller coaster meme on a meme compilation once

[@f7dq]

spongebob rollercoaster ahh vid 😭😭🙏🙏

[@puritylives]

AHHHHHHH!

[@giveupndie4559]

I always found it weird how others aren’t so paranoid and anxious when playing minecraft, I was and always have been kinda scared when I’m playing

[@HazbinRosie]

I'm only scared when it comes down to killing mobs, I don't know how people arent afraid of them.

[@giveupndie4559]

@@HazbinRosie they’re terrifying im always paranoid that they will creep up behind me and kill me

[@HazbinRosie]

@@giveupndie4559 Same lol, especially the creeper cause it could explode.

[@eldinoproductions683]

I never even noticed how creepy minecraft was until I came across this video 🤣🤣🤣

[@DishonorableMentions452]

@@HazbinRosie same

[@lazzick]

I still think that minecraft should finally add birds, we have bats, parrots and chickens, why not normal birds with nice ambient sounds depending on the location a few biomes could have really cool sounds, like a western style rolling hay bale in a savana or wave sounds near a beach

[@The_Hydration_Police]

Oh yeah, birds would be great, stuff like raccoons and caterpillars would totally be nice to see flying around

[@nsb8816]

For that Microsoft (yeah, they are the true ones that manage Mojang) should have heart and brain to do it.

[@garrynewman6211]

@@The_Hydration_Police Ahh, yes. Flying raccoons and caterpillars.

[@liviwaslost]

Bats should be updated and given a new texture.

[@kadegetslaid634]

@@liviwaslost 100%

[@scottycz4918]

This feels like the scene in Spongebob where they ride the tiny roller coaster and scream.

[@tomchan4915]

Most scariest part is that I subscribed

[@oranmilne404]

The scariest thing about minecraft happens after you finally finish a couple really big builds that you worked weeks to months on, then that existential dread settles in of "oh god what do I do with my life now" as you question your whole life's circumstances and everything you've done with it.

[@SnowAngelAJ]

You can probably role play in the builds with friends or random people who want to play with you, you can also make another map to play hard mode and find villages.

[@deadpool-zw4mq]

@@SnowAngelAJ The worst option possible 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆

[@SnowAngelAJ]

@@deadpool-zw4mq Well at least i tried to think of something, i mean if you're gonna build lots of buildings the best things TO DO is to role play in them.. especially with friends, like for a example: you build a fnaf 1 location and if your friends know about fnaf they can possibly role play with you, the role playing with random people is incase you don't have friends who play minecraft and you can ask people if they want to play with you. If you think my options are bad then i want to see YOU make up your own options.

[@CatCatchinChannel]

@@deadpool-zw4mq honestly i *HATE* when people just say stuff like you do with no context like as to why you feel that way and better options that could be used, saying "The worst option possible" just sounds like you are trying to be mean🤦‍♀

[@deadpool-zw4mq]

@@CatCatchinChannel "how to roblox games" 💀💀

[@thatbabybird1120]

This is the reason why I like to build my base near a village, since the villagers are good company and the noise helps me feel less lonely.

[@atomicconservativeskunk1094]

I do the same exact thing

[@3xallos]

i like the loneliness and the rain its relaxingg but sometimes when you eenter a cave it creeps me out

[@thereisacatonmyhead]

Me same :0

[@fiddledmint7266]

the funny thing is when I was exploring a cave I got too scared and I gave myself like a ton of villager spawn eggs to keep me company

[@ilikeminecraftgaming9331]

I often do that as well!

[@_Romer]

What makes it so terrifying is just knowing you have this infinitely large world to your disposal, yet you are the only sentient being, and the only one that can really affect the world. It’s like you’re a god over nothing.

[@skyhawkslcb18]

King of Ashes

[@Blinkers2007GameDev]

Exactly!!!

[@lolanola1783]

There is something so nostolgic to me about playing the older versions of minecraft PE with my friends, and convincing each other that herobrine was haunting our world. The fog, occasional glitches, the somehow blank yet creepy atmosphere.

[@bibigamerita6966]

i think the scariest part is the fact that the world basically has no end. and it makes you feel small and vulnerable, it makes me feel eerie and just gives mr chills

[@Xegethra]

Mr Chills, the knock off Mr Freeze/Fries. But yeah, the game can be kind of like that.

[@bibigamerita6966]

@@Xegethra lmfao i tried to say "just gives ME chills" but uhm yea ig 🤣

[@RobyKageTV]

Cine s-ar fi gândit că îmi voi găsi abonatul aici? Wow, lumea chiar e mică 😅

[@ej_makesvideos]

It does give Mr Chills

[@TheRealAxolotlAnimates]

Wait until you hear about other galaxies...

[@stephaniegano6884]

the scariest things to me are the ambient sounds. i remember walking around in a cave and suddenly here these "cave sounds" and quiting the game after that. still give me chills to this day

[@luketerranova5483]

Sometimes I hear the sounds outside in Minecraft

[@genoob5843]

@Zero just makes it less immersive

[@zuke857]

Now that’s good sound design

[@foxpatternedferret476]

Anyone remember discs 11 and 13

[@Gxxx0511]

I was very afraid of these sounds but after I started playing again this year actively I lost my fear I can't explain it but these sounds make mining more interesting

[@210Caveman26]

*Insert photo of Patrick and Spongebob riding a baby rollercoaster terrified*

[@alextersa]

This video is like a storry, i can watch it over and over its great. I see you as a very popular youtuber. Keep up the great work.

[@pacho640]

I remember as a kid I literally felt actual fear when going in caves so I almost never got deeper than what light touches. And when I did I was doing it as fast as I can and sweating irl

[@dfquartzidn6151]

Dude, SAME. Even now at age 21, I STILL can’t go to a cave too often especially in single player survival.

[@miloe6259]

I still do that now

[@Ryan-rh4on]

Felt that

[@twriggy2018]

I actually remember once I was in a cave on PE and I dug straight down and ended up finding a diamond. I kept on clicking off it because it was too dark to see where it was so it took me a good 20 minutes to mine it. I then realised I couldn’t mine it with my bare hands. I was so sad 😂. Wow, that was about a decade ago now.

[@the_hanburger]

exactly, that's why when i used to play mc i would always set "Keep Inventory" on at all times cuz i was always scared of whatever could suddenly kill me in the caves or getting lost and never finding home again 😭

[@Fetch-]

You literally just described my most common experience with thinking I see a name tag while mining or hearing an extra set of foot steps around me

[@ABHI-dl4dc]

Its our mind we humans can't leave without sound even i have made numerous amount of world but i can't play it it feels so lonely 😞 tried many Times to tame a wolf first but didn't work..

[@ADodoBird]

rlcraft players: first time?

[@GalacticSlob]

Sammmeee

[@DaxyGamer]

@knockout there's likely a mod for that, just gotta get the right/most recent 1

[@hellyes1527]

I swear the sheep eating grass scared the shit out of me.

[@OfDream8811]

I love how pretty much every second of this video would make an amazing wallpaper 🖤

[@parzivalalchema5870]

love the call back at the don't stare at the moon arg, I literally just watched an explanation video about that earlier before stumbling into this vid

[@amedeofontanelli1813]

i always couldn’t finish a world because the loneliness starts to make you think that everything is pointless, and it always happens that in the most silent moments you hear that…. nothing. that nothing that gives me chills

[@rowbot5555]

It makes it feel like there's no point in trying to stave off entropy

[@reiisonfireAE]

Thank you

[@milosaga5450]

@@rowbot5555 makes me wanna off myself

[@Thedoorsupsidedown]

For me personally the scariest thing is when you've been strip mining for a few minutes and you just turn around and just see the end of your tunnel a blue mist is just creepy

[@CrazyTrios]

And then some unknown mob pops at the end of the tunnel and came rushing down towards you at fast speed

[@milkamoussse]

​@@CrazyTriosyeah happens often sadly :/

[@devisals]

Couple that with cave sounds.. even on peaceful

[@jiorgo265]

​@@CrazyTriosu evil man

[@toby_that_one_random_guy]

@@CrazyTrios thats what i kinda fear, its so unlikely and its just my brain freaking out about being in a location with no escape in a dark area, im just terrified of dark places in general i guess, also jesus man you've just given me a new fear of long hallways

[@SaintInHell016]

Playing Minecraft alone at midnight scares me immensely with paranoia because every noise gets to me. Especially the caves

[@kacek5007]

awsome video! I really enjoyed watching it!

[@maxwellbossong4706]

the scariest part is definitely the eeriness of single player. when you’re just alone and paranoid hearing those random sounds. it’s the concept of being alone.

[@maazoiqbal2149]

And thats why i stopped playing on my hardcore worlds and just play with friends

[@disgustingweeb]

Especially the cave sounds

[@fj094t58qjf]

i feel that being alone with the entire world to yourself is pretty enjoyable

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

Playing alone is fine. Playing with captions is not.

[@fj094t58qjf]

@@ASlickNamedPimpback i often play games muted so i can listen to music on youtube while playing. so i turn on sound captions instead

[@dickynicky2423]

The scariest aspect of minecraft always gotta be the cave sounds. It always gets me. Edit: Forgot to mention, the cracked black disc and disc 13 is also one of those most nightmarish part of the whole game.

[@thereisacatonmyhead]

Same. I found a huge cave. I heard the sounds. I came back my home near the village :")

[@Lowzerix]

lmao those always scare me, well mostly bc i always play stoned, but i disable the sounds everytime i hear them to fell like im in control lol

[@dickynicky2423]

Fr tho, they all come suddenly, at the times u least expect.

[@valorielewis223]

Especially echo'd PS3 old Minecraft cave noises, made me literally break the sound barrier every time

[@cutmehtwice]

Frfr but now here I am, living in a damn cave, help me.

[@Chasekrause27]

The scariest part of Minecraft for me is when you just start a single player survival and you have three diamonds and your trying to make it back to your base and you can’t find it

[@Tom_Hillman]

I started playing minecraft on beta 1.5 in 2011, its crazy how the random worlds could make you feel a spectrum of emotions. You would look out of your base over a sunset and feel a sense of pride, like the world was yours to control. You would find a weirdly large cave and feel a sense of horror. A weird terrain formation might creep you out, but a nice one might fill you with awe and a sense of exploration. Besides the soundtrack and the mobs, it didnt feel like the biomes were built with this purpose in mind. It truly felt like you were exploring a world. Its hard to get that feeling in new minecraft with all the new buildings and specifically designed biomes.

[@Capeey]

My biggest fears were cave sounds and the thought of someone, a player who shouldn't be able to play in my singleplayer mode. Even now when playing and digging a straight path in caves I am scared to look behind me as I think someone is gonna be there. If Minecraft devs added a new entity with that mechanic of appearing behind you, im dead 💀

[@dwaynethewokjohnson7773]

Then I have some bad news for you my friend…

[@crazyguy1974]

@@dwaynethewokjohnson7773 why?

[@dwaynethewokjohnson7773]

@@crazyguy1974 They will add that soon :(

[@thekrypto128]

What do you mean?

[@Capeey]

@@dwaynethewokjohnson7773 what mob will it be it would be dope

[@justaserbiandoomer497]

Solo Minecraft and Gmod are genuinely some of the most unnerving gaming experiences I've had. Of course, watching every Herobrine video known to man as a kid did not at all help with this, as I still struggle to play alone, even in creative

[@RG_Rizzy]

i hate playing Minecraft alone, its boring AND creepy to me

[@frid7434]

i cant play gmod alone without looking behind me

[@dripgoku158]

gmod is so terrifying for some reason

[@iwoaf]

I like building cities in Creative and sometimes when i'm building, my brain tells me to watch my back just incase and that just makes me wanna stop playing lol

[@xcblud]

Gmod is scary and the "Nextbot" capture that feeling like something always follows you

[@thebaddriver6605]

This makes so much sense. As a kid I thought I didn't like playing Minecraft because of mobs. But I actually didn't like playing alone. I had a crippling fear of Hero Brian which is actually really funny now but at the time I needed someone in the room to be able to play. And I only played survival if I had my siblings in the game with me. Even today I feel a little uneasy when completey alone in Minecraft, it just feels wrong.

[@samgafford2371]

I honestly love how quiet and barren the overworld is

[@halfknight2310]

I like that the overworld is so quiet. cause, since canonically, you are the only human around. it brings a sense of loneliness. as you wander around, finding lost temples, shipwrecks, abandoned mines and more. you ask yourself "where is everyone?" yes, the overworld has life. Villagers, illagers, animals, iron golems, hostile mobs. but there is no one like you. No one can craft, no one can build (yes endermen can but not like us), the only one can come back from the dead. You are unique. but it's clear there used to be more like you. but now, they're gone, and you are the last of your kind. You are alone in this world.

[@lusmiipangya615]

I agree. Even so, ambience is still needed, however not ones of a bustling environment. The rustling of the leaves, creaking of wood, and sound of the wind can invoke a curious yet desolate mood to the player, which is great for getting people hooked to the game but also being accurate to the story being told.

[@cyrix6165]

This is an example of something called Liminality. The fact that you are alone, and there is nothing else like you, can give a sense of unease. Everything in the game felt like it had no purpose. There isn’t anything to do or see, then just, walk, and hope you find something abroad. The world is also huge. It may give feelings of nostalgia, or dread. It’s like the Backrooms in a way. The overworld is Level 0, the Nether is Level 1, The End is Level 2, and the End Islands are Level 2.1. Is there a baseline reality in all of this? Are you truly alone, with no one to comfort you? Is there anyone out there, at all?

[@selladoor1767]

!

[@matijasostojic4288]

The End is empty but it has what we want. The Overworld is full but it does not have what we want. That's why it feels so unnerving. Everything you could have but nothing you truly want. The End, while dangerous, has what you seek. The dragon, the cities, treasure. Everything you have come here for is here.

[@skylar1081]

That is terrifying

[@sendhelp7057]

I remember when I first played Minecraft, I was building a house and when it turned dark I hid in my house. I was terrified by the zombie sounds and waited inside all night. When it was say and I started hearing the zombies suddenly start screaming (not knowing they burn) made me absolutely wet myself. I was in creative mode

[@kerryswenson4539]

The idea of the mob damage sound actually being their screams is terrifying

[@sakura368]

you got terrified and you couldn't even die

[@Dastemy]

when gigachad pisses his pants from zombies dying

[@malcerne7496]

My first night in Minecraft I just dug a whole in the ground and waited in terror! XD

[@fromplanetearth]

I was playing single player in pocket edition, when i fill some holes there's a glitch where the texture is gone for a second, and that's when i got scared as fuck, i saw something that looks like Steve and i thought it was my friend because we play Minecraft, then i asked my friend is that him or nah and he said no, after i realized that it's not my friend i quickly turn off my phone, even if I'm in creative mode, that's still creepy It was happen in 2016 or 2017, i kinda forgot but believe it or not, it's real

[@user-mm1yi8ws9z]

You video was interesting and very relaxing, in particular the camera movements were amazing, I can see that your videos take much effort to make.

[@icespirit7829]

You speak from my soul! I can't enjoy the game anymore without ambient sounds. It's an absolute must have for me to even be able to enjoy it.

[@foureyedpossum4613]

I always get bad anxiety in single player. I never get very far, not because of mobs or difficulty. The anxiety becomes too much, the feeling of always being watched or followed despite nothing being there. I'm not a believer in herobrine, I never really was. It's just a weird feeling that becomes far too overbearing after a long period of time. The music also just seems to play less often the further you get, I know that's not true but it feels like it since you have less and less tasks to complete. There's nothing more frightening than just standing there by yourself in silence.

[@Winter-Alpha-Omega]

Yes. Sometimes I'd hear the cackling of a hen and even that would scare me. Because of the silence, it would make me feel sad. It would make me feel trapped in a limbo or desolate purgatory. It would make me feel as if I don't exist.

[@glassofwater281]

Instead of feeling like I'm being watched, I instead feel as if nothing is there to watch, which is infinitely more terrifying in my opinion. Some cosmic horror level stuff

[@revalency6054]

Yea I cant play minecraft with out friends, it makes me feel to alone and a bit sad. The silence is unnerving at times and I feel like im always being followed by someone.

[@jokkemannen96]

Think most of yall need therapist

[@foureyedpossum4613]

@@jokkemannen96 what a brilliant name you have

[@TimTam60]

The cave sounds never cease to make me suddenly feel dread.

[@wonderchild3879]

same

[@skyhawkslcb18]

an overwhelming urge to RUN

[@doofi_0727]

This Video made me look at minecraft in a different way. Many of the things you have mentioned are things I myself wouldnt even have realised due to listening to youtube videos or musik while playing. It also reminded me of something that happened in a minecraft world a couple of years ago. I had just started a new world on my phone and mined wood etc. I then decieded to go caving but in the cave I went into there already had been torches placed down. Due to the storys i had heard I instantly quit and havent visited the world since.

[@Hutch2Much]

the AmbientSounds mod is absolutely essential to me at this point. it’s just so nice to have

[@anaionescu8913]

I recently discovered cheats and immediately disabled drowning in the game. I can now explore the underwater biomes freely and holy hell, the sound design under the surface is terrifying.

[@filthyblorgus6518]

Water breathing potions are a thing as well…

[@thatonecubchoo1541]

@Filthy Blorgus yes but you need to fight fire elementals to even brew a potion

[@koopa5504]

@@thatonecubchoo1541 You need to.. fight.. WHAT??

[@koopa5504]

@@pringle409 Time??

[@sushiletsgo7001]

@@koopa5504 fight your mom

[@prankinlikejim]

it's actually gets so boring when you realize you're all alone. you can build whatever you want but at the end of the day your by yourself, and you start to feel everything meaningless

[@BLET_55artem55]

That's why I quit Minecraft. Loneliness paired with toxic community and 15 FPS just gave me depression

[@Volonid]

​@@BLET_55artem55if you can't run minecraft don't try running anything

[@BLET_55artem55]

@@Volonid don't worry, it works perfectly with 2006 games and below

[@Volonid]

@@BLET_55artem55 okay well then it's just an emulation device

[@cureabees9440]

Actually, I feel like that's part of the appeal to singleplayer for me. It is very lonely, but the nervousness and helplessness it gives you can be considered part of the "challenge" I guess :P You're in a vast world all by yourself, and no matter how scary, confusing or meaningless it seems, you still have to survive and live with what you have. You have the most agency to do whatever you can with the world, and even though that's frightening, it's the truth. Animals are your only company, aside from aggressive mobs. But eventually, you explore the world deeper and deeper, going underground and getting new resources. You discover the Nether, and subsequently the End, defeating a giant dragon who's role or purpose you have no knowledge of. But just to spite the futility of the situation you're in, you defy the forces of nature working against you and some semblance of purpose can begin to be uncovered. There's still beauty in this lonely world though, in my opinion. The music, especially the C418 tracks which play in the overworld, is just so beautiful! Even if it's still a little melancholic. To me, it feels like the only real company you have. It embodies the things you feel living in this world, and helps you feel less alone (while still knowing that you're pretty alone). Anyways, I think Sage makes a very good point, and I think it would make sense for a game like Minecraft to have ambient noises that helped the player not feel existential dread. After all, people like me who are looking for the more lonely/unsettling experience would be able to just turn it off.

[@NovaZ_II]

Oh my god the random creepy sounds when ur just mining in a cave freak me out, I always look behind me. It gives me the shivers 😅

[@m4r1ush.60]

I oddly enjoy the silence that's sparsely broken up by music, it makes it easier to think and kinda makes my every action feel more important because my actions give the world sound, and life

[@CThrough32]

The scariest part of minecraft is just the absolute deafening silence. I'm a masochist so I feel a bit more safer with the cave sounds on.

[@likn1489]

bro acting like a masochist is normal

[@beatsbyelvis6890]

@@likn1489 or relevant

[@Br00ke291]

I just listen to music on my headphones

[@angelsfallfirst7348]

Ooh, kinky

[@forest4747]

@@angelsfallfirst7348HeLp WHAT😭

[@hollywooddead]

The scariest part of Minecraft for me is when playing alone, I can't help but to remember how I used to play with my siblings, but now everything's changed so it's just me, playing alone, on an empty world.

[@GhostedBloo]

Same :'D I wanted to play with my brother but he was to busy editing lol and I built a house that I wanted to show him but never able to get to show it to him it felt pretty lonely building it and when getting the stuffs even if you had pets following you lol

[@imarandomgirl.]

Same its 100x more fun if u play with a person ir more !!!

[@Tar.o]

Yikes.. that sounds sad.

[@SmileyEmps]

I played on a server for a while and now I find it incredibly hard to go back to single player where all my work is for nothing

[@RueRueReggie33]

I feel you, the nostalgic memories come back and you can't help but fear it a little.

[@Something_serious...]

The scariest part of Minecraft is when you are mining or just doing normal things, and you just get the sense someone is watching you. Or just that wave of chills or melancholy that is unexplainable.

[@Ohionews666]

I just realised how much the music in Minecraft fills out the emptiness, you could practically go insane without the music

[@gelzox]

Playing Minecraft with friends is much better than alone. You get to do things together in the game and it’s a thing that will keep you from getting anxiety.

[@_TheMushroomMan]

especially the "yo bro come check out my house" type stuff, just going on a mini adventure to see what your friend built

[@kaileirium8220]

Playing with friends also means you can still progress in your own time and show it off to your friends when they come back online.

[@_TheMushroomMan]

@@ListenToCristicism we all know that, its hard to explain why we do though

[@Wide_Frisk04180]

i dont have friends

[@CertifiedForklifter]

I have friends but they are not "EPIC GAMERS LIKE ME" lame (they dont even have a pc)

[@lilywxjzu]

i hated that they never ended up adding fireflies to the game even though they were going to. they would have been small, sure, but they would have added so much ambience to the night.

[@Vvince68]

I 100% agree The particles from the spore blossoms and the recently-added cherry blossoms can add such a cozy vibe to a build. Such a shame that fireflies never made it...

[@shotgun_daddy-1089]

For real, just make it so the frogs just don’t eat the firefly’s

[@derdrache0512]

The real reason why they will not add them has nothing to do with frogs. Fireflies would be an entity. For them to be atmosphere you would need like 50 of them all constantly moving somewhere. This would not only create a lot of lag but also fill up the games entity cap making other mobs stop spawning

[@BlueTree242]

Or use particles...?

[@nanapoohsmom4927]

Wait they were?! Aww! I love fireflies :(

[@Chaos15105]

this is a very well put together video damn

[@jatinore4626]

spongebob and patrick riding the kids rollercoaster

[@ResidentGoodV]

😂

[@B1tterSweeet]

The scariest aspect of Minecraft is that dirt particles can be so easily be mistaken for name tags and you’re always so scared of it

[@MegaBond101]

I've never noticed they look like name tags

[@ivysaur2thefirst]

I think the silence gives Minecraft it's own charm. I don't know how to explain it, it just works for me. The feeling of loneliness is something I love about Minecraft and I think is done on purpose, and it works. While ambience would be a neat feature, I think it would have to have the ability to be turned off, because being alone adds to the "You can do anything" aspect of the game, as no one is watching and can judge what you do.

[@RandomSageless]

I definitely think it should be toggleable in the music and sounds section

[@null360]

Yeah, I think that the ambience should be there, but it still gives the iconic lonely feeling, and ruins of buildings that seem player-built scattered across the overworld would add to the loneliness, so, ambience that still gives the implication that you and any other players in the Minecraft World are the only Humans remaining that aren't undead would be nice, and rare, extremely quiet and distant implications of civilization in the form of echoing sound would make it like your character's loneliness is getting to them

[@kidlaroii]

yes minecraft is the only place of the world that I can feel literally alone all in the world

[@greenpea37ant22]

I don't quite know about it adding to the you can do anything part of the game. But the atmosphere in the over world, and how it's seemingly more scary then the Nether at times is, is one of my favorite parts of the game. Also when I'm playing and I start getting too scared it's like a timer that says I need to take a break.

[@gendrysanchez475]

Bro can be scared of a cat sleeping and call it scary ☠️

[@FelipeSilva-yj4hq]

I think this lack of ambience is one of the reasons i like Minecraft so much, the loneliness is something like a identity for the game

[@cryptex8398]

Same, the loneliness feels much more peaceful to me, which makes the occasional music track playing all the more sweet

[@MechaKnuckles]

Based PFP.

[@fizzy69o.0]

Agreed ngl. Its kinda iconic

[@Lily__0066]

I think it should be optional

[@FelipeSilva-yj4hq]

@@Lily__0066 well, I do think you have a point, but it would be weird if one of the game settings were like "biome-based soundtrack on/off" or something like that

[@Xrins_Kwes]

The scariest part of a single player world is not being alone. It's the fear of not being alone

[@Raspberriespie368]

It always feels like someone or something is watching you

[@luvaziverx]

Its also the fear, that you KNOW your ALONE, but the eerie feeling of something or someone watching you NEVER goes away.

[@orange_turtle3412]

I think its because, in the real world, we can never escape the knowledge that there are billions of others out there. In minecraft, there are none, but that nagging feeling that there have to be others still persists. So you find yourself staring into that completely empty expanse stretching out into infinity, looking for others that dont exist.

[@MazzaHazzaVR]

Shut up

[@Stepp_Playz]

That was deep. I felt the emotion man.

[@sydney-rj8js]

I think the thing about Minecraft that’s scaring everyone is that it’s similar to real life, except there’s no one else, like imagine real life with no one else in it but you, it kinda gives you the same feeling as Minecraft

[@sparkling_insights]

This eerie feeling makes you want to build a base or somewhere you can rest in to feel safe

[@erikyfufklro2723]

It really says something about the game and ambience when people feel more at ease in literal hell than in the overworld

[@lizhailey]

No literally, because i feel safer in the nether

[@SammEater]

Expectations, you are already expect the creepy part of minecraft to be creepy and that makes you more focused, while the normal part of the world is creepier when silent.

[@Nestoras_Zogopoulos]

@@SammEater yup expectations are a huge part of this, being at the beach and hearing nothing at all is creepy af, being at the literal underworld and hearing something mildly concerning is expected.

[@dfquartzidn6151]

Those are really good explanations, yeah. Even in the Nether, cave sounds are less terrifying because they get all mixed up with all the scary stuff that you’re already vigilant towards. Although, the Nether has its own biome-specific ambient sounds which are still pretty terrifying. Also, the amount of mobs that you expect to spawn in the Nether makes the whole place feel a lot less lonely. Plus, the cave-like environment with the ceiling and all makes the place feel more…controllable if that makes sense. You also hear a lot of fire, lava, and more ambient sounds there. Even then, the Nether is still pretty scary, desolate, and I don’t go there often especially in Creative mode. However, it’s still less lonely.

[@estrellasadie]

mhm

[@coldy8500]

The scariest thing possible in minecraft is hearing a block break in single player, a block you haven't broken

[@InvaderGIR98]

I feel like this is why Herobrine became such a thing

[@nearbyrice7896]

I remember that happening a lot back in alpha to me, scared me so much I'd be building a house then pause to check my inventory then hear a block break i hadn't broken and then never be able to find where the sound originated from

[@hellyes1527]

I had walked away from a tree i had mine and started on another. The sound of leaves made me jolt. As i glanced behind me i realized it was the last tree i had mined. Until i heard walking behind me. I was too scared to turn around. It was getting closer and closer. The entity halted behind me. I swung around to face my enemy. A pig. I left the game after that and then called someone to play with me instead.

[@aznmayo]

Yeah this never happens

[@shadowclann28]

​@@aznmayo a sheep eating grass for example

[@withtheworks]

The scariest experience for me is mining down and suddenly finding something unexpected on the other side of a block (lava, water, mob, total darkness of an expansive cavern) it always gets my heart racing

[@skyhawkslcb18]

oh man you are right. i hate when my stairwell breaks through the roof of a bottomless pit. and far below in the pitch darkness you see blue flickering lights as bats fly by sculk sensors............... it gives me the overwhelming urge to scream/run

[@IamDaveDev]

This perfectly described my first time playing survival mode in Minecraft… Kind of nostalgic.

[@vertigo300]

For me, the spookiest thing about Minecraft are caves. i feel like something is always around the corner

[@user-vl8ih6qx3s]

And the fucking warden

[@NeonYRG]

Cave dweller mod in a nutshell lol

[@TasteGoodIndia]

​@@user-vl8ih6qx3swarden is new born kid our fear is cave cause we are old players cave sounds always terrifying thing ever in minecraft

[@A_friendly_guy]

Mine:something alway watching me something alway see me no matter am in void or sky or end or at nether i wss playing with my friend i was have fun until something in my pov just run to small cave and gone me and my friend was checking but nothing in there my friend doesnt use any mod and there only 2 player i was go to menu and see only 2 player me and my friend i feel 1 creatre watching me in dark not that 1 creatre watching me everywhere feeling something at back in cave look at nothing it just a dark feeling creepy birch tree biom theyre watching me with this eyes in nether something alway at my pov but i cant see some soul looking at me at the end nothing alone like having phobia scaring looking at people

[@sygteearepreelt3973]

Do not scared, that's me =) Why not join me and stay in Minecraft =]

[@Minecraft-hb1su]

minecraft in VR amplifies the feeling of being watched immensely, I legitimately have to take my headset off after playing it for a while and just look around the room cause it feels like someone is standing there.

[@emmahealy4863]

It feels like being in the shower with shampoo in your eyes and the glass fogged up (or a shower curtain) and nothing but darkness , lurking just outside the window, and a towel blocking your view of the slightly open jar, and feel watched...

[@KacperMaster26]

@@emmahealy4863 bro when I’m in the basement and turn off the lights I think there’s something watching me and I bolt

[@orsonjarrett]

When I’m building in my city at night in creative mode and take breaks to look around, I sometimes feel like something is outside of my city looking in from the areas that aren’t developed yet

[@H2OGunpla]

At one point I had to stop playing because I built next to a desert village, and they all died, it was pretty much a ghost town. It led me to feel kinda depressed all the isolation

[@6sillyguy9]

i was always terrified to play minecraft alone as a kid, especially with the horrific cave sounds. now, i prefer not to play with the music so if i'm playing alone all i hear is the grass etc. that may be why i always listen to other music or podcasts when playing now...

[@clorby22]

I don’t know about PC because I’m on pocket edition but I imagine that it’s the same there. You can go into settings and change the volume of each type of noise in the game. Player noises, block noises, mobs, etc. Lower ambience all the way down and the cave noises can’t be heard any more :)

[@clorby22]

Oh sorry I misread your comment. I guess you already know that lol

[@HTYPHNA]

samee! I do that all the time now

[@heheimtrahs]

i play without sound and mainly do pvp so i never got into that since at most the only sound i have on is blocks and players

[@stevenpochatko945]

I feel like the loneliness of the overworld is an important part of the game. I think the lack of ambiance is in fact, an atmosphere in itself. It feels like a weird, lucid dream. To me, it’s almost peaceful, and It makes you appreciate the things that do make noise even more.

[@owenbridgers]

I agree

[@kice1102]

it's very iconic

[@starxz1504]

The scariest part is walking in the cave peacefully then you hear that warden noise, then suddenly your standing right on top of that blue surface and if u move it spawns, and gets dark.. yea no

[@michaelspringer4316]

I think the most scary part of Minecraft is how it fells like it’s loping, like no matter how far you walk and explore you still feel like you’ve already been here or seen that tree and can’t escape a certain biome and it fells endless

[@michaelsgamingaccount5677]

Scariest part of Minecraft is hearing an player-environment interaction that you didn't do...your alone but someone's there.

[@Copperkaiju]

Man, this happened to me just yesterday. Something kept setting off my pressure plates and dispensers whenever I got close to them. They were inside a structure so I couldn't see them. I was in single player but still signed in online. Probably just a glitch but still very creepy. Reminded me of another person's story about a door that kept opening and shutting whenever he walked below ground.

[@dkstudiosonline7792]

That’s creepy af

[@Adriuno]

​@@Copperkaiju A few months before, i´ve played Minecraft 1.19 (The warden update) and decided to create survival world (For exploring new biomes, blocks, etc) and built a classic dirt cave house haha. Until then me occurred place wooden doors for evite mobs. Onde day, i was crafting tools, etc until hear the door opening like a player opening the door in a server online, inmediately i deleting the world xD.

[@Copperkaiju]

@@Adriuno That's interesting. I'm still playing the Legacy(PS3) Edition. You'd think they'd have fixed that glitch by now. Unless it's not a glitch......👀

[@fiddledmint7266]

Well, you're not alone now after that :D

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

I think the scariest thing in Minecraft is the implications of it all. You are alone. Yet there's ruins of strongholds,desert temples,jungle temples,ocean monuments and even ancient cities. Not to mention the hostile mobs like Zombies,Skeletons,Spiders,Creepers and so on. Every now and again it makes me stop and think; "What happened here? Who or what built the ruins? Why are the monsters hostile to you?" It makes me think there's a much bigger thing going on in the background

[@tacoblude8208]

Villagers fill the void of loneliness. The versions before they were added, on the other hand….

[@donut1550]

It captures that aspect of the game pretty well in Minecraft: The Island

[@rdc2021]

I always just imagined minecraft is a post zombie apocalypse world given that the main mob is the zombie. If you compare it to other zombie games like the Last of Us you can see the similarities. Ruined cities infested with zombies, well minecraft has abandoned villages, raiders that attack other survivors, well minecraft has the Pillagers who literaly raid the villages. Besides the asthetic of the game the only main differences are that one it takes place in a medieval setting given the lack of guns and cars and the usage of swords and bows not to mention the villagers and their villages dont resemble more modern cities. Second these zombies are caused by some evil magic and not a virus , bio weapon or fungus minecraft has enchanted weapons and witches and sorcerors who summon minions to fight for them, clearly it is based in a magic centered world. Furthermore there is a cure in minecraft, any veteran player knows a potion of weakness and a golden apple can cure a zombie villager. When you look at it like that it makes sense that minecraft has a sense of horror like the other zombie games it share similarities with

[@maple408]

the theories of there being more than what's on the surface is greatly amplified by the message we get after defeating the ender dragon, which i will leave here. a conversation between two beings. "I see the player you mean. PLAYERNAME? Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read our thoughts. That doesn't matter. It thinks we are part of the game. I like this player. It played well. It did not give up. It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a screen. That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a game. Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the reality behind the screen. They used to hear voices. Before players could read. Back in the days when those who did not play called the players witches, and warlocks. And players dreamed they flew through the air, on sticks powered by demons. What did this player dream? This player dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created. And it dreamed it destroyed. It dreamed it hunted, and was hunted. It dreamed of shelter. Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. But what true structure did this player create, in the reality behind the screen? It worked, with a million others, to sculpt a true world in a fold of the [scrambled], and created a [scrambled] for [scrambled], in the [scrambled]. It cannot read that thought. No. It has not yet achieved the highest level. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a game. Does it know that we love it? That the universe is kind? Sometimes, through the noise of its thoughts, it hears the universe, yes. But there are times it is sad, in the long dream. It creates worlds that have no summer, and it shivers under a black sun, and it takes its sad creation for reality. To cure it of sorrow would destroy it. The sorrow is part of its own private task. We cannot interfere. Sometimes when they are deep in dreams, I want to tell them, they are building true worlds in reality. Sometimes I want to tell them of their importance to the universe. Sometimes, when they have not made a true connection in a while, I want to help them to speak the word they fear. It reads our thoughts. Sometimes I do not care. Sometimes I wish to tell them, this world you take for truth is merely [scrambled] and [scrambled], I wish to tell them that they are [scrambled] in the [scrambled]. They see so little of reality, in their long dream. And yet they play the game. But it would be so easy to tell them... Too strong for this dream. To tell them how to live is to prevent them living. I will not tell the player how to live. The player is growing restless. I will tell the player a story. But not the truth. No. A story that contains the truth safely, in a cage of words. Not the naked truth that can burn over any distance. Give it a body, again. Yes. Player... Use its name. PLAYERNAME. Player of games. Good. Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the universe again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn. Ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergeists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change. We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a player. The player was you, PLAYERNAME. Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas that was three hundred and thirty thousand times more massive than it. They were so far apart that light took eight minutes to cross the gap. The light was information from a star, and it could burn your skin from a hundred and fifty million kilometres away. Sometimes the player dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite. The sun was a square of white. The days were short; there was much to do; and death was a temporary inconvenience. Sometimes the player dreamed it was lost in a story. Sometimes the player dreamed it was other things, in other places. Sometimes these dreams were disturbing. Sometimes very beautiful indeed. Sometimes the player woke from one dream into another, then woke from that into a third. Sometimes the player dreamed it watched words on a screen. Let's go back. The atoms of the player were scattered in the grass, in the rivers, in the air, in the ground. A woman gathered the atoms; she drank and ate and inhaled; and the woman assembled the player, in her body. And the player awoke, from the warm, dark world of its mother's body, into the long dream. And the player was a new story, never told before, written in letters of DNA. And the player was a new program, never run before, generated by a sourcecode a billion years old. And the player was a new human, never alive before, made from nothing but milk and love. You are the player. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love. Let's go further back. The seven billion billion billion atoms of the player's body were created, long before this game, in the heart of a star. So the player, too, is information from a star. And the player moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a man called Julian, on a flat, infinite world created by a man called Markus, that exists inside a small, private world created by the player, who inhabits a universe created by... Shush. Sometimes the player created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated. Sometimes it built a model of the universe in its head; flecks of energy, moving through vast empty spaces. Sometimes it called those flecks "electrons" and "protons". Sometimes it called them "planets" and "stars". Sometimes it believed it was in a universe that was made of energy that was made of offs and ons; zeros and ones; lines of code. Sometimes it believed it was playing a game. Sometimes it believed it was reading words on a screen. You are the player, reading words... Shush... Sometimes the player read lines of code on a screen. Decoded them into words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into feelings, emotions, theories, ideas, and the player started to breathe faster and deeper and realised it was alive, it was alive, those thousand deaths had not been real, the player was alive You. You. You are alive. and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the sunlight that came through the shuffling leaves of the summer trees and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the light that fell from the crisp night sky of winter, where a fleck of light in the corner of the player's eye might be a star a million times as massive as the sun, boiling its planets to plasma in order to be visible for a moment to the player, walking home at the far side of the universe, suddenly smelling food, almost at the familiar door, about to dream again and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the zeros and ones, through the electricity of the world, through the scrolling words on a screen at the end of a dream and the universe said I love you and the universe said you have played the game well and the universe said everything you need is within you and the universe said you are stronger than you know and the universe said you are the daylight and the universe said you are the night and the universe said the darkness you fight is within you and the universe said the light you seek is within you and the universe said you are not alone and the universe said you are not separate from every other thing and the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code and the universe said I love you because you are love. And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love. You are the player. Wake up."

[@WandaMaximoff1998]

@@donut1550 I just started reading that!

[@Joeythe]

I think the scariest thing of Minecraft is mainly the cave sounds, even when you’ve never played and you hear one. It will be terrifying 😱

[@joebobbber]

the scariest part of minecraft is when youre in a quiet, maybe dark place and you get one of the cave or mineshaft ambient sounds. everytime i here them i just get a chill down my spine

[@amatsu-ryu4067]

By far the scariest part of the game for me is caves. It's usually silent as the grave down there, but occasionally you get *those* sounds. Those damn noises that make you wanna just run away from the screen you're playing the game on.

[@racingmhf9157]

Probably because the whole game until this part make you feel like you are the only "superior" entity on the world. But when you hear the cave noises, you realize that you might not be alone at all. And someone knows that you are there.

[@couchking9951]

Caves by themselves are not that scary for me but when a glow squid is dying in a cave that scares the literal 💩💩💩 out of me 😰😰😰

[@soundbytedj8938]

I used to be creeped out only when something blew up or hissed behind me nothing really much else. However, due to the new sounds in minecraft 1.17 or 1.18 it's been quite the unique experience that I'm still not used to.

[@kittykatpharuhs]

i always look behind me with my axe out ready to swing and my shield blocking, just staring down the empty and perfectly lit hallway knowing nobody is gonna show up. but just that possibility of *what if*

[@Theawesomeninja_XD]

@@soundbytedj8938 Feel the exact same way

[@crunch69420]

the scariest part of minecraft for me is how the game will never be like it is in my memories again

[@5bc500]

:')

[@qmanparry9336]

Damn

[@nah362]

@Mr Goblin bro wha, what does that have to do with anything

[@user-rc6jd4tm4c]

@@mrgoblintechreviews you know gatorade isnt that dense

[@TrenchSetter]

@Mr Goblin tf how r u alive