Solving a 14 Year Old Minecraft Mystery - Strange House I Did Not Build

[@Icy_Monster]

Herobrine on his way to deviously build a house in your world is such a hilarious thought

[@bigbowlofspaghetti]

Mwahaha, now for my evil plan!! Building… A home!!!

[@jao6028]

it was the red square not herobrine

[@IHateSmilingFriendsTheTVShow]

This is something dr doofensmirtz would do

[@theoldjesterisdead9434]

Don't call him devious, herobrine just needed a mancave

[@Araki53]

He needed a crib to go back to for safety after a full day of tormenting the player

[@codecodecodecodecodecodecode]

herobrine walked so Creepy Ass Red Square could run

[@troneysauce]

Brian Hiro

[@ITAC85]

@@troneysauce Hello. Following up on the description, would it be possible you could provide all the original files to the worlds featured in your video? Thank you!

[@Mai.Calico]

@@ITAC85no!!!!!

[@skignorf]

@@ITAC85They will be uploaded eventually. Hopefully tomorrow if everything goes according to plan!

[@Irn-BruMan]

​@@skignorfOmg it's the homie Skignorf

[@JustJory]

18:08 I KNOW WHAT THE RED SQUARE IS!!!! so basically in alpha 1.2 a new red glow was added to sunsets and sunrises, well basically there was a bug with opening your inventory, pausing the screen or opening a chest where the polygon that makes up the red glow were to turn into a solid colour, such as red in this case. I recreated it with my computer and took a screenshot. I'll post a link in the replies. Dangit someone already solved it already :/

[@JustJory]

it appears you have links turned off, oh well :/

[@elijahloby5400]

hey for what its worth i appreciate your efforts and you did a great job

[@-throat-]

@@elijahloby5400 - same here. thank you jory! ^_^

[@HappyGuy-y1c]

​@@JustJoryGenuine question, how do you turn on links? Possible on mobile too? Can you have access to that feature if you just started making your channel? Mlem

[@aroohwahoou]

yeah I assumed it was a chunk unloading then reloading

[@ImMadds]

My friends who never played early Minecraft don’t understand how scary it was! Modern Minecraft players think Herobrine lore is so goofy but they DON’T get it. Minecraft’s early glitchy coding + empty worlds created the perfect storm that made the legend of Herobrine. It was truly a had to be there moment. I feel so validated right now haha. Man I sure miss the old textures tho 😢

[@shoulderoforion115]

play the nostalgia squared modpack! it hits that odd "I dont feel alone even though I havent heard a mob in 5 minutes" vibe from beta 1.7.3 but its modern minecraft modded backwards basically

[@PROofHAPPYWHEELS]

yeah, and the noises were a lot scarier. The Arrow shot sound from the skeleton had so much more weight to to it, especially when it landed.

[@BeckDaniel]

I agree with you,but the old textures sucked.The nether looked like a toddler took a bloody shit everywhere.It wasn't that textures were creepy,it was the fog...The odd darkness laced through the world...Are you alone? the back of your sweet neck tells me otherwise.

[@seagaulle]

I still remember making a singleplayer creative mode world to build my fantasy world on it and it somehow got corrupted. Random chunks would disappear and a bunch of mobs would appear floating in the void where the chunk was. Blocks were placed and unplaced and sometimes my character was just stuck floating in the air. I was like 10 or 11 at the time and it freaked me out and I still haven’t found an explanation for it or seen anyone with the same experience.

[@kuel6228]

Seeing it in the modern version with the biomes all changed with the different coloured grass is like seeing a place from your childhood all overgrown and abandoned.

[@mossybeewasteland]

older minecraft has a nice nostalgia feel to it but also just feels oddly eerie in a way with it's flat colors and often empty space. feels kind of liminal which i love

[@marinacroy1338]

To me, playing new minecraft feels like going to the arcade you loved as a kid. Youre older than all the other people at the arcade now. The friendly old dude who owned the arcade is gone and instead some big corporation owns it. They still have some of the old classic games: Pacman, Racing, street fighter, air hockey etc. But they also have a bunch of new crazy touch screen games like the minecraft rpg and cyberpunk and jurassic world VR. And everything costs $5 per play instead of 25 cents.

[@mossybeewasteland]

@@marinacroy1338 yeah! Like it's still fun it just feels different

[@B-Lux]

@@marinacroy1338 man, going to arcades is so expensive, I remember when I played the entire Metal Slug 3 with less than a dollar, now I can't fucking finish the Halo arcade in less than 50 dollars

[@chillfactory9000]

​@@mossybeewasteland right? it's like a horror game where nothing happens. it's so eerie and ominous for no reason. I adore it.

[@marty_debiru]

A quick add as an old player: back in the day when we were kids and almost all Minecraft builds were pirate, it was normal for it to come with some worlds already in it. Either because the one uploading the pirated version forgot yo erase them, or because he just wanted to share his own worlds, or maybe a friend sent you the pirated MC and he just sent the entire folder with it. Anyway, it was also common to "trick" people. Specially new young players. People would create scary constructions hidden in the world, and then the new player would find it, usually waaay later (days, months or even years later!). I remember having a world that I thought was brand new, only to find some spooky scary huge crosses (like the Christians ones) far away from spawn in the middle of nowhere. That really made me very afraid.

[@postpavilion]

big if true

[@qhelios]

Seems like it, the owner might have deleted the original world that came with the game and created a new world in its save slot or maybe the game may have included residual files in the save slot and then created a new world in that slot. Wording is so confusing

[@blablabla9348]

i swear i can vaguely remember stuff like this, but it's been SO long

[@ivampzii]

@@postpavilioni didn’t deal with giant crosses but back in the day i did come across a very poor tree house in the jungle, in either the forest or second jungle update, only know am i realizing why

[@orfordewerson]

Everyone I knew had a pirated version of Minecraft when it first released, I don't know anyone who had an actual copy. No one bought music, no one bought computer games, no one bought anything. Most Minecraft "mysteries" from 14 years ago can be solved by the ownership of illegitimate copies, because even though we were all doing it, no one wanted to admit they were pirating Minecraft. Lol.

[@skelettman]

1:43:27 i don't think he lied about not knowing where his main base was. minecraft was much slower back then and that combined with lower render distance made small distances seem much bigger than they really were. he probably walked for half a minute and then turned back around so he wouldn't loose the glitched house.

[@sooperkula]

My bet is the houses to the south of his spawn were built on his first life - he died, couldn't find them again so built around his spawn so he wouldn't lose anything. I don't think people appreciate how hard it was to navigate in early Minecraft and how often you learned the hard way

[@maxwellattacks6645]

@@sooperkula Also the atmosphere of the early builds can make you extremely paranoid so I don't think he was thinking rationally

[@gentlemanlyjerk4686]

this was my impression as well, same with the "couldn't find a way up" he likely didn't want to stray far from the path he could see and built his way up when he saw the wall went on for a while

[@TomaszRyszkowski]

​@@maxwellattacks6645 he literally got someone elses house randomly in his world. Of course he wasn't thinking rationally lol

[@zoesabina]

To be fair he definitely could have just lied though, if he said he walked not far from spawn and found a house it would not be believable at all but really far away you could assume he probably didn’t find it before.

[@CriticalMonkey623]

Just a minor correction, I'm only like 16 minutes into the video. Back in certain alpha versions, leaf decay was actually completely disabled. Notch actually flipped leaf decay on and off a lot in the alpha versions, it's pretty funny to look back on in the wiki. Alpha version 1.2.0 was one of the versions that had it turned off though, so this isn't abnormal. Overall, I don't think there is any weird random tick behaviour going on in the corrupted chunks. Seems like pretty normal Alpha v1.2.0_02 stuff to me. I'm gonna go back to watching now, hope this was informative.

[@johnwest6690]

fun fact, when converting alpha worlds to anvil and beyond, those leaves get replaced with random types of leaves and still don't decay.

[@DagothXil]

okay my crackpot theory is that Zappa is actually the guy who distributed the alpha pirated version. That's _his_ world and that's why he recognized it. He only didn't admit to it because- to this day he lives in fear of hearing a knock on his door to find Notch and like 25 lawyers

[@skignorf]

I would love if that were true, however I have a feeling he would have mentioned that when Tronesos spoke to him. Good theory, though!

[@anitakim_]

That’d be really funny xd

[@DagothXil]

Like, yeah, it's definitely a long-shot......but it Would explain why the very-alpha-looking cobblestone waterfall build was finished on his version of the world. Clearly, the version of the map Zappa had was ever so slightly newer than the version that came packaged with minecraft-alpha-real-nofake-notvirus.exe or whatever it was that deadskin downloaded.

[@kentacy69]

​@@DagothXilDidn't zappa mention that they used the base for a bit?

[@SirBroadcast]

Notch is actually very chill about pirates. He once challenged a pirate to a game of quake.

[@Not_So_Fireproof]

Minecraft was just the PERFECT storm of "Ghosts in the code". All these little coding mistakes that would have unintended side effects, creating giant mysteries in the minds of the kids playing at the time. It created this aura of creepy and inexplicable things happening, and the potential for more to happen. It added an "edge" to the experience as a kid, because you knew deep down that you never knew when something would happen.

[@proverbialloaf]

Yes to all of this! I remember when I encountered my first Minecraft glitch anomaly. On pocket edition YEARS ago, not too long after Creative was added iirc, I opened a new world and flew over to a village, hoping to make my house there. But within minutes EVERYTHING was catching fire. I freaked out, trying to douse the flames that quickly spread to each rooftop. It was the most stubborn fire ever. This was in broad daylight…no weather or lightning as those hadn’t been added yet. I felt really creeped out, as there were also no villagers. Since the buildings were pretty badly damaged, I decided to start over using the same seed. That way I’d know there was a village and how to find it, but hopefully without the fire. But NOPE. Fire started again, just like the first time. Once again, no idea what caused it. This time I was quicker to put it out since I was on guard lol. Really freaked me out, though…I felt like a time traveler being forced to witness the same natural disaster wreck a village over and over again. This video brought those memories flooding back! Sadly I didn’t write down the seed info or anything like that. I’d love to know what was causing it, in the code.

[@joechristo2]

This.

[@pompmaker_1]

@@proverbialloaf Must have been weird generation with a Blacksmith's lava pool and a tree or something that could catch fire appearing above it

[@vinsplayer2634]

And also alpha and beta minecraft had a really lonely and eerie atmosphere

[@Gerwitch]

I started playing minecraft in 2009-2010. I remember being so fascinated with the coding and the idea of the procedural landscape. In my first world ever, I saw a tutorial explaining how you can make a tall lava tower so you never lose your base. I had 2 of them sticking up from the middle of a lake, as well as a water tower near my house. I remember trying to mod the game to get INVedit or something, and messed up my files, so I reinstalled but had lost my world (which was in the first save slot). When I created a new world on the fresh install, I remember finding a chunk error area after some time which contained my 3 towers, original dirt house, and some tunnels I made to avoid zombies. I kept a save of the file to show my friends and didn't play on it. I still have the laptop at my parents house and will be sure to go and see if the files are still there, though I would have no way of proving the towers came from a previous world, I think. At the time, I believed that minecraft's universe was infinite, as no one had reached the world border back then (or at least, not that I knew of). So when I stumbled across my old base, I remember being filled with so much wonder. It was such an amazing experience for me, that I have a core memory of first stumbling across that old base. It's completely burned into my memory, and I think about it quite often and even have had dreams about it. It was very cool to see this video and get brought back to the time when minecraft was a new frontier for young people getting their first computers and exploring the inner workings of the original metaverse. Super cool. Please do what you know you have to do, and find the original owner of the base from the pirated version lol

[@isaack8967]

The L's are actually a reference to Llerobrine, Jeb's cousin who died in a swedish fish factory accident.

[@DgnoMC]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Bro is making walmart creepypasta

[@pip3174]

Also btw the two Ls in the name Llerobrine sound like an H, if I’m correct possibly Welsh, or something like that. So theoretically, peeps spell it how it sounds

[@sjuvanet]

I remember comments like this. So funny

[@maktabati_]

Nah it is a hint to Lerooooyy Junkiiinss

[@CODA96]

Jebs cousin, out of spite after being turned into tuna now haunts old minecraft saves for revenge.

[@persephonehades7547]

I feel like the points about "he lied about not finding his base" and "he lied about not having a way onto the chunk" could also just be better explained by "the guy was too lazy and too excited, so anything that took more than a minute of time was off the table."

[@Real_Moon-Moon]

Plus, he probably genuinely didn't know where it was, and walked 5 blocks in the right direction before realizing he might lose the mysterious house if he continued and then turned around.

[@killerbiller666]

- Casually creates a channel - Proceeds to create a single video, a documentary about a strange phenomen, that is well documented and is 2 hours long - Its a banger

[@troneysauce]

aww stop soviet union, you're making me blush

[@killerbiller666]

@@troneysauce no problem comrade 💀

[@Irithind]

Hopefully doesn't refuse to elaborate and leaves.

[@minitajfun]

Poles are just different

[@SuperDestroyerFox]

@@troneysaucegives the same energy as “thanks Obama”

[@fifthtyp3]

The subplot of this story being two pirates affirming the bug because they both have the same bootlegged version of MC and zappa possibly being the original torrent uploader is an m knight shyamalan level of twist lol

[@oddd2833]

Lol

[@Vize_David0404]

I had a seizure reading this😭

[@fifthtyp3]

@@Vize_David0404 unlucky What triggers them, or are they random

[@PointsofData]

​@@fifthtyp3 (They were implying your run on sentence with mildly subpar grammar gave them a seizure)

[@fifthtyp3]

@@PointsofData I was being sarcastic. I assumed that was his gripe. It's a KZbin comment on a minecraft video, not a college thesis, so I really didn't care to use perfect grammar. I also wouldn't really call it a run-on. It was all one idea; using a comma break in the middle like this : 'Version of MC, with zappa possibly being the original.. ', while more proper, is unnatural imo

[@channelnamegoeshere7355]

The "I lost my boats" bit could be a related to the fact that boats used to not drop as boats when they were destroyed, but instead would just give you some wood and sticks. Basically, he's saying he doesn't make surplus boats, he just makes them when he needs them, and then breaks or loses them.

[@CybrSteel]

Does this seriously even need to be explained? All I can say is wow, how sad.

[@KefkeWren]

Also, I remember boats in early versions of the game having a bad habit of just drifting away all the time.

[@exist4046]

@@KefkeWrenit was EXTREMELY bad they’d literally just end up in the middle of nowhere in a lake.

[@gigastrike2]

Why didn't he just make more boats? They take 5 wood planks. Speaking of, why did he not find his base when he "walked for so long"? Why could he not find an easier way up the chunk error wall? I think this guy might be lazy.

[@KefkeWren]

@@gigastrike2 He did make more boats. That's implied by him saying "I lost _all_ my boats." Losing boats was a common problem in Alpha and Beta. That's why they changed the physics on them. For the second, I'm going to give him the benefit of a doubt. In Deadsk1nmask's video, the sun is just rising at the start. That implies that either he spent a long time exploring the area (in which case you'd expect more grass on the bridge), or he got there at night/late in the day. Add to that the fact that he didn't explore far enough to find the easy way up the cliff that was nearby, so he's probably either impatient, or was unwilling to risk getting lost in the dark (Alpha/Beta nights were much darker, due to the different lighting engine). While his base is technically in walking distance, it's not exactly close, and at night he wouldn't have been able to easily see it on the horizon either.

[@shoulderoforion115]

When you click on a video expecting the conclusion to be "this was fake" and instead it turns into some sort of exposé into the minecraft torrenting underground combined with alpha bugs... it honestly is more nostalgic knowing that the old internet from 2010 is never going to exist again. sure people torrent minecraft but there isnt the same punch as when no one knew what minecraft was becoming. i think someone on the dev team is still determined minecraft is a horror game, and I hope one day that dev cooks something that hits on these old notes.

[@PointsofData]

I mean...tbf that's less to do with the era and more to do with how well known mine craft is today. And the fact you arent a kid anymore and understand what makes games tick, and how weird your files can be if you just take whatever someone else uploads. People who used to torrent doom or whatever said basically the same stuff you did, but clearly torrenting and pirating still happen and weird sht still gets passed around. There's a generation of kids today probably experiencing roughly the same thing you did with minecraft...

[@shoulderoforion115]

@PointsofData yeah like fnaf and stardew valley stuff im sure.

[@Exe_gaming030]

I like how at the beginning it’s like this big mystery that really feels like it should’ve been impossible, only to realize that it’s been solved since it was first a question, it’s like being a detective asking your assistant to hand you a file for a cold case about a missing person only to realize the case was actually solved and was just never recorded as such, and then you realize that the assistant who handed you the file was the missing person

[@TheGruntMeister]

That's a short horror story if i ever heard one.

[@rhettbaldwin8320]

It's like asking you assistant to hand you a cold missing person case only to realize the case was actually solved and your assistant is the "missing" person.

[@TryPuttingItInRice]

​@@rhettbaldwin8320yeah, that's what they said. Wtf?

[@HenkdeVries-h6g]

Oh shut up

[@LauraVivian]

Oh my gosh this comment is perfect 😅

[@Vee-naner]

“The spawn point was only a few minutes away” OKAY BUT YOUR HONOR WHAT IF MY CLIENT WAS LITERALLY JUST LAZY

[@troneysauce]

Your honor, the spawn point was literally A MINUTE away, I rest my case.

[@Vee-naner]

@@troneysauce YOUR HONOR the walk speed is VERY slow and due to my clients trip through the nether he MAY HAVE WRONGLY ASSUMED HE WAS MUCH FARTHER THAN HE TRULY WAS FROM SPAWN, THEREFORE HE DID NOT PUT A GREAT EFFORT TOWARDS GOING BACK TO SPAWN!! **TAKE THAT**‼️

[@yeos_angel_]

​@@Vee-naner Sustained. Open world games are a bitch

[@Ilovehotmoms001]

@@troneysauceif you think about the render distance back then and the general slowness of Minecraft back then it’s safe to assume he walked for a bit bit and since the nether was new, it was advertised as taking you much farther than it actually did, so he likely thought he was very far away and it wasn’t worth it to walk all that way, especially since he had a portal home. But just a thought

[@Gamingpandacat]

You fool! it was an upside down L this whole time! It was a Waluigi scheme all along!

[@loyalik]

this is a tale of two anthropologists studying the eldritch phenomena of worlds merging into eachother, is such a cool concept for something idk

[@nicoruppert4207]

Love it. I'll be pacing around now thinking about it. Thank you.

[@hxkouu]

Frr

[@andreilacerda5634]

You should play Dark Souls, then. The multiplayer and various NPCs have this theme of worlds merging. When some NPCs appear in your world, its because your worlds merged, and you can summon them from their worlds to assist you. Other players and NPCs can invade your world, and try to defeat you. It's pretty good.

[@ensimesmado6478]

that's some christopher nolan shit

[@claramorango]

I just stole that. You will see it in a movie in a couple of years.

[@am3thysts]

I have a theory about the random wooden house: What we know: - There were no coordinates - The man made it a point to have a compass to track spawn, aka his house - He had a tendency to mark locations very frequently - It appears that a lot of supplies were left at the wooden house - The wooden house shows a lot of signs of inferior building So… I theorize it was his first house. He spawned in, went south, found a neat pond/lake, and built his house there. However, at some point he died. Went back to spawn. And couldn’t find his house. Died a couple times trying to find it, all going back to spawn. So, he either gave up and decided to build a base at spawn, or decided to build a huge tower at spawn with sky bridges to locate his house. Also building towers now meant that his home was a gigantic landmark that is impossible to miss. The random torches are probably just landmarks, reminders, or taking shelter under a cliff and putting a torch down to see to pass the nights. Probably reminders to himself as to where he has been, or if he already checked that area for caves.

[@markjackson1989]

You know, a lot of people are genuinely upset that Zappa solved this 14 years ago, but fail to understand the following: that explanation was hard to find, unverified, and slowly disappearing over time. You can say "Zappa solved it" all you want (that is true), but the screenshots and proof were GONE. It no longer existed. This video was an independent search, and they found and confirmed the solution that was practically decaying over time. It's almost like people can't grasp the concept that someone knowing something at a specific point in time doesn't automatically make everybody else know it. Now we all know with certainly what happened. It was entertaining, informative, and interesting. The ending of the video even has a dedication to Zappa, where he goes over this and calls him the original and true solver.

[@troneysauce]

Thank you for explaning it perfectly.

[@Spaghetti_Yeti]

⁠@@troneysaucethank you for bringing him to light and giving him the proper credit!

[@andyromero7321]

Zappa Solved part of it but we still didn't have all the answers regarding the video which @troneysauce shed light into honeslyt I hadn't even heard of this mistery until today and I used to be big into MC misteries and such, really awesome research into the strange quirks of the game and the community

[@thundercockjackson]

they ate breakfast though

[@1815dmitriy]

A common thing in the Science that some "Nobel prize" discoveries were actually made quite some time before, just too few people knew about it that time. And then comes another scientist who makes the same discovery but popularizes it for a wider audience.

[@dylon4906]

its insane that this video had a coherent story arc. in the beginning i was highly skeptical about this being real, but started to believe after you showed zappa's original comment and then showed that deadskin had the balls to actually upload the save. then i lost all faith and thought for sure deadskin was bullshitting after you explored the world and showed how close the build was to his spawn. then i flipped again after seeing that zappa did indeed have his own world with the build in it, but still thought that he was lying about some of the details for dramatization (theres no way he couldve not known he was that close to spawn... right?). and then as i finished the video and read the comments even the things he said that seemed like lies started to fall into place after being reminded of how different minecraft was back in the day (boats didnt drop, most people played on low render distance by todays standards and there was no sprint so it was easier to misjudge distance, the nether was new and not yet widely understood, etc). i now fully believe he was telling the truth in the entire video. also i love this style of video where its just hours of raw unabridged commentary going over every step of solving a mystery, PLEASE make more

[@troneysauce]

This comment means A LOT to me, you don't even understand. Thank you.

[@dylon4906]

@@troneysauce ayy you actually read my comment! cheers man

[@82844]

I think I played a very early version of Minecraft once and my little 8 yr old butt got stranded at sea because I misclicked which in turn me not liking the game at my growing years lol. The old boats are a pain way back then. Also for the render distance, yeah pair that with a pretty old computer some people actually put it in a shorter render distance so the game wont burn the house down. I remember dying from skeletons so much lol good times

[@123deserted]

holy shit you just copy pasted my brain into words watching this video, perfect comment fr.

[@Acheronpanda]

Whilst I like this video, there is a massive misconception with how Deadsk1n found the area. Rewatching his original video, he stated that he made a portal to "hell" in his base, and then in hell made another to fast travel. He then followed with "I don't know where I am." Not that he was LOST, but simply he had no clue where the portal lead him. I explored the world myself and I can confirm this. Going into the Base-He-Didn't-Build portal, there's a cobblestone path leading all the way back to his Home portal, with a small platform at the latter portal. The distance between the portals is ~50 blocks, and seeing as one block in the nether is eight blocks in the overworld, he traveled over 400 blocks away. The furthest render distance in 1.2.0 was "Far" at 16 chunks, or 256 (16 * 16), meaning there is no conceivable way he could've seen his base. I would also like to add that the teleporting mechanics were not known in depth. The update logs for the Halloween Update says "A brand new hell world for fast travel. Portal in, move ten meters, portal out, and you're hundreds of meters away." which is misleading and in fact could make Deadsk1n believe he's EVEN FURTHER away.

[@riitiris8662]

Trone(y)'s point in the video is that he walked less than a minute real time in the direction of the compass before dead's base became visible. In dead's video around the 4 minute mark he stated he "walked for a while" and "never found" his own base or spawn point. Most reasonable people would not consider walking less than 60 seconds "a while". It's clearly an exaggeration intentional or not. Also while the original patch may have been vague and implied 10:1 ratio, the 8:1 ratio for the nether quickly became public knowledge pretty early on and it has never changed. Someone who saw the blog post prior to going into the nether portal 50 blocks away from the previous one, could easily assume that their base was no more than 500 block away (which would've taken maybe 2 minutes to get to on that build of Minecraft.) There was no misconception he was poking fun at a small point in an old video that is worth of poking fun at, dead was clearly exaggerating for the sake of making the story more interesting.

[@dam2k16]

Exactly! i brought this up to my wife and she didnt even seem to care, so smacked the shit out of her. its ok, we made up and she apologized 🤦‍♂️

[@nex3mber]

Wtf is that comment above me 🤣🤣

[@Acheronpanda]

@@nex3mber most likely a bot.

[@quackiduck2887]

on top of this, he talks about the lighting glitch thing, that wasn't as common in alpha if I remember correctly, he showed footage from 1.3.2 (when minecraft was still freshly moved to server client) which had a lot of lighting glitches.

[@pyro111100]

This video was a rollercoaster of emotions. From a "yeah this is just a chunk error no big deal" to it seeming obvious that Dead faked it all, then pulling out the biggest plot twist in history to it actually being complete real is insane. I'm curious just how many corrupted chunks were in Dead's world. It's normal for a dozen chunks to corrupt in these older ones, but his world had to have had *hundreds* if not over a thousand corrupted chunks from a different world for this to happen.

[@babababoiboiboiboi]

the first time i saw an npc village, i didnt know they had been added to the game and it scared me shitless

[@deactivated8104]

the first time I saw an iron golem in game while making my own village I was like WHAT THE FUCK????

[@B-Lux]

in the same note, the first time I found an abandoned village I was curious, I try to explore it but the first house I open a creeper exploded in my face, I got so scared that I wonder if it was real. I used to play on flat cus my old pc couldn't handle minecraft, I never found that abandoned village, in fact I don't think I found another one until like 3 years ago

[@joechristo2]

@@B-LuxWhat is “flat”?

[@salam-peace5519]

I remember being scared of the enderman staring sound hearing it for the first time when it was newly added. I was standing next to an iron golem and thought the iron golem was making that sound at first.

[@operator-chan1887]

@@joechristo2 superflat world?

[@wheedler]

Imagine having the key to a mystery but the person investigating it is too polite to send you a message.

[@zeepyrope6624]

My dad lived in the region of the radio station with „ the most mysterious song in the world“ he could have maybe known the band members but „hes too lazy to remember“

[@gaberyal]

Exactly like i wouldve stood for myself and try to explain how important that was

[@PointsofData]

​@@zeepyrope6624 The people who recorded that song also lived there and didn't know the band...they've been narrowed down to HAVE to be an indie band from that area that didn't get far with their career IIRC since people have already ruled out a ton of bands/people. So your father is unlikely to know them unless he was into indie music of that period.

[@katelyn6989]

@@PointsofDatait got found lol the band is called FEX

[@sagaevan9641]

this is peak minecraft content. nostalgic old versions. weird bugs. spooky mystery. a couple of friends shooting the shit. long-form so you can use as background noise. i absolutely require more.

[@noahczerwinski9417]

It is my favorite kind of content

[@msouza3139]

I experienced something similar in the early days of Minecraft, around 2012 or 2013, though kinda worse. At that time I stayed in a hotel where there was a pretty crappy pc with Minecraft installed, and a bunch of creepy stuff happened while I was playing on it, like the worlds saved there having creepy structures and weird bugs (like a lot of straight stone walls like that with weird shadows on the cave openings like the ones in this video, and a weird small wooden house with a door standing alone on a hill with nothing else built in the world). The fact that the PC was so crappy and I have to play with the fog at max just made it all the more creepier. The creepiest thing that happened is that, when I created a new world, sometimes I was already surrounded by wolves. Those wolves acted like they were tamed, but they weren't -- they had no red collar, but they still obeyed commands, without me giving any bones. As I explored the world, I accidentally fell into a hole and in the confusion ended up attacking the dogs, which in turn started attacking me. I think I tried making them sit, because the last thing I remember before closing the game and never opening it again was turning around and seeing one of the dogs seated, staring at me with red eyes. I remember I took several screenshots of it all, including the wolf looking at me, but I can't for the life of me find it again -- I thought I sent it to my email but I couldn't find it in any of my old addresses. Maybe it was modded or just a bugged client, idk, but the whole situation was creepy as fuck.

[@reallybuck]

you gotta get the screenshots man i’m invested

[@ecciq]

The most mysterious part of this video is that zappa is just chilling with this decade old barely played pirated minecraft world in his back pocket like its nothing

[@troneysauce]

I dont understand how he had it. He found the file in just a few hours too💀

[@Rafael_Fuchs]

Until my old hard drive died a few years ago, I had dozens of old saves from various points in MC history. I even kept the mod and config setup backed up alongside those saves. Some were old servers I ran, and others were single player saves. Due to my careful archiving, I could revisit the worlds and just see how much I've changed, and at the same time have not. It's humbling, and really lets you appreciate the things you otherwise wouldn't have in the moment.

[@XGalaxyPlqyZ]

Im a data hoarder (in some way), i would probably save a world save too 🤷‍♀️ ​@@troneysauce

[@NGHmusic]

​@@Rafael_FuchsYup once they're gone, they're gone.

[@OkamiSamaa]

He knew it would be vital one day

[@onurreyiz35yt]

Why does early Minecraft feel soo creepy? It feels like those liminal spaces.

[@FoXMaSteR001]

I think it's due to the lighting, nothing is moving, also as we do not know what's behind the fog it constantly looks mysterious.

[@researcher00]

thats why i love it so much

[@finesseandstyle]

Another thing is because there was less variety in environments and blocks so the world felt monotone

[@ironpickX]

real

[@Viva-Cristo-Rey-]

That was the vibe Notch went for back then. It was a sandbox "horror" survival game back then. So spooky for 12 year old me playing alpha.

[@Goose-wedding]

I think most of the so called "dramatization" could be attributed to him being genuinely scared as hell. I could easily imagine him starting to walk back to his base and in the moment it feels like a long time because hes probably sweating buckets.

[@Torvinoid]

No cap, I'd be shitting myself. Probably would've just deleted the game immediately and put down Minecraft for a while so good on him for posting if true

[@Vee-naner]

EXACTLY

[@L10kwnsns]

​@@Torvinoidold mc atmosphere is already scary as fuck, now imagine seeing what he saw, he has all the right to be shitting his pants

[@Torvinoid]

@@disposable3167 to be fair it's a lot easier to get immersed when you aren't constantly going to wikis and looking up various efficiencies. I'd say a casual gamer can probably enjoy games a lot more because of that. Or maybe if not more per se, at least in a different way that most hardcore gamers can't anymore.

[@juaquiqui-kun4333]

i mean it was 14 years ago. when i first saw his video i thought he was really genuine

[@TrabberShir]

10:00 Actual programmer who has a tiny bit of experience with intentionally mashing minecraft worlds together back then for modded office competitions. In your three options at the beginning I think you put them in the correct order of likelihood, but the multiplayer option is a lot more likely than you give it credit for and the "whole" base thought from the local option, is actually more likely than individual objects because the "whole base" is just a set number of chunks, probably an entire file during a certain caching phase. A lot of chunk errors in the alpha days were chunks from old worlds that did not get properly cleaned up, getting loaded when the same chunk coordinates get loaded in a world which should have been generating them fresh. Most were unremarkable because they were essentially unedited chunks. That same behavior happened in several ways. The easiest way to reproduce was a single player game saving to a slot that wasn't actually empty, despite the metadata saying it was. Then the save itself would have some new file and some old files, and allegedly in some cases some merged files. You covered that a bit when talking about your second possibility. But the really fun stuff came from how early versions did caching. Specifically, it did disk caching of recently loaded chunks and used a hard coded path for that caching. So, copy that cache from a running client that has the chunks you are interested in loaded and paste to the disk cache of the server while those chunks are not loaded, then load those chunks on the server and that part of the single-player world will be part of the multiplayer world from then on. No need to decode the map save format changes after a patch, let the game do that for you. But, relevant to this mystery, if he got in cache distance (slightly larger than load distance) of that base in multiplayer and his local copy of those chunk files never got cleaned up, the next world where he approached that area would load that old cache from disk and a bit of that multiplayer world would from then on forever be part of his new single player world. I am pretty sure it was after the official release when they finally stopped re-using the same disk cache for all games. But all these memories are considerably more than a decade old, so I probably am remembering quite a bit of this not quite accurately. My guess as to how this video will continue is using one of those nifty griefer tools to calculate the seed from grass distribution and check if the seed of the portal area matches the seed of the "chunk errors" or if either seed matches any of the server:seed lists on griefer forums, thus discovering what server the guy accidentally stole some chunks from. Edit: my guess about the video was totally wrong. Almost certainly single player world merging, can't be sure if it is save file merging or cache merging, probably save file. He launched the pirated version, "deleted" the world that came with it, and saved his new world to the same slot. But, whether he ever loaded the original map is unknown, so your 100% claim is bit overblown. 1:56:40 - Torch broke, you caused something to update and a connected torch realized it was in an invalid location. Your footsteps caused updates in some alpha version. 1:57:40 - Leaf decay. Was not uncommon for the last few leaves to survive their random chance of decay for days after clearing a forest back then. That is why variations of rapid leaf decay were considered necessary as soon as the first version of that mod came out.

[@TrabberShir]

19:00 Red square: Minecraft's z culling for environmental effects sucks. Probably a sunset lens flare. I just needed to scroll a tiny bit and another commenter already definitively answered this when this video was still new.

[@gilangalfarizi6460]

your comment deserve more likes, hope it'll be pushed as one of the top comments

[@cleverman383]

Very cool info.

[@pidinik]

This is fascinating. I started playing this game at beta 1.7.3 when I was like 11 so this whole story, including the technical side has me by my balls rn. So nostalgic and so creepy lol

[@lynx5327]

ohh yes i specifically remember coming across some info about how old minecraft versions stored chunks in file and temporarily. cant remember where i saw it from though, its always fascinated me. cool bit of info nonetheless

[@MikeyD594]

My man came outta nowhere, dropped a 2 hour long resurfacing nostalgia for us all, and somehow managed to please the algorithm to have his video noticed Impressive

[@ryanclemons1]

He's a witch!!!

[@Unimoo420]

I didn't even notice this was his first video, im thoroughly impressed

[@ZadXander]

KZbin gives everyone's first upload a huge boost in algorithm, still very impressive and deserved

[@breezieb3297]

We are all here for the lore. We love lore. Human curiosity is never satisfied

[@anecro]

? Minecraft mystery videos always do well

[@Newt2799]

I used to type in random ip addresses into the server search until I would reach random people’s private servers. Now I wonder how many people got freaked out seeing a house they didn’t build in their world from me lol

[@axl256gamesx7]

You're more evil than me And i used to slowly kill ants and other bugs as a small kid

[@User_yhvz]

Yeah this is some cynical shit that took time to think about 😂

[@ActuallyThijs]

The chance of finding a server by entering random ips seems really small

[@Newt2799]

@@ActuallyThijs Oh I agree, especially looking back on it now. I’d change a few numbers on the end and got a few servers out of like 100 tries. Other times I tried it I ran out of patience because I couldn’t find any servers and I think that’s when I stopped

[@d9zirable]

Bro was herobrine irl

[@timistam601]

I love that zappo has a 13 - 14 year old minecraft save but you dont know where some of the clips you recently recorded went

[@cynaraos]

To be fair I think the clips were being recorded through Nvidia Shadowplay and as someone with years of experience using that system I know it's not always reliable at saving clips into the folders you'd expect them to be saved in. It's a regular occurrence for me when I use it save replays while playing a game that those replays end up in the Paint .NET folder because I happened to have that program open in the background while playing the game, I assume this has something to do with how shadowplay functions with desktop recording enabled like I have it set to

[@skignorf]

They just disappeared into thin air, probably an accidental deletion cause we had so many clips but it’s still kinda funny.

[@skin_lizard]

​@@skignorfIt's absolutely understandable tbf, recording stuff is pretty intensive and it's expected to eventually lose SOME footage. I think the intention was just to show how incredibly small the chance that Zappa still had the files readily available rather than dunking on either of you. Completely unrelated, but I have really bad eyesight and from a distance your pfp looks like it's a guy's head instead of a little chibi, with the outstretched arm being a nose and the hat just being a smaller hat ahrng. I thought it was REALLY funny but I'm also incredibly tired rn so whatever.

[@splendidsimp]

Bro ive accidentally deleted really important footage for my film projects in college multiple times before its so much easier than youd think itd be unfortunatly

[@xo.saiint]

@@splendidsimp same, or not even deletion but the video files could’ve corrupted, thats what happened to a lot of my childhood photos, especially baby photos, so i only have very few now. Or then again deletion. 🤷‍♀️

[@DJTechno94]

This is very eerie and disturbing. It feels like there is unknown person secretly living in your walls staring at you while you sleep

[@atlas_19]

Zappa really solved the mystery that haunted people for 14 years the day after it was announced. Legend.

[@DgnoMC]

Fr

[@3Faidonas3]

not even a day, 10 hours later

[@Mask60YT]

Honestly i believe structures reappearing from deleted save files should've been worked into becoming a feature, especially if it was called ruin structures. Would give the game more variety in structures as well as make the game unique to each person. Imagine not playing Minecraft since 2015, but got back into it today and creating a new world and while exploring you find the ruins of an old base, it would bring back forgotten memories of playing Minecraft and building that base

[@legend131000]

That would be so insanely fucking creepy even in current day and age, and I love the concept.

[@lightlysal]

could make for an awesome mod.

[@KingdomHeartsFan-mu9cf]

Sounds hard to implement.

[@p0k3mn1]

It fits very much within the old Minecraft vibe

[@QuotePilgrim]

​@@KingdomHeartsFan-mu9cfIt is relatively easy but wouldn't work if you deleted your old worlds, and would only work for worlds the launcher knows the location of. If you had a separate instance of the game under a different directory and using an alternative launcher, an instance running with the vanilla launcher wouldn't be able to know about it.

[@popmcpop9676]

>Some KZbinrs investigate a weird glitch you posted about a decade later, showing off your old videos and trying to answer some of your questions 😄 >They absolutely roast your house

[@deaddragonskull]

I didn’t look at the timestamp when I clicked on this video and was fully expecting a 15 minute explanation video. Here I am 45 minutes later completely invested in this mystery 10/10 content autistic seal of approval

[@baco12sd]

bro just casually drops an entire full length documentary with actual research as first vid, you guys cooked

[@purpleplays69420]

**joins KZbin** **uploads a well documented video with tons of research into a random minecraft alpha glitch** **leaves without elaborating**

[@baco12sd]

@@purpleplays69420 honest chad move

[@SpadeNya]

Dude I don't even realize this is his first video that's nuts

[@notnotadev]

cooked what

[@troneysauce]

@@notnotadev i've cooked some eggs this morning

[@tygical]

i love this friendship dynamic y'all have also i'm so glad you actually type your fucking captions instead of using autogenerated captions

[@troneysauce]

our friendship dynamic is hating each other

[@theb33prince]

@@skignorfbrotherhood 💪

[@joechristo2]

they are auto generated if you’re talking about the youtube ones

[@DIRTkat_ofc]

​@@joechristo2thr captions *in* thr video

[@BobbyEzell]

he did not

[@leeweegee1525]

LOVE THIS. I especially love around the 1:30:00 mark. Just the slow realization that this is the EXACT SAME WORLD, Down to the items in the chests, gave me chills. Really gave MyHouse.WAD vibes. Like. It's the house again. OF COURSE it's the house again..

[@JustJacob01]

"I’M BACK IN THE BUILDING AGAIN!!" -trone, probably

[@Jupiter-T]

I love MyHouse.WAD. I never even played Doom. But this kind of stuff is just so delicious to me.

[@sleeby6233]

i never comment until a video really impacted me but this one just feels so.....comfy and familiar. i didnt play minecraft myself in the alpha, but i still played pretty early on, so its as heart-wrenchingly nostalgic to me as it is to most people in their early 20s, and it still makes me feel just as uneasy as when i was a little kid. the world feels so lonely, especially the further back you go, and it always put me on edge, too. that combined with the fact this is genuinely a really fascinating rabbit hole to go down, and one i havent heard of before (even though i played on a pirated version too, pozdrawiam minecraftbyzyczu), made me feel like a child again, in the best way possible, AND its a genuinely very well made and entertaining video. plus both of you guys seem really cool, and youre really funny, and it reminds me of when i played minecraft again with my friends as an adult, being on call and fucking around in the dead of night (and im also always pointing out the Ls and crosses that are everywhere). i was invested and laughing and i felt like i was part of the discovery process because of the natural flow of conversation and it made me wish i was friends with yall lol ALSO POLISH JUMPSCARE im polish too and theres no way in hell i wouldve been able to tell bc your accent doesnt sound polish at all, so i literally freaked out and sat up in my chair and reconsidered my life for a second, because people tell me they cant tell i have a polish accent either and i didnt believe them until right now all in all its crazy that this is the first video you uploaded to this channel, like me and many other people have said, its really reminiscent of how the community used to be when we were younger. thank you for making it

[@pwnage402]

38:00 you're playing on a PC from 14 years in the future. his render distance wasnt that far, it was likely he didnt see it

[@troneysauce]

im playing on the same version with the same render distance

[@pwnage402]

@@troneysauce it really doesnt seem like it is the same render distance

[@lilqwertyy8461]

@@troneysauceYou definetly didn't have the same render distance

[@seanrrr]

Yep, it was more common to play on Normal render distance back then; 8 chunks I think.

[@haybale287]

Even though it's totally innocuous, there is something creepy about this stuff existing without you seeing it. Not the house, but the torches. The think that 14 years ago Deadskin was freaked out over seeing this obvious house in the distance but he didn't even know that there were torches and man-made mining tunnels mere block away and underneath him. It's not scary, but it gives me the creeps. To find out in hindsight that there were other things you did NOT place in your world that you can't even see... Creepy! That's creepypasta level fodder. Like something living under your map...

[@booleybTheClown]

yeah its like someone was moving around and not just in one place

[@LexLiberty710]

Would you say that its the same feeling you would get if you went to the bathroom while your home alone, and realise the toilet seat is warm?

[@ammglitch03]

@@LexLiberty710it’s the same feeling as if you went on vacation, had your house locked, dishes washed before leaving but come back to a single dirty fork

[@zoden6305]

No wonder herobrine got so popular, it was the fact that a whole bunch of kids felt eerie when seeing stuff they didn’t build and had to explanation and only had themselves to figure it out

[@haybale287]

@@staticbuilds7613 Oh, for sure. I think that mentality of assuming there's something scary just psychs yourself out. That's why thrillers are so effective. The anticipation of something happening is what really wrecks your nerves, not something scary itself. I know games like Minecraft are just procedurally generated, but I felt as a kid that there was something eerily man-made about certain things. Especially when there used to be such prevalent weird glitches, like the garlands. I was convinced that was something man-made. I've heard many stories of people pulling up wallpaper and finding those little crawlspace doors underneath. There's nothing inherently scary, but something is unnerving about there being something you didn't know about in your house all along.

[@RyderShyderTyder]

unironically so in love with the concept of the red square. i love the red square. they are the best fictional character. they just showed up for 1 frame and decided to leave. legend.

[@goldensstuff]

gone but not forgotten o7 red square

[@throwawaypt2throwawaypt2-xp8nx]

maybe red square are the friends we made along the way

[@richardzhang7954]

🟥

[@fanofbread8750]

​@@richardzhang7954hi red square 🟥

[@maca76]

someone already explained that it was a visual glitch from when try added a red glow for sunsets and sunrises

[@kurasuta3715]

Zappa feels like a NPC who exists only to give you that specific piece of evidence

[@SomeGaymerNerd]

"thank you zappa2510" we all way in unison

[@Blastkin]

"I was born in the hood and I get scared of Minecraft" one of the best things ive heard ever

[@splendidsimp]

Relatable, i was born on a butcher farm in the middle of the woods in white trash country but the start of this video scared the shit outta me for some reason

[@Benjamin-d8n]

same

[@Benjamin-d8n]

i was born in the hood too

[@Benjamin-d8n]

ingnore the butt show vid

[@mattomanx77]

Read that the exact time he said it in the vid, lmao

[@vadiks20032]

i actually like idea the multiplayer worlds may collide into your singleplayer world, somewhere far away. once a place with people now emptied forever, stuck in your own domain, always to remind you

[@happily_blue]

35:29 Honestly this would make me more convinced Deadskin WASN'T lying. Like he put all this effort into faking these old explored caves far from spawn? And he elevated them to blend in with the cliff? And he didn't even show it all off in the video?

[@jakofthefrost]

"At this point, autism took over" thats such a mood omg

[@uponeric36]

Made a cool discovery: The pirated world was at least played on until Beta 1.5. The damaged saplings were from a short period where sapling type was defined by damage. So playing on almost any other version results damaged stacks of saplings. You can even find a chest with two stacks of oak saplings that, in b1.5 can't stack: this HAS to be the version it was last played in. This makes the timeline interesting. Somehow, someone broke saplings in B1.5, put them in the chest with diamonds. This is the world Zappa sent us. The world in dead's video, HAS NO SAPLINGS IN THE DIAMOND CHEST. Edit changed a large part of my conclusion here, Zappa doesn't seem to have moved through the world much, the area explored is tiny. Zappa might have made the little cave base you spawn in, but the rest of the world is likely the pirates. My current belief is that the pirate kept distributing the world with his save until b1.5, which happens to be the version Zappa finds the save for. Otherwise, he had to keep playing in the pirates base until b1.5, which would be MONTHS of gameplay without leaving that little base with very little to show for it. How else would Zappa upgrade versions without owning Minecraft? He likely went to the pirate again after his first experience. The alpha save in deads video is likely an older version of the pirates world, as there's several difference between it and zappas, yet Zappa save is genuine without a doubt.

[@Ghosty6464]

I still think the 1.5 saplings are just from the pirate distributor continuing to build in his new updates, and releasing new versions that also contain his world.

[@uponeric36]

@@Ghosty6464 I change my mind after commenting, just makes more sense for the pirate to keep distributing the version like you say, especially because Zappa doesn't appear to have a base in the download we got.

[@bakubread9308]

if this is true, they should try opening the world in beta 1.5 rather than alpha 1.2. The reason it was empty might have literally just been that they were opening it in an older version than the save was meant for, so it re-generated the chunks

[@uponeric36]

@@bakubread9308 It is, I discovered this by opening the world in beta 1.5 after researching the sapling bug on the Minecraft forums. Players at the time were wondering why they were getting oak saplings that couldn't stack, turns out someone made an off by one error when adding saplings (which are actually newer than the trees they represent) so instead of saplings spawning with damage of 0 through 2, they spawned with 0 though 3, the third unused and defaults to the oak sapling sprite, though you couldn't stack it with an oak sapling. The "damage" value in b.15 defined what type of sapling you had. The big nail? He has this glitched sapling in a chest, right next to an oak one. A player, likely the pirate, literally experienced this bug while playing b1.5 and the evidence was somehow saved in the world after all these years. This is the only way you can have damaged saplings, it's not some glitch of converting the world or anything, it's just that any other version displays damaged saplings as just that instead of their b1.5 sapling type, as this was changed shortly afterwards.

[@RobotReader98]

Can confirm that opening the alpha version of Zappo's world in Beta 1.5 works, and all the structures are there

[@smoceany9478]

i think him saying "ive only made 3 tnt" isnt trying to prove that hes not lying, hes trying to show that he didnt just make it and forget about

[@ef5supercell]

i think it's a cute detail he was just randomly saying those things under the assumption we were like close friends with him and would go "oh yeah totally man i know you dont have much interest in tnt, i believe you"

[@wungomungo6177]

Totally unprovable nonsense

[@smoceany9478]

@@wungomungo6177 what

[@moonl1314]

@@wungomungo6177 what

[@RaulGonzalez-sw5dn]

@@wungomungo6177what?

[@tangletail4604]

I've heard of bad liars but deadskin being bad at telling the truth is adorable and kinda relatable tbh. "I lost all my boats" LOL! For the record I was also scared of minecraft as a kid/tween. My sister and I both agreed the game felt haunted.

[@wc2006]

the "I lost all my boats" is something that can happen to many players before release 1.9, as destroying boats, or smashing into blocks at high speed won't drop the boat item, but rather, a few planks and sticks

[@tangletail4604]

@@wc2006 Oh for sure I'm not disputing that part. What's funny is the idea that the chest couldn't possibly be his because he couldn't have possibly crafted more boats. (I know he's telling the truth it's just a funny defense)

[@The_cgull]

I expect a ukulele apology from xdarkghost

[@MysticWaltz]

Zappa is a cute person. Literally keeps a 14 year old Minecraft save and is just like, here man no worries i'll give you coordinates too

[@PregnantAdamSandler]

Zappa had the real life equivalent of the ace attorney evidence that cracks the entire case open. It looked so joever for deadskin but it turned around completely.

[@TheYeetedMeat]

why are you called that

[@PregnantAdamSandler]

@@TheYeetedMeat The amulet's vile curse

[@gloomyvibrations]

Nice name 😂

[@TheYeetedMeat]

@@PregnantAdamSandler 😦

[@coolerghiaccio5905]

Zappa literally did a "Your Honor, that report is outdated" moment.

[@dulcecookedstyle]

zappa still having the world save is the craziest part about this to me, personally i've been playing minecraft for like 10 years and most worlds i've played on have just been lost to time

[@Liverator]

The darkened exposed caves are what make me think this is real. The fact that a torch was found there without the lighting being updated similar to how floating sand updates means that it couldn't have been placed by a player.

[@MrSamuelHorton]

I was thinking the same. Inhad loads of chunk errors with dark caves in the early days but they would always correct if you interacted with a block or placed a torch. Can't see how you'd do that manually.

[@WaggishWizz]

I don't think he lied about not exploring much of the world Back in those days, exploring sucked. You didn't have a bunch of structures or biomes for you to find, so often times you would just stay near your house Deadskin did alot in his world, very clearly, so most likely he just did what he wanted, built what he wanted. Given that 1 block in the nether = 8 blocks in the overworld (which he probably knew since he played the game for a while and knew about glitches like the infinitely burning tree) and traversing the nether sucks, it most likely felt way further than it actually was As for the house, if I was recording a video, I wouldn't say 'I haven't explored this world, except for that one time I walked in a single direction where I built a house', and as a different comment mentioned, he might have died and lost his house

[@timohara7717]

Exploring still @ucks on bedrock but at least if you find a structure it can entertain you for days

[@willchin1460]

exactly I was so confused why they were so stuck on an offhand comment like that, and even the random explored cave like thats just how people play, they go random directions and do random things and in a world that clearly had heavy time investment its not unusual

[@xyouthe]

but somehow he never ventured a liiittle bit up north to see these massive chunk errors? also, why did he happen to build mineshafts the exact same way that appears in the strange house?

[@jadecoolness101]

@@xyouthe a lot of people built mineshafts with half-ladders and torches. It was a pretty standard way of building back in the old days.

[@xyouthe]

@@jadecoolness101 yeah but the way theyre cleared out and with the placement of the torches? it could definitely be coincidence but its something i cant overlook. their building styles have a large similarity outside of the half-ladders tech.

[@Pepperroni_McRoni]

The L's mean the world is haunted by Luigi

[@CallofFreaky]

L is real

[@BreadTeleporterAndii]

2401

[@ZMW7]

The ugly house is Luigi’s mansion

[@redsentry9785]

Weegee board

[@chocolate_maned_wolf]

just shat my trousers in fear

[@not_the_useless_cake856]

This is like videogame true crime.

[@invention64]

The lava under glass with water over it was a common "hot tub" design back in the day

[@PumpkanTheBuilder]

i was gonna say yeah, thats a classic. did this on my xbox 360 world lol

[@leroysanchino]

@@PumpkanTheBuilderdid it on my mom’s iPad

[@darthadipose1920]

If I heard a grass footstep sound behind me whilst I was AFK, I would uninstall all files related to Minecraft from my computer.

[@oBuLLzEyEo1013]

Yeah if I discovered all that stuff on my singleplayer world I would never touch the game again...

[@ratzmoonmopes2695]

So you're saying you're boring and have no desire to investigate and satisfy curiosity? You don't think that would be a fun adventure? That's lame. You get the L. I would want to pursue it because it would be fun and exciting. Avoiding it would be boring and lame.

[@darthadipose1920]

@@ratzmoonmopes2695 You would die first in a horror movie.

[@axl256gamesx7]

​@@darthadipose1920and not by the killer, by the other survivors to shut him up

[@mesaplayer9636]

Now imagine you are playing on a world and then stumble across a whole house you didn't build. All of those scripted Herobrine video come flashing back but this is real. Honestly I applaud his bravery to explore and record knowing how it would look on the Internet to viewers.

[@-Bibi-]

This is the best Minecraft video I've seen in years. Mystery, nostalgia, raw, slow paced content, no excessive editing... The whole video just reminded me of how we approached the game back in the days: creating and sharing stories, being scared or captivated by meaningless things, being baffled by that good old alpha/beta terrain generation, just taking our time... That moment when you were oddly fascinated by a single torch under a rock, or when you went upstairs in that weird empty house excepting nothing but still kinda exctited, I knew that was that kind of precious content I would'nt be seeing again anytime soon. Also love all the comments that add so much to the video.

[@Mloteks71]

Not a big of a mystery, when answer is just a world glitch. Video was prolonged for no reason, should be at max half that long.

[@value1lol]

Agree

[@banana_]

man, zappa is the absolute opposite of me. I can't even keep files intact for one year, let alone 14. what a king.

[@himmla5459]

ngl Instagram in Polish spooked me the most

[@0l3k6]

fr

[@nishtyak330]

when i saw the f styczen right in top of my screen i was like wth😨😨

[@kuroi63]

typek jest z Polski?

[@nishtyak330]

@@kuroi63 pewnie tak

[@eVashioNN]

same i thought i'm tripping and it's a dream. this man does not sound polish :D

[@Thaumatarge]

The red square disappeared when he moved his camera, so I assume it may have been an unrendered chunk showing the sky when the sun was setting or something similar

[@Gloomire]

Definitely the cause of the spooky square, just alpha minecraft being jank

[@troneysauce]

I thought it was that too, but I saw the janky sky rendering at one point in that save and it's a completely different color + it makes a long line across the screen, not just a square.

[@coppertones7093]

and iirc sunsets aren’t red yet edit: it looks to me like it could be a flame particle in his face. it would be very alpha of the game to mess up a particle, but idk what caused it

[@NicVandEmZ]

@@troneysauceyou do you know world is based on file level.dat so you could easily build a house on one world and send that one file to your friends and I believe the house would still be there but you have the the exact coronations in both world because your friend would not spawn in the same place I suggest making two different worlds make one with houses and then transfer the level.dat of one to another world see what happens

[@peenurmobile]

maybe the weirdly loaded chunks had different properties and caused it to glitch differently?​@@troneysauce

[@MaskedLark]

I love how the answer just turned out he was using pirated software and outed himself to the internet in his confusion, but only people who had also used that pirated software would know about it.

[@SwedetasticGames]

Can confirm, I had something similliar as back in 2010 parents wouldn't let me buy the game for months.

[@wexdust]

Okay I'm kinda forgetful even tho l watched the whole video few days ago but what caused the strange house that he definitely did not build to be there??

[@SwedetasticGames]

@@wexdust so, with the cracked downloads of Minecraft you usually got the old EXE/launcher and the entire file library in .minecraft, including the Saves folder. So, even if the crack distributor had deleted his world in-game before sharing the files, the bug where some of the datafiles remained in the folder for Save Slot (World) 1-5. So when someone made a new save on said slot, there is a chance any chunk corruption would load data from the previous save. So, the chance of this happening was much much higher with cracked downloads than normal downloads simply because if those files existed in the crack, every single person who downloaded a copy would have a much higher chance of experiencing it.

[@jonasa.3040]

That makes so much sense. I remember deleting a world because I was lost because my chunk distance had to be very low, so I made a new world and found my old home. Thought I was just stupid cause I was just 10. The pirated exe was Minecraft SE

[@Nono-hk3is]

Thanks for spoiling my now I don't need to watch this video.

[@christiangray7826]

What an incredibly entertaining venture. You and your trusty map making sidekick are legends. And my god, what a twist that Zappa somehow had the original files

[@skignorf]

i love the title “trusty map making sidekick” i’m gonna hang that on my wall thank you

[@HelloHello8D]

This is just old minecraft being old minecraft. It always felt haunted, extremely buggy af lol. I offered gifts to notch and herobrine like a little religious zealot out of fear that they would smite me down. Such things as the events shown in the video weren't uncommon back then.

[@HelloHello8D]

Note that I was a child back then

[@matthewhomman8656]

Dementia

[@DeMooniC]

honestly the bugs were features lowkey cuz that made the game more interesting and mysterious lmfao

[@twilightsparkle75]

The perfectly square "mineshafts" were terrifying. And inspired the abandoned mines lol

[@Namedonelettere]

This would be haunted, you’ve just walked into the shell of someone else’s life

[@TCT2023]

"That is bulls***! I did not build that. I did NOT. ...oh hi, Steve."

[@juaquiqui-kun4333]

Steve: hello red square

[@thelawsonman]

YOU'RE TEARING ME APART ALEX

[@destructionfad7928]

The dirt bridge is not good evidence for it being fake. Grass spreads pretty slowly, so if he or whoever owned it stopped playing on it before it finished spreading it’d appear in the new world like this.

[@DavidsUternal]

Yes I agree, but in the world of the person who made the original video, who has very well established bases in the world of his own, the grass still wasn’t grown. Obviously by the time they get another one of the worlds from the pirated version they come to the conclusion that most of the dirt on the bridge was glitched

[@macil_tech]

@@DavidsUternal Grass would only grow when the chunk was loaded. It makes sense that when the bridge was first found that it would be in the same state as it was when the pirate world was last played, no matter how long the new world was played for.

[@OfficialxSimple]

​@@DavidsUternal If the chunk containing a progessing block or item is not loaded in and in the players render distance, it will not progress.

[@DavidsUternal]

@@OfficialxSimple ah didn’t know thanks

[@crossboy]

Honestly one of my favorite things ever is when there's some random comment that has a perfect answer to something but it goes largely unnoticed because there's so much of that going on. It happens with speedruns a lot too, where some random comment from 12 years ago offhandedly mentions some glitch or optimization but it goes unnoticed for awhile

[@xinex5166]

The amount of coincidences that happened in order to reach the conclusion of this video is genuinely baffling me

[@thunderdrum325]

Out of all the mysteries on the internet that end dying after smacking hard against a brick wall because of now forever lost evidence, we were bound to find at least one where someone had kept answers, even if that was akin to decades because of one reason or another.

[@Jupiter-T]

@@thunderdrum325 Yeah as a newbie to Minecraft I just learned about the whole "Herobrine" creepypasta era and the one early video regarding Herobrine that got lost to time. Someone years later was like "wait I downloaded that video years ago - I had no idea this was lost media, here you go". I feel like there must be a lot of those cases. Lost media on people's old hard drives, private KZbin posts, or with even older stuff, VHS and cassette rips.

[@0E1M1]

@@Jupiter-T 2024 is going crazy, literally every few months something is found out of nowhere.

[@mrfox5780]

I love that a decent chunk of old Minecraft internet horror/mystery was just from the game being kind of shit and glitchy.

[@nikontori]

A few years ago Dead came back and made a few livestreams on youtube on minecraft. I became somewhat close with him around this period of time, as I ended up hosting an SMP server for him and his fans, (the VODs are still up if you wish to watch, in minecraft I go by T_mack). I spoke to him one-on-one a few times, and he swore to me to this day that he absolutely promises he did not fake the videos and that they were in no way a hoax. He told me that he has more important things in his life to do than to perpetuate a 1.5 decades old rumor and he has no reason to lie about it, and its very believable to be honest. I haven't fully watched your video on it yet, just thought I should pre-emptively leave a comment, but if you were unable to get in contact with him, I may be able to get you in contact with him.

[@sociallyineptsnapper]

Any update to this?

[@lovelaxo]

@@sociallyineptsnapper dead alrdy commented 5 days ago lol

[@sociallyineptsnapper]

@@lovelaxo fsr that hadn’t loaded for me at the time lol

[@eefstroganoff]

You and your buddy have such good letsplay chemistry tbh, the exploration parts were super entertaining.

[@LunarForte]

A hunch I have about the weird single torch placements is that they were just placing them as they walked along and saw the lighting glitches you spoke about earlier in the video. I played the game a lot back in alpha and this is something I'd do regularly. If you saw a big overhang that was just black, you couldn't see inside of it and it was just, overall, an eyesore to look at. So we'd place a single torch there which would fix the entire lighting error so you could see into the overhang and make it look less ugly in the process.

[@MarsMann6754]

This video is 30% creepy stuff analysis and 70% two dudes suddenly becoming best friends.

[@QuotePilgrim]

Read back your conversation with Zappa, he didn't send you an alpha world because he didn't have it, the world he had was already converted to 1.16 and then he converted it to 1.20. That's why the house doesn't show up when you try to load the world in alpha. If you try opening that world in 1.16 it should work.

[@Ghosty6464]

No, that's the beta/mcregion save. I looked in the files & it's McRegion. The modern 1.20.4 world is separate. Zappa seemingly doesn't have the original Alpha world, just the beta 1.3 (or later beta ver) McRegion conversion of it. Hence why the seed regens. When you open the "Alpha" folder he gave, it's in the McRegion folder setup.

[@QuotePilgrim]

​@@Ghosty6464Well I didn't look at any files I just noticed that the conversation with Zappa shown in the video seemed to indicate that the files that Zappa sent him were for versions 1.16 and 1.20. Anyway the issue still was that he was trying to open the world in an older version of Minecraft that was incompatible with the world files. I wasn't aware that the world was available for download, I might download it and take a look at it later.

[@Ghosty6464]

@@QuotePilgrim I just played it in Alpha after messing with converting it from Mcregion to alpha.

[@QuotePilgrim]

@@Ghosty6464 The fact that you had to convert the files at all proves the file format was incompatible with the alpha version of the game.

[@vinsplayer2634]

This is probably also why the saplings had durability, because beta 1.5 added birch and spruce saplings. They still had the same item ID, so alpha minecraft probably interpreted them as saplings with a certain amount of durability.

[@darkraptor4203]

I dony care about anything discused in this video or the sybject itself but somehow you just made me watch it for 2 hours straight, ignoring texts and staying up late... Great content creator skills

[@random9487]

something about the house in the modern version being covered in snow really adds to the atmosphere, almost as if the house has been literally frozen in time.

[@fezzicus]

who just casually uploads a 2 hour video about a minecraft world from like 13 years ago as their first video and manage to have it be such an amazing watch

[@greenthefirst]

the reason for the pirate's map to not have the base while playing alpha is because it was converted to the never versions when loaded up there, alpha didn't understand the data so just regenerated the world from the seed. looks like player inventory remained though

[@LoganBrickfilms]

That’s def what happened I bet

[@zusty9589]

Could you explain? I thought the version where this happened in the video was unconverted alpha.

[@JebStar10]

Yes perfectly explained.

[@pepoeke]

looks like the different sapling types were translated into durability too

[@Steg1118]

@@zusty9589 the world sent by zapa was updated to modern minecraft before being sent, so the world didnt work in alpha any more which is what greenthepear is explaining. The world that deadskin played and shared was all in alpha and not updated to newer minecraft tho

[@AG-ng1ml]

Massive W for your Long Dark wallpaper! You have good taste

[@phsmanta]

28:28 Every single time these weird internet mysteries end up linking back to Poland

[@Katiexx.x]

Lmao any time i see something polish on a video like that i just end up "shocked" that my language is there👽🙏

[@zalandercalander]

ITS ACTUALLY CRAZY RIGHT?? Cholera jasną

[@mrmaksym9395]

POLSKA GUROM

[@igida1202]

Jej

[@social_ghost]

Man the "L's" take me back. I remember finding them all the time back then. My laptop was crappy at the time so I had to run it on the lowest render distance too, it was just a totally different vibe back then.

[@anitakim_]

I’m not totally sure, but I also recall seeing these “L” shaped terrain formations. Maybe not on my PC/laptop, but perhaps the PS4 version. The old one.

[@sodiboo]

As a game developer who is also somewhat familiar with Minecraft's inner workings, i'd like to first clear up that this version of minecraft is from way before i ever heard of the game, so it is NOT the era i am familiar with. But you keep bringing up that, regarding the chunk errors, "i can see it happening with a little area like this but this big seems like a stretch" e.g. at 34:00 ish you seem skeptical that it can span this far, and also earlier in the video when explaining the theories. However, i think rather the opposite is true: Modern minecraft saves work with "region files", which are 32x32 chunks in size. If a world was not fullt deleted when removing it from the save slots, it seems most reasonable to me that some error in resource management caused the individual region files to not all be deleted. If it happens to one file, it seems reasonable that many files could be spared from deletion in such a way, leading to a very large area of chunks being spared all at once, and thus causing a chunk error that's very large. I haven't finished watching the video as i type this, but given my knowledge, i'd honestly be far more surprised for a "world merge" glitch to affect anything less than a thousand chunks at a time

[@LiEnby]

Back in alpha chunks were stored in a single file not region files but they were still seperate like this. Minecraft will declare a world "empty" if level.dat is missing or otherwise corrupted. As for how this happed i have no idea. But i can guess .. This version of minecraft came from a torrent yeah? Maybe they downloaded the torrent directly to appdata .. and left their torrent client open thus seeding certain chunk files. Were locked by windows when tried to be deleted. Or maybe they opened it again later and it re downloaded certain chunk files / missing chunk files into their level1 save.

[@Ay-xq7mj]

@@LiEnby That would have to make it so any seeder who had to set to save folder would alter each others worlds.

[@happygofishing]

Yeah perhaps a partially downloaded torrent ​@@LiEnby

[@gagaplex]

The investigative segment of checking out the suspicious and lighted areas in his old map is amazing.

[@dialko2596]

I can’t believe it. In one video you’ve confirmed that the deleted-world-leftovers glitch is real, that it is exactly what happened to deadskinmask, AND found out why he didn’t recognize the house (which is always something I wondered, if the deleted-world glitch was true). Awesome work :)

[@animeloveer97]

The glitch has been known to be real since it started happening lol

[@EngiGODS358]

My niga

[@SmittyWerbenJag3rmanJenson]

No info on wikis, its BS

[@sawyer61977]

watching a 2 hour long documentary about a block game at 3 am? of course man i got nothing better to do in summer

[@kurincc]

Lmao literally me just now. It's 6am all of a sudden and I guess I accidentally pulled an all nighter. Gonna watch part 2 now

[@drakehellstone208]

@@kurinccAHAHAHAH A WEEK LATER AND IT IS ME AHAHA

[@kurincc]

@@drakehellstone208 That's amazing, I hope you enjoyed the video :-)

[@applelmao1973]

zappa either has severe adhd or is extremely organized

[@peenpiss5232]

may be both im both lol (i have never thrown away a laptop)

[@Unkn4wN_TM]

Doesn't ADHD generally make it harder to organise things? I have ADHD and I'm shit at organising anything.

[@asbestos7910]

@@Unkn4wN_TM really depends. ADHD is a spectrum, AUADHD exists. It's possible someone could have adhd and be extremely organization based in their life

[@applelmao1973]

@@Unkn4wN_TM ah I meant forgetting about the thing as a whole. I have adhd as well and a lot of my files are just scattered around in my phone, if I searched for something, I'd probably find something from years before too

[@maktabati_]

ADHD is not a thing sorry.

[@Regulinecolt009]

This video was amazing! My only problem with it is the turn it took at 44:20 . It went from an interesting documentary to long and boring game play.. where it was hard to stay awake and engaged. Due to this it was hard to finish because there was no distinct line between the casual game play and the documentary so no matter where I tried to skip too there was no change. Other than that it's pretty solid of a video.

[@upsidewalks]

Zappa is a hero. Somehow he connected the dots 14 years ago and come up with the ultimate answer. No idea how he understood that the pirated version is the culprit.

[@childofgod759]

he had the same pirated version

[@upsidewalks]

@@childofgod759 How did he know that his pirated version is the same? I didn't notice deadskin shared anywhere what torrent he's got his posted version from

[@_vh]

two of those "anomalies" (tree leaves not decaying, logs permanently on fire) actually both have very easy explanations ! the first is due to a bug in late alpha where notch, when getting rid of old leaf decay code that no longer fit the idea of the game he was going for, ended up deleting ALL of the leaf decay code, so that meant that no leaves could decay anymore. the only issue with this is that it's something that it's something thats 1.2.x specific, and if the world came from 1.1.x or before the leaves then wouldn't decay. the other thing, logs permanently on fire was, as far as i understand, basically a feature. it was a way to build fireplaces pre-netherrack, and was eventually removed once netherrack became a suitable replacement, altho i guess it wasn't quite removed at this specific version. i haven't a clue about the weird torch lighting though, apologies.

[@the-bizzy-bee]

logs constantly on fire was another glitch, logs would occasionally burn away but this could sometimes take multiple attempts of lighting it on fire. a side effect of this was if a surface lava pool spawned in a forest it would set the whole forest ablaze, leaving behind what was effectively a burning log biome. lighting back then was glitchy and wouldn't update correctly in the best of circumstances. weird torch lighting is par for the course in alpha.

[@Jupiter-T]

Netherack fireplaces?

[@TpoapAnimatesYT]

Imagine being that player that built the house in theory 3 and seeing the video by dead skin exploring it and being like: IS THAT MY HOUSE