The Incredible Search for Minecraft's FIRST Ever Video

[@Cyynapse]

you have no idea how much of a whiplash it was for me to realize the creator of CRUELTY SQUAD is the same guy who posted the first minecraft video

[@vinesauceobscurities]

No freaking way. I still have my doubts, but the details lines up. The old username sharing his first name, and the Discord avatar image that can still be found incorporated into Ville's Last fm banner. Unless this is a huge Ville Kallio fan, it's a small world to find him responsible for this video.

[@grandmasteryoda6717]

whiplash reference?

[@slavsit7600]

is this a minecraft reference?

[@JazzSicaa]

@@grandmasteryoda6717 Whiplash mentioned, based.

[@Zunakina]

@@vinesauceobscuritiesNah, this is actually Ville Kallio. I never actually realised the significance until this video was released, pretty neat that Evil-Ville is actually well known now.

[@Gold_Yoshi]

If you remember watching the video, but don't think you saved it, remember to check your web cache on you old computer using a web cache viewer Useful for finding all kinds of lost media My example: The online version of Angry Birds Friends from 2012

[@JmKrokY]

Cool

[@pinkmann8399]

The fed can also use this to plant illegal content on your computer to justify an arrest. Be careful

[@tapemaster2k]

I don't think the KZbin Flash Player cached videos, or even let you save them.

[@pvic6959]

this is both cool and terrifying. i dont want people digging through that stuff when im dead and gone LOL

[@PlaguevonKarma]

Around this time it was common for people to store videos on fansites, especially in Japanese and Chinese spheres. Maybe try looking around those spheres?

[@bluestaggo]

I think one of the most interesting pieces of Minecraft lost media would be the PAX Prime Beta 1.8 build. There may be some chance that someone who was at PAX could have a copy of it or it could be still lying around in Mojang's files. Due to the big differences between that and the first pre-release, I'd love to see it be brought to life. In fact, I did make a remake of it but it's yet to be released.

[@hunderslash]

web archive is able to archive videos, but it doesn’t work very often, in my experience it’s something like 1 in 50 videos properly saved through webarchive. Evilville’s castle did have some metadata and video player assets saved but sadly the video is probably not saved from the upload itself. Maybe there’s a reupload out there?

[@dsouth7754]

Could be worth checking shady Chinese or Russian reupload sites. Entirely possible that back then, small groups of fans with dubious network restrictions took these sort of videos from KZbin and uploaded them to more localized sharing sites.

[@MCFLY4]

@@dsouth7754 good point

[@azarishere6442]

I find it funny how, years later, I'm getting back into my childhood fandoms as they become popular again. Minecraft and fnaf are now cool again, and I'm all in for it, drowning in nostalgia.

[@awsomebot1]

not that it matters which fandoms are "cool" but... fnaf lmao

[@JmKrokY]

​@@awsomebot1💀

[@michalkap9859]

After any video, about any form of lost media, I always think, that if I had power to create a super powerful artifacy, I would probably create some form of storage that would have every lost piece of data. From a burned medival manuscript to a Minecraft video.

[@Weretyu7777]

Not sure if it would count as "lost media", per se, but... I remember a series of videos that used to live on the Minecraft Wiki before it moved to Fandom. They covered all kinds of details about various Minecraft blocks, items, and mechanics, and I think I remember that the two hosts were named Toby and David, not so sure on David. The thing is, I can't seem to find the videos on KZbin anymore, and they were taken off the wiki either a little before or during the transition to Fandom. Does anyone else have any more information on this?

[@valkeakirahvi]

No they still exist! I remember seeing them, some of the minecraft wiki articles still have them linked.

[@pikminman13]

i believe you are talking about mcspotlights, which is absolutely still around on yt.

[@anchor3740]

I still have my old hard drive from 2008-2013, and in 2009 (when I was 20) I had played Minecraft. It's important for me to note that back then I used to save a lot of videos to watch them offline (because my Wi-Fi cut out a lot). so the hard drive filled up really fast and I ended up transferring hundreds of videos to another hard drive to free up space. Also at this time I came across the castle video mentioned in this video and although I don't remember saving it, I probably did save it because I saved almost every video I watched. However, I'm not sure if the hard drive will even work anymore; I don't know if anyone would be able to help me in somehow recovering the videos saved on it but it would be great to finally put this search to rest.

[@agoraphobia-do-be-hatin]

The way I understand it, hard drives break with usage, not time. Can you double check whether the hard drive works? If it doesn't then I assume it can be easily recovered either away

[@anchor3740]

@@agoraphobia-do-be-hatin I haven't gotten round to seeing if it works yet, but it wasn't used a lot, I just used it until it ran out of disk space, then I deleted/transferred files to keep using it because it was fast. I'll put it in my PC next weekend and check it out.

[@rubenskiii]

@@anchor3740 That would be awesome! But don't feel sad if you don't find that video, probably plenty of other stuff on it that's historically interesting.

[@anchor3740]

@@rubenskiii I'm busy this week but I will check it next weekend I've kept it all these years I don't know why people are interested in it from what I remember the video was boring lol but I used the build as inspiration to make my own castle and made an even bigger one

[@rubenskiii]

@@anchor3740 hahaha yeah the video probably is, Jan's video also looks like a potato. But it's part of Minecraft's history so if we can find it again would be nice. History is a funny thing, everything becomes valuable when it becomes rare and time passes. In physical archaeology on of the more exciting things is finding ancient trash... Back in their day it was litteraly what they dumped in a hole to never see again but now it's a data goldmine about daily life.

[@escapetherace1943]

I remember seeing that video. I heard about minecraft before it had any playable version and that's the castle I remember in the video I saw 100%. I don't think I purchased the game until the price jumped from 10 to around 15 dollars though. Whatever the price hike was, simply because I was a broke kid at the time.

[@illegalpizza]

i remember cutting the grass for my 20 to buy the account i use to this day lol

[@escapetherace1943]

@@illegalpizza Nice. Mojang erased my no email account so I had to buy my 2nd account which I've used forever now

[@Jecobe]

im part of this server and the hunt is leading to so many dead ends

[@dsouth7754]

This is probably an obvious question, but have you checked reupload sites? Entirely possible with China's restricted network that early Chinese Minecraft audiences re-uploaded content within their own video sharing sites like BiliBili.

[@Jecobe]

@@dsouth7754 havent thought of it, tell me more in the discord

[@Fleskk]

We love you Ryan, you deserve so much more recognition

[@dx48.]

Thanks Ryan, your channel is already one of my favorites

[@NotesFromTheVoid]

the lost media wiki should probably have a page for this

[@NotesFromTheVoid]

update: it does

[@pyrobytee]

no way the creator of cruelty squad made the first minecraft video

[@archys7971]

I think another great lost media that its underrated is SMP's Realistic 16x16 Texture pack for Alpha (not 32x32). The texture pack was very popular back in the days, some archives are available for indev and classic versions of the pack, but the latest 16x16 version for version alpha 1.1.2_01 is still missing :/

[@MR.JUSTCOD]

I have a large collection of old vids on my old Lenovo, I’ll have a look

[@DCcopter]

Find anything?

[@waysideterror55]

Updates?

[@Jecobe]

join the server in the description and lets talk

[@queden1841]

That castle looks like terraria's dungeon, even with the "underground section". But if im not wrong, that video is older than terraria itself

[@The1-The-G]

I will mention this, I'm sure you, but CoupLands original Herobrine painting stream was found!

[@S2plkmix1520]

To stop ppl from saying first

[@PaladinRyan]

the hero we didn’t know we needed

[@S2plkmix1520]

@@PaladinRyanturning Discord notifications on was a good move, i guess

[@anrw886]

​@Black072_they're not

[@ozthebeeman]

I mean technically you just included the words "first" as the first comment...... So......

[@gabrielv.4358]

FIRRRRRRRSTTTTTTTTTTTT

[@samtheskeptic8285]

8:26 Me describing Casey's Cave: To put it simply, Video/series was around for at least 7 years so maybe just maybe someone has a copy of that to.

[@KyanoAng3l0]

I have my own pieces of old MC media I wanna unearth, most from the pre-Alpha and early Alpha days. I did manage to find some thanks to reuploaders/archivers incl. "Planet Earth" and "Largest Minecraft River", 2 of the vids that introduced me to MC. Here's to hoping I find more of em. Currently looking for that vid of a tree house that was built in SSP and had a waterfall inside, which convinced me to finally try MC. If you guys have a link to that one, lemme know.

[@danych2]

wow, I love how increpare was the second person to comment on the first public release of minecraft

[@UserNameUnavalible]

Dude i miss kovacs modpack from like 2014-2016 first mod i learned to use,was honestly the easiest to use mod installer at the time. Better mods on there than ive seen Minecraft officialy release

[@the_ecips9692]

Might be a weird question; but what's the seed for the map shown in the first 10-15s of the video? That lake with the mountain backdrop is AMAZING and I need it Ö_ö

[@pierrec5617]

Even if Evil Ville deleted his KZbin channel, do you think there is a possibility that KZbin it self kept a copy of the original missing video?

[@PaladinRyan]

KZbin has stated many times in the past they don’t keep deleted videos sadly. Keeps these hunts interesting at least!

[@fartass_volfgangus]

yo hold up... I still have my laptop i used from around that time, when I did save stuff such as minecraft videos. let me check

[@RoseluckySeven]

Hopefully you have it!

[@Smg-500]

Did it work?

[@Ender_Templar]

Any updates?

[@Smg-500]

@@Ender_Templar kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIq7h5uKiq6EfcUsi=-zSTtXV-R9_98G4u

[@SupremeSDB]

Finding lost media is these days more important than digging up ancient undiscovered artefacts from centuries ago

[@bowser3017]

finally someone mentioned the video " Cave game tech test". people like camman18 didn’t talk about it

[@chrisalex82]

cool vid, although i think the music is a bit loud

[@donotoliver]

Now find minecraft's LAST video

[@sundaymornhalls]

search up minecraft on youtube and sort by upload date or upload a minecraft video right now to earn that title for a second :D

[@A_leird]

i lost my old minecraft world, i wish i could play on that world one more time

[@AlexlgYT]

Well, no longer a member, but I will 100% when I have the chance too again. On another note: I hope the search goes well!

[@ExploringNew1]

If my friend was watching minecraft content those days he should have it. Since he literally downloads thousands of videos when he sometimes activate an 'unlimited youtube for a week' Internet plan. And never deleted them for god knows what.

[@dixiepisie5882]

i wonder if someone actually saved the video

[@CHARlTYHlROSE]

Hope the search goes well!

[@minebrandon95264]

Seeing you videos auto-play on youtube fills me with such unbridled rage that I hate-watch and wait for something to make me mad enough to comment about it, and seeing how you tried to call people like me out made me snap like a weak and pathetic twig being stepped on by a knight, clad in steel armor.

[@MagcarJoe]

hey paladin i really enjoy when you mine the craft :)

[@Uzbonis]

Please do a video about adventurecraft

[@Swamsea]

ok

[@Sezenian]

Jan Willem Nijman is a Dutch name and it's pronounced "Yahn Will-emm Nigh-mahn"

[@lusciouslunk]

JWN , not JVN :)))

[@PaladinRyan]

I got so mad I said it like that after the fact, but the recording take went so well I didn’t want to fix it!

[@lusciouslunk]

@@PaladinRyan I know that feeling!!!!

[@GlacierGolf]

loveee your videos man!

[@d0ggydog]

NEW SEARCH GOATED

[@idlerune]

I think I created and uploaded the first video of legitimately breaking bedrock in creative When 1.8 beta was released, As itnwas so baffling to me that you could break bedrock i made a little video on it, literally an hour after the update dropped!

[@VintageBassArchive]

The guy with the pigs in the water inside his base???

[@JazzSicaa]

WAIT, SO THE CREATOR OF THE FIRST MINECRAFT VIDEO IS THE SAME CREATOR OF CRUELTY SQUAD??? WHAT??????

[@Terminated_Account]

No way its the Cruelty Squad creator, now i like that guy even more 😂

[@Zunakina]

Great video! The video only had 80k views so it’ll take a miracle for it to be found, maybe. Unless some of our theories about KZbin caching are true. Anyways, thank you so much for the video!

[@DiamondDepthYT]

just wanna say that this is awesome

[@sticky.]

wait, u guys havent seen the video yet?

[@gabrielv.4358]

I think it's easier to find the minecraft game than the video in my opinion...

[@danilwhale]

NO WAY!!!! I LOVE CLASSIC

[@purpletacos4609]

Well done

[@Steaknstuff]

Whatevs here!

[@CHARlTYHlROSE]

cool

[@sebbog]

Comment to boost this video in the algorithm.

[@PedroLucas-lr6ve]

Anyone know what shaders is he using?

[@dom20141]

JVN? Aren't the initials JWN?

[@josee8168]

very good video my man u keep improving video after video 🎉🎉

[@CarlosEduardo-toychica]

Mañana en español

[@cousinivoryciv1309]

why JVN when its JWN?

[@demterich]

what's the music in the start?

[@lucasfrisk2490]

Is it just me or has your voice changed? I watched you a few months ago and i came back just now and you sounds… different?

[@PaladinRyan]

Better mic filter settings go a long way :)

[@TheFutureIsLow]

...i did magic in 1.12.2 best time ever...

[@gabrielv.4358]

Muito interessante mesmo!

[@nerdo2133]

fanumcraft (satire)

[@hamtown4757]

ville kallio, the creator of cruelty squad. created the first minecraft video?

[@Boolymon]

Yeah lol crazy

[@ucngominh3354]

hi

[@plusah1268]

completely unrelated fact I felt the need to mention: I knew of fnf when there were literally only 2 youtube search results for it. one, for the trailer, and the other was a vinesauce stream. no, im not kidding. and, yes, fnf was really, really cool for a short period of time before a bunch of kids completely ruined it

[@DurianXLVIII]

please pronounce it vill-ay

[@tehjamerz]

The actual first video was someone making a swastika

[@TheSultan1470]

Nice!

[@blvdes]

based

[@Roberto_Milian]

If yogscast said it bro wouldve said they right

[@veganwater381]

just leaving a comment to increase traction

[@Dynam50]

13th>!>! 🤑🤑😀😀🤓🤓

[@bodgethemechanic]

Nobody: Half Life scientist at 1:18 :

[@godzilla8470]

what?