The Story of Minecraft's UNRELEASED Developer Versions...

[@TheMisterEpic]

Huge shoutout to Method once again, check him out! - kzbin.info Subscribe and join my discord - discord.gg/WGc9UNM

[@MrCommentGod]

Ok

[@cielros]

@@MrCommentGod ok

[@livyditty8857]

#earlygang?

[@Mader_hehehe]

Hello

[@niftty_]

love the vid man

[@josefkeitell6946]

I have an image in my mind of Notch sitting at his PC at 2am, can of Jolt in his hand, shaking his head, and saying, "That does not look like a pig!"

[@JonasTisell]

Messed up the rotation of the body🤣

[@pubert2024]

😐😐

[@vortexsux]

more likes than the pinned comment lmao

[@liminalityy_]

"That does not look like a pig! But it does kinda go hard, ima reuse the texture for leaves"

[@sanasurve5509]

I love these videos on the "lost" features of minecraft, It's actually so intriguing and thought provoking to what could have been.

[@TheMisterEpic]

It's one of my favourite things to talk about, that's for sure

[@gengi233]

The dirt slabs were the most cursed. Ore then the Asymmetrical mc blocks in the intro

[@shrek5911]

I’ve got a cool video on Minecraft if you want it m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/moLaZapvjMyLmbM

[@quangbuiminh5283]

@@shrek5911 GONNA GIVE YOU UP GONNA LET YOU DOWN GONNA RUN AROUND AND DESERT YOU

[@gurillamann6534]

Do you have Downloads for the recreation Versions?

[@MrBelles104]

I'm glad that Omniarchive has been able to archive a lot of old versions for us to play for centuries to come.

[@CattaneoL]

I wish I could find these files kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHiufq2aqtKkjZY

[@InfamousJRP]

yes

[@bumblebeegamerreal]

And I wish i can play MCPE Dev versions, but mojang took them down

[@Utd_Ultraz]

@@CattaneoL I hope u get banned for ADVERTISING

[@zachmarotzke5154]

Poiiooi is lm

[@superNova5837]

I love how one of the 1.8 betas has what looks like work in progress 1.17/1.18 cave

[@darth3911]

Funny thing is bedrock had similar terrain generation before infinite worlds.

[@superNova5837]

@@darth3911 so bedrock always had 1.17 style world gen minus the blocks and stuff?

[@darth3911]

@@superNova5837 It was never as extreme as it will be soon also the game only had it pre infinite worlds the caves used to be big enough to fit a moderate sized base big enough to fit one of each crop farm a mine beds guest beds and storage and if you have a good seed you can fit more after infinite worlds bedrocks terrain generation was the same as Java’s but with different seeds.

[@darth3911]

@@superNova5837 In the new caves you can fit a advanced base with large farms for every crop and multiple mob farms storage beds guest beds and if you have a good seed you can also fit in a farm for the aquatic mobs.

[@SemiHypercube]

14:00 It's been 10 years and Java edition still has not been able to put potions in cauldrons ever since then, even though they added those to bedrock

[@CattaneoL]

Oof I wanted kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHiufq2aqtKkjZY

[@CattaneoL]

Yep kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHiufq2aqtKkjZY

[@tamimplayz]

12*

[@somebodykares1]

I think the reason bedrock had it was because bedrock was also the mobile version and mobile had allot more restrictions so they went with the cauldrons over making a new GUI that was hard to interact with on mobile.

[@lambybunny7173]

It's not potions is it? I thought it was dyes to dye clothes

[@MahiAviation]

I wonder if modern developers still have access to those early versions

[@M0D776]

Maybe some, I doubt they have them all

[@TheMisterEpic]

Good question

[@whitebeartigtig]

@@TheMisterEpic we know for sure they've been using the same dev workspace since around Alpha 1.2.3, and likely an internal git repo, so they can probably recompile a lot of these dev builds if they wanted to.

[@nathansnail]

@@whitebeartigtig doesnt mojang use svn?

[@whitebeartigtig]

@@nathansnail sounds familiar. Couldn't quite remember what it was called though.

[@bugmancx]

method's definitely been working ultra-hard in recreating the nostalgia! Minecraft has such a rich history.

[@greffen]

:D

[@PineappleWappleMinecraftVids]

13:51 Technically you could just use task manager to close your game, and then use an NBT editor to remove the Hardcore tag from your world so you can view it again. It's sad that pretty much no one knew that!

[@nightskyflyer2638]

or use open to lan and use commands

[@PineappleWappleMinecraftVids]

@@nightskyflyer2638 We're talking about Minecraft Beta 1.9, which was before the Open to Lan option existed.

[@lmnk]

14:00 - One more interesting fact about potions: Originally (somewhere before the cauldron brewing build was created) it was planned the potion recipes will be different for every single world, and you had either "travel to find notes" (most likely as dungeon loot) or discover them through trial & error. There is no any known dev build featuring this though, so it probably was just a scrapped idea (and I kinda can understand why), but just imagine how cool and interesting the potion brewing aspect of the game could be.....

[@willmungas8964]

Sounds like noita

[@3y3_weirdo55]

i’m genuinely fascinated by the MD3 version,like imagine running around getting wood and then you see a random character chasing you 😭

[@carllinden533]

4:44 I want a copy of these skins! Few will know where they came from or that they're even special, it'd be so neat

[@Daniel-qf9cf]

Make one lol it's not that hard

[@carllinden533]

@@Daniel-qf9cf Well yes, but I wonder if they're the same on the back, and to get the colors exactly the same?

[@Daniel-qf9cf]

@@carllinden533 to get the colors the same just take a screenshot of them and then use a program to pick colors and copy their HEX codes and i think they are the same on the back

[@phonfowo7625]

ngl, seeing a dragon in the overworld that will not attack you can be breathtaking

[@thedeathcrepeer]

Didn't expect that collab with and shoutout to Method, well deserved!

[@ideac.]

This is my favorite part about Minecraft a game that is literally 12 years old has so many mysteries, lost content and all of that, i just love it!

[@rickpolar]

This was awesome really well done all around. I can appreciate the amount of research and planning you must have put into this to present it so well. It was awesome to see this sort of MC history

[@TheMisterEpic]

Much credit needs to go to method for the research side of things, I just put it all together nicely!

[@ddsretro2697]

Is it just me or does the dev stronghold look cooler than the actually released one?

[@parrot998]

A lot of things pertaining to 1.8 and 1.9's development did... It's unfortunate they were so set on a specific release date at that point, cuz a couple more months could have really made a difference and not led to the mass alienation and feeling of "bait and switch" us Alpha and Beta players felt with release 1.0

[@DiamondDepthYT]

I learn so much about Minecraft from you! One time, my friends asked how I learned so much. I happily showed them your channel lol. Every one of your videos is so interesting and unique.

[@TheMisterEpic]

hahaha awesome :)

[@nasko222]

yooo I was waiting a lot for this video Thanks for the credit, And thanks for making it :D

[@Frostedfire6568]

I love these missing/obscure versions videos because these features are weird, and it's interesting to think of how many weird directions minecraft could have gone in

[@lufox0148]

I couldn't find your channel for so long thankfully I got this vid recomended and inmedeatly subbed

[@StoryTeller796]

And not every person who works hard behind the scenes to do important things get shoutouts like this, while it gives me a load of worry if I will be like Method or everyone else, and how many people are out there that deserve one. Anyway, great video! Real neat to see some Minecraft secrets.

[@StoryTeller796]

I am honestly kind of shocked for you to have only focused on the positive comment and not have noticed how insane and paranoid the beginning part sounded, though I will feel glad if the compliment made your day though!

[@WinterGamesYT]

4:26 right as the image faded into view, the "train whistle" noise played form my minecraft which i was playing while watching this

[@80reo58]

Wow, that's so cool. I especially love the textureless Ender dragon!

[@mikulitsi1819]

These are the types of videos that I love. Great job by Method and great video by you

[@bunnybear1010]

I had no ideas that these even existed, thanks for the great content!

[@LostArcadeMachine]

How was the feeling of touching grass for the first time after playing league of legends for ages

[@banana1082]

For some reason, every time I watch one of Epic's videos, I feel like I'm being transported back to my childhood.

[@markforge4081]

Notch: Giants are too overpowered Mojang: added the warden

[@logictv6667]

Yes the warden what's more powerful to giant the warden you can one shot you have a fully protection IV armor Netherite armor defense of difficulty you're play

[@Blacksmith52]

That old world generation is so much better than the generation of today

[@logictv6667]

Yes very true but in the new version that's more fun explore the cave generation but the old gave and world generation what's more love it end what's more back them❤❤😍😍

[@AriaRoseMus]

There was many versions of minecraft that were just live updated, many of the developer builds were actually released but only for a very short time including a few minuets of being up. 12.0a was actually up for a few hours, which was live updated several times, and then bedrock was removed. 12a's water generation was acutally there for a long time, it was in 15 aswell. 14 was up for a while just hidden on the site notch allowed a few people to test it. Most of the updates of the game only lasted a few hours at best, there was so many updates and most did not have any notes as notch did live updates.I stopped playing once it went to infdev, and then came back in beta. Most of these early on players came from quake 3 areana players, cube2, and saurbratten players. If you were to spawn the ender dragon in the overworld, or glitch it into the nether which is still technically possible by running away from the ender dragon in the end and then falling off far away on multiplayer and dying with only 1 person in the end, 1 in the nether, and 1(atleast) in the overworld all around the same area then the ender dragon can possibly glitch through the dimensions trying to attack a player. On doing so in the nether it becomes very interesting as it will destroy every block that touches its hitboxes and 3 blocks outward from that, meaning the ender dragon will destroy your nether. If you spawn it in the overworld or get it into the overworld I have not been able to have it destroy it in modern versions. Notch kept messing with water generation and I was the only one on for several of the updates as notch would update well deep into the night 3am for me 7am for him sometimes pulling damn near 24+hrs on the game, I use to be on the game for 24+ hours looking for bugs and playing on the multiplayer when it was added. One of those updates were for sponge blocks and how they behaved with water. Notch at one point had a water sphere of blocks because of how the sponge block behaved he wanted it to erase blocks from water to air, at one point it deleted all blocks, at another point it created water blocks, at another point it destroyed all waterblocks but those that were inside the magintude, and at the final point it just deleted waterblocks inside the magintude but was very buggy. I spammed the hell out of sponge blocks and abused them heavily. I also built a house under the water and used sponge blocks to prevent water from coming in.If I remember correctly it actually broke the server and forced a physical restart for the server he had up.

[@RedCoatForever]

I love the way the old movs move

[@daranddeg9566]

thanks for this masterpiece video bro! best regards!

[@xboxproaso999]

yo i have never thought you could get those versions great

[@V38-r7t]

There’s something magical about seeing these pre release versions

[@PatrioticCoservativeAmerican]

After playing this game since it came out on May 17th 2009 now 23 I can honestly say I feel ashamed that I don't know certain things about the game that some,most people don't know about. I used to make games for a while after school but it never got anywhere, and now I'm a train engineer for BNSF.

[@le9038]

inf-20100226 is basically the first ever build that featured the bedrock pattern that we would see today

[@JoaoPedro-ki7ct]

Texture or world generation pattern?

[@le9038]

@@JoaoPedro-ki7ct world generation patern

[@JoaoPedro-ki7ct]

@@le9038 Oh, I see.

[@LukeHuber]

Yes! Just as I finished my last video to watch this came out! Awesome video!

[@TheMisterEpic]

Thanks :)

[@LukeHuber]

@@TheMisterEpic No, thank you for once again providing me with some much needed entertainment. One of my favorite channels!

[@mr.krash-buildings3767]

Hey! Enjoy my channel! kzbin.info/door/wEm5uVVR7Kf013jr50mp4g

[@cat_clan_leader]

10:04 legit thought you said "a1.2.0-dev2 first added Bibles to the game" and was very confused for a hot second there lol

[@WiihawkPL]

i love how you spell out the dev build numbers despite very obviously being dates

[@seriousnorbo3838]

15:06 companies during pride month 15:18 the same companies on the first second of July 1st

[@majorsquidgaming6965]

vertex and colour offset would be sick for clouds

[@ClebyHerris]

“Stating and I quote “it’s nuts”” -notch -TheMisterEpic

[@DVINTHEHOUSEMAN]

the build of infdev at 8:37 would be one of the ones i'd really want to be made available, seeing if the farlands existed and what they looked like in that version would be interesting for sure. it's a shame none of the recreations or the original build aren't and likely will never be made public.

[@bloodystatic4156]

These versions are so cool! Also, I want what I call Spawner Arrows to be added into the game. They would spawn a random mob and these things would be obtained by commands

[@masterspartanchief33]

I've played the beta 1.9 pre releases that have that stuff in it. I remember downloading it when it was new

[@maycontainnuts3127]

Its nice to see so many versions with scrapped or unfinished features, it just reminds you about how nobody ever truly gets it first try, and that the basic form of minecraft we know today exists through one man's constant trial and error. It's genuinely inspiring. I wish we got to see this side of Notch again today.

[@1luke_]

It would be interesting if we could play on those versions

[@Kevaca]

Maybe one day But we might have a "Zerg studio" 2.0 incident, and I think I saw method mention that omniarchive also doesn't want hum to release them so they don't have to worry about people passing dev versions off as real

[@Artesian-mv3uf]

TheMisterEpic back with another banger!

[@TheMisterEpic]

:)

[@Gogoseit]

I sure hope that these historic versions can be made availible to the public, weither they be in the form of mods, or are officially added to the launcher, I am sure lots of people would love to see the history of minecraft's development. I see why mojang would be weary to do this though, as versions of classic can be found for free in many parts of the internet. I wish I could just launch these old versions in the launcher, and toy around with old minecraft dev builds :D

[@Kevaca]

Method once confirmed that his dev build recreations will not be made public, though they are by another source, who was given permission by method to use Method's recreations, the only way they would be added to the official launcher is by mojang, and they don't necessarily even have them anymore (they have some, like 0.0.13a-dev1, which is actually the 0.0.13a in the launcher)

[@nasko222]

i am the new project owner, and the project is public already

[@Gogoseit]

@@nasko222 bro quit your BS

[@Gogoseit]

@@Kevaca if nobody will do it then I will learn how to code JUST so i can make these versions into mods that you can use with minecraft

[@nasko222]

​@@Gogoseitlmao just search the minecraft recreation project

[@CZghost]

The Minecraft community can do extraordinary things, even recreating long forgotten versions that were never meant to be released to public. I mean, how did they manage to recreate the insider developer version of the game? How did they manage to obtain or recreate the necessary textures, models, and the code that the version is compiled from? How did they manage to make it so perfectly fit with the little of available original resources? It never stops to amaze me. Not only this, but seeds reverse engineering is another most spectacular projects of Minecraft community. Where players around the world managed to find long forgotten seeds of famous worlds, and especially the Minecraft@Home project which introduced distributed computer power to crack and reverse engineer the seeds, they were able to find the original seed of the default resource pack's "pack.png" file - where team of developers created a machine learning algorithm and fed it original full resolution images of Minecraft worlds, and their downscaled counterparts for it to learn how the downscaled images should look like when upscaled, and managed to enlarge the pack.png file so it contained more details, which made it easier to reverse engineer the seed of this world, and eventually led to finding the seed. Not only that, the community even found the main menu world seed, the aquatic update world seed, and every other main menu world seed, including the latest one for 1.18, which turned out to be the original seed of the very first main menu world. That's a form of dedication to be honest :)

[@nasko222]

salut for appreciating the effort :D

[@JonasTisell]

They had to remake the textures from the missing versions by hand from the screenshots and videos. Really cool to think about

[@Omnitrickster0207]

These videos make me really wish Notch was still part Minecraft

[@ButterduckAyyds]

6:53 “And looking very depressed” LMAO

[@ObviousRecognition]

Honestly a neutral dragon that attacks when provoked in the overworld would be awesome actually

[@Imaproshaman7]

Wow that was really cool!

[@officialprincelouie]

It would be sooo amazing if 1.19 could add a special dragon that has it's own unique abilities and behaviors depending on which biome it spawns in... Or maybe they could be added in their own dedicated update, but I'm hoping they come to the game regardless, but it sounds sooooo cool..

[@izperehoda]

Mods exist

[@officialprincelouie]

@@izperehoda true, but I’m talking about *improving the base game*

[@naianetwork2609]

I came here because I saw the *"Mojang* *Pig"* on the thumbnail. "Mojang Pig" was a term used to describe Notch's attempt to make a pig mob.

[@haydenreviewscustomcombos]

I know of developer builds on Clash of Clans, but until I saw this video, I didn’t know that they existed for Minecraft.

[@Xnoob545]

14:30 Ah yes, my favorite block, the

[@nidhogg6344]

There are so many things that they could add to make it really better. Those giants, dragons in the overworld, the sky world ... omfg ... why don't they add it.

[@officialjulienlaplante]

The trees at 9:50 would make minecraft survival feel so much more grand and alive than just 9b tall trees like rn :(

[@jhonlorence2114]

White dragon + snowy biome = snow dragon Omg i didnt know we got an elemental dragon!!

[@niftty_]

LETS GO NEW MISTER EPIC VIDEO!!!

[@pixamech3602]

It's so nice to watch Minecraft get developed and form into the minecraft I know now😊❤

[@Kll2335]

Bruh it’s sad that we don’t have any of these. If there could be a way to get them… I hope that Notch could help, cuz there might be some copies or cloud versions of that files.

[@talkinturtle3939]

damn calling pigs derpy their reminded me of the yogscasts minecraft christmas

[@thewintersgem7341]

Well that’s expected as we don’t need to see every version from dev-community

[@XXLSteve]

What about the recently discovered MCBE Dev version? In my opinion it's a very interesting topic to talk about

[@gamersannidhya9087]

Yeah it's very interesting and he should talk about it

[@mrzombie2953]

Untextured ender dragon looks like it came straight out of Space Funeral.

[@greffen]

love y'a method haha!

[@kodygaydemoncutie9968]

Wow the first ever video of my Favorite Mob in Minecraft The Creepers Was made 12 years ago Crazy how time has passed by

[@justlixian293]

Mojang did not lie when they said stuff that were removed will be added in the future. Just look at 1.8 and 1.9, some stuff were later added 10 update after

[@saraschmidt5612]

I love the long-neck Ender Dragon. It looks so freaky and cool.

[@athrixxs]

I've been playing since 2010 and not even I have heard of any of these (except for the skin one).

[@buddyarchivos7338]

Good one, very interesting stuff.

[@22ne]

finally, more versions that i can see

[@nocturnawI]

lost versions of games, audio, pictures, etc is really intriguing though, anything lost with 1 picture of evidence or media, let's just say the most mysterious song WHICH YOU CAN FIND ON KZbin it has been archived but no one really knows who made it. Or movies like "A Day with Spongebob" where only screen shots and audio exist of it. But oh well its cool to look back and try to make out what these pieces of media would of FULLY looked like.

[@MechNINJ4]

Also that version of Minecraft on the 360 where if you played without any updates the mobs where just glitch looking monsters

[@paxtoncargill4661]

I like the old version of using cauldrons for potions

[@lexzeyfercronus]

I wish they reintroduced the cauldrons for potion brewing across all versions,they could make it work in conjuction with the brewing stand,the latter for single potion making and the former for brewing in bulks of 6 per cauldron ,tipped arrows that would require to have a fletching table for the last step and lingering potions should only be craftable with the cauldron. But i guess asking to make cauldrons not entirely pointless besides being turned in to infinite lava generators and giving an actual reasonable use to the fletching table is too much.

[@vanilla_MC]

Amazing video as always!

[@TheMisterEpic]

Thanks :)

[@greenstonegecko]

11:16 The advancement system! WE NEED THIS IN MODPACKS!

[@ChrissieBear]

The surface ruin strongholds looked kinda cool.

[@carllinden533]

12:41 Oh! Is that why some players have enderman skins with green eyes? Don't usually see them with any other colors

[@sunfishensunfishen2271]

The death animations and tall oak forest look better than counterparts in the present day game

[@buddysproductions7802]

Its crazy how terrain generation can generate a cross from the game’s source code.

[@Nazrin.]

I was scrolling mindlessly through youtube and freaked out when I caught a glimpse of the thumbnail I took a closer look and realized it's just my dirty mind playing tricks on me

[@maikoymokspg163]

Wait... is the music around 2:00 from dota???damn

[@Imbadatvideogames]

the first ever villages look interesting

[@TheMisterEpic]

I thought so as well

[@tommc2387]

I remember playing Minecraft right after they added the nether. So many god memories

[@ttaute]

Amazing stuff to see from developer versions.

[@CrimsonAkato]

15:13 Nah that's not creepy that's just cool , I never knew ender dragon had a UV checking texture once xD , she be looking funky !

[@mystic-malevolence]

Notch had a ton of trouble trying to texture the Ender Dragon. I remember he eventually coded something to make it easier.

[@crytexk102]

I like the first ever pig texture. Its derpy look made it look cute

[@okieness9849]

8:22 incorrect, in certain dimensions in 20w14infinity giants can spawn naturally, too.

[@synthhhwave]

this is about dev versions, not april fools versions, READ THE TITLE

[@kirbstagoontheaxolotl]

I would like to take a moment to correct something. You stated these versions are all not playable, bar the two in the Vanilla launcher. There's a launcher called Betacraft that has a treasure trove of old archived versions (And is the best way to play old minecraft up to 1.5), and both the PC Gamer Demo and b1.6 test build 3 versions are on it. This launcher is PUBLIC so is playable by anyone who seeks it out I have personally played b1.6tb3 through this, and plan to one day test out the PC gamer demo

[@Thunderiee]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO SO MUCH, PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THESE, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@John-p9m2c]

Nice video man

[@VexedSteak]

I like that old achievements gui

[@yousolame840]

Love your videos from Montenegro

[@TheMisterEpic]

Thanks :)

[@pmstuff8420]

Nice video! Any reason why you read out the in and inf dev version numbers (ex: 20100326) straight out and not 2010 03 26? I think the numbers were supposed to be year, month and day

[@TheMisterEpic]

It's just easier to read out tbh, similar to how we read out phone numbers I guess

[@kennyalwaysdies1]

Wow I didn't know about the first gravel texture. It would be cool if they reused it for a new block, like volcanic rock