The SECRET History In Minecraft's Structures...

[@ninjanoodle2674]

8:05 - Regarding the Desert Well, I remember the first time that I found one... I may or may not have spent way too much time digging out Sand around it looking for a hidden loot chest...

[@really-real-t-series-not-fake]

I feel they should dedicate an update to adding more structures to certain biomes and also updating some of the wack old ones like dungeons and the nether fortress

[@jameswesten2018]

3:32 is he using an enchanted wood pickaxe?! 💪😅

[@ds_the_rn]

I would like a badlands town. I’d reallly like it to be a ghost town!

[@alexanderboshnakov7242]

@@jameswesten2018No, it’s just the lighting making you think that.

[@brickstonesonn9276]

100% I’ve been calling for a structures update for a million years now, I think it’s badly needed

[@ivibivivgig6425]

NO, LEAVE MY CLASSIC DUNGEONS AND NETHER FORTESSES ALONE, NO, BAD

[@joealert]

One thing you didn't mention is that the original version of the stronghold before it was actually added in was that it was on the surface exposed, but they changed it to be underground

[@toycat]

Would be cool if they kept that honestly - even if only occasionally

[@Just_A_Random_Person_908]

@@toycatteeeechnically speaking it can spawn exposed under the right circumstances. Obviously that’s not intended though lol

[@ngabel8956]

Toycat, you skipped past ocean monument. It was one of the most unique structures for its time and still holds up to this day.

[@TheGooseWizard]

The desert well already has a purpose. It's not supposed to have amazing loot and help max out your pickaxe, it's just a bit of spice. It's saying "hey, this place has history and someone has been here before". It makes the world feel more alive.

[@officialrhythmicthoughts]

Structures just breathe so much life into Minecraft worlds I love them so much

[@emberpowertcg7692]

Would love some more structures to provide more challenges, like some rare castle in the snow biomes with armoured mobs inside

[@zezogamer8567]

When you realize woodland mansions exist

[@emberpowertcg7692]

@@zezogamer8567 it would be nice to have more than one structure like that in the overworld

[@Bubluntz]

@@zezogamer8567 Doesn’t change the fact that having newer, different structures, even if they have the same purpose, would add to the worlds diversity and gives more of a reason for exploration and adventure. As well as the possibility of new blocks and or resources that could come from those places.

[@DavidSolimano]

Absolutely classic desert well content. I think the pyramid needs to come back but with like, hidden chambers in it.

[@That0Homeless0Guy]

That would be way too interesting.

[@Alexander-vm2ox]

I think it's kinda funny bring solid brick all the way through

[@gamermapper]

The main goal of the Indev house wasn't to give a quick boost to the players, but rather to help the developers and players play the game properly, as it was the earliest versions where survival was just being worked out on, and there wasn't even a way to get most resources at all, be it for testing or playing.

[@swankierSpy2658]

I wish they bring back the stone chests and pots in the ancient cities in 1.20 or a later update cause it would be much more aesthetic and also it is just cool

[@saffral]

I love seeing all of the old Toycat flashbacks showing all the familiar places being built in a way that also ties into the video topic.

[@takethel5953]

Brick pyramid gotta be the second best structure in the whole game

[@emberpowertcg7692]

Just behind the goat that is the desert well

[@archimagirus_sancti]

I have been playing since 2009 when I was in college. I will never forget finding my first village while exploring my world in that update; no villagers, just structures. I built a base, dug for diamonds, and life was simple

[@littlec]

Old Minecraft is so interesting, like what was notch thinking

[@really-real-t-series-not-fake]

Notch really was just like adding anything he thought of back then, it was so weird but I kinda loved it

[@Blue_Fire-Chibi]

Just as a quick reminder desert wells will be useful for archeology in getting the pottery shards and potentially the sniffer eggs

[@Aidan-zc8wx]

They will be too useful now, they were already perfect!!!!

[@dead0404]

sniff eggs only from warm ocean ruins.

[@Blue_Fire-Chibi]

@@dead0404 I said potentially as this can be subject to change

[@JennyNobody]

The saddle was useless for over a year and some ppl complain about the features we get now? Really puts things into perspective xD

[@Alanis51]

Saw your driving mock test on Conquer Driving and I knew I recognised your voice from when I was younger. Lovely to still see after many years you have the energy despite the questionable driving haha

[@someonecalledrichardthehuman]

16:36 They added igloos in 1.10, not 1.9, but the video's still very well done Toycat

[@unknown_gamer8200]

His laugh hasn't changed lol love u toycat

[@mylife-23]

I love buildings mostly because, I love archeology and studying cultures and ancient history. Lore gets my brain going

[@Rynntastic01]

I'd love to see the desert well get updated maybe by adding a huge underground desert maze underneath it with a ladder leading down.

[@sizanogreen9900]

a maze mostly inhabitet by ocelots and cats. And maybe ocelot- and catmen.

[@rhaeasoul8531]

Yeah I feel like the desert well is begging for some secrets if not a bigger structure then at least use archeology to add suspicious sand around it so you can dig around it for stuff.

[@inklovemail]

we have archeology in the wells now

[@LarryNannery]

Extremely enjoyable trip down memory lane. Make sure you stop at a dessert well to quench your thirst

[@cleryfrey]

Hmm I think you can start a villager trading hall in igloos. If you cure the zombie villager you get villager #2. Breed it with villager #1 and voila, villager breeder and a start to your villager trading hall.

[@johnphoenix1175]

Seems as if they wanted players to take on the responsibility of creating and managing a village. And, since the cured villager provides better trades, then (like you said) that village would make a great trading hall.

[@gamermapper]

It's not true that at the time of Infdev, block dropping wasn't introduced yet. It worked properly in most of Indev and even in Classic, it was just that when Notch switched to infinite worlds, block dropping just didn't work for the first two debug versions.

[@kkalafus]

Hi Toycat, some structures are also uniquely exciting for technical players because of the structure spawns. Witch huts and pillager outposts both are very exciting for witch farms and raid farms. Nether fortress farms are also pretty great, though it takes a lot of exploration to find a good one over a lava lake (or a ton of spawn proofing)

[@kkalafus]

Oh yeah, and guardian farms are great for prismarine/sea lantern crafting, and XP too

[@Derkiboi]

Like he'd support that

[@johnphoenix1175]

Agreed. Those are some of my favorite structures simply because they mark a special location for something to spawn and challenge the player to transform it into a mob farm with as little alteration as possible.

[@Invalid-user13k]

Imagine if someone woke up from a coma with a lost version of Minecraft and uploads it

[@That0Homeless0Guy]

I'm like 90% sure I have a few super early builds of minecraft on a hard drive that could have it. Thing is the PCB for that drive is cooked.

[@Invalid-user13k]

@@That0Homeless0Guy well, ain't that something

[@jamesperrott1]

“Adding something to the game and just saying year we don’t know what it’s going to do and we might not even add that for quite some updates” Cough ancient city portal

[@Ice-uw8vd]

Hi toycat, please keep making these kinds of videos about the history of something in Minecraft or about an osbcure, but remarkable version. I love having these kinds of videos play in the background while I play Minecraft.

[@powpenguin7483]

I feel like some structures (especially the igloo) should have written books that explain some of the more obscure game mechanics to new players. Sure, it sounds more boring than learning them through gameplay, but some things are so complicated that there's no way anyone could figure them out.

[@johnphoenix1175]

I had a similar idea. A tutorial world with a story that helps new players learn the game. But I also think not having that is one of the things that makes Minecraft different from most other games.

[@PumpkinSpikey]

I still love mining in game because I'm not a fan of combat. It takes my stress from 0 to 60 as soon as I see a hostile mob. lol I don't know why I'm like this.

[@johnphoenix1175]

Tame wolves and breed them until you have a whole pack protecting you.

[@swankierSpy2658]

11:56 what about the ancient city redstone from the redstone room

[@greybeardmc]

If you want the desert wells to have a purpose, consider this: I think Hard mode should be altered to include thirst, with the following properties: 1, add wooden bucket with 3 planks and a stick. It can hold / carry water, but not lava. 2, Add thirst that acts like hunger. When your thirst maxes, you start taking damage. 3, water found (outside of structures) is biome specific. Namely: 3a swamp water will always make you sick 3b ocean water makes you thirstier 3c mountain water is always good 3d water in deep caves is always good 3e all other biome, water has a chance of making you sick 4 water in wells (like village wells, or the desert well) is always good to drink 5 smelting water makes it drinkable 6 thirst increases depending on the biome (highest in desert and ocean, lowest in swamp or river)

[@mindylafler3456]

Okay, if we are going to update the desert well, past suspicious sand and archeology, I think having a source for the water in the well, even though it's already got an infinite source, would be interesting. Digging out a certain block, traveling down the water to a small room that has a really different type of loot chest. Perhaps, dare I say, 1 netherite scrap every 5th well explored?! A village bell, or other item you can't create but have to trade for.

[@jenv.7995]

I still can’t get over the fact that all of Mojang thought it was a good idea to put a basic redstone tutorial in the final room of the most dangerous quest on the game smh

[@johnphoenix1175]

Please elaborate. I haven't played in a couple years so I'm not familiar with the Ancient Cities.

[@jenv.7995]

@@johnphoenix1175 as you may or may not know, the ancient cities are the most difficult challenge mojang has added in the las couple of years. This is despite the fact that normal hostile mobs don't spawn in there. The citie is a massive laberynth of ruins where you explore in the look for chests and treasure, being completely alone, but in constant fear of that changing, for the citie is consumed by the sculk, a living form which thrives upon the death of everything else, and if you make too much noise, it will send it's guard dog to hunt you; the warden, a powerful mob equiparable to boss level fights, it's attacks bypass armor and go through walls, so its imposible to fight or hide, once it's out, you better run or prepare to die. So you go on this great, awesome, dangerous and exciting treasure hunt on an enormous structure with the absolute best loot in the overworld, and when you reach the peak of the city: it's centre, a massive portal-like building, you may think there is where the best of the best treasure is; after all, it's the final room of one of the hardest quests of the game, accesible only through great effort and by highly skilled and advanced players (or at least that is the intent), so you enter the building, and what's inside is... A room showing you how to do basic Redstone, some of it even being broken, which is, in my opinion, no extreamly dissapointing and out of place

[@Ivi-Tora]

Toycat always underestimates players' ability to solve puzzles and try weird things. That's how we used to figure things out before tutorials came through so not everyone has to Google stuff and many prefer figuring things on their own.

[@RangerBloxs]

I remember the starter house Wow I’ve been playing Minecraft for so long

[@azazel56]

The thing I like about the addition of netherite is that it's similar to diamond and in fact requires it. It also has specific origin and advantages relating to it. This is a good format for expansion; different materials on a similar armor level that give unique advantages.

[@agenttpc4658]

You mentioned that the jungle Temple is the only structure with Redstone in it while the Ancient Cities also have redstone in it.

[@CFodd01]

6:24 The Fletching Table: *sweats profusely*

[@toddzircher6168]

Desert Well Upgrade idea that I would like to see, a new Wandering Trader every few days. It would make it even worth while to perhaps build a base camp, way station, or portal near one. Similarly an increased percentage chance for a desert village to spawn adjacent to one would be nice.

[@humourlessjester3584]

Would love to see some of these structures given homage through the archeology sites. Would make for some very interesting easter eggs for those that know.

[@FreezingToad]

The Desert Well. It's the gift that keeps on giving!

[@alleriodrone]

The desert wells are perfect and provide all the utility we need 😂 (the desert well should be the only structure not updated just to keep it nostalgic, lol)

[@citricmantis_543]

6:15 Ancient city portal.

[@nepnep2053]

6:15 i thought this was going to be a joke about the fletching table lol

[@soggysocks1238]

I remember when the desert well was introduced. There were a lot of rumors that if you dug under the well you would find something. Glad the desert well is finally getting the purpose it deserves.

[@wikinka135]

I want that endstone diamond ore. And other ores, really. It looks so alien yet enticing at the same time... really, how fun would that be? Especially if it was inside the islands. Would give don't dig down a whole new meanings =D. Great video, otherwise, I am a relative newcomer to Minecraft so I enjoy hearing about all the previous versions and the general history of the game.

[@wikinka135]

@@kaizoman-gl4s Yes. Unfortunately, lore-wise, it doesn't make sense for The End to have ores. Sometimes, logic is overrated (see firefly incident 😂).

[@wikinka135]

@@kaizoman-gl4s You know, it isn't directly stated but the theory I heard is that Enderman, while native to The End, visited the Overworld (hence the portal) and, obviously, brought some treasures back. And stored it in their cities. Put shulkers as guards. You can still see them pick up blocks, even thought they no longer know how to build like their... Ancestors? Previous generations? I mean, why would they put diamonds in there if there were not rare? The theory was more developed but it made sense to me and I guess I adopted it and consider it a "fact", or very close to the truth.

[@potatopotpie6108]

I really love the warden. It brings back that sense of fear and intensity you lose when youre in the end game with max metherite

[@romabrii]

5:23 Yeah, there was so much work put into even the worst structures. What about the best one, though-the desert well? How much work was put into that? 😅

[@killianobrien2007]

Still being updated to this day

[@diggintruths]

I loved going back and watching your back catalogue, it helped me through a dark time. Thank you Mr Toycat.

[@deeez00]

The Desert Well should have a few Prismarine Blocks under the water so we can collect all them to finish the Conduit.

[@pbrunet44]

6:12 Smithing table and fletching table

[@voiletreapercoyjr.8285]

Great video as always keep on keeping on Toycat!!! Also loved watching the old videos again takes me back to the first days I played minecraft before it came out for console.

[@Stormageddon2015]

I was wishing someone would start telling the history of Minecraft just the other day, thanks good video

[@Stephetheon]

I'm pretty sure the basement igloo is the only structure to generate a sign with text on it

[@autumnmaru]

You forgot to mention the backstory to the ocean monument

[@Tacodilesupreme88]

Though you briefly mentioned it, you forgot to talk about the ocean monument and it’s release

[@rynow1992]

I need 2 Toycat streams a day please! Thank you 😅

[@jme_jaime9542]

At that time where they added those structures, sure they were a bit underwhelming and didn’t have much use, but it helped add an aspect of world building to the game; gave it a bit of history of what was in the world before the player got there.

[@karanphokela5743]

I remember the first time I encountered a village. I thought they were other players that hacked their way onto my world.

[@MintyFarts]

villaeges before villagers actually fit MC better imo.. it always had these hints of post apocalyptic play. villagers were fun but also.. idk, they were in demand bvut were as far as ppl might suggest another intellegence shoudl be in the game.. illigers kinda took it a step over that line but treid to give answers to why the world was as it is.... however that removed a chunch of the sandbox, a huge chunk. ppl were no longer asked to interpret the environment and make theor own world but to accept a lore imagined by someone else...

[@username-my4ej]

6:15 laughs in fletching table

[@maninanikittycat4238]

12:31 top ten haunting photos taken moments before disaster

[@jeffkaylin892]

Doesn't the Minecraft Wiki say a Boulder is a structure? How about update those, so perhaps one out-of-a thousand has a tiny door where a troll lives, or a badger?

[@veiledmasquerade]

the jungle temple is no longer the only use of redstone in survival minecraft, the ancient city has a redstone piston door

[@takethel5953]

He said it was ONE OF the only places where redstone is found

[@veiledmasquerade]

@@takethel5953 damn. Guess I misheard.

[@bcmoore671]

one of my oldest minecraft memories is watching my brother play. he found one of those old villages with some houses having no doors and there wasn't any villagers. I remember telling him to get the door and put it on another house that he had. it was on a different world. I also had another one. it wasn't as old as my brothers because it had villagers. I was in creative mode but I didn't know what that was so I was still scared of mobs, I was probably just messing with the settings or something. so I went in one of the little houses at night because I was scared and I started building. later I had a whole house going across the village. I didn't know how to crouch so the village underneath was a mess. I remember bridging across the house making a huge mess. we had a "very old chair and we put it in some glass because it was "so old that if you sat on it, it would fall apart." we also had a hallway that we put a monster spawner in and a ghast egg so there was a lot of ghast in the village, we didn't destroy it because we thought the ghast inside was the one producing all of them and it would escape. we also never did anything do get rid of the ghasts... I had a garden roof with an enchanting table in the middle. I remember I was flying and didn't know how to get down so I left and rejoined the game. once when i was trying to master flying, I stopped for some reason and thought a horse stole it from me 🤣🤣 thats all I remember.

[@OversteerAllDay]

Dude I almost forgot that the old portal frames were used in the festive mashup world on xbox one edition nostalgia hits hard

[@fluffybrigand6853]

What if the igloo basement is an abandoned research lab where they discovered how to cure villagers.

[@Jessepigman69]

Imagine this, you’re walking thousands of blocks from 0-0. You see a single brick block poking above the ground, beneath it a 3x3 grid and as you keep removing more and more the amount of brick exponentially increases. You realise they have secretly added the brick pyramid back into the game but completely buried and covered in sus dirt

[@aussieguy6727]

I have only ever seen a red sandstone temple once was exactly the same as a normal temple apart from the fact that it was red sandstone

[@Latte-at-night]

Honestly? I think they should keep the dungeons as they are, we have many good structures in the game, i don't think there's really a need to fix them, and i feel like they're a nice little like... throwback? homage? It's the very first structure and i mean, you can tell, but it's still not like, bad, so?

[@johnphoenix1175]

Agreed. The dungeon is such a simple structure to understand. The spawner is the most valuable part and everything else is loot. It's a special location as long as the spawner exists. If that gets destroyed then it can't be replaced and the location ceases to be special.

[@attempt58]

The desert well is a birthday present to me. The exact day.

[@rhaeasoul8531]

They should bring back old structures like the house. Maybe players could stumble upon ruined houses with loot similar to starter chests.

[@miningandcraftingsince2013]

I have built both the second version of the starter house and the brick pyramid in my Minecraft world! Maybe obsidian wall should be next?

[@ryanslotto]

great breakdown, dude!

[@Akiriui]

Very enjoyable video toycat!

[@johnphoenix1175]

I'd like to see an item that instantly creates a structure when placed in the right area. Kind of like Superman's crystal that created his Fortress of Solitude.

[@patrickramos9251]

That guy jumped in the void at Level 57. Ouch! Anvils and enchanting tables are portable with silk touch. That is a no no.😂

[@Squiddy-go1du]

Is it weird that as much as it looked ugly, I’m getting nostalgia over the old old gravel texture?

[@Surfboarder4]

ancient city is getting 2 more loot items as well, the ward and silence armour trims! that's now 5 exclusive loot items

[@MrBakersPops]

"Shocking they add something with no purpose" - Looks at fletching table

[@scoopskicat]

I love these kinds of videos. I'm glad that you two did more!

[@MinecraftBeaker]

I love structures in Minecraft cause they’re fun to explore :D I wish they added new ones :(

[@brickpantsstudios853]

they're adding the ruined trails

[@soulpancake1018]

I liked this style of video Toycat!

[@toycat]

Thank you!

[@BetaToonzOfficial]

Maybe we need structure specific weapons and armor (like how the turtle helmet has a potion effect.) And also more potions with ingredients that you’ll need to find in structures too. Hot take: I like chimichangas.

[@isabellefaguy7351]

I like your videos about Minecraft history.

[@dannycraftreuploads]

9:09 I just got an ad that Dias magnificent isn’t it Cheez-It cheesy crunchy satisfaction

[@sizanogreen9900]

I still remember when the dungeon was the only structure present! And I remember them apples being added! *Things were better in the good'ol days!*

[@azazel56]

I think many many structures in minecraft need improvement. And I think mojang is being too scared with updates and not really going as far as they could.

[@ISimp4FictionalAndEmoMen]

8:07 i seriously said Ocean Monument-

[@jason19twofour]

I like the newer structures and new villages but the old ones had a liminal space feeling that I miss.

[@solaceofflame]

I play on hard. I fly around the ancient cities. I safe off the top of the portal in the center, place a bed, and run around gathering loot flying back to my bed when danger presents itself.

[@philipmartin7730]

Has MOJANG ever considered having different mansions in different bioms?

[@Liam-bh8qc]

"Fact:education blocks will spawn in a 1.949% chance in 1.15.7"it was a Feature, but it did not exist, and not before. Sadly it got removed.

[@thecatmanager]

Hambourgini! 🎉🎉🎉

[@thecatmanager]

@Everett Lewis haha

[@priyankapandit383]

15:40 you also get loads of enchanted gaps so i think that it is not balanced

[@brokoblin6284]

We need a structure update. 💯

[@CaptainProx]

I don’t think every structure needs to have a purpose or give massive loot I think them just existing can make the world feel full and interesting

[@MussoliniG59]

I’ve been playing all this time and I didn’t know the igloo had a basement!!!!

[@TheWatermelonSquad1000]

3:25 once i was playing minecraft with 2 other people and i found a dungeon with a name tag. one of the people teleported to me, killed me, and stole the name tag