We found Minecraft's lost levels. It took 15 years.

[@Lampe2020]

"Can it run doom?" is kinda a running joke in the tech community, asking for any piece of tech that even comes close to computing if it can run doom. And about Minecraft we can now proudly say, "Yes, it can.".

[@LandonEmma]

Super Minecraft Bros: the lost levels.

[@AveragePumpkin204]

Minecraft: order of the lost levels

[@LandonEmma]

@@AveragePumpkin204 YES!!!

[@izzbloxian]

Mario: First time?

[@zopiumwastaken]

Minecraft 2: The Lost Levels

[@CROSSFZZED]

Thanks for saying what everyone wanted to say

[@SpectreProtomoth]

"There are ants in my skin" has to be one of the most relatable reactions to anything I think I've ever seen, and idk what that says about me as a person, but hey! You got a laugh out of me, and this video was really fascinating, so here's a sub. Keep it up, man!

[@AaronSartin-ii6dx]

110 likes but no reply's? let me fix that.

[@Welvrt]

I can finally play doom in Minecraft now

[@Commodore_Plus4]

Hi Welvrt!

[@Welvrt]

@@Commodore_Plus4 no way, hi commodore!

[@Commodore_Plus4]

@@Welvrt Hi Welvrt!!!!

[@Welvrt]

@@Commodore_Plus4 hi commodore!!!

[@timeblade]

@@Commodore_Plus4Hi random guy I don’t know!

[@GameJam230]

I think one thing that the seed hunting/historical world search communities should do is make a giant museum with dioramas and displays that warp you to visual and audible explanations of the history and search process of certain worlds. Imagine a hall of paintings that you can jump into like it’s Super Mario 64 to get a guided and narrated tour of the explanation of the world’s tallest cactus seed, visually explaining how chunks generate and place cactuses and how certain types of seeds and chunks can result in cactuses overlapping. Instead of just explaining it with an algorithm or a video, it’s a fully 3D scene you can move around it while it visually moves block displays around to show you how the game does it. I even suggested the idea in the Minecraft At Home group, but it only got a mild amount of interest before dying out. It could be an amazing project, and one that can even be added to every few months or so, and would forever preserve the history of the game and how it’s grown over time.

[@pocketsizedweeb]

3 months later and we technically have Mario 64 paintings using an official datapack from Mojang. If they can incorporate that into a museum type thing, I think it'd be fun.

[@the_dommo]

"a game called DOOM" people don't know doom off of the top of their heads anymore?? oh no...

[@TharanakSpada]

we're doomed

[@shelbybunny]

yeah, i felt old as hell reading that and i wasnt even around for dooms original release lol

[@narnianninja4964]

If it makes you feel better, I'm born in 2007 and classic Doom is one of my favorite games. I was just playing earlier

[@TharanakSpada]

@@narnianninja4964 born 2005 here, but yeah, if it weren't for the fact I grew up on old tech my parents had, I wonder if I'd even be interested in Quake, DOOM, or any other games I've played.

[@kellymountain]

god I'm getting old

[@RandomSageless]

4:05 I was not ready for the Lee bear reference 💀

[@Over0w0MeAmTheHotel]

Same

[@Eventlesstew]

Double Same

[@op-nl7dj]

Its banjo from banjo and kazooie

[@FaultTec]

theres a server i found called claytonia, been running since 2012 with no world resets, found it while scrollin old survival servers on PMC.

[@mosshivenetwork117]

That's cool. What version is it?

[@FaultTec]

@@mosshivenetwork117 they keep the server updated to each version to this day so currently runs on 1.21.1

[@classicube]

Super cool! I remember hearing about these when I became a regular on the irc in ~October of 09, but hadn’t seen them in action. Great job archiving them!

[@mcbyt]

the one and only classicube himself

[@ideac.]

i wonder how much story old minecraft still have left, its crazy that eventually minecraft will turn 20, we all getting old but this info is still new to everyone, amazing video as always

[@Artyomann]

Would've been fun to get the convertor itself to see how more detailed wads would've looked like

[@kellymountain]

go 2 it but it's all cobblestone

[@5xl1m]

your voice seems just like MCBYT

[@sp34277]

what channel did you think you were on

[@ghostslider]

wonder why?

[@NotJey78]

Maybe because he is MCBYT

[@mcbyt]

no flippin way

[@ghostslider]

@@mcbyt he might be trollin

[@cyancoyote7366]

Don't you dare call IRC "prehisroric Discord", Discord ain't got no shit on IRC.

[@ВладиславАрхипов-р8э]

Now, all we left to do, is to find that doom converter program to port DooM and DooM 2 levels to Minecraft...jk, who would need that anyway?

[@heitordau108]

MCBYT COPELANDS HEROBRINE STREAM WAS FOUND I REPEAT COPELANDS HEROBRINE WAS FOUND

[@DapcsMasta]

YES

[@mcbyt]

WEE WOO WEE WOO HEROBRINE ALERT yeah i saw that, legitimately one of the coolest pieces of MC history that's been discovered recently! i don't think i personally will make a video about it because a lot of other great KZbinrs have covered the story already, but i'm really happy that copeland's stream has finally been found :) now, there's just one more lost minecraft video to find... 👀

[@DapcsMasta]

@@mcbyt yes

[@MinerBat]

@@mcbyt which one? surely there are more than one lost minecraft videos

[@sebbog]

@@MinerBat The first one, I guess.

[@sulac4ever170]

... and where exactly can we download them? Would be great to not lose them once again, by spreading them far and wide for crowd archiving 😅

[@mcbyt]

Ah, thanks for reminding me! A link to the DOOM levels is in the description :)

[@sulac4ever170]

@@mcbyt you're welcome ☺️

[@piemonstereater]

3:20 That Japanese is completely jumbled. 一人以外 would probably be better. 以外前ひとつ doesn't even imply a human, I have literally never seen 前 used like that before in my life, and 以外 (the word for except in Japanese) almost always comes after what whatever is being excepted. Really enjoyed the video otherwise, and am glad to see yet another piece of Minecraft's history preserved.

[@Pitcch]

Half Japanese here, completely agree with you that it's just gibberish. Otherwise it's a really great video, honestly didn't even read notice there was Japanese in the video until I saw your comment haha

[@TheGeladoo]

People using Japanese just for the ✨️Aesthetics✨️ while completely fumbling the actual language is always funny

[@kellymountain]

​@@TheGeladoo and it's always japanese for some reason. always funny as hell though

[@mcbyt]

to be fair, i genuinely did try to get it actually right. like i didn't just copy google translate, i spent about 15 minutes searching for what the proper way to write "one" in this case would be ... and i still fumbled it LOL

[@Pitcch]

​@@mcbyt Tbh Japanese is pretty complicated and there's usually many different ways to write the same things, and the meaning can change depending on context too, it's completely understandable

[@mihailos8701]

Good work, thanks for the video! I appreciate everyone who have put effort into finding this piece of digital history It'll be great to port these Doom maps into that Doom April First Minecraft version 😃

[@Crawldragon]

The fact that you pronounce the word "hangar" like it's the name of an Orcish war chief is putting ants in my skin.

[@maxinehowland8246]

BTW "hangar" is pronounced the same as "hanger"

[@narnianninja4964]

That was driving me crazy lol. He sounds way older than me but seems so clueless about Doom and... pronunciation I guess 😅

[@R2Bl3nd]

​@@narnianninja4964some people have read a lot more words than they've actually heard. And it's actually really common to hear non-native speakers make a ton of mistakes like this because not only have they never heard the words before, but they don't have a good sense of the rules for how words should be pronounced, so they assume a lot more wrong pronunciations. A big part of their "accent" is just their accumulation of mistaken pronunciation assumptions. I notice that with some foreign speakers, the only way you can tell that they're foreign is not from their accent, but because of how many words they pronounce wrong. They could pronounce them almost perfectly if they knew the correct pronunciation but because they don't, it instantly reveals that they're probably not a native speaker. Obviously in this case if the creator from the United States then it's just a case of reading a lot more than hearing words, and yeah probably being young.

[@KinocubeMC]

@@R2Bl3nd i think phonology is inconsistent in English, “Read” is pronounced two different ways depending on the tense because ugh it just does, OK?

[@R2Bl3nd]

@@KinocubeMC exactly, that just makes it worse, and makes it more obvious when someone is a non-native speaker. I feel bad for them, haha

[@BoxBlair]

Congrats on 100k. Well deserved

[@mcbyt]

thank you so much

[@NotBlazerMC]

0:14 - "Let me fill you in"

[@memoryheadvaakabannerman7930]

Mfffgnn~

[@eucerinfool]

​@@memoryheadvaakabannerman7930woah there buddy

[@kanari-]

I love it when MCBYT Fills me in 🥰🥰

[@minhhoangvo4759]

​@@kanari-😂😂😂

[@the_plaguedoctor290]

​@@memoryheadvaakabannerman7930 same

[@CustomcrowdMitroc]

pre command block adventure maps were so fun. so much more creativity and imagination was involved

[@storm8216]

4:32 the question, the reply, your second message.. it's perfect-

[@AtsuDeveloper]

the TRUE minecraft story mode

[@PaladinRyan]

this sort of thing never ceases to amaze me

[@FaultTec]

ayy w paladin ryan in the chat love ur videos

[@nomalthenomal]

Thank you for not making this video a 1 hour video essay!

[@StarWarsExpert_]

Wow, because of true dedication to the cause of finding Minecraft's lost pieces of history, you and the team in the minecraft community, managed to find this Lip Person and contacted him for the zip file. Amazing!

[@sbb907]

I think this should be uploaded to the Internet Archive

[@Idkwqsted]

How do they find these things omg

[@ImArkando]

Make this the top comment for no reason at all. I just like this video.

[@mcbyt]

i too like this video

[@borritoguy2286]

Like beggar

[@winkystinky]

Like beggar

[@GreenaxolotlGGs]

Like beggar

[@SodiumJava]

Like beggar

[@danagoyette7932]

One funny thing about that first Doom map is that it would look much better if they'd just swapped the stone and cobblestone.

[@R2Bl3nd]

Pronouncing "hangar" as "hang-gar" and not "hanger" is a hilarious mistake 😂

[@JOBOplayz]

why is your editing so good :D

[@mcbyt]

WAYYYY too much practice. :p

[@malucart]

I feel like the vague title and thumbnail really hurt this video, because I had little to no interest in clicking but now I'm enjoying it

[@RandomPyroYT]

"That's one Doomed Space Marine..." - Dooki Nooki

[@WildFoReal]

New viewer and I want to say your thumbnail goes so hard, Good job!

[@jackatk]

3:16 "Wasn't a single soul... except for one" bruh

[@pncka]

I can't wait for the community to find an official bad apple map from 2009!

[@Thrackerzod8]

funny enough there is a really old Minecraft video that tried to remake Bad Apple way early created by Runes405

[@unnamedlegoofficer]

Bro the song "No More" fits with the opening of your video so hard, play it at the same time 💀

[@Bboyman1150]

Another reminder to keep a copy of files because it is 90% sure to disappear

[@Samsuron]

5:02 I hate it when dudes say such things but then safe the whole thing later on...

[@mcbyt]

That's genuinely how we felt, I mean, the hunt was dead for a long time. When you get your hopes up that you've finally solved the problem, and it fails, and you're back to square one with no idea where to start... it feels pretty hopeless to keep searching

[@DJSlimeball]

now we just need to find the minecraft java tutorial level!!! (it probably doesn't exist)

[@AmyStrikesBack]

Imagine a world where Minecraft used .wad for saving maps

[@DrOrphi]

finally i watched again a minecraft story video. I love those

[@Creative_YT]

Let this serve as a reminder, as motivation. If you’re searching for something but just can’t seem to find it, don’t give up. Never give up. I guarantee you, if you keep looking and looking, eventually, you’ll find what you’re looking for. Ask for help from other people, there is a huge, and I mean HUGE community surrounding lost media, and generally just helping people find things. Even if all hope seems lost, if you’re completely in the dark, there will be a light. It may seem distant at first, but you need to follow that light. It’ll most likely take some time to reach, and sometimes it may seem like it’s not getting any closer, but if you stay persistent, and keep heading towards that light, it will pay off. Never give up!

[@edenengland1883]

we technically never actually found pack.png, we just found a list of a few thousand seeds that contain that visual section in it, we'll never know which one is the REAL pack.png

[@Scypek]

Isn't pack.png just... a png? The task of "finding a minecraft world someone created but literally never uploaded anywhere, or even recorded or screenshotted any part of it besides the one place we know" would be... a philosophically interesting challenge. Some real "if a tree falls in the forest" stuff.

[@ItzFlibat]

Time to play some Doom in Minecraft

[@NightmareRex6]

i hope the doom 3 super flashlight mod can be found again. blue unlocked doors red blew stuff up eta.

[@Blaster1360]

7:33 "hang-gar"

[@justadreemurr]

notch really looked at the game he made and said "but can it play doom?"

[@Ren-bo7bj]

This is really cool! But was the level converter ever found? I'm tempted to play around with it just for fun

[@tobytoad3221]

Don't forget to mention the work on panorama the old art background for minecraft

[@alex15095]

It's funny you calling them "researchers". I played Minecraft back in the old old days and I joined the omniarchive discord some years ago just because I thought maybe I'd find some people who shared similar experiences. Instead, I was treated like I'm either some sort of a specimen/artifact or a troll. I left pretty quickly because no semblance of humanity was displayed by any of the "researchers", whose hobby seems to be mostly just tracking down and harassing individuals while treating them more like a hard drive than a person, hoping to get their name on something that's ultimately completely inconsequential to the history of the game

[@mcbyt]

I understand how you feel. I've got great respect and appreciation for Omniarchive, but I've certainly had issues with some members there. There have been some there that treat old players like nothing more than a tool, a means to an end, a way to get those old files they want so much, often just for the recognition. But you should also know, those are a zealous few. The vast majority of people in the Omniarchive community are ones that are genuinely interested in the history of the game and hearing the experiences of early players, and people like Zunaka have generally gone about their research, and contacting early players, in as respectful a manner as possible. I'm very sorry to hear you didn't have a good experience, though, and you're not the only one I've seen with a poor experience like that.

[@minipz9thebastfiiter509]

This could be used to find the now lost Minecraft Castle vid

[@sahilhossian8212]

Lore of We found Minecraft's lost levels. It took 15 years. Momentum 100

[@izzbloxian]

So they're not lost anymore and now they are found levels

[@The_Blue_Sky.]

Can you send us the file?

[@mcbyt]

A link to the DOOM levels is in the description :)

[@grafikz]

i still wanna know what the actual importer looks like

[@Daniel-tv5rc]

Ending a video saying thank you all have a good one peace peace with Minecraft music just makes me cry

[@James2210]

Too bad we don't have the tool that was used to convert those levels

[@beyond_5dtemp]

5:45 I built the nought and crosses build in the top left :)

[@deleted-something]

This channel is almost as good as the discord

[@Devynnohseven]

we got doom in minecraft before GTA V

[@sanjum2475]

wow! good work! i had never heard of these

[@jackocarina8007]

7:05 you didnt just pronounce "hangar" as hang-gar lmao

[@jess648]

nowadays you could probably actually fully recreate doom down to game logic inside just vanilla mc

[@mcbyt]

Oh, for sure. I've seen it done with mods and command blocks, but with some of the more recent updates allowing for easier custom items/textures/animation/models, I think it could be done better than ever before.

[@arclo63]

I assume you thought of this, but the reason is not immediately clear to me: why didn't you ask Notch himself if he had what you were looking for?

[@mcbyt]

Notch has been contacted for everything under the sun, really. He was contacted several times for a previous file I helped search for - tominecon.7z - but wasn't able to provide it. I didn't personally contact him for doomlevels.zip, but I believe someone else involved in the research did.

[@ItzMario33]

Finally, DOOM in minecraft

[@Pombal_net]

which version of mc i have to load for make the doom levels work???

[@shadowkrooks]

Minecraft : The Lost Levels.

[@Twenteeeee]

As a huge doom fan I am very happy

[@CHARSARG]

Wait a muinute, the levels were made witha genererator. So someone could have just remade the generator and regerenerated the levels

[@CROSSFZZED]

Wtf i remember wanting to experience this

[@CROSSFZZED]

I got it in classicube

[@VirtualGab]

Finally, minecraft 2 Japan

[@hexiphole]

I never heard of this level but nice!

[@winkystinky]

You sound like life noggin

[@Pqtrick]

how did u get the file explorer minecraft head at 4:39 i NEED IT

[@LightslicerGP]

I'd like to know how to get ANY custom heads in singleplayer mc

[@EliaszekEN]

5:09 is that the gummy bear guy

[@sfk_human1377]

in what version of classic and how can i load them??

[@Billy_plays2017]

Where all the lost entity’s and data live

[@mikuonvinyl7872]

Like and share 💙

[@angzarrpsyco]

So wait, was the Doom Level Converter also with the levels?

[@mcbyt]

Unfortunately not - that one's still lost media. Notch never shared that with anyone that we know of, unlike the DOOM levels, so the only person that *might* have it is Notch himself.

[@perfectionyt]

Yes mcbyt~~ fill me in!

[@mcbyt]

,,

[@trollkommando67]

now if someone could find my original beta world from 2011 😭 that would be nice

[@cheezkid2689]

the way you pronounced hangar is getting to me, man

[@maxspeuboa5701]

The link for the first world is dead

[@MobCat_]

hengar... my god its hangar, like an aircraft hangar. I don't want to be that guy, but how do you not know what the first level of doom is called, in a video about doom levels.

[@shinevee-github]

last I checked zunaka wasn't a man

[@ZoofyZoof]

The fact that you can't correctly pronounce the name of the level is saddening. "hang-gar"? What? Oh my good lord you're doing it consistently, I'm going to have a stroke... It's hang-er. HANGER.

[@mcbyt]

i thought it was pronounced that way, my bad

[@ZoofyZoof]

@@mcbyt I apologize for overreacting, I do that all the time when someone bothers me. Yes, it's spelled Hangar, but it's pronounced Hanger. It's not misspelled either, hangar is a word.

[@mcbyt]

@@ZoofyZoof I know it's spelled that way - I just don't think I've heard the word said before, only read it, so I just guessed on how it was pronounced.

[@wassup37]

OH WOW... wait there is doom??

[@DokterKaj]

8:15 Excuse me what are those usernames in the background

[@FM_MC]

great video minecraft boss youtube

[@RichmondDoesThings]

Who was here when we found it? I was here

[@GMDTheOnyxGuyEizzX]

4:05 Out of context image

[@Niiqiie07]

New video let's go 🔥🔥🔥

[@h1pixel]

h1pixel Approved

[@Іапа]

thats amazing

[@pnk4777]

bro

[@dryft7906]

is that e1m1 in the thumbnail?!

[@mcbyt]

Yep! Slightly modified from the version in doomlevels.zip (i just changed some stone to wood) but that's it, alright!