10 Tips and Tricks for Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 

It feels so weird to have a beta tips and tricks video in 2024 but i love it.

As a person who has dug a large hole in Minecraft beta, I appreciate the large hole you have dug.

That fence under the farmland trick is 1000IQ, ngl

TIP 3.5: If you shear a sheep's death animation you get 1 extra wool block. 1 from it dying and 1-3 wool from shearing it.

😢 This video cured me of my fear of Minecraft “nightmares”!! All this time I thought the feature STILL existed and was always afraid of getting jumped in my sleep so I’ve always done the method you showed here! 😊

Literally a decade plus after last playing beta, I still remember all the tips mentioned here. Amazing how powerful nostalgia can be

Man this video such a throwback. I remember the day realizing fences dont work under farmland anymore and being so disappointed 😂

I miss how the beds worked in this version. Beds are now a free skip the night block but before you at least had to build *something* or it could not work

I needed this video 13 years ago.

I just randomly started playing this version of minecraft again then 3 days later I get this video in my recommended lmao. Back when beta 1.3 came out I had just started playing and by the time 1.7 came out was when I really started getting addicted to the game. This version of minecraft is the best imo. Great video!

That F11 issue has been an enormous pain in the neck when I used to play on 1.2 back in 2012, as well as recently my recent b1.7.3 modpack. Just as I find a mod to fix it, this video shows up with a very easy fix.

At first i thought it was for a future beta/snapshot but then I realised, and kept watching. Blast from the past.

I can understand what you mean about the duping feeling too 'cheaty', but I feel that using it for builds that require large amounts of glass is fair game. It's certainly preferable to stripping your beaches and deserts of all their sand and making them look ugly as sin.

Man these are actually great tips, especially the sword one. I just started a beta world with some friends so it’s super useful

After rewatching the video, there are a few things that could probably do with a bit of clarifying. 4:50. A sword breaks ALL blocks 1.5x faster than your fists do. Things like stairs, crafting tables and ladders that don't break any faster when using a tool are therefore faster to break with a sword. 7:13. Diamonds are most frequent between y=5 and y=16, therefore anywhere between these values is optimal. Mining at y=12 exposes blocks above you but it still might technically be slightly less optimal because veins above you could in theory spawn less frequently due to being above y=16. I believe y=10 gives you the most diamonds for distance travelled but then you'd have to deal with annoying lava pools so I don't think its really worth it. I can usually get about half a stack of diamonds per hour of mining at y=12 and its far more convenient. 8:41. Birch trees are technically optimal to farm if you need planks since they don't grow branches and they have more logs per tree on average, I pretty much only farm oak since i use the logs in builds mostly.

I don't know if this tip still applies since this is a loose memory from 2009 or 2010 but you used to be able to light a log or netherrack on fire and animals would spawn around it during the night time since it had light, and they would walk into the fire and die and give you free cooked food. I remember being quite proud of this discovery as a kid.

4:14 sooo that's why skeletons spawned out of nowhere whenever I tried to sleep 😭 I thought it was just random , never knew it was actually a feature, tysm for da tips ❤✨

nice tips man, some cool stuff in here. also i really like your mine and how you document the tunnel, thats pretty dope

It's SO refreshing to see this kind of video if a little nostalgic. Ty for making this 🙏

This game look cool. I can't wait to see how popular it gets in a year

I've been playing a lot of Beta 1.7.3 and never knew about some of those tricks! Especially the click mining and the farmland fence trick are super nice! Thanks for sharing :)

12:12 You can also hit F3 to see underground mob's nametags

thankl you so much, ive started playing the 404 challenge and these tips really came in clutch

I've been wanting a community of beta minecraft youtubers for YEARS now, so glad to see it finally becoming a reality. I always knew there was an untapped niche there

Why does older Minecraft look so good :( current Minecraft just looks so much worse to me, I can't place why

man watching these tips brings me back to my childhood discovering all of these things for myself purely by experimentation. i remember accidentally using my sword to mine something and noticing it being faster and then seeing exactly what that applied to. i remember wondering what would happen to gravel/sand if i picked it up off the ground with a sticky piston and then finding it fascinating that it just falls down again (i was a kid lol) so i spammed the lever and got infinite sand/gravel. i remember stip mining coming to me in an epiphany in maths class (i think from whatever we were doing with shapes in geometry that day). i remember doing the mining trick where you click every time to save time (i think they should bring that back btw), i never encountered the nightmare feature because i would always either sleep in my bed at my base or dig myself a cubby in the side of a hill or cave if i was exploring, but cool to know it was a thing. this video brought back a PLETHORA of memories and hours and hours of gameplay i had forgotten about. i remember what my first bases looked like, i remember that wonderous feeling of playing minecraft without knowing what was what and slowly discovering everything for myself. this video brought me almost to tears. thank you

This is a trip down memory lane. I remember playing Minecraft like this. The game has changed so much. I'm not sure I can remember all the mechanics of it now...

mice on venus played so many times😂 (cant complain its my favourite minecraft music track)

Really nice world dude. I play beta too, I usually play 1.5 (I had picked that version when I was younger cuz 5 is my favourite number). I dont like tall grass and the new cobblestone texture in 1.7.3 though... Thats why I havent changed yet. Can you make a video showing us your world? Some of the buildings I saw are quite impressive. My beta builds are trying to look like they were built in 2011. Your buildings on the other hand, use the old blocks but with the new era styling. Pretty cool man

The fence mecanics under crops is neat, i didn't know that even in 2011

Always have a water bucket on a accessible slot which you don't need to scroll to because it can save you from a lava pool and don't mine at y-13 because if you fall, you may not be able to get back again and leave after you have no food and at 3 hearts or lower because a mob or lava pool can easily kill you.

The thing in the mines with labeling the amount of diamonds found and stuff is a neat idea, gonna do that in my next world, no matter the version I'm on.

I'm playing in infdev right now, and that click mining trick helps a lot since I've been doing a lot of digging. Nice video!

6:47: strangely enough, i was doing exactly this yesterday and ended up finding a really big cave. Got out with 15 diamonds and i am convinced that there's still more. That was my second day in that world

I always thought that I was crazy when I discovered the sword thing myself xD great tutorial!

I have a Beta 1.8 world and have two things to add on to the mining tips, assuming they aren't here already. 1.) Swapping the sword to something else last moment will save the durability. 2.) Mining at the very edge of your reach distance is faster with timing clicks. I don't know the speed difference, but it can instant mine dirt, sand, and gravel.

I'm so blessed to find this video. Well made and very nostalgic. Thank you

The video has some excellent tips but i think you missed one. When you use the F3 menu the mobs have ID names above their heads which you can see through blocks so it is useful as an X-Ray as well.

Nice video! Didn't know about the sword trick

THIS IS GONNA BE MY FAVOURITE CHANNEL OMG

Great video! I actually learned new things! I like watching this kind of videos (beta mc), I might try it myself one day!

*ah. This takes me back fellas.*

I definitely like to revisit old versions of Minecraft for the nostalgia factor, but what is the motive behind sticking with the beta versions for long periods? What about the old versions is exactly appealing to you?

been playing beta for over a year now and never seen or heard anyone mention that cursor fix, that's awesome! keep up the videos!

Thank you, I've been getting into beta recently and these are very useful!

I haven't played Beta ever. This vid just got recommended to me. Still a really entertaining video, thanks for the effort, cheers

6:52 if you stare at the hallway long enough, it feels like it's jiggling and turning, like an optical illusion

As for the sand/gravel dupe, you don't actually need to click the lever every time and time it correctly. If you hold down right click, it's timed perfectly.

The version I played the most, still so much fun to play.

pretty cool video! on the nightmare / mobs attacking you in an exposed bed, i do wonder why the feature was removed; it encourages people to build shelters and brings comfort in actually having one with phantoms encouraging people to regularly sleep i feel like this would be good to encourage people to build temporary shelters along the way when exploring, or to return home after a while i dunno, cool world though, appreciate how organized and detailed you are when mining

man the day they changed the gravel texture … i remember hating it, and then never thinking about it ever again

Very useful, I knew about some of these as an avid beta player myself but it's cool to see them compiled so well in this neat video.

Fantastic vid, a little difficult to find vids about the quirks of this version. Glad you dropped this one❤

Keep it up! Your channel has potential!

Converse to stunting trees to be small, I think something that's always been in the game since large trees were added (and still works now) is forcing large trees to grow with a glass block placed above a torch diagonal to the sapling. It will work with enough bone meal or can grow naturally left alone but the game statistically _hates_ this because it means it checks the sapling every tick, then checks a call to try and grow it, then will choose a tree to grow out of the list, and if it's a small one the entire thing will be aborted. So doing this may take a while, so it's more a set-it-and-forget-it method.

if you wanna avoid mobs in caves press f3, they gonna light up with a nickname tags. 1.7.2 beta

If I remember correctly you can do the X-ray trick by shoving glow stone on your head with a piston as well

Oh man you don't even realise how much this game has changed until you see the older versions. I still think the old terrain and color palette were 10x better than what we have now. Also this video made me remember how controversial it was when Mojang introduced the hunger bar and sprint. I remember going into my world, building a 4 block gap and being amazed that I can jump over it. Seeing old Minecraft makes me wish someone made a version that has all the QoL updates of modern Minecraft, but otherwise no changes.

the cursor fix is a lifesaver!! thank you so much

12:42 Impressive, it's even dangerous when used improperly! I once tried glowstone and a minecart in beta 1.9 - and steve died of suffocating

just started a new beta 1.7.3 playthrough recently. that farmland trick will be useful lol. Thanks for the tips!

5:16 and every slab with a pickaxe!

Genuinely so helpful. My friends and I started a beta server for the 5 of us, and this will definitely come in handy :)

Its a crazy feeling that i remember the fence under farmland trick.

i organically learned of the farmland trick on a server because i saw other people’s farms using it

I KNEW nightmares were a thing!! I’ve brought this up and nobody else remembered it. I remember it being related to light level near your bed though?

I didn’t know for the fences under the farmlands ! Omg it’s the first time I see this trick thank you

I remember learning TIp #5 from old Team Avolition videos

Just started my first playtrough after start playing minecraft in 2015 for the first time effectively got bored of the current game style and downloaded it The fact that if you break a stair you won't get it back boggles my mind

Love it! I’ve been getting into Betacraft recently and I love seeing all of these videos from different growing channels. It very much feels like old RU-vid it’s great.

im pretty sure the “click mining” trick still applies in modern versions? one thing to add is it’s more worthwhile the faster the block would be mined. like if ur mining coal w a wooden pick, saving .25 sec per block isnt a huge deal. but if ur digging sand with a diamond shovel, .25 sec per block is very significant

Thanks for these tips I just started to play Minecraft beta 1.7.3 today its fun being back in old beta. these tips are very helpful!

The old knowledge need to be retaught again, beautiful

great video, i hope you picked up that sticky piston and redstone underground haha

Thank you for making this fabulous video! I love your style of making tutorials

if you want a chicken coop for aesthetics, once you shove a couple chickens in there you can keep throwing the eggs they make so even if they despawn, you can spawn your chicken babies back again

The spawn of mobs near the bed is related to the lighting level, just don't go to bed where it's dark

5:09 I KNEW IT!!!! I found this out on my own way back in the day and i still use the sword as a backup tool sometimes! idk if it's still a thing in newer versions tho.

seeing the old gravel and sound gave me a neuron activation

I appreciate you included exploits even if you don't agree with using them. So refreshing from the usual attitude of pretending the info doesn't exist

you are real minecraft beta genius

This video is awesome keep it up my man!

this music 😢😢 i want to go back in time

Very useful and fun video! My virtual appetite for some Beta 1.7.3 has just gotten sharper thanks to this video. Dropping a sub with the bell on for more Old Minecraft content like this ^^

It's weird to think about the fact that I've been playing this for almost 15 years

I think you can use glowstone for the xray glitch aswell. It may have been a later version I was playing but glowstone works too, at some point.

I still remember the old farmland fence post trick :D

Great video! Simply out of curiosity, why Beta 1.7.3 specifically? I know it’s quite popular but don’t know the reason behind it.

Good video!

Did you install optifine for this version? This version lags quiet badly for me at least. And something with the mouse is messed up because sometimes it appears to be inconsistent speed when looking around.

great video, I'm definitely gonna use some of these

You can unequip swords last second to not waste durability!

For a long while, I had no access to the internet, so I was stuck on 1.7.3, and it took almost a year to not subconsciously click mine anymore.

funny thing is click mining still works in bedrock edition but not java because of the combat update

10:55 It's like the end portal gravity block glitch in modern minecraft but it's much more simple

I love your channel

The nostalgia. Damn.

I never unlearned tip 5 so from time to time I will mine pumpkins, crafting tables, or leaves with my sword

If you're working on a project away from your base and want to sleep out there and don't eant to make a spot in the wall to sleep build a 2 high area to place your bed down and then you can sleep without interruption

This was nice thank you