150 Things Old Players Know About Minecraft 

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I remember when blocking with your sword on multiplayer servers was a universal peace sign

I remember playing with my siblings and whenever we heard cave sounds we'd lock ourselves up in that little house we built, thinking that it was Herobrine lol

I remember when you had to find a Jungle and find an ocelot to tame it and turn into a cat.

Turned 17 today. This is throwing me back to around 2013, when i first played minecraft with my friend

Old village is now considered veteran. Time is going fast…

who remembers when u could enchant anything so you would make the most op stick ever

I remember in Minecraft PE you could download your friend's world while in multiplayer and the copied default name was 'Temp' for some reason. Also another thing in Minecraft PE is the worlds weren't infinite and had an invisible boarder. However if you could build up to the max block height you can walk on top of the border infinitely.

I haven't played Minecraft in so many years and I remember all of this like it was yesterday. It's a bit overwhelming seeing how much it's changed!

I still remember when andesite, granite, and diorite got added. My friend and I were all ticked. We liked the simple caves and thought the new blocks were rather ugly. And those old boats, man when they changed that we did a happy dance.

I remember when my brother made this huge wooden prison and was really proud of it, then he added the lava. It disappeared very fast.

I started playing Minecraft in the late alpha days, I had so much fun back then. I still love Minecraft, but the magic of late alpha is something that hasn’t been recreated for me. I can’t believe I’m a veteran, it feels like just yesterday I powered up the game for the first time at the suggestion of a friend

I played a lot of Minecraft back in the day, then I stopped and a few years later I played with my friends who started playing after most of what you showed in this video, and I remember they would always get so confused when I couldn’t craft fences or when I can’t climb ladders with a space in between. Watching this video makes so much sense to me

it's crazy how much things have changed. like, the changes have felt so gradual over time, but when you really look back, the whole essence of the game is entirely different from what it used to be

I also remember when swimming was not a thing and instead you had to just slowly bounce your way until you found the next spot of land. I also remember when you could make a corner stair by it's self by making the corner stair with the two others on the side then simply removing them, I miss that feature.

I've played Minecraft since 2010...its amazing to see how far its come

the &e0 score thing was because back in the day Minecraft text had "&-codes" to display color, &e was for bright yellow while, say, &a was bright green and &3 was dark blue. Plugins for servers used to let you use them for chat colors / sign colors as well. The game must have just been bugged to not register the color code indicator for the score screen at the time.

I did not actually realize the blacksmith structure got removed. I remember in the very old versions the lava at the “forging station” often lit the wood on fire. Nostalgia

Man, this was a nostalgia bomb, started playing around 1.2 release. Does anyone else remember the trial version of minecraft where they would let you download and play minecraft for 5 in-game days without buying it?

i've been playing minecraft since 2012 and still a kid and on the ipad so i can barely remember the smaller details, but things like the two available flowers (and how the flower collection gradually expanded), the old boat, having to survive the night without a bed, are things so special to me, i'm glad i watched this video to remember them

I haven't been an avid minecraft player for years due to school and, well, life. These videos make me nearly physically ill with nostalgia. The blacksmiths hut being removed was probably the most monumental for me. every so often I'd get back on minecraft but when they did that village overhaul, it took a piece of my soul with it :(

I haven’t been up to date with Minecraft nowadays, so hearing the phrase “do you guys remember when…” and have it finish with something I still thought was possible is shocking LOL

I remember on pocket edition when the old blacksmith building's lava used to set fire to the village and I always had to rush to get the chest before it was engulfed in flames. Good times.

I've been playing since June of 2010 and I remember that annoying crop trampling. It was really only there for like 1 update, the very next update changed it to where only jumping on crops would un-till the soil and spiders could no longer trample your crops at all. Yes, during the crop-trampling, SPIDERS could trample them. All our farms were indoors lmao.

Absolutely loved this. So many things i actually thought i imagined i thought up but it actually was a thing. Thanks man!

I remember the old villages and when villagers clothes were just different colors. There were no blocks to set their profession and you never knew what you would get. Then walking through the caves that were all stone which I actually liked.

The blacksmith though. It was always the coolest part about the villages, and the “church”. Good times.

The most important difference to me is that nowadays you know how everything works - or you can google it. When i first fired up a furnace and discovered you could melt sand into glass, which was just a "guess", i fell in love...everything was just somewhat logical

This gave me just as much PTSD as it did nostalgia… -The old death sound and being woken up from mobs hit different.

Love how you used the og textures for the thumbnail, huge nostalgia rush :)

My biggest "old minecrafter" memory is the Nether Reactor Core, oh my god that takes me back

I started playing Minecraft the late alpha stages. The nostalgia when you return to old version or see old Minecraft videos is amazing.

Anyone remember when dead bushes were completely useless

Shoutout to the old pocket edition seed, “nyan”. Lava used to be almost impossible to find on pocket edition for some reason, and nyan was the best known seed with lava right near the spawn

You missed the important one. You could get you air instantly underwater by placing a torch next to a 2 block, no need to use fences or doors.

when I played old versions again recently, I realized the cows sounded way more aggressive, borderline scary

Man seeing old Minecraft takes me back to when me and one of my friends played together whenever we could. It has been several years since we even talked

I actually remember being able to tame ocelots like cats, and how cats would attack chickens! I only played superflat worlds because as a kid I really liked creative mode (and i was terrible at survival), and once I made a house, filled it with cats and chickens, and watched the chaos unfold!

I remember the old blacksmiths and the old villages. There were times when I would convert one of the houses into my own.

I started playing in early beta when I was 16. Seeing this, being reminded of all those little things just put such a big smile on my face.. thank you!

So many of the shown stuff bring a smile and good memories to me! Thanks for this man!

I have such a weird sense of Minecraft right now. To me, granite diorite and andesite are still the new blocks. Dark oak and acacia are still the new wood types. My mind gets incredibly blown away by all the nether content. Nether quartz still has a little bit of a "new thing" feeling to it. I still have the reflex to try to block with the sword to signify peace. And many of the changes you mentioned I didn't even realize they were changed, like I still thought golden apples were crafted with nuggets, and still vividly remember the water splashing sounds, etc. Minecraft has gone a long long way. I remember when ocelots were added. Jesus. The game has BEEES????!!!! AND IT'S NOT A MOD?!?!

If you guys didn’t know, the very first tutorial map (TU11 I think) was underwater in ruins in the last tutorial world they ever made, very sad

this video unlocked me so many memories... Thanks, man.

Remember when the zombie villager didn’t have it’s own spawn egg so you just had to spawn a bunch of zombies and get lucky?

To be honest, even though the game might be prettier now, I just miss how the old game looked. How dark it got, the contrast between different blocks, I know what we have now looks better but those old textures and lighting effects just hold a special place in my heart.

I remember when I was in middle school discovering minecraft back in earlier alpha I spent so many hours exploring the game and then when the yogscast started playing minecraft it was game over I was obsessed for years stopped playing after a few years but still will jump in and play or watch every once in a while for nostalgic reasons but it's come so far honestly I'm usually overwhelmed with how much new content has come out over the years

Some of these things were so nostalgic to me, like the old blacksmith and the old arrow sound. I'm maybe not that much of a veteran, I got 29/150, but I was just about 6 years old when I played it for the first so I don't remember many of the things. (It was my sister who got the game) It was in 2014 I think.

If you are watching this video not because of the main theme, just because it makes you feel nostalgic, *you* are a Minecraft veteran

Don't know if this was mentioned, but I remember when there weren't different door designs, all the types of wood would just make oak doors

bro you got me tearing up at the yogscast part. I've been playing Minecraft since the very beginning and those memories are some of my most cherished ones from being a kid.

Oh my god im old. I first played minecraft in 2012 as a 12 year old and now im 24 and still play it somedays but it will never be like the good ol days even i play old betas. What a great time to experience pc games, much love for your video.

This was mostly an "oh yeah, I remember that!" moments and it made me realise I'm not 8 anymore, I'm 19 next month and still play. My love for minecraft goes way back to 2011, thanks for the memories Notch.

I remember that blocking with your sword and crouching was a sign of peace. Because we all wanted to live in Minecraft irl, all the kids at school would put their hand across their chest like blocking with a sword when playing tag to show that they were not it and were peaceful. Man, we were creative back then

I started to play Minecraft because a friend of mine suggested me to try it. I was like in my early teens and now that I’m turning 21 in April, I cannot watch these videos without suffering the nostalgia of those times. I wish I could live them again with the mind I have now, knowing that were gold and I wouldn’t be feeling them no more like I did. If some young buddy is reading this and plays videogames, trust somebody who was born playing them, enjoy every one of your moments playing. Wheather with your friends or your family members, enjoy every moment you have because life gets shitty when you grow and the world looks not that bright you use to see it now. Be mindful of these words and think that when you’ll be older, you’ll remember those fragments of time with this damned nostalgic weight on your chest. Enjoy the life boys, as long as we could get beautiful memories out of it. ❤

Man I miss the old terrain generation, I've played Minecraft since around 2010 during alpha and I really miss the old terrain generation, I also hated when in beta 1.8 to around 1.5 or 1.6 there was no size limit for oceans and I hated it because sometimes they were thousands of blocks big, I hated those giant oceans. And I also still use the i key instead of e because I've been playing since alpha and I also miss the old creative mode inventory even with how messy it was.

i miss the old blacksmith chests. getting a chest in most houses in a village is cool and all but the loot is much less satisfying of a find. used to be one of my fave parts of the game - very happy we can still go back to old versions!!

I love modern Minecraft, there’s so much great content. But I would be lying if I said I didn’t miss the older versions of MC.

I started playing minecraft in 2013 on my xbox 360. Bedrock was always behind on updates, so I got to see many old features. This gave me so many good memories

One of my core memories was when I’d turned the music off in MC for some reason. I played at my friends house, and he had the music in very high volume. I asked why. He simply answered ”It’s kind of nice, I think.” I said ”Yeah, a little bit, maybe” If only I knew how much nostalgia the music would bring me.

Right-clicking with a sword was something that had been recognized internationally for peace. It didn't matter who was behind it, whether it was light, dark, old, young, male or female.

I remember when my brother first taught me how to play Minecraft. In creative, I built a brick box house with two smaller boxes on top. I used red stone torches (because I had no idea where I could find them) and I was hooked from there. What an amazing game, lol.

1:48 i remember this so well because i remember running to my brother and telling him they look 3d now and i was so excited cuz it was like a mod in mc

Some of these are really old, but some others are like "do you remember when the minecraft world only went down to level 0 instead of -64?". That was changed a few months ago.

Man the nostalgia, I think Minecraft will be one of those games that will last a LONG time

I’ve been playing for almost 13 years now, got pocket edition the week after it released. Seeing it through all the changes has been amazing.

when they finally improved the skeletons aim and shot frequency, i was absolutely terrified lmao. They were freakin DEADLY since then.

"Back in the earlier days of Minecraft.." You're a true veteran if you remember the first time this line was spoken

I grew up with pocket edition, It started with pocket edition lite there was like only a few blocks, and back then the textures were a lot darker, there was only a few mobs and the only hostile mobs that existed were zombies, oh and there was no caves.. which made finding iron extremely difficult, I remember being so happy to see an update for the game, and playing it back in the day with my cousins, and making friends through the game with apps that allowed you to host worlds, good times.

Just saw a comment about the Minecraft tutorials, and I remember sitting upstairs in my brothers old room with his old Xbox that was tucked away up there, and every weekend I would go to my dads house and play the tutorial world. It was my favorite world for a long time, and I made new saves super often. I had a weird obsession with it, but remembering it now, it’s so nostalgic.

think i started around 1.6 or so. man its changed. i remembered a lot of what u showed, and some stuff was new specifically the alpha and beta stuff.

I didn’t even know a lot of these were changed because I still play a lot of old versions. For example. The removal of blacksmiths and the fact that you can place double chests next to each other.

The og water sounds hit my nostalgia so hard for some reason

I remember so much of this stuff. I had no clue what I was doing back then so when I clicked this video I assumed I wouldnt know anything but no I remember loads of these. Little 8 year old me was so happy with a game that had so many weird features. I remember that the nether was a bit more than just ghasts and glowstone when I started playing but it still wasnt much but I was still so happy with it and for some reason I loved the nether. Also I always loved the yellow flower more than the red but I remember that I was obsessed with the blue droopy one. Idk if I played before that one came out but I think so because I remember flower updates. Oh and I really really miss the music continuing

only watching this because im still trying to remember when i first played minecraft and one of the biggest updates that stuck with me was tinted/coloured glass(or maybe the 'flat glass' im not sure, something with glass) but i know i had already at that time been playing for a bit.. i think i maybe remembers when there only was two types of flowers though and i think i might have been playing since 2011/2012

I remember the weird dancing Steves and when zombies dropped feathers. The reason they use to drop feathers is because at that time chickens were not added in and they needed feathers for arrows

Oh boy, the blacksmith was a HUGE nostalgia bomb. I started playing when I was about 5, (around 2012 or 2013) and I forgot about a lot of these features.

Personally, i started playing with the release of 1.7. I may not have much Memories of this time of my life, but i surely do have the ones of popping up the old laptop from my dad after school and just play my survival world on 15 FPS instead of doing my homework. Crazy to realize how young i were. Thank you Minecraft

I’m 21 now. I really enjoyed watching this… the nostalgia is crazy.

Do you guys remember the Nether core reactor? Or when sleeping restored health? Or when there was no such thing as a hunger bar? Then you qualify for a veteran’s discount.

Idk how many times I was just called a Minecraft veteran. What I do know is that old Minecraft was and is just so magical. As improved and expanded as the new game is, there’s something about the simple bright Minecraft of the past the feels right

Minecraft came out when I was 6. Most of the “veteran” stuff is lost to me because I was too young to play let alone remember it. I didn’t start playing until I turned 9 and I’ve been playing since. I still remember when my dad put me on his Xbox for the first time and started me up on the old tutorial world. He didn’t teach me much about the controls but I thought I figured them out enough to play the game before getting myself stuck in a hole. I ended up having to wait for my dad to get home to let me out. Still one of my fonder memories with my father

My sister is a minecraft veteran, I thought i would remember more because I would watch her play but when I joined the game had developed a lot more so that's kinda sad. This video gives me so much nostalgia non the less :)

10:29 This is something I wish they still had. The mobs had a chance to spawn if your bed was not in a lit/enclosed area. It made it more of a priority to have shelter on the first nights instead of just finding a sheep and being completely safe at night.

Damn. I was 7 when I started playing Minecraft, I’m now in my teens. But damn, THE OLD VILLAGE WAS NOSTALGIC MAN. I remember when all of my friends built their bases in the “church tower”. Where has the time gone?

Deaths: 0:06 Exploded by Creeper 1 0:24 Fell from a high place 1 0:28 Fell from a high place 2 0:35 Fell from a high place 3 0:39 Exploded by Creeper 2 0:55 Exploded by Creeper 3 1:11 Swim in lava 1 1:20 Tried to escape AceVisconti_ 1:26 Swim in lava 2 4:00 Unknown 7:10 Fell from a high place 4

I know you talked about beds not existing but I'm sad you never talked about wool beds when we built houses. We used to place down wool and pretend it was a bed to sleep on. Another thing I don't think you mentioned was the OG minecraft on the web browser. Where multiplayer existed as it didn't exist as a client back then. We had a sort of creative menu which we had in single player and blocks was very limited. Along with the gold blocks having a yellow and orange blend mix of colours along with the diamond having a silver and blue blend mix of colours. There's a handful of true OG features from pre-alpha that was missed. :(

I come from 1.5.2 and one thing I miss the absolute MOST is when hostile mobs would try to attack you in Creative mode, but only if you hit them. Spawning hundreds of zombies or pigmen then hitting just one was one of my favorite pastimes XD And still to this day I try to type "toggle downfall" to make it rain. I also remember when you could destroy blocks with a sword in Creative mode

The endless summer nights spent playing Minecraft... The good ol' days.

I have a very vivid memory of me and my cousins playing MCPE and wanting to make a hunger games map (pre servers and game mode changing) so we spent like 5 months making a cool map in survival, just to keep killing eachother when the map was done

bunch of "back in the days" You reminded me: losing a bucket of lava while smelting 😞; different armours had same defence capabilities - only difference was in durability, thus making leather armour was good strategy to get underground; farm creatures were spawning next to torches(light sources in general) - there were no breeding, thus making some farm mob-grinders.

This is just a tsunami of nostalgia. Brings back so many memories. I remember when I was 8 playing minecraft for the first time and now here I am 19 years old. It's crazy how time starts to fly when you get into highschool.

I remember 99% of all of this, the amount of nostalgia I got whilst watching this 😭 I just remembered my oldest worlds and watching them grow I remember when wheat was first added, I harvested it too early since I didn’t know what it was supposed to look like The nether reactors and the limited worlds, the blue roses in PE, when villagers first came, the rarity of the sugar cane, the fear of the mobs being so great you almost never left your little house Damn, it made my childhood very happy

I feel so old rn. I started crying watching this video. I'm a Minecraft veteran. I remember back when the tree leaves turned a pinkish colour at sunset!

Oh man i forgot about like half of this. Wicked nostalgia. I still try to switch tools to save durability though XD Resisting the urge to rewarch and comment on literally every clip

Man, I still vividly remember discovering the update with the different plank types and how angry i was that mojang was adding pointless features. Flash forward to 2022, where we have blue trees and like 10 different types of stone

It's funny how despite joining Minecraft late I am now considered a veteran.

OMG the command part is so relevant to me even today. I never got aground the „weather clear“ command in my creative world I always type \toggledownfall in and then remember.. I also always used the \gamemode command with the number. (1 was creative and 0 was Survival I think)

I'm only just coming back to minecraft after not really playing it since 2014/15 and I'm sitting here saying "wait that's changed? That's not in there anymore?" And I didn't realise how early in the game's development I found out about the game considering we didn't really have internet back in the day

I remember when villagers were silent, couldn't open doors, couldn't trade, and only wore brown robes. I also loved it when the survival music continued to play no matter what gamemode you were in, if you paused it, or if you were on the title screen.