200 Things Old Players Know About Minecraft 

I remember when mossy cobblestone was one of the rarest blocks in the game

Only OGs will remember that dark patch glitch that sometimes generates in a world, typically in mountain faces or caves. Then once you place a block in it you basically break the glitch

A couple more things vets will remember: - Early versions of the Nether sounded terrifying because ghasts kept randomly flying into lava or burning netherrack and could actually be damaged by them. - Furnaces could be used as hidden stashes because they had a regular stone texture on top. - Building minecart boosters because powered rails didn't exist yet. - Using water ladders to climb up super quickly.

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Fun fact about the death screen no longer saying "game over!" It still says "game over!" when you die on a hardcore world, which is very fitting as well lol.

Does anyone remember the time when clay was incredibly rare? If you wanted to build a brick house, you had to spend hours looking for clay in rivers and lakes. The spawnrate for clay seemed incredibly finite.

I remember when the only thing the Nether was useful for was fast travel to somewhere far away in the overworld. We had full rail stations in the Nether complete with minecart dispensers to get from one side of the map to the other quickly. The hardest part was not getting ganked by ghasts while we were building the rail ines.

Does anyone else remember the water elevators? You’d use a boat at the bottom and you’d shoot to the top

Does anyone remember the good old days when you could craft a bed with different types of wool, and get a red bed? Or making dirt beacons to find you're way back home?

bruh.. Seeing the blacksmith considered an old thing makes me feel EVEN older.. and I’ve been playing since 2010.

I also remember these few things from older versions - Pumpkins already have faces carved and doesn't grow if you don't till the dirt around. -You can't place jack o lanterns on glass block or fences -your own dog will attack you if you hit your self with an arrow -sheep wool don't regrow -you can have water in nether by bringing and breaking ice block

I remember 90%+ of these because they weren't just exclusive to beta or alpha. They stuck around for a LONG time. I remember after release updates 1.2, 1.3, and 1.5 were MASSIVE updates. None of the other updates since have compared.

Little note about the old enchanting tables: You could absolutely read the text and see what the enchants were, you just had to learn what each symbol meant. I've all but forgotten it now, but back in the day, I used to translate enchanting table scriptures for my friends over Skype

I was really upset when they removed the ability to block with your sword. I was young and horrible at the game when I was finally able to get it on my computer but I remember joining public servers and playing cops and robbers, you’d spawn with a sword and in a cell with cell mates, whom could easily kill you, but you often made the sign of peace to prevent that

I remember being really excited for beds, stackable food, animals all dropping unique meats. I also remember zombies dropping feathers and fire spreading forever.. oh, and debug towers for stronholds. edit, you mentioned some seeds but I can't belive you didn't mention 404 (challenge) or "gargamel" which was my favorite

I never played on pc until 1.6.4 but it's amazing how much of this I remember simply from experiencing the Xbox 360 edition port by 4J Studios of minecraft beta 1.6.6 I think the first update I really remember was TU3 when they added pistons My first true survival experience was on one of those fully snow worlds that generated occasionally and I remember living on a frozen lake and building a 2x3 simple piston door because I was still scared of the mobs So much nostalgia I wish I could revisit those worlds just to see them again

Back in early days I used to build a mountain base with my friends. Good times.

I’m 20 minutes in and this makes me miss the feeling Minecraft used to give me. The old sounds and music really makes me miss old school Minecraft. P.S. I’m still afraid to run over my farms.

I first started playing MC in 2013 when i got the pocket edition its amazing how far it has come i remember when there was barely anything huge. No caves, wood types villages and other structures and infinite worlds you was stuck on a small square and had to make do especially with any of the few hand full of biomes at the time that generated and for the nether you had the nether reactor, it wasn't till 0.9.0 when all of that came.

I still build my base in a mountain. It just feels right to me. Also I remember SO MUCH THAT YOU MENTIONED. I remember the fast world generating, the cave sounds, the animals appearing, the Nether being so pathetic at the time, the weird Skeletons, the blacksmiths, the farmland getting ruined, the yellow flower, Mods and Texture Packs, Herobrine, the Temple of Notch, no hunger bar, the amazing power and speed of bows, no stackling food, the door sound, punching sheep for wool, the old hurt sound, no sprinting, the bed attack, old creative mode, pig being food only, staring creepers, the old explosion sounds, the rose, TooManyItems (never actually used it though), no beds, I as the inventory key, old gravel, feather zombies, YOGSCAST (I still watch them and go back to that series when I feel nostalgic), punching TNT, Achievements, body just disappearing, spam clicking the sword (I still am mad), fire spreading, sword blocking, the old lava texture, thw only wood planks being oak, chunk errors (never encountered them myself), the golden apple crafting, non-toggle brightness, exposed dungeons, annoyingly rare cookies, OP bonemeal, Testificate!, endgame diamonds, no recipe book, max build height 140 blocks, bouncy animals, old Minecraft launchers, the workbench, stairs to blocks issue, gravel pathways in villages, no shift click, no upsidendown or corner stairs, old Mojang logo, pulling down while drowning, pig spawner in multiplayer, old water sounds, old commands, village torch lamps, random lakes in deserts, terrible skeleton aim, o ly red collar colors and no nametags, old now and arrow sounds. Another one, Ghasts were weak to lava and fire. Just remembering a Ghast taking fire damage while floating into a lava fall and SCREAMING EACH TIME IT TOOK DAMAGE AND DIED is still ingrained in my memory.

The thing that hit hardest for me was the old launcher. I was real young back then and I remember really wanting to play Scrolls and Cobalt.

Not very veteran but before the village update all you had to do to breed villagers was place a lot of doors around. I really wanted to say this somewhere for like a month now, I finally found an opportunity, that thought just refused to get out of my head! It's not surprising if people forgot about it or never even knew it was a thing cuz villagers weren't as useful before the village update

as a beta player, I remember most of this stuff, some of the alpha stuff was still in beta so I remember those lingering ones, as for the village paths, I prefer gravel, looked better

12:03 I remember when Zombie Villagers had no spawn egg, you had to use a regular Zombie egg and getting a Zombie Villager would be rare

100 Features ONLY in Minecraft Bedrock Edition coming soon!!

I had a lot of fun playing beta with you for some clips :)

5:12 Not only would creepers go slightly left and explode, so too would skeletons move slightly left before shooting. The only mobs that would go straight to you would be zombies and that is how Etho sorted hostile mobs before cats, dogs and turtle eggs. 7:07 Been so long, but I think you had to crouch and sneak to prevent your farmland from being destroyed.

It's hilarious watching this as I literally haven't played minecraft since 2012 think it was in the beta stage at this point, I'm 28 now, so yeah. Just find this really interesting I have no idea how this game has evolved but, really enjoyed watching this :) thanks.

I started in 1.9.3 (~2016) yet I still recognize a lot these features, crazy to think the game changed so much in just over 6 years

4:08 I've been playing for more than a decade at this point and I had no idea about this! I do remember being annoyed in my first minecraft world when they stopped spawning after a while and then one day I ventured out rather far and came back to see a pig and cow finally had spawned and I was so excited that animals were appearing again.

I officially feel old AF. Minecraft came out when I was still in elementary school.

Started playing MC in 2012. I'm so glad this game still has a dedicated community

Its always a good video when you start out with hearing "Back in the Earlier days of Minecraft"

When Anthony makes a new video, you know it's gonna be good. I remember alot of this stuff, man. The good old days of Minecraft were great.

The level of nostalgia this gave me is indiscritable

I remember the notch apple recipe, old village structures, gravel paths, orange wool in desert temples,old water sounds, building diamond houses, and spam clicking ender pearls. I'm disappointed that the combat update made a cool down feature where you have to wait for a sec, and now the villages look different nowadays. And I'm sad that they replaced the water sound.

22:11 bedrock has kept many of the old achievements and added the new advancements alongside them, which is pretty cool

The cool thing about bedrock is alot of the old features and sounds from early versions of release were used in bedrock. So you can enjoy old minecraft in bedrock pretty much, just put on the classic texture pack or you won't be sent back to memory lane 😅

I remember being hyped about the nether being added to the game :p, a friend and I brought heaps of cobblestone through the portal to build a castle in there.

I personally remember 69 of these (coincidence). The diamond/gold houses, old lava texture, no hunger bar, old water splash sound, bow and arrow stuff, fishing rods looking like sticks, only one layer of water being lethal (I thought it still was), the nether being almost useless, the old village lamps, no stained glass or panes, the old damage sound, cakes stealing buckets, and fences not attaching to blocks are the most nostalgic to me. Thanks for sharing this video, I very much enjoyed it :)

The water one is something I’m still not over, I always avoid falling in one block deep water. But this was a great walkthrough of the past. I remember all these goofy quirks and facts!

passive mobs do actually spawn but it's very rare because of the way minecraft is coded, you can change this option on any server running the bukkit api, it's really helpful for larger servers where players are very spread out, because basically no mobs will spawn in day or night

This vid is giving me mad nostalgia. Bring me back to those beta days when pistons had just released and slime chunks websites existed.

this was the minecraft i remember! i started playing around the 2nd grade and stopped, playing it recently was like playing a whole new game; i remember being so happy about the variety of flowers, being confused about the oxygen mechanic, and being confused about why i didnt die when i fell into shallow water from a high place

I gotta admit that when I'm in creative mode on a flat world and when there's no blacksmith in the village... I blew it up or set it ablaze

9 times out of 10 i make mountain bases, though to be specific its more like a door in the mountain and then i dig down. i kinda core out the mountain building my "living" areas and then i start digging a hole for my mining tunnels. i remember back in the day before the hunger mechanics you would never really even see my character outside, unless i needed to get food to heal. most of the time i was inside my base digging tunnels all over the place. on one server i used to be on with a bunch of online buddies i ended up making a tunnel that was something around 100k blocks long. they used to generate a map for everyone so we could see where everyone was located and one day they noticed a massive line going off in one direction, that was me underground lol.

This was a huge nostalgia trip. I remember how revolutionary the addition of spawn eggs were

Gonna take a shot everytime this dude says “If yOU ReMeMbEr tHis tHAn YoU’Re a VetEraN pLAyer”, wish me luck

I was only 7 when the beta came out, so I can’t remember everything, but watching this vid still made me feel nostalgic over the earlier versions lmao I’m very glad the Nether isn’t as boring now, though.

"If you remember when yogscast wasn't riddled with groomer nonces, then you are a minecraft veteran."

I remember an old map for Minecraft PE I discovered way back in 2011 or 2012 from a friend. At the spawn point if you dug straight down you could find coal, iron, gold and diamonds the further you went. I'd always play that map as a kid, good memories.

I remember when pyramids were quite common. I'm still playing minecraft and couldn't find a single pyramid for years

I remember as a kid on ps3 not knowing I could actually open and close wood doors in minecraft. I had spent like 20 minutes per door figuring out where to place a button/lever for a WOODEN door When I figured out I can open doors by hand I felt stupid

Zombies and skeletons would only wake you up if the area was too dark. Which it clearly is in the video. It made sense and it was fun in my opinion. Made you think twice before just putting a bed out in the open while you’re adventuring while nightfall is coming. Gotta bring torches.

honestly, it's quite refreshing to watch one of these videos and see a lot of stuff i *wasn't* around for

I started playing Minecraft since when Pocket Edition was first released. I remember the world wasnt infinite, and the resources were very much limited. I actually did most of my bases inside the mountains. Also I remember being terrified by creepers so much that I would close the game every time I just see one. I remember the days when the only way to get to the Nether was to build a certain structure that contained a special block in the middle, sadly I can no longer recall its name. Also I remember how terrible creative inventory looked like. Aw man, sometimes I dont realise how much time passed.

Bro I remember running straight to villages to try to find the blacksmith and the crops being destroyed by walking over them, was nuts. The old damage sound was so iconic as well.

Speaking of spooky soundtracks. When the end cities were first added I spent 15+ hours crouch bringing through the end islands to find one. By the end of it the eerie background music had penetrated my mind and was there for about three days keeping me on edge

There was a reason the old hurt sound was removed... it was ripped straight from the original Doom game. It was to be used as a placeholder only, like many of the old sounds in fact... almost every sound effect that was in the game during alpha and beta came from other games.

looking back, i remember almost all of these things and i honestly forgot i remembered them because when i think about how long i've been playing i usually think of it in a way of "i played before they had xyz" or "i played when you couldn't do xyz" instead of thinking of it like this. but side note so much of this makes me feel so old. kinda crazy looking back at all of it. also does anyone remember the time when they put "removed herobrine" in the minecraft bug fixes section?

I’ve been playing for a long long time, I’d play at friends houses during alpha and then I finally got my own copy early 2011. I’ve been playing on and off since then and honestly to see how much the game has progressed since is astounding. Just the sheer amount of new features and content makes it feel like a brand new game compared to when I was playing it back then

I remember alternating between normal chests and redstone chests in builds. I forgot about that. I take placing chests next to each other for granted now. That you for reminding me.

When I started the game (paid version), in 1.2.5 I kept on using the world seed "pencil". I don't remember where I found out about it, but it spawns you next to a village by the sea and the new jungle biome.

An additional thing which might be relevant to include in the next similar video, when bows didn’t charge and you could in essence use it as an AR. Great video!

I started playing in 2015, and I swear they used a lot of older stuff to make it. I remember so much of these “you’re a veteran if…” - stuff that it makes me feel like I played Minecraft way earlier. They must have kept some stuff for Bedrock from the early days.

I still call them reeds. Don't remember the pink sheep looking like that. My first ever base was in the side of a grass hill, complete with a lava garbage bin and glass block lookout "sphere", but I was generally fond of houses as time went on. I never used boats like that, but I remember seeing Etho or someone do it on RU-vid. I thought minecarts were cooler - was very inspired by Coestar's rail system. Had those "booster stations" using that minecart momentum glitch. I don't remember the blocks having no shading ever. I do remember leaves not decaying though. That was unbelievably annoying. I don't remember chests not facing the right way, but I do remember when chests took up full blocks. I do remember the free version online - I did try it out. I do remember passive mobs generating in generated chunks. I was pretty worried when they took that out tbh - I thought I wouldn't be able to find passive mobs anymore lol, but turned out alright. I remember water being more dangerous, I thought it was very lame when they made even the smallest bit of water save you from a fall of any height. I remember the old creeper movement - it was awesome! They should have left it as-is - at least for hard difficulty. Okay, I'm gonna stop commenting now lol. For the record I started playing when I saw a classmate in highschool playing the Minecraft 4K edition released in 2009. I'm 28 now.

I began playing right before they changed wooden slabs. The bug at 29:11 happened because all slabs were variations of the stone slab, and the wooden ones were the only ones that weren't made of a stone-like block. In fact, when blocks had numeric IDs, you could still get "stone" wooden slabs. They even renamed them to "petrified" wooden slabs at some point before they removed them.

The default for the spawner is pig spawner I remember that if you used silk touch and broke a spawner you'd always get a pig spawner regardless of what it previously was.

I started playing minecraft around 2012-2013 and I was around six and I remember at the time me and my brother would make houses out of emerald and gold blocks with creeper heads everywhere and we would start freaking out every time we heard the cave noises. Those were the days😂

I started playing in like 2012. That song is so nostalgic. I remember when there were only a few animals and blocks and in creative you could fill your hot bar (which you used to be able to clear with one button) with all colors of wool and build in a straight line flying backwards and hold the bumper and switch between the colors and easily and quickly make rainbow structures

Man the nether when it was completely useless was goated, so much creativity was found in there making bases and surviving

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I remember using those old boats to travel on water and hated when they break so easly

Honestly, most of these things were things I've LONG forgotten, and suddenly remember when hearing them again. I barely played Minecraft at all between 2012 and 2019, but once I got used to the game again it's all I've really known since.

hearing "then you were a veteran player" over and over again for 42mins is insanity inducing great vid tho :)

I was so young back then, but I do remember about 3/4 of the things on this list. Oh man, it feels good to remember this stuff.

Does anyone else remember when you could sleep at anytime in Minecraft to regenerate health, or was that just a Minecraft PE fever dream?

I'm pretty sure people remember this as in 2015 back in 1.7 or 8 Minecraft had this settings feature called "Super Secret Settings" and whenever you click on it, it will change the look of your screen then when clicking it again there are different ones and neatness to say i missed that feature so much.

One thing not covered in this video was being able to stop fall damage on servers by logging out and back in while falling down. I always used it to jump off things and not take fall damage lol

The old Creative inventory was wild bc it stuck around so long that big modpacks like Tekkit Classic, with tons more blocks than vanilla, were still stuck with it

The farm one is so true, when i got Minecraft again years later i was so hesitant on walking in my farm to the point where i had to build it to be very specific where i had to go to the corners to get anything. My friend wich played during release shouted at me because of that. I will also admit that the chest one was a pain, im embarrassed to say that until last year i still used the classic spacing between chests, i got shouted by that friend again because i was ruining his "pretty" house(whats with everyone trying to make modern stylish houses) because of that, im still catching up even today, truly poetic on how i stopped at beta 1.7 and started at release 1.7. on a final note that diamond one hits true, if anything i believe that in alpha and beta diamonds where much more rarer, so once i found diamonds i always cheered thinking i achieved the meaning of life :D

I've been playing since beta 1.3 (though I tried playing once about a year prior to that but the PC I used that time sucked) so I remember most of these. I remember my first world just up and disappeared into thin air one day when the game crashed. I also remember installing the acid trip shader mod by changing a few lines of code. And running a server for me and my friends to play on using LogMeIn Hamachi so my friends could connect. Many good times were had. Beta 1.7.3 was the best version. I still miss that terrain generation.

Such a nostalgia trip, thanks for the video

Playing this for the first time back in the day was such an amazing feeling, i was sooo amazed at the amount of creative freedom i had❤ so much memories

I almost died jumping into shallow water playing 1.0 last night. I started around the horse update and was just curious about 1.0. I was getting into it too. It has that liminal space feel that I didn't have a word for then. Minecraft has so much added in now that it doesn't feel so lonely in single player but that feeling was also a driving force to make something in the world.

I remember playing minecraft PE all the time. I remember the red beds, the nether reactor core, the old maps, the villages that spawned at the borders of the old maps. Hell, I remember when the daylight cycle didn't exist in minecraft PE! Damn, I'm not just old, I'm ancient!

Alright,I've been playing mc since 2013 when I was 5 on my mother's phone along with my older cousins,all these things just make me want to go back to the good old days and relieve the times when I was happier,no worries,no responsibilities,playing with my cousins, but time passes by quick and I'm grateful to have been a part of the Minecraft community

the old water sounds takes me back to a comfortable time. i also still accidentally do the old gamemode commands to this day and it pisses me off when it doesnt work lmao

Correction: passive mobs can *technically* still spawn randomly after world generation in modern versions, but it is 400x less likely than in beta Great video though, keep it up :)

3:10 he’s exploring in one of the most iconic beta minecraft seeds: worstseedever You literally spawn right next to a surface dungeon connected to a cave with 21 diamonds in it

I play with a bunch of resource packs that put all the old textures and sounds back in the game, it makes it so nostalgic

Oh man thank you for this nostalgia trip! Started playing Minecraft from Beta 1.7.3 onwards and played it actively until 1.7 or 1.8. After that it has been on and off really and now in the past three to four years haven't played at all almost except 2b2t a bit

Fan since 2015, keep up the good work Anthony ♥️

I've been playing on and off, under a variety of names on a massive list of servers since early 2010. Some of these I remember very either fondly, or in annoyance. Some of these I had totally forgotten about.

Also anyone else remember the old swamp biomes? Where the grass wasn't like 3 different colors and it was pretty much the only place to find clay in good amounts (besides the old ocean biomes!)

Broooo! So many memories! I remember Minecraft feeling so more like an adventure even though it was much more simplistic. I remember finding a diamond and getting it to the surface was a true heroic feat. Everything was much more aggressive and dangerous, and you have fewer tricks and tool to defend yourself with

The one block water death should have stayed because it was more realistic.

Thank you SO much for sharing this 💕 Literally my teenage years.

I learned more about current Minecraft than old-school Minecraft in this video. I played the most between 2010 and 2015, I feel old now. The Enderman was so scary when he suddenly got introduced without me knowing anything about it. Back in "the old days" there were so many unknown things about games, maybe I was just too young to research properly but still, it was more fun to discover things on your own. The recipe book is the most disgusting thing ever introduced. No that I almost finished the Video, I did not know about more than half of the changes he mentioned.

I think the reason zombies used to drop feathers was because there were no chickens yet in the older versions. I could be misremembering tho. Also the nether was really just for setting up fast travel. On my server we used to make highways in the nether to be able to traverse long distances. I still remember to this day trying to figure out the offset needed in the real world to place the portals in the correct places.