Exploring Abandoned Servers in Old Minecraft 

Hi, Head admin of alphaplace here, glad you enjoyed both servers, usually we get around 3 - 5 (10 or above on some days) players a day, not exactly abandon, unless your comparing it to modern servers then yeah maybe. cool video. Also to note OSM and RMC are quite active as well. All three servers are good.

Alpha and beta had such a unique architectural style that you just don't see these days

it's like travelling through multiple civilizations that once in their golden age

I just realized that other than being griefed, abandoned Minecraft server maps don't decay at all, they're always in the same state they were left ina decade ago

I agree with what you said about it being kinda sad about the empty servers. Seeing all these builds that people dedicated days and weeks to with their friends while having a great time, their community now scattered to the wind and builds sitting mostly forgotten on an empty server on Minecraft, eventually never being visited again. All these memories lost to time makes me nostalgic for a time I never took part in. Thanks for posting this.

Something about the modern pixel art of amongus and walter white in the old minecraft style gave me actual chills. Thank you for this video

Imagine that people used to play on those servers like 12 years ago and they are still alive. Totally Incredible that we can see what the servers used to be and the nostalgia also hits hard.

“You can travel to the past, but nobody is there.” -Someone Depressing. Very backroom type vibes I got from this vid. Very cool

Remembering Minecraft when these updates where new feels strange given how it's been so long that a significant part of Minecrafts playerbase was born after they went live.

You doing /home and suddenly coming back to what must have been your home at one point was amazing

I remember back when the game first came out, maybe around 2012 or 2013, I played on a really cool anarchy server. It wasn't very well known, but it had a solid 50 or so players that were active on it. I became good friends with a lot of the players and we even had our own guild and had a really cool base inside a mountain a couple thousand blocks from spawn. I think I played on there religiously for a year or more. From what I remember, the server host died in an accident and 2 days later the server was just gone. All that time, all those people met and relationships were suddenly just gone. I played on and off since then, but the day that server was gone so was my appetite for Minecraft. Even today, I still occasionally wish I could just join that server one last time.

A RetroMC player here As far as I know it's currently the most active beta server and i recommend checking it out. You couldn't find players on spawn, because most of them are working on builds in their towns You also caught me joining the game 9:25

Something pretty specific that I like is exploring abandoned beta 1.8 servers. There's something about the 1.8 additions like melons, stone bricks, glass panes, giant mushrooms, etc being used everywhere that i really like. + beta 1.8/early release is technically what I grew up watching and is the most nostalgic for me ;P

There's something special about how old MC servers elicit this feeling of liminality and that sense of wonder that exploring ancient ruins gives. Somehow the old builds in an abandoned server gives off this feeling of deep time, like it aggregates value, lore and history to the world. I would really like to replicate this in a server with friends, playing for years until at long last we mostly stop playing and all that's left are the memories imprinted on the ruins we left behind, like in that Shelley's poem: "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."

It's so relaxing to watch this because I'd love too see it but the depressing emptiness of what was once my childhood is very hard to bare alone. It's comforting that you're doing it, narrating, and I get to watch instead of participate.

3:42 made me smile

This is one of the better forgotten server videos I’ve seen Honestly I think this goes for your entire channel but I like the relaxed vibe it has it’s nice

Nostalgia take me back. I miss these times a lot for some reason.

something about old school megabuilds. Its before designs got hyper complicated and detailed. Mind you the current designs people make are works of art but there was something special about seeing huge structures with only 1-2 design aspects repeated. Also, paths. The older style way of connecting builds together with paths in a close proximity as people built out is probably the most nostalgic part. We almost never see that style anymore.

5:43 Before you could protect your servers in Alpha and Beta, there would always be random people logging onto servers and destroying spawn. This was just a thing that happened. We moved very far from spawn to prevent our bases from being griefed. On the server we ran ourselves.

Man, I didn´t expect the old style of building to hit me with so much nostalgia. It was somehow more fun to build with the few block options back then.

Thank you for checking out Alpha Anarchy

No protection vanilla was the golden age. So much fun.

Person who plays alphaplace The server is not dead, it averages 5-7 ppl at peak hours and maxes at like 10. Abandoned is gone, no one logging on. Cool vid, might want to change

This video makes me so happy yet sad at the same time. Miss the early days of Minecraft

I love seeing player towns like the ones on the oldschoolminecraft server, The disjointed feel of the builds not adhering to a particular style, plus the randomness of things like giant among us pixel arts is the epitome of Minecraft's charm.

12 years doesn’t sound like that much but seeing how far and how much minecraft has evolved from alpha is amazing. It’s like opening up a history book seeing all the old builds that have been there for over a decade. Alpha looks like something I’d play on the PS1

You can see a build of Mai from Nichijou on the left side at 9:08

nice video, servers run on older versions certainly have a different feel to them, but it's always nice to play with others also, thanks for the mention :)

Talk about a nostalgia hit. My entire childhood hit me all at once. When I was a kid, my brothers and i only had the original Xbox 360 edition (before you could even trade with villagers and before villagers had roles) and we had no internet or Xbox Live so we couldn't update the game at all until about 2019/2020 when we got a Nintendo switch. Thanks for taking me back, I miss those days.

All these builds and servers give a lot of inspiration to me.

As someone that plays on retromc, thank you for shouting out the server

I have an odd appreciation for the old style of building in the early days. Sure, a lot of it is ‘bad’, but it had a charm to it.

To think about how many memories have been lost due to old servers like these shutting down or being completely reset. I sadly wasn't there to experience the Alpha and Beta days of Minecraft, instead I started on release version 1.4.2. Recently however, I've been playing some Beta and Alpha versions and there's just something so welcoming about them, something so palpable.

I discovered the Old School Minecraft server from your video, and I just wanted to say thank you for enlightening me on beta minecraft multiplayer. My time on Old School Minecraft has been some of my favorite time on minecraft ever. Crazy how a server like Hypixel doesn’t even come close to these beta and alpha servers.

What a pleasure to find this video, love the slow, calm pace of it!

Good video but you sound like you're trying to impersonate chills with that voice 😂

You got a great channel already dude. I think with each update of clutter they add to Minecraft, interest in the old versions will continue grow. I can definitely see your channel getting bigger, keep the old versions relevant!

No way. My Minecraft house is in this video! 1:09 with the 50 cacti surrounding it in the back

This is a great video! As someone that played in 2010 in Minecraft Classic but didn't buy premium until Beta 1.8.1, it''s so cool seeing that alpha servers still exist

Staff member of AlphaPlace and RetroMC here. Obviously, I have the same opinions as Gavin - AlphaPlace, RetroMC and Old School MC are *far* from abandoned, thanks to the difference in the culture between large, modern-MC servers and ones running on legacy MC versions. These semi-tight knit communities and laid-back culture are what I now prefer, stemming from my decision to join these servers as my first-ever multiplayer MC experiences. I also thank you for visiting these servers :)

i never got to experience the alpha/beta days of minecraft during my childhood, but seeing these chill videos showcasing them made me feel a sense of nostalgia ive never even experienced before, thus i cant imagine what its like to be part of the community back then these servers are like relics to me, i hope they can be preserved for as long as possible! they really are impressively made and formed. hope everyone who was part of these servers are doing well today and still creating! side note: your videos are so chill by the way, they help with my insomnia 👍

great video! i've been in the alpha/beta community for a while now, and have played alwaysalpha and alphaplace for a while, and it was really nice to see a lot of my builds shown in your video! thank you for making this, and if you'd be interested i can show you even more cool servers that weren't in your video.

They're not empty they're just filled with love.

Retro MC is so cool! I have been exploring it for a while, lots of really interesting builds in old building style to look at. Nostalgic!

Remembering Minecraft in it’s olden days feels really nostalgic for me. I remember playing in these versions with younger online friends and just goofing around and having fun. But things have changed a lot, and I haven’t really remained in contact with anyone, and the worlds we made weren’t really saved either. Looking at this now is kind of revisiting those memories but in a new light, this is a great video.

I really love videos about old servers. It’s very interesting to see structures and bases that random people made and left there.

These bring a sense of nostalgia very few things bring...

These older style builds with the music hits different. Everything just seemed so made with love back then.

Playing is like going back in time their was a day each of thoes houses and builds were made by a person days weeks years ago always such a trippy vibe

There is some beauty in these anarchy servers...cant describe the feeling of it

I miss the good old minecraft times.

This really highlights what I miss most about early Minecraft the chaotic building by countless people all stacked on top of eachother almost making an mc escher maze we didnt have a big block pool and didnt really worry about greifers and we built amazing wierd cities and I miss them

i started playing around beta 1.8.1, thanks for the video :)

3:41 I feel like this went over everyones head.

I love old minecraft! Thank you for the showcase.

Glad to see more uploads! These videos really help me relax, I really miss this version of Minecraft but I don’t know how to do computer stuff so I’ve always been a console Minecraft player.

I still play on the same minecraft map/server for over 9 years now... visiting the old villages is like a time machine...❤

I love your videos because they are so different from the traditional crazy and loud style of videos which are popular on RU-vid nowadays

There was a specific balance that always hit me the best with servers of the pre-1.8beta era. Places that had a nice spawn, but it wasn't huge - you could still explore them for a few moments and feel nicely secluded in a crafted place. But both the spawn and the server wasn't full on developed to the point where it felt like so much of history has already been written yet. There was always a sense of non-purpose felt when walking around the first thousand block range from spawn and everywhere was already picked out and processed. The only server I played back then that catered that feeling was the old SMP Blocktopia server, which was a community I heavily enjoyed playing in with their classic 0.30 servers - while I played those Zombie Survival & Lava Survival servers the most, the beta SMP server still has the fondest memories to me for just the feel I had interacting with what was there. Making my own basic house, and exploring what other people were currently making; usually with the builders offline due to my aussie timezone. Also a plugin I really missed from those days was like a treasure hunting one. You'd craft a compass, right click it, and then it'll point you into a direction and tell you how close you are to a chest of some generated goods to take. It was probably one of the main contributors that got me into a passion for exploration.

Loved the vid dude, the vibe of this video is another feeling!

"checking out these old abandoned servers" >3:16 Among Us pixel art When I think of an old Minecraft server, I tend to think of one ranging all the way back to 2011, not 2018/19. Though now I think about it, people these days think 5 years was 10yrs ago in gaming years (especially when people look at GPU's). Either way it's nice to see someone exploring servers that were once inhabited, and seeing what was once there. I hope people don't grief them.

What I miss about old Minecraft was how simple everything was. I find modern Minecraft so complicated that it's not even fun anymore, and hasn't been in years. One of these days I'm gonna get back on my 360 and just enjoy the little things like the tutorial world.

Theres just something about the old alpha and beta styles of building that is just so irresistibly beautiful. They feel like actual works of art as opposed to the common utilitarian bases, or the wildly extravagant base designs you see so much of today.

This is so eerie to look at. I kinda relate to these servers because I used to run a server back in Beta 1.7.3/1.8 and I still have it (altought now it's a private, up-to-date and not a public server) and the difference in architecture and how we used to build is very nostalgic and reminicent of the servers I saw in this video

I recently went back and visited opticraft, which I grew up playing. Took a while to figure out how to get to the classic side but was fun just rescuing dogs and checking out old builds I remember traveling past. I go back every few weeks just to explore :)

really great video, enjoyed your narration a lot definitely watching your other stuff

ahh you should’ve entered the giant ball next to the cathedral in osm, its full of stars and looks amazing, i helped a little bit to empty the space inside

Awesome to see there are still people joining these ancient servers

gosh the nostalgia of alpha/beta builds... thank you for the video!

RetroMC is actually very active. It reaches 15-20 players daily and I have even seen it hit a record 43 players recently!

When your exploring those servers, you an feel an old erea of the minecraft community,idk how to explain,this give me nostalgia to something i never experienced

Going on forgotten servers is like viewing an ancient civilization that has long past. It feels as if you could hear the voices of the ones who erected such structures..

The aether portal 😭

Woah! RetroMC! I regularly play there! It’s my go to chill and hang out server.

At around 8:50 behind the bridge you can see a glimpse of the lighhouse I built, it's super nice to see it in your video

Hi, I see you enjoyed the experience of our old legacy servers that's good to know you had a good experience, I am a staff member of both GoPlex MC, and OldSchoolMinecraft both are partners of each other.

This was the most relaxing video I’ve ever watched

I remember admining on old minecraft servers years ago. Lots of good memories. Also trying to figure out ways to get more players to join. Remember making promo videos and coming up with events. Sadly the cost to run the server was just not worth it, so the owner closed it down. It was a good time while it lasted.

Hello dear, i made the giant cuble in cobble on RetroMC, thank for this video !

Legendary game, great old times, nostalgia overloaded

You deserves more Sub's ^^ Awesome video!! Brings memories back

That blocky shading is so nostalgic

Joined both beta servers, very comfy vibes. Definitely check them out!

Wow, some of those builds were actually incredible! Better than something I could build in modern Minecraft LOL

Seeing several Amogus in Alpha/Beta Minecraft gave me whiplash.

Reminds me of lost ancient cities. While the buildings may still stand, all the people and history that once lived there is just gone.

nice video! i play on alphaplace regularly so this was cool to see 😄

this video reminded me of the gold old times...the stories and fun aswell the grind those servers had... im more interested in the stories which were made on those servers back then until now. such unique buildings and styles. i would say its nearly impossible to built like that nowadays as people got more blocks and space to use

Our server is vanilla and been running for about 5 years now. Me and some friends started in 2019 when working night shift and never stopped. We're building a giant airport inspired by Changi Airport. We've built a massive city all on vanilla survival.

I find this interesting in a sad, sort of lonely type of way. These old servers still being active after so much time has passed. Makes me regret deleting my worlds. I didn't play Minecraft on PC till I was like 16-17 years old, most of my Minecraft experience came from the old Xbox 360 days. I played alot with my dad, sister and brother when we were way younger. My dad initially bought the game back when it freshly released to console, and it was mind blowing to all of us...in a fun adventurous way. We would assign tasks like building, material grabbing, farming and the like to each other every in game day. Occasionally my siblings and I would sneak up and play late and night into the early morning on weekends, and our dad would join us when he woke up. Or it'd be the other way around lmao. The last world my dad and siblings played on still exists. He hast played Minecraft since I was like 13-14 years old, about 9 years or so (he says he doesn't like it anymore) and has long since moved to Playstation, but I have access to his old Microsoft account, so every once in awhile I pop in. I left him a sort of happy/sad farewell about him not playing anymore. I hope he see's it one day. That one world we all had played on has so many memories attached to it. So many more could have been made if he had picked it up again.

I know it's not old Minecraft, and it's been down for a long time now, but Team Extreme was the king of servers for me. It's what got me addicted to Minecraft.

50.000 people used to live here, now is a ghost town

Old Minecraft buildings are like ant colonies, they are simple but big and complicated. Modern Minecraft buildings are too detailed and realistic. Old Minecraft is its own identity while the boundaries of realism in modern Minecraft is becoming non existing. Everyone knew each other and Minecraft content was more focus on creativity and not screaming to the audience or trying to be cute on camera. You watch Minecraft videos back then to also try, explore, and imagine the world of Minecraft with the RU-vidr.

Imagine playing in one of these servers and seeing your builds in this video.

I like the eerie feeling of an empty, usually busy, place

I wish old servers I played were still around or I could remember their ips... (1.5.2)

The skeleton shooting through the door took me back 😭

It'd be really cool to save the world file for all of these, or have a big collection of em. So many great builders work and talent go into this kinda stuff and a lot of cool shit is abandoned. Like those griefed areas are so much more interesting looking that 2b2ts

Miss you SaiyanCraft 😢 thought it was fun playin a saiyan farmer, i was able to claim the territory around korins tower and kamis lookout and established a massive farm there using the constant loading if the chunks from the players above on and around the lookout doing missions or even going into the hyperbolic time chamber. After i had that done i had claimed an area by the Rocky (Dirty stone?) Biome warp where you fight saiyan saga mobs built up a shop with auto furnace and put shop signs on the chests so people could buy my products (even a little repair service where id work on Scouters), i was able to make quite abit of money and was able to buy a plot in west city and another in another city as a vacation home too 😅