Hi! Original maker of the saw adventure maps here! My friends sent me this video and I have to say it was so heart-warming and nostalgic to see you play it. I think I made these when I was 11 or 12 so it's actually so nostalgic to see them now when I'm 23 lol. You're completely right about me not having played minecraft in years (I don't even know how to log into my old Crumpetjuice yt account lol where I did a play through). I think I saw an email from planetminecraft a couple of weeks back and thought nothing of it but perhaps someone messaged me after this - I'm glad you enjoyed!!! P.S I agree the mob spawners are terrible!!! Haha
oh wow! What are the chances haha. Well a lot of people liked your maps as well, so at least they got their time to shine even after all this time. But yeah honestly it's such a small world. I'm glad your friend sent this to you!
it's sad to see how after trying again and again to make a good map the saw map maker made a great one, and for ten years less than a handful of people ever got to see it.
@@Rovant A lot of mod sites are like that, Moddb is a great example, it has great mods for lots of games (although I mainly use it for Source games and Doom), but for every mod that actually got finished there's 20 more that got abandoned, it's sad to see the article pages, how excited and passionate the mod creators sound, only for it to be cancelled/abandoned.
I remember how big adventure maps used to be. I remember sitting at the pc making a village and putting a named sword in a chest and spawning mobs in. Those were the days.
The cool thing about adventure maps was that it was just normal players making them. Not for money, or even expecting many people to play them. It was just to have fun. They weren’t polished, but they were authentic.
I remember the Super Hostile series and how each entry just kept getting bigger and bigger. Like Kaizo Caverns (I think) had a section that was basically a bit bigger than a vanilla cave. And the biggest open areas in that map were smaller than the big caves in the C&C update. Then as they progressed it got to the point where you couldn't see across a space in Tiny render distance, then you couldn't see across in a normal render distance.
I really miss the old-school Minecraft adventure maps, to be honest. There was something uniquely charming about unserious adventure maps that were mostly the result of people playing around with the game and deciding to build a mini-RPG just for the joy of building it. I'm sure everyone who was playing the game at any time prior to 2014 has probably built an adventure map of this kind at some point, whether you released it anywhere or just showed it to your friends.
@@ceemeck I tend to agree honestly. It's the same reason I prefer older Amnesia custom stories to recent ones that use like custom assets and stuff from the newer games. In both cases I really enjoy seeing what out of the box ways of doing certain things the game wasn't really designed for people come up with using just the tools at their disposal (the lever keys in legacy console maps, for example)
There was a map called “letters from a dead earth” built in 1.3.2 As a kid I played that on 1.5.2 and honestly it was probably my favorite built map alongside newcraft and vector city (another old city build map) Letters from a dead earth was like a loose adventure survival, kinda like a fallout game but instead of npc’s and quests you had a certain number of letters to find to figure out how the world “died” So yeah it was a really cool one, could be worth checking out if you’re planning a part two (although its probably too big for a legitimate survival showcase) Anyways nice video!
I looked it up on planetminecraft and it looks interesting! I’ll play it when I make a part 2! (Which may be in a while as I’m currently working on a few other videos)
I feel like this channel is a hidden gem of a sort. I dont like putting down other people but I really feel like no one else has the level of genuine sincerity in minecraft content creation anymore. It's one of the things that early minecraft content so amazing and I'm so happy someone is still "carrying the torch" in a way. Thanks for making such great videos!
Wow i’m happy you think that! But yeah I get what you mean in a way, that people do it more for the money now rather than being passionate about the game. You can see it in these old maps as well, that people just made them purely for fun.
@@RovantIt seems like the "Mr beastification" of online videos combined with a move to flashy short "dopamine shot" videos has kind of killed off the genuine creators for the most part. The death of the letsplay also doesn't help. A lot of these super edited videos don't display the actual creator itself, instead just going for big dollar signs and quickly moving on from thing to thing.
you probably wont see this but i was just looking at that first map you were playing and it reminded me of an old map back in the day we had made together and i was like oh my god is that the map? that would be crazy if it was the same map. he loved working with redstone then and making water rides and i basically built that wall to protect the village and created that mountain. i think we hid something inside of the mountain actually but it may have been removed or boarded up
honestly i dont think it was supposed to be anything fun it was just a world his friends, himself and i worked on honestly. i think he might have planned more water rides though before it was finished so good times. i think the home was actually the one his friend lived in. and that i built the little jungle forest
"I don't know how he expected us to use the boats to go up the water" - Boats used to actually float. Putting a boat at the bottom of a water column was last decade's bubble column and you went up faster than a bubble column. They called it a boat elevator.
Giving new life to maps that have been sitting in the dust for years feels very comforting. These old maps, although rough around the edges, have soul and passion put into them. They aren't made to be the most impressive builds ever, they're made to be fun. The Saw map series was amazing! You could really see how the creator matured during the making of these maps. I had completely forgotten about adventure maps, so this was definitely a throwback! I started playing on release 1.4.2.
This was such a nice peacefull video, super entertaining. Thank you for making it, it was a great watch, definitely subscribing. Excited to see more of your work!
If only I kept my old minecraft adventure maps (I sucked but I missed them so much)😢😢😢 Seeing the SAW maps evolved to using command blocks and having better builds is also wholesome
I found this awesome one made in 2012 and it has a castle, 2 villages, and a huge boat along with a huge dock. The creator was even nice enough to change the signs from german to English
Fyi it was a feature of older versions where boats would shoot up waterfalls. Was the fastest way up at the time, thats how the waterslide was supposed to work. Pretty sure it was pre-adventure update. Cool vid :)
When I was a much younger I would watch Hat Films playthrough of the Skylands map. It was nothing like I had ever seen and the resource pack they used coupled with the generation of the world made it so magical. Its sad when you realize that they are nothing more than digital memories now
You should play old popular maps. Like sethbling's redstone test map or the notch temple. That would be a lot more nostalgic. Nice video man very underrated and your dry humor is awesome
It certainly is nostalgic to witness old minecraft maps that would either be defunct now due to changes to the game's new codes or unavailable due to a plethra of reasons. Some maps were VERY poorly made but were created with passion, reminds me of how I would make maps, except, I didn't know how to post them to the internet, so they just stayed in my old ipad until their deletion due to saving space. Please do a part two or something, this series is really interesting
I remember attempting to make my own survival map back in the day using MCEdit. It was gonna be a thing like Skyblock but with ring-shaped islands instead, and each had a Glowstone core in the center that had a chest inside. I specifically remember one island that would have been more of a puzzle-y thing, with a maze of pressure plates on gravel on TNT. Definitely would be easily bypassed, but I hadn't thought that far. Lol. Part of me wants to go back and make it, but I know it'd probably be pretty low-quality overall if I were to go for it, not to mention I hardly play this game anymore (No real reason, I just don't).
@@Rovant i know that map from a former minecraftyoutuber, just have to search his name again. His content should be still available to watch DreamerMikeeGaming made a little lets play about that. I think, that map was released for minecraft 1.5 or so
This video reminded me of me doing my adventure map like 10 years ago as well… Old memories are not always right but I remember that it was big.. Had parkour, pvp arena, more parkour and so much more… I even used command blocks.. I think I still have it somewhere on my old USB… Maybe want to find it
12:03 That small light in the dark water is such a nostalgic look I remember so many adventure maps focused on exploring had small pockets like this with items, even in old Hunger Games maps
They don't look too different from your current average old gen legacy edition map server hosted by people on your friend list on these days. I guess the purest building and sharing minecraft culture is still preserved and ongoing.
You didn't seem to quite get the bed concept. That 'set night' button would use a command block to set the time to night, so you can sleep in the bed and set your spawn. You made it unnecessarily hard on yourself going through the same sections over and over. EDIT: Ah, you talked about that a little later. I guess the command blocks didn't work, or the redstone, or something.
Man i remember playing an amazing adventure map that was story driven and had a lot of platforming based challenges. I remember the story being so good and it having a huge mansion in the desert with like a library and everything. I wish to find it someday.
There was an incredibly old adventure map called The Crevice, for some reason it’s stuck in my head for all these years, it was silly but i loved the silly maps
It's beyond charming to see the passion and imagination people put into making maps even if they're very limited compared to what could be created today. I made TONS of adventure maps on both PC and Xbox360 Minecraft throughout the early 2010's. On PC no one ever played them besides me, but I played a lot of my maps with Xbox Live friends. I recreated 2Fort from TF2 complete with ways to select your class (basically just choose a door to walk through and grab items from a chest), made a Portal inspired test chamber puzzle series, an Omaha Beach D-Day map, several hunger games maps, Cops & Robbers maps, an attempt at a Day-Z map in a seed that had snow over everything, and a few other overly ambitious projects. Walls of sign texts, bedrock cube rooms to catch everyone that spawns, Bedrock wall barriers (some were just like 3 blocks high because I couldn't be bothered) and books were common tropes, and this was on console where it took ages to type anything. I actually do recall some of my friends making SAW maps, those must have been a trend as well. I still run modpacks and create custom maps for Minecraft today but I dearly miss the lower standards and suspension of belief that everyone had for Minecraft back then to make even the simplest of maps fun for everyone. This is really inspiring me to jump back into working more on an RPG adventure map I've been off and on with for a while.
Now you got me wanting to hunt down this old adventure map. It was called something like ender glitch or ender island. neither me nor my brother can remember exactly what it was. It came out not too long after command blocks were added, then got a number of updates after that. I seem to recall my brother finding it had been updated to at least 1.10 It had you in a large village on an island collecting... something for some reason. There was usually a spawner in the individual buildings. You could find some interesting and unique loot. I think it was built around survival mode, but if you dug more than a block or two down there was bedrock. There is a decent chance I still have it floating around, as I have recently found many old worlds that somehow survived more than a few hardrive wipes, and a new computer.
Ngl i prefer your video of playing old Minecraft Map to others, because you really enjoyed the map, play it correctly even though some map was poorly made due to its age.
I noticed that too, because his yt channel is on his planetminecraft account. But yeah, sadly it looks like we'll never know what happened to him, as he fell of the face of the internet over a decade ago.
'Trial of the Old Ones' was the map that convinced me to switch from 0.30 browser Minecraft to getting my parents to buy Minecraft when it was featured in Minecraft the Movie: 7 and 8
This was a fun video, you should explore more abandoned maps and worlds man! my recommendation is that you try a map called escape from jeff the killer, the map is basically the definition of the old horror minecraft maps (p.s. love your voice lol)
I made some maps that I never uploaded online because they werent the smartest or most interesting things ik just some random stuff. But if only I knew they would become so strong memories and I would miss being in those maps as much as I miss playing those on the video Id have uploaded them, wish I did...
when i was playing beta 1.6.6 13 years ago i remember downloading a city map where there were red torches placed everywhere on the walls.... i really want to find that map again i was freaked out so bad
Maybe some has already said it. BUT. Map 2 - place the torch from room #2 on the spawner in the corridor.😅 That still works today, I think 🤔 Haven't played in years.
more of a puzzle map, but there's this 2 player puzzle map called apple pie for 1.3.2 that me and my friend enjoy a lot. prob one of my favorite maps of all time. imo there's something about old maps that just isn't replicated nowadays, and it's honestly a damn shame.
Making adventure maps nowadays has a way higher skill floor than it did back in the day. Before command blocks or even books, you just dropped the story into a few txt files to be read at points in the map, and started it off with a list of rules like "don't break blocks except x y z" and call it a day but now if you want to make something popular, you have to do so, so much more work...