Exploring Forgotten Minecraft Servers 

i logged onto Grig's Quest just to check it out- there's a steady handful amount of players exploring the lands now. I expected to stay around for 15 minutes or so, yet i ended up playing for over 4 hours. The world is so vast and jam-packed with content. Borneman did good. May he rest in peace.

I was actually one of Mr. Borneman's students, the guy behind Grig's quest, It's so baffling seeing his server on some RU-vid vid I found while scrolling. this was around the 2019-2020 school year as a senior and I'm currently close to graduating college. He had us do different quests for extra credit points that related to whatever we were learning about at the time. I'd log on with some friends every couple times a week to exploit the guild system just to b-line straight to whatever gave us EC that week, so I'm close to the end of the main quest and have zero clue what the lore is about. Borneman was such a genuine and passionate teacher and really opened me to critical thinking. When he passed away I went back to the server just to walk around and take it all in, the memories feel so distant yet remind me of that last year of high school. Thank you for reminding me of this server and thank you for your kind words about his passing, This server relfects him in some ways and I hope people get to experience it while its still around

Just read from an article that Mr. Borneman created Grig's Quest to deal with the passing of his sister and his own irl stresses. It was his way of dealing with the grief, it was a world where he had control, opposite to how he felt at the time in his real world life. He worked on it for 7+ years and introduced it to his students. Rest in peace Mr. Borneman.

I was one of Mr. Borneman's students, and I thought I'd just thought I'd leave a comment here about him. Besides my parents, no one has had a greater influence on my life than Mr. Borneman. I was a bad student, 2.7 gpa in highschool, had no passion about learning, etc. But then I stumbled across his class senior year, and was introduced to philosophy. For the first time I felt passionate about learning and school, he was such a great mentor, and he was a great friend. We kept in contact after I graduated, up until the very end. Meeting him and taking his class completely changed the path of my life as I've nowjust graduated with a degree in philosophy from UC Berkeley, and am looking to enroll in a graduate program. I genuinely have no idea what I would be doing with my life right now if I had not taken Mr. Borneman's class, there is nothing I would rather be doing that what I'm doing right now, and I can only owe that to Mr. Borneman's guidance. Please do play on Grig's Quest, he loved working on it and making it. Some other former students are now maintaining the server in his honor. If ya'll have any questions about it you can ask, I've beaten the whole thing.

The ability to look back at servers long abandoned is beautiful in a sorrowful way. It’s like finding your old doodles from a decade ago

That part about Grig's Quest really hit hard. From what I read, Robert Borneman (the creator/host of Grig's) was a pure and genuine soul that everyone he met seemed to love. All of the articles written about his passing have stories shared from his previous students that truly loved and appreciated his presence in their lives. Rest in Peace Mr. Borneman

For anyone wondering about the preservation of Grig's Quest: We've managed to contact some admins including the person who did all of the backend server stuff for it! Grig's Quest is now in a pretty good spot in terms of preservation(though there's still some unknowns). Btw, the video barely begins to scratch the surface of what this server has to offer. I'd absolutely recommend checking the server out when you get a chance!

Just wanted to let you know that this video resulted in a bit of a resurgence for the Runsafe server. A handful of old staff members have started getting online again, and regular players are coming on daily as of the last month or so. There are new survival bases, new creative builds, and there is a fully playable Halloween adventure event created by one of the admins, running through October. You basically reignited interest in the server, and it was about a week away from being permanently shut down when all of this happened. The question now is whether or not it'll stick.

I pray that someone - anyone - preserves Grig's Quest. Its clear that map was made by someone not driven by profit or fame, but driven by the fuel which we call *passion.* God rest the creator's soul and let this video be the one to tell us all what we've been missing in the world of *Grig's Quest.*

I really felt bad at the end of the Grig's quest part, may his soul rest in peace

I really like the chill down to earth vibe this vid has, doesn’t feel like it’s trying to be “liminal ooo spooky” or faux philosophical, just revisiting old stuff in a very warm and nostalgic way

Seeing how much love was put into Grig's Quest by the teacher solely to create memories for his students reminded me of why I chose to be a teacher in the first place. I felt my heart melt. I wasn't expecting this going into the video. Thank you.

Griefing takes a new grotesque meaning when it’s done to these servers with such nostalgia for people.

It’s honestly pretty crazy how much history some of these servers can have. They really are time capsules.

"Brauhaus der Hoffnung" was my very first server I ever played on back in 2011 I believe. The server was started very early when Minecraft was still in Beta even. In typical German fashion, it was one of the most professional and well organised servers I've ever played on. Every few months the entire server would wipe and the owners would try out a new concept, way earning money, new cities, a new map and so much more. For example from Map 7 to Map 8 the server went from obsidian being the most valuable item (because its effort to get it and doesn't depend on the rarity that diamond have) to a fully in house developed dynamic economy system. Items would change in value depending on people demanding those items, so it always felt exciting. The concept overall was citybuild. People would gather items, earn money by selling the items in a shop or to other players and then would be able to buy themselves a plot. There also was a freebuild map, which was nice, but personally I preferred building on plots. As shown in the video, the people on the server were so good at building, so the cities were always built around a theme (medieval times, big cities, jungle tree houses, underwater cities, european style cities, venice, florence etc.) and it was expected that you sort of try to keep up that style. The map shown in the video already was supposed to be the "Reloaded" server. The server was meant to shutdown after Map 9, but several people from the team tried to take over the server and start a new concept, but it never really stuck. Talking about how the server was back then. The team was nice, even a helper role and the owner was a developer himself and was able to develop plugins for the server back then already. Everything was so polished, well designed and thought out. Lots of little details were so well thought out that it just made a better experience so early on. Stuff like proximity chat, a report system, global bans, a train network etc. Back then those things were incredible. In order to be able to play on the sever you needed to go through some (for the times quite big) verification, which turned out amazing because most of the players were mature and wanted to collaborate. I believe the owner had some sort of connection to a big server hoster, so the server never relied on donations or selling out to their players, it was all entirely free-to-play, which was amazing. There were no special ranks that you could buy, no cosmetics, nothing. All the benefits you could get by simply playing on the server and doing things. I remember visiting peoples houses after talking to them in chat. And since there weren't any big teleports you needed to take trains to actually visit people. It just added another layer of immersion that you usually don't get nowadays where its all about optimising numbers instead of just having a cozy time together building and collaborating. Those days were so innocent, free of the fast paced developments we have now. Things were meant to be optimised for the player and not for the business. I long so much for a similar experience as this server was, but it seems like that style of server is just not popular anymore. (Maybe there is some similar server still out there and I just havent discovered it yet?) To me this server was something very special and will remain a large part of my early childhood. It was like a second home to me. I will miss you BdH and the entire team ♥

holy shit, those statues at 1:50 really date it. those were all really big MC youtubers back in the day, but what really shows its age is the inclusion of Dawnables (the one with the blue shirt and pink/purple hair). she was at one point SkyDoesMinecraft’s girlfriend, but didn’t appear too often and wasn’t really in anything past like 2012. wild to see those old skins again, brought back a major hit of nostalgia for me

Thanks for checking out our graveyard of a server! What you said is exactly right: why would anyone jump onto a minigame server with no players rather than one with thousands already playing? It turns out building the server is the easy part. Getting anyone on to come and play one of your original games is the real challenge, and it's a big one. The parkour mode was actually added late to at least give minimal players something to do. You're correct in that we found a cheaper way to keep the server open. We worked on it for many years and so it makes it difficult to even consider taking it down, even if it's empty most of the time. We still have the occasional regulars come on to play a few games every now and then and keeping it up is worth it just for them. We wish you would have had the opportunity to play some of the real games. A great amount of care, time thought was put into them to make them the best they could be. We're proud of what we made, even if it does rest dormant for years to come. It'll still be there for people, like yourself, to stumble upon and discover our little corner of Minecraft...

When Grig's quest does shut down, at least this video might stand as a little memorial of sorts. There will be a time when we all place our last block, when our worlds go on never to be loaded in again, and when all of the chunks are perfectly preserved at least until time destroys or corrupts the vessel or device which contains those worlds beyond recoverability.

The "Adventurers Guild" section is my favorite. It feels so comfy and touching to visit a huge virtual world, and see little notes here and there, mementos of strangers visiting this corner of the map; it really makes you feel like the server's world is a little universe in its own right, almost like an actual physical space.

One time, out of boredom, I joined a survival world based from a bigger server, I can’t really remember what server it was though, but it had maybe 50 people online. I spawned in a random place and the first thing I saw was a long path/bridge in the air extending as far as I could see. I checked it out and started walking it. It went on for thousands and thousands of blocks, and on the way, there were houses, structures, and signs dating years earlier. It was such an amazing and fun experience communicating with people I’d never and will never actually talk to through wooden signs on a path. It turns out that so many people like me had found the path and continued building on it. I found chests with food left for travelers, houses to rest in, and just so many great things. It was so weird seeing things that had been there for ages without being touched. I reached the end and continued building the path for a few hundred blocks before leaving a sign of my own and logging off. I’d love to revisit it, but I cannot remember what server or where this path was.

I’m crying at Grig’s quest… what a beautiful, whimsical world, and all perhaps made by a teacher for his students?? I’m certain he was a delightful man. Rest in peace

That LOTR server is stuff of dreams of my child self. This is exactly what I was looking for and never found. Happy to learn it now exists and sad that it's dead.

PLEASE turn this into a series this was so relaxing to watch

Brother, get ready for Season 4 of the War of the Ring! We are getting ready and working night and day to bring you all the next Season! :D. Thank you for the review, you are fantastic!

This is truly our first chance to see digital archeology, while it only dates back to our childhood. This kind of research is so interesting

I've just finished the Grig's first area and teleported to Arcadia (maybe as a first person since years?). It was a really fun experience and I have a lot of respect for Mr. Borneman (and maybe other people working on the map) for the clear love that they've put in.

I met my now wife on a Minecraft server many years ago. I sometimes visit the old server and It's always an extremely nostalgic experience taking it all in. Minecraft has a very particular way of preserving snapshots of individual creativity and thoughts at a particular time. The bit of your video with the signs really resonated with me. Going back onto the old server and seeing "To do" lists and messages to friends via signs that were never completed/answered is a surreal experience. Great video, I'm glad it's getting a lot of attention :)

Hey, nice to see our server GamesMC in this video. I'm was in the earlier times a moderator and architect and can tell a few years ago, there were more player than now. But its very nostalgic to think back to the old times

Anyone else find these exploring old games/servers videos SUPER relaxing? Redlyne just has such a calming voice idk

Hey! I am the owner of the Dexouille server ^^ It's very surprising to see that you made a video in which you talk about my Minecraft server. I can provide more information if you wish or answer any questions ^^ Just to clarify, the server is not French, but Belgian ;) Yes we speak French too, but it's a small nuance ^^ There are a lot of French on the server, it's true. Technically, my server is not forgotten, it is just community, and practically people from my community come to play on my server. Which explains the presence of "How to train your dragon" because I have a community very much linked to the universe of these films. And the server has almost no players lately because I myself am quite inactive on it. Generally, people in my community become active when there is something new, which is rare in this period. But there are still a few longtime regulars that drop by the server from time to time, and I'm happy to keep records of everything that's been done on it ^^ (With the /menu command there is a way to see more server content, but this menu bugs half the time, because it is supposed to be given in the inventory.) I am therefore very curious to know how you found this server given that apart from my community, it is complicated to succeed in finding it ^^ If you want to contact me more easily, you will find my Discord server in the description of my videos. But be careful, I specify that my English is far from being good x) But thank you for having made this small visit on my server :)

Videos of people exploring old servers like this just gives me such a blast of secondhand nostalgia. It's incredibly interesting to think about and even make up stories on how people or certain invidividuals who had previously partake in the creation of the servers, the fun they had in making them, and how or why they had to eventually leave. Where might they be now; are they healthy, successful, or happy?

Back in beta, pretty much every kid I knew was on Foxescraft. A few years I went back to it to see how it was holding up. It had turned into a creative server and I was 1 of 4 players online. Always tremendously sad to see stuff like this, but the world moves on and people find other things to do with their time, I suppose.

So bittersweet... 31 year old Norwegian here, who's been playing on and off since 2010/11, so the first server spoke to me. Every server with dignity had to have a nyan cat back in the day! RIP teacher admin of Grig's Quest. I bet this teacher was loved by the kids who played there :)

Grig's quest was the best kind of server one can stumble upon. Just some guy's project he did in his free time for his own enjoyment, that we may now be entertained with. Sadly, most artists' work is only appreciated after they die... May his soul rest in peace...

old minecraft servers fill me with a feeling that I struggle to describe. A sort of sad nostalgia? It makes me miss the server I played on a lot when I was a young teen and the people that were on there, and wish that I could visit again, even just the empty world, seeing the husks that myself and the people I knew on there built.

Omg you just give me the crazy emotion to enter an old survival server that I used to play, and it freaking stay the same, the most crazy part of it is that my house stayed 100% intact and I just started crying a lot, thanks man, you just give me one of the best feelings of all my life, i was walking my home in the server and seeing things like, my friends and my dogs, our farms, our horses, and the most crazy thing is that I found a gravestone from my old dog in the game, first I dont remembered of the dog, but then I started slowly remembering. Thanks man, I'm a lot better that I just remembered this old memories, serious thanks man. :)

you will be glad to know, in my Adventurers Guild server.. out of the roughly 170 new players since this video, Only One player, BeatKonducta, needed to be banned for using cheats, and Attempting to use various hacks and minecart spam to take the server down.. but it had no effect. We weren't abandoned or forgotten to begin with, but this video is the best AD i've had in years, Thanks Redlyne.

10:22 is such a sweet moment. I don't know if there's a word to describe the feeling of finding something old on the internet. A live, direct glimpse into the past. Always makes me feel some sort of weird nostalgia, sadness, and curiosity.

This video perfectly encapsulates that feeling of melancholy nostalgia, I couldn't leave withot watching the whole thing It felt almost like a documentary taking a snapshot of time, a representation of what was and what is bound to happen again I cant remember the people i used to play minecraft with as a teenager. But seeing this video let me live vicariously through the memories of others Big props man, you got a sub out of me

Visiting worlds left by people who have passed on hits in the feels

I didn't expect to cry watching this, but Grig's quest did just that. Its so sad hearing about this rich world that Mr Borneman made for his students. It looks like A LOT of passion went into it. I went and googled him and everywhere I could find was just his students saying good things about him. I wish I could've had him as a teacher growing up. I just wish that someone can find a way to preserve the server, as a way to commemorate his passion and keep it available for anyone else who comes upon it.

I love how everyone in the Canada server are so polite "You can have this house" "Take whatever you want but please don't steal from my house"

May the man who made Grigs Quest rest in peace. An absolute legend

You rummaging around the 4th server's survival world and reading signs from other people gave me big zombie apocalypse/postapocalyptic vibes. I could just feel the life behind them and it reminded of the survival server I used to play on.

The chunk error is an old school Minecraft prank or easter egg playing on the issue with our old computers struggling to render nearby chunks at high speed or when first spawning in. We would often follow other players across seemingly empty gaps or where we had the shape of the terrain memorized instead of waiting for it to load in. So by creating a real 16x16 gap, enabling the fly cheat out of sight of your victim, and floating along the ground to make it look like you were walking across the missing chunk, you could get them to follow you in and fall to their deaths. This worked best on 360 Edition since the rendering errors were a common occurrence there. I made mine in creative using a series of vertical strips, a carefully placed lattice of TNT far enough from the edges to not overly destroy it, and then cleaned it up by hand

It’s crazy how Minecraft has a very rare combination of age and longevity for a video game where it’s clear, especially by the subreddit for that first server, that it’s gone through multiple mass nostalgia waves

For me, it's always strange to see these places frozen in time on the internet. Exactly as people left them.

I like how you say Rathaus. As a German myself this was quite funny to watch. Kiss on the eye lids. XD I remember that back then all of my friends and me myself, we built castles and so on for hours. Creating masterpieces. And server 3 really displays this time period.

8:36 I can’t imagine the feeling of this moment. All alone on a long abandon Minecraft server. Walking a long an old path that hasn’t felt footsteps in over 10 years. It was dark and rainy, with eerie sounds playing.

As a bit of insight, I host a server that's been online since 2013 and I keep it running because of the memories stored on them. Besides that many of us have periods where we play actively again and sometimes long periods where we don't play for 6 months to a full year. About keeping the spawn intact, regenerating chunks is how I kept the spawn looking .. presentable & not corrupted on top of manual cleanup often using WorldEdit to wipe the griefed structures or rebuild builds from players long inactive.

this gave me hope and genuine happiness. I cried this is just so wholesome these small communities and people looking back on their childhood experiences on these servers enjoy relaxing to this game at its some of its oldest stages. Im feeling a kind of joy and nostalgia I thought i left in my childhood. When my mental health is down again this will be a reason to smile again.

the fact you accompanied Grig's quest with Stardew music. just so peaceful.

Seriously made me want to visit Grig's Quest before its gone :(

These make me so sad in a hard way to express. I have a clear mental map of every minecraft world I played. The first I played was still when food just healed you. The first place I set up camp happened to be like 15 blocks above a zombie spawner in a dungeon... I didn't even know how the game worked. I had iron but no idea what to do with it... I crafted flint and steel on accident and went nuts. Then decided to go on a quest for another piece of flint when I burned through that one setting the forest on fire. I don't have the map anymore. I'm not even certain the version. I'd love to walk around in my ancient creation though.

This was such a blast from the past… it really gets you to remember the old days. How many friends you’ve met, what you have been through together etc. It feels like we almost lived a different life online. And it WAS a whole world. I hope everyone I got to play with it doing well. All grown up probably. Working a normal job, maybe traveling the world. I’m forever grateful I met these internet strangers, because after all, they were the closest friends I had during that time period. So long, friends

please turn this into a series, i love looking at old and forgotten servers, games, etc. and your video perfectly encapsulates what i love so much about it, while putting it in a nice and easily digestable format, AND while giving each server the respect it deserves

The Grigs Quest part got me in the feels, RIP.

The part with Grig's quest breaks my heart, and I'd hate for the map to be lost to time. I hope that the creator can rest in piece, he seems like he was very well loved by his students. As for old maps and such, I don't quite remember the name of it, but I remember the map having this giant purple pyramid made from obsidian and purple glass. Inside of it there was a bunch of chests with disks and jukeboxes. Also roller coasters on the outside too, I used to play it a lot with my brothers and we would try to explore everything.

As many others have said, seeing old Minecraft servers along with hearing your calm voice made this video cozy, nostalgic, and a bit somber. I thought it was going to be another obnoxious video, but I was proved wrong. Thank you for making this! Might even peek at a few of these myself.

This is one of my favorite minecraft videos in a while, please continue exactly what you are doing. The atmosphere of this video is overwhelmingly cozy

Your voiceover has a gruff, yet soothing radio host-like quality to it. Really adds to the excellently edited museum tour experience here. Top notch stuff

This could literally be your thing just going through old, dead, or forgotten servers in games its actually entertaining. Love your videos.

One day, I was bored. So I decided to look up minecraft servers in some online server lists. I found a pretty average vanilla server, nothing too special about it. Seemed active, but not too many players, so it was unlikely you'd find one by just walking around. What I loved about that server, is just how old the world was. It may not have been old like some historic servers, but the world was made in 2014, and I joined in 2021. The server community was pretty bad: scammers everywhere, griefing and player kills were a very common occurrence, since the average age for players here was 10-16 years. The reason why I kept going, however, was that the continued influx of players made the world so fascinating to explore: around the spawn area, as soon as you entered the region where you were able able place and destroy blocks, a huge wall, made of jagged stacks of cobblestone, dirt and netherrack surrounded the entire area. Right outside, small pillars and destroyed underground bases. No trees in sight, no sugar canes. Any village had been ravaged, no house or villager was intact. It was such a strange feeling, any time you thought you found somewhere unexplored, there were always some blocks around placed by a player, who knows how long ago. It's this feeling of exploring a world that has mutated so much, trough a continued stream of building and destroying, that really made the experience worth it. Sometimes you'd find signs with player names or dates, or even messages. Sometimes you'd find the remains of a base, chests ravaged and walls destroyed. Sometimes you'd be the first one to find a hidden base, faced with the internal question of stealing its resources, or leaving them for someone else to steal.

I love how this video made stories come out. It's fun scrolling and reading through people's memories.

old gran turismo ost was incredibly refreshing to hear, nice music selection and video dude!

I hope Mr. Boreman rests in peace for being a great person who spent time to teach others and run a great minecraft server. Rest in piece. o7

24:07 man I teared up after watching this whole section the other college students were confused watching me tear up at a Minecraft Tree and Grassland animation, I'm amazed that a teacher would make a Minecraft server to either connect with students or as a passion.

Never ceases to amaze me how MASSIVE these worlds are in Minecraft....these are fantastic work, thank you so much for all this incredible work!

Seriously tho, this series is such a great way to pass the time when you're bored, or just to watch in general

5:30 The board says: Welcome to the Brauhaus der Hoffnung (Brewery of hope) You have the option to build in a giant 'Freebuild' or in themed building areas! Alternatively, you can create your own city! The needed materials can be found in the 'Farm World', further information on the associated boards. To play on our Server, you need to read the rules with /rules, in which there is one word that doesn't make sense - this word is the unlocking password. Using /passwort [password], you accept the rules, and unlock yourself on the server. Important: No Thievery, no Griefing, no Flaming, no Insults, no Capslock, no Hacks, [Buddys] and [Supporter] help you :)

I think about the old plot servers all the time. There was a guy on zexyzek’s old server Omegarealm who made an entire 100+ plot roleplay map with countless books and other pieces of literature about lore and what not. And now it’s gone just like that

9:16 The fact that somebody just one day left these items in his chest, never came back aaaand that somebody used it years after is mindblowing. Reminds me of when scientist learn about ancient civilizations.

The Adventurers Guild server and the way you explored it felt like a Dark Souls area with a boss at the end. Exploring a long gone world with enviromental storytelling, meeting few people that are sane enough to talk with, making your way up a castle to defeat a boss (and failling…).

I see everyone in the comments talking about Grig's, but I have to say that for me, the thing that made me cry of kindness was the message of MajorLava at 10:20 ! Humans are amazing

I didn't play on any of these servers, but this video still gives me a massive surge of nostalgia. I wish I could live those times again.

I just randomly found this but I was immediately captivated by the nostalgia and wave of emotions that this game created. It's crazy to think how much time has passed but I hope this brings us closer together. Thank you Redlyne :) subscribed

This reminds me so much of myself over the last 10 years. Been playing Ultima Online since beta (1997), and still somewhat active and is the longest running MMO. I logon and go to various servers - US, Japan, Oceania, Europe, etc (each have various time zone/regional names like Lake Superior, Atlantic, Pacific, Europa) and just look for folx to talk to/pvp with as I have full characters on each with full setups, suits, resources. In the prime of playing, there would be 10’s of 1,000’s per server & entire communities/player ran towns. Now, unless you logon to the major PvP or PVM servers (Atlantic, Seige, Europa), you might run into 2-5 total players outside the main hub cities. This game is my favorite of all MMOs due to the sandbox style character setups & huge groups of friends I made playing. It truly died off around 2016 but still has a solid 2-3k players vs. the millions of players during its peak (1998-2003). Truly hits me in the feels seeing friends homes & former PvP stomping grounds have disappeared due to age or passing away in real life. Nothing will ever come close to Ultima Online & the way most of us would spend half our lives playing this game, talking to friends, and overall just having the time of our life. - Robin of Lake Superior

Day instantly gets better whenever there's a new Redlyne upload

I absolutely love the style of this video, the low key background vibe is just so perfect. Thank you Redlyne.

i love how, by doing this, you sometimes breathe life back into some of the servers that got forgotten over the years! Awesome man, makes me wish i still had mine up

The KING is back

This was wholesome and nostalgic. Very impressed some of these worlds have such developed lore. And I love the music choices in your editing, even one from Hitman BM.

I absolutely love this kind of long form content and your world weary, yet compassionate delivery is up my alley.

This is my first vid of yours ive seen and looking into the comments is amazing, all the love for Mr. Borneman and his students shows how amazing this community is and i definetely plan to give Grig's quest a try. Also just wanted to add that your voice is amazing

This is a sad video to go through, so many worlds that clearly had a lot of love and care put into them abandoned forever.

Its a treat to see all these old server and Recognise so much. From old building styles, to old youtuber Statues, Massive builds, the builds only kids would have made. There is nothing quite like it. Beautiful

Oh my god, Mr. Borneman made it into this video?! I haven't watched the whole video yet I was just terribly surprised at seeing him in the comments?? He was my teacher my senior year of high school (2018). I've thought about him ever since then; he definitely influenced me. He was my government teacher. He taught me the language to describe the things I saw all around me but couldn't articulate. We watched documentaries about fracking, the "hot coffee" incident, abu ghraib... some real intense, but necessary teaching. I've never forgotten him and have saved his syllabus and all the documentaries we watched. I'm graduating university this year. Oh my god... I cannot believe so many people are here remembering him. How on earth did this video reach all his students? I almost missed his class because everyone called him the "really hard class" and I tried to swap out, but thankfully the stars aligned and kept me there. It was the launchpad that showed me the things America tries really, really hard to cover up/pretend aren't happening. He was a good teacher, I don't care what anyone says. Edit: Just watched the video. I didn't know he passed away. My brother is going to the same school and I'd hoped he could take his class too... All my respect to Mr. Borneman. I hope he's doing alright in the afterlife.

I've been gripped with a pretty intense feeling of nostalgia lately, and seeing old minecraft servers is so wonderful and sad at the same time. I haven't played on any of these servers, but it reminds me of the ones i did play on about a decade ago, and all the memories that go with them. Its incredible to think how things have changed in that time. Thank you for this video! I would love to see more.

There's something about these exploration videos I just love, the deadpan voice mixed in with absurd comedy, the in-depth look into some of these long forgotten games, not to mention the general respect given to those no longer around. Even if it takes another year ill always come back for these

I almost started full-on crying at the end of the Grig's quest part, it hit me like a bullet in the arm. Rest well... 🙏

The fact you have a list of all the music tracks used is 10/10. It is the mark of a creator who cares, thank you. Made it easy for me to identify some cool sounding music i heard.

The old map time stamp was not boring at all. It was the best part of your video, I really enjoyed looking at those maps that I used to play on. Great video man.

I could watch videos like these for hours. There's something eerily calming about empty worlds that are supposed to be full of people. Your commentary is also nice to listen to, the dry humor really makes these videos super cozy

This is honestly the closest thing you can get to videogame archeology. Theres so many things to find and imagine how these servers were in their peaks.

This video really struck a chord with me, I haven't played Minecraft in way over 5 years and never realised it would give me such strong feelings of nostalgia. Thanks for making it.

I've gotta say, this is the first video of yours I've watched and it's great. Really enjoying your content man. Also I could beyond a doubt fall asleep to that intro haha. Very relaxing.

this video was great, really made me think back to the hours i used to spend on minecraft servers that are now long gone, wish i had some sort of way of going back on those worlds again

I dont really comment all that often, but I wanted to say thanks for making these videos. they are some of my favorite content to watch online. through you we get to see some cool older places where people at one time frequented and had fun together. its somewhat wholesome to think that someone who hadn't thought of these places in years will stumble across this video and remember the good times they had.

my deep condolences go to grigs quest server owner my heart broke when he said he passed away.. ill surely try to visit this server once in while to remember them

This video is amazing and malancholic, and I was NOT READY for the Hot Shots Golf song at the end. I've been looking for that song rip online for a few years now and out of the blue your video just has it on the end like NBD, amazing!