It's Not Nostalgia. Old Minecraft WAS Great. 

Getting this question a lot, so I’d better answer. The version I mostly play (and what you’re seeing mostly in the video) is *Beta* 1.7.3 (do not confuse this with release 1.7. They’re different)

Old Minecraft gave me a vibe no other game ever has

Can we just take a moment to respect how lucky we are that all of these old versions are even still available? So many games just discard the old versions once the new ones are added, but Minecraft saw the need to preserve early. I can't think of any other game that makes it so easy and accessible to play versions of the game at all, let alone old development versions. Regardless of how the design moves forward in the future, we've always got the safety net of playing our favorite iteration years from now, and that's so special in this industry.

Tbh old minecraft immerses me way more. when there’s so many things, i get overwhelmed and unmotivated to do everything

seeing the old lava texture made me emotional for some reason

One thing about old minecraft is you learn IMMEDIATELY how the myth of Herobrine came to be. There's so little ambience, the world is so dark and empty, and choked by fog at all times. It's only natural for your brain to fear there being another presence in the world. Couple that with old minecraft having legions of generation bugs, and you've got a solid urban legend.

another thing about older minecraft that i really enjoy is the fact that the darkness out there is actually dark. As soon as the night hits, it's almost impossible to get through the woods with no light source and at the same time any lighting you put up looks so much brighter and more vibrant in comparison with the newer brighter nights

I just want to say I absolutely love how casually you’re talking. There’s no yelling, nothing super fast paced-it’s refreshing

The thing i hate in newer versions is that new stuff doesn't work with the old one, for example new mobs have complex animations and more realistic design, so when you look at a cow for example it feels like a different game because of how different these mobs look like

In the old versions of minecraft, every block had a purpose. Now there are way too many cosmetic blocks.

Minecraft without hunger bar is simply a superior experience imo

this felt so natural i didn't event realize it was 21 minutes long

the fog is a big deal. it really did make your worlds feel so much cooler when you'd get up to some high vantage and look back towards your base/town/whatever while you were out gathering things and exploring the woods nearby. looking back at your structures from a distance felt soo cool

I personally think the old Minecraft was better because of how simple and few things there were in it. No Elytra so the minecart and boats were heavily needed. Enemies hit harder so it was scary to see them. Not knowing how to play the game so the curiosity was huge. no sprinting so exploring felt more brutal and earned instead of like a tiktok speed of exploring as nowadays, everything you found was so much slower so you would appreciate it so much more. you can cover 100k blocks with an elytra in like 20 mins. 100k in old minecraft would be hoursssssssssss, everything had a purpose and nothing made something else obsolete. Edit: and heavily agreed that things became really disappointing once mojang headed in the realistic direction... for whatever reason.. Minecraft was way more enjoyable when it was an actual fantasy game.

It's the classic story of "sometimes less is more."

Why is no one talking about the old sounds? When I opend up an old version and took my first step on grass I litterly started crying because of the memories of just that one old sound

I feel that Notch’s vision for minecraft was a lot more focused. Everything had more weight as there was less. The swedish vision was lost after microsoft acquired mojang. The strategy changed to adding as much to the game for marketing. A lot of people get quite aggressive when old minecraft is discussed, often citing “nostalgia”. But these people don’t understand what minecraft is about, and concern themselves with the more superficial elements.

The zombie dropping a feather at 1:47 gave me a goddamn entire flashback to my childhood LOL, great video brother

There's this quote that goes like "limitation breeds creativity" and I feel like that applies to this version. Tho I don't personally play it, it definitely has a charm to it and it kinda feels like you can do more with less

This reminds me of how I got into making levels for Quake (1996): There's just enough complexity to be able to make fully 3D environments but enough simplicity to easily make levels that look good in the game, with no need to be a professional level designer, something that anyone can pick up and have fun with.

another thing to add to the "blocks not being as solid" point is the newer mobs too, they have detailed animations and many moving parts to them, whereas the earlier creatures have only a moving head, sometimes arms, and legs. i remember being ecstatic about wolves and how cool it was that they wagged their tails, and it indicated their health... now, there are frogs leaping around, and salamander looking cute things that slither through the water, just to name a few.. (i don't mind it, i just think its a little different than my usual picture of minecraft) sometimes i wish that i can take a few aspects from some newer updates, and put them in older ones.

bro if they added more biomes but had the same generation and texture style of the old mc it would make my childhood dream come true, exploring biomes was magical back then

One reason I can think of, though I don't really play old Minecraft, is that many of the newer features in Minecraft feel tacked on and some things serve no grander purpose than just being filler. And in older versions it feels like everything had a purpose for existing

I downloaded the betalauncher you linked. I loaded the beta 1.7.3 and loaded in to my surprise with my ORIGINAL FIRST skin! I remembered the first screenshot with my old best friend that I first played with for years when I was 12. It almost made me cry. Great video. I'm now one of those OG minecrafters who's going to play the old versions now. I think I prefer beta 1.8 with the hunger bar.

This was my first version I played of Minecraft. I remember bringing the game to computer lab in middle school and playing it there and having a bunch of people crowd around my computer like “woah, what’s that, Mia?” I remember watching long let’s plays like Ethos Lab and falling in love with the game, the vibes, the quirks, the fact that it was such a unique concept. Beta 1.7 will always have a special place in my heart ❤ Excellent video! Thank you for this!

When they added The different kinds of stone it did begin to complicate the simplicity of mining. I wish there was a way to flag certain things for your character to not pick up in modern Minecraft.

Your point about old Minecraft feeling a bit eerie, lonely or melancholic worked really well to encourage the player to build stuff, because where your buildings where felt less lonely. Which is why old Minecraft worlds have paths going everywhere, which is something i see way less of in newer Minecraft worlds. It was almost obligatory to have a nice path between every building you made.

One of my favorite things about old Minecraft was the lighting. The game was so much darker and the torches felt so much fainter, It made buildings in the dark so much cozier and safe.

Please do more videos in this format, it’s so relaxing and peaceful and the vibes are just straight up immaculate

I'm also a huge fan of the old cobble texture. I was sad back in the day when they changed it.

In terms of aesthetics or overall "feel", I really miss the old-school dungeon crawler RPG style that it had in its early years.

Your style of video is also reminiscent of older Minecraft series, with a pleasant and refreshing scenic pace. You mentioned that the more the blocks changed, the more complicated the builds became, and I think the same goes for popular Minecraft videos. The more advanced the game got, the more ppl adopted the “go big or go home” video style. Not that those are bad, they can be very entertaining at times, but I find myself getting burnt out with the scripts and goals that a normal player could never dream of achieving. TLDR: really love the vid style! The natural way of chatting is a breath of fresh air in the sea of Minecraft content!

i love how the biomes can be so close together in old Minecraft, it can make a really nice spot for a base

Sunsets in beta are worth looking at. I have no memory of looking at modern minecraft's sunset with any kind of significant emotion. When I started my beta world, after building my house I looked at a sunset, and pure joy run into my soul. After that I started to look at sunsets from that house pretty often actually. Apart from obvious graphical differences (for example: shadows under trees, cloud height etc), I think the waaaayy slower gameplay tempo and general simplicity is the key here to why they are so memorable in beta. In modern minecraft sunsets aren't worth looking at, because there's always a million things to do. And let's face it: progression is more important than fun in modern versions.

It feels so peaceful, beautiful and simple.... you dont want it to end and leave...

you've changed my mind. I've never gone back to a minecraft version much after the new one releases, but this video has moved me to download a beta release and make a world. the colors are so much more vibrant, i wish the old lighting engine could be ported to new versions because it's not just the new textures. most light sources glow orange, but everything used to glow white.

I used to develop server plugins for Minecraft, made a good amount of money doing it too. I was very deep into playing and developing for Minecraft back in 2009-2013 time era. Had thousands of hours in the game. Now, I haven't played it for more than 15m every few months, going upwards of 5 years without playing it all. If i had to pick a word to describe modern Minecraft, it would be "overwhelming". There is too much going on, too much to keep track of, etc. I'm not just nostalgic for old Minecraft, or for the fun times i had with it, or for the friends I had made while playing (some i still have today). It's that modern Minecraft doesn't fill the same hole for me that old Minecraft did. I would go to Minecraft to chill, to calm down and to relax. I don't feel like I can get that same feeling in modern Minecraft. (Also side note, OG textures went so much harder than modern textures)

Just like the limited amount or blocks gave a sort of cohesive Minecraft "look" in beta, the old world generation did too. It used temperature/humidity noise maps to freely generate the biomes independently of terrain shape. So you could get flat desert, hilly desert, flat grassland, hilly grassland, etc naturally. And the transitions between biomes were really smooth.

“Simplicity breeds creativity” this is such a simple yet immensely accurate distillation of a lot of my feelings regarding my experience with/perception of both vanilla minecraft and many old school mmorpgs. Well said~

I honestly love this! Great job on the video! it's so fun seeing the world you're exploring!

Thank you for inspiring me, I started it and found out I enjoy Minecraft again. Old version have some kind of magic feel that makes me really enjoy it.

So I’m a landscape architecture student, and I think your point on how it’s easy to make an old Minecraft version build, well, attractive is a very good observation. I don’t feel like going into all of the reasons why, but a highly constrained materials/texture/color palette actually support more creativity. Humans are not evolved to have every material and color at their fingertips, so access to so many options when making design choices often result in ugliness and unconformity in the worst way. That’s why so many people hate post-1920s cities so much - because globalization gave people the power to make anything they want, and the result of that is millions of ugly modern cities built from materials around the world that still somehow look exactly the same. It’s why Americans love to travel to Europe, where each development is culturally unique because 1000 years ago, you built your village with the materials nearby and instead focused on maximizing those materials to their creative and efficiency potential. So, you get a gorgeous medieval Bavarian village constructed in the same style, but each structure is entirely unique. I love Minecraft and I’ve been playing since 2012, and I’ve also experienced the overwhelming feeling when they add new building blocks. I’m very happy that my design school has taught me what to do with that feeling: if you’re given no design constraints, make them yourself. If you have an idea that breaks those constraints, record it, and try it out later. At the beginning of any modern Minecraft build project, I’ll always make a materials and texture palette that fit the style I’m pursuing, and work from there. I don’t waste time with redoing major build sections because I decided on a different material anymore, so I get to just… build!

Simplicity over bloat can really explain most of modern gaming. That was a really good point. I dont want to always have to grind or have an overwhelming amount of things i could do and old minecraft is just that.

When I learned you drag the shape of an axe in 2012, after a good week of playing blew my mind. Then slowly learning the different shapes for new items like some ancient secret code. The slow drip was the best feeling. The slow addition of new things, like breeding, pets, new worlds. There was this excitement of learning the mechanics.

mad ramblings that were in my head tbh, I just didn't know how to get the words out and you did, so thank you

Early Minecraft really does look like Daggerfall or Ultima Underworld even. It has that distinct early 90's dungeon crawler aesthetic very few games have

Another reason why I personally still love playing old Minecraft and why I fell in love with it so fast back in 2011 is that it feels like you're discovering untouched nature, due to the lack of structures and the combined effect of fog, darker nights, slow movement speed and more varied terrain features. When I started playing I was about 8, I lived in a city and loved to imagine how the land would have looked like before cities where built and forests were altered to be more efficient for wood production, and so on. Minecraft gave me an experience similar to that, I was able to be the first to discover landscapes that probably no one ever saw (since no two worlds looked the same) and was able to choose how I would settle in this world. I know this feeling can still hold true in modern Minecraft but the abundance of structures throws it off, and even the terrain itself somehow feels less wild, most biomes are more plane, smoothed out and less dense. Anyway great video ! It was very interesting to hear detailed arguments why nostalgia isn't the only appeal of old Minecraft, that I tend to overlook when I simply say that "the feeling is different". Thanks for that !

I love how you highlight the aesthetic of the old beta fog. It's one of those details i haven't really given thought to, but now that you pointed it out I realized how I've missed it.

Minecraft 3DS has been discontinued for a long time, but its the version I've been playing for years. I really relate to the simplicity ♥ It is the feeling of "This world is a part of you" instead of "You are part of this world"

I love the lighting and realistic color palette of the original. It looks very natural and the darkness of night time makes it very atmospheric.

This. I needed this. A perfect explanation of why it's called "Golden Age". And the argument of "We beat Ender Dragon, bye" hit close to home.

Aside from gratitude for your wonderful video and approval of your point of view on old Minecraft charm, I'd like to express huge respect for talking with no script! It makes the whole video more sincere and soulful and I'm stunned by your heartwarming delivery.

Whenever I start a new minecraft world I always end up with a massive to-do list and every build takes me so long just to choose what materials to use because there are like 1k blocks in newcraft

I love how casual this video is. It’s 3AM rn and I feel like I’m listening to a close friend just kind of gush about old Minecraft before we clock out for the night😂

If you asked me what my favorite Minecraft world I ever had was, I would have no trouble answering: The one where I found a hill on a taiga biome not too far from spawn and made my first decent looking house on survival. The hill was big enough that I had plenty of space to build on and a great view of my surroundings, but still short enough that it wasn't too hard to climb. There were no big mountains blocking my view, no pillager outposts spawning hostile mobs near my house, no ravines for me to fall into and plenty of those small naturally generated lakes around. I had crops, a dog, some cows, a big cave system to explore and plenty of plans for what I wanted to build. It was great. Now I love watching people play on the newer versions, I love watching them fly around the world with elytras, making all sorts of automated farms and building megabases and stuff, but whenever I try to play the game, it just doesn't feel right. The world generation is so different. Everything is too big, the mountains, the rivers, the lakes... Whenever I create a new world I catch myself wandering "is this seed even good enough...? " There are so many biomes and so much stuff on them. I never know what I will need. What if I need something from a jungle? What if I need terracotta? Will ever manage to collect all of the cats? Will I ever be happy with where I built my base? I just can't stop overthinking everything, there's too much stuff and everything feels like it is and isn't important at the same time... and then I just start missing my little house on the hill and how everything was simpler. Sometimes, simpler really does mean better.

Thank you for the video. Really nice to see footage from the game back then, hits me right in the heart. I suppose I have been drinking, but this video felt personal in a way I see many try but none really pull off.

i miss the community. Watching the spawn of the server you said was a quite nostalgic moment for me, ngl

They call it beta, but its only played by chads... intriguing

I really like both, but it is hard not to look at old and new Minecraft as pretty much different games. It's true that the older versions have this unexplainable charm that I love. The fog, the textures, loneliness and eeriness - it felt like a dream about old games. New versions are more lively, full of content and detail. I love how some of my newer builds look thanks to new blocks. I wish there was a way to combine the atmosphere of the old Minecraft and the richness of the new, but I think that's impossible. And personally I don't think I could get in the same headspace as I was in when playing Minecraft 10+ years ago. The experience is unrepeatable.

Bru I absolutely feel it, I love everything about the old version too, even the old cobblestone, netherrack, gravel,... textures which many ppl dislike and so much more. Idk why but nostalgia kicks in hard when I play the alpha versions where every tree and grass block has a very bright green colour

One of my favorite memories of Minecraft was playing it. Back in 3rd grade, I'd be coming home from elementary school and playing on the Xbox with my sister. I'd probably say that Minecraft has had a pretty big impact on my life for the last 14-15 years or so, as most of the fondest memories i have are playing it. I stopped playing for a few years, but came back to it during 7th grade and started a sever with my friends. It was so fun coming back to school talking about what we did in the server during the weekend, and discussing plans for build ideas for our home base.

13:17 I love the point about that old generation. All the floating terrain gave minecraft such a whimsical feeling. I remember the times when the seeds you wanted to find the most were ones with awesome overhangs.

The calmness of this video reminds me of 2010 lets plays. Nowadays people have to edit 5 explosions, jump scares, deep fried sound effects, unfunny skits and so on into every min.

I still remember getting Minecraft for the first time. I’ve been watching some of my favorite Minecraft creators for a while and my parents caught on over this, so when my 4th birthday came around May 9th 2012. We went to the store after my birthday party, I remember my mom moving me head towards the video game section, and infront of my my childish face was Minecraft for the Xbox 360. Me and my dad would play this when we got home and for while soon after. I then soon grew to play with my family members and creating amazing memories during that time. Of the time of saying this, I’m about to be over with high school and graduated, and I haven’t talked to those family members like I used to all those years ago. There’s a lot I would do to just relive the “glory days”…

I am happy you enjoy it. I have played all new versions since Beta and I love the newer updates. Caves and Cliffs really added some great views and I love how elytra and things like that allow for bigger projects to be done.

I'm from '86, so it's not like Minecraft has anything to do with my childhood or nostalgia; I was 25 years old when I started playing the Minecraft Beta back in early 2011. But there's a magical simplicity to the older versions that make them very attractive to come back to. I feel like the fact that the pre-release versions have so much less stuff going on than current Minecraft makes the entire old-school Minecraft experience more focused and relaxed for me.

Notch had vision, Jeb has game sense. And neither has the other's strength. The missing ingredient from modern Minecraft is that referenciality that Dialko brought up with the beta color pallets appearing like those of games from decades ago: minecraft under Notch's direction was a game about reflecting on our relationship with cyberspace. It's a theme that is subtly woven in with the rest of the game design: mobs drawn directly from classic videogame tropes, C418's heavy use of synthesizers, and if you look into the making of the paintings available in game you will find that they are inspired by the visual illusions caused by older game engines. The ability to see through walls into an endless void in between spawns during a CSGO match, those odd pixilated glitches, so on and so forth. The result is a game that forms a nexus of cultural touchstones. When Notch retired and Jeb took over he brought with him a very different philosophy to game design. Jeb is interested in making an insular game, with game elements that are unique to Minecraft rather than referential to other media. He states this explicitly in the Minecraft dev handbook. Jeb's goal is to create a new an unique lore within Minecraft, not one that pulls in influences from our entire experience of digital culture. I always felt that Jeb's reasoning carried undercurrents of FOMO. Like he creates because he fears loosing the opportunity to be unique, not because he actually has something unique to say. But, his technique is phenomenal. There is a coherence to modern Minecraft that did not exist in modpacks of a similar size to what we have now. The game draws one into creating infrastructure, to play the game like a modern survival game with supply chains and forward bases. A stuffed inventory becomes a mining outpost in a cave, a farm becomes a small ranch. I've found that modern Minecraft has a certain flow to it that sets it apart from beta. The two act like different games, and that's because they're made by different devs with different strengths. Thank you for listening to my TedTalk.

Man, your world is REALLY beautiful. The structure of the houses, the transport systems, the buildings. Everything. Goes to show how much old Minecraft really can do. Almost like old Minecraft has a lot more meaning to it that modern minecraft, like just do anything you want. Meaning. The newer versions seem to like restrict your freedom in some way even if you technically are free. Like the newer versions are just, they almost don't have meaning. If you play in modern minecraft, you just get bored overtime, But in old minecraft, all the ideas flood your mind.

i was always a 1.12.2 player primarily for years, mostly just because all of my favorite mods got left behind in 1.12.2 with the re-coding of the game, but this made me genuinely consider playing the much older minecraft versions. for me itd probably be nostalgic, getting minecraft in 2012 as a kid was one of my favorite memories after all and i cant help but fondly look back at how i would wear that 3 wolves howling at the moon t shirt but with minecrafty creepers instead of wolves and board myself up every time i saw a spider because i was scared of their eyes, but i see there can be a lot of enjoyment in the game itself regardless of nostalgia too. maybe sometime ill pick it up again. thanks so much for the awesome video!

I'm so glad you mentioned the fog. I actually found an option in the sodium line of fabric mods that stretches the fog back out and it really does improve the atmosphere *that* much

While I think the current game is far better than any of the earlier versions of Minecraft, the one thing I do think Mojang completely screwed up is the fog. For the life of me, I do not understand what in the world they were thinking with this new fog system, or why they are so incapable of producing a decent looking replacement.

just subbed, your content rules, vibe is great, i will be seated for the next video

The moment you mentioned how replaying older versions of Minecraft reminded some people why they started liking Minecraft in the first place, it made me want to replay it again too. I was around ten years old when I first played Minecraft, and every time I think about it, I get a sense of peace and calm I dont feel a lot these days. It’s probably because of nostalgia, for me. I remember that the blocked seemed so huge the first time I played, I dont know exactly why. I remember that feeling of urge before the night, trying to gather a few pieces of wood to make a small house before the monsters started appearing. The simplicity of it is probably what brings me calm and peace. Simplicity is something I started really valuing recently. I’m in the design field. My daily life is always going so fast, my work put me in situations where i have to think about different kinds of solutions, think about new creative ideas, new concepts, etc. . So it was really a relief when I started balancing that with simple activities, activities with simple rules, activities with repetitive motions, etc. So, yeah, I totally understand why the simplicity of the old Minecraft is appreciated by so many people.

I think the style of fiction was different back then. Modern Minecraft has a more folklore-esque type of fantasy whereas old Minecraft felt more videogamey and almost fever-dream-like, which I personally prefer. Another thing is that I think the simplicity of old Minecraft made it easier to have a grasp on the grand scheme of the game, making it feel like your actions weighed more in terms of progress. Its simplicity highlighted the challenge of nighttime as being the main adversary. But now there’s an “end” to the game and tons of other challenges, which isn’t bad of course I still love new Minecraft, but I do think it diminished something very enjoyable about old Minecraft.

"limitation is the mother of creativity" I don't know where this phrase is from, but it's what comes to mind as a justification of why old minecraft feels so amazing. It's the lack of content that makes creativity spark the most

This makes me wanna play the old versions again cause the new ones just doesnt give the same vibe anymore.

nice video dialko, you really make a great job to make me understand why i love the old minecraft (particularly the first versions of consoles)

old minecraft had a such a nice look to it, the lighting engine and the fog just gave it such a great atmosphere, the old sounds and music too were just amazing

You really pinned down the feeling I've been having with modern minecraft. I feel like I just cannot build anything without it looking out of place. I think it's the more detailed textures and lighting for me

This whole video is exactly how I feel put into words, it's so liberating hearing someone talk about it!!

When I play Minecraft it’s usually on the newer versions and I only found this video by chance, but it makes me want to check out the older versions, thank you:). Great video btw

New versions just feel so overwhelming, more than just the block selection. You also have to worry about phantoms and getting a food source, then there's the parts that are optional but integral to getting the "right" experience like building your base near a village for trade purposes (or importing villagers), collecting the required stuff to get to the end, finding a stronghold and so on. It's such a big game, it's starting to feel more like 10 smaller games in a trenchcoat as opposed to a single unified vision like beta does, made worse with every update. It still has it's merits, I often play 1.12.2 for modding purposes, but the old versions just feel more coherent and tightly designed.

Minecraft machinima was iconic. It started dying out in the late 2010s, and is now a integral part of both Minecraft and machinima history.

I haven't seen this version of minecraft since i was a child. You make some really really good points i'm very interested in playing a beta version now!!

This video came to me at perfect timing cause the other day I was just thinking about this, about how I used to love playing Minecraft and I could spend hours doing constructions and stuff but in the newer versions I get strangely tired or overwhelmed and there’s this sense of urgency to have so much stuff that I didn’t get when playing older versions, like I’ve been wanting to play but it feels like a lot of work now, like I literally used to spend and pull allnighters just to finish something because it was so entertaining and fun, I really agree with your opinion

In the old version, since there were fewer blocks, the block pallette was easier to maintain between myltiple structures, especially in multiplayer. Nowadays, since there are so many new blocks, a block pallette is harder to make and harder to maintain. Plus, it felt like every block had a purpose when building. Nowadays, we have a bunch if niche blocks, like purpur, which are kinda just there, lacking a lot of purpose.

Old Minecraft is the iconic Minecraft. And I'm glad you mentioned the fog, I've noticed how different it's felt the last few years and I always assumed it was just because the render distance was bigger, but you're right. The fog has more of an atmospheric effect in beta because it fades out over a greater distance. Vs the new fog which just sits on the edge of the render distance and sharply transitions. Glad you put that into words cus I could never figure out why I'll liked old fog so much more.

Hearing you talk about old minecraft revived something deep inside my heart toward the game. I agree that the older version was great, and in my opinion, it still is. Although as a kid, I played very little Minecraft, but enough of it to be familiarized with stuff and to have memories to reminisce. And that spark old MC has to keep on playing that for some reason in the newer version seem to have faded away (then again, in my opinion). In my personal view, Minecraft's supposed to be a fantastical, imaginative world meant to be explored, and you have the ability to make it the way you want it to be! Even with just few features and its simplicity is what makes the game challenging and interesting to play.

modern minecraft feels like someone installed in your computer minecraft with a bunch of mods you didn't ask for

I'm not sure why but your video made me incredibly sad. Old Minecraft really makes me feel how fast time goes by, and it's not going back. It’s hard to explain, and maybe it sounds crazy, but old Minecraft feels so… fleeting, you know. Everything is so precious, so peaceful, and yet so ephemeral, and it hurts. Its like, fuck, Im growing older so fast and only I have these beautiful memories of these beautiful moments and they will all end with me. Anyway, thank you for the video. I remembered something very important because of it, even if that is not what you intended.

I've been playing Indev+ recently, being able to rediscover the game that I've been playing for basically 12 years truly feels magical.

old MC Alpha and somewhere till late Beta was amazing. It was a simple game, relaxing and it had not so much bloat like today and not to mention that the old World generation was much much more diverse and random which made the world fascinating with all the big random chain of Mountains, overhangs, tunnels, random flying blocks appearing, few blocks of biomes appearing where it doesnt belong like for example few sand blocks appearing in woods etc.. Thats what made Miencraft so speciall. I myself play still 1.7.3 and an alpha version for years.

You’re on point about Minecraft being self propelled. The most fun I ever had in Minecraft a decade ago when I was a teen was when I had my own goals and made expansive cities and adventure maps in creative or just focused on building up the town while my friends gathered reasources in survival. A lot of this was back on the iOS version before it became a copy of Java. Limited world ,no ender dragon, no nether, limited mobs, limited block choices with more updates every other month. We didn’t care that at one point we only had a 250x250 world with nothing but zombies and skeletons it was enough for the moment.

something i like about beta is the sense of scale. in modern minecraft, everything is bigger and taller, while in beta everything is smaller. hell, even giant builds in beta look like they fit in, instead of being _truly_ giant

I bought Minecraft in July 2009 which was in the “Classic” era of the game. I still have my world from back then and though I don’t play it as much, it’s got almost 15 years of history on it. Really cool just going back and seeing how I used to be and play and build

20:51 So that's what felt true about this video ! You give that nice interesting feeling of choosing the words you use at the moment you're speaking, which is good to feel and is lost in scripting. That's really interesting to speak of suddle things as well, few people can perceive these things and fewer can talk of them. That's nice to feel the vibe and get this video to explain it in details. Thank you for that video, i'm new to the channel

Every single point you made in this video goes to show the sheer impact and provenance Minecraft has had in our childhoods. We respect what each other has to say for our individual versions; whether that be console legacy edition or Java, as we are all under the same understanding that those memories we had are precious and vital. The starting point however is more-so. You state you play minecraft in a way that you didn’t grow up with, and that goes to show how valid our passion is for days gone and how true it is, that they don’t make them like they used to. Great video dude, well done.

I love your point about the fog so much. I never really played beta beyond the occasional foray with a friend to see what it was like, but the fog in beta adds to the exploration part of the game so much in my opinion. It definitely beckons you towards it a little more, giving you an ever so slight taste of what’s in the distance. It also applies to builds in a fascinating way, especially in areas like yours with several huge structures. It makes it feel like they go on and on.

I started playing in 2011 on Xbox 360 I remember how confused I was about seeds, how cool it was for me to go into creative, building all sorts of stuff, getting scared by creepers, how excited I was to find a wolf to tame, playing the tutorial worlds, the old textures, eventually buying it on PC, joining servers building bases and doing PVP, finding out about hacks, being banned for testing hacks, the hive, mineplex, Stampy, DANTDM, etc. Then the ocelots came, a new tutorial world, updated textures, more new stuff, random useless blocks, Xbox one, PS4, Java migration, it just all went away. I'll always remember old Minecraft being better

Brilliant video Dialko! Brings back some Nostalgia watching this video. I miss the simpler times of Minecraft in Alpha and Beta, So I'm starting a New world and enjoy the Golden Age of Minecraft again :-)