Let's Talk About Minecraft's Better Than Adventure Mod 

You not having previously made a video on BTA is one of the most drastic Mandela effects for me. I swore you had

This mod peaks in multiplayer, honestly. Playing on a community server with other people was genuinely one of the best experiences I’ve had with Minecraft in a long time.

i’m personally a big fan of modern minecraft, but seeing old minecraft versions get this kind of community support is so lovely to see. i have a soft spot for those early versions, and i’m so grateful we can go back and re-experience them in a whole new way!

If this mod brings back that "exploring Beta" feeling, then it's priceless to me. I will definitely play this mod in the future sometime.

Probably my favourite MC mod of all time. It's insane how much better the game design choices are than Mojang's

I am so happy you have such a passion for this old school modding scene! I was introduced to it just a short time ago now. I found NSSS, which led me to the Legacy+ project and many other mods. I have made many friends within this small community of old school stuff. Thank you for this video!

Modern Minecraft has gotten so fast-paced and cutthroat in recent years with the rise of speedrunning. More and more I see people just beelining straight to the endgame content and fighting for domination over the server, which for me just ruins the enjoyment of the game. If you want to play Multiplayer, you have to play competitively and aggressively if you want to even stand a chance. I just miss the days of hopping onto Minecraft with my friends and building a village together, pulling pranks on each other, going on adventures. I miss building and riding rollercoasters, amassing an entire dog army, or trying something we saw on RU-vid and just generally having fun.

BTA revived my interest in MC, and also revived my youtube channel, now being my most successful minecraft series yet. Recently I haven't had the chance to play much of it, but I plan to make a big return soon and play more of it/check out the massive update I missed. I'm so grateful to BTA and its awesome community!

Having missed Minecraft's early development (I started on 1.5.2), I am looking forward to exploring BTA soon-ish. As I have gotten fed up with modern MC too, both from the mediocre updates and especially account changes, I've left the game behind, after I closed my Vanilla server over log4j. But if I end up liking it, I might spin up a long-term server again, with BTA. Currently I'm playing Vintage Story, which is it's own separate block game and deserves more attention, being a sort of mix of old and new MC with it's own clear vision. It also has seasons and seems to resemble BTA in some other ways too, but has a much larger focus on survival. Both seem an amazing change of pace, in different directions, but sticking to the sandbox experience that interests me.

So I found this video after a youtube search for Minecraft beta mods, on a whim, and I didn't realise that beta 1.8 was controversial. I drifted away from Minecraft after that update, and have maintained that it didn't feel like the same game anymore. I occasionally boot it up to play with friends, but it lost it's magic long ago for me. I'll definitely be checking out your video on the subject and looking further into the Better Than Adventure mod. Thank you for making this video!

glad you finally did a video on it (though I did see the live stream) XD. I’m not in your discord so I had no idea about the meme and cause of that I was one off those people who commented not knowing the reason you had been “avoiding” it lol.

It even has mods being developed for it using the Babric api

I personally think 1.20 was actually pretty good, if for no other reason than it gave desert wells an actual use. That said, the recent changes to the End User License Agreement Microsoft/Mojang made when no one was looking without announcing they were doing so is probably a large part of why the internet might be turning against Minecraft a little. Really hoping this year's Minecon gives us a preview of 1.21 that has a wow factor. Something, like, I don't know, a new dimension accessed by the ancient city portal. My take on things anyway.

Your channel is really making me want to check out those old versions, I'm definitely gonna be looking into that mod as well

YES I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR ANOTHER BETTER THAN ADVENTURE VIDEO FOR WEEKS!!!!! I love this modpack!

That stream was so fun, can't wait for the next one

I never looked at any mods in the old versions but DAMN it looks fun

I realy want to see the next better then adventure live stream

I haven't even played this mod yet, but you had me at "Fighting Zombies for cloth" I hate looking for sheep as the first or second step in every play session, i'll gladly take on the world to get bed materials.

This channel has a ton of potential. Great work!

This seems incredibly interesting. Will have to check it out as soon as possible

I first joined Minecraft back when the full version of pocket edition released, and back when nether core reactors were still a thing. And yeah, nowadays modern Minecraft feels easy and is littered with tons of useless features. So its nice to see that these older versions still have a community around them.

Minecraft adding trial chambers in 1.21 might be the final nail on the coffin. I think I'm switching to play BTA!

that world generation, it’s beautiful

Great stuff! Glad to see more love for b1.7.3, my favorite version of the game!

Great video! Another good set of old mc mods is Legacy+, You should cover that some time. Indev+ is a really good mod with tons of content, really pushing vanilla indev to it's limit!

Loved hearing your thoughts on BTA, keep up the good work Ryan! Also I should mention, I won't be here for about the first half of the island event because I'll be busy tomorrow, but I should be able to join the server the day after. I assume I can join the server after the event has already begun, right?

I just got interested with this mod and I see this video release. This really inspired me to try this mod out, looks so fun just from the video alone.

The children yearn for mc to return to an indie developmental sandbox as opposed to corporate nonsense

Your channel is an underrated masterpiece

4:43 Could you tell me where you got this 'Minecraft Is Born' timeline graphic? I've searched on Google some and can't find that exact one. Probably just didn't search the right terms.

That would be really cool if they added stamina bar that could be used to move faster (Like in Minecraft Lilypad)

Ironically, i hope a mod happens like this for Minecraft Beta 1.8/Minecraft 1.0. like a "What if Notch didn't step down as the creative director of the game" While still being the adventure update. I know you could say the main official updates are this, but after 1.0 it was almost ALL Jeb's ideas not Notches.

nice timing im playing it right now

yk while I dont consider myself as an official release/adventure update hater, I will say that having glass trapdoors is amazing. I have wanted a type of horizontal glass pane for a while now, especially doing underground builds because I like how glass ceilings look but it didn't look right being full block to me and the fact they added that as an alternative to glass panes is outstanding. Along with that I also really like how they added labyrinths too. Ive had a small world on bta for a couple of days now and its really good!! (also Im kinda realizing the joys of having no hunger bar too, I can't say Im always at full health but like,, its actually nice to not have to worry about it as much)

Love your videos! Could you perhaps make a video covering modern versions of better than wolves mod? It has been in developing for over 10 years now and is a complete overhaul with some hardcore survival. I’ve been playing it for a couple of months and it feels like playing minecraft for a first time, brings me a lot of joy and nostalgia with some nice challenging gameplay and progression(it takes 4-8 hours just to make a crafting table). I feel like this mod doesn’t get the attention it deserves even with all that “alternative timeline” trend going! I absolutely recommend you taking a look into it, you won’t be disappointed!

Another mod that adds seasons a feature wanted for 10+ years that mojang is incapable of adding

This mod looks really cool actually

what's the music on the background during "my thougts" part of the video?

am i able to combine these mods into a modpack? like could i do BTA + the one that adds the sky lands with gargoyles + diverge + mo creeps and weirdos + mo creatures + aether or something like that?

Can you cover better than wolves mod.

Minecraft is a game I usually go to and play for a while, then get bored and quit. Usually I'll make a world intending on staying on it for a while but give up because I run out of things to do and don't feel any drive or creativity. I don't particularly have any qualms against modern Minecraft but it just feels stale. Maybe this mod will give a shakeup! The old days of Minecraft could be rough around the edges but there's a certain nostalgic beauty to it for me. I'll definitely have to try this out.

You should do a video on Mango Pack when Volume 2 comes out

Very cool, any chance we'll be seeing a vid on New Frontier Craft?

I joined just after the golden age ended back in 1.4. The game seemed to very slowly become a game about exploration without a proper teleport/fast travel system (waystones mod is a must for me in modern minecraft) Beyond that, my favorite thing to do is just strip mine, and the update to world generation didn't change that besides for making me strip mine deeper.

5:08 IC2 and Direwolf Season 1 my beloved ♥️

Last time I played Minecraft, was on Hypixel playing skywars on 1.8.9. I had been playing since beta 1.7.2 (2011) and stopped around 2017, after they added the shields I'm guessing. I stopped playing because my PC could no longer run Minecraft in a playable framerate, it being from 2013 and all. I'm thinking of buying a new gaming PC and future proofing, wish me luck!

Does someone know what is the music at the end?

watched the whole video and still have no idea what this mod does other than adding seasons and new blocks, thanks.

Any plans on making videos on the other mods you mentioned in this video (and other "Alternative Timeline" mods?)

the cool thing about being a youtuber is yes, you might not have a lot to add to a very talked about conversation, but people who follow you want to specifically hear *your* voice regarding the conversation

i enjoy 1.20 minecraft, but beta 1.7.3 is incredibly good. and better than adventure is 100% going to be the first mod i ever play. i just hope it works on my computer lol.

Golden age ended at caves and cliffs

The last few updates for the modern game felt pretty cool to me, tho that's likely cause I haven't been actively keeping up with them or really playing the game, so I've had multiple updates worth of new stuff pop up in front of me randomly on RU-vid and stuff rather than having it drip-fed like the majority of people. If that makes sense. Lol.

Hi Ryan, this time actually, I have a question for you. Did you ever imagine that this Minecraft content would bring so much attention ? You probably answer that already

at last! im so happy to see it

We not gonna talk about the fully fleshed out Legend of Zelda mod for Beta Minecraft?

Very cool mod. Is there a way to install some kind of shaders for 1.7.3 as well?

so whats the diffrence of this mod and better than wolves mod? Cant seem make up my mind if better than Wolves is better cause it has those funny windmills and waterweels.

BTA it's really what i need it. Vanilla mod (like a Aether but better) what concentrate on fun and creative..i'm still wandering how to get cape on the new version in this mod...

I absolutely love this mod

great stuff

just found your channel and i like it . Just subbed and can not wait for the advertures you make with this mods pack )

serious question: can this be paired with the aether mod?

does the 404 seed work in this mod?

6:40 that, that right there. that perfectly sums up my main isssues with modern mc. these recent updates are cool, but they don't FEEL like Minecraft anymore.

Hopefully There's a mod for 1.7 where: New 1.18 World Generation is implemented Combined Better Than Adventure and The New Nether While havinf the old combat system and new tools. and also keeping the same textures and feeling as the classic ones, and also some of the oceans from aquatic update too. I feel like exploration is underrated and people right now are focusing on usable experience of each features while not enjoying one of the core gameplay mechanics of Minecraft itself.

You should check out Authentic Adventure, its basically a "better" version of the adventure update and is made by the dev behind Minecraft diverge

Cooking iron ingots gives you netherite and it better then diamonds but you cant use a furnace to cooket it

If i ever had kids im gonna tell them this is Minecraft,

Nice video

dude you have to make a video of the authentic adventure mod, i didnt seen any video talking about it and its from the same creator of the diverge mod

Thanks ryan, thats me 0:19

Good Work.

Beta 1.7.3 and BTA FOREVER >>>>

LET’S GOOOOOO

Soo. Here is a story of mine I hope people find interesting enough to read. Back when i was like 5 or 6 I played minecraft on my parents work computer. And it already had it installed since we bought the computer from a friend. I fell in love with the game immediately. I cannot really tell what i thought since i was very young. (And yes I'm still a 13 year old kid) but my parents a few years later forbid me from playing it since they said I cried when I saw a monster ingame. Which I cannot remember at all! So they really misunderstood what it was all about. Years pass and I still didn't get to play my favorite block game to let my creativity go wild. And when I was about 10 yr's old I finally convinced my parents to buy it, I had watched alot of yt videos about it before I got it again. So I knew alot about it. And i didn't get to enjoy the moments when i found out how to craft a crafting table. And considering the huge skill level many people was on, and almost the unspoken rules of modern minecraft like: day 1 Full iron armor!! Day 5 cut the entire forest down to trade sticks for emeralds and get diamond armor!! Day 50 Beat the game!! Get elytra and finally start building. Atleast, that was how i felt it. Doesn't mean it was true. But I felt a pressure to beat the game before i started building. And last time i tried that, i failed miserably. And wasn't stubborn enough to try again. Then I end up thinking that modding might just help. So i made Alot of modpacks and was proud of it. But Never really played them since I had already researched all the mods. So I gave minecraft a break. And now I discover this mod for 1.7.3. now this version was older than what I was used to back when I was 5-6'ish years old. But that wasn't the problem for me. And actually a good thing since I could discover things at my own pace. Since not many yt vids was around at that time. Instead of researching every goddang mechanic about it. i just played it. Best decision I could've chosen. Because I could enjoy the feeling of discovering things again. As if I was playing the game for the first time. This'll be the main version I'll be using from now on. :D

*Beta than adventure

When are you going to cover ReIndev?

A Minecraft mod that makes Mincraft feel more like Minecraft, huh

I love the new raw iron and raw gold textures

It would be nice if mcpe add launcher so we can play old mc and maybe it could be possible to make bta mod to mcpe

Why are these sorts of mods popular? I played minecraft when I was a kid, but took a break through highschool and undergrad. Then, I tried to get back into it recently. Modern "vanilla" minecraft feels like a crappy modpack, not like what the game I fell in love with as a 10 year old felt like. I'm still re-exploring "classic" minecraft (I have a 1.7.3 world ongoing), but I imagine if I get bored of that, I'll explore these sorts of mods rather than play the modern version of the game.

Nah. Better Than Adventure fells like modern Minecraft with Nostalgia Tweaks and beta terrain generation mods. Well, for me, the fact that instead of blocks of ore you get raw ore no longer feels like a thing that would have been added to the beta of Minecraft. And so with many little things, like with jars with fireflies or a block of the way. I prefer mods like Reindex and NSSS, which are more canonical, the contents of which Mojang would add to their game ine the early 2010s.

I hate that you cannot install it as it is, but you need to download and sign in to a third party weird launcher...

I don't know why thinking about the idea of "golden age Minecraft" has me so conflicted. But it seriously does. I genuinely don't know what to feel about it. On the one hand, Im mildly annoyed by it. Because Ive been playing since beta and genuinely think modern minecraft is the best version of the game there is. Theres just so much more to do, to explore. But at the same time, I don't play minecraft without mods anymore, and the mods I play with usually add progression systems, rpg mechanics, bosses etc. So how much of that enjoyment comes from modern minecraft itself rather than mods? At the same time, I both feel extremely nostalgic for the good old days and simultaneously feel like other people are blinded by their own nostalgia. That people look at the past with rose tinted glasses. Its created a weird mental conundrum for me, which, ultimately, is meaningless given its just a videogame, but nonetheless its been very interesting to think about. I don't know where I stand on it. Its true that I don't like how dismissive people are of modern minecraft, and thats been the case for a while (I loved the combat update and I still think Phantoms make for a fun challenge), but theres also a certain magical feeling when I think back to how things were. Sneaking on my dads computer while he was away to play with Sphax and Precisely Portal, watching Yogscast, hearing rumors about the nether portal only to finally make one myself.

I know this mod is for beta but I'd love it if I could play around with this mod modern Minecraft even though it would complete negate the reason for this mods existence

you should make a video on terrafirmacraft

I wish i could play this but i havent bought minecraft so i cant

Maybe if Notch didn't leave...

why is it when i press f3 i cant see any x y z cordinates in the mod. how am i gonna find diamonds if it wont tell what level im on UNDERGROUND! please help i love this mod but nobody will tell me why f3 isnt showing X Y Z!

Hard agree 1.18 was awesome cause of terrain gen, especially rivers

1. Even in Beta, compasses are still fairly useless because they only point to the original spawnpoint. 2. Compasses SHOULD be able to be set to any location 3. There's no need to "give the compass a use" when: a. If you give something a use, you're cluttering the game. It's okay for some things to just be decoration. b. What it should be able to do, point to a set location, is enough of a use. 4. The coordinate screen was never meant to be used in-game. It is a debug screen, made for troubleshooting. Looking at the coordinates in a survival world has always felt like cheating to me. (It's your game, so you can do whatever you want, but I'm just saying that the best solution isn't to make the compass necessary because of the debug screen. It's just to not use the debug screen. And if other players still use it, well then it's their loss.)

i have been playing this mod pretty intensively for a few days and i'm amazed i keep finding new things. here's my most recent discovery: pebbles! you can get them easily from gravel in a trommel. i just assumed they were a crafting ingredient and nothing more, but it turns out, you can throw them? and PLACE them to make paths??? and you can place more than one per block to make it more/less dense????? this is the kind of thing i keep discovering about BTA!

I am reminded of RLcraft mod pack which is a combination of numerous mods and holy crap it is brutal yes but does require breaking the usual norms, of course some aspects require explanation like how to obtain planks. Though some monster pack mods need a sort of redo because slightly looking out of place but hey I do love the Ventoraptor, amazing speed. Also some monsters I recognize from other games like Heretic and Hexen.

why is the grass so washed out

I started playing Minecraft on the original version of the original Xbox One Edition (the equivalent of Java edition official release 1.6.4), but due to my dislike of newer versions of Minecraft (post 1.15 or even 1.12 depending on how I am feeling), I have slowly been exploring the past of Minecraft, before the official release. Better Than Adventure seems interesting, although because I'm me I always seem to find something I don't like with something (like the compass thing), but I could probably ignore that. Might check it out.

looking up minecraft videos is 90% "I SURVIVED DAYS IN MINECRAFT WITH MODS" garbage

Dang man, this really sucks I absolutely loved your content, but it's really depressing to see every single video has to have at least *one* dig at modern Minecraft I started Minecraft over a decade ago so I loved all the nostalgia stuff, but I hate "nostalgia is better bc modern is bad!" That's not true at all. We can enjoy the present while looking back fondly at the past which is what this channel used to do. Now it's "ha ha modern Minecraft is bad, historically awful!" Really big shame, I'll miss these...

I have one problem with this mod. The way the game handles slime is extremely annoying. They're simply way too common. At no point am I ever gonna need 3 stacks of slimeballs.