Well done! The first map has been found! Its even awesome that people made it so we can play it as well. The MC community always surprises me in a good way.
To be more precise, it stands for Ruby Dungeon. Notch had planned to make his own 3D tile-based version of Dwarf Fortress. That idea went away when he found his testers really enjoying the 3D creative building aspects
Wait... So ez is the sister of Kristoffer Zettersrand? The artist behind minecraft paintings? That is so cool! Minecraft's earliest history is so interconnected!
@@somerandomwindowsguy3725 you guessed wrong. its not an insult, its noticing that certain traits of autism are very prevalent in the community and are beneficial to the project. im diagnosed autistic
would be funny if someone made a huge custom world filled with various ruins, and hidden off somewhere is an entirely cobble/mossy cobble ruin that's identical to this world's structures, plus some hidden treasures and traps would be pretty neat i think
i've actually been doing this with one of those wonderful pandemic minecraft servers that popped up on some free server host! i took a world download of the vast spawn village, from sky limit to bedrock, and all of its history, and implanted it into a brand new world. in said world, i implanted treasures and traps in the existing buildings + a crapload of brand new ones to explore and find stuff in too before the server regrettably died someone made a massive lavacast next to spawn, i basically deconstructed it and left only a pillar which i hid a massive jungle themed ruin base thing directly inside for someone to excavate and find it's unreleased but proves good ideas transcend just one mind
Yeah, it is possible I believe but WOW it is a process. Somebody should really make a streamlined world conversion tool, since right now you have to go through like 5-10 stages of conversion to play in modern versions
you could convert it but everything would problaby look like stone, cave game pre-classic into pre-classic breaks the world alredy, because notch changed the way textures and "block ids" worked
Awesome documentation Aidan! Love these new kind of video's & great edits! Also appreciate the text showing longer now (which makes it better readable 😃) 10/10
Fun fact: That world may look like it's made of grass and cobble, but if you load that world in a later pre-classic version, you'll see that it's all stone. In early pre-classic versions, every solid block in the game would render as cobblestone, unless it was in one layer at the surface of the world, in which case it would be grass. You couldn't choose between grass and cobble, it was determined by the Y-level. Once more block types were added in the a later update, the block id used for cobble/grass in the older versions became stone.
This is one of the greatest things to happen in minecraft gaming history! These people deserve recognition for the work they have done! We should have a new group of archeologists called "Gameologists"
The way you described the parts of the world at the end reminded me of my first few days of playing Minecraft way back when you could play the demo on the website. Imagination carried a lot of what little I had done in the time limit, where a few missing leaves in a tree cluster was a treehouse and a small underground tunnel was a "secret entrance" inside.
I really wonder if the data could be used to find missing jars for versions like 0.0.3a (I came across Hacker on a Hypixel parkour house a few days ago which I thought was fun)
Well world data is different from version data, so we probably wouldn't get a lot of mileage on that end. (I rammed my knee into the wall the other day, which hurt.)
@@cakecheese2895 considering ez had this old world still around, why wouldn't she casually have some lost versions aswell (I ate chocolate chip cookies today)
@@bettercalldelta That's fair. The most reliable way to get missing versions is for someone who downloaded it back then to make it public. (I ate food earlier, which was something)
@@ProdRapidNah, same title as before. I'm confused too lol, like it is the first world, that's not bait or anything. Maybe because this was found a few months back? (took me a while to finish the video)
Better launcher: multi-mc, its compatible with mac os and linux, can run every version of minecraft, and makes mod installation easier then making a phone call, and extra bonus: doesnt look sketchy as all hell, unlike betacraft there
Hey there, love the video! It's honestly pretty incredible how Ellen still had that world file after all these years. I noticed that at 2:52 you used footage from one of my videos called "Looking at the Minecraft Source Code from 2009! (UHD)". I nearly fell off my chair when I realized it was mine, since I never expected that video to gain any traction or get noticed by anyone! With that being said, I would really appreciate it if you credited me with a link to my channel or the video itself in the description. Thanks in advance and again, great vid man :)
Yeah absolutely man! Sorry I haven't already - it is basically impossible to keep track of all my sources since there's like 100+ every video lol. Should be good now in the description :)
I remember playing when you had to have a server and client to play. There was like 8 different blocks to build with, flat land and no mobs. Ppl made like giant earths and all kinds of stuff. All there really was to do was build pixel art but it was still pretty cool.
i remember one of my first worlds i made a brick house and with a brown bed, i got a dog to live with, and placed a jukebox to play chirp while i play. i logged off minecraft one day, and forgot about it, unfortunately. later, like in february 2024, minecraft was becoming dead weight in my phone so i uninstalled it, forgetting i had a dog that was waiting for me there. i hope doggy found a new owner now, since i cant reload my worlds after uninstalling them, minecraft says i need a specific folder i dont know where it is in my phone
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Man, hard to believe it all went from this to games like Hytale being developed.. went from so simple to complex- I wonder what games are super popular 50 years from now.. but we who grew up playing Minecraft 2011-2017 experienced something special
the floor is missing because at that time you couldnt choose what you want to place so when you placed a block in the grass layer it would automatically be a grass block
Bless you for documenting this and raising awareness of Omniarchive & Betacraft 💯 Helped them a while in 2020 (was me who disproved brown spiders in released versions). Had a feeling EZ was the source here, since she was one of the the only people we know of who playtested for Notch in the first week or so
it would've been cool if this was one of the structures we ended up getting in the released version of the game.. don't get me wrong, the ones we got now are fine, but lore-wise it would've been cooler if they were based on old builds like these
Great! For the Minecraft community for finding the first world. But I have a question for MCBYT. The first world should be at the game creator Notch right? Notch made the game and theoretically, that should be the first MC world. Or he just waited for his wife to try out before him after the release.
