Minecraft's Most Disturbing Experiment 

Him: "No, it's just a block game." Also him: *talks like he is reading a creepypasta*

My expectation: woody hacks anyone who tries to leave the server Reality: salty griefers

You call this "Minecraft's most disturbing experiment", I call this "an average modern day Minecraft video"

The griefers love to grief other players, but absolutely can't take it when they are given the same medicine.

imagine hacking someone because they took down your base in a block game

The most unbelievable part of this story is that someone could manage to schedule 30 players at the same time

I love how this video is over a year old at this point and "betrayal" is still misspelled in the description.

It’s so interesting yet sad to see how everyone in the server resorted to violence. It’s basically every apocalypse known to movie and human history. Whenever I watched movies about apocalypses, I just sort of brushed it off, forcing myself to believe people couldn’t be so cruel towards others, but deep down I knew it wasn’t true. I’m honestly so glad that they decided to work together at the end, though. It’s just insane how this correlates with reality.

“If the walls were suddenly torn down, how do you think players would react?” *Looks at 2b2t*

The story started like a usual Minecraft server and ended up like the hunger games

I think dismissing the results simply because it's a block game is ignoring a lot tbh. From what the players demonstrated (initially being peaceful, to slowly realizing resources becoming scarce, forming alliances, conflict, etc) it really does mirror what can happen in real life, and how humans deal with trying to survive. There have been real life experiments similar to this, but on islands. You'd be surprised to find that it's more similar than you'd expect.

This was actually really interesting. The questions at the end that woody posed were very interesting as well.

Anyone else think it's really cool how the dwarves and the merchants kinda RPed like how the dwarves created a tunnel system and the merchants stayed out of the war and just traded?

2b2t history speedrun

This was genuinely so interesting, i wish i could find some sort of series someone made of this because this entire experiment... honestly is inspiring to me. 30 players in a limited resource box of bedrock, clans, war, anarchy and so on? that made this entire thing impossible for me to look away from. imagine the story lines that could have been created with this? if this was an online series on youtube i would have watched it. the start of the war, the end of the server- honestly was amazing. i wish there was more stuff like this.

This was really interesting. I have actually thought about running my own social experiments and I now have a lot to think about.

During the war: Axe: AAAAAAAAA Dwarves: AAAAAAAA Brotherhood: AAAAAAAA Merchants: mmmmmmm trade

When the griefing is so bad that people trade in renewable resources

I love the way you tell stories, keep up the good work !

As far as I am concerned the behavior of people in "just a block game", if you look close enough, often happens in the real world, with real people, and the desire of some to have more than everyone.

Plot twist: wifles is jay and that’s how he knows so much about the story

Conclusion of the story: 30 people left the server due to the death of 3 cows

I wish there was stories similar to this! They're so entertaining!

5:42 announcer from BFDI.. 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Imagine being so pissed that your little floating platform got blown up that you find someone's ip and ddos them

expectations: someone got killed in real life over minecraft reality: dumb anarchy server + some nerd got LOIC'd using an skype ip resolver

I would love to see this experiment run again post pandemic to see if isolation has made people more or less cooperative

This is like one of the first Minecraft civilizations social experiment.

'He knows food will be scarce so he goes around killing all the animals' Really smart way to make the most of your food

“On the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft” - bald Minecraft historian

This really is a fascinating show of how people work. Or at least people in the demographic of the MC forums. Near instant division into specific groups, the fact that usually renewable resources like saplings and wood became valuable because the knowledge of limited space and resources drove participants to sabotage others and develop an “us vs them” mentality, the fact that those who refused to join a group inevitably became a group in of themselves. If this social experiment was for a class the person running it had an absolute buffet of talking points for an essay on human nature.

In the part where the cows went missing, this even happens on small realm I've been on with close friends, some people either only care about helping themselves or the cows got killed by a mob that got in the pen somehow

Moral of the video: dont join a stranger's minecraft server

I just love how they began fighting over saplings, one of the most abundant and easily farmable resources... It just implies they all sucked at remembering to pick up their saplings and had tiny farms... and that everyone built their house out of bricks.

>watch video on a supposed 2011 minecraft experience >video has a retelling of the events >the retelling has bees Immersion ruined

9:05 Interesting as it is that the conlfict started because of three cows went missing.

The fact they got so upset that they had to ddos him, I mean I understand their hard work was ruined, but it was just karma that was waiting to be happened.

It pains my technical Minecraft heart to know that they would all easily have survived had they worked together

dude i remember watching this video like 2 years ago and ive been trying to find it for so long this video is so weirdly nostalgic for me man

that’s so cool! i would love to participate in an experiment like this! maybe with a more anonymous way of participating tho since getting hacked doesn’t sound too fun lololol

This isn't really disturbing, just a cool story.

the only disturbing factor of this was the scientifically impossible ability of woody being able to schedule 30 people. I can barely schedule games with four of my friends.

The ending conclusion was funny I can't deny that, but what I also can't deny is that it is kinda interesting how they behaved exactly the way you would have expected them too. Making groups, starting wars, capitalizing on the war, destroying almost everything they had, and then finally coming together when it was the only good option they had left

Bro chill its just a prank. The prank: -proceeds to ddos attack-

All other groups: WE NEED RESOURCES AND DESTRUCTION OF OUR ENEMIES Merchants: ALERT Trade offer You give You get Saplings and iron Nether

"What would happen if the walls were torn down?" 2b2t would happen.

Wifies: “Little did he know, his computer had been hacked.” Ads: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

I love how theres a comedic aspect to such a serious video

"Does this say anything about the current human condition as a whole?" "No, Its just a block game"

Wifies went from Vsauce to Disrupt in 1 video lmao

So much dramatic music when you mention the griefers lmao, hilarious

This was one of the most interesting minecraft video I have watched in years! Thank you so much for making this it was so top tier.

“He was hacked.” Me: “Oh shit” *finds out it was just a DDoS done by script kiddies* Me: 😑

This wasn’t disturbing at all, I would LOVE to have played there.

The entire vid in 1 sentence... RIP JAY

This inspired me to do this with some of my friends, one day in and its already chaos

it would’ve been funny if he hit us with the, “OLDEST ANARCHY SERVER IN MINECRAFT”

This isn’t *THAT* disturbing, I thought it was gonna be like some dark twisted story involving real life deaths or something lol Edit : Okay, this had now become my most liked YT comment ever. I can't tell if it's from people agreeing with me or something else. But I never expected this. Thanks y'all!

that was a great video! XD liked it!

love the disrupt style video

“My mother used to tell me about the old days, when the four nations lived together in harmony. The dwarves, The brotherhood, The Merchants, and the axes. But everything changed when the dwarves attacked, The axes were going to stop the war, but when the server needed them most, they vanished. But I believe that there is still hope, that Jay is still out there.”

"He knows food will become scarce" _kills a sheep_

In these experiments, a war always breaks out. Theres always a community-destroying conflict and people always die. Theres always a powerful group of people taking advantage of other weaker people, and then those people are eventually wiped out by the people who once feared them. It always happens, history repeats itself. Its pretty cool to see actually.

wifies every time he changes sections in a minecraft documentary: somethings wrong. I can feel it

The fact that they got mad over getting griefed after they themselves griefed other people for their own amusement. They can dish it but they can't take it.

The most impressive feat is managing to schedule sessions that 30 people can attend on a weekly basis

"the entire server called them the 'd***a** griefers,'" got me 💀

This is so disturbing I'm literally crying and shaking rn

“This event happened in may of 2012.” also shows a tree with a beehive

The server in a nutshell: Everyone: we need more supplies! Also everyone: Let's burn all the farms and houses!

This is actually a really interesting idea for an experiment tbh.

the spire tower bit seems ominous like something bad was about to happen

people: dying in wars and killing each other Merchants: so I started trading

Disturbing? This is the best, most interesting experiment I've ever witnessed

I've been playing Minecraft for years and I still learned something new from this video.

There’s always that one group that just takes things too far and ruins everything.

expectations: people do creepy ritual stuff reality: they made an smp server and someone ip banned him from the server by using a skype ip resolver lol

Not too disturbing but creepy that the guy would actually use Jay’s IP address and block him out

That is actually super creepy. I am so happy I didn’t even know Minecraft existed when this took place!

I remember reading this experiment when i was a child, because i liked to search "human evolution in minecraft" and this popped up. I was really sad when i realised this was all fake

If teachers taught children like this about the environment the world will become a better place

At first I thought the experiment itself was why he got hacked based on the intro, but that turned out a lot more different than expected

the way you were describing, i was like yo! they are in some real danger!

This actually sounds like a kinda fun game idea, obv maybe move it down from like months and increase the space a bit, maybe even have multiple boxes going at once, then drop the walls at the same time, while nobody from any box is online and just tell them the walla have been opened, then it's like a survival thing P.s maybe also make it so each box is its own team or something?

"If the walls were suddenly torn down, how do you think players would react?" Uhhh, Woody literally had the chance to test that WITH THEIR OWN EXPERIMENT

Griefers: *Kills everyone and destroys their stuff if they dont pay them* Jay: *Destroys the Griefers base in return* Griefers: *surprised Pikachu face*

Imagine being one of those news stories literally writing about people getting pissed at each other in a block game.

To be honest this is actually really fun being in an enclosed space with limited resources till it's all gone is fun and when clans are being made war starts brewing. This is the reason I love minecraft so much cause you can make scenarios like this

I think this actually says very good things about the human condition. The fewer resources there are, the more humans band together. It's only a small disruptive element taking advantage of the chaos with no regard for others that's the issue, and once that small element is forced to face consequences for their actions, humans are back to sharing resources and banding together for mutual protection. In the end, the longest lasting groups on the server are the ones that avoid conflict and instead facilitate trade between warring factions.

Didn't expect to see Lord of the Flies recreated in Minecraft. Lord of the Blocks?

Cool vid and all but can you release some audiobooks but do all the voices like you did in this video?

The whole clan feature, village, castle, etc. gives me Dungeons and Dragons vibes and I now just want to host a Dungeons and Dragons world in Minecraft because on this-

Alternate title: the most disturbing Minecraft experiment that I will describe to you for 17 minutes then tell you its basically fake

Minecraft: A game where cows become the Franz Ferdinands of server wars.

When Jay was building his netherrack house there was grass all around him, but the way Wifies told it, it seemed like grass was scarce.

Ngl, I kinda wish this story had actually happened in full. It would be fascinating to see how actual players would react in a world like this. Obviously there are RU-vid videos where hundreds of players are put into a minecraft world, but it would be better if instead, there was a minecraft video or an actual experiment that was laid out like this. 30 players in an isolated world, where resources are prone to become scarce, and clan formations becoming inevitable. Also, running the experiment multiple times where things (like mentioned in this video) like expanding the border by 'x' amount of blocks to see what the players would do is interesting. I have a list of different things you could do in each experiment List: 1. Expand the bedrock border by 'x' amount. 2. Every hour, a new tree somewhere within the border grows. 3. Players get teleported outside the border into the endless minecraft world for an hour to see what the players do. 4. Restore one resource in the world, it can be any block that is rare to find or expensive to trade. I encourage you to brainstorm more ideas!

So we were clickbaited to think this was Minecraft’s most disturbing experiment, well you sure got me hooked, even though it wasn’t that disturbing.

This was a big video and it really got me thinking if something like this would ever happen again lmao, amazing video!!

i love it how i watched it on the same day it was uploaded a year later i did not even know.

The way they were fighting over food and materials is like an apocalyptic situation its hilarious!!!