Minecraft's Peaceful Aura (and HORRORS Unseen) 

How to create tension and horror in your game 1. Don't 2. Have community members gaslight each other into thinking there's something creepy in the game 3. Profit

The fact that just looking for herobrine and seeing him was enough to make me jump despite the fact that he is just standing there really exemplifies what makes minecraft so damn scary.

The balancing act of "horror" in minecraft always impressed me so much. Thanks for putting that vibe into words

It’s like Garry’s mod. Eerie but feels like home. Edit 5 months later: Garry’s mod is stuck in Minecraft’s old aura and new aura still being creepy but an increase of freedom for making things and modding. Just an update on my comment after 5 months coming back when a few people commented.

Came from your TF2 video, just now realized how goddamn underrated you are, with 477 subs at the time of me watching this. Can't wait to see you join the big shots of the gaming content industry.

Can we all agree that nobody was ready for the Herobrine seed to come up at 12:16? The fact he doesn't even mention those random Herobrine sightings in the background is perfect and I'm guessing he used something like the Herobrine on a painting trick for it. Amazing work as you have made me interested in Minecraft generation and also have managed to make me extremely uneasy!

12:33 Rule Number One Of Every Minecraft Java Edition Fan That Likes To Play In Older Versions Of Minecraft Java Edition: Go To *That* One Seed

I would call the enderman more of a neutral mob. Passive until provoked

Its funny, throughout this entire video I was expecting a jumpscare from "Bony Bradley" over here. It really goes to show how Minecraft can easily give you that unsettled vibe, especially when this layer of tension is added. Bravo video :) Subbed

Your editing style of giving little pauses to think about and observe what you said really brings your videos to life!

Very good channel, editing is nice. Voice acting is good. Content quality is like video come from youtubers with 200k to 500k sub youtubers. Instantly subscribed.

you are a severely underrated content creator. hoping you blow up one day

Thank you for covering pre-release, the vibe it gives me means a lot to me, pretty nostalgic, eerie, melancholic, looks cold, but makes me warm on the inside...

I misread your subscriber count as 1.86M and honestly didn't even second guess it haha. This stuff is absurdly high quality, can't wait to see more content over time.

I’m watching this when Pretzel only have 252 subs, 142 views and 8 likes in this video. I hope you’ll gonna be a big content creator one day. Keep up the good work man!

That final shot in the old version activated my fight or flight god damn, the MOMENT I saw that hill formation I FROZE lmao

12:33 The shadow of herobrine behind the hill has given me hard nostalgic feelings......and also PTSD :D

Ive literally had nightmares of minecraft in my dreams. Most of the time its just me dreaming about encountering herobrine, which would put me into a literal paralysis when I woke up. There were also dreams I would have where I would be in my bed and my ps3 would turn on by itself, launch minecraft, and put me into this super creepy world where I would just see all these cursed looking mobs, and I would be stuck in my bed and unable to turn my ps3 back off. Thats why minecraft is slightly terrifying to me to this day, because I cant unsee those nightmares.

Subbed. Yeah man your stuff is perfect you’re way underrated. I think you’ll explode in popularity soon though.

My two most prominent memories of the first time I played Minecraft are when me and my sister and I started digging a channel in creative in the ground so we could carry water from a river to a pool or something. At the time we didn’t realize water buckets existed so that’s what we did to try and obtain water. Another prominent memory is the first memory I had with the game. My little brother had just got the game right before our family was about to go to a beach. It wasn’t an ocean beach, it was a lake beach, as we lived in Ohio and Ohio doesn’t touch an ocean. I remember this vividly because I only got to play for like 5 minutes before taking off to the beach. I was in my swim trunks playing the game. I think this was back in like 2014 or 2015 and if you wanted to know the lake for some reason, it was lake Hope most likely. Yes I’m from Ohio, and yes the creatures you see on the internet are real. The weather is terrible there so if you’re going there, you better bring both cold and warm clothing, as well as cold and flu medicine, because you will get sick as the state loves to be cold and wet 60% of the time. I’m not talking about a sweater either, I’m saying you’ll need a thicker insulated jacket at least. Oh, and watch out for the goblins.

The interlude minecraft music that fades into outro. Man still got me feeling something for Minecraft, still feels just as magical from when I first picked it up all though missing that wonder and blissful ignorance when first learning how to build and survive.

I love how you add herobrine in the background every now and then. It adds that feeling like your always being watched or followed. Great video.

That last interlude with the Alpha hill was so clever! You didn't even say his name, so some new players won't even know what you were talking about! Very well done

I love this how channel expects you to be interested with it, while others try to lead you by the leash to capture as much of your attention as they possibly can

Came from the TF2 video and decided to watch a couple of your videos and my god they are seriously underrated! You've earned a sub man, fantastic job!

That gif with spongebob and patrick on the rollercoaster comes into my mind right now

0:27 nice touch on re adding him to the shot

Hidden detail Spoiler: Herobrine sightings at 0:00 Left off center 0:15 same as above 0:27 top left, almost off screen 2:44 Bottom left 7:27 top left 9:53 bottom left 12:16 12:32 probably more I missed

I have no idea how you got on my main page but I am happy about it. I watched a couple of videos by now and I really love your commentary, choice of music and use of voiceless cinematic shots. Keep on the good work! :)

i saw your gmod video, and decided to check out more of your videos, i really like your commentary, its wholesome :) i listen to your videos while drawing

Old minecraft was creepy, from alpha to release 1.1 minecraft felt most unnerving to me

Minecraft used to have an ever-present eerie feeling in the earlier versions with the thicker fog and more muted color palette, but in the newer versions I feel like this feeling is completely gone. There are too many living entities in the world nowadays. Back then you were the only sentient being in the whole world. You were all alone with a handful of animal types during the day, and monsters during the night. That's it. In modern minecraft, you have a super colorful world with complex villages, pillagers and entities designed specifically to be cute (huge bees, axolotl, allay, vex's redesign).

"All chunks are unique" *laughs in superflat*

I played Minecraft before and i built different structures based on another structure. Or a house that i (or my friends) can vibe in. I also explored the maps. But i felt the feeling of loneliness but comfort in the empty servers i played. Man, the nostalgia. And yes, i normally built my structures in Superflat.

12:19 nice detail there :)

thanks for including herobrine in some of the scenes, brought back memories!!

honestly, sometimes when i play minecraft and im just simply mining, i scare myself by thinking something wiped out everything but you and made everyone else become villagers lol

12:16 "OOP! *WHISTLES * "

nice video, can't wait for it to get popular! hope u pop off man

3:46 unless you add mods, i remeber having the turtle robot mods they made a impressive landscape and dug a massive perfectly symmetrical straight line to places unseen and unknown.

Minecraft is unsettling but sweet and expansive! You being essentially god of the world as the only one able to craft, mine, and build. But, it still grounds you in realism at times, especially when it makes you realise you are the Almighty ruler of everything when you die to monsters.

This is such a throwback but any time this sort of thing comes up I always think of Lego Island on PC, it always gave me that feeling. I only ever played Minecraft since 1.16 & usually with a podcast on or something so I've kind of escaped the isolation vibe. But Lego Island, there was something really weird about that game

12:15 I knew you would eventually reference the original screenshot, I recognized the hill and the figure there in the fog

The kind of video formats you do would make a documentary on Subnautica fuckin’ wild. You should definitely give that a thought.

Im glad I was recommended this

This is video is really well made, it’s very calming. You deserve every subscriber that you get. Keep on growing!

herobirne at 0:27

Your videos are great man, I hope you get big! :D

when i was a little kid i played a lot of minecraft. usually with friends on public servers like mineplex or the hive. but when i would leave those servers and play on my own single player word, i always got this strange unsettling feeling. almost like i was being watched or that there was something off with the world and the terrain. this feeling was even greater in survival. i think it had to do with the risk of actually dying in the game. it made everything feel like there was a greater danger to it. like that cave was just a little bit darker or that cliff a little bit taller than they would be if i saw them in creative. none of these feelings were helped by me watching herobrine videos on youtube. those made me genuinely terrified to play the game sometimes, even though there wasn’t ever any real danger

as someone who has played since they were four yes but after a year sometimes you still get it but much much less and now 9 years later I never get the feeling

there are everywhere... I can see them. (look closly when in f5 mode)

to extend onto what pretzel said about how large minecraft worlds are, the surface of the earth has a circumference of just over 40,000 km or you could also say 40 megameters (mega=million), fun fact, each minecraft block is representative of 1 cubic meter, any minecraft world spans 30 million blocks from the center, if reaching one edge of the world simply made you end up on the opposite side, as if the world of minecraft were spherical, or at least continuous it would have a circumference 60 million blocks, 60 megameters, 60,000 km, this is one and a half times the size of earth If you want to go by surface area earth has 510,072,000 sq km, minecraft's world has a surface of 3,600,000,000 sq km, that's roughly 7.6 times the surface area of the earth Something about my math seems off so correct me if i'm wrong, but this really exemplifies just how small you are on a minecraft world, if you boot up a new world in adventure mode you'd be even less significant than you are in the real world

Came from the spy vid and this shit just keeps getting so much better. KEEP IT UP MY GUY!

12:19 ahh yes the creepy scener with herobrine except something is standing at the right

"bony bradley" this guy manages to be so funny yet he speaks the truth

Even just the normal mods they add can have a creepypasta vibe if you're not paying attention leaked information about updates and back in the day everything was mysterious there was no guidance or direction we had no book telling us what to do and so yeah the idea that there could be something spooky lurking out there in the fog was much more plausible but even today if you haven't played Minecraft in forever and have no idea how it's been updated and you're just wandering around in a cave and all of a sudden everything is green and making disturbing noises and then bam a warden darkening your vision like that's straight out of a creepypasta feels like some interdimensional being has infected your game but it being such a more popular and bigger game nowadays than it was originally sort of takes away some of that mystery and surprise but I think there's still room for some of it

RU-vid randomly suggested your Half Life video to me yesterday and I've been diving down a rabbithole of your videos, awesome stuff man.

i wish you spent more time in the nether, it's biomes are very distinct from one another, and calling it ''a big cave'' doesn't do it justice for me

all of my favourite childhood memories are playing og Minecraft on the xbox 360

12:34 I don't know is it my imagination or it actually is but I can see a silhouette in the fog just like in the og screenshot

While minecrafts biomes and dimensions are amazing on their own, the things that really push it to its limits and best atmospheres is its accompanying official soundtrack, the overworld has tones of fitting songs that go with every biome you could find, the nether songs give off a desolate feeling and feel empty of life at times, and the end songs, oh the end songs are the best ones for atmosphere, the songs don't feel like the end of a long journey, but rather the end of everything, here in this dimension there is almost nothing but decayed life and cities full of pests that took over the abandoned towers and flying boats, fruits with magical properties that do very little aside from move you a few blocks, a dragon ruling the empty realm trying to hatch its last of its species, all of this is amplified by the soundtrack "The end" with it taking the overworld themes and making it empty, vast, long and most importantly, destroyed. In The end you can hear everything yet all you find is nothing, you can feel that there was something grand here but you only see ruin, it truly gives off the sound of the end dimension, it makes you feel like you've reached the end of everything.

you are seriously underrated.

The production quality of your videos is fantastic. I was surprised to see that your uploads list was teeming with interesting videos. I appreciate your work, and am eager to enjoy your future content. 🌟

I’d play an amplified world on survival. You have some advantages. Like the mobs chasing you could fall to their inevitable death and etc. it has disadvantages too. Like you yourself could fall and etc.

why does this only have around 1000 likes!? this video is amazing!

How many.. HOW MANY SHOTS OF HIM WERE THERE HMM??? Also instant sub

Bruh I'm subscribing you got top tier editing remember me when you hit a mil bro

0:25 you can barely see herobrine but he's there

I always remember the old console versions of minecraft feeling, isolated and beautiful. I think you may have put words to this that I couldn't find. Thanks

Every single herobrine shot I saw. Lmk if I missed any. 0:01 0:15 0:27 0:54 2:43 3:48 7:27 7:40 9:56(It might be his character model, but I’m not 100% certain) 12:16

So what did we learn? Specifically painted doors can be quite scary

I remember playing around with the Minecraft demo (classic) a lot back in high school. sometimes in creative mode I'll still try to use sponge blocks to remove water... I'm surprised you mentioned the world edge but didn't mention the Far Lands.

Herobrine totally should be added to the game as an easter egg, almost never being mentioend in game

Tf2 brought me here, super underrated channel keep it up :)

anybody else notice how steve has some red on his torso?

also in the patch notes for all of the newer updates it says "Removed Herobrine" ._.

No, they aren’t. Neither is gmod. Actually if anything, without music, Minecraft is a bit creepy and feeling like you’re being watched, but gmod just never is creepy.

I love how you hid Herobrine in every third person shot xD

Great vid as always. One thing is that Minecraft is actually 60 million x 60 million! 30 million to walk any edge normally, since you spawn in the center.

I've recently seen a video about the shadow people and realized that the Endermen are kind of the same, shadow people disappear as soon as you look at them, the enderman teleports behind you to beat the sh*t out of you. The same.

When he turned on the 3rd person camera at the start I knew there will be Herobrine

12:30 The classic.

Suprised you don't have more subscribers, this is a quality video

if you dont have a skin then try adding your pretzel from your profile picture to steve's eyes as glasses if you dont like it just be happy with an opinion

The overall idea from these videos that I get is that immersing oneself too much in something that isn't real will generally always produce feelings of unease as deep within you know it isn't real. That it can be easily taken away from you in the blink of an eye. Yet the same can be said of reality too. Perhaps just looking too deep into these things produce such feelings. I think I would just try to dismiss those thoughts personally... and just have fun.

12:31 there is someone at the left side of that hill if you look closely

Love the herobrine reference at the end

It's 30 million blocks from center to edge, so the map is actually 60 million by 60 million blocks

12:16 i hate that i immediately knew where to look

When I was a kid, my friend told me that if I seen herobrine, herobrine would kill me. Because of that I stopped playing Minecraft for 2 months. Also it's just me or the demo console maps kinda feel uncanny

i am surprised that this came up in my recommendations the one day i play minecraft out of the hundreds of days in this year that i dont play minecraft

Who else spotted all 13 hidden Herobrines? Edit: okay so I writ this as a joke, but he’s actually hidden a whole bunch of herobrines in a lot of places.

Boney Bradley makes this video 10/10

Truly underated

At 0:27 if you look above the sand mound you can see someone.

The… The… the photo 12:17

Your videos are perfect, I was shocked when I saw your sub count, was expecting at least a few millions I Subbed, and I’ll watch ever upcoming videos Everyone here have a good day. , much love on y’all

Great video :)

Man it was funny playing Wheres Herobraian

Am i the only one that noticed herobrine in the top right corner at the beginning ?