Rare and Forgotten Stuff in Old Minecraft 

I'll never understand why Mojang didn't make it so that the sniffer can find cyan rose seeds and add that as a way to get them in modern versions. Its who gimmick is finding ancient ; long lost flower seeds.

something about the old lighting, basic cobble + wood + smooth stone slab + brick based buildings just hits different man

Before Jeb_ was hired (around 2010) then him re-coding the mob AI, the chicken would very intentionally seek out and jump on pressure plates.

i’m sad that i didn’t play alpha. It’s so cool that people that played the game 11 years ago still play it to this day❤

god i remember back in the day building anything remotely tall was always so ass clenching because sneak hadn't been added yet, i had so many construction related deaths. also worth mentioning is that fire used to be really really dangerous and could easily destroy your entire house faster than you could react so you always had to be very careful about using lava for decoration

Probably the most amusing for me was the glass popcorn machine, this was _very early_ alpha before even furnaces were added (imagine that, late joiners). The only way to make certain items was to burn it with flint&steel or throw it in lava, which back then didn't destroy most items. The only way to make glass was to burn sand directly, leading to an amusing popcorn effect when being thrown into lava. There is a really old video called "Minecraft Popcorn Smelting" that still shows it. Also back in those days, Minecraft had like a "try before you buy" browser version, running 0.30 alpha on the Minecraft website. But the best quality of life feature was when they _finally_ added beds in Beta 1.3. Before that nights were basically just a chore to get through if you didn't spend it mining.

I also remember when there was no WIKI. Playing the game felt like being on another planet, you were not always sure why things happened and you were always testing to see how things worked. I remember being excited when I was able to get grass to spread to new blocks, so I could have grass on the roof of my dirt house.

One thing I miss is the old village generation. It was always fun to see a couple houses and a gravel path that just leads up a cliff with half a church on it

The squids actually used the cow code back when they were first added, they forgot to remove the milking code In fact you can even see this in action when they move as they swim like a cow walks

This might be my favourite minecraft video in a long time for more than nostalgia. No youtuber voice, no crazy over the top editing and overall making my brain subtly melt. Just someone talking about the little things of the past they thought were neat, it ironically feels like a video made back in the alpha days. On that note, I really like the place you've built there! Might have to take notes myself for the next time I pick up 1.7.3beta or the BTA mod, love how comfy it looks to just walk around at night. >u>

I really miss the old alpha boat elevators. Also the way you could have ladders on every second block and still be able to climb them. And old mob farms also produced feathers because of the zombies dropping them.

Today I discovered that milking squids was apparently a forgotten core memory of my childhood ^^ Thanks!

I had a difficult time finding anything about the dessert pyramid, not to be confused with the desert temple. I believe it was only on console versons, but it was a cool structure with a maze and 4 blocks of gold in the end, top chamber.

I totally forgot about the alternating ladders until I saw them in this video. You didn't mention them, but it was quite a throwback to me. Used to have those everywhere and it was a pain to fix when they removed that in an update

I feel bad for everyone who didn’t get to experience beta and alpha when it first came out such good times

Don't know if anyone experienced this before, but in Pocket Edition, if you had an old world before the infinite world update, that world may generate new weird chunks that are separate from the old ones I remember just the old seeing pure blank void, and when it was filled, I was standing on top of a really high cubical island that was once my old world, and everything below is just the sea I had to make rails just to get to the new infinite world chunks, good times Ps the nether reactor I made was right next to the infinite world, so it got cut off lol Sadly that world is gone now, how I wish to go back in time again...

You should’ve included the Nether Reactor from Pocket Edition

Remember when grass touching a spawner would turn it to a pig spawner?

I love the squarry lighting in the old Minecraft. It’s just so pretty.

I still have habits from those old builds... i call sugar cane reeds, i shift over crops... old habits die hard, i guess

man i remember when it has a huge deal when minecraft pocket edition got infinite worlds. damn near every one in my middle school was talking about it. i remember pretty much everything in this list though, I feel old now.

I remember that mountain biomes did not receive any snow, which, if I remember correctly, used to be restricted to certain biomes. I played on an old world that experienced many updates and one day I stumbled across a previously rendered mountain biome that did not have snow caps. A little unexpected nostalgia. I made sure to evacuate the premises before it could start to rain/snow in order to 'preserve' the 'monument'!

This video is the last straw for me, ive gone back to the first version of minecraft i ever picked up (1.8) and its the most fun ive had on mc in years. Thank you for sharing these videos!

started out in beta 1.6 in 2011, and that nostalgia already hits hard. playing since alpha must be on a whole another level :o

I still remember around 2012-2015 I had a kindle with Minecraft PE modded. I had so many memories playing while on a flight or on a long road trip. I also remember Minecraft PE lite.

I was there when the Enderman was added to Pocket edition, so some of these old features are somewhat familiar. (For context, this was back when their eyes were still green and they had smoke effects)

Wow as a Minecraft PE player since the early alpha versions the cyan rose is a huge throwback, completely forgot it was there. I remember the big things like the Nether Reactor and old world borders but that’s cool

Love that a channel exists dedicated to minecraft alpha

What a nostalgic video, damn - I remember playing minecraft in my secondary school’s library in 2009/2010. Crazy how far the game has come since.

This brought me down memory lane, remember watching my buddy who has since passed play alpha version of minecraft. Fond memories, miss you buddy hope your resting peacefully ❤😢

I stil got my very first world I created in 2010 and a ton of 0.30 worlds including custom written multiplayer server software with "sort of" water physics from 2009. The problem with the survival world is that it's completely broken. Every 10 blocks there is a new biome, the leaves problem is completely out of hand, signs and chests are empty and since the level generator code changed 100 times through the updates I got farlands right next to my house. I still remember going to Notch's blog almost every day to find out what cool stuff he added to the game, especially those secret friday updates :)

Nice video! It's interesting to see the workarounds for things like the lack of hoppers :3

Ah, I can still remember how I was so very obsessed with Nether Reactors and the Red Obsidian, I would always use them to build stuff despite the final product looking rather unappealing... and of course, I'd make Herobrine shrines whenever I found a new method here in RU-vid. When they were removed, I remembered being distinctly puzzled as to... _why?_ It wasn't a bad feature, it could've been built upon, but... no, it just got deleted, and my younger self could never understand the reasoning behind that... I kinda wish Nether Reactors and Red Obsidian were added back in, or at least, that we could get spiritual successors for both of them... but, I guess that won't happen, if we can't even get individual roses back.

Awesome vid, just subbed after watching a few videos I bought the game in Feb 2011 when I was in 5th grade, but played at my friends house every day for a year before my dad let me buy it. Some things are much better and I still generally still play modern MC - but there’s some things that just don’t exist and will be lost to time. Kids who are old enough to play the game now weren’t born when I was playing. Some of it is nostalgia but I think you did a great job with showing the simplicity of why we love older versions so much.

Christmas day marked 12 years since I started MC I originally got it DEC 25th 2011!

I started to watch your channel. Man, this videos are so beautiful, the style of old minecraft is iconic, nostalgic, much like a liminal space. You got a new sub, keep it up

I still sneak when farming, it’s a hard habit to break lol

Wow, what a nostalgia trip this video was! Thank you for making this awesome video, it brought back a lot of great memories. I could almost shed a tear haha

Man nice vid, old Minecraft defo had a vibe. The brick pyramid is such a throwback it's like a fever dream!

dude, great video! i’ll subscribe and stay tuned for that sweet sweet old minecraft stories

Pocket edition was my jam. I played on pocket edition until 2017.

What a great video. I forgot most of this stuff but it was nice to get reminded of those simpler days

The sulphur was a real "I KNEW I WASN'T CRAZY" moment

I started playing Minecraft when doors wouldn't open. Thank you Tobuscus.

Oh my god, i can't believe i completely forgot about these flowers. I used them a couple of times in builds, but i was very young during this time, and i still have the old ipad that used to play minecraft and terraria on. Oh good days... good days...

Oh god, this really brings back some old memories. Great video, man!

Just found your channel and absolutely love it ❤️ Thought I was the only one still playing Alpha

Mossy cobblestone used to be very limited since you could only find it in dungeouns, this made it my favourite block back in 2011

The only things I remember from old minecraft was the Cyan Rose, and the Nether Reactor, old stuff, i kinda miss the reactor it looked so cool

Just a small correction, the cyan flower wasn’t exclusive to the pocket edition version on Minecraft, but was also featured on the Raspberry Pi edition of Minecraft. I’d know because I may have spent way too much time on that edition when I was younger.

Loved this video. Commenting to boost :) I hope I see more videos of yours in the future

I just discovered your channel and I love you content and your voice (so soothing). I didnt played on alpha but I did on early minecraft pocket edition and xbox360 so thats still kinda nostalgic. I'm happy to see new minecraft youtubers like you with a great potential, I hope that you will get the visibility you deserve, keep it up. (Btw sorry if I made mistakes I'm a french viewer)

Nice video, keep up the good work :]

fantastic video, forgot a lot of these or straight up didnt know about them like the sulphur one haha

Great video man, nice to take a walk down memory lane every once in a while🙂

I really like your content man, hope you get more attention soon!

Your content is very relaxing. Keep up the good work

I never really got to experience alpha, all I had was pocket edition for a good portion of my life. On the other hand I was so obsessed with Minecraft that I’d watch yt content back then. Still sad I never got to play it when it came out.

Bud needs to upload more. I never really even thought about early minecraft at all before seeing your channel, you have reintroduced me to minecraft

enjoying the vids, keep it up brother

I absolutely love videos like this.

Great video, it makes me want to try Alpha. I bought Minecraft at version 1.2.4, then a couple days later 1.2.5 came out. Also, your voice is excellent. It reminds me of an old parrot (in a good way.)

Also an interesting thing in Minecraft PE alpha versions was that there was TNT in creative mode but for a while it couldn’t be ignited, even when lava buckets were added in 0.7.0. It was only until flint and steel was added that you could

Nice video man and nice voice very soothing

i used to create signal lights by placing torches on the side of flammable blocks and lighting the top. the torch would prevent the block from burning up, effectively creating an infinitely burning wood block :)

nice one, keep it up man

Awesome video!

these vids r great no idea how u only have 2k subs keep going bro

Thank you for reminding me of my childhood, I had forgotten these things almost entirely by now

Modern minecraft just doesn‘t feel the same anymore

I started when they had just released the snow biome. Good memories figuring out how to make a snow golem for the first time haha

I can believe Minecraft is now old. I got hooked on the game in Spring 2011 (maybe beta 1.5). I still reminisce about these days, especially beta 1.7. Back then the game was dark and hard and everything was new and exciting to me. Thank you for reminding me about these glorious days!

Loved the vid man, been playing the xbox version since official release in 2012, build height of 128 blocks and using sticky pistons to make light switches with glowstone. Simpler times.

Some of these are a trip down memory lane 😮

Dude reeds and sulfur really sent me back. Opened up all the old memories

I haven’t thought about cyan flowers in so so long. It seems weird that I forgot about them since I definitely used them, and I remember most of the weird exclusive pocket edition things

I love how much of this I somehow remember even tho Minecraft was already at beta 1.2_02 when I got it, but I guess I've also restarted Etho's minecraft LP from episode 1 multiple times (which now takes me over a year to finish even at multiple episodes a day)

Damn. That was genuinely lovely

the very first scene in this video of the torches and the sun rising gave me a gut wrenching sense of nostalgia and longing

I haven't thought of old minecraft in such a long time. It was so much simpler back then. :)

I have good memories of that glass barrier in the end of the world, I don’t remember witch version it was

Good thing you are starting to make videos brother, I pray that everthing will go well for you in the future.

Your videos are awesome :)

nice video, I forgot most things but some things felt familiar

the vibes on your vids are bottled emotions.

Your voice is so calming, I fell asleep to it lol

cool video man 👍

It's 2024, and I am just finding out I don't have to sneak over my crops anymore.

The TNT parody song always comes to mind when i think of gunpowder's old name Teabag his soul and now his sulphur's mine

i remember the aquatic update an the Redstone update. Such a big thing for me to remember. To be honest Mojang should've stopped doing super big changes to the game and kept them simple, i love ur content to bro

When they added the names they definitely just went out of their ways to give names that weren't being used.

I haven't seen the alpha brick texture in so long. I forgot how nice that looked

i love your voice, its so comforting

I still love the original rose. It's a bit sad it got removed whereas its counterpart was able to stay. The poppy is nice but the rose was iconic

The 16 stacksize on some items seems so random and without rhyme or reason. Every other item either stacks to 64 (usually applies to blocks and raw materials) or doesn't stack at all (usually applies to weapons, tools, and some special items).

Currently playing in a beta 1.7.3 server, so helpful to know I can use fences to not destroy my crops

This was so cozy to watch

Thank you for this video

Remember slime farming by just creating a big cave down near bedrock? Can you still do that? Also, remember void fog? Kinda glad they took it out again.

I remember when skeletons shot arrows from slightly above their heads, so if you and a skeleton were standing under a 2 block high ceiling, it couldn't hit you. That was also while bows were still rapid fire. Another feature I miss is being able to hit through the window of doors from the inside. It was great to get rid of creepers holding you hostage inside, since they would still try to walk towards you despite the door in the way preventing them from igniting