complete history of minecraft, i guess 

Solid 2 hour yapping session from pitfall, I feel blessed.

sure grandpa lets get you to bed

14:40 small fun fact, while Ethos' Let's Play is certainly long, there is one Lets Play that has almost double the episode count. His name is Gronkh and he Let's Played Minecraft for an astounding 1251 episodes. He is a german RU-vidr and one of the first and biggest influence to bring Minecraft into the german RU-vid scene.

All of this makes me realize just how long I've really known minecraft for. So many of these events feel fairly recent, but no, that LP I watched that introduced me to minecraft actually is just 12 years old. And all of these other familiar events from there...

My respects to Notch, Mojang, teams of Minecraft server devs, mod devs, plugin creators, Minecraft youtubers and everyone else that made so many millions of childhoods. It wasn't THE game of my childhood but its made some of the best memories I've had with my long time best friend who's moved country recently. I'm over 18 now and I'm just having a great weekend looking through nostalgia, I can still quote some old Minecraft lets plays to this day and smile looking back on them.

Complete 2.5 hour video on Minecraft? Thank You so much cause I want to know Minecraft history without playing 800 versions

Honestly crazy how this only has 29K views, this made me feel like I just lived the through 15 years Minecraft has had. One criticism I have is the fact that the legacy console editions weren’t really touched upon, because 4J studios were really cooking with those ones. Wii U edition, Switch edition, and PS vita edition weren’t even mentioned, or the old battle, tumble, and glide minigames. Just kinda wished those were mentioned.

Bro is expanding the video topics wider and wider, next will be the history of cubes

Hey! I was actually on the BTE team for making Kyoto and NYC! Im so happy you included a part involving the project!!!

I haven't even finished watching this but it's already one of the best things I've seen on RU-vid in the last few months

Im so happy youre making videos outside of just hypixel now

me everytime a hermit is mentioned: I KNOW HIM!!!! YAAYYY

technically it was defone who got the 1818 bedwars WS, techno helped him. techno got to 1400, then defone went to 1818. techno was on the team with them. Jiyn, Hascox, Defone, and Techno was the team.

This video is absolutely incredible!! I watched the entire thing in one sitting and it was such a trip through memory lane. I found myself remembering small little nuances of these past events that you couldn’t cover, which enriched the experience for someone who’s been through every event in this video. Great documentary for both people familiar and people unfamiliar!

I shedded a few tears. Minecraft really impacted me and millions of other people. Playing it as a kid bringed me moments of joy, excitement, curiosity and self expression that will forever stay in my memory, and to me its the game that no matter what happens, I’ll always come back to it. For me its a gateway to feel free, to do whatever I want and enjoy it because thats what Minecraft is and will forever be, a sandbox where the only limit, is your imagination. Thank you Minecraft, for the memories and experiences that did and will happen. Happy 15 year anniversary

You are only talking about english youtubers... A German youtuber called Gronkh got on his first video 17million views, and his lets play lasted for over 1.2k videos...

Just watched the whole video, I cannot believe the marvel of a video you have made it literally explains stuff so well it kept me hooked, I couldnt watch in one go because of meals and stuff but this level of editing remaining consistent throughout 2 and a half hours is mind boggling please dont quit these types of videos I know the traction may not be as high as you want it to but never stop uploading ❤️

Brother, Minecraft is so freaking goated, still playing it on expert mod packs, started when it came out. Love it to bits.

MISSING MAJOR ISSUES+Video Idea: This is a good video but it also ignore a very large party of history, Pocket,-Bedrock Edition which gets less representation because of the RU-vid scene. In 2016, a pre-Bedrock Pocket Edition server called Lifeboat had more players than Hypixel or Mineplex. The server: "Brokenlens" pioneered mini-games on the old Pocket Edition. Even before the Better Together Update, pocket Edition players have created stuff which rivals Java Edition, even with less resources. Servers on Pocket-Bedrock have a long history, it will be forgotten soon at this pace of there's isn't enough attention given to it. Bedrock Edition is the only Minecraft for the vast majority of people throughout history has only been on Bedrock Edition. I think it's unfair to give Java so much attention because it's not proportional at all.

As someone who has played Minecraft since 2014 (for reference, I'm 15, and this was written on May 5, 2024), I have seen a lot change, and this video is the perfect way of summing it up. For anyone looking through the comments of this video and seeing degrading comments, this video is not a waste of time. The amount of effort that this RU-vidr put into this film is beyond terrific, and with only 47.7k subscribers as of writing this, he definitely should receive more credit. I really hope that people realize that he does not have to make this video, and we should appreciate him for doing this to save us from hours of research that we could've had to do if not for him. One of the best videos on the platform, and it should definitely see more attention. Thank you! You have definitely earned my sub!

i love the longer form of content. One of my fav Minecraft youtubers

I just want to add something. A few months after The Yogscast did the dropper video, a Swedish youtube channel called Stamsite did som dropper videos with his friend. The first video he made on the dropper has 12 milion views. That is really impressive because they are speaking swedish through out the whole series. It was also Stamsite who was the first to use the rainbow spiral with the water bottle in the thumbnail. A lot of people copied his thumbnail. It is the firt video to pop up when you search "the dropper"

Mom: Why have you been eating lunch for 2 hours??? Me:

I've been playing Minecraft since 2011. When I think back, most of my memories of Minecraft are from 2011 and 2012 though and scarily, popular things that come after those years I consider "new" and "immature". Time has really sped up. I'm old.

even if this doesnt go viral now, historians will watch this in 100 years

great video, did you know that other countries have their own like minecraft related history, like there are massive spanish minecraft trends and youtubers and a community that is still around and still tight nit, and all these came from different spanish minecraft smps and lets play series both modded and vanilla. same thing goes for brazil and france and italy

"The ULTIMATE Minecraft Retrospective" by @MuntChunck: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be LEGENDARY!

the nintendo 3ds game pokemon red :skull:

I’m so happy that Ish’s 2,000 player civilization video was mentioned at the end!!! I was apart of that event/video and it was genuinely a lot of fun, so awesome of it to be included in a Minecraft history video! ❤️

The ending literally made me cry. It’s an art to be able to connect a person with the video so much it affects their emotions. It has been a journey. Good job with this incredible video, I would never be able to pull something like that off. Never.❤❤❤❤❤

Oh yes exactly, 2016-2018 years - "the decline" of Minecraft. Times when players leave Minecraft, here are the statistics of active players for the year 2016 - 40 million 2017 - 55 million ( + 15 million) 2018 - 75 million ( + 20 million) Oh stop, wait

Bautafel Video, i Love it. I saw myself in a few moments doing this or that as a child. I started playing the game when I was 6 on my dad's PC and it still accompanies me to this day. I haven't had a moment like this in a long time where I have to think about the whole video again and my memories make me happy. Thank you for showing me my memories again. I don't think about it much because I have to work a lot and on days like this when I think about where to put my work and if I see a videos like this that take me back to my childhood, it's perfect. What you have done is worth gold.❤Thank you so much, I hope there are many more videos like this from you ❤

this is my first time watching a video this long ,,, it made me fall in love with minecraft again, this is gen one of my favorite videos ,,,

every video keeps getting better

I just want to say I have never watched a video over 45 minutes and the amount of work and research you did had me watch this whole video. Amazing job❤

I can't watch this because I will cry from nostalgia and my eyes would be blinded by the tears

Wow, thank you for this video. That surely took a lot of work to collect all this info into one massive piece. It was a true pleasure to reminisce about all the things that are history now, to some of us who were there when they took place. I could recognize a lot of these events you've mentioned, but I've also learned few new ones, like the recreation of Harry Potter in Minecraft - that's sick! Nonetheless, a very nostalgic trip for me as well. The first version of Minecraft I had played was Beta 1.7.3, though I had been following one Minecraft youtuber since late Alpha, who also inspired me to give it a go. At the time little did I know that I'd still be playing it, 12 years later...

2011-2012 is when i started playing this game. My original account is sadly long gone, but my new account has the migrator cape, if that proves anything. This game was a huge part of my childhood. I would, and still do, spend hours on this game just building random stuff. I honestly don't think there will ever be a game that gets anywhere near Minecraft. I also have no idea why i keep coming back to this game

Love that you mentioned ChimneySwift11 Def one of the most under rated Minecraft originals

2:08:18 lmfao thanks for the credit! Some backstory I guess, I logged in 3 accounts during that to help boost the numbers

Pre-CGTT Initial Test Started on may 10th 2009, according to the omni archive. Not on 13th

WOW I still dont Believe that you have not at least hit 100k subs you are probably the most underrated youtuber right now all love always Pleasure when seeing you have uploaded

It’s so weird how I remember vividly 1.2.1 being the end of classic mc. I stopped playing around like 1.7-1.8 but man it was weird seeing how quickly even mojang caved to the wants of every kid playing the game. It went from weekly updates adding all sorts of stuff to slow churning of lower quality content. 2012 was the best year for mc simply because it was the last time we had what the game was while still having the steamroller of progress moving forward the way it is today.

beauty about minecraft, is you get to tell you own stories, and for java players, choose whatever version of the game you want to play... i play 1.8.9, 1.12.2, and beta 1.7.3

20:30 actually it wasnt always used to optimise it, some texture packs required optifine to work back in the day

I had no idea the original Minecraft guide handbooks weren't even by Mojang. I still have all of those books in my room including the ultimate secrets guide book :D

Amazing video as usual!

underviewed asf. great stuff.

this video made me extremely emotional because it made me realize i’ve been playing minecraft for over half my life now :’)

oo, 2.5 hours of minecraft history. gotta watch now! :D

I started playing about a year before they released redstone. I still feel like 1.9 is a "new" version. I'm old now. 😢

Hrm there's a lot of omissions here from the earlier years, particularly CTM maps which was also hugely popular among many youtubers and players. The genre was also created by Vechs and played by many like Etho, Zisteau, Guude, Bdubs, Xisuma, etc. Legendary was indeed, Legendary. A lot of the technical players/groups are also missing. Barely mentioning DocM etc...

0:50 you’ve forgotten all of the other games he was inspired from!

time for a 2 hour yapology session

Complete banger of a video. All nostalgic came back to me

ah yes, the nintendo 3ds game, pokemon red for the gameboy

The Subnautica osts for this video are a W

I need a season 3 of story mode, especially with the fact we're almost at Story Mode's 10 year anniversary

Thoroughly enjoyed this movie of a minecraft documentary. Touche pitfall.

This is without a doubt the most nostalgic Minecraft video i have ever and probably will ever see! Huge respect for the effort you put into this. Technoblade never dies!

I have been playing this game since 2015 along side with Plants vs Zombies and Clash of Clans. These trio will still be the best memories i have ever and will ever have. In this much years a lot of the things happened. I have smiled, laughed and cried all along when some of my life influencers have just passed away, but these 3 games, 3 pieces of memories, of childhood and happiness are still making me strong to thrive, to stand up and to live a wonderful life. I just want to say, thank you. If it were not you, I wouldn't be able to live til this day, thank you very much And I'm also a BSS grinder but tbh it didn't have that much influence to my life like the above games, still a good game to play

Can we all agree how underrated this channel is? Great video, as always. You always make the most interesting, best quality skyblock videos. The entire story of skyblock is one of the greatest video of it i ever saw. And I'm saying it playing from relase and always watching most youtube content.

Pretty crazy to hear "this was here since last decade" in Minecraft.

Hearing so many legends namedropped is so heartwarming and cool dude (interspersed with some of the biggest monsters in minecrafts history)

I love yogscast

thank you for this trip down memory lane

banger, great story telling, great rhythm, loved it!

Bro needs to make a Netflix show/movie

When the complete history is minecraft is longer than the complete history of the earth 💀

yogscast music gave me chills a little lol. so many memories connected to that

11:24 I recognised that from slap battles 😭 Song name: Gay Activities.

Bed wars was the worst thing they could’ve came out with, and it still sucks to this day

I feel blessed to have this in my suggestions. Take my subscription

A video like this was never going to be able to cover everything, but you did a really good job nonetheless

Watched this while in the gym made me stay for 2 hours long👍

Worth the 2 and a half hours I spent watching this.

Great video man, loved it.

Slight correction about what's stated in the video. Hypixel doesn't run on 1.8.9, that would be extremely hard given .9 was client-only update. They actually run on heavily modified 1.7.10 on some older servers. They do seem to be slowly upgrading if you look at some gamemodes.

Anyone remember those alternate recipe videos? like triple torches, healing torches, war axes and such? man i fell for them a lot as a child

Around 9:33 when he mentioned over 9 million people watched that video was about 33.333% of current copies sold

14:24 ive already seen the comment but i still wanna say that gronkh has a longer lets play with more than 1200 episodes

This deserves more attention than it's getting.

you forgot that herobrine was born from the legend of white eyes.

Can’t wait to watch this absolute banger for the next 2 hours

w mans for having a decent upload schedule for the scale and quality of these videos

this video deserves waaay more views

24:50 i joined the MC community like a month before this update. On a cracked version as i didn't have any money & was scared to ask my dad about buying it. I remember how shook i was when i sprinted for the first time and i realized how horribly slow walking was.

Just that scream of Dream made me cry not kidding

Really enjoyed the video subscription well and truly earned

this man changed the thumbnail 3 times while ive watched this video

This is gonna be a goated watch

why you only have so low subcriber you make so good videos the pit videos,skyblock and this probaly gonna be a banger too ty for you to exist

This is beautiful. Thank you for making it.

from hypixel the Pit to this, ur doing great

this just shows you how far this gam has come

hearing the name ZexyZek took me back. I remember when I was ten in summer camp there was this counselor that we were CONVINCED was ZexyZek. He absolutely wasn't.

Me, as a extreme minecraft enthusiast, loved this video

15 years. This game is almost as old as team fortress 2 both gaming pioneers in they're own right.

If this doesn't go crazy viral youtube algorithm is broken, great video for real.

I’ve played Minecraft since 2011, I’ve played 2b2t since 2016. I don’t think I’ll ever stop playing. I definitely take breaks, but it will always be my #1 game.