The DANGEROUS Versions of Minecraft?! 

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Heyo, I decided to take it easy with the edit today. Lately, I've been over-editing my videos, and they've been taking way too long to make. This video was particularly frustrating due to all of the weirdness that happened across the different versions... and I made an error capturing this footage that made it downright painful to edit. tl;dr, I normally capture my footage uncompressed for timeline performance while editing, but because I had to capture so much footage, I opted to not do that. That made editing this video pretty painful lol. I appreciate you all for sticking with me!

The idea of a world's Seed randomizing every time you load up said world honestly sounds really cool. Someone should make a mod of that concept.

Release 1.14.2 was also extremely broken, and among the bugs there was one called the Great Entity Purge where entities would just get completely deleted from your world seemingly at random. I remember it happening on my server, and it notably affected the Hermitcraft SMP. This was also the version that had God Armour that allowed you to stack different protection-style enchantments, and you could also break silk-touchable blocks with silk touch enchanted books. Overall a weird version, especially for a full release.

"I regret voting for that mob, I expected Mojang to do a better job of it." Could not have said it better myself. The problem with mob votes is that we are voting on ideas, and not actual mobs. People expected the glow to emit light.

13:30 The blocks that are reverting upon interaction (either right click or placing a block near them) are mostly called ghost blocks and happen when the client's and the servers' blocks aren't the same. Since singleplayer is still technically a server, then probably the error had to do with the bridge between the client. In order to simulate ghost blocks without using glitches the server needs to send a packet of a block that doesn't exist to the client/s.

I remember seeing the snapshot update list for The Flattening and seeing every other line saying stuff like "May have broken everything." "Possibly broken everything" "definitely broke everything" And I thought it was a joke at first. I learned that lesson quick

3:18: Beta 1.6, Test Build 3 3:47: Snapshot 13w06a 4:15: Snapshot 13w38b 4:22: Snapshot 14w18a 4:27: Snapshot 14w27 4:31: Snapshot 19w12a 4:47: Snapshot 19w13a 4:49: Snapshot 20w12a 5:32: Snapshot 21w18a 6:25: Beta 1.8, Pre-release 1 ;) 7:18: Snapshot 17w47a 8:04: 1.13, Pre-release 3 8:27: Snapshot 19w36a 9:28: 1.16, Pre-release 1 10:28: Infdev 20100624 11:22: Infdev 20100625-2 11:51: Snapshot 12w07a 12:13: Snapshot 12w49a 13:42: Snapshot 15w31a 14:40: Snapshot 18w19a / 1.13 16:31: 1.13, Pre-release 5 16:52: Snapshot 21w39a

Judging by the characters being printed in the sign glitch, it looks like bad escape character handling. Basically, to represent certain metadata characters in code, like double-quotes which normally represent the beginning or end of a string of text, you add an escape character to indicate that it is supposed to be text and not code. In Java (and most C-like languages), that's backslash (\). The glitch basically looks like the code for loading signs misinterprets the beginning and end quotes of the strings as parts of the string, so it tries to escape them, but just ends up making the string longer. So every time it sees a character that it "needs" to escape, makes the string longer, which introduces new characters for it to escape, thus making the string exponentially longer every time the glitch occurs.

I remember one bug on the Xbox 360 edition where if you were drowning, there was absolutely no way you could surface. You would just end from drowning.

I have an unusual fascination with world corruption and broken generation. Something about weird jumbles of blocks mashed all together and the fact that it wasn't on purpose is so cool to me.

15:36 The overlapping biome generation between the desert and the forest is actually pretty cool

I once hosted a server on Minecraft 1.8 beta, iirc the first version to include exp. At some random point there was exp on the ground that duplicated itself seemingly infinitely and no one could play anymore due to the lag it caused. I had no world backup so my stubborn self tried to fix it, and eventually I found the exp on the ground and was able to remove it with lava. All with like 1 frame every 3 seconds or something.

Another thing I remember about that Infdev version was that they removed the original colored wool blocks, which would cause the game to crash whenever you opened a chest with them or came into loaded chunks with them. I remember first getting it and being so confused.

I remember just playing survival on a snapshot and the terrain in the distance would be blacked out and swirl. It looked like a mass of tentacles spinning I'm circles. It was cool and I wish I could find the version it was on so I can see it again.

15:00 this kinda thing happened to me all the time when I tried to 'jump upgrade' my old backed up world from 1.8 to 1.16. It even applied to the nether, the new nether terrain would gen around my lime green wool arrrows I placed down to navigate all those years ago, it was a really strange sight to behold. Usually, the best way to fix that is to carefully upgrade the world one version at a time, since every version is designed to load saves from the version immediately prior to it, but having it happen in that normally safe case sucks :

I have a world that got corrupted, but I had randomly decided to keep my house within one chunk. It was fine, so I decided to not revert to my backup and just play with my house intact and cool surroundings. Most of my work was also contained within specific chunks, so almost nothing broke.

NGL, the world seed being randomized every time you log in sounds epic! That would be such an amazing setting

5:28 So the death message “was slain by was slain by was slain by” is possible

8:43 now i finally know why i never got fall damage in my very old surivival world.

15:26 i have a Minecraft world that’s 7 years old, and I think it was affected with this bug, because I do have some random chunks in my world, it never bothered me and I think it adds history to this very old world from 1.9, now I finally know why it happened! I remember it even copied one of my chunks with a house I built on it around 4 chunks next to it, the house got copied and pasted there! I love this world and won’t stop play it! And I always make a backup at every new Minecraft version !

Goodness that sign glitch was something I encountered I'm pretty sure. It was during a map creator phase when I wanted to create custom maps. I was completely unaware of it so I was placing signs down and they got completely randomized it was really annoying. Thank goodness I never got to the ultra lag phase. Also I never ended up publishing any of my maps.

When you said "I bid you all farewell" in the outro, I got hit with a wave of nostalgia. It's so crazy to me that I've been watching your channel for basically a decade now. Thanks for all of the entertainment over the years, AntVenom!

i once had something like this happen, a superflat world ended up loading a part of new chunks as normal terrain and it was the weirdest thing ever to me

Long time Ethoslab viewers are all well aware of world glitches in various versions and the importance of backups

I had a flat world I upgraded to the caves and cliffs update. It flattened the whole world to the new height. Including what I had been working on. It was weird and a mess.

Skeleton arrows also cause the same world lockup in those stuttering zones in Inf-0625. Glad I haven't thrown any signs in them yet lol

That 1.13 chunk corruption happened to my main survival world that I played with friends back then, I could never find a solution at the time, and blamed it on my small hard drive. I even stopped playing Minecraft altogether for a while. Now I finally have an answer to what happened. lol

FunFact... If you ever play on Beta 1.7.2 and install "WorldEdit" plugin on a server and you try to //regen too many chunks at once... The world imadietely becomes corrupted. Many chunks cease to exists and many of them were replaced with air from level 0 to level 40. Corruption there mostly happens to chunks that were not yet generated or to a certain distance so it was repairable but not by a //regen at all.

Based on some experiences I've observed with Java based servers for other games, the 12w49a chunk errors are likely caused by the chunk data being overwritten by junk data in the server's allocated memory.

I'm actually a member of a server that got spawner carts using beta 1.5 so it's nice to see that in there

I wonder what the dimension glitch would do with immersive portal but I don't think that's possible because snapshots

I had quite a few worlds get infected by these over the years sadly. Some made for kind of cool worlds, others deleted months of building

The chunk corruption that happens in 21w39a always happens to a massive extent on worlds with custom settings from 1.8-1.12.2

9:20 instead of messing up your worlds,mojang you must make the disable phantoms button

I love seeing new antvenom videos

12:20 Back in the day there was development for built in "anti-xray" for servers. The bug that shows all the weird blocks is actually to prevent people from x-raying. It didn't end up being officially added. But that's the reason for when you press the blocks they returned to netherrack. It's because those blocks aren't real.. they are ghost blocks to stop x-ray. One you update the block the "mask" is removed. But something is definitely going haywire with it's implementation

11:36 That shaking thing still happens in bedrock sometimes TwT

I have a old save I lost from way back. But recently I fond a old USB drive containing the save file probably 7-8 years old. I tried to lode the world and it worked. But slowly over time random chunks were getting deleted or corrupted. Like a haunted world or a creepy pasta. So watch this video is quite fun. Also keep up the good work!

I also had a dangerous version experience. When a new update released. I upgraded minecraft. And along with the update was the height limit. Now it goes below zero. And when i loaded my world the sea was pure stone and ores and all of the entities spawned much higher than before. Luckily i had a backup

I want to tell you about one interesting issue: such problem as chunk corruption isn't directly related to any exact version or snapshot. For example, if you try to load any world from 1.3 directly to 1.12 there will always be a small chance for a new structure (usually, it is ocean temple) to spawn inside the chunks that you have already generated, which will cause wierd chunk corruption itself. That's the case: the reason of chunk corruption is not the exact version, but various differences of world generation and world data reading between them. Therefore, the list of 'dangerous' minecraft versions can be freely expanded, depending on what you mean by 'chunk corruption')

9:43 how ironic for the "Nether Update"

some of these sound like they would be fun to play arround with as long as its not on a world you want to keep for years

it was around 2012-2013 and I remember loading into a new world and loading (fresh chunks we call it now, i just remember flying around and seeing it in the distance) flying in the overworld to find gold blocks and glow stone everywhere. at the time I was rly young and thought it was hero brine so i deleted the world immediately. now I wonder if it's some rare chunk corrupting or graphical glitch, my computer was still running XP and I didn't know how to update Java. not sure if it was a snapshot or not.

I actually remember the softlock dead state one. I could never play in my world again and it was very sad :(

1.5.2 just simply made flatworld chunks randomly, sometimes even the whole region file would become a flat world one, it happened to me before and the world that it happened on because my precious nostalgia world

12:32 the pattern the blocks are shown in makes me think it's somehow pulling light level data and chunk coordinates and interpreting it as block IDs...

15:40 I had a very similar glitch happen to me when using a third party program to convert an Xbox 360 world to Java edition, must’ve been around 1.16, where everything above y=64 was the old world, but 63 and below was an ocean. Really weird stuff. I think I made a Reddit post at the time because I’d never seen anything like it

I know at least one more such glitch that was missed. In 1.9 Pre-release 3, if you were playing multiplayer, random chunks would get replaced with Sky Dimension chunks.

There is this glitch that I encountered more than once, and it seems to actually be rare, which makes it even more infuriating. (Or I wasn't good at English and Googling when I tried to look up a solution many years ago. But I haven't heard of it since.) Basically, some chunks would just completely disappear from my world, top to bottom, just a hole to the void. It wasn't chunk-sized holes, I think, but it's really been a long time. Happened on Alpha, which was understandable enough, but the last time it happened was somewhere after the Aquatic update, which I think is strange. At that point, I would expect old glitches to be gone. The memory of loading up my world and realizing it was corrupted still raises my blood pressure to this day. XD

The 1.18 pre-release glitch where Mapfeatures was reset to 0 happened to me. For a long time I missed out on all the new structures including when villages were first added. It was so damn frustrating. I finally saw a video where I learned how to reset this and allow structures to form.

Minecraft:Enchanted Book. AntVenom:but what enchantment? Minecraft:DID I STUDDER?

My very first minecraft world the world I started in 2012 got corrupted one year when I loaded up the world. A giant mountain was in place where my house used to be. I was sad but didnt think much of it as a kid. I deleted that world and started a new one. Looking back on it. devastating

I'm a bit late to the party! Just came back from a trip. It is absolutely bizarre the way this game breaks. I LOVE IT. Thank you AntVenom for showing me the wonders of game breaking and how it breaks, because I wouldn't have appreciated it the same way if it weren't for you. 9:15 I know Phantom Membranes help fix your elytra or something but they should really add another use for them to make voting for them more worth it

4:52 a very anomalous scp

I remember I once had a world on bedrock that acted as my main creative world, and I had turned on experimental features during the 1.13 updated experimental period and all water blocks in the world got the running water texture on all four sides of the blocks. That was when I learned not to mess with experimental features/snapshot versions on worlds that I care about.

When I got minecraft in 2012, after one of the updates that happened, anytime I held specific items in my hand the entire world would just turn into invisible/nearly invisible blocks and to this day I have never seen any other videos of the same glitch

I remember one bug around the 1.12-1.13 era that would completely erase all Tile Entity data. I specifically remember loading up my redstone worlds up in this version and just. wrought havoc on anything using comparators. Bonus points if you accidentally loaded up your survival world and lost everything in your chests.

i remember a major bug occured in 1.16 snapshot 20w07a, which deleted all previously existing villagers in a world. the snapshot for the week after did nothing but fix this issue.

The entirety of Nintendo Switch edition should be included here. Played for about 100 hours when I got a warning that my worldfile was too big (As Switch has a savefile limit of 4GB). So, without asking, my worlds chunks were partially reset and my playerdata was erased. So that's fun.

There was one bugged version on the xbox 360 back in 2015 where if you tried deleting ANY world, it would instead delete the world you last saved. I lost my friend and i's survival world because of it. Thankfully, i had a relatively recent backup on xbox one but still rather unfortunate. An emergency title update was pushed out within days. Edit: Rewording things.

Can't forget about the 1.9 snapshots that would glitch out when diving down with an elytra and constantly boot you with the "flying isn't allowed on this server" error. Kinda glad I made a new world when I was testing it out lol.

6pm for me, my friend left the vc, this is the perfect time for a Antvenom video

15:57 that hill is the pack.png hill with lava

I encountered data corruption myself. Luckily it was only at the edge of my used world and it was kinda cool since it replaced a bit of 1.5.2 ocean with 1.13+ ocean

14:30 2b2t players are taking notes…

Not sure what version, but I have a crazy recollection when they first introduced the new custom worlds settings, I chose a cave-type sea just to see what would load. What I got was almost a checkerboard of regular very deep sea, contrasted by a 200 or so tall chunk topped with bedrock with a segment of a flooded cave within it. The craziest thing was that sunken ships would load on top of the bedrock. I've seen crazy things in custom worlds, but that's usually when I am purposely messing things up. That time, I didn't even have the intention or had to mess with any other settings.

I had my Playstation 3 survival world go through many updates and there are lots of chunk borders cuts, and strange generation, it's really weird, but over time I began to enjoy it, every update would make the world more and more interesting.

9:25 right when you said "world data file corruption" my computer bluescreened lmao

One world-affecting glitch was in one of 1.18(?)'s snapshots that made end portals unopenable, filling all the eyes in would do nothing

12:30 I wish I could remember the circumstances behind it, but I remember that at some point a long time ago I had a rather similar glitch happen to me, though im 99% sure it was on a more stable release version of mc. I know I was using a computer with absolute bottom-of-the-barrel specs and I can't remember if it was on a server or not, though i think it might've been. very weird to see this glitch in a video after experiencing it once as a kid and having largely forgotten about it till now

this is so helpful, i have a world that i started in alpha and every time i open it again i update 1 version, without this i would be in such a hassle

I like how they call fixed bugs discontinued features

Nobody: Absolutely no-one: Lifeboat survival borders and that one _thing_ in 2B2T: 10:00

I don't recall exactly what version, but I downloaded an old world (Funcraft 2.0 or 3.0) for nostalgia not too long ago. I used the version provided in the download page, something in 1.7 I believe. When I loaded up the world, there was the weird sign glitch mentioned in the video, where the text was encapsulated by text data symbols and quotation marks. In addition, all chests and other nbt-data blocks lost their data. item frames were also empty, and paintings broke and dropped one item per block the painting was previously on. I also think that doors and trapdoors reverted to their default positions, but I'm not too sure about that one. I didn't load up any of this in any snapshot version. Nor, as far as I can tell, was it created in an version different than the one I was playing on. Altogether it was very weird.

It was kind of nostalgic to see some of the older classic bugs everyone used in mc in this vid, in specific, the glowstone xray one. I don't even remember when the last time I used that was! And also great video as always, I love this sorta exploration

I have a bedrock edition world that I've had since May 2020 (The Buzzy Bees update). After it upgraded to around 1.17/1.18, my world kind of had a similar problem to the 21w39a corruption glitch, in which some chunks would have deepslate, and some would just have bedrock. it's kind of weird, and it's pretty cool that I got to experience it firsthand.

Damn, I was waiting for there to be a version that can do sick motorcycle tricks without even hanging on to the handles

Hey, about the signs, If you place a sign down in 1.8 and load it uo in 1.7 (or the other way around, i forgot lol) the sign will have "null" written on all 4 lines. Try it out, maybe even tell us why it's happening c:

I once was playing on a private server with a friend. At some point, we decided to mess around with command blocks, and I made ender pearls spawn on top of other ender pearls... infinitely. This went so badly that we couldn't load the map wathsoever. Since we cared quite a lot about it, I decided to take some time to find a way to remove every single ender pearl without entering the world, knowing that it was too buggy to even use command on the console. I proceded to randomly delete files, and after 2/3 hours, I found the one that made everything crash. Turned out it was the file storing the chunk containing the command block and most of the ender pearls, so when I deleted the file the chunk would reset. I truly felt like a genius that day.

Been watching since the original peaceful series. It has a tear down my face to see it again

1.13.1 snapshot has a crash bug when it comes to water+minecart. I remember it happening on my old server world, mined through a tunnel in a mineshaft and water came into contact with a chest minecart. The server crashed instantly and the world became unusable (even tried it in singleplayer). The only way to fix it was to remove the minecart AND the rail through NBT Editor. The water and both minecart+rail were occupying the same space. Perhaps a bug related to the waterlogging code?

4:51 villagers can literally sleep in hell without their beds ever exploding, i think this confirms this as fact

Wow... I remember a few of these but wow there is a lot of crashes and glitches i didnt know about accross versions Thanks for the vid

I love how the moment right after your ad ends is the most replayed.

id actually really enjoy playing a world where the seed was changed every time i log in, i absolutely love the oddness of chunk borders

13:30 I believe these are ghost blocks, it's when the client and the server disagree on which blocks there are. Singleplayer is a server too, just hosted locally on your pc and inaccessible to everyone else

5:40. This happened to me once. I was able to load the world after trying a few years later. Morale, don't attack zombie pigmen. I think it was 1.8 or somewhere around that.

3:15 The earliest version in your video seems to be Beta 1.6 Test Build 3, but I know one before that; Beta 1.5, place a powered rail next to a detector rail will crash the game.

Love your content keep it up

I have encountered a bug very similiar to 4:59 on 1.16.4 LAN world - after I died and respawned, possibly due to a server desync (I had a very underpowered laptop at the time) I found a default skin "clone" of myself. I was still able to play normally, with the clone doing exactly what I did (with the server delay), including movement, chat, commands and received damage. The clone stopped moving after I died again, which allowed me to directly hit it, injuring both of us at once. Rejoining the world fixed the issue, it was fun to witness though.

I was expecting a mention of log4j. I think having a huge security vulnerability would be pretty dangerous.

Yeah- like when the update that removed legacy worlds got removed all my old worlds got deleted along with my happiness

11:50 I feel like all my worlds are like this when I try modded Minecraft. I dig three staircases and don't find a single cave before reaching bedrock.

ive had that 12w49a glitch happen to me except i was on a modern server. The spigot server was running something like 1.16 and i was in an older version (probably 1.12.2). For unknown reasons the same patterns of random blocks appeared as client side ghost blocks and people in newer versions did not see them. Very weird

You made me back up my long term survival world as I’m watching this video 😂😂

17:30 thanks a lot for pointing this out. I was still using mcedit until now since I didn't know there was a different program for new versions.

9:24 philza had a good run

once on minecraft classic(the website) i lagged the world a lot by releasing water (which just keeps on filling blocks) to lag my world, then i loaded a new world and it was currupted with some of the features from the old world