The Minecraft that Never Was 

Being a Minecraft developer may be fun but imagine the stress of trying to make something that won't ruin the game but also add brand new unique features... must be pretty tough

Pre-Ordering "The Minecraft that Never Was: Perfect for minecrafters kids and adults, top builder ideas, guide book, graphic novels".

9:27 Bane of Arthropods DOES actually inflict Slowness IV on arthropod mobs it hits in modern versions for a few seconds, with the time increasing with higher levels.

Armageddon mode with a moont hat turns to red eye looking around sounds awesome. It would've definitely made the game feel more intense even for minecrafts less intimidating artstyle.

9:30 I've said it once and I'll say it again: the solution to the age old Bane of Arthropods debate is to simply introduce more enemy arthropods. Suppose there was a giant scorpion boss or giant crustaceans in the ocean that _could_ be beaten normally, but would benefit greatly with the Bane enchantment. What if there were more difficult spider variants in different biomes? (Jumping Spiders, lava-spewing Nether Spiders, egg laying spiders that multiply into smaller ones when you kill them, etc.). There is not a single arthropod currently in the came that warrants the enchantment. While it isn't hard to kill skeletons or zombies, Smite makes sense because of the vast number of undead mobs you will encounter (including the Wither, which makes high level Smite swords a commodity). TL;DR - More arthropods to make the enchantment worth it

"With great creative choices comes great backlash and responsibilities" -Probably Notch

Lanterns were canceled but later came back. Let's not despair yet (depending on the feature, sorry Mob A, C and D). Frogs were also a biome loser by the way.

It would be cool just to see flinging arm Steves everywhere in the world

Actually, I'm fairly certain that bane of arthropods DOES apply slowness to spiders on hit; it's just that if you have bane of arthropods your weapon is going to one shot all the mobs that are affected by it so it's a very obscure fact.

The "night of absolute horror" with the moon turning into a moving eye sounds awesome, terraria style random events would be really cool in minecraft

This just reminded me of old unused/scrapped content that did eventually make it into the game such as crying obsidian. Initially crying obsidian was planned to be a way of respawning before beds. When it did eventually make its way into vanilla Minecraft it did that but for the Nether, a way to respawn without beds. Their’s also sponges which where in the creative menu since forever and finally where obtainable and given a use in survival via ocean monuments. Skeleton horses where also finally added to survival via Skeleton Traps. Stonecutters where initially only in Minecraft PE due to limitations before Microsoft made all portable versions of Minecraft Bedrock Edition. This does make me wonder how and if they’ll implement things already findable in the game. The Zombie Horse is just as old as the Skeleton Horse and has not seen the light of day. The Giant could be implemented as some sort of mini boss, same with the Illusioner. Will the Nether Core Reactor finally be given the love it deserves again?

can’t believe notch was hatsune miku this entire time

6:25 Mojang has already denied that the Chinese poll was an actual mob vote and yet people keep saying that it was. The poll wasn't for which animal should be added to the game; it was to likely just to hype people for the upcoming announcement of the panda. It had already been decided that the panda would be in the game and Mojang was already working on implementing it. Basically the Chinese vote was something along the lines of: "A national treasure is getting added to the game! Which would you choose?" Maybe it was a bit weird as PR goes, but there's no doubting the popularity of the panda. I'd guess it was a pretty clear way of saying that pandas were coming to the game without outright coming out and saying it.

unrelated but 6ish years ago I had this friend who was imitating the early minecraft steve walking animation (with the flailing arms) (we were in 6th grade) and he fell into a fire pit and burnt his hand. still think of that on a weekly basis

I still remember my child self being really hyped to the red dragon. I heard playground rumors that you would've to hatch the dragon egg in the overworld or the nether to make it tame, so if you didn't grab the dragon egg you would be in bad luck, and you would be able to fly around in it. Sadly I waited and waited and the red dragon never came.

I always wonder what we have never seen, and what has not left the Mojang drawing boards, we'll probably never know but it's something to think about...

Someone should make a modpack with all of this.

I have a theory that VILLAGERS are indeed the smartest mob, do u see any other mobs creating items from nothin? Not even the player can do such witchcraft!

1:08 I laughed SO HARD seeing how far the "Hatsune Miku created Minecraft" meme had gone

Making the Farlands an official biome is a really interesting idea... It kinda makes me wish they took that approach a bit more throughout development. Rather than just making more realistic-looking biomes, what if they leaned more into the absurd types of things the world used to generate? What if we had whole floating island biomes with rare ores inside, giant monoliths with large flat walls that jut high into the sky, or even biomes that are just giant holes in the ground similar to chunk errors? What if, in the middle of the ocean, there was just a random biome where there's no water and there's just a steep drop all the way down to the ocean floor? Maybe you could have a really bizarre biome that's completely inverted with trees growing downward? When Minecraft world generation bugs out, it's such a fascinating thing to see. I can't help but wonder how interesting it would be if, rather than correcting these bugs, they played with them and made them a strange, almost alien part of the game's world? I think it would be really cool to make these an intentional part of the world and it would really capture your imagination. Why is everything so weird in this one area? Did something happen here? Did a monster destroy this? Some sort of natural calamity? Was this structure built by aliens or something?

I wonder how Minecraft is doing in alternate timelines…

Why is notch's avatar miku? Was that some sort of attempt at humor or was that in the original screenshots?

Can't wait for 'The Minecraft That Never Was |Perfect for Minecrafters Kids and Adults, Top Builder Ideas, Guide Book, Graphic Novels'

Child me was so immeasurably disappointed when I realized that Red Dragons and the Aether were never coming to Minecraft. I remember I even installed the Aether mod and some kind of tameable dragon mod to fill the void. (The dragon mod wasn't Ice and Fire, this was years before that mod came into being.)

9:28 Bane of Arthropods *DOES* give slowness to arthropod mobs. It's already a feature in the game

5:06 Let's remember that magma blocks can randomly generate underwater in the oceans now, and they're able to create a downward stream that suck boats. So, either the barnacle would have been redundant once magma blocks got changed, or that mechanic was recycled for the magma blocks once the barnacle was scrapped.

Retro, do you want to look into a Minecraft something at the very bottom of the iceberg? Look no further than Minecraft China Edition. I would love to see you break down the strange snippets of images and knowledge there is about this version of Minecraft, the mobs, the bosses, the dimension we know very little about despite the fact that it is more popular than Java Edition itself.

A couple snapshots for release 1.8 revamped the minecart system, where it can travel 2.5x faster than the current maximum speed, but they reverted it before the 1.8 release. I was frustrated when they reverted it. Using minecarts as a transportation is still a joke to this day!

I think blood moons could have a place in the modern game. I remember the devs say that one of their inspirations for the warden was to recreate the terror of your first night. I think bloodmoons could definitely do that although it would make the game harder. Maybe they would only happen in Hard difficulty?

9:39 believe it or not, BOA does slow down hit arthropods. Each level applies a higher level of slowness to hit arthropods. It's just that all arthropods are so weak, they tend to get one shot by a well placed hit, so unless it's level 1 or 2 and your fight normal spiders, it's not that useful

I wonder how things would have been if they went in a different direction than the soulful game we have, considering MC is the most successful game ever i think its safe to say Notch made the right calls in the early days. There would have certainly been some relative downsides, we'll never know what it would have been like, or what strengths other styles would've had.

anyone who likes mob D will be happy to know it got added to Minecraft Dungeons as the wildfire.

Giants, giants should have been introduced in some way, hard to say how they would work, perhaps they could span after killing a number of zombies in a row or when a zombie gets shot by a thunder dunno but I'd love to see them implemented.

The megabeasts sound like they would be a really cool addition!

1:20 Fortress mode _did_ eventually make it into Minecraft. It is called The Great Hermit Civil War. It was started by Grian and Tango in season six of Hermitcraft.

No joke, your video quality is going from the Earth's core to the atmosphere.

Wait...Bane of Arthropods _does_ slow down spiders on hit. Any enemies that take extra damage from the enchantment also get Slowness IV for a few seconds It's one of only three ways a potion effect above level 2 can exist in a survival world, the other two being the Potion of the Turtle Master (Resistance III and Slowness IV, or Resistance IV and Slowness VI when enhanced) and by killing three or more raid captains, each one adds a level of Bad Omen on Java edition, up to 5.

Minecraft is an cool Shooter game with simplified MD3 models but kinda good, Also there's various Gamemodes, These inclu- Oooops... Wrong dimension...

Man I just love these videos lost my good friend a few days ago who I called Cornish Grandpa. Felt really crap today but this made my day thank you!

9:15 that was implemented in minecraft dungeons!

4:28 It's nice you're using a video of the people who voted glow squid as an example.

4:09 the profile pics that Mojang employees have are even more reminiscent of Dock's style

Dude I love how the phantoms circle like vultures.

F in the chat for the forgotten mobs.

Keep up the good work

one of my friend was 100% sure that dispenser minecart was a feature

lets not forget the most important feature that was added mining and crafting

I would love that pigman who fights for you to be in the game.

I wonder if they never added the red dragon because it actually went extinct, maybe those are the huge bones in the nether, maybe the red dragon ceased to exist before the player could find it

Retro, you deserve so many more subscribers than you have-your lore is amazingly realistic, not “haha” super fully, like many other lore people. Your voice and the way you talk, it is both terrifying when you are trying to be and calming too! ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much!

I love that the fact that notch wanted to turn miunecraft into dwarf fortress with the fort mode,megabeasts and the dark omens at night.

I'll always have a soft spot for the early days of Minecraft. I started playing in the early beta days

9:23 Bane of Arthropods does have this function right now

09:24 The Bane of Arthropods enchantment inflicts Slowness IV on an arthropod when hit, with a random duration between 1 and 1.5 seconds at level I, increasing the maximum duration by 0.5 seconds each level, up to 3.5 seconds with Bane of Arthropods V. -The Minecraft Wiki Btw. Thank you for showing the music titles at the end of the video (and as I noticed: playing the outro longer). :)

If dragons are going to be implemented, but not in the overworld and not red, but Jeb wants a mob that's related to soul fire, we could get undead blue dragons in the soul sand valley. (Very unlikely, but would finally be something different than the constant ghasts)

I always hated mob votes because it just stupid to vote for a mob of cool ideas just to be on the chopping block of scrap characters.

Wait vertical redstone!!??? If I remember when I was playing MCPE on 2012 I'm placing redstone on walls.. But I forgot the version and my memory is quite blurr now so I'm not sure about it

We need more content from you, your content of choice is so entertaining to me and probably everyone else who watches your videos!

The the bacteria agriculture

i don‘t like how nowdays minecraft forces you on how to play the game, for example the mobs that get added with minecraft life. I really like the old ideas and new ideas in seperate gamemodes. The pigman would have been great. Call me manchild but i really want to go back and take the ideas and make minecraft like the old way.

9:25 Bane of Arthropods actually does slow down spiders

One thing I still think would have been awesome is the idea of "horror nights" foreshadowed by "ill omens"

Can we please talk about how Notch’s picture and username on the forums were replaced with Miku

AAA THE SPIRIT PHONE ART AT 11:30 /pos lauti, you amazing person

Bane of Arthropods DOES inflict slowness on spiders. Still doesn't make it a worthwhile enchantment, but that is an effect.

FINALLY someone covering this. I remember reading about this after it got its own page on the wiki but ive never seen someone else talking about it

Ah yes, T-Flag Hatsune Miku, the creator of Minecraft.

Arthropod does actually slow spiders iirc

I wonder if they will ever use that idea of a pigman you can hire. I once spawned into a world with a woodland mansion near spawn. I rushed it by killing skeletons and making my army of 8 wolves attack everything. Something similar could happen with pig men. A full assault on the nether fortress would be much more fun with back up.

Love your content so much it's not all up in your face and you can listen in the background

These are the best videos on RU-vid. New uploads are exciting

Holy fuck, I once thought about this concept and was disappointed when there was no video for it. And you're the best guy to make that video

This guy should do lore

The first thing was that i hit the like button. Some youtubers don't upload often, but when they upload, the video is amazing!

Just binged all ur deep dive videos and was finally goi ga to sleep before this dropped

the hatsune miku replacing notch is amazing, thankyou

The Great Hunger's trap could've been the model for the Evoker's crocodile-like mouth attack...

Very, Very Interesting! old minecraft facinates me, seeing what could have been..

Love theses vids, so relaxing to watch and listen to, thanks for always doing an epic job RGN!

5:19 I really like this one, it kind of reminds me of Mob C Minecon 2016

so what your saying is we could have not only have pigman villagers but also pigman bodyguards sounds like a hole kingdom could have been built

Bro, a nether roof and far biome would be insane. Pair that with a new dimension, and call it the Outskirts Update.

I can't believe we lost monkeys 😔

Remember the time Notch said torches would burn out over time, and that you'd need lanterns if you wanted permanent lighting.

Damn I wish we got the Moobloom!

Great music RGN! : )

Team survival mode was kind of added with the ability to make teams with /team command.

Yesssss a brand new retro Minecraft video, I’m hyped!

Now, imagine a mod where someone added litterly everything that wasn’t added

I remember back when some of these tweets from 2012 and 2013 were new, I used to be so excited. Now I barely even log in anymore

I remember Bane of Arthropods applying an effect. I don't know if its Slowness or Weakness, it doesn't matter though because the 5 mobs it affects can be 2-shotted with BoA 5, but its there. I play on Bedrock so it may be an obscure feature.

I remember spiders some time ago had ability to place cobweb, or if no, then it was a custom server plugin

I love staying to watch the last seconds of the music lol

Yes, a new RGN video!

Took me 3/4ths of the video to realize “Yenz” was the pronunciation of “Jeb”

Looking at what could’ve been is always fun to think about, and it’s always interesting to think that Mojang could always implement old ideas with a fresh twist!

Someone needs to make an Armageddon mod

Glare doesn’t make sense if mobs only spawn at no light instead of low light.

I would have liked the deer. As someone that grew up and still lives in a very rural and wooded area there are deer everywhere. The fact that there are none in Minecraft's forests makes the in-game world feel more unsettling to me.

Wow, did you compose all the musics in the video? I really liked the outro's track 😅