why minecraft feels different now 

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I remember never going into caves because of zombies. I spent over a year with leather armour and I was fine with it.

I've always played minecraft 80% singleplayer so I'll never really know that sense of community in Minecraft. Maybe that's why I still play it to this day.

I was at the dentist the other day and in the waiting room got to hear a small kid tell his mom all about his new minecraft world, and the fun he’s having with his friends, and the new buildings they building, and their attempt to fight the ender dragon. really reminded me of when i was young, and puts everything into perspective, really showing that minecraft hasn’t changed all that much but we have

This game is and was something else. The feelings and the memories it gives and has given are so unique and beautiful. Nothing will really match the feelings from 2012-2014.

This video really gives me the feels, I spent so many hours playing Minecraft Xbox 360 with my friends, I hardly know how any of them are doing today, but 2. Those 2 are still my best friends 8 years later.

If this helps anyone: I figured that playing in a singleplayer world gets stale really really quickly. I tried to start three whole new worlds in singleplayer only to almost immediately lose motivation to play them. Instead, I went online and tried to find a survival server with not too many people on. This is how I spent my life in 2012 and 2013, I would join little communities and play on those servers all the time and it was always extremely fun. This time was no different. I barely even see other players on the server because its survival and I'm busy working on my own base and resources, but just knowing that there's other people on makes all the difference. It takes all the loneliness away.

This video made me sad, because I feel this so much. I remember when I played Minecraft with my friends about 8 - 10 years ago, when I was 12 - 14. Now, at age 22, I play Minecraft on my own Server, alone most of the time.

My friend, I haven't cried in years, but on this day I have shed a tear for the Minecraft community back in 2015-2012 whenever. We all share the same feelings in Minecraft we all did the same thing but in a different way your last block that you break or place maybe the first break or place for a new player. Just to think that the music now in the caves and cliffs will be nostalgic for the people now just like the old music back in 2015 will be nostalgic for us it's just the way it is you know.

To be fair, that depends from person to person, personally, as a 27 years old i still enjoy the game because you are right, is not a race, modern life tries to make you treat everything as a task that needs to be done in the most eficient way, but i say to myself, is just a game, take your time. Also a homie who rushes the enderdragon without the squad is not a real homie

This video is giving me so much nostalgia that it actually hurts.

friend of mine passed a couple years ago. throughout highschool we would play minecraft with a group of friends but ever since she died the server's gone inactive. i'm the only one who pops in once and a while and always alone. it really is a time capsule.

this video hurts me so bad, I really want those times back everything was just simple back then😭😭😭

I'm crying on the inside because of how relatable it all is no matter how different peoples lives are, everything Robokast is saying is completely relatable and understandable, every word.

Damn the reason I’m watching this is because I’ve recently been hit hard by this awful feeling of deep sadness whenever I’m trying to play the game. There was this really fun period of about 2 years where my friends and I got really, really good at the game and played every day after seeing each other at school. We made castles and villages, and massive mountain ranges behind them. But eventually I had a falling out with one of my friends and my other friends moved away. I think it’s so sad that I’m not going to be able to play with them again like I did before, but I’m still trying to enjoy Minecraft as I get older instead of becoming one of those kids who thinks theyre too old for it. I just wish I could get that same feeling as before instead of everything feeling overused, depressing and tainted.

Finally! A Minecraft Nostalgia analysis video that doesn't panders around and ends in a note of "You grew up! Stop playing games!" Or shit like that You actually explained stuff and told people a good message

I remember the cave sounds alone were enough to make me not go into caves as a kid, i often let my sister play the game for me when i found one Yes the sounds are still terrifying

I was 28 when I started playing. I never played multiplayer, preferring to use the game like a bucket of LEGOs to do nothing but build. When you hit your 30s, your perception of passing time speeds up significantly, so the past 12 years are a blur. Feels like only 5 years have passed. The only major differences for me are that my grandma & all of my pets have passed away, all of my favorite restaurants have closed down, I took up gardening, & I'm preparing to move to a house in another town.

Oh my gods. I... I have no words. This video is EVERYTHING I've been searching for. The reason for the change, the underlying cause, the lessons, the answers, the experiences, everything. This video is a gift to fellow nostalgic Minecraft players like me who are endlessly and desperately searching for a way to relive the Golden Days of our inexperienced Minecraft beginnings. I've been trying to revive my early experiences with this incredible game for a couple of years now, but no matter how hard I tried, I could never find the right way to do things. I've tried to resurrect the old days of Minecraft (at least my perception of those days) through resource packs, searching for nostalgic seeds (don't try it, it never works), and so many other things. But thanks to this video, I finally know that the solution really is as simple as hitting the brakes and getting off of the roller coaster. Stopping to smell the roses, to look and wander around. To explore, to experiment, to not set goals. To play the game YOUR way, instead of trying to accomplish everything as soon as you can. Only then, when you take some time to set down and play in the sandbox for a while, will you be able to truly rediscover the simplistic beauty of Minecraft. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.

I still remember 2017, those beautiful worlds and those fantastic friends who accompanied you on every adventure, but when I look at the Minecraft main menu I feel so ... empty, bored, sad, with no source of fun. Let me tell you a story. My name is Liam and I'm a guy who likes video games. I once had a group, "I.G.D.M.A", and we played happily at many games (Rec Room, Minecraft, Destiny 2, Etc.), but the one we played the most was minecraft, a masterpiece that made me learn and overcome many situations in my life, but in 2020 something happened ... our group began to die and no players entered the parties or played with us, we organized events and other things but the group was now lost. Sometimes we got raids from old members of the group and I was very sad, now I'm 15 and when I take my controller I can feel the nostalgia, the old worlds and the old friends ... but when I enter the parties I always want to turn off because now ... Minecraft has changed.

Hey man, just because life has a little less excitement, doesn’t mean your worthless. Im 36 now and had those same feelings about 10 years ago as my group really drifted out. Don’t hold nostalgia as such a good feeling. Its good to move on and use those memories as tools for handling current situations. If you want the excitement you felt as a kid, it takes hard work to make that feeling. Bigger dreams goals and adventures. But you can gain that again.

I love how title of the video hopes onto the current trend of analysing so-called "downfall" of Minecraft, but everything talked in video is actually really meaningful, thought-out essay which can move you a lot. And yes, it has moved me a lot, especially as I'm reevaluating a lot of things in life, just currently, and not gonna lie, this video - right after I watched Imp & Skizz Podcast and decided to take one milestone decision - hits hard, again touching thoughts I kinda hide from myself. Thank you for this awakening of younger, at some point wiser self, as this is truly needed in today's world. And I wish you peace at heart as well.

You have finally put my abstract thoughts into words. I LOVE the "build whatever, do progression later" part of Minecraft so much, and it's what's keeping me coming back to it daily. Seeing your friends quit early because they want to progress instead can be a little bit of a downer, though

A little late to the party but what ever, I find my most interesting ordeal I had with Minecraft was during about around 2012 or 2013. I played Minecraft on the Xbox 360 almost every day after school. Threw out that time, I made a good friend threw that I met on a server game. She and I slowly became friends and played a lot together on survival mode and the server we frequented. I even befriended her younger brother as he joined up in our games. However, after a few months of gaming, one day for an unknown reason, I found my account was completely gone, I don't even remember why this happened, but all I know is that I begrudgingly had to figure out ow to make myself a new account as my parents helped with my first one. I was never able to find my friend ever again after that, and all my motivation to play any online games seemingly died along with that account. Now days I'm over it and now have no worries of sabotaged accounts. but when ever I go back into playing Minecraft, I always wonder how My old friend is doing. Does she sometimes wonder where I went, or has she completely forgotten about me. Who knows, but as OP said in his video "life is complicated."

I recently took a break from minecraft. And it was hard, very hard to let this awesome game go but i know that someone somewhere is playing this game for the first time and having that experience to play with friends on a world and creating memorys that will last them a life time

This video makes me homesick on an entire new level, I remember I played Minecraft with my two childhood friends on our tablets, and we made super large worlds and had so many memories, we would play it everyday for four years straight, I remember sitting on the same couch, having so much fun with them, but nothing lasts forever, as my family moved to a new location and the other changed countries and flew to Germany, and my other friend moved to a new location. It's been so long since the last time I saw them and it makes me want to cry when I remember this times, I wish everyday that we could reunite once again

I started a minecraft world with my cousins who are a similar age to me, but they're a certain bit younger that makes their year group seem so different to mine. I'm 16 and theyre 12-14. We started the world after a few days of fantasizing about how amazing and huge this world will be and how it'll just be like the old days of minecraft from when we were little. Me and my eldest cousin started by building a house, taking a lot of time on it to make it look pretty while my brother and my youngest cousin had already gotten full netherite armour and found a stronghold. I'm not sure why i got so disappointed but it aggrivated me that all they cared about was finishing the game, not actually "playing" it. It just makes me feel sad that although they are only 3-4 years younger than me, their view of minecraft has been completely changed from ours who played minecraft from the start, and this video completely encapsulates my feelings about this ;-;

This goes way deeper than I expected

In 2012 I played Minecraft for the first time, there was a demo version of it on the Minecraft website, and I remember having the most fun of my childhood playing that demo version for the first time. I wish I could feel that again with literally anything.

Back then we were all jealous and amazed at stampy's lovely world. But we never realized we were building our own lovely world too...

I started playing minecraft around 2015, and I still play it today. I always thought of myself as "bad" just because I couldn't beat the game and stuff. After watching this video I realized that I've never been bad at the game, because you can't be bad at minecraft. My friends were beating the ender dragon, getting good gear and doing other things very quickly, which made me question if I even knew how to play the game "correctly". But in reality they were speeding through the game and I was just taking my time doing stuff, exploring and having fun. Thank you for changing the way I feel about minecraft.

This video means so much to me. I’m graduating this Saturday from university and I have a really deep depression and anxiety because I keep trying to hit goals and speed run life. Thank you for making this, it brought me back to so many happy childhood memories

I remember back in 2012/2013, the feelings I had when I've encountered a village or an abandoned mine for the first time... I think one of the most incredible memories I had was the time I found out about the nether watching my older brother play... such good times when my mind was thinking about the multiple possibilities I could have fun with this game.

The most fun I've had in MC in ages is starting a world and building immediately on the spawn point. Almost a year later on the same survival world, and my enjoyment of the game has never been higher (speaking as a player since 2010). Happy to say I have never once beat the game, hahaha

Wasn't ready for this video to hit so hard on a personal level, this isn't even about Minecraft, this is about life

i started playing minecraft probably in 2014. i used to play with my friends all the time, especially with the ones i couldn’t see that often because they lived far away. we spent endless hours after school, building castles, houses, playing bedwars, etc. after a few years it somehow stopped, since all of us were more focused on graduating & finding ourselves. i barely talk to them now, but i hope that all of them are still looking back at these memories every now & then & are happy that we could experience it together.

Checking out old worlds for the first time in years is allways a trip, i used to play with a friend online and built multiple worlds with him, havent played in a long time with him

honestly this video made me cry more than i expected, not because of the aging process that we all go through, but because of how many memories, as important as real life ones, can be created in a game. You know guys, playing video games is probably the thing I like to do the most, thinking how important and significant the memories built in these games are brought me to tears

This hits hard for me. I started playing in 2013 on my iPad and I actually really understand the feeling. I miss the days where I would just mess around and build a huge toilet made of dirt and call it a house for me to live in. I miss the excitement of getting a full set of enchanted diamond armour. I miss trying to make a huge city for the villagers to live in. This is the reason I don't play survival or smps in general even when I got Java. I switched to PvP and Skyblock since there's no specific way to play, you just have to create your own way. I really miss the times where I would just get on a new world and make a "green top". I had those worlds until 3 years ago, when my iPad got smashed. I lost all of the worlds I had since I was 5 years old. Even though I'm only 14, I made a lot of memories in Minecraft and it saddens me to know that I can never see my old worlds again. I hope anyone who reads this has a wonderful day. Peace.

This video hit so hard I am actually crying. The way you went through each point and made your conclusion is beautiful! I don't know if that was the purpose, but it was kind of poetic. Thank you for remininding us that we have the power pull the lever :)

man... I miss the good old days doing new stuff in your minecraft worlds flexing it to your friends , then showing to each other your builds then hopping onto that one Survival World that someone of you 2 had had nothing else that concerned you about rather than the game , food and studies and now this all changed to randomly make 1 survival server every once in a month when someone gets motivated and it gets deserted faster than the speed of light

Minecraft has always been my favorite game, its just that the way i have played the game has changed since i first started playing in 2013, and i haven’t stopped enjoying the game one bit since then :)

This video can be applied to so many other games as well. When you begin playing as kid, you don't really care about speedrunning, stat maxing, or perfecting the game, you are just trying to have fun after a long day of school or during the summer when you have no responsibilities. When we replay games when we are older, we try to copy some of the repetitiveness and be efficient because we are used to that but it just detracts from the experience.

This is the first video I have watched by you, and I am already loving it and I also have experienced friends wanting to rush everything in Minecraft, it sucks

Ive played minecraft since it came out for phones (back when it was the survival island with no hunger lol) and ive NEVER killed the dragon. Over a decade later, i still love playing this game, because i didnt master it. I dont want to master it. My trick is i play minecraft the same way i played back when it came out I still suck, i still don't know nor care abt strats, im still scared of mobs at night, i cheer when i find a diamond, and most importantly, i just have fun. MC was fun bc we didnt take it as seriously

This video is what I needed right now. Definitely struggling with growing up, losing friends, seeing them go through massive life changes as well as myself. Coming up on those hard life decisions like work, relationships, families, etc. This video made me think of some nights in the summer of 2013 where things were just… simple? Even though it felt like they weren’t in the moment. Growing up is hard. But I trust that we will all be ok. Thanks for sharing your story, your connection with Ryan brings back memories that I didn’t know existed with my own Ryan’s

this is why I started playing mod packs exclusively, I love that sense of mystery that I got when I loaded my first world.

Bro you made me cry, so relatable, so nostalgic, take care bro be happy and I wish you the best !

Love this video, i actually miss my childhood and I am so happy that I still have some videos on this channel where I can see the fun we had back then

It's called getting old. It's like Christmas, a wondrous magical event as a child, a money grabbing pagan ritual as an adult. But there is hope. Having your own child and sharing in their joys of things such as Christmas and dare I say it playing Minecraft, will reintroduce you back into these amazing worlds. Well up until the age when they too will become jaded with life. But hey, then there are the grandchildren. Cheers.

When I first played minecraft it was shortly after my mother had passed away. My 7 year old niece was living with me and we built this amazing world where we would spend hours together. I still have the game on my wiiU and open it up now and then to walk through and remember that time we spent together. Shes 15 now and will be starting her own life soon. One day I'll show her I still have our old world :) It was something that brought us closer together in that time of grieving ♡

man i almost cried during this I just want to go back to 7-10 year old me with my older sister staying up late working on our worlds and just having fun we never beat the game but that doesn't matter shes in college and im in highschool I miss those days so much.

After trying to recreate this feeling with like 10 reboots of the same minecraft server the past couple years, I can fully relate to this. All my friends try and beat the game super fast and get burnt out or move a billion blocks away. I always come around to trying it again though. I'm thinking about just doing a super old version for a server. This is a really well made video and the narration was well done, great job

The console edition of Minecraft has always had that sentimental connection with me. Just the layout and format of it as well as the tutorial worlds had that good-feeling vibe. I started with PE and later played on console, but for some reason console stuck with me.

It's strange, I remember always feeling relaxed and unconcerned with time when I was playing Minecraft way back when, and I always feel rushed playing the game today. I thought it was just the circumstances of the time, but I went back and played old beta Minecraft, and it was just as relaxing as I remember it being. Old Minecraft feels like it was made for the experience, and modern minecraft feels like it was made for the end goals. When I play current minecraft, I always feel rushed to complete projects and reach certain points in the game, whereas whenever I play old Minecraft, I feel like I enjoy the whole experience, and I'm not sure why.

This hit hard, i remember my first world in MC PE. I built a tall and skinny dirt tower with 20 something levels that I was so proud of. I didn't know how to use a crafting table and I always fought with a feather bc I thought it was a knife. So many good memories I had while playing this game with friends and family and now that emotion is gone. It's rlly interesting to see how this seems to be a common feeling.

This video got me emotional. I remember in early 2014 going to my friends house and playing some minecraft on his xbox 360. I remember all the times we built big simple cobblestone castles and oak houses in the middle of a desert. The times we found our first diamonds. The excitement of exploring the new updates on my dads pc. Truly appreciate these memories with my friends and brothers and i am keeping them near and dear. Now im older and these times are over but ive understood that its not too late to create these kinds of memories which im incredibly thankful for.

Man, this video spoke lengths to me especially at the end. I'm almost in a constant state of anxiety and a feeling of having to do everything the "right way" because I just feel so guilty otherwise. Thank you for inspiring a change

About half a year back I got to relive the old days of playing Minecraft with friends and strangers. At least, as close as you can get. I was going to join server which was about to launch with about 100 people. Before it went live, a lot of us went into little 'factions' and I joined one that was jokingly themed around Kanye West. Launch night happened, everyone got on and we all gathered around one spot before we headed out on our pilgrimage to our now homes. We went across oceans and rivers until we found a sizable valley snugly fitted between two mountains. We camped there overnight but before we really settled down someone found a village not too far from there. One by one we made our way there and settled(well, more like conquered) the land. I build a crawlspace house, whilst others made their own houses or took an existing one by force. We had one person living in the church and we jokingly told the guy to hold a service in the name of Kanye, so the guy went to work painstakingly copying The Book of Genesis and replacing every mention of 'God' with 'Kanye'. After about a day or two the server owners decided to open up the Nether for all of us, and we went out and explored. I made a lot of beds as I wanted to be the first one to find Netherite, but unfortunately someone else from a different group beat me to it. I was however, the first one to get a full set of Netherite armour a day later. After I got my gear I found out you could not only lock chests, but also furnaces and even crafting tables. So, obviously I made a large tower with a water elevator that would entrap anyone that got in. To lure people in, I shoddy wrote "FREE DIAMON. UP TEH TOWR. TOTALY FRE". I knew that people weren't going to fall for it, but with that many deliberate typos anyone would want to see what really was on top. There was nothing. Well, there was drowning. But I was kind enough to make a ladder at the back so people could get their stuff back. We later expanded our town from the damp swamp we had claimed, and erected great manors on the hilltop above. This kind of created a divide in architecture, so we decided to call the lower section "The poor district". I lived there, happily. I even made a nice basement beneath my house. Eventually the time came to defeat the Ender Dragon. This was a major event. The server was as populated as when it launched and there were many proxy fails to be found. But then, the Ender Portal was active, and we all jumped in. Frantically, about a hundred players rushed to kill the dragon. And we all did it. But then came the rush for the egg. We the Kanyes had made a pact with one of our allies - The Pirates(They had an amazing base with a pirate cove, including skull. Absolute legends) - to not let the third major faction take the egg. After the scurry, one of the Pirates managed to get the egg. All of us Kanyes got to hold it for the achievement, and we did bully the third faction for not having it. After we did all there was to do, I undertook a few megaprojects. I made an underground ice highways that lead to spawn. We didn't want any randoms getting to our place through the Nether so that was the fastest way I could get there. My second mega project was the 'Great Wall of Kanye'. A large deepslate wall that went on for quite a while. The last thing I build was a floating pixelart mural of an Eevee, right above my house. I had a lot of great memories on that server. And even though it's been shut down, all of us Kanyes are still in our Discord server, waiting for the day it'll open again. So yeah, that's the story I wanted to share with you lads. Those were a great three weeks we spend together. It was an absolute blast. And if any Kanyes ever come across this comment I left here, I'd like to ask you a question, for old times sake: 'Kanye slapen?'

Wow, thank you for this video. I never really thought about it like you did or as in depth here. I have many fun memories with friends in Minecraft and from all the way back to when I first got the game. I know I probably won’t ever be able to recreate the memories. But I like the idea of having the time capsule you spoke of. By that I just mean revisiting old worlds and seeing what went on. My main world now in game I’ve been playing for a few years and it has a lot of history to it. The history doesn’t seem like much on the surface, but thinking back in depth reveals a lot of times with friends that I used to know, and still have, shared together.

The feeling that minecraft gave me from 2012-2017 is something I will forever chase but never get back

This video made me sad for a different reason: I only just got into the game last year for a few months and picked it up again a couple weeks ago. I haven't really made all that many memories with other people. So I'm sad I missed out on that, as pretty much none of my friends want to or have the time to play it with me. But something I'm grateful for from this video is that I have been going my own way. When I stream the game, people hammer me to "make this, make that, get the Ender Pearls," etc. But I just want to run around, mine, and if I have a creative spark, try and make a cool-looking house. Or add to my ever-growing chicken collection. Connect my houses together through underground tunnels. I have no interest in that progression. I just want to chill. I never play on anything but Peaceful difficulty and people get after me for that, too. When I'm using the wrong tool for something, people get mad. But the point is that I'm making my own mistakes, I'm going my own way. So watching this video and hearing that people have lost sight of that mentality makes me both sad for them but happy that I'm still in that period! It makes me more grateful and has inspired me to continue doing it. I've also only been working on this one single world. I've spent about 7 days of real time in it... I only just found out recently that some people tend to move onto a new world pretty quickly, but I have never had that desire.

Nostalgia is one of the few things that can give me the feels

It’s crazy to think we met on unturned or servers and your here now, the thing that stuck to me the most was after everything when we all loose touch we fade into the world living our lives w the memories in the back of our head hood to see your doing good for yrself

This was moving and I have no words, just wow. I have no idea how you figured out the words to convey what we all felt when we were playing Minecraft with all our friends. Nostalgia is very powerful

This is exactly how've I've been feeling lately, it's like an aggressive version of nostalgia, I'm mad I dont get too experience and go back too the times, I cant play minecraft with that same wondrous joy anymore. I dont want to go back in time to anything, I just want to be younger, and re experince that time I lost. I dont want too lose those memories though

i just get so much nostalgia playing with my brother/friends and i feel this so much i wish i could go back to the way it used to be with me and a few friends just playing minecraft on our ipods i know i will never really get the same feeling but im going to slow down and start a server with a couple of my new friends to experience it again it will never be the exact same but minecraft has always been a massive part of my life (your speech almost made me cry lmao) loved this video

The avatar friend’s list was cold asff, wish they would bring that back

My goodness, as a 16-year-old who still has played the game since 2011, personally, this hits harder than those who first played the game at 11-13 years old or middle school age, because I played it at 5 and literally grew up with it, Minecraft being a part of my foundational memories. I don't know how to put it in words but this struck a deeply hidden nerve and finally surfaced it. A good point in the video: our perception of time has changed drastically. No longer do we possess that carefree attitude and hunger for knowledge, the burning curiosity that kindled most of our enthusiasm! Now with all the increased burdens that come with growing up, we can no longer have that perception of life that way because we must keep moving forward. The linear process of the race to finish the next task, that attitude bears a similar approach to that of studying in high school and college, because time has become a precious commodity. What I think is that drive and passion to gain more knowledge, our ignorance in life and Minecraft, the desire to learn more, the EXPERIENCE and the JOURNEY that we took is by far the most valuable thing that all of us could've taken away from it. Alas, no longer can we bear that same relaxed attitude of that in a 4th-grade relaxed primary school classroom, the freedom and the feeling of time being slower back then, therefore granting us seemingly endless time to play Minecraft and do what we love. Maturing is also a big part of it, now that we are all more knowledgable our desire for the unknown has greatly depreciated. I think its important to let go; one era has passed, and the next is to come. One day, I'm certain of it, we will look back on a day like this and yearn for it as much as we missed our young childhood of playing Minecraft. "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" - Dr. Seuss

You should try out Modern Beta for 1.18.2 with its texture pack and recommended mods. It changes the look and feel of the game back to when beta was out. When I tried it out I realized why Minecraft was so boring. It was its iconic terrain generation and textures. In the pursuit of realistic terrain, Mojang got rid of Minecraft's identity of the surreal worlds we all used to play in. Back in the days before the terrain was changed, all I could do was look at the beautiful mountains, floating islands, and lush forests. I was a child back then. Now I'm 20, married, and my wife is 2 months pregnant, and I realized how much we took it all for granted and how much fun I was having with the old terrain. Seriously you should check it out

It’s funny because yes as we get older things don’t always have that feeling, but one thing I appreciate about Minecraft is how it never really lost its identity after all these years. We get older, but I’m sure to new players it’s just as good - I’m happy Microsoft didn’t butcher the spirit of the game.

I relate to this so much, but more recently. I was apart of a server that was active in 2021. Eventually, everyone apart of it started to leave as well as myself. I recently got the world download from the server owner and experienced all the memories again. But, like you’ve said, it gets lonely with nobody on anymore.

Going into this I thought it was going to talk about the updates, but it hit home with the feeling of playing the game for over a decade. I'm one of those people that play slow and take my time in the game, but everyone else rushes though it. Now as I play more games with my friend group I get that feeling of wonder I had when I first discovered the community years ago. Hopefully one day that feeling will come back to the blocky world of Minecraft again, even if it means stepping away for a time

I love that longing feeling, its my favorite one. I recently discovered that there's a whole cultural philosophy around that feeling in japan, they call it "mono no aware" (empathy for the ephemeral). In hindsight, they do actually use it in everything, all tv dramas, mangas and animes, videogames... As I've doscovered, it's difficult to distinguish your own normal nostalgia from mono no aware, but whenever you feel that weird sensation of "borrowed nostalgia" from someone else's experience, that is always and clearly mono no aware.

to this day it still saddens me that I will never get to experience my old minecraft worlds again, all I got left are the memories

Wow, I had no idea how much I needed to hear this. Thank you!

I've always dumped hundreds of hours into my survival worlds, making a logging camp for wood generation, an entire library just to enchant stuff, a blacksmithing building to forge and use furnaces, a storage-like area with crates and barrels to store items. I likee to get creative. However, the past few years have been difficult, and filled with trauma and where my creativity once was has left me unmotivated, and scared. I'm losing my ideas to my mental health, and it's saddening to see it unfold. I miss Minecraft, mostly my desire and drive to build, but Minecraft helped me with that.

It's funny, seeing these types of videos cropping up over the past few months and it really made me wanna go back, dust off my old 360 and boot up my minecraft world I had with my cousin, and our friends. It's.... amazing to see how everything was frozen in time, nothing changed and you can indeed remember most things but forget the context of them. I went through so many of my worlds before finding myself on a special one we all made at the end of Middleschool while we're all in 8th grade or somewhere around there. It was a world we worked on for 3 years before we all graduated Highschool and moved onto PC, not really touching minecraft from that point on outside of maybe Hypixel or whatever. After returning to that world, it was an emotional trip seeing the names of everyone on the house. Tac0, Feral Wolf (My name at the time), Jman, Tremax and so on, only to see the mansion our best builder on the server made, owned by our good friend Jaykay. Sadly, we last him during Covid and seeing his Mansion still there, doors still open and Wolf sitting by his door inside of it nearly had me breaking down in tears realizing the fact he's physically gone forever but as long as my 360 Hardrive was functional, his work and memory remains intact. Hell, most of our main villages doors were still open so I spent awhile going through the homes and seeing what we had done though made sure not to disturb anything, closing each door one by one, knowing they'd never be opened again and finishing off with Jaykays. Is it corny? Cheesey? Yeah, yeah it really was but I'm a sentimental dude. Minecraft is indeed a timecapsule, one that hurts to open up, it reminds us all of a time where we had no adult responsibilities to worry about, lived with our family and just went to school. Now? Most of us are in our Early to late 20s, maybe even 30s. Stressed, depressed, worrying day in and day out about our futures never to find these times again where we can just... Chill, build and get together and create memories. I'm 24 now, trying my hardest to make something of myself with Twitch, failed with youtube and stressing about my future. I miss being a kid, I miss minecraft....

4:57 “Oh my god I’m gonna throw up, you can hit your head on the ceiling” That unlocked such an old memory of me playing back in 2010-2011 and building my first house that had a 3 block tall interior, literally never went back, I can’t stand hitting my head on the ceiling

Remembering my own experiences and memories while hearing yours was truly emotional. Some people might find it childish to be this upset over a video game but nothing will ever make me as happy as minecraft did.

Just a small quick tip for everyone that can relate to the feelings described in the video: Try playing old Beta Versions of the game again. Not being able to run, no brightness adjusting and no self-healing appart from eating really makes it a "new" challenge again. I'm playing on Beta 1.4 for a week now and it's way more fun.

I started playing Minecraft when I was 10 years old. Now I am 21. I just wish sometimes to be able to experience that first time I played Minecraft again because It had such an impact on my life. I know I won't be able to experience those experiences again and I was younger But I'm hoping for the newer players they'll be able to experience what I did. It was definitely a time to be alive back in the 2010s to be able to experience this phenomenon at such a young age

this makin me cry, i had freinds via xbox that are long lost...

Beautiful video man. I honestly think you worded everything so perfectly, and im sorry about your personal issues, and wish you the best. I want to thank you for giving me a new perspective and teaching me how to enjoy the game how I did a decade ago. (:

i played minecraft as a kid when it first came out. 12 years later now i have a younger sister that is also playing minecraft at the same age i was. amazing how long the game has stayed alive.

7:38 the rat race quote is so true, minecraft has lost it's soul but the old memories it created will never loose their charm

I've been watching & playing Minecraft since 2012, seen the game, scene, situations, people, friends & myself included, change. The vids I *really* enjoy from it have become fewer over the years, but this is absolutely one of those I'd put in favorites. I'm a stickler for any life related wisdom, especially if it really involves something we can all relate to like Minecraft. & it might've been this vid which pushed me to really try & *play* MC again, experience all the new stuff blind, & enjoy the journey. & in a way, I'm also living my childhood dream of doing RU-vid, & making Minecraft related stuff in it. So y'know thanks for that, & I hope this vid finds the right people so it can speak to their hearts, & help them put the breaks on the rush of life

Minecraft and DanTDM were the best early to mid 2010s combo.

It always saddens me to hear all these great memories of playing Minecraft with your friends when most of the memories I had of minecraft was playing singleplayer all by myself. I had some ocasional play sessions with my cousins but they lived far away and we did not know what online was so we were only able to play together like once a year. But yeah, minecraft for me was always at it's best when "goals" was the last thing I had on my mind, when just goofing around with stone armor and dying to mobs constantly was not a cardinal sin

I started in 2014 on Minecraft with my friends and we played so many games but Minecraft was always a big one. The nights we spent awake just talking about life and our hardships, I swear so much has changed since those old days. I will forever treasure our days gaming together even as I face the horrors of the world I will never forget them

I started around 2012 when I was 4 when my sister went to a music lesson I saw a kid outside playing a game I asked what it was and he said... "Minecraft." That was the start of my journey.

im 35 and i will tell you that nothing stays the same as you get older. my friends and i keep coming back to minecraft every couple years and its always different because we are always different. but in that ever changing mindset comes new and different build ideas, rekindled urge to explore, and the drive to push eachother to do bigger and greater things. nothing is ever always the same, but would you really want it to be? thats living in the past when you should embrace the future. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

I recently remembered one of the very first servers I ever played back in 2013, I looked it up and it was still online…. It’s a creative server called Sanacraft which taught me to build. It was surreal flying around and seeing builds I had created almost over a decade ago. I relate.

On top of everything in this video (which is explained amazingly), I feel like the versions of Minecraft have been getting more and more ambitious since 1.15 to the point where Mojang has been delaying and removing feature that were supposed to be in the game in an update. Sure there's a lot of stuff in the game now, but it doesn't feel as simple or as fun since there's so much to do and so little at the same time. Along with having so much in the game, it also makes all of the original mods for the game that would add crazy mobs and dimensions feel not like mods since the game itself feels like a giant mod of the original game. It was great when an update happened and it brought a new biome or two, or something like the elytra or new blocks, but it was still a small update that didn't really change the game, but with stuff like 1.16-1.19, it really changed the game with giant new world gen, op new armor, new enchants, a load of new achievements, a lot of new mobs, a boss, and some 'lore'. If you look back on it, four or five updates in the original Minecraft adding blocks in one update, mobs in another update, and biomes in another, all of those singular updates are now packed into one update each version and it's really crowded. I'm not saying that these new updates are bad, it's just that it pretty much a new game living in an older games skin and it feels weird.

An amazing Video Essay.. Did not think I'd leave with these emotions and thoughts from a Minecraft video.. It's also amazing to see that this game had a certain impact on others as well as myself.. Thank you for making this video with focusing on the parallels between life and the game.. Got yourself another Sub :D - Can't wait to see more and binge your stuff!

This was so much deeper than I expected.

This actually made me feel light inside, like my childhood all hitting me at once. The way you explained things for the earlier part of your life was exactly like mine. I had little to no friends on my worlds but as I met some, others joined. My group still remained small, but it was worth every second. I’m still only in high school but those memories still feel nostalgic and old.

My favorite games of all time are Minecraft and Terraria. I remember building huge roller coasters with my sister and not caring about the ender dragon. I knew it was there, but there was no point. I miss those simplistic times of building and learning about the world of Minecraft. Recently I started playing Terraria with another really good feeling of learning, exploring, and getting my character stronger. There was so much time to do something in between bosses with my friend, and that's what made it so fun. When we started another playthrough, we just rushed to the next boss without spending time to do stuff, also we knew everything about the game. My first playthrough was 80 hours and my second was only 19. The difference between them was very large. I miss when I could start a game and enjoy myself and relax, but also have that boost of adrenaline when something exciting happens. This video really got me thinking and I really enjoyed it.

Amazing video, its a piece of art. *Note:I never expected the thatgamcompany game, JOURNEY, to appear as a clip, i think you should make a video on it because its so great that the english language cannot explain it, the soundtrack just enhances the tone and feel when you play.*

dude watching this is like reliving my life and it hits me with nostalgia thank you for making up my mind