Why was Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 SO Good? 

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1.7.3 beta is that box of toys for kids before, it might not have 1000 toys with every block available, but its limitation of 100 instead made the kids be more imaginative and feel more creative and that’s the magic of it for me

I always thought the way terrain generated in the beta made Minecraft feel more like a fantasy world than modern Minecraft does. The crazy mountains with shaded grassy and sandy areas were some of my favorite environments.

The slower pace and simplistic aspect of the game allows for ideas and visions to fully develop with no side distractions getting in the way. It’s funny how taking away so many blocks, mobs and features from the newer versions can make the game feel more like a sandbox than ever.

I've only very recently discovered that there's a community in love with this version, and I fully understand. I never realised how much the game changed, but looking back it's just not the same game as it was. I can't wait to create a beta 1.7.3 world soon. Also: a big nostalgic mod for me was one that I don't remember the name of. You could create flying ships using a steering wheel block, the ship had to me made at least 50% out of wool in order for it to work, mods really hit different back then..

So as sort of a case study I went back and played a few hours of 1.7.3... Here are my findings: The gameplay is slow, definitely more gratifying. I managed to mine a stack of iron, a few stacks of coal, build a little base, do some exploring, and while it took a while to get used to no sprint, the wonky UI, etc. I still enjoyed myself and I just found myself taking my time, every block of cobblestone that I mined or place mattered, seemingly more than it does in current versions. I miss the old world generation, I built my base into the terrain, instead of leveling an entire area to build my base. Night time and caves are DARK, I forgot how much beds changed the game, but even further, the brightness slider changed the game a lot. The art style of the game at the time was a lot different... I don't know how to explain it, but it just felt a lot different, sort of more mature feeling, more surreal. Everything about the art direction in Minecraft now is more aimed toward a general audience, mobs are cuter, the music is more upbeat, and the texture work is softer and more stylized. I think the original texture work for Minecraft was something that made the game extremely charming and it's really hard to capture that feeling in current versions.

For me, the most nostalgic thing about early Minecraft was the feeling of danger it gave you. I don't know if it was just me but Minecraft back then gave off a creepy and gloomy atmosphere. You felt like a small child taking on a big world where everything was out to get you. I guess you could say, the stakes felt higher back then. You couldn't just sprint away from mobs like you can now, and you also couldn't turn up the brightness, so wondering around caves, or going out at night, felt way more dangerous.

I love the old terrain generation. It feels so unique.

I didn’t technically play this version exactly but I started on Minecraft pocket edition like a month after it came out and I get nostalgia for all of these features. There was also no sprint, no hunger, crazy terrain generation, really crazy seeds and similar things and it really brings me back.

One nostalgic mod that comes to mind is the Clay Soldiers mod. I was about 8 when I first heard about it, and I knew nothing at all about mods, so I seriously thought it was a part of the game and got very confused when I couldn't craft them lmao. I always had a blast designing an arena and letting them fight it out.

I'd love a customizable "build your own experience" sorta version of the game. Being able to take certain version world gen and old hunger system with new features like the villagers and sprinting. Just being able to fully check off what you want / don't want. You can get close with mods just not close enough.

The Aether mod was probably the most glorious one of them all for their time. At the time, the game really needed that kind of content, and while it was super dense in content (the mod) it still felt like vanilla gameplay to me, that's how well designed it was honestly

Everything was just more simplistic. I started at the very end of alpha, maybe a week before the first beta drop. The gameplay was just slower, more gratifying. A full suit of iron armor was something to be proud of. I remember playing with friends on servers that I hosted and the main goal at the start of every world was to light up our area with nicely placed torches so we would be safe from creepers. The game now feels almost overwhelmingly feature-ridden. It's like I don't know what to do at any given time, I'm just kind of half assing my way through every system and achievement, not putting any real effort into any builds... Maybe it's just part of growing up, having less time for games, but pre sprint, pre hunger Minecraft just hit different.

Bro, when I heard Mo Creatures, my mind just instantly went back to the days of Sly, Nova, and Seamus playing together, man.

started my first b1.7.3 world a few weeks ago and im loving it. you just dont get as bored

Dude, I remember the Glacier seed! I called it the Final Fantasy seed. I also remember how bad I felt when I killed my first cow. The sound they make back then almost made me cry.

I remember when we had to build our base close to spawn because beds weren't introduced yet. Also pistons used to be a mod before being introduced in beta 1.5 or something like that

My personal sweet spot is Minecraft 1.2.5. There's something so cozy about it, perhaps because it is the first version I played. Also the mods for that version were super awesome! Industrialcraft, Buildcraft, etc

Those gloriously wonky beta minecraft bases with random wood and cobble rooms and glass roofs and such, just hit different.

My favorite mod from way back when was more creeps and weirdos. As far as I know it was abandoned after release 1.2.5. Seems like a lifetime ago now.

As a kid, I played a LOT of Minecraft during the “pretty scary update” and “the redstone update”, I’d say that those versions are also very simple and nice to play.

"It sounds crazy but it was fun. I promise." Awww I felt all that emotion. I believe it was fun. I didn't experience this version when it was all fresh and new but I hope I can experience soon.

I think the biggest appeal to minecraft beta 1.7.3 is the fact that it is the last version of minecraft to use the oldest combat system, therefore it's the most updated version of the OG minecraft. I can have the same fun in any of the old versions tbh

I've always put it down to my own nostalgia, but honestly I do agree that the game felt like much more of a sandbox that encouraged you to be creative when it limited your resources. When I play the game these days I often find that I am no longer doing things out of my own creativity or out of some vision I have for my world, but out of what the game wants us to do. This probably isn't helped by all of the tooltips telling you what to do, only reinforcing the idea that you have specific objectives that the game wants you to tackle, rather than optional ones that are just as valid as making your 100th dirt house just for the sake of it. - Great video, I really enjoyed it :)

I remember the industrial craft mod, where you were able to find new resources and build many industrial appliances as well as connect them with cables and pipes. It used to fascinate me, but managing compatibility was a pain. Also there was this tornado mod, which spawned a tornado, that would throw blocks around. Was always an eerie feeling. 😂

Beta 1.7.3 was my first version of Minecraft. I still remember how my first base looked like....gosh it's so nostalgic.

The only two things I miss from older versions are floating islands and the sense of learning new things

It was my first ever version of minecraft. I actually forgot what made me fall in love with this game in the first place until watching this video.

Tropicraft was very nostalgic to me. Just getting that beach chair set up & get teleported to a semi familiar dimension was exhilarating. Thank you for making such great content

The nost nostalgic mod that comes to mind is the one villager overhaul mod. You had like bronze silver gold for currency, and you could have villagers build for you if you got your reputation high enough. It was so fascinating to me and I loved every moment of it. However, i dont remember the name of it or the version of mimecraft it was so if anyone could help me that would be amazing :)

I still play my first ever world that I created sometime in the earlier beta versions. It's interesting to look back over the world generation and the structures I made throughout the years, seeing not only what limitations I had back then, but also what ideas and concepts I had over a decade ago.

I started right at the end of 1.6.6, but all of my memories stem from 1.7.3, this was peak Minecraft imo

The chills you gave me. The nostalgia I felt throught this video. The great and easier times we had back then. Man I really miss it. Thanks for taking me back there for just a little!

I started my first world when 1.7.2 came out, but i purchased the game in a second hand market (dvd) so the game was on a earlier version, the 1.4.7 Scary Update. I know it isn't so old school but I remember having so much fun on these versions, and when 1.5.2 came with this redstone additions the first thing I build with that was a rollercoaster. The sad moment happened when my game updated to 1.6.2, giving me a demo because minecraft premium was a thing (that I didn't know, i was a kid at the time); but now I have the so called premium and I enjoy every second of it!

one thing i like about old minecraft is that the enemy mobs felt deadly due to no regenerating HP and lack of sprint. if you got swarmed you were most likely dead

I do feel like the caves and cliffs update brought back some of those awe inspiring landscapes again, where you sometimes stumble upon something out of the ordinary. But yeah, I agree, it was more erratic back then.

It was much simpler yet still full of possibilities.

I still remember when we used to play Pocket edition back then, when there were these seeds everyone at school knows, like 999 The Village seed, or Legend of Luuc, the mesa biome with a stronghold under a village which, oddly enough, generated before Eyes of Ender were even added, so it was one of the only times kids back then ever got to see a filled End portal frame block or two naturally generated AND it was not possible to fill the other ones yourself Also, the setting for the 'Old' style generation was also a good thing to remember, even when I always prefered the Infinite modern generation setting

After playing since before beta 1.6. Man I remember beta 1.8 being like the most insane update ever. Sprinting, Endermen, Chargeable bows, testificates. Oh and also when pistons came out in the 1.7 update aswel. What a time

The simplicity of the game back then combined with the old sounds and textures does it for me. Modern minecraft doesn't give me the same feeling it gave me back then. And how about the background music, so nostalgic.

Pre-Beta 1.8 Minecraft feels like a different game from modern MC. There were planned features or ideas that would've made MC so different now if Notch/Mojang went with them. I'm currently building a mod pack for MC 1.18 that's inspired by TerraFirmaCraft, a mod that makes MC 1.7+ Survival actually feel like a survival game. Been looking up mods and ideas, and I can't help but be drawn to pre-Beta 1.8 ideas and mods. There is a WIP mod for Beta 1.7.3 (yes, being worked on right now) called "Better than Adventure" that is worth checking out.

I have mixed feelings about old versions. They where more mysterious and sandboxy like u called it. It was meant for single player I think. The overwhelming amount of new items is not meant for single player but rather multiplayer. I miss the old textures, sounds, simplicity and pvp that no longer has a place inside new versions which is sad because people no longer update there games anymore. I miss, I sure do.

I have many memories from 1.7.3 which I began with. I found my first diamonds when I just reached the 12 height after digging the diagonal path to the bottom. I was excited when I put a sand into the furnace hoping make glass and it happened. Also I missed the old RU-vid videos from these sweet times.

yeah it was nostalgic and cool back then but I would probably get bored of it fast, discovering things in minecraft and doing it for yourself instead of making farm's makes it so much more fun. Like farming wheat, setting up a ranch, finding iron ore yourself is more fun than getting it from iron golems

Just pure nostalgia fuel. Love older versions, started in Alpha and loved it. *THE SEEDS DUDE!* Yes I remember looking online at the best coolest ones and then just exploring, such great fun. The old pain sound is still my favorite. Great video man!

This was such a nice nostalgia trip, really reminds me of that feeling of excitement finally getting to play Minecraft for the first time way back in 2011

There are actually a lot of mods which make modern Minecraft versions more like beta ones. They remove new sounds like the hurt sound and mechanics such as sprint and combat updates. There are also resource packs packs which re-implement the old textures.

I love old versions, I started playing since beta 1.5 I think, and main advantage of old versions compared to newest is survival aspects: higher difficultly, no beds = no skip of the night, no sprint, simplicity of the mechanics - amazing stuff, game feels much more interesting in routine aspects, because you can't obtain high level gear in no time. But I am a builder and considering that I can say that newer versions are infinitly time more appealing to me. The amount of blocks really gives you an opportunity to create amazing stuff. Old versions give me no options to build with and that's for me is very important aspect. Also exploring improved a lot in a recent times. Old versions don't give anything for you to explore the world. In my oldest worlds I just explore for a base location and that's all. Simplicity is cool when you don't need to read hundreds of wiki pages to know every thing they added to the game, but it also provides player with content, and unfortunately in terms of content old versions really lacking So as much as I like old beta versions I would never call them more preferable. Good versions, not the best tho

Beta 1.7.3 was before my time, but I still have tons of nostalgia for the beta versions of Minecraft because of a little server called EVO. The premise was that the server started in beta 1.2.2 and the members had to work together to find clues that lead you to the portal to the next version. Well actually, it would skip 2 versions ahead, so it went from beta 1.2 to beta 1.4 to beta 1.6 to beta 1.8 to the full release, 1.0. It’s really underrated and I think you should all check it out.

I can agree on all points you make. 🙂 But I discovered Mangopack not long ago and this has renewed my interest in MC in a significant way.

also one thing that people don't talk about but i specifically love in this version and older. The hand viewbobbing doesn't flail around when you look around its still and when you walk it bobs. I really love that it feels so nostalgic.

I play modern minecraft, but in an old fashioned way. i don't do villager trading, i barely know how enchanting works, and i've literally never beaten the ender dragon in my 10 years of owning minecraft lmao. the thing i always gravitate towards in minecraft is just building stuff, so usually i stop caring about gathering resources after i get diamonds and then make some big projects to build. in the playthrough i'm doing now, i'm already starting big projects before i even have diamonds. i just finished terraforming a huge area with iron tools the reason why i play modern minecraft is just for the new building blocks. i just learned that cherry trees were added and i'm obsessed with using them now lmao

i for some reason turned on the 3d filter, so whenever i play beta with that filter on im right back to my childhood again, scared straight of the night and all the monsters lol.

I remember Beta 1.7, that was around the time I played. Right before they added food and hunger. My cousin showed me the game and I thought it was the craziest thing ever. And I begged my grandmother for like half a year until she finally bought me the game. I remember old school Minecraft and I miss it so much. I remember the game being terrifying and so fun to explore. I still like to play it every now and then now, but I've really been thinking of going back and playing 1.7 or 1.8 and this video did the little push I needed. So Im gonna play some old school Minecraft. :3

Great video! I've always been fascinated by the alpha/beta Minecraft versions. I've never really wanted to play them legitimately, but this sounds fun!

5:50 i played a lot in minecraft bedrock edition in my phone back in 2018 and i can tell, diamonds were the most pleasuring thing to find in minecraft

I started playing minecraft right after this. In fact it was only a matter of weeks after it stopped being free that my friends told me about it, so I never really played this version, but I do remember my friends telling me how a few months back there was no hunger and stuff. I remember being so paranoid about zombies breaking down my door that I had like a 12 block long hallway sticking out of my house with like 4 extra doors in it

Great video. The editing + your narration skills made me think that this video and channel would be much bigger and more popular than it is!

My favorite seed was worstseedever. That beach spawner into a massive cave system was great. I got lost for about 50 in game hours trying to find my home once when I ventured too far from my base, and eventually made my way home feeling like Odysseus lol. The clay soldiers mod was fun to play with, as was keeping up with The Shadow of Israphel. I was playing for a bit before beta, but when 1.7.3 came out is where I decided it would be my main game.

Beta 1.6 are probably my favorite versions. Probably because that's when I started playing. That version feels so comforting, aimless but grounded at the same time. There's nothing you have to do, but you can do whatever you want.

I can state that speedrunning was one of the factors that had a very negative impact on the wonders of Minecraft. It was a fun challenge but it really restricted the players from taking their time to observe their surroundings. Though, there are some people who actually take it slow for their worlds, particularly the survival builders. I admire their patience, creativity, their ability to develop their own tales solely from architecture and landscaping, and how they are able to make it fit in whatever terrain the tale takes place.

I started playing minecraft a few days after Classic released, so I've been around for the whole progression. Personally I'm not a fan of how it turned from a building game with survival elements to a survival/adventure game with a linear story, but everyone's free to have their preferences. One of my favorite mods for b1.7.3 is Better Than Wolves, it's kinda like a proto-version of the newly released Create mod. It's incredible what the community were putting out, even when the game was only a year or two old.

Some ones I loved were SDK's Guns, with that grappling hook you threw up and it made a sort of ladder to climb, and Scokeev's mods, especially the Nether one with the glowood trees and Netherrack furnace, heat sand and soul sand glass. I remember making a big heat glass roof in the Nether, and having paths through the roof with that glass on the floor to overlook the lava ocean. Oh, Premium Wood! The crying magic trees, the proper apple tree, so cool! And More Creeps and Weirdos! Those crazy lawyers, the bubble creatures, the fighting robots, the blorp cola! Ah, and flan's mod, with the planes! So much stuff started back then, and even if most of it is long outdated, some of it's still kept alive by the community.

It's so nostalgic going back and rewatching the mod reviews for the earlier versions of BuildCraft and IndustrialCraft. I still sometimes watch the old Yogscast videos where they first showcased the mods during beta. It reminds me of simpler times :)

I miss the old door sounds! Also the more peaceful soundscape in general. Nowadays there’s like 4 sounds going at once but walking around a base back then it was mostly just your footsteps, doors, and the occasional peaceful song.

notch's minecraft >

Damn this brings back some real warm fuzzy memories. Beta 1.7.3 was my first version coming into Minecraft, and I stuck with it for quite a long time. I guess it did have something special, even if back then I couldn't really put my finger on it.

I remember Minecraft when it was called "Cave Game" and was still being made. I forget how I came across it, but I think it was back when I used to play games on the Orange Box (tf2) and a few friends on a community server told me to check it out. (or it was my friends for Gaming World, as defunct RPG maker site, I forget really) Played around with it a bit and was like, "oh cool." I legit had no idea that it became "Minecraft" later on when everyone was talking about it. I had very little interest in "Cave Game" but it was impressive to me because it was more than I could do. I didn't see the appeal back then either. (Oh cool, some crappy java game someone made. Neat, okay, I looked at it, back to playing Portal). People kept raving about Minecraft years later and I was like, "Wait a minute... this is cave game." and again, wasn't interested. Now here I am a decade later regularly playing it when I just want to relax. The nostalgia hits me and I'm sad I didn't get into it because my only basis for the game was playing around with "Cave Game" which was just like, I dunno, I thought it was someone's crappy sandbox game that wasn't even notable. I was sure wrong.

More Creeps and Weirdos was a nostalgic mod for me. And Mo Creatures.

My friend had the singleplayer commands mod back in Beta 1.6. It was so cool to have access to the give command and flying!

Dude, you brought back memories I didn't even know I had. I remember playing Pocket Edition on my iPad back in the day and trying to load up the java seeds, then being confused as to why they were different worlds. I even remembered doing the 404 challenge on a random world with a cave. I loved the video, keep up the good work

I remember playing the original version of minecraft pe on my mom's phone when I was 5 or 6. It was so old that there was no infinite world generation back then, and the menu looked wonky. So nostalgic.

I remember one of my first experiences with minecraft, I'd built a big mansion, with towers and farms (normal ones) and some kind of orchard with glass all around, and the cherry on top, a gigantic pillar of diamond blocks with the beacon in the middle, I had so much fun, also I had a "pool" which had me terrified when it started flooding with squids, I was a very scared kid. The thing is, it gave me freedom to express creativity, all I wanted was there, and when it was finished, it was one of the best feelings, walking around, attending the farms and the orchard, even killing the stupid squids in the pool room was fun, good times... . . . And then I downloaded the herobrine mod and it destroyed everything and got me very mad, I left that world for good Side note, I did come back to that world eventually, it was after the horses update, I remember seeing the horses for the first time and thinking, holy shit there are horses now, but yeah, it was such a good nostalgia trip, seeing the same house still there, the beacon up and running, the orchard and farms growing, and the stupid squids still making my life hell by swimming in the pool area haha. Sadly I don't have the world save anymore, it's forever lost to time.

I discovered Minecraft around the time of the "Halloween Update" back in late 2010. I was actually looking for RU-vid videos about how to build custom DOOM maps and mistook one of the first adventure map videos for a DOOM mod video. Then I clicked on some more videos and discovered that everyone was excited about this Halloween Update thing. I really wanted to play, but I definitely couldn't afford Minecraft at the time. Shortly, I discovered the "Outdated but Free" version that was just building but had online servers! It was a ton of fun. World of Minecraft became my favorite server (rest in peace). That next summer, when the PC Magazine Demo (beta 1.3) was released, I finally got to try survival! I played those 100 minutes over and over again for months, seeing how much I could accomplish before the game locked. I learned really fast how to make a Nether Portal with lava buckets. After about a year playing with the demo and the free version, I finally saved enough to buy the full version. P.S. this whole time, I was playing the game at 12 FPS on my crappy laptop, except when I played on the school library PC at college. College was why I couldn't afford Minecraft even though I was an adult in my mid-20s. I enjoy the new features that get released and just ignore the things that I don't care for. I still have never used a totem. I don't go looking for new features but prefer to discover them naturally. I only started messaging with beehives this past month, and I've never discovered Netherite. A full-time job allows me to progress slower and more naturally than other players because I don't have time to look up videos, only time to play.

1.7.3 will always hold a special place in my heart. The community was so different, and it's the time I got into a server and really joined a community. It only had 40 slots, and there was some serious competition to join - especially on weekends. It was a towny server, and quite a few towns were made and competed against each other in builds. Everything was fine until beta 1.8 came out and corrupted the entire map, and with no backup made by the server owner, overnight the server and all the friends I made were gone.

Glacier was one of my absolute favorite seeds. I've had one of my longest standing saves on that world.

I started playing around that time too although really more so in beta 1.8 than 1.7 but seeing the Mo Creatures Mod and especially the Too Many Items Mod shot a dose of nostalgia into me it’s crazy lol

My most nostalgic Beta Minecraft moment was building out the massive floating island near the spawn for the Glacier Seed. Carved out the island where I put all my furnaces, cobble generators, and nether transport system. Then I took some oak saplings and grew one on top of the other to create a huge tree fort home. There was even a water elevator to reach the surface! And to top it all off I got the Better Than Wolves mod to turn everything into a complex with numerous working parts.

Rapid fire bows! I remember crafting all night before beds, then clearing out mobs around my base in the morning.

I started playing around 1.2.5. I remember the creative inventory UI overhaul. That was hype. I also remember playing with my friend on a server on the first snapshot with horses. That was awesome.

Oh my goodness the flood of memories you just gave me talking about too many items is insane! Good ole middle school…such good memories

I remember fond memories playing on my old Beta 1.7 world, building a grand sandstone palace in the snowy tundra biome with a huge grand indoor atrium with an upper level wraparound balcony with all the rooms surrounding it. Had a glass dome and a fountain an a 3rd floor art gallery surrounding it. A bunch of rooms and indoor farms branching out with glass roofs. One of the rooms led to a rail system going around the world with huge bridges. Shame the world got lost wish I could revisit it

I have old Minecraft memories of messing around on a flat world, I don’t hold nastalgic value to them, they exist and the world still exists.

I was introduced to Minecraft by Iballisticsquid's Race to the Moon series back in 1.7.10 . I'm 17 and I STILL go back and watch a few episodes every now and then.

I love the old sound design even though I didn't grow up with it. I've been using this beta soundpack for years now and it's so nice ^^

I managed to get a house, an indoor farm, diamonds and a nether portal set up in literally one day on this version. I literally just got super lucky with the spot I set up in and the cave system I dug down into, TONS of diamonds, other ore and lava all around.

I started playing in Beta 1.2 and when Beta 1.7.3 finally came out, I loved it. It felt like it lasted for an eternity, too! Some other great mods I remember from back then were Millenaire and Flans.

I only got into minecraft like in the middle of beta 1.7.3. I only had a few months before 1.8 came out, but man those months were amazing and still my favorite time playing mc by far

*All 120 million Minecraft players should return to version 1.7.10 and only play that version and put all their servers to that version only*

I'd say they've somewhat re-captured the "wow" of the Beta gen with the overhaul to the overworld terrain, the world certainly isn't flat anymore. With the addition of sprinting, it wasn't just that you move faster, it was also that mobs were slower compared to you. Creepers, zombies, skeletons and spiders became trivial to deal with, whereas before they were what made Minecraft into the Horror Sandbox game it was supposed to be.

A mod I remember playing was Creeps and Wierdos. Took a little bit to remember the name, probably one of the most bizarre mods available at the time. Another one was Spider Queen, where you played as a spider and could create a spiderling army.

This happends to be the version that i've started on, and to this day i can remember the terrain around my first few dig outs that i called home. I've recently properly purchased minecraft, and i'm still gathering metnally to install 1.7.3 and to just get flooded with the nostalgia.

I may not have played on this version on the computer, but I waited for Minecraft to release on the 360. Everyone who played it had to wait through all the updates like you just explained, I would say easily 1.7.3, or in my case TU4 was my favorite version because of the world generation. A fond memories that I had was me telling you my friends what the next update was most likely going to have, most of my friends didn't know about Minecraft or just didn't play it so they would always come running to me saying what is coming next? I was almost always one step ahead with my world, planning out for future builds before updates would even come out. This amazed my friends at times at times. They see me as some sort of Messiah or something 😂 God, I wish the Xbox One version could go back to older versions, but I just have to use my 360. If you delete the title updates for Minecraft you can go back to title update today... But the texture is for mobs will be glitched, you have to use a program where you can edit the to in game files, and if you can find them you can directly put in each title update and go to a specific one... I miss 1.7.3...

I don't recall how I originally found out about Minecraft, but I did purchase it at Beta 1.7.3. To this day it's the best $17 I ever spent!! I remember paulsoresjr's old "How to survive your first night in Minecraft" video they had on the old Minecraft web site. Having grown up playing with Lego in the 70's, what drew me to the game more than anything else was the crafting. You're correct, we didn't have sprint or hunger so we never missed it. It was just wonderous exploring the new world you created. I remember one world were I build a home on the edge of a clearing with a decent sized lake in front of me. It felt so earie and alone that one night I could hear a creeper moving around my new house. You've just gained a new subscriber. Thank you for making this video!!

I'm much younger, but I have a similar minecraft nostalgia because when I was a kid I never had an up to date minecraft, I only ever had varying out of date versions I could play on. Even now I've never played past the ocean update. The crazy terrain generations are one of my favorite parts about minecraft in general, I would love to have those in current minecraft, whether it's actual "types" to find like unique biomes or if it was just an optional thing you could enable. I really loved your video! I share your sentiment about older and current minecraft builds and how the community has changed around that When I think of nostalgic minecraft memories.. It's really not much. Just fond memories of exploring and makeshift bases back when everything was fresh and exciting. Or devoting my time to making bases or little civilizations that would really never be used for anything

Beta versions, pre combat update, have a fundamentally different focus, theme, and tone to versions with more developed combat, and with a main objective. When you strip the objective away, all thats left is the latent possibilities of the world and game system. And when you strip away the combat features, the player shifts from having the rhythm of a fighter, to the rhythm of a builder. Altogether, the game is calmer, despite arguably being more dangerous. You aren't being rushed anywhere, you're just put in front of a world to make what you will of it. This is part of why the terrain generation was so magical as well; you are left to experience it. And one part of the "terrain" that truly puts this tone over the top is the music! Though it has remained relatively a constant, the fact that it would only blow in at semirandom intervals, as if by the wind, creates these little moments of magic that become fixed in your memory. Like a beautiful day at the park, where a bird comes and sits by you on the arm of a bench.

1.7.3 was my absolute favorite version. I loved finding crazy cliff faces to build a home in. Oh man toomanyitems was so useful, I remember a RU-vidr getting roasted for turning some gravel into flint so he responded with a video of him placing and breaking gravel until he got to the proper number of flints that he swapped originally 😂

I remember when the sound effects all the sudden changed without any sort of proper update. I'll never forget just logging into my world, opening the door and hearing something different. I legit paused, stood there and just stared at the door in confusion. These days, I just instantly grab an old school sound texture pack(still not used to resource pack) whenever I play again. Can't beat the classics.

I really respect this review. He recognises his nostalgia and adresses beta minecraft's ups and downs as well as someone who grew up in this era of minecraft can. personally I grew up in post beta 1.8 era but before the ofcial 1.0 release but what got me into the game was the yogscast survival & shadow of israphial series and I 100% understand why people still love this version of minecraft. This game is such a defining part of our childhoods that the fact that we still have the debate of beta vs full release is beautiful to me

I recently started playing ReIndev and it's really soothing to play. I usually play Minecraft with over 100 mods installed at any given time and I strive to automate the crafting of every item possible. ReIndev is the antithesis of that. It's not fast-paced, it's not complicated, it just feels freeing. It may just be the nostalgia talking, but regardless of the cause, going back to an old version has been a great experience. Some of my greatest memories of this game were from around beta 1.8. I had a terrible graphics card at the time so my view distance was very limited. It made the world feel even bigger than it was. I built my base on an island and had many outposts on the island too. None of which were in viewable distance from each other... and then I realized the island was actually tiny when I upgraded graphics cards and could bump up the graphics. I used to spend hours making mini outposts and hidden bunkers all over the map. I also started started modding around that time too. The Clay Soldiers mod was great. I used to spend hours setting up arenas, wiring them with redstone and pistons, then watching the soldiers fight. Unfortunately, I think I may have lost this map file. It may be hanging around in some form on an old hard drive somewhere, but it'll always live in my memory.