Getting this question a lot, so I’d better answer. The version I mostly play (and what you’re seeing mostly in the video) is *Beta* 1.7.3 (do not confuse this with release 1.7. They’re different)

Can we just take a moment to respect how lucky we are that all of these old versions are even still available? So many games just discard the old versions once the new ones are added, but Minecraft saw the need to preserve early. I can't think of any other game that makes it so easy and accessible to play versions of the game at all, let alone old development versions. Regardless of how the design moves forward in the future, we've always got the safety net of playing our favorite iteration years from now, and that's so special in this industry.

Old Minecraft gave me a vibe no other game ever has

I just want to say I absolutely love how casually you’re talking. There’s no yelling, nothing super fast paced-it’s refreshing

seeing the old lava texture made me emotional for some reason

One thing about old minecraft is you learn IMMEDIATELY how the myth of Herobrine came to be. There's so little ambience, the world is so dark and empty, and choked by fog at all times. It's only natural for your brain to fear there being another presence in the world. Couple that with old minecraft having legions of generation bugs, and you've got a solid urban legend.

Tbh old minecraft immerses me way more. when there’s so many things, i get overwhelmed and unmotivated to do everything

The thing i hate in newer versions is that new stuff doesn't work with the old one, for example new mobs have complex animations and more realistic design, so when you look at a cow for example it feels like a different game because of how different these mobs look like

the fog is a big deal. it really did make your worlds feel so much cooler when you'd get up to some high vantage and look back towards your base/town/whatever while you were out gathering things and exploring the woods nearby. looking back at your structures from a distance felt soo cool

another thing about older minecraft that i really enjoy is the fact that the darkness out there is actually dark. As soon as the night hits, it's almost impossible to get through the woods with no light source and at the same time any lighting you put up looks so much brighter and more vibrant in comparison with the newer brighter nights

In the old versions of minecraft, every block had a purpose. Now there are way too many cosmetic blocks.

The worst part about modern minecraft is that whenever I invite friends or random internet friends, they always try to rush the ender dragon and the rest of the bosses, while I'm still at base making a simple house which I would like to see in a huge village with other houses and buildings made by everyone. That never happens because they quit after beating the bosses or making stupid farms.

this felt so natural i didn't event realize it was 21 minutes long

There's this quote that goes like "limitation breeds creativity" and I feel like that applies to this version. Tho I don't personally play it, it definitely has a charm to it and it kinda feels like you can do more with less

I personally think the old Minecraft was better because of how simple and few things there were in it. No Elytra so the minecart and boats were heavily needed. Enemies hit harder so it was scary to see them. Not knowing how to play the game so the curiosity was huge. no sprinting so exploring felt more brutal and earned instead of like a tiktok speed of exploring as nowadays, everything you found was so much slower so you would appreciate it so much more. you can cover 100k blocks with an elytra in like 20 mins. 100k in old minecraft would be hoursssssssssss, everything had a purpose and nothing made something else obsolete. Edit: and heavily agreed that things became really disappointing once mojang headed in the realistic direction... for whatever reason.. Minecraft was way more enjoyable when it was an actual fantasy game.

One of my favorite things about old Minecraft was the lighting. The game was so much darker and the torches felt so much fainter, It made buildings in the dark so much cozier and safe.

another thing to add to the "blocks not being as solid" point is the newer mobs too, they have detailed animations and many moving parts to them, whereas the earlier creatures have only a moving head, sometimes arms, and legs. i remember being ecstatic about wolves and how cool it was that they wagged their tails, and it indicated their health... now, there are frogs leaping around, and salamander looking cute things that slither through the water, just to name a few.. (i don't mind it, i just think its a little different than my usual picture of minecraft) sometimes i wish that i can take a few aspects from some newer updates, and put them in older ones.

So I’m a landscape architecture student, and I think your point on how it’s easy to make an old Minecraft version build, well, attractive is a very good observation. I don’t feel like going into all of the reasons why, but a highly constrained materials/texture/color palette actually support more creativity. Humans are not evolved to have every material and color at their fingertips, so access to so many options when making design choices often result in ugliness and unconformity in the worst way. That’s why so many people hate post-1920s cities so much - because globalization gave people the power to make anything they want, and the result of that is millions of ugly modern cities built from materials around the world that still somehow look exactly the same. It’s why Americans love to travel to Europe, where each development is culturally unique because 1000 years ago, you built your village with the materials nearby and instead focused on maximizing those materials to their creative and efficiency potential. So, you get a gorgeous medieval Bavarian village constructed in the same style, but each structure is entirely unique. I love Minecraft and I’ve been playing since 2012, and I’ve also experienced the overwhelming feeling when they add new building blocks. I’m very happy that my design school has taught me what to do with that feeling: if you’re given no design constraints, make them yourself. If you have an idea that breaks those constraints, record it, and try it out later. At the beginning of any modern Minecraft build project, I’ll always make a materials and texture palette that fit the style I’m pursuing, and work from there. I don’t waste time with redoing major build sections because I decided on a different material anymore, so I get to just… build!

In terms of aesthetics or overall "feel", I really miss the old-school dungeon crawler RPG style that it had in its early years.

The problem with modern Minecraft, for me, is that it doesn’t improve what was already there. Instead, they just add things for the sake of adding things, with barely any use at all. Even when they do add a use for said features, it’s superficial, ironically making their value even more pointless. If the Creeper didn’t exist, it wouldn’t even be added today, given Mojang’s current mentality for development.

Why is no one talking about the old sounds? When I opend up an old version and took my first step on grass I litterly started crying because of the memories of just that one old sound

Your point about old Minecraft feeling a bit eerie, lonely or melancholic worked really well to encourage the player to build stuff, because where your buildings where felt less lonely. Which is why old Minecraft worlds have paths going everywhere, which is something i see way less of in newer Minecraft worlds. It was almost obligatory to have a nice path between every building you made.

Minecraft without hunger bar is simply a superior experience imo

This reminds me of how I got into making levels for Quake (1996): There's just enough complexity to be able to make fully 3D environments but enough simplicity to easily make levels that look good in the game, with no need to be a professional level designer, something that anyone can pick up and have fun with.

I feel that Notch’s vision for minecraft was a lot more focused. Everything had more weight as there was less. The swedish vision was lost after microsoft acquired mojang. The strategy changed to adding as much to the game for marketing. A lot of people get quite aggressive when old minecraft is discussed, often citing “nostalgia”. But these people don’t understand what minecraft is about, and concern themselves with the more superficial elements.

When they added The different kinds of stone it did begin to complicate the simplicity of mining. I wish there was a way to flag certain things for your character to not pick up in modern Minecraft.

The zombie dropping a feather at 1:47 gave me a goddamn entire flashback to my childhood LOL, great video brother

i love how the biomes can be so close together in old Minecraft, it can make a really nice spot for a base

I used to develop server plugins for Minecraft, made a good amount of money doing it too. I was very deep into playing and developing for Minecraft back in 2009-2013 time era. Had thousands of hours in the game. Now, I haven't played it for more than 15m every few months, going upwards of 5 years without playing it all. If i had to pick a word to describe modern Minecraft, it would be "overwhelming". There is too much going on, too much to keep track of, etc. I'm not just nostalgic for old Minecraft, or for the fun times i had with it, or for the friends I had made while playing (some i still have today). It's that modern Minecraft doesn't fill the same hole for me that old Minecraft did. I would go to Minecraft to chill, to calm down and to relax. I don't feel like I can get that same feeling in modern Minecraft. (Also side note, OG textures went so much harder than modern textures)

bro if they added more biomes but had the same generation and texture style of the old mc it would make my childhood dream come true, exploring biomes was magical back then

One reason I can think of, though I don't really play old Minecraft, is that many of the newer features in Minecraft feel tacked on and some things serve no grander purpose than just being filler. And in older versions it feels like everything had a purpose for existing

i miss the community. Watching the spawn of the server you said was a quite nostalgic moment for me, ngl

When I learned you drag the shape of an axe in 2012, after a good week of playing blew my mind. Then slowly learning the different shapes for new items like some ancient secret code. The slow drip was the best feeling. The slow addition of new things, like breeding, pets, new worlds. There was this excitement of learning the mechanics.

It's the classic story of "sometimes less is more."

“Simplicity breeds creativity” this is such a simple yet immensely accurate distillation of a lot of my feelings regarding my experience with/perception of both vanilla minecraft and many old school mmorpgs. Well said~

Minecraft was a game of my childhood. You have no idea how much time i spent there. So the older versions of the game (like 1.4.5 - 1.7.2.) mean sooo much to my heart. Mostly 1.4.5 and 1.5.2. It was the time when my older brother just introduced me to the Minecraft world. And I remember EVERY single house that I made back then. I remember building some little houses in brother's worlds so I could boast of it and he could praise me... I remember me playing with my friend together on my computer because we didn't know how to play in coop. So we just played for hours in one world, reading different guides and tips and tricks, building cool base in the jungle, trying to go in the Nether and being scared of ghast. And another thing that has a special place in my heart is the servers that i played that time. I used to play on them almost every day after school. All these numerous cheerful worlds I witnessed... I met another kids, we were playing together, I even called some of them in Skype. That was just an amazing time of my life, can't think of it without a tear. I like new versions of the game, it still brings a lot of fun to play in it, but... I wish I could return to one of that days to experience that joy of childhood once again.

this really does capture it. A lot of what I miss from the old days is nostalgia, but the simplicity of not having how obtuse things like enchanting are. I really wish they'd simplify enchanting and potion making. I still remember back in the day, how much hunger annoyed me when it first came out

Sunsets in beta are worth looking at. I have no memory of looking at modern minecraft's sunset with any kind of significant emotion. When I started my beta world, after building my house I looked at a sunset, and pure joy run into my soul. After that I started to look at sunsets from that house pretty often actually. Apart from obvious graphical differences (for example: shadows under trees, cloud height etc), I think the waaaayy slower gameplay tempo and general simplicity is the key here to why they are so memorable in beta. In modern minecraft sunsets aren't worth looking at, because there's always a million things to do. And let's face it: progression is more important than fun in modern versions.

Notch had vision, Jeb has game sense. And neither has the other's strength. The missing ingredient from modern Minecraft is that referenciality that Dialko brought up with the beta color pallets appearing like those of games from decades ago: minecraft under Notch's direction was a game about reflecting on our relationship with cyberspace. It's a theme that is subtly woven in with the rest of the game design: mobs drawn directly from classic videogame tropes, C418's heavy use of synthesizers, and if you look into the making of the paintings available in game you will find that they are inspired by the visual illusions caused by older game engines. The ability to see through walls into an endless void in between spawns during a CSGO match, those odd pixilated glitches, so on and so forth. The result is a game that forms a nexus of cultural touchstones. When Notch retired and Jeb took over he brought with him a very different philosophy to game design. Jeb is interested in making an insular game, with game elements that are unique to Minecraft rather than referential to other media. He states this explicitly in the Minecraft dev handbook. Jeb's goal is to create a new an unique lore within Minecraft, not one that pulls in influences from our entire experience of digital culture. I always felt that Jeb's reasoning carried undercurrents of FOMO. Like he creates because he fears loosing the opportunity to be unique, not because he actually has something unique to say. But, his technique is phenomenal. There is a coherence to modern Minecraft that did not exist in modpacks of a similar size to what we have now. The game draws one into creating infrastructure, to play the game like a modern survival game with supply chains and forward bases. A stuffed inventory becomes a mining outpost in a cave, a farm becomes a small ranch. I've found that modern Minecraft has a certain flow to it that sets it apart from beta. The two act like different games, and that's because they're made by different devs with different strengths. Thank you for listening to my TedTalk.

Your style of video is also reminiscent of older Minecraft series, with a pleasant and refreshing scenic pace. You mentioned that the more the blocks changed, the more complicated the builds became, and I think the same goes for popular Minecraft videos. The more advanced the game got, the more ppl adopted the “go big or go home” video style. Not that those are bad, they can be very entertaining at times, but I find myself getting burnt out with the scripts and goals that a normal player could never dream of achieving. TLDR: really love the vid style! The natural way of chatting is a breath of fresh air in the sea of Minecraft content!

you've changed my mind. I've never gone back to a minecraft version much after the new one releases, but this video has moved me to download a beta release and make a world. the colors are so much more vibrant, i wish the old lighting engine could be ported to new versions because it's not just the new textures. most light sources glow orange, but everything used to glow white.

Simplicity over bloat can really explain most of modern gaming. That was a really good point. I dont want to always have to grind or have an overwhelming amount of things i could do and old minecraft is just that.

I'm also a huge fan of the old cobble texture. I was sad back in the day when they changed it.

I started a project when I was little… I built the best city ever… I had a passion of extremely tall buildings when I was little and decided to recreate them in Minecraft. I spent days, building buildings I was extremely proud of. I showed my world to my parents, they were proud of me. Months later, I deleted minecraft for storage issues… I never managed to get my city back… i tried to remake it, but it was never the same as it was. I regret deleting a world that had a place in my heart.

What I like about old Minecraft is there aren’t many hills and caves that make it take longer for you to build your base

This. I needed this. A perfect explanation of why it's called "Golden Age". And the argument of "We beat Ender Dragon, bye" hit close to home.

It feels so peaceful, beautiful and simple.... you dont want it to end and leave...

This is honestly a fascinating topic. I started playing Vintage Story several months ago when a couple of my friends started a new Minecraft server, and I couldn't put my finger on why I was having so much more fun in Vintage Story. Being spoiled for choice honestly might be it. I miss when Minecraft had less distractions. Recently, Minecraft feels like too much questing, grinding, and powering up. Working, building, and crafting used to be time consuming but were so rewarding when you finally finished a project that it really made the experience feel personal. Anyway, this is an advertisement for Vintage Story. Thank you.

“If it isn't broken, don't fix it” or something like that. The old Minecraft was the game that got it millions of players and made it grow.

Just like the limited amount or blocks gave a sort of cohesive Minecraft "look" in beta, the old world generation did too. It used temperature/humidity noise maps to freely generate the biomes independently of terrain shape. So you could get flat desert, hilly desert, flat grassland, hilly grassland, etc naturally. And the transitions between biomes were really smooth.

Early Minecraft really does look like Daggerfall or Ultima Underworld even. It has that distinct early 90's dungeon crawler aesthetic very few games have

Release 1.7 to 1.7.9 is my absolute favorite Minecraft versions pvp especially was the best back in that era playing on emenbee kit pvp was the BEST server to ever exist and i miss it So much.

I find with a lot of old software, nostalgia is the catalyst, but what keeps people stuck in the past is that they're GETTING something that you can't nowadays. There is exclusivity.

I think the style of fiction was different back then. Modern Minecraft has a more folklore-esque type of fantasy whereas old Minecraft felt more videogamey and almost fever-dream-like, which I personally prefer. Another thing is that I think the simplicity of old Minecraft made it easier to have a grasp on the grand scheme of the game, making it feel like your actions weighed more in terms of progress. Its simplicity highlighted the challenge of nighttime as being the main adversary. But now there’s an “end” to the game and tons of other challenges, which isn’t bad of course I still love new Minecraft, but I do think it diminished something very enjoyable about old Minecraft.

The calmness of this video reminds me of 2010 lets plays. Nowadays people have to edit 5 explosions, jump scares, deep fried sound effects, unfunny skits and so on into every min.

Thank you for inspiring me, I started it and found out I enjoy Minecraft again. Old version have some kind of magic feel that makes me really enjoy it.

For someone who gets easily overwhelmed by advanced game mechanics, old school minecraft is a godsend.

I love the lighting and realistic color palette of the original. It looks very natural and the darkness of night time makes it very atmospheric.

Another reason why I personally still love playing old Minecraft and why I fell in love with it so fast back in 2011 is that it feels like you're discovering untouched nature, due to the lack of structures and the combined effect of fog, darker nights, slow movement speed and more varied terrain features. When I started playing I was about 8, I lived in a city and loved to imagine how the land would have looked like before cities where built and forests were altered to be more efficient for wood production, and so on. Minecraft gave me an experience similar to that, I was able to be the first to discover landscapes that probably no one ever saw (since no two worlds looked the same) and was able to choose how I would settle in this world. I know this feeling can still hold true in modern Minecraft but the abundance of structures throws it off, and even the terrain itself somehow feels less wild, most biomes are more plane, smoothed out and less dense. Anyway great video ! It was very interesting to hear detailed arguments why nostalgia isn't the only appeal of old Minecraft, that I tend to overlook when I simply say that "the feeling is different". Thanks for that !

mad ramblings that were in my head tbh, I just didn't know how to get the words out and you did, so thank you

This makes me wanna play the old versions again cause the new ones just doesnt give the same vibe anymore.

I'm from '86, so it's not like Minecraft has anything to do with my childhood or nostalgia; I was 25 years old when I started playing the Minecraft Beta back in early 2011. But there's a magical simplicity to the older versions that make them very attractive to come back to. I feel like the fact that the pre-release versions have so much less stuff going on than current Minecraft makes the entire old-school Minecraft experience more focused and relaxed for me.

They call it beta, but its only played by chads... intriguing

5:44 oh I get it, it’s something deep that involves how the human brain interprets goals and tasks

In the modern Minecraft everything feels so worthless to me. Back then you had to "do" something for your Equipment and Stuff like that but nowadays you just have to walk around and you find endless stuff. Even food is now worthless because you find a village everywhere with almost endless food, ruins with diamonds and other items that should be rare.

New versions just feel so overwhelming, more than just the block selection. You also have to worry about phantoms and getting a food source, then there's the parts that are optional but integral to getting the "right" experience like building your base near a village for trade purposes (or importing villagers), collecting the required stuff to get to the end, finding a stronghold and so on. It's such a big game, it's starting to feel more like 10 smaller games in a trenchcoat as opposed to a single unified vision like beta does, made worse with every update. It still has it's merits, I often play 1.12.2 for modding purposes, but the old versions just feel more coherent and tightly designed.

I really like both, but it is hard not to look at old and new Minecraft as pretty much different games. It's true that the older versions have this unexplainable charm that I love. The fog, the textures, loneliness and eeriness - it felt like a dream about old games. New versions are more lively, full of content and detail. I love how some of my newer builds look thanks to new blocks. I wish there was a way to combine the atmosphere of the old Minecraft and the richness of the new, but I think that's impossible. And personally I don't think I could get in the same headspace as I was in when playing Minecraft 10+ years ago. The experience is unrepeatable.

I really miss the old terrain generation that was mostly flat and any mountain had big valleys. The present one that is extremely hilly is infuriating to play with and is only good for taking pictures

Old Minecraft had the principle of "One block at a time" Mojang says they're still following it but I don't see how. You can get multiple items from breaking one block and you can even break multiple blocks with one pickaxe swing if you have haste and efficiency for example. You can jump multiple blocks high with potions or jump way further with sprinting. In old Minecraft there are exceptions, like you said non full blocks exist but they're a one off born out of a necessity. Same with multiple drops from a block, glowstone and clay are the only ones who come to my mind here.

I love how casual this video is. It’s 3AM rn and I feel like I’m listening to a close friend just kind of gush about old Minecraft before we clock out for the night😂

"limitation is the mother of creativity" I don't know where this phrase is from, but it's what comes to mind as a justification of why old minecraft feels so amazing. It's the lack of content that makes creativity spark the most

For years, I couldn't really figure out what really felt off. I hadn't even realized something felt off, but you didn't just pull it out into the open, but you nailed it on the head.

Simplicity is what makes old Minecraft great. Limited resources make people more creative.

If you asked me what my favorite Minecraft world I ever had was, I would have no trouble answering: The one where I found a hill on a taiga biome not too far from spawn and made my first decent looking house on survival. The hill was big enough that I had plenty of space to build on and a great view of my surroundings, but still short enough that it wasn't too hard to climb. There were no big mountains blocking my view, no pillager outposts spawning hostile mobs near my house, no ravines for me to fall into and plenty of those small naturally generated lakes around. I had crops, a dog, some cows, a big cave system to explore and plenty of plans for what I wanted to build. It was great. Now I love watching people play on the newer versions, I love watching them fly around the world with elytras, making all sorts of automated farms and building megabases and stuff, but whenever I try to play the game, it just doesn't feel right. The world generation is so different. Everything is too big, the mountains, the rivers, the lakes... Whenever I create a new world I catch myself wandering "is this seed even good enough...? " There are so many biomes and so much stuff on them. I never know what I will need. What if I need something from a jungle? What if I need terracotta? Will ever manage to collect all of the cats? Will I ever be happy with where I built my base? I just can't stop overthinking everything, there's too much stuff and everything feels like it is and isn't important at the same time... and then I just start missing my little house on the hill and how everything was simpler. Sometimes, simpler really does mean better.

While I think the current game is far better than any of the earlier versions of Minecraft, the one thing I do think Mojang completely screwed up is the fog. For the life of me, I do not understand what in the world they were thinking with this new fog system, or why they are so incapable of producing a decent looking replacement.

Aside from gratitude for your wonderful video and approval of your point of view on old Minecraft charm, I'd like to express huge respect for talking with no script! It makes the whole video more sincere and soulful and I'm stunned by your heartwarming delivery.

When there wasn't many blocks people were more creative

old minecraft had a such a nice look to it, the lighting engine and the fog just gave it such a great atmosphere, the old sounds and music too were just amazing

13:17 I love the point about that old generation. All the floating terrain gave minecraft such a whimsical feeling. I remember the times when the seeds you wanted to find the most were ones with awesome overhangs.

To be honest, I thought I liked old minecraft more than modern for a long time, plus I had an irrational phobia of minecraft that I was trying to overcome. So, I decided to make a new world where I survived 100 days in each major release of minecraft, and honestly, by the time I got back to 1.20, I realized just how much I miss new minecraft. I mean, I am a creative person, and I like just building big cities with those sturdy full blocks you mentioned. However, when I actually started playing old minecraft, I realized how limiting it was at least for me, it kept grinding most of my projects to a halt. There were no upper half slabs, no upside down staris, no hoppers, no carpets, no stained glass, no concrete, no terracotta, the only type of plank was oak, no metal trapdoors, janky hitboxes of objects, and all of that is just barely scratching the surface of all of the blocks I consider to be essential that were missing in the super old versions of minecraft. I still completed my challenge of surviving 100 days in each version, but man, I love new minecraft. Of course I don't hate or even judge anyone who does play old minecraft, but this is just my experience

Simplicity was the whole reason minecraft was appealing in the first place. We were years into the development of the internet and there were high level graphics-breaking games everywhere. Suddenly Minecraft comes out and it's just blocks that fit together in weird survival ways. Of course the old versions are still playable. They were what made the game unlike all its competitors

In the old version, since there were fewer blocks, the block pallette was easier to maintain between myltiple structures, especially in multiplayer. Nowadays, since there are so many new blocks, a block pallette is harder to make and harder to maintain. Plus, it felt like every block had a purpose when building. Nowadays, we have a bunch if niche blocks, like purpur, which are kinda just there, lacking a lot of purpose.

I'm so glad you mentioned the fog. I actually found an option in the sodium line of fabric mods that stretches the fog back out and it really does improve the atmosphere *that* much

Most mods have stopped being developed on being stuck on older versions of Minecraft, which is why I just like old Minecraft better, and the new version is uhhh ok… it’s… cool somewhat… I mean there’s an armadillo now… yay.

You described everything that I feel playing modern Minecraft. It's a storm of information and things to do that I get tired only thinking about

You really pinned down the feeling I've been having with modern minecraft. I feel like I just cannot build anything without it looking out of place. I think it's the more detailed textures and lighting for me

Old Minecraft felt like a game, new Minecraft feels like a live service. Neither is necessarily bad. They both have their own strength for their own reasons, but I feel like old Minecraft felt more like completed package. It felt like someone giving you a really simple but intentional gift that you could enjoy for a long time. It was timeless. The new game feels more like a membership, like you’re getting to be a part of a club that overtime introduces new and exciting things for you to try. And every month you get a little membership gift you get to take home. The gifts are always really cool, but it does feel like the more you get the more overwhelming the collection starts to feel. While you like each one you just don’t know what to do with them, and it feels wrong when you don’t take time to enjoy them

Minecraft 3DS has been discontinued for a long time, but its the version I've been playing for years. I really relate to the simplicity ♥ It is the feeling of "This world is a part of you" instead of "You are part of this world"

There's simply no rush to do anything, not being able to run is another factor, you're forced to walk and take in the world around you. There's a limited palette of blocks, making it easier to build something simple and have it fit with it's surrounding. In modern Minecraft if you aren't texturing, adding detail, or using a lot of variety, it almost feels as if you are not building correctly.

My opinion on building is that if you want contrast in modern Minecraft you have to resort to adding depth because all of the Jappa textures blur and blend together. But the original Minecraft textures were all differently contrasted. Cobble doesn't blend into logs doesn't blend into planks doesn't blend into glass. You basically have to add multiple frames and layers to your house if you don't want it to look like a stock photo. But something about the vibrancy and contrast of the old textures makes everything pop out.

something i like about beta is the sense of scale. in modern minecraft, everything is bigger and taller, while in beta everything is smaller. hell, even giant builds in beta look like they fit in, instead of being _truly_ giant

Listening to your voice is so soothing, I love it. But seriously though you've made me want to go and check out old Minecraft again. There's something so charming about the older textures and I really enjoy the vibrant colors.

Thank you for the video. Really nice to see footage from the game back then, hits me right in the heart. I suppose I have been drinking, but this video felt personal in a way I see many try but none really pull off.

Minecraft machinima was iconic. It started dying out in the late 2010s, and is now a integral part of both Minecraft and machinima history.

I started playing in 2011 on Xbox 360 I remember how confused I was about seeds, how cool it was for me to go into creative, building all sorts of stuff, getting scared by creepers, how excited I was to find a wolf to tame, playing the tutorial worlds, the old textures, eventually buying it on PC, joining servers building bases and doing PVP, finding out about hacks, being banned for testing hacks, the hive, mineplex, Stampy, DANTDM, etc. Then the ocelots came, a new tutorial world, updated textures, more new stuff, random useless blocks, Xbox one, PS4, Java migration, it just all went away. I'll always remember old Minecraft being better

i guess i'm kind of between a modern minecraft player and a beta minecraft player because i still play the xbox 360 version. it's not because i don't have access to newer versions, i just like the 360 version.

nice video dialko, you really make a great job to make me understand why i love the old minecraft (particularly the first versions of consoles)

I love your point about the fog so much. I never really played beta beyond the occasional foray with a friend to see what it was like, but the fog in beta adds to the exploration part of the game so much in my opinion. It definitely beckons you towards it a little more, giving you an ever so slight taste of what’s in the distance. It also applies to builds in a fascinating way, especially in areas like yours with several huge structures. It makes it feel like they go on and on.

Old Minecraft is the iconic Minecraft. And I'm glad you mentioned the fog, I've noticed how different it's felt the last few years and I always assumed it was just because the render distance was bigger, but you're right. The fog has more of an atmospheric effect in beta because it fades out over a greater distance. Vs the new fog which just sits on the edge of the render distance and sharply transitions. Glad you put that into words cus I could never figure out why I'll liked old fog so much more.

12:30, I think you were pretty accurate about why simple builds can look better in older versions: 1. The scale of the Terrain: Beta worldgen is more compact, and the render distance is lower. The small hut is more in-scale with the size of the hills in the beta picture than the wide plains and taller hills in the modern pictures. The Terrain is just very pleasing to look at in the old versions, it's like a mini diorama instead of wide expanses of biomes and terrain. That's why I think beta builds fit in better. The removal of the beta fog also took away a ton of atmosphere (hence why basically everybody who can run shaders in modern Minecraft uses them. The game looks pretty dull without them) 2. The simplicity of the textures. The modern block textures may have better shading and colors (though I love the old textures too) , but look too detailed and smooth. The more complicated-looking textures clash with the simplicity of the build. 3. Expectations: Everybody has seen insane builds in modern minecraft, with insane amounts of detail, niche building tricks, shaders, world-edit tools and fancy rendering mods. But not as many people are familiar with beta builds, so there's less expectations to compare yourself to. People are more likely to mess around and build whimsical things if they aren't held up to the standards of people who make a living posting their insane builds. 4. Tools: Beta Minecraft has much fewer tools, so you have to work around the Terrain more. Nowadays, you can get beacons and enchantments to tear apart the land, but that would take much longer in Beta. This makes it more likely that people will build to fit the land instead of demolishing and rebuilding everything.