Him saying "aw man" after dying to a creeper is SO FUNNY and he doesn't even know

“Are you friendly?” The witch: “I’m about to ruin your day”

I love this. You dont even know how hard to find "fully blind no backseat" videos.

As a veteran MC player, I never realized how expansive this game is because I’ve always seen it get updated real-time. This is the perfect series because I can see it through the eyes of a first timer.

"I know you can make mining picks" "I know that you can build houses" Oh yeah, this is gonna be a great series

"I'm not a smart guy" Proceeds to have one of the best blind playthroughs I have seen, intuitively figuring out almost everything he needs, with minimal help, almost as soon as he asks the question.

As someone who grew up with Minecraft (as mostly everyone else did) this feels like playing for the first time. To me it’s genuinely emotionally impactful to watch someone play this game blind like I once did many years ago. It gives me a comforting nostalgia, a pleasant ache. Thanks Oliver, for surprising me with an emotional experience that you did not intend.

"dude this is legitimately scary" I started playing for real right around the same time you did. I had like 4 hours of experience before that a few years ago, so I knew about mining and mobs but not much more. THIS GAME SCARED THE PISS OUT OF ME. Legit the scariest game I've played in years. There is nothing worse than being out in the open, and you're just walking around.. all of a sudden you hear a hissing sound, and BOOM. Even all these months later I hate the attack children, and the tall skinny deliver man, and the hordes of zombies. Terrifying, forever.

I love the immediate transition from 'lets build a nice little starter house' to full on panic mode building 2x3 wood dirt box to hide in 😂 welcome to Minecraft

The safe “ahhh” in the 3x3 box then getting sniped by a skeleton was funny af

Oliver is the only person who can deliver a blind playthrough of minecraft in 2023 and on top of that make it entertaining

"Actually not a bad way to excavate!" Etho would be proud.

Watching you brute-force learning how to play is so satisfying

I feel the same as you about watching VODs and constant chat interactions. I really appreciate that you are focused on the game. Almost feels like a regular episode.

It's fun seeing a new persective on the game. This playthrough is full of small things that a new player would naturally assume - such as with the campfire which Oliver correctly assumed would cook his raw food even if he didn't know the exact mechanics and history of the game (having no such block for many years and players having the meta-knowledge that the furnace is the all-purpose block for cooking and smelting). Another funny thing I noticed is how Oliver tried accessing his first Crafting Table; it's an early-enough item that the player might not know that right-click is the interact button so he used his knowledge gained so far and opened his inventory right next to it instead; thinking it would expand or unlock a new feature in the inventory, rather than containing its own UI - an interesting idea if Mojang were to ever change how interacting with crafting stations work.

By far my favorite Minecraft Let's Play so far and it's only the 1st episode. Love the completely blind aspect and I got to watch a basically 2 hour video, not a VOD with chat. So excited!

“Small house” proceeds to build a house the size of a huge tree Edit: “this combat is easy” Famous last words

As slow going as it is, he actually intuitively figures things out without assistance pretty quick. Zombies die in sunlight, but are ok in shade. Sun rises in the east. Wandering trader has 2 lammas with leads, that they drop if they die. Rotten flesh causes hunger, but still regens health. Gold tools are trash because gold itself is too soft. Most newbs with chat on who ask for no assistance, still get a ton of trivial information that he's managing to piece together solo, relatively quickly. I'm gonna subscribe. I want more of this please. I'm not a gamer, but I played a decent bit of this one game. The range of simplicity to complexity is potentially the widest gap across any survival game, and anyone can find enjoyment from it at any point in that spectrum.

I was amused at how you were commenting about how safe you felt in the basement while I’m thinking “His front door was left wide open and it’s nighttime. Wonder how long until his safe feelings are shattered” 😆

Hello future people watching this lets play!! Welcome to the best Minecraft series on youtube. He switches to java edition soon after this episode then he slowly but surely figures out the whole game (yes, everything you're thinking he does eventually) with zero hints / wiki (literally). Enjoy! 😁

this might be one of the most important minecraft playthroughs since the *very* early days

I never thought i would shed tears for a minecraft playthrough, let alone be entertained by one once again. The sheer bliss i felt by rediscovering the game by the eyes of a first timer again is an experience i didn't have in my bucket list for this week, or month. This vod really encapsulated, not what i felt watching my first playthroughs of the game, and my first playthroughs alltogether, but my first time playing the game. Even seeing some similarities in the progression or thought process, slightly changed by the newer additions or simply different way of approaching the vast posibilities of such a game filled with freedom. The ones that struck most with me were building a fence, thinking it's an impenetrable defense and then getting proven wrong by a spider, thus learning the importance of roofs, and then reaching a village and saying "man... my house sucks..." and getting inspired to do better. I actually want to point out, that you, playing this game BLINDLY is incredibly rare by itself, almost everyone who grew up playing minecraft knows the game like it's common knowledge; it's something so unlikely and rare this playthrough and vods must be cherished and protected at all costs! x) Thank you for this, i enjoyed this first episode immensely. And i'm sure this will make as my comfort series for a while :)

As someone who didn’t watch stream, this is great. Minecraft's only limits are its user's creativity. If this becomes a series of streams, this is going to be great.

Btw. I love the term "Attack Child". Makes me laugh every time. Please keep that. 😂

This was an absolute joy to watch! Please don't worry about it being too slow or anything, your enthusiasm at the smallest things is infectious! This really takes me back to discovering minecraft myself in 2011 (you even managed to somewhat emulate how I struggled with the english words lol) I'm really excited for more!

54:52 lol music is a paid actor for this whole monologue bit.

It's so fun to see someone learn a game that has mechanics that are like second nature to me now. Great stream!

Playing minecraft with minimum spoiler is definitely gonna be a wild ride

Makes you wonder why Newton bothered to invent gravity in the first place

Biggest difference between java and bedrock is the combat system. Java introduced a cooldown mechanic to weapons so you couldn't just spam attack and be more tactical with how you approach it, but bedrock didn't add this feature. It makes combat way easier as a result.

Dont apologise for being slow, this is perfect watching!! 😄

Oliver I love the way you do streams- no crap on screen, barely any chat stuff, above all no face cam. You're great!

"It's a very complicated crafting system"

As a Minecraft veteran (since 2012 I think), I freaking love this and I'm so hyped to watch you learn more about this game :D

A lot of this made me laugh out loud, but I laughed especially hard at “attack child” and the death while the peaceful music was playing.

I appreciate the minimal chat interaction :)

Huh... for YEARS ray tracing wasn't really available in normal survival gameplay, nice that it's actually here

I normally hate watching stream vods, but you’re just so naturally entertaining it’s like a 2 hour video. Earned my sub!

This takes me back. Love how you're just discovering things at your own pace. Also "fucking murder child" is indeed the correct term for baby zombies and baby drowneds

Haha eating rotten flesh seems like a great idea 😆 I too have never played this game even after all these years quite surprised looks pretty nice with the RTX

I love watching someone play Minecraft for the first time. I’m going to watch this whole series.

Ive been following you since the outer wilds days, but couldnt watch some lets plays because i dont want to be spoilt myself lol... Very happy youre playing this, and i hope youre enjoying this as much as we are. Looking forward to the next stream!!

I'm so happy this happened, just getting the notification made my day! Now watching the gameplay was sooo god, I enjoyed it a lot. You are amazing Oliver, thanks for bringing me happiness 😁

The stream was great! I enjoyed it alot, especially the parts where you got blown up!

watching you kill the turtle out of a hunger-fueled desperation only for it to drop utterly nothing except some exp orbs, and then catch some fish with your bare hands that you instantly drag ashore and eat raw... it is giving me inspiration for some kinda gamelit horror story lmao really great video btw, if you continue to play more please continue to not seek guidance of any kind, it's actually such a great and unique experience edit: i'm glad you also find that 'streamer interacts too much with chat' as annoying, was honestly the only thing i worried about when i heard you'd be streaming. is real annoying when the streamer gets so distracted constantly that they stop paying any attention to what they're doing at all lol

This was so fun to watch! Please make this a series. For figuring out how to progress through the game I highly recommend using the in-game achievements menu to point you in the right direction. Otherwise the game will forever feel directionless.

Watching this gives great insight into how poorly designed some parts of Minecraft actually are. For example, the profession tables and the recipe book. Watching Oliver waste his iron on a table he won't be able to use for at least double digit hours in this world simply because it stood out in the massive influx of blocks made available in the book.

It's so funny that I've come to this channel for your blind run of OW, right after discovering that game through Sabaku's highly community-enhanced blind run, and now you start a blind run of Minecraft as I'm following Cydonia's highly community-enhanced blind run of Minecraft (they're respectively The Guy That Made Italy Big In The Dark Souls Community, and The Guy That Made Italy Big In The Pokemon Community, and they've been collabing for the last 3 years)

I love that you focus on the game more than the chat. I’m here to watch you play, and hear your thoughts. ❤

Dude, I just came across this playlist suggested on Reddit. I am only through the first episode but it is incredibly enjoyable. And I am very excited about so many more hours of content. Great job.

You remind me how it felt to learn Minecraft. I'm so pleased that you don't want to look stuff up. Thanks for this :)

YESSS. I LOVE THIS!!! Just watched the entire thing. It's so fun watching you experience the game for the first time! Really hope this becomes a series

Just found this video after looking for exactly that: a blind Minecraft playthrough. And it's perfect!! Complete with Tim and Eric rotten meat references 😂 fantastic video bro. Earned a new fan and subscriber

this is gold

This was really fun to watch! I hope you enjoyed, I’d love to see more of this

I appreciate the focus on the game! The speed at which you play is perfect, and it's very fun to watch.

Was busy but now that I’m finally watching this I’m just more and more excited to see your reactions to this game.

Oh boy, I've decided to watch this, and i can just imagine the theories you are going to make to every little sound you hear. It's going to be amazing. Your channel is addictive and it's entirely your fault!! Also there's a nostalgic feeling about watching this, since i was only a child the first time i played the game, seeing your somewhat blind experience with it is remembering me of my first interaction with Minecraft, makes me kinda emotional, tho I had no idea what a creeper was and I found out the hard way

This was so fun to watch, Please do more of this!

So glad to see there’s many more episodes, I hope you start asking chat some things along the way tho just for the sake of learning

This is fantastic 😂 it reminds me how I felt when I started 2-3 years ago. I was also terrified and had no earthly clue. Props Oliver to your seemingly very reliable sense of direction!

One of the best games ever made. Hope you keep this going.

This was so good! Cant wait to watch all 12!!

love that 1:33:41 "are we good?" than proceed to steal more

finishing one of olivers playthrought and onto the next i love this feeling, oliver im so happy you and i were born in the same era so that i could watch you play games i love. truly truly thank you.

Oh the fact that you tried to feed yourself the rotten flesh in the inventory is interesting :0 Blind playthrough are always so fun! You get to see people experimenting with controls like that and do the stuff that seems most logic

This is so comforting. Its like me seeing myself from all those years ago. Love ur stuff!

oh man I usually get distracted pretty fast watching VODs, but watching you discover rhe aspects about the game has me GLUED to the screen. very entertaining playthrough so far, thank you for making this series :] I'll be watching it all probably

Man I love everything this guy makes he really has a unique style that I haven't found elsewhere.

Bedrock version looks so weird to me as a Java player 😅. Very fun watch tho, glad I found this!

Wow, the game is beautiful with these new lights, I should definitively try it again.

People should've told you to play with "unlocking recipes" experimental thing. Seeing EVERYTHING you can craft on your first play is overwhelming

I found your channel through this video and you are extremely entertaining! Great content :) thanks

It's so interesting to see a game you know deeply from a new perspective! It highlights the things that are so much weirder or more ambiguous than you thought. I look forward to this watching this through.

Oh wow. I’m definitely watching this series.

I really enjoy your let’s plays because I think you have great deductive reasoning and critical thinking skills. It made your Outer Wilds playthrough a treat to watch (on top of your astrophysicist insight lol), and it’s making your Minecraft experience fun also ^_^

Loved it ! I didn't even feel the two hours Please more !

I’m in disbelief that someone could blind play minecraft at 2023 It reminds me of when I found out about minecraft PE and played it on an ipod touch so manny years ago. I was so exited whenever there was an update, and I remember the nether reactor block and glowing obsidian and how crazy it was to discover. Edit: “world” has an extremely unlucky looking spawn LOL Edit: Minecraft Dungeons players: “I have a stick I’m equipt for combat” \*1 shot’s a boss\*

You are the second KZfaqr who managed to keep me hooked for something other than OuterWilds!

I wish I could discover the game like you lol. Great video!

just found you! love people playing this for the first time

such a nice video man, truely cosy to watch

Oh man, this is the best let's play of ALLLL that I wathed. Your way of playing and entertaining with the game overall is great. Keep doing this

I don't think I've ever rewatched a lets play before and I don't think I've even enjoyed a minecraft one in at least 10 years. However, I'm coming back to rewatch this amazing series not even two weeks after finishing it!! I love your channel oliver!!!

wow for ur first time u really do some smart things like the emerald u want to mine and u guessed immediately that u need an higher pick axe for that amazes me! Looking forward for more Minecraft vids :D greetings from Austria :)

"That feeling when try to go fishing and you're being fished" 1:14:46

21:05 first time seeing and Enderman, genuine reaction Also it seems to be mandatory to build your first house with dirt. 10 minutes in and I'm loving it

I'm sooooo sad I missed the stream! I was watching Zelda #2 at the time, can you believe it. I can't wait to watch this tomorrow. Let's Gooooooo!

wow I'm so surprised ur playing this, my day is a lot better rn

this is really cute/chill to watch. great to see a blind playthrough of modern mc :)

I like that “A skeleton shot me and my soul left my body” is a universal experience. Hate those bastards. Also watching you make a pier put the biggest smile on me face. You’re doing it! You’re building something for form over function! :D

This is both so funny and so frustrating as a long time player, but I love it!

Okay, I gotta watch all of these now hahaha

this reminds me of when i first played back in 2016, 11 year old me was absolutely clueless and it was so much fun. 8 years later and im still as in love with the game as I was back then

Minecraft is a game that's almost impossible to find blind playthroughs of because it used to be completely impenetrable by not having any kind of in-game crafting list. Playing with a wiki open on another monitor basically became the de facto "correct" way to play. It's really interesting to see where the game succeeds and fails at being a self-contained experience.

I only just found this now, but this is quite possibly the best thing i've ever seen. So wholesome. Especially from 54:00 onwards

"No entrance, except party business" :')

Good video. I think I'm gonna watch this whole series

This is so refreshing. Coming from a player since early alpha versions, the game is VERY different now, but the joys and fears of a new player are still clearly the same. Keep going !

Watching Oliver get excited about making a simple trap door makes me feel happy.