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you see, this prison would be flawless, but omz found a very good bypass to this prison. *You see he pressed f5, see using f5 gave him a whole new perspective and he was able to see a hopper with lazy writing that he couldn’t of seen before.*

While working on neon void, our mentality for doing redstone was mainly to make it look as insane as possible - and in that regard, the prison was a success

30:12 "Both of us realized how our perspectives had been closed-off from each other". You see, we both used F5...

At 30:29, there's a single frame of braille. "⠍⠽ ⠝⠁⠍⠑ ⠊⠎ ⠕⠵⠽⠍⠁⠝⠙⠊⠁⠎ ⠅⠊⠝⠛ ⠕⠋ ⠅⠊⠝⠛⠎ ⠇⠕⠕⠅ ⠕⠝ ⠍⠽ ⠺⠕⠗⠅⠎ ⠽⠑ ⠍⠊⠛⠓⠞⠽ ⠁⠝⠙ ⠙⠑⠎⠏⠁⠊⠗" Translated, it reads "my name is ozymandias king of kings look on my works ye mighty and despair." This quote is a reference to some century-old poem about an explorer who comes across the ruins of a once great ancient Egyptian civilization. At the entrance to the desolate ruins is a plaque inscribed with the quote from Ozymandias, the pharaoh. The quote seems to tie in heavily with the themes of ambition and inevitable abandon present throughout most of the video. It also doubles as a Technoblade reference, which is cool!

Honestly, as one of the earliest members to join neon, I can say that it was one of the most fun and engaging things to work on. Seeing it go from bedrock, to prismatic horizon, to 1.17 neon all the way to the final version was truly an experience on it's own. But I can also say that after about a year, it became one of the most mentally draining things that I've ever done. Just realising after more than a year of work how insanely ambitious it really is was devastating. The demotivation became even worse when it turned more into a adventure map than a prison. I'm lucky tho that I didn't participate in any of the drama and never really read the messages in the discord, I was just there to do redstone. While I still like the complex way of prison building way more, I'm kind of happy it's over. Goodbye Neon Void, it's been a pleasure.

I like how the video starts off with introducing cool prisons and then eventually just descends into madness

Really cool video but I’m waiting for the next stream group prison video 😁

in 30 minutes, you have fully radicalized me to your side in an online argument over a popular puzzle in a subdicipline of block game engineering. God bless you kenedian.

Kens done it again. Hes made another cinematic masterpiece showcasing the prison community. Thank you Ken.

You know, I’m glad my one contribution to this entire project was an office, and absolutely nothing else. Long live the Sergeant Duck office

I'm extremely honored to have been given a chance to work on this project, especially for as long as I did. Although my only truly substantial contribution were those mushrooms in Cell C (and quite a bit of largely unused concept art I guess), that build is by far the one I'm most proud of out of everything I've created. Seeing it used in so many shots in this video felt indescribably amazing. The Neon community has been wonderful to work with and just be around during my time in this project and I've made so many connections though it. I couldn't be more grateful to everyone involved, namely Zenos for starting this monumental project and directly inviting me in the first place, and Kenadian for documenting so much of it into this video. From starting out with absolutely no redstone experience and, admittedly, much too small of a building background to ever be considered for a project of this scale, /literally on an ipad/, to seeing this prison flourish into the unfinished but still marvelous piece of art that it has become, I've never been more glad to work on something so incredible in my life. Thank you, Neon Void, and farewell.

as someone who kinda left the prison community a while ago, I've been waiting for someone to explain the whole history of the thing and this is basically that just super concise and i love it.

I'd love to see a more in depth review of some of the universals, it's fascinating to see how prison building and breaking can find errors in the game

Did I ever tell you the tale of the Minecraft?

The way you described this almost felt like the whole ordeal was the Cold War of the Minecraft Prison community.

I did not expect to be "baby shoes, never worn"-ed in a minecraft prison video, cuz that was a genuinely suprising line lol.

I was more invested in this 32 minute youtube video than most actual movies I've seen. An insane premise Masterful storytelling Perfect editing A giant echo chamber that thinks Kenadian is a threat to freedom of speech. One of the masterpieces of all time, 15/10

It mustve been a pain to edit all of prison community history in like... 30 minutes really well done video

"giving minecraft servers dementia since 2021"

When I first joined Convold I knew it was gonna get big, but never thought it was going to get as big as it did. Great video, 10/10

The guy who claimed he could get bedrock is me. It doesn't actually execute a /give command, and requires you to first disconnect (became obsolete in 1.17.1+). Worked because minecraft devs had a weird parsing mechanism back then

It’s definitely a good point that being condescending is never helpful, but the development of this prison really does highlight the problem with redundancy for redundancy’s sake: It’s expensive (development time-wise) Complex systems breed edge-case vulnerabilities.

You have to admit that the prison craze led to a ton of new mechanics being discoverd

That bill wurtz reference was amazing

So Ken is both a prison expert and a counterintelligence operative, man of many talents indeed XD

Love the P2 reference at the end "If anyone asks--and NO-ONE's gonna ask don't worry--but if anyone asks; tell them the last time you checked, everyone looked pretty much alive, alright? Not dead." "If anyone asks--and no one's gonna ask--but if anyone asks; tell them that last time you checked, neon void looked canceled not being worked on in secret."

In my opinion the ideal prison would be minimalistic but would also have some redundancy. Hope to see good things for Minecraft prison builds in the future.

This intro is astonishing. I can’t stop rewatching it over and over again. It’s so satisfying and impressive to watch. Great job!!

Now you and Zenos just need to get the entrie community together and make a prison. Not minimalistic, not gigantic, but the beginning of a new era.

ngl just casually having the entire fucking backrooms in the corner is comedic gold. feels like owning the entire library of babel in your house just as a "small bookshelf"

8:15 did you just do A FRICKING BILL WURTZ JOKE

awesome video, liked all the subtle references like portal and stuff. Also I wasn't expecting you to be so involved in he story to begin with, great editing and personality just discovered your channel today but I'm already a fan, great stuff :D

It was so cool following along the generations of the prison builds era. Truly a big part of minecraft history!

The community was in remiss, there was no better prison than this, this was it.

"Its PrIvAtE eXpLoIt🎶🎶🎶🎶" -history of the world, i guess (Scraped scenes)

30:36 LMAO MAN JUST REFERENCED THE 6 WORD POEM LIKE THAT

Dude, this video is so well put together!! What a crazy story.

This video. This video is a combination of my favorite things on youtube. Long videos. Minecraft. Complex redstone machines. Storytelling. Comedic segments mixed in with serious segments. SHORT exposing segments in videos. Bill Wurtz. Beautiful Minecraft builds. Great, wide, covering shots and angles. A clear story. Visuals. References. Explaining complex exploits and glitches and how they're used. Really good voiceovers. PERFECT music choice. Emotional beats. I usually avoid Minecraft Prison videos, but this one really surprised me. It's so, so good. The story is clear and concise. The retelling of events is funny, clear and simple. The way the prisons themselves are shown are VERY well-shot. I would go so far as to say this is among the best Minecraft videos I've ever seen. That list consists of Technoblade's "Potato War 3", FitMC's "The Day 2B2T Almost Died", Doctor4t's Airship video and plenty of other amazing watches. (Don't worry, I don't watch the Dream SMP cast or Lifesteal season whatever or any of those ones. If you do, good on you, keep going.) I will DEFINITELY be rewatching this many, many, MANY times and enjoying it the same each time. Please keep making more videos like these, especially about the bugs, glitches and exploits. Much love.

The editing is so high quality. This was amazing to watch.

Do a video explaining all the universal escapes, how they developed over time, and how people tried to patch them.

I remember being a part of neon void, it was actually awful for me, i was like the middle child of the project, even after i got kicked i never leaked anything about neon and never talked about it but i was still hated

That was super cool, thanks for sharing the story you’re a great story teller and hope everyone is doing well today

This video is a MASTERPIECE.... It's too professional and it explains everything in such an entertaining way to watch. I had ZERO knowledge about the history of minecraft prisons before watching this video and I still found this VERY entertaining and interesting... Props for making all of this

Everyone gangsta until Docm77 builds a prison on hermitcraft to hold Grian and Goodtimeswithscar

I love the reference from "The history of the world I guess." 😂😂😂❤ 8:05 Love that bit.

Incredible video. Could have easily watched a multipart series of this that goes into more detail on why certain things work.

this editing is legendary. love your vids kenadian!

my favorit line line has to be: "Oh my god there are wood planks in the cell. 13 months of building and you can escape in 5 seconds."

Just wanna say, props to Ken for crediting IvoryYT and not MythrodakTV. I liked that acknowledgement, its nice seeing small things like that.

DUDE!!! The portal references are awesome! Also the editing (especially in the intro) is a massive W!!!

28:58 it is just like the Berlin airport construction took so long they had to replace all monitors before it was finished

Amazing video! I loved watching all 30 minutes of it when it was uploaded a few minutes ago!

I absolutely love the bill wurtz reference 10/10 Would also love for you to make a video of the entire history of Minecraft prisons

NICE use of portal music! great vid!

It is a really fascinating, huge place. Might be kinda fun to start a survival world on top of it and just see what you can gather from the ruins!

this is the most manhattan project redstone build lore i have ever seen

Neon Void meant alot to me im glad it got celebrated like this Thanks Ken

Compiling all of this down to half an hour into a cinematic masterpiece must’ve been a real pain, but this is a really great video one what’s been happening for a while Also, *that portal 2 music hits too hard man, you gotta chill with those* (go crazy with them actually)

I'm super late, but this is one of the best videos I have ever watched! I was engaged the entire time! Keep up the great work! 💚

Basically a documentary at this point, GG. Great video, great storytelling, great explanations for someone whose never really been in the community. Keep up the amazing work!

I didn't know a 32 minute documentary about a minecraft prison was what I needed, but here we are! Incredible video! Keep up the good job

yooo kenadian doesn't seem transphobic, based!

hey, I made prison in mc a few years ago and this reminded me to finish it. it includes chunk bans, regenerating walls, death traps to clear your inventory, and keycards for the guards. the goal is to escape as the prisoner while inside the cell and being visited or to break the prisoner out while visiting, it's very intricate and I haven't found a way someone could do either of those yet. if you wanna try just let me know, I'd be interested in seeing how you'd escape. in my opinion it's completely unwinnable.

man, this is insane, absolutely insane you create content from minecraft that's just so different, more different than anything many of us have ever seen, all the while, making it entertaining for your viewers only just started watching your vids 2 or 3 months ago, but damn i wish i started sooner keep doin what you do kenadian, you are one amazing furr- i mean, human :)

I would love to see a video series chronicling different excapes and how they were countered over the years. Like I heard you mention hammer cannons in a different video, but couldn't find any explanation online.

I am in no way IN the prison community, but I do find it neat how you all can push minecraft to its limits for the goal of one task, and then push it further to go against that goal. I love the ideologies of both minimalist and redundancy. I dont get how either side is really that much seperated from the other though. You both still build a prison, one just is repeating methods to make sure they work (like a 3rd times the charm). Ones neat for how small it is, one is neat for its scale. Seeing how a person could isolate a group and turn good natured people into ravenous dogs is insane, its like the stuff you'd see in documentaries about behavior or the prisoner experiment. Hope the community can come together as a whole.

This was packed into the best Kenadian video I have EVER watched! Thx for uploading.

removing every flaw a mechanic or block in the whole universe of minecraft that can cause the prison to be escapeable is mad respect

"Sven was of fighting a blind woman killer or something" that made me laugh

i see these videos as the fun in this kinda community, not the pointless drama, not the fighting, but the insane tricks and videos like documentary's, just for fun, its so impressive and i wish i had the motivation for it lol

I respect how you called Ivory by the correct pronouns and muted her old skin to respect the history that they have left behind.

Fantastic video Kenadian, I hope that both sides of the community continue to learn from each other (and have fun while doing it)

I am still amazed by Kenadians Neon Void video, I have watched it over 5 times and it never fails to entertain me, in my opinion its the best ever minecraft video ever posted, the storytelling and editing is so mindblownig same as the story itself, truly a masterpiece, and the 4 hour stream regarding this video was very interesting too, I just want to show my genuine appreciation here. Thanks Ken (sent this to the discord too)

Could you do a prison "tutorial" series where you go over that list at 6:47 one or two per episode? Wonderful video btw.

Really good job on making a 30min cinematic video on the history of prisons and about all the important people involved 👍 looking forward to seeing more videos in the future enjoy a new subscriber

I LOVEEEE the editing and story telling. Each video you post keeps getting better and better

This is BY FAR the best story I’ve ever read. Thanks Ken.

i didnt know editing can get this good! srsly that start sequence was fire🔥🔥

I'm not really into building prisons and not a part of the community, but I do enjoy redstone AND your videos so personally I'd really love to see you explaining at least some of the mechanisms used, preferably in detail. And I'm sure I'm not alone in this wish, although probably there are not that many of us nerds out there :D Anyway great video, tons of info and effort, that's literally several years in 30 minutes

By far one of the greatest videos I've seen on this platform, absolutely blew me away Ken!

8:20 is this a "history of the world i guess" reference?

really high quality video as always kenadian

ken is genuinely an amazing person holy the amount of effort, honestly this shit doesn't' feel real half the time, probably one of my favorite channels on the platform, this is the type of person I just would love to be friends with

Very good storytelling for an unfortunate project. Keep it up!

If it's possible, I think a Neon Void with all of the tech removed and JUST THE ARCHITECTURE ALONE could make a really cool CTM map. Hi; I'm from the CTM community. Not a mapper, just a player. For those who forgot the name CTM, it stands for Complete the Monument. Players were tasked to survive in brutal climates in any way possible, take on various dungeons and challenges, all to complete the *Victory Monument,* a pedestal for sixteen wool blocks found only in the dungeons as well as every resource block in the game. Some plans existed to expand the selection to terracotta, concrete, and glazed terracotta, totalling 64 dungeons in a map. Why I bring this up is the fact that CTMs had their own "Neon Void," except it was never a world of Minimalists vs Traditionalists, but it was a different story of overambition. See, CTMs are typically built by one -- maybe two -- people, made using things like WorldEdit, NBTEdit, and command blocks. Redstone is typically left minimal, because CTMs emphasize player creativity -- survive and solve in any way you can within the rules of: - Don't break into developer rooms - Don't craft Victory Monument blocks except for resource blocks. Each map is carefully designed to provide a harsh experience, with fairness not guaranteed, but the game is overall designed to be beatable, with a good selection of anticheeses. Enter Pantheon. Sixteen independent builders collaborated to build the most ambitious CTM to date. The most famous names such as Amlup, Fangire, Vechs... And...it sucked. I was not part of the build team or the testing team, but I could tell that a good few were just trying to one-up each other, trying to be "the ultimate CTM maker." Failures in communication led to things like receiving infinite ender pearls by Purple Wool, which is typically a midgame dungeon that shouldn't give you such a powerful tool, compounded by the fact that Purple Wool was accessible incredibly early. Neon Void made such a similar mistake. Too much ambition, too little organization. Doing things for the sake of doing things. Using certain techniques because it just exists, instead of trying to push the bounds of CTM. To this day the only areas I really like were Black Wool, made by Vechs, and whichever area Amlup made, because both of those areas understood their actual goal -- to build a single area in a CTM resilient enough to deal with whatever wss given beforehand. Vechs used a really interesting technique of swarming the player with bowless skeletons to bog you down from ground-based assaults and aerial ghasts as well as "gunships," or skeletons mounted on blazes, to deter bridging techniques. Ender Pearling was also deterred through the bowless skeletons, while Amlup smoked a fat blunt, fired up WorldEdit, and said, "What if I just make a 3D mess?" and created one of the most mind-bending areas I've seen in a CTM to date. Still, every failed project has its own upsides. Pantheon for instance reallt brought forward the idea of using the Nether Roof as a serious design space, where lava flows further, and more importantly, players can't easily portal-skip into unintended locations or use water buckets. I think the architectural ideas of Neon Void may provide a new world for non-prison maps, instead opening a new set of ideas for custom map makers and CTM players who want to see a revival of the genre.

This video is well made and was entertaining :D I love watching kenadain videos and I hope you make more ❤

Thank you so much Ken for putting so much time in effort for everyone to enjoy and even going undercover as a redstoner?! So, Thank you.

Man this is just a masterpiece you are so good at this and you do almost everything yourself i really think more people should support you

Thank you for not showing Ivory's old alias, it is great to see the respect among creators here❤

Great video, kenadian u really know how to tell a story.

I feel like redundancy could be more effective if it's combined with minimalism. Adding more security measures on top of something that already works (as long as it doesn't interfere) could be a pretty effective strategy.

Kenadian is a great KZfaqr tbh, his commitment and editing skills are crazy

that was actually really interesting and the video was paced incredibly well lol its wild to see the toxicity though

Very interesting usage of the Portal 2 soundtrack for that opening montage. I liked it. Also just generally love the very subtle Portal 2 and Death Note references throughout the video (ie, 26:54)

i can not comprehend how long it took to edit this masterpiece of a video. you're probably the best youtuber when it comes to minecraft prisons and that's not an over exaggeration

Just started watching, looks high quality!

he makes the most boring stuffs fun, like fr the story line and the scences just makes it way more fun keep up the good work :)

amazing video yo, already on my 3rd rewatch within 24 hours

This dude has the best animations in the game. Also, he managed to explain over a year's worth of Minecraft prison history in just half an hour! Impressive.