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Suddenly everyone’s making videos on my old Minecraft arg! Thought oldroot would be forgotten forever

I would very much like to see more of the “raven” story near the end

The blue Ice blocks glow because in real life blue ice (i.e. when there's large quantities of heavily compacted ice) can look like it's glowing thanks to the way light refracts though it

that fact about prismarine changing colors over time feels like such an underrated fact. this is the first time i’ve heard about it yet it feels like it should be so much more well-known.

I would absolutely freakin love to see a video about that creepy Raven thing.

The fact that you renamed the boat to “Titanic” and drove the boat straight into an iceberg is peak comedy.

i think the bedrock skulls thing has something to do with the phrase: You stare at the void. The void stares back.

With the bit about bedrock skulls, I find it super weird you didn't mention the VERY explicitly shaped human face right above the Wither one you showed. It even has hair and everything! o.o

“chirping” being called “screaming” in the audio files is just too good

It’s insane just how much we are still figuring out about this game after 10 years

14:08 Back in Beta 1.5, when they'd first added lightning, I had just finished building an entirely wooden house... with a glass roof. I'd left to go fetch my friend to show them, and in the middle of the tour, a thunderstorm started, and lighting struck right through my roof. The fire damage was devastating and it spread so fast, that all we could do was narrowly escape with my dog, and the whole house was unsalvageable. I have... not played with firespread enabled much since, to say the least, gahaha. This totally reminded me of that, though- I thought I was crazy for thinking fire spread used to be so fast and devastating. You can see it in the video here, but blocks remained "hot" and even putting out the flames didn't guarantee anything, because the fires could still relight. Seriously though, great video!

12:05 one of the best sponsor entrances ever

"I don't need sleep" "I need retrogamingnow's 5th Minecraft iceberg"

The pattern above the bedrock skulls also has a face that looks like a gamer who spent two whole days in front of a screen

14:19 poor guy. All you who have had something similar happen, I sympathise.

i remember i drained an ocean monument to make a town hall with my friends, back when they were first added. when he pointed it out we both just stared at the wall for like 5 mins

Those jumping creepers were legit unnerving as hell. They should add that back as an occasional spawn in the Cave Update underground to boost the horror factor even more.

"Minecraft story mode is a game about story" IQ: 1000

I once got the Update block in my world. I'm on bedrock btw. The first time skulk came out, I immediately built a house out of skulk blocks. It was in the middle of a town I was building. Later, the texture got removed for development, and in place of the skulk was an ugly, dirt-green update block house. Not that the skulk was the greatest building material anyway, but yeah. After skulk texture came back it was back to normal.

Looking back at the bedrock skulls I may have an explanation for it. Block Textures in Minecraft, at least when viewed from the top or bottom, don’t share the same orientation. Taking a closer look at bedrock shows that the skull pattern is in random locations but what those locations all have in common is that they cover four bordering corners of bedrock blocks. Taking an even closer look shows that sometimes only part of a bedrock skull is visible meaning that, again since the skulls are part of corners, the full skull is the result of corners of four bordering bedrock textures coincidentally bordering each in the right orientation that makes it look like a skull. Something similar happens with grass blocks where the top grass pattern may sometimes form tiny “stars” from connecting corners of grass textures. So the bedrock skulls (like the grass stars) are unintentional and don’t serve any purpose or reason. I swear to god if someone says tl;dr…

I play on bedrock and I got “Peter griffin” 3 times in a row for my splash screen

An OldRoot video would be amazing, would definetly watch!

the lava rooms and obsidian sphere rooms in the mansions actually serve a purpose in the center of each of the is a diamond block. the illagers obvivously know how valuable diamonds are so the store them in hidden rooms and protect them with either lava or obsidian to make it hard for thieves to get their hands on.

Thinking back on it, I actually remember seeing prismarine blocks being blue at times.

The following is an actual recording of my heartrate Retrogaming uploads: 100Bps It's an Unsolved: 110Bps It's part four: 9999999bps

Everyone: **talking about the wither skull** Me: why doesnt anybody talk about the creepy steve head above the wither skull

Imagine being the guy who accidentally named the biggest game in the world Bro really deserves a cape

5:51 in experimental mode, jungle villagers are naturally spawned (in bedrock atleast), meaning that it is possible that they will be added to the game!

The OldRoot topic was unsettling, but I also would want a full video on where it goes

“Season 2 was lost forever” me who still has the game cartridge for both season 1 and 2: well i guess im powerful

18:01 They are called that way, because in earlier versions you could get "smooth stone" by placing a double slab (depending on the id, different versions) via command. The block would have the bottom texture of the old stone slab, which was smooth. Going by that idea, the smooth stone brick etc use the bottom texture of their corresponding slab.

I remember how sad I was when the god apple crafting recipe was removed, I saved up all that gold for nothing😭

The Minecraft iceberg 3: “ok this is the last one” The Minecraft iceberg 4: “well, here we go again”

I don't know if anyone else saw this but I saw a sick looking smushed steve face right above the bedrock wither skull. Now I can't unsee either of them, lol

I think we need to use these Icebergs on saving Polar Bears! Yes, both Minecraft and IRL. But apart from that, this iceberg was amazing! Bravo 👏 👏 👏

In the ice part of the iceburg(no pun intended) I know why it makes light. It is because in real life blue ice refractes and reflects light to create a glow effect

I think the reason for the “south-east rule” is due to the fact that south and East are positive on the x and z coordinates. Also, facing south is “0” in horizontal direction

Bro that raven story thing creeped me tf out, especially since it's late at night but it would be neat to see a whole video about it

I remember Minecraft education edition. My first experience with it was in middle school when I first got a laptop from a school. I’m guessing they had an idea to include it in school work of some sort, but was ultimately unfortunately banned in my school due to other kids my age abusing it and it not showing very much promise. Regardless it is a very interesting topic.

I recall at one point petrified slabs were gonna be craftable by cooking them in the furnace, along with including all types of wooden slab.

Everybody is talking about the raven but here i am still haunted by bedrock faces.

One thing I always found interesting about the Wither painting is that it has a Netherrack like wall in the background, but also grass and flowers. Did the nether have grass before the Wither was created?

I have been watching your channel since about 10 thousand subscribers. I am quite impressed with how much you’re channel has grown.

14:12 i feel sympathy for him

I would love to see a video on the oldroot section

5:55 they weren’t added because the swamp and jungle’s foliage would’ve confused pathfinding abilities

when i see early dev minecraft gameplay and screenshots, it makes me think of how crazy different games that are in development today are gonna look in a few years

I remember using temple of notch seeds back in my pocket edition days and seeing the info_update blocks, I never knew what they were.

“Removed enchanted golden apple crafting recipe” Me who still plays minecraft ps3 edition for old times’ sake: *Laughs in craftable notch apple*

*Some notes to consider:* The bedrock texture is a high saturation variant of the *pre 1.14* stone texture, but you're showing the new stone texture in the video. While the stone texture has been updated in 1.14, the bedrock texture hasn't. Same with the endstone&cobblestone texture, but yes, the old endstone texture is just an inverted (old) cobblestone texture. The bedrock and stone textures are randomly mirrored (both verticaly and horisontaly), depending on what coordinate they're on. This makes it very unlikely that the wither face is intentional. There are other textures that are randomly rotated depending on their coordinates, such as: the grass block top, the clay, and the sand texture.

One thing I wanted to point out that I thought of when you talked about the blue ice emitting light in the bedrock version of minecraft is that the brown mushroom emits a light level of 1 in java minecraft. I'm not sure whether this is the same in bedrock but it seems super weird to me as red mushrooms do not emit any light and mushrooms in real life don't emit light. The only reason I learned about this is that it is an integral part of a super efficient swamp based slime farm in newer versions of minecraft where mobs other than slimes only spawn at a light level of 0, so using a light level of 1 allows only slimes to spawn in a swamp area.

14:29 I genuinely feel bad for you

Thank you Retro for letting us add to your video! We are still working and adding new stuff to our iceberg so this isnt over yet (at least for us). If any of you want to talk with me or Retro and see the entire iceberg, be sure to join Retro's discord to help this wonderful man grow!

30:37 This is what endermen listen to while studying.

I play Bedrock Edition and I actually got to see a swamp villager once! the village he spawned in was part plains, part swamp. and no, I didn't use commands for this, I swear

I came across a village in the swamp biome that had villagers wearing there swamp biome variations which was cool, but i have never seen a jungle village. The village was not changed from a standard plains village but now with the wild update coming out maybe we will get new types of villages!

Theory: The hieroglyphs are connected to rugs sold by ikea and target.

when the world needed this video the most it was posted

9:27 I've seen that room before. It resembles a dragon egg, but when i broke into it, it had a diamond block inside of it. Perhaps the lava encased in glass is also to keep valuables safe?

I always love watching these minecraft iceberg videos. There are very entertaining.

Fun fact deadmau5's ears are linked to his username because if he changes his name his ears will go

That prismarine one assured me that I'm not insane, thank you. I'm helping a friend with a Guardian Spawner project that involves some pretty heavy duty terraforming of the area around an ocean monument. Sometimes when I'm working in there I swear the prismarine blocks look more green than blue, and it's good to know that there's a reason behind that.

That was a great series, thanks!

I was ready for a super insane entry and you just slapped me in the face with a sponsor

I felt soo Bad for the Guy:( Imagine getting Your House on fire by one itty' bitty Fire!

I was very confused as to what color prismarine was. I finally know why.

24:30 i actually got to see this splash text with my brother ! albeit an older version of the game, it immediately caused me to recall this video. he didn’t understand why i was so surprised to see it

My man you gotta keep making these I love them

fun fact: Im still afraid to use ender chests because im so used to how they were back in the old days.

Jungle and swamp villagers aren’t unused. You can still get them by breeding villagers in those biomes. The purpose of those outfits are just for completionists to collect as mentioned by Mojang themselves in one of their Village and Pillage videos on their KZfaq channel.

so a cool thing with the wet sponge trick is that you can make an infinite water source from one source block, a sponge, a furnace, and fuel.

Thank you for all this additional Minecraft Information :)

I'm somewhat surprised they haven't removed the splash text "Woo, /v/!", considering that it's a reference to both 4chan's video game board, and the fact that notch used to discuss/advertise Minecraft there back in 2009-early2010.

Jungle and Swamp villagers aren't unused, if two Villagers breed in either of these biomes their baby will be the respective type. They're more easter egg villagers than anything

11:35 Thank you RGN, I will forever be using these emoji's on my signs!

15:40 i rly like the petrified oak slab bc it allows me as a mapmaker to make entrances with commands by detecting if a player is standing on a petrified oak slab and not have to worry about it sticking out

"Hey babe, wake up, new Minecraft iceberg just dropped."

I'd like to imagine that the Raven story is just Oldroot sending creepy pictures to people who beat him in pvp

I'm a bedrock player, and it's pretty easy to find the update block. Create a flat world, set yourself in creative, fly out a few million blocks, and then the floor will change to the update blocks

3:10 "But season 2 appears to be lost forever" *The secret ingredient is crime*

I recall the “tornado” and “glyphs” textures being on the Painterly Pack website. I think they were actually in the game at one point, but unused. Painterly Pack referred to them as Chiselled Sandstone #1 and #2

5:16 [names a boat "Titanic"] [proceeds to sail into icebergs]

The wet sponge furnace is not the only smelting recipe that results in two by-products -- there's also the lava bucket, once it smelts 100 items (I think).

Fun fact about the prismarine animation: in the legacy console version of Minecraft, there was a Plastic texture pack available for purchase. In that texture pack, the animation is much more pronounced, constantly flipping between green, blue, and purple hues once about every 15 seconds.

17:30 so due to a glitch on my family's realm, I had lost everything in my inventory so they decided to give it back to me, one of these was a potion. When they tried to give me back my potions they instead appeared as Uncraftable Potion. They are now hang above my bed on the realm.

I would see the continue of "Raven is watching"

I remember that old firespread, it could be fun and I accidentally burnt down a large forest section, I wish they cold bring it back in a form, not all the time, but maybe when it has not rained in a bit, or have section/chunks that are naturally more flammable.

bro that was the best nord vpn ad i've seen, great video tho, keep it up!

Finally, someone talked about Minecraft Story Mode's disappearance! I played and finished Season 1 around this time last year and was very disappointed when I couldn't find Season 2 anywhere.

19:26 Back in 1.12, I played with a mod called Bewitchment (now called Bewitchment:Legacy.) which featured a charm the player can equip which gave them the luck potion effect. This effect objectively increased the rate of more valuable spawns such as gold and diamonds in chests, and I used that thing everywhere. Luck DOES in fact affect the player even as far back as 1.12.

13:55 reminds me of a world I have on my Xbox 360. I found a Woodland Mansion, but there must have been a lava pool right under it, as it was completely burnt down when I found it.

Hey Retro! I’ve just discovered your channel recently, got me back into playing fate again! I don’t know if you play newer released games but I think you would enjoy playing No Man’s Sky a lot. It’s an infinite universe and endless gameplay with multiple storylines. I think would be a fitting addition to your channel

I think the video about the Raven would be a necessary addition to your collection.

Regarding the 0 seed: the seed "creashaks organzine" also leads to 0, as shown by ibxtoycat. His comments section turned it into a meme, such as player getting Creashaks Organzine as a test score.

Something cool, before in some 1.18 snapshots or experimental features, oak villages sometimes spawned on the boarder of a jungle or sometime even in it! I still have a few worlds that have it.

The deadmau skin was one of the coolest things back on the day. As far as I can remember it was the only skin that had sticking out features on it

We definitely need an oldroot video asap. BTW I absolutely love your content. Keep putting out this level of quality and you will be one of the biggest in no time, I have no doubt

Once my little sister burnt down an entire woodland mansion by accident. I was mad at her for a little while because I wasn’t done in there! The rain finally put it out, but the mansion was ruined. XD

You can still get swamp and jungle villagers if you breed any kind of villagers in jungle or swamp. Also when he was talking about strange rooms in woodland mansion. He mentioned obsidian sphere and well... there is a diamond block in the middle for those that did not know that.