Nah, for me, it was bright and ugly, but very fun. It started to look better overtime time, but there's no way I ever called the Alpha version anything but ugly, yet a lot of fun.

I never played above 8 chunks and it showed tbh, having played it for all of 2012-2016 and a little bit during covid. I heard about this mod but I didn't know when it would be ready to be usable on fabric

I’m not crying you are

FACTS!!!

damn, back in the beta days, i wouldn't have doubted it could EVER look like this! xD

I rember, early Alpha was a vibe man, the art we used to build, recreations of buildings when we got better render distances, then getting survival in A1.5 and now look at it.... It will forever astound me at how far it's come I will always miss that first year though

It gave it a whole different vibe and atmosphere. There weren´t villagers or most of the mobs we have today. You felt isolated and the heavy fog made it so that you were always wondering what could be lurking beyond it. Kinda miss that tbh, but modern Minecraft is still great in its own way.

I was the free IOS version when demos were popular for games. Could only build with bricks 🥲

wasn't even done by numbers of chunks back in the day, it was tiny, normal and far

Yup! On a laptop I got for middle school with 4 gb of RAM 😂 And then I played Tekkit on it so my performance would suffer even more lol

Stalker lol. They rebuilt the engine into Anomaly. Basically combines all of the games, rebuilds and redesigns basically all of the systems and adds a bunch of new stuff.

samw ith dayz on PC the base game is ok but the modded vanilla servers are brilliant, new maps, the best gaming map of all time is on dayz ''Namalsk''. origianl game has 2 maps and now the modders gave it 50 plus maps, really thou Namalsk is such a beautiful map

Skyrim perhaps. But thats about it.

its the most successful game ever made. Not really surprising.

@@andrewmaclean9810what i thought

Was about to comment the same thing. Can't believe I've been here since the BF3 days.

watching this video and reading the comments is just so wholesome. Like there is no negativity on here and I love it

These comments make my depression spike lol

dude im literally just getting a high end PC just so i can play minecraft with the best graphics 👁️🫦👁️👌🏼❤️

@@mitt993 BF3 and airsoft. Great times.

When I first discovered that shader mods exist in 2020, I definitely said "wow"

Because that doesn't help sell the game. The same reason we don't have quality of life update, that's not marketable as "new mobs, new biomes, new tools, new blocs" it's a marketing bias, not a will of the development/ design team

L comment, compare the performance on modern versions to a 2014 version

@@topiaslaitinen8290 Shit then, even shittier now lol.

@@topiaslaitinen8290 It was bad then too lmao

@@valentyn_154 Yes, sorry, it was a rhetorical question. You are 100% correct.

They also overhauled the pvp meta, added an entire new system for bad omen, and created pretty much one of the best updates since 1.18

@@comboing3108 Also dont forget that they've done some optimization too (unfortunately one of THE most disliked things in the community, an update without "more masses of content shoved down facehole" clearly visible)

@@comboing3108 ah yes, the prestigious pvp mode that I'm just hearing of for the first time 😅 Isn't Minecraft mostly played on servers with minigames these days?

minecraft isnt supposed to be a high graphic game. So keeping it as a mod is good

@@fldom4610 Not sure where this idea comes from. Yes, the game is supposed to be simple and accessible. That being said, visual aesthetics are okay to change because the game is still simple and accessible. As tech continues to improve, so to will graphical engines, allowing things that weren't possible before. Minecraft was made with the limitations it has because of what was available at the time.

Is there any expected time for full release?

@@Koersky Not currently

@@DrFaex So just do it, and hope you dont crash every few minutes, if it's a crash every few hours I can live with it

@@proxmitikgames I've played for quite a while now and with no crashes. I have seen a few graphical glitches in the wayway far distance. Cranked it 512 chuncks so not really surprised there haha.

@@Kennyancat AY, good to know, ty

I played the web based demo that Notch made before the Java version, it’s certainly improved since then.

@@lamsmiley1944 dude yeah me too, like in 2009 or something. I was 15 at the time and I played deep into the night almost every day. Made me fail a couple tests in school but it was so fkng fun. Kinda weird that this was 15 years ago...

it’s insane because it’s not even mojang themselves that makes it so good. the community makes a better game out of minecraft than the devs themselves.

Oof, I feel old. I was in my 30s back then. Still played a ton of Minecraft. 😃

Started playing in 2014 on 1.7. Been playing the game since

I was thinking the same exact thing! This gives me the same feeling as RDR2 does when looking off into the horizon.

First time I felt this way was playing Just Cause 2. This mod is encapsulating the jaw dropping look these games had through our kid eyes.

@@Soliye. Oh man, Just Cause 2 was really ahead of its time. Truly amazing with its vast landscapes.

lol okay now chill

Now imagine GTA 6

The problem is that Minecraft Java is full of spaghetti code and is an unoptimized hell, especially when Mojang was bought by Microsoft. It runs terribly on low spec PCs without a bunch of optimization mods. Its also the reason why Mojang created Bedrock. Its essentially an entirely new game backend-wise, and why it doesnt have features Java has (but very optimised and stable).

​@@elongated_musket6353 Distant Horizons (one guy at first) pulled it off without access to that code. Its not an excuse tbh

​@@elongated_musket6353 the difference is that modders don't have source code, so they have to reverse engineer the code.

Agreed, Mojang has had something like 10 years to sort this out, but just hasn't, They don't seem to care, people buy it anyway, and they have outsourced the optimization problem to the modders.

@@elongated_musket6353 the difference is that modders don't have source code, so they have to reverse engineer the code.

Isn't the game 15 years old? (2024 - 2009?)

@@Miraine12 Only if you count the pre-Release versions. Release-wise, it's 2011-2024 (13 years now, but close enough)

As far as I know, LoDs as used in the mod Distant Horizons here, have been around the entire time, and is how games like Skyrim and GTA have been able to make the open world a thing. But yes, nonetheless, it’s really satisfying and inspiring to see the community work towards implementing all of this. To have the community push the boundaries of limitations so far ahead is wondrous! I hope that they keep it up, and that the devs take note too!

They do a lot of other stuff behind the scenes, but most of it is just refactoring existing code in ways that make switching versions when modding unnecessarily difficult

@mossy8419 you can make it sound more complex if you want, but you can't defend a company 100+ devs that releases game updates the size of what they do in the timeframe they have. Its one of the most inactive studios around.

@@ZaneDragonBornYeah, though the guy above you highlighted correctly how they make modding harder But imagine if they focused on optimization a lot more, the game would be much more capable, and modding would have a lot more room to work with. People could play on much higher end shaders and resource packs, or at the very least not need a mid-high end gaming computer to be able to run at a consistent frame rate with them Kinda disappointing, feels like they’re just working at a minimum rate just to justify their jobs and keep expectations low

@@ZaneDragonBorn >100+ devs Are they actual devs? Or are you counting Marketing and Customer Support? :V Also keep in mind: 1 - Bedrock Team drags ass, they have to wait for the version infamous for being SEVERAL MAJOR RELEASES behind until the two were forcefully Sync'd. 2 - Microsoft Execs decide every feature that gets added, what doesnt get added, and in cases like the Mob Vote, how to add it. I believe one of the Developers (before the tweet was deleted) had fucked up and let slip that 80% of the "development time" is actually just fighting their bosses/bureaucratic bullshit, and not actually touching the game. Though, considering the Java Team's clear dislike around the Copper Bulb being changed, and what they said prior, i'm going to bet that was ALSO Corporate Meddling. Something something "Bedrock doesnt want to lack parity and they dont want to change their code much can you remove this unique feature of copper bulbs for Bedrock Edition plz? I expect it by tomorrow btw"

@@higueraft571weird way to say the same thing as his last sentence

did you run it with shaders or just DH by itself?

@@OmniMCI tried both with and without shaders. Bliss shader seen in this video, I tried but wasn’t compatible in VR. I used BSL Shader which worked.

@@OmniMC Bliss f's up the depth perception in VR, idk if there are any compatible shaders honestly.

You can increase the quality of the LOD, it's at medium by default, there 2 more higher settings

If you use a shader with far away blur it may look better

Because Bedrock Edition is built for a shitty smartphone, not a console let alone a PC, it's struggling already on the phones, it doesnt need Distant Horizons to nuke it (also assuming Bedrock Edition even works properly, which it doesnt) :V

@@higueraft571 it seems to run fine of PC. It can do more that triple the max render distance of Java edition. I'm sure if they toned that down they could have added a similar LOD effect to Bedrock edition.

@@Godmode_ON24 >it seems to run fine of PC. As mentioned, it's Smartphones which basically crash and burn, not PC, they're the minimum specs (and boy are they minimum...) :V

i have a world like that

@@Rangomeri its good for you

Mojang doesn’t exist anymore. It’s all Microsoft wether you like to believe it or not…

@@Lurkspur What do you mean? Mojang Studios still exist and work on developing Minecraft, they are just owned by Microsoft. No?

Mojang doesnt care about java, they just care about their cashcow microtransaction bedrock shitware.

MOJANG HIRE THIS MAN!

@@arog7493 Yeah they still "work" on the game. However whether its Microsoft or Mojang, nothing gets done anymore. The largest updates since the sale of Mojang (right around the 1.8 update) was the release of the combat update (1.9) and the Nether+Caves and Cliffs updates (1.16-1.18). Outside of some server improvements made by hiring server plugin developers from the peak days of the game, everything else has just been novel additions to the same base game. It seems like none of the team has any real technical skill to make large optimizations to the existing game and that has been left to modders. Even Microsofts Bedrock team which was supposed to re-write the game to be more performant and more moddable, and instead left us with a buggy mess that isn't even up to date with the Java version in many ways.

Unless LevelCapGaming is knowledgeable about the development, his term, "chunks" is probably isn't the correct word, and if it is, it's probably referring to something different from normal chunks.

He’s talking about “LOD chunks” as the developer calls them.

You clearly haven't watched the video. Levelcap said that countless times

@@tjpprojects7192 >his term, "chunks" is probably isn't the correct word It's the term that Notch used.

@@higueraft571 "Chunk" refers specifically to the 16x16 groups of blocks that are loaded in Minecraft. If you want to get technical, nothing else should be called chunks, so what he's talking about aren't chunks.

Looks beautiful! In this YTube video, it seems very hard to see under the highly reflective (but amazing) water surface. Do you find that when playing?

@@737smartinCompared to other shaders that I've used, underwater visibility is quite limited with the Bliss Shaders but it depends on personal preference. For me, I love it! It adds to the realism and I especially like the underwater visuals more with the lightrays penetrating through the water.

@@CaptainZhariff Appreciate the reply!

Well, they did make Minecraft.

@@MikaelLevoniemi Like 10 years ago lol

@@Key-Knight87 It's quite different game today than what it was 10 years ago and they have never strayed from the path. MS on the other hand with bedrock has gone all the way microtransactions for everyone.

@@Key-Knight87 10? Try 14 lol

Exactly...I'm very disappointed that it turned out to be just a mod. I mean, it looks absolutely amazing and impressive (hence I'm mad lol), but damn…why isn't this already implemented in the base game?? Sigh...looks like I'll be staying away from Minecraft for a few more years then. Fortunately, I still have a lot of games to finish :)

😂

Or just go outside 😂 And yes I get that this was a joke, i am also joking.

Fr 😂😂

Pass out from what exactly? Sounds like a skill issue

Or vomit from intense motion sickness..

Last year it's gotten bad

Pretty much since ever.

Since 2016ish

What the algorithm does to comments from actual people is worse

Could just hire the dev

Will never happen.

Or just download the mod

Microsoft will ruin it if they buy it.

why wait, just use the mod today..

In a sense it's very similar to how Source engine does it.

Underrated comment lol

Shaders called Bliss only works for fabric!

follow the instructions lmao. it says to use its own shaders that come with the pack

@danielwright5031 , yeah lol, i usually just look at install instructions, and nothing passed it.

@IamABanan , thanks man.

It's Sodium + Iris Shaders + Distant Horizons, you need a specific compatible shader called Bliss Shaders, only on Fabric. And you need some Beta versions of the mods last I checked.

There was a moment in the past when Mojang wanted to enhance graphics called "super duper graphics pack", but since then they have abandoned the project.

Nah

*their

*Microsoft

*their

*theyire're

I personally like the simplicity of vanilla. I've downloaded all kinds of mods but always fall back to vanilla.

Everyone prefers such different shaders and settings they’d have to implement native support in such a way that would still allow options and customization

Again, people letting their personal preferences get ahead of what's actually good for the game.