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For 1.10, I initially thought the polar bear would be just one variant out of many of the bear mob, but it was just the polar bear and that was it..

Still miss the beta terrain to this day. Frozen oceans/lakes were super cosy. Feels like the game is missing small lakes in general these day.

My most hated update is the one that removed world-gen settings; making custom worlds with different heights and ore spreads was my favorite feature.

kind of interesting how both of the most controversial Minecraft updates have a 9 in them. 1.9 tore apart the PvP community and 1.19 is bringing moderation to Java.

Surprised you didn't include 1.8, seeing as it broke basically every mod that existed at the time, and now there are still to this day tons of modpacks and servers stuck on 1.7.10 because somehow none of the mods they use have been updated once by anyone after all this time

i mean, it's nice to have biome-spesific variants for zombies and skeletons, but they should have been introdused in a bigger update as a side-features, not the main focus

I mean, people argue 1.8 combat took skill but that's a massive pile of Copium. You literally just spam click your mouse. The combat update atleast made it so using an axe and waiting to strike when it was right really rewarding.

4:50 there's one other very important thing about Beta 1.8 - it was the update that changed Minecraft from a simple game you can run on a calculator into the unnecessarily laggy mess requiring a gaming PC to play at a reasonable render distance. Beta 1.7.3 went like butter on my parents' ancient PC. Beta 1.8 was unplayable, barring me from being able to play Minecraft comfortably for many years.

What I love about MC is you can go back to any version you want, start a new world, and boom your suddenly back in 2009-2015. With the multiMC launcher, it makes doing this even easier. Want to try a modpack from 7 years ago? 1 click away. You cant do that in any other game.

Should have been on the list: 1.3.1. The single player game was effectively removed and replaced with a local server, meaning that all of the bugs and performance issues of multiplayer now affected people who'd never logged on to a server in their lives. While 1.4.2 fixed *some* of the performance issues, among other issues it took four years and a complete code rewrite before boats were usable again.

The new worst update will be 1.19.1 if Mojang and Microsoft decide to keep the chat filtering thing.

Only a few months later... 1.19.1 pre release 1 has taken the cake as the new most hated update.

Another issue from 1.13 was, from what I remember, the mods. While I don't think it was necessarily 1.13's fault, the forge devs spent a lot of time basically rebuilding forge, so it wasn't released for an insanely long time. A lot of my favorite mods from the time completely died at 1.12 because the mod developers moved on during that hiatus from no forge. Fabric also became a thing, almost completely splitting the modding community.

For me aquatic update was the best, it was a sooo much needed rebirth for the game and it started the trend of making old content better instead of just piling up new stuff

Am I the only one who likes 1.9 combat mechanic? I really love the fact that you can use axe as a weapon now.

Early updates were wild haha, Notch would literally update the game and the mouse would stop working.

I want vertical slabs, any argument Mojang gives against this is dumb. “It will make the creative tabs too cluttered” okay we’ll make slabs vertical when crouched or something. “It will make Minecraft not look like Minecraft” How? Everyone uses texture packs and it still looks like minecraft. “It will limit creativity because players will no longer have to get around block limitations” Creative slabs will give more creative opportunities.

My most hated update is whichever one removed the super secret settings. RIP static TV settings, gone but never forgotten

11:44 I remember when someone said that you only need 3-4 gb of RAM dedicated to a minecraft server for optimal performance. such were the days...

"I stab fun in the face" is one of the best developer quotes in gaming history

Strays are weird, but are better for farms as they have bigger and better loot tables than regular skeletons.

I joined Java in 1.7 times, i played MCPE & console before but loved java 1.7 (mainly 1.7.10) pvp was huge and many servers had fun times. 1.8 still is awesome and still servers to this day use older system for pvp usually. Great video as always!

I remember 1.7.10 so fondly. So many mods never made it past that point.

That slow healing thing is still a problem in bedrock, as well as losing hunger at obscene rates.

a proably lukewarm take on 1.9: the worst thing about how this update splitting the playerbase is the fact that many servers are forced to ensure everything they have is compatible with 1.8, and so are forced to miss out on an absurd amount of blocks/items to work with and tools to make use of since 1.8 players don't get them

I got used to the swing speed and shield stuff but I can't say I think it was/is an improvement. The old bows were also more fun in my opinion. I also miss the old wonky terrain gen that would result in wild mountains and floating islands. It might not be realistic but man did it make for some great base locations.

I remember when beta 1.8 came out and while I liked a lot of the features I was amongst the group of players who disliked the hunger bar lol. Maybe it's because I always played on peaceful and didn't need to eat often before then (I was young and just wanted to build my little projects without having to fight). I still get nostalgic when I see videos of older versions where someone has a food chest just filled up with single pork chops, now pigs feel a bit irrelevant when other mobs provide food and more.

1.10 added magma block, which we usually need for gold xp farm and also the auto-jump is quite useful, especially for mobile (bedrock) players transtitioning to java. Well, it could've been a huge update if combined with 1.11 and 1.12

I wish I could remember which version it was, but there was a little talked about (because it was reverted quickly) which had mob light level spawns tied to z level, meaning the deeper you went the more light it took to stop mobs from spawning. By the time you got to bedrock, no amount of light prevented spawning, so deep bases became a bit of a nightmare.

There are still people complaining about the "infrequent" updates when a lot of us back in 2014-2017 had very long periods without updates, and the updates that did arrive were controversial anyways. 1.13 Was a turning point for the game despite its performance issues

I was one of those people that hated 1.9 combat at first but I actually like it a lot more now. takes more skill than just spam clicking and hope your attack registers

You forgot about the first halloween update that basically broke every known mod at the time and caused alot of great people to stop working on their projects

Basically the only thing anyone remembers about 1.10 is how forgettable it is

To be honest, I didn’t mind 1.9 combat. To me, it felt more dynamic and tense, and cheating was more difficult as an auto clicker could no longer be used for virtually instant kills.

I think you will have to redo this video soon💀

I’m still wondering if Mojang has even considered to just add a gamerule for oldCombat? Wouldn’t it be great if you could play 1.18 or in the future 1.19 with the old combat system?

Some updates are revolutionary and some updates change the game so little that it gets forgotten in a short amount of time but either way an update changes a game for the good or for the bad and even though its sometimes mentioned to be in the game by the players when it eventually comes out they would start trash on it because of how bad their decision on picking it really is

there was a snapshot for 1.9 that made it so that Armor protection was determined by durability so if you had low durability Diamond Armor it was worse at protecting you than Leather Armor that one stayed for like 1 or 2 snapshots then yeeted out iirc

Having experienced and played through all of these updates, I was excited each time. Yes, even the combat update made me happy. Though, I've always been a more hardcore/pve type of player. Sucked for PvP players though.

I joined Minecraft around 1.7, I played both on mobile and pc at first. I remember on the mobile version the nether reactor being introduced lol, good times. Sometimes I do really miss back in the day when I would play pocket edition on my kindle fire

So crazy to see how long ago my original Minecraft days really. I remember when they added hunger and it feels like it JUST happened. Same with wolves and beds.

One of the bad ones that wasn't mentioned was the removal of the boat lifts. They just removed such a rich gameplay feature in the name of realism, and they still haven't made a replacement. Boats used to float in waterfalls, which alloed you to access floating islands by having a waterfall down from it and using a boat, and you were also able to have your waterways on multiple levels. Today every waterway system on a different level will have to be a completely separate system and you can't travel freely between them. These boat mechanics allowed for rich gameplay and interesting build ideas, and the possibilities weren't even replaced with anything.

I want to mention this because I haven't seen it in the comments, but 1.13 is quite a controversial subject for me. for those that don't know, 1.13 completely changes how Minecraft loads items, removing things such as IDs. While it didn't cause that much of a problem on singleplayer or vanilla multiplayer, it did cause quite the problem with plugin related/data heavy items. For example, I could have a sword with all of the enchantments(Quite the common thing back in the day), but then the moment I update it from 1.12.2 to 1.13, or any of the 1.13+ versions, it would break. (1.16+ might've fixed it, I'm not sure as I have been using separate folders and worlds to differentiate between 1.12.2 and below and 1.13+) This is caused by what I assumed to be changes to the enchantment system, as the ID removal was universal, which included enchantment IDs at the time. Another thing to mention is the corruption caused by 1.13, again, what I assume to be the NBT data changes on the game itself, deleting whole inventories from servers.

I remember that i had to make a texture pack that disabled the kelp animations when they got added into the game in 1.13. The game lagged so much, i couldn't even look at the ocean without FPS dropping to 15, my texture slightly fixed the problem but the FPS were still not above 32 closer to the ocean.

Dude, I was wondering for about 3 years now if the 1.13 performance dip was just my pc or if something was wrong. Its infuriating to be using iris sodium with 6 out of my 12g of ram allocated in singleplayer only to be slapped in the face by laggy mobs and unloaded chunks when flying with my elytra at firework burst speed. My general statement towards these issues is this: “The player should not be able to outrun the chunk loader”

I feel like 1.15 would be on this list for many, but I think the hate is unjust. In 1.13 and 14 people complained that the performance was terrible, but when 1.15 patched bugs and improved performance, while not adding much content, the complained more. It was still a cool update and fixed al lot of issues.

The reason the husks and those other mobs are boring is probably actually just because that was ALL we got. I think if it was a bigger update it would be easier to appreciate them.

I played the game on the 360 version for the first couple of years after it had released there, and the terrain generation was better then than it was for many years after. The vibe of the tundra was so desolate and oddly charming. Trees were rare, it was unusually flat (which was peculiar generation at that time where most biomes were very, very hilly), and it really had a sort of desolate Siberian look to it. Now that just isn't the case, I don't ever see terrain like that even now. It also seems like you never get island spawns these days. Back then you'd probably get one after just a dozen world generations or so.

I feel like 1.10, 1.11, and 1.12 combined had about an update and a half worth of features. (Concrete, observers, shulker boxes, woodland mansions, creative toolbars, and the recipe book is all I found in the changelogs that was interesting for all those versions combined.) Glad they're doing more exciting updates now

About the stray .... I don t think it is useless anymore because now in 1 18 you can farm them using skeleton grinders with powder snow . The sole reason I farm them is for the slowness arrow on smp s for pvp .

I believe I started playing Minecraft at around beta 1.8 I was around 5 or 6 I believe. My mom recently saw me playing and looked at house for a minute (I was playing survival and building a house before I built it in my survival world) and she said “wow Minecraft has changed a lot from when you first started playing” and looking back, it really has. There are horses and hunger bars fire works and blue wood blocks (I used those for my roof) it’s so interesting to see all these changes it feels like just yesterday I was in a game with my sister confused as to why her skin was a girl and why it was so slim and then finding armor stands and rabbits. I miss the old version but I also love finding new things in the game and exploring, Minecraft has improved so much and sure there are a few things I wouldn’t hesitate to get rid of *cough drowned cough* but I would never go back to the old versions permanently

In retrospective, we really got mad for nothing, once 1.8 came out. Minecraft today is amazing, and it somewhat makes me happy that each generation got their own version of the game. For me personally, 1.5 was my favorite. Only because I was a kid enjoying a new game, on his potato pc, spending a great timewith his friends. I will ever forget Hexxit. And once I got a new pc I will definitely play it again.

The split between 1.8 and 1.9 players always bothered me. Personally I like both PVP versions and understand the criticism from both sides, but that’s not the story here. It just sucks that all the popular servers like Hypixel are still stuck on 1.8. I definitely get why it’s like that, but what about all the cool new minigames that can be created using all the features added to Minecraft in the past 5 years? I for example remember Mineplex adding a cool game with Elytras back when 1.9 came out, until they decided to remove it and just stay on 1.8. Just feels like a missed opportunity for me.

1.15 would have been on the list if they didn't make the last minute decision to make honey blocks not stick to slime blocks

I'm gonna be honest, aside from the buggy/glitchy and lack luster updates, some of these didn't deserve the hate they got. Yes the hunger system was flawed at first but got improved upon over time, I can't imagine Minecraft without it. I'll admit the changes to combat was frustrating but I'd argue that it was for the better. Now it takes actual skill to fight, as opposed to just going unga bunga on one another with swords.

Even so, 1.13 still runs like a breeze compared to the Nintendo Switch bedrock edition of Minecraft. You will literally crash into the sides of chunks while flying, have the game freeze but still allow the mobs to move (the cause of many a death) and have frequent below 30fps drops.

This is the first time a “please subscribe” thing has worked because this man didn’t need to put a whole paragraph in telling us the history of the subscribe button but he did I respect that

1.8+ is also when the performance began to degrade with each update They also stopped doing serious updates with the stock server so Bukkit would be forked into Spigot which would be forked into Paper purely just to improve the server performance.

Anyone remember 1.1 where they broke the ladders? Ladders always kinda sucked in beta, and a person who spoke abt this a lot was the youtuber uberhaxornova. In 1.1, they fixed the main issue people had, but removed the hitbox on the top, meaning you couldn’t stand on them anymore. This was, eventually fixed, into a ladder that you could stand on and had the original fixes requested by the community. The 1.1 ladders are actually still in the game as their hitboxes are now used for vines (since 1.2 I believe) I’m a Minecraft boomer okay, I got the game in 1.7 beta

I feel like 1.8 would have been a better candidate for this video than 1.7, since the backlash to 1.7 terrain was relatively minor compared to the praise it received for adding so many things, and 1.8 was widely hated by the modding and pvp communities for breaking mods and animations

I don't have the luxury of saying that I am a veteran Minecraft player, I have known about Minecraft since 2012 but first played it back in April of 2016 after downloading what was at the time known as Pocket Edition which is the version I still play today. While I can see where people were coming from with Beta 1.8 I still think to this day no update will compares to the tragedy that was 1.13, because as you said, my game SLOWED DOWN dramatically even with the great performance that Pocket Edition has. But not only that, 1.13 is what I like to call a transitional update. Why? Because it marked the end of the "small features" era and began the "change what already exists" era. So in 1.13 you could find textures that look better with 1.14 default texture pack but the textures from 1.12 and before were still present so there was a huge disconnect among blocks found in the world.

I remember I used to watch minecraft videos and there was no hungry bar, and when I discovered piracy, my first time playing was on beta 1.8 and I used to hate the hunger system. To this day I think there was something wrong with the old hungry system, because I remember that I was always hungry back in the day. But it might just be that I was bad lol

Every single update since 1.13 has been hated by some group for some reason. 1.14 for exacerbating the problem of survival being too easy... 1.15 for having little content... 1.16 for changing a beloved mob and 1.16.2 being the start of the social interaction changes and multiplayer warning... Caves and Cliffs as a whole for basically everything it did or did not do. (Like why would the extend the worlds without just making Cubic Chunks a vanilla thing already?) 1.19.1 for finally doing what 1.16 threatened to do, adding global bans and reporting to the game (you can link to that video in the end cards, now) Maybe these aren't hated quite as much as the examples in the video, but still worth a footnote IMO.

I feel like the old version and new one has its charms. With the old one, some pretty formations could spawn. Like at 5:54, that tiny grass overhang is the cutest thing! Place a small hut in that hole, and that grass hangover can be a cute mini bridge. I feel like the same issues are occurring again tho, with the newest update with the lush underground stuff, this *one* cave formation keeps happening and its starting to get annoying. Its just a extremely steep like 3 block tall slope that goes down for about 10ish blocks, it gets annoying to see and even worse when you need to steer around to get out before you drown. I wish they did make some areas more flatter and wider, the cave update is amazing, i do prefer the more open wide caves ( PERFECT for under ground cities, I made a few, very cozy! ) but i think minecraft is just making the old flaws more pretty. The "extreme hills" is basically just the "caves and cliffs" update.

fun fact: polar bears were added because jeb's wife liked them. i think they also named their kid bear or polar bear in swedish.

There was a Title update on the Xbox 360 edition that added enchantments and xp levels. 9/10 the game would freeze, losing your progress on the world, while you had a 1 in 30 chance of getting a nether fortress in a new seed, a vital feature in an update that was leading up introducing the end world to the Xbox 360 edition

One thing missing from the aquatic update that I’m still salty about, is that the boats are still shitty little two person rafts. The aquatic update about ocean exploration, and they don’t bother with bigger, cooler looking boats. It might have been harder to implement but it would’ve been a very welcome change. They could’ve allowed the player to make custom boats with new blocks that would make them work, they could’ve added Viking style boats, there was so many options. And they kept the shitty little rafts.

This is really interesting because it shines light on why the major mod versions of Minecraft are typically 1.7.10 and 1.12.2: both were versions that saw large parts of the community avoid updating for a period and allowed modding to flourish

Unpopular opinion: I prefer the 1.9 combat over 1.8 combat, mostly due to how powerful 1.8 combat could be. You could spam without drawbacks, Fishing Rods were stupidly powerful, and to me it didnt give the game much "strategy" than "just spam and you might win". 1.9 made combat more strategic and I liked that. Would you use a Sword, which did less damage but recharged faster, or an Axe, which recharged slower and took double the durability damage but deals insane amounts of damage and could break your opponents Shield for 5 seconds so their more vulnerable? You would have to adapt to whats happening, kind of like the Pokemon Metagame: If a Pokemon randomly became OP in the Meta, what would you do to stop it, and what would happen when that Mon no longer dealt with the threat because it doesnt exist/ isnt allowed to be used anymore? What if people started out with Shields? There would be more Axe fights. What if Swords got a buff that made them better than Axes? Shields would become either OP since they block all damage, or become obsolete, and they would either rise in usage or decline into near uselessness, and so would Axes.

After 6 years, we now finally realize that Notch was not describing himself, he was describing the company he left.

I don't remember the combat being "much belloved" but I also don't like pvp...maybe thats really what the splits about. Because for pve I found 1.9 was a slight improvement over spam clicking.

Honestly, I love the 1.9 combat, and I'm tired of pretending I hate it. It makes it much more varied and dynamic, with swords and axes having different puropses. Use a sword for Zombie hordes, use an axe for Ravagers. It also makes combat more than just "who can spam the attack button the fastest". You need patience and strategy. In fact, if you do 1.9 combat CORRECTLY, you actually kill mobs FASTER than pre 1.9. It just takes a small amount of patience, and you can two-shot the Zombie that took about a million and a half hits before. Shields also add an extra layer of defense, with it's own pros and cons. You cannot attack and are slower when using one. Also, axes breaking shields means you need to pay attention to know when to run and when to defend. I do wish fishing rods were brough back though. MAN was that fun Also, before you even start, I'm no "new" player, I've been in Minecraft since before the days of StampyLongNose and BallisticSquid. I remember DanTDM's mod reviews with Dr. Trayaurus. EDIT/DISCAIMER: I am actually more of a Redstone Engineer (and a shitty Builder before Redstone), not a PvPer, so this is all from a completely objective point of view.

I know I might get some hate from this, but I felt post 1.9 combat is just objectively better. There is almost zero thinking involved in simply trying to click as fast as possible. And before that update I was always angry that the game never treated axes like proper weapons, which is something I hold against the Bedrock Edition to this day.

9:30 was kind of wrong. The player base was not uninterested in the recent updates, as the most recent update was slime blocks (one of the most useful blocks ever to come from redstone). The playerbase was dissatisfied having waited nearly 2 years for an update after the Microsoft acquisition. The update not only changed combat drastically, turning pvp in to a sluggish mess, but also made the game really easy with elytras which also meant more travelling was done and therefore more chunks were generated (poor server performance).

1.6.4 is forever etched in my brain for the number of times I had to read to make sure mod #678 in the pack was actually made for THIS version of Minecraft and not 1.6.2 or *gasp* 1.7.3, which was the bad version to not update to for a while because no mod support existed at first.

I only really remember the 1.9 update getting backlash, but that might just be because I started in beta 1.7 and never too deep into the pvp-scene. I usually either agreed with most changes or was excited to see what's next. I do remember the beta 1.7 having some really cool seeds, one of them being 10082011 (so you know to what degree we used to save good seeds).

I thought 1.10 and 1.15 was only an extend to its prior update (1.9 and 1.14). But despite all of that, i think the underwhelming factor of those 2 updates have been justified by mojang with the recent updates.

When 1.8 dropped my old pc could barely run it, I was so hyped for 1.9's combat update, but I couldn't play it, so I played on xbox or on my phone for a bit and stopped playing, came back at around 1.14 on bedrock, then earlier last year I gave Minecraft another chance on java and boy Im still loving the combat as much as I thought I would when I was 12

I dont remember exactly which update it was, probably like 1.7 or 1.8 if I had to guess, but there was an update that took like 2 years to come out and it just added a bunch of flowers. One of my friends I was playing with at the time was so pissed he waited 2 years for FLOWERS that he quit playing minecraft and honestly it kind of affected me too since I didn't really play again until around 1.14

This is a hot take but 1.9 has aged like wine. The timeframe that they decided to release it in was horrible and the backlash was to be expected but the changes it made have been very beneficial in the long run for the survival experience. The combat changes got a lot of hate but for single player (not PvP) they definitely made the combat much more interesting and less spammy. On top of that this was the update that added the Elytra, while it's full potential wouldn't be realized untill later I can't even imagine the game without it now and it's propelled SMPs to even further heights (lol). On top of that this update laid the groundwork for the Shulker box to be added later which is yet another item I can't imagine not having. Obviously the combat could still be improved to a compromise that doesn't just neglect PvP but it was a good move to prepare for their future updates.

Looking at beta 1.8 terrain reminded me of the new 1.18 terrain. It took a long time for them to reintegrate variation into the generation. While I haven’t been playing the new 1.18 worlds, I do enjoy flying around them and just looking.

I feel like the combat update was actually good. It was just realistic because of the fact that you couldn't spam attack and with spam attacks it just made it too easy to defeat mobs.

I remember in 1.7 i was like "The axe is more sharp why doesnt it do more damage". Well even tho what I said became true I regret it

Maybe someday 1.17 "Caves & Cliffs" would be in this list. Because it had to be splitted in two parts. And even then, some features got delayed again (Deep Dark and Warden) and some cancelled (Archeology and Bundles). 1.17 felt like having to play in a stable Snapshot. Even mod develpers didn't wanted to waste time updating their mods to 1.17. Then 1.18, while it's a great update and the new caves and mountains are really awesome. I think a lot of people feel that it lacks in the cave biomes department. We just got 2. While we got 4 mountain biomes. So it's really the "caves & CLIFFS" update. It's a good update overall, but it gives the dissapointment feeling because we had our expectations of a cave update and also we were over-promised.

After knowing and playing the game since the classic days, the only things that have made me mad in updates are Beta 1.8's Terrain Generation, 1.9's Combat, 1.13's FPS Dip and the splitting of Caves And Cliffs, why? Well: Beta 1.8's Terrain: this one is obvious, the terrain became too stale, and mountains weren't really a thing, they were more like tiny hills. 1.9's Combat: My problem with 1.9's Combat is not that it's bad, because it feels like they were going in the right direction, my problem with it is that it just feels like they threw ideas, tried implementing them and then just gave up, only to release it as it was last time they touched it, it was painful, but I can kind of understand why it's what it is, every time I've tried thinking on how to "Fix" it, I just come out empty-handed, I can't think of anything most of the time, the only things I've found to kind of make it feel a bit better are making attack cooldowns faster overall and not letting the player attack while the cooldown hasn't charged yet or making a sound when your cooldown bar has filled, because just the bar filling isn't enough feedback for when I'm ready to attack which leads to low damage attacks and the reseting of my cooldown, which most of the time just ends up in my death, it's been looking a bit better on Jeb's tests, so I am looking forward for more information and tests. 1.13's FPS Dip: it was painful playing 1.13 before Optifine for it released, I have been using the same computer for Minecraft since 1.2.5, a craptop with 2GB of RAM (later upgraded to 4GB before 1.13) and a Celeron, I couldn't get past 5 FPS in Vanilla 1.13, and with Optifine I couldn't even get more than 15, it was barely playable, and it kept being like that for the rest of 1.13 revisions and part of 1.14, it wasn't until 1.15 that the game returned into a playable state without Optifine, hitting between 30-40 FPS without it and keeping a steady 60 FPS with it, and it has been mostly like that in 1.16, 1.17 and it's revisions, and 1.18 lowered by a couple of frames, but it's still definitely playable, but it's still, 1.13 shouldn't have released in such a poor state, I specially felt the change in performance since I used the same computer for most of Minecraft's lifespan, so I felt this change first hand, and it was painful. The Splitting of Caves And Cliffs: this boils down into Mojang biting more than they could chew, realizing it and then just accepting it, and it's fine that it ended up working out, but it could have been much better if they had released everything in a single update this December instead of the half and half we got, because this split made 1.17 one of the worst updates, simply because the new content it brought was obtainable in the most clunky ways, it was just half-baked and definitely shouldn't have been released like that, my current theory on why they split up the update is because they had already hyped everyone about Caves And Cliffs after people had asked about the Cave Update for quite a while, and saying they'd delay it basically a whole year would have made quite a lot of controversy, so I can also understand why it was split and half released, so at the end it just is what it is.

1.9 I think got unecessary hate. It added so much like an improved Ender Dragon fight, end cities, the elytra, and dual wielding, all things we practically take for granted now. It added so much content that was amazing for survival and even the 1.9 combat feels right and balanced against single player mobs. I guess it's only the pvpers who really complained because any one playing suvival and even SMP servers will say otherwise. It was the first update that I recieved after I got java, after 1.8.8 which was the first version I played on java after I got a computer.

1.13, the one update who revived and refreshed the game for my and my girlfriend, were we spent so many hours of fun, exploration and enjoyment in our co-op world! Really love that one update!

I think you may have forgotten the UUID changes in 1.7.10 (i think thats the right one). I remember it basically killing the mod community

Mojang: “Our community really likes pvp, let’s update it and hope they like it 🤞” The community: “Mojang doesn’t care about us! They took away the fun!” Mojang: 😿👍

For the 1.13 points brought up I also want to add that for me, the ocean update was still somewhat underwhelming, so we get a couple of colorful blocks, fish now swim around which makes an easy food source, they added dolphins and an underwater variant of the zombie and the phantom was added and slightly different mechanics and weapons. I mean the oceans are more colorful but to me they feel just as boring as before.

People forget about that 1.8/1.9 decline that there is also the issue of mods. A lot of graphical backend stuff changed on 1.8 and that made it as far as I remember the version that took the longest to get mods going, to the point that several popular mods were abandoned or kept being develop on 1.7.10 and still are to this day. Forge took exceptionally long to update and after that several popular mods, specially the ones with fancy graphics had to pretty much be rewritten from the ground up. Bigger and/or heavily curated modpacks would only start to appear again on 1.12 and I don't think they ever recovered in terms of popularity in comparison to 1.7.10 days.

1.9 visually showcases just how divided the Minecraft community is, and neither are any better from each other 1.8 Purists are edgy 13 year old Hypixel sweats who are reminiscent of CoD lobby squeakers And 1.9 Purists are Dream stans who desperately try to fight like him I'm a Bow user. Has been, and will always be. And I'm afraid it'll stay that way till I die

I personally love the PvP currently. Old PvP was spam clicking while zigzagging, and hoping your internet was better than the other Player. There were technically things like building, but they went unused, especially since with how much damage you could do by spam clicking, there was no real reason to play defensively, since offense was the best defence. With current update, there's way more decision making. Attacks have cooldowns that you can ignore at the cost of dealing less damage and knockback. Axes have a longer cooldown, but deal more damage, and compromise shields. Enchantments are suited for different things, so there's strategy to preparation. Potions can penetrate through Armour, making enchantments even more useful. Building can be used offensively and defensively, and makes terrain a lot more critical in your pressure and defence. You can preload crossbows for quick ranged attacks, but bows are still generally faster. Even fishing rods still have a use, which is rewarded for greater distances. And you can't just always switch to the most optimal tool because of the cooldown, sometimes it might be better to Attack again with the axe, even if it doesn't win the pseudo rock paper scissors gimmick of Shield/Sword/Axe. It may even be worth sacrificing Armour for the sheer mobility the Elytra gives, or spending the extra time to switch it out as you're getting hit. My only complaint right now with it is consumables. If you have enough totems of Undying, and golden apples, you're basically untouchable. Maybe if potions and buff items like gapples had a Cooldown that applied a reduced effect that encouraged disengagements.

I still don't understand why 1.9 update was called "The combat update". There wasn't THAT much change on combat, and the real focus was on fixing bugs and glitches.

6 month old video but bro. Seeing the start of the 1.8 segment my first thought was “Glacier” that’s the Glacier seed. I loved it. It was my go to seed on my Xbox 360

I think you forgot the bee update, while it was really good for redstone, it had little features too, only adding bees, beehives, bee nests, honey blocks, honey bottles and a new advancement.

ah yes, 1.9 update. the stone axe update

pre 1.7.2 caves were so awesome. There were so many entrances in the world for the next big cave to explore and the caves felt like they would never end. I miss those caves. I pretty much got lost in those caves, had to kill myself and stuff like that to find my home again.

You forgot Alpha 1.2, the Halloween Update. This was an update filled with many controversial changes that were either reverted or simply were never followed through, and the game is better off for that. Also, it killed the radioactive green grass the game was known for. And in general marked the start towards the games more muted color pallette there is today.