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I am so sad JTE was seemingly bullied off the community. I shiver just imagining what could've been if she had stayed from thereon. What kind of game would we have if she'd continued helping develop the game alongside Notch?

Man, I wonder where JTE is now. Just really hope she's out there doing something great, because just this shows how much potential she has at creating.

JTE wherever you are, if you somehow come across this video, we just want you to know how much we appreciate everything you've done for Minecraft ♥

I've been playing Minecraft for nearly 10 years, and this is the first I have ever heard of JTE. Thank you so much for enlightening us and making her story known. She deserved so much better than what she got. The fact she put all that work in and pioneered one of Minecraft's most popular modes only to be bullied away by a couple of jumped-up forum admins is just heartbreaking. In my experience of the Minecraft forums, I must say the admins were despicable. They gave me infractions at every opportunity, and it got to the point where I swear they were targeting me. Esteemed users were often very rude to me, and if I stood up for myself, I wound up getting a 2-day ban while they got off scot-free. I am glad that forum went in the end. I hope those 2 mods feel thoroughly and utterly ashamed with themselves, and I hope JTE found success and the recognition she deserved in whatever she did after her early Minecraft work.

It pisses me off that someone so influential was bullied off Minecraft by mods abusing their power when they had permission from the game’s creator.

The irony is that the logic of JTE stealing customers from Notch is laughable considering the guys that ran the minecraft4free website managed to get away with it for two whole years before Notch asked them to take it down, and even went down to accept the pirates gauntlet of an online match in another multiplayer game as a condition to do so. All of this story boils down to mod people being jealous of JTE's genius and not being able to replicate or even understand what she was doing at the time. Now she lives as the golden apple and in JTE's words, *"yet it still moves..."* Thanks for sharing this bit of OG minecraft history. I left the game for a decade in early 2010 due to problems with griefers and stuff. JTE's cage design is exactly the one we also used in our server back in the day, before it was eventually defeated and we were droven away. Makes me sad to think all of the advances people like her could've done to put an end to the griefing epidemic that took the game hostage for half of its early life. Hope she's doing well and went on to keep on coding her own projects.

Wow. In the infancy of the game's life, two moderators bullied a seriously talented and committed modder into quitting the scene for the grievance of making the game functional and more bearable to play in multiplayer. It's amazing the game got anywhere if the official forums were run by clown mods that formed instant beefs with anyone who they *assumed* had a slight disagreement with Notch.

JTE did absolutely nothing wrong. She helped to build and solidify the community. If it weren't for her, we wouldn't even have SMPs today and MC would be far less successful. It's so sad that she was forced to leave the forums. Those forum moderators were horrible

As one of the Og Minecrafters, JTE is very well known before. Some of My friends even called him a god.

Sad to think what she could’ve added to the game if they brought her on as a member of the team.

Dang, this sucks for her. I had no idea she existed until now. I am happy that you have told this story and gave her the recognition she deserved. After seeing this video I decided to see what I could find about her on Google, but I had to use some very specific wording to find information about her. I hope that she will eventually get all the recognition she deserves, these types of stories always find a way of surfacing some day and I hope that this one gets fully shown to everyone. Good job and thank you for helping her get the recognition she deserves.

From now on i'm calling all Enchanted Golden Apples "JTE Apples" in honor of this Minecraft pioneer.

Pfft it's both sad and funny to see people saying how JTE was stealing customers from Notch. I wonder who has more money and fame now, Notch or JTE? At least that means all the accusations against JTE are proven false.

Wow, I am so surprised that how JTE was pushed away from the community even though they were such a big influence...

Just before this video released I literally found an enchanted golden apple in a dungeon! What are the chances of that?? Can’t wait to watch this vid

I almost completely forgot about JTE. A real legend, a pioneer of early Minecraft. Their actions formed some of the common things we see today in Minecraft. Whether that be the golden apple or something like red names for administrators. JTE is a unsung hero of Minecraft's history. The game wouldn't be the same without their contributions, godspeed to JTE wherever they are now. Godspeed.

Man, I feel so bad that JTE isn't more talked about. Thank you for spreading her name! Hopefully she sees this video someday!

I honestly feel bad for JTE. She didn't make Minecraft, but she helped make Minecraft what it is today. Part of me wonders what the game would be like had she not been bullied off the forums

I wish Notch hadn't turned her down for help with network programming (ref: 8:50ish). As an Internet systems programmer my greatest beef with Minecraft is how terrible its networking is.

i completely forgot i was watching a video about the golden apple until you brought it up again

Only OG will remember the time when enchanted gapple made out of apple and 8 block of gold

you deserve more recognition for reading an internet argument that happened more than 10 years ago just to make a video

Interesting to see that the Minecraft Forums staff was as pushy to make users feel unwelcome all that time ago too because I thought maybe it was just a recent thing. I decided to leave there a couple years back after being given infractions a couple of times for apparently being too far off topic (usually for chats with The Master Caver user). Forums are typically a type of social media platform that consists of things called threads which naturally, you know, evolve over time. It's not like I was suddenly introducing wildly different topics either, but if you were posting ANYTHING but a direct response to the very initial post, then it felt like it was at a risk of not being welcome. After one of my posts was removed for this (which I felt wasn't even off topic), I figured the place wasn't worth it anymore. Good riddance. All this was really the last straw after the forums underwent so many technical issues making it hard to use anyway, one which made pages super CPU heavy (on a rather fast CPU at the time) to edit longer posts, making me give up on maintaining the thread showing my world, and another that just... randomly made PMs never load, so I'd get PM notifications but lose access to my inbox for half a year at a time. Glad to hear she stood up for herself, and got Golden Apples into the game for it, haha.

Poor JTE, she pioneered so much of Minecraft, and yet was persecuted unjustly. It'd be great if she could ever return, she didn't deserve being pushed out of the community. I'm glad her legacy can live on in the game through the golden apple.

to think that one of the most powerful items in the game came from a joke

TheMisterEpic: "it regained some of its legendary status and it became extremely rare once more" sb737: today we will find our 37th notch apple

10:25 There is one instance recorded in history with the real Notch. In the Minecraft Manhunt with Dream, GeorgeNotFound, and Notch about 2 years ago, It was shown that Notch dropped an apple after Dream killed him, but it wasn't mentioned because of the heat of the moment in the episode. The line of code seemed to be re-added on a later version.

This right here is why I steer clear of the forums. I feel bad that JTE was bullied off the community. Hopefully more and more people give her the recognition she deserves. It would be even better if Mojang themselves would give her the credit she deserves. Who knows? Maybe they will.

Absolutely amazing story, sad ending tho. I remember playing on a server when grapples were still craftable, it was a sign of how powerful you were if you tons of them. Crazy how one of the most op items in the game spawned out of a joke

People have said JTE has seen this, wonder what it’s like to finally have your contributions to likely the most important game of the last decade finally recognized after so long? If you see this, being a beginner programmer and just starting learning networking and server stuff, you’ve got mad skills! You also likely made Antvenom’s career, while we’re at it.

I never knew about JTE, even though she did all of this amazing stuff to pioneer the multiplayer environment... she's a living legend.

Absolutely fantastic to see historical content like this. I consider myself a veteran in the game having joined around late Alpha-early Beta but some of this info is way older. True deep lore!

I feel bad for JTE, I wonder how is she doing now. She definitely deserves more credit for her work

We could only imagine how different the game would be now if only she had continued working with them. It’s sad how influential she could have been in the community, only to be forgotten.

XD she intentionaly trolled notch! Im absolute Sure. Imagine notch being constantly killed before they told him about the wiki.

Those classic servers are one of the strongest forms of nostalgia for me. I remember playing those in 2011-2012 as a 6-7 year old. Undoubtedly some timeless stuff for me.

You were talking about JTE for like half the video I forgot i was watching a video about how the golden apple was created or the truth behind it lol.

So not only did she single handedly made a server that would lead to this community in the future also she gave the idea of 2 VERY helpful items in the entire game and she wasn't known to any of us at all she was even bullied off of the community. How sad reality can be sometimes I feel bad for JTE.(live your videos mister epic)

my memory is super fuzzy but I remember one time back when mindcrack was still around Etho uploaded a video which had Notch logged into the server and I remember him dying in it, no idea if you can see him drop an apple at all or not though.

I’ve been playing since early 2011 and I’ve never heard of JTE before. It’s unbelievable how much she did for the community. I seriously don’t think Minecraft would have ever taken off like it did without her influence on the game, specifically with the multiplayer servers. Great video, I’m glad you shared this story.

I am a veteran of Minecraft I really hope a lot of new people see this the poor thing needs to be remembered for what they did and we should all be grateful for how they shaped Minecraft

After watching some of your vids about minecraft in the past, I start to see how this game was brought to life by the players (not underappreciating the devs' hard work) and that may be why Mojang values the player community so much when it comes to updates and the like.

8:34 i genuinely forgot what the video was about

Loved the video, it was a lot more interesting than the title suggests, maybe a tweak is needed? I almost didn't watch and would have missed out on all that JTE stuff and the origin of server software. On that note, would love to see a history of Bukkit if you think it's interesting enough for a video!

0:46 "sus amogus" LOL I didn't know Amogus was a thing back in 2010 xD

I'm happy she has SOMETHING to say "You see that? I made that." in official Minecraft. She deserves it.

This is definitely my favorite video from you. The research that went behind this is crazy. Well done.

Great video!

i know this video is old, but i remember jtes recipe list! ive looked for it multiple times over the years, but i could never find it and assumed it was just lost to time. the last time i used it was probably over a decade ago and i was pretty young, so i never had any details but you have confirmed it was real! this means so much to me (way more than it probably should haha) and i cant thank you enough!

Even if I don't really play these minigames, I'm glad that JTE pioneered many features that exists in the game and many servers

"Nobody has killed notch in game" Apparently Dream did a manhunt thing with Notch and killed him there

"since there was no little book showing crafting recipes" made me feel old

That video is awesome, thanks for teaching us that and making incredible videos, keep it up!

It pisses me off that such a talented individual as JTE was bullied off minecraft by some forum users. I really hope she's doing well in life

this was really interesting. A long time ago, I heard about this, but never knew the details or the people involved. I just heard that some one was making a clone of the game, with customized options. Similar to how private servers came to be with other games. Didn't realize it was like this. Honestly, it feels like JTE was probably pretty close to notch, close enough to make jokes, memes, and easter eggs. It really seems like JTE probably had way better understanding of running the code, but also really liked Notches concept. Notch IIRC just wanted people to play in a world where they can do anything. This story seems like JTE wanted to reinforce that idea and expand on it. Really sucks she/he got bullied off the forums. Who knows though, maybe JTE always stuck around, and continued to work alongside notch. Maybe when windows did their aquisition, they probably wanted she/he to come along to. Might have changed names, or stays in the back quietly? Or maybe probably just plays the game on their own. Dark side though, maybe what JTE unleashed is actually horrible. While not a free version of minecraft with more updates, but the server side options. Stuff that has made those dreadful p2w scam servers. Servers that are out to make money off of people, and not actually provide the experience notch intended. I feel like there probably is more to this story, but since its so old, who actually knows what happens.

As a member of that community, I wish you would have made some small shoutout to ClassiCube which was used for much of the footage here, or at least put it in the description.

Dang, I knew of the “Notch drops apples” thing but didn’t know this other stuff, that’s pretty cool. I started a bit too late to learn about JTE I guess, since I started on Beta 1.5 in 2011. She sounds cool, her contributions to the game are great; sucks what happened to her on the forum, hope she’s doing good.

JTE: "My server can handle lava floods." Notch: "Is that right?"

the JTE shit seems more like people were pissed that a woman was successful.

Incredible, please keep doing this.

It’s very interesting to me as a player who began her experience with Minecraft while survival was in its early Alpha phase. Seeing how completely different this 2009 multiplayer community was than the one I would end up interacting with from 2010. I had never heard of JTE, but it seems like she paved a way for a lot of stuff that would be forgotten even by the time I began.

It's amazing that even today like literally years and years later I learn more about Minecrafts past I though I knew a lot despite missing out till around 2017 when I finally could afford the game I had no idea about JTE at all but I am grateful for her contribution now though I wish the current heads of Minecraft could give proper recognition for her work on the game that helped shape it to what we have now in some shape or form

I missed the old golden apple texture theyre soo smooth looking

Actually 1.9 didn't nerf the Notch Apple, it made it WAY stronger, but removed its crafting recipe.

Thank you JTE. THANK YOU. You did amazing work, I'm sorry those that were there for it turned you down. They didn't know what this have was going to turn into.

Seeing the Super Duper Graphics Pack screenshot being used in the thumbnail hits the feels. Wonder if we'll ever see console shaders, it looked so good.

Man I hope this video helps encourage people to get Mojang to recognize the scope of jte's work upon Minecraft's mp community

minecraft was really a an outstanding game and it really always will be, it touched and changed so many people for years and will for many years to come and i’m glad we have people to record the history of this amazing community

From what I remember early versions of modded even had lots of similar drama where mod devs wanted all the credit for their work and some modpack creators didnt give them that credit and a lot of drama happened because of that. Mainly Tekkit packs around 1.2.5-1.6.4 but apparently no one in mc wanted to work together to make something great they all wanted to have a piece of the cake.

Seems like it would have been easier to just hire her and get her to officially help speed up Minecraft's development rather than let her be bullied off the forums

Wow, I can't believe that a couple of power high forum admins bullied somebody so incredible and influential out of the community. Truly despicable. I just can't even believe how somebody could be so unfulfilled in their own life that they harass a modder on somebody else's behalf when that somebody else made no mention that they didn't approve.

It’s sad this happened so much lost potential I wished she could’ve stuck around and brought so much more to the community. Notch let his jealously and pride get in the way she would have been amazing to have on his team

5:43 I like this MCPE soundtrack , I love this channel everytime you upload a video , the nostalgia appeared ( bad english)

I remember the lava flood mini game god that feels like such a long time ago

i was so into the JTE story that i honestly forgot about the golden apple lmao

I thought I recalled Notch dropping an apple in the video that Dream, of all people, made about the manhunt with Notch.

I loved zombie tag and lava survival, and all those classic gamemodes! I used to play them all the time in the browser. I’m even in a few old KZfaq videos here and there I occasionally see. If it weren’t for those gamemodes, I may have never played Minecraft for over a decade now!

Jeff😌 Amazing video! I remember jte but only got to hear about her about 3 years after her first server launched so i was a bit late.

I’m *fairly* certain that a member of Mindcrack accidentally killed Notch when he joined them for a special several years ago, but I don’t remember what season it was.

It’s hard to get back into Minecraft I feel like I’ve lost the enthusiasm and energy to play it No friends who are online to play with Bad internet on multiplayer servers I don’t know what to do anymore:(

My current survival world is old like nearly 4 years old I remember hearing they would be taking the crafting of enchanted golden apples so I spent days gathering gold together to make as many of them as possible before it updated it's kind of a love/hate that they took the crafting out but it makes them so much more valuable and makes The Thing banner a more valuable item I mean if your the only one in a server for weeks or months that's managed to find an enchanted golden apple maybe 2 and decided to make a banner out of one Yea people might hit you up for a thing banner it's kinda neat the little trading systems players can make for the more rare items I'm hoping soon they will start adding even more rare items that can be traded around like this

HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF JTE?! Ive been a part of this rollercoaster of a game since its release!

Could have sworn, sometime around 2013 or 2014, I came across a youtube video that seemed genuine of Notch being killed on a server and dropping an apple. The video itself was definitely uploaded before then, and it looked like it was probably from beta era. All I remember of what actually happened in the video is Notch getting killed by the person recording and dropping an apple and then maybe saying something in chat. The part I most remember, for whatever reason, was the setting. They were inside a building made of white wool and there was a lower area with stairs leading down and a railing made of glass panes because there was a ledge. Does anyone else remember seeing this video or know what I'm talking about? A part of me doubts this isn't just something I dreamed and this might just be a repeat of Body Harvest Moon, but the image is so vivid in my mind that I don't know if I could even have dreamt that.

No joke I found two god apples in one dungeon chest yesterday

I was busy all yesterday and couldn’t watch this when it came out. I am happy to say though it was worth the wait!

Dream did actually make a video with Notch and killed him, but I don't thing he dropped an apple (the video is now unlisted because of people wanting to cancel Notch, but you can probably fine a re-upload) Also the video was way after 1.3.1 but it's still kinda cool

So we most likely missed on a giant super server because of some toxic forum mods... nice.

8:09 lmao that banner is the most 2009 thing ever

I’ve heard Minecraft’s origin story probably hundreds of times over the years, and not once had JTE ever been mentioned. I can’t believe this is the first time I’m hearing about her. So cool to hear about the contributions she made to the game. Sucks that she got bullied off of the forums though. I hope she’s now aware of the community’s respect for her. A literal Minecraft legend.

JTE should start a KZfaq channel! I'd love to see what kind of magic she's able to do :D

Dream did a manhunt with Notch and he drops an apple in that video

I knew of JTE but I didn’t know much. I wouldn’t call myself an OG since I had only started playing in 1.4.2 but I had been fallowing the community since before horses were in the game (whichever update added them)

The irony of its nickname being the "Notch Apple" despite not actually being made by Notch...

I played when it was craftable left the game for a 3 years came back and figured out I couldn’t craft it anymore :(

Imagine being a "griefer" what a sad life it must be taking joy away from people who earned they're happiness in a good way.

JTE did some amazing stuff in the SRB2 community back in the day too! Crazy to learn what they did for Minecraft as well. Genuinely hope they are doing well

Didn't know about JTE. Thanks for sharing.

Tbf jte should have an entire page on the minecraft wiki as a testament to their legacy

I'm still all for making God Apples craftable again. A funny thing about video game economics is that making a consumable item exceedingly rare makes it practically worthless.