Here's a cool video someone shared on my Discord server. It shows "old" footage of the Minecraft tutorial world. Unfortunately it isn't real, but still really cool! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a8x5kqhenN3QfYE.html

When i was younger, i never searched up recipes for some odd reason, i think my computer at the time was really bad. I wanted to make glass in minecraft but didn't know how, so i asked my mum how glass was made in real life, which lead to me trying to put sand in a furnace and it worked to my surprise.

its incredible how such a complex game functions without a real tutorial

I remember back in the day not knowing that zombie pigmen were only aggressive if you attacked them… I spent like 2 years too scared to ever enter the nether as I would always long shot them with a bow and then be destroyed immediately after. I like that the game was not a set path and anything could be done

Game design as a whole is pretty difficult. There is an art to it, and Minecraft somehow miraculously did it with ease back then. The player is never truly lost, sure they could be stumped at times, but never lost. The idea of a tutorial does break the idea of what Minecraft is about but the tutorial isn't about holding your hand the whole way, you still explore and learn things on your own. That's truly magical.

I remember when the addition of a crafting recipe book in the game itself was legit a controversial change. Good to see the weird aversion to making the game actually understandable to new players without relying on external material wasn't just a community thing, it was deep-rooted in the development of the game itself.

The old console tutorial levels were great showcases of the game's features with a cool little hint popup to explain what things were used for. I wish Bedrock and java had something similar for new players to explore

I am also glad a tutorial wasn't added, feels like I would have less great memories of watching old minecraft series and let's plays. Also I think the lack of tutorial added to the mystique of the game, which is all but lost now.

The joy of being able to teach a new player to Minecraft is a rare thing nowadays. Lotta people just had their friends directly show them around, was fun

The console tutorial world was so fun! With all of its secret areas to explore outside the main area! I wish they had kept it in the update

It's crazy how much I knew about minecraft before even first playing it. Minecraft in that case is probably very unique. A sandbox that was so popular that everyone and their mom knew about it. So many people were making let's plays. Everyone knew how to play.

Kind of a stretch for just this video, but did you ever consider looking into the code of the old versions to see if there was ever any actual unused code connected to the disabled tutorial button? Or any unused code related to a tutorial at all?

I've been wondering for a while why the missing texture appears as a solid purple texture in your videos on petrified oak slabs and invalid items. Is it an Optifine thing?

I remember playing Minecraft for the first time and feeling utterly lost for over an hour, dying dozens of times during night cycles as I tried to figure out basic mechanics. The real sticking points for me were: a) How do I make light? b) How do I make food? I was able to figure out the tree punching and the crafting bench pretty early. I never tried punching stone, but I can imagine I might have been surprised to discover you couldn't punch stone. I would have guessed initially that a tool only made you better at punching. It took me a while to figure out not only did you need the tool to be efficient, you needed the tool period. I was able to guess at the recipe for a tool by playing around with sticks and planks (both of which are pretty obvious to make once you get wood). But I was not able to figure out quickly how to make a torch. I was guessing at the time I needed some sort of fire mechanism, but having not discovered flint I couldn't figure out how to make "fire" - presumed to be a necessary component. Nor had I found coal at that point, nor did I feel safe enough to try to go anywhere in the dark. I presumed that if I tried to hide in the dark in a hole, that I would be (and here I reveal my age) likely "eaten by a grue". I didn't realize monsters couldn't spawn close to you. So I tried essentially avoiding monsters, but this left me very hungry and it wasn't obvious how I got food. Once I got coal, and once I figured out a torch - which took at least an hour - things progressed pretty rapidly. A lot of things were discovered by accident as I tried to figure out what I could make. The bed recipe was intuitive once you got wool, for example. But wow did figuring out that torch recipe feel like something that needed to be explained to you.

I remember playing the tutorial level on xbox360 many many times as a kid. There were lots of easter eggs in that map, my favourite being every single record disk (as in Spieluhr/Jukebox) were hidden around the map. Very fond memories, sad the PC players never got to experience that

Although there's never gonna be a tutorial world added to Java now, I'd really love to see more official Minecraft worlds in the future like how legacy console had mash up pack worlds every so often for players to explore

Important to add: the minecraft website back in the day had a tutorial page, which simply embedded a bunch of youtube videos. Problem was, the page was rarely updated. When I started playing about the time when 1.0 came out, some of the tutorials were still from the days of minecraft alpha (which I of course didn't understand back then, and got me very confused!)

I wonder why the button was labeled "Mods and Texture Packs" when you couldn't actually apply any mods from that menu. Funnily enough, resource packs can be used to mod the game to some capacity, but those were added after the button was moved to the Options menu and renamed accordingly.

Console Edition still has so many features that are so good and not in the current versions, like Mine games, custom flat worlds and of course tutorial worlds

I think the lack of a tutorial is def is one thing that makes Minecraft well, Minecraft. Everybody remembers that first time creating a world and being thrown in with no help from the game.

A tutorial is added now with the recipe book and those things top right telling you what to do. I remember my alpha days when I was like 6 and my brother found a website showing all crafting recipes it felt like a cheat since I tried to find every recipe by myself. It filled my head with so much dopamine

It were a sort of Tutorial World in a version, the version is: Minecraft PC Gamer Edition *YES, PC GAMER EDITION* It's because when you start, it spawns you with a tutorial sign, a bonus chest, and, if you roam around, you will found an acutal build.

When you finish your to do list by just erasing the one task you never got around to do.

Your videos are always interesting and make me think about minecraft related topics I never questioned or even heard about. Great vid keep it up!

I remember when i had to try multiple combinations of items to discover a new recipe, it was the best time for MC, but when it had much less items

"I was just messing around bruh" -Notch, probably

This would be a fun thing to bring back for April Fool's. Either a real tutorial or just something completely different with some fun references thrown in. I don't think we can expect that from Microsoft though

Achievements are the tutorial for Minecraft, especially the old ones. They give a direction and show what you should do in order to progress.

I never before considered how Minecraft doesn't really need a tutorial because the internet has so much information about it, but Xbox got a tutorial since you'd have to google stuff on a different device, that makes perfect sense. Even if you google nothing, a lot of the basics (which is usually all a tutorial teaches) can be picked up on pretty quickly. Amazing video, very well explained.

Mojang: There will be a tutorial level you can play but we haven't finished it yet **months goes by** Everyone: Hey, what happened to the "Play Tutorial Level" button? Mojang: *What button?*

Sal sounds like a younger antvenom but with less energy.

The introduction of the recipe book has made the game “easier”.

It's wasn't only the XBOX360 version. Every version of Legacy Console Edition had a tutorial world, and it was regularly updated until the Aquatic Update.

I remember not owning Minecraft as a kid and playing that demo world you could play in browser many years ago for a time and just replaying it over and over till I found a cracked tekkit launcher and played that for days on end.

Minecraft never really needed a Tutorial level because, effectively, your first world you create _is_ the tutorial. Minecraft does a *great* job at being simple to learn, it doesn't have any highly-complicated mechanics right off the bat like other games might.

That Internet book... those were the times when an entire book could be created for such a "simple" thing

Always good to see a SalC1 video.

the advancements system also provides enough of a trail to get you going and give you an optional goal to reach at almost all times

Hey, another upload! Thanks for the great content, Sal!

Man, Minecraft's tutorial level was somehow even more forgotten than that of TF2.

In the beginning I never searched up recipes or tutorials. I just found out from friends at school and we would share recipes that way. I had a book in which I would write down recipes and I think I didn't even find out how to use a furnace to smelt iron until I already had like 50 hours in the game. I always thought iron ore was just an ugly stone. I remember watching a video on someone who had a very odd resource pack who put iron ore in the furnace so obviously I had to try it. First thing I built was a roller coaster as I saw it in a video, who needs iron tools amirite. I think not knowing the boundaries of the game made it feel less empty. I had plenty of fun with the limited items I had, knowing I had not explored everything yet or had found every item. But that was 11 years ago. Damn.

I have a feeling that the closest that we got to the tutorial world is the PC GAMER Minecraft Demo world since it has signs that teach the player how to play.

I started out on Minecraft on the Xbox 360 version, and I remember they would update it every time there was a new update to the game. Although the world generation was limited on legacy console, the tutorial worlds were always really cool. The 1.13 update had a really cool tutorial map even to modern standards.

Honestly, I kinda prefer it when the game itself teaches me how to play it, rather than me having to pause the game to look things up.

The tutorial worlds are such a nice thing, Java and Bedrock are missing out

I feel so old being someone that absolutely loved Minecraft alpha.. I feel blessed knowing I spent days of Minecraft 09’-13’

Im actually surprised that no mention was made about the Minecract PC Gamer Demo which includes a tutorial world of some sorts within a custom launcher with a timed world.

I think the closest thing to a tutorial level for Minecraft java edition reminds me of the demo disc..

This is a really cool story! Good work I had no idea that this existed because I started 2011

Another reason that the Xbox 360 version had a tutorial was that not everyone who had an Xbox 360 was guaranteed to have internet access; this was true for Java edition.

I miss the console OG tutorial world. Probably happiest I ever was finally getting to use stuff like redstone that I’d watched on KZfaq for so long.

i remember playing the tutorial map on wiiu or sth with friends and we never did anything else than exploring the world for weeks

On the Xbox 360 Version (and Xbox one, Ps4 & Ps3) It was always fun to play those Tutorial levels, Every update the level would be changed, It was quite fun. Though it seems the bedrock edition has removed it.

Well, in 2011 the first version of Minecraft for me was a PC Gamer Demo. And I actually thought that Demo world was actually a tutorial for new players.

2:06 No bro what 9-year-old me did on my iPod touch was: build dirt houses in a river. Punched Stone only to get blown up by a Creeper to discover Cobblestone.

Cool! I started playing MC long after the button has gone, but I vaguely remember my first play through too and how I had to look for tutorials for even the most basic things. That experience of playing MC for the first time is pretty unique and charming; being all alone in an infinite world and knowing nothing...

I just remember the XBOX 360 tutorial mode, back then i was so trash I didn't even know how to pass the first level

I didn't get Minecraft until a few years after I found out about it. Loved the game ever since, and KZfaq videos helped me figure it out. The first KZfaq video I saw was a mod showcase for a Spongebob mod and I didn't understand what a mod was so I thought Spongebob was in the game for a bit. Such good memories!

Thankfully some of the structures they're adding, like the broken Nether portals, and the guide book, are helping to remediate the lack of a tutorial.

I have the theory that the missing tutorial world could be the castle from the credits on Minecraft Console Edition where there was no update, but it got deleted instead of being activated, which is kind of concern because I thought (when I was about to play Minecraft for the first time) that the castle that was on the example images from the disc's box would appeared, but it didn't and that disappointed me; even though I didn't played a tutorial before until the tu19 world came in, but still

I did not have much internet back then, so I was literally using creepers to blow up stone to make cobble instead of making a pickaxe cuz I didn't know how

Seeing that video thumbnail for the Enterprise-D megabuild in minecraft is mad nostalgia. I never clicked on it but for years it showed up in my feed.

i got the game the week it came out on fathers day. its been an amazing ride. the tutorial was one of me and my friends favorite parts because beyond its walls lied the biggest best castle weve had ever seen. such awe

There used to be a Minecraft Java demo which was a tutorial

Wow, those were good days. I didn't remember that button, bur I remember playing in the Wii U version of MC and playing a literal tutorial that never worked, its was stressful for me at the time but now it brings me so much good memories

There is a tutorial world for Java. I used to play on it back when I was in high school before getting the 360 version, it wasn't anything like the 360 tutorial world though, if I remember correctly you spawn in a set seed with the only thing man made being a chest with some starter stuff and a sign, and the world would lock you out after a few days of play.

Totally unrelated to the video, but seeing alpha Minecraft for the first time in such a long time it just sparked in my mind. Does anyone else remember Minecraft Pocket Edition Lite? When I was a kid and saw that pe had just came out, it was massive at the time but of course it required me to buy minecraft again. But then I saw Minecraft Pocket Edition Lite just next to it a bit after launch. This was free Minecraft pe, and not one of those off spins that you find on the play store legitimate Minecraft PE but with a different name and certain restrictions on some things. The title screen was the same as normal pe, the version was the same and the gameplay was the same, but if I remember correctly there were limited blocks and mobs and worlds couldn’t be saved. If anyone else can get more info on this and even gameplay it would really mean a lot, it doesn’t exist now and feels as if it never existed.

I miss the console tutorials, it was a fun way to learn about the new update rather than watching a 13 minute video about it. I still have no idea how some features work but won't look them up since I have no current use of them

Huh. This video answered all of my questions about the Tutorial Level. Cheers!

whenever i watch your videos, i instantly want to play the game again

Tbh SalC1 could Mandela-Effect us all here but it’s amazing

Thanks for the Video SalC1 keep up the good work your one of my favorite ytbers not even lying 🎉🎉❤

You should do a video on the different splash texts for the title screen. There are some fun hidden ones in there

Man i remember playing back in 2010 and was struggling with what to create. I always had to look it up

i played the tutorial world because i have an xbox 360, and its amazing. i played on 2 versions, one that was shown in the video, and another that was unique. the unique one looked like i was in a castle, and to get out, i had to learn about minecraft mechanics and everything. after i got out, there were many demonstrations on redstone, villagers, the nether and the end. i dont remember how long ago that was, but thats all i remember.

Good to see I'm not the only 360 Minecraft enjoyer, it was pretty late for me to get into this version, but it's still very fun

My first experience on Minecraft was the tutorial level on the Xbox 360, such a nostalgic memory for me haha

Wow, Such a awesome video! I watched it 500 Times already! Good vid.

I remember, when in my childhood I was playing Tutorial World with my friend on his Xbox... Every visit to him was equal to start beating world again😂

I just miss old minecraft in general, not gonna lie, modern minecraft just sorta…. feels dry?

Aw, I thought this was going to be about the PCGamer demo.

The need for explanations lead me to watch a tutorial series on KZfaq, so I subscribed to the channel (every French fellow here already knows who I'm talking about), discovered their other video series, both on Minecraft and other games (many of which I discovered in the process), and from there I discovered other channels...it also gave me the habit of looking for online tutorials for Minecraft stuff, and often left comments, until I became friends with two other small youtubers like me (because of course I started making videos too)...yeah, SO many things in my teenage life ultimately derive from the absence of an in-game tutorial.

Did you know on the xbox 360 first version of the tutorial level, there was a nether portal inside the giant "Minecraft" sign floating in the sky? I remember finding it when it was released and I feel like no-one mentions it.

Fun fact - to July 2012 MC frontpage still counted separately people who "bought the game" and "registred" (so pirated etc.)

One of the biggest appeals of Minecraft is exploration, and learning how some things work is part of that. Will say some should be explained since nobody would randomly figure out how to do things like make a sea beacon work though.

seeing the first xbox 360 tutorial world again hit me with nostalgia man

I think a tutorial would have been good because when I was 7 years old I didn’t know what to do

I would avoid tweeting at notch due to his past and his distancing from the game, Jeb wouldve been a good idea

Its common for games to have tutorial levels regardless if its completed or not lol.

I remember when the xbox360 one came out I built my base in the little Minecraft tutorial level lol . Those were the funnest days. No one forgets thier first worlds

Alt tabbing to the minecraft wiki for recipes will always be integral to the game experience

We got an update sometimes monthly and sometimes we had to wait a half year when it was released to the consoles. But we also got the turtorials. I still keep them on a sparefile to this day.

Trying to go to sleep only to see SalC1 uploads, so I guess I'll sleep later

I always played tutorial modes when I had ps3 and forced my dad to buy minecraft for me I really liked it as it had secrets even hundreds , thousands of blocks away too.

Bit of a shame, I've always enjoyed organically figuring out games, I remember having a million saves of the tutorial levels on PS3 by me going back and forth as refreshers or to learn about something I had never seen before.

Will you do a video on the super secret settings (the shaders) back in the last good version of Minecraft 1.8?

You know a KZfaqr named old Minecraft reuoploads got help from a person named anthony that got the button working so notch did have plans for the button...

And also in a sense that the game wants to encourage the player to find out on how to play the game in their own way.

That Paulsaursejr how to survive the first night was the video I originally watched back in 2011-2012 to learn how to play Minecraft survival

This is so nostalgic I played the tutorial level so much on Xbox. 😌