I’ll never forget 1.0 I still remember standing next to my older brother sitting on my dads computer in his office and watching him enter the portal to the end. It was the coolest thing in the world

It's poetic that the first build was a glorified dirt house 🏠 Some things never change.

Nostalgia... i jumped from a version of minecraft that had no hoppers, no blast furnaces, no netherite, not even craftable nether bricks... to a version that had goats, snowy mountains, corails and more than 100 types of tropical fishes... that is a huge change!!! ....sadly as a 41 y old man, i grew less and less interest in playing video games... but... i still keep an eye on youtubers like you and fuseIII and nunjaxx and the hermitcrafts and the crazy donybobes... and some more... i have a job, i come back home too exausted to play... but waching you guys... it is to me like a uncle who lisen his nefieus and nieces telling me their day at school...

I really do miss some of the weird updates that just added a certain charm to the game that you never see anymore, like the mushroom islands and the wonder of finding a pitch black dark cave and you have no idea what kind of monsters exist in the game yet like creepers and endermen.

Can we talk about how he played the seed "everything", the one of his iconic let's play world, but in java 1.0 for the background gameplay?

The beauty of Java is that you can still play older versions to this day. I wish bedrock had that feature, including for consoles. I love exploring older minecraft

1.0 until 1.18 was Minecraft's dark years for me. The terrain generation took a turn for the worse in an attempt to emulate real terrain in this fantasy adventure game where you punch trees. For ten years I had to make builds *in spite* of the terrain, which influenced me into learning to enjoy the technical side instead, because that was the only part of Minecraft that still allowed for creative freedom. Now, with 1.18, which for me is Minecraft 2, the terrain actively inspires me to make buildings on it, and the caves provide a sense of adventure. The Nether update added a lot, too.

I miss the good ole’ 1.0 days. That was when life was good and you didn’t have to worry about anything aside from what base you were going to build and when and where you wanted to go mining. It was also during 1.0 that likely a majority of us made friends in Minecraft… I would like to take a moment to thank all of you for participating in one of the best, if not the best era in gaming!

I really appreciate this deep dive and dissection of the progression, and especially the point about the nostalgia.

please make this into a full series where you talk about every minecraft update

I joined when 1.7 came out, I completely missed out on the main hype... Although somehow I feel like it helped me in a certain way. I played alpha versions as challenge and its completely different game. (A good one too). I have a friend who started in alpha and he is often dissapointed with new updates. However I love everything that comes out of new update. This game has been part of my life and completely changed who I am and where I am now.

appreciating the real high production value text and animations going on in this video

I just saw "why there will never be another update" in the notifications and got really concerned.

I started playing in the last days of 1.12. I was lucky enough to see how empty the oceans were just before 1.13 dropped. And then I was amazed at the change. Kelp, shipwrecks, underwater cities and the Drowned with their tridents that you could fight with. Knowing that updates like that would keep evolving the game has kept me coming back for years now.

I think the answer is simple; the updates are themed now. When you think about it, Beta 1.8 and Release 1.0 are all over the place compared to these more streamlined, focused updates. Hell, the new ones even have official names in " Update"(or reverse, in the case of Update Aquatic) structure.

The good old days will always be looked upon with nostalgia. I was around for the first Minecraft which I got into with my first kid (now 21yo). I’m now into the recent Minecraft and am getting my six year old into it. Can’t wait to be watching your videos and streams with her! Just ordered my Xmas T seen as I won’t be able to get it at Xmas. Love your humour and everything you do so thank you!

I agree with going back and adding more updates that are similar to the Guardians. Some kind of Original Fantasy update

I heard about Minecraft when I got into college. How the game plays out, at first, didn't feel like the game that connects to me. All I was told that it's a sandbox game that plays similar to Mario 64, and it wasn't. I drop the game fast and just went on to do my own thing. It wasn't until October 1st, 2020 that Steve was playable in Smash Ultimate, so now I have to try out Minecraft again and see where my time takes me so far. With the help of friends this time, starting off with 1.18 Nether Update, I really see how much improvements Minecraft has done and in less than 2 years, I made tons of achievements and advancements that I consider the game nostalgic for me now. I wasn't there when 1.0 was out, but if they can create a 2.0 update, I could try to replicate the feelings people had for 1.0, and if I do, I'm consider a Minecraft veteran certified.

At the same time 1.0 is the second part of the Adventure Update, the first part being Beta 1.8, which was very controversial. But many people forget about it because a lot of people don't know the versions before the official release

i really miss the old textures ,kinda sad it’s hard to play with those packs that are the older textures,it just doesn’t feel the same because of new updates

What if they just added a little feature that was called random spawn? When you spawn in the gAme it’s completely random to a 100,000 by 100,000 square or a circle with a diameter of 100k blocks. That way if you did a realm, it would be a little spread out and y’all would have to travel to a central location to start basing.

I loved the updates, more the merrier. I loved looking at the change log. I'd log in and just play with the new mechanics and glitches. So many worlds I just title them the version # LOL

Minecraft when it first started was such a horror game I will never feel the same as I did back then. The shading and lighting, the sounds...you would hyperventilate stepping forward in the Nether back then

1.0 will always be the best ver

I joined in right around the time beta 1.8 was releasing. Seeing the prerelease beta 1.9 updates that just became 1.0, that was a magical time, and I think your video captures that. I even ended up getting the Xbox 360 version when it launched, and the unique tutorial world as well as some of the other unique changes it had were fun. Interesting fact about the Xbox 360 version: It was the only version to allow splitscreen multiplayer, but only if you were playing on an HDTV. At standard definition resolutions you could only do 1 player per system.

Plenty of people are now having nostalgia and claiming Minecraft 1.0 was much better But to be honest, now Minecraft 1.0 feels very unfinished. Just try downloading the version on the Java launcher and playing it, I did it a few months ago. There have been so many quality of life improvements, added blocks and cosmetic changes that have made it much better. I couldn't go back there. Recent updates have been great, even if most added things have been useless. I might disagree with a few of the changes, but the necessity of change was apparent (Nether and Caves, especially) and I like the general direction. The main problem though, seems to be a focus on quantity over quality and adding features for combat and exploration minded players and technical players, over creative and builder-oriented ones. In addition, I feel like all the features are end-game and the main game progression has been changed quite little

Idk. Village and pillage will always be my favorite. Its what brought me back.. I got tired of the pointless building after a while. It was a whole new game when village mechanics were expanded and codified so to speak. Gave purpose to the things I like to do. That said, I always miss my first two worlds. I wish I could go back to them and update them drastically. Especially the second iteration. But I prefer the biome layout of my current world and I've built up too much to want to even consider starting over, despite a lack of modern generation around the already built up areas. Can't wait to build a city in a new area with modern resource spawns.

ive been using this theme at 0:32, "terrecota army', in my own videos and i consider it to be my 'main theme' of sorts so glad to hear it in ur video!

This is the feeling I’ve been trying to find for years in Minecraft

This will all be fixed once Notch releases Minecraft 2.0

dude i came in with the aquatic update and i gotta say that update was comparable...i played a bunch so i felt the change but i bought my first copy when that update hit.

Ultimately, Toycat thinks it comes down to something bigger than anything else: Will big salmon ever be added to the game? Or will we forever be stuck with the small fry's? And will we ever upsize to a drink and a burger as well?

I don’t know, I jump back into Minecraft recently and I can see just how much more they can do & the game just constantly gets better

It should be 3 dudes taking the decisions and the rest of the team working on them. Then we could have anything. It isn't that they can't it is that they don't want. Remember when Minecraft lost its popularity we had two of the best updates ever.

I had so much for fun back in the day then I do now, but I will never stop playing and will never stop making memories.

Oh. my. god. I didn't realise some of the backround footage nearish to the end is early let's play footage of yours, toycat. This is so nostalgic

27:03 this is kind of like the Bedrock vs Java situation Rs3 vs OSRS one is filled with microtransactions and makes way more money while the other is just pay for the game and play. People might not like the microtransactions in Bedrock but it undeniably is more profitable for them the same is true for Rs3 people don't like the microtransactions but even with a third of the players as OSRS it still makes way more money for them.

I first played when I stumbled upon Classic. There wasn't much to do aside from digging, so I stopped for a while. Hopped back in for beta 1.8

0:55 HATSUNE MIKU IS THAT YOU

Great content! It had potential to be a rambly subject but you nailed it

Even though I only started playing in 2015, I actually started in 1.0 (technically beta 1.8.? before upgrading and sticking with 1.0). There was a feature with the demo version of the game where worlds started and played in some early versions did not have the demo world timer, so I played Scott free for weeks before finally ponying up the money. 1.0 was truly an amazing, unique experience, even to people like me who joined "late".

Minecraft 1.0 added a lot and is in a lot of people's childhood memories because it added all the basics like nether,ender dragon,all the first ever crafting recipes and we grew up playing it but nowadays it's more limited like the nether sucks,end sucks after you beat the ender dragon,building back then being more limited ,no cool caves and mountains,less mobs like wardens,illagers,bees and etc! 1.0 a classic but it does not compare to 1.20 if we're not being bias

Shows 1.0 features: Proceeds to for some reason use the new textures for diamond armor even though it doesn't match the old textures in the thumbnail:

Even though I don't remember Minecraft Beta, I feel like 1.0 may have been the first version I ever played

They need to add an update that created a new boss fight, a new world ( besides nether and end ) , new armor, new mobs, and new mechanics . That’s the only thing I see would impact the game at least close to what Minecraft 1.0 did

My strongest memories of minecraft are versions 1.2.5, 1.3.2, and 1.4~ For the initial burst of excitement, then the nostalgia, then finally the spooky Halloween nostalgia 🎃

Nice video toycat I’m excited for the next 100 days on flat

i remeber buying minecraft tu16 then upgraded to bedrock in 2020 than back to tu75 or what ever version was the last for ps4 and i really liked your video

i've been playing minecraft for nearly a DECADE, i was 8 the frist time i played it and to be fair, early years had big updates, AND I MEAN, BIG, now updates are weird... excesive delays, scrapped content every once and then, mob votes and biome votes make the community turn them selves in literal Nazis and Russians, but to be fair Minecarft is losing his charm slowy but surely, i hope this year's live is a BOMB

Nice you’re playing in the update adventures seed in the background

As to the question that you eventually get to in the video -- I'm sure that Minecraft has had internal discussions about what Minecraft 2.0 would look like. Without speculating on what that might look like, don't we think that it could well be as major an update as 1.0?

5:59 I replaced the current Minecraft logo with that one in my resourcepack

I started playing the same month that 1.0 released, because my friend told me about it and gave me a cracked version to play. It was alpha 1.8.1 though, not 1.0. I was obsessed with the game throughout 2012, and played through most of 2013, but started falling out of it in late 2013, early 2014. I came back to it in 2020 and decided to buy the game officially. And though I got newer versions of the cracked version in my days of playing, I think the latest I had was 1.7.2 or something. So coming back to 1.16 was honestly really fun to see how much changed. And I like seeing what new things they'll add, even if it's not always what I want. Just happy to see this game have such a long lifespan to the point where it's still in the spotlight after 11+ years. Someday it will be over, but it's nice to be a part of this. To play the game while it's still evolving before it solidifies and updates for it eventually end. They've done such a great job at making this a very user friendly game. Support and pretty rapid bug-fixes, not charging money for every little bit of extra content they add, and welcoming mods with open arms. It's honestly refreshing. That's why I appreciate the game and am glad to see it succeed so strongly.

we need Minecraft 2 where everything is made of spheres

Just tried to name a mending villager that I keep in nether "Hell Merchant" in my single player world that will never see other people. And BAM profanity filter😂some people may find it offensive

I first started on xbox 360 in 2012 then moved to java about 6 months later when i got my first laptop and played version 1.2.5. I havent felt any nostalgia since 1.7 and whenever i play bedrock i just remember what it was like when 4j studios was working on console edition and how different everything looked

So interesting, great work and discussion

where did the Minnesotan beekeeper go

I'm really hoping for a survival update down the line- an actual survival / overall balance update. Everything is becoming progressively easier as more features and workarounds are added without considering most other aspects. The strive for block accessibility is going out the window with making everything renewable & mass producible (remember when moss cobblestone was a neat trophy for the amount of dungeons you gonked?). It's Creative Lite, really. As soon as you get iron tools & and one of the many infinite food sources, you already have the means to be safe forever, the disengaging option.

One thing you got wrong: Mojang devs for both Bedrock and Java are now located in Stockholm and work together. The team in Redmond only works on the Marketplace

I just imagine that guy who played minecraft on its alpha release and forgot about it, then couple of years later he somehow sees name minecraft (either by finding a video on KZfaq, or hear kids talking about it) and having best reaction of all

I don't remember exactly when I started playing but it was post Beta 1.0 and pre Beta 1.7.

20:38 yooo, is that the console aspects resource pack??

16:56 you could do it before, you just had to hold ctrl or shift or something

this title reminds me of some of EmpLemon’s titles

Back then items before the frogs where added items used to last way longer but now it just short

at 0:55, it looked like Notch has a Trans flag profile pic, is that actually his profile pic, because if it was, that is alarming that he later made such statements about transgender women. (I meen, it was alarming either way)

10:50 one of the last yeah horses came after.

bro back then it was so simple and pleasant to look at

at 11:50 the first version of 360 Edition was based on beta 1.6.6, not beta 1.8 :)

I just started playing MC and I love the creative mode. All I've been doing is build build build..it's awesomeness

People complain but soon nostalgia will kick in for this new era starting with the aquatic update. Yeah caves and cliffs had a messy release & the community is disgruntled but step back & look at the game since 1.13, see the difference from 1.0. Its polished, there is so much more to do all around and in my opinion it looks 10x better (i was never a fan of some of the old textures).

I didn’t get to play during the beta or 1.0.0 when it came out. The first ever version of minecraft I got was 1.2.3, so it was definitely old but not like 1.0.0 old

12:00 I remember playing the original Xbox 360 version. Good times.

I award this video with the highest honor:

11:51 ToyCat, I notice you posted a fact which got me confused, I believe(and with research backing me up) that The first version of Minecraft: Xbox 360 edition was based on Minecraft Java's Minecraft Beta 1.6.6's feature set. Anyone in the comments correct me if I'm wrong... Just thought I would point that out. Great Video once again!

Is anyone gonna talk about how notch has a miku picture or something on forums?

Petition to make Toycat do a livestream defeating the Ender Dragon on his everything seed but on Java Edition 1.0...

COOL! BTW, what's up with that "What about Llamas?" Was that any Minecraft public meeting?

Anyone else notice the background gameplay?

Very cool, i dont agree with some stuff, but i do understand it

1:02 would have been nice if you could have censored the slur -.- maybe you didnt notice it though idk

28:24 please don't imagine this out of context...

The text after you kill the ender dragon is to me, really depressing😭😭

Very good video. I appreciated this thinkpiece but also I think there's some objectivity to 1.0 being the best update. It added the most interesting mechanics, it changed so much while also not feeling like it undermined the previous game. I started playing in 1.2.5. while I don't think we can truly seperate out nostalgia from reality, I do think that Minecraft 1.0 was something insanely special and I appreciate Minecraft's art direction in that time because it truly and utterly blew my 12 year old mind. So many game mechanics which were borrowed from other games, I found bewildering at the time. But I am still enamored and continually kept playing by these amazing game mechanics that were added in over a decade ago now.

I joined in Beta 1.7 and took a hiatus from the game at Official Release 1.7 because the game was too much to handle for my computers. I think I came back like in 1.9 or some time then when I finally got the game again on the Wii U. Times really have changed tbh and now I play Bedrock over Java until someday I get a better computer.

Love your content toycat. For the algorithm 😁

I only start playing minecraft in 2020, at version 1.15.2

Minecraft 2.0 ideas- new farming mechanics, new brewing mechanics, new inventory, new ui (oh wait) and hud + end update

it took me far too long to realize that was your world

Well if you think about it, if you wait four updates every time you should have something like 1.0.

I've been playing since 2011, and I just learned that you can take two damaged tools of the same material and merge them into one.

MISTAKES: 6:47 actually the first world border was 12,000,000 blocks, being the farlands but i think you could still go to 15 million. the second world border stayed until release 1.8 and was 15,000,000 blocks and then after that it was 30 million 11:51 you are wrong. it was built around beta 1.6. the first xbox 360 version did not have villages, which were a beta 1.8 feature. they also did not have pistons. which was a beta 1.7 feature. 15:29 the snowgolem and villager were both beta 1.9 features. not release 1.0 features 16:34 hunger was overhauled in beta 1.8

1:12 The text under the first reply and notch’s profile pic What in hell I have several questions I thought- Wat

Just toycat can make a video about 1.0 into a 30 minute video

I think that IF they ever decide to make a 2.0 update it will be the last major one to the game, there would probably be 1 or 2 small updates following but then they'd be done. Otherwise they may just stop updating it one day, both I really hope do not happen but I'd take the former over the later haha.

I love how the cows used to sound when being attacked🤣🤣cow:hhhhaaaaalllpp!!! *MER MER* me:no😎😎😈

The nostalgia wow

Man that’s crazy

Wait Chirp is your favorite music disc? Its mine too!