The ACTUAL History of Early Minecraft

Someone actually found the original Herobrine stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRzX7CDxQsI

can't wait until leavers and dungeons expansion

'valve employees were to busy playing minecraft to work on team fortress 2' yeah that sounds about right

Having disk 13 play from a jukebox while you were in a cave would have been so evil 😭

You know you're old when you can remember reading a few of the hate-posts from the forum about Dock's art style, the day they came out.

Damn. Don't Starve looks a lot different after the newest update

My biggest take away from this is that Spleef was way older than I thought

How Notch developed the game reminds me of how Zeekers and McPig are handling their developments. Zeekers is constantly adding random stuff no one asked for because he thinks it’s cool, and McPig seems to be constantly bouncing between different projects, creating new ones before remotely finishing his current one.

This video has a lot of weird points in it. Overall it's a good timeline, but like one example is when you say everyone decided that Minecraft didn't need music...but no one ever said that, Notch in fact says the opposite of "I wonder what music does fit Minecraft". The only thing said was Notch's music doesn't fit Minecraft. Another point in the video continues the theme of you saying something that is disproven by the background visuals. That is when you mention Notch planned to release an expansion the the game, but the bolded text in the background says it would be free to those who own the game. So clearly he used expansion in place of what we would now call an update.

Ah, good. So this channel wasn't just a fever dream.

he remembered his password

Darkness based on height was actually a feature! If you were deep enough the game started to render a black fog that made deeper parts of caves darker, even with torches. It was called 'Void Fog' and it used to reach its peak at around Y8, when that low the game would greatly limit your render distance and particles floated around near bedrock. According to the wiki, it was removed from the game in 1.8 because of performance issues and it seems players didn't like it so much.

So uhh, that Copeland herobrine stream was found a day after you uploaded

this is probably the only early minecraft video that isnt constantly covered in rose tinted glasses and called the game 'perfect' or a 'masterpiece', the game appeared to have flaws from the start and im glad you pointed them out, because i always wondered how the hell did people find like 8 blocks and a flat world so engaging. Its just a matter of how the gaming world was at that period and how a developer decided to approach and interact with the community. Thanks for another peak video OrangE, cant wait for the next one.

This video was way more unique than most Minecraft history videos I’ve seen. Usually they start somewhere in pre-alpha to indev glancing over it. Then moving onto YouTubers that made the game popular. Going over the community forums, Pre-Minecraft, and just taking a closer look at those older builds is a great breath of fresh air.

This is a really, really deep and good retrospective of the game. I like how you support that minecraft's critisism has basically always been there from the beginning, but yet hasn't stopped it from becoming the best selling game ever. So what really makes minecraft successful is just in its sandbox-survival building foundation.

honestly, i have no idea how this is the first time im hearing of JTE. an actual legend of the minecraft community driven off the og forums due to forum mods being super hostile. wonder what they’re doing nowadays…

4:32 to 4:46 Maxwell players becoming self aware after picking a piece of grass for the first time in their day 1000 world

"After 200 days in development, it'll be worth the wait" - Gaben, CEO of orange logo company

Huh. So, Minecraft fans have always been annoying and prone to harassing developers for trying something new or not delivering game-changing/opposite of game-changing updates every update is the lesson of the video. Oh also some relatively minor false promises. Good to know we’ve come so far in the past 15 years! Good job Minecraft community!