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Anyaustin so good at this
This guy is gold! I love it, I ACTUALLY look forward to the sponsor bits lol!
I enjoy your narration a lot
I jumped back into Minecraft again recently. Haven't played in a year or two and a lot has changed. I jumped on an old server that my buddy and his wife had that they built out together. I built a little simple house on a mountain top looking over their massive castle/kingdom they built back then and we spent quite a lot of time there.
They are since divorced, and when I popped back into the server, man I felt so many of these points. The music, being alone on a server that has others, seeing all the old builds. The new music is really haunting sometimes, and it made the moment really sad. But I'm glad I still have those memories and it was fun while it lasted.
Oh my god, you put into words why I'm so addicted to making new Minecraft worlds. It's not because I'm short sighted or I have no impulse control, it's because I'm in love with that one moment where you look around in utter confusion at the brand new world that just grew out before you.
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More glorious still is having a 10 year old server with a bunch of your friends old builds and revisiting it with everyone, and some new people along to marvel at the immensity of it all.
Also instantly subbed, good stuff
It’s funny because the homie with the messy rooms always be leaving trees floating
"Do you clean up after yourself in Minecraft?" Yes, actually I do.
But not in real life. My mind consumes all of the energy my body needs for activities.
TBH i loved how existential this was
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(softly) Don't
Logging on with no friends online…
I've been the last remaining player consistently playing on a 4 and a half year old server. Was on today building highways all by myself.
As someone who has grown up playing minecraft and watching people play it, this was such a wonderful video. It felt like such a perfect tribute to the game and honestly made me a little bit emotional. thank you for making it and sharing it with us <3
lava burns trees, lightning strikes set fire to things, creepers go boom, endermen move blocks. the world changes without your input
It should be easier to play minecraft as it existed in 2010
I reinstalled minecraft right after watching this video… you win man
your scripts for these just get cleaner
Minecraft is literally an experience of calmly doing my work.
It's like the experience of silently fixing my father's old car in my garage and falling asleep again because I'm exhausted and bored.
The minecraft poem is really beautiful it always makes me tear up
Great video. It's all so true……
When the music in Minecraft starts playing it's like when wind starts blowing on sunny day and you pause to take a deep breath.
What a nice video essay, it was very fun and interesting to watch, even though I can't enjoy Minecraft myself (mostly due to what you said in 3:13).
I really like this, please make more videos like this.
a thing i'd recommend for the inevitable march to boredom mentioned is during a minecraft playthrough to not be afraid to uproot that base you made. place all your valuables in a chest, bring the bare minimum and just travel off in a direction. find a new place to set up shop and start anew there. you get a similar experience to popping in a new world but you can always check back on your old journeys and bases. it's nice
What's with the hair bruh
I miss my little dirt houses from when the kids and I just started playing Minecraft together on our home server. Random minecart tracks that had no real reason or need. Building as high as possible, just to forget placing torches and having your work blown away by creepers. I've had a home server running for about 2 years and I'm the only citizen but I will keep it running for as long as I can just so that one day I can show it to my grand kids and pick up where me and my kids left off. Got a long time to go, but it's something to look forward to.
"here's the part that i have to read verbatim" really resonated with me. as did the rest of the video
My oldest save started around summer 2010. I vividly remember making a nether portal on top of a large pyramid before the Halloween Update. I rarely play Minecraft now, but I do have a lot of fun memories attached to the game.
Great video.
Cant call any the best, but I do believe Minecraft is the greatest game ever made. So far.
Way too few different types of blocks.*
I have a realm with my sister and we've been playing consistently for over 2 years now and we don't get bored. We have so much to do. We have probably 30 different projects we are working on and we just switch it up when we get bored of that project. It's healed our relationship and it's the best game I've ever played.
tbh minecraft is one of those games where I have very specific and very vivid memories of pretty much every world I ever made… not many games can say that
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U can actually see the stretch to boredom in my first video on my first channel where I started a world, started building a house, got through a day or two of minecraft and then I never uploaded another video after lmao
This is the best video you've ever made.
Depends on who you’re dealing with, I like massive projects.
Currently have around 1.8 million blocks left on a structure followed by a few side projects all being worked on at same time.
Paying for a realm drives me further and having friends working on projects pushes it further so future build I have planned is around 5 million blocks.
Few years worth.
No true gamer ever fights the Ender Dragon.
Also, I've never played Minecraft with the music on.
Did any one play on corumanime's server some years ago? That'd be fun to meet someone else from that dude's server.
I played with my friends, this game, in alpha build when we were in our early 20's. Would all bring our computers to one friends apartment and play until the sun came up, take a nap, then do band practice. Dreamt about starting a group called "Mind Craft" to submit music to this fledgling game. It's magical.
i think the best experience i had was on this years old (maybe 5 or so) server that was about building towns and nations on a 1:1000 earth map. My favorite past time was going through the old ruins of towns that looked super interesting and had groups that seemed really into it that just stopped playing. The buildings were up and over time the chests would unlock allowing explorers and looters to take it. Sure the towns became destructible as well but I don't think there were many people actively destroying ruined towns for gain, because there wasn't. Sometimes people would even start up new towns in ruins and build off it. Eventually my group fell out of it and our towns became ruins. Unfortunately the ruins that were my towns were changed entirely by the people who moved in. I think the craziest part was that I never really left the continent of Asia for most of my time. I started in North Japan and Russia, moved to Western Russia near Karelia, then moved back to Asia and lived in China and the Himalayas, before moving back to North Japan and eventually stopped playing. Part of me wants to get back on and set up a peaceful little town in the Pacific Islands.
There was a point you mentioned about the parallels of being a clean and organized person in minecraft would be reflected in the player's real life living space but, turning around from my chair, that's just not true lol.
Gross, bedrock edition
As a certified minecraft architect, they have not in fact added way too many blocks
I feel the same way about Age of empires maps. Always fresh
Having someone pronounce C418 as C4eighteen has me going for a loop, like what if I've been thinking of the name wrong this entire time. (I just searched it up and YES I AM WRONG ITS BEEN C4EIGHTEEN THIS ENTIRE TIME T-T)
The moment that makes Minecraft die – when you first played the game back in beta, and all these years on, you load it up and find that after huge success, much money and a larger team working on it, there still isn't good combat, the additions to the game are still pretty lacklustre when you consider how much has been added to other titles in less time, there still isn't any ambient soundscape, let alone any environmental effects applied to sounds, there still aren't any built-in modding tools and/or mutators, and good luck trying to get even a few simple shaders running on the optimized Windows 10 version because they sealed off the whole thing with their Microsoft Store nonsense.
Started playing Valheim the other week. Building a campfire with wood you acquired from chopping down trees with realistic log physics, then using the rest of the wood to build a chimney around it (because otherwise rain will put the fire out, and an improperly built chimney will result in smoke build-up that will suffocate you), then building a house around the chimney, and watching the firelight flicker on the walls while you listen to the wind rolling through the forest outside… only to hear the snarl of some strange creature, and venturing outside into the storm with your spear and shield… that's the moment when you remember the potential Minecraft seemed to have, back when you first played it.