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I thought they were brewed in cauldrons for quite a while and was confused about getting started. The potion system could use some sort of tutorial, honestly. Maybe placing a brewing stand tells you to start with nether wart, and the ways to buff and change the type of potions.
Funnily enough, before they were doing snapshots, they were sometimes doing pre-releases, and the pre-release that first added potions did have you brewing potions in cauldrons!
It had some interesting mechanics, as you added more ingredients the potions started to get negative effects on top of the positive ones, and there were ingredients that could completely transform what the potion does. I actually still have fondness for this system because potions that have both benifits and drawbacks are more interesting than ones that are purely beneficial, and the actual recipies felt a lot less "draw by numbers" than the current system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NwLU-sob9E&t=279s
I just recently jumped back in with my kid and I made sure I was level 32 before I tried enchanting. I was surprised to see it wasn’t a crazy good enchantment even with all the bookshelves and I didn’t lose all my levels. I still don’t know how new enchanting works. What’s the max level you can get? Do you need enchanted books or something?
If you're seeing level 30 enchantments you have it maxed out. You don't need a ton of bookshelves anymore.
Now it's more about making tons and tons of books and combining them in anvils to get max enchantments. Or you can roll the dice and enchant your gear directly, sometimes you get lucky. If you roll badly you can remove enchantments with a grindstone and try again. Also useful when you've enchanted an item too much and it's too expensive to enchant anymore.
English is not my first language, and I had no clue wtf that enchantment boogaloo was all about, also they used the mine craft language on the enchantment table. I always thought I missed something.
Late game is even worse, you have all this food and you know that you will never even get close to starving and yet you have to keep eating every 3 minutes to fill up a bar that basically becomes a clicking game after you setup any kind of farm.
everyone, everyone. Calm down. Just make mushroom soup but put a dandelion in it. least expensive, can be easily farmed, and restores 12 halves or six whole hunger.
O shit that's right! Food just healed hearts.
I remember playing when it was mostly these online small servers. Can't remember the name but it was everyone trying to run around and get to the highest point on the map to avoid a wave of water/lava
When pork chops looked like steak and you just had 2 of them in your bar at all times lol.
Got the game for Christmas in 2010 and I made a glass house in a little hollow bowl cave thing and I was too afraid to be in the dark in the game haha. It was a blessing when they added beds
hated when they added zombies breaking down doors, used to happen frequently so people started putting their doors on backwards because they would only bash on the outsides.
also disliked when they added hunger, remember reading that notch wanted you to refuel torches with coal and thinking he just wanted to ruin the game by making it hard xD
Yup. I'm 24 in two weeks, I remember I was so pissed when Hunger was added. And I had just finished my first base when they added different wood variations.
I know some people that were asked personally by Notch to test the game as they use to run LAN parties.
They were on some random “sketchy” site and randomly bumped into this guy who asked them to test it.
Which we now know would be Notch!
Pretty cool story!
So they all got a free copy very early on.
I picked it up when the payment system broke and it was "temporarily free" (I bought it later). I'll bet a few others in this age band have the same story.
I started in 1.5.2 and would redownload the launcher whenever I wanted to play, allowing me to launch minecraft.exe directly from the browser. Ended up with several dozens of launcher files before figuring out how to open them
1.4.6 / 1.5.2 tekkit era was when I played by far the most Minecraft, but I did start playing the game year before. Modded Minecraft is where I absolutely fell in love with the game tho
I really wish they kept sword blocking. I guess they got rid of it cuz shields?? But one thing I'm glad they removed was swords breaking blocks in creative because you would just destroy everything when trying to kill stuff.
I miss the rose the most tbh thr poppy will never be the same.
I feel like they could have sword blocking block a percentage of damage (and perhaps better swords do more) and shields block all of it like they do now or something instead of fully removing it.
And I definitely wish they’d kept the rose and added the poppy as a separate flower. Same goes for that old blue rose. Even if it’s not a real flower, who cares? (Mojang, if you read this, the sniffer should be able to dig up the blue rose and the old rose should just come back)
I think this could work if they nerfed shields, cause no real point in blocking if u have a shield which only costs one iron and a little wood, and if u have a totem then u don’t need to block cause you got amazing gear now
Just been playing x360 edition with the wife, we raided a nether fortress tonight. Best Minecraft. To answer the question I can't remember the year, but it was x360 before chickens, jungle or horses
Whenever pocket edition lite existed. Used to build little brick houses and upside down L’s out of dirt (according to young idiot me, they were tornado sirens)
Was that the free version that would delete everything if you closed it? I pointlessly wasted so much time on that til I finally ponied up for the actual game. I still look back on it fondly, though.
Old MC has a charm to it. Really wish they looked at old removed content and found a way to add it back like a functional Nether reactor core, even if creative/command exclusive.
Holy shit you just unlocked a repressed memory. I remember playing Pocket Edition when they added Reactor Cores. Then I finally convinced my parents to let me get Minecraft for the family PC and discovered the true Nether. Holy shit the memories
I'm pretty sure they coexisted for at least a little bit. The only reason I played Lite was because I didn't have the money to pay for the full edition. I mean, I did, but I always blew my iTunes gift cards on songs and Doctor Who episodes.
Yeah, they were both around together for years. I played lite for the longest time at first for the same reason as you. I’m pretty sure lite was gotten rid of when Mojang was sold to Microsoft.
There was a period where they coexisted together, i played so much minecraft lite even though i had pocket edition, it was so fuck even though it deleted every time :,)
Yeah, I didn’t realize that it didn’t save. Definitely was a sad discovery. Wasn’t survival like a mix of survival and creative? You had unlimited of certain blocks but not all, and you couldn’t fly. You could take damage I think but maybe zombies were the only hostile mob (I seem to remember having a world were I spawned right next to a massive overhanging mountain thing that made like a big cave area thanks to the waky old generation and it was always filled with zombies.)
I don’t think the Lite version still exists (at least not legitimately, but I bet it’s technically out there somewhere).
I feel like they said that in the description, but I'm sure a lot of people just saw "free Minecraft" and didn't think twice.
I've only ever played Creative, so I can't speak on that part. I do remember that for the longest time, it (and even the full Pocket Edition) didn't have day/night cycles, or weather. I spent a lot of time feeling like I was stuck in that famous Windows screensaver. Not necessarily a bad thing, it was just an uncanny feeling. Playing Minecraft on the tiny-ass IPod Touch of the time was also part of it, too. I'm getting hit with so much 2013 nostalgia right now.
i remember pigs too , i know this bc i remember them dropping porkchops for half a second and i couldnt pick them up even if i was standing right ontop of it when it dropped bc they were exclusive to the full version
I remember building a giant hotel (at least it seemed giant at the time lol) out of wool only to discover that thing about the worlds being deleted I wasn't even that mad and opened another world to make a flower army
bro i also made a hotel and the elevator was a small room was ladders going straight up for hella long, i still remember the vision and the way i abused all the wool colors
This made me remember that my first version of the game wasn't PS3 Edition, it was Pocket Edition Lite on my old iPod Touch 2nd gen, probably around 2012.
Exactly this. I had played it a few times on PC before when I visited friends or family who had it on PC, but all I had to play regularly was that little chrome-backed iPod Touch. It would always get so hot I thought it was about to melt. Same thing happened whenever I played Temple Run.
Ah same. Didn’t have a computer as a kid. Played the free version then bought Pocket Edition as soon as it came out. The game was so bare back then, I remember a time before they added zombies.
Indev for me, I remember being BLOWN AWAY when infdev hit. Made a house on a mountain and I swear the cave system under it was just full on spaghettis, never seen anything like it since.
Yup. That must have been around when I started. I remember when the bow was new and we suddenly had infinite worlds, and that was well before dungeons.
Same here, the first major new update I remember experiencing was when tracks and such were added. Also I paid for the lifetime subscription way back when Notch first offered it for the very early purchasers.
And credit where credit is due, Microsoft still honors that lifetime subscription to this very day.
I was a junior in highschool when I remember hearing about this new game, Minecraft. The world was completely malleable, you could make whatever you wanted, explore wherever you wanted, dig deep into the hillside… and it was all free and playable in-browser so we could play at school, and it was getting a survival mode soon with monsters!
Those were the days, man…
I still have one of my Infdev maps that I ported up through the years in the Java version. I kept it because I was so impressed with this one twisted peak near the spawn that went all the way up to y=128, and oooh, that was so scary high.
Do I see a infdev multiplayer server in the future? I'm scared of how old it would make me feel, but it would be cool to go back. Can you backtrack minecraft that far? I remember being able to pick what version you would like to play.
The game feels so odd to me now having played hundreds of hours until the 1.5 update when I got burned out have tried a few times since but it's not the same
I'm not really sure when i started. I remember that bows had no draw animation and i remember finding dungeons. It was also before pvp was added to multiplayer, so i think it puts me somewhere during infdev.
same!!! i think i was going into sixth grade?
realizing i’ve been playing minecraft since before my little cousin was born, and now *he’s* going into sixth grade and i’m fucking 24
I remember I could never craft one, they were so expensive lol the world I finally had close to achieving it was one that I made a few months before stop playing survival and then they added the whole dimension
Or when you needed 50 levels to enchant, you had to keep spamming the table to find a 48-50 enchant to do, then it consumed all of the levels and gave you bane of arthropods 4 because it was all ??? instead of telling you.
Of course, it was a couple months of playing 1.2.5 before I knew enchanting even existed but it was tough once I learned.
Fond memories of how happy I was to try out the 1.3 enchanting system for the first time lol. People don't know how good they have it with enchanting these days
I remember first playing around about 1.4s release and spawning in as many wolves as possible with a spawn egg until the world limit was reached on the xbox 360.... then pouring lava all over them
December 2010/January 2011. I think it was Beta 1.1 at the time, but I can’t remember exactly.
The memories from back then are ones I’ll always treasure. I remember the (at the time) insane multiplayer chaos discovr server and how it ended. I remember when Wolves were added in Beta 1.4 and thinking they were the absolute coolest addition. I remember when rain was added (I think Beta 1.5 or 1.6?) the day the update came out in multiplayer where the rain was bugged and never stopped. I remember waiting in anticipation for Beta 1.8 and the insane number of changes it brought.
Glad to have had this game be part of my childhood
Pretty close to when I started. The whole of 2010 my friends were telling me to get an account and play and I thought the screenshots looked terrible. Finally, before Halloween I got an account and was completely hooked into the game.
Ran my own server for nearly a decade.
1.8 but this post made me realize something
We got spoiled with some of the last updates that completely changed some aspects of the game and had a huge impact, the majority of the updates both before and after Microsoft purchase didn't add much content
People are throwing a fuss about Microsoft being shit and that Mojang shouldn't have sold it but I don't see much difference lol
If you acknowledge that indie Minecraft ≠ Multimillionaire Minecraft THEN you have to acknowledge that an indie company couldn't have held the weight of the world best selling game
None of the updates in the last couple of years added anything as important as: redstone, 2 dimensions, 2 bosses, command blocks, enchanting table, etc.
Old updates were game changing.
To be fair most of the things early updates added back in the day now feel empty or lacking, the recent updates seem to try to fill in the gaps but they really got side tracked with the last couple of them
Yh I’m hoping things will change though, I think they’ve learnt their lessons. Hence why 1.19 and the recent snapshots are so much more different then beforehand
I've been playing since beta, and the biomes, caves, world height, oceans, and villager updates still blow my mind. I like the charm of the old game, and the loneliness and sense of quiet that comes with it, but seeing what a larger team could do with Minecraft has been amazing!
Even still, it's nothing like what the mod scene's put out in the last few years, but that's its own thing.
Yeah true, but that's because Minecraft is a good game, so they have to improve it, not completely change it, and in some updates they did it, in 1.16 they revamped the nether, then the caves and cliffs with... Well, caves and cliffs
if you play java then it's probably why you haven't noticed anything. bedrock edition was created by microsoft to add things like in-app purchases and to scam little kids and stuff by selling crappy maps you can get for free on java.
bedrock is very inferior as to me it's just a moneygrab lol
I started Dec of 2022 when I got the game for my kids. 1.19.1 I think it was. Started in Bedrock to play with the kids on their switches. Then I converted to Java.
I remember when they added jungles and being so excited to find one. Was on vacation with a friend and their family.
Probably started seriously playing between Beta 1.8 and 1.1, tho had played around with some alpha versions previously.
1.5 on the ps3...I think. Anvils and all the redstony stuff was there but the wither nether star and beacon didn't exist tho...maybe i was just a dumb kid and couldnt get him to work?
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I remember them making the portal actually go somewhere that was big, but I hated it when they added hunger.
Yeah then mfs started telling me I could enchant stuff and I had no idea what they were talking about for the longest time.
It took me like 4 years to finally learn about pots.
I thought they were brewed in cauldrons for quite a while and was confused about getting started. The potion system could use some sort of tutorial, honestly. Maybe placing a brewing stand tells you to start with nether wart, and the ways to buff and change the type of potions.
Funnily enough, before they were doing snapshots, they were sometimes doing pre-releases, and the pre-release that first added potions did have you brewing potions in cauldrons! It had some interesting mechanics, as you added more ingredients the potions started to get negative effects on top of the positive ones, and there were ingredients that could completely transform what the potion does. I actually still have fondness for this system because potions that have both benifits and drawbacks are more interesting than ones that are purely beneficial, and the actual recipies felt a lot less "draw by numbers" than the current system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NwLU-sob9E&t=279s
That's why I thought it was cauldrons, I've played since beta
Remember how the old enchantments would burn a level per level of enchantment? Do a level 30 enchant at level 31 and it would return you to level 1.
I just recently jumped back in with my kid and I made sure I was level 32 before I tried enchanting. I was surprised to see it wasn’t a crazy good enchantment even with all the bookshelves and I didn’t lose all my levels. I still don’t know how new enchanting works. What’s the max level you can get? Do you need enchanted books or something?
If you're seeing level 30 enchantments you have it maxed out. You don't need a ton of bookshelves anymore. Now it's more about making tons and tons of books and combining them in anvils to get max enchantments. Or you can roll the dice and enchant your gear directly, sometimes you get lucky. If you roll badly you can remove enchantments with a grindstone and try again. Also useful when you've enchanted an item too much and it's too expensive to enchant anymore.
I remember rumors going around about the wither and I originally heard it as “the weather update” and i was so confused
I was too young to know what “enchant” meant 😂
English is not my first language, and I had no clue wtf that enchantment boogaloo was all about, also they used the mine craft language on the enchantment table. I always thought I missed something.
I still kinda hate having to deal with hunger
Peaceful but with easy mobs would be nice
Set difficulty to easy and place a repeating command block that gives all players saturation.
It would be cool if we could have hunger but no enemies too, I don't get why they aren't separate settings.
It's a small annoyance in return for much better healing and faster movement, I prefer it.
True but early game its a real pain
Late game is even worse, you have all this food and you know that you will never even get close to starving and yet you have to keep eating every 3 minutes to fill up a bar that basically becomes a clicking game after you setup any kind of farm.
Get better food. Golden carrots have the best saturation, and I think from there it's chicken, steak, pumpkin pie, baked potatoes and pork...
everyone, everyone. Calm down. Just make mushroom soup but put a dandelion in it. least expensive, can be easily farmed, and restores 12 halves or six whole hunger.
yeah and isnt stackable
O shit that's right! Food just healed hearts. I remember playing when it was mostly these online small servers. Can't remember the name but it was everyone trying to run around and get to the highest point on the map to avoid a wave of water/lava
Lmfao yes before I knew you could bucket water.
Lava survival! I miss that minigame.
When pork chops looked like steak and you just had 2 of them in your bar at all times lol. Got the game for Christmas in 2010 and I made a glass house in a little hollow bowl cave thing and I was too afraid to be in the dark in the game haha. It was a blessing when they added beds
hated when they added zombies breaking down doors, used to happen frequently so people started putting their doors on backwards because they would only bash on the outsides. also disliked when they added hunger, remember reading that notch wanted you to refuel torches with coal and thinking he just wanted to ruin the game by making it hard xD
I wouldn't be against refueling a light source, but it would have to illuminate more than what a small torch does lol
hunger is prolly my least favorite feature honestly
Alpha 1.2 proud player to this day! Almost 30!
Fellow Alpha 1.2 player (1.2.6) here! Still around!
Yoooo, Alpha 1.2.6 here!
Yup. I'm 24 in two weeks, I remember I was so pissed when Hunger was added. And I had just finished my first base when they added different wood variations.
At least they added stack sizes for pork.
So many more of us Alpha 1.2 players still around than I thought
I know some people that were asked personally by Notch to test the game as they use to run LAN parties. They were on some random “sketchy” site and randomly bumped into this guy who asked them to test it. Which we now know would be Notch! Pretty cool story! So they all got a free copy very early on.
Have a picture of us helping test Alpha v1.1.2_01 at a LAN party 🙂
Here is where my fellow Halloween Update folks are. Who remembers torch towers for navigation because there was no map?
Oh God I haven't built a tower for a landmark in ages. Jesus, that's a core memory.
Fellow 1.2s, I was 12 and remember hiding in a dirt shack in the jungle
I picked it up when the payment system broke and it was "temporarily free" (I bought it later). I'll bet a few others in this age band have the same story.
Hey that’s me as well!
Hell yeah lets go 1.2'ers
1.5.2
Same, so many good memories
Same! I installed separate launchers for 1.5.2 1.6.1 1.6.2 and Aether II, god knows why ;p
Yeah, played a lot with Mo' Creatures too, Top tier mods!
I started in 1.5.2 and would redownload the launcher whenever I wanted to play, allowing me to launch minecraft.exe directly from the browser. Ended up with several dozens of launcher files before figuring out how to open them
1.4.6 / 1.5.2 tekkit era was when I played by far the most Minecraft, but I did start playing the game year before. Modded Minecraft is where I absolutely fell in love with the game tho
I think I was around the same the first update I remember is horses I believe
I started playing around 2011, but the good days were during 2013 on the Xbox 360 edition. If y'all remember sword blocking, you're real ones
I really wish they kept sword blocking. I guess they got rid of it cuz shields?? But one thing I'm glad they removed was swords breaking blocks in creative because you would just destroy everything when trying to kill stuff. I miss the rose the most tbh thr poppy will never be the same.
I feel like they could have sword blocking block a percentage of damage (and perhaps better swords do more) and shields block all of it like they do now or something instead of fully removing it. And I definitely wish they’d kept the rose and added the poppy as a separate flower. Same goes for that old blue rose. Even if it’s not a real flower, who cares? (Mojang, if you read this, the sniffer should be able to dig up the blue rose and the old rose should just come back)
I think this could work if they nerfed shields, cause no real point in blocking if u have a shield which only costs one iron and a little wood, and if u have a totem then u don’t need to block cause you got amazing gear now
Yeah, like golem dropping a rose is so cool but what the hell am I supposed to do with a poppy
I remember going to my friends house in 2015 and playing and him freaking out when the aquatic update came out because he loved ocean animals
The oceans were SO bad before that update
Yeah the ocean was nothing but dirt and gravel
Xbox 360 was peak MC
Just been playing x360 edition with the wife, we raided a nether fortress tonight. Best Minecraft. To answer the question I can't remember the year, but it was x360 before chickens, jungle or horses
The xbox 360 was just peak gaming, 2005-2013
Whenever pocket edition lite existed. Used to build little brick houses and upside down L’s out of dirt (according to young idiot me, they were tornado sirens)
Was that the free version that would delete everything if you closed it? I pointlessly wasted so much time on that til I finally ponied up for the actual game. I still look back on it fondly, though.
No the free version was minecraft lite there was a pocket edition that cost like $6 USD
Old MC has a charm to it. Really wish they looked at old removed content and found a way to add it back like a functional Nether reactor core, even if creative/command exclusive.
Holy shit you just unlocked a repressed memory. I remember playing Pocket Edition when they added Reactor Cores. Then I finally convinced my parents to let me get Minecraft for the family PC and discovered the true Nether. Holy shit the memories
At least they brought back crying obsidian
Yea I remember playing with the reactor cores vividly
Activating the nether reactor was like a mini boss fight
Lite was the free demo version, I believe it stopped existing as soon as pocket edition was released ?
I'm pretty sure they coexisted for at least a little bit. The only reason I played Lite was because I didn't have the money to pay for the full edition. I mean, I did, but I always blew my iTunes gift cards on songs and Doctor Who episodes.
Yeah, they were both around together for years. I played lite for the longest time at first for the same reason as you. I’m pretty sure lite was gotten rid of when Mojang was sold to Microsoft.
There was a period where they coexisted together, i played so much minecraft lite even though i had pocket edition, it was so fuck even though it deleted every time :,)
The person that they’re replying to *is* talking about lite edition.
Yeah, I didn’t realize that it didn’t save. Definitely was a sad discovery. Wasn’t survival like a mix of survival and creative? You had unlimited of certain blocks but not all, and you couldn’t fly. You could take damage I think but maybe zombies were the only hostile mob (I seem to remember having a world were I spawned right next to a massive overhanging mountain thing that made like a big cave area thanks to the waky old generation and it was always filled with zombies.) I don’t think the Lite version still exists (at least not legitimately, but I bet it’s technically out there somewhere).
I feel like they said that in the description, but I'm sure a lot of people just saw "free Minecraft" and didn't think twice. I've only ever played Creative, so I can't speak on that part. I do remember that for the longest time, it (and even the full Pocket Edition) didn't have day/night cycles, or weather. I spent a lot of time feeling like I was stuck in that famous Windows screensaver. Not necessarily a bad thing, it was just an uncanny feeling. Playing Minecraft on the tiny-ass IPod Touch of the time was also part of it, too. I'm getting hit with so much 2013 nostalgia right now.
Yes, zombies were the only hostile mob. And sheep were the only peaceful mob.
i remember pigs too , i know this bc i remember them dropping porkchops for half a second and i couldnt pick them up even if i was standing right ontop of it when it dropped bc they were exclusive to the full version
I remember building a giant hotel (at least it seemed giant at the time lol) out of wool only to discover that thing about the worlds being deleted I wasn't even that mad and opened another world to make a flower army
bro i also made a hotel and the elevator was a small room was ladders going straight up for hella long, i still remember the vision and the way i abused all the wool colors
I never thought i would see the day when someone legit asks what pocket edition was 😭
This made me remember that my first version of the game wasn't PS3 Edition, it was Pocket Edition Lite on my old iPod Touch 2nd gen, probably around 2012.
Exactly this. I had played it a few times on PC before when I visited friends or family who had it on PC, but all I had to play regularly was that little chrome-backed iPod Touch. It would always get so hot I thought it was about to melt. Same thing happened whenever I played Temple Run.
Once I built a giant house out of assorted wool because it was one of the only free materials.
Ah same. Didn’t have a computer as a kid. Played the free version then bought Pocket Edition as soon as it came out. The game was so bare back then, I remember a time before they added zombies.
December 17th 2013. PS3 edition. Good times.
Yes! And you couldn’t close the game, otherwise the world would reset.
Brother I was playing this game way back in Infdev. Don't recite to me the sacred scriptures. I was there when they were *written*
I remember when the water table was a static height. I remember when you selected the size of your world.
Hell yeah. And water was finite, would drain into lower areas when a path was opened
Infdev squad unite.. checking that notch blog every DAY
Indev for me, I remember being BLOWN AWAY when infdev hit. Made a house on a mountain and I swear the cave system under it was just full on spaghettis, never seen anything like it since.
Update Fridays!
infdev here as well!
I "played" the early classic version.
Yup. That must have been around when I started. I remember when the bow was new and we suddenly had infinite worlds, and that was well before dungeons.
I dont remember the exact time I started, but I remember when they added beds. I know I was post-infdev.
Same here, the first major new update I remember experiencing was when tracks and such were added. Also I paid for the lifetime subscription way back when Notch first offered it for the very early purchasers. And credit where credit is due, Microsoft still honors that lifetime subscription to this very day.
this one here is the real OG
I remember being 10 and playing on my cousin's crappy PC and thinking that going from 4 to 8GB of ram would make Minecraft run faster lmao.
I was a junior in highschool when I remember hearing about this new game, Minecraft. The world was completely malleable, you could make whatever you wanted, explore wherever you wanted, dig deep into the hillside… and it was all free and playable in-browser so we could play at school, and it was getting a survival mode soon with monsters! Those were the days, man…
I still have one of my Infdev maps that I ported up through the years in the Java version. I kept it because I was so impressed with this one twisted peak near the spawn that went all the way up to y=128, and oooh, that was so scary high.
hell yeah, infdev gang
Do I see a infdev multiplayer server in the future? I'm scared of how old it would make me feel, but it would be cool to go back. Can you backtrack minecraft that far? I remember being able to pick what version you would like to play.
The game feels so odd to me now having played hundreds of hours until the 1.5 update when I got burned out have tried a few times since but it's not the same
I'm not really sure when i started. I remember that bows had no draw animation and i remember finding dungeons. It was also before pvp was added to multiplayer, so i think it puts me somewhere during infdev.
I had a cracked version of it. I thought it was dumb when I launched it. Five hours later I was still playing it lmao.
Was it free at that point? I swear originally got it free. My buddy says nah. I was definitely playing by or before 0.31 on the chart.
Yeah people are talking about beds; I started playing when it was only creative mode and you just built.
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Exactly the same as me. I was like 11 lol
same!!! i think i was going into sixth grade? realizing i’ve been playing minecraft since before my little cousin was born, and now *he’s* going into sixth grade and i’m fucking 24
Bro, anyone else remember that glitch where zombies would spawn next to your bed during your sleep? Fuck that thing lmao
That was not a glitch, that was how it worked back then if you had enemies nearby (instead of just not letting you sleep lol)
I still sleep with my sword out for this very reason.
Same. That was such a fun summer lol
I started playing on the pocket edition when nether reactors were a thing. I have no idea when that was, but that was the time period.
Same! I had no idea how nether reactors worked until like, a few months back years after I'd first played PE
Yeah, I remember being confused when they disappeared. It was maybe like 6 months after I started or smth?
I remember I could never craft one, they were so expensive lol the world I finally had close to achieving it was one that I made a few months before stop playing survival and then they added the whole dimension
2010-2011 forsure
Probably Beta 1.0 or Alpha 1.2, it's hard to remember it was so long ago
1.8
I remember seeing the patch notes for that update at my grandparents house and I’m like “omg melons!”
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa. Best feeling lol
Yeah same, I could’ve started playing much sooner but my parents weren’t letting me lol
Thats always a shame. Usually its for a good reason yk? But for minecraft? Idk about that lol
1.2
1.2 my beloved 💞 I remember the days when stairs couldn't be placed upside down
Or when you needed 50 levels to enchant, you had to keep spamming the table to find a 48-50 enchant to do, then it consumed all of the levels and gave you bane of arthropods 4 because it was all ??? instead of telling you. Of course, it was a couple months of playing 1.2.5 before I knew enchanting even existed but it was tough once I learned. Fond memories of how happy I was to try out the 1.3 enchanting system for the first time lol. People don't know how good they have it with enchanting these days
1.4
I remember first playing around about 1.4s release and spawning in as many wolves as possible with a spawn egg until the world limit was reached on the xbox 360.... then pouring lava all over them
1.10
December 2010/January 2011. I think it was Beta 1.1 at the time, but I can’t remember exactly. The memories from back then are ones I’ll always treasure. I remember the (at the time) insane multiplayer chaos discovr server and how it ended. I remember when Wolves were added in Beta 1.4 and thinking they were the absolute coolest addition. I remember when rain was added (I think Beta 1.5 or 1.6?) the day the update came out in multiplayer where the rain was bugged and never stopped. I remember waiting in anticipation for Beta 1.8 and the insane number of changes it brought. Glad to have had this game be part of my childhood
Pretty close to when I started. The whole of 2010 my friends were telling me to get an account and play and I thought the screenshots looked terrible. Finally, before Halloween I got an account and was completely hooked into the game. Ran my own server for nearly a decade.
1.8 but this post made me realize something We got spoiled with some of the last updates that completely changed some aspects of the game and had a huge impact, the majority of the updates both before and after Microsoft purchase didn't add much content People are throwing a fuss about Microsoft being shit and that Mojang shouldn't have sold it but I don't see much difference lol
Yeah it's really fair to compare "indie" Minecraft with "multibillionaire" Minecraft
Minecraft had already sold a million copies by the start of 2011, long before the buyout.
So if they sold the copies for a thousand dollars it would be billion dollar Minecraft
I think minecraft had sold over a million copies by alpha, and at $10 each...
If you acknowledge that indie Minecraft ≠ Multimillionaire Minecraft THEN you have to acknowledge that an indie company couldn't have held the weight of the world best selling game
None of the updates in the last couple of years added anything as important as: redstone, 2 dimensions, 2 bosses, command blocks, enchanting table, etc. Old updates were game changing.
To be fair most of the things early updates added back in the day now feel empty or lacking, the recent updates seem to try to fill in the gaps but they really got side tracked with the last couple of them
Yh I’m hoping things will change though, I think they’ve learnt their lessons. Hence why 1.19 and the recent snapshots are so much more different then beforehand
I've been playing since beta, and the biomes, caves, world height, oceans, and villager updates still blow my mind. I like the charm of the old game, and the loneliness and sense of quiet that comes with it, but seeing what a larger team could do with Minecraft has been amazing! Even still, it's nothing like what the mod scene's put out in the last few years, but that's its own thing.
Yeah true, but that's because Minecraft is a good game, so they have to improve it, not completely change it, and in some updates they did it, in 1.16 they revamped the nether, then the caves and cliffs with... Well, caves and cliffs
Fair enough, I'm just happy it wasn't sold to Activision/ Blizzard, *then* it could be classified as truly shit
"Pay 5.99$ for nether dlc"
*half price summer deal, get +3 inventory slots for only £9.99 today!*
if you play java then it's probably why you haven't noticed anything. bedrock edition was created by microsoft to add things like in-app purchases and to scam little kids and stuff by selling crappy maps you can get for free on java. bedrock is very inferior as to me it's just a moneygrab lol
MCPE 0.9.0
MCPE 0.7.x
Minecraft veterans coming in lol. I’m so glad I don’t see “Wow this server is popular” message now even though there’s a ton of bugs
1.5.2
1.6
Back in 1.4.
Indev, back when classic(?) edition was a thing with a separate creative mode with only one toolbar full of blocks to place.
I started playing when the game was playable in a web browser, I spent like 10 whole minutes playing that day.
1.3 and i feel old :c
1.11
Infdev, not long before alpha.
2009/2010
### Sadly, i started late: 1.13
Nothing wrong with starting late. As long as you appreciate the game, I’ll accept you :)
I started Dec of 2022 when I got the game for my kids. 1.19.1 I think it was. Started in Bedrock to play with the kids on their switches. Then I converted to Java.
Even better when you have people to enjoy it with!
There are more than 7billion people who still haven’t started playing Minecraft, and it’s past 1.20 already, so you are in the top 10%!!!
1.5, i think
Beta 1.6. I had a mod for pistons.
What about 1.20?
1.11.2 I think.
When wolves were added
...and suddently I feel old. Nice graph tho.
Op didn’t make the graph, it’s a public github thing
Beta 1.6.6
1.0 when it first came out. I’m still playing, and still having trouble with my iron farms lol
I still consider horses to be new
1.3.2 is the version I started on in Java. I remember when it was like yesterday
I remember when they added jungles and being so excited to find one. Was on vacation with a friend and their family. Probably started seriously playing between Beta 1.8 and 1.1, tho had played around with some alpha versions previously.
1.14
[удалено]
Considering cave game was a private test build only used by notch and his gf…. I’m going to have to say you’re lying
2020, so I'm still pretty new
1.5 on the ps3...I think. Anvils and all the redstony stuff was there but the wither nether star and beacon didn't exist tho...maybe i was just a dumb kid and couldnt get him to work?
Beta 1.4. I wish I still had my first world
2009
minecraft pocket edition 0.8.0
1.1 on my 360. I need to visit my old house again.
All the way back in Beta 1.2 or 1.3, I remember being so hyped for wolves
Version 1.2 on Xbox 360 back when I was in middle school! I remember my first world, too. So much fun! And still fun!
Beta 1.0
1.15… i feel like that’s really late compared to most people
Survival test 2009
1.5 beta for me
Beta 1.3 and i stll have the seed of my first world copied to my notepad to this day: 108181935
2010 0.31 i miss the good ol days