INDEV: The Strange Story of Minecraft's Earliest Features
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2021
- Minecraft has a storied past, and there are many features which have been lost to time. Join me as we take a look at what no longer exists today.
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If you listen to the first minute without any context or visuals it sounds like a creepypasta horror story.
ikr i was looking at another tab at the time and i got scared like wtf himans flayling their arms around just running?
kinda
Yeah, it's kinda creepy ngl
This entire video is scary sounding
It really does lol
19:08. Pyramids. This is where it all began. All that lore, all the theories. It all began here with the realization that there is more than meets the eye. There was someone here before you.
It really is a powerful moment…pyramids totally changed how we view the game
Oh no
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l o r e
@@felicedt4912 I like how one guy described it as "quasi lore" basically almost lore but not quite
Always liked to think Steve was a wild Steve who gained self awareness and increased intelligence compared to the other Steve's who just frolic around aimlessly, hence why he's the only Steve left when u start a new game
Thats a great theory, Steve started it all.
and the rest became zombies
@@havana80 holy crap your right
Steves*
@@nicefloweytheoverseer7632 bro he literally said it what the fuck are you correcting???
His dramatic over-exaggeration is so funny. This guy is great
I had so much fun with this one
@@RetroGamingNow what were the soundtracks used for this video? I recognize a few, but I can't put my finger on what they are.
@@xanthiusdrake2775 I'm also curious. that's my only complaint about these videos, to be honest- there's no credits in the description!
@@xanthiusdrake2775 i think one music is scp 087 music
To be fair, this would be anyone's train of thought when experiencing Minecraft
lol the Steve’s running around in the beginning are so funny looking
Pov: EEEE?
Yep
They are kinda creepy
Pog steve
They are so freaky!
9:10 The revelation that Steve wasn't originally created for Minecraft is nuts. Imagine going back to 2009 when that video was the only evidence of his existence, and telling someone he would be in Smash in 11 years.
limbo
@@aliakeel rain world
@@Goolix_Aero yeah!
Somebody get this man a time machine, STAT
Progression from a character no one knew about to a character everyone knows about in 11y/ time
The old brown spider model was so cute, they should add it back as a tameable mount or a friendly source of string.
"they should add it back as a tameable mount"
Dude I've been wanting that since like update Aquatic/Village and Pillage era. It would be so fun!
If skeletons get a spider jockey why can't we?
honestly, a spider would be the best mount. you can scale walls and mountains just by holding W
@@quandaviousvonheadsonzingl6453 even better, a jumping spider mount! Or just a smaller spider that's a jumpy boi that can help you hunt! (They don't make webs but they're fantastic hunters on their own, and very smart!)
@@exist4046 they can give you high fives too =)
Doc's designs were so cute.
There is ONE way to get giant zombies to spawn naturally; You have to create a world in the 20w14∞ April Fools snapshot. I created about 30 worlds & giant zombies spawned in 2 of them.
I love playing this version. One downside is too many phantoms. Haven't seen a giant zombie yet. I found one floating islands world that has overworld similar terrain, no stone underground though. Found a lava pool next to a water pool so built a cobblestone generator.
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9:55 him dramatically describing this video and HOW HORRIFYING it is, is unintentionally funny
Lmao
I especially like when he describes a creeper’s face as having “unending suffering”
@@jimbosfunzone8292 that too
Agreed but it’s also hard to watch Bc it’s cringe :/
@@cooper_skyfalls2102 worth it
God, I imagine Notch in the begining developing Minecraft as a small project, interacting with fans, and not being overwhelmed by stress. A completely different era
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I'm also trying to make minecraft. I can imagine it.
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3:44 the 'dripstone' could be a revision of the spikes, it's very similar in the idea, sharp, pointy, and added in the same update as the amethyst, (very similar to one of his other ideas.)
also pulleys are nowdays pistons
Somewhere in an alternate universe, Rana is the mascot of Minecraft instead of Steve and the art direction is completely different.
finally, someone who actually talks about notchs posts and glitches earlier in game. fun to know im not the only one who likes that kind of stuff.
Same
yes indeed I know this stuff well too!
I’m kinda sad he didn’t mention the double sided axes lmao
@@w7u it’s true. There are a few really minor features that I didn’t mention
@@RetroGamingNow u
“There are pigs, which drop brown mushrooms, which can restore health”
Man, I love early Minecraft
And, pigs turned into creepers during a coding accident, and people think creepers release spores on death and mushrooms use spores. Maybe the mushroom contaminates and corrupts the pig.
When Notch first added chests I built a double chest and filled it full of a bunch of random crap like dirt and sand and planks. Then I broke it thinking I could carry it around with me and all the items spilled out on the ground. I remember staring at the screen for a moment wondering what had just happened.
Damn, looking at this really makes me think of how creative Notch is. Like, taking his perspective and not thinking that these features are already in Minecraft, most new things he came up with were amazing new additions. Makes me wonder how Minecraft would have turned out if he continued running it instead of selling it to Microsoft.
I've actually never seen a video that dives this deep into the history of very early versions of minecraft. Sure we get a short cameo of indev or infdev during lore videos, but to dedicate an entire video to discussing a version and what led up to it is just amazing
There are some amazing mods that change the world generation to re-add farlands and monoliths
I'm your 100th liker here and bye.
@@elnico5623 which mods?
quiWauREmains!
I love this! It's basically a "Brief History of Everything Minecraft"
If FitMC was not addicted to 2B2T
@@ladvargleinad7566 😂
@@ladvargleinad7566 ? Havent watched vid so wut?
fun fact after the concept for hell notch wanted to name what is now known as the nether as "The slip" I was literally following the development of the game after the introduction of world types.
Bro, if you made a 2-hour documentary on Minecraft, I would watch the entire thing, repeatedly. Your delivery is immaculate.
9:57 "It's terrifying"
Me, laughing like a maniac: Yes but in a different way than what you're thinking.
I know right? Terrifying? This is the funniest thing I have seen all day!
It looks like a modern shitpost
Terrific if you ask me
Ah yes....
a manic....
@@cheeseguzzler6269 some people here get it
The first time I saw a pic of Rana was in a digital manga book written by Dock many years ago. Didn't know he was associated with Minecraft's development, but rana's design is so recognisable it just brought the memory of that book back. Really cool tbh !!
I saw Rana first ages ago under the "removed features" section on Minecraft Wiki.
i love the really obscure corners of the internet like what you just demonstrated
Rana is a girl
@@nicefloweytheoverseer7632 I think they said “he” to refer to Dock
ekteksazHaulDemsz...
Steve flailing around was a special experience, I still remember this version and playing it on multiplayer
ALSO I remember playing the old Minecraft-"classic" era! I used to play The One's Lava Survival. Matter of fact; I think me and my brother were probably some of the first people to ACTUALLY test out Minecraft. Who knew it would eventually become the most popular video game of our time.
Having stuff like farlands, monoliths, and a more visually pleasing (but still massive) pyramid in modern Minecraft would be very nice.
It would actually be sick if the farlands were behind the world border.
Farlands - a new dimension
Monoliths - a rare structure
Pyramids - another rare structure
@@gizmo835 dimensional travel is much yay
Same!!! I love the Farlands, I wish there was some way to find them in-game
@@gizmo835 hook ape0wned gerootav mazeyardz?
can you even imagine if they added the steve mobs in the game now.
just imagine exploring a mine and you see THAT THING RUNNING TOWARDS YOU
Dam
Omg exploring a mine shaft only to see a Steve starting at you in the distance dark creepy....only for it to run at you arms frailing and head moving all unnaturally...I'm surprised we don't have a mod with this
I would probably die on the spot, how do you even react to that???
@@hortense5321 considering once I started screaming out loud over SILVERFISH, i don't think id survive discovering one ...
@@hortense5321 build a cobblestone wall
I believe that the "isometric screenshot" feature was potentially added for the purpose of light/shadow map generation. Light and shadows in games are usually generated in a way where one of the first steps involves rendering the world from each light's perspective. The POV of a directional light (the only type of real dynamic light in Minecraft) is usually orthographic (straight lines with no perspective), so the "isometric screenshot" may have been a test of part of a way to implement dynamic light and shadows in Minecraft, which would definitely look a lot better than what we ended up with.
3:55 This gives me the impression that Notch's original idea wasn't to make a world made out of scares. The cubes for an initial sketch, and he was possibly planning on improving the textures as well, but the scares ended up sticking.
I would have loved to see what would’ve happened if Rana was kept as a character in some way, even if adapted into the current style of Minecraft. Her design’s just so fun and charming.
there’s actually a theory that alex was inspired by her
@@goodgirIfaith Alex is shaped on Jeb, then rendered a girl for the fan sake
right! her frog hats so cute
She will get added in 1.19, theres frogs.
Could've been cool for an official skin pack or something
Minecraft never add spikes. Me: what about the dripstone
And what about the pulleys? The concept seems a lot like the pistons.
The end pillars are technically called as end spikes
@@drlostcause4427 Just very big, extremely blunt spikes.
@@bluewind7988 look up for it on minecraft wiki. That’s what it says
@@xFluing the pulse thing seems a lot like sculk sensors.
6:00 Honestly, I like wolves better as the tameable, neutral mobs they are in current versions of Minecraft, being as IRL wolves are neutral. I hated how games or other forms of media had wolves attack the protagonist for no reason, especially with how said media affected their reputation in the past. Poor things were extinct in the wild at one point!
Same thing could be said for a lot of things, yet no body bats an eye.
Exactly! I fucking hate rdr2 for the same reason.
@@imselfaware419 Im sick of these types of people, killing wolves, then they kill deer and say they are regulating the population. That's what wolves were doing.
"IRL wolves are neutral"
I dare you to go hang out with a wolf in the woods, alone. Bet you won't.
irl wolfs are pests, they need to be killed off
8:22 your videos are so dramatic I love them never stop making Minecraft context it’s so entertaining
9:57 were test models if I remember right. Pretty sure they were ripped from another game so were never meant to be in a final version of Minecraft in any capacity.
still a good shitpost
Yep these are quake 3 arena character models
@@bonn7908 I recognize that crawling Klesk all day
9:57 Therapist: Real People in Minecraft can't hurt you, it doesn't exist.
Me:
At first I read that as “Real people don’t exist” and I was like “what?”
@@firecatanimated2525 but real people don't exist
@@shubhuman Oh, that makes sense.
_I almost forgot_
@@shubhuman Everyone is fake asf
@@firecatanimated2525 dw as a real person I can confirm we exist.
6:10 "Kill a big evil mob in the shortest time?", my man just predicted speedrunning
This video is how every video talking about how spooky gmod is sounds like to me
3:40 - Technically spikes HAVE been added - Stalagmites and Stalactites are now a thing.
Aka drip stone
and pulley is a piston
And end rods are also referred to as end spikes
Would be great to see a mod of sorts adding every feature Notch wanted for Minecraft but never added, specially if sayed mod was made for the last version he worked on.
Is what I was thinking exactly the same! Only with the difference that it would be a separate game
Last version he worked on was 1.0
@@IrisGalaxis Notch left Mojang in 2014, the last version he worked on was 1.8
@@Mattineu Yeah but he wasn't in charge any more
But he was still working on it, so you're right in fact
You are so informative and fun to listen to! Not to mention your voice is soothing so if im tired i can sleep to your voice rambling on and on about minecraft. It's really amazing
19:34 Somehoew made a brick pyramid scary. Violin music jumpscared me bro
“It’s absolutely huge, almost unthinkably so” - RetroGamingNow 2021
That’s what she said
Lmao
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Oh-
i dont get it
Indev - the start of something amazing.
retrogamingnow: This video is terrifying. Unnatural beings are found in the Minecraft world, following the player. Their motions are jagged. Their bent shapes are unsettling.
the video: goofy quake playermodels sliding in minecraft
I'd like to see future videos similar to this, continuing on the minecraft history timeline from here. Very well done (:
I just love RetroGamingNow.
He should Diffinately make a make a movie
It’s something I would like to do
@@RetroGamingNow please do
Ye s do. Doit,
10:43 - fun fact, this model uses in Kopatel Online (Digger Online)
Russian clone of Minecraft classic (also runs in browser)
"УХАДИ!"
@@G00SEB0I нет не уйду
I really apprecieate your videos like deep dives, theories and icebergs. You really seem like a kind of guy that knows what he is talking about while still holding an atmosphere that is somehow ominous and sometimes obscure, even though you seem like a guide through the obscure, dank depths
I am so glad you acknowledged Dock's contribution to the early years of Minecraft. Say what you will about his models but I think it's messed up that Mojang acts like he never exists when they discuss the history of Minecraft.
maskdBalRatarTaxTux...dorktraszzz..
I mean. He really didnt. Nothing he added stayed, so who cares?
@@TheOfficialButthead
Still, I think Dock should atleast be mentioned
@@callistia1966 In my opinion, the models he made were extremely out of place and may have effectively ruined the general feel of the game, im glad Notch parted ways with him.
@@flameuptheherbwoofdownthebeer
It was only temporary and short lived, but yeah I do agree that the characters felt out of place
Dungeon mode sounds like it would have been fun, like you can find stuff by looting kinda like a Bethesda game without crafting.
It’s most likely the precursor to the spinoff game Minecraft Dungeons, so in a way we kinda got to experience it.
Dungeon mode now its basically Adventure mode, except you can craft
I love coming back to this video, it's so well put together.
You sir have such a talent for videos like these. Very impressive
i love how he makes something goofy sound scary,
I love seeing how indie games like minecraft get developed. It'll start out as a basic test and branch out into a bunch of thoughts and ideas until it all comes together into what we know now.
omn0par0fiqMSdos'staires'quip...
@@stephclements6226 Me too.
There is so much new information in this video in particular and I can tell some real digging and research went into it as opposed of just using what everybody knows already. Great job!
Thanks! My process was that I started at the beginning of his Tumblr and put every single post in a google slides
16:18 I would LOVE if someone made some sort of mod or texturepack to copy this aesthetic. Maybe with red water instead of lava. It'd be cool as hell :)
I love the bird sound effects in the game. Hope Mojang adds something like this in the future for more ambience.
This game experience puberty, and I’m so glad we have what we have now.
Fr top 3 most modifiable game ever
@@litaf4889 no 1 is fnf
@@escapefr0mslender I just thought about it, I like FNF but Minecraft has way more opportunities due to it being a 3D space rather than relying on 2D animation, I’m also confident that Minecraft has more mods to change even more aspects of the game itself (Shaders, Texture Packs, Resource Packs)
@@may-K-47 I know literally nothing about Friday Night Funkin’, what do these mods do for the game?
@@insert_username_here FNF is a rhythm game and there’s little characters in it, most mods bring in new fan-made characters with new songs, some mods change the way the gameplay feels- instead of having all the notes you have to hit scroll up, you can have the option to make them scroll down towards the bottom of the screen. Basically, some mods bring in new faces, some mods bring in new features.
Skeletons exploding into arrows looks cool, I wish that returned to the game.
Also I think the most interesting lost feature is finite water. I think this video doesn't talk about it though, or maybe I missed it.
Retro:sees diamond
Also retro:emeralds
Honestly while I still play Minecraft today it doesn’t feel the same anymore. It’s lost it simplicity and “charm” sure they’ve added more stuff for the player to do but all that gets overwhelming at times.
you can literally play any version you want, pissbaby
if you want to play the really old
The way I look at Minecraft is you are playing through history itself and you are the "ancient builders" yourself in the previous versions
'Another person named Beast Boy'
Oh the fact that retro doesn't know Teen Titans makes me sad.
you are correct on that one
He is from justice league
@@leatherjacketdude1061 bruh he’s from teen Titans but also from the justice league
but the character even LOOKED just like the beast boy from teen titans(maybe not ENTIRELY but the resemblance is nearly uncanny!)! HOW THE HECK IS THIS EVEN A COINCIDENCE?! although... I don't even know who came first. did minecraft come before teen titans aired? could it be... did this ancient minecraft character INSPIRE the creation of beast boy from teen titans?! am not even sure how this has not garnard more attention!
@@TheDeepThinker-sq3iy the original Teen Titans aired in 2003 while Minecraft first started development in '09, so I guess Baron just decided to go with Beast Boy for whatever reason
18:08
And that's how 2b2t began
This is, by far, the BEST video of the early days of Minecraft. I have watched countless videos on this topic, but I learned about things I never knew existed! Great job.
Oh and that outro music is fire, I love it
The mob death animation looks better than what we have now
Yeah I don't understand why Notch or whoever changed it to the stilted-as-hell animation we have now. Things are supposed to get better, not devolve.
personally they strike me as uncanny, too odd and too animated
the death animation is iconic tho
It looks weird tho
Imo they're too.. slow? If they moved faster they'd be comparable to what we have now. I don't mind the current state where they just.. POOF, but the animation felt very out of place.
Always enjoy when people talk about these things.
Edit: I know I've heard the music you used when introducing infdev before, anybody else recognize it.
Me too
Retro writes a lot of his own music so it might be his
dream
@@TheProdigalPaintbrush Nope, not RGN's music. It's Kevin McLeod's "Darkest Child". Kevin's actually interesting. Chances are if you've heard a piece a lot and don't know the title it's probably composed by him. Some other works of his you probably have heard a lot but don't know the title of is wallpaper, monkeys spinning monkeys, and carefree are probably ones whose name isn't so widespread but I've heard literally everywhere. He's even got some meme contributions with the damn daniel cover of sneaky snitch being a bit popular, and his work Sneaky adventure being an integral part of the becoming uncanny meme.
@@sinhuppthegamer7533 Does dream even compose lyricless pieces? The only music thing I know from him is the normal pills one with the mask and iirc that has lyrics.
10:01 Haha, seeing a bunch of Quake 3 characters distorted and glitching around a green pixelated hell is pretty funny. It really does feel like an indie prototype.
This made me very nostalgic.
I remember when creepers would hop around and swarm the player, they were terrifying to encounter
Now though they're either idle or just slowly shift to where you are.
Still spooky for jumps cares but no actual terror.
Spiders and those kid zombies kinda' slot into that role now, at least for newer players. Honestly though I don't think there's going to be any terror for experienced players anymore anyways.
I hope one day we get to see something of Ruby Dung it seems so interesting
The mossy cobblestone house will always have a place in my heart- that’s the version I first started playing during
This has to be the BEST video I have seen explaining Minecraft and it’s history!
Well done!!
"Surely this...this *thing* is not right. Not natural. How could Notch allow such an unholy abomination into a game like Minecraft?"
"How could such a recognizable character come from such a dark and gritty video?"
"This video is terrifying. Unnatural beings are found in the Minecraft world, following the player. Their motions are jagged. Their bent shapes are unsettling. It's just...wrong. This is perhaps the darkest moment in Minecraft's development."
Did this guy graduate from the creepypasta school of writing or something?
I had a feeling earlier today we were due for another RGN video soon
I'd love a mod that adds all the most interesting removed features back into the game. The obsidian axis, the brick pyramid, monoliths, gears, and of course the Farlands are what I'm talking about. Also maybe the 'tsunami mechanics' that made water so powerful.
Maybe they could add Rana back as an NPC that appears in small villages in the swamps. They’ll attack slimes and use slime blocks as currency. They can also obtain random items from the slimes they kill, allowing one to potentially trade slime blocks for those items. It’s usually mundane stuff like dirt, gravel, kelp, or the kinds of junk found in fishing, but sometimes it’s really valuable stuff like gold or even diamonds. Alternatively, they could be tribes that you befriend to defend your home from all hostiles. I just would really like Rana to not only be added back, but also fleshed out.
@@drsharkboy6568 Yes!!
If I remember right, swamp villages were almost added, but never fully implemented into the game. I guess you're saying they count as a removed feature?
I think there was a mod for that
@@elcuy3544 Oh
@@drsharkboy6568 rana is cute but tbh it still doesn't fit in MC and it would just be weird. MC mobs have a certain style that rana doesnt fit
I love how retro gaming now makes everything he says sound like a creepypasta
You really deserve more subs i love your theorys espeically the acient builders enderman nether end all that series its amazing
The MD3 model video was terrifying to me, until I watched this video and found out they're from Quake 3 and not some abominations that were specifically made for an alternate Minecraft aesthetic.
Can’t believe that Minecraft came from something so simple to right now with so many things to do
Its been a long time since i watched one of your theories
Your theories are like a movie
With spooky things but in minecraft
Keep it up!❤
Nice touch! Good work friend, serious and pro style. Thumbs up! It deserves much more.
alternate title: heres some nostalgia from when you were 9
1 was actualy 1 year old durring those times (2009) and ive known minecraft on 2014 and finaly got to play it on 2019. Man i could have been one of you guys who where born much earlier but still im happy of what i have today. Anyways have a nice day and God bless you.
Hey, Retro. Question. Could you dive into the various creepy pastas? Yes, they’re all fake but some have very intriguing stories and it’d be cool if you could make a series where you review three different creepypastas in one video and talk about possible tactics to outsmart and survive these entities.
nice pfp
It’s an interesting idea…
I would LOVE this series
@@RetroGamingNow oh hell yeah
@@RetroGamingNow yeah i like the idea u should do it
Punching of tree was another iconic moment.
God thanks for mentioning infiniminer, i remembered how i get to know about MC, finally
"This is no mountain, but a pyramid"
*dramatic music intensifies*
This man can make bricks feel dramatic
dude bricks are dramatic what r u talking about
I've seen & read a few Minecraft documentaries, but this is the first time I'm hearing about Zombie Town.
I played the infamous Herobrine snapshot, & it ended up being my favorite lost world generation. It's a pain in the ass to try to convert alpha & indev worlds.
I love the chanting music. It's like uncovering history.
Also great work on the video over all!
Great video, but some parts felt a bit melodramatic, like the beginning and describing the creepers.
It’s a tiny bit tongue-in-cheek
@@RetroGamingNow Ah ok
"some will never make it into the game such as spikes or pullies"
pistons and stalagmites: "we dont exist"
Level:I'm packing up boys
quake 3 characters chasing you down in minecraft is the least scary thing i could think of
and paired up with the creepy music
that's amazing.
this video is really sick, I really liked it and the music you used was AMAZING
This is awesome. Your story tellings are worth listening
The infdev days are so Erie because of the fog
I liked how he said in the beggining of the video that you remove blocks by pressing right click and place blocks by left click
19:24 The first Minecraft Theory, and Younger MatPat says, that will be my job one day. But hey, that’s just a theory!
I’ve discovered this channel rn in this video, looks like something that would be worth watching
RGN: Gosh I hope I don't get to make another Minecraft Video...
Also RGN:
A N O T H E R O N E
wdym, I love making Minecraft videos
But the real question is....
*Does anybody remember being able to break doors in half on Minecraft PE?*
I do!
10:15 I'll be honest, I watched so many weird Gmod videos that even if I tried to I couldn't be scared but instead find this completely silly lol
Minecraft original title is referenced a lot in Minecraft: Story Mode, The Order of the Stone
cave game?
The Farlands appear too. Story Mode is also the only game afaik to refer to the Minecraft people as humans.
@@knightofiron I mean the name before that, Order of the Stone
@@cannedbeverage7687 Yup
I always thought that was a cool detail.