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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- I explored some Alpha and Beta 1.7.3 Minecraft servers that are still up giving a tour around them and looking at all the cool builds. Most of them have little to no players left which was sad to see although the last two had some more activity. If you think any of them are cool I recommend going to visit them for yourself!
Server IP addresses:
Alphaplace.net (beta 1.1_2)
Alphaanarchy.net (beta 1.2)
Alwaysalpha.net (alpha 1.2.6)
Oldschoolminecraft.net (beta 1.7.3)
mc.retromc.org (beta 1.7.3)
Hi, Head admin of alphaplace here, glad you enjoyed both servers, usually we get around 3 - 5 (10 or above on some days) players a day, not exactly abandon, unless your comparing it to modern servers then yeah maybe. cool video. Also to note OSM and RMC are quite active as well. All three servers are good.
Hi, glad you liked the video :) I wasn’t playing at peak times which didn’t help but I really enjoyed your servers and I’m really happy you’re keeping these servers alive!
If I figure out how to downgrade to Alpha I’d be happy to join your server
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@@tycobeyurness7823 In the Minecraft launcher, go to Settings, scroll down to the Java settings, and enable historical versions.
Let me in
Alpha and beta had such a unique architectural style that you just don't see these days
I'll call that: Alpha Style and Beta Style of architecture or theme of buildings in Minecraft.
TRUE
But when I build things like that on modern servers everyone says it is ugly and tells me to stop
@@tj-co9go dude, same
I feel the same way. I had a building contest on my modern 1.20 SMP a while back and the theme was beta 1.7.3 style. It was pretty fun and now there's an entire district on the server with a beta theme, and it looks more interesting than the other builds on the server.
it's like travelling through multiple civilizations that once in their golden age
It's like we're an old man still living a nostalgic dream as the world move on.
I just realized that other than being griefed, abandoned Minecraft server maps don't decay at all, they're always in the same state they were left ina decade ago
Should create a world download just in case
How’s that different from modern servers?
@@expendableindigo9639it isn’t lol OP is just sp3d
@@expendableindigo9639 most modern servers shut down when they lose players, while these are still up and still untouched and the same as they were all those years ago. It's like the chat logs you would have of a friend you haven't talked to in years, still reminding you of what you talked about years ago.
Something about the modern pixel art of amongus and walter white in the old minecraft style gave me actual chills. Thank you for this video
So many Amogus art in a lot of servers, still awesome at how modern day hit games are influencing days of the nostalgic past, in this case, Minecraft Alpha/Beta
THEY PREDICTED AMONGU-
“You can travel to the past, but nobody is there.”
-Someone
Depressing. Very backroom type vibes I got from this vid. Very cool
Only the players and Minecraft audience can go back in time
@@Samantha-vllytime machine
I agree with what you said about it being kinda sad about the empty servers. Seeing all these builds that people dedicated days and weeks to with their friends while having a great time, their community now scattered to the wind and builds sitting mostly forgotten on an empty server on Minecraft, eventually never being visited again. All these memories lost to time makes me nostalgic for a time I never took part in. Thanks for posting this.
yeah it's kinda sad, the community used to be way bigger than it is right now as well, the community as a whole kinda died between 2022 and now, every once and a while they'll be a lot of people on these servers but its not what i remember it being
It is sad but like you said it was fun at the time to make those builds and now people get to appreciate them and be inspired by them so it's not all bad :)
I've been part of communities in games that have eventually moved on, but you're right, it just isn't the same afterwards @NeverObsolete64 . Minecraft shows the very real impact of those communities on its world with building, which makes the loss of community feel a little more real than other games that consist of worlds/maps that are static, regardless of whether people are on or not. I think that's why Minecraft has a unique sense of sadness that hit me in this video despite never playing on random MC MP servers, though Kaktus is right that it allows people to take inspiration years later.
Yeah i thought and felt the same. About half way through the video i imagined myself going through and looking at all the amazing things that took weeks or months to create and how almost nobody ever sees it... But i then realized that the server is still running despite having almost 0 players is nice to think about because those massive structures and monuments are still being honoured/respected in a way. All of these servers having almost no players really have no reason to continue running, but they do and the memories made in them will live on
Imagine that people used to play on those servers like 12 years ago and they are still alive. Totally Incredible that we can see what the servers used to be and the nostalgia also hits hard.
It's really cool that the admins continue to support and maintain these servers
Remembering Minecraft when these updates where new feels strange given how it's been so long that a significant part of Minecrafts playerbase was born after they went live.
Man I didn't realise people born in 2010 and 2011 are teens now
@@Youcican Life comes at you
@@Youcicandamn that Just hit like a train I’m getting old,
@@couupakb9669 we are getting old :/ the first time i played minecraft was at version 1.3.2
@@synnnxMine was 1.2.4 i think, or was it 1.2.5, around then
You doing /home and suddenly coming back to what must have been your home at one point was amazing
3:42 made me smile
I think everyone's tried to make one at least once lol
I remember back when the game first came out, maybe around 2012 or 2013, I played on a really cool anarchy server. It wasn't very well known, but it had a solid 50 or so players that were active on it. I became good friends with a lot of the players and we even had our own guild and had a really cool base inside a mountain a couple thousand blocks from spawn. I think I played on there religiously for a year or more.
From what I remember, the server host died in an accident and 2 days later the server was just gone. All that time, all those people met and relationships were suddenly just gone.
I played on and off since then, but the day that server was gone so was my appetite for Minecraft. Even today, I still occasionally wish I could just join that server one last time.
Rip
Ouch it even hurts me to read all of this ... And people say that games don't have an impact ...
Something pretty specific that I like is exploring abandoned beta 1.8 servers. There's something about the 1.8 additions like melons, stone bricks, glass panes, giant mushrooms, etc being used everywhere that i really like. + beta 1.8/early release is technically what I grew up watching and is the most nostalgic for me ;P
Yeah it is fun to walk around all the builds. Let me know if there are any good beta 1.8 servers to check out lol :)
@@Kaktus-xj7sj the only one I've explored is zackscotts server called "scottland" from ep 300 (there's a Google drive out there with world downloads from different points in time, specifically 300 was around 1.8)
Another cool server is one that isn't public but was shown off by philza on a video where he toured his old worlds and one of em was a 1.8 server.
@@Kaktus-xj7sj if you find any and would like to explore them with someone else, i'd love to join in since i first started joining servers in that version and despite beta 1.7.3 being my favorite, 1.8 still has a big place in my heart as well
Beta 1.8 felt so shortlived compared to 1.7.3 and before, but maybe that's because my friends and me noped out very fast back to 1.7.3 and only started playing newer versions again from 1.0.0 onward. I'm surprised there still are active servers for it.
A RetroMC player here
As far as I know it's currently the most active beta server and i recommend checking it out. You couldn't find players on spawn, because most of them are working on builds in their towns
You also caught me joining the game 9:25
I think because of this video and some others a lot of new people are joining... Today there's 50 players online!!
true and real
@@Noggisoggi /!\
@@kimbersauce yeah... they should get a better hardware tho cause it crashes around 50
@@Noggisoggi no way its actually him
This is one of the better forgotten server videos I’ve seen
Honestly I think this goes for your entire channel but I like the relaxed vibe it has it’s nice
Thanks, the title was just more to fit the trend than anything. I prefer to keep a more laid back style and it's good because it normally works with the type of content I make. Glad you're enjoying it :)
There's something special about how old MC servers elicit this feeling of liminality and that sense of wonder that exploring ancient ruins gives. Somehow the old builds in an abandoned server gives off this feeling of deep time, like it aggregates value, lore and history to the world. I would really like to replicate this in a server with friends, playing for years until at long last we mostly stop playing and all that's left are the memories imprinted on the ruins we left behind, like in that Shelley's poem:
"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Nostalgia take me back. I miss these times a lot for some reason.
It's so relaxing to watch this because I'd love too see it but the depressing emptiness of what was once my childhood is very hard to bare alone. It's comforting that you're doing it, narrating, and I get to watch instead of participate.
Hi, thank you for commenting and I'm glad you were able to appreciate these old builds as they're super cool :)
Man, I didn´t expect the old style of building to hit me with so much nostalgia. It was somehow more fun to build with the few block options back then.
5:43 Before you could protect your servers in Alpha and Beta, there would always be random people logging onto servers and destroying spawn.
This was just a thing that happened.
We moved very far from spawn to prevent our bases from being griefed.
On the server we ran ourselves.
Thank you for checking out Alpha Anarchy
something about old school megabuilds. Its before designs got hyper complicated and detailed. Mind you the current designs people make are works of art but there was something special about seeing huge structures with only 1-2 design aspects repeated. Also, paths. The older style way of connecting builds together with paths in a close proximity as people built out is probably the most nostalgic part. We almost never see that style anymore.
No protection vanilla was the golden age. So much fun.
Land claims are cancer
some servers still do it, with the exception of protection on chests. You tend to find that servers with no land claims have the sweetest and most trusting communities
12 years doesn’t sound like that much but seeing how far and how much minecraft has evolved from alpha is amazing. It’s like opening up a history book seeing all the old builds that have been there for over a decade. Alpha looks like something I’d play on the PS1
This video makes me so happy yet sad at the same time. Miss the early days of Minecraft
It's sad to see some of the builds empty but some of these server's do still have active communities and they're still up for people to explore so it's not all bad :)
Person who plays alphaplace
The server is not dead, it averages 5-7 ppl at peak hours and maxes at like 10. Abandoned is gone, no one logging on. Cool vid, might want to change
There wasn't anyone on when I was there but that's probably because I might've joined on a slow day and not peak times. This wasn't my original title but I decided to change it to better fit the algorithm whilst although it may not fit all the servers featured in the video does still bring attention to them which I think is ultimately a good thing. I still might change it tho I'm not sure. Thanks for the comment
Theres just something about the old alpha and beta styles of building that is just so irresistibly beautiful. They feel like actual works of art as opposed to the common utilitarian bases, or the wildly extravagant base designs you see so much of today.
I love seeing player towns like the ones on the oldschoolminecraft server, The disjointed feel of the builds not adhering to a particular style, plus the randomness of things like giant among us pixel arts is the epitome of Minecraft's charm.
I discovered the Old School Minecraft server from your video, and I just wanted to say thank you for enlightening me on beta minecraft multiplayer. My time on Old School Minecraft has been some of my favorite time on minecraft ever. Crazy how a server like Hypixel doesn’t even come close to these beta and alpha servers.
As someone that plays on retromc, thank you for shouting out the server
Of course it was a lot of fun to check out!
nice video, servers run on older versions certainly have a different feel to them, but it's always nice to play with others
also, thanks for the mention :)
Glad to hear you liked the video and no problem for the mention you deserve it. Love the content, keep it up :)
All these builds and servers give a lot of inspiration to me.
They gave me a lot of inspiration too :)
Staff member of AlphaPlace and RetroMC here.
Obviously, I have the same opinions as Gavin - AlphaPlace, RetroMC and Old School MC are *far* from abandoned, thanks to the difference in the culture between large, modern-MC servers and ones running on legacy MC versions. These semi-tight knit communities and laid-back culture are what I now prefer, stemming from my decision to join these servers as my first-ever multiplayer MC experiences.
I also thank you for visiting these servers :)
Yeah it totally makes sense that the communities would be smaller. The original title I had for the video was different but I changed it to fit the trend a bit more. Thank you for continuing to support these servers and it was great to visit them :)
might as well be abandoned
What a pleasure to find this video, love the slow, calm pace of it!
This is a great video! As someone that played in 2010 in Minecraft Classic but didn't buy premium until Beta 1.8.1, it''s so cool seeing that alpha servers still exist
Remembering Minecraft in it’s olden days feels really nostalgic for me. I remember playing in these versions with younger online friends and just goofing around and having fun. But things have changed a lot, and I haven’t really remained in contact with anyone, and the worlds we made weren’t really saved either. Looking at this now is kind of revisiting those memories but in a new light, this is a great video.
Talk about a nostalgia hit. My entire childhood hit me all at once. When I was a kid, my brothers and i only had the original Xbox 360 edition (before you could even trade with villagers and before villagers had roles) and we had no internet or Xbox Live so we couldn't update the game at all until about 2019/2020 when we got a Nintendo switch. Thanks for taking me back, I miss those days.
No way. My Minecraft house is in this video! 1:09 with the 50 cacti surrounding it in the back
great video! i've been in the alpha/beta community for a while now, and have played alwaysalpha and alphaplace for a while, and it was really nice to see a lot of my builds shown in your video! thank you for making this, and if you'd be interested i can show you even more cool servers that weren't in your video.
Glad you liked it and I'd definitely be interested in more servers. Thank you!
You got a great channel already dude. I think with each update of clutter they add to Minecraft, interest in the old versions will continue grow. I can definitely see your channel getting bigger, keep the old versions relevant!
Thanks for the support, I will continue to make these types of videos :)
I love old minecraft! Thank you for the showcase.
I miss the good old minecraft times.
Loved the vid dude, the vibe of this video is another feeling!
I have an odd appreciation for the old style of building in the early days. Sure, a lot of it is ‘bad’, but it had a charm to it.
These older style builds with the music hits different. Everything just seemed so made with love back then.
To think about how many memories have been lost due to old servers like these shutting down or being completely reset.
I sadly wasn't there to experience the Alpha and Beta days of Minecraft, instead I started on release version 1.4.2. Recently however, I've been playing some Beta and Alpha versions and there's just something so welcoming about them, something so palpable.
It's sad to think about but the most important thing, in the end, is that people had fun on them whilst they were up. Glad to hear you're having fun in the old versions :)
@@Kaktus-xj7sj thats true, the memories will live on forever, even if there is no longer any way to look back on them.
Your channel also looks very promising, hopefully it'll blow up and in turn you'll bring life back into these old versions!
3:41 I feel like this went over everyones head.
Retro MC is so cool! I have been exploring it for a while, lots of really interesting builds in old building style to look at. Nostalgic!
i never got to experience the alpha/beta days of minecraft during my childhood, but seeing these chill videos showcasing them made me feel a sense of nostalgia ive never even experienced before, thus i cant imagine what its like to be part of the community back then
these servers are like relics to me, i hope they can be preserved for as long as possible! they really are impressively made and formed. hope everyone who was part of these servers are doing well today and still creating!
side note: your videos are so chill by the way, they help with my insomnia 👍
Thank you so much for this comment, it's so nice to hear my videos help you :) Yeah it's great that these servers are still kept up and it's nice to see some of the owners commenting on this video.
These bring a sense of nostalgia very few things bring...
I really love videos about old servers. It’s very interesting to see structures and bases that random people made and left there.
It was a fun one to record as there were so many cool builds to check out!
Seeing several Amogus in Alpha/Beta Minecraft gave me whiplash.
Going on forgotten servers is like viewing an ancient civilization that has long past. It feels as if you could hear the voices of the ones who erected such structures..
Hello dear, i made the giant cuble in cobble on RetroMC, thank for this video !
No problem, the cube was really cool lol :)
nice video! i play on alphaplace regularly so this was cool to see 😄
What I miss about old Minecraft was how simple everything was. I find modern Minecraft so complicated that it's not even fun anymore, and hasn't been in years. One of these days I'm gonna get back on my 360 and just enjoy the little things like the tutorial world.
The aether portal 😭
really great video, enjoyed your narration a lot definitely watching your other stuff
Thanks, hopefully you enjoy my other videos too :)
i started playing around beta 1.8.1, thanks for the video :)
This really highlights what I miss most about early Minecraft the chaotic building by countless people all stacked on top of eachother almost making an mc escher maze we didnt have a big block pool and didnt really worry about greifers and we built amazing wierd cities and I miss them
Playing is like going back in time their was a day each of thoes houses and builds were made by a person days weeks years ago always such a trippy vibe
There is some beauty in these anarchy servers...cant describe the feeling of it
At around 8:50 behind the bridge you can see a glimpse of the lighhouse I built, it's super nice to see it in your video
You deserves more Sub's ^^ Awesome video!! Brings memories back
Thank you, glad you liked the video :)
I still play on the same minecraft map/server for over 9 years now... visiting the old villages is like a time machine...❤
I love your videos because they are so different from the traditional crazy and loud style of videos which are popular on TH-cam nowadays
Thanks, I'm not a fan of that type of content so I just try and make content that I myself would like to watch. It's nice to hear that other people feel the same :)
Woah! RetroMC! I regularly play there! It’s my go to chill and hang out server.
This was the most relaxing video I’ve ever watched
Wow, some of those builds were actually incredible! Better than something I could build in modern Minecraft LOL
They're lots of great inspiration to take from the builds on the servers!
@@Kaktus-xj7sj Very true, a lot of the builds you showcased demonstrated what’s possible with the simple beta block palette. I particularly liked some of the foliage around the builds and the use of multiple types of stone for more texture in a single pathway. Also loved the niche uses of netherrack!
Hi, I see you enjoyed the experience of our old legacy servers that's good to know you had a good experience, I am a staff member of both GoPlex MC, and OldSchoolMinecraft both are partners of each other.
Thanks for keeping these servers up they're really great :)
Glad to see more uploads! These videos really help me relax, I really miss this version of Minecraft but I don’t know how to do computer stuff so I’ve always been a console Minecraft player.
Been busy irl but I'm still working on videos don't worry!
@@Kaktus-xj7sj hell yea! I’ll be here. Would totally support a “let’s play” style series too!
@@tycobeyurness7823 I probably won't do that just because I don't think i'd been able to do something that hasn't already been done before. Check out my beta server video I did with my friends though if you want something by me in a similar (sort of) style :)
@@Kaktus-xj7sj totally understand! You got a good unique thing going for your vids
gosh the nostalgia of alpha/beta builds... thank you for the video!
No problem, glad you enjoyed :)
When your exploring those servers, you an feel an old erea of the minecraft community,idk how to explain,this give me nostalgia to something i never experienced
That blocky shading is so nostalgic
There was a specific balance that always hit me the best with servers of the pre-1.8beta era. Places that had a nice spawn, but it wasn't huge - you could still explore them for a few moments and feel nicely secluded in a crafted place. But both the spawn and the server wasn't full on developed to the point where it felt like so much of history has already been written yet. There was always a sense of non-purpose felt when walking around the first thousand block range from spawn and everywhere was already picked out and processed.
The only server I played back then that catered that feeling was the old SMP Blocktopia server, which was a community I heavily enjoyed playing in with their classic 0.30 servers - while I played those Zombie Survival & Lava Survival servers the most, the beta SMP server still has the fondest memories to me for just the feel I had interacting with what was there. Making my own basic house, and exploring what other people were currently making; usually with the builders offline due to my aussie timezone.
Also a plugin I really missed from those days was like a treasure hunting one. You'd craft a compass, right click it, and then it'll point you into a direction and tell you how close you are to a chest of some generated goods to take. It was probably one of the main contributors that got me into a passion for exploration.
Thanks for the comment, it is a shame that those servers are mostly gone now but a lot of the community has changed. That compass feature is really cool as well, I guess they sort of added it to the main game with the treasure maps in the newer versions
Awesome to see there are still people joining these ancient servers
RetroMC is actually very active. It reaches 15-20 players daily and I have even seen it hit a record 43 players recently!
This is so eerie to look at. I kinda relate to these servers because I used to run a server back in Beta 1.7.3/1.8 and I still have it (altought now it's a private, up-to-date and not a public server) and the difference in architecture and how we used to build is very nostalgic and reminicent of the servers I saw in this video
The funny thing is that those servers aren't actually old for the most part. OSM runs since like 2019, AlphaPlace since 2020. I think the oldest still-running legacy version server is RetroMC and it was founded in like 2014
Oh, and also OSM is very far from dead. I think it's one of if not the most popular beta server
this video reminded me of the gold old times...the stories and fun aswell the grind those servers had... im more interested in the stories which were made on those servers back then until now. such unique buildings and styles. i would say its nearly impossible to built like that nowadays as people got more blocks and space to use
ahh you should’ve entered the giant ball next to the cathedral in osm, its full of stars and looks amazing, i helped a little bit to empty the space inside
Oh No I couldn't find the entrance but now I'll have to join back and check that out it sounds super cool!
I recently went back and visited opticraft, which I grew up playing. Took a while to figure out how to get to the classic side but was fun just rescuing dogs and checking out old builds I remember traveling past. I go back every few weeks just to explore :)
The skeleton shooting through the door took me back 😭
Imagine playing in one of these servers and seeing your builds in this video.
I remember admining on old minecraft servers years ago. Lots of good memories. Also trying to figure out ways to get more players to join. Remember making promo videos and coming up with events. Sadly the cost to run the server was just not worth it, so the owner closed it down. It was a good time while it lasted.
Legendary game, great old times, nostalgia overloaded
Glad you like the video :)
cool seeing Alpha anarchy on here
Reminds me of lost ancient cities. While the buildings may still stand, all the people and history that once lived there is just gone.
I like the eerie feeling of an empty, usually busy, place
Our server is vanilla and been running for about 5 years now. Me and some friends started in 2019 when working night shift and never stopped. We're building a giant airport inspired by Changi Airport. We've built a massive city all on vanilla survival.
Miss you SaiyanCraft 😢 thought it was fun playin a saiyan farmer, i was able to claim the territory around korins tower and kamis lookout and established a massive farm there using the constant loading if the chunks from the players above on and around the lookout doing missions or even going into the hyperbolic time chamber. After i had that done i had claimed an area by the Rocky (Dirty stone?) Biome warp where you fight saiyan saga mobs built up a shop with auto furnace and put shop signs on the chests so people could buy my products (even a little repair service where id work on Scouters), i was able to make quite abit of money and was able to buy a plot in west city and another in another city as a vacation home too 😅
It'd be really cool to save the world file for all of these, or have a big collection of em. So many great builders work and talent go into this kinda stuff and a lot of cool shit is abandoned. Like those griefed areas are so much more interesting looking that 2b2ts
Joined both beta servers, very comfy vibes. Definitely check them out!
and now imagine how many server worlds there are which currently off and we will never be able to see them again.
As a 14 almost 15 year vet I wish I could go back in times, this brought back alot of nostalgia. I'm happy the game is still updated to this day, I cant believe the game is almost 20 years old. I'm old lol
You can see a build of Mai from Nichijou on the left side at 9:08
I WAS NOT EXPECTING TO SEE BUMBO CACTONI IN THIS VIDEO! (8:09)
Of course you have to end it with C418 - Mice on Venus. I love how you edited the video to the songs, but especially for that part.
Glad you noticed the editing and Mice on Venus is definitely one of my favourites off the Minecraft soundtrack :)
WAIT WHAT!? How did my castle and dragon make it onto Retr MC 9:30? I built that on another server called Betalands years ago. Kinda cool to see it on a random youtube video in 2024
OSMC player here, we've definitely grown since this video and you can find as many as 30 players on at one time.
I wish my childhood minecraft server was still up, I would love to pop into my farm and look around my bedrock layer mine that I dug out before I knew better