EDIT: You could actually leave boats by right clicking them!! I was a FOOL and couldn't figure it out while recording - Oh well, still interesting that you could do the BOAT WIGGLE!
Interesting that Grian's done this *and* is bringing up Evo. Since people in the hernitcraft fandom really *love* being up Evo's lore from what I've found. Maybe this is a call to action to watch Evo so Grian can have some Evo stuff appear through the Rift and it not be completely lost on everyone?
@@oweninsertlastname1575 even if they’re separate universes, maybe it might appear through the rift ? The rift can break through seasons, so maybe even series
I would LOVE to see a shortened version of the evo series, where everyone came back together for it. I loved it so much. My favorite part was when Grian said “I can’t imagine doing what those guys on hermitcraft do. It’s absolutely crazy.” And now to see where he is. I’ve been a fan of the channel for so long. It’s amazing to see how far you’ve gone, and I’m sure I’ll stick with your channel for as long as you go. Your videos are on another level of TH-cam. It’s crazy to see just how much your channel has grown since then.
A relatively small creator named Bugmancx currently has a singleplayer series going on called minecraft the journey where he started from the early minecraft stages and slowly updates to newer versions. It's a lot of fun to watch. It's not exactly like Evo where they had to solve a riddle to get to the next versions but bugman covers many features, changes and explores some bugs as well throughout all the different updates
I remember when lily pads broke boats and not the other way around Loved that reference to the evo series at the end, it'd be cool if there was another one like that
Back in the day, not having crafting recipes was part of the fun of the game. Imagine starting a world with friends. They show you how to make crafting tables, furnaces, torches, tools, and doors. And then you are left to explore. Bit by bit you uncover how to make things like armor, boats, rails, shears, etc. You figure out that sand smelts into glass! It was a wildly adventurous time.
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Even after full release I had to watch videos just to learn what things could be made and how to make them. Paul Soares videos were my Minecraft teacher.
Food not stacking actually made perfect sense back when it replenished your hearts. You had to pick your fights carefully, cause the amount of healing items you had on you was limited by your inventory.
7:51 God I miss the Evolution Series, I was sad to see it simply die out not long after Grian became a watcher. But then again, they had pretty much reached the newest minecraft version at that time, so there wasn't a lot left unless they became another SMP like Hermitcraft (not saying I would've minded that, but they wouldn't be all that unique anymore).
When I started watching you, you were known as the "old school" guy, always clinging to older versions of the game without updating. Evolution was the first time you had experienced some later additions, I remember. Nice call back, I loved that series!
It would be amazing if Grian brought back Evo. There has been so many new updates and new friends since the original Evo, so I think an Evo season 2 would be really interesting Edit: what if they did Devo where the watchers devolve the server to try and stop them from progressing. Just a cool little idea I had that I think would be perfect to bring back watcher lore
Those boats were actually useful thanks to Etho's EATS Road designs! Minecarts were voodoo back then with those paralleling slingshot setups needed to give boost, plus iron was hard to come by with the slower mining speeds. EATS roads were super cheap on resources, and with Etho's boat dispenser designs, boats could basically function just like minecarts and rails do today! Huge shout out to Etho for the early day ingenuity, there's a reason he's a legend in the community :D
I honestly loved the old Minecart boosters, the minecart physics in general back then were interesting, while the normal speed was lower, the glitch responsible for the Minecart boosters to work back then seemed to break it and made you go quite fast and not slow down for a significant amount of time. If you used enough minecarts in a single booster you could boost at the bottom of the world and make it all the way to the top of the world without any noticeable drop in speed.
the EATS roads and the old fast climbing ladder with the water on the side are two things I wish had stayed in the game. We have alternatives with the magma block and slowsand and the ice roads, but it'll never be quite the same
"I found boats weird in beta and they where the bane of mc." Ethoslab posting a boat highway tutorial kickstarting one of the greatest Canadian troll minecrafters ever.
Fun fact: I recently started a survival world for beta 1.6 and i accidentally found a bug where i have 1 coal on furnace and would never disappear, it was like an infinity source. I switched to 1.7.10 and its still working!
Petrified oak slabs are still in the creative menu. I found this out the day I built a roof in creative and discovered that the oak slabs I thought I selected were actually petrified wood. Oops.
I was there when you couldn't turn logs horizontally, stairs only in the "stair" position and no running. It's astounding how much Minecraft has changed but I changed along it and 10 years later, still playing it!
@@j.x.x.r3645 Im sorry if im taking this comment too seriously, but they always trigger me a lot, it's not about how fast you can spam your sword, whether you click 100 or 2 cps doesn't really matter if you have some experience, it' all about the movement, aim, rodding, etc :) I will argue that 1.9+ combat is way more primitive, but in the end i am probably just overreacting to some random comment please ignore me i just needed to write something sorry ok bye sorry for wasting your time
I still have so many weird habits from playing when Minecraft first came out despite not having played the beta in years, it's so strange remembering why they formed in the first place!
Hm... now that you've made a call back to EVO, it makes me wonder what the next iteration of Last Life might be, and whether it might be related... It could be quite interesting to watch the group play in a Beta world, or possibly a modded-to-seem-like Beta world, if those mods exist...
I remember using the old glass texture and sugar cane to make underwater dome houses- the water was pitch dark and your chance of drowning was high with the slow swimming
The early days of minecraft were amazing especially for those of us who started on the old gen console versions. The music is agreeably the best part of the early days and it has so much nostalgia for me now.
one of the weirdest things i remember from beta was the fact that monsters would almost always spawn if you tried to sleep? it didnt matter how lit-up the place was or if you were sleeping in an completely enclosed space, monsters would spawn. im not sure when they removed this bug/feature, but good riddance lmao even now years and years later i still sleep with my sword in hand just in case a zombie wakes me up when i sleep
Damn this hits like a train, kinda sad but also interesting to see how Minecraft has changed and evolved. People say it was better back then, but really, the current game is way more developed and sophisticated compared to then.
While mc was alot simpler back then the simplicity is oddly enough what draws me to that version and keeps me hooked. Being limited meant you had to really explore your creativity to create stuff
I remember when the added beds, that definitely changed the feel of the game. My friend and I also got into multiplayer the day it released, we built a base about 15,000 blocks from spawn then dug a tunnel most of the way back. There was no nether at that point so it was a slow process.
Ironically a friend and I were just discussing the things which have been in the game for ages but we still consider new. We considered things like Jungles, Villages and Testificates new. I personally still try to click to get out of minecarts, boats and horses, additionally I still try to craft fences with the original crafting recipe.
Yeah there's definitely a lot habits thst I still catch myself doing and laugh realizing I've been aying this game for like 10 years now lol. It's even worse when using modpacks and realizing your going old school FTB packs and ic2 and Equivalent Exchange aren't the way lol.
@@HerbaMachina That was another thing that we discussed, because we played a lot of modded there are some mods we considered standard that haven't been updated in years or we used them so much we consider them more vanilla than some of the vanilla features.
Having like... 9? Different types of planks...? It still is weird. I remember when I would chop down a whole bunch of trees, birch and oak, and make a treehouse. Then one day, suddenly, there was this new lighter colored wooden plank that I had never seen before, and it took me a little while to realize it was from birch wood! It was so annoying that different trees would give you different colors that didn't match! I now play Bedrock, I used to play the Xbox 360 Edition and I still am not used to pressing 'B' for sneak and all the other controls changes. I had to change the controls on my account to match the ones from the console editions! I'm also used to Console Edition having worlds that were very limited in size, meaning structures were way more common so you'd still have a good chance of finding one in your tiny world. I am not used to having to search for ages, even with an elytra, to find a woodland mansion.
@@justinbombach9873 I used to play xbox 360 mc too, and because I was so young and grew up playing it I've had to change my controls on bedrock so crouch is in on right stick
I'm watching your mineceaft evo smp series currently and it's nice to see the earlier versions again and it's also interesting to see all the shenanigans you can only pull off in these versions! I haven't got very far yet but I'm exited to see what will come in the future. it's nice to vist and older series I haven't discovered as I never used to watch your survival series when I first started watching but I had noticed you had posed about twenty episodes of this minecraft series call hermitcraft season six and this is where It all began. My love for this channel really grew i used to watch your building tutorials all the time. yeah season six was a really enjoyable season. Edit: wait. He mentions the evolution sever at the end lol how did I not notice that 😅
I remember the time beds were added and how controversial this was. A loud group (not sure whether majority or minority) did not like the addition of beds. They'd let you skip one of the things that actually made the game a bit more difficult. It's also why I was so surprised that the Phantom won a mobvote later, since initially people didn't want beds and then people wanted to be forced to sleep.
I remember this too. The addition of beds was the first real game-changing update that I experienced, in the sense that it actually changed the "feel" of Minecraft for me. Perhaps on the same level as the addition of hunger, testificates, or the combat update.
This video was very nostalgic from the perspective of someone who has been playing minecraft from nearly the beginning as a kid. I remember when infinite chunks simply didn't exist and you were confined to a certain amount of space (at least on the mobile version). I quite literally laughed at a few of the things you mentioned (like the fun times with the boats) simply because I had forgotten what it was like to play minecraft back when I was 8.
Things I miss from beta: Boat elevators, "oof", kiting zombies into lava, chunk load errors (aka vanilla X-ray), finding caves by scanning for mob IDs through walls, punching wool off sheep, torches on leaves, scuba gear torches, skipping every other ladder, drowning skeletons, Testificates, and mystery enchantments. Things I DON'T miss: losing items to the ocean floor, unstoppable fire spread, exploding boats, "You can only sleep at night", hideous cobblestone and netherrack textures, dying from lag, mystery crafting recipes, monotonous Nether terrain, randomly assigned villager occupations, spam-clicking combat, and mystery enchantments.
I've been playing since Alpha and that was never a thing. Do you mean the chance where when you went to sleep you might be woken up by a zombie or skeleton standing at your bed? It was only ever one of those two, and it was caused by sleeping within two blocks of dark space (which could even be on the other side of a wall). That was removed in Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6. Citation: Minecraft wiki article "Bed", section "History". Creepers spawning near your home and waiting right outside your door for when you step out was a fairly common occurrence, but it wasn't coded into the bed. It's just bad spawn proofing around your house :P
@@diggoran Yeah in regards to the wakeup creeper I was like, I know this person according to their name should be an authority on creepers, but Im nearly certain that's a load of crap. I honestly kinda miss the bed zombies/skeletons though.
Those squids... were bizarrely amazing. Also: Grian, since you mentioned in your Hermitcraft Video a couple of episodes ago that you would like to try out some different things, it would be really cool if you tried out the Lord of the Rings Minecraft mod (the same one that VintageBeef tried out a while back). It is easily one of the greatest Minecraft mods. It has a very vanilla feel to it while still being Middle-Earth. It's kind of hard to describe it but all I can say is that it would be totally worth it to try it out. If you do decide to do it don't spoil it too much for yourself ahead of time because it would be fun to see you reacting for the first time to it all. Whether or not you do it solo or with Hermits and friends doesn't matter too much because it would be fun either way, but nonetheless it would be especially fun if you could do the latter. Other than the LotR MC mod it would also be cool to see you play Stray (Maybe with Scar, he expressed an interest in playing it with you on a stream a while back). Anyway, have a great day!
This is the exact version when I first started playing. I did try that ancient version that didn't even have world generation yet, it was just a pregenerated area but this version is where I finally actually played the game for an amount of time. That old damage sound is so good.
Grian, have you ever thought of mentioning to the other hermits maybe starting a season in beta or maybe just when the game released and going through the versions. I know this sounds similar to Evo but I feel like the hermits would add an interesting twist to the challenge, if you could even classify it as a challenge
It would be awesome, if they made single base (no giga ones obviously) for every major update. I always liked to watch how people are changing their building style depending on available resorces.
If I had to guess the squid milk thing was meant to be a placeholder for how you would get ink. I played minecraft back in the 1.0 days, but honestly the game was so small and weird some of my biggest builds in those days are so tiny and pathetic now lol
@@Qoobon_ I mean they did reuse a lot of code that does make sense, but I do wonder if the intent behind that was like oh cows give milk squids give ink and so he used the code for cow for that reason.
Man, EVO seems so long ago . . . wonder what would happen if the next "Life" series was based on a similar concept of traveling through each update. Like, each week is a different update and it's sort of a test to see which update is easier/more difficult to survive, all with the added chaos and mechanics that the "Life" series brings
It's so weird to look back and remembering what it was like, i played on my older brothers account when he wasn't home and i've never really thought about how slow the game was back then. Good times.
Would love to see Evo make a come-back in some form! Perhaps a mix of Evo and the Life series? Start in early beta, and every session someone dies, the server updates to the next big-ish update, like how Evo did!
It’s absolutely wild to me that there are people out there who are giant fans of minecraft that didn’t live through this. It used to be like a given that anyone who was super into minecraft had been playing for years on end but now there’s a bunch of people that joined like a couple versions ago and had no idea any of this stuff was like this, makes you feel old
I feel like the old versions are both the most peaceful and the most stressful ones at the same time Slow game play letting you calm down and take things slow And then mobs find you and you can't run, nor regenerate without food
As someone who's first experience with Minecraft was just after the Village & Pillage update dropped, seeing the beta shows that for all it's current faults, we should be somewhat grateful to the team at Mojang for making it such a better and more stable game.
I don't remember exactly when I started playing Minecraft, but I remember pork chops not stacking, not having a hunger bar, endermen and village structures (no villagers even...) being a big deal when they got added. the nostalgia was real with this one.
Funny you should mention that because Dagnel is currently doing a "collect every block in Minecraft in release order" series where he goes version by version getting one of each block as they get added. It's a pretty fun trip through history. I've been playing since the first Halloween update that added the Nether and remember all these bugs and glitches. That stair rendering glitch and not being able to get them back after placing them bugged me forever.
@@scottowens398 piss off. Honestly you taking time out of your day to bully some teenager on the internet really says a lot about you, you really have nothing better to do and just decided to be a little prick? Alright.
The craziest thing about the boat is that it wasn't even just a beta thing. It wasn't until relatively recently that they actually improved them. When I played the new minecraft for the first time 3 or so years ago, I was surprised by how different the boats felt. Boats were like that for the majority of Minecraft's life, but the new boats are so much better that everyone forgot about the old ones almost immediately lmao
Notch copied the cow code, pasted it and modified it to make the squid, but forgot to disable getting milk out of it. Same as quasiconnectivity, notch copied the iron door code, pastedit and modified it to make the piston, but forgot to disable it powering and unpowering from the block next to the one above or below. Concluding, Notch was lazy.
As someone who knows a bit of computer science, I don't think he was lazy. Programmers copy code all the time and it's usually not even their own code, just log into stack overflow and find the code you need for a specific function because other people have already optimized that language's ability to use that function
I remember a handful of these weird things even persisted up until version 1.5 when I started. Its really after 1.8 that modern Minecraft began to take shape.
Yeah, no attack cooldown, no crafting recipe interface, stone looking different once slabbed? That was still going on when I was starting in 2015. ..The introduction of different wood plank types was a Big Deal.
Oh my god, I remember playing the earlier days of Minecraft when ever you would crash boats and it would automatically turn into sticks and wooden planks. It was a nightmare constantly having to re-craft them!
"I truly wonder how long this game would have lasted if it had remained in this unfinished state" - 7:32 Yeah, Minecraft is still very much in an unfinished state, and Mojang/Microsoft, by whatever means and for whatever reason, keep it that way perpetually.
Theory: The squid's model was originally a cow and while modeling the squid and changing code to how the squid behaves - I believe that they forgot some tiny things like the place where you milk cows and it was the same place as where you milked the squid due to some messed up code and stuff.
This was certainly an unexpected nostalgia trip, but I loved every minute of it! I keenly remember hating water because it was essentially like putting on a blindfold.
I would imagine the idea of getting a milk bucket from a squid could have been a placeholder for devs to later add squid ink into the game, but ended up being removed in place of squids just dropping ink when they die
Absolutely loved the nod to Minecraft Evolution at the end there! I loved that series so much. I would love to see that or something similar make a return someday!
lol I literally remember rewatching the entire Evo series (up to a point) in one night because I was too impatient for a new episode (but then one did get released that night so I must have manifestation powers). But it has actually been so great to see the channel grow over the last few years and a really fun journey!!
Early Minecraft, I remember when boats broke into pieces. Though I learned something new with the squids. Thanks for that.. I think? I also remember Minecraft Evolution, lovely series. You can thank Martyn for my introduction to that, it's where I first encountered your content. I've been thoroughly entertained ever since. Thank you.
I started playing back in beta and even though it was weird and very broken in some ways it was still so much fun. I started even before squids, before there was a nether, beds, wolves, endermen, biomes and so many other things. Logs used to burn forever, spiders didn't climb walls, the only wood was oak and you had to break wood slabs with a pickaxe. And don't even get me started about minecart weirdness, there were only plain rails, minecarts and furnace minecarts. Redstone was extremely limited, there was redstone dust, torches, blocks, buttons, pressure plates and levers, that was all. Even though it was a very limited game back then I still loved it and still do.
Grian, on behalf of all your fans, please bring back the EVO series. We all want it, and it would be an amazing hit of nostalgia for the ones who have been here since the near beginning.
Oh the memories, I loved Minecraft Evo, and that music just takes me back. Honestly now that there are many more updates you could to Minecraft Evo Season 2. That would be cool to see. Edit: Speaking of witch remember Taurtis? I wonder where he is now?
Today's fact: An interesting technological development is the use of vegetation waste to create methane, which in turn can be used to generate electricity.
EDIT: You could actually leave boats by right clicking them!! I was a FOOL and couldn't figure it out while recording - Oh well, still interesting that you could do the BOAT WIGGLE!
15 seconds wow
Damn 27 seconds
Yeah it's obvious
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Interesting that Grian's done this *and* is bringing up Evo. Since people in the hernitcraft fandom really *love* being up Evo's lore from what I've found. Maybe this is a call to action to watch Evo so Grian can have some Evo stuff appear through the Rift and it not be completely lost on everyone?
Its already completely lost on me-
I MISS EVO SO MUCH-
He said after an mcc that it just wont happen and that hermitcraft and evo are completely seperate universes
@@oweninsertlastname1575 even if they’re separate universes, maybe it might appear through the rift ? The rift can break through seasons, so maybe even series
@@bloopie8492 No, he specifically said that nothing evo related would come about from the rift
I would LOVE to see a shortened version of the evo series, where everyone came back together for it. I loved it so much. My favorite part was when Grian said “I can’t imagine doing what those guys on hermitcraft do. It’s absolutely crazy.” And now to see where he is. I’ve been a fan of the channel for so long. It’s amazing to see how far you’ve gone, and I’m sure I’ll stick with your channel for as long as you go. Your videos are on another level of TH-cam. It’s crazy to see just how much your channel has grown since then.
Man.. I miss Evo. Wouldn’t it be a miracle if some similar series could ever be brought back.
A relatively small creator named Bugmancx currently has a singleplayer series going on called minecraft the journey where he started from the early minecraft stages and slowly updates to newer versions. It's a lot of fun to watch. It's not exactly like Evo where they had to solve a riddle to get to the next versions but bugman covers many features, changes and explores some bugs as well throughout all the different updates
@@silverdiamond2098 please give a link
concept: third life but every time a player dies they go up a version. i mean grian bigb martyn and jimmy are already part of that series anyway lol
@@jamhopsey That'd probably be hard to do cuz hosting servers and stuff
I did
I love it when Grian revisits Beta, reminds me of the Evo series
omg yes tho 😭
I honestly thought this was a clip from Evo when I saw the title;-;
7:43 moment
5:05 EVO SYMBOL EVO SYMBOL
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This video has triggered so much nostalgia. All the old minecraft mechanics, textures, and sounds bring me back.
old explosion is the best 😊
Squid milk explaination:
They copied the cows code to make the squid. That's why they can be milked and also they don't sufficate.
isn't that also part of the reason zombies used to drop feathers? because their drop table was copied from chickens.
@@proxy1035 i think it is
@@proxy1035 no bach then there where no chickens and zombies dropped feather
Weren't they wanting to use it for ink?
@@proxy1035 actually it was because chickens weren’t added yet
I remember when lily pads broke boats and not the other way around
Loved that reference to the evo series at the end, it'd be cool if there was another one like that
a life series but every session upgrades version perhaps?
and at 5:03, you can see the logo for a second
@@LeBoots_ that would be so cool!
@@BlockedUser420 ok thanks
@@LeBoots_ That's already a thing. Look at Grian's EVO series.
i love how Grian brings back Evo, just knowing that he hasn’t forgotten it is just HSVHSHSJS
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This is so nostalgic
I KNOW ITS SO Sudhudgoshd
Grian mentioning Evo again after so long has got my theory crafting mind into gear
It was just awesome to see even if it is just a joke. Grian rarely ever mentions things from last season, let alone back then
Right?? I don’t know if he’s just tossing us a red herring but my mind started racing about why Evo was referenced, especially the Watcher symbol
He might do some more things from the past in this season with the rift
Watcher lore?
Would love to see some hermit craft overlap via the rift
Back in the day, not having crafting recipes was part of the fun of the game. Imagine starting a world with friends. They show you how to make crafting tables, furnaces, torches, tools, and doors. And then you are left to explore. Bit by bit you uncover how to make things like armor, boats, rails, shears, etc. You figure out that sand smelts into glass! It was a wildly adventurous time.
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Even after full release I had to watch videos just to learn what things could be made and how to make them. Paul Soares videos were my Minecraft teacher.
Love this video!
Food not stacking actually made perfect sense back when it replenished your hearts. You had to pick your fights carefully, cause the amount of healing items you had on you was limited by your inventory.
I'd even go so far as to say it's better and more balanced than the current food system.
7:51 God I miss the Evolution Series, I was sad to see it simply die out not long after Grian became a watcher. But then again, they had pretty much reached the newest minecraft version at that time, so there wasn't a lot left unless they became another SMP like Hermitcraft (not saying I would've minded that, but they wouldn't be all that unique anymore).
They could've started adding mods every couple months.
My first experience with a creeper was thinking it was some kind of bush.
Absolutely NOBODY expected that a tree could explode.
I've seen some call it a cactus
So nostalgic to see the old versions of MC. I was someone who was a player since it was browser only and to see how far this game has come is awesome
Yea I remember I played it on the browser didn’t know what I was doing at that time 😂
Nostalgia really hits hard looking back at old Minecraft. It’s amazing to see how much the game itself has grown as well as the community.
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Also minecraft got a chat filter,
then roblox fixed their filter Anything odd about it?
Imagine a new Evo series, but with some of the hermits as well! I'd love to watch something like that!
yes pls
But also bring back the old gang if possible. I want to see the return of the Property Police!
Imagine a new Evo series, but with some of the hermits, AND doing a life series on it!
amagon mumbo in bata now as the skilled redstoner he is and strugling to make a storige sistom and stugg like that if that is even doable
@@jimmyg3835 are u ok?
When I started watching you, you were known as the "old school" guy, always clinging to older versions of the game without updating. Evolution was the first time you had experienced some later additions, I remember. Nice call back, I loved that series!
there's so many reasons I love this video. the Evo nod. the revisiting of Minecraft's cradle in all its weird glory. the randomness of it. it's great
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I don’t know why but there’s just something so calming about watching the night go by in a Timelapse with the Minecraft music in the background
I agree
Same
Yup :)
”Night” is not allowed in any minecraft related things!>:(
I was getting nostalgic from it
It would be amazing if Grian brought back Evo. There has been so many new updates and new friends since the original Evo, so I think an Evo season 2 would be really interesting
Edit: what if they did Devo where the watchers devolve the server to try and stop them from progressing. Just a cool little idea I had that I think would be perfect to bring back watcher lore
Those boats were actually useful thanks to Etho's EATS Road designs!
Minecarts were voodoo back then with those paralleling slingshot setups needed to give boost, plus iron was hard to come by with the slower mining speeds. EATS roads were super cheap on resources, and with Etho's boat dispenser designs, boats could basically function just like minecarts and rails do today!
Huge shout out to Etho for the early day ingenuity, there's a reason he's a legend in the community :D
I honestly loved the old Minecart boosters, the minecart physics in general back then were interesting, while the normal speed was lower, the glitch responsible for the Minecart boosters to work back then seemed to break it and made you go quite fast and not slow down for a significant amount of time. If you used enough minecarts in a single booster you could boost at the bottom of the world and make it all the way to the top of the world without any noticeable drop in speed.
the EATS roads and the old fast climbing ladder with the water on the side are two things I wish had stayed in the game. We have alternatives with the magma block and slowsand and the ice roads, but it'll never be quite the same
"I found boats weird in beta and they where the bane of mc."
Ethoslab posting a boat highway tutorial kickstarting one of the greatest Canadian troll minecrafters ever.
Fun fact: I recently started a survival world for beta 1.6 and i accidentally found a bug where i have 1 coal on furnace and would never disappear, it was like an infinity source. I switched to 1.7.10 and its still working!
Bro went from beta 1.6 all the way to release 1.7.10?
I really hope Grian brings back the Evo Series. That was such a cool series
Yes. We need that!
yes please!
Would love that!
Nah it's done it's course
Yesssss!
You also had to break wooden slabs with a pickaxe since they were actually retextured stone slabs
Petrified oak slabs are still in the creative menu. I found this out the day I built a roof in creative and discovered that the oak slabs I thought I selected were actually petrified wood. Oops.
And fireproof
@@Norskell I used to make my houses (wooden boxes) with slabs in other to be immune to my friends trying to burn it
I was there when you couldn't turn logs horizontally, stairs only in the "stair" position and no running. It's astounding how much Minecraft has changed but I changed along it and 10 years later, still playing it!
@Emily An omg yes their buildbattles were always so fun
My guess, for the squid milk, is that they created the squid by cloning the cow mob and altering it from there aesthetically.
You're right. Notch just reuse cow's AI when he developing squid.
@@NHJ03 I thought it was Jeb.
@@BenjaminMellor it was
@@BenjaminMellor oh. My bad. Sneaky Jeb
@@dythgabcdz It isnt a theory.. that’s what happened.
"The combat mechanics were extremely primitive where you could just see how fast you could spam your sword"
Minecraft Bedrock:
and hypixel:
@@j.x.x.r3645 Im sorry if im taking this comment too seriously, but they always trigger me a lot, it's not about how fast you can spam your sword, whether you click 100 or 2 cps doesn't really matter if you have some experience, it' all about the movement, aim, rodding, etc :)
I will argue that 1.9+ combat is way more primitive, but in the end i am probably just overreacting to some random comment please ignore me i just needed to write something sorry ok bye sorry for wasting your time
@@Eraqon i agree
@@Eraqon spam clicking was stupid, i'm glad it's gone.
Ouch, that’s stung-
I still have so many weird habits from playing when Minecraft first came out despite not having played the beta in years, it's so strange remembering why they formed in the first place!
Grian's genuinely scream when that creeper showed up was the best thing I have ever heard.
Hm... now that you've made a call back to EVO, it makes me wonder what the next iteration of Last Life might be, and whether it might be related... It could be quite interesting to watch the group play in a Beta world, or possibly a modded-to-seem-like Beta world, if those mods exist...
I remember using the old glass texture and sugar cane to make underwater dome houses- the water was pitch dark and your chance of drowning was high with the slow swimming
And then you'd start drowning, and the damage you took sent you further underwater. XD
A micro series where you spend a few episodes in each version would be pretty fun to watch.
Just search up Minecraft EVO lol
@@elisabethsun7059 evo is old and ended early
@@-FutureTaken- wish it wood come back peple clearly like it still
Every time I hear the original minecraft songs I’m hit with so much nostalgia, but goodness, I always forget how strange some of the mechanics were xD
The early days of minecraft were amazing especially for those of us who started on the old gen console versions. The music is agreeably the best part of the early days and it has so much nostalgia for me now.
one of the weirdest things i remember from beta was the fact that monsters would almost always spawn if you tried to sleep? it didnt matter how lit-up the place was or if you were sleeping in an completely enclosed space, monsters would spawn. im not sure when they removed this bug/feature, but good riddance lmao even now years and years later i still sleep with my sword in hand just in case a zombie wakes me up when i sleep
2 block walls or placing you bed from 2 blocks away from outside space, no mobs
I remember watching your evolution series with as much excitement as I do with your hermitcraft videos now. they were so great really nostalgic
same! EVO was my obsession before Hermitcraft :)
Damn this hits like a train, kinda sad but also interesting to see how Minecraft has changed and evolved. People say it was better back then, but really, the current game is way more developed and sophisticated compared to then.
While mc was alot simpler back then the simplicity is oddly enough what draws me to that version and keeps me hooked. Being limited meant you had to really explore your creativity to create stuff
I remember when the added beds, that definitely changed the feel of the game. My friend and I also got into multiplayer the day it released, we built a base about 15,000 blocks from spawn then dug a tunnel most of the way back. There was no nether at that point so it was a slow process.
Ironically a friend and I were just discussing the things which have been in the game for ages but we still consider new. We considered things like Jungles, Villages and Testificates new. I personally still try to click to get out of minecarts, boats and horses, additionally I still try to craft fences with the original crafting recipe.
Same here xD
Yeah there's definitely a lot habits thst I still catch myself doing and laugh realizing I've been aying this game for like 10 years now lol. It's even worse when using modpacks and realizing your going old school FTB packs and ic2 and Equivalent Exchange aren't the way lol.
@@HerbaMachina That was another thing that we discussed, because we played a lot of modded there are some mods we considered standard that haven't been updated in years or we used them so much we consider them more vanilla than some of the vanilla features.
Having like... 9? Different types of planks...? It still is weird. I remember when I would chop down a whole bunch of trees, birch and oak, and make a treehouse. Then one day, suddenly, there was this new lighter colored wooden plank that I had never seen before, and it took me a little while to realize it was from birch wood! It was so annoying that different trees would give you different colors that didn't match!
I now play Bedrock, I used to play the Xbox 360 Edition and I still am not used to pressing 'B' for sneak and all the other controls changes. I had to change the controls on my account to match the ones from the console editions!
I'm also used to Console Edition having worlds that were very limited in size, meaning structures were way more common so you'd still have a good chance of finding one in your tiny world. I am not used to having to search for ages, even with an elytra, to find a woodland mansion.
@@justinbombach9873 I used to play xbox 360 mc too, and because I was so young and grew up playing it I've had to change my controls on bedrock so crouch is in on right stick
I'm watching your mineceaft evo smp series currently and it's nice to see the earlier versions again and it's also interesting to see all the shenanigans you can only pull off in these versions! I haven't got very far yet but I'm exited to see what will come in the future. it's nice to vist and older series I haven't discovered as I never used to watch your survival series when I first started watching but I had noticed you had posed about twenty episodes of this minecraft series call hermitcraft season six and this is where It all began. My love for this channel really grew i used to watch your building tutorials all the time. yeah season six was a really enjoyable season.
Edit: wait. He mentions the evolution sever at the end lol how did I not notice that 😅
I remember the time beds were added and how controversial this was. A loud group (not sure whether majority or minority) did not like the addition of beds. They'd let you skip one of the things that actually made the game a bit more difficult.
It's also why I was so surprised that the Phantom won a mobvote later, since initially people didn't want beds and then people wanted to be forced to sleep.
I remember this too. The addition of beds was the first real game-changing update that I experienced, in the sense that it actually changed the "feel" of Minecraft for me. Perhaps on the same level as the addition of hunger, testificates, or the combat update.
I see the rift threw him so far back in time that he went into the squid milk betaverse. Truly the deepest lore.
I loved the evo series, the throwback to the watchers was so nice
This video was very nostalgic from the perspective of someone who has been playing minecraft from nearly the beginning as a kid. I remember when infinite chunks simply didn't exist and you were confined to a certain amount of space (at least on the mobile version). I quite literally laughed at a few of the things you mentioned (like the fun times with the boats) simply because I had forgotten what it was like to play minecraft back when I was 8.
Things I miss from beta: Boat elevators, "oof", kiting zombies into lava, chunk load errors (aka vanilla X-ray), finding caves by scanning for mob IDs through walls, punching wool off sheep, torches on leaves, scuba gear torches, skipping every other ladder, drowning skeletons, Testificates, and mystery enchantments.
Things I DON'T miss: losing items to the ocean floor, unstoppable fire spread, exploding boats, "You can only sleep at night", hideous cobblestone and netherrack textures, dying from lag, mystery crafting recipes, monotonous Nether terrain, randomly assigned villager occupations, spam-clicking combat, and mystery enchantments.
7:45 Only OGs know what he’s talking about
Hearing Grian yelling “THIS IS NOT NORMAL” while holding a bucket of milk on a steve skin was something I never knew I needed
One notable feature you forgot is the wake-up-creeper that was spawned within 5 blocks of you every morning but had a 1/3 chance of not spawning.
I've been playing since Alpha and that was never a thing. Do you mean the chance where when you went to sleep you might be woken up by a zombie or skeleton standing at your bed? It was only ever one of those two, and it was caused by sleeping within two blocks of dark space (which could even be on the other side of a wall). That was removed in Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6. Citation: Minecraft wiki article "Bed", section "History".
Creepers spawning near your home and waiting right outside your door for when you step out was a fairly common occurrence, but it wasn't coded into the bed. It's just bad spawn proofing around your house :P
@@diggoran Yeah in regards to the wakeup creeper I was like, I know this person according to their name should be an authority on creepers, but Im nearly certain that's a load of crap. I honestly kinda miss the bed zombies/skeletons though.
Guys cmon . . . It’s a joke based on the video because in 2/3 mornings shown in the video grian got scared by a creeper
@@jjwang7597 lol that went totally over my head :D
But mostly because hostile mobs waking you up was actually a thing in beta :P
Those squids... were bizarrely amazing.
Also: Grian, since you mentioned in your Hermitcraft Video a couple of episodes ago that you would like to try out some different things, it would be really cool if you tried out the Lord of the Rings Minecraft mod (the same one that VintageBeef tried out a while back). It is easily one of the greatest Minecraft mods. It has a very vanilla feel to it while still being Middle-Earth. It's kind of hard to describe it but all I can say is that it would be totally worth it to try it out. If you do decide to do it don't spoil it too much for yourself ahead of time because it would be fun to see you reacting for the first time to it all. Whether or not you do it solo or with Hermits and friends doesn't matter too much because it would be fun either way, but nonetheless it would be especially fun if you could do the latter. Other than the LotR MC mod it would also be cool to see you play Stray (Maybe with Scar, he expressed an interest in playing it with you on a stream a while back). Anyway, have a great day!
This is the exact version when I first started playing. I did try that ancient version that didn't even have world generation yet, it was just a pregenerated area but this version is where I finally actually played the game for an amount of time. That old damage sound is so good.
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Grian, have you ever thought of mentioning to the other hermits maybe starting a season in beta or maybe just when the game released and going through the versions. I know this sounds similar to Evo but I feel like the hermits would add an interesting twist to the challenge, if you could even classify it as a challenge
Yea but some of the fans would want to see more of the new features but I think it would be an amazing season
Call it... uhhh... I... I got nothing.
It would be awesome, if they made single base (no giga ones obviously) for every major update. I always liked to watch how people are changing their building style depending on available resorces.
@@Tian_Who that is true but then they could probably showcase those features as well as more new features in the next season
Or bring Evo into Hermitcraft. Wink wink nudge nudge.
reminding me of grian's evo series
would be cool to see that back as a mini series
3:14 that spider didnt even have a CHANCE lol
If I had to guess the squid milk thing was meant to be a placeholder for how you would get ink. I played minecraft back in the 1.0 days, but honestly the game was so small and weird some of my biggest builds in those days are so tiny and pathetic now lol
_bucket of ink_ 🤔
No, they just gave squids cow ai
@@Qoobon_ I mean they did reuse a lot of code that does make sense, but I do wonder if the intent behind that was like oh cows give milk squids give ink and so he used the code for cow for that reason.
Man, EVO seems so long ago . . . wonder what would happen if the next "Life" series was based on a similar concept of traveling through each update. Like, each week is a different update and it's sort of a test to see which update is easier/more difficult to survive, all with the added chaos and mechanics that the "Life" series brings
Man you caught me off guard with the Evo reference on the wall there. Glad to hear it make a re appearance of sorts. It was a great series
It's so weird to look back and remembering what it was like, i played on my older brothers account when he wasn't home and i've never really thought about how slow the game was back then. Good times.
Would love to watch another Evo series or play one, ngl. It was really nice. But Hermitcraft is great too.
Would love to see Evo make a come-back in some form! Perhaps a mix of Evo and the Life series? Start in early beta, and every session someone dies, the server updates to the next big-ish update, like how Evo did!
It’s absolutely wild to me that there are people out there who are giant fans of minecraft that didn’t live through this. It used to be like a given that anyone who was super into minecraft had been playing for years on end but now there’s a bunch of people that joined like a couple versions ago and had no idea any of this stuff was like this, makes you feel old
I'll make you feel even older
You could be someone who's played Minecraft for years and still have started in, like, Update Aquatic or World of Color
I remember a lot of this from Evo! That was such a fun series, super happy to see you uploading varied content again :D
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3:19 this is just nostalgic
I feel like the old versions are both the most peaceful and the most stressful ones at the same time
Slow game play letting you calm down and take things slow
And then mobs find you and you can't run, nor regenerate without food
As someone who's first experience with Minecraft was just after the Village & Pillage update dropped, seeing the beta shows that for all it's current faults, we should be somewhat grateful to the team at Mojang for making it such a better and more stable game.
I don't remember exactly when I started playing Minecraft, but I remember pork chops not stacking, not having a hunger bar, endermen and village structures (no villagers even...) being a big deal when they got added. the nostalgia was real with this one.
Old Minecraft makes me so happy and nostalgic. I think it’s the limitations that just make it feel so creative and fun.
Funny you should mention that because Dagnel is currently doing a "collect every block in Minecraft in release order" series where he goes version by version getting one of each block as they get added. It's a pretty fun trip through history. I've been playing since the first Halloween update that added the Nether and remember all these bugs and glitches. That stair rendering glitch and not being able to get them back after placing them bugged me forever.
I actually really liked the old boats particle effect at 2:00.
Although I was a little (stupid) toddler when Beta came out, it still feels really familiar and somewhat nostalgic to me-
I can tell you still are that way. You end sentences with a dash.
@@scottowens398 bro shut up
I agree, although I was young, It's still so nostalgic
@@scottowens398 bruh
@@scottowens398 piss off. Honestly you taking time out of your day to bully some teenager on the internet really says a lot about you, you really have nothing better to do and just decided to be a little prick? Alright.
The craziest thing about the boat is that it wasn't even just a beta thing. It wasn't until relatively recently that they actually improved them. When I played the new minecraft for the first time 3 or so years ago, I was surprised by how different the boats felt.
Boats were like that for the majority of Minecraft's life, but the new boats are so much better that everyone forgot about the old ones almost immediately lmao
Honestly a new Evo series would be torture for Grian lol. But I'd love to see it again
Ik it's a long shot but I'm hoping and praying that the reference at the end is a hint to something. Especially after Martyn's last life
Grian: “Back in my day, we used to place furnaces around people’s bases.”
Notch copied the cow code, pasted it and modified it to make the squid, but forgot to disable getting milk out of it.
Same as quasiconnectivity, notch copied the iron door code, pastedit and modified it to make the piston, but forgot to disable it powering and unpowering from the block next to the one above or below.
Concluding, Notch was lazy.
Didn't know that. Awesome!
As someone who knows a bit of computer science, I don't think he was lazy. Programmers copy code all the time and it's usually not even their own code, just log into stack overflow and find the code you need for a specific function because other people have already optimized that language's ability to use that function
@@zerocooltakeover9382 I also code, i was kidding.
Still preparing for the rift to make another EVO series I see 😎
He even made the reference to it c'mon you gotta be making another right?
i love it when hermits squeal after getting jumped
like how grian screamed when the creeper came out of nowhere
I remember a handful of these weird things even persisted up until version 1.5 when I started. Its really after 1.8 that modern Minecraft began to take shape.
Yeah, no attack cooldown, no crafting recipe interface, stone looking different once slabbed? That was still going on when I was starting in 2015.
..The introduction of different wood plank types was a Big Deal.
DID ANYONE ELSE SEE THE EVO SIGN ON THE WALL AT 5:03?! PLZ TELL ME SOMEONE ELSE SAW IT
ITS AT 6:47 TOOOOO
YES I SAW IT TOO
@@ashleighstoutner4795 what evo symbol mean can u explain please
YEA ITS LITERALLY AT THE END OF THE VIDEO
@@zendyanzendyan8968 Yeah! It’s from Grian’s old SMP called Evolution! He has a playlist that you can watch of the series ^^.
Oh my god, I remember playing the earlier days of Minecraft when ever you would crash boats and it would automatically turn into sticks and wooden planks. It was a nightmare constantly having to re-craft them!
Also, when a boat hit a lily pad, the boat broke. Made swamps a pain to get through.
6:18 wow...I can't believe I still have that habit to this day 🤣🤣
"I truly wonder how long this game would have lasted if it had remained in this unfinished state" - 7:32 Yeah, Minecraft is still very much in an unfinished state, and Mojang/Microsoft, by whatever means and for whatever reason, keep it that way perpetually.
Because that way it never gets boring.
Theory:
The squid's model was originally a cow and while modeling the squid and changing code to how the squid behaves - I believe that they forgot some tiny things like the place where you milk cows and it was the same place as where you milked the squid due to some messed up code and stuff.
When making the squid, they copied the Cow class code and turned it into a squid, but they forgot to remove the cow's right click code from the squid.
To think how far this game has come is simply insane
This was certainly an unexpected nostalgia trip, but I loved every minute of it!
I keenly remember hating water because it was essentially like putting on a blindfold.
I would imagine the idea of getting a milk bucket from a squid could have been a placeholder for devs to later add squid ink into the game, but ended up being removed in place of squids just dropping ink when they die
Absolutely loved the nod to Minecraft Evolution at the end there! I loved that series so much. I would love to see that or something similar make a return someday!
4:30 i remember googling how to craft different tools every 5 minutes. Good times!
lol I literally remember rewatching the entire Evo series (up to a point) in one night because I was too impatient for a new episode (but then one did get released that night so I must have manifestation powers). But it has actually been so great to see the channel grow over the last few years and a really fun journey!!
Love how Grian entertains us with older versions of minecraft! hehe very funny
i don’t know what’s more nostalgic… Minecraft Beta flashbacks, or Evo flashbacks
0:50 the squid AI is based off of the cow Ai and that's why you can milk them
Early Minecraft, I remember when boats broke into pieces. Though I learned something new with the squids. Thanks for that.. I think? I also remember Minecraft Evolution, lovely series. You can thank Martyn for my introduction to that, it's where I first encountered your content. I've been thoroughly entertained ever since. Thank you.
I started playing back in beta and even though it was weird and very broken in some ways it was still so much fun. I started even before squids, before there was a nether, beds, wolves, endermen, biomes and so many other things. Logs used to burn forever, spiders didn't climb walls, the only wood was oak and you had to break wood slabs with a pickaxe. And don't even get me started about minecart weirdness, there were only plain rails, minecarts and furnace minecarts. Redstone was extremely limited, there was redstone dust, torches, blocks, buttons, pressure plates and levers, that was all. Even though it was a very limited game back then I still loved it and still do.
there was never a version with only furnace minecarts, they were added alongside chest minecarts
Grian, on behalf of all your fans, please bring back the EVO series.
We all want it, and it would be an amazing hit of nostalgia for the ones who have been here since the near beginning.
2:33 Yes. Mojang should replace the symbolic *slurpslurpslurpslurpslurp* with whatever that sounds was. 19/10
more like S S S S S S S S S U P G H
@@FlameyClockspeed yes that is more like it. i had been wondering if i should fix it but i just left it that way
Oh the memories, I loved Minecraft Evo, and that music just takes me back. Honestly now that there are many more updates you could to Minecraft Evo Season 2. That would be cool to see. Edit: Speaking of witch remember Taurtis? I wonder where he is now?
Today's fact: An interesting technological development is the use of vegetation waste to create methane, which in turn can be used to generate electricity.
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That’s a nice fact.
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thanks kind sir
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1.2 was when I started playing and I remember so many little quirks so fondly ... the removal of boat elevators is still a crime.
same here and like G thay were just normal back thin