i started my first forever world today! i'm plannning to use it cause im INLOVE with my seed, i already have 3 cats and a dog so! hopefully im dedicated enough hehe
I’ve had a few. Recently started one with my friends. I think my favorite part is the progress you can look back on later in the game and remember all the adventures you had along the way. Now hopefully I can share that with my friends who haven’t had a forever world.
In a forever world, you can still "start over" by leaving all of your items and equipment in a chest and then travelling to a new area. It can give you the new world experience without losing all of your previous work.
@@sonixivous thinking about it on a realm/server point of view, it's smart. Rather have one forever that's paid as opposed to 40 temporary ones that are paid. Neat
Lately I started adding signs that say "Est. (the date)" somewhere on a new structure that I build. It's usually hidden somewhere on the build. In case I wanna know how old something is, I just look for the sign . Also, if something unique happened that day in real life, I'd mention it. For example, the sign on my skeleton farm reads: "Est. Apr. 8, 2024 Solar eclipse" I'm gonna tell my grandchildren on the next solar eclipse, "you know, the solar eclipse of '24 I was constructing a skeleton farm" lmao
I've been doing the same, but I also add the name of who made a farm if I copy a design from a tutorial etc, because it's inevitable I'll forget and not be able to find it again if I accidentally break it
SAME! I have a forever world w/ my sis (#bonding slayy 💅) and we do this! I had NO idea it was a forever world until I saw this video and was like "Hey... I have a world that I wouldn't ever delete.."
This is why I lobe No Man's Sky. You have to have a forever world. Even if you make a new character, you can track down every place you've been on any other characters, even though you can never run out of new worlds.
i wish someone could make a mod like this, where new worlds could instead just be far out spawns for old worlds and you could eventually find your old world
@@iunnoo heck, it could even be a datapack, since all it would need to do is do a /setworldspawn randomly a certain x+y cord value out and erase your old bed spawn
A personal tip I'd have: Don't be afraid of making it easier for yourself! I personally sometimes set my mode to peaceful because building at night gets irritating :') Usually its fine, but as I have no "hostile mob" pets, it doesn't affect my world long-term :> Just be careful if you do!
i put torches absolutely EVERYWHERE My friends hate it but at a certaint point in the game, any dark spot near the base or on an ongoing build annoys me
I agree. if you're in single-player there's no reason to play the game while making things intentionally difficult, if you don't want it to be difficult at that moment. I however have a 3-year-old pet pillager, and a 1-year-old pet spider so I cant turn it to peaceful without loosing them. I am going to start working on a mob switch soon.
I often keep my world in easy, but swap to peaceful when I'm mining and stumble across a particularly dangerous cave. I can handle some simple combat, but the game just stops being fun for me when my caving expedition is suddenly haulted by a massive hoarde of monsters.
4:00 also back up your world in other places than %appdata%. Just once in a while put a copy in an online or external drive. In the case of a computer corruption, your world remains.
Mogswamp is my favourite TH-camr with a forever world, his concept of "start a project you think you'll never be able to finish" is one of my new favourite ideas. I have a list of massive projects I want to do that I have _no clue_ how to even start on, but I like the idea that it's not only something to work on long term, but something that I'll learn and develop as a player by doing. I'm not a great builder by any means, but I really am looking forward to having projects that challenge that in ways that can help me find my own style. For me the only downside is mods. I technically have two forever worlds, one that has only cosmetic/hud type mods that won't break my world if I suddenly can't use them, and a modded one, that will only live as long as the mods inside it do. I've lost enough worlds to suddenly not having the next version available that I finally decided to make myself a vanilla friendly one that I can always tweak around^^"
i need to stop thinking i have to play a certain way and my builds be a certain standard, i need to just start a minecraft world, and NEVER think about the future of it, at least not too much, just ride the waves and play, do whatever i want, but man minecraft youtube makes that so hard these days :(
My advice is honestly try to find smaller/newer youtubers to follow if you still want to get inspiration from them, or even go back to older videos from the ones you love. I'm a huge fan of Mumbo and Grian for example, but if you go back to some of their super early series, you can see how much they've developed over time. No one starts minecraft being a master builder who can make a mega structure in under a week, most of the people we watch and look up to have had thousands of hours of practice, especially now that Minecraft is their job for a lot of them
Why does it make it hard? Or are we just for some reason letting it make it hard for us instead of just doing what we want? Maybe thats the way we shape things again to be fun like we want it and audience to be pulled in, instead of doing what they want, to get audience we don't even want. Like TH-cam used to be. It should be all about what makes US happy and inspires us. I think a lot of TH-camrs have forgotten this, falling into the trap of greed, instead of realizing, if we just create the content we want, we'll pull in tons of others who like the way we're doing things instead of another! :) More diversity on TH-cam is heavily needed again.
I love the sentimental focus you have here! A "Forever World" taps into the basis of human nature of constantly wanting to evolve and progressing too, being able to see a physical manifestation of nostalgia definitely do some genuine good. I can imagine myself having something to fall back on after a hard day of Work or University and as I launch into the world, I coincidentally stumble upon my first house, or the first village that I discovered I might actually try this out, its been forever since I've actually had a long-lasting world
i'm in a forever server with my best friend, and we started it in December of 2021. It's been having some technical difficulties lately, especially with us moving, but it still is such a huge part of me. I genuinely believe i would be a different person if i didn't have that server. And yet it was started because our previous server had just ended a few weeks prior and i was like "man im bored.. i wanna start a new world" and he fired up his realm. We only planned to be on it for a few days or weeks at most. Just over 3 years later, and i can safely say that server has at least 80% of my memories from the last 3 years. Late nights staying up till 4 am mining in a cave, doing countless streams, having an entire relationship begin and die on there. But i wouldn't change it for anything. That server is my forever world. My home away from home. I love it there and forever will.
I always mistakenly thought I needed to start a new world for each patch. Now I've revived the world I spent the most time on. It will be my forever world :) Thanks!
if you use mca selector, you can save certain parts of your game, and let a patch update the rest of the game, since updates only happen on unexplored chunks.
I mean, technically you do need to with new biomes and stuff if you've explored a LOT since they only appear in unexplored parts of your world, which is unfortunate
With multiplayer worlds I agree it sucks having your or your friends' progress wiped. So I actually started hosting my own but instead of committing to it purely being a solo forever world or trying to encourage friends to play with me to keep it alive. I play on it regularly myself as if it was singleplayer but always have it open so randomly friends might join, be it every day or once every couple months. It actually helps a lot with inspiration since sometimes a friend might have built something months or years ago without telling you and you happen to find it while randomly exploring.
That's exactly what I started doing as well! I realized keeping my worlds strictly singleplayer or multiplayer was... never a rule. So yeah, highly reccomend this!
I actually had one on my Xbox one. I built a seaside port city. And had a floating blue and gold shrine in the center, it was made of Lapis Lazuli blocking and Gold blocks, it had a waterfall coming out of it and going to all corners of my city. I don't remember but I think it was supposed to be a shrine to some frictional Sea goddess I made up. Oh good grief, I just remembered: Poseida.
I have a world I've played for a little over 10 years on my Xbox One that originally started on my now-dead PS4. Eventually, I used "Chunker" to move the world to Java, and now I play it on my Steam Deck. This world has been with me through so many life changes. Since I first created it, I’ve moved house four times, gone through three different jobs, and went from being a high-school student to approaching 28 with a career in IT. This world has seen me through countless friendships, relationships, and life transitions. It has become a space of comfort and nostalgia, a safe haven I return to whenever I feel overwhelmed, full of memories tied to each build and every moment spent there.
These talking videos are awesome. I started playing minecraft when i was 12, I'm 27 now. I've been in a world now since june and generally just trying to escape the real world, you're doing a great job with these. Best of luck to you.
@@likelipe Yeah. Actually i played before alpha was released, i played the minecraft classic which was released in 2009 and was only playable through their website using java hehe
I have a multiplayer forever world with my bf!! We’ve had this world for almost 5 years now (in January!!) which is so crazy to me that we’ve just managed to have this multiplayer world for this long and I definitely recommend for people to have a forever world in general because there’s so many possibilities when you just do whatever you want in Minecraft rather than playing with the linear progression loop. I do think the world we have is slightly corrupted though?? 😭 Because I noticed that the save file size is abnormally large like a lot larger than Minecraft save files usually are and it crashes when we play for too long lol but that’s why I always make a backup before we play
just a tip but if you're playing on Java there's a program you can use that will delete any chunks that you haven't interacted with but you have loaded in that are taking up a lot of space
i used to have a creative forever world years and years ago, where i had this city that i would keep on growing and growing. i would just build stuff and the further out from the center you would go, the more you would see my improvement, as well as the different things i liked. then one day i stopped. i went back to it years later and going through everything was like a time capsule of how i lived and what i loved! and i remembered the reason i stopped, because of the last build that will always remain unfinished was a recreation of the childhood home that i had started that server in, i stopped because i moved out of that house (despite the world being on a laptop, i guess that was just a queue for me to stop lmao) maybe i should start a new one once i regain that whimsy and shameless joy and creativity i used to have so much of!
I would love a forever world, but my building skills are just as good as my socializing skills basically non-existent so having a world I can get so attached to is hard. I think but yeah it would be super cool to have a nice world like that. I'm definitely still going to try it, this video did inspire me for real! Also can I say how much I love your hair? ^.^
@@gabriellejacquiet9925 honestly i would start with building tutorials, that's how i started out at least! even if it technically isn't "your build", it feels good to look at something that you spent time on making. i watched a tutorial on how to build a giant mushroom house and to challenge myself i decided to make it in survival, after i finished i was so proud of how it turned out!
I'd say that a forever world would be a great chance at learning how to build better, I mainly learned through build hacks and tutorials but ofc practice makes perfect in this type of situation. You'd also be able to reflect on your old buildings and think on how to improve them
a forever world is so human and relates to the real world! IRL we can move on from projects and start a new one, but the old projects will always remain. I love this idea
I started a forever world because of you and im enjoying it so much! I may start recording random episodes just to keep records of my world's timeline :3
I recently discovered peaceful mode! I love it, I have improved my skills massively ♡ I'm worried because I forget how to react when mobs sneak up 😅. This is such a wonderful idea 😊 cheers
A few months ago we found out I'm very autistic. I have four autistic kids too. I struggle so so much. Everything you're saying is exactly what I need to hear, and what I've started doing this week. Thank you x
I started my survival world back in 2019, and just as you've mentioned, I connect my real life memories and other aspects of my life to certain stages and areas of my Minecraft world. It would break me emotionally if I had to delete my world. It is just too precious to me. So much history. I actually lost a ton of history in my world due to me not being happy with many builds, then I would prune the chunks to start over (which I regret now). My world experienced many cool quirks too. My world went from being played exclusively on my phone, to having RTX graphics enabled on my gaming laptop. Speaking of real life, my cat died, and my dog died at some point while playing in this world. I went to college, and graduated college while playing in my survival world. I have slightly changed my music taste over the years. I've switched interests. There's just too much real life stuff connected to my survival world. I do try to keep pruning the world chunks outside of my built up areas, just to keep the world fresh and small in size for new updates. Because Bedrock Edition worlds already break at just a couple hundred thousand blocks, I cannot feel free to explore as heavily as in Java Edition. However, I do also have a Java world which I intend to keep forever too, and that for me offers the real, stable, and reliable Minecraft experience.
omg i love the old textures! I personally play on 1.21.1 with nostalgia tweaks and old textures and for some reason it just makes the game feel so much more cozy and relaxed and I end up playing it a lot
I find forever worlds intimidating because I find it has to- eventually, after a long time- be grand (like yours) and or beautiful, and this would be especially true because I am inconsistent with my play streaks/time, so there'd usually be big time gaps in-between, so as a result, after logging in after quite some time and I see not this grand world but a basic one, that it would dawn on me and make me lose motivation or feel bad, even though I'd know it's been a long time but only because I had been away for quite some time. Though seeing your video has made me more open to the idea-- your world looks really cool btw!
I had a very rough start to my 4 year world, where I would advise you to hold on to it. For a long period in my life, I would always delete worlds whenever I don't play for a long while. Then one day, I wanted to change that streak; so I started a world, had big plans, explored a lot for 3 days... and stopped playing before I even got diamonds... for around 5 months. Now I get nostalgia whenever I open up that world because so much has happened since then. A lot of my life has been shown through that world, and I'm so glad I didn't delete it.
I’ve had a Minecraft world for around 300 in-game days, and I’m planning for it to become my forever world. I live inside a hollowed out hill, with a few farms. I built a railway to the nearest village, and I’m beginning my largest project yet - building a village. My world has nothing automated, and I only ventured to the nether recently. Basically, just treat it like it’s yours. Do whatever you want, and then it’ll be enjoyable.
To be honest, I think this is actually one of the strengths of a forever world -- you don't really have to feel you have to meet a certain deadline. You can just work on it at your own pace. I know in my case, I've had my "forever world" running for the past 4-5 years or so, but I tend to have periods where I'll have an idea and work hard on it for a month, and then I get sidetracked by other things and leave my world for a few months, only to come back to it with another idea. So I've got a spread out world with a few complete towns or bases, and a few more incomplete ones... but I can just keep slowly plugging away at it to eventually make my dreams a reality. Sure, it might take me another 10 years but it's a forever world for a reason! :3
Your video really resonated with me! I’ve been intermittently playing on one survival world since 1.7 came out and I love being able to walk around my world looking at builds from years ago. Having old worlds is also a way of preserving Minecraft history! I’m proud to host two desert temples with the old orange wool accents, and my end island has the old style of obsidian pillars. Forever worlds are very fun
I decided to make make an abandoned family LAN world (that I played with my kids) into my forever world. I use MCA selector to prune the world down to my main base island with each update, so it stays fresh. I’m also learning to use structure blocks to import favorite builds piece-by-piece from previous worlds, so I have a scrapbook of my Minecraft memories, all in one place.
What a lovely idea! A Minecraft world full of treasured memories! 🥰 These days, I often experience more nostalgia in a video game world than in real life. If Minecraft had been around when I was young, and my parents thought to capture precious moments of our time together like you are, I’d treasure it forever. Actually, just the other day, my mom asked if I remember how much fun she and I used to have playing Bubble Bobble on NES when I was a child. She had a stroke a couple years ago, and her memory isn’t quite as sharp as it used to be (plus she’s almost 70 now). I was just so happy to her those were also some of her fondest memories that I almost cried. Apologies for rambling on, it’s just hearing your awesome idea about your Minecraft world suddenly has me feeling so sentimental about years gone by! Especially this time of year, and especially at my age, where my family grows smaller each year. I’m thankful for these wistful feelings though! A welcome reminder that I need to do some more living in the “now” than drowning in anxiety over the world at large. I hope you and your loved ones have a simply wonderful holiday season!! May you all treasure each other now and always. 😌❤
this is exactly how i've been playing the game since 2011. i honestly find it difficult to play on any other server sometimes because i want to make sure whatever i'm doing is preserved. my forever world is multiplayer, so i do play with friends more often than not, but it's also my single player world whenever i feel like that. and you're right, it's chock full of memories. our more significant builds are all dated with signs. we have a library full of short stories from when friends and i used to just sit and write things in books. we have gravestones for in-game pets we lost. there are dozens of towns all over the huge huge world from us wanting to "restart". but restarting to us just means playing a fresh spot that we'll eventually link up via trains or whatever. i love the wierd anomalies you talked about whenever chunk generation updates - we had one case where our original spawn area at 0 0 0 coords just... turned to a giant ocean? it was kinda tragic because we lost a fort at spawn, but we just pretended it got nuked since it's now essentially a crater. i can't really do it any other way. another plus of the world being so huge and expansive now is when you use a service to render it to a 2D map it's *incredible* to look at
One of my main reasons for not sticking to one world for long enough is that I play Minecraft on my laptop, and I don't have a proper PC yet. So whenever my worlds get quite a number of builds and villages done and have a bunch of entities, it starts lagging 😢 And another thing for me is that once all the resources are acquired and all the building projects are done, there's just nothing to do anymore besides building even more stuff that I will not be using anyway. I did start a forever world a few months ago and wanna stick to it and come back to from time to time. We'll see if I manage not to send it into oblivion xD
My mom and I have our own server that we've been playing on for about 4 years now. Before that we had another server that lasted many years. It's crazy to me that "forever worlds" aren't the main/default way people play. In my mind there was never any other way that made sense. Your video had a lot of good points that resonated with me. Nice builds too!
I wish I could play Minecraft with my mom, she is sort of interested in it, but for some reason her head hurts when watching me play it for too long… she told me if she could stand to watch it for longer periods of time she’d probably be addicted to Minecraft XD I think it would be so fun to play it with her.
@@morgue.n444 I wonder if it is like a car sickness thing where if you are driving you don't get carsick, but watching while someone else controls the car you do. Might be worth seeing if she gets the same headaches when she is behind the controls.
I've been playing on the same world since 2014. Never felt the need to change or to take a new start. I have upgraded some of my builds / redstone systems (mostly my redstone machines, as they get broken every 2 updates lmao), but most of what i've built has been left unchanged since the time of their construction. I like the fact that it becomes kind of a journey through time, and you can see how better you got at the game after all those years
YOU'RE LITERALLY ME!!!! I have a forever world I made back in 2021 after watching ibxtoycat for years and years and watching his world grow with him. I also did a similar thing where I started it back in the early alpha versions and I would update through each version week by week which gave me a chance to mess around with so many new features and gave me something to look forward to. The memory element is so fascinating it's like your world becomes a museum or a monument to yourself and I love it so much.
I started my forever world about the same time as you! I'm the only one of my friends who is doing this so it was fun to watch this video and have you say lot of the same things I have been feeling about it! It's a really cool way to play.
wow, I've been doing this without realizing it for almost 10 years, and as I've gotten older, I've realized all the things you just said. It's like therapy and also a safe place, because you can see the growth and if you're creative, you can get all your thoughts and feelings out there, whether you're conscious of it or not. It's very special.
it feels like someone is revealing all my secrets from my strange safe place to the whole world😭 so intimate and beautiful that other people thought of forever worlds like this
I had a world I spent two years on. It was my safe place, the palce I forgot about all my problems, then I lost it to a harddrive crash. I was devastated.
Me and my older brother have a 4-5 year (?) old forever world. Its been so long i still think its only 2 years old. But hes about to be 20 and It really does hold memories. Since we've explored so much of the world every new update we have to go thousands of miles in every direction to load new chunks. But its so nice to see the memories there. My 3 failed bases, the two villages i made by myself that we stole villagers to populate, the millions of creeper holes he put by my house, my horse who got lost in the Nether AND the horse we fought in the end with. I highly recommend it with friends/siblings and if you have the money, to make a realm!! I loved randomly joining my brother on the MC realm while he's away at college :)
I've always wanted to be good at building but honestly just followed tutorials by the book. You've inspired me to start a forever world so I can really experiment with building and fulfill my childhood dream! xD
Great video! As for losing progress in multiplayer worlds, I've gotten around that in my forever world by using programs like MCA Selector to copy and paste those projects from one world to the other for when I want to work on them again. It definitely takes some fiddling, and you have to have the world download to begin with, but it's so worth it.
I'm 40 years old and have been playing Minecraft since about 1.3 or 1.4. I sadly never had a "forever world" or one that I took across the ages. Even then I've started on one such world now. I may be late to the party, but it's never too late to have fun.~
This genuinely inspired me to start a new Minecraft world for hopefully me and my friends to enjoy, I need something to do if I'm ever bored so this will be the perfect thing and i've always wanted to do a forever world anyways and you just helped me hopefully create one! :)
My friend and I have been playing on the same Creative world for thirteen years now and still regularly come together to build. We have over fifty cities and towns, all connected by an extensive subway system. Some cities are already so huge that you can't see the other end of it even if your render distance is set to 32 chunks. We still have backups of older versions, so very occasionally we'll go back to see what the world used to look like. I love showing people the world because there's always a place that jumps out to someone. Side note, your hair looks great!
I have a forever world I toggle between creative and survival and let me say I love it, I love going around my world and you can really see the phases I went through what blocks I liked and if I was feeling lazy when building I started it on pocket Minecraft (I know kinda lame lol) but even so I think it makes it even more of a challenge and It got me through a lot of long car rides with no Wi-Fi
Your breakdown of reasons for a Forever World are spot on! My Forever World is one of the best places for me to express myself. Thank You for advocating for Forever Worlds!
idk cuz vanilla minecraft is often times a blank canvas for me and I know people tend to love that because of all the possibilities but at the same time because of all the options I never know what to do first and end up idling and doing nothing
Your world is sooo big and beautiful.. it reminds me of the times when I first started playing minecraft as a kid with my siblings, we used to share this one world and create so many cool things and memories in them! And that’s exactly what I’m trying to achieve now in my current forever world
honestly, what a lovely idea! I’ve been craving a new minecraft world for a while, especially this past week, but was actually leaning towards the other extreme and having a world for a limited time that I won’t be able to work on after it runs out, even if I’m still enjoying it.
I actually recently made a new one that I play on my phone instead of my pc. But I miss my old one so much! My favorite build was definitely this dragon egg shrine thing I made. It was a huge half buried rib cage (of the dragon ofc) with tall grass, irregularly shoveled patches, lanterns and vines hanging from the ribs, the spine was scattered over the ground, the egg sat on a netherite block and many other small details.. Plus at night the moon used to perfectly align with the last two ribs it was so cool
My friend has a realm that many ppl in their friend circle play on! It keeps growing and it's genuinely such a cool experience to see buildings rise, things change, scares and heartwarming experiences! We do keep inventory on becauseall of us have a bad habit of run face first into lava or run off a cliff
Yes! Way ahead of you, I started playing on a world in 2013 and its the only world i really build on :) I do play on creative mainly cos prefer to just be creative rather than grind. I make regular back ups every game update or if i havent played in a while, i even made a "time machine" where i can go back to how the world first started in 2013 and and again in 2016. Its pretty cool :) Ive been building and expanding a city, got a whole network of rail tunnels and a redstone minecart station. An art gallery where i display my own art and i can teleport to most of the hermitcraft worlds and collect things from them and collect them in my own world! Its all a pain to update whenever new ones release but its really cool to have all this stuff! :)
i have a private smp world that’s been running almost nonstop for about 12 years. there’s been maybe a dozen or so of my friends on it. but yeah, it’s a lot of work to keep it going, but it’s rewarding. people seem to love coming back to it for many of the reasons you mentioned.
I have a floating island world that I’ve been working on for about 2 years. It’s turned into a server with its own unique mechanics, blah blah blah. Playing this world and seeing all the stuff that I worked on years ago, brings me joy. Having those long term worlds really adds to the experience of Minecraft and is a testament to what is is
I have started my Forever World. I actually went all the way back to my Xbox 360 and sent my very first world to the Realm and downloaded it on my PC. It is so weird to see where the world expanded throughout the updates. There are two clearly defined squares on the map where the world edges were back in the day.
i feel like forever worlds were the default way back in the day when people were still just finding minecraft and making their first lets plays on the game but as time went on people found different ways to play with and having a basic survival world where you would just progress and add stuff didnt suffice anymore. Anyways im glad this playstyle is coming back, as a sidenote i wish more multiplayer servers would just leave the world as is instead of resetting the whole world each update
can i just say that you make the classic textures look gorgeous? i usually cannot stand them because they're too harsh on my eyes, but the way you use them is so fun and refreshing and totally fits the vibe of your world!!
Wanna add something about ambitious building projects. I saw some other Minecraft TH-camr built a map house with 2 giant maps of his world - the original one and one that showcases how much the world has changed with all the buildings and stuff. I find this idea really cool and it's definitely on my projects list! Sort of a way to see just how much you've accomplished! Another cool idea came to me while watching the Macross anime serieses. It's sci-fi serieses with a lot of space ships and stuff. This gave me an idea to build City 7 - one of the space ships from the Macross 7 series, which is just a giant city ship roaming in the space. Wanna build it in the End, of course hehe Im just so excited about some of my building projects I planned, thought I'd share the excitement here 😼
I have a "forever world" with save backups dating back to June 2012, at this point I have no way of knowing how old the world actually was when I made that first backup of my save folder, but that means it's _at least_ turning 13 years old later this year. Now I'm definitely not one of the earliest adopters of Minecraft by any means, but I feel like having a world that's older than a lot of people playing the game is pretty cool. I really love wandering around and finding builds from the early days; heck I still use one of the first things I built (just a big cobblestone platform like 40 blocks in the air, because I thought the lack of gravity was funny) as a tree farm, and while I've expanded it significantly at this point my base is still the first hole I dug with the intention of living my fun dwarf dreams. It's been "fun" having to play around all of the world generation changes through the years, from having to travel huge distances to find new biomes to my base no longer being in the same biome it was when I built it, keeping the same world running for this long is definitely not _easy_ but it _is_ super rewarding!
this video is somehow so beautiful in a way, love the vibes. around a month ago i started playing this mod for beta 1.7.3 called better than adventure, and i really like it! it's my first real survival experience where i build cool stuff and transform the area and terraform places to make it more to my liking. even though i've been playing minecraft since like 2013, i've never had that experience, because first i played survival servers, and in my country ever server had a plotworld where you could live, a small plot in a world full of them and they had borders and such. after that i was a huge pvp player, played lots of hcf, and many pvp games and servers, but i never really had a survival world. i've seen these 100day minecraft videos and the creators always fill their worlds up with cool building and stuff and i thought wowww that's so dope!!! anyways my world is a month old now, i have a nice dock, i just finished the second floor of my library and i can already see how my building skill improved, which is so awesome!!! i didn't intend my world to become a forever world, but at this rate i think it will be, because i'm really enjoying it!! before, when i used to play survival i always wanted to get the best stuff as a goal, and now instead of grinding i'm enjoying the game and it's so awesome!!! also REALLY loved your video, it really invokes an emotional response lol this old version feels nostalgic, even though i never played that old version but this mod keeps getting updates, and there's so many new stuff so it still feels like there's always something new to explore!! now i just go around my world placing signs noting what i wanna build in that specific place. also tried playing modern minecraft, but i feel like there's so much stuff to do and didn't really like it idk why... maybe cuz i stayed on release 1.7.10 for yearsssss because 1.8 felt off with pvp and then 1.9 they completely changed it and i didn't really play much after that, only in 1.7.10. thanks to your video i will definitely keep my world for a long time and thx for mentioning backups bc i wouldn't have thought of that lol but it will def help
I do have a forever world! I saw your video talking about how to keep playing minecraft, love your tips and making the world alive for yourself. Continuing to expand and have fun, find things you care about in the world like your pets! Amazing as always Luvstar
i didn't realize they were called that but i have forever worlds in creative and survival! the creative ones are for testing my building skills to apply to the survival ones or just show my friends my impressive building skills and i usually make them in a randomly generated world and i try to make builds that match whatever biomes i am given randomly. right now i have one where i dug into a mountain and made secret door after secret door after secret door in each underground build with different themes and i think i'll keep doing that forever until i reach the other side of the mountain and then i'll loop around. i had one before with a palace and i was building the city around it and another with a hobbit hole and tree house and tower and i built my dads dream mansion in it, both of those worlds corrupted though. my survival worlds though i wrote down notes of what happened like logs and i tell a story. i come up with lore behind why my character was there and i write it in the in game books. though i at some point switched to my notes app on my phone because i kept accidentally destroying the books. but now i wanna make a new one because that old one also corrupted :(. this time ill make copies and try to back up the worlds.
you've fully convinced me to start a forever world :D it's poetic in a way, i'm about to enter a very transitional part of my life (college, moving, hrt) and i think having a world to come back to throughout it all will be comforting
I have a realm with my brother. The world we play we've been playing for 15 years now. We had to retrieve the save from an old laptop and since then I've kept regular backups not only through the realm but also on google drive and on a thumbdrive. Don't keep 1 backup keep multiple in multiple locations just in case. If you have datapacks be sure to update those as the game updates and keep them to vanilla only changes so if you ever need to get rid of them it doesn't break the world.
OMG this is such a good video, i love ur vids about minecraft/toips so much!! i have a forever wordl so much, ive moved 5 times and i have like A MILLION pets and I love them all SO MUCH
I really want to start a forever world but I get scared because I've never actually played minecraft single player and survival. I've played one but never the other, avoiding being alone often. I'm not sure why but I just hate to be alone in minecraft, even though none of my friends ever play with me anywho-
Thinking back on it, the only singleplayer worlds that ever stuck for me were modded playthroughs. Similarly though, I don't think I've ever played a modpack multiplayer either.
oddly enough i had no clue about the concept of forever worlds up till now but im now about to start my first one, and its all thanks to you. i appreciate that a lot, thank you
HI luvstarrr! Can you pleaseee do a world tour of your forever world? I love seeing your forever world and its given me lots of insperation for my world and id really love to see a tour!!!!
this is wonderful! i did a time capsule world last year that i promised not to enter for at least 3 years. it had buildings, books, poetry on signs and random things that i found interesting at the time. forever world feels like an extended version of that 🎉
I was 16 when minecraft came out, and I never really got into it until recently. I realize maybe I'm a bit too old tobe playing it a lot, but I stillreally agree with the things you said in this video. It's so much fun seeing the changes and creative structures I can come up with. Thanks for making this!
I really love this video! It’s honestly the first video I’ve watched all the way thru without being distracted in a while!! Your gameplay is nice and your voice is super nice to listen to!! I’m definitely subscribing :3
I have a survival world that started in fairly early Java, was moved to Bedrock, and is now back on Java edition. All multiplayer server, with a decade of history. There are megabuild towers, castles, theme parks. I make active effort to bring them forward and a core group of a few friends actively still play on it.
Thanks for your video. It really inspired me and gave me new and more motivation and patience to find my old, very unique Minecraft map, that is now going to be MY Forever World. Your explanation in your video was such a big influence to me. Thank you so much. 🙏🙏🙏
I have been playing in my forever world for only a little bit, but I have some tips! Someone else said it already, but dont be afraid to make it easier for yourself! - I have been building and mining in peaceful mode, only switching to a different difficulty when I’m feeling like I want a challenge/ need a resource that comes from mobs. - I also want achievements on on my forever world, so I have a duplicate world where I can use commands to find biomes and stuff if I walk around for a while and cant find what i am looking for. Having a duplicate world is really helpful. - I also keep a book and quill with me to mark down coordinates of things so I dont have to take a picture of the coords or put them in a note on my phone, both of which I will inevitably loose. So keep an in-game notebook! It feels super cozy and cottagecore to have a journal with you haha.
I love this video so much. The utter nostalgia I felt from it was insane. The nyan cat hud, the old minecraft textures, the utter joy of playing minecraft as a child. Totally got me back into minecraft and I'm so excited to start my forever world. :)
I've been playing Minecraft since around 2011 and started my first forever world around two months ago. I've started and deleted so many worlds over the years because they lost their "spark." But looking back now, I wish I had kept a lot of these worlds just for the memories. I used to be such a perfectionist about my Minecraft bases. I felt like they had to be "perfect" because this was the place I HAD TO return to after every expedition. The fear of ruining my worlds ultimately became the thing that actually ruined my joy for them in the end. I feel more comfortable and confident building whatever I want now that I've changed my mindset. Because if I "ruin" the build and lose motivation to keep building up the space I have, I can just load all my important belongings onto my mule, ride off into the horizon, and start fresh somewhere else. I used to always get stuck and burnt out when it came time to start building farms and grinding for resources, but now that I know I'm not just doing this work to make current builds easier, but future ones too, I find myself enjoying the process. I genuinely have not enjoyed playing Minecraft this much since I was in middle school.
Let me know if you have a forever world and what is your favorite part about having one? What's your favorite thing you made in your world?
Maybe I should have put the comment I made a few minutes ago in here.
i started my first forever world today! i'm plannning to use it cause im INLOVE with my seed, i already have 3 cats and a dog so! hopefully im dedicated enough hehe
I’ve had a few. Recently started one with my friends. I think my favorite part is the progress you can look back on later in the game and remember all the adventures you had along the way. Now hopefully I can share that with my friends who haven’t had a forever world.
@@XDX-yd3kc same xd, this video has so many good points!
My dads castle :D
I absolutely LOVE this woman’s purple, 2000s rainbow scene kinda vibe.
Exactly what I was thinking! I partially saw the video for Minecraft, partially for this style I adore.
@@HayumeHyun Samee! Brought back instant nostalgia (even though I was never around for that era... really wish I was)
frrrr
all it needs is to be in 480p and with slightly worse mic quality and it would fit right in in like 2014
emo af
In a forever world, you can still "start over" by leaving all of your items and equipment in a chest and then travelling to a new area. It can give you the new world experience without losing all of your previous work.
Hadn't thought of that, maybe I'll give it a go hmm
Yeah, we’ve done this many times on our realm, and it always leads to fun experiences and leaves us with a cool new area of our world to visit.
ouu i love that
This is what fWhip, one of my favorite minecraft youtubers tends to do. He's got a huge world where he's "Restarted" multiple times.
@@sonixivous thinking about it on a realm/server point of view, it's smart. Rather have one forever that's paid as opposed to 40 temporary ones that are paid. Neat
Lately I started adding signs that say "Est. (the date)" somewhere on a new structure that I build. It's usually hidden somewhere on the build. In case I wanna know how old something is, I just look for the sign . Also, if something unique happened that day in real life, I'd mention it. For example, the sign on my skeleton farm reads:
"Est. Apr. 8, 2024
Solar eclipse"
I'm gonna tell my grandchildren on the next solar eclipse, "you know, the solar eclipse of '24 I was constructing a skeleton farm" lmao
I've been doing the same, but I also add the name of who made a farm if I copy a design from a tutorial etc, because it's inevitable I'll forget and not be able to find it again if I accidentally break it
I LOVE this idea!!!
So many good ideas in the comments!
ay thats my birthday
SAME! I have a forever world w/ my sis (#bonding slayy 💅) and we do this! I had NO idea it was a forever world until I saw this video and was like "Hey... I have a world that I wouldn't ever delete.."
This is why I lobe No Man's Sky. You have to have a forever world. Even if you make a new character, you can track down every place you've been on any other characters, even though you can never run out of new worlds.
i wish someone could make a mod like this, where new worlds could instead just be far out spawns for old worlds and you could eventually find your old world
@@iunnoo heck, it could even be a datapack, since all it would need to do is do a /setworldspawn randomly a certain x+y cord value out and erase your old bed spawn
@@AlexiosTheSixth true! there'd also *maybe* need to be different strongholds and unique end dimensions
@@iunnoo oh my god that'd be so fun! i wish i knew how to code so i could take a crack at that, that seems so cool
@@iunnoo that seems something doable, maybe i will give it a try. I created mods for other games but i never dabbled with it in minecraft😅
A personal tip I'd have: Don't be afraid of making it easier for yourself! I personally sometimes set my mode to peaceful because building at night gets irritating :') Usually its fine, but as I have no "hostile mob" pets, it doesn't affect my world long-term :> Just be careful if you do!
100% agree! if using commands or modifying the game somehow makes it a more enjoyable experience, shouldnt be anything stopping you from doing that!
i put torches absolutely EVERYWHERE
My friends hate it but at a certaint point in the game, any dark spot near the base or on an ongoing build annoys me
@@zues121510 I like building lantern posts around the base/builds as the torch spam is pretty ugly lol
I agree. if you're in single-player there's no reason to play the game while making things intentionally difficult, if you don't want it to be difficult at that moment.
I however have a 3-year-old pet pillager, and a 1-year-old pet spider so I cant turn it to peaceful without loosing them. I am going to start working on a mob switch soon.
I often keep my world in easy, but swap to peaceful when I'm mining and stumble across a particularly dangerous cave. I can handle some simple combat, but the game just stops being fun for me when my caving expedition is suddenly haulted by a massive hoarde of monsters.
4:00 also back up your world in other places than %appdata%. Just once in a while put a copy in an online or external drive. In the case of a computer corruption, your world remains.
YES! I wished someone told me this back when I started playing Minecraft... needless to say, one and a half years of work was gone in a blink
very good suggestion
lost my og singleplayer world that way cuz Windows chose to commit sudoku one day
duplicati is a neat foss tool for managing backups that id recommend too
upload it to free online storage like Google Drive too
2:16 you have a book called "what the hell was I doing?"
how did I not think of making that
LOL its a life saver. i often log onto my world completely confused on what i was doing last XD
Mogswamp is my favourite TH-camr with a forever world, his concept of "start a project you think you'll never be able to finish" is one of my new favourite ideas. I have a list of massive projects I want to do that I have _no clue_ how to even start on, but I like the idea that it's not only something to work on long term, but something that I'll learn and develop as a player by doing. I'm not a great builder by any means, but I really am looking forward to having projects that challenge that in ways that can help me find my own style. For me the only downside is mods. I technically have two forever worlds, one that has only cosmetic/hud type mods that won't break my world if I suddenly can't use them, and a modded one, that will only live as long as the mods inside it do. I've lost enough worlds to suddenly not having the next version available that I finally decided to make myself a vanilla friendly one that I can always tweak around^^"
i need to stop thinking i have to play a certain way and my builds be a certain standard, i need to just start a minecraft world, and NEVER think about the future of it, at least not too much, just ride the waves and play, do whatever i want, but man minecraft youtube makes that so hard these days :(
love your pfp!
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My advice is honestly try to find smaller/newer youtubers to follow if you still want to get inspiration from them, or even go back to older videos from the ones you love. I'm a huge fan of Mumbo and Grian for example, but if you go back to some of their super early series, you can see how much they've developed over time. No one starts minecraft being a master builder who can make a mega structure in under a week, most of the people we watch and look up to have had thousands of hours of practice, especially now that Minecraft is their job for a lot of them
@@LyricAndCompanyYep exactly!
Why does it make it hard? Or are we just for some reason letting it make it hard for us instead of just doing what we want? Maybe thats the way we shape things again to be fun like we want it and audience to be pulled in, instead of doing what they want, to get audience we don't even want. Like TH-cam used to be. It should be all about what makes US happy and inspires us. I think a lot of TH-camrs have forgotten this, falling into the trap of greed, instead of realizing, if we just create the content we want, we'll pull in tons of others who like the way we're doing things instead of another! :)
More diversity on TH-cam is heavily needed again.
I love the sentimental focus you have here! A "Forever World" taps into the basis of human nature of constantly wanting to evolve and progressing too, being able to see a physical manifestation of nostalgia definitely do some genuine good. I can imagine myself having something to fall back on after a hard day of Work or University and as I launch into the world, I coincidentally stumble upon my first house, or the first village that I discovered
I might actually try this out, its been forever since I've actually had a long-lasting world
Book and quill is so good. you can basically build a 3d diary with 12 rooms a floor so each year the tower grows.
thats such a cool idea!
This is really good I'm using this idea!
i'm in a forever server with my best friend, and we started it in December of 2021. It's been having some technical difficulties lately, especially with us moving, but it still is such a huge part of me. I genuinely believe i would be a different person if i didn't have that server. And yet it was started because our previous server had just ended a few weeks prior and i was like "man im bored.. i wanna start a new world" and he fired up his realm. We only planned to be on it for a few days or weeks at most. Just over 3 years later, and i can safely say that server has at least 80% of my memories from the last 3 years. Late nights staying up till 4 am mining in a cave, doing countless streams, having an entire relationship begin and die on there. But i wouldn't change it for anything. That server is my forever world. My home away from home. I love it there and forever will.
I always mistakenly thought I needed to start a new world for each patch. Now I've revived the world I spent the most time on. It will be my forever world :) Thanks!
aww thats amazing to hear!!
if you use mca selector, you can save certain parts of your game, and let a patch update the rest of the game, since updates only happen on unexplored chunks.
I mean, technically you do need to with new biomes and stuff if you've explored a LOT since they only appear in unexplored parts of your world, which is unfortunate
I have some severe perfectionism so i did that literally every time i played minecraft 😅 i should really try this though! Its a cool concept 😊
@@MrFalliorIf you have enough storage on your PC, you just need to wander into unloaded chunks to get new biomes.
With multiplayer worlds I agree it sucks having your or your friends' progress wiped. So I actually started hosting my own but instead of committing to it purely being a solo forever world or trying to encourage friends to play with me to keep it alive. I play on it regularly myself as if it was singleplayer but always have it open so randomly friends might join, be it every day or once every couple months. It actually helps a lot with inspiration since sometimes a friend might have built something months or years ago without telling you and you happen to find it while randomly exploring.
That's exactly what I started doing as well! I realized keeping my worlds strictly singleplayer or multiplayer was... never a rule. So yeah, highly reccomend this!
yeah same
I actually had one on my Xbox one. I built a seaside port city. And had a floating blue and gold shrine in the center, it was made of Lapis Lazuli blocking and Gold blocks, it had a waterfall coming out of it and going to all corners of my city. I don't remember but I think it was supposed to be a shrine to some frictional Sea goddess I made up.
Oh good grief, I just remembered: Poseida.
Posideon
@CecyliaZiolkowska i doubt op came up w the idea of Poseidon lol /lh
Mine is on my Xbox 360.
When the aquatic update come out, I were looking for a mainly aquatic seed and I built a nice tower ❤
I have a world I've played for a little over 10 years on my Xbox One that originally started on my now-dead PS4. Eventually, I used "Chunker" to move the world to Java, and now I play it on my Steam Deck.
This world has been with me through so many life changes.
Since I first created it, I’ve moved house four times, gone through three different jobs, and went from being a high-school student to approaching 28 with a career in IT.
This world has seen me through countless friendships, relationships, and life transitions. It has become a space of comfort and nostalgia, a safe haven I return to whenever I feel overwhelmed, full of memories tied to each build and every moment spent there.
These talking videos are awesome. I started playing minecraft when i was 12, I'm 27 now. I've been in a world now since june and generally just trying to escape the real world, you're doing a great job with these. Best of luck to you.
dang how the time passes. it's awesome how we actually grew up on this game!
wait so you started playing right when the first alpha versions were out?
@@likelipe Yeah. Actually i played before alpha was released, i played the minecraft classic which was released in 2009 and was only playable through their website using java hehe
@@kristoffera6322 oh damn thats an old version
sometimes i forget minecraft is a year older than me so thats fun
Sometimes I burn down or partially destroy old buildings to give the world the aspect of lost history.
I have a multiplayer forever world with my bf!! We’ve had this world for almost 5 years now (in January!!) which is so crazy to me that we’ve just managed to have this multiplayer world for this long and I definitely recommend for people to have a forever world in general because there’s so many possibilities when you just do whatever you want in Minecraft rather than playing with the linear progression loop.
I do think the world we have is slightly corrupted though?? 😭 Because I noticed that the save file size is abnormally large like a lot larger than Minecraft save files usually are and it crashes when we play for too long lol but that’s why I always make a backup before we play
Omg that's so cute!
One day, I'm bringing my bf to Minecraft too xD
@@taureffelle my ex still has my minecraft dog
So cool! Would you do a World Tour video? I'd love to watch it
@@limadawg NOOOOO T-T
just a tip but if you're playing on Java there's a program you can use that will delete any chunks that you haven't interacted with but you have loaded in that are taking up a lot of space
i used to have a creative forever world years and years ago, where i had this city that i would keep on growing and growing. i would just build stuff and the further out from the center you would go, the more you would see my improvement, as well as the different things i liked. then one day i stopped.
i went back to it years later and going through everything was like a time capsule of how i lived and what i loved! and i remembered the reason i stopped, because of the last build that will always remain unfinished was a recreation of the childhood home that i had started that server in, i stopped because i moved out of that house (despite the world being on a laptop, i guess that was just a queue for me to stop lmao)
maybe i should start a new one once i regain that whimsy and shameless joy and creativity i used to have so much of!
I would love a forever world, but my building skills are just as good as my socializing skills basically non-existent so having a world I can get so attached to is hard. I think but yeah it would be super cool to have a nice world like that. I'm definitely still going to try it, this video did inspire me for real! Also can I say how much I love your hair? ^.^
I know how it sounds, but: practice makes perfect.
@@Ravongesreal I know that, I just never know where to start you know especially if it's like my own build. I'm not creative in that way at least
@@gabriellejacquiet9925 honestly i would start with building tutorials, that's how i started out at least! even if it technically isn't "your build", it feels good to look at something that you spent time on making. i watched a tutorial on how to build a giant mushroom house and to challenge myself i decided to make it in survival, after i finished i was so proud of how it turned out!
@@fruitsyloopsyyy Oh, thanks for the advice :3 I might try that soon ^^
I'd say that a forever world would be a great chance at learning how to build better, I mainly learned through build hacks and tutorials but ofc practice makes perfect in this type of situation. You'd also be able to reflect on your old buildings and think on how to improve them
a forever world is so human and relates to the real world! IRL we can move on from projects and start a new one, but the old projects will always remain. I love this idea
I started a forever world because of you and im enjoying it so much! I may start recording random episodes just to keep records of my world's timeline :3
omg thats so sweet! and i think you should totally record it, youll be able to look back on all that footage fondly im sure :)
I recently discovered peaceful mode! I love it, I have improved my skills massively ♡ I'm worried because I forget how to react when mobs sneak up 😅. This is such a wonderful idea 😊 cheers
A few months ago we found out I'm very autistic. I have four autistic kids too. I struggle so so much. Everything you're saying is exactly what I need to hear, and what I've started doing this week. Thank you x
I started my survival world back in 2019, and just as you've mentioned, I connect my real life memories and other aspects of my life to certain stages and areas of my Minecraft world. It would break me emotionally if I had to delete my world. It is just too precious to me. So much history. I actually lost a ton of history in my world due to me not being happy with many builds, then I would prune the chunks to start over (which I regret now). My world experienced many cool quirks too. My world went from being played exclusively on my phone, to having RTX graphics enabled on my gaming laptop.
Speaking of real life, my cat died, and my dog died at some point while playing in this world. I went to college, and graduated college while playing in my survival world. I have slightly changed my music taste over the years. I've switched interests. There's just too much real life stuff connected to my survival world. I do try to keep pruning the world chunks outside of my built up areas, just to keep the world fresh and small in size for new updates. Because Bedrock Edition worlds already break at just a couple hundred thousand blocks, I cannot feel free to explore as heavily as in Java Edition. However, I do also have a Java world which I intend to keep forever too, and that for me offers the real, stable, and reliable Minecraft experience.
omg i love the old textures! I personally play on 1.21.1 with nostalgia tweaks and old textures and for some reason it just makes the game feel so much more cozy and relaxed and I end up playing it a lot
I find forever worlds intimidating because I find it has to- eventually, after a long time- be grand (like yours) and or beautiful, and this would be especially true because I am inconsistent with my play streaks/time, so there'd usually be big time gaps in-between, so as a result, after logging in after quite some time and I see not this grand world but a basic one, that it would dawn on me and make me lose motivation or feel bad, even though I'd know it's been a long time but only because I had been away for quite some time.
Though seeing your video has made me more open to the idea-- your world looks really cool btw!
The only thing it has to be is yours :)
Think of it like a journal. You write for yourself, for the act of writing. You make a forever world for you
I had a very rough start to my 4 year world, where I would advise you to hold on to it. For a long period in my life, I would always delete worlds whenever I don't play for a long while. Then one day, I wanted to change that streak; so I started a world, had big plans, explored a lot for 3 days... and stopped playing before I even got diamonds... for around 5 months. Now I get nostalgia whenever I open up that world because so much has happened since then. A lot of my life has been shown through that world, and I'm so glad I didn't delete it.
I’ve had a Minecraft world for around 300 in-game days, and I’m planning for it to become my forever world. I live inside a hollowed out hill, with a few farms. I built a railway to the nearest village, and I’m beginning my largest project yet - building a village. My world has nothing automated, and I only ventured to the nether recently. Basically, just treat it like it’s yours. Do whatever you want, and then it’ll be enjoyable.
Very relatable
To be honest, I think this is actually one of the strengths of a forever world -- you don't really have to feel you have to meet a certain deadline. You can just work on it at your own pace.
I know in my case, I've had my "forever world" running for the past 4-5 years or so, but I tend to have periods where I'll have an idea and work hard on it for a month, and then I get sidetracked by other things and leave my world for a few months, only to come back to it with another idea. So I've got a spread out world with a few complete towns or bases, and a few more incomplete ones... but I can just keep slowly plugging away at it to eventually make my dreams a reality. Sure, it might take me another 10 years but it's a forever world for a reason! :3
Your video really resonated with me! I’ve been intermittently playing on one survival world since 1.7 came out and I love being able to walk around my world looking at builds from years ago. Having old worlds is also a way of preserving Minecraft history! I’m proud to host two desert temples with the old orange wool accents, and my end island has the old style of obsidian pillars. Forever worlds are very fun
I love how Minecraft your world feels like it reminds me of when Minecraft first came out, Just using the original blocks is such a nice look
I decided to make make an abandoned family LAN world (that I played with my kids) into my forever world. I use MCA selector to prune the world down to my main base island with each update, so it stays fresh. I’m also learning to use structure blocks to import favorite builds piece-by-piece from previous worlds, so I have a scrapbook of my Minecraft memories, all in one place.
What a lovely idea! A Minecraft world full of treasured memories! 🥰
These days, I often experience more nostalgia in a video game world than in real life. If Minecraft had been around when I was young, and my parents thought to capture precious moments of our time together like you are, I’d treasure it forever.
Actually, just the other day, my mom asked if I remember how much fun she and I used to have playing Bubble Bobble on NES when I was a child. She had a stroke a couple years ago, and her memory isn’t quite as sharp as it used to be (plus she’s almost 70 now). I was just so happy to her those were also some of her fondest memories that I almost cried.
Apologies for rambling on, it’s just hearing your awesome idea about your Minecraft world suddenly has me feeling so sentimental about years gone by! Especially this time of year, and especially at my age, where my family grows smaller each year. I’m thankful for these wistful feelings though! A welcome reminder that I need to do some more living in the “now” than drowning in anxiety over the world at large.
I hope you and your loved ones have a simply wonderful holiday season!! May you all treasure each other now and always. 😌❤
this is exactly how i've been playing the game since 2011. i honestly find it difficult to play on any other server sometimes because i want to make sure whatever i'm doing is preserved. my forever world is multiplayer, so i do play with friends more often than not, but it's also my single player world whenever i feel like that. and you're right, it's chock full of memories. our more significant builds are all dated with signs. we have a library full of short stories from when friends and i used to just sit and write things in books. we have gravestones for in-game pets we lost. there are dozens of towns all over the huge huge world from us wanting to "restart". but restarting to us just means playing a fresh spot that we'll eventually link up via trains or whatever. i love the wierd anomalies you talked about whenever chunk generation updates - we had one case where our original spawn area at 0 0 0 coords just... turned to a giant ocean? it was kinda tragic because we lost a fort at spawn, but we just pretended it got nuked since it's now essentially a crater.
i can't really do it any other way. another plus of the world being so huge and expansive now is when you use a service to render it to a 2D map it's *incredible* to look at
One of my main reasons for not sticking to one world for long enough is that I play Minecraft on my laptop, and I don't have a proper PC yet. So whenever my worlds get quite a number of builds and villages done and have a bunch of entities, it starts lagging 😢
And another thing for me is that once all the resources are acquired and all the building projects are done, there's just nothing to do anymore besides building even more stuff that I will not be using anyway.
I did start a forever world a few months ago and wanna stick to it and come back to from time to time. We'll see if I manage not to send it into oblivion xD
i play on my laptop too.
feels like i am for real in the nether when visiting it lmao
Nintendo switch player here, spread out. Nether highways and multiple bases can possibly help with the lag
@kyle_mk17 yeah that's what I'm doing now, but it still lags when I make a base quite big and have multiple farms set up next to each other
@@taureffelle yup, my main base is super laggy
This is my exact same experience except I'm on switch
My mom and I have our own server that we've been playing on for about 4 years now. Before that we had another server that lasted many years. It's crazy to me that "forever worlds" aren't the main/default way people play. In my mind there was never any other way that made sense. Your video had a lot of good points that resonated with me. Nice builds too!
I wish I could play Minecraft with my mom, she is sort of interested in it, but for some reason her head hurts when watching me play it for too long… she told me if she could stand to watch it for longer periods of time she’d probably be addicted to Minecraft XD I think it would be so fun to play it with her.
@@morgue.n444 I wonder if it is like a car sickness thing where if you are driving you don't get carsick, but watching while someone else controls the car you do. Might be worth seeing if she gets the same headaches when she is behind the controls.
Just started my forever world a few days ago thanks to your vids!
aww yay! im so glad!
I've been playing on the same world since 2014. Never felt the need to change or to take a new start. I have upgraded some of my builds / redstone systems (mostly my redstone machines, as they get broken every 2 updates lmao), but most of what i've built has been left unchanged since the time of their construction. I like the fact that it becomes kind of a journey through time, and you can see how better you got at the game after all those years
YOU'RE LITERALLY ME!!!!
I have a forever world I made back in 2021 after watching ibxtoycat for years and years and watching his world grow with him. I also did a similar thing where I started it back in the early alpha versions and I would update through each version week by week which gave me a chance to mess around with so many new features and gave me something to look forward to. The memory element is so fascinating it's like your world becomes a museum or a monument to yourself and I love it so much.
2:07 "what the hell was i doing?" 10/10 book name
I started my forever world about the same time as you! I'm the only one of my friends who is doing this so it was fun to watch this video and have you say lot of the same things I have been feeling about it! It's a really cool way to play.
wow, I've been doing this without realizing it for almost 10 years, and as I've gotten older, I've realized all the things you just said. It's like therapy and also a safe place, because you can see the growth and if you're creative, you can get all your thoughts and feelings out there, whether you're conscious of it or not. It's very special.
it feels like someone is revealing all my secrets from my strange safe place to the whole world😭 so intimate and beautiful that other people thought of forever worlds like this
I had a world I spent two years on. It was my safe place, the palce I forgot about all my problems, then I lost it to a harddrive crash. I was devastated.
Me and my older brother have a 4-5 year (?) old forever world. Its been so long i still think its only 2 years old. But hes about to be 20 and It really does hold memories. Since we've explored so much of the world every new update we have to go thousands of miles in every direction to load new chunks. But its so nice to see the memories there. My 3 failed bases, the two villages i made by myself that we stole villagers to populate, the millions of creeper holes he put by my house, my horse who got lost in the Nether AND the horse we fought in the end with. I highly recommend it with friends/siblings and if you have the money, to make a realm!! I loved randomly joining my brother on the MC realm while he's away at college :)
I've always wanted to be good at building but honestly just followed tutorials by the book. You've inspired me to start a forever world so I can really experiment with building and fulfill my childhood dream! xD
Great video! As for losing progress in multiplayer worlds, I've gotten around that in my forever world by using programs like MCA Selector to copy and paste those projects from one world to the other for when I want to work on them again. It definitely takes some fiddling, and you have to have the world download to begin with, but it's so worth it.
I'm 40 years old and have been playing Minecraft since about 1.3 or 1.4. I sadly never had a "forever world" or one that I took across the ages.
Even then I've started on one such world now. I may be late to the party, but it's never too late to have fun.~
Your forever world is so cozy lookin!
thank you!! :D
This genuinely inspired me to start a new Minecraft world for hopefully me and my friends to enjoy, I need something to do if I'm ever bored so this will be the perfect thing and i've always wanted to do a forever world anyways and you just helped me hopefully create one! :)
My friend and I have been playing on the same Creative world for thirteen years now and still regularly come together to build. We have over fifty cities and towns, all connected by an extensive subway system. Some cities are already so huge that you can't see the other end of it even if your render distance is set to 32 chunks. We still have backups of older versions, so very occasionally we'll go back to see what the world used to look like. I love showing people the world because there's always a place that jumps out to someone.
Side note, your hair looks great!
I have a forever world I toggle between creative and survival and let me say I love it, I love going around my world and you can really see the phases I went through what blocks I liked and if I was feeling lazy when building I started it on pocket Minecraft (I know kinda lame lol) but even so I think it makes it even more of a challenge and It got me through a lot of long car rides with no Wi-Fi
Your breakdown of reasons for a Forever World are spot on! My Forever World is one of the best places for me to express myself. Thank You for advocating for Forever Worlds!
idk cuz vanilla minecraft is often times a blank canvas for me and I know people tend to love that because of all the possibilities but at the same time because of all the options I never know what to do first and end up idling and doing nothing
Your world is sooo big and beautiful.. it reminds me of the times when I first started playing minecraft as a kid with my siblings, we used to share this one world and create so many cool things and memories in them!
And that’s exactly what I’m trying to achieve now in my current forever world
I absolutely adore your building style, feels so classic, not to overcharged but detailed at the same time, absolutely gorgeous!
thank you so much!!
honestly, what a lovely idea! I’ve been craving a new minecraft world for a while, especially this past week, but was actually leaning towards the other extreme and having a world for a limited time that I won’t be able to work on after it runs out, even if I’m still enjoying it.
I actually recently made a new one that I play on my phone instead of my pc. But I miss my old one so much!
My favorite build was definitely this dragon egg shrine thing I made. It was a huge half buried rib cage (of the dragon ofc) with tall grass, irregularly shoveled patches, lanterns and vines hanging from the ribs, the spine was scattered over the ground, the egg sat on a netherite block and many other small details..
Plus at night the moon used to perfectly align with the last two ribs it was so cool
I loved hearing your insights on this subject, I do think keeping a forever world can be pretty important💜
Thanks!
My friend has a realm that many ppl in their friend circle play on! It keeps growing and it's genuinely such a cool experience to see buildings rise, things change, scares and heartwarming experiences!
We do keep inventory on becauseall of us have a bad habit of run face first into lava or run off a cliff
Yes! Way ahead of you, I started playing on a world in 2013 and its the only world i really build on :) I do play on creative mainly cos prefer to just be creative rather than grind. I make regular back ups every game update or if i havent played in a while, i even made a "time machine" where i can go back to how the world first started in 2013 and and again in 2016. Its pretty cool :) Ive been building and expanding a city, got a whole network of rail tunnels and a redstone minecart station. An art gallery where i display my own art and i can teleport to most of the hermitcraft worlds and collect things from them and collect them in my own world! Its all a pain to update whenever new ones release but its really cool to have all this stuff! :)
i have a private smp world that’s been running almost nonstop for about 12 years. there’s been maybe a dozen or so of my friends on it. but yeah, it’s a lot of work to keep it going, but it’s rewarding. people seem to love coming back to it for many of the reasons you mentioned.
Unironically I love your aesthetic! The purple hair is sooo pretty!
I have a floating island world that I’ve been working on for about 2 years. It’s turned into a server with its own unique mechanics, blah blah blah. Playing this world and seeing all the stuff that I worked on years ago, brings me joy. Having those long term worlds really adds to the experience of Minecraft and is a testament to what is is
I have started my Forever World. I actually went all the way back to my Xbox 360 and sent my very first world to the Realm and downloaded it on my PC. It is so weird to see where the world expanded throughout the updates. There are two clearly defined squares on the map where the world edges were back in the day.
i feel like forever worlds were the default way back in the day when people were still just finding minecraft and making their first lets plays on the game but as time went on people found different ways to play with and having a basic survival world where you would just progress and add stuff didnt suffice anymore. Anyways im glad this playstyle is coming back, as a sidenote i wish more multiplayer servers would just leave the world as is instead of resetting the whole world each update
can i just say that you make the classic textures look gorgeous? i usually cannot stand them because they're too harsh on my eyes, but the way you use them is so fun and refreshing and totally fits the vibe of your world!!
i love how ibxtoycat has a forever world for both survival and creative
TOYCAT IS YES !!
toycat is yes :DDD
I've listened to this over and over and over while playing Minecraft. One of my favourite videos on the platform, thank you so much for making it
Wanna add something about ambitious building projects.
I saw some other Minecraft TH-camr built a map house with 2 giant maps of his world - the original one and one that showcases how much the world has changed with all the buildings and stuff. I find this idea really cool and it's definitely on my projects list! Sort of a way to see just how much you've accomplished!
Another cool idea came to me while watching the Macross anime serieses. It's sci-fi serieses with a lot of space ships and stuff. This gave me an idea to build City 7 - one of the space ships from the Macross 7 series, which is just a giant city ship roaming in the space. Wanna build it in the End, of course hehe
Im just so excited about some of my building projects I planned, thought I'd share the excitement here 😼
giant end space ship... writing this down!!!
13:11 a book full of build ideas is actually sooo cool! i never thought of doing that before
Unrelated but girl YOUR HAIR IS GORGEOUS
I have a "forever world" with save backups dating back to June 2012, at this point I have no way of knowing how old the world actually was when I made that first backup of my save folder, but that means it's _at least_ turning 13 years old later this year. Now I'm definitely not one of the earliest adopters of Minecraft by any means, but I feel like having a world that's older than a lot of people playing the game is pretty cool.
I really love wandering around and finding builds from the early days; heck I still use one of the first things I built (just a big cobblestone platform like 40 blocks in the air, because I thought the lack of gravity was funny) as a tree farm, and while I've expanded it significantly at this point my base is still the first hole I dug with the intention of living my fun dwarf dreams.
It's been "fun" having to play around all of the world generation changes through the years, from having to travel huge distances to find new biomes to my base no longer being in the same biome it was when I built it, keeping the same world running for this long is definitely not _easy_ but it _is_ super rewarding!
this video is somehow so beautiful in a way, love the vibes.
around a month ago i started playing this mod for beta 1.7.3 called better than adventure, and i really like it! it's my first real survival experience where i build cool stuff and transform the area and terraform places to make it more to my liking. even though i've been playing minecraft since like 2013, i've never had that experience, because first i played survival servers, and in my country ever server had a plotworld where you could live, a small plot in a world full of them and they had borders and such. after that i was a huge pvp player, played lots of hcf, and many pvp games and servers, but i never really had a survival world. i've seen these 100day minecraft videos and the creators always fill their worlds up with cool building and stuff and i thought wowww that's so dope!!!
anyways my world is a month old now, i have a nice dock, i just finished the second floor of my library and i can already see how my building skill improved, which is so awesome!!! i didn't intend my world to become a forever world, but at this rate i think it will be, because i'm really enjoying it!! before, when i used to play survival i always wanted to get the best stuff as a goal, and now instead of grinding i'm enjoying the game and it's so awesome!!! also REALLY loved your video, it really invokes an emotional response lol
this old version feels nostalgic, even though i never played that old version but this mod keeps getting updates, and there's so many new stuff so it still feels like there's always something new to explore!! now i just go around my world placing signs noting what i wanna build in that specific place. also tried playing modern minecraft, but i feel like there's so much stuff to do and didn't really like it idk why... maybe cuz i stayed on release 1.7.10 for yearsssss because 1.8 felt off with pvp and then 1.9 they completely changed it and i didn't really play much after that, only in 1.7.10.
thanks to your video i will definitely keep my world for a long time and thx for mentioning backups bc i wouldn't have thought of that lol but it will def help
I do have a forever world! I saw your video talking about how to keep playing minecraft, love your tips and making the world alive for yourself. Continuing to expand and have fun, find things you care about in the world like your pets! Amazing as always Luvstar
i got a Multiplayer Forever world... iits been much fun lately :) I dont no why i got so hyped again, but... i am!
I found your channel yesterday and I have to say you have the exact early 2000s vibe that I missed so much, and a super calm one at that
i didn't realize they were called that but i have forever worlds in creative and survival! the creative ones are for testing my building skills to apply to the survival ones or just show my friends my impressive building skills and i usually make them in a randomly generated world and i try to make builds that match whatever biomes i am given randomly. right now i have one where i dug into a mountain and made secret door after secret door after secret door in each underground build with different themes and i think i'll keep doing that forever until i reach the other side of the mountain and then i'll loop around. i had one before with a palace and i was building the city around it and another with a hobbit hole and tree house and tower and i built my dads dream mansion in it, both of those worlds corrupted though. my survival worlds though i wrote down notes of what happened like logs and i tell a story. i come up with lore behind why my character was there and i write it in the in game books. though i at some point switched to my notes app on my phone because i kept accidentally destroying the books. but now i wanna make a new one because that old one also corrupted :(. this time ill make copies and try to back up the worlds.
you've fully convinced me to start a forever world :D it's poetic in a way, i'm about to enter a very transitional part of my life (college, moving, hrt) and i think having a world to come back to throughout it all will be comforting
1:40 i TOTALLY relate to this
I have a realm with my brother. The world we play we've been playing for 15 years now. We had to retrieve the save from an old laptop and since then I've kept regular backups not only through the realm but also on google drive and on a thumbdrive. Don't keep 1 backup keep multiple in multiple locations just in case. If you have datapacks be sure to update those as the game updates and keep them to vanilla only changes so if you ever need to get rid of them it doesn't break the world.
OMG this is such a good video, i love ur vids about minecraft/toips so much!! i have a forever wordl so much, ive moved 5 times and i have like A MILLION pets and I love them all SO MUCH
aww thank you sm!!
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You gave me motivation to start a forever world so i will make it soon (all old worlds got deleted)😊 Thank you for inspiring
I really want to start a forever world but I get scared because I've never actually played minecraft single player and survival. I've played one but never the other, avoiding being alone often. I'm not sure why but I just hate to be alone in minecraft, even though none of my friends ever play with me anywho-
Thinking back on it, the only singleplayer worlds that ever stuck for me were modded playthroughs. Similarly though, I don't think I've ever played a modpack multiplayer either.
oddly enough i had no clue about the concept of forever worlds up till now but im now about to start my first one, and its all thanks to you. i appreciate that a lot, thank you
5:52. I know you can okay for a while but you gotta be ridiculously rich to afford a tunnel made of diamonds 💀
thats oxidized copper lol
@@luvstarkei I’m thinking now how dumb what I said was 😭
HI luvstarrr! Can you pleaseee do a world tour of your forever world? I love seeing your forever world and its given me lots of insperation for my world and id really love to see a tour!!!!
this is wonderful! i did a time capsule world last year that i promised not to enter for at least 3 years. it had buildings, books, poetry on signs and random things that i found interesting at the time. forever world feels like an extended version of that 🎉
ive just discovered your channel and im obsessed with your videos. thank you so much for deciding to make and share them
the star of the new year today and finally decided to make a forever world. what better time to start than new year's day!!
I was 16 when minecraft came out, and I never really got into it until recently. I realize maybe I'm a bit too old tobe playing it a lot, but I stillreally agree with the things you said in this video. It's so much fun seeing the changes and creative structures I can come up with. Thanks for making this!
I really love this video! It’s honestly the first video I’ve watched all the way thru without being distracted in a while!! Your gameplay is nice and your voice is super nice to listen to!! I’m definitely subscribing :3
I have a survival world that started in fairly early Java, was moved to Bedrock, and is now back on Java edition. All multiplayer server, with a decade of history. There are megabuild towers, castles, theme parks. I make active effort to bring them forward and a core group of a few friends actively still play on it.
Thanks for your video. It really inspired me and gave me new and more motivation and patience to find my old, very unique Minecraft map, that is now going to be MY Forever World. Your explanation in your video was such a big influence to me. Thank you so much. 🙏🙏🙏
How do you make a good forever world though, where do you start and how do you >get< started?
I have been playing in my forever world for only a little bit, but I have some tips!
Someone else said it already, but dont be afraid to make it easier for yourself!
- I have been building and mining in peaceful mode, only switching to a different difficulty when I’m feeling like I want a challenge/ need a resource that comes from mobs.
- I also want achievements on on my forever world, so I have a duplicate world where I can use commands to find biomes and stuff if I walk around for a while and cant find what i am looking for. Having a duplicate world is really helpful.
- I also keep a book and quill with me to mark down coordinates of things so I dont have to take a picture of the coords or put them in a note on my phone, both of which I will inevitably loose. So keep an in-game notebook! It feels super cozy and cottagecore to have a journal with you haha.
I’m mostly a Creative player, but you have inspired me to start a forever Survival world. Thank you.
Off topic but your hair is SO COOL!! I LUV IT!!
I do wish I still had my childhood Minecraft world. MANY great memories!
I love this video so much. The utter nostalgia I felt from it was insane. The nyan cat hud, the old minecraft textures, the utter joy of playing minecraft as a child. Totally got me back into minecraft and I'm so excited to start my forever world. :)
I've been playing Minecraft since around 2011 and started my first forever world around two months ago. I've started and deleted so many worlds over the years because they lost their "spark." But looking back now, I wish I had kept a lot of these worlds just for the memories.
I used to be such a perfectionist about my Minecraft bases. I felt like they had to be "perfect" because this was the place I HAD TO return to after every expedition. The fear of ruining my worlds ultimately became the thing that actually ruined my joy for them in the end.
I feel more comfortable and confident building whatever I want now that I've changed my mindset. Because if I "ruin" the build and lose motivation to keep building up the space I have, I can just load all my important belongings onto my mule, ride off into the horizon, and start fresh somewhere else.
I used to always get stuck and burnt out when it came time to start building farms and grinding for resources, but now that I know I'm not just doing this work to make current builds easier, but future ones too, I find myself enjoying the process.
I genuinely have not enjoyed playing Minecraft this much since I was in middle school.
Your relaxing demeanor, calming video, calming voice and fabulous hair just earned you a subscriber. Keep it up 😊