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The internet is already like this, with a couple decades of abandoned stuff to see. Used bookstores are fun if you like this, too. Especially coffee table books, they tend to have lots of notes inside.
Downloaded an old server map from over 10 years ago. Found out, somehow, I was a general in some battle that I'd forgotten about. Some player invited me to join their town, I set up a shop, and then built a hotel for that town. Seems that over time, the shop was taken down in favor of another building, and my hotel had been changed. The founder was banned, the server activated PVP for that town so we could have a fight over... something? And I think my party lost. Wild what 12 year old me was doing back then.
literally crazy the stuff people got up to on minecraft lmao. I was like part of intelligence services or something after reading through some old screenshots of a book.
Even if you could go back in time, no one is there anymore. The past is always a lonely place. Empty minecraft worlds are a unique mirror of this. I Started playing shortly after the initial mine cart introduction because I thought it looked like fun and it was too hot outside. Just a boring summer day. I made friends and left my shell and hosted my own modded server. I never felt so connected before. I haven't played since around 2014 or so, because my friends all grew up and got serious. I saved our last world because I figured we would go back eventually.
bit of a pessimistic and lonely view. i think the ghosts come alive at every key press. it can't be over just because you don't have anyone to share with at the moment; keep them fresh and alive until new people come to better it. life is not guaranteed over today, nor tomorrow, and you can't treat it as such. you might wake up tomorrow and it will still be there, and you might wake up one day with someone to share it with.
As a grown man who still plays Minecraft, it’s worth giving it another shot. Even if you are playing alone. The game is so calming, especially if you played it as a kid.
Another fascinating element of how Minecraft remembers us, is in the very code of the game itself. Not every player is memorialized in the code of the game, but so, so many are - the developers of mods whose concepts have been adapted into vanilla, fans who've been hired by Mojang, and even people like myself who simply contributed a tiny idea. During the 1.13 snapshots, when commands were being reworked and the /execute command took on its current form, I wrote an open letter on the Minecraft subreddit about my thoughts and criticisms on the proposed new syntax, and Dinnerbone read it. Even though I was a snotty teenager who only pretended to know what I was talking about, he took my ideas seriously, and while it wasn't exactly what I proposed, the syntax changed because of my letter. In that tiny way, for as long as the /execute command isn't replaced by something new, for as long as versions between 1.13 and present aren't lost to history forever, Minecraft will always remember me.
Thank you for your snotty-teenager letter. The /execute command is fantastic--it's just great. Imagining a world where it could have been more restrictive than it is now is sad.
The timing on this video is actually insane, because I had just contacted a friend not two days ago, asking for a world file from a realm he hosted. Even without having been in contact for over three years, he still had that world file to me in under an hour! Due to datapack nonsense, I had to dig through the old hard drive of my former computer where we'd played, but I managed to set everything right and rejoin the world without resetting it. It was a 1.14.4 world, and just flying back through made my heart all wonky. I saw the town square, the world map where everyone's house was marked, the homes of six other people, the chunk speedrun disaster, and eventually my own home. I'd found that home through a series of dumb mistakes that left me on a single heart, out of food, and stranded in the underground loaded with valuables. I came across a ladder, and decided to take it up. My plan was to visit whomever had their home there, borrow some food, and get skedaddling back to my place, but I ended up in an exploded savanna hillside. It looked like a Wither had gone insane inside, but all that remained was a single creeper and some acacia floors. I fled the creeper and made a small hut in another hill, where I grew wheat until I could regenerate again. Once I was free to make my exit, I decided to stay and rebuild the ruins that had saved me. Acacia wood gets a lot of flak, but I grew to love it. I built around the gaps in the hill, making a window facing the ocean, using a ladder wall to make a second floor, where the bed was on an outside deck, and even made a vast farm along the oceanside. Whatever had come before was long gone, but I breathed my own life back into the place as a thank-you, and even moved out there myself. It's not often you find a real place to call home, but destiny has a funny way of taking you where you belong. So three years later, I'm back home. It's bittersweet, seeing the guest room that housed many sleepovers, now empty save for a few signs. The enchantment room has a ton of enchanted books that are unobtainable in vanilla. My bed is bared to the stars. Dozens of ominous banners litter the side of my home. It's pure, unadulterated memory, and revisiting that time was such a delightful experience. More people should leave signs or books. Some history just can't be learned through buildings. Without the context of those who lived it, history will always be missing a crucial piece.
I broke an ipad and an iphone and lost a computer’s hard drive to corruption. Loads of minecrafft worlds there that I really wish I could go back and see.
@@svinkuk2652 haha, I used to play, long long ago on pocket edition lite. Owning a world with PE lite was a mythical concept. I think there was also an ability to clone worlds that you were playing in. It was equally jank. Even then I still even miss those worlds. Its quite something, isnt it?
I still remember my first minecraft worlds, worlds which were unfortunately lost to the sands of time (by which I mean I got grounded 12 years ago and my mum deleted the app out of what I've only ever been able to view as spite). I still remember a lot about it, from finding my first diamond and mining it with a stone pickaxe, to making my house out of wood, putting in a fireplace, and it burning down, to duplicating diamonds and gold and making an ugly diamond and gold block house. Then later making the nether reactor tower, and eventually turning it into what I pictured as a hotel, and eventually deciding to move to another piece of land in the world to make a new house out of spruce wood. That world has been gone for about 12 years now and I still remember it fondly. I still have access to worlds I made upon getting access to the game again, but they aren't quite the same as the original. At one point I moved to PC minecraft, but I have no idea if any of the worlds from then still exist really, and I have next to no memories of them.
I hate griefers so much. There’s nothing funny about destroying something someone spent hours working on. What’s the punchline? Their heart breaking into a million pieces?
because of our money situation i never got to play actual minecraft as a kid, and when i finally did get it i focused solely on it's sandbox capabilities. once i got older and started looking into it as a game, i felt like i was reliving a small piece of my past that i never got to really experience, done so through the hands and mind of an older person. i'm not finished with your video yet but you *beautifully* adapt this notion. the idea that pieces of you are flaked off into every place you exist is a known one, but the factual actuality of just how far that reaches - and just how much the tiniest, most seemingly insignificant fingerprint has so much meaning.
I wasn't able to play Minecraft for YEARS into its reign, and I was in 3rd - 8th grade at the time. It was rough, enough that I downloaded a wiki and guide tool for my non-Minecraft capable device, watched guides about every single block, mob, item, update, etc. and constantly consumed Minecraft content so I could tell made up stories to others in my grade about Minecraft events that never actually happened to me. Eventually, I did get to play, but I still remember those years where my idea of the game was almost larger than the game itself.
Ever since my first Minecraft world back in 2012, I have visited dozens of servers, created and downloaded many hundreds of worlds, and made thousands of screenshots. I'm proud to say that I archived ALL OF THAT. Also including every mod, texture/resource pack, and some other Minecraft-related stuff.
Back in 2015, I used to play on a server called Minecraft Attack. It was very small, and the owner himself felt more like a regular player than the guy running things. I ended up being one of the few who stuck around for longer than a few days, and we made a settlement together in a coastal savanna. After some time, the server went down and I never heard from the server owner again. Some time later, well after the server went down, I decided to try using the IP again. Much to my surprise, I was able to log into what was clearly a brand new world. I played for as much as I could, frequently being booted out because of a VBO issue, before the IP went silent once again. And it hasn't been used since. It does make me wonder if the world with our little savanna village still exists out there somewhere, and I wish the server owner well. He was a real one.
When I was younger I joined a Minecraft server that I would watch here on TH-cam. I started to play on it and remember watching a couple videos get put out from the server about different build events and so on. Well, after a year or so, the admins stopped responding and eventually all the plugins started to fail, but I continued playing anyways. Making new friends with the few remaining members and helping with new builds. Eventually tho, the server was practically dead, but I decided to pick it back up again and its honestly quite the core memory for me. I would go around and leave memorials for anyone else who happened to venture to the main builds, repair old public end farms, just in case someone logged back on and needed to use them. At one point, I would just start aimlessly roaming the server, looking for abandoned builds. Then, I would go into them, and drain all the chests of their loot. Not for the materials, but for the books. There were custom books everywhere in the world, and I spent quite a large chunk of my childhood running around collecting these abandoned books and building a secluded and safe library for which to house them. Some books referenced other books, some had very little inside but, I saved them all. Eventually tho, all things must come to an end. The server was shut down some 5 or 6 years after it was last used cause someone went onto the server owner's stream and asked if they remembered the old minecraft server, promptly reminding them that they had forgot to cancel/turn off the server for all those years. It's kinda sad to have lost the old place, but I had fun while it lasted and learned a whole lot about the server and its lore. From the builds, to the people, to the books. I'm sure the person had hardly a thought about turning off the server forever, but it was everything to me for a chunk of my life. Just weird to think about. A memory that only remains in old screenshots, ripped youtube vids, and a few friends I still keep in touch with.
Same, but i deleted them out of (maybe) complete boredom? My most recent world, on the other hand, is preserved thoroughly with the original files on my laptop and a copy on an external hard drive (i replace the copy everytime i log off the game). Ive not opened it for months because of life, but glad that im still archiving it since who knows, maybe someday ill have the time to play again and even open a smol server with my folks.
this video makes me think of all the worlds I made with my friends years ago. I've grown apart from all of them, but those worlds will still always exist backed up on my computer. exploring them would be bittersweet.
i wish i could say the same but sadly i can't, all of those worlds i've deleted, i'm definitively saving the worlds i have right now tho in both google drive and my mediafire account
I only ever played Minecraft religiously once, in my early or mid 20s, when I was dating someone who really got me into video games for the first time since I was a kid playing on a Wii and a DS. We had a group of us who just had the BEST time playing together for about a year. And then of course, we got bored and moved onto other things. I am still friends on social media with many of those people but most of us haven't spoken in a long time. A couple I am still closer to than many other online friends and acquaintances. I ended up having more online gaming experiences with a few more groups that I fell into and out of touch again over the past several years, many of which had overlaps of one or two people. Games have begun to feel like timelines I move through outside of reality and the people I play with are simply people I happen to pass by and hang out with for a while before our lives take us elsewhere. Usually to other games. Or back to reality.
I used to play Minecraft on the xbox 360 when I was younger but at some point the xbox started to show its age. The xbox started to break when the disk tray broke on multiple occasions, causing there to be many times where we needed to repair it. One day I was playing either Minecraft or Call of Duty Modern warfare 2 when the xbox just shut down. We tried turning it back on but we got the infamous red dot of death on the power button, meaning we could not save the xbox. After that we got an xbox 1 and a lot of stuff was savable but I ended up losing my account, meaning that those old Minecraft worlds I used to play on are just gone, likely to never be seen again. All I have from them are memories of weird builds I made and rollercoasters that lie abandoned.
My god, this is the first video I've seen from you and holy heck ... instantly subscribed. What an emotional rollercoaster. But despite the nostalgia buttons you're pressing, the video's so much more than that: your goal here is so purposeful and intelligent, yet at the same time crafted into a video that is entertaining and sweet. You even used in-game footage and redstone engineering to INSTRUCT THE AUDIENCE ON TCP/IP PROTOCOL, all in the same breath of reacting to and wondering candidly about the worlds you were visiting for us to witness. Time to binge the rest of your videos, byeeee!
28:24 "It's that high because all the lower numbers have already been claimed by unimportant stuff like DHCP, and BGP, and so on. Anyway..." Me: *Chortles in Helpdesk and sheds a single tear*
I played on Vanilla Realms Blossom server with my best friend on and off for about 11 months. My house was built into the side of a mountain that had a big gaping hole in it that led down into the largest cave system I've ever seen in my 10+ years of playing. It took me at least 4 months to explore every single tunnel in that cave (partly bc there was an abandoned mineshaft that went on for So Long). My best friend built his house right above mine, a hobbit hole-esque cottage at the top of the mountain. I had a copper shop at The Mall. I loved that server. I went offline for a couple months, and it got reset. I cried so hard when I found out it all was lost. I still miss it sometimes.
this is an absolutely astounding video. this phenomena is something i've felt and thought about for years, and to see someone explore the idea in such a thorough and passionate way is so incredibly gratifying! Minecraft worlds have always been something special, and while that discussion is far from unbroken ground, the way you strive to legitimize them as a proper archival medium is especially satisfying. looking forward to your return!
hey man, im just someone who randomly got recommended this video and god i love it. i feel like, at least to me, this is a really necessary video, especially with alot of stuff you said in the second half. ive only ever had a passing interest in things like preserving relatively small things like save data and this video serves as a call to action, of preserving those memories. of giving people a chance to relive those times, if only for a short bit. so many people bring up the dogs left behind waiting for a players return that will never come, but we never really talk about the *other* parts of worlds. the random structures, the buildings we copied off somewhere because we thought it was cool, things like that. ive never really considered analysing old worlds for patterns from the time, build trends and world generation and things like that, but the very idea of it is really exciting to me. to get personal, im a little like you. i was a young kid who played minecraft, like a lot of people. i never thought about looking back at the time, but i really do think about alot of my worlds now. when i was younger was a majority of my minecraft time, but i cant really access those worlds anymore. i remember the night at dinner when i begged my dad to buy the new game i started watching youtube videos about, i remember him grabbing his old samsung tablet and buying it in front of me and that tablet was effectively mine from then on, until 2 years later when we moved and i dropped the tablet like a clumsy kid and it shattered. i still remember my first world, a creative world where i remember building a mushroom house in a swamp and honestly, i also probably built some sort of cake structure lol. i remember my first survival world that my cousin made on a whim and i remember spawning in a savannah, where i climbed a mountain and built a fully acacia house and trying to bridge between two mountains. i really wish i could go back to those and just see what it was like, what *i* was like. i never had a computer up until very late 2022, and have only had minecraft itself on here for just over a year. my old worlds were spread across all the platforms i played, PE on my tablets and then phones, my favorite times were playing my brothers copy of the game on his PS3 until i was the one who lost the disc one summer and lost this crazy build i had on this superflat creative world, a bunch of dome-structures connected like some kind of laboratory made out of a bunch of blocks and i distinctly remember the dome i made of iron, with iron doors and everything. ive always been terrible about preserving my worlds as a consequence of just how unlucky i can get with tech breaking, even if those were the things i wanted to keep most. the oldest worlds i can access is on our PS4 edition of the game, from about 2016 or 2017. i actually revisited them recently while on call with a friend, and i got to see another build i remember alot. it was a big treehouse me and my sister built out of dark oak and we had our seperate halves and she made hers all blue and mine was covered with cats. i custom built the tree for it, because i had a project for science about eucalyptus trees and had a big interest at the time so we had this terracotta tree i built to look like a eucalyptus. thats the main reason i remember the world, when looking back at it recently i discovered a ton of pixel art structures i built and this whole bridge for our horses we made and stuff like that, and i just hadn't thought about them until then. i only ever played on one server, this one i got off an app back when server functionality was first added to PE. i couldnt tell you anything about it other than it was a faction server and i had weaseled my way into this random group and had a lot of fun for a few weeks before they stopped logging on so i did too. i dont think i could find it if i wanted, because its probably in a sea of unarchived dysfunctional servers now, and i couldnt even place a timeline other than remembering one day playing on it while at my grandmas house. most my memories come from either solo play or playing with my siblings on now lost worlds, so it never really mattered to me other than passing memories. there is this one thing though, not from me but from someone else. a couple years back i was watching one of those world tour videos, the ones where someone goes through all their super old worlds they still have or find randomly on a hard drive. at some point in the video, during a tour of one of the survival worlds this person had with a bunch of their old friends they stopped at this one house and went quiet for a bit, just standing there and staring and you could see in their webcam the emotions going through them. they entered the house and explained that it was from one of their friends that had passed years prior, and that they had even forgotten that it existed until they revisited the world. they started talking about a bunch of memories with all the little specific things in the house, and it was a really... tender moment. how through such a simple game you could relive memories not only of your own childhood or things like that but that you could relive memories for someone not there anymore. someone who wouldnt be able to look back like that. someone that, just like people like you and me, spent long times in a game having fun and building stuff, and in that way left a permanent mark not only on the world but for those who were there with them. minecrafts got crazy preservation potential in so many ways, for memories and for people and for all those things. one day someone could be playing and could build a simple house for their friends and leave a small mark of themself and then they could be gone the next. this isnt my memory. but it is a memory for those who've lost that person, its a good memory of days of fun. its a part of someone left in the past, that cant be replicated. i think thats just beautiful personally. everyone overstates the simplicity of the game but like, i think videos like this and like the tour i watched and such really display its *importance*. this game is a record, just like a journal as you said. it remembers the people who played it and what kind of person they were and what mark they left, and it keeps that for others who may one day look back and be reminded. every single block placed is a memory for them and for the people around them. it is effectively the clay tablet for people today. every sign placed, every animal tamed, every structure built, every block traveled. it can mean something to somebody. it can mean something for those around them. you dont necessarily need to physically be there for you to remind someone of something. sorry if i ramble way too much, i just really love this game and i really love this video. i have a lot of memories that mean alot to me with minecraft and this just helps cement the fact of its significance. im going to be sending this to people and things like that. really, thank you so much for this great work. i dont have anything else to say.
Man literally took the feelings and ideas I’ve been partially having for like half a decade and put them together so much more elegantly than I ever could, thank you so much for this video.
There are minecraft worlds I remember fondly, but they are irrecoverably gone, because the devices they were stored on no longer exist. The one I wish I had kept the most was a superflat world I generated on a very old laptop back in 1.2 or so. The spawn chunks generated as a normal world, and I spawned in in a lava pool. I made my way out of this monolithic mesa to find a harsh cutoff to the rest of the world, where it generated as a proper superflat. Another I remember was a survival world I played on by myself, but I had my brother play with me sometimes, and we spent a lot of time going back and forth trying to scare each other by crouching and tracking the other's nametag. I got lost in that world once, took me weeks of my 30-min screen-times to eventually find my way back. I had a cave house and he had a treefort. Or another one, where I just messed around with building houses in creative. I've always liked secret passages in structures, so I had a mansion built with birch and cobble filled with secret rooms and hallways and ladders between floors, even two entirely separate attics, all with different parkour-based or hidden entrances. I think in that world I also started using redstone for the first time, and made another house with a lever-combo-lock hidden basement. I may eventually forget these, but now they've got a little longer here in a quaint little comment. Maybe that's reason enough to leave another trace of myself on the web.
I'm from MinecraftOnline and I love what you said about it! This video is so high quality and I love the quiet, thoughtful, heartfelt, wholesome, and artful style of it.
This is why i only play one Minecraft world: the first one i made. I've been playing on it for about 3-4 years now and will always stick to it no matter what. It's unique to me and will never be played by anyone else. Might make a world tour soon too.
The superflat experiment player here :) been playing since 2021, the server sometimes goes through periods of being dead, but right now it's thriving (peaks at 14 players on weekends) there's a few dedicated players and its a lotta fun, i recommend everyone give it a play, glad it was mentioned here! (25:45)
You would not feel how nostalgic is it to join an old minecraft server from 1.12.2 and later and see a lot of progress no players online and it is a completely private server.
Those worlds remind me of a world I used to play with my sister she stopped playing the world 5 years ago and I still played it for 2 more years and then I left and I've now just remembered this thank you
I've always wanted a game that has this feeling, something that takes place in an empty world that still has clear signs of people being there in the past, but doesn't anymore. It's not just a "liminal" space, it's that feeling of memories that aren't yours covering the landscape of something that was once familiar to them, but never familiar to you. Also idk why but I love your nail polish, I just had to comment on that, sorry.
I don't usually comment on videos, (especially with this account) but this video is absolutely phenomenal. It inspired me to boot up my old tablet and give my old world's another look, thank you for making this.
I have problems with my memory and forgetting is one of the most terrifying experiences for me. I can feel when a memory is leaving my mind and it's deeply uncomfortable. I use books and signs to remind myself of important things in minecraft worlds because if I don't, I'll come back to the world and not know what I was doing when I left it - I write down coordinates, to do lists, saved hotbars. I even write down books I've written in minecraft in real life to keep them just in case. most of the servers I have in my list are inaccessible. I have no contact with the people who made them and I can't get back to the things I created. it hurts a lot. there's even people I've lost preserved in these worlds by their actions and I wish I could go back there to remember them. I do have trouble with deleting things and using updated things for fear that I'll ruin what I had before. I only play modded worlds on 1.16.5 because many mods that I love have never been updated past that point. I don't want to leave them or risk damaging the worlds I have but as a result of me not being tech savvy, I'm now stuck in that version and unable to use newer versions of forge. I guess I'll just have to stick around until I build up the courage to learn how to sort things out for myself. or I don't. I don't know. I just don't want to forget.
Man I remember when mossy stone was a luxury. I was so... upset by the introduction of podzol biomes, as if they ruined the block, and to this day I still have an instinctive disgust just seeing the once valued block everywhere in those biomes.
Even to this day, there are still some mods (like new ones coming out) and modded servers using 1.7.10. I think the main reason for that is because at one point it was the most modded version of minecraft ever, and while it no longer holds that title, a lot of those mods never got updated for newer versions, meaning that if you want to use them you've got to use 1.7.10 (or even older versions). There's something wonderful about that to me, an outdated version being kept alive by and/or _because of_ the community it had, even if most of that community has long since moved on. If I ever learn how to make minecraft mods, I think I'd start with 1.7.10
this made me realize that (outside of pocket edition) i'd never actually played the game in my own world; i was always on multiplayer servers, and now that all of them i can remember have long been reset into oblivion i'll have to create a record that i can keep
I have been playing on the same map on my server for 11 years now, the amount of memories that come flooding back in certain areas is insane. When my childhood dog passed away I made a memoir in her name, it still stands there for me and anyone who stumbles on it. It's my passion project, the world has been through a lot of versions; had corruption removed and generally shows life. There used to be 10-15 .. even 20+ active players back in the day. Slowly survival became less popular and so did the server, I'm mostly on my own nowadays or with a few other people that enjoy the calm this type of experience brings. I don't have to moderate anymore, break up fights .. I can just exist. Thank you for your video, honestly it's wonderful to see how others perceive this experience!
I remember finding your video about “cool guy has cool day” and it was still about a year by then I think. I remember that like it was yesterday. I’m happy you have a large TH-cam channel now. Keep doing what you do.
>2013 , in elementary school >Me, graduated at 2012 I still remember playing Pocket Edition and thinking "wow this is cool but also so limited" and now PE runs better on my phone than Java on my old laptop 😂😂
Love seeing your end cards! They're always fun to watch and an easy way to destress after a lot of meaningful information has been passed on. It's like a conversation after a conversation, it's nice. Recently, I've been found a whole list of old server backups from 2020, an time I explored a lot about myself and I can remember fondly. The walk back in time and witnessing how the world progresses as I launch the next save file again is a bittersweet taste of nostalgia. Can't wait until next video!
46:00 You convinced me to whip out my old laptop, with its dusty and creaking noisy cooling system, reasy to give up at any moment and as slow as a snail, to extract my oldest savefiles that were from an even older computer actually. Actually... today is the first time since years since I laid eyes upon those folders, because back then when I backed them up into that old laptop, I did think of going back to them but never did. I'm going on a trip down memory lane, the name of those worlds are already giving me a smile but there is two or three worlds I have particularly fond memories of that I wanna revisit... Updaate: booted one of the worlds, it was all there like it was all those years. I actually cried.
I just went through my old 2014 kindle worlds on my modern minecraft bedrock edition and it was such a primarily broken adventure. There were 3 worlds i wanted to open namely and i got 2 of them working, but all of them that worked made the player move fast asf and be unable to hit or break anything. Broken worlds would just crash seconds into loading or even say they were corrupted. I found the 3rd world and it was working on pc, but i was underground and couldn't break the blocks hiding the secret entrance. I downloaded bluestacks and it was indeed the right world, it ran on the latest version of pocket edition android 0.15. It's so cool seeing my old levels again they're so dear to me.
I remember diging out my old xbox 360 and spending a good day recovering the old world i used to play on as a kid with my primary school freinds the memories hit hard every time i boot it up
The most charming 1 hour of yapping ive ever enjoyed, already sent this to friends and group chats. Raising awareness of minecraft memories has never been so important! (also im writing this comment at 1am on a sunday morning with cats fighting outside my house lol)
The last time I touched Minecraft was around 2013 or 2014. Not sure exactly. I do remember the first time was '09 or 2010. Messed around on Indev and Infdev. But I nuked all those saved files years and years ago. I had no interest in keeping them and I never played online. Only locally. Anything I ever made is long gone forever and ever. Minecraft doesn't know anything about me.
I still remember the first time I logged into Minecraft. It was nearly 10 years ago. We only had one computer back then, and mostly my dad used it. I walked into the room to ask if I could play some computer games, and guess what? My dad was playing Minecraft at that exact moment! I was fascinated because I watched a lot of Minecraft videos at the time, and all the cool kids in my school played it too. It felt like another birthday! I still remember downloading a map and some mods (Immersive Engineering, I think). Then, I asked to download some new mods, and that's the exact moment I learned how to download them myself. Unfortunately, this computer broke down and can't be turned on again. Even if it could be turned on, the worlds I was playing on would be gone because of the times the computer needed a new hard drive or other repairs to keep it running.
this video reminded me of a world I made on the legacy console edition that was just 120 layers of TNT blocks. I was inspired by one of explodingTNT's skit videos, where a minecraft update made every world out of TNT blocks. I wanted to see what would actually happen if I detonated it.
Reminds me that a few months ago, I found an old zip file containing my first ever "modpack" and by that I mean just a set of mod that I made sure are working together. It was for 1.7.10. Just creating a new world with this pack filled me with nostalgia. Some of those mods were ported or remade in newer versions, but some never updated past 1.7.10...
i genuinely love your videos, they strike a chord with me like no other creator’s can. I’ve recommended your videos before, but this one struck me well enough that i’m recommending you again. Thanks for the watch
I went through my old world and started crying as I realized how true he was and seeing my old buildings that are unable to be built in the newest versions and all my pets and the tutorial worlds that I built from scratch without any help and even the old visages and everything else and I Saw a world I really missed a world that me and my friends made together and actually managed to live together for years until they just went dark one day and never got back on and I stopped playing on the world which after seeing the world I broke down 😢
8:06 is BRILLIANT, the way the text is inverted specifically to resemble the cursor from older-Minecraft. It’s the little things, but to me this is massive
Thank you for a most interesting video. Atm i have a server that has one very special map. The map is about 11 years old and was built originally on a creative server called the VoxelBox. The map is of the world known as Tanviir a high fantasy world built buy many very talented builders. This world holds many memories for me and others who spent time on the map and in the last year a small group of us are working on trying to preserve and feature proof the world. This is posable because the build has a on a texture pack which enables us to retexture new blocks with the original textures. Im hoping at some point will be able to release and share the map again with the newer minecrafters of today.
me and my sister grew up and bonded playing Minecraft- everytime I manage to boot up an old world it brings back happy childhood memories that were stashed deep away in my brain, so thank you for making this video and reminding me to look through the old worlds with my sister when I see her next :)
I think every single feeling of nostalgia, or historical reverence, or curiosity, or any other feeling that the past could evoke that you've discussed in this video, is the prime reason I have at least 15 different worlds saved in my huge minecraft folder. I even have one of my first "home worlds" saved in Google Drives literally because its got the same effect on me as a security blanket. The worlds that never made "the cut", I never figured to memorialize, seeing as the history behind the world wasn't important or noteworthy, but your video cut deeper than I anticipated and now I live in regret. Damn (thank) you Captain KBR.
This was actually the most well constructed video essay given the topic. I loved how you are making content based off of your interests and I feel like this should be an actual branch of archeology. This video was very engaging and I personally think that you are going to get very far with content like this!
Really good video, the idea of a Minecraft world being a sort of reflection of the creator really resonates with me. Personally, I keep a world in a somewhat dated version of MC, one that I’m most familiar with. The things I build can be quite personal and almost representative of certain times & events in my life. Hell, I even have something along the lines of a journal I keep using a book & quill in there. About forgetting though, that’s one of the things that scares me the most in life. Specifically forgetting people in my life. It is true that all of us will eventually be forgotten, I don’t mind that on a larger scale, but the thought of forgetting things about the people I love after they’re gone is terrifying to me, of living having forgotten what is most important.
I had the exact same experience with my first Minecraft world on the kindle fire. I remember that survival world like it was yesterday but never to be accessed again. RIP “aaahhhhh”
I love finding and exploring empty servers. I've wandered huge, empty lobbies that have had nobody in them for ages, looked at old leaderboards, climbed silly towers, placed my own signs and dated them, and even came across an army of iron golems textured as Peter Griffin in some far off corner of a world. I played my survival in 1.12.2 for years, but have recently decided to update it. I have an archived version of it before the update. One day, years from now, I'll go back and see how much changed. My original survival on the 360 was unfortunately corrupted/deleted, but the "new" one made in TU6 still exists over a decade later, both on the 360 and a flash drive. And I still have my own adventure maps in 1.12.2. I made an effort to update them to more recent versions, but there's no need. Spawners and command blocks break, and there's just no difference for 1.12.2, 1.16.5, or 1.20.4. The world will still be a 1.12.2 world regardless of the version.
Hey! What a fantastic perspective on Minecraft and its preservation of players and their experiences throughout time - it's been really thought-provoking! Being the first video of yours I've watched, I've got to say the approach to your points, the transitions and editing are fantastic and feel high quality throughout. Also, please don't feel so pressured to release on any 'regular' schedule - much like any breaks and hiatus we may take in this virtual blocky game, we also have real world commitments and experiences to enjoy too. Keep doing what you're doing at your own pace 😊
I just want to throw this out there, but there's a map I've been seeking for years that I lost. It was a download on Planetminecraft and it was called "MinecraftAddicts mansion" or something, it had some kind of weird piston fountain out front that used sand(?) that didn't actually work, it had a lot of features like an indoor rollercoaster. Apparently it was from a server? I used worlddownloader to get it at some point when it was still live, but I'm pretty sure that server and the original download is gone.
This video got me thinking then got me doing. I went and turned my old PCs. My childhood PCs. I just had to take this time to archive all my old work. My drawings, my minecraft worlds, my screenshots. Whatever memories I could imortalise in digital form. So. Thank you. More people should hear this message. Even if it's not just Minecraft. The past deserves to be remembered.
Given the current state of the community, I think it might all be downhill from here. Development also can't continue forever, especially if Microsoft deems it not profitable enouge.
When it comes to the archeology of previous generations of players, I think you’d really enjoy the Minecraft series named “UHC Generations” by Flamingmoai. (Pretty sure I spelt that correctly) anyway, I really enjoyed the video!
I remember maps I made when I was just 7-8, I remember making FNAF roleplay maps and thinking they were special. I remember it all and love it dearly, just to think over these old loves and maps that I’d made, mostly on my own. I remember vividly making red stone lights and thinking I was a red stone engineer, I remember first figuring out how to make a red stone door work. It was all so wonderful, and most of these Maps have been lost due to console updates and changes, but I still remember them vividly. I can still visit my first attempts at making FNAF 1 and FNAF 4 and laughing at just how bad they really were. I remember how bad my WiFi could get, I remember the sounds, the late nights, all of it.
i spent alot of time on an old server called "Godworld",.. found some friends and built a dock on a river. "the dock of 3" lol one day i go to log in only to learn the server had been shutdown and i wouldnt ever see my friends again REDD AND BRITT, IF YOURE READING THIS ITS ME DJC!!!!
If all fails, you can try opening up the tablet removing the old li-ion cell and connecting a known-good cell with alligator clips (watch out to get the polarity right). This might be able to resurrect the tablet. If you or a friend of yours uses proper vapes, they will probably be in possession of some 18650 (18mm diameter, 650mm long) cells you could use for that.
I really wish I could go back in time as my present self and look at me and my older brother’s old Minecraft worlds. We never really got into pocket edition and just stuck with Java on the PC, and after many computer switches, and just Minecraft updating, our old worlds are long gone. I want to see how much I’ve improved as a builder and want to see how much my brother and I have changed as we aged as he is now an adult and I’m about to leave behind my teenage years.
dude, this captures all my aches and nostalgia. I'm so unbelieveably saddened that the past can not be relived quite the same way it played out. I will never again build in my inexperienced starter-player style. I cannot go back and watch many of the videos that I drew inspiration from on youtube, and I even struggle to remember the first minecraft video I ever saw. TLDR: my heart aches endlessly with nostalgia.
I wish I had my OG worlds. Most of my time spent on minecraft was on Public Faction servers, so I can feel this in a way. Every busted base, abandoned check point and signs from passers-by, old and new. Such an amazing feature of this game.
I have a multiplayer the forest world on my PlayStation. Many people contributed to it. Everyone had their own houses and I shared mine with my ex girlfriend. After we broke up when I missed here I’d load up the world and just walk around. Haven’t ever invited everyone to it since. Haven’t placed a single log. It’s exactly as everyone left it back then and I hope it stays that way until the file corrupts or I decide to delete it.
Wow, that nostalgia really hits me. Now I want to dig out an old hard drive with broken Windows, but still work and save the old minecraft files and open them and walk throught them. Really well made video. Voice, music, video... 😭😭 thanks for making this video🤗
This reminds me of when I found the journal of a player hidden in an old 1.8 map download from the defunct Oasis SMP. The server had gone offline, and I downloaded the maps they had made available. As I was exploring the town my friends and I had built in spectator, I found a large underground base directly beneath the town. One I had never seen in the 1.5 years that specific map was online. And inside I discovered a diary belonging to one of the players. No idea why she kept her diary in minecraft, but it was 2015. She was my age. It made me really reflect on the kinds of things I left behind. Little breadcrumbs in drives that said that I was here.
Holy smokes, man. The quality, ambition and honesty in these videos are incredible. I'm so happy I found your channel this early in your career because if you continue you'll become well known generally in the Minecraft/general TH-cam-essays/interesting video projects merge that's going on right now on TH-cam. I'm just simply amazed man. You deserve millions of subscribers with the content you are pushing. Regards from a lowly uni student somewhere in the kingdom of Denmark. You make the dark spring days a little less dim.
Back probably a decade ago, I had a Minecraft world that I played almost all the time on my 360, and then one day I just decided to delete it. I can’t remember why; maybe I accidentally blew something up and deleted it out of anger, maybe I just decided to move on from it, but looking back on it that was one of the worst mistakes I’ve ever made. I made so many memories in that world, and it hurts to no longer have a concrete way of looking back at them.
I tried rebooting my old ipad a couple of months ago to see my oldest and first worlds. I was sad to see that there were no worlds there. Then I remembered deleting and redownloading the app to try and fix an issue and upon discovering them all being deleted, I took a break from the game which ended up lasting a couple of years. I still have the memories of two of my most played on worlds, but I wish I would still have these old remnants, just to look back on and see what they look like from a game that means so much to me. Great video, and I now make regular back ups of the worlds I care most about.
got a ton of free download codes for the album if anyone's interested, comment here to receive :3
thank you all for bearing with me and my massively inconsistent upload schedule
I'm interested :)
Ohh that would be great!
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@@CaptainKRB Thank you so much!! I Love your work!
“Somewhere outside the Arctic Circle”
Imagine doxxing yourself like that, what a mistake
Maybe this was intentionnal. I think it is the first clue for a CaptainKRB ARG that they will use for their next video...
@@mbewaretheir pronouns are they/she btw ^^
@@skoovee thanks. I did not know. sorry.
@@skoovee where did you get that information from?
@@shubumannext to their @ on their channel page
I feel like this is what the internet will be like in a couple years
Post digital apocalypse internet archeology is gonna be rad
❤
Nah, you won't even be able to find this video because it'll have been drowned in a sea of AI-generated videos.
It already is, you can find personal sites from the 80s and 90s to this day
The internet is already like this, with a couple decades of abandoned stuff to see. Used bookstores are fun if you like this, too. Especially coffee table books, they tend to have lots of notes inside.
Downloaded an old server map from over 10 years ago. Found out, somehow, I was a general in some battle that I'd forgotten about.
Some player invited me to join their town, I set up a shop, and then built a hotel for that town. Seems that over time, the shop was taken down in favor of another building, and my hotel had been changed. The founder was banned, the server activated PVP for that town so we could have a fight over... something? And I think my party lost. Wild what 12 year old me was doing back then.
literally crazy the stuff people got up to on minecraft lmao. I was like part of intelligence services or something after reading through some old screenshots of a book.
damn an entire war in that town 😆
@@RichRaccand what are you now? Mcdonalds employee?
Thank you for your service, General chaincyclist2736. 🫡
"Somewhere outside the Arctic Circle"
That narrows it down
I bet he lives in Antarctica
by about 5,600 people
Even if you could go back in time, no one is there anymore. The past is always a lonely place. Empty minecraft worlds are a unique mirror of this. I Started playing shortly after the initial mine cart introduction because I thought it looked like fun and it was too hot outside. Just a boring summer day. I made friends and left my shell and hosted my own modded server. I never felt so connected before. I haven't played since around 2014 or so, because my friends all grew up and got serious. I saved our last world because I figured we would go back eventually.
bit of a pessimistic and lonely view. i think the ghosts come alive at every key press. it can't be over just because you don't have anyone to share with at the moment; keep them fresh and alive until new people come to better it. life is not guaranteed over today, nor tomorrow, and you can't treat it as such. you might wake up tomorrow and it will still be there, and you might wake up one day with someone to share it with.
As a grown man who still plays Minecraft, it’s worth giving it another shot. Even if you are playing alone. The game is so calming, especially if you played it as a kid.
Eventually…
Keep that shit saved, make a backup, and treasure it.
@@soda.2003 well said man. 🙏
Another fascinating element of how Minecraft remembers us, is in the very code of the game itself. Not every player is memorialized in the code of the game, but so, so many are - the developers of mods whose concepts have been adapted into vanilla, fans who've been hired by Mojang, and even people like myself who simply contributed a tiny idea.
During the 1.13 snapshots, when commands were being reworked and the /execute command took on its current form, I wrote an open letter on the Minecraft subreddit about my thoughts and criticisms on the proposed new syntax, and Dinnerbone read it. Even though I was a snotty teenager who only pretended to know what I was talking about, he took my ideas seriously, and while it wasn't exactly what I proposed, the syntax changed because of my letter. In that tiny way, for as long as the /execute command isn't replaced by something new, for as long as versions between 1.13 and present aren't lost to history forever, Minecraft will always remember me.
oh thats sick, i love the execute command now
i hate u my commands on older world no longer worked
Thank you for your snotty-teenager letter. The /execute command is fantastic--it's just great. Imagining a world where it could have been more restrictive than it is now is sad.
I’ve been playing Minecraft on bedrock since it’s came out, and I’ve seen never been able to figured out commands lol
@@kcck7588I knew how to use bedrock's old execute commands. When they made it the same as Java's, well, I'm not smart enough to use that
42:30 “You might just be wondering why this matters at all?”
Nearly 45 minutes in: It’s alright Cap! We’re invested.
The timing on this video is actually insane, because I had just contacted a friend not two days ago, asking for a world file from a realm he hosted. Even without having been in contact for over three years, he still had that world file to me in under an hour!
Due to datapack nonsense, I had to dig through the old hard drive of my former computer where we'd played, but I managed to set everything right and rejoin the world without resetting it. It was a 1.14.4 world, and just flying back through made my heart all wonky. I saw the town square, the world map where everyone's house was marked, the homes of six other people, the chunk speedrun disaster, and eventually my own home.
I'd found that home through a series of dumb mistakes that left me on a single heart, out of food, and stranded in the underground loaded with valuables. I came across a ladder, and decided to take it up. My plan was to visit whomever had their home there, borrow some food, and get skedaddling back to my place, but I ended up in an exploded savanna hillside. It looked like a Wither had gone insane inside, but all that remained was a single creeper and some acacia floors. I fled the creeper and made a small hut in another hill, where I grew wheat until I could regenerate again. Once I was free to make my exit, I decided to stay and rebuild the ruins that had saved me. Acacia wood gets a lot of flak, but I grew to love it. I built around the gaps in the hill, making a window facing the ocean, using a ladder wall to make a second floor, where the bed was on an outside deck, and even made a vast farm along the oceanside. Whatever had come before was long gone, but I breathed my own life back into the place as a thank-you, and even moved out there myself. It's not often you find a real place to call home, but destiny has a funny way of taking you where you belong.
So three years later, I'm back home. It's bittersweet, seeing the guest room that housed many sleepovers, now empty save for a few signs. The enchantment room has a ton of enchanted books that are unobtainable in vanilla. My bed is bared to the stars. Dozens of ominous banners litter the side of my home. It's pure, unadulterated memory, and revisiting that time was such a delightful experience.
More people should leave signs or books. Some history just can't be learned through buildings. Without the context of those who lived it, history will always be missing a crucial piece.
I'm still sad that I don't have any of the worlds I have on my ancient phone and tablet
I broke an ipad and an iphone and lost a computer’s hard drive to corruption.
Loads of minecrafft worlds there that I really wish I could go back and see.
@@RePorpoisedwe stand together in this😅
i still miss my very first world from the times when the game was still so buggy that it would randomly delete them lol
@@svinkuk2652 haha, I used to play, long long ago on pocket edition lite. Owning a world with PE lite was a mythical concept. I think there was also an ability to clone worlds that you were playing in. It was equally jank. Even then I still even miss those worlds. Its quite something, isnt it?
@@RePorpoised sure is
I still remember my first minecraft worlds, worlds which were unfortunately lost to the sands of time (by which I mean I got grounded 12 years ago and my mum deleted the app out of what I've only ever been able to view as spite). I still remember a lot about it, from finding my first diamond and mining it with a stone pickaxe, to making my house out of wood, putting in a fireplace, and it burning down, to duplicating diamonds and gold and making an ugly diamond and gold block house. Then later making the nether reactor tower, and eventually turning it into what I pictured as a hotel, and eventually deciding to move to another piece of land in the world to make a new house out of spruce wood. That world has been gone for about 12 years now and I still remember it fondly. I still have access to worlds I made upon getting access to the game again, but they aren't quite the same as the original. At one point I moved to PC minecraft, but I have no idea if any of the worlds from then still exist really, and I have next to no memories of them.
Wait I’m sorry did you say you mined up diamond with a “stone” pickaxe? And I didn’t know furnaces could catch wood on fire.
@Captain KRB my server is still used, maintained, and backed up frequently. [we also roll back fairly often to combat the stupid griefers]
Can confirm.
t. Rstein
That is cool 😎
I hate griefers so much. There’s nothing funny about destroying something someone spent hours working on. What’s the punchline? Their heart breaking into a million pieces?
because of our money situation i never got to play actual minecraft as a kid, and when i finally did get it i focused solely on it's sandbox capabilities. once i got older and started looking into it as a game, i felt like i was reliving a small piece of my past that i never got to really experience, done so through the hands and mind of an older person.
i'm not finished with your video yet but you *beautifully* adapt this notion. the idea that pieces of you are flaked off into every place you exist is a known one, but the factual actuality of just how far that reaches - and just how much the tiniest, most seemingly insignificant fingerprint has so much meaning.
I wasn't able to play Minecraft for YEARS into its reign, and I was in 3rd - 8th grade at the time. It was rough, enough that I downloaded a wiki and guide tool for my non-Minecraft capable device, watched guides about every single block, mob, item, update, etc. and constantly consumed Minecraft content so I could tell made up stories to others in my grade about Minecraft events that never actually happened to me.
Eventually, I did get to play, but I still remember those years where my idea of the game was almost larger than the game itself.
Ever since my first Minecraft world back in 2012, I have visited dozens of servers, created and downloaded many hundreds of worlds, and made thousands of screenshots. I'm proud to say that I archived ALL OF THAT. Also including every mod, texture/resource pack, and some other Minecraft-related stuff.
Back in 2015, I used to play on a server called Minecraft Attack. It was very small, and the owner himself felt more like a regular player than the guy running things. I ended up being one of the few who stuck around for longer than a few days, and we made a settlement together in a coastal savanna. After some time, the server went down and I never heard from the server owner again.
Some time later, well after the server went down, I decided to try using the IP again. Much to my surprise, I was able to log into what was clearly a brand new world. I played for as much as I could, frequently being booted out because of a VBO issue, before the IP went silent once again. And it hasn't been used since.
It does make me wonder if the world with our little savanna village still exists out there somewhere, and I wish the server owner well. He was a real one.
Lovely story ❤
When I was younger I joined a Minecraft server that I would watch here on TH-cam. I started to play on it and remember watching a couple videos get put out from the server about different build events and so on. Well, after a year or so, the admins stopped responding and eventually all the plugins started to fail, but I continued playing anyways. Making new friends with the few remaining members and helping with new builds. Eventually tho, the server was practically dead, but I decided to pick it back up again and its honestly quite the core memory for me. I would go around and leave memorials for anyone else who happened to venture to the main builds, repair old public end farms, just in case someone logged back on and needed to use them. At one point, I would just start aimlessly roaming the server, looking for abandoned builds. Then, I would go into them, and drain all the chests of their loot. Not for the materials, but for the books. There were custom books everywhere in the world, and I spent quite a large chunk of my childhood running around collecting these abandoned books and building a secluded and safe library for which to house them. Some books referenced other books, some had very little inside but, I saved them all. Eventually tho, all things must come to an end. The server was shut down some 5 or 6 years after it was last used cause someone went onto the server owner's stream and asked if they remembered the old minecraft server, promptly reminding them that they had forgot to cancel/turn off the server for all those years.
It's kinda sad to have lost the old place, but I had fun while it lasted and learned a whole lot about the server and its lore. From the builds, to the people, to the books. I'm sure the person had hardly a thought about turning off the server forever, but it was everything to me for a chunk of my life. Just weird to think about. A memory that only remains in old screenshots, ripped youtube vids, and a few friends I still keep in touch with.
finding beauty in the absurd is why your channel gets me excited seeing an upload
The ending honestly got a tear out of my eye. I've deleted so many worlds as a kid because I wanted to "save space". So many memories lost...
Same, but i deleted them out of (maybe) complete boredom?
My most recent world, on the other hand, is preserved thoroughly with the original files on my laptop and a copy on an external hard drive (i replace the copy everytime i log off the game). Ive not opened it for months because of life, but glad that im still archiving it since who knows, maybe someday ill have the time to play again and even open a smol server with my folks.
this video makes me think of all the worlds I made with my friends years ago. I've grown apart from all of them, but those worlds will still always exist backed up on my computer. exploring them would be bittersweet.
i wish i could say the same but sadly i can't, all of those worlds i've deleted, i'm definitively saving the worlds i have right now tho in both google drive and my mediafire account
I only ever played Minecraft religiously once, in my early or mid 20s, when I was dating someone who really got me into video games for the first time since I was a kid playing on a Wii and a DS. We had a group of us who just had the BEST time playing together for about a year. And then of course, we got bored and moved onto other things.
I am still friends on social media with many of those people but most of us haven't spoken in a long time. A couple I am still closer to than many other online friends and acquaintances. I ended up having more online gaming experiences with a few more groups that I fell into and out of touch again over the past several years, many of which had overlaps of one or two people.
Games have begun to feel like timelines I move through outside of reality and the people I play with are simply people I happen to pass by and hang out with for a while before our lives take us elsewhere. Usually to other games. Or back to reality.
I used to play Minecraft on the xbox 360 when I was younger but at some point the xbox started to show its age. The xbox started to break when the disk tray broke on multiple occasions, causing there to be many times where we needed to repair it. One day I was playing either Minecraft or Call of Duty Modern warfare 2 when the xbox just shut down. We tried turning it back on but we got the infamous red dot of death on the power button, meaning we could not save the xbox. After that we got an xbox 1 and a lot of stuff was savable but I ended up losing my account, meaning that those old Minecraft worlds I used to play on are just gone, likely to never be seen again. All I have from them are memories of weird builds I made and rollercoasters that lie abandoned.
My god, this is the first video I've seen from you and holy heck ... instantly subscribed. What an emotional rollercoaster. But despite the nostalgia buttons you're pressing, the video's so much more than that: your goal here is so purposeful and intelligent, yet at the same time crafted into a video that is entertaining and sweet. You even used in-game footage and redstone engineering to INSTRUCT THE AUDIENCE ON TCP/IP PROTOCOL, all in the same breath of reacting to and wondering candidly about the worlds you were visiting for us to witness. Time to binge the rest of your videos, byeeee!
28:24 "It's that high because all the lower numbers have already been claimed by unimportant stuff like DHCP, and BGP, and so on. Anyway..."
Me: *Chortles in Helpdesk and sheds a single tear*
He forgot the most important one: port 666, the Doom port. (still reserved by Microsoft). (and yeah, I also had to take a double take...)
I didn't expect a brief explanation of OSI Layer 3 but I'm all for it!
I played on Vanilla Realms Blossom server with my best friend on and off for about 11 months. My house was built into the side of a mountain that had a big gaping hole in it that led down into the largest cave system I've ever seen in my 10+ years of playing. It took me at least 4 months to explore every single tunnel in that cave (partly bc there was an abandoned mineshaft that went on for So Long). My best friend built his house right above mine, a hobbit hole-esque cottage at the top of the mountain. I had a copper shop at The Mall. I loved that server. I went offline for a couple months, and it got reset. I cried so hard when I found out it all was lost. I still miss it sometimes.
this is an absolutely astounding video. this phenomena is something i've felt and thought about for years, and to see someone explore the idea in such a thorough and passionate way is so incredibly gratifying! Minecraft worlds have always been something special, and while that discussion is far from unbroken ground, the way you strive to legitimize them as a proper archival medium is especially satisfying. looking forward to your return!
hey man, im just someone who randomly got recommended this video and god i love it.
i feel like, at least to me, this is a really necessary video, especially with alot of stuff you said in the second half. ive only ever had a passing interest in things like preserving relatively small things like save data and this video serves as a call to action, of preserving those memories. of giving people a chance to relive those times, if only for a short bit. so many people bring up the dogs left behind waiting for a players return that will never come, but we never really talk about the *other* parts of worlds. the random structures, the buildings we copied off somewhere because we thought it was cool, things like that. ive never really considered analysing old worlds for patterns from the time, build trends and world generation and things like that, but the very idea of it is really exciting to me.
to get personal, im a little like you. i was a young kid who played minecraft, like a lot of people. i never thought about looking back at the time, but i really do think about alot of my worlds now. when i was younger was a majority of my minecraft time, but i cant really access those worlds anymore. i remember the night at dinner when i begged my dad to buy the new game i started watching youtube videos about, i remember him grabbing his old samsung tablet and buying it in front of me and that tablet was effectively mine from then on, until 2 years later when we moved and i dropped the tablet like a clumsy kid and it shattered. i still remember my first world, a creative world where i remember building a mushroom house in a swamp and honestly, i also probably built some sort of cake structure lol. i remember my first survival world that my cousin made on a whim and i remember spawning in a savannah, where i climbed a mountain and built a fully acacia house and trying to bridge between two mountains. i really wish i could go back to those and just see what it was like, what *i* was like.
i never had a computer up until very late 2022, and have only had minecraft itself on here for just over a year. my old worlds were spread across all the platforms i played, PE on my tablets and then phones, my favorite times were playing my brothers copy of the game on his PS3 until i was the one who lost the disc one summer and lost this crazy build i had on this superflat creative world, a bunch of dome-structures connected like some kind of laboratory made out of a bunch of blocks and i distinctly remember the dome i made of iron, with iron doors and everything. ive always been terrible about preserving my worlds as a consequence of just how unlucky i can get with tech breaking, even if those were the things i wanted to keep most. the oldest worlds i can access is on our PS4 edition of the game, from about 2016 or 2017. i actually revisited them recently while on call with a friend, and i got to see another build i remember alot. it was a big treehouse me and my sister built out of dark oak and we had our seperate halves and she made hers all blue and mine was covered with cats. i custom built the tree for it, because i had a project for science about eucalyptus trees and had a big interest at the time so we had this terracotta tree i built to look like a eucalyptus. thats the main reason i remember the world, when looking back at it recently i discovered a ton of pixel art structures i built and this whole bridge for our horses we made and stuff like that, and i just hadn't thought about them until then.
i only ever played on one server, this one i got off an app back when server functionality was first added to PE. i couldnt tell you anything about it other than it was a faction server and i had weaseled my way into this random group and had a lot of fun for a few weeks before they stopped logging on so i did too. i dont think i could find it if i wanted, because its probably in a sea of unarchived dysfunctional servers now, and i couldnt even place a timeline other than remembering one day playing on it while at my grandmas house. most my memories come from either solo play or playing with my siblings on now lost worlds, so it never really mattered to me other than passing memories.
there is this one thing though, not from me but from someone else.
a couple years back i was watching one of those world tour videos, the ones where someone goes through all their super old worlds they still have or find randomly on a hard drive. at some point in the video, during a tour of one of the survival worlds this person had with a bunch of their old friends they stopped at this one house and went quiet for a bit, just standing there and staring and you could see in their webcam the emotions going through them. they entered the house and explained that it was from one of their friends that had passed years prior, and that they had even forgotten that it existed until they revisited the world. they started talking about a bunch of memories with all the little specific things in the house, and it was a really... tender moment. how through such a simple game you could relive memories not only of your own childhood or things like that but that you could relive memories for someone not there anymore. someone who wouldnt be able to look back like that. someone that, just like people like you and me, spent long times in a game having fun and building stuff, and in that way left a permanent mark not only on the world but for those who were there with them. minecrafts got crazy preservation potential in so many ways, for memories and for people and for all those things. one day someone could be playing and could build a simple house for their friends and leave a small mark of themself and then they could be gone the next. this isnt my memory. but it is a memory for those who've lost that person, its a good memory of days of fun. its a part of someone left in the past, that cant be replicated. i think thats just beautiful personally.
everyone overstates the simplicity of the game but like, i think videos like this and like the tour i watched and such really display its *importance*. this game is a record, just like a journal as you said. it remembers the people who played it and what kind of person they were and what mark they left, and it keeps that for others who may one day look back and be reminded. every single block placed is a memory for them and for the people around them. it is effectively the clay tablet for people today. every sign placed, every animal tamed, every structure built, every block traveled. it can mean something to somebody. it can mean something for those around them. you dont necessarily need to physically be there for you to remind someone of something.
sorry if i ramble way too much, i just really love this game and i really love this video. i have a lot of memories that mean alot to me with minecraft and this just helps cement the fact of its significance. im going to be sending this to people and things like that. really, thank you so much for this great work. i dont have anything else to say.
I want to hug you and play with you.
Even if you haven't talked in ages, and might not ever again, you and your friend are still sleeping peacefully in that realm you built together.
Man literally took the feelings and ideas I’ve been partially having for like half a decade and put them together so much more elegantly than I ever could, thank you so much for this video.
This is a beautiful video, I’ve always been interested in the idea of “digital archeology” and you’ve definitely done it justice here.
Hey, minecraftonline admin here.
Thanks for stopping by. Beautiful video, thank you for sharing. ;)
There are minecraft worlds I remember fondly, but they are irrecoverably gone, because the devices they were stored on no longer exist.
The one I wish I had kept the most was a superflat world I generated on a very old laptop back in 1.2 or so. The spawn chunks generated as a normal world, and I spawned in in a lava pool. I made my way out of this monolithic mesa to find a harsh cutoff to the rest of the world, where it generated as a proper superflat.
Another I remember was a survival world I played on by myself, but I had my brother play with me sometimes, and we spent a lot of time going back and forth trying to scare each other by crouching and tracking the other's nametag. I got lost in that world once, took me weeks of my 30-min screen-times to eventually find my way back. I had a cave house and he had a treefort.
Or another one, where I just messed around with building houses in creative. I've always liked secret passages in structures, so I had a mansion built with birch and cobble filled with secret rooms and hallways and ladders between floors, even two entirely separate attics, all with different parkour-based or hidden entrances. I think in that world I also started using redstone for the first time, and made another house with a lever-combo-lock hidden basement.
I may eventually forget these, but now they've got a little longer here in a quaint little comment. Maybe that's reason enough to leave another trace of myself on the web.
He's absolutely in the arctic circle and just trying to deceive us.
I'm from MinecraftOnline and I love what you said about it! This video is so high quality and I love the quiet, thoughtful, heartfelt, wholesome, and artful style of it.
I still play on my survival world from infdev, updated occasionally to the latest versions.
Amazing video! Also your nails rock!
this is such a sleeper channel, it's like watching a spring wind itself tighter and tighter. Can't wait for it to pop off
2013 "I was in elemantary school then"
Ouch my hips!
Yeah that was a hit right in my crippling student debt
Woof. In 2013, my buddy and I were playing Minecraft in our 30's.
Oh cmon people born in 2013 are almost out of elementary, imagine how confused they'd be if they seen your comment
This is why i only play one Minecraft world: the first one i made. I've been playing on it for about 3-4 years now and will always stick to it no matter what. It's unique to me and will never be played by anyone else. Might make a world tour soon too.
The superflat experiment player here :) been playing since 2021, the server sometimes goes through periods of being dead, but right now it's thriving (peaks at 14 players on weekends) there's a few dedicated players and its a lotta fun, i recommend everyone give it a play, glad it was mentioned here! (25:45)
You would not feel how nostalgic is it to join an old minecraft server from 1.12.2 and later and see a lot of progress no players online and it is a completely private server.
Those worlds remind me of a world I used to play with my sister she stopped playing the world 5 years ago and I still played it for 2 more years and then I left and I've now just remembered this thank you
I've always wanted a game that has this feeling, something that takes place in an empty world that still has clear signs of people being there in the past, but doesn't anymore. It's not just a "liminal" space, it's that feeling of memories that aren't yours covering the landscape of something that was once familiar to them, but never familiar to you.
Also idk why but I love your nail polish, I just had to comment on that, sorry.
found your channel super recently. so impressed w quality and how much you have on your plate rn! going to listen to the album now ❤ big ups
I don't usually comment on videos, (especially with this account) but this video is absolutely phenomenal. It inspired me to boot up my old tablet and give my old world's another look, thank you for making this.
I have problems with my memory and forgetting is one of the most terrifying experiences for me. I can feel when a memory is leaving my mind and it's deeply uncomfortable.
I use books and signs to remind myself of important things in minecraft worlds because if I don't, I'll come back to the world and not know what I was doing when I left it - I write down coordinates, to do lists, saved hotbars. I even write down books I've written in minecraft in real life to keep them just in case.
most of the servers I have in my list are inaccessible. I have no contact with the people who made them and I can't get back to the things I created. it hurts a lot. there's even people I've lost preserved in these worlds by their actions and I wish I could go back there to remember them.
I do have trouble with deleting things and using updated things for fear that I'll ruin what I had before. I only play modded worlds on 1.16.5 because many mods that I love have never been updated past that point. I don't want to leave them or risk damaging the worlds I have but as a result of me not being tech savvy, I'm now stuck in that version and unable to use newer versions of forge. I guess I'll just have to stick around until I build up the courage to learn how to sort things out for myself. or I don't. I don't know. I just don't want to forget.
Learn how to make and load backups. Then you can mess around and have a backup to go back to.
Man I remember when mossy stone was a luxury. I was so... upset by the introduction of podzol biomes, as if they ruined the block, and to this day I still have an instinctive disgust just seeing the once valued block everywhere in those biomes.
1.7.10 was the version most used by the old tekkit pack. Called tekkit classic now.. exploring MODDED servers from that era could be very interesting.
Even to this day, there are still some mods (like new ones coming out) and modded servers using 1.7.10. I think the main reason for that is because at one point it was the most modded version of minecraft ever, and while it no longer holds that title, a lot of those mods never got updated for newer versions, meaning that if you want to use them you've got to use 1.7.10 (or even older versions). There's something wonderful about that to me, an outdated version being kept alive by and/or _because of_ the community it had, even if most of that community has long since moved on. If I ever learn how to make minecraft mods, I think I'd start with 1.7.10
this made me realize that (outside of pocket edition) i'd never actually played the game in my own world; i was always on multiplayer servers, and now that all of them i can remember have long been reset into oblivion i'll have to create a record that i can keep
I have been playing on the same map on my server for 11 years now, the amount of memories that come flooding back in certain areas is insane.
When my childhood dog passed away I made a memoir in her name, it still stands there for me and anyone who stumbles on it.
It's my passion project, the world has been through a lot of versions; had corruption removed and generally shows life.
There used to be 10-15 .. even 20+ active players back in the day.
Slowly survival became less popular and so did the server, I'm mostly on my own nowadays or with a few other people that enjoy the calm this type of experience brings. I don't have to moderate anymore, break up fights .. I can just exist.
Thank you for your video, honestly it's wonderful to see how others perceive this experience!
I remember finding your video about “cool guy has cool day” and it was still about a year by then I think. I remember that like it was yesterday. I’m happy you have a large TH-cam channel now. Keep doing what you do.
I just began this video but the idea of minecraft remembering me is kinda comforting since I've played the game for a decade at this point
>2013 , in elementary school
>Me, graduated at 2012
I still remember playing Pocket Edition and thinking "wow this is cool but also so limited" and now PE runs better on my phone than Java on my old laptop 😂😂
Starting to feel a melancholic nostalgia from your video. It was brilliantly written and narrated! And those visual are so beautiful.
Love seeing your end cards! They're always fun to watch and an easy way to destress after a lot of meaningful information has been passed on. It's like a conversation after a conversation, it's nice. Recently, I've been found a whole list of old server backups from 2020, an time I explored a lot about myself and I can remember fondly. The walk back in time and witnessing how the world progresses as I launch the next save file again is a bittersweet taste of nostalgia. Can't wait until next video!
46:00 You convinced me to whip out my old laptop, with its dusty and creaking noisy cooling system, reasy to give up at any moment and as slow as a snail, to extract my oldest savefiles that were from an even older computer actually. Actually... today is the first time since years since I laid eyes upon those folders, because back then when I backed them up into that old laptop, I did think of going back to them but never did. I'm going on a trip down memory lane, the name of those worlds are already giving me a smile but there is two or three worlds I have particularly fond memories of that I wanna revisit...
Updaate: booted one of the worlds, it was all there like it was all those years. I actually cried.
I just went through my old 2014 kindle worlds on my modern minecraft bedrock edition and it was such a primarily broken adventure. There were 3 worlds i wanted to open namely and i got 2 of them working, but all of them that worked made the player move fast asf and be unable to hit or break anything. Broken worlds would just crash seconds into loading or even say they were corrupted. I found the 3rd world and it was working on pc, but i was underground and couldn't break the blocks hiding the secret entrance. I downloaded bluestacks and it was indeed the right world, it ran on the latest version of pocket edition android 0.15. It's so cool seeing my old levels again they're so dear to me.
I remember diging out my old xbox 360 and spending a good day recovering the old world i used to play on as a kid with my primary school freinds
the memories hit hard every time i boot it up
The most charming 1 hour of yapping ive ever enjoyed, already sent this to friends and group chats. Raising awareness of minecraft memories has never been so important!
(also im writing this comment at 1am on a sunday morning with cats fighting outside my house lol)
despite everything, a house made of diamond blocks did nothing to show your opulence, but rather your lack thereof
The last time I touched Minecraft was around 2013 or 2014. Not sure exactly. I do remember the first time was '09 or 2010. Messed around on Indev and Infdev. But I nuked all those saved files years and years ago. I had no interest in keeping them and I never played online. Only locally. Anything I ever made is long gone forever and ever. Minecraft doesn't know anything about me.
I still remember the first time I logged into Minecraft. It was nearly 10 years ago. We only had one computer back then, and mostly my dad used it. I walked into the room to ask if I could play some computer games, and guess what? My dad was playing Minecraft at that exact moment! I was fascinated because I watched a lot of Minecraft videos at the time, and all the cool kids in my school played it too. It felt like another birthday! I still remember downloading a map and some mods (Immersive Engineering, I think). Then, I asked to download some new mods, and that's the exact moment I learned how to download them myself. Unfortunately, this computer broke down and can't be turned on again. Even if it could be turned on, the worlds I was playing on would be gone because of the times the computer needed a new hard drive or other repairs to keep it running.
this video reminded me of a world I made on the legacy console edition that was just 120 layers of TNT blocks. I was inspired by one of explodingTNT's skit videos, where a minecraft update made every world out of TNT blocks. I wanted to see what would actually happen if I detonated it.
Reminds me that a few months ago, I found an old zip file containing my first ever "modpack" and by that I mean just a set of mod that I made sure are working together. It was for 1.7.10. Just creating a new world with this pack filled me with nostalgia. Some of those mods were ported or remade in newer versions, but some never updated past 1.7.10...
i genuinely love your videos, they strike a chord with me like no other creator’s can. I’ve recommended your videos before, but this one struck me well enough that i’m recommending you again. Thanks for the watch
I went through my old world and started crying as I realized how true he was and seeing my old buildings that are unable to be built in the newest versions and all my pets and the tutorial worlds that I built from scratch without any help and even the old visages and everything else and I Saw a world I really missed a world that me and my friends made together and actually managed to live together for years until they just went dark one day and never got back on and I stopped playing on the world which after seeing the world I broke down 😢
What an incredible video dude. Especially when it comes to Minecraft, stuff like this is so rare nowadays. Instant sub.
I randomly found this channel but I have fallen deeply in love with it lol
for the algorithm btw
Very interesting video, I'm glad you did it, even through hard time, or whatever is going on in your life. I hope you will be ok, good luck
8:06 is BRILLIANT, the way the text is inverted specifically to resemble the cursor from older-Minecraft. It’s the little things, but to me this is massive
I played alpha minecraft PE when I was very little too so this video was very nostalgic. Sadly all my old worlds are gone iirc...
Thank you. This video reminded me to take care of my world's or other games . Because that is one of the things I will leave behind
This video made me remember my first world on my old Xbox one, it’s probably still out there, I should dig up that console and go see what’s on it
Thank you for a most interesting video. Atm i have a server that has one very special map. The map is about 11 years old and was built originally on a creative server called the VoxelBox. The map is of the world known as Tanviir a high fantasy world built buy many very talented builders. This world holds many memories for me and others who spent time on the map and in the last year a small group of us are working on trying to preserve and feature proof the world. This is posable because the build has a on a texture pack which enables us to retexture new blocks with the original textures. Im hoping at some point will be able to release and share the map again with the newer minecrafters of today.
me and my sister grew up and bonded playing Minecraft- everytime I manage to boot up an old world it brings back happy childhood memories that were stashed deep away in my brain, so thank you for making this video and reminding me to look through the old worlds with my sister when I see her next :)
I think every single feeling of nostalgia, or historical reverence, or curiosity, or any other feeling that the past could evoke that you've discussed in this video, is the prime reason I have at least 15 different worlds saved in my huge minecraft folder. I even have one of my first "home worlds" saved in Google Drives literally because its got the same effect on me as a security blanket.
The worlds that never made "the cut", I never figured to memorialize, seeing as the history behind the world wasn't important or noteworthy, but your video cut deeper than I anticipated and now I live in regret. Damn (thank) you Captain KBR.
This was actually the most well constructed video essay given the topic. I loved how you are making content based off of your interests and I feel like this should be an actual branch of archeology. This video was very engaging and I personally think that you are going to get very far with content like this!
Really good video, the idea of a Minecraft world being a sort of reflection of the creator really resonates with me. Personally, I keep a world in a somewhat dated version of MC, one that I’m most familiar with. The things I build can be quite personal and almost representative of certain times & events in my life. Hell, I even have something along the lines of a journal I keep using a book & quill in there.
About forgetting though, that’s one of the things that scares me the most in life. Specifically forgetting people in my life. It is true that all of us will eventually be forgotten, I don’t mind that on a larger scale, but the thought of forgetting things about the people I love after they’re gone is terrifying to me, of living having forgotten what is most important.
I had the exact same experience with my first Minecraft world on the kindle fire. I remember that survival world like it was yesterday but never to be accessed again. RIP “aaahhhhh”
I love finding and exploring empty servers. I've wandered huge, empty lobbies that have had nobody in them for ages, looked at old leaderboards, climbed silly towers, placed my own signs and dated them, and even came across an army of iron golems textured as Peter Griffin in some far off corner of a world.
I played my survival in 1.12.2 for years, but have recently decided to update it. I have an archived version of it before the update. One day, years from now, I'll go back and see how much changed. My original survival on the 360 was unfortunately corrupted/deleted, but the "new" one made in TU6 still exists over a decade later, both on the 360 and a flash drive.
And I still have my own adventure maps in 1.12.2. I made an effort to update them to more recent versions, but there's no need. Spawners and command blocks break, and there's just no difference for 1.12.2, 1.16.5, or 1.20.4. The world will still be a 1.12.2 world regardless of the version.
Hey! What a fantastic perspective on Minecraft and its preservation of players and their experiences throughout time - it's been really thought-provoking! Being the first video of yours I've watched, I've got to say the approach to your points, the transitions and editing are fantastic and feel high quality throughout. Also, please don't feel so pressured to release on any 'regular' schedule - much like any breaks and hiatus we may take in this virtual blocky game, we also have real world commitments and experiences to enjoy too. Keep doing what you're doing at your own pace 😊
I just want to throw this out there, but there's a map I've been seeking for years that I lost.
It was a download on Planetminecraft and it was called "MinecraftAddicts mansion" or something, it had some kind of weird piston fountain out front that used sand(?) that didn't actually work, it had a lot of features like an indoor rollercoaster. Apparently it was from a server? I used worlddownloader to get it at some point when it was still live, but I'm pretty sure that server and the original download is gone.
so many things i loved -died- became Microsoft
This video got me thinking then got me doing. I went and turned my old PCs. My childhood PCs. I just had to take this time to archive all my old work. My drawings, my minecraft worlds, my screenshots. Whatever memories I could imortalise in digital form. So. Thank you. More people should hear this message. Even if it's not just Minecraft. The past deserves to be remembered.
This video is actually so incredible! You go girl!!!
I wonder what will become of Minecraft in say, 10-30 years. But this was a really good video!
Given the current state of the community, I think it might all be downhill from here. Development also can't continue forever, especially if Microsoft deems it not profitable enouge.
When it comes to the archeology of previous generations of players, I think you’d really enjoy the Minecraft series named “UHC Generations” by Flamingmoai. (Pretty sure I spelt that correctly) anyway, I really enjoyed the video!
you’re one of my favorite channels of all time. i can’t wait for you to get the recognition you so richly deserve. thank you for making what you do.
I remember maps I made when I was just 7-8, I remember making FNAF roleplay maps and thinking they were special. I remember it all and love it dearly, just to think over these old loves and maps that I’d made, mostly on my own. I remember vividly making red stone lights and thinking I was a red stone engineer, I remember first figuring out how to make a red stone door work. It was all so wonderful, and most of these Maps have been lost due to console updates and changes, but I still remember them vividly. I can still visit my first attempts at making FNAF 1 and FNAF 4 and laughing at just how bad they really were. I remember how bad my WiFi could get, I remember the sounds, the late nights, all of it.
i spent alot of time on an old server called "Godworld",.. found some friends and built a dock on a river. "the dock of 3" lol
one day i go to log in only to learn the server had been shutdown and i wouldnt ever see my friends again
REDD AND BRITT, IF YOURE READING THIS ITS ME DJC!!!!
Holy shit this is a well made video. Makes me wonder if I have any saved files on old devices myself.
If all fails, you can try opening up the tablet removing the old li-ion cell and connecting a known-good cell with alligator clips (watch out to get the polarity right). This might be able to resurrect the tablet. If you or a friend of yours uses proper vapes, they will probably be in possession of some 18650 (18mm diameter, 650mm long) cells you could use for that.
I really wish I could go back in time as my present self and look at me and my older brother’s old Minecraft worlds. We never really got into pocket edition and just stuck with Java on the PC, and after many computer switches, and just Minecraft updating, our old worlds are long gone. I want to see how much I’ve improved as a builder and want to see how much my brother and I have changed as we aged as he is now an adult and I’m about to leave behind my teenage years.
dude, this captures all my aches and nostalgia. I'm so unbelieveably saddened that the past can not be relived quite the same way it played out. I will never again build in my inexperienced starter-player style. I cannot go back and watch many of the videos that I drew inspiration from on youtube, and I even struggle to remember the first minecraft video I ever saw. TLDR: my heart aches endlessly with nostalgia.
I wish I had my OG worlds. Most of my time spent on minecraft was on Public Faction servers, so I can feel this in a way. Every busted base, abandoned check point and signs from passers-by, old and new. Such an amazing feature of this game.
I have a multiplayer the forest world on my PlayStation. Many people contributed to it. Everyone had their own houses and I shared mine with my ex girlfriend. After we broke up when I missed here I’d load up the world and just walk around. Haven’t ever invited everyone to it since. Haven’t placed a single log. It’s exactly as everyone left it back then and I hope it stays that way until the file corrupts or I decide to delete it.
two jobs and 17 creds!!!!!!! how do you have time to breath
Wow, that nostalgia really hits me. Now I want to dig out an old hard drive with broken Windows, but still work and save the old minecraft files and open them and walk throught them. Really well made video. Voice, music, video... 😭😭 thanks for making this video🤗
This reminds me of when I found the journal of a player hidden in an old 1.8 map download from the defunct Oasis SMP. The server had gone offline, and I downloaded the maps they had made available.
As I was exploring the town my friends and I had built in spectator, I found a large underground base directly beneath the town. One I had never seen in the 1.5 years that specific map was online. And inside I discovered a diary belonging to one of the players. No idea why she kept her diary in minecraft, but it was 2015. She was my age. It made me really reflect on the kinds of things I left behind. Little breadcrumbs in drives that said that I was here.
Holy smokes, man.
The quality, ambition and honesty in these videos are incredible.
I'm so happy I found your channel this early in your career because if you continue you'll become well known generally in the Minecraft/general TH-cam-essays/interesting video projects merge that's going on right now on TH-cam.
I'm just simply amazed man. You deserve millions of subscribers with the content you are pushing.
Regards from a lowly uni student somewhere in the kingdom of Denmark.
You make the dark spring days a little less dim.
Back probably a decade ago, I had a Minecraft world that I played almost all the time on my 360, and then one day I just decided to delete it. I can’t remember why; maybe I accidentally blew something up and deleted it out of anger, maybe I just decided to move on from it, but looking back on it that was one of the worst mistakes I’ve ever made. I made so many memories in that world, and it hurts to no longer have a concrete way of looking back at them.
I tried rebooting my old ipad a couple of months ago to see my oldest and first worlds. I was sad to see that there were no worlds there. Then I remembered deleting and redownloading the app to try and fix an issue and upon discovering them all being deleted, I took a break from the game which ended up lasting a couple of years. I still have the memories of two of my most played on worlds, but I wish I would still have these old remnants, just to look back on and see what they look like from a game that means so much to me. Great video, and I now make regular back ups of the worlds I care most about.