I remember every night I would go downstairs and play minecraft with my dad for hours. We build castles and I vividly remember we were trying to push animals into our pens instead of luring them because we didnt know what that was! Unfortunately, we stopped playing together. Last year, my dad died to cancer, and I've never cried harder running through our old world, looking at the landmarks, unfilled creeper explosion holes, farms, etc. Minecraft is truly more than just a game, it holds so, so, so many memories that we can just never get again. Edit - All of the replies on this are so sweet 😭 I know all of you are just some random youtube commenters that I don't know anything about but it really warms my heart waking up, opening my phone and seeing so much gratitude. Thanks guys :)
I agree. I still get laughed at for wanting to play bedwars with friends from school. They all finish their phases while I haven't stopped between them.
2 week Minecraft phase stages Stage 1: Watching Minecraft videos Stage 2: Thinking about playing Minecraft (like in the videos) Stage 3: Open Minecraft Stage 4: New survival world, enjoy it for a while Stage 5: spent too long without making progress/ bored of repetition Stage 6: Stop playing Minecraft for a while Stage 7: start watching TH-cam videos Stage 8: Refer to stage 1
@@UwuUwu-td7do I think id just tjat people dtay with the core game and dont go beyond, dont lesrn more. They dont go to the different pvp game modes and communities surrounding it, the parkour communities and server, the modded scene, the minigame servers, the rpg servers, the ctm ones. No custom maps, no nothing other than the good old reliable. And the core game is good imo, is just that doing the same thing iver and over again will get stale. Specially if you dont go beyond defeating the ender dragon and wither. Like with mod things in mc, you have to go out of your way to look for all the fun stuff. Sometimes even make your own objectives. Like getting better at mechanics of the game, or deepening your knowledge of redstone, or learning how to speedrun, or learning how to build well. Idk, I just think people get bored bc they dont try other aspects of the game, and get bored of the only thing they know. Thats nothing bad, everyone can get bored, but the problem is not even the game or growing up.
And the funny thing is that they might not even know alll of that exists. You really have to actively look for all it. For anyone that might want something fresh, try mcc island, or monumenta, or hoplite. Maybe you like it.
I’ve never done it on my own, at least legitimately But i have defeated the ender dragon with friends. Its a goal of mine to someday start a world and kill the ender dragon on my own lol I just could never play a world long enough to do it 😭😂
Or they played Draconian Evolution on 1.7.12 and farmed them for the fusion reactor fuel that would inevitably blow up and nuke the server due to someone sneezing in its general direction
What's so surreal to me is that it isn't only our generation that has gone through this Minecraft phase. I have a little sister who is 4 years old, and she happened to stumble upon Minecraft while watching some slop on TH-cam. At points, she'd come into my room to say goodnight to me, while I'd be in my 2 week Minecraft phase, playing with some friends, and she'd be like "Is that Minecraft?" It fills me with such joy that the generations after us will get to experience the same games we grew up with, even if they are through different mediums.
I have the same thing! I have a nephew and although I dislike the content he usually watches, I once stumbled upon him watching a Minecraft video. It was just a tutorial on how to build something, but seeing that just made me grateful that Minecraft can still entertain younger generations.
Minecraft really is the only game that has made me tear up consistently, and it doesn't even have a storyline. Its YOUR story in those worlds. Maybe that's what's so sad, happy, nostalgic, lonely, and overall melancholy about it. It is a testament about you. It its your own life and struggles, all your memories, in a single game. And that's beautiful.
8:39 “That feeling of experiencing your favorite game for the first time.” This is the key: don’t round up the squad to play something old. Round them up to play something new! When Content Warning released, my friends and I had a BLAST playing something new, exploring, messing up.
That feeling of having none of your squad around anymore... hits hard. 2015, 1.7.10 Pixelmon server... i built a nice town, with as many as twenty folks inhabiting it. Then as it dwindled I saved the chunks locally before the server had any chance to reset the world, and, most of my future 2 week phases involved going back, solo, to that town, and fixing it, improving it with new blocks, and reminiscing all the memories that are part of it. I even kept a copy of what it was like the moment I saved it in 2016, to compare to present time. I also miraculously got 1 guy to connect to Skype again and visit my restored town with me for a bit, but he was no longer the hyperactive kid i once heard, he was, like me, a grown adult, and with a gf and responsibilities... so to him this adventure was just that, memories.
1.7.x will always be the most nostalgic to me. I remember starting a world in the amplified world type because it was brand new. I used TONS of stained glass and colored wool in a build that made use of several exposed caves in a mountainside. Then I remember making the Pixelmon servers... My friends never cared enough to learn how to port forward so they could host a server, so I spent forever learning how to do it correctly. My family had an odd router at the time so I really had no clue what I was doing. I even made a custom config for the lucky blocks mod that would spawn Pokemon structures, summon legendaries or shinies, or give you Pokemon items. God I miss those days...
The part about feeling alone because your friends aren't around anymore hits the hardest. People whom i literally grew up with, met with irl, are just gone. Some leave slowly, some are just gone after 1 day :(
i only had this feeling with the official foolcraft 3 server. some people i met there would play every day for months, but after server resets and the eventual server shutdown we havent spoken in a long time
I don't understand why you people response to these complaints and do not even care of creating the new friends group to play stuff, and just chill with each other, for long time you wish.
OG Minecrafter here, I never defeated the Ender Dragon after so much time passing. I love the game so much to just rush through it. I play at my pace and really enjoy the highs and lows, from finding diamonds to falling in lava and loosing everything. I’m so grateful that my old friend Anthony showed me this game on his box tv that we had to bang on to fix the vertical lines in the midst of 2013. We had so much fun and tried to start a TH-cam channel that didn’t succeed. Time passed on and we fell apart, but I still play by myself everyday. I’m going to the Air Force soon and hopefully I can still play there. Also, I can’t wait to have a child of my own so we can make so many great memories on Minecraft together. I will show em da way…
"you realise that what you are looking for only exist in your memories" that shit hit realy realy hard, my man... Can be applied on a ton of subjects. Great vid btw !
tbh you cant be even sure that ur memories are real, they just feel this way, there are so many things that happend in your life that you prob dont remember but will get random flash back of it few years later
Hi, I have a server if some people want to play :) 1.21.1 vanilla chill and open 24/24 Just there : discord.gg/NvvZyvkAsV We are actually 4 on the server
I've begun noticing a rise of this nostalgia in negative ways. Many people complain that Minecraft is not the same, which is true, evidently. But why does nobody consider their own change and growth. Minecraft is 13 years old. A lot happens in that time, no matter what stage of life you were in. Your brain has changed, therefore, Minecraft will never be able to be the same. You will never be 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 again. Whenever you discovered your love for Minecraft, you will never be there again. We are all growing up. To be able to embrace Minecraft today, you have to say goodbye to your childhood. You have to accept that those memories are now nostalgia, a past version of your life. But the great thing is, you still carry all of the joy and wonder with you that you did then, and Minecraft has grown up with us. Playing Minecraft today alone is not quite as lonely anymore. I'm playing a game that has watched me grow and change, a game that has seen me through good grades, bad grades, abuse, COVID, partners, jobs, and so much more. Minecraft is a game like no other, in the way it has somehow managed to become a friend to all of its community. It has grown and changed just like we all have. Give it another approach, but with the eyes of who you are now, not who you wish you still were. Two weeks might start to seem like not enough.
Well said. Took me years to let go of the old minecraft and start playing the new one. You just get to that age where you realise it’s been with you all this time and you can still enjoy playing it despite how long you’ve had it.
Speaking true facts. I think people say that because now life is so different for all of us and we'd like to go back to certain moments of our childhood and Minecraft seems like the perfect option for that, only that it has changed, and that is normal. But they don't like the idea that they can't go back cause it's changed and they have changed too. We can't go back to those moments because they are in the past and I know it feels awful. But we can be glad and proud that we lived in this golden era.
Everyone: "You've changed, you aren't the game I fell in love with." Minecraft: "You've changed too, you aren't the player I fell in love with when you were seven."
For me the biggest killer is the speedrun friends, you been on the server one day and they got diamonds and iron farms and its like chill man, its not a race
Here's what I do, I take the game incredibly slow (no you don't have to take it as slow as me) but building is actually so much fun, gathering the resources, planning it out, all with stone or iron tools I have a blast, there's no reason for you to do anything, you don't have to do anything, just play how you want too, it doesn't matter.
@Thekorbanator I totally get that but I get so quickly bored of building if I dont have a good pickaxe with efficiency and a normal axe, I just don't want to deal with waiting one second between blocks. Still I used to do what you're talking about and it does have it's merits. It's a matter of opinion
Yes, this! I get so bored easily that not even older versions can fix this for me. On the other hand, the grind in Terraria feels much much better, with no durability and keep inventory by default. And you can pretty early on start creating beautiful builds (and Journey mode is just the best thing ever)! Only problem is lack of shaders and the 3rd dimension :/ I have of course tried to mod Minecraft, but that process gets boring too.
i remember when i was in middle and elementary school, i would be watching stampylongnose/head, leo the bear guy and iiballisticsquid having a fun time on minecraft. eventually like everyone else, i grew out of the phase after multiple years, when high school started for me (2020) everything went down the drain. i couldn't ever afford minecraft, and growing up with my grandparents, they didn't want to put their debit/credit card online. i was always upset because i never got to play it until this year, when i could finally buy it myself (i've graduated high school now) and i've never felt so free and like i wanted to cry so much in a good way. i downloaded stampy's lovely world and just sat there crying for an hour before i finally ran around the world so overwhelmed with happiness. thank you for making this video, genuinely, it explains so much.
I think that this topic relates to me a lot. I used to have times where I played Minecraft every day, then stopped a while and out of nowhere come back to it. It was like Minecraft was speaking to me, calling me to play again.
I think the fact that it's both a game and sandbox, you can always come back to it and don't have to "remember" the mechanics or where you left off when you don't play other games for awhile. And the creativity. Every human has a nature to be creative so that's the part that always calls me back, when I have an idea for a building or design. I love creative games like sims also cause I spend ours in the build mode. The creativity is what calls us back imo
its a savoir to me becuase google and microsoft BOTH decided to FK me at SAME TIME and why do i want to buy it again when i ALLREADY BAUGHT IT, but MAJOR PROBLEM, popular minecraft CRACKED launchers decided something STUPID they REQUIRE INTERNET WHAT WHY!!!! some peaople pirate and crack games to PRESERVE them SK LAUNCHER is USELESS 100% for that!!!!!!!! (it REQUIRES INTERNET TO UPDATE WHY!!!!!!!!) and if it cant update when wants to REFUSES TO OPEN!!!!!!!
I ain't greek but Minecraft was expensive in my country and I would never ever play it and have the time of my life during my childhood if Minecraft cracked never existed
My biggest frustration with playing with certain friends is how hellbent they are on making progress to the point where I made my own separate world for just me. My friends would occasionally join and ask why I wasn’t fully geared with enchants and diamond armor within a week when I was busy trying to pace myself and focus on building. In the time I built a nice big barn, a wool factory and panda enclosure my friends had already beaten their world and were bored of the game. I wanted a world where I took my time, invested in the world and now 6 months later I have one that has multiple villages of varying themes, large structures, enclosures and sanctuaries for a decent amount of mobs, storage buildings like a greenhouse for every plant in the game, color storage for every colored variant block like glass, terracotta, concrete etc, a wood shop for all wood variants etc. Now my friends join and enjoy walking around my world and compliment me on it but that wouldn’t have happened had I gone at their pace of speeding running the main progression points.
My feelings towards this is get the grindy main game out of the way, get yourself diamond and enchants, and elytra etc. Then you can collect materials and build all your cool stuff easier. I've done too many mining and woodchopping sessions with stone and iron tools in my past 12 years of playing this game, I want to get to what is widely considered the "fun" part of the game, and be able to help my other builder friends with farms and stuff.
Lmao I'm so sorry the replies here are exactly missing the point. That's kinda why it sucks, we can understand and emphathise with the guys who wanna go fast but they refuse or literally cannot understand or empathise with people like us that just wanna take our time. Not the replies still being like "this is how you CAN get diamonds"/"you SHOULD have diamonds by now" that's not the pointttt
@@okyloky9432 yea man, god bless the homies we talk about in those meme videos of "i asked my friend to help get some sand and they decimated a desert" like genuinely, when we're going for big big builds. They're lifesavers especially if you have other commitments like exams. But when they're so built for just One Mode and that's Fast, it's just sad we can't have both things, our enjoyment of the game, and their company. Because their company, when they actually Cannot Handle Slowing Down (not their fault), immediately means it's not fun anymore when we wanna chill. It feels unfair when we're willing to speed up to match their pace, but they're not willing to slow down to match ours. Neither of us should be more 'right' than the other
when I was younger, I would wake up the earliest out of my family members. I would get out of bed on the weekend, sneak downstairs, turn on the good old playstation 3, and play Minecraft until my mom woke up. I also remember my brother calling his friend on the home phone and playing together for hours while I sat on the couch in awe at how they were able to play in survival mode. I never had friends who were interested in Minecraft when I was younger, but now that I have friends who play, that 2 week Minecraft phase heals a part of my inner child.
i used to do the same thing!! i distinctly remember waking up at 7am to go play minecraft only to go wake my mom up at 7:30 to ask her how to spell "cookie dough" so that i could name my minecraft horse lol
i vividly remember playing Minecraft CLASSIC and the demo version for free for the first time on Minecraft’s website back in 2011, and then in summer of 2012 buying the full game. I remember me and my brothers taking turns playing it on one of the family computers that we had, making our worlds, downloading maps, playing on servers like The Hive, Hypixel, and Mineville. From 2011 to 2024 now, I’ve seen Minecraft evolve from so many versions, updates, eras, and mutually, the game has seen me at different versions, eras, phases… from when I was 7, to now almost 20 years old . Ive played Minecraft from virtually every generation- from the old blocky Windows XP computer and Xbox 360, to the newest gen PS5, Minecraft isn’t only the longest game I’ve continuously played but one of my best friends. forever be grateful to Mojang for creating a masterpiece
From the old blocky Windows XP to the new shitty Windows 11 Jokes aside, I feel you. I started playing on Pocket Edition back in like 2013 or so. Now I'm also almost 20, and rarely play Minecraft. I just can't think of anything to do before I get bored. Heck, I've been a gamer my whole life, but during the last year or so, I just don't enjoy almost any video game anymore. It's honestly really sad. All I enjoy is being productive or going out and doing stuff irl, which I almost never do.
Yo man, if you wanna spice up your worlds I bought the tinkers construct add on and it’s so awesome!! Closest we have to mods on console and it’s so refreshing bro
spotify is always out there to make me cry, just randomly putting minecraft background music in at the moments where im most active thinking, and then me just tearing up from the good memories flooding in
3:37 I am that one friend, I just didn't realize it til it happened multiple times to my friends who had 2 week minecraft phases. My 2 week minecraft phase is inverted, though. I play it for 50 weeks and then take 2 weeks off.
My "2 Week Phase" basically goes like this: 1. Booting up the game with my favourite mods 2. Making a new world 3. Running around, looking for a good biome/place to make a base which can take a lot of time (If i have a bad spawn, i make another world) 4. Having fun for a while, building a house, finding materials, mine for a bit 5. It's getting late and I most likely have to go to work tomorrow 6. Logging out, remembering that I also have a huge backlog of games i haven't even started yet 7. Forgetting about MC and coming back some time later 8. Trying to remember what I did previously, coming up with huge plans on what to build, what to get, etc etc 9. Getting bored after an hour of playing because of the grind for my plans 10. Logging out, not coming back for another half a year 11. Repeat this every 6-8 months The thing is, I have so much to do, too many games to play so I can't just relax and enjoy the game properly And the grind for my builds and projects takes a lot of time and patience (which i don't have most of the time (or at least i think so)) It's hard to get back into the game I once loved when there are a bunch of things on my mind that I can't stop thinking about while I'm playing: "I could've been playing that game I bought on sale" "I have to get up early tomorrow, can only play for an hour" "This build will take me at least 4 hours to make" "Can't find the biome I'm looking for but I don't want to use Chunkbase" "What should I build next? Watch tower? That's gonna take a lot of stone and I don't have the time to mine for it" Such a shame
i usually play with my siblings and cousins on a server so even if I'm bored building giant farms and builds they get to relax and enjoy the game and thank me lol
@@averyblurryduck749 The fact that he doesn't want to use chunkbase is very understandable. If you actually play minecraft survival without wanting to cheat, you'll know how unfair chunkbase is, but in the later game I usually allow myself to use it.
This is why I started playing my survival worlds with cheats enabled, but not creative by default. I don't have to grind for the materials to landscape a beach. Just F3 + F4 and build. I don't have to grind if I don't want to. It takes the charm and some of the fun out of playing survival but I don't have the time to no life the game anymore Watching this while playing MC btw
My little advice is to take it slow, you don't have to rush things, like, the other games are and will be there, if you enjoy one game now, play it, if it gets boring, go play another, neat thing about gaming is, you can let yourself get spoiled a bit, meaning if one game gets boring, you can play another, they will be always there, they won't escape, you know what I mean? hopefully this comment helps a bit. Just wanted yo say that you don't need to force yourself into something you don't want to do (when talking about gaming ofc), relax, go with the flow, gaming is time if rest and enjoyment, it is a free time activity, not a chore. Yeah, that's it. Hope this helps.
I had a two week phase with a server called Novylen, the oldest known server, I had started a town and made a load of friends, eventually we started expansion, but that was right before summer break ended. By the end of summer, everyone had left, this summer they didn't come back. If anyone who was there sees this, Mystyvale isn't the same without you, Godspeed.
I remember that server from a video but I could never connect because the server always gave the error that you need to use a proxy? Also don’t have a minecraft account anymore and most servers don’t allow cracked players unfortunately
@@nutella_wewerehere Unable and unwilling to migrate to a Microsoft account (I hate modern Microsoft) and I’m sure as hell not paying again for something I already paid for before, so Tlauncher it is
I feel like it's important how you mentioned that nowdays most people play Minecraft so fast on TH-cam and when I had my short Minecraft phase, I played it slow, like real slow... I wouldn't even focus on beating the game, I'd spend like a week on building a pretty house and mining, but then I always felt slightly guilty that I didn't get into nether by day one and barely have any resources.. But when I get another Minecraft phase I'll probably do the same again.
this video genuinely made me tear up, because it made me remember the times when I knew nothing about the game, and playing with my brother and just building random houses, and dying in caves, and eventually getting to the nether, and then leaving out of fear. This game is the most nostalgic game ever. Nothing will ever compare to the early 2010s of minecraft.
I play Minecraft to have fun, but every single time I play I always set myself a small goal to do by the end of the day. Maybe something like making a farm, or building a new room in my house. Personally, I found that this method makes Minecraft much more fun. Of course, I still progress but not as quick as somebody who just speedruns the game straight away. I have a world that I’ve been playing on for about 1-2 weeks now (not every single day though) and this is how I’ve kept myself entertained. I don’t just straight away build an XP farm, grind, go strip mining and find a crap ton of diamond. Although I do have some, it’s because I was exploring caves and having fun while doing it! And whenever I get bored of doing a small goal, I either stop doing it and start another one or I just stop playing for the day. It’s that simple! Of course, this is just a personal method and this may not be what helps. But this is just what I do, and this way I’ve been able to keep my old worlds for even a few months! Hope that helps :)
On my main world on Java, i'm currently making an underwater base. I also improved the design of a village, and I built a wall around it. I also stored a few things in that village, since I set up a mini camp there. I plan to connect both of these points and other landmarks around my world using a nether minecart system. I don't try to beat the game or make crazy farms or anything like that. I stick to my playstyle, just like you and everyone that plays the game has a playstyle. You can be a builder, a redstone enginner, an explorer, a speedrunner, a miner, whatever. This tip will help you stick to your world for longer than simply two weeks. Your comment is an example of this tip. Hats off to you for figuring out what many cannot.
Always stop playing when you're bored and have no goal left. Just get off the game and do something else and you'll find eventually you'll think of something to do in the game and build the motivation and excitement inside, and then when you get back on it's exciting.
This is pretty much what I've been doing the past week or so! I've finally created my own creative world again, after years of reluctantly playing survival with friends on multiplayer servers, and it's really brought back my love for the game. I'm turning a village I found into a "city", i.e. building a wall, a church, etc., which has given me all these little goals/projects I can do in about a day or two and keeps me motivated to continue! I'm very excited for where this world is gonna be in a few weeks, let alone further into the future!
I found starting a realm with my coworkers has been fun team building Becuase then we can either all play together after work or play separately building whenever we have time It's made it so easy to maintain having fun in the game for several months at a time We play regular Vanilla survival but we're all work in tech so we still build some crazy automated farms I think having that healthy mix of building weird contraptions but also within the limits of the game without using commands is definitely what keeps it interesting without burning out on the game
This video makes me happy. I've had this same experience for years. I usually play with my brother or my friend that I also played with back in the day. I try to take it slow, but by the time I have my farm built, they've beaten the Ender Dragon with full Netherite while I don't even know what Netherite is yet, let alone how to get it. I recently made a new friend in group therapy and we've been hanging out a lot. She asked me to play Minecraft together, and after like 5 or 6 sessions... We're finally finishing up our first house. We haven't even really MINED yet. And we still have so many plans. I haven't had so much fun with the game since my first year of high school.
I agree with the fact that Minecraft have to be more "slow paced". We started a Beta 1.7.3 server with my friends a few months ago and it was honestly much funnier than all of our 2 weeks phase : No sprinting, not more than 200 blocks, no hunger bar... The simplicity just felt like we were discovering Minecraft again.
True. I started a minecraft server with my friend last month, and I stopped playing a week in because my friend was speedrunning it. He wouldn’t take the time to decorate his base, and he had full enchanted diamond 3 days in. I couldn’t understand why he was trying so hard. He would get mad at me when I suggested he added wood to his base, as it was nothing more than a cobblestone box with a bunch of furnaces built into the wall. My favourite way to play Minecraft is to build, take it slow, and enjoying every sweet piece of that nostalgia I can muster. That is the essence of minecraft to me.
@@meghanandrockmackay5804 There is no right way to play minecraft. I agree that the way he plays prolly doesn't allow for much fun but that's the way he wants to play. What I do to encourage my friends to build (they think they suck at it (which is prolly tru, i wouldnt know cause they dont build) is to build my own things and let them marvel at them. I've been playing for 14 or 15 years so obviously im going to be way better than my friend who has never really built anything. If they make a comment about my build I encourage them to build something of their own. Usually what happens is they say they're too bad at building to build, but over the years i've gotten that thought down to a, "I suck at building but maybe I'll try to make something." They still haven't tried but changing their perception to be more willing and open to building goes a long way (even past minecraft as this is just a lesson in perception and mentality. If you can convince your friend to build I suggest a complement sandwich method of 2 things you liked about the build and 1 thing you think they can do better (try and make the thing they can do better small. Ex. Hey I like the palate you chose but maybe if you add logs to the corners it could add a bit more depth.) this sustains their ego while giving tips to help them become better builders. Sorry for such a long comment I jus felt like it
What can I say, I hope you could listen to my following story real quick, this video represents it so perfectly, I think everyone had those times: -> I get so much flashbags of my own Minecraft-World that I also play on my YT-Channel (Its in german), now the world is nearly 3 years old. I miss the times where my friends played all at the same time and almost begged me to open the server once more, a group of 5 main players and in total around 15 friends played in this world. Even some I didnt even knew irl joined the world. We build a giant city stretching over 500 blocks, some smaller towns, underground bases, accurate miltary recreations. We created politics, realms. It happened so rarely that someone's house got damaged due to trolling. Even if it happened it was another part of the whole story and would be remembered for all the coming episodes I made. Now I am stuck at episode 204, nearly 2000 hours in this world... And in the end what did I got from it. Nothing... Nothing then some of the best memorys I could ever get, all these times will be remembered for an eternity in my mind. When I hopped on to different games with a few friends and we ended up playing together at 3AM, one time even playing till next morning. But as said before, it ended up with you being only. My last friend says he still likes playing it but I am pretty sure that this is a lie, he doesnt even try to keep playing just playing it once a month, back then we played almost every day. I wouldnt call it betray, but I guess he wants to convince me that we could keep the community alife, just us two. But that just isnt possible, 15 people, now 2... And at last only one lasts... Me, searching desperatly for new friends that wanna play the world with me, or trying to get the old ones back. I am the one that has these 2 week minecraft phases before taking breaks from it. I keep building like they are still there, keep writing storys like they are still at my side, saying things like they would all come back in a few days, just for me to realise that its not going to be the case. That I'll be stuck alone, and all these times we played are now just memorys that are NEVER going to come back ever again. It was such a nice time and this video reminds me of it so much. I guess all that played mincraft can agree on that.
That is why I love GTNH ( modpack ). Its huge, and takes forever. but because of that, It makes me slowdown and pace myself. Building a factory, planning what I would need, and doing it slowly.
Minecraft is a game that connected with us as kids so much because it fostered the creativity our child selves so desperately needed to express. When you have the urge for that two week Minecraft phase it's your inner child deep within you silently begging to be nurtured. Realizing this, I've found that the best way to prolong the two week Minecraft phase is to let that little kid in me be free and to build stupid things that make me happy instead of getting the best tools or building with the most ornate detail possible and then tearing it all down because it "doesn't make sense". That little kid I used to be would have just built a wooden box for a house and you know what? That's okay.
Crazy how i went from playing minecraft everyday to once or twice a year. 7 years ago, that was my last time i truly enjoy playing minecraft, since then 2 week minecraft phase hits me hard. I remember my last time playing minecraft was a year ago with my high school friends before i moved out for college and it was like a week and a half. Sometimes i look into my old youtube videos to see my younger self playing minecraft, just to hope someday i can enjoy playing minecraft like what i used to.
this is the best comment, exatcly the same, happens with a lot of games active life is HARD AF even with the job you love if you think about how things were
I still enjoy it. I do go through the on and off phases but I still really love the game. Just I'll play 12 hours from night to sunrise and get a little bored for a while. But when I actually am playing a game usually I'm super into it. I've been installing mods and whatnot too so it's an interesting fresh experience.
2012, was playing this game with my older brother when I was 8 and he was 10 on our xbox 360. I'm 20 now, still play with close friends in these brief 2-week periods, but nothing will take away the fun and memories I had with my brother on the tutorial world on splitscreen. I vividly remember it being the closest period of our lives together, before life happened, and it makes me sad in ways I don't necessarily know how to describe. Not to mention playing with my friends on my shitty $50-100 computer (Green Asus, I loved it) at 15-20 fps til 2am on school nights, those are another bundle of memories. This video hits man, and makes me think back to when I was closer with others and gaming was still a surreal experience. Minecraft has been with me for a long time and has connected me with so many great people that I have had the pleasure of meeting in real life and I can't thank this game enough for the amazing memories it had produced.
I'm 15 and I've played Minecraft since I was 4, but honestly I think my MC peak is now. I used to play solo with no friends and now almost every friend I have is willing to hop on Minecraft every so often. Actually just spent the last 5 hours doing random stuff in creative with a friend. Of course we don't commit to much. Our longest server ended because someone used xray and found my secret base which sent everyone into an anger filled spiral. Our second longest server ended because the owner "accidentally" deleted it after dying. The 3rd longest and my favorite server got deleted by the server host I was using. All of these failures yet my friend group is so persistent.
My buddy and I have had a realm for 6 months. We haven't even been to the end yet. We've both only killed a few endermen. We have been building massive projects.
Thanks man for this Video its just Perfect i saved it and gonna rewatch it sometimes U just described excactly what we should so to play the game healthy and long living Thanks.
the biggest thing i get from playing minecraft is it's natural landscapes and rural feel, which i long for as a city dweller, so every time i play it, continue my house in a forest, explore biomes and converse in villages, it feels like i'm on a holiday! but like with all holidays, they always come to an end and then you have to get back to work.
Am I the only one who's never experienced this "2 week minecraft phase??" Like I've been playing minecraft since I was 7, and I would play it on and off for months at a time.
Yeah, same. I started around 1.16, but I’ve played the game a lot, never really having stopped. I’ll get bored of a certain aspect, but then I’ll just go do something else. Don’t think I’ve ever gone a week without at least watching a Minecraft related vid, a month without launching the game.
i had fear playing alone, all by myself... with no one to play even when i was 6 or 8, i played roblox instead for many years and still plays to this date. i wish i had friends to play minecraft (Edit: i found people to play minecraft on a modpack, im happy right now.)
My friend group barely plays minecraft. It's only really two of us who do, most others hop on for barely a day and never come back. I'm guilty of speedrunning, and what you've said is right. I just find myself inconvenienced by how things don't mine as fast as netherite, but I struggle a lot with staying focused and engaged in anything anymore. When I'm not speedrunning, I get bored fast because I can't seem to keep myself interested, and that's not even a minecraft thing, I can't even focus on what I want to do as a job, art, and I love it. I have to always be doing something and moving forward, not slowing down...but I should try. Even if it's a struggle, I should try. Thanks for this, I'm glad this popped into my feed.
Wow. Nice editing on this one dude. Totally relate to everything said in this. I ended up breaking my "two week Minecraft phase" by doing what you did, playing slowly. I'll sometimes just fire up some three hour video essay and just play like I'm exploring this immersive world with beautiful landscapes. With my world seed being totally unique, I get to explore and see things nobody has ever seen before. The sandbox aspect of the game just amplifies that and it truly engrosses you and sucks you in. It's one of those games where you can actually do or build whatever you desire. Once I realized that a couple months ago, I just kept coming back. The world I play on will grow with me, and it will always be there when I come back. Great video! :)
can resonate with this video. I play mod pack after mod pack to try to satisfy and still nothing. Motivation still only lasts 2-3 weeks :/ Turns out i still do just enjoy vanilla minecraft with some Vanilla+ mods added. The thing that just sucks is i’m not a builder, i like adventuring. Best thing i figured to do is add adventure mods that just take minecraft to a level that’s enjoyable with my play style. And that’s possibly the best thing about minecraft. The way you play is all your choice.
The Yung's and Hopo's structure overhaul series of mods along with the good old reliables (Tectonic, Biome Makeover, Ecospherical Expansion, Geophilic Reforged, Lucky's Spelunker's Charm 2, Regions Unexplored and Tectonic Tweaks) makes adventuring so much better, also try out Variant Crafting Tables, there's also some other variant-type mods, though these are only for 1.20.1 I think, but you can still use mods to backport some newer features.
Vanilla+ is my situation. Some world generation mods for all 3 dimensions and a mod that ADDS LIGHTNING BUGS and whatnot. Slap some shaders on it and it's cozy as hell.
@@BrunoCosta-jl8uz I'm not a great builder. At least in the crazy creative ways that a lot of people are. I just build a variation of the same general concept for a little house in every world. It's an if it ain't broke don't fix it situation. I stick to what works. And never finish the roof.
@@13_cmi I get it lol, I know some people who just build a big ass plataform, but you know, for your style, if you are comfortable enough, you can always do a house inside a mountain or underground (roof included), you only have to worry about interior design and for bonus it’s expandable :) (Sorry if I came as rude with words, English is not my main)
It's called a lack of creativity. Those of us with enough creativity can just make cool builds and code minigames while everyone else is bored of Minecraft and show it off once everyone is back. Everyone else's off-time from Minecraft is my development time, and everyone else's Minecraft phase is my game release date. I've been a consistent Minecraft player since nearly the beginning, and I'm not slowing down yet.
personally, i don't have the 2 week minecraft phase. my favorite part of minecraft is doing cool builds, so it kinda never runs out. you can keep getting ideas for cool builds and keep making cool builds. i recently went back to minecraft after i got tired of playing tears of the kingdom, and i've been on this one world with my husband and sister for almost a month now. it's so fun and we play till the wee hours of the night haha. also im more of a builder type and my husband is more of a speedrunner type, so he goes and gets all the armor & elytra and i build him nice things. win-win!
Sat here watching the whole video slowly feeling like my 2 week phase is almost up; fully enchanted netherite gear with armor trims and all the fun bells and whistles, and now I’m wondering if I’m gonna play tomorrow. Amazing video and encapsulates at least how I feel about Minecraft near perfectly.
I'd say try keeping that netherite armor exclusively for dangerous expeditions, and never get the elytra, most end-game gear just completely ruins what makes the game fun, try making up some goals like building a windmill or making a gold statue or something goofy like that, make up your own goals, don't do the goals the game has made for you, Minecraft just isn't really the kind of game where you're supposed to follow a specific list of goals or anything like that, don't forget that it's a sandbox. Though that's just my idea, I don't guarantee that it'll save you from the end of your 2 weeks phase, but at the very least playing Minecraft how it's meant to be played, aka as a sandbox, definitely makes the game way more fun and makes it easier to keep motivation for it.
@@ni__wolf143Exactly i just but the barrier that “if the end update is within the next 2 updates i not going” so now i get to make new transport devices like actually making a railway.
I remember when I was younger I'd play split-screen xbox 360 minecraft with my friends and have fun. That was a long time ago. Recently, after being bored of Minecraft for a long time, I played Minecraft on the Switch with my friends-the controls were so janky that basic movement was difficult. We played slowly, and our first night was a struggle to survive: we painstakingly threw together a hut made of a patchwork of different blocks that we had collected during the day. Out of all of us, I knew the most of the game, and my friends were piece-by-piece remembering "*player tried to swim in lava* Oh! Don't dig straight down" and other basics. Struggling through the controls again, genuinely fighting for our lives in the game, and playing with people who don't know its ins-and-outs gave me a taste of what those first days back in 2013 were like for me-magical.
I've noticed the thing I value in a minecraft lets play is not what the player achieves in the game but the story that the player creates, giving names to creatures, talking to them etc. And also generally yapping about their daily life. That's what made me watch all of Stampy's series, and what made me like Paulsoaresjr. We all know the story of "finding better armor and tools, finding eyes of ender, and killing the dragon", that's why creating your own story within is what makes it special and enjoyable
Me and the boys just started our phase. We finally managed to get everyone available and we are having the time of our lives. I love the start when there is an unstoppable flow of ideas and inspiration.
I only ever had the 2 week phase for survival mode, whether it's modded or vanilla. But I used to spend months straight playing minigames and building and socializing on servers. That was where I spent thousands of hours straight as a kid.
Im on week 4 of my minecraft phase. I think im going longer because i just returned from my 5 year break. Week 1, everything seemed fresh although im a veteran. I gathered some logs and built a platform off of the new cherry tree biome mountain where i built my base. Week 2, after lots of mining, i graduated from iron to diamond, and built a giant copper bridge connecting the mountains. Week 3, minecraft turns into a chore. I beat the ender dragon for my first time, by now i have a couple stacks of diamonds. The game looses its magic as a gain knowledge and relize i have a lot to do. Week 4, after exploring, mining and rading structures, i have lots of treasures, 5 stacks of diamonds and at least 6 elytras. I recently built an enderman farm and have basically infanite xp and pearls. I plan on building a beacon after i kill the wither next.
The structure of the video is clean. The edits are well done. The ammount of context, details and explainations are perfect and he conclusion is deep and well written. This video is just perfect. You have done an amazing job, really. Hope to you grow in the future and became a youtuber worth of the respect and attention of the community of this platform. I love to see people making actual good content. 💪
It's funny how despite my age i have nustalga for Minecraft because it was 0:40 the first game i ever played. I remember covering a village in zombies and making a mess of magma blocks and saying that it was my home.
my 2 week phase was a while ago and it was incredible but sadly it was during the game pass trial i often think let's launch a new world but no it was gone from library... with this you convinced me to buy once and for all so thank you niko ;)
until now, I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS SO CALLED 2 WEEK PHASE. i was able to play forever through the years, i always played on legacy x360 then x0ne then eventually bedrock on a switch or somin, Y was i able to play for so long without seemingly a never ending plethora of ideas, or stamina? it was because i always saw these youtubers do things i would never be able to until i got a pc, i have siblings, and in all honesty, except for when i could watch things on youtube with my parents..... i was never allowed to be on the internet so nothing would over stimulate my brain of dopamine, i have a perfect sleep routine thanks to my parents always pushing me, and got plenty of exercise spending hours outside a day till my feet turned black. but the most important thing, and i cant stress this enough. LIMIT HOW MUCH SCREEN TIME YOU HAVE TO LIKE AN HOUR A DAY, unless of course you need to do work, or wanna have social time online with friends.
Just found this video after playing a semi-vanilla SMP I found online with people I had never met before. It has been the most fun I've had with the game for a good while. I think a major way of getting back into the game is just changing the way we play, or who we play with (no disrespect to the old gang ofc), but just getting to meet people as you play for a bit every other day is great! Specially if you find a community that suits your needs (maybe you are not into griefing, PVP, building, etc. It is all about finding what makes you enjoy the experience, IMO). Something that also helps is just not taking stuff (or yourself) too seriously. Enjoy the simplicity of just wandering around, planning a base, automating, making up stories, etc. No rush in anything!
for me its like this: day 1 - get iron tools, armor and build a starter house day 2 - get diamond tools and go to the nether day 3 - get full diamond armor and enchant everything day 4 - build some actually good base/house day 5 (optional) - kill the ender dragon and get elytra repeat after some time 🔄
I got to this video to kill some time after work, and i'm leaving with tears in my eyes. The good old days with the anjocaido launcher, a laptop that would drop frames on notepad, and the absence of responsibilities and things that must be done. A truly wonderful video. :)
got chills every 30 seconds of the video. This means: this video is perfect. When you said "play with the version you grew up with" i remembered a lot of things like when i played on a tablet, and when i got java edition for the first time. 1.11 or 1.12 i dont remember, but i remember the exact time i opened the game.
I have 2 week minecraft phases very often, but I'm still till this day playing the same world. It's more like 2 week of new exciting projects, and then wait for another phase.
Minecraft is simply a game that could never be recreated. The music always makes me drop a tear or two. It is unfortunate that we can only reminisc about the old times knowing we will never experience them again. But this is how it is supposed to be, we need to move on. And when we really need that nostalgia, we start the "two week minecraft phase", get bored, and think about the old times again. There is not a single game coming close to how impactfull minecraft was to my life.
Honestly I think the fact that Minecraft has a definitive "end goal" of killing the dragon that can be achieved so quickly defeats the point of an open-ended sandbox game. Once you beat the dragon, nothing else feels worth it because you've already "beaten the game". If the "end goal" was instead defined purely by the player, this would be at least somewhat remedied. Of course, there is no going back. The End exists now and that's just the way it's going to be, and it's a cool dimension. I just think that the fact it is quite literally "THE END" leads to the end of at least some people's two week phases.
This is it. This is the number 1 issue I have with the game since it got added. It just shouldn't have a goal. Everything before it, feels like it has to work towards the goal, otherwise it's a waste and after, everything is a waste anything because there is nothing to do anymore. Minecraft turned from a perfect sandbox, into a semi-adventure game, with only 1 goal. I never actually beat the dragon once, since, ever since it got added, I could never get far enough without feeling like "Wait. I'm not even playing this for the sake of playing anymore". Everything now feels like it pushes you towards the goal, which is just, not right.
@@Alexia-ys6yx Minecraft has slowly been turning into a dungeon (Structure?) crawler game where you move from structure to structure to grab gear and then beat the game. Sure you can build and mine, but why would you do that? Spawn in, steal a village, take all their loot, find one-three shipwrecks, cast a portal, barter for pearls, rush a fortress with only a shield, find the end, blow up a few beds and you're done. The world doesn't feel empty any more, nor does it feel like 'your world'. It feels like a world populated with various structures, and you exist solely to raid them and then kill a dragon. I'm a big fan of the game Vintage Story which is also an open-ended block-based survival sandbox game, except in that game progression takes time and there is no "END GOAL" meaning that I am content to spend ages just building my little town and exploring the world. The game does have structures, but every single one (except trader wagons, which the game prevents you from breaking or stealing from) is in ruins. They do not offer much loot that isn't just decorative furniture, a few metal scraps or similar weak materials and the occasional clothing piece. (Which is nice, fashion is always fun). I think this is a much better design philosophy than Minecraft - the structures may not have much loot, but if you are interested in building (the many unique decorative items), lore (the lore books you can find) or fashion (the clothing you can obtain) you will still want to seek them out and explore them. I think Minecraft's structures are too filled with loot that they have become the entire main gameplay loop before you reach the end goal and just stop playing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry for the whole essay, I just had a few thoughts about Minecraft and how the common structures combined with a definitive end goal are, in my thoughts, detrimental to the experience. 😅
idk the ender dragon hasn't ever felt like the final boss to me. It kinda feels like the separation between early game and end game. The problem is if you perceive it as a final boss you may never realize that end game minecraft is literally doing whatever u want.
@@ibaili This is true. The dragon isn't the end of the game if you make your own goals. The only problem is that once you have "beaten the game", making your own goals can seem futile to some players. It depends if people have the mentality of "I already beat the game. Why should I build something?" or not.
@@genericusername5671 my point exactly. People often struggle when there is no clear goal ahead. Typically in games they tell you what to do but that’s not fully the case with sandbox games. To take it a step further, minecraft which literally tells you nothing about how to play it and it’s up to your interpretation. This being influenced by the other games you’ve played since they already have a format that you could apply to minecraft.
Wow, this is wildly accurate. Ever since I started playing Pocket Edition when I was nine, I've been having two week Minecraft phases about twice a year. The reason I'm watching this is because I'm in the midst of one right now. I've spent hours of each evening this week building a little lakeside town in creative and I'm having the time of my life, but I know it's only a matter of time before I run out of building ideas and forget the game exists for another six months. Great video!
I never listened to minecraft with music as a kid, idk why, but I've always been sad the tracks never became a core memory for me. Instead, the music that would play in my favorite Minecraft TH-camrs videos are what brings me that feeling of bittersweetness and nostalgia c:
The feeling of acomplishment on your first world was unreal, not just beating the ender dragon or surviving your first night. But every single thing felt so good when you did it
I was introduced to Minecraft in 2010, just before I went to college. My uncle set me up with a pirate copy to test out the server in Alpha 1.0.15. A few months later, I bought the game, and playing on his server when I was home from college was some of the high points of my late teens and early 20s.
I've been playing minecraft consistently for years with my squad because we create storylines for every single one of our servers. It makes for endless opportunities for gameplay because when you run out of something to do, you just decide how to add to the story or what happens next, or add new lore. It's extremely fun
So basically all we need to do is go back in time, become kids, have no responsibilities and enjoy life again... Enjoying life is not an option nowadays for the average human with high aspirations unfortunately.
Yes I know I mixed up Sweden with Subwoofer Lullaby. I am also aware that I called it Sunflower instead of Subwoofer, oops lol
It's okay we forgive you 👍
and also ur greek???? i would never known im greek too man
Whenever I hear Sweden I think of my old tv stand, and the Xbox controller in my hand, thanks for bringing back my memories Niko, you’re a w
Erm actually its subwoofer lullaby
@@Tan_The_M4nI don’t mean to make Niko feel embarrassed about it cause it’s an honest mistake but yea the track name is actually subwoofer lullaby lol
I remember every night I would go downstairs and play minecraft with my dad for hours. We build castles and I vividly remember we were trying to push animals into our pens instead of luring them because we didnt know what that was! Unfortunately, we stopped playing together. Last year, my dad died to cancer, and I've never cried harder running through our old world, looking at the landmarks, unfilled creeper explosion holes, farms, etc. Minecraft is truly more than just a game, it holds so, so, so many memories that we can just never get again.
Edit - All of the replies on this are so sweet 😭 I know all of you are just some random youtube commenters that I don't know anything about but it really warms my heart waking up, opening my phone and seeing so much gratitude. Thanks guys :)
I'm so sorry about your dad. I can't imagine how it feels to lose a loved one like that. I hope you get/do better.
oh man this makes me want to cry. I'm sorry about your dad, Minecraft truly is a masterpiece isn't it
sending love ❤
Sorry for your dad:
God bless you
I never go through a two week Minecraft phase, I’m always the last one in the server after a month when no one else is playing
Same, it is such an empty feeling being all alone in a world which once used to be filled with life.
I agree. I still get laughed at for wanting to play bedwars with friends from school. They all finish their phases while I haven't stopped between them.
@@pople5996easily one of the most deflating experiences throughout my gaming life
ME TOO OMFG
@@pople5996 I used to walk around the buildings remembering the memories of we building them, thats enough to make a grown man cry
2 week Minecraft phase stages
Stage 1: Watching Minecraft videos
Stage 2: Thinking about playing Minecraft (like in the videos)
Stage 3: Open Minecraft
Stage 4: New survival world, enjoy it for a while
Stage 5: spent too long without making progress/ bored of repetition
Stage 6: Stop playing Minecraft for a while
Stage 7: start watching TH-cam videos
Stage 8: Refer to stage 1
reject modernity. return to building.
I left MC forever, not even a 2 week phase. Bc its just doesn't feel the same. Im not saying that MC is a bad game, the reason is - we grew up.
@@UwuUwu-td7do I think id just tjat people dtay with the core game and dont go beyond, dont lesrn more. They dont go to the different pvp game modes and communities surrounding it, the parkour communities and server, the modded scene, the minigame servers, the rpg servers, the ctm ones. No custom maps, no nothing other than the good old reliable. And the core game is good imo, is just that doing the same thing iver and over again will get stale. Specially if you dont go beyond defeating the ender dragon and wither. Like with mod things in mc, you have to go out of your way to look for all the fun stuff. Sometimes even make your own objectives. Like getting better at mechanics of the game, or deepening your knowledge of redstone, or learning how to speedrun, or learning how to build well. Idk, I just think people get bored bc they dont try other aspects of the game, and get bored of the only thing they know. Thats nothing bad, everyone can get bored, but the problem is not even the game or growing up.
And the funny thing is that they might not even know alll of that exists. You really have to actively look for all it. For anyone that might want something fresh, try mcc island, or monumenta, or hoplite. Maybe you like it.
@@UwuUwu-td7do i had a period like that but then i found out how to use mods, the game is so good but its unplayable in vanillla bc its too boring
5:53 everyone knows that real OG players never killed or killed just 1 time the ender dragon
I've been playing since 2012 or something and I dont think I've killed the ender dragon in survival yet
i've only killed the ender dragon for the first time a few months ago, been playing since 1.5.4
I’ve never done it on my own, at least legitimately
But i have defeated the ender dragon with friends.
Its a goal of mine to someday start a world and kill the ender dragon on my own lol I just could never play a world long enough to do it 😭😂
Or they played Draconian Evolution on 1.7.12 and farmed them for the fusion reactor fuel that would inevitably blow up and nuke the server due to someone sneezing in its general direction
Started on 1.2.5, never even seen The End. I just recently realized that horses have been in the game for over a decade and still haven't recovered.
My 2 week phase
- create a new world
- obtain woods,foods,stone
-strip mine or mining for the entire time
(I love mining)
oh my god same. I don't even make bases, I just live in the caves 😭
You are a gigachad. I'm so base-obsessed that I've wanted to do a homeless run for forever, but I keep putting it off.
@@StarboyXL9 wouldn't recommend it if you like building bases tbh. the limited inventory space is a huge issue after like 2 hours of gameplay
The -children- furries yearn for the mines.
I also love miners
What's so surreal to me is that it isn't only our generation that has gone through this Minecraft phase. I have a little sister who is 4 years old, and she happened to stumble upon Minecraft while watching some slop on TH-cam. At points, she'd come into my room to say goodnight to me, while I'd be in my 2 week Minecraft phase, playing with some friends, and she'd be like "Is that Minecraft?" It fills me with such joy that the generations after us will get to experience the same games we grew up with, even if they are through different mediums.
Im 2 hours Minecraft phase every 2nd day
Same thing with my little brother haha
@@Djcorrrcool pfp
I have the same thing! I have a nephew and although I dislike the content he usually watches, I once stumbled upon him watching a Minecraft video. It was just a tutorial on how to build something, but seeing that just made me grateful that Minecraft can still entertain younger generations.
That's sweet but please get her off TH-cam 😭
Minecraft really is the only game that has made me tear up consistently, and it doesn't even have a storyline. Its YOUR story in those worlds. Maybe that's what's so sad, happy, nostalgic, lonely, and overall melancholy about it. It is a testament about you. It its your own life and struggles, all your memories, in a single game. And that's beautiful.
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That goes so hard bro. Especially when you read the "finale" text after beating the ender dragon.
Ultimate 'rpg' yet its the exact opposite of one. crazy game, notch is an artist.
Not that deep
@@turtlesrprettycool3379maybe to them it is.
8:39 “That feeling of experiencing your favorite game for the first time.” This is the key: don’t round up the squad to play something old. Round them up to play something new! When Content Warning released, my friends and I had a BLAST playing something new, exploring, messing up.
This was me with Lethal Company, I haven't had so much fun playing with friends on a game since 2020.
My friends and I love playing Content Warning and watching our vids back!
Stepping up the production value, are we?
Good work on the video, it's very well edited and fairly concise.
just on ocassion
@@nikoyaps As a minecraft youtuber myself ( a smaller caliber ) this is VERY high quality!
Well he did quit the other editing job, he has more time, good for you Niko 😚
@@nikoyaps you should try doing this at least once a while, I thoroughly enjoyed it! Ill keep listening to your yaps tho. They help me quite a lot.
@@nikoyaps Also for two weeks? Haha jk, well done!
That feeling of having none of your squad around anymore... hits hard.
2015, 1.7.10 Pixelmon server... i built a nice town, with as many as twenty folks inhabiting it. Then as it dwindled I saved the chunks locally before the server had any chance to reset the world, and, most of my future 2 week phases involved going back, solo, to that town, and fixing it, improving it with new blocks, and reminiscing all the memories that are part of it. I even kept a copy of what it was like the moment I saved it in 2016, to compare to present time. I also miraculously got 1 guy to connect to Skype again and visit my restored town with me for a bit, but he was no longer the hyperactive kid i once heard, he was, like me, a grown adult, and with a gf and responsibilities... so to him this adventure was just that, memories.
calling on skype to play minecraft is a memory i forgot i had...
u just unlocked so many memories 😭 skype, pixelmon, 1.7.10 was so good
It’s Always so sad seeing people drop their life like that, becoming npcs
The rest of us that are left are mentally ill
1.7.x will always be the most nostalgic to me. I remember starting a world in the amplified world type because it was brand new. I used TONS of stained glass and colored wool in a build that made use of several exposed caves in a mountainside. Then I remember making the Pixelmon servers... My friends never cared enough to learn how to port forward so they could host a server, so I spent forever learning how to do it correctly. My family had an odd router at the time so I really had no clue what I was doing. I even made a custom config for the lucky blocks mod that would spawn Pokemon structures, summon legendaries or shinies, or give you Pokemon items. God I miss those days...
If you wanna have someone to play with you in your server hmu
The part about feeling alone because your friends aren't around anymore hits the hardest. People whom i literally grew up with, met with irl, are just gone. Some leave slowly, some are just gone after 1 day :(
i got the same feeling man... and i feel lonely so if you need someone to play with i am here.
SAME! Its just sad
i only had this feeling with the official foolcraft 3 server. some people i met there would play every day for months, but after server resets and the eventual server shutdown we havent spoken in a long time
I don't understand why you people response to these complaints and do not even care of creating the new friends group to play stuff, and just chill with each other, for long time you wish.
Why I never wanna bother with servers anymore I just play single player. Oh I'm getting bored? Dl some mods add some spice to it.
OG Minecrafter here, I never defeated the Ender Dragon after so much time passing. I love the game so much to just rush through it. I play at my pace and really enjoy the highs and lows, from finding diamonds to falling in lava and loosing everything. I’m so grateful that my old friend Anthony showed me this game on his box tv that we had to bang on to fix the vertical lines in the midst of 2013. We had so much fun and tried to start a TH-cam channel that didn’t succeed. Time passed on and we fell apart, but I still play by myself everyday. I’m going to the Air Force soon and hopefully I can still play there. Also, I can’t wait to have a child of my own so we can make so many great memories on Minecraft together. I will show em da way…
i have defeated it once, with my gf, with stone hoes and shovels, on a call, laughing and having fun with it. that's a good way to do it
Out of sheer curiosity, is that channel still up and are you willing to share it? Old Minecraft videos are sometimes an experience to watch.
"you realise that what you are looking for only exist in your memories" that shit hit realy realy hard, my man... Can be applied on a ton of subjects. Great vid btw !
tbh you cant be even sure that ur memories are real, they just feel this way, there are so many things that happend in your life that you prob dont remember but will get random flash back of it few years later
Really painful realization
enjoyment of delusion
This has convinced me to again begin my 2 week Minecraft phase.
How's week 2 going
Comment is almost 13 days ago. We'd like a full detailed report of the phase.
Now that your phase is over please can we have a report
guys I think he's not coming back alive...
Hi, I have a server if some people want to play :)
1.21.1 vanilla chill and open 24/24
Just there : discord.gg/NvvZyvkAsV
We are actually 4 on the server
I've begun noticing a rise of this nostalgia in negative ways. Many people complain that Minecraft is not the same, which is true, evidently. But why does nobody consider their own change and growth. Minecraft is 13 years old. A lot happens in that time, no matter what stage of life you were in. Your brain has changed, therefore, Minecraft will never be able to be the same. You will never be 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 again. Whenever you discovered your love for Minecraft, you will never be there again. We are all growing up. To be able to embrace Minecraft today, you have to say goodbye to your childhood. You have to accept that those memories are now nostalgia, a past version of your life. But the great thing is, you still carry all of the joy and wonder with you that you did then, and Minecraft has grown up with us. Playing Minecraft today alone is not quite as lonely anymore. I'm playing a game that has watched me grow and change, a game that has seen me through good grades, bad grades, abuse, COVID, partners, jobs, and so much more. Minecraft is a game like no other, in the way it has somehow managed to become a friend to all of its community. It has grown and changed just like we all have. Give it another approach, but with the eyes of who you are now, not who you wish you still were. Two weeks might start to seem like not enough.
Well said. Took me years to let go of the old minecraft and start playing the new one. You just get to that age where you realise it’s been with you all this time and you can still enjoy playing it despite how long you’ve had it.
Speaking true facts. I think people say that because now life is so different for all of us and we'd like to go back to certain moments of our childhood and Minecraft seems like the perfect option for that, only that it has changed, and that is normal. But they don't like the idea that they can't go back cause it's changed and they have changed too.
We can't go back to those moments because they are in the past and I know it feels awful. But we can be glad and proud that we lived in this golden era.
I'm honestly crying rn. This is beautiful, thank you. I agree.
Everyone: "You've changed, you aren't the game I fell in love with."
Minecraft: "You've changed too, you aren't the player I fell in love with when you were seven."
hate to be that guy but its actually 15 years old
For me the biggest killer is the speedrun friends, you been on the server one day and they got diamonds and iron farms and its like chill man, its not a race
imo the thing that stops be from playing longer is when i play for a while then realize i just have to grind
Then you should check out an older version, I'm playing on 1.7.10 and I don't really have to worry about grinding
Here's what I do, I take the game incredibly slow (no you don't have to take it as slow as me) but building is actually so much fun, gathering the resources, planning it out, all with stone or iron tools I have a blast, there's no reason for you to do anything, you don't have to do anything, just play how you want too, it doesn't matter.
@Thekorbanator I totally get that but I get so quickly bored of building if I dont have a good pickaxe with efficiency and a normal axe, I just don't want to deal with waiting one second between blocks. Still I used to do what you're talking about and it does have it's merits. It's a matter of opinion
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Yes, this! I get so bored easily that not even older versions can fix this for me.
On the other hand, the grind in Terraria feels much much better, with no durability and keep inventory by default. And you can pretty early on start creating beautiful builds (and Journey mode is just the best thing ever)! Only problem is lack of shaders and the 3rd dimension :/
I have of course tried to mod Minecraft, but that process gets boring too.
First video I’ve ever seen of this topic…and I’ve just gotten back into the phase. Perfect Timing.
same
Me too!
algorhithm
Same
Same
i remember when i was in middle and elementary school, i would be watching stampylongnose/head, leo the bear guy and iiballisticsquid having a fun time on minecraft.
eventually like everyone else, i grew out of the phase after multiple years, when high school started for me (2020) everything went down the drain. i couldn't ever afford minecraft, and growing up with my grandparents, they didn't want to put their debit/credit card online. i was always upset because i never got to play it until this year, when i could finally buy it myself (i've graduated high school now) and i've never felt so free and like i wanted to cry so much in a good way. i downloaded stampy's lovely world and just sat there crying for an hour before i finally ran around the world so overwhelmed with happiness.
thank you for making this video, genuinely, it explains so much.
I think that this topic relates to me a lot. I used to have times where I played Minecraft every day, then stopped a while and out of nowhere come back to it. It was like Minecraft was speaking to me, calling me to play again.
It does you know.
I think the fact that it's both a game and sandbox, you can always come back to it and don't have to "remember" the mechanics or where you left off when you don't play other games for awhile. And the creativity. Every human has a nature to be creative so that's the part that always calls me back, when I have an idea for a building or design. I love creative games like sims also cause I spend ours in the build mode. The creativity is what calls us back imo
as a greek person myself, cracked minecraft was a savior to my childhood
Κι εγώ είχα πολλά "cracked" παιχνίδια κατεβασμένα.
its a savoir to me becuase google and microsoft BOTH decided to FK me at SAME TIME and why do i want to buy it again when i ALLREADY BAUGHT IT, but MAJOR PROBLEM, popular minecraft CRACKED launchers decided something STUPID they REQUIRE INTERNET WHAT WHY!!!! some peaople pirate and crack games to PRESERVE them SK LAUNCHER is USELESS 100% for that!!!!!!!! (it REQUIRES INTERNET TO UPDATE WHY!!!!!!!!) and if it cant update when wants to REFUSES TO OPEN!!!!!!!
as a turkish guy, same here! i remember begging my friend for his cracked minecraft lmao
I ain't greek but Minecraft was expensive in my country and I would never ever play it and have the time of my life during my childhood if Minecraft cracked never existed
Anyone remembers "Explore", the cracked version of Minecraft PE in the playstore?
It feels nice for me to see myself grow better and better at the game after each phase
this is so true!!!
My biggest frustration with playing with certain friends is how hellbent they are on making progress to the point where I made my own separate world for just me. My friends would occasionally join and ask why I wasn’t fully geared with enchants and diamond armor within a week when I was busy trying to pace myself and focus on building. In the time I built a nice big barn, a wool factory and panda enclosure my friends had already beaten their world and were bored of the game. I wanted a world where I took my time, invested in the world and now 6 months later I have one that has multiple villages of varying themes, large structures, enclosures and sanctuaries for a decent amount of mobs, storage buildings like a greenhouse for every plant in the game, color storage for every colored variant block like glass, terracotta, concrete etc, a wood shop for all wood variants etc. Now my friends join and enjoy walking around my world and compliment me on it but that wouldn’t have happened had I gone at their pace of speeding running the main progression points.
My feelings towards this is get the grindy main game out of the way, get yourself diamond and enchants, and elytra etc. Then you can collect materials and build all your cool stuff easier. I've done too many mining and woodchopping sessions with stone and iron tools in my past 12 years of playing this game, I want to get to what is widely considered the "fun" part of the game, and be able to help my other builder friends with farms and stuff.
My man, the average time needed for diamonds is 2-5 HOURS how do u even manage to play fro a weeak and not have them??
Lmao I'm so sorry the replies here are exactly missing the point. That's kinda why it sucks, we can understand and emphathise with the guys who wanna go fast but they refuse or literally cannot understand or empathise with people like us that just wanna take our time. Not the replies still being like "this is how you CAN get diamonds"/"you SHOULD have diamonds by now" that's not the pointttt
@@RubixPsyche you farm for your fancy blocks with the slowest possible tools bud, that's fine. Just trying to help out my friends
@@okyloky9432 yea man, god bless the homies we talk about in those meme videos of "i asked my friend to help get some sand and they decimated a desert" like genuinely, when we're going for big big builds. They're lifesavers especially if you have other commitments like exams. But when they're so built for just One Mode and that's Fast, it's just sad we can't have both things, our enjoyment of the game, and their company. Because their company, when they actually Cannot Handle Slowing Down (not their fault), immediately means it's not fun anymore when we wanna chill. It feels unfair when we're willing to speed up to match their pace, but they're not willing to slow down to match ours. Neither of us should be more 'right' than the other
when I was younger, I would wake up the earliest out of my family members. I would get out of bed on the weekend, sneak downstairs, turn on the good old playstation 3, and play Minecraft until my mom woke up. I also remember my brother calling his friend on the home phone and playing together for hours while I sat on the couch in awe at how they were able to play in survival mode. I never had friends who were interested in Minecraft when I was younger, but now that I have friends who play, that 2 week Minecraft phase heals a part of my inner child.
i used to do the same thing!! i distinctly remember waking up at 7am to go play minecraft only to go wake my mom up at 7:30 to ask her how to spell "cookie dough" so that i could name my minecraft horse lol
Ye I did the same thing but sometimes I would sneak down at 3 lol
i vividly remember playing Minecraft CLASSIC and the demo version for free for the first time on Minecraft’s website back in 2011, and then in summer of 2012 buying the full game. I remember me and my brothers taking turns playing it on one of the family computers that we had, making our worlds, downloading maps, playing on servers like The Hive, Hypixel, and Mineville.
From 2011 to 2024 now, I’ve seen Minecraft evolve from so many versions, updates, eras, and mutually, the game has seen me at different versions, eras, phases… from when I was 7, to now almost 20 years old .
Ive played Minecraft from virtually every generation- from the old blocky Windows XP computer and Xbox 360, to the newest gen PS5, Minecraft isn’t only the longest game I’ve continuously played but one of my best friends. forever be grateful to Mojang for creating a masterpiece
From the old blocky Windows XP to the new shitty Windows 11
Jokes aside, I feel you. I started playing on Pocket Edition back in like 2013 or so. Now I'm also almost 20, and rarely play Minecraft. I just can't think of anything to do before I get bored. Heck, I've been a gamer my whole life, but during the last year or so, I just don't enjoy almost any video game anymore. It's honestly really sad. All I enjoy is being productive or going out and doing stuff irl, which I almost never do.
Yo man, if you wanna spice up your worlds I bought the tinkers construct add on and it’s so awesome!! Closest we have to mods on console and it’s so refreshing bro
spotify is always out there to make me cry, just randomly putting minecraft background music in at the moments where im most active thinking, and then me just tearing up from the good memories flooding in
real
Idk, Minecraft music annoys the sht out of me so I always had it turned off for the last 7 years 😂
@@BLET_55artem55 thats what we all thought at first :3
you have a stack of likes
3:37 I am that one friend, I just didn't realize it til it happened multiple times to my friends who had 2 week minecraft phases. My 2 week minecraft phase is inverted, though. I play it for 50 weeks and then take 2 weeks off.
I can relate to it LOL, Minecraft is my lifestyle atp
@@michalendooo love it lol
Your english is so good that I haven't thought you might be a fellow balkan member
fr man
same
He's Greek,
@@RavenVader01 And Greece is in the Balkans
neither did i
My "2 Week Phase" basically goes like this:
1. Booting up the game with my favourite mods
2. Making a new world
3. Running around, looking for a good biome/place to make a base which can take a lot of time (If i have a bad spawn, i make another world)
4. Having fun for a while, building a house, finding materials, mine for a bit
5. It's getting late and I most likely have to go to work tomorrow
6. Logging out, remembering that I also have a huge backlog of games i haven't even started yet
7. Forgetting about MC and coming back some time later
8. Trying to remember what I did previously, coming up with huge plans on what to build, what to get, etc etc
9. Getting bored after an hour of playing because of the grind for my plans
10. Logging out, not coming back for another half a year
11. Repeat this every 6-8 months
The thing is, I have so much to do, too many games to play so I can't just relax and enjoy the game properly
And the grind for my builds and projects takes a lot of time and patience (which i don't have most of the time (or at least i think so))
It's hard to get back into the game I once loved when there are a bunch of things on my mind that I can't stop thinking about while I'm playing:
"I could've been playing that game I bought on sale"
"I have to get up early tomorrow, can only play for an hour"
"This build will take me at least 4 hours to make"
"Can't find the biome I'm looking for but I don't want to use Chunkbase"
"What should I build next? Watch tower? That's gonna take a lot of stone and I don't have the time to mine for it"
Such a shame
psstt, uussee chunkbaassee it's a life saver for getting that perfect base locattiiooonn
i usually play with my siblings and cousins on a server so even if I'm bored building giant farms and builds they get to relax and enjoy the game and thank me lol
@@averyblurryduck749 The fact that he doesn't want to use chunkbase is very understandable. If you actually play minecraft survival without wanting to cheat, you'll know how unfair chunkbase is, but in the later game I usually allow myself to use it.
This is why I started playing my survival worlds with cheats enabled, but not creative by default. I don't have to grind for the materials to landscape a beach. Just F3 + F4 and build. I don't have to grind if I don't want to. It takes the charm and some of the fun out of playing survival but I don't have the time to no life the game anymore
Watching this while playing MC btw
My little advice is to take it slow, you don't have to rush things, like, the other games are and will be there, if you enjoy one game now, play it, if it gets boring, go play another, neat thing about gaming is, you can let yourself get spoiled a bit, meaning if one game gets boring, you can play another, they will be always there, they won't escape, you know what I mean? hopefully this comment helps a bit. Just wanted yo say that you don't need to force yourself into something you don't want to do (when talking about gaming ofc), relax, go with the flow, gaming is time if rest and enjoyment, it is a free time activity, not a chore. Yeah, that's it. Hope this helps.
I had a two week phase with a server called Novylen, the oldest known server, I had started a town and made a load of friends, eventually we started expansion, but that was right before summer break ended. By the end of summer, everyone had left, this summer they didn't come back. If anyone who was there sees this, Mystyvale isn't the same without you, Godspeed.
I remember that server from a video but I could never connect because the server always gave the error that you need to use a proxy? Also don’t have a minecraft account anymore and most servers don’t allow cracked players unfortunately
@@user-10021Anymore? What happened to your account? Did you forget the login info?
@@nutella_wewerehere Unable and unwilling to migrate to a Microsoft account (I hate modern Microsoft) and I’m sure as hell not paying again for something I already paid for before, so Tlauncher it is
I feel like it's important how you mentioned that nowdays most people play Minecraft so fast on TH-cam and when I had my short Minecraft phase, I played it slow, like real slow... I wouldn't even focus on beating the game, I'd spend like a week on building a pretty house and mining, but then I always felt slightly guilty that I didn't get into nether by day one and barely have any resources.. But when I get another Minecraft phase I'll probably do the same again.
this video genuinely made me tear up, because it made me remember the times when I knew nothing about the game, and playing with my brother and just building random houses, and dying in caves, and eventually getting to the nether, and then leaving out of fear. This game is the most nostalgic game ever. Nothing will ever compare to the early 2010s of minecraft.
Affording a house line hit hard. Thanks
This explains why by the time my friends, who speed run to The End, get bored while I'm content just building the world above
Minecraft isn't just a game its a world of things of creation and memories and getting to learn new things that you cant do in life.
I play Minecraft to have fun, but every single time I play I always set myself a small goal to do by the end of the day. Maybe something like making a farm, or building a new room in my house. Personally, I found that this method makes Minecraft much more fun. Of course, I still progress but not as quick as somebody who just speedruns the game straight away. I have a world that I’ve been playing on for about 1-2 weeks now (not every single day though) and this is how I’ve kept myself entertained. I don’t just straight away build an XP farm, grind, go strip mining and find a crap ton of diamond. Although I do have some, it’s because I was exploring caves and having fun while doing it! And whenever I get bored of doing a small goal, I either stop doing it and start another one or I just stop playing for the day. It’s that simple!
Of course, this is just a personal method and this may not be what helps. But this is just what I do, and this way I’ve been able to keep my old worlds for even a few months!
Hope that helps :)
On my main world on Java, i'm currently making an underwater base. I also improved the design of a village, and I built a wall around it. I also stored a few things in that village, since I set up a mini camp there. I plan to connect both of these points and other landmarks around my world using a nether minecart system. I don't try to beat the game or make crazy farms or anything like that. I stick to my playstyle, just like you and everyone that plays the game has a playstyle. You can be a builder, a redstone enginner, an explorer, a speedrunner, a miner, whatever. This tip will help you stick to your world for longer than simply two weeks. Your comment is an example of this tip. Hats off to you for figuring out what many cannot.
Always stop playing when you're bored and have no goal left. Just get off the game and do something else and you'll find eventually you'll think of something to do in the game and build the motivation and excitement inside, and then when you get back on it's exciting.
@@Dude8718 Yeah, exactly! I like that :]
This is pretty much what I've been doing the past week or so! I've finally created my own creative world again, after years of reluctantly playing survival with friends on multiplayer servers, and it's really brought back my love for the game.
I'm turning a village I found into a "city", i.e. building a wall, a church, etc., which has given me all these little goals/projects I can do in about a day or two and keeps me motivated to continue!
I'm very excited for where this world is gonna be in a few weeks, let alone further into the future!
I now feel so lucky as I am in high school and am experiencing the “glory days” of Minecraft right now. Thank you.
enjoy it :)
When people tell you those are the best years of your life, they mean it. Don't waste them thinking adulthood is where the good life is.
same
@@JohnDoeWasntTaken well it depends on the person. I much more enjoy my adult life than my teenager life
I found starting a realm with my coworkers has been fun team building
Becuase then we can either all play together after work or play separately building whenever we have time
It's made it so easy to maintain having fun in the game for several months at a time
We play regular Vanilla survival but we're all work in tech so we still build some crazy automated farms I think having that healthy mix of building weird contraptions but also within the limits of the game without using commands is definitely what keeps it interesting without burning out on the game
This video makes me happy. I've had this same experience for years. I usually play with my brother or my friend that I also played with back in the day. I try to take it slow, but by the time I have my farm built, they've beaten the Ender Dragon with full Netherite while I don't even know what Netherite is yet, let alone how to get it.
I recently made a new friend in group therapy and we've been hanging out a lot. She asked me to play Minecraft together, and after like 5 or 6 sessions... We're finally finishing up our first house. We haven't even really MINED yet. And we still have so many plans. I haven't had so much fun with the game since my first year of high school.
I agree with the fact that Minecraft have to be more "slow paced".
We started a Beta 1.7.3 server with my friends a few months ago and it was honestly much funnier than all of our 2 weeks phase : No sprinting, not more than 200 blocks, no hunger bar... The simplicity just felt like we were discovering Minecraft again.
True. I started a minecraft server with my friend last month, and I stopped playing a week in because my friend was speedrunning it. He wouldn’t take the time to decorate his base, and he had full enchanted diamond 3 days in. I couldn’t understand why he was trying so hard. He would get mad at me when I suggested he added wood to his base, as it was nothing more than a cobblestone box with a bunch of furnaces built into the wall. My favourite way to play Minecraft is to build, take it slow, and enjoying every sweet piece of that nostalgia I can muster. That is the essence of minecraft to me.
@@meghanandrockmackay5804 There is no right way to play minecraft. I agree that the way he plays prolly doesn't allow for much fun but that's the way he wants to play. What I do to encourage my friends to build (they think they suck at it (which is prolly tru, i wouldnt know cause they dont build) is to build my own things and let them marvel at them. I've been playing for 14 or 15 years so obviously im going to be way better than my friend who has never really built anything. If they make a comment about my build I encourage them to build something of their own. Usually what happens is they say they're too bad at building to build, but over the years i've gotten that thought down to a, "I suck at building but maybe I'll try to make something." They still haven't tried but changing their perception to be more willing and open to building goes a long way (even past minecraft as this is just a lesson in perception and mentality.
If you can convince your friend to build I suggest a complement sandwich method of 2 things you liked about the build and 1 thing you think they can do better (try and make the thing they can do better small. Ex. Hey I like the palate you chose but maybe if you add logs to the corners it could add a bit more depth.) this sustains their ego while giving tips to help them become better builders.
Sorry for such a long comment I jus felt like it
What can I say, I hope you could listen to my following story real quick, this video represents it so perfectly, I think everyone had those times: ->
I get so much flashbags of my own Minecraft-World that I also play on my YT-Channel (Its in german), now the world is nearly 3 years old. I miss the times where my friends played all at the same time and almost begged me to open the server once more, a group of 5 main players and in total around 15 friends played in this world. Even some I didnt even knew irl joined the world.
We build a giant city stretching over 500 blocks, some smaller towns, underground bases, accurate miltary recreations.
We created politics, realms. It happened so rarely that someone's house got damaged due to trolling.
Even if it happened it was another part of the whole story and would be remembered for all the coming episodes I made. Now I am stuck at episode 204, nearly 2000 hours in this world... And in the end what did I got from it. Nothing...
Nothing then some of the best memorys I could ever get, all these times will be remembered for an eternity in my mind. When I hopped on to different games with a few friends and we ended up playing together at 3AM, one time even playing till next morning. But as said before, it ended up with you being only.
My last friend says he still likes playing it but I am pretty sure that this is a lie, he doesnt even try to keep playing just playing it once a month, back then we played almost every day. I wouldnt call it betray, but I guess he wants to convince me that we could keep the community alife, just us two. But that just isnt possible, 15 people, now 2...
And at last only one lasts... Me, searching desperatly for new friends that wanna play the world with me, or trying to get the old ones back.
I am the one that has these 2 week minecraft phases before taking breaks from it. I keep building like they are still there, keep writing storys like they are still at my side, saying things like they would all come back in a few days, just for me to realise that its not going to be the case. That I'll be stuck alone, and all these times we played are now just memorys that are NEVER going to come back ever again.
It was such a nice time and this video reminds me of it so much. I guess all that played mincraft can agree on that.
That is why I love GTNH ( modpack ). Its huge, and takes forever. but because of that, It makes me slowdown and pace myself. Building a factory, planning what I would need, and doing it slowly.
your feelings were irrational
Minecraft is a game that connected with us as kids so much because it fostered the creativity our child selves so desperately needed to express. When you have the urge for that two week Minecraft phase it's your inner child deep within you silently begging to be nurtured. Realizing this, I've found that the best way to prolong the two week Minecraft phase is to let that little kid in me be free and to build stupid things that make me happy instead of getting the best tools or building with the most ornate detail possible and then tearing it all down because it "doesn't make sense". That little kid I used to be would have just built a wooden box for a house and you know what? That's okay.
Crazy how i went from playing minecraft everyday to once or twice a year. 7 years ago, that was my last time i truly enjoy playing minecraft, since then 2 week minecraft phase hits me hard. I remember my last time playing minecraft was a year ago with my high school friends before i moved out for college and it was like a week and a half. Sometimes i look into my old youtube videos to see my younger self playing minecraft, just to hope someday i can enjoy playing minecraft like what i used to.
this is the best comment, exatcly the same, happens with a lot of games
active life is HARD AF even with the job you love if you think about how things were
I still enjoy it. I do go through the on and off phases but I still really love the game. Just I'll play 12 hours from night to sunrise and get a little bored for a while. But when I actually am playing a game usually I'm super into it. I've been installing mods and whatnot too so it's an interesting fresh experience.
This might be one of the best videos ive ever watched. Mixed with nostalgia and describing exactly how everyone feels is crazy.
2012, was playing this game with my older brother when I was 8 and he was 10 on our xbox 360. I'm 20 now, still play with close friends in these brief 2-week periods, but nothing will take away the fun and memories I had with my brother on the tutorial world on splitscreen. I vividly remember it being the closest period of our lives together, before life happened, and it makes me sad in ways I don't necessarily know how to describe. Not to mention playing with my friends on my shitty $50-100 computer (Green Asus, I loved it) at 15-20 fps til 2am on school nights, those are another bundle of memories. This video hits man, and makes me think back to when I was closer with others and gaming was still a surreal experience. Minecraft has been with me for a long time and has connected me with so many great people that I have had the pleasure of meeting in real life and I can't thank this game enough for the amazing memories it had produced.
I'm 15 and I've played Minecraft since I was 4, but honestly I think my MC peak is now. I used to play solo with no friends and now almost every friend I have is willing to hop on Minecraft every so often. Actually just spent the last 5 hours doing random stuff in creative with a friend. Of course we don't commit to much. Our longest server ended because someone used xray and found my secret base which sent everyone into an anger filled spiral. Our second longest server ended because the owner "accidentally" deleted it after dying. The 3rd longest and my favorite server got deleted by the server host I was using. All of these failures yet my friend group is so persistent.
It’s the circle of life, i have the same story to tell from 10/12 years ago
My buddy and I have had a realm for 6 months. We haven't even been to the end yet. We've both only killed a few endermen. We have been building massive projects.
Thanks man for this Video its just Perfect i saved it and gonna rewatch it sometimes
U just described excactly what we should so to play the game healthy and long living
Thanks.
Its always the start of summer when I think 2 things, no school, but then I remember Minecraft. no school fits so well with Minecraft in my mind.
the biggest thing i get from playing minecraft is it's natural landscapes and rural feel, which i long for as a city dweller, so every time i play it, continue my house in a forest, explore biomes and converse in villages, it feels like i'm on a holiday!
but like with all holidays, they always come to an end and then you have to get back to work.
Am I the only one who's never experienced this "2 week minecraft phase??" Like I've been playing minecraft since I was 7, and I would play it on and off for months at a time.
ihaven't played mc that much but i did have this phase wherei played for like 3 weeks, then 1 month, then 2 weeks, etc.
since i got minecraft ive literally never stopped help
Yeah, same. I started around 1.16, but I’ve played the game a lot, never really having stopped. I’ll get bored of a certain aspect, but then I’ll just go do something else. Don’t think I’ve ever gone a week without at least watching a Minecraft related vid, a month without launching the game.
i had fear playing alone, all by myself... with no one to play even when i was 6 or 8, i played roblox instead for many years and still plays to this date. i wish i had friends to play minecraft (Edit: i found people to play minecraft on a modpack, im happy right now.)
same i have been playing the game for like 7 years and never had a two week phase
My friend group barely plays minecraft. It's only really two of us who do, most others hop on for barely a day and never come back. I'm guilty of speedrunning, and what you've said is right. I just find myself inconvenienced by how things don't mine as fast as netherite, but I struggle a lot with staying focused and engaged in anything anymore. When I'm not speedrunning, I get bored fast because I can't seem to keep myself interested, and that's not even a minecraft thing, I can't even focus on what I want to do as a job, art, and I love it. I have to always be doing something and moving forward, not slowing down...but I should try. Even if it's a struggle, I should try. Thanks for this, I'm glad this popped into my feed.
Wow. Nice editing on this one dude. Totally relate to everything said in this. I ended up breaking my "two week Minecraft phase" by doing what you did, playing slowly. I'll sometimes just fire up some three hour video essay and just play like I'm exploring this immersive world with beautiful landscapes. With my world seed being totally unique, I get to explore and see things nobody has ever seen before. The sandbox aspect of the game just amplifies that and it truly engrosses you and sucks you in. It's one of those games where you can actually do or build whatever you desire. Once I realized that a couple months ago, I just kept coming back. The world I play on will grow with me, and it will always be there when I come back.
Great video! :)
can resonate with this video. I play mod pack after mod pack to try to satisfy and still nothing. Motivation still only lasts 2-3 weeks :/
Turns out i still do just enjoy vanilla minecraft with some Vanilla+ mods added. The thing that just sucks is i’m not a builder, i like adventuring. Best thing i figured to do is add adventure mods that just take minecraft to a level that’s enjoyable with my play style. And that’s possibly the best thing about minecraft. The way you play is all your choice.
The Yung's and Hopo's structure overhaul series of mods along with the good old reliables (Tectonic, Biome Makeover, Ecospherical Expansion, Geophilic Reforged, Lucky's Spelunker's Charm 2, Regions Unexplored and Tectonic Tweaks) makes adventuring so much better, also try out Variant Crafting Tables, there's also some other variant-type mods, though these are only for 1.20.1 I think, but you can still use mods to backport some newer features.
Nah don’t say you are not a builder, part of the fun is experimenting and learning new things
Vanilla+ is my situation. Some world generation mods for all 3 dimensions and a mod that ADDS LIGHTNING BUGS and whatnot. Slap some shaders on it and it's cozy as hell.
@@BrunoCosta-jl8uz I'm not a great builder. At least in the crazy creative ways that a lot of people are. I just build a variation of the same general concept for a little house in every world. It's an if it ain't broke don't fix it situation. I stick to what works. And never finish the roof.
@@13_cmi I get it lol, I know some people who just build a big ass plataform, but you know, for your style, if you are comfortable enough, you can always do a house inside a mountain or underground (roof included), you only have to worry about interior design and for bonus it’s expandable :)
(Sorry if I came as rude with words, English is not my main)
It's called a lack of creativity. Those of us with enough creativity can just make cool builds and code minigames while everyone else is bored of Minecraft and show it off once everyone is back. Everyone else's off-time from Minecraft is my development time, and everyone else's Minecraft phase is my game release date. I've been a consistent Minecraft player since nearly the beginning, and I'm not slowing down yet.
personally, i don't have the 2 week minecraft phase. my favorite part of minecraft is doing cool builds, so it kinda never runs out. you can keep getting ideas for cool builds and keep making cool builds. i recently went back to minecraft after i got tired of playing tears of the kingdom, and i've been on this one world with my husband and sister for almost a month now. it's so fun and we play till the wee hours of the night haha. also im more of a builder type and my husband is more of a speedrunner type, so he goes and gets all the armor & elytra and i build him nice things. win-win!
0:14 it’s been 14 seconds and I am already being called out. I literally re-downloaded Minecraft last night 😅
how dare u delete it
@ so true, I failed my comrades
(Real reason: got a new computer in January)
Sat here watching the whole video slowly feeling like my 2 week phase is almost up; fully enchanted netherite gear with armor trims and all the fun bells and whistles, and now I’m wondering if I’m gonna play tomorrow. Amazing video and encapsulates at least how I feel about Minecraft near perfectly.
I'd say try keeping that netherite armor exclusively for dangerous expeditions, and never get the elytra, most end-game gear just completely ruins what makes the game fun, try making up some goals like building a windmill or making a gold statue or something goofy like that, make up your own goals, don't do the goals the game has made for you, Minecraft just isn't really the kind of game where you're supposed to follow a specific list of goals or anything like that, don't forget that it's a sandbox.
Though that's just my idea, I don't guarantee that it'll save you from the end of your 2 weeks phase, but at the very least playing Minecraft how it's meant to be played, aka as a sandbox, definitely makes the game way more fun and makes it easier to keep motivation for it.
@@ni__wolf143Exactly i just but the barrier that “if the end update is within the next 2 updates i not going” so now i get to make new transport devices like actually making a railway.
I remember when I was younger I'd play split-screen xbox 360 minecraft with my friends and have fun. That was a long time ago. Recently, after being bored of Minecraft for a long time, I played Minecraft on the Switch with my friends-the controls were so janky that basic movement was difficult. We played slowly, and our first night was a struggle to survive: we painstakingly threw together a hut made of a patchwork of different blocks that we had collected during the day. Out of all of us, I knew the most of the game, and my friends were piece-by-piece remembering "*player tried to swim in lava* Oh! Don't dig straight down" and other basics. Struggling through the controls again, genuinely fighting for our lives in the game, and playing with people who don't know its ins-and-outs gave me a taste of what those first days back in 2013 were like for me-magical.
I've noticed the thing I value in a minecraft lets play is not what the player achieves in the game but the story that the player creates, giving names to creatures, talking to them etc. And also generally yapping about their daily life. That's what made me watch all of Stampy's series, and what made me like Paulsoaresjr. We all know the story of "finding better armor and tools, finding eyes of ender, and killing the dragon", that's why creating your own story within is what makes it special and enjoyable
Me and the boys just started our phase. We finally managed to get everyone available and we are having the time of our lives. I love the start when there is an unstoppable flow of ideas and inspiration.
This comment was 2 weeks ago, how’s it going now?
@@davidvickers6 we stopped a few days ago lol
I only ever had the 2 week phase for survival mode, whether it's modded or vanilla. But I used to spend months straight playing minigames and building and socializing on servers. That was where I spent thousands of hours straight as a kid.
Wow, very well made video, coming up on the 2 week mark but I've really been enjoying it this time and don't plan on stopping!
Im on week 4 of my minecraft phase. I think im going longer because i just returned from my 5 year break.
Week 1, everything seemed fresh although im a veteran. I gathered some logs and built a platform off of the new cherry tree biome mountain where i built my base.
Week 2, after lots of mining, i graduated from iron to diamond, and built a giant copper bridge connecting the mountains.
Week 3, minecraft turns into a chore. I beat the ender dragon for my first time, by now i have a couple stacks of diamonds. The game looses its magic as a gain knowledge and relize i have a lot to do.
Week 4, after exploring, mining and rading structures, i have lots of treasures, 5 stacks of diamonds and at least 6 elytras. I recently built an enderman farm and have basically infanite xp and pearls. I plan on building a beacon after i kill the wither next.
unlike others who have the two week minecraft phase- i've had the 12 year minecraft phase... i'm heavily addicted to this game.
9:40 isn’t that sweden? Not subwoofer lullaby? I might be wrong
You copied a comment
@@samkoji10I didn’t see that comment + it was a minute or 2 before mine
It is Sweden
@@samkoji10and you copied my lifestyle because you breathe
pinned comment lol
The sad thing is…I played Minecraft by myself. No friends. At all, it was just me. Watching the next Stampy Video.
@@Mellow_147 I’d play with you
The structure of the video is clean. The edits are well done. The ammount of context, details and explainations are perfect and he conclusion is deep and well written. This video is just perfect. You have done an amazing job, really. Hope to you grow in the future and became a youtuber worth of the respect and attention of the community of this platform. I love to see people making actual good content. 💪
This video is great. Your style of laid back commentary works so well with this more relaxed editing style that's not overly in-your-face, keep it up!
Thank you for starting my minecraftphase. I'll try to rebuild the castle I built with my siblings in 1.14.4 from my memories.
It's funny how despite my age i have nustalga for Minecraft because it was 0:40 the first game i ever played. I remember covering a village in zombies and making a mess of magma blocks and saying that it was my home.
8:34 I looked at the title and realized we are not talking about the 2 week phase anymore
7:55 dud that hit hard asf
my 2 week phase was a while ago and it was incredible but sadly it was during the game pass trial i often think let's launch a new world but no it was gone from library... with this you convinced me to buy once and for all so thank you niko ;)
until now, I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS SO CALLED 2 WEEK PHASE. i was able to play forever through the years, i always played on legacy x360 then x0ne then eventually bedrock on a switch or somin, Y was i able to play for so long without seemingly a never ending plethora of ideas, or stamina? it was because i always saw these youtubers do things i would never be able to until i got a pc, i have siblings, and in all honesty, except for when i could watch things on youtube with my parents..... i was never allowed to be on the internet so nothing would over stimulate my brain of dopamine, i have a perfect sleep routine thanks to my parents always pushing me, and got plenty of exercise spending hours outside a day till my feet turned black. but the most important thing, and i cant stress this enough. LIMIT HOW MUCH SCREEN TIME YOU HAVE TO LIKE AN HOUR A DAY, unless of course you need to do work, or wanna have social time online with friends.
Just found this video after playing a semi-vanilla SMP I found online with people I had never met before. It has been the most fun I've had with the game for a good while.
I think a major way of getting back into the game is just changing the way we play, or who we play with (no disrespect to the old gang ofc), but just getting to meet people as you play for a bit every other day is great! Specially if you find a community that suits your needs (maybe you are not into griefing, PVP, building, etc. It is all about finding what makes you enjoy the experience, IMO).
Something that also helps is just not taking stuff (or yourself) too seriously. Enjoy the simplicity of just wandering around, planning a base, automating, making up stories, etc. No rush in anything!
@5:00 agree so far except the mods, mods were peak Minecraft
for me its like this:
day 1 - get iron tools, armor and build a starter house
day 2 - get diamond tools and go to the nether
day 3 - get full diamond armor and enchant everything
day 4 - build some actually good base/house
day 5 (optional) - kill the ender dragon and get elytra
repeat after some time 🔄
1:17 YO im Greek too! Γειά! your accent is good for a Greek xd
As an other Greek I agree his accent is extremely good for a Greek
Yooo, me three*
I'm not but me too
me four lmao
Another Greek joined the chat
I got to this video to kill some time after work, and i'm leaving with tears in my eyes. The good old days with the anjocaido launcher, a laptop that would drop frames on notepad, and the absence of responsibilities and things that must be done. A truly wonderful video. :)
0:46 JOJO REFERENCE🤑
got chills every 30 seconds of the video. This means: this video is perfect.
When you said "play with the version you grew up with" i remembered a lot of things like when i played on a tablet, and when i got java edition for the first time. 1.11 or 1.12 i dont remember, but i remember the exact time i opened the game.
I have 2 week minecraft phases very often, but I'm still till this day playing the same world. It's more like 2 week of new exciting projects, and then wait for another phase.
Minecraft is simply a game that could never be recreated. The music always makes me drop a tear or two. It is unfortunate that we can only reminisc about the old times knowing we will never experience them again. But this is how it is supposed to be, we need to move on. And when we really need that nostalgia, we start the "two week minecraft phase", get bored, and think about the old times again. There is not a single game coming close to how impactfull minecraft was to my life.
Honestly I think the fact that Minecraft has a definitive "end goal" of killing the dragon that can be achieved so quickly defeats the point of an open-ended sandbox game. Once you beat the dragon, nothing else feels worth it because you've already "beaten the game".
If the "end goal" was instead defined purely by the player, this would be at least somewhat remedied.
Of course, there is no going back. The End exists now and that's just the way it's going to be, and it's a cool dimension. I just think that the fact it is quite literally "THE END" leads to the end of at least some people's two week phases.
This is it. This is the number 1 issue I have with the game since it got added. It just shouldn't have a goal. Everything before it, feels like it has to work towards the goal, otherwise it's a waste and after, everything is a waste anything because there is nothing to do anymore.
Minecraft turned from a perfect sandbox, into a semi-adventure game, with only 1 goal.
I never actually beat the dragon once, since, ever since it got added, I could never get far enough without feeling like "Wait. I'm not even playing this for the sake of playing anymore". Everything now feels like it pushes you towards the goal, which is just, not right.
@@Alexia-ys6yx Minecraft has slowly been turning into a dungeon (Structure?) crawler game where you move from structure to structure to grab gear and then beat the game. Sure you can build and mine, but why would you do that? Spawn in, steal a village, take all their loot, find one-three shipwrecks, cast a portal, barter for pearls, rush a fortress with only a shield, find the end, blow up a few beds and you're done. The world doesn't feel empty any more, nor does it feel like 'your world'. It feels like a world populated with various structures, and you exist solely to raid them and then kill a dragon.
I'm a big fan of the game Vintage Story which is also an open-ended block-based survival sandbox game, except in that game progression takes time and there is no "END GOAL" meaning that I am content to spend ages just building my little town and exploring the world.
The game does have structures, but every single one (except trader wagons, which the game prevents you from breaking or stealing from) is in ruins. They do not offer much loot that isn't just decorative furniture, a few metal scraps or similar weak materials and the occasional clothing piece. (Which is nice, fashion is always fun).
I think this is a much better design philosophy than Minecraft - the structures may not have much loot, but if you are interested in building (the many unique decorative items), lore (the lore books you can find) or fashion (the clothing you can obtain) you will still want to seek them out and explore them.
I think Minecraft's structures are too filled with loot that they have become the entire main gameplay loop before you reach the end goal and just stop playing.
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Sorry for the whole essay, I just had a few thoughts about Minecraft and how the common structures combined with a definitive end goal are, in my thoughts, detrimental to the experience. 😅
idk the ender dragon hasn't ever felt like the final boss to me. It kinda feels like the separation between early game and end game. The problem is if you perceive it as a final boss you may never realize that end game minecraft is literally doing whatever u want.
@@ibaili This is true. The dragon isn't the end of the game if you make your own goals. The only problem is that once you have "beaten the game", making your own goals can seem futile to some players. It depends if people have the mentality of "I already beat the game. Why should I build something?" or not.
@@genericusername5671 my point exactly. People often struggle when there is no clear goal ahead. Typically in games they tell you what to do but that’s not fully the case with sandbox games. To take it a step further, minecraft which literally tells you nothing about how to play it and it’s up to your interpretation. This being influenced by the other games you’ve played since they already have a format that you could apply to minecraft.
this video is actually perfect
works the logic perfectly
and not to mention the whole video design is amazing
good job man 👌
modded has kept minecraft fresh for me for years. I love this game so much
Wow, this is wildly accurate. Ever since I started playing Pocket Edition when I was nine, I've been having two week Minecraft phases about twice a year. The reason I'm watching this is because I'm in the midst of one right now. I've spent hours of each evening this week building a little lakeside town in creative and I'm having the time of my life, but I know it's only a matter of time before I run out of building ideas and forget the game exists for another six months. Great video!
I never listened to minecraft with music as a kid, idk why, but I've always been sad the tracks never became a core memory for me. Instead, the music that would play in my favorite Minecraft TH-camrs videos are what brings me that feeling of bittersweetness and nostalgia c:
The feeling of acomplishment on your first world was unreal, not just beating the ender dragon or surviving your first night.
But every single thing felt so good when you did it
9:41 Im pretty sure that’s Sweden not whatever song you mentioned
He probably meant subwoofer which still isn't
I was introduced to Minecraft in 2010, just before I went to college. My uncle set me up with a pirate copy to test out the server in Alpha 1.0.15. A few months later, I bought the game, and playing on his server when I was home from college was some of the high points of my late teens and early 20s.
at 6:24 the bottom half of the door is delayed
Oh really. Ah, gee I hadn't noticed
@@MaomoniToons Someones angry
@@PixelatedWasStolen I just think it's kinda funny when people point out the obvious. No Ill will here
@@MaomoniToons im gonna touch you
Wow
the song at 1:40, i dont know why but i love it does anyone know what its called
Aria math
@@Trollxgodurl thx
I recommend subwoofer lullaby.
Taswell and dreiton are bangers too
area math
5:32 as an american, THATS OFFENSIVE!!! *hides my minecraft stack of oil*
I've been playing minecraft consistently for years with my squad because we create storylines for every single one of our servers. It makes for endless opportunities for gameplay because when you run out of something to do, you just decide how to add to the story or what happens next, or add new lore. It's extremely fun
0:06 HOW THE FUCK DID YOU KNOW BRO IM LIKE A WEEK INTO ONE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A FEW YEARS
So basically all we need to do is go back in time, become kids, have no responsibilities and enjoy life again...
Enjoying life is not an option nowadays for the average human with high aspirations unfortunately.
8:55 in what version can you jump 3 blocks high?
He was flying but that was funny lol😂
Loll
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