How Minecraft is Secretly A Horror Game
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- If you've ever played Minecraft Single player, you've at one point likely felt... off... In today's video I'll be answered the question nobody asked: "Why is Minecraft so Terrifying?" We're doing spooky month earlier this year, and considering how long this took me to make, we probably won't be doing anything like this for Halloween! I hope you enjoyed the video, and remember to like and subscribe!
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Yooo, gr8 video!
My bigest fear in Minecraft is laaag
theres this thing that i call the source game syndrom... where as much as it is populated with pigs, villagers and monsters. you always find yourself alone.
also i do believe in my memories that i have of this games knowledge is that at one point the moon was planned to be an eye watching you or some sh*t but notch took it out of the game because he thought events wouldnt fit the game. (really unsure tho)
Very relatable, especialy since I already had a streak of paranoia, glad to see someone actually addressing this! :D
The actual fear, for me, comes from the fact that no matter how much far you travel in a singleplayer world, you'll always be alone. You're the only one that is "sentient".
Or are you
For me im afraid that something else is sentient aswell and its out to get me
Are you really?
@@stunfill4697 you know what you have to do and that you have to build like you were *programed* for that
Not so different from you irl
For me, it isn’t about the creepy sounds or feeling alone; it’s about knowing you’re in single player and still feeling like someone else is in your world.
Considering all the structures that naturally generate, it’s hard not to think there’s somebody else.
same, could never play singleplayer back then and even now i still cant. I always felt like someone was watching me 😅
Once I convinced my parents to get minecraft for me a few years ago, I never touched it unless my best friend was online. It always felt so lonely without anyone to play with you
Or the realization that you're completely alone in your world.
In real life, it’s related to agoraphobia. The fear of being in wide open spaces, and feeling either completely alone, or like… you aren’t
I grew up watching TH-camrs playing Minecraft but once I played it myself I realized how creepy it was when alone. Seemed like not a lot of people felt this way so glad this video addressed it. It's supposed to be a peaceful game but I end up getting very nervous and anxious about my surroundings. Like something is watching me
That’s why I just watch a Minecraft guide or play with friends.
dude same for me but it triggers the most extreme version of that during night time in minecraft, sometimes i box myself in a 1x2 space and fill it with torches just so that theres no chance of darkness, but either way im scared something will break in
Yeah I always felt like somthing was watching me playing minecraft as a kid it got so creepy I would stop playing
Dang, I thought it was just me being paranoid, but thank god there are many of us
Same
The actual scariest part is losing all your items in a cave
thats a true guy right there
I once blew up a large chunk of my items in the nether when trying to reduce my fall damage by placing a bed under myself, much like the water bucket clutch. I clicked twice...
Will never forget playing on that one server with my online buddies, always dying and losing our gear in like every way possible lol. Good times.
In the nether it usually falls in lava and even if it doesn’t you’re constantly being shot at by ghasts while trying to get to your items
or the nether
its actually dying in lava with an op bow and 30 levels :[
Honestly, minecraft scared me whenever I played it as a kid, the loneliness in single player felt so suffocating
Same I used to play Minecraft alone and it was so lonely and terrifying but if played with friends it would be funny
I can't tell you how many times I got scared in caves or in the overworld just with paranoid feelings or with the background noises, jesus, but I was so fascinated at the same time
agreed
I used to watch my brother play games, and whenever he opened Minecraft I would immediately run away. I was SO scared of it.
@@thisapplejudges6553 bold of you to assume I played Minecraft with friends lol /jk but the friend part ain’t a joke unfortunately
I think the scariest part of Minecraft is more of an existential terror. It’s the realization that you’re completely alone in single player. You can get your pets, the villagers, and all the mobs, but that’ll never fill the void of missing players. It’s terrifying when you realize that as long as you’re in single player, you can build the most extravagant castles, the most impressive bases, and the most amazing temples and shrines, but it’s all an attempt to fill the void of loneliness. It’s the thought that, eventually, you will run out of ideas. You’ll run out of mobs to kill. Run out of achievements to to get. Run out of builds to make. Run out of things to farm. You’ll run out of things to do and then, sitting in your massive cities and looking over your empire, you’ll realize that you may be at the top, but it’s easy to be number one when you’re the only number.
You could write a book about this
damn bro
Dayum dude
The last part tho 'sitting in your massive cities and looking over your empire, you’ll realize that you may be at the top, but it’s easy to be number one when you’re the only number.' it gave me the chills 😭
This. This is why I don’t play survival much anymore. I usually just follow build tutorials in creatuve
It's the loneliness that gets to me whenever I'm playing in singleplayer. I love exploring, yet most the time it feel so uneasy and lonely because I'm the only human around, and I try to find villages to lessen the feeling, but it never really rids of it, after all, villagers just aren't the same as actual players. It's not just Minecraft, I constantly have to be surrounded by other people in every game whether it be players or npcs. And the fact that I'm a pretty extroverted person makes matters worse lol
I think npcs would be great to make it less lonely
Going to villagers never actually worked for me as well. The reason being their behaviour seems arrogate towards you. As if they don't care about you. Like, yeah, they can trade with you and shi but other than that they don't care. They're just there. They're a little more human than pigs ofc but not as lively as the real players. I kinda feel like that's the main reason why fandom fell in love with Millinere mod. It makes villages feel a lot more genuine and alive. To the point where it almost feels like you're playing with other players
when you try to play with your friends it actually feels alive..
Knowing that if you mess up, no one's coming to save you probably explains some of the paranoia and vulnerablity.
When you first join a world, and there’s no music and no ambience sounds, the silence is deafening.
So true
Hyperbole.
Then the sun goes up, and you hear the soundtrack. Finally, you feel free. Those skeletons whose legs were crambling above you, are burning. Flowers are in front of you. You eat your steak and continue the adventure. And yes, you can finish your house now.
Not even any mob is around you whether it is hostile or passive. There is just you and the endless block world. But then you survive your first night and it feels much more alive
@@boppitybippitybop1829 Nah after 9 years and
I think the cave sounds are one of the most unnerving things to hear just imagine just searching for iron or coal and then you hear something unnatural coming from the dark.
I used to always leave my world when I heard a cave sound, and then I decided not to turn my sound up
I turned the cave sounds off for a good reason
One time I heard it I was like nope peace out!
I was mining then I saw a skeleton and it scares the absolute fuck out of me
Is it just me or does anyone else hear cave noises in the End? It might just be me or a bug or even just that world but while going about the end islands, it’s very unsettling-
I don’t think Minecraft having a horror vibe is bad, I think it adds a charm or flair, it gives you a reason to want to make a base, to feel safe.
it doesnt make me feel lonely, just empty.
Scariest part of minecraft is oak forests for me because u feel like there is always someone watching even tho no ones watching it doesnt takes long for ur paranoia to take obver and start seeing things etc.
I think the scariest part of Minecraft is when you’re playing late at night and you’re mining, and while the random cave sounds are terrifying, there isn’t a bigger jumpscare than when your pickaxe breaks. Makes my heart short circuit every time
Finally someone who gets it. Bro singleplayer feels like it is designed to give as many heart attacks as possible.
I go caving for fun in real life, but Minecraft cave noises still scare me
FR!!!!!
Why did i feel that?
Try facing the Warden at night....
I think another reason it feels so eerily lonely is because of the abandoned structures. The desert/jungle temples, underwater ruins, strongholds, etc. It makes you think that there must have been something there at one point, but all that's left is its empty home.
When I'm near there the game starts making the creepy noises bro😭
@@showtimeruler_ruiyou can turn them off :)
True. Also, im the 666th person who liked this comment!
@@riyqn It turns off other sounds though. Wish it was a separate setting
That’s the same reason why people say “I spy books” are creepy, the pages of those books are so busy-looking and populated with so many objects but yet it still feels very lonely.
for me its the times the music just stops, like absolute silence and when you notice its really unsettleing
Campfire in the house with rain outside is nice though.
the scariest part is how lonely beta and alpha is, with no villages and oddly disturbing cave sounds. the fog adds to it too
The creepiest part is about when your on single player it’s completely silent and you feel like something is watching you
What makes it terrifying is one of my worlds I was building on I came across a tame wolf that wasn't even mine. Nor any of my friends. That is when that world was deleted
@@ailoriarayne5086 thats terrifying
@@ailoriarayne5086 wtf that’s so creepy
@@ailoriarayne5086 My God, that is extremely terrifying. In my 5+ year old creative world, I had a small army of dogs that won’t listen to me as if they were never mine. I don’t know if they were mine before when an earlier update suddenly made them not mine or if one of my visitors tamed them all so, I just gathered them in my first basement. Same thing happened in one of our previous iPad’s worlds too. Eventually, I just built them gazebos to stay dry under.
@@NotCreeper78 What makes it more terrifying is that it was a relatively new world and none of us had any wolves yet cause we was still gathering materials
Scariest part of Minecraft is when a random block just breaks in front of you. But you didn’t press it at all so it’s just so confusing 💀💀
LMAO
Fr 😭😭
I heard baby villager when I'm walking, idk maybe it's just me miss heard it
FR BRU
Y’all know that one clip were SpongeBob and Patrick are riding a rollercoster
😭🙏
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Yes :0
i had no idea why its hard for me to play singe player and you shined the light right on it. it makes me feel lonely, but whenever ive been in the end or the nether, it's so much more immersive. thank you!
This is the reason why I like to build my base near a village, since the villagers are good company and the noise helps me feel less lonely.
I do the same exact thing
i like the loneliness and the rain its relaxingg but sometimes when you eenter a cave it creeps me out
Me same :0
the funny thing is when I was exploring a cave I got too scared and I gave myself like a ton of villager spawn eggs to keep me company
I often do that as well!
I think the scariest thing in minecraft is those moments where there is absolutely nothing but yourself and your footsteps, no mobs, no animals, no players, just you, honestly horror games should use complete silence more often, silence is terrifying
Oh that explains a lot actually. Even while playing on creative peaceful mode with cave sounds off, I still get pretty scared when I venture too far into a cave. Lately, I’ve just been building on the surface so, caves sounds are on because I still they’re cool, lol.
The movie A Quiet Place uses silence perfectly to build tension so I completely agree
The worst horrors are those our own minds create.
so any game with footsteps is scary? Lmfao
@@6fejmk *angry silence noises*
This is why I like to play it on peaceful mode, my ptsd does not like any form of jump scare. Its nice and calm and you know nothing is gonna jump you.
Still I get the feeling
@@Ninjagamer-el3dv same but it helps
I use a minimap mod, it shows any mobs or entities around me
You people would buckle in fear visiting your local Starbucks I swear
LMAOOO
Fr
Minecraft, even in broad daylight, can sometimes make me feel more uneasy than most horror games do.
Sameee
Same
Same
That’s real life for me
I know you noob
Who remembers the days when villages had no villagers? That was an eerie feeling😬
You can still come across them, I call them ghost villages. They are villages that have houses that are destroyed, empty, and filled with cobwebs, sometimes a zombie villager will be in the house but no living villagers are anywhere to be seen. They are way more common in Bedrock than in Java.
@@ZealousElit3 no but we talking about Villages that supposed to have villagers. in my Xbox one version of Minecraft, i had a house near a village, it had villagers but when I hopped in one day, all the villagers were gone, really eerie
Moved to villager because, yk, they feels like your friends because you're not alone, after that they're suddenly disappeared lmao
@@jasonoy3142 oh ok thanks, yea that sounds pretty creepy
@@ZealousElit3 No those are supposed to be in the game the other stuff was like a bug
Is nobody gonna talk about that lava reflecting onto the floor at 5:36? That’s insane
because of shaders but yeah
Some shaders work magic
The scariest thing in Minecraft for me is a fully enchanted diamond armored baby zombie.
the scariest things to me are the ambient sounds. i remember walking around in a cave and suddenly here these "cave sounds" and quiting the game after that. still give me chills to this day
Sometimes I hear the sounds outside in Minecraft
@Zero just makes it less immersive
Now that’s good sound design
Anyone remember discs 11 and 13
I was very afraid of these sounds but after I started playing again this year actively I lost my fear I can't explain it but these sounds make mining more interesting
i think the scariest part is the fact that the world basically has no end. and it makes you feel small and vulnerable, it makes me feel eerie and just gives mr chills
Mr Chills, the knock off Mr Freeze/Fries. But yeah, the game can be kind of like that.
@@Xegethra lmfao i tried to say "just gives ME chills" but uhm yea ig 🤣
Cine s-ar fi gândit că îmi voi găsi abonatul aici? Wow, lumea chiar e mică 😅
It does give Mr Chills
Wait until you hear about other galaxies...
love the call back at the don't stare at the moon arg, I literally just watched an explanation video about that earlier before stumbling into this vid
ive had numerous nightmares about the ocean monuments.. even if im in spectator mode i have to fly super high above them, b/c i start hyperventilating when i get too close😭 theres something ab how dark the ocean is, even w/ water breathing & night vision. also the fact that guardians stare right at you even in spectator mode is just horrifying
Tbh deep oceans in Minecraft kind of scare me, even knowing that the biggest threat on those are probably easily avoidable guardians.
Tbh deep oceans in Minecraft kind of scare me, even knowing that the biggest threat on those are probably easily avoidable guardians.
i was always scared of the guardians ...
You literally just described my most common experience with thinking I see a name tag while mining or hearing an extra set of foot steps around me
Its our mind we humans can't leave without sound even i have made numerous amount of world but i can't play it it feels so lonely 😞 tried many Times to tame a wolf first but didn't work..
rlcraft players:
first time?
Sammmeee
@knockout there's likely a mod for that, just gotta get the right/most recent 1
I swear the sheep eating grass scared the shit out of me.
The scariest thing about minecraft happens after you finally finish a couple really big builds that you worked weeks to months on, then that existential dread settles in of "oh god what do I do with my life now" as you question your whole life's circumstances and everything you've done with it.
You can probably role play in the builds with friends or random people who want to play with you, you can also make another map to play hard mode and find villages.
@@SnowAngelAJ The worst option possible 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆
@@deadpool-zw4mq Well at least i tried to think of something, i mean if you're gonna build lots of buildings the best things TO DO is to role play in them.. especially with friends, like for a example: you build a fnaf 1 location and if your friends know about fnaf they can possibly role play with you, the role playing with random people is incase you don't have friends who play minecraft and you can ask people if they want to play with you.
If you think my options are bad then i want to see YOU make up your own options.
@@deadpool-zw4mq honestly i *HATE* when people just say stuff like you do with no context like as to why you feel that way and better options that could be used, saying "The worst option possible" just sounds like you are trying to be mean🤦♀
@@CatCatchinChannel "how to roblox games" 💀💀
This video is like a storry, i can watch it over and over its great. I see you as a very popular youtuber. Keep up the great work.
minecraft gives me so many unexplainable feelings. feelings i felt 10 years ago when i was 9 playing with my friends everyday after school. just that music or specific footsteps take me back to those times. all those years after school playing a beautiful single player world by myself and finishing it, building a huge mansion, a huge hotel with different rooms for my real life friends. i could go on for hours… but minecraft really has a special effect on me, in an extremely nostalgic way
I still think that minecraft should finally add birds, we have bats, parrots and chickens, why not normal birds with nice ambient sounds
depending on the location a few biomes could have really cool sounds, like a western style rolling hay bale in a savana or wave sounds near a beach
Oh yeah, birds would be great, stuff like raccoons and caterpillars would totally be nice to see flying around
For that Microsoft (yeah, they are the true ones that manage Mojang) should have heart and brain to do it.
@@The_Hydration_Police Ahh, yes. Flying raccoons and caterpillars.
Bats should be updated and given a new texture.
@@liviwaslost 100%
The terrifying fact of Singleplayer is that even knowing you are alone, sometimes you have the feeling you're being observed. And to make it worse, the sounds, the circunstances, you know, it's like a beginning of a pannic atack...
Every one, especially those who started playing as a kid had that feeling. The horror is all on our mind.
Yess
damn bro that's so true it gave me the chills the way you wrote it
Yes i played Minecraft when I was 11
@@EdwardDominicElFrancis-tf9jz I started playing Minecraft when I was 11 too
and every now and then you hear a shrieker and "drop a load" in your pants
The most scariest thing is that, when in the real world, there are people almost everywhere, you can expect it. BUT, in Minecraft's single-player, you are expecting people, but you see none. sooner or later, autophobia kicks in, and it turns into a horror game, designed to scare you...
In single player the only humans you see are villagers
when i was a kid I used to close minecraft after a long time,I even heard sounds and see stuff away,and it was just a villager you covered a good topic here.
i always couldn’t finish a world because the loneliness starts to make you think that everything is pointless, and it always happens that in the most silent moments you hear that…. nothing. that nothing that gives me chills
It makes it feel like there's no point in trying to stave off entropy
Thank you
@@rowbot5555 makes me wanna off myself
The scariest thing possible in minecraft is hearing a block break in single player, a block you haven't broken
I feel like this is why Herobrine became such a thing
I remember that happening a lot back in alpha to me, scared me so much I'd be building a house then pause to check my inventory then hear a block break i hadn't broken and then never be able to find where the sound originated from
I had walked away from a tree i had mine and started on another. The sound of leaves made me jolt. As i glanced behind me i realized it was the last tree i had mined. Until i heard walking behind me. I was too scared to turn around. It was getting closer and closer. The entity halted behind me. I swung around to face my enemy. A pig. I left the game after that and then called someone to play with me instead.
Yeah this never happens
@@aznmayo a sheep eating grass for example
You video was interesting and very relaxing, in particular the camera movements were amazing, I can see that your videos take much effort to make.
The scariest part of Minecraft for me has to be the peaceful ignorance of your situation. One minute in, I'm caving, and the next, I'm out of food. My pickaxe broke, and I’m three hearts.
I remember as a kid I literally felt actual fear when going in caves so I almost never got deeper than what light touches. And when I did I was doing it as fast as I can and sweating irl
Dude, SAME. Even now at age 21, I STILL can’t go to a cave too often especially in single player survival.
I still do that now
Felt that
I actually remember once I was in a cave on PE and I dug straight down and ended up finding a diamond. I kept on clicking off it because it was too dark to see where it was so it took me a good 20 minutes to mine it. I then realised I couldn’t mine it with my bare hands. I was so sad 😂. Wow, that was about a decade ago now.
exactly, that's why when i used to play mc i would always set "Keep Inventory" on at all times cuz i was always scared of whatever could suddenly kill me in the caves or getting lost and never finding home again 😭
the scariest part is definitely the eeriness of single player. when you’re just alone and paranoid hearing those random sounds. it’s the concept of being alone.
And thats why i stopped playing on my hardcore worlds and just play with friends
Especially the cave sounds
i feel that being alone with the entire world to yourself is pretty enjoyable
Playing alone is fine. Playing with captions is not.
@@ASlickNamedPimpback i often play games muted so i can listen to music on youtube while playing. so i turn on sound captions instead
This Video made me look at minecraft in a different way. Many of the things you have mentioned are things I myself wouldnt even have realised due to listening to youtube videos or musik while playing. It also reminded me of something that happened in a minecraft world a couple of years ago. I had just started a new world on my phone and mined wood etc. I then decieded to go caving but in the cave I went into there already had been torches placed down. Due to the storys i had heard I instantly quit and havent visited the world since.
There is something so nostolgic to me about playing the older versions of minecraft PE with my friends, and convincing each other that herobrine was haunting our world. The fog, occasional glitches, the somehow blank yet creepy atmosphere.
I always found it weird how others aren’t so paranoid and anxious when playing minecraft, I was and always have been kinda scared when I’m playing
I'm only scared when it comes down to killing mobs, I don't know how people arent afraid of them.
@@HazbinRosie they’re terrifying im always paranoid that they will creep up behind me and kill me
@@giveupndie4559 Same lol, especially the creeper cause it could explode.
I never even noticed how creepy minecraft was until I came across this video 🤣🤣🤣
@@HazbinRosie same
For me personally the scariest thing is when you've been strip mining for a few minutes and you just turn around and just see the end of your tunnel a blue mist is just creepy
And then some unknown mob pops at the end of the tunnel and came rushing down towards you at fast speed
@@CrazyTriosyeah happens often sadly :/
Couple that with cave sounds.. even on peaceful
@@CrazyTriosu evil man
@@CrazyTrios thats what i kinda fear, its so unlikely and its just my brain freaking out about being in a location with no escape in a dark area, im just terrified of dark places in general i guess, also jesus man you've just given me a new fear of long hallways
I love how pretty much every second of this video would make an amazing wallpaper 🖤
You speak from my soul! I can't enjoy the game anymore without ambient sounds. It's an absolute must have for me to even be able to enjoy it.
The scariest aspect of minecraft always gotta be the cave sounds. It always gets me.
Edit: Forgot to mention, the cracked black disc and disc 13 is also one of those most nightmarish part of the whole game.
Same. I found a huge cave. I heard the sounds. I came back my home near the village :")
lmao those always scare me, well mostly bc i always play stoned, but i disable the sounds everytime i hear them to fell like im in control lol
Fr tho, they all come suddenly, at the times u least expect.
Especially echo'd PS3 old Minecraft cave noises, made me literally break the sound barrier every time
Frfr but now here I am, living in a damn cave, help me.
Solo Minecraft and Gmod are genuinely some of the most unnerving gaming experiences I've had. Of course, watching every Herobrine video known to man as a kid did not at all help with this, as I still struggle to play alone, even in creative
i hate playing Minecraft alone, its boring AND creepy to me
i cant play gmod alone without looking behind me
gmod is so terrifying for some reason
I like building cities in Creative and sometimes when i'm building, my brain tells me to watch my back just incase and that just makes me wanna stop playing lol
@xcreex how is gmod scary? I thought it was like a sandbox game.
this is a very well put together video damn
omfds I spent half if not all my childhood researching about minecraft horror entities n idk my favourite horror ( in terms of games) to this day is ones where u feel lonely but if u look closely u can see an entity in the background hiding when u replay footage or are very analytical. It is really creepy when u record a video in your somewhat "wholesome" minecraft world and when you replay the footage u see an entity hiding
The cave sounds never cease to make me suddenly feel dread.
same
I remember when I first played Minecraft, I was building a house and when it turned dark I hid in my house. I was terrified by the zombie sounds and waited inside all night. When it was say and I started hearing the zombies suddenly start screaming (not knowing they burn) made me absolutely wet myself.
I was in creative mode
The idea of the mob damage sound actually being their screams is terrifying
you got terrified and you couldn't even die
when gigachad pisses his pants from zombies dying
My first night in Minecraft I just dug a whole in the ground and waited in terror! XD
I was playing single player in pocket edition, when i fill some holes there's a glitch where the texture is gone for a second, and that's when i got scared as fuck, i saw something that looks like Steve and i thought it was my friend because we play Minecraft, then i asked my friend is that him or nah and he said no, after i realized that it's not my friend i quickly turn off my phone, even if I'm in creative mode, that's still creepy
It was happen in 2016 or 2017, i kinda forgot but believe it or not, it's real
the scariest part is when you are peacefully mining and a cave noise jump scares you at full volume lol
1:38 it's kinda interesting that I'm watching this the same day a few hours after the eclipes and I definitely looked at it several times.
The scariest part of minecraft is just the absolute deafening silence. I'm a masochist so I feel a bit more safer with the cave sounds on.
bro acting like a masochist is normal
@@likn1489 or relevant
I just listen to music on my headphones
Ooh, kinky
@@angelsfallfirst7348HeLp WHAT😭
My biggest fears were cave sounds and the thought of someone, a player who shouldn't be able to play in my singleplayer mode. Even now when playing and digging a straight path in caves I am scared to look behind me as I think someone is gonna be there. If Minecraft devs added a new entity with that mechanic of appearing behind you, im dead 💀
Then I have some bad news for you my friend…
@@dwaynethewokjohnson7773 why?
@@crazyguy1974 They will add that soon :(
What do you mean?
@@dwaynethewokjohnson7773 what mob will it be it would be dope
The things you mentioned first, i experience it every time i play. I still do to this day.
The ambiance of the cave terrifies me. When your just mining your own business then out of nowhere some minecart will echo through the depths of the cave 😭😭
I always get bad anxiety in single player. I never get very far, not because of mobs or difficulty. The anxiety becomes too much, the feeling of always being watched or followed despite nothing being there. I'm not a believer in herobrine, I never really was. It's just a weird feeling that becomes far too overbearing after a long period of time. The music also just seems to play less often the further you get, I know that's not true but it feels like it since you have less and less tasks to complete. There's nothing more frightening than just standing there by yourself in silence.
Yes.
Sometimes I'd hear the cackling of a hen and even that would scare me.
Because of the silence, it would make me feel sad.
It would make me feel trapped in a limbo or desolate purgatory.
It would make me feel as if I don't exist.
Instead of feeling like I'm being watched, I instead feel as if nothing is there to watch, which is infinitely more terrifying in my opinion. Some cosmic horror level stuff
Yea I cant play minecraft with out friends, it makes me feel to alone and a bit sad. The silence is unnerving at times and I feel like im always being followed by someone.
Think most of yall need therapist
@@jokkemannen96 what a brilliant name you have
minecraft in VR amplifies the feeling of being watched immensely, I legitimately have to take my headset off after playing it for a while and just look around the room cause it feels like someone is standing there.
It feels like being in the shower with shampoo in your eyes and the glass fogged up (or a shower curtain) and nothing but darkness , lurking just outside the window, and a towel blocking your view of the slightly open jar, and feel watched...
@@emmahealy4863 bro when I’m in the basement and turn off the lights I think there’s something watching me and I bolt
With you describe the feeling of emptiness in Minecraft and how it can cause anxiety, reminds me of Davy Jones locker from At Worlds End. When Jack is just going insane.
For me, the random sounds in minecraft are the most terrifying thing i've experienced
It really says something about the game and ambience when people feel more at ease in literal hell than in the overworld
No literally, because i feel safer in the nether
Expectations, you are already expect the creepy part of minecraft to be creepy and that makes you more focused, while the normal part of the world is creepier when silent.
@@SammEater yup expectations are a huge part of this, being at the beach and hearing nothing at all is creepy af, being at the literal underworld and hearing something mildly concerning is expected.
Those are really good explanations, yeah. Even in the Nether, cave sounds are less terrifying because they get all mixed up with all the scary stuff that you’re already vigilant towards. Although, the Nether has its own biome-specific ambient sounds which are still pretty terrifying. Also, the amount of mobs that you expect to spawn in the Nether makes the whole place feel a lot less lonely. Plus, the cave-like environment with the ceiling and all makes the place feel more…controllable if that makes sense. You also hear a lot of fire, lava, and more ambient sounds there. Even then, the Nether is still pretty scary, desolate, and I don’t go there often especially in Creative mode. However, it’s still less lonely.
mhm
i was always terrified to play minecraft alone as a kid, especially with the horrific cave sounds. now, i prefer not to play with the music so if i'm playing alone all i hear is the grass etc. that may be why i always listen to other music or podcasts when playing now...
I don’t know about PC because I’m on pocket edition but I imagine that it’s the same there. You can go into settings and change the volume of each type of noise in the game. Player noises, block noises, mobs, etc. Lower ambience all the way down and the cave noises can’t be heard any more :)
Oh sorry I misread your comment. I guess you already know that lol
samee! I do that all the time now
i play without sound and mainly do pvp so i never got into that since at most the only sound i have on is blocks and players
I started playing minecraft on beta 1.5 in 2011, its crazy how the random worlds could make you feel a spectrum of emotions. You would look out of your base over a sunset and feel a sense of pride, like the world was yours to control. You would find a weirdly large cave and feel a sense of horror. A weird terrain formation might creep you out, but a nice one might fill you with awe and a sense of exploration. Besides the soundtrack and the mobs, it didnt feel like the biomes were built with this purpose in mind. It truly felt like you were exploring a world. Its hard to get that feeling in new minecraft with all the new buildings and specifically designed biomes.
The scariest experience for me is mining down and suddenly finding something unexpected on the other side of a block (lava, water, mob, total darkness of an expansive cavern) it always gets my heart racing
it's actually gets so boring when you realize you're all alone. you can build whatever you want but at the end of the day your by yourself, and you start to feel everything meaningless
That's why I quit Minecraft. Loneliness paired with toxic community and 15 FPS just gave me depression
@@BLET_55artem55if you can't run minecraft don't try running anything
@@Volonid don't worry, it works perfectly with 2006 games and below
@@BLET_55artem55 okay well then it's just an emulation device
Actually, I feel like that's part of the appeal to singleplayer for me. It is very lonely, but the nervousness and helplessness it gives you can be considered part of the "challenge" I guess :P You're in a vast world all by yourself, and no matter how scary, confusing or meaningless it seems, you still have to survive and live with what you have. You have the most agency to do whatever you can with the world, and even though that's frightening, it's the truth. Animals are your only company, aside from aggressive mobs. But eventually, you explore the world deeper and deeper, going underground and getting new resources. You discover the Nether, and subsequently the End, defeating a giant dragon who's role or purpose you have no knowledge of. But just to spite the futility of the situation you're in, you defy the forces of nature working against you and some semblance of purpose can begin to be uncovered.
There's still beauty in this lonely world though, in my opinion. The music, especially the C418 tracks which play in the overworld, is just so beautiful! Even if it's still a little melancholic. To me, it feels like the only real company you have. It embodies the things you feel living in this world, and helps you feel less alone (while still knowing that you're pretty alone). Anyways, I think Sage makes a very good point, and I think it would make sense for a game like Minecraft to have ambient noises that helped the player not feel existential dread. After all, people like me who are looking for the more lonely/unsettling experience would be able to just turn it off.
I like that the overworld is so quiet. cause, since canonically, you are the only human around. it brings a sense of loneliness. as you wander around, finding lost temples, shipwrecks, abandoned mines and more. you ask yourself "where is everyone?"
yes, the overworld has life. Villagers, illagers, animals, iron golems, hostile mobs. but there is no one like you. No one can craft, no one can build (yes endermen can but not like us), the only one can come back from the dead. You are unique. but it's clear there used to be more like you. but now, they're gone, and you are the last of your kind. You are alone in this world.
I agree. Even so, ambience is still needed, however not ones of a bustling environment. The rustling of the leaves, creaking of wood, and sound of the wind can invoke a curious yet desolate mood to the player, which is great for getting people hooked to the game but also being accurate to the story being told.
This is an example of something called Liminality. The fact that you are alone, and there is nothing else like you, can give a sense of unease. Everything in the game felt like it had no purpose. There isn’t anything to do or see, then just, walk, and hope you find something abroad. The world is also huge.
It may give feelings of nostalgia, or dread. It’s like the Backrooms in a way.
The overworld is Level 0, the Nether is Level 1, The End is Level 2, and the End Islands are Level 2.1. Is there a baseline reality in all of this? Are you truly alone, with no one to comfort you? Is there anyone out there, at all?
!
The End is empty but it has what we want.
The Overworld is full but it does not have what we want.
That's why it feels so unnerving. Everything you could have but nothing you truly want.
The End, while dangerous, has what you seek. The dragon, the cities, treasure. Everything you have come here for is here.
That is terrifying
I remember the old console versions were programmed differently so they would play music tracks at all times. I remember jumping onto the PC version and always feeling hauntingly alone whenever the music would stop, wanting it to start up again
the AmbientSounds mod is absolutely essential to me at this point. it’s just so nice to have
The scariest aspect of Minecraft is that dirt particles can be so easily be mistaken for name tags and you’re always so scared of it
I've never noticed they look like name tags
I really can understand your feelings and totally agree with the need for the option of new ambient sounds - but I'd love to have them optional. As I have experienced the game through the years it was a certain appeal to Minecraft especially for this lonely, creepy feeling.
I agree.
Yes what I was exactly about to say until agents started appearing outside my house
Same, but turning down all ambience would suck because I love the creepy cave and nether ambient sounds
I completely agree.
I believe they have separate volume sliders for ambient sounds, so you can pretty much already disable them!
Hey RandomSageless I’m a new subscriber and ngl I love ur channel already and keep up the good work ❤️☺️
Huh, this really made me think. I've almost always had to have something in the background playing while I was playing singleplayer. Whether it was a twitch stream, music or a youtube video, I remember putting just about anything on because I would feel extremely creeped out by the silence, or rather, I'd become jumpy at any sound because of it.
The scariest part of Minecraft for me is when playing alone, I can't help but to remember how I used to play with my siblings, but now everything's changed so it's just me, playing alone, on an empty world.
Same :'D I wanted to play with my brother but he was to busy editing lol and I built a house that I wanted to show him but never able to get to show it to him it felt pretty lonely building it and when getting the stuffs even if you had pets following you lol
Same its 100x more fun if u play with a person ir more !!!
Yikes.. that sounds sad.
I played on a server for a while and now I find it incredibly hard to go back to single player where all my work is for nothing
I feel you, the nostalgic memories come back and you can't help but fear it a little.
For me, the spookiest thing about Minecraft are caves. i feel like something is always around the corner
And the fucking warden
Cave dweller mod in a nutshell lol
@@user-vl8ih6qx3swarden is new born kid our fear is cave cause we are old players cave sounds always terrifying thing ever in minecraft
Mine:something alway watching me something alway see me no matter am in void or sky or end or at nether i wss playing with my friend i was have fun until something in my pov just run to small cave and gone me and my friend was checking but nothing in there my friend doesnt use any mod and there only 2 player i was go to menu and see only 2 player me and my friend i feel 1 creatre watching me in dark not that 1 creatre watching me everywhere feeling something at back in cave look at nothing it just a dark feeling creepy birch tree biom theyre watching me with this eyes in nether something alway at my pov but i cant see some soul looking at me at the end nothing alone like having phobia scaring looking at people
Do not scared, that's me =)
Why not join me and stay in Minecraft =]
Your voice is so strangely relaxing to me. Also great video. New subscriber
Oh thank you!
@@RandomSageless ☺️
No but fr i genuinely get chills playing minecraft so i think the scariest part is that theres nothing its like ur in a void disguised as a world but this video explains alot why i feel like that when playing single player and also why inalways have music on
Playing Minecraft with friends is much better than alone. You get to do things together in the game and it’s a thing that will keep you from getting anxiety.
especially the "yo bro come check out my house" type stuff, just going on a mini adventure to see what your friend built
Playing with friends also means you can still progress in your own time and show it off to your friends when they come back online.
@@ListenToCristicism we all know that, its hard to explain why we do though
i dont have friends
I have friends but they are not "EPIC GAMERS LIKE ME" lame (they dont even have a pc)
I recently discovered cheats and immediately disabled drowning in the game. I can now explore the underwater biomes freely and holy hell, the sound design under the surface is terrifying.
Water breathing potions are a thing as well…
@Filthy Blorgus yes but you need to fight fire elementals to even brew a potion
@@thatonecubchoo1541 You need to.. fight.. WHAT??
@@pringle409 Time??
@@koopa5504 fight your mom
Playing Minecraft alone at midnight scares me immensely with paranoia because every noise gets to me. Especially the caves
Liminal space mfs when something is empty:
I think the scariest thing in Minecraft is the implications of it all. You are alone. Yet there's ruins of strongholds,desert temples,jungle temples,ocean monuments and even ancient cities. Not to mention the hostile mobs like Zombies,Skeletons,Spiders,Creepers and so on. Every now and again it makes me stop and think; "What happened here? Who or what built the ruins? Why are the monsters hostile to you?" It makes me think there's a much bigger thing going on in the background
Villagers fill the void of loneliness. The versions before they were added, on the other hand….
It captures that aspect of the game pretty well in Minecraft: The Island
I always just imagined minecraft is a post zombie apocalypse world given that the main mob is the zombie. If you compare it to other zombie games like the Last of Us you can see the similarities. Ruined cities infested with zombies, well minecraft has abandoned villages, raiders that attack other survivors, well minecraft has the Pillagers who literaly raid the villages. Besides the asthetic of the game the only main differences are that one it takes place in a medieval setting given the lack of guns and cars and the usage of swords and bows not to mention the villagers and their villages dont resemble more modern cities. Second these zombies are caused by some evil magic and not a virus , bio weapon or fungus minecraft has enchanted weapons and witches and sorcerors who summon minions to fight for them, clearly it is based in a magic centered world. Furthermore there is a cure in minecraft, any veteran player knows a potion of weakness and a golden apple can cure a zombie villager. When you look at it like that it makes sense that minecraft has a sense of horror like the other zombie games it share similarities with
the theories of there being more than what's on the surface is greatly amplified by the message we get after defeating the ender dragon, which i will leave here. a conversation between two beings.
"I see the player you mean.
PLAYERNAME?
Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read our thoughts.
That doesn't matter. It thinks we are part of the game.
I like this player. It played well. It did not give up.
It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a screen.
That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a game.
Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the reality behind the screen.
They used to hear voices. Before players could read. Back in the days when those who did not play called the players witches, and warlocks. And players dreamed they flew through the air, on sticks powered by demons.
What did this player dream?
This player dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created. And it dreamed it destroyed. It dreamed it hunted, and was hunted. It dreamed of shelter.
Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. But what true structure did this player create, in the reality behind the screen?
It worked, with a million others, to sculpt a true world in a fold of the [scrambled], and created a [scrambled] for [scrambled], in the [scrambled].
It cannot read that thought.
No. It has not yet achieved the highest level. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a game.
Does it know that we love it? That the universe is kind?
Sometimes, through the noise of its thoughts, it hears the universe, yes.
But there are times it is sad, in the long dream. It creates worlds that have no summer, and it shivers under a black sun, and it takes its sad creation for reality.
To cure it of sorrow would destroy it. The sorrow is part of its own private task. We cannot interfere.
Sometimes when they are deep in dreams, I want to tell them, they are building true worlds in reality. Sometimes I want to tell them of their importance to the universe. Sometimes, when they have not made a true connection in a while, I want to help them to speak the word they fear.
It reads our thoughts.
Sometimes I do not care. Sometimes I wish to tell them, this world you take for truth is merely [scrambled] and [scrambled], I wish to tell them that they are [scrambled] in the [scrambled]. They see so little of reality, in their long dream.
And yet they play the game.
But it would be so easy to tell them...
Too strong for this dream. To tell them how to live is to prevent them living.
I will not tell the player how to live.
The player is growing restless.
I will tell the player a story.
But not the truth.
No. A story that contains the truth safely, in a cage of words. Not the naked truth that can burn over any distance.
Give it a body, again.
Yes. Player...
Use its name.
PLAYERNAME. Player of games.
Good.
Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the universe again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things.
Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn. Ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergeists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change.
We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.
Once upon a time, there was a player.
The player was you, PLAYERNAME.
Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas that was three hundred and thirty thousand times more massive than it. They were so far apart that light took eight minutes to cross the gap. The light was information from a star, and it could burn your skin from a hundred and fifty million kilometres away.
Sometimes the player dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite. The sun was a square of white. The days were short; there was much to do; and death was a temporary inconvenience.
Sometimes the player dreamed it was lost in a story.
Sometimes the player dreamed it was other things, in other places. Sometimes these dreams were disturbing. Sometimes very beautiful indeed. Sometimes the player woke from one dream into another, then woke from that into a third.
Sometimes the player dreamed it watched words on a screen.
Let's go back.
The atoms of the player were scattered in the grass, in the rivers, in the air, in the ground. A woman gathered the atoms; she drank and ate and inhaled; and the woman assembled the player, in her body.
And the player awoke, from the warm, dark world of its mother's body, into the long dream.
And the player was a new story, never told before, written in letters of DNA. And the player was a new program, never run before, generated by a sourcecode a billion years old. And the player was a new human, never alive before, made from nothing but milk and love.
You are the player. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love.
Let's go further back.
The seven billion billion billion atoms of the player's body were created, long before this game, in the heart of a star. So the player, too, is information from a star. And the player moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a man called Julian, on a flat, infinite world created by a man called Markus, that exists inside a small, private world created by the player, who inhabits a universe created by...
Shush. Sometimes the player created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated. Sometimes it built a model of the universe in its head; flecks of energy, moving through vast empty spaces. Sometimes it called those flecks "electrons" and "protons".
Sometimes it called them "planets" and "stars".
Sometimes it believed it was in a universe that was made of energy that was made of offs and ons; zeros and ones; lines of code. Sometimes it believed it was playing a game. Sometimes it believed it was reading words on a screen.
You are the player, reading words...
Shush... Sometimes the player read lines of code on a screen. Decoded them into words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into feelings, emotions, theories, ideas, and the player started to breathe faster and deeper and realised it was alive, it was alive, those thousand deaths had not been real, the player was alive
You. You. You are alive.
and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the sunlight that came through the shuffling leaves of the summer trees
and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the light that fell from the crisp night sky of winter, where a fleck of light in the corner of the player's eye might be a star a million times as massive as the sun, boiling its planets to plasma in order to be visible for a moment to the player, walking home at the far side of the universe, suddenly smelling food, almost at the familiar door, about to dream again
and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the zeros and ones, through the electricity of the world, through the scrolling words on a screen at the end of a dream
and the universe said I love you
and the universe said you have played the game well
and the universe said everything you need is within you
and the universe said you are stronger than you know
and the universe said you are the daylight
and the universe said you are the night
and the universe said the darkness you fight is within you
and the universe said the light you seek is within you
and the universe said you are not alone
and the universe said you are not separate from every other thing
and the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code
and the universe said I love you because you are love.
And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love.
You are the player.
Wake up."
@@donut1550 I just started reading that!
i hated that they never ended up adding fireflies to the game even though they were going to. they would have been small, sure, but they would have added so much ambience to the night.
I 100% agree
The particles from the spore blossoms and the recently-added cherry blossoms can add such a cozy vibe to a build. Such a shame that fireflies never made it...
For real, just make it so the frogs just don’t eat the firefly’s
The real reason why they will not add them has nothing to do with frogs. Fireflies would be an entity. For them to be atmosphere you would need like 50 of them all constantly moving somewhere. This would not only create a lot of lag but also fill up the games entity cap making other mobs stop spawning
Or use particles...?
Wait they were?! Aww! I love fireflies :(
The name tags part is so accurate. That's insane I thought it was just me!!!
This makes so much sense. As a kid I thought I didn't like playing Minecraft because of mobs. But I actually didn't like playing alone. I had a crippling fear of Hero Brian which is actually really funny now but at the time I needed someone in the room to be able to play. And I only played survival if I had my siblings in the game with me. Even today I feel a little uneasy when completey alone in Minecraft, it just feels wrong.
I think the silence gives Minecraft it's own charm. I don't know how to explain it, it just works for me. The feeling of loneliness is something I love about Minecraft and I think is done on purpose, and it works. While ambience would be a neat feature, I think it would have to have the ability to be turned off, because being alone adds to the "You can do anything" aspect of the game, as no one is watching and can judge what you do.
I definitely think it should be toggleable in the music and sounds section
Yeah, I think that the ambience should be there, but it still gives the iconic lonely feeling, and ruins of buildings that seem player-built scattered across the overworld would add to the loneliness, so, ambience that still gives the implication that you and any other players in the Minecraft World are the only Humans remaining that aren't undead would be nice, and rare, extremely quiet and distant implications of civilization in the form of echoing sound would make it like your character's loneliness is getting to them
yes minecraft is the only place of the world that I can feel literally alone all in the world
I don't quite know about it adding to the you can do anything part of the game. But the atmosphere in the over world, and how it's seemingly more scary then the Nether at times is, is one of my favorite parts of the game. Also when I'm playing and I start getting too scared it's like a timer that says I need to take a break.
Scariest part of Minecraft is hearing an player-environment interaction that you didn't do...your alone but someone's there.
Man, this happened to me just yesterday. Something kept setting off my pressure plates and dispensers whenever I got close to them. They were inside a structure so I couldn't see them. I was in single player but still signed in online. Probably just a glitch but still very creepy. Reminded me of another person's story about a door that kept opening and shutting whenever he walked below ground.
That’s creepy af
@@Copperkaiju A few months before, i´ve played Minecraft 1.19 (The warden update) and decided to create survival world (For exploring new biomes, blocks, etc) and built a classic dirt cave house haha. Until then me occurred place wooden doors for evite mobs. Onde day, i was crafting tools, etc until hear the door opening like a player opening the door in a server online, inmediately i deleting the world xD.
@@Adriuno That's interesting. I'm still playing the Legacy(PS3) Edition. You'd think they'd have fixed that glitch by now. Unless it's not a glitch......👀
Well, you're not alone now after that :D
This perfectly described my first time playing survival mode in Minecraft… Kind of nostalgic.
I played single player in the 2010s I never thought it was too scary, but looking back I never noticed anything you’ve pointed out in this video, but falling asleep with your mic on, and being woken up by music was the scariest for me
I think this lack of ambience is one of the reasons i like Minecraft so much, the loneliness is something like a identity for the game
Same, the loneliness feels much more peaceful to me, which makes the occasional music track playing all the more sweet
Based PFP.
Agreed ngl. Its kinda iconic
I think it should be optional
@@Lily__0066 well, I do think you have a point, but it would be weird if one of the game settings were like "biome-based soundtrack on/off" or something like that
I feel like the loneliness of the overworld is an important part of the game. I think the lack of ambiance is in fact, an atmosphere in itself. It feels like a weird, lucid dream. To me, it’s almost peaceful, and It makes you appreciate the things that do make noise even more.
I agree
it's very iconic
For me the scariest thing is like you said afraid of being watched but also those animals walking and me freaking out..i don't know..When i started playing it was really fun but as time went on i started to feel more anxious in singke player.Its like minecraft wants you to know that your all alone unaware who else could be in your game watching you