The END of The Minecraft Code No One Has Solved (almost)

a few weeks ago I released a video covering a mysterious archive hidden on the Minecraft website it's called two Minecon 7z and the story surrounding it is truly fascinating it includes various twists and turns such as moyang swapping out the file for a decoy after a few days I gained some more information and made an update video but less than 24 hours after that something happened which turned the mystery on its head dinnerbone himself gave an extensive question and answer session about the mystery and he revealed many fascinating nuggets of information these updates answer many of the questions regarding this archive including a never-before-seen screenshot of what's inside with such huge Revelations I just had to make another update video we are going to learn a lot more about this mystery if you haven't seen the first two videos go watch them now this video is not going to make much sense without proper context but enough of the introduction join me as we delve even deeper into the seemingly unending Rabbit Hole of two Minecon 7z let's start with a file itself dinnerbone gave us some additional information about its purpose as it turns out two Minecon actually was to the Minecraft convention the name didn't have some secret meaning it was intended for me and a few others to have a copy of Minecraft before release such as to install on computers I used it to update bucket live in the Expo so why was it uploaded in the first place I don't know exactly why it was put on the S3 but that was the easy way of sharing things back then and they probably just didn't think twice about assuming it was hidden remember this was a couple couple of developers running a super small operation it was not the Minecraft or moang of today nobody was looking into things like this however there's another important detail two Minecon was not supposed to be publicly accessible this file was unintentionally made public it was not intended to be given out and the password was a safety measure to make sure that even if it did end up in someone else's hands it's not a big deal it was clearly a mistake someone made one continuing mystery is who made the initial file if you recall it was missing an owner attribute in the bucket we don't know who uploaded it however dinnerbone doesn't know either I don't know who made the original file okay so what about the contents of the file itself there have been many theories regarding What specifically is contained within and it is here that dinnerbone provides a groundbreaking piece of information a screenshot of the open 7zip archive for the first time ever the public gets to see what's inside to Minecon and well it actually does contain Minecraft 1.0 the compressed Minecraft folder takes up about 44 MB of space just as I predicted in my first video we can now see that the remaining file size is filled with Java installers the Minecraft server jar and the games executables there isn't anything spicy here the other moyang developers were telling the truth however there is a bit of intrigue it's possible that this is not the exact same build as the one on the launcher due to how the file was created the content says Minecraft 1.0 it might technically be a different version than is available on the launcher I don't remember if it was the same one we released but the difference would only be in time stamp and obfuscation randomization he continues further this is going by memory normally I think Notch made the builds and obfuscation was fairly incremental I believe this time Jeb made the build and shuffled all the obfuscation around different version of progard or something who can say I was updating bucket live on the show floor to the new 1.0 version but given that it was totally shuffled around and the limitation of my tools back then it was too difficult so I asked that the full release be made from the regular pc again so that we don't waste time I'm not going to say it's impossible that something else was in this build because I'd have to check that and I don't have the time or energy to do so but it's unlikely in other words the game itself should nominally be the same as Minecraft 1.0 although there might be slight differences in the actual files because it was built in a different way but that shouldn't actually matter the game would presumably play identically to the launcher version someone did ask if this build could ever be released to the public I don't no I'm not going to say no absolutely not but I'm also not in a position to just give files away like I used to be dinnerbone does provide one additional detail about the file itself the number of files in the archive 7zip says there's 314 files most were accidentally put there there was really only six files of importance this is pretty much all dinnerbone had to say about the contents of the archive there are a few redundant quotes that I've put here for completion sake however there's more dinnerbone also discussed the password itself as you can tell by the screenshots of the open file he still does know the password disproving one of my theories from the last video this leads to a fairly logical question what would happen if the password were to be leaked now as it turns out not much dinnerbone says today I could absolutely give you the password with no concern in the world but that's no fun however this might not have been true in the past apparently this password was used in another place confirming one of my theories from the first video the password was reused for something else at the time and I cannot risk-free just give that password out there was a time that the public having that password would be a bad thing but that time was over a decade ago long long long since changed and was never anything important but that's how things are if you get hold of a time machine and come visit the old office it'll be a bit embarrassing for someone the password itself used to be important he says that it would have been a bad thing for it to become public but now it wouldn't be an issue if it were to leak in that case why doesn't dinnerbone just tell us what the password is the biggest problem I have with this though is that people assume they have a right to know or crack a password to something they weren't meant to have my objection is the entitlement people seem to have that they should know the password at all but on the whole people should not be trying so hard to crack files they do not have permission to dinb elaborates by saying that some attempts have gone too far in the past take a look in other servers years ago people tried bringing other files into this trying to get their hands on more encrypted archives and websites that they felt should be a part of this somehow if it got out of hand and that's why I wrote the reminder that this file was not meant for people to have and trying to crack it and other files open is dangerous this particular file happened to be fine but nobody knew that it's just that we didn't want people to have the password one of his main points is that attempting to crack a file that's not for you can result in various degrees of damage while two Minecon wouldn't have been a major issue he implies that in the past people attempted to crack files that actually would have posed a serious problem when asked if he's okay with people attempting to crack Minecon now dinnerbone builds upon this idea well it's been over a decade and that password isn't such a big deal anymore so I'm not going to stop you however this does not mean anyone is free to try and crack other archives or things that we haven't given permission for please do not try and break into every lock you see that's just not okay sometimes the locks are there for a reason not just as a fun challenge I don't think it's cool to waste thousands of dollars on cracking a password that was not meant for you either there's no obligation to give you the password to a file that was never meant to be public dinnerbone discussed a few other random things worth mentioning the decoy came up a couple of times when asked why the original was swapped this was his response the reason it was replaced with a fake file is because we didn't want people trying to crack the password we knew that they'd try anyways so maybe it would throw them off if they didn't realize the file had changed this is pretty interesting because it did work for a long time the fact that the swap occurred was pretty close to being forgotten dinnerbone also confirms the Jeb quote saying that Tobias M made the decoy he also says he does not know what's in the decoy there's another intriguing nugget regarding the swap here's a fun fact for you all though when it was discovered that the file was public and the decoy was made to swap it out we assumed the password would be public knowledge basically that week I guess we way overestimated the encryption harah for 7z funny how that works out have they chosen a different archive encryption this story could have been very different and then we have a few other random topics worth mentioning for one why is bone even answering questions at all because people constantly nag me about the password and I figure I'll to spell any further mystery I actively do not want attention I've tried hard to remove myself from having an online presence for years it's brought up every single year I'm hoping this is the last sorry about that dinnerbone this most recent nagging is my fault for those of you watching this don't nag moang developers anymore dinnerbone has done a tremendous job of explaining the unanswered questions regarding this mystery and to talk it off dinnerbone graciously gave me permission to share these quotes with you and for that I'm very grateful he also touches upon the idea that the mystery is in many ways more exciting than the solution I'll answer a couple of basic questions about two mcom that aren't related to the password if you all like but it's honestly not so exciting and the Mystery is probably more fun than the answer I think in practice this has been proven true there's a temptation to not believe the simple boring answer dinnerbone mentions this as well I kind of feel like even if I live streamed me opening the archive and sending them out one by one on Discord people will call fake and that it's misdirection the files are Minecraft 1.0 you can get it from the launcher the thing is the contents were never a mystery we've been pretty upfront whenever developers have been asked about it over the years people don't believe it but Mysteries are always more fun than reality and so that's pretty much it the obvious solution the one that moang developers consistently said is the correct one it's Minecraft 1.0 maybe the real password is as dinnerbone says the friends you made along the way I'll conclude with a full quote I've referenced it a few times but seeing it all is worthwhile and it provides a good summary of dinner Bone's position I'll reiterate what I wrote elsewhere here just for transparency whilst the specific file to Minecon 7z doesn't have anything confidential in it the password was reused for something else at the time and I cannot risk free just give that password out there was a time that the public having that password would be a bad thing but that time was over a DEC ago I will not stop people from trying to find the password for this archive and I do not believe anyone else will either however this does not mean that anyone is free to try and crack other archives or things that we haven't given permission for this file was unintentionally made public it was not intended to be given out and the password was a safety measure to make sure that even if it did end up in someone else's hands it's not a big deal please do not try to break into every lock you see that's just not okay sometimes the locks are there for a reason not just as a fun challenge thank you so much for watching this video it feels satisfying to finally have a conclusion to this mystery and I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did if so feel free to subscribe and if you'd like to support me further you can join as a channel member let me know what you thought in the comments how's it feel to finally have many of these recurring questions answered is there anything else you're curious about I'm excited to hear your thoughts I appreciate each and every one of you thank you so much for watching and I'll see you all in the next video have a great day [Music]

Channel: RetroGamingNow

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Length: 11min 26sec (686 seconds)

Published: Sat May 18 2024