on November 6th 2014 the video game Minecraft was purchased by Microsoft for 2 and a half billion dollar 5 years later Minecraft became the most sold video game of all time and it's had a long and complicated history join me as we explore all of it Minecraft's most insane accomplishments how it almost died how it got revived and what makes it the greatest video game of all time Minecraft comes from humble beginnings the unassuming cave game on May 13th 2009 Marcus person or Notch unveiled a project born from his creative Pursuits in his spare time influenced by the blocky Landscapes of infinim Miner Notch set out to construct an open world 3D sandbox experience within just a day cave game underwent its first transformation emerging as Minecraft order of the stone the momentum didn't stop there though Notch riding on a wave of creativity soon introduced trees coal iron and gold ore enriching the game's world this rapid development marked the emergence of something more than a game the birth of a legend a legend that would soon be known simply as Minecraft that same day J uploaded the first ever Minecraft YouTube video that wasn't recorded by notch himself J walked around a staircase creation he made and uploaded another video soon after this he called Mario Minecraft awesome because he created a pixel art of Mario Minecraft pixel arts would become pretty huge later on and this was the very first time one was created on May 21st the Minecraft forums opened a place where players could chat ask questions about the game and discuss already we could see a community forming around this indie game but no one had any idea how big it would actually get one day after that the carlor recorded the first ever Minecraft commentary video where he talked about a little Java appli called Minecraft Carl built a small house with an underground tunnel to the Sea he lamented the lack of a save feature in the game which meant any builds he created would be lost still Carl predicted the future you can do any number of things in this game you could make mazes you can make mansion s you can make castles the decisions are yours and yours alone at the end of the month Notch implemented a couple of features that made the game a lot more exciting including flowers grass wool commands and mushrooms this release also allowed people to play online with their friends in multiplayer which was a massive leap the introduction of multiplayer led to new Innovations including mini games within the next couple of weeks the players green slimy pentacam and M created the first Minecraft miname spliff the objective of spliff is to break the blocks so your opponents fall while you stay standing this era was later named Minecraft classic Notch continued to develop the game but players had a lot to work with as 2009 Drew to a close the Builder e Rider uploaded several videos of massive builds he had created in one he showcased a mega Cathedral as well as an incredibly impressive replica of the Swedish House of Parliament the path ahead for Minecraft was filled with Endless Possibilities the game's Journey continued to unfold driven by a passionate community and a Visionary developer that brings us to a new decade no one knew where Minecraft would go in the Year by the way if you want to see more videos like this in your feed press subscribe the year 2010 rolled around and with it came a new decade as this occurred Notch continued developing the game he founded moang Studios technically in Swedish it's pronounced moyang but we do not care anyway on February 27th Minecraft infdev dropped which sold for $10 infdev brought infinite World Generation to Minecraft hence the name INF within 4 months Minecraft passed 20,000 sales this showed that Notch definitely had something special on his hands in the middle of summer on June 18th Notch dropped a secret Friday update which added Minecarts and rails for weeks in a row Notch added small changes to the game that were released on Fridays for example the second secret Friday had dungeon spawners and Saddles and the next was the first Redstone update this included all things redstone ore dust torches levers buttons pressure plates and iron doors over the next 2 months more features were added in these secret Fridays including everything you see on screen now while multiplayer had been in the game for a long time on August 4th 2010 Minecraft online opened up Minecraft online began hours after survival multiplayer was added and to this day it has never been reset it's still playable right now but you might run into some issues with lag this is when the Minecraft YouTube scene really got started on August 26th a video titled Batman and Isaac unite was uploaded by a small Channel named captain Sparkles this was Captain Sparkles first Minecraft video where he joined up with his friend Isaac on a server explained what Minecraft is and explored the different builds that the server members had created a couple days later more than 30 people gathered together in a green Park in the city of Belleview Washington what occurred on this date laid the foundation for an event that has involved millions of people and a lot of controversy this was the first Minecon the first Minecraft convention where Notch and a couple dozen fans of the game got together in a small part of the Northwestern United States to discuss Minecraft they had a Q&A section and one absolute Chad lad pulled up in a homemade creeper costume one day I aspired to have as much confidence as this man while all this was happening though something was occurring that was far more Sinister have you ever been playing Minecraft and felt like you were being watched have you ever found inexplicable sand pyramids in the ocean or even trees without leaves or long unnatural 2x2 tunnels this might be the work of the mystical creature known as Herobrine a month before Minecon happened a forum user named flaky posted a comment from foran the comment described a player listening to the music disc titled 13 and then meeting a frightening entity with with a glowing eyes this entity took on the name Herobrine Herobrine was rumored to be the digital embodiment of Notch's dead brother but no one had solid proof of its existence at least not until August 30th on that day a player named Copeland was live streaming when he saw Herobrine in his own survival world he shut off the stream and his viewers were left wondering what just happened just a day later the now Infamous image of Herobrine was posted to the forums as well was this all just a big hoax or is there more to the story despite the fact that Copeland's Herobrine encounter was widely known the original footage of his live stream is lost to this day that can mean only one thing there is a dark plot at work after this mojing claimed to have removed herobrine from the game in patch note after patch note after patch note but there was never any evidence of herob brine's existence in the code to begin with what's going on anyone who emailed Notch to inquire about this was met with an automatic reply saying Herobrine does not and never has been part of Minecraft nor do I have a dead brother it's possible some mods might include a Herobrine character and some players might play tricks on other players to make them think they saw Herobrine but the story behind the character is not true in any way that settles it doesn't it well I'll leave that up to you after all the Herobrine Shenanigans went down Notch dropped the last secret Friday update on September 10th this added compasses and serers side inventory saving 8 days later he released a secret Saturday update which added new paintings the fishing rod and the universal symbol for peace crouching on September 25th the first Minecraft let's play was uploaded to YouTube Let's Plays were a style of video where individuals commentated as they prog rogress through Minecraft in this video aptly titled welcome to Minecraft the YouTuber C nanners explored his world and built a small shelter this let's play garnered more than 9 million views and I just collected two pieces of dirt I spawn over here so I'm going to go over here and say hello to the cows hello cows two days later a builder named halcon did something that is still impressive to this day he built a one:1 scale model of the Star Trek Starship Enterprise just looking at this footage it's unbelievable the amount of dedication that went into this build speaking of people doing unbelievable things in Minecraft someone named the internet FTW created a working calculator with 16 bits of ram in survival he did this before Redstone repeaters were added to the game which makes this even more remarkable on October 2nd someone from Sweden uploaded a video with his friend called Minecraft multiplayer fun the video itself was pretty simple the two of them simply laughed and messed around with a zombie that was stuck in a mine cart this player's name was PewDiePie and this was his first video a couple weeks later someone else named good boulderfist started a series of his own called Mind crack which like many others was survival good didn't know it at the time but this would launch some of the best Minecraft content for years after mine crack got started another player finished creating a replica model of the entire Earth pretty wild and of course because it was spooky season something had to happen for Halloween in early October Notch announced the mcraft Halloween update the poster promised a brand new dimension new monsters scarier caves torches extinguishing new fish bug fixes Jackal lanterns clocks and more it's been 13 years Notch and still my torches last forever on October 30th the update dropped and brought the nether to the game a dimension which can only be described as hell this update also made it so skeletons and zombies can spawn with pumpkins on their head on Halloween at the start of December the skilled video game coder jens's bergensten better known as Jeb joined the Mojang team Jeb has had a Monumental impact on Minecraft and is still one of its lead game developers to this day do you recognize this sound [Music] hey Minecraft this is from the first Minecraft multiplayer let's play from Lewis and Simon better known as the yogs cast today this video sits at more than 18 million views and the yogs cast ran the most popular Minecraft series for a long time right when Lewis and Simon got started 4 days later good boulderfist started season 2 of minecrack on a new world and made a pivotal change that had profound effects he couldn't have predicted at the time he invited some friends while Minecraft was getting tons and tons of sales and becoming incredibly popular there were some that simply couldn't buy it maybe they were children and their parents didn't want to dish out a credit card for some random video game or they simply didn't want to pay because of that a number of websites popped up with pirated versions of Minecraft by far the most popular of these was Minecraft forfree.com The Domain was registered on December 9th 2010 by a guy named Dylan and it was a fully playable version of Minecraft within the internet browser how is this possible well actually for a while Minecraft could be played through one's own browser totally legit this was done by logging into the official minecraft.net website but that internet capability made it trivially easy to create clones of the full version of the game all one needed to do is copy the code remove the pay wall and then connect it to one's own website the story of Minecraft for free ended in one of the craziest ways possible and it involved a 3v3 tournament against Notch himself but that wouldn't happen for another couple of years during which time Minecraft for free illegally operated on the topic of sus occurrences about 2 weeks after this a couple friends including housem and George Bush 420 created a server of their own called two Builders two tools what's now the old Anarchy server in Minecraft two Builders two tools or 2b2 t was modeled after a Garry's Mod server that George Bush and house had previously run the rule of that server was there are no rules and translating this into Minecraft meant Anarchy 2b2 T has had a long and incredible history and I'll be covering more of that later on in this video a couple days before tb2t was created something a lot more wholesome began that was ethos Labs let's play Etho was a skilled redstoner who gained notoriety for his various builds and tutorials which included a boat dispenser boat Junction and wood dispenser on December 17th Etho uploaded a video titled it begins he could not have described it better eth's let's play is the longest running Minecraft let's play to date and right now it has more than 580 episodes right around this time Mojang relas released Minecraft Beta 1.0 this added throwable eggs to the game and doubled the price from $10 to $19.5 two days after that the last update of the Year dropped beta 1.1 this made leaves Decay wow just as players were coming to grips with these new features the calendar turned a page ushering in a time of Greater creativity and expansion in 2011 picture this the year is 2011 after a long day at school you walk home daydreaming about what you're going to build on your favorite Minecraft server once you grab a warm cup of hot chocolate you log on to the game only to find your house destroyed it's covered with lava and it's practically unrecognizable that's what happened to players on the Space Monkey server and many others the group of Gamers known as Team Evolution was dedicated to the art of griefing griefing is the act of ruining someone else's base or build without their permission team avolition first victim was the Space Monkey server which they griefed on the 9th of January 2011 they became so notorious for joining random servers and causing chaos that even mentioning the team avolition name in chat was enough to get you kicked from many servers on January 13th Mojang released update beta 1.2 which added all of this less than a week after that a skilled redstoner named Seth bling uploaded his first video to YouTube Welcome Back Seth bling here he showcased an advanced Minecart build and continued to make Redstone builds and tutorials and eventually became one of the most prominent YouTubers in all of Minecraft the next day another highly technical individual did something very very very impressive his name was Nate Vin conis and he somehow brought his cat into Minecraft Nate hooked up his Xbox connect to the game and through some digital Wizardry was able to mirror the image the connect was capturing within Minecraft I can hardly wrap my head around how this is even possible in the middle of February a YouTuber named chimney swift 11 uploaded the first video in a long running series he called the Minecraft files where he built a Pueblo home soon beta 1.3 released adding beds and repeaters to the game which made it significant iFly easier to make large scale Redstone builds as March rolled around three magnificent things were added to Minecraft the first was called Minecraft the second was called Clark and the third Sweden yeah I'm talking about the music the incredibly talented music producer Daniel Rosenfeld better known as C418 created several soundtracks that were brought into Minecraft while many video games play music for certain levels or distinct events like the boss fight Minecraft did something different the songs came on at random intervals if you had a childhood that was anything similar to mine I would encourage you to do the following the next time you're up late and it starts to rain outside boot up the Minecraft soundtrack and just listen wait for the memories to come back to you thanks C418 the game wouldn't be the same without you now while Notch claimed Minecraft generated infinitely this isn't entirely true the Minecraft world is too large for anyone to ever run out of room but it does have a limit if a player travels too far from their spawn point their world actually starts to break down if for instance you manage to walk exactly 12, 550,000 824 blocks you would discover the farlands the farlands are unnatural terrain generation that Mark the edge of the known world something called pein noise is the reason the farlands generate at exactly that distance plin noise is used to make random generation look more smooth which Notch did making Minecraft world appear more natural the plin value Notch used for Minecraft is 171103 multiply that by 12,550 1824 and it's the 32-bit integer limit so because the noise value increases every block away from Spawn at 12 million blocks World processing breaks down a small let'splay YouTuber named Kurt J Mack heard about the farlands and decided to try reach them in Survival Minecraft but he had no idea how daunting of a challenge this would actually be Kurt titled his series farlands or bust set out from his home and started the long journey what's crazy is he did this in Minecraft before sprinting was even added 3 Days Later beta 1.4 dropped with Wolves cookies and a new logo for Minecraft this update also had a bug that allowed players to place blocks like flowers and cacti in places where they weren't supposed to be the bug thus made it possible to create triple chests or even quadruple and quintile chests beta 1.5 1.6 and 1.7 released over the next few months adding everything that's listed here right after after the release of beta 1.4 players who joined Minecraft were greeted with locked chests crates which they could buy with real life money clicking on these took them to a Minecraft store but of course this was for April fools ha I really hope this joke never becomes a reality playing Minecraft especially with its big chunk generation takes a fair amount of processing power to run because of the hardware requirements some players on laptops or weak computers had trouble running Minecraft to counter this the OptiFine mod was created OptiFine was designed to optimize Minecraft's chunk rendering and performance so even people on Old laptops could play the game without lag on July 1st Minecraft passed 10 million registered users if this image elicits any emotion from you it's because you know about the aether mod the Aether was a mod created by King B dogs which brought in an entire new dimension to Minecraft like the Heaven to ne's Hell the Aether was accessed by building a glowstone portal and placing a water bucket inside a number of playthroughs of the Aether became quite popular on YouTube and a lot of viewers especially kids didn't realize they needed to install the mod to access that separate Dimension thus when they built the portal they were only met with disappointment potentially inspired by the aether mod Notch actually worked to officially add a Sky Dimension like it to Minecraft and even posted screenshots of it but the original concept was used for the N Dimension instead just a week after the Aether released a Minecraft forum user named burner created the Minecraft Herobrine mod this added Herobrine to the game as well as other creepy features 2 Days Later the yog cast set a world record by bringing 2,622 players onto one server and it had remarkably not terrible performance because of how popular Minecraft had become the Mojang team realized they could expand into other markets on August 16th Minecraft Pocket Edition released on the Xperia Android phone selling for a couple of dollars and that came with pocket edition Light Pocket Edition light was the free version with very reduced features this was one of my earliest experiences with Minecraft and I'm sure it may have been for many of you as well soon after this the world got to experience the Glorious creep oh man I mean Revenge Captain Sparkle's Minecraft parody of an Usher song less than a week later Denon 84 created a working computer in Minecraft with the ability to write so it was basically a typewriter as all good coders do when they first learned to code text he made it write hello world on September 5th a player named Noob crew released a map to the Minecraft forums the map was very simple a small island with a single tree above the Limitless void he called it Sky Block Sky Block had everything people needed for infinite building the materials for a cobblestone generator the possibility to create a mob farm and more because of the limited unlimited possibilities in Sky Block new Cru creation became the most most iconic map in Minecraft history Noob crew himself later released Sky Block 2.0 which included an extra Island that allowed players to travel to the Nether on the topic of iconic Maps the day after Sky Block was created a builder named FV disco released a map called the temple of notch this was an ancient Temple based around Notch's face when you deposited a gold ingot Notch would either bless you or condemn you if you were blessed notch not would Grant you gold and diamonds if you were condemned the floor dropped from under your feet and you died in lava FV disco uploaded a video showcasing the map which is currently at almost 20 million views one comment says trying to find this Herobrine and building the ather portal without actually installing the mod were the top three disappointments of video game history on September 14th the adventure update dropped which was the most controversial update Minecraft had seen the adventure update added Enderman Villages strongholds melon caves spiders swamps more structures creative mode was officially added in this version but it had been added and removed a couple times before this and the hunger system the reason why the adventure update was so hated was partly because of the hunger system and partly because of the New World Generation Notch smoothed out generation but he may have made things a little too smooth for this reason there's a group of players who play beta 1.7.3 the last update before these changes were added that group is active even today with the adventure update Etho decided to make a new world for his let's play and that's the same world he's currently playing on now more than 12 years later a couple days after that Etho played a mini game called race for the Wool with the Minecraft Squad this game was created by Vex and the objective was to get to the wall on the other side of a long map these mini gamess were popping up left and right and really showed how creativity can be expressed within Minecraft the latter part of 2011 was huge for the game Not only was the game released on other platforms like Android and iOS later on but on November 5th some dude found a naturally spawning triple chest in his survival world n that's not what's huge we had things like the forge mod loader get released which made it significantly easier for players to bring mods into the game one mod that players might want to try was called Elemental Creepers which a small Channel named ant venom showcased that video brought his channel out of obscurity on this theme modded Minecraft was becoming quite popular the yog cast for instance created numerous videos showcasing different mods like this plane and biomes Mod on top of mods and mod loaders platforms and triple chests there was also Minecon about halfway through November Minecon 2011 was held in Las Vegas Nevada and it was so much bigger than anything we had seen before while only a couple dozen people attended Minecon 2010 more than 4,500 people pulled up this year beyond that the announcements were huge firstly the Jeb over as the lead programmer from Notch within the game itself enchanting potions and animal breeding villagers mushroom islands Nether fortresses more nether mobs Snow Golems hardcore mode and nine new music discs were added to the game on top of that there was also the End by locating the stronghold and igniting the end portal players could now face off against the Ender Dragon finally Minecraft had an ending everyone who attended Minecon 2011 receive a red creeper cape and this tradition of Minecon attendees getting capes would continue for years and of course we can't forget that when Notch pulled the lever Minecraft officially released this brought its price up to $26.95 and it's remained near that price even until today soon after this the official Minecraft trailer dropped Minecraft was now a full polished game with a beginning middle and end even though the game was polished there are always going to be players trying to exploit it in late December one of Minecraft's earliest hacked clients appeared this was notice a cheat client that allowed the user to activate various hacks like noof fall fly X-ray nuker and more on multiplayer servers hackers possessed massive unfair advantages over other players because of this a plug-in called no cheat was created to counteract clients like this one hat clients and anti-che systems have been at War back and forth ever since now as I said 20 201 was a massive year for Minecraft one major factor driving Minecraft success was its presence on YouTube tons of massive YouTubers got started or really picked up steam this year Seth bling the skilled red Stoner chimney swift 11 with his Minecraft File series Sky Does Minecraft uploaded his first videos vixar 123 contemplated getting into the game ASF Jerome the tutorial Channel magma musen Toby games and more Minecraft continued with its third season with iconic players nebris bash and b o on top of that the yogs cast kept pushing forward in full force tons of different players were making incredible builds custom maps creative mini gamess and crazy mods all in this one simple game if 2011 was a big year for Minecraft then I don't know how to describe what was on the horizon a year that would not only continue the moment momentum but also catapult the game into even greater Heights of innovation and popularity welcome to 2012 on January 12th mojing dropped update 1.1 adding spawn eggs beaches and super flat worlds in mid-February Minecraft and Legos officially partnered this was a pretty obvious move because Minecraft and Legos are pretty similar in concept they're both blocky and buildy and I still remember one of the Minecraft Lego sets I had almost a week after that good boulderfist brought a couple Minecraft players together for a miname he called Ultra Hardcore or UHC for short the four of them spawned in a world with the goal of killing the ender dragon what made this difficult was the fact that if someone died they couldn't come back not only that but good brought in a plug-in that disabled Natural Health regeneration as a result the only ways to heal were through golden apples or potions they ended up getting obliterated by mobs so they weren't successful in killing the dragon UHC became a massive deal later down the line though that same month the Shoto PVP server was created PVP stands for player versus player Shoto pioneered the hardcore factions game mode a more extreme version of the factions game in factions players in a multiplayer server are able to claim land and build bases people are unable able to build or break blocks in areas others have claimed but they can raid them using TNT cannons so that's factions but there's two things which made hardcore factions different the first is deaths till rable every team had a certain deaths till rable value so whenever one of their members died that value would drop when it got to zero anyone could enter their bases and steal their items the second unique feature in hardcore factions was death Banning whenever someone died they would be unable to rejoin the server for the duration of their play time that means if someone was playing for 3 hours and then died they'd have to wait 3 hours before they could log in again if they had survived 3 days without dying and then got killed they'd be banned for 3 days this made the game mode super competitive but also led to a lot of toxicity on February 28th the team behind bucket a plugin that helped servers run was hired by Mojang for Server software development this included dinner bone evil SE Grom and TG that means that what dinnerbone and the boys were doing was so good that the official Minecraft team thought yeah you guys should join us since all of the beta versions of Minecraft had used up the numbers 1.1 1.2 1.3 and Beyond moing decided to change how the new updates were classified Minecraft's official release was update 1.0 but then after that each update had an extra 0.1 so people wouldn't confuse it with beta for example update 1.2.1 dropped at the start of March which added jungles ocelots Iron Golems M shafts zombie sieges and more a couple weeks after this the Pixelmon Mod was released a very popular mod that added Pokémon to Minecraft the next day the Minecraft team got together for their third season of ultra Hardcore this time they changed the objective rather than Race To Kill The Ender Dragon they raced to be the last person alive alive thus the focus became PVP and survival rather than speedrunning good himself managed to take the victory as Kurt J Mack died to a creeper on April Fool's 2012 Captain Sparkles dropped the Fallen Kingdom song this had nothing to do with April fools it just happened to be uploaded on that date Fallen Kingdom is a parody of Viva lava by Coldplay and is an absolute Banger I Us world two weeks later generic b started the first season of a server he called hermitcraft it's going to be the beginning of great things only a couple days after that a Cupquake organized a game mode called survival games this was based on the well-known Hunger Games books and at this point movie in the game players spawned in a circle surrounding a cornucopia with loot scattered around the map the goal was to be the last person alive and ant venom managed to take the victory after an intense final battle against Captain Sparkles oh I just won The Hunger Games survival games became one of Minecraft's most popular game modes and soon after this first event the MCSG server began MCSG allowed the general public to play Minecraft Hunger Games on their own without needing to use any server plugins themselves on the same day ant venom won The Hunger Games the yog cast played a map that had been released a couple months before called The Dropper the map had been created created by a builder named bigger with the goal of jumping through various massive builds to land and water below a diamond in a chest was hidden on every level and the yogs cast playing through the map brought a lot of attention to it their original dropper video has more than 5.7 million views and the map itself has been downloaded 2 million times a day after the dropper released Element Animation uploaded an eggs guide to Minecraft the first episode in a series of animated comedy Minecraft videos your name is Jason shut up now do you remember the Minecraft for free website that let people play a pirated version of Minecraft within their browser well one day Notch emailed Dylan the owner demanding he immediately take down the website Notch threatened to get his lawyers involved so Dylan had to act quickly to avoid a lawsuit he and his friend storm surge contemplated how to most effectively approach the situation so Dylan responded challenging Notch to a 3v3 game of Quake team avolition best players versus Mojang's best players the proposed Stakes were if team avolition won they'd get mcraft capes if mojing won team avolition would hire a DubStep artist to make a track in Notch's honor 10 minutes later Notch accepted the deal within a week they got into a quake match and moing cleared the floor so team avolition hired the dub Steed artists to create the track fittingly titled humiliation humiliation on May 4th the popular Lucky Block Mod dropped breaking a Lucky Block could have a bad outcome a neutral outcome or a good outcome and the mod created an insane amount of content where YouTubers implemented lucky blocks and other mods into challenge videos a day later Seth bling released a custom map Loosely inspired by Sky Block he called this sky grid where the players spawned in the middle of one block and random blocks around the map spawned in a grid because you could jump from block to block and collect all the resources you need it was possible to beat the game Seth bling was popping off around this time because he soon released a comedy sketch called bite-sized Minecraft he voice acted as Steve and element animation did the God just look at him uh yes uh very impressive I I think before that happened though Minecraft was officially released on Xbox 360 barking another step for Minecraft's domination across every platform Minecraft YouTube was going strong on June 29th Captain Sparkles uploaded his 500th video in which the Builder topmass renovated his treehouse for his let's play series that same day a map Creator named Hypixel constructed a mini game called the walls where four players spawn in four separate quadrants after 15 minutes the walls dropped and players fought I wouldn't be surprised if you were as a kid scared by the video I found Herobrine Minecraft Pocket Edition the user space waffle brought herobrine into Minecraft Pocket Edition and had a crazy reaction to troll people run away run away run away he real real the reason I wouldn't be surprised if you got scared by this is because the video has more than 70 million views when August came around so did update 1.3.1 which added villager trading emeralds jungle and desert temples ender chests God apples and adventure mode Adventure Mode helped map creators out a lot because it made it so players cannot break blocks unless specifically weight listed to do so in October the artist donkey Inferno created the distinguished classic iconic Minecraft wallpaper 3 days after mojing brought the 1.4.2 pretty scary update to the game which added Minecraft's second boss after the Ender Dragon this was the Wither spawned in with Soul Sand and the rare Wither Skeleton skulls the Wither is a powerful enemy that if it be slain will drop a Nether Star nether stars are the main part of the crafting recipe of the newly added Beacon command blocks were also added in this update Hypixel the guy who had created the walls released a horror map called Herobrine's mansion on November 3rd this was a spectacular Adventure Map which implemented a ton of redstone as well as the newly added command blocks Herobrine's mansion was played by Sky do Minecraft and other big YouTubers and it became very well known at the same time beun Canadians started a one-month Hunger Games challenge where he'd play and upload Hunger Games videos every day for a month pretty simple he ended up doing this for much longer than a month and got really popular from it on November 24th Minecon 2012 was held in Disneyland Paris and this announced the Java 1.5 Redstone update like Minecon 2011 this event had 4,500 attendees it also featured the Minecraft team a costume contest a panel with Captain Sparkles and more the cape was a golden pickaxe on a blue back ground in early December a prominent member of the hermitcraft server isuma void created a miname called Rush years later Innovations on The Rush game mode which isuma also called bedw Wars became one of Minecraft's most played mini gamess 5 days later an animated YouTube video was posted depicting Minecraft monster school I don't know what's going on here and I don't want to know what's going on here but this was the start of the monster school genre that became super popular so I have to include it that same month the cubecraft server released with many games including Hunger Games factions and Sky Block during this time another server called the Hive also opened up the hive had Survival Games as well as something called One in the Chamber which was based on a Call of Duty game mode these miname networks used multiple servers linked together to allow hundreds thousands or even tens of thousands of people to be online at the same time as I said what happened to Minecraft in 2012 is wild this year saw the start of a number of popular YouTubers like iBallistic Squid log.zip and veian Canadian there's also zexi Z who was well known for his trolling popular MMOs famous for his mod showcases and Stampy Longhead who uploaded super wholesome content from Minecraft Xbox 360 other popular YouTubers really came into their own like Captain Sparkles who got up to more than 500 Total videos there was tons of content to make with all the creative mini games that came into the fold during this time those include UHC Survival Games Seth Bling's TNT Olympics the walls Herobrine's mansion and Rush many of these games could be played on online servers which really took off this year those being shotbow MCSG The Hive and cubecraft these servers allowed anyone to play tons of those mini games without needing for people to host their own servers or set up different plugins as 2012 Drew to a close Minecraft's total estimated Revenue counted more than $211 million all based on the mining crafting ideas of one Swedish gamer but the revenue would only increase in the year 2013 while 2012 saw a number of popular multiplayer servers get started 2013 is when multiplayer began to pop off 2013 was also Minecraft's most popular year to date when it comes to Google searches the game was on the up and up and it showed no sign of slowing down the coders at mojing continued to work tirelessly to bring new content to the game and they released this content in snapshots as covered by assuma void these snapshots were test versions where players could find bugs and glitches and also review the features before they were fully released on January 24th the Mineplex server opened up with two mini games the first was called Castle Siege and the other called Bridges Mineplex actually bought out another server called Nautilus which brought with it the mini game dominate mflex later named it Champions which became quite popular whenever these servers released with new mini games a slew of YouTubers like Captain Sparkles joined to play the games and get content out of them the server YouTuber relationship is mutually beneficial as the servers get free advertising and the YouTubers get free content the next month the hive dropped another couple mini gamess including the Herobrine and and trouble in meville Seth bling created another miname called Super Craft Bros based on Super Smash Bros which was playable on the server mcade on March 13th what had been announced in Minecon 2012 finally arrived the 1.5 Redstone update this added tons of redstone items that allowed people to create much more complex Redstone builds on the 24th the miname called Sky Block Warriors was created this was based on Sky Block but added PVP key elements to it this is a pattern we see a lot with miname progression someone will make a mini game or map like Sky Block and then someone else will come along and modify it to add extra spice so Sky Block is cool but it might be cooler with PVP the same goes for the walls the walls are cool but what if we add Lucky Blocks this constant Innovation and creativity meant there was always something on the Minecraft YouTube scene that felt fresh and new now what could be more fresh than new mini games how about about an entire new game to begin with on April 1st 2013 mojing announced Minecraft 2.0 in the poster we can see a shark rainbows unicorns a creature with a sniper rifle and even an alien spacecraft Minecraft 2.0 released with tons of new features like Etho slabs made with TNT diamond chickens horses ponies pink Withers and even Redstone bugs of course this was done for April fools anyway 3 days later Minecraft reached the Monumental achievement of 10 million sales now something else that kept things fresh was collaborations between YouTubers for example Sky Does Minecraft made a cops and robbers video with ASF Jerome beijan Canadian Sundy NoahCraft and gizy Gaza viewers were able to watch their favorite YouTubers interact with one another adding another fun element on March 13th the Builder Hypixel created his own multiplayer server fittingly called Hypixel soon after the Hypixel server was created the walls miname released on there people could join Hypixel and play the walls without needing to boot up a new world every time they wanted to play a new game around this time a PVP server called bad lion opened up as well bad lion was super competitive and had game modes that let players fight each other and practice their combat skills against one another later on Bad Lion would add an ELO ranking system if players fought each other and then won their ra would increase and if they lost it would decrease bad line could then match players based on their skill levels not even a week after that Element Animations started their popular series Villager News the police are everywhere are you seeing this no I'm a helicopter on June 2nd good boulderfist began minecrack season 4 with all of these YouTubers and just 2 days after that the same group hosted their 11th season of ultra Hardcore the the Mindcrack team brought in a special guest I see a name take right away it's still bone uh-oh it's dinnerbone dinnerbone and his cooworker grum's minecraft accounts were flipped upside down because it's funny and using a name tag to name any mob one of those names also flips them upside down anyway back to the UHC dinner bone was killed off pretty early but he was so impressed by UHC that he added it to Minecraft officially dinnerbone created the slame rule natural regeneration command so players could disable natural regen without needing to use plugins partway through June Asuma void took over as the server operator for hermitcraft and they started their second season one notable player who joined is someone you might be familiar with the Redstone genius mumbo jumbo on July 1st the 1.6.1 horse update added horses leads coal blocks and carpets to the game a couple weeks after that a YouTuber called the camp in rusher played on a prison server prisons is a game mode where everyone is trapped and forced to mine large chunks of blocks where they can earn money and access better mines the next month the camping rusher started his own server called the archon with factions prisons and Sky Block this wouldn't be the last time a YouTuber would start their own server in order to capitalize on their audiences a little bit before that though the Builder regolo created the incredibly massive Imperial City this map was downloaded more than a million times because of how crazy it is in August mlex released one in the quiver which was a ripoff of the hives One in the Chamber which was a ripoff of Call of Duties One in the Chamber less than a week after that Hypixel released vampire Z vampire Z is a game mode where players and vampires face off against one another with their new mini games Hypixel was becoming very popular as 9 days after that they hit 10,000 concurrent players players while that was happening Captain Sparkles uploaded the sequel to Fallen Kingdom an original song called Take Back the Night the song was written and performed by tryhard ninja and the music video was animated by Slamacow like Fallen Kingdom this one's a banger in early September one YouTuber named danant TDM created this lab both the lab and DanTDM became iconic for his mod showcases he started out with a special spider mod and ended up making hundreds of mod showcases halfway through the month Mineplex released the Dragon Escape parkour miname only a few days after that beun Canadian ASF Jerome and Pizza Hut announced their new server called the Nexus these servers and mini games were really popping off Seth bling created build battle and joined the Mindcrack smpp in early October later that month update 1.7.2 dropped titled the update that changed the world this added 11 new biomes to to Minecraft including the Mesa and mega tigas soon after that Mojang hosted Minecon 2013 in Orlando Florida more than 7,500 people attended and they all received a piston on a green background Cape this event is also the origin of the Glorious clip next question on this left side um I was wondering um what's the recommended amount of dedicated Wham I should have to server so I mentioned that the yogs cast did The Dropper back in April of 2012 it took them six episodes in close to 2 hours to complete the whole map 19 months later the speedrunner Illumina did it in 6 minutes 48 seconds 2 days after that 17 new music tracks were added to the game these were split across the main screen creative mode the nether the end both during the ender dragon fight and after as well as during the credits C418 was able to capture the atmosphere of each of these situations perfectly the creative mode music is upbeat and imaginative while the music for the nether is empty and desolate reflecting the loneliness of that Dimension finally there's the music for the Ender Dragon rather than have typical Boss music C418 played sections of all the Minecraft soundtracks with them getting more and more distorted that is something unique to Minecraft and makes the end fight a little sad and nostalgic rather than triumphant there are Easter eggs hidden within this music and elsewhere in the game and some of those were showcased by the YouTuber cubfan 135 he uploaded the first video in his popular series things you possibly didn't know about Minecraft on November 25th the next month Minecraft released on the PlayStation 3 and 2 Days Later Mojang released Minecraft realms Realms are an easy way for people to have their own Minecraft servers that are built into the game itself there's no need to use the Third party host to bring your server up Minecraft will do all that for you if you pay the fee Minecraft was bigger than it had ever been in 2013 there were more searches for the game than ever before and the influence of YouTubers on this cannot be overstated Minecraft youtubers were bringing in millions and millions of new viewers to the game who would then go out and purchase it for themselves that exactly described my situation I watched tons of Minecraft videos before my parents purchased the game for me these videos generally can be placed into a couple of categories the first was let's plays both vanilla and modded for instance llan and Preston plays began a let's play with the mod pack CrazyCraft towards the end of the year there's also map playthroughs like the dropper and Seth Bling's pile of bodies then we have custom mini games such as Seth Bling's death swap or build battle then survival multiplayer servers like minecrack and hermitcraft also in the multiplayer scene are online multiplayer games such as the Hunger Games and factions this was a time of creation and competition of building and battling but could that be topped in the next year of 2014 compared to previous years not so much happened in 2014 in the realm of game updates there was only one big update to Minecraft but the game itself made headlines with something that happened in the realm of business negotiation for one simple reason well actually for 2.5 billion reasons Minecraft's Google Trends popularity was slightly lower than its peak in 2013 that being said there's no question that millions of people were still playing the game and watching it on YouTube for example Seth bling celebrated 1.5 million subscribers in February 2014 with a map he called 15 seconds on March 9th a Japanese speedrunner named Tero kitchen killed the Ender Dragon in 45 minutes 7 Seconds setting a world record not many people had tried to speedrun Minecraft before this but Tero kit marked the first step in a massive massive wave that wouldn't crest for another 8 years Tera kitchen himself had his spot overtaken by another Runner but later this year he reclaimed that record also in March bad lion dropped its own Ultra Hardcore game mode up until this point players were forced to organize their own uhc's by inviting participants days in advance on the forums and on red it but bad lion cut out the middleman and did so with massive success bad lion was somehow able to efficiently bring in several hundred players into one server at a time with minimal lag all playing the same UHC like its PVP scene these uhc's became incredibly competitive during this time two classic animated videos dropped those being slamic cow's Witch Encounter and Element Animations creeper WAP Element Animations are the guys behind the well-known villager news series and on April Fool's 2014 every player changed into a villager and Minecraft sound effects were replaced with villager nude sound [Laughter] effects it's pretty cool that element animation series was so popular that it made it into the official game albeit for April fools on that day moing made a blog post which read the long-nosed villagers introduced in Minecraft Beta 1.9 have become sentient we should prepare ourselves to serve under our new villager overlords in early May the government of Denmark had an ambitious idea what if we remake our entire country in Minecraft what's surprising is they were actually successful the server was public and anyone could log on and enjoy it but the Danish government disabled TNT in order to prevent griefing Unfortunately they forgot to disable TNT Minecarts so a bunch of American Minecrafters joined blew stuff up and placed American flags everywhere suffice it to say the Danish government did not appreciate this Invasion on their Sovereign territory and shut down the server on May 16th popular MMOs pioneered a new video style that hadn't been seen much on YouTube before a mod showcase challenge Pat and Jen spent 15 minutes Gathering resources from the ruins mod then fought the mutant zombies this series launched the popular MMOs channel into the stratosphere halfway through June Notch tweeted something that made a lot of people raise their eyebrows he wrote anyone want to buy my share of moang those seven words changed the course of Minecraft history forever Notch was feeling a lot of pressure being the head of something so wellknown it seemed every decision he made every update the mojing team released was met with hate it appears Notch missed the days when he could have a Carefree time coding exploding arrows rather than deal with a billion dooll Empire later on Paul sortz Jr and Captain Sparkles released the Minecraft handbooks we've got the combat handbook the construction handbook the Essential Handbook and the Redstone handbook I'm sure these books were available in your school library because they were in mine they're a staple of Minecraft nostalgia in early September Minecraft had a series of big events occur one after the other on the second day of the month update 1.8 release that added Ocean Monuments and all this stuff it also revamped the enchanting system 2 Days Later Minecraft released on PS4 and the day after that it released on the Xbox one now Minecraft was present on every single major gaming platform it's needless to say that Minecraft was popping off on all of these it was obvious that Minecraft was extremely popular but many didn't realize how profitable it actually was until Microsoft decided to purchase mojing for $2.5 billion this deal occurred on November 6th 2014 and not and some other prominent programmers left moing entirely Notch walked away with over a billion dollars in cash and has since become less and less associated with Minecraft's IP when Microsoft went through with the deal it was hard to tell if it would pay off still millions of people were dedicated to the game to an incredible degree this was true in single player and multiplayer speaking of because of bad lion uhc's release back in March a number of players wrote to prominence with their PVP skills one such player was named hwi who created highlight reels from his UHC games another is xnestorio between these two UHC Legends it was hard to say which of them was better but on December 7th the two of them faced off in the middle of a game this encounter was dubbed the 1 V one of the ages D so much of the is watching the I'm going to die dang it oh my gosh what a good fight after a hardfought battle huahui came out on top with just one and a half hearts to spare in late December Hypixel released their own take on the UHC game mode with UHC Champions this was less like regular Minecraft UHC because of the great number of custom crafts and perks while these large servers were super popular a lot of people were still playing either single player or survival multiplayer with friends such is the case when a player named Ru 42 began the scraft server which has since become the most technically impressive Minecraft server in history but I'll get to them later on the last day of the year a wholesome British man named grian made his first upload a Minecraft tree building tutorial grian flexed his incredible eye for detail with tutorials for buildings of every shape and size a personal favorite of mine is his Hobbit house grian also worked on the builds for an ambitious MMO RPG server wincraft this was started by a developer named salted who created something unbelievable a fully playable MMO RPG with no mods only a texture pack all in Minecraft seeing these builds enemies and spells makes it hard to believe this is all contained within vanilla Minecraft this seems like a fully-fledged video game wincraft was the most played Minecraft MMO RPG for the next half decade so 2014 massive year for Minecraft but less than massive year for Minecraft players the 2.5 billion Microsoft purchase shook the Gaming Community which many people were apprehensive about they didn't know how Microsoft was planning to change the game but it seemed at least for now that things would stay as they were mining crafting building surviving on sle player making mod showcases for YouTube vibing on multiplayer servers and creating custom maps for example exampled the Diversity 2 parkour adventure map if people wanted to see what Microsoft had planned they would have to wait for the year 2015 just to prove that people were still doing what they'd always been doing in January of this year Mineplex hit a world record of 34,000 concurrent players online at one moment this truly shows the demand for multiplayer mini games was wild in early February Preston plays and another YouTuber named wles started their own faction series on the server they own called Cosmic PVP this is representative of a slightly L Savory Trend in Minecraft servers the Pay to Win phenomenon pay to- win servers are servers that sell ranks kits perks and loot crates often for exorbitant amounts of money players can easily get to the top of the game by grabbing their parents credit card which is a big part of the problem these servers often take advantage of children who just want to to have fun on the servers promoted by their favorite YouTubers most of these Minecraft servers were super paay to win but they lost a lot of their revenue when mojing started enforcing the EULA mojing felt that server owners shouldn't be selling anything that would give players a tangible Advantage as notch himself stated I don't even know how many emails we've gotten from parents asking for the $100 back that their kids spent on an item pack on a server we have no control over after this many servers shifted the way they monetized for example Hypixel introduced Network boosters which were a way for people to get coins and XP things you could grind for normally boosters were just a method to get there faster honestly I don't entirely understand the rules of what's allowed and what's not as this still seems kind of pay to win in early March good wanted to make the Minecraft server more into a business entity and as a result members including Etho and Doc M7 7 stepped away the two of them pretty quickly joined hermitcraft and this was a massive step up for that Surfer later in the month the Builder Mr squishy who had created a massive space shuttle and Eiffel Tower back in 2011 created a fully working Pac-Man game within Minecraft using command blocks 10 days later Mojang released a new snapshot revolving around the theme of love all swords and particles were replaced with hearts the pink wither returned and and it was called the loves and hugs update once again Mojang pulled an April Fool's prank which is always fun to see June was a big month for multiplayer servers who released now iconic game modes on the 14th Hypixel created SkyWars and on the 20th cubecraft released egg Wars It's fascinating to trace back the lineage of these mini games because SkyWars is a modified version of Sky Block Warriors which was a modified version of the original Sky Block map that Noob crew built all the way back in 2011 that same thing applies to cubecraft the egg Wars game mode where players fought each other acquired Gear with resources from an item generator and had to break each other's eggs in order to prevent them from respawning is very much like auma void's Rush miname that same day a group called the flu Network recreated the entire world of Harry Potter in Minecraft in a playable storyline according to this random Minecraft forums post Mojang was busy with the micr purchase so they rescheduled Minecon 2014 to occur in the summer of 2015 and so Minecon 2015 was held in London in early July Element Animation created the opening ceremony and this event actually won a world record for being the largest video game convention in history more than 10,000 people attended the event who got to see the trailer from Minecraft story mode live Minecraft story mode was an episodic narrative set in the world of Minecraft later released in October 2015 in early September cubecraft hit the achievement of 30,000 concurrent players while they didn't manage to overtake Mineplex is record of 34,000 this is still crazy impressive now I don't know if it's just me but it seems like not too much happened for Minecraft in 2015 this is the only year in Minecraft history where there wasn't a single major update Microsoft bought Minecraft and what did nothing with it sure we got the announcement of Minecraft story mode but not much else maybe it was a good thing that things were quiet though because the next update moing released would be the most controversial in Minecraft history put on your hazmat suits and join me as we discuss the intricacies and controversies of 2016 Mojang made another big announcement in January 2016 Minecraft education Edition wait Minecraft can be educational this would be an interactive system designed for learning featuring a code Builder chemistry physics and more honestly I don't entirely understand how this system works but slime MD speedran it so that's pretty cool on January 11th Hypixel broke Mineplex is world record by bringing on 45,800 69 concurrent players they also achieved 8 million unique logins meaning 8 million people logged into Hypixel at one point or another later that month Hypixel activated their cheap detection system called Watchdog that immediately banned hundreds of players Watchdog bans people in waves and has since blacklisted millions of accounts this is part of the server's ongoing war against hackers it's during this year that the Vape client released which became one of the most used ghost clients in the game Ghost clients are Hatch clients that give the players unfair advantages like extra reach or Aimbot without getting detected by both cheat detection systems and other players watching Vape was incredibly customizable and allowed people to hack right up to the edge of what could pass off as legit people take their Minecraft PVP seriously very seriously especially on servers like bad lion this meant that when Mojang released the 1 .9 combat update the community was Furious before we get into why know that the update wasn't all terrible 1.9 revamped the ender dragon fight added outer end islands and cities and elytras it also brought subtitles igo's custom arrows the second hand new command blocks and more the changes to the end were really cool and definitely added a lot of spice to that Dimension but that didn't at all sweeten the poison that was the new combat system system 1.9 fundamentally changed how Minecraft PVP worked rather than need to spam click and use an intricate system of fishing rods eggs or bows to try put opposing players into hit combos this new system involved attack coil Downs suddenly axes were the most powerful weapons in the game and people could make Shields this new Shield combat seemed slow and boring and players were livid this update caused a fracture that split the Minecraft Community into too servers such as Mineplex Hypixel cubecraft and Badland didn't want to update to the new version because it would mess up their whole system even today Hypixel still runs on Minecraft 1.8.9 a version of Minecraft that's 8 years outdated people were Furious and they blamed Microsoft everyone who had apprehensions about the Microsoft purchase felt Vindicated and they believed this wouldn't have happened if Mojang stayed independent from that Behemoth company even with all this rage the combat changes persisted Minecraft had a lot of big announcements over the next few months the 1. rv- pre1 trendy update dropped for April fools which added clout goggles that gave players real vision and allowed people to see the true messages written on signs they're trying to force you to conform and you cannot let that happen at the end of the month Minecraft virtual reality released and in May moing announced a partnership with the company Net ease to bring both Java and Pocket Edition to China on May 30th the UHC YouTuber midoza was playing a custom UHC when he hit this viral MLG water bucket clutch ow I'm Outi pearls don't fall faster oh just a couple days afterwards Minecraft hit the Monumental world record of 100 million sales on the same day the camping rusher made a video on 2b2 T the Anarchy server that started all the way back in 2010 at the time 2b2 T didn't have too many active players but this video increased that number to the hundreds these 2b2 tourists had never seen anything like 2b2 T in Minecraft before the OG player base banded together to try prevent these curious Crafters from having fun and this conflict was dubbed the fourth in incursion a little over a week later the 1.10 frostburn update released bringing polar bears magma blocks Strays husks bone blocks Nether wart blocks and red Nether Bricks to Minecraft Minecon 2016 was held in late September and 12,000 people attended little did the attendees know this was the last physical minec con that would ever occur and thus the last time anyone could get a cape this time the cape was Enderman themed which is my personal favorite apart from the 2011 creeper 2 weeks into November the 1.11 exploration update dropped adding Woodland Mansions totems of undying llamas cartographer villagers and more to the game after not a single update for the entire year of 2015 it seemed that mojing was choosing to release smaller updates more frequently rather than pack everything into one massive update 10 days later a hacker named linator joined Hypixel UHC and got a kill record by using a new hack called Bunny Hop these hacks changed the multiplayer scene because suddenly one hacker could take out entire lobbies of players who had no chance of fighting back of course Bunny Hop is incredibly blatant but if linator got banned he could always join again on a new account hundreds of thousands of Minecraft accounts that were bought back in the day were stolen because of Mojang's poor security practices these accounts were then sold for pennies on illegal alt shops so if a hacker got caught it would cost practically nothing to rejoin with a new account ready to ruin the game for more people hackers like linator would eventually make many of these mini gamess unplayable and showcasing these cheats encouraged other players to hack as well most famous is X Turtle who uploaded frequent videos where he hacked on both Mineplex and Hypixel this was really unhealthy for the Minecraft multiplayer scene and led to the downfall of several mini games including Hypixel U HC while 2015 didn't have a single major update 2016 had three of them 1.9 10 and 11 that being said it's hard to argue that these updates were the most productive because of how contentious 1.9 was the biggest multiplayer servers around couldn't even benefit from the new features since they were stuck in 1.8 on top of this it was now impossible to deny that Minecraft was losing popularity in 2016 fewer and fewer people were searching it up on Google and its interest would only go down from there it simply wasn't cool to play Minecraft anymore and if you did you might have been made fun of the future of Minecraft seemed to hang in the balance in a Lial State between yesterday's craze and tomorrow's Revival but that wouldn't happen anytime soon and what came first was well 2017 in early 2017 Hypixel started something they called the prototype Lobby this is an area where they put out games that were still in their test phases people could play and Hypixel would be able to see which games had potential without devoting all the time needed for development one of the games they released in this early version was called bedw Wars which was basically a repackaged egg Wars The repackaged Rush made by Asuma void bedwars was by far the most popular of these new prototype games so Hypixel doubled down on its development it took them 5 months to to polish the game mode and release it and it became their most played game on the entire server before that happened Mr squishy the dude who made the space shuttle Eiffel Tower and command block Pac-Man returned this time he made a video where he brought a fully playable version of the Nintendo 3DS game Pokemon Red into Minecraft this really shows the power of command blocks and what could be done when Minecraft was used as a canvas for creation on April Fool's 2017 moing announced the mine and craft digital Leisure device a new gaming console that was actually 8s retro style the greatest digital Leisure device on the planet feel the game with our superbly tactile action buttons that same month they also made an announcement for what should have been April fools but wasn't the Minecraft Marketplace this Marketplace brought microtransactions to Minecraft bedrock with the virtual currency minecoins minecoins can be used to purchase skin packs and Community worlds this was a feature many people feared when Microsoft made that purchase built in pay to play from a business perspective though it makes a lot of sense minecoins made it possible for mojing to exponentially increase their revenue rather than only get cash from one single purchase of the game there was no upper limit for how much people could give for Minecraft towards the end of the month moing released their official Minecraft Survival book which which replaced the unofficial guides that pul source Jr and Captain Sparkles had written a couple years before a little over a week after that they dropped the 1.12 World of Color update that added colored concrete glazed terracotta the ability to get colored beds and parrots to the game the achievement system was also revamped and those were now called advancements about a month later X Turtle deleted 4 million views worth of videos of him hacking on high pixel this is allegedly because of legal pressure from Hypixel who didn't appreciate him promoting cheats on their server a day later the second season of Minecraft story mode released and while that was happening a Hypixel YouTuber called technoblade branched out of his Niche and beat Minecraft hardcore mode with a steering wheel it took him over 9 hours to do this and was Prime entertainment [Music] yes we beat the game after 9 hours on July 17th a video game you might have heard of called fortnite was released fortnite dominated the YouTube scene and took a lot of attention away from Minecraft that didn't happen immediately though in fact fortnite had a meteoric rise in 2018 as Minecraft was falling off even more that didn't mean that people weren't still enjoying the game and generating new Innovative things to do for example Ray Works a member of the prototech server made a tutorial video for a working ender dragon farm this generated 5.7 million XP per hour and takes advantage of some wild mechanics within Minecraft on the topic of people breaking the game an exploiter named I'm the AG showcased a glitch in Hypixel UHC this exploit allowed AG to get a written book with every single enchant in the game at level 32 2,000 players with these 32,000 books had to be super careful because accidentally breaking grass or killing the wrong Mob Could crash the server because of the immense amount of looting and Fortune the reason this was possible is because Minecraft servers didn't have checks on book data so in simple terms the client could tell the server what the book data should be and the server would accept that as fact a month later xnestorio uploaded a video flexing the Minecraft account eight this one character username was worth close to $10,000 at the time because of how rare it actually was it's not possible to register a new account with just one or two characters because of Minecraft's naming roles so these OG accounts were from way back in the day when people could manually Reserve their usernames by this point in Minecraft history there were only three one character usernames still around those were 8 f and g at the same time moing has several others including x y z and dollar sign of course a Minecraft account was sold for no more than 30 bucks but because of their unique usernames some accounts are worth far more this brings us to the OG username Market tons of Minecraft accounts with cool names were bought and sold OG names usually spell out A word without any other characters the more common a word and the shorter it was the more valuable the account threel names even those that don't spell anything are all also considered OG because there aren't many of those possible combinations another factor which increased the price of an account was its Cape if an account had a Minecon Cape or multiple the account was worth more that no longer became possible when rather than have a physical convention in 2017 Mojang decided to switch Minecon to be a virtual live stream instead they called it Minecon Earth this live stream was hosted by Lydia Winters and will arnet and was quite interactive as it included a mob vote where players could choose between four new Mobs the Phantom ended up winning the vote and a lot of Voters may have ended up regretting that decision because of how tedious Phantoms are to deal with a bit before Minecon Earth took place technoblade the dude who beat Minecraft hardcore mode with a steering wheel reached a bedw Wars win streak of 1,000 after that he kept going 8 months later he decided to end the streak with 1,818 wins yes go oh 3 2 one [Music] jump no my heart rest in peace on December 20th of that year Microsoft released the Better Together update this update allowed players on any version of Bedrock to interact and play with one another regardless of if they were on Console mobile or even Windows 10 of course this didn't have Java compatibility since Java runs on Java and Bedrock runs on C++ eventually mojing hoped to make these two versions compatible though like 2014 2017 only had one major update it seemed Mojang was off busy with other things like mine coins and story mode toward the end of the year fortnite began to Skyrocket in popularity and this definitely contributed to Minecraft's downfall 2017 closed out not with a bang but with a murmur setting the stage for a year that would quietly lay the groundwork for something revolutionary but first we have to venture into the quietest and maybe darkest era in Minecraft history the year 2018 Minecraft was losing popularity and there's no denying that still some went on without thinking too much about it for example Etho he continued to upload his let's play series and by March of 2018 he hit 500 episodes for April Fool's PCX textures replaced the default Minecraft texture pack making everything look deep fried a couple days later ant venom posted a video about 2b2 and took the YouTuber fitmc under his wing fitmc became a prominent 2b2 documentarian with his storytelling videos like the day tb2t almost died Hypixel was the dominant Minecraft server at this time at least on the Java version in late April the cubecraft server which had long since been overshadowed by Hypixel opened up on Bedrock this was a smart move because if they couldn't compete with the big dog in town they could still win in a different town the strategy proved successful and they are now one of the most played Bedrock servers the day after this happened the bad lion PVP server released a custom Minecraft client aptly named the bad lion client there are several benefits to using the bad lion client the first is that it's designed for optimization in mind and has better performance than the default Minecraft client secondly its target audience is competitive Minecraft players so it has a lot of PVP related features like keystrokes and CPS the bad lion client was also made so it would be close to impossible to inject cheats into it meaning if someone was using bad lion you could be pretty confident they were legit this same principle applied to cheat breaker a client which released a little over a month later right after cheat breaker dropped the bad lion server itself shut down bad lion had seen dwindling player counts and there was less and less appetite for those massive uhc's they had been famous for because of that the bad lion team decided to focus on the client in mid July moing released the 1.13 aquatic update which totally revamped the ocean bringing in different ocean biomes Coral shipwrecks treasure chests Dolphins Turtles submerged caves icebergs bubble columns and swimming this update also added the new Phantom mob that was voted in during Minecon Earth on a more somber tone 1.13 was the last time C418 made music for Minecraft The Aquatic update caused major performance issues for a lot of users because of how complex the new oceans were but it was definitely worth it before 1.13 the oceans were bare and dull massive swaths of water water with a layer of gravel beneath and some squids swimming around here and there 1.13 made the oceans so much cooler the next day season 6 of hermitcraft began in time with the new update hermitcraft also had a major new addition the Builder grian grian's First episodes on hermitcraft are actually the most viewed out of the entire server in early August a developer named lerve created a program called baritone baritone is a a Minecraft machine learning program that can automatically navigate terrain find routes and execute simple tasks with some programming baritone can do many complex things like speedrun Minecraft and even Escape 2b2 T's spawn a group on 2b2 T called the spawn Masons later used baritone to build a ginormous version of their logo they had more than 61 Bots running baritone who placed over 28 million obsidian during an 8-day time period about a month later the animation team black plasma Studios released animation Life full movie Black Plasma's movie has amassed 230 million views which is unbelievable 8 days after this a funny little British lad named Tommy uploaded his first video on the Tommy in it YouTube channel later that month Minecon Earth 2018 occurred and unlike the previous year which had a mob vote the players this year had to choose between three biomes those being the Tiga Savannah and desert these biomes had been in the game for years but players were voting on which biom should be revamped a lot of people voted based on the mobs within the biomes and the taigo one potentially because it meant foxes would be added to the game do you remember X Turtle well many people don't because he disappeared on October 3rd his channel vanished he didn't delete it no it was Tak taken down it takes three strikes to delete a channel but X turtle was hit with 35 simultaneously there is no coming back from that in November one of the members of the ccraft server named Earth computer discovered a major duplication glitch Earth computer realized if he could overload the data in one chunk it wouldn't be able to save this meant items could be removed from the chunk with no consequences and lead to massive duping with ease the YouTuber saly 1 exploited this dupe on a server owned by Sky called Skittle MC and elsewhere this is kind of all that happened during this time 2018 was really the year of fortnite everyone was talking about it watching it on YouTube and people kind of just forgot about Minecraft things were going downhill and there seemed that there was nothing that could stop that Trend another shot to the heart of Minecraft occurred on December 13th when the team behind Hypixel released the announcement trailer for a brand new video game called hight tail hight tail is clearly inspired by Minecraft with its blocky textures and mechanics it appears Hypixel made the decision to create their own video game when the will of moang conflicted with what Hypixel thought was best for Minecraft multiplayer the 1.9 combat update is the perfect example of that Hypixel still runs on 1.8.9 and mojin could pretty easily add a toggle to the game that lets servers revert to the old combat system this would mean Hypixel could take advantage of all the cool features added in the years since 1.8 but no they're stuck back there however if Hypixel had their own video game there wouldn't be any higher authority that might make decisions that severely hurt the server hi Tail's release would strike a major blow to Minecraft which was already weak because of fortnite while Hypixel wasn't scheduled to release for a while it did not spell good news for Minecraft that being said Minecraft's Behemoth could not easily be taken down during the course of 2018 they still earned an estimated $500 million as for Google Minecraft had the lowest interest in almost a decade if this trend continued Minecraft might die entirely despite the Staggering earnings and the volume of content the pulse of Minecraft's Vibrant Community seemed to be weakening with interest waning the future looked uncertain Minecraft had the chance to fall completely and yet the following year would Breathe new life into the game making a comeback in a way no one could have predicted come on let's talk about Minecraft's Revival in 2019 between 2014 and 2018 a lot of Minecraft's original audience grew up it wasn't cool to play that kid's game anymore and a lot of people thought it was time to move on so they did and what was the those Middle School years for a lot of us people would make fun of the Nerds who still played Minecraft the block G became associated with cringey 12-year-olds but all that changed when fortnite dropped what the hell twin this ain't no goddamn fortnite fortnite became super popular and the perception was that the cringey 12-year-olds now moved to fortnite so fortnite became the game to Dunc on that left Minecraft in a Lial space primed for a spark to bring it back to life in March the popular comedy YouTuber col me Carson had a revolutionary idea a Minecraft s SMP but everyone had to be live streaming while on it he called this SMP live and invited his homies J schlat C scoop Joko Tad and more s SMP live had a rule that every streamer had to have a hit price the hit price is the amount of money viewers could donate for that streamer to kill or prank any other member of the server for example if C scoop's hit price was $50 and someone donated $50 telling him to prank Jook he would have to do it there's a death trap here and I didn't even realize I barely just avoided going even ant venom joined the server and the Dynamics with the hit prices in live streaming created tons of wild interactions and viral Clips everything that J schlatt is but that he would be quite that I see you there and I'm saying it anyways childhood hero is called me bipolar in front of this showed people that Minecraft could be fun again soon after s SMP live got started junky jener the voice actor behind Gumball from The Amazing World of Gumball made a video talking about Minecraft's Revival junky jener raved about the Nostalgia of the game and encouraged people to give it another try maybe it's time to pick up the game that was such a big part of our childhoods while people stopped playing moan and kept dropping updates so to many people the game felt fresh and new despite being filled with Nostalgia Minecraft was back baby well not yet but it was getting there in early April moing reported they found an early version of Minecraft originally released on April 1st 1994 this version was called Minecraft 3D a couple days later the lunar client released which in many ways was similar to the bad lion and cheatbreaker clients while Minecraft was on the up and up I wouldn't say it had been revived yet there were a couple of events that really launched Minecraft back into the stratosphere of public Consciousness the first was filza filza was a hardcore YouTuber and live streamer who had the world record for the longest running hardcore World however on April 29th he lost it forever no really that's how I die oh my God I'm stupid on that fateful day he got killed by a baby zombie and the clip went viral that baby zombie might have been the best thing to ever happen to filza because his twitch and YouTube exploded he even made it onto the big British Channel soon after this Keem star the guy behind drama alert and host of the fortnite Friday tournament joked about starting something called Minecraft Mondays he said this in Gest but when people actually responded positively he asked do you guys actually want Minecraft Mondays the response was an astounding yes on May 17th Minecraft celebrated its 10year anniversary they did this with a web browser version of Minecraft classic and a massive and I mean massive world made by the Builder blockworks blockworks depicted the decade of Minecraft history in one world by this point Minecraft had amassed 176 million sales making it the most sold video game in human history Minecraft's 10th anniversary inspired a lot of people to give the game another try and one such player was someone who had made his first Minecraft video 9 years earlier in that time the individual amassed nearly 100 million subscribers of course I'm talking about PewDiePie it was huge news when the biggest YouTuber in the world started playing Minecraft again on June 21st PewDiePie uploaded a video titled Minecraft part 1 which now sits at over 55 million views PewDiePie exhibited a lot of Wonder and Intrigue about the way the game had changed since he last played and inspired a lot of people to come back as well 3 days after PewDiePie's return keemstar hosted the first Minecraft Monday tournament this was a Hunger Games tournament with tons of YouTubers both new and old including Mr Beast and ninja gfuel sponsored the event which allowed it to have a $10,000 cash prize technoblade and shotgun raids ended up taking the dub winning $10,000 between them a couple weeks before Hypixel created their own take on the Sky Block game mode something more akin to an MMO RPG Hypixel Sky Block released with custom Islands items crafts and abilities and it immediately became their most popular game mode with tens of thousands of people online at any given moment this also made it the most popular Minecraft miname in history while Minecraft was coming back to life Mojang dropped the 1.14 Village and pillage update this revamped the Tiger Biome as depicted by popular vote from the previous Minecon Earth it thus added foxes and berry bushes and totally changed how Villages work 1.14 overhauled the trading system brought in the new Pillager mob Village raids pandas and bamboo forests it also changed a lot of textures PewDiePie series was still going strong garnering hundred hundreds of millions of views a lot of attention was put on his small world and it was thus astounding when a small YouTuber named dream posted a video on the long and Technical process that it took to discover PewDiePie's world seed the seed of a Minecraft world is the string of numbers that will allow anyone to generate that exact same world before the player has affected it at all this here was one of the earliest instances of reverse engineering a world seed based on features shown in videos with all this Minecraft was back baby and better than ever new videos new series and new challenges were uploaded on The Daily for example the well-known fortnite YouTuber Luke the notable who was famous for his 100 drop series uploaded a video where he survived 100 days of Hardcore Minecraft this long form storytelling content was exactly what people were looking for and his first 100 days video reached more than 50 million views while this was happening Minecraft Mondays continued in full swing at least until October 7th why did you get banned for Minecraft Monday well you see Jimmy it's because they feared my raw power no no no it's cuz they got hacked server got exploded the event cancelled and nothing of value was lost so technoblade ASF Jerome vickar beian Canadian tapel wisp Captain Sparkles and James Charles left the event to have some fun on Hypixel keemstar announced Minecraft Mondays would go on hiatus and later decided to drop the turn tournament altogether a bit before Minecraft Mondays died Minecon Earth 2019 was hosted with a new biome vote this time the options were the Badlands the swamp and the mountains what made this different is that the players were voting on which order Mojang should bring these updates into the game rather than Minecraft getting one and the rest being left on The Cutting Room floor mountains won the vote with the swamp coming in second while this was happening Alan Becker uploaded the 14th episode in his animation versus Minecraft series and this somehow went on to get more than 400 million views making it the most viewed Minecraft video in history Mojang soon released a new game Minecraft Earth this is different from Minecon Earth it's a Pokémon go Style game available on mobile players could walk around their cities and towns to gather resources and build but the game was later shut down when that type of thing was no longer possible that same YouTuber dream from PewDiePie's world seed started a trend of Minecraft but challenges he created custom plugins that added a Twist to the game he then joined with his friends George not found and sapnap to try kill the Ender Dragon for example Minecraft but item drops are random and multiplied because Minecraft Monday was sent to the back rooms another event kicked off to take its place Minecraft Championship or MCC MCC was similar to Minecraft Monday but with unique mini games the MCC CC trailer released on November 7th and the first event took place 10 days later on November 22nd a bunch of YouTubers got together for a new server called SNP Earth this was a map of the world where players had the ability to establish their own countries and go to war technoblade promptly took over everything with all this restored hype around Minecraft Mojang dropped the 1.5 Buzzy Bees update honestly apart from the bees themselves this update didn't change too much the main additions Mojang did were dedicated to improving game performance as the year drove to a close dream and George not found tried something new dream attempted to speedrun the game while George tried to stop him they called this Minecraft Manhunt this series dominated YouTube for the next 2 years and brought dream tens of millions of subscribers and billions of views in 2019 Minecraft became cool again a whole bunch of people realized there was value in vibing in the infinite possibilities of this block game and were brought back to a time when life was simpler millions of people returned to Minecraft and were hit with waves of nostalgia when that classic C418 music came on but Nostalgia wasn't the only part of it 2019 also had a lot of things that were new Minecraft had become a different game in the time between when many people quit and then came back and that's reflected in its YouTube content as well PewDiePie Minecraft Monday Hypixel Sky Block 100 days Minecraft Manhunt all of this was wrapped up in this year the waves of nostalgia that washed over the returning Minecraft players were doubled with the thrill of the new combining into something that would turn this revival into a Renaissance and that's all because of 2020 2020 had some major world events that forced people into their homes and what are you going to do when you're stuck at home play Minecraft but that didn't happen immediately in early January Sal C1 had an idea he saw the icon for the default Minecraft texture pack and wondered where it came from s then posted a video igniting the hunt for the world seed behind this image known as pack.png 2 days after that Mojang released a snapshot focused on combat this was mainly created by Jeb who would test and release nine experimental combat snapshots these changed several things about the way that PVP worked the first was attack reach certain items would have longer reach on top of that charged attacks were changed to deal more reach rather than more damage these snapshots seem like a mix between the new and old combat systems and seem to bridge the gap between the 1.8 players and those on newer versions a new combat system like this would likely be implemented to finally enable Java and Bedrock compatibility but it appears Jeb temporarily set aside the project to focus on 1.16 and Beyond a couple days later Ray works the technical gamer bro who created that insane ender dragon farm showcased something that's just as wild and way more practical a raid farm this Farm produced thousands of emeralds an hour on top of a slew of other drops such as totems of undying at the start of February a Minecraft created the Minecraft one block map a custom map where players break a single block that gives them random items the block changes and eventually gets better and better imagine if you could go back to 2011 and tell Noob crew how much influence his creation would have new crew the original builder of Sky Block inspired Sky Block Warriors that led to SkyWars as well as Hypixel Sky Block and now this in March the team at reporters Without Borders created something that's fascinating the uncensored Library this is a public server which Aggregates new stor stories and reports from around the world to bring uncensored information to Nations without much Freedom while the internet might be censored in those places Minecraft often is not as a result curious minds can find another perspective by reading what's written in the books it was ambitious to try pull this off and speaking of ambitious Minecraft projects we have something that sounds impossible an undertaking that will need decades to complete on March 21st first a builder named Pippen FTS launched the build the Earth Project the mission is to build the entire world within Minecraft every road town city and Country at a one:1 scale hundreds of Builders have contributed to this project using Google Maps data and more the scale of this project is unfathomable but you can check out what they've done in the build the Earth Discord server this is around when the funny illness started going around countries went into panic mode and everyone got stuck at home because of this tons of people booted up Minecraft hypixel's player count doubled which shows just how many people picked up Minecraft again on March 24th dream got the first Minecraft 1.14 speedrun in under 30 minutes about a week after that for April fools Mojang released snapshot 20 w14 Infinity this added 2.47 billion New Dimensions to Minecraft that could be accessed by tossing a book into a portal this snapshot also had 44 Easter egg Dimensions where one line in the files is called House of Bob in one of the dimensions there's a house with a dude named Bob meanwhile Hypixel hit a new world record 100,000 players online at one time Hypixel was popping off but not every server was s SMP Earth for instance shut down after a final Hunger Games event on April 11th on the 19th dream uploaded the second video in in his manh hunt series Minecraft speedrunner versus two Hunters he invited sapnap to join and this video went insanely viral because of dream's crazy strategies that somehow worked at the end of The Manhunt dream somehow managed to save himself from almost certain death this was Minecraft at a level few people had seen before and the viewers wanted more dream was exploding faster than TNT to capitalize on that he started the dream S&P on April 24th the dream SMP was a super popular roleplaying server with dream and tons of other YouTubers and twitch streamers Wilbur Su scripted major plot points but apart from that most of what occurred was improvised dream doing these speedrun challenges brought a whole lot of popularity to Minecraft speedrunning as a whole of course there were those who had been doing this for a long time like an Alum he'd been speedrunning Minecraft for years but it's in this everyone stuck at home era that the list of Runners making speedrun submissions grew exponentially on the topic of speedrunning something occurred that is so improbable that it's simply astounding on May 5th 2020 a runner named Ben X created a new world 10 seconds later Illumina did the same after not too long benex broke the world record getting the first sub 25-minute run with a time of 24 minutes 52 seconds when alumina finished his run he beat benx with a time of 2446 meaning benx held the world record for a total of 3 seconds in the following days though Illumina retimed Ben X's run and realized it was actually faster than his since speedruns don't account for loading screens he thus forfeited his world record while simultaneously cementing his legacy as both a speedrun God and chadad the main video documenting this was made by a YouTuber and speedrun moderator named geosquare who also documented the hunt for Minecraft's tallest naturally spawning cactus a skilled coder named Matthew Bolan coded a big Cactus finder which searched through millions of world seeds and found a cactus that's 19 blocks tall one block is equivalent to 1 meter and in real life the world's tallest cactus was found to be 19.2 M tall so this checks out this discovery was Monumental but would get overshadow shadowed by the Minecraft at home team a couple months later they used similar techniques to find a cactus 22 blocks tall with Minecraft's reinvigorated popularity Mr Beast got in on the action he began uploading Minecraft challenge videos that included large cash prizes in typical Mr Beast fashion dream continued to up the ante with his Manhunt Series where he now faced off against three Hunters this wasn't the only style of content that was popular though for instance a channel named the Horizon took a page out of saly 1's book and destroyed a pay towin server by duplicating tons of items he distributed them which obliterated the economy of the server that was exploiting children for its own cash benefit the Horizon continued to go after pay to win servers if he had a duplication glitch he'd destroy the economy and if not he'd create a lag machine to kill the server on May 18th 2020 Minecraft hit 200 million sales that means 24 million ion new people purchased Minecraft in the previous 12 months alone just a couple days later though PewDiePie ended his Minecraft series after a total of 49 episodes however the damage was done Minecraft was back and for that we owe our respects later that month Minecraft dungeons released a fantasy roleplaying game where players have to navigate through the Minecraft Universe in early June dream hit the 1.15 speedrun world record after utilizing a unique strategy rather than trade with villagers to get ender pearls he snagged a looting three sword and killed Endermen for pearls it seemed everyone was getting Monumental achievements on June 19th a player named kilo crazyman did what many people thought was impossible after months and months of walking kilo crazyman reached the farlands in Survival Minecraft he did what Kurt J Mack dreamed to do nearly a decade before Kurt J Mack had been predicted to get to the the farlands by 2037 but the reason kilo got there before is because he put in insane hours his dedication and consistency was incredible and it paid dividends for his efforts Notch gave him $110,000 speedrunning was popping off but it would change Forever on June 23rd Mojang released the 1.16 nether update which totally revamped that hell-like Dimension 1.16 added bastion's piglins hoglands Striders netherite and of course the Lana rain pigstep record disc after a decade of reigning Supreme diamonds were overpassed as the strongest resource in the game that title now belonged to netherite to craft netherite players need to collect four ancient debris found in the deepest part of the nether smelt them and then combine them with gold all to create one netherite Ingot that wasn't even the wildest part of the update though because the new piglin Mob Could be Bartered with and has the possibility of dropping ender pearls 1.16 speedrunning could be optimized to a remarkable degree we'll get to that in a bit Minecraft seed finding was launched by the hunt for PewDiePie's world seed but that was Child's Play compared to what came next on July 18th Earth computer the guy who discovered the chunk dupe with help from tons of other people discovered the seed used for the Minecraft title screen this title screen had been in the game for 7 years and was comprised of six images that were combined together and blurred to create the Panorama the team created a live overlay to create a perfect block byblock Recreation of the terrain and they utilized clouds and the patterns of Tall Grass to find the exact coordinates at which those screenshots were taken using the coordinates and some other fancy stuff I can't even pretend to understand they were able to eliminate enough seeds to Brute Force search this project on the topic of exceptional achievements achieved by the technical Minecraft Community Ray works and the prototech server utilized an advanced combination of exploits to obtain bedrock in survival mode by lagging out certain chunks then breaking the slime block before the game had time to register Minecraft would think that Bedrock had been broken and then would drop it on the ground Ray Works did this with a silk touch wooden pickaxe which makes this even funnier bedrock in survival is insane but that isn't even half of what these technical Minecrafters can do take the ccraft server for example where tons of big brained individuals push Minecraft far beyond anything it was ever intended to do all in survival mode they created the fastest mode of transportation ever which is a very precise ender pearl Cannon a massive World eater that collects an insane amount of blocks per hour and RNG manipulation to get some of the most efficient mob Farms on the planet the ccraft team even removed more than a million blocks of Bedrock to create a playable Sky Block map within their survival world they are responsible for some of Minecraft's greatest achievements it seems that this was the time for crazy Innovations in the technical Minecraft scene because in August some players on 2b2 T accidentally created an immortality machine no one has any idea how this worked but it made some players on the server completely unkillable so after Sal C1 launched the pack.png project in January of 2020 things didn't really go anywhere while the seed hunting team made progress they ran into a lot of dead ends and eventually worked on the title screen project Instead This provided numerous breakthroughs for seed finding in general including the live overlay Recreation program after looking at dirt generation they were able to find the coordinates of the pack. PNG image using a super complicated method this left 281 trillion seeds to search through so the Minecraft at home team created a program called boink where anyone with a powerful GPU could contribute their computing power to help Brute Force this with more than 3,500 people giving their computer power they were able to narrow the search to only 700,000 seeds which was enough for cortex to brute force it himself at 4:00 a.m. they finally found the seed for pack. PNG 5 days later the seed for the skull on fire painting was discovered as well I didn't even know the skull on fire painting had a seed but looking at the original image there's definitely Minecraft terrain behind it now rather than go through a complicated process to try upscale that image and recreate it the seed hunting team emailed Christopher Zed strand the creator of the painting and he had the original screenshot he used as the background the team was able to decompress the image and used a flower bed to search through seeds manually then one coder named Andrew 555 made some personal optimizations to The Brute Force program and posted this screenshot to Discord he wrote painting but there's snow everywhere yeah he had found it while all this was going on dream uploaded the Minecraft speedrunner versus three Hunters Grand Finale he did an insane boat bridge over lava and sent TNT through the end portal to kill the hunters all of that is crazy but what's Wild is this is the most viewed Minecraft gameplay video of all time with all his insane strategies and crazy plays a lot of people thought dream might be the best Minecraft player in the world however dream wasn't the only name in the running the only person who might have skills to rival him was technoblade the winner of four weeks of Minecraft Monday who beat Minecraft hardcore mode with a steering wheel who was an absolute God at 1.8 PVP what made this competition more difficult to quantify is that dream specialized in the new style of combat whereas techno had spent years with the old most experienced pvpers preferred 1.8 but dream with his manhunts had made the new combat look cool so which version would be fair we would never know if dream or techno was better unless they faced off against one another well that's exactly what Mr Beast forced them to do Mr Beast made a proposition techno versus dream five rounds of 1.8 PVP and five rounds of 1.16 PVP the winner walks away with $100,000 on August 29th Mr Beast brought these Gamers into an arena in the final round techno was in the lead at5 to 4 and this happened no what no way no way no no oh my goodness bro no way oh no techn blade you animal in early October Minecon Earth was renamed to Minecraft live and this event had some controversy not because of the name change but because of the mob vote the candidates for the 2020 mob vote were the isolater moo Bloom and the glow squid and a lot of people thought the voting wasn't entir irely Fair the reason why is because dream tweeted his support for the glow squid in glowing terms numerous times thus causing his fans to vote for the glow squid many people weren't happy with one dude potentially deciding the entire vote but that's how mafia works with all this speedrunning going on Illumina decided it wasn't difficult enough so on October 11th he attempted to get every single advancement in the game as fast as possible he was successful and completed the run in under 15 hours speaking of people doing crazy stuff the YouTuber Wy set out to create a beacon fully powered by netherite in hardcore mode a full Beacon requires 164 blocks of iron gold diamond Emerald or netherite which is 1,476 of those items for netherite this means wodi would need to collect 594 ancient debris which he did it took him 6 months to col col all this and I'm sure it felt marvelous finally light that Beacon soon after that a speedrunner named Curry way used a new strategy with the bastions to get a 14-minute 36C speedrun with all this hyper run speedrunning there's bound to be drama and boy was their drama on December 11th the YouTuber and speedrun moderator Geo Square uploaded a video on behalf of the speedrun.com moderation team it was titled did dream fake his speedruns official moderator analysis and looked into the unbelievable luck dream had in different speedruns he did while on live stream dreams drop chance for the most crucial elements of speedr running Ender and blaze rods was markedly greater than normal Minecraft RNG after doing some complicated statistical analysis the mods concluded the chances dream didn't cheat were one in 7.5 trillion dream denied these accusations and even hired a Harvard astrophysicist to try debunk the speedrun team's analysis this drama continued for months towards the end of 2020 mojing made the announcement that all Minecraft accounts would have to migrate to Microsoft accounts the reason they did this is because of the infamously poor account security Mojang had back in the day having every account migrate to Microsoft would fix this issue as people couldn't migrate stolen accounts so 2020 the year of the virus the bigest word this year dream so much happened in the Minecraft Community both in game and on YouTube with the nether update Manhunt speed running seed finding and the $100,000 duel on top of that there was the dream S&P all of these things were huge and they'd get even bigger in 2021 halfway through January Hypixel hit a new world record with 150,000 concurrent players crazy to think that all this started with some dude with the walls and Herobrine's mansion speaking of Herobrine about a week after hypixel's 150,000 record Andrew 555 found the world seed for the original Herobrine screenshot 12 years after the image was first posted to the Minecraft forums Andrew did this with the Minecraft at home team they observed details in the terrain as well as large tree and leaf patterns you guys can watch saly 1 in ant Venom's videos on these seed finding projects because I oversimplified things to a crazy degree with these new 1.16 Bastion strats speedrunners had the potential to seriously cut time in the latter part of February something happened that was almost as improbable as alumina and Ben X's 3sec world record on the 23rd Illumina beat the game in 13 minutes and 53 seconds one day later another Runner named two-letter name beat alumina by 1 second with his run of 1352 the day after that twetter name beat his own time cutting the record by a full 100 seconds that's three World Records in 3 days two of them by the same dude meanwhile the genius behind the big Cactus search Matthew Bolan figured out some overpowered patterns in Minecraft World Generation he uploaded a video describing how to find diamonds using clay patches it was basically x-ray for April fools mojing introduced Minecraft plus a Windows screen saver collection 2 weeks later The Hive server shut down after close to a decade of operation that is on Java Edition The Hive like cubecraft continues to be popular on Bedrock as the hive was dying Hypixel was soaring to new heights just one day after the shutdown Hypixel hosted a special event on Sky Block technoblade was elected leader of the resistance against the evil Tyrant Dante while techno blade was live streaming Hypixel hit a world record of 26,6 70 players online that's more people than the population of a lot of countries while on the topic of things so significant that they make Minecraft history on April 19th a speedrunner named Bren Tilda did The Impossible he beat Minecraft in under 10 minutes Bren Tilda utilized a number of new recently developed Advanced strategies what truly made this run so special though was that he spawned at 00 in the Nether and there was a Fossil nearby that shouldn't seem like much but Matthew Bolan the genius who figured out how to find diamonds from clay also developed a strategy known as Divine travel Matthew Bolan figured out that fossils at 00 in the nether actually provide information about where the stronghold will be with this knowledge speedrunners developed a chart for optimal coordinates to build Nether Portals based on 0000 fossils this isn't guaranteed though but when Bren Tilda built his portal based on the chart he spawned directly inside the stronghold right next to the portal room as this was happening a redstone genius named Matt bat wings was working on some crazy projects during 2021 he built a Tic Tac Toes simulator with just Redstone what's even Wilder is that you can play against the computer and it's unbeatable after this project Matt teamed up with his friend sloy and they casually built chess in Minecraft once that finished they built a playable version of Atari breakdown Insanity Mojang split the caves and cliffs update into two parts the first part 1.17 came out on June 8th that added mountains to the game as well as cave plants aelott goats copper and the new glow squid halfway through the month Hypixel was hit with a series of massive dos attacks that took the entire server down down they had to go into emergency maintenance for 6 days but when they finally were able to get the server back online they implemented a double XP multiplier server wide after an insane amount of back and forth drama and denial on June 30th Carl jobs uploaded a video called dreams cheating confession uncovering the truth in this 75-minute video Carl jobs the speedrunning expert went through the entire dream cheating situation and dispelled spelled a great number of misconceptions so despite overwhelming evidence that his luck was Impossible Dream profusely claimed he was totally legit until he later confessed to accidentally cheating how could you accidentally cheat to give yourself extra luck Carl got to the bottom of the situation as he explained dream increases the drop rates of certain items for his Challenge videos however all of that is done server side any changes that occur server side don't affect single player at the same time though dream hired a developer to create a mod to help with his content creation this mod had such features as enhanced Graphics faster loading and other quality of life changes the mod developer actually increased the drop rates of certain items like ender pearls and blaze rods in the mod as well but removed that when he realized that all of Dreams video content was done on multiplayer dream was unaware that his drop rates were increased and used it in single player while speedrunning now from this standpoint his behavior after getting exposed makes a lot of sense he cheated but he didn't know it that being said it's very possible he could have handled the situation better especially regarding his dealings with the speedrun.com mod team and statements on Twitter Carl after 70 minutes of analysis gives his conclusion dream is solely responsible for thousands of his fans going after anyone who dared suggest that he cheated intentional or not dream is the cause of everything that transpired but as crazy as this sounds and I know a lot of people will hate me for saying this dream isn't a terrible person it's just that his flaws become so magnified due to the size of his audience this put the lid on the coffin of the dream cheating scandal and Minecraft players could finally rest two weeks later jpex mapek and parrot began a new server called LIF steal SMP they wanted to try something new where they had to have an SMP but with a Twist life Steel's twist was that killing another player would take one of their hearts and dying removed a heart life steal SMP became some of the most popular Minecraft content on the platform and launched a trend of LIF steal ripoff servers trying to capitalize on their success the same day that life still started 2b2 T patched one of the most powerful exploits in the server's history this exploit was called Noom in 2018 an exploit group on 2b2 T known as nerds Incorporated found a way to crash the entire server they realized they could load any chunk they wanted to by using a hack client to break blocks in that chunk if they tried to break blocks from thousands of chunks at a time then the server would crash after some deliberation nerds Inc realized that if this exploit was patched it's possible the fix could lead to something far more powerful and so they joined 2b2 t and crashed the server as many times as they could that same day housem reported the bug and it was fixed by only responding if a chunk was already loaded so if the Nerds tried to break a block in a chunk that wasn't loaded the server wouldn't allow it this is exactly what the Nerds were hoping for because it now meant they could know where anyone was on the map this exploit was nicknamed Noom which is a shortened version of no comment nerd Inc recruited leg erve the developer of Baritone who made a program using this exploit that would follow players predict where they're headed and use probability Association to know exactly who was at what location so for example if they saw that fitmc joined the game and certain chunks were then loaded and then when he logged off those chunks became unloaded then they'd not only know that a player was in those chunks but that player was fit nerdsync also started to track shulkers stained glass and other plac blocks that don't naturally spawn and they developed a program to recreate those unnatural blocks in another world with all this they were able to get direct replicas of bases without having ever to travel there nerds Incorporated was tracking every single player in every single base across the entire server they Ed this information to grief numerous famous bases including Space valkyria 3 the niflheim ice dragon the great Tree and more it was only after another group of players found this exploit that it was finally patched this is definitely one of the wildest Things that's ever happened in Minecraft these guys could be working for the CIA but instead they chose to have some fun on the oldest Anarchy server in Minecraft and honestly I have to respect the hustle Minecraft live 2021 occurred in mid October where players could vote for one of three new Mobs the copper Golem the glare and the LA the LA won the vote so Mojang began development on that mob on October 21st Mr Beast broke the world record for the most players on one world with more than 4,000 while it's true that multiplayer servers like Hypixel and even qcraft and Mineplex have at some point hosted upwards of 30,000 players and 4,000 is significantly less than 216,000 these are two different categories Hypixel and other massive multi player networks use a lot of individual servers to actually get the players to be all online at the same time what Mr Beast did would be more like getting 4,000 people into one single Hypixel lobby at the same time at the end of the month a player named sand diction uploaded a video where he built a massive planet in the end dimension of his hardcore world this pioneered a new style of Hardcore Minecraft content the style being to do something absurd and oneup yourself every time on November 30th update 1.18 the second half of the caves and cliffs update dropped this completely overhauled World Generation added complex cave systems extreme terrain generation changed the way that ores are distributed and made the world go both higher and lower this was the biggest change in Minecraft terrain generation since the update that changed the world in 2013 these new mountains and caves adds so much depth to the game that I have to applaud Mojang for this one on December 4th the speedrunner Ellis Saku managed to snag a world record by completing a speedrun in 8 hours 12 minutes and 30 seconds this speedrun was in the most brutal category around all advancements half heart hardcore the goal is to get every single advancement and one tiny mistake one simple slip up will kill the Run speed running was the biggest part of Minecraft in 2021 dreams cheating scandal was finally resolved and bran tilda's insane 10-minute world record was reached still though speedrunning would get progressively crazier in 2022 after the arrival of 20122 on January 23rd Cube 1336x broke Bren tilda's world record after 279 days he got a time of 9 Minutes 8 seconds using some new strategies the first is called the wall one of the biggest time syncs in speedrunning is loading up new worlds and then resetting if a world is bad from the get-go there's no way a runner will be able to beat the game in any reasonable amount of time as a result something called the wall was developed allowing players to load up many seeds simultaneously to be able to exponentially increase the rate at which they reset and run Worlds the second big development is called calculated travel when on of Ender are thrown they point to the location of the stronghold the coder and speedrunner ninjab brain developed a bot that based on the angle at which the eye moved would predict often with a very high degree of accuracy where the stronghold would be the calculator would then give the most effective coordinates in the nether for the player to travel through Cube did this and spawned in the stronghold so he was able to make it to the portal room within seconds while Cube 1336 is run was super impressive because of how fast it was sand dition did something that was super impressive because of how much time it took that was trapping every mob in Hardcore Minecraft the video blew up and now has 31 million views continuing the doing something ridiculously difficult in hardcore mode trend on January 30th phonometer walked all the way to the Minecraft world border which is almost 2 and a half times as far as the farlands are yeah yeah dude what oh there it is oh my God less than a month later dream uploaded his final Manhunt Minecraft speedrunner versus five Hunters Grand Finale this marked the end of The Manhunt Saga as Manhunt itself as a genre was beginning to Die on YouTube at the same time though a new style of long form Minecraft content was getting started speed Sil uploaded a 100 player Minecraft civilization in this event 100 players were split into different groups and eventually forced to fight one another speed silver documented their journey and a lot of shenanigans occurred along the way these civilization videos were quite popular for example sip over made his own with some of the best Minecraft players around one team was able to take the victory because they created an immortality machine that would teleport them to safety every time they ran out of toems of UND ding Mojang dropped a new snapshot at the end of March snapshot 22 W13 one block at a time this was an April Fool's version where the inventory was completely removed and players could only hold one block at a time small ant somehow managed to speedrun this version in 5 hours and 7 minutes as I mentioned back in 2020 alumina managed to do an all advancement speedrun in under 15 hours in the subsequent 19 months players worked tirelessly to off optimize the run and by players I really refer to just one guy his name is fineberg on May 20th he completed a Run in under 3 hours that's insane compared to the 15 hours it took for alumina fineberg is just incredible in this category he has nine runs with times under 3 and 1/2 hours and three runs sub three hours on June 7th the 1.19 Wild update released adding ancient cities the deep dark skull man grov swamps frogs alls chest boats and the brand new Warden boss the warden was actually designed by King B dogs who made the aether mod all the way back in 2011 after developing Minecraft mods recreationally King B dogs was hired by moing because of his skills a week later some massive drama went down with the new snapshot prepping for 1.19.1 nicknamed 1.1 1984 the snapshot added chat reporting to the game meaning you can be reported for messages you send in Minecraft servers those messages will then be reviewed by a Mojang's team of Minecraft investigators who will determine whether or not you broke any of these rules if they determine you're in violation of the rules you could lose the ability to access multiplayer servers entirely this is a system that had been in place on Bedrock for several years and Java players were not happy about it especially because you could get banned without knowing why several mods were developed to try circumvent chat reporting on top of that servers have the ability to make it impossible for chat reporting to take place so if you have a server you should think about whether or not you want to have what people say on it be policed by mojing themselves this has big ramifications for servers like 2b2 T where toxic behavior is the norm considering toxicity is the norm that's what people are signing up for so is it fair to police that language it's clear that with this decision with mine coins with the focus on bedrock with really any of Minecraft's official announcements like Minecraft live that Microsoft is trying to cater to children while it's definitely true that a lot of Minecraft's player base is children that's not everyone if you're watching this video you're probably in your late teens or early 20s so it seems that Microsoft should take that audience into account as well on June 30th technoblade's father posted a heartbreaking video on his channel titled so long nerds and it techno's Dad read a message from technoblade and announced that techno had tragically passed away at the age of 23 from a rare type of bone cancer technoblade had a profound effect on the Minecraft Community as he brought joy to tens of millions of people with his genius storytelling wicked sense of humor and crazy high IQ plays he was the best of us and continues to be missed to this day come on techno come on techno I got this come on techno for America to honor his memory the Mojang team added technoblade Never Dies to the Minecraft title screen with all due respect to technoblade and his family I'd like to transition back into slightly less meaningful Minecraft announcements on July 17th the YouTuber and dream SMP member tubo posted the announcement trailer for tubet a new Minecraft server this appeared to be exciting but unfortunately tubet would be a large disaster and let's talk about why tubet was masterminded by the YouTuber tubo and the original idea was to have it be a role-playing game like wincraft after some deliberation though the team decided to switch it to mini gamess tubet had a lot of hype because of the YouTuber and twitch streamer support that it was getting on top of that they promised to have Java and Bedrock compatibility which would be awesome however all this development was causing tubo a lot of stress which can be seen when he was talking to one of his friends using a heart monitor every time tubet got mentioned his heart rate would spike at least 30 beats per minute that's not good to make matters worse when the server finally got on its feet it was hit by a series of deos attacks that entirely took it down on October 2nd dream did something which shook the internet hi yeah he looks like like a normal dude the name of the YouTube game at this point was to do something outlandish in hope that it gets views one man who was doing this better than anyone else is Chris daau he did one of the most astonishing things in Minecraft history he built the entire universe Chris built a large number of celestial bodies like black holes galaxies and used Minecraft's lighting tools to create incredible images of what the universe would look like in a block game a little bit later speed Sil once again changed the Minecraft content scene by doing a 100 player Hunger Games once again we have an example of YouTube content that is innovative but takes a lot of inspiration from what came before it of course the Hunger Games had been around since ant venom won that first event a decade before unlike that old content though Silver's video was much more similar to the long form civilization videos he had done before that being said it also took elements from dreams manhunts like traps and trickery to make the video more engaging the landscape of Minecraft content continued to evolve and the community watched as records were shattered and new gameplay experiments unfolded that all continued at a heightened degree in the year 2023 on February 8th the player zylenox shattered the former speedrun world record and beat Minecraft in a random World in 7 minutes 45 seconds seconds I cannot overstate how astonishing this run is zylenox gameplay is Godlike and it paid off well it's hard to say whether this run will ever be beaten I took too long to finish this video there have been multiple World Records since zylenox is based on the number of mob vote and biome votes Mojang had done recently for April fools they created the vote update the choice is yours to make choices on May 27th the YouTuber is is uploaded the best civilization video I have ever seen ish brought in 1,000 players in an experiment to see what would happen What made this video unique apart from the immense player count is that ish never told anyone to do anything he split the people into island nations and let them meander about they were never forced to fight so the conflict and drama that occurred was all genuine and was thus incredibly engaging exactly 1 year after the Wild update dropped Mojang released the 1.20 trails and Tails update which added archaeology brushes suspicious sand Pottery camels cherry trees and armor trims armor trims are designs players can use to add Cosmetics to their armor with there being over 2,000 possibilities one of the LIF steal s SMP members Rec RP 2 set out to collect every single armor trim combination in survival he had to collect thousands of ancient debris and tens of thousands of diamonds Rec RP managed to do this within 2 months of the update dropping astonishing meanwhile Chris the cow the dude who built the universe taught a monkey to play Minecraft he did this with condition and reward and I'm sure some psychology classes out there can use this monkey as an example of Skinner's principles at the same time the speedrun community was developing one of the craziest things that's ever happened in Minecraft a method to kill the dragon with a single Arrow without any mods without any cheats and without any glitches all of this is done legitimately in Survival Minecraft Arrow damage is determined by velocity so the more velocity the arrow has the more damage it'll do player velocity translates to Arrow velocity but normally players aren't traveling fast enough to give their arrows any effect however when the dragon and player hit boxes Collide players can get a lot of velocity but that velocity is only applied when they take damage which sometimes doesn't happen for a couple of seconds what this means is that if the players can get a high velocity from the dragon that velocity will translate to their arrows which will make the arrows super deadly what these Runners found is that the dragon has a weak point something called the tickle spot this is basically the in the dragon's armor from The Hobbit but so much more difficult to hit the tickle spot is 150th the size of a Minecraft block and the player has to shoot it within one one tick of precision if this is done perfectly the dragon will die with just one Arrow the speedrunner Kea did something that should be impossible he entered a set seed speedrun and eyeballed it the tool assisted speedrunner named circuit investigated this and uploaded a video showcasing a great setup for lining up one's character to hit the tickle spot using that setup the runner Hanabi beat the set seed glitch the speedrun by a margin of 38 seconds starting and finishing the game in 1 minute and 9 seconds this is insanity there have been multiple records since then but there will never be a drop in time as huge as this from ccraft to Noom to this Minecraft just has unlimited possibilities speaking of 2b2 T after years in 1.12 housemaster announced that the server would finally be updating to 1.19 the reason tb2t was stuck in 1.12 is because of server performance issues but housemaster was able to run a 1.19 test with more than 600 players online without much lag so the date was set August 14th the community of course was hyped and I think this meme captures it perfectly however when the update finally dropped it came with an insane amount of drama housemaster released the update with a revamp 2b2 website that had new rules wait what house announced that many old chunks loaded before the update would be trimmed to save file storage he made it so that certain items were removed from the game or their snack size was reduced to either 16 or 1 to reduce the effects of duping however those items had been in the game for years and a big part of Anarchy is you allow anyone to do anything rules on an anarchy server is oxymoronic this seemed to go totally against the spirit of what 2b2 stood for so a lot of players banded together and emailed housemaster asking for him to refund their priority queue celi1 made a video on the topic and supported that boycott movement and house Master responded in a way that got people even angrier Sala 1 stated if these changes weren't reverted he wasn't going to be making any more 22t content which has been giving the server free advertising fit MC who has been doing that for years and is basically the server's entire marketing budget made a bombastic statement in a live stream house master caught wind of the nuke that I was about to drop and he's like oh we got rever eventually housem did back down he made a Reddit poll with three options and the community voted and the vast majority of players were in favor of rolling back to the previous World in 1.19 of course while keeping all the duped items in the game and keeping the old chunks that were trimmed so housem followed through after the poll saly once stated 2b2 T content was back on the table albeit with a a couple months of Hiatus earlier in the month Minecraft released three videos showcasing the three potential new Mobs the crab armadillo and penguin the crab gave extra reach for placing blocks the armadillo dropped a scoot item that could be crafted into dog armor and Penguins seemed pretty cool overall however this sparked a fiery controversy on Twitter the armadillo fans created the armadillo Empire and went to war against the crab supporters these two camps hurled insult and threats at one another leading some to say all right I'mma head out that sentiment culminated in the # stop the mob vote movement which employed War propaganda to protest against the mob vote and the controversy that it always Spurs people get really heated when they want their mob in the game but it seems inevitable that at least some people will be angry or disappointed when their mob doesn't win I personally feel as though Mojang should do what they did with the swamp mountains Badlands vote where players voted on which biome they wanted added first rather than vote for one and leave the rest never to be seen again anyway the armadillo won on October 21st speed silver uploaded the finale to his 100 player Hunger Games tournament in this nearly 2hour video speeds Sil announced something he'd been working on for months a brand new server called hoplight hoplight hosts a battle royale game mode with both solo and teams it has proximity chats and contains many of the cool weapons featured in speed Silver's videos basically it's a 1.20 version of Hypixel UHC hopl had over a thousand players join on launch and a bunch of Hypixel UHC YouTubers have come out of the woodwork to make hoplight content as well years ago speed silver was known for his Hypixel UHC content but eventually stopped when the game got stale and unplayable due to the prevalence of hackers the game died so it seems silver said no Hypixel UHC fine I'll do it myself so Minecraft a decade and a half after its creation and here we are is the game dying I don't think so Google Trends still shows very strong activity and as long as there are new updates for people to play and YouTube content for people to watch I think Minecraft will have an active fan base some though have their issues with it jet star fish made an excellent video arguing that Minecraft isn't fun anymore he stated that people who've been playing it since childhood already know everything so there isn't a sense of wonder or Discovery anymore maybe a lot of Minecraft's value came from finding a dungeon and not knowing what it was or investigating how Redstone mechanics work as jet star pointed out Minecraft's main progression hasn't changed in 12 years and in that time the game has gotten easier and easier to fix this he suggested that stronger enemies should spawn after the player kills the Ender dren now does the game feel bloated with so many features Minecraft is no longer as simple as it used to be it's so easy to find a village or a temple or an ocean Monument or Pillager Tower some miss the days when all that was around was the rare dungeon or M shaft and the world fell emptier as the YouTuber Tex points out in his video Minecraft's atmosphere is changing the village civilizations players could find were rare and for that reason players retreated into their own isolation and built a civilization of their own maybe as some argue the archaic version of Minecraft that's beta 1.7.3 is the best there was no hunger no experience on top of that there were only 12 mobs six biomes and two Dimensions Minecraft terrain generation may have been the most beautiful it's ever been so does the current Minecraft have too much stuff that's up to you to decide I would argue that Minecraft is the greatest video game of all time for one simple reason unlimited possibility let's take a look at the official Minecraft trailer one more time let's go to a place where everything is made of blocks where the only limit is your imagination survival multiplayer mini gamess mods YouTube you name it there is no limit to Minecraft this game has been such a big part of our lives for so long long so I have to take my time to appreciate it I fondly remember sharing one laptop with my siblings as we took turns playing in separate single player worlds and then watched each other play eventually we got an Xbox and played hours and hours of split screen multiplayer together we built mined and progressed in a world that is now lost to time even though that World Is Gone those memories are not and I think that's what matters [Music]
