Uncovering Minecrafts Most OBSCURE Features...

there is so much more to Minecraft than meets the eye recently I stumbled across a Minecraft discontinued features iceberg that blew my mind did I know there are a large number of removed unused discontinued and planned features that never came to be some of which were removed only hours after they were added or had to be removed from the game forever due to dangerous exploits from missing blocks controlling the in-game time hidden words on Minecraft textures removed soundtracks and audio made by Notch himself camouflaging mobs to gravity exploding arrows bad luck and a selection of strange Mobs Minecraft could have been a very different game we'll start this video with a selection of obscure Minecraft features which were removed from the game here are some Minecraft clouds now take a look at these clouds notice any difference for a brief period of time back in 2010 during Minecraft if Dev the fluff.png texture was used for clouds later being removed take a look at these clouds now notice any difference will well of course you do because back in Minecraft in their versions first released in late 2009 you could customize the height and color of clouds this feature was removed in INF Dev and is still yet to return in Minecraft Alpha 1.2.2 a released late 2010 you could press f4 on your keyboard to instantly spawn a nether portal only a few hours later in Minecraft Alpha 1.2.2 B this was removed in Minecraft Beta 1.9 pre-release 2 released in September 2011. cauldrons could be filled up with water and right-clicked with potion ingredients this was the first system of potion brewing added to the game you could add and combine a variety of different ingredients together in a cauldron and then using a glass bottle could bottle the concoction you had just created what's interesting about this method of potion brewing is that the potion could have multiple effects with 161 different types of combinations the potions had a different naming system as well named after their combination of effects rather than their effect this would eventually be changed to the system we have now not long after but mundane couldn't take potions still exist in the game today as remnants of this old potion brewing system older Minecraft players will remember this next feature from Minecraft Beta 1.8 up into a 1.8 snapshot in 2014 when you were wide level 16 or lower in a world you would see void fog and particles making Mining and exploring at these depths very ominous take a look at this acacia tree now take a look at this dark oak tree notice anything in an early Minecraft Java 1.7.2 snapshot a Minecraft update which added a variety of new biomes and in-game structures acacia trees used to generate with jungle logs and oak leaves and dark oak trees used to generate with Spruce logs and oak leaves not long after this updates Acacia and Darko trees both received their own respective blocks on the topic of biomes there are a variety of biomes that were removed in late 2011 upon the release of Minecraft Beta 1.8 an update which completely changed our Minecraft terrain generated the ice desert a large sand plain coated in snow were removed shrub lands flat biomes with not many trees and no grass were also removed see is a new Forest a lush green biome with a lot of old trees were removed and finally rainforest a very lush green biome which could contain a variety of large trees Tall Grass ferns of vegetation were also removed shrublands would eventually make their way back into the game somewhat in the form of Savannah's and rainforests somewhere in the form of jungles in Minecraft Beta 1.6 green shrubs were added to the game originally starting off with a grass texture the texture would change the variety of times even causing the game to crash in one snapshot due to the texture being missing eventually they would end up using a dark green version of the Dead Bush before the texture was removed again entirely and the item was removed as well in 2014. for about a year from snapshot 14w07a released in February 2014 to Minecraft 1.8.6 released in May of 2015 dispensers had the ability to dispense and place command blocks this feature was often used by map makers at the time who were not happy at all that it was removed now interestingly the reason this feature was removed was due to a security exploit as it explained by a Mojang developer but it's clear that Mojang's developers did not want players to know what this exploit was as I can't find any information about it anywhere with the bug report about it being deleted or privated from what I could gather it seems like there was some sort of force op exploit utilizing signs in a dispensed command block or using items with specific npt data Maybe to corrupt or crush a world or server let me know if you know anything about this in the comments in Minecraft snapshot 15w49a released December 2nd 2015 two new sound effects were added to Minecraft entity.hanging.place and entity.hanging.pop these sound effects were blank however and exactly one day later in snapshot 15w49b they were removed from the game forever according to the wiki they were likely intended to be sound effects for the lead in a Minecraft 1.6.1 snapshot horse saddles were added to the game unlike normal Saddles they could be crafted like so and could also stack up to 32. however only about two weeks later in another Minecraft 1.6.1 snapshot or Saddles were removed and have never been mentioned since Minecraft realms used to have a player activity section back in 1.5 through the 1.14.4 basically it tracked how often players logged on and how long they played for from day to day according to a comment from a developer in a bug report the player activity section had to be removed due to new gdpr legislations which meant that Mojang no longer had the consent from all users to log and display their activity com4.ogg was a Minecraft in-game soundtrack made by Notch himself a soundtrack quite out of place compared to the beautiful somber and melancholic tracks made by C418 the track was released in Alpha 1.1.1 but then only one update later was removed from the downloaded game files players who downloaded the soundtrack back then could still listen to the track all the way up to the new Minecraft launcher released in mid-2013 as it still remained in the music section of the dot Minecraft folder but now it's impossible to download in here in the vanilla game it's still possible to listen to calm 4 on notches SoundCloud where he states that was accidentally included in an early build of Minecraft craft when he was testing the music system in a Minecraft Beta 1.8 pre-release players could use the F6 and F7 keys to control the in-game time this was removed in the next beta 1.8 pre-release four days later however players can still use the left-click function on their Mouse to click the Subscribe button on my channel and thus be immediately granted an extreme amount of respect and admiration from everyone else around them we are getting close to 600k Subs now no pressure in a Minecraft 1.10 snapshot released in 2016 water used to randomly evaporate when on the top of certain magma blocks this lasted all the way up until 1.13 released in 2018 where magma blocks now converted water source blocks into bubble streams in a Minecraft April Fool's version 15w14a released in early 2015 craftable and functional obsidian Boats were added to the game rather than functioning as normal though they would sink in water and also in lava but would not break like normal boats the most iconic and recognizable Minecraft mob in the game The Creeper used to actually melee attack players in the game's earliest survival test versions released way back in mid-2009 they would walk around looking very depressed and would deal two hearts of damage to players exploding after they had been killed at the beginning of in Dev in late 2009 this was changed and speaking of creepers in Minecraft 1.8 mobs used to actually run away from creepers that were about to explode but this was quickly removed in a 1.8.1 pre-release as mobs were checking for an exploding creeper every game tick thus degrading game performance there are a variety of splash screen texts that have been removed over the years but most notably half price when the game was on sale 110 813 which was Notch and his ex-wife's wedding day undocumented which Nobody Knows Why was removed and a few happy birthday wishes as well as a lot of video game and music references if we take a look at Minecraft's old numeric block ID list you may notice that there are a selection of block ID numbers such as 253 254 34 and 36 that are missing block 34 is known as the Piston arm and can only be obtained through the use of external commands or game modifications block 36 is known as a piston extension and is completely invisible and also can only be obtained with game modifications unlike barrier blocks though block 36 doesn't have any block outline and players and entities can move right through it block 253 and 254 on the other hand are strange world edit and other mods don't work and they don't exist in older versions of the game so I can't get them there either the wiki states that these two block IDs are unused apparently 255 used to be the maximum allowed block ID and just by coincidence these last two IDs were never used we are now going to move on to a selection of obscure unused Minecraft features features that have been added to the game and still exist within it but aren't used or obtainable in normal gameplay when Minecraft trading was added to the game back in 1.3.1 released in mid-2012 an image was included in the trading GUI text file of a speech bubble this speech bubble seems to be a potential method of trading that the devs were considering Jeb would somewhat confirm this in a 2017 interview where he mentions the team experimented with using thought bubbles for trading but decided against it as it didn't look good using a GUI interface instead on the topic of unused or odd textures still remaining in the game's files the old texture for Zombie Pigman contains the text thanks xophobia are reference by notch to the original creator of the zombie pigman texture xophobia the guardian texture contains the text Jeb in the bottom right corner as Jeb created the guardian the armor stand texture contains a signature of Minecraft developer surge who added armor stands to the game when you set the opacity of the Alex skin to 100 it reveals a variety of unused textures such as glasses Steve arms and more implying that the Steve's skin may have been used as a base to model the Alex skin off of the Villager Vindicator of vocan which all have an unused Hood texture which can be seen in various articles official Mojang videos and some snapshots did you know that the Wither Skeleton can have some normal skeleton-like behaviors for example if you use commands to summon a Skeleton Trap in the nether or through some smart gameplay make a naturally spawned Skeleton Trap mob enter another portal and thus send it to the nether when that Skeleton Trap is activated with a skeleton's riding skeleton horses will spawn up to Minecraft 1.10.2 with the skeletons can also spawn as by the jockeys up to 1.10.2 if you use a spider spawn egg in the nether if a wither skeleton is spawned with a bow it can in fact use it and interestingly the arrow it shoots will always be on fire even without any lava or enchantments there exists a variety of sounds in the game that are currently not used first there's birds chirping a 45 second audio Loop of what seems to be a rainforest then there's cave Chimes a one minute audio Loop of unnerving Chimes may be meant for a cave volume that does not exist yet ocean is a one minute audio Loop which just sounds like the ocean with regular waves crashing and finally there is a 5 Second soundtrack called waterfall I wonder what the original plans for such tracks were there's also a few sound effects for mobs and other entities which are unused ghast affectionate scream which sounds like this breath which I guess is meant to be the character breathing very odd though and then two wolf howling sound effects there's also four silverfish walking sound effects that aren't used in Minecraft 1.13 snapshot 17w47a released in late 2017 the footprint particle effect was removed from the game but the texture still existed in the game's files up until 2021. in Minecraft 1.6.1 snapshot 13w23b released mid-2013 the health boost effect was added to the game this effect could be obtained from eating a golden apple however exactly one week later golden apples would no longer give the health boost effect giving absorption instead Health boost still exists today though and has been given a new texture twice in later updates each level of Health boost grants the player an extra two hearts until the effect runs out and I think there's a good chance we may see it used in a future update on the topic of unused Minecraft effects I'm sure you are all familiar with the luck effect by now however there actually exists a bad luck effect which does the opposite of luck unlike luck however you can't even obtain a potion or tip Arrow of bad luck in creative and the only way you can get the effect is through commands this final section is going to contain what's known as mentioned features mentioned features are features which were planned or mentioned to be potentially coming to the game in future updates but were either canceled or simply never came to be some of these features are so obscure and crazy to think about that they deserve their own video and there are hundreds of them but I've chosen some of the better ones to talk about in a 2011 interview with Notch Notch added exploding arrows to a debug version of beta 1.8 he was working on or rather he tried to add exploding arrows as it crashed the game later in the video we can see he successfully added them and it seemed very fun to use in 2018 there was a mob vote held for the Chinese version of Minecraft which contained four unique mobs the Chinese alligator the snub-nosed monkey the white-lipped deer the baji and the giant panda the giant panda would win the vote and we would get our own version of the panda not long after as well however we have received no word about the other four mobs with only the alligator or crocodile being mentioned by developers as a potential inclusion in the game in the future speaking of mobs Jeb once considered adding a mop to the game which could camouflage with its environment when he was designing the shulker this was actually one of the mob's mechanics during development according to Jeb and it could camouflage to look exactly like a nearby block but due to difficulties with code and rendering this idea was scrapped Jeb did however mention that camouflaging mobs could make a return in the future back in 2010 Notch began talks of adding dragons to the game later in 2011 we would receive the Ender Dragon but not the lead plans to yet a slightly less dangerous version of the Dragon to the Overworld that could land and would not destroy terrain known as The Red Dragon Jeb would later mention that he would add Red Dragons in a 2012 red AMA but a year later dinnerbone would confirm that the red dragon was shoveled for the time being later that same year though dinnerbone did mention that Red Dragons would be implemented at one point but now almost 10 years later and it seems that may never come to be in 2010 Notch included on his now archived public to-do list that it was considering adding land claimed Flags to the game where you could plant a flag that may cost golden survive claim an area of land preventing mobs from spawning or dying in that area with only selected players able to build there similar to many public survival servers in 2009 Notch mentioned wanting to add two more game modes team survival mode which is the same as survival where players are divided into teams and Fortress mode which allowed players to connect their world files together to play mini games such as Capture the Flag Notch later in 2010 seem to still want to do something like Fortress mode renaming it clan mode but nothing would ever come of it during Minecon 2013 dinnerbone mentioned wanting to add Seasons to the game as well as mentioning Minecraft day and year Cycles on Twitter as he stated Seasons would include changes in the color of tree leaves and may also be tied to real time this somewhat existent Bedrock Edition where leaves turn white up on it snowing Notch mentioned at one stage that they wanted to add the moon to the game and maybe even make it have a big red eye which would look around during rare nights of absolute Horror in mid-2009 Notch mentioned wanting to add spikes to the game but also said he wasn't 100 sure about them according to the wiki these were originally planned for beta 1.7 and would extend and retract but were replaced by sticky pistons dinnerbone did later state in 2012 that he would like to add Spike blocks but was unsure of how to implement them in early 2014 dinnerbone mentioned he wanted to add weapons and tools to the game that could not be crafted and could only be obtained through chess or trading one example he gave is a bow which has a faster drawback but mentioned that before he could add such weapons and tools to the game the attribute system needed to be worked on first dinnerbone also mentioned boots that increased or even decreased Health as well as maybe a night vision helmet now I'm not exactly sure what the attribute system dinnerbone had planned was he does mention it again in 2013 as something related to enchantments but we will never truly know we did sort of get special weapons and tools in the form of treasure enchantments however Notch mentioned in the 2011 tumblr post where he talked about the newly added maps that he wanted to allow players to create custom paintings and hand-drawn signs but that never came to be in 2012 dinnerbone responded to a tweet about Minecarts being able to be used as boats mentioning that they made be added someday in mid-2011 Notch mentioned that a friend's list would be added to the game after beta 1.8 in an old video called the story of Mojang where Notch and Mojang were filmed during their day-to-day tasks we see a brief glimpse of a road map containing the friends list on it during Minecon 2012 Jeb mentioned that the friends list would be added as a server-side function for all Merchant games such a system never really came to be and while we do have the social interactions menu which nobody uses Javas 2 has yet to see the addition of an Xbox friend-like system that Bedrock has and finally not just to-do list from 2010 once mentioned adding gravity to the game with all blocks except maybe obsidian being affected however Notch would State later that year on Twitter that he stopped liking that idea and it never came to be and that's that I hope you enjoyed the video be sure to subscribe and join my Discord thank you all so much for watching

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Length: 16min 58sec (1018 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 01 2023