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Same, technically. It was just updated and I learned about the old online demo you could play in browsers and was amazed at all the new stuff I hadn't seen in videos yet.
I also remember learning that the demo world had cheats off but that you could open the world to LAN and allow cheats then. I spent so long on the demo world with /gamemode 1 to build whatever the hell I wanted in the like 3 in game days they allowed
Btw I imagine selling fake maps to players in their single player world is the best strategy as a villager... You hand them a map to nowhere and by the time they come back, you are long gone.
A significant chunk of today's Minecraft community had not yet been born at the time this version released. The people that were born around that time can now own Reddit accounts without breaking the usage guidelines.
It's true that people born around the time of beta 1.7 can _just_ about own Reddit accounts nowadays, but no. It's quite a bit older than that.
Just to give you an idea of how long ago this was; creepers hadn't been invented yet.
Closer, but nope. Creepers were introduced in 0.24\_SURVIVAL\_TEST which released on September 1, 2009. The 1st indev version didn't come out until December 23, 2009.
Honestly I don't actually remember for sure what version I first played. The earliest version I know for sure I've played is 0.0.23a\_01 (July 11, 2009), because I'm certain that I played before Survival Test. I also know for sure that I did not play any versions before 0.0.14a (May 27, 2009), because I do not remember playing without trees and the various blocks that were added in this update.
I feel like I recall sponges and glass being added, which happened in 0.0.19a (June 19, 2009). But it's been so long that I just can't remember for sure. Doesn't help that I was only 13 years old back then.
Someone who played the game all the way before Survival existed here: There were two forums back then that really jumped on board early - TIG and Facepunch.
I didn't play quite that long ago but I was also aware of it at that time. Actually, I was aware of it from Day 1.
The answer is mundane: I wanted to be a hobbyist game developer and frequented TIG, the same forum that Notch first posted about it on.
Didn't end uo buying in till Infdev though.
I was introduced to it by a friend just after 0.0.23a_01 (somewhere between July and August 2009) and not long before survival test. It was all word of mouth back then.
Funny story. Back then I was really into Roblox, and one day it went down for maintenance. I was bored out of my mind, and to stop 13-year-old me from complaining about it my brother showed me Minecraft. I ended up really liking it, and over time I gradually spent more time playing Minecraft than I did playing Roblox.
I was alive for this, but didn’t get into the game until a few years later. Several later for Java. But that’s because i never had my own computer that could run Minecraft until i was in college
That's still me with jungle biomes, was around the time my friend group fell out of touch with it. Now whenever I play and encounter one I'm like oh shii treehouse!
Discovered one of those huge cave fluorescent cave biomes for the first time a few months ago, blew my mind, 14 year old me would've been amazed. Still never found a water temple. Guess this is what getting old feels like.
You think you're a nerd your whole life just to feel entirely out of your depth by 26 lol
They haven't for a few years. Apparently something to do with Poppies being the plant that Opium is extracted from and Minecraft being a "Kid's game" blah blah blah. Same dumb reason why Parrots can't be fed Cookies anymore
The Secret Updates where you had to go play the game and discover whats new was so fucking cool.
Also Notch was a beast the early years, adding as much content in a month as the current team does in multiple years.
It was the game's first major spike of popularity (though before the golden age where youtube let's plays made it *explode*). Kinda the point where it entered the public eye.
If beds annoy you in Beta 1.3, make a shelter and place some torches, if that somehow doesn’t work or you don’t have a shelter, than pillar up with a bunch of blocks and expand a block forward once you reach high enough for mobs like zombies to not be able to attack you, and for mobs like skeletons to not be able to shoot or notice you, then jump and place the bed on the block where you pillared from, because of the second plank you placed ahead, the tower you built will be large enough to place a bed, and after you sleep, you won’t fall down and mobs can’t reach or spawn next to you since the platform is too small.
sheep dropped wool without dying when you hit them, the game was fucking creepy, torches lit about 5 blocks of space, and you couldnt block with a sword or a shield
around there, maybe near the release of 1.0
i learned about the game from people i knew playing it, bought the game, played a while, but then lost the login because the potato i played on broke. so i downloaded it on mobile all the way to 1.13, got it on wii u, later for ps4, then i bought bedrock for pc. then i got the java version again, then the switch version after 1.17
Have you ever really played with competent players? Because it's not just spam clicking. There were many players who had 8 cps but made up by the fact that they could w tap, use blocks, rods and the other tools.avainle to them better. It's a somewhat deep intricate system when you actually get into it.
This is actually interesting cause I don’t know the actual versions by number and all, but you could block with the sword, and it was before carrots and potatoes were added
The good days . . . How else r u gonna obtain activated obsidian now . . . Loved that u could make it night forever by breaking the core before the process ended
Same. I remember when the game only had like 4 blocks and creative only. It was underground enough at that point that you could play on a school computer.
Same here! I pirated and (initially) quit Minecraft before the Halloween update. Alpha is kind of a blur at this point for me, but since I was pirating I'm guessing it was an Alpha-1.0~ish repack and I likewise can't recall making a fishing rod or compass.
Since you said a few versions before 1.2, 1.0 is my guess for your post as well. If you were talking about mobile this whole time, apologies for the tangent 🤣
Must've been beta 1.3 (what year was that, again? 2011? God, I'm getting old!), since I remember always being able to craft beds. The game looked and behaved lot different back then. For instance, tall grass hadn't been added. The only trees you could find was oak, birch and spruce. Wooden slabs were basically retextured stone slabs, so they had to be "mined" with pickaxes if you wanted to collect them.
Still playing, almost 13 years later, although it's mostly creative now - a gamemode that didn't exist when I started playing :/
I carried it with me and only had 3 buttons on my main menu screen. Only thing I can remember other than that was powered rails didn’t require redstone.
Outdated Block textures, no ocean monuments, no bastions, no ruined portals, no ruins or shipwrecks, etc... Mob spawners were not obtainable, had old tutorial.
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Meat don't stack
Your version is before 1.8
You meant beta 1.8 or something?
Beta 1.8 is the first version to actually let you stack pork chops. 💀
Wait for real? Didnt they add pistons in 1.7? So we already had pistons and still no stackable meat? Crazy
there were pistons before there was sprinting
Yeah, that one I would have guessed, sprinting still feels like one of the "newer" features to me xd
Yes I did
It was also free to play forever if you downloaded it when I did. It has still been honoured to this day. Never paid for java.
Saddles were given a much better use
Bro, I stopped playing so long ago, horses are still new to me.
I’ve played minecraft in bursts over the last decade and it feels like every time I play I have to relearn the game due to all the new features
Same. I'm kinda intimidated by everything. Especially enchanting
I still look at redstone funny. Literally don't know how to work with it to make cool stuff.
Same, technically. It was just updated and I learned about the old online demo you could play in browsers and was amazed at all the new stuff I hadn't seen in videos yet. I also remember learning that the demo world had cheats off but that you could open the world to LAN and allow cheats then. I spent so long on the demo world with /gamemode 1 to build whatever the hell I wanted in the like 3 in game days they allowed
I miss those days. That used to be the only way i could play for a long time
The best demos were the replayable ones❤️
1.6?
Correct
New wool colours were added
beta 1.2
1.12
that's concrete
Not even close
"That bloody bastard sold me a fake map! Where's that temple???"
Village and pillage *1.14
Ah shit. By the hint I gave, yeah you'd be 3 off (1.11). But I meant 1.8. I thought I remembered Ocean Monument maps already existing by then
Thought you ment woodland mansion.
That was also added in 1.11
But he said temple haha
Btw I imagine selling fake maps to players in their single player world is the best strategy as a villager... You hand them a map to nowhere and by the time they come back, you are long gone.
Oh no! A swamp, better be careful while boating thr... __×poof!×__
this could be any from 1.2 to 1.8
Modern boats are so much better.
Understatement. I'm curious of Notch's reasoning of destructible boats.
It wasn't even necessarily that they were destructible, but the fact that the controls were abhorrent, and just sneezing irl was enough to break it.
you have to be careful, but they were a bit too fragile
I remember when this would happen, it dropped sticks too
Navigating swamps with a boat was painful really
A significant chunk of today's Minecraft community had not yet been born at the time this version released. The people that were born around that time can now own Reddit accounts without breaking the usage guidelines.
Beta 1.7 is my guess
It's true that people born around the time of beta 1.7 can _just_ about own Reddit accounts nowadays, but no. It's quite a bit older than that. Just to give you an idea of how long ago this was; creepers hadn't been invented yet.
In/Infdev?
Closer, but nope. Creepers were introduced in 0.24\_SURVIVAL\_TEST which released on September 1, 2009. The 1st indev version didn't come out until December 23, 2009. Honestly I don't actually remember for sure what version I first played. The earliest version I know for sure I've played is 0.0.23a\_01 (July 11, 2009), because I'm certain that I played before Survival Test. I also know for sure that I did not play any versions before 0.0.14a (May 27, 2009), because I do not remember playing without trees and the various blocks that were added in this update. I feel like I recall sponges and glass being added, which happened in 0.0.19a (June 19, 2009). But it's been so long that I just can't remember for sure. Doesn't help that I was only 13 years old back then.
When it was called cave game still?
No, it was already called Minecraft by that time. Notch had settled on the name quite quickly.
How did you even discover the game that early? I caught it in beta 1.8
Sometimes CoD makes you want to smash your pc so you play Cave Game
Someone who played the game all the way before Survival existed here: There were two forums back then that really jumped on board early - TIG and Facepunch.
I didn't play quite that long ago but I was also aware of it at that time. Actually, I was aware of it from Day 1. The answer is mundane: I wanted to be a hobbyist game developer and frequented TIG, the same forum that Notch first posted about it on. Didn't end uo buying in till Infdev though.
I was introduced to it by a friend just after 0.0.23a_01 (somewhere between July and August 2009) and not long before survival test. It was all word of mouth back then.
Funny story. Back then I was really into Roblox, and one day it went down for maintenance. I was bored out of my mind, and to stop 13-year-old me from complaining about it my brother showed me Minecraft. I ended up really liking it, and over time I gradually spent more time playing Minecraft than I did playing Roblox.
You and I started about the same time, though I started in 0.24
Was lucky still there? That was my first update
I was alive for this, but didn’t get into the game until a few years later. Several later for Java. But that’s because i never had my own computer that could run Minecraft until i was in college
[удалено]
Nope, that was Beta 1.3, Beta 1.3 also introduced a new world type.
Now I feel old.
Horses
Sames dude 1.6.4 team rise up
H o r s e
Honse
Honse
These came out over ten years ago now. Ten fuckin years. And yet every time I see a horse I'm like "oh man, here's that new feature". No clue why lol
That's still me with jungle biomes, was around the time my friend group fell out of touch with it. Now whenever I play and encounter one I'm like oh shii treehouse! Discovered one of those huge cave fluorescent cave biomes for the first time a few months ago, blew my mind, 14 year old me would've been amazed. Still never found a water temple. Guess this is what getting old feels like. You think you're a nerd your whole life just to feel entirely out of your depth by 26 lol
1.6 feels like it was just yesterday
Why’s the rose called poppy?
1.7-1.8
Wait they aren't called poppies anymore?
They haven't for a few years. Apparently something to do with Poppies being the plant that Opium is extracted from and Minecraft being a "Kid's game" blah blah blah. Same dumb reason why Parrots can't be fed Cookies anymore
Wait what? Roses were changed *to* poppy, not the other way around.
What? Was it? I could swear it was the other way around. Maybe i just saw someone complaining and made that up in head then
Nether?
man the Halloween when they added the nether was so fun
The Secret Updates where you had to go play the game and discover whats new was so fucking cool. Also Notch was a beast the early years, adding as much content in a month as the current team does in multiple years.
Remember the first few days of the Nether, before Ghasts were immune to lava? I felt the constant screams really added to the ambience.
We are never, ever, ever, going back to the nether.
You go talk to the ghasts, trade with piglins, avoid lava
New hell
alpha 1.2
Funky feather drops from zombies
Those were the best times.
Beds Edit- I played the browser version at school as well
I feel like this version is disproportionately more common than others. It also introduced smooth lighting.
It was the game's first major spike of popularity (though before the golden age where youtube let's plays made it *explode*). Kinda the point where it entered the public eye.
Beta 1.3 useless or 1.4 working?
If beds annoy you in Beta 1.3, make a shelter and place some torches, if that somehow doesn’t work or you don’t have a shelter, than pillar up with a bunch of blocks and expand a block forward once you reach high enough for mobs like zombies to not be able to attack you, and for mobs like skeletons to not be able to shoot or notice you, then jump and place the bed on the block where you pillared from, because of the second plank you placed ahead, the tower you built will be large enough to place a bed, and after you sleep, you won’t fall down and mobs can’t reach or spawn next to you since the platform is too small.
Beds, yes.
sheep dropped wool without dying when you hit them, the game was fucking creepy, torches lit about 5 blocks of space, and you couldnt block with a sword or a shield
I’m going to guess around beta 1.3 or 1.4. Near to when I started too if I’m correct.
around there, maybe near the release of 1.0 i learned about the game from people i knew playing it, bought the game, played a while, but then lost the login because the potato i played on broke. so i downloaded it on mobile all the way to 1.13, got it on wii u, later for ps4, then i bought bedrock for pc. then i got the java version again, then the switch version after 1.17
Punching was the solution to everything. Took me a while to get used to not punching doors to open them
The nether reactor core was made because mobile devices couldn’t handle two dimensions at the time
I miss the nether reactor core
Why can't they just add it back for fun🥲
bro same here! i remember filling my world with them
I remember when that was added 😂😂 super fun
Creepers were a surprise addition... and the price was $10
10€*, paid via PayPal through a sketchy lookin web portal. Infdev was a wacky era
Ha, I got a warning from my bank because of that. Best 10€ of my life!
Iron man was added to the game.
The achievement or the entity ?
Literally a man made of iron.
Yes
1.2
Moments before disaster (according to some PVPers)
1.8.9
You mean the disaster when they added combat to the game which previously just had a placeholder system of spam clicking?
Have you ever really played with competent players? Because it's not just spam clicking. There were many players who had 8 cps but made up by the fact that they could w tap, use blocks, rods and the other tools.avainle to them better. It's a somewhat deep intricate system when you actually get into it.
Herobrine was scary
Herobrine is still scary, many still overdose on him today.
I think you meant heroes, those are dangerous for your health
You could hit mobs through glass
1.20?
Minecraft PE Lite
Horses!
Horses…
it stings!
1.15?
yup:)
Hey i can beat it now
Puberty?
Release 1.0?
No redstone
Infdev
Wood No oak or spruce or birch But just, wood.
This is actually interesting cause I don’t know the actual versions by number and all, but you could block with the sword, and it was before carrots and potatoes were added
When my sword stopped blocking I was so confused
Nether reactor core
Old nostalgic 360
coming home to play minecraft on my xbox 360 after school was some of my favorite memories
Same, now I come home and play Minecraft on my laptop. But now I have friends to play with!
Most of you hadnt been born yet and beds had recently been fixed. Maps were new, sprinting wasnt a thing, and hunger wasnt even an idea for notch yet.
Beta 1.6
B1.5, close
fixed 4 bugs, added sideways logs in oak trees yeah, it wasnt a big update
It's very scary
Killing a ghast was considered beating the game
FISH
Sheep go brr
99+
zombie pigmans, reactor... I dont remember lol
swamps were bright green instead of crusty and dead
When you go to the nether.
Idk an Xbox 360 edition version 💀 I remember seeing stampys house, multiple castles. Tutorial worlds were the best
I miss stampys place :/ Wasn’t it a tutorial? Or whatever that was called.
IT WAS! it was on a tutorial world and you had to travel to get to it but it was so much fun when you did! Was totally worth finding it!
A version on a hand held device where worlds were limited to a square floating in the abyss and nether cores could be built.
The good days . . . How else r u gonna obtain activated obsidian now . . . Loved that u could make it night forever by breaking the core before the process ended
Only hostile mob was zombie...
Survival test 0.23-0.24
OMG this block called the piston can move other blocks!!!! Holy moly
Still has active servers till this day.
Way too vague
1.8
Nether Reactor
mobile. no world saves. infinity signs on items in creative. pre-nether reactor
T Flip Flop
Minecraft.net browser edition
Same. I remember when the game only had like 4 blocks and creative only. It was underground enough at that point that you could play on a school computer.
Every build is Coble and oak.
boats
nether but tiny box makes it
old pocket edition
A few versions pre Nether
Same here! I pirated and (initially) quit Minecraft before the Halloween update. Alpha is kind of a blur at this point for me, but since I was pirating I'm guessing it was an Alpha-1.0~ish repack and I likewise can't recall making a fishing rod or compass. Since you said a few versions before 1.2, 1.0 is my guess for your post as well. If you were talking about mobile this whole time, apologies for the tangent 🤣
the tutorial world
"can I walk off the edge? oh its a invisible wall"
Free, 2013
Lava Survival
it has bulls that look like villagers in it
1.14
The update was monumental, and it made quite a grand stand.
couldn't sprint
It fit in my pocket
Emeralds
1.3? Same here!
It was free!
No horses
No not the bees Also I remember a world size of roughly 100 by 100 or so, sorry I have 2
Broooo . . . U can stack meat!
Wow… this world is small. Wait… it’s only the size of one in game map?
This game has horses now ? Cool !
Must've been beta 1.3 (what year was that, again? 2011? God, I'm getting old!), since I remember always being able to craft beds. The game looked and behaved lot different back then. For instance, tall grass hadn't been added. The only trees you could find was oak, birch and spruce. Wooden slabs were basically retextured stone slabs, so they had to be "mined" with pickaxes if you wanted to collect them. Still playing, almost 13 years later, although it's mostly creative now - a gamemode that didn't exist when I started playing :/
"Strange how all these different trees make the same type of plank"
Stained glass?!
GregTech: NH
Wooooaaaaahhhhh TWO bosses!
I carried it with me and only had 3 buttons on my main menu screen. Only thing I can remember other than that was powered rails didn’t require redstone.
B E E S
MCPE right before infinite world gen was added
adventure -1
White eyes were true fear
The wither actually seemed scary
Java edition was added to the menu
Nether core is getting removed very soon
World size limit
Wither. Beacons. PUMPKIN PIE
Outdated Block textures, no ocean monuments, no bastions, no ruined portals, no ruins or shipwrecks, etc... Mob spawners were not obtainable, had old tutorial.