3 hours ago
I've been working on a few Minecraft beta 1.2_02 worlds over the past few years, I'd like to dedicate a post to my main one that I put a lot of passion and work into, I've been streaming my progress on this as well as posting screenshots of it to other forums, there's also a video I made on it titled "Minecraft Beta 1.2_02 Strangeness" where I show some odd things that have been happening in said world such as saplings spawning on top of trees (this is pretty common in any seed), torches being knocked off walls despite me not being nearby or creepers, the missing texture painting among other things. The video can be found here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYvT7Zx1V-A .
Some of these things I've heard of, others I haven't, this was the version I first played in 2011 as it was the newest version at the time, I'm very happy I got to experience MC beta even though I missed the alpha versions which I played later on, the communities back then were absolutely amazing, if I had known I would cherish what would become precious memories later on I would have taken more screenshots and saved the names of the servers I played on, I feel a certain way when the old music pieces start to play such as Wet / Dry Hands, Calm2, Mice on Venus / Living Mice, Subwoofer Lullaby and nuance2, it's a mix of yearning, nostalgia, melancholy and wonder, I think of what everyone I met in the game is doing now or if they remember those moments in those servers, I think the same for other games such as RuneScape, TF2, Garry's Mod and others. I think about the stuff I built and saw, all of the chats, I'd like to recount some of these things here in regards to MC.
In 2011 I remember I was on a server with a friend I met from my other friends, it was night on the server when we noticed this, we saw the name of a player underground around spawn despite it supposedly only being us on there, this was also a few years before they introduced name tags but it could have just been a plugin. We were trying to figure out a way to get to whatever was down there but couldn't due to the spawn protection, since it's been a long time I'm not sure if we ever saw the supposed player name moving down there or if it was just stationary. Herobrine was still talked about a lot in 2011, me and my friends were obsessed with creepypastas at the time and we were around 13 or 14 back then so we understood what it was instantly but there was always that "what if" in terms of creepy, unexplained things happening in video games and there still is, I've seen a lot of things in games whether they be single player, multiplayer and MMOs that truly don't have any explanations to them. I'm not sure if it was the same server but we eventually saw an admin trolling in a Herobrine skin as we were mining without torches, my friend said "look behind you" and the guy was just standing there in the dark which was funny.
There were many Minecraft videos from others that I watched at the time, The Yogscast, The Creatures, Team Avolition, etc, there's something about old Minecraft videos that give that same cozy feeling that the game does when playing it, me and one of my friends rewatch a lot of these entire channels yearly, it gives me the same feeling of browsing through old blog sites and forums, sometimes even after so many years of watching these there's always something new to notice. I've noticed the same players across different videos by different people while they were recording on public servers, it's rare but it does happen, I may have even seen some of them myself in-game.
Credit - YouTube. I just remembered I left some comments on a few Team Avo videos nine years ago, it's cool to see that others still watch them. This specific one is from one of their more popular ones, the ChaosCraft video from 6/5/2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1yGR0_yFw
I once hosted a server where I recreated a lot of the builds that were seen in these videos, I'm not sure if I still have the map. In this 1.2_02 world I'm working on I'd like to try to recreate entire towns instead of just one specific build / structure, that won't be for a few months though, probably. I'll show some of what I've been working on in regards to my own original builds, I always record and stream progress as well as post dates of when I made something on signs, I used to sometimes do that in old beta servers as well, feel free let me know if you ever see some of my stuff on any servers that are still running old maps from back then.
A statue I made of myself, I remember people making a lot of these self statues during beta. The lighthouse and floating island, I used a lot of mossy cobble for the lighthouse as I've been finding a lot of dungeons around the time I built that. As for the floating island, this took me around an hour and a half to make if you don't include the time it took for the dirt staircase to grow grass all of the way up there.
The outskirts of this specific town.
The bottom floor of one of the favorite houses I've made in this world, I'll post more screenshots of the rest soon.
A peaceful forge.
I'll be posting more soon!
Some of these things I've heard of, others I haven't, this was the version I first played in 2011 as it was the newest version at the time, I'm very happy I got to experience MC beta even though I missed the alpha versions which I played later on, the communities back then were absolutely amazing, if I had known I would cherish what would become precious memories later on I would have taken more screenshots and saved the names of the servers I played on, I feel a certain way when the old music pieces start to play such as Wet / Dry Hands, Calm2, Mice on Venus / Living Mice, Subwoofer Lullaby and nuance2, it's a mix of yearning, nostalgia, melancholy and wonder, I think of what everyone I met in the game is doing now or if they remember those moments in those servers, I think the same for other games such as RuneScape, TF2, Garry's Mod and others. I think about the stuff I built and saw, all of the chats, I'd like to recount some of these things here in regards to MC.
In 2011 I remember I was on a server with a friend I met from my other friends, it was night on the server when we noticed this, we saw the name of a player underground around spawn despite it supposedly only being us on there, this was also a few years before they introduced name tags but it could have just been a plugin. We were trying to figure out a way to get to whatever was down there but couldn't due to the spawn protection, since it's been a long time I'm not sure if we ever saw the supposed player name moving down there or if it was just stationary. Herobrine was still talked about a lot in 2011, me and my friends were obsessed with creepypastas at the time and we were around 13 or 14 back then so we understood what it was instantly but there was always that "what if" in terms of creepy, unexplained things happening in video games and there still is, I've seen a lot of things in games whether they be single player, multiplayer and MMOs that truly don't have any explanations to them. I'm not sure if it was the same server but we eventually saw an admin trolling in a Herobrine skin as we were mining without torches, my friend said "look behind you" and the guy was just standing there in the dark which was funny.
There were many Minecraft videos from others that I watched at the time, The Yogscast, The Creatures, Team Avolition, etc, there's something about old Minecraft videos that give that same cozy feeling that the game does when playing it, me and one of my friends rewatch a lot of these entire channels yearly, it gives me the same feeling of browsing through old blog sites and forums, sometimes even after so many years of watching these there's always something new to notice. I've noticed the same players across different videos by different people while they were recording on public servers, it's rare but it does happen, I may have even seen some of them myself in-game.
Credit - YouTube. I just remembered I left some comments on a few Team Avo videos nine years ago, it's cool to see that others still watch them. This specific one is from one of their more popular ones, the ChaosCraft video from 6/5/2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1yGR0_yFw
I once hosted a server where I recreated a lot of the builds that were seen in these videos, I'm not sure if I still have the map. In this 1.2_02 world I'm working on I'd like to try to recreate entire towns instead of just one specific build / structure, that won't be for a few months though, probably. I'll show some of what I've been working on in regards to my own original builds, I always record and stream progress as well as post dates of when I made something on signs, I used to sometimes do that in old beta servers as well, feel free let me know if you ever see some of my stuff on any servers that are still running old maps from back then.
A statue I made of myself, I remember people making a lot of these self statues during beta. The lighthouse and floating island, I used a lot of mossy cobble for the lighthouse as I've been finding a lot of dungeons around the time I built that. As for the floating island, this took me around an hour and a half to make if you don't include the time it took for the dirt staircase to grow grass all of the way up there.
The outskirts of this specific town.
The bottom floor of one of the favorite houses I've made in this world, I'll post more screenshots of the rest soon.
A peaceful forge.
I'll be posting more soon!