Codes and Secrets in a Forgotten Minecraft Version

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  • Опубліковано 26 гру 2024
  • The 20w14infinite update is most known for its random worlds, but there is far more to it than meets the eye. Tonight, we'll take a deep dive into this update and discover its many hidden secrets and codes.
    Link to the RGN Discord: / discord
    Music by RetroGamingNow:
    "Lilypad" - • "Lilypad" - Music by R...
    "Universe Itself"
    "The Depths" - • "The Depths" - Music b...
    "Dark Wanderer"
    "The Watcher" - • "The Watcher" - Music ...
    "Library of Babel"
    "Gemini" - • "Gemini" - Music by Re...
    "Ethereal Screenscape - • "Ethereal Screenscape"... "
    "Unknown Enigma" - • "Unknown Enigma" - Mus...
    "Gaze" - • "Gaze" - Music by Retr...
    #minecraft #mystery #secret #mojang #codes
    Errata:
    “We’re Finally Landing” by Home and “Moon Men” by Jake Chudnow were NOT written and produced by RetroGamingNow.

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  • @Dadoodadaydee
    @Dadoodadaydee 6 місяців тому +5766

    I never thought that I'd need to hear a fully grown man talk in distress over a jungle Villager named bob

    • @Solutra
      @Solutra 6 місяців тому +109

      sorry, but it's distress, not destress. you can "🤓☝" me if you want

    • @ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ
      @ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ 6 місяців тому +85

      You cannot get comfortable while you're around Bob

    • @Dadoodadaydee
      @Dadoodadaydee 6 місяців тому +252

      @@Solutra I've made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement, and I don’t expect to be forgiven, I'm simply here to apologize. So what we came across that day in the woods was obviously unplanned, and the reactions you saw on tape were raw, they were unfiltered. None of us knew how to react, or how to feel. I should have never posted the video. I should have put the cameras down and stopped recording what we were going through. There's a lot of things I should have done differently but I didn’t, and for that, from the bottom of my heart, I am sorry. I want to apologize to the Internet. I want to apologize to anyone who's seen the video. I want to apologize to anyone who has been affected or touched by mental illness, or depression, or suicide, but most importantly, I want to apologize to the victim and his family. For my fans who are defending my actions, please don't. They do not deserve to be defended. The goal with my content is always to entertain, to push the boundaries, to be all inclusive in the world I live in. I share almost everything I do. The intent is never to be heartless, cruel, or malicious. Like I said, I've made a huge mistake. I don't expect to be forgiven, I'm just here to apologize. I'm ashamed of myself. I'm disappointed in myself and I promise to be better. I will be better. Thank you. (Genuinely thank you so much for correcting me though because I'm so sleep deprived and Ik that would've made me so embarrassed after I sleep)

    • @Xeptangle
      @Xeptangle 6 місяців тому +89

      @@Dadoodadaydee this is the realest response to a spelling correction ever seen

    • @Solutra
      @Solutra 6 місяців тому +29

      @@Dadoodadaydee thanks

  • @jcKobeh
    @jcKobeh 6 місяців тому +1556

    "We apologize for the inconvenience" is God's final message to His creation, written in giant flaming letters, in the series of books The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
    "All these worlds are yours except Europa" is from 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke.
    The buried bones and rotten flesh would be a reference to Secret Window, a movie based on a book by Stephen King where a man murders and buries his wife in the garden underneath his window, and grows vegetables on that soil. (The bones and flesh don't spell anything obvious in morse code, but maybe some 4 character code?)
    Banana sound is SEGA's classic jingle.
    A book taking you to a different dimension based on what's written on it is the basis of Cyan Worlds' Myst series of games and novels.
    Valve famously hid messages in Portal using SSTV.
    That's all the nerdy references i got that didn't get commented.

    • @citruslemonade3326
      @citruslemonade3326 6 місяців тому +133

      I feel like the world that is split into red and blue by a wall with a single door is a reference to Maxwell's demon thought experiment?
      (also this is a very big stretch, but gallery reminds me of DNA)

    • @cosmicwonderer6269
      @cosmicwonderer6269 6 місяців тому +118

      ​@@citruslemonade3326 could also be the Berlin wall. Red and blue famously the opposing colors of the two political sides

    • @citruslemonade3326
      @citruslemonade3326 6 місяців тому +40

      @@cosmicwonderer6269 maybe
      it's just the door and a lot of other math-related references made me think of this first

    • @T11235
      @T11235 6 місяців тому +9

      Could Europa be a world too?

    • @Mate_Antal_Zoltan
      @Mate_Antal_Zoltan 6 місяців тому +15

      @@T11235 nah, it's just a reference

  • @coppertones7093
    @coppertones7093 6 місяців тому +3823

    “Sorry for the inconvenience” is from hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy, the last message from god to humans

    • @johnpatrick8511
      @johnpatrick8511 6 місяців тому +46

      I knew it

    • @mayuna_
      @mayuna_ 6 місяців тому +130

      or any mail sent by IT personnel when something breaks. We truly cannot be more sorry for the caused incoveniences by us.

    • @thefanfinfulo
      @thefanfinfulo 6 місяців тому +30

      God I love that book

    • @coppertones7093
      @coppertones7093 6 місяців тому +59

      @@mayuna_ but it’s that it’s written in fire that makes it an obvious reference

    • @LosFarmosCTL
      @LosFarmosCTL 6 місяців тому +27

      @@thefanfinfuloone of those books that you’ll remember your entire life honestly
      I can’t see me not remembering 42 even on my deathbed

  • @NekuZX
    @NekuZX 5 місяців тому +262

    bold of you to call "forgotten" the single most memorable april fools snapshot.

  • @neshsyt
    @neshsyt 6 місяців тому +552

    6:16 the sign that says "this is not a sign" has an apparent connection to the End Poem. it repeatedly mentions that the player 'interprets' that part of the game as "reading words on a screen". it can even be said that the main theme of the entire poem is the concept that the player isnt playing a game in any objective sense, but is rather interpreting the universe as though it were a game within the real world

    • @msjiminho84
      @msjiminho84 4 місяці тому +11

      Woah. Diarrhea

    • @lourdespachla6516
      @lourdespachla6516 4 місяці тому +11

      @@msjiminho84 looks more like a intelectual tbh.
      anyways.
      tomorrow you will find love.

    • @msjiminho84
      @msjiminho84 4 місяці тому +3

      @@lourdespachla6516 thank you for this response

    • @lourdespachla6516
      @lourdespachla6516 4 місяці тому +6

      @@msjiminho84 as i always say, everybody can find love(including you)

    • @msjiminho84
      @msjiminho84 4 місяці тому +9

      @@lourdespachla6516 i want to make an update.
      i found love last thursday.

  • @PedanticUnionist
    @PedanticUnionist 6 місяців тому +3042

    They saw people making Minecraft ARGs and made their own.

    • @Tridentofmemes
      @Tridentofmemes 6 місяців тому +19

      Fr

    • @CrystalFier
      @CrystalFier 6 місяців тому +13

      69th like, nice👍🏻
      Also ye, that's honestly pretty close to what seemed to happen.

    • @bluuecone
      @bluuecone 6 місяців тому +3

      @@TridentofmemesFr

    • @Tridentofmemes
      @Tridentofmemes 6 місяців тому

      @@bluuecone fr

    • @SF124-was-a-taken-username
      @SF124-was-a-taken-username 6 місяців тому +8

      Those weren't really a common thing until 2022. This snapshot was made in 2020.

  • @COVENANT69
    @COVENANT69 6 місяців тому +1371

    I can't believe the main dev was like "Okay, fine. You want the key? Here's a numbers station. Welcome to Rotfront, make sure to remember your promise."

    • @durag9810
      @durag9810 6 місяців тому +55

      the brainrot consumes

    • @atlasofthestars
      @atlasofthestars 6 місяців тому +26

      W A K E U P .

    • @sky_0f_blue979
      @sky_0f_blue979 6 місяців тому +16

      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATHEMEMORIES

    • @italics9491
      @italics9491 6 місяців тому +23

      so that's what the signal is

    • @ohav3893
      @ohav3893 6 місяців тому +14

      i knew it sounded familiar its a fucking signalis reference

  • @delofj
    @delofj 6 місяців тому +5300

    20w14∞ is just the best ever April fool Minecraft version

    • @etern4lbre4d53
      @etern4lbre4d53 6 місяців тому +10

      Ello

    • @Sepia_Skittles
      @Sepia_Skittles 6 місяців тому +46

      I think the 2023 one is better, but 20w14∞ is definetely the second best.

    • @obsidianfury5617
      @obsidianfury5617 6 місяців тому +34

      true, well other than the poisonous potato update

    • @Sherolox
      @Sherolox 6 місяців тому +36

      I myss Mystcraft.
      A mod that's very similar. ∞ content.
      There's a 1.20.1 rewrite of the mod,
      but it's still in early development.

    • @Tridentofmemes
      @Tridentofmemes 6 місяців тому +1

      Fr

  • @vshugga
    @vshugga 3 місяці тому +10

    27:00 this audio is "The Swedish Rhapsody" from the Conet Project. Also, it is used in the OMORI soundtrack in the track "Numbers".

    • @TheRedGuyLmao2
      @TheRedGuyLmao2 19 днів тому +1

      And the "Three Note Oddity, that is used in Signalis

    • @Blockade20
      @Blockade20 17 днів тому

      ahhh, another number station

    • @Dxuki
      @Dxuki 3 дні тому +1

      And is also gonna be used in my nightmares.

  • @wChris_
    @wChris_ 3 місяці тому +33

    "content" is a reference to skyblock in particular.
    "llama" is definitely a reference to Portal! The room is Portal 2s relaxation chamber. and "Nothing to solve" is the point of Portal the game.
    "skygrid" is a minecraft survival map made by Sethbling

  • @jeffcarey1776
    @jeffcarey1776 6 місяців тому +2385

    You know, the 43rd world was actually super easy to get to, all you needed to do is to find it in the library

    • @ab-mc2nq
      @ab-mc2nq 6 місяців тому +42

      you would still not be able to decrypt it

    • @triphan2079
      @triphan2079 6 місяців тому +160

      Jesus christ for real why didn't they think of that smh

    • @thekingofdoges
      @thekingofdoges 6 місяців тому +124

      @@ab-mc2nq I don't think you quite understood

    • @peeblyweeb
      @peeblyweeb 6 місяців тому

      i wish this was actually possible but, im almost sure the way the books are generated it isnt. someone please prove me wrong

    • @ab-mc2nq
      @ab-mc2nq 6 місяців тому +8

      @@thekingofdoges i think you didn't

  • @Throckmorpheus
    @Throckmorpheus 6 місяців тому +863

    okay in retrospect him saying 'oh, there aren't any hidden clues, it's just a very long phrase that hopefully isn't in any dictionary' is very funny. top notch bit

    • @shiro3146
      @shiro3146 6 місяців тому +51

      it felt like that team on 2b2t who exploits coordinates with No Com
      when FitMC ask about it, the answer always "Nocom"

    • @teccy-guy
      @teccy-guy 5 місяців тому +2

      Just opened comments during that part and saw this, happens every time on any video I see lol.

    • @maximusdavis
      @maximusdavis 5 місяців тому +7

      @@shiro3146 precisely! it's like when you're technically telling the truth, but the person you're telling it to didn't believe it so they overcomplicate things

    • @klovexthewolf
      @klovexthewolf 4 місяці тому +1

      XD

    • @doughboywhine
      @doughboywhine 2 місяці тому +1

      "your password is incorrect" type hint

  • @Lunabyes
    @Lunabyes 6 місяців тому +917

    The second I heard the tones and the children repeating numbers it's like I was a sleeper agent being awoken, because Number Stations were my special interest for YEARS! The first one played in this video is one of my favourites actually. It was believed to haven been transmitted from budapest, hungary, and the station went dead in 2005. The signal was called the Three Note Oddity. Very interesting stuff!

    • @Aphelia.
      @Aphelia. 6 місяців тому +29

      that's really interesting!

    • @SomeOfBody
      @SomeOfBody 6 місяців тому +62

      They use these and more in the game SIGNALIS, a modern survival horror game made by a whole 2 people! I recommend playing it anyways, but especially if you're into number stations.

    • @buttrs0ch582
      @buttrs0ch582 6 місяців тому

      @@SomeOfBodyYES, FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED IT, I THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY WHEN I HEARD THE COUNTING AND I HAD TO PLAY IT BACK BEFORE I REALIZED IT WAS EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE MENU AMBIENT NOISES

    • @Lunabyes
      @Lunabyes 6 місяців тому

      @@SomeOfBody That sounds amazing! I will absolutely check that out omg!!

    • @Miner_20
      @Miner_20 6 місяців тому

      Was that the german kid? Sounds so iry

  • @prosto_a_user
    @prosto_a_user 5 місяців тому +104

    22:28
    Fun Fact:
    The "banana" represents one old proverb, about curiosity or something like that
    That's why there always a banana next to a very well hidden thing

  • @Martin0
    @Martin0 6 місяців тому +12

    I tried so hard to investigate this, couldn't find any discussion online at the time. I absolutely adore this update. But all people seemed to say about it was that it was weird, and they don't know what ti make of it. I'm glad someone else is actually taking this seriously for once

  • @lpc9929
    @lpc9929 6 місяців тому +7776

    I am infertile from eating scented candles. The

  • @stopdatsh3044
    @stopdatsh3044 6 місяців тому +211

    I can't even imagine being steave finally getting excited that he can
    travel to other worlds just to find out he'a still alone image how terrifying that must be.

    • @AbsnormalCoolest
      @AbsnormalCoolest 5 місяців тому

      why didnt he start a server is he stupid

  • @deltara2106
    @deltara2106 6 місяців тому +249

    The Basic dimension at 23:56 is actually a reference to the BASIC code "10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10" which when run on a Commodore 64, prints an endless maze until stopped.

  • @twitchyeyess
    @twitchyeyess 5 місяців тому +18

    I’ve been waiting FOREVER for somebody to do a deep dive on the discoveries of this Minecraft version. Thank you dude!

  • @YBnormal1337
    @YBnormal1337 6 місяців тому +144

    Interestingly enough I haven't seen anyone suggest trying the world "Europa" since it was referenced in the final line.
    It really does feel like there's a bit more to this we still don't realize, there are so many references to things and weird little oddities that all just seem to have no end point. Of course it could be just that the dev was having fun and just including references to things that he likes, but some of those worlds really do seem to border on cosmic horror.
    I'd say that the worlds Isolation and Llama are great examples of ones that definitely have a foot over that line, but seeing as Minecraft's only real "horror" elements are the absoluteness of your solitude, and the complete lack of explanation as to why you exist and what your goal is, I would say that he captured the magic perfectly. It gives me nostalgia for the days when I was a very dumb child, wandering the internet for information on the elusive "Herobrine."
    Thanks for covering this, I needed to see that the mysterious depths of a video game made to induce a feeling of child-like wonder can also exhume fears from a part of myself I had forgotten. This game will always feel weirdly haunted, and not even in a supernatural way. It feels haunted by the past, by memories, friendships gone, and mysteries we never had the chance to solve.
    Now instead of Herobrine in my world, I find myself doing things that are ingrained in my muscle memory. I forget that I do them, until I stumble across them again, and realize where the idea came from. Instead of some ethereal ghost of some guy, it's haunting memories of the past, lost now to the sands of time.
    I miss those days. Thank you again.

    • @埊
      @埊 5 місяців тому +1

      urung'ayyy'toyon vs arsan'doulai

    • @jaybro65
      @jaybro65 5 місяців тому +8

      Damn, this comment is deep

    • @mochiidabrochii
      @mochiidabrochii 5 місяців тому +7

      the quote is from 2010: space oddysey 2, if anyone was wondering

    • @GarlicBredArt
      @GarlicBredArt 5 місяців тому +11

      It actually leads to a weird plains world coated in fog with monsters contstantly spawning, the occasional oak tree, and end like islands

    • @miffyluminal
      @miffyluminal 5 місяців тому +5

      @@GarlicBredArt thats just a random dimension generated based on your seed; europa is not an easter egg dimension. its just a reference to space oddysey 2

  • @solalabell9674
    @solalabell9674 6 місяців тому +501

    Was not expecting a deep dive into the 4 year old April fools update but I’m here for it

    • @danaondrackova3431
      @danaondrackova3431 6 місяців тому +10

      its an april fool joke? this whole minecraft server? sounds elaborate to be it

    • @kieranboulton3953
      @kieranboulton3953 6 місяців тому

      ​@@danaondrackova3431It was an April fools update. I imagine most of this stuff was added in after the update was finished.

    • @monke7566
      @monke7566 6 місяців тому

      ​@@danaondrackova3431the infinite dimensions snapshot is an april fool's update, like the potato one and minecraft 2.0

    • @vibes_4225
      @vibes_4225 6 місяців тому

      @@danaondrackova3431not a server, a snapshot for the java version, anyone can play it if they own minecraft java edition, and it was released for april fools, something they do every year, which is fun to see every year

    • @RandomKidFromUrBasement
      @RandomKidFromUrBasement 6 місяців тому +5

      yall tried doing /warp Escaped?

  • @sugarpolecat4781
    @sugarpolecat4781 6 місяців тому +357

    Oh my god he literally said the phrase in 26:37, like literally he said "But ITS JUST:" and then the phrase... who would have known, what a troll.

    • @_apsis
      @_apsis 6 місяців тому +50

      well, roughly the phrase, there’s some gaps in it

  • @krysmun
    @krysmun 6 місяців тому +194

    The world of "Content" Is basically a Clone of Skyblock, a popular map/challenge wherein you survive in a void-like world on a floating island with a single tree and a chest of items. The reference in the name "content" is to how so many content creators on youtube and Twitch have done a Skyblock series since its inception, either Vanilla or some Modded variant.

    • @Xernia
      @Xernia 5 місяців тому +15

      Bro people know that the video even states it are you slow

    • @SilvaRings
      @SilvaRings 5 місяців тому +5

      It could be Content, like in being satisfied.

    • @toraregisfurry
      @toraregisfurry 17 днів тому

      @@SilvaRings this seems more likely

  • @SEBstantialBricks
    @SEBstantialBricks 6 місяців тому +23

    In the pattern world I believe the dots and dashes could be Morse code.
    In the origin world the lines are reminiscent of the structure block bounding box. (I don’t know if the structure block is in Java, but I have it on bedrock and pocket.)
    The notes world gave me a sense of being watched by an invisible thing. Note blocks need a player to interact with it. Giving the world an uneasy feeling.
    The library, a library of worlds with no one to read them, with stories written by the universe itself…
    Take the first letter of every block in the jumbled inventory and see if there is a message.
    Also the jumbled text appears in pocket edition somewhere else, I took a screenshot of it.
    While your world is loading in pocket edition you are greeted with fun facts like the number of tropical fish variants. or it shows you the status of your world, like “building terrain”.
    But in this case it read this mystery: “the world of Minecraft is endlessly surprising, you’ll find lots of different plants animals, plants, and even **** ****” (the asterisks representing the ever shifting letters.)
    Hope the information proves intriguing and useful.

    • @SEBstantialBricks
      @SEBstantialBricks 6 місяців тому

      It is not letting me edit the comment for some reason, but the shifting letters were actually: **** ****, two four letter words.

  • @kalokal5812
    @kalokal5812 5 місяців тому +9

    8:35 Langton's ant ruleset was a bit incorrect. It's:
    - At a white square, turn 90° clockwise, flip the color of the square, move forward one unit
    - At a black square, turn 90° counter-clockwise, flip the color of the square, move forward one unit
    Otherwise you wouldn't get any vertical movement.

  • @Zestytrashcan82
    @Zestytrashcan82 6 місяців тому +316

    Boq is the dev for the old open blocks mod. Really cool to see him on Mojang now.

    • @Corndog52
      @Corndog52 6 місяців тому +14

      luggage pfp making a lot more sense now

    • @Zestytrashcan82
      @Zestytrashcan82 6 місяців тому +8

      @@Corndog52 Luggage is peak design tbh

    • @ZacMio
      @ZacMio 5 місяців тому +13

      boq* (because symmetry)

  • @reptarien
    @reptarien 6 місяців тому +420

    This is my favorite version of Minecraft, by far. I had the idea of someone making a series out of exploring all of it, but in Survival and trying to make an interesting story, something that says something, out of it.
    Damn, I want to play Minecraft for the first time in like, 2 years.

    • @JuanLucasM
      @JuanLucasM 6 місяців тому +19

      Do it brotha, start the Everwarp and find them all

    • @LeraRiemann
      @LeraRiemann 6 місяців тому +8

      mine as well! always cool to find new content covering it
      it feels to me that many people share this sentiment, but there's not really a community around it? like, we even have a bunch of youtube content actually doing what you're talking about, but it never has been a popular thing really? it feels like a thing that just occasionally pops up without anyone making a big deal out of it even though it is a big deal
      all that to say, would be really cool to watch your series if or when you'll make it!!
      i'm also developping somewhat of a mod inspired by this version that seeks to bring these dimensions back, maybe you'll have interest in it

    • @arcanealchemist3190
      @arcanealchemist3190 6 місяців тому +2

      do it. when episode one is done reply to my comment!

    • @luckas221a
      @luckas221a 6 місяців тому +2

      Legundo made a "100 days" video in this specific snapshot where he beat the game from start to finish

    • @axeldewater9491
      @axeldewater9491 6 місяців тому

      I remember that Wattles did a short series in that version

  • @silverknight784
    @silverknight784 6 місяців тому +251

    I spent way too much time on the minecraft wiki when this update came out lol. So many incredible secrets!

    • @jaybro65
      @jaybro65 5 місяців тому +1

      Dang, now I wanna do that same.
      Couldja provide us with a hyperlink please?
      Or should I just look it up? Idk

  • @DooplissTheTrickster
    @DooplissTheTrickster 3 місяці тому +8

    That “experimental” video is actually one of my favorites of yours. You helped me discover a new piece of myself… a part of me has become infatuated with the concept of liminality.

  • @Flamedcat
    @Flamedcat 4 місяці тому +4

    the part about Bob murdering someone literally sent chills down my spine, terrifying that that was added in an APRIL FOOLS update.

    • @volchonokilliR
      @volchonokilliR 4 місяці тому +2

      performing some of the jokes ends up with unexpected results.
      Like Bob's joke

  • @qewlp6299
    @qewlp6299 6 місяців тому +244

    "Capture those pesky modders" is more interesting than you'd think.
    Given that Microsoft is now aiming to make Bedrock modders make Bedrock add-ons instead, turning them into paid content, while also making it much more difficult to actually make mods for Bedrock. "Capture those pesky modders" is perhaps just an interesting coincidence, but maybe its a hint from years ago, pointing towards what microsoft is now trying to do.

    • @_phloggy_
      @_phloggy_ 6 місяців тому +5

      how are they making it more difficult to actually make mods for java?

    • @Patbox
      @Patbox 6 місяців тому +26

      Mods are getting easier and easier to create on Java, as game's code (and it's moddability) has massively improved over the years.

    • @jonashoffmann9344
      @jonashoffmann9344 6 місяців тому +4

      ​@@PatboxThey banned mods on bedrock.

    • @Patbox
      @Patbox 6 місяців тому +8

      @@jonashoffmann9344 But that has nothing to do with java? Through they didn't technically ban bedrock modding, just made it harder due to not releasing official mappings. Through it would be possible to replace that, as Java didn't get official mappings for long time (and just made their own)

    • @kieranboulton3953
      @kieranboulton3953 6 місяців тому +15

      Bok himself has developed mods. It's very likely just a joke about himself.

  • @ixnoah
    @ixnoah 6 місяців тому +37

    "We apologise for the inconvenience" is a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, being God's final message to his creations. This also matches with the 42 dimensions you can visit excluding the secret one, as 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything according to the book.

  • @theblindbluebomber1666
    @theblindbluebomber1666 6 місяців тому +748

    I just realized, you Write a Book, and throw it into a portal, and it Links to a new dimension... or perhaps Age? That's gotta be a Myst reference, right? I can't believe I missed that!

    • @indigoid_
      @indigoid_ 6 місяців тому +20

      OMG MYST REFERENCE??!?!?

    • @mycroft3322
      @mycroft3322 6 місяців тому +59

      I think you mean you myst that

    • @VertisSidus
      @VertisSidus 6 місяців тому +73

      it reminded me of a mod i used to play, i think it was called Mystcraft? i wrote an Age that was nothing but mushroom biomes so i could hunt the mooshrooms for leather for books

    • @WindierCrowd683
      @WindierCrowd683 6 місяців тому +4

      Is that a JoJo reference?

    • @amefists
      @amefists 6 місяців тому

      ​@@mycroft3322good one

  • @ivansmart513
    @ivansmart513 5 місяців тому +3

    18:47
    Bob, in the isolation realm, probably kills anyone that travels here, and places there body in the hidden chest. Thats probably the reason of the hidden double chest with rotten flesh and bones inside.

  • @whitefox411-gamer7
    @whitefox411-gamer7 6 місяців тому +3

    The "Content" island is a survivable area under the condition the tree drops at least one sapling when broken down.
    The combination Bucket of Pufferfish and Bucket of Lava could be used to make infinite stone, the watermelon could be crafted into seeds and planted to make infinite watermelon.
    The only thing that are not infinite are dirt, lava, and water, again, under the condition you could plant more trees.

  • @archimagirus_sancti
    @archimagirus_sancti 6 місяців тому +340

    Is it "content" as in UA-cam content, or is it the homonym "content" meaning satisfied/at peace?

    • @Llyoncub239
      @Llyoncub239 6 місяців тому +8

      RetroGamingNow said option A) online content.

    • @Crowsie
      @Crowsie 6 місяців тому +36

      @@Llyoncub239 they're asking if RGN is correct about their analysis of the word, I think

    • @mayuna_
      @mayuna_ 6 місяців тому +8

      tbh I find more plausible the latter, it feels lot more ... comfier

    • @Llyoncub239
      @Llyoncub239 6 місяців тому +1

      @@mayuna_ it's more plausible the former

    • @fieryr
      @fieryr 6 місяців тому +18

      ​@@Llyoncub239yeah, I mean, skyblock has been used a lot for content. Maybe it's a reference to the fact that it's the most popular type of content related to Minecraft that isn't just a regular Minecraft gameplay?

  • @randomannoyance
    @randomannoyance 6 місяців тому +125

    theres something terrifying about the llama world and i cant even explain what. imagine being locked in a room with a visible but inaccessible exit from, and knowing/not knowing that theres more of you that youll never meet

    • @RetroGamingNow
      @RetroGamingNow  6 місяців тому +26

      Seriously. It’s scary in such a unique way.

    • @JK-gm6kk
      @JK-gm6kk 6 місяців тому +4

      Reminds me of the cave allegory by plato

    • @no-be3zv
      @no-be3zv 6 місяців тому +5

      same feeling as looking in a mirror in front of another mirror

    • @Ashbakhaaz
      @Ashbakhaaz 6 місяців тому +20

      It's honestly just a metaphor about existence. We are all stuck inside our consciousness (our tiny room) with absolutely no way out into the consciousnesses of other people. You'll never feel what I feel, you'll never enter my room. In fact, from your perspective there might as well just exist a single room in the entire universe (that's the philosophy known as solipsism), there is no way to prove that any other room exists. Even if other rooms exist, you'll never be able to find them. You might be trying to communicate with people around you (that's the philosophical concept known as intersubjectivity), but all you can do is throw your messages in bottles to the sea and hope someone reads them. Maybe every now and then you receive some stimuli that look like messages hinting to the existence of other consciousness, but it could just as well be the result of random chance or purely mechanical processes in the soulless brains of other flesh automata. That's what communication is: blindly flailing our arms at each other in pitch darkness while hoping that our fingers will touch. And if maybe they do at some point, all you can get from it is "maybe", all meaning you assign to that communication is pure speculation.

    • @randomannoyance
      @randomannoyance 6 місяців тому +2

      @@Ashbakhaaz a whole new perspective. thank you

  • @datacrusader5598
    @datacrusader5598 6 місяців тому +42

    As someone who used to be active in the MCC discord/community, the footprint particle is more or less an inside joke where we would keep asking for footprints to be added back to the game. So, that world was him finally answering our plees and adding footprints back to the game… as a joke item in a joke snapshot

  • @bonkc
    @bonkc 3 місяці тому +6

    Bob woke up and chose violence

  • @terpy663
    @terpy663 3 місяці тому +3

    A quick note about cellular automata, it's incredibly difficult to prove any rule that produces a complex behavior holds true forever. It's a continuous simulation whose starting environment can be totally randomized on an infinite 2d surface. Another issue is the halting problem. Writing a program that can determine if another program will loop infinitely given an input isn't possible. The program being tested could eventually break out of the loop anytime, unfortunately that time could be in 10 billion years.

  • @poland4m17s
    @poland4m17s 6 місяців тому +251

    21:12 wait... its all cheese?
    Always has been...

  • @mateuszorlinski7334
    @mateuszorlinski7334 6 місяців тому +72

    Some trivia about the number station heard at 27:00
    It's called Swedish Rapsody and it was operated by Polish Secret Police and Intelligence.
    The voice is synthesised using a Sprach-Morse-Generator (look it up on YT), these were made in the GDR.
    Second one is called Three Note Oddity, and it's been linked to Hungary - for me these three notes sound like 'Kein Anschluss unter dieser Nummer' signal, it was heard when you dialed a wrong number on a landline telephone.

    • @Voidling9545
      @Voidling9545 6 місяців тому +4

      What got me was how they were kinda like the radio broadcast in the game signalis. Its probably not connected but it’s a cool thought to me.

    • @Lightz-here
      @Lightz-here 6 місяців тому

      Bro imagine just trying to call your friend and hearing that

    • @vitaurea
      @vitaurea 6 місяців тому +5

      ​@@Voidling9545 Three Note Oddity is exactly the one used in Signalis actually

  • @rollnaway7809
    @rollnaway7809 6 місяців тому +33

    Another great video, I've had a fascination with 20w14∞ since it came out and even more so as I learned more of its secrets. I think it captures that nostalgic feeling of there always being something new to discover, or some mystery to solve, that minecraft had when we were all newer and probably younger. Glad to see it get some thorough (non lets play) coverage of it.

  • @arsonzartz
    @arsonzartz 5 місяців тому +1

    dude like i recently found out i had megalaphobia, and thats a perfect explanation to why the liminal maps scared me half to death. same with the void, like i knew i would just respawn, but it was terrifying, that feeling of infinite space, even if you could never reach the true end of it.

  • @rupert_1491
    @rupert_1491 5 місяців тому +17

    23:32 damn new ice spice album go crazy

  • @uglybird1167
    @uglybird1167 6 місяців тому +66

    27:43 SIGNALIS CONTINUES TO HAUNT ME, EVEN IN A VIDEO ABOUT MINECRAFT!!!!

    • @kittentrucker7353
      @kittentrucker7353 5 місяців тому +9

      I thought the same thing

    • @bloomingiris
      @bloomingiris 5 місяців тому +4

      For real, my first thought when I heard that

    • @supertweakerbob
      @supertweakerbob 4 місяці тому +5

      LITERALLY

    • @Slix__
      @Slix__ 3 місяці тому +2

      Kein Anschluss unter dieser Nummer

    • @rolie2713
      @rolie2713 3 місяці тому +2

      SO REAL!!!

  • @Lunarcreeper
    @Lunarcreeper 6 місяців тому +66

    29:12
    My portal 2 memory made me instantly recognize this as SSTV.

    • @portal2mug
      @portal2mug 5 місяців тому

      Hell yeah portal

    • @SuperChez_
      @SuperChez_ 5 місяців тому +3

      That achievement is so good

    • @endy27876
      @endy27876 4 місяці тому

      ​@@SuperChez_ wait what are you guys talking about

  • @the_ecips9692
    @the_ecips9692 6 місяців тому +40

    Calling this version "forgotten" makes me feel so old - again. I've been playing this just yesterday xD
    Edit: The "strange noise" is actually the sound you got in Germany when you called a number that was not available, right before the voice of a lady informed you that the number you called was not available. :) The child's voice is also just counting from 1 to 10 in German; so is the very rough voice before the English counting.
    And yes, that "düü düüü DÜÜÜÜ" - sound WAS very unsettling because it meant you were standing in a coin phone booth at the end of nowhere and somehow managed to forget the number you were supposed to call to pick you up... Or is that just me? xD

  • @VolexCy
    @VolexCy 5 місяців тому +4

    I never thought minecraft could give me an existential crisis

  • @nintendoloverin9567
    @nintendoloverin9567 5 місяців тому +3

    27:37 that's the classical sound you used to hear in germany on the telephone when trying to call an invalid phonenumber it would play that soundeffect and then say with a recorded voice in german "Kein Anschluss unter dieser Nummer." (No connection by/with/under that number) also weird with the little girl counting in german, always pausing a little between 5 and 6.

    • @nintendoloverin9567
      @nintendoloverin9567 5 місяців тому +1

      Just tried it and wrote "Kein Anschluss unter dieser Nummer" into a book and threw it in the portal. Am greeted by a Dimension made off dark wood planks, starting chests as common as grass, lots of lava with what appears to be built tridents in the sky pointing towards one direction while there seem to be numerous withers spawning.

  • @robotomo4249
    @robotomo4249 6 місяців тому +34

    I have never heard of this Minecraft version before. It is so cool to type in random words and be teleported to a randomly generated place that would never show up in vanilla Minecraft. I could play around with it all day!

  • @ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ
    @ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ 6 місяців тому +20

    A lot of these worlds are literally art pieces. I would like to see occasionally more content like it in games

  • @helioshayde
    @helioshayde 6 місяців тому +179

    i very much enjoyed the summoningsalt reference

    • @Tukaro
      @Tukaro 6 місяців тому +31

      "We thought we found all of the custom dimensions... but then _this_ happened."

    • @I_eat_Crepes
      @I_eat_Crepes 5 місяців тому

      Same ❤

  • @value1lol
    @value1lol 5 місяців тому +1

    i literally JUST streamed playing this version XD
    EDIT: watched a bit more of the video, and it is great to see that rgn ACTUALLY understands liminality/cosmic horror, unlike SOME other people and channels. geat job!

  • @WaruWicku
    @WaruWicku 5 місяців тому +13

    The sound at 30:13 is very familiar to people playing Kerbal Space Program. There is a mod called Chatterer that adds random radio chatter throughout the game, taken from real communications with spacecraft. There is definitely an SSTV image in one of the samples this mod uses and now i'm curious what the transmitted image is !

    • @goldenapple27
      @goldenapple27 4 місяці тому

      Someone decoded it on reddit

    • @IThinkImMeta
      @IThinkImMeta 2 місяці тому +1

      Never thought to see ksp Easter eggs mentioned in a mc arg comment

  • @Chubby_Bub
    @Chubby_Bub 6 місяців тому +110

    24:46 This is a reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, where in the third and fourth books there's a hint about where to find God's Final Message to His Creation. Eventually it's found, written in letters of fire thirty feet high, and reads "We apologise for the inconvenience."
    Edit: there being 42 special worlds aside from the hidden one could also be a reference to the series, where the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. Either way, both of these fit with the themes in the titles of "Nothing to solve", "Deepest Lore", and "Universe itself"

    • @CherriHuscoonVA
      @CherriHuscoonVA 6 місяців тому +5

      Was just looking to see if anybody else had pointed this out!
      Nice to see another fellow Hitchhiker's enjoyer in the comments :)

    • @amy_grace
      @amy_grace 6 місяців тому +5

      "I think... I feel good about it."

  • @CalvinNoire
    @CalvinNoire 6 місяців тому +13

    I knew this version had secret worlds.. But i didn't know it runs so deep; Excellent video!

  • @grn_hous
    @grn_hous 6 місяців тому +52

    17:49 its alot more similar to "no soliciting" but yea

  • @claudio6636
    @claudio6636 6 місяців тому +17

    13:51 i may not understand if you said this in a sarcastic tone, but this is a reference to the Skyblock series that were a lot popular back in the day in the first times Minecraft was viral on UA-cam, a lot of UA-camrs made series on surviving on this island, you not knowing this made me feel old damn😂

  • @Connor7z
    @Connor7z 6 місяців тому +1

    Finally someone (happens to be one of my favourite UA-camrs) makes a video about the best snapshot ever!

  • @ironheavenz
    @ironheavenz 6 місяців тому +8

    Content is actually referencing the youtube craze of when skyblock came out, every youtuber was starting their own skyblock playthrough
    Generally playable but you'll be 100% relying on lots of farms

  • @DixeElReoshgdn
    @DixeElReoshgdn 6 місяців тому +182

    25:04 is that a vsauce refrence💀

  • @tungstentatertot8623
    @tungstentatertot8623 6 місяців тому +56

    Nice 2001: A Space Odyssey Reference

    • @pab_jer
      @pab_jer 6 місяців тому

      Where?

    • @Mate_Antal_Zoltan
      @Mate_Antal_Zoltan 6 місяців тому +10

      @@pab_jer "All of these worlds are yours, except Europa"
      it's actually from the sequel

    • @mentallyinsane4710
      @mentallyinsane4710 6 місяців тому

      2001 was when i puh

  • @theticksquad8218
    @theticksquad8218 5 місяців тому +1

    Bob is just living the the Courage the Cowardly Dog house.

  • @Lunarcreeper
    @Lunarcreeper 6 місяців тому +32

    23:07
    that's obviously meant to represent X, Y, and Z coordinates, just like the F3 cursor.
    unless that's what euclidean vector space means

    • @Elementening
      @Elementening 6 місяців тому +14

      thats what that means

    • @jackhumphries1087
      @jackhumphries1087 5 місяців тому +6

      It does

    • @jaybro65
      @jaybro65 5 місяців тому +5

      Lol, that's basically what I said in my head, but when he started speaking in very technical terms, I guessed that he was pulling out legs, so to speak.

    • @goosemchonk
      @goosemchonk 3 місяці тому +2

      The 3D Euclidean vector space is basically just the Cartesian plane in extended into 3D. Well, actually, that's literally what it is. Hence the coordinates.

  • @ZachsToysandFamily
    @ZachsToysandFamily 6 місяців тому +415

    Nahhhhhh, that llama one got me thinking my whole life was a lie
    EDIT: holy heck, I’m famous! Over 300 likes?

    • @bosch5303
      @bosch5303 6 місяців тому +2

      Might be :)

    • @Yee_.
      @Yee_. 6 місяців тому +7

      We are all stuck on our own world, never really living others'.

    • @JM-mg4el
      @JM-mg4el 6 місяців тому

      Go away zoomer

    • @ZachsToysandFamily
      @ZachsToysandFamily 6 місяців тому

      @@Yee_. true

    • @ZachsToysandFamily
      @ZachsToysandFamily 6 місяців тому

      @@bosch5303 lol

  • @fastcargo5096
    @fastcargo5096 6 місяців тому +7

    I have literally been wondering about so many of the things in this update for so long and thought nobody would ever talk about it

  • @user-cb3qr9dt2k
    @user-cb3qr9dt2k 5 місяців тому +1

    Was just recommended this channel today, This was an interesting series of videos. Subbed.

  • @QueueDavis
    @QueueDavis 6 місяців тому +1

    Bob used to have a roommate called Jim, and Bob berried his body under his garden. I don't really know why though. That is a new mystery.

  • @boommastr1539
    @boommastr1539 6 місяців тому +111

    Okay, I KNOW i am not the only one who played Signalis and instantly recognized things from air.ogg.... i had chills run up my whole spine.

    • @SunburnOmori
      @SunburnOmori 6 місяців тому +4

      glad i’m not the only one to think that lol

    • @Ghostfire666
      @Ghostfire666 6 місяців тому +3

      Fr

    • @incrediblybored4787
      @incrediblybored4787 6 місяців тому +1

      I havent played Signalis but I was taught about number stations and covert ways of communicating, so I was like "Oh its a code!!"

    • @LordDanielG
      @LordDanielG 6 місяців тому +3

      I read this comment while not being at this point in the video yet and thought "RGN Used music from Signalis or what?"
      My face when I heard the numbers and attention signal: 😟

    • @finisterre2415
      @finisterre2415 6 місяців тому +3

      Achtung!

  • @bluuecone
    @bluuecone 6 місяців тому +28

    28:09 that actually… sounds good?

    • @bluuecone
      @bluuecone 6 місяців тому +5

      And I made a song out of it. It’s on my channel.

    • @NUMBERONEGRIND
      @NUMBERONEGRIND 6 місяців тому +1

      ​@@bluueconenice

  • @shajidrahaman
    @shajidrahaman 6 місяців тому +109

    "with a bit of digging, we can find that boq is active on the r/minecraftcommands discord server"
    The discord in question:

    • @uninable
      @uninable 6 місяців тому +4

      nbt jumpscare

    • @zohnannor
      @zohnannor 6 місяців тому +1

      boq*

    • @Elementening
      @Elementening 6 місяців тому +1

      in lowercase. for symmetry.

    • @埊
      @埊 5 місяців тому

      @@zohnannor 意思:园.

  • @mikubrot
    @mikubrot 5 місяців тому

    I've always been fascinated with this update. I could imagine an entire game or story with a similar concept

  • @GOR_CK
    @GOR_CK 5 місяців тому +1

    "perhaps checking the author of the book will help."
    *Proceeds to ascend into his next plane of existence. *

  • @katherinebrubaker7788
    @katherinebrubaker7788 6 місяців тому +16

    6:17 Interesting that this is not the only April Fools update that references The Treachery of Images- 2024's Potato Update contains a painting that is not of a poisonous potato.

  • @dogmadude1399
    @dogmadude1399 6 місяців тому +129

    Bro 😩 I love these Minecraft mysteries so much it makes me want to become infertile from eating scented candles. The

    • @eyesistorm
      @eyesistorm 6 місяців тому +8

      the heck?

    • @malachigv
      @malachigv 6 місяців тому +2

      what.

    • @Bookworm_real
      @Bookworm_real 6 місяців тому +1

      talk to the soup

    • @vinilla02
      @vinilla02 6 місяців тому +8

      so true bestie

    • @sillyahh420
      @sillyahh420 6 місяців тому

      The. I am infertile from eating scented candles. The government cannot brainwashing me because i have eaten candle the

  • @Strider314
    @Strider314 6 місяців тому +9

    29:10 THE WAY I JUMPED AS SOON AS I HEARD THE SSTV TRANSMISSION START

  • @whirrCS2
    @whirrCS2 6 місяців тому +31

    20:40 "capture modders" mojang???

    • @treevee7376
      @treevee7376 5 місяців тому +5

      they're on to them

  • @sauerkids9254
    @sauerkids9254 5 місяців тому +1

    I thought the illama one is very representative of my solution to the fermi paradox: they are others, but space is incredibly hard and others will probably never interact beyond speculation

  • @VexoCubing
    @VexoCubing 6 місяців тому +6

    At 3:13 the symbol at the beginning of the makes the text go cryptic, you can do it yourself by copying the symbol, pasting it into almost any text box and all following letters will appear cryptic. So it can also be found in other places in the game

  • @onyttig
    @onyttig 6 місяців тому +13

    27:48 fwiw, it counts from 1-9 in german ("eins, zwo, drei, vier, fünf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun")

  • @statiic_hydra8678
    @statiic_hydra8678 6 місяців тому +9

    I liked how at about 23:00 it started to feel like a Stanley Parable ending

  • @stefanpredoi4564
    @stefanpredoi4564 5 місяців тому +1

    A developer turning the most popular game of all time into an experimental ARG with references to Borges, vector mathematics, and numbers stations is absolutely incredible

  • @finnsteinke659
    @finnsteinke659 5 місяців тому +1

    22:59 seems you’re a math major, or you recently took linear algebra. Either way I love it - genuinely took me by surprise and I loved it. Thanks for showing a large subset of people the fun of math :)

  • @aspencrow
    @aspencrow 6 місяців тому +29

    As a SIGNALIS fan, hearing the Three Note Oddity and Conet Project recordings was very odd while watching a Minecraft video, lol.

    • @yeeter6240
      @yeeter6240 6 місяців тому +4

      Remember your Promise Steve

    • @Anatloe
      @Anatloe 6 місяців тому +4

      Perhaps, this is the Nether.

    • @boyfromthebible6886
      @boyfromthebible6886 6 місяців тому +2

      My eyes lit up as soon as I heard that first note 😂

    • @Voidling9545
      @Voidling9545 6 місяців тому

      I knew they were familiar

  • @lightningmc-09
    @lightningmc-09 6 місяців тому +6

    This has gotta be one of my new favorite videos of yours, and i cant explain why. I wonder if anything will get "Solved" enough to follow with a comment or video 🤔

  • @StarNanny
    @StarNanny 6 місяців тому +21

    18:50 😂 Bob has TangoTek’s sword!

  • @Shy_Abi
    @Shy_Abi 5 місяців тому +6

    28:23 "The numbers, Mason... What do they mean?"

    • @Shy_Abi
      @Shy_Abi 5 місяців тому +1

      "I KEEP HEARING THE FU----- NUMBERS!"

  • @ryanloney3448
    @ryanloney3448 5 місяців тому

    Honestly this was really neat and fascinating, it seems like they were developing some new way to generate worlds with key words and phrases like an experiment.

  • @PedanticUnionist
    @PedanticUnionist 6 місяців тому +40

    And here I was thinking I was gonna go to bed on schedule

    • @jaybro65
      @jaybro65 5 місяців тому +1

      🤣

    • @PedanticUnionist
      @PedanticUnionist 5 місяців тому +1

      @@jaybro65 Nice profile pic btw

    • @jaybro65
      @jaybro65 5 місяців тому

      Oh ty bro! I'm a fan of Wall•E lol

  • @Jeremy_Jerefine
    @Jeremy_Jerefine 6 місяців тому +29

    27:20 wait a minute he is counting in german! eins zwo drei vier... what the

  • @Aayuuush721
    @Aayuuush721 6 місяців тому +6

    If only Mojang put that much effort into their actual updates 😭🙏🏽

  • @uicosole
    @uicosole 6 місяців тому +1

    19:32 It's a prebuilt world / a prebuilt structure. It's easier to just put items in the chest rather than creating a random chest with a loot table when that's not really necessary
    19:42 As you saw in the beginning of the video the bookshelves get their book data from their position. I imagine because the world is prebuilt and they spawn in the same position, they also have the same colors always.

  • @emre_ez
    @emre_ez 4 місяці тому +1

    Making a playthrough in the library or gallery dimension sounds really cool (with some cheats done to make it possible)

  • @FonixVR_
    @FonixVR_ 6 місяців тому +5

    I clicked this video with almost no interest, but somehow you managed to make me intrigued and to think about something so simple as a Minecraft April fools update

  • @mypowerbob
    @mypowerbob 6 місяців тому +27

    18:00 Oh thats where my dogs went

  • @drewscustomcreations3009
    @drewscustomcreations3009 6 місяців тому +24

    I kind of wonder what the scrambled words in the end credits mean. If they can be unscrambled like the words in the books can, then that might be a cool idea for your next video.

    • @EriksGarbage
      @EriksGarbage 4 місяці тому +1

      They all have no text, any instance of the scrambled text in the end poem is just either "§f§k§a§b§3" or "§f§k§a§b§2" in the actual file, which is just more formatting codes, with no actual text in them.
      §f - makes the text white
      §k - scrambles the text
      §a - makes the text green
      §b - makes the text teal
      §3 / §2 - returns the text to either dark green or dark teal depending on which person is speaking in the poem.

    • @drewscustomcreations3009
      @drewscustomcreations3009 4 місяці тому

      @@EriksGarbage Interesting.

  • @jjhyde
    @jjhyde Місяць тому +1

    If you have ever eaten a peach, you have eaten something that had the potential to become heavier than billions of suns

  • @iosefka7774
    @iosefka7774 6 місяців тому +54

    15:10 Dull purple? I worry one of us is colourblind.

    • @G-Cole-01
      @G-Cole-01 6 місяців тому +9

      microsoft paint calls the color "light blue," ColorblindGamingNow confirmed

    • @andrewpinedo1883
      @andrewpinedo1883 6 місяців тому +4

      Maybe not. Dull is a weird way to describe it, but I have seen purple skies in Minecraft at high y-levels. The purple sky begins at about y=2000, and the colour remains constant above y=3000.

    • @vCherrykAI16
      @vCherrykAI16 5 місяців тому +1

      these responses are very interesting 🤔 msp calling it light blue, yet "purple skies" being an existing phenomenon in the game...

  • @SimonsAstronomy
    @SimonsAstronomy 6 місяців тому +11

    I didnt even know this version hid so many easter eggs and lore

    • @jaybro65
      @jaybro65 5 місяців тому

      A great gold mine aye?