Why Minecraft Is Secretly Impossible
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2024
- Minecraft is a game we all know very well. But let's say you'd never played the game before in your life - how far do you think you could get in the game with no outside help? Tonight, we are going to attempt to discover the answer to this question.
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I did it!
he did it!
Congrats!
Diorite
and you did it so well!
He did indeed do it.
this is actually crazy how mojang completely forgot to teach the player the game because of how the game blew up in popularity
Actually, Bedrock has some rudimentary guide built in to it.
You might actually the the opposite, the game might've become popular due to the fact you need to search about it to understand how it works
I wtarted playing minecraft at a very young age. I played on the xbox 360 legacy edition. There were tutorial worlds and popups teaching you how to play. They didn't teach you everything, but they did teach you the basics.
@@piercehamilton7035 Same I started playing on PS3 and there was a built-in tutorial world
@@yeqru I still have my old ps3 too! Lol. I still have ot and play on it cuz i dont have a ps4 or ps5 so yea, but its still fun!
That "You need light to avoid spawning monsters" is a deadly missing clue.
Well, some mobs burn in the morning so that's a clue.
Well.only UNDEAD mobs burn everything else? Not so much
When it's day they don't spawn so they might find out
Its kind of obvious when you realise that mobs only spawn at night. Its the biggest clue that they only spawn when its dark. Or when you enter dark caves there will be mobs, but not in caves you have lit up to see in the cave.
Especially since Creepers, Spiders and Endermen do very well in light in Overworld.
there's a wonderful channel called piropito where he did exactly this, he played minecraft blind with no wiki, no spoilers and asked people not to tell him stuff in yt comments. He actually is incredibly far into the game, and I'm sure a few things have been leaked to him, he's gotten amazingly far and his playthrough is super charming. It takes him something like 20 episodes to work out the crafting bench exists, and he covers a huge portion of his starting area in wooden buttons. (the playthrough started before the recipe book)
yes I thought of piropito immediately! this vid made me want to go back and watch him get blown up by cactus again lol
Such an amazing series. The wither incident was awful though :(
@@fordsquared537 wjat is the wither incident
@@DarkClaws914 he figured out the wither spawn from the painting, and set it up in the center of his main base. It destroyed everything.
@@fordsquared537 did he ever recover from it?
The potion brewing part really hit me, when I was a kid I remember once playing and finding a brewing stand, I was in creative and so I tried to make potions by putting water bottles, blaze powder and added something like magma cream as I thought it’d make a fire resistance potion, I got a mundane potion, the I had to check up on the internet if the mundane potion was useful for something (it is not) so basically I discovered that wouldn’t work and now I needed nether warts (this was like in 2015)
it’s crazy to think that in all of minecraft’s history I doubt a single person has beaten it without outside help
Wait…UR RIGHT-
I did 😎😎😎😎
Source: Trust me
I like to imagine that at least one person did, either the original, or some sheltered hermit kid. Probably didnt happen, but again, id like to imagine it.
I'm fairly certain that this guy did, he completely blocks himself out of Minecraft content and he only rarely (I think he only did it twice) asks for help and makes his friends only say hints and not the answers themselves
ua-cam.com/play/PLbqkLu2V1bJJUQ2aLZjFdz8decGs1kHg-.html
I mean someone had to beat the game without help because someone has to figure everything without outside help but I don't think anyone beat it without outside help
It could be argued that the obscurity and vagueness of MineCraft's mechanics lends itself to be an inherently social game - playing, sharing, discovering with other people has been such a strong part of its history and popularity, I feel.
I think this is the main reason its survived for so long. It's basically impossible to understand the game without watching someone play it first, and if you're a little kid, the easy graphics and multitude of MC UA-camrs aimed at kids make it easy to get into the game. It means almost everyone who plays it will have nostalgia from their childhood from it.
why write it as MineCraft?
@@tamimplayz smol brain
Yeah Minecraft gained most of its popularity online from the early beginning on, the Minecraft wiki was always the number one place to go to to learn how Minecraft features work, and many people got to know the game by watching youtube videos about it. Also the developers themselves often communicated via internet/social media about how new features work. Also Minecraft has become such a popular game worldwide that some of its features just became widespread knowledge, there are probably a lot of people who never actually played the game themselves who would still recognize things like a creeper or a nether portal.
@@Zeder95 when the popularity of the game becomes a feature of the game
I liked how wither summoning is kinda hidden in the paintings. They could do this with mostly all of other in-game mechanics. I think it’d be fun for players to look for these clues in in-game Pictionary; that’d also add some lore effect to the game
When I was a kid, I play minecraft only in creative mode, I once played in survival mode and I was so confused because I had nothing in my inventory. And after a year or so playing minecraft only in creative mode, my friend told me how to craft items in survival mode, and I was so amazed by how fun minecraft actually is
Yeah in wish I started in survial too, I’ve only been in creative
Same
I think the maker of Zelda said he intentionally restricted the explanations in the game to make people talk with each other and not just play the game through. I think this helped Minecraft a lot to make it popular and social.
yeah, having a game to always babysit you all the way to the end is boring.
Thats a solid and valid point indeed
I was just thinking this! And it also keeps things creative, mysterious and interesting. especially as new updates come out, and new people try different things. Makes me wonder what other hidden mechanics might be hidden in the game, just waiting for someone to discover them!
It also opens up the satisfaction of finding secrets your self.
I figured someone said this already so I decided to first read the comments. I was going to make a comment saying the exact same thing.
I think the new ruined portals may have been added literally for the sake of making a nether portal be something you can learn in game
yeah, a majority of them (at least anecdotally, idk spawn rates) are upright and already in the right shape, just missing pieces, and crying obsidian can be intuited to be "broken" obsidian
Yeah, they are the reason building a Nether Portal has 2 and not only 1 point in this video.
@@lyrqk5829 They even have flint and steel in the chest that spawns with them with a high chance. Playing with flint and steel will show that it lights things on fire. A bit of thinking might reveal to a player that there's a reason it's near those odd obsidian frames - from here I think the only missing puzzle link might be a special effect when you strike obsidian with the flint and steel, that shows *something* happening even when there isn't a valid portal, just to indicate to the player that they're doing something right.
Yep. There's a Japanese dude called PiroPito here on UA-cam who did a genuinely 100% blind Let's Play, it took an absurd amount of trial and error, and nether portals were the first time he asked for clarification from a friend. He didn't even ask how to build one, it's just that the Japanese version of MC made him think from the way advancements were worded that you could *craft* a Nether Portal so he was hunting for the recipe.
Once he knew he needed to *build* it rather than *craft* it, it was just loads of trial and error. He guessed that he needed flint and steel from the advancements, but he actually tried using "clues" in the world to get the shape right. He built well structures, the patterns on temples, it took a while before he just built a rectangle big enough to work. If ruined portals were a thing when he was playing he would've figured it out very quickly.
yessssss
This topic is one big throwback to surviving your first night. We never realized it went so deep because Minecraft doesn't actually tell you how to survive, you have to learn how yourself 😂
there is a fabulous let's play by a Japanese man named PiroPito, who is playing the game COMPLETELY blind. He worked out how to do some redstone things before he worked out how beds work, and has worked out chunk loading mechanics despite not working out that bookshelves boost enchanting tables. There are some other incredible things he's done too, but I won't spoil that.
Not completely blind
@@allenpomme8881 the only hints he got were about the nether portal not being craft able and horses
@@nerokipe and wither skeleton
@@allenpomme8881 all he was told was to look at paintings
@@nerokipe finding out that way has to be so god damn cool
Its crazy to realize almost nothing I know about Minecraft was taught to me in-game.
This is why I quit keeping up with the updates and snapshorlts, so every couple updates I could come back to a unique experience. Its the tradeoff for no feeling the need to know everything all the time. Doesn't mean I don't look at the wiki occasionally though
About Oliver just finished his blind Minecraft playthrough. Some of the stuff you said was difficulty he got with little difficulty (nether portals, basic brewing, nether/ow distance) while stuff you said was simple (riding horses, using Elytra to glide) he got only by pure chance and never would have actually figured out or never figured out at all.
He figured out nether wart goes in brewing without help? Thats really impressive
by brute forcing everything. a lot of thick and mundane potions were made before he tried wart.
@@realaccordium
using elytra difficult? I find that odd... I feel like it's pretty self explanatory
@@colecube8251 he thought it was a cape for the longest time, lost it and only found it it's real use on a server with his fans giving him one.
@@colecube8251he mainly doesn't use the f5 key so he doesn't even notice that it does something.
My man sees the elytra as cosmetic which is completely understandable considering it's on a ship where the ender dragon head is cosmetic (technically)
I actually think that the ruined portals are quite good. They give you an outline to complete and in there is often a flint and steel in the chest.
And the achievement says you have to "build and light" it, has a flint and steel icon and it's right after the obsidian one.
When I first played Minecraft, I was scared of skeletons and zombies, so I built a stone house, surrounded by iron fences to protect myself from them.
In creative.
i love Valheim cause the enemies in the game are difficult enough that you NEED to build things like that. it's like minecraft but you're rewarded more for your building creativity
Iron fences?
@@Dave-ko8gp I think they mean Iron Bars
Same, I used to build small castles surrounded by water when the only world generation used to be the limited "old" generation. I get freaked out over a zombie walking in
when you started playing, creative was a thing?.. lol
When I started playing I went an entire year before I found out you could light a glowstone portal with a water bucket. An entire dimension I never knew was in the game.
yes
don't break my heart again...
yeah thats insane cause i didnt know till recently
W meme
That one was a good mod.
1:18 Moving and Jumping (5)
1:24 Look Around (5)
1:34 Materials to Recipes (5)
1:49 Opening the Recipe Book (3)
2:06 Crafting with Recipe Book (4)
2:25 Using a Crafting Table (3)
2:42 Placing Blocks (4)
2:57 Advancements (4)
3:01 Mining Stone (4)
3:14 Crafting a Stone Pickaxe (5)
3:23 Smelting Raw Ore (3)
3:53 Combat (3)
4:02 Mob Spawning Mechanics (3)
4:11 Armour (5)
4:16 Better Pickaxes (5)
4:18 Buckets (4)
4:19 Basic Gameplay Loop (5)
4:24 Material Tiers (4)
4:34 Food (3)
4:42 Bed/Respawning (3)
5:03 Locating Diamonds (4)
5:11 Locating Obsidian (4)
5:13 Getting to the Nether (2)
5:56 Find Nether Fortress (4)
6:02 Obtain Blaze Rods (4)
6:05 Craft Blaze Powder (5)
6:08 Craft Eye of Ender (5)
6:17 Locating the Stronghold (4)
6:22 Activating the End Portal (4)
6:32 Defeating the Dragon (5)
6:41 Obtaining the Dragon Egg (3)
6:51 Respawning the Dragon (1)
7:01 Getting to the Outer Islands (3)
7:10 Finding the Elytra (4)
7:15 Using Fireworks to Fly (1)
7:20 Using Shulker Boxes (3)
7:39 Villager Trading (5)
7:41 Constructing an Iron Golem (2)
7:47 Constructing a Snow Golem (1)
7:51 Raid (3)
7:56 Cure a Zombie Villager (2)
8:16 Potion Brewing (1)
8:35 Enchanting (3)
8:59 Finding an Ocean Monument (4)
9:06 Finding Buried Treasure (5)
9:15 Using a Conduit (2)
9:21 Defeating a Monument (1)
9:26 Finding a Woodland Mansion (4)
9:31 Nether/Overworld Distance (2)
9:37 Using Totem of Undying (4)
9:52 Collecting Honey (5)
9:57 Riding Horses (4)
10:03 Taming Other Animals (3)
10:14 Fishing (5)
10:19 Bonemeal Usage (2)
10:24 Playing Music Discs (4)
10:31 Finding Music Discs (2)
10:44 Finding Mob Heads (2)
10:58 Finding Bastion Remnants (4)
11:02 Riding Striders (4)
11:10 Piglin Trading (5)
11:22 Find Ancient Debris/Netherrite Scrap (4)
11:26 Crafting Netherrite (5)
11:28 Upgrading Equipment (2)
11:35 Summoning the Wither (2)
12:01 Using a Beacon (3)
12:20 Basic Redstone (3)
12:24 Using Redstone Components (2)
12:35 Redstone Circuit Design (1)
12:50 "Two by Two" Advancement (2)
13:13 "A Furious Cocktail" Advancement (2)
13:21 Hidden Achievements (1)
why?
just watcvh the video
Nice summary 🤔🤔🤔@@7alimohamedawaad695
How tf is conduit 2 when there's literally 0 hints how to construct it... Meanwhile Ocean Monument where you only need a breathing potion or just some blocks like doors/magma blocks that would let you breathe got a 1.
And potion brewing got a 1 but an achievement for getting _every_ potion effect got 2.
honestly its better than i expected with the nether portals and the igloos. it would just take a very long time to come across the clues
Back in 2009 I and my friend stumbled upon this game. We had no clue how to do anything in it as practically no tutorials that we knew of existed. It was a long and incredibly tedious process. But it was one of the best gaming experiences I had in my life. Figuring out that cooked pork healed twice as much HP was a day's worth dose of dopamine. Actually learning that you need iron tools to mine a diamond was like a cool twist in the plot forcing us to remember where we saw any of those previously useless resources. Man, that was a game.
Alpha wasn't released until June 2010 though, so if you started in 2009 there wouldnt be much to do...
@@BrightNightmares I probably messed up the date. We were playing in 1.12
@Ec1ipse wiki says that it came out in 2010
@oPuggo yep homie misspelled 1.12 as 1.1.2
there was a tutorial level on the old PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii U versions of the game
The old console versions had tutorial worlds that explained a lot of this stuff. It's a shame they don't make tutorial worlds anymore.
I always forget that’s how I learned so much about the game. Yeah I read the wiki but only after I knew what I was doing thanks to the tutorial world. Rip old console
i actually played on these tutorial worlds a few times
I believe that bedrock edition now has a help menu that explains the basics of every mechanic
I still have one of these save that got updated in my ps5
I still have some tutorial worlds from ps4 edition. Its fun to look back every once in awhile
You see, in my opinion that is what made Minecraft interesting. I still remember the first time I discovered that I could sleep in the game even if it was in creative, and my first survival game. It is all about the joy of exploring, discovering something you didn't even thought was possible in the game.
I love that he didn't made the character dumb like "why would i eat food?" or "what do i smelt in furnaces?", he used the realistic one.
To be fair, the advancement "we need to go deeper" tells us to "build, light, and enter a Nether Portal". Ruined portals have netherrack, so we can infer they're relevant.The advancement prior required us to collect obsidian, so it may also be relevant. We know we have to "build" a portal, but in what shape? From some ruined portals, the shape is somewhat apparent, others less so. If we get unlucky we may have to find a second or even a third ruined portal to learn the shape of the portal. Finally, we have to "light" the portal. The icon on the advancement shows a flint and steel, and they can also be found in adjacent loot chests. There is a LOT of information that needs to be understood, but given enough time, patience, and determination, I think it can be reasonably accomplished.
I think it's fine that it takes a lot of time to understand these too.
For a new player, the nether is quite a difficulty spike, and they're expected to know Minecraft mechanics pretty well to tackle the nether. So, keeping it's information tackled away makes sure you'll only know and get to the nether when you're prepared for it.
Yeah, I also feel like he failed to acknowledge the ruined portal's chests, which always have a flint and steel, alongside gold ingots, and gold armor, this tells you that, for some reason, these will be important in this new place
he also said that there is no way to tell how to upgrade equipment even though villages spawn with the workbench to upgrade them and there is an ingot icon in them
and as for potions there is nether wart in witch huts along with a potion cauldron which tells you nether wart is related to potions.
@Superocker06 After a player is familiar with the crafting table, I'd assume they'd build all the workstations and do some experimenting to figure out their purposes, which may takes some time for the smithing table (and forever for the fletching table). The real challenge would be finding netherite in the first place, since it is so rare they may not even know it exists. The advancement "hidden in the depths" might be enough indication for them to go strip mining in the nether. If lucky, they could also find some in a bastion. "Serious dedication" says to "use netherite to upgrade a hoe", and the similar naming between "cover me in debris" and "cover me in diamonds" hints that netherite is the upgrade to diamond gear. After that it's a simple drag and drop in the smithing table.
Honestly in my opinion the ender eyes aren't easy to understand at all. They have a 25% chance to break when you throw them, and I thought that indicated where it was located. Made me mine for hours.
True
I will give it 3/5, but it's still pretty obvious, and even fun to explore
Bruh all games are literally like this. you have to figure out things on your own. that's how all games work. and you have to google on how to do stuffs on that certaun game. berfore you even play the game you ofc research on what the game is about and what you do in the gameee... otherwise you won't know if it is a fun game for you or nott.
@@Vastalize I mean that's not true, not literally all games require you to look up their wikipedia page to play and beat them. The purpose of this video is to look at where people might feel the need to in Minecraft so that the game might be more accessible to new players, thus keeping the communities surrounding it strong and keeping the game relevant for all who enjoy it
@@Vastalize You shouldn't need a guide to beat a game, all the information should be in the game itself
@@globingoblin8625 That's not true, making an optional guide to a game should be something a lot of exploration games touch on. With all the information being in the game, that doesn't give users the chance to experience it for themselves. Instead, the game just tells you everything you need to know, that doesn't seem very fun
2:02 How did you figure out opening the inventory? Perhaps you kept clicking buttons?
Key bind settings
Its funny that there is an achievemnt in bedrock of opening the inventory
Fun Fact:
In old achievment system, opening inventory IS the first achievment that game offers you to complete
I assume this was made before the Warden and Deep Dark, but the ancient cities actually have some hints teaching how redstone works... but its in a hidden room most people probably wouldn't know about in one of the most dangerous biomes where it would be INCREDIBLY easy to die, and incredibly easy to miss (now that I think about it... does the game tell you how to sneak ever? Or do you have to figure that out yourself?). One could say Jungle Temples are also a neat way to teach some info about redstone, but once again its easy to miss.
Archeology doesn't seem to have a tutorial either. Anyone out of the loop would probably have no clue that suspicious sand is special and you need a brush to uncover its items. No clue that Sniffers can only be found in warm ocean ruins. Heck, with the addition of the Armor Trims and Netherite Upgrade Template, anyone isn't familiar would probably have a LOT of trouble discovering how to actually use them. Though I suppose its better than it was before, since they're called "Smithing Templates" which hints at the Smithing Table's uses.
I wonder how many new players would craft a Fletching Table expecting it to do something. I could easily imagine someone crafting it, thinking it does something, not realizing that it doesn't have a function and mistakenly thinking they're just using it wrong.
There's a literal knowledge tab in bedrock that explains everthing
May I suggest watching the livestreamed playthrough of a small youtuber called About Oliver? What I've seen of it so far has been really enlightening (and entertaining), especially about these newer features they've added to the game.
@@Dan0RG I know all about the newer features. I was saying that newer players might not.
@@lasercraft32 Well, he's a new player experiencing the entirety of Minecraft for the first time, and has run into a lot of the new features without the context of them being introduced in the latest updates. And the amount he's managed to figure out by himself is staggering.
@@Dan0RG Oh. I see. I thought it was like a livestream where he talks about all the Minecraft features or something.
This is really interesting! This reminds me of when I started playing when I was young, I went like a month not knowing what a crafting table was
I legit thought it was a feature exclusively in multiplayer on pocket edition lol
I remember being told when I downloaded PE back in like 2011 that zombies would grab onto you and couldn’t be shaken off so if they so much as touched you it was guaranteed death. I also didn’t know the nether reactor did anything until about last year.
I am big fan of you plz make qna
btw when I saw mc as a installed app in Windows I clicked random buttons and only thing I knew was movement and destroy blocks
@@Shaun_Jones if you have a world with the nether reactor then you have the rarest block
I remember when I was younger had been playing Minecraft for ages not knowing what a nether portal is, When I discovered it I built a whole temple for it and showed my siblings who also didn't know what a nether portal was, I felt so cool xD, It was the same with the end portal which I later found was a thing by doing research I think?
When I initially started playing minecraft back in 1.3.2, I always tried crafting a stone pickaxe with smelted cobblestone because I never thought to try crafting it made out of cobblestone as it was called a "stone pickaxe" so for about a month I couldn't even get iron until I finally realized
I can't even imagine your face when you realised it lol
Yeah me too except I mostly played creative, so it didn't bother me too much, I just knew there was a way to make items in survival and for a while I actually thought it was the anvil...
yeah i had a similar problem too, but i was trying to make a pickaxe with two additional blocks, like it was an axe on both sides, so for the first period i didnt even get cobblestone even tho i knew some sort of pickaxe existed
Oh god, I’m so happy I’m not the only one
@@user-bv7zo6vd4m When I first started playing I didn't understand how creative mode works for the next few months
I think a sort of "item description" below the name of an item, similar to Terraria, would help fix this issue. For instance, the description for the Totem of Undying could be "Hold the totem to cheat death" and so the player would know how to use it.
honestly, not much explanation is one of the things i love about Minecraft; for me having to figure things out and learning using my own testing and research is really satisfying
this is why I love the series ‘piropito’s first playthough of minecraft’, he went in completely blind. really fun to watch him figure things out
My favourite Minecraft series!
thanks, I just started watching him now! I love his genuine reactions
Yess! I remember asking KingBdogz (a Minecraft developer) if he ever got feedback from watching this series and he said that he watched it over a weekend to get feedback for players onboarding challenges or something like that. So I like to think Piro made a pretty significant influence on Minecraft even if people won't notice it.
Real civil engeneer did the same
Yes
I never really realized just HOW important word of mouth information was to this game. Every time a new feature was added I would just watch Paulsoaresjr explain it to me and not question it XD
SO MANY never discover the Epicness of Redstone,
which saddens me a lot.
This stuck out to me, watching this video here.
LOL i watched paulsoares jr as well
i used to get excited about EVERY update, even the bee update! then after a while (pretty sure after the bee update) i started to get less hyped. i still love whenever there's a mob vote or a new update though. i just used to be over the top hyped.
@@slevinchannel7589 Yeah, to me there's nothing intuitive about redstone. Nothing is explained in-game so it's just experimentation, if you're willing to do that. I never had any idea what to do with any of the redstone things, so basically never used it.
@@DanAndHoe How sad!
Redstone is big Fun, trust me.
May i recommend you 'Magma Musen', starting with his videos with the word "Working" in the tile?
this really makes me realize how much I really know about this game, and that thing I think are completely obvious like going to the nether, or fireworks for elytra are very hard to figure out for new players.
one thing I should mention though: in bedrock edition (which most new players start on) when you load into a world, tips pop up like "fireworks can be used to propell you with an elytra" or "mobs spawn at light level 0" etc, which are probably VERY helpful for new players
This video reminded me of my first experience with Minecraft on the Xbox 360. In it, there was a tutorial map that used signs to teach the player all sorts of different things such as beds, accessing the nether, and beacons and encouraged the importance of exploration. It was always fun seeing the new map with each major update and finding all the easter eggs. Wish they would do that for the Java edition on PC, as it would give much needed guidance.
Fun fact, i never knew that igloos had basements until a few days ago.
Ive been playing Minecraft before hunger was a thing
only some of them do
I never knew until I was using the carpet for other purposes
Lol. Same.
I knew it after the village and pillage update cuz an igloo was near a snow village and I took everything in there for decorations, and of course I broke the carpet and saw the trapdoor
Been playing for almost 10 years now and had no idea igloos had basements tell i watched this video! Crazy how that happens. Makin me wonder what else iv missed…
Earlier in minecraft's life span the advancement "we need to go deeper" was a picture of the portal, so id say that got harder over time personally
I only play 1.12 and forgot it wasn't a feature anymore. Thanks for not making me think I'm crazy.
@@rooster6700 ikr 🤣🤣
And now its a flint and steel :D And you can find Portal frames in the overworld. I would say 3.5/5 maybe even 4/5, its not that hidden.
@@HenrikEbert right and everybody is going to go "ah yes let me set this stupid black rectangle on fire" for no reason.
@@SnowMexicann it specifies "light" in the advancement's description
I kinda wish I could play the game like this
you get this game, know nothing, find some random structures, do stuff on your own. you get to learn so much about an alien world! I really want something like this. but do to how minecraft was made, and how big it is, it's almost impossible to have a blind play through... actually it's just basically impossible.
Also bounces me off something like Terraria and Don't Starve. I kinda hoped that I kind explore and have fun on my own but it turns out I need wiki for them.
Try Subnautica if you haven't already
I definitely like your suggested changes.
Cracked portals are a bit of a hint towards getting to the nether. It really helps if you find one topside that is straight up. Or even complete. It's actually possible to get a portal that is pre-lit, but the chance of it is very low; possibly even borderline impossible since I've only seen it once myself. The portal needs to be sufficiently complete and then have fire spark near it, which can be very difficult to have happen naturally.
You can get through the escape portals by pushing yourself down with the trap doors. I accidentally pushed myself down with trap doors on multiple occasions while building, so it isn't impossible to figure out.
I really admire how Minecraft's team has made so many clever adjustments to make a person who never played any videogames before understand Minecraft
Nuuskamuikkunen
If they don’t know what’s Minecraft they probably is a extrovert and don’t play video games
@@Villager6883 hate.
@@BS-bd4xo wth
@@Villager6883 or just a CHILD
When I first started the game I actually discovered snow golems on my own by trying to make iron golems out of other blocks that were white
what if there were w o o l g o l e m s ..
@@aspenrose_ yes
can only imagine your reaction
Would you count tutorial worlds in earlier console versions part of the game because it explains a lot of these things(also how I learned to play)
I discovered it when I was building a house with snow and pumpkins, it was very unexpected.
Great video, it opens up a new perspective on how it feels to be a new player, but honestly I believe things are the way they are because minecraft has always been a community focused game.
I remember when I first started playing the game, of course I had a bunch of knowledge taken from outside, but a very important element of my learning process that you didn't mention is the creative mode, it really helps you get a grasp of what the game has to offer, like the music discs and the existence of mob heads. However I really like your video, I catch myself thinking about it a while ago, makes you wish to start playing the game all over again with no pre knowledge
I remember when I first started playing, there was literally no help in the game. I spent a lot of time looking at wiki pages to see what you could do in the game. At one point I read something about the ender dragon and told my friends, but they didn't believe me and told me I shouldn't believe everything on the internet. Without actively seeking outside information the game was really rough. It's a lot better nowadays.
"Ender eyes? End portal? Ender Dragon?? Bro what the hell are you talking about? Come on, we gotta finish the dirt house."
@@salvatoremutuale9751 ngl if I just started minecraft I would think that too
my brother told me that his friend told him that there were cities in the end (after we had had a decent amount of outside info about the nether, end tc. given to us) and I didn't believe him lol
@@Soph_252 you were imagining real world cities
@@stevecouldbeme9288 Yeah to think that a simple block game has dragons is crazy
“The game says you need to find a Nether fortress. This isn’t hard, all it takes is some exploration”
Me, who dies about 30 times before finding one: Excuse me?
but still even if you die that doesn't make it more complicated to understand..?
@@Mesling_ it does make it more difficult to accomplish, however, so "this isn't hard" is a bit of an understatement here imo
it was impossible for me to achive when i started this game
not to mention they are rarer now,
I mean I don't _die_ 30 times before finding one - honestly, if you're prepared (golden helmet, iron armour) the only real threat in most of the nether is ghasts (which are, IMO, a lot less dangerous than skeletons and creepers in the overworld). But actually finding a fortress can take ages - I think there should be some sort of compass that can guide you to a nether fortress, or an end city for that matter, since in the absence of such I usually just look up the map with the seed. Wasting hours trying to find a nether fortress isn't my particular bag baby. :)
I remember back when I had to ask a friend how to craft sticks. That must’ve been ten years ago from now, what a nice memory to still have.
Just had this experience with my dad who played it for the first time. He got nowhere on his own-didn't even punch down a tree. I had to guide him through everything
It really confused me how people found out the crafting recipes. I remember back in 2013 I was with a group of friends at another friend's house and we had a multi-player surver, honestly one of the best times of my life. Anyhow, me being a somewhat new player, my closest friend being a complete noob who just got the game, and my other 3 who were kind of used to it (but kind of not), we were basically all confused but loved when we found out a new item. I remember being the first one to find out that cactus can be cooked to be turned into a dye
Bro the minecraft wiki with all the crafting recipes was a very real thing back then already.
@CBA Cronje Yeah, because that would be the first thing a kind would think about... At least back then
@@DevonDekhran its pretty obvious, kids 10 years ago knew how to use google, you had to use it to get the game
i loved thos times
when i was little (im going to guess 2014 but im likely wrong) and playing on xbox 360, all of the craft recipes were in a drop down menu of 10 or so tabs for tools, armor, blocks, etc. and you were expected to use the drop down rather than putting the items into the crafting table yourself. it was a really old version of the game, but its how i learned every recipe!
edit: coming back to explain a bit better. when you chose an item to craft from the menu, it put the blocks into the crafting grid automatically and would make a box red if you didn’t have the block for it. a bit similar to the green crafting guide we have now (but all crafts were visible before getting the right materials). every craft recipe was accessible by scrolling through this
There used to be a tutorial world back on console edition. it first taught you the basics, then released you into a bigger world that went deeper into the individual mechanics. it baffled me when they removed it after 1.13
YES. SOMEONE KNOWS THE WORLDS
@@GameSpark-kz1mt -bed- bugrock has a thing in menu so that's nice
@@XxEggman_Meme_GodxX bruh i use pe i have the trial for meje but i have to buy it
@@XxEggman_Meme_GodxX and i think java does need a compete recode
@@XxEggman_Meme_GodxX Cringe
I agree 190%. I thought this since my first hour of playing minecraft. Im 43 and my 7 year old son had to teach my how to open a nether portal. I thought there was really nothing more to do in the game other than build things, then he told me i needed to fix up an ancient portal to go to the nether. Blew me away. The game just grew by 1000%. If my 7 year old can give me a gamechanging tip, maybe the games tutorial may be able to at least shed a little hint on how to make a portal.
Honestly before starting my playthrough i already knew about the tools and how to set up base, mine, and gather food. Ironically tho, this made the game even harder for me, because i ignored all the popup tips and couldn't learn anything else on my own, it was only after 10 or so hours that i started looking at the recipe book, and the achievements table.
Note that the "Figure out that you have to set the portal on fire" step is actually indicated in-game, since the advancement icon has a flint and steel.
ooooooooh
Yea but would you realistically know that little icon on the very vague achievement will create fire and thus make a lit portal?
Thats a huge leap, even if you somehow knew that icon was a flint and steel you probably wouldnt even know its linked with fire
And EVEN if you did make that huge leap assuming flint and steel = fire then you would just assume its a fun nether icon, its the FIREY nether, its not like youre looking at the icons and interpretating their meaning will help you
@@jrlopez1027. Yo I'll be honest, you're kinda dumb. It's not a huge leap to think flint and steel makes fire. In fact, anyone who's looked it anything related to survival, it's just a fire starter. If you were to go into it with no knowledge and a freshly wiped memory then yeah it would be confusing. Counter argument to that last bit, you should be using the icons to help interpret ow to do something. I don't think the game should hold your hand and treat you like you have no ability to infer on anything, and should encourage experimentation as it is truly designed for
Also there are fire charges and flint and steel in the ruined portal chests, by that you could also figure out that you need fire to light the portal.
@@jrlopez1027. Most of the times I've come across a ruined portal there's always been a flint and steel in it for me.
Once you have the flint and steel you're probably at some point gonna find out that it does make fire.
Apart from that flint is literally the rock known for being a firestarter. Flint in my native language (german) literally translates to FIRESTONE.
It's the part of a lighter that makes fire when it's being grinded against the steel cog sparkwheel thingy.
I'd argue it's fairly basic to assume that a flint and steel makes fire if you existed on this earth for at least a bit.
I think that the effective necessity of outside help is a big reason why Minecraft has had such a strong UA-cam base. First, because of people needing to search for tutorials either as new players or old players (due to new mechanics). Second, because people get recommended these tutorials and are intrigued by the game. I know this was how I discovered Minecraft (through Paulsoaresjr) and how many others - even other UA-camrs like Ethoslab! - discovered the game. It’s a positive feedback loop that I don’t think Notch or Mojang anticipated, but has been instrumental in Minecraft’s success as a game and on UA-cam.
On a different note, I think a good way to experience (rather than simulate) a true blind playthrough could be to play a mod pack blind.
This is a topic that has been on my mind too and I’m so glad to see a video on it! I think there are so many more ideas for follow up videos just from this topic, too.
The necessity of outside help is also a big part of why there's so much community among Minecraft players. Which in turn is a big reason why Minecraft is such a unique and compelling gaming experience.
That's a good theme. It's surprising how many games have this same issue, especially old MMORPGs. People playing for a long time know exactly what to do because they've been following development for years and got a lot of information straight from blog posts or streams. But for those coming later, there isn't always a way to get this info from the game itself, or sometimes it's almost totally buried by the great amount of content available.
the video was a good assesment- some pretty good points. but im here to tell you that end music??? absolutely FIRE
The brewing stand needs his own book, like the crafting table, without the wiki is otherwise extremely difficult to find what you can do with it
I love how they gave us a freaking SMELTING BOOK instead of a potion book XD
the brewin stand isa man?!?!
TIL that the brewing stand is a he
@@cameronzalor4997 *has
@@kamikazesenpai21 which part should be has. come on tell me
I love this video. Minecraft is genuinely so cryptic in almost every area, from crafting to dimensions to redstone, the community was a *vital* aspect of playing this game. Its clearly not intentional, but its just always been how mojang works. This meant that both community and game have been directly tied together from the very start and its not surprising minecraft became such a community phenomenon just as it is a gaming phenomenon because it simply cannot exist as one without the other. if there was no community to make lets plays and content and to talk on the forums and share secrets, i doubt minecraft would be more than a niche indie game.
And I think that's why some of these things especially like the wither and beacon, are designed cryptically that way they are, The game gives you some subtle indications of what you're supposed to do but in my mind a lot of these are not simply just poor game design choices but rather Mojang keeping these things semi-cryptic to encourage community collaboration they understand that this is an important aspect of their game and are willing to stray from hard set game design clarity principles to encourage community interaction. It's hard to say how much of this is speculation and how much of this is realistic but I do think they are very in tune with their community, and it would follow that they take this into consideration when thinking about game design
@@CalebRoenigk In what way is reading the wiki for an hour a day at most, count in any way as collaborating with the community.
This is a good point. People have made the same points about the Pokemon games since the beginning as well - version-specific Pokemon, trading and lore spread across multiple forms of media made it a very friends-oriented/community-build game series.
@k3n Technically yes, but less than one percent of the community created the wiki, 99 percent of the community only reads it.
@k3n True but watching someone else play is not collaboration.
12:50 oh my god
I miss the old tutorial worlds. If they still existed they would solve problems like these. Maybe that it could still be hard to find out about some things, but they were a built in Tutorial and i loved them. I really wished they would come back!
I want to make a point that, without outside knowledge, it's not that logical to assume that Diamond can break obsidian. It takes a very long time, and I assume most blind players would just assume there's something after Diamond that is needed to break obsidian
Nice point - thanks for mentioning that!
The game implies there are tiers to tools, so it can be assumed a new player will figure out you need the highest tier (before they go to the nether) to harvest obsidian
@@PolyChromium You can break stone with your fist, but it takes a long time and you don't get the block back. It takes 15 seconds to break Obsidian with a diamond pickaxe. Why would you assume when it takes that long that you are using the right item and will get the item back?
Nothing in the advancements directly confirms that Diamonds are thr highest tier nor that they are required to get Obsidian
@@flamingpaper7751 You can break stone with your fist too, but you need at least a wooden pickaxe to harvest it. You quickly learn wood < stone < iron, and you need an iron pickaxe to mine diamonds, which you can also make a pickaxe out of, so it stands to reason that a new player can infer diamond tier is the best in the overworld.
@@PolyChromium Diamond is rare. Why wouldn't they assume there's something more rare that is stronger and better and thus is required for Obsidian?
I remember the day when potions were added and I spent a FULL night literarely trying out every single item in the game one after another with a spreadsheet trying to figure out the recipes. Back then, there was no crafting book, there was not much in terms of forums accessible to me as a non-native english speaker and since the update just dropped there were no tutorials. I agree. Even after spending thousands of hours in the game, I often find things I don't know yet because I've fallen into a loop of playstyle and don't know about all the new things available to me after an update
What I did too, even for figuring out crafting recipe. Always roughly guess it from the shape, and the information stucks. For potion, and for crafting.
Only open the crafting recipe book for new items now.
i have been playing for several years and there are still ALOT off stuff that i dont know how to do because i never really bothered to learn them
@BradynLee09 i did not even know goat horns were a thing lol
This issue could’ve been fixed pretty easily if they just add a recipe book for the brewing stand
@BradynLee09 goat horns are part of the wild update, 1.19, which hasn't actually come out yet. So of course you haven't encountered them in the game yet. They don't exist. Even if they did, they don't generate in chests, they drop when a goat rams something (with the exception of one that appears in pillager tower chests).
I’ve been playing since Alpha, and I figured out some of the harder stuff myself. The portal remnants are a dang cool piece of lore, but perhaps hindsight allows me to see them more clearly. There should be something similar for conduits, because I’m sure I wouldn’t have randomly figured that one out on my own.
I think the experience of getting information only by word of mouth enhanced my enjoyment of the game. When they added the tutorial and crafting book I thought they removed the sense of depth. Finding out something new from somebody makes your mind wonder about what else you don't know or what else there is to explore.
When I first played Minecraft, the recipe book wasn't a thing yet, so, knowing that I could turn wheat into bread, I stuck it in a furnace.
Same - I used to trade stuff with my classmates in the elementary for their knowledge
Piropito has a great Minecraft series where he plays completely blind. I’d highly recommend, because the amount of dedication he puts to discover the game is fascinating.
Blind as in knows nothing about Minecraft or blind as in an ungodly challenge of playing with no screen
@@averagecatenjoyer8219 the former lol
@@juiuice yeah I watched a couple of episodes. And I'm just thinking about how if Minecraft was released today it'd either be thrown to the gutter or have a gigantic community of finding "hidden" features
I'm gonna have to check it out
@@RetroGamingNow if u check it out u r gæ
For those of us who grew up with the proto-internet of the 90s, this was the entire experience of getting a rental game with your friends for the weekend.
When my dad first taught me how you can build a nether portal, I always questioned how he even knew in the first place. Thank you for making a video that justifies this example
12:38 TBF, many of the more advanced Redstone tricks are actually bugs and Mojang has some ambivalence towards them. It'd make sense that they'd be reluctant to teach new players about these techniques.
Plus it would take the fun _and_ the education out of redstone.
Redstone is a simulation of software coding and in coding you don't get a tutorial on how to do what you're trying to achieve either. You have to figure it out by researching similar problems and transferring and combining their solutions to fit your problem or inferring a unique, new solution from them.
Explaining redstone would be like explaining puzzles. The most they _could_ conceivably do is explain what each single component does, before the whole thing becomes pointless!
Mumbo Jumbo wants to know your location
Yes, MOJANG CALLS THEM FEATURES, lol.
I wouldn't mind if quasiconnectivity got removed, lol. Yes, it makes a lot of builds smaller, but it's so annoying when you want stuff to just NOT get powered at some points.
@@Nyerguds just use transparent blocks (like glass or upside down slabs) instead of solid ones, they won't power anything and you'll avoid QC
Having played Minecraft (Bedrock) blind when I got it in mid-2020... I must admit it was quite difficult to figure out. I'm honestly glad we did a server and some people there were very experienced, otherwise I might have given up quickly.
That’s impressive! I know a lot of people that didn’t get into it for this exact reason and then say that Minecraft is dumb because of it lol
Doesn't Bedrock have a tutorial tab? In the settings, there is a "How to Play?" tab which tells everything, pictures included. There are also many question marks in GUIs like crafting tables which redirect you to that tab
@@dialont If there is, I never noticed.
isn't there hints in bedrock when creating a new world? most of the problems in the video don't exist in bedrock thanks to them
Yea
9:34 as a child i thought that of you place a new portal away from the other portals, then you will spawn in a new world
Intro question, just started watching, but a lot.
When I started playing quite a while ago (at least 3-4 years now), I taught myself a lot and didn't need any outside help as I recall.
In my first playthrough of Minecraft, I found some iron ore, and used a wooden pickaxe to mine it. It dropped nothing. I think if I've never read the Minecraft Wiki, I would've never learn that iron requires at least a stone pickaxe. This is just a tiny example. In your video, you acted as if you first played Minecraft, and opened the control settings to figure stuff out. But in reality, people will get annoyed and either not play the game anymore or search for outside help.
When I first started, I didn't know why I didn't get my furnace back when I broke it with just my hand.
I built my first house entirely out of smooth sandstone since I thought normal blocks like dirt would fall like sand unless refined.
i think this also really depends on how old you are, and how much game literacy you have. People familiar with games and their logic will be way more likely to learn all of that
I didn't realize I couldn't pick up iron without a stone pickaxe either, and I definitely didn't know where to find diamonds without looking up tips. I just started mining down in random places and couldn't find anything for a long time.
Yeah I don't think I've ever opened advancements. After a while of not playing I have even forgotten I needed iron to mine certain things. Messed up a diamond that way before I remembered.
One thing which I found absolutely *essential* for learning how the game works was Creative Mode. Incredibly doubt I would have as much experience, practice, enthusiasm or knowledge for the game without it. It's also the less frustrating and more calming of the two modes, so is more gravitating for new players. What's great is that in Java, even Creative mode has advancements and the recipe book, which nowadays must be really helpful for new players, allowing them to discover the core mechanics in a simple and freely experimental way.
so true, i used to always play creative and it can be pretty helpful for figuring random stuff out lol
Yeah, every new update I used to load up a world in creative mode and play around with all the new things I noticed
Yeah it was the first mode I played and I learned how to place and break blocks, use tools, craft items, etc
i still remember the first creative world i made like 10 years ago
its so satisfying thats theres no *read more*
this is nice. so many assumptions necessary in order to play this game fully, so a lot of information needs to be gathered from outside to figure out things inside.
I like that Minecraft is an example of true sandbox design. I cannot stand games that handhold your way through it, making the sense of exploration and wonder nonexistent. Minecraft is full of new curiosities and things to do, and stumbling upon these things is one of the great elements of what makes it so replayable.
There's this Minecraft playthrough of PiroPito where he's completely blind down to the mechanics. It's an interesting watch and you'll see how he figures out portals without outside help. He doesn't even know that he can sneak to place blocks on the edge. I think his playthrough is a good example of this and is still somewhat possible yet really difficult.
How does he do it?
How did he find out? I began playing Minecraft in like 2014 and I didn't even know the nether existed
Check out Episode 58. He saw an advancement where it says "Build, light, and enter a nether portal." To make sure he doesn't waste his time, he just asked one question to his friend if a crafting recipe for the portal exists. You'll see in the episode how he experiments lots of portal shapes and how to light it up.
That's crazy, I'll have to check it out
Also RealCivilEngineer.
Bonus mention: Finding out how Pocket Edition Nether Reactor Cores were used is definitely way worse than trying to figure out nether portals and basically requires you look up how to use it on the internet.
Broo I first played Minecraft through PE and I was shocked to find out that stone tools existed, there was no way my dumbass 12 year old self could discover what to do with the reactor cores
Reactor core was a stub until proper Nether was added. It wasn't meant to stay in the game forever
i tryed for months to get the reactor core working when i was younger, although i never did figure it out
SO MANY never discover the Epicness of Redstone,
which saddens me a lot.
This stuck out to me, watching this video here.
Bonus Bonus Mention: the existence of endermites
I kinda like that you need outside help. It means Minecraft is a game that almost requires a community and I like that, feels more like exploring with other people
I didn't try minecraft until 2019, and had never watched any kind of video or tutorial, just occasionally checked the wiki for crafting recipes, so I didn't find out about the nether or end existing until years later when i was playing with friends
A simple change to the advancement text like "Repair a broken obsidian portal and light it" would do wonders. And maybe have the portals fully built every time, but with some pieces as crying obsidian. Maybe even rename crying obsidian to "broken obsidian" just to hammer the point home that these are what you should be replacing.
Right! I think many of these issues have very simple fixes - if they spent some time going through each advancement and tweaking it (especially critical ones like the Nether) they could improve the game quite a bit without much work.
Or just make crying obsidian work like normal obsidian
I think a cool thing would be, when there is crying obsidian, the portal will temporarily light but then break.
There would be a small break animation where it makes it obvious that it breaks from the crying obsidian.
Edit:
Perhaps make it work with any incompatible block including air to make it more consistent. Like the portal would form normally for a split second but then rapidly get destroyed.
A less laggy alternative would probably be the incompatible block just gets broken.
Well I think this video used a bad example, most of the Ruined portals you find are up-right. With a good chunk of them missing only a few blocks, And the most common items you will find in a nether portal chest are Flint and steel, and Fire Charges. Hinting that they have some utility. While I like this video, I feel it may underplay the intelligence of the player with the nether portal situation and doesn't take into account that the situation it's in is an outlier.
@@perigord6281 That actually sounds interesting.
6:58 i remember a long time ago i killed the ender dragon in creative mode, and i found that the end crystals were pretty cool looking. and so i decorated the exit portal with the end crystals...
and thats when i figured out "the end again" existed... i was so confused when i heard the dragon roaring and the crystals coming 'back to life' lmao
10:22 i also remember trying to tame a dog a long time ago, i accidentally hit it with the bone instead of taming it, so i tried bonemeal because it sounded 'tasty' for the dog, there were green sparkles when i used it, so i thought "maybe i should do more???"
its funny looking back at the things i used to do in minecraft
Same i accidentally summon the wither by playing the Minecraft story mode wither so i thought it'd be a good decoration on my creative world but idk how to get the command block so i just filled it up with sould sand and then... didn't know it actually exist in game and it fucking destroyed my builds
@@TheOneWhoMemes79 lmao my first time on minecraft I thought bone meal was edible
Wait, the end again is an achievement right?... How did you discover the achievement existed when you don't get them in creative? I highly doubt if you didn't check achievements before at any point that this of all things would suddenly cause you to look at the list lol.
I also did that! lol
honestly I love that minecraft is so community based, it works really well with the sandbox nature of the game
I feel like the potion brewing one should be ranked a bit higher, maybe 2 or 3, just because I feel like you're going to learn how to craft brewing stands in the nether fortress where nether wart is found, and I distinctly remember the first time I made a brewing stand I looked through all the stuff in my inventory, saw a couple random ingredients I'd think would work, and shoved em all in the brewing stand to see what happens. One of these ingredients happened to be nether wart, and I felt very accomplished for the couple seconds before seeing that I made awkward potions. I actually thought that was a dead end and tried other things and it wouldn't be till way later I eventually tried things with awkward potions and got actual potions out of it. This was before brewing stands needed blaze powder, but with that involved I feel it would push players a little bit more logically to look in the place you get the powder from for ingredients.
I played Minecraft as a child in the back ol' days where there was no 'press e for inventory' hints or crafting recipe book
My friends and I freaked out when we discovered you could craft a crafting table, making pickaxes was a whole other thing (we didn't know you could place one item in the inventory with the right click)
If this was bedrock edition, it would be easier as the version comes with a virtual guide in your settings menu bar
fr, i remember being upset at the game because i didnt understand you had to hold down the button to mine instead of just clicking and had to ask a friend
when i first played minecraft i thought that feather was a knife because i didnt know english so i used it to punch mobs lol
When I first played Minecraft, i thought blocks would fall if u don't connect it to other blocks so I build very carefully. Also I don't know torch exist, there were no crafting guide or recipe book.
I lit up everything with red stone torches instead of normal torches 😭
Man, when my Father first played Minecraft, he was confused to heck! However he figured it all out ALL by himself. He had this huge rail way line leading all the way to a single desert all over the water with cobblestone and rails on the inside. He was very smart, he had tools he had armor basically he knew everything about the game. Me? Well, for me it was for the fact I watched the yogscast and understood everything about Minecraft by watching their videos online while my Father did it all by himself. It was impressive for a man that was in his 50s/60s. Thank you so much for buying the game for us Father. God bless you.
Your father is a true king. Bless you too
I first played to help my son (I am the mom tho). I got addicted and we still play together often! I do aesthetic building stuff and my son is good at redstone. Minecraft is amazing. It really brings people together.
@@akiameaartThis is so sweet 😊
@@akiameaartI love reading things like this
Dad? More like gigachad
I've never been able to understand why the PC Version had no tutorial world. I started playing Minecraft on the PS3 Edition and this really helped me a lot at the beginning
I remember learning about the mechanics of Minecraft long before I even had the game due to stumbling upon youtuber playthroughs. Crush Depth being the first I ever ran across. I just kinda soaked up the knowledge. Though some things still eluded me. For 6 months after I got the game I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to make a Enchanting Table. I remembered the ingredients just not how to configure them or how much of them I needed.
I remember discovering the nether early on sometime around 2010/2011 and being terrified. It was like discovering a massive secret. The place was haunting.
How did you figure out how to build the portal on your own? Im curious now...
@@hmmm.74 didn't discover it by myself, i played with a friend a lot around that time but I remember there was just a rumour or understanding that obsidian had a bigger feature than just really hard rock.
Back then you could still be easily surprised if you didn't look too hard. Lots of people knew that an obsidian portal did something but werent sure what exactly.
@@maxmanly3122 even so you still DID have outside help which means it wasn't perfectly known from testing
@@erm_5557 that wasnt his point
@@iSomeDood i guess that fair but a lot of the discussion in the comments is seeing if anyone did any progression of the game without any help and to what level even if it wasn't exactly what he was talking about which was about how its was scary place
This is why I liked the legacy versions (PS3, Xbox 360) they had a tutorial world for each update and stuff to explore in them
That one with floating Minecraft sign the city and the ships bring back such good memories :)
I miss the tutorial worlds they were so cool it’s really a shame that they stop making them after the aquatic update they was the last update that they made one
And they introduced the auto crafting mechanic unlike java at the time, my neighbor had it first cauthe was cool and his friend had to write down the order and recipe for a cake and show us the game mechanics in order to make a single cake, before bonemeal he had to go to his farm, milk cows in 3 buckets with iron, use collected eggs, and sugar cane into sugar from a simple farm, seemed like a freaking experience on its own
I wish they could have preserved the old tutorial worlds individually, I loved exploring those...
@@unknown-dq6df i love tu14
I also find it interesting how it will be impossible (or almost impossible) to enter any multiplayer server without using a web browser or other external source to see the IP, so you can't even make the argument that you could learn by playing on servers
Bro this reminds of the time I thought you could only get glass from villages if you had silk touch.. then when I joined a friends world I asked them if they had silk touch and how they got so much glass and they showed me you could smelt glass! Then I tested other stuff similar such as clay lol! (This was on Bedrock edition where there is no recipe book for furnaces)
Reminds me of how in old versions of Pocket Edition, the way you activated the Nether Core Reactor seemed so convoluted. Like how was someone supposed to activate it without any outside advice. Looking back at it, reminds me of one of those fake Herobtine summon videos lol
Good times
This video ties so deeply with my recurring thought of what would happen if someone with no prior knowledge of minecraft would suddenly get put into the minecraft world (idk how the ui interactions would work. Lets assume it would be something like minecraft vr). What if instead of a single person the population of a small town get exported? With a little addition of player reproduction they would probably be able to create an entire civilization. How quickly would they discover the world limit? Would they write great literature with book and quill? Would they industrialize by making automatic farms? Would they make elaborate computers to perform calculations? If the concept of money manifests in such world, what item would be used? If memory prior to being telepoted is erased, would they be able to realise that they are in a simulation? (lets assume they can't go into the options (especially video settings) menu). Would overpopulation become a problem at some point and how will it resolve?
This is some Truman Show shit
This is eerily similar to the mc “The Island” novel
if automatic gold farms would be a thing, the economy would inflate
@@XiELEd4377 hence the common use of diamond currency I'm most servers
@@axolotl0424 what if every diamond in the world turned into armor/weapons
i wish minecraft had tooltips for items that told you what they are and how to use them the way terraria does, or even the legacy console versions of minecraft
for example the tooltip for obsidian "a very durable mineral that comes from the mixing of water and lava. you can use it to build a gateway to another dimension"
i wish i knew how to code bc i would love to make a mod that adds explanations to everything with config for different parts of the game.
like toasts when you reach structures, info on mobs, advancements having more detailed info when you hover over them, etc
It used to be even worse. I remember when I first bought the game in Beta 1.7.3. It took me forever to find the “open inventory” button. Then I tried and failed to mine wood for 10 minutes, because the tutorial said to punch (left click) the wood, not *hold* left click.
yep this was one of the first games I'd ever played and It took me a very long time to figure out swimming so I just lived on an island for a while
JAJAJAJ I REMEMBER CALLING MY BEST FRIEND ON THE PHONE AND TELLING HIM DUDE IM PUNCHING THIS TREE AND IT WONT FALL DOWN!
In Bedrock there’s an entire section in the settings dedicated as a tutorial. It explicitly teaches you how to build a Nether portal as well as other essential mechanics of the game.
Not to mention the nifty tips in the loading screen
the problem is that its super boring to read, gamers are smelly anti sunlights losers who can't bear to read for a minute or so.
Yeah but as there are no advancements in bedrock it would literally be impossible to do anything at all
also you can also check the recipes even if you don't have the certain item
@@sanmeghpotdar7974 there are advancements in Minecraft. It’s that little bottle in the corner of the main menu and the pause menu
i just got here after binging piropito's minecraft playthrough. bro played minecraft with no outside help. and he struggled to build the portal. he used all sorts of shapes. so you're right with that one. also hes probably never going to figure out the conduit. but despite that, its pretty surprising how the guy fully completed the end in minecraft with no help
It's interesting watching this back after having watched PiroPito's minecraft playthrough and seeing what the actual biggest challenges were for him. For example you wouldn't really think that locating the stronghold would be very difficult, but the wording "Follow an ender eye" was very confusing to him