@@HannaHsOverInvested, Minecraft has changed a lot over the years. Nowadays, there are practically quests, there's a merchant/trading system, there's a village raid defense system, there's magic and enchantments, and many _many_ types of hostile creatures. Back when I started, it was mostly just Lego, and that's still my preferred way to play. To anyone who reads this comment and wants to try Minecraft for the first time, I highly recommend starting with Java Edition version 1.11.2. This is the last version to not include a recipe book (a book which automatically shows you how to make something when you get all the ingredients). Instead, there are Achievements in the main menu which sort of give you hints. (1) Open your inventory. (2) Get Wood. (3) Build a crafting table. Etc. This is still what I think of when I think "Minecraft", where the "game" part is mostly the puzzle of figuring out how to craft things.
@@El_Rey_247 U still can play without the book. And i don't even think it's expanded at the start. So u can still play later version with new mobs, more "quests" etc without going back that much in time. + Let ppl play minecraft how they want xd I don't even know if new player would know how to change version of minecraft D:
@@MyaMore-cb7zb, No, there's a very particular experience of discovering recipes that is robbed with the vanilla recipe book experience. It _is_ possible to achieve the result I want with newer JE Minecraft, but to do that you need to use console commands. First you grant all the recipe advancements. Then you take away all the recipes. After that, the recipe for an item only unlocks when you get that item, either by crafting it or by finding it in the world. In my opinion, this is ideal because you will still be able to use the recipe to speed up crafting, but you need to first discover the recipe by "inventing" it (crafting it) or "reverse-engineering" it (finding the crafted item in the world). Also, the reason I suggest the older Achievements system as opposed to the newer Advancements system is because in the Achievements system had smaller steps for the early game. It kinda falls apart after the early game, but for someone's first-time experience, I think the early game is the important part.
@@El_Rey_247 Although I miss the old system too, the new system is much more new-player friendly. Don't forget that Minecraft's first ever reason of being invented was because it wanted to inspire creativity (Hence the oldest builds of the game, only having creative) it was meant to inspire people into creating new things, which was accomplished, the players during this time made pixel art, houses, etc. and made the very first Minecraft Mini-game, Spleef. Now that there is a Recipe book, that inspires new players into having ideas and such of the sort, even in survival. Literally just watch any 2019-2022 "First Minecraft Letsplay" video (Even though these videos are at least 2 years apart from when the recipe book was first added, this was when Minecraft had it's revival). Although you may like challenges and such based on your comments, Minecraft's already given players enough challenges, it's just creativity that they need more of (Not that it never had creativity, just now, there will be more).
Context for HannaH: Blocks within Minecraft have a 1m x 1m x 1m dimension. So its 1 meter in length, width, and height. So this lets build sizes become extremely impressive. The game has 3 general modes of play: Creative, Survival, and Hardcore. Creative gives the player access to all blocks, unlimited resources, instant breaking of blocks and flight; most builds are made in Creative for the sake of building. Survival makes it so the player has a health bar, hunger, respawn, tools/armor have durability, tools are needed to collect materials, blocks you place must be collected first so a tree must be cut down for wood, etc. Hardcore is like Survival but makes it so the player is locked onto the hardest difficulty setting and 1 life, so if the player dies the world is then deleted. In the beginning parts of the video showing the 2 temples are naturally generated structures in your world that hold loot. The Uncensored Library is unique with the fact that news articles, and even some books are copied onto in-game books. Players can access these articles to learn about uncensored news information especially in countries with heavily censored media. Philza is a Minecraft youtuber who's greatest achievement is within his Hardcore series. He's had several HC series and the most famous one was how he played in his hardcore world for 5 years, with builds such as the Sea temple having a barrier around it with vegetation and a floating island above it in the middle of the ocean, and the middle of the ocean he brought to another dimension and flooded it, with a custom made ocean with a dragon skeleton in the center. He did all of this in his HC world for 5 YEARS until he got killed by a baby zombie, spider and skeleton... 2b2t, oh boy. 2b2t is infamous as an Anarchy survival server meaning that there are no rules. Not just conventional we can steal from other players, blow up their bases and killing players whenever but actual wall hacks, flying, x-rays and duplication of items type illegal. Player toxicity is known with frequent griefing (killing players and blowing stuff up), player slavery (they made players collect resources for them) and swastikas (don't ask, idk why either). But to ask why players blow up bases in 2b2t is that that is part of why players play. There are no rules and so everyone plays how they wish, and when you build a beautiful base you will have to acknowledge that it will be destroyed eventually, no exceptions but it is part of server history seeing ruins of what players have made in the game. The $250 scam referred in the video is that one of Jeracraft's subscribers payed $250 for a world transformation from an online builder (you pay people money online, you send them a copy of the world folder and they build in it then send that world file back to you) and the builder just made very bad copy+pastes onto the world, some are even builds from Jeracraft you can find online. Jera then took it upon himself to redo the entire world for the subscriber FOR FREE.
3:44 - Yes, block by block. Although some creators use tools or AI assistants. Most Minecraft players use PC or Xbox. 7:00 - Most servers protect things built by their players and have rules about breaking stuff. Anarchy servers have no rules or protection. 7:34 - 2B2T is the name of a server. It's the longest running anarchy server. Crazy place to play Minecraft. 8:55 - The build survived for 8 years on a server with no rules. That's 8 years of trying to not get destroyed so, there's history there. 10:12 - He's talking about people sending their worlds to famous builders so they can make them look better. 12:44 - That's the sun. Cheers! Thanks for checking out another one of my favorite games, Hannah. :)
In TrixyBlox's case, he does use tools like WorldEdit to make his structures; but it's mostly just for basic shapes of huge buildings, terraforming, and copy pasting stuff in large quantities. He still makes the details and stuff block by block, though.
Minecraft has 2 main modes, survival and creative. Creative: let's you fly around, you don't get hurt, and can create any block of any type at will. Survival: you have health and can die, dropping everything on you when you do. You need to collect or create blocks you wish to use, and cannot fly without late-game items. Generally when people build extravagant projects on Minecraft, they do so in creative because of the ludicrous time needed to collect everything otherwise. Others like the challenge of survival projects, and they're usually well respected because of this. Another game mode mentioned is Hardcore. It is a specific kind of survival game. A hardcore world is one where, when you die, you don't come back to life. So anything you have built or were building cannot be accessed. Minecraft has been around for ages and probably will continue to be popular, as its literally digital lego with crafting and survival elements. Also zombies and skeletons and other monsters come for you at night. And hell exists, which you can access through a portal. And the void exists. Ditto.
I've never made a creative mode game and built a pretty decent sized castle in survival 150X100 (give or take) with a curtain wall (complete with machicolations crenellations and merlons) of 300X200 with drum towers, and square towers and cannons that project outwards to fire dynamite. A bustling market square and a throne room whose floor consists entirely of Diamond blocks (that took FOREVER) with a 40X30 map wall behind the throne, red carpet and 8 statues with full enchanted netherite armor lining the carpet in a defensive manner. I mined so much Netherrack, I had 16 furnaces running pretty much at all times to make an underground nether fortress right alongside my overworld fortress. You don't wanna know how much kelp I had to burn to create it because I had to burn kelp to make kelp blocks to put into my furnaces to burn kelp as well as netherrack. I had 5 automatic kelp farms and sometimes i'd just let them do their thing for my 8 hours at work. It's a nice fortress and I spent about a year on it. P.S. whoever created creepers needs to be shot.
Short version: it's legos Long version: the world is randomly generated and made out of different kinds of blocks, you mine blocks to craft tools to mine better blocks, theres creatures that give you food and fur, at night and in dark caves there's monsters (spiders and skeletons) In sandbox mode it's just the short version
0:17 - 0:20 a writer just writes things on a page, a builder just builds. both "just create" whatever they want and the rest of us are all better for it.
It can be difficult to appreciate Minecraft builds until you have played yourself. You start with nothing, cut down some trees, and build your own first little hut and then it clicks.
so the big glowing square in the sky near the end of the video you asked about is the sun. in minecraft there is a day/night system as well as a hunger and combat system, it is in effect a full rpg, just with a massive building element. its also why doing something like those builds in "survival" mode is much more impressive then "creative mode" as you cant fly in survival mode (atleast not easily) and you need constant supplies to keep building (manually gathering every block) it would be like if you crashed on an island and then built an entire massive city using only the stuff around while also feeding and taking care of yourself. hardcore is even more insane, as all that was done on one life, if you die the world file is deleted and that progress is lost.
It’s like asking people why they like making model planes or carving statues . Personal satisfaction and fun . It’s a hobby. Also something you can do with people all over the world
Some info for the non-gamers: When he says you can do anything in Minecraft, he's not exaggerating. But, the default game mode for Minecraft is Survival. You have nothing and can die. You work your way up to bigger and better things by making tools out of better materials so you can get better materials. IE: use wooden tools to mine stone and make stone tools that can be used to mine iron. So on and, so forth. Or, you can play creative and have access to an infinite supply of any block or material in the game. You can fly and you won't take damage. Regardless of the game mode you still spawn a virtually infinite, random world with physics, biomes, animals, plants, the works. There's even villages and villagers. Also, the game is available on pretty much anything with a screen. My wife and I have run a Minecraft server since the beta was released so I couldn't help but say something. It's strange to me that Minecraft has become known as this kid's game. Especially considering how dark it originally was. My wife used to call it "Adult Legos". LoL :)
@@HannaHsOverInvested True Minecraft is pretty weird lol You should check out these fun Minecraft videos one where he completes the how the developers intended and one where each time he takes damage the game becomes more realistic. Beating Minecraft the Way Mojang Intended It:ua-cam.com/video/0jrkmjfiaIg/v-deo.html If I Take Damage Minecraft Gets More Realistic: ua-cam.com/video/2VChmqZ9RcE/v-deo.html
I don't play it, but my two favourites (admittedly both for nostalgia reasons lol) is a tie between the person who built the Starship Enterprise, and someone who built Redwall Abbey in Minecraft
Minecraft is a survival sandbox. The game has no real objectives, while there is an option to "beat" the game in defeating a monster called the Ender Dragon you can pretty much do whatever you want in the game. You wanna live a humble life in the forest with a dog? Sure. You wanna turn everything you see into a giant base? Go right ahead. You wanna get a group of friends and do all of those things and more? There's no limit to what you can do. It came out over 10 years ago and is still one of the most popular games of all time and many people spent their teens or younger playing it. It has its problems regarding fanbases, like a lot of popular franchises, but many can't deny the impact that it's had and the memories it created for so many. There might be a better video, but if you're curious to learn more about why Minecraft is so special to some people I recommend watching jschlatt's video called "A Tribute to Minecraft", it's the video that blew him up and it sums up the game pretty well. Even though the game was going through a rough patch at the time the video was made, but it's bouncing back and I'm happy for it. :)
Wow, those are some amazing builds! And my apologies to Denmark. The movie was right, some people just want to watch the world burn! 8:06 Wait...Kerrigan? From Starcraft?
2:14 "Can you tell a story?" Yes, yes you can. I have a world that I play with my brothers, where we've written constitutions, created a religion, and so much more. I've written thousands of words for a newsletter in the world, detailing the world events. Minecraft really is just a platform, and you are almost only ever limited by your own imagination.
The difference between creative and survival mode is that, in creative mode, you are basically immortal, capable of flight and can utilize infinite quantities of the various types of blocks. It's basically painting/building with infinite legos. Survival mode, on the other hand, is what it says on the tin. You are an actual character in a world with an inventory, equipment, a health bar and a need for food in an active world inhabited by animals and monsters that features a day and night cycle. The only blocks you get to build with are blocks you harvest or craft yourself, using a set of progressively more useful (and hard to craft/source) tools, all of which have durability that declines as you use them until they eventually break. The same goes for armor (which you'll definitely need). If it gets hit, its durability declines. On long expeditions or during tough encounters you may find yourself stripped of your armor and best weapons, scrabbling to escape with your life as your food and health run out, your last torch a distant memory, running through dark tunnels to the sound of skeletons and zombies in hot pursuit. A build in survival mode is much more impressive because you don't just summon blocks from nothingness, you built up a shelter to survival, planted food to feed your belly and heal you, craft equipment and potions to survive a landscape that contains hostile monsters and to harvest materials and then process these materials into the building blocks you need for your projects. It's also worth noting that not all blocks in Minecraft are created equal. Some can be found or made with minimum effort (wood, for example, is a renewable resource because you can replant trees and clear-cut periodically) while others require you to travel to various biomes or dangerous locations to find. Some are even guarded by dangerous monsters. Death in Minecraft can mean losing all of your items and respawning somewhere far away from whatever it is you found and got killed trying to grab. If you're particularly unlucky you may even fail to locate your base or quarry and be forced to start over from scratch. An ANARCHY server is just about one of the most challenging types of survival environments to just live in, much less build. They're usually servers that anyone is allowed to enter and mess around in as they please. This means a lot of people will see absolutely nothing wrong with taking apart your projects to take the resources used to construct it, to steal your equipment and supplies or even to blow your entire base and anything built upon or contained within it sky high just for fun and to aggravate you. Having an impressive build at all on a survival anarchy server is no mean feat. Having one as impressive and labour-intensive as the ones shown and keeping it in spotless condition through god knows how many griefing attempts over years? Yeah, that's pretty damn good.
Minecraft boggles my mind. Or rather, the stuff people can build in it. It is similar to how I just cannot grasp how a painter just goes from having a white canvas to having a painted scenery. I wouldn't know where to start! Or you Hannah as an author, I can write a page or two but I have no clue how to formulate a full book. I can have a scene or two in my mind, but I don't have a full story. Minecraft is creative artistry on a really cool level! People can do amazing stuff as you have seen in the video, and the servers can even be amazing societal places like the Uncensored Library they mentioned. It is just down to the imaginenation of the people involved, how much time they have and how much their computers can handle that limits the builds!
It's a bit short for this channel and 10 years old, but the official Minecraft trailer is something you need to see before anything else Minecraft related. It might help demonstrate how extraordinary the builds you just saw really are.
Context for Philza. He played on a minecraft game for 5 years with only one life. If he died even once it would all be gone. He survived and played for 5 years. Collected all of the resources and built everything manually on his pc. You should check out the Legend of Philza. It goes more into just how impressive his level of work is.
Examples for the many things you can do in Minecraft: You could beat the game, because it has an end goal. But you don't have to. Some people just like to build. For example, there is a server currently where a lot of people together are building the entirety of "Middle Earth" from "The Lord of The Rings". There are people that try to beat the game as fast as possible. Some people just play survival mode forever and build their own world (houses, landscape and so on). Some people like to build working machines with "Redstone". Some people just like to fight each other in mini games (like Mario Party for example) on "Player vs Player" servers (online). Some other people like to create “Mods” that modify the game in new cool ways that can change completely how the game feels. And other people like to create “functions” based modifications to the game which can be compared to in-game programming which often has the same effect as (people that make) “Mods” have on the game. In summary: You can basically do whatever you want. And the game is still getting updates for free, btw.
Why do people blow things up? Because we are ape. The satisfaction of creation is only matched by the exhilaration of destruction. We crave a power to exert over others in our darkest moments, and when given the freedom to do so, are compelled to do so. It is the curse we have suffered from Adam on down. And so it shall be.
Asking why is silly. Why not? It's fun. Edit: 10% of the time, she looks like she's in awe of these accomplishments. The other 90% of the time, she just looks confused. I don't get how. Edit 2: "So you build a thing... and then you look at the thing." ... Yup. That's not really confusing. That's like saying "So you draw a thing... and then you look at the thing.", or replace that with write.
Thank you UA-cam for not registering my comment -.- Here we go again: Minecraft Basic goal of the game is acquiring and placing cube blocks. Overall game in basic form doesn't recognize other shapes than square and rectangle. Game itself consists of 2 modes: creative and survival Creative mode is basically Lego building. It gives you access to every single block from game in infinite amount, allows you to fly freely and only imagination is your limit. While placing block in creative mode manually one by one is ok, advanced builders developed special tools - either as plugins for game or completely external applications that allow for more advanced placing of blocks. Like for example creating templates of structures to paste them in or have special brushes to "paint" selected blocks over large area. Other example are application that change colors of selected picture into Minecraft blocks, which allows recreation of those images inside game. Minecraft due to the way how it's made allows for very large range of modifications. Survival mode is what you'd expect from standard game. Your character is bound to the ground, gravity exists, you cannot fly freely and world is populated by neutral creatures (villagers, traders, domestic animals, like horses, cows, pigs, cats) and hostile creatures (skeletons, zombies, spiders, other unique for Minecraft creatures and there's even something like end boss - dragon). You can craft items (pickaxes, shovels, swords, armor, etc.), gather and place blocks, catch fish, grow crops, produce food, etc. Fight with other creatures or if it's multiplayer also other players using swords, TNT or even lava and other means. Day/night cycle is important along with eating and sleeping. If you want to build anything here you have to acquire manually proper materials first - mine them, grow them or find them in abandoned mines. Because of that while great projects constructed in creative mode are amazing, anything created on grand scale in survival mode in legitimate way is even more impressive. Because you know it took effort and time of placing blocks one by one. Overall game changed a lot from it's earliest releases in 2009 with only creative mode and 16 blocks available. It's been in constant development since then. In my opinion biggest addition was "electricity" along with conduits and logic gates. In survival mode it allows for creating automated facilities like foundries, farms or even industry scale "excavators". In creative mode it allows you to basically buid processors if you know how to design it, which then allows to emulate computers inside games. Though of course scale is the limit and you probably won't see more than advanced calculators ;) As for devices on which you can play Minecraft - computers (Windows and Apple), phones (Android and Apple) and game consoles (xbox, Playstation, Nintendo Switch). Versions available for each device may differ but in the end it's still Minecraft. Regarding to 2b2t - it's anarchy server running in survival mode. Anarchy means that there're no rules. No at all. You can do anything you want in game, which includes attacking other players and destroying whatever they created. Using hacked game clients is also allowed. Those clients allows cheating - your character can move faster than normal, fly freely, you have advantages in combat, you can detect other players and creatures around you, provides x-ray vision, aura that damages everyone around you and many more. Because of that if you want to actually build anything on this server you have to be very lucky to not be discovered, probably use hacked client yourself and be skilled enough to defend yourself. If anyone notices your base and shares coordinates with other players, they will most likely flock there to destroy it beyond any recognition. So any construction that is able to survive for longer than few weeks is considered very successful. Also core community on this server is considered very toxic. Fun fact - in the past some of the players were able to even get unauthorized access to admin rights through various exploits. Or run hacking operation for years that tracked movement of every player on server. P.S "So you build a thing, and then you go and look at things" Well, that how art works ;) Minecraft in that area is similar to paintings or sculptures :)
Key terms: Survival - Minecraft's most famous game mode, you spawn in a random world, build a house, gather resources and prepare for the night, when the monsters will come for you. Creative - Minecraft's builder friendly game mode. Are you tired of the hassle of collecting resources, killing monsters and having to constantly eat to survive, only to die to monsters? Creative mode gives you infinite resources, no need for food, no monsters if you don't want them, and flying so your building is even easier. Hardcore - Survival on steroids, same premise as og survival, but monsters deal more damage and you only have one life. After that, say goodbye to your world. Anarchy Server - A server where people play with no rules and, therefore, acts such as indiscriminate killing, figthing, looting and destruction are just a part of the experience. 2B2T - Minecraft's oldest anarchy server, famous of its long history with so many people coming and going, so many bases being created and destroyed, so many players making a name for themselves as incredible fighters and builders, only to disappear from the server forever. How can a minecraft world/server have a history? - People love videogames, we spend so much time playing them that events unfold even in games where there isn't an imposed narrative (Minecraft has one but its very subtle and not particularly complex). When we say "history", we mean all those events and highlights that marked the experience of the server forever for other players. "That one time the most long lasting base was destroyed" is an example of that. History is not only imposed narrative, but also events directly related to player experience.
Quick explanation: Minecraft is a singleplayer game but it also can be a multiplayer game. Multiplayer games of Minecraft are hosted on Servers. 2b2t is one of them. Most servers are heavily regulated as to make sure everyone gets a fair experience, playing in their server. 2b2t is an anarchy server, which mean there are no rules. In most servers, you can claim a number of large patches of land (called chunks) and you can build on them and no one will be able to destroy your work. But since 2b2t is an anarchy server, there's no such thing like that, anything that you build, sooner or later, someone's gonna find it, and break it. The structures or builds in which a lot of jargon was used, is simply: Structures in 2b2t which survived an endless onslaught of people trying to destroy it.
Survival Mode is essentially Legos where you have to build forts, equipment, et cetera to survive and, ideally, thrive in a world filled with monsters and the occasional lava pit. There's also Hardcore Survival that was mentioned in this video; normally, if you die in Minecraft, you can resurrect yourself in the last bed you slept in, only missing the armor, equipment, and materials you had on you (and naturally setting you back if you were close to a valuable resource- say for instance, a vein of diamonds). You can play alone, or online with others on servers. Most large public servers have rules, usually providing some protection against defacement, theft, or wanton destruction for your own home, while others, often termed "anarchy" servers, have no in-game rules. 2b2t is the longest-running anarchy server, and has hosted equal parts outstandingly creative and sadistically destructive players, resulting in many constructs on 2b2t being treated as a sort of ephemeral art. Creative Mode is Legos for the sake of, well, creating. Any threat of death or deprevation are removed, with the players given awesome powers and unlimited access to all of the game's items in order to try out new things, test-build constructs to make sure they work, and, of course, to create the massive megastructures showcased in this video. Creative Mode servers are rarer, but long-running ones can really feel like a living museum, with exhibits for art, architecture, and even mechanical design that anyone and everyone are welcome to contribute to. As for history, yes, Minecraft builds can have a lot of history, especially bases in survival. The game is over a decade old, and some servers and even individual players still play on worlds that are nearly as old. Walking around a long-running server is fascinating, as you can explore the ruins left behind by players years ago, slowly withering away as protection expiry leaves the buildings open to theft and defacement. These buildings were built to be not just aesthetically pleasing, but also habitable and functional. The result is a series of very lived-in buildings one occupied by real players, and it's surprising what you can learn about a base's previous inhabitants by looking at the structure of the base, the resources available, the creature comforts added, and in the case of bases with several occupants, the various signs that dot the walls like sticky notes, containing house rules, to-do lists, in-jokes, and more. What's even more interesting is that on long-running anarchy servers like 2b2t, where much of the land for many kilometers around the starting area has been rendered neigh unlivable by years of destruction, many of these ruins are found by new players, who move in, fix the place up, and start living in the base as their own. It's not unheard of for a years-old base to be occupied by three or more groups, each adding their own flavor and personality to the base each time it's refurbished and expanded. And, of course, many friendships are formed over these servers, and many adventures are had. On any long-running server, you may find statues and other memorials celebrating outstanding accomplishments, mourning players who have passed away, and even just reveling in some in-joke humor.
Ooooh, fascinating! I don't know much about it first hand, but it is an incredibly interesting game. The creativity it allows is genuinely something truly epic. Actually, it's about the only game where the word "epic" genuinely applies.
I bought my daughter minecraft and was resistant to try it, but I have been hooked for over 15 years now. It's a great way to unwind, not think about life for awhile, and be creative. I prefer not to use the creative mode and source all my own materials, create things with recipes, make & use potions, and find secrets or hidden treasures. The extra activities are a nice break from building, but then you can relax back into your creative planning to build more. There is a quest mode as well as there are goals you can work at on survival mode. It's really cathartic, challenging, & satisfying.
Minecraft is the most mellow game imaginable. For at least 10 years now I've been playing on and off just building log cabins and exploring caves set to gentle music
7:34 2b2t is the oldest anarchy server In Minecraft. A haven for all sorts of players like builders, hackers, adventurers, and UA-camr. It’s so old and so lawless it has years old history such as war, factions, projects, empires, and conflicts talk about to this day (My favorite of course being the Russer War). If you wanna know more about the server’s history I would recommend the UA-camr FitMc, who is an 2b2t historian that talks about many events that have happened.
most of these builds took HOURS if not DAYS to complete. Yes you are right, they placed block by block, and even with world edit, it still takes a VERY long time.
Minecraft is huge, it is literally the best selling game IN THE WORLD having sold 238 million copies worldwide making it more popular than tetris. It's main draw is it's massive freedom, it's not just massive buildings that you see from the video, but every individual block has it's own function and properties, and you can combine these blocks for not just visual flair, but sometimes for practical effect. The things you can do in this game is mind-boggling, and people all over the world are still sharing new things they've built, or found to this day, and into the foreseeable future.
I finished your book! I was reading it all day today. Part way in and I just couldn't stop reading. Now I need to go back and read the first two again. Looking forward to the sequel, clearly so much more to go! It shined a real light on the first two books, and reading them I think I will understand more about this one as well. You did a fantastic job of interweaving the stories, making them stand on their own but with so much more going on than you can ever understand reading just one book.
Basically, 2b2t is a world where anything goes including unpatched glitches. It has some of the largest and most impressive builds anywhere in spite of the fact that weeks or even years worth of work can quite easily be wiped out by griefers while they're away to sleep. There's a guy here on UA-cam called FitMC whose whole channel is just documenting the history of 2b2t. You should check it out sometime. Even if you're not into Minecraft, it's still wildly interesting.
A channel you might enjoy reacting to is "Press Start to Laugh". They do parody videos where they voice the silent protagonists of games and go on adventures, usually adding a comedic spin to the events of the game. For example, they've done "What if Steve Talked in Minecraft", "What if You Talked in Subnautica?" and "What If Doom Guy Talked in Doom?" They don't really require a lot of foreknowledge to understand the videos, so even a non-gamer like you would be able to enjoy them! If you do decide to give the channel a shot, then I'd start with "What if Miles Talked in Outlast?" There are only two episodes for it, so it's short, its story is complete so you won't have to wait for a new episode, and it's a good representation of the sort of comedy you can expect.
In minecraft is creative mode and survival mode In creative mode you have acces to every block, you can fly, and can even make use of commands to place many blocks at once in rudimentary shapes In survival mode you have to mine and or craft every block you want to place, you also have to survive the dangers of monsters, fall damage, and hunger and such.
Minecraft is one of the best games to play if you're just getting into games, it's more than just building stuff but that's basically the jist of it, I'd say to might want to start with creative mode as that is just building stuff without the survival aspect
@@HannaHsOverInvested well in survival mode you have to do things like eat sleep and build shelter and defend yourself from monsters and mine and gather recourses
Minecraft All kinds of buildings can be created, and events such as graduation ceremonies can be held. Because of the epidemic, the school cannot hold graduation ceremonies, and then there are student proposals.Minecraft hold a graduation ceremony
Minecraft can be fun, but is very simple and open, so it helps to have a goal. Now, there is a mode for the game where you can do more than just create. It’s called Survival mode, and the object is the same as creative mode, only the blocks aren’t just given to you. You have to find what you are looking for and deal with various monsters that want to kill you, including one that explodes in close proximity, which damages not just you, but blocks up to a 5-block radius around it. Ultimately, the game is for people to have fun and be creative with. If you have the imagination for it, you can craft just about anything. But you’ve already seen that.
Many who build such structures in Minecraft use game modifications like "world edit" where you can copy and paste things you've build first. Means, you build a wall for example, copy that wall with some commands and then paste it where ever you want it to place. You can also twist and turn it to your own liking. Although you have to be in "creative mode" in the game. Otherwise it would take you years in real time to complete it on your own without help. With creative mode and "world edit"-mod it's aprox. some days to a few weeks. Depends on how much time you have to play the game.
The two modes are creative and survival. Survival is where you have to...survive. Eat, build a shelter, survive at night from creatures like zombies, spiders and skeletons. Creative is where you basically a god mode where you can build anything without the worry of having to survive. Sometimes you can go on servers hosted by other people. Sometimes the host can set rules to keep people from destroying their creations. Sometimes it a free for all and you can mess with whatever you want. In short Minecraft Is a simple game but it can be as complex as you make it.
I didn't see many comments on the Anarchy Server part. For anyone wondering, an anarchy server literally allows for all exploits, hacks, grief inducing trolling, and other hardships. It is extremely common to kill other players, destroy their homes, and otherwise make their life as hard as possible. The fact that these things that take hundreds upon hundreds of hours to create, and stand to be destroyed in a day puts them on par with the sidewalk or sand mosaics that are crafted in such a way that they are absolutely going to be destroyed, yet they go back anyway.
Something that I think isn't stressed enough is the fact that a lot of the larger builds shown in the video most certainly use World Edit (and/or its derivatives/equivalents). It is a plugin (community-created tool) that allows you to... well... edit a Minecraft world on _really_ large scales. Not only does it allow you to copy-paste huge chunks of blocks wherever you want, or fill in large volumes or various shapes with specific blocks, but it even allows you to procedurally generate epic terrain from sets of parameters and prefabs. Yeah, it's pretty powerful.
So minecraft is normally a simple survival sandbox game. That means you manage your hunger, try not to die and make a small base. What made this game special, is that you can place any block anywhere, which is NOT common for games. Games usually define rules like, you cant build here because it doesn't make sense, or it's not efficient, but minecraft was not like that. You can make an upside down house, a flying tree, open a huge hole in a mountain and build the mcdonalts, make an underwater city, any block, ANYWHERE. Even among "builders" there are many different styles. Architecture, Interior design, Terraforming, Sculptures and my favorite RED STONES. Redstone is an ingame interpretation of electricity. A button connected with a line of redstone to a door. You press the button, the signal moves to the door and the door opens. Aaaand people start making functional transistors in game, which means calculators and compturers in their most raw form. It's can get REALLY crazy.
I recommend watching the original Minecraft trailer from 2011. I think it perfectly captures the feelings of Minecraft, short, wondrous, optimistic, and endlessly adventurous.
I've been reluctant to even look at minecraft despite being an avid gamer since 20y, until I gave it a go three years ago. I've been hooked ever since and will be for a long time. The thing with minecraft is that it carries endless possibilities that are only limited by your own imagination. There is no wrong way to play the game and ultimately only has the goal of having fun exactly the way YOU want to...
Some context about 2B2T, its a Multiplayer server where anyone can join from anywhere and do what ever they want, most minecraft servers nowdays have rules and programms+people to protect what others have build etc. 2B2T doesnt have any of that and sadly in Minecraft(and also in most other games) people exist that just like to destroy stuff especially if someone else build it. Well on 2b2t since there is no one watching over the buildings and there are no rules many go there just to destroy and keeping even a very small building standing is almost impossible, thats why its so impressive that those huge buildings survived for 8 years.
Minecraft was a tech demo of sorts by Swedish Developer called Notch (Markus Persson is his real name) He used whats called a "VOxels" engine to simulate well...3d terrains, first linear and one dimensional, then with more complexity like mountains, chasmes, caves, rivers etc. All all this is Procedurialy generated, so each time someone starts a New game, its a completly different and unique world. After a while he decided to make his work available to poeple it was the "Devs " version of the game, the "game" has gone through MANY iterations through the years, (the "game" was made in 2009...) From Devs, to Alpha build, then Beta and finaly the full release, and even then, eversince, the team behind the game is still developping new features for it. After a while Notch implented the "Survival" mode, where the player takes control of a character, and you have to survive and then thrive. You collect ressources, that you can use to craft gear and items and build construction and devices. Ther's a day & night cycle and at night Monsters spawns, wich the player can choose to fight, or simply wait in his Construction during the night, till they all get burned by the sun light. After some years Notch sold the game to Microsoft for 2.5 billion$ iirc. The game became an instant hit with people, and to this day, it is till one of the most well knowed, popular and played games. A whole culture and genre as been kickstarted by Minecraft. While the Survival Open world genre wasn't really new, Minecraft actually brought people who had no interest in such games to the genre, the survivla open world genre is still one of the major gaming genres, and MANY tried to emulate if not down right copy minecraft, but never met the same succes. There is LOTS of things to do in minecraft and the game versatility and freedom of creativity, lets people runnign wild with their imagination. If you never heard about minecraft, your cave must have been a real comfy and cozy one ;p
So in survival minecraft, you have to break and place each block you build with. You have limited amounts and have to gather more. Creative you can fly around with an infinite amount.
Minecraft is a game about surviving in a rural, fantasy wilderness but everything is life-size legos you can build stuff with. This is the main "Survival Mode". In 'Survival' you must mine/harvest all you materials by hand before you can use them to build anything. There's also a "Creative Mode" where you can build without limitations or any of the survival mechanics. You simply have an infinite supply of any block, and you can literally fly around to place them. You can play either mode in either single player or public multiplayer servers. Most multiplayer servers have protections programmed in to keep people from destroying everything or even limit it to only allowing specific people to join. However "anarchy servers" intentionally omit those protections and invite anyone to come in and do as they please. "2B2T" is the name of a particularly popular anarchy server. There's not really a story per say in Minecraft, but there are subtle implications of some lore in the enemies' and world's designs. Apart from a couple of mostly optional boss fights, there's very little in the way of a goal other than surviving and creating. Its a very 'make your own story' approach. A MASSIVE online community, multiple subcultures, an entire new lexicon of jargon, and even cottage industries have formed around this game. However I couldn't even begin to explain any of that in detail if I wanted to; those rabbit holes go DEEP...
Cool vid but yeah not great for a first timer. Minecraft time lapses are a cool place to see builds, but there are so many more showcasing quests, story, combat, survival, gathering, crafting, challenges, parties, even making computers and video screens in the game using Redstone (minecraft electricity) etc. Hermitcraft is a fun series with a huge community
This video highlights buildings or areas more than anything else. But there are builds that are incredible for their functionality and ingenuity. 10:31 To understand the real magic of minecraft you have to play it and get into it, it's difficult to explain. Minecraft has two basic modes, creative and survival. I personally prefer survival mode. You start with zero resources and the goal is to gradually find them and use them in creative ways to survive and grow until you get to reach all parts of the game (which includes traveling to different dimensions, finding hidden strongholds and killing a dragon, among other things). What that looks like varies a lot depending on the area you choose to settle in and work from. There is a great variety of resources you can find in different biomes (with different climates, plants, animals and enemies), in an infinite world. There is also an ending in survival mode (killing the dragon), but it's not really an ending, because you can continue playing after that. So each game can have a different objective for you. It can be what you make it. There are many rules to the game, which limit the things you can do. But inside those rules you have a lot of leeway to be creative and inventive. If you learn how the world works you can come up with different ideas to make those rules work in your favor, which can be a very enjoyable experience. You spend hours figuring out ways to use the specific, limited resources you have in the best way possible to achieve your goals, and making the world cozy for you. As the in-game days and nights go by you experience different terrains, climates, enemies and you hear the sounds of the world and the sporadic music of the game, while you explore or work on your stuff. It can be very immersive. After a while you look at the things you made and it feels like it's your home, because you earned it. The whole experience becomes nostalgic in your memory.
And remember it has two mode which is Survival and Creative: Survival mode is where the player must collect resources, build structures while surviving in their generated world. You can interact with the local villagers, and at night defend against mobs that attack on sight. Creative mode is one of the main game modes in Minecraft. Creative mode strips away the survival aspects of Minecraft and allows players to easily create and destroy structures and mechanisms with the inclusion of an infinite use of blocks and flying. It also changes some of the background music.
for someone who knows nothing about minecraft. watching a video of amazing builds wont sell you on it or teach you too much about the game. for me i grew up with it during a time on youtube where it was everywhere. for some, the best experience you can have with it is just jumping in blind and learning the game for yourself. for others, they see it as a simple game which is overhyped and dont understand why. minecraft is/was a big part of alot of people growing up so i hope this video alone doesnt put you off from it.
Minecraft is actually about Building and Exploration, there is also Combat in the game but that is very basic due to the game being more about the first two, it sounds unappealing but the simplistic nature of the game tends to get more people hooked on it rather than not.
Building mega structures is incredibly satisfying, I'm one of those castle people who end up clearing away mountains so I can make a foundation... by hand, no creative mode, I make my bricks and water ways with rocks and buckets! With a graphics pack the sound of your gpu filing for abuse and divorce is no longer as hard to deal with at times.
Well, this was the building comunity of minecraft, and there are other incredible parts of this game like the redstone community(redstone components like pistons, doors, droppers etc are mechanisms that are powered by redstone energy which is basically electricity but in other form). Minecraft must be one of the best games in the world as there are a lot of ways you can see this game. I don't know the names of the people who made this project, but my guys made a 4 core PC in minecraft on a PC. Thanks for the reaction, I'm glad one more person knows more about this game.
Survival vs creative explained Survival: Survival is a game mode that revolves around actually and actively creating tools out of materials generated by a world's individual "seed" a seed is essentially a randomly generated world that constitutes the player's experience. However every seed comes with every geological biome known throughout the world in real life; (Tundra, Savanna, Deserts, Rainforest, etc) Survival is the "hardcore" mode where players have to use raw materials of the world to create and forge tools and individual material blocks. Each tool has a decay rate based on usage and will eventually break with constant use. Pickaxes will deteriorate in health when not properly maintained. Same with shovels, swords, gardening hoes etc. Each tool like in real life excel at different jobs. Pickaxes as you'd expect would be suited to breaking rock, ore, and overall mining. Shovels excel in digging dirt, sand and other soft areas (you get it). Digging into rock with a shovel would naturally take longer, same going for a pickaxe digging into sand. The survival builds are so impressive because they went out for hours and hours on end actually digging up the resources, forging the stone, metal, glass etc, and building from the ground up. Even seasoned players can take several hours of grinding to build a decent sized player home for them to live in. All this work revolves around the concept of the completion of the game's "story" and end game goal of defeating the "Ender Dragon" Creative: Creative is the game mode for players who simply want to make dumb creations, blow stuff up, experiment, build your dream house, and just screw around. You're given almost all the same tools that the developers have to do whatever your heart desires. No grinding for materials, just full creative freedom. People are exceedingly creative and have come up with some of the most ingenious of inventions that are basically life hacks that players can use for themselves. Engineers, artists, and little kids have a particular fondness of this mode. Minecraft is no epic story, has no plot to follow, no lore, no character development, no "anything" that other games have. But it remains in the heart of many people as one of the best games ever created.
Yes, you can create a story in Minecraft and a whole world for it if you want to. There is a lot of stuff you can do and its even more impressive when in survival mode (without cheats) when you create what you want. Some people have made a series using minecraft as the way to create it and tell a story.
Minecraft is.... interesting. I never cared to play it, but seeing what other players can do is astonishing. I don't have the patience or the creativity that some people have to accomplish what they have with the game.
2b2t is the name of a server. Anarchy means that there are NO RULES, meaning that even hacking is allowed. The server is known for being completely destroyed. If a base lasted 8 years in that server, then it means that someone went to great lengths to hide it frem everyone else.
Minecraft to me is a tool that just also happens to be an adventure sandbox game for you creative concepts. It has many useful facets. Minecraft stands on it's own as a game and there is a lot to learn about how to play in survival alone. To me the killer app is using it as an educational tool for pretty much any academic. It would be an excellent platform to be a training tool for architecture, any kinds of art studies, earth sciences and geometry which you can demonstrate by typing in mathematical formulas while the game is running to have it render geometrical shapes. There is even a way to learn about electronics. The game has it's own form of 'wires' and components activated by a power source. Then if you look under hood of the games code, you can take it much further. What that means is altering the games appearance or behavior to get it to what you need to do. This would be good to learn about programming and is on the administrative side of things. You can create your own mods. Or use mods other people made to add to the game for any number of uses. It would be a good skill to learn when you want to create your own Minecraft server which involves a lot of technical skill, depending on how serious you want to get. There is potential make Minecraft a business for yourself, not with just running a server, but creating your own merch to coincide with the server you run. These are just a handful of ideas I can come up with that you can do.
It is like Legos. Depending on how you want to play the sandbox which is only limited by your imagination. Each block needs a certain tool to break it but tools break and you have to put in some hours to even do simple stuff. You can die pretty quickly from the creatures in this game and each thing in this game really needs you to have an understanding of how even the tools work. So doing stuff in creative is much easier. Some love a challenge and decided to only do it in survival. You have to cook food and fight till the end to fight the ender dragon. You can blow up anything and make almost anything. It can get pretty complicated and redstone is like machine stuff. I thought when I started playing this game that is was a baby game. This sandbox game especially when you look into lore. There are seed codes that you can use to even experience other kinds of worlds in other people games. PVP and funny stuff you can do in this game. Arguably it is a tough game to play and people created this stuff. Think about it like this. They practically did the equivalent of building an actual building over hours of picking up items and digging and trading. The lore makes this game not a kids game even though it is still a sandbox game. Also if you die without knowing your game, you lose all your stuff and have to start over in another area unless you have coordinates. I literally had valuable stuff mining for hours and got lost trying to get back to my base and a creature called a creeper which blows up if you are too close to it blew me up. I didn't set my respawn point and got launched to a random spot with no tools and had to start over again. I lost all the items and it took hours to cross the areas back to base if that gives you an idea. I never consider this a baby game again 😂 These people creating this stuff probably took forever. Even at great heights you can die from falling like any other game. It makes you regret your decisions as you get more skills
Minecraft is a game with no story you just go out and make your own goals to build whatever you want. Imagine playing with life size legos in a world where monsters come out at night and portals to hell.
6:40 I play on this server. Essentially it's a server that has no rules you can attack and steal from anyone you can blow anything you want up. You can build whatever you want where ever you want however big you want it. It puts into play real life aspects such as civilizations, groups, sometimes governments. I like to think of it as Rome great cities are built but with time they are destroyed. It's a very cool concept but at times can be toxic. The server at this point has been running for nearly 12 years on the same map. I've seen many impressive things built there the server itself attracts builders who build for the fun of it. Some bases are created by groups that in a way act as their own governments it's really neat. I am friends with some of the builders of MU they really accomplished something amazing. Minecraft is basically player made history similarly to real life human made history.
I didn't get Minecraft at first either. I thought, So all you do is farm, mine, build, and fight the occasional enemy? Then I realized that was all I was really doing on my Conan: Exiles server for years, then I kind of got it.
Mu Megabase was basically built in the middle of a warzone, anything described as an anachy server means any chaos goes, Some of these long term builds are more exceptional when you find out that certain updates destroyed servers and builds to the point of full data wipes over those 8 years.
Someone described Minecraft to me in two words:
*INFINITY LEGO*
It is certainly apt.
Omg that makes a lot of sense to me.
@@HannaHsOverInvested, Minecraft has changed a lot over the years. Nowadays, there are practically quests, there's a merchant/trading system, there's a village raid defense system, there's magic and enchantments, and many _many_ types of hostile creatures. Back when I started, it was mostly just Lego, and that's still my preferred way to play.
To anyone who reads this comment and wants to try Minecraft for the first time, I highly recommend starting with Java Edition version 1.11.2. This is the last version to not include a recipe book (a book which automatically shows you how to make something when you get all the ingredients). Instead, there are Achievements in the main menu which sort of give you hints. (1) Open your inventory. (2) Get Wood. (3) Build a crafting table. Etc. This is still what I think of when I think "Minecraft", where the "game" part is mostly the puzzle of figuring out how to craft things.
@@El_Rey_247 U still can play without the book. And i don't even think it's expanded at the start. So u can still play later version with new mobs, more "quests" etc without going back that much in time.
+ Let ppl play minecraft how they want xd I don't even know if new player would know how to change version of minecraft D:
@@MyaMore-cb7zb, No, there's a very particular experience of discovering recipes that is robbed with the vanilla recipe book experience. It _is_ possible to achieve the result I want with newer JE Minecraft, but to do that you need to use console commands.
First you grant all the recipe advancements. Then you take away all the recipes. After that, the recipe for an item only unlocks when you get that item, either by crafting it or by finding it in the world. In my opinion, this is ideal because you will still be able to use the recipe to speed up crafting, but you need to first discover the recipe by "inventing" it (crafting it) or "reverse-engineering" it (finding the crafted item in the world).
Also, the reason I suggest the older Achievements system as opposed to the newer Advancements system is because in the Achievements system had smaller steps for the early game. It kinda falls apart after the early game, but for someone's first-time experience, I think the early game is the important part.
@@El_Rey_247 Although I miss the old system too, the new system is much more new-player friendly. Don't forget that Minecraft's first ever reason of being invented was because it wanted to inspire creativity (Hence the oldest builds of the game, only having creative) it was meant to inspire people into creating new things, which was accomplished, the players during this time made pixel art, houses, etc. and made the very first Minecraft Mini-game, Spleef. Now that there is a Recipe book, that inspires new players into having ideas and such of the sort, even in survival. Literally just watch any 2019-2022 "First Minecraft Letsplay" video (Even though these videos are at least 2 years apart from when the recipe book was first added, this was when Minecraft had it's revival). Although you may like challenges and such based on your comments, Minecraft's already given players enough challenges, it's just creativity that they need more of (Not that it never had creativity, just now, there will be more).
Context for HannaH:
Blocks within Minecraft have a 1m x 1m x 1m dimension. So its 1 meter in length, width, and height. So this lets build sizes become extremely impressive.
The game has 3 general modes of play: Creative, Survival, and Hardcore. Creative gives the player access to all blocks, unlimited resources, instant breaking of blocks and flight; most builds are made in Creative for the sake of building.
Survival makes it so the player has a health bar, hunger, respawn, tools/armor have durability, tools are needed to collect materials, blocks you place must be collected first so a tree must be cut down for wood, etc.
Hardcore is like Survival but makes it so the player is locked onto the hardest difficulty setting and 1 life, so if the player dies the world is then deleted.
In the beginning parts of the video showing the 2 temples are naturally generated structures in your world that hold loot.
The Uncensored Library is unique with the fact that news articles, and even some books are copied onto in-game books. Players can access these articles to learn about uncensored news information especially in countries with heavily censored media.
Philza is a Minecraft youtuber who's greatest achievement is within his Hardcore series. He's had several HC series and the most famous one was how he played in his hardcore world for 5 years, with builds such as the Sea temple having a barrier around it with vegetation and a floating island above it in the middle of the ocean, and the middle of the ocean he brought to another dimension and flooded it, with a custom made ocean with a dragon skeleton in the center. He did all of this in his HC world for 5 YEARS until he got killed by a baby zombie, spider and skeleton...
2b2t, oh boy. 2b2t is infamous as an Anarchy survival server meaning that there are no rules. Not just conventional we can steal from other players, blow up their bases and killing players whenever but actual wall hacks, flying, x-rays and duplication of items type illegal. Player toxicity is known with frequent griefing (killing players and blowing stuff up), player slavery (they made players collect resources for them) and swastikas (don't ask, idk why either). But to ask why players blow up bases in 2b2t is that that is part of why players play. There are no rules and so everyone plays how they wish, and when you build a beautiful base you will have to acknowledge that it will be destroyed eventually, no exceptions but it is part of server history seeing ruins of what players have made in the game.
The $250 scam referred in the video is that one of Jeracraft's subscribers payed $250 for a world transformation from an online builder (you pay people money online, you send them a copy of the world folder and they build in it then send that world file back to you) and the builder just made very bad copy+pastes onto the world, some are even builds from Jeracraft you can find online. Jera then took it upon himself to redo the entire world for the subscriber FOR FREE.
hacks are allowed on 2b2t
@@WasephWastar All of them, in fact
10:30
"So you build a thing, and then you go look at the thing"
Well...
Yeah...
That's pretty much human nature...
Almost as if 6.8 trillion dollar business revolves around sightseeing/tourism
I mean, unless they put a copy out for people to download, then the possibilities are endless
It is like writing books. You build a thing, in this case a story, and then you want others to look at the thing you built. Human nature.
3:44 - Yes, block by block. Although some creators use tools or AI assistants. Most Minecraft players use PC or Xbox.
7:00 - Most servers protect things built by their players and have rules about breaking stuff. Anarchy servers have no rules or protection.
7:34 - 2B2T is the name of a server. It's the longest running anarchy server. Crazy place to play Minecraft.
8:55 - The build survived for 8 years on a server with no rules. That's 8 years of trying to not get destroyed so, there's history there.
10:12 - He's talking about people sending their worlds to famous builders so they can make them look better.
12:44 - That's the sun.
Cheers! Thanks for checking out another one of my favorite games, Hannah. :)
In TrixyBlox's case, he does use tools like WorldEdit to make his structures; but it's mostly just for basic shapes of huge buildings, terraforming, and copy pasting stuff in large quantities. He still makes the details and stuff block by block, though.
Minecraft has 2 main modes, survival and creative.
Creative: let's you fly around, you don't get hurt, and can create any block of any type at will.
Survival: you have health and can die, dropping everything on you when you do. You need to collect or create blocks you wish to use, and cannot fly without late-game items.
Generally when people build extravagant projects on Minecraft, they do so in creative because of the ludicrous time needed to collect everything otherwise. Others like the challenge of survival projects, and they're usually well respected because of this.
Another game mode mentioned is Hardcore. It is a specific kind of survival game. A hardcore world is one where, when you die, you don't come back to life. So anything you have built or were building cannot be accessed.
Minecraft has been around for ages and probably will continue to be popular, as its literally digital lego with crafting and survival elements. Also zombies and skeletons and other monsters come for you at night. And hell exists, which you can access through a portal. And the void exists. Ditto.
I've never made a creative mode game and built a pretty decent sized castle in survival 150X100 (give or take) with a curtain wall (complete with machicolations crenellations and merlons) of 300X200 with drum towers, and square towers and cannons that project outwards to fire dynamite. A bustling market square and a throne room whose floor consists entirely of Diamond blocks (that took FOREVER) with a 40X30 map wall behind the throne, red carpet and 8 statues with full enchanted netherite armor lining the carpet in a defensive manner. I mined so much Netherrack, I had 16 furnaces running pretty much at all times to make an underground nether fortress right alongside my overworld fortress. You don't wanna know how much kelp I had to burn to create it because I had to burn kelp to make kelp blocks to put into my furnaces to burn kelp as well as netherrack. I had 5 automatic kelp farms and sometimes i'd just let them do their thing for my 8 hours at work. It's a nice fortress and I spent about a year on it. P.S. whoever created creepers needs to be shot.
Short version: it's legos
Long version: the world is randomly generated and made out of different kinds of blocks, you mine blocks to craft tools to mine better blocks, theres creatures that give you food and fur, at night and in dark caves there's monsters (spiders and skeletons)
In sandbox mode it's just the short version
0:17 - 0:20 a writer just writes things on a page, a builder just builds.
both "just create" whatever they want and the rest of us are all better for it.
It can be difficult to appreciate Minecraft builds until you have played yourself.
You start with nothing, cut down some trees, and build your own first little hut and then it clicks.
12:43 The sun LMAO! Remember that everything is square shapped xD
😬😬🤣
"So you build a thing, and then you go look at things"
^me looking at "fine art"
Ah, Minecraft. I was waiting for this day....
I hope this video was everything you dreamed it would be haha
so the big glowing square in the sky near the end of the video you asked about is the sun. in minecraft there is a day/night system as well as a hunger and combat system, it is in effect a full rpg, just with a massive building element. its also why doing something like those builds in "survival" mode is much more impressive then "creative mode" as you cant fly in survival mode (atleast not easily) and you need constant supplies to keep building (manually gathering every block) it would be like if you crashed on an island and then built an entire massive city using only the stuff around while also feeding and taking care of yourself. hardcore is even more insane, as all that was done on one life, if you die the world file is deleted and that progress is lost.
It’s like asking people why they like making model planes or carving statues . Personal satisfaction and fun . It’s a hobby. Also something you can do with people all over the world
Some info for the non-gamers: When he says you can do anything in Minecraft, he's not exaggerating. But, the default game mode for Minecraft is Survival. You have nothing and can die. You work your way up to bigger and better things by making tools out of better materials so you can get better materials. IE: use wooden tools to mine stone and make stone tools that can be used to mine iron. So on and, so forth.
Or, you can play creative and have access to an infinite supply of any block or material in the game. You can fly and you won't take damage. Regardless of the game mode you still spawn a virtually infinite, random world with physics, biomes, animals, plants, the works. There's even villages and villagers. Also, the game is available on pretty much anything with a screen.
My wife and I have run a Minecraft server since the beta was released so I couldn't help but say something. It's strange to me that Minecraft has become known as this kid's game. Especially considering how dark it originally was. My wife used to call it "Adult Legos". LoL :)
"Adult Legos" I like that
Anything. You can add mods, plugins and texture packs to for example recreate GTA with realistic graphics if your PC can handle that of course
2:10 "Can you tell a story?"
8:50 "What do you mean a history?"
12:44 That's called the Sun Hannah lol
Well excuse me, I have the audacity to think the sun was round🤣🤣🤣
@@HannaHsOverInvested Nothing is round in Minecraft.
@@HannaHsOverInvested True Minecraft is pretty weird lol
You should check out these fun Minecraft videos one where he completes the how the developers intended and one where each time he takes damage the game becomes more realistic.
Beating Minecraft the Way Mojang Intended It:ua-cam.com/video/0jrkmjfiaIg/v-deo.html
If I Take Damage Minecraft Gets More Realistic: ua-cam.com/video/2VChmqZ9RcE/v-deo.html
I don't play it, but my two favourites (admittedly both for nostalgia reasons lol) is a tie between the person who built the Starship Enterprise, and someone who built Redwall Abbey in Minecraft
Cool!
Minecraft is a survival sandbox. The game has no real objectives, while there is an option to "beat" the game in defeating a monster called the Ender Dragon you can pretty much do whatever you want in the game. You wanna live a humble life in the forest with a dog? Sure. You wanna turn everything you see into a giant base? Go right ahead. You wanna get a group of friends and do all of those things and more? There's no limit to what you can do. It came out over 10 years ago and is still one of the most popular games of all time and many people spent their teens or younger playing it. It has its problems regarding fanbases, like a lot of popular franchises, but many can't deny the impact that it's had and the memories it created for so many.
There might be a better video, but if you're curious to learn more about why Minecraft is so special to some people I recommend watching jschlatt's video called "A Tribute to Minecraft", it's the video that blew him up and it sums up the game pretty well. Even though the game was going through a rough patch at the time the video was made, but it's bouncing back and I'm happy for it. :)
Wow, those are some amazing builds!
And my apologies to Denmark. The movie was right, some people just want to watch the world burn!
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Wait...Kerrigan? From Starcraft?
RIGHT!! I thought I recognized her.
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Oh man Hannah... The stories that can be told using Minecraft... it’s just unbelievable.
Lesson learned from the video: if anarchists come along to blow up your house, just sink it to the bottom of the ocean. Is Elon Musk taking notes?
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2:14 "Can you tell a story?" Yes, yes you can. I have a world that I play with my brothers, where we've written constitutions, created a religion, and so much more. I've written thousands of words for a newsletter in the world, detailing the world events. Minecraft really is just a platform, and you are almost only ever limited by your own imagination.
The difference between creative and survival mode is that, in creative mode, you are basically immortal, capable of flight and can utilize infinite quantities of the various types of blocks.
It's basically painting/building with infinite legos.
Survival mode, on the other hand, is what it says on the tin. You are an actual character in a world with an inventory, equipment, a health bar and a need for food in an active world inhabited by animals and monsters that features a day and night cycle.
The only blocks you get to build with are blocks you harvest or craft yourself, using a set of progressively more useful (and hard to craft/source) tools, all of which have durability that declines as you use them until they eventually break.
The same goes for armor (which you'll definitely need). If it gets hit, its durability declines. On long expeditions or during tough encounters you may find yourself stripped of your armor and best weapons, scrabbling to escape with your life as your food and health run out, your last torch a distant memory, running through dark tunnels to the sound of skeletons and zombies in hot pursuit.
A build in survival mode is much more impressive because you don't just summon blocks from nothingness, you built up a shelter to survival, planted food to feed your belly and heal you, craft equipment and potions to survive a landscape that contains hostile monsters and to harvest materials and then process these materials into the building blocks you need for your projects.
It's also worth noting that not all blocks in Minecraft are created equal. Some can be found or made with minimum effort (wood, for example, is a renewable resource because you can replant trees and clear-cut periodically) while others require you to travel to various biomes or dangerous locations to find. Some are even guarded by dangerous monsters. Death in Minecraft can mean losing all of your items and respawning somewhere far away from whatever it is you found and got killed trying to grab. If you're particularly unlucky you may even fail to locate your base or quarry and be forced to start over from scratch.
An ANARCHY server is just about one of the most challenging types of survival environments to just live in, much less build. They're usually servers that anyone is allowed to enter and mess around in as they please.
This means a lot of people will see absolutely nothing wrong with taking apart your projects to take the resources used to construct it, to steal your equipment and supplies or even to blow your entire base and anything built upon or contained within it sky high just for fun and to aggravate you.
Having an impressive build at all on a survival anarchy server is no mean feat. Having one as impressive and labour-intensive as the ones shown and keeping it in spotless condition through god knows how many griefing attempts over years?
Yeah, that's pretty damn good.
Minecraft boggles my mind.
Or rather, the stuff people can build in it.
It is similar to how I just cannot grasp how a painter just goes from having a white canvas to having a painted scenery. I wouldn't know where to start!
Or you Hannah as an author, I can write a page or two but I have no clue how to formulate a full book. I can have a scene or two in my mind, but I don't have a full story. Minecraft is creative artistry on a really cool level! People can do amazing stuff as you have seen in the video, and the servers can even be amazing societal places like the Uncensored Library they mentioned.
It is just down to the imaginenation of the people involved, how much time they have and how much their computers can handle that limits the builds!
It's a bit short for this channel and 10 years old, but the official Minecraft trailer is something you need to see before anything else Minecraft related. It might help demonstrate how extraordinary the builds you just saw really are.
People mostly play minecraft on the PC. But it is available on basically any platform
Context for Philza. He played on a minecraft game for 5 years with only one life. If he died even once it would all be gone. He survived and played for 5 years. Collected all of the resources and built everything manually on his pc. You should check out the Legend of Philza. It goes more into just how impressive his level of work is.
The square in the sky is Minecrafts interpretation of the sun
2:14 "Can you tell a story?" Yes. Yes you can
im 80% of the way through dominion required. so far so good
Thank you so much for reading!
Examples for the many things you can do in Minecraft:
You could beat the game, because it has an end goal. But you don't have to.
Some people just like to build. For example, there is a server currently where a lot of people together are building the entirety of "Middle Earth" from "The Lord of The Rings".
There are people that try to beat the game as fast as possible. Some people just play survival mode forever and build their own world (houses, landscape and so on).
Some people like to build working machines with "Redstone".
Some people just like to fight each other in mini games (like Mario Party for example) on "Player vs Player" servers (online).
Some other people like to create “Mods” that modify the game in new cool ways that can change completely how the game feels.
And other people like to create “functions” based modifications to the game which can be compared to in-game programming which often has the same effect as (people that make) “Mods” have on the game.
In summary: You can basically do whatever you want.
And the game is still getting updates for free, btw.
Why do people blow things up? Because we are ape.
The satisfaction of creation is only matched by the exhilaration of destruction. We crave a power to exert over others in our darkest moments, and when given the freedom to do so, are compelled to do so. It is the curse we have suffered from Adam on down.
And so it shall be.
Asking why is silly. Why not? It's fun.
Edit: 10% of the time, she looks like she's in awe of these accomplishments.
The other 90% of the time, she just looks confused.
I don't get how.
Edit 2: "So you build a thing... and then you look at the thing." ... Yup. That's not really confusing. That's like saying "So you draw a thing... and then you look at the thing.", or replace that with write.
Thank you UA-cam for not registering my comment -.- Here we go again:
Minecraft
Basic goal of the game is acquiring and placing cube blocks. Overall game in basic form doesn't recognize other shapes than square and rectangle.
Game itself consists of 2 modes: creative and survival
Creative mode is basically Lego building. It gives you access to every single block from game in infinite amount, allows you to fly freely and only imagination is your limit.
While placing block in creative mode manually one by one is ok, advanced builders developed special tools - either as plugins for game or completely external applications that allow for more advanced placing of blocks. Like for example creating templates of structures to paste them in or have special brushes to "paint" selected blocks over large area. Other example are application that change colors of selected picture into Minecraft blocks, which allows recreation of those images inside game.
Minecraft due to the way how it's made allows for very large range of modifications.
Survival mode is what you'd expect from standard game. Your character is bound to the ground, gravity exists, you cannot fly freely and world is populated by neutral creatures (villagers, traders, domestic animals, like horses, cows, pigs, cats) and hostile creatures (skeletons, zombies, spiders, other unique for Minecraft creatures and there's even something like end boss - dragon). You can craft items (pickaxes, shovels, swords, armor, etc.), gather and place blocks, catch fish, grow crops, produce food, etc. Fight with other creatures or if it's multiplayer also other players using swords, TNT or even lava and other means. Day/night cycle is important along with eating and sleeping.
If you want to build anything here you have to acquire manually proper materials first - mine them, grow them or find them in abandoned mines. Because of that while great projects constructed in creative mode are amazing, anything created on grand scale in survival mode in legitimate way is even more impressive. Because you know it took effort and time of placing blocks one by one.
Overall game changed a lot from it's earliest releases in 2009 with only creative mode and 16 blocks available. It's been in constant development since then. In my opinion biggest addition was "electricity" along with conduits and logic gates. In survival mode it allows for creating automated facilities like foundries, farms or even industry scale "excavators". In creative mode it allows you to basically buid processors if you know how to design it, which then allows to emulate computers inside games. Though of course scale is the limit and you probably won't see more than advanced calculators ;)
As for devices on which you can play Minecraft - computers (Windows and Apple), phones (Android and Apple) and game consoles (xbox, Playstation, Nintendo Switch). Versions available for each device may differ but in the end it's still Minecraft.
Regarding to 2b2t - it's anarchy server running in survival mode. Anarchy means that there're no rules. No at all. You can do anything you want in game, which includes attacking other players and destroying whatever they created. Using hacked game clients is also allowed. Those clients allows cheating - your character can move faster than normal, fly freely, you have advantages in combat, you can detect other players and creatures around you, provides x-ray vision, aura that damages everyone around you and many more. Because of that if you want to actually build anything on this server you have to be very lucky to not be discovered, probably use hacked client yourself and be skilled enough to defend yourself. If anyone notices your base and shares coordinates with other players, they will most likely flock there to destroy it beyond any recognition. So any construction that is able to survive for longer than few weeks is considered very successful. Also core community on this server is considered very toxic.
Fun fact - in the past some of the players were able to even get unauthorized access to admin rights through various exploits. Or run hacking operation for years that tracked movement of every player on server.
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"So you build a thing, and then you go and look at things"
Well, that how art works ;) Minecraft in that area is similar to paintings or sculptures :)
Key terms:
Survival - Minecraft's most famous game mode, you spawn in a random world, build a house, gather resources and prepare for the night, when the monsters will come for you.
Creative - Minecraft's builder friendly game mode. Are you tired of the hassle of collecting resources, killing monsters and having to constantly eat to survive, only to die to monsters? Creative mode gives you infinite resources, no need for food, no monsters if you don't want them, and flying so your building is even easier.
Hardcore - Survival on steroids, same premise as og survival, but monsters deal more damage and you only have one life. After that, say goodbye to your world.
Anarchy Server - A server where people play with no rules and, therefore, acts such as indiscriminate killing, figthing, looting and destruction are just a part of the experience.
2B2T - Minecraft's oldest anarchy server, famous of its long history with so many people coming and going, so many bases being created and destroyed, so many players making a name for themselves as incredible fighters and builders, only to disappear from the server forever.
How can a minecraft world/server have a history? - People love videogames, we spend so much time playing them that events unfold even in games where there isn't an imposed narrative (Minecraft has one but its very subtle and not particularly complex). When we say "history", we mean all those events and highlights that marked the experience of the server forever for other players. "That one time the most long lasting base was destroyed" is an example of that. History is not only imposed narrative, but also events directly related to player experience.
I didn't even know there were monsters
Quick explanation: Minecraft is a singleplayer game but it also can be a multiplayer game. Multiplayer games of Minecraft are hosted on Servers. 2b2t is one of them. Most servers are heavily regulated as to make sure everyone gets a fair experience, playing in their server.
2b2t is an anarchy server, which mean there are no rules. In most servers, you can claim a number of large patches of land (called chunks) and you can build on them and no one will be able to destroy your work.
But since 2b2t is an anarchy server, there's no such thing like that, anything that you build, sooner or later, someone's gonna find it, and break it.
The structures or builds in which a lot of jargon was used, is simply: Structures in 2b2t which survived an endless onslaught of people trying to destroy it.
Survival Mode is essentially Legos where you have to build forts, equipment, et cetera to survive and, ideally, thrive in a world filled with monsters and the occasional lava pit. There's also Hardcore Survival that was mentioned in this video; normally, if you die in Minecraft, you can resurrect yourself in the last bed you slept in, only missing the armor, equipment, and materials you had on you (and naturally setting you back if you were close to a valuable resource- say for instance, a vein of diamonds). You can play alone, or online with others on servers. Most large public servers have rules, usually providing some protection against defacement, theft, or wanton destruction for your own home, while others, often termed "anarchy" servers, have no in-game rules. 2b2t is the longest-running anarchy server, and has hosted equal parts outstandingly creative and sadistically destructive players, resulting in many constructs on 2b2t being treated as a sort of ephemeral art.
Creative Mode is Legos for the sake of, well, creating. Any threat of death or deprevation are removed, with the players given awesome powers and unlimited access to all of the game's items in order to try out new things, test-build constructs to make sure they work, and, of course, to create the massive megastructures showcased in this video. Creative Mode servers are rarer, but long-running ones can really feel like a living museum, with exhibits for art, architecture, and even mechanical design that anyone and everyone are welcome to contribute to.
As for history, yes, Minecraft builds can have a lot of history, especially bases in survival. The game is over a decade old, and some servers and even individual players still play on worlds that are nearly as old. Walking around a long-running server is fascinating, as you can explore the ruins left behind by players years ago, slowly withering away as protection expiry leaves the buildings open to theft and defacement. These buildings were built to be not just aesthetically pleasing, but also habitable and functional. The result is a series of very lived-in buildings one occupied by real players, and it's surprising what you can learn about a base's previous inhabitants by looking at the structure of the base, the resources available, the creature comforts added, and in the case of bases with several occupants, the various signs that dot the walls like sticky notes, containing house rules, to-do lists, in-jokes, and more. What's even more interesting is that on long-running anarchy servers like 2b2t, where much of the land for many kilometers around the starting area has been rendered neigh unlivable by years of destruction, many of these ruins are found by new players, who move in, fix the place up, and start living in the base as their own. It's not unheard of for a years-old base to be occupied by three or more groups, each adding their own flavor and personality to the base each time it's refurbished and expanded. And, of course, many friendships are formed over these servers, and many adventures are had. On any long-running server, you may find statues and other memorials celebrating outstanding accomplishments, mourning players who have passed away, and even just reveling in some in-joke humor.
Don't forget the actions that almost everybody does when starting a survival mode game:
1. Dig hole
2. Climb in hole.
3. Pull hole in after self.
@8:05 "Do I know her?"
Yes, yes you do. That is Kerrigan, Queen of Blades from StarCraft!
Cool that you still remember her! =)
🥰yesssssss
Ooooh, fascinating! I don't know much about it first hand, but it is an incredibly interesting game.
The creativity it allows is genuinely something truly epic. Actually, it's about the only game where the word "epic" genuinely applies.
Definitely is epic. People are so creative, it's absolutely mind boggling.
WAIT! There's a Stupendium Minecraft Lego song!!!
I'll start spamming Hannah with it immediately!
@@AndrewD8Red don't you dare, mister!!!
it's definitely not the only game where epic can be applied, there's hundreds where that word can apply
@@asteranightshade2981 I guess epic could apply to No Man's Sky, too!
I bought my daughter minecraft and was resistant to try it, but I have been hooked for over 15 years now.
It's a great way to unwind, not think about life for awhile, and be creative.
I prefer not to use the creative mode and source all my own materials, create things with recipes, make & use potions, and find secrets or hidden treasures. The extra activities are a nice break from building, but then you can relax back into your creative planning to build more.
There is a quest mode as well as there are goals you can work at on survival mode.
It's really cathartic, challenging, & satisfying.
Minecraft is the most mellow game imaginable. For at least 10 years now I've been playing on and off just building log cabins and exploring caves set to gentle music
12:44 That Hannah, is the sun xD
But the sun is round
@@HannaHsOverInvested There are not many things that are round in Minecraft, everything is made out of blocks :D
The pumpkins are cubes, too! ☺️
12:45 that's the sun, in minecraft everything is a cube and that includes the Sun and moon
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2b2t is the oldest anarchy server In Minecraft. A haven for all sorts of players like builders, hackers, adventurers, and UA-camr. It’s so old and so lawless it has years old history such as war, factions, projects, empires, and conflicts talk about to this day (My favorite of course being the Russer War). If you wanna know more about the server’s history I would recommend the UA-camr FitMc, who is an 2b2t historian that talks about many events that have happened.
most of these builds took HOURS if not DAYS to complete. Yes you are right, they placed block by block, and even with world edit, it still takes a VERY long time.
Minecraft is huge, it is literally the best selling game IN THE WORLD having sold 238 million copies worldwide making it more popular than tetris. It's main draw is it's massive freedom, it's not just massive buildings that you see from the video, but every individual block has it's own function and properties, and you can combine these blocks for not just visual flair, but sometimes for practical effect. The things you can do in this game is mind-boggling, and people all over the world are still sharing new things they've built, or found to this day, and into the foreseeable future.
WHY is everyone forgetting to mention the Middle Earth - Lord of the Rings server, its a masterpiece and its one of the biggest projects out there.
I finished your book! I was reading it all day today. Part way in and I just couldn't stop reading. Now I need to go back and read the first two again. Looking forward to the sequel, clearly so much more to go! It shined a real light on the first two books, and reading them I think I will understand more about this one as well. You did a fantastic job of interweaving the stories, making them stand on their own but with so much more going on than you can ever understand reading just one book.
🥰🥰🥰🥰 thank you so so much! I would really appreciate a good reads review if you haven't done that already. Either way, thank you for reading🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@HannaHsOverInvested Review submitted for the Kindle version. You're welcome!
Basically, 2b2t is a world where anything goes including unpatched glitches. It has some of the largest and most impressive builds anywhere in spite of the fact that weeks or even years worth of work can quite easily be wiped out by griefers while they're away to sleep. There's a guy here on UA-cam called FitMC whose whole channel is just documenting the history of 2b2t. You should check it out sometime. Even if you're not into Minecraft, it's still wildly interesting.
A channel you might enjoy reacting to is "Press Start to Laugh". They do parody videos where they voice the silent protagonists of games and go on adventures, usually adding a comedic spin to the events of the game. For example, they've done "What if Steve Talked in Minecraft", "What if You Talked in Subnautica?" and "What If Doom Guy Talked in Doom?" They don't really require a lot of foreknowledge to understand the videos, so even a non-gamer like you would be able to enjoy them!
If you do decide to give the channel a shot, then I'd start with "What if Miles Talked in Outlast?" There are only two episodes for it, so it's short, its story is complete so you won't have to wait for a new episode, and it's a good representation of the sort of comedy you can expect.
Petition to turn "non-gamer watches into non-gamer *plays* Minecraft"
In minecraft is creative mode and survival mode
In creative mode you have acces to every block, you can fly, and can even make use of commands to place many blocks at once in rudimentary shapes
In survival mode you have to mine and or craft every block you want to place, you also have to survive the dangers of monsters, fall damage, and hunger and such.
That big white glowing thing in the emmiting light in the sky is called a sun.
Minecraft is one of the best games to play if you're just getting into games, it's more than just building stuff but that's basically the jist of it, I'd say to might want to start with creative mode as that is just building stuff without the survival aspect
I don't get the survival part
@@HannaHsOverInvested well in survival mode you have to do things like eat sleep and build shelter and defend yourself from monsters and mine and gather recourses
Minecraft All kinds of buildings can be created, and events such as graduation ceremonies can be held. Because of the epidemic, the school cannot hold graduation ceremonies, and then there are student proposals.Minecraft hold a graduation ceremony
Minecraft can be fun, but is very simple and open, so it helps to have a goal. Now, there is a mode for the game where you can do more than just create. It’s called Survival mode, and the object is the same as creative mode, only the blocks aren’t just given to you. You have to find what you are looking for and deal with various monsters that want to kill you, including one that explodes in close proximity, which damages not just you, but blocks up to a 5-block radius around it.
Ultimately, the game is for people to have fun and be creative with. If you have the imagination for it, you can craft just about anything. But you’ve already seen that.
I just mentioned the Uncensored Library on your short video 😐
Anyway, just one way vidyagames can be a force for good in the world.
Many who build such structures in Minecraft use game modifications like "world edit" where you can copy and paste things you've build first. Means, you build a wall for example, copy that wall with some commands and then paste it where ever you want it to place. You can also twist and turn it to your own liking. Although you have to be in "creative mode" in the game. Otherwise it would take you years in real time to complete it on your own without help. With creative mode and "world edit"-mod it's aprox. some days to a few weeks. Depends on how much time you have to play the game.
12:45 this is the sun lol
I don't understand why it's not a circle
@@HannaHsOverInvested circles are illegal in Minecraft Its written in notch's testament
@@HannaHsOverInvested Minecraft is cube supramacy.
It's also exploring, gathering resources, fighting monsters and progressing. Not just building.
And there's potions and enchanting.
The two modes are creative and survival. Survival is where you have to...survive. Eat, build a shelter, survive at night from creatures like zombies, spiders and skeletons. Creative is where you basically a god mode where you can build anything without the worry of having to survive. Sometimes you can go on servers hosted by other people. Sometimes the host can set rules to keep people from destroying their creations. Sometimes it a free for all and you can mess with whatever you want. In short Minecraft Is a simple game but it can be as complex as you make it.
I didn't see many comments on the Anarchy Server part. For anyone wondering, an anarchy server literally allows for all exploits, hacks, grief inducing trolling, and other hardships. It is extremely common to kill other players, destroy their homes, and otherwise make their life as hard as possible. The fact that these things that take hundreds upon hundreds of hours to create, and stand to be destroyed in a day puts them on par with the sidewalk or sand mosaics that are crafted in such a way that they are absolutely going to be destroyed, yet they go back anyway.
Something that I think isn't stressed enough is the fact that a lot of the larger builds shown in the video most certainly use World Edit (and/or its derivatives/equivalents). It is a plugin (community-created tool) that allows you to... well... edit a Minecraft world on _really_ large scales. Not only does it allow you to copy-paste huge chunks of blocks wherever you want, or fill in large volumes or various shapes with specific blocks, but it even allows you to procedurally generate epic terrain from sets of parameters and prefabs. Yeah, it's pretty powerful.
So minecraft is normally a simple survival sandbox game. That means you manage your hunger, try not to die and make a small base. What made this game special, is that you can place any block anywhere, which is NOT common for games. Games usually define rules like, you cant build here because it doesn't make sense, or it's not efficient, but minecraft was not like that. You can make an upside down house, a flying tree, open a huge hole in a mountain and build the mcdonalts, make an underwater city, any block, ANYWHERE.
Even among "builders" there are many different styles. Architecture, Interior design, Terraforming, Sculptures and my favorite RED STONES.
Redstone is an ingame interpretation of electricity. A button connected with a line of redstone to a door. You press the button, the signal moves to the door and the door opens. Aaaand people start making functional transistors in game, which means calculators and compturers in their most raw form. It's can get REALLY crazy.
You NEED to just watch a few survival videos of people playing Minecraft to understand how the game works
I recommend watching the original Minecraft trailer from 2011. I think it perfectly captures the feelings of Minecraft, short, wondrous, optimistic, and endlessly adventurous.
Im so glad that your videos finally shows in my feed again! Even though I have notifications on, I have not gotten notified.
I've been reluctant to even look at minecraft despite being an avid gamer since 20y, until I gave it a go three years ago. I've been hooked ever since and will be for a long time. The thing with minecraft is that it carries endless possibilities that are only limited by your own imagination. There is no wrong way to play the game and ultimately only has the goal of having fun exactly the way YOU want to...
Some context about 2B2T, its a Multiplayer server where anyone can join from anywhere and do what ever they want, most minecraft servers nowdays have rules and programms+people to protect what others have build etc. 2B2T doesnt have any of that and sadly in Minecraft(and also in most other games) people exist that just like to destroy stuff especially if someone else build it.
Well on 2b2t since there is no one watching over the buildings and there are no rules many go there just to destroy and keeping even a very small building standing is almost impossible, thats why its so impressive that those huge buildings survived for 8 years.
The "what's this? what's this?" moment, if I understood you correctly, is the SUN =)
There are some codes helping to build, for example to fill some space with one type of blocks.
Minecraft was a tech demo of sorts by Swedish Developer called Notch (Markus Persson is his real name)
He used whats called a "VOxels" engine to simulate well...3d terrains, first linear and one dimensional, then with more complexity like mountains, chasmes, caves, rivers etc.
All all this is Procedurialy generated, so each time someone starts a New game, its a completly different and unique world.
After a while he decided to make his work available to poeple it was the "Devs " version of the game, the "game" has gone through MANY iterations through the years, (the "game" was made in 2009...)
From Devs, to Alpha build, then Beta and finaly the full release, and even then, eversince, the team behind the game is still developping new features for it.
After a while Notch implented the "Survival" mode, where the player takes control of a character, and you have to survive and then thrive.
You collect ressources, that you can use to craft gear and items and build construction and devices.
Ther's a day & night cycle and at night Monsters spawns, wich the player can choose to fight, or simply wait in his Construction during the night, till they all get burned by the sun light.
After some years Notch sold the game to Microsoft for 2.5 billion$ iirc.
The game became an instant hit with people, and to this day, it is till one of the most well knowed, popular and played games.
A whole culture and genre as been kickstarted by Minecraft.
While the Survival Open world genre wasn't really new, Minecraft actually brought people who had no interest in such games to the genre, the survivla open world genre is still one of the major gaming genres, and MANY tried to emulate if not down right copy minecraft, but never met the same succes.
There is LOTS of things to do in minecraft and the game versatility and freedom of creativity, lets people runnign wild with their imagination.
If you never heard about minecraft, your cave must have been a real comfy and cozy one ;p
So in survival minecraft, you have to break and place each block you build with. You have limited amounts and have to gather more. Creative you can fly around with an infinite amount.
7:00 imagine the server like in apocalypse. No rules, no government, no society.
I was sort of hoping the video would go to show off the actual working computers built inside minecraft. But this was cool too!
Minecraft is a game about surviving in a rural, fantasy wilderness but everything is life-size legos you can build stuff with. This is the main "Survival Mode".
In 'Survival' you must mine/harvest all you materials by hand before you can use them to build anything.
There's also a "Creative Mode" where you can build without limitations or any of the survival mechanics. You simply have an infinite supply of any block, and you can literally fly around to place them.
You can play either mode in either single player or public multiplayer servers.
Most multiplayer servers have protections programmed in to keep people from destroying everything or even limit it to only allowing specific people to join.
However "anarchy servers" intentionally omit those protections and invite anyone to come in and do as they please. "2B2T" is the name of a particularly popular anarchy server.
There's not really a story per say in Minecraft, but there are subtle implications of some lore in the enemies' and world's designs.
Apart from a couple of mostly optional boss fights, there's very little in the way of a goal other than surviving and creating. Its a very 'make your own story' approach.
A MASSIVE online community, multiple subcultures, an entire new lexicon of jargon, and even cottage industries have formed around this game. However I couldn't even begin to explain any of that in detail if I wanted to; those rabbit holes go DEEP...
Cool vid but yeah not great for a first timer.
Minecraft time lapses are a cool place to see builds, but there are so many more showcasing quests, story, combat, survival, gathering, crafting, challenges, parties, even making computers and video screens in the game using Redstone (minecraft electricity) etc.
Hermitcraft is a fun series with a huge community
This video highlights buildings or areas more than anything else. But there are builds that are incredible for their functionality and ingenuity.
10:31 To understand the real magic of minecraft you have to play it and get into it, it's difficult to explain. Minecraft has two basic modes, creative and survival. I personally prefer survival mode. You start with zero resources and the goal is to gradually find them and use them in creative ways to survive and grow until you get to reach all parts of the game (which includes traveling to different dimensions, finding hidden strongholds and killing a dragon, among other things). What that looks like varies a lot depending on the area you choose to settle in and work from. There is a great variety of resources you can find in different biomes (with different climates, plants, animals and enemies), in an infinite world. There is also an ending in survival mode (killing the dragon), but it's not really an ending, because you can continue playing after that. So each game can have a different objective for you. It can be what you make it.
There are many rules to the game, which limit the things you can do. But inside those rules you have a lot of leeway to be creative and inventive. If you learn how the world works you can come up with different ideas to make those rules work in your favor, which can be a very enjoyable experience. You spend hours figuring out ways to use the specific, limited resources you have in the best way possible to achieve your goals, and making the world cozy for you. As the in-game days and nights go by you experience different terrains, climates, enemies and you hear the sounds of the world and the sporadic music of the game, while you explore or work on your stuff. It can be very immersive. After a while you look at the things you made and it feels like it's your home, because you earned it. The whole experience becomes nostalgic in your memory.
And remember it has two mode which is Survival and Creative:
Survival mode is where the player must collect resources, build structures while surviving in their generated world. You can interact with the local villagers, and at night defend against mobs that attack on sight.
Creative mode is one of the main game modes in Minecraft. Creative mode strips away the survival aspects of Minecraft and allows players to easily create and destroy structures and mechanisms with the inclusion of an infinite use of blocks and flying. It also changes some of the background music.
2:21 I'm so lucky she didn't realize what that I just built, that should've been censored
Please read: Sir Terry Pratchett "the last hero" and Richard Bach "illusions"
Minecraft: a portal to another dimension.
for someone who knows nothing about minecraft. watching a video of amazing builds wont sell you on it or teach you too much about the game. for me i grew up with it during a time on youtube where it was everywhere. for some, the best experience you can have with it is just jumping in blind and learning the game for yourself. for others, they see it as a simple game which is overhyped and dont understand why. minecraft is/was a big part of alot of people growing up so i hope this video alone doesnt put you off from it.
Minecraft is actually about Building and Exploration, there is also Combat in the game but that is very basic due to the game being more about the first two, it sounds unappealing but the simplistic nature of the game tends to get more people hooked on it rather than not.
Building mega structures is incredibly satisfying, I'm one of those castle people who end up clearing away mountains so I can make a foundation... by hand, no creative mode, I make my bricks and water ways with rocks and buckets!
With a graphics pack the sound of your gpu filing for abuse and divorce is no longer as hard to deal with at times.
Well, this was the building comunity of minecraft, and there are other incredible parts of this game like the redstone community(redstone components like pistons, doors, droppers etc are mechanisms that are powered by redstone energy which is basically electricity but in other form). Minecraft must be one of the best games in the world as there are a lot of ways you can see this game.
I don't know the names of the people who made this project, but my guys made a 4 core PC in minecraft on a PC. Thanks for the reaction, I'm glad one more person knows more about this game.
You should try searching for Minecraft rollercoasters. They are pretty insane builds.
Survival vs creative explained
Survival: Survival is a game mode that revolves around actually and actively creating tools out of materials generated by a world's individual "seed" a seed is essentially a randomly generated world that constitutes the player's experience. However every seed comes with every geological biome known throughout the world in real life; (Tundra, Savanna, Deserts, Rainforest, etc) Survival is the "hardcore" mode where players have to use raw materials of the world to create and forge tools and individual material blocks. Each tool has a decay rate based on usage and will eventually break with constant use. Pickaxes will deteriorate in health when not properly maintained. Same with shovels, swords, gardening hoes etc. Each tool like in real life excel at different jobs. Pickaxes as you'd expect would be suited to breaking rock, ore, and overall mining. Shovels excel in digging dirt, sand and other soft areas (you get it). Digging into rock with a shovel would naturally take longer, same going for a pickaxe digging into sand. The survival builds are so impressive because they went out for hours and hours on end actually digging up the resources, forging the stone, metal, glass etc, and building from the ground up. Even seasoned players can take several hours of grinding to build a decent sized player home for them to live in. All this work revolves around the concept of the completion of the game's "story" and end game goal of defeating the "Ender Dragon"
Creative: Creative is the game mode for players who simply want to make dumb creations, blow stuff up, experiment, build your dream house, and just screw around. You're given almost all the same tools that the developers have to do whatever your heart desires. No grinding for materials, just full creative freedom. People are exceedingly creative and have come up with some of the most ingenious of inventions that are basically life hacks that players can use for themselves. Engineers, artists, and little kids have a particular fondness of this mode.
Minecraft is no epic story, has no plot to follow, no lore, no character development, no "anything" that other games have. But it remains in the heart of many people as one of the best games ever created.
Yes, you can create a story in Minecraft and a whole world for it if you want to. There is a lot of stuff you can do and its even more impressive when in survival mode (without cheats) when you create what you want.
Some people have made a series using minecraft as the way to create it and tell a story.
Minecraft is.... interesting. I never cared to play it, but seeing what other players can do is astonishing. I don't have the patience or the creativity that some people have to accomplish what they have with the game.
2b2t is the name of a server.
Anarchy means that there are NO RULES, meaning that even hacking is allowed. The server is known for being completely destroyed. If a base lasted 8 years in that server, then it means that someone went to great lengths to hide it frem everyone else.
Welcome to Minecraft where if you can make something someone has probably already done it.
Yea its a game where you build. And it's the most sold game of all time because of it
Minecraft to me is a tool that just also happens to be an adventure sandbox game for you creative concepts.
It has many useful facets.
Minecraft stands on it's own as a game and there is a lot to learn about how to play in survival alone.
To me the killer app is using it as an educational tool for pretty much any academic.
It would be an excellent platform to be a training tool for architecture, any kinds of art studies, earth sciences and geometry which you can demonstrate by typing in mathematical formulas while the game is running to have it render geometrical shapes.
There is even a way to learn about electronics. The game has it's own form of 'wires' and components activated by a power source.
Then if you look under hood of the games code, you can take it much further.
What that means is altering the games appearance or behavior to get it to what you need to do.
This would be good to learn about programming and is on the administrative side of things. You can create your own mods. Or use mods other people made to add to the game for any number of uses.
It would be a good skill to learn when you want to create your own Minecraft server which involves a lot of technical skill, depending on how serious you want to get.
There is potential make Minecraft a business for yourself, not with just running a server, but creating your own merch to coincide with the server you run.
These are just a handful of ideas I can come up with that you can do.
It is like Legos. Depending on how you want to play the sandbox which is only limited by your imagination. Each block needs a certain tool to break it but tools break and you have to put in some hours to even do simple stuff. You can die pretty quickly from the creatures in this game and each thing in this game really needs you to have an understanding of how even the tools work. So doing stuff in creative is much easier. Some love a challenge and decided to only do it in survival. You have to cook food and fight till the end to fight the ender dragon. You can blow up anything and make almost anything. It can get pretty complicated and redstone is like machine stuff. I thought when I started playing this game that is was a baby game. This sandbox game especially when you look into lore. There are seed codes that you can use to even experience other kinds of worlds in other people games. PVP and funny stuff you can do in this game. Arguably it is a tough game to play and people created this stuff.
Think about it like this. They practically did the equivalent of building an actual building over hours of picking up items and digging and trading. The lore makes this game not a kids game even though it is still a sandbox game.
Also if you die without knowing your game, you lose all your stuff and have to start over in another area unless you have coordinates.
I literally had valuable stuff mining for hours and got lost trying to get back to my base and a creature called a creeper which blows up if you are too close to it blew me up. I didn't set my respawn point and got launched to a random spot with no tools and had to start over again. I lost all the items and it took hours to cross the areas back to base if that gives you an idea. I never consider this a baby game again 😂
These people creating this stuff probably took forever. Even at great heights you can die from falling like any other game. It makes you regret your decisions as you get more skills
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thats the sun. yes the moon is also a giant cube its a BLOCK game- everything is blocks EVERYTHING- anyway-
Minecraft is a game with no story you just go out and make your own goals to build whatever you want. Imagine playing with life size legos in a world where monsters come out at night and portals to hell.
6:40 I play on this server. Essentially it's a server that has no rules you can attack and steal from anyone you can blow anything you want up. You can build whatever you want where ever you want however big you want it. It puts into play real life aspects such as civilizations, groups, sometimes governments. I like to think of it as Rome great cities are built but with time they are destroyed. It's a very cool concept but at times can be toxic. The server at this point has been running for nearly 12 years on the same map. I've seen many impressive things built there the server itself attracts builders who build for the fun of it. Some bases are created by groups that in a way act as their own governments it's really neat. I am friends with some of the builders of MU they really accomplished something amazing. Minecraft is basically player made history similarly to real life human made history.
Just gonna hit me with that one two punch of classics at the end?
I didn't get Minecraft at first either. I thought, So all you do is farm, mine, build, and fight the occasional enemy? Then I realized that was all I was really doing on my Conan: Exiles server for years, then I kind of got it.
Mu Megabase was basically built in the middle of a warzone, anything described as an anachy server means any chaos goes, Some of these long term builds are more exceptional when you find out that certain updates destroyed servers and builds to the point of full data wipes over those 8 years.