EDIT: I'm seeing a lot of comments about the "LOST to Time" title, and thinking I meant lost media, or maps that can't be found/downloaded anymore. First off, I didn't mean to mislead you! What I meant specifically by "lost to time" is old maps that have completely *fallen out of the spotlight over the years.* Whether it's being too old of a version, not being played anymore, or lost to the sea of new and improved maps for the newest versions -- that is what I mean! I probably could've worded that better, but I hope that clears it up. This video is meant to spread feelings of nostalgia by revisiting old maps, not look for ones that are lost media (although that would be an excellent video!). _orig. pin:_ hey everyone, thanks for hangin'! I hope you enjoyed this one as much as I enjoyed putting it together. hope your day is excellent, and let me know your favorite map or old map memories below me!
A map that gives me tons of nostalgia is the Hunger Games map. I just remember TONS of Hunger Games videos in like 2012-2014 on one specific map. I'm so glad that Minecraft is a game that promotes community and people having fun together.
OG hunger games definitely deserves to be on this list. I LOVED playing it back in the day. very fond memories of being awful at the game but having a blast
That's exactly the one I used to play. I think I still have a download of it somewhere. There were two I believe. I have the second one somewhere for sure but I have no idea what ever happened to the first one. When I got it I didn't know I had it at first. It came in a sketchy looking mod pack that I can not for the life of me remember the name of. It came with both versions. I found it in this mod pack under a worlds file. I was curious if any of them would work in Minecraft and turns out it did. There were like 3 more worlds in that file but those didn't amount to the survival games worlds.
I remember exploring my world for the temple of notch. I just walked for ages leaving a trail of torches. I also believed a lie a friend told. He said there was ONE triangle on top of a tree on a lonely island. For some reason i thought that all minecraft worlds were connected, and if i walked for long enough i would find other peoples bases.
It's worse for me, I started the series(for some ungodly reason) around the point they left they wall and headed into the desert, clearly remember the f*cking milk bucket and invisible pickaxe though!
God I wish they finished it! That story they told as well as all the locations and characters played by their friends was really good. It was like a co-op Freeman’s Mind in a game that wasn’t limited to a story set by the developers. I already loved Minecraft but the full Yogscast Survival series from their humble start to SOI made me love it all the more.
Yeah, I do. That was the only adventure map I ever played through. I just didn't like any others. I just happened to find it randonly on some forum or whatever back in the day.
man I'm old. it's so bizarre to me seeing so many kids express nostalgia for 2016-2018 minecraft when for me the glory days were 1.7 beta thru ~1.6. not that there's anything wrong with it of course, I'm glad to see so many younger people carrying the minecraft torch, but it's still surreal. I remember being so in awe at the temple of notch lol, by today's standards it seems rather simplistic. anyway, this showed up on my feed, so you're doing something right as far as algorithm is concerned. you've got the editing and the attitude down (not shrieking into your microphone like too many other gaming youtubers) keep it up and soon I'll be able to brag about having been your ~2,080th subscriber.
Since I was playing Minecraft in Russian community, my favorite kind of maps were and still are those silly little plot-based maps made by other kids at that time. There's just something charming about the way the builds and story are presented. Especially the story, since they had to place dozens of signs. I still remember a very small map where you play as a thief in a village. While all the villagers were celebrating the New Year somewhere away, you could easily break in houses different ways, steal stuff and find out people's little secrets. That was such an awesome addition to my 2012-2013 winter holidays!
The memories of huddling around my laptop with my siblings to watch a new shadow of Israphel will forever stick with me. Its hard to explain the feeling I got watching that series as it came out
There's also another famous minecraft map which was most likely lost forever, and im 100% sure you heard about it. Im talking about YOUR first minecraft world. A truly legendary and famous minecraft map which everyone know about, however most of the people either deleted, or lost.
My original Java maps were lost when we did some PC cleaning and when I moved from the family desktop to my own laptop. Three of my favourites were: My original Green Hill map which had a lot of forested hills and cliffs though I don’t remember a lot about it. (I named my first few maps after Classic Sonic levels as Minecraft always looked like Green Hill Zone as made in a stripped down version of the classic Tomb Raider engine to me) Lava Reef where my base was built in a mountain that suspiciously had formed to look exactly like an extinct volcano, main shaft to the cave system, plugs, side vents and all. I had a lava lamp & lapis lazuli wallpaper in the master bedroom inside a side vent just below the plugged up crater/peak, a smoking chimney on the crater plug penthouse to find my way back from afar, an outhouse at the outer rim of the crater plug which spilled into a slurry collection trough by the master bedroom entrance (the idea was it would collect waste to turn into fertiliser for the farm below), a volcanic soil farm and nether portal on the lower slopes by the river, an escape tunnel, panic room, a “blaze bath” which was a glow stone bathtub full of lava for “hot tub” bathing (with fire potions), fiery traps like pits and flaming arrows (unfinished) and the main shaft was sealed with warning signs about the lava tube & magma chamber mines below. Both those maps started on the beta versions that had working beds, but I kept them well into version 1.0. Insanity Caves, which was my first 1.0 map and would have been the basis for a Minecraft book I had in mind, set around a survivor of an apocalypse surviving his way across an archipelago and killing a terrifying decay monster made of raw entropy called the Antitime. Little did I realise said monster was basically Pennywise, mainly just the dead lights part and nothing else which was scary as I wouldn’t read It for 2 years at this point. Outside my main house across from the hill it was on was a mountain “island” I built a bridge to whose base looked like a tornado made of rock. I had a farm of all plants in the game at the time including trees, melon, pumpkin and nether wart, a library for enchanting, a nether portal with easy access to a nether fort, the titular underground caves below my house I still have embellished paper maps of, a vast desert and mountain range in opposite ends of away from my house, the former of which hid my first stronghold. I had secondary bases in both those locations (the desert for easy respawning and backtracking if I died in the End) and I was in the middle of making a railway to connect them all when I lost all my old original maps. Insanity Caves was the first Minecraft map I ever killed the Enderdragon and beat the game on, which alongside all the others I played back in the day makes it hold a special place in my heart.
One map I remember playing a lot was a CTM called "Diversity". Something interesting was that each wool block needed to complete the monument was a reward for completing a minigame (There was a labyrinth, a parkour, a dropper, etc.) Tho, I don't know if it was a very popular map...? I was also a Pocket Edition player so the lobby of a server called "Lifeboat" is burned into my brain. Does someone else remember that server?
I remember hearing of Lifeboat back in the day, but never played much pocket edition myself. never heard of Diversity! just looked it up, it looks super cool and looks like a huge part of the CTM genre. I guess they've made a few sequels too? I always played Hunger Games when I was younger. ty for the comment!
I used to LOVE lifeboat. My first Minecraft “girlfriend” was a female DanTDM skin I met there, while I had the original DanTDM skin. Other than that, I remember all of the friends I used to meet there…
Definitely get Stampy’s lovely world somewhere on there, there was a part of a tutorial map on 360 that I played a while back and the amount of memory’s it sent through my mind was insane just walking into each room of the wood and sandstone house.
@@iTeachMyToast you poor summer child, Stmapy plans to end his lovely World Series this year, I assume he wishes to part ways with what birthed his channel which is Minecraft tho I’m surprised he doesn’t move to Java modded with old friends or as a solo, thus not to be it seems tho.
Tutorial and Temple will always be my favorites, One map i played as a kid was a java ported map to Xbox called Worldbuscus which was Toby's world when he first started doing his minecraft lets play and another bit of an obscure one was called DreamCraft which was a custom 360 map that played like a RolePlay game it was pretty cool at the time
i will always remember Vechs' Super Hostile series, particularly Spellbound Caves. I spent so long watching ChimneySwift's series and later spending hours beating it and Kaizo Caverns in hardcore multiple times. Truly amazing maps
Kaizo Caverns was the first cavern one right? I really remember that one because of how big it felt when it came out, and how small it felt compared to later maps. You could reach halfway across the starting cave unlike the later cave maps with their several chunks wide caves. Even the big caves are smaller than the really big caves in the later maps.
One I think should have been on this list is the old Prisons maps so many UA-camrs used for Coos and Robbers. The one where you had to escape the prison and then make your way to the ship to escape. I have so many good memories of that map
For me it’ll forever be Deep Space Turtle Chase by CaptainSparklez and the VoxelBox. Truly a monumental map for its time and was ahead of its time as well. To this day I am still sad there was never a second part made.
Yup, and both that and SOI had their own sountracks made for them. Although a couple days after release Deep Space Turtle chase had to claim a lot of videos and redo the entire soundtrack again because the first soundtrack had too much sampling.
Does anyone remember Hillside Manor from like 2012? I used to love exploring that map because there was just so much content like a main hotel, a market, a huge waterslide, redstone museum, etc. It think back then it was one of the most popular maps on Planetminecraft :D
This made me cry, i still remember grabbing my grandma laptop as a kid and downloading the pirate minecraft the AnjoCaido launcher. Playing it for the first time was a feeling that i don't think i ever felt again, all these maps i played with my school friends. Thank you for making this video and bringing good memories of my childhood.
wowww i didn't know that the launcher i was using had a name, just looking at pictures of the anjocaido launcher brings back so many memories haha, thank u
Man you don't have to hit me hard with the Xbox 360 tutorial map. I almost cried, I remember the big castle what was like a maze. Also there was hidden place where you can visit Stampylonghead house. It was such a great time.
I remember being 9 in 2011 when I found out about minecraft because of pocket edition and started watching videos of the game. I’m really glad that I was around for the games “prime”. Minecraft nostalgia is crazy. All I watched from 4th grade to 8th grade was minecraft
One map that I still to this day have fantastic memories of is Mianite season 1. The smp before smps. Something built by both chaos and lore and I remember watching the stream recordings after school.
The original Hunger Games map as well as SG4. Those are beyond iconic. And Cops and Robbers, take your pick on which version. Coming from a childhood watching Team Crafted it doesn't get much more nostalgic than that. All of the ones you showed were incredibly nostalgic too. Sometimes I miss those times, though it's also nice to see the newer generations create their iconic landmarks
Finally, someone else feels a lot for skygrid as well. It was the first ever kind of survival map I used to play on this old server. Sadly, this server closed down, and another server that was also close to my heart, but I'm just happy to have experienced them.
The mob fight arena from PopularMMOs and Stampy’s wonderful world are probably the two maps that come to mind the most outside of DanTDM’s lab when it comes to nostalgic maps, those three were the ones I watched the most, the Mob fights were interesting seeing what two different creatures were forced to fight each other and Stampy’s world was just a delight to see what wacky things were made there
This may be a little more niche than other maps not mentioned, but the giant statue map of skydoesminecraft someone gifted sky back in 2012 hits me every time. I remember seeing that video when it was posted after about 2 months of watching him and thinking I was part of a community unlike any other. Sad that those days are long gone now, but I’m glad that they happened and I stuck around till the end of the sky I knew growing up.
Achievement city deserved to be on my list IMO. Achievements hunters let’s plays were massive at the time they had millions and millions of views. And sadly the seeds save file was corrupted long ago
Diversity 2, I still remember how excited I was when I beat it back in 2016... God what I wouldn't give to play that map with my old gang just one more time...
the tutorial maps are a really big one for me, especially since it was all me and my brother played on the free trial back in the day. we spend so many hours on them, and constantly begged our dad to buy it. some of the best memories on Minecraft for me are on the many different version of it
Dear god, I completely share your feelings about the survival island map; I remember watching these two dorks called the Gingecast play that game with the John Smith texture pack, wow is that nostalgic...
I think two honorable mentions would be the demo worlds that exist or had existed for PC and console. Both of them would give you a time limit before the game would effectively become Adventure Mode before that was even an official gamemode. The PC version in particular was also a pre-release demo before hunger existed. They both count as maps as the console version definitely had prebuilt buildings and the PC one has a starter chest (with a secret bonus chest if you dig directly below the sign next to the first starter chest which had diamonds). Sadly, I can't seem to find the demo I'm referring to as looking on UA-cam seems to show multiple different demo versions. But one of those versions does include the sign bonus chest, but it contains different items and uses a different seed.
Besides the Dropper and its sequel map later (both of which the Yogscast played), my favourite has to be T3C Parkour, which was a platforming challenge based adventure map with several courses with their own themes. Some were playing in the park, others were various precious block towers with hard as hell geometry inside, one or two were deserts and tundra one of which forced you to jump along cacti, there was a dark dungeon, a Singapore themed shopping mall whose toilets you could flush yourself down into a sewer, a carnival and a building site, with humorous signs about the workmen getting spooked and trying to stop the daring traceur I.E. you. It was laid out like an adventure theme park with a central lobby area and a subway system connecting all the courses. Your score was measured by collecting diamonds Tomb Raider 2 dragon secrets style (alternately Mario Sunshine star or Crash Bandicoot gems). It’s super fun and felt like a boot camp for Classic Tomb Raider fans such as myself. Sadly, I can’t find this map anymore or at least any working links with no malware (anyone able to help me out here please? 🥺). I did keep the updated version that came later, TPC Parkour but despite having some new and fun maps while removing crap ones, it’s not as good because some of my favourite maps were removed too due to having set pieces (usually TNT based) you could only trigger once like the Carnival, the theme park & subway layout was changed to a boring Dropper style white hallway with teleporter level select triggered by buttons and running it in newer builds of Java Minecraft renders it literally unplayable as all the command blocks are broken, meaning important set pieces like springs or potion effect generators, the breakable wall used to enter the level select and most glaringly the very teleporters needed to access the levels in the first place do not work at all, effectively bricking the whole map unless you install and play using an older version of Minecraft. I might do just that as I think the launcher lets you install older MC Java versions but I want the original T3C Parkour map back too.
Zelda Adventure is a map worth mentioning. I thiiink it technically also counts as a mod? But a map itself does a lot of the heavy lifting to show what the mods WAY back in the day could do, in a way that predates modern Minecraft features and replicates the feeling of exploring the Aether. The map was a showcase for the potential Minecraft held, with a focus on atmosphere, the inability to break blocks so you could feel immersed in the hand crafted world, there were actual dungeons and somewhat of a story to follow, and new mechanics put to use like being able to toss bombs or having two hands for your inventory slot.
Omg Zelda Adventure was soooo mindblowing back then. I mean it still is to this day. The map had like an actual Story with cutscenes and was such a good replica
I always thought that there was some hidden something in the mansion, a hidden room or place that just needed finding, a secret that was never discovered, it's strange, just seeing after all that time brings so many feelings, people that were just never met voices, but called friend, remembering the names of Minecraft youtubers you will never see again, the crazy mistakes you made when you first started, hoping you can call out the noob when they make the same mistake, but you never do. You enter a server and talk to a guy or girl you have never met like a friend you haven't seen for a while. You never realise how big the Minecraft community is or close until you stop playing. Great times my friend, great times.
I spent so long on skyblock having no idea there where other islands… loved watching series based around this map! This is a good video btw, lots of effort put in! Ly ❤
As far as I remember the first version of the map only had one island. Then there was a new version that had a second sand island with obsidian for a portal 30 blocks away, and a third island with more resources in the nether.
@@Zeder95 correct, but the first one wasn't a voidworld, as that was only implemented later because of the popularity of skyblock the first map was a normal world with a 10k X 10k hole edited in if you bridged 5,000 blocks away from the skyblock island you could reach a normally generated world
@@drthmik I actually remember that, I built a bridge over to the mainland thousands of blocks away because I saw it in some UA-cam video, this was BEFORE the Skyblock authors added a rule that you are not allowed to bridge to the mainland. Then afterwards I played it without bridging to the mainland.
Minecraft UA-cam was probably the main "teacher" back in the day teaching me English, better than school ever could :'D So I remember just basically learning while watching tons and tons of Minecraft videos and it is just a nice memory thinking back, especially thinking about all the maps then. It's wild to think about I've played Minecraft and been watching videos for such a huge part of my life honestly. But I think the main reason Minecraft maps used to be more of a big thing years ago isn't that we now think about them fondly because of nostalgia, or because we were easier to impress because of the standards we had. I think it's more because it was all so new and most importantly there weren't so many and they weren't all trying to top each other if that makes sense? The maps nowadays are IMPRESSIVE but to a point they almost feel like a big official thing. But earlier on it felt more personal and just people trying out some new stuff. And now there are SO many and so many of them are really good. There just hasn't been a big one that everyone on UA-cam goes and plays anymore and that becomes super popular because everyone plays it. In comparison the newer ones are probably more "popular" because more people play it but earlier ones felt more impactful. Like, they've gotten better and better over time but you just can't have that same feeling from back then anymore, it's the same with Minecraft in general I feel. Early Minecraft and modern Minecraft have two completely different feels, and while I love both, I do find myself looking back at the early, simpler one a lot, but maybe in this case that's just the nostalgia and memories. :D
I was wondering where Super Hostile was when watching. Vechs is a _legend_ and has even influenced some changes to the official game. (See: Silverfish Apocalypse) Sea of Flame is the very first in the series and as since been replaced with its remake Sea of Flame II and would've been a perfect candidate for this video.
One map I remember being popular for a bit was Pile of Bodies by SethBling. It was a Survival map comprised of giant stacked player statues of various Minecraft developers and UA-camrs’ skins, with unique things inside each statue’s head. I remember seeing a few popular videos and Let’s Play series of it back when it released from the likes of AntVenom and CavemanFilms
I think the thing I love most about the original survival island is that you can tell without even looking at the release date that this was LONG before the Beta 1.8 Adventure Update. Simply put as a survival map it is nearly impossible to survive in without dying atleast once as by design there's no consideration for hunger as a mechanic. The island is too small for mobs to spawn unless underground, there's so few dirt blocks that animals will be unlikely to spawn, and there's no potential sources of food provided at all. Sure you can get bonemeal and potential get a seed from tall grass or an apple from the trees, but that's an extremely Noah's Arc way of farming food. Basically making mere scraps into something potentially livable.
0:18 I’m glad you included that map. Even it was just in the intro. Me and my friends had a server on that map for years from like probably 2011 ish to 2015ish and it was such a good map
What a video... Thank you, these are rather epic. And I am happy to see mentions of such UA-camrs like Stampy and Squid, DanTDM and the Yogscast! And SethBling's insane SkyGrid. The Dropper, Herobrine's Mansion and The lab, they are probably the best for me.
If theres one map that comes to mind, out of every map I've ever played, its one that I've, ironically, entirety forgotten the name of. It was just this giant, wooden "mansion", in quotations because i forgot if we ever got to actually see the outside of the build. It was a mostly linear "adventure map", although i think thats mostly the case because of the massive amount of death pits there were, mostly unintentional if im remembering right. It was all wood, ALL of it, pretty sure there were signs with text on them. Not a piece of it that wasnt some sort of oak wood texture, and im not sure if we even had a hunger bar yet. It was really just this massive adventure, and looking through half a million videos about forgotten maps, i havent seen this one talked about. Ever. So, this one was truly forgotten it seems to me, its second death, i just wish i could find it again. And, no, it's not Herobrines Mansion, i know. It was... something ive almost entirely forgotten about, but something i will never ever forget about.
Amazing video and a great nostalgia trip :) Looking back, it's amazing how many famous stories and concepts the Minecraft community has crafted (pun not intended) over the years from such a simple foundation!
Recently me and some friends started playing the classic Skyblock 2.1, and what I love so much about it is that the more Minecraft gets updated, the more things you can do on the map. It really is *timeless.*
As of late, I feel like I've been seeing a lot more people that have small channels but have the potential to make it huge with their style of videos. You're one of the channels. Good shit man :) Also: the most nostalgic thing in this entire video was listening to that skype call audio. I almost cried.. Where did the time go?
I once downloaded a map which had a huge castle, a huge treehouse and a windmill all next to each other, I lost the map on a power outage that damaged my PC back in like 2013/2014. I have NEVER been able to find that map again... it was my favorite of all time, and it only lives on as a memory.
I feel like Jeoffrey's Chamber is also worth a mention. Not massively popular, but it was absolutely a turning point in the way adventure maps are made.
I still remember Sky Grid from iBallisticSquid, as he set up a story of how his Sky Island Challenge world got devoured and turned into that mess. Shame he ended the series just after he came returned to his original Sky Island Challenge world, as he abandoned it as if he would continue but not.
Even tough I didn't experience most of these maps as a kid - growing up in Latin America, I was more engaged with the spanish-speaking Minecraft community, yet - many of these maps are nostalgic in some way, almost as if I have played them or some similar ones. Man, I'm afraid many new players might have a very different experience; seeing how Microsoft is pushing the non-Java versions of the game, I wonder if new players will have the same freedom to explore community made maps, mods, and servers.
i have such a strong memory of being a kid watching shadow of israphel and their first encounters with "NPCs" who spoke and had dialogue with them. I was so shocked at where I could find NPCs who you could talk with in my game that I wondered for years if it was mods or what--and how it could be in the game at that time. I will never ever forget that minecraft series
The first time I played Minecraft was in 2012 on the tutorial world from the 360 edition, I can remember asking my friend if torch’s would catch my house on fire or finding the hidden diamond armor for the first time by the castle, the spider spawner behind the stone furnace building, or even the random space underneath the castles floor at the back. This is my favorite memory of Minecraft, and I’ll never forget it. I was only 9 when I had this experience and it feels like it was yesterday.
i recently discovered your channel and i have to say that you are extremely underrated. the ammount of nostalgia in combination with quality content is just unreal, thank you for your videos.
dan, u r not only the farher of two, but millions, ty for dr. tryaurus, ty for the old lab, the mod reviews, everyting. u deverve the tittle of the father of all.
For me on the pocket edition, it was Unrealengines. It was one of the only maps that had a waterfall and lava fall side by side at a time when caves weren’t implemented in the game and so lava was extremely rare.
hmm I didn't even think about the confusion..I intended "lost to time" as in forgotten/old/faded to obscurity. thanks for the feedback, i might change it if others feel this way!
Does anyone remember that famous Minecraft map of hidden doors. Probably like 2010 and you had to click a lever on a tree to activate a piston door. But then inside there was a bunch more red stone stuff. I loved that map
I'm a fan of some of the oldest Minecraft Adventure Maps, like **Redmurk Mystery.** I also have vague, blurry, but fond memories of **Gourd Avenger** and **Trial of the Old Ones.** I've been wanting to revisit them for some time now, but I don't even know if download links for them still exist.
I got the game because my nan literally paid me and my sister to not interact with her when we saw her in our town one time. She lives a literal island away and we hadn't seen her for 2 years.
Some of the first videos I ever watched on youtuber was ihascupquake playing Diversity. That will forever be one of my favorites just out of infinite nostalgia
Man, these bring back memories. Fun days when I'd say my brother "look what I made when you were not there", and he believed it! I was putting in the acting of "ahhh my hands pain so much that took a while" LOLLLLLLL. Memories.
someone shoudl totally create a mod/adventure map that uses the shadow of israphel map, that adds NPC, and a new quest to find Simon and Lewis since they disappeared without finishing the series, and you are requested to help track them down while exploring the map full of life and interact and do side quests from npcs, now that would be amazing!
The tutorial maps are all so nostalgic for me. I always did roleplays with just me alone in those worlds… that’s so so sooo cool to think about that again
Here's a bit of minecraft nostalgia that only very few people _ever_ knew about: remember how they had the online demo version right on their website, running in your browser? When starting that, It would download a full version of minecraft to your computer but then run it in demo-mode within your browser. HOWEVER, if you would then download the desktop launcher (which you could do without buying the game), it would detect that you have minecraft already installed and would allow you to run the full version of the game in offline mode, without the need to log in. That would only work after having used the demo, because otherwise the launcher would say "buy minecraft to download it". This exploit got removed when they introduced the new launcher with the 1.6 version of the game. Back then this was the absolute safest way to "crack" the game because you were literally running the official minecraft software. Could only play on servers which allowed offline mode, but to hell with that, my parents wouldn't buy me the game and I was playing it anyway!
christmas day, 2013. my dad decided to get an xbox 360 for me and my sister so we had something to do when we went to his house. it had come with kinect and kinect adventures, but i had only one thing on my mind. with the $20 i had gotten from my grandparents, i asked my dad to go to walmart, and i marched straight back to the electronics section, and picked up the very first game i had ever bought myself, minecraft. we went back home and i immediately started playing. i had played the first version of pocket edition sometime earlier in the year, but this was the first time i had the entire game to explore. i started a new tutorial world, and fully immersed myself in learning all the different mechanics that it taught back then, and while i was learning, i was also stunned by how incredible the game looked compared to what i was used to, which was my n64. that was nearly a decade ago now, but the memory is still fresh in my mind. i miss those days, watching toonami on adult swim when i was supposed to be asleep, playing gameboy games on playr, reading manga that i’d borrowed from the library, and watching avgn videos. i miss being 9 sometimes. things were a lot simpler then. life is harder, and scarier, and the world is in a constant spiral of chaos, but when things start to get overwhelming, i know i can still boot up an older build, and enjoy a few hours in old school minecraft
The nostalgia hits from fallen kingdom and the Xbox 360 tutorials are insane... The flashbacks... My brother once had a world called survive and thrive. We actually still have it. My brother had a house, while I would live underground. Beside his house... Good times...
as someone who literally plugged my ears and ignored minecraft for 13 years, only to kinda get into it in the later half of 2023, it's kinda wild hearing about Sethbling here when I associate him with being the guy who was the first to perform Super Mario World ACE to get the world record via the credits warp.
A hilariously nostalgic map is the 10 year anniversary map. It came out in 2019, but it goes through all the changes in the game. If you have been playing minecraft for a while then you'll be able to look back and remember when they added jungles or even fences.
Oh jeez, I played xbox 360 minecraft way back when it came out, and me and my younger sister played the demo version with just the tutorial so much. We used to think that flower dye was pickaxes! And then I remember when we bought it properly, and were able to leave that starting area and play for more than 15 minutes.... I remember when pistons first came to console, and I remember the automatic cobble generator bridge you had to use to get to the castle! I remember when the nether was added, and the portal in the floating MINECRAFT sign, and my brother in law (then my older sisters boyfriend) telling us that the nether was dangerous, and we needed to sleep first. That brings back so many good memories for me, and I just sent the map to my sister to give her the same nostalga trip I got, realizing that versions of it still exist.
there was this one map that was a city map, a modern day city, absolutely massive in scope and all the buildings had fully done interiors. It was really inspiring.
Herobrine’s Mansion was such a dope random experience. Pretty sure I was just looking for seeds or mods when I came across it, hopped it, didn’t even know what an adventure map even was, didn’t even really partake in anything but just walking around the mansion and feeling the space dripping with mystery and story was unbelievable. Still a top MC moment,
A map that gives me the most nostalgia is definitely Stampys lovely world. I remember watching his videos when I was little even though I didn´t undersatnd english. His intros are just so nostalgic.
One of my favorite minigame worlds to play on the Legacy versions of Minecraft Console was starting a world with nothing but lava as the bottom layer above the void and gravel or sand as the top layer on a custom superflat with a single bonus chest which upon being opened would start the game. The chest would cause block updates causing the gravel to start falling, however unlike bedrock and java not all the block updates would happen at once since it would likely have crashed the underpowered consoles at the time or caused severe lag. Instead the gravel would start falling out in waves and the only way to escape it was to hopefully come across a village which you would quickly tear down or settle it if it had saplings and dirt available, but your activity there could start more block updates which would cause another hole in the world to open up. There was never really an end goal with this self-imposed minigame, it was just chaotic fun and it got even better once we got unlimited world generation on consoles which was a huge leap forward at the time until we lost the custom layers setting for world creation. It was fun while it lasted.
EDIT: I'm seeing a lot of comments about the "LOST to Time" title, and thinking I meant lost media, or maps that can't be found/downloaded anymore. First off, I didn't mean to mislead you! What I meant specifically by "lost to time" is old maps that have completely *fallen out of the spotlight over the years.* Whether it's being too old of a version, not being played anymore, or lost to the sea of new and improved maps for the newest versions -- that is what I mean! I probably could've worded that better, but I hope that clears it up. This video is meant to spread feelings of nostalgia by revisiting old maps, not look for ones that are lost media (although that would be an excellent video!).
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hey everyone, thanks for hangin'! I hope you enjoyed this one as much as I enjoyed putting it together. hope your day is excellent, and let me know your favorite map or old map memories below me!
remmeber me when you famous man
Great vid
I think you should have said forgotten instead. Great video though mate.
No Diggy Diggy Hole?
i don't think it's misleading at all, but people will always find something to angry about :}
A map that gives me tons of nostalgia is the Hunger Games map. I just remember TONS of Hunger Games videos in like 2012-2014 on one specific map. I'm so glad that Minecraft is a game that promotes community and people having fun together.
Ah love this map! I never actually played it but it was fun to watch.. so true!
OG hunger games definitely deserves to be on this list. I LOVED playing it back in the day. very fond memories of being awful at the game but having a blast
The one sith the construction site in the middle?
og hunger games is still active and popular here in brazil.
That's exactly the one I used to play. I think I still have a download of it somewhere. There were two I believe. I have the second one somewhere for sure but I have no idea what ever happened to the first one. When I got it I didn't know I had it at first. It came in a sketchy looking mod pack that I can not for the life of me remember the name of. It came with both versions. I found it in this mod pack under a worlds file. I was curious if any of them would work in Minecraft and turns out it did. There were like 3 more worlds in that file but those didn't amount to the survival games worlds.
I remember exploring my world for the temple of notch. I just walked for ages leaving a trail of torches. I also believed a lie a friend told. He said there was ONE triangle on top of a tree on a lonely island.
For some reason i thought that all minecraft worlds were connected, and if i walked for long enough i would find other peoples bases.
Oh, but they are.
@@ResidentialGondola santas not real
@@carpetsmell2523 :(
@@carpetsmell2523 what
@@StarHorder i didnt believe it the first time I heard it aswell🤷♂️
Shadow of Israphel is a name I haven’t heard in years. A massive tidal wave of nostalgia just slammed into me
I'm so sad I only ever knew about the my little pony parody they did of it 😭 my 9 year old self had priorities ig
It's worse for me, I started the series(for some ungodly reason) around the point they left they wall and headed into the desert, clearly remember the f*cking milk bucket and invisible pickaxe though!
I'm so sad they never finished it.
God I wish they finished it! That story they told as well as all the locations and characters played by their friends was really good. It was like a co-op Freeman’s Mind in a game that wasn’t limited to a story set by the developers. I already loved Minecraft but the full Yogscast Survival series from their humble start to SOI made me love it all the more.
Time to rewatch it
Anyone remember the horror map The Orphanage? Everybody thought it was the scariest thing ever at the time
omgggg i totally forgot about the orphanage!
Same with Grief.
I think I remember that one... can't remember specifics though but it does ring a bell.
Ah yes.... DanTDM! Dan The Diamond Minecart
Yeah, I do. That was the only adventure map I ever played through. I just didn't like any others. I just happened to find it randonly on some forum or whatever back in the day.
man I'm old. it's so bizarre to me seeing so many kids express nostalgia for 2016-2018 minecraft when for me the glory days were 1.7 beta thru ~1.6. not that there's anything wrong with it of course, I'm glad to see so many younger people carrying the minecraft torch, but it's still surreal. I remember being so in awe at the temple of notch lol, by today's standards it seems rather simplistic.
anyway, this showed up on my feed, so you're doing something right as far as algorithm is concerned. you've got the editing and the attitude down (not shrieking into your microphone like too many other gaming youtubers) keep it up and soon I'll be able to brag about having been your ~2,080th subscriber.
thanks for all the kind words. I definitely share the same sentiment - hard to believe it’s been 13 years of Minecraft.
Honestly for me 2012-2013 minecraft is where it's at
Same
@@AgedSwissCheese ah yes.. that was also the era of the old/best minecraft youtubers. 😢
nah man, the real glory days were beta 1.5- release 1.3
Since I was playing Minecraft in Russian community, my favorite kind of maps were and still are those silly little plot-based maps made by other kids at that time. There's just something charming about the way the builds and story are presented. Especially the story, since they had to place dozens of signs.
I still remember a very small map where you play as a thief in a village. While all the villagers were celebrating the New Year somewhere away, you could easily break in houses different ways, steal stuff and find out people's little secrets. That was such an awesome addition to my 2012-2013 winter holidays!
Я тоже обожал карты на прохождение типо Побег из Тюрьмы 10 частей
@@plushrei5926si señor
2010-2015 Yogscast will forever be cemented in Minecraft History.
The memories of huddling around my laptop with my siblings to watch a new shadow of Israphel will forever stick with me. Its hard to explain the feeling I got watching that series as it came out
There's also another famous minecraft map which was most likely lost forever, and im 100% sure you heard about it.
Im talking about YOUR first minecraft world. A truly legendary and famous minecraft map which everyone know about, however most of the people either deleted, or lost.
id give a lot of money to get mine and my brothers original xbox 360 creative superflat map back
I think I still have the old laptop mine was on, maybe I’ll take a look
I still have it. When I was 12 I migrated my first world to Bukkit and I have hosted the world ever since.
@@nchavez314 I would pay more money then I have for it
My original Java maps were lost when we did some PC cleaning and when I moved from the family desktop to my own laptop. Three of my favourites were:
My original Green Hill map which had a lot of forested hills and cliffs though I don’t remember a lot about it. (I named my first few maps after Classic Sonic levels as Minecraft always looked like Green Hill Zone as made in a stripped down version of the classic Tomb Raider engine to me)
Lava Reef where my base was built in a mountain that suspiciously had formed to look exactly like an extinct volcano, main shaft to the cave system, plugs, side vents and all. I had a lava lamp & lapis lazuli wallpaper in the master bedroom inside a side vent just below the plugged up crater/peak, a smoking chimney on the crater plug penthouse to find my way back from afar, an outhouse at the outer rim of the crater plug which spilled into a slurry collection trough by the master bedroom entrance (the idea was it would collect waste to turn into fertiliser for the farm below), a volcanic soil farm and nether portal on the lower slopes by the river, an escape tunnel, panic room, a “blaze bath” which was a glow stone bathtub full of lava for “hot tub” bathing (with fire potions), fiery traps like pits and flaming arrows (unfinished) and the main shaft was sealed with warning signs about the lava tube & magma chamber mines below. Both those maps started on the beta versions that had working beds, but I kept them well into version 1.0.
Insanity Caves, which was my first 1.0 map and would have been the basis for a Minecraft book I had in mind, set around a survivor of an apocalypse surviving his way across an archipelago and killing a terrifying decay monster made of raw entropy called the Antitime. Little did I realise said monster was basically Pennywise, mainly just the dead lights part and nothing else which was scary as I wouldn’t read It for 2 years at this point. Outside my main house across from the hill it was on was a mountain “island” I built a bridge to whose base looked like a tornado made of rock. I had a farm of all plants in the game at the time including trees, melon, pumpkin and nether wart, a library for enchanting, a nether portal with easy access to a nether fort, the titular underground caves below my house I still have embellished paper maps of, a vast desert and mountain range in opposite ends of away from my house, the former of which hid my first stronghold. I had secondary bases in both those locations (the desert for easy respawning and backtracking if I died in the End) and I was in the middle of making a railway to connect them all when I lost all my old original maps. Insanity Caves was the first Minecraft map I ever killed the Enderdragon and beat the game on, which alongside all the others I played back in the day makes it hold a special place in my heart.
I remember the super hostile map series. That was the peak for me
Speedruns of those old CTM maps are still being played
Those maps where just amazing.
Vechs is a real legend for making those
Thanks man, I'm so happy I could make something fun for you!
One map I remember playing a lot was a CTM called "Diversity".
Something interesting was that each wool block needed to complete the monument was a reward for completing a minigame (There was a labyrinth, a parkour, a dropper, etc.)
Tho, I don't know if it was a very popular map...?
I was also a Pocket Edition player so the lobby of a server called "Lifeboat" is burned into my brain.
Does someone else remember that server?
I remember hearing of Lifeboat back in the day, but never played much pocket edition myself. never heard of Diversity! just looked it up, it looks super cool and looks like a huge part of the CTM genre. I guess they've made a few sequels too?
I always played Hunger Games when I was younger. ty for the comment!
Diversity 2 was pretty revolutionary and most older Minecraft UA-camrs have played it. It was also my first adventure map video I watched.
i think etho or team canada as a whole have a series on that map
I used to LOVE lifeboat. My first Minecraft “girlfriend” was a female DanTDM skin I met there, while I had the original DanTDM skin. Other than that, I remember all of the friends I used to meet there…
Yes, Diversity was what I immediately thought of! Still remember playing through Diversity 1 and 2 with some friends back in middle school.
Definitely get Stampy’s lovely world somewhere on there, there was a part of a tutorial map on 360 that I played a while back and the amount of memory’s it sent through my mind was insane just walking into each room of the wood and sandstone house.
I’m pretty sure he still makes lovely world videos, so it’s not quite lost to time, but I agree. My most memorable Minecraft map
@@iTeachMyToast yeah. I was thinking the PopularMMOS map would be on here.
@@gamingwithkris7112 oh shit yeah that’s another one
@@iTeachMyToast you poor summer child, Stmapy plans to end his lovely World Series this year, I assume he wishes to part ways with what birthed his channel which is Minecraft tho I’m surprised he doesn’t move to Java modded with old friends or as a solo, thus not to be it seems tho.
@@iTeachMyToast sadly not anymore
Tutorial and Temple will always be my favorites, One map i played as a kid was a java ported map to Xbox called Worldbuscus which was Toby's world when he first started doing his minecraft lets play and another bit of an obscure one was called DreamCraft which was a custom 360 map that played like a RolePlay game it was pretty cool at the time
That’s pretty cool! 😁😁
i will always remember Vechs' Super Hostile series, particularly Spellbound Caves. I spent so long watching ChimneySwift's series and later spending hours beating it and Kaizo Caverns in hardcore multiple times. Truly amazing maps
Kaizo Caverns was the first cavern one right? I really remember that one because of how big it felt when it came out, and how small it felt compared to later maps. You could reach halfway across the starting cave unlike the later cave maps with their several chunks wide caves. Even the big caves are smaller than the really big caves in the later maps.
ROOT BEER!
I did sea of flame, sunburn islands, and infernal sky although, on the latter, a creeper blew up one of the wool chests so I was screwed.
One I think should have been on this list is the old Prisons maps so many UA-camrs used for Coos and Robbers. The one where you had to escape the prison and then make your way to the ship to escape. I have so many good memories of that map
12:05 the Skygrid map was included in the 2020 April Fool's portal update as an Easter egg!
:O I did not know this!! good shout
What's the seed to get it??
@@fresanegra77 the title of the book to throw into the portal is "skygrid"
@@PlayerOfCeleste thank you!!!!
For me it’ll forever be Deep Space Turtle Chase by CaptainSparklez and the VoxelBox. Truly a monumental map for its time and was ahead of its time as well. To this day I am still sad there was never a second part made.
I remember the old yogscast playthrough of it
Was this the map with the alien planet texture pack and audio logs? I remember watching the Yogscast play it. It was cool.
Yup, and both that and SOI had their own sountracks made for them. Although a couple days after release Deep Space Turtle chase had to claim a lot of videos and redo the entire soundtrack again because the first soundtrack had too much sampling.
Does anyone remember Hillside Manor from like 2012? I used to love exploring that map because there was just so much content like a main hotel, a market, a huge waterslide, redstone museum, etc.
It think back then it was one of the most popular maps on Planetminecraft :D
This made me cry, i still remember grabbing my grandma laptop as a kid and downloading the pirate minecraft the AnjoCaido launcher. Playing it for the first time was a feeling that i don't think i ever felt again, all these maps i played with my school friends. Thank you for making this video and bringing good memories of my childhood.
wowww i didn't know that the launcher i was using had a name, just looking at pictures of the anjocaido launcher brings back so many memories haha, thank u
Man you don't have to hit me hard with the Xbox 360 tutorial map. I almost cried, I remember the big castle what was like a maze. Also there was hidden place where you can visit Stampylonghead house. It was such a great time.
I remember being 9 in 2011 when I found out about minecraft because of pocket edition and started watching videos of the game. I’m really glad that I was around for the games “prime”. Minecraft nostalgia is crazy. All I watched from 4th grade to 8th grade was minecraft
It’s very nice to see the Yogscast get the recognition it deserves, I remember watching them every time I would come back home from school
One map that I still to this day have fantastic memories of is Mianite season 1. The smp before smps. Something built by both chaos and lore and I remember watching the stream recordings after school.
I was hoping this would have popped up in the video, Mianite Season 1 was peak imo
As long as we remember it in our hearts, these maps can never be forgotten as they will live on in our memories
The original Hunger Games map as well as SG4. Those are beyond iconic. And Cops and Robbers, take your pick on which version. Coming from a childhood watching Team Crafted it doesn't get much more nostalgic than that. All of the ones you showed were incredibly nostalgic too. Sometimes I miss those times, though it's also nice to see the newer generations create their iconic landmarks
The one with the ship is the best cops and robbers map ever made
Nostalgia is like an anvil dropped from build height all the way down to bedrock over your hearth
Man I remember the 360 tutorial world, such a beautiful time to play. Thank you for mentioning it!
Finally, someone else feels a lot for skygrid as well. It was the first ever kind of survival map I used to play on this old server. Sadly, this server closed down, and another server that was also close to my heart, but I'm just happy to have experienced them.
The mob fight arena from PopularMMOs and Stampy’s wonderful world are probably the two maps that come to mind the most outside of DanTDM’s lab when it comes to nostalgic maps, those three were the ones I watched the most, the Mob fights were interesting seeing what two different creatures were forced to fight each other and Stampy’s world was just a delight to see what wacky things were made there
This may be a little more niche than other maps not mentioned, but the giant statue map of skydoesminecraft someone gifted sky back in 2012 hits me every time. I remember seeing that video when it was posted after about 2 months of watching him and thinking I was part of a community unlike any other. Sad that those days are long gone now, but I’m glad that they happened and I stuck around till the end of the sky I knew growing up.
Achievement city deserved to be on my list IMO. Achievements hunters let’s plays were massive at the time they had millions and millions of views. And sadly the seeds save file was corrupted long ago
achievement city was what I grew up with in middle/high school. Good times :,) I was thinking of covering some old youtuber worlds actually!
I spent tons of time playing Clouds and Wipeout on the pc recreation of Achievement City, fun even in singleplayer
Diversity 2, I still remember how excited I was when I beat it back in 2016...
God what I wouldn't give to play that map with my old gang just one more time...
I don't think I've ever played it
@@b3kstudio We should play it sometime, maybe once I have power again.
the tutorial maps are a really big one for me, especially since it was all me and my brother played on the free trial back in the day. we spend so many hours on them, and constantly begged our dad to buy it. some of the best memories on Minecraft for me are on the many different version of it
One map that i have tons of nostalgia for is the yoglabs map
Dear god, I completely share your feelings about the survival island map; I remember watching these two dorks called the Gingecast play that game with the John Smith texture pack, wow is that nostalgic...
Growing up in the early 2010s was nice and looking back on the old Minecraft days brings back so much nostalgia
I think two honorable mentions would be the demo worlds that exist or had existed for PC and console. Both of them would give you a time limit before the game would effectively become Adventure Mode before that was even an official gamemode. The PC version in particular was also a pre-release demo before hunger existed.
They both count as maps as the console version definitely had prebuilt buildings and the PC one has a starter chest (with a secret bonus chest if you dig directly below the sign next to the first starter chest which had diamonds). Sadly, I can't seem to find the demo I'm referring to as looking on UA-cam seems to show multiple different demo versions. But one of those versions does include the sign bonus chest, but it contains different items and uses a different seed.
Besides the Dropper and its sequel map later (both of which the Yogscast played), my favourite has to be T3C Parkour, which was a platforming challenge based adventure map with several courses with their own themes. Some were playing in the park, others were various precious block towers with hard as hell geometry inside, one or two were deserts and tundra one of which forced you to jump along cacti, there was a dark dungeon, a Singapore themed shopping mall whose toilets you could flush yourself down into a sewer, a carnival and a building site, with humorous signs about the workmen getting spooked and trying to stop the daring traceur I.E. you.
It was laid out like an adventure theme park with a central lobby area and a subway system connecting all the courses. Your score was measured by collecting diamonds Tomb Raider 2 dragon secrets style (alternately Mario Sunshine star or Crash Bandicoot gems). It’s super fun and felt like a boot camp for Classic Tomb Raider fans such as myself. Sadly, I can’t find this map anymore or at least any working links with no malware (anyone able to help me out here please? 🥺).
I did keep the updated version that came later, TPC Parkour but despite having some new and fun maps while removing crap ones, it’s not as good because some of my favourite maps were removed too due to having set pieces (usually TNT based) you could only trigger once like the Carnival, the theme park & subway layout was changed to a boring Dropper style white hallway with teleporter level select triggered by buttons and running it in newer builds of Java Minecraft renders it literally unplayable as all the command blocks are broken, meaning important set pieces like springs or potion effect generators, the breakable wall used to enter the level select and most glaringly the very teleporters needed to access the levels in the first place do not work at all, effectively bricking the whole map unless you install and play using an older version of Minecraft.
I might do just that as I think the launcher lets you install older MC Java versions but I want the original T3C Parkour map back too.
Zelda Adventure is a map worth mentioning. I thiiink it technically also counts as a mod? But a map itself does a lot of the heavy lifting to show what the mods WAY back in the day could do, in a way that predates modern Minecraft features and replicates the feeling of exploring the Aether. The map was a showcase for the potential Minecraft held, with a focus on atmosphere, the inability to break blocks so you could feel immersed in the hand crafted world, there were actual dungeons and somewhat of a story to follow, and new mechanics put to use like being able to toss bombs or having two hands for your inventory slot.
Omg Zelda Adventure was soooo mindblowing back then. I mean it still is to this day. The map had like an actual Story with cutscenes and was such a good replica
Seeing Skygrid again sent me way back, wow. The nostalgia.
hope you get better soon
I always thought that there was some hidden something in the mansion, a hidden room or place that just needed finding, a secret that was never discovered, it's strange, just seeing after all that time brings so many feelings, people that were just never met voices, but called friend, remembering the names of Minecraft youtubers you will never see again, the crazy mistakes you made when you first started, hoping you can call out the noob when they make the same mistake, but you never do.
You enter a server and talk to a guy or girl you have never met like a friend you haven't seen for a while. You never realise how big the Minecraft community is or close until you stop playing. Great times my friend, great times.
I spent so long on skyblock having no idea there where other islands… loved watching series based around this map! This is a good video btw, lots of effort put in! Ly ❤
think of all the time spent at the ol' cobble generator
@@PaladinRyan Paha! I oddly find it satisfying xD of course man, it makes it easier that they’re really good :P
As far as I remember the first version of the map only had one island. Then there was a new version that had a second sand island with obsidian for a portal 30 blocks away, and a third island with more resources in the nether.
@@Zeder95 correct, but the first one wasn't a voidworld, as that was only implemented later because of the popularity of skyblock
the first map was a normal world with a 10k X 10k hole edited in
if you bridged 5,000 blocks away from the skyblock island you could reach a normally generated world
@@drthmik I actually remember that, I built a bridge over to the mainland thousands of blocks away because I saw it in some UA-cam video, this was BEFORE the Skyblock authors added a rule that you are not allowed to bridge to the mainland. Then afterwards I played it without bridging to the mainland.
Minecraft UA-cam was probably the main "teacher" back in the day teaching me English, better than school ever could :'D So I remember just basically learning while watching tons and tons of Minecraft videos and it is just a nice memory thinking back, especially thinking about all the maps then. It's wild to think about I've played Minecraft and been watching videos for such a huge part of my life honestly. But I think the main reason Minecraft maps used to be more of a big thing years ago isn't that we now think about them fondly because of nostalgia, or because we were easier to impress because of the standards we had. I think it's more because it was all so new and most importantly there weren't so many and they weren't all trying to top each other if that makes sense? The maps nowadays are IMPRESSIVE but to a point they almost feel like a big official thing. But earlier on it felt more personal and just people trying out some new stuff. And now there are SO many and so many of them are really good. There just hasn't been a big one that everyone on UA-cam goes and plays anymore and that becomes super popular because everyone plays it. In comparison the newer ones are probably more "popular" because more people play it but earlier ones felt more impactful. Like, they've gotten better and better over time but you just can't have that same feeling from back then anymore, it's the same with Minecraft in general I feel. Early Minecraft and modern Minecraft have two completely different feels, and while I love both, I do find myself looking back at the early, simpler one a lot, but maybe in this case that's just the nostalgia and memories. :D
The CTW/CTM maps by Vechs were awesome and my absolute favorite!
I was wondering where Super Hostile was when watching. Vechs is a _legend_ and has even influenced some changes to the official game. (See: Silverfish Apocalypse)
Sea of Flame is the very first in the series and as since been replaced with its remake Sea of Flame II and would've been a perfect candidate for this video.
You really understand the impact of DanTDM when even me, who didn't even speak English at the time, can recognize and recall watching videos of him
One that is nostalgic for me is the original planetoids by yogscast. With all the floating planets.
I’ll never forget playing Herobrine’s Mansion for the first time with my then best friend. Man, life was different back then.
One map I remember being popular for a bit was Pile of Bodies by SethBling. It was a Survival map comprised of giant stacked player statues of various Minecraft developers and UA-camrs’ skins, with unique things inside each statue’s head. I remember seeing a few popular videos and Let’s Play series of it back when it released from the likes of AntVenom and CavemanFilms
Man , I miss old Minecraft mods and maps
I think the thing I love most about the original survival island is that you can tell without even looking at the release date that this was LONG before the Beta 1.8 Adventure Update.
Simply put as a survival map it is nearly impossible to survive in without dying atleast once as by design there's no consideration for hunger as a mechanic. The island is too small for mobs to spawn unless underground, there's so few dirt blocks that animals will be unlikely to spawn, and there's no potential sources of food provided at all.
Sure you can get bonemeal and potential get a seed from tall grass or an apple from the trees, but that's an extremely Noah's Arc way of farming food. Basically making mere scraps into something potentially livable.
0:18 I’m glad you included that map. Even it was just in the intro. Me and my friends had a server on that map for years from like probably 2011 ish to 2015ish and it was such a good map
What a video... Thank you, these are rather epic.
And I am happy to see mentions of such UA-camrs like Stampy and Squid, DanTDM and the Yogscast! And SethBling's insane SkyGrid.
The Dropper, Herobrine's Mansion and The lab, they are probably the best for me.
If theres one map that comes to mind, out of every map I've ever played, its one that I've, ironically, entirety forgotten the name of. It was just this giant, wooden "mansion", in quotations because i forgot if we ever got to actually see the outside of the build.
It was a mostly linear "adventure map", although i think thats mostly the case because of the massive amount of death pits there were, mostly unintentional if im remembering right. It was all wood, ALL of it, pretty sure there were signs with text on them. Not a piece of it that wasnt some sort of oak wood texture, and im not sure if we even had a hunger bar yet.
It was really just this massive adventure, and looking through half a million videos about forgotten maps, i havent seen this one talked about. Ever. So, this one was truly forgotten it seems to me, its second death, i just wish i could find it again. And, no, it's not Herobrines Mansion, i know.
It was... something ive almost entirely forgotten about, but something i will never ever forget about.
Amazing video and a great nostalgia trip :) Looking back, it's amazing how many famous stories and concepts the Minecraft community has crafted (pun not intended) over the years from such a simple foundation!
Recently me and some friends started playing the classic Skyblock 2.1, and what I love so much about it is that the more Minecraft gets updated, the more things you can do on the map. It really is *timeless.*
As of late, I feel like I've been seeing a lot more people that have small channels but have the potential to make it huge with their style of videos. You're one of the channels. Good shit man :)
Also: the most nostalgic thing in this entire video was listening to that skype call audio. I almost cried.. Where did the time go?
I once downloaded a map which had a huge castle, a huge treehouse and a windmill all next to each other, I lost the map on a power outage that damaged my PC back in like 2013/2014.
I have NEVER been able to find that map again... it was my favorite of all time, and it only lives on as a memory.
I feel like Jeoffrey's Chamber is also worth a mention. Not massively popular, but it was absolutely a turning point in the way adventure maps are made.
i need to thank you because i was searching for this map for 30 minutes and couldn't remember the name THANK YOU SO MUCH 😭
I still remember Sky Grid from iBallisticSquid, as he set up a story of how his Sky Island Challenge world got devoured and turned into that mess.
Shame he ended the series just after he came returned to his original Sky Island Challenge world, as he abandoned it as if he would continue but not.
Even tough I didn't experience most of these maps as a kid - growing up in Latin America, I was more engaged with the spanish-speaking Minecraft community, yet - many of these maps are nostalgic in some way, almost as if I have played them or some similar ones. Man, I'm afraid many new players might have a very different experience; seeing how Microsoft is pushing the non-Java versions of the game, I wonder if new players will have the same freedom to explore community made maps, mods, and servers.
i will never get as much nostalgia from any of these maps than Stampy's Lovely World. It feels so magical.
It’s not even a reskinned villager it’s just an old librarian villager texture it’s just that simple
i have such a strong memory of being a kid watching shadow of israphel and their first encounters with "NPCs" who spoke and had dialogue with them. I was so shocked at where I could find NPCs who you could talk with in my game that I wondered for years if it was mods or what--and how it could be in the game at that time. I will never ever forget that minecraft series
Y-you forgot the PopularMMOs house
A world that is still playable but has definitely changed and has fallen off over the years is MineZ. It's very nostalgic for me.
I’ve been watching your videos and had no idea this was a “small” channel this whole time. You are talented dawg
comments like this mean more than you know. thanks for watching and saying that!
I actually just went through last week on a quest to find all of these maps also to which I recovered many of them already, roughly 15
The first time I played Minecraft was in 2012 on the tutorial world from the 360 edition, I can remember asking my friend if torch’s would catch my house on fire or finding the hidden diamond armor for the first time by the castle, the spider spawner behind the stone furnace building, or even the random space underneath the castles floor at the back. This is my favorite memory of Minecraft, and I’ll never forget it. I was only 9 when I had this experience and it feels like it was yesterday.
i recently discovered your channel and i have to say that you are extremely underrated. the ammount of nostalgia in combination with quality content is just unreal, thank you for your videos.
so glad to hear it!
dan, u r not only the farher of two, but millions, ty for dr. tryaurus, ty for the old lab, the mod reviews, everyting. u deverve the tittle of the father of all.
also dont forget grim the dog
Amazing video, brings up memories of times when the game felt like the Wild West! Keep up the great work!
For me on the pocket edition, it was Unrealengines. It was one of the only maps that had a waterfall and lava fall side by side at a time when caves weren’t implemented in the game and so lava was extremely rare.
I expected "lost to time" as in, actual lost media. Bit misleading of a title if you ask me, but still good content nonetheless.
hmm I didn't even think about the confusion..I intended "lost to time" as in forgotten/old/faded to obscurity. thanks for the feedback, i might change it if others feel this way!
Yea doesn't seem confusing lmao its probably just a you thing
Even though it is still being used today, stamps lovely world was one of the high points in my childhood
Does anyone remember that famous Minecraft map of hidden doors. Probably like 2010 and you had to click a lever on a tree to activate a piston door. But then inside there was a bunch more red stone stuff. I loved that map
Shadow of Israphael was my comfort series back then. So nostalgic. Miss those days. I wish I could rewatch them for the first time all over again
Man, Minecraft will forever be a OG game, never thought I'd be this nostalgic over the game
I'm a fan of some of the oldest Minecraft Adventure Maps, like **Redmurk Mystery.** I also have vague, blurry, but fond memories of **Gourd Avenger** and **Trial of the Old Ones.** I've been wanting to revisit them for some time now, but I don't even know if download links for them still exist.
Anyone remember the old legacy console minigame lobby? That map was so good.
The one where you could like jump on slime blocks in a hub?
I got the game because my nan literally paid me and my sister to not interact with her when we saw her in our town one time. She lives a literal island away and we hadn't seen her for 2 years.
Some of the first videos I ever watched on youtuber was ihascupquake playing Diversity. That will forever be one of my favorites just out of infinite nostalgia
I learned english mostly through dantdm mod reviews.I could never forget the lab.
Man, these bring back memories. Fun days when I'd say my brother "look what I made when you were not there", and he believed it! I was putting in the acting of "ahhh my hands pain so much that took a while" LOLLLLLLL. Memories.
someone shoudl totally create a mod/adventure map that uses the shadow of israphel map, that adds NPC, and a new quest to find Simon and Lewis since they disappeared without finishing the series, and you are requested to help track them down while exploring the map full of life and interact and do side quests from npcs, now that would be amazing!
The tutorial maps are all so nostalgic for me. I always did roleplays with just me alone in those worlds… that’s so so sooo cool to think about that again
Here's a bit of minecraft nostalgia that only very few people _ever_ knew about: remember how they had the online demo version right on their website, running in your browser? When starting that, It would download a full version of minecraft to your computer but then run it in demo-mode within your browser. HOWEVER, if you would then download the desktop launcher (which you could do without buying the game), it would detect that you have minecraft already installed and would allow you to run the full version of the game in offline mode, without the need to log in. That would only work after having used the demo, because otherwise the launcher would say "buy minecraft to download it".
This exploit got removed when they introduced the new launcher with the 1.6 version of the game.
Back then this was the absolute safest way to "crack" the game because you were literally running the official minecraft software. Could only play on servers which allowed offline mode, but to hell with that, my parents wouldn't buy me the game and I was playing it anyway!
Another map that gives me huge nostalgia is the OG Stampylonghead map, it doesn’t really fit the “lost to time” name, but added a lot to my childhood
christmas day, 2013. my dad decided to get an xbox 360 for me and my sister so we had something to do when we went to his house. it had come with kinect and kinect adventures, but i had only one thing on my mind. with the $20 i had gotten from my grandparents, i asked my dad to go to walmart, and i marched straight back to the electronics section, and picked up the very first game i had ever bought myself, minecraft. we went back home and i immediately started playing. i had played the first version of pocket edition sometime earlier in the year, but this was the first time i had the entire game to explore. i started a new tutorial world, and fully immersed myself in learning all the different mechanics that it taught back then, and while i was learning, i was also stunned by how incredible the game looked compared to what i was used to, which was my n64. that was nearly a decade ago now, but the memory is still fresh in my mind. i miss those days, watching toonami on adult swim when i was supposed to be asleep, playing gameboy games on playr, reading manga that i’d borrowed from the library, and watching avgn videos. i miss being 9 sometimes. things were a lot simpler then. life is harder, and scarier, and the world is in a constant spiral of chaos, but when things start to get overwhelming, i know i can still boot up an older build, and enjoy a few hours in old school minecraft
The map "Sunburn islands" from the series "super Hostile" deserves to have an spot here. It is the first user Map i have played ever.
The fact that you had 600 subscribers when you made a video that was this high quality is genuinely amazing.
I still have every version of the Xbox 360 tutorial map. I wish the would do that again because finding every music disc was super fun
The nostalgia hits from fallen kingdom and the Xbox 360 tutorials are insane... The flashbacks... My brother once had a world called survive and thrive. We actually still have it. My brother had a house, while I would live underground. Beside his house... Good times...
as someone who literally plugged my ears and ignored minecraft for 13 years, only to kinda get into it in the later half of 2023, it's kinda wild hearing about Sethbling here when I associate him with being the guy who was the first to perform Super Mario World ACE to get the world record via the credits warp.
A hilariously nostalgic map is the 10 year anniversary map. It came out in 2019, but it goes through all the changes in the game. If you have been playing minecraft for a while then you'll be able to look back and remember when they added jungles or even fences.
Oh jeez, I played xbox 360 minecraft way back when it came out, and me and my younger sister played the demo version with just the tutorial so much. We used to think that flower dye was pickaxes! And then I remember when we bought it properly, and were able to leave that starting area and play for more than 15 minutes.... I remember when pistons first came to console, and I remember the automatic cobble generator bridge you had to use to get to the castle! I remember when the nether was added, and the portal in the floating MINECRAFT sign, and my brother in law (then my older sisters boyfriend) telling us that the nether was dangerous, and we needed to sleep first. That brings back so many good memories for me, and I just sent the map to my sister to give her the same nostalga trip I got, realizing that versions of it still exist.
such a good story!! Love it.
there was this one map that was a city map, a modern day city, absolutely massive in scope and all the buildings had fully done interiors. It was really inspiring.
Herobrine’s Mansion was such a dope random experience. Pretty sure I was just looking for seeds or mods when I came across it, hopped it, didn’t even know what an adventure map even was, didn’t even really partake in anything but just walking around the mansion and feeling the space dripping with mystery and story was unbelievable. Still a top MC moment,
A map that gives me the most nostalgia is definitely Stampys lovely world. I remember watching his videos when I was little even though I didn´t undersatnd english. His intros are just so nostalgic.
One of my favorite minigame worlds to play on the Legacy versions of Minecraft Console was starting a world with nothing but lava as the bottom layer above the void and gravel or sand as the top layer on a custom superflat with a single bonus chest which upon being opened would start the game. The chest would cause block updates causing the gravel to start falling, however unlike bedrock and java not all the block updates would happen at once since it would likely have crashed the underpowered consoles at the time or caused severe lag. Instead the gravel would start falling out in waves and the only way to escape it was to hopefully come across a village which you would quickly tear down or settle it if it had saplings and dirt available, but your activity there could start more block updates which would cause another hole in the world to open up. There was never really an end goal with this self-imposed minigame, it was just chaotic fun and it got even better once we got unlimited world generation on consoles which was a huge leap forward at the time until we lost the custom layers setting for world creation. It was fun while it lasted.
Thinknoodles' lab with the minions - my entire childhood
I remember watching him blowing up the cities with Kevin's tnt... good times