That library is actually the library of babel, which is an infinite library that contains every single possible book in existence, because each book is a random assortment of characters containing every single possible combination of characters. This naturally generates an infinite amount of books, but somewhere hidden in the library are combinations of letters which make perfect sense, and contain the world's greatest secrets, like the cure to cancer (since there is at least one combination of letters that would generate that.) Furthermore, there is a book that would guide you properly through the library, though said book is rather impossible to find, and even if you found it, it may not be a "real" guide since many fake ones would also spawn due to the nature of the library.
The library has all the truths and lies of the world kept within it, all prophecies, true and false. It has both Shakespear and Shakespear but one letter is off. Everything, it has an image of my great great grand children's birth made out of letters and characters. Would be interesting if we could use AI to find specific books.
My problem with concepts like these is that the chance of actually finding something coherent is so infinitely small that it may as well be zero. Like, sure, the cure to cancer might be there, but you would have to sift through literal millions of books before getting maybe one word right. I know that it's supposed to be rooted in real hypothesis of quantum physics, the idea that the universe is infinite and there are only a finite configurations that matter can exist in, and so at some point things would just have to repeat. So a banana , or more famously a boltzmann brain, could materialize out of nowhere in the middle of space. The problem is that matter is simply more likely to assume other shapes rather than these hyper specific objects. It's simply more likely for an unassuming cloud of space gas to be copied over and over ad infinitum. Sure, THEORETICALLY that banana might exist somewhere, but the chances are so low compared to the vastness of infinity that it really doesn't matter. It could simply not exist You can let a random generator run for eternity, sure maybe at one point you would find a coherent thing, but you would have to wait through multiple lifetimes of multiple universes to maybe get one slightly coherent paragraph, and it won't be shakespeare.
Technically the farlands exist even on the latest version,just that they generate about 53 quadrillion blocks away instead of the about 12 million that the original farlands generated
@@therealfrapsedIf anything, that's exactly what DOES make it creepy. Like the game itself (or something inside of it) chose something that subtle yet unsettling, not an IRL programmer. 😶
I think "nothing to solve" is directly aimed at the players combing through each dimensions looking for secrets and mystery. Like the hidden chest under isolation, which provided a bit of a tongue-in-cheek secret to the dimension, but the book "nothing to solve" emphasizes that they're just that. Easter eggs. Funny secrets. That there is no deeper mystery to solve. This might even be more applicable to the entirety of the game with players looking for a clear concise storyline to follow where, maybe according to the book, there is none, just various game design decisions. Maybe. who knows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm glad more people have been drawing attention to this version recently, it's one of my favorite things Minecraft has ever done. On one hand, I wish there was more to this update, but on the other, I wonder if the relatively small number of hard-coded dimensions helps each one feel distinct (I mean, 43 is not a particularly small number, but still). I also like the overall tone of the update. You don't often see straight humor in the game aside from these April Fools updates, and I feel like that disconnect actually helps to make the update feel more out of place. Most of these April Fools updates (In particular 2016,2019,2020,2023 and 2024) feel like you're given the opportunity to view what Minecraft looks like in a weird alternate universe, which makes them very memorable
i dont know if anyone else noticed, but "nothing to solve" is a signed book, meaning it goes to its own dimension. i wonder if there's anything interesting in that dimension?
I LOVED this april fools snapshot because it looked like they were experimenting with new features that we, the players, would get to use for ourselves in the future. That ended up being true - support for custom dimensions came very shortly afterward. However, I also specifically remember getting physically nauseous when I played this snapshot. I feel like it had something to do with the fact that most of the random (non-easteregg) dimensions followed one of maybe 3 or 4 different worldgen formats, and then things like the blocks, sky color, time speed, etc were just decided randomly as an overlay to whatever format had been picked. And I saw that there were a potential 2 billion dimensions (Java integer limit). It's like it was SO CLOSE to being truly awe-inspiring with how diverse and expansive this multiverse was, but eventually the monotony of it got to me and started to make me physically sick. I now have an understanding for just how much of an effect a liminal space can have on a person's emotional and even physical state. And yes, you're right, this snapshot was 100% a liminal experience.
I think what's scarrier about the 'isolated' one is that if Bob is the only "humanoid living thing" (he has three dogs and there's the player), then the dude he killed was the only other "humanoid living thing"... Why in a world where there are only two villagers one would kill the other ? He would end up feeling very lonely (despite the signs telling he's clearly seeking loneliness to be at left in peace). Why killing the only social life he could have ? Maybe because it is, and it drove him crazy to see the only and same exact same face everyday... But what if bob and this unknown unfortunate villager weren't the only villagers in this dimension ? Or else, why taking the effort to hide the body of the other ? And not making a proper grave ? Bob shouldn't care after all, he's the only villager in this empty world... Could there be other dimensions travellers including some kind of police who would "arrest" him for murder ? I have so many questions, this one is by far the most intriguing one, maybe because there are living things in it and not just as a block like in the llama one where the llama isn't anything special, just like a block, like if there was a "chest" seed for a world made of chests... or the "slime" one. Very interesting video, thank you youtube algorithm, and thank you for the throwback to 2020 and this very unique april fools snapshot, kind stranger ! Very nice essay !
i dont think april fools updates are better at all but it's fun to see the devs just mess around with tech and not be held back by proper game design, even if it ends up being low effort
No, not at all. This is an insane thing to say and you are purely distracted by shiny toys as opposed to actually meaningful content that stays around for every update afterwards
probably, but i would probably repeat myself and say the same thing for every single one - it repeats 'till the world border, has a weird and liminal vibe etc.
@@therealfrapsed the easter egg dimensions are all supposed to contribute to the mystery of the arg world. the whole updates purpose was the arg. you really didn't do your research.
The "Library" dimension is a reference to The Library of Babel, a short story about a universe consisting of an infinite library containing every single possible 410-page book, including every single book ever written and every book that won't.
The infinite snapshot was always one of my favorite updates, I enjoyed exploring different dimensions a lot. But if I decided to stay in a particular dimension and build something, I’d feel this lingering creepiness. I kept telling myself that this is minecraft, I know it like the back of my hand, there’s nothing that could happen that could actually scare me. But the feeling still lingered and it kept me from exploring the non easter egg dimensions for a while. This video shed some light on that, I also realized that I may be adding to the liminality of it by turning mob spawning off. I did that because random dimensions sometimes spawned withers, ender dragons, and giants which lagged the game so I just stopped them from spawning. But it made the world feel even more alone, not even a skeleton or any mob to remind me in any way that this is still minecraft and I’m not really alone if there are mobs.
The “This is not a sign” easter egg is most likely a reference to one of René Magritte’s famous surrealist paintings, “The Treachery of Images.” The painting is a picture of a pipe with the caption “This is not a pipe,” in French. It’s highlighting the idea that it’s not an actual pipe, it’s a painting of one. Similarly, what you see in this video is not a sign, it’s a bunch of pixels made to look like a sign.
Still one of my favourite updates to the game simply because it harkens back to he eerieness of Beta Minecraft. There's something so strange and surreal about it that I can't put into words
This is very good video, very good editing and interesting to watch, btw 20w14infinite is my favorite version, it also reminds me of Minecraft Story Mode episodes where characters travel across similar dimensions through portals, i wish Mojang will one day add stuff from other Minecraft franchises like Minecraft Dungeons and etc
they should make an april fools snapshot where they add herobrine and also bring all if not most of the features from all previous april fools snapshots.
This freaked my bean. I always thought there was something funny about this update, even back when I made a "playthrough" of it quite a few years ago... You know, if you really think about it, _the entire thing_ is Backrooms-y, even the "random" dimensions. One of the lore versions of the Backrooms is that it's "world generation gone wrong", and it could be argued that that's _exactly_ what 20w14infinite is. On a surface level, you recognize the things that are going on, the terrain shapes, the block types, everything. But they're in combinations that "should not be". Nether walls made of infested stone, Ender Islands made of magma blocks, a cave network of infinite empty chests that _lagbomb you every time you cross a chunk border_ (eat your heart out, Scar)... Even varying levels of "some places spawn mobs, others don't, some even do it during what seems to be daytime", exactly like varying levels of entity infestation in a Backrooms level. ...I should do another "The 20w14infinite Experience" series at some point, but make it more like A-Sync exploring beyond the Threshold.
they should left those in the official game, but make sure that the player cant bring anything back from those dimensions, it would be too op, but it would be like exploring the backrooms BUT IN MINECRAFT!!!!!
Slight correction. Liminality is defined as a state of transition. Places like train stations or hotel room corridors are liminal, because they were not designed to be lingered in. That's it. Contrary to the internet's general understanding, eerieness/nostalgia/creepiness are not an inherent part of liminality, but arise from seeing these usually busy places of transition be empty.
I never could actually figure out why I felt like this update felt almost… scary. I chalked it down to Fomo; the infinite nature of the infinite worlds has now become two layers deep. Even so, just experiencing the infinite dimensions still felt… melancholic. Hype, yes, but still… now I know that it really was because it were all so liminal. The original loneliness has now been multiplied by an infinite amount. It’s the loneliest I’ve ever felt. Fixed it by exploring it with friends tho (:
When ever I hear of liminality/ liminal spaces, I think of this quote:”if these walls could talk, they would say nothing” I don’t remember where I originally heard it from unfortunately.
wonderful video!!! editing is on FIRE, and the analysis is quite elegant you really know how to set the tone and evironment figure by figure, keep it up man :D
normally, I also find a lot of these dimensions pretty creepy, but for entirely different reasons. And the way you describe them makes them sound way goofier and not scary at all, even the ones I normally find creepy.
this update rocks, just imagine if minecraft actually revolved around gameplay like this, infinite dimensions, all with random blocks with random but sensical textures, random mobs, clouds. Stars, moons and suns, crafting recipes. Minecraft is simple enough that a lot of its generation and gameplay could be randomized, i’d love to hop worlds over and over, discovering more and more, and if it were multiplayer it’d be like no man’s sky. All the players hopping dimensions and possibly running into each other. There could be secrets littered about and perhaps a way out of the dimensions, who knows how that’d work. I’d love to explore forests of a strange dimension hearing the sounds of strange mobs in the distance, none that I have seen before. Endless anticipation.
There’s one interpretation of “nothing to solve” that I saw on a UA-cam video; I like it a lot: The idea is that the llama dimension is pointless in its deception. Each room is meant to be some sort of relaxation room, but it’s obviously fake, because the sky is just an illusion made of a few blocks. The llama itself is also destined to exist alone forever, even though there’s another llama just a few blocks away, separated only by the bedrock. Why would such a cruel and unusual arrangement exist? There's no reason. Because there’s nothing to solve.
As someone who has a fear of heights and darkness, bridges and darkness honestly were the scariest to me. Darkness honestly feels like someone is watching me from beyond the darkness that I cannot see beyond, and with bridges it's honestly kinda hard to explain, but I can almost imagine looking down into the infinite abyss below the bridges, no railings to hold you back from tripping and falling forever out of your own control.
I'm really scared of the dark as well. If you're a thrill seeker, there's a mod which makes light level 0 pitch black, then if you combine that with mods that let torches burn out and maybe some mob buffs, it's honestly terrifying and weirdly fun.
I absolutely hate that snapshot because it really makes me feel like God, like I'm some bored thing just randomly generating a reality and sometimes it's awful and boring and sometimes there's a story that I can distract myself
I’m quite interested in the snapshot and having studied it for a while. I’d like to correct a common misconception; boxes of infinite books can NOT generate an infinite amount of seed values. Each box will generate as many books as you like but each book will contain the same text as long as the box is in the same position. Moving the box to a different block will change the text output, however, any box in one given position will always output identical text. This is also consistent across dimensions, so the boxes will never provide more than something around 10^17 possible values. You can generate more than this by writing your own books though. Also the end ships’ generated books follow different rules so I’m not sure what the upper bound on that one is
If you're not careful and no-clip through the blocks in the wrong place, you'll end up in a backstage area with nothing but birch slabs, watermelons and podzol, an unchanging sky in the form of endless end noise and about 1,000,000,000 square kilometers of randomly generated desert landscapes to get you stuck in for a long time. May Notch help you if you hear something there, because It certainly heard you... - about world seed 0
Very specific feeling, but if I had Java edition and opened just one of be those portals, I’d probably scream out in joy like Jim Carrey in the Sonic Movie. 15 years and this idea could’ve been true update material but unfortunately like a lot of good things that come from Mojang now, they get the scrap.
I love this video! And I also really like when youtubers with really low sub count go viral like with this video and they read every single comment, I can see how you are replying and leaving hearts on every comment under this video
thank you for your kind words :^) i always try to read every comment because some are really interesting and could spark an interesting discussion about the topic of the video!
I still find 20w14infinite the most interesting minecraft update even though its a april fools update/snapshot. I messed around so much in this version. Its so interesting to me to take minecrafts procedural generation to the very extreme with pure randomness. Especially with the amount of freedom minecraft gives you to alter a world having worlds that wont share anything outside the blocks and I guess structures.
2:23 part of this is a reference to the book and movie 2010: odyssey two! it uses the movie version of the quote, and the original was "All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there." It came after Jupiter was turned into a star, transforming the Jovian system into a new star system for humanity to explore (but not europa, since there were others to explore that planet),
Fun fact: the author of the books in the "fleet" dimension is called in the game files "universe itself" meaning this april fools update was made by the entities in the end poem for fun, since they in a way are the universe itself(also, i love that poem and this update bcuz of this, i have turned this simple phrase, "the universe itself" into my entire personality.) -❄︎♒︎♏︎ 🕆︎■︎♓︎❖︎♏︎❒︎⬧︎♏︎ ✋︎⧫︎⬧︎♏︎●︎♐︎
There’s a really weird emotion that the worlds in this update give me. The overwhelming feeling of infinity, a world where everything is almost identical, just the same structure repeating. It’s similar to the backrooms, but in the backrooms, there can be differences, whereas these dimensions just feel… I wish i could describe it better. The feeling of fullness in that everywhere is accounted for in the repeating patterns, yet a feeling of emptiness, a “this is all there is.” feeling. If anyone is familiar with the upcoming Geometry Dash level Every End, that gives me this feeling too. I really wish I could describe this feeling.
Ok let me elaborate... The reason why there are 43 specific Dimensions is because 42 is the answer to everything the 43rd Dimension is a riddle... As all Dimensions seem randomly generated, the developers can exactly pinpoint specific seeds within the original engine used for Minecraft... That way there is a message hidden in this update that nobody has solved, a direct easter egg... And that easter egg is hidden within one of the millions of possibilities... A generated Easter egg, not a hardcoded one... The best way to hide a secret is to not make it a secret at all in the first place... Anyone can randomly come accross the easter egg dimension, but so far nobody did... I know a few things of the riddle as I spoke with the developers in the past a bunch of times (I'm also a developer but I don't work at Mojang/Microsoft, but I love their work and we randomly got to the topic of easter eggs) The content of the Dimensions give a hint to the riddle but I don't think anyone will solve it till they officially talk about it in 5 years or more... The riddle starts with "this_is_a_very_long_phrase_that_hopefully_is_not_in_any_dictionary", the right sentence here offers a riddle, but Europa is not the answer to it... I don't know more about that but we talked about generative easter eggs a lot because he explained to me how they figured out a concept for an easter egg nobody would find...
April fools updates are nice because there's really no major considerations to be made; I used to develop for a minigame server and often for regular updates you need to do a lot of bugtesting, consider the update's implications on future versions, balancing, etc. With an april fool's update, you can kind of just go wild and crank it out in less than a month- it's hard to say for sure, but it seems that Mojang was already working on making custom dimensions a possibility (Which is now implemented), so the amount of work required for this update was probably not that bad
It's such a shame April Fools is the only time things like this are added. Im not saying they should be permanent gameplay features, but having what are essentially different games to explore in minecraft is amazing
Ah! Yes! This is exactly what I thought of! I knew this snapshot had a "Backrooms" feel to it the moment it was introduced to me, especially the Bridges world. It was weird how no one else thought the same as me about this update at the time.
Notch apparently wanted infinite Y Axis generation to go along with the X and Z generation we have today. The Infinite Snapshot, though, gave us infinite *W* axis generation, and possibly the same for the *V* and *U* axes.
activate windows
i hope i'll do that before the next doc 😅
@@therealfrapsedYou didn’t hear it from me, but people have dumped free Windows activation methods to GitHub.
@@therealfrapsed artifacts
What is the point?
@@Narko_Marko artifacts
I always interpreted “nothing to solve” as a way of saying there is no hidden lore in the snapshot, its all just random and for fun
really? i thought it was more mysterious, but this makes sense as well hehe
That makes perfect sense, and at the same tim doesn't.
Human nature at its finest.
Yes, sometimes question don't have answers. All of those llamas are just there, there is no deeper meaning. It just is. There is nothing to solve.
Have you tried throwing the developer book into a portal and looking for chests?
@@dontsueme i actually didn't, good idea
That library is actually the library of babel, which is an infinite library that contains every single possible book in existence, because each book is a random assortment of characters containing every single possible combination of characters. This naturally generates an infinite amount of books, but somewhere hidden in the library are combinations of letters which make perfect sense, and contain the world's greatest secrets, like the cure to cancer (since there is at least one combination of letters that would generate that.) Furthermore, there is a book that would guide you properly through the library, though said book is rather impossible to find, and even if you found it, it may not be a "real" guide since many fake ones would also spawn due to the nature of the library.
i read the summary of the story after a lot of people told me that in the comments, thanks for the info :)
theres also a website that is the library of babel
The library has all the truths and lies of the world kept within it, all prophecies, true and false. It has both Shakespear and Shakespear but one letter is off. Everything, it has an image of my great great grand children's birth made out of letters and characters.
Would be interesting if we could use AI to find specific books.
oh the mystery
My problem with concepts like these is that the chance of actually finding something coherent is so infinitely small that it may as well be zero.
Like, sure, the cure to cancer might be there, but you would have to sift through literal millions of books before getting maybe one word right.
I know that it's supposed to be rooted in real hypothesis of quantum physics, the idea that the universe is infinite and there are only a finite configurations that matter can exist in, and so at some point things would just have to repeat. So a banana , or more famously a boltzmann brain, could materialize out of nowhere in the middle of space.
The problem is that matter is simply more likely to assume other shapes rather than these hyper specific objects. It's simply more likely for an unassuming cloud of space gas to be copied over and over ad infinitum. Sure, THEORETICALLY that banana might exist somewhere, but the chances are so low compared to the vastness of infinity that it really doesn't matter. It could simply not exist
You can let a random generator run for eternity, sure maybe at one point you would find a coherent thing, but you would have to wait through multiple lifetimes of multiple universes to maybe get one slightly coherent paragraph, and it won't be shakespeare.
The perfection dimension is actually a reference to the youtuber @direwolf20, who is known for creating structures in a similar fashion.
thanks for the info! :)
The good ol' 9x9
Cool info
Hello everyone! This is Direwolf20.
Dude was my childhood.
The library dimension looks like the story The library of babel by Borges
that's a nice find! thanks for the info!
I thought it looked like apocrypha from Skyrim.
I'm pretty sure it's very specifically based off of it, someone at Mojang has taste
Library of ruina
@@Roland... project moon fan detected
If it exists, the farlands in this snapshot would have been crazy lol
Technically the farlands exist even on the latest version,just that they generate about 53 quadrillion blocks away instead of the about 12 million that the original farlands generated
@@radustana funny, even when mojnag destroys them, they live on as the warping of world gen code, just farther away than before. poetic
@@radustana i do not trust you
@@Fire_Axus same
@@radustana THEFARLANDSCANNOTBESTOPPEDONLYPUSHEDBACK
I went to the "Herobrine" world and it had no sound. Nothing else out of the ordinary, which makes it even creepier
interesting find, but that might just be a coincidence. that world is not hard-coded, sadly :(
@@therealfrapsedIf anything, that's exactly what DOES make it creepy. Like the game itself (or something inside of it) chose something that subtle yet unsettling, not an IRL programmer. 😶
nothing out of the ordinary? I finally got the wildfire in my sock drawer under control!
@@lobstotsbol alexa, send a message
@@lobstotsbol lol! my grandson sent me a funny comic just like that this morning
I thought Bob's house was cozy until you mentioned the buried chest. That's completely scary
“Stabby McStabface” really sends shivers down my spine.
@@captainbeefster it shivered my timbers even
I think "nothing to solve" is directly aimed at the players combing through each dimensions looking for secrets and mystery. Like the hidden chest under isolation, which provided a bit of a tongue-in-cheek secret to the dimension, but the book "nothing to solve" emphasizes that they're just that. Easter eggs. Funny secrets. That there is no deeper mystery to solve. This might even be more applicable to the entirety of the game with players looking for a clear concise storyline to follow where, maybe according to the book, there is none, just various game design decisions. Maybe. who knows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
that is a good point, some other people have told me that in the comments :)
I'm glad more people have been drawing attention to this version recently, it's one of my favorite things Minecraft has ever done. On one hand, I wish there was more to this update, but on the other, I wonder if the relatively small number of hard-coded dimensions helps each one feel distinct (I mean, 43 is not a particularly small number, but still).
I also like the overall tone of the update. You don't often see straight humor in the game aside from these April Fools updates, and I feel like that disconnect actually helps to make the update feel more out of place. Most of these April Fools updates (In particular 2016,2019,2020,2023 and 2024) feel like you're given the opportunity to view what Minecraft looks like in a weird alternate universe, which makes them very memorable
true, idk why didnt it create a bigger boom back in the day of release
i dont know if anyone else noticed, but "nothing to solve" is a signed book, meaning it goes to its own dimension. i wonder if there's anything interesting in that dimension?
I LOVED this april fools snapshot because it looked like they were experimenting with new features that we, the players, would get to use for ourselves in the future. That ended up being true - support for custom dimensions came very shortly afterward.
However, I also specifically remember getting physically nauseous when I played this snapshot. I feel like it had something to do with the fact that most of the random (non-easteregg) dimensions followed one of maybe 3 or 4 different worldgen formats, and then things like the blocks, sky color, time speed, etc were just decided randomly as an overlay to whatever format had been picked. And I saw that there were a potential 2 billion dimensions (Java integer limit). It's like it was SO CLOSE to being truly awe-inspiring with how diverse and expansive this multiverse was, but eventually the monotony of it got to me and started to make me physically sick.
I now have an understanding for just how much of an effect a liminal space can have on a person's emotional and even physical state. And yes, you're right, this snapshot was 100% a liminal experience.
I think what's scarrier about the 'isolated' one is that if Bob is the only "humanoid living thing" (he has three dogs and there's the player), then the dude he killed was the only other "humanoid living thing"... Why in a world where there are only two villagers one would kill the other ? He would end up feeling very lonely (despite the signs telling he's clearly seeking loneliness to be at left in peace). Why killing the only social life he could have ? Maybe because it is, and it drove him crazy to see the only and same exact same face everyday... But what if bob and this unknown unfortunate villager weren't the only villagers in this dimension ? Or else, why taking the effort to hide the body of the other ? And not making a proper grave ? Bob shouldn't care after all, he's the only villager in this empty world... Could there be other dimensions travellers including some kind of police who would "arrest" him for murder ?
I have so many questions, this one is by far the most intriguing one, maybe because there are living things in it and not just as a block like in the llama one where the llama isn't anything special, just like a block, like if there was a "chest" seed for a world made of chests... or the "slime" one. Very interesting video, thank you youtube algorithm, and thank you for the throwback to 2020 and this very unique april fools snapshot, kind stranger ! Very nice essay !
Good ending: The stuff in the chest is actually food for his dogs and the sword is to slice it up into bite sized pieces :)
bob: the good ending
@@therealfrapsedisn’t also creepy that he had the shelf of infinite books, meaning that he could travel through dimensions.
@@jovifidelis oooh damn
@@jovifidelis 😟
April Fools Updates > Regular Updates
i dont think april fools updates are better at all but it's fun to see the devs just mess around with tech and not be held back by proper game design, even if it ends up being low effort
No, not at all. This is an insane thing to say and you are purely distracted by shiny toys as opposed to actually meaningful content that stays around for every update afterwards
@@zzeroara9511 april fools updates bring more content to the game than the actual updates
@@zzeroara9511april fools updates are more interesting than regular updates therefore the original comment
surprised you only have 101 subs. good content!
thank you!! :^)
make that 138 now :)
141 now.. I subscribe too
damn I didn't even notice, there's so many high quality channels with low subcount youtube seems to be pushing, pretty cool
@@therealfrapsedhey, 92 subs in 4 hours, that’s incredible, keep up the good work!
Dude you really should have taken a closer look at all those "honorable mention" dimensions. Spiral, Bridges, and so on
probably, but i would probably repeat myself and say the same thing for every single one - it repeats 'till the world border, has a weird and liminal vibe etc.
@@therealfrapsed the easter egg dimensions are all supposed to contribute to the mystery of the arg world. the whole updates purpose was the arg. you really didn't do your research.
The "Library" dimension is a reference to The Library of Babel, a short story about a universe consisting of an infinite library containing every single possible 410-page book, including every single book ever written and every book that won't.
The infinite snapshot was always one of my favorite updates, I enjoyed exploring different dimensions a lot. But if I decided to stay in a particular dimension and build something, I’d feel this lingering creepiness. I kept telling myself that this is minecraft, I know it like the back of my hand, there’s nothing that could happen that could actually scare me. But the feeling still lingered and it kept me from exploring the non easter egg dimensions for a while. This video shed some light on that, I also realized that I may be adding to the liminality of it by turning mob spawning off. I did that because random dimensions sometimes spawned withers, ender dragons, and giants which lagged the game so I just stopped them from spawning. But it made the world feel even more alone, not even a skeleton or any mob to remind me in any way that this is still minecraft and I’m not really alone if there are mobs.
your feelings were irrational
didn't regret clicking this video in my feed. your analysis was super engaging for a small youtuber. keep up the great work!
The “This is not a sign” easter egg is most likely a reference to one of René Magritte’s famous surrealist paintings, “The Treachery of Images.” The painting is a picture of a pipe with the caption “This is not a pipe,” in French. It’s highlighting the idea that it’s not an actual pipe, it’s a painting of one. Similarly, what you see in this video is not a sign, it’s a bunch of pixels made to look like a sign.
Still one of my favourite updates to the game simply because it harkens back to he eerieness of Beta Minecraft. There's something so strange and surreal about it that I can't put into words
1:03 Old Pre-1.18 post Beta 1.8 Mountain generation my beloved, why are they so fucking rare now
I heard about the infinite worlds update, but never really investigated it and didn't know about the easter egg dimensions. This was really cool!
The devs missed the chance to make it so that if you put in aether and use it on a portal, you could get sent there
This is very good video, very good editing and interesting to watch, btw 20w14infinite is my favorite version, it also reminds me of Minecraft Story Mode episodes where characters travel across similar dimensions through portals, i wish Mojang will one day add stuff from other Minecraft franchises like Minecraft Dungeons and etc
they should make an april fools snapshot where they add herobrine and also bring all if not most of the features from all previous april fools snapshots.
infinite library... library of babel... turns to library of ruina
*sigh*
sleeper agents, to me!
This freaked my bean. I always thought there was something funny about this update, even back when I made a "playthrough" of it quite a few years ago... You know, if you really think about it, _the entire thing_ is Backrooms-y, even the "random" dimensions. One of the lore versions of the Backrooms is that it's "world generation gone wrong", and it could be argued that that's _exactly_ what 20w14infinite is. On a surface level, you recognize the things that are going on, the terrain shapes, the block types, everything. But they're in combinations that "should not be". Nether walls made of infested stone, Ender Islands made of magma blocks, a cave network of infinite empty chests that _lagbomb you every time you cross a chunk border_ (eat your heart out, Scar)... Even varying levels of "some places spawn mobs, others don't, some even do it during what seems to be daytime", exactly like varying levels of entity infestation in a Backrooms level.
...I should do another "The 20w14infinite Experience" series at some point, but make it more like A-Sync exploring beyond the Threshold.
they should left those in the official game, but make sure that the player cant bring anything back from those dimensions, it would be too op, but it would be like exploring the backrooms BUT IN MINECRAFT!!!!!
Slight correction. Liminality is defined as a state of transition. Places like train stations or hotel room corridors are liminal, because they were not designed to be lingered in. That's it. Contrary to the internet's general understanding, eerieness/nostalgia/creepiness are not an inherent part of liminality, but arise from seeing these usually busy places of transition be empty.
thank you for the correction and i hope i'll not confuse liminality with eeriness in the future! :^)
I never could actually figure out why I felt like this update felt almost… scary. I chalked it down to Fomo; the infinite nature of the infinite worlds has now become two layers deep. Even so, just experiencing the infinite dimensions still felt… melancholic. Hype, yes, but still… now I know that it really was because it were all so liminal. The original loneliness has now been multiplied by an infinite amount. It’s the loneliest I’ve ever felt.
Fixed it by exploring it with friends tho (:
20w14infinite gave me megalophobia, enough said.
When ever I hear of liminality/ liminal spaces, I think of this quote:”if these walls could talk, they would say nothing” I don’t remember where I originally heard it from unfortunately.
wonderful video!!! editing is on FIRE, and the analysis is quite elegant
you really know how to set the tone and evironment figure by figure, keep it up man :D
yoooo didn't expect you here! luv that from ya, thanks for the compliments! :^)
@@therealfrapsed heck yeah man!!! (the backrooms are real)
w!! (surely they are)
normally, I also find a lot of these dimensions pretty creepy, but for entirely different reasons. And the way you describe them makes them sound way goofier and not scary at all, even the ones I normally find creepy.
The infinite library has to be a Borges reference!
it was, some other people in the comments told me that! :D
Oh boy... this sense of liminality I would like to experience it while listening to the Caretaker's music.
love this take on both the books of Myst and the immediacy of infinity of Borges' Library of Babel
It was so easy to generate the exact copies of backrooms, dreampools etc, but they didn't do that.
This was 2020. Kane Pixels hadn't made his series yet, and the Backrooms wasn't yet popular.
this update rocks, just imagine if minecraft actually revolved around gameplay like this, infinite dimensions, all with random blocks with random but sensical textures, random mobs, clouds. Stars, moons and suns, crafting recipes. Minecraft is simple enough that a lot of its generation and gameplay could be randomized, i’d love to hop worlds over and over, discovering more and more, and if it were multiplayer it’d be like no man’s sky. All the players hopping dimensions and possibly running into each other. There could be secrets littered about and perhaps a way out of the dimensions, who knows how that’d work. I’d love to explore forests of a strange dimension hearing the sounds of strange mobs in the distance, none that I have seen before. Endless anticipation.
There’s one interpretation of “nothing to solve” that I saw on a UA-cam video; I like it a lot:
The idea is that the llama dimension is pointless in its deception. Each room is meant to be some sort of relaxation room, but it’s obviously fake, because the sky is just an illusion made of a few blocks. The llama itself is also destined to exist alone forever, even though there’s another llama just a few blocks away, separated only by the bedrock. Why would such a cruel and unusual arrangement exist? There's no reason. Because there’s nothing to solve.
You yap so much watching this on two times speed is the only valid way of enjoying it.
Don't get lost in Procedural Generation. You'll see things
legend has it that an infinite number of monkeys, typing for an infinite amount of time, will eventually lead us to Aether
The creepiest game is not made to be creepy.
As someone who has a fear of heights and darkness, bridges and darkness honestly were the scariest to me. Darkness honestly feels like someone is watching me from beyond the darkness that I cannot see beyond, and with bridges it's honestly kinda hard to explain, but I can almost imagine looking down into the infinite abyss below the bridges, no railings to hold you back from tripping and falling forever out of your own control.
I'm really scared of the dark as well. If you're a thrill seeker, there's a mod which makes light level 0 pitch black, then if you combine that with mods that let torches burn out and maybe some mob buffs, it's honestly terrifying and weirdly fun.
I absolutely hate that snapshot because it really makes me feel like God, like I'm some bored thing just randomly generating a reality and sometimes it's awful and boring and sometimes there's a story that I can distract myself
I’m quite interested in the snapshot and having studied it for a while. I’d like to correct a common misconception; boxes of infinite books can NOT generate an infinite amount of seed values. Each box will generate as many books as you like but each book will contain the same text as long as the box is in the same position. Moving the box to a different block will change the text output, however, any box in one given position will always output identical text. This is also consistent across dimensions, so the boxes will never provide more than something around 10^17 possible values. You can generate more than this by writing your own books though. Also the end ships’ generated books follow different rules so I’m not sure what the upper bound on that one is
I certainly love the idea of liminality and the community around it- so I enjoy seeing it in my favorite video games.
"Perfection."
Pretty sure the sea lantern one is a reference to the horror movie "Cube"
The library, also know as library of babel
You're so underrated. This video is quality.
I think Stabby McStabface is a Counter-Strike reference, but I'm not sure.
It's videos like this. that I can tell were written as video essays, that don't resonate well with me.
Watching this at midnight feels different
I want mojang to add a 'subscribe' dimension and all the blocks have to be made of green concrete
wish the video was longer, this was a fascinating analysis
The 'BASIC' dimension is a reference to the 1 line infinite maze programme in the programming language BASIC.
the book doesn't need to be signed, as long as the book and quill has stuff written in it
thanks for the correction :)
I want someone to make this snapshot a mod, it would be so cool!
the explanations of liminality could be way better but still good video :3
high quality video fr, i thought i was the only one who thought about this when i explored those seeds
thanks :)
This is the kind of video I always wanted to have regarding this snapshot. With great way of explaining things. You are criminally underrated.
If you're not careful and no-clip through the blocks in the wrong place, you'll end up in a backstage area with nothing but birch slabs, watermelons and podzol, an unchanging sky in the form of endless end noise and about 1,000,000,000 square kilometers of randomly generated desert landscapes to get you stuck in for a long time.
May Notch help you if you hear something there, because It certainly heard you...
- about world seed 0
Very specific feeling, but if I had Java edition and opened just one of be those portals, I’d probably scream out in joy like Jim Carrey in the Sonic Movie. 15 years and this idea could’ve been true update material but unfortunately like a lot of good things that come from Mojang now, they get the scrap.
I love this video! And I also really like when youtubers with really low sub count go viral like with this video and they read every single comment, I can see how you are replying and leaving hearts on every comment under this video
thank you for your kind words :^) i always try to read every comment because some are really interesting and could spark an interesting discussion about the topic of the video!
@@therealfrapsed well... youtubers with 100k+ subs might read a few comments, but definitely not all of them
I still find 20w14infinite the most interesting minecraft update even though its a april fools update/snapshot. I messed around so much in this version. Its so interesting to me to take minecrafts procedural generation to the very extreme with pure randomness. Especially with the amount of freedom minecraft gives you to alter a world having worlds that wont share anything outside the blocks and I guess structures.
The library is a reference to the library of Babel by Jorge Luis Broges
Woah man, you are pretty good, really nice pace and editing. Greetings from Argentina!
argentina is cool!
Thank you for making this video. I love this version of MC.
I wish someone would bring this feature back in modern versions with modding.
omg that library is the library of babel
2:23 part of this is a reference to the book and movie 2010: odyssey two! it uses the movie version of the quote, and the original was "All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there." It came after Jupiter was turned into a star, transforming the Jovian system into a new star system for humanity to explore (but not europa, since there were others to explore that planet),
Fun fact: the author of the books in the "fleet" dimension is called in the game files "universe itself" meaning this april fools update was made by the entities in the end poem for fun, since they in a way are the universe itself(also, i love that poem and this update bcuz of this, i have turned this simple phrase, "the universe itself" into my entire personality.)
-❄︎♒︎♏︎ 🕆︎■︎♓︎❖︎♏︎❒︎⬧︎♏︎ ✋︎⧫︎⬧︎♏︎●︎♐︎
There’s a really weird emotion that the worlds in this update give me. The overwhelming feeling of infinity, a world where everything is almost identical, just the same structure repeating. It’s similar to the backrooms, but in the backrooms, there can be differences, whereas these dimensions just feel… I wish i could describe it better. The feeling of fullness in that everywhere is accounted for in the repeating patterns, yet a feeling of emptiness, a “this is all there is.” feeling. If anyone is familiar with the upcoming Geometry Dash level Every End, that gives me this feeling too. I really wish I could describe this feeling.
761 subs is criminal. Gotta pump those numbers up! +1 from me gng, great vid
20w14infinite is by far my favorite Minecraft April Fools' Joke update ever.
i 100% agree with you! :D
@@therealfrapsed Yay! =D
I just wonder what the farlands would look like here
I typed in grasping and it was a bunch of dead plants, some floating up to the sky. The ground was orange and the sky was a brighter orange
Ok let me elaborate...
The reason why there are 43 specific Dimensions is because 42 is the answer to everything the 43rd Dimension is a riddle... As all Dimensions seem randomly generated, the developers can exactly pinpoint specific seeds within the original engine used for Minecraft... That way there is a message hidden in this update that nobody has solved, a direct easter egg... And that easter egg is hidden within one of the millions of possibilities... A generated Easter egg, not a hardcoded one... The best way to hide a secret is to not make it a secret at all in the first place... Anyone can randomly come accross the easter egg dimension, but so far nobody did... I know a few things of the riddle as I spoke with the developers in the past a bunch of times (I'm also a developer but I don't work at Mojang/Microsoft, but I love their work and we randomly got to the topic of easter eggs) The content of the Dimensions give a hint to the riddle but I don't think anyone will solve it till they officially talk about it in 5 years or more... The riddle starts with "this_is_a_very_long_phrase_that_hopefully_is_not_in_any_dictionary", the right sentence here offers a riddle, but Europa is not the answer to it... I don't know more about that but we talked about generative easter eggs a lot because he explained to me how they figured out a concept for an easter egg nobody would find...
average Mojang "put more effort into a single april fools update than the entire vanilla game has gotten in 3 whole years" kinda update vibes
April fools updates are nice because there's really no major considerations to be made; I used to develop for a minigame server and often for regular updates you need to do a lot of bugtesting, consider the update's implications on future versions, balancing, etc. With an april fool's update, you can kind of just go wild and crank it out in less than a month- it's hard to say for sure, but it seems that Mojang was already working on making custom dimensions a possibility (Which is now implemented), so the amount of work required for this update was probably not that bad
HE'S BACK!
yes!
I dont even know how could someone find that sign millions of blocks away...
probably used a mod to search for specific blocks?
@@charleyreal Yeah that makes sense!
cool fractals
It's such a shame April Fools is the only time things like this are added. Im not saying they should be permanent gameplay features, but having what are essentially different games to explore in minecraft is amazing
At least we got custom, data-driven dimensions as a staple feature from this snapshot!
1:02 villagers and illagers: Am I a joke to you?
I wish someone made a mod for this in newer versions.
tought i was watching a youtuber with 100k+ subs. brilliant video, subscribed
Banger vid, must be loving the extra attention. Good on ya mate!
3:42 looks like aleph null (song by LeaF)
yeah! it really does!
@@therealfrapsed i guess they are both referencing the same thing
Ah! Yes! This is exactly what I thought of! I knew this snapshot had a "Backrooms" feel to it the moment it was introduced to me, especially the Bridges world. It was weird how no one else thought the same as me about this update at the time.
Yeah I used this update for some liminal space videos.
Notch apparently wanted infinite Y Axis generation to go along with the X and Z generation we have today.
The Infinite Snapshot, though, gave us infinite *W* axis generation, and possibly the same for the *V* and *U* axes.
A yes
*W* for world
*V* for very fine painting
*U* for universe
You didnt credit Kane Pixels for your creepy liminal ambience during the hardcoded dimensions intro section
I'm not gonna say "The backrooms are real".
Bronx is the city of all time
you an OG, i appreciate that!
Really felt like this snapshot was not talked about enough.. Thank you for this video
I used to explore the tunnels dimension for hours
I really enjoyed this video, thank you for making it! :3
Awesome job man!! Keep it up