I said this once on another video about abandoned worlds. Dead Minecraft worlds have this unique quality most abandoned places don't have, they never degrade over time, stuff you left in a chest is in it's same place in the same condition, pets are still sitting in the same spot for years. The entire world is frozen in the same state you left it however many years ago you left it, like when a time traveler in a movie travels into the future, lives their life, and teleports back to the same place right after they left.
"Pets are sitting in the same spot for years." One time, I tried to calculate how many years passed in Minecraft over the course of a single year in the real world. I did it for fun/for a very complicated Minecraft character I have; I'm not really gonna talk about that character very much cuz it's a LOT of Discord shenanigans and wither/witherstorm headcanons, but I will give just brief, small details, for context. Eventually I realized that you multiply the real-world year by 72 to get the number of Minecraft years, and... as it can probably easily be imagined... the numbers get big pretty quickly. 17×72 becomes 1,224, 46×72 equals 3,312, and 301×72 = 21,672. So imagine if you're part of the ancient race that once walked the earth of Minecraft. Had a dog, beloved dog, but forced to leave it behind with your home in the Overworld to serve your local militia in the Nether. Dying late enough to witness the news and feel the impact that the first creation of the Wither had on the world, with travel back to the Overworld suddenly forbidden, though dying without being given a chance to visit home ever again. On a battlefield of Soul Sand. ....Soul sand. Soul sand. And the dog.... waiting. Waiting for you, days becoming nights and nights becoming weeks and known intervals of time becoming blurred eternity. Since Minecraft is a video game, the dog never dies on its own. Something would have to kill it. Nothing ever does. So imagine how long it's had to wait by now. For an owner who's fate is unknown to it, for an owner who's never coming back. .......Uuuuuuuunnless some idiot modern-day Minecraft player obsessed with the Wither Storm from Minecraft: Story Mode (((me))) programs a command block to "adopt" the first Soul that enters it before building one and _said Soul just happens to be that dog's owner---_ And I refuse to elaborate further lmaoooo
In the roblox game "The W" i was part of a battle between two teams that lasted for about 4hrs. Both teams had spent large quantities of time building infrastructure, fighting, sabotaging, and base building. Both teams peaked in player count at about 20 per team. The fighting was intense but eventually me and a team of players where able to build a bridge to the top floor of the enemy base (they based in an abandoned house). We were able to clear the base and defend the enemy team from regaining their lost base. Once the server declared that we won, me and my team went back to celebrate with the others then got off for the day. When I got on and returned later that week i actually found the ruins of my teams base. there was a new player using the garage as a rest spot because that was the largest part that was still mostly remaining after the base was disassembled by passing players. At that moment I understood exactly what this video means. To me it marked a time of energy and life but to all others it was just a hollow shell of concrete walls.
seems really amazing. tbh i kind of played sandbox games to do wacky things and thats basically it. this comment and this video shows that it can actually be really interesting.
you talking about minecraft worlds reminds me of this flatworld i had on a tablet where i was building this enormous palace, all completely by hand. i made it my favorite color, a deeper blue, with white accents. one day i got a new tablet and wanted to move the world onto there. well, i thought it had transferred, but by the time i actually checked, the world wasn't there. it was already deleted on the old tablet by that point. it lives on only as a memory now, i still remember what most of the finished portions looked like and what i wanted to do in the future. i could probably replicate it to a better degree if i really wanted to, but i choose not to.
I had a very similar experience many years ago on PC. When I got my new PC, a family member took my old one and wiped the HDD. At that age, I was too young to understand the importance of backing up your data, I never even thought about it in the first place. I still often think how many worlds are still lodged in the back of my brain, waiting to come to the forefront of my thoughts, brought upon by a single word, smell etc.
Happened to me with my childhood worlds I played with my dad. Same goes for my little big planet creations as well. They live on only in my memory now, even if faintly.
Had something like that with a world. Went to add mods when I was a young lad, planes mod had recently become a thing. Installing the mod failed my first attempt so I had to make a fresh copy of .minecraft, I moved my worlds but when I loaded the game I had realized that the world I was mainly using at the time had not transfered from the original file which had been deleted. It was one of the first times I felt great sorrow from minecraft and a part of me died, I did not play again for quite some time after that. I went from such great excitement of modding my game and going to play tons more, to deep sorrow and not touching the game for many moons. What I hated most was all of the dogs that I had collected and built their own house for were now just gone. However I do still have my original world from when I played minecraft alpha, it is my longest consistently played world. I wish I didn't keep building in the same location, but it does have deep history. I never fully destroyed many of my builds, especially parts that were underground, so much of my own kingdom in the world is built upon the remains of what it was. The great part too is I can travel thru time with it, as I have multiple backup copies of the world thru different times. As far back as my only base being a stone staircase going into the ground, the land around yet to be teraformed into a massive kingdom with giant walls. To see how it looked before, and then to go to the exact spot that it is buried in the current time of the world and see how it is still the same, it is very eerie like looking at a different person that vaugly resembles yourself.
When I look back on my old server, and all the builds our thousand or more players did, it's really genuinely haunting. Everything is deserted. There are so many stories that played out that even I wasn't aware of as an admin on our server. It's truly wild to look back on it and be like "Damn, we really did all this." I miss it, but there's no going back to those times.
The end of the Outer Wilds section really got to me. I've always loved that game and its wonderful to see that it's touched someone else's heart the same way it did mine.
I love realms with alot of people cause after they leave the game forever you see so many stories within the environment itself, a cobblestone bridge crossing a crevasse, the foundations of a never erected building, player made mines with chests and furnaces long abandoned, i love piecing together that story.
I have always thought of this, how the echoes of our or any civilization are just that, echoes. Mere phantoms, faded shadows of a lost world. And man I love how this video conveys that message
some years ago, i joined a bedrock server, it was small, but big enough to have a community active at all times, i decide to build a castle, overlooking spawn to help newcomers. But the server didnt have ani antigriefing methods so the castle always needed repairs, but the admins helped me, as a form of gratitude to the help i was doing fot the community. But one day i gave up, and left the server, some weeks after that i rejoined to see the castle rebuilt andd maintained by another player who found its ruins and had the same idea as me. i felt as my presence was still on the server.
I've always had a fear of death, or it's actually just the fear of being forgotten in disguise, but no matter what it is I'm pretty sure this video just lessened it a bit, thank you for making this, I may not be remembered, but at least I made a tiny impact that someone may notice, even if it's just comments on sites that'll probably cease to exist someday, or maybe even a lost earring or necklace from a trip I took, physical objects last longer than memories after all, those will be long gone too one day, but at least there's going to be signs I was there at some point!
I have a 6 year old minecraft server, well it was a server but ive spent 4 years meticulously aging to it. Making it essentially a 10km by 5km map. And its so peaceful, to walk through a forest and find a rundown house that someone else built, full of moss an cobwebs. Maybe a sleeping bag on the ground or some signs that make it feel "alive" in such a dead way.
I've played and finished Outer Wilds, and I've pondered the same over death and eternity. It doesn't scare me, but i still find life meaningful all the same. This video from beginning to end was beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.
"Merlina, every world has it's end. I know that's sad but... that's why we've gotta make the most with the time we have. At least, that's what I figure." -Sonic The Hedgehog, 2009 This video made me sad and happy at the same time. Also, I saw what you did with that Hawaii: Part 2 reference. Nice🥰.
absolutely stellar. tbh, i'm not sure how i didn't figure out how similar 2b2t was to outer wilds myself, i was always interested in the historical/archeological aspect of 2b2t, and outer wilds is by far my favourite game of all time. to touch on what you said about ghosts in the writing and outer wilds in particular, i always found it interesting to think about how almost every single character you know is functionally a ghost in pretty much that same capacity. sure there's the distinction of the things you read being from the long-dead, should-be dead, and inevitably dead, but after you've read everything someone has to say, after they stop being a new and unique experience, they die and become a ghost too. after a while, there's very little reason to distinguish your childhood best friend or an idol you admire from the writings you find on the walls of the ruins you explore, and it really sets in stone just how lonely you are in the time loop. i feel like it's a facet of the loop a lot of people tend to forget about
i really enjoy these kinds of videos about topics that doesnt really have a concrete answer, but the answer is rather to live with the fact that it doesnt have an answer
A long time ago I took a personality quiz, one of the ones where you can pick an answer from "agree" to "disagree" with options in between. One of the questions was "There is beauty in sadness." I think about this question a lot, especially when I watch videos like this. I know this video isn't about sadness, it's about dying worlds and the end, but you usually can't have that without someone being sad. I don't really know where I'm going with this. But thank you for the video. It was beautiful.
I shed a tear of happiness and tranquillity every time Cresendex preaches, and the notion and ideas portrayed are sublime. It feels like seeing the different aspects of the tapestry of the universe. If the universe is to die, the death would be a permanent cold slumber. We still dont know if the expansion will regress or not. Until then, the fate is uncertain, therefore Live your life and witness the artwork of life while its still alive.❤
I find it interesting that, even as someone who believes in life after death, it has been a very crucial and strong character building experience to seriously ponder and face the possibility of permanent ending. It has helped in building confidence, remembering and expressing my love towards others, enjoying the days as I experience them. I am able to better appreciate the beauty that every day offers whether gray and overcast or bright and sunny. It is a profound process that I feel everyone should learn to face, regardless of beliefs.
That feeling when you share your world with friends for a long time and then they quit playing. You walk into their buildings and find things you never noticed while was playing with them. Strange feelings come over you.
Hearing your story with your voice is something that’s calming in a way I can’t describe. I’ve been struggling with the thought of emptiness for a while. Watching the gameplay, listening to your thoughts, and looking outside my room at the birds. It leaves me thinking. If this is video is like your sign 2b2t to the rest of the world, getting to know you through these signs is a journey, thank you, Cresendex.
Another magnificent upload and criminally underrated! There's just something so unique about old Minecraft structures. As you've stated, other games have this exploration scripted, whereas Minecraft is not, instead it is created by the people themselves, similar to what these other games are trying to replicate but aren't quite there yet. The human mind can imagine things that we could never be able to turn into words/visuals. It is possible that we feel such a strong connection to these random structures because our minds fill in the blanks. You see a castle that is half covered in cobblestone and the other half that has been ransacked for items and materials. You think to yourself "what did this place used to look like?" "What was the purpose?" etc. You then start to connect yourself to this structure in some way, despise you never having even seen it before. The personification of buildings always gets me. Take Kane Pixels "The Life Of A Giant" series (especially the final slideshow showcasing the real mall). Seeing photos of this mall being demolished brings me an unfathomable amount of dread, I can't even begin to describe what I felt when I first watched it while on holiday. I had never been to this mall or even America for that matter, but seeing that "giant" standing alone in a dark and falling apart mall just made me tear up. Maybe these structures should be left to interpretation, as the unknown is always more intriguing that the known.
Dude this video is beautiful. I thought it was just some silly video about minecraft when I clicked on it and it’s so much more than that. Everything we do: draw, write, whatever, is some kind of hint that we all existed. It’s some way to get our name out there without having to say a word to be discovered by people who are willing to tell your stories. It’s like we’re immortal in a way but nothing lasts forever, for the universe will be a graveyard to dead stars and that is an inevitable death for all of us. With the time we are gifted with, we can do something that seems so little, but affects the world around us so much for everything we do has a reason. We all exist for a reason, and it is up to us to find out what it is with the time we have and are so lucky to have. In our last moments, it will comfort us knowing that we tried our best no matter what. (Sorry if this seems like a mess or if it’s rushed,,, I literally just watched this video and I’m in shambles rn)
2:14 I feel this all the time as an Atheist, sometimes I wished that I am wrong, that god and the afterlife does exist, even if my fate is eternal torment for being a non believer, I would still embrace it, I find hell more comfortable than an empty void
Honestly for me it’s the complete opposite. Granted I won’t say I act like a Christian anymore, and even calling myself that would be a disgrace to God but I can tell you for certain I’d rather cease to exist than go to hell. Heaven? Yeah, it’s beautiful. It’s peace, love and all things good. Ceasing to exist? That’s also a win, cause you won’t be conscious during that. It’ll be like before you were even born. Hell? That’s where things get bad. We’ve all heard the fire and brimstone sermons that people may preach either from genuine concern or to hurt the opposing party, but the truth is that Hell ain’t good. It’s a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth; a disturbing painful existence where your only constant is being tormented (not by demons, I remind you, but just by being in there.) I don’t even have words to emphasize how dark and painful it is according to the Bible.
The void isn’t the end. Where were you before your birth? Entropy is the lack of existence. You as you currently stand, exist. So there is “to exist” and there is “to not exist”. The void or “whomever” gave birth to the “idea” of you… It can certainly do it again. “The concept of you not existing” and “the concept of you existing” In and out, positive and negative, like a battery.
Choosing hell over void is dumbest choice. I would personally choose either void or reborm a completely different person. Void is actually best you could get because you cannot feel anything. Your brain cannot feel what true nothingness is like because to feel true nothingness your brain need to be completely shut off which is impossible (other than death) meaning you can't feel anything positive or negative, you cannot think and its basically it. Think what was before your birth there was nothing because your brain wasnt turned on same would happen after deth
One hobby I started a few years ago was to seek out old UA-cam videos, with as few views as possible, and watch them and leave a comment. Or just reply to old comments on other videos I happened to be watching. A few people got back to me, sometimes after more than a decade! Other people replied, telling me how they enjoyed being brought to the past. But the vast amount of comments I left received no response. I think our experiences are rather similar.
There’s a kind of beauty in the husks of places long forgotten, abandoned to the elements and lost to time, but even those empty husks are temporary. Ultimately, most fears of death aren’t truly fears of death, but fears of being forgotten. We all want to be remembered, in some way or another. But the universe isn’t something that remembers. We can live out our whole lives on Earth, and even reach out to the stars, but no matter what we do, nobody on the far side of the universe will ever know we even existed. The universe has been around far, _far_ longer than we have, and chances are it’ll still be around long after we’re all gone. That’s just how it’s been, and its how it likely will always be. Yes, the chances are that none of our existences will be remembered, but when our existence is less than a grain of sand drifting among the stars, did we ever really exist at all?
Wow… what a really profound video… thought provoking, gripping, and captivating, all with a profound but simple lesson to end it all with. Thank you for making this video, it touched my heart on a deep level. 💙
There have been 2 games in my life that have taught me to accept death for what it is - Outer wilds and Rain world They served to reassure me that there is nothing wrong with it, it is all natural and there is nothing to be afraid of
This is the first time that I heard exploring 2B2T as something akin to archaeology. I mean you are wandering down old roads, finding ruins of people long gone, and deciding to reverse-engineer it in a way, only guessing what the uses of the old builds were and seeing scrawls on the walls that describe how future groups view it
Outer Wilds and The Manifold Garden are the two most existential experiences I've ever had, not only in games, but in general. Outer Wilds made me come to grips with the concept that everything must come to an end, but must also continue, and The Manyfold Garden made me understand that we can adapt very easily to any reality, even if it's alien to us, such as the concept of infinity. As I jumped down in that game and fell forever, and as I watched the sun blow up in OW, after spending a whole cycle doing nothing of note on purpose, I felt comfort in the fact that it's okay. It's okay. It goes on forever. The mind doesn't understand it because it's not for the mind to understand, but whether there is something there to understand it after we die or not, as far as we are concerned, we have always been alive, and we always will be, forever.
This is emotional, I've had this feeling many times and not just on Minecraft , I've played a fair amount of dead games and it's really weird finding things people left behind or signs that someone has been here but not knowing how long ago that was
the segment mentioning KRB’s signs and codex entries was genuinely amazing. bro turned a fellow goated youtuber into a crucial plot device and ended up giving one of the most existentially bleak yet captivating minecraft stories ive ever heard
Videos like this are what has kept me alive. I’ve been so close at times, ive stood on the cliff, so close. But then every time I find something like this, something that keeps me going. No matter how much I suffer, no matter how many times I walk to the cliff and look down at the end. I always see something like this that keeps me from the fall. Friends would message me for the first time in months a video like this would appear. I would remember someone who I could help. I know that one day I will take that final leap. But before I am to weak and before the day that I won’t be reminded how why I live life still. I hope to change others lives for the better, no matter if they will one day pass to. Because of that I leave notes like this to document my life to hopefully help other if they bother to read these. I doubt this will be my final one but if it is. Thank you for making this video because videos like this are what have and do give me the power to keep going.
Please keep going, you are only limited by what you can do, you can and should do the typical things of seeking therapy and reaching out to friends. However, I'd also encourage going outside more, a lot of people say they live in "boring places" But if you look hard enough you can find anything! I encourage you to at least try to go on a trail, stay the night in a tent in the woods, set a time limit on your phone. The more time you have to be outside without technology, the more time you have to think of yourself and who you really are, and maybe you can get yourself out of this once you've found something, which I gurantee you will if you do things out of your comfort zone. I hope this reply helped, and if you're thinking about giving up, please don't. Everyone has people they love and people who love them including you. Suicide Hotline: 988.
I leave in every single one of my minecraft worlds a sign reading "i lived. remember me" i do not fear death, i fear being forgotten. that is true death
Never yet have I heard anybody anybody talk about 2B2T in a way that makes me want to visit the server. I don't have any technical know how, no hacked clients, would probably get ddossed the moment I spawn in, but the way you speak about ghosts of the past just about makes me want to risk it.
I understand how you felt on 2bt2. I've never played it myself. I have a minecraft world. I've been playing it for a while. but as long as it's just me on it, it will always feel empty, no matter how much I put in it. It's because I know that only I will get to experience it. No one else will ever see the work I've put in, this just kills the world.
I was playing minecraft when i clicked on this and it was great. Also i know its 30 mins longs but i still feel like its not long enough. THESE ARE SO GOOD 😭
This was an inspirational and emotionally touching video. I rarely leave comments, but this video made me feel like I had to do something productive, socialize, and learn. The message was well-delivered, thank you so much for creating this work of art.
acepting concepts like fate breed complacensy, and any comfort that acceptence may give is at the cost of any hope to avoid that fate... struggle, even if all around say its in vain, struggle is in the nature of all life, to fight against the encroshing darkness of oblivion, there is nothting to lose and all to gain from the attempt.
for minecraft, i join communities that do their ''seasons' and get their world downloads of old stuff. its honestly eerie when you go into them, not because like the members that were in there are gone or anything, just that after a year or so, they just end the server/world and make a new one. going through their trading/shopping hubs, seeing some of their stores with stock and some payments left behind, then visiting their bases kinda creates a image of a bustling world that suddenly died.
When the Minecraft worlds was mentioned - I was reminded of my old worlds that was one day deleted or unused, along with the old SMP server I used to be apart of. Minecraft can be a good example of a dead world as it kind of _is_ one already. With that isolation feel and the fact youre basically the only 'human' in a world filled with animals, humanoid-like monsters and forgotten builds not built by you. -(Dont worry I didnt forget the Villagers and Illagers.)-
"Every world has its end. I know that's kinda sad, but... That's why we gotta live life to the fullest in the time we have. At least that's what I figure". - Sonic the Hedgehog This quote from Sonic and the Black Knight was what I used for my senior quote when I graduated. I feel that it's had a large impact on me throughout all my life, and I think that the things we can learn from the topics you covered here fully go to show why it's so important to make the most we can of our lives and what we have, regardless of our circumstances or obstacles. Afterall, it's always better to create memories with someone or something and lose them than to never make those memories at all, isn't it?
It's the first video I've seen from this channel and I really loved it. It reminds me of Exurb1a the way you narrate and express ideas. I hope you get more recognition🙌
this video essay was so amazing. it made me emotional with 2b2t bc i used to play mc as a kid and the way your story telling was with your experience was so awesome.
20 seconds in and I hear Signalis music. You are a man of culture. Edit: Damn the ending with "You can only die, because you were lucky enough to live" with "Double Back" aka Isa's theme in the background made me tear up man.
“Every world has its end. That’s why we gotta live life to the fullest in the time we have. At least, that’s what I figure.” - Sonic and the Black Knight (2008)
The Captain KRB shoutout was really neat! I’ve been a fan of their’s for a while and I play on their Minecraft server a lot. I go around filling out maps and exploring the player structures I find. I highly recommend their server if you’re looking for a survival server
3:46 I had a minecraft world that was still on a harddrive when it died. It was december of 2022 and I hadn't played on it for a few months before that. It had no back-ups that werent 7 years old. For all intents and purposes, it was a dead world. A few phone photos and memories of 9 years of life then a friend managed to recover the hand drive for me and save the worlds this spring, 2024, from a computer that still thought it was december 2022. I popped the flash drive into my new PC, downloaded the .minecraft folder, downloaded a new launcher, and launched the world. i was still standing there, as I had for the last two years. halfway though a mega project. Still holding a plock in my hand. An enderman was mad at me, it attacked when the world was powered on. for those two years, it was all on pause, it was all dead, frozen in my mind and in its own world. 9, now 11, years of history. just...odd to think about
I watch this thinking it'll be just a video about a theory of after a world dies, but no you manage to fit 4 different content in without making it feels long, it's a roller coaster of emotion watching this video. It's truly amazing that you made 4 ideas from different media to fit in one video
Your adventure through that Minecraft Server felt like Sable mixed with a Souls game mixed with Shadow of the Colossus and I'm totally here for it. You may have inspired a pilgrimage for my friends and I!
"You can only die, because you were lucky enough to live". Thank you for that line Cresendex.
Tbh I'd rather have not lived in the first place
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corny line tbh let’s be real
@@GS-il5dr have some joy in your life once in a while
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There's something oddly addicting about watching videos that inflict some degree of existential crisis
Watch a video about Signalis. Itll bring you to tears. Well a grown man like me at least lol
@@ericgrimes341 Signalis is a masterpiece
@@ShaktiChaturvedi The way it draws on so much meaningful popular media and puts a bow on it is a masterclass for a smaller game developer.
I said this once on another video about abandoned worlds. Dead Minecraft worlds have this unique quality most abandoned places don't have, they never degrade over time, stuff you left in a chest is in it's same place in the same condition, pets are still sitting in the same spot for years. The entire world is frozen in the same state you left it however many years ago you left it, like when a time traveler in a movie travels into the future, lives their life, and teleports back to the same place right after they left.
"Pets are sitting in the same spot for years."
One time, I tried to calculate how many years passed in Minecraft over the course of a single year in the real world. I did it for fun/for a very complicated Minecraft character I have; I'm not really gonna talk about that character very much cuz it's a LOT of Discord shenanigans and wither/witherstorm headcanons, but I will give just brief, small details, for context.
Eventually I realized that you multiply the real-world year by 72 to get the number of Minecraft years, and... as it can probably easily be imagined... the numbers get big pretty quickly. 17×72 becomes 1,224, 46×72 equals 3,312, and 301×72 = 21,672.
So imagine if you're part of the ancient race that once walked the earth of Minecraft. Had a dog, beloved dog, but forced to leave it behind with your home in the Overworld to serve your local militia in the Nether. Dying late enough to witness the news and feel the impact that the first creation of the Wither had on the world, with travel back to the Overworld suddenly forbidden, though dying without being given a chance to visit home ever again. On a battlefield of Soul Sand.
....Soul sand. Soul sand.
And the dog.... waiting. Waiting for you, days becoming nights and nights becoming weeks and known intervals of time becoming blurred eternity.
Since Minecraft is a video game, the dog never dies on its own. Something would have to kill it.
Nothing ever does.
So imagine how long it's had to wait by now. For an owner who's fate is unknown to it, for an owner who's never coming back.
.......Uuuuuuuunnless some idiot modern-day Minecraft player obsessed with the Wither Storm from Minecraft: Story Mode (((me))) programs a command block to "adopt" the first Soul that enters it before building one and _said Soul just happens to be that dog's owner---_
And I refuse to elaborate further lmaoooo
bro figured out how saving a game works.
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damn it i wanna know more now!
@@GS-il5dreven if the world was still running, like in a server, nothing would change...
just kidding endermen exist
And then he quit youtube to become a philosopher.
His early Sisyphus hides his grin line was peak tho
blud is gonna become exurb1a fr fr
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In the roblox game "The W" i was part of a battle between two teams that lasted for about 4hrs. Both teams had spent large quantities of time building infrastructure, fighting, sabotaging, and base building. Both teams peaked in player count at about 20 per team. The fighting was intense but eventually me and a team of players where able to build a bridge to the top floor of the enemy base (they based in an abandoned house). We were able to clear the base and defend the enemy team from regaining their lost base. Once the server declared that we won, me and my team went back to celebrate with the others then got off for the day. When I got on and returned later that week i actually found the ruins of my teams base. there was a new player using the garage as a rest spot because that was the largest part that was still mostly remaining after the base was disassembled by passing players. At that moment I understood exactly what this video means. To me it marked a time of energy and life but to all others it was just a hollow shell of concrete walls.
Reminds me of the story “Stand Still, Stay Silent” and the differences between its prologue and first ending
I love the w
oh yeah that games peak
Same story, old W was peak, it was called detroit, in the area called New Detroit, a wasteland.
seems really amazing. tbh i kind of played sandbox games to do wacky things and thats basically it. this comment and this video shows that it can actually be really interesting.
you talking about minecraft worlds reminds me of this flatworld i had on a tablet where i was building this enormous palace, all completely by hand. i made it my favorite color, a deeper blue, with white accents. one day i got a new tablet and wanted to move the world onto there. well, i thought it had transferred, but by the time i actually checked, the world wasn't there. it was already deleted on the old tablet by that point. it lives on only as a memory now, i still remember what most of the finished portions looked like and what i wanted to do in the future. i could probably replicate it to a better degree if i really wanted to, but i choose not to.
I had a very similar experience many years ago on PC. When I got my new PC, a family member took my old one and wiped the HDD. At that age, I was too young to understand the importance of backing up your data, I never even thought about it in the first place. I still often think how many worlds are still lodged in the back of my brain, waiting to come to the forefront of my thoughts, brought upon by a single word, smell etc.
Same. I replicated my house in minecraft on my Xbox 3 years ago. Lost the world. Only a memory now
Happened to me with my childhood worlds I played with my dad. Same goes for my little big planet creations as well.
They live on only in my memory now, even if faintly.
Had something like that with a world. Went to add mods when I was a young lad, planes mod had recently become a thing. Installing the mod failed my first attempt so I had to make a fresh copy of .minecraft, I moved my worlds but when I loaded the game I had realized that the world I was mainly using at the time had not transfered from the original file which had been deleted. It was one of the first times I felt great sorrow from minecraft and a part of me died, I did not play again for quite some time after that. I went from such great excitement of modding my game and going to play tons more, to deep sorrow and not touching the game for many moons.
What I hated most was all of the dogs that I had collected and built their own house for were now just gone.
However I do still have my original world from when I played minecraft alpha, it is my longest consistently played world. I wish I didn't keep building in the same location, but it does have deep history. I never fully destroyed many of my builds, especially parts that were underground, so much of my own kingdom in the world is built upon the remains of what it was.
The great part too is I can travel thru time with it, as I have multiple backup copies of the world thru different times. As far back as my only base being a stone staircase going into the ground, the land around yet to be teraformed into a massive kingdom with giant walls. To see how it looked before, and then to go to the exact spot that it is buried in the current time of the world and see how it is still the same, it is very eerie like looking at a different person that vaugly resembles yourself.
Yes I feel the same way, I have many deleted worlds that I can vividly remember
I thought this was a video about dead Minecraft worlds. I am now having an existential crisis.
Oopsy that part just came on
as soon as i saw "cresendex" i smiled
I came
@@lolailo2199 WHAT????
I splooged
Masterpiece certified creator
Same
the tonal whiplash from that is extreme bro, you dropped a existentialist bomb then went, "alright, lets move to minecraft", great video nonetheless
When I look back on my old server, and all the builds our thousand or more players did, it's really genuinely haunting. Everything is deserted. There are so many stories that played out that even I wasn't aware of as an admin on our server. It's truly wild to look back on it and be like "Damn, we really did all this."
I miss it, but there's no going back to those times.
"The only true death is to never live"
"What do all stories have in common dear Wolf?"
"They end"
Lava casts are so interesting cause more times than not they end up fossilizing what was underneath it and saving it from further griefing
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair."
randomly came across this video in my feed, glad i decided to watch it
now im barely holding back tears
I swear this dude just vanishes and casually drops the most life changing vids of all time.
The end of the Outer Wilds section really got to me. I've always loved that game and its wonderful to see that it's touched someone else's heart the same way it did mine.
So I'm not the only one 🥲
I love realms with alot of people cause after they leave the game forever you see so many stories within the environment itself, a cobblestone bridge crossing a crevasse, the foundations of a never erected building, player made mines with chests and furnaces long abandoned, i love piecing together that story.
I have always thought of this, how the echoes of our or any civilization are just that, echoes. Mere phantoms, faded shadows of a lost world. And man I love how this video conveys that message
some years ago, i joined a bedrock server, it was small, but big enough to have a community active at all times, i decide to build a castle, overlooking spawn to help newcomers. But the server didnt have ani antigriefing methods so the castle always needed repairs, but the admins helped me, as a form of gratitude to the help i was doing fot the community. But one day i gave up, and left the server, some weeks after that i rejoined to see the castle rebuilt andd maintained by another player who found its ruins and had the same idea as me. i felt as my presence was still on the server.
I've always had a fear of death, or it's actually just the fear of being forgotten in disguise, but no matter what it is I'm pretty sure this video just lessened it a bit, thank you for making this, I may not be remembered, but at least I made a tiny impact that someone may notice, even if it's just comments on sites that'll probably cease to exist someday, or maybe even a lost earring or necklace from a trip I took, physical objects last longer than memories after all, those will be long gone too one day, but at least there's going to be signs I was there at some point!
"You can only die because you were lucky enough to live" is the most BEAUTIFUL THING
whenever i see the most saddest or scariest title in a video, i know it's cresendex's.
I have a 6 year old minecraft server, well it was a server but ive spent 4 years meticulously aging to it. Making it essentially a 10km by 5km map. And its so peaceful, to walk through a forest and find a rundown house that someone else built, full of moss an cobwebs. Maybe a sleeping bag on the ground or some signs that make it feel "alive" in such a dead way.
I've played and finished Outer Wilds, and I've pondered the same over death and eternity. It doesn't scare me, but i still find life meaningful all the same.
This video from beginning to end was beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.
“You can only die because you were lucky enough to live” thank you for those words. You have gained a new subscriber
Wow, this is one of the most beautiful videos I've watched, I started tearing up at the end. You're criminally underrated
"Merlina, every world has it's end. I know that's sad but... that's why we've gotta make the most with the time we have. At least, that's what I figure."
-Sonic The Hedgehog, 2009
This video made me sad and happy at the same time.
Also, I saw what you did with that Hawaii: Part 2 reference. Nice🥰.
absolutely stellar. tbh, i'm not sure how i didn't figure out how similar 2b2t was to outer wilds myself, i was always interested in the historical/archeological aspect of 2b2t, and outer wilds is by far my favourite game of all time. to touch on what you said about ghosts in the writing and outer wilds in particular, i always found it interesting to think about how almost every single character you know is functionally a ghost in pretty much that same capacity. sure there's the distinction of the things you read being from the long-dead, should-be dead, and inevitably dead, but after you've read everything someone has to say, after they stop being a new and unique experience, they die and become a ghost too. after a while, there's very little reason to distinguish your childhood best friend or an idol you admire from the writings you find on the walls of the ruins you explore, and it really sets in stone just how lonely you are in the time loop. i feel like it's a facet of the loop a lot of people tend to forget about
i really enjoy these kinds of videos about topics that doesnt really have a concrete answer, but the answer is rather to live with the fact that it doesnt have an answer
5:21 thank you for including him
A long time ago I took a personality quiz, one of the ones where you can pick an answer from "agree" to "disagree" with options in between. One of the questions was "There is beauty in sadness." I think about this question a lot, especially when I watch videos like this. I know this video isn't about sadness, it's about dying worlds and the end, but you usually can't have that without someone being sad.
I don't really know where I'm going with this. But thank you for the video. It was beautiful.
Only 1k vids in three hours??
Edit: This is... Amazing. I love this so much.
"You can only die because you were lucky enough to live."
I shed a tear of happiness and tranquillity every time Cresendex preaches, and the notion and ideas portrayed are sublime. It feels like seeing the different aspects of the tapestry of the universe. If the universe is to die, the death would be a permanent cold slumber. We still dont know if the expansion will regress or not. Until then, the fate is uncertain, therefore Live your life and witness the artwork of life while its still alive.❤
I find it interesting that, even as someone who believes in life after death, it has been a very crucial and strong character building experience to seriously ponder and face the possibility of permanent ending. It has helped in building confidence, remembering and expressing my love towards others, enjoying the days as I experience them. I am able to better appreciate the beauty that every day offers whether gray and overcast or bright and sunny. It is a profound process that I feel everyone should learn to face, regardless of beliefs.
Busted at the first 5 words ❤
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"this video will not have"
so does "THIS VIDEO WAS SPONSORED BY RAID SHADOW LEGENDS" make you come
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That feeling when you share your world with friends for a long time and then they quit playing. You walk into their buildings and find things you never noticed while was playing with them. Strange feelings come over you.
Hearing your story with your voice is something that’s calming in a way I can’t describe. I’ve been struggling with the thought of emptiness for a while. Watching the gameplay, listening to your thoughts, and looking outside my room at the birds. It leaves me thinking. If this is video is like your sign 2b2t to the rest of the world, getting to know you through these signs is a journey, thank you, Cresendex.
Another magnificent upload and criminally underrated!
There's just something so unique about old Minecraft structures. As you've stated, other games have this exploration scripted, whereas Minecraft is not, instead it is created by the people themselves, similar to what these other games are trying to replicate but aren't quite there yet.
The human mind can imagine things that we could never be able to turn into words/visuals. It is possible that we feel such a strong connection to these random structures because our minds fill in the blanks. You see a castle that is half covered in cobblestone and the other half that has been ransacked for items and materials. You think to yourself "what did this place used to look like?" "What was the purpose?" etc. You then start to connect yourself to this structure in some way, despise you never having even seen it before.
The personification of buildings always gets me. Take Kane Pixels "The Life Of A Giant" series (especially the final slideshow showcasing the real mall). Seeing photos of this mall being demolished brings me an unfathomable amount of dread, I can't even begin to describe what I felt when I first watched it while on holiday. I had never been to this mall or even America for that matter, but seeing that "giant" standing alone in a dark and falling apart mall just made me tear up.
Maybe these structures should be left to interpretation, as the unknown is always more intriguing that the known.
This is the third or fourth video of yours I've seen now, and at this point you've earned another sub.
Man your videos bring me nothing but joy. I praise every upload from you I receive. Thank you
Dude this video is beautiful. I thought it was just some silly video about minecraft when I clicked on it and it’s so much more than that. Everything we do: draw, write, whatever, is some kind of hint that we all existed. It’s some way to get our name out there without having to say a word to be discovered by people who are willing to tell your stories. It’s like we’re immortal in a way but nothing lasts forever, for the universe will be a graveyard to dead stars and that is an inevitable death for all of us. With the time we are gifted with, we can do something that seems so little, but affects the world around us so much for everything we do has a reason. We all exist for a reason, and it is up to us to find out what it is with the time we have and are so lucky to have. In our last moments, it will comfort us knowing that we tried our best no matter what. (Sorry if this seems like a mess or if it’s rushed,,, I literally just watched this video and I’m in shambles rn)
2:14 I feel this all the time as an Atheist, sometimes I wished that I am wrong, that god and the afterlife does exist, even if my fate is eternal torment for being a non believer, I would still embrace it, I find hell more comfortable than an empty void
You wished you were wrong, but you don't choose to believe. There is no price for belief, but You still condemn yourself
Honestly for me it’s the complete opposite. Granted I won’t say I act like a Christian anymore, and even calling myself that would be a disgrace to God but I can tell you for certain I’d rather cease to exist than go to hell. Heaven? Yeah, it’s beautiful. It’s peace, love and all things good. Ceasing to exist? That’s also a win, cause you won’t be conscious during that. It’ll be like before you were even born.
Hell? That’s where things get bad. We’ve all heard the fire and brimstone sermons that people may preach either from genuine concern or to hurt the opposing party, but the truth is that Hell ain’t good. It’s a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth; a disturbing painful existence where your only constant is being tormented (not by demons, I remind you, but just by being in there.) I don’t even have words to emphasize how dark and painful it is according to the Bible.
The void isn’t the end. Where were you before your birth? Entropy is the lack of existence. You as you currently stand, exist. So there is “to exist” and there is “to not exist”. The void or “whomever” gave birth to the “idea” of you… It can certainly do it again. “The concept of you not existing” and “the concept of you existing” In and out, positive and negative, like a battery.
Choosing hell over void is dumbest choice. I would personally choose either void or reborm a completely different person. Void is actually best you could get because you cannot feel anything. Your brain cannot feel what true nothingness is like because to feel true nothingness your brain need to be completely shut off which is impossible (other than death) meaning you can't feel anything positive or negative, you cannot think and its basically it. Think what was before your birth there was nothing because your brain wasnt turned on same would happen after deth
One hobby I started a few years ago was to seek out old UA-cam videos, with as few views as possible, and watch them and leave a comment. Or just reply to old comments on other videos I happened to be watching. A few people got back to me, sometimes after more than a decade! Other people replied, telling me how they enjoyed being brought to the past. But the vast amount of comments I left received no response.
I think our experiences are rather similar.
There’s a kind of beauty in the husks of places long forgotten, abandoned to the elements and lost to time, but even those empty husks are temporary.
Ultimately, most fears of death aren’t truly fears of death, but fears of being forgotten. We all want to be remembered, in some way or another. But the universe isn’t something that remembers. We can live out our whole lives on Earth, and even reach out to the stars, but no matter what we do, nobody on the far side of the universe will ever know we even existed. The universe has been around far, _far_ longer than we have, and chances are it’ll still be around long after we’re all gone. That’s just how it’s been, and its how it likely will always be. Yes, the chances are that none of our existences will be remembered, but when our existence is less than a grain of sand drifting among the stars, did we ever really exist at all?
Rain worl
Wow… what a really profound video… thought provoking, gripping, and captivating, all with a profound but simple lesson to end it all with. Thank you for making this video, it touched my heart on a deep level. 💙
There have been 2 games in my life that have taught me to accept death for what it is - Outer wilds and Rain world
They served to reassure me that there is nothing wrong with it, it is all natural and there is nothing to be afraid of
This is the first time that I heard exploring 2B2T as something akin to archaeology. I mean you are wandering down old roads, finding ruins of people long gone, and deciding to reverse-engineer it in a way, only guessing what the uses of the old builds were and seeing scrawls on the walls that describe how future groups view it
Outer Wilds and The Manifold Garden are the two most existential experiences I've ever had, not only in games, but in general. Outer Wilds made me come to grips with the concept that everything must come to an end, but must also continue, and The Manyfold Garden made me understand that we can adapt very easily to any reality, even if it's alien to us, such as the concept of infinity. As I jumped down in that game and fell forever, and as I watched the sun blow up in OW, after spending a whole cycle doing nothing of note on purpose, I felt comfort in the fact that it's okay. It's okay. It goes on forever. The mind doesn't understand it because it's not for the mind to understand, but whether there is something there to understand it after we die or not, as far as we are concerned, we have always been alive, and we always will be, forever.
25:56 DREAM SWEET IN SEA MAJOR REFERENCE, DREAM SWEET IN SEA MAJOR REFERENCE!!!!! :D
*sea major
and not only that, but also introduction to the snow
I no joke gasped
@@DontYouDareToCallMePolisz oh thanks for the correction, I was a bit sleepy when writing the comment
@@liamsaxburyi went like captain America in that reference scene not even kidding
I literally screamed
this video beautifully encapsulates the saying, “carpe diem”, thank u cresendex!
“We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.”
-Solanum
I was not expecting a video about a minecraft server to evoke the same sorts of emotions as Girls Last Tour did.
" you stop to smell the pine trees" i love you for using that quote
This is emotional, I've had this feeling many times and not just on Minecraft , I've played a fair amount of dead games and it's really weird finding things people left behind or signs that someone has been here but not knowing how long ago that was
the segment mentioning KRB’s signs and codex entries was genuinely amazing. bro turned a fellow goated youtuber into a crucial plot device and ended up giving one of the most existentially bleak yet captivating minecraft stories ive ever heard
Dude, probably one of your best videos, keep it up man, please. Your amazing to watch!!!
So beautiful of a video essay, made me emotionally grateful for living.
“Nothing built can last forever”- Ivor
Minecraft Story Mode reference, it's been a while lol.
Videos like this are what has kept me alive. I’ve been so close at times, ive stood on the cliff, so close. But then every time I find something like this, something that keeps me going. No matter how much I suffer, no matter how many times I walk to the cliff and look down at the end. I always see something like this that keeps me from the fall. Friends would message me for the first time in months a video like this would appear. I would remember someone who I could help. I know that one day I will take that final leap. But before I am to weak and before the day that I won’t be reminded how why I live life still. I hope to change others lives for the better, no matter if they will one day pass to. Because of that I leave notes like this to document my life to hopefully help other if they bother to read these. I doubt this will be my final one but if it is. Thank you for making this video because videos like this are what have and do give me the power to keep going.
Please keep going, you are only limited by what you can do, you can and should do the typical things of seeking therapy and reaching out to friends. However, I'd also encourage going outside more, a lot of people say they live in "boring places" But if you look hard enough you can find anything! I encourage you to at least try to go on a trail, stay the night in a tent in the woods, set a time limit on your phone. The more time you have to be outside without technology, the more time you have to think of yourself and who you really are, and maybe you can get yourself out of this once you've found something, which I gurantee you will if you do things out of your comfort zone. I hope this reply helped, and if you're thinking about giving up, please don't. Everyone has people they love and people who love them including you.
Suicide Hotline: 988.
I leave in every single one of my minecraft worlds a sign reading "i lived. remember me"
i do not fear death, i fear being forgotten. that is true death
12:02 Looks like someone found negative entropy
Never yet have I heard anybody anybody talk about 2B2T in a way that makes me want to visit the server.
I don't have any technical know how, no hacked clients, would probably get ddossed the moment I spawn in, but the way you speak about ghosts of the past just about makes me want to risk it.
I understand how you felt on 2bt2. I've never played it myself. I have a minecraft world. I've been playing it for a while. but as long as it's just me on it, it will always feel empty, no matter how much I put in it. It's because I know that only I will get to experience it. No one else will ever see the work I've put in, this just kills the world.
I was playing minecraft when i clicked on this and it was great. Also i know its 30 mins longs but i still feel like its not long enough. THESE ARE SO GOOD 😭
i expected something about video games and how death is depicted, and instead got an inspirational quote.
this is now one of my favourite videos
This was an inspirational and emotionally touching video. I rarely leave comments, but this video made me feel like I had to do something productive, socialize, and learn. The message was well-delivered, thank you so much for creating this work of art.
acepting concepts like fate breed complacensy, and any comfort that acceptence may give is at the cost of any hope to avoid that fate... struggle, even if all around say its in vain, struggle is in the nature of all life, to fight against the encroshing darkness of oblivion, there is nothting to lose and all to gain from the attempt.
This...this is exceptional
I love when you upload bro! Thanks for the best videos ever!!!
for minecraft, i join communities that do their ''seasons' and get their world downloads of old stuff.
its honestly eerie when you go into them, not because like the members that were in there are gone or anything, just that after a year or so, they just end the server/world and make a new one.
going through their trading/shopping hubs, seeing some of their stores with stock and some payments left behind, then visiting their bases kinda creates a image of a bustling world that suddenly died.
This channel is amazing
This is some of the best content I've seen on UA-cam in many years. I am grateful to you for making this!
Didn't expect to see a mention of captain krb here! been watching their channel since the early days :)
When the Minecraft worlds was mentioned - I was reminded of my old worlds that was one day deleted or unused, along with the old SMP server I used to be apart of.
Minecraft can be a good example of a dead world as it kind of _is_ one already.
With that isolation feel and the fact youre basically the only 'human' in a world filled with animals, humanoid-like monsters and forgotten builds not built by you.
-(Dont worry I didnt forget the Villagers and Illagers.)-
Energy never dies, it changes.
Human body's die, but the soul does not.
So we, Never die.
20:41 the sound that played gave me the same emotion that I had when playing subnotica when exploring the deps of the see lol
This guy is so underrated bro 🙏
Death is something that really scares me but just to know that there is hope for an afterlife, heaven or what ever you believe in gives me comfort
12:35 "I want some confirmation that I don't walk this path alone"
can't believe i'm getting emotional over a minecraft video essay
fantastic video though. loved this
"Every world has its end. I know that's kinda sad, but... That's why we gotta live life to the fullest in the time we have. At least that's what I figure". - Sonic the Hedgehog
This quote from Sonic and the Black Knight was what I used for my senior quote when I graduated. I feel that it's had a large impact on me throughout all my life, and I think that the things we can learn from the topics you covered here fully go to show why it's so important to make the most we can of our lives and what we have, regardless of our circumstances or obstacles. Afterall, it's always better to create memories with someone or something and lose them than to never make those memories at all, isn't it?
It's the first video I've seen from this channel and I really loved it. It reminds me of Exurb1a the way you narrate and express ideas. I hope you get more recognition🙌
this video essay was so amazing. it made me emotional with 2b2t bc i used to play mc as a kid and the way your story telling was with your experience was so awesome.
can't describe what this video made me feel, but it was a damn good video
20 seconds in and I hear Signalis music. You are a man of culture.
Edit: Damn the ending with "You can only die, because you were lucky enough to live" with "Double Back" aka Isa's theme in the background made me tear up man.
wake up babe new cresendex video just dropped
cresendex thank u for making quality content i love you
25:57 love the dream sweet in sea major reference
That’s was so beautiful oh my gosh.
This video has given me several chills and cases of goosebumps, this was so incredibly meaningful i cant even describe it
I never do this, but I’m giving this video a rate if 10/10, gave me goosebumps.
Awesome video, your chanel is so underrated. I really enjoyed the game SOMA, that focuses on how people want to desperatly leave something behind.
“Every world has its end. That’s why we gotta live life to the fullest in the time we have. At least, that’s what I figure.”
- Sonic and the Black Knight (2008)
The Captain KRB shoutout was really neat! I’ve been a fan of their’s for a while and I play on their Minecraft server a lot. I go around filling out maps and exploring the player structures I find. I highly recommend their server if you’re looking for a survival server
3:46 I had a minecraft world that was still on a harddrive when it died. It was december of 2022 and I hadn't played on it for a few months before that. It had no back-ups that werent 7 years old. For all intents and purposes, it was a dead world. A few phone photos and memories of 9 years of life
then a friend managed to recover the hand drive for me and save the worlds this spring, 2024, from a computer that still thought it was december 2022. I popped the flash drive into my new PC, downloaded the .minecraft folder, downloaded a new launcher, and launched the world.
i was still standing there, as I had for the last two years. halfway though a mega project. Still holding a plock in my hand. An enderman was mad at me, it attacked when the world was powered on.
for those two years, it was all on pause, it was all dead, frozen in my mind and in its own world. 9, now 11, years of history. just...odd to think about
I watch this thinking it'll be just a video about a theory of after a world dies, but no you manage to fit 4 different content in without making it feels long, it's a roller coaster of emotion watching this video. It's truly amazing that you made 4 ideas from different media to fit in one video
it was such a good video I got sad it ended... im excited for future uploads, I really love your narration🙏 it's always very engaging and imaginative
Your adventure through that Minecraft Server felt like Sable mixed with a Souls game mixed with Shadow of the Colossus and I'm totally here for it. You may have inspired a pilgrimage for my friends and I!
Your videos are such a treat
Such a beautiful and touching video essay... Thank you 🥺❣️