The Regrettable Truth Behind Minecrafts Golden Apple...

The golden apple is one of the rarest and most powerful items in minecraft. However, the story behind its creation and its creator, are almost all but forgotten...

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0:00 – Intro
1:08 – A 100% Custom Server
4:03 – JTE’s Custom Spleef Server
4:56 – Threatened by The Admins
8:29 – The Golden Apple

Music Used:
1. Scott Buckley - Discovery
2. Feels - Patrick Patrikios
3. C418 - Alpha
4. Lena Raine - Infinite Amethyst
5. Scott Buckley - Age of Wonder

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[TheMisterEpic]

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[fernandoc]

I am so sad JTE was seemingly bullied off the community. I shiver just imagining what could've been if she had stayed from thereon. What kind of game would we have if she'd continued helping develop the game alongside Notch?

[StormyRaptor.]

Man, I wonder where JTE is now. Just really hope she's out there doing something great, because just this shows how much potential she has at creating.

[ip]

JTE wherever you are, if you somehow come across this video, we just want you to know how much we appreciate everything you've done for Minecraft ♥

[glidershower]

The irony is that the logic of JTE stealing customers from Notch is laughable considering the guys that ran the minecraft4free website managed to get away with it for two whole years before Notch asked them to take it down, and even went down to accept the pirates gauntlet of an online match in another multiplayer game as a condition to do so.
All of this story boils down to mod people being jealous of JTE's genius and not being able to replicate or even understand what she was doing at the time. Now she lives as the golden apple and in JTE's words, *"yet it still moves..."*

Thanks for sharing this bit of OG minecraft history. I left the game for a decade in early 2010 due to problems with griefers and stuff. JTE's cage design is exactly the one we also used in our server back in the day, before it was eventually defeated and we were droven away. Makes me sad to think all of the advances people like her could've done to put an end to the griefing epidemic that took the game hostage for half of its early life. Hope she's doing well and went on to keep on coding her own projects.

[Leftytinkatolli]

I've been playing Minecraft for nearly 10 years, and this is the first I have ever heard of JTE. Thank you so much for enlightening us and making her story known. She deserved so much better than what she got. The fact she put all that work in and pioneered one of Minecraft's most popular modes only to be bullied away by a couple of jumped-up forum admins is just heartbreaking. In my experience of the Minecraft forums, I must say the admins were despicable. They gave me infractions at every opportunity, and it got to the point where I swear they were targeting me. Esteemed users were often very rude to me, and if I stood up for myself, I wound up getting a 2-day ban while they got off scot-free. I am glad that forum went in the end. I hope those 2 mods feel thoroughly and utterly ashamed with themselves, and I hope JTE found success and the recognition she deserved in whatever she did after her early Minecraft work.

[ytstoat]

It pisses me off that someone so influential was bullied off Minecraft by mods abusing their power when they had permission from the game’s creator.

[nicholasschmidt]

Wow. In the infancy of the game's life, two moderators bullied a seriously talented and committed modder into quitting the scene for the grievance of making the game functional and more bearable to play in multiplayer. It's amazing the game got anywhere if the official forums were run by clown mods that formed instant beefs with anyone who they *assumed* had a slight disagreement with Notch.

[DissonantSynth]

JTE did absolutely nothing wrong. She helped to build and solidify the community. If it weren't for her, we wouldn't even have SMPs today and MC would be far less successful.

It's so sad that she was forced to leave the forums. Those forum moderators were horrible

[maroonknight]

Dang, this sucks for her. I had no idea she existed until now. I am happy that you have told this story and gave her the recognition she deserved. After seeing this video I decided to see what I could find about her on Google, but I had to use some very specific wording to find information about her. I hope that she will eventually get all the recognition she deserves, these types of stories always find a way of surfacing some day and I hope that this one gets fully shown to everyone. Good job and thank you for helping her get the recognition she deserves.

[Sevenigma]

Pfft it's both sad and funny to see people saying how JTE was stealing customers from Notch. I wonder who has more money and fame now, Notch or JTE? At least that means all the accusations against JTE are proven false.

[welpyes]

As one of the Og Minecrafters, JTE is very well known before. Some of My friends even called him a god.

[CortDollaz]

Sad to think what she could’ve added to the game if they brought her on as a member of the team.

[vttale]

I wish Notch hadn't turned her down for help with network programming (ref: 8:50ish). As an Internet systems programmer my greatest beef with Minecraft is how terrible its networking is.

[content]

From now on i'm calling all Enchanted Golden Apples "JTE Apples" in honor of this Minecraft pioneer.

[Princess_Garnet]

Interesting to see that the Minecraft Forums staff was as pushy to make users feel unwelcome all that time ago too because I thought maybe it was just a recent thing.

I decided to leave there a couple years back after being given infractions a couple of times for apparently being too far off topic (usually for chats with The Master Caver user). Forums are typically a type of social media platform that consists of things called threads which naturally, you know, evolve over time. It's not like I was suddenly introducing wildly different topics either, but if you were posting ANYTHING but a direct response to the very initial post, then it felt like it was at a risk of not being welcome. After one of my posts was removed for this (which I felt wasn't even off topic), I figured the place wasn't worth it anymore. Good riddance.

All this was really the last straw after the forums underwent so many technical issues making it hard to use anyway, one which made pages super CPU heavy (on a rather fast CPU at the time) to edit longer posts, making me give up on maintaining the thread showing my world, and another that just... randomly made PMs never load, so I'd get PM notifications but lose access to my inbox for half a year at a time.

Glad to hear she stood up for herself, and got Golden Apples into the game for it, haha.

[wick]

i completely forgot i was watching a video about the golden apple until you brought it up again

[jacckkaboii]

Wow, I am so surprised that how JTE was pushed away from the community even though they were such a big influence...

[bunnybear]

Just before this video released I literally found an enchanted golden apple in a dungeon! What are the chances of that?? Can’t wait to watch this vid

[cryppi]

Man, I feel so bad that JTE isn't more talked about. Thank you for spreading her name! Hopefully she sees this video someday!