18 Removed Minecraft Features You Forgot About

What is Minecraft's most forgotten feature? There have been several removed minecraft features over the years, and in this video I want to talk about some of them, like pre-1.10 gravel village roads, apples to arrows, and the weird but cool minecraft super secret settings. Join me in this nostalgic minecraft adventure as we go through some of the removed (mostly) java edition minecraft features you forgot about.

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0:00 Intro
0:40 Craftable Saddles/Horse Armor
1:40 Craftable Chainmail Armor
2:26 Apples to Arrows
3:19 Creeper Melee Attack
4:03 Old Animations
4:31 Java Launcher Easter Eggs
5:37 The F Keys
7:54 Winter Mode
9:03 Isometric Screenshot
9:33 Old Village Roads
10:01 Pre-spawned Inventories
10:45 Unlicensed Copy Message
11:37 Old Conduit Particles
12:20 Super Secret Settings
13:06 Mobs Running Away from Creepers
13:46 Gear
14:24 Nether Reactor Core (PE)
15:23 Final Thoughts / Subscribe! :)

#minecraft #minecraftnostalgia #oldminecraft

[PaladinRyan]

hey everyone! what other big removed features do you remember? let me know below me! and thanks for hangin' out as always.

[julianxamo]

I fully remember the super secret settings, I even used the one that applied a "sharpened" effect to the blocks all the time, because I liked how it looked

[gbrlchnnl]

We should be able to craft chainmail armor since the chains were added. It would make sense.

[stormhought]

I miss the old launcher(s). I think horses could be made useful again by adding carts that can be used to hold multiple chests/entities

[OkadaKek]

Props to you for being the first one of these videos to actually teach me something new. I went into this thinking the apples to arrows were just clickbait.

[DialecticRed]

12:58 I definitely have vivid memories of the super secret settings, like that was my childhood. I loved messing around with those, especially right after they were added (I started playing in 1.2 so I got the pleasure of seeing a lot of new features as they were added). But yeah I loved just messing around with those and roleplaying as like a cyborg or something lmao

[josgretf]

I loved the super secret settings. If I recall one of them was a sepia tone and I used it for wild west stuff.

[nateh]

Jeez that super secret settings brought back memories. It actually wasn't in the game for a short time. 1.7.2 to 1.9 doesn't seem long, but what a lot of people forget is that time gap was 2 years. People like me who stuck to 1.8 for pvp for a long time had it even longer. I remember spending entire weekends playing with my brother and sometimes we'd turn on the super secret settings just for fun because it was like a wacky texture pack.

[TheiBunny]

I remember during the snapshot cycle when they were adding rabbits to the game, they used to be huge, and you were able to tame them like wolves and ocelots... it was amazing.
Was absolutely devastated when I found out they removed that after updating my world to the latest snapshot a few weeks later and they'd all run from me again :(

I'm still a little bitter about it ngl. Nowadays people have the lack of fireflies, or rideable dolphins to be upset about - but those at least had somewhat understandable explanations for their exclusion... the reason they gave at the time was that "rabbits can't be domesticated irl", which I can confidently say from over 2 decades of experience with them is utter baloney.
They'd even added an easter egg for a secret rabbit skin if you named one "Toast", after someone's (missing?) *pet rabbit* right before removing the ability to tame them and actually make them your pets. Talk about inlsult to injury... To this day I still don't understand the decision, lol

[legospartan.]

Fire to make chainmail, it feels like it's a testing thing/debugging. Or placeholder for a idea for crafting chainmail.

[katepuddings]

I explicitly remember super secret settings as it was around the time I got the PC version of the game as a kid and I thought it was so cool. Loved the black and white filter

[BigDrewski]

A feature I miss are the way the old bows used to be before enchanting was added. Yes they were weak as far as weapons went, but they didn't have to be strong as they were unbreakable & could fire like a machine gun.

[jamespierce]

I mentioned this in another person’s video, but I’ll post it here, too. I have a “removed” feature that I’ve NEVER heard anyone talk about. It’s that oak trees could have yellow to red leaves. I’m considering sharing this elsewhere to spread it around, but I don’t know where to go.

To clarify, in the transition between Beta 1.7.3 to Beta 1.8, there were a few updates that went live. There may have been 1-3 of them and they lasted for a day or 2 each… Maybe it was even for a few hours, it’s been a decade. I distinctly remember this event because the area where I built my home was next to some ferns with very lush green grass comparable to jungle grass of modern MC. After this event, I noticed my grass had a more washed out color and it bummed me out.

When it was live, I was super happy that the game had more color to its trees, but I was very attached to the green forest I was established in because I found it pretty. I was hoping that this was like a new temporary seasonal event and it sort of felt experimental. The time frame this had to have happened would of been around early September. Regardless, I was happy to enjoy the change of scenery and was hopeful it’d change back. As cool as it is to see trees in a vast array of colors in MC, it wasn’t done very well in the sense that it was a little too chaotic. If anyone remembers how swamps were implemented in Beta 1.8, they’ll probably tell you that the grass and new water color transition looked too abrupt. Same with these autumnal trees I’m describing. My only theory is that they’re related in some way.

I know for years, even since the beginning of MC, there’s been mods for seasons and different leaf colorations. It’s a highly requested feature. I’ve never played with mods up until recently and that was to play Beta 1.7.3 again. I’ve been on and off with MC and stay vanilla hoping to that the next update is the update that makes me want to invest a lot of time into it (I’m still waiting). I went to the MC forums to confirm if anyone talked about this, but I couldn’t find anything. I think there may not be a single image of when this happened on the Internet, which is bizarre to me because I feel like this would have been huge back in the day.

Does anyone remember this?

[realpunkfruit]

the "old" launcher is still super new to me xD i miss the OLD old launcher, with the patch notes!

also to go with the pocket edition one, i remember when chests werent in the game. you had to store all your precious materials by making them into blocks and just placing them down!

[Cocoecake]

I can't imagine the research you did to find all these secrets! 📜
And I've said before and I'll say it again- I miss the void fog, where the world would get darker as you dug closer to bedrock (which was also removed due to performance issues)

[ArtificialDjDAGX]

The super secret settings were legit one of my top favorite parts of minecraft. Some of the visual modes legit made playing the game more fun, and you could also experience the world through the eyes of different mobs if you wanted to :)

[felidawn]

I used the “super secret mode” to make an accurate map of animal crossing wild world, because there was a mode that made the screen look like an old box tv, which is what I only ever played ACWW on. I don’t think I ever finished the map, but it was a fun concept I guess and a decent use of that feature!

[robbieboydudeguy]

I REMEMBER THOSE TWO WEEKS OF SADDLE MAKING! I loved watching people play it and I guess that recipe stuck with me, so when I finally got Minecraft I thought I could make one and was upset when I found that I couldn’t. Good to know I’m not crazy all these years later

[isaac_aren]

Another removed feature of Pocket Edition: The stonecutter. I believe it still exists as a decorative block but in older versions it was used for crafting things with exclusively stone items. The old crafting menu was basically a line by line list of every crafting recipe so the extra block helped to reduce clutter

Minecraft PE also had servers. Actual 3rd party servers you could enter an IP for and join. I believe Lifeboat was the most popular and I played it a couple times.

[OrganicSuperlube]

The super secret settings button was my favorite thing in the world. As far as I understand it, it was essentially a test for how shaders would work on Minecraft, and one of the settings lowered the color depth to the point that the game looked like a crunchy pixelated very-early-era MSDOS game, which is an aesthetic I'm utterly crazy for. Sadly, I've never been able to find a shader set for Minecraft nor Reshade alike that replicated it quite right.