The Moment That Makes Minecraft Great

#minecraft #videoessay

[barbza]

also a big point is that the music plays randomly without any triggers, you’re always hopeful it’s gonna start again any second

[exotic-gem]

I’ve had a survival server with friends for 12 years now, and let me tell you, travelling 18km through the wilderness visit someone’s decade-old abandoned castle is a feeling I don’t think many people get to have.

There are unfinished bases built by people who only logged on once. There are strange underground rooms with machines that don’t quite work anymore. You can see some members’ styles get better and more refined over the years.

Kinda like 2B2T but almost all of the old stuff is in perfect condition, as if frozen in time.

[doomtoken]

Austin: "Can we take a second..."

Me: "Yeah, man."

[jordanriederer]

9:45 at one point after i graduated high school and was a bit into college, i was looking through my old minecraft saves and found one dated march 28th 2019. i was in creative mode building a large dam in the middle of the ocean, and just generally screwing around. i went to get a glass of water and my dad got home to tell us that in the night my mother had a stroke and that she probably wouldnt be coming home again. a week later she died in the hospital room and i forgot about the save. but when i opened it again, there i was, the exact frame before i knew my mother was dead. it was such a weird feeling and im still kind of feeling it right now.

[SaintJulesDay]

Minecraft really is something magical. Many games have tried procedural generation and I agree, none really reached the same heights. I made a cozy video essay/mini doc last year where I was looking for this very spark, exploring how crazy it is that everything that becomes, like you say, so familiar and intimate, is all made from randomness. With a different seed, your whole adventure would’ve been different. I also looked at other games to see how they did it, there’s the technical side to these games but also the emotional connection that seems to either work or it doesn’t.

Anyway, nice to see you take other roles beyond the Department of Labor Statistics!

[MrPuddle]

But where do Minecraft's rivers go?

[lucasgabriel]

about "THE END" poem: there's a great controversy regarding the subject. basically the leaders at Mojang were unfair, in all applicable forms of the term, to the creator of the poem. in a not so well summarized way, they did not agree on values ​​regarding the rights of the poem. Fast forward a few years and Mojang now belongs to Microsoft, bought for some money - US$ 2.5 billion. Even at this stage, the author of the poem had not even seen the color of the money referring to what would be his payment for writing that poem. Although he never saw the payment money, he also never signed a contract that would make him lose his legal rights to his work. That said, the poet decided to make the poem public domain, free for everyone to use as they see fit and Mojang couldn't do anything about it. My comment is pretty half-assed and there are some YouTubers who talk better about the subject, including the creator of the poem himself, in a post on his blog, detailing his experience.

PS: Sorry if English isn't the clearest, my native language is Portuguese.

[trevan]

Extremely refreshing to see someone celebrate the simplicities of Minecraft rather than complaining Mojang isn't making it more complicated

[shainekennedy]

I use a very emotionally powerful mod called "Immersive Weathering." There is a feeling associated with coming back from a big adventure and seeing your base a bit over-grown, some bricks cracked, and a feeling that you've been out for a long time that keeps me coming back. Regardless of when you come home, your base seems to remember you. You clean up a little bit and use your new goodies to treat your base to some new baubles and decorations. After you give your home it's much needed TLC, you go off on another adventure, and there it will stand waiting for you. It's a powerful feeling, knowing this video game structure seemingly begins to miss you. And it's rewarding to treat it as if you miss it too. Highly recommend, as long as you have the patience to mow your lawn in Minecraft lol.

[supervetas]

the moment when in the middle of a repetitive task the music stops and suddenly you just hear the noise of your PC really hits different

[Dinner_Roll]

I've been playing minecraft consistently and hosting private servers for my friends much less consistently since 2010, and one of my greatest regrets is not keeping better track of all the old worlds we made. I would love so much to find some old hard drive in a closet somewhere with my old infdev worlds, or even my old "minecraft classic" worlds where everyone just built multi colored pyramids and begged to be promoted to op

[DeathnoteBB]

Genuinely: Finally someone talks about the moment you start a new world for the first time and just stare in awe at everything. That’s the best part of Minecraft to me. Sometimes I don’t even start a base, I just fly around in creative mode and look at the landscapes

[pancakesean]

Having grown up in the 90s the idea of a fully-fledged world being created within seconds is absolutely mindblowing, and I think the beauty of that is lost amidst the modern technical marvels that we regularly enjoy. That first feeling of entering a new world in Minecraft never gets old.

[ArgaJacint]

It's interesting that for you the 10 seconds after the musc stops is a moment of grounded sadness. To me the feeling is more comperable to when you open your eyes after meditating. Yes, grounded, but peaceful, neutral, maybe even a little happy and rested on a metaphorical level.

[ablueberry]

I've never really taken the time to properly play Minecraft, because I've constantly thought that I didn't have enough creativity for it. After all, if I can't build myself a beautiful house why would I spend the time to gather the materials for it?

But as sappy as it might sound, and as overused as this saying is, I guess it really is more about the journey that you take to your end goal. If I don't feel like I can create myself a pretty home, then why don't I just learn how to do it? If there is one thing that I've always appreciated Minecraft for, it is exactly the way how it encourages you to take your time.

[sakys]

13:52 the sadness i felt when you said you never killed the ender dragon. For me, reading that poem just after beating the game for the first time was such a beautiful moment. I don't think that reading the poem without being in that context is quite the same

[mrwri]

A world nobody has explored before.

It's like walking into the wilderness and after a few steps you're standing on ground nobody has ever walked on before.

[this.is.spencer]

I think the growing boredom as a minecraft playthrough progresses is the collapsing of possibilities. What we can imagine is often more exciting than what is. As you explore the world, the answer to the question "what is out there?" goes from "could be anything" to "it is this". The better you can answer the question, the less there is to imagine. "What am I going to build here?" also shrinks once you start putting blocks down. And while you can always start a new project, it'll be within a space that is now defined by concrete dimensions, increasingly bounded.

[whitmanproductions]

This has to be the best analysis of Minecraft I have ever seen

You understand what makes this game special to so many people and you explain it perfectly, feels good to feel seen/heard

[khiralshimmer]

0:22 "Just kidding" he says, as he proceeds to do it again anyway.