The 2 Week Minecraft Phase Explained

Special thanks to:

@MEHRKED
@Truegamerman

[nikoyaps]

Yes I know I mixed up Sweden with Subwoofer Lullaby. I am also aware that I called it Sunflower instead of Subwoofer, oops lol

[ezmna]

I remember every night I would go downstairs and play minecraft with my dad for hours. We build castles and I vividly remember we were trying to push animals into our pens instead of luring them because we didnt know what that was! Unfortunately, we stopped playing together. Last year, my dad died to cancer, and I've never cried harder running through our old world, looking at the landmarks, unfilled creeper explosion holes, farms, etc. Minecraft is truly more than just a game, it holds so, so, so many memories that we can just never get again.

Edit - All of the replies on this are so sweet 😭 I know all of you are just some random youtube commenters that I don't know anything about but it really warms my heart waking up, opening my phone and seeing so much gratitude. Thanks guys :)

[MatthewSauceda]

I never go through a two week Minecraft phase, I’m always the last one in the server after a month when no one else is playing

[ghostpotato]

What's so surreal to me is that it isn't only our generation that has gone through this Minecraft phase. I have a little sister who is 4 years old, and she happened to stumble upon Minecraft while watching some slop on YouTube. At points, she'd come into my room to say goodnight to me, while I'd be in my 2 week Minecraft phase, playing with some friends, and she'd be like "Is that Minecraft?" It fills me with such joy that the generations after us will get to experience the same games we grew up with, even if they are through different mediums.

[ELM.]

5:53 everyone knows that real OG players never killed or killed just 1 time the ender dragon

[thetriathigamer]

2 week Minecraft phase stages
Stage 1: Watching Minecraft videos
Stage 2: Thinking about playing Minecraft (like in the videos)
Stage 3: Open Minecraft
Stage 4: New survival world, enjoy it for a while
Stage 5: spent too long without making progress/ bored of repetition
Stage 6: Stop playing Minecraft for a while
Stage 7: start watching YouTube videos
Stage 8: Refer to stage 1

[KyraKystonia]

My 2 week phase
- create a new world
- obtain woods, foods, stone
-strip mine or mining for the entire time

(I love mining)

[GuilhermeRassi]

I’m actually in a two-week phase thats been going for almost a month! I gathered 10 friends, found a nice seed and started the game. It is so fun to see everyone playing in their own way, there is the friend that looses everything every time and recovers everything in 2 hours, there is the friend who never joins, the friend who joins always but still has full iron because decided to build a aquarium for an non-existent fish, the friend who has like 10 pets, friend that joined once, the friend that fcking sucks at the game and on and on. Never had a greater experience before

[EthOrlen]

8:39 “That feeling of experiencing your favorite game for the first time.” This is the key: don’t round up the squad to play something old. Round them up to play something new! When Content Warning released, my friends and I had a BLAST playing something new, exploring, messing up.

[wolfdasavage]

Minecraft really is the only game that has made me tear up consistently, and it doesn't even have a storyline. Its YOUR story in those worlds. Maybe that's what's so sad, happy, nostalgic, lonely, and overall melancholy about it. It is a testament about you. It its your own life and struggles, all your memories, in a single game. And that's beautiful.

[Sarcastican_]

Stepping up the production value, are we?

Good work on the video, it's very well edited and fairly concise.

[AUGGIENTITY]

I've begun noticing a rise of this nostalgia in negative ways. Many people complain that Minecraft is not the same, which is true, evidently. But why does nobody consider their own change and growth. Minecraft is 13 years old. A lot happens in that time, no matter what stage of life you were in. Your brain has changed, therefore, Minecraft will never be able to be the same. You will never be 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 again. Whenever you discovered your love for Minecraft, you will never be there again. We are all growing up. To be able to embrace Minecraft today, you have to say goodbye to your childhood. You have to accept that those memories are now nostalgia, a past version of your life. But the great thing is, you still carry all of the joy and wonder with you that you did then, and Minecraft has grown up with us. Playing Minecraft today alone is not quite as lonely anymore. I'm playing a game that has watched me grow and change, a game that has seen me through good grades, bad grades, abuse, COVID, partners, jobs, and so much more. Minecraft is a game like no other, in the way it has somehow managed to become a friend to all of its community. It has grown and changed just like we all have. Give it another approach, but with the eyes of who you are now, not who you wish you still were. Two weeks might start to seem like not enough.

[Count]

0:14 it’s been 14 seconds and I am already being called out. I literally re-downloaded Minecraft last night 😅

[Martyste]

That feeling of having none of your squad around anymore... hits hard.
2015, 1.7.10 Pixelmon server... i built a nice town, with as many as twenty folks inhabiting it. Then as it dwindled I saved the chunks locally before the server had any chance to reset the world, and, most of my future 2 week phases involved going back, solo, to that town, and fixing it, improving it with new blocks, and reminiscing all the memories that are part of it. I even kept a copy of what it was like the moment I saved it in 2016, to compare to present time. I also miraculously got 1 guy to connect to Skype again and visit my restored town with me for a bit, but he was no longer the hyperactive kid i once heard, he was, like me, a grown adult, and with a gf and responsibilities... so to him this adventure was just that, memories.

[melonresourcepacks]

The part about feeling alone because your friends aren't around anymore hits the hardest. People whom i literally grew up with, met with irl, are just gone. Some leave slowly, some are just gone after 1 day :(

[IIHyperShTII]

First video I’ve ever seen of this topic…and I’ve just gotten back into the phase. Perfect Timing.

[emiliakeeney]

I found starting a realm with my coworkers has been fun team building
Becuase then we can either all play together after work or play separately building whenever we have time
It's made it so easy to maintain having fun in the game for several months at a time
We play regular Vanilla survival but we're all work in tech so we still build some crazy automated farms I think having that healthy mix of building weird contraptions but also within the limits of the game without using commands is definitely what keeps it interesting without burning out on the game

[dusk]

This has convinced me to again begin my 2 week Minecraft phase.

[paths]

imo the thing that stops be from playing longer is when i play for a while then realize i just have to grind

[xris]

My biggest frustration with playing with certain friends is how hellbent they are on making progress to the point where I made my own separate world for just me. My friends would occasionally join and ask why I wasn’t fully geared with enchants and diamond armor within a week when I was busy trying to pace myself and focus on building. In the time I built a nice big barn, a wool factory and panda enclosure my friends had already beaten their world and were bored of the game. I wanted a world where I took my time, invested in the world and now 6 months later I have one that has multiple villages of varying themes, large structures, enclosures and sanctuaries for a decent amount of mobs, storage buildings like a greenhouse for every plant in the game, color storage for every colored variant block like glass, terracotta, concrete etc, a wood shop for all wood variants etc. Now my friends join and enjoy walking around my world and compliment me on it but that wouldn’t have happened had I gone at their pace of speeding running the main progression points.