How 1 Island CHANGED Minecraft Forever - The Story of Skyblock...

Skyblock is one of the most popular minecraft maps in existence. Starting out as a simple concept, over the past 10 years it has evolved and shaped modern minecraft, to this very day...

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0:00 – Intro
0:54 – The Beginning of Skyblock
4:02 – Multiplayer & Skywars
6:10 – The Dark Period
7:30 – Hypixel Skyblock
9:23 – Modern Skyblock

Music Used:
1. Scott Buckley – The Climb
2. Scott Buckley – In Dreams
3. C418 – Shuniji
4. C418 - Taswell

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#minecraft #skyblock #hypixelskyblock

[Yeah_Jaron]

Resource management challenges are some of my favorite worlds I have. Haven’t done much with Skyblock though, I’ll surely give it a try

[stuffrus]

I really enjoy resource management challenges like skyblock. I made my own survival world with a 10x10 border! I can’t wait to see the rest of the video!

[distendedmist]

Skyblock also changed modded minecraft, there are plenty of minecraft modpacks which have the theme of skyblock - having limited resources.
For example, sky factory and stoneblock

[ulcher]

I think everyone that sees this should have a look at slamacow's animation and a story in the comment section, it's really wholesome.

Edit: the comments were disabled so I'm gonna have to explain what the story was.

So basically a guy saw this animation many years ago without knowing what skyblock was so this was his first time hearing about it. He tried it out and enjoyed it, he ended up making a bridge so long that it reached another guys island on the server he was playing on. They became good friends and played on the server together, a while later (idk how long) he met up with the other guy in real life and they became friends for life.

This was too wholesome and needed to share it with yall.

[Kyee]

the version of skyblock I enjoy the most is skyblock with modpacks(either custom made modpack or public available ones like SkyFactory), it (in my opinion) makes skyblock more enjoyable without it being too grindy


well, hammering stones for gravels to sieve for iron is still pretty grindy

[jkst]

One thing I think you missed is the influence on modded mc of Skyblock. If you look into it is is absolutely insane how much of modded is based off Skyblock

[SemiHypercube]

Who would win?
*The law of conservation of matter
*A tree, some water and some lava

[tmuzak]

Can’t forget RaysWorks and ProtoSky, that was by far the most extreme Skyblock I’ve ever seen

[DEADMEM]

11/10 video. It's surreal watching my skyblock island be used in a video. Puts my 60+ hours on it to good use

[jasonso]

Skyblock is really an interesting mode, the ultimate survival challenge. And the many ways it can be modified is another thing that makes it really popular.

I have a skyblock world that I kind of gave up on midway through :P Maybe I’ll get the new updated version or try one of the “mods” when I have time.

[Azuriiee]

Skywars being a shortened version of Skyblock warriors blew my mind

[Munchni]

One of the best at doing commentary. I could watch this all day

[forresttt]

Don't forget about the endless branch modpacks that were inspired by this, such as, but not limited to, the Skyfactory series.
I am inclined to agree that Skyblock was a huge step forward in the modded minecraft community.

[Sfekke]

I'm happy to see P2W servers being called out these days!
Treating your players like paypiggies really is a low blow

[TheBreadPirate]

I love the version of Skywars where it mixes survival and combat. Hypixel's Skywars feel like just combat.

[reo]

I think skyblock is almost certainly the most recognisable map in the game. It's actually really fun, especially because you need conserved resources. I'm bad at it tho. Nice video.

[boid]

Perhaps I should try Skyblock some time myself, being someone who is just awestruck with new Minecraft generation

Also History of Modded Minecraft when

[soggytoast]

I remember watching Skyblock gameplay years ago and even now I could've never imagined someone would come up with an idea as insane as that. Because Minecraft is a game with endless things that can be created it's no wonder that it's still alive and active even now from way back then.

[DexTag]

Man, whenever I see your videos I read the title, pause the video, thumbs up and end up in a buttload of nostalgia that leads me to writing a comment like this one.
Most of them I delete because its a long text of, well, nonsense, let's see how this one ends up xD

I think when I first heard of Skyblock, it was pretty much when the Minecraft hype died down for me personally. I've played a ton of Singleplayer, ton of Multiplayer, and Mods (not to speak of Modpacks, which were just starting off or not even, I think) were a pain in the ass because every week a new patch would break them. Then you had to re-install them, just to figure out which of the mods you wanted causes your game to crash and why you can't open some chests any more (despite all the mods working again).

When I first saw Skyblock it was the most idiotic thing I've seen in a while. Minecraft, the game about creating an infinite (well, to the eyes of most players), randomly formed and creative (in the sense of creativity) world, you dumb it down to a small island of what, 30 blocks and a tree? Due to the hype I gave it an extensive try and I had a lot of fun, but I gotta say that's also where it stops. Maybe 1-2 hours and that was it. The issue being of course that all you could do was generate cobblestone, have grass (and animals), as well as wood and planks. That's it. Later editions would have chests and more islands, as well as nether access, but in that version it was only the island. Nothing else.

Edit: OMG you just caused a waterfall of even more nostalgia after showing the book of achievements you should aim for when playing, I totally forgot about that (and as it seems also some other details wrong lol, cut me some slack, it was 10 years ago :D) Edit End.

Then I played one of my first modpacks. I don't remember what it was called, but it used a block where you could load in any item. Each item had an EMC value, and you could exchange it with other items. Every item's value was highly different, so e.g. a cobblestone has the value of 1, a wood block the value of 4, a piston the value of 60 and so on (made up numbers, just to explain). I got in touch with mods I never used before, not even in the first modpack I played (which I think was called FTB lite or so, there was a super popular modpack but it had too many mods for my shitty laptop to handle. The lite version of it worked though), and it was so exciting to farm freaking cobblestone. I mean you would end up automatically creating and inserting the stuff eventually, but its very interesting how quickly I'd get bored to mine cobblestone in normal skyblock or heck, even vanilla Minecraft, and there it's a ton of fun because it allows you to progress. It's grinding for better stuff. I don't remember how that modpack ended for me, I only remember it was a ton of joy.

After that, I got a modpack called I think SkyCraft or SkyFactory or so. I always confuse them and either say Sky Factory and it was Sky Craft, or Sky Craft never existed and I do mean Sky Factory. That one I think also used EMC as main resource, but it was a lot more crazy and fun. Man, I can't believe how much time I spent in this game. And how nearly every video you make brings up a ton of nostalgic feelings in me. That game for sure has several ten thousand hours on my record. And all began when I saw a random video of someone placing down redstone torches in a super weird pattern I didn't understand. I thought it was a lego game and they never appealed to me, but watching that video brought up a German YouTuber for me, named Gronkh, who made an insanely epic and super long Minecraft series (1275 episodes in the first, main one) starting in October 2010. After seeing an episode of his, I got hooked and wanted to buy the game, but I couldn't. The purchase required a credit card or paypal (I think at least), but I was 16 so PayPal was no option, and in my country (Germany) credit cards are very uncommon, debit cards are the normal thing. And asking my father to buy a computer game for me, I could have also asked him to buy me an island lol, despite it costing only what was it, $7 at that time? So I had to pirate the game and would start uploading Lets Plays in German around January 2011 (its easy to remember for me, since it was the end of winter holidays and it was after getting together with my first girlfriend, which was in August 2010), had a ton of fun in content creation but a ton of no-fun with YouTubes monetization and copyright issues. Either way, a subscriber noticed I had the pirated version, and he gifted me a key. When he bought the game he bought it for 2 people and had 1 leftover. So for over 10 years I am using the key he gave me, bless him.

And now you might understand why I often delete these instead, I talked about a ton of things and then started talking about whatever my brain thought of next lol

[Kaiji...]

Damn, I had no idea Skyblock was like this... I thought it was just the original 1.1 map and how it has changed with each new Minecraft update.