I did it!

@xavierwerner

4 ай бұрын

he did it!

@LB_

4 ай бұрын

Congrats!

@HannahG_x

4 ай бұрын

Diorite

@Zephyr_Chmura

4 ай бұрын

and you did it so well!

@melkersvensson5008

4 ай бұрын

He did indeed do it.

This is really interesting! This reminds me of when I started playing when I was young, I went like a month not knowing what a crafting table was

@Clumsy_the_24

2 жыл бұрын

I legit thought it was a feature exclusively in multiplayer on pocket edition lol

@Shaun_Jones

2 жыл бұрын

I remember being told when I downloaded PE back in like 2011 that zombies would grab onto you and couldn’t be shaken off so if they so much as touched you it was guaranteed death. I also didn’t know the nether reactor did anything until about last year.

@amazinglife6627

2 жыл бұрын

I am big fan of you plz make qna btw when I saw mc as a installed app in Windows I clicked random buttons and only thing I knew was movement and destroy blocks

@1000-THR

2 жыл бұрын

@@Shaun_Jones if you have a world with the nether reactor then you have the rarest block

@BizarreCrow

2 жыл бұрын

I remember when I was younger had been playing Minecraft for ages not knowing what a nether portal is, When I discovered it I built a whole temple for it and showed my siblings who also didn't know what a nether portal was, I felt so cool xD, It was the same with the end portal which I later found was a thing by doing research I think?

Its crazy to realize almost nothing I know about Minecraft was taught to me in-game.

@offspringfan100

6 ай бұрын

This is why I quit keeping up with the updates and snapshorlts, so every couple updates I could come back to a unique experience. Its the tradeoff for no feeling the need to know everything all the time. Doesn't mean I don't look at the wiki occasionally though

That "You need light to avoid spawning monsters" is a deadly missing clue.

@TrialBySquire

10 ай бұрын

Well, some mobs burn in the morning so that's a clue.

@paulsander5579

10 ай бұрын

Well.only UNDEAD mobs burn everything else? Not so much

@thekellanator2642

10 ай бұрын

When it's day they don't spawn so they might find out

@xd3athclawx554

10 ай бұрын

Its kind of obvious when you realise that mobs only spawn at night. Its the biggest clue that they only spawn when its dark. Or when you enter dark caves there will be mobs, but not in caves you have lit up to see in the cave.

@PeteOfDarkness

9 ай бұрын

Especially since Creepers, Spiders and Endermen do very well in light in Overworld.

there's a wonderful channel called piropito where he did exactly this, he played minecraft blind with no wiki, no spoilers and asked people not to tell him stuff in yt comments. He actually is incredibly far into the game, and I'm sure a few things have been leaked to him, he's gotten amazingly far and his playthrough is super charming. It takes him something like 20 episodes to work out the crafting bench exists, and he covers a huge portion of his starting area in wooden buttons. (the playthrough started before the recipe book)

@alphygaytor1477

Жыл бұрын

yes I thought of piropito immediately! this vid made me want to go back and watch him get blown up by cactus again lol

@fordsquared537

10 ай бұрын

Such an amazing series. The wither incident was awful though :(

@DarkClaws914

9 ай бұрын

@@fordsquared537 wjat is the wither incident

@fordsquared537

9 ай бұрын

@@DarkClaws914 he figured out the wither spawn from the painting, and set it up in the center of his main base. It destroyed everything.

@DeeperIntoTheUnknown

9 ай бұрын

@@fordsquared537 did he ever recover from it?

this is actually crazy how mojang completely forgot to teach the player the game because of how the game blew up in popularity

@ryan1696

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, Bedrock has some rudimentary guide built in to it.

@rizizum

2 жыл бұрын

You might actually the the opposite, the game might've become popular due to the fact you need to search about it to understand how it works

@piercehamilton7035

2 жыл бұрын

I wtarted playing minecraft at a very young age. I played on the xbox 360 legacy edition. There were tutorial worlds and popups teaching you how to play. They didn't teach you everything, but they did teach you the basics.

@yeqru

2 жыл бұрын

@@piercehamilton7035 Same I started playing on PS3 and there was a built-in tutorial world

@piercehamilton7035

2 жыл бұрын

@@yeqru I still have my old ps3 too! Lol. I still have ot and play on it cuz i dont have a ps4 or ps5 so yea, but its still fun!

it’s crazy to think that in all of minecraft’s history I doubt a single person has beaten it without outside help

@slay9468

2 жыл бұрын

Wait…UR RIGHT-

@FarmerSlayerFromTheEdoPeriod

2 жыл бұрын

I did 😎😎😎😎 Source: Trust me

@Crown987

2 жыл бұрын

I like to imagine that at least one person did, either the original, or some sheltered hermit kid. Probably didnt happen, but again, id like to imagine it.

@dialont

2 жыл бұрын

I'm fairly certain that this guy did, he completely blocks himself out of Minecraft content and he only rarely (I think he only did it twice) asks for help and makes his friends only say hints and not the answers themselves kzread.info/head/PLbqkLu2V1bJJUQ2aLZjFdz8decGs1kHg-

@flashtime1151

2 жыл бұрын

I mean someone had to beat the game without help because someone has to figure everything without outside help but I don't think anyone beat it without outside help

The potion brewing part really hit me, when I was a kid I remember once playing and finding a brewing stand, I was in creative and so I tried to make potions by putting water bottles, blaze powder and added something like magma cream as I thought it’d make a fire resistance potion, I got a mundane potion, the I had to check up on the internet if the mundane potion was useful for something (it is not) so basically I discovered that wouldn’t work and now I needed nether warts (this was like in 2015)

I liked how wither summoning is kinda hidden in the paintings. They could do this with mostly all of other in-game mechanics. I think it’d be fun for players to look for these clues in in-game Pictionary; that’d also add some lore effect to the game

I think the new ruined portals may have been added literally for the sake of making a nether portal be something you can learn in game

@lyrqk5829

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, a majority of them (at least anecdotally, idk spawn rates) are upright and already in the right shape, just missing pieces, and crying obsidian can be intuited to be "broken" obsidian

@Firelayer1

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they are the reason building a Nether Portal has 2 and not only 1 point in this video.

@CuriousKey

2 жыл бұрын

@@lyrqk5829 They even have flint and steel in the chest that spawns with them with a high chance. Playing with flint and steel will show that it lights things on fire. A bit of thinking might reveal to a player that there's a reason it's near those odd obsidian frames - from here I think the only missing puzzle link might be a special effect when you strike obsidian with the flint and steel, that shows *something* happening even when there isn't a valid portal, just to indicate to the player that they're doing something right.

@colbyboucher6391

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. There's a Japanese dude called PiroPito here on KZread who did a genuinely 100% blind Let's Play, it took an absurd amount of trial and error, and nether portals were the first time he asked for clarification from a friend. He didn't even ask how to build one, it's just that the Japanese version of MC made him think from the way advancements were worded that you could *craft* a Nether Portal so he was hunting for the recipe. Once he knew he needed to *build* it rather than *craft* it, it was just loads of trial and error. He guessed that he needed flint and steel from the advancements, but he actually tried using "clues" in the world to get the shape right. He built well structures, the patterns on temples, it took a while before he just built a rectangle big enough to work. If ruined portals were a thing when he was playing he would've figured it out very quickly.

@elian-_-

2 жыл бұрын

yessssss

It could be argued that the obscurity and vagueness of MineCraft's mechanics lends itself to be an inherently social game - playing, sharing, discovering with other people has been such a strong part of its history and popularity, I feel.

@cbot9302

2 жыл бұрын

I think this is the main reason its survived for so long. It's basically impossible to understand the game without watching someone play it first, and if you're a little kid, the easy graphics and multitude of MC KZreadrs aimed at kids make it easy to get into the game. It means almost everyone who plays it will have nostalgia from their childhood from it.

@tamimplayz

2 жыл бұрын

why write it as MineCraft?

@ratewcropolix

2 жыл бұрын

@@tamimplayz smol brain

@Zeder95

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah Minecraft gained most of its popularity online from the early beginning on, the Minecraft wiki was always the number one place to go to to learn how Minecraft features work, and many people got to know the game by watching youtube videos about it. Also the developers themselves often communicated via internet/social media about how new features work. Also Minecraft has become such a popular game worldwide that some of its features just became widespread knowledge, there are probably a lot of people who never actually played the game themselves who would still recognize things like a creeper or a nether portal.

@ratewcropolix

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zeder95 when the popularity of the game becomes a feature of the game

When I was a kid, I play minecraft only in creative mode, I once played in survival mode and I was so confused because I had nothing in my inventory. And after a year or so playing minecraft only in creative mode, my friend told me how to craft items in survival mode, and I was so amazed by how fun minecraft actually is

@lxartz6266

2 ай бұрын

Yeah in wish I started in survial too, I’ve only been in creative

@star5384

2 ай бұрын

Same

Fun fact, i never knew that igloos had basements until a few days ago. Ive been playing Minecraft before hunger was a thing

@taududeblobber221

2 жыл бұрын

only some of them do

@korbin0717

Жыл бұрын

I never knew until I was using the carpet for other purposes

@kato_dsrdr

Жыл бұрын

Lol. Same.

@carrot1c

Жыл бұрын

I knew it after the village and pillage update cuz an igloo was near a snow village and I took everything in there for decorations, and of course I broke the carpet and saw the trapdoor

@locococonuts1136

Жыл бұрын

Been playing for almost 10 years now and had no idea igloos had basements tell i watched this video! Crazy how that happens. Makin me wonder what else iv missed…

I think the maker of Zelda said he intentionally restricted the explanations in the game to make people talk with each other and not just play the game through. I think this helped Minecraft a lot to make it popular and social.

@meokayenglish8361

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, having a game to always babysit you all the way to the end is boring.

@nickhyped

Жыл бұрын

Thats a solid and valid point indeed

@Milksong

Жыл бұрын

I was just thinking this! And it also keeps things creative, mysterious and interesting. especially as new updates come out, and new people try different things. Makes me wonder what other hidden mechanics might be hidden in the game, just waiting for someone to discover them!

@mr.voidroy6869

Жыл бұрын

It also opens up the satisfaction of finding secrets your self.

@tarasque01

Жыл бұрын

I figured someone said this already so I decided to first read the comments. I was going to make a comment saying the exact same thing.

About Oliver just finished his blind Minecraft playthrough. Some of the stuff you said was difficulty he got with little difficulty (nether portals, basic brewing, nether/ow distance) while stuff you said was simple (riding horses, using Elytra to glide) he got only by pure chance and never would have actually figured out or never figured out at all.

@realaccordium

4 ай бұрын

He figured out nether wart goes in brewing without help? Thats really impressive

@calvinwendland8373

4 ай бұрын

by brute forcing everything. a lot of thick and mundane potions were made before he tried wart. @@realaccordium

@colecube8251

3 ай бұрын

using elytra difficult? I find that odd... I feel like it's pretty self explanatory

@calvinwendland8373

3 ай бұрын

@@colecube8251 he thought it was a cape for the longest time, lost it and only found it it's real use on a server with his fans giving him one.

@non-existant8944

3 ай бұрын

​@@colecube8251he mainly doesn't use the f5 key so he doesn't even notice that it does something. My man sees the elytra as cosmetic which is completely understandable considering it's on a ship where the ender dragon head is cosmetic (technically)

This topic is one big throwback to surviving your first night. We never realized it went so deep because Minecraft doesn't actually tell you how to survive, you have to learn how yourself 😂

I really admire how Minecraft's team has made so many clever adjustments to make a person who never played any videogames before understand Minecraft

@browncube9033

2 жыл бұрын

Nuuskamuikkunen

@Villager6883

2 жыл бұрын

If they don’t know what’s Minecraft they probably is a extrovert and don’t play video games

@BS-bd4xo

2 жыл бұрын

@@Villager6883 hate.

@Villager6883

2 жыл бұрын

@@BS-bd4xo wth

@browncube9033

2 жыл бұрын

@@Villager6883 or just a CHILD

Back in 2009 I and my friend stumbled upon this game. We had no clue how to do anything in it as practically no tutorials that we knew of existed. It was a long and incredibly tedious process. But it was one of the best gaming experiences I had in my life. Figuring out that cooked pork healed twice as much HP was a day's worth dose of dopamine. Actually learning that you need iron tools to mine a diamond was like a cool twist in the plot forcing us to remember where we saw any of those previously useless resources. Man, that was a game.

@BrightNightmares

2 жыл бұрын

Alpha wasn't released until June 2010 though, so if you started in 2009 there wouldnt be much to do...

@icevlad148

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrightNightmares I probably messed up the date. We were playing in 1.12

@icevlad148

2 жыл бұрын

@Ec1ipse wiki says that it came out in 2010

@Mikasks

2 жыл бұрын

@oPuggo yep homie misspelled 1.12 as 1.1.2

@LordScrungl

2 жыл бұрын

there was a tutorial level on the old PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii U versions of the game

I actually think that the ruined portals are quite good. They give you an outline to complete and in there is often a flint and steel in the chest.

@berni2905

2 ай бұрын

And the achievement says you have to "build and light" it, has a flint and steel icon and it's right after the obsidian one.

I love that he didn't made the character dumb like "why would i eat food?" or "what do i smelt in furnaces?", he used the realistic one.

Honestly in my opinion the ender eyes aren't easy to understand at all. They have a 25% chance to break when you throw them, and I thought that indicated where it was located. Made me mine for hours.

@andrewsemenenko8826

2 жыл бұрын

True I will give it 3/5, but it's still pretty obvious, and even fun to explore

@Vastalize

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh all games are literally like this. you have to figure out things on your own. that's how all games work. and you have to google on how to do stuffs on that certaun game. berfore you even play the game you ofc research on what the game is about and what you do in the gameee... otherwise you won't know if it is a fun game for you or nott.

@TwentySeventhLetter

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vastalize I mean that's not true, not literally all games require you to look up their wikipedia page to play and beat them. The purpose of this video is to look at where people might feel the need to in Minecraft so that the game might be more accessible to new players, thus keeping the communities surrounding it strong and keeping the game relevant for all who enjoy it

@globingoblin8625

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vastalize You shouldn't need a guide to beat a game, all the information should be in the game itself

@samuelgeanes4026

2 жыл бұрын

@@globingoblin8625 That's not true, making an optional guide to a game should be something a lot of exploration games touch on. With all the information being in the game, that doesn't give users the chance to experience it for themselves. Instead, the game just tells you everything you need to know, that doesn't seem very fun

this is why I love the series ‘piropito’s first playthough of minecraft’, he went in completely blind. really fun to watch him figure things out

@aSmallGreenDot

2 жыл бұрын

My favourite Minecraft series!

@GawneForever

2 жыл бұрын

thanks, I just started watching him now! I love his genuine reactions

@pengeibro7548

2 жыл бұрын

Yess! I remember asking KingBdogz (a Minecraft developer) if he ever got feedback from watching this series and he said that he watched it over a weekend to get feedback for players onboarding challenges or something like that. So I like to think Piro made a pretty significant influence on Minecraft even if people won't notice it.

@leospc

2 жыл бұрын

Real civil engeneer did the same

@deleted-something

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

1:18 Moving and Jumping (5) 1:24 Look Around (5) 1:34 Materials to Recipes (5) 1:49 Opening the Recipe Book (3) 2:06 Crafting with Recipe Book (4) 2:25 Using a Crafting Table (3) 2:42 Placing Blocks (4) 2:57 Advancements (4) 3:01 Mining Stone (4) 3:14 Crafting a Stone Pickaxe (5) 3:23 Smelting Raw Ore (3) 3:53 Combat (3) 4:02 Mob Spawning Mechanics (3) 4:11 Armour (5) 4:16 Better Pickaxes (5) 4:18 Buckets (4) 4:19 Basic Gameplay Loop (5) 4:24 Material Tiers (4) 4:34 Food (3) 4:42 Bed/Respawning (3) 5:03 Locating Diamonds (4) 5:11 Locating Obsidian (4) 5:13 Getting to the Nether (2) 5:56 Find Nether Fortress (4) 6:02 Obtain Blaze Rods (4) 6:05 Craft Blaze Powder (5) 6:08 Craft Eye of Ender (5) 6:17 Locating the Stronghold (4) 6:22 Activating the End Portal (4) 6:32 Defeating the Dragon (5) 6:41 Obtaining the Dragon Egg (3) 6:51 Respawning the Dragon (1) 7:01 Getting to the Outer Islands (3) 7:10 Finding the Elytra (4) 7:15 Using Fireworks to Fly (1) 7:20 Using Shulker Boxes (3) 7:39 Villager Trading (5) 7:41 Constructing an Iron Golem (2) 7:47 Constructing a Snow Golem (1) 7:51 Raid (3) 7:56 Cure a Zombie Villager (2) 8:16 Potion Brewing (1) 8:35 Enchanting (3) 8:59 Finding an Ocean Monument (4) 9:06 Finding Buried Treasure (5) 9:15 Using a Conduit (2) 9:21 Defeating a Monument (1) 9:26 Finding a Woodland Mansion (4) 9:31 Nether/Overworld Distance (2) 9:37 Using Totem of Undying (4) 9:52 Collecting Honey (5) 9:57 Riding Horses (4) 10:03 Taming Other Animals (3) 10:14 Fishing (5) 10:19 Bonemeal Usage (2) 10:24 Playing Music Discs (4) 10:31 Finding Music Discs (2) 10:44 Finding Mob Heads (2) 10:58 Finding Bastion Remnants (4) 11:02 Riding Striders (4) 11:10 Piglin Trading (5) 11:22 Find Ancient Debris/Netherrite Scrap (4) 11:26 Crafting Netherrite (5) 11:28 Upgrading Equipment (2) 11:35 Summoning the Wither (2) 12:01 Using a Beacon (3) 12:20 Basic Redstone (3) 12:24 Using Redstone Components (2) 12:35 Redstone Circuit Design (1) 12:50 "Two by Two" Advancement (2) 13:13 "A Furious Cocktail" Advancement (2) 13:21 Hidden Achievements (1)

@7alimohamedawaad695

9 ай бұрын

why?

@lostives

8 ай бұрын

just watcvh the video

@paulbaron453

3 ай бұрын

Nice summary 🤔🤔🤔​@@7alimohamedawaad695

@berni2905

2 ай бұрын

How tf is conduit 2 when there's literally 0 hints how to construct it... Meanwhile Ocean Monument where you only need a breathing potion or just some blocks like doors/magma blocks that would let you breathe got a 1. And potion brewing got a 1 but an achievement for getting _every_ potion effect got 2.

I assume this was made before the Warden and Deep Dark, but the ancient cities actually have some hints teaching how redstone works... but its in a hidden room most people probably wouldn't know about in one of the most dangerous biomes where it would be INCREDIBLY easy to die, and incredibly easy to miss (now that I think about it... does the game tell you how to sneak ever? Or do you have to figure that out yourself?). One could say Jungle Temples are also a neat way to teach some info about redstone, but once again its easy to miss. Archeology doesn't seem to have a tutorial either. Anyone out of the loop would probably have no clue that suspicious sand is special and you need a brush to uncover its items. No clue that Sniffers can only be found in warm ocean ruins. Heck, with the addition of the Armor Trims and Netherite Upgrade Template, anyone isn't familiar would probably have a LOT of trouble discovering how to actually use them. Though I suppose its better than it was before, since they're called "Smithing Templates" which hints at the Smithing Table's uses. I wonder how many new players would craft a Fletching Table expecting it to do something. I could easily imagine someone crafting it, thinking it does something, not realizing that it doesn't have a function and mistakenly thinking they're just using it wrong.

@itisleopard

5 ай бұрын

There's a literal knowledge tab in bedrock that explains everthing

@Dan0RG

4 ай бұрын

May I suggest watching the livestreamed playthrough of a small youtuber called About Oliver? What I've seen of it so far has been really enlightening (and entertaining), especially about these newer features they've added to the game.

@lasercraft32

4 ай бұрын

@@Dan0RG I know all about the newer features. I was saying that newer players might not.

@Dan0RG

4 ай бұрын

@@lasercraft32 Well, he's a new player experiencing the entirety of Minecraft for the first time, and has run into a lot of the new features without the context of them being introduced in the latest updates. And the amount he's managed to figure out by himself is staggering.

@lasercraft32

4 ай бұрын

@@Dan0RG Oh. I see. I thought it was like a livestream where he talks about all the Minecraft features or something.

there is a fabulous let's play by a Japanese man named PiroPito, who is playing the game COMPLETELY blind. He worked out how to do some redstone things before he worked out how beds work, and has worked out chunk loading mechanics despite not working out that bookshelves boost enchanting tables. There are some other incredible things he's done too, but I won't spoil that.

@allenpomme8881

Жыл бұрын

Not completely blind

@nerokipe

Жыл бұрын

@@allenpomme8881 the only hints he got were about the nether portal not being craft able and horses

@allenpomme8881

Жыл бұрын

@@nerokipe and wither skeleton

@nerokipe

Жыл бұрын

@@allenpomme8881 all he was told was to look at paintings

@alejandropulidorodriguez9723

Жыл бұрын

@@nerokipe finding out that way has to be so god damn cool

When I initially started playing minecraft back in 1.3.2, I always tried crafting a stone pickaxe with smelted cobblestone because I never thought to try crafting it made out of cobblestone as it was called a "stone pickaxe" so for about a month I couldn't even get iron until I finally realized

@SS-gt8sy

2 жыл бұрын

I can't even imagine your face when you realised it lol

@user-bv7zo6vd4m

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah me too except I mostly played creative, so it didn't bother me too much, I just knew there was a way to make items in survival and for a while I actually thought it was the anvil...

@minecriteo6423

2 жыл бұрын

yeah i had a similar problem too, but i was trying to make a pickaxe with two additional blocks, like it was an axe on both sides, so for the first period i didnt even get cobblestone even tho i knew some sort of pickaxe existed

@SkyBorik

2 жыл бұрын

Oh god, I’m so happy I’m not the only one

@BLAZE_GLITCH

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-bv7zo6vd4m When I first started playing I didn't understand how creative mode works for the next few months

You see, in my opinion that is what made Minecraft interesting. I still remember the first time I discovered that I could sleep in the game even if it was in creative, and my first survival game. It is all about the joy of exploring, discovering something you didn't even thought was possible in the game.

honestly its better than i expected with the nether portals and the igloos. it would just take a very long time to come across the clues

The old console versions had tutorial worlds that explained a lot of this stuff. It's a shame they don't make tutorial worlds anymore.

@lilbananaman

2 жыл бұрын

I always forget that’s how I learned so much about the game. Yeah I read the wiki but only after I knew what I was doing thanks to the tutorial world. Rip old console

@nofamilylink541

2 жыл бұрын

i actually played on these tutorial worlds a few times

@galacthicc693

2 жыл бұрын

I believe that bedrock edition now has a help menu that explains the basics of every mechanic

@maninhu9837

2 жыл бұрын

I still have one of these save that got updated in my ps5

@W1nds

2 жыл бұрын

I still have some tutorial worlds from ps4 edition. Its fun to look back every once in awhile

When I first started the game I actually discovered snow golems on my own by trying to make iron golems out of other blocks that were white

@aspenrose_

2 жыл бұрын

what if there were w o o l g o l e m s ..

@GACextra

2 жыл бұрын

@@aspenrose_ yes

@thingamajuguer8986

2 жыл бұрын

can only imagine your reaction

@Bladerunner5146

2 жыл бұрын

Would you count tutorial worlds in earlier console versions part of the game because it explains a lot of these things(also how I learned to play)

@kafuu_chino

Жыл бұрын

I discovered it when I was building a house with snow and pumpkins, it was very unexpected.

I think a sort of "item description" below the name of an item, similar to Terraria, would help fix this issue. For instance, the description for the Totem of Undying could be "Hold the totem to cheat death" and so the player would know how to use it.

honestly, not much explanation is one of the things i love about Minecraft; for me having to figure things out and learning using my own testing and research is really satisfying

It really confused me how people found out the crafting recipes. I remember back in 2013 I was with a group of friends at another friend's house and we had a multi-player surver, honestly one of the best times of my life. Anyhow, me being a somewhat new player, my closest friend being a complete noob who just got the game, and my other 3 who were kind of used to it (but kind of not), we were basically all confused but loved when we found out a new item. I remember being the first one to find out that cactus can be cooked to be turned into a dye

@cbacronje7869

Жыл бұрын

Bro the minecraft wiki with all the crafting recipes was a very real thing back then already.

@DevonDekhran

Жыл бұрын

​@CBA Cronje Yeah, because that would be the first thing a kind would think about... At least back then

@ehwa6780

Жыл бұрын

​@@DevonDekhran its pretty obvious, kids 10 years ago knew how to use google, you had to use it to get the game

@fassfletch

Жыл бұрын

i loved thos times

@EchoRoss

Жыл бұрын

when i was little (im going to guess 2014 but im likely wrong) and playing on xbox 360, all of the craft recipes were in a drop down menu of 10 or so tabs for tools, armor, blocks, etc. and you were expected to use the drop down rather than putting the items into the crafting table yourself. it was a really old version of the game, but its how i learned every recipe! edit: coming back to explain a bit better. when you chose an item to craft from the menu, it put the blocks into the crafting grid automatically and would make a box red if you didn’t have the block for it. a bit similar to the green crafting guide we have now (but all crafts were visible before getting the right materials). every craft recipe was accessible by scrolling through this

I remember when I first started playing, there was literally no help in the game. I spent a lot of time looking at wiki pages to see what you could do in the game. At one point I read something about the ender dragon and told my friends, but they didn't believe me and told me I shouldn't believe everything on the internet. Without actively seeking outside information the game was really rough. It's a lot better nowadays.

@salvatoremutuale9751

2 жыл бұрын

"Ender eyes? End portal? Ender Dragon?? Bro what the hell are you talking about? Come on, we gotta finish the dirt house."

@stevecouldbeme9288

2 жыл бұрын

@@salvatoremutuale9751 ngl if I just started minecraft I would think that too

@Soph_252

2 жыл бұрын

my brother told me that his friend told him that there were cities in the end (after we had had a decent amount of outside info about the nether, end tc. given to us) and I didn't believe him lol

@salvatoremutuale9751

2 жыл бұрын

@@Soph_252 you were imagining real world cities

@bengermin3104

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevecouldbeme9288 Yeah to think that a simple block game has dragons is crazy

this really makes me realize how much I really know about this game, and that thing I think are completely obvious like going to the nether, or fireworks for elytra are very hard to figure out for new players. one thing I should mention though: in bedrock edition (which most new players start on) when you load into a world, tips pop up like "fireworks can be used to propell you with an elytra" or "mobs spawn at light level 0" etc, which are probably VERY helpful for new players

12:50 oh my god

I never really realized just HOW important word of mouth information was to this game. Every time a new feature was added I would just watch Paulsoaresjr explain it to me and not question it XD

@slevinchannel7589

2 жыл бұрын

SO MANY never discover the Epicness of Redstone, which saddens me a lot. This stuck out to me, watching this video here.

@stinky5242

2 жыл бұрын

LOL i watched paulsoares jr as well

@minecraftlover1168

2 жыл бұрын

i used to get excited about EVERY update, even the bee update! then after a while (pretty sure after the bee update) i started to get less hyped. i still love whenever there's a mob vote or a new update though. i just used to be over the top hyped.

@DanAndHoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@slevinchannel7589 Yeah, to me there's nothing intuitive about redstone. Nothing is explained in-game so it's just experimentation, if you're willing to do that. I never had any idea what to do with any of the redstone things, so basically never used it.

@slevinchannel7589

2 жыл бұрын

@@DanAndHoe How sad! Redstone is big Fun, trust me. May i recommend you 'Magma Musen', starting with his videos with the word "Working" in the tile?

Earlier in minecraft's life span the advancement "we need to go deeper" was a picture of the portal, so id say that got harder over time personally

@rooster6700

2 жыл бұрын

I only play 1.12 and forgot it wasn't a feature anymore. Thanks for not making me think I'm crazy.

@3batscarr718

2 жыл бұрын

@@rooster6700 ikr 🤣🤣

@HenrikEbert

2 жыл бұрын

And now its a flint and steel :D And you can find Portal frames in the overworld. I would say 3.5/5 maybe even 4/5, its not that hidden.

@SnowMexicann

2 жыл бұрын

@@HenrikEbert right and everybody is going to go "ah yes let me set this stupid black rectangle on fire" for no reason.

@SurmenianSoldier

2 жыл бұрын

@@SnowMexicann it specifies "light" in the advancement's description

This video reminded me of my first experience with Minecraft on the Xbox 360. In it, there was a tutorial map that used signs to teach the player all sorts of different things such as beds, accessing the nether, and beacons and encouraged the importance of exploration. It was always fun seeing the new map with each major update and finding all the easter eggs. Wish they would do that for the Java edition on PC, as it would give much needed guidance.

I kinda wish I could play the game like this you get this game, know nothing, find some random structures, do stuff on your own. you get to learn so much about an alien world! I really want something like this. but do to how minecraft was made, and how big it is, it's almost impossible to have a blind play through... actually it's just basically impossible.

@HazhMcMoor

2 ай бұрын

Also bounces me off something like Terraria and Don't Starve. I kinda hoped that I kind explore and have fun on my own but it turns out I need wiki for them.

@A2CIoak

2 ай бұрын

Try Subnautica if you haven't already

To be fair, the advancement "we need to go deeper" tells us to "build, light, and enter a Nether Portal". Ruined portals have netherrack, so we can infer they're relevant.The advancement prior required us to collect obsidian, so it may also be relevant. We know we have to "build" a portal, but in what shape? From some ruined portals, the shape is somewhat apparent, others less so. If we get unlucky we may have to find a second or even a third ruined portal to learn the shape of the portal. Finally, we have to "light" the portal. The icon on the advancement shows a flint and steel, and they can also be found in adjacent loot chests. There is a LOT of information that needs to be understood, but given enough time, patience, and determination, I think it can be reasonably accomplished.

@enderallygolem

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's fine that it takes a lot of time to understand these too. For a new player, the nether is quite a difficulty spike, and they're expected to know Minecraft mechanics pretty well to tackle the nether. So, keeping it's information tackled away makes sure you'll only know and get to the nether when you're prepared for it.

@DisKorruptd

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I also feel like he failed to acknowledge the ruined portal's chests, which always have a flint and steel, alongside gold ingots, and gold armor, this tells you that, for some reason, these will be important in this new place

@superocker06

2 жыл бұрын

he also said that there is no way to tell how to upgrade equipment even though villages spawn with the workbench to upgrade them and there is an ingot icon in them

@superocker06

2 жыл бұрын

and as for potions there is nether wart in witch huts along with a potion cauldron which tells you nether wart is related to potions.

@ngabel8956

2 жыл бұрын

​ @Superocker06 After a player is familiar with the crafting table, I'd assume they'd build all the workstations and do some experimenting to figure out their purposes, which may takes some time for the smithing table (and forever for the fletching table). The real challenge would be finding netherite in the first place, since it is so rare they may not even know it exists. The advancement "hidden in the depths" might be enough indication for them to go strip mining in the nether. If lucky, they could also find some in a bastion. "Serious dedication" says to "use netherite to upgrade a hoe", and the similar naming between "cover me in debris" and "cover me in diamonds" hints that netherite is the upgrade to diamond gear. After that it's a simple drag and drop in the smithing table.

When I started playing I went an entire year before I found out you could light a glowstone portal with a water bucket. An entire dimension I never knew was in the game.

@theidealist1019

Жыл бұрын

yes

@trumpet_boooi

Жыл бұрын

don't break my heart again...

@lmao3911

Жыл бұрын

yeah thats insane cause i didnt know till recently

@chris_aka_CP

Жыл бұрын

W meme

@kindrogue5586

Жыл бұрын

That one was a good mod.

2:02 How did you figure out opening the inventory? Perhaps you kept clicking buttons?

@raiden542

4 ай бұрын

Key bind settings

@jesusmijares8614

3 ай бұрын

Its funny that there is an achievemnt in bedrock of opening the inventory

@prosto_a_user

2 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: In old achievment system, opening inventory IS the first achievment that game offers you to complete

I remember when I first started playing the game, of course I had a bunch of knowledge taken from outside, but a very important element of my learning process that you didn't mention is the creative mode, it really helps you get a grasp of what the game has to offer, like the music discs and the existence of mob heads. However I really like your video, I catch myself thinking about it a while ago, makes you wish to start playing the game all over again with no pre knowledge

There used to be a tutorial world back on console edition. it first taught you the basics, then released you into a bigger world that went deeper into the individual mechanics. it baffled me when they removed it after 1.13

@GameSpark-kz1mt

Жыл бұрын

YES. SOMEONE KNOWS THE WORLDS

@TylerTMG

Жыл бұрын

@@GameSpark-kz1mt -bed- bugrock has a thing in menu so that's nice

@TylerTMG

Жыл бұрын

@@XxEggman_Meme_GodxX bruh i use pe i have the trial for meje but i have to buy it

@TylerTMG

Жыл бұрын

@@XxEggman_Meme_GodxX and i think java does need a compete recode

@spicyseliph

Жыл бұрын

@@XxEggman_Meme_GodxX Cringe

Note that the "Figure out that you have to set the portal on fire" step is actually indicated in-game, since the advancement icon has a flint and steel.

@ztranzher5327

2 жыл бұрын

ooooooooh

@jrlopez1027.

2 жыл бұрын

Yea but would you realistically know that little icon on the very vague achievement will create fire and thus make a lit portal? Thats a huge leap, even if you somehow knew that icon was a flint and steel you probably wouldnt even know its linked with fire And EVEN if you did make that huge leap assuming flint and steel = fire then you would just assume its a fun nether icon, its the FIREY nether, its not like youre looking at the icons and interpretating their meaning will help you

@therookjerome8996

2 жыл бұрын

@@jrlopez1027. Yo I'll be honest, you're kinda dumb. It's not a huge leap to think flint and steel makes fire. In fact, anyone who's looked it anything related to survival, it's just a fire starter. If you were to go into it with no knowledge and a freshly wiped memory then yeah it would be confusing. Counter argument to that last bit, you should be using the icons to help interpret ow to do something. I don't think the game should hold your hand and treat you like you have no ability to infer on anything, and should encourage experimentation as it is truly designed for

@Zeder95

2 жыл бұрын

Also there are fire charges and flint and steel in the ruined portal chests, by that you could also figure out that you need fire to light the portal.

@JimmyHey

2 жыл бұрын

@@jrlopez1027. Most of the times I've come across a ruined portal there's always been a flint and steel in it for me. Once you have the flint and steel you're probably at some point gonna find out that it does make fire. Apart from that flint is literally the rock known for being a firestarter. Flint in my native language (german) literally translates to FIRESTONE. It's the part of a lighter that makes fire when it's being grinded against the steel cog sparkwheel thingy. I'd argue it's fairly basic to assume that a flint and steel makes fire if you existed on this earth for at least a bit.

I definitely like your suggested changes. Cracked portals are a bit of a hint towards getting to the nether. It really helps if you find one topside that is straight up. Or even complete. It's actually possible to get a portal that is pre-lit, but the chance of it is very low; possibly even borderline impossible since I've only seen it once myself. The portal needs to be sufficiently complete and then have fire spark near it, which can be very difficult to have happen naturally. You can get through the escape portals by pushing yourself down with the trap doors. I accidentally pushed myself down with trap doors on multiple occasions while building, so it isn't impossible to figure out.

I agree 190%. I thought this since my first hour of playing minecraft. Im 43 and my 7 year old son had to teach my how to open a nether portal. I thought there was really nothing more to do in the game other than build things, then he told me i needed to fix up an ancient portal to go to the nether. Blew me away. The game just grew by 1000%. If my 7 year old can give me a gamechanging tip, maybe the games tutorial may be able to at least shed a little hint on how to make a portal.

When I first played Minecraft, I was scared of skeletons and zombies, so I built a stone house, surrounded by iron fences to protect myself from them. In creative.

@LeeTwentyThree

2 жыл бұрын

i love Valheim cause the enemies in the game are difficult enough that you NEED to build things like that. it's like minecraft but you're rewarded more for your building creativity

@Dave-ko8gp

2 жыл бұрын

Iron fences?

@prinzdenax

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dave-ko8gp I think they mean Iron Bars

@thebush6379

2 жыл бұрын

Same, I used to build small castles surrounded by water when the only world generation used to be the limited "old" generation. I get freaked out over a zombie walking in

@nicholaslupo4231

2 жыл бұрын

when you started playing, creative was a thing?.. lol

One thing which I found absolutely *essential* for learning how the game works was Creative Mode. Incredibly doubt I would have as much experience, practice, enthusiasm or knowledge for the game without it. It's also the less frustrating and more calming of the two modes, so is more gravitating for new players. What's great is that in Java, even Creative mode has advancements and the recipe book, which nowadays must be really helpful for new players, allowing them to discover the core mechanics in a simple and freely experimental way.

@princembat

Жыл бұрын

so true, i used to always play creative and it can be pretty helpful for figuring random stuff out lol

@lebendigesgespenst7669

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, every new update I used to load up a world in creative mode and play around with all the new things I noticed

@hi6575

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it was the first mode I played and I learned how to place and break blocks, use tools, craft items, etc

@Vinni-2K

Жыл бұрын

i still remember the first creative world i made like 10 years ago

@KKKNlgga

Жыл бұрын

its so satisfying thats theres no *read more*

That's a good theme. It's surprising how many games have this same issue, especially old MMORPGs. People playing for a long time know exactly what to do because they've been following development for years and got a lot of information straight from blog posts or streams. But for those coming later, there isn't always a way to get this info from the game itself, or sometimes it's almost totally buried by the great amount of content available.

Great video, it opens up a new perspective on how it feels to be a new player, but honestly I believe things are the way they are because minecraft has always been a community focused game.

I think that the effective necessity of outside help is a big reason why Minecraft has had such a strong KZread base. First, because of people needing to search for tutorials either as new players or old players (due to new mechanics). Second, because people get recommended these tutorials and are intrigued by the game. I know this was how I discovered Minecraft (through Paulsoaresjr) and how many others - even other KZreadrs like Ethoslab! - discovered the game. It’s a positive feedback loop that I don’t think Notch or Mojang anticipated, but has been instrumental in Minecraft’s success as a game and on KZread. On a different note, I think a good way to experience (rather than simulate) a true blind playthrough could be to play a mod pack blind. This is a topic that has been on my mind too and I’m so glad to see a video on it! I think there are so many more ideas for follow up videos just from this topic, too.

@suburbanyute340

2 жыл бұрын

The necessity of outside help is also a big part of why there's so much community among Minecraft players. Which in turn is a big reason why Minecraft is such a unique and compelling gaming experience.

I remember the day when potions were added and I spent a FULL night literarely trying out every single item in the game one after another with a spreadsheet trying to figure out the recipes. Back then, there was no crafting book, there was not much in terms of forums accessible to me as a non-native english speaker and since the update just dropped there were no tutorials. I agree. Even after spending thousands of hours in the game, I often find things I don't know yet because I've fallen into a loop of playstyle and don't know about all the new things available to me after an update

@meokayenglish8361

2 жыл бұрын

What I did too, even for figuring out crafting recipe. Always roughly guess it from the shape, and the information stucks. For potion, and for crafting. Only open the crafting recipe book for new items now.

@diyotv2150

Жыл бұрын

i have been playing for several years and there are still ALOT off stuff that i dont know how to do because i never really bothered to learn them

@diyotv2150

Жыл бұрын

@BradynLee09 i did not even know goat horns were a thing lol

@chip6933

Жыл бұрын

This issue could’ve been fixed pretty easily if they just add a recipe book for the brewing stand

@katielower5586

Жыл бұрын

@BradynLee09 goat horns are part of the wild update, 1.19, which hasn't actually come out yet. So of course you haven't encountered them in the game yet. They don't exist. Even if they did, they don't generate in chests, they drop when a goat rams something (with the exception of one that appears in pillager tower chests).

the video was a good assesment- some pretty good points. but im here to tell you that end music??? absolutely FIRE

I miss the old tutorial worlds. If they still existed they would solve problems like these. Maybe that it could still be hard to find out about some things, but they were a built in Tutorial and i loved them. I really wished they would come back!

The brewing stand needs his own book, like the crafting table, without the wiki is otherwise extremely difficult to find what you can do with it

@seankelly3540

2 жыл бұрын

I love how they gave us a freaking SMELTING BOOK instead of a potion book XD

@cameronzalor4997

2 жыл бұрын

the brewin stand isa man?!?!

@Ravn7

2 жыл бұрын

TIL that the brewing stand is a he

@kamikazesenpai21

2 жыл бұрын

@@cameronzalor4997 *has

@cameronzalor4997

2 жыл бұрын

@@kamikazesenpai21 which part should be has. come on tell me

I love this video. Minecraft is genuinely so cryptic in almost every area, from crafting to dimensions to redstone, the community was a *vital* aspect of playing this game. Its clearly not intentional, but its just always been how mojang works. This meant that both community and game have been directly tied together from the very start and its not surprising minecraft became such a community phenomenon just as it is a gaming phenomenon because it simply cannot exist as one without the other. if there was no community to make lets plays and content and to talk on the forums and share secrets, i doubt minecraft would be more than a niche indie game.

@CalebRoenigk

2 жыл бұрын

And I think that's why some of these things especially like the wither and beacon, are designed cryptically that way they are, The game gives you some subtle indications of what you're supposed to do but in my mind a lot of these are not simply just poor game design choices but rather Mojang keeping these things semi-cryptic to encourage community collaboration they understand that this is an important aspect of their game and are willing to stray from hard set game design clarity principles to encourage community interaction. It's hard to say how much of this is speculation and how much of this is realistic but I do think they are very in tune with their community, and it would follow that they take this into consideration when thinking about game design

@MegaLokopo

2 жыл бұрын

@@CalebRoenigk In what way is reading the wiki for an hour a day at most, count in any way as collaborating with the community.

@dhayes5143

2 жыл бұрын

This is a good point. People have made the same points about the Pokemon games since the beginning as well - version-specific Pokemon, trading and lore spread across multiple forms of media made it a very friends-oriented/community-build game series.

@MegaLokopo

2 жыл бұрын

@k3n Technically yes, but less than one percent of the community created the wiki, 99 percent of the community only reads it.

@MegaLokopo

2 жыл бұрын

@k3n True but watching someone else play is not collaboration.

this is nice. so many assumptions necessary in order to play this game fully, so a lot of information needs to be gathered from outside to figure out things inside.

I remember back when I had to ask a friend how to craft sticks. That must’ve been ten years ago from now, what a nice memory to still have.

Bonus mention: Finding out how Pocket Edition Nether Reactor Cores were used is definitely way worse than trying to figure out nether portals and basically requires you look up how to use it on the internet.

@MCTogs

2 жыл бұрын

Broo I first played Minecraft through PE and I was shocked to find out that stone tools existed, there was no way my dumbass 12 year old self could discover what to do with the reactor cores

@FoxSlyme

2 жыл бұрын

Reactor core was a stub until proper Nether was added. It wasn't meant to stay in the game forever

@Ghost_4576

2 жыл бұрын

i tryed for months to get the reactor core working when i was younger, although i never did figure it out

@slevinchannel7589

2 жыл бұрын

SO MANY never discover the Epicness of Redstone, which saddens me a lot. This stuck out to me, watching this video here.

@zackattack679

2 жыл бұрын

Bonus Bonus Mention: the existence of endermites

When I first played Minecraft, the recipe book wasn't a thing yet, so, knowing that I could turn wheat into bread, I stuck it in a furnace.

@gh-yf4go

Жыл бұрын

Same - I used to trade stuff with my classmates in the elementary for their knowledge

I like that Minecraft is an example of true sandbox design. I cannot stand games that handhold your way through it, making the sense of exploration and wonder nonexistent. Minecraft is full of new curiosities and things to do, and stumbling upon these things is one of the great elements of what makes it so replayable.

Intro question, just started watching, but a lot. When I started playing quite a while ago (at least 3-4 years now), I taught myself a lot and didn't need any outside help as I recall.

Having played Minecraft (Bedrock) blind when I got it in mid-2020... I must admit it was quite difficult to figure out. I'm honestly glad we did a server and some people there were very experienced, otherwise I might have given up quickly.

@randomname5580

2 жыл бұрын

That’s impressive! I know a lot of people that didn’t get into it for this exact reason and then say that Minecraft is dumb because of it lol

@dialont

2 жыл бұрын

Doesn't Bedrock have a tutorial tab? In the settings, there is a "How to Play?" tab which tells everything, pictures included. There are also many question marks in GUIs like crafting tables which redirect you to that tab

@katier9725

2 жыл бұрын

@@dialont If there is, I never noticed.

@sentane8031

2 жыл бұрын

isn't there hints in bedrock when creating a new world? most of the problems in the video don't exist in bedrock thanks to them

@daizdamien1409

2 жыл бұрын

Yea

A simple change to the advancement text like "Repair a broken obsidian portal and light it" would do wonders. And maybe have the portals fully built every time, but with some pieces as crying obsidian. Maybe even rename crying obsidian to "broken obsidian" just to hammer the point home that these are what you should be replacing.

@RetroGamingNow

2 жыл бұрын

Right! I think many of these issues have very simple fixes - if they spent some time going through each advancement and tweaking it (especially critical ones like the Nether) they could improve the game quite a bit without much work.

@kacperwoch4368

2 жыл бұрын

Or just make crying obsidian work like normal obsidian

@perigord6281

2 жыл бұрын

I think a cool thing would be, when there is crying obsidian, the portal will temporarily light but then break. There would be a small break animation where it makes it obvious that it breaks from the crying obsidian. Edit: Perhaps make it work with any incompatible block including air to make it more consistent. Like the portal would form normally for a split second but then rapidly get destroyed. A less laggy alternative would probably be the incompatible block just gets broken.

@linhero797

2 жыл бұрын

Well I think this video used a bad example, most of the Ruined portals you find are up-right. With a good chunk of them missing only a few blocks, And the most common items you will find in a nether portal chest are Flint and steel, and Fire Charges. Hinting that they have some utility. While I like this video, I feel it may underplay the intelligence of the player with the nether portal situation and doesn't take into account that the situation it's in is an outlier.

@linhero797

2 жыл бұрын

@@perigord6281 That actually sounds interesting.

Honestly before starting my playthrough i already knew about the tools and how to set up base, mine, and gather food. Ironically tho, this made the game even harder for me, because i ignored all the popup tips and couldn't learn anything else on my own, it was only after 10 or so hours that i started looking at the recipe book, and the achievements table.

I think the experience of getting information only by word of mouth enhanced my enjoyment of the game. When they added the tutorial and crafting book I thought they removed the sense of depth. Finding out something new from somebody makes your mind wonder about what else you don't know or what else there is to explore.

Piropito has a great Minecraft series where he plays completely blind. I’d highly recommend, because the amount of dedication he puts to discover the game is fascinating.

@averagecatenjoyer8219

2 жыл бұрын

Blind as in knows nothing about Minecraft or blind as in an ungodly challenge of playing with no screen

@juiuice

2 жыл бұрын

@@averagecatenjoyer8219 the former lol

@averagecatenjoyer8219

2 жыл бұрын

@@juiuice yeah I watched a couple of episodes. And I'm just thinking about how if Minecraft was released today it'd either be thrown to the gutter or have a gigantic community of finding "hidden" features

@RetroGamingNow

2 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna have to check it out

@user-yk4ji

2 жыл бұрын

@@RetroGamingNow if u check it out u r gæ

6:58 i remember a long time ago i killed the ender dragon in creative mode, and i found that the end crystals were pretty cool looking. and so i decorated the exit portal with the end crystals... and thats when i figured out "the end again" existed... i was so confused when i heard the dragon roaring and the crystals coming 'back to life' lmao

@TheOneWhoMemes79

Жыл бұрын

10:22 i also remember trying to tame a dog a long time ago, i accidentally hit it with the bone instead of taming it, so i tried bonemeal because it sounded 'tasty' for the dog, there were green sparkles when i used it, so i thought "maybe i should do more???" its funny looking back at the things i used to do in minecraft

@razmalakataznia7969

Жыл бұрын

Same i accidentally summon the wither by playing the Minecraft story mode wither so i thought it'd be a good decoration on my creative world but idk how to get the command block so i just filled it up with sould sand and then... didn't know it actually exist in game and it fucking destroyed my builds

@diamondcubey8464

Жыл бұрын

@@TheOneWhoMemes79 lmao my first time on minecraft I thought bone meal was edible

@deletedaccount7

Жыл бұрын

Wait, the end again is an achievement right?... How did you discover the achievement existed when you don't get them in creative? I highly doubt if you didn't check achievements before at any point that this of all things would suddenly cause you to look at the list lol.

@romulo-mello

Жыл бұрын

I also did that! lol

To the credit of the "We Need to Go Deeper" advancement, the icon for the advancement itself is the icon for Flint & Steel, which one can intuit that this item is required to complete the advancement. Experimentation with the item in question lets the player learn it can light things on fire, and thus the "light" portion of the advancement's description can then be interpreted as "light on fire" once the player puts 2 and 2 together. I agree it's still a very roundabout thing to discover relative to its importance, but I think the clue is at least a little bit stronger than you've given it credit for.

I’ve been playing since Alpha, and I figured out some of the harder stuff myself. The portal remnants are a dang cool piece of lore, but perhaps hindsight allows me to see them more clearly. There should be something similar for conduits, because I’m sure I wouldn’t have randomly figured that one out on my own.

There's this Minecraft playthrough of PiroPito where he's completely blind down to the mechanics. It's an interesting watch and you'll see how he figures out portals without outside help. He doesn't even know that he can sneak to place blocks on the edge. I think his playthrough is a good example of this and is still somewhat possible yet really difficult.

@genghiskhan6688

2 жыл бұрын

How does he do it?

@jana731

2 жыл бұрын

How did he find out? I began playing Minecraft in like 2014 and I didn't even know the nether existed

@wencyvirpoin6643

2 жыл бұрын

Check out Episode 58. He saw an advancement where it says "Build, light, and enter a nether portal." To make sure he doesn't waste his time, he just asked one question to his friend if a crafting recipe for the portal exists. You'll see in the episode how he experiments lots of portal shapes and how to light it up.

@RetroGamingNow

2 жыл бұрын

That's crazy, I'll have to check it out

@SupersuMC

2 жыл бұрын

Also RealCivilEngineer.

12:38 TBF, many of the more advanced Redstone tricks are actually bugs and Mojang has some ambivalence towards them. It'd make sense that they'd be reluctant to teach new players about these techniques.

@LRM12o8

2 жыл бұрын

Plus it would take the fun _and_ the education out of redstone. Redstone is a simulation of software coding and in coding you don't get a tutorial on how to do what you're trying to achieve either. You have to figure it out by researching similar problems and transferring and combining their solutions to fit your problem or inferring a unique, new solution from them. Explaining redstone would be like explaining puzzles. The most they _could_ conceivably do is explain what each single component does, before the whole thing becomes pointless!

@TheSuperJepphyKiller

2 жыл бұрын

Mumbo Jumbo wants to know your location

@porumbelinpaine

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, MOJANG CALLS THEM FEATURES, lol.

@Nyerguds

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't mind if quasiconnectivity got removed, lol. Yes, it makes a lot of builds smaller, but it's so annoying when you want stuff to just NOT get powered at some points.

@pocarski

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nyerguds just use transparent blocks (like glass or upside down slabs) instead of solid ones, they won't power anything and you'll avoid QC

i wish minecraft had tooltips for items that told you what they are and how to use them the way terraria does, or even the legacy console versions of minecraft for example the tooltip for obsidian "a very durable mineral that comes from the mixing of water and lava. you can use it to build a gateway to another dimension"

I didn't try minecraft until 2019, and had never watched any kind of video or tutorial, just occasionally checked the wiki for crafting recipes, so I didn't find out about the nether or end existing until years later when i was playing with friends

“The game says you need to find a Nether fortress. This isn’t hard, all it takes is some exploration” Me, who dies about 30 times before finding one: Excuse me?

@Mesling_

2 жыл бұрын

but still even if you die that doesn't make it more complicated to understand..?

@gaetanodepaola2ndchannel179

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mesling_ it does make it more difficult to accomplish, however, so "this isn't hard" is a bit of an understatement here imo

@Midnight_Gust

2 жыл бұрын

it was impossible for me to achive when i started this game

@Bonicchrackpain

2 жыл бұрын

not to mention they are rarer now,

@garysturgess6757

2 жыл бұрын

I mean I don't _die_ 30 times before finding one - honestly, if you're prepared (golden helmet, iron armour) the only real threat in most of the nether is ghasts (which are, IMO, a lot less dangerous than skeletons and creepers in the overworld). But actually finding a fortress can take ages - I think there should be some sort of compass that can guide you to a nether fortress, or an end city for that matter, since in the absence of such I usually just look up the map with the seed. Wasting hours trying to find a nether fortress isn't my particular bag baby. :)

I remember discovering the nether early on sometime around 2010/2011 and being terrified. It was like discovering a massive secret. The place was haunting.

@hmmm.74

Жыл бұрын

How did you figure out how to build the portal on your own? Im curious now...

@maxmanly3122

Жыл бұрын

@@hmmm.74 didn't discover it by myself, i played with a friend a lot around that time but I remember there was just a rumour or understanding that obsidian had a bigger feature than just really hard rock. Back then you could still be easily surprised if you didn't look too hard. Lots of people knew that an obsidian portal did something but werent sure what exactly.

@erm_5557

Жыл бұрын

@@maxmanly3122 even so you still DID have outside help which means it wasn't perfectly known from testing

@iSomeDood

Жыл бұрын

@@erm_5557 that wasnt his point

@erm_5557

Жыл бұрын

@@iSomeDood i guess that fair but a lot of the discussion in the comments is seeing if anyone did any progression of the game without any help and to what level even if it wasn't exactly what he was talking about which was about how its was scary place

Teaching beginners complex game mechanics is something that Doom: Eternal handles amazingly well. At about the midpoint of the game you have acquired a total of 8 weapons (combat shotgun, super shotgun, heavy cannon, chaingun, rocket launcher, plasma rifle, ballista, and the bfg-9000). All of these weapons have 1-2 weapon mods each that augment how the each gun shoots. You also have an ice bomb (freezes enemies), grenades , and flame belch (flamethrower) that all have cooldowns. Not only those but also you have a chainsaw (instakills enemies) and glory kills. This finishes off enemies that have been weakened by the rest of your arsenal. During the gameplay, not only do you have to kill hordes of enemies, but you also have to manage your health (glorykilling enemies drops health pickups), armor (flame belching enemies drops armor pickups), and ammo (chainsawing enemies drops ammo). Also, you have to be aware of enemy weak points and how each weapon (and each respective weapon mod) can be best used to take down a certain enemy type. This is all very complicated but throughout the campaign you acquire just a little piece of your arsenal of "tools" (weapons, equipment, etc.,) and through isolated tutorials practise what you will be implementing thruout the course of the entire campaign. This is so that by the end of the game you fully become the demon-slaying, horde-gibbing master of destruction that you are.

9:34 as a child i thought that of you place a new portal away from the other portals, then you will spawn in a new world

The brewing stand should really have a recipe book. Also, for weirder things like upgrading diamond to netherite, or totems of undying, there could be books hidden in structures with cryptic text alluding to it. Paintings could also be updated to include clearer images of the wither construction, or one of the conduit or enchanting setup. Maybe a specific painting of the conduit setup could be found in ocean ruins or buried treasure? Like how banner patterns are found, what if some paintings had to be found, and that design would always appear when placed? Some animal taming could be discovered based on logic (dogs like bones, birds like seeds, cows like wheat, etc) and the fact that the animals follow you, but the hoglin breeding would be an issue.

@dinomaster420

Жыл бұрын

Brewing is so complicated and it seems to be a neglected feature. It definitely needs some in-game pointers

@researchinbreeder

Жыл бұрын

I think so many of these issues could be fixed with a "Structure Book" of some sort. You can look through it at various types of structures (likely gated behind obtaining their key block, like a Conduit for that structure, Wither Skulls for the Wither, or Obsidian for the Nether Portal), and maybe have an option for it to project phantom blocks around the "main" block. That and a recipe book or equivalent in all blocks with unique recipes (Brewing Stand, Smithing Table, etc) would fix 80% of these issues. Finally, maybe have a Lectern in villages that lists "animals and their favorite foods" to help with Two by Two (including the Hoglins, maybe called "Nether Hogs"), and a Lectern in Igloos with more specific details (maybe "research notes")

@centerpoint2844

10 ай бұрын

Ok noob

Man, when my Father first played Minecraft, he was confused to heck! However he figured it all out ALL by himself. He had this huge rail way line leading all the way to a single desert all over the water with cobblestone and rails on the inside. He was very smart, he had tools he had armor basically he knew everything about the game. Me? Well, for me it was for the fact I watched the yogscast and understood everything about Minecraft by watching their videos online while my Father did it all by himself. It was impressive for a man that was in his 50s/60s. Thank you so much for buying the game for us Father. God bless you.

@Arkani1

10 ай бұрын

Your father is a true king. Bless you too

@akiameaart

10 ай бұрын

I first played to help my son (I am the mom tho). I got addicted and we still play together often! I do aesthetic building stuff and my son is good at redstone. Minecraft is amazing. It really brings people together.

@Lordofpsychoticrat

10 ай бұрын

​@@akiameaartThis is so sweet 😊

@poycixyz4614

10 ай бұрын

​@@akiameaartI love reading things like this

@poycixyz4614

10 ай бұрын

Dad? More like gigachad

I know this is a year old now, but I remember watching a video years ago about this topic. And it goes along the lines of "The game was made so that people would share their experiences and learning how to play the game came from learning from other people thus creating a social bond over a video game, making the game more fun. People underestimate how powerful multiplayer is for creating an extremely fun experience for people, its the reason why the top market games are multiplayer. Minecraft, csgo, valorant, league of legends, dota, and so on. These games were made so that the multiplayer experience adds to the enjoyment. And with a sandbox game where you can basically do anything, not everyone will gravitate towards the game unless a fellow player to play with them." I still remember being at school and talking to my friends about crafting recipes and how to get to the nether, further increasing my love for the game because I can share my knowledge with the people I like spending my time with.

9:37 you know that on bedrock loading screens it actually does, plus if you watched yt or read books about mc youd probabky know after a bit

@username5155

Ай бұрын

Ah yes, Minecraft KZread videos, my favorite ingame resource

This is why I liked the legacy versions (PS3, Xbox 360) they had a tutorial world for each update and stuff to explore in them

@unknown-dq6df

2 жыл бұрын

That one with floating Minecraft sign the city and the ships bring back such good memories :)

@chasethemaster3440

2 жыл бұрын

I miss the tutorial worlds they were so cool it’s really a shame that they stop making them after the aquatic update they was the last update that they made one

@Jeff4theRaid

2 жыл бұрын

And they introduced the auto crafting mechanic unlike java at the time, my neighbor had it first cauthe was cool and his friend had to write down the order and recipe for a cake and show us the game mechanics in order to make a single cake, before bonemeal he had to go to his farm, milk cows in 3 buckets with iron, use collected eggs, and sugar cane into sugar from a simple farm, seemed like a freaking experience on its own

@Jeff4theRaid

2 жыл бұрын

I wish they could have preserved the old tutorial worlds individually, I loved exploring those...

@sphne7502

2 жыл бұрын

@@unknown-dq6df i love tu14

I played Minecraft as a child in the back ol' days where there was no 'press e for inventory' hints or crafting recipe book My friends and I freaked out when we discovered you could craft a crafting table, making pickaxes was a whole other thing (we didn't know you could place one item in the inventory with the right click)

@zuimba4265

Жыл бұрын

If this was bedrock edition, it would be easier as the version comes with a virtual guide in your settings menu bar

@snakeysboi5353

Жыл бұрын

fr, i remember being upset at the game because i didnt understand you had to hold down the button to mine instead of just clicking and had to ask a friend

@kube410

Жыл бұрын

when i first played minecraft i thought that feather was a knife because i didnt know english so i used it to punch mobs lol

@iamabird6739

Жыл бұрын

When I first played Minecraft, i thought blocks would fall if u don't connect it to other blocks so I build very carefully. Also I don't know torch exist, there were no crafting guide or recipe book.

@careersal7384

Жыл бұрын

I lit up everything with red stone torches instead of normal torches 😭

I have very once used a conduit to beat an ocean monument, you can do it without potions as well the only “difficulty” thing would be knowing doors or signs can create air bottles, although that can be figured out relatively easily by trial and error before you would ever get to the point of fighting a ocean monument

Bro this reminds of the time I thought you could only get glass from villages if you had silk touch.. then when I joined a friends world I asked them if they had silk touch and how they got so much glass and they showed me you could smelt glass! Then I tested other stuff similar such as clay lol! (This was on Bedrock edition where there is no recipe book for furnaces)

In Bedrock there’s an entire section in the settings dedicated as a tutorial. It explicitly teaches you how to build a Nether portal as well as other essential mechanics of the game.

@kaynugro

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention the nifty tips in the loading screen

@QUBIQUBED

2 жыл бұрын

the problem is that its super boring to read, gamers are smelly anti sunlights losers who can't bear to read for a minute or so.

@sanmeghpotdar7974

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but as there are no advancements in bedrock it would literally be impossible to do anything at all

@RapinatorOhYeah

2 жыл бұрын

also you can also check the recipes even if you don't have the certain item

@kaynugro

2 жыл бұрын

@@sanmeghpotdar7974 there are advancements in Minecraft. It’s that little bottle in the corner of the main menu and the pause menu

In my first playthrough of Minecraft, I found some iron ore, and used a wooden pickaxe to mine it. It dropped nothing. I think if I've never read the Minecraft Wiki, I would've never learn that iron requires at least a stone pickaxe. This is just a tiny example. In your video, you acted as if you first played Minecraft, and opened the control settings to figure stuff out. But in reality, people will get annoyed and either not play the game anymore or search for outside help.

@jmw9904

2 жыл бұрын

When I first started, I didn't know why I didn't get my furnace back when I broke it with just my hand.

@Che8t

2 жыл бұрын

I built my first house entirely out of smooth sandstone since I thought normal blocks like dirt would fall like sand unless refined.

@rainydeestar

2 жыл бұрын

i think this also really depends on how old you are, and how much game literacy you have. People familiar with games and their logic will be way more likely to learn all of that

@vrinkee

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't realize I couldn't pick up iron without a stone pickaxe either, and I definitely didn't know where to find diamonds without looking up tips. I just started mining down in random places and couldn't find anything for a long time.

@DanAndHoe

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I don't think I've ever opened advancements. After a while of not playing I have even forgotten I needed iron to mine certain things. Messed up a diamond that way before I remembered.

I just started the video so maybe you'll talk about it, but after the intro i decided I'd like to share my experiences from about 8-9 years ago. It was either my last year of primary school or the year after. The game was already popular but I haven't heard anything more than it's a game about destroying and placing blocks where you had to build shelter before first night or else you'll die by the hand of the monsters. So that's what I did. I gathered dirt and build wall on a rectangle probably like 5x7. Wall was about 6 blocks tall and had a staircase (of course made out of dirt) only in the inside, so that monsters can't get in. The game didn't have a tutorial so i didn't know anything about more equipment slots beside 9 on the bar, didn't know how to craft (even that the were crafting - English isn't my native language, so at that age I didn't connect the dots about it's name). Heh, i remember when I started digging floor inside that "house" (house in quotation marks as it had only walls, no ceiling, no door, no windows) and i was shocked when i run out of dirt and instead stumbled into something that took digging much more time. You can only imagine how frustrated I was after it didn't drop anything despite how long i spend digging. I thought that maybe it was random chance, do i continued digging down, probably about after 1 layer I dropped that idea. But something changed, the day was ending, it was getting darker so I went on the wall to observe the see of monsters trying to kill me. What soon terrified me, that among monsters were spiders who could climb. I tried to enclose the roof but some skeleton shot me off. I'm not sure if I tried to survive by outrunning them, or shut the game right there, but it was my first impression. The next day in school I talked to my friend that told me about the game. He explained some basics, like how cou craft simple tools, doors, etc, but it was nowhere near how much information you need. When i returned home, i turned Minecraft again. There was no chance i was playing in that world from day before, so I created new one. I experimented with the options that I had no idea what they did, decided that yes, I want my gameplay to be "creative" and so i started playing in new world. I was so surprised that blocks were mined instantly, i couldn't get them to drop anything tho. By trials and errors I found out that grass sometimes drops seeds if i destroy the blocks underneath them, but don't drop anything if i destroy them directly. I tried the same tactics with trees to obtain wood but with no success. Since i gathered some flowers and seeds i wanted to order them in my inventory (my friend told me how to open it). How surprised i was when every item in the game was available for me (well, now i know that not all of them, but that's not important)! I made a hole inside a mountain and push there animals to breed them. I lighted the interior with torches (well, redstone torches as I found them first and didn't know there were other sources of light), and when the night came, to my surprise, monsters didn't even try to attack me! I have more stories like how ive mined small hill in survival EXCEPT for a small house made of stone, for I thought that's the only way you could have built house of it instead of cobblestone, and i felt so special, that none probably have house of stone, as it took so much effort to (reverse)build it But i think that was best stories I've been through

the thing is also like, there *are* ways that the game tells you how to do every single thing you can reasonably do, they’re just incredibly hidden and would take hours and hours to come across. if you come across 2, 3, 5, 10 ruined portals, you’ll eventually get that “oh, that’s supposed to be something. i can rebuild that.”. you’ll eventually find a stronghold if you truly play around in a world long enough. the problem is that it would take absolutely AGES, and no one plays for that long without knowing there’s an objective or something beyond to complete.

Reminds me of how in old versions of Pocket Edition, the way you activated the Nether Core Reactor seemed so convoluted. Like how was someone supposed to activate it without any outside advice. Looking back at it, reminds me of one of those fake Herobtine summon videos lol

@LazyLoonz

2 жыл бұрын

Good times

It used to be even worse. I remember when I first bought the game in Beta 1.7.3. It took me forever to find the “open inventory” button. Then I tried and failed to mine wood for 10 minutes, because the tutorial said to punch (left click) the wood, not *hold* left click.

@supercool_saiyan5670

2 жыл бұрын

yep this was one of the first games I'd ever played and It took me a very long time to figure out swimming so I just lived on an island for a while

@ignajara

2 жыл бұрын

JAJAJAJ I REMEMBER CALLING MY BEST FRIEND ON THE PHONE AND TELLING HIM DUDE IM PUNCHING THIS TREE AND IT WONT FALL DOWN!

I'd love a quest-book-like system that gives more in depth instructions to beginners but has harder tasks for completionists. The advancement text just isn't enough for everything a player might have or want to do but can't figure out how without Google.

If we aren't judging that the player might get something right by reading and assuming properly, these achievements could be twice as difficult. For example, mining a tree just says to hold left click, but it doesn't tell you to look at the tree and hold it, nor to collect the dropped item. Some tooltips need to be even more specific and obvious so anyone can read, follow, and understand what they need to do. Still though, really cool video! It's awesome to see content not many people are going for, analyzing things people take for granted and giving them a spotlight.

I see the Conduit and I’m hyped. I just so coincidentally happened to download Minecraft again a mere DYAY after Bedrock got added to Switch, which was the same time the Aquatic Update came out. I always loved building underwater bases, so you can imagine that I was stoked to play with the new features. The Conduit was ALWAYS my favorite of those assets lore-wise, I like to think of it as some sort of filter-feeding deity organism. But it filter feeds on hostile Mobs using those weird colorful organisms, and the waste product is the discharged magic that lets you breathe. So it’s a miniature reef for magical creatures.

The Minecraft book “the island” is really good and showcases this issue. Also The character in the book gets a plot convenience book that explains things to him.

@josephblomstrand2129

Жыл бұрын

Love that book so much

@JohnDoe-og2bt

Жыл бұрын

Its almost as if you bring what you know. People who never cultivated a plant will likely not know what bone meal is for, people who have never worked on a circuit wont know about redstone, the list goes on.

@40watt53

Жыл бұрын

THERE'S A BOOK?!

@cement_eater

11 ай бұрын

⁠@@40watt53 there are a ton of books, but this one was actually licensed by Mojang

The game concept didn't include the book recipes back in time. It was diffused to refer to the wikies. My suggest would be to introduce the tutorial world as it was for bedrock (I remember of when I started playing on my PSVita and started learning how to properly play the game from there). I don't know if nowadays those are a thing, but it could be very useful for new players.

I feel like the potion brewing one should be ranked a bit higher, maybe 2 or 3, just because I feel like you're going to learn how to craft brewing stands in the nether fortress where nether wart is found, and I distinctly remember the first time I made a brewing stand I looked through all the stuff in my inventory, saw a couple random ingredients I'd think would work, and shoved em all in the brewing stand to see what happens. One of these ingredients happened to be nether wart, and I felt very accomplished for the couple seconds before seeing that I made awkward potions. I actually thought that was a dead end and tried other things and it wouldn't be till way later I eventually tried things with awkward potions and got actual potions out of it. This was before brewing stands needed blaze powder, but with that involved I feel it would push players a little bit more logically to look in the place you get the powder from for ingredients.