Do you think this is the best minecraft version?

They kept spawning by your bed because back then there was something like a 30% chance you would have a nightmare and a mob would wake you up and start attacking you. This was later removed. In short, you got very unlucky

i feel like if minecraft released all the features from 1.1 to 1.20 at once, it would be enough to be a minecraft 2.0

I feel like I aged 20 years watching this video. I probably played more beta 1.7 and 1.8 than all the other versions of Minecraft combined. "There's nothing to do" was the whole point of Minecraft back then. There was no destination, only infinite possible paths that go on forever. There was less instant gratification, the night was an actual threat, and there was no trading with villagers for the things you need. Is it better than modern Minecraft? Probably not, but it's the version I loved to play most.

"Tell me you started playing minecraft after 2018 without telling me you started playing minecraft after 2018."

For someone who didn't play minecraft for years and started again recently, I've to say that the nights in this video are much closer to what I remember, modern Minecraft seems really tame at night.

People call this the best version because those same people started on this version and for them, THIS was Minecraft. No objective to it, just Survive, Build, Mine and Craft. The Adventure update had completely changed how the game played and a lot of people genuinely didn't enjoy the change very much. It's almost a totally different game compared to today. It was a lot simpler and people liked it for that.

The thing I rarely see being mentioned... The game was balanced and brutally difficult. It was a true survival game. Nowadays, you don't even care about your first night. You just spawn, get to a village, loot the shit out of it and thats it. You put a bed in the middle of a jungle at night and survive the night. Back then, you had to work to survive and you couldn't run from mobs that easily nor could you just sleep without a fully lit shelter either. EDIT: On another note, exploration was better, less over-abondant structures with precious loot all over the place. Less ressources for what you craft and mine overral. It ads up. But the thing, the lack of urgency in the game made it what was really fun. Sprinting when theres stuff easily accessible all over the place made the game boring for me. Like, just drop in a cave and you can find Diamond in less than 5 minutes.

The happiness and excitement he felt when he finally found diamonds was probly the same feeling that us players felt when we first play minecraft

As is often said: Limitations breed creativity.

Finding diamonds in the old versions feels so good.

The encounter with the Ghasts was pretty funny. The fact is that the fire-snowballs did not hit you because they were aiming at the camera, not at you. This becomes evident when you switch to third-person mode and notice that they shoot in the direction of your line of sight.

Its one of the best, exploring was slow and made the world feel bigger, it was scarier and darker at night, the lighting was superior. It felt much more dangerous and immersive. And there was a perfect balance of realism and fantasy. The creeper was an accident but now everything is purposeful with little to no anomalies that werent purposeful.

The reason mobs spawn on you when you sleep is because old minecraft has a feature called "nightmares" It's basically preventing it from turning day and spawns a monster on you. Pretty cool touch

I like how long it took for him to realize that sleeping in the dark causes a monster to spawn near you

13:34 WAS THAT THE KEKISTAN FLAG LOL????

That was interesting. I think I've never played this version as I joined minecraft later. But It looks like I actually play modern versions as if it was a 1.7.3 gameplay -- I never chase any rare stuff. I dont care about diamonds, enchantments and especially autofarms. I just love to build something cool to live in, to feel immersed into the world as if it was real, just make life comfortable

I remember back when boats were dark squares that broke the second you hit something, i remember the unsmooth lighting, i remember creepers exploding after death, i remember punching sheep gave you wool, i remember the old fish texture it was the only fish, and i remember there being 2 flowers rose and dandelion

I've been playing this version for a long time now, and it is a bit of a big change. It's easy to get used to though

The thing I rarely see being mentioned... The game was balanced and brutally difficult. It was a true survival game. Nowadays, you don't even care about your first night. You just spawn, get to a village, loot the shit out of it and thats it. Back then, you had to work to survive and you couldn't run from mobs that easily.

1:08 Yes, that’s exactly why we love it. It’s vanilla Minecraft. It’s Minecraft while it was still Minecraft, and not MC RPG. The next version of MC took a complete 180 (pun intended) from everything that 1.7.3 established. It was a completely different game from there onwards.

The Cave sounds, The C418 Music, The old looks...It is the True Spirit of Minecraft. No Matter how far this games go, *THIS IS WHERE IT ALL STARTED* Edit: I accidentally wrote "C148" instead of "C418" and Chuck actually hearted my comment. But now that i realized, I have fixed it back to C418 :D but removed the heart D:

You don't have to make entrapments of animals to breed em because they didn't add breeding until late beta 1.8. So you re free to go the straight killing-out spree. Books as items can be crafted but only for decorative use, hence not the need for xp farms or cows. The direction of the game is mainly straightforward at comparison to the other versions where you need to settle down, here you just need to settle out. You 'll just need a home and that's basically it, cause there is no enchantment table and the tallies that come with it, hence no urging need to be disatisfied. And with older terrain generation the exploration part is more exciting and creative.

No hunger bar, no charging up for arrows, truly the best version for actual survival.

i enjoy the nostalgia, i started playing minecraft before 1.8 was even a thing, back when all the block textures were sooo simple and i completely loved it, and i still do. I prefer the old looking style minecraft because of the nostalgia and just how much fun we had with my sister back then

The minecraft fandom is just kids turning 18 and immediately obsessing about the version of the game they played when they were 8

In my opinion, here's what 1.7.3 has going for it: 1. It has better terrain than release era generator. I prefer the 1.18+ terrain by far, but Beta and alpha terrain generation was pretty good. Release era terrain generation kinda sucked. 2. It didn't have sprinting. I like sprinting. One thing I don't like though is that mobs were never rebalanced for players who could just sprint around all the time. 3. Healing was not automatic. If you got hit, you had to eat. If you never got hit, you never had to eat. Food was not stackable, so you had to carefully choose what you wanted to bring to eat. There was no "Obviously I'm gonna bring 64 steak and not worry about taking damage." 4. Minecraft was already advanced enough to do interesting things. Pistons existed, as did the Nether. I think a lot of these problems have been somewhat resolved (not mobs being too slow for a sprinting player though, that has been made worse by pathfinding. Alpha spiders were absolutely lethal and nobody didn't respect them because of their low attack. Modern spiders are a joke).

The best times I’ve had playing this were in this version. Pretty awesome to hear that a large amount of people still go out of there way to play it that way.

This version feels so familiar yet so different... I spent a lot of time in Alpha 1.2.0 and this reminds me of it a lot. Tough as nails nights (Alpha didn't even have beds), blindingly dark caves, no real direction, infinite, confusing (there were no coordinates in F3 mode) and lonely world and a feeling that some entity, Herobrine or anything else, is always watching you...

16:44 it didn’t used to cost as much as it does now. They’ve hiked the price over the years. If I remember correctly, it cost $5 when I first got the game.

2:10 Cows in latest Minecraft snapshot: Ok, get my flesh Cows in Beta 1.7.3 after being killed: 🖕U

I actually started on this exactly version! Not just Beta 1.7 but specifically Beta 1.7.3. So for me it just boils down to nostalgia. I still remember logging in for the first time and spawning in a snowy tundra near a frozen lake, walking up to a sheep and killing it, and then spamming my left click on a tree and wondering why it wasn't breaking. Fun times.

14:39 "I am breaking your boat" And that is how friendships are broken.

I think you just learned that "Don't judge a game by It's version because you have to multiplayer to play with friends to have fun"

I play beta 1.7.3 all the time, and this was a great video, loved that u tried one of the servers !!

Its feels kinda depressing and funny, when you see reactions of the youtubers on older versions of Minecraft. They kinda like: "Woah, thats so lame and stoopid, who gonna play at this". Funny. I remember my first launch of Minecraft. I have launched it first on Mojang offical site in demo-version (Java in browser function), and, after this, i had updated from Demo to classic version. I can barely remember, when i saw at UKposts how funny guys doing stuff like Iron Golem, and i tried to do it (Golem have been added later, and he didn't spawned) Damn, old version is a gold, and new items just makes game complicated (Tbh, i didn't yet killed Ender Dragon fair)

8:22 we can't ignore is that chuck said that windows vista is windows 7 lmao

"Sounds awful right?" No it really doesn't

the reason the nether looks so bland with nothing to do is because its original purpose is to let the player travel faster. In this old version where there is no sprint and your best form of overworld travel is minecarts, the nether with it’s 8X distance boost is amazing. It has a lot of lava, ghasts and difficult to traverse terrain, but for the added difficulty you get a really good fast way to travel!

what your not getting is the total nostalgia and impact these versions had on people... some people wanting to go back or some people wanting to try out what they missed out on...

can’t speak for everyone but the appeal for old versions of minecraft is most likely the nostalgia trip that long time players get from playing it. i’ve been playing since beta version 1.2_02, where squids, lapis, and dyeable wool were the newest coolest features and beds, shears, wolves, tall grass, and loads of other stuff i could mention, had yet to be added. the lack of stuff to do meant you had to come up with your own goals and projects, which could take a lot of time and effort through which you could derive a simple but strong satisfaction from. if you wanna see what i’m talking about and you can devote your attention to something for long periods of time, then i’d recommend an old let’s play series from a channel called coestar. the series is hundreds of episodes and is pretty slow paced but even in the first 20 or so he’s taking on large scale building projects and if you watch long enough his world gets populated with towns, castles, minecart tracks, redstone contraptions, and loads of other stuff, and it’s really cool to see it all come together. that’s the sort of stuff that comes to mind when i think of old versions of minecraft. it’s why i always make my bed red, and why i always have a resource pack on that changes some of the sound effects to what they were back in the day. it was a simple, magical time that i feel blessed to have experienced.

never played this version of Minecraft but it reminded me of the first version of mc I played , 1.7.2. That version was also pretty simple but it is also the time known as the golden age of Minecraft modding.

It is so funny how after you die the skeletons be nodding their heads like crazy

brooo i remember the good old days... i remember the nether looking all weird- it was so weird like i got used to it and what not... and then netherack changed and i was like "I LIKE THE OLD VERSION BETTER!!!" and then i grew with it... 1.17 came along and i was blown away i loved it i had a blast!

I somewhat disagree with this assessment. Right, if it were merely the lack of external goals, and not features or balance differences, people would not play Beta 1.7.3. They would play Beta 1.8.1 or whichever Beta 1.9 Pre-release was before the end. I think the choice of Beta 1.7.3 proves exactly which features they don't like, which are: 1. World gen changes to diverse but formulaic release era terrain. 2. Sprinting and hunger. 3. Every animal dropping food and food stacking. 4. Charge bows instead of machinebows.

I played beta 1.8 to early release many years ago on a free minecraft website, along with 0.30 on some other one. Fast forward to a couple years ago and I finally purchase minecraft and start with 1.15. Despite being used to modern minecraft now, I decided to play the alpha and beta versions again and they feel much more comfortable to play compared to the more recent updates. Ironically, beta 1.8 felt the most foreign to me.

8:07 bro got diamond rizz got me blushing

your use of sound effects is literally amazing bro i love it so much made my day

i tried 1.7.10 recently with my friend and this is first time i got actual fun in about 2 years. i dont really know why but it became pretty interesting. after like 200 days we switched to 1.8 because 1.7 didn't have enough features. so yeah you should absolutely try old versions after new ones. it would be a cool experience (except not being able to sprint)

I think this video outlines really well that sprinting made Minecraft massively unfair in the players favour. The game is actually hard when y'know, the mobs can actually keep up with you. Shields are also a massive player advantage and them blocking 100% damage is absolutely ridiculous and should be 66% like it was in 1.9 and 1.10. Lastly, I think the mobs AI is actually better in this version. Aside from a few things like them kinda walking into walls when chasing you, but the way mobs like actually strafe around you and jump can actually make them harder to fight. When I play beta 1.7.3, I get hit by creepers way more because they move while exploding, and also I can't just sprint jump away from them

Bro, I’m not even in high school and I remeber that nether. I remeber the happiness I had when I found out it exsisted

“I decided to set my own objectives” that’s the reason it’s the best version and what made Minecraft feel so special back then.

6:04 Bro accidentally opened the emote menu💀

8:28 That's Windows Vista bro 💀

15:26 oh Shit, I forgot how big the stair entities were when dropped. Major nostalgia unlocked for me.

its funny watching a guy be so used to the newer versions of the game he just expects to skip the night every time and completely avoid the challenge, only to be completely and absolutely gobsmacked when the mobs keep knocking him out of his bed and the mobs are actually a challenge because you can't just sprint away from them and on top of that, he can't see anything because he didnt place down torches so he had to brighten up the entire screen so much so that the pause menu buttons are literally glowing white. this was the "worst night of minecraft" he's ever had, because the best night of minecraft is simply no night at all and mobs only serve as a minor inconvenience in the new versions.

I remember being stuck playing 1.12 for the longest time, even after many updates afterwards, because my computer was so old and slow, thats all that would load lol

Sometimes Less is More Minecraft is honestly too bloated now, that might be why people like going back to older versions when there was only a health bar.

10:32 exactly, that’s the point, you’re not supposed to want to be there.

i surprisingly much prefer it, it’s lonely, it’s pretty, and sure it lacks many features but that gives it a sorta charm modern Minecraft could never recreate

This version looks like that is not stressful and you don't felling that you do a path to victory. It looks like a good 6/10. Its ok for people who don't want the modern Minecraft survival road

9:05 yeah creepers are dead silent. they actually sneak up on you. and even in full diamond armour, you will get one shotted. proper scary

I love the older versions of minecraft. I first played minecraft on xbox 360 which launched on beta version 1.6.6. I still play that version till this day.

There was always that _one thing_ that would get me to play the new versions despite it making my mods, worlds texture packs, etc almost always break. It was *definitely* that click and drag crafting, oh my god.

I understand where they’re coming from, liking the simplicity and possibly nostalgia. This was before the combat update where things started changing with bigger updates. But newer Minecraft is better.

I reverted back around 7 years ago. I just didn’t like how the newer versions felt more complete, and fast-paced. The versions before the adventure update felt more incomplete, and had more constraints and challenges to overcome 1:02 is one of them: No sprint function. The game was simple, and incomplete, the only other constraint aside from the actual gameplay would be your imagination.

i think its just caused by so many people having fond memories of playing that version as a kid when they first started playing minecraft. So many people I know started around that wersion. I remember starting some time before around 1.4 I believe or so and yeah the most memories I have are from around these versions but todays minecraft is objectivelly better. It would be delusional to think that version was a better game

As a young Minecraft player I can confirm if a boat hits a chicken a nuke will go off

"Sprint ruined the game, it made less simple, same as hunger, and the ender dragon, i remember the good ol' times..." -kid born in 2016

can we get Minecraft? we have Minecraft at home. Minecraft at home:

13:46 exactly, that’s the point.

It's great because it challenges you in ways new Minecraft aids you in. Where you see challenge and struggle as not good, it's the grind that makes getting those things such a reward, it's the way you could envision builds so simply with a fairly easily knowable range of blocks. I do wish old minecraft had running and a few other things from new minecraft, but if that had happened, there's a lot of minor little things that make old minecraft in many ways better. I played since Alpha both singleplayer and multiplayer.

Honestly you still can do whatever you want in Minecraft. Sure you're compelled to kill the ender dragon because it gives you access to the elytra and shulker boxes but those are luxuries, not necessities. I've seen people play this game in a myriad of different ways. Some people are strongly against the concept of automatic farming. Others are really into just building whatever they want and ignoring the rest of the game. I personally enjoy making farms and making builds to contextualize that infrastructure. Like making a big structure to house a farm or other thing, and make it look cool. I have some other weird ways I play. Like, I don't like automatic tree farms. I've used them before and while they're cool, I like the simplicity of the old ones. Just a big platform where you plant your trees. You can even bonemeal them still. Harvesting with the automatic farm is easier, but it doesn't actually change much Case in point, the game hasn't become any less open ended. I do think for some people the complexity of the game is overwhelming, and I can see a world where a Minecraft that stayed a completely pure sandbox has its benefits, and could even be more appealing to those who liek simplicity. I do not agree however that the modern game ever forces you to do things any particular way.

I had so many mixed emotions in this vid I was laughing bc of the funny memes and I was trying not to cry from the nostalgia then man’s pulled out the underground super Mario bros music which makes it even more nostalgic lol man all the good times I had when I was younger I really do miss em

6:14 This is a real 2011 moment.

i watched you when you had 2K subs! you growned in a year! congrats Chuck Nasty!

if you sleep in a bed in a dark area or theres a dark area within 10(? i think) blocks radius around the bed or it opens up to an area thats dark a mob spawns. theres no "you cannot rest there are monsters nearby" instead it's equivalent is you get attacked I learnt that the hard way when my dog died because a zombie spawned at my bed. also theres a glitch where if you have double doors, it doesn't count that as blocking outside, so you can only have 1 door if you want to prevent that

i personally play the beta releases every few years just to experience them again. its kinda fun struggling through the game trying to remember what is and isn't in the game

I started playing years ago (I cannot remember the version, I was very young so I don't even remember lol) prob back in 2014-2016 ish maybe? It had creative so idk, but I was a young child so I'd just cause chaos in creative. I have a memory of going around a village with lava buckets and torches, putting lava and torches around the village and stuff. I had so much fun it was insane. I loved it honestly. Another memory is that I begged my dad for Nintendo switch edition, and I finally got it. I played it for so long. I get SO MUCH nostalgia from it. Spending hours upon hours on minecraft (creative mode though), building different things, building a whole diamond block house with a large yard, playing with friends, messing around. I overall miss it. Older Minecraft gives me so much nostalgia, even if it was from a time before I began playing. Nintendo switch edition will always be the most nostalgic (and even the best sometimes lol) for me. It didn't have many of the new updates, it was more simple. I remember I first went into the end in creative mode and I was amazed. I was so young back then lol Overall, I miss old Minecraft.

I remember when I was ~10 I used to watch mod showcases and building tutorials from the relatively early versions of Minecraft. I never played any version before 1.8, but they give me this indescribable feeling of comfort and discovery that current Minecraft does not.

Favorite part of the video at 3:06 "Is there beds??" Yes, but before Beta 1.3, let me tell you: NOPE! 😆 I will say, I've been playing since June 2011 with Beta 1.6.6 being my first version, but even with that, it is VERY interesting to try out the versions even older than Beta 1.6.6, which I've been doing more frequently since 2020! I'd say that I prefer the old Minecraft compared to the new Minecraft only because of the nostalgia factor that I get when playing the older versions, but others are free to disagree as not many players of Minecraft knew Beta or earlier versions.

Never played Minecraft this far back, but damn does it remind me of 1.4.7 where I started. It had more features but was still pretty simple.

Back then only pig drop food

Try Better Than Adventure, it's basically Minecraft beta 1.7.3 on steroids

The cave sounds are the most scariest thing ever like Jesus Christ, like midnight,home alone, 8 years old, dark room, no phone to call someone

This version of Minecraft was the one where my friend showed me the Single Player Commands and World Edit mods for the first time. Blew me away at the time

15:12 holy cow this just reactivated a memory from back when wooden slabs for some reason could only be mined with pickaxes. it took them a whole YEAR before that finally patched that out.

1.7.3 is definitely my favorite version of Minecraft. I'm absolutely obsessed with the Better Than Adventure mod rn, currently it holds my longest-lasting survival world.

i agree that diamonds felt a lot more amazing to find in the old days now its kinda gone because they are too easy to find I dont wanna be annoying but guys thx for the likes!! Edit. We got funny number of likes

amazing video! i loved almost every moment of it

11:50 Oh, oh FUN story: Some of these older versions of minecraft had a glitch where your player would get stuck walking a random direction, almost always while you were trying to build over lava and bottomless pits. *THAT was it,* I knew there was a reason I finally updated.

Minecraft from 12 years ago is the Minecraft I know and love. Hell, when Release 1.0 rolled around, that was already a very different game from what I was used to.

11:44 You never told us you had a dog!

this video its epic, the editing gave me an incredible fun, really good job chunk. i played this version for the first time after your video and, damn i really found that was amazing, the limitation and the bugs give you the chance to see incredible things and have a lot of fun, i will ask my friends to play this version with me, its.......Minecraft, what else i have to say.

3:26 OMG I feel the nostalgia of GT4 Gran Turismo Mode background music

Hey bro! I first bought Minecraft in Beta 1.7.3. It was the Best $27 I spent and has improved so much to this day. Now, I have been stuck playing Minecraft on a laptop with only 2g of memory, so I've been limited to 1.8.9 as the latest version that this laptop can run. The progression of charcoal becoming a thing to make torches with, the hunger bar being introduced as well as sprinting. Not having crafting recipes dolled out to you. I feel it required more creativity to enjoy this game. Then the modding community gave the game infinite playability. I just recently purchased a gaming PC, so I will finally be able to play the latest version of Minecraft. Hell, I'm even half considering doing some YT videos about this "old guy" and my steep learning curve. See back when they brought in v 1.9, the memory requirements were higher, so the game was laggy and I never learned to fight with a shield and weapon. For myself, and back in the Beta era. I felt like I was playing a game of Lego, due to the crafting recipes and the blocky look the game is known for. You were right that the "simplicity" of this version is it's charm and makes you think more openly about what a Sandbox game should be. I enjoyed the humour in your video, so I'll check out some more. Thanks for taking me down memory lane with this Beta version.

I feel like it might just because of the nostalgia. I don't play it personally because it's just too bad but like, people also might not have access to other versions.

This video was so entertaining to watch thanks for uploading this video

8:24 that's Windows Vista lol and not Winsows 7. And that is not the Windows 7 startup sound. The sound is the Windows XP startup.

8:28 that´s windows vista, i really love the taskbar design