fun fact the reason your skin disappeared for some 1.7 versions was because there was an exploit where people could grab your IP address on servers just by having a custom player head places in their world. it was such a vulnerability that mojang just killed the skin servers for those versions

man this brings back to many memories. after school run to the computer and make my 4 tree houses and 7 underground dwarf shacks. making friends and sharing my world with my mates. love you for this

The reason the nether portal didn't work on Day 12 is that there were two obsidian in front of it. In early versions that confuses the game, so you can't light it. That's why the portal building strat is a bit different in early versions. Instead of placing one block in a 4 long strip of lava, you place one and then make an L shape in front of it, so no obsidian forms there.

Seeing everything since update 1 was very nostalgic
PS: You should continue this world when new updates come out.

For anyone wondering why there is snow everywhere:

In the older updates there was a chance you would get a snow world. Were everything is snow. So when SB updated in the version Snow World were introduced, the game thought: “Oh hey, a world that has not gotten a chance to become Snowy. Lets make sure it at least gets a chance”. The game then “rolls the dices” and finds out that this world should become a snow world.

Edit: seems like I was wrong. It was prob cause of biome changes

There's just something about the older versions of Minecraft that give me lots of nostalgia.

This was a huge nostalgia trip for me. It was kinda like a full trip through my life in some ways, since I started not quite at the very beginning of indev but damn close. Man, I'm almost in tears. That's some memories hitting like a brick. I don't remember what the update was number wise at this point... the addition of wolves and cows... That was about where I started, somewhere in there. Because I remember getting excited about them and not realizing you can tame them until a friend showed me.

Basically A Timeline
First Wood: 0:29
First Stone: 0:42
First Coal: 1:13
First Torch: 1:16
First Mine: 1:21
First Iron: 1:30
First Cave : 2:58
First RS: 7:14
First Mineral Block: 8:19
First Cow: 9:35
First Diamonds & First Lava Pit: 11:13
Others That I Cant In Order
First Netherite 1:35:05
First Bat 47:00
Squid Dies 1:43:20
The Strong Hold 43:00

Honestly, quite nostalgic. I miss the older versions, but I'm also so happy to have the new versions

9:07 The reason why sheep spawned underground and why your house was suddenly full of sheep and pigs in the earliest versions is because high light levels used to be a catalyst for spawning passive mobs, countering hostile mobs spawning in the dark. At some point this was changed so they would only spawn on grass, meaning they'd stop spawning inside caves and houses (unless there was grass blocks in your house). There used to be methods for making passive mob farms using only grass and torches and water.

I remember being mad when this was changed so that mobs simply spawned naturally in the world and wouldn't come back if killed, because although the Minecraft world is functionally infinite, it made it so that passive mobs were now technically finite; if all were killed, there would be no getting them back. I was also, like, 12 years old or something, so.

IIRC, there were obviously way more involved structures, but the most basic 24/7 passive mob generator you could make was a pillar in the center with torches on all four sides, then surrounded by a square ring of fences, which were surrounded by stairs. Built on top of grass. The mobs would spawn inside the controlled fenced area and you could walk up the stairs and over the fence to kill them.

Can confirm.  The stairs 100% have a mind of their own

It’s nice to see how the makers of MC slowly added the things we know today and how Minecraft used to be. Thanks for this 2 hours of Enjoyment, SB!

Edit: 100 Likes?!
Edit 2: HOW DOES THIS HAVE 200 LIKES

This is the best history lesson on MC's updates. Really puts into perspective the work Mojang has put into this game.

I've been playing in my survival world since infdev. At first I was disappointed by the fact that my world didn't have any new caves under the old chunks, but, now I kind of appreciate it, as it makes it was easier to build underground because you don't have to clear away any stone. Also, really fun video! Its always cool seeing how players who haven't played quite as long react to how much emptier and less convenient the old versions feel compared to the newer ones :)

The reason why your spawn got frozen over and you had trouble finding animals in beta 1.8 is because all beta 1.7.3 worlds got corrupted when updating to beta 1.8. The biome data got wiped and new biome data was applied to your world as if it were generated in beta 1.8. If your world had been generated in beta 1.8, your spawn would have been a cold biome and next to it there would be a desert which is why no animals spawned on the grass. In beta 1.8 a thing called "flag1" got introduced in game code that made it so animals spawned 400 times slower too. In order to fix the biome corruption players would use an app called "biome painter" made for the purpose of adding back proper biome data to older regions generated prior to beta 1.8. Hope that helps.

I love SB’s videos cause unlike screaming when he gets in trouble like other YouTubers, he actually focuses and gets out of it. His skill and his editors are both a amazing and entertaining. Thank you SB!

Its just cool to see how minecraft upgraded from an old cube games into a legendary game.
Keep up the awesome work

This has given me the motivation required to start playing survival again instead of playing pvp all day

Fun fact: the reason the old trees turned into jungle trees is because of a quirk in how leaf decay used to work

In Alpha, notch (the creator of Minecraft) kept trying to add leaf decay, and the way the system worked is that leaves would have different metadata values depending on how close to the tree they generated. So if it was close to a tre it would have data value 1, or further it would have value 3.

These days values would later be used when spruce, Burch, and jungnle leaves were added, meaning that old alpha trees would turn into mixed trees.

Btw, mushrooms were the only stackable food back in the day meaning with 1 inventory slot you could regenerate hundreds of hearts in seconds.