Creepy and Weird Stuff in Old Minecraft

I’m getting a lot of comments suggesting that I made the tunnel lol. Check the description! I gave the seed and coords so anyone can verify that it is infact natural gen. I was originally planning on mentioning this in the video but I forgor :/

Old minecraft is a liminal gem. I loved when a small update would come out and one of the bug fixes was called "removed herobrine". Made it more real for me as a kid lol.

Playing old Minecraft as a 9 year old kid in 2011 was the scariest when playing alone down stairs in the family computer room while your whole family is upstairs asleep at night.

I was a wee lad playing an old version of pocket edition back then. One day, on a cliff face, I saw a single cobblestone block. It's Impossible I said to myself. I spent days forming a base near the cliff. I was afraid to look at it. As days went by, I stepped closer and closer to the anomly, building a bridge and a platform around the block. Finally I mined the cobble to see what was behind it. Turns out it was just water and lava spawning too close to eachother.

Old Minecraft gave me the same feeling Mario 64 gave me as a kid. Both games were a liminal enjoyers dream with how empty and open everything was. I remember as a kid feeling paranoid going around Peach’s castle and getting to relive that paranoia of being in a world alone as a teenager was great.

I think the difference between old minecraft and modern minecraft in terms of horror and paranoia, is that old minecraft didn’t have as many mobs that felt “intelligent”. There weren’t villagers, piglins, pillagers, nothing. Just you in a vast, empty world where the smartest things were skeletons that shot at you. In that desolate environment, the idea of something being there, something intelligent watching you from the shadows, something left in this world watching you and you’re entering it’s territory without even knowing, that’s scary!

Old Minecraft just had an unsettling atmosphere. It’s substantially darker than modern Minecraft, textures are harsher, sound effects sound a little more distant, and caves are more cramped. Especially caving in old versions, darkness is genuine darkness and the caves are cramped, there is a lot more room for the unknown than there is in modern Minecraft. Obviously modern Minecraft HAS “scarier” things to be in caves, or greater threats, but you can see mobs in the dark and caves have opened up, you don’t scare yourself as much as you do in older versions.

For the guy who found a base that he didnt build: i once had a singleplayer world where i spent 3 years building a city etc. One day i lost it and considered quitting altogether. I decided to start a new world and built a few houses and such and them went exploring. Terrain started looking familiar and then my city came into render distance, nearly all of my work was there, only a few buildings missing.

I used to create lots of flat worlds in Minecraft Pocket Edition to build structures that needed flat terrain (i.e. Fnaf pizzeria), and a strange thing that happened quite often is the game liked to crash while I was playing in one of those worlds. What I would find after reopening the game is a message that the world has been corrupted. Loading said world would lead me to find giant terrain walls surrounding my world in all 4 directions. Each time I opened the world in question, the walls began to close in even more, and when the walls reached each other and completely encapsulated the original flatlands, it turned into a standard minecraft world with terrain and biomes etc. This really creeped me out when I was smaller, thinking the game or herobrine was punishing me or something.

No horror game has ever scared me quite like old Minecraft.

I really like the theory that the cave noises are your character hallucinating, because just like you, they're going crazy from the loneliness and liminality.

"They're still down there. Moving between shapes and shadows. Watching, testing, thinking . We don't go back to beta, because something in it never left."

Not Herobrine appearing off the to yhe side of the screen at 13:00 as you talk about disc 13, scared the hell outta me lol

i think the reason why old minecraft is scary is because its so simple. nowadays, theres so many features that theres lots to think about- but back then, it was a lot easier to let your mind wander

I never believed in Herobrine, but the idea of an invader, an outsider infiltrating your single player offline world is inherently creepy for any game. I feel like all of us have freaked ourselves out wondering what lies in the un-lit sections of the deep caves or around the next tree in a dark forest.

Idk if it was intentional, but the extra thick crucifix looking like a large player character standing in the fog at 8:00 was a really nice touch

This video is really nice. It doesn't feel like you're trying to spook us or anything, it's just normal Minecraft music and gameplay, and just talking about the spooky stuff from the past. It's calming rather than leaving me feeling uneasy.

Old minecraft had the feeling of someone was in the world before you if you get what I mean. I always felt like there could be some hidden scary story from past people there that just vanished.

I once heard someone say that Minecraft was the first ever liminal space horror game, and the reason it worked so well was because it wasn't intended to be.

It's 9PM, I'm alone in my dorm room (about 10 people in entire building because of winter break), and that sound at the begining of the video made me feel so alone and anxious, I literarly felt goosebumbs. It unlocked that feeling I haven't felt for about 10 years, since I played mc in like 2nd grade.