Minecraft's first world was just discovered. Here's how.

Well done! The first map has been found! Its even awesome that people made it so we can play it as well. The MC community always surprises me in a good way.

Rd actually stands for rubydung notch’s old game. Minecraft (cave game) was originally meant to be a test for rubydung stuff

First we found the seed from a image in the menu Now this Minecraft community has one the best archeologists

Wait... So ez is the sister of Kristoffer Zettersrand? The artist behind minecraft paintings? That is so cool! Minecraft's earliest history is so interconnected!

If you gave me 5 years I would've never guessed to make such a big discovery by messaging notch's ex-wife.

Didn't expect the world to look as good as it did knowing it was the first world ever.

would be funny if someone made a huge custom world filled with various ruins, and hidden off somewhere is an entirely cobble/mossy cobble ruin that's identical to this world's structures, plus some hidden treasures and traps would be pretty neat i think

damn the betacraft launcher is really a throwback to the old launcher from before 2017

I wonder if you could slowly upgrade this world to 1.20 It may not be possible, but I wonder what it would be like

Fun fact: That world may look like it's made of grass and cobble, but if you load that world in a later pre-classic version, you'll see that it's all stone. In early pre-classic versions, every solid block in the game would render as cobblestone, unless it was in one layer at the surface of the world, in which case it would be grass. You couldn't choose between grass and cobble, it was determined by the Y-level. Once more block types were added in the a later update, the block id used for cobble/grass in the older versions became stone.

Awesome documentation Aidan! Love these new kind of video's & great edits! Also appreciate the text showing longer now (which makes it better readable 😃) 10/10

This is one of the greatest things to happen in minecraft gaming history! These people deserve recognition for the work they have done! We should have a new group of archeologists called "Gameologists"

This is amazing! I didn't even know you could save worlds in the first version

The way you described the parts of the world at the end reminded me of my first few days of playing Minecraft way back when you could play the demo on the website. Imagination carried a lot of what little I had done in the time limit, where a few missing leaves in a tree cluster was a treehouse and a small underground tunnel was a "secret entrance" inside.

I really wonder if the data could be used to find missing jars for versions like 0.0.3a (I came across Hacker on a Hypixel parkour house a few days ago which I thought was fun)

Great video as always but that was not what I was expecting from the title

Hey there, love the video! It's honestly pretty incredible how Ellen still had that world file after all these years. I noticed that at 2:52 you used footage from one of my videos called "Looking at the Minecraft Source Code from 2009! (UHD)". I nearly fell off my chair when I realized it was mine, since I never expected that video to gain any traction or get noticed by anyone! With that being said, I would really appreciate it if you credited me with a link to my channel or the video itself in the description. Thanks in advance and again, great vid man :)

Wow. That’s crazy. And from that iconic screenshot? Had no idea it was that old. amazing.

Great video, always look forward to your content!

yo my guy, you got a subscriber just outta the fact you know your stuff and you explained it as well, very well done, props