Plus the textures were rougher and more "edged" that messes with you in some subconscious way. On top of that once you beat the game it felt even lonelier for me the way you spawned back and the stuff the narrator's said freaked the hell out of me
A fun little story based theory for minecraft I have is that every unique world exists as a single slice of a completed universe. If you teleport to the world border you see that the world still extends to the end of your render distance. The edges of each world are lined up beside each other, an infinite number of people all separated by some sort of innate natural force. It's a fun little theory for the story of the minecraft world and it adds a lot to the lonely feeling you describe
i believe that the loneliness really comes from all the creative power we have, yet nobody to show it to. you could build a massive city where you hand build every individual house, but who is going to live there? it's like panting a masterpiece and not being able to show it to anyone, or playing your best piano piece with nobody else in the room.
For me, sometimes its not all about being able to show it to anybody. I mean, why'd you even build it in the first place? You build because you want to build for the sake of it, to improve your craft and see your creative capabilities. It is an experience for yourself. Although yeah, I understand your comment. You wish to seek a response, like an input from the things you have a built. To feel that you actually interacted with something.
This is why I cannot make myself play without Custom Npc, this TERRIFIES me. For some time I couldn't play without Galaxy Craft either, because the idea of nothing being above my head made me panic. Yeaaa I know it's weird but awe well...
At 50 years old, I’m fascinated that I can enjoy Minecraft with all of my children. We build things that will be around for more than a generation and we take that attitude when playing on our Realm. 👍 Great Monologue.
This was probably why when Herobrine started to come up in the internet it blew up and everyone got that same sense of horror from just the thought of that. The scary thing about Minecraft is not the Herobrine itself but the loneliness and the possibility that you might actually not be alone at all.
@Noodlekdoodle were either alone or Being watched and maybe used somehow theres no way aliens haven't found us yet we might be getting studied or aliens don't exist thing about the universe it's chaotic therefore there's a possibility everything is extinct except life on earth huge rays and storms destroy planets comets and any chance of life every second mars was capable of having life but either was damaged or became uninhabitable naturally
@Noodlekdoodle one of my theories is similar to Minecraft on how there was other life or a chance and it got wiped out for everyone except earth that happened in Minecraft every player was wiped out except 1 the player
A big contributing factor is the fact that we as players tend to accidentally create liminal spaces. Our efforts to make structures that look believable, also make them look like there ought to be people in them. The grander and more beautiful we build, the more empty and alone the result feels.
Yeah, i agree, i have bunch of "houses" in my creative mode world that are like less than 10x10x10 (except the one at -100 100 and 0 0) and it doesn't feel...right. maybe because my friends (although also having minecraft) can't play my world since we are on different devices theirs are phones, mine is my nintendo switch console).
As someone who has played less lonely games of the same genre, such as Terraria, Starbound and Dragon Quest Builders, I think the main cause of lonliness in Minecraft is the fact that there are no _characters_ in the game. None with their own unique personalities that you can talk to. In Terraria, the NPCs have their own personalities and tastes and have unique things to say when you interact with them. In Starbound, there are characters everywhere, who react to your every decision and spill lore. In Dragon Quest Builders, you have characters and NPCs that you can ask to follow you around, all without the fear of them dying (if their HP reaches 0, they faint for a bit until they recover). In Minecraft, there is no one you can properly interact and socialise with. And the friends you do make you lock up and stay far away from because if they die, they don't respawn. And you're too afraid of that happening to them.
I find once busy servers, but now empty multi-player worlds the most sad. All that evidence of occupation and endeavour, all the houses, farms, all the builds...just deserted. You can see months or even years of work abandoned. That fills me with feelings of loneliness.
That was me, I logged onto my childhood server where we had bustling creative, hunger games, pvp mini games but the server was absolutely dead and looked like it had been for years, that feeling made me log off immediately couldn’t take the uneasiness
Also another note, I tended to notice how high my anxiety would get playing alone, the human brain hallucinates when not given enough stimulation. Whenever I’d play for longer sessions, I noticed I tended to turn around thinking I had seen or heard something move with nothing but the landscape.
@@recordwifyeven with the mobs the brain can still hallucinate, since the overworld doesn't have enough ambient noise to make up for the loneliness that single-player is
This is why i can’t play without my own music playing in the background. I feel paranoid without it, thinking at any moment that there will be someone there in my peripheral vision, hidden from sight, or right behind me.
I've never really thought about Minecraft as being lonely, but this makes so much sense. I feel like this is why something like Herobrine got so much attention, because of that feeling that you may not be alone
That's why I stopped playing in my survival world. Now I only play on servers but sometimes on Sunday when I have nothing to do, I play minecraft survival.
Minecraft is truly one of the most "Liminal Space" games ever made, only rivaled by Gmod. Really, they have it down to an art, the finest details, and its one of the things that really makes Minecraft special. Also KurtJMac probably isnt the best example, since people have actually reached the world border in survival, let alone the Far Lands.
I'm not sure if its because I feel alone playing the game, But For me its difficult to play a minecraft survival world without friends. I just feel like I have experienced everything to see, And its difficult to play the game past just mining some iron on the 2nd day.
Downloading a map of a huge castle is one of the most unsettling things you can do. The huge empty halls that lead to places that seem to hold a purpose yet they are useless, the poor ilumination arround the hallways an the ceiling, leaving patches of dark everywhere, the hollow walls and ceilings you weren't supposed to find revealing themselves once you break a wall in the right place. Truly unnerving.
this reminds me of a shorty story i wrote for my english class about a girl named nethina in her world who was the only one aware of her existence and the only kind of her species. In her world there was “town workers” (villagers), “night creatures” (mobs), and animals only. So everyday nethina would explore her world searching for someone else that was just like her. And one day another person, Mira, suddenly came across Nethina’s home. At first it scary for nethina to encounter someone like her, she had lots of questions but after a whole long night of talking and Mira answering all of Nethina’s questions, it was just everything nethina wanted, a friend. So Mira invited nethina to go back with her to her home but nethina was hesitant so Mira told her to make her decision and then meet her in the forest at a certain time. Mira left and time passed to nethina went to the spot but Mira never showed up. Nethina waited for hours and days until she became extremely desperate. She started making lots of potions, burying them in the ground in hopes to spawn her own creature friend, someone like Mira. She continued this for years and years until she died of bad health. That’s when her potions started to work but instead created bad creatures causing her world to turn into this red skies, scorching hot waterfalls world (the nether). But in the end Mira came across nethina because Mira accidentally created a nether portal so when Mira returned to her home, she was unable to go back cause she didn’t know how to recreate the portal. She didn’t ditch nethina at all. But it was just a tragic story for nethina cause she lost the thing she searched her whole life for. Which is why her tragic experience created the nether decades later. LOL but I got an A on that assignment. And also the name nethina does come from nether lol
Forgot to mention how this relates to the video lol but my short story was based off how lonely Minecraft really is, like Steve or Alex aka the player is the only self aware creature in Minecraft and it’s kinda an uneasy feeling lol
I feel like this is one of the things that made Herobrine so scary/iconic. You recognize the shape of another player innately- some mobs, like villagers or zombies, come close, but still not close enough that you'd ever mistake them for a player. The idea of thinking you're alone and then seeing that distinctive shape out of the corner of your eye is wonderfully frightening. Plus the idea that something malevolent also has the same power that you do over the world.
The loneliness is also attractive to people serenity. peace. A creative outlet that is not only relaxing but fun. You don’t have to worry about the pressure of your life just your art
The loneliest I've ever felt in Minecraft was actually on an SMP. I was on a really small server once where there were never more than 2 or 3 people on at any given time. Because most people joined the world with no one else online, everyone set up their own individual bases thousands of blocks away from each other.
I would honestly feel more lonely on a server like that. knowing that even if it’s a few,there’s still people on roaming the same world but I never see them
whenever i play single i always feel like im seeing player tags out of the corner of my eyes, but i know theres no one else there. i jsut cant play by myself, i have to be on multi lol
sometimes i feel like i saw a black entity in front of me so I get scared only to realize it was a shadow or some other object. was it real? nobody will ever know
Always got that tingling 'gtfo now' sensation when I would be retrieving torches from the bottom of stripped cave. It was like running up the stairs after you turn the light off type of feeling as I picked them up.
I remember this feeling of loneliness when I was little, playing minecraft in peaceful, just using stone tools and with a dirt house, and being scared even for the music that made me realize I was alone.
Me too. I remember when I dug out a mining area for myself in a small old world on mobile (Btw there was no caves back then.. this was when Minecraft for mobile was just that. A lesser version for a phone. We only had 4 spawn eggs back then and a very limited creative inventory) For some reason.. and idk why.. I dug it out like an actual cave on accident. It was very easy to get lost in it and when I did, I got very very nervous. I kept thinking I’d turn the corner and see something there or.. something peaking out at me from a dark area. Sometimes the anticipation and expectation of something looming is more frightening than there actually being something there.
@@dinowaffles1317 ngl I missed being that imaginative in minecraft. I used to scale every cool mountain I'd see. But after a while, I'd just feel disppointed after realizing there's nothing there.
@@dinowaffles1317 I don't think it's about growing up. We just know how the game works now and we've seen everything there is to see. It's just that the game is demystified now.
RGN: makes a video of why minecraft doesn't need us also RGN right after: makes a video of why the player is the only meaningful way to affect the minecraft world
I feel like nothing in Minecraft can be as lonely as getting lost in the Nether. While getting lost in the Nether is frustrating, It's also oddly beautiful.
IVE BEEN SAYING THIS!! single player feels like such an odd experience. having the knowledge that you are the only conscious creature in the world is so isolating. i don't know how to describe it.
Yeah, every single instinct of mine screams to bring places to life, but I’m always stuck on how. How do I create some semblance of life, of a feeling of being lived in. Ultimately, I had to take it as my singleplayer Minecraft worlds kind of being an idea diary.
@@GreenLeafUponTheSky True, but the problem is that the world doesn't feel alive. It feels stiff. Maybe shaders would help, as motion is added to many things in those: leaves, water, shadows. I'm good with being alone, but alone in an mostly static environment? It gets to me. As a result, I tend to prefer flat creative worlds, as I can treat it more as a blank canvas to test systems, mechanics, and building in. In survival though, I have trouble because I don't know how I want to approach it. I guess I'm just contantly looking at myself from an outside perspective, instead of being fully in the moment.
I cant even play minecraft anymore without feeling a overwhelming sensation is nostalgia.. Those many years ago playing with online friends, building communities are gone and playing on a solo world only reminds me of what once was.
YES SOMEONE SAID IT I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE. for the longest time playing minecraft in a single player world I would be on the verge of tears from the lonley ness the game has,like not even joking, terrified of the darkness and the fact that it's sound track alone is slo lonley, to fill that void I litrally filled an entire room with chickens to make a noise loud enough to peice that lonleyness because I couldn't handle it as a kid.
The loneliness in the game makes me feel like an explorer. I feel like an adventurer off to discover the mysteries of the world. Maybe that will eventually fade, but I haven't got anyone to play with so I am used to making my own fun.
I never felt alone in Minecraft In a creative world I just build my stuff and making a world of my own or I both share that same world with a friend to play locally
Part of Minecraft’s design philosophy is letting the players make their own lore. Create their own stories. The loneliness of the game is a way to make the world feel bigger, and more like an adventure
I believe players in minecraft are facing a curse that the ancient builders brought upon them. The wither is dark magic, because it’s pure evil. This means that if the ancient builders really did spawn the wither, then whatever they did had deadly consequences. Those consequences would include their souls being trapped in a brown sand, and most importantly… a curse that causes the player, you, me, everyone.. to be eternally lonely, bearing a curse that the ones that came before us brought.
Honestly when I play Minecraft by myself, sometimes it’s actually creepy and kind of eerie. Standing on the top of a mountain watching the sun set thinking… if herobrine appeared out of no where… no one would hear me scream and no one can help… IM ALL ALONE. it also probably doesn’t help I watch creepy pastas when I’m alone playing Minecraft lmao😅
@@STLCarGuy My sister and I would always play random worlds together and came across the most cursed world I've ever seen and we swore it was Herobrine 😂
You see I never feel like someone’s watching me or anything but maybe I should since I’ve actually seen Herobrine in the game and I can’t explain it, I even have the old screenshots somewhere, I don’t know what to say about the whole thing it was weird it happened twice on my own Minecraft server.
I started a world 3 days ago and I was playing in it for hours. True, It was lonely to play alone but the happiness of building farms or mining caves or exploring the nether gave me a sense of ecstasy. Playing minecraft multiplayer is good, you can do lots of more stuffs with your friends or fellow miners but when you play the single player you are the creator and you hard works will stay in that world at the end of time. You feel special in your own right.
Tbh, I've never really felt that lonely when playing singleplayer. I might feel it a tiny bit from time to time, but as someone who isn't super social, I usually feel just as content playing alone as I do with other people.
Im not a social person either but i feel loneliness mixed with paranoia sonetimes. Especially when it gets quiet in the mines or i hear cave sounds all of a sudden. For some reason i feel like theres something creeping behind me.
This is exactly why I don't understand why people are against adding more "useless" ambient mobs like the bats. They're not "useless" since they make the world feel not as horribly dead and sad as it feels right now. Wee need more "useless" like deer, normal forest bears bears, birds, squirrels etc. even with no new drops, just to add more life to the game. And they need all those mobs together with pigs, cows, seeps and all other passive mobs to respawn.
To them it's just any other game, point a to point b. I've never entered the end, I've played at a slower pace. Took time to build up houses or forts, farms, spend time exploring, etc.
@@GreenLeafUponTheSky agreed. rushing to "beat the game" defeats the entire purpose of it. The whole point is there is no clear objective, which also attributes to the lonely feel of it
This is why when I create a new world I find myself a person (possibly someone close to me) that I know will play with me for a long time. On single player worlds everything felt so meaningless after some time, all your effort put into the world but no one will ever see it
Visiting a server that was once filled with players but now deserted is an unnerving yet exciting experience. You would come across long abandoned bases structures and builds that would make you question yourself tons of questions!
I remember that feeling most in the good ol' days of Pocket Edition, that enclosed world border just makes you feel helpless, and truly trapped... Nowadays i almost always play with a friend.
Then one day new generation started. The mountains were cut down around me my castle was nothing, the ocean that surrounded my base was horrifying, as it disappeared and was replaced with a pit down to lava and a tree, I never found my trees much. I had a stone castle. My game broke and I had creative without clicking it on.
I was obsessed with Minecraft in the year preceding the jungle update. Back then, I played on Xbox, and my parents were divorced, so I could only play half the time. When I was at my mom's house (without the Xbox), I watched hours of videos about the coming update. After a short time, the RUclips algorithm pooled in other Minecraft content, and I started watching Hunger Games and other types of Minecraft videos. I fell in love with these videos, so much so that I started watching them even at my dad's house, when I could've been playing myself. There were so many great moments with java players having fun with the jungle update and laughing together. I kept telling myself that I'd play a ton when the update came out on xbox. I was so excited. When the update finally dropped, I dropped everything to play it. I hopped in creative mode and checked out the new features with my brothers. Everything was so thrilling: I could finally play with all these features I'd been waiting months for! And months are a long time when you've only been living just over a decade. Anyways, we exhausted the new features in the creative world, saw everything in our hands. Then my brother left me to play on my own. That's when the feeling hit me. I'd spent months watching all these friends come together and enjoy the update, and I'd felt that I was there with them. Only in my own world did I realize that I was alone, that nobody else was there to share the journey with me. I told myself that I'd just grown jaded with the jungle update by waiting so long for it, but in reality, I was scared to be in the world where nobody heard my voice. Even now, I struggle with playing Minecraft or any games like it alone. Ark: Survival Evolved gives me a similar feeling when nobody sits with me as I play it. My phase of playing that game ended when my roommates stopped joining me in the living room to talk over a tame. Minecraft doesn't talk to you. When you're done getting perfect gear and beating the bosses, the game doesn't give you much more in the way of objectives. Eventually, you're left roaming a sandbox so big it's a desert. In that silent roaming, when things are quiet and you're faced with the enormity of your freedom, you start to wonder about what you're doing and why you're doing it. You can ask those existential questions to the silent, quasi-infinite world of Minecraft, but I'll ask you: which do you fear more: an answer or an echo?
It's times like that (feeling lonely in MC) where I start to reignite my appreciation for other games. The game gives you so much freedom, you have no choice but to undertake a creator's POV. That's how MC got me to appreciate game design - how there are different ideas of fun and all sorts of different video game genres! The importance of focus and specialization. Whenever I get lonely in MC, that's how I know I should boot up a different game, or do something else than gaming entirely.
I started reading this comment thinking it was just a childhood story, but it was so well-written that I’m in awe. Excellent job, good sir, you have made me question my very existence and the existence of my favorite game with your fancy words.
I remember when I felt a realllly strong feeling of loneliness, which was when I was playing on a modpack I made. Terralith, one of the mods I included, made the landscapes big and beautiful, but somehow made me feel so incredibly lonely. Plus, for some reasons there were barely any animals spawning and I lived in a cold biome. I just kept thinking I wanna finish this world I wanna get out and just play normal Minecraft so I don't feel this feeling anymore. it was really strong.
I remember starting to play Minecraft and feeling like I wasted time, because everything that I was doing, I was doing it for myself. Now I've learned to make projects and play with friends but it felt very lonely at the beginning
the "wasting time" feeling is tip of existential crisis. there's no real satisfying answer. you're right that the best you can come up with is realizing it's good to do things for yourself
I am a single player type of person since I'm an introvert lol, and agree with what you said. Even with villagers, pets, iron golems, monsters, and bosses, sometimes I do feel lonely in my world. This is why I always make sure to get pets, farm animals, villagers, a horse, and iron golems so it's not just me. It's why I love villages, for the company and nice vibe they give off. I love the part where you were saying that everyone's view on Minecraft lore is different, and that everyone's world is different. It's really true. No 2 players have the same world, everyone's world is different and that is very special. Thanks for the wonderful video, you really should have more subs man! Keep up the great work, can't wait to see some lore videos about the soon to be released Warden.
Lately I've come to an unsettling yet fascinating realization: the Minecraft world is an enormous liminal space. The thumbnail also perfectly describes liminal spaces in Minecraft and I love it.
I do find having a village to take care of, and mods that give villagers more depth, helps to make it less lonely. Also a beloved dog or horse companion helps too. I mourned my first minecraft dog’s death pretty hard.
I love Minecraft grew up with it and still play in the same world I did back when I first got the game in 2014! My friends went to other platforms and I disconnected with others, so their builds are left behind. But I’m still there trudging along every once in a while!
@@TooSickToDressVictorian no one is exactly sane my friend life will do that to you, but just got to have a positive mind set! Life is a mirror and will reflect back to thinker what he thinks into it-quote from somewhere
The music is not sad, it's calming and relaxing. Too bad I didn't appreciate it five years ago, having it always turned off. But now I don't think I'll ever turn it off again, I love it with my heart and soul.
some say that they don't like the music on Minecraft because it plays randomly save certain new biomes, cave ambient sounds, the Nether, and the End say you were on a cave and you encounter a monster spawner; Wet Hands by C418 comes up on random as you're fighting cave spiders. not the best music to hear in a threatening situation.
@Markie's Home it's a block game. The spiders aren't scary lol. Peaceful music is fine. And it will remind you it isn't that serious if you get mad when you die
That’s why I build in every world a secret room with nothing in it and hide myself in there every time I feel soooo alone that I am literally not able to do anything else at all but to stand in a empty room and feel lonely. The video is truly incredible…… I really appreciate the fact that retro really picks up this topic
To understand just how big 60m blocks in the overworld is: IRL, Earth's Circumfrence is 40.075km at the equator. Assuming each block = 1m, that means Earth would be 40,075,017m. A whole 20 million smaller than minecraft. A 1:1 map of Earth could fit into the overworld map, with plenty of room to spare.
I feel like that all the time, even as a human being. I feel pretty lonely sometimes, but I think it's important to realize that when you're lonely, you get to do what you want to do, without someone else ruining it for you.
Minecraft is quite simple yet it's so interesting just how large and interesting Minecraft is when you really get underneath it all. It really makes you feel like your just a small speck in the elongated history and complex systems of the world that we know only so little about
I... am in awe of the beauty of this video and of Minecraft, a game which I have played for over half my life. Not only do I deeply agree with everything you said, but I think it was incredibly clear and well-spoken. Thank you for this beautiful ode devoted to Minecraft, a game we all hold dear in our hearts.
all of those ruins and signals of past civilization, of something that “was there but now isn’t” was the primary reason i love(d) adventure time so much, and is the reason i love minecraft “loneliness” as well
This channel is like a good way to deep dive into lore and like just fall asleep or do any daily activities without being like two up in your face and that's what I love about it
tbh i enjoy the loneliness, it means peace to me, that nobody is going to judge my creations, interfere with my work, or bother me to do something. it’s a calming feeling, knowing you’re the only one with input here.
This game has taught me so much: the limitations of resources, the need to be patient, the need to be brave, the need to learn from others, and also the loneliness and responsibility that comes from being truly the only master of my life; only I can make the decisions within myself, when I'm alone in the quiet of my own conscience. What a fantastic source of contemplation from such a simple game.
That's so well said! The mention of limited resources in Minecraft reminded me of a one time when I ate the last potato and realised that it in fact was the last. I had forgot to plant some of them when I had picked them up and had foolishly baked them all. I was completely out of food and had to go search the world to find a village with potatoes and eat other food sources in the meantime. (I always use baked potatoes as my main source of food in minecraft, because they're one of my favorite foods in real life)
I want a horror mod that utilizes this loneliness. It makes your loneliness unbearable in this world, it makes your isolation terrifying. Perhaps sprinkle some human looking entity in there just to get their hopes up of not being alone, only for it to disappear for prolonged periods of time. Herobrine is an obvious choice, but any being with a player model and enough mystery would be enough. They would be a mirage. I dunno, but this loneliness definitely seems like horror potential.
Minecraft is very well described as a blank canvas, where we, the players, are the artists. Survival and creative are two completely different experiences, but the fact remains, this world is meant for us. We can explore, create, destroy, and discover. Villagers add a sense of comfort in the sense that it doesn’t make the player feel so lonely. But, ultimately; villagers are just as programmed as zombies. Their a nice addition but nobody truly thinks as we the players do. And in creative, we are literally gods. Able to do as we please without anybody daring to stand in our way. So it’s even more lonely in creative than in survival. This is the first game that does not tell the player what to do. Open words always have to start somewhere, have a setting, a story, characters, something. Minecraft is as timeliness as you can get with a video game. No story, no lore, just go and create it for yourself.
I love the loneliness of single player Minecraft. In the 1.18 update, they made the glowberry vines. I built a house on the edge of an island overlooking a vast sea, where my house is lit by those glowberry vines. My cat Merlo sleeps on my avatar every night, and it's really cozy and alone. It's beautiful.
I accidentally got a panic attack when I was playing Minecraft in the early days 4 years ago, I'm in my room, the windows are shut, doors r shut, and it's the middle of the night, around late November, the backyard is literally pilled with snow that i can see the dim shade of the snowflakes outside, I'm also in peaceful mode, in some sort of Mountain Terrain, no chickens, not bat caves, no sheeps just me there, I'm so focused in game that the more I listened to the game song, the more eerie it sounded, it took me only a minute or a half when I started getting all this cold sweat under my back, it's starting to get hard to breath and the more I panic, the more I hear my footsteps in the game, it's as if my eyes is literally in the game, the corners of the desktop are all getting darker and I'm starting to feel goosebumps and I'm starting to hear ringing in my ears, about a moment later my mom barge in the door and ask if I was ok, that's when I managed to get back to my senses, my mom said that she heard weird mumblings and wood shrieking but when she and my Aunt took a stroll around the house, they didn't find anything new, It got me troubled that I had difficulty sleeping for 2 days. After that I instead deleted the game and took a break using computer. (English is not my first language, sorry for the grammar)
playing minecraft alone, to me, gives off the same feeling as looking at those liminal space videos. also the feeling of wandering around in a vast world where you're the only living being, with the exception of mobs and villagers of course and it almost feels post-apocalyptic.
That thumbnail gets me. Its amazing to see how a thumbnail was positioned in just the right way to give a sense of loneliness. A small house on top of a mountain at sunset, with no trees. Describes the video greatly.
Yes this is it, it explains it so well i remember when i started playing Minecraft back when i was 12 or so can't quite remember i always played in multiplayer, I've never touched singleplayer, because it felt so lonely and borderline creepy and scary, but as i grew up it tempted me to the point that i play exclusively in singleplayer and here's my theory to that: the younger we are the more we want to connect to other, experience the world, we want to be adult's and we achieve that in multiplayer rp servers in a way, but the more we grow the more the world hurts us, the more we want to be left alone, no pressure, no rules, no limits, just us, alone with ourselves...and this is currently,in the last few years very true for myself, there is something therapeutic about being able to have full freedom and being able to escape the real world even if it is for only an hour a day. Yes the game can feel creepy at times still but, i would pick singleplayer over multiplayer at this point any time of the week. Sorry for the long ass comment tho :)
The true worst feeling of loneliness is knowing there is someone you could get to or talk to. But it’s either not possible for you as a person, or even worse, not possible because of others
I have so much memories playing illeagal vrs of minecraft with my 6year older sister. We always talked about minecraft. This video made me remember that. Thank you.
Amazing video, I think it also has a lot to do with fear of the unknown, I can't speak for everyone but I still get a very big sense of loneliness when playing by myself because there are a lot of features that I have yet to explore, I spent so many years on 1.6.5 that anything after 1.13 still feels new to me
i always have to listen to something, someone, when i play mc. if i don't, i'm just building anything that comes to mind with nothing but the solemn music and the occasional non-hostile mob to keep me company. i have built towns, forests, valleys, and i always fill them to the brim with stories and lore. but i'm the only one that will ever get to see any of it. it's a vast, empty world, with extensive story with every block i place, and no one but me gets to know it at all.
Looking at how lonely Minecraft’s atmosphere is it’s honestly humbling. Starts off scary but soon becomes somber… You really are alone… No one is watching you, you’re never going to run into anyone or anything like you, Nothing has the same capabilities as you. A lonely god in a sense. Then you realize your Minecraft world can most likely continue on without you…Despite us being the “special one” In the grand scheme we really are nothing special. But… I never let that bother me. I am content to explore and build. Create my own story not bound by the world’s limits.
early minecraft felt so liminal, and isolated. It always felt like it should be a multiplayer experience, and someones it was. but when id play alone on my tablet in middle school my friends builds and my own builds felt so lifeless and disturbing
That is one of the reasons I have an obsession with sociable mobs. When the piglins first came out I became really interested, because while they didn't have great trades like villagers, houses or were friendly, they had a much more complex behavior and those dances, you know, they felt more human
I must be super introverted, because the loneliness is what I absolutely love about this game. Been playing for six years, mostly survival. Sometimes my husband joins in (he likes building crazy things) but there are some games saved that I jokingly tell him are for "only me," this game is like my zen garden STAY OUT lol.
another game that seems to give me the same feeling is fallout new vegas. its weird, i know, but hear me out: i remember playing fallout new vegas for the first time. it was late at night and everyone was asleep. i started the game, and sooner or later, im wandering the mojave wasteland at (in-game) night. Blue Moon by Frank Sinatra was playing on the in-game radio, and i was walking along the highway with the glimmer of the strip in the distance. occasionally, a sound of a strong gust of wind would play, accompanied with the mojave nightlife. theres something so isolating about that moment; parted with the fact that everyone else was asleep in my house, but that im also alone in the game really made me feel abandoned. even when i made it to new vegas, the outskirts felt so quiet. its a special feeling-- one i long to have again for the first time.
The more of these videos I watch, the more my Minecraft burnout dissipates! Thank You!!! Love the vids!!! 9:56 lol Also, your channel is seriously underrated.
Early Minecraft felt even more lonely... Especially with how darker the nights were, and how simplistic everything was.
Plus the textures were rougher and more "edged" that messes with you in some subconscious way.
On top of that once you beat the game it felt even lonelier for me the way you spawned back and the stuff the narrator's said freaked the hell out of me
Also the fog
I'll never forget og Minecraft
I remember❤ December, 2009..
The back rooms
A fun little story based theory for minecraft I have is that every unique world exists as a single slice of a completed universe. If you teleport to the world border you see that the world still extends to the end of your render distance. The edges of each world are lined up beside each other, an infinite number of people all separated by some sort of innate natural force. It's a fun little theory for the story of the minecraft world and it adds a lot to the lonely feeling you describe
Ah, an infinite library then.
OMG THIS IS SOOOOO BIG BRAIN!!!!!!!!!!
@@Site_57 Or an infinite IKEA. ;-)
the majority of bases are separated by almost 60M meters
I’ve always thought the same thing.
i believe that the loneliness really comes from all the creative power we have, yet nobody to show it to. you could build a massive city where you hand build every individual house, but who is going to live there? it's like panting a masterpiece and not being able to show it to anyone, or playing your best piano piece with nobody else in the room.
why i cannot play singleplayer 😭 this is the most unsettling feeling in the world
True as fuck
For me, sometimes its not all about being able to show it to anybody. I mean, why'd you even build it in the first place? You build because you want to build for the sake of it, to improve your craft and see your creative capabilities. It is an experience for yourself. Although yeah, I understand your comment. You wish to seek a response, like an input from the things you have a built. To feel that you actually interacted with something.
This is why I cannot make myself play without Custom Npc, this TERRIFIES me.
For some time I couldn't play without Galaxy Craft either, because the idea of nothing being above my head made me panic.
Yeaaa I know it's weird but awe well...
i think that God felt that way so He created a man
At 50 years old, I’m fascinated that I can enjoy Minecraft with all of my children. We build things that will be around for more than a generation and we take that attitude when playing on our Realm. 👍 Great Monologue.
You sir are a great parent
Bro keep it up honestly you seem like a great father
SALUTE WITH ME ALAH AKBAR
@@funfunteens5156 thats intential spelling mistake
Wow what a cute telling. nice parent I wish I had a parent like you.
This was probably why when Herobrine started to come up in the internet it blew up and everyone got that same sense of horror from just the thought of that.
The scary thing about Minecraft is not the Herobrine itself but the loneliness and the possibility that you might actually not be alone at all.
@Noodlekdoodle were either alone or
Being watched and maybe used somehow theres no way aliens haven't found us yet we might be getting studied or aliens don't exist thing about the universe it's chaotic therefore there's a possibility everything is extinct except life on earth huge rays and storms destroy planets comets and any chance of life every second mars was capable of having life but either was damaged or became uninhabitable naturally
@Noodlekdoodle one of my theories is similar to Minecraft on how there was other life or a chance and it got wiped out for everyone except earth that happened in Minecraft every player was wiped out except 1 the player
truee i couldnt have explained it better
@@jaidyngx9023that is what we call the Fermi paradox
That last sentence is kinda contradictory tho
A big contributing factor is the fact that we as players tend to accidentally create liminal spaces. Our efforts to make structures that look believable, also make them look like there ought to be people in them. The grander and more beautiful we build, the more empty and alone the result feels.
Yeah that's why I let some nitwit villagers roam around my builds. It's better than nothing, even if they are inconvenient more often than not.
I remember building a mansion in PE once. I got so creeped out I couldn't even finish it. I burned it and put lava all over it.
@@gianreyes3762 I can relate. Sometimes I get so creeped out in my own builds that I don't even want to go back in them anymore.
Yeah, i agree, i have bunch of "houses" in my creative mode world that are like less than 10x10x10 (except the one at -100 100 and 0 0) and it doesn't feel...right. maybe because my friends (although also having minecraft) can't play my world since we are on different devices theirs are phones, mine is my nintendo switch console).
Maybe that's why the only thing I do in this game is find a village and build for them... so that they can fill what I build 🤭
As someone who has played less lonely games of the same genre, such as Terraria, Starbound and Dragon Quest Builders, I think the main cause of lonliness in Minecraft is the fact that there are no _characters_ in the game. None with their own unique personalities that you can talk to. In Terraria, the NPCs have their own personalities and tastes and have unique things to say when you interact with them. In Starbound, there are characters everywhere, who react to your every decision and spill lore. In Dragon Quest Builders, you have characters and NPCs that you can ask to follow you around, all without the fear of them dying (if their HP reaches 0, they faint for a bit until they recover).
In Minecraft, there is no one you can properly interact and socialise with. And the friends you do make you lock up and stay far away from because if they die, they don't respawn. And you're too afraid of that happening to them.
This villagers who have been sitting, blocked into their house since 2011\ 😐
ahh yes, another fellow TR player
@@lagumlemoni331 hmmmm
Indeed
@@lagumlemoni331 they're not really alive to be honest or at least there is a species gap of understanding
I find once busy servers, but now empty multi-player worlds the most sad. All that evidence of occupation and endeavour, all the houses, farms, all the builds...just deserted. You can see months or even years of work abandoned. That fills me with feelings of loneliness.
You just described half of MinecraftOnline (oldest minecraft server)
It’s a reflection of our real lives. Decades of endeavor often with only ruins and artifacts left over to prove we ever existed in the first place.
That was me, I logged onto my childhood server where we had bustling creative, hunger games, pvp mini games but the server was absolutely dead and looked like it had been for years, that feeling made me log off immediately couldn’t take the uneasiness
@@kellogscornflakes2430 can i ask what server?
Wow didnt plan on having a existential crisis over a game
Also another note, I tended to notice how high my anxiety would get playing alone, the human brain hallucinates when not given enough stimulation. Whenever I’d play for longer sessions, I noticed I tended to turn around thinking I had seen or heard something move with nothing but the landscape.
What about mobs?
@@recordwifyeven with the mobs the brain can still hallucinate, since the overworld doesn't have enough ambient noise to make up for the loneliness that single-player is
You should definitely check out From the Fog modpack
This is why i can’t play without my own music playing in the background. I feel paranoid without it, thinking at any moment that there will be someone there in my peripheral vision, hidden from sight, or right behind me.
The cave noises don't help either
I've never really thought about Minecraft as being lonely, but this makes so much sense. I feel like this is why something like Herobrine got so much attention, because of that feeling that you may not be alone
Maybe this is why people really stream. It makes them feel less alone.
Or it's just for money
@@fregatopolitis Possible
@@fregatopolitis fax
That's why I stopped playing in my survival world. Now I only play on servers but sometimes on Sunday when I have nothing to do, I play minecraft survival.
Nah money
Minecraft is truly one of the most "Liminal Space" games ever made, only rivaled by Gmod. Really, they have it down to an art, the finest details, and its one of the things that really makes Minecraft special. Also KurtJMac probably isnt the best example, since people have actually reached the world border in survival, let alone the Far Lands.
@@ilikebirds1889 oh right, especially Wet Dry World, people often talk about that weird negative aura thingy from it
I think retro meant in a normal play through reaching the world border is not on the list of things to do.
That "many" is less than 15%
I'm not sure if its because I feel alone playing the game, But For me its difficult to play a minecraft survival world without friends. I just feel like I have experienced everything to see, And its difficult to play the game past just mining some iron on the 2nd day.
Downloading a map of a huge castle is one of the most unsettling things you can do. The huge empty halls that lead to places that seem to hold a purpose yet they are useless, the poor ilumination arround the hallways an the ceiling, leaving patches of dark everywhere, the hollow walls and ceilings you weren't supposed to find revealing themselves once you break a wall in the right place. Truly unnerving.
I'm worried he knows too much because the beginning was literally me I really feel alone in minecraft
Same, every time I’m not playing with my friends it always feels so eerily alone
Same. If I'm alone on the server, I don't like playing much
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this reminds me of a shorty story i wrote for my english class about a girl named nethina in her world who was the only one aware of her existence and the only kind of her species. In her world there was “town workers” (villagers), “night creatures” (mobs), and animals only. So everyday nethina would explore her world searching for someone else that was just like her. And one day another person, Mira, suddenly came across Nethina’s home. At first it scary for nethina to encounter someone like her, she had lots of questions but after a whole long night of talking and Mira answering all of Nethina’s questions, it was just everything nethina wanted, a friend. So Mira invited nethina to go back with her to her home but nethina was hesitant so Mira told her to make her decision and then meet her in the forest at a certain time. Mira left and time passed to nethina went to the spot but Mira never showed up. Nethina waited for hours and days until she became extremely desperate. She started making lots of potions, burying them in the ground in hopes to spawn her own creature friend, someone like Mira. She continued this for years and years until she died of bad health. That’s when her potions started to work but instead created bad creatures causing her world to turn into this red skies, scorching hot waterfalls world (the nether). But in the end Mira came across nethina because Mira accidentally created a nether portal so when Mira returned to her home, she was unable to go back cause she didn’t know how to recreate the portal. She didn’t ditch nethina at all. But it was just a tragic story for nethina cause she lost the thing she searched her whole life for. Which is why her tragic experience created the nether decades later. LOL but I got an A on that assignment. And also the name nethina does come from nether lol
Forgot to mention how this relates to the video lol but my short story was based off how lonely Minecraft really is, like Steve or Alex aka the player is the only self aware creature in Minecraft and it’s kinda an uneasy feeling lol
Goes hard
I liked it
Nice
Cool story
I feel like this is one of the things that made Herobrine so scary/iconic. You recognize the shape of another player innately- some mobs, like villagers or zombies, come close, but still not close enough that you'd ever mistake them for a player. The idea of thinking you're alone and then seeing that distinctive shape out of the corner of your eye is wonderfully frightening. Plus the idea that something malevolent also has the same power that you do over the world.
It's terrifying because it makes one wonder if an equally intelligent being is hiding within the game...
The loneliness is also attractive to people serenity. peace. A creative outlet that is not only relaxing but fun. You don’t have to worry about the pressure of your life just your art
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@@sh0gun570 don’t click it
@@nope.7392 why
@@Your_Local_Milk_Man just dont
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The loneliest I've ever felt in Minecraft was actually on an SMP. I was on a really small server once where there were never more than 2 or 3 people on at any given time. Because most people joined the world with no one else online, everyone set up their own individual bases thousands of blocks away from each other.
I would honestly feel more lonely on a server like that. knowing that even if it’s a few,there’s still people on roaming the same world but I never see them
I wouldn’t be able to play on a server like that because I’d be so anxious of some nomad coming out of nowhere and killing me
Loneliness is comfortable
Omg that can be a very terrific and yet exciting Experience
This is why I mostly play with friends or on servers because the loneliness makes my anxiety through the roof
Same lol. Already loneliness irl is heavy and loneliness in a game I love? Oof
Hey I feel fine
I mean i partially agree but singleplayer gives a different vibes
whenever i play single i always feel like im seeing player tags out of the corner of my eyes, but i know theres no one else there. i jsut cant play by myself, i have to be on multi lol
@@eggpaint2087 same. paranoia is killing me :-(
Sometimes i feel so lonely that i think i aint alone and somebody is watching me
- Insert Herobrine in the Fog -
But fr yeah back then I always thought some kind of entity was watching me, not visible from a player view, but there.
@@KieranTheCatboy Yea
sometimes i feel like i saw a black entity in front of me so I get scared only to realize it was a shadow or some other object. was it real? nobody will ever know
Herobrine really traumatized us 😂
Always got that tingling 'gtfo now' sensation when I would be retrieving torches from the bottom of stripped cave. It was like running up the stairs after you turn the light off type of feeling as I picked them up.
I think with the shipwrecks, old temples, ruins, it shows that we weren't always alone.
Where did everyone go?
They died lmao 😂
ancient builders died in a cataclysm
I remember this feeling of loneliness when I was little, playing minecraft in peaceful, just using stone tools and with a dirt house, and being scared even for the music that made me realize I was alone.
Me too. I remember when I dug out a mining area for myself in a small old world on mobile (Btw there was no caves back then.. this was when Minecraft for mobile was just that. A lesser version for a phone. We only had 4 spawn eggs back then and a very limited creative inventory)
For some reason.. and idk why.. I dug it out like an actual cave on accident. It was very easy to get lost in it and when I did, I got very very nervous. I kept thinking I’d turn the corner and see something there or.. something peaking out at me from a dark area. Sometimes the anticipation and expectation of something looming is more frightening than there actually being something there.
@@dinowaffles1317 ngl I missed being that imaginative in minecraft. I used to scale every cool mountain I'd see. But after a while, I'd just feel disppointed after realizing there's nothing there.
@@gianreyes3762 I guess it’s just cuz we grew up :(
@@dinowaffles1317 I don't think it's about growing up. We just know how the game works now and we've seen everything there is to see. It's just that the game is demystified now.
@@gianreyes3762Now that you say that, yes, that makes more sense. Could be a mixture of the two too
The.
True but it's also it's biggest downside
i dont agree i mostly play with my brother coz it doesnt feel right playing alone
Agreed
Actually, I enjoy being in Singleplayer more than Servers, because I can finally get some peace from real life stresses.
Loneliness, as no toxic individuals to make you angry, mad or rage, yes, I love that, but not having friends to play with can be sad
RGN: makes a video of why minecraft doesn't need us
also RGN right after: makes a video of why the player is the only meaningful way to affect the minecraft world
Wait this whole operation was your idea.
Yes, they compliment each other, in a way.
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@@RetroGamingNow can't wait for "Alone: ...
Perfect for Minecrafters, Kids, and Adults, Top Builder Ideas, Guide Book, Graphic Novels." 😈
@@RetroGamingNow it just seems like your making an argument with yourself but your losing and winning at the same time
The loneliness in this game is really what makes it a horror game to me
Minecraft is a openly horror game
sometimes i wish herobrine was real so he could do me some company
I feel like nothing in Minecraft can be as lonely as getting lost in the Nether. While getting lost in the Nether is frustrating, It's also oddly beautiful.
IVE BEEN SAYING THIS!! single player feels like such an odd experience. having the knowledge that you are the only conscious creature in the world is so isolating. i don't know how to describe it.
Yeah, every single instinct of mine screams to bring places to life, but I’m always stuck on how.
How do I create some semblance of life, of a feeling of being lived in.
Ultimately, I had to take it as my singleplayer Minecraft worlds kind of being an idea diary.
introverts like me be like 😊
@@GreenLeafUponTheSky True, but the problem is that the world doesn't feel alive. It feels stiff. Maybe shaders would help, as motion is added to many things in those: leaves, water, shadows.
I'm good with being alone, but alone in an mostly static environment? It gets to me. As a result, I tend to prefer flat creative worlds, as I can treat it more as a blank canvas to test systems, mechanics, and building in.
In survival though, I have trouble because I don't know how I want to approach it.
I guess I'm just contantly looking at myself from an outside perspective, instead of being fully in the moment.
This is what it’s like to be a god
I mean that's why I started streaming and calling during playing. And I can't play minecraft without an upbeat video in the background.
this channel reminds me of how fascinating and unique this game really is. thats probably why is I can say definitively this is my favorite game ever.
I had to stop playing Minecraft because I got to addicted to playing the game. 😔 I played it so often that my parents put it into a lock mode.
Why don’t you step outside so you can see some real trees and mountains
@@Jeezy123 not as fun as mc i can break a meter of tree with my hand
There’s a reason it is the most played video game of all tome
@did a thing 😃????
The singleplayer experience as a child was exacly this. Alone, calm, and free
As a child: **calm**
As a teenager: **Mental breakdown**
@@Furukan455 i fucking agree
@@Furukan455 As a adult: *institutionalized*
As an adult: a world that's my own without other people....finally!
I cant even play minecraft anymore without feeling a overwhelming sensation is nostalgia.. Those many years ago playing with online friends, building communities are gone and playing on a solo world only reminds me of what once was.
Loneliness is the reason, why no one can replace your your first pet in Minecraft.
Lets pray for all those pets those make our game less lonely ❤️
A skeleton killed my first dog i got😢 and my parrot..
I still feel lonely even with a dog
@@brownmonke1155 me to they just monoliths for me just piece of art work that can be destroyed easily
And moment of silence for those pets that died.
YES SOMEONE SAID IT I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE. for the longest time playing minecraft in a single player world I would be on the verge of tears from the lonley ness the game has,like not even joking, terrified of the darkness and the fact that it's sound track alone is slo lonley, to fill that void I litrally filled an entire room with chickens to make a noise loud enough to peice that lonleyness because I couldn't handle it as a kid.
Especially because I used to play with my brother but now I play by myself on my laptop, I have to play on servers because it's so weird and lonely
When they added the ominous cave sounds, it added a SIGNIFICANT fear factor to the game, and even a larger feeling of being alone.
I have no friends in Minecraft, so i’m always scared and lonely, like my anxiety has been out of the roof
But, I still always try to be brave and sometimes it works
Well I have my Dog :p just finished my chicken farm and fed my dog. Plus the mobs make me feel less lonely! And don’t forget the villagers bro !
I saw the title and was like “forget everything, must watch”
Literally me
Same
Yes
same
I always like it when I feel alone in Minecraft. It's so mysterious and scary
Yea me too, it make me feels scared and amazed
Minecraft should make this their trailer. Not that the current one is bad, but this is great.
The loneliness in the game makes me feel like an explorer. I feel like an adventurer off to discover the mysteries of the world. Maybe that will eventually fade, but I haven't got anyone to play with so I am used to making my own fun.
I never felt alone in Minecraft
In a creative world I just build my stuff and making a world of my own or I both share that same world with a friend to play locally
Part of Minecraft’s design philosophy is letting the players make their own lore. Create their own stories. The loneliness of the game is a way to make the world feel bigger, and more like an adventure
I believe players in minecraft are facing a curse that the ancient builders brought upon them. The wither is dark magic, because it’s pure evil. This means that if the ancient builders really did spawn the wither, then whatever they did had deadly consequences. Those consequences would include their souls being trapped in a brown sand, and most importantly… a curse that causes the player, you, me, everyone.. to be eternally lonely, bearing a curse that the ones that came before us brought.
RGN: "without creation and destruction people would just wander around aimlessly and die of hunger" 6:17
*adventure mode in a nutshell*
We often feel alone when we're playing on Single Player, but we feel comfort when we're in a Multiplayer server.
I got my comfort from villagers and piglins
Honestly when I play Minecraft by myself, sometimes it’s actually creepy and kind of eerie. Standing on the top of a mountain watching the sun set thinking… if herobrine appeared out of no where… no one would hear me scream and no one can help… IM ALL ALONE.
it also probably doesn’t help I watch creepy pastas when I’m alone playing Minecraft lmao😅
You played during the Herobrine craze too I see 😂 I still have creepy feelings that someone is watching me
@@UnstableOne I remember playing back in 2011 on my brothers 360 and he told me to watch out for herobrine trying to scare me lol, I guess it worked
@@STLCarGuy My sister and I would always play random worlds together and came across the most cursed world I've ever seen and we swore it was Herobrine 😂
@@UnstableOne lmao was it pc or console?
You see I never feel like someone’s watching me or anything but maybe I should since I’ve actually seen Herobrine in the game and I can’t explain it, I even have the old screenshots somewhere, I don’t know what to say about the whole thing it was weird it happened twice on my own Minecraft server.
I just realized I don’t think I’ve ever played Minecraft survival alone. That’s why I never knew this feeling
i dont feel lonely enough. i think there's a sentient creeper that follows me and is just waiting for the exact right moment.
yup exactly; the creeper doesn't have any sound except for a *boom*
Exactly...
Gotta be cautious with those green sh!ts.😂
I started a world 3 days ago and I was playing in it for hours. True, It was lonely to play alone but the happiness of building farms or mining caves or exploring the nether gave me a sense of ecstasy. Playing minecraft multiplayer is good, you can do lots of more stuffs with your friends or fellow miners but when you play the single player you are the creator and you hard works will stay in that world at the end of time. You feel special in your own right.
Background noise helps if you feel lonely. Many mods add noise and are client only, meaning you can use them on any server.
Like leaves, birds chirping, the wind in the desert, etc.
Tbh, I've never really felt that lonely when playing singleplayer. I might feel it a tiny bit from time to time, but as someone who isn't super social, I usually feel just as content playing alone as I do with other people.
Agreed
Im not a social person either but i feel loneliness mixed with paranoia sonetimes. Especially when it gets quiet in the mines or i hear cave sounds all of a sudden. For some reason i feel like theres something creeping behind me.
Same
I am the same way , it’s good to have my own zone where no one is .
Same, I'm introverted
This is exactly why I don't understand why people are against adding more "useless" ambient mobs like the bats. They're not "useless" since they make the world feel not as horribly dead and sad as it feels right now. Wee need more "useless" like deer, normal forest bears bears, birds, squirrels etc. even with no new drops, just to add more life to the game. And they need all those mobs together with pigs, cows, seeps and all other passive mobs to respawn.
To them it's just any other game, point a to point b. I've never entered the end, I've played at a slower pace. Took time to build up houses or forts, farms, spend time exploring, etc.
We need ambient sounds more than ambient mobs
@@GreenLeafUponTheSky agreed. rushing to "beat the game" defeats the entire purpose of it. The whole point is there is no clear objective, which also attributes to the lonely feel of it
Coward
@@fosminclorinagreed I don't think I can play Minecraft again without ambient sounds on top of shaders, its so eerie without them lol
This is why when I create a new world I find myself a person (possibly someone close to me) that I know will play with me for a long time. On single player worlds everything felt so meaningless after some time, all your effort put into the world but no one will ever see it
Visiting a server that was once filled with players but now deserted is an unnerving yet exciting experience.
You would come across long abandoned bases structures and builds that would make you question yourself tons of questions!
I remember that feeling most in the good ol' days of Pocket Edition, that enclosed world border just makes you feel helpless, and truly trapped...
Nowadays i almost always play with a friend.
Then one day new generation started. The mountains were cut down around me my castle was nothing, the ocean that surrounded my base was horrifying, as it disappeared and was replaced with a pit down to lava and a tree, I never found my trees much. I had a stone castle. My game broke and I had creative without clicking it on.
I was obsessed with Minecraft in the year preceding the jungle update. Back then, I played on Xbox, and my parents were divorced, so I could only play half the time. When I was at my mom's house (without the Xbox), I watched hours of videos about the coming update. After a short time, the RUclips algorithm pooled in other Minecraft content, and I started watching Hunger Games and other types of Minecraft videos. I fell in love with these videos, so much so that I started watching them even at my dad's house, when I could've been playing myself. There were so many great moments with java players having fun with the jungle update and laughing together. I kept telling myself that I'd play a ton when the update came out on xbox. I was so excited. When the update finally dropped, I dropped everything to play it. I hopped in creative mode and checked out the new features with my brothers. Everything was so thrilling: I could finally play with all these features I'd been waiting months for! And months are a long time when you've only been living just over a decade. Anyways, we exhausted the new features in the creative world, saw everything in our hands. Then my brother left me to play on my own. That's when the feeling hit me. I'd spent months watching all these friends come together and enjoy the update, and I'd felt that I was there with them. Only in my own world did I realize that I was alone, that nobody else was there to share the journey with me. I told myself that I'd just grown jaded with the jungle update by waiting so long for it, but in reality, I was scared to be in the world where nobody heard my voice. Even now, I struggle with playing Minecraft or any games like it alone. Ark: Survival Evolved gives me a similar feeling when nobody sits with me as I play it. My phase of playing that game ended when my roommates stopped joining me in the living room to talk over a tame. Minecraft doesn't talk to you. When you're done getting perfect gear and beating the bosses, the game doesn't give you much more in the way of objectives. Eventually, you're left roaming a sandbox so big it's a desert. In that silent roaming, when things are quiet and you're faced with the enormity of your freedom, you start to wonder about what you're doing and why you're doing it. You can ask those existential questions to the silent, quasi-infinite world of Minecraft, but I'll ask you: which do you fear more: an answer or an echo?
It's times like that (feeling lonely in MC) where I start to reignite my appreciation for other games. The game gives you so much freedom, you have no choice but to undertake a creator's POV. That's how MC got me to appreciate game design - how there are different ideas of fun and all sorts of different video game genres! The importance of focus and specialization.
Whenever I get lonely in MC, that's how I know I should boot up a different game, or do something else than gaming entirely.
I started reading this comment thinking it was just a childhood story, but it was so well-written that I’m in awe. Excellent job, good sir, you have made me question my very existence and the existence of my favorite game with your fancy words.
I really want to use a modified version of your closing lines here in a song. You've got a way with words, nice writing dude
Now let's imagine an alternate timeline where we have most of the lore explained to us, including mob thoughts
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I remember when I felt a realllly strong feeling of loneliness, which was when I was playing on a modpack I made. Terralith, one of the mods I included, made the landscapes big and beautiful, but somehow made me feel so incredibly lonely. Plus, for some reasons there were barely any animals spawning and I lived in a cold biome. I just kept thinking I wanna finish this world I wanna get out and just play normal Minecraft so I don't feel this feeling anymore. it was really strong.
That’s my favourite part of the game, knowing I’m the only one there, able to do whatever my mind allows me to.
I remember starting to play Minecraft and feeling like I wasted time, because everything that I was doing, I was doing it for myself. Now I've learned to make projects and play with friends but it felt very lonely at the beginning
the "wasting time" feeling is tip of existential crisis. there's no real satisfying answer. you're right that the best you can come up with is realizing it's good to do things for yourself
I am a single player type of person since I'm an introvert lol, and agree with what you said. Even with villagers, pets, iron golems, monsters, and bosses, sometimes I do feel lonely in my world. This is why I always make sure to get pets, farm animals, villagers, a horse, and iron golems so it's not just me. It's why I love villages, for the company and nice vibe they give off. I love the part where you were saying that everyone's view on Minecraft lore is different, and that everyone's world is different. It's really true. No 2 players have the same world, everyone's world is different and that is very special. Thanks for the wonderful video, you really should have more subs man! Keep up the great work, can't wait to see some lore videos about the soon to be released Warden.
Bedrock edition: *despawn*
@@sanzid6 True, but I play Java Edition. Regardless, that's why there are name tags lol. 😂
@@rico5622 Ah yes
Haha yup.
Me Too lol
Lately I've come to an unsettling yet fascinating realization: the Minecraft world is an enormous liminal space.
The thumbnail also perfectly describes liminal spaces in Minecraft and I love it.
“We interpret the past, generate the present and build the future”
Beautifully said and I think this could be more then just a minecraft quote
I do find having a village to take care of, and mods that give villagers more depth, helps to make it less lonely. Also a beloved dog or horse companion helps too. I mourned my first minecraft dog’s death pretty hard.
I love Minecraft grew up with it and still play in the same world I did back when I first got the game in 2014! My friends went to other platforms and I disconnected with others, so their builds are left behind. But I’m still there trudging along every once in a while!
Good god thats lonely
@Dylan it’s all good dude just chilling out
How do you still stay sane? Man?
@@justanub4697 Nah, I think he‘s already insane, so a bit more can’t hurt him
@@TooSickToDressVictorian no one is exactly sane my friend life will do that to you, but just got to have a positive mind set! Life is a mirror and will reflect back to thinker what he thinks into it-quote from somewhere
The music is not sad, it's calming and relaxing. Too bad I didn't appreciate it five years ago, having it always turned off. But now I don't think I'll ever turn it off again, I love it with my heart and soul.
I can't believe anyone would ever turn off the music.
some say that they don't like the music on Minecraft because it plays randomly save certain new biomes, cave ambient sounds, the Nether, and the End
say you were on a cave and you encounter a monster spawner; Wet Hands by C418 comes up on random as you're fighting cave spiders. not the best music to hear in a threatening situation.
@Markie's Home it's a block game. The spiders aren't scary lol. Peaceful music is fine. And it will remind you it isn't that serious if you get mad when you die
The music is too nostalgic and brings me into a dark place
Aria Math is my favorite.
That’s why I build in every world a secret room with nothing in it and hide myself in there every time I feel soooo alone that I am literally not able to do anything else at all but to stand in a empty room and feel lonely. The video is truly incredible…… I really appreciate the fact that retro really picks up this topic
To understand just how big 60m blocks in the overworld is:
IRL, Earth's Circumfrence is 40.075km at the equator.
Assuming each block = 1m, that means Earth would be 40,075,017m. A whole 20 million smaller than minecraft.
A 1:1 map of Earth could fit into the overworld map, with plenty of room to spare.
I feel like that all the time, even as a human being. I feel pretty lonely sometimes, but I think it's important to realize that when you're lonely, you get to do what you want to do, without someone else ruining it for you.
Minecraft is quite simple yet it's so interesting just how large and interesting Minecraft is when you really get underneath it all. It really makes you feel like your just a small speck in the elongated history and complex systems of the world that we know only so little about
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I... am in awe of the beauty of this video and of Minecraft, a game which I have played for over half my life. Not only do I deeply agree with everything you said, but I think it was incredibly clear and well-spoken. Thank you for this beautiful ode devoted to Minecraft, a game we all hold dear in our hearts.
Part of the fun is that all you do is in your own world. You feel completely in control. Sometimes, it's calm. Other times it feels eerie.
all of those ruins and signals of past civilization, of something that “was there but now isn’t” was the primary reason i love(d) adventure time so much, and is the reason i love minecraft “loneliness” as well
I legit just go to a village because of how scared I am of being alone, even in creative mode.
This channel is like a good way to deep dive into lore and like just fall asleep or do any daily activities without being like two up in your face and that's what I love about it
tbh i enjoy the loneliness, it means peace to me, that nobody is going to judge my creations, interfere with my work, or bother me to do something. it’s a calming feeling, knowing you’re the only one with input here.
I expect your creations are lame
@@firstnamelastname2197 what.
@@nikolaos6083 was talking to lefty gurl please do not interfere
This game has taught me so much: the limitations of resources, the need to be patient, the need to be brave, the need to learn from others, and also the loneliness and responsibility that comes from being truly the only master of my life; only I can make the decisions within myself, when I'm alone in the quiet of my own conscience.
What a fantastic source of contemplation from such a simple game.
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That's so well said! The mention of limited resources in Minecraft reminded me of a one time when I ate the last potato and realised that it in fact was the last. I had forgot to plant some of them when I had picked them up and had foolishly baked them all. I was completely out of food and had to go search the world to find a village with potatoes and eat other food sources in the meantime. (I always use baked potatoes as my main source of food in minecraft, because they're one of my favorite foods in real life)
I want a horror mod that utilizes this loneliness. It makes your loneliness unbearable in this world, it makes your isolation terrifying. Perhaps sprinkle some human looking entity in there just to get their hopes up of not being alone, only for it to disappear for prolonged periods of time. Herobrine is an obvious choice, but any being with a player model and enough mystery would be enough. They would be a mirage.
I dunno, but this loneliness definitely seems like horror potential.
Minecraft is very well described as a blank canvas, where we, the players, are the artists. Survival and creative are two completely different experiences, but the fact remains, this world is meant for us. We can explore, create, destroy, and discover. Villagers add a sense of comfort in the sense that it doesn’t make the player feel so lonely. But, ultimately; villagers are just as programmed as zombies. Their a nice addition but nobody truly thinks as we the players do. And in creative, we are literally gods. Able to do as we please without anybody daring to stand in our way. So it’s even more lonely in creative than in survival. This is the first game that does not tell the player what to do. Open words always have to start somewhere, have a setting, a story, characters, something. Minecraft is as timeliness as you can get with a video game. No story, no lore, just go and create it for yourself.
I love the loneliness of single player Minecraft. In the 1.18 update, they made the glowberry vines. I built a house on the edge of an island overlooking a vast sea, where my house is lit by those glowberry vines. My cat Merlo sleeps on my avatar every night, and it's really cozy and alone. It's beautiful.
“Or maybe it’s just lonely because the music is sad.”
That tone 😂🤣
Love the content RGN!!!
Ah, it's not a good Friday night without a nice Retro Gaming Now video. Can't wait to watch! :)
I accidentally got a panic attack when I was playing Minecraft in the early days 4 years ago, I'm in my room, the windows are shut, doors r shut, and it's the middle of the night, around late November, the backyard is literally pilled with snow that i can see the dim shade of the snowflakes outside, I'm also in peaceful mode, in some sort of Mountain Terrain, no chickens, not bat caves, no sheeps just me there, I'm so focused in game that the more I listened to the game song, the more eerie it sounded, it took me only a minute or a half when I started getting all this cold sweat under my back, it's starting to get hard to breath and the more I panic, the more I hear my footsteps in the game, it's as if my eyes is literally in the game, the corners of the desktop are all getting darker and I'm starting to feel goosebumps and I'm starting to hear ringing in my ears, about a moment later my mom barge in the door and ask if I was ok, that's when I managed to get back to my senses, my mom said that she heard weird mumblings and wood shrieking but when she and my Aunt took a stroll around the house, they didn't find anything new, It got me troubled that I had difficulty sleeping for 2 days. After that I instead deleted the game and took a break using computer.
(English is not my first language, sorry for the grammar)
playing minecraft alone, to me, gives off the same feeling as looking at those liminal space videos. also the feeling of wandering around in a vast world where you're the only living being, with the exception of mobs and villagers of course and it almost feels post-apocalyptic.
That thumbnail gets me. Its amazing to see how a thumbnail was positioned in just the right way to give a sense of loneliness. A small house on top of a mountain at sunset, with no trees. Describes the video greatly.
Yes this is it, it explains it so well i remember when i started playing Minecraft back when i was 12 or so can't quite remember i always played in multiplayer, I've never touched singleplayer, because it felt so lonely and borderline creepy and scary, but as i grew up it tempted me to the point that i play exclusively in singleplayer and here's my theory to that: the younger we are the more we want to connect to other, experience the world, we want to be adult's and we achieve that in multiplayer rp servers in a way, but the more we grow the more the world hurts us, the more we want to be left alone, no pressure, no rules, no limits, just us, alone with ourselves...and this is currently,in the last few years very true for myself, there is something therapeutic about being able to have full freedom and being able to escape the real world even if it is for only an hour a day. Yes the game can feel creepy at times still but, i would pick singleplayer over multiplayer at this point any time of the week. Sorry for the long ass comment tho :)
I read all of your comment and i agree with your take on growing up and wanting to be free in your own mind.
Great comment, I share your expirience with the game
How to remove Loneliness in Minecraft:
1) Make an Texture pack were Everything is Kim Jong-Un's Face.
2) Set The Texture Pack
3) Enjoy!
You made it even worse! XD
The warden isn't scary the texture pack is
China gameplay
@@zena2239 yeah but he made the law to not punch trees
The true worst feeling of loneliness is knowing there is someone you could get to or talk to. But it’s either not possible for you as a person, or even worse, not possible because of others
I have so much memories playing illeagal vrs of minecraft with my 6year older sister. We always talked about minecraft. This video made me remember that. Thank you.
The fact that your alone is kinda soothing in a way
Yeah, somewhat comfy
Amazing video, I think it also has a lot to do with fear of the unknown, I can't speak for everyone but I still get a very big sense of loneliness when playing by myself because there are a lot of features that I have yet to explore, I spent so many years on 1.6.5 that anything after 1.13 still feels new to me
I APPRECIATE the use of the 1.85:1 aspect ratio. It adds a touch of film.
i always have to listen to something, someone, when i play mc. if i don't, i'm just building anything that comes to mind with nothing but the solemn music and the occasional non-hostile mob to keep me company.
i have built towns, forests, valleys, and i always fill them to the brim with stories and lore. but i'm the only one that will ever get to see any of it. it's a vast, empty world, with extensive story with every block i place, and no one but me gets to know it at all.
I've always interpreted the loneliness as a calm experience, not have to deal with other people.
Man!! This is just amazing! Loved this video
How have u watched it like bro it's been out for 2mins
Wait, does he have a patreon? How did you comment 7 hours ago?
@@indomitableTyrone early access to the video
Hold up this comment says 8 hours ago and the vid came out 4 minutes ago 😳
@@A_Surpluss_of_Stupidity Bruh, have you never seen a comment like this?
I love being alone in a Minecraft world. It's perfect honestly. The music hits so good too .
all aloooone
I would play my favorite songs while playing minecraft
That's why I expand villages and rule them
Looking at how lonely Minecraft’s atmosphere is it’s honestly humbling. Starts off scary but soon becomes somber…
You really are alone…
No one is watching you, you’re never going to run into anyone or anything like you, Nothing has the same capabilities as you.
A lonely god in a sense.
Then you realize your Minecraft world can most likely continue on without you…Despite us being the “special one” In the grand scheme we really are nothing special.
But…
I never let that bother me. I am content to explore and build. Create my own story not bound by the world’s limits.
We are alone in Minecraft
Surrounded by nothing but A.I and you as the only person alive in the A.I world
early minecraft felt so liminal, and isolated. It always felt like it should be a multiplayer experience, and someones it was. but when id play alone on my tablet in middle school my friends builds and my own builds felt so lifeless and disturbing
That was a great video man. Perfectly incapsalates my feelings
0:18 that actually just looks absolutely beautiful.
That is one of the reasons I have an obsession with sociable mobs. When the piglins first came out I became really interested, because while they didn't have great trades like villagers, houses or were friendly, they had a much more complex behavior and those dances, you know, they felt more human
I wouldn't say lonely, but serene, calming, expansive, I love everything about it
It’s like the pessimistic vs optimistic approach
Personally, Minecraft for me is the most enjoyable when I have friends with me. Without them, I just have the monsters in the dark to keep me company.
I must be super introverted, because the loneliness is what I absolutely love about this game. Been playing for six years, mostly survival. Sometimes my husband joins in (he likes building crazy things) but there are some games saved that I jokingly tell him are for "only me," this game is like my zen garden STAY OUT lol.
another game that seems to give me the same feeling is fallout new vegas. its weird, i know, but hear me out:
i remember playing fallout new vegas for the first time. it was late at night and everyone was asleep. i started the game, and sooner or later, im wandering the mojave wasteland at (in-game) night. Blue Moon by Frank Sinatra was playing on the in-game radio, and i was walking along the highway with the glimmer of the strip in the distance. occasionally, a sound of a strong gust of wind would play, accompanied with the mojave nightlife. theres something so isolating about that moment; parted with the fact that everyone else was asleep in my house, but that im also alone in the game really made me feel abandoned. even when i made it to new vegas, the outskirts felt so quiet. its a special feeling-- one i long to have again for the first time.
When I was younger I used to believe the stars in the Minecraft night sky where other worlds that had other players in it
The more of these videos I watch, the more my Minecraft burnout dissipates! Thank You!!! Love the vids!!!
9:56 lol
Also, your channel is seriously underrated.