I feel the same way. I had a building contest on my modern 1.20 SMP a while back and the theme was beta 1.7.3 style. It was pretty fun and now there's an entire district on the server with a beta theme, and it looks more interesting than the other builds on the server.
I just realized that other than being griefed, abandoned Minecraft server maps don't decay at all, they're always in the same state they were left ina decade ago
@@expendableindigo9639 most modern servers shut down when they lose players, while these are still up and still untouched and the same as they were all those years ago. It's like the chat logs you would have of a friend you haven't talked to in years, still reminding you of what you talked about years ago.
I like exploring abandoned places IRL and this is probably why abandoned places in Minecraft give me a weirder feeling sometimes. You can visibly see the neglect IRL. In Minecraft, the neglect is purely atmospheric.
Imagine that people used to play on those servers like 12 years ago and they are still alive. Totally Incredible that we can see what the servers used to be and the nostalgia also hits hard.
I agree with what you said about it being kinda sad about the empty servers. Seeing all these builds that people dedicated days and weeks to with their friends while having a great time, their community now scattered to the wind and builds sitting mostly forgotten on an empty server on Minecraft, eventually never being visited again. All these memories lost to time makes me nostalgic for a time I never took part in. Thanks for posting this.
yeah it's kinda sad, the community used to be way bigger than it is right now as well, the community as a whole kinda died between 2022 and now, every once and a while they'll be a lot of people on these servers but its not what i remember it being
It is sad but like you said it was fun at the time to make those builds and now people get to appreciate them and be inspired by them so it's not all bad :)
I've been part of communities in games that have eventually moved on, but you're right, it just isn't the same afterwards @NeverObsolete64 . Minecraft shows the very real impact of those communities on its world with building, which makes the loss of community feel a little more real than other games that consist of worlds/maps that are static, regardless of whether people are on or not. I think that's why Minecraft has a unique sense of sadness that hit me in this video despite never playing on random MC MP servers, though Kaktus is right that it allows people to take inspiration years later.
Yeah i thought and felt the same. About half way through the video i imagined myself going through and looking at all the amazing things that took weeks or months to create and how almost nobody ever sees it... But i then realized that the server is still running despite having almost 0 players is nice to think about because those massive structures and monuments are still being honoured/respected in a way. All of these servers having almost no players really have no reason to continue running, but they do and the memories made in them will live on
There's something special about how old MC servers elicit this feeling of liminality and that sense of wonder that exploring ancient ruins gives. Somehow the old builds in an abandoned server gives off this feeling of deep time, like it aggregates value, lore and history to the world. I would really like to replicate this in a server with friends, playing for years until at long last we mostly stop playing and all that's left are the memories imprinted on the ruins we left behind, like in that Shelley's poem: "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."
I have a server like this... We played from the launch of 1.13 all the way to 1.18 And now all that's left is empty mega bases, ruins of forgotten bases, and the husks of broken Redstone farms. I sometimes log on just for the nostalgia trip.
@@hexus_boi1802well I mean it’s not like you can’t roll back servers, and since these builds are protected in factions and towns, you won’t lose your builds
Remembering Minecraft when these updates where new feels strange given how it's been so long that a significant part of Minecrafts playerbase was born after they went live.
So many Amogus art in a lot of servers, still awesome at how modern day hit games are influencing days of the nostalgic past, in this case, Minecraft Alpha/Beta
You know the first season of breaking bad aired two years before Minecraft alpha was released right? Breaking bad was the big thing back when these servers were alive.
I remember back when the game first came out, maybe around 2012 or 2013, I played on a really cool anarchy server. It wasn't very well known, but it had a solid 50 or so players that were active on it. I became good friends with a lot of the players and we even had our own guild and had a really cool base inside a mountain a couple thousand blocks from spawn. I think I played on there religiously for a year or more. From what I remember, the server host died in an accident and 2 days later the server was just gone. All that time, all those people met and relationships were suddenly just gone. I played on and off since then, but the day that server was gone so was my appetite for Minecraft. Even today, I still occasionally wish I could just join that server one last time.
I remember playing Minecraft when it first hit PC in late 2009, I was a big sandbox/indie game fan and thought this release looks interesting! And it was. But it's crazy to see where it went and the way it totally blew up and the history it's created.... I never did become a massive fan and I'm not sure what eventually put me off, But wow what a legacy! I did come back to it and have been playing it on and off ever since.
A RetroMC player here As far as I know it's currently the most active beta server and i recommend checking it out. You couldn't find players on spawn, because most of them are working on builds in their towns You also caught me joining the game 9:25
It's so relaxing to watch this because I'd love too see it but the depressing emptiness of what was once my childhood is very hard to bare alone. It's comforting that you're doing it, narrating, and I get to watch instead of participate.
This is one of the better forgotten server videos I’ve seen Honestly I think this goes for your entire channel but I like the relaxed vibe it has it’s nice
Thanks, the title was just more to fit the trend than anything. I prefer to keep a more laid back style and it's good because it normally works with the type of content I make. Glad you're enjoying it :)
Something pretty specific that I like is exploring abandoned beta 1.8 servers. There's something about the 1.8 additions like melons, stone bricks, glass panes, giant mushrooms, etc being used everywhere that i really like. + beta 1.8/early release is technically what I grew up watching and is the most nostalgic for me ;P
@@Kaktus-xj7sj the only one I've explored is zackscotts server called "scottland" from ep 300 (there's a Google drive out there with world downloads from different points in time, specifically 300 was around 1.8) Another cool server is one that isn't public but was shown off by philza on a video where he toured his old worlds and one of em was a 1.8 server.
@@Kaktus-xj7sj if you find any and would like to explore them with someone else, i'd love to join in since i first started joining servers in that version and despite beta 1.7.3 being my favorite, 1.8 still has a big place in my heart as well
Beta 1.8 felt so shortlived compared to 1.7.3 and before, but maybe that's because my friends and me noped out very fast back to 1.7.3 and only started playing newer versions again from 1.0.0 onward. I'm surprised there still are active servers for it.
What I miss about old Minecraft was how simple everything was. I find modern Minecraft so complicated that it's not even fun anymore, and hasn't been in years. One of these days I'm gonna get back on my 360 and just enjoy the little things like the tutorial world.
Same, the nowaday Minecraft is made to attract people that cannot enjoy simple things. People that have a very short attention span and needs super fancy new stuff every soon and then. I remember the day they added fireworks in Minecraft, I was genuinely soo excited about a super stupid thing. But the game was good, now it’s not a chill game anymore…
Man, I didn´t expect the old style of building to hit me with so much nostalgia. It was somehow more fun to build with the few block options back then.
5:43 Before you could protect your servers in Alpha and Beta, there would always be random people logging onto servers and destroying spawn. This was just a thing that happened. We moved very far from spawn to prevent our bases from being griefed. On the server we ran ourselves.
Staff member of AlphaPlace and RetroMC here. Obviously, I have the same opinions as Gavin - AlphaPlace, RetroMC and Old School MC are *far* from abandoned, thanks to the difference in the culture between large, modern-MC servers and ones running on legacy MC versions. These semi-tight knit communities and laid-back culture are what I now prefer, stemming from my decision to join these servers as my first-ever multiplayer MC experiences. I also thank you for visiting these servers :)
Yeah it totally makes sense that the communities would be smaller. The original title I had for the video was different but I changed it to fit the trend a bit more. Thank you for continuing to support these servers and it was great to visit them :)
I love seeing player towns like the ones on the oldschoolminecraft server, The disjointed feel of the builds not adhering to a particular style, plus the randomness of things like giant among us pixel arts is the epitome of Minecraft's charm.
something about old school megabuilds. Its before designs got hyper complicated and detailed. Mind you the current designs people make are works of art but there was something special about seeing huge structures with only 1-2 design aspects repeated. Also, paths. The older style way of connecting builds together with paths in a close proximity as people built out is probably the most nostalgic part. We almost never see that style anymore.
nice video, servers run on older versions certainly have a different feel to them, but it's always nice to play with others also, thanks for the mention :)
Talk about a nostalgia hit. My entire childhood hit me all at once. When I was a kid, my brothers and i only had the original Xbox 360 edition (before you could even trade with villagers and before villagers had roles) and we had no internet or Xbox Live so we couldn't update the game at all until about 2019/2020 when we got a Nintendo switch. Thanks for taking me back, I miss those days.
It's sad to see some of the builds empty but some of these server's do still have active communities and they're still up for people to explore so it's not all bad :)
This is a great video! As someone that played in 2010 in Minecraft Classic but didn't buy premium until Beta 1.8.1, it''s so cool seeing that alpha servers still exist
some servers still do it, with the exception of protection on chests. You tend to find that servers with no land claims have the sweetest and most trusting communities
great video! i've been in the alpha/beta community for a while now, and have played alwaysalpha and alphaplace for a while, and it was really nice to see a lot of my builds shown in your video! thank you for making this, and if you'd be interested i can show you even more cool servers that weren't in your video.
You got a great channel already dude. I think with each update of clutter they add to Minecraft, interest in the old versions will continue grow. I can definitely see your channel getting bigger, keep the old versions relevant!
I miss being a kid just randomly joining SMP servers and making friends with complete randoms online and just having a time man, I remember I met these 4 other guys and we literally had no form of communication at all but we would all collectively hop on after school and we would set times by making a schedule via signs in game. Everyone stopped hopping on one by one until I did aswell, I remember checking it back 3 years ago when the server was still alive. Good times.
Remembering Minecraft in it’s olden days feels really nostalgic for me. I remember playing in these versions with younger online friends and just goofing around and having fun. But things have changed a lot, and I haven’t really remained in contact with anyone, and the worlds we made weren’t really saved either. Looking at this now is kind of revisiting those memories but in a new light, this is a great video.
i never got to experience the alpha/beta days of minecraft during my childhood, but seeing these chill videos showcasing them made me feel a sense of nostalgia ive never even experienced before, thus i cant imagine what its like to be part of the community back then these servers are like relics to me, i hope they can be preserved for as long as possible! they really are impressively made and formed. hope everyone who was part of these servers are doing well today and still creating! side note: your videos are so chill by the way, they help with my insomnia 👍
Thank you so much for this comment, it's so nice to hear my videos help you :) Yeah it's great that these servers are still kept up and it's nice to see some of the owners commenting on this video.
Hi, I see you enjoyed the experience of our old legacy servers that's good to know you had a good experience, I am a staff member of both GoPlex MC, and OldSchoolMinecraft both are partners of each other.
Former betalands player here(loyalwolf), there is an idea out there that life in this universe comes and goes, blips of consciousness in a sea of time and i feel these servers are very much that. They start with humble beginnings, a few people wanting to live out the golden age of mc again, eventually towns form that turn to cities with players linking them up with roads and railways. Cities become nations and for months and years the server thrives with projects and builds. Over time the original playerbase gets replaced either by people not having enough time to play anymore or disagreements/drama that goes down that usually results in an exodus of players. The server recovers for a brief time with a new playerbase but is not the same, the passion and care is lost by players and staff, yet some veterans still remain maintaining the infrastructure and welcoming new players in hopes of seeing a revival but even they too after months and years lose interest or have no more friends online that play. now there are very few players remaining jealously guarding what remains of the golden age of the server with years worth of knowledge of server history and stories of players to never be seen again. Then one day there is no one and all thats left are the partially griefed monuments and structures of players who spent weeks months and even years building with friends just sitting there with no one to see them again. Then eventually someone starts a new server sometimes with refugees of a previous one and it all starts again...
12 years doesn’t sound like that much but seeing how far and how much minecraft has evolved from alpha is amazing. It’s like opening up a history book seeing all the old builds that have been there for over a decade. Alpha looks like something I’d play on the PS1
I miss old Minecraft sooo much!!! Like all I wanna do is play survival games again and I literally can't because no servers even offer it anymore. Bro I miss Breeze Island :(
@@Kaktus-xj7sj Very true, a lot of the builds you showcased demonstrated what’s possible with the simple beta block palette. I particularly liked some of the foliage around the builds and the use of multiple types of stone for more texture in a single pathway. Also loved the niche uses of netherrack!
It sad how most of them are abandoned I love these old worlds. They’re pretty beautiful but sadly, I abandoned Minecraft alone thank you for showing me these old worlds where I can remember the days that I can build without no worry.
glad to see its not a "look at these creepy abandoned servers" video and more of a nostalgia trip for the people who would have played servers like this back in the day.
To think about how many memories have been lost due to old servers like these shutting down or being completely reset. I sadly wasn't there to experience the Alpha and Beta days of Minecraft, instead I started on release version 1.4.2. Recently however, I've been playing some Beta and Alpha versions and there's just something so welcoming about them, something so palpable.
It's sad to think about but the most important thing, in the end, is that people had fun on them whilst they were up. Glad to hear you're having fun in the old versions :)
@@Kaktus-xj7sj thats true, the memories will live on forever, even if there is no longer any way to look back on them. Your channel also looks very promising, hopefully it'll blow up and in turn you'll bring life back into these old versions!
I discovered the Old School Minecraft server from your video, and I just wanted to say thank you for enlightening me on beta minecraft multiplayer. My time on Old School Minecraft has been some of my favorite time on minecraft ever. Crazy how a server like Hypixel doesn’t even come close to these beta and alpha servers.
God this is so depressing. We all spent hours laughing and having fun in Minecraft and we didn't even realize we were living in the good ol days. God I want to stop getting older
8:06 for the entire duration of the music and walking around the server was like a historical footage. Has a feeling of sadness, nostalgia, creativity and happiness at the same time.
Old Minecraft will always have a special place in my heart. I still love modern Minecraft, at least from a creative standpoint. I just miss the nostalgia of experiencing the glory of old genuine builds and players.
Glad to see more uploads! These videos really help me relax, I really miss this version of Minecraft but I don’t know how to do computer stuff so I’ve always been a console Minecraft player.
@@tycobeyurness7823 I probably won't do that just because I don't think i'd been able to do something that hasn't already been done before. Check out my beta server video I did with my friends though if you want something by me in a similar (sort of) style :)
Theres just something about the old alpha and beta styles of building that is just so irresistibly beautiful. They feel like actual works of art as opposed to the common utilitarian bases, or the wildly extravagant base designs you see so much of today.
WAIT WHAT!? How did my castle and dragon make it onto Retr MC 9:30? I built that on another server called Betalands years ago. Kinda cool to see it on a random youtube video in 2024
I remember playing on a super old Minecraft server way back in 2011 that was really popular in my small country specifically. One of the admins/owners was some guy preteending to be Notch and spoke in the local language (that Notch would obviously not speak irl) and my 7yo self actually thought it was real. The whole place was just a naturally generated Minecraft world with people building their own houses in close proximity. I remember one of them griefing my house atleast 2 times. On top of that I also recall 1 or 2 other servers featuring minigames, one from back around 2011/2012 had Capture The Flag in a very sandboxy style with a cool map and tons of items to collect and use, I cannot rediscover it and it was probably my best CTF experience. The other was a big grey city map from about 2012/2013 (seemingly abandoned and in ruins), I don't remember the objective but I think it was survival based with guns and seeing other players was fairly few and far between. I have not been able to rediscover this game the decade since I played it. Around 2016 I believe gun based servers were also really popular they are just big city maps with customized guns like in GTA. I have been able to rediscover one very iconic server out of all of this though, way back from 2011 or so it had a minigame with a big castlemap and 2 teams based system. It's very nostagic.
As a 14 almost 15 year vet I wish I could go back in times, this brought back alot of nostalgia. I'm happy the game is still updated to this day, I cant believe the game is almost 20 years old. I'm old lol
Thanks, I'm not a fan of that type of content so I just try and make content that I myself would like to watch. It's nice to hear that other people feel the same :)
This really highlights what I miss most about early Minecraft the chaotic building by countless people all stacked on top of eachother almost making an mc escher maze we didnt have a big block pool and didnt really worry about greifers and we built amazing wierd cities and I miss them
I played on RetroMC some years back, my old town is still intact in there, nestled in this beautiful small valley with a skeleton dungeon spawn right at the surface. Called the place Alacia. Cool to see the server featured!
no matter how much crap they throw into the modern versions, the busy-ness of modern minecraft worlds/servers will never compare to that first few times loading into a simple quaint world back in these old days. i used to play on a server called Rivalcraft back in 2011/2012, it had such an amazing little community. like 20 people on at any given time, everyone knew each other, no grief protection but everyone respected each others property, it was peak, and i wish i didnt take it for granted
Exploring Empty MC servers is like walking through ghost towns.....You see all these buildings and you can almost get a feel for what life was once like for it's inhabitants.....the lives they built there....the memories they made.
Every Minecraft world has it's own history and lore. It's always fun exploring old Minecraft worlds, solo or not. Really whish I still had some of my original worlds, and the small community server my friend and i used to run when we were in high school/college. Ah, those were the days.
Former betalands player here (loyalwolf) who had my city transferred to retromc unsuccessfully(corrupted). Way back in 2018/2019 i was always saying oldschool minecraft would become popular again and it was just a matter of time, unfortunately too long for betalands and the crazy stuff on there rip. Its still absolutely insane seeing retromc on here though and getting this much attention.
what i kinda dislike about modern minecraft servers are players that decide to move as far away as humanly possible even so far, as to go towards the map border literally thousands of blocks away from spawn. so todays players have a minimum of 5000+ blocks between them.
Person who plays alphaplace The server is not dead, it averages 5-7 ppl at peak hours and maxes at like 10. Abandoned is gone, no one logging on. Cool vid, might want to change
There wasn't anyone on when I was there but that's probably because I might've joined on a slow day and not peak times. This wasn't my original title but I decided to change it to better fit the algorithm whilst although it may not fit all the servers featured in the video does still bring attention to them which I think is ultimately a good thing. I still might change it tho I'm not sure. Thanks for the comment
This is so eerie to look at. I kinda relate to these servers because I used to run a server back in Beta 1.7.3/1.8 and I still have it (altought now it's a private, up-to-date and not a public server) and the difference in architecture and how we used to build is very nostalgic and reminicent of the servers I saw in this video
The funny thing is that those servers aren't actually old for the most part. OSM runs since like 2019, AlphaPlace since 2020. I think the oldest still-running legacy version server is RetroMC and it was founded in like 2014
I got tired of minecraft always updating and losing my builds on servers that would update and erase the worlds, so I made my own on 1.12.2 back in February of 2018. It's been running ever since and currently has 524 days of server uptime. I make backups regularly too.
man, i miss these so much, i remember the first server i joined back in 2012 before i had even bought a premium account, i lived in a large village with me and 20 other people. such a good memory
I started watching Minecraft videos towards the end of alpha and started playing in the middle of beta. The most fun memories I ever had was towards the end of beta and just after official release. Those were the days
traveling through a once lively place filled with people and happy times, now just empty and barren and the only sign of life being those buildings people once shared memories over
There was a specific balance that always hit me the best with servers of the pre-1.8beta era. Places that had a nice spawn, but it wasn't huge - you could still explore them for a few moments and feel nicely secluded in a crafted place. But both the spawn and the server wasn't full on developed to the point where it felt like so much of history has already been written yet. There was always a sense of non-purpose felt when walking around the first thousand block range from spawn and everywhere was already picked out and processed. The only server I played back then that catered that feeling was the old SMP Blocktopia server, which was a community I heavily enjoyed playing in with their classic 0.30 servers - while I played those Zombie Survival & Lava Survival servers the most, the beta SMP server still has the fondest memories to me for just the feel I had interacting with what was there. Making my own basic house, and exploring what other people were currently making; usually with the builders offline due to my aussie timezone. Also a plugin I really missed from those days was like a treasure hunting one. You'd craft a compass, right click it, and then it'll point you into a direction and tell you how close you are to a chest of some generated goods to take. It was probably one of the main contributors that got me into a passion for exploration.
Thanks for the comment, it is a shame that those servers are mostly gone now but a lot of the community has changed. That compass feature is really cool as well, I guess they sort of added it to the main game with the treasure maps in the newer versions
I remember playing on a server(nothing alpha or beta) a few years ago and played it absolutely religiously every afternoon from school and free time I had. I had a group of dedicated Skype friends who played on this server. Probably the most fun I’ll ever have in Minecraft. The one thing I remember was we all were making our own AoT walls and a bunch of moderators thought we were cheating in materials because it was fucking massive. No, we were just a group of nerds with far too much free time. Then one day that server crashed and the owner had no backups and everything restarted from new. We were all devastated. After that, our group of friends slowly started moving on with life or completely left their socials. I miss the days we used to play together. Some key memories were made during that period of time I won’t forget about. That was around 5 or so years ago.
The failed Aether portal made me burst out laughing
I was thinking the same thing lol.
Everyone's tried at least once
And for me the portal that "does work"
I remember trying that and was extremely disappointed
when
it's like travelling through multiple civilizations that once in their golden age
It's like we're an old man still living a nostalgic dream as the world move on.
Alpha and beta had such a unique architectural style that you just don't see these days
I'll call that: Alpha Style and Beta Style of architecture or theme of buildings in Minecraft.
TRUE
But when I build things like that on modern servers everyone says it is ugly and tells me to stop
@@tj-co9go dude, same
I feel the same way. I had a building contest on my modern 1.20 SMP a while back and the theme was beta 1.7.3 style. It was pretty fun and now there's an entire district on the server with a beta theme, and it looks more interesting than the other builds on the server.
I just realized that other than being griefed, abandoned Minecraft server maps don't decay at all, they're always in the same state they were left ina decade ago
Should create a world download just in case
How’s that different from modern servers?
@@expendableindigo9639it isn’t lol OP is just sp3d
@@expendableindigo9639 most modern servers shut down when they lose players, while these are still up and still untouched and the same as they were all those years ago. It's like the chat logs you would have of a friend you haven't talked to in years, still reminding you of what you talked about years ago.
I like exploring abandoned places IRL and this is probably why abandoned places in Minecraft give me a weirder feeling sometimes. You can visibly see the neglect IRL. In Minecraft, the neglect is purely atmospheric.
“You can travel to the past, but nobody is there.”
-Someone
Depressing. Very backroom type vibes I got from this vid. Very cool
Only the players and Minecraft audience can go back in time
@@SamanthaLily1time machine
Ow, the edge
Why are you quoting yourself?
@ someone else said that bc i’ve seen it before.. i didn’t say it
You doing /home and suddenly coming back to what must have been your home at one point was amazing
They're not empty they're just filled with love.
RetroMC has players quite a bit too like 20 or more
theyre haunted by the past, a ghost stuck in the present
Imagine that people used to play on those servers like 12 years ago and they are still alive. Totally Incredible that we can see what the servers used to be and the nostalgia also hits hard.
It's really cool that the admins continue to support and maintain these servers
And for the ones that aren’t.
I agree with what you said about it being kinda sad about the empty servers. Seeing all these builds that people dedicated days and weeks to with their friends while having a great time, their community now scattered to the wind and builds sitting mostly forgotten on an empty server on Minecraft, eventually never being visited again. All these memories lost to time makes me nostalgic for a time I never took part in. Thanks for posting this.
yeah it's kinda sad, the community used to be way bigger than it is right now as well, the community as a whole kinda died between 2022 and now, every once and a while they'll be a lot of people on these servers but its not what i remember it being
It is sad but like you said it was fun at the time to make those builds and now people get to appreciate them and be inspired by them so it's not all bad :)
I've been part of communities in games that have eventually moved on, but you're right, it just isn't the same afterwards @NeverObsolete64 . Minecraft shows the very real impact of those communities on its world with building, which makes the loss of community feel a little more real than other games that consist of worlds/maps that are static, regardless of whether people are on or not. I think that's why Minecraft has a unique sense of sadness that hit me in this video despite never playing on random MC MP servers, though Kaktus is right that it allows people to take inspiration years later.
Yeah i thought and felt the same. About half way through the video i imagined myself going through and looking at all the amazing things that took weeks or months to create and how almost nobody ever sees it... But i then realized that the server is still running despite having almost 0 players is nice to think about because those massive structures and monuments are still being honoured/respected in a way. All of these servers having almost no players really have no reason to continue running, but they do and the memories made in them will live on
Remember to always enjoy the moment.
There's something special about how old MC servers elicit this feeling of liminality and that sense of wonder that exploring ancient ruins gives. Somehow the old builds in an abandoned server gives off this feeling of deep time, like it aggregates value, lore and history to the world. I would really like to replicate this in a server with friends, playing for years until at long last we mostly stop playing and all that's left are the memories imprinted on the ruins we left behind, like in that Shelley's poem:
"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
I have a server like this...
We played from the launch of 1.13 all the way to 1.18
And now all that's left is empty mega bases, ruins of forgotten bases, and the husks of broken Redstone farms.
I sometimes log on just for the nostalgia trip.
It’s just mesmerising that these servers were once full of life. People coming home and coming on to build things. Preserved for a decade.
Wonder what are of these people now?
Yeah, and now griefers can destroy it with ips in the video, i wonder if it was worth it for kaktus to make half a mil views from that
@@hexus_boi1802well I mean it’s not like you can’t roll back servers, and since these builds are protected in factions and towns, you won’t lose your builds
Remembering Minecraft when these updates where new feels strange given how it's been so long that a significant part of Minecrafts playerbase was born after they went live.
Man I didn't realise people born in 2010 and 2011 are teens now
@@Youcican Life comes at you
@@Youcicandamn that Just hit like a train I’m getting old,
@@couupakb9669 we are getting old :/ the first time i played minecraft was at version 1.3.2
@@synnnxMine was 1.2.4 i think, or was it 1.2.5, around then
3:42 made me smile
I think everyone's tried to make one at least once lol
It’s cracked me up because I remember doing it and being disappointed lol
I am on 3:31 and I already know what you are talking about 😅 poor kid I was...
Something about the modern pixel art of amongus and walter white in the old minecraft style gave me actual chills. Thank you for this video
So many Amogus art in a lot of servers, still awesome at how modern day hit games are influencing days of the nostalgic past, in this case, Minecraft Alpha/Beta
THEY PREDICTED AMONGU-
You know the first season of breaking bad aired two years before Minecraft alpha was released right? Breaking bad was the big thing back when these servers were alive.
@@perturabo7825 not like this it wasn't
@@perturabo7825 just like amogus!
I remember back when the game first came out, maybe around 2012 or 2013, I played on a really cool anarchy server. It wasn't very well known, but it had a solid 50 or so players that were active on it. I became good friends with a lot of the players and we even had our own guild and had a really cool base inside a mountain a couple thousand blocks from spawn. I think I played on there religiously for a year or more.
From what I remember, the server host died in an accident and 2 days later the server was just gone. All that time, all those people met and relationships were suddenly just gone.
I played on and off since then, but the day that server was gone so was my appetite for Minecraft. Even today, I still occasionally wish I could just join that server one last time.
Rip
Ouch it even hurts me to read all of this ... And people say that games don't have an impact ...
This is why when I nowadays met friends online, I try to connect on different platforms, so one going out doesnt cut the contact for good.
I remember playing Minecraft when it first hit PC in late 2009, I was a big sandbox/indie game fan and thought this release looks interesting! And it was. But it's crazy to see where it went and the way it totally blew up and the history it's created.... I never did become a massive fan and I'm not sure what eventually put me off, But wow what a legacy! I did come back to it and have been playing it on and off ever since.
wow. makes me think about people that I played with on servers back then, and how they're doing now...
A RetroMC player here
As far as I know it's currently the most active beta server and i recommend checking it out. You couldn't find players on spawn, because most of them are working on builds in their towns
You also caught me joining the game 9:25
I think because of this video and some others a lot of new people are joining... Today there's 50 players online!!
true and real
@@Noggisoggi /!\
@@muuid1sk yeah... they should get a better hardware tho cause it crashes around 50
@@Noggisoggi no way its actually him
It's so relaxing to watch this because I'd love too see it but the depressing emptiness of what was once my childhood is very hard to bare alone. It's comforting that you're doing it, narrating, and I get to watch instead of participate.
Hi, thank you for commenting and I'm glad you were able to appreciate these old builds as they're super cool :)
This is one of the better forgotten server videos I’ve seen
Honestly I think this goes for your entire channel but I like the relaxed vibe it has it’s nice
Thanks, the title was just more to fit the trend than anything. I prefer to keep a more laid back style and it's good because it normally works with the type of content I make. Glad you're enjoying it :)
Nostalgia take me back. I miss these times a lot for some reason.
No way. My Minecraft house is in this video! 1:09 with the 50 cacti surrounding it in the back
Something pretty specific that I like is exploring abandoned beta 1.8 servers. There's something about the 1.8 additions like melons, stone bricks, glass panes, giant mushrooms, etc being used everywhere that i really like. + beta 1.8/early release is technically what I grew up watching and is the most nostalgic for me ;P
Yeah it is fun to walk around all the builds. Let me know if there are any good beta 1.8 servers to check out lol :)
@@Kaktus-xj7sj the only one I've explored is zackscotts server called "scottland" from ep 300 (there's a Google drive out there with world downloads from different points in time, specifically 300 was around 1.8)
Another cool server is one that isn't public but was shown off by philza on a video where he toured his old worlds and one of em was a 1.8 server.
@@Kaktus-xj7sj if you find any and would like to explore them with someone else, i'd love to join in since i first started joining servers in that version and despite beta 1.7.3 being my favorite, 1.8 still has a big place in my heart as well
Beta 1.8 felt so shortlived compared to 1.7.3 and before, but maybe that's because my friends and me noped out very fast back to 1.7.3 and only started playing newer versions again from 1.0.0 onward. I'm surprised there still are active servers for it.
What I miss about old Minecraft was how simple everything was. I find modern Minecraft so complicated that it's not even fun anymore, and hasn't been in years. One of these days I'm gonna get back on my 360 and just enjoy the little things like the tutorial world.
Same, the nowaday Minecraft is made to attract people that cannot enjoy simple things. People that have a very short attention span and needs super fancy new stuff every soon and then. I remember the day they added fireworks in Minecraft, I was genuinely soo excited about a super stupid thing. But the game was good, now it’s not a chill game anymore…
@@Maubaldyou can literally play the older versions 😭
Ya id say around just before the sidearm slot update (shields) was the peak
Man, I didn´t expect the old style of building to hit me with so much nostalgia. It was somehow more fun to build with the few block options back then.
5:43 Before you could protect your servers in Alpha and Beta, there would always be random people logging onto servers and destroying spawn.
This was just a thing that happened.
We moved very far from spawn to prevent our bases from being griefed.
On the server we ran ourselves.
Staff member of AlphaPlace and RetroMC here.
Obviously, I have the same opinions as Gavin - AlphaPlace, RetroMC and Old School MC are *far* from abandoned, thanks to the difference in the culture between large, modern-MC servers and ones running on legacy MC versions. These semi-tight knit communities and laid-back culture are what I now prefer, stemming from my decision to join these servers as my first-ever multiplayer MC experiences.
I also thank you for visiting these servers :)
Yeah it totally makes sense that the communities would be smaller. The original title I had for the video was different but I changed it to fit the trend a bit more. Thank you for continuing to support these servers and it was great to visit them :)
might as well be abandoned
I love seeing player towns like the ones on the oldschoolminecraft server, The disjointed feel of the builds not adhering to a particular style, plus the randomness of things like giant among us pixel arts is the epitome of Minecraft's charm.
something about old school megabuilds. Its before designs got hyper complicated and detailed. Mind you the current designs people make are works of art but there was something special about seeing huge structures with only 1-2 design aspects repeated. Also, paths. The older style way of connecting builds together with paths in a close proximity as people built out is probably the most nostalgic part. We almost never see that style anymore.
Thank you for checking out Alpha Anarchy
nice video, servers run on older versions certainly have a different feel to them, but it's always nice to play with others
also, thanks for the mention :)
Glad to hear you liked the video and no problem for the mention you deserve it. Love the content, keep it up :)
Talk about a nostalgia hit. My entire childhood hit me all at once. When I was a kid, my brothers and i only had the original Xbox 360 edition (before you could even trade with villagers and before villagers had roles) and we had no internet or Xbox Live so we couldn't update the game at all until about 2019/2020 when we got a Nintendo switch. Thanks for taking me back, I miss those days.
This video makes me so happy yet sad at the same time. Miss the early days of Minecraft
It's sad to see some of the builds empty but some of these server's do still have active communities and they're still up for people to explore so it's not all bad :)
This is a great video! As someone that played in 2010 in Minecraft Classic but didn't buy premium until Beta 1.8.1, it''s so cool seeing that alpha servers still exist
No protection vanilla was the golden age. So much fun.
Land claims are cancer
some servers still do it, with the exception of protection on chests. You tend to find that servers with no land claims have the sweetest and most trusting communities
me and my wife love it 😊
@@ganondoof yeeeaahhh
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great video! i've been in the alpha/beta community for a while now, and have played alwaysalpha and alphaplace for a while, and it was really nice to see a lot of my builds shown in your video! thank you for making this, and if you'd be interested i can show you even more cool servers that weren't in your video.
Glad you liked it and I'd definitely be interested in more servers. Thank you!
You got a great channel already dude. I think with each update of clutter they add to Minecraft, interest in the old versions will continue grow. I can definitely see your channel getting bigger, keep the old versions relevant!
Thanks for the support, I will continue to make these types of videos :)
I miss being a kid just randomly joining SMP servers and making friends with complete randoms online and just having a time man, I remember I met these 4 other guys and we literally had no form of communication at all but we would all collectively hop on after school and we would set times by making a schedule via signs in game. Everyone stopped hopping on one by one until I did aswell, I remember checking it back 3 years ago when the server was still alive. Good times.
As someone that plays on retromc, thank you for shouting out the server
Of course it was a lot of fun to check out!
All these builds and servers give a lot of inspiration to me.
They gave me a lot of inspiration too :)
Remembering Minecraft in it’s olden days feels really nostalgic for me. I remember playing in these versions with younger online friends and just goofing around and having fun. But things have changed a lot, and I haven’t really remained in contact with anyone, and the worlds we made weren’t really saved either. Looking at this now is kind of revisiting those memories but in a new light, this is a great video.
i never got to experience the alpha/beta days of minecraft during my childhood, but seeing these chill videos showcasing them made me feel a sense of nostalgia ive never even experienced before, thus i cant imagine what its like to be part of the community back then
these servers are like relics to me, i hope they can be preserved for as long as possible! they really are impressively made and formed. hope everyone who was part of these servers are doing well today and still creating!
side note: your videos are so chill by the way, they help with my insomnia 👍
Thank you so much for this comment, it's so nice to hear my videos help you :) Yeah it's great that these servers are still kept up and it's nice to see some of the owners commenting on this video.
Retro MC is so cool! I have been exploring it for a while, lots of really interesting builds in old building style to look at. Nostalgic!
Hi, I see you enjoyed the experience of our old legacy servers that's good to know you had a good experience, I am a staff member of both GoPlex MC, and OldSchoolMinecraft both are partners of each other.
Thanks for keeping these servers up they're really great :)
What a pleasure to find this video, love the slow, calm pace of it!
Former betalands player here(loyalwolf), there is an idea out there that life in this universe comes and goes, blips of consciousness in a sea of time and i feel these servers are very much that. They start with humble beginnings, a few people wanting to live out the golden age of mc again, eventually towns form that turn to cities with players linking them up with roads and railways. Cities become nations and for months and years the server thrives with projects and builds. Over time the original playerbase gets replaced either by people not having enough time to play anymore or disagreements/drama that goes down that usually results in an exodus of players. The server recovers for a brief time with a new playerbase but is not the same, the passion and care is lost by players and staff, yet some veterans still remain maintaining the infrastructure and welcoming new players in hopes of seeing a revival but even they too after months and years lose interest or have no more friends online that play. now there are very few players remaining jealously guarding what remains of the golden age of the server with years worth of knowledge of server history and stories of players to never be seen again. Then one day there is no one and all thats left are the partially griefed monuments and structures of players who spent weeks months and even years building with friends just sitting there with no one to see them again. Then eventually someone starts a new server sometimes with refugees of a previous one and it all starts again...
12 years doesn’t sound like that much but seeing how far and how much minecraft has evolved from alpha is amazing. It’s like opening up a history book seeing all the old builds that have been there for over a decade. Alpha looks like something I’d play on the PS1
Thank you SO MUCH for making this and providing the I.P’s
I really love videos about old servers. It’s very interesting to see structures and bases that random people made and left there.
It was a fun one to record as there were so many cool builds to check out!
Abandoned servers make me sad. All the time and fun people had there just forgotten. Man sad,
I miss old Minecraft sooo much!!! Like all I wanna do is play survival games again and I literally can't because no servers even offer it anymore. Bro I miss Breeze Island :(
Wow, some of those builds were actually incredible! Better than something I could build in modern Minecraft LOL
They're lots of great inspiration to take from the builds on the servers!
@@Kaktus-xj7sj Very true, a lot of the builds you showcased demonstrated what’s possible with the simple beta block palette. I particularly liked some of the foliage around the builds and the use of multiple types of stone for more texture in a single pathway. Also loved the niche uses of netherrack!
It sad how most of them are abandoned I love these old worlds. They’re pretty beautiful but sadly, I abandoned Minecraft alone thank you for showing me these old worlds where I can remember the days that I can build without no worry.
glad to see its not a "look at these creepy abandoned servers" video and more of a nostalgia trip for the people who would have played servers like this back in the day.
To think about how many memories have been lost due to old servers like these shutting down or being completely reset.
I sadly wasn't there to experience the Alpha and Beta days of Minecraft, instead I started on release version 1.4.2. Recently however, I've been playing some Beta and Alpha versions and there's just something so welcoming about them, something so palpable.
It's sad to think about but the most important thing, in the end, is that people had fun on them whilst they were up. Glad to hear you're having fun in the old versions :)
@@Kaktus-xj7sj thats true, the memories will live on forever, even if there is no longer any way to look back on them.
Your channel also looks very promising, hopefully it'll blow up and in turn you'll bring life back into these old versions!
Man the nostalgia this video bought back is incredible. Great recommendation by YT
I discovered the Old School Minecraft server from your video, and I just wanted to say thank you for enlightening me on beta minecraft multiplayer. My time on Old School Minecraft has been some of my favorite time on minecraft ever. Crazy how a server like Hypixel doesn’t even come close to these beta and alpha servers.
God this is so depressing. We all spent hours laughing and having fun in Minecraft and we didn't even realize we were living in the good ol days. God I want to stop getting older
8:06 for the entire duration of the music and walking around the server was like a historical footage. Has a feeling of sadness, nostalgia, creativity and happiness at the same time.
Old Minecraft will always have a special place in my heart.
I still love modern Minecraft, at least from a creative standpoint.
I just miss the nostalgia of experiencing the glory of old genuine builds and players.
It's just fascinating to see a place in digital limbo. The modern age often sees useless stuff online deleted, but I'm glad these are still around.
Glad to see more uploads! These videos really help me relax, I really miss this version of Minecraft but I don’t know how to do computer stuff so I’ve always been a console Minecraft player.
Been busy irl but I'm still working on videos don't worry!
@@Kaktus-xj7sj hell yea! I’ll be here. Would totally support a “let’s play” style series too!
@@tycobeyurness7823 I probably won't do that just because I don't think i'd been able to do something that hasn't already been done before. Check out my beta server video I did with my friends though if you want something by me in a similar (sort of) style :)
@@Kaktus-xj7sj totally understand! You got a good unique thing going for your vids
Everything seemed so simple and innocent about old Minecraft.
This is the era I grew up in. So nice to see Minecraft in such humble nostalgic times.
Dont cry because its over, smile because it happened
There is some beauty in these anarchy servers...cant describe the feeling of it
Theres just something about the old alpha and beta styles of building that is just so irresistibly beautiful. They feel like actual works of art as opposed to the common utilitarian bases, or the wildly extravagant base designs you see so much of today.
WAIT WHAT!? How did my castle and dragon make it onto Retr MC 9:30? I built that on another server called Betalands years ago. Kinda cool to see it on a random youtube video in 2024
Betalands was acquired by retromc and they transferred some of the builds before they shut betalands down permanently
These older style builds with the music hits different. Everything just seemed so made with love back then.
Awesome to see there are still people joining these ancient servers
I love old minecraft! Thank you for the showcase.
These bring a sense of nostalgia very few things bring...
The creativity that some people have is off the charts. I wish I was blessed with the ability to do a fraction of what some can do
I have an odd appreciation for the old style of building in the early days. Sure, a lot of it is ‘bad’, but it had a charm to it.
I remember playing on a super old Minecraft server way back in 2011 that was really popular in my small country specifically. One of the admins/owners was some guy preteending to be Notch and spoke in the local language (that Notch would obviously not speak irl) and my 7yo self actually thought it was real. The whole place was just a naturally generated Minecraft world with people building their own houses in close proximity. I remember one of them griefing my house atleast 2 times.
On top of that I also recall 1 or 2 other servers featuring minigames, one from back around 2011/2012 had Capture The Flag in a very sandboxy style with a cool map and tons of items to collect and use, I cannot rediscover it and it was probably my best CTF experience. The other was a big grey city map from about 2012/2013 (seemingly abandoned and in ruins), I don't remember the objective but I think it was survival based with guns and seeing other players was fairly few and far between. I have not been able to rediscover this game the decade since I played it.
Around 2016 I believe gun based servers were also really popular they are just big city maps with customized guns like in GTA.
I have been able to rediscover one very iconic server out of all of this though, way back from 2011 or so it had a minigame with a big castlemap and 2 teams based system. It's very nostagic.
8:36 brotherhood of steel spotted
As a 14 almost 15 year vet I wish I could go back in times, this brought back alot of nostalgia. I'm happy the game is still updated to this day, I cant believe the game is almost 20 years old. I'm old lol
OSMC player here, we've definitely grown since this video and you can find as many as 30 players on at one time.
I love your videos because they are so different from the traditional crazy and loud style of videos which are popular on RUclips nowadays
Thanks, I'm not a fan of that type of content so I just try and make content that I myself would like to watch. It's nice to hear that other people feel the same :)
This really highlights what I miss most about early Minecraft the chaotic building by countless people all stacked on top of eachother almost making an mc escher maze we didnt have a big block pool and didnt really worry about greifers and we built amazing wierd cities and I miss them
I played on RetroMC some years back, my old town is still intact in there, nestled in this beautiful small valley with a skeleton dungeon spawn right at the surface. Called the place Alacia. Cool to see the server featured!
3:41 I feel like this went over everyones head.
no matter how much crap they throw into the modern versions, the busy-ness of modern minecraft worlds/servers will never compare to that first few times loading into a simple quaint world back in these old days. i used to play on a server called Rivalcraft back in 2011/2012, it had such an amazing little community. like 20 people on at any given time, everyone knew each other, no grief protection but everyone respected each others property, it was peak, and i wish i didnt take it for granted
Exploring Empty MC servers is like walking through ghost towns.....You see all these buildings and you can almost get a feel for what life was once like for it's inhabitants.....the lives they built there....the memories they made.
Awesome creativity done by people!!!
Thanks! (I play RetroMC)
Every Minecraft world has it's own history and lore. It's always fun exploring old Minecraft worlds, solo or not. Really whish I still had some of my original worlds, and the small community server my friend and i used to run when we were in high school/college. Ah, those were the days.
The use of "blocks" -C418 was great; good vid
Former betalands player here (loyalwolf) who had my city transferred to retromc unsuccessfully(corrupted). Way back in 2018/2019 i was always saying oldschool minecraft would become popular again and it was just a matter of time, unfortunately too long for betalands and the crazy stuff on there rip. Its still absolutely insane seeing retromc on here though and getting this much attention.
what i kinda dislike about modern minecraft servers are players that decide to move as far away as humanly possible even so far, as to go towards the map border literally thousands of blocks away from spawn. so todays players have a minimum of 5000+ blocks between them.
I blame PvP for this mentality. 1000 blocks and under is a death sentence for your builds
makes sense considering some people either try to kill players or try to steal from / destroy their builds
Person who plays alphaplace
The server is not dead, it averages 5-7 ppl at peak hours and maxes at like 10. Abandoned is gone, no one logging on. Cool vid, might want to change
There wasn't anyone on when I was there but that's probably because I might've joined on a slow day and not peak times. This wasn't my original title but I decided to change it to better fit the algorithm whilst although it may not fit all the servers featured in the video does still bring attention to them which I think is ultimately a good thing. I still might change it tho I'm not sure. Thanks for the comment
@@Kaktus-xj7sj Change it to "Bringing DEAD Minecraft servers BACK TO LIFE! (Herobrine is REAL??? 😱) 🍆🍆🍆💦"
This is so eerie to look at. I kinda relate to these servers because I used to run a server back in Beta 1.7.3/1.8 and I still have it (altought now it's a private, up-to-date and not a public server) and the difference in architecture and how we used to build is very nostalgic and reminicent of the servers I saw in this video
The funny thing is that those servers aren't actually old for the most part. OSM runs since like 2019, AlphaPlace since 2020. I think the oldest still-running legacy version server is RetroMC and it was founded in like 2014
Oh, and also OSM is very far from dead. I think it's one of if not the most popular beta server
Amazing to see these servers, Seeing these servers brings back insane memories
i like how a lot of the editing speaks for itself. glowstone portal shown and zero commentary
I got tired of minecraft always updating and losing my builds on servers that would update and erase the worlds, so I made my own on 1.12.2 back in February of 2018. It's been running ever since and currently has 524 days of server uptime. I make backups regularly too.
man, i miss these so much, i remember the first server i joined back in 2012 before i had even bought a premium account, i lived in a large village with me and 20 other people. such a good memory
I started watching Minecraft videos towards the end of alpha and started playing in the middle of beta. The most fun memories I ever had was towards the end of beta and just after official release. Those were the days
Hello dear, i made the giant cuble in cobble on RetroMC, thank for this video !
No problem, the cube was really cool lol :)
traveling through a once lively place filled with people and happy times, now just empty and barren and the only sign of life being those buildings people once shared memories over
There was a specific balance that always hit me the best with servers of the pre-1.8beta era. Places that had a nice spawn, but it wasn't huge - you could still explore them for a few moments and feel nicely secluded in a crafted place. But both the spawn and the server wasn't full on developed to the point where it felt like so much of history has already been written yet. There was always a sense of non-purpose felt when walking around the first thousand block range from spawn and everywhere was already picked out and processed.
The only server I played back then that catered that feeling was the old SMP Blocktopia server, which was a community I heavily enjoyed playing in with their classic 0.30 servers - while I played those Zombie Survival & Lava Survival servers the most, the beta SMP server still has the fondest memories to me for just the feel I had interacting with what was there. Making my own basic house, and exploring what other people were currently making; usually with the builders offline due to my aussie timezone.
Also a plugin I really missed from those days was like a treasure hunting one. You'd craft a compass, right click it, and then it'll point you into a direction and tell you how close you are to a chest of some generated goods to take. It was probably one of the main contributors that got me into a passion for exploration.
Thanks for the comment, it is a shame that those servers are mostly gone now but a lot of the community has changed. That compass feature is really cool as well, I guess they sort of added it to the main game with the treasure maps in the newer versions
Just looking at the old textures makes me nostalgic
I miss the good old minecraft times.
I remember playing on a server(nothing alpha or beta) a few years ago and played it absolutely religiously every afternoon from school and free time I had.
I had a group of dedicated Skype friends who played on this server. Probably the most fun I’ll ever have in Minecraft. The one thing I remember was we all were making our own AoT walls and a bunch of moderators thought we were cheating in materials because it was fucking massive.
No, we were just a group of nerds with far too much free time.
Then one day that server crashed and the owner had no backups and everything restarted from new. We were all devastated.
After that, our group of friends slowly started moving on with life or completely left their socials. I miss the days we used to play together. Some key memories were made during that period of time I won’t forget about.
That was around 5 or so years ago.