There’s something eerie about servers like this. When you mentioned items that had been stuck in unloaded chunks for years, or how former players have kids now… It’s like the world is frozen in time. A bunch of data long forgotten, despite being such a big part of a few people’s lives. I’m struggling to find words to describe how it makes me feel
Kenopsia. The eeriness of places left behind. Its the same feeling you get when spending time in places of transit or abandoned spaces. Its this feeling of emptiness and the weight of the past that has long gone by these places exude.
“They probably have kids or something.” Honestly, even with a low population, it’s likely at least one of those bases is the legacy of someone who has passed away. Pretty wild to tour with that in mind
I cant imagine what it will be like in 100 years on servers like this. Pretty much everything will be built by a deceased people. Imagine just walking through the spawn of this server or Minecraft online in 100 years and realizing that. At some point in the future it will feel like walking through ancient ruins in real life, except this time everything is perfectly preserved exactly as the players left it. This is one reason why I hope these servers and minecraft in general last that long.
I started playing Julyish 2010. My very first map I loaded into is still the only one I play on. My best friend and I still get on and play together. It was a rare alpha snow map when created (1 in 5?) and has crazy terrain. It's one of the most sentimental things in my life. I still share it with all the people that mean the most to me. It will be 11 years old this year ❤
I went on the server and waited in queue for about an hour and got in. Toured a bit and went on the rails highway, and within like 15 minutes I found a god-horse with 26 hearts on a guy's dead body. From what I can find this was only possible in the snapshots of 1.6, and was removed once 1.6 released, so I found an 8.5 year old horse. Already found a great piece of history. This server's story is just waiting to be told.
Ah man, I remember being stuck on 1.5.2 because the old launcher didn't require you to buy the game to play it, you could really easily bypass the login. Horses weren't even a thing yet, glad to see something so old and yet still so untouched. I wonder if I can find any of my old worlds
You can see my very old house at 10:29 and I'm the friend Dograffe talks about here, I'm honored to have been included despite the build quality lol. Thanks again.
Another old cool server is 90gQ, it's been up since the 19th of October 2010 and is still active. It was created by a Swedish youtuber named Stamsite. They have been doing backups like crazy and has moved towns every now and again so there's places that's been frozen in time when it comes to building design. There's over 700 episodes of footage dating back to when the server was created. It's a private server tho.
This server really does feel like a nice place to chill. The whole "private server with friends" feel and that. Makes me miss our private server with friends despite only having it for 9 months before the owner couldn't keep it up anymore. A lot happened in those 9 months.
@@minhwaan funnily enough pvp was rare in our former server. Since half of the playerbase were casuals leaning more into builders. And it was an uphill battle to go up against me, the first person in the server to have a complete set of Netherite gear(My Netherite Axe with Sharpness 5 was one that single most damaging single hits in the server done by a player beyond admin powers.) So our PvPs are organized "fight clubs" no armor, no weapons, just fists.
@@CornRecords972 I see what you mean. There wouldn't be a video if the community on the server didn't agree to it, so I'm not blaming the RUclipsr exactly. Just saying the video might have unintended consequences neither party would want
I have been playing novylen since I was 14 (10 years ago) and this influx of players made the server lively again, which is cool because it has been pretty dead the last few years. But I can’t even join the server anymore, as an OG white listed member. takes 2 hours to get past the queue, kinda feels like being kicked out of your own home so people off the street can move in. oh well.
I introduced to Minecraft in 2014 by my best friend on his computer I still remember me and him deciding to make a army of Golems and build a wall around the village
I started back with seananners first video. Probably like 2011 ish. I set up a server around this time but only on my local machine IP. Wish those days
This is amazing, I just hope that they have lots of backups and whitelists and stuff because 2b2t players are gonna try to annihilate it the second they hear about it.
Daniel36407; I started playing on Minecraft Novylen about 10 years ago when I was in elementary school. I’m grateful that I stayed playing on it, as it’s now the only server that still has the original overworld and my original house from when I used to play with my friends. After this video was posted people started showing up, which has been a little hectic for Doozie and Rbos with the server load but people are more than welcome to join. Don’t forget to donate to the server!
Thank you guys for being so friendly. This may motivate me to actually pick minecraft back up again, and maybe even fix my account issues. I hope you and all the other server members stay happy and that life treats you well. Also hearing about this made me want to cry, since I've experienced the same thing over and over again. Even if it was me leaving, it still hurts to know that I rarely get to talk with those old friends. I remember a few years ago when I left my country and travelled for a year around Europe with my mum. I didn't have a phone or use email back then since I was a kid who spent more time reading books than anything else. When I got back I couldn't even get in contact with my old friends besides one of them who I haven't been able to talk to since. That was years ago and my sentimental ass still can't get over it. Edit: sorry for going off on a tangent, I'm just feeling quite sad after all that.
It's actually kind of weird that older Minecraft bases look beautiful regardless of what of you do. The scale doesn't need to be big, the block choice doesn't have to be great (because there aren't too many blocks in the first place). Whatever you make using cobblestone and oak planks, looks kind of nice and beautiful. Is it just me who thinks so?
I have a big base for enchanting, brewing, smelting, farming and stuff like that. And I have a little house to just chill, relax, and watch the sunset.
I just remembered how old Minecraft actually is. Thinking back, I remember in my childhood how I would just load up a new world and make lava mountains. Then load up another and make towns and cities in creative. Me thinking back like that made me realize that Minecraft will never get old.
I first discovered it back pre-survival... Got bored and forgot about it Then my friends discovered it whenever mods were becoming a big thing... adventure mods for dungeon crawls, or to imitate games like Zelda. Finally after playing 1.12 for ages and losing a world I'd spent six straight months working on...I took a break, and then came back when 1.16 was out. There are "better/prettier/etc" games of this type, sure... but they're not MINECRAFT, and somehow that shows.
I used to grief and destroy random villages in Minecraft. One time, I even built a secret villain base in a nearby mountain, and then we'd fly over to the village, kidnap the inhabitants, and set their houses on fire. It was so fun, you guys should try it.
As I'm older now (just turned 33 a few days ago), I've had to come to terms with how time feels and is changing. 2009-2010 wasn't THAT long ago, for me, but at the same time, so much has happened in my life and in the world since, that it feels absolutely ancient. Time is such a bizarre thing to quantify and seeing videos like this gives me that vibe even more strongly.
i envy the fact you got to experience some of the best parts of gaming history im 17 so i missed every thing from the 2000s up until about 2019 2020 when i actually started becoming a person and knew what i enjoyed i would pay a lot of money to just experience the early days of minecraft game launch nights eg halo 3 bo2 game nights and LAN party's ect
fuck I'm 18 and 2010 feels like yesterday, it truly feels like life has passed me by and though now I'm taller than my parents and have a beard, it feels like it was not too long ago when I was in elementary playing soccer with my friends and dueling them in super smash bros.
im 100% sure all the players before this probably are playing on the real server, i bet that the IP he gave use is a duplicate of it, or the OG players just moved to a duplicate of the server onto a realm or something
An empty Minecraft server filled with signs from players who have long abandoned it, with terrain and builds from old versions, especially if there are no mobs spawning, is the perfect example of a liminal space. Gives me chills
This made me sad as hell ngl. I have played the game since 09 myself, and due to the stage I'm at in life seeing things like this that were clearly popular and loved at one point now abandoned really drives home the "All my local friends moved, and have lives now" feeling of going from a minor to a young adult, to now a genuinely grown ass man. One thing I think the modern world has cursed us with is the transience of any stage we have in life, and in a weird way this abandoned Minecraft server is basically a great big oil portrait of that feeling.
there are still people playing on the server also, kind of ranty to talk about the world being transient for you when the server has lasted for quite a while/(being like the other guy) and trying to make a social statement that is nothing more than an empty platitude, like, did you even watch it? no offense to your feelings, but this is hardly abandoned
I got the same rush of nostalgia when they were reading the old signs of creators that no longer play. Im 24yo now, I own a home and have a busy life but I sometimes go back on my ps3 that i just use for Netflix now and scroll down my psn friends and remember playing with many of them every night when i was 11-15yo that haven't been logged on for several years. Ill never remember some of their real names, nor will i ever be able to contact them again. There was a day with every one of them that we logged off for the night saying "ill be on tomorrow" and that would be the last time i played with them unknowingly and its sorta depressing. Friendships built in early life and now lost forever. I wish i could find some of them to see where they are in life, if they are all alive and healthy and just to say hi.
I'm right with you.. I loved this game so much and I still do but now that I have grown up and have a daughter I just don't have the time for kt.. perhaps someday I'll play with my kid and pass on the mantle
This looks like an incredibly fun server to join but its probably best to wait like a year until all the hype dies down and the original vibe is back. Maybe I'll give it a look some time...
I never join any “small following” servers that has been covered by a large RUclipsr or multiple ya channels. This has probably either been as plug-inned as MC Online or is now just 1 giant crater like 2b2t. Sad...
@@canon-de-75 Yeah, videos like these are a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, you get to find out about all sorts of cool niche projects to take part in. On the other, so does everyone else and some people like to ruin things for other people. But I think this hype is a one-time deal, so maybe it'll wear off and it could be fun again eventually. That is unless some big RUclipsr like FitMC covers it or something, then its toast for good.
As others have said, you really can't expect people to not grief this stuff. It always makes me sad to be exploring a Pixelmon world and find towns and faction bases that have been completely torn apart because the locusts are too lazy to make their own glass or Healer or what have you.
to be fair these older servers and worlds seem like they've got very experienced people running them, so there's likely backups of the worlds and protections in place
First minecraft server I ever played on. Not sure how my friends found it, but they wanted me to join 2012/2013. Had no idea of the history and this video is a total nostalgia trip. Seeing Doozie and Rbos is like a fever dream. If you’re ever online see if /warp HT still works. That was my base for the horse update. The previous star gate for the original 2013 base was destroyed. I think I remember eighth or ninth spawn being the one in which I started. Also-the server mall was awe-inspiring back in the early days of minecraft.
Almost makes me feel sad out of nostalgia....I just wish i could have had the OG experience for longer. Now going on to new servers, it just feels a little emotionless, nothing like it used to feel in 2010-2011. It must be awesome being able to see such veteran players pop back here and there. I hope that the 2b2t community does not come here. Please let this server be peaceful like it is
I feel you bro. All the communities I was once part of are dead now and the rare times I visit minecraft, I see no familiar faces, only some toxic new kids that are under the age of 14.
I feel the same way. Minecraft just feels too polished and complex nowadays, I don't feel the same wonder like I did back then when I play it nowadays. Maybe that's just because I'm older and feel nostalgic over when I was younger and playing for the first time. I went on 2b2t a few years back and would just walk around the spawn looking at old bases. There's something really charming about old builds made out of cobblestone and wood and nothing else. But I had to quit because it made me sad thinking about how the people who made them have long since moved on.
Yeah I totally agree. Seeing something someone took time and effort to create that's essentially lost to time, nothing but a fading memory to it's creators. Gives you a feeling of nostalgia and the feeling of uncovering something lost to time
I think it helps that a lot of the people who grew up playing have now grown up and are adults. I like watching stuff like this because it's like a little bit of my childhood
I really love this video. Not only do you give us an in game tour, you include the dates of when certain structures were built, but you actually got to have a bit of an interview with a server veteran. Minecraft is a rare type of game. With the multiplayer aspect and the immense open-world aspect of the game, it parallels to real life impressively. It's just surreal to think about. Awesome video man. I know I'm late to the video, but I've been playing a lot of Minecraft lately, and just discovered your channel. Started playing in late 2011, only singleplayer, and stopped playing around 2015. Not to mention I didn't even have the legit copy until I started getting back into it in 2020. That's when I actually bought it. I was 15 when I started playing, so I didn't care about getting the legit version, nor did I have the money to. But coming back in recent years, man I missed a lot. And I've been bingeing it this year, focusing on my own world, building and living. And there's just something so interesting about Minecraft worlds that have been going for a while. I've recovered some of my own worlds from 2012, and I opened one, and it was just so weird to see it after a decade. Sorry, I tend to ramble. To anyone that's made it this far into my comment, thank you and hope you're doing well right now. All I can offer is this nugget of information as reward; Don't
I love the interview. It's nice to know somebody who shares the same thoughts has this server to look back on themselves and not just their own memories.
So glad people are starting to notice this server! Makes me happy! Btw there is a full 1 hour and 40 minute video of an interview I did with rbos on my channel if anyone is interested in viewing it!
@@kama2106 Yep this servers gonna have to be locked down as tight as MC Online with plugins. Goodbye to the tight-knit community they’re talking about- it’ll be like a Minecraft immigration crisis.
There’s a haunting nostalgia to this. I started playing by… 1.3.2? Seeing these builds made me feel like Adam and Eve after eating the apple. Looking into my heart and suddenly realizing there’s a hole where this used to be. A sense of familiar community. Such a cathartic feeling. This was a great vid and wish the best for this server!
Fun how you can find some holes that go straight down or in a certain direction on that server. Which is likely from early survival minecraft, where in online some chunks could fail to load so you would have a large unloaded square and would be able to see ores all the way down to diamond. I remember doing that back in the day.
Man I miss this kinda server. I had one that was this vibe for a while, but naturally 'anarchy' players had to come in and make it all about how 'anarchy means no rules' and the community basically died in like 3 months. I and a couple other dudes made a nation state, and we were at war with another nation state, but we had rules of engagement and didn't just trash each other's builds. We lost a war and our first base was 'conquered' so we took all we could carry and fled through the nether to a new land far away. We built a forward operating base, and began to dredge an underwater ravine for our new base. A server glitch rolled back our progress while I was underground and almost suffocated, so with only what I had in my inventory I dug my way out and set up a platform in the middle of the sea. I survived for weeks, building up this platform into a beacon in the middle of an endless sea, until a friendly player joined up an got me some hearts of the sea (this was when they were brand new). We raided nearby sea temples for prismarine and sponges and around the base of the tower we made a sprawling undersea city. Massive farm chambers, kelp fields, neighborhoods, markets, all based around the sea hearts. We even had a skeleton horse racetrack. From there we built boats and colonized every island one by one that was on our map of the sea. One was shepherd's island, where we mass farmed sheep. Another was sandbar reef, a glass factory near a desert. We had The Keep, a massive fortress on the spit of our largest island, and a walled city around a massive cathedral on the island proper where we had a fully functional village and cattle ranch. Finally, we had some extreme hills at the border that became a massive fortress, where all our skilled exports were done, which became a rail junction for a rail system that served the whole nation. All this from losing a territory dispute. Then the 'anarchy' guys came. Only the island city survived, and only because it was so far from the nether highway and had yet to be served by the rail system, and was a thousand blocks from the nearest land. TNT duping leveled the entire hill into a crater, the tower was sacked and the undersea city looted and flooded, and 6 straight months of work was gone overnight. I let it go and moved a million blocks away to some friends and built an embassy in exile, trying to salvage the experience. In another week it was a crater. I gave up after that, haven't really played since. It sucks the fun out when you actually put effort into something and some talentless hack has to ruin it because they can't stand to see anyone else have a good time.
This is honestly the problem the minecraft community. Servers like the DSMP have suddenly popularized the idea of no-rules anarchy and have made once peaceful friendly servers into a war/violent story driven mini 2b2t servers. This is why servers like og-network try to recreate the classic friendly nature of Minecraft servers of 2010, but still fail because of these toxic, anarchy loving 9 year olds. I myself have this same experience just like the original poster of the comment. I played with my friend back in 2020 during the pandemic, having nothing better to do, I made a minecraft server and invited my friend to play. Overtime he basically became the same toxic and anarchal (is that even a word?) guy that OP has described. I wanted to check out how the server was doing and then I find that he blown up the f*cking server spawn like a maniac. Though I think I should take some blame after going out my way to make him watch DSMP, and I assume that he got hooked and the more he watched, the more he was almost evangelizing himself that… Peace=Bad Anarchy=Good So I can really feel the massive pain that OP felt after all the work they made, SIX WHOLE MONTHS OF HARD WORK! Fall to the hands of these IDIOTS! Fin.
@@justamrcreeper6467 anarchic is the word you were looking for, but yeah. It's a shame. You pretty much have to have chill irl friends to have a chill Minecraft Multiplayer experience, and treat it like a D&D campaign in a way where you're incentivized not to be a murderhobo. People who take pride in what they do. That's a hard ask these days.
This is awsome server. This server really gives me the “load up a world with my friends and start building in survival at 9pm on Friday” feeling. It’s really gives me the nostalgia.
I love the fact that you shine light on these small and incredibly old servers, but the wave of people that might come to see what it’s like and the people who would inevitably come to try and destroy things might be too much for them. I’d have personally kept quiet about the community.
Just getting into the game now as an adult, never realized the level of complexity of such a simple looking game, hats off to all the builders knowing now how much work goes into creating these amazing structures.
It makes me feel like crying seeing memories and moments trapped in time like a prism, people who were kids long ago building late into the night, only to move on with family kids and jobs, their innocent dreams and moments capture forever in a castle of countless hours and detail.
It felt so sad when he was talking to the guy and he was talking about people not being on for years, no one being on, feels like such a different time. Started playing Minecraft early elementary school, still playing and im graduating from high school
my dad and some of his friends had a minecraft server in 2010, he hosted it and it went on for about 2 years, until it hacked and deleted one day, they decided to stop the server, and we still have a drive with the non-griefed server, its preaty cool to look at just becasue of the building styles and scale of the builds.
Great video dude, I hope people enjoy the server, it's been a long road and we've been lucky to have a great owner and dedicated staff, it's exciting to see people take an interest in the server. See you out there!
Oh my God it's actually you! Glad to see you're still around Minecraft and moderating the server. Let's hope there's not much griefing with the boost in players from this video. Loved to know your experience with server and it's history btw
It's fascinating and super interesting to hear about but honestly, I feel like the server would've been safer to remain hidden just due to how the nature of the internet works and how some pople will act
This guy chose to make quick money, views and subs off of this ancient server and it's vulnerable community. That server and it's community was kept safe by it's isolation. Now it'll be swarmed by people who watch this video. They will grief the server, steal items from peoples bases and generally water down any history this server has. When I saw this video I immediately thought they're going to swarm the server, wreck a lot of stuff. People won't be able to go back to their bases as the server cap will be full. The mods and Admin will be completely understaffed and overwhelmed. Nothing good will come of this.
I love adventuring old worlds that my little brother and I started years ago to find builds that we started and never finished and items in furnaces and stuff like that. It’s like a Time Capsule of our childhood and it’s cool to remember what we were planning on doing and just never finished.
*this honestly made me cry, I never played in servers, never had the privilege to own minecraft at an early age like others* *but seeing the amount of memories, talent, and beauty in each spawn was truly magnificent, it made me very happy to see that even if the others has grown apart there's this one person that will always maintain the server* *Thank you for showing us the beauty and memory in each and every building*
@Rilelyscastle Well both the name Stargate and WormholeXtreme are from the Sci-fi series Stargate. I coincidentally build all my standard nether portals that way.
This is so cool and really brought back some nostalgia remembering my old Minecraft worlds from when I first picked up the game in like 2011 or 2012? Really gave me some great memories thanks for the vid! I really hope anyone who decides to try this server out is respectful to what is already there this is a great find
I joined Novylen in august of 2022, pretty late ik. However, i have been a regular on the server, making my own village called Copper Village. The server is so, so amazing, the whole server is like a family
loved this video especially how you involved people actually from the server! feels so nostalgic, reminds me of my first server cobalt, although it’s long gone now
Watching this video made me feel like an archeologist. Looking at treasures from the past like fossils of long lost dinosaurs, undisturbed for millennia. The mystery of seeing a structure and trying to piece together what the builder was thinking or trying to achieve with their choice of building blocks and design.
This is probably the best server I’ve ever seen. I have been looking for a survival multiplayer world that is pretty chill for a while and I think this is the best server of that nature possibly in Minecraft’s entire history. Thank you for this video although I fear the popularity you have shined upon this server could backfire in the form of more griefers but hopefully that won’t be the case. Unfortunately I don’t play Java Minecraft (I only do Bedrock Minecraft) so I can’t play on this server. Thank you!!!
Holy shit. This is cool as hell. It's almost emotional, it's like a 2011 nostalgia time capsule. It's melancholic in a way, but also romantic of sorts. I remember the old days and this vid, hearing about this server, tugged at my heart strings. It's another world, one frozen in time, I mean, just look at that stuff you found that was potentially lying there for a decade, it's weird to think about. Time's marched on but this server didn't. The players and the game has changed so much with time, but this server hasn't, it's a fragment of a past that feels distant now
My server has been running since 3rd March 2012 and it started with just one friend and me, now our "community" is about 10 ppl large and having celebrated the 10 year anniversary earlier this year was a wild emotional and nostalgic ride. I still have backups of our very first maps and builds and going back and seeing how we progressed in building styles etc ... a truly wild ride
Man, Minecraft is such a unique thing. For lots of us is mora than a game. Is where we were when we were younger. Where we have our most joyful moments. Seen Doggrafe walk around and remembering funny stories about the town and its buildings was like feeling nostalgia for a place non of us never know, but yet all deep inside, know it. I think is called Anemoia "Nostalgia for a time you've never known". I'll give anything if i can have my old maps back. My first server back. Mi first night out. My first cave. My First friend in the game. My first home.
Your comment is so powerful, I feel the same way. And I'm sure a lot of players do. I haven't been playing the game nearly as long as some people, but I woud give anything to be able to go back and see my first world again, to explore those first builds when I was just learning the game. I know my build skills then were nothing like they are today, but there's something amazing about the adventure of learning and discovering new things in a game like this. I totally understand now why kids that grew up with the game feel the way they do. I didn't get into the game until a few years ago, but I already have so many powerful memories of the game, and just watching this and seeing those cobblestone and glass builds feels nostalgic to me. Sure, they are kind of ugly, but they're endearing because they bring back memories of my own first builds. My first house was just a cobblestone box with sand floors, and I remember spending the very first night in that box looking at the hoards of mobs outside because I didn't even have a bed yet. I don't know, I've been a gamer my whole life, over 34 years now, and no other game has ever given me the feelings Minecraft does, it's indescribable.
Minecraft is something that everyone can enjoy. Older people and younger people alike. It’s not something we like because it updates all the time, it’s something we enjoy because we know it will be there for when we get bored and then find intrest in it again. I’m glad we’re still uncovering it’s past and making waves for the future!
@@schmingbeefin4473 its a picrew:) its basically a character creator and lots of ppl use it as their pfp and this specific one is rlly popular. hope this helps!
Love the vid! I think you should make a video of the history of minecraft chunk mining speedruns. They're are quite a few things that might surprise you with different methods and plenty of different people through the years and updates especially in 1.18.
That was wholesome to watch. Thank you for all your research and thanks to everyone on the Novelyn server who shared their memories and experiences. This is amazing.
everyone who's ever lived has had this experience. people grow apart, people leave, people die. but for those people to grow apart from each other, they had to have the most wonderful experiences to remember. i remember every single friend i made in minecraft, in gaming, and in life, because of that one unique trait that life gives us, the ability to love and share our limited time with eachother. this video is a blast from the past, and it makes me want to load up my old xbox 360 and take a look down memory lane. maybe i'll ask the old friends i still have contact with to join me
I started playing minecraft in 2012 and never stopped playing since and its crazy how the kids I used to play with went from squeakers to now graduating highschool, I remember all the different worlds I would join and how eveyone always had a fully wood or cobblestone house, just that feeling of going home from school and on the bus thinking about playing with your minecraft friends, life just seemed so simple then, this really made me emotional
@@aadarshroy3216 mojang has better things to do with their resources. It's up to server owners to have the appropriate plugins, backups, and staff to ensure that things don't get destroyed.
Damn, time flies by. I never played on this, but the world just reminds me of the old times in Minecraft. I wish I could join it and just look around, but I play on PS4 and don’t have a Microsoft account.
Does anyone know of any other servers like this one? It doesn't need to be old or anything, just the 'small friendly server' feel. I'm kinda tired of singleplayer or massive servers. Appreciate it!
feel you. I've played with a friend for years but it is sort of boring since no one sees the results. Things have gotten so bad that we have lived separately for last few iterations :D For a while we resetted the World between any major updates but have recently just moved one map right with every update (and kept that direction pristine nogo-zone until update).
I have been playing on this server since before BETA 1.8. I join it every few months to look out my old builds and to update my main ones. Very strange to see a video on it and so many people on the server now.
That is I believe the coolest thing I've seen on RUclips yet man please keep it up because that brought back wonderful memories of playing this game. I've basically stopped playing due to the immaturity in the game
This is what I love about minecraft. Even if you get bored you can always come back and keep playing. Most games when you finish them you don’t really need to play them again.
I remember being around 5 years late to discovering iCanHasGrief and other old MC RUclipsrs and trying to join some servers seen in their videos, it was an interesting experience. There are so many abandoned servers still running to this day
I find it awesome that these bits of Minecraft history are still in existence and really shows the dedication of these early Minecrafters who's work has been hiding for years
It must bring back a lot of memories when folks walk around the map and see old builds and then seeing names they haven't seen in years. Likely sad memories too.
Man, seeing a stargate portal just triggered so many dormant memories of joining servers and just walking around sight-seeing what other people had built and griefed. I kinda wanna get back into multiplayer now
The history on this server is really cool and the old 11 year neighborhoods, cities, and bases are really cool! Something from king lost eras of Minecraft!
I miss servers like these. The smaller ones with a tight-knit community of players who've been there forever. Takes me back to 2012 when I first started playing the game.
My brother had an early server back in 2010. It was just me, him, and his friends. Had a few plugins. Good memories. Still have the computer he literally made to host it.
Even tho im not a new player, i absolutely agree with you, they give off a vibe of exploring an ancient temple or haunted mansion full of familliar things
omg its been years since i played that server,its like one big flash back . i played it when i was 5 and one of my fondest memories i will need to go back one day , miss the old days
If you check the server out, remember to be respectful!
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@@OfficerK7 lol what
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The rabbit hole goes deeper and deeper, awesome find!
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waiting for the vid about this getting raided :)
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can't wait for "how 2b2t players raided the oldest minecraft server 2"
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It’s honestly crazy that this server STILL exists, and that players still play on it, please keep putting out these absolute fantastic videos!
Thanks!
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Indeed
@Projit everytime i read a comment with a good message, i already expect a shameless self promotion. But i do not fall for your tricks! No subs for u.
There’s something eerie about servers like this. When you mentioned items that had been stuck in unloaded chunks for years, or how former players have kids now…
It’s like the world is frozen in time. A bunch of data long forgotten, despite being such a big part of a few people’s lives.
I’m struggling to find words to describe how it makes me feel
melancholic
You could describe them as liminal spaces
Yes crazy
Kenopsia. The eeriness of places left behind. Its the same feeling you get when spending time in places of transit or abandoned spaces. Its this feeling of emptiness and the weight of the past that has long gone by these places exude.
Just looking through the map made me feel like I was going through someone's childhood bedroom.
“They probably have kids or something.”
Honestly, even with a low population, it’s likely at least one of those bases is the legacy of someone who has passed away. Pretty wild to tour with that in mind
I would cry if such bases were destroyed in my very eyes, while knowing the one who made them
I cant imagine what it will be like in 100 years on servers like this. Pretty much everything will be built by a deceased people. Imagine just walking through the spawn of this server or Minecraft online in 100 years and realizing that. At some point in the future it will feel like walking through ancient ruins in real life, except this time everything is perfectly preserved exactly as the players left it. This is one reason why I hope these servers and minecraft in general last that long.
@@snowcoal 😭😭😭
@@wiredmouse3759 jesus just thinking about it made me teary
@@snowcoal it’s not that deep
I started playing Julyish 2010. My very first map I loaded into is still the only one I play on. My best friend and I still get on and play together. It was a rare alpha snow map when created (1 in 5?) and has crazy terrain. It's one of the most sentimental things in my life. I still share it with all the people that mean the most to me. It will be 11 years old this year ❤
Wow I wish I had the first map that I played on. I still remember it in my head tho- it’s crystal clear
@@nospeedlimit4me58 i remember i used to play one of the first versions of mcpe. I dont have any of my old worlds, that had the 256 by 256 records
Do backups of it on other disks and in a cloud bro! If it's not already done
@@Neebotolzonzonoe it's on so many drives and it's on my realms server. It's not going anywhere ❤️
Please consider doing a world tour video!
I went on the server and waited in queue for about an hour and got in. Toured a bit and went on the rails highway, and within like 15 minutes I found a god-horse with 26 hearts on a guy's dead body. From what I can find this was only possible in the snapshots of 1.6, and was removed once 1.6 released, so I found an 8.5 year old horse. Already found a great piece of history. This server's story is just waiting to be told.
That was released in 2013 if I remember correctly :D
Ah man, I remember being stuck on 1.5.2 because the old launcher didn't require you to buy the game to play it, you could really easily bypass the login. Horses weren't even a thing yet, glad to see something so old and yet still so untouched. I wonder if I can find any of my old worlds
@@ashirii8347 the old AnjoCaido launcher yeah, i remember those days
repent g
@@ashirii8347 damn I wasn’t that smart as a kid haha, forced my parents to buy it upon release
Been on the server for 10+ years, its a great one and it's crazy it's getting so much attention all of a sudden! Thank you!
You can see my very old house at 10:29 and I'm the friend Dograffe talks about here, I'm honored to have been included despite the build quality lol. Thanks again.
I'm sure the attention is nice but I'm also certain that the server isn't running too well right about now lol.
How many people are currently on it? It must be getting crazy
I suggest you cover your house in obsidian
The hackers are coming for the loot
@@TrulyAtrocious they make backups. it's fine.
I hope this becoming well known doesn’t ruin the server for them :(
ruclips.net/video/A00-TC3J8SE/видео.html&ab_channel=ZENITH
It's was ruined
How badly? @@everythingpony
@@OhDeerJocelyn its all gone
@@OhDeerJocelyn It wasn't, we're fine
Another old cool server is 90gQ, it's been up since the 19th of October 2010 and is still active. It was created by a Swedish youtuber named Stamsite. They have been doing backups like crazy and has moved towns every now and again so there's places that's been frozen in time when it comes to building design. There's over 700 episodes of footage dating back to when the server was created. It's a private server tho.
I was about to mention that server! Love that one
Ip?
Maybe read the comment first.@@teamok1025
@@teamok1025”private server”
This server really does feel like a nice place to chill. The whole "private server with friends" feel and that.
Makes me miss our private server with friends despite only having it for 9 months before the owner couldn't keep it up anymore. A lot happened in those 9 months.
yeah same, it was awesome tho
never experienced any of this, my friends would just pvp on every smp we made.
@@minhwaan funnily enough pvp was rare in our former server. Since half of the playerbase were casuals leaning more into builders. And it was an uphill battle to go up against me, the first person in the server to have a complete set of Netherite gear(My Netherite Axe with Sharpness 5 was one that single most damaging single hits in the server done by a player beyond admin powers.)
So our PvPs are organized "fight clubs" no armor, no weapons, just fists.
i wish i experienced more of this, i only had an smp with friends for a few months.
imagine what happened in this server in 10+ years
Sometimes I think things like this should be left undiscovered, I am so worried about the impact of the publicity this server has now got.
Yea
I know these youtubers don't think its what they're doing. But I feel like it's kind of just exploiting small communities for novelty clicks.
@@CornRecords972 I see what you mean. There wouldn't be a video if the community on the server didn't agree to it, so I'm not blaming the RUclipsr exactly. Just saying the video might have unintended consequences neither party would want
maybe it also did some good and re united old friends
I have been playing novylen since I was 14 (10 years ago) and this influx of players made the server lively again, which is cool because it has been pretty dead the last few years.
But I can’t even join the server anymore, as an OG white listed member. takes 2 hours to get past the queue, kinda feels like being kicked out of your own home so people off the street can move in. oh well.
I really hope the server is protected against griefing
3b3t
@@LaelGames7913 1B1T Minecraft, but TNT explodes, and Fire spread are off, keep inventory is on, and it's on peaceful.
At least they have backups
Same, now that it is known o worry it eill be griefed
@Projit shut up
Seeing the older builds and how Minecraft used to look really hits me. I played the most in 2013. I just miss old Minecraft
I introduced to Minecraft in 2014 by my best friend on his computer I still remember me and him deciding to make a army of Golems and build a wall around the village
I started back with seananners first video. Probably like 2011 ish. I set up a server around this time but only on my local machine IP. Wish those days
This is really sad hearing how everyone he played with hasn’t been on in years. That hit home
This is amazing, I just hope that they have lots of backups and whitelists and stuff because 2b2t players are gonna try to annihilate it the second they hear about it.
Yuuuuup...
Fr
Yeah same
Well some 2b2t players have tool which searched for servers. Not sure if that tool can or can't bypass whitelist.
I'd imagine that they'd turn off griefing so idiots don't come to ruin a ounce small community.
Daniel36407; I started playing on Minecraft Novylen about 10 years ago when I was in elementary school. I’m grateful that I stayed playing on it, as it’s now the only server that still has the original overworld and my original house from when I used to play with my friends. After this video was posted people started showing up, which has been a little hectic for Doozie and Rbos with the server load but people are more than welcome to join.
Don’t forget to donate to the server!
Thank you guys for being so friendly. This may motivate me to actually pick minecraft back up again, and maybe even fix my account issues. I hope you and all the other server members stay happy and that life treats you well. Also hearing about this made me want to cry, since I've experienced the same thing over and over again. Even if it was me leaving, it still hurts to know that I rarely get to talk with those old friends.
I remember a few years ago when I left my country and travelled for a year around Europe with my mum. I didn't have a phone or use email back then since I was a kid who spent more time reading books than anything else. When I got back I couldn't even get in contact with my old friends besides one of them who I haven't been able to talk to since. That was years ago and my sentimental ass still can't get over it.
Edit: sorry for going off on a tangent, I'm just feeling quite sad after all that.
Question do you guys have grief protection?
;-;
We hope you guys have protection against griefers. Oh and a experienced and well made moderation team. You guys are gonna need it.
Filipino?
It's actually kind of weird that older Minecraft bases look beautiful regardless of what of you do. The scale doesn't need to be big, the block choice doesn't have to be great (because there aren't too many blocks in the first place). Whatever you make using cobblestone and oak planks, looks kind of nice and beautiful. Is it just me who thinks so?
I have a big base for enchanting, brewing, smelting, farming and stuff like that. And I have a little house to just chill, relax, and watch the sunset.
Defenitly agree
Yeah and this is not because of nostalgia cos ugly dirt houses with glass windows still look ugly like back in the day
@@igorigor3960 true lmao
@@igorigor3960 was thinking “well that’s just cause it’s nostalgic” until I read your comment lmao
I just remembered how old Minecraft actually is. Thinking back, I remember in my childhood how I would just load up a new world and make lava mountains. Then load up another and make towns and cities in creative.
Me thinking back like that made me realize that Minecraft will never get old.
The days when I would always build a volcano, I don't even know why okay. :'-)
I first discovered it back pre-survival... Got bored and forgot about it
Then my friends discovered it whenever mods were becoming a big thing... adventure mods for dungeon crawls, or to imitate games like Zelda. Finally after playing 1.12 for ages and losing a world I'd spent six straight months working on...I took a break, and then came back when 1.16 was out. There are "better/prettier/etc" games of this type, sure... but they're not MINECRAFT, and somehow that shows.
I used to grief and destroy random villages in Minecraft. One time, I even built a secret villain base in a nearby mountain, and then we'd fly over to the village, kidnap the inhabitants, and set their houses on fire. It was so fun, you guys should try it.
@Projit I cant HAHAHAHAHA
Indeed, it’s a timeless game. The only game I can think of that has gotten more popular since it’s initial release 10 years ago
As I'm older now (just turned 33 a few days ago), I've had to come to terms with how time feels and is changing.
2009-2010 wasn't THAT long ago, for me, but at the same time, so much has happened in my life and in the world since, that it feels absolutely ancient.
Time is such a bizarre thing to quantify and seeing videos like this gives me that vibe even more strongly.
i envy the fact you got to experience some of the best parts of gaming history im 17 so i missed every thing from the 2000s up until about 2019 2020 when i actually started becoming a person and knew what i enjoyed i would pay a lot of money to just experience the early days of minecraft game launch nights eg halo 3 bo2 game nights and LAN party's ect
fuck I'm 18 and 2010 feels like yesterday, it truly feels like life has passed me by and though now I'm taller than my parents and have a beard, it feels like it was not too long ago when I was in elementary playing soccer with my friends and dueling them in super smash bros.
its crazy to hear your point of view on this, as im 16 and this feels weird to me as i wasnt even playing minecraft when this server was created
@@soooslaaal8204 fr us 18 year olds grew up way to fast
@@Byron-Hungerford seem like a chill young dude. Gaming used to be legendary man I’m 25
Thats one way to destroy a small community...
whitelist exists
im 100% sure all the players before this probably are playing on the real server, i bet that the IP he gave use is a duplicate of it, or the OG players just moved to a duplicate of the server onto a realm or something
@@jonahhammond1360 hopefully
An empty Minecraft server filled with signs from players who have long abandoned it, with terrain and builds from old versions, especially if there are no mobs spawning, is the perfect example of a liminal space. Gives me chills
Almost makes me sad. Seeing something that isn't anything but a distant memory to the creators
It's like a lost civilization
This made me sad as hell ngl. I have played the game since 09 myself, and due to the stage I'm at in life seeing things like this that were clearly popular and loved at one point now abandoned really drives home the "All my local friends moved, and have lives now" feeling of going from a minor to a young adult, to now a genuinely grown ass man. One thing I think the modern world has cursed us with is the transience of any stage we have in life, and in a weird way this abandoned Minecraft server is basically a great big oil portrait of that feeling.
modern world wants to keep us in an eternal childhood, and not in the good sense...
there are still people playing on the server
also, kind of ranty to talk about the world being transient for you when the server has lasted for quite a while/(being like the other guy) and trying to make a social statement that is nothing more than an empty platitude, like, did you even watch it? no offense to your feelings, but this is hardly abandoned
I got the same rush of nostalgia when they were reading the old signs of creators that no longer play. Im 24yo now, I own a home and have a busy life but I sometimes go back on my ps3 that i just use for Netflix now and scroll down my psn friends and remember playing with many of them every night when i was 11-15yo that haven't been logged on for several years. Ill never remember some of their real names, nor will i ever be able to contact them again. There was a day with every one of them that we logged off for the night saying "ill be on tomorrow" and that would be the last time i played with them unknowingly and its sorta depressing. Friendships built in early life and now lost forever. I wish i could find some of them to see where they are in life, if they are all alive and healthy and just to say hi.
I'm right with you.. I loved this game so much and I still do but now that I have grown up and have a daughter I just don't have the time for kt.. perhaps someday I'll play with my kid and pass on the mantle
''cursed us with is the transience of any stage we have in life'' wdym. Why does it make you sad
This looks like an incredibly fun server to join but its probably best to wait like a year until all the hype dies down and the original vibe is back. Maybe I'll give it a look some time...
I never join any “small following” servers that has been covered by a large RUclipsr or multiple ya channels. This has probably either been as plug-inned as MC Online or is now just 1 giant crater like 2b2t. Sad...
@@canon-de-75 Yeah, videos like these are a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, you get to find out about all sorts of cool niche projects to take part in. On the other, so does everyone else and some people like to ruin things for other people. But I think this hype is a one-time deal, so maybe it'll wear off and it could be fun again eventually. That is unless some big RUclipsr like FitMC covers it or something, then its toast for good.
@Projit shut up
@@StuffandThings_ it has regular backups
The original vibe will never return a lot of players will stay
As others have said, you really can't expect people to not grief this stuff. It always makes me sad to be exploring a Pixelmon world and find towns and faction bases that have been completely torn apart because the locusts are too lazy to make their own glass or Healer or what have you.
to be fair these older servers and worlds seem like they've got very experienced people running them, so there's likely backups of the worlds and protections in place
First minecraft server I ever played on. Not sure how my friends found it, but they wanted me to join 2012/2013. Had no idea of the history and this video is a total nostalgia trip. Seeing Doozie and Rbos is like a fever dream.
If you’re ever online see if /warp HT still works. That was my base for the horse update. The previous star gate for the original 2013 base was destroyed.
I think I remember eighth or ninth spawn being the one in which I started.
Also-the server mall was awe-inspiring back in the early days of minecraft.
wow this sure is a nice and friendly place, I sure hope nothing b...
300,000k people: good evening
By far the funniest comm here lol
wdym
@@lucaswallo8127 He means 2b2t sequel.
Or should i say...
3c3u....
300,000,000? that's quite a lot.
@@sikoetu5349 I guess this video is gonna end up reaching 200 times more people than it has so far...
Almost makes me feel sad out of nostalgia....I just wish i could have had the OG experience for longer. Now going on to new servers, it just feels a little emotionless, nothing like it used to feel in 2010-2011. It must be awesome being able to see such veteran players pop back here and there. I hope that the 2b2t community does not come here. Please let this server be peaceful like it is
This is a God damn mood right here.
I feel you bro. All the communities I was once part of are dead now and the rare times I visit minecraft, I see no familiar faces, only some toxic new kids that are under the age of 14.
Everyone who’s planning on joining. I may consider a group on the server called “The Guardians” or “The Protectors”
I feel the same way. Minecraft just feels too polished and complex nowadays, I don't feel the same wonder like I did back then when I play it nowadays. Maybe that's just because I'm older and feel nostalgic over when I was younger and playing for the first time.
I went on 2b2t a few years back and would just walk around the spawn looking at old bases. There's something really charming about old builds made out of cobblestone and wood and nothing else. But I had to quit because it made me sad thinking about how the people who made them have long since moved on.
I'm pretty sure the server owner's made multiple backups since jerks like to ruin whatever get attention.
I love that "minecraft history" is an increasingly common topic of discussion. It sounds so silly at first but its fascinating.
Yeah I totally agree. Seeing something someone took time and effort to create that's essentially lost to time, nothing but a fading memory to it's creators. Gives you a feeling of nostalgia and the feeling of uncovering something lost to time
I think it helps that a lot of the people who grew up playing have now grown up and are adults. I like watching stuff like this because it's like a little bit of my childhood
I really love this video. Not only do you give us an in game tour, you include the dates of when certain structures were built, but you actually got to have a bit of an interview with a server veteran. Minecraft is a rare type of game. With the multiplayer aspect and the immense open-world aspect of the game, it parallels to real life impressively. It's just surreal to think about. Awesome video man. I know I'm late to the video, but I've been playing a lot of Minecraft lately, and just discovered your channel. Started playing in late 2011, only singleplayer, and stopped playing around 2015. Not to mention I didn't even have the legit copy until I started getting back into it in 2020. That's when I actually bought it. I was 15 when I started playing, so I didn't care about getting the legit version, nor did I have the money to. But coming back in recent years, man I missed a lot. And I've been bingeing it this year, focusing on my own world, building and living. And there's just something so interesting about Minecraft worlds that have been going for a while. I've recovered some of my own worlds from 2012, and I opened one, and it was just so weird to see it after a decade. Sorry, I tend to ramble. To anyone that's made it this far into my comment, thank you and hope you're doing well right now. All I can offer is this nugget of information as reward; Don't
I love the interview. It's nice to know somebody who shares the same thoughts has this server to look back on themselves and not just their own memories.
So glad people are starting to notice this server! Makes me happy!
Btw there is a full 1 hour and 40 minute video of an interview I did with rbos on my channel if anyone is interested in viewing it!
Great discovery!
@@TheMisterEpic Thanks a ton man for crediting me!
@@SapLow Watch out for those 2b2t griefers who are jealous
I dont think it is good that general public starts to discover this server, and I m speaking this as a general public
@@kama2106 Yep this servers gonna have to be locked down as tight as MC Online with plugins. Goodbye to the tight-knit community they’re talking about- it’ll be like a Minecraft immigration crisis.
Yo, it’s great that it’s an Aussie server, it’s nice to know that the community isn’t just contained to other countries.
Let’s go
It's not hosted in Australia, just has lots of Australian players
@@TheMisterEpic good enough
@Projit
Shut up bot
it is hosted in the west of north america
Can't wait for FitMC to cover "how the oldest server in minecraft got raided" lmao
Wouldn't be surprised
Nooooooooo
@@DistrosProjects Hell he'd probably say to do it on an alt
They have backups, so it would be a tragic event, but it wouldn't be the end.
he did say he was gonna take time on the new video
hes just waiting for this one to get griefed isnt he?
There’s a haunting nostalgia to this. I started playing by… 1.3.2? Seeing these builds made me feel like Adam and Eve after eating the apple. Looking into my heart and suddenly realizing there’s a hole where this used to be. A sense of familiar community. Such a cathartic feeling.
This was a great vid and wish the best for this server!
Fun how you can find some holes that go straight down or in a certain direction on that server. Which is likely from early survival minecraft, where in online some chunks could fail to load so you would have a large unloaded square and would be able to see ores all the way down to diamond. I remember doing that back in the day.
Man I miss this kinda server. I had one that was this vibe for a while, but naturally 'anarchy' players had to come in and make it all about how 'anarchy means no rules' and the community basically died in like 3 months. I and a couple other dudes made a nation state, and we were at war with another nation state, but we had rules of engagement and didn't just trash each other's builds. We lost a war and our first base was 'conquered' so we took all we could carry and fled through the nether to a new land far away. We built a forward operating base, and began to dredge an underwater ravine for our new base. A server glitch rolled back our progress while I was underground and almost suffocated, so with only what I had in my inventory I dug my way out and set up a platform in the middle of the sea. I survived for weeks, building up this platform into a beacon in the middle of an endless sea, until a friendly player joined up an got me some hearts of the sea (this was when they were brand new). We raided nearby sea temples for prismarine and sponges and around the base of the tower we made a sprawling undersea city. Massive farm chambers, kelp fields, neighborhoods, markets, all based around the sea hearts. We even had a skeleton horse racetrack. From there we built boats and colonized every island one by one that was on our map of the sea. One was shepherd's island, where we mass farmed sheep. Another was sandbar reef, a glass factory near a desert. We had The Keep, a massive fortress on the spit of our largest island, and a walled city around a massive cathedral on the island proper where we had a fully functional village and cattle ranch. Finally, we had some extreme hills at the border that became a massive fortress, where all our skilled exports were done, which became a rail junction for a rail system that served the whole nation. All this from losing a territory dispute.
Then the 'anarchy' guys came. Only the island city survived, and only because it was so far from the nether highway and had yet to be served by the rail system, and was a thousand blocks from the nearest land. TNT duping leveled the entire hill into a crater, the tower was sacked and the undersea city looted and flooded, and 6 straight months of work was gone overnight. I let it go and moved a million blocks away to some friends and built an embassy in exile, trying to salvage the experience. In another week it was a crater. I gave up after that, haven't really played since. It sucks the fun out when you actually put effort into something and some talentless hack has to ruin it because they can't stand to see anyone else have a good time.
this is the only reason i dont even try online survival out side of my friends
This is an exact simulation of real life, sped up.
Annoying hackers ruining games
This is honestly the problem the minecraft community. Servers like the DSMP have suddenly popularized the idea of no-rules anarchy and have made once peaceful friendly servers into a war/violent story driven mini 2b2t servers. This is why servers like og-network try to recreate the classic friendly nature of Minecraft servers of 2010, but still fail because of these toxic, anarchy loving 9 year olds.
I myself have this same experience just like the original poster of the comment. I played with my friend back in 2020 during the pandemic, having nothing better to do, I made a minecraft server and invited my friend to play. Overtime he basically became the same toxic and anarchal (is that even a word?) guy that OP has described. I wanted to check out how the server was doing and then I find that he blown up the f*cking server spawn like a maniac.
Though I think I should take some blame after going out my way to make him watch DSMP, and I assume that he got hooked and the more he watched, the more he was almost evangelizing himself that…
Peace=Bad
Anarchy=Good
So I can really feel the massive pain that OP felt after all the work they made, SIX WHOLE MONTHS OF HARD WORK! Fall to the hands of these IDIOTS!
Fin.
@@justamrcreeper6467 anarchic is the word you were looking for, but yeah. It's a shame. You pretty much have to have chill irl friends to have a chill Minecraft Multiplayer experience, and treat it like a D&D campaign in a way where you're incentivized not to be a murderhobo. People who take pride in what they do. That's a hard ask these days.
This is awsome server. This server really gives me the “load up a world with my friends and start building in survival at 9pm on Friday” feeling. It’s really gives me the nostalgia.
That's oddly specific...
I love the fact that you shine light on these small and incredibly old servers, but the wave of people that might come to see what it’s like and the people who would inevitably come to try and destroy things might be too much for them. I’d have personally kept quiet about the community.
Same, I would've talked about the server, but not showing the ip
he a youtuber who wants views and subs he doesnt care hence the possibley false title
@@Beetless he a youtuber who cant see into the future to see if there is a even older server
@@johnpayne5590 what?? he claim this server older than mco when they released the same day
@@BeetlessIt's always possible there is a server that was released the second minecraft was
Just getting into the game now as an adult, never realized the level of complexity of such a simple looking game, hats off to all the builders knowing now how much work goes into creating these amazing structures.
It makes me feel like crying seeing memories and moments trapped in time like a prism, people who were kids long ago building late into the night, only to move on with family kids and jobs, their innocent dreams and moments capture forever in a castle of countless hours and detail.
actually warms my heart how wholesome this community is and brings back so much nostalgia from the early days of minecraft
:( those times never going to come back
After this video the server got destroyed
There's something rather sad about seeing all those shops just sat awaiting their owners.
It's all just frozen in time.
It felt so sad when he was talking to the guy and he was talking about people not being on for years, no one being on, feels like such a different time. Started playing Minecraft early elementary school, still playing and im graduating from high school
my dad and some of his friends had a minecraft server in 2010, he hosted it and it went on for about 2 years, until it hacked and deleted one day, they decided to stop the server, and we still have a drive with the non-griefed server, its preaty cool to look at just becasue of the building styles and scale of the builds.
Great video dude, I hope people enjoy the server, it's been a long road and we've been lucky to have a great owner and dedicated staff, it's exciting to see people take an interest in the server.
See you out there!
Thanks for showing me around and having a chat with me!
i hope it doesn't get griefed!
Oh my God it's actually you! Glad to see you're still around Minecraft and moderating the server. Let's hope there's not much griefing with the boost in players from this video. Loved to know your experience with server and it's history btw
I hope that instead of ruining this masterpiece people with recognise the importance and respect it. It would be a sad day when it's griefed
backups exist...
What Ghosted_Gamer1 said, but yeah, no. It's the Internet. People don't know respect.
It's fascinating and super interesting to hear about but honestly, I feel like the server would've been safer to remain hidden just due to how the nature of the internet works and how some pople will act
This guy chose to make quick money, views and subs off of this ancient server and it's vulnerable community. That server and it's community was kept safe by it's isolation. Now it'll be swarmed by people who watch this video. They will grief the server, steal items from peoples bases and generally water down any history this server has. When I saw this video I immediately thought they're going to swarm the server, wreck a lot of stuff. People won't be able to go back to their bases as the server cap will be full. The mods and Admin will be completely understaffed and overwhelmed. Nothing good will come of this.
@@bluebowser3121 ok
@@ThatsTypical Only a child would think otherwise.
@@bluebowser3121 its* vulnerable community.
Sorry btw
@@bluebowser3121 I just said "ok," how is that disagreeing?
I love adventuring old worlds that my little brother and I started years ago to find builds that we started and never finished and items in furnaces and stuff like that. It’s like a Time Capsule of our childhood and it’s cool to remember what we were planning on doing and just never finished.
*this honestly made me cry, I never played in servers, never had the privilege to own minecraft at an early age like others*
*but seeing the amount of memories, talent, and beauty in each spawn was truly magnificent, it made me very happy to see that even if the others has grown apart there's this one person that will always maintain the server*
*Thank you for showing us the beauty and memory in each and every building*
I saw those circular nether portals and immediately thought of Stargate. God, I miss that franchise.
@Rilelyscastle Well both the name Stargate and WormholeXtreme are from the Sci-fi series Stargate. I coincidentally build all my standard nether portals that way.
It’s kind of magical how that one guy could still see his first base and be 11 years older lol.
Be careful dude 2b2t players often act very rash when their jealous. They might try to destroy what they cant have.
That’s what I was thinking
They'll get banned lol
hopefully a backup was made before this video, and builds are protected
@@DistrosProjects same dude, same.
I’m sure TheMisterEpic warned the community about the video and the wave the potential griefs. I’m sure they have a back-up.
This is so cool and really brought back some nostalgia remembering my old Minecraft worlds from when I first picked up the game in like 2011 or 2012? Really gave me some great memories thanks for the vid! I really hope anyone who decides to try this server out is respectful to what is already there this is a great find
I joined Novylen in august of 2022, pretty late ik. However, i have been a regular on the server, making my own village called Copper Village. The server is so, so amazing, the whole server is like a family
thats really good to hear!
im glad there were no griefing or hackers and i think the mods really know how to maintain the server to avoid those types pf bad situations
loved this video especially how you involved people actually from the server! feels so nostalgic, reminds me of my first server cobalt, although it’s long gone now
Love to see SapLow getting recognition for his discovery!
@Projit shut up bot
This was actually incredibly wholesome, I was pretty much smiling the whole time. Excellent!
I really hope the server can stay preserved as it was. Things like these are quite literally once in a lifetime happenings.
Watching this video made me feel like an archeologist. Looking at treasures from the past like fossils of long lost dinosaurs, undisturbed for millennia. The mystery of seeing a structure and trying to piece together what the builder was thinking or trying to achieve with their choice of building blocks and design.
This is so cool, I’m glad you’ve shined light on it but I hope people don’t start to grief the server now :(
Damn this is honestly so inspiring, I can barely keep up a server for a couple of months before my friends and i decide to change worlds. Great video!
This is probably the best server I’ve ever seen. I have been looking for a survival multiplayer world that is pretty chill for a while and I think this is the best server of that nature possibly in Minecraft’s entire history. Thank you for this video although I fear the popularity you have shined upon this server could backfire in the form of more griefers but hopefully that won’t be the case. Unfortunately I don’t play Java Minecraft (I only do Bedrock Minecraft) so I can’t play on this server. Thank you!!!
Holy shit. This is cool as hell. It's almost emotional, it's like a 2011 nostalgia time capsule. It's melancholic in a way, but also romantic of sorts. I remember the old days and this vid, hearing about this server, tugged at my heart strings.
It's another world, one frozen in time, I mean, just look at that stuff you found that was potentially lying there for a decade, it's weird to think about. Time's marched on but this server didn't. The players and the game has changed so much with time, but this server hasn't, it's a fragment of a past that feels distant now
My server has been running since 3rd March 2012 and it started with just one friend and me, now our "community" is about 10 ppl large and having celebrated the 10 year anniversary earlier this year was a wild emotional and nostalgic ride. I still have backups of our very first maps and builds and going back and seeing how we progressed in building styles etc ... a truly wild ride
whats the server name? im pretty sure some people would love to play it.
Don’t share the server name griefers will join
Just the title is already incredible
Man, Minecraft is such a unique thing. For lots of us is mora than a game. Is where we were when we were younger. Where we have our most joyful moments. Seen Doggrafe walk around and remembering funny stories about the town and its buildings was like feeling nostalgia for a place non of us never know, but yet all deep inside, know it. I think is called Anemoia "Nostalgia for a time you've never known". I'll give anything if i can have my old maps back. My first server back. Mi first night out. My first cave. My First friend in the game. My first home.
Your comment is so powerful, I feel the same way. And I'm sure a lot of players do. I haven't been playing the game nearly as long as some people, but I woud give anything to be able to go back and see my first world again, to explore those first builds when I was just learning the game. I know my build skills then were nothing like they are today, but there's something amazing about the adventure of learning and discovering new things in a game like this. I totally understand now why kids that grew up with the game feel the way they do.
I didn't get into the game until a few years ago, but I already have so many powerful memories of the game, and just watching this and seeing those cobblestone and glass builds feels nostalgic to me. Sure, they are kind of ugly, but they're endearing because they bring back memories of my own first builds. My first house was just a cobblestone box with sand floors, and I remember spending the very first night in that box looking at the hoards of mobs outside because I didn't even have a bed yet.
I don't know, I've been a gamer my whole life, over 34 years now, and no other game has ever given me the feelings Minecraft does, it's indescribable.
Minecraft is something that everyone can enjoy. Older people and younger people alike. It’s not something we like because it updates all the time, it’s something we enjoy because we know it will be there for when we get bored and then find intrest in it again. I’m glad we’re still uncovering it’s past and making waves for the future!
Fr, new generations like mine are carrying the Minecraft legacy!
Why do hundreds of people use edits of that pfp?
@@schmingbeefin4473 its a picrew:) its basically a character creator and lots of ppl use it as their pfp and this specific one is rlly popular. hope this helps!
You could say it does update all the time, but by its communities' creations and your personal gameplay style changes
The new update made me love this game even more then before.
Dograffe literally had his entire minecraft history on that server, I think it feels great to still have your first minecraft house after 10+ years.
I love the look of older worlds, cobble and wood. I try to get that vibe in my survival world.
Love the vid! I think you should make a video of the history of minecraft chunk mining speedruns. They're are quite a few things that might surprise you with different methods and plenty of different people through the years and updates especially in 1.18.
RIP Novylen, 2009-2022
That was wholesome to watch. Thank you for all your research and thanks to everyone on the Novelyn server who shared their memories and experiences. This is amazing.
everyone who's ever lived has had this experience. people grow apart, people leave, people die. but for those people to grow apart from each other, they had to have the most wonderful experiences to remember. i remember every single friend i made in minecraft, in gaming, and in life, because of that one unique trait that life gives us, the ability to love and share our limited time with eachother.
this video is a blast from the past, and it makes me want to load up my old xbox 360 and take a look down memory lane. maybe i'll ask the old friends i still have contact with to join me
I started playing minecraft in 2012 and never stopped playing since and its crazy how the kids I used to play with went from squeakers to now graduating highschool, I remember all the different worlds I would join and how eveyone always had a fully wood or cobblestone house, just that feeling of going home from school and on the bus thinking about playing with your minecraft friends, life just seemed so simple then, this really made me emotional
you have unleashed a huge mob of players to wreak havoc on this server but still really cool video im going to join in like 2 months
They have backups, they'll be fine.
@@jwalster9412 yea im sure they will be
Mojang needs to ban server griefers.
@@aadarshroy3216 mojang has better things to do with their resources. It's up to server owners to have the appropriate plugins, backups, and staff to ensure that things don't get destroyed.
This aged poorly.
Damn, time flies by. I never played on this, but the world just reminds me of the old times in Minecraft. I wish I could join it and just look around, but I play on PS4 and don’t have a Microsoft account.
Does anyone know of any other servers like this one? It doesn't need to be old or anything, just the 'small friendly server' feel. I'm kinda tired of singleplayer or massive servers. Appreciate it!
Same for me I just want a small community that has some wars
feel you. I've played with a friend for years but it is sort of boring since no one sees the results. Things have gotten so bad that we have lived separately for last few iterations :D
For a while we resetted the World between any major updates but have recently just moved one map right with every update (and kept that direction pristine nogo-zone until update).
@@Jay_Kay666 oof
Update me if it happens
@@thatboiyouknow update me
Great Video, love the pacing! It felt really nice to relax and listen to this video. Helped me lay back and destress for a bit :)
I love the old style bases. Simple, lots of cobble. This is what minecraft is supposed to be.
“Cheating is not tolerated”
Flashbacks to the diamond block tower roofs
None of it was cheated.
@@_Minecraft_ASMR the hell
@@_Minecraft_ASMRimpressive my bad
Even watching the video is giving me that friendly community vibe. It is so heartwarming to see this thing still running.
I have been playing on this server since before BETA 1.8. I join it every few months to look out my old builds and to update my main ones. Very strange to see a video on it and so many people on the server now.
This legitimately made me happy to see players being so nice
That is I believe the coolest thing I've seen on RUclips yet man please keep it up because that brought back wonderful memories of playing this game. I've basically stopped playing due to the immaturity in the game
I love how their is a strong group of Aussies on the server I have a lot of respect for that
This is what I love about minecraft. Even if you get bored you can always come back and keep playing. Most games when you finish them you don’t really need to play them again.
I remember being around 5 years late to discovering iCanHasGrief and other old MC RUclipsrs and trying to join some servers seen in their videos, it was an interesting experience. There are so many abandoned servers still running to this day
I find it awesome that these bits of Minecraft history are still in existence and really shows the dedication of these early Minecrafters who's work has been hiding for years
It must bring back a lot of memories when folks walk around the map and see old builds and then seeing names they haven't seen in years. Likely sad memories too.
Man, seeing a stargate portal just triggered so many dormant memories of joining servers and just walking around sight-seeing what other people had built and griefed.
I kinda wanna get back into multiplayer now
The history on this server is really cool and the old 11 year neighborhoods, cities, and bases are really cool! Something from king lost eras of Minecraft!
I miss servers like these. The smaller ones with a tight-knit community of players who've been there forever. Takes me back to 2012 when I first started playing the game.
My brother had an early server back in 2010. It was just me, him, and his friends. Had a few plugins. Good memories. Still have the computer he literally made to host it.
I love the old minecraft servers architecture, with all those cobblestone and wooden planks combined with glass blocks, it takes me back
I love how I've fallen into a curse of always finding ur videos WITHIN A MINUTE OF YOU UPLOADING THEM
Hahahahaha
lol
I absolutely love these older servers as an old player. They have a feeling I absolutely love. I sincerely hope it won't be ruined
Even tho im not a new player, i absolutely agree with you, they give off a vibe of exploring an ancient temple or haunted mansion full of familliar things
TheMisterEpic in 2030:
So this Minecraft server, which has been running even before the emergence of agriculture, was just discovered
You've seen the oldest, how about a list of the very best for playing with friends? Right here: ruclips.net/video/LOeivuEHQdc/видео.html
omg its been years since i played that server,its like one big flash back . i played it when i was 5 and one of my fondest memories i will need to go back one day , miss the old days