There was an old minecraft server i used to play on called Faux Paws. I was a common resident of the server for years and I had built a massive castle on the edge of a mountain. Near spawn there were hundreds of small shops and bases all with their own stories. There's even an Unnus Annus tribute near spawn. I remember helping someone fend off a griefer, I remember creating my own shop in the server mall, I remember the server Admin happily watching me build my castle and enjoying my progress. I filled my castle with hidden rooms and trapdoors all hiding secrets, and I would give people compasses that led to my castle so they could explore... The server shut down a few years ago due to the admin having money problems. We all took a group screenshot saying goodbye on the servers last day... the admin even gave us all a world download of the server. I think the world file was about 10 gigabytes. Sometimes I go back to that world with the distant horizons mod so I can see for miles and I realized just how many builds were everywhere. Some ive never seen before.. i wonder what there stories were... i miss it..
The clicking sound on the Minecraft server with the creepy signs from about the 23:50 mark is one of the Minecraft cave noises. Mojang was devious when they added that one.
It's one of the underwater loop addition ambient sounds called Crackles 2, imo Animal 1 and Animal 2 are worse not just for the sound itself but the fact that it's just "Animal" like it's completely unknown what made the sound except that it's an unseen creature of some sort.
there's a line of fan made source maps that focus on turning well known gmod maps into "haunted" versions. they turn what you expect to see into what you actually see. somehow it relieves a bit of that tension, knowing that there actually is something out there.
Reminds me that there's a map in G-Mod's workshop. It's gm_construct "beta" where the creator "restore" contents that has been lost overtime. Obviously, it has definitely been tweaked to include some crazy stuff in it, but the vibe is still there. That might be what you're talking about, but I'm uncertain tho lol
@@NicholasLongART that counts, but that map has a whole ARG attached to it i have gm_bigcity_haunted no complicated puzzles or anything as far as i know the map is just unsettling. from the start. you load in and everything is desaturated, grey. it's not nice to look at. it's sad. and 100% silent. it's mostly the same. there are some scripted events and new setpieces to find, like a summoning circle. Don't noclip. Do your best to get around on foot if you wanna see everything. keeps you feeling vulnerable, too. While you're moving along, you'll see something every now and then. You'll keep looking for them. You'll see them in places they aren't. In the dark alleys between buildings. that's it, really. just creepy.
i was absolutely a blockland kid; renderman was HUGE, and there were servers dedicated just to hunting renderman. you can find one of the most popular renderman videos preserved on the blockland wiki : )
The impression I got from the video was that Sagan didn't seem to be aware of House of Leaves at the time he played the server. It makes the segment all the better, seeing something so nonsense that it stretches the boundaries of your willingness to believe it was an actual intelligence who did it and not just entropy or the breakdown of the universe.
idk why but the never ending road minecraft server made me tear up. So much love and dedication. It really makes me think of my online history and all the friends I've made and lost. And all the friends I still have. I'm still in contact with my two very first online friends, and very close to two others that I talk to almost daily still. We're all grown up, adults. I've known them all for over a decade now. Two of us(me and another) are married, the other married one even has a daughter. My oldest friend is so very busy, she had a stroke at only 27 and I'm always reaching out to check up on her. One friend I rarely talk to but I still have her on facebook. We've all lived so many long years, but we still think about each other. Even if it isn't as often as when we were young and dedicated hours of the day talking to each other. That's what the road makes me think of.
Using the Roblox game called "Super Place Roulette" is a great way to urbex old roblox games, its a game that teleports you to a completely random roblox game made in the past 18 years. I've found some really neat stuff that way. Sleep over games that have assigned beds for friends of the creators (like whats seen at 48:51), games built by friends using the old stamper tool, it feels so surreal exploring them. Even just going onto the profile of the creator of one of these old games can lead you to a whole rabbit hole of other dated games. I've enjoyed urbexing old roblox games for a good while now, especially ones from the 2010-2014 era.
As someone who doesnt have nostalgia for games like Roblox or Minecraft or Gmod, i find it very interesting to see peoples blend of nostalgia, discomfort, and sadness when revisiting these online games now empty. Then the moment you mentioned "Club Penguin", I had a gutteral resistance, like, "Please don't show me it empty." I know its not even online anymore, but that game exists in my mind as it was, which was full of players and memories of social development for myself and many others. So don't kill that place for me, Sagan, even if it's already dead.
The horse thing reminded me of a dream I had. In the dream I was at a wedding, standing up near the altar next to the bride and groom. The priest came over to give communion, but refused to give it to me. I asked why and he said "Because, you're a horse." And then, I turned into a horse. I woke up a bit later.
I dumped way too many hours into Blockland during inarguably it's golden years, 2010-2014. This is the 3rd time I've seen it included in an "empty games" video, and every time I wish there was some sort of heads up about it so I could shed some light on interesting things about the game, custom gamemodes, community, and the eventual slow decline of the game's popularity and what contributed to that. Always love seeing it though, great stuff. Side note, Trogtor in the first server is someone I would see almost daily in game. Crazy to see that name pop up again.
@@BenWhittle ya we still play Blockland fairly actively a lot of us were laughing at him joining servers in the morning to noon on a weekday when most people are at work or school
Going through a miserable time right now. I regularly fall asleep to your videos and have them playing on a loop in the background just for noise as it brings me comfort. Thanks for a new upload, Boss.
@@cozmoee I have a masters degree and a well paying job. You spend your free time on TikTok lives recording videos to post on RUclips for 0 viewers. You will never be better than me lol.
1:13:41 and all we need is some other RUclipsr making a dead online games video and a segment like that: "as I was wandering the land of Blackland, I've stumbled upon a house. Upon resting inside, I noticed something - I was being stalked by a horse"
1:07:59 Hey, I made that pixel art! Well... not technically me, Blockland has tools where you can turn images into pixel art like this, they're pretty easy to download and a lot of freebuilds have these scattered around. Still pretty cool to see my art in a video like this! :3 Also, that server is on a default save. which means it's just a standard map that people can load. I think it was built by Badspot (the actual dev), but don't quote me on that. Inco (the host of this specific server) mainly uses it for testing purposes with the actual monster that inhabits it's premises, and he's made a few changes. A few more types of them, some more based on inside jokes, others just generally being memey. I would love to see you return to Blockland sometime, since the game has a small active playerbase, and there's usually a cycle of servers over the years that make sure that we have at least some peaks of activity. There's also multiple discord servers and other stuff. It used to be more active before some players decided to steal a huge amount of player IDs from people who bought the game from the official website and not Steam, I think it was a security leak somewhere, but I forgot because that was 4 years ago now. Thank you again for putting attention to the game, it's been a cornerstone of my childhood and it still is important to me to this day.
Are you able to explain the like, dozens of feet servers? lol I'd never even heard of blockland before this video but just looking at the server list here is baffling
@@lixyororke Inco originally made these as both an elaborate joke, but also to at least have something of his interests in the game. And yes, this vitriol has also been seen in other users of the game, some of which say he's potentially corrupting kids or something like that, even when the Blockland community is mostly made out of 20 year old basement dwellers. Then again, the main ones who oppose his antics don't even want to talk to him to the point of making bots that instantly disconnect them from any server he joins. This same person (it's only 1 with this instant leave script) also is obsessed over by another one, like, literally they edate with someone else. Yeah, the game's community is fricking weird. That's probably why I like it.
13:25 I feel like this part is made more mysterious by the absence of anything organic. Like in that environment, I’d expect bodies. It’s as if something swept through and cleaned it all up, but left the improvised cover and knocked over furniture alone. It didn’t put things back the way they were before, just sucked up all the viscera and debris and left.
23:54 thats actually one of the random ambient sounds that minecraft plays to mess with you! honestly i think they were made for moments like that, when your mind will just run wild with the possibilities from an unusual sound that doesn't fit anything you're used to
53:48 dude, I'm actually speechless. Sherwood meant SO much to me as a kid, but at some point every bit of info online just vanished, like it never existed. Hearing this and seeing it again now just reminded me how it directly lead me to games like Fate and Torchlight, Runescape, the TES series, etc.. I really thought I'd never hear anyone mention this game again. It may be a footnote on history now, but seriously, thank you for reminding me.
Holy shit, what?? Maid Marian??? I remember playing the hell out of that whole site with my friends in an after-school program on days when we spent the night in the computer lounge. That was way back in elementary school, I genuinely haven't met anyone who experienced those games since! Sherwood dungeon was my wow
Love the signature collector encounter. That immediately made me think of some urbex chance encounters I've had with other urbexers, that uncertainty at first that turns into a friendly greeting as you show that you're here doing same thing before going your separate ways.
Ugh. Man. That fishtank lamp. My grandparents owned that exact product. They were pretty high up in the middle class, and for the time I knew them, they lived in this beautiful, massive work of art of a McMansion house on the corner. The house was built by the previous owner, with numerous handmade fixtures and carved decorative pieces. They were the kind of people who brought the whole family together for the most joyful and pure Christmas energy and feast every year. Reindeer and lights on the balconies, embroidered stockings, snowglobes everywhere. A massive, year-round tree in the corner. On the fridge and along the walls, you'd find at least one picture of about every family member you did or didn't know. Knickknacks filled the kitchen windows, spring legs dangling daintily off the ledges. But in the dining room, you'd find the most love, and in that room, the fishtank lamp sat. And it's so bad. I love it so much, but it sucks. I never got over my fascination with it. Grandpa died a year or two ago. Grandma is far gone, in the late stages of dementia, but living past all estimates. But she's gone. The purest little woman in the world. The house was sold after Grandpa passed. We tried to save as many little things as we could, but plenty of the best things went to auction. Including the fishtank lamp. Thank you for reminding me of a time where my only concern was whether or not I was getting a console. And great work on the video overall! The whole thing sparked memories.
Oh god watching the Blockland section brought back so many memories. I first bought the game because I had heard of the Renderman creepypasta and I remember asking people on random servers if they knew what the Renderman was and them laughing at me.
Mildly interesting, but rp_industrial17 also seems to be based partially off the leaked beta maps of HL2's City 17- it feels doubly "haunted" knowing it's also built off of abandoned ideas.
I've been here since the fnaf retrospectives, and it's honestly insane how much better you get even just with each video. Every time I tune in, the visuals, the presentation, the music, or something has always improved in some way, big or small. Massive props man!
If you ever do this again, I recommend going to old TROVE faction bases - I've urbexed some abandoned places that were griefed, just abandoned, or had some players willing to tell me the story about the place
hey im a blockland history nerd - the online blockland servers still being hosted don't really feature much actual historical builds/worlds from as far back as 2007, blockland servers have typically had a short lifespan unlike minecraft worlds and whatnot. as a result, the servers you visited showed more newly built stuff only, i guess aside from that one build that comes with the game. for exploring super old stuff, it would be best to either download archived saves or have someone specifically host them for you (alongside classic old mods/add-ons too!)
Seeing the roblox iron cafe place made my heart skip a beat. It's such a vivid memory from when I was young thinking how cool club-esque night life and believing it be so "adult-ish". Now an actual adult still stuck in Vegas, I work at a fancy bespoke restaurant as a busser. A lot that adult world mystique and idealism sure was a lot warmer than reality.
not hating just curious... when people leave this comment on every video is for the meme, for the likes, a genuine feeling or a mix or these or something else? I just never really “got it“ after the 1000th time what the point was instead of leaving a comment which adds some novelty (again, no hate, people who leave these comments don‘t harm my ability to enjoy the video and comment sections its just kinda weird seeing it on nearly every single comment section and I want to get some insight from those who leave them)
You @thishandleistacken literally lol just answered your own question. But fuck it I got time today.. listen, trying to dissect internet culture is like trying to understand the Bible. There's no damn point. It's a [TLDR: meme] - that will die out soon its a thing attention deprived Neanderthals use when creators drop new content, to be honest tho mostly its bots or cringe fuck fans that type it earliest someone drops a video bc its a meme or they wanna garner likes, comments, and attention because their social life is as dry as a 43 year single Mormon fuck. Hope that helps you knew the answer bro you always knew.
I actually do this sort of digital urban exploration as you put it around every Halloween in places like VR chat and other games. Always interesting to see what gets left behind.
I loved industrial17 as a kid. Had my own rp server where we did little nerdy gang wars with the npcs. The map is one of the many influences/inspirations that led me to currently making a ttrpg. Such a good map!
You draw out the wonder and curiosity of late 90s and early 2000s childhood nostalgia without the burden of knowing that it's a feeling you can only truly appreciate retrospectively. Its an almost hopeful nostalgia for the now that looks forward rather than back, and I think that's pretty cool.
The house of leaves tunnel system is likely just a mine. They brought saplings with them to get more wood so they can keep mining when their tools break.I've done that before.
I think this explains why minecraft scares me, not even old versions or abandoned servers, just that my memories of the first time playing it as a kid creates the same feeling whenever I play it regardless of version or world.
The tunnels with the trees reminds me so much of how I played minecraft when I was a kid, I have a bad anxiety disorder and when I was on non-peaceful servers I'd move underground with trees and mine out my own safe spaces. Lit well enough that nothing could spawn, hard enough to navigate that other players and mobs couldnt easily chase me. Trees and farms so I'd never have to go above ground again. I'd mine out randomly looking for minerals, blocking off caves as I found them out of fear and turning those tunnels into halls with more rooms where I'd afk
23:54 That clicking sound is incredibly odd, considering that's one of the new underwater equivalents to cave sounds, but those are from a more recent version than what you're playing on
As someone who’s been doing this for a month now, specifically playing old Roblox games from my childhood, this video feels like a much deserved punch in the gut to remind us to cherish what we currently have
Something I will always be heartbroken about is the minecraft servers my friends and I played on as kids that reset to match new updates. I’m still sad that I’ll never get to explore the builds we made.
1:14:00 - This stadium looks like National Stadium (Stadion Narodowy) in Warsaw, especially the red and white walls outside and the nest-like build. It was build in 2012.
I was never much of a social gamer. At most, I’d chat with some person I paired up with in Castle Battle on Kongregate. As such, the only thing I can even remotely relate to this kind of experience is finding a living space in a post-apocalyptic game. Now, I personally make an attempt to immerse myself in games, even when the game isn’t necessarily trying hard to make me do so. As such, there’s usually a small moment when walking through the Capital Wasteland on Fallout or finding an apartment on Deadrising where I just feel…kind of mournful. No matter how strong my character is or how many enemies I killed getting there, I just felt sad, all of a sudden. I know it’s probably not even close to a similar feeling, but that’s what this video reminds me of.
All these source maps just make me sad. I used to play a lot of CSS and Gmod (including ancient Melonbrew era RP), it just reminds me of being a kid, friends I made online that I've lost touch with because of growing older. I miss those lates night where I was alone, but not really alone.
i've really been loving these recent videos where you explore examples of a certain concept. especially videos like the one on digital horror, which seems to now have branched off into smaller and more precise concepts like ghosts in the machine and digital urbexing and kenopsia. you've certainly earned your place as my favorite creator in this genre
Your one of the only content creators I’ve seen not complaining about this, im reallt excited personally. I know this games not for everybody, but I’m excited and really hype for this and playing with my friends
one thing that permeates in my mind when I see things like those minecraft signs or the abandonded roblox cafes and homes is "where are those people now?" and "I wonder if they'll ever see this video, and rethink those memories of what actually happened in those old servers"
Hey -- I just noticed, at 39:10 there's a fake fish tank behind you with the rotating pictures. I had that exact one when I was a kid. I'd stare at it for hours every night. It meant a lot to me, and I had almost completely forgotten about it until I saw it here. Could you let me know where I could find one like it?
I love your content Sagen! It's very professional and enjoyable. Your scripts are great and impactful and the subtle editing and background details are fun! Thanks for being a comfort channel for me! Im always excited to watch your newest video. You deserve many more viewers! I'm so happy I found this hidden gem. I found you through that dinosaur museum game that you went looking for btw
thanks for being a content creator going through my past it brings be a somber joy seeing this stuff again because I probably will never experience this again and that can make me sad for a moment but still glad I got to see it once in my past when I was younger
I am not exagerating when I say that you make among the best content on youtube. It’s like you went in my brain and went “so this is what he wants”. Me being a fan of digital horror and the internet landscape since I am a child, this channel feels like it was taylor made for me. I wish I could be a patreon but I can’t right now but I’ll still support you the best way I can.
oh hell yes, hopping onto any multiplayer source/goldsrc game and exploring the abandoned servers is something i've always been super into, i have a hoards of custom maps from team fortress 2, half-life, opposing force, half-life 2 deathmatch, and even deathmatch classic i can always feel the echoes of chaos that achievement/trade maps invited between the tdm and rtd rolls, and the ghosts of top fraggers in all those deathmatch maps as for what was explored in the vid, i always felt cs_office was especially unnerving because there is a radio in it that's supposed to play a news report regarding the terrorist attack on the in-universe location, i don't remember if it only plays during cs gameplay or if it's totally unused, but it's one that's really stuck with me
Those tunnel complexes just look like regular old shaft mining to me. I used to spend hours and hours doing that. Great way to find lava lakes to make obsidian (or to stage an impromptu Pompeii re-enactment if you aren't careful).
this video was PEAK, actually fire! Very interesting topic honestly, it'll definitely stick with me for a while. Always been a fan of liminal spaces and/or abandoned ones, so this is awesome tbh
I think the aspect of the ghosts of Place that i really resonate with the most is idenitfying the occupancy of a building that it exudes on its own. (Psychologically, i think maybe this comes from our ancestors typically living in and around trees, literal "living structures", and thus our association of occupancy with life, or "ghosts", or Feng-sui.) An abandoned building is an abandoned occupant. And while some, like the Source maps, were made to be empty, to be accommodating to any visitors they might get... Its the old, worn down bases that get me. Because they're not expecting to be empty. They're supposed to be a home. A home for someone. The occupant of the house is made to be in tandem with the occupant of the builder, in a personalized way you don't typically see in most modern housing. They're a pair, a team, a package deal. And thats just gone. Something about some of these old builds just makes me want to find them. To repair them. To heal them. There's just something to alluring about... Mending whats broken. Creating something new out of the discarded. Giving that ghost a home.
Thank you for dropping Kenopsia. It’s very awesome to see more people drop The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. I wish more people mentioned this book. I got a copy and it’s VERY interesting to go through occasionally and just find words that I’ve definitely felt. But I never had a word to place on that feeling. Which is what it sets out to do, and I think it 100% succeeds.
Vr chat is also fantastic for this. I absolutely love getting high/drunk and just walking around vibeing in random worlds, theres so many that are low-no players and alot of limmanal stuff, playing calm abent music also helps
Oh man... Iron Cafe... I spent so much time there. It used to be the case that the "dance" tool disabled gravity, so you could jump or run off the stage and hold dance to fly.
I miss Blockland so much dude, that game was genuinely so fun back when it was active. The Renderman servers in particular were super fun to me as a kid, I remember trying to shoot him when he'd appear not knowing that he was p much invincible most of the time.
@@EpikBerm this video inspired me to re-download it on steam and to my amusement there were like 6 people all playing a minesweeper game mode on some random server, never change, blockland.
Whats intiresting about these exploration videos especially in abandoned minecraft servers is many of the mostly or intact houses/mining systems are so confusing and odd from the outside perspective but once made total sense to someone or the entire server There are jokes on those servers we will never understand, storage systems we would never personally use, mods we haven't seen in years and glitches/farms that in modern day can't be used or are just inconvenient due to the updates after these worlds
This reminds me a lot of Mark Fisher's writing on Hauntology - how we are haunted by the potential futures thought by people at a prior time. I think part of what makes abandoned digital spaces so eerie is the fact that they are there because of an ambition to make it into something good. Whenever someone makes a minecraft world it's full of potential, and everyone involved believes that this 2 week session won't be a 2 week session but something major and collaborative. But ultimately people leave those worlds behind, and the complete and half-finished builds on a server are just reminders of a future that never came to pass. You could say similar about things like Vaporwave, Frutiger Aero, and the revival of Rubberhose animation through Cuphead, Bendy, etc.
that minecraft server with all the weird trees in the tunnels has very easy explanation the tunnels are strip mining tunnels to find diamonds and the trees are there to chop down for wood instead of having to go back up! they also would give apples so a good source of food too if lucky
my ears perked up when you mentioned Lost in Vivo, such an beautiful and terrifying game. I love the soundtrack for it and I'm still playing through it as of this comment. Keep up the amazing work!
Love seeing you randomly exploring Blockland build servers when most people are at work on a weekday lol Cheers to the chads playing Blockland since 2004 Blockland alpha. I mainly host a dedicated server and alternate between gamemodes i love like zapt zombies, TDM, rising lava etc.... DM and TDM have always been pretty fun. Speedkart Remastered is newer even more fun version of Speedkart really popular racing gamemode. Blockland Events have also thought me how programming works as well as rpg maker. Events is basically a really easy way to do basic programming with bricks. Of course you can also just code anything you want and make it an addon.
i played blockland as a kid- its always really surprising to see it pop up anywhere. i have a lot of fond memories of the infinite mining servers, digging really deep and being able to name the ore you just discovered. i also enjoyed exploring the 3d maps before they removed them, they always had secrets and easter eggs. it makes me sad to see it so desolate, i spent hours talking to people and exploring different servers and games. thank u for talking abt a truly obscure game from my childhood
Hey Sagen those sounds you heard while swimming were ambient cave sounds because the game thought you were still in a cave at the time. Hope this helps!
What a great throwback with the Iron Cafe! I used to hang out there between 2010-2015, so I don't think I've ever seen that particular version of it. I love the fact that archive projects exist to preserve stuff like this.
I love Segan’s videos a lot, but I feel so paranoid now when I’m watching them. Like, does not listing some of the minecraft servers to prevent grinding sound like a reasonable thing to do? Sure, BUT IT COULD ALSO BE A PLOY TO SHOW US A FAKE WORLD AND SCARE US WITH A MAN IN THE BACKGROUND. Did he really mess up his footage by accident, OR IS THIS A CLEVER RUSE TO HIDE SOME SECRET TEXT?! Oh, what a nice game I’ve never heard of, it looks like it would’ve been a lot of fun, IS WHAT I WOULD SAY IF I BELIEVED YOU!
I routinely visit the old Roblox servers I worked on as a teenager. Beautiful, intricate recreations of the evil alien Homeworld from the cartoon my friends and I were all obsessed with. One is just a revival project, though. Because the original is from 2014ish and very broken, so I don't have any access to my original special character model anymore. It's weird.
Warms my heart to see blockland getting videos! the sounds you heard in my render freebuild server is the default ambience of the renderman mod whilst running, with creepy sfx :o
32:38 honestly, this sign is more impactful than any of the structures that were built. It's bittersweet to think at some point in time, (possibly a decade ago if the server was active in 2012,) "minerprincess" left this sign for someone, and for whatever reason, it was never removed. minerprincess then moved on with their life, leaving the server for good one day, while their message for whoever, remains, as part of the server's history. Maybe it's just me, but it would feel weird to me if I loaded into an old world and found a sign with a message I left for someone. I wonder if I'd even remember the context, or why I created it
Man you nailed my childhood right on the head.. from Gmod.. to Minecraft, to Roblox and even Club Marian and Blockland.. Even I myself forget that those existed sometimes, only to be reminded faintly of the gameplay and a general image in my head of how they looked like.. yet I could never recall their names and find them myself (I remember Club Marian was mind-blowing to me as a kid, but in recent years I thought it was a dream I had...)
There was an old minecraft server i used to play on called Faux Paws. I was a common resident of the server for years and I had built a massive castle on the edge of a mountain.
Near spawn there were hundreds of small shops and bases all with their own stories. There's even an Unnus Annus tribute near spawn.
I remember helping someone fend off a griefer, I remember creating my own shop in the server mall, I remember the server Admin happily watching me build my castle and enjoying my progress. I filled my castle with hidden rooms and trapdoors all hiding secrets, and I would give people compasses that led to my castle so they could explore...
The server shut down a few years ago due to the admin having money problems. We all took a group screenshot saying goodbye on the servers last day... the admin even gave us all a world download of the server. I think the world file was about 10 gigabytes.
Sometimes I go back to that world with the distant horizons mod so I can see for miles and I realized just how many builds were everywhere. Some ive never seen before.. i wonder what there stories were... i miss it..
That sounds awesome dude, if you're ever able to upload the world file somewhere like megadrive I'd love to explore it
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I agree with the commenter above me, you should totally share the world! God bless ya and Jesus loves ya man!
making a youtube video of exploring the world would be fun to watch
You should upload the file! I'm tempted to try to explore the world in VR
Having a shadowy stalker pursue you through some empty lands then just ask for your signature has to be one of the experiences of all time
would you like to sign my petition?
Shadow stalks sagan "ahem can I get an autograph sagan"
"Hi there, would you like to sign my petition" says the shadow man
Timestamp?
Benrey behavior
The clicking sound on the Minecraft server with the creepy signs from about the 23:50 mark is one of the Minecraft cave noises. Mojang was devious when they added that one.
can confirm, I think they also have one that is similar but slowed / deeper that plays in the ocean biomes? either way it's definitely just ambience
Thought it was a dispenser on a redstone loop at first
im pretty sure thats just one of the many underwater ambience noises they added in 1.13
It's one of the underwater loop addition ambient sounds called Crackles 2, imo Animal 1 and Animal 2 are worse not just for the sound itself but the fact that it's just "Animal" like it's completely unknown what made the sound except that it's an unseen creature of some sort.
This isn't a cave sound. It's a part of the underwater ambience, specifically "crackles1" or "crackles2".
there's a line of fan made source maps that focus on turning well known gmod maps into "haunted" versions. they turn what you expect to see into what you actually see. somehow it relieves a bit of that tension, knowing that there actually is something out there.
Reminds me that there's a map in G-Mod's workshop. It's gm_construct "beta" where the creator "restore" contents that has been lost overtime. Obviously, it has definitely been tweaked to include some crazy stuff in it, but the vibe is still there.
That might be what you're talking about, but I'm uncertain tho lol
@@NicholasLongARTI assumed they were talking about those maps where it's a classic GMod map but with shadow figure added
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that counts, but that map has a whole ARG attached to it
i have gm_bigcity_haunted
no complicated puzzles or anything as far as i know
the map is just unsettling. from the start. you load in and everything is desaturated, grey. it's not nice to look at. it's sad. and 100% silent.
it's mostly the same. there are some scripted events and new setpieces to find, like a summoning circle. Don't noclip. Do your best to get around on foot if you wanna see everything. keeps you feeling vulnerable, too.
While you're moving along, you'll see something every now and then. You'll keep looking for them. You'll see them in places they aren't. In the dark alleys between buildings.
that's it, really. just creepy.
i was absolutely a blockland kid; renderman was HUGE, and there were servers dedicated just to hunting renderman. you can find one of the most popular renderman videos preserved on the blockland wiki : )
r u onto brickadia now?
@@xstarforcex990 Brickadia won't replace Blockland.
@@nameless8692 my fault bro 😭
BLOCKLAND THE BEST BRICKADIA CAN NEVER COMPARE THOSE GUYS R STINKY POOPOO WE PLAY BLOCKLAND TILL THE SERVERS CLOSE DOWN
i remember one with a guy saying things as renderman and as a kid i thought it was really him
I get the feeling that the House of Leaves server has to be a reference to the book of the same name, given the structures you found…
Glad I'm not the only one who thought so.
It obviously is, its not even subtle
Think Sagan named the chapter that as a reference rather than it being the actual server's name.
The impression I got from the video was that Sagan didn't seem to be aware of House of Leaves at the time he played the server.
It makes the segment all the better, seeing something so nonsense that it stretches the boundaries of your willingness to believe it was an actual intelligence who did it and not just entropy or the breakdown of the universe.
@@CrowaldHe's talked about House of Leaves many times before, he's definitely aware of it.
idk why but the never ending road minecraft server made me tear up. So much love and dedication. It really makes me think of my online history and all the friends I've made and lost. And all the friends I still have. I'm still in contact with my two very first online friends, and very close to two others that I talk to almost daily still. We're all grown up, adults. I've known them all for over a decade now. Two of us(me and another) are married, the other married one even has a daughter. My oldest friend is so very busy, she had a stroke at only 27 and I'm always reaching out to check up on her. One friend I rarely talk to but I still have her on facebook. We've all lived so many long years, but we still think about each other. Even if it isn't as often as when we were young and dedicated hours of the day talking to each other.
That's what the road makes me think of.
Me too bro, literally crying at work. It's just a damn road
@@doremysheep7864 Hey, nothing stopping you or anyone from joining Legion to help expand the road.
Using the Roblox game called "Super Place Roulette" is a great way to urbex old roblox games, its a game that teleports you to a completely random roblox game made in the past 18 years. I've found some really neat stuff that way. Sleep over games that have assigned beds for friends of the creators (like whats seen at 48:51), games built by friends using the old stamper tool, it feels so surreal exploring them. Even just going onto the profile of the creator of one of these old games can lead you to a whole rabbit hole of other dated games. I've enjoyed urbexing old roblox games for a good while now, especially ones from the 2010-2014 era.
Isn't that place broken?
@ I think it was down a few months ago, but it’s back up and running just fine now
yea that game is pretty cool.
most of the time the roblox games arent that interesting but I did find like 2 or 3 strange games
@@ryans-archive It's not broken, it just sends you to broken places often lol
checked it out last night and i seriously wanna thank you for recommending the game
We're Sagan'ing our Hawkes with this one!
Hawke Tuah
I hotelled my Trivago!
This comment made me hawk my sagan
@@Luzum truth
This December... it's time to Hawke down your Sagans
As someone who doesnt have nostalgia for games like Roblox or Minecraft or Gmod, i find it very interesting to see peoples blend of nostalgia, discomfort, and sadness when revisiting these online games now empty.
Then the moment you mentioned "Club Penguin", I had a gutteral resistance, like, "Please don't show me it empty." I know its not even online anymore, but that game exists in my mind as it was, which was full of players and memories of social development for myself and many others. So don't kill that place for me, Sagan, even if it's already dead.
The horse thing reminded me of a dream I had. In the dream I was at a wedding, standing up near the altar next to the bride and groom. The priest came over to give communion, but refused to give it to me. I asked why and he said "Because, you're a horse." And then, I turned into a horse. I woke up a bit later.
Neigh
Before we had "horse walks in" now we have "Because you're a horse"
"Pastor, the horse is here"
I dumped way too many hours into Blockland during inarguably it's golden years, 2010-2014. This is the 3rd time I've seen it included in an "empty games" video, and every time I wish there was some sort of heads up about it so I could shed some light on interesting things about the game, custom gamemodes, community, and the eventual slow decline of the game's popularity and what contributed to that. Always love seeing it though, great stuff.
Side note, Trogtor in the first server is someone I would see almost daily in game. Crazy to see that name pop up again.
@@BenWhittle ya we still play Blockland fairly actively a lot of us were laughing at him joining servers in the morning to noon on a weekday when most people are at work or school
@@patyos2I mean, other timezones exist, lol
the slow death of blockland servers over the late 2010s was heartbreaking, some modders are still going, the filipe car guy is still making stuff
Going through a miserable time right now. I regularly fall asleep to your videos and have them playing on a loop in the background just for noise as it brings me comfort. Thanks for a new upload, Boss.
Thanks for the motivation to get off my ass and be better than you
@@cozmoee I have a masters degree and a well paying job. You spend your free time on TikTok lives recording videos to post on RUclips for 0 viewers. You will never be better than me lol.
@@usagi666_ I have 2 videos
@@cozmoee If you want to be better, stop commenting.
@@usagi666_ Sorry you're having a rough time lately, I hope things will look up for you soon!
1:13:41
and all we need is some other RUclipsr making a dead online games video and a segment like that: "as I was wandering the land of Blackland, I've stumbled upon a house. Upon resting inside, I noticed something - I was being stalked by a horse"
Like Redlyne lol
@@SimonPetrikov12 That would've been perfect. I wonder if they know each other.
Seeing blockland show up in videos outside of the community always feels like I'm being hit by a train, thanks sagan
BLOCKLAND FOEVA
1:07:59 Hey, I made that pixel art!
Well... not technically me, Blockland has tools where you can turn images into pixel art like this, they're pretty easy to download and a lot of freebuilds have these scattered around.
Still pretty cool to see my art in a video like this! :3
Also, that server is on a default save. which means it's just a standard map that people can load. I think it was built by Badspot (the actual dev), but don't quote me on that. Inco (the host of this specific server) mainly uses it for testing purposes with the actual monster that inhabits it's premises, and he's made a few changes. A few more types of them, some more based on inside jokes, others just generally being memey.
I would love to see you return to Blockland sometime, since the game has a small active playerbase, and there's usually a cycle of servers over the years that make sure that we have at least some peaks of activity. There's also multiple discord servers and other stuff. It used to be more active before some players decided to steal a huge amount of player IDs from people who bought the game from the official website and not Steam, I think it was a security leak somewhere, but I forgot because that was 4 years ago now.
Thank you again for putting attention to the game, it's been a cornerstone of my childhood and it still is important to me to this day.
Are you able to explain the like, dozens of feet servers? lol I'd never even heard of blockland before this video but just looking at the server list here is baffling
@@lixyororke Inco originally made these as both an elaborate joke, but also to at least have something of his interests in the game.
And yes, this vitriol has also been seen in other users of the game, some of which say he's potentially corrupting kids or something like that, even when the Blockland community is mostly made out of 20 year old basement dwellers.
Then again, the main ones who oppose his antics don't even want to talk to him to the point of making bots that instantly disconnect them from any server he joins. This same person (it's only 1 with this instant leave script) also is obsessed over by another one, like, literally they edate with someone else.
Yeah, the game's community is fricking weird. That's probably why I like it.
Bump
The chicken in the walls is one of the prime examples of making random stuff just to mess with archeologists lol
The real ghosts are the friends we made along the way
The friends we lost along the way
How tragic
13:25 I feel like this part is made more mysterious by the absence of anything organic. Like in that environment, I’d expect bodies. It’s as if something swept through and cleaned it all up, but left the improvised cover and knocked over furniture alone. It didn’t put things back the way they were before, just sucked up all the viscera and debris and left.
23:54 thats actually one of the random ambient sounds that minecraft plays to mess with you! honestly i think they were made for moments like that, when your mind will just run wild with the possibilities from an unusual sound that doesn't fit anything you're used to
53:48 dude, I'm actually speechless. Sherwood meant SO much to me as a kid, but at some point every bit of info online just vanished, like it never existed. Hearing this and seeing it again now just reminded me how it directly lead me to games like Fate and Torchlight, Runescape, the TES series, etc.. I really thought I'd never hear anyone mention this game again. It may be a footnote on history now, but seriously, thank you for reminding me.
Me too bro! Those were the days! I loved that game, and that tanks game aswell.
I love this type of video, just exploring forgotten web worlds and websites... it's so nostalgic
Holy shit, what?? Maid Marian??? I remember playing the hell out of that whole site with my friends in an after-school program on days when we spent the night in the computer lounge. That was way back in elementary school, I genuinely haven't met anyone who experienced those games since! Sherwood dungeon was my wow
duuude same and all the other games on their websites too!!!
Love the signature collector encounter. That immediately made me think of some urbex chance encounters I've had with other urbexers, that uncertainty at first that turns into a friendly greeting as you show that you're here doing same thing before going your separate ways.
Ugh. Man. That fishtank lamp. My grandparents owned that exact product.
They were pretty high up in the middle class, and for the time I knew them, they lived in this beautiful, massive work of art of a McMansion house on the corner. The house was built by the previous owner, with numerous handmade fixtures and carved decorative pieces. They were the kind of people who brought the whole family together for the most joyful and pure Christmas energy and feast every year. Reindeer and lights on the balconies, embroidered stockings, snowglobes everywhere. A massive, year-round tree in the corner. On the fridge and along the walls, you'd find at least one picture of about every family member you did or didn't know. Knickknacks filled the kitchen windows, spring legs dangling daintily off the ledges. But in the dining room, you'd find the most love, and in that room, the fishtank lamp sat. And it's so bad. I love it so much, but it sucks. I never got over my fascination with it.
Grandpa died a year or two ago. Grandma is far gone, in the late stages of dementia, but living past all estimates. But she's gone. The purest little woman in the world.
The house was sold after Grandpa passed. We tried to save as many little things as we could, but plenty of the best things went to auction. Including the fishtank lamp.
Thank you for reminding me of a time where my only concern was whether or not I was getting a console. And great work on the video overall! The whole thing sparked memories.
Oh god watching the Blockland section brought back so many memories. I first bought the game because I had heard of the Renderman creepypasta and I remember asking people on random servers if they knew what the Renderman was and them laughing at me.
its basically a slenderman bot for blockland it is often used for horror servers
HE WILL FIND YOU HES COMING HE KNOWS WHERE YOU ARE RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN
You telling me we now getting the horror version of a Redlyne video???👀
I was just rewatching his videos lol, perfect timing
Mildly interesting, but rp_industrial17 also seems to be based partially off the leaked beta maps of HL2's City 17- it feels doubly "haunted" knowing it's also built off of abandoned ideas.
Production value is high with this one boys!
I've been here since the fnaf retrospectives, and it's honestly insane how much better you get even just with each video. Every time I tune in, the visuals, the presentation, the music, or something has always improved in some way, big or small. Massive props man!
If you ever do this again, I recommend going to old TROVE faction bases - I've urbexed some abandoned places that were griefed, just abandoned, or had some players willing to tell me the story about the place
hey im a blockland history nerd - the online blockland servers still being hosted don't really feature much actual historical builds/worlds from as far back as 2007, blockland servers have typically had a short lifespan unlike minecraft worlds and whatnot. as a result, the servers you visited showed more newly built stuff only, i guess aside from that one build that comes with the game. for exploring super old stuff, it would be best to either download archived saves or have someone specifically host them for you (alongside classic old mods/add-ons too!)
he unfortunately played all inco servers which is a terrible fate for any blocklander 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Seeing the roblox iron cafe place made my heart skip a beat. It's such a vivid memory from when I was young thinking how cool club-esque night life and believing it be so "adult-ish". Now an actual adult still stuck in Vegas, I work at a fancy bespoke restaurant as a busser. A lot that adult world mystique and idealism sure was a lot warmer than reality.
Dude, wake up, Sagan just dropped
Exactly what I said seeing this.
Dropped what
not hating just curious... when people leave this comment on every video is for the meme, for the likes, a genuine feeling or a mix or these or something else? I just never really “got it“ after the 1000th time what the point was instead of leaving a comment which adds some novelty (again, no hate, people who leave these comments don‘t harm my ability to enjoy the video and comment sections its just kinda weird seeing it on nearly every single comment section and I want to get some insight from those who leave them)
You @thishandleistacken literally lol just answered your own question. But fuck it I got time today.. listen,
trying to dissect internet culture is like trying to understand the Bible. There's no damn point. It's a [TLDR: meme] - that will die out soon its a thing attention deprived Neanderthals use when creators drop new content, to be honest tho mostly its bots or cringe fuck fans that type it earliest someone drops a video bc its a meme or they wanna garner likes, comments, and attention because their social life is as dry as a 43 year single Mormon fuck.
Hope that helps you knew the answer bro you always knew.
Dropped from where? Is he okay?
We’re so back
???
It’s been only a month bro
@@AlexanderHulettHulett-xp3yb let the pizza guy have this
We’re so black 🥵🤤😛
Is no one talking about how he commented before the video came out?
I actually do this sort of digital urban exploration as you put it around every Halloween in places like VR chat and other games. Always interesting to see what gets left behind.
I loved industrial17 as a kid. Had my own rp server where we did little nerdy gang wars with the npcs. The map is one of the many influences/inspirations that led me to currently making a ttrpg. Such a good map!
You draw out the wonder and curiosity of late 90s and early 2000s childhood nostalgia without the burden of knowing that it's a feeling you can only truly appreciate retrospectively. Its an almost hopeful nostalgia for the now that looks forward rather than back, and I think that's pretty cool.
The house of leaves tunnel system is likely just a mine. They brought saplings with them to get more wood so they can keep mining when their tools break.I've done that before.
Its an obvious reference to the book house of leaves
I think ur the only yt essayist whose videos i not only look forward to, but also ur music! Great one as always⭐
I think this explains why minecraft scares me, not even old versions or abandoned servers, just that my memories of the first time playing it as a kid creates the same feeling whenever I play it regardless of version or world.
The tunnels with the trees reminds me so much of how I played minecraft when I was a kid, I have a bad anxiety disorder and when I was on non-peaceful servers I'd move underground with trees and mine out my own safe spaces. Lit well enough that nothing could spawn, hard enough to navigate that other players and mobs couldnt easily chase me. Trees and farms so I'd never have to go above ground again. I'd mine out randomly looking for minerals, blocking off caves as I found them out of fear and turning those tunnels into halls with more rooms where I'd afk
The amount of "Gotta go, mums calling me for dinner" and never seeing that person again is through the roof.
23:54
That clicking sound is incredibly odd, considering that's one of the new underwater equivalents to cave sounds, but those are from a more recent version than what you're playing on
He was playing on one of the recent versions, not an old one
As someone who’s been doing this for a month now, specifically playing old Roblox games from my childhood, this video feels like a much deserved punch in the gut to remind us to cherish what we currently have
Something I will always be heartbroken about is the minecraft servers my friends and I played on as kids that reset to match new updates. I’m still sad that I’ll never get to explore the builds we made.
1:14:00 - This stadium looks like National Stadium (Stadion Narodowy) in Warsaw, especially the red and white walls outside and the nest-like build. It was build in 2012.
that renderman sequence was cool as hell!
I was never much of a social gamer. At most, I’d chat with some person I paired up with in Castle Battle on Kongregate. As such, the only thing I can even remotely relate to this kind of experience is finding a living space in a post-apocalyptic game.
Now, I personally make an attempt to immerse myself in games, even when the game isn’t necessarily trying hard to make me do so. As such, there’s usually a small moment when walking through the Capital Wasteland on Fallout or finding an apartment on Deadrising where I just feel…kind of mournful. No matter how strong my character is or how many enemies I killed getting there, I just felt sad, all of a sudden. I know it’s probably not even close to a similar feeling, but that’s what this video reminds me of.
You are a life saver. Your videos give me such comfort. You put so much effort into them.
that anarchy server made me so happy for some reason .. there was so much love and care left behind there
All these source maps just make me sad. I used to play a lot of CSS and Gmod (including ancient Melonbrew era RP), it just reminds me of being a kid, friends I made online that I've lost touch with because of growing older. I miss those lates night where I was alone, but not really alone.
i've really been loving these recent videos where you explore examples of a certain concept. especially videos like the one on digital horror, which seems to now have branched off into smaller and more precise concepts like ghosts in the machine and digital urbexing and kenopsia. you've certainly earned your place as my favorite creator in this genre
Your one of the only content creators I’ve seen not complaining about this, im reallt excited personally. I know this games not for everybody, but I’m excited and really hype for this and playing with my friends
Realizing Sagan makes some of (all?) the music for his videos kinda blew my mind. That slowcore jam at 1:45 is so sick, Bedhead would be proud my guy
one thing that permeates in my mind when I see things like those minecraft signs or the abandonded roblox cafes and homes is "where are those people now?" and "I wonder if they'll ever see this video, and rethink those memories of what actually happened in those old servers"
Hey -- I just noticed, at 39:10 there's a fake fish tank behind you with the rotating pictures. I had that exact one when I was a kid. I'd stare at it for hours every night. It meant a lot to me, and I had almost completely forgotten about it until I saw it here. Could you let me know where I could find one like it?
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so so glad I found you a couple years ago. non-stop high quality and interesting videos. thank you, truly.
I love your content Sagen! It's very professional and enjoyable. Your scripts are great and impactful and the subtle editing and background details are fun! Thanks for being a comfort channel for me! Im always excited to watch your newest video. You deserve many more viewers! I'm so happy I found this hidden gem. I found you through that dinosaur museum game that you went looking for btw
thanks for being a content creator going through my past it brings be a somber joy seeing this stuff again because I probably will never experience this again and that can make me sad for a moment but still glad I got to see it once in my past when I was younger
I am not exagerating when I say that you make among the best content on youtube. It’s like you went in my brain and went “so this is what he wants”. Me being a fan of digital horror and the internet landscape since I am a child, this channel feels like it was taylor made for me. I wish I could be a patreon but I can’t right now but I’ll still support you the best way I can.
oh hell yes, hopping onto any multiplayer source/goldsrc game and exploring the abandoned servers is something i've always been super into, i have a hoards of custom maps from team fortress 2, half-life, opposing force, half-life 2 deathmatch, and even deathmatch classic
i can always feel the echoes of chaos that achievement/trade maps invited between the tdm and rtd rolls, and the ghosts of top fraggers in all those deathmatch maps
as for what was explored in the vid, i always felt cs_office was especially unnerving because there is a radio in it that's supposed to play a news report regarding the terrorist attack on the in-universe location, i don't remember if it only plays during cs gameplay or if it's totally unused, but it's one that's really stuck with me
Those tunnel complexes just look like regular old shaft mining to me. I used to spend hours and hours doing that. Great way to find lava lakes to make obsidian (or to stage an impromptu Pompeii re-enactment if you aren't careful).
this video was PEAK, actually fire! Very interesting topic honestly, it'll definitely stick with me for a while. Always been a fan of liminal spaces and/or abandoned ones, so this is awesome tbh
just from the first few minutes, i know Sagan has been watching Solar Sands and RedLyne lmao
New Sagan Hawks video to pass out to tonite let's fucking GOOOOOOO
I think the aspect of the ghosts of Place that i really resonate with the most is idenitfying the occupancy of a building that it exudes on its own.
(Psychologically, i think maybe this comes from our ancestors typically living in and around trees, literal "living structures", and thus our association of occupancy with life, or "ghosts", or Feng-sui.)
An abandoned building is an abandoned occupant. And while some, like the Source maps, were made to be empty, to be accommodating to any visitors they might get... Its the old, worn down bases that get me. Because they're not expecting to be empty.
They're supposed to be a home. A home for someone. The occupant of the house is made to be in tandem with the occupant of the builder, in a personalized way you don't typically see in most modern housing. They're a pair, a team, a package deal.
And thats just gone.
Something about some of these old builds just makes me want to find them. To repair them. To heal them. There's just something to alluring about... Mending whats broken. Creating something new out of the discarded.
Giving that ghost a home.
23:49
dont worry, its just the ocean/underwater version of cave sounds
Your video topics are so fascinating but your voice is so soothing that I just want to put it on repeat and fall asleep to them
I keep thinking this every time I watch your videos, but I love your editing. It's so good, especially the intros. I'll never tire of it.
Didn't expect this...but now I got my Popcorn and coke to watch this,LET'S GO!!!
Thank you for dropping Kenopsia. It’s very awesome to see more people drop The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. I wish more people mentioned this book. I got a copy and it’s VERY interesting to go through occasionally and just find words that I’ve definitely felt. But I never had a word to place on that feeling. Which is what it sets out to do, and I think it 100% succeeds.
Vr chat is also fantastic for this. I absolutely love getting high/drunk and just walking around vibeing in random worlds, theres so many that are low-no players and alot of limmanal stuff, playing calm abent music also helps
Oh man... Iron Cafe... I spent so much time there. It used to be the case that the "dance" tool disabled gravity, so you could jump or run off the stage and hold dance to fly.
I miss Blockland so much dude, that game was genuinely so fun back when it was active. The Renderman servers in particular were super fun to me as a kid, I remember trying to shoot him when he'd appear not knowing that he was p much invincible most of the time.
BLOCKLAND STILL ALIVE NEVER STOP PLAYING BLOCKLAND UNITED just dont join inco servers like this poor soul did BLOCKLAND NEVER DIE
@@opti6248 We still play Blockland
@@EpikBerm this video inspired me to re-download it on steam and to my amusement there were like 6 people all playing a minesweeper game mode on some random server, never change, blockland.
I keep wanting to call you “Seagan” for some reason, Sagan. Definitely glad to see you got a new video by the way.
Whats intiresting about these exploration videos especially in abandoned minecraft servers is many of the mostly or intact houses/mining systems are so confusing and odd from the outside perspective but once made total sense to someone or the entire server
There are jokes on those servers we will never understand, storage systems we would never personally use, mods we haven't seen in years and glitches/farms that in modern day can't be used or are just inconvenient due to the updates after these worlds
This reminds me a lot of Mark Fisher's writing on Hauntology - how we are haunted by the potential futures thought by people at a prior time. I think part of what makes abandoned digital spaces so eerie is the fact that they are there because of an ambition to make it into something good. Whenever someone makes a minecraft world it's full of potential, and everyone involved believes that this 2 week session won't be a 2 week session but something major and collaborative. But ultimately people leave those worlds behind, and the complete and half-finished builds on a server are just reminders of a future that never came to pass. You could say similar about things like Vaporwave, Frutiger Aero, and the revival of Rubberhose animation through Cuphead, Bendy, etc.
that minecraft server with all the weird trees in the tunnels has very easy explanation the tunnels are strip mining tunnels to find diamonds and the trees are there to chop down for wood instead of having to go back up! they also would give apples so a good source of food too if lucky
my ears perked up when you mentioned Lost in Vivo, such an beautiful and terrifying game. I love the soundtrack for it and I'm still playing through it as of this comment. Keep up the amazing work!
Its always a good day when sagan hawkes drops
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1:06:09 Did I hear a rock and stone?!
Love having your stuff on while I’m in the office. Great content brother.
The feeling of seeing a new sagan video really is like nothing else. This is such a comfort channel for me ❤
1:13:33 "I was really limited by my horse body." -- Sagan Hawkes, 2024
DUDE NO ONE ELSE KNOWS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT WHEN I TELL THEM ABOUT THE MAID MARIAN GAMES
ilysm thanks for reminding me of them
Love seeing you randomly exploring Blockland build servers when most people are at work on a weekday lol
Cheers to the chads playing Blockland since 2004 Blockland alpha.
I mainly host a dedicated server and alternate between gamemodes i love like zapt zombies, TDM, rising lava etc....
DM and TDM have always been pretty fun.
Speedkart Remastered is newer even more fun version of Speedkart really popular racing gamemode.
Blockland Events have also thought me how programming works as well as rpg maker. Events is basically a really easy way to do basic programming with bricks. Of course you can also just code anything you want and make it an addon.
HELLO PATYOS THANKS FOR ALWAYS HOSTING THINGS SO AWESOME BLOCKLAND FOREVER BLOCKLAND UNITED WE WIN WE WIN
patyos meow
This was a great video, thank you for your hard work!
i played blockland as a kid- its always really surprising to see it pop up anywhere. i have a lot of fond memories of the infinite mining servers, digging really deep and being able to name the ore you just discovered. i also enjoyed exploring the 3d maps before they removed them, they always had secrets and easter eggs. it makes me sad to see it so desolate, i spent hours talking to people and exploring different servers and games.
thank u for talking abt a truly obscure game from my childhood
Well a non written rule should be that if you don't want your base to be mined, don't hide chickens in the walls.
Hey Sagen those sounds you heard while swimming were ambient cave sounds because the game thought you were still in a cave at the time. Hope this helps!
Excellent essay, as always!
What a great throwback with the Iron Cafe! I used to hang out there between 2010-2015, so I don't think I've ever seen that particular version of it. I love the fact that archive projects exist to preserve stuff like this.
This man deserves so much more attention these videos are nuts
I love Segan’s videos a lot, but I feel so paranoid now when I’m watching them. Like, does not listing some of the minecraft servers to prevent grinding sound like a reasonable thing to do? Sure, BUT IT COULD ALSO BE A PLOY TO SHOW US A FAKE WORLD AND SCARE US WITH A MAN IN THE BACKGROUND. Did he really mess up his footage by accident, OR IS THIS A CLEVER RUSE TO HIDE SOME SECRET TEXT?! Oh, what a nice game I’ve never heard of, it looks like it would’ve been a lot of fun, IS WHAT I WOULD SAY IF I BELIEVED YOU!
I routinely visit the old Roblox servers I worked on as a teenager. Beautiful, intricate recreations of the evil alien Homeworld from the cartoon my friends and I were all obsessed with. One is just a revival project, though. Because the original is from 2014ish and very broken, so I don't have any access to my original special character model anymore. It's weird.
Warms my heart to see blockland getting videos! the sounds you heard in my render freebuild server is the default ambience of the renderman mod whilst running, with creepy sfx :o
oh yea I added the ability for rendermen to take on the appearance of players, lol
32:38 honestly, this sign is more impactful than any of the structures that were built. It's bittersweet to think at some point in time, (possibly a decade ago if the server was active in 2012,) "minerprincess" left this sign for someone, and for whatever reason, it was never removed.
minerprincess then moved on with their life, leaving the server for good one day, while their message for whoever, remains, as part of the server's history. Maybe it's just me, but it would feel weird to me if I loaded into an old world and found a sign with a message I left for someone. I wonder if I'd even remember the context, or why I created it
Man you nailed my childhood right on the head.. from Gmod.. to Minecraft, to Roblox and even Club Marian and Blockland.. Even I myself forget that those existed sometimes, only to be reminded faintly of the gameplay and a general image in my head of how they looked like.. yet I could never recall their names and find them myself (I remember Club Marian was mind-blowing to me as a kid, but in recent years I thought it was a dream I had...)
hell yeaahh, new vid + awesome topic, missed you man! (also at 31:26 the sign on the floor is written by an argentinian, woah!)