Just read from an article that Mr. Borneman created Grig's Quest to deal with the passing of his sister and his own irl stresses. It was his way of dealing with the grief, it was a world where he had control, opposite to how he felt at the time in his real world life. He worked on it for 7+ years and introduced it to his students. Rest in peace Mr. Borneman.
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 Please go to a PCA Presbyterian or OPC Presbyterian church, or maybe a Rpcna/Rpc Presbyterian church If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church. If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland, they are Presbyterian If you are English I recommend the Free Church of England :)
I was actually one of Mr. Borneman's students, the guy behind Grig's quest, It's so baffling seeing his server on some RUclips vid I found while scrolling. this was around the 2019-2020 school year as a senior and I'm currently close to graduating college. He had us do different quests for extra credit points that related to whatever we were learning about at the time. I'd log on with some friends every couple times a week to exploit the guild system just to b-line straight to whatever gave us EC that week, so I'm close to the end of the main quest and have zero clue what the lore is about. Borneman was such a genuine and passionate teacher and really opened me to critical thinking. When he passed away I went back to the server just to walk around and take it all in, the memories feel so distant yet remind me of that last year of high school. Thank you for reminding me of this server and thank you for your kind words about his passing, This server relfects him in some ways and I hope people get to experience it while its still around
I found a Medium article that's title "The Healing Power of Making Video Games Like ‘Minecraft’", that mentions his experience. I will include an excerpt that I thought was really interesting, it does show his journey and hints on the overarching lore. I haven't explored the server yet so I don't know how helpful it can be for the lore but hope it helps. quote: Borneman’s recovery via Minecraft was gradual. At first, he was just exploring the blocky landscape and building simple models. “It gave me something to do,” he says. “I could put the blocks where I wanted. I could tear them down. If I died, I came right back. It was a safe space to retreat to.” He discovered Minecraft adventure maps - worlds, stories, and quests created by players and shared online - and started building his own adventure about a character trapped between two worlds: one idyllic and unspoiled, the other ruined by a terrible catastrophe. The lead character has to visit and heal the latter in order to get back to the former. “Players have to deal with grief and loss - people die, they lose their stuff, and they have to rebuild and rediscover it to carry on. I was very much gamifying my grief. That’s exactly what I was doing. I was making it into a game.” Borneman has since been working on his own Minecraft adventure game, Grig’s Quest, for seven years, adding new puzzles and environments and hiding philosophical problems for his school students to discover and solve. It has been instrumental in his recovery from the deepest pit of grief. “Creating a world - there is something godlike about it,” he says. “It gives a sense of control, not in the sense of power, but in being able to work through the problems you create for yourself. Sometimes it gets frustrating when there’s something you want to achieve that isn’t technically possible, but then that gives you the challenge of figuring out how to work around it, and that in itself can be therapeutic.”
i logged onto Grig's Quest just to check it out- there's a steady handful amount of players exploring the lands now. I expected to stay around for 15 minutes or so, yet i ended up playing for over 4 hours. The world is so vast and jam-packed with content. Borneman did good. May he rest in peace.
I took a look at the web map for the server and was blown away by how many different worlds there are. It is truly incredible the amount of work that went in to that server. Its no wonder all his past students have nothing but good things to say about him. I really hope that the server can be saved in some way so new people can explore it.
For anyone wondering about the preservation of Grig's Quest: We've managed to contact some admins including the person who did all of the backend server stuff for it! Grig's Quest is now in a pretty good spot in terms of preservation(though there's still some unknowns). Btw, the video barely begins to scratch the surface of what this server has to offer. I'd absolutely recommend checking the server out when you get a chance!
im very glad to hear there's still some Admins running it from behind the scenes. i do think that there is a certain beauty to some things being left unknown within Grig's server. RIP Grig
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 Please go to a PCA Presbyterian or OPC Presbyterian church, or maybe a Rpcna/Rpc Presbyterian church If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church. If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland, they are Presbyterian If you are English I recommend the Free Church of England :)
Oh my god, Mr. Borneman made it into this video?! I haven't watched the whole video yet I was just terribly surprised at seeing him in the comments?? He was my teacher my senior year of high school (2018). I've thought about him ever since then; he definitely influenced me. He was my government teacher. He taught me the language to describe the things I saw all around me but couldn't articulate. We watched documentaries about fracking, the "hot coffee" incident, abu ghraib... some real intense, but necessary teaching. I've never forgotten him and have saved his syllabus and all the documentaries we watched. I'm graduating university this year. Oh my god... I cannot believe so many people are here remembering him. How on earth did this video reach all his students? I almost missed his class because everyone called him the "really hard class" and I tried to swap out, but thankfully the stars aligned and kept me there. It was the launchpad that showed me the things America tries really, really hard to cover up/pretend aren't happening. He was a good teacher, I don't care what anyone says. Edit: Just watched the video. I didn't know he passed away. My brother is going to the same school and I'd hoped he could take his class too... All my respect to Mr. Borneman. I hope he's doing alright in the afterlife.
That part about Grig's Quest really hit hard. From what I read, Robert Borneman (the creator/host of Grig's) was a pure and genuine soul that everyone he met seemed to love. All of the articles written about his passing have stories shared from his previous students that truly loved and appreciated his presence in their lives. Rest in Peace Mr. Borneman
I was one of his students. He was a genuine one of a kind individual and changed my life for the better so much. I'm glad that people are now finding his server because of this video.
@@connor3284 it wouldn't be anything that crazy if the mod was just made by some random guy and used by that server.. if they made the mod themselves that's insane.
Pretty weird feeling huh, it makes our actions feel worthless, but they aren't. There is so much emotion behind it but also none. It's the same as our old world's we created, our old friends we had, our old memories that have faded. But they all brought us here.
@Redlyne_ can you please have a look at latvian mc servers pls? i remember a server called gopro that seems to be off i remember my brother playing it around 2014-17 i have been trying to find servers from those days but have failed
I'm 37 yrs old and still have a lot of the stuff I drew in my school composition books some 20+ years ago. Nothing beats my own 2002 legacy Dragonball Z fanart.
I really like the chill down to earth vibe this vid has, doesn’t feel like it’s trying to be “liminal ooo spooky” or faux philosophical, just revisiting old stuff in a very warm and nostalgic way
I think I saw a meme with this video's thumbnail in it that was poking fun of how this video would be about how liminal old Minecraft servers are but when I actually watched it, it was genuine.
Just wanted to let you know that this video resulted in a bit of a resurgence for the Runsafe server. A handful of old staff members have started getting online again, and regular players are coming on daily as of the last month or so. There are new survival bases, new creative builds, and there is a fully playable Halloween adventure event created by one of the admins, running through October. You basically reignited interest in the server, and it was about a week away from being permanently shut down when all of this happened. The question now is whether or not it'll stick.
I pray that someone - anyone - preserves Grig's Quest. Its clear that map was made by someone not driven by profit or fame, but driven by the fuel which we call *passion.* God rest the creator's soul and let this video be the one to tell us all what we've been missing in the world of *Grig's Quest.*
@@w花b Fr. Also depending on which version it's on, it's possible with mods like Litematica (if something similar existed) that u could save entire chunks and then recreate it.
@@shade221 likely schematica, the mod litematica is inspired from wait no i reread this it was probably a chunk caching mod (sadly ive tried and failed to find one for 1.8)
i mean almost any type of griefing is inexcusable. I'm curious where do people draw the line between bad griefing and "good" griefing. i may have misunderstood the comment. you may mean the difference between worlds like this and "smaller" worlds.
@@bonbonbonbons There are those 'pay to win' servers, which ultimately exist to make kids take their parent's credit cards to get OP items. 'good' griefing would be to take these servers down for example. but yeah, anything else i'd say is BS.
Almost every one of these servers that know they're time capsules have a backup from the moment the staff decided to stop watching it. Issue is, how does one get ahold of the old admin so they can restore it? Usually it has to be a long-standing former member directly messaging an admin on Steam, Discord, etc. Sincerely, The owner of a 'time-capsule' MC server (2010-2017 RIP)
@@bonbonbonbonsBy the server they are playing on and the general rules of engagement. Some people like the sandbox survival aspect to be more like Rust, invading player bases and razing it to the ground. Others prefer creative worlds were you are restricted to your plot to build. Good griefing is griefing in the agreed etiquette of the server. I used to play on servers with no rules against griefing, but had factions/towny plug-ins to have safe areas. Some servers didn't have that, which made for interesting back and forth between factions going out 75+k blocks in any direction to build forts after having their last one flooded with lava or their castle is now a completely missing chunk. Good times
@@bonbonbonbons Ironically old griefing has the same nostalgic appeal to me as the old servers do. Back then you'd have server owners doing sketchy stuff, or just really mean stuff to players, and there'd be no repercussions. Thus, the only way to really get revenge against bad servers, was to try and grief them. There were even entire griefing teams who found sport in it, like Team Avolition, who has recently come back to the scene... although likely briefly. There was definitely good griefing, as I can still remember a hardcore christian server that would encourage kids to steal their mother's credit cards to donate to the server. And that wasn't even that crazy, that was just normal back then.
"Brauhaus der Hoffnung" was my very first server I ever played on back in 2011 I believe. The server was started very early when Minecraft was still in Beta even. In typical German fashion, it was one of the most professional and well organised servers I've ever played on. Every few months the entire server would wipe and the owners would try out a new concept, way earning money, new cities, a new map and so much more. For example from Map 7 to Map 8 the server went from obsidian being the most valuable item (because its effort to get it and doesn't depend on the rarity that diamond have) to a fully in house developed dynamic economy system. Items would change in value depending on people demanding those items, so it always felt exciting. The concept overall was citybuild. People would gather items, earn money by selling the items in a shop or to other players and then would be able to buy themselves a plot. There also was a freebuild map, which was nice, but personally I preferred building on plots. As shown in the video, the people on the server were so good at building, so the cities were always built around a theme (medieval times, big cities, jungle tree houses, underwater cities, european style cities, venice, florence etc.) and it was expected that you sort of try to keep up that style. The map shown in the video already was supposed to be the "Reloaded" server. The server was meant to shutdown after Map 9, but several people from the team tried to take over the server and start a new concept, but it never really stuck. Talking about how the server was back then. The team was nice, even a helper role and the owner was a developer himself and was able to develop plugins for the server back then already. Everything was so polished, well designed and thought out. Lots of little details were so well thought out that it just made a better experience so early on. Stuff like proximity chat, a report system, global bans, a train network etc. Back then those things were incredible. In order to be able to play on the sever you needed to go through some (for the times quite big) verification, which turned out amazing because most of the players were mature and wanted to collaborate. I believe the owner had some sort of connection to a big server hoster, so the server never relied on donations or selling out to their players, it was all entirely free-to-play, which was amazing. There were no special ranks that you could buy, no cosmetics, nothing. All the benefits you could get by simply playing on the server and doing things. I remember visiting peoples houses after talking to them in chat. And since there weren't any big teleports you needed to take trains to actually visit people. It just added another layer of immersion that you usually don't get nowadays where its all about optimising numbers instead of just having a cozy time together building and collaborating. Those days were so innocent, free of the fast paced developments we have now. Things were meant to be optimised for the player and not for the business. I long so much for a similar experience as this server was, but it seems like that style of server is just not popular anymore. (Maybe there is some similar server still out there and I just havent discovered it yet?) To me this server was something very special and will remain a large part of my early childhood. It was like a second home to me. I will miss you BdH and the entire team ♥
I have so many servers that i used to play, sadly all shut down. there is so much more "history" in minecraft its insane, each person has their own story and their own perspective.
if you join hypixel rn you will throw that "the most professional and organized server ever" part out the window lol, no server even comes close to hypixel's level of perfection and attention to detail, and im not even gonna start about the community and insane history of the server, (for history i recommend "hellcastle & tyler"'s hypixel skyblock iceberg, and thats only skyblock.) the only servers that actually have more history than hypixel are mineplex, 2b2t and Minecraft Online (MC Online is litterally the oldest server ever that is still running)
holy shit, those statues at 1:50 really date it. those were all really big MC youtubers back in the day, but what really shows its age is the inclusion of Dawnables (the one with the blue shirt and pink/purple hair). she was at one point SkyDoesMinecraft’s girlfriend, but didn’t appear too often and wasn’t really in anything past like 2012. wild to see those old skins again, brought back a major hit of nostalgia for me
I was one of Mr. Borneman's students, and I thought I'd just thought I'd leave a comment here about him. Besides my parents, no one has had a greater influence on my life than Mr. Borneman. I was a bad student, 2.7 gpa in highschool, had no passion about learning, etc. But then I stumbled across his class senior year, and was introduced to philosophy. For the first time I felt passionate about learning and school, he was such a great mentor, and he was a great friend. We kept in contact after I graduated, up until the very end. Meeting him and taking his class completely changed the path of my life as I've nowjust graduated with a degree in philosophy from UC Berkeley, and am looking to enroll in a graduate program. I genuinely have no idea what I would be doing with my life right now if I had not taken Mr. Borneman's class, there is nothing I would rather be doing that what I'm doing right now, and I can only owe that to Mr. Borneman's guidance. Please do play on Grig's Quest, he loved working on it and making it. Some other former students are now maintaining the server in his honor. If ya'll have any questions about it you can ask, I've beaten the whole thing.
@@caitlyn956 I won't say too much as its personal, but he was quite depressed for a while, and started the minecraft server in attempt to cope with the situation, because he liked creating things in the game with friends. Eventually he got out of that slump, became a teacher, and started integrating his class material with the server. He added challenges and puzzles that were related to the course material; and pieces of philosophy and literature that were outside the course material, and would come onto the server a certain number of times a month during which you could hand him the items you gained for completing the school-related challenges for the extra credit. The themes of the server's storyline (that spans across the multiple worlds) is a reflection of Mr. Borneman's personal philosophy regarding life, politics, spirituality, and other such things. In fact, I might as well just add a link to some of his writings about these topics in case anyone thinks they might be an interesting read (they definitely are) medium.com/@bornemania/list/the-kingdom-of-ash-95c09d249f1c
So what if it is? You look like more of a jackass if this person is telling the truth and you're trying to prove how big brain smart you are by calling them a liar, than you would if they were lying and you just let it be. I thought we left the andeveryoneclapped cringe on Reddit
Thanks for checking out our graveyard of a server! What you said is exactly right: why would anyone jump onto a minigame server with no players rather than one with thousands already playing? It turns out building the server is the easy part. Getting anyone on to come and play one of your original games is the real challenge, and it's a big one. The parkour mode was actually added late to at least give minimal players something to do. You're correct in that we found a cheaper way to keep the server open. We worked on it for many years and so it makes it difficult to even consider taking it down, even if it's empty most of the time. We still have the occasional regulars come on to play a few games every now and then and keeping it up is worth it just for them. We wish you would have had the opportunity to play some of the real games. A great amount of care, time thought was put into them to make them the best they could be. We're proud of what we made, even if it does rest dormant for years to come. It'll still be there for people, like yourself, to stumble upon and discover our little corner of Minecraft...
As someone who played alot of Mc in the early days, I knew when he asked that question that this was the answer. Taking it down would mean losing those memories 💔 I'm glad I got to see yours and all these gorgeous little gems from the past.
When Grig's quest does shut down, at least this video might stand as a little memorial of sorts. There will be a time when we all place our last block, when our worlds go on never to be loaded in again, and when all of the chunks are perfectly preserved at least until time destroys or corrupts the vessel or device which contains those worlds beyond recoverability.
I think about this when I look back to old games I used to play non-stop. I wonder what the last thing I did in them were. At the time I probably just figured ah I'll start this up again later. Oblivion is one that comes to mind. I don't even have those saves on my current PC anymore. It's kinda sad.
@@DownwithEA1I refused to finish games as a kid because I didn't want my adventure to be over, so I have many uncompleted games- but my copy of Pokemon Crystal's battery dying back in 2014 really kick-started me to go back and get fresher memories of my old favorites before I didn't have the chance to.
I'm one of Mr. Borneman's former students. Some other former students are now maintaining the server in his honor I believe. He was a genuine one in a kind individual and changed my life for the better so much. I'm glad that people are now finding his server because of this video.
Seeing how much love was put into Grig's Quest by the teacher solely to create memories for his students reminded me of why I chose to be a teacher in the first place. I felt my heart melt. I wasn't expecting this going into the video. Thank you.
The "Adventurers Guild" section is my favorite. It feels so comfy and touching to visit a huge virtual world, and see little notes here and there, mementos of strangers visiting this corner of the map; it really makes you feel like the server's world is a little universe in its own right, almost like an actual physical space.
I’m crying at Grig’s quest… what a beautiful, whimsical world, and all perhaps made by a teacher for his students?? I’m certain he was a delightful man. Rest in peace
There's an article by Medium that confirms it; but the story is even more heartbreaking. He made it for his students, as a way to cope and deal with the loss of his sister after she passed in a car accident :(
Grig's quest was the best kind of server one can stumble upon. Just some guy's project he did in his free time for his own enjoyment, that we may now be entertained with. Sadly, most artists' work is only appreciated after they die... May his soul rest in peace...
That LOTR server is stuff of dreams of my child self. This is exactly what I was looking for and never found. Happy to learn it now exists and sad that it's dead.
One time, out of boredom, I joined a survival world based from a bigger server, I can’t really remember what server it was though, but it had maybe 50 people online. I spawned in a random place and the first thing I saw was a long path/bridge in the air extending as far as I could see. I checked it out and started walking it. It went on for thousands and thousands of blocks, and on the way, there were houses, structures, and signs dating years earlier. It was such an amazing and fun experience communicating with people I’d never and will never actually talk to through wooden signs on a path. It turns out that so many people like me had found the path and continued building on it. I found chests with food left for travelers, houses to rest in, and just so many great things. It was so weird seeing things that had been there for ages without being touched. I reached the end and continued building the path for a few hundred blocks before leaving a sign of my own and logging off. I’d love to revisit it, but I cannot remember what server or where this path was.
This is a long shot but if it was an anarchy server it could be 2b2t! I just know that from watching "fitMC's" videos that there's a huge pathway that goes for over 100k blocks :3
@@B0n3s.333 it cant be 2b2t because no one on 2b2t is civil enough to leave signs for other players that don't involve copious amounts of racial slurs lol
you will be glad to know, in my Adventurers Guild server.. out of the roughly 170 new players since this video, Only One player, BeatKonducta, needed to be banned for using cheats, and Attempting to use various hacks and minecart spam to take the server down.. but it had no effect. We weren't abandoned or forgotten to begin with, but this video is the best AD i've had in years, Thanks Redlyne.
So bittersweet... 31 year old Norwegian here, who's been playing on and off since 2010/11, so the first server spoke to me. Every server with dignity had to have a nyan cat back in the day! RIP teacher admin of Grig's Quest. I bet this teacher was loved by the kids who played there :)
Hey! I am the owner of the Dexouille server ^^ It's very surprising to see that you made a video in which you talk about my Minecraft server. I can provide more information if you wish or answer any questions ^^ Just to clarify, the server is not French, but Belgian ;) Yes we speak French too, but it's a small nuance ^^ There are a lot of French on the server, it's true. Technically, my server is not forgotten, it is just community, and practically people from my community come to play on my server. Which explains the presence of "How to train your dragon" because I have a community very much linked to the universe of these films. And the server has almost no players lately because I myself am quite inactive on it. Generally, people in my community become active when there is something new, which is rare in this period. But there are still a few longtime regulars that drop by the server from time to time, and I'm happy to keep records of everything that's been done on it ^^ (With the /menu command there is a way to see more server content, but this menu bugs half the time, because it is supposed to be given in the inventory.) I am therefore very curious to know how you found this server given that apart from my community, it is complicated to succeed in finding it ^^ If you want to contact me more easily, you will find my Discord server in the description of my videos. But be careful, I specify that my English is far from being good x) But thank you for having made this small visit on my server :)
@@Redlyne_ couldn’t edit my comment incase your seeing this I just wanted to say I’d be very grateful if any bit of life could be sparked back into the game❤
Videos of people exploring old servers like this just gives me such a blast of secondhand nostalgia. It's incredibly interesting to think about and even make up stories on how people or certain invidividuals who had previously partake in the creation of the servers, the fun they had in making them, and how or why they had to eventually leave. Where might they be now; are they healthy, successful, or happy?
Omg you just give me the crazy emotion to enter an old survival server that I used to play, and it freaking stay the same, the most crazy part of it is that my house stayed 100% intact and I just started crying a lot, thanks man, you just give me one of the best feelings of all my life, i was walking my home in the server and seeing things like, my friends and my dogs, our farms, our horses, and the most crazy thing is that I found a gravestone from my old dog in the game, first I dont remembered of the dog, but then I started slowly remembering. Thanks man, I'm a lot better that I just remembered this old memories, serious thanks man. :)
I've just finished the Grig's first area and teleported to Arcadia (maybe as a first person since years?). It was a really fun experience and I have a lot of respect for Mr. Borneman (and maybe other people working on the map) for the clear love that they've put in.
Yes, 100%. It's interesting enough to keep our attention, but simple and not too involved to leave us relaxed. And he's definitely got a chill voice that helps with that :)
To be completely honest I only clicked because I liked the sound of his voice from the preview, but ended up watching through the entire thing. His way of speaking and his humour made it impossible for me not to continue watching.
The chunk error is an old school Minecraft prank or easter egg playing on the issue with our old computers struggling to render nearby chunks at high speed or when first spawning in. We would often follow other players across seemingly empty gaps or where we had the shape of the terrain memorized instead of waiting for it to load in. So by creating a real 16x16 gap, enabling the fly cheat out of sight of your victim, and floating along the ground to make it look like you were walking across the missing chunk, you could get them to follow you in and fall to their deaths. This worked best on 360 Edition since the rendering errors were a common occurrence there. I made mine in creative using a series of vertical strips, a carefully placed lattice of TNT far enough from the edges to not overly destroy it, and then cleaned it up by hand
I met my now wife on a Minecraft server many years ago. I sometimes visit the old server and It's always an extremely nostalgic experience taking it all in. Minecraft has a very particular way of preserving snapshots of individual creativity and thoughts at a particular time. The bit of your video with the signs really resonated with me. Going back onto the old server and seeing "To do" lists and messages to friends via signs that were never completed/answered is a surreal experience. Great video, I'm glad it's getting a lot of attention :)
Hey, nice to see our server GamesMC in this video. I'm was in the earlier times a moderator and architect and can tell a few years ago, there were more player than now. But its very nostalgic to think back to the old times
10:22 is such a sweet moment. I don't know if there's a word to describe the feeling of finding something old on the internet. A live, direct glimpse into the past. Always makes me feel some sort of weird nostalgia, sadness, and curiosity.
It’s crazy how Minecraft has a very rare combination of age and longevity for a video game where it’s clear, especially by the subreddit for that first server, that it’s gone through multiple mass nostalgia waves
old minecraft servers fill me with a feeling that I struggle to describe. A sort of sad nostalgia? It makes me miss the server I played on a lot when I was a young teen and the people that were on there, and wish that I could visit again, even just the empty world, seeing the husks that myself and the people I knew on there built.
This video perfectly encapsulates that feeling of melancholy nostalgia, I couldn't leave withot watching the whole thing It felt almost like a documentary taking a snapshot of time, a representation of what was and what is bound to happen again I cant remember the people i used to play minecraft with as a teenager. But seeing this video let me live vicariously through the memories of others Big props man, you got a sub out of me
I didn't expect to cry watching this, but Grig's quest did just that. Its so sad hearing about this rich world that Mr Borneman made for his students. It looks like A LOT of passion went into it. I went and googled him and everywhere I could find was just his students saying good things about him. I wish I could've had him as a teacher growing up. I just wish that someone can find a way to preserve the server, as a way to commemorate his passion and keep it available for anyone else who comes upon it.
@swtorscrub3839 for 1 måned siden I was one of Mr. Borneman's students, and I thought I'd just thought I'd leave a comment here about him. Besides my parents, no one has had a greater influence on my life than Mr. Borneman. I was a bad student, 2.7 gpa in highschool, had no passion about learning, etc. But then I stumbled across his class senior year, and was introduced to philosophy. For the first time I felt passionate about learning and school, he was such a great mentor, and he was a great friend. We kept in contact after I graduated, up until the very end. Meeting him and taking his class completely changed the path of my life as I've nowjust graduated with a degree in philosophy from UC Berkeley, and am looking to enroll in a graduate program. I genuinely have no idea what I would be doing with my life right now if I had not taken Mr. Borneman's class, there is nothing I would rather be doing that what I'm doing right now, and I can only owe that to Mr. Borneman's guidance. Please do play on Grig's Quest, he loved working on it and making it. Some other former students are now maintaining the server in his honor. If ya'll have any questions about it you can ask, I've beaten the whole thing. so yeah the students are taking care of the server :)
8:36 I can’t imagine the feeling of this moment. All alone on a long abandon Minecraft server. Walking a long an old path that hasn’t felt footsteps in over 10 years. It was dark and rainy, with eerie sounds playing.
As a bit of insight, I host a server that's been online since 2013 and I keep it running because of the memories stored on them. Besides that many of us have periods where we play actively again and sometimes long periods where we don't play for 6 months to a full year. About keeping the spawn intact, regenerating chunks is how I kept the spawn looking .. presentable & not corrupted on top of manual cleanup often using WorldEdit to wipe the griefed structures or rebuild builds from players long inactive.
I've got a question for ya, since I've always wondered this. How do you manage to have a proper server up constantly without it taxing your wallet? Asking cause I'm trying to start one for me and a few friends to play on without absolutely shelling out cash for it, since it'll be something where we'll end up being like you, actively playing for a while with periods were we don't playing very much. Any response is appreciated, and thank you in advance :)
@@HitMonto Considering even singleplayer Minecraft is technically just you playing on a private server, I imagine one can get away with running a server for very few people on their own PC (perhaps an older machine that got replaced in daily use). In that case, it would be mostly paying the energy bill for running it 24/7. With no GPU involved, the energy consumption also goes down.
please turn this into a series, i love looking at old and forgotten servers, games, etc. and your video perfectly encapsulates what i love so much about it, while putting it in a nice and easily digestable format, AND while giving each server the respect it deserves
this gave me hope and genuine happiness. I cried this is just so wholesome these small communities and people looking back on their childhood experiences on these servers enjoy relaxing to this game at its some of its oldest stages. Im feeling a kind of joy and nostalgia I thought i left in my childhood. When my mental health is down again this will be a reason to smile again.
The part with Grig's quest breaks my heart, and I'd hate for the map to be lost to time. I hope that the creator can rest in piece, he seems like he was very well loved by his students. As for old maps and such, I don't quite remember the name of it, but I remember the map having this giant purple pyramid made from obsidian and purple glass. Inside of it there was a bunch of chests with disks and jukeboxes. Also roller coasters on the outside too, I used to play it a lot with my brothers and we would try to explore everything.
I like how you say Rathaus. As a German myself this was quite funny to watch. Kiss on the eye lids. XD I remember that back then all of my friends and me myself, we built castles and so on for hours. Creating masterpieces. And server 3 really displays this time period.
Your voiceover has a gruff, yet soothing radio host-like quality to it. Really adds to the excellently edited museum tour experience here. Top notch stuff
As many others have said, seeing old Minecraft servers along with hearing your calm voice made this video cozy, nostalgic, and a bit somber. I thought it was going to be another obnoxious video, but I was proved wrong. Thank you for making this! Might even peek at a few of these myself.
5:30 The board says: Welcome to the Brauhaus der Hoffnung (Brewery of hope) You have the option to build in a giant 'Freebuild' or in themed building areas! Alternatively, you can create your own city! The needed materials can be found in the 'Farm World', further information on the associated boards. To play on our Server, you need to read the rules with /rules, in which there is one word that doesn't make sense - this word is the unlocking password. Using /passwort [password], you accept the rules, and unlock yourself on the server. Important: No Thievery, no Griefing, no Flaming, no Insults, no Capslock, no Hacks, [Buddys] and [Supporter] help you :)
Fun Fact: Lots of German Servers did this back in the day, I believe the first to do this was the server, that got the German 'Minecraft' Domain that shut down in 2018; their password was "Creepers and Cacti don't exist for hugging".
Brother, get ready for Season 4 of the War of the Ring! We are getting ready and working night and day to bring you all the next Season! :D. Thank you for the review, you are fantastic!
24:07 man I teared up after watching this whole section the other college students were confused watching me tear up at a Minecraft Tree and Grassland animation, I'm amazed that a teacher would make a Minecraft server to either connect with students or as a passion.
9:16 The fact that somebody just one day left these items in his chest, never came back aaaand that somebody used it years after is mindblowing. Reminds me of when scientist learn about ancient civilizations.
The Adventurers Guild server and the way you explored it felt like a Dark Souls area with a boss at the end. Exploring a long gone world with enviromental storytelling, meeting few people that are sane enough to talk with, making your way up a castle to defeat a boss (and failling…).
This was wholesome and nostalgic. Very impressed some of these worlds have such developed lore. And I love the music choices in your editing, even one from Hitman BM.
There's something about these exploration videos I just love, the deadpan voice mixed in with absurd comedy, the in-depth look into some of these long forgotten games, not to mention the general respect given to those no longer around. Even if it takes another year ill always come back for these
I wasn’t expecting a nostalgia trip video about old MC servers would make me cry, but the coverage of Grig’s Quest, and reading all the comments gushing about how great of a teacher and person he was, and reading about him and his story made me bawl. Man, why does this world have to take all the kind souls away.
I could watch videos like these for hours. There's something eerily calming about empty worlds that are supposed to be full of people. Your commentary is also nice to listen to, the dry humor really makes these videos super cozy
I see everyone in the comments talking about Grig's, but I have to say that for me, the thing that made me cry of kindness was the message of MajorLava at 10:20 ! Humans are amazing
You rummaging around the 4th server's survival world and reading signs from other people gave me big zombie apocalypse/postapocalyptic vibes. I could just feel the life behind them and it reminded of the survival server I used to play on.
Back in beta, pretty much every kid I knew was on Foxescraft. A few years I went back to it to see how it was holding up. It had turned into a creative server and I was 1 of 4 players online. Always tremendously sad to see stuff like this, but the world moves on and people find other things to do with their time, I suppose.
I experienced something like that too. Many kids joining a popular server. Turned into something very different years later, and very unpopulated. I wish younger me gathered up the few braincells he had to use the screenshot button so I can look back at those pretty builds in the past. (pssst nice Almond pfp by the way)
This reminds me so much of myself over the last 10 years. Been playing Ultima Online since beta (1997), and still somewhat active and is the longest running MMO. I logon and go to various servers - US, Japan, Oceania, Europe, etc (each have various time zone/regional names like Lake Superior, Atlantic, Pacific, Europa) and just look for folx to talk to/pvp with as I have full characters on each with full setups, suits, resources. In the prime of playing, there would be 10’s of 1,000’s per server & entire communities/player ran towns. Now, unless you logon to the major PvP or PVM servers (Atlantic, Seige, Europa), you might run into 2-5 total players outside the main hub cities. This game is my favorite of all MMOs due to the sandbox style character setups & huge groups of friends I made playing. It truly died off around 2016 but still has a solid 2-3k players vs. the millions of players during its peak (1998-2003). Truly hits me in the feels seeing friends homes & former PvP stomping grounds have disappeared due to age or passing away in real life. Nothing will ever come close to Ultima Online & the way most of us would spend half our lives playing this game, talking to friends, and overall just having the time of our life. - Robin of Lake Superior
Feels like everyone on the server is gone but they could fr be your neighbor. old servers are a whole different world man almost feels like time traveling but no one can be there with you
Its a treat to see all these old server and Recognise so much. From old building styles, to old youtuber Statues, Massive builds, the builds only kids would have made. There is nothing quite like it. Beautiful
I dont really comment all that often, but I wanted to say thanks for making these videos. they are some of my favorite content to watch online. through you we get to see some cool older places where people at one time frequented and had fun together. its somewhat wholesome to think that someone who hadn't thought of these places in years will stumble across this video and remember the good times they had.
This is my first vid of yours ive seen and looking into the comments is amazing, all the love for Mr. Borneman and his students shows how amazing this community is and i definetely plan to give Grig's quest a try. Also just wanted to add that your voice is amazing
*thanks for mading this video mann. Let people remember these 2010s era forgotten servers in minecraft and another legendary 2010s and 2000s multiplayer games servers.*
This is honestly the closest thing you can get to videogame archeology. Theres so many things to find and imagine how these servers were in their peaks.
i clicked on this video thinking that it looked very interesting but to my surprise i had already watched it three months prior. That is when you know your video is good when it is recommended multiple times and i watch it every time.
I just randomly found this but I was immediately captivated by the nostalgia and wave of emotions that this game created. It's crazy to think how much time has passed but I hope this brings us closer together. Thank you Redlyne :) subscribed
this video was great, really made me think back to the hours i used to spend on minecraft servers that are now long gone, wish i had some sort of way of going back on those worlds again
This was such a blast from the past… it really gets you to remember the old days. How many friends you’ve met, what you have been through together etc. It feels like we almost lived a different life online. And it WAS a whole world. I hope everyone I got to play with it doing well. All grown up probably. Working a normal job, maybe traveling the world. I’m forever grateful I met these internet strangers, because after all, they were the closest friends I had during that time period. So long, friends
Cheers, Redlyne -- another great video. If you continue doing these sort of "digital archaeology" videos, please don't shy away from moments like the end of Grig's Quest. Acknowledging the people behind these spaces feels just as important to what they left behind in the game, if you think it relevant, even if it may hurt at times to do so.
I'm such a big fan of your exploration of derelict social areas in gaming. There is something special about these once-populated areas that have been left to time. I genuinely love these, it reminds me of what I used to do online as a kid when I had garbage internet and couldn't play with anybody. This stokes a very potent type of nostalgia in my soul.
This video was a treat. Your commentary and editing are funny without being obnoxious, which is rare especially these days. And the servers gave me liminal space vibes, like how I always enjoyed liminal spaces for. Not for the scary factor but for the absolute solitude and the comfort that comes with that. Also that Jerma joke was a deep cut, but a welcome one.
Y'know.. For everyone who says: "I wish I could go back.", there's an obvious solution. Go back! Not in time! But go back to what you used to do! If your old friends won't be there, then get new ones! Because it's not the game itself! It's the memories you create together with friends! That's what you long for.
Vielen Dank, dass Sie mich an die schönen Zeiten im Serverbrauhaus erinnert haben Ich möchte mich bei Ihnen dafür bedanken, dass Sie alte Server erkundet haben. Es hat mir wirklich das Herz erwärmt, als Sie Brauhaus gefunden haben. Vielen Dank
This is one of my favorite minecraft videos in a while, please continue exactly what you are doing. The atmosphere of this video is overwhelmingly cozy
Just read from an article that Mr. Borneman created Grig's Quest to deal with the passing of his sister and his own irl stresses. It was his way of dealing with the grief, it was a world where he had control, opposite to how he felt at the time in his real world life. He worked on it for 7+ years and introduced it to his students.
Rest in peace Mr. Borneman.
Man watching this video and reading this comment so late at night is a different feeling. He seemed like a good man
@@absoluterage6147 Same here now at 03:35 local time.
Genuinely made me tear up :,(
Rip Borneman, may your legacy live on with your creation
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.
-Acts 3:19
Please go to a PCA Presbyterian or OPC Presbyterian church, or maybe a Rpcna/Rpc Presbyterian church
If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church.
If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland, they are Presbyterian
If you are English I recommend the Free Church of England
:)
@@philipweber9545talented man
I was actually one of Mr. Borneman's students, the guy behind Grig's quest, It's so baffling seeing his server on some RUclips vid I found while scrolling. this was around the 2019-2020 school year as a senior and I'm currently close to graduating college. He had us do different quests for extra credit points that related to whatever we were learning about at the time. I'd log on with some friends every couple times a week to exploit the guild system just to b-line straight to whatever gave us EC that week, so I'm close to the end of the main quest and have zero clue what the lore is about. Borneman was such a genuine and passionate teacher and really opened me to critical thinking. When he passed away I went back to the server just to walk around and take it all in, the memories feel so distant yet remind me of that last year of high school. Thank you for reminding me of this server and thank you for your kind words about his passing, This server relfects him in some ways and I hope people get to experience it while its still around
Thank you for sharing your history with Grig's quest, and Mr. Borneman.
I found a Medium article that's title "The Healing Power of Making Video Games Like ‘Minecraft’", that mentions his experience. I will include an excerpt that I thought was really interesting, it does show his journey and hints on the overarching lore. I haven't explored the server yet so I don't know how helpful it can be for the lore but hope it helps.
quote:
Borneman’s recovery via Minecraft was gradual. At first, he was just exploring the blocky landscape and building simple models. “It gave me something to do,” he says. “I could put the blocks where I wanted. I could tear them down. If I died, I came right back. It was a safe space to retreat to.” He discovered Minecraft adventure maps - worlds, stories, and quests created by players and shared online - and started building his own adventure about a character trapped between two worlds: one idyllic and unspoiled, the other ruined by a terrible catastrophe. The lead character has to visit and heal the latter in order to get back to the former. “Players have to deal with grief and loss - people die, they lose their stuff, and they have to rebuild and rediscover it to carry on. I was very much gamifying my grief. That’s exactly what I was doing. I was making it into a game.”
Borneman has since been working on his own Minecraft adventure game, Grig’s Quest, for seven years, adding new puzzles and environments and hiding philosophical problems for his school students to discover and solve. It has been instrumental in his recovery from the deepest pit of grief. “Creating a world - there is something godlike about it,” he says. “It gives a sense of control, not in the sense of power, but in being able to work through the problems you create for yourself. Sometimes it gets frustrating when there’s something you want to achieve that isn’t technically possible, but then that gives you the challenge of figuring out how to work around it, and that in itself can be therapeutic.”
do you have any idea who's hosting the server? itd be great to have it preserved
This teacher seemed to be a real treasure.
RIP
smoking borneman pack
i logged onto Grig's Quest just to check it out- there's a steady handful amount of players exploring the lands now. I expected to stay around for 15 minutes or so, yet i ended up playing for over 4 hours. The world is so vast and jam-packed with content. Borneman did good. May he rest in peace.
I took a look at the web map for the server and was blown away by how many different worlds there are. It is truly incredible the amount of work that went in to that server. Its no wonder all his past students have nothing but good things to say about him. I really hope that the server can be saved in some way so new people can explore it.
For the owner
Im Joing the world after this but I would like to know u still playing it
I think it's actually one of the best servers I've seen, I'm sure he enjoys the attention his servers getting.
@@RealFriendlyFriendo how can he be enjoying the attention post mortem?
For anyone wondering about the preservation of Grig's Quest: We've managed to contact some admins including the person who did all of the backend server stuff for it! Grig's Quest is now in a pretty good spot in terms of preservation(though there's still some unknowns). Btw, the video barely begins to scratch the surface of what this server has to offer. I'd absolutely recommend checking the server out when you get a chance!
im very glad to hear there's still some Admins running it from behind the scenes. i do think that there is a certain beauty to some things being left unknown within Grig's server. RIP Grig
Damn..
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.
-Acts 3:19
Please go to a PCA Presbyterian or OPC Presbyterian church, or maybe a Rpcna/Rpc Presbyterian church
If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church.
If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland, they are Presbyterian
If you are English I recommend the Free Church of England
:)
@@eymn-13rip
@@Mine0.5.0very interesting how short life is
Oh my god, Mr. Borneman made it into this video?! I haven't watched the whole video yet I was just terribly surprised at seeing him in the comments?? He was my teacher my senior year of high school (2018). I've thought about him ever since then; he definitely influenced me. He was my government teacher. He taught me the language to describe the things I saw all around me but couldn't articulate. We watched documentaries about fracking, the "hot coffee" incident, abu ghraib... some real intense, but necessary teaching. I've never forgotten him and have saved his syllabus and all the documentaries we watched. I'm graduating university this year. Oh my god... I cannot believe so many people are here remembering him. How on earth did this video reach all his students? I almost missed his class because everyone called him the "really hard class" and I tried to swap out, but thankfully the stars aligned and kept me there. It was the launchpad that showed me the things America tries really, really hard to cover up/pretend aren't happening. He was a good teacher, I don't care what anyone says.
Edit: Just watched the video. I didn't know he passed away. My brother is going to the same school and I'd hoped he could take his class too... All my respect to Mr. Borneman. I hope he's doing alright in the afterlife.
That part about Grig's Quest really hit hard. From what I read, Robert Borneman (the creator/host of Grig's) was a pure and genuine soul that everyone he met seemed to love. All of the articles written about his passing have stories shared from his previous students that truly loved and appreciated his presence in their lives. Rest in Peace Mr. Borneman
Was playing on the server and one of his students got on. Described him as his most passionate teacher
@@AndrewFoot history teachers are built like that
I was one of his students. He was a genuine one of a kind individual and changed my life for the better so much. I'm glad that people are now finding his server because of this video.
It’s honestly pretty crazy how much history some of these servers can have. They really are time capsules.
Real talk
The Lord of the Rings one was absolutely wild. Judging by what was shown it looks like they essentially had their own MMORPG with a massive world.
@@connor3284 LOTR online? I don't know if it's a good MMO but I play DDO and think it's fun.
@@connor3284 it wouldn't be anything that crazy if the mod was just made by some random guy and used by that server..
if they made the mod themselves that's insane.
Pretty weird feeling huh, it makes our actions feel worthless, but they aren't. There is so much emotion behind it but also none. It's the same as our old world's we created, our old friends we had, our old memories that have faded. But they all brought us here.
The ability to look back at servers long abandoned is beautiful in a sorrowful way. It’s like finding your old doodles from a decade ago
I kept a lot of old drawings. So should you.
@Redlyne_ can you please have a look at latvian mc servers pls? i remember a server called gopro that seems to be off
i remember my brother playing it around 2014-17
i have been trying to find servers from those days but have failed
I'm 37 yrs old and still have a lot of the stuff I drew in my school composition books some 20+ years ago. Nothing beats my own 2002 legacy Dragonball Z fanart.
@@DMKandilo wow!
FOR REAL man ✊😔
I really like the chill down to earth vibe this vid has, doesn’t feel like it’s trying to be “liminal ooo spooky” or faux philosophical, just revisiting old stuff in a very warm and nostalgic way
It's like visiting your home town, many years after you left.
I think I saw a meme with this video's thumbnail in it that was poking fun of how this video would be about how liminal old Minecraft servers are but when I actually watched it, it was genuine.
fr its one of the most cringiest things on youtube lmao. I like this guy though
Just wanted to let you know that this video resulted in a bit of a resurgence for the Runsafe server. A handful of old staff members have started getting online again, and regular players are coming on daily as of the last month or so. There are new survival bases, new creative builds, and there is a fully playable Halloween adventure event created by one of the admins, running through October. You basically reignited interest in the server, and it was about a week away from being permanently shut down when all of this happened. The question now is whether or not it'll stick.
Let's hope it does!
Spoiler: It won't
@@Ceaseless_Thoughts Today it's being updated to 1.12 after all this time!
4WEEKS inn idk bout that
@@dailydoseofsunshine2319
Spoiler alert! It did server is very active and is advertising now even updated to 1.12
I pray that someone - anyone - preserves Grig's Quest. Its clear that map was made by someone not driven by profit or fame, but driven by the fuel which we call *passion.* God rest the creator's soul and let this video be the one to tell us all what we've been missing in the world of *Grig's Quest.*
@@w花b Fr. Also depending on which version it's on, it's possible with mods like Litematica (if something similar existed) that u could save entire chunks and then recreate it.
@@WeIt_Yang in october 2012 i was able to save the chunks i travelled to on a server with a mod. no idea what it was called though.
@@shade221 likely schematica, the mod litematica is inspired from
wait no i reread this it was probably a chunk caching mod (sadly ive tried and failed to find one for 1.8)
mhm, someone should make a copy of it, and put it somewhere, some white hat hacker stuff, taking a passion project, and making a memorial of it
I will try my best to play through and record everything the server has to offer and upload it to youtube
I really felt bad at the end of the Grig's quest part, may his soul rest in peace
Rest in Peace.
Geese
Grease
Crease (also rip😢)
Rest in peace.
Griefing takes a new grotesque meaning when it’s done to these servers with such nostalgia for people.
i mean almost any type of griefing is inexcusable. I'm curious where do people draw the line between bad griefing and "good" griefing. i may have misunderstood the comment. you may mean the difference between worlds like this and "smaller" worlds.
@@bonbonbonbons There are those 'pay to win' servers, which ultimately exist to make kids take their parent's credit cards to get OP items. 'good' griefing would be to take these servers down for example. but yeah, anything else i'd say is BS.
Almost every one of these servers that know they're time capsules have a backup from the moment the staff decided to stop watching it. Issue is, how does one get ahold of the old admin so they can restore it? Usually it has to be a long-standing former member directly messaging an admin on Steam, Discord, etc.
Sincerely,
The owner of a 'time-capsule' MC server (2010-2017 RIP)
@@bonbonbonbonsBy the server they are playing on and the general rules of engagement. Some people like the sandbox survival aspect to be more like Rust, invading player bases and razing it to the ground. Others prefer creative worlds were you are restricted to your plot to build. Good griefing is griefing in the agreed etiquette of the server. I used to play on servers with no rules against griefing, but had factions/towny plug-ins to have safe areas. Some servers didn't have that, which made for interesting back and forth between factions going out 75+k blocks in any direction to build forts after having their last one flooded with lava or their castle is now a completely missing chunk. Good times
@@bonbonbonbons Ironically old griefing has the same nostalgic appeal to me as the old servers do.
Back then you'd have server owners doing sketchy stuff, or just really mean stuff to players, and there'd be no repercussions. Thus, the only way to really get revenge against bad servers, was to try and grief them. There were even entire griefing teams who found sport in it, like Team Avolition, who has recently come back to the scene... although likely briefly.
There was definitely good griefing, as I can still remember a hardcore christian server that would encourage kids to steal their mother's credit cards to donate to the server. And that wasn't even that crazy, that was just normal back then.
"Brauhaus der Hoffnung" was my very first server I ever played on back in 2011 I believe. The server was started very early when Minecraft was still in Beta even. In typical German fashion, it was one of the most professional and well organised servers I've ever played on. Every few months the entire server would wipe and the owners would try out a new concept, way earning money, new cities, a new map and so much more. For example from Map 7 to Map 8 the server went from obsidian being the most valuable item (because its effort to get it and doesn't depend on the rarity that diamond have) to a fully in house developed dynamic economy system. Items would change in value depending on people demanding those items, so it always felt exciting. The concept overall was citybuild. People would gather items, earn money by selling the items in a shop or to other players and then would be able to buy themselves a plot. There also was a freebuild map, which was nice, but personally I preferred building on plots. As shown in the video, the people on the server were so good at building, so the cities were always built around a theme (medieval times, big cities, jungle tree houses, underwater cities, european style cities, venice, florence etc.) and it was expected that you sort of try to keep up that style. The map shown in the video already was supposed to be the "Reloaded" server. The server was meant to shutdown after Map 9, but several people from the team tried to take over the server and start a new concept, but it never really stuck.
Talking about how the server was back then. The team was nice, even a helper role and the owner was a developer himself and was able to develop plugins for the server back then already. Everything was so polished, well designed and thought out. Lots of little details were so well thought out that it just made a better experience so early on. Stuff like proximity chat, a report system, global bans, a train network etc. Back then those things were incredible. In order to be able to play on the sever you needed to go through some (for the times quite big) verification, which turned out amazing because most of the players were mature and wanted to collaborate. I believe the owner had some sort of connection to a big server hoster, so the server never relied on donations or selling out to their players, it was all entirely free-to-play, which was amazing. There were no special ranks that you could buy, no cosmetics, nothing. All the benefits you could get by simply playing on the server and doing things.
I remember visiting peoples houses after talking to them in chat. And since there weren't any big teleports you needed to take trains to actually visit people. It just added another layer of immersion that you usually don't get nowadays where its all about optimising numbers instead of just having a cozy time together building and collaborating.
Those days were so innocent, free of the fast paced developments we have now. Things were meant to be optimised for the player and not for the business. I long so much for a similar experience as this server was, but it seems like that style of server is just not popular anymore. (Maybe there is some similar server still out there and I just havent discovered it yet?) To me this server was something very special and will remain a large part of my early childhood. It was like a second home to me. I will miss you BdH and the entire team ♥
I have so many servers that i used to play, sadly all shut down. there is so much more "history" in minecraft its insane, each person has their own story and their own perspective.
thanks so much for sharing. i think the structure and freedom of minecraft drew a lot of very organized communities together
Also played there for quite some time. Still miss it, still sad they closid it down
if you join hypixel rn you will throw that "the most professional and organized server ever" part out the window lol, no server even comes close to hypixel's level of perfection and attention to detail, and im not even gonna start about the community and insane history of the server, (for history i recommend "hellcastle & tyler"'s hypixel skyblock iceberg, and thats only skyblock.) the only servers that actually have more history than hypixel are mineplex, 2b2t and Minecraft Online (MC Online is litterally the oldest server ever that is still running)
as SOON as i saw the first building i was like "yeah that's germany for sure" and then it kept going and was like "YEAH THAT'S GERMANY FOR SURE" lol
holy shit, those statues at 1:50 really date it. those were all really big MC youtubers back in the day, but what really shows its age is the inclusion of Dawnables (the one with the blue shirt and pink/purple hair). she was at one point SkyDoesMinecraft’s girlfriend, but didn’t appear too often and wasn’t really in anything past like 2012. wild to see those old skins again, brought back a major hit of nostalgia for me
Right? HuskyMudkipz before he got skinny up in that server
Bajan and Jerome :(
I was one of Mr. Borneman's students, and I thought I'd just thought I'd leave a comment here about him. Besides my parents, no one has had a greater influence on my life than Mr. Borneman. I was a bad student, 2.7 gpa in highschool, had no passion about learning, etc. But then I stumbled across his class senior year, and was introduced to philosophy. For the first time I felt passionate about learning and school, he was such a great mentor, and he was a great friend. We kept in contact after I graduated, up until the very end. Meeting him and taking his class completely changed the path of my life as I've nowjust graduated with a degree in philosophy from UC Berkeley, and am looking to enroll in a graduate program. I genuinely have no idea what I would be doing with my life right now if I had not taken Mr. Borneman's class, there is nothing I would rather be doing that what I'm doing right now, and I can only owe that to Mr. Borneman's guidance.
Please do play on Grig's Quest, he loved working on it and making it. Some other former students are now maintaining the server in his honor. If ya'll have any questions about it you can ask, I've beaten the whole thing.
so he made the server for his students?
@@caitlyn956 I won't say too much as its personal, but he was quite depressed for a while, and started the minecraft server in attempt to cope with the situation, because he liked creating things in the game with friends. Eventually he got out of that slump, became a teacher, and started integrating his class material with the server.
He added challenges and puzzles that were related to the course material; and pieces of philosophy and literature that were outside the course material, and would come onto the server a certain number of times a month during which you could hand him the items you gained for completing the school-related challenges for the extra credit.
The themes of the server's storyline (that spans across the multiple worlds) is a reflection of Mr. Borneman's personal philosophy regarding life, politics, spirituality, and other such things. In fact, I might as well just add a link to some of his writings about these topics in case anyone thinks they might be an interesting read (they definitely are)
medium.com/@bornemania/list/the-kingdom-of-ash-95c09d249f1c
This comment reeks of “my uncle was the drummer for Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock” or some other bs.
So what if it is? You look like more of a jackass if this person is telling the truth and you're trying to prove how big brain smart you are by calling them a liar, than you would if they were lying and you just let it be. I thought we left the andeveryoneclapped cringe on Reddit
@@I_enjoy_some_things oof, bad take my man, really bad take.
Thanks for checking out our graveyard of a server!
What you said is exactly right: why would anyone jump onto a minigame server with no players rather than one with thousands already playing? It turns out building the server is the easy part. Getting anyone on to come and play one of your original games is the real challenge, and it's a big one. The parkour mode was actually added late to at least give minimal players something to do.
You're correct in that we found a cheaper way to keep the server open. We worked on it for many years and so it makes it difficult to even consider taking it down, even if it's empty most of the time. We still have the occasional regulars come on to play a few games every now and then and keeping it up is worth it just for them.
We wish you would have had the opportunity to play some of the real games. A great amount of care, time thought was put into them to make them the best they could be. We're proud of what we made, even if it does rest dormant for years to come. It'll still be there for people, like yourself, to stumble upon and discover our little corner of Minecraft...
This is actually kinda cool, I love this kind of dedication
As someone who played alot of Mc in the early days, I knew when he asked that question that this was the answer. Taking it down would mean losing those memories 💔 I'm glad I got to see yours and all these gorgeous little gems from the past.
Hope you never give it up the server.
Well said
i will try to get some of my friends an play on it
When Grig's quest does shut down, at least this video might stand as a little memorial of sorts. There will be a time when we all place our last block, when our worlds go on never to be loaded in again, and when all of the chunks are perfectly preserved at least until time destroys or corrupts the vessel or device which contains those worlds beyond recoverability.
I think about this when I look back to old games I used to play non-stop. I wonder what the last thing I did in them were. At the time I probably just figured ah I'll start this up again later. Oblivion is one that comes to mind. I don't even have those saves on my current PC anymore. It's kinda sad.
@@DownwithEA1I refused to finish games as a kid because I didn't want my adventure to be over, so I have many uncompleted games- but my copy of Pokemon Crystal's battery dying back in 2014 really kick-started me to go back and get fresher memories of my old favorites before I didn't have the chance to.
get r/DataHoarder on board, someone will definitely find a way to preserve it
I'm one of Mr. Borneman's former students. Some other former students are now maintaining the server in his honor I believe. He was a genuine one in a kind individual and changed my life for the better so much. I'm glad that people are now finding his server because of this video.
Seeing how much love was put into Grig's Quest by the teacher solely to create memories for his students reminded me of why I chose to be a teacher in the first place. I felt my heart melt. I wasn't expecting this going into the video. Thank you.
Thank you for being a teacher, incredibly important work!
Came here to say this exact thing. What a legend this teacher was. Keep the faith
The "Adventurers Guild" section is my favorite. It feels so comfy and touching to visit a huge virtual world, and see little notes here and there, mementos of strangers visiting this corner of the map; it really makes you feel like the server's world is a little universe in its own right, almost like an actual physical space.
Same ii instantly reminded me of SAO
That sign about rebuilding houses touched me really deep inside.
This server is my Fathers passion project, so amazing to see that it's touched you and others in this way
hello the adv guild is very old, but people still play it but you need to play for some time
@@SleepinGriffinwelp it is very cool but it got greiefed
I’m crying at Grig’s quest… what a beautiful, whimsical world, and all perhaps made by a teacher for his students?? I’m certain he was a delightful man. Rest in peace
There's an article by Medium that confirms it; but the story is even more heartbreaking. He made it for his students, as a way to cope and deal with the loss of his sister after she passed in a car accident :(
@@tatermusic that’s so heart wrenching… 😭 he will be remembered by many more than just those who were fortunate enough to be his students
@@tatermusic NOW IM CRYING EVEN MORE
@@tatermusicthe article is members only, how did you read it?
@@ressult943 it gave me an option to sign up for a free account
Grig's quest was the best kind of server one can stumble upon. Just some guy's project he did in his free time for his own enjoyment, that we may now be entertained with. Sadly, most artists' work is only appreciated after they die... May his soul rest in peace...
That LOTR server is stuff of dreams of my child self. This is exactly what I was looking for and never found. Happy to learn it now exists and sad that it's dead.
I mean there's enough people here we could all join
we could@@Jay2480
Literally all of the features from the vid are part of the LOTR mod, server was probably only hosting this :P
I remember being excited for that mod's release back in the day
@@scarlet_phonavis6734 There is one! There is an official server created by the owner of the mod showcasing it, and it is pretty active
One time, out of boredom, I joined a survival world based from a bigger server, I can’t really remember what server it was though, but it had maybe 50 people online. I spawned in a random place and the first thing I saw was a long path/bridge in the air extending as far as I could see. I checked it out and started walking it. It went on for thousands and thousands of blocks, and on the way, there were houses, structures, and signs dating years earlier. It was such an amazing and fun experience communicating with people I’d never and will never actually talk to through wooden signs on a path. It turns out that so many people like me had found the path and continued building on it. I found chests with food left for travelers, houses to rest in, and just so many great things. It was so weird seeing things that had been there for ages without being touched. I reached the end and continued building the path for a few hundred blocks before leaving a sign of my own and logging off. I’d love to revisit it, but I cannot remember what server or where this path was.
Was it freedonia?
This is a long shot but if it was an anarchy server it could be 2b2t! I just know that from watching "fitMC's" videos that there's a huge pathway that goes for over 100k blocks :3
@@B0n3s.333 it cant be 2b2t because no one on 2b2t is civil enough to leave signs for other players that don't involve copious amounts of racial slurs lol
@rhizoid1170 There are a few I've seen on his videos. But that is mostly true because most of the people aren't civil enough LMFAO
I thought about 2b as well but would’ve been more than 50 people it’s still popping
PLEASE turn this into a series this was so relaxing to watch
you will be glad to know, in my Adventurers Guild server..
out of the roughly 170 new players since this video,
Only One player, BeatKonducta, needed to be banned for using cheats,
and Attempting to use various hacks and minecart spam to take the server down..
but it had no effect.
We weren't abandoned or forgotten to begin with,
but this video is the best AD i've had in years, Thanks Redlyne.
Has Kanga arrived yet?
nope. and i doubt he will. but i still get a few names a week that stop to look.
So bittersweet... 31 year old Norwegian here, who's been playing on and off since 2010/11, so the first server spoke to me. Every server with dignity had to have a nyan cat back in the day!
RIP teacher admin of Grig's Quest. I bet this teacher was loved by the kids who played there :)
er du moldemannen?
@@pegja_544 hahaha, I'm from Trondheim
Hey! I am the owner of the Dexouille server ^^
It's very surprising to see that you made a video in which you talk about my Minecraft server. I can provide more information if you wish or answer any questions ^^
Just to clarify, the server is not French, but Belgian ;) Yes we speak French too, but it's a small nuance ^^ There are a lot of French on the server, it's true. Technically, my server is not forgotten, it is just community, and practically people from my community come to play on my server. Which explains the presence of "How to train your dragon" because I have a community very much linked to the universe of these films. And the server has almost no players lately because I myself am quite inactive on it. Generally, people in my community become active when there is something new, which is rare in this period. But there are still a few longtime regulars that drop by the server from time to time, and I'm happy to keep records of everything that's been done on it ^^
(With the /menu command there is a way to see more server content, but this menu bugs half the time, because it is supposed to be given in the inventory.)
I am therefore very curious to know how you found this server given that apart from my community, it is complicated to succeed in finding it ^^
If you want to contact me more easily, you will find my Discord server in the description of my videos. But be careful, I specify that my English is far from being good x)
But thank you for having made this small visit on my server :)
I browsed servers by version number and yours was on the list. I assume it said it was French due to proximity.
Both of you guys are cool🎉
Hello there. A big httyd fan as well.
Haha cool :3 @@ZIEGENBOCK2306
@@Redlyne_ couldn’t edit my comment incase your seeing this I just wanted to say I’d be very grateful if any bit of life could be sparked back into the game❤
Videos of people exploring old servers like this just gives me such a blast of secondhand nostalgia. It's incredibly interesting to think about and even make up stories on how people or certain invidividuals who had previously partake in the creation of the servers, the fun they had in making them, and how or why they had to eventually leave. Where might they be now; are they healthy, successful, or happy?
Omg you just give me the crazy emotion to enter an old survival server that I used to play, and it freaking stay the same, the most crazy part of it is that my house stayed 100% intact and I just started crying a lot, thanks man, you just give me one of the best feelings of all my life, i was walking my home in the server and seeing things like, my friends and my dogs, our farms, our horses, and the most crazy thing is that I found a gravestone from my old dog in the game, first I dont remembered of the dog, but then I started slowly remembering. Thanks man, I'm a lot better that I just remembered this old memories, serious thanks man. :)
I've just finished the Grig's first area and teleported to Arcadia (maybe as a first person since years?). It was a really fun experience and I have a lot of respect for Mr. Borneman (and maybe other people working on the map) for the clear love that they've put in.
hello fellow grig gamer
@@Maybe_Jeff hello haha!
Whats the server ip?
it was shutdown@@JumboTheBee
@@Asterix1022 it wasnt.
Anyone else find these exploring old games/servers videos SUPER relaxing? Redlyne just has such a calming voice idk
Yes, 100%. It's interesting enough to keep our attention, but simple and not too involved to leave us relaxed. And he's definitely got a chill voice that helps with that :)
To be completely honest I only clicked because I liked the sound of his voice from the preview, but ended up watching through the entire thing. His way of speaking and his humour made it impossible for me not to continue watching.
@@AzraJ I’d definitely recommend his 2 videos on dead games then, banger videos and same vibe. Also some hilarious moments
@@AzraJ Right??
Medigo apocalypse dies in a few days. A whole ass rpg. In minecraft. way before wynncraft existed.
The chunk error is an old school Minecraft prank or easter egg playing on the issue with our old computers struggling to render nearby chunks at high speed or when first spawning in. We would often follow other players across seemingly empty gaps or where we had the shape of the terrain memorized instead of waiting for it to load in. So by creating a real 16x16 gap, enabling the fly cheat out of sight of your victim, and floating along the ground to make it look like you were walking across the missing chunk, you could get them to follow you in and fall to their deaths. This worked best on 360 Edition since the rendering errors were a common occurrence there. I made mine in creative using a series of vertical strips, a carefully placed lattice of TNT far enough from the edges to not overly destroy it, and then cleaned it up by hand
I met my now wife on a Minecraft server many years ago. I sometimes visit the old server and It's always an extremely nostalgic experience taking it all in. Minecraft has a very particular way of preserving snapshots of individual creativity and thoughts at a particular time.
The bit of your video with the signs really resonated with me. Going back onto the old server and seeing "To do" lists and messages to friends via signs that were never completed/answered is a surreal experience. Great video, I'm glad it's getting a lot of attention :)
So I take it your wife is a gamer girl?
So... you married your minecraft gf?
@@Curlyheart I did, yes
@@ronan5228 absolute gamer
Hey, nice to see our server GamesMC in this video. I'm was in the earlier times a moderator and architect and can tell a few years ago, there were more player than now. But its very nostalgic to think back to the old times
I completely forgot about the server until this video but I used to play on it a ton back in the day
10:22 is such a sweet moment. I don't know if there's a word to describe the feeling of finding something old on the internet. A live, direct glimpse into the past. Always makes me feel some sort of weird nostalgia, sadness, and curiosity.
MajorLava can finally be happy
Congrats on putting my exact thoughts into words for me wow
I am! That was me who put that sign down :)@@MollyPopper
@@deancain913 I wonder how old you were when you made those signs
It’s crazy how Minecraft has a very rare combination of age and longevity for a video game where it’s clear, especially by the subreddit for that first server, that it’s gone through multiple mass nostalgia waves
old minecraft servers fill me with a feeling that I struggle to describe. A sort of sad nostalgia? It makes me miss the server I played on a lot when I was a young teen and the people that were on there, and wish that I could visit again, even just the empty world, seeing the husks that myself and the people I knew on there built.
This video perfectly encapsulates that feeling of melancholy nostalgia, I couldn't leave withot watching the whole thing
It felt almost like a documentary taking a snapshot of time, a representation of what was and what is bound to happen again
I cant remember the people i used to play minecraft with as a teenager. But seeing this video let me live vicariously through the memories of others
Big props man, you got a sub out of me
I didn't expect to cry watching this, but Grig's quest did just that. Its so sad hearing about this rich world that Mr Borneman made for his students. It looks like A LOT of passion went into it. I went and googled him and everywhere I could find was just his students saying good things about him. I wish I could've had him as a teacher growing up.
I just wish that someone can find a way to preserve the server, as a way to commemorate his passion and keep it available for anyone else who comes upon it.
@swtorscrub3839
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I was one of Mr. Borneman's students, and I thought I'd just thought I'd leave a comment here about him. Besides my parents, no one has had a greater influence on my life than Mr. Borneman. I was a bad student, 2.7 gpa in highschool, had no passion about learning, etc. But then I stumbled across his class senior year, and was introduced to philosophy. For the first time I felt passionate about learning and school, he was such a great mentor, and he was a great friend. We kept in contact after I graduated, up until the very end. Meeting him and taking his class completely changed the path of my life as I've nowjust graduated with a degree in philosophy from UC Berkeley, and am looking to enroll in a graduate program. I genuinely have no idea what I would be doing with my life right now if I had not taken Mr. Borneman's class, there is nothing I would rather be doing that what I'm doing right now, and I can only owe that to Mr. Borneman's guidance.
Please do play on Grig's Quest, he loved working on it and making it. Some other former students are now maintaining the server in his honor. If ya'll have any questions about it you can ask, I've beaten the whole thing.
so yeah the students are taking care of the server :)
8:36 I can’t imagine the feeling of this moment.
All alone on a long abandon Minecraft server. Walking a long an old path that hasn’t felt footsteps in over 10 years. It was dark and rainy, with eerie sounds playing.
and seeing a black figure...
Its not abandoned it still gets around 3 players daily he joined at a point where no one was on
As a bit of insight, I host a server that's been online since 2013 and I keep it running because of the memories stored on them.
Besides that many of us have periods where we play actively again and sometimes long periods where we don't play for 6 months to a full year.
About keeping the spawn intact, regenerating chunks is how I kept the spawn looking .. presentable & not corrupted on top of manual cleanup often using WorldEdit to wipe the griefed structures or rebuild builds from players long inactive.
I've got a question for ya, since I've always wondered this. How do you manage to have a proper server up constantly without it taxing your wallet? Asking cause I'm trying to start one for me and a few friends to play on without absolutely shelling out cash for it, since it'll be something where we'll end up being like you, actively playing for a while with periods were we don't playing very much. Any response is appreciated, and thank you in advance :)
@@HitMonto Considering even singleplayer Minecraft is technically just you playing on a private server, I imagine one can get away with running a server for very few people on their own PC (perhaps an older machine that got replaced in daily use). In that case, it would be mostly paying the energy bill for running it 24/7. With no GPU involved, the energy consumption also goes down.
please turn this into a series, i love looking at old and forgotten servers, games, etc. and your video perfectly encapsulates what i love so much about it, while putting it in a nice and easily digestable format, AND while giving each server the respect it deserves
this gave me hope and genuine happiness. I cried this is just so wholesome these small communities and people looking back on their childhood experiences on these servers enjoy relaxing to this game at its some of its oldest stages. Im feeling a kind of joy and nostalgia I thought i left in my childhood. When my mental health is down again this will be a reason to smile again.
I love how everyone in the Canada server are so polite
"You can have this house"
"Take whatever you want but please don't steal from my house"
The part with Grig's quest breaks my heart, and I'd hate for the map to be lost to time. I hope that the creator can rest in piece, he seems like he was very well loved by his students.
As for old maps and such, I don't quite remember the name of it, but I remember the map having this giant purple pyramid made from obsidian and purple glass. Inside of it there was a bunch of chests with disks and jukeboxes. Also roller coasters on the outside too, I used to play it a lot with my brothers and we would try to explore everything.
This could literally be your thing just going through old, dead, or forgotten servers in games its actually entertaining. Love your videos.
I like how you say Rathaus. As a German myself this was quite funny to watch. Kiss on the eye lids. XD
I remember that back then all of my friends and me myself, we built castles and so on for hours. Creating masterpieces. And server 3 really displays this time period.
I love how this video made stories come out. It's fun scrolling and reading through people's memories.
Seriously made me want to visit Grig's Quest before its gone :(
Seriously tho, this series is such a great way to pass the time when you're bored, or just to watch in general
Your voiceover has a gruff, yet soothing radio host-like quality to it.
Really adds to the excellently edited museum tour experience here.
Top notch stuff
He sounds like he could be the brother of High Boi on YT
@@babyroxasmanto me he sounds like This Old Tony... I keep waiting to hear about his CNC or that damn mini lathe of his. Which I miss...
NOTCH
As many others have said, seeing old Minecraft servers along with hearing your calm voice made this video cozy, nostalgic, and a bit somber. I thought it was going to be another obnoxious video, but I was proved wrong. Thank you for making this! Might even peek at a few of these myself.
I hope Mr. Boreman rests in peace for being a great person who spent time to teach others and run a great minecraft server. Rest in piece. o7
old gran turismo ost was incredibly refreshing to hear, nice music selection and video dude!
Wish i knew which songs were which because they all sound familiar but i knew zero of the names.
dnb moment
where?
How the hell do you have more subscribers than me?
@@MK8MasterJunjie With that kind of attiude you practically answered your own question.
the fact you accompanied Grig's quest with Stardew music. just so peaceful.
Some of these builds were made by people who are now gone, and yet we can interact with things online they literally sculpted. Pretty cool.
5:30 The board says:
Welcome to the Brauhaus der Hoffnung (Brewery of hope)
You have the option to build in a giant 'Freebuild' or in themed building areas! Alternatively, you can create your own city! The needed materials can be found in the 'Farm World', further information on the associated boards.
To play on our Server, you need to read the rules with /rules, in which there is one word that doesn't make sense - this word is the unlocking password. Using /passwort [password], you accept the rules, and unlock yourself on the server.
Important: No Thievery, no Griefing, no Flaming, no Insults, no Capslock, no Hacks, [Buddys] and [Supporter] help you :)
Fun Fact: Lots of German Servers did this back in the day, I believe the first to do this was the server, that got the German 'Minecraft' Domain that shut down in 2018; their password was "Creepers and Cacti don't exist for hugging".
@@KittenKatjadie guten alten Zeiten😢 (good old times)
@@greepon Habt ihr auch auf dem Brauhaus gespielt? War so schön.... Das war mein 1. Minecraft Server und ich hab glaube ich auf Map 5 angefangen.
The Grigs Quest part got me in the feels, RIP.
Brother, get ready for Season 4 of the War of the Ring! We are getting ready and working night and day to bring you all the next Season! :D.
Thank you for the review, you are fantastic!
Oh dang
24:07 man I teared up after watching this whole section the other college students were confused watching me tear up at a Minecraft Tree and Grassland animation, I'm amazed that a teacher would make a Minecraft server to either connect with students or as a passion.
9:16 The fact that somebody just one day left these items in his chest, never came back aaaand that somebody used it years after is mindblowing. Reminds me of when scientist learn about ancient civilizations.
The Adventurers Guild server and the way you explored it felt like a Dark Souls area with a boss at the end.
Exploring a long gone world with enviromental storytelling, meeting few people that are sane enough to talk with, making your way up a castle to defeat a boss (and failling…).
This was wholesome and nostalgic. Very impressed some of these worlds have such developed lore. And I love the music choices in your editing, even one from Hitman BM.
There's something about these exploration videos I just love, the deadpan voice mixed in with absurd comedy, the in-depth look into some of these long forgotten games, not to mention the general respect given to those no longer around. Even if it takes another year ill always come back for these
There is just something really comfortable about these videos.
I wasn’t expecting a nostalgia trip video about old MC servers would make me cry, but the coverage of Grig’s Quest, and reading all the comments gushing about how great of a teacher and person he was, and reading about him and his story made me bawl.
Man, why does this world have to take all the kind souls away.
I could watch videos like these for hours. There's something eerily calming about empty worlds that are supposed to be full of people.
Your commentary is also nice to listen to, the dry humor really makes these videos super cozy
I see everyone in the comments talking about Grig's, but I have to say that for me, the thing that made me cry of kindness was the message of MajorLava at 10:20 !
Humans are amazing
You rummaging around the 4th server's survival world and reading signs from other people gave me big zombie apocalypse/postapocalyptic vibes. I could just feel the life behind them and it reminded of the survival server I used to play on.
Never ceases to amaze me how MASSIVE these worlds are in Minecraft....these are fantastic work, thank you so much for all this incredible work!
I didn't play on any of these servers, but this video still gives me a massive surge of nostalgia. I wish I could live those times again.
Back in beta, pretty much every kid I knew was on Foxescraft. A few years I went back to it to see how it was holding up. It had turned into a creative server and I was 1 of 4 players online. Always tremendously sad to see stuff like this, but the world moves on and people find other things to do with their time, I suppose.
I experienced something like that too. Many kids joining a popular server. Turned into something very different years later, and very unpopulated. I wish younger me gathered up the few braincells he had to use the screenshot button so I can look back at those pretty builds in the past.
(pssst nice Almond pfp by the way)
This reminds me so much of myself over the last 10 years. Been playing Ultima Online since beta (1997), and still somewhat active and is the longest running MMO. I logon and go to various servers - US, Japan, Oceania, Europe, etc (each have various time zone/regional names like Lake Superior, Atlantic, Pacific, Europa) and just look for folx to talk to/pvp with as I have full characters on each with full setups, suits, resources. In the prime of playing, there would be 10’s of 1,000’s per server & entire communities/player ran towns. Now, unless you logon to the major PvP or PVM servers (Atlantic, Seige, Europa), you might run into 2-5 total players outside the main hub cities. This game is my favorite of all MMOs due to the sandbox style character setups & huge groups of friends I made playing. It truly died off around 2016 but still has a solid 2-3k players vs. the millions of players during its peak (1998-2003). Truly hits me in the feels seeing friends homes & former PvP stomping grounds have disappeared due to age or passing away in real life. Nothing will ever come close to Ultima Online & the way most of us would spend half our lives playing this game, talking to friends, and overall just having the time of our life.
- Robin of Lake Superior
I almost started full-on crying at the end of the Grig's quest part, it hit me like a bullet in the arm.
Rest well... 🙏
the feeling of going back to an old server you enjoyed, and having someone else log in after playing for weeks alone is surreal
For me, it's always strange to see these places frozen in time on the internet. Exactly as people left them.
Feels like everyone on the server is gone but they could fr be your neighbor. old servers are a whole different world man almost feels like time traveling but no one can be there with you
This is a sad video to go through, so many worlds that clearly had a lot of love and care put into them abandoned forever.
Its a treat to see all these old server and Recognise so much. From old building styles, to old youtuber Statues, Massive builds, the builds only kids would have made.
There is nothing quite like it. Beautiful
I dont really comment all that often, but I wanted to say thanks for making these videos. they are some of my favorite content to watch online. through you we get to see some cool older places where people at one time frequented and had fun together. its somewhat wholesome to think that someone who hadn't thought of these places in years will stumble across this video and remember the good times they had.
This is my first vid of yours ive seen and looking into the comments is amazing, all the love for Mr. Borneman and his students shows how amazing this community is and i definetely plan to give Grig's quest a try. Also just wanted to add that your voice is amazing
*thanks for mading this video mann. Let people remember these 2010s era forgotten servers in minecraft and another legendary 2010s and 2000s multiplayer games servers.*
This is honestly the closest thing you can get to videogame archeology. Theres so many things to find and imagine how these servers were in their peaks.
Day instantly gets better whenever there's a new Redlyne upload
His content is out of this world
May the man who made Grigs Quest rest in peace. An absolute legend
i clicked on this video thinking that it looked very interesting but to my surprise i had already watched it three months prior. That is when you know your video is good when it is recommended multiple times and i watch it every time.
I just randomly found this but I was immediately captivated by the nostalgia and wave of emotions that this game created. It's crazy to think how much time has passed but I hope this brings us closer together. Thank you Redlyne :) subscribed
i really appreciate having the silhouette be a minecraft character for this one makes it even better
this video was great, really made me think back to the hours i used to spend on minecraft servers that are now long gone, wish i had some sort of way of going back on those worlds again
I did not expect to see someone I watch on shorts here.
This was such a blast from the past… it really gets you to remember the old days. How many friends you’ve met, what you have been through together etc. It feels like we almost lived a different life online. And it WAS a whole world. I hope everyone I got to play with it doing well. All grown up probably. Working a normal job, maybe traveling the world. I’m forever grateful I met these internet strangers, because after all, they were the closest friends I had during that time period. So long, friends
Glad someone relates to it like I did
*1:12** this is early forgotten 2010s era mann... thats makes me cries these creations of nostalgia.*
Man this makes me regreet not getting into playing on Minecraft servers with other people in the golden age of minecraft
Cheers, Redlyne -- another great video.
If you continue doing these sort of "digital archaeology" videos, please don't shy away from moments like the end of Grig's Quest. Acknowledging the people behind these spaces feels just as important to what they left behind in the game, if you think it relevant, even if it may hurt at times to do so.
I'm such a big fan of your exploration of derelict social areas in gaming. There is something special about these once-populated areas that have been left to time.
I genuinely love these, it reminds me of what I used to do online as a kid when I had garbage internet and couldn't play with anybody. This stokes a very potent type of nostalgia in my soul.
This video was a treat. Your commentary and editing are funny without being obnoxious, which is rare especially these days. And the servers gave me liminal space vibes, like how I always enjoyed liminal spaces for. Not for the scary factor but for the absolute solitude and the comfort that comes with that. Also that Jerma joke was a deep cut, but a welcome one.
The survival games one was a COMPLETE throwback wow man
Y'know.. For everyone who says: "I wish I could go back.", there's an obvious solution. Go back! Not in time! But go back to what you used to do! If your old friends won't be there, then get new ones! Because it's not the game itself! It's the memories you create together with friends! That's what you long for.
Vielen Dank, dass Sie mich an die schönen Zeiten im Serverbrauhaus erinnert haben
Ich möchte mich bei Ihnen dafür bedanken, dass Sie alte Server erkundet haben. Es hat mir wirklich das Herz erwärmt, als Sie Brauhaus gefunden haben. Vielen Dank
11:01 lmaoo
This series is great, there's just something interesting about exploring abandoned digital landscapes.
This is one of my favorite minecraft videos in a while, please continue exactly what you are doing. The atmosphere of this video is overwhelmingly cozy