Creepy and Weird Stuff in Old Minecraft

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  @dialko2596 · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  I’m getting a lot of comments suggesting that I made the tunnel lol. Check the description! I gave the seed and coords so anyone can verify that it is infact natural gen. I was originally planning on mentioning this in the video but I forgor :/

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  @XJayceTheAceX · 2 years ago

  Old minecraft is a liminal gem. I loved when a small update would come out and one of the bug fixes was called "removed herobrine". Made it more real for me as a kid lol.

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  @zombae_gutz · 2 years ago

  Old minecraft had the feeling of someone was in the world before you if you get what I mean. I always felt like there could be some hidden scary story from past people there that just vanished.

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  @julesjewelsseet · 2 years ago

  I think the difference between old minecraft and modern minecraft in terms of horror and paranoia, is that old minecraft didn’t have as many mobs that felt “intelligent”. There weren’t villagers, piglins, pillagers, nothing. Just you in a vast, empty world where the smartest things were skeletons that shot at you. In that desolate environment, the idea of something being there, something intelligent watching you from the shadows, something left in this world watching you and you’re entering it’s territory without even knowing, that’s scary!

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  @wTrapinch · 2 years ago

  Someone did an investigation and found out that the house that wasn't built by the OP was actually a real bug, and that the OP did not in fact build the house. super cool video

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  @onscreenmoper · 2 years ago (edited)

  I never believed in Herobrine, but the idea of an invader, an outsider infiltrating your single player offline world is inherently creepy for any game. I feel like all of us have freaked ourselves out wondering what lies in the un-lit sections of the deep caves or around the next tree in a dark forest.

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  @alywayart · 2 years ago

  i think the reason why old minecraft is scary is because its so simple. nowadays, theres so many features that theres lots to think about- but back then, it was a lot easier to let your mind wander

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  @dpear3 · 2 years ago

  Old Minecraft just had an unsettling atmosphere. It’s substantially darker than modern Minecraft, textures are harsher, sound effects sound a little more distant, and caves are more cramped. Especially caving in old versions, darkness is genuine darkness and the caves are cramped, there is a lot more room for the unknown than there is in modern Minecraft. Obviously modern Minecraft HAS “scarier” things to be in caves, or greater threats, but you can see mobs in the dark and caves have opened up, you don’t scare yourself as much as you do in older versions.

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  @AkrameBekkuvvu · 1 year ago

  I think the scariest part of Minecraft is more of an existential terror, it's the realization that you're completely alone in single player. You can get your pets, the villagers, and all the mobs, but that'll never fill the void of missing players. It's terrifying when you realize that as long as you're in single player, you can build the most extravagant castles, the most impressive bases. And the most amazing temples and chrines, but it's all an attempt to fill the void of loneliness. It's the thought that, eventually, you will run out of ideas. You'll run out of mobs to kill. Run out of achievements to get. Run out of builds to make. Run out of things to farm. You'll run out of things to do and then, sitting in your massive cities and looking over your empire, you'll realize that you may be at the top, but it's easy to be number one when you're the only number.

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  @emperorweskatine8999 · 2 years ago

  No horror game has ever scared me quite like old Minecraft.

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  @theleedragon · 2 years ago

  I once heard someone say that Minecraft was the first ever liminal space horror game, and the reason it worked so well was because it wasn't intended to be.

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  @WobblyWizard07 · 2 years ago (edited)

  i remember getting lost in my old world after exploring 1000s of blocks out and i couldn’t find my house; so i just decided to make a new base. about a year ish later i found my old base, and idk the feeling it was just nostalgic and melancholic i guess<br>edit: this was on xbox360, when i was a stupid kid who didn’t know how to use maps or coords lol<br>edit edit: ik it was actually 100s of blocks on 360 ver, but i was a dumb stupid kid and it felt like 1000s of blocks

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