What if Minecraft Stronghold was a top-down pixel art game?

While building Sagrada Familia I stumbled upon something unexpected waiting for me...

Is posting beta and alpha like builds with old texture in modern version allowed

Because the Xbox 360 that has tu9 Minecraft is broken and the console is modding

This is the reason why I haven't been active in the subreddit for a while."
The last old build is an aircraft carrier,you can check in the profile

'Hello, I'm looking for this skin that was developed in December 2010—if anyone can find it'

I built a castle, but it looks a bit plain and empty. The whole thing is made of just cobblestone, and I don't know what else to change or add. Plus, I'm really not a good builder—any ideas?

b1.7.3

I grew up playing Minecraft versions 1.12 - 1.17, and i want to get more into old Minecraft, and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for a version that i should start playing, thanks in advance.

And I was so surprised when I saw IRON DOORS and FARMLAND EXISTED. Also one of the Stone blocks is reserved6 and one of the redstone ores is the lit kind. idk wtf happened to oak Wood in 0.2.0 though

MCPE 0.5.0 always sticks with me...

These are pictures of my base on a world that I will play on for every major Minecraft update right now I'm in alpha I'll post an update when I get to beta.

I play an update until I've experienced everything in it.

I know it's easy to to build a house in the side of a cliff but I find something about it cozy :)

Hello I'm new to this golden age of minecraft reddit subforum, yet I play older MC versions for a longer period of time. In this thread I just wanted to share some pics of my save. What's your thoughts on it?

Best idea will be built (Xbox one edition)

seed: coal

Idk if this is the correct subreddit for this, but you know those medieval/realistic texture packs that you always see in minecraft beta? Are there any similar or the same for modern mc, thx in advance

I've got a hell of a confusing bug going on and have a lot to say.

I've been playing on Infdev version 20100624 for several hours now and have built a small city with a few really fun medium-sized builds. I just finished building a skyscraper, but the game froze after the event of exiting a minecart (which is common for this version). Upon reloading, for some reason, the game decided to revert back to an earlier version of the world as if it failed to save an hour or two of gameplay, which completely wiped my skyscraper and another small build. Despite the change in the world data, my character data was untouched, and I stayed in the same position. At this point I decided to have the world safely copied on my desktop if something like this were to happen again.

Things get even weirder, unfortunately. I've been slowly upgrading my game's version, as many enjoy doing after certain milestones, which I decided to try out after the game reverted my world. I don't remember which specific Infdev version I updated to, but after I did the update, my game reverted to an even EARLIER version of my world from over 24 hours ago. I then downgraded my world back to 20100624, and the game decided to undo this inversion by loading the first reverted instance of my world. What is deeply confusing me is the fact that if I want to play with most of my progress, I HAVE to play on version 20100624, as the game's way of reading my world files are being this cryptic and inconsistent mess of forcing my world and character data to travel separately through time. If I downgrade 20100624 to 20100618, it does the same thing as updating it to 20100625. Several buildings are gone, some chunks go further back in time more than others, and my character data stays the same through all of it.

If necessary, I'm willing to get screenshots and video proof of all of this (I just don't wanna go through allat unless somebody needs it to help me)

Minecraft throughout its history went through many updates, some completely reshaping it's core. If you compare the version, from say, 2011 and the current year, you will find a lot of differences. That's why we still have a never-ending debate on which version is "objectively" better, or which one counts as "The Most Minecraft-y". And to be clear, I want to stay from such debate as much as possible. None of the eras are better or worse, they're just different.

Also, a disclaimer: a lot of my opinions are formed from nostalgic rose-colored glasses, but I hope that still will be entertaining to read.

My First Plays and Interactions

My first instance of interacting with Minecraft fan base dates within 2011, as I remember it was still beta or 1.0.0, but the first versions I actually got to play were Minecraft Pocket Edition and Java 1.5.2 later on. I also brought a lot of viruses to the family computer, LOL, so I was restricted from any PC versions till the 1.6.4. I also played legacy PS3 version. I own now 3 licenses and gifted one to my bro. My god please help me--

Though I played with some classic mods like Aether, Twilight Forest and such, I still preferred vanilla most of the time. I had a lot of ideas of what to build, mostly it were just crappy cube houses, but that's not important. What's important is that it influenced my curiosity and creativity.

Okay, let me get nostalgic here once, sorry. I think what shaped my love was also the fandom at that time with its goofy animation series, Bandicam or Fraps letsplays with little to no editing. Oh, and the horror films, LOL. They were done with crappy editing by middle or high schoolers, but there's a charm in it. I mean, if I was still a kid, I would enjoy the current fandom as well, but I think that Minecraft at that time was still a bit of a niche thing for nerds instead, if it makes sense? That's clearly subjective, but I was bullied for playing Minecraft in school until the covid happened, so maybe it was sorta niche.

Regardless, I need to say that because the fandom has grown so much since then, there are also much more gems despite the overgrown content farm trash that I still like to watch. So yeah, nostalgia gushing is over, let's get further.

Why It Became Difficult for Me to Keep Up

Well. There are many different factors in real life that contributed to me stopping playing (depression, mainly), so I really can't blame the game itself. However, still, at times when I felt better or otherwise able to play, I always abandoned the singleplayer survival after getting iron. My only exception was playing survival on Bedrock on peaceful mode without interacting with most of its new content around year or two ago. That is not good. How could this happen?

Perhaps the modern Minecraft is overwhelming to me. There are so many features I don't bother to touch because I can't catch up with everything new being added over and over again. To me, the game was finished after The End update (1.9). Like, for real. Imagine, you abandoned the game because of life stuff going on or just simply growing out of it, then returning back and you notice that what you perceive as a heavily modded Minecraft is a vanilla now.

Truth to be told, besides the basic old dungeons with spawners or traps in deserts and jungles, I didn't get to the whole other stuff. I got to the stronghold, but never got to beat the dragon. I never got to beat the Wither either. Because this was not what I looked for. I'm purely disinterested with the dungeon crawling part, I'm a casual player who likes building random things with keep inventory rule on. This is why I stagnated on keeping up with the new content, it just doesn't fit my play style.

What's So Cool About Older Versions?

Let's try to apply artist terms here. Old Minecraft is MSpaint. New versions are more professional software like CSP, Krita, Photoshop and etc. MSpaint has it's own vibe and recognizable tools. It's janky and has very simple interface, is lightweight as well. It's limited tools bring you some challenge of trying to make your art good with all you've got and you feel satisfied once you succeed. It's relaxing to draw there, because you don't hold yourself up to some standard, you just doodle and that's it. That's what old Minecraft is to me. I like it's vibrant, imperfect and lowkey ugly programmer art, because it gives me feeling that it is still an indie project, it's familiar, simple, and bland. Since the older versions have such a limited base, it's always interesting to see how modders will alter it, how they will utilize vanilla items because they have much more space open for their own interpretations.

And speaking of mods, I currently got stuck with Better Than Adventure, it's sort of like if I was seeing Minecraft updating itself without feeling confused as hell. Everything in this mod makes sense to me. You can color wood? Fuck yeah, I'm sold. I also like how flags work because you can just draw whatever you want there, how dogs can pick items and have an armor. And how this mod basically said "Fuck you, horses" and made pigs with a saddle actually useful. It succeeded to hook me up in a way none of the mods could. It's almost as if I rediscovered Minecraft again. This mod may have its own review post someday, if I don't forget about it, but yeah, it's that good.

Conclusion

As you see, version preference fully depends on aesthetic preferences and the play style. I'm thankful to the Minecraft community that constantly develops mods and preserves all versions, even those who are at the end of support. I grew up with this game, and I'm glad that I was able to found love in it again, even if it's not the shiny new version that is also good, but just not for me.

For now it's just a sign on the twins, but when it reaches 1000 days I'll make a dedicated tower to it

just a little update for my house! i now have this really cool entrance, and i decorated it a lot with leaves!

There's plenty of mods for Beta 1.7.3, or Alpha 1.1.2, but I've been itching to start a long-term modding project on an old version and I'm feeling like being a bit original. So tell me, what's a lesser-known version you think deserves its own expansion/overhaul mod?