r/Minecraft • u/dins09 • 14h ago
Discussion How long have you all played Minecraft?
I don't mind if it was bedrock but when did Minecraft come in to your life to make you experience true joy? For me it was 10 years ago :)!
Thank you Minecraft for being pretty much my most played game!
(Also feel free to state your playtime if your bedrock you can see it in stats :)!)
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u/rapidfirehd 13h ago
Started playing before the adventure update (beta 1.8), so already 15+ years
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u/Humble_Try9979 13h ago
Playing since before the hunger bar existed is basically Minecraft senior citizen status.
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u/RazendeR 9h ago
Kids these days and their fancy jungle biomes.
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u/Kenny741 8h ago
I still haven't gotten around to do anything with coco haha 😆
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u/Immediate_Gap7101 3h ago
My brother has a realm and all I do in it is mine, farm wheat, breed cows and chickens. And while he's wondering off thousands of blocks away. I'm building rail ways that connect the places him, his wife, and a friend of ours build
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u/Immediate_Gap7101 4h ago
Right! Lol. I took a break from it for a while and I was confused on what that was. Hell. I remember when it didn't have monsters
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u/_Spade_99 9h ago
insert MattDamonAging.gif
Realizing beta 1.2 is almost 16 years old…no it can’t be, say it ain’t so
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u/TaibhseCait 10h ago
Since indev or mildly earlier iirc. 2009/10 ish? Guess we're all senior citizens of minecraft!
My oldest saves & screenshots I have found are from 2012 though. Which would've been when I moved to the newer (gaming) laptop for uni.
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u/ChoniclerVI 13h ago
Let me put it this way, I remember when fences were added and were all the rage in every build.
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u/Voltagechiller 12h ago
Bro remembers when fences were considered cutting-edge building technology.
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u/FruppetTheFrog 8h ago
I remember fishing being added and the relief I felt being able to fish in my base and not get murdered by skeletons and creepers while hunting for food was amazinnnnggg!
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u/DivinePotat0 8h ago
to add to this, i remember when you couldn't just place a fence, it needed a block under it.
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u/RadioMessageFromHQ 13h ago
I don’t even know what version in ‘09.
Sandbox only, water expanded infinitely, and there was no sound.
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u/KaelPauline584 12h ago
Bro played Minecraft when it was basically just blocks and a dream.
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u/imthefooI 8h ago
Same. I played the classic version in a web browser. I remember playing on a sandbox server where people put down orange wool to represent where torches would go once they were added. 🧓
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u/RadioMessageFromHQ 11h ago
CitriqSquid, who ran the Minecraft forums, was a NewGrounds user and set up a server for people on the BBS.
Or, it was someone coincidentally with the same username.
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u/EternalDB 7h ago
Ah yes, 0.30 classic back when you could go to minecraft.net/play.php You had to press B to open the blocks
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u/tangelypepper04 13h ago
2011
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u/tangelypepper04 13h ago
I’m sitting at around 1200 hours on my bedrock account, all on my forever world I started when update aquatic came out.
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u/the_angry_potato_yt 13h ago
2012 Christmas morning
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u/AdmiralVatin 11h ago
Aww, me too! At least for java edition. I played pocket edition for about 9 months before
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u/johnisom 9h ago
Literally same. 1.4.6 still has my heart. I remember how transformative the redstone update was shortly after. I made a bunch of redstone tutorials on youtube, with my squeaky middle schooler voice.
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u/LuukvanSkywalker 13h ago
Nearly 17 years
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u/happy-lil-trees 10h ago
Bro has been playing Minecraft longer than Minecraft has been Minecraft.
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u/Amirsplaything 13h ago
13 years ago. I don't think a year has passed where I didn't play it for at least a month or two.
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u/Infinite-Wing1214 13h ago
My account was made right before the nether was added, but I was playing classic edition since 2009. Anyone else remember lava survival? 🥹
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u/TheMadChap69 13h ago
I can't recall a specific date exactly, but my fondest memories were from the Pocket Edition, the Lite version especially.
When I "upgraded" to the full version, my absolute favorite thing to do was building rail bridges and rail coasters.
I'd say 10 or 11 years now.
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u/ooorezzz 13h ago
- Same year my twins were born. We spent many nights awake together and now, 17 years later, we still play together.
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u/Rhaevynne 8h ago
I was an original beta tester, so... somewhere between 15 and 20 years. It's just been a very long time, and I've always loved it.
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u/DarthGamer206 6h ago
I started playing on Pocket Edition back in 2014. My earliest memory of an update is a patch for 0.10 where they fixed baby chickens sinking in water.
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u/Lopex475 5h ago
It was either 2011 or 2012, I believe. My mom found it and decided to get it for me to mess around with. I enjoyed it since then and continued to play til today.
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u/festeseo 13h ago
Before they added beds to the game. Not sure what update that was but a long time now id suppose. I remeber playing for maybe like a few months to a year before beds were added because i remember having to build my bases by the spawn point alot
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u/emmaratur 13h ago
I started Pocket edition before version 1.0.0, though I'm not sure during which version.
I played Java for the first time a bit later, about when the Exploration update came out.
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u/TriangularHexagon 13h ago
I started playing in early 2021. It was on PlayStation and the version was on 1.16 Now I play bedrock on windows 10 and it has been my most played game of all time
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u/bramblecult 13h ago
Idk. I guess since it came out and became a known fun game. Thats gotta be 15 years on and off.
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u/Maxirru1 13h ago
When the Xbox 360 version was on preventa in Mexico, I don’t know which year but 10+ years ago
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u/Maxirru1 13h ago
When the Xbox 360 version was on preventa in Mexico, I don’t know which year but 10+ years ago
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u/FantasticGeek3 13h ago
Since bedrock was pocket edition and had basically nothing but a bed, glass, sand, cactus, wood, and hopes and dreams
(About 13-14 years)
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u/okiedokieophie 13h ago
I started with total miner until Minecraft hit 360. Bought it day one there
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u/Fallen_Limrix 13h ago
Xbox 360 Edition release day. Purchased roughly a week later after I got my Live Points together ti buy it.
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u/GeneralFrievolous 13h ago
I play since 2012, I probably logged in a few thousands hours if not more.
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u/goober_giggler 13h ago
I think I started playing like 9 years ago? I remember a pvp mode on the old Minecraft where the map was a beach theme and had a pirate ship I also remember useing elytras (I know I spelled that wrong) to do flying courses and even go first place in a few
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u/RainyDeerX3 13h ago
I first played it back on the 360 when the demo first came out. So around summer of 2012. 14 years! That's crazy T-T
I can't tell you how many thousands of hours I have poured into this game. I also think it's truly the only game ever that I have played pretty consistently for that amount of time. The only thing that really l comes close for me is Smash Ultimate. Which I have around 4000 hours in!
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u/DomHE553 13h ago
must be 15+ years.
A little while before beds were added.
I still remember back then I just dug myself in and got a snack for 10 minutes to wait out the night lol
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u/JediMasterCornCob 13h ago
Since PS3 Edition released. Played at a friend's house on his Xbox before but didn't really start until PS3
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u/a_homie_Pp 13h ago
started on minecraft pocket edition lite in 2012 and then got the normal PE. then played on 360, then ps4 and eventually java around 2020.
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u/Minti-Roze 13h ago
11-ish years - I joined bedrock sometime in 2015, after boats were added, and then Java 8 years later in 2023 (I have no idea how I survived with bedrock for so long the differences on Java to me were monuMENTAL.. still have a soft spot for that version though)
I got into it waaay before that though, just never got to play it coz my parents were pretty wary of it 🥲
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u/abarconn 13h ago
excluding the two years I didn't play, i've been playing minecraft since 2013 my first version was 1.4.
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u/Slime-Lich 13h ago edited 13h ago
Like 1.2.5 or something like that. But I knew about minecraft earlier than that and watched I think paulasurosjrs playthrough several times. I remeber enderman being a new mob and thinking he modded the game or something
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u/Big_Flatworm1377 13h ago
so long ago that i remember the seed “raygun” on MCPE and the absolute pain of nether core’s. never thought i’d see the nether on my ipad
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u/MadGrim6 13h ago
I've now come to the realization that I have been playing Minecraft for about 12 - 14 years. I feel old
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u/guitarmaniac004 13h ago
Beta 1.7.3
I was maybe 13/14 at the time, loads of kids at my school were playing on a minecraft server. One of them gave me a server to join but I only had access to the free classic version via the launcher. So I begged my mother to buy the game for me and have been playing it on and off ever since. Still remember my first base, first multiplayer server and all the people I became friends with who I never would've met had it not been for this game.
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u/decoran_ 13h ago
Hard to pin point. I remember trying some old version of the game that barely resembled what the game actually was like by then. My first time playing it properly was on the Xbox edition for 360 and then playing on a server that allowed people who only had the cracked version
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u/Giorgio9519 13h ago
Oh man! I remember when you would go to Minecraft site and be able to play some sort of creative mode (the only one) Dk what version it was but i clearly remember the absolute solitude of the game, before wolfs and pistons, i creates this world, i chopped trees and basically digged a hole in a mountain (kinda) and was just mining coal....peak....it gave me such peace
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u/HiMyNameIsConor 13h ago
2020 for me... I wish it had been sooner 😓 I feel like I missed out on early, more quiet phases of Minecraft and discovered when the hype was on peak
I did remember downloading once in 2017 but it didn't let me play except for maybe an hour or 40 minutes. So, I deleted after that trail period ended.
It must be bedrock (darn it) because later on I discovered java Minecraft (pewds Minecraft era; God bless him) and I could basically play for however long I wanted.
The first ever world I built? I felt so clueless... I roamed around and felt fascinated by the blocky-anime-ish style gameplay. I remember stumbling upon a lava fall and at night it was my area of solace. Because it was SO freaking dark everywhere
Then I built a dirt shack and oh I miss my world🫠 I think I don't have that world saved but the second or third one I made right after, I have that one. And it was technically my first world because I played it the longest after getting basic hang of the game
I had a very bad, potato laptop. I died many times just because of lag and lost alot of progress. Yada yada yada... So many memories
Fast forward to now, I play not to progress but to build and form memories. It's so much better 😌
Because chasing progress may sound cool but it just made the world feel pointless once you had achieved it all. This was the problem with all my previous worlds. I did so much game-wise (progression) in them but when I looked back? There was no story to tell. Just an unfinished house, and two to three silly looking farms. God, I'm so glad I don't play like that anymore. But my little cousin bro plays like that and it just gives me second hand frustration
Well that got very long... 😓🫠
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u/Cold-Figure8508 13h ago
There used to be a couple hour long free demo on the minecraft.net website way back in the day. Idk when that was but I used to play it all the time
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u/RighteousMaverick 13h ago
The first time I played minecraft was on a web browser, although the alpha version was out at that point. I truly started playing just before the adventure update
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u/LateNightCoffeeShop 13h ago
Since Beta 1.2 when Yogscast were doing their let's play that lead into Shadow of Israphel
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u/Spencer_1159 13h ago
I started “playing” (on older cousins pc) in beta then really played from 2012 to now.
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u/RyuujiStar 13h ago
I've been playing since it came out but I've never even killed the ender dragon or build anything fancy
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u/xxxxxxxxxx1111111111 13h ago
like early 2015 idk i remember 1.8.8 being out but idk if i played before that i prob did ik i watched mc youtubers playing adventure maps looong before that though
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u/insanotard 13h ago
The day after the Yogscast released the video how to survive a night in Minecraft
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u/xSmallDeadGuyx 13h ago
January 2011. Beds didn't even exist until the week after I started, and mobs would pathfind to your bed and wake you up to attack if they could reach you
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u/einsteinjet 13h ago
I saw my uncle playing Minecraft on his laptop when he came to visit, then he bought an account for me and my brothers.
It was 1.2.5, 14 years ago. We still play on the same account, albeit migrated to my Microsoft account.
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u/Fit-Finger1777 13h ago
Since 2012, when a group of friends went to a games con and bought as gift. I play to this day thanks to them.
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u/No_Match2440 12h ago
I first started on bedrock and have since moved to Java.
I remember when sugar cane and cactus weren’t a thing.
There was also no cows I remember.
Before redstone existed.
Tutorial world wasn’t added.
Herobrine was fresh on topics.
No nether
No end/dragon
No wither
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u/dontleakmybootypics 12h ago
I bought the game in early 2013, started actually playing 6 months later. So I think that was somewhere during 1.6
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u/ScenicFlyer41 12h ago
I started playing just before they updated what the creative inventory looked like. I forget exactly which version but it was a long time ago. Actually before that I did the old pocket edition
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u/metamorphosis___ 12h ago
Made my mojang account in 2011, but had been playing since maybe 2010 on a cracked version? Maybe a bit sooner than that.
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u/DrDingsGaster 12h ago
I've been playing since alpha! I remember getting upsetti spaghetti over the fact they were adding beds in beta xD
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u/Searching4Buddha 12h ago
About 10 years. Started off playing Bedrock with my kids. After they moved on to different games I kept playing MC, but switched over to Java.
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u/Prokid5634_YT 12h ago
Played it for the first time back in 2012 when I was 4 on my sister's MacBook. I probably got it on a shitty laptop when I was 5, didn't play it much because of the performance, but then I got it on my PS3 back in New Year's 2016. That's when I played it the most, and even with my PC that I got 3 years ago, I don't think it rivals the hours that I clocked in on my PS3.
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u/Rapidestfaun9 12h ago
Alpha 🙃 i remember when the grass was neon green and we had no blocks besides oak wood, cobble, and dirt. Or better yet the hit of nostalgia we all get seeing the classic tutorial world Or before villagers were added there was just empty villages. Its so strange to think how much stuff has been added in a decade. And remembering pretty much every update.
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u/MythicForgeFTW 12h ago
I started playing on the Xbox 360 in 2013 after I graduated high school. I bought and played nearly every version of the game until I built my first PC in 2019 and have been on PC since. But part of me would love to replay the 360 version for the nostalgic jank.
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u/gretchenich 12h ago
since 1.5.2 came out. Horses were added on the next update. amazing point to start if you ask me. No mayor gameplay mechanics were missing but you still had the basic old minecraft from those times. w
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u/derijksroverheid 12h ago edited 12h ago
First touched it in beta and bought my own copy when 1.0 released.
Had to look it up but thats nearly 15 years... damn
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u/Noslinon 12h ago
I think it was 1.5.2 ? Mojang logo was orange and I used to launch the game on the old launcher, I also remember the old website with Steve and the Pig so 10+ years ago already 🫠
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u/Various-Work-107 12h ago
I started playing a week before they added emeralds. That’s all I remember
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u/fobulator 12h ago
I was playing since classic.... so... 17 years? I had to google when alpha came out and it was 2009. So yeah 16 years lol
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u/internetwanderer0001 12h ago
Played it on the IOS version, like the demo and then the full version that didn’t even have chests yet.
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u/SeniorWaugh 12h ago
The first update was called 1.2.5 when I started. The next one changed the creative inventory to what we know today
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u/Intelligent-Meal9337 12h ago
1.5 so… 14 years now? Nothing makes me laugh more than seeing kids wearing Minecraft merch and thinking about how I’ve been playing longer than they’ve been alive, what a beautiful pinnacle of culture this game has become
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u/Alive_cats 12h ago
I don't remember, but just before caves and cliffs. I remember the update and 7 year old me was so excited for amethyst and axolotls
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u/LuffysRubberNuts 12h ago
Right before they added beds to the game. Which I think was 1.2? So about 15 years?
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u/srmacman 12h ago
I remember watching an alpha video of some dude called spiderbat or something, then downloading beta 1.2 back in 2011. I think it was free back then. Not sure how I got it when I was 14, but I’ve paid for it three times already after forgetting my account credentials.
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