Minecraft Old vs New: The Ultimate Comparison

So after I made this video I started to realize just how different old Minecraft and new Minecraft are from each other I went into making that video thinking oh it’s Minecraft right how can they be that wildly different from each other it’s still just Minecraft you place a

Block you break a block but boy was I wrong from The Vibes and feelings you get from the world and the progression and how you just generally play the game and in this video I mentioned how old Minecraft wins in The Vibes department but modern Minecraft is better from a

Gameplay perspective after playing old Minecraft for a bit I started to have a lot more appreciation for the gam playay and progression of old Minecraft and I started to realize more and more that old Minecraft and new Minecraft have their own unique Vibes and gameplay progression and that one isn’t

Necessarily better than the other and they both have certain things that they’re better at compared to the other and they also both have their Fair sheare of issues which I will talk about later but first I would like to show you just some raw gameplay of old Minecraft

And new Minecraft well not completely raw but mostly unedited just so you can get a feeling of what old Minecraft is The Vibes the feelings that the world gives off and the kind of things that go on in the world and how slow but relaxing the progression is and after

That I will do the same thing in a new world for modern Minecraft for old Minecraft I’m using the world that came from this video which is on a fresh start I only just built a house but I’m running out of food I don’t have iron

Tools yet so yeah this game play might be a little bit more on the longer side hopefully I don’t think I made it too long but I think it’s important to show this just so you can understand how things feel anyways old Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 roll the game [Laughter] play [Applause] [Applause] Oh [Applause] A e for oh Oh [Applause] I [Applause] H Ah a [Applause] [Applause] M All A Oh oh M oh [Applause] [Applause] o Oh [Applause] So that’s it for old Minecraft you could see just how vulnerable I was at certain times and things in general just felt a lot more slow paced and relaxing anyways I’m not not going to go too much into detail I’ll leave that for the actual comparison at the end also just to put

Things into perspective that gameplay that I showed from old Minecraft was pretty much an entire hour but wait a minute also in Old Minecraft there was also the time that I spent on this video which was an additional hour and 10 minutes let’s say so that’s where I

Ended up in 2 hours of game time in Old Minecraft now let’s compare that to modern Minecraft and what I was able to get done in just 30 minutes roll the Video Ah a H h what What Yeah Y Oh He [Applause] A For Hey a is Okie dokie so now that we’ve seen old Minecraft and modern Minecraft next to each other I’m just going to go on a big unorganized ADHD ramble about what I noticed so yeah you feel a lot more vulnerable in Old Minecraft for sure no sprinting no Shields when hostile mobs

Are around an old Minecraft you actually feel afraid like that you could actually die also the lack of food resources makes things more challenging and if you spawn into a world and you want armor you actually have to go underground to obtain the iron for it whereas in modern

Minecraft it’s everywhere in structure loot iron and just armor by itself or you could just easily kill a bunch of iron golems within just a few minutes of spawning into modern Minecraft you can easily find a single piece of iron to make a shield without even having to

Lift a finger to go underground to get one I think Shields are too easy to make to be honest Shields will protect you completely from Hostile Mobs unless they have an axe which there’s not a lot of mobs that hold axes and when you hold a

Shield mobs don’t react to the fact that you now have a shield everything becomes extremely easy now I don’t think Shields are bad I actually like Shields and I think they open up many new ideas and possibilities for combat and fighting mobs I just think that the Hostile mob

AI for the system kind of sucks and needs to be updated to make things more difficult with a shield in mind I think mob AI in general is way overdue for an update anyone who says otherwise hasn’t tried to handle over 50 villagers in a villager trading Hall combat is not

Really much of a challenge now just block hit block done no threat whatsoever maybe if skeletons tried to quickly run behind you to get a hit on your back to bypass your Shield so then you’d have to spin around so he doesn’t get you and I think there being two

Skeletons in that scenario could make combat more interesting but also like what if mobs actually tried to work together to take you down so you’d be blocking with your shield and then the skeleton would notice and then he’ run to the back of you to try get a hit on

Your back and then the other skeleton’s like ooh I could get a free hit on his back because he turned around so You’ then have to time your Shield blocks or run to a safer place so you can take them out while making sure they don’t

Get to shoot your back I can only imagine the frame IC gameplay of trying to stop multiple skeletons working together similar to how it feels to the danger of just one skeleton in Old Minecraft do you remember how in my gameplay just one skeleton shot me off

The edge into a dark cave that was genuinely a scary moment and I felt for sure that I was dead but I just managed to save myself maybe in hard mode more hostile mobs could spawn that would be a bit faster and zombies could would be more commonly holding axes so they could

Disable your shield for a bit or they could just have more hostile mobs in general with different abilities to watch out for really how long has it been since Mojang added a new hostile mob that just spawns everywhere it’s been a while and fighting the exact same mobs over and

Over and over again that barely try to do anything to damage you is really getting stale I’d really like Mojang to lean more into the fantasy and combat aspect of Minecraft for sure I don’t know I’m just spitballing random ideas here and I know moang is scared of

Making changes to things like this that have been unchanged for I don’t know how many years but I think these kind of changes will help stop players from just being able to Shield all of their problems away not to mention food and how easy it is to get in modern

Minecraft you can just spawn somewhere see a village a few chunks away steal all of their hay bales and you’ll be completely set on food until you make a farm for yourself or you can just buy golden carrots from villagers and then be sit for life but in Old Minecraft you

Have to actually kill animals and make Farms even for me as someone who’s been playing Minecraft for over a decade you could see that I still struggled sometimes in Old Minecraft every hit that I took from a hostile mob mattered no Shield to make all of my problems go

Away and you can Sprint in modern Minecraft so you can just effortless run away from all of your problems as well as block them all away with a shield this is why I suggest the de mobs be just a bit faster on hard mode or even

Out of hard mode I don’t know I just think more things also need to be done to make hard mode you know actually hard modern Minecraft just has a lack of struggle that’s one of my biggest issues with modern Minecraft so much stuff is just handed to for free in structures

Without much challenge actually in the structures I don’t really like that to be honest at least it’s good for Speed Runners though you can also just trade with villagers to easily get diamond armor before even having to get iron armor you can just completely skip out so much of the gameplay progression in

Modern Minecraft it’s actually crazy I really don’t like that either like when you find diamonds in Old Minecraft it felt special it felt rewarding because you actually had to go underground to get them in the first place to make armor and tools with them now you can just get armor and tools with

Enchantments on them from villagers diamonds in general are just a lot more common now modern Minecraft does have a lot of balancing and progression issues but they can’t just be solved by just going back to how things used to be it’s a very complex issue to solve you apply

A balance fix to one part of the game that can completely screw up the balance of another part of the game and you also have to to be careful not to upset players in the first place cuz yeah you make a balance change and a lot of

People are going to be upset I really do feel for Mojang when they’re trying to make balance fixes it is absolutely impossible to make a balance fix without upsetting some portion of the community because we all play the games in very different ways oh and not to mention if3

And coordinates we’re completely spoiled rotten in modern Minecraft coordinates that tell you where you are at all times 64 chunk render distance so you can see everything it’s pretty much impossible to get lost in modern Minecraft quality of life editions and mods completely automated Farms that do all the work for

You well I personally don’t have completely automated farms in my long-term survival world I just don’t like the instant gratification of it that’s why in my world I have things like a creeper Arena that I have to go up to and fight in in order to get the

Gunpowder that I need but I mean it all all depends on how you play the game but I like to play things a little bit more slowly so my brain can have some time to think about what I want to do in my world I don’t like progressing too fast

In Minecraft because I end up getting too overwhelmed and I can’t really think properly about what it is I want to do and I just end up getting demotivated because I have too much resources and it just feels like I’m playing creative mode that’s why I have semi-automatic

Farms that I have to do things to collect and store the resources myself but anyways despite all of these issues with modern Minecraft it’s still fun in Old Minecraft you’re a lot more vulnerable progression is slow but it’s in a way that feels relaxing but eventually after playing for so long

You’ll get the best armor you can get the world will be lit up you’ll be completely safe but then what will you do at end game not a lot that’s the issue with old Minecraft the end game also there’s not a lot of things in Old

Minecraft that will help you work on big long-term projects like you can in modern Minecraft no beacons no villager trading no elra and as someone who’s been playing on the same survival world for 6 to S years I can tell you how important all of those things are for

Working on my various big projects that’s where modern Minecraft is so great yeah sure progression is pretty fast in modern Minecraft but in the end you end up feeling completely in control of your world in a way that benefits the long-term of Your World villager trading Halls mass storage rooms Redstone Farms

Blue ice highways elra I can’t imagine my survival world without these things anymore and they all help me work on various big projects without it just being a big chore a big chore just to get from point A to B a big chore just to keep my tools repaired a big chore to

Found the various resources that I need for my projects and just to get all around my world in general modern Minecraft in that way allows you to be more creative and really focus on the long-term projects and things you want to do in your world Things become a lot

More intrinsically motivated once you become this powerful you’re pretty much God at this point unless you make a really goofy mistake or die to a warden and even then dying in a long-term world like mind becomes a minor inconvenience rather than a big issue we’ve got high

Render distances now and you can learn the ins and outs of Your World very easily especially with elra you just don’t get lost like you do in Old Minecraft in modern Minecraft when you start to run out of things to do you start doing things and working on big

Projects and creating lore in your world that may seem pointless but you do it just because you want to because it brings you some kind of joy and happiness or at least that’s how it is for me as I said in Old Minecraft it’s not really easy to work on big projects

There’s a whole lot less blocks mobs game mechanics to take advantage of but at the same time it’s actually kind of nice and peaceful in a way that modern Minecraft will never be able to capture ever again there’s a whole lot less going on in the world of old Minecraft

That’s not necessarily bad just like all the things that exist in modern Minecraft aren’t necessarily bad either they both create strengths and weaknesses in Old Minecraft things feel lonely but in a really comforting kind of way feels like it’s just you here outside of some animals and a few mobs

That want to kill you no villagers no pillagers no wandering Traders it just feels lonely but peaceful it makes your mind Wonder as you do throughout the world before you eventually wander too far and get lost after thinking about it more and more I really just don’t think

One version of Minecraft is better than the other like fully I think both eras of Minecraft both have their strengths and weaknesses things that make them good and things that make them bad and I think I’m going to continue in my Beta 1.7.3 world I think it would be very

Interesting to play that alongside my normal 6 to seven year-old long-term survival world in the current version of Minecraft so yeah I will be continuing that world kind of like a let’s play I don’t know exactly what I’m going to get up to in that world especially in the

Long term but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it that’s all I really have to say for this video if you haven’t gone back to older versions of Minecraft just to see what it’s like I really do encourage you to do that it really open opened my mind up to the

Various strengths and weaknesses from old Minecraft and new Minecraft thanks for watching and I will see you guys later bye-bye