Dahomey – The MOST Important Year In Minecraft’s History

Foreign the most fundamental parts of Minecraft are its crafting day night cycle and its tools however these all came a year after the game was first released so how did these things begin and how did the game turn from a basic building game to a survival world building sandbox well

This all happened in the year 2010 and today we’re going to look at the timeline and story of the year that shaped Minecraft before I begin this video is going to be a little different from what I’ve done before since it’s going to be a timeline we will start in

Late 2009 and go all the way to the end of 2010 and with this all being said let us begin foreign I won’t talk about Minecraft in 2009 in detail in this video since I already made a video about it so check that out if you want a deeper dive but to quickly

Recap on May 17 2009 Minecraft was first released on the tig Source forms by Notch and with the introduction of multiplayer two weeks later started the classic face of Minecraft classic was solely creative without flying and would see Minecraft’s first servers mods and texture packs on September 1st Notch

Would start survival tests this was an extremely basic version of survival mode since the only thing that made it separate from classic was that there were hearts and mobs there was no crafting and Mining at this point and survival testing classic would go on as a whole until December 23rd when the

Game entered in Dev the first edition of in-depth was a lighting system and this would be the last update to have creative mode till nearly two years later in late 2011. Minecraft’s total player base at this time is around 100 000 users though a third of them are

Most likely Alton Bots and with that our Story begins on New Year’s 2010 Minecraft would enter survival mode and the next week after that would see its first custom worlds these were floating islands in Hell floating islands was well a world of floating islands and hell was the world

Of lava and darkness three days later on January 10th Minecraft’s first tools were added which were all Iron and water flowing was added three days later the next update would come on January 24th when chess bows and the end of house was added the end of house was a house where

Players would spawn it and contain numerous useful items and was the first generated structure in Minecraft’s history four days later on January 28th the game would change forever with the introduction of crafting wooden Stone and iron tools and all the original oars being added Minecraft was now officially

Able to be played in survival mode on February 6 Wheaton Seas ride into the game which allowed players to make their own Farms on February 10th the first multi-part Survival series was uploaded by severnous 12. the day after this the day night cycle was added to the game once again completely changing the

Gameplay armor would be added the day after this and on February 19th furnaces pork chops in third person were added to the game a week later on February 27th the game was massively scaled back to add infinite World Generation removing things such as trees Dynamic lighting

And more they would return a month later but this officially starts INF Dev phase of development during this a player by the name of brisbee 169 started a series on indiff this series starting on March 5th would go on for 40 Parts making it the first playthrough series from World

Creation to the player quitting however it had no live commentary so it’s not the first let’s play not much would really happen from March to May in terms of development as notch worked to redo a lot of the coding to make infinite World Generation work properly and he would

Re-add features that were removed over the next couple of months the biggest highlights in this time were in the community when on April 4th an animator by the name of schnitzel killer released a blender plug-in that allowed people to animate their skins and this would see Minecraft’s First Community animations a

Month later on May 12 Beast everything would upload the first true Minecraft let’s play called let’s play in Dev this 28 episode series would start kind of a first wave of Survival series players with other channels such as on just gnome Dutch and the warlamine all making series getting tens of thousands of

Views this would be crucial for what would happen in the next couple of months finally on June 7th Minecraft would see a new update adding doors signs and ladders the game would over the next couple of weeks start to leave INF as notch made the final touches to

The World Generation during this he would start to release secret Friday updates adding new things without telling people these new things were Minecart’s mob spawners Dungeons and more and by June 30th the game had sold over 25 000 copies with the total player count being over 200 000. on June 30th

The game would officially leave if Dev starting the alpha phase of development all saves from in Dev and if Dev were unable to be used in Alpha basically wiping all players worlds and starting a completely new chapter in Minecraft’s history foreign Bobby ursulik would release the first

Minecraft original song that was not in the soundtrack this song would help Kickstart Minecraft’s music scene later that day Redstone would be added as with iron doors and pressure plates and literally hours later two users on the Minecraft forums named dark 7g and mcfu user 5745 creates a post explaining the

Entire Logic for Redstone and making the first Redstone clocks the first Redstone showcases would show up on YouTube shortly after on July 3rd and for the first few days it would be referred to as wiring by the community since the Redstone name was not coined till July

7th over the next three weeks sugarcane bricks books ice snow cows boats and cactuses were all added to the game and on July 26 Notch who had already been privately testing multiplayer finally allowed people to join the test server and this would be the first time Minecraft had multiplayer in eight

Months and would be the foundation for Minecraft’s multiplayer today Minecraft at this point probably sat at around 50 000 copies sold and over 250 000 registered players three days later on July 29th a YouTuber by the name of Paul source Jr uploaded mine crafts tutorial 1 how to survive your first night this

Video was different from any of the other let’s plays mentioned before since it was meant to teach and guide the player through the game it would be instantly successful getting hundreds of thousands of views a day later chickens eggs music discs jukeboxes and more were all added to the game but Minecraft

Would once again change Forever on August 4th game wise fire and fences were added but most importantly multiplayer was officially released allowing for servers to be created and people to play with their friends but on YouTube a user by the name of davidangel64 released a let’s play by the name of EX adventures

In Minecraft the series which had very good audio quality good creativity and taught the basics of the game would explode in popularity getting hundreds of thousands of views soon after this YouTube just exploded with Minecraft Let’s Plays some of the most famous being welcome to Minecraft by SeaNanners

Cosquest by co-star and many many more it would even spread outside the English space with YouTubers such as Minecraft Poland rubber Hut 1 and Gronk making Series in their native languages of Polish Russian and German Minecraft was Now everywhere on the internet and this was proven by numerous viral videos

Reaching the top of YouTube and Creepypastas such as Herobrine being created on August 30th however not much would happen game development wise since in September the only thing added was sneaking encompasses but the game itself in terms of sales was doing incredible having hundreds of thousands of sales

And not chose to fully make his own game Studio on YouTube more animations music videos and short films were released now getting millions of views and numerous servers would start to gain popularity at this time such as nerd.nu Minecraft DK and more all having hundreds of active players daily in October the

Previously mentioned hell was renamed to the Nether and was officially added to survival with the nether portal but most importantly grass and leaves were changed in shade from a bright green to a natural green this change made the game look completely different and to many signals the true end of alpha

However Alpha would at least officially continue on for another two months till December 20th when the game officially entered beta by this point the community was making texture packs such as doku craft that completely changed the game while keeping the original feel and also made mods such as mode creatures which

Made the game far more expansive and most importantly the game was now being watched by millions of people worldwide and was nearing 1 million copies sold foreign overall 2010 was the year that shaped Minecraft into what it is today the year started with Minecraft in its most basic

State with only having a handful of blocks and only breaking and placing but throughout the year it would evolve with new mechanics features World Generation and most important of all a sizable community that turned it into a true survival world building sandbox and thus is the story of the year that shaped

Minecraft anyways thank you so much for watching if you are new to the channel like And subscribe and if you already are like and share have a good day and goodbye foreign