Earlier this week, I was asked if I wanted to travel up to London to try out Minecraft Earth for the first time with the Head of Development of Minecraft Earth. That was a bit of a no-brainer for me. Of course I was gonna say yes. So I grabbed my friend Josh, who’s pretty handy with a camera, And we tried our best to film the entire experience, because… …I hadn’t played Minecraft Earth at all. I hadn’t touched it yet. All the people who went to the Creator Summit this year, They had had some small hands-on experience, But unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it to that event, so I had missed out on that. The only experience I had of Minecraft Earth was the same as everyone else’s, where I’d seen it played at demos, by other people at large events and things. So I was extremely excited, To actually have it in my hands and see what it’s like in first person, because from what I’d seen, it looked INCREDIBLY impressive. Despite getting lost multiple times (All entirely my fault), We managed to make it to the meeting location three hours early I thought the meeting time was a lot earlier than it actually was. So I thought we’d take advantage of this by actually getting some hands-on experience with the game a little bit sooner I had the beta loaded up onto my phone So I opened it up and I thought it’d be a good opportunity to gather some resources around the park The basic premise is really quite simple and it’s very similar to Minecraft as a game You have to go out exploring in your local area Gathering up resources that all end up in your inventory and then you can take those resources home and use them in your build plate Now to explain what a build plate is it’s essentially an area in which you are able To build the things that you’ve gathered so you can place it down in your house You can place it down in your car You can place it down wherever there in the middle of the street and then you can start constructing things that other players are then able to see it’s actually really quite exciting and the thing that surprised me the most is how Familiar all of it feels it’s as if they’ve literally transferred minecraft from inside a computer into real life your brain switches Almost instantly once you’ve placed down that build plate you then think of it It’s actually being in the real world to the point where people were looking past as they were walking up It kept going through my head. I hope they don’t step on my belt But even thinking that it wasn’t in real life, it was just on my phone By this point, we’ve killed enough time in the park to actually start making our way to the meeting So we met up with Grian got in contact with Sachs And we started working some things out the hotel room where the demonstration was taking place was awesome It had amazing views all the way out across London and Sachs essentially just came in explained to us how minecraft Earth was developed their mentality behind developing it and then gave us a brief explanation of how the Demonstration worked and then kind of left us to it to discover things for ourselves It’s so strange being able to I can see through the build. I’m looking past parrots wait hang on. I heard you punching a villager I can see you’ve got a sword out instantly. You’ve only just gotten into the world All right, well I’m gonna work on these parrots, so if I if I go up here I can actually free Yeah, no, see you get the glass back Oh, there’s a there’s a basement, thanks, man. I can’t actually go down there again If a brute force our way in oh I see. Oh, it’s an abandoned mineshaft This is the weirdest kind of like At this point I hope you can see what I mean When I say that It’s fairly surreal and it doesn’t take your brain very long To think of that object as actually being part of the room There’s a little bed in there. I can see you find people in through the window as well. Helpful. I Wonder if the register the redstone lamps I’m guessing do they work? You can see a redstone lamp. It’s kind of it was around. It’s around here. Oh, there’s a pressure plate. Oh I’m still on the pressure plate The redstone lamp is on Yeah That’s so cool now what you see us playing in here is called tabletop mode This keeps the build really nice and small and it actually makes it easier to construct the build Because you can get access to all sorts of areas. You can kind of hover around it it’s really really simple, but there is a button that you can click that will take the build out from the table and construct it in life-size in your room and That’s where things begin to get really really strange. This build looks cool. You know what? I’ve got an idea This is it I got rid of the bushes for you I Do that meme where it’s like this is fine. I just need like a mocha. I’m just like Everything is fine. Oh, wow, you can look up that you can see the whole world burning around you You can see the whole world. Oh, yeah. No. No, it’s still it’s still very burnt. It’s still very bad Yeah, we’re going back full-scale Isis is the best animation ever, isn’t it it coming out and just being like But just like the real Minecraft game is not all sunshine and rainbows There is also some hostility involved and that’s where the adventures come in now We were able to activate this manually because we’re doing the demonstration But I believe that when the actual full version releases these things will activate in hot spot areas So players can get together to try and defeat the things that are attacking you and also gather up lots of loot However, don’t hold me to that because as you know, yeah I’m not particularly good at remembering important information. Anyway, it was a lot of fun I’ll do the honors. And now we have spiders behind us Do yours have eyes? No mine don’t have eyes (Laugh) I’m charging in *Explosion* That happened underneath my feet! This is the strangest thing, this is just in a room. Yeah. I know you have to like kind of look around Dying for the cause. Yeah, creepers on the table! Now they’re much cuter and much more manageable So the demonstration in the hotel room completely blew me away to be frankly be honest with you I didn’t know what to expect but I wasn’t expecting it to be as good as that, however The weather was lovely So we thought it would be a good opportunity to take outside and also take a look at the resource gathering Element of the game because obviously this this is a huge part of it when you’re playing Minecraft and you trying your best do impressive builds as I’m sure you all know you spend 90 percent of your time resource gathering the way that it works is these little rock piles? Trees or chests generate throughout the world you have to Walk within a certain radius of them and then you can tap them to actually collect the items on the inside now one thing that I found really interesting is that we were in Hyde Park that doesn’t really have any major road systems or anything like that But the paths were all mapped out in Minecraft earth And that means that as you may notice a lot of the resources that are available In the nearby area actually generate near the path So you’re not having to go off into the wilderness to gather things. All of them are in relatively easy accessible areas I mean, it’s difficult for me to hide how impressed I am. I’m being totally honest I am I am very very impressed with Minecraft Earth and I went in incredibly skeptical III, I mean, I’ll be honest You know when I first saw those launch trailers and when I first heard it announced I thought how that sounds cool But I thought it might be a bit gimmicky and maybe something that you’d enjoy for Five or ten minutes and then eventually you put it down and you’d never open the application again But I can see that this game has got enough depth to it to actually keep you coming back for more There’s more to it than just going out and gathering resources and wandering around and doing that You kind of have to go out and gather the resources and then you come back You be a build stuff on your build plates you bring your friends around they can see what you’ve built on your build plate you can all interact with it once redstone is involved and you can start building piston doors and traps and Entrances and walking things and flying stuff. I mean that is gonna be huge and I just can’t wait I can’t wait for it to release and I can’t wait to see yeah what everyone does with it? seriously, I’m so so excited about this I really am. So I hope that you’ve enjoyed this little first impressions video. Thanks for watching and I’ll catch you in the next one Filming By: Josh Holgate (Instagram: JoshHolgatePhoto) Video Information
This video, titled ‘I Got to Play MINECRAFT EARTH Early’, was uploaded by Mumbo Jumbo on 2019-07-15 17:00:08. It has garnered 5308207 views and 185234 likes. The duration of the video is 00:10:17 or 617 seconds.
My first experience playing Minecraft Earth! The new Augmented reality game created by Mojang / Microsoft, that involves adventuring, resource gathering and of course, BUILDING! I was incredibly impressed by my first experiences playing, and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for this branch of the Minecraft universe.
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