Minecraft’s Tutorial World: A Video Essay

This is the Minecraft Tutorial World. It  may look familiar to you, it may not. This   world was featured on the now called “legacy”  console editions of Minecraft and chances are   if you played any of these versions of  Minecraft, you remember it in some way,  

Shape or form. And I would know… because  HOOLLLY SHII- A couple months back I made   a video on Legacy Console Edition and why I  thought it was the best version of Minecraft   and it got a lot of attention! While my other  videos did [_]. I understand why though, I  

Didn’t just talk about Minecraft. I told a story.  A story that people could relate to. And today,   I’m going to be continuing that story, telling  you the aftermath after I posted the video,   and what I learned from Minecraft after 10 years  of playing and viewing this silly sandbox game.  

First of all, I just want to say, when I uploaded  the video, I honestly didn’t expect much. I made   the video in a week after hearing Legacy  Console Edition was turning 10 years old.   I literally didn’t even write a script for the  video, and instead just put my thoughts into  

Words and winged it. So seeing the video be so  well received genuinely means a lot to me and I   hope some of you stuck around afterwards. Anyway,  the same day I posted that video. While sleeping,   I had one of the weirdest dreams ever. I was  there. In my world, just flying around seeing  

Everything! It felt like I was sent to the  past. There were literally builds in there   that I forgot existed and weren’t mentioned  in the video. It was honestly such a weird   experience. But it made me reflect a lot  on that time period and made me wonder if  

The world my friends and I played on, were still  out there. As some were downloaded. But…nothing.   Similar ones would show up, but the  ones I was searching for… nothing. This made me try to find worlds from YouTubers  like Stampy, for example the infected temple,  

The cruise ship and even this lovely world. But  there was a problem. Most of these downloads   were for the Xbox 360 Edition, which I didn’t own,  but because I always wanted an Xbox and loved its   library. I bought one, with it conveniently being  bundled with minecraft! But before I get to it,  

I want to talk about the worlds that came  prior to this, and how I feel about them.  I’ll keep the PS3 and Vita worlds brief as  I talked about it last time, but the worlds   created by my friends and I is what really got me  into playing Minecraft, rather than just watching  

Videos on it. Creating your own experiences  in Minecraft with others was exceptional,   and the worlds I played on showed me that. I  still can’t get over how my mum sold my PS3, not   just because my save data was erased, but people  were too. I don’t remember their PSN Usernames,  

I don’t remember my login to see. I’m just left  in the dust. Sometimes I wonder how those people   are doing now, considering how they were like  12-13 back then and are now in their early 20s.  Speaking of how we used to be so young.  When I started playing on the Wii U  

Edition in 2021 it made me feel like a  kid again…even though I’m still a kid. Playing on the world gives me an incredible sense  of diversion where instead of beating minecraft so   rapidly that I’m in the Nether in 6 minutes. I  take it slow, look at my surroundings and focus  

More on the building aspect of the game. In my  world, I’ve been building a long railroad and   getting materials by doing this duping method a 12  year old taught me *laughs* and I loved building  

And riding on it. Keyword: loved. Now I rarely  open the world, and when I do, I do the equivalent   of “off camera mining”, walking around and nothing  else. It’s more my fault though. I think me duping  

Instead of mining got boring after a while, and  led me to stop playing on the world. I still go   back in from time to time because I genuinely  do love playing Legacy Console Edition. Anyway,  On the 360 Edition, it was similar but felt  way more nostalgic. As I’m more used to older  

Versions from 2011-2013, Which I think were the  best versions of Java, such as 1.5 or 1.6. This   was actually the version I wanted to play as a  kid as this is what Stampy played on and I used   to dream about playing on his world or being in  his lovely garden, meeting iBallisticSquid, L  

Forrrr…Damn he was Dream before Drea- along  with Crimson Azoths world as that one always   fascinated me. I still watch that video  sometimes to this day. Speaking of worlds,   because the Xbox 360 has a USB port that’s  actually useful unlike the Wii U! So I spent  

Some time looking for 360 maps, specifically  ones I always wanted to play on. While looking,   I found downloads of some old Minecraft Tutorial  worlds, including classic ones, modern ones,   but most importantly Title Update 19… I’ve been waiting… months to do this.  

I held back from going on this world until  December where it would be around the 10 year   anniversary of me discovering Minecraft, and  the 8 year anniversary of this Tutorial World.   Now that the day finally come, I booted up my  Xbox 360 waited for the world to load up and-

Walking around the main tutorial world, it  gave me this mystifying, uncanny experience.   It felt like I was sent back in time, staring  at my 2005 Philips TV that I used to count the   pixels on with my PS3 Controller, just having  fun in Minecraft. Giving random names to dogs,  

Doing mini parkour, staring up at a beacon,  acting like this was Dr Trayuras, Staring at   the enormous Minecraft logo, it goes on and on!  After that I went off to find Stampy’s House,   strictly relying on my muscle memory of  how many times I’ve played on this world,  

And the second I got here, it clicked and I  said “This is it.” “and when I rode to there,   I was ECSTATIC!” The Child-like joy I had while  roaming around the areas in his house was magical,  

And incredibly nostalgic. I even did things that  I did as a kid there. The only thing I didn’t do,   was put on full diamond armour- d-do you guys  remember when you thought the aether, emerald   armour or herobrine would be in the actual game? Anyway, after that I played some more classic…  

I probably make a lot of people feel old when I  call this era “classic/nostalgic” when there’s   people out there who’ve been playing Minecraft  before like… I was even five *laughs* Look,   when I was five I was playing Mario Sports  Mix and Galaxy 2, leave me alone. But although  

Playing on these old Minecraft worlds was very  soothing and pacifying… with simply walking or   flying around in creative or survival. Which  again, was indubitably fun…it felt wrong…  I don’t fully know how to say this, but playing  on these worlds makes me feel empty. I think  

That it has the same vibe as liminal spaces, where  in the images or videos, they’re usually deserted,   with nobody being present a lot of the time. An  abandoned building stuck in the past, left to be  

Alone. And these worlds feel the same as it would  a school, where you remember people who used to   hang out here or see them always around doing  something but now it’s just you. I think I have   this mentality with Minecraft because let’s be  honest. We all played multiplayer back then. So  

Seeing a place without the people you remember  there feels wrong, but also helps with making   myself realise that times have truly changed and  how friends I once knew, may not even remember   my name anymore. Of course we could play on a  server which I have but you know how that goes,  

You all start playing a lot, get OP items  only a few weeks in, start building things,   get bored of building things, you and your  friends got better [_] to do, the server dies,   you talk about Minecraft again and the cycle  continues. You could be a 14 year old and be  

Like “Well the Dream SMP was unique from other  SMPs people do!” Yeah I’ll give Dream credit   for being the first person to make a popular  Minecraft Roleplay Server…after 12 years. I   can give credit when it’s due though, finding new  people to play with changes the experience a lot! 

I used to be on unlisted SMPs with some really  funny people, I loved talking with Spawnf_gs   in 2b2t wannabe servers and after my first  Minecraft video, three people asked me on   Discord if they wanted to play with me on the  Wii U edition! The first two and I never really  

Caught on but the third was really cool! We  spoke about things relating and not relating   to Minecraft and in less than 3 hours, we became  really good friends! The entire playthrough we   were just having a good time and it kind  of showed me how mixing something up can  

Make the experience entirely different and unique  which is how I would EXACTLY describe Minecraft…  So what exactly have I learned from writing  this script and overthinking this stupid small   block-game? Well to put it as efficiently  and simply as I can. Minecraft is a paradox,  

Where although all of our experiences are  different, there’s so many minor similarities   that they all in some way, become one of the same.  One of those minor things would be the music.   Where when you were younger, you probably didn’t  acknowledge it because it was *clicks fingers*  

In the background if that makes sense. I mean, I  don’t remember people talking about it back then   unless “the Little Big Planet Sample”, me singing  Blind Spots while in creative or talking about   your favourite music disc with friends. Along  with that, Minecraft is a game that makes a lot of  

People reflect, because I’ve seen an abundance of  video essays on Minecraft with most of the people   talking about how the game and themselves have  changed overtime. You might see me in the comments   of some of those videos because it always feels  good commenting on a video no matter how big or  

Small the subs or views are. Speaking of videos,  I will be definitely making more on Minecraft in   the future, whether it be on the other versions,  youtubers, maybe even let’s plays on my second   channel (which you should totally subscribe  to, I do rambles, gameplay videos and more),

And I’d also appreciate it if you  subscribed to THIS channel! Making   these videos is something I’m really  passionate about, and subscribing,   liking and commenting makes me more motivated  to create better content. With all of those   1947 words said. I think I’m going to go  play some more Minecraft. See you next time.