The FIRST EVER Minecraft Lets Plays…

Why did you start playing minecraft a question which i’m sure many of you have been posed before if you’re like me then a friend introduced you or maybe a family member such as a cousin but what about youtube when i was first introduced to the game

My friend told me to watch a minecraft series on youtube and judging by the comments and the views on that series it seems like many other people had done exactly the same thing there are certain youtubers two in particular whose minecraft series are commonly recognized as what introduced

Or got a lot of people into minecraft they uploaded the first ever minecraft let’s plays and their names are most likely globally known two minecraft series which were never mentioned are sure to induce waves of nostalgia and memories from the early days of the game but who are these two youtubers and why

Were they the ones responsible for introducing everybody to minecraft and changing the game forever they had a crazy impact on the game and without them minecraft may never have reached such popularity well today i’m going to tell you all that and more so let’s get right into it if you began playing minecraft

During mid to late 2010 or even early 2011 then paul sores jr might ring a bell for you he was the first youtuber to upload a minecraft let’s play or tutorial as he called it in version alpha 1.0.13 on july the 29th 2010 over 10 years ago now he uploaded the first

Episode of his minecraft series titled minecraft tutorials 1 how to survive your first night which would later become known as a survive and thrive series the video with a watermark at the top and only available in 480p currently sits at just over 7 million views in his first episode which is only nine

Minutes long paul begins by explaining some basic things about the game such as the day and night cycle and explaining what happens when it becomes dark back in these early versions of the game when it became night it was really scary as not only was it super dark due to

Lack of a brightened slider in the settings forcing the brightness to always be on moody but you couldn’t sprint or run away from mobs like you can now in current versions of the game the player is far faster than hostile mobs while sprinting while in older versions without

Sprinting you’re just about the same speed anyways he then goes on to explain how to get wood how to open inventory how to craft wooden planks and how to make sticks and then finally shows everybody how to make some basic wooden tools collecting some coal he then begins to

Explain that he needs to make a little hidey hole as the sun is going down and he needs light and shelter he then crafts some torches and expands his highly hull slightly crafting some stone tools and he begins to wait out the night beds did not exist during this version

Of the game and as such you could not skip the night forcing players to wait what’s crazy to me is how far players have come this day what paul accomplished in nine minutes could have easily been accomplished in one minute potentially less by any average player today

Paul would go on to make a total of 38 episodes of this tutorial let’s play before he would make a final episode on the 15th of november 2011 doing a world tour for his retirement from the world he ended the series as he wanted to recite it with the new

Minecraft major version 1.0.0 coming out stating that his videos were outdated now because of the new features and changes being added anyways i’m not going to give a detailed explanation of everything he did in his let’s play but instead i’m going to tell you about some of the more notable things he

Didn’t build he of course had his first and second hidey holes but then his main base had a lot more at his main base he had a natural spring hot tub as he named it which utilized water coming out of a small mountain with a permanent fire made using netherrack

Then there was his wheat farm as well as melon and pumpkin farm there was also his nice little cottage made of wood and cobblestone nearby at a mountain he had a boat elevator which doesn’t work anymore which led up to cloud tower one of the first builds which also had dispensers

Light up to redstone which could fire arrows at mobs acting as a defense system then there was also his small railway which leads up to his cave system with his office a small underground tree farm wheat farm sugarcane farm animal farm and mushroom farm going further down also leads to a

Zombie dungeon which he turned into an automatic farm which kills the zombies by drowning them but that’s about it now he used to have a link to a world download for this series in the final video’s description but it no longer seems to work however a quick google search will bring up other

People who have re-uploaded it for download but be careful if you go looking for a download because you never know what people could upload paula sawz jr still uploads videos to this day and while they don’t get as many views as his early series did he still has an active audience who

Enjoys his videos he has done many other minecraft series on newer versions of the game where he tested new features and was even a member of minecraft for a brief period another one of his popular series is called minecraft dad where his kids and wife join a server

With him and they play together in his decade on youtube he has also participated in one of the first ever survival games the youtuber survival games there are lots of other series he has done and been involved in and he’s even branched out to other games such as skyrim and dayz

But you can go check out his channel for yourself if you want to see more of that anyways a lot of the stuff he built in his world was based on showcasing it for the viewers as a tutorial he even mentioned this and says that it

Was the main reason why he ended up building many things but the next youtuber who we’re going to talk about was different his videos were more based on him playing the game and the viewers coming along for the ride while also watching and learning as he

Goes along but before we get to that consider subscribing if you haven’t already as i greatly appreciate it and it really helps me out anyways on august 4th 2010 only a few days after paul source jr had met his first minecraft video x or as his channel is now called davidangel64

Uploaded his first ever episode of the famous x’s adventures in minecraft similarly to paul source jr the series started off relatively similar with x giving a brief introduction to the game and to what happens when it becomes knight he then collects some wood finds some coal and uses this at the

Time to explain how tools work stating that he cannot use his fists to collect the coal making a crafting bench and crafting a wooden pick he minds the coal and begins exploring stumbling upon some more coal in the side of a small mountain he decides to make a small shelter

Hilariously similar to paul saw’s hidey hole which we see in his first episode little did he know that would be the beginning of the x-cave later becoming the x system he would craft some stone tools and then conclude the episode x would go on to upload a grand total of

46 episodes of his initial let’s play uploading the final episode on october 31st 2010 the series was somewhat short-lived compared to paul’s lasting just under 3 months but he uploaded many more episodes in a short period of time and as such the series were roughly

About the same length so what did he do in his famous let’s play well he initially built the famous x-cave a system of caves connected to his initial first night shelter which he then expanded the outside of with a nice wooden exterior and a sun roof deciding to expand upon the cave system

He upgraded many areas and built many rooms and had a huge underground mine shaft which had light directly coming in from the sky this whole underground intricate network of caves and rooms would become known as the x-system then at the top of it all he had a large

Cobblestone fortress which sits upon the mountain which contains the x-system outside of the main x-system area there’s also his greenhouse of harmony which can be directly accessed from the x-system a couple hundred blocks away this is mountain top station a temporary base when he is traveling and needs to hide

Somewhere and wait out the night then finally across the ocean we have his death mountain base where he decided to relocate to a new area and build but then unfortunately died to lava and couldn’t find his way back until a viewer helped him out x has tried to reboot his minecraft

Series a few times on newer versions or do other spin-offs but none have seen the success his original let’s play did he also has uploaded other series such as duke nukem dishonored mass effect and a whole lot more a lot of these series were fairly successful as well

He still uploads to this day and there’s a range of different games on his channel as well as live streaming on twitch about a month and a half ago now it was the 10th anniversary of the let’s play and as such ex decided to release a world download of his let’s play

This had been highly requested for a long time now and only a few months prior some people in the community reverse engineered his let’s play seed as they wanted it so badly and venom has a good video on that but yeah if you want to check out his world

You can go to his video which i will link in the description and download it for yourself so how did they have such an impact on the game well aside from introducing millions of players to minecraft they also taught them how to play you see back then minecraft was not very intuitive and

Didn’t have any in-game tutorials guides or features such as the recipe book which shows you how to craft everything the game wasn’t as popular especially so if you started in 2010 or earlier and there wasn’t as much content online to help play us out this is why x’s and pulsar’s junior

Series did so well initially because they all began with a focus on explaining what they were doing and teaching viewers how to play that’s basically how people would begin the game back then when my friend first told me about the game he also told me to watch this

Series on youtube called x’s adventures in minecraft and then whenever i told people about the game i would tell them the same thing back then there was also a lack of good quality content and a lot of early minecraft videos were hard to watch because of their quality or didn’t

Contain audio while x’s adventures in minecraft and survive and thrive would be considered low quality in today’s standards back then 720p and 30fps was a godsend they even had decent audio quality to go along with it and i frequently go back and re-watch x’s videos without any issue

You also have to remember that a lot of new players being introduced to the game were younger kids and the fact that x and paul were both family friendly and didn’t swear or show any explicit content meant that their videos were far more accessible many of us began by playing

On the old family desktop with no headphones or anything and as such our family could see and hear what we were doing that’s why it was important to not watch explicit content with swearing as we didn’t want our parents to get upset at us besides that they are both entertaining

Personalities with a somewhat mature sense of humor which makes them very bearable to watch unlike the dozens of youtubers these days who just scream at the camera and flood their videos with memes the fact that they uploaded minecraft so early definitely helped as well but anyways if it isn’t clear already

They most likely had a huge impact on the game introducing millions of people to it and teaching them how to play for example many old and large youtubers such as ant venom were taught the game indirectly by x and as such he probably introduced many more people through his own channel

Creating a sort of chain reaction effect where x introduces other players and the other players introduce even more players so x’s adventures in minecraft and paul swords jr survive and thrive were two of the most popular and oldest series of all time forever being ingrained in our memories

And creating waves of nostalgia whenever we watched both are still around today and you can even go and download their original minecraft maps it’s likely that their impact on the game will be forever remembered and their stories and videos will be passed down generations and generations

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