The History of Minecraft PvP

Minecraft pvp has grown to become one of the largest gaming communities in the world branching far beyond the game itself and into the mainstream media for better or for worse but this game the one you’re watching right now isn’t what it may seem to be though pvp is likely the largest minecraft

Community there is it originally was never even meant to exist so where did it all begin well in today’s episode of minecraft uncovered we answer just that delving deep into the decade-long history of one of the most interesting parts of the largest game in the world this is the history of minecraft pvp

To truly see the beginning of what would become minecraft pvp we need to go back way back back to may 16 2009 six days after minecraft entered development and one day before it would debut as a java applet on an online form notch was touching up a demo for his

Aptly titled cave game which was a game about building and caves but he had plans for this game plans to make it much more than what it already was among other ideas some officially implemented and some becoming popular mini-games notch envisioned a mode where the player would have to fight to stay alive

Scavenging for food mining for resources and desperately trying to cobble together a basic shelter to protect yourself from the beasts that would come out at night he deemed it the survival mode and while it seemed to be relatively well received nothing happened yet over the next two

And a half months he focused his progress on the creative mode that was already in the game ironing out bugs taking suggestions including the new name minecraft improving terrain and otherwise refining the basics of the game come august though he was ready to begin work on minecraft survival

By the 18th he had introduced basic pve combat a rudimentary health system and a simple inventory to manage the resources you’ve collected during your time playing all this info came in the form of posts on notch’s tumblr blog and short video clips on youtube which have all since been blocked in most countries

But after a month survival mode was working and at the demand of thousands of eager players a test mode was released titled survival test another amazingly creative name from notch himself but the name wasn’t important it was the game that mattered there were nine total survival tests

Released to the public and while several are lost i was able to find a working version of the third survival test released just 43 minutes after the original which fixed bugs from the previous two versions regarding tile drops and item duplication which is still an issue over 11 years later but

It was a good effort while there is gameplay from all the way back in 2009 on this update i think it might be a good idea for us to check out this early build of minecraft survival to see what combat was like all those years ago this early version of minecraft combat was

Much different than what we know today the basic melee element consisted of what could be likened to modern day sumotory weapons didn’t exist and while there was plate armor it was cosmetic only and exclusive to the mobs since crafting hadn’t even been added to the game yet clicking wasn’t required

And holding down left click would allow you to swing your fists at a pretty comfortable speed around 5 clicks per second there wasn’t any form of natural regeneration and similar to the popular uhc game mode you could only heal by consuming specific foods with golden apples being replaced with

Brown mushrooms that were scattered across the map instantly healing three hearts each transportation wasn’t great you couldn’t sprint or get any form of speed so basic movement was agonizingly slow there wasn’t anything like an elytra allowing you to move in the air and the only way to get from one

Aerial platform to another was by bridging and trust me bridging was not fun crouching was impossible meaning you had to edge closer to the side of the ground to place a block and hope you didn’t accidentally go too far and fall off because if you did you would have to

Noob stack back up which would accidentally clip you into the block at random if you held down the jump or build buttons forcing you to time each placement overall the concepts were there but they were far from polish and it was certainly not ready to be officially

Added to the game and released to the public it wouldn’t be until november of 2010 with the release of version 1.2.3 that true pvp combat would come into play though multiplayer gameplay even the standard single player version has constant crashing issues so i can’t experiment with pvp myself

Fortunately i don’t have to with the power of youtube we can travel all the way back to november 25th of 2010 just two days after pvp was made possible this video from battlefield beast has footage of what may be one of if not the first pvp minigame

Ever to be played the idea was simple an underground stone box where two players would duel to the death as you can see things had changed quite a bit since the survival tests immediately you’ll notice that proper combat gear had finally been added to the game

Each player would get a full set of diamond armor which wasn’t stronger than any other material but it would last longer before breaking which was a pretty big issue in the early days they were also equipped with diamond swords that you could automatically swing just like in the previous versions

Though the in-game auto clicker had been slowed down quite a bit down to just two or three clicks per second in the second match he pulls out a bow and though they didn’t actually deal any damage because of a bug in this version of minecraft you can see the bow firing

Rapidly like a gatling gun when you hold down left click later in the video we also see the use of healing items with unenchanted golden apples that were added to the game back in late february and the beginnings of flame pvp with lava and flint and steels being

Used to slow down the player and deal fire damage which would go on to become a very common theme in popular game modes like uhc and the classic duels overall though it wasn’t perfect you could see the beginnings of the minecraft pvp we would all grow to love

So pvp had finally come into existence and it quickly caught on with the minecraft community pvp was slow though very slow and pvp could get quite repetitive without anything else added to spice it up as a result the true foundations of minecraft pvp wouldn’t be set in stone until september

14th of 2011 which is also around the time that a huge wave of invalid names were created so feel free to check my video out about that if you’re interested this was a day that version beta 1.8 also known as the adventure update would roll out to players

Worldwide from this update the pvp we know and love today was birthed both shots were now charged critical hits and blocking were added to melee the auto clicker was removed from all forms of combat food was changed to help your hunger bar with exceptions like golden apples and most of all

Sprinting was added to the game there were also some foreshadowing for future features like the addition of enderpearls which were unusable at the time and status effects like speed and instant health as well as some unusable ones like strength and resistance bridging had been updated to be similar

To how it is now with speed bridging breezily bridging and so on all still being possible in this early version of the game with the unique complex system behind combat players would inevitably start to get some ideas of what the gamemode could become soon minecraft pvp would be revolutionized forever so

Now we know how minecraft pvp came about but that’s only the first step to understanding the intricate history behind the gamemode after all you don’t ask a friend to go play some pvp you ask them if they want to play uhc or hunger games or skywars or capture the flag

Pvp was just the foundation for an infinite number of mini-games to be created over the years to come but where did they all come from well a select few early minecraft servers would go on to revolutionize the game for good and though most of these have shut down

Their legacy will never be forgotten so let’s start from the top with one of the earliest major minecraft servers in existence known simply as mcpbp founded on december 24th of 2010 by curtis welch aka hc luke it would go on to pioneer not just specific game modes like capture the flag hunger games

And soup but arguably this server was the launch point for minecraft pvp’s foray into the mainstream with famous youtubers like stimpy getting their start right here over the years the server evolved quite a bit but by 2015 the playerbase had begun to dwindle and funds were running low

The staff decided to make the tough decision of selling their server to brawl.com who would continue to run the games from then on even though the original mcpbp is long gone brawl is still alive with a few hundred players on at a time and the capture the flag game mode is

Still around free to play for anybody who wants a taste of the original minecraft pvp but while mcpbbp was the main catalyst for the growth of pvp servers it’s far from the only one so it’s time for a quick fire round starting with shot bone network it was

Founded in february of 2012 though i can’t find a precise state and would go on to bring various video games to minecraft with their signature being mine z a blockified version of the dayz mod for arma 2. the server is still running today with many of their original modes still being available

Also in february 2012 was the creation of kohi on the 25th to be exact who would become one of the largest and most respected servers for hef and practice of all time and even now four and a half years after the server shut down it’s still commonly referred to as one of if

Not the best competitive pvp server of all time but why did it shut down well that leads us to our next server badline founded around april of 2013. it would grow to become another very large practice server which would also pioneer uhc both as a dual kit and a completely

Separate game mode on april 29th of 2016 kohi merged into badline bringing many of their game modes with them and reviving the pop pvp community on badline in the process on june 10th of 2018 badline permanently closed its doors to the public citing a lack of interest in the server

And competitive minecraft pvp entirely as the reason for doing so they’re still around in namesake and their ever popular badland client is used by millions of pvpers but the server it was made for no longer exists and finally we have the overcast network created in october of 2012 that

Would become the breeding ground for tons of classic games to be brought into minecraft with team deathmatch capture the flag king of the hill and tower defense just to name a few due to a lack of interest the server was scheduled to shut down on september 5th

Of 2016 but was bought out just in the nick of time by lifeboat network a name very familiar to those of you that play bedrock edition for those that don’t it’s basically the mobile equivalent to hypixel and it’s been the largest minigame server for mcpe

And windows 10 for the better half of a decade unfortunately it was only a short-term solution and the server shut down on january 28th of 2017. the server returned rebranded as overcast community at the very end of 2019 and it’s been decently popular ever since there is another popular game mode of

Minecraft pvp but the origins of it are rather mysterious and it might even be worth making an entirely separate video for its full history of course this game mode is factions and though i’m not yet sure where it started i do know when in early 2011 factions

Quickly grew to become one of the largest game modes in minecraft history with a style of gameplay that was adopted in one way or another by the vast majority of pvp servers around that time even those that didn’t actually have factions on their network while factions isn’t as popular as it

Once was it’s still been around for almost 10 years and servers like psychopvp and cosmic pvp still have hundreds of thousands of active players outside of these more og pvp servers there have also been a lot of minigame servers that would go on to adopt many

Of the same game modes with huge names like hypixel mineplex cubecraft and hivemc coming to mind i’d like to do separate history videos for each and i already have a high pixel video out on my channel from a few months back so check that out if you’re interested

By this point the minecraft combat system was completed while it would be refined over the next few updates combat would stay largely the same for four and a half years until february 29th of 2016 with the release of minecraft version 1.9 the combat update shields dual wielding and brand new enchantments were added

Revolutionizing melee tipped arrows allowed you to heal teammates poison enemies and more making ranged combat far more interesting elytras would allow for extremely fast transportation as well as epic aerial pvp battles however not everything was enjoyed attack speed was extremely nerfed making huge combo chains very rare to come by

Pvp related enchantments were nerfed for seemingly no reason and worst of all axes became the most overpowered item in the entire game where the most basic tool a wooden axe would do the same amount of damage as a diamond sword that often took hours of gameplay to craft while many of

The changes brought by this update were positively received the massive overhaul of melee was one of the most divisive changes the game had ever seen one of the most divisive changes any game had ever seen this would go on to become by far the most controversial update in the game’s entire history

Pvp focus servers would stay behind utilizing the 1.7 and 1.8 versions many modded servers would continue to version 1.12.2 the most recent version of java that is still comfortable for coders and vanilla servers would progress to the newest version of the game for the new mobs blocks items and even the trident weapon

Introduced in 1.13 that is where we stand today but i can guarantee you that minecraft won’t be like this in the future minecraft staff have been working on a revamped combat system since the middle of 2019 and it seems that they’re nearing the end of testing with jeb saying that

They’ll be taking a break until something dramatic happens i won’t cover all the changes in detail as other youtubers like waddles and susumavoid have already made videos about them but among the changes are new pvp enchantments variable levels of reach depending on your weapon weakened axes though they are still a

Bit overpowered different levels of shield strength stackable potions slowed projectiles and more it’s too soon to say whether the changes will be positively received or whether the pvp community will have to wait even longer for a favorable update but very soon minecraft combat will be flipped on its head once again

Hope you all enjoyed this video it’s definitely been a long time coming this is another video idea that i’ve had since like june 2020 and hadn’t actually acted on for a while but i think that’s all right because it gave me the time to research and make sure i had my facts right

I also wanted to give a massive thanks to you guys for all the support recently at the time of writing this script i have 7 856 subscribers and at the time of recording i have about 250 more but i’m gaining over 100 per day now and i could very well be at

10 000 by the time this video is released it’s absolutely unbelievable so from the bottom of my heart thank you it really does mean the world to me anyways that’s about it so have a good one guys peace You