The Year That Completely Changed Minecraft

And the last episode of this series we looked at how in a single year Minecraft went from a very basic sandbox to a basic Survival game with tools crafting and a day night cycle but how did Minecraft go from this basic Survival game to the large expansive world with

Villagers biomes and enchanting well this all happened in the year 2011. so today let us dive deep to look at the timeline of the year that completely changed Minecraft but before I begin if you haven’t seen the episode about 2010 don’t worry it is not required for this

Episode but please do check it out after this one for deeper info anyways let us begin to quickly recap Minecraft was first released on the tig Source forms on May 17 2009. two weeks later multiplayer was added starting the classic phase of development you can check out my video

About classic for more information but all you really need to know is that it just had breaking and placing anyways classic would continue on for another six months till New Year’s 2010 when Minecraft entered into phase of development and Dev was when Minecraft solely entered survival mode and added

Features such as crafting tools farming the day night cycle and more in-depth would be updated till March 2010 when the game entered instev instead added features such as Minecart’s Dungeons and most importantly infinite World Generation if that would be updated till June when the game entered Alpha and a

Month later in July survival multiplayer was added to the game in August Minecraft exploded in popularity on YouTube getting Millions upon millions of views and in the following months Notch would create mojing as an actual company the final updates of 2010 would see the creation of the nether fishing

And most importantly a color palette change for grass and leaves and finally on December 20th Minecraft would enter beta Mojang now had five developers and Minecraft’s itself had a a full out Community with music videos mods and hundreds of active servers To begin on January 12 2011 Minecraft would hit 1 million copies sold and the next day Minecraft would see its first major update since October adding squids lapis cakes Spruce and birch trees also added with Sandstone which came from a mod for alpha dies in note blocks which

In the days after the update’s release would see its first song Recreations a month later on February 21st a proper launcher was added to the game which yes Minecraft did have a launcher before but it was very rudimentary and now had an update changelog and allowed Auto login

This version of the launcher would stay for the next five years a day after this slabs repeaters and beds were added beds now could skip the day night cycle starting a debate within the community asking if it ruins the game but on the other hand repeaters were a massive

Addition for the Redstone Community now allowing for bigger and more efficient Contraptions a week later on February 27th industrial craft would be released which many people regarded as the first tech mod allowing players to completely automate their world a month later on the 31st of March would see the addition

Of wolves and cookies and a day later Minecraft would see its first Fallout April Fool’s prank adding block chest which would take the player to a website called the Minecraft store which was a parody of Team Fortress 2’s Manco store two weeks later on April 15 sapling’s

First Bruce and Birch knew rail types and achievements were added to the game achievements at least at this point were to be tied into a quest system which Notch was going to add later on but as we all know it never came going into May on May 23rd Now That’s What I Call

Minecraft was released on the Minecraft forums this was at least as far as I know the first true mod pack however would be quickly shut down due to not getting permission from Mod creators but following this other mod pack such as yogbox Amazon craft and later and most

Important of all Technic would all be created citing Now That’s What I Call Minecraft as its main influence two days later on May 25th a Mojang employee named Daniel Kaplan showed off the first version of Minecraft Pocket Edition which at this time would only be for the

Xperia play a day after this maps trapdoors and new grass types would be added to the game but most interesting of all the nether would be finally be able to enter it in multiplayer Mojang would also announce that they would go to E3 to show off Minecraft related news

Two weeks later E3 begins and on June 6 Minecraft is announced for the Xbox 360 though our release date is nowhere to be found three weeks later on June 25th shears and pistons were added to the game but also to be noted is that Cobblestone and Bricks had their

Textures changed over the next 10 days there would be a few more bug fixes most famously patching the Piston duplication glitch and finally ending with beta 1.7.3 on July 8th Minecraft at this point sat around 2 million copies sold with over 10 million registered players on the free web version but Minecraft

Was now about to once again change forever now before starting this section let me explain how I’m going to be laying it out so we will start with the things that were officially released between July 8th and September 14th then we will go into important Community moments between this time then teased features

During this time and then finally go into the update itself to begin on August 11th Minecon which is supposed to be a convention for the game was announced to be taking place on November 18th five days later on August 16th the first version of Minecraft Pocket Edition was released for the Xperia Play

This was basically just a port of classic but with the blocks from beta Community wise on July 22nd the aether mod was finally released and at this point it was the largest mod ever made and is regarded as the greatest mod ever for its sheer scale and influence on the

Modding Community nearly a month later on August 15th the first fully animated music video was made by the auxcast however this was quickly overshadowed by Captain Sparkle’s Revenge four days later on August 19th revenge is extremely important since before that Minecraft music video is really just consisted of a player being animated

Onto a Minecraft world however Revenge was completely animated from from the ground up from the background to the player models themselves does certain Minecraft’s second wave of music videos and animations for teased features on July 19th Notch would show off hunger for the first time sparking controversy within the Minecraft Community which

Still goes on to this day a week later on July 26 Enderman were shown off for the first time and a month after that on August 28th sprinting was announced followed by a Showcase Video there’s probably so much more that I’ve missed but we really don’t have all day to go

Over all of it anyways finally on September 14th the adventure update was released which I won’t go into too much detail about since salsi one already made a really good video about it but to begin it added completely New World Generation with seven new biomes and had oceans and rivers the before mentioned

Hunger sprinting in the Enderman were all also added which the Enderman for two weeks was able to pick up every block in the game other new Mobs such as the silverfish and cave spider were also added and new structures such as the stronghold mine shaft and Village were

All also added but were abandoned except for the mine shaft outside of all of that creative mode 6 new food items tons of new blocks a fov and brightness slider bows were actually able to be drawn and a lot more smaller things were all added to the game this was by far

The biggest update in Minecraft’s entire history up to this point and still to this day is at the end of this video I will talk more about my views on this update and its importance to Minecraft overall anyways from September 22nd to November 14th weekly updates were

Released these are kind of a weird and possibly the most overlooked era of Minecraft’s history since they added so much but never had the importance of a Fallout release they were kind of like modern Minecraft snapshots but officially labeled pre-releases for beta 1.9 and beta 1.9 itself would be

Scrapped for what I will describe later so I will describe what was added when we get there during this on October 13th Pocket Edition was released for Android and a month later on November 17th it would be released for iPhones the day after this Minecon began and was

Attended by hundreds of YouTubers all of the Mojang devs and thousands of fans it was by far the biggest Community event in the game’s history up to this point but soon after the start of Minecon notchwood officially released Minecraft in update 1.0 ending the beta phase of development Update 1.0 is the second biggest update in Minecraft’s history adding the end Dimension villagers blazes two new biomes enchanting potions and so much more if 1.8 was the update that created modern Minecraft 1.0 was the update that expanded it into what it would be today however these two updates set a standard

Which I will talk more about at the end of this video before continuing on one last thing about Minecon 2011 it was also important since it had the first gameplay of the Xbox 360 edition and even allowed players to have a hands-on experience with the game six days after

Minecon on November 24th the first official snapshot was released from Minecraft these snapshots would massively change the game as now players could see what is coming next on a weekly basis and even play and Test new features while also building hype a week later on December 1st Notch officially

Stepped down as the lead developer of Minecraft to focus on other projects Dodge would still be in Mojang till 2014 when he left and sold the company to Microsoft the game by the end of 2011 had sold over 4 million copies and was one of the if not the biggest game on

The internet and that pretty much concludes the story of Minecraft craft in 2011. overall 2011 was the year that Minecraft changed from a basic sandbox Survival game to it being a large expansive Survival World the game was not anymore just about collecting some tools making a home and surviving the

Night it was about doing all of those things and exploring a giant world with tons of new structures Mobs and items in game development wise it also changed massively from just adding a new block into item each update to adding an entire new dimension with new gameplay

Features and mobs each update from beta 1.8 on had to be massive it had to be something for everyone this year changed things so much that everything before beta 1.8 and beta 1.9 feels kind of like a different game and who knows if we will ever see anything like it again

Anyways before I conclude this video I want to announce that next week I may be doing some streaming I plan to do a stream called race to the Aether where I play a beta 1.7 mod pack called mango and I basically try to get to the Aether

As fast as possible and then try to defeat every boss in the Aether as fast as possible too outside of that I plan to stream re-endev in my better than Adventure server so if you would be interested join the Discord for updates on that and well that is all thank you

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