Unbelievable History of Minecraft Bedwars Exposed!

Minecraft bedw wars one of the most popular Minecraft mini games ever but where did it come from at Minecraft’s release nobody even knew the possibilities of what was to come especially in terms of game modes like bedw Wars but trust me at the time of Minecraft’s release it was still super revolutionary in fact the game reached 10 million registered accounts before he even left the beta phase but soon after Minecraft’s release we would meet Simon Collins laflam and Philip toue better known as their in-game names and Reus they were known for making super crazy complex Minecraft maps with only Redstone and after they were released command blocks they popularized their maps by making special trailers and uploading them to their YouTube channel their first map ever came out on November 11th of 2011 on planetminecraft.com Which is less popular now but it used to be the go-to place for all things Minecraft as time went on these Maps got more and more popular within a year their Maps were getting thousands of downloads popular YouTubers at the time were playing these Maps nonstop and the most popular of the time was easily being herob Brian’s Mansion which came out on November 3rd 2012 yogs cast this is uh hypixels herob blinds Mansion map Captain Sparkles what’s going on dudes and welcome to a Minecraft custom map entitled Herobrine’s mansion Sky Does Minecraft yeah we are doing the Herobrine’s mansion adventure map and man it’s made by Hypixel people love this map even Tommy inet and tubo played it in 2020 eight whole years later after its release are you sure you can handle the power you obviously could not handle the power at this point Hypixel was Unstoppable they were one of the most well-known creators in the Minecraft space constantly releasing map after map that were all just amazing there was only one problem these Maps were really hard to play with friends or even on your own at the time Minecraft maps were kind of hard to download and install especially when you were just a kid who wanted to copy your favorite Minecraft Youtuber and then even if you managed to get it installed properly you would have to find a way to host your own server so that your friends could join because this was before Realms were even made a thing Hypixel wanted as many people to play their Maps as possible so they decided to host their Creations on their own server and thus Hypixel as we know it today was born Hypixel opened early to the public in 2013 everyone loved how easy it was to play hypixel’s beloved adventure maps Hypixel also included some fun little mini games to play with your friends while you wait to join a map but there was no bedw Wars quite yet the first few mini games added were quakecraft and Bose fle the walls was then added a few weeks later and believe it or not people started to come on the server to play the mini games more than the actual Maps themselves and that sure caught the Creator attention at this time in Minecraft history a lot of servers would have little plug-in based mini games to play with your friends when you weren’t in the mood to play Survival but there weren’t many servers exclusively just for playing mini games some of the only other major ones being Mineplex or MCSG once Hypixel realized that more players were joining to just play mini games they began to shift Focus they started to add more and more mini games to This Server like vampires arcade games cops and criminals smash Heroes and so many more and we actually see a lot of those still to this day on Hypixel as the server got more and more popular the player limit just kept expanding by the end of 2013 Hypixel regular literally was getting over 10,000 concurrent users and they didn’t just stop there because of their constant Innovation and dedication to hosting a quality server High pixel became the most well-respected miname server in Minecraft leaving Mineplex in the dust on January 19th 2017 Hypixel added something called the Prototype Lobby they introduce this as a way to test new games they were developing to see what their players would like the most on launch the Prototype Lobby included duels survival Dash UHC deathmatch and most importantly for us bedw Wars even though bedwars launched on Hypixel in 2017 the game was not an original idea in fact the first version of bedwars was made five entire years earlier in 2012 on December 5th 2012 a YouTuber named zum void one of the original members of hermitcraft released a map called Rush a fast-paced PVP game with the goal of destroying the other team’s bed and ultimately the rest of their team the map had two bases entirely made out of obsidian so that no players could break them players could collect brick iron and gold bars from a fountain in the center of the base then they could trade with villagers for armor swords and building blocks sound familiar well it was bedw war before bedw Wars because this was a map you could only play it locally with friends there were no plugins or anything if the command block screwed up you would literally have to manually transport people to your location it was not exactly the smoothest player experience of all time eventually though people started adding this miname to servers because of how much fun it was one of the first major servers to add the game was called G hd.net in 2014 g HD was a German Minecraft Youtuber who ran a server of the same name he seems to be the first recorded person to to have ever called the game bedw Wars the game on his server was now automatic and supported with plugins not many changes were made to the concept itself the starting Islands were still obsidian but this time with a little bit of decoration some new maps were added as well and some even contain a Middle Island like we of course know about from Hypixel despite it being popular on gome hd’s server it didn’t really get popular in America until a year later June 20th 2015 egg Wars was added to the miname server cubecraft this version of the game massively improved on the other two iterations the game was very similar to previous editions of Rush except this time it was with a dragon egg the egg itself broke in one hit so players had to be a bit more dramatic and protecting it the maps this time around were super detailed and intricate there was also now support for more than just 4v4 games because now multiple teams were competing against each other like we know to this day this game looks a lot more like the bedwars we know and love just with an egg and this game blew up Hypixel eventually started to catch on to the hype so they decided to throw it into their prototype Lobby to see if it would be a good fit and players loved it dude go he’s there he’s there he’s there I did it yes oh my God you actually did it what the hell off the cliff oh my God I’m so good at this G I killed them all bedwars and hypixel’s prototype Lobby stood out to players because of how much detail Hypixel put into their version the trade menus were a lot cleaner and easier to understand their Maps were incredibly detailed and had the classic High pixel touch that people expected at this time there were only two game modes available 3v3 V3 V3 and 4 V4 V4 V4 the game was so popular within the first months that they released the full game on June 29th 2017 only 6 months after its debut in the Prototype Lobby the game’s full release came with a ton of cool new stuff like a whole new Lobby for the game 10 new maps leaderboards a leveling system and even in-game Cosmetics the newer Maps supported different game modes like solos and doubles the maps were also much bigger and games started to go on for longer and at this point Hypixel is starting to cement their place as the best version of Rush or egg Wars or Bed Wars that we’ve seen the next big update to the game came out on October 5th 2017 this included four huge new additions to the shop blast proof glass and hard and Clay were added to the shop along with the bridge egg quick pick was also added to the upgrade shop which was super useful to break through some teams obnoxious defenses on February 1st 2018 Hypixel released a new update that included a new beta game mode called capture mode the brand new bedwars mode it is called capture capture mode could only be played 4v4 and featured two teams fighting for control over the map attacking five different control points the item shop got a revamp changing around the lay to make it easier to buy things that you actually wanted to buy plus they added two new items magic milk and sponge by early 2018 bedwars had been basically taken over by sweats people have truly mastered speed bridging and PVP which scared off a lot of the new players but Hypixel came up with the perfect counter to this with Rush mode Rush mode was released on April 30th 2018 and was bedw Wars first ever limited time game mode despite the similarities in name this mode was nothing like the original Rush miname that this all stemmed from instead this game mode speeds up the game like a lot all beds start off with a three-layer defense of wood wool and blast prooof glass all generators start maxed out wood automatically Bridges five blocks out from where you place it and on top of all of that each player has speed one and haste one for the entire game now that basically anybody can Speed Build everybody was a lot more on an even playing field and people loved this mode this was also when Hypixel hosted its first ever bedw Wars tournament it took place between November 23rd and 25th of 2018 and Not only was this hypixel’s first bedwar tournament but it was a whole new tournament format they made a whole tournament Hall where you could check on rankings and spend tributes the Hypixel tournaments were so much fun because literally anybody could play not just the sweats you could join the tournament no matter what skill level you were at and still earn points obviously you might not get in the top 100 but hey it was still fun the next limited time game mode was bedwar Ultimate and it launched on May 17th of the same year this mode allowed players to choose different ultimates from the item shop to use during the game but basically people only ever used swordsman other than the fun classes the game stay the exact same this also happened to be most people’s least favorite dream mode on June 6th of 2018 Hypixel added bedwar Castle which is easily the weirdest mode that they’ added yet instead of the normal spawn Islands this mode featured a giant castle that could fit up to 40 players that’s right this game mode is 40 v40 up to 80 people playing one bedw war game you win once all three beds are destroyed and all the players are eliminated the next major update to bedwars came out on February 1st 2019 the form of yet another dream mode called Lucky Blocks there were over 50 new effects that were dropped by the lucky blocks some of which being a protective bed cover resource Trader and the diamond sheep a sheep that magically spawns diamonds for 30 seconds bedwars 1.6 was released on August 22nd 2019 and featured a whopping nine new maps the pop-up Tower was added to the permanent item shop and they added another dream mode called voidless now you could simply enjoy bedwar in peace without building over an endless pit of death at this point bedw Wars was the most popular it had ever been Minecraft was in a Renaissance YouTubers like Preston purpled and of course technoblade really brought this mode to the mainstream YouTuber gamerboy 80 was known as one of the best of the best of the game he was the first ever player to reach 100,000 kills in bed Wars the bar was set pretty high for competitive players but there was no real way to get better at the game without affecting your in-game stats which was an issue many players tried to practice speed bridging in their own personal creative worlds some people even made dedicated servers with the sole purpose of helping players improve their skills they went on for a while until March 3rd of 2021 Hypixel actually added a practice mode to the lobby now people could practice and play bedw Wars all in the same place there was no longer a need to go outside of Hypixel the original practice mode only included two different types of gameplay practice bridging mode and MLG mode bridging mode included 18 different ways to practice your speed building while MLG mode focused on carrying out water bucket and Ladder saves in 2023 Hypixel release may be the biggest update to the game yet the Slumber Hotel update the lobby is now entirely different and features a giant mysterious hotel as its focal point you could unlock different parts of the hotel by progressing in the game and by interacting with the NPCs you can get Slumber tickets these can be used in exchange for some new cosmetics or to unlock new parts of the hotel and once you meet the hotel owner he actually gives you a permanent 5% increase in bedw Wars experience gains which was huge for players looking to climb up the leaderboard for a while it looked like bedwars was dying out player numbers were down not many updates were coming to the game but the recent Slumber Hotel update really changed that it seemed to bring a ton of people back to bedw Wars and people were actually excited for the game once again who knows what’s going to happen to bedwars going forward but we do know one thing for certain bedw war will always be one of the most popular Minecraft mini games in history three [Music]