Move To The Beat

therainbowminersguild:

- Playing the demo version in-browser because you were just a kid with no money and afraid of downloading games from “random sites”

- Visiting servers on the in-browser demo

- When anyone could download the full game for free but could pay $15 to get a username and play online with friends

- having a friend beg their parent to buy you an account so you could play together or vice versa

- getting that email with your activation code

- when ALL mobs would despawn (except for squids) and you couldn’t breed animals

- running around open, lit up spaces for hours waiting for sheep to spawn just so you could dye and then punch them to death for one (1) piece of wool each because shears didn’t exist yet.

- That one client side glitch were sometimes bits of land wouldn’t visually load so you could see all the ores and caves on all four sides of the missing chunk straight down into the void; exploiting it by having one friend who had the glitch verbally guide another who could see the dangers and what they were doing toward the Good Stuff

- UOGH! OUH!

- When the sky limit was only 127

- Roses

- When we all watched yogscast in 2010-11 and thought “Diggy Diggy Hole” slapped.

- accidentally going just a little too fast when arriving at shore and having your boat smash to planks and sticks; not being able to recover your boat at all

- When wheat didn’t grow so infuriatingly slow and you only needed to use one bonemeal to get full grown crops.

- Slimes only spawning in certain chunks underground; being lucky enough to find one and set up a slime farm, becoming the sole provider of slimeballs to the whole server

- The excitement and hoopla you shared with other players for Beta 1.8 the start of “The Adventure Update” and how it changed everything, the subsequent hours you spent both hunting and inside the new mineshafts

- when endermen had green eyes, used zombie noises, and could pick up ANY block and place it wherever they wanted; players hating them, and other players demanding Justice for Enderfriends after their abilities were restricted to just holding dirt

- the foreboding feeling from the diminishing field of vision the closer you got to bedrock and the particles the floating up out of the void

- 1.0.0, the Official Release of Minecraft, Mushroom Islands, Nether Fortresses; The End. The joy of seeing the game we loved leave beta and the moment of uncertainty we felt for the future.

- TESTIFICATEs

- Racing to be the first one on the server’s fresh map to find the newly added jungle biomes and raid the pyramids, everyone going crazy for cats

- a lot more but this is already getting really long and my head is starting to hurt

- god it’s been 10 years

(via hardly-a-ghost)