It’s in this in between that, nostalgia aside, has no retro appeal like Alpha to Beta 1.7.3, but has a half borked experience system that requires 50 levels for a full enchantment, enchants use all levels of the requirement and not the top 3, no anvils to repair or combine tools, and your only experience sources are mobs. It suffers from stupidly large and boring oceans, and the nether and the end are pretty barebones.
I started around that era of Minecraft but I’d never go back.
My first version was Xbox 360, TU1 or TU2. Wiki says it’s equal to Java Beta 1.6.6 which checks out, as I didn’t have stone bricks, the darkest wood was spruce, sheep dropped wool if you punched them and villagers all looked the same. The nostalgia is there but I wouldn’t hang my hat there again.
My first Java edition was 1.7.2 and that’ll always be a favourite of mine. Before the ocean monuments and pointless stone variants, before attack cooldowns and shielding.
There are several versions I prefer because the following update added something I didn’t like, but I’d be sacrificing a feature I wanted from the future. Which is another pro for Java: modders have always been backporting the best update features. The spawn egg redesign from 1.21.5, for example.
Started on 1.5.2 and was on that for ages as it was a cracked Portacraft instance going around by USB at school.
1.7.2 was the first update I ever had, when I finally got home broadband, and it felt like the biggest update had just landed. 1.7.x is always a soft spot for me, it’s nice going back in those versions occasionally, getting to full endgame with farms, with that classic enchantment glint, being excited over dark oak, acacia, stained glass, hardened clay.
Gotta love school shenanigans haha! Sending people memes via Bluetooth, and finding/sharing these proxy websites that bypassed net security so everyone could access games during the day.
I think being back in those earlier versions reminds us of our lives then, full of naïveté, lacking responsibility and plenty of free time and comfort.
1.3 was a very different game from the current version, tho.
It’s in this in between that, nostalgia aside, has no retro appeal like Alpha to Beta 1.7.3, but has a half borked experience system that requires 50 levels for a full enchantment, enchants use all levels of the requirement and not the top 3, no anvils to repair or combine tools, and your only experience sources are mobs. It suffers from stupidly large and boring oceans, and the nether and the end are pretty barebones.
I started around that era of Minecraft but I’d never go back.
My first version was Xbox 360, TU1 or TU2. Wiki says it’s equal to Java Beta 1.6.6 which checks out, as I didn’t have stone bricks, the darkest wood was spruce, sheep dropped wool if you punched them and villagers all looked the same. The nostalgia is there but I wouldn’t hang my hat there again.
My first Java edition was 1.7.2 and that’ll always be a favourite of mine. Before the ocean monuments and pointless stone variants, before attack cooldowns and shielding.
There are several versions I prefer because the following update added something I didn’t like, but I’d be sacrificing a feature I wanted from the future. Which is another pro for Java: modders have always been backporting the best update features. The spawn egg redesign from 1.21.5, for example.
Similar boat for me, although I only played Java.
Started on 1.5.2 and was on that for ages as it was a cracked Portacraft instance going around by USB at school.
1.7.2 was the first update I ever had, when I finally got home broadband, and it felt like the biggest update had just landed. 1.7.x is always a soft spot for me, it’s nice going back in those versions occasionally, getting to full endgame with farms, with that classic enchantment glint, being excited over dark oak, acacia, stained glass, hardened clay.
Yass…
Gotta love school shenanigans haha! Sending people memes via Bluetooth, and finding/sharing these proxy websites that bypassed net security so everyone could access games during the day.
I think being back in those earlier versions reminds us of our lives then, full of naïveté, lacking responsibility and plenty of free time and comfort.