Why Minecraft Is Secretly Impossible

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Published 2022-01-14
Minecraft is a game we all know very well. But let's say you'd never played the game before in your life - how far do you think you could get in the game with no outside help? Tonight, we are going to attempt to discover the answer to this question.

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All Comments (21)
  • @zeallust8542
    I think the new ruined portals may have been added literally for the sake of making a nether portal be something you can learn in game
  • @spiritle9284
    this is actually crazy how mojang completely forgot to teach the player the game because of how the game blew up in popularity
  • @zihozeon410
    That "You need light to avoid spawning monsters" is a deadly missing clue.
  • The potion brewing part really hit me, when I was a kid I remember once playing and finding a brewing stand, I was in creative and so I tried to make potions by putting water bottles, blaze powder and added something like magma cream as I thought it’d make a fire resistance potion, I got a mundane potion, the I had to check up on the internet if the mundane potion was useful for something (it is not) so basically I discovered that wouldn’t work and now I needed nether warts (this was like in 2015)
  • @maxin9861
    it’s crazy to think that in all of minecraft’s history I doubt a single person has beaten it without outside help
  • @xwarockx3959
    When I first played Minecraft, I was scared of skeletons and zombies, so I built a stone house, surrounded by iron fences to protect myself from them. In creative.
  • I liked how wither summoning is kinda hidden in the paintings. They could do this with mostly all of other in-game mechanics. I think it’d be fun for players to look for these clues in in-game Pictionary; that’d also add some lore effect to the game
  • @cherubin7th
    I think the maker of Zelda said he intentionally restricted the explanations in the game to make people talk with each other and not just play the game through. I think this helped Minecraft a lot to make it popular and social.
  • @Maxzilla60
    It could be argued that the obscurity and vagueness of MineCraft's mechanics lends itself to be an inherently social game - playing, sharing, discovering with other people has been such a strong part of its history and popularity, I feel.
  • @octariel
    When I was a kid, I play minecraft only in creative mode, I once played in survival mode and I was so confused because I had nothing in my inventory. And after a year or so playing minecraft only in creative mode, my friend told me how to craft items in survival mode, and I was so amazed by how fun minecraft actually is
  • @Cyantist13
    This topic is one big throwback to surviving your first night. We never realized it went so deep because Minecraft doesn't actually tell you how to survive, you have to learn how yourself 😂
  • Its crazy to realize almost nothing I know about Minecraft was taught to me in-game.
  • @poppysmiles9024
    When I started playing I went an entire year before I found out you could light a glowstone portal with a water bucket. An entire dimension I never knew was in the game.
  • @Kevin-cf9nl
    About Oliver just finished his blind Minecraft playthrough. Some of the stuff you said was difficulty he got with little difficulty (nether portals, basic brewing, nether/ow distance) while stuff you said was simple (riding horses, using Elytra to glide) he got only by pure chance and never would have actually figured out or never figured out at all.
  • @goshahuyosha13
    I love that he didn't made the character dumb like "why would i eat food?" or "what do i smelt in furnaces?", he used the realistic one.
  • @Yeah_Jaron
    This is really interesting! This reminds me of when I started playing when I was young, I went like a month not knowing what a crafting table was
  • @4whomittolz846
    there is a fabulous let's play by a Japanese man named PiroPito, who is playing the game COMPLETELY blind. He worked out how to do some redstone things before he worked out how beds work, and has worked out chunk loading mechanics despite not working out that bookshelves boost enchanting tables. There are some other incredible things he's done too, but I won't spoil that.
  • I actually think that the ruined portals are quite good. They give you an outline to complete and in there is often a flint and steel in the chest.
  • @aguywithpotatoes
    9:34 as a child i thought that of you place a new portal away from the other portals, then you will spawn in a new world