My earliest pictures consist of a set of around a dozen from mid 2012. They were taken of my main location in my first world that was a few months old by that point.
Looking at the dates and time, one in particular seems to have come a few hours before the rest, so this appears to be my formal earliest screenshot.
Then there's a set of 11 which consist of starting a few hours later and over the course of a day later. I won't show them all, but here's two in particular to make some remarks.
No corner upside down cobblestone stairs, and no upside down sandstone stairs yet. Those didn't exist yet in 1.2.5, but according to the dates, this is merely a few days after 1.3 released, so I'm not sure which version these screenshots were taken in. I know I didn't hold off long on upgrading, but it's so close that I'm not sure. And it may have been a short while before I got around to adding those things. So these could be either 1.2.5 or 1.3. I wish there was a way to know.
Likewise, no roof overhangs, and that village changed drastically after that. The lava pool was removed for a chicken farm, which was later pushed back into a dig out side in the mountain, and replaced again with a house. Some of those other houses were replaced. Most of that field beyond the wall had drastic additions to the village.
No formal fullscreen option in the game options yet, either (Alt+Enter was of course a thing, but as you can see I was just playing with a maximum window size back then).
And then there's a single outlier that was around a week later than the rest.
I've never saved any screenshots except for those I uploaded online and many of the earliest ones, taken about 6 months after I started playing, were lost because I used TinyPic before I found Imgur since I'd seen others using it and it is now long defunct, and due to changes to forum URLs it is difficult to find archived copies of old threads (editing the title also changes the URL).
This is the oldest screenshot I could find, dated October 24 2013, of a very large and dense cave system I found in my first world (originally 3-4 months before, this was taken in a Creative copy):
Also, the first image I ever uploaded was not actually a screenshot and is no longer available for the aforementioned reasons but I know what it was supposed to be, minus the added text and "giant cave" (taken from this thread, I hadn't played on my first world since then):
Oh, apparently Imgur is removing all pictures that aren't uploaded by a registered account soon. I recall you saying you never created one, so I'd make sure you have anything you care about saved.
A lot of pictures will be lost. I actually have an account there, but the vast majority of my stuff has been uploaded while not logged in, so many of mine will probably be gone too.
Oh, apparently Imgur is removing all pictures that aren't uploaded by a registered account soon. I recall you saying you never created one, so I'd make sure you have anything you care about saved.
A lot of pictures will be lost. I actually have an account there, but the vast majority of my stuff has been uploaded while not logged in, so many of mine will probably be gone too.
Dear god is this is true... I cannot even imagine the work I will need to do... thousands and thousands of images across who knows how many posts (just look at this thread, with dozens of images in each post; I've often had to verify that I'm not a bot from uploading too much at once; or all the images that document my mod, spread across multiple posts because the text/HTML itself exceeded the post size limit), and just on "important" threads (survival worlds and mods), then there is the never-fixed issue of formatting breaking when editing posts, especially if they use code tags and other special formatting, or even just extra/removed line breaks between spoilers/quotes.
Seriously, is there some way to mass download all the images on a page (from a particular site)? Even then I'll have days (probably) of work to do to sort through them (they don't have meaningful file names) and reupload them to each individual post (where? Not trusting Imgur even if registering is/will still be free and there is (still) no upload limit; I know of other image services, like ImageShack, which eventually went to a fully paid model)
I have a lot of work to do... the first page for my first world thread has nearly 100 images totaling 30 MB and while half are in the OP I know there are way more in later posts (11 pages), which are mostly my own updates, not other people replies/replies back, and I haven't even reuploaded them, just clicking on every image to save them to folders created for each post with image(s).
Do they even know what they are doing? Just delete images that haven't been viewed after some time, like a year.
Also, the forums won't work as an unlimited image host since you can only upload 512 MB of images to your account (source; they might extend it for some users but surely not forever).
I don't have my earliest screenshots on me anymore, they've been deleted/lost, which was my fault for not backing them up, but I can provide the earliest ones I do have on me, these ones were posted years ago on Planet Minecraft, from a creative server I once hosted before I had to shut it down due to corruption of chunks which was never fixed post Java to Bedrock conversion, resulted in severe lag caused by numerous structure blocks which I never even placed, this was down to using a third party tool which was never officially supported to start with.
But I can provide a link to them. A somewhat unfinished castle build which I intend rebuilding by hand on a survival world someday, but there is just enough of the castle built to give people the gist of what it would look like when it is done. I am also considering putting a lava pool at the bottom of the bridge.
Now obviously doing that would be risky in survival, but despite the anticipated numerous accidental deaths of this project, it is something I'm willing to put up with in order to get this finished XD to do that I need the resources, and seeing a build like this you can tell the reason why I am so defensive of resource farms in the game, I'm not the only person who uses resource farms for projects like this either. But I am somebody who firmly believes we should have the option to do these things in survival if playing by the rules of the vanilla experience.
I can't make teleporters in any tower in survival legitimately due to not having command blocks, so I'll have to improvise and either place Nether portals in them or place chests containing ender pearls for players to teleport from out of the window down to the bottom safely.
I do have a lot of stone in my factory warehouse for this, but the resources I am lacking are mainly things like bricks, which I need Stone Masons for to obtain in a good enough quantity, and dyes for different carpets. Wood isn't a problem, wood farms are easy to make and do not require trades, but the other resources are an enormous grind.
So I decided to get pictures to replicate some of my earliest ones from today.
Also, while getting them, I think I have an answer to a question in my last post. The render distance would have dropped after 1.3, yes? If so, I think those screenshots were taken still in 1.2.5 and not 1.3.
There's something of note in that second screenshot, but one moment on that.
So here's something in particular I saw while exploring my original main location.
See how some of the wood planks look different?
So prior to 1.3, wood planks ONLY existed for oak wood. They also weren't wood at all, but rather were rather a sub-type of stone, and just looked like wood. You needed a pickaxe to break it. Since this world started in 1.2.5, that's what many of the wood planks I would have used from that time were called. Over time, these became known as "pretrified" wood, and the resource pack i use, at some point, changed the look of them.
You may notice not ALL of the wood is like this, and the explanation is simple. The "overhangs" of the roofs were added later. That's why the edges are normal wood.
And on this particular building, there's also four spots within that aren't petrified. The stone part I am standing on was initially in those spots. I probably brought them out when adding the overhangs. The wood planks that i would have used to replace them must have been normal and not petrified.
At one point I went through and changed most of the old ones so most buildings have normal wood on them now, but I would have no doubt missed many. I've decided I'm going to leave them. Here's more of them.
And lastly, a picture from above. And I may or may not have been up there once, and had an accident on the way down, hence my level difference. Interesting how my experience in my hardcore world did NOT transfer to my usual play. Seems I am indeed just less careless when I know I can be.
Even from up here, I am noticing many planks are petrified.
A neat historical oddity of my world.
Which no doubt doesn't compare to those with older worlds. I wonder how many worlds are still out there that are old enough to have spots where the sea level changed.
I don't have my earliest screenshots on me anymore, they've been deleted/lost, which was my fault for not backing them up
I probably used to have older screenshots too (older then 2014 at least, I got the game in february 2013) but sadly they are long gone. I think I tried to back them up at one point, but I was too inexperienced to know all of the worlds and screenshots were stored in the .minecraft folder, so my oldest minecraft file is a Minecraft Launcher.exe I copied from my desktop. The only reason I have anything from 2014 (which was a year after I got the game) is because my sister copied some screenshots to another folder.
I also had cleaned it some time ago (like 5 months), so i'll send my oldest screenshot i have there. It is my Minecraft world I'm making using mods.
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"Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those threads, and remember to DM only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night."
Technically, it doesn't have to be your first or to still exist to be your oldest.
Mehhhh okay, I'll share whatever I got in there. One momento..
Oldest pic: just me holding fish in a now deleted server world. We built a custom village and I went on a cat chasing spree since i Had no idea player-built villages can spawn cats. February of this year (2023).
Middle pic: my amethyst geode carve-out - the one I remember showing here, actually, because this took me way too much time even with a diamond pick - you can't go too fast or you risk breaking the budding blocks by accident and I'm clumsy. March 2023
Last pic: same day, some hidden hole leading to a secret base under the server owner's home, except this was in a different server he didn't own, but on the same seed. Because we managed to have an argument over griefing to the extent we made two copies of the same server. (faceplam)
I usually only have up to a few weeks of screenshots at any given time; when it comes to upload them I choose which ones to keep, moving them to another folder, and convert most of them to jpg, deleting the originals (png), mainly to get the size down to 1 MB or less (otherwise, Imgur resizes and/or compresses them. I don't know if it has since improved but I'd seen a significant degradation in quality before, compared to using GIMP with 90% quality, which still reduces the size by 3-4x. Exceptions include inventory and map screenshots, which may actually get larger and are relatively small anyway).
Behold! The most amazing screenshot that is my earliest!:
yeah. I was in my game menu.
This was the first world where I just explored the game, but I never actually kept this world unlike the next one - World1 (Which I still have); which pre-dates by my main world by a month. Anyway, in this world I built a home on top of a mountain but was tired of having to keep going down to get resources, so I built a stairwell, or rather dig one.
Rather than put a staircase down the mountain, I chose to dig into the mountain. Being so high up it became a very long stair case which is how this screenshot got named "Stairway to hell" in my folder. Eventually I came out the side out the mountain still high up, so made a platform and double backed into the mountain and continued the stairwell down.
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Behold! The most amazing screenshot that is my earliest!:
yeah. I was in my game menu.
This was the first world where I just explored the game, but I never actually kept this world unlike the next one - World1 (Which I still have); which pre-dates by my main world by a month. Anyway, in this world I built a home on top of a mountain but was tired of having to keep going down to get resources, so I built a stairwell, or rather dig one.
Rather than put a staircase down the mountain, I chose to dig into the mountain. Being so high up it became a very long stair case which is how this screenshot got named "Stairway to hell" in my folder. Eventually I came out the side out the mountain still high up, so made a platform and double backed into the mountain and continued the stairwell down.
And that's it, I moved onto the next world.
This is a lol. Also thanks for reminding me I have a bedrock world I just started lol.
Here's mine, from February 2014. 1.7.4 I think.
My earliest pictures consist of a set of around a dozen from mid 2012. They were taken of my main location in my first world that was a few months old by that point.
Looking at the dates and time, one in particular seems to have come a few hours before the rest, so this appears to be my formal earliest screenshot.
Then there's a set of 11 which consist of starting a few hours later and over the course of a day later. I won't show them all, but here's two in particular to make some remarks.
No corner upside down cobblestone stairs, and no upside down sandstone stairs yet. Those didn't exist yet in 1.2.5, but according to the dates, this is merely a few days after 1.3 released, so I'm not sure which version these screenshots were taken in. I know I didn't hold off long on upgrading, but it's so close that I'm not sure. And it may have been a short while before I got around to adding those things. So these could be either 1.2.5 or 1.3. I wish there was a way to know.
Likewise, no roof overhangs, and that village changed drastically after that. The lava pool was removed for a chicken farm, which was later pushed back into a dig out side in the mountain, and replaced again with a house. Some of those other houses were replaced. Most of that field beyond the wall had drastic additions to the village.
No formal fullscreen option in the game options yet, either (Alt+Enter was of course a thing, but as you can see I was just playing with a maximum window size back then).
And then there's a single outlier that was around a week later than the rest.
I've never saved any screenshots except for those I uploaded online and many of the earliest ones, taken about 6 months after I started playing, were lost because I used TinyPic before I found Imgur since I'd seen others using it and it is now long defunct, and due to changes to forum URLs it is difficult to find archived copies of old threads (editing the title also changes the URL).
This is the oldest screenshot I could find, dated October 24 2013, of a very large and dense cave system I found in my first world (originally 3-4 months before, this was taken in a Creative copy):
https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition/discussion/168574-rarest-thing-s-youve-witnessed-on-minecraft?comment=405
Also, the first image I ever uploaded was not actually a screenshot and is no longer available for the aforementioned reasons but I know what it was supposed to be, minus the added text and "giant cave" (taken from this thread, I hadn't played on my first world since then):
https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition/recent-updates-and-snapshots/381672-it-seems-that-the-underground-is-no-longer-swiss?comment=42
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
Oh, apparently Imgur is removing all pictures that aren't uploaded by a registered account soon. I recall you saying you never created one, so I'd make sure you have anything you care about saved.
A lot of pictures will be lost. I actually have an account there, but the vast majority of my stuff has been uploaded while not logged in, so many of mine will probably be gone too.
Dear god is this is true... I cannot even imagine the work I will need to do... thousands and thousands of images across who knows how many posts (just look at this thread, with dozens of images in each post; I've often had to verify that I'm not a bot from uploading too much at once; or all the images that document my mod, spread across multiple posts because the text/HTML itself exceeded the post size limit), and just on "important" threads (survival worlds and mods), then there is the never-fixed issue of formatting breaking when editing posts, especially if they use code tags and other special formatting, or even just extra/removed line breaks between spoilers/quotes.
Seriously, is there some way to mass download all the images on a page (from a particular site)? Even then I'll have days (probably) of work to do to sort through them (they don't have meaningful file names) and reupload them to each individual post (where? Not trusting Imgur even if registering is/will still be free and there is (still) no upload limit; I know of other image services, like ImageShack, which eventually went to a fully paid model)
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
I have a lot of work to do... the first page for my first world thread has nearly 100 images totaling 30 MB and while half are in the OP I know there are way more in later posts (11 pages), which are mostly my own updates, not other people replies/replies back, and I haven't even reuploaded them, just clicking on every image to save them to folders created for each post with image(s).
Do they even know what they are doing? Just delete images that haven't been viewed after some time, like a year.
Also, the forums won't work as an unlimited image host since you can only upload 512 MB of images to your account (source; they might extend it for some users but surely not forever).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
I don't have my earliest screenshots on me anymore, they've been deleted/lost, which was my fault for not backing them up, but I can provide the earliest ones I do have on me, these ones were posted years ago on Planet Minecraft, from a creative server I once hosted before I had to shut it down due to corruption of chunks which was never fixed post Java to Bedrock conversion, resulted in severe lag caused by numerous structure blocks which I never even placed, this was down to using a third party tool which was never officially supported to start with.
But I can provide a link to them. A somewhat unfinished castle build which I intend rebuilding by hand on a survival world someday, but there is just enough of the castle built to give people the gist of what it would look like when it is done. I am also considering putting a lava pool at the bottom of the bridge.
Now obviously doing that would be risky in survival, but despite the anticipated numerous accidental deaths of this project, it is something I'm willing to put up with in order to get this finished XD to do that I need the resources, and seeing a build like this you can tell the reason why I am so defensive of resource farms in the game, I'm not the only person who uses resource farms for projects like this either. But I am somebody who firmly believes we should have the option to do these things in survival if playing by the rules of the vanilla experience.
I can't make teleporters in any tower in survival legitimately due to not having command blocks, so I'll have to improvise and either place Nether portals in them or place chests containing ender pearls for players to teleport from out of the window down to the bottom safely.
I do have a lot of stone in my factory warehouse for this, but the resources I am lacking are mainly things like bricks, which I need Stone Masons for to obtain in a good enough quantity, and dyes for different carpets. Wood isn't a problem, wood farms are easy to make and do not require trades, but the other resources are an enormous grind.
My Minecraft castle (creative mode) Minecraft Map (planetminecraft.com)
So I decided to get pictures to replicate some of my earliest ones from today.
Also, while getting them, I think I have an answer to a question in my last post. The render distance would have dropped after 1.3, yes? If so, I think those screenshots were taken still in 1.2.5 and not 1.3.
There's something of note in that second screenshot, but one moment on that.
So here's something in particular I saw while exploring my original main location.
See how some of the wood planks look different?
So prior to 1.3, wood planks ONLY existed for oak wood. They also weren't wood at all, but rather were rather a sub-type of stone, and just looked like wood. You needed a pickaxe to break it. Since this world started in 1.2.5, that's what many of the wood planks I would have used from that time were called. Over time, these became known as "pretrified" wood, and the resource pack i use, at some point, changed the look of them.
You may notice not ALL of the wood is like this, and the explanation is simple. The "overhangs" of the roofs were added later. That's why the edges are normal wood.
And on this particular building, there's also four spots within that aren't petrified. The stone part I am standing on was initially in those spots. I probably brought them out when adding the overhangs. The wood planks that i would have used to replace them must have been normal and not petrified.
At one point I went through and changed most of the old ones so most buildings have normal wood on them now, but I would have no doubt missed many. I've decided I'm going to leave them. Here's more of them.
And lastly, a picture from above. And I may or may not have been up there once, and had an accident on the way down, hence my level difference. Interesting how my experience in my hardcore world did NOT transfer to my usual play. Seems I am indeed just less careless when I know I can be.
Even from up here, I am noticing many planks are petrified.
A neat historical oddity of my world.
Which no doubt doesn't compare to those with older worlds. I wonder how many worlds are still out there that are old enough to have spots where the sea level changed.
I probably used to have older screenshots too (older then 2014 at least, I got the game in february 2013) but sadly they are long gone. I think I tried to back them up at one point, but I was too inexperienced to know all of the worlds and screenshots were stored in the .minecraft folder, so my oldest minecraft file is a Minecraft Launcher.exe I copied from my desktop. The only reason I have anything from 2014 (which was a year after I got the game) is because my sister copied some screenshots to another folder.
my minecraft house on ps4
I clear my folder periodically, so n/a.
I'm presuming it's currently empty then?
Technically, it doesn't have to be your first or to still exist to be your oldest.
I also had cleaned it some time ago (like 5 months), so i'll send my oldest screenshot i have there. It is my Minecraft world I'm making using mods.
"Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those threads, and remember to DM only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night."
Mehhhh okay, I'll share whatever I got in there. One momento..
Oldest pic: just me holding fish in a now deleted server world. We built a custom village and I went on a cat chasing spree since i Had no idea player-built villages can spawn cats. February of this year (2023).
Middle pic: my amethyst geode carve-out - the one I remember showing here, actually, because this took me way too much time even with a diamond pick - you can't go too fast or you risk breaking the budding blocks by accident and I'm clumsy. March 2023
Last pic: same day, some hidden hole leading to a secret base under the server owner's home, except this was in a different server he didn't own, but on the same seed. Because we managed to have an argument over griefing to the extent we made two copies of the same server. (faceplam)
I usually only have up to a few weeks of screenshots at any given time; when it comes to upload them I choose which ones to keep, moving them to another folder, and convert most of them to jpg, deleting the originals (png), mainly to get the size down to 1 MB or less (otherwise, Imgur resizes and/or compresses them. I don't know if it has since improved but I'd seen a significant degradation in quality before, compared to using GIMP with 90% quality, which still reduces the size by 3-4x. Exceptions include inventory and map screenshots, which may actually get larger and are relatively small anyway).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
I'm so sorry I deleted all my old minecraft screenshots just to "free up space", but this is the oldest one I have saved!
In this one I made a prank on a friend by changing all his grass blocks for bells.[/pre]
Behold! The most amazing screenshot that is my earliest!:
yeah. I was in my game menu.
This was the first world where I just explored the game, but I never actually kept this world unlike the next one - World1 (Which I still have); which pre-dates by my main world by a month. Anyway, in this world I built a home on top of a mountain but was tired of having to keep going down to get resources, so I built a stairwell, or rather dig one.
Rather than put a staircase down the mountain, I chose to dig into the mountain. Being so high up it became a very long stair case which is how this screenshot got named "Stairway to hell" in my folder. Eventually I came out the side out the mountain still high up, so made a platform and double backed into the mountain and continued the stairwell down.
And that's it, I moved onto the next world.
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Oldest screenshot I have. From November, 2010. Using the Quandary texture pack. I still have the world too!
This looks cozy.
Unnerving, would always feel ambivalent outside in such a grey world.
This is a lol. Also thanks for reminding me I have a bedrock world I just started lol.
I'm not able to post images to here directly at this time;
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I'll just link some offsite to imgflip.