WEBVTT - Minecraft! Minecraft! Minecraft! 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:11.399 Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey, 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.240 and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.200 and Jerry's here too, and this is Stuff you Should 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.120 Know in Way over our Heads edition. 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:25.040 The help Parents understand what their child is doing in 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:26.119 their room all day Edition. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.560 I hope so, but I suspect that more than just 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.040 parents are going to listen to this. And I've never 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.279 been more nervous about what a group of eight year 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.440 olds thinks of me than I am right now because 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.519 I know too much about Minecraft, like I can go 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.319 way too deep in it, But I also feel very 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.200 clearly I don't know enough to not get hate mail 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:47.280 for misspeaking. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.600 Yeah, I would maybe not dig too deep on this one, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.880 because the deeper you go, the more you risk. Oh yeah, 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:57.320 it's being mad for sure. 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.200 But one of the key things about Minecraft is like 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.640 it's nothing but rabbit holes. You look up one thing 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:06.759 and all of a sudden, that leads to ten other things, 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.080 and those ten other things lead twenty other things each. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:14.000 And it's so fascinating how complex and complicated this whole 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:19.160 thing is, especially when you understand the actual mechanics of 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.800 how these worlds are built, how they originate, how simple 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.800 it is. It's just I love it. I love Minecraft 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:27.800 a lot. If I didn't get addicted to things that 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:32.080 I like, I would probably start playing Minecraft. But I 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:33.839 know that that would ruin my life. 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.319 Well, I'm glad you're addicted to podcasting with me. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.000 I totally am. I can't get enough of it. 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.440 Yeah, I mean, if that wasn't clear all that that 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.039 we just said, like this is officially a CoA, like 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.320 this will be a broad overview of a very very 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:52.120 very dense game that neither one of us play. So 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.360 we're gonna get stuff wrong. We're not going to dive 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.320 into things you want us to dive into. So just 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.440 an email disappointed. Yeah, Like, I can't believe you didn't 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:08.200 mention blank, like just say it. And thanks to Ruby 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:08.960 we got a little help. 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:09.760 Yeah. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:14.840 I sent some questions last night that I guess, you know, 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:16.520 will Pepper in it if they apply? 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.360 For sure? Yeah, there was a few things that I 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.320 just couldn't nail down, and I was like, oh that 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.320 Ruby knows this, and sure enough she did. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.000 Yeah. Well maybe, I mean she doesn't really play anymore. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:26.560 She played. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.520 I'm kind of glad about this. Like Minecraft is a 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.799 wonderful game, and we're going we'll go over the benefits 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.080 of it, because there are many compared to most video games, 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.799 but it's also a game, and we'll go over the pitfalls. 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.399 It's also a game that can really get under your 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.280 skin as a kid and as an adult. I guess. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.360 But what it's not great if you're a kid and 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.320 you have other things like schooling to do, if you 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.840 have a kid that's super super super super into it, 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.520 and she never got that into it. She really enjoyed it, 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.280 but she's a kind of kid if like you take 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.760 it away or for go away for a minute, she says, like, what, 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.239 all right, I'll just do something else, which is he's 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:04.680 just good. 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.840 She's not gonna give you the satisfaction of pun. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.760 Maybe I don't know, honestly, think she just forgets oh cool, 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.400 because she was all into the Roadblocks game, which is 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:19.079 a whole other kind of game, and like really into it. 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.959 And as a punishment for something, we we wiped it 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.760 off her iPad along with everything else except for music. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.200 Like were you yelling when you did it? 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.880 No, But we just cleaned the iPad free of everything 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.200 except for podcast and music and it's like the next 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.320 day she was like, oh, all right, whatever. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.400 That reminds me. Do you remember Doctor Katz, the nineties 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:39.840 cartoon with the squiggly lines. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:41.680 Of course, it loved cats. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:46.360 And Don Morrera was a regular on that. Man here 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.800 was a great Yeah, he is great. He was talking 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:53.000 about how cats just never give you the satisfaction of like, 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:54.960 no matter what you do to him, they're not going 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.960 to let on that you've bothered them. So, like he 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.520 gave the example of throwing a cat through the air, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:01.960 the cat would be like, thanks, my man, I wanted 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:03.120 to go this way anyway. 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.839 Well into cats too, So maybe that's it. Yeah, sure, 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:08.920 she's part cat. 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.000 There you go. I think that's what it is. 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.280 Maybe, so that's fine, Yeah, for sure. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.839 So I think we should give a little bit of 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:23.159 background on Minecraft for people who don't know what Minecraft is. Surely, 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.240 I mean, at the very least most people walking around 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.640 know that it's a very, very very popular video. 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.520 Game, right yeah, I mean I think so, And we'll 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.880 get into the history. But at its base, it is 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.000 a you know, if you look at it, it goes 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.080 counter to a lot of like the way it got 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.200 popular is just almost astounding in some ways, because it 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.040 goes counter to most video games these days, which try 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.520 to make things very very real looking, and Minecraft is 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.400 very blocky and pixelated, an old school and it's sort 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.719 of like an interactive lego game. It's called the sandbox game, 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.080 where you can just go around and and build things 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.680 you mind, things to craft with. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.240 Yeah, I mean that's the point. And there's plenty of 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:13.599 things to do. Like it's not like they're like nothing happens. Yeah, 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.839 Like like you can because there are so few rules, 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.960 because there's no real point to it. There's not like 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.680 a game that you like want to win or conquer 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.080 anything like that. Like, it's essentially up to the limits 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:31.520 of your imagination what you do in this amazing blocky world. 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.080 Yeah. And despite those blocks, despite the fact that there 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.400 is no real plot, it is the best selling PC 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.679 game of all time, second to Tetris as the biggest 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.440 video game in Tetris. By the way, that's coming. We 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.240 need to do that's got a great story to it. Okay, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.000 so we need to do one of those. But yeah, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.400 it's it's one of the all time giants. And it 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:59.200 was created by a not very good dude named Marcus 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.040 with a K Person of Sweden aka Notch. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.080 Yeah, and he was a coder from wayback, like he 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.880 taught himself on a Commodore one twenty eight, which came 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.680 out in nineteen eighty five. I'm not quite sure how 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.640 old he was when he was working on it, but 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.200 just suffice to say, like that's like you really had 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.800 to understand code to code with one of those things. Right, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.440 So he was like a game developer, a coder from 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.960 from the outset essentially, And he got a couple jobs 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.240 at some of the big game companies in Sweden, and 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:33.760 he was working at one of them, I think it 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.840 was King dot com when he was inspired to kind 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.160 of create his own game. And he was playing a 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.280 game called Infinna Minor, Right am I saying that? Right? 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.360 Like Infinity Minor but without the tea part. Yeah, okay, 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.919 And essentially you mine resources and you build stuff with 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.480 these blocks that you mine. It's a mining game essentially. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.920 Sounds very familiar, and he's not like shy about saying 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:02.719 like this was a copy, a spoof basically of Infinom Minor, 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.680 but it was also inspired by some other games, like 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:10.640 one called Dwarf Fortress, which is really simple, but the 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.480 all of the characters involved in all of the non 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.080 player characters kind of have their own drive and decisions, 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.560 so a lot of random stuff can happen in there. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.000 And then also roller coaster Tycoon, where you could just 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.120 build your own well roller coasters. So if you put 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.640 all those three things together, you have kind of the 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.720 rough outlines of Minecraft, which he really started releasing I 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.000 think in two thousand and nine. 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:38.360 Yeah, and I you know, I went down a twenty 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.200 second rabbit hole of because once I looked up in 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:42.880 Phenomnor and I was like, wait a minute, did he 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.000 just like literally kind of steal that game? And that 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.720 is a rabbit hole that I was loath to go 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.800 down because I found myself on Reddit and it's just 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.400 like it's very contentious of people who are like, yeah, 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.160 he totally stole that game and ripped it off, and 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.160 people are like, no, he didn't. He was inspired by 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.600 So I'm not wading into that argument. Probably you can 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.080 make up your own mind about that, right, but. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.400 Yeah, However, however it came out, he released it in 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.200 two thousand and nine and people just dug on it 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:15.120 very very quickly. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.760 I think that was the alpha version. Yeah, the beta 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:20.920 version main release. 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.640 No the and he was like, he just put the 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.680 word out there, and I think he actually started charging 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.440 people thirteen dollars for just to play the alpha version. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.720 But he was also getting offs of feedback and like 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.040 blogging about it and everything. The whole thing was his 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.800 side gig, and but little by little it kind of 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.760 moved his main gig, like alf to the side itself, 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.520 and then until it was like I can actually support 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.280 myself with Minecraft. I'm quitting my day job. 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:53.640 Yeah, which finally in twenty ten, he founded the company 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:58.200 Swedish for gadget. It's Mojang moj Ang almost a g 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.960 with a couple of coworkers name And here's where I 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.080 don't know whether to say Jacob or Yakub. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:10.079 It's it's not Yakub or Jacob is Jacob. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:11.600 It's Papioma. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.640 No, it really is Jacob. What was wrong with Pepioma? 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.439 I didn't read that email closely enough. 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.520 It's Papaloma. Oh, and I knew that, and I heard 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.360 you saying it. But I was just like, I guess 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.840 you know something I don't know because that was such 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.680 a wild stab. I just figured you were ahead of me. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.679 You just found it so enchanting anyway. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:36.560 You said it is yakub I forgot already h JOCKI, Jacob, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:41.479 Jacob Porcer and Karl MANA M A N N e H. 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.640 They hired some people, they had a gaming company all 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:49.520 of a sudden, and the beta version came out not 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.360 too long after, and they went over a six month 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.240 period at the beginning of twenty eleven to July of 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.440 that year. They went from a million players to ten 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.640 million in that short time. I'm officially launching in November 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:07.080 twenty eleven at mine Con, which was it's still an 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.480 ongoing event. I think they do it online now, but 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:11.959 for a while it was a live event in Vegas 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:13.400 called Minecraft Live. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.640 Yeah. I think they held the twenty fifteen one in 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.040 London and it set the record for the largest attendance 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.319 of any convention in the history of humanity. 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.640 I think it's big stuff, everybody. 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.839 It's huge. I mean, it is enormous. I didn't see 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.360 any statistics on what percentage of the world plays it, 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.080 but I did see that at any point in time 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:41.120 there's as many as like thirty forty fifty million people 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.839 playing it at the same time, not necessarily altogether, because 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:46.800 as we'll see there's different ways to play it by 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.680 yourself or with other people. But if you just were 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.120 able to zoom out and look at what everybody in 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.400 the world's doing, thirty million of them would be playing 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:57.760 Minecraft at that moment. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:02.720 Oh boy. So starting in twenty eleven, there was a 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.640 man named or and still is name Yen's Jeb Bergenston 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:11.960 as lead designer. Watched a few interviews with this guys. 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.920 It's definitely YenS, but it's also Jeb and not Yeb. 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:24.480 It's getting very confusing. Notch stayed on on the Minecraft team, 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.280 but you know, it was basically sort of letting YenS 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.559 run the show. It seems like as far as being 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.760 in the weeds he was developing other games, Notch was 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:34.880 and you know, kind of live in the high life 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.160 because he got very wealthy, very quick. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.720 Yeah. One of the first things he did was by 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:44.319 himself a Fedora, which became kind of like a trademark 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:49.640 look for him. Sure, and he started just basically join 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.480 the international party set. It was like, how much how 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.080 much money does it cost to get in here? They're like, 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.160 you've got you've got enough, come on in, so well 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.520 it exactly right. So he kind of got I got 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.960 the impression that he was not just distracted by this 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.079 newfound wealth and all the stuff you could do with it, 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:13.160 but that he was not really interested in seeing a 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:18.600 game like becoming a massive, globally dominating blockbuster and all 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.160 the work that takes and coordination and all that. He 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.400 was more interested in developing games. So he stepped away, 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.720 like you said, and handed it over to Jeb. And 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:32.360 then when Microsoft came a call in twenty fourteen, apparently 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:36.120 not tweeted, who does anybody want to buy my share 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.520 of Mojang because I'm ready to move on with my life. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.800 Apparently like all these companies were like, uh yeah, we 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.679 totally will supposedly set up that Microsoft deal for two 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.480 and a half billion, and at that point he's like, 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:49.920 I'm completely gone now. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.080 Yeah. Forbes had him as of like last week at 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:57.000 about a one point two billion dollar net worth, and 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:01.360 that seems pretty reliable, not like the stupid Sealle network rights. 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.319 Not too shabby for somebody who wears a fedora in public. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:09.240 Yeah yeah, and he you know, he stayed sort of 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.560 associated with the game in the company for a long 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.880 time even after the Microsoft purchase, well not that long 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:20.560 about five years ish when they basically stopped referencing him 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:25.040 on the loading page in twenty nineteen, stopped inviting him 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:33.040 to their Minecraft parties, like their tenth anniversary anniversary celebration. Yeah, basically, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:39.520 he started letting everyone know his thoughts about QAnon and 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:45.360 far right wing politics and homophobic things and transphobic things 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.320 and sexist and misogynist things. It was sort of the 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.320 greatest hits of that kind of guy. And he went 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:55.760 public with all of it and issued some pretty lame 0:13:55.800 --> 0:14:00.000 apologies for some of it. But yeah, so that's what happened, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:00.840 and that's who he is. 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.920 Yeah, so Minecraft just kept going on without him, And 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.680 from what I can tell, like when Jeb took over, 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:13.079 is he still the lead game designer, like essentially the showrunner. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.360 From But I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure he is. 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.719 Like it, even if he stopped, like a couple of 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:22.120 years ago, that game really flourished under his oversight. Like 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:26.200 he he's really creative. Also, really, and I think Natch 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.800 was willing to do this too, but Jeb was or 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.760 is really willing to be. Like, Hey, some player, some 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:36.200 random person somewhere came up with this amazing invention we're 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:40.160 going to actually release it as an update or add 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.760 on or something to the game like there, and it's 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.840 just it's a really creative, flourishing game still because of 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.400 that guy, from what I can tell. 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.760 Yeah, totally. So there are three modes, and this is 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.640 the regular unmoded version, because as you'll learn, you can 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.760 modify it in all kinds of you know, creative kind 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.800 of ways or vanilla mode. But if you're playing just 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:07.640 that regular version that my daughter plays on the PlayStation, 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.000 you can play in survival mode, hardcore mode, or creative mode. 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.480 Right. So survival mode is like the kind of like 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.240 the where the game part comes in, Like you can 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:25.880 actually die. So you're doing all of the interesting stuff 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.760 that you do in Minecraft that will you know, talk 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:33.080 about more extensively. But there's zombies attacking you, or there's 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.200 creepers coming up and blowing themselves up and hurting you, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:40.040 or you can drown underwater, fall off a cliff, and 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.440 when that happens, all of the stuff that you've gathered 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.760 that make up what's called your inventory, all the things 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.120 you can use to make other stuff, all the stuff 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.400 you've made out of other things already that you want 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.480 to use to like extend your life or jump high 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.000 or whatever. You lose all that it actually stays in 0:15:56.080 --> 0:16:00.360 the location that you died at in Minecraft World, and 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.960 but you are teleported back to either where you started 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.960 the game or your bed if you've made yourself a bed, 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.520 and I saw that if you can get there within 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:15.160 five like our reality minutes five minutes in our reality, 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.840 you can go pick up your stuff again, but it 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.560 can be very hard to do if you're really far 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:21.440 away from your bed. 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:26.680 That's right. And what happens is you start basically with nothing. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.440 If you're a parent, you've wandered through and it looks 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:34.360 like what is that blocky pixelated thing like punching everything 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:38.280 for that's the gameplay. You start with nothing, and you 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.680 basically go at the very beginning and you punch a 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.080 tree to get some wood. And what you're doing is, 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.920 you know, you're getting resources to build stuff, so you 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:50.200 just keep punching and diggings things and finding new things 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:54.200 and then and transforming them into i mean all kinds 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.440 of things from you know, farms to animals to buildings 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.480 and oceans and rivers, and you know you're building, you're 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:04.440 literally building your world as you go in all the modes. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.520 From what I can tell you, got hardcore mode is next. 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:13.680 But if you die, like the game is over, which 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.000 is kind of a bummer. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.280 I guess yeah, because I mean, like, you can get 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.800 really far and develop a lot of stuff. So when 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.320 you're walking around like punching stuff, like punching a tree, 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.360 you're punching a tree to get wood. And when you 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.560 collect some wood, you can actually turn it into say, lumber, 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.440 and if you combine that lumber with something else you've 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.080 gotten I don't remember why, I think wool from a sheep. Sure, 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.239 put it together. You build yourself a bed. It's one 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:38.959 of the first things you're supposed to do it. You're supposed 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.320 to build a shelter and make a bed in your shelter. 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.320 And the reason why you want to make a bed 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:49.080 is because if you die in survival mode, you basically 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.000 it's called respawning. You wake up, you're teleported back in 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.399 your bed to start over. The problem is all that 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.280 stuff that you've accumulated, all the lumber and all the wool, 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.320 and all the things that you can make. By combining 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:05.240 those things, they make up what's called your inventory. And 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.160 your inventory can get pretty extensive. The longer you stay 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:10.280 alive and play and do stuff in the in the 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.800 Minecraft world, and you lose all that stuff, it's gone. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.240 It's actually physically in the Minecraft world where you died, 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.440 and if you could make it over there in time 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.199 after you respawn, you could pick that stuff up. But 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.240 it can be really hard if you're really far away. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.199 And then with hard core mode, like all that's just 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.720 gone forever, you have to start the game over completely. 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.560 And the reason that I know that that's true is 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.240 because Ruby answered that question. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.160 That was actually the funniest answer, because you said, hey, 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.000 if you die in hardcore mode, is like, is that 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:45.080 it is everything gone that you've ever built? And she said, yeah, 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:49.359 it's hardcore Josh. She doesn't play that mode, though she 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.480 plays the third mode almost exclusively. I think when she plays, 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.119 which is Creative Mode. And this is the super cute 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.720 fun one that when you see your you know, seven 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.000 and eight, your old daughter playing, you're like, this is 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:04.760 the greatest game ever. Because I sat down with her 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:06.639 one day and watched and she's just like, oh, look, 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.919 this is my farm, and this is my garden, and 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.760 these are my sheep, this is my animal pin and 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:14.359 this is my house, and look, I've got a pool 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.520 on the top floor and I've got a deck and 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.800 it's just really creative and super sweet and fun. You 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.280 can fly and creative mode, like if you want to 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.360 get up to the top of your thing, you can 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.320 fly up there. And the best thing is you can't 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.679 be harmed. There's no zombie coming to kill you. No. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.240 Yeah, you just do fun stuff like you said farm, 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.679 and it's not like, oh, I built a farm and 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:40.919 now this farm's running. Like you build the farm and 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.480 then you have to operate the farm to keep it going. 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:47.119 It's like, it's just amazing and neat all the stuff 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.840 that you can do in this game. It's just crazy. 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.760 And we'll talk about some of the just the mind 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.720 boggling stuff that people make. But one of the cool 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.960 things about it is you can build this world by yourself, 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.560 or you can work with others, play with others people 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.440 in your house using a local area network, or there's 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:09.480 Minecraft servers to where you're building a world together, and 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:11.719 like other people can come in and walk around your 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.399 world and hang out with you and sometimes mess with 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:18.399 you in your world too, because it's a giant shared world. 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:22.000 Whereas there's also another version which I ticket Ruby was playing, 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.000 where that is like that's your world. Nobody else can 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.800 come in because it's just on that one computer. It's 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:30.480 not being shared with the rest of the world. 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.320 Yeah, and we just didn't know enough about it and 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:36.879 said that's the only version you can play, because the 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:42.160 last thing I wanted was some you know, you know, 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.240 I don't want to meeting those people. So I'm sure 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:46.760 there's a lot of fun that can be had on 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:51.160 those you know, multiplayer private server games. I'm sure it's 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:55.800 great in most ways. There are some very cool versions 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:59.320 of that. There's one called Pixel Mindcraft where they have 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:03.320 recreated the gameplay of Pokemon within the Minecraft world, which 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:05.919 is super cool. Yeah, and some of these are like 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:09.679 full on companies. Olivia found this boy, God blessed Livia 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:12.880 for the breadth of things that she helps us with. Yeah, 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.320 for sure, it's like, how about philosophy and then Minecraft. 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:19.800 But there's one called high Pixel, which has like forty 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:24.840 developers on staff and got bought themselves by Riot Games, 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:28.560 one of the big companies in twenty twenty. And you know, 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:32.159 these are all just modifying this game that was so 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.439 popular already. It's really, really kind of nuts. 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:36.919 Yeah, I would say a cottage industry has grown up 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:40.080 around it. About like fifty different cottage industries have grown 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:41.960 up around it, with a bunch of different companies in 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:45.120