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You guys might know me as the person who knows a lot about Minecraft.
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Maybe to you I'm the guy who breaks Minecraft as hard as it can possibly be broken.
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Whatever the case may be one thing is for certain:
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I like knowing as much about the game as there is to figure out.
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It's what's allowed me to push the limits of Minecraft
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and discover things like the Sky Far Lands that I discovered a couple of months ago;
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and while I'm not explicitly breaking the game today
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I will be showing a version of Minecraft that I originally thought was lost forever:
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"Minecraft 4k".
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And no, I don't mean Minecraft in 4K resolution that'll be hitting the Xbox One X.
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I'm talking about another kind of 4k.
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So let's go ahead and let's get right into it.
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So, "Minecraft 4k".
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What the heck am I even talking about when I say Minecraft 4k
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if I'm not referring to the Xbox One X version?
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Well, I'm talking about this.
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This is the original Minecraft 4k.
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It's a version of Minecraft developed by Notch for the Java 4k contest
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where the goal was to develop the best game possible while only taking up 4 KILObytes of storage.
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That's for the whole game!
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To put that into perspective Minecraft 1.12 is right around 10 MEGAbytes for the jar file alone
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or around 10,000 kilobytes!
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So what does this version of Minecraft have that the others don't?
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Well, honestly: nothing!
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If you're looking for some form of intrinsic value out of this version of Minecraft you won't find any.
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But here's what you can expect out of a version of Minecraft that, again, is only four kilobytes.
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When you spawn into the world you can immediately tell that there is no form of proper land generation.
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Instead (to conserve file size) the world generates a random assortment of a couple of different blocks
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such as dirt, grass, bricks, wood, stone and of course air.
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In fact this is the actual textures file used within the game. This is it! (actually it's a comparison of Minecraft 4k's and Minecraft Classic's block textures)
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But actually you can only build with one of these blocks: the grass block.
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The game itself lacks any sort of options menu
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or any options at all.
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Moving around in game is another adventure all on its own.
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Well, the game itself is very clearly three-dimensional,
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you can only move along one axis unless you jump while moving.
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And if you want to move the mouse around
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you put the mouse on the side of the screen that you want the camera to move in
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and it just kind of glides in that direction.
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Again, keep in mind: all of these decisions were made with the idea of consolidating Minecraft into just four kilobytes.
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So while none of these decisions seem practical in the traditional sense
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for the sake of conserving disk space this approach certainly appeared to work.
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Ending off this video
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the last thing I want to cover is how to build and the limitations of building.
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To destroy blocks you left-click and to place grass blocks you right-click on other solid blocks.
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But let me get into that point real quick:
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the whole world is a fairly small box surrounded by what I can only describe as "invisible bedrock".
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Even if you dig all the way down or try to build on the world invisible walls: that won't work.
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Also, be careful while you're walking around.
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If you hug the edge of a block you can't even jump around, at all!
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You really have to be sure that there's air on all sides of you.
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All things considered, this is certainly a pretty interesting version of Minecraft
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if you give it a chance and you see it as more than just an extremely watered-down version of Minecraft.
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For the limitations required to put a three-dimensional game like Minecraft into just four kilobytes
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it's certainly pretty interesting.
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If you want to try out this version of Minecraft I'll leave links in the description down below.
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But also note that it's fairly unstable
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and will just straight-up freeze up if you tab out of the window.
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But... yeah.
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Anyways guys, that just about does it for me for now.
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If you enjoyed this video, please consider leaving a like on it,
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because it would really help out myself, the channel and the video quite a lot.
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So anyways guys, I hope you all enjoyed,
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my name is AntVenom and I bid you all farewell.
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Thanks so much for watching.