Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
What is the oldest block in Minecraft? When was lava or water added to the game? How old are redstone and pistons? Let's answer these questions and compare the ages of Minecraft blocks!
In this comparison video, I look at the ages of different Minecraft blocks! I compare them, and we're going to discover together how old the oldest block in Minecraft really is! And on the way there, we are going to compare all blocks in the game, from netherrack and end stone to the sapling and ender dragon egg!
Disclaimer: I do my best researching these videos, but inaccuracies may have still slipped by me. I'm sorry, should you find any!
Sources:
ijaminecraft.com/en/learn/minecraft-comparisons#block-age
I won't lie, but this video was a bit of a pain to make. It took forever, and I mean FOREVER, to get all the images to use in this video. I ended up with over 1300 images of block icons. And then I still had to research the history of all the blocks. Before I started working on this video, I had the naive thought that I could get the video done reasonably quickly, but OH BOY, WAS I WRONG.
To get the images, I made screenshots from the Minecraft player inventory in different Minecraft versions, cut the icons out, ordered them, and scaled them up using a program I wrote. I made a lot of effort to get the old block icons of when each block was first added to the game. But there are quite a few instances where I couldn't get my hand on the right textures for specific Minecraft versions, so you have to be satisfied with the best-matching images I could get.
Anyway, it's done. Now scroll up, and enjoy me comparing the age of a zillion Minecraft blocks! From fire and command blocks to mob spawners and cobblestones, this video compares them all. Well, you get the idea.
Check out my other age comparison videos!
Item Age: youtu.be/m-3nrKyZtWQ
Mob Age: youtu.be/2EtD4gE0u-k
Oldest Structures: youtu.be/I57bBAlnXg0
Music by C418
Songs in order: Mutation, Subwoofer Lullaby, Haggstrom
Album: c418.bandcamp.com/album/minecraft-volume-alpha
License: c418.org/2017/01/26/what-am-i-allowed-to-do-with-daniels-music
#minecraft #minecraftcomparison #comparison
What is the oldest block in Minecraft? When was lava or water added to the game? How old are redstone and pistons? Let's answer these questions and compare the ages of Minecraft blocks!
In this comparison video, I look at the ages of different Minecraft blocks! I compare them, and we're going to discover together how old the oldest block in Minecraft really is! And on the way there, we are going to compare all blocks in the game, from netherrack and end stone to the sapling and ender dragon egg!
Disclaimer: I do my best researching these videos, but inaccuracies may have still slipped by me. I'm sorry, should you find any!
Sources:
ijaminecraft.com/en/learn/minecraft-comparisons#block-age
I won't lie, but this video was a bit of a pain to make. It took forever, and I mean FOREVER, to get all the images to use in this video. I ended up with over 1300 images of block icons. And then I still had to research the history of all the blocks. Before I started working on this video, I had the naive thought that I could get the video done reasonably quickly, but OH BOY, WAS I WRONG.
To get the images, I made screenshots from the Minecraft player inventory in different Minecraft versions, cut the icons out, ordered them, and scaled them up using a program I wrote. I made a lot of effort to get the old block icons of when each block was first added to the game. But there are quite a few instances where I couldn't get my hand on the right textures for specific Minecraft versions, so you have to be satisfied with the best-matching images I could get.
Anyway, it's done. Now scroll up, and enjoy me comparing the age of a zillion Minecraft blocks! From fire and command blocks to mob spawners and cobblestones, this video compares them all. Well, you get the idea.
Check out my other age comparison videos!
Item Age: youtu.be/m-3nrKyZtWQ
Mob Age: youtu.be/2EtD4gE0u-k
Oldest Structures: youtu.be/I57bBAlnXg0
Music by C418
Songs in order: Mutation, Subwoofer Lullaby, Haggstrom
Album: c418.bandcamp.com/album/minecraft-volume-alpha
License: c418.org/2017/01/26/what-am-i-allowed-to-do-with-daniels-music
#minecraft #minecraftcomparison #comparison
![[4K] Is It Minecraft Or Real Life? - Minecraft Ray-Tracing 2020 - Extreme Ultra Realistic Graphics](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_hwkp6iFCE8/mqdefault.jpg "[4K] Is It Minecraft Or Real Life? - Minecraft Ray-Tracing 2020 - Extreme Ultra Realistic Graphics
Its been a long time since I last created a Minecraft cinematic, so here you go! I played around with Ray-Tracing Shaders and photo-realistic textures, and this is the result!
Thanks to UMSOEA for letting me use his textures! You can get his resource pack here:
» https://www.patreon.com/umsoea
I used SEUS PTGI shader by Sonic Ether (E12 and E10 for some scenes). The shader is currently in experimental development. You can get it here:
» https://www.patreon.com/sonicether
I used Replay Mod by CrushedPixel and johni0702 to record this video. You can get it here:
» https://www.replaymod.com/
I just love the look of the Ray-Tracing shaders that are now being developed! In combination with super high-definition textures, Minecraft almost looks like real life from the right angle!
At first, I really wanted to record this video using Nvidia ShadowPlay. After I figured out how to record 4K while only having a Full HD monitor, I realized that it grilled my computer inside out. So, that wasnt going to cut it.
Thats why I looked for an alternative and finally remembered the good old Replay Mod! The Replay Mod can render awesome camera paths, and it does not record your screen but the game scene instead, which makes it possible to get smooth 4K scenes of these 1024x textures in 4K!
I didnt get to use the Replay Mod in a project before, so using it for this cinematic was a first for me. But I really learned loving it in the process and cant recommend it enough for recording cinematic scenes!
Even though my computer is already a few years old, it still holds up quite well in most scenarios. But this video still did its best to make it sweat in agony more than one time. But in the end, the video still got done- so it was worth it!
If youre interested, here is my computer specs:
Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K 4x4000 MHz
RAM: 32768 MB DDR4-RAM, 2400 MHz, Crucial Ballistix Sport
Graphics Card: ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti, 6GB GDDR5
Hard Disk: 512 GB SSD Samsung 950 Pro
It would have been possible to record most of the footage in this cinematic video with almost no lag in Full HD. However, since I wanted 4K resolution, I still opted for not recording with ShadowPlay and only used the Replay Mods rendering feature instead!
I didnt try to use another resource pack, like Pulchra, or the Continuum Ray-Tracing shader, since I already had enough awesome scenes using UMSOEAs textures. But I might do another video like this in the future, so who knows... I might choose a different Ray-Tracing shader or another photorealistic texture pack! The Stratum resource pack looks awesome as well, especially the 1024x and 2048x versions, so I might take a look!
#Minecraft #RayTracing #Photorealism
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