Earlier this week, I was asked if I wanted to travel up to London
to try out Minecraft Earth for the first time with the Head of Development of Minecraft Earth.
That was a bit of a no-brainer for me. Of course I was gonna say yes.
So I grabbed my friend Josh, who's pretty handy with a camera,
(I'll put a link to his Instagram down in the description)
and we tried our best to film the entire experience, because...
...I hadn't played Minecraft Earth at all. I hadn't touched it yet.
All the people who went to the Creator Summit this year, They had had some small hands-on experience,
but unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it to that event, so I had missed out on that.
The only experience I had of Minecraft Earth was the same as everyone else's,
where I'd seen it played at demos, by other people at large events and things.
So I was extremely excited,
to actually have it in my hands and see what it's like in first person,
because from what I'd seen, it looked INCREDIBLY impressive.
Despite getting lost multiple times (All entirely my fault),
We managed to make it to the meeting location three hours early
(Because once again, entirely my faults)
I thought the meeting time was a lot earlier than it actually was.
(Yeah, I wasn't... wasn't doing that well that day)
So I thought we'd take advantage of this by actually getting some hands-on experience with the game a little bit sooner
I had the beta loaded up onto my phone
So I opened it up and I thought it'd be a good opportunity to gather some resources around the park
The basic premise is really quite simple and it's very similar to Minecraft as a game
You have to go out exploring in your local area
Gathering up resources that all end up in your inventory and then you can take those resources home and use them in your build plate
now to explain what a build plate is it's essentially an
area in which you are able
To build the things that you've gathered so you can place it down in your house
You can place it down in your car
You can place it down wherever there in the middle of the street and then you can start
constructing things that other players are then able to see
it's actually really quite exciting and the thing that surprised me the most is how
Familiar all of it feels it's as if they've literally transferred minecraft from inside a computer
into real life your brain switches
Almost instantly once you've placed down that build plate you then think of it
It's actually being in the real world to the point where people were looking past as they were walking up
It kept going through my head. I hope they don't step on my belt
But even thinking that it wasn't in real life, it was just on my phone
By this point, we've killed enough time in the park to actually start making our way to the meeting
So we met up with Grian got in contact with Sachs
And we started working some things out the hotel room where the demonstration was taking place was awesome
it had amazing views all the way out across London and Sachs essentially just came in explained to us how
minecraft Earth was developed their mentality behind developing it and then gave us a brief explanation of how the
Demonstration worked and then kind of left us to it to discover things for ourselves
It's so strange being able to I can see through the build. I'm looking past parrots wait hang on. I heard you punching a villager
I can see you've got a sword out instantly. You've only just gotten into the world
All right, well I'm gonna work on these parrots, so if I if I go up here I can actually free
Yeah, no, see you get the glass back
Oh, there's a there's a basement, thanks, man. I can't actually go down there again
If a brute force our way in oh
I see. Oh, it's an abandoned mineshaft
This is the weirdest kind of like
At this point I hope you can see what I mean
When I say that
It's fairly surreal and it doesn't take your brain very long
To think of that object as actually being part of the room
There's a little bed in there. I can see you find people in through the window as well. Helpful. I
Wonder if the register the redstone lamps I'm guessing do they work?
You can see a redstone lamp. It's kind of it was around. It's around here. Oh, there's a pressure plate. Oh
I'm still on the pressure plate
The redstone lamp is on
Yeah
That's so cool now what you see us playing in here is called tabletop mode
This keeps the build really nice and small and it actually makes it easier to construct the build
Because you can get access to all sorts of areas. You can kind of hover around it
it's really really simple, but there is a button that you can click that will take the build out from the table and
construct it in life-size in your room and
That's where things begin to get really really strange. This build looks cool. You know what?
I've got an idea
This is it I got rid of the bushes for you I
Do that meme where it's like this is fine. I just need like a mocha. I'm just like
(Mumbo laughing uncontrollably)
Everything is fine. Oh, wow, you can look up that you can see the whole world burning around you
You can see the whole world. Oh, yeah. No. No, it's still it's still very burnt. It's still very bad
Yeah, we're going back full-scale
Isis is the best animation ever, isn't it it coming out and just being like
But just like the real Minecraft game is not all sunshine and rainbows
There is also some hostility involved and that's where the adventures come in now
We were able to activate this manually because we're doing the demonstration
But I believe that when the actual full version releases these things will activate in hot spot areas
So players can get together to try and defeat the things that are attacking you and also gather up lots of loot
However, don't hold me to that because as you know, yeah
I'm not particularly good at remembering important information. Anyway, it was a lot of fun
I'll do the honors.
And now we have spiders behind us
Do yours have eyes?
No mine don't have eyes (Laugh)
I'm charging in
*Explosion*
That happened underneath my feet!
This is the strangest thing, this is just in a room. Yeah. I know you have to like kind of look around
(Laughter across the room)
Dying for the cause. Yeah, creepers on the table!
Now they're much cuter and much more manageable
So the demonstration in the hotel room completely blew me away to be frankly be honest with you
I didn't know what to expect but I wasn't expecting it to be as good as that, however
The weather was lovely
So we thought it would be a good opportunity to take outside and also take a look at the resource gathering
Element of the game because obviously this this is a huge part of it when you're playing
Minecraft and you
trying your best do impressive builds as
I'm sure you all know you spend 90 percent of your time resource gathering the way that it works is these little rock piles?
Trees or chests generate throughout the world
you have to
walk within a certain radius of them and then you can tap them to actually collect the items on the inside now one thing that
I found really interesting is that we were in Hyde Park that doesn't really have any major road systems or anything like that
But the paths were all mapped out in Minecraft earth
And that means that as you may notice a lot of the resources that are available
In the nearby area actually generate near the path
So you're not having to go off into the wilderness to gather things. All of them are in relatively easy accessible areas
I mean, it's difficult for me to hide how impressed I am. I'm being totally honest
I am I am very very impressed with Minecraft Earth and I went in incredibly skeptical
III, I mean, I'll be honest
You know when I first saw those launch trailers and when I first heard it announced I thought how that sounds cool
But I thought it might be a bit gimmicky and maybe something that you'd enjoy for
Five or ten minutes and then eventually you put it down and you'd never open the application again
But I can see that this game has got enough depth to it to actually keep you coming back for more
There's more to it than just going out and gathering resources and wandering around and doing that
You kind of have to go out and gather the resources and then you come back
You be a build stuff on your build plates you bring your friends around they can see what you've built on your build plate you
can all interact with it once redstone is involved and you can start building piston doors and traps and
Entrances and walking things and flying stuff.
I mean that is gonna be huge and I just can't wait
I can't wait for it to release and I can't wait to see yeah what everyone does with it?
seriously, I'm so so excited about this I really am.
so I hope that you've enjoyed this little first impressions video. Thanks for watching and I'll catch you in the next one
Filming By: Josh Holgate (Instagram: JoshHolgatePhoto)