All of the original main Cobbledump videos from before the end of 2019 are back.
Cobbledump was a 2016-born Minecraft and let's play channel that was terminated in 2019. It updated
frequently for most of its lifespan, and at the time of its dismount it had 140 videos. Now, those videos are back, embedded on this website and not just
hosted on another.
The goal now is to eventually start uploading completely new episodes on a paid hosting service and share them here. Cobbledump has never had a video 141.
Shockingly, microphone audio issues exist in a lot of episodes. It's one reason I am compelled to give Cobbledump an upgrade of new episodes at some point.
Much of it was caused in editing by a serious mistake of misjudging the volume levels and overcompensating before renders. They were both good microphones.
For some reason, there were framerate issues near the start, which I intend to not let happen again as
this channel progresses now.
Infuriatingly and heartbreakingly, I can't even remember or tell now if this is a new problem that happened to my data after the original video site
was lost or if they've always bloody been like this. I started reasonable compression of these videos in more
recent years thanks to the lifesaver FFMPEG, but I am pretty sure tests for FFMPEG compression doing it came
back negative, I don't think it's the recent compression's fault.
It could be quite some time longer before this channel gets new uploads again, but I do absolutely want to continue and finish off Mine Zealand and the other
two large series that are here. Mine Zealand only has one new episode left to make on it, which has been stalled and in planning at this point for years.
Scroll down to watch Cobbledump now!
(Alternatively, you can watch the playlist for the original main 140 on The Internet Archive.)
By the way, I used that Minecraft Alpha title thinking it was crafty back then, but I hate the common
usages I see of the word "nostalgia" now. I wasn't thinking very clearly when I came up with it. The
way our society uses that word is a mess and I was part of that in 2016. I played Minecraft Alpha then because
I wanted a small goal-oriented series. Minecraft Alpha was all I could get when I first played the game,
and so I played it out of necessity at that point and the world that actually has my history in it is
deleted. Now if I play Minecraft Alpha it's because the version is good. I wish to change the series
title. Fond memories of the game have nothing to do with it.
That being said, I'm perfectly chill with you guys calling this stuff 'nostalgic'. Because it kind of is.