Entry point

"**Entry point**", originally titled "**Sighting of the entity in 1.0.16**", is a video on the Minecraft Alpha 1.0.16 Versions channel. It was the first video uploaded.

## Summary

The video shows a player playing in a world on Minecraft Alpha v1.0.16\_02. After leaving some iron ore to smelt in a furnace, they exit their house, climb down a hill, and walk through a cobblestone bridge to reach a neighboring island. They chop down a tree and walk some more until they spot an unnamed shadow player in the distance. Startled, they pause the game and open a Skype conversation with a user named "jose.gonzales.210", with the following messages already visible:

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> `**jose.gonzales.210**
> dude
> idk if i should believe you at this point
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> **LORD\_OF\_THE\_FLIES.1998**
> I'm not lying
> I swear to god
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> **jose.gonzales.210**
> look, you and your friends have already like
> tried to prank me a few times
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> **LORD\_OF\_THE\_FLIES.1998**
> Come on you know I wouldn't joke about something like that
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> **jose.gonzales.210**
> idk man, to me it really seems like you are`
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Their conversation then continues with the following:

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> `**LORD\_OF\_THE\_FLIES.1998**
> DUDE
> I SAW HIM
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> **jose.gonzales.210**
> wym?
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> **LORD\_OF\_THE\_FLIES.1998**
> THE THING
> IN MINECRAFT
> I TOLD YOU
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> **jose.gonzales.210**
> screenshot?
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> **LORD\_OF\_THE\_FLIES.1998**
> HOW`
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The player briefly unpauses the game, then receives two more messages from "jose.gonzales.210":

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> `**jose.gonzales.210**
> print screen key
> then ctrl+v here`
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The player unpauses the game again, but the shadow figure has now disappeared. They look around in confusion before typing one more message:

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> `**LORD\_OF\_THE\_FLIES.1998**
> HE'S GONE`
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## Video description

The description originally only contained the following:

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> `Date and time unknown, however the year is certainly 2010.
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> Source of the video is a normal player.
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> Not much more background info is known.`
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At some point on or after September 5, 2021, the description was updated to the current revision:

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> `Date and time unknown, however the year is certainly 2010.
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> Source of the video is a normal player.
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> Not much more background info had not been known up to this point, but now, they're with us.
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> I remember this world. It was started in singleplayer, however we used to run it on a server, until [he] unknowingly got accepted into this into the tests. [He] didn't know what was going on at first, we couldn't even play multiplayer, since version 16.05 didn't have it until its sixth release. And when that finally came, [he] got banned for distributing the jar to someone from outside of the tests, that being me. Luckily, like [6] said, [he] got unbanned a few days later, but the damage has already been done. We didn't have much in common, or anything at that. At that point in life, we'd already split our paths in real life and back then, Minecraft was the only thing keeping us together. These few days when it was taken away from us, were enough to split us apart. It's nothing personal, [6], after all, [he]'s back with us now.`
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## Notes

* This was one of three videos uploaded on August 1, 2021, preceding "Version 01" and "The search".
* This is the only video known to have had its title changed.
* There seems to be a player with the default Steve skin inside the house in the thumbnail.
* This marks the first appearance of a shadow player on the channel.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Archive of "Sighting of the entity in 1.0.16" via the Wayback Machine; September 5, 2021.

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