The Secrets of Minecraft's Old Textures

Yet another Beta Nerd tries to scry some wisdom from the arcane realm that is Minecraft's artstyle.
Sorry if the speed or pacing is a little weird - first time doing this kinda thing.

0:00 Analysis
8:07 Lightning Round
10:50 Epilogue

Further reading:
https://minecraft.wiki/w/History_of_t...
https://minecraft.wiki/w/Terrain.png
https://minecraft.wiki/w/History_of_t...
https://minecraft.wiki/w/Procedural_a...
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[Note 0]: All of these textures were made in Paint.NET, according to Notch's other development streams, and a leftover Command Block file in 15w34a.
[Note 1] (2;10): Wooden Door and Ladder textures were darkened in Infdev 20100618. There's also the unused item/door.png file in pre-resource pack versions.
[Note 2] (4;13): The very first version Torches were added featured a longer texture, which is actually streched instead of squished.
[Note 3] (6;15): It looks like Pi Edition also replaced all pixels of color 353535 with 282828. Probably also related to the reactor texture.
[Note 4] (7;21): These tweaks also resulted in a discrepancy with the unused copy of the grass top texture introduced in Beta 1.6.
[Note 5] (8;33): Theoretically, you could reverse-engineer the old shape from any cobblestone texture this way.
[Note 6] (9;02): Brewing Stands DID have a different model during development... but it was one WITHOUT a base: https://imgur.com/cNX6J
[Note 7] (10;08): The top texture of the anvil is pictured here, though the side texture is also a slightly different derivative of stone.
[Note 8] (10;14): Stained Clay was never updated, so this may be a continuity thing.
[Note 9] (10;29): I believe this goes for every color, though they're all distorted in different ways.
[Note 10] (11;48): Nether portal dissection GIF by Minecraft Wiki user "Constachugga". See the article in Further Reading.
[Note 11] (12;21): i'll put the link to the second video here one day. for now, view this bonus fact that'll be part of it: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=http...