Hey everyone! Thanks for checking out the video! Obviously, this is a thought experiment more than anything - there are many reasons that an infinite time world is clearly impossible. It's also pretty cool to hear from people who have more technical programming experience regarding RNG - that is an aspect that I didn't cover whatsoever. Nonetheless, I had a ton of fun thinking of crazy ways for things to happen - do you have any ideas I didn't mention?

I love how the Skeleton's sole job is to be bad at archery.

Props to the cameraman for playing minecraft 40 trillion years in the future to record all of this happening

Imagine spawing in a world, then getting distracted and ending up cryogenically freezing yourself for a thousand years, accidentally leaving your computer on the whole time. When you wake up, you realise you left it on and look at the screen and see a fox with an elytra in its mouth next to another fox with a dragon egg

This reminds me of a famous quote from a Brothers Grimm story: “In Lower Pomerania is the Diamond Mountain, which is two miles and a half high, two miles and a half wide, and two miles and a half in depth; every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and when the whole mountain is worn away by this, then the first second of eternity will be over.”

Imagine playing in a world and suddenly getting the "Free the End" achievement... and then you realize that you're in singleplayer... O.o

This isn’t a speed run, its a slow run. Or maybe theres no ‘run’ at all considering no player input. Just the natural forces of RNG spending eternity beating the enderdragon.

Imagine stepping away from your computer for 40 trillion years and you come back and the game is beaten

10:29 - At this moment, the phrase "the chances are low, but they're never zero" is being taken to a whole another level. There's not just one astronomically low chance, there's thousands of them, requiring to happen one by one.

I feel like this would make a really cute kids book. An enderman, a skeleton, and a snow golem going on a journey to defeat the ender dragon

Imagine making it to the end only to realize the enderman beat you to it already killing the dragon

Could you imagine, playing solo you go through the whole process of getting eyes, armor, weapons, ect. Then you find the portal, and it’s completed. You go through it, there’s massive stair cases to the tops of the pillars, and the dragon is already dead.

Endermen can only pick up blocks with the sides exposed, not the top. That's why you don't find random holes in the ground everywhere

I want a mod that makes the mobs actually try to do this intentionally

There is already a minecraft seed where the obby from a woodland mansion finishes a portal that can also light itself. That avoids this complicated mess but its fun to think about!

reminds me of the "library of babel" a story about an infinite library filled with books with completely random letters printed on them. Because it is infinite, it would somewhere contain any work of text you can imagine. Jacob Geller did a great video on it called the shape of infinity.

"Gentlemen! We are going to obtain an elytra!" "What's the plan?" *takes a deep breath*

I like too imagine this happens when a player fails hardcore minecraft

Player in hardcore: fails to complete the game Mobs: fine, I'll do myself

"Wanna play Minecraft" "Nah, Ill just go and exist, itll play itself"

Imagine spawning in a world and seeing a fox with a elytra

RGN took "The chances are low, But never zero" to a whole another level

"Minecraft doesn't need you" Understandable, have a nice day.

This video, conceptually, is incredible, and I'm very glad I happened to find it. The idea of infinite Minecraft, or a game playing itself independent from any player is super intriguing; what kind of stories could happen in this kind of world? Would the mobs build their own structures? (What would they make, and why?) Would they explore the entire world together, or destroy it all? Imagine this is a hardcore world, and the player died a very long time ago. Life goes on in their absence, and the creatures put into motion their own world, more impressive than anything any player could ever imagine. Monuments and towers dedicated to nothing tower over the endless horizon, shrouding the sun, and everything that anybody thought was possible. Imagine a new player joins this world, somehow, someday, and they walk through this foreign place, and they realise there, in that moment, that Minecraft really doesn't need them. It just needs time.

At this point moving your hand through a wall is more likely. Quite an interesting thing to think about

"Sir you have been in a coma for several trillion years, fortunately you left your minecraft world open the whole time" "Oh boy, can't wait to check on my favourite ender dragon, ocean monument, and elytra!"

15:15 It actually goes further! The fox could return to the overworld and be killed by a skeleton arrow, dropping the elytra, which could then be picked up and worn by a zombie!.

And let's not forget that at a point in time, endermen could pick up pretty much everything. It became a nightmare for builds, so it got changed to the current limitation.

12:39 Keyword: MOST Endermen CAN pick up short flowers, which are flammable, meaning the endermen could make a path of grass then a path of flowers and have the flowers catch on fire themselves using lava or something, then the fire can perfectly spread to the portal lighting it in the same way you light portals on skyblock

It official everyone we’ve finally found something more statistically unlikely than dreams speed run luck

The infinite monkey theorem states that with enough creeper, ALL of explodable blocks in minecraft can be exploded.

the enderman being the only mob with a human like nature is actually pretty unsettling, and gives that theory of them being humans before any event happenned is really weird

The Enderman, Skeleton, and Snow Golem are my new favorite trio, and I want to see a sequel with them as the main characters again. Mr. Retro, please make a sequel, I wanna know more lore!

Imagine leaving your world running for a while then remember you left it afk but now there’s a hole to the portal and no dragon but giant craters and staircases in the end

11:00 three seeds have been found where a ruined portal generated below an obsidian room of the woodland mansion and is completed. Also the lava in the ruined portal can spread fire to nearby Blocks and thereby lighting the portal

OG Endermen used to actually be programmed to build makeshift structures and not just random placements.

Now this might really prove that endermans were humans before, and when their mind got imprisoned by the ender dragon, they still have the most basic things a player can do in their subconsciousness

I wish there were a mod that give way more life and dynamic to the game: Trees grows and dies, biomes changes, animals migrates, villages and pillagers expand and vanish... Heck, even the rain corrode the landscape.

This is on the level of being able to levitate in real life because the air molecules around you randomly acted in a certain way.

Fun concept, very cool! Cosmic bit shifts that randomly causes the dragon to spawn and instantly die are probably more likely than this lol.

I know my hardcore world is getting old when I start finding caves full of sand, gravel, grass etc. I find it funny and it makes the world feel more alive

Actually, it's astronomically more likely that all matter in the universe decays into nothingness before the mobs even have the chance to destroy their first end crystal.

Other things that would eventually happen: All forests would burn down by lightning/exposed lava lakes until there's no tree left in the world; All villages with an active farmer and enough houses would be wiped out by zombie attacks; Ghasts would move from the nether to all 3 dimensions, making the ender dragon battle easier if they get there before the dragon was defeated (I guess? not sure how they interact with mobs outside the nether); And a funny thought: a world without a player is a world without Phantoms.

5:21 Endermen can also pick up TNT from desert pyramids if a cave exposes it.

I think in order for this to work, you can't just let one world run infinitely, you have to let infinite world generate and ran infinitely to produce these results

Things that would realistically happen: evokers, vindicators, piglin brutes, turtles and possibly some more would certainly go extinct. Mostly by random accidents. Villages would eventually get blown up by creepers. Once the last bed is gone, the villagers are also dead.

It'd be neat if someone did a TAS where they manually set RNG values each frame to get the mobs to do this

Man this guy was Dream's inspiration. "If all of this could happen then a slight improvement to RNG wouldn't hurt!"

IIRC the idea that in infinite time a mob will eventually reach any position only applies when its movement is reducible to a 2D random walk (though to be fair that probably is the case for most of them).

I feel like there should be a story based on this

I had a philosophical talk about this with my friend who was also into the game last year. I’m glad it’s getting recognition. Imagine if the Minecraft world simply existed as it did without the exerted will of one highly intelligent, undying being. One of our key points was that from the standpoint of the Minecraft world, it sees a player in the flesh as a humanoid, average height, blocky figure. But the truth is inside the mind of the player exists in a whole other dimension (the real world), and observes the Minecraft world omnipotently.

The problem with the prelit endportal is, that the seeds it exists on are never naturally chosen by the World generator, only if manually typed in. So the World does in fact need the player or else the chance of the portal being lit is infact 0%

One thing to consider is if it is even possible to spawn that much tnt. The world is finite, so it is likely that all the tnt would go to waste and nothing interesting would happen. But then you could consider starting a different world, ot even running infinitely many different worlds in in parallel. There are only so many random seeds, and the random generator isn't perfect, but if we assume a "true" random generator could be used, then yea the start would eventually align in one of these worlds after enough time.

Time could be infinite but there will be a time eventually when nothing will ever change or happen anymore, kinda like the universe's heat death theory, here's why: Creepers will sometimes explode, given enough time, creepers will explode the whole world down to bedrock, but mobs can't spawn in bedrock so the whole world ends up dying essentially. Im gonna call this the "Minecraft Entropy Death Theory"

If the fox with the elytra then returns to the overworld and finds a sweet berry bush, it will take the berries and drop the elytra, which can be picked up by a zombie. I don't think it can use the elytra, but at least it equipped it.

The new rarest naturally generated mob: A fox with an elytra

7:42 There is one major problem with this. Enderman can't pick up obsidian or end stone, and the dragon, flying around, will destroy anything the poor endermen will build, far quicker than they can place. And I know the whole point of this thought experiment, is that the most unlikely of possibilities will eventually occur, but it's virtually impossible, even under this hyper-long duration, that anything would be built in the end.

I love how at 1:46 all the sheep stay in pretty much the same spot through the timelapse while that one runs around them in circles like the world's on fire...

Player: don't want to beat the game The game: fine i'll do it myself

The longest possible Minecraft speedrun wouldn’t be sitting around but be the speedrun let Actively avoiding this situation

Imagine an enderman just blowing up your house then beating the game for you

This dude never runs out of theories and I love it

I'm gonna be honest, I think this is one of the best Minecraft videos on KZfaq. You totally undersold it with the title as well

Since these are pseudorandom numbers that power the mobs, they are cyclic, and it's very possible there is no seed that can have an RNG cycle leading to this. In fact, I'd say it is VERY likely for that to be the case.

While many event seems unlikely but are still technically possible , you should specify that this world is infinite in order to generate enough mansion ( thus tnt ) or assume many of the explosion would have to be done by creepers.

"The world is a canvas, the blocks are the paint and the player is the artist." Bro u are such a good poet

*"These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way."*

At these absurdly long time scales external cosmic rays could play a part in beating the game. All that needs to happen is for one to hit the device Minecraft is being played on and for it to hit the exact right transistor in order to cause some effect in the game. At even more absurd time scales quantum fluctuations could play Minecraft with a Boltzmann Brain-esque approach.

can't wait to see a "I drained an ocean monument" video uploaded by an enderman in billions of years

That's insane, imagine a game defeating itself, by itself. Even without any player interaction. That's actually crazy.

There is one issue with all this: random number generators in computers arent completely random. They do have faint patterns. You plot the outputs of a large no of random outputs onto a paper, you will see them. I have no idea how this will effect mob movement, but it COULD make the specified sequence of events impossible.

Two things get in the way of this being equivalent to infinite monkey theorem, pseudorandom numbers and finite TNT, but putting that aside is fair for a thought experiment

11:14 Some time ago i had a world which had a Ruined Portal with 1 missing obisidian block. That obsidian block was just placed in front of it, I only needed a diamond pickaxe to relocate it in the hole of the Ruined Portal

The part with the skeleton jockey makes me think of a scene where the spider giggles maniacally as it charges towards the end gateway, while the skeleton screams in terror, yelling "PUT ME DOWN! _PUT ME DOWN!"_

This depends on having a lot of TNT, but TNT is barely a renewable block even with player input and certainly not without. Fortunately, *most* of the uses are in fact doable by creepers.

Something to add on to this: IIRC, as of a recent update (1.20 I think, though I don't remember for sure), *all* RNG in Minecraft (that is, instead of just world generation) is now determined by the world seed. In a normal playthrough where the player actually does stuff, this has very little effect on gameplay because the exact time that something happens at (as far as I'm aware) combined with the world seed is what determines the final result of the number generator. BUT! In a world where no player does anything, everything would happen in the same order every time the world is generated for any given seed. What this means is that there is technically an optimal seed for an inputless speedrun. Oh, and considering that finding the seed to generate a particular world is a popular hobby in the Minecraft community (like they did with pack.png), well, if I'm right about this then hypothetically this hypothetical optimal seed could hypothetically be found. It's important to note that I didn't research this all that much and I could very much be completely wrong. If someone with more knowledge on this matter would like to confirm or correct any of what I've said, be my guest.

This is a classic

there are two types of probabilities presented in the video,which I found interesting. Some things are guaranteed to happen after an infinite amount of time on any world, such as the builds the Endermen could make, but also the kind that is not guaranteed, such as the End Portal generating with all eyes of Ender.

"Mobs moving around isn't interesting" you're wrong, watching a chicken walk around for a little bit is very entertaining because chickens are cute

rays from space sometimes, very rarely, flip bits in computers to different values. if those rays from space hit the computer enough times in enough precise ways, an ai player could be coded into the game, who would be able to use the elytra, kill the ender dragon, and do anything a normal player would be able to do.

The pigs at the beginning just standing there spinning and spinning was funny

"The world is a canvas, the blocks are the paint, and the player is the artist'' -RetroGamingNow

The fact that this is technically possible is genuinely insane.

10:42 "A monument could be defeated naturally" In 1.17 (Bedrock) I actually had a really hard time finding Ocean Monuments that _didn't_ come "pre-defeated" due to Axolotls spawning in the ocean and taking out Elder Guardians on their own. 😂

Thank you for this video. Imagining such possibilities, mathematics mixed with whimsy & a sprinkle of hope... It makes for such enriching daydreaming, really breathes new life into Minecraft itself. Makes me further appreciate when I find unique places, forms, & mob behaviors. Makes the game's world feel truly more alive. I myself had an extraordinary event happen to me in survival single-player that I never could have imagined: I had left a few tame wolves sitting on the surface, scattered around the village I was frequenting, & went caving, digging & exploring all over the place. I felt like I'd gone very far from the village, but maybe in all the meandering, I somehow ended up deep beneath it. Anyway, after a couple hours in the caverns, I got into trouble with a crowd of mobs; a creeper blew up, whittling my health down to low, a skeleton was shoving me toward lava with knockback arrows, & 2 or 3 zombies (somehow missed by those arrows) were keeping me from being able to escape & trying to tear me apart first. This was before shields were a thing, & I had so much precious loot on me! If I died, my stuff would most likely end up in the lava. I figured I was finished, my heart racing as I frantically swung my sword & tried in vain to recover lost ground, swearing like a sailor, desperate. But then suddenly, I heard the crash of lightning right overhead despite being far underground (not sure if they patched how loud it is yet or not; I haven't played MC for many years now), & suddenly there was a burning tamed wolf in front of me! Yelping in pain, he nonetheless attacked one of the zombies harassing me. I gasped & was frozen for a moment in total shock. But then a new desperation took hold: One of my pets was somehow here to save me, & I didn't want him to die! But the skeleton had now hit either me or him again (I forget which, it was a cluster-fluff), so he was running between the other zombie I was fighting & the skeleton up on higher ground. I yelled & managed to kill the zombie, then switched to my cooked steak & began spam-feeding my wolf (who was STILL on fire, mind you). He charged in earnest at the skeleton, still flinching from fire damage. Then while biting the skeleton, he also got hit by an arrow. I chased him & kept feeding, feeding, feeding him. (In other words, in vanilla survival Minecraft, I was suddenly a healer for a beast tank afflicted with Burning status!) Finally, he defeated the skeleton (I was too afraid to attack it myself, for fear of hitting him too), & he stopped burning. I fed him back to full health, & couldn't help but gush mixtures of praise & "HOW THE HECK DID THIS HAPPEN?! _WHAT EVEN_ HAPPENED?!" Needless to say, as soon as I had guided him back up to the surface & the village, he was the first to receive the honor of a name from one of my hard-earned nametags. I dyed his collar yellow, & named him Thor. The god of thunder. As for what happened, my only guess is that Thor just happened to get struck by lightning, & somehow it pushed him underground, where he was forced down to the next available air-blocks below him. Which just happened to be the cave I was in. And also just happened to be right at the moment I needed him most! It really is extraordinary how many circumstances just happened to line up for that unforgettable event. Which made this video really hit home for me extra hard. What seems completely improbable could still, indeed, be possible. Even things you never would have guessed could even happen. Even in our own lives, don't lose hope if things seem hopeless. So many, many things are possible, no matter how improbable. (...Even in your darkest hour, in the deepest caverns of despair, you too may be rescued by something as badass & random as a flaming wolf riding a bolt of lightning! 😄) 🐺🔥⚡

I could like imagine someone trying to get into the end portal and getting confused because of the end portal being completed.

I used to play yogbox mod in 2012 or something... it had advanced villagers that actually updated the village themselves. They built new houses when they got the materials and if you befriended them, they would even build a house for you block by block. I was so amazed to see such advanced AI in 2012. What a great mod

"But, when speaking in infinites, unlikely is just certainty waiting for its turn" - Narrator, In Space With Markiplier Part 2 Pilot

Why not create a server where you choose which mob (with advantages and disadvantages) to be and together with others you try to kill the dragon, build bases, where everyone with their presence helps everyone achieve all the goals of the game

Enough randomly fired arrows could eventually kill an evoker, resulting in the dropping of a totem of undying, meaning zombies and foxes can hold this rare item. not to mention, a close enough cave next to the desert pyramid and a few explosions at just the right place could result in the tnt being near enough to the tnt under the pyramid to make other things a lot easier. Also iron golems spawn naturally in villages that are big enough, and naturally repopulate if there are enough beds and a farmer villager, meaning that an iron golem could technically wander to the end. When the dragon is close enough the golems will try to attack and while they're not successful most of the time they can still produce a small amount of damage here and there.

i feel like the heat death of the universe could occurs a quadrillion times over before any of this just happens by chance, that's how low the chances of this are, interesting story nonetheless tho

Better than "Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing" compilations

Endermen would never pathfind into an activated end portal unfortunately. Also, Frost Walker is a treasure enchantment (like Mending) and would never appear on armor on Zombies or Skeletons, because those enchantments are based randomly on enchanting table levels 5 through 22

3:10 I don't think they could actually built that. Endermen, like the player, have a certain reach where they can place or remove blocks, and that tower is too high. They would have to teleport on top of it, and then they wouldn't be able to place because they're standing in the space they want to put the block. If the pillar was two blocks wide it would be possible, but a one block pillar isn't.

The MPV of this is the Enderman, if the Enderman ever got smart enough and wanted to save their fellow Enderman from the End, they could do it.

The best part of infinity is that not only has this exact set of events happened once, but it has happened an infinite amount of times within that world, as well as every other possible random outcome happening infinite amount of times.

i'm just in my car sitting here laughing at "we won't worry about infinite time" I love it so much

Endermen alone can actually build some of the "impossible" structures. Non-gravity blocks can be removed without the above ones falling down. Technically also possible in water with ludicrously better circumstances since endermen take damage and easily teleport if possible in a distance, but that's not guaranteed so ocean bridges could happen. What about bridging over end void? Likely yes. TNT cannons are possible assuming a mob could survive that in water and skeletons fire flame arrows on enough TNTs, but that's a 1 way trip. But endermen can carry mushrooms and mycelium. And mushrooms grow (at least I think they can do it the end). That's a bit of horizontal distance, but the height limit blocks it early, if we assume it being canon (though it has changed with updates). TNT could blow up the red mushroom blocks in a very specific way (since they don't have a flat top like brown), but that would only about double the distance. Utilizing TNT cannons it could be also done from the other end, but ludicrously more time needed. ~1000 blocks to cross and about 100 blocks done. I can't think of a further solution rn but I do strongly believe there is a way. However, if we don't strictly stay in the game, still having no player input, there's cosmic rays to worry about. If enough of them hit the computer in the right way, literally anything could be made happen in the game.

Endermen could make an iron farm, All they need is 5 beds to generate close enough to each other, 5 villagers to claim and sleep in those beds, enough leaves around the villagers to limit golem spawning, a platform for the golems to spawn on, and a lava pit to kill the iron golems. They wouldn't be able to put it in a chest, but foxes could get iron in their mouths from a machine that spawns and kills golems.

Enderman: Builder (The Mastermind) Fox: Item Transporter Creeper: Miner Skeleton: TNT Igniter Snow Golem: Triggerer Zombie: Ice bridge Builder Zoglin: Far End Island Attacker Player: Lazy