Great stuff! This is one of the earlier examples of Minecraft theorizing. It was one of the inspirations for the Deep Dive series, as well as MatPat's theories. Pretty cool to revisit this and see how in some ways it laid the groundwork for my KZfaq channel.

I think ( i have litle evidence ) that crying obsidian is formed when a portal is destroyed and the obsidian starts driping interdimentional energy.

Time for my mini theory: Soul Sand Valleys are the coldest biome in the Nether. Since primarily Skeletons spawn there, this also backs up how Wither Skeletons spawn. Skeletons that venture far out from Soul Sand Valleys are exposed to dangerously high temperatures that chars their bones, creating Wither Skeletons.

I think that the Nether Wastes were formed from the excessive mining of Netherite done by the piglins, and as a result, it has left a barren, jagged terrain where nothing grows but a few mushrooms.

Enderman only care if sentient creatures look at them. A pumpkin on your head means that you are a construct. If you buy into the enderman once being human then then this would also make sense.

“Quasi-lore is never set in cobblestone” I love that, that speech phrase is beautiful, very creative, good job

The chickens being spies thing has GOT to be a nod to Paulsoarsjr. He's one of the very first minecraft youtubers and he had spy chickens as a running joke ever since they were even introduced

The idea of "Giving pumpkins their own personality, and thus bringing them to life" is making me really happy

Here's my mini-theory regarding the Ender Dragon heads on the front of End Ships: A lot of people say that the Ender Dragon was slain before by the people (or things) that built the End Ships and the heads of those Ender Dragons were attached to the ships, but I don't think that's the case. I believe the heads were *crafted* by the ship builders as either decoration or a way to hopefully deter the Ender Dragon from attacking the ships. The first piece of evidence comes from the wood-like sound the heads make when you break them, leading me to believe they were crafted from wood. Another supporting piece of evidence comes from how the heads' mouths open and close when a redstone signal runs into them, suggesting they are mechanical. The third and final piece of evidence comes from how ships in real life were commonly decorated with animal heads on the bows.

I wonder if the reason piglins and hoglins get turned into zombies when they enter the overworld has something to do with zombification being a sort of pathogen. Because it’s a foreign disease and exists in large quantities in the overworld, it easily turns them into zombies. The reason villagers don’t turn so easily is because they have a certain level of immunity, and are only in danger of the pathogen if it enters directly into the bloodstream. Maybe that’s what happened to all of the humans, being all turned into various forms of undead due to a lack of immunity, and the ones who had some level of immunity gave rise to villagers and illagers. This may actually be a huge problem for the piglins, as some of the pathogen made its way into the nether. It would explain why piglins avoid zombie piglins, because they might fear catching the disease. It also may explain the bastion remnants. Perhaps the disease has been ravaging their civilization for years, leading to the slow decay of their society and, as a result, their precious bastions. Lots of stuff I know but I’m just spit balling.

The mushrooms on a mooshroom's back not causing them any discomfort makes me happy

Literally nothing has shaken me as much as realizing that mineshafts weren't mining for ores

15:17 Did you know? In vanilla desert temples, the top floor of a desert temple is the perfect size for a max level beacon, complete with a hole in the middle perfect for the beacon beam.

this is the content the community is sleeping on

I really like this video, and something to point out is that Dungeons is canon, and Dungeons has a ton of quasi-lore. As creator of the Dungeons-related portion of the wiki, I try to mention this without going too far into opinion-based theories but it's interesting to think about. When the Orb of Dominance creates a 'body' for itself (i.e. the heart of ender and jungle abomination), it always has enderman eyes, and all the plant-based monsters it made have purple glowing streaks running through them, suggesting the Orb is from or relates to the End. And because of that, the Illagers may even worship the Ender Dragon like the Endermen do (which is why there's end-related stuff everywhere in Highblock Castle, the Arch-Illager's home). Many items have lore of their own, like how Heartstealer (I could be remembering the item name wrong) was given to the general who conquered Squid Coast after his victory, suggesting he was killed at some point (because it would be embarrassing to lose a gift like that) In fact, about Highblock Castle, some item descriptions suggest there's a prison there that we never get to explore called Highblock Keep. There was apparently an Illager there who would use the Truthseeker sword (the long soul knife) for interrogations, and there was a jailor who was known as the "terror of Highblock Keep".

Another interesting link is that all magic draws back to the soul in some way. - All potions require an Awkward potion, which can only be brewed from Nether Wart, which only grows on Soul Sand. Interestingly, a Wart is usually something that grows on animals, not plants, meaning it may not be a plant at all, but rather some sort of organism or weird hybrid. You can't bone meal it either, like you can all other crops. So perhaps nether warts are an artificial lifeform that is capable of drawing and storing the energy from the souls trapped in soul sand, which is what gives all potions their magic. - Enchanting requires experience, which is drained from the player - but experience doesn't just passively generate, meaning it's not something like memories or thoughts or whatever, but rather something more ethereal. Another interesting aspect is that experience orbs burn in lava and fire, meaning they're physical objects that actually exist. You get experience from acts of change, by altering the world in an irreversible way - smelted ores cannot be unsmelted, slain mobs cannot be unslain, coal cannot be unmined, etc etc. Considering the fact that it's some form of energy and it does not appear in your inventory leads me to believe that experience is stored in the soul. - Ender Pearls hurt you when thrown, but why? Chorus fruit doesn't, so why would a pearl? I think it's a trade-off for the magic that went into enchanting the pearl, plus the fact that you, as a water-based lifeform, aren't fully compatible with the kind of teleportation the pearls perform. So it draws on your health during the act of teleportation, siphoning away a chunk of your health to fuel itself. - The color of both the Totem of Undying's eyes and its particles is 100% the same as the color of experience orbs and the experience bar. - The Witch's hat has a gem of that same color on it. - Beacons require a Nether Star, which needs a Wither, which is summoned with Soul Sand. This is too consistent to not be intentional, imo. But I wonder if it goes deeper than that, if there's more to it than just "magic comes from the soul".

I feel like witches are ex villages who got a little too into potions and were banished from the village, and the reason they attack the raid illiger things is because they still feel a connection to the villagers and want to protect but they still have some prejudice towards the villagers so don’t fully attack

How did I never draw the connection between ghast tears being used for both regeneration potions and end crystals? it feels so obvious now

One thing that's interesting in the lore is that redstone is almost completely exclusive to the player. Only redstone machines are in jungle temples and they're pretty basic ones. It's a nice contrast from other mobs making it mystical vs mechanical power. Jungle temples may be the last thing expiremented on before the ancient race disappeared. Or maybe they dismissed it.

1:21 also, ghasts are sort of similar to jellyfish, and a species of jellyfish called turritopsis dohrnii is allegedly the only biologically immortal species -- this could tie it back into the whole regeneration thing

This is great! I've never thought of water as being connected to preservation, but it makes total sense.

Zombies used to drop feathers, years ago. If chickens serve as spies for them, then the feather might be where that link is. Perhaps a feather and chicken could be paired as a sort of quantum-entanglement for wireless redstone.

11:14 I always knew chickens were up to something. When I was younger, playing in beta 1.7, I was too scared of the monsters in minecraft, so I only played in peaceful. I still managed to find ways to though. One time after setting up a little base and even finding my first diamonds, I was investigating a lava cave near the surface. I dropped down to a block in the cave with lava all around it to get a better look, and I thought it was pretty cool. All of a sudden, a chicken stepped down onto the block I was on. I turned around and looked at it, and before I could do anything else, it pushed me into the lava, killing me. At this time I had a habit of wandering far from spawn and I didn't understand that you had to sleep in a bed to set your spawn, so I never found my base again. Damn chicken...

Can't forget that on Bedrock Edition water turns purple in the End and up until very recently if you used the /fill command, water was red in the nether.

The realization shulker shot and conduits are the same shape made me choke

One of the earlier designs for the strider looked even more like a ghast where it had a bunch of legs!

I feel like the ravagers may be part of the "unspeakable activities." maybe the pillagers were clerics and stuff, but worked too hard to bring dead villagers back to life? they might've done something to the dead villagers that brings them back to life but also makes them into the ravager. the other villagers might've seen this as repulsive and kicked them out of the town, only for the pillagers to die on their own and were healed by endermen, explaining their gray complexion, their want to kill the villagers and why they may worship the ender dragon just a tiny theory though haha um I know I'm three months late :'0 update july 2023: i looked at the old ravager model, and it is the exact same as the iron golem but like. on all fours. so that's something to think abt!!!!!

Given how in-depth this is, I was slightly surprised you didn’t mention quartz's connection with detecting things. It is utilized in the crafting recipes for daylight sensors, observers, and redstone comparators, all three of which connect to detecting something in one way or another.

The totem of dying XD

Finally, someone who thinks a LOT about things and shares his interesting thoughts.

Neat Enderman fact the sound they make while teleporting is called a vwoop

Personal Theory: the heart of a Creeper is not shaped like a TNT, TNT is shaped like a Creeper's heart.

Personal Quasi-Lore Theory: Dragons existed in both the Overworld and Nether many years ago. This could explain why the Red Dragon was never added to the game. Proof of their existence could be the large skeletons of creatures found in the Soul Sand Valleys, and at rare times deep in caves. Maybe they were hunted to extinction by the ancient race of humans. The last survivor of the Red Dragons may have hid away and hybernated for eons after, only to wake up with the Overworld completely gone, with only few pieces of debris floating around the void as the End dimension. The Red Dragon would adapt to the new enviornment, and turn into the Ender Dragon. The reason it may attack the player could be because it still hates for what our kind did to hers. P.S. Great video. I never would've thought as Quasi-Lore being the word to describe the story of minecraft, and I loved the addtion of mods in your video to tell your ideas. Keep up the great work.

I've always seen the end as an in-universe version of the far lands because in the far lands you tend to jump about because of lag and the world generation is broken and the whole world just kind of starts to fall apart and I thought was that when you go very far out in universe that eventually the world generation just becomes so messed up that it becomes despair and landscape that is the end and the enderman obviously corrupt and warp wherever they spend long periods of time the end itself is dis corrupted broken place as you can see from the warped forests in the nether.

I love this because it explains why so many people were convinced by the Aether mod! Nether portals are made from a dark glassy block that absorbs light which is activated by fire, leading to a deep dark arid place, while the aether portal is made from bright glowing glassy blocks which only spawn high up on ceilings and would be activated by water to bring you to an expansive bright and cold dimension. it just makes so much intuitive sense!

"Villagers contain sizable brains which they put to good use calculating trade deals" *Destroys farmland and trading them their own food and a bunch of sticks*

I'm not a fan of the mobestiary's depiction of the creeper cross section lol. I much prefer creepers just be some wholly autonomous plant thing that gained sentience through magic or something, since the entire world of minecraft is clearly rife with magical alterations made in some apocalyptic manner (if it wasnt like that at the beginning, at least)

I've always had my own theories to Minecraft's lore. It's an abandoned world after all. I think I'd prefer if the lore of the world was kept vague, however I don't want them to make it explicit.

Honestly, I love that the end portal is uncraftable, it means there's a possibility that there was a civilization before you that was even MORE advanced than you are. It would be more fitting if there was ender portals hidden in a new structure, and they were super rare. I would suggest remaking the old jungle trap building so it can be bigger, and hold the ender portals. And maybe there could be a new artificial-made armor using material only found in the structure too

The concept of shulkers actually being golems is one that greatly intrigues me from a lore perspective and from a gameplay perspective. On the lore side of things, we have: who built the shulkers (and the end cities, by extension)? Were it the endermen? If so, how did they manage to create the levitation effect? Does it have something to do with the conduit connection you made in the video? On the gameplay side, imagine if we could create our own ender golems that we could use to guard our homes. Maybe you could create them by placing certain items into shulker boxes, giving them life? I'd say... a carved pumpkin has to be in there. After all, based on what you said, it seems to be the thing that gives golems life. Then, for the levitation... maybe chorus fruits could somehow factor in? Maybe a conduit is actually a key component?

Fun fact: Endermen still have green eyes. They have a glowing purple layer above their green eyes. Similar to how a spider has red eyes on it's texture, but also has a glowing layer.

I really like the ‘quasi-lore’ , as you’ve put it, in minecraft. It keeps alive the very distinct atmosphere and focus of minecraft while adding to the a foreboding/ominous tone that I think the game has always had in a sense.

Crafting the totem of undying: “I’m throwing away my humanity, JoJo!”

Pumpkins have some sort of magical property that allow them to bring statues to life, Golems. Endermen don't attack players with pumpkin heads because they are Golems, this could also explain how creepers have literal TnT in their bodies, they were just a Golem made of grass and TnT.

I've been trying to put together pieces like this for years, and ended up forgetting about it until now. So thanks for the inspiration! My personal theory regarding the undead is more based in magic over a pathogen, with the ruling idea being that either the overworld is infused with necromantic energy or the undead are simply cursed. This would help explain their relationship to potions and sunlight, since it's a common trope that undead in games are healed by evil magic and harmed by healing magic, and the sunlight being considered a "holy" object in that sense and smiting them. Writing that just reminded me that there Is an actual enchantment named smite that deals extra damage to undead, plus villagers have churches (and various lost temples). I've now jumped into a rabbit hole of minecraft and villager religion lmao.

I have a bit of quasi-lore myself on the piglins using gold instead of netherite: Gems and metal deposits take a long time to convert from stone or coal into said material. It could be said that the ancient piglins used to wear netherite armor and used so much of it that it is no longer a renewable resource. After those generations had passed, all the netherite tools and armor that they used to wear began to break and vanished. Now, piglins use gold because it's the only other metalic material in the nether that can be made into armor and tools. However, even gold is starting to diminish so why isn't it starting to disapear as well? I mean, only nuggets of gold can be found in the netherack deposits so it is definitely happening, but it could be that netherite doesn't generate naturally. It could be a rare chemical event that takes place when gold reaches a certain depth in the nether. After all, gold is used in the production of netherite bars. Sorry, I realized I'm starting to ramble now but that's basically my quasi-headcannon.

I love how there’s evidence of a previous player on the world, who has knowledge that you don’t. At the end you talk to a sort of sentient spirit. What if that player advanced so much that it transcended beyond the physical realm? Maybe when you beat the dragon, you temporarily join their world, but for whatever reason you leave it?

When you suggested the potential recipe for totems of undying, I wondered why soul sand wasn't a part of the recipe until I realized that soul sand and soul soil are usually interpreted negatively and are potentially different from the soul energy you collect in mc dungeons. They pull you down into them and slow your movement. They are used to create the wither. Not to mention the fact that piglins run away from any form of soul fire. Probably due to them knowing that some form of soul sand is in it and they know the true natures of it. This could also explain the existence of the soul speed enchantment. Piglins hate soul sand so much, they made an enchantment that specifically repels the properties of soul sand, hence why you move faster when walking on it with the enchantment. The only positive thing soul sand is used for is in water elevators. And since water doesn't exist in the nether, Piglins have all the more reason to despise soul sand.

The Badlands one is a really great idea, and would make sense, especially for teaching new players about constructing things, like how in 1.16 they added the ruined portals

The Wither Skeletons spawning in fortresses, implying that they built them possibly when they were alive. The Soul Sand Valleys could also be where their souls are trapped, leaving the empty bodies to guard the fortress forever (until Steve kills them)

I've always felt like the wither and the other undead are more connected than most think. The wither and wither skeletons seem almost like especially potent undead, capable of transferring it to the living - a curse that quickly deteriorates those affected by it. It seems whoever or whatever built the fortresses was completely overrun, whereas the piglins and their bastions remain somewhat more intact as a society, but they still avoid the undead. What's quite interesting to me is that ancient debris is made with netherite, yet not much really survives in the nether. This concept of ancient structures of netherite nearly being entirely destroyed, combined with the ruined portals in the overworld being shattered, partially converted into crying obsidian (which appears to be obsidian imbued with the portal's energy), and surrounded by nether materials, supports a theory that the nether was once very different, but was warped into something completely different, and more like what it is now. The ecosystems within it and the current damaged structures would've been made after such an event, but some of the lighter effects, those which cause the undead, escaped into the overworld, and discovery of this would've lead to the carvings on the red sandstone. Also, I feel like the concept of golems is somewhat underrated in Minecraft. Iron golems and snow golems are well-known, but the shulkers and guardians being similar is something many don't consider, that golems we can't make exist. It would explain why elder guardians are limited (though still existing in very large amounts) in numbers forever. The wither itself is a form of golem as well, made of skulls of the most potent undead and sands imbued with the forever reaching souls of others (soul sand slows you because it pulls at your feet, and also it used to physically have a shorter hitbox because of this).

i would actually love a mod with that undead totem

Awesome - I love pondering things like this... enjoyed this video a lot. Personal theory: The Cleric villager, who uses the brewing stand and trades for gold (a conductor), redstone (an energy source) and zombie flesh, is responsible for making the golems that spawn in villages - but his methods are a little darker than Steve's...

Minecraft Hypothesis: The many ruins and structures were all built by the recently extinct humans, and Steve (the player) is the last remaining human. And the various undead humanoids (zombies and skeletons) with the exception of the undead pig variations are undead humans that have somehow been transformed. Villagers were likely another species of human in the same genus, similar to how there were previously other species of human in our world besides Homo Sapiens (us) like Homo Erectus or Homo Neanderthalensis. The villager humans or Homo Vicanus ("Human villager" in Latin) managed to survive whatever mass extinction event had occurred previously. And the various ruins, structures and artifacts scattered around the Overworld and the Nether were are all that remains of the now practically extinct species of Human. As stated earlier, Steve is the only one left. The Endermen are another genus entirely and their humanoid appearance is likely convergent evolution as they appear to have originated from the End and then travelled to the other dimensions. Other peculiar mobs such as Golems and Guardians are mechanical machines with some basic consciousness and were used as defensive sentries by Humans before they went extinct. However some Golems and Guardians appear to have survived, the Guardians maintaining their post at the sea temples and the Golems being used by the Villagers as their own means of defense, whether the Golems went to the villagers after the people they were supposed to protect died or whether the Villagers took them to their villages is unclear however that is unimportant. What exactly caused the mass extinction of Homo Sapiens or humans is unknown and there is no concrete evidence to suggest anything. However there are possible correlations or assumptions that can be made. 1. The zombies and skeletons were the cause of the extinction rather than the aftermath. Perhaps some single event, whether it be a disease or some sort of corruption or the doing of another mob or other form of natural disaster caused someone or many people to turn into variations of zombies and skeletons. The most likely result is that it was somehow contagious or had some way of spreading and wreaked havoc on the human population as it killed and/or infected the population. And eventually managed to cause the near total extinction of the species with the only exception of Steve. The respawn aspect of Steve likely has no lore associated with it although it would certainly be interesting if it did. Games that make lore out of the respawn mechanic are often very interesting but that's beside she point. 2. The undead humans are the resulting aftermath, and some other event or mob or thing caused the extinction. It is unlikely in my opinion that there was some other event or mob or thing that managed to cause the extinction of humans however it is not impossible. There are some candidates that could possess the means to wage war on humanity such as the Endermen and Illagers, however neither is remotely likely to cause the extinction as Endermen are generally peaceful unless provoked (or looked at in the eye) and Illagers are just violent Villagers and are small in number and primitive compared to what their equivalent of Homo Sapiens would have been. The only other things that come to mind that could have had something to do with the destruction of humanity would be the Ender dragon (very unlikely) and other disasters unrelated to the doings of other mobs (somewhat unlikely). Of course, none of this is objective and the point of Minecraft is to draw your own conclusions and the entire idea of lore is itself subjective. Many things are just there for gameplay reasons and have no lore to surround them or it would or wouldn't make sense for something to have lore. A lot of ideas and hypothesis take clear gameplay related mechanics or features or other random things and turn them into lore that simply has no reason to exist. The various other relatively minor details such as hypothesized Chicken spies and pumpkins and other things likely have no explanation and fit into the previously mentioned category of gameplay mechanics. Other than that, that is my hypothesis about some of Minecraft's recent lore.

It’s so cool how the Nether’s 8:1 ratio was inspired by the Wheel of Time!

I like to imagine the ender dragon controls the endermen, maybe against their will, that's why you get free the end when killing the dragon.

In dungeons, the reason given for the undead not attacking illagers is that the nameless one made a pact with the illagers.

15:18 this beacon hinting exists in regular desert temples, if you filled the part above the trap with ore blocks, and a beacon at the small hole at the top, the beacon would work perfectly

This video has stuck in my head since I first watched it a year ago. Now, with the introduction of the wild update (and the connection between souls + experience as well as skulk and the player being the only known users of this magic system) it’s amazing to see the minecraft team starting to build real lore into the game. All the additions are carefully calculated to fit into a grand idea, and this grand idea has been a part of minecraft since the beginning.

Definitely a LOT of interesting connections, you make there. I thought I thought a lot about the lore but I came to realise, I didn't xD You have definitely given me something to think about and I will probably rewatch this video a lot :D Thank you so much for your hard work!

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG

I like the fact that XP is some sort of soul energy in Minecraft. Destructive activities like mining, killing mobs, destroying mob spawners give energy(XP) while actions like enchanting and naming require a lot of energy. which means that soul sand contains a ton of energy. that is why soul speed boots are fast only on soul sand and soil, the one plant that grows on it has magical properties (nether wart), it creates blue fire resembling the color of souls and it has the ability to spawn the wither using its soul energy and a body (wither skulls). A good way to build on it is for wither roses to have 2x damage when planted on soul sand. or if running with soul speed on soul sand converts it into soul soil after a while.

Endermen are definitely up to something. They are in every dimension and they are taking blocks to somewhere, I think it would be cool if there was a rare structure built by endermen.

*proceeds to learn how to code and creates mod inspired by this video'

It's nice how him pronounce Quasi in a perfect way, I don't even understand why all those Italian words are in English

I think piglins aren’t fooled by gold, but instead see a player wearing gold as a kind of assimilation l

In Minecraft Dungeons, spoilers for Echoing Void DLC While the enderman brings the shard of the orb to the end portal, it says "To. The. Beginning." What happens here, is that the enderman brings out the inhabitants of the end to spread across the overworld. This would imply the overworld was once ruled by the Ender people and were sealed away through the portal by the people (the player's species). 'Free the end' makes me believe that the dragon was summoned with the end crystals as a seal that prevented the fountain from being activated and allowing the endermen to run free throughout the world. This would give a reason why the endermen attack the dragon sometimes, in an attempt to provide assistance to the player in destroying the seal that keeps them imprisoned in the end. But why would the people banish the Ender people? Perhaps there was a war that was lost by the endermen? Perhaps the Ender people's technology was advancing too far, threatening the lives of the rest of the overworld inhabitants. But why would the people then construct cities in the end? Obviously, endermen cannot mine or use tools and armour, so a large amount of the resources stored in cities must be from the people. Perhaps they inhabited the end prior to banishing the Ender people there? It would make sense, as they also sealed the portal to the outer ends away behind the dragon, to prevent the Ender people from travelling there. For whatever reason they were banished, Im convinced they were once living in harmony with the people in the overworld. Perhaps the stray endermen you find in the overworld and warped forests are those that managed to escape the people and survive the banishing.

I feel like this is a great place where I can gush about how amazing the nether update was for making quasi lore for the nether. Like before I always hated the nether it was insanely bland and boring, just hell dimension I guess. But with the update they even made the nether wastes interesting without changing them at all by just making other biomes. With crimson forests being a thing, with full vegitation, even civilization and animals it then paints nether wastes not as generic hell, but as a dead, desert like version of the forests, which just makes you wondered what happened that it changed to this dead place. Its full of zombified piglins and ghasts, just barren netherrack with no plants, it screams as if something like a plauge destroyed the whole place. By extension Warped forests give you even more questions, they're mirrored versions of crimson forests, with how the end stone is mirrored cobblestone it makes you think if perhaps the end dragon or the enderman can somehow corrupt places or recreate them in some capacity in their own alien reversed way. Basalt deltas give you an idea why the whole place is filled with lava, clearly its some volcanic reactions filling the whole place up, creating huge lakes. It also amazing to see how creatures adapted, striders can move on lava and eat warped fungi, perhaps they live in some sybiosis with the enderman. Magma cubes also live in basalt deltas, you know its hot when magma itself comes to life. Soulsand valleys at last give you a totally diffrent idea than all the other biomes. Its clear this place is dead but unlike the nether wastes this is a diffrent kind of dead. Soulsand around you gives of the idea that this is like a desert but filled with souls which can't rest, skeletons walk around and you see huge remains of long dead creatures and huge ghasts flying around. Who knows maybe they are all that remaind of those dead creatures, the certainly the only thing around that comes close to the size of the fossils. All od this makes nether alive and just being there makes you wonder what the hell happened here, unlike how nether was before. Mojang has really made an amazing job with this, its not just a bland "hell" world, its another dimention which lives and breathes and you can wonder forever how parts of it came to be how they are now. I love that minecraft makes its lore just like everything else in it with the mentality of "build it yourself". They won't give you all the answers its up to you to see the places they made and then fill the pieces yourself, if there was just one truth about what happened it would be boring.

How channels like this only have a few thousand subscribers and people that do half the work get over 10 million subs boggles my mind. This channel is sooo underrated, it deserves at least 1 million subs!!

“There’s no dialogue or books explaining its content” Minecraft end credits: hold my enter pearls

Awesome video! Note about the golems and their relation to pumpkins: the golems are a rather faithful reference to the jewish legend of the golem, who is made of clay and turned to life by carving the word "truth" (in hebrew) on his forehead. The important takeaway here is that there's nothing significant about his structure, but rather the words he bears. This would mean the pumpkin in minecraft is not a magical vessel, at least in this case, but most likely chosen because it resembles a face.

I don't think we need an in-game explanation for why cats attack birds.

So many great lore ideas in the comments, thanks for opening up this discussion it’s always a blast

I thought Netherite was more like an alloy, huh.

I’ve always thought of creepers as mother nature’s servants, foliage golems built to restore the natural order by destroying potentially dangerous structures and people (aka the player).

All the ways of thinking led me to theorize my own thing: Piglins actually originate from the over world. The first reason that comes to mind is: they are pig hybrids. And while yes, that’s true, I believe there is a little more to that. For example, where did they get leather and iron nuggets from? Why do the fortresses have... saddles? All of this can further support the fact that piglins used to be real pigs that came from the over world. Maybe, it was a stormy day, and lightning struck some of them, resulting in piglins. However, they became very cold quickly, and looked for a way to warm. And thus, gathering resources, they discovered that gold can make apples have warming properties (which can explain the fire resistance). While they were mining for gold in the underground, a massive wall of lava came down, and they were fortunate enough to stop it with water. What they didn’t realize, was that they made a portal by accident. A source of lava nearby ignited it, and they were curious. Only the most daring of the piglins went and came back through the portal (explaining the origin of the brutes). When they reported warmth, all of the piglins quickly left everything behind to get to the nether and be warm without any golden foods. Since all of them had headed to the nether, they abandoned all of their mines (explaining the abandoned mine shafts). Ruined portals are portals left behind by the piglins thousands of years ago, when they first heard that there was a dimension, and decided to make portals of their own. They left behind offerings such as gold blocks and gear to help any piglin that decided to go back to the over world (explaining the ruined portals). This has probably been my best theory yet, and I hope it gets attention.

this is actually one of my favorite things that mojang has done. unlike other big games, minecraft is truly creative in almost every way possible

random thought. Badlands structure always spawning in the location of a nether fortress(it would indeed be ridiculously rare) and containing a ruined portal, as some sort of passage to the wither skeletons to the overworld. This vid was an amazing insight to things I liked about minecraft but couldn't name. Mojang has always been very considerate about their core ideas - ugly/cute designs that mesh with the flat, yet sometimes beautiful nature of pixelated blocks, a lack of deeper information, leading to questions it's great. This is why demands asking for dozens of new ores, new challenges, and countless new mobs always seemed riduculous to me because it would likely just create a hodge-podge of barely connected ideas. Minecraft is very much a sandbox game, not only for players but for the modders too. It has many, many ideas that can be explored as freely as one wishes. or maybe not im tired , it's 3am and im waxing poetic for minecraft lol

You are probably the smartest Minecraft KZfaq I’ve ever heard of

Honestly the chorus fruit being named after the sounds they made when an explorer was studying them just gave me an epiphany about the different ways in which sound and music could be utilized in an end update! We know chorus fruit don’t make sounds in game, but what if different plants in the end were added that had small ambient sounds when you got near them? Or perhaps they make louder sounds when they reach full growth stage? In addition eating them would give strange effects. Like perhaps one of them gives you levitation? Or one that lets you see all entities like wall hacks? After all what’s more alien than an exotic jungle filled with musical plants? In addition this would give 2 new mobs for the end to explore with. 1 mob that is passive and can give you buffs based on sound. And 1 mob that screams at you and gives you debuffs. Another idea I had was an acidic biome for the end. But I’m not sure how that would do well, as it could be seen as just a Basalt Delta 2.0.

14:22 gj matpat, you got your theories made semi-canon

Fun tidbit: The advancement "Those Were The Days" is a reference to the indie game "Bastion," where the narrator uses that line to lament the world being destroyed & the titular Bastion being the only thing that survived.

Such an interesting video as someone who has begun getting interested in designing a server to expand upon vanilla and encourage exploration this really helps with understanding how to make things feel like they're built upon vanilla in the same style, without just being stuck on top of vanilla but unrelated to it, or just changing what already exists accidentally.

I think the achivement "those were the days" for the bastions represents the fact that piglins are a dying race of sorts. All their great works, like the bastions are crumbling, and the bastion represents their height, so going into a ruined one brings up "those were the days." the days when the piglins actually were a thriving race of some sort.

It's also interesting to know that Ghasts came from the Overworld, we know that from the achivement "Rescue a Ghast from the Nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld and then kill it" It seem that the ghasts were a major threat and were banished to the Nether and thier tears were used to create the end crystals. We know that the crystals ressurect and heal the dragon that would mean anyone who made the crystals created the dragons (plural since we can find dragon heads on flying ships) That's a one messy theory, I don't know why anyone would create a dragon (perhaps for experience you get from slaying a dragon, there are a lot of enchanted tools in the End)

This video wasn't long enough imo, I loved hearing your thoughts on how pieces of lore connect.

Maybe the Ghast isn't an undead mob because unlike zombies or phantoms (who kinda seem like flying corpses) they simply aren't dead. They are just giant, ghost like creatures. The Wither doesn't attack it because it's body might not be organic, so it just ignores Ghasts.

3 months late, but I think this is a great video explaining the sympathetic magic of minecraft. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for your videos in the future.

But then we have another quasi-lore, Modded minecraft's quasi-lore especially FTB series. What created the twilight forest, Who created the magic? And so much more.

this is so cool!! i've been writing lore for a small smp i have with friends and this has really helped me come up with ideas!! you're very creative and i dig it!!

I’ve been worried about this idea going unnoticed lately, thanks for pointing this stuff out!!! love your channel!!

80% of the content referenced here is completely new to me... They've just kept adding more stuff!

This video is beautifully made. In fact the best I've ever seen covering the "lores" of minecraft. And your channel is a gem too, I can't believe I have only discovered this channel now. I can't wait to see more videos from you.

The reason creepers explode is because they want to give you a hug, they explode from either excitement or sadness Sadness because they don't have arms for hugging

Here's my theory: The squids are coming. They are coming from their own dimension, and they want to take over the local Minecraft dimensions. It explains warped forests, why guardians attack squids, why their mascot is babbling about a squid invasion, what they will do after the Content Era, and whatnot. Oh yeah, here's a little thing I came up with: Alpha Era Beta Era Classic Era 1.0-1.6 - The Great Intermission 1.7-1.8 The Polishing Era 1.9-1.12 - Precontent Era 1.13 The Content Era 1.14-Present This is for the final updates, so 1.14.1 doesn't count as a direct part, etc.

Maybe the reason the creepers have tnt inside of them is because they have been created? Maybe some ancient civilisations experimented with Pigs, perhaps piglins or whoever made the creeper carvings in the temples, inspired by the fact that creepers were created by accident.

this is game theory but less cringe i like it

Man, this video turned out to be much better (amazing) than I first expected when I clicked on it.

I’d just like to say your videos and ideas are so cool and i really respect how a quarter of comments in all of your comment sections are you replying to people, amazing stuff!

1:27 about that, incase you know minecraft education edition, you probably know about underwater tnt and it being a bypass to water explosion protection, i dont know why but i always thought about what if minecraft edu was in the main game with its chemicals and compounds, maybe sodium (which is needed in the crafting of said tnt) could by tied to more or less bypass some ways of damage (maybe reduce damage done by dragons breath or something else that is usefull), i think about such a system incorperating reallife things and making them suit minecraft's magical aspects regulary, i know it will never happen, but i like to think about it, and its a good thought excercise (one more thing i would like to mention is that if such a system with sodium would be added, it would have to be addressed that you probably shouldn't boil down and drink sodium in reallife, maybe make it be combined with a magical item (possible lapis) to "neutralize" it ) (idk why i am editing this about 40 seconds after posting it, i thought about how endermen teleport away when in rain/water, maybe their skin has some sodium in it that goes thru its chemical reaction when touching the water, causing the enderman very strong pain due to literal bombs going off on its skin, which could maybe mean that the end, where endermen presumibly come from would have a very high level of sodium, but if so, why is there no sodium in the end stone? (from what i remember) and why doesn't it hurt the player when they eat chorus? is steve not made out of water? and why doesnt endstone explosively combust when in or near water? and do endermen only have their outer skin out of partial sodium? and why do enderpearls work inside water? are the enderpearls and organ of the enderman? the heart? the liver? the balls? so many questions... so little damn answers because edu doesn't have any established lore (why does noone make a lore videos about it? its so interesting from a lore standpoint), well, looks like i can keep rambling about it, #justiceforeducationedition) (idk why i had to make a # joke at the end)