Ender Dragon Theory: Judging by the dragon heads on the end cities, there were probably once many more ender dragons. While the endermen were enslaved, the ender dragons were hunted to extinction to obtain the dragon head. The end cities are wonky and tall because their purpose was to hunt and kill ender dragons. Dragon heads were a valuable and admired trophy, a sign of power or something.

My take: You need eyes of ender to open the ender portal. By looking an enderman in the eye, you're basically telling them you want to kill them for their eyes

Easy, Endermen just have social anxiety Edit: 1k likes, this makes me legally famous

Player: *stares at enderman* Enderman: are you judging me? *Attacks*

"The enderman seems to be the most intelligent of them all" Villagers and Piglins: *Am I a joke to you?*

My theory is that since their voice is saying “look for the eye” and they only attack when you look away, this means that staring them in the eye is good and they like it and you are taking it away from them

This also explains why sometimes Endermen try to attack the dragon, speaking of how the dragon is supposed to keep them there so they aren't free.

ender men have a civilized community Pillager: Am I a joke to you?

I think the endermen started a advanced civilization by the time the player arives and they moved into and maintained the end cities

One problem the achievement "free the end" shows that the enderman were held captive in the end by the dragon the dragon wasn't just a guard she was a tyrant

My theory is that the Ender Dragon is holding the endermen hostage, hence the achievement ‘Free the End’, and endermen have facial dysmorphia, and as players can talk, the endermen might think that the players would be insulting the endermen, and that is why they attack them.

There’s a popular theory out there that Endermen were once a race of Ancient Builders who got trapped in the End. The theory is that long ago some Ancient Builders were experimenting with portals when they stumbled across the discovery of the End Dimension. They sent some scouts to the dimension to explore it, but something went wrong and they got trapped on the other side in the End. Being in a strange new land out in the open with the constant threat of the Ender Dragon over their heads, the trapped explorers fled to the outer islands for safety. With limited resources the Ancient Builders made due with what they had, building structures out of surrounding materials. Despite living in such a barren waste land they still found ways to make astonishing accomplishments. They created new light sources using Blaze Rods they brought with them through the portal and Popped Corus Fruits. They also found two new forms of storage, using Blaze Rods, Ender Pearls, and obsidian they found a way to make a chest that could teleport their items anywhere they wanted. They also used Skulker Shells and chests to make boxes that could hold large quantities of items that they could carry wherever they went. And perhaps their most impressive achievement was their invention of the Elytra which allowed them to fly and travel great distances across the End. However when it came to food all they had were some beetroot seeds, but without soil to plant them, they ended up storing them away. Instead they had to live off the native Corus Plants and ate nothing but Corus Fruit, however the fruit had the unfortunate side effect of teleporting whoever ate it. This meant ever time the Ancient Builders needed to eat they also teleported at random. With nothing but Corus Fruit to eat and the exposure to constant darkness over time they eventually began to go mad. Their bodies began to change, they became tall, dark, slim armed creatures with glowing purple eyes. The once peaceful Ancient Builders had now become an entirely new race and dubbed themselves the “Endermen.” Eventually the Endermen developed the ability to teleport on command without the aid of the fruit and spread quickly across the End hopping from one End Island to the next. At some point the Endermen learned how to not just teleport great distances, but between dimensions. After countless years of being stranded in the End, the creatures the were once the Ancient Builders had finally returned to the Overworld and also found ways to teleport to other dimensions like the Nether. While some chose to leave the End Dimension most of the Endermen decided to stay because it was the only home they had known for so long. Today Endermen are found in every dimension. They are elusive, mysterious, and are often seen picking up and placing random blocks without a real objective other than them reflecting on the creative intelligent race they once were. They know about us and normally want nothing to do with us other than occasionally steal our building supplies. But for the most part they just wanna be left alone and hate being looked at. If you stare at an Enderman directly in the eyes it will attack you. The theory is that when we look at them, we remind them of their past life and what they once were which drives them into a blind rage as they know they can never get that life back.

Endermen are the ancient builders who found their way to the end, created the end cities, and were mutated by parasites from the endermites in the pocket dimension of the ender pearls and get angry because your face reminds them of what they once were. The end crystals are to protect the last ender dragon because the rest had been killed. (Note the dragon heads on end ships.) The elytra were made from the scales of the ender dragon. The shulkers were made from the souls of the ancient builders who died and pieces of end stone and their shells were made of purpur. (The teleportation came from the chorus fruit that the purpur was made of.)

Idea that I think you forgot: When the player fights the ender dragon, sometimes the endermen team up with you and try and hurt the dragon. That wouldn't make much sense if the dragon was put there to protect the exit portal. :/ what do you think?

0:39 The pig be like: Imma leave, bye

I love your channel/videos since most other MC theorists usually have half-baked theories, but your theories are full-proof and don't have many (if any) flaws in them! These are great explanations. Considering how little Mojang tries to help the community figure out MC's lore you're doing an amazing job!

"when you try kill the enderdragon, the endermen just get in the way and end up swarming you and killing you" every heard of carved pumpkins?

The first time they attacked me I did a whole backflip.

This theory is good,love your content dude

Your videos help me understand minecraft in more ways then possible so.. thanks for them!😄😊

0:19 Enderman: *Im just gonna walk through the block without anyone noticing me..* Edit: Here’s a theory about the end cities. The Endermen DID build them, because before, they could pick up any block in the Minecraft universe, even bedrock. They collected chorus plants and made them popped chorus, then they made purpur blocks out of them. Then, they made End Stone bricks out of the End Stone. But after this, the ancient builders got them to work so much that they forgot how to pick up most blocks, so now they can only pick up specific ones. This is a theory about the elytra. The Endermen were the only species that roamed the end, and they could only teleport, but couldn’t go high up, and fly. So, here’s a theory. They went to the overworld, and tried to kill some phantoms with resources they had, and they got phantom membranes. And they made elytra out of the many they had. They kept the elytra in End Ships, with two chests containing powerful loot. Then, a wired mob, known as the shulker was discovered when Endermen destroyed more chorus plant trees. First, the shulker was just a small shulker head that bounced around,but when they aged, they grew shells and in size, and their shells were very light, that’s how people can use them as backpacks. The shulker bullets come out of the shulkers hidden mouths under their head. The lines beside their head represent scars that they got from the injuries they took from when their chorus plants were destroyed. Now, they live in End Cities. This is a theory about the Endermen s eyes. Endermens eyes used to be green, how the ancient builders discovered Endermen atleast. They killed many Endermen, and before the ender pearl was invented, Endermen dropped their eyes. But then, a wired plant started to grow in the end, the chorus plant. They ate some of the fruit that the plants produced, and their eyes became purple from a wired powder that came from the fruit. The reason eyes of ender are still green is from the ancient Endermen, well, the Endermen from the past. The nether mobs found out how to make endermens eyes, cause they thought that they were rare and powerful. So they tried to kill Endermen, but because Endermen are very powerful mobs, the nether species couldn’t get a SINGLE Pearl from the Endermen (when they were invented). So there’s three theories that might make sense in any way.

I got a theory: Why do piglins attack you when you don't wear gold? Also, why do they like gold so much?

Here is my theory about the elder dragon when you beat it. It plays a credit scene which is skippable, but if you read and wait through it, the credits or ending dialogue is quite interesting. There are 2 or more speakers, that seem to be conversing with each other, talking about things like existentialism and the Minecraft world. It’s boring to read however so unless you really are interested, then don’t waste your time. Upon skipping or completing the credits, the game will spit you out at your spawnpoint, being your bed if that’s the last place you slept. You can also break the Ender Dragon egg in a number of ways, but it has no uses other than being a trophy. Break it with a piston to get it. You can also summon the Ender Dragon so that you can kill it again if you want to, but it requires materials I don’t remember a lot about.

This is a really neat concept.

“They are the most intelligent mobs in the game” villagers: *what am i? a roach?*

6:50 is that why the enderman attack the ender dragon sometimes

0:16 that one enderman that go's through blocks

I thought that maybe there used to be two types of players, and one of the types (let's call them the red group) were extremely smart and lived in the end. The other group (the blue group) got very jealous of what they could do, and decided to hunt them down. They built a portal so they could get to the end, and also built bases there, where they planned their attack. Of course they needed supplies, so they kept things like armour and food, which you can find in the chests nowadays. They also brought wings, which they called elytra, so they could easily fly away if needed. They glitched out a few mobs, and turned them into what we call shulkers. Anything the shulkers touched, would become glitched. One day, they decided it was time. To defeat the red group. They made the shulkers launch bullets at them, making them glitched. During the glitching, something that wasn't meant to happen, happened. Instead of just defeating them, all their smartness was transferred to the blue group. The blue group, in a hurry to get back to the overworld, ran back through the portal, leaving the shulkers behind. The blue group are now what we call endermen. For a very long time, they tried to get the shulkers back to normal. When they did, the endermen told them all about what the blue group did to them. The shulkers asked to try to change them back to glitched, but make them attack the players. After a long time, they succeeded. The shulkers would now attack the players, making them glitched. Instead of completely glitching them, instead they made them fly upwards, away from the endermen. But one of the mob's reprogramming didnt go so well, and it became overpowered. But it still guarded the endermen, and became what we now call the ender dragon. PLease like this comment if you think my story might be true!!😀😀😀

Your theories are too good ngl.

That is one hell of a theory, and I really like it. It explains everything pretty well! I also have my own theory, and it's a crazy one. Here's my headcanon on Endermen, and why they hate eye contact. NOTE: I wrote all of this *Before* watching the video. Also, a TL:DR is at the bottom. My theory comes down to this. Endermen were once players, making them technically Primates. Now, people can be intimidated by eye contact, biologically this makes sense, in almost all primates *eye contact is basically a challenge* and this usually means a fight. As for why endermen are primates... oh boy. Get yourself comfy, this will be long. When prehistoric players found the end, it wasn't nearly as barren as it is now. There wasn't many native animals, and all the animals brought to the end died out, with players being the exception. The reason why was the prehistoric plants of The End, especially their equivalent of grass, were toxic and when the cows and sheep brought ate it, the toxins in the grass killed them. Ender Dragons were the only animals that these players knew about. But although nests had been discovered, no one had seen one before. It was only a matter of time. A player found a Dragon. And this dragon was not happy about it's new intruder, err, lunch. This dragon killed that player and went on a rampage and in the chaos, the Ender Dragon destroyed any chance of these players getting home. Although this particular Ender dragon is long gone, you might of met it's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter/son, which would go on to be the last of it's kind. Anyways... After millennia of only being able to eat food from the end's plant life, many different evolutionary changes occured in what are now Endermen. (and yes this means Endermen are technically herbivores if you agree with me) Firstly, in order to absorb more heat from the cold environment, these players evolved more melanin in their skin in order to have darker skin tones for absorbing more light and heat. Secondly, in order to reach chorus fruit, these players evolved to be taller and have longer limbs than their overworld versions. This also means they can't fit in their armor anymore. Thirdly, they needed those insane teeth they have is for to break chorus trees to get to the water in them. And lastly, they get the ability to Teleport because of all the chorus fruit they ate. Endermen are not born with the ability to teleport. *TL:DR* Endermen are primates and evolved from players that got trapped by the Ender Dragon's ancestors for millennia all because one player caused a dragon temper tantrum.

Very good explaining😩👌

1:40 such a history class LOL. (nice vid btw)

Yooo, this is something I've been wondering about for a while now! Thanks Drago!

Dragonic's Theories are always so well thought out and planned. Good work!

I always figured that the endermen body language staring was a challenge or a show of aggression. And the endermen arent chumps and they go to stomp you out for looking at them funny.

In nature, direct eye contact between living things is generally perceived negatively, perhaps the answer is that simple.

My theory for the enderman's "look for the eye" might be not the ender eyes but they think you are the ancient builders that slaved them. And only get angered if you look them.

It’s one reason A N X I E T Y

You are so smart on top us everything about mobs in Minecraft cool !!

Steve: *stares at an enderman* Enderman: “So I took that personally”

In the Enderpearl-Video he told, that the enderman were acient builders, who became poisend, by Chorusfruit and turned to Enderman

Maybe the ender pearls are the endermens’ hearts and you get them when they die. Their hearts or cores could be the pearls because you can use them to teleport, so maybe they use their cores to teleport?

I always love when all the enderman go after the ender dragon it looks so funny

The only thing wrong with this (that I know of) is that if you listen closely, you can hear the endermen speak. One time I set up a chorus fruit stand in the end and shouting “FREE CHORUS FRUITS!” in chat, and they actually took some, I swore I heard one say “thank you”

Another theory: (going with game theory's theory) When the ancient builders went in the end and turned into endermen, they had one minor setback that didn't seem impactful in their lives. Whenever someone looks at them in the eyes, they cannot move, thats why they get angry. When mobs look at them, well they can't look at them in the eyes due to endermen being tall and mobs unable to look up. That would also explain when you make an enderman angry from a far distance they do not move when you look at them, but they can still teleport away.

Great theory, really like this one. Better than the other theories I've heard.

Now this is just over the top

Player: looks at an enderman Enderman: C'mon bro what's good

I like retrogamingnow's theory on endermen actually, I don't trust any others

I have my own theory, too. You know how you raid villages and kill/kidnap villagers? I think that the endermen are forgotten or dead iron golems, and they freak out over the players because they're the ones who killed/enslaved the ones that the Golems are supposed to protect. So, long story short, they died of grief because they failed at protecting their villages.

I was more probably a lab experiment gone wrong and they became hostile when one person looked at them in the eyes.

Or most likely many ancient builders farmed enderman but keeping still many as slaves. Shulkers most likely we're inhabitants who possibly lived underground or around islands before settling in the end cities after some time of the builders being missing. Basically that's my idea for why we see ender pearls within the chest's. Pretty simple if you ask me.

Love this theory! Might replace it from my former headcannon. Which was that the Ender-Dragon looked through their eyes like a foggy mirror, using them like minions to search for anything which dared oppose it. Such as the player, which would be automatically seen as a threat after your face was recognized; which is why sometimes it happens fast or you have to stare a long time..and once spotted the Ender-Dragon would command it to kill. With the pumpkin head covering your face, the dragon cannot tell if you're simply another mob or not and keeps his ender-man scouts to keep searching, even if it means moving dirt or stone to find you.

TLDW: endermen have social anxiety

Extra theory. After the empire of the ancient builders fell apart, new medieval empires, such as European based kingdoms in the grasslands, Arabian based sultanates in the deserts, and Mongol based kingdoms in the spruces built villages, and in cooperation with villagers who came and populated them, they traded, and maybe even a few wars against the endermen happened during this time.

I like the theory, but I have an interesting question. If the ender dragon was put there as part of the treaty, why does the player "free the end?" Thats what the achievement is anyway

Mojang: “Minecraft doesn’t have lore because its not a lore game” Minecraft lore youtubers: *so basically there was an ancient civilization*

My theory is that i think long long time ago people in minecraft found a dimension which is the end but then when people moved in they didnt come back because there was no portal to come and then they started building cities at there start a big population and their only food was that fruit which made you teleport after hundreds of years them eating the food their DNA started to change which made them taller and etc. And then they gained the abilty to teleport and some of them got too good with that teleportation that made some of them be able to teleport into different dimensions which isnt only just over world then when they were back humans attacked them thinking they are monsters and with their enderman vision their only way to understand if your a human or not was to look at their eyes and then when humans got too tired with the endermen they decided to send a human into nether to make something to guard there which is enderdragon (they probably used endermen's eye to create that enderdragon egg or smt) and then they couldnt leave the dimension but most of them was still in the overworld and the nether but they still won the war agaisnt humans and when we look at them they think we are one of them this part is kind of like your theory srry and if you listen carefully they say stuff like (what's up, find the ender eye or smt idk) because they want you to FREE the end

I think its a combination of uncanny valley cause they seem similar but different enough from human that they see something uncanny like how we're unsettled by some edited photos like jack the killer and also maybe they have scopophobia

Endermen most advanced. Piglins/villagers: am I a joke to you

Easy the same reason I don’t like being stared at ^^

Also, endermen are frozen when they are looked at, so maybe the ancient builders used this, and they don't wanna be imprisoned.

plot twist, enderman WERE ancient builders who moved to the end, build citys and became enderman due to the only food source in the end, corus fruit.

Great theory but idk if that's the case because when you kill the ender dragon there is an achievement called free the end so your basically freeing the end an so it could not be that

what about the fact the name of the achievement for killing the ender dragon is called free the end so why do you need to free the end, maybe the ancient players and did something like summon the ender dragon by placing all 12 of the eyes of ender and that summoned it because there of 12 end spikes (Real Name) and that summoned the ender dragon, and the endermen that had some how teleported to the overworld saw it angered all of the endermen, so the players took some of the eyes out thinking that the endermen would forgive them but it didn't and killed them, and the player is last one left, and the endermen are reminded of the ancient players when they see your face.

I like wifies's theory to be honest

I think that they were people who were sent by other endermen as sacrifices to help and when they find that someone is looking at them and attacks them so after die they drop their eyes to help get the player to the end so they can be saved from the ender dragon which was attacking their dimension

I was very skeptical at first, but it honestly makes sense

I feel as though it’s more of a multi-generational thing, considering the “ancient builders” probably lived a long time ago, also taking into account the state of the abandoned villages, so it would make a bit more sense if the enslaved endermen were the ancestors of the endermen that attack us today and the endermen now have all heard of the stories of the times before the revolution and the fall of the ancient builders, and so, when they attack us, it’s their attempt to avenge all of the innocent endermen who were slaughtered, beaten, and disrespected during the slavery period

maybe the endermen dont like having purple eyes nobody knows.

When you said that the Endermen could’ve not made the End Cities, I have a theory to explain how they actually could’ve: The Endermen (like most people say) were once the Ancient Builders and they made the End Cities but when the Builders were out of food, they were eating Chorus Fruit and it turned them into Endermen.. This is of course a theory for that part but I think your theory is amazing and more explanatory than mine that I’ve said right now

It makes a lot of sense for players to enslave other animals. Didn’t we do that in real life(in the past). I’m kinda getting the “history will repeat itself” vibes from the story!

I have a feeling that the shulker was a creature that was created in the end, because there is no evidence that it ever existed in the other dimensions. Here's my shulker theory: The shulker evolved a way to teleport around the end islands and high up into the corus fruit trees to survive and created the ender pearls not only as a normal defense system like the oyster but as a by product of eating the corus fruit, everything else seems correct and when the player's ancestors abandoned the end the shulkers infested the place where they were once imprisoned for farming the ender pearl and developed a defense as in their projectiles to make sure they were never farmed again.

It's an interesting theory. And it does a good job of explaining their behavior. Endermen are also pretty strong as mobs go, making them desirable to a society powerful enough to enslave them.

Answer from google: They think they've been caught at their block stealing, so they attack thinking they've been intimidated.

You are so good!

Congratulations on 40k!!

Theory: The Endermen evolved from ancient player linking to your theory before and while evolving they gained a magic from the end they (the ancient players) took this advantage but were abusing it and they slowly turn demonic and are possessed by the their powers of teleportation they have a bit of control as they try not to harm the player but attacking it or looking into its eyes may make the 'Demon' inside take control thus attacking you as the 'demon' is a hostile creature by nature why you wear a pumpkin and look in its eyes may be because you are recognized as a block which the 'Demon' has no interest in The Endermen kept Muscle memory and that makes them able to place blocks.

So thats why the Endermen are in the overworld they can't go back since portals are shut and maybe they steal blocks to settle somewhere and if players are near they move everything

I think the not moving endstone thing is for gameplay cus there's a lot of ender men in the end and if it was enabled the end would look like a floating scrambled egg

This theory is really great, and the Enderman not being able to build the End Cities is a really significant fact. Although I still like to think, that they are just a former shell of the Ancient builders, who constructed the Strongholds in a hassle to escape from some kind of overworld apocalypse.

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I think they can pick up any block and they helped with building but they pick up the blocks and they're most comfortable with and they like

I was also thinking that sholkers gave achent people cores fruit and they became obsessed with it so that turned in to ender men

“After centuries, the endermen were finally free from the ancient builder’s rule” “After centuries, the Filipinos were finally free from the Spanish Empire’s rule”

I think that the Endermen were intelligent who just lost their ability to build over time due to a fear that stemmed from the accidental spawning of the Ender Dragon in the same way that the villagers lost the ability to build due to fear of the Wither. As for the eye contact part, it's probably because of that same fear. The illagers were likely booted out of villages for wanting to create new things, something which was shunned by the villagers. The illagers are also likely the key architects of the player, as shown by the blue wool rooms in the woodland mansions and the fact that illagers have discovered a way around death (in a similar way to how respawning works in Survival mode). The Endermen, some of whom having lived through the Wither attacks caused by the ancient builders, attack the player upon eyesight believing that they are one of the ancient builders who reduced their population far below the levels formerly seen in the dimensions other than the End.

I like the theory. It goes along with the theme in Minecraft of the players exploiting every aspect of the game

this also explains why enderman can be in the nether and the overworld, since the players brought them there they left some behind and those enderman adapted to the overworld and the nether

I think because enderman just wanted to hug you... I mean- if he takes Block and comes closer to the player It looks like a hug. 🗿 (this is just a joke -v-)

If you smile at a monkey, they will start to get mad and act aggressive, perhaps this is the same thing with the Endermen and their stare, staring might be an enderman's way to issuing a challenge to one another, the sounds they make might also be their primal communications, learning a few words from the ancient builders after they went to the end, I would also like to think the enderpearls drop from endermen on account of that being some sort of organ, one that allows them to teleport. As for the shulkers, the ancient builders might have constructed those as a form of defense system, which would explain why they only appear around end cities. Going back to the endermen, I would like to propose that they're not ancient builders that were mutated from the end, rather, they're a primal race, like cavemen on the cusp of innovating fire.

This does make alot more sence

Enderman: Hates being stared Also Enderman: stares on a player

Me when i was just a noob and started to play mc: Hello mr enderman *looks into his eyes* OH SHI- me now: *walks up to enderman* Enderman: what this guy doin me: hello ender man *looks into his eyes with an carved pumpkin on my head* Enderman: *understandable have a good day* Edit: i think mojang should add an update where if u give the enderman like 20 or more blocks they will be friendly to u even if you look into their eyes.

This channel is underrated!!

I think they're like the wild animals with sharp eyes as hawk when you make eye contact.

what if the shulkers are mechanisms made by the ancient builders to protect the end city? just like the elder guardians

When you think about it, Endermen are a lot like SCP 096. They attack you on eye contact, they are tall and slender, and they are creepy.

Here’s something you failed to notice, in both Java and bedrock edition, if you stare at an ender man by mistake, keep staring at it, after 5 seconds it will teleport away and no longer be hostile. They only attack when you break eye contact within 5 seconds. On top of this, ender man attack the ender dragon because of the dragons large attack box. It hits the ender man, so the ender man attack back. No different than 2 skeletons shooting arrows at each other.

Yea this really makes sense

Make so much sense I. Liking and subbing