How to Craft Your Own Lore with a Strong Foundation | Minecraft Lorecraft: How to Lore

Making your own lore in Minecraft can be tricky, but in this video you can find a few tips and tricks to set you on the right path. We start off by building a strong foundation, which allows us to create ideas that flow from our favorite genres and stories AND build off of pre-existing lore in Minecraft to create something entirely new. Are you ready to take the first steps in creating your own Minecraft lore?
Recently, Minecraft lore has become much more popular due to influences from popular KZbinrs and Streamers such as Karl Jacobs, Ranboo, and TommyInnit, and especially thanks to projects like the Dream SMP. Maybe you want to make lore for your own SMP, or you're just trying to add a little something to your singleplayer let's play survival world. Either way, this video will give you the tools you need to start coming up with ideas.
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[@magictaser]

Who's ready to start making lore! What do you think was the most helpful hint in the video?

[@robbie_bird_]

Me and my friends decided we are going to have a ruler who builds a nation, then hears voices and blows it up.

[@vlurzx]

@@robbie_bird_ for lore make it a surprise dont just like tell everyone abt it

[@robbie_bird_]

@@vlurzx well i can't actually stream or create yet, and that's just and idea! :)

[@nightfall4031]

I'm Finalising some lore for my Current SMP and beginning the process of finishing my character's arc. After that, I'll be on Hiatus for quite some time... enough to create a really well thought out world I hope.

[@guineapiggamer9999]

I am exited to start my lore, my friends don’t wanna join me on it but I know one of them might, I’m making lore where there’s some weird corruption spreading to people and creatures and can completely swap the creatures intent, items will be crafted through pain and sacrifice to save the world, kinda like fable SMP

[@BumbleBeeGamez]

i love when she is talking about foundation and the village house is just floating

[@astro-ape-x5w]

lol true that

[@mturzanski]

My wife and I were playing on our world and accidentally made 9 stone swords. After laughing about it for quite some time an altar was constructed in the jungle and in it a chest containing the "9 legendary Swords of stone" it is becoming abit of a deity and paying respects at the alter every now and then is a thing. No idea how this lore happened it just kinda did lol

[@sorgii]

That sounds awesome. I love when lore type things like that are created just from things that happen while you play. That’s happened with worlds my friends and I have played on and it’s always fun.

[@tyminator8176]

When I was enchanting things one time, I enchanted a book that had 5 different things on it. Impressed, I showed it to my friends on the server. One of them dubbed it "The Book of Crack" I then proceeded to make a redstone combination lock puzzle, and a 12 page in-game lore book about it's origins. I also renamed sugar "Crack" and hid a secret banner in the chest. My friends then solved the puzzle and read the book, they couldn't stop laughing.

[@wortwortwort117]

A long time ago in my realm me and a friend were on the way to an ocean monument to get sponge. Our journey became know as the "sponge quest" to my other friends, a fabled story of two travelers on a quest. On our way we made a little fort to survive the night (Fort Sponge). Now a days Fort Sponge is an ancient ruin. I recently wrote a book about a traveler discovering the Ancient fort and describing it. Its day 4800 now on the realm, the Fort was made on day 1088, Its is *actually* ancient history to us now.

[@jackattackmt]

I'm intrigued please, where can I find the book

[@Falling.down.a.path.of.boredom]

when she said “do the members in your smp have their own individual backstorys” Made me instantly think of the time me and my brother planed out an smp for the future And he couldn’t think of backstory and lore for the character he was playing as,so i helped him make a backstory :D And Thanks SO much this helped a lot and gave me so many ideas!

[@FoxArmy]

there was this joke that happened in our smp with a tree house and i literally said lore once and never stopped so now im dedicated to our server having some kind of lore

[@beebsxd]

I've owned a lore SMP for a year and a half now, and I gotta say this is really good advice.

[@AngelofGrace96]

This is so helpful, not just for minecraft storytelling, but for any kind of lore creation! I really liked the point about asking questions, that made it really click for me :D

[@zedogd6267]

A while ago now I used to be in a world building server with about 100-200 people. We had countries, politics, wars, religions as well as things that happened like empires and conflicts between empires. We did attempt to start a season 2 to try and reignite the fun but it wasn’t the same and we quickly shut down the server after a few weeks.

[@viccyyit]

This is going to be SO helpful, thank you!

[@magictaser]

You're so welcome! Glad it was helpful for you! :D

[@stariibear4690]

OMG THANK YOUUU TwT I managed to come up with an entire character lore plan in just the time of watching this ;-;

[@galaxysoul787]

Thanks for making this video. this really helps me understand the idea of lore and will help me make my lore understandable.🌟❤️

[@magictaser]

Glad it helped you! Good luck on building your lore! :D

[@sammygfilms9393]

Love this! My friends and I are toying with the idea of creating our own story SMP, and this is pretty helpful!

[@hanz7706]

Man this video is so helpful to not just help me know what are the steps in lore building, but it also inspired me what kind of lore I wanted to create! Thank youu

[@ghoulishes1550]

꙰ghoulishes ꙰ 23 seconds ago BEST LORE THINGY? I had a very odd experience that I was wondering if anyone else has experienced. It might sound crazy but me and my friends caused some sort of “time warp” thing by killing a villager. We were making an ongoing joke about this villager being invincible and insanely lucky. So my friend thought it would be funny to make a 15x15 nuke of TNT and light it right on top of the villager. Now of course we flew really far from our main village we built not wanting to cause harm to our builds. But the overload of tnt started glitching me and all my friends game. The time of day was different for all of us and we started seeing duplicates of ourselves and are friends glitching around the map. This was kind of scary and we were all talking about it in VC. On the way back to the village the lag finally stopped and we all were fine but every single villager was frozen in place and wouldn’t walk or even make noise. We though our games crashed but everything else worked fine. Opening doors, chests, etc. We were confused on how to fix this so we left the game and we all restarted our games and joined back Into our server and to our surprise the villager we executed YESTERDAY was back in his previous house and the explosion was still there and villagers were moving yet again. My friend was spooked because we killed the villager for pushing another villager into a campfire. This world was already a roleplay world and we decided to use this for some lore and made a monument to remember the time warp. Telling our other friends abt this when they were offline wasn’t easy. Nobody believed us and everyone thought we were crazy or seeing things.

[@saddmanmain]

Id love an video specifically on character stories and backstories :)

[@Owdren]

This is the first video I found from you and I must say, you aren't as recognised as you should be. The editing is really good, your voice is enjoyable to hear and what you say is useful... I guess it's just about luck...

[@darkember_im.fictional]

You are so under-rated

[@eggman9966]

Thus is so true

[@harley8047]

"...No quests..." *laughs in mods*

[@RengokuTurnedDonuts]

I want to start a lore But... I started a war instead 😭

[@howmanybabiesdidNestleKill]

War = history History = lore 👏 👏 👏

[@lostpapyrus]

i play single player but i LOVE pretending im playing with someone else. but my story right now is a wanderer coming across and a landed oak house with trap doors covering the windows and and near by cobblestone tower with an iron door. inside the oak house will be a journal describing what the now missing owner of the house experienced, about the cobblestone tower's owner and tips on where to find things the oak owner left behind.

[@JCEditsYT]

I'm playing survival in PE which I usually play Java so I decided to switch off for a change to help me enjoy Minecraft more and I think adding lore can help me enjoy Minecraft as I was a kid again thinking herobrine was real xd. My lore is I'm running for someone I don't know who but he's always trying to kill me weather it is sending an undead army of zombies and skeletons towards me or Phantoms in the night sky. And I was taken in by a village everyone used to be split wizards, hunters, warriors, miners, medics I might give them names in the future and then all 5 have to come together because there something out there always trying to cause havoc destruction, I must protect the village and find the source of what's causing this why who is this? I will explore I will fight I will mine I will build a castle around the village to protect ourselves from whoever lurks in the dark.

[@nmheath03]

Not technically for Minecraft, but a concept I had while playing Minecraft with mods (so it might count?) is "bronze age civilization discovers dinosaurs, worships them as gods." One idea for this religion is "the more understood, the more revered" placing Psittacosaurus as one of, if not the most, most depicted dinosaurs (as we have 11/12 species, know the growth from hatchling to adult, coloration, and way more than you'd expect from something that's been dead for over 100 million years)

[@schaschia6332]

imma use this comment as notepad: Genre: high fantasy with original races and cultures Tone: fun but mysterious Over all Lore: The world has been scattered and split by a monstrous earthquake. The few survivors have made settlements, looking for other societies. Personal Lore: Every player gets to build his own society/village. We have the rule to be humane to villagers and that theres no exploiting of auto farms or alike. The goal of the play is to find the cause of the earth quake (opening of the end or smth like that)

[@not_zyro]

I have no idea how Minecraft SMP lore work. Do you have to follow a script or something?

[@christianlauren5883]

I have watched a heavy-lore smp called "Empires SMP" and I've learned that they are more on making their own story and making a "script" when they interact but not an actual script where they follow word by word. Its just so to give them an idea of where the lore or story is gonna go and will make sense in the future.

[@not_zyro]

@@christianlauren5883 oh thank you

[@astro-ape-x5w]

this video has been very helpful and has given me a bunch of ideas so thankyou

[@josemanuellopez6790]

I've really never known that i need that type of flavour until i watched this very video, thanks a bunch for your both amusing and amazing content 🌸

[@kIwwn]

Tysm, this was actually so helpful as I already started to make my lore but it had many holes in it

[@thj_5046]

9:38 dude just closed to door into your face 😢😢 anyways thanks a lot! im gonna write the lore for a friend's smp and the video helped a lot

[@Snakes4life]

Me and my friends made an SMP, we mainly build but we all have backstories, 4 of us are a 'cult' called the 'Villain-Arc' and we are represented by a dandelion, for now we just cause general mischief, its pretty fun

[@Snakes4life]

We also have a temple called the temple of Jade

[@DudeGuy360]

​@Snakes4life , that's sounds cool, can I use that name for smth?

[@glorinebatara8794]

The genre I Really like would be Fantasy,Adventure,Action,Historical Fiction and a bit of Mystery...My lore thinking is often based on what I see in some animes I watch,Wattpad,Games,Existing Lore Smps and Minecraft Roleplays which I often see and I can sometimes think of Alternatives Turn of events regarding the Roleplay,Anime,Games,Lore and Stories I come across.... 😅😅 I also like experimenting with Different Modpacks so I have a lot of Lore I'm thinking about but as much as I want to do the lore I'm thinking about I have to build the places where the lore takes place in which is very hard to do since I have to create the entire world using world Edit make it as Natural as possible andalso I have to Build the actual Backgrounds and Places for lore...... 😅😅 and even if I finished the builds needed I am only alone and most Lore and Roleplays I Think of Includes at least 5 or more people to do..... 😓😅

[@dutch_steel8923]

Really glad I stumbled onto this. Very similar to game theory but he doesn’t talk about making your own in game lore

[@skylarramey]

thank you for this! my friend is going to start streaming on twitch soon and she wants some fun world lore to get started with!

[@toslaw9615]

I mean I can always make a lore in which everyone else is dead, we lost everything and I'm the only survivior of some event.

[@thegamingspartan6528]

i feel like for my SMP it gonna be a lore related to war since my friend who leads a nation on my SMP already wants to wage a war even though we just started a few days ago

[@Lord_No-brainer]

My sister and I made a world years ago. She then created chicken statues called “The Council,” and I expanded upon them. We now have the 2 gods called Black and White, the Builder and the Defender, the Higher Ancients and Lower Ancients, etc

[@Trekah._.]

Yooo that's the best video I've ever seen about character lore! Tysm!

[@LetsPlayHombre]

This is a good video. You might have sparked a new hobby for me

[@LxrdRen]

13:38 *history of the universe flashbacks*

[@tolop2511]

I am very new, but I knew right away that your channel is going to be very helpful, good job!!!

[@edwardnewgate6583]

Thank you so much, this give me so great ideas for the minecraft book I'm trying to write, now I have much better ideas and a solid foundation again THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU ARE WONDERFUL PERSON

[@magictaser]

Glad I could be helpful! :D Good luck with your writing!!

[@edwardnewgate6583]

@@magictaser Thanks and when the next video comes out

[@Klokslag]

i live in an ancient base its actually unknown what built it Me of course but that is outside of the lore of my base. Also i have a question have you ever read the minecraft mobestiary?

[@theblackdragon1074]

This is actually so helpful Cuz I'm making a Fairy Tail SMP And I was really struggling with lore

[@WolfArtizan]

I really appreciate this video! I play Minecraft and Roblox, and in Roblox I have these cute dog creatures called 'block dogs' and I have some world's for them to explore in Roblox. I'm a big fan of the overall world, but I also really love character driven stories. I draw dog original characters, and this has set me on the right path to possibly connect the two stories! I would like it if you made a vid on character driven lore. Have a great day ^^

[@ImpossibleEvan]

These videos are so high quality, good luck!

[@Ratboycure]

Randomly showed up in my feed. I like 👍

[@jinxy_jinx1392]

im making a lore sever with friends and this helps a lot thank you!

[@vtsd7tcy7bxs64]

I'm watching this before starting my lore smp and I already had some idelas. I was a demon from the nether but I hated the place, so I destroyed every nether portal

[@guardian62574]

Thankyou For the Video! It realy help me alot

[@daz2041]

Magictaser: You need a strong foundation Me: *building wizard tower* My friend: *builds the typical I can't build house* Magictaser: ;-;

[@Solongsocialmedia]

I'm using my lore for Ancient builders. Ancient cities. Minus the modern times. I had a feeling these ancient builders were advanced until the wither and warden. Like for when Justinian passed, The wither wakes after being created. I know "Who asked?" "Nobody asked" "no one cares." "KYS." Just try not to cancel me.

[@whiterabbit3050]

my smp is been base of fnaf world and all the fnaf game my avatar is fnaf world bonnie

[@darthjeager9056]

I'm basically building a lore based rpg/factions server with my friends which Is simply building on the lore of the game

[@shirowd2759]

I joined an smp with old friends, and the lore started 19th of this month, the smp was made 6 months ago, and i think that the lore may be broken, what do you think that can help?

[@atomicfox_TF]

I was baseing my lore off of story mode lore in a far off future with the wither storm and such

[@Mfosisucn]

subbed ur vibes r awesome

[@AngelGamer-ih2fj]

Nah I don't have a server I just saw the life and saw the book shelves and thought WELP HERE I GO and just came up with making a library and putting ALL of my Minecraft world details and so many stories

[@kendratsou5636]

She is so underrated fr.I thought she was another 700k subscriber youtube, but only 3000? Well, guess I'm here as an veteran fan when she gets popular 😃

[@zyplayz6808]

TYSM so helpful

[@ashtikamay]

Heres another question for elytra: why do we need rockets for elytra?

[@SpiteSocks]

Im making a lore with a modpack about my character finding a traveler that we never seen again only to find traces of his journals and his musics

[@mythomniverse]

but HEYY! THATS JUST A THEORY, A GAAMEEEEE THEORY!

[@jaxony7427]

Underratted Channel

[@Joknows14]

6:25 *hides away with commands*

[@AquaOrAce]

she'll come for you if you don't watch her series, watch it. It's great.

[@supertomato154]

Guys iam her new favorite person

[@CherryTomatoTomOfficial-fq7lc]

In my server there were elder gods that died mysteriously and the players have to find the artifacts and find out how they died (I know how they died)

[@bubaak666]

Hello MT. This video brings fine foundation. I started to watch your lAST hUMAN series too. I enjoy the way you put it. Now to core of this comment. People have different talents. Making up lore is not one of mine :) I see it flows naturally from you. Would you have some ready made lore for vanilla minecraft (new) smp? Something that I can use to give the world a meaning so our small community can just adopt?

[@whiterabbit3050]

my lore for the new biome for the coming mob named the warden the deeps dark is new dimesinal travel block by ancient builder with breakable bed rock with four pillar with later on each four tops of the pillar

[@derrickjvsb2819]

Takes im making a lore smp

[@kilian_kn2006]

How name your sharders

[@mastercuak4752]

I would like to start an smp, but I dont have friends who like minecraft :c

[@3dhollow-visor39]

Im gonna Make Fractured but whole in Mincraft!!!

[@joshuajones7240]

Mine is about fantasy and magical creatures a d a demon will corrupt the world kinda like empire smp

[@jolileague]

hi

[@luckz-rb7dk]

I have good ideas and I want to start a lore smp but my friends dont wanna and i need people :( does anyone here wanna join?

[@firefox575]

I would like to!

[@WanderersBallad]

Are you ok with fanart of Wix?

[@magictaser]

Absolutely! :D

[@ItzDelano]

what is this lore used for

[@plonk7105]

SUS SUS

[@derrickjvsb2819]

Could you help me

[@kitsc9n]

𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖐𝖎𝖓𝖌

[@zai6067]

What’s the seed

[@magictaser]

[4505322778701315482] on Java 1.16!

[@zai6067]

@@magictaser ty

[@ulquorra7132]

Totally not taking notes…

[@bvslinkyone9842]

fnaf?!?!

[@Fuzionvidzz]

I fr came here to make a dream SMP knock off

[@DudeGuy360]

Same

[@RickGrimes-x8n]

I made a lord of the rings nazgul lore I made a story after the ring war the witch king I named azeal asnin married a elf girl from ceonel iynur asnin rules the lands of dragons

[@edenalexandriab9120]

Keep strong. Dont forget that despite the evil in this world, God is full of justice, mercy and love. Justice said we broke His perfect law - causing the world's previous perfection to be destroyed - and therefore we deserve Hell (like a punishment in any legal system but this is eternal as His perfect law is eternal too). Don't think you fit in that category? Ever done one of these?: lying, stealing - regardless of how small the object EVER, hating others - which is murder in God's perfect law, lusting (plus God sees our entire thought life). Justice says "the soul that sins shall die" - if we break one in thought/word/deed it's as if we're guilty of all of them. Quite simply, living by the law (which is doing everything perfectly) is impossible for sinful humans . The law shows us that 1. We will die in Hell if we fail to follow it and 2. We cannot save ourselves BUT, 3. God's perfect, immovable law points us to Christ, who followed and fulfilled the law in thought, word and deed perfectly in our place. He did what we couldn't and did it on our behalf. He was then sentenced to death on a cross, and took our personal punishment for our sin, paying our penalty (like paying our fine) completely FOR us, and has given us freedom. If we turn from the sins we have committed and repent (pursue the opposite direction of love through Christ) He will, overtime, recreate us into His image through The Holy Spirit which Jesus sends to all who accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior of their life. We cannot purify ourselves, but Christ lived that perfect sinless, pure life and then allotted it to our "account". That's where our righteousness comes from. Not from any good, works that you or I could do. It is not based on the amount of good works we do. God starts the changes, He carries it on, and He completes it in those who let Him. It's about letting Christ in to guide and teach you and obeying Him, again, through His power and instruction). He is our substitute in His life, death and resurrection. He essentially rewrote history in our place so that, if you believe in Him, it will be as if YOU had never sinned if you accept Christ's death as our own in our place. He is in Heaven right now preparing a place for us so that He can take His faithful, believing children home with Him when He returns. He will ressurrect us from death when He returns, giving mercy to those who accept His love, forgiveness, instruction and teachings in their life, and give justice to those who refuse it. He doesn't want ANY of us to go to Hell and die for continuing in evil and rejecting His way to life, thats why He died FOR us. Hes giving EVERYONE a chance, He wants everyone to take the free gift of salvation from Hell. He wants us to be His and begin to follow His life of love and service through His power and abiding (staying) with Him. So long as we keep our hearts near to Christ through His strength, strive to follow His will of perfect love revealed in the Bible, and let Him lead in the midst of (very certain) pitfalls and struggles, we will, in time, win the ultimate victory over sin, pain and DEATH through Christ. Even if you are willing to be made willing, pray for Jesus to come in and He will do what we can't. Give us The Holy Spirit who will guide us in the right way. NOTE: You are NEVER too sinful or messed up that God cannot turn your life around through Jesus. EVER If you have any questions let me know

[@yousuck785why]

You do a great job. :)