Is Minecraft Getting a 4th Dimension?

[@Paint_The_Future]

I think it's going to be a new boss. After all, a "warden" is someone who guards someone to prevent them from escaping.

[@SwedishFox]

Ooooh that's totally possible

[@owenriley2175]

actually huge idea

[@fastyou-jd8fi]

So it would potentially teleport you to like a boss arena? That would be cool. Feels a little modded tho, but so does anything that relates to adding an 'RPG' element to the game, which I feel it does need.

[@bimlauyomashitobi421]

Or a warden guarding the dimension.

[@sboy2044]

A developer said in a Q&A that wardens aren’t necessarily protecting anything.

[@xisumavoid]

I think the recovery compass is an item you keep where you respawn, as opposed to on you when you die :-)

[@shrub8644]

That's what I thought... it's not a good criticism. The item works exactly like it should

[@mobagel_]

Yes but what if you die on while trying to find your original items??

[@Jaydee-wd7wr]

@@mobagel_, Well the compass would take you to the new death either way. It’s always going to be a one time thing.

[@mrtrash4128]

My thoughts exactly

[@giannipiccioni8411]

@@mobagel_ then you need to be more careful

[@mcnoodle8415]

It’s totally possible for it to be an exit portal, because the mob that guards it is named the warden. The ancient cities could be abandoned because of this monster that the warden is trying to contain, and it is hostile to you because it doesn’t want you to let the monster out. Side note: the monster probs has some magic powers that turned the residents of the ancient cities into sculk but also the warden. just my take.

[@aslaksockcraft]

we got the answer from mojang, its an among us reference

[@hireathlavender1073]

for the second idea, maybe we might be getting a new armor set and also tools that are not only stronger against the warden but can also break the reinforced deepslate faster :p

[@shrub8644]

@@aslaksockcraft shut up about among us

[@shawermus]

@@hireathlavender1073 well to be honest adding new layer of tools is kindaaaa bad idea. Ofc it could be not just "Netherite: 2" But an fundamentally new set of tools that has some interesting mechanics, but it's still kinda too much. Mojang isn't gonna add tons of random content because it "looks cool and suits vanilla game".Best example: mod "Quark" Pretty minimalistic and at same time cool mod that adds tons of vanilla+ features. But mojang didn't add ANY of these. Seriously, these caves and cliffs updates are boring. Why not bring old cavegen and tweak it?! But ofc no because then this boring strategy of strip mining for hours would be harder...

[@Turibi3448]

The warden didnt turn the ppl into sculk. Remember XP orbs = Sculk grows The ppl killed each other or died to natural reasons, and too much of it caused the warden to exist

[@tomhill6754]

Minecraft has a very abandonned theme throughout the whole game: -Ocean ruins and temples that used to populate the ocean -Nether fortresses in the nether -End cities in the end And now of course the ancient cities in the overworld caves With the exception of villages that are still inhabited (but fairly primitive), there are a lot of structures reminiscent of some older civilisation. Maybe, as a lot of people suggest, this portal is an exit only portal and was some kind of fail point: something destroyed the world when it was built. To me the two mobs that stand out a bot from the game are shulkers and skulks. Could they be the inhabitants of this dimension? Maybe along with other mobs/boss as well. And I've seen a lot of people mention the warden is some sort of guard trying to stop this seemingly dangerous dimension from being opened.

[@bgrs1596]

This is my favorite theory, and also might make the most sense

[@P0txt9]

I agree, but just so you know in your last paragraph you said “bot” instead of “bit” :)

[@Snakey1019]

Don't forget zombie/abandoned Villages!

[@Tatusiek_1]

abandoned mineshafts

[@squiddyproductions2150]

and the sunken ships, strongholds, and sunken cities! All kinds of old structures.

[@Solesteam]

4:28 Sneaking keeps you from slipping off ledges regardless of your speed, even with the max possible swiftness level using commands you stick to the ledge like glue. Thus it makes speed bridging faster

[@witha1]

it doesn't only increase your speed, it increases your anxiety too

[@Solesteam]

@@witha1 It's a win win!

[@therilyncobrin2372]

I was gonna put out a timestamp and say this if no one else had. seems weird to say that swiftsneak would be inconvenient for bridging when in fact it would make it just as fast as speed bridging. super helpful when bridging over lava with Ghasts in the distance. Edit: I was under the impression that swift sneak put sneaking movement up to 100% of normal walking speed, but it's 75% of that, so yeah. makes slow bridging 75% of speedbridging.

[@dane1382]

it would make speed bridging harder, because you would need smaller intervals between shifts and clicks to make up for the speed. it **would** make normal bridging faster, though.

[@drakewingcopperheart2533]

@@dane1382 That's the point, you wouldn't need to speed bridge as much if you could do something similar simply by crouching

[@erikm8373]

I've heard one idea for a dimension that I really like, and it's some sort of deeper dark, made up of structures and terrain hanging off a bedrock ceiling over the void. This would serve as the final environment type after bedrock below (overworld), bedrock above and below (nether), and no bedrock, just void (end).

[@michaelcherokee8906]

I see we've somehow read the same article. And I agree with the idea wholeheartedly. It would have a wonderful symmetry.

[@aliasd5423]

A lot of people like to stack up all the dimensions on top of each other (end->overworld->nether) I wonder if this possible dimension would be theoretically located below the nether, and if so, what is below that? Nothing, or maybe the end actually resides there?

[@chasethemaster3440]

Good idea

[@user-gh3yn3nn5u]

deeper darker

[@un_pogaz]

In this case, dig down on this feet, would be really, _really_ stupidly dangerous.

[@EchoingVision]

Something that I found while I streamed a few tests with the Ancient city, The warden seems to REALLY like either Reinforced Deepslate, or the center structure itself. Whenever I spawned Wardens, they tended to move towards the center structure when they burrow underground. If they were high enough, they would only burrow inside the deepslate frame.

[@randomsomewhat-kinda-quasi1065]

Just speculation, but maybe the warden(s) move to the senter of the biome itself? I’m probably completly wrong but hey, anything goes!

[@privatechannel1272]

You know that ender dragon has a special death animation, I would like so that Warden and Wither would have their own unique death effects.

[@wallnut7624]

@@privatechannel1272 I think the wither also got a death effect but its just on bedrock tho.

[@petegordon1648]

@@privatechannel1272 Yeah I play Bedrock Edition when I kill the wither, he starts flashing and explodes as a final attack, but for me, the warden isn't released yet

[@anshulkumarsingh9722]

Interesting…

[@RealChillbillies]

It's a cell door. The warden is trying to keep you from releasing whatever is inside. That's why it's called the warden

[@tylerwilliams33]

OMFG ITS A VAULT.

[@canadiangopnik7007]

the thought of a different plane, essentially the minecraft feywild, is really interesting, I just imagine going through a world I've played in for ages, but everything is ever so slightly off, and there are pixies and nymphs and sylph and such wandering through the places I've spent so much time in, my base, the cave I frequent, the nearby village, and just the thought that they had always been there from the very beginning, just out of sight, that would be so indescribably awesome

[@tealsquid7205]

Also it could create interesting multiplayer interactions, where players can interact in very limited ways between planes, or with the world itself.

[@belacile]

For sure! What if players in the "Minecraft feywild" were able to see other players as apperitions, but the other players were not able to see them? Maybe they can't directly interact (through punching), but can break blocks, open chests, interact with redstone, etc. Maybe when a player uses a flint and steel in the "Minecraft feywild" it appears as pink flame to those in the regular overworld, and the flame has special properties (healing instead of hurting) Oh! Pink-flame-lit nether portals could allow players to create their own overworld/feywild gateway!

[@tealsquid7205]

@@belacile welp. Time to learn Minecraft modding just so I could do this

[@corareece9078]

@@tealsquid7205 Do it!!

[@bear_trap107]

It could be a mining dimension, the spawn rates for all ore could be multiplied 10 fold

[@soniasquishy]

As of the most recent snapshot, I'm willing to bet the portal will be opened using the new music disc and a jukebox. It would play really well into the theme of 'sound.' I wouldn't be surprised if this started a sort of boss wave while you wait for the CD to finish playing.

[@bradchandler8850]

there was a tweet that was deleted by kingbdogz shortly after posting yesterday ststing why listen to the new music disk when you can experiencen it with the portal lit up but alot of skulk coming through it

[@hunterstjean119]

Maybe when it plays it’s kinda like the illager raids

[@EpicBowlingChamp]

The disc definitely has something to do with the reinforcements deepslate monument. It might have once been a portal but no longer. Maybe just some guy getting caught by a warden idk for sure. I

[@TimothyAlan59]

definitely the best theory by far

[@gamerhkna1786]

Camman18 theory about the disc 5.

[@Goldrobin]

There are so many theories about the portal, I can't wait to see what we get!! Mojang puts a lot of effort into the Warden and Ancient Cities, I'm sure there is a good reason for that!!

[@ElevatorGamerr]

yeah

[@Diemund1]

Love your tutorials man :)

[@jakemertents2152]

It is an amogus meme

[@sweetsegurosgaming]

dude its an amungus

[@AlluttajaYT]

if it even is a portal 🤔

[@wloofyvertex194]

I would say that it would unleash some kind of boss, as in the newest disk you can hear what seems to be someone lighting a portal and something massive coming out of it, worse than the warden.

[@lx5323]

Something the Warden is guarding, as Wardens do

[@neoak47peno82]

I think when we light up the portal a humongous warden would come out, thus explaining the oversized portal, in matpats video he describes the scene of music disc 5 as the portal being lit, a wither appearing, and then a louder and deeper than normal warden screaming sound can be heard, So I think that once you light the portal there will be a huge warden slowly coming out and then you having to fight it in some way.

[@jacob8648]

Thank you, someone noticed the portal sound and the huge monster sound too!

[@b-loc381]

Oh no they're gonna add that stupid-ass monster from story mode 😥

[@mrobseqium]

it's the warden, killing the wither

[@EVILBUNNY28]

There’s a few more points to make that could justify it being a portal to another dimension: 1. If you look at the change logs for the past 3 major updates, there has been a huge overhaul to the way dimensions work, including custom dimensions, and customs world generation 2. Over the past couple years Mojang has hired 2 developers of dimension mods: Cojomax99 who created the Tropicraft mod, and Kingbdogz who created The Aether. From tweets from the devs and dev interviews, Cojomax was responsible for leading the Village and Pillage update. Where’s Kingbdogz is said to be leading the development of Ancient cities. 3. Like you said, In the experimental snapshot the reinforced deepslate was movable, and this was unintentional behaviour. What other reason than for a portal could it be?

[@alonsogutierrez3214]

imagine its a portal to the aether after all

[@mallex9310]

Mojang fell off so hard they had to hire mod devs

[@tsu08761e]

@@mallex9310 lmao what?

[@aetheriox463]

@@mallex9310 they hired the mod devs because they saw the potential in them lmao

[@real_mushroom_hunter]

in the structure files the smaller version of it is also called "small_portal_statue"

[@joho5647]

There was something on reddit about this. Dimension Hanging from a Bedrock Roof - A dimension unlike the other 3 still following their established patterns With the new structure in the Deep Dark's Ancient Cities that looks a lot like a portal, speculation about a new dimension in the works for a later update has started to ramp up more. It makes sense that Mojang would want to establish a dimension's lore well before adding the actual dimension to the game so as to make the expansion feel natural, and another issue that comes up regarding that is making a new dimension itself feel completely unlike the other ones while still fitting into vanilla. I believe the best way to go about this is to use an already established difference among the current dimensions and expand upon it for a possible new one, and that brings me to the following: a dimension where everything hangs from the ceiling, and there is no ground. Here are my reasons why and ideas regarding it: #1 - Consistency: Every other combination already exists in the game. The Overworld has a bedrock floor with no roof; the Nether has a bedrock floor and roof; and the End has neither a bedrock roof nor floor. A dimension that has a bedrock roof but no floor is able to perfectly contrast with every other dimension's most defining feature in regards to layout while not only staying within but actually completing a defined pattern. #2 - Implications of the Dimension's Structure: With a bedrock roof, it is unlikely to find floating islands, but also without a bedrock floor, that means that everything that does exist in the dimension has to hang from the ceiling. This provides an opportunity for a very unique type of terrain. Be they upside-down mushrooms, trees, or something else entirely, a large stalk hanging from the ceiling, expanding out into large, island-like (upside-down) canopies makes the most sense. These could support their own plants, animals, and possibly even structures. Traversal could be done by by bridging, but one could also build up into the "ground" of the roof and mine place to place. It's a perfect place for rare ores to hide, and it reverses the idea of digging down to mine. Trees etc. would be found on the canopies whilst mining would take place above that in the ground, and movement from high places becomes more attractive than from low ones. The hanging canopies could have large roots supporting them too, making mining unique since an axe would be needed in these cases. Finally, elytra flight would allow the quickest traversal, but it would require the player to decide between flying below the canopies or between them and the roof. The former would be like flying under the End islands while the latter would be like flying in the Nether. #3 - Mobs and why the Deep Dark especially could benefit from this: The game already has mobs that can climb walls, but this could open up mobs that actually spawn on the ceiling and hang down. Projectiles could make them still reach the player too. As for the Deep Dark biome, it seems its main thing is sound over light, and it could be made that instead of just an upside-down sun, there could be absolutely no light at all in this dimension, possibly even with a level darker than our current light level 0 or even using the darkness effect. #4 - Originality: I've seen "Minecraft but everything is upside down" or adding a new biome to the End that just has upside down plants, but I've not seen a single suggestion or mod (and I did search here the best I could) regarding a dimension revolving around traversing hanging islands. New dimensions structured like the old ones have been suggested to death, and this could subvert expectations while still delivering what people want. It seems Mojang tries to always add their own spin to granting community wishes for major additions, so I think this could fit well into that pattern. Here is a crudely drawn interpretation of how it could look (hopefully embedded; I usually use old reddit). I have zero art skills and nothing here is meant to be "exactly how it should be," but I think it makes things easier to visualize: preview.redd.it/a22tiqhz78r81.png?width=835&format=png&auto=webp&s=5c13b01377bd0feb6451db015cc8c6f6387e8840 EDIT: The post is pending approval still, but I went ahead and made a suggestions page on the official site - feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/5261899789325-Dimension-hanging-from-a-bedrock-roof-without-a-bedrock-floor EDIT 2: And IK a lot of suggestions get deleted for no reason, so feel free to suggest something similar yourself too, mainly the whole "dimension with only a bedrock ceiling" thing just so there's a higher chance of the idea ticking whatever boxes they require. here's even more.

[@novanonsense]

Not sure it's what mojang's planning, but I do love this concept for a new dimension

[@Lyokoheros-KLPXTV]

I think it's a great idea.. But I would add a bit to that. I mean giant mushroom/tree/whatever canopies are good, but I think there's a need for more variety. I mean there could be entire hills/mountains (of course upside down), perhaps often mostly drilled out with very big caves/caverns, sometimes with inner bodies of water/lava, that then drops down into the void. These hills/mountains also could have their own "ravines", with both sides connected with natural bridges (or the bridges could be part of some structure that generates only in these ravines like some in-wall (abandoned?) villages/fortress). Also there could be stalactites (also sometimes connected by some "bridges") of different shapes and size, some quite wide (enough to have entire structures in them), some jagged to have multiple levels of "floor" on their sides etc. There also could be big upside-down polypore-like mushrooms or whatever on side of these stalactites. Also there could be some structures hanging from the "main" ceiling, something like upside-down end-cities I would say. And there could be some flora that grows not upside down but to the sides (on stalactites walls most likely). The possibilities are just so great... and these alone (what I said and what You said) could already be material to a few biomes in that world. But being a worldbuilder and lore seeker at heart I wonder what would that world actually be? And where would it be? Would it be beneath nether? (Like nether being between that new hanging dimension and overworld - I think that would be interesting... and would make Minecraft a hollow-Earth world) In that case, would it allow even faster traveling (quite logical actually)? Would nether be accessive from that world? So many questions with so many possibilities... It would be really great to see something like that happen. (Also the firs tlink work fine, while Minecraft suggestion one... seems like it was deleted... but - time for little conspiracy theory! - what if the reason is they plan something like that but they don't want people to suspect something like this so don't want such suggestions hanging?)

[@Settiis]

That’s a really great idea and the bedrock thing would definitely make sense. I hope Mojang was as smart as you were!

[@plamtabersusombis981]

:0

[@microman502]

That's really cool! I like that, it would add some full continuity to it all. End at the top, overworld below, nether below that, and the "hanging" dimension at the very deepest depths, below the nether.

[@somebodykares1]

To restate something that I recall Mojang saying, there will not be a new dimension UNTIL they feel the other current dimensions are at satisfaction, we have had The Nether Update which covers the Nether, The Caves & Cliffs along with the Aquatic Update has overhauled the OverWorld, which means we still need an update to the End to complete the three current dimensions before we hear of dimension four, thing is though the End is very lack-luster but it was also meant to be kinda empty, so what would an End update add that does not take away from its emptiness.

[@SherrifOfNottingham]

To be honest I was fine with the end before the cities update, instead of it being a void world "Skyblock" world it became a massive dimension that feels lackluster.

[@zeppie_]

The nether is also supposed to feel barren, but they still added tons of variation to it in the update. I think it wouldn’t be far off to expect a similar update for the end, since the current end is in a very similar place as the pre-update nether

[@Lumberjack_king]

They could still add things without ruining the desolate vibe they did it with the nether I think they could pull it off

[@somebodykares1]

@@SherrifOfNottingham Yeah even now the with the Nether being updated, not many really use it much. Though what would be interesting to find out is when they do add a new dimension what would the world file save as? The Nether saves as DIM-1, the Overworld is DIM0 and the End is saved as DIM1 when it comes to the save files.

[@somebodykares1]

@@SherrifOfNottingham The cites are kinda lacking yeah, the only thing can think of to spice the end up is maybe foliage or a new block so its not just Endstone, Purpur, Bedrock and Obsidian.

[@leonsmith5656]

When you listen to the music disc, there's a place where you hear the armored feet of an army(?) seeming to march into or out of the area... Seems to me that the size of the portal is key here. I get the feeling that it was made as such to accommodate an invasion force, either into or out of another dimension. Add in the fortified walls and soldier barracks and it feels like they were trying hard to contain something.

[@Bazzable]

If you watch matpats video i think he has the right idea, the city was infiltrated by a wither, the army was marching to intercept it, and the redstone scientists finally got their portal project to work, only for a warden to walk through, you hear it roar, but if you listen closely you can also hear the sound of a wither dying

[@obi-wankenobi1159]

@@Bazzable I would have joined the army

[@reefa4655]

Nether portals can be very big

[@at_]

you see an "echo" layer on top of the overworld unlocked trough this gateway using perhaps the echo shards would be really interesting

[@wooshie4140]

And i imagine you wouldn’t be able to break or place any blocks in the echo layer, which would make it an extra challenge. The next question is what would you do there?

[@loganmontgomery1955]

@@wooshie4140 Sort of a testing ground against 'echo mobs' or a new boss for some good items

[@Enraptored-]

That ‘echo actually makes sense because world is like a copy or echo , but distorted. And perhaps since it is sound related (like the warden) you could interact with sound across both planes

[@Enraptored-]

That ‘echo ‘actually makes sense because the world is like a copy or echo , but distorted. And perhaps since it is sound related (like the warden) you could interact with sound across both planes.

[@Enraptored-]

@@Axoleah A bit like the shadow zone from transformers prime .

[@mrcalligraphy2722]

My suspicion is that it could be a portal enemies come from for a raid style event. Sarc addresses this. I’d add it is a bit unusual that the sculk catalyst exists in an area where they’d see almost no natural action. A raid event where you’re actively spreading sculk could be interesting.

[@AshLordCurry]

Oh wow that's a nice idea too, A portal where you need to finish a raid before entering in it.

[@siduxjxhdgzhdjxhxuuxxyhgg1079]

but whats the point

[@Kikus-lf6kr]

@@siduxjxhdgzhdjxhxuuxxyhgg1079 The same point some people play games for. Having fun I guess.

[@lolglolblol]

"The Sculk Catalyst exists in an area where they'd see almost no natural action" I feel like the area is dead because of the sculk being there, not despite it.

[@gvarph7212]

My idea was that the whole skulk thing was something that came FROM the ancient city (or maybe even from the portal)

[@Noobgalaxies]

I am about 80% confident that it's going to be some kind of portal to a combat dimension/challenge. It just makes too much sense not to. Minecraft's loot system is in a dilemma right now for being a somewhat rpg-esque loot system that insists on not being an rpg. Because they can't just keep adding more tiers of combat gear, a lot of the loot they've been recently adding is focused on utility, which they can only keep up for so long. At the same time, Minecraft is sorely lacking any challenges that necessitate upgrading your gear past regular diamond. The "final boss" can be beaten with an iron set, the Wither can be beaten with regular diamond(assuming you don't bedrock-cage it), and raids can be beaten with prot 1 diamond. To add tougher combat challenges to the overworld, however, would also be to go against Minecraft's core design philosophy of player freedom and encouraging players to build and shape the world around them. The solution would be to add an entire new dimension dedicated to combat, effectively fulfilling the purpose of the player making powerful gear while not impinging on the player's build projects.

[@colbyboucher6391]

You thinking that it's something they should add isn't evidence. Mojang wouldn't be planning a whole new dimensiov without telling anyone. I'm 100% convinced that it's literally just a Warden shrine, nothing special about it, and the marketing department is on the dev team's ass now like "hey, whoever built that, do you KNOW what the people who play this game are like?"

[@mmirazh]

I'm 80% sure it's just an among us joke

[@CrannTV]

@@colbyboucher6391 i wouldn’t be too quick on saying that it’s a shrine. While it is possible. But we gotta remember they’ve been keeping this update pretty quiet, they haven’t been showing us much since they learned from their mistakes about ‘over promising’. Idk maybe it could be just a shrine lol. But they always add something with meaning, especially when it’s in the middle of the city and it’s almost begging to be explored by an adventurous player. If it’s not a 4th dimension, I’m convinced that it’ll probably be a raid portal. Kinda like the old ones army in Terraria

[@KeepingDuckie]

I was expecting to click 'Read more' and be rickrolled, but I was suprised that I wasn't.... This guy's name is litterally 'Memes on a stick!' 🤣 Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down

[@dane1382]

you forget that lots of people still go after the ender dragon with full diamond/netherite. not everyone is a speedrunner, and she can be really hard to deal with when you dont know the trick.

[@yourmother1182]

I came up with an concept idea for the 'Deep Dark Dimension', if there will be one. Maybe the 'Deep Dark Dimension' is a version of your current world where everything has been overtaken by sculk, and the only mobs are the Wardens that trap the souls of the dead in their ribs. Also, maybe the main goal of the dimension is to get to the some center point. Maybe sculk bubbles lead the way to the center, where there is some other final boss. Recovery Compasses should point to the center, too, so they have some added functionality. I think maybe "Otherside" is a nice name for this other dimension, because it's 'another side' to your world.

[@mayo_nnais3]

Perhaps it'd be "otherside" as in, the flip side of your world, under bedrock.

[@joeloth150]

so you are basically copying Stranger Things, the name and the idea

[@yourmother1182]

I mean I don't really watch stranger things but from what i can tell my idea is pretty similar. (btw the name "Otherside" comes from the music disc by Lena Raine)

[@dylanholm9995]

@@joeloth150 that idea isn’t just from stranger things though

[@brodie5014]

The upsidedown from stranger things

[@Paul_Recall]

One thing I’ve been thinking about lately is the possibility of an animation update. If you look at the Warden, it’s animations are much more smooth than other mobs, similar to the animations of the CGI trailers. I think it would be really cool, and make the game much more visually appealing.

[@AshLordCurry]

Wow that's a really nice observation! I wish it happens, it makes even more sense looking at the popularity of Fresh Animations.

[@Stonecargo21]

There would be an insane amount of backlash, but people will like it eventually

[@galegopaulista4564]

Nah. An animation update for Minecraft would be very pointless, and maybe even inappropriate. There aren't really any animations in Minecraft that actually look awful, and part of the game's charm is how simple it is.

[@Ken04Z]

@@Stonecargo21 it could be like the texture update, eventually the majority liked it, but at the same time you can just change it back, i dont know if you could do that with animations

[@Stonecargo21]

@@Ken04Z yeah, maybe the animation changes should be very minor, a bit more detail but not something you think about Weird comparison but have you ever played old roblox? The moving animations were stiff but they added new ones that gave characters joints on their limbs (though you could change between both), it was minor and you don't really notice but it's an improvement

[@atomicmonocle1514]

Honestly, I’m all for the “spirit world” idea, but it could instead function similar to terraria’s hard mode when defeating the wall of flesh. The world would get repopulated with greater threats and a new end goal, to avoid new players from accidentally activating this “portal” or “shrine” it can only be activated after defeating the ender dragon.

[@DavidLopez-en6el]

This is actually not a bad idea, although speedrunners will mald I can imagine

[@atomicmonocle1514]

@@DavidLopez-en6el There's always speedrun categories, although End% sounds funny if slightly surreal. Of course, I don't think it would be exactly like Terraria but the basic idea is there.

[@jonathanmacdonald9609]

I think the spirit world idea works as-is, and it could be really cool! You could basically put the player in a gamemode (or give them an effect) that's the same as survival but you can only be seen/hit by other players in the same mode, and maybe you can only break some kinds of "spirit blocks." I think it would actually have the opposite problems he thought. It wouldn't be very hard to implement, but it might be hard to add new content to because it has to fit in-between and not interfere with the regular world. Also I'm not sure changing the world is very feasible for minecraft. In terraria the world is small enough (mostly because it's 2d) that they can change a lot of things across the entire world, but in minecraft they'd basically have to change the world generation while the game is running, not to mention that it would mess with player's structures and they've said they don't want to do that. The issue they both have is that I don't think either of them feel very "minecrafty" which I almost always think is a bad argument, but in this case it just doesn't seem like a direction the developers would take the game.

[@cubicinfinity2]

No, just let the new players die. The deep dark is more menacing and exciting that way.

[@turquoisecrow4513]

mayve they could make the dragon egg a necessary part of activating it

[@TaraHalls]

In the modding community, the Deep Dark is something that has been around for quite awhile now - It's a dimension where being in darkness actively damages the player, mobs are buffed to deal more damage/have more health, and there are holes that go straight into the void, but ores spawnrates are doubled. With KingBDogz having come from the modding community, and with the name being exactly the same as the modded dimension, I have a feeling that it may be something like what the original modded Deep Dark was, but iterated/changed in a way that feels original.

[@minecrafting_il]

and then the purpose of the warden is to keep the players that are too weak and cant sneak well from getting in!

[@firstnamesurname2482]

@@minecrafting_il Ancient City, might as well be renamed as Git Gud City.

[@minecrafting_il]

SHAW! (Hk joke)

[@magiciansmagicmayhem5813]

So kind of like Antibirth and Repentance.

[@mychannelisdiedbyyoutube9632]

@Check my about page link no 🤡

[@davidkonevky7372]

I've heard some theories that the actual reason as to why the portal is so wide is that it actually served as a portal for some sort of army. This easily could fit into the "ancient society" lore in some way and maybe we will get to find out more about them on this dimension. Maybe, what this new dimension will be is like a graveyard of sorts, where the remnants of an ancient army resides. They could also be alive, but I really doubt it, unless they've gone through some supernatural transformation

[@colechristopher1813]

if the theory that endermen are really people is true, then adaptation is obviously not impossible.

[@aegis9163]

What if you activate it with some use of dragon’s breath? As we have been looking for it’s use for a long time now and giving the end some kind of importance to another biome would be quite interesting.

[@anshulkumarsingh9722]

I agree. So far the only use for dragon’s breath is to make end crystals to complete the advancement “The End… Again?”. Otherwise it is pretty forgotten and it might fit in with my theory of the warden to do with the stronghold and end portal frame

[@mcsuperplayer]

@@anshulkumarsingh9722 Don't forget lingering potions, they have a (very niche) use too

[@jaythephoenix]

@@anshulkumarsingh9722 but end crystals don't use dragon's breath in the recipe?

[@Chlef]

@@anshulkumarsingh9722 dragons breath isnt used to make end crystals

[@alexisross9343]

That wouldn't be a bad idea; since it would continue the pattern of requiring something from one dimension before you can go to the next

[@christiancaliendo6875]

Mojang's Major To Do List as of this Point in Time: -New Archeology System -4-5 promised biome updates -End Dimension Update Edit (stuff I forgot): -Combat Update

[@Mentleif]

Also, the combat update. There are also parity updates and giving the fletching table a use.

[@RustyhairedAlp9575]

Also goat horns & copper horns

[@giannipiccioni8411]

@@RustyhairedAlp9575 wait, aren't goat horns already available?

[@HandleDisliker]

And, performance issues, compatibility between worlds (unlikely but hoping), etc to provide fps for to support this content.

[@whateverIwasthinkingatthetime]

Nope, the copper horn at least is getting scrapped

[@terrariaskeletonpre1.0.39]

i think the final ""theory"" is correct completely, i cant remember the exact interview but i recall one of the developers saying that instead of adding new things, they enjoy re-contextualizing older mechanics to make the world feel more integrated within itself (things like wool blocks blocking sound, leather boots allowing you to walk on powdered snow), but you can only do this so many times, for me, this feels like a new chapter, in which we're going to get a lot of brand new things, so later down the line we can have new features and mechanics added to them, the portal of course, being the cherry on top.

[@WX-78]

I love this. The portal could be part of the final update, the end-game.

[@emilsingapurcan8054]

Maybe invisibility might play into the attackers... which would justify the logic behind using a blind, vibration detector as a warden.

[@MelonBird]

It is definitely a portal as it’s called the portal

[@theoowendriggs8135]

I like the idea of the "portal" buffing the player, but I think that it being linked to enchanting could also be interesting. My idea is that it could, instead of directly increasing the player's strength, it could buff the strength of an enchanting table to allow the player to get enchantments that they otherwise wouldn't be able to get from the enchanting table (maybe you could sacrifice x amount of mobs to activate this buff.)

[@djburk7930]

That kind of reminds me of Terraria before and after they added "Hardmode". Maybe it's similar to the Wall of Flesh, but instead of 'killing' the structure, you enter it and it changes your world in some major way - allowing for new/advanced features to be unlockable. Maybe you even have to, say, beat the Ender Dragon, place the egg inside one of these 'gates', then enter it. Advanced bosses or advanced survival mechanics...maybe even harder mobs? All that sort of stuff. It would also make sense if the warden is guarding this "Key" to advance the world.

[@TheWatchmanOfTheEnd]

Just would like to be clear that swift sneaking is actually pretty good for many things outside of the deep dark. Move faster while hiding your nametag on servers. Also makes for great assassin RP.

[@milkshooks]

I’m assuming it helps in construction too

[@redtro8678]

The Swift Sneak enchantment would maybe support the theory that there's going to be a new dimension. Got this from another video but there was the idea that the ancient city might work the same as the nether blocks surrounding the ruined portals as in its mimicking / the same as the actual dimension and having a whole dimension where Swift Sneak is as useful as in the ancient city would certainly make it more important to get (although a whole dimension where you have to sneak a lot seems really annoying).

[@drakewingcopperheart2533]

In that case hopefully there's a whole lot more there than some wireless redstone and a bunch of stupidly OP mutant golems

[@IMMORTALSHADOW-nh3si]

Ig it might be skulk infested

[@mardy3732]

Swift sneak is very useful in general. You can bridge way faster. It's not like you'll lose control and fall off because you're, well.. sneaking.

[@adamboy0559]

The way ancient city’s look it looks like skulk infested these cities and perhaps the skulk being semi sentient means it came out of the portal and is an evasive species and it created the warden as a defence mechanism for its survival. Even the fact the warden drops a catalyst the thing that creates skulk as maybe a last attempt even in death to keep the skulk species alive if the rest is destroyed. Maybe it will at some point be re opened and a massive skulk boss comes out of we go in

[@Vocaloidfun]

i agree with number 9. i think its probable that mojang had even bigger plans for the ancient cities but didnt want to push the warden and skulk back even further, especially after all the backlash they got for splitting caves and cliffs

[@JardsonJean]

Honestly, I love Mojang and I love Minecraft. But having to wait for another update to make the Ancient Cities worth visiting will be a massive bummer for me.

[@unbannablebanjo3744]

Which, imo, is an amazing idea. Minecraft has had an issue for a while where each update is its own little thing, nothing interacts much. Having an entire new dimension in an update that uses aspects from the deep dark woul dbe stellar

[@singularitygaming4893]

I think the mob "toll" theory actually makes sense, because, below the portal, there's a line of soul fire, lighting up the whole thing. Along with that there's soul fire beacons around the city as well.

[@davidmende3409]

The "plain" theorie sounds amazing - especially with the swamp as a basis - a kind of fairy land with the vexes and others

[@mardy3732]

Maybe that's where the fireflies are.

[@p1zystrat18]

@@mardy3732 Fireflies are in the shadow realm

[@tmp-deathstalker]

theory: its probably a portal but, WE dont come to it, it comes to us, thus why its a "warden" to guard whatever is on the other side. Its only hostile towards mobs because the warden thinks WE are that thing, so it starts to attack us, because its not used to hearing sound. The portal was probably built by whatever lived there, maybe villagers, because the warden looks like a sculk infected iron golem, and since its been infected with sculk, it is inable to see, and probably hears things differently too, so it thinks that every sound is the sound of a monster, so it starts to attack it, to protect the area from whatever it is, so that mob cannot access whatever is on the other side, that massacred the city.

[@Mahmad_2009]

*Warden accidentally teleports to that portal* Villager: bro what. *Massacre noises*

[@WolfyTheUnfunny]

This is actually pretty good

[@georgiasomething2064]

I recon the warden attacks mobs/ us not because it thinks we’re the monster, but because it thinks we are going to let it out. Just some Lore ideas there.

[@felixkjornsberg]

I really like this theory

[@Deadflower019]

It would be a really cool effect for the portal to roar or something and the Warden retreats in fear as the beast comes out. The Warden is threatening enough and even *it's* scared.

[@sol_ARG]

one thing i've noticed -- or, well, friends have pointed out to me -- is that there's some implication that illagers were/are involved in the construction of the ancient cities; you pretty much only see dark oak used in illager structures, and the heavy usage of wool is pretty consistent with illager buildings as well. why is this important? well, bear with me here: in Minecraft Dungeons, there are several things/places that don't show up in modern Minecraft. this is because Dungeons is a _prequel_ to Minecraft proper, taking place many years _before_ it. the illagers are also far more active in Dungeons, and... there is also an evil centipede monster called the Heart of Ender. it's... the wrong color for the ancient cities, it's sort of a pinkish purple, but the _rebirth pit_ it sits in is the same color as the end gateways/portals. i think it's very likely that we could definitely see some kind of gigantic boss monster come through that portal, is what i'm saying, _and_ i think we should probably be squinting at the worldbuilding of Dungeons for more information on how that might happen. illagers in Dungeons are pretty known for messing with things they probably shouldn't, Dungeons is a prequel, _and_ the cities are classified as ancient... it kind of adds up, right?

[@jj02mc27]

damn

[@winterbugplays]

@@jj02mc27 pfft

[@h-Films]

@@winterbugplays pfft

[@whateverIwasthinkingatthetime]

I at least feel it is more likely that the illagers may have come after whoever constructed the cities because, recall, all the light and wool found throughout the main lower portions of the cities are dark grey and soulfire, whereas where dark oak is present, normal torches are used and thin layers of cyan, blue and light blue carpets are used. These elements differ from the main structure and seem to imply it had become taken over/ is being inspected by the illagers rather than them constructing it.

[@rompevuevitos222]

Using some of the same materials is FAR from valid evidence Specially when illagers only really use wool for carpets A gigantic boss would simply not work unless it flies, it would phase trough blocks if anything, because otherwise it would get stuck everywhere and the pathfinding of a centipede like monster in such a case would be very taxing

[@henkaan7741]

I think it's a portal to a new dimension. More specifically, a dimension where the skulk originated from. It kinda looks like the skulk is "leaking" out of the city, which is very similar to how the nether seems to leak out of naturally generated nether portals. There's also a chance that the skulk comes from something instead of somewhere, so maybe the portal leads to a boss. I definitely think it's a portal tho. Will it be added in the Wild update? eh, probably not.

[@dzlrpacks]

Maybe Skulk comes from the end? The End portal frame shares a similar color of cream to the reinforced Deepslate and the cyan in the Skulk is similar to the cyan on the End Portal as well as ender eye. As such it would make sense that the end could have a new structure relate to the deep dark, similar to how ruined portals spawn in the nether and overworld.

[@SheeeshLeon]

The dark hue and the glow is probably from the end.my theory is that its from the void but probably be called the abyss thats why the warden cant see.

[@gdvpi]

Well it is redundant...

[@dzlrpacks]

@@SheeeshLeon facts I agree

[@jimviewer3803]

It's sculk in the game isn't it?

[@kutotine]

As I see the finished update, it’s just decoration. There’s no real incentive to go down other than maybe early game loot. Sometimes there’s free diamond gear, but that doesn’t really help against the warden.

[@-Teague-]

There's a new exclusive music disc down there

[@kutotine]

It’s an Easter egg, but it doesn’t make any part of the game inherently different. Other than crafting it, but I don’t really like it that much anyways.

[@-Teague-]

@@kutotine I guess, but you could say that of basically any loot structure. Temples, dungeons, etc. All kinda fit that description

[@oscarstenderup]

Wouldn’t exactly call god apples early game loot, but go off I guess…

[@-Teague-]

@@coin4898 there's no rules in Minecraft

[@spartacusdeniz2202]

The "weird totems" are just mojang's way of showing off skulk sensors activating light poles when you walk by them

[@shrub8644]

They're also filled with water for some reason though

[@Egg-Thor]

@@shrub8644 to teach players that waterlogging sculk sensors make them soundless

[@shrub8644]

@@Egg-Thor Ah I see

[@gigas115]

"It is a portal, but it takes you to somewhere that already exists." The End has always been a bit of an issue because beating the Ender Dragon is supposed to be the end of the game, but most players want to do it immediately because Elytra and Shulkers are locked behind it. Maybe this is going to be a way to get to the Outer End before having to deal with an updated Ender Dragon that's coming soon?

[@literallyglados]

I really like the idea of making the outer end a prelude to the central end and a deadlier ender dragon

[@ximirux2408]

horrible theory

[@Solaire-1234]

@@ximirux2408 why?

[@ximirux2408]

@@Solaire-1234 because it's silly mojang wouldn't do this to just loop back into end dimension, obviously we might get a new dimension or other whacky stuff

[@jpsalis]

eh, idk about that. Another portal to the end doesn't seem likely to me

[@defeatSpace]

A Minecraft upside-down dimension sounds like it could be very interesting.

[@SomeKittyCat]

My guess would be its a Boss spawner. Since ya know, warden should be someone that protects something. Tho the idea at 5:29 sounds nice, they could make it like something in Metroid Prime 2 with that games "Echo Visor" in the way that you can not (or only very hardly) see anything normal but instead fully see soundwaves and you can see your surrounding with the traveling soundwaves (I guess kinda like Toph from Avatar sees her surroundings). That or just make a whole new Dimension with that gimmick. You could even incorporate @Henkaans comment idea that that would be the Origin dimension of the Skulk. Hell, you could even incorporate all I said so that you need to activate and then kill a boss that comes out of there before you can access the dimension yourself.

[@iceneko9170]

Since this concept was introduced, I've had this inkling of an idea that this is connected to an invasive force. whether or not it's being contained, as you mentioned... that's what I feel from the theme skulk gives off. It spreads. and consumes things around it to sustain itself and spreads further. This is possibly the portal the skulk is coming from. it would be cool if we need to go through there to kill the "source" and "reclaim" the ancient city. but that doesn't seem very Minecraft-like. either way, it's fun to speculate about.

[@alastaircarr235]

I like this idea - maybe the other side could be something like a reused overworld, except everything has been covered in skulk.

[@anshulkumarsingh9722]

Maybe it’s like an abandoned over world that the ancient builders had to flee to survive the source

[@anshulkumarsingh9722]

And maybe the source killed all sources of food

[@DreadKyller]

One of the main pieces of evidence for it being a portal, was the name of some of the structure files. There was (not sure if there still is) a structure file that contained what seems to be a miniature version of the "portal" structure, and the name of the file was essentially "portal_small". Internal file names can't always be relied upon, as intent can change after they were named, but that's one reason the portal idea really caught on early.

[@SherrifOfNottingham]

Though keep in mind a "door" or opening you can pass through is also a portal. We've become conditioned to think of portals being something that transports us from one place to another, when the reality is a portal is just an opening between two locations. Whether it's the portal going between your bedroom and the hallway, or the portal between this dimension and the next, or the portal that takes you from one side of the ancient city to the other.

[@candykatkittylichiousisthebomb]

didnt this happen in like... the third snapshot since the cities were implemented? correct me if im wrong ofc, but i wouldnt put it past mojang to have seen the initial freakout and put it in as like a joke or easter egg or troll.

[@fica1137]

It could be just a decorative portal structure

[@Thatdankkoala]

@@SherrifOfNottingham Although I hear what you're saying, I doubt the programmers are going to think that deeply into it unless they really want to mess with us, and there's a lot more obvious and devious ways they could go about that.

[@sanicinapanic4264]

well Mojang is fine with trolling

[@not_availiable8243]

I haven’t heard anyone say this yet, but the structure is almost a perfect statue of the warden itself, so if anything it may be a boss that is a larger form of a warden

[@glitchinator0]

I think it might have to do with disk 5. In disk 5 we hear some recognizable sounds, but also hear ones we don't recognize. This might be a boss, like you said that comes out of the portal, and the warden is trying to keep it trapped in there. This would explain why the city is abandoned, and as disk 5 suggests, haunted. There was a monster that got in, the race tried to stop it, sealed it in the structure, but then they all died, and the city became haunted, the souls became skulk blocks. There are 3 souls in the warden and that might be what happened to some of the civilization. The civilization trapped this monster in the portal, and made the warden to guard it and keep it from being opened. The civilization died anyway, most likely from the warden which backfired on them, and the city became haunted with skulk blocks. In order to open the portal a sacrifice will probably be needed either for the souls to activate the portal, because the portal probably needs souls or something, or to show that you are worthy to finally end whatever monster awaits you.

[@safeguard1792]

It's also an amongus

[@yepepyep]

@@glitchinator0 but even before that,we can hear something that sounds like the player or something else exiting/entering the portal,so it could be either that the player has entered the portal and met the boss,or like you said,the boss exiting the portal

[@daniellehartley2709]

@@safeguard1792 no

[@daniellehartley2709]

it is not amog us they would get sued

[@purplehaze2358]

It's worth noting that Mojang actually changed the file name of those ambient structures in the ancient cities to exclude the term "portal". Perhaps this is just Mojang attempting to limit spoiling the intended function of the new dimension, however, I'm of the opinion that it's likely Mojang has no intentions of making a new dimension and edited the file name to curb misinformation.

[@pterribledactlyus1015]

I've always thought that all the dimensions were layered like a cake, having the end on top, then the over world in the middle, then the nether on the bottom. The nether still has a bedrock layer underneath it, meaning you could still have something there. My hope is that if there is a new dimension, its like a bunch of giant roots or stalagmites (Or stalactite, i can't remember) hanging down from the roof, maybe have a bunch of hanging islands too. While it would likely be possible to reach without going to the end or nether, you would really want something like the elytra before heading there, encouraging you to go after beating the ender dragon. Another theory is that it could be some water themed dimension, we already have earth(Overworld), Fire (nether) Air (End). but no water themed one, although this one is much more of a stretch.

[@SherrifOfNottingham]

It's a stretch because the end is more void than air the aether would be closer to an air world and even it wouldn't be perfect, and the overworld _should_ be a combination of all the elements, and the nether is a bit more than just a 'fire' themed world. My assumption is that a new dimension would be a literal deep dark dimension, not exactly like the mod but following the same idea, but if you use the immersive portals mod it makes largely more sense for the deep dark to go between the overworld and the nether, since the nether is supposed to represent "hell" this for the themes could be the "earth" themed world which could ultimately be an extension of the cave generation they've implemented. A "mining" dimension is going to be something a lot of people really would like to have AND it can be a really smart move to make since their new cave generation would make it seem worth exploring past just the resource potential.

[@novakitty1619]

@@SherrifOfNottingham I don't think it's too much of a stretch because it is depicted as the air dimension in a few minecraft posters

[@archniki_]

Idea of world with bedrock on top and void beneath is actually cool

[@bloohazze]

The nether has already been stated to not be under the overworld

[@novakitty1619]

@@bloohazze Ohh really? Where was it said and by whom?

[@Galimeer5]

Here's my theory: it's a portal to a new dimension, but not one we can enter. Maybe the technology to power it up has been lost, or (my preference) the dimension is too volatile, alien, and dangerous we physically can't survive there. It's the homeworld of skulk, which in my mind is some kind of hive-intelligence fungal lifeform, and it was able to enter the Overworld when residents of the ancient cities (foolishly) built and opened portals there. They tried entering the new dimension, and either instantly died, or were afflicted by the skulk and brought it back through the portal while fleeing. The subsequent deaths of the explorers allowed the skulk to spread into the city, killing more and more people, and it used their life force to create wardens, who decimated the rest of the city. Now, the skulk just waits underground, isolated from any other life and unable to grow further ...until we start mining.

[@conze3029]

I love this so much

[@rosaaburto2877]

It’s just a troll if you are stuck in 2020 you will see that it’s among us

[@StoneWallRBLX]

And in the city there are things that look like graves

[@nedflandersgaming5933]

I agree but with the addition that I think its a sort of "bridge" dimension, almost like Xen from half-life. My reasoning for this is that the texture of skulk is *extremely* similar to the end portal texture, only less "spacey". Perhaps the humans that escaped the ancient cities used this technology further to develop the end portals?

[@akela_k_lyonstar]

That’s actually really similar to my theory! My theory is that the portal was created by the former citizens of the Ancient Cities, but once it was opened the Wardens attacked, killing the citizens and causing the sculk to spread over the now-empty city.

[@cadeclarkson7045]

What if the portal brings you to a “plane” that is in the past sorta, when the cities are thriving except you only see echos f it, like ghost walking around phantom buildings or something. The implications that would have on the lore would be huge.

[@combatukelele]

this is a cool theory, but i don't think that's what's going to happen. minecraft is a sandbox game, afterall, and that sort of mechanic sounds more like a story game. everything added to minecraft has a purpose and has some sort of interaction with the player, but you can't interact with an echo of the past as it's the past, it's already happened. unless there's an item/s to obtain in the past thriving cities, which would give them a purpose and an interaction with the player, i don't think mojang would add it because of the lore.

[@PersonManManManMan]

That would be really cool actually

[@blazingtrs6348]

even though that sounds really cool (reminds me of sa1 when sonic and friends went to the past when angel island had the echidna tribe) mojang isn't keen on obvious lore implications, especially some revelation as huge as seeing other "people" than yourself

[@water594]

@@combatukelele It would have to be implimented in a sandbox way - so something like a repetition of the overworld generation, and any chsnge you make in that dimention is kept when you return to the overworld but not vice versa. Maybe villages don't spawn but something between a player and a villager does. Though this feels hard to reconcile because any mob you add to the game is going to have AI that feels too silly and simple to be what we want the ancient builders to be. Maybe it can also take you to various futures - which again is the overworld generation + blocks the player has placed but with annaffect on the world like (1) barren of all life, (2) radically shifted to the hotter side so only hot biomes spawn (3) radically shifted cold (4) greater mob spawning.

[@CommissarChaotic]

Then we can go on our way to steal some orb that we can sell to some guy in a village and while we go we dance.

[@Freakynation-yt]

Whether this is gonna be it or not, I do hope a new dimension is added. Specifically a really late game one. I find myself getting bored after I defeat the Ender Dragon, so hopefully this might change that.

[@thelemonking13]

That deep dark portal could lead to the “past” end where it’s entirely assembled and not fragmented, and the end portal is the “present” end

[@birdinthewindow7438]

I can see the similarity but how would it fit the lore ?

[@michaelcherokee8906]

No. No. Definitely not. Dear goodness no, that's a terrible idea. Screwing with time has absolutely no place in MInecraft.

[@Crabmaster]

The End is The End, it takes us to The Beginning.

[@michaelcherokee8906]

@@Crabmaster Awesome responce, but please elaborate

[@jamesbryan287]

@@michaelcherokee8906 I second this.

[@witherstone4450]

I love the idea of a plane of sorts. I think that would be a excellent addition to the game and fit with what the devs have been saying about never before seen concepts in Minecraft. Because the compass really doesn't cut it.

[@glanni]

Yes, I'm totally for planes as a concept as well!

[@TheBlackRangerPL]

This is easily the best idea I've heard for a new "dimension". I'm a sucker for changing already established things instead of adding more on top, maybe that's why this concept speaks to me so much, but this would have massive and fantastic implications for how we play the game. Bases, farms, builds, everything would have to take that into account and I absolutely love it

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

I love decorating with soul particals and soul sand valley sound effects in creative for a cool “spirit world” effect. So the idea of a separate skulk or spirit world on the same plane as the overworld seems great.

[@iamhungry1412]

I think that the theory of activating it with souls may actually be valid, since there is soulsand with water (to create bubbles floating upwards) underneath this mysterious structure after all / (or soul fire)

[@luxelivez]

I feel as though Minecraft is starting to develop a story in a way that each update will continue the story and this portal (or whatever it is) is the major start of it. Maybe it will have a real storyline like other games?

[@mystery5906]

the best case scenario is that 1.20 is an end update, 1.21 is a structure update, and 1.22 is a fourth dimension

[@haggisllama2630]

personally I was more hoping for 1.20 to be the introduction of some new mechanics, possibly like magic or something

[@Sterndust0324]

@@haggisllama2630 we also need this

[@Kerbalista]

For me it would be all above and 1.23 as archery update.

[@MrZZ-py4pq]

1.20 is archaeology I thought

[@mungyodance3]

@@Kerbalista fletching table use finally

[@NeilIsntReal22]

it is also possible that the "portal" in the ancient cities could be a time travelling portal, taking us to the past, where the ancient cities are not so ancient anymore, and with that so many possibilities are opened

[@petercarioscia9189]

Wow actually love this idea.

[@_agustinjulian_]

although mojang also always wanted Minecraft to have that spark of "telling and writing your own story" so if they complement something like that, I don't think it will be something so literal. So it might happen, but mojang would never call that "time travel to the past". You know, it might, but in an "abstract way". Anyway I think this update isn't about time travel, which would be great, obviously, but I think the focus is on sculk corruption, death, and swamps.

[@_agustinjulian_]

But in the event that at some point they implement time travel, I would love it if you can travel to a certain point in time in particular of *your* game And that the changes you make in the past can influence the timeline of the future, just like the butterfly effect. In multiplayer, it would be amazing hahahahahah.

[@Decodedvirus]

Then the ancient cities would live if they have time magic .-.

[@arthurgeddon854]

Something that is the same with all portals is that they all require two things; something hard and something hot. Our hard thing for the nether portal is the obsidian, the hot thing is the flint and steel. For the end portal, the hard thing is the frames and the hot thing is the blaze powder in the eyes of Ender, bit of a stretch but moving on. In our supposed third portal, we have reinforced deep slate as our hard thing, and the soul fire below the portal as our hot thing. What do you think?

[@00_Luis]

Bro what 💀

[@Trisin-m3i]

Bro what 💀

[@tanishrandom3801]

Bro what 💀

[@lion_heart_the_saviorkota6571]

Bro what 💀

[@vanceisokay9165]

Or perhaps dragon breath?

[@nenudiable-7649]

Here's my thought: It's portal into a dimension, less like the Nether or the End, and more like those april fools dimensions. A maze of randomly spawning corridors surrounded by nothing but endless skulk, guarded by Wardens that you need to sneak past, and at the heart, is a prison containing some kind of boss monster. Sort of like a dungeon. Minecraft's definitely lacking a little on the dungeons (only about 3, technically 5 if you count ancient cities and monster spawners.)

[@octanproductions6492]

MINECRAFT DUNGEONS!

[@thehunter8417]

i kinda miss the Update Infinity dimensions, they were fun

[@corozan3080]

Or its kinda like stranger thing

[@corvus196]

I was thinking the boss might be "the heart of the skulk, since the skulk is sentient, and the warden is part of that hive mind, Or the skulk is holding something else within the center of this dimension

[@DavidRamirez-lq2co]

I think we found the ancient civilization last home, they conquered it and when they were in the final moments of extinction they activated the warden and deactivated the portal so they can be finally safe

[@MiloKesteloot]

This feels like something that might have to do with the Ender Dragon. It just looks like the perfect size for a dragon to fly through

[@KING-lw8nv]

Who tf will bring a an ender dragon to the overworld

[@Lordodragonss]

@@KING-lw8nv TIME TO HATCH THE EGG BABY

[@DJSlimeball]

@@Lordodragonss How would that work?

[@Lordodragonss]

@@DJSlimeball Pring Egg to nether.You have to allow dragon to hatch and grow there (for chalange) You'll need to build portal big enough to havea fully size tamed dragon to leave the nether later

[@loading420]

imagine if theres a boss inside the new dimension and one of the achievement was bring the boss and beat the boss in overworld

[@cheeseman5191]

that spirit realm theory is really cool. Having to sacrifice something to get to a sort of shadow, or echo of the overword, and finding new mobs and items is one of the craziest Minecraft ideas I've ever heard

[@maevesmith948]

I know this won't happen, but imagine if it was like the wall of flesh in terraria, where after this boss is finished it'd unlock new items in the world and mobs/release a type of creatures/dimensional horror into the world

[@Francecaste]

I mean... mojang would never do something good like bosses, they’re too much busy counting dollars kek, about that I would love some more boss depth to Minecraft it’s what the game miss the most

[@tsuhosh]

Your minecraft girlfriend dies and then you see a text message saying: *The spirits of dark and light have been released*

[@danielrosales221]

@@Francecaste I think more bosses would be a little too modded for now... If anything, they should be more busy actually polishing the stuff that's been left out. Like the stronghold, fortress, and dungeon, for example.

[@Yorick257]

IMHO, Minecraft should stay Minecraft and not transform into Terraria. There's a reason why some prefer one over another (works both ways)

[@Cxy814]

@@Yorick257 Some people might say that Minecraft and Terraria are basically the same but they are quite different, Minecraft is purely a sandbox game, there is really only one objective and that is to beat the dragon. While in Terraria it is a lot more about progression, and while yes it all comes to beating Moonlord, there is a lot more you need to do before that.

[@bananabread6002]

I think it’d be cute if it is a “gateway” to the amplified world.

[@arts7456]

wdym??

[@literatemax]

Farlands portal

[@bugrilyus]

@@arts7456 world gen options, amplified worlds

[@buffpuff7327]

I don't remember where, but I remember hearing one of the developers saying that an update that they would like to do would be another villager update. meaning that just because a part of Minecraft is updated, or gets new features, doesn't mean it will stay that way forever. So mabey the ancient cities and the reinforced deepslate portal thing won't be addressed until the second caves update, or until a dedicated deep dark update.

[@colinsmith1495]

I do have a terrible feeling that whatever the purpose for Reinforced Deepslate currently is, it's an idea in the mind of one or two Devs and nothing's been done to implement it yet. I get the feeling if there were a new dimension coming any time soon, we'd be hearing more about it from the team. They've been completely silent on this block, haven't they? That suggests to me that either there's no point (in which case why make it indestructible), or the point is a long way's off and they're not doing anything with it yet.

[@navidzamzami9220]

Buffpuff that Developer was ulraf in a ask mojang video

[@buffpuff7327]

@@navidzamzami9220 Thx

[@the_godbodor7026]

I feel it is definitely a boss related thing, whether it just summons it or it’s a 4th dimension where you can fight or get the materials to fight the boss. Personally, seeing how cool the Wardens are, the boss could be extremely cool and maybe even a challenge since the Wither and Ender Dragon aren’t really all that hard at this point in Minecraft

[@uncletoast7288]

mf got that roblox reaper lev

[@xenobino8432]

Have you ever heard of this thing called "Hard mode bedrock wither"?

[@octanproductions6492]

@@xenobino8432 Have you heard of the Wither Storm?

[@octanproductions6492]

@Spamton G Spamton Yes Sans Wither Storm 2 NIGHTMARES COMIN' TOGETHER!

[@cupofearlgreytea7651]

Here's a theory: Maybe it's some huge speaker? You activate the structure and it produces sound for a certain time, luring EVERY warden in your world to it and distracting them regardless of how long the warden has been spawned for. This allows you to explore the deep dark and lost cities as you please without any threat of the wardens for as long as the structure remains active. My best advice would be for it to be active for a few in-game days to allow for plenty of time. As you walk around maybe you hear a soft humming noise like an AC unit but to the wardens it's the equivelent of a high pitched dog whistle sound. This might be great in multi-player if you coordinate teams of players. One team turns the speaker on while the others pillage and loot.

[@dzlrpacks]

I had a dream where I was in the deep dark on my Minecraft server, maybe that could work genuinely, in my dream there were multiple caves that connected to the ancient city and that gave me the idea that the reinforced deepslate could reveal a new segment of the cave, possibly by breaking the pillars.

[@TheEpicGalaxy21]

Adding onto this, but maybe to also make it a bit more worth it, perhaps the noise this structure makes could somehow break bedrock with the noise, and thus create certain openings into an extra cave biome beneath the bedrock that could only be accessed via breaking bedrock with this structure.

[@cupofearlgreytea7651]

@@TheEpicGalaxy21 not a bad idea!

[@uncletoast7288]

@@TheEpicGalaxy21 Maybe not bedrock, but I like where your head's at What would be the depth barrier for it anyhow

[@TheEpicGalaxy21]

@@uncletoast7288 True, perhaps instead of bedrock, at certain points, the bedrock barrier has a different type of block that's equally indestructible (so you can't break it normally), but when the structure is activated, these blocks are destroyed creating holes into this extra cave system which has a few new biomes and such, so it's like that 'plane' thing SimplySarc said. This new cave system wouldn't be that deep, it's just like an extra layer, perhaps like, 60 - 100 blocks in height, maybe even domed shaped so it's like a dome around the entrance hole. The blocks don't 'regrow' after the structure is finished emitting noise, so this would be a permanent addition to your world really. Oh, and for funsies, imagine if there's some easter egg you could do with this 'speaker' structure so that when you do a certain thing and activate it, it plays a certain song, that'd be hilarious...

[@minerforstone4136]

Theory five reminds me of the Occultism mod; specifically, the Demon's Dream, a fruit that allows you to harvest Otherwood from the Otherwood tree, and if you're not under it's effects you get oak wood instead

[@Necrotoxin44]

I really like this "Minecraft speculation" format you've been doing for a while. For a long time, Minecraft has kind of been relatively static. That is to say, updates mainly just added more of the same kind of content. They've been doing so much better with this lately with their revamps (again, lately is a relative term), but I also really like your videos because I'm reminded that Minecraft could be so much more. Basically, you challenge my perception of what Minecraft is, and I think that's really cool.

[@Ewokpilot65]

I agree, 1.13 and onwards has been amazing

[@tylerbozinovski427]

@@Ewokpilot65 1.15 and 1.17 were quite lackluster though.

[@chompybanana]

@@tylerbozinovski427 1.15 was meant to be purely a bug-fixing update, which is why we got it just months after 1.14 (ironically but purposefully, they added a bug as well - the bee). And 1.17 was the original release date of the full Caves & Cliffs Update, but to compensate for the unplanned duration of working on the changed world generation, they gave us all of the new items. They sure as heck delivered with 1.18 though.

[@Ewokpilot65]

@@tylerbozinovski427 smh.... Again with the 1.15 hate. Let me put it to you this way: 1.15 is a bonus update. It's not part of the update cycle. 1.14 was in 2019 and 1.16 in 2020. 1.15 was a bonus update that improves the performance by a lot and fixed. Even if you don't count it as a bonus update please understand that they had to do a major bugfixing update at some point. The fact that they decided to also add some content was the bonus part. Otherwise it's just a major bugfixing update which at the time was EXACTLY what Minecraft needed. It improved the game so much because of the optimization and actually many 1.12 mods actually update to 1.15 after that. Please try to understand. Whereas 1.17... it's only one half of an update so please judge caves and cliffs as one update that's how ita meant to be, they just released in 2 parts so we could use some features early Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

[@tylerbozinovski427]

@@chompybanana I get that. I'm talking strictly from a content point of view.

[@eruick047]

I belive that after walking through the "Portal" or "Gateway" will take you to THE Ancient City, yes, the Ancient Underground City with all the people around town, complete buildings and friendly wardens doing labor around the place (or whatever they used the wardens for at that time), kinda like a time travel, but for a limited time. See, they added a new compass, so I think they'll add a new clock that won't work (like when in the nether) until you jump in the portal, then It will countdown your time left to explore the city until you're kicked back into the overworld, that's why I also think that after you go through the portal It will deactivate, and you'll have to do the complicated method to re-light it, so that you can't just get the Real Ancient City (RAC) loot that easily.

[@bakrobertjohnston4889]

Wardens are like iron golems but better

[@skeletoon7995]

I dont know about the friendly wardens Then why would the one guarding the portal be so hostile

[@uncletoast7288]

@@bakrobertjohnston4889 except even a skeleton could beat one Because they don't attack, just roar yet

[@nanuqo2006]

Wardens aren't golems

[@skeletoon7995]

@@nanuqo2006 of course they arent

[@inkkles]

Biggest theory that I agree with is that the "portal" doesnt let the player in, but lets *something* out. The Warden needs to be guarding SOMETHING... maybe guarding the player from ever activating the portal and letting out whatever this ancient civilization sealed away. The way to activate the portal MUST have to do with sacrifice as well, I think.

[@theeyeofgaming8983]

That's a little but scary of what monstrosity would enter out the portal.. whatever they sealed away

[@s1rcr4b]

@@theeyeofgaming8983 Also the portal is REALLY big.You could probably fit 2 ender dragons thru there.

[@theeyeofgaming8983]

@@s1rcr4b yeah it is

[@Kob____]

I think it’s going to be a portal to a new dimension. Something with a similar kind of vibe to the Aether mod. There is something kinda nice about the link between the deep dark below the earth and a dimension up in the sky.

[@simpleton8785]

since the game updates seem to be having great emphasis to sounds and darkness, wouldn't it make sense if the rumored new dimension be about sound or darkness, yeah? Then, what if, the new 4th dimension literally becomes the 4th dimension? A dimension where sound represents light and darkness represents silence? Where creatures or objects moving would create sound and therefore, lighting everything around them while everywhere the light fails to reach would have the properties of glass in which you can see through. This would make traversing the rumored Deep Dark Dimension more bearable than an entirely dark dimension but would probably make it more annoying as you have to constantly make noise to see your surroundings which may alert the unique inhabitants in it. Also this would give crystals a more active use as you may be able to craft them into an echo crystal that would produce a sound in a controllable frequency like the noteblock which would give the music community more toys to work with while perhaps also being a consummable distraction to wardens by producing a high pitched frequency that would instantly aggro if the warden is not aggroed already. Honestly, crystals are being a bit lacking so giving them a great purpose alongside more uses would be great. This would also make jukeboxes a good item to craft, alongside my proposed echo crystal by being the only items that could make builds in the dark world actually look good compared to redstone machines which isn't good to look at unless the theme is like that. Unique inhabitants or normal mobs I could think of that would be in this Dimension are: Echo Zombies - they spawn naturally in areas that reaches 25% or more silence. When alarmed by noises nearby, they would make a sound, alerting Sonar Skeletons nearby, and if a creature is spotted, they would eliminate them. Only attacks when spotted by noises. Sonar Skeletons - they spawn naturally in areas that reaches 25% or more silence. When alarmed by noises nearby, they would shoot a sonar arrow, revealing any moving creature or object in the vicinity will be revealed. Only attacks when spotted by noises. Sonic Creeper - they spawn naturally in areas that reaches 25% or more silence. Are completely silent until detonation. After exploding, releases a sonic wave that penetrates through objects (except shields for whatever reason), instead of exploding and creating holes. Bats - they spawn naturally in areas that reaches 0 silence to 50% silence and are the mortal enemies of the unique inhabitants with the sound they create. Deep Slime - they spawn naturally in areas that reaches 75% silence and drop dark slimeballs that can be used as ingredients for crafting blindness potions or used as an ingredient to give objects the deep dark property as stated in this post in which if not within reach of light and reach Absolute SIlence, turns the object transparent regardless of type and would light up upon noises. and finally, The Wanderer, a unique boss type mob that rides a skeleton horse and wields a bow. Appear mangled and rotten bones. Is summoned by 4 or more chunks nearby have reached Absolute Silence. Drops rotten bones and a chance of a music disc upon death. Rotten bones will become the only way to craft and obtain skulk items like sensors or something alike. I really wish for there to be a 4th dimension ;-; If I said something contradictory or something to expand more about, then I'm sorry for I may not even type a response as I am suffering from late night stupidity syndrome that makes me write stupid stuff when low in sleep or because my brain decided to be s2pid.

[@apal7594]

I love this idea, but seems kinda hard to do

[@mapmoop451]

theres one thing were not thinking of here, time. if you listen to otherside theres a ticking sound at the end, its also in 5. maybe whatever is behind that portal will use time based mechanics, and by time based machanics, i mean time travel.

[@apal7594]

@@mapmoop451 Maybe..

[@dane1382]

this isnt a theory, this is a big list of requests

[@apal7594]

@@dane1382 agreed

[@unpopularopinions7407]

I really hope you’re right about an End update coming soon. The End levels in Minecraft Dungeons really emphasized how much can still be done with it.

[@jazzling]

I think what's important is that they make those spooky shards have a purpose beyond an item you probably need 1-3 of.

[@shmackbob]

What if it’s a Terraria “Wall of Flesh” type deal, and after passing through it, your world gets put into super-hard mode?

[@something8780]

Yess Minecraft NEEDS this!

[@ortherner]

Someone, make a mod like this.

[@idonthaveanynameideas6571]

no thanks, dealing with corruption spread is hard enough in a 2d limited world

[@shmackbob]

@@idonthaveanynameideas6571 Not talking aboit Terraria, talking about Minecraft

[@idonthaveanynameideas6571]

@@shmackbob I'd still rather not have to deal with sculk spreading all over my world

[@DeathbyProxy]

So glad Sarc is making videos again!!!

[@jackmercenary]

I like the idea of them being warp gates between areas, like in subnautica where you can activate portals that teleport you around the ocean

[@_guiviana]

The Nether Portal do that, and you can put in any place

[@lochiegriffiths4712]

@@_guiviana the difference would be that these would be instant travel, whereas nether portals require you to travel through the nether

[@Egg-Thor]

Guys you literally just watched a video detailing the reasons why that is not a good idea

[@lochiegriffiths4712]

@@Egg-Thor sometimes we comment before watching the full vid, which is something we should avoid sometimes

[@victorillo377]

+10000 respect for a fellow Subnautica fan ❤

[@Fabulous_Facade]

Imagine if it were the kind of portal like in Terraria where it's the Old One's army and you have to defend incoming waves of enemies. It would certainly be different.

[@stickso]

no.

[@salasyk8708]

Well already kinda have raids which are similar to that

[@salasyk8708]

@@stickso what's up homie, you got something personal with terraria?

[@Fabulous_Facade]

@@salasyk8708 Similar but not the same. Raids are protecting multiple villagers whereas in Terraria you are protecting a crystal. Terraria and Minecraft are very different but it is still something to keep in mind.

[@ryonhatcher4561]

Here's some of my theories: Mining Station: What if the weird Centerpiece Structure was just a Station for a giant Super Mining Machine? It would make near-perfect sense for the reinforced deepslate, since it can't be moved by pistons. It would help construct a massive flying machine specifically designed to mine large areas of stone and ore. Portal: Assuming the Centerpiece is in fact a brand new Portal, what if it doesn't send you to another dimension or another plane of existence? What if it sends you back in Time? This could be an interesting feature for Minecraft: going back in time to different ages and eras of the past. You could go back in time to the Age of Dinosaurs, Older Versions of Minecraft or even back in time minutes or hours ago in a respective World. You could even back to the time of the infamous *Herobrine.* Okay, maybe not that last one, but it would be a very interesting feature for this Centerpiece thing. Portal 2: If the Centerpiece really is a new Portal and it *doesn't* send you back in time, maybe it can send you to another World. Not a new Dimension, but a World you loaded. That would mean the former Inhabitants of the Ancient City found some some way to travel the Multiverse. If Mojang were to add either of these two Portal Features, that would be some serious Doctor Who craziness right there.

[@Foggycallabasashillshelicopter]

Both of those r so lame😂 why would I want to reverse my world and also I can just press main menu and switch worlds😂

[@_KingRaz]

@@Foggycallabasashillshelicopter you could make one world specifically made of farms for different materials, then the other world would be entirely for building because all the materials you would need could be consumed from the other world. Having an in game, connected way to open up 2 worlds that you have would be super useful. Also, it wouldn't be reversing your world, it would be going back in time in your world, then you could go back. Seeing the progress you have made or changing things early on in a process could be really neat. It's almost like having a built in backup loader. Like if you die from falling, you could go back in time and put water at the bottom of wherever you fell so you didn't actually die and get all your items back. That would connect it to the recovery compass pretty well too.

[@qexat]

The two last paragraphs are REALLY hard to implement technically speaking. I'm pretty sure that what Mojang planned for this centerpiece is not what you think it is.

[@ryonhatcher4561]

@@Foggycallabasashillshelicopter Mojang created a Mob that detects Light Levels, yet we can just press f3. So why not use the Centerpiece as a Multiversal Gate? As for Time Travel, I think it would send you to different Eras: Medieval, Ancient Greece, the Cenozoic Era or even the Mesozoic Era. That's how I think a Time Portal *should* be implemented. It could be like entering a new dimension, only it's still in the Overworld, just in another Time.

[@ryonhatcher4561]

@@qexat We'll see. These are all purely theoretical, anyways.

[@AgentTheVandal]

I, personally, believe this is 1 of 2 things. 1: It could be a teleporter, it could connect between the different lost cities and all that, but you could also take the deepslate and rebuild it in a portal like frame in a different area and connect it with a different deepslate and connect it with sculk somehow. 2: it could very well be a boss spawner. It’s not out of the question that the warden is a boss-like mob, but the wither was the last boss we actually got. The ancient cities are so useless, if we were able to build some sort of arena for ourselves to fight this boss then it would ALSO go to waste. I think this boss will be very powerful and destructive, similar to the warden.

[@KSKY2012]

what about a boss that spawns somewhere in the deep dark, and will instantly chase you and murder you easily, but you can use the environment against it? like, traps that you have to lure it into and buy you time to run.

[@RealValkor]

I wonder how they'll manage to make an actual boss fight for the lost cities considering you're supposed to be sneaky and quiet there... I don't wanna lure a warden to me while I'm fighting a boss. they could either deactivate the warden during the fight or the warden itself would become the boss somehow.

[@UndiagnosedGarbage]

I don't think it can be a boss, due to how powerful the Warden is, at least strength wise, he can be dealt with or avoided very easily using its own mechanics against it like we've all been shown. But the game balance comes into question heavily because while that may be the case, it can still 2 shot the player in Full Netherite.

[@neoak47peno82]

I think when we light up the portal a humongous warden would come out, thus explaining the oversized portal, in matpats video he describes the scene of music disc 5 as the portal being lit, a wither appearing, and then a louder and deeper than normal warden screaming sound can be heard, So I think that once you light the portal there will be a huge warden slowly coming out and then you having to fight it in some way.

[@IAmCrystalPalm]

My thought process and theory is; The ancient city is covered in skulk, the only thing that spreads skulk is when things die, I think something killed most of the inhabitants of the city and then got it trapped away into that "portal" that I'm going to call a cell. I think the Warden was made by the people who lived there and were messing with the ecosystem trying to make something magical, but they made 2 creatures they didn't mean to make. The Warden, and a boss mob. They realized how dangerous these things were and made this portal out of the bones of wardens they managed to kill (because the reinforced deepslate looks like it has bones at the edges) and then trapped the biggest threat in the void, but then died because of the wardens, causing the city to be covered in the skulk. Now yes you're probably wondering why I mentioned the void, I think they are going to go with the more "Gateway" way and make it so that its the entrance to the bottom of the void. I think it would be a new dimension technically because they don't want to make the overworld too big/deep. It would be really cool especially since when you break the bedrock at the bottom of the world it looks like the night sky, having stars and everything. And it just so happens, skulk looks like the night sky. And I think it would be an amazing addition because it would basically be Limbo, one of the more popular mods back when Minecraft became super popular and mods were starting to be a thing. (I think its also a part of the Dimensional doors mod and that mod is like one of the most poplar mods) TLDR; I think it’s a gateway to the void where the people who used to live in the city put a big baddie

[@greywolf9783]

Anything that can survive the depths of the void is a true terror

[@imyellowteeth4691]

Tldr

[@IAmCrystalPalm]

@@imyellowteeth4691 done

[@imyellowteeth4691]

@@IAmCrystalPalm thanks bro

[@Cxy814]

The boss must be huge if they need a portal that big, it can fit like 4 withers, speaking of withers, they are made if souls so the sculk is basically overworld wither. Portal to the void is interesting tho, depending if you believe that the nether is literal hell and is below the earth, the void might be even deeper than the nether, consequently meaing whatever they locked in the void might be worse than hell itself

[@BigLesbian]

Man, your faith in Mojang to do anything complex as any of this fills me with hope

[@maxderholzrusse7301]

They won't. Mojang literally has a team that consists of hundreds or even thousands of people and are slower than one single modder.

[@orbitron2330]

@@maxderholzrusse7301 unlike mods, they can’t have glitches which is one of the reasons the caves and cliffs update was split into two parts. They even hired mod devs to help as they saw potential for better updates.

[@Cookieglue]

@@maxderholzrusse7301 yeah. I feel like it's not the developers that are the bottleneck, it's most likely stupid corporate stuff that requires updates to pushed slowly so that way the game is still simple for new players... :(

[@aftross9297]

I am INLOVE with the gateway theory, it sounds like something mojang would do to try to break off the idea of portals and that this deep dark thing is only just DIFFERENT.

[@coopercan]

Although I would really enjoy a new dimension, there are two other options I find much more interesting. One, like you said, a MIRROR PLANE would be really cool. It could actually work as another dimension, but copies the Overworld. Seeing blocks and buildings you've made and placed from the normal world, but within this dark yet magical clone world would be very interesting. It could be like the Upside Down from Stranger Things, but all sculky and weird. (Maybe this is the one place you CAN'T build or break blocks in? Maybe there could be some other goal within this "dimension" that copies ours?) Two, I love the idea of the statue being an EXIT PORTAL for some new boss or army of monsters. For this to work to it's fullest though, they would need to obviously add said "new boss" and new monsters. Maybe sculk themed creepers, zombies and skeletons for the army? Bonus: You're not supposed to carry around the recovery compass unless you've died, duh. Put it in a chest next to your spawn point.

[@Notllamalord]

I think that every biome needs a refresh, like the desert and snow biomes, more biome specific mobs and items to make exploring more worth it

[@gamingcousins5362]

I think they might get updated in the wild update

[@joetrapana9523]

I sadly dont think so. It seems like they’re almost done with the Wild Update. When you look at the snapshots they already added the Title Screen background and there were many bugfixes which usually happens at the end of a snapshot cycle. I’m not even sure if they’re gonna add the new birch forests or not…

[@Notllamalord]

@@joetrapana9523 it doesn’t have to be this update

[@Happy-to3tf]

True, the worldgen in other biomes is prime but deserts are still boring as fuuuuuuck

[@notthed6534]

@@Happy-to3tf I'd honestly be cool with a desert along the lines of terraria. Constantly dangerous, but high chances to be rewarding if you are willing to go through some dungeons

[@godofmemes7283]

I think it isn't supposed to take us through the xyz axis, it takes us through the time axis. Maybe it'll take us "somewhen", when the ancient city wasn't abandoned, when the city was full of people, when the warden is actually the iron golem at that time, and with stronger ancient enemies (I think it's like that because of the iron golem to mob power ratio thing).

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

Good theory

[@HiimSpencer0808]

I got this video recommended and your videos are perfect for like mowing or something when I can’t look at the phone. I also love your thumbnails, keep up the good work

[@Mr.deacle]

Maybe it's a prison for a new dragon type, wide to accommodate the wingspan. Or maybe it's a stage of some kind, for players to gather at during events. I haven't even played Minecraft in a few months, but this darn thing keeps popping into my head.

[@monkeywrench1290]

The spirit world is a good idea,you couldnt interact with blocks though,only spirit stuff. Also,cudtom planes could be added via commands.

[@calithyde5346]

How though?

[@monkeywrench1290]

@@calithyde5346 you could have à command that adds remove and modifiés planes of reality.

[@rizizum]

@@monkeywrench1290 Ah yes, just add a command. Why haven't added a new dimension yet? All the need to do is add a command and it'll be done

[@siduxjxhdgzhdjxhxuuxxyhgg1079]

@@monkeywrench1290 i sure do wonder why people make mods when they can add everything with commands then wait they cant

[@calithyde5346]

@@monkeywrench1290 you can add dimensions with datapacks, but how would you have an overlain plane? There is no way to make some blocks visible to some players and not to others without messing with ghost blocks, which be pointless as ghost blocks exist only on the client and commands and datapacks only on the server

[@snailymitch]

5:00 the point is that you keep it in storage until you actually need it though? There's literally no reason to carry around a recovery compass, you only need to grab it when you need it and the moment you retrieve your items you just put it back in your enderchest.

[@siduxjxhdgzhdjxhxuuxxyhgg1079]

wow i get a item i wont make active use of most of the time and something i will only use in the place im going to for going to the most wack place in the game

[@whateverIwasthinkingatthetime]

Well yeah it's a "break glass in case of fire" kind of thing, just pick it up when needed.

[@orbic521]

Imagine dying on your way to the location though and losing your compass :P

[@KitKitsuneVixen]

oh gosh the sculk portal thing is already 2 years old and that really ages me

[@thederpysqueege]

I like the final theory the most honestly, I'd rather have a greater product later than an alright or maybe even inadequate product sooner... similar to how the caves and cliffs update was broken up and spaced out to give time for proper development.

[@akgus1]

4:50 the recovery compass is meant to be an item you store and leave alone till your inevitable death then you bring it out

[@Deathworm-eg5lt]

Exactly

[@myrkr_]

and then you die again when trying to find your stuff.

[@skay1012]

4:18 I disagree, I don't know why beeing faster while sneaking would be a issue. It allows playes to safely walk while bridging. So whole process is just faster, while still beeing as safe as it was before. For me swift sneak is must have enchantment, especially for bridging and to be honest, it and recovery compass are enought to encourage me to go to ancient cities.

[@ShowGames_TV]

exactly! i love sarc but his argument here is stupid. you can literally speedbridge without needing to risk anything!

[@givtyart1044]

Every time I hear Disk 5, I imagine how the residents of the Acient city leave the city, through the portal they have built, and to the Demension ...

[@amazinc754]

I definitely think we need more rewards/something bigger in the cities to make it worth. It's the hardest thing in the game by far

[@Solesteam]

Here's an idea, what if the warden isn't what's on the chiseled deep-slate? And the warden, is merely a child? The big guy does throw a bit of a tantrum and waddles around clumsily like it recently learned how to walk. What if there is a way to beat the warden, but not in the guts-n-glory kind of way we'd expect? what if that is a tradition entry portal, but it's not meant for us?

[@matthewgrigg1285]

The point about the recovery compass being kept on death seems kind of unneeded since there's literally no reason for you to carry it around with you. Leave it at home and the grab it if you die to find your way back.....

[@chicken9285]

The compass should be a totem instead that lets you keep your stuff on death but pops when you die. And you still get teleported back to your spawn.

[@_P0tat07_]

If we were to get a new dimension, I’d demand an aether/sky dimension. Especially if it had dungeon puzzles kind of like Zelda games. I think that would be awesome

[@s1rcr4b]

Puzzles wouldn't work very well in a game where you can just mine thru the wall or pearl/boat glitch thru.

[@ksdragona_5583]

The developer that designed the Aether mod works for Mojang now, so that is a possibility.

[@oceanti6791]

Yes! Aether!!

[@PlasmaWarrior.]

@@s1rcr4b They could make the blocks in the puzzles/puzzle rooms extremely hard to mine, make them unbreakable, or give you the mining fatigue effect.

[@aatroxtheworldender933]

This is deep dark. Its not high light.

[@Madcat1331]

9:30 The way you showcased this feature leads me to another idea. What if it's like a giant lens? Looking through it will highlight potential threats in the vicinity, or maybe reveal hidden puzzles with hidden loot? Like an AR headset!

[@-silence-5873]

I really like the idea of it being like a puzzle! The structure being a lens plays into the pillars in front of it (the ones with lamps). An example of this would be if you step or put something on a particular pillar it does something to the lens. However I doubt a lens mechanic is something they would do, it could be more like figuring out how to activate the structure with pressure plate or button mechanics. I always thought it was odd puzzles like that are only seen in jungle temples. The concept of puzzles is something that is already in the game so it can be seen again here.

[@FinalFantasmagorie]

It'd good to see SimplySarc getting back into the swing of things.

[@supremegrimmy]

After watching Alan Becker's Animation VS Minecraft Shorts EP 26 (The Warden) I had the thought that the "portal" is like a time machine that would take you back to when the ancient city wasn't so ancient.