Minecraft's Quasi-Lore and How to Build on it

[@RetroGamingNow]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

It still blows my mind to think that this video helped inspire an entire series. Love your content, your theories are really interesting!

[@Vedertesu]

15 hours ago? Wow I didnt expect to see pinned comment by you from 15 hours ago. Also I love your videos they are amazing!

[@guyonYTube]

@@Vedertesu 1 minute ago? Wow I didnt expect to see reply by you from 1 minute ago. Also I love your replies they are amazing!

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

It still blows my mind to think that this comment helped inspire an entire thread. Love your comments, your words are really interesting!

[@guyonYTube]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy Yeah, this thread is so big now

[@SpoonChase]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Interesting theory, but I think zombie villagers and zombified piglins underwent different types of zombification. That's why one's called zombified.

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Possibly, but then I wouldn't think mojang would make a big deal out of the name change. They're keeping something a secret

[@T--xo2uq]

It could be a fungal species. Heat kills most fungi, so it has a much easier time in the overworld where temperatures can drop during the night. The nether has many species of fungi that are specifically adapted to constant high temperatures, so perhaps the overworld's plague is out-competed. In my mind that also implies that the zombie-fungus can survive and thrive with or without living hosts, perhaps in soil or stone, since zombies arise seemingly from nothing in the overworld.

[@A2Z2]

It also could go the other way around, as piglins and hoglins are afraid of warped fungus Just sayin

[@nwefe]

@ADGamer608 only hoglings are scared of warped fungi

[@awesomeninja886mc2]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

This is very useful, thanks! I was thinking of making another quasilore video for dungeons, but I haven't played it yet.

[@awesomeninja886mc2]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy No problem! I'm open to DMs on Discord if you need any information on the subject or things to discuss in the video.

[@Barc-fp8cg]

Maybe thats why Illagers tried to imitate the End Portal

[@justanub4697]

Heartstealer? SquidCoast? Highblock castle? WHAT?!?!!?????

[@awesomeninja886mc2]

@@justanub4697 Squid Coast is the Tutorial level from Dungeons, heartstealer is a unique sword item, and highblock castle is where the final 2 levels take place.

[@JRexRegis]

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

[@trumediamix1]

Dare I say... *_there's magic in our bones?_* kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5OQdKGtnp51p6Msi=KhkokLV2f1On78DD

[@yougotthecrowbar]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Yeah I thought it was cute when I first considered it. Like frosty the snowman

[@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy there's a mod for 1.16 that adds that

[@cxhen1231]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Either that or they left by themselves

[@Jenna_Talia]

I believe they're a third party who disbanded from villages of their own accord, or were kicked out. Either way they're motivated to work in the swamps due to access to rare resources like slime and difficult terrain to traverse. Then pillagers came along, struck a deal with them to help in raiding villages. However the witches can't bring themselves to personally harm another villager, only help the pillagers do it themselves.

[@burritowyrm6530]

Villagers that reached enlightenment vs. villagers who chose to become bandits

[@vadernation1233]

Maybe they’re mercenaries who do things in exchange for potion ingredients. They could be really strict with their requirements in that the illagers only asked them to be healers so that’s all they’ll do. The iron golems recognize the witches as mercenaries and not wanting that kind of scum to ruin the peacefulness of the village they attack.

[@Slirthart]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Interesting, I didn't know that!

[@JAGer-pl2vt]

Also, magmamusen hates/hated chickens, calling an entire playlist ‘chicken killing stuff’

[@zoot_the_axolotl8095]

Didn't they even point his yt channel out in the old 1.7-1.8 guidebooks? Or were those books not official mojang/Microsoft publications?

[@earthcantholdme1209]

@@zoot_the_axolotl8095 yeah they let him write a couple pages idk if it was made by Mojang

[@totaldan99]

@Eric Lee *takes a drawn out drag of cigarette* Yep.

[@T--xo2uq]

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

[@maskedredstonerproz]

yeah , maybe when the chickens were killed on missions , the Zombies kept the feathers as something to remind them of their fallen comrades , and something to fuel their will to avenge said comrades , which might explain why they attack the player , because the player is the last of a species that their chicken comrades were spying on

[@thryx.f1612]

It also explain why in indef pigs drops mushroom meaning the nether the piglin was dominate by fungus which was nether wart

[@kaleidoscopekaleidoscope9064]

notch said that he didnt know what zombie should drop back then cuz there wasnt any rotten flesh around, so he just picked feather.

[@flar7137]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

This is why automatic chicken farms are justified

[@slevinchannel7589]

We need Lore. It's sad many dont know this. It's good but not enough that the Game Theorists have started showing this. We really need more Lore. But even more importantly: We need Permanent Change. Whetever the Enderman have actually been Builders or not isnt the point, but 'something' definetly went wrong in this 'world' - and i think Minecraft needs a Direction and that Direction could definetly be Permanent Change. Apparently there have been many Stories that ended in a bad End, most 'Races' are unhappy, the world is in shambles. 'Achievement: Free the End'? No, that's not enough! I want to have the option to actually permanently change the world and make the Sad Endings that apparently are all over the world become good Ends. I want to cure the zombies forever, revive the Ancient Builders and make things right that went wrong. Get what i mean? It's hard to explain, but try to understand.

[@taylorwright7428]

Considering how baby zombies ride chickens, I like to imagine they're just so stupid, they're easily manipulated by basically anything or anyone. (Including possession, which would explain the "spies for dark forces" thing. The dark forces possessed a chicken to push you in the lava as a petty prank.)

[@CorrectMyGrammarPls]

​@@slevinchannel7589Your wall of text is so hard to read with the unconvinient ends of line

[@RebelJC]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Glad you enjoyed! They're very subtle aren't they? :P

[@Jeff4theRaid]

Too bad, quasi lore

[@Jeff4theRaid]

I deflect

[@TDAKT]

Oh because water is eternally preserved by its cycle

[@archanamanoharan9535]

You can also notice this in the squid and axolotl being the only creatures with self preservation mechanics.

[@elderhakabong2678]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Just goes to show that they are quite similar!

[@slevinchannel7589]

We need Lore. It's sad many dont know this. It's good but not enough that the Game Theorists have started showing this. We really need more Lore. But even more importantly: We need Permanent Change. Whetever the Enderman have actually been Builders or not isnt the point, but 'something' definetly went wrong in this 'world' - and i think Minecraft needs a Direction and that Direction could definetly be Permanent Change. Apparently there have been many Stories that ended in a bad End, most 'Races' are unhappy, the world is in shambles. 'Achievement: Free the End'? No, that's not enough! I want to have the option to actually permanently change the world and make the Sad Endings that apparently are all over the world become good Ends. I want to cure the zombies forever, revive the Ancient Builders and make things right that went wrong. Get what i mean? It's hard to explain, but try to understand.

[@slevinchannel7589]

@Mohamed Boualem I dont need to fix 'everything', i think. But living in a world where nothing is good and fixed? That aint good. The Drowned are drowned, the Enderman are no Men anymore, and whatnotelse. Everything had a bad end. All the people who came before us died and/or mutated, apparently. I want to fix some of that.

[@greysoncrowe5196]

I called that the "Strider whale", my lore of it is that it's an prehistoric relative of the Strider that went extinct, and some of the skeletons in the soulsand valley are the remains of strider whales

[@kanyenortheast3546]

@@greysoncrowe5196 But why did they go extinct? I have a hypothesis about that. What if they, as a byproduct of eating lava, made netherite? It'd explain why they're immune to lava, and why they went extinct, because they were hunted for their netherite. Their slaughter in masses probably created the Soul Sand Valley, the skeletons from those who died hunting them and the ghasts being the ghosts of these strider whales. It'd also explain why the only netherite we find is "ancient" debris under lakes of lava, because it's remnants of the civilization that used netherite and hunted the strider whales. Edit: apparently ghasts aren’t undead. That throws a wrench in this theory.

[@arktya]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Lots of things are obvious once you know them. Don't feel too bad 😞

[@mdbgamer556]

That begs another question: What are ghasts? They're constantly crying if the sounds and expressions are anything to go by. They drop their tears upon death. They live in the nether, whether or not it was their natural home. They are also immune to fire. They attack the player on sight, and only the player, with an explosive fireball that is too weak to destroy stone based blocks. I have absolutely nothing on what they could be, but perhaps maybe being from the overworld, and possibly being some sort of gaurdian/protector type beings. Maybe that were the world's version of angels or something, and that's why they are not only powerful, but their tears have healing capabilities. Perhaps they knew healing magic? If this is true though, how did they wind up in the Nether? Were they banished there? Or did they flee from humanity? Perhaps humans, as they advanced, did what they always do and ran them off, which would explain why players are attacked on sight. The theories go far, but we'll never get definite answers.

[@page970]

@@mdbgamer556 what if they were angels and got punished by god and sent to hell

[@LucyWest370]

@@mdbgamer556 i think of them as a creature native to the end. Sorta like a living ghost, they aren’t alive the same way we are and don’t need food. Their also hyper aggressive.

[@mdbgamer556]

@@LucyWest370 🤔 Hmmmm. That could also be one place they're from

[@bumpkinbee1524]

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

[@masteredk2919]

This is somewhat realistic as many types of crystals emit small amounts of electricity when they are vibrated such as when something touches them and are used in many types of sensitive electronics

[@nebulaentertainment3404]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

So you think the end is in the future? And thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed!

[@nebulaentertainment3404]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy Maybe. It would make sence since many scientists predict the end of the universe would just be all black, since all stars and planets gradually dissapeared. And you totally desserved that compliement, and thank you for responding. You rock.

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Thanks! That's an interesting theory.

[@nebulaentertainment3404]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy You're welcome.

[@Nikolai-vq1jq]

Dude this is my favorite end theory, the end portal being an actual time machine is such a cool concept

[@Bread_Lord]

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

[@ezren_7140]

All of their random "speech" is also called that

[@skyebluesilly]

vwoop

[@Bread_Lord]

@@ezren_7140 That’s actually distorted English

[@theopoldthegamer4284]

@@Bread_Lord Yeah but it's still called vwooping

[@radicaaprils]

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

[@OmolonFluidDynamicsEnjoyer]

And here I was thinking piglins hated soul fire because it's hotter and more dangerous than regular fire.

[@guycross493]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Mobestiary isn't updated to 1.14 😅

[@fancyboy3806]

Well Villager can’t normally break block and get stick so it logical for them that stick are st they would trade, after all you give them 32 of your sticks that can be use to craft various tool and item and they give you back a useless piece of emerald that does nothing except acting as a currency

[@zapper333]

@@fancyboy3806 maybe i am an *idiot*

[@jaydenwilton5279]

you're not selling them their own food, you're harvesting their crops for them and they're paying you for your labour

[@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7]

@@jaydenwilton5279 slavery, hell yeah

[@szymusu]

The totem of dying XD

[@ethanotoroculus1060]

Hmm... How about the Totem of Undeath?

[@ecliptin5395]

ah yes, just what i need :D

[@glumbortango7182]

Totem of Redying

[@DaJokurr]

@@ethanotoroculus1060 the totem of the undead would fit a little more imo but yeah sounds good

[@ethanotoroculus1060]

@@glumbortango7182 Oh, _of course_ you'd turn up here.

[@wofi784]

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

[@marinaaaa2735]

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

[@santinocermelo7330]

i would actually love a mod with that undead totem

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Yeah I want to try shilling it into a mod

[@twilightopey]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy Do it! Do it! Do it!

[@1d10tcannotmakeusername]

But instead of a totem, it's a stone mask because JoJo.

[@ryangonelli5085]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy a skeleton one would be really cool

[@joghn6974]

totem of dying

[@gabe2902]

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

[@mynameoito]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Endermen don't seem controlled though. They'll attack her if aggro'd, and they're able to leave the end at any time.

[@hummingbirde5147]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy Maybe they see the player attacking the dragon, and when they get aggro'd by the dragon they finally fight back.

[@ismetcancelik5052]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy perhaps if dragon is worshipped, then you free them from a false god? also why was that written in the first place considering enderman attack it? perhaps an evil deity and they have advantage when player comes so they are trying to kill what they worship? is worship more about something they want than an actual reverence?

[@ismetcancelik5052]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy or perhaps are they trying to fertilize the last female of their species? doesn't make sense why would there be some divinity like the egg, the respawning of dragon, a special case like this and portal disappearing once you enter? it all sounds special. If there are dragon heads in other islands why would this dragon be different? If those heads imply something else and not realted to actual dead heads of once common dragons, then this ''divine one of a kind of its species'' might work. I think there was a movie where dragons eat ash and they killed the dragons. In 2000s they wake up from their sleep when main character is a child in london and they find out all dragons are female except one. Now why would it be this way either in that 'no fantasy' movie or in minecraft? i don't know but something to think.

[@nickg5341]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Sculk is really interesting, we haven't gotten much lore relating to XP for a while

[@thomasalvarez6456]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy Maybe they were made by the builders in the same way as Totems of undying ( they seem to made by pillagers though) , maybe killing things for XP and storing it was a more efficient method to bottles of enchanting but they bit off more than they could chew. They had too many undead and Skulk overtook the cities. The Deep Dark cities are rather lovecraftian and the Chiselled Deepslate suggests the Wardens were around during the cities hay day and maybe even before Many Chiselled blocks are like that. N Stone brick = Eye of Ender Sand = Creeper and the desert temple Red sand = Wither Quartz= Guardian Black stone = Piglins Nether brick = Wither Skeleton ( a hint to the Wither?) Deep slate = Warden Clearly, the ancient builders established bases here, made potions, experimented with magic/XP Hence why all these built structures are tied to magic and the chiselled blocks are some of the last evidence of the ancient builders and their influence on species they created like the piglins (their miners of Debris?) or influenced like villagers who are protected by the Iron golems. Perhaps seeing the similarities between villagers and the builders. The pillagers also take influence from the builders, they are inheritors of their magic ways.

[@alessioantinoro5713]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

English likes stealing words from other languages :p

[@alessioantinoro5713]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy ahahaha

[@extraordinarilytypic]

@@alessioantinoro5713 Maybe because the word originates not from Italian, but from Latin, which in its stead is the base for Italian?

[@alessioantinoro5713]

@@extraordinarilytypic No. There're literally words that come from Italian and not from Latin like "Quasi" in latin is "fere", quasi is an Italian world and mean the same in English and in Italian. Even bravo that is a word I hear a lots is from Italian and not from latin.

[@aeaeeaoiauea]

I think it's because English is basically just a combination of almost all European languages... but I'm not European so I don't know

[@MrAhkmid]

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

[@ezren_7140]

Like a city... but in the End! Jokes aside, who's to say that other structures like desert wells aren't built by endermen?

[@irgendwerirgendwo9095]

@@ezren_7140 For what purpose would endermen (water kills them) need wells (water source) except maybe warfare?

[@ezren_7140]

@@irgendwerirgendwo9095 Good point, I'm not sure.

[@irgendwerirgendwo9095]

@@ezren_7140 It would probably be more useful for them to store dry sponges everywhere in the overworld. However, a creature, that needs (to drink) water, would, if smart enough and capable, build a well in a desert to increase their chance of survival there.

[@a-bombmori7393]

If you want to be a real stinker you could argue that there already exists a rare structure built by enderman. A very, vary rare structure that they actually need to build first!

[@sleeves2604]

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

[@ionxtandstuff2308]

Endermen can carry pumpkins and it is possible for them to make a snow golem if they place it in a village.

[@trondordoesstuff]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

That's probably my favourite theory of his

[@someone2447]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Haven't heard enchanted tools being tied to people slaying the Ender Dragon a bunch of times. Interesting theory

[@emeraldblack842]

I think that the reason a ghast is rescued to the overworld is because they are ghosts/souls that are suffering, thus why they cry and why it's a rescue, you're essentially saving them from hell.

[@ronnoc5278]

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

[@tims.1615]

I would like to know why cats hiss at phantoms though

[@ronnoc5278]

Phanton? _Did you mean:_ scary sky bird?

[@matttale7918]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

You might like endergy's ideas. While not based on sound, they are quite similar.

[@matttale7918]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy I’ve seen some of his concepts, they all feel very thought through, and hopefully he gets his ideas put into an update for his mod! The only thing I’m not a fan of is purple trees. But that’s a personal bias based on my own way of looking at the end.

[@circledline3880]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Thanks for the lovely comment!

[@bikerscoutproductions1040]

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

[@Lumegrin]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Lmao I like the way you think

[@Lumegrin]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy they keep saying it, but thank you

[@Lumegrin]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy I don't get why this theory isn't so common, they're practically forcing it down our throats and people looking for lore ignore it

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

I think it's because most people see it as a joke

[@Lumegrin]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy fair enough

[@K3end0]

A year late, but good video! I've always held the best way to continue with minecraft's lore would not be to "explain" it like one might initially want, but to simply to develop on what we have, and your additions really fit with that sort of design.

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Thanks very much!

[@vendetta1429]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

I considered adding that, but wasn't sure whether to include jokes

[@lukidon8715]

I have a theory that the nether and the end are the past and future of the overworld. I don't have much evidence, but the nether resembles how the overworld could've looked when it was forming. Piglin's could be pigs that somehow got into a nether portal, and adapted to their new environment, and the entirety of the nether's ecosystem came about from a group of pigs, villagers, and ghasts. The end is the end of the overworld, judging by the name. Some kind of world-ending event took place that shattered the overworld. 0,0 becomes the main island, while everything else is sent into the outskirts. It's possible that some villagers, golems, and possibly the player survived this event and adapted to their new environment. The villagers slowly became the endermen, the golems lost their towering shape and became shulkers, and the player would've either died or possibly become the Ender Dragon. I don't have much for the player = ender dragon, it's more of a cool headcanon. Whenever the player enters the end or nether portal, whatever they do influences the dimension.

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

I've heard a similar idea. Definitely allows for a lot of headcanons with that structure.

[@lartts7483]

The endermen makes more sense as the players since they have human brains (in the mobeastiary) and speak some kind of English. They can also pick up and place blocks just like players so they were definitely players.

[@lartts7483]

The Nether is not The Overworld, why do people still think this? The structure and terrain of The Nether is vastly different from The Overworld, The Nether has a FLIPPING roof and it's world height is 128, which is smaller than The Overworld. The Nether also has bedrock on top while The Overworld has bedrock on below the caves which proves that The Nether is under The Overworld. This is further proved by the fact that The Nether is obviously based on Hell and that you'll get an ACHIEVEMENT saying "We Need To Go Deeper" when you go The Nether first time.

[@lukidon8715]

@@lartts7483 its a theory minecraft doesn't have set lore chill

[@maskedredstonerproz]

the Nether being what the overworld looked like kinda does justice to how planet earth came to be irl , millions maybe bilions of years ago , the earth looked kinda like the Minecraft nether does so??

[@ok-tr1nw]

this is game theory but less cringe i like it

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Lol thanks

[@dianauwu1312]

The healing/harming reversal on undead could be a reference to some Final Fantasy games (and probably other RPGs) where healing items damage undead and instant death spells don't work on them.

[@fresherturtle1154]

It seems like there are two kinds of the end. There is the violet color scheme and the less common greenish color scheme. My theory is that the greenish end is just remnants of an ancient era of the end, that was washed away when the dragon took over. This works with ‘Free the End’ and the fact that Enderman used to have the greenish color for their eyes instead of the violet we have today. The end portal frame is also from the old end, and maybe the dragon came from the outer islands that are all violet. The Warden shown in the Caves and Cliffs reveal has the color palette of end stone and old end green, so maybe it is connected to the long-lost era of the end. I dunno, but it sounds cool to me

[@TheDeadmanstrolling]

i'm late to this, but this in incredibly interesting! great video, i have my own little tangent - if it's canon that creepers have a small TNT jacked in their body... and TNT is a manmade item... then *someone or some race made the creepers* . that opens up a lot of quasi-lore questions. who made them? for what purpose? that combined with the "profound sadness" look mentioned in the mobestiary makes me think whatever the creeper was a completely different species that got experimented on and eventually was bio-engineered into the creeper we know today. their visage being chiseled into sandstone pyramids could be a hint that the creeper's creators dwelled the deserts. those same pyramids have long been abandoned. so we have a race of green creatures that propogate via spores, they're hostile to all life, and were created by some mysterious extinct race. this is reminds me a lot of warhammer 40k and the orks.

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

If they indeed have TNT in them, that does make them quite mysterious. Perhaps they were used as mining charges?

[@Lumberjack_king]

1:56 I personally think it would be made of the yet to be released 1.17 skulk blocks instead of prismarein but I like your logic and themes of loyalty tied to water 6:50 I absolutely love that idea

[@virtualdash]

If we ever get an update that adds even more content to the end, we need an end variant of Pigstep

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Or maybe something even weirder like atonal music

[@Neistir]

I think of pumpkins kind of like "day of the dead" calavera skulls, but more of a magical approach. Not to offend any culture, but think of it as like, the lost spirits are put into pumpkins, and when the pumpkins are released in the snow or iron, they kind of possess the blocks to create an entity.

[@soap4451]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@Oversneeze]

I have a little fun lore about my character named Dave Evergreen and Ted (a weapon smith villiger) who was transported by the endermenn to the world of minecraft. Dave's previous life he was a Master blacksmith and that's why he could make iron and diamond tools without using much supplies and rescourses. This is just something I came up with to make the game more fun.

[@wisman3864]

With the new Caves and Cliffs update coming out soon. The Deep Dark looks almost as if it could have something to do with the end.

[@TheCompleteMental]

Both pyramids and villages have symbols of creeper faces. What should be noted is that villages also often have cats, which scare creepers. Maybe the creeper face is similar to the real life Evil Eye, where an eye symbol repels the curse of a malevolent gaze.

[@vulpritprooze]

With the showcase of the Warden, I think you can replace prismarine with sculk blocks. It just gives so much mysterious vibes especially the existence of Warden being the only mob to spawn in Deep Dark plus the texture of sculk sensors match well to the dark portion of end portal frames.

[@mdbgamer556]

I know a trio of fanfic writers that use xp as a form of magic. Basically, you slowly gather this magical energy generated by various actions in the world, and then use it in magical enchantments or spells. It's a very interesting thought.

[@oddishvoltsy7146]

It's kinda like mana in terraria

[@budnrobots2968]

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

[@gamingweeb2-842]

This makes me think a magic mod based off of the quasilore would be interesting. Blaze powder=the philosopher stone in purpose and triggers alchemy whether in brewing potions or making ender eyes Nether wart: a catalyst for alchemy unlike the consumed blaze powder Lapis and exp: i thought of enchanting like this, the enchantment table is the forge, the lapis the hammer and tools for the forge, and the exp is the metal for forging the enchantment, and the book cases are the heat or bellows The nether: your one stop location for alchemy and magical ingredients Nether star: the nether star does beacon which marks location and provides bonus at a sacrifice So then: a brewing stand could be surrounded by book cases like an enchantment table to brew unique potions, but brewing them destroys the bookcase cause unintended use, brewing the special potions takes nether wart and then lapis and then the ingredient to brew, for example a special potion with a wither skeleton skull (representing the nether star) that when drank applies an effect that when active enables keep inventory but when drank it drains levels based on amount of item slots filled

[@gamingweeb2-842]

Water: stasis and energy Redstone: transmits energy Trident augmented with prismarine and redstone, the trident consumes prismarine to act like a bow but instead of launching arrows it launches energy from consumed prismarine into guardian lasers

[@gamingweeb2-842]

Souls: stuff in Minecraft dungeons for upgrading stuff Soul sand: infusion of souls like infusing souls into 3 wither skeleton heads to make a wither Make a golem out of soulsand and pumpkin to generate a sand golem, who can be given weapons and armor like an armor stand and can use these(except weaponary that needs added stuff like bows) to fight for you and follows around like a dog. It upgraded its base concept of a golem into a more loyal and useful servant with the addition of souls and the infusion of souls with soul sand

[@gamingweeb2-842]

Special potion Chorus fruit related to ender men Brew special potion with nether wart and then lapis and then chorus fruit, drink to use up 3 levels to gain temporary silk touch for app breaks no matter if it had silk touch, cause ender men can pick up stuff like grass blocks that would normally need silk touch for

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Those are some interesting ideas :) there's a lot of magical ingredients in minecraft that you could combine or add onto in different ways.

[@kyokono6465]

I like Endermen. On an island survival world I once played, I left out a block of sand and stayed up all night to carefully watch it from my window. The first Enderman I saw took the block-- not long before dawn, another Enderman came and placed a block of gravel (something I couldn't find, but needed for the flint to get to the end) in roughly the same place the sand had been. :)

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Reminds me of Indiana Jones replacing the treasure with a sand bag as to not trigger the pressure plate

[@ethanchristensen6199]

Ok I actually really want that badlands temple, I feel like that could be done really well, and I like the idea that it could teach new players about withers and beacons

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

I might work on it a bit more then

[@coreybircher8413]

Alternative title: mod making 101

[@f8keuser]

That's what I love the most about Minecraft how as a community we can all come together and share all our thoughts and ideas about how minecraft became minecraft and the story behind it. And the fact that minecraft is always updating just gives us the more reason to think that Lore never really ends, as more content is made the more stories can be created from it. :D

[@highgrove8545]

I've had a half baked theory that the nether has undergone some drastic changes over a very long period of time. Basalt can be formed with lava, soul soil and blue ice, so what did the basalt deltas look like long ago? The huge mushroom acts more like trees than mushrooms, perhaps they've been mutated somehow, this is supported with how the turquoise variant is called "warped". The basalt deltas also has an ambient sound effect that sounds a lot like a geiger counter. The soul sand texture looks like faces, likely made out of some ancient creatures, was there a mass extinction event? The soul sand valley is also filled with skeletons.

[@zzeethe1st451]

Water hurts ender mobs because they are deformed and defective beings using their weaknesses as strengths. Warping around and telekinesis are unnatural, and thereby defects. Water will harm them because they are reliant on their defects.

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Interesting headcanon.

[@andrewramlall3560]

When you look through an enderman's open mouth, water/possibly ice does not appear at all. Because the end itself has no liquids and they are turned neutral by them, maybe they are eldritch, incomprehensible substances that they can't see and are therefore very vulnerable to?

[@vortexventamy]

I could listen to you explain minecraft lore forever, its very soothing. Love this video!!!

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Thanks very much!

[@oddtomato1049]

I believe the reason Guardians drop fish is because the swift movement scares the guardian causing it to impale the fish on it's spikes.

[@brickinterviewertv]

this is very interesting

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Glad you think so!

[@raminote5726]

This is brilliant, very imaginative and I hope Mojang's devs will watch your video

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

If only to prevent people from connecting anymore dots 😁

[@nathanunruh3272]

Cool video. I haven't thought about MC lore in years... But I do have a pretty major piece of headcanon, related to the Stronghold where you find the end portal. Including some things from the video and comments here I can even expand it a bit. Back in the day on pocket edition, there were a couple of free skins called Stronghold Monarch and Stronghold Seer. My theory is that the End and Nether are indeed different dimensions, and that long, long ago, the minecraft world was populated by thousands and thousands of humans, like you, the player. They were a hugely advanced civilization, and they built all the overworld structures and even began to explore other dimensions. They conquered all biomes, even the ocean with huge Atlantis-type cities and the highly advanced Guardian golem. They found how to get to the Nether dimension, and conquered that too, creating the nether fortresses. But they were never satisfied, always exploring farther, and looking for more dimensions. They met their match with the End. Towards the end of this era of discovery and conquest, they found how to summon Endermen, and enslaved them to act as soldiers, builders, whatever they needed. But they didn't realize how much of a sentient species the Endermen were. And when they began attempting to explore and conquer the Endermen's own dimension, the Endermen decided enough was enough. They used their interdimensional powers to cause some kind of catastrophic wiping out of the entire overworld civilization, leaving behind only the more primitive villager species and the ruined structures you see today, and retreated to their own dimension, only occasionally returning to the Overworld they had come to hate so much. And that is why it's called the End. :)

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Interesting headcanon!

[@TTD94]

I think that Minecraft: Story Mode is canon, via the power of the “Minecraft Multiverse.” Remember when Jessie and the gang were hopping through different dimensions, trying to get back home? Those portals were portals to other player’s personal worlds. Jessie’s world is just one of the many worlds in the Multiverse. Every world ever created by a player is canon this way. So, just like how Minecraft Dungeons is canon, Story Mode is too.

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Reminds me of how crash 4 did multiverse. All the games they retconned technically happened, just in a different universe

[@maskedredstonerproz]

Oh man , so jesse could just pop up in one of my worlds and I wouldn't even know cuzz I wasn't playing??

[@TTD94]

@@maskedredstonerproz I mean, in the lore sure. With the way Minecraft Story Mode ended, I doubt that the gang will be portal hopping any time soon. But it’s not possible in the real game, though.

[@maskedredstonerproz]

@@TTD94 I know it's not possible in the game , but still

[@quantumx9729]

I should point out that the "free the end" advancement has something to do with everything purple. If you look closely, there are two main themes to the end. The lime, being seen on eyes of ender, end portal frames, the enderchest as well as old versions of the endermen. And then there is the new puple, being seen on the dragon (egg), end cities and chorus flowers. This suggests that the end was at some point conquered by the dragon, infesting enderman and the local vegetation along the way.

[@antoniobautista5239]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Thanks! Not sure if I'll be able to keep up with them for much longer lol

[@theonlykio4422]

Everything you said made me look at minecraft in a new way

[@shwingleman]

I find it really interesting how minecraft dungeons confirms that ocean monuments are related to villagers, since guardians have unibrows

[@DarthKanye]

there’s so much lore deep within this game. i wish they’d explain it, so many ways to go

[@hectic1830]

Have you ever thought about the possibility of the End dimension in Minecraft being a glitchy, corrupted version of the game world? It may sound far-fetched, but hear me out. First, let's take a look at the music in the End. The music, composed by C418, is distorted and static remixes of the overworld music, adding to the eerie and unsettling atmosphere of the dimension. This glitchy music could be interpreted as a sign of the corruption of the game world, The music in the End is also notable for its lack of a clear beat or rhythm, which adds to the disorienting and unsettling nature of the composition. The music features ambient tones and noises that create a sense of foreboding, as if something ominous is lurking just out of sight. The Chorus trees, which are corrupted oak trees that now grow in twisted, unnatural ways, also support this theory. These trees are unique to the End dimension and are made up of Chorus Plant blocks that can be broken down into Chorus Fruit. These blocks and fruits appear to be artificial, almost as if they were created by a glitch in the game's code. End stone, which is just inverted cobblestone and the void, the empty space beneath the End dimension, is the result of players mining away everything until only the above End stone remained. End cities, which are eerie and empty, are reminiscent of liminal spaces with no sign of life except for the boxed mobs and mysterious chests filled with player gear. The Endermen, which are mysterious and seemingly intelligent mobs, could be players who refused to wake up from the corrupted/glitched world/dream. The dragon, which is the boss of the end, could be a representation of a glitched or corrupted mob (Possibly even in the games code) that has taken on a life of its own.

[@badideagenerator2315]

regular piglin have proper clothes and can spawn with either swords or crossbows, while zombified piglins only wear loincloths and have swords. zombified piglins are found in the nether wastes, one of the least hospitable nether biomes. perhaps piglins which are becoming zombified are banished to stop the disease from spreading.

[@a15godzilla]

I need some quasi lore that brings some of that weapon variety from MC Dungeons into Vanilla MC. Maybe world structure chests could spawn with a few weapons that are "unique" to the societies that built said structures. Saves the hassle of adding more recipes while further incentivising overworld exploration. Cool video either way. I rather like this quasi lore idea.

[@creepyjesus1471]

I love the idea of unique weapons that have a modifier such as "villager" or "skeleton" that would change the texture and an additional effect that matches the mob that made it

[@matninja123]

This is brilliant. Mojang needs to take notes!

[@southernlegends8594]

Theory Time I think it is very clear that there was some form of advance ancient civilization in Minecraft that got wiped out by some mysterious force. I think that’s why the end portal exists. It was a desperate attempt to escape, but instead they were inslaved and forced to worthship the ender dragon. I think Endermen are those ancient people. I think from living in the end and eating chorus fruit they are eventually gained the ability to teleport. Over time I think some grew powerful in teleportation and decided to try and leave the end and their enslavement only to end up teleporting into the nether or the overworld. I think they get angry when they look at you because they are looking at an ancient image of themselves that they subconsciously recognize and attack because you enrage them with the fact you weren’t enslaved and warped like they were. I also think maybe you could be playing as the force that destroyed their civilianization. Maybe your Herobrine who after destroying their race completely from the overworld eventually forgot who he was was and eventually lost his powers and turned mortal. I think Wither Skeletons and piglings fight because Wither Skeletons are the undead people of the ancient civilization that enslaved their race for years. That’s why wither skeletons are in the fortresses they are defending the only home they have left. I think the iligers were expelled for black magic and trying to revive the dead. Idk man that’s my take on it. Maybe also a flood happened too along with a plague who knows!

[@charlestonianbuilder344]

My theory: Villagers and the player (ancient builders) are like apes and humans, a similair species with differences. What happened is that the builders tried too much on harnessing magic which led to their extinction, While the villagers gained some immunity to the virus which was one of the things that led to the builders extinction. Years and centuries past, while the villagers rely on iron golems which they created from knowlegde from the builders, they vow to never make the same mistake that the builders did which explains their pacifist culture and forget about the past. But some off the villagers does not want to follow those vows, even making a group to doing the things the ancient builders do, which led them to become outcasts, while the group became a separate government for the outcasts, calling them selves the illagers which is more advance then the villagers, with libraries about the ancient builders which the village elders hid along time ago. This is a short part of my theory book im writing for my minecraft library and meusum

[@CammyMeeleTea]

I really like this and agree with your sentiment. It's nice to look at developer intention, but to keep in mind that some features were unintended. It's nice to look at thematics and lore, but not in a way that hurts or messes with the cost of the gameplay experience. It's all about application.

[@destroyer-of-disks]

Also, the colour purple has a connection with magic, and travel between dimensions (and obsidian, which is talked about in the video).

[@ShadyzOfficial]

Ive been playing minecraft since 2009. And i swear to god, i have never thought and seen minecraft like this how the video is explained. Watching this it really makes sense, but really never thought about it tho😅

[@poopiehed9500]

11:49, correction, the wither and skeleton horses do not burn under the sun.

[@zurbruggg]

My theories: 1. The End is a limbo of sorts, and endermen are silent observers of their past lives, taking blocks to reminisce. 2. The ender dragon is the one responsible for putting people in said limbo for some reason or another, and killing the dragon frees the endermen. 3. The nether ruins exist because of slow contamination of nether materials leaking into the over world through portals after nether fauna attempted to explore the over world. 4. Desert temples were made by the same people who made the desert wells, a nomadic group who needed somewhere to stash/protect valuable or sacred items. 5. The wither was first summoned by those who used to live in red deserts, and after defeating it, created the chiseled sandstone to recount their tales or warn others.

[@andrewcole9023]

I absoulutly love this, maybe do a sequel about the deep dark because it has a lot of "quasilore" potential

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

I think I will when it's released

[@Niyucuatro]

The bettter Thn Wolves mod expanded a lot on this concept of hidden lore. A lore that the game doesn't really explain, but the designer had in mind at all time when designing the features and changes, to make sure the game felt as consistent as possible. The main idea was that the overworld was an artificial plane created to feed the ender dragon. Endermen would go to the overworld to pick up blocks that had soaked the xp dropped by mob when they died. Those blocks would turn into the endstone after the dragon eat them. In this lore, xp was actually the souls of the dead mobs (no other xp sources in the mod other than dead mobs), and after the ender dragon would digest the souls, the refuse would find it's way to the nether, congealing into netherrack and infecting any animal that came into contact with them. Pigs turned into zombie pigmen and squid into ghast, wich populated the nether. Cows and sheep are also afected by the nether, but the mutation is less severe. Contaminated sheep would float and contaminated cows would give birth to spiders and bats instead of other cows. And finally, villagers would turn into witches. Due to the planar proximity between the nether and the overworld, wich is why making a nether portal is so easy, the dead souls also contaminated the overworld gold deposits. turning it into redstone. wich is why redstone reacts strongly with gold, creating movement when a redstone signal reaches finely crafted gold devices. Then there's the player character. The lore in the mod is that the player character is some kind of evil mad scientist that has found a way to become immortal, regenerating every time it dies. to get rid of him, the people from it's world sent him to the minecraft overworld, thinking it would act as a prison it couldn't scape from despite it's immortality. that's where the game starts. The overworld detects the PC as a danger to the overworld peace and sends monsters (skelleton, zombies, spiders and creepers) to prevent it from thriving, by attacking it and any animal nearby it could use as sustenance. This force that tries to defeat the player again and again can only act in the darkness, even being capable of directly hurting the player in complete darkness. Your role as the player is to tame this overworld, reach the nether and enslave, the animals, the villagers, the monsters and even the dead souls in the nether's walls to create the machinery needed to survive and eventually (this last part was never realised in game before Flowerchild ended development a couple years ago) build a device that would allow the PC to return back to Home. The world it came from. The mod kept develoment in version 1.5.10. So it doesn't really have anything at all for the post-notch stuff in the game. But all of the mod's features worked to reinforce this hidden lore, that the creator only partially revealed and the community deduced to fill in the gaps.

[@HEKVT]

Nice to listen to theories about how everything works together, lore is awesome, and will be cool to see other updates and if Minecraft adda any more resources that indicate lore.

[@Grymgar]

I'm late to the party, thank you for this video. I am planning to do a cool breakdown of my own, on what I think is going on with "zombified piglins" in the overworld.

[@wolfosgamers9163]

Congratulations you have come up with more and better ideas in probably a few hours/days then mojang has in about 4 years

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Watch my video on why Minecraft updates take time.

[@joleif4970]

lol this video is a gold mine for mod developers. I have always stuck to serverside plugins but some of your ideas are really fucking good.

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Thank you!

[@lucasroman6510]

Since Enderman can't grab endstone, but only overworld items, I liked to think that they grabbed them to bring them home and transform the end from a barren wasteland into a normal grassy field, but the enderdragon (who breaks all blocks placed by the player) didn't let them

[@crisperstorm]

I'm just seeing this now and this is just insanely fun. What I would do to know the unexplained lore behind the scenes

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

What if it contradicts your own theories?

[@crisperstorm]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy the price of knowledge I suppose

[@jacobdevers4701]

Not gonna lie, I'm here for these crafting recipes. These are some of the best I've heard for pre-existing items.

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Thank you!

[@quartzcola4797]

This was a really cool vid, but I’d like to suggest adding some quiet background music in future videos, it’ll make the audio sound more smooth.

[@georgeuferov1497]

13:00 - illagers indeed have power over undead, according to Minecraft Dungeons

[@Bowser_Plush]

I can definitely agree with a lot of the ideas brought up I personally have a different view of it. Minecraft lore if left as ideas not fact, this is so like everything else in the game the player can interpret it as they see fit, say a dessert temple spawns next to a village, the town could have been built around it by villagers that used the temple as a place of worship? Or multiple villages spawn close to each other maybe there apart of a larger civilisation compared to other villagers? This is just my view of course but I feel it adds to the explore and create structure of Minecraft making it so the lore can also be created/interpreted by the player’s imagination not set in stone fact.

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Indeed. Lore can be specific to any one world depending on its unique features.

[@lavasharkandboygirl9716]

Really love your Channel dude, I’m just starting out my new SCP and minecraft channels, I’m from New Zealand too, I’d love to play some time !

[@ripalexx]

I feel like Minecraft could be such a fun game but it just isn't

[@logickedmazimoon6001]

that's because it's not fun for you.

[@ripalexx]

@@logickedmazimoon6001 i don't mean that I don't enjoy it at all but after the dragon there's nothing more to do

[@logickedmazimoon6001]

@@ripalexx well its not a linear game. You set your own goals. And with mods, you can make it into a legit RPG if you want. The game revolves around you and what you want to do, not what the devs intend for you to do (if you know what I mean)

[@CratthewF]

I thought this would be a lore reason for quasi-connectivity, but this is neat too

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Quite funny, cause the other day kingbdogz said he wanted to separate pistons into QC and non QC pistons, the former crafted with an amethyst crystal. And all current piston blocks would get turned into QC pistons

[@CratthewF]

@@MinecraftIdeasAcademy oh that’d actually be really cool

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

Yeah, it would do a lot to make redstone more intuitive

[@tekkitdoood2838]

Since weve gotten more info on 1.17, which includes the addition of copper, I've made a theory that connects ocean monuments & guardians with the drowned/ruins. I think the drowned used to be humans/a species similar to humans, they wouldve been like th3 aztecs building giant monuments, and some event happened that caused their civilization to be flooded, and before they died they created copper golems & infused them with life, after many many centuries the copper degraded to the point of becoming a new material, prismarine

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

What are the elder guardians made out of then? Also Minecraft dungeons says prismarine is a type of coral

[@nwefe]

i really like the power point presentation going on in the background oh wait thats just normal gameplay but sped down oh wait thats just your laggy pc

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

It's better now I promise 😭

[@WhatIsMyPorpoise]

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

[@MinecraftIdeasAcademy]

I like the quasilore implications and also a definite way to find better fortresses. Anyway glad you enjoyed, and thanks for your insightful comment! Nice to find someone who appreciates Minecraft as much as I do

[@Ni-Cool139]

I noticed the achievement for getting a blaze rod says "relieve a blaze of its rod" and we theorized the blaze are people and the nether acts as a kind of hell, the rods are their sins weighing them down, but it could also be possible they are a golem, but the phrase "relieve" would not make sense and pumpkins are not native to the nether so there'd have to be some alternative, potentially wither skulls as they're used to create the wither which is clearly a construct of some kind