What is Minecraft's Ender Dragon?

[@ExtremelyDisgusted]

it would be interesting to see how this theory plays out lore wise if we ever get an end update

[@jameslin7486]

yup

[@Galaxy_ThePaleKing]

Erm, actually, we already got a End Update 🤓☝️

[@fireindahole69]

​@@Galaxy_ThePaleKingyou realize how long ago was 1.9?

[@simontiboy]

1.22 will prob hsve it or the skulk dimenison

[@ControversyCupcake]

You’re SOOO funny to think we’d actually get an end update hahaha

[@brevortofficial]

The ingame reason that beetroot is in the end cities is because they were added in 1.9 with end cities and they wanted players to have an easy way to get it in old worlds, but I like that you included it in your theory. I didn't know that about beets, that's really interesting.

[@hircenedaelen]

That's the Doyleist explanation, we're after the Watsonian explanation

[@alexpalaciossantos4940]

idk how easy it is to kill a dragon then traverse voids just to get beetroot

[@amethyst..2]

⁠@alexpalaciossantos in old worlds, you would already have enough loot to kill it

[@kallumhunter3280]

That's not an ingame reason, it's the real world reason, an ingame reason for a thing is a reason explained or hinted at within the game

[@brevortofficial]

@@kallumhunter3280 That's the lore reason

[@hencethebeetroot]

One criticism I have here is that the end crystals are absolutely magical in nature, for two main reasons: 1. The presence of runes on their structure, which would be entirely irrelevant in a technological radiation beam, but make perfect sense for a magical construct. 2. The crafting recipe. End crystals are crafted with ghast tears - used to create regeneration potions. Notably, the crystals are far more potent and long-lasting than mere potions, but I think this simply explains why they are so unstable.

[@Vextonomy]

Nice point

[@v.versite]

69th like NEHEHEHHEHAH

[@Violet-yd5ej]

It's both radioactive and magic, probably

[@StanliteStar283]

End crystal is quite similar to the beacon. The regular beacon emits light and powers us, similarly end crystal projects beam to the ender dragon and gives regeneration. The radiation is the transmission of the soul energy from the end crystal or beacon. In the context of end crystal, the healing ability of the ghast tear is soul energy (potion effect/magic) and transmitted via radiation.

[@JacobAwsum]

What difference is there between magic and technology tho? We are communicating thru a glowing rectangle that we fit in our pockets. Sounds pretty magical to me, but it is scientific. Any significantly advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic.

[@purplehaze2358]

I like to think the ender dragon's XP can't be absorbed by sculk simply to avoid players turning the entire end island into a deep dark.

[@xxskbidimaster69xx]

Honestly

[@Euclase]

That may be the reason, but not "in-game reason"

[@purplehaze2358]

@@Euclase As I said in another comment, sometimes the doylist answer is the correct answer.

[@ked49]

@@Euclaseif guardian xp works then the robot theory is proven false.

[@testerwulf3357]

@@EuclaseThey didn’t have a lore reason..its only there for gameplay purposes.

[@spectorcsm]

Very interesting theory! Though one counter point I'd like to make is about what you said at 8:37 about it maybe implying that the world(s) of Minecraft having inherently magical logic properties... It definitely does, we have enchantments, potions, an item that lets you teleport by simply throwing it, we can construct portals to another dimension using nothing but volcanic glass and some fire, and we can create golems with nothing but some iron/snow and a carved pumpkin, so yes the universe of Minecraft has plenty of magical properties Still a cool theory don't get me wrong :)

[@Seldon08]

There is even a runic alphabet unique to Minecraft (For those who don't know runes are letters that create Magic and in Minecraft it's the standard Galactic alphabet. You can see it on end crystal and enchanting table)

[@themightybalian]

@@Seldon08 Maybe I'm misunderstanding you here but the Standard Galactic Alphabet is not "unique to Minecraft". It was created by id Software in the early 90s for their game Commander Keen. It's presence in Minecraft is just an easter egg.

[@Seldon08]

@@themightybalian yeah it's true i didn't know it's also used in quake4 But it's still part of the lore si i think my argument is valid. Thanks for the info

[@themightybalian]

@@Seldon08 oh, for sure. I do agree with your main point. I was just pointing out that the alphabet wasn't created for minecraft

[@Vextonomy]

Nic

[@cessna19b]

What about the achievement "Free the End"? The wording implies that the ancient builders were trapped and needed freeing as oppose to locking themselves in.

[@boney2982]

either way if they intentionally did it or not they are still freed arent they?

[@probleEmatic]

Well they definitely got freed. They trapped themselves and you, so by killing the dragon you open the portal back up and it technically still frees them since the wither is dead until you spawn it

[@cessna19b]

Why would they need to free themselves from their own creation though? Wouldn't they make it to do their bidding?@@probleEmatic

[@SmokeFactory]

the armor trim found in the stronghold is made of end stone, to make the armor trim they would need to exit and enter the end, endermen aren’t players because ender pearls can be found in stronghold chests and are required to light the portal, most of game theory’s theories base off the fact ‘tHeY LoOk ThE SaMe’ without actually looking at the evidence against it

[@testerwulf3357]

@@boney2982You aren’t freeing someone who intentionally locked themselves in..If I went in my room and you opened the door you wouldn’t consider that “freeing” me would you? To free someone or something is to release it from a jail..aka they have to be stuck and they had to of been imprisoned forcefully not willingly. They have to want out.

[@arnettefamilyarchives]

One thing you could consider: obsidian acts as a stabilizer block, like for holding together a portal to the nether, stabilizing the powers of the enchantment table, beacon, and ender chest, and possibly use as giant stabilizer rods to hold the radioactive end crystals :)

[@HumanoidDerpling]

But you only need one block to place a crystal of your own.

[@arnettefamilyarchives]

@@HumanoidDerpling Exactly, only one block is needed to hold an explosive energy source, which goes to show how powerful it is.

[@osinternals]

@@arnettefamilyarchives Maybe player-made crystals aren't as powerful as the ones in the end, we don't see this in-game, but it could be possible

[@arnettefamilyarchives]

@@osinternals Huh, yeah, I guess that makes a fair amount of sense.

[@SantoshSingh-rh7dc]

​@@arnettefamilyarchives it could be possible that to stabilize we need one block but to harness the power to give or heal something we might need to create these pillars

[@block_head_steve240]

The issue I have with citing the dragon-skulk behavior is that guardians, which are also seemingly man-made also spread skulk on death.

[@tea-drinkin_stu]

yeh

[@cheemsburger6567]

Maybe they are a species Tetraodontidae that uses prismarine blocks as their shell, like how a shulker uses purpur blocks as its shell. This is possibly supported by the fact that in earlier versions of Minecraft, if you looked inside of a guardian, you could see a red flesh-like interior inside of them.

[@enderadon]

Has noone asked why you should be able to magically summon a robot through a ritual?

[@Yegor_Mechanic]

Doesn't the blaze also expand sculk?

[@cheemsburger6567]

@@enderadon When you kill an iron golem or a snow golem next to a sculk catalyst, their soul is absorbed into the catalyst, yet no sculk spreads. This is possibly due to the fact that golems are not natural life, since you have to build them in order to summon them. Have you noticed that in order to build a golem, iron or snow, you need to place a pumpkin on its head, yet for the iron golem, the pumpkin does not appear on its head? Perhaps the pumpkin is inside of the iron golem, and in the world of Minecraft, pumpkins have a magical life-giving property. However, this doesn't seem to be the case, since when you try to use a normal, uncarved pumpkin to summon an iron or snow golem, they do not spawn, yet when you use a carved pumpkin or jack o' lantern on them, they do summon. Maybe, instead of pumpkins being the key, it is the face on the pumpkin that gives it life, or perhaps both. This is entirely hypothetical, though, and should not be taken as true, concrete evidence until proven otherwise by Mojang.

[@Erik_The_grate]

In Minecraft bedrock, the ender dragon does not circle directly around 0,0 and instead follows her regular flight patterns around the point 0,0 standing in for the exit portal.

[@turtlesarecool]

We don't talk about bedrock

[@CQCOfficial]

I don't think we should take differences in the code for something that was unplanned for as meaningful anyways

[@Shadykatus]

@@CQCOfficialexactly

[@Shadykatus]

@@turtlesarecoolmost of the player base plays it. We talk about bedrock, even if it’s objectively the worse version, Save for a features. (Coming from a mainly bedrock player)

[@gdeproductions1225]

this makes it infinitely more funny to spawn 7 in on a creative world where someone has built a base at spawn

[@Contextallion]

Although end crystals could be radioactive, the materials used to make them include a ghast tear, which is also required for the creation of regeneration potions in a brewing stand. This could point to the tears themselves having radioactive properties, or alternatively, that the crystals themselves are not a power source for the dragon, but just a way to heal it. Also, non biological mobs within the game, snow and iron golems for example, can be healed by regeneration potions, proving that artificial creations can be healed through this magic. Following that line of logic, dragon's breath is a required component for creating lingering potions, so it could be that the dragon is an automaton, but one powered through magic rather than basic electricity, and its breath just works similarly to lingering potions of harming. If the tears themselves have radioactive properties, it is possible that the magic used in brewing modifies it so they are capable of exerting a similar effect to the one produced by the crystals on the dragon, instead healing anything. To further complicate the dragon's nature, it is immune to almost all potion effects, meaning it is either constructed in a way that makes it resistant to the magic, or if it is biological, has scales impervious to potion effects. Those are my thoughts, feel free to disprove any of them :)

[@royalfelineandtracygrant]

I think it’s resistant to magic because it has so much coursing through its veins.

[@theautonomous]

Wait... Where do ghast tears come from??? What is a ghast?? Isn't a ghast supposedly lost souls trapped or something?? 👀

[@Contextallion]

@@theautonomous ghasts appear to be a collection of souls crushed together by either the soulsand/soil itself, or the actual environment of the nether

[@Contextallion]

@@royalfelineandtracygrant that makes sense

[@theautonomous]

@@Contextallion have you watched the video by retrogamingnow? If not I highly recommend it. He goes into quite the deep dive about ghasts.

[@purplehaze2358]

I mean.. the dragon's pathfinding isn't any more mechanical than a lot of mobs in this game once you understand them. It may be less random, but it's still altogether a pretty aimless form of movement. And its odd behavior in the overworld can just be attributed to being taken out of the environment it was programmed to be fought in. To use that as evidence for your claim is roughly on the same level as if I were to point out that, because you can technically use glitches to spawn multiple dragons, the entire premise of this video would fall apart - because, ultimately, both simply do not happen in a natural setting. Sometimes the doylist answer is the correct one, y'know.

[@Dr_Damon_1111]

Yes thank you I made multiple comments on this I'm glad I'm not the only one

[@superamoeba]

This theory is super cool like always. I do have a question, though. If the pillars are man made, how did the builders get the bedrock for the crystals on top?

[@BigHatLoganGaming]

How did it get into the shape of a fountain in the middle? (with coal torches on it in a notably human and villager-less world)

[@pudimshogun]

Asking the real questions here lads

[@BurningTree18]

Based on what you said about the “is it a plane” advancement, would the ghast be a man-made object because of the advancement, “Is it a balloon”

[@UrockBS]

This reminds me of a speedrunning video I watched a couple weeks ago, talking about the dragons movement and its perching. Very well made video with tons of effort done.

[@lasercraft32]

HMMM... Its almost like the Ender Dragon is a BOSS FIGHT programmed by the developers for the game, and is programmed differently to fit this very purpose. It can't be damaged by poison or withering, to prevent you from cheesing it. It's immune to the void because (in case you didn't know) there's a lot of void below the end. It flies in formulaic patterns because its literally a boss in a video game made using computer code. It lives on an unnatural island in the middle of the end because that's its boss arena (and the end didn't have any of the outer islands when it was first added). It can be respawned using _magical crystals_ that have nothing to do with technology. Of course the dumb thing isn't a robot. Its A DRAGON BOSS FIGHT in a game with magic and fantasy elements. Even the golems (the most definitive of robot mobs) are more magic then technology. The simplest answers are usually the correct ones. Its a boss and you're not supposed to take every little thing it does literally. That would be like saying Villagers are robots because they have specific pathfinding and will automatically walk towards job blocks and beds. I get that this theory is probably just for fun, but it holds pretty much no merit. And don't even get me started on all the radiation and beetroot stuff... Just... ugh. I'm sorry, this is dumb. 🤦‍♂ MAYBE MINECRAFT IS ALL A SIMULATION...😱

[@Julzaa]

3:46 you do know that's a Superman reference and doesn't at all implies it's a machine, right..?

[@nighthawkgaming2953]

If the theory at the end is correct, what about the end gateways that spawn naturally that take you back to the main end island? Because that would take away the need to destroy the end islands in the end gap

[@butterkniife]

Wifies is the type of person to think the ender dragon is a robot.

[@embeddd]

hey michael, vsauce here

[@kaz49]

@@embeddd Dang it you got there first

[@oftn_]

*Vsauce music plays*

[@Finnkiller4147]

Vsauce wifies here

[@daxtonrogers7097]

(daxton thinking sounds) hmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[@jubihugo-privat]

You can't spectate the Ender Dragon because it has multiple entities, and it can't die in the void because it can fly back up; it is coded like that. Don't forget that the Ender Dragon was added in Minecraft 1.0.0

[@ignemuton5500]

One another very notable detail is that the dragon head can be powered by redstone, however its still possible to argue that only the heads are mechanical

[@BigHatLoganGaming]

Applying electrical current to fresh muscle tissue causes it to move as well, and dragons are notably ageless in most media

[@pudimshogun]

Could also just be that redstone is magical In nature, like how it can interact with drip leaf Wich is a naturally occurring plant or how there's things like the redstone monstrosity thing from the other Minecraft thingies

[@Yegor_Mechanic]

6:28 the arcticle was published in december 2016. The end city was added in the end of 2015 - start of 2016.

[@SemiHypercube]

Finally, a lore explanation for why there's beetroot in end cities

[@tea-drinkin_stu]

no there's intentional game design

[@kingofqueen704]

Hear me out, the original builders never made it out of the end and they adapted to the end environment. In doing so they got the ability to teleport and became enderman. They used their new powers to get out of the end and now populate each dimension. Their eyesight became worse but they got a new sense and when you look at them they can feel it and they attack you to try and keep you out of the end.

[@luthaidan4232]

While your theory is nice, it wouldnt make sense with the achievement "free the end", because if they were able to teleport through dimensions, then there wouldn't be anything to free them from

[@sboy2044]

@@luthaidan4232You’re freeing the End for exploration

[@luthaidan4232]

@@sboy2044 ...

[@muskelin]

@@luthaidan4232However, what you’re saying is basically “you can go anywhere in space if you have an airplane”. Because the end is another dimension, i wouldn’t think they can teleport through dimension

[@0bamallamadrama82]

I like the radiation theory, it also somewhat explains end stone. Flags in space turn white after some time, so the end stone could be cobblestone exposed to radiation for a long time

[@Nicolos117]

Well the nether is below the overworld and the end is above the overworld

[@0bamallamadrama82]

@@Nicolos117 can you back that up with a source?

[@hackerhoglin6614]

I think Jeb once said that the wither and the ender dragon are best friends, and that's why they can't damage each other.

[@iPurply]

Mojang: lets add a final boss! Wifies: *does this* Mojang: Shouldnt have done that

[@purplehaze2358]

I wouldn't really call the central end island and outer end islands as "halves" of a greater whole considering the former is like, way tinier than the latter.

[@Ктоя-ь1м]

What if the central end island is like a core? Gravitational core to be exact, the core of the whole dimension that keeps the outer islands floating without falling into the void. It's not like earth's inner core(since end's surface is flat unlike earth, so there can't really be inner core inside the island), but more like a.... Saturn's rings? Saturn plays the role of a gravitationally pulling center, and its rings are being pulled close to it, spinning around it as a flat disk. Without the planet, all the cosmic rocks that creates the ring itself will scatter away into the void of space. And I think end might have a similar structure. But with this comes inconsistencies with logic: How the central island is a pulling force if it is much smaller than the outer islands? Is it smaller but much more heavier? If it has alike structure with Saturn's rings, then why the outer islands don't spin around the central island? What is even the end dimension at this point, does it exists in outer space?

[@Ктоя-ь1м]

Also sorry if my english might be bad, I'm not a native speaker

[@埊]

it has logic, it has obsidian pillars atop are bedrocks and atop are end crystals, and in the middle theire is a portal to return to overworld@@Ктоя-ь1м

[@I_Am_Transcendentem]

"Very mechanical pathfinding" Meanwhile, the GAME BEING A GAME:

[@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812]

(1:20) As of my latest knowledge, the chorus fruit in Minecraft does not have the "dragon_immune" tag. That's why it's not on the main end island; the dragon would destroy them all. It'd be like if warped forests could burn, it wouldn't make any lore sense and it'd be like "why did these trees start burning only when I showed up?!"

[@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812]

Love your stuff! I didn't know this fact until I thought of it when you asked, so don't beat yourself up. Also, if the devs wanted them on the main island they'd have just given the chorus fruit the "dragon_immune" tag, so your point still stands.

[@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812]

(3:05) However, as @bobcheesemin4146 mentioned, you did use how they coded it to fly as evidence for it's roboticism. "[It's] kind of hard to hard code it to wander wherever it wants without leaving the main island and not getting stuck or breaking blocks."

[@_RedRightHand_]

Pretty sure that the actual reason for the 1000-block gap is that the generation changed in 1.9, so Mojang had to do that to prevent older worlds from having the gap while newer ones don't.

[@erenerbay]

The actual reason beetroot seeds are in the loot chests is because beetroots got added in 1.9 which is the uptade that added the outer end islands and end cities

[@guilhermerafaelzimermann4196]

My headcannon is that the ancient builders did not have withers at all, and the ender dragon is just the last preserved specimen of a race driven to extinction (as shown by their decapitated heads) A group of people in ancient times did build the towers around her nest, not because they built her, but because their people killed all of her kin, and they wanted to ensure she could never truly die

[@kaz49]

I love how the glitch of ender dragon pathfinding in the overworld and notch's questionable coding skills led to the creation of fanmade lore so many years later

[@JustL_]

wasn't too sure if I was gonna see another wiftheory video, but I am damn happy he made another. Wifies never disapoints

[@tea-drinkin_stu]

he does

[@lorddreagus7253]

First, the dragon's flight pattern is merely a result of developers who needed it to stay in a single broad location; second, if the dragon is a robot, where do the dragon heads on the end ships come from? Third, I personally think that the towers and end crystals were an attempt to create a portal to escape the end, because they contain the two elements existing in every other portal: heat and an obscenely hard material. This attempt to escape went wrong because a dragon flew to the island and the 'portal' trapped it in a respawn cycle like what we see with respawn anchors, which show a little nether portal. Fourth, of course the dragon emits light when it dies, it's literally full of fire.

[@RicJiang]

For the dragon heads on the ship. Well they just made extra heads and stuck them there cause their cool of course 😂😂😂

[@DavidJason-kt1ve]

What if the End was supposed to be like some sort of prison, that might also go along to mat Pat theory on how Enderman were formed and why it’s so far away.

[@LastGoatKnight]

I just noticed: that shot of the End [ 0:51 ] looks like a real human heart

[@elecsnake4888]

Hmm. Interesting. However, the endermen, who you explained are actually the builders, hate the dragon

[@Sim_World7]

Always A great day when wifies uploads a lore video

[@MCG2310]

so true

[@Vastaway]

It makes sense item wise, as it can be assumed that they used chorus fruit to create the dragon, giving the dragon it's purple eyes. Additionally, the dragon head item is mechanic and be turned on and off using electrical inputs.

[@ked49]

So can human heads,

[@tabcaps5819]

Piglin heads also do this

[@MarioMoss69]

Piglin Robot?

[@Nameless8_]

Welp boys, wiffies finally went insane.

[@BigHatLoganGaming]

Muscle tissue also moves when electricity is run through it, it working for the dragon head doesn't prove it's mechanical

[@Dr_Damon_1111]

12:03 the one point that you didn't mention is the only point that intrigues me originally the dragon was the only mob head that could move when used with a redstone block but now the piglin head a obviously organic mob has flapping ears when put on a redstone block and also now all the mob heads can make a sound

[@fomo-omo]

ok but why were you commenting on every timestamp of this video

[@Dr_Damon_1111]

@@fomo-omo because I was at that point in the video and wanted to mention something so in case my question was answered a little bit later in the video I wouldn't get s*** for it

[@Harry-Edward-Kane]

Mojang: i dont know ill just make the end like this cause why not Wifies: explains whole story

[@wegtgttg]

They did it because the outer end was added later, so they just made it really far away, so it generates because no person would have been there to generate those chunks before there was something there

[@GlobArmy]

There's another factor supporting Wife's theory about the robot dragon: you can power its head with redstone.

[@MarioMoss69]

So piglins are robots too?

[@GlobArmy]

@@MarioMoss69 well, they could be, who knows? Just like skulk sensors can activate redstone.

[@MarioMoss69]

@@GlobArmy leaves and wood can trigger a redstone signal with observers so are trees robots as there is no visual change for the observer to observe

[@GlobArmy]

@@MarioMoss69 a dragon head doesn't activate redstone, the redstone activates it. As for the skulk sensors, they can activate a redstone circuit by itself without the use of other components such as observers or pressure plates.

[@MarioMoss69]

@@GlobArmy have you considered the head flapping to be a goof? Also piglins are not robots as they have children and are clearly related to the pig which is very much not a robot and since we know a living mobs head can be activated by redstone we know this can also apply woth the enderdragon and thus with the info on mob heads we currently know the enderdragon head isnt mechanical and could be having spasm when activated by redstone with redstone signals activating its decayed brain matter letting the deceased mob head move

[@andreasjoannai6441]

Don't worry, the Ender Dragon can't attack you on the outer end islands, let alone 370727 blocks away.

[@blazeborn4810]

always a good day when wifies uploads

[@notvixios]

Common W Wifies Video!!!

[@Llamu]

To add to the theory of the dragon being man made, the dragon head which spawns on end ships looks identical to the real dragons head and can be activated with redstone, further cementing the theory that the dragon is basically just a reds tone contraption I haven’t finished the video yet so maybe he already said that

[@BigHatLoganGaming]

Piglin heads also move when powered. Also electrical currents can make muscle tissue in real life move, dead or alive.

[@waffletop1018]

wait, the dragon fades into dust, and drops a valuable object? The ender dragon is a long legs confirmed

[@SebastianC-m4u]

If the crystals are radioactive, could Steve punching it be causing them to undergo fission? Also, the idea of the crystals being radioactive does make sense, since iirc the endermen ALSO make Geiger counter noises and their pearls make the eyes of ender needed to make the crystals in the first place.

[@patrlim]

The reason the dragon pathfinds weird is because they didn't need to make it more complex.

[@bobcheesemin]

or maybe thats how they coded it to fly in the end? kind of hard to hard code it to wander wherever it wants without leaving the main island and not getting wstuck or breaking blocks

[@tabcaps5819]

Final boss decides to leave the boss arena and prevents game end 💀

[@linchen1385]

Wifies: explains the ender dragon lore in detail Me: kills the ender dragon in 10 seconds using beds

[@Nguyenzander]

When we don’t have Minecraft Game Theories, we have Wifeories

[@ESMINEWARP]

Wefies' videos have definitely improved over the years. He used to just use skywars footage for backround. Now he actually uses footage that relates to the video. Great job!!!!

[@Braxon-rm3io]

Tbh, I thought I was the only one that thought the ender dragon was a robot because of the head😂

[@Zarkness25]

I think this theory is really interesting; however, I would suggest 1 slight change, which is to say that the Ender Dragon is a golem, not a full robot. It’s still basically the same, but we already have golems in Minecraft; a robot is a bit of a stretch.

[@tyjackgaming4574]

This is the first time I saw Wifies make a lore video… it’s legendary!

[@thequickbrick7211]

He has a lot more.

[@CooISkeleton96]

Here’s my one big issue / plot hole in this theory, if they could make the dragon immune to the wither, than why couldn’t they make either armor or blocks immune to it as well?

[@hyzmarie]

I personally love the idea that the dragon is some kind of god-like being. In my own series of short stories, the dragon has been around long enough that she just wants to mess with people for fun, and although the extent of her powers is unknown, it’s almost certain that she influenced the end of the ancient builders to the endermite plague, creating an army of minions who she could control. (Although none of the characters know this yet)

[@HumanoidDerpling]

A shame the actual fight is not only long and boring, but stupidly easy.

[@hyzmarie]

@@HumanoidDerplingehhh fair. I think that’s largely because it’s a product of it’s time, but yeah.

[@HumanoidDerpling]

@@hyzmarie I don't think you can really make that argument since the dragon fight we know today was released in 2016, and since the older fight was actually harder.

[@hyzmarie]

@@HumanoidDerplinghuh. Didn’t know that! I didn’t realize it had changed since 1.9!

[@JuicedStops]

I dont think they added the iron bars for lore on the obsidian pillars, they wanted to make it difficult for players who just bow the towers, instead you have to build up and destroy the crystal

[@Dr_Damon_1111]

3:52 with your same logic Superman is actually a bird mechanical hibrid

[@The_K-Dude]

Cool theory, but I don't know if I agree with it. The end crystals, pillars, dragon and portal all seem to be more on the magic side rather than the man made side. Mojang should really add a "lore" update sometime explaining stuff like this, the origins of the ancient builders, sculk, ect.

[@isitsweet9567]

Personally, I don't get into "lore" very much because I don't want to think about the lovely fantasy world where I lead a cozy fantasy life having all this dark history. But here's my two (or three) cents: 1. I don't know why all the theorists assume that there can only have been *one* "ancient builder" civilization, which moved from the Overworld to the End. Is there only one human culture in real life? No. And the desert temples look pretty different from the End cities. 2. The theory about it being the Wither and warden that drove the "Builders" to extinction doesn't make any sense, either. As other people have pointed out, if a single player can take on the Wither, why couldn't a whole city of advanced beings? 3. I have a somewhat laughable personal theory: the Minecraft multiverse (which is all worlds and servers) has some sort of karmic cycle of reincarnation. The Overworld is where life is good, the Nether is obviously the Minecraft version of hell, and the End is kind of like purgatory. Endermen, found in all three dimensions, are souls in their original state, being tested. Depending on how they live, souls drift toward "good" entities of the Overworld (dogs being probably at the top, since they can teleport and wear armor) or toward hostile Overworld mobs, then Nether mobs to atone for their sins, then the suffering faces in soul sand if they don't. I don't know how the Ancient Builders would have fit in, but players are souls that have been every other mob, and are the most highly rewarded. We're released from the cycle; we can respawn indefinitely, we have the most agency, and we're not locked into one world either. But who knows, maybe one day we'll become Endermen again and give the wheel another spin...

[@Wo0Fly]

Never let this guy be a animator 💀😂

[@justvs102]

What is blud saying? Nah it just a dragon man. Nobody at Mojang thought of lore. They just decided a Dragon would be a cool endboss.

[@Tastyelephant352]

If the ancient builders were so advanced, why would their first reactions be to hide in the end? I mean they are a civilization who can craft block we can’t. Would it be reasonable to assume they could craft better weapons than us. Also the wither kills almost anything it sees, so it would probably be distracted by other overworld mobs giving the builders time to go somewhere else in the overworld.

[@ineophobe]

maybe wither make scsry sounds too svary for builder bobs so rhey go bye bye babooey

[@ked49]

The warden or bedrock wither.

[@testerwulf3357]

@@ked49If we can kill them single handed then an entire city of more advanced ancient builders shouldn’t of had a problem 😂

[@埊]

as theyr name states, theyr a buildheinn, not a warheinn.

[@wegtgttg]

Also if they were a giant civilization, it would be weird that they couldn't kill one, but one single guy can fight 50 at the same time and win

[@Ezkanohra]

1:46 Wifies: [Killing the Ender Dragon] is the most significant achievement you can make in Minecraft SB737:

[@heyguysiamasillyguy]

Theory- all Villagers are vegan, whereas the Pillagers are anti-vegan

[@tacky8073]

The last bit of the video is flawed because the dragon does not fight back against the wither and the builders would have surely programmed it to fight back against the wither if it were to protect them.

[@drmelon_01]

The dragon is like a robot because it technically is, its a programmed ai in the part of a big game, it has certain characteristics because the creator of the dragon made them using java code

[@ehdollet9641]

Cool theory however I like to just believe that the dragon is being trapped by the end crystals. Yes the beams sometimes never touch it if it flies in certain spots but for the most part it's always connected. The dragon also can't destroy the obsidian pillars or crystals but can destroy the end stone. Maybe the dragon destroyed the outer end and they manage to trap there. If you wanna keep ripping on the builders for being idiots maybe they accidentally made the wither, had to flee and made/found the warden to protect them. The they decided to go on the offensive and made the ender dragons from ender men and phantoms. The dragon wiped out the withers however it also went rampaging and when killed it's incredible and unnatural life force opened a portal to the ender men's home dimension. With the overworld being ransacked by the dragons the builders fled into the end dimension and closed the portal by trapping a new baby dragon at the portal so once it dies of old age the overworld should be free of dragons. Those dragons who once terrorised the overworld are the fossils you can fine millennia after. While the chorus fruit are the builders, corrupted by years of end energy. That's why there are none on the centre island, they never planned on returning until after the dragon died...but they lost their life first. Dunno how the egg fits into this though, maybe the dragons don't die but are like the immortal jelly fish and just revert back to their egg stage to regrow. I mean- to beat the embodiment of death you need to be able cheat death first.

[@lucashu1247]

roses are red, violets are blue, i liked my own comment, because i wanted to

[@wsgimfloof]

Ah, the Gregory theory all over again.

[@CryptoDagger]

I liked my own comment

[@diamondbeater8121]

I also liked your comment.

[@anteeklund4159]

Imagine working at mojang and being in charge of lore, that would be the sickest thing ever

[@RobinRhombus2]

Alternatively: She's just a dragon.

[@chnhakk]

I think end crystals heal the ender dragon because they have ghast tears in them, because as you know regeneration potions are made with ghast tears.

[@Max_Power_]

This one was really good, my full Lore of Minecraft is still very different but we both had a few similarities.

[@Carlos-cm3ul]

The thing that kinda makes this theory fall apart is that the Ender Dragon drops exp, no other mobs that are mechanical or man-made (Iron golems, Snow Golems) don’t drop exp.

[@ked49]

But guardians do,

[@humanoidshrek5524]

@@ked49but guardian exp is absorbed by sculk catalysts, right?

[@testerwulf3357]

@@ked49Likely absorbed from the squids they kill

[@Banana-doppio437]

If an end update comes out i like to think the end egg should be placed on the pedical so that the dragon can respond

[@etflu]

It’s a really good theory and a nice video. My thought to that: the ancient builders are so much chorus fruit that they became the endermen. A flaw would be how the endermen came to the overworks then but I still like the thought.

[@richardkirkland6805]

The intro is inaccurate, the Ender Dragon never leaves the central island.

[@gigachickencow]

this is really well thought out, well done

[@k-qq1bn]

the lore is insane

[@MarioMoss69]

Your PFP looks like it took the W 🤫🤫🤫

[@k-qq1bn]

@@MarioMoss69 we took the w 🤫

[@haox9]

Another lore video after so long, so nice to see

[@generositygamer7971]

I know I'm late, and you may not see this. but at 1:09 you talk about how the center island is so unnatural, as there is no phenomenon like this anywhere else in the dimension. This is wrong. If you go to the coords: 370727 land generation stops and then starts back up at 524288. Then stops again at 642125. This empty circle repeats itself.

[@HOLDENPOPE]

where is the mini-theory video about the end portal frames? It didn't seem to be on your second channel when I checked

[@Frogboyaidan]

Pretty sure the ender dragon is organic (it lays eggs) There are heads on end ships (showing their used to more and were hunted to near extinction) They were likely lured into the end island with the pillers and end crystals to keep the last one alive.

[@Frogboyaidan]

Also the light explosion could be it has purpleish blood and that blood activated the portals. Neat theory though

[@Seldon08]

I always tought that the end is similar to a gigantic hive. The enderman are the worker bees, they can go to other dimension and pick up block like bees harvest honey. The queen would be Jean? (The enderdragon) And the endermite would be parasite hence why enderman kill them. End cities are guarded by shulker because they are reserve of what enderman collect and are the most precious things in the end. The queen bee (enderdragon) would guard the entrance/exit of the hive. But that's just some similarities i've found

[@mythic_py]

Notch: Makes a flight pattern for a boss instead of making a complex AI Wifies: Coincidence? I THINK NOT

[@samuraig586]

Only true wifies fans would know that he changed the video thumbnail

[@Skidamarinkk]

You know it's a good day when Wifies uploads

[@MonkeBoi-rx9nm]

I think this theory covers a lot more than Matpats. Great video!

[@acrazyweeb7225]

I guess another thing that supports your theory is that Dragon heads open and close their mouth when attached to redstone, which could either mean they’re reacting to the energy within it (like applying voltage to uncooked fish) or they’re purely mechanical (personally I wonder if it’s artificial, yet also a living organism.)

[@BigHatLoganGaming]

Option c: you remember that electrical currents make muscle tissue move, and the redstone current also makes piglin heads wiggle their ears

[@swiss6754]

Citing the Ender Dragon's behavior in the overworld doesn't really work out when you consider that Minecraft is a video game, and that the Ender Dragon in particular was coded very early on relative to Minecraft's overall lifespan. It acts the way it does compared to other mobs in minecraft because unlike other mobs which can spawn in countless places, if not anywhere, the ender dragon can only spawn in ONE place, and as such has been coded with that specific place in mind. Its repetitive move set is less likely to be in regards to its lore or nature and more because its meant to be a boss fight and its meant to seem like its soaring around. Having it do random movements like other mobs wouldn't allow it to look like this. Ultimately putting the Dragon in the Overworld is of course going to break its behavior patterns as its not coded to be fought in the overworld.

[@Alfred_The_Late]

I told my friends the dragon was a robot but they didn't believe me, they thought I was crazy! But now that someone has gone in depth and with far better scope of what this means for minecraft's narrative as a whole, this proves it!

[@eorfdengineer]

Mojang just didnt add an explanation because they didnt thought abbout it❌ The wildest most out of pocket theroy that would even suprise matpat✅

[@ace.br73]

Another argument that could have been made is that the Ender Dragon Heads, which presumably are the same thing as the actual dragon's head, interact with redstone, which furthers entails that it is some kind of machine. And also they could have being placed in the front of the ships to scare the Whiter in case somehow he went to the End, who would thing the ships are the Dragon and just wouldn't atack.

[@Electrolight_44]

The dragon's head can be powered by redstone

[@wegtgttg]

So can the piglins

[@brandon-kg2vd]

The ancient builder theory is such a cheap cop out.

[@thunderbot5708]

Most of these pieces of evidence can be just attributed to game design