I think the reason that you travel through the nether 8 times faster than in the overworld, is that the universe expanded stretching out the nether into the size of the overworld. A kind of similar thing to the Big Bang. For the end, I think that the world had been stretched out so far, the laws of space had been broken. I really like this theory, Toycat, good job.
@@LuigisFridge4797 Karol Koszorz did make a mistake about stretching of space "breaking" spacetime, but the expansion of the universe he mentions would achieve the same effect. As time passes, the universe expands, causing a certain distance in the past to increase and get stretched out in the future. This is also true in reverse - going from present (overworld) to past (nether) makes distances shorter. So, since the end is so far in the future, traveling a lot of distance in the end would correspond to a near meaningless distance in the overworld as space has expanded so much.
@@zhangjoey9224 I wasn't too sure about the spacetime part, as I have no scientific background and only the know the basics of the Big Bang. Thanks for making the end dimension part make sense
This theory has been around for a while, though i must say your version of it is really good. The developers have directly confirmed there is lore on multiple occasions, though i doubt it'll ever be revealed, which quite frankly i prefer, its more fun if you dont know. Nevertheless, im loving these theories from you Toycat, you should do them more often!
i love hints of lore that you can piece together and make your *own* story out of. minecraft is about creating, so creating your worlds own backstory is something i love for the game. i hope the devs dont release actual lore. i like the theories.
This theory truly is game changing, this makes a lot of sense. Especially when you see the mob similarities, the slime would be an evolved version of the magma cube and such. This perfectly explains the lore entirely I can't believe we didn't think of this.
Unfortunately, he doesn’t explain what the endermen are. I believe they’re players that have been affected by a parasite from the far future, and as the endermen traveled between dimensions, they eventually spread it to the players via their pearls (endermites)
65,000 BP (Before Players): A cataclysmic rift is opened, and the nether forms. This is around the time that the overworld was created. No life wanders the expanses of any dimension - yet. 54,000 BP: Life has sprung up in the overworld and slowly spreads across the world. Some life forms are able to travel through the rift and into the nether. 51,000 BP: A massive volcanic eruption rocks the nether, bathing the hellscape in lava and sealing the rift to the overworld. 12,000 BP: The nether is already growing ancient, and life has evolved into many different creatures. Far in the depths of the nether, the air clouds with the remains of lost life forms and what we now know as the Soul Valleys begin to form. 3,700 BP: Evolution has begun to accelerate and the vast expanses of the nether are full of developing forms of life. Huge tree-like fungi have evolved from their smaller counterparts and have begun to create spreading forests. The air is thick with spores here, which help the spread of the fungi. 3,400 BP: Evolving from smaller rat-like creatures, Hoglins begin to roam the crimson forests of fungi. They are at the top of the food chain currently. 3,200 BP: Some Hoglins have wandered far from the forests of fungi and begin evolving into massive beasts. Meanwhile, within the crimson forests, Piglins begin evolving from the Hoglins and begin to form a more complex ecosystem. 2,900 BP: Massive creatures evolved from other Hoglins begin to dominate the wastes of the nether. Now at the top of the food chain, they begin to venture into the ever growing Soul Sand Valleys. Meanwhile, the race of Piglins multiplies and becomes a highly intelligent species. They are able to construct massive bastions after venturing into the remains of the ancient eruption. In the Soul Valleys, lost Piglins are laid to rest, but some break free from the grasp of the soul sand. Their skin, muscle, and soul stripped away from them, all that remain are their charred black skeletons. 2,600 BP: the Massive beasts die out, each and every one of them haven been felled by the withered skeletons of dead Piglins. All that remain of them are their massive skeletons littering the dunes of the soul valleys. These skeletons begin construction of their own massive fortresses. They are seen as an enemy of the Piglin race. 2,400 BP: The war begins. Wither skeletons and Piglins battle each other for the next few years. Many wither skeleton fortresses are destroyed, and many Piglin bastions are laid to ruin, some even destroyed to the point where all that remain are pieces of debris, destined to be buried under the rocky crust of the nether for centuries. 2,100 BP: A sepratist group of Piglins discover a ritual to open a portal to the overworld. However, to their horror, they soon discover that the atmosphere of the overworld is toxic to them, and they become corrupted. Having already been outcasts of the central Piglin race, they are destined to roam the wastes of the nether as Zombified Piglins. Ruins of their portals can be found across the nether. 1,100 BP: Various species populate the nether by now. Living chunks of the magma itself have formed from the molten rock of the volcanic regions. Some have evolved to grow legs and dwell on the surface of the lava oceans. The wither skeletons have mastered the creation of a new beast from the fires of the nether: Blazes. The souls of the ancient massive beasts have escaped and roam the soul valleys as ghasts, forever trapped within the depths of the nether. 600 BP: Enderman from a far dimension have arrived and begun to corrupt and warp some of the fungal forests. Who knows what their intent is. They can still be found today, slowly converting the crimson forests into an unnatural kind. 1 AP(After Players): Players begin to adventure into the nether. Besides having to deal with each other, the wither skeletons and piglins must now be wary of us. Players begin to set up bases and loot the ancient fortresses. 230 AP: Players discover a ritual to create a nightmare. Piecing together the skulls of wither skeletons and the soil from which the souls of the dead are trapped in, players begin the creation of withers. These evil beings terrorize every creature in the nether, apart from the wither skeletons and their own kin. Current Years: Players have greatly influenced the nether. They have become a threat and a great help at the same time. It will be interesting to see how the balance of this forsaken dimension will be affected in the years to come.
This is one of the things I love about Minecraft is that it’s so open to interpretation. The fact that instead of having definitive lore, it’s all just little cryptic hints that the player connects fits the game’s creative nature so well. I love how it kind of tells you to make your own story. In a way, it’s like we’re the historians trying to piece together clues to a story that will never be fully revealed. I don’t think there’s supposed to be a definitive storyline to the Minecraft universe. The quasi-lore is literally in place so the players can create theories like this. And like how there’s no right or wrong play style for Minecraft, there’s really no right or wrong theories. Or this game is a hodgepodge of ideas and concepts by multiple teams of people over the last decade and none of it is really that thought out.
Best thing about Minecraft is its expansive open world setting where any type of build can exist and any lore can be implemented based on each individual player.
One of the few absolute direct lore-statements we've gotten from developers is that the Nether, Overworld, and End are in completely separate dimensions from each other.
I was thinking this as I watched this like haven’t they came out & said plus the fact they may add new dimensions show they really don’t care for a past present future thing
I feel like it becomes important to define a dimension here since it has no real meaning in this context. Dimensions being simply at different times can still be real since time is a barrier much harder to cross than space.
As cool as this would be and while it'd give an interesting and grim story, the devs have confirmed that the dimensions are just that- their own, separate universes. The Nether isn't in the past and the End isn't in the future. This doesn't mean that the End isn't _a_ future, though. Maybe the End is the end of _a_ dimension, just not the Overworld's? The End is a dimension leeched of resources with barren grounds, and its lanky inhabitants have traveled to find other lands to live in, perhaps?
u forgot one thing tho..... the same world can exist in different dimensions while all havn different rates of time.... so maybe in one dimension, the MC world is still in nether stages (whc the lava/magma can be supported by Earth's past whc was nothn but storms, heat, lava/magma and chaos) thn in another dimension, the MC world is in its overworld stage where societies begin to thrive and excavate for resources to benefit their kind (whc is kinda similar to modern day Earth) and lastly, in another MC dimension, the world is at its End Stage where humans evolved into much stronger race called Endermen and built structures and boats to prolly hunt down the remaining mobs whc r End Dragons
The one problem with this, it’s that the nether roof is impenetrable and therefore couldn’t erode or be destroyed. It doesn’t exist in the over world or end, so what happened to it? (Yes I know you can break bedrock, but it isn’t intended)
Possibly constat time travel backwards by ancient beings broke the laws of teh universe slowly cuasing the nether to collapse in and become its own enclosed universe outside of the rest of time and space.
maybe its connected to a theory tht dimensions/worlds r protected by an impenetrable barrier/s so maybe tht explains the bedrock in the nether, the world height limit and bedrock below in the overworld and since society got rly rly advanced and they even evolved to higher beings called Endermen so the alr knew and did infact broke the barrier/s tht surrounds and protects this MC dimension....... maybe why the End is so barren is cuz others might hv travelled to other dimensions or the world sustained heavy damages from foreign invaders outside the dimension's barrier (aka the Ender Dragon cuz remember tht the end dragon can break end stone as she passes by) hence why everythn us floating in the void
Cant you always say that the wandering trader got glowstone dust from clerics and crafted it into glowstone, but at the same time you can think that the cleric got glowstone dust from the wandering trader.
It would probably make sense that the Wandering Trader would be the one to go to the nether because it's a "Wandering" Trader. Villagers just stay in the village.
I have a few questions: What about ancient debris? If the nether is the beginning, then why is there ANCIENT debris? How does the bedrock ceiling disappear? If it’s a planet, how is it supported?
My favourite theory is still that some world-ending apocalypse happened, leaving the world empty. Every version update brings "new things" into the world, which is actually the world coming back from the brink. With the new lighting update, there are fewer hostile mobs and more "life", meaning the world is fighting back and winning. The nether and the end are the origins of the apocalypse, and the "introduction" of the two portals is just the player figuring out how to go to the source.
I want to add that amethyst is quartz in real life. We find amethyst in big geodes, and geodes are made from big bubbles of lava just cooling down, meaning that there would've been a lot of lava everywhere, a bit like the nether.
@@SAR-1346 doesnt work: bastions have overworld items too. we find overworld items in structures everywhere but not the otherway around. Imo the species who made the strongholds are responsible for nether fortresses but not bastions. Two different types of structures which could be the result of a war between invader and locals. (Im nit sure it holds up i dont have the loot tables on hand rn)
I have a sort of theory for the nether (separate from toycats): the basalt deltas are a radioactive wasteland as you can hear the ticking of Geiger counters in he ambient noise, and magma cubes may be slimes affected by radiation. how did it get this way? the nether reactor core! detonating it pulls mass out of the nether and rebuilds it in the overworked (on older pocket edition worlds) and the energy needed brings about the affects off a nuclear bomb.
I still don't really support this "Geiger counter" theory. Because, the thing is, geiger counters are man-made objects and therefore it's nonsense that basalt deltas are full of hidden man-made apparatûs. And to my knowledge, I don't think those noises that geiger counter makes can occur naturally. It's also kind of defeats the whole "the Nether is set in the past" theory, don't you think?
@@KabalFromMK9 I said it was separate from toycats, and I personally just see the Geiger counter sound as a link between the player and the biome. I took it as a hint.
@@KabalFromMK9 well he specifically said "a separate theory from toycat's" but I also don't agree with this theory, it could be just a normal, ancient natural phenomenon.
honestly one of my favourite parts of minecraft: it’s has some lore but doesn’t have enough to feel a full story so you have any theory be your head canon
this theory has a lot of parallels with the real life universe. the universe started out as a hot and chaotic place (like the nether), became a beautiful place full of life (like the overworld) and soon will become a dead, dark, empty place (like the end).
Theory: Nether is located below the overworld since the roof of the nether is bedrock while the floor of the overworld is also bedrock thats why you can travel 8x faster in the nether 11:30, while the end is the outer space, all creatures in the end has the ability to teleport or fly - ender dragon and the levitating effect of shulker bullets (shulker bullets defies gravity) and also the elytra, which explains the black bg of the end-
Priests sell glowstone and witches have access to netherwart. Hard to say who provides for who. But most likely the wandering guy since you dont see the others leaving.
I like this theory but imo it fits better to have villagers evolve into endermen instead of shulkers. Assuming that villagers started destroying the world to a point that the void surfaced and traversing land was extremely difficult. Wouldn't it make sense for them to evolve into endermen to be able to traverse the barren land better. Endermen seem to be the only other mob in the game which can build which suggests they have some relation to the villager. Shulkers could easily be defense mechanisms built by the villagers to stop their welth being stolen and villagers have shown the capacity to build mobs before (iron golem). If villagers got stuck in this era of nothing ness then they would have to evolve and adapt. Villagers would have to eat chorus fruit for years as there only source of food and due to the teleportational aspect of the fruit then if the villagers ate that for thousands of years wouldn't their bodys start to adapt through naturally gaining teleportation and eventually gaining the ability to teleport through time or perhaps they do it on accident since it doesn't seem that they intentionally teleport through time. Villagers would have eventually forgotten all about trading and their past as by the time they gained the ability to teleport trading would have died centuries ago. Leaving it to be forgotten to history which is why endermen pick up blocks but have no want in actually using them, to them it's simply just curiosity and nothing more.
I think only only adaptation they would gain from eating chorus for ages is resistance to diarrhea. Assuming that chorus provides them with all nutrients and they don't die from such a diet
Although, they are able to remember one thing, the player. The player is the only thing endermen will attack (discounting snow golems which can only be made by players and endermen)
This makes a lot of sense I have a theory related to this too,about beetroots You know how you can find beetroot seeds in end cities and villages? What if,chorus fruit were just beetroots,but evolved?
I feel like we're forgetting one small detail here, what about the bedrock ceiling in the nether? Are we assuming that after thousands of years it just disappeared? If so, why hasn't the same happened with the bedrock in the overworld? This is the one hole in this theory that I feel needs to be addressed before we can call this plausible.
The part of the theory about villagers developing trade and it leading to the end of the world makes even more sense if you consider how much more primitive trade is in the nether (the past) where you have to just throw gold and you get random items rather than the much more developed emerald trading system
I like the idea of the end being a corrupted old Minecraft save. The enderman are the old players who used to play on that world before it was deleted or corrupted and thats why they are human like and get mad when they see you. They get reminded of what they used to be. The music in the end fits this narrative too, with it being glitchy versions of overworld songs.
i think the end is more of a void in between life and death then the future, and i thought you were right about the nether until mid way writing this comment. there is an advancement called Uneasy Alliance that says "Rescue a Ghast from the Nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld" Saying that ghasts home is in the overworld and that wouldnt make sence if the nether was the overworld but in the past.
based on my experience, the end is the most peaceful dimension, even if the dragon is still there in fact, i even use her help to travel to those islands, that launching power is just enough to fly 1000 blocks with elytra and no fireworks
What if the endermen are the player? Because although they can go back in time, that is something they could have potentially have discovered, the way we do. Sometimes their calls sound like words, as if they are warning us to do different, and they are ashamed of what they did, so when you look at the eye, they try to kill you, so you cant go to the end to see it.
I don't think that villagers are the first evolving mob in the lore, as previous Minecraft lore suggests that they are a new generation of civilization after another fallen one, and this theory encompasses the various structures found throughout, and also mineshafts and enchanted books all over the world, indicating the previous civilization was advanced enough in mining and enchanting.
This makes alot of sense especially for the end. The end is the overworld after the sun died out. Thats why there is nothing but a dark void and floating rocks left of the world. Its just food for thought but this changed everything :O
My head cannon was always that the End was the future as well... only the beetroot seeds evolved into chorus fruit, while everything died out. Left with nothing else to eat, villagers ate the chorus fruit, messed with their DNA over time and they evolved into Enderman. Due to the nature of being able to teleport, their grasp on where they were loosened and then they were showing up at different areas and time... hence why you could find them in all 3 dimensions.
I'm surprised the villagers didn't find out how to make Infinite resource farms like the player, it shows that even throughout their evolution, they still have a bit of stupid in them
One thing that supports that the end is in the future: The end has no stars in the sky, meaning that they have all burned out (This will happens irl in billions and billions of years)
So maybe in the beginning it’s the nether, then a few thousand years, it’s the age where there’s an infection spreading which explains zombies, spiders, and creepers, then a few hundred thousand years later, it becomes urban fantasy, but then a catastrophe occurs and then the end happens where villagers have became shulkers to live against the cold of the end.
I've always maintained that you play on earth, the nether and end are earth too, but an alternate reality of earth and your travelling the multiverse with the portals. Endermen are just multidimensional beings; hence, their abilities and for their love of blocks, they horde findings of each dimension for their personal collections.
In older versions of Java, the F3 screen in the Nether called it the "Hell" biome. (The End was "Sky.") That makes the Hell/Heaven thing make more sense.
The End being named Sky in older versions is more of a remnant of the unused and inaccessible Sky Dimension from the Beta versions of Minecraft Java, which later reworked to become the End dimension that we know today, than it is because the End is implicitly "Minecraft's heaven"
how would the end be heaven tho? I get nether being hell because all fire and danger etc. but heaven is paradise, so surely it wouldn't have an aggressive dragon and boxes that shoot at you when you get near them
@@ardeiwann The only argument I've seen so far for this theory is that "the end is sky it float you know what also float? heaven float too therefore end=heaven"
I like the idea of each dimension being a different period in time, but I think there's quite a few flaws in your theory, so I'm just gonna take your theory and combine it with MatPat's theory. Also, rather than the villagers (or other future humans) mining out the world to create the End, what if there was a cataclysmic event that destroyed the world? Like what if the world blew up and its mass got shattered in every direction. What if The End is actually the remnant of an object that destroyed the world, hence why its made out of a foreign material. I've also seen some theories in the comments that I also like.
Regarding, mobs that have the ability to travel between dimensions, this trait is also shared with the witch, villager, skeleton, chicken, and to an extent, the pig.
I had a theory the other day, and it was the dimensions being layered, which is kind of similar to the End being heaven and Nether being Hell, so the End islands were above everything (heaven) because there is no bedrock under or above it, then the over world, and then the Nether under it because of the bottom layer of bedrock, and bedrock above the Nether. Even though the Y coordinates are the same (and the end isn’t something like y4000000, but I think this still works.
I love Minecraft lore theories. My personal favorite is that Minecraft is a very old world re-growing from some kind of huge apocalyptic event. Hence the very old structures like nether fortresses, bastions, end fortresses, etc. existing alongside newer structures like villages.
The time theory make a little bit of sense if you see the Nether as some kind of proto-Overworld/Earth, the Overworld as current day and the End as, well, the end of the universe.
I think youre right up until one specific part, I dont think ALL the villagers turned into shulkers, the villagers that turned into shulkers are embodiments of greed, hence why they are found protecting the last few resources that remain in the end, but there were villagers that realised that the resources were scarce and hence they became endermen. Think about it, whats the one mob in the entire game that actively moves blocks, not just moves blocks in the overworld but moves them from the overworld and into the end in rare occasions. The endermen are the remaining villagers that were trying to save the world.
In fact, I think the enderman is actually a genetically modified version of humans. The time theory also explains why both of the mobs in the end teleport, (high tech teleportation tech or something)
since the wither achievment is called the beginning i think the withers are godly creatures from a far off place which created the nether and then dissappear or became mortals as the wither skeleton.
Or it’s the beginning of the cycle of life. Death. (It’s a cycle, the beginning could be any point). Or it’s because you re supposed to kill it after the dragon. It the marks the start of a new phase in the game where you have a beacon and pretty much unlimited means.
Not if you consider the idea that time runs parallel in each dimension. For example, let’s say I made a Time Machine that went back or forward exactly 100 years. If I went backwards, hung out for a year, then came forward again, that leaves a 1 year gap in the present. Time travel could be relative, rather than absolute.
Now that ancient cities are being added we know the current day villagers arent as evoled as past builders where as other overworld buildings are somewhat simple (mansions were built by pillagers) I think that its the pillagers and the player turn the overworld into the end.
I'd like to add a bit onto this theory. What if the overworld contains some sort of bacteria that has evolved over millions of years that turns creatures into zombies, but most are immune through evolution. This would explain why the Piglins and Hoglins become zombified upon entering the overworld without having to bring in any weird time shenanigans because their immune systems had never evolved to deal with it.
Mushrooms could be the cause. Mushrooms islands have no mobs spawn there except the highly evolved mooshroom and we see a lot of giant shrooms in certain biomes taht appera to be overrun and overgrown whilst the nether is full of mushrooms. Could it be possible taht mushrroms evolved to start zombifying ancient beings so tehy destroyed almost all mushrooms and stopped people going into certain biomes as a means to protect themselves but tehy failed?
We can maybe even see it through the updates. The Nether used to be nearly completely empty and barren, but now we are seeing newer colors in the nether, such as the warped wood.
Question on the Nether-as-the-past theory: What about loot chests in Fortresses? Or Fortresses, for that matter? It could be that the Overworld is the present, the Nether the mid-future, and the End the far-future.
If I'm being honest I've always thought minecraft was a tragic story just because when minecraft story mode came out you see other humans and towns but we don't see that in normal minecraft so I just figured we was the last one alive or something 🤷🏽♂️
Isn't it weird that, at least for me, people hadn't realise that The End takes place at the end times, because, duh, it's in the name? Like, I've seen a few Minecraft lore theories that attempt to describe The End and the endermen as creatures from the beginning of time before the overworld, completely missing the fact that the name of the dimension is literally called "The END"
If the wandering trader can be assumed to have access to nether for its trades, then stonemasons as well as fletchers(villagers in general) also do, as they sell quartz blocks and tipped arrows(requiring lingering potions, so all three dimensions(rod, dragon breath), unless in bedrock edition).
Realist idea is it’s the phases of the Minecraft world/planet. Nether how the over world was before and end is what happens after the over world. So maybe the players played for so long it broke the coding one the game and the Minecraft end had been made from all different worlds in Minecraft, gives a reason of how many ender dragon heads, and those are probably players based and those show the ender dragon they killed. And the shulker is how the player or ender men protect their bases from players, ender man or something else?
The theory is really cool but the whole going through time thing with the piglin to the present and they turn into a zombie piglin kinda had holes considering your character goes through it like a hundred times, horses are unaffected by this as well cats and dogs are unaffected so it really only applies to piglin which probably has to do with them entering an environment they are not adapted to
I always just assumed they were dimensions that were in different conditions and different histories. It's kinda why I want to see them add the Aether and Something called the ancient realm
It makes sense from an astrophysics perspective. The fiery and lava covered planet: a highly volcanic and inhospitable proto-planet. The overworld: present earth. The end: the remains of earth after it was destroyed by a cataclysmic collision with another stellar body
I have had this theory for a while, too, except for the resource part. The new 1.16 nether is also quite interesting, but I think that the old nether is a little farther in the past. The zombification is weird to me, though. I think that the piglins are just slightly evolved versions of pigmen. I do not blame the changing of the nether into the overworld on human-like mobs. I think it was a combination of destructive nether mobs and natural phenomena. Wither skeletons, pigmen and piglin brutes are very related. Both are humanoid mobs with abilities like wielding and making swords. Wither skeletons used fortresses to hide from ghasts and separate themselves from the outside, while pigmen and piglins clump in groups for self-defense and to hunt. (Ghasts in my lore are hostile to mobs with too many humanlike features.) Who built what is not entirely clear, but some individuals had certain abilities, like placing and breaking blocks.
I love the theory, it’s great seeing other ideas than just the normal ancient builders one. How do you think the Nether changed into the over world? I can see the overworld turning into the End, but what about the Nether?
This theory is low hanging fruit. It’s definitely ear candy… but so uninspired. In a world of magic, where there’s enchanted items, spell books, potions, witches, mobs with magical properties, dimensional portals, and a world of infinite size and resources, the “time travel” theory feels so generic and cliché amongst all the other theories out there. Fun to think about, but would be so “meh” if it was true. At least for me anyway. Not to mention that the ending credits when you beat the game directly counters it.
I'll just say this here and now: villagers evolved into endermen, but are starving to death and are trying to find a new home. You see, having two arms is way more effective than just one weird tumor thing, and it's also pretty obvious that chorus fruit are an awful food source. Considering the world is ending and there isn't much food, and the fact that they have fruit that have teleporting capabilities, it's going to be very enticing to make new teleporting technology as well as time travel tech. Eyes of Ender are probably used to go to the past, and back, considering that teleporting through the 4th dimension should be easy if you can teleport through the 3rd one by using your other tech (ender pearls).
Seems like a stretch to me. It's a lot simpler to just say "they're different dimensions" and leave time travel out of it, and doesn't really bring up any problems. There's also the idea that the nether is just physically located under the overworld (thus the name, OVERworld) in a spherical planet, which accounts for both the heat of the nether and the distance warping.
This the best theory I saw so far And I have arguments explaining the wither, that stone that has a wither on it, the bones, fossils on the overworld, and another evolution theory. In the far past (even more than the Nether) there were three headed creatures roaming around the world, specially on soul sand valleys because they were so destructive their food started to desapear. So the species got extinct and evolved to be the wither skeleton we all know, the transition between the wither and a skeleton (this is basically the same situation of how dragon flies evolved irl). The others died and decomposed only a few remains are left. Then the wither skeletons drew their skulls on the netherbrick to symbolise their existence. The stone with the wither on it can be seen as the present civilizations knew about the wither but as a legend (basically the same situation as dragons and the phoenix in real life) and that's why it doesn't have as much detail as the netherbrick drawing, because it's a legend I can think that hoglins evolved like cows, chicken and *pigs* evolved irl, due to selection from a third party. Which third party? The villagers or should I say piglins? Piglings can be seen as the, Australopithecus africanus, the first human specie that existed, that would evolve like humans did, the only twist is that they knew how to build stuff, because if they didn't they would die because of hoglins, and wither skeletons. And I now came up with an idea that explains the deep dark cities. The deep dark cities are the remains of Bastions due to all the erosion and all that, a few humans knew and once they explored the ruined bastions they met with the warden, killing most of them, they made a warden statue to warn anyone that the warden is nearby and it should be avoided. That explains the soul items in there like soul lanterns and soul campfires. About the fossils on the overworld, since the fossils are different from the ones on the nether we can say new creatures ruled the world like the dinosaurs did, getting extinct due to some desaster, and fossils are easier to find on sedimentary rocks, like sand. I really love your theory and I hope I got to complete it even more.
i think the end is more of a void in between life and death then the future, and i thought you were right about the nether until mid way writing this comment. there is an advancement called Uneasy Alliance that says "Rescue a Ghast from the Nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld" Saying that ghasts home is in the overworld and that wouldnt make sence if the nether was the overworld but in the past.
I think that endermen, which aren't really explained in this video, are the remnants of player-like beings. From their excessive travel between dimensions, or across time as you so propose, they are warped, or evolved perhaps, for this purpose. They can teleport from time to time or dimension to dimension. You only lightly touched upon wandering traders, which I think we can agree are able to travel through portals or so. I think the existence of wandering traders proves that we are not the only type of life, and the traders are like semi-future players; they are villagers that travel and explore and innovate much more than we do, as might we do in future. I think they also may become endermen. Also, spawing the wither awards the achievement "The Beginning?", which I think may symbolise that withers are the first creatures. This is a weak point to be honest, but I watched a video a while ago that suggested that creatures' souls and their energy (or xp) could be, and is being used by certain creatures including ourselves for processes. It suggests that withers harvested this energy more readily than any other creature. This also brings the thought that perhaps "The Beginning?" is the player's question to seeing what they could have become, or what they one day may become. Suppose a minecraft world where the wither killed the player, and the player never respawned. The wither may eventually find the portal that leads to the overworld and wreak havoc upon it, harvesting energy as it wills. In this, "The Beginning" is the beginning of the end, or a new timeline perhaps. I don't know where I went with this at 3 in the morning but this video definitely got me thinking.
It doesn’t really work since there would’ve been withers spawning naturally no? Unless you mean the wither skeletons killed the wither somehow and took the soul and stored it in the soulsand, but that doesn’t make sense either because skeletons can’t interact with blocks
I have same theory, i relized this a year ago, when you summon the wither its saying the start meaning it came first, the over world just the present, and the end is from entering the end.
i think the end is more of a void in between life and death then the future, and i thought you were right about the nether until mid way writing this comment. there is an advancement called Uneasy Alliance that says "Rescue a Ghast from the Nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld" Saying that ghasts home is in the overworld and that wouldnt make sence if the nether was the overworld but in the past.
The End is the moon/space. You have the interior of the planet (which is why travel would go faster in the overworld as you traverse the nether - the closer you are to the center of a body, the faster you could get further away and pop out somewhere else when coming up) the exterior of the planet, and the moon/space. Who thinks the End is heaven? That's just nonsensical. It's literally cheese rocks (planets meteorites, etc.) floating in a void. They've just used fantasy elements in the design of it all.
One thing that I think may counter this is that the end and nether seem timeless, with the clocks and beds not working. The advancement "uneasy alliance" also seems to hint that ghasts aren't from the nether initially: "Rescue a Ghast from the nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld" I think "rescue" and "safely home" seem to imply that
Or maybe, because there is no sun and moon there. The clock in Minecraft works based on the day-night cycle, judging from the look, and since it can't detect any sun and moon in the Nether or the End, it malfunctions. Then we also have a phenomenon of beds exploding when not used in the Overworld. I think it still ties with the sun and moon and the day-night cycle, rather than time in general; Think about it: We sleep in Minecraft to skip _the night_ specifically, rather than to 'accelerate time' (skipping the thunderstorm does not accelerate time if I'm not wrong), and since there are no day/night cycle and/or thunderstorms in the Nether and the End, it malfunctions, too
i think this is a fairly plausible theory and i find it very interesting , though theres a few inconsistencies id like to point out .. the idea that the nether is the center of the world doesnt make much sense , because you cant dig down past the bedrock floor in the overworld into the nether (despite the bedrock roof of the nether) . its an entirely different plane of existence , hence the need for portal technology . another thing thats left unexplained is who built all the overworld structures ? regarding that , retrogamingnow has a neat video all about his thoughts on the subject that you can check out if youre curious :)
Good point but if you think about more of the video game side, If you COULD dig down into the nether your pc would explode from Minecraft generating both nether and overworld at the same time (At least for most people, and since the game is ran on Java too). And the need for a portal is cause bedrock is unbreakable, There would probably be a really thick layer of it since the nether would be really far into the centre, and how the core of the earth contains lava and has a really high temperature also shows how the nether could be below the overworld. (I'm not great at English sorry if it was bad) I love this theory though!
I haven't watched the video yet, to take this with a grain of salt. I don't think the nether is the past. However as far as the end being the future of the overworld, I agree. The end is a cold dimension, and yet in stone looks bleached, which is a sign of extreme heat... Those two things don't go together unless some major event drastically changed the climate. And endstone sure looks a lot like cobblestone...
I'm guessing it wad the first comment andto get that people just press the closest key to get the first comment. It's stupid but it's just what some people want for some reason.
The villagers could've evolved into the two main species we see in the end, Shulkers and Endermen. The shulkers being as you stated in the video but the Endermen being evolved from the builders and miners of the end. As the portals act as a form of time travel it would make sense for the Endermen to reach the nether using ruined portals. They could have somehow developed time travel as an ability after their ancestors knew of its existence.
I think that villagers look more like enderman. They’re almost as tall as them. Their foreheads have decreased in length a bit though. The enderman also always try to take resources. OMG I JUST REALISED. This is probably also why ancient debris is called, well ancient debris
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I think the reason that you travel through the nether 8 times faster than in the overworld, is that the universe expanded stretching out the nether into the size of the overworld. A kind of similar thing to the Big Bang. For the end, I think that the world had been stretched out so far, the laws of space had been broken. I really like this theory, Toycat, good job.
How would the stretching break the laws of space time.
@@LuigisFridge4797 Karol Koszorz did make a mistake about stretching of space "breaking" spacetime, but the expansion of the universe he mentions would achieve the same effect. As time passes, the universe expands, causing a certain distance in the past to increase and get stretched out in the future. This is also true in reverse - going from present (overworld) to past (nether) makes distances shorter. So, since the end is so far in the future, traveling a lot of distance in the end would correspond to a near meaningless distance in the overworld as space has expanded so much.
@CH_Omega Maybe the stretching built up pressure and had a force that was stronger than bedrock and broke through it.
@@zhangjoey9224 I wasn't too sure about the spacetime part, as I have no scientific background and only the know the basics of the Big Bang. Thanks for making the end dimension part make sense
@CH_Omega I agree that is one of the flaws in my theory, good point
This theory has been around for a while, though i must say your version of it is really good. The developers have directly confirmed there is lore on multiple occasions, though i doubt it'll ever be revealed, which quite frankly i prefer, its more fun if you dont know. Nevertheless, im loving these theories from you Toycat, you should do them more often!
MC is basically a lore fountain, especially with every update that comes
yes
i love hints of lore that you can piece together and make your *own* story out of.
minecraft is about creating, so creating your worlds own backstory is something i love for the game. i hope the devs dont release actual lore. i like the theories.
they say they make changes just for the lore casually lmao
There’s one big, and huge flaw with this
The Nether has a ceiling.
This theory truly is game changing, this makes a lot of sense. Especially when you see the mob similarities, the slime would be an evolved version of the magma cube and such. This perfectly explains the lore entirely I can't believe we didn't think of this.
To be fair this theory has been around since like 2014, but Toycat did do a incredible job at actually fleshing it out.
Unfortunately, he doesn’t explain what the endermen are. I believe they’re players that have been affected by a parasite from the far future, and as the endermen traveled between dimensions, they eventually spread it to the players via their pearls (endermites)
You commented this when the video was only out for 4 minutes, you hadnt whatched the video yet
@@EnigmaticGentleman no not really, like he left a ton of holes in the theory, like how a dragon would randomly exist in the future
Game theory has explained alot of parts of minecrafts lore, if you like theorys you should defenetly check out their minecraft theorys.
65,000 BP (Before Players): A cataclysmic rift is opened, and the nether forms. This is around the time that the overworld was created. No life wanders the expanses of any dimension - yet.
54,000 BP: Life has sprung up in the overworld and slowly spreads across the world. Some life forms are able to travel through the rift and into the nether.
51,000 BP: A massive volcanic eruption rocks the nether, bathing the hellscape in lava and sealing the rift to the overworld.
12,000 BP: The nether is already growing ancient, and life has evolved into many different creatures. Far in the depths of the nether, the air clouds with the remains of lost life forms and what we now know as the Soul Valleys begin to form.
3,700 BP: Evolution has begun to accelerate and the vast expanses of the nether are full of developing forms of life. Huge tree-like fungi have evolved from their smaller counterparts and have begun to create spreading forests. The air is thick with spores here, which help the spread of the fungi.
3,400 BP: Evolving from smaller rat-like creatures, Hoglins begin to roam the crimson forests of fungi. They are at the top of the food chain currently.
3,200 BP: Some Hoglins have wandered far from the forests of fungi and begin evolving into massive beasts. Meanwhile, within the crimson forests, Piglins begin evolving from the Hoglins and begin to form a more complex ecosystem.
2,900 BP: Massive creatures evolved from other Hoglins begin to dominate the wastes of the nether. Now at the top of the food chain, they begin to venture into the ever growing Soul Sand Valleys. Meanwhile, the race of Piglins multiplies and becomes a highly intelligent species. They are able to construct massive bastions after venturing into the remains of the ancient eruption. In the Soul Valleys, lost Piglins are laid to rest, but some break free from the grasp of the soul sand. Their skin, muscle, and soul stripped away from them, all that remain are their charred black skeletons.
2,600 BP: the Massive beasts die out, each and every one of them haven been felled by the withered skeletons of dead Piglins. All that remain of them are their massive skeletons littering the dunes of the soul valleys. These skeletons begin construction of their own massive fortresses. They are seen as an enemy of the Piglin race.
2,400 BP: The war begins. Wither skeletons and Piglins battle each other for the next few years. Many wither skeleton fortresses are destroyed, and many Piglin bastions are laid to ruin, some even destroyed to the point where all that remain are pieces of debris, destined to be buried under the rocky crust of the nether for centuries.
2,100 BP: A sepratist group of Piglins discover a ritual to open a portal to the overworld. However, to their horror, they soon discover that the atmosphere of the overworld is toxic to them, and they become corrupted. Having already been outcasts of the central Piglin race, they are destined to roam the wastes of the nether as Zombified Piglins. Ruins of their portals can be found across the nether.
1,100 BP: Various species populate the nether by now. Living chunks of the magma itself have formed from the molten rock of the volcanic regions. Some have evolved to grow legs and dwell on the surface of the lava oceans. The wither skeletons have mastered the creation of a new beast from the fires of the nether: Blazes. The souls of the ancient massive beasts have escaped and roam the soul valleys as ghasts, forever trapped within the depths of the nether.
600 BP: Enderman from a far dimension have arrived and begun to corrupt and warp some of the fungal forests. Who knows what their intent is. They can still be found today, slowly converting the crimson forests into an unnatural kind.
1 AP(After Players): Players begin to adventure into the nether. Besides having to deal with each other, the wither skeletons and piglins must now be wary of us. Players begin to set up bases and loot the ancient fortresses.
230 AP: Players discover a ritual to create a nightmare. Piecing together the skulls of wither skeletons and the soil from which the souls of the dead are trapped in, players begin the creation of withers. These evil beings terrorize every creature in the nether, apart from the wither skeletons and their own kin.
Current Years: Players have greatly influenced the nether. They have become a threat and a great help at the same time. It will be interesting to see how the balance of this forsaken dimension will be affected in the years to come.
Bro rewrote history
Underrated comment will probably never be noticed sadly 🥲
Bro this kinda genius.
love it
While I don't necessarily agree, I have to give respect to the sheer comprehensive attention to time and detail. Would like to see one for the End
This is one of the things I love about Minecraft is that it’s so open to interpretation. The fact that instead of having definitive lore, it’s all just little cryptic hints that the player connects fits the game’s creative nature so well. I love how it kind of tells you to make your own story. In a way, it’s like we’re the historians trying to piece together clues to a story that will never be fully revealed. I don’t think there’s supposed to be a definitive storyline to the Minecraft universe. The quasi-lore is literally in place so the players can create theories like this. And like how there’s no right or wrong play style for Minecraft, there’s really no right or wrong theories.
Or this game is a hodgepodge of ideas and concepts by multiple teams of people over the last decade and none of it is really that thought out.
Best thing about Minecraft is its expansive open world setting where any type of build can exist and any lore can be implemented based on each individual player.
One of the few absolute direct lore-statements we've gotten from developers is that the Nether, Overworld, and End are in completely separate dimensions from each other.
I was thinking this as I watched this like haven’t they came out & said plus the fact they may add new dimensions show they really don’t care for a past present future thing
I feel like it becomes important to define a dimension here since it has no real meaning in this context. Dimensions being simply at different times can still be real since time is a barrier much harder to cross than space.
@@UltraAryan10 In general usage, when people say "dimension" in this kind of situation, what they are referring to is a universe.
@@KidPrarchord95 Well time is a sufficient border here to call different time frames dimensions.
@@UltraAryan10 That's a huge stretch.
As cool as this would be and while it'd give an interesting and grim story, the devs have confirmed that the dimensions are just that- their own, separate universes. The Nether isn't in the past and the End isn't in the future.
This doesn't mean that the End isn't _a_ future, though. Maybe the End is the end of _a_ dimension, just not the Overworld's? The End is a dimension leeched of resources with barren grounds, and its lanky inhabitants have traveled to find other lands to live in, perhaps?
explains why there’s no bedrock
So the end is another dimension that was quenched of it's resources and the overworld is going on the same path.
Iboxtoycat nether and the end are actually different dimensions and the overworld is the real world
u forgot one thing tho..... the same world can exist in different dimensions while all havn different rates of time.... so maybe in one dimension, the MC world is still in nether stages (whc the lava/magma can be supported by Earth's past whc was nothn but storms, heat, lava/magma and chaos) thn in another dimension, the MC world is in its overworld stage where societies begin to thrive and excavate for resources to benefit their kind (whc is kinda similar to modern day Earth) and lastly, in another MC dimension, the world is at its End Stage where humans evolved into much stronger race called Endermen and built structures and boats to prolly hunt down the remaining mobs whc r End Dragons
The end dimension look like heat death of the universe where all starts have died and it is dark, cold and barren place.
The one problem with this, it’s that the nether roof is impenetrable and therefore couldn’t erode or be destroyed. It doesn’t exist in the over world or end, so what happened to it? (Yes I know you can break bedrock, but it isn’t intended)
Possibly constat time travel backwards by ancient beings broke the laws of teh universe slowly cuasing the nether to collapse in and become its own enclosed universe outside of the rest of time and space.
maybe its connected to a theory tht dimensions/worlds r protected by an impenetrable barrier/s so maybe tht explains the bedrock in the nether, the world height limit and bedrock below in the overworld and since society got rly rly advanced and they even evolved to higher beings called Endermen so the alr knew and did infact broke the barrier/s tht surrounds and protects this MC dimension....... maybe why the End is so barren is cuz others might hv travelled to other dimensions or the world sustained heavy damages from foreign invaders outside the dimension's barrier (aka the Ender Dragon cuz remember tht the end dragon can break end stone as she passes by) hence why everythn us floating in the void
Cant you always say that the wandering trader got glowstone dust from clerics and crafted it into glowstone, but at the same time you can think that the cleric got glowstone dust from the wandering trader.
Oh, yeah I totally forgot that Clerics trade glowstone
And the stray is probably attacking the player due to intence isolation
It would probably make sense that the Wandering Trader would be the one to go to the nether because it's a "Wandering" Trader. Villagers just stay in the village.
@@lukeystuff Or maybe the wandering trader just killed a lot of witches
Witches too
I have a few questions:
What about ancient debris? If the nether is the beginning, then why is there ANCIENT debris?
How does the bedrock ceiling disappear? If it’s a planet, how is it supported?
Maybe its ancient debris because for the player that comes from the overworld it is indeed ancient since it comes from the nether, the "past"
Deep time
That why I like the game theory lore better
My favourite theory is still that some world-ending apocalypse happened, leaving the world empty. Every version update brings "new things" into the world, which is actually the world coming back from the brink. With the new lighting update, there are fewer hostile mobs and more "life", meaning the world is fighting back and winning. The nether and the end are the origins of the apocalypse, and the "introduction" of the two portals is just the player figuring out how to go to the source.
I want to add that amethyst is quartz in real life. We find amethyst in big geodes, and geodes are made from big bubbles of lava just cooling down, meaning that there would've been a lot of lava everywhere, a bit like the nether.
I had always liked the idea of the nether being the center of the earth and the end being space
@Edmonton Man then why is it made of end stone, not cheese?
not to put u down or anything but i feel like thats the obvious conclusion so its not that interesting
@Edmonton Man then why does the background in the end look like static noise? and its also too small to be the moon no?
@Edmonton Man wouldn’t it make more sense if the end was actually an asteroid belt that explains all the floating islands and is made of rock
@Edmonton Man no… uhhh… not really. As far as I know the Moon is a planet and not a bunch of asteroids in a static void reigned by a dragon
The villagers can also go to the nether, judging by the brewing stands.
Or they just trade with the wandering trader...
or the wandertraders went and traded them the materials to make brewing stands
wanderinbg traders brought those to them
Brewing stands… also found in end city’s. Possibly a connection?
@@SAR-1346 doesnt work: bastions have overworld items too.
we find overworld items in structures everywhere but not the otherway around. Imo the species who made the strongholds are responsible for nether fortresses but not bastions. Two different types of structures which could be the result of a war between invader and locals. (Im nit sure it holds up i dont have the loot tables on hand rn)
9:58 I think the Iron golems turned into shulkers. They are the natural protecters of the cities and have a mechanical-like body.
perhaps the endermen are the villagers then? i think that makes enough sense.
@@blakeworthvv Probably. Like the theory that they evolved into endermen by eating chorus fruit
their name in the game files could support this theory; they're called "Ender Golem" in the game files
I have a sort of theory for the nether (separate from toycats): the basalt deltas are a radioactive wasteland as you can hear the ticking of Geiger counters in he ambient noise, and magma cubes may be slimes affected by radiation. how did it get this way? the nether reactor core! detonating it pulls mass out of the nether and rebuilds it in the overworked (on older pocket edition worlds) and the energy needed brings about the affects off a nuclear bomb.
And people might have discarded the reactor because of the danger. Explaining why you can’t activate them anymore.
I still don't really support this "Geiger counter" theory. Because, the thing is, geiger counters are man-made objects and therefore it's nonsense that basalt deltas are full of hidden man-made apparatûs. And to my knowledge, I don't think those noises that geiger counter makes can occur naturally. It's also kind of defeats the whole "the Nether is set in the past" theory, don't you think?
@@KabalFromMK9 I said it was separate from toycats, and I personally just see the Geiger counter sound as a link between the player and the biome. I took it as a hint.
@@KabalFromMK9 well he specifically said "a separate theory from toycat's" but I also don't agree with this theory, it could be just a normal, ancient natural phenomenon.
I think they have stated the deltas are meant to be radioactive. Though, I could be wrong.
“The Canadian police are after me so I have to leave right after this video”
The best outro by far.
honestly one of my favourite parts of minecraft: it’s has some lore but doesn’t have enough to feel a full story so you have any theory be your head canon
this theory has a lot of parallels with the real life universe. the universe started out as a hot and chaotic place (like the nether), became a beautiful place full of life (like the overworld) and soon will become a dead, dark, empty place (like the end).
This is a example of a phrase that change all minds.
Theory: Nether is located below the overworld since the roof of the nether is bedrock while the floor of the overworld is also bedrock thats why you can travel 8x faster in the nether 11:30, while the end is the outer space, all creatures in the end has the ability to teleport or fly - ender dragon and the levitating effect of shulker bullets (shulker bullets defies gravity) and also the elytra, which explains the black bg of the end-
Wandering traders might have also gotten stuff from nether by trading with some more advanced beings like humans
That's what I thought, as well!
Priests sell glowstone and witches have access to netherwart. Hard to say who provides for who. But most likely the wandering guy since you dont see the others leaving.
It's official. Ibxtoycat is game theory now.
Or retro gaming now
I still prefer Game Theory's ideas on what the lore of Minecraft is
I still prefer Game Theory's ideas on what the lore of Minecraft is
@@elijahanonymous4596 you said the same thing twice
@@thatmangoman you said the same thing twice
I like this theory but imo it fits better to have villagers evolve into endermen instead of shulkers. Assuming that villagers started destroying the world to a point that the void surfaced and traversing land was extremely difficult. Wouldn't it make sense for them to evolve into endermen to be able to traverse the barren land better. Endermen seem to be the only other mob in the game which can build which suggests they have some relation to the villager. Shulkers could easily be defense mechanisms built by the villagers to stop their welth being stolen and villagers have shown the capacity to build mobs before (iron golem). If villagers got stuck in this era of nothing ness then they would have to evolve and adapt. Villagers would have to eat chorus fruit for years as there only source of food and due to the teleportational aspect of the fruit then if the villagers ate that for thousands of years wouldn't their bodys start to adapt through naturally gaining teleportation and eventually gaining the ability to teleport through time or perhaps they do it on accident since it doesn't seem that they intentionally teleport through time. Villagers would have eventually forgotten all about trading and their past as by the time they gained the ability to teleport trading would have died centuries ago. Leaving it to be forgotten to history which is why endermen pick up blocks but have no want in actually using them, to them it's simply just curiosity and nothing more.
I think only only adaptation they would gain from eating chorus for ages is resistance to diarrhea. Assuming that chorus provides them with all nutrients and they don't die from such a diet
Although, they are able to remember one thing, the player. The player is the only thing endermen will attack (discounting snow golems which can only be made by players and endermen)
@@blizzardgaming7070 in versions before 1.13 natural generation can also make snow golem
Endermen already exist in the Nether tho. You can't evolve into something that came before you. If anything, the endermen evolved into villagers.
@@TheMultiGamerOfficial unless that evolution to travel/teleport through space also included travel through time which are sort of related
This makes a lot of sense
I have a theory related to this too,about beetroots
You know how you can find beetroot seeds in end cities and villages? What if,chorus fruit were just beetroots,but evolved?
I feel like we're forgetting one small detail here, what about the bedrock ceiling in the nether? Are we assuming that after thousands of years it just disappeared? If so, why hasn't the same happened with the bedrock in the overworld? This is the one hole in this theory that I feel needs to be addressed before we can call this plausible.
The part of the theory about villagers developing trade and it leading to the end of the world makes even more sense if you consider how much more primitive trade is in the nether (the past) where you have to just throw gold and you get random items rather than the much more developed emerald trading system
I like the idea of the end being a corrupted old Minecraft save. The enderman are the old players who used to play on that world before it was deleted or corrupted and thats why they are human like and get mad when they see you. They get reminded of what they used to be. The music in the end fits this narrative too, with it being glitchy versions of overworld songs.
i think the end is more of a void in between life and death then the future, and i thought you were right about the nether until mid way writing this comment. there is an advancement called Uneasy Alliance that says "Rescue a Ghast from the Nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld" Saying that ghasts home is in the overworld and that wouldnt make sence if the nether was the overworld but in the past.
based on my experience, the end is the most peaceful dimension, even if the dragon is still there
in fact, i even use her help to travel to those islands, that launching power is just enough to fly 1000 blocks with elytra and no fireworks
Never tried it, since you need elytras. And i dont trust flying machines enough to brave the void on one.
What if the endermen are the player? Because although they can go back in time, that is something they could have potentially have discovered, the way we do. Sometimes their calls sound like words, as if they are warning us to do different, and they are ashamed of what they did, so when you look at the eye, they try to kill you, so you cant go to the end to see it.
I don't think that villagers are the first evolving mob in the lore, as previous Minecraft lore suggests that they are a new generation of civilization after another fallen one, and this theory encompasses the various structures found throughout, and also mineshafts and enchanted books all over the world, indicating the previous civilization was advanced enough in mining and enchanting.
This makes alot of sense especially for the end. The end is the overworld after the sun died out. Thats why there is nothing but a dark void and floating rocks left of the world. Its just food for thought but this changed everything :O
I think the shulkers are magical defense systems built to protect the end cities that survived whatever cataclysm killed everything else.
My head cannon was always that the End was the future as well... only the beetroot seeds evolved into chorus fruit, while everything died out.
Left with nothing else to eat, villagers ate the chorus fruit, messed with their DNA over time and they evolved into Enderman.
Due to the nature of being able to teleport, their grasp on where they were loosened and then they were showing up at different areas and time... hence why you could find them in all 3 dimensions.
I'm surprised the villagers didn't find out how to make Infinite resource farms like the player, it shows that even throughout their evolution, they still have a bit of stupid in them
One thing that supports that the end is in the future: The end has no stars in the sky, meaning that they have all burned out (This will happens irl in billions and billions of years)
Damn Steve can survive at -273.15 C
So maybe in the beginning it’s the nether, then a few thousand years, it’s the age where there’s an infection spreading which explains zombies, spiders, and creepers, then a few hundred thousand years later, it becomes urban fantasy, but then a catastrophe occurs and then the end happens where villagers have became shulkers to live against the cold of the end.
I've always maintained that you play on earth, the nether and end are earth too, but an alternate reality of earth and your travelling the multiverse with the portals. Endermen are just multidimensional beings; hence, their abilities and for their love of blocks, they horde findings of each dimension for their personal collections.
In older versions of Java, the F3 screen in the Nether called it the "Hell" biome. (The End was "Sky.") That makes the Hell/Heaven thing make more sense.
the end is not heaven. its more of an endless void between life and death, since there is weird creatures like endermen and the VOID everywhere
The End being named Sky in older versions is more of a remnant of the unused and inaccessible Sky Dimension from the Beta versions of Minecraft Java, which later reworked to become the End dimension that we know today, than it is because the End is implicitly "Minecraft's heaven"
how would the end be heaven tho? I get nether being hell because all fire and danger etc. but heaven is paradise, so surely it wouldn't have an aggressive dragon and boxes that shoot at you when you get near them
@@ardeiwann The only argument I've seen so far for this theory is that "the end is sky it float you know what also float? heaven float too therefore end=heaven"
@@KabalFromMK9 that’s the dumbest argument i’ve heard read. anyways the end is a void of nothingness
I like the idea of each dimension being a different period in time, but I think there's quite a few flaws in your theory, so I'm just gonna take your theory and combine it with MatPat's theory.
Also, rather than the villagers (or other future humans) mining out the world to create the End, what if there was a cataclysmic event that destroyed the world? Like what if the world blew up and its mass got shattered in every direction. What if The End is actually the remnant of an object that destroyed the world, hence why its made out of a foreign material.
I've also seen some theories in the comments that I also like.
I like your theory of how instead of different dimensions it’s different type periods you can go through
However, The devs already confirmed that they are all completely separate dimensions, and they may have plans of adding more in the future.
Oh man that pearl at 8:38 was **chefs kiss**
Thats one of the things I love about minecraft. The lore is whatever you want it to be. You kinda make the game whatever you want it
Regarding, mobs that have the ability to travel between dimensions, this trait is also shared with the witch, villager, skeleton, chicken, and to an extent, the pig.
I had a theory the other day, and it was the dimensions being layered, which is kind of similar to the End being heaven and Nether being Hell, so the End islands were above everything (heaven) because there is no bedrock under or above it, then the over world, and then the Nether under it because of the bottom layer of bedrock, and bedrock above the Nether. Even though the Y coordinates are the same (and the end isn’t something like y4000000, but I think this still works.
I love Minecraft lore theories. My personal favorite is that Minecraft is a very old world re-growing from some kind of huge apocalyptic event. Hence the very old structures like nether fortresses, bastions, end fortresses, etc. existing alongside newer structures like villages.
The time theory make a little bit of sense if you see the Nether as some kind of proto-Overworld/Earth, the Overworld as current day and the End as, well, the end of the universe.
I think youre right up until one specific part, I dont think ALL the villagers turned into shulkers, the villagers that turned into shulkers are embodiments of greed, hence why they are found protecting the last few resources that remain in the end, but there were villagers that realised that the resources were scarce and hence they became endermen. Think about it, whats the one mob in the entire game that actively moves blocks, not just moves blocks in the overworld but moves them from the overworld and into the end in rare occasions. The endermen are the remaining villagers that were trying to save the world.
In fact, I think the enderman is actually a genetically modified version of humans. The time theory also explains why both of the mobs in the end teleport, (high tech teleportation tech or something)
So they eventually learned how to harvest Bedrock itself. Then, having raw exposure to the void might begin transmuting soil to the end dirt.
since the wither achievment is called the beginning i think the withers are godly creatures from a far off place which created the nether and then dissappear or became mortals as the wither skeleton.
Or it’s the beginning of the cycle of life. Death. (It’s a cycle, the beginning could be any point).
Or it’s because you re supposed to kill it after the dragon. It the marks the start of a new phase in the game where you have a beacon and pretty much unlimited means.
The idea that portals are time travel is inconsistent with the day/night cycle running while the player is in the other dimensions (times)
Not if you consider the idea that time runs parallel in each dimension. For example, let’s say I made a Time Machine that went back or forward exactly 100 years. If I went backwards, hung out for a year, then came forward again, that leaves a 1 year gap in the present. Time travel could be relative, rather than absolute.
Now that ancient cities are being added we know the current day villagers arent as evoled as past builders where as other overworld buildings are somewhat simple (mansions were built by pillagers) I think that its the pillagers and the player turn the overworld into the end.
I'd like to add a bit onto this theory. What if the overworld contains some sort of bacteria that has evolved over millions of years that turns creatures into zombies, but most are immune through evolution. This would explain why the Piglins and Hoglins become zombified upon entering the overworld without having to bring in any weird time shenanigans because their immune systems had never evolved to deal with it.
Retro gaming now has a theory like that, with spores
Mushrooms could be the cause. Mushrooms islands have no mobs spawn there except the highly evolved mooshroom and we see a lot of giant shrooms in certain biomes taht appera to be overrun and overgrown whilst the nether is full of mushrooms. Could it be possible taht mushrroms evolved to start zombifying ancient beings so tehy destroyed almost all mushrooms and stopped people going into certain biomes as a means to protect themselves but tehy failed?
We can maybe even see it through the updates. The Nether used to be nearly completely empty and barren, but now we are seeing newer colors in the nether, such as the warped wood.
It makes sense for the the end to be traveling faster because your 8 times closer, but what about the nether
Apparently, the phantom changed into the elytra. There is still hope! Great!
Question on the Nether-as-the-past theory: What about loot chests in Fortresses? Or Fortresses, for that matter? It could be that the Overworld is the present, the Nether the mid-future, and the End the far-future.
If I'm being honest I've always thought minecraft was a tragic story just because when minecraft story mode came out you see other humans and towns but we don't see that in normal minecraft so I just figured we was the last one alive or something 🤷🏽♂️
Isn't it weird that, at least for me, people hadn't realise that The End takes place at the end times, because, duh, it's in the name? Like, I've seen a few Minecraft lore theories that attempt to describe The End and the endermen as creatures from the beginning of time before the overworld, completely missing the fact that the name of the dimension is literally called "The END"
It’s pretty cool how when different people are presented with the same pieces of evidence, they can come up with completely different conclusions
Some would say that it's annoying.
No wonder why it's called acent debris there is also an acivement called " those were days "
If the wandering trader can be assumed to have access to nether for its trades, then stonemasons as well as fletchers(villagers in general) also do, as they sell quartz blocks and tipped arrows(requiring lingering potions, so all three dimensions(rod, dragon breath), unless in bedrock edition).
Or the wandering trader just sells it to them…
Realist idea is it’s the phases of the Minecraft world/planet. Nether how the over world was before and end is what happens after the over world. So maybe the players played for so long it broke the coding one the game and the Minecraft end had been made from all different worlds in Minecraft, gives a reason of how many ender dragon heads, and those are probably players based and those show the ender dragon they killed. And the shulker is how the player or ender men protect their bases from players, ender man or something else?
Swap the nether and ensure around. It started with nothing, which grew to the overworld, then burnt up and became the nether.
It makes sense, but the cleric villager and witch have glowstone, and the villager wants nether wart. This is a really cool theory tho
Ender Men are basically higher evolved time travelers with this logic
The theory is really cool but the whole going through time thing with the piglin to the present and they turn into a zombie piglin kinda had holes considering your character goes through it like a hundred times, horses are unaffected by this as well cats and dogs are unaffected so it really only applies to piglin which probably has to do with them entering an environment they are not adapted to
I always just assumed they were dimensions that were in different conditions and different histories. It's kinda why I want to see them add the Aether and Something called the ancient realm
did anyone notice the insane ender pearl throw at 8:39?
10:30 dang that's like the first time I've heard someone come up with a lore theory as for why beetroot seeds are in end cities
It makes sense from an astrophysics perspective. The fiery and lava covered planet: a highly volcanic and inhospitable proto-planet. The overworld: present earth. The end: the remains of earth after it was destroyed by a cataclysmic collision with another stellar body
This makes sense because pillagers are the ones who built the end cities and killed the villagers
I have had this theory for a while, too, except for the resource part. The new 1.16 nether is also quite interesting, but I think that the old nether is a little farther in the past. The zombification is weird to me, though. I think that the piglins are just slightly evolved versions of pigmen. I do not blame the changing of the nether into the overworld on human-like mobs. I think it was a combination of destructive nether mobs and natural phenomena.
Wither skeletons, pigmen and piglin brutes are very related. Both are humanoid mobs with abilities like wielding and making swords. Wither skeletons used fortresses to hide from ghasts and separate themselves from the outside, while pigmen and piglins clump in groups for self-defense and to hunt. (Ghasts in my lore are hostile to mobs with too many humanlike features.) Who built what is not entirely clear, but some individuals had certain abilities, like placing and breaking blocks.
I did this in my world and now Dark Oak Wood is a extremely valuable material and clay is super valuable for trading.
I love the theory, it’s great seeing other ideas than just the normal ancient builders one. How do you think the Nether changed into the over world? I can see the overworld turning into the End, but what about the Nether?
Well how did you think Earth did it?
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The fact that there's still history in the Nether too is still trippy. I'm for this theory
It’s just a theory a GAME THEORY
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This theory is low hanging fruit. It’s definitely ear candy… but so uninspired. In a world of magic, where there’s enchanted items, spell books, potions, witches, mobs with magical properties, dimensional portals, and a world of infinite size and resources, the “time travel” theory feels so generic and cliché amongst all the other theories out there. Fun to think about, but would be so “meh” if it was true. At least for me anyway.
Not to mention that the ending credits when you beat the game directly counters it.
I'll just say this here and now: villagers evolved into endermen, but are starving to death and are trying to find a new home. You see, having two arms is way more effective than just one weird tumor thing, and it's also pretty obvious that chorus fruit are an awful food source. Considering the world is ending and there isn't much food, and the fact that they have fruit that have teleporting capabilities, it's going to be very enticing to make new teleporting technology as well as time travel tech. Eyes of Ender are probably used to go to the past, and back, considering that teleporting through the 4th dimension should be easy if you can teleport through the 3rd one by using your other tech (ender pearls).
Seems like a stretch to me. It's a lot simpler to just say "they're different dimensions" and leave time travel out of it, and doesn't really bring up any problems. There's also the idea that the nether is just physically located under the overworld (thus the name, OVERworld) in a spherical planet, which accounts for both the heat of the nether and the distance warping.
This the best theory I saw so far
And I have arguments explaining the wither, that stone that has a wither on it, the bones, fossils on the overworld, and another evolution theory.
In the far past (even more than the Nether) there were three headed creatures roaming around the world, specially on soul sand valleys because they were so destructive their food started to desapear. So the species got extinct and evolved to be the wither skeleton we all know, the transition between the wither and a skeleton (this is basically the same situation of how dragon flies evolved irl). The others died and decomposed only a few remains are left.
Then the wither skeletons drew their skulls on the netherbrick to symbolise their existence. The stone with the wither on it can be seen as the present civilizations knew about the wither but as a legend (basically the same situation as dragons and the phoenix in real life) and that's why it doesn't have as much detail as the netherbrick drawing, because it's a legend
I can think that hoglins evolved like cows, chicken and *pigs* evolved irl, due to selection from a third party. Which third party? The villagers or should I say piglins?
Piglings can be seen as the, Australopithecus africanus, the first human specie that existed, that would evolve like humans did, the only twist is that they knew how to build stuff, because if they didn't they would die because of hoglins, and wither skeletons.
And I now came up with an idea that explains the deep dark cities.
The deep dark cities are the remains of Bastions due to all the erosion and all that, a few humans knew and once they explored the ruined bastions they met with the warden, killing most of them, they made a warden statue to warn anyone that the warden is nearby and it should be avoided. That explains the soul items in there like soul lanterns and soul campfires.
About the fossils on the overworld, since the fossils are different from the ones on the nether we can say new creatures ruled the world like the dinosaurs did, getting extinct due to some desaster, and fossils are easier to find on sedimentary rocks, like sand.
I really love your theory and I hope I got to complete it even more.
i think the end is more of a void in between life and death then the future, and i thought you were right about the nether until mid way writing this comment. there is an advancement called Uneasy Alliance that says "Rescue a Ghast from the Nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld" Saying that ghasts home is in the overworld and that wouldnt make sence if the nether was the overworld but in the past.
Also to add to this theory - the deep dark ancient cities have soul sand in them, which definitely connects the nether timeline to the overworld!
I think that endermen, which aren't really explained in this video, are the remnants of player-like beings. From their excessive travel between dimensions, or across time as you so propose, they are warped, or evolved perhaps, for this purpose. They can teleport from time to time or dimension to dimension.
You only lightly touched upon wandering traders, which I think we can agree are able to travel through portals or so. I think the existence of wandering traders proves that we are not the only type of life, and the traders are like semi-future players; they are villagers that travel and explore and innovate much more than we do, as might we do in future. I think they also may become endermen.
Also, spawing the wither awards the achievement "The Beginning?", which I think may symbolise that withers are the first creatures. This is a weak point to be honest, but I watched a video a while ago that suggested that creatures' souls and their energy (or xp) could be, and is being used by certain creatures including ourselves for processes. It suggests that withers harvested this energy more readily than any other creature. This also brings the thought that perhaps "The Beginning?" is the player's question to seeing what they could have become, or what they one day may become.
Suppose a minecraft world where the wither killed the player, and the player never respawned. The wither may eventually find the portal that leads to the overworld and wreak havoc upon it, harvesting energy as it wills. In this, "The Beginning" is the beginning of the end, or a new timeline perhaps.
I don't know where I went with this at 3 in the morning but this video definitely got me thinking.
It doesn’t really work since there would’ve been withers spawning naturally no? Unless you mean the wither skeletons killed the wither somehow and took the soul and stored it in the soulsand, but that doesn’t make sense either because skeletons can’t interact with blocks
I have same theory, i relized this a year ago, when you summon the wither its saying the start meaning it came first, the over world just the present, and the end is from entering the end.
i think the end is more of a void in between life and death then the future, and i thought you were right about the nether until mid way writing this comment. there is an advancement called Uneasy Alliance that says "Rescue a Ghast from the Nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld" Saying that ghasts home is in the overworld and that wouldnt make sence if the nether was the overworld but in the past.
The End is the moon/space.
You have the interior of the planet (which is why travel would go faster in the overworld as you traverse the nether - the closer you are to the center of a body, the faster you could get further away and pop out somewhere else when coming up) the exterior of the planet, and the moon/space.
Who thinks the End is heaven? That's just nonsensical. It's literally cheese rocks (planets meteorites, etc.) floating in a void.
They've just used fantasy elements in the design of it all.
Now I want a mod or resource pack that gives shulkers villager noses.
Wait, what about the bedrock? How does an indestructible material just disappear with time?
The humans, (including players) used supernatural means that seemed to directly contradict the established laws of physics(glitches)
erosion, probably
how would you explain it appeared in the first place?
@@blakeworthvv The pressure and heat of the nether made a hard layer of rock on the bottom, that's also how rocks can form IRL
One thing that I think may counter this is that the end and nether seem timeless, with the clocks and beds not working.
The advancement "uneasy alliance" also seems to hint that ghasts aren't from the nether initially: "Rescue a Ghast from the nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld"
I think "rescue" and "safely home" seem to imply that
Or maybe, because there is no sun and moon there. The clock in Minecraft works based on the day-night cycle, judging from the look, and since it can't detect any sun and moon in the Nether or the End, it malfunctions. Then we also have a phenomenon of beds exploding when not used in the Overworld. I think it still ties with the sun and moon and the day-night cycle, rather than time in general; Think about it: We sleep in Minecraft to skip _the night_ specifically, rather than to 'accelerate time' (skipping the thunderstorm does not accelerate time if I'm not wrong), and since there are no day/night cycle and/or thunderstorms in the Nether and the End, it malfunctions, too
i think this is a fairly plausible theory and i find it very interesting , though theres a few inconsistencies id like to point out .. the idea that the nether is the center of the world doesnt make much sense , because you cant dig down past the bedrock floor in the overworld into the nether (despite the bedrock roof of the nether) . its an entirely different plane of existence , hence the need for portal technology . another thing thats left unexplained is who built all the overworld structures ? regarding that , retrogamingnow has a neat video all about his thoughts on the subject that you can check out if youre curious :)
Good point but if you think about more of the video game side, If you COULD dig down into the nether your pc would explode from Minecraft generating both nether and overworld at the same time (At least for most people, and since the game is ran on Java too). And the need for a portal is cause bedrock is unbreakable, There would probably be a really thick layer of it since the nether would be really far into the centre, and how the core of the earth contains lava and has a really high temperature also shows how the nether could be below the overworld. (I'm not great at English sorry if it was bad) I love this theory though!
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I haven't watched the video yet, to take this with a grain of salt.
I don't think the nether is the past.
However as far as the end being the future of the overworld, I agree.
The end is a cold dimension, and yet in stone looks bleached, which is a sign of extreme heat...
Those two things don't go together unless some major event drastically changed the climate. And endstone sure looks a lot like cobblestone...
You know, could this be potentially a reason for the End poem's existence? This theory is pretty well made yes
Why is the only other comment just “W”
I'm guessing it wad the first comment andto get that people just press the closest key to get the first comment. It's stupid but it's just what some people want for some reason.
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The villagers could've evolved into the two main species we see in the end, Shulkers and Endermen. The shulkers being as you stated in the video but the Endermen being evolved from the builders and miners of the end. As the portals act as a form of time travel it would make sense for the Endermen to reach the nether using ruined portals. They could have somehow developed time travel as an ability after their ancestors knew of its existence.
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But didn't the developers confirm that nether is a seperate dimention from the overworld?
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I think that villagers look more like enderman. They’re almost as tall as them. Their foreheads have decreased in length a bit though. The enderman also always try to take resources. OMG I JUST REALISED.
This is probably also why ancient debris is called, well ancient debris
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Overworld=Earth
Nether=Underworld
End=Space