The Nightmare of the Phantoms | Minecraft Deep Dive
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- Phantoms are an inherently strange mob, attracted to a lack of sleep. What mysteries do they hold?
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“There’s only three mobs who sleep”
Foxes napping in the forests: am I joke to you?
@Monokuma ty Monokuma, I agree. See ya ‘round, have fun executing teens 👋
and cats OH
Lol I was gonna rite that*
true
LOL
Fun fact: Phantoms were originally going to spawn in the end, they removed this because you cant sleep in the end.
Yes the were not going to be undead and completely black instead so perhaps this were the living forms of them
I mean, what if the phantoms used to live in the end, but there is nothing to hunt so they went to the overworld to hunt players at night.
@@isaiahp.4609 It's hard to argue with your assessment
@@GreekV1nce what if phantoms were summoned by the the Ender Dragon to hunt down the savior.
@@jacobwilks9204 (mind blown)
Imagine stumbling upon a phantom hive, a cave filled with hundreds of them
That would be cool
@@jayce-__-_-_- Featue Uptade!?
no to crazy an d op
How you be spelling so bad
That would be so cool, but also it would really suck xD
It would have cost $€£0 to inflict that horror upon me, yet you did it any way.
This is probably Mojang saying, "Stop playing and get some good night sleep."
Best possible theory.
It probably is, considering that 3 Minecraft days are exactly 1 hour in real life
@@nicolasvergara6003 no way it feels like Minecraft days are like 5minutes long lol especially on ur first day in a new world
Ironically, before giving up and googling the spawn conditions, when I wanted slow falling I grinded a bit very late at night for some membranes
@@dannyrazo2095 key word: 'it feels'. You feel like it is 10 min but a Minecraft day is 20 min long so 3 minecraft days means 1 hr.
"Tonight, we are gonna stay up late to study the phantom"
Literally for me who just noticed this as he was going to bed. I hope they dont attack me.
BRUH SAME
your pfp made me remember things i didnt want to
Me
Well, if you sleep they won’t
Imagine Steve can create everything and can build everything but can't even create a saddle
You forgot the foxes, they also curl up to sleep sometimes
Hmmm yes but they are not humanoids/humans, they are a animal so it probably makes sense as why phantoms wont attack foxes
Something I would also like to add is that foxes can do a lot of things players can do compared to other animals.
@@Beekoism like pick up items
@@scooterdaniels1444 and use them like they can use a swords enchantz
and cats
Another mechanic that cats have is that when you go to sleep if a cat is standing and you go to sleep, they will curl on top of you to cuddle you :D
People don’t know this?
My dog does this irl too with me.
This is an irl mechanic my cat doesn't like to be pet during the daytime but during the night she'll curl up on my thigh and chest and demand to be pet
"we have three mobs that sleep"
foxes napping and cats sleeping with the player: "are we a joke to you?"
Also bees that technically go to sleep at night
@@kinglordchoo17 Yes, though arguably that is lore alone and not supported by an actual mob state.
Foxes, cats and bats are three mobs that sleep…?
@@evileqwine6106 which would make the total six
@@RussellMcCabe 7 with bees
I have bestowed you with the highest honour I can give, eating my food while watching your video
I can relate so much to this comment
Same
This is the real comment that I have ever read
Same! Can’t start eating until I’ve found the right video!
@@e11eohe11e this right here so much. it feels like im wasting my food if i watch something that isn't entertaining
"we have 3 mobs that can sleep. Illagers, Villagers and the player"
*sad fox noises*
Also cats!
And bees
@@Polska_Edits u cant see bees sleep but i guess they count
@@brickinterviewertv it counts as bees leave immediately to their hive when a certain time at night is reached
also bats and axolotl
Before I watch the video, I’ll make a prediction/hypothesis of my own: Phantoms don’t only spawn when the player doesn’t sleep. Rather, they show up whenever the player DOES sleep, and has some sort of symbiotic relationship with them. Probably commensalism, as sleeping doesn’t seem to affect the player positively or negatively at all. The Phantoms somehow gain something from interacting with a sleeping player. Evidence that they do show up while the player is sleeping is that whenever you have a cat sleeping with you, it has a chance to bring you Phantom Membrane when you wake up. This implies that your cat hunted and killed a Phantom that approached you while you slept. The reason they begin to attack you after 3 days without sleeping is because they begin to get ‘hungry’ for whatever it is you provide them when you sleep(dreams, perhaps?). At first only the hungriest Phantoms come to try to collect from you, but every day you don’t sleep, more and more Phantoms run out of patience waiting for you to sleep on your own.
If we aren’t assuming that enemies just ‘spawn’ and that’s just for gameplay purposes, perhaps Phantoms live somewhere high above the build limit? If they come down from way up in the atmosphere whenever you’re asleep, this would explain why they can’t just spawn in the Nether or the End whenever you’re there and haven’t slept for a while. This also may explain how they survive in the day with out burning. Maybe the exist outside of the Minecraft Earth’s atmosphere, and there aren’t enough particles to reflect the amount of sunlight needed to burn them. What do you guys think?
Wow. That’s very smart.
Maybe they eat your dreams, and that's why you never experience dreams in Minecraft!
@@ChrissieBear but when ur cat protect u we still dont have any dream :(
@@ChrissieBear pretty sure ‘no dreams’ are just a gameplay element
That's smart
“We don’t know where undead mobs go during the day.”
During the day, they spawn in dark places, like caves. So, during the day zombies, etc. Retreat to the caves. I think you could speculate that for phantoms except for the fact that they don’t spawn at all during the day, which I see as a gameplay mechanic decision and not as lore.
There was a comment I saw that said that phantoms spawn DURING sleep, because a cat will bring you a phantom membrane after waking up. It's like they gain something from you sleeping, but when you don't give them that they will go after you.
@@XiELEd4377 Maybe they feed on dreams
So you say phantoms are just big insomnia bats?
@@bluemaster7530 yeah tbh
Spawn I'm dark places hmhmmm 🧐🧐
So my exs head where the brain suppose to be and the whole in the chest where heart should be ok
Wake up babe, new Minecraft Deep Dive Video
@Nobody ... it’s 12 o clock in the afternoon, of course I’m awake
Middle day
I can't, I have Phantoms on me
Get out of my head you aren't real
Yes honey
The phantom was sent by Steve’s mom because he stayed up too late.
LOL
Lmao
Yes, my mom too conspires to kill me when I stay up too late
@@amitasrivastava493 are you indian i am
Lol
I love when he puts up the human brain picture
Sleeping is a time machine to breakfast.
what if you don’t eat breakfast?
@@imsocoollmao3790 time paradox
To that person who said they've bestowed the highest honour of eating their meal while watching this video, I raise you to: i purposefully went to get food to watch this video. I've been waiting for someone to cover the phantom! Great work.
When I really appreciate a video I don’t waste my concentration on eating at the same time I keep it all for the video.
Honestly, a comment being referenced in another comment is one of the highest honours that can be given to someone
for real, you know a video is worth it when you save it to watch while you eat
I do love a good yt video snack meal
And this comment made me go wanna make food, *again!*
"we can force villagers to do a Russian sleep experiment"
Best quote of all time.
I’m loving how he said it in the most nonchalant way
Yes
I love how well your pfp matches your comment
200th like :D
4:22 ''we can make a russian sleep experiment with a villager''
Aside from the evidence against a hallucination with cats and drops, other players can also see your phantoms, so they cannot be your own hallucination
I tend to think of them has beings capable of traveling dimensions that no other mobs can because then that could explain why you never see them unless your tired
6:43 “They’re the only overworld hostile mob that can fly...”
Vex: “Am I a joke to you?”
@@supersharkboiii1449 did you try to correct him even if though he’s right?
@@7purplepenguin428 oh I thought he said bat im stupid
lol
Bats?
@@galliards1831 .... are not hostile
Technically , bees sleep at night when they go back into their hives
And foxes tend to rest in shaded areas during the day, so I guess that also counts.
Maybe if phantoms start attacking bees and foxes when they don't "sleep". An insomnia potion could be cool for pvp. Maybe each level adds 3 more phantoms and it lasts 15 minutes or such. Then, they immediately get phantoms.
I don't give a phuck and I don't pay taxes
It doesn’t matter if it’s humanoid or not because it still sleeps
They’re just watching after your mental health! Such sweet phantoms 💖
“You finally understand what I mean.”
Sorry, my phone was taken by Phantom
Due to the bones we can see and the membrane... I think the Phantom is either a Bat or a Lizard, not a Bird
It’s very clearly not a bat. And if it was a lizard it wouldn’t be able to fly unless it’s some dragon variant. Do you mean it must be a reptile or mammal?
@@pulatelephonics I probably meant that, yup.
Its flight behavior is unlike any real-world creature, and kind of reminds me of how the Ender Dragon used to attack. So maybe the dragon idea isn't that far off.
i like to imagine before he records the video he rants all this to his wife in the kitchen at 3AM
“HONEY, I DONT KNOW WHAT GAME YOUR TALKING ABOUT BUT I THINK YOU REALLY HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD”
Bold of you to assume he has a wife
@@RodWaffle I want to be his wife
@@danniel2226 that's creepy af...
@@makeitraynex3875 i want to be your wife
"We can force villages to do the russian sleep experiment,.."
Lmao
Lmao
Lmao
heh, that said, I think many living mobs sleep, we just don't see it due to gameplay reasons
Time stamp?
@@idiotgoddess2114 4:21
6:25 yes, we know that sleep is important... *nodding my head at 2:00 AM*
I have an idea! During the day, Phantoms go high into the atmosphere where it's colder so they don't burn and skeletons go deep down being unable to swim while zombies go to water thinking they're safe but since they can't swim they turn into drowned. Just a quick idea that popped into mind!
Me: Goes 3 days without sleeping
The 16 phantoms overhead: allow us to introduce ourselves
Correction, 30 since one damn person doesn't understand what a bed is besides a spawn point
My personal headcanon is that the Phantoms have never been alive, but are born undead. They were created by someone to find you.
thats not bad at all , maybe they are in deed mechanical like guardians , and maybe they are a experiment frankenstein like , why not really? im not looking for a ultimate theory , the more theoryes the better and i like to know them all
Maybe a evoker ruler made vexes and then died from the player so the vexes merged into a greater threat (aka the phantom) to kill thr player on the aniversy of the evokers death at the dame time he died which explains why they dont attack if the player has slept because the event is skipped. My theory
@@beanwithbasicskills4038 why wouldnt they attack every 3 days at night then? Why only when you havent slept????
@@siduxjxhdgzhdjxhxuuxxyhgg1079 idk
@@siduxjxhdgzhdjxhxuuxxyhgg1079 so you're tired and weak?
Love how he included can subscribe in the abilities of the player.
I like to think the reason they're undead is that they're vampiric beings, and are naturally undead as a result.
This would explain their condition of spawning at night and burning during the day, as well as their bat like appearance.
Phantoms attack people who don't sleep.
Me watching this video at 2AM : I'm in danger.
Me too.
Me who is watching this video at 11:45pm and is a night owl who just read this comment: 👁️👄👁️
I love how Minecraft is similar to SCP in a way when it comes to "lore", there isn't really much true base lore. The players/writers create their own lore as they see fit, and that's okay.
@@user-cg2hb3ye9v I think even 1.20 is far too soon for "complete" lore. That's just two updates away (not counting 1.17 because we of course already know what 1.17 is). More like 1.50.
The Phantom is the Minecraft equivalent of SCP-966 (The sleep killer), an invisible creature that prevents their prey from sleeping by emitting a wave until their prey succumbs to insomnia. I actually suggested a Death Battle between the two (personally, I think the phantom would win due to it's speed, flight, and bite force).
@@MinecraftWorld1954 but the phantom actually reminds you too sleep by appearing after three days of not sleeping
@@MinecraftWorld1954 well kinda. the phantoms dont cause the inability to sleep they more of punish it. but as an SCP fan i love the referance
Ahem, FNaF?
The canon is all messed up, with almost no storyline
i feel like the elytra could still come from the phantoms, considering it is only found in an item frame which requires stick and wool which only come from the overworld
Also phantom membrane can repair elytra
Also if i remember there was a snapshot of phantoms that could be found in the end.
I thought that the phantoms were just illusions in the players mind do to a lack of sleep. So I guess not but it was a quite realistic theory
It's whatever you want it to be.
Phantoms, actually did spawn in the end during the snapshots which they were added in, however they were removed for whatever reason.
Probably because you can't sleep in the end. Imagine how bad it would be
@@RetroGamingNow i originally believe that the End was their home, and they would spawn as frequently as the Endermen do.
@@hoovybear8642 that would be a literal nightmare
@@RetroGamingNow Ik u probably wont see this but I noticed that phantoms also have super green eyes so they may have something to do with experience or emeralds
@@RetroGamingNow hi I wanted to point out a mob you might have missed
The fox mob can sleep
It's interesting to note, the phantoms have an anatomy like that of a manta ray. Maybe the original animal was similar, sleeping and swimming in the oceans during the day.
So during day they stayed below water, and at night would fly and possibly hunt off whatever they eat
Ooooo. What if they still do? Like in caves that are deep in the water?
@CrystalFier so true
@@doodlewing6840 maybe thats why it takes them three days to appear and they were added in the aquatic update so it would fi5
At first phantoms were intented to be the living mobs in the End, had brighter skin, no visible skeletons. Later in development Mojang converted them to undead and put in Overworld instead.
What is the source for this information?
@@lasercraft32 I think the Mobeastiary? I remember hearing about it in the Game Theory video. Apparently they used to look more like the Enderdragon with black skin and white on their wings (like the dragon's). They were also meant to spawn in the End but you can't sleep there so that idea fell through
@@softsounds8453 Must've been like the Allay, which was originally planned to be in the Nether until they scrapped it during development and brought it back later for the mob vote. Cause when the Phantom was first announced its whole selling point was that it was the first overworld mob to be able to fly.
@@lasercraft32 the source of this information is "some of us played the snapshot where it was first added"
Phantoms are this: Parents yelling at their children to go to bed mystery solved
I find the word "phantom" interesting. It suggests that in contrast to the other undead mobs, the Phantom is a ghost. So I believe it may have been some horrible creation, combining the soul (ghost) and a pile of bones, to make a creature that hunts down week beings to pick them off.
That makes a lot of sense.
I always thought they were sleep ghosts or something.
*weak*
@@alexanderguerrero1395 ☹
@@Thereapgrimmer Don't feel sad sweetheart, I was just correcting that you wrote "week" instead of "weak".
RGN. Making lore about phantom
Me: Most annoying mobs ever added in minecraft
I dont know I think the baby zombies and the skeletons with better aim are worse
Glow squid: let me introduce myself
@@neworld623 it's not annoying it's just that it's useless and garbage
Lol phantoms making sure that you sleep regularly so that's why they attacking you at night..
@@tobyboby1115 Which makes it annoying lol
Small correction:
Cats sleep as well.
And phantoms are also afraid of them.
“Screaming beasts that only attack when you’ve slept to little” just like parents.
Dogs are physical protectors, while cats are spiritual protectors. Phantoms are spiritual apparations feeding on the unrest of your mind after not sleeping. They are invisible to the other mobs. Cats are the only mobs who can sense the spiritual threat, and they can protect you from it.
For all the people commenting that creepers are also scared of cats, I believe it was to give cats a purpose before phantoms were added in. It is probably a gameplay feature and not related to the story
Then why are creepers scared of cats?
@@goldenproject1892 that’s prob a gameplay feature because cats didn’t have much of a use until phantoms were added
Meow !
@@goldenproject1892 Because Cats are happy while Creepers are sad
I actually really like this theory
Based on their physiology and appearance, I would NOT call the Phantoms “birds”. Rather more like rays. (I actually thought they were supposed to be water-borne mobs when they were introduced in Update Aquatic.)
My brother thought they were small dragons.
they also dont drown but all undead dont drown so
To me they’re more like huge bats. Besides the shape, the denomination « membrane » clearly indicates that they aren’t birds.
@@Sniffle59 HOLD THE F*CK UP!!!! BATS COULD TOTALLY BE THE LIVING VERSION OF PHANTHOMS!!!!!
@Isaac Chen or their soul leaks out of their bat skin
i love how even something as scary as a Phantom can be bested by a cat, natures purrfect hunter.
The song choices match so well, it's perfect.
About the elytra thing with phantom membranes being used to repair elytra, phantoms used to live in the end. This could be a connection, but probably is just game design because that was just in the snapshots and they changed it.
I think that just because they did in snapshot versions doesn't mean that we can consider that for the lore as the game is now
and when they came to the overworld they zombified maybe the builders that became enderman hunted them or took there food the chorus fruit maybe in the end they where peaceful the phantoms were able to teleport like the endearmen since they’re diet was entirely chorus fruit wich is how they came to the overworld
@@RetroGamingNow you used to be able to use leather to repair the elytra as well....
@@RetroGamingNow i think that since both have wings, it makes sense that the membranes will help repair the wings of an elytra, since the phantoms also have wings, that may also wear off and membranes are a general durability saver for wings.
I have a theory and it might be a stretch but hear me out: Phantoms came from the end and were affiliated with shulkers. Think about it, shulkers guarded the end cities and enderman couldn’t fight them and neither could the shulkers, so there was a 3 way alliance, the phantoms, who could go thousands of blocks and search for loot, enderman, who could make them more reliable and more effective long distance, as seen with them hunting for players that don’t sleep. I suspect the players that don’t sleep are hunted down solely for their infection, not because it was a magically inherited trait. The phantoms must come from the outer outer space in the end, as elytra must’ve been something that could be crafted by them,. I also think the end city ships were ships that could go very fast in the air, and they were used to travel where the phantoms were leading them to. This might be a stretch also but what if the enderman accessed the end through multiple portals at different locations? There’s strongholds everywhere and it makes me think that all but one portal was destroyed, and there is a 1,000 block distance from the end islands to the main site. I think in general phantoms came from the end but then after the builders got trapped they found their way to the overworld and got infected, and then hunted for their prey at night, it’s also weird that foxes sleep under the shade, which means that they could be aware of the phantoms existence. I think this is because phantoms can’t really attack animals under low blocks, as they get stuck.
On the list of things only a player can do, I saw “dye sheep”.
Well technically Vindicators can dye sheep, but only a specific sheep.
Evokers dye sheep
evokers*
They dye them not they change the color of already dyed sheep,they cannot change the two colored sheep that appear naturally
Not sure how this plays into the phantom theories, but I think you should look at thunderstorms and lightning as part of the "cataclysmic event" that made the ancient builders undead. Not a direct cause, but possibly a leftover side effect of whatever happened. Lightning can change a villager into a witch, a pig into a zombified piglin, and can spawn undead horses and skeletons. Also, the drowned can spawn with tridents which can be enchanted with channeling, harnessing this power in a portable form. Ancient inhabitants still using their weapons that helped create the cataclysm perhaps?
Maybe they wiped themselves out with experiments or war involving lightning?
It's already been stated that the pig - > zomb Piglin isn't lore friendly but an Easter egg
My theor is that there's only one world. Each player comes in at a different point in time unless they come in together. All of the undead builders are actually former players who stagnated and gave up m on their works
I like to think that all Minecraft worlds exist as a parallel multiverse. Course, there's a LOT of junk worlds out there, but also some remarkable ones too. Either all the builders and history were a common thread, or maybe part of a prime universe before splitting
Cool idea
Eventually The End dialogue will be mentioned in this series, and I feel like the Phantoms could somehow be tied to that, since the two beings speaking mention dreaming and sleep, and then at the end of the dialogue say "wake up". Then again I'm not really sure how strongly connected it would be with just the sleep factor.
I don't think so, the sleep mentioned in the dialogue is referring to a different kind of sleep than in game sleeping, but idk, there's a possibility
The End poem was made to be "silly over-the-top out-of-nowhere text" acording to the wiki which makes it dubious for theory crafting outside of the poem itself
@@axesmasher Unless Mojang have retroactivly based things on it...
Phantoms are actually just your parents telling you to sleep.
Lol
Imagine if a hoard of phantoms enter your nether portal
There are only 3 mobs that sleep
The cat sleeping with you: I EXIST TOO
I think that underneath the bedrock is the Nether. It's not hard to imagine since there is a bedrock roof at the top of the Nether but just like the void in the overworld there's just a void in The Nether above the roof.
Nether literally means below. Below the overworld.
I always thought Nether is somehow connected to the dutch...
I always thought portals went through time (let’s not get into timelines and stuff here)
Nether was back then when everything was first starting out and was super hot. End is the future once the universe was spread out too far
@@cringekid07 that makes sense as to get achievement 'the beginning' you have to go to the Nether and get wither skulls to kill the wither
The nether is the UNDERworld
@@rdodamiangrin NETHERLANDS
See my theory actually includes the snapshot and pre-release content as part of my theory.
The Enderman had green eyes in the pre-release, but then their eyes became purple. The Ender Dragon has purples eyes as well, I take this as evidence of the Ender Dragon's corruption or influence.
The Phantoms all have green eyes, and they were able to spawn in the End back in their first appearance in Snapshot 18w07a. I think this is a sign they both came from the End, that End creatures for the most part had green eyes, and that when the Ender Dragon showed up it started to influence the Endermen, so the Phantoms (being actually more intelligent than we might think at first) united from across the End to escape the dimension before the Ender Dragon could close the portal between the Overworld and the End.
The Piglins and Zoglins transform into zombies due to exposure to the airborne zombie plague when they cross over, so the same could've happened to the entire Phantom race when they did.
This leaves thousands or millions of undead Phantoms roaming the Overworld, and none in the End since they all fled before the Ender Dragon could make the Phantoms part of their domain.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
I don't think old versions can be used for lore, as the lore changes at every big update.
@@Azarilh I mean it's all head canon and theory anyway, by that logic every theory we make needs not be done because any piece of our evidence could be switched out in the next update.
@@WWalton1996 Usually they don't change the lore with official versions. Snapshots are not official and most of the times they use "placeholders" like endermen that dropped diamonds instead of pearls. So, will you add that to the game's lore?
I think this is very smart, and could 100% be true lmao 😌🤚🏼
u wanna start a youtube channel that includes these theories? i love the idea
Last time I was this early endermen had green eyes
Is that a joke
Really?
@@blackcatpirates8134 Yes, their eyes were originally supposed to be green I'm pretty sure...
@@justaguywhocomments4795 Thanks for the info
@@TPpro1 endermen had green eyes when they were first added, but we're quickly changed to purple.
Fun fact: The only 2 mobs that attack only the player are BOTH AFRAID OF CATS
Phantoms and creepers
Maybe I'm missing some mobs or is there a lore factor in it?
A cute theory i read about why Creepers fear Cats is that the Cats hiss when a Creeper comes near, and the Creeper mistakes the hissing as the cry of another Creeper, and so it starts to take distance
@@francescomena8181but that is something you can test, and creepers don’t care if another one is about to blow up near them
@@pulatelephonics i meant it more like, the Creeper thinks the cat is also one, so by association decides you and your cat are not a target and walks away
@@francescomena8181No creppers scared of cats is becuase there spys - let me explain. there a splash "The crepper is a spy" witch explain disc 11 as its intel that is dropped by a crepper (the skeleton thing i think is just gameplay mechanic) and the creppers dont want to be sniffed by cat. It also explaines there name as they "creep" to get intel on people.They explode when near a player as they are scared the player will kill them and discover there a spy so they explode to destroy evidence
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hey can you make a deep dive on ghasts. I know you kinda talked about them in the iceberg video but i would love to listen to you talking about their backstories. keep up the good work.
I wanna see it too
Yeah, it would be a really hard topic, since there isn't much lore around the ghast but I think it could be fun.
@@jobee589 actually there is a lore. Ghasts were somehow abandoned in the nether for a long time. They originally live in the overworld. And if you save them from the nether with a big nether portal and fishing them through it, they can go through and when you kill it in the overworld it would give you an achievement.
Do you understand what I said?
maybe ghasts were magma cubes that died on soul sand. the trapped souls in the soul sand absorbed the magma cream, causing them to have a corporeal body. their ability to shoot fire also makes sense - as magma cubes have lava or magma inside their bodies. this is probably cringe but it's what I see fit lol
When he finishes all of the animals and theories, he should put them all together into one video.
IT WONT FINISH BECAUSE
U P D A T E S
Yes and mix them all making more lore
Minecraft: The Documentary
Best idea I have ever read 👌
Big fan of the deepdive series! i currently watch it as the 'tv show' at the end of the day to unwind
I just now noticed you use the business Enderman skin, the very same I use pretty much exclusively XD That aside thanks for the thought food about phantoms, all your vids are very intriguing and I love your theories
"We have 3 mobs that can sleep; Villager, Illager, Player"
Fox: am i a joke to you?
what if the reason there are no live phantoms is because they've been hunted to extinction by the precursor builders after they realized they could make foolproof wings out of the phantoms' parts? That could explain why there seems to be an endless amount of elytras the player can find.
"endless"
son of a bitch
I just realized, the phantoms have green eyes. Maybe they're attracted to the fact that the player can gain experience (orbs) which are green? I hope he sees this! 🙏
Why though? There’s no reason or even correlation besides color
6:56 I love how its this deep, intriguing, intellectual dive into game lore, and then there's a random meme reference.
I’ve been looking forward to this
Yes
Same
Is that a starwars reference
I‘m looking after this
My speculation has doubled since the last time we met, count
I was playing Minecraft a few days ago when my friend spawned a wither. I play with subtitles on, and noticed that it says “wither released.” This could be another point to back up your theory about soul sand.
Yeah and when you walk on soul sand w soul speed, the subtitles say “soul escapes”
I think Wither is some kind of wither skeleton that is just a pile of souls
@VYDO VYDO cornfilm lmao
All of your videos make soo much sense. So god damn good.
With the phantoms. Have you considered the old primer model from there introduction to the Minecraft community as the living version of the phantom? Wonder why the developers changed the design in the first place.
I like how he actually uploaded this late at night
It’s a nice touch
4:40 Lord of the rings fans: "This seems somewhat familiar"
emphasis on the word "somewhat" because it's tiny
I can’t believe i watch these videos for free- like honestly this is a whole documentary
So, the phantoms were added as result of a mob vote
This means the mobs were probably added with little thought to the lore
This makes me want to see lore explanations for the other mobs that weren’t voted into the game
You SAY that, but one look at the Allay and this is obviously not a necessary truth.
…On the other hand, of course, that was 1.19. 1.13 may have been one of the best updates ever, but as much as we’re used to lore-diving today, it was actually just at like 1.14 with the illager expansion where they started to really put proper care into fleshing the game’s lore out. It may have only become a more widespread point of popular discussion thanks to what the Warden brought, but that was when it all really began. So I guess even though the Allay was given plenty of hints to it, that doesn’t necessarily mean anything for phantoms.
Are we going to ignore the word phantom? It means ghost, which might have something to do with the lore
Honestly I think they're the ones talking in the end poem. They even state at one point they're sometimes called aliens, ghosts, angels, and green men by the players.
Perhaps phantoms are possessed?
It was stated somewhere that entities and objects in Minecraft are named in the same way a random traveler or discoverer would name them upon first contact. Which is why there are some basic names (like Zombie, Skeleton) and more complex ones (Ghast, Piglin, Ender-anything). Phantoms appear to the player in the darkness of night, release some weird particles during flying and their spawn condition is somewhat related to the fatigue caused by sleep deprivation which prevents human's brain from thinking straight and possibly makes them seriously believe in ghosts and stuff. Which is why Phantom was chosen as a name.
But that's just my guess.
The music is something out of a 1990s detective film, and I'm LOVING it..
These videos make a lot of cense and d just like to say that I love them
My theory, phantoms are shulkers that are grown up, shulkers are in the form of the baby in their chrysalis just like bugs, they have a hard shell to protect them from attacks until they grow up. Phantoms are the dead versions of the live phantoms that live in the end. We don't see live phantoms in the end because they either live low under the islands or they live high above the islands. Here's another reason why I think phantoms are the dead versions of the live phantoms that were once shulkers, the shulkers projectiles. The Shulkers projectiles when hitting a mob makes the mob float, this is a self defense mechanic that shulkers use when they are a baby, and have no form of attack. The projectile also leaves a trail of what seems to be some kind of smoke or dots, similar to the phantoms trails when they fly. This doesn't explain why phantoms attack players or why they spawn in the conditions they do but this is just a theory I came up with, also love and support to RetroGamingNow for making this video.
One of the best parts of these videos is seeing all of the interesting ideas in the comments. As you all know, this channel recently surpassed 100k subscribers. In order to celebrate, I'm going to make a Deep Dive video covering several of YOUR Minecraft theories. There's a link to a Google form where you can write down your ideas in detail. I'll read through all of them, and then make a video about some of them that are especially interesting or plausible. The theories can be based off of previous Deep Dives, or they can be totally new. The important part is that you get your ideas out there: what do you think about the Minecraft Lore?
Link to submission form (I'll probably leave it open for about a week, so fill it out before 2021/02/25):
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Love your vids
Congratulations retro! I found you from the iceberg video and have been watching your great content ever since!
Why are phantoms so buffed in bedrock though?
Why can. Players never die plz do a theory on tjat
I have a good info about the phantom
Phantom was actually planned to be a end mob but their presence made the end boss fight harder so they made it become a overworld mob and they was once living but when they were added they were changed into a undead mob
@@Silvermoonmaker I don't know I'm a bedrock player and I love phantoms I made a farm that I will just be afk standing at a specific spot and then when phantoms spawn my farm will work
I'm making this comment before you've even gotten into the video properly. I'm new to your stuff, and am currently blasting through it. Can I just say, I love how '1950's Sci-fi/Horror Bmovie your intro music is. I keep expecting a posh British accent to boldly pronounce "Today, PHANTOMS... And the NIIIIIGHTMARES they bring, only on... DEEEEEEP DIIIIIIVES" and seeing the text spin onto the screen. As a huge fan of that style & era of film, its a win.
I love these videos because even if ik these are theories it feels like he's telling the story of Minecraft
I find your lack of sleep disturbing.
A blaze theory would be amazing. There's so much untapped lore with them from their potential mechanical nature to the power of their blaze rods
Fun fact: A Mojang made video confirmed blazes having invisible giraffe legs as lore canon
would have liked a bit of warning for the beetle pic but otherwise great video and interesting theory! Phantoms are one of my favorite mobs so it's cool to see someone speculate about them :)
I had a thought that the phantoms could be (at least one of) the creatures that make up the giant underground skeletons (I'd imagine one of the ribcages) while no natural phantoms are that big they are one of three mobs (slimes, magma cubes and phantoms) that can be spawned with different sizes via commands.
Haven't had the time to properly compare there bodies to the fossils but I do feel this could work as really what else could those fossils be.
(And yes I am aware that even then there are some fossils that clearly aren't and even some in the nether but still it's certainly food for thought)
Also yes I get command exclusives are odd to argue to be cannon but really the only possibilities we know of that could be those fossils are giants, big phantoms (both command exclusives) and dragons of which we only see one in a completely different dimension. Why I picked phantoms over the other two is because it's the only one I've never seen anyone talk about.
Also loved the video and the explanation of why they only hunt down the player 9/10
Developer: Let's add phantoms they are cool.
This guy: But why? Why would you do that?
The phantom as a concept was always interesting. It's just the execution is very annoying, and that takes away the scare factor it's trying to give.
Also, Phantoms just find you by not sleeping. You can sleep and then spawn in a phantom using commands or creative mode and they'll still attack you, it is just the locating part that's linked to sleep.
Gotta say man, these intros are pretty damn nice. it's like a campier twilight zone its great
5:28 I mean, they could be, like physical manifestations of your hallucinations. It is a fantasy game, after all. Your mention of that kinda reminded of Celeste's story, where the magic of Celeste mountain causes a physical manifestation of your negative thoughts to occur, which can physically harm you (and, spoiler: later physically help you). I don't think its a great theory, but I just wanted to mention that it still makes a little sense.
Make a piglin theory, i loved this one!
First I was thinking that you're actually hurting yourself in a hallucinational state
But then I learned the cat one
Possibly looking into other candidates from the mob vote could add to your deep dives
Honestly, I think the reason why the phantoms are undead is probably because during the night, the ancient people would shoot arrows at them for their membranes so that they can fix their elytron.
And when the bodies of the phantoms were lifeless on the ground, the zombie virus was spreading around, affecting the phantoms as well. It’s also another reason why they only come at night and when you wake up and go outside, you can sometime see them burn and die.
That’s my little theory on why I think they are undead and stuff.
remember me when you’re at 1 mil
🌟 I will don’t worry
I second that
Ok
I'm surprised he isn't at a mil already
Me three :3
Casual minecraft gamers watching this: WHAT THE FUUUUUUUU
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@@caseybarrett8352 yes?
@@caseybarrett8352 Casey
@@Homoparanoia weird
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New subscriber and holy crap your theorist are so believeble
I have one world where I live in the nether, and I basically haven't slept since making it to the nether so I always have to deal with phantoms when I visit the overworld in the night
Another theory: phantoms are evolved bats, and they have heightened senses that enabled them to sense insomnia in humans. The phantoms might smell pheromones of insomnia that nothing else can, they use the weakness of humans for prey, similar to vultures.
It might look like I’m explaining things more twice, but I’m not. I’m trying to make my typing very grammatical.
What I meant by mutated is the zombification mutated them genetically, causing their offsprings to mutate and eat the inferior bats.