ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- The TH-camr 'Zeemyth' found something deep in the cracks of the digital abyss. Bedrock.zip. A Minecraft world save that... can't exactly be described... But can it be solved?
BEDROCK.ZIP II
The Flytrap: • the flytrap
Yanis' Patreon [BetterLights]: www.patreon.com/user?u=30961255
Zeemyth's Patreon: / zeemyth
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Thank you to @Bubblebrooke_ for voicing Euriuri after the file corruption
/ bubblebrooke_
Sloimay the technical genius designed The Flytrap for me, he can pretty much set up any grand generated build: @Sloimay [Same @ on Twitter]
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It's a Minecraft ARG I'd say :D
Thumbnail inspired by DisruptTV - / disruptreality
The whole story is very inspired by House of Leaves, which is an incredible experience. So worth the read
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/ zeemyth
Skin: The Lost Miner by Cheerioos
www.planetminecraft.com/skin/the-lost-miner-4102992/minecraft
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#minecraft
#minecraftarg
#foundfootage
#wifies #liminalspace #minecraftbackrooms #kanepixels #minecrafthorror #disrupt #nexpo #RetroGamingNow #horror #renderss #simon_12
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Music Used in Order
[Hour.Minute.Second for reference]
Screwface Capital - Santan Dave [0.0 - 0.41]
Repressed Memories - True Crime by AudibleDread [0.43 - 1.15]
Welcome to the Opera - Anyma x Grimes [1.16 - 1.45]
Trap Come Over Here - Simon Jomphe Lepine [1.45 - 4.10]
Operation Olympic - Scntfc [Oxenfree: Side Stories OST] [4.15 - 6.14]
Dark Clouds - Enzo Orefice [6.16 - 8.15]
Hateful Piano - Tape Decay by AudibleDread [8.13 - 9.06]
Misremembered - Cicada Sirens [Signalis OST] [9.07 - 10.05]
Bully (Ruins) - Ezco [10.05 - 10:52]
Lived In - Cicada Sirens [Signalis OST] [10.52 - 11.17]
Wandering - @LudoCrypt [The Corners Volume Delta] [12.07 - 13.20]
The Abyss - Scntfc [Afterparty OST] [13.11 - 16.09]
Waiting on Platform 9 - Unroyalty [16.14 - 17.25]
Rented Never Returned - AudibleDread [17.29 - 18.18]
Double Back (VHS) - Cicada Sirens [Signalis OST] [18.08 - 18.28]
Crime Investigation - Jason Donnelly [18.23 - 20.03]
Strange Forces - Boris Skalsky [20.02 - 21.35]
Go Home You're Drunk - Ray Aley [21.42 - 23.14]
Playtime - Analog Horror OSTS by AudibleDread [23.14 - 25.35]
Afterglow - Enzo Orefice [24.46 - 30.00]
Spook (Ruins) Ezco [30.04 - 32.04]
You Don't Belong Here - Ray Aley [32.28 - 38.49]
Taurus - Raighes Factory [38.53 - 42.26]
Indecisions - Boris Skalsky [43.56 - 46.03]
Shadow Chamber - Humans Win [46.10 - 46.58]
The Darkest Depths - Jon Presstone [46.58 - 50.00]
House of Leaves Pg. 479 - Chimerical Night [52.27 - 56.19]
Echoes of the Unknown - Melody Hong [57.18 - 1.01.28]
Inevitably Bad Conversations - Ray Aley [1.02.27 - 1.05.29]
Change (in the House of Flies) - Deftones [1.06.03 - ]
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Lickd Licenses [These are not video links]
Screwface Capital by Dave, t.lickd.co/ybkZ74yzqBv
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Welcome To The Opera by Anyma, Grimes, t.lickd.co/RGQr383gAXl License ID: 0Vw3BQpRoZ2
Change (In the House of Flies) by Deftones, t.lickd.co/81ylQKlKj7v License ID: w7yB9ZQ38rK
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00:00 - Debunking Bedrock.zip
00:41 - The Flytrap [SUBMEDIUS]
02:35 - The Right Questions Left
04:56 - VEILSMP II
08:12 - Define Flytrap
9:39 - The Piston Room
11:17 - Minostaur
13:14 - BEDROCK.ZIP II
17:25 - THE ROOF
21:43 - VEILSMP III
25:38 - Trailcrumbs
30:10 - Moth
32:03 - THE MAZE
38:45 - Flame
42:26 - Plot Relevant Patreon Definitely
43:55 - Nether Ending
46:04 - RedArchRedArchRedArchRedArch
50:20 - Sticks N Stones
53:11 - Ashtree Dim
1:02:24 - Second Spiral
1:06:03 - House of Flies
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We can be better than it
What does he mean by that?
Anyways, you are the most unique content creator and i'm really excited to see the future of this ARG
good
flies
Im so confused
Nice ARG one small isue this may not continue. What will you do?
"TH-cam horror reviewer talking about horror ARG" being part of a horror ARG is one of the best meta twists I've ever seen omg
Agreed, it was done so well.
This is why I shouldn’t be scrolling through comments while watching a youtube video 😭 (i accidentally spoiled the immersion for myself with your comment 💔)
Something I’ve thought about in the past though not specifically Minecraft and also not necessarily just a single arg either they’d review several nonexistent ones that come together to form a greater whole or several existing ones but have them diverge from their real counterparts to achieve the same
Reminds me of petscape
@@Kitsuneagiyeah lol 😅
It already felt like they were part of it tho so I take it as confirmation
bro I was texting my friends and I randomly said "I am cold" when I was at around the 21:28 mark AND THE TEXT AT THE BOTTOM BEING "I feel colder too" SCARED THE FUCK OUT OF ME
Dont worry mate, your sub-consciousnes catched onto the text. Your conscious just has not
@@ILikePizza950damn that actually makes sense
@@mramongs2231yeah fr
May not be relevant but... 666th like
@@ILikePizza950 no no, I was texting on discord (should've clarified that I didn't say the thing out loud but rather texted it) and I had the video paused before the text was typed in the video. I would like to think that it was just very odd coincidence XD
for a flytrap to close, it has to be triggered twice.
once closed it needs the insect to panic and move more to make sure it really caught something.
stand still
Yeah like, do we know for sure if these lights even do anything if they touch you? further more, if the main idea is misdirection, fear is a good way to do that. Perhaps if one just bravely stands there.
YOO YOU MIGHT BE ON TO SOMETHING
entering the red arch is the catch that digests you.
Exactly. Zimith triggered at once. And then sticks set off the trap...
yes... THAT IS A GREAT OBSERVATION!
Sticks is just a straight up menace. like hes the type of guy to fight the final boss with no gear with the cheapest of tricks gotta give him props ngl
i didnt understand anything 👍
Same🎉
Same🎉
Same🎉
Same🎉
Same🎉
Sticks is a very satisfyingly competent horror protagonist, not something you see too often in horror media. the boat-clutch in complete darkness, the idea to hide from the lights in a redstone contraption, the nether portal... gotta give him some props
EDIT: of course he does a triple neo lmao
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not competent enough to turn off his shaders lol
@@shrilleth not competent enough to offhand the flashlight too, lol
not competent enough to just mod everything to be fully light
My only gripe with him so far is that around halfway through the vid as he’s following the signs he completely forgets what he just said about misdirection. He doesn’t know aqer placed them and he completely ignored everything else. At one point there’s a flash of light somewhat far from him and he doesn’t even notice. He also wastes tool durability mining dirt with an axe
I can imagine bedrock.zip speedruns being ruined by bad wall rng. 'Everything was going well until the walls didn't give the most efficient pattern and i was stuck going through another hallway for another # seconds which robbed me of my world record."
NAHHHHH
For those interested, the illustration at 50:24 is one of Gustave Dore's woodcut illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy. It depicts the very beginning of the Inferno, where Dante is attempting to ascend a mountain but is turned back by a Leopard (then a lion, then a wolf, not depicted) and is at that point forced to 'detour' through hell, which sets up the whole poem. Makes sense to be there, seeing as Sticks had just made the portal to the nether.
and also the guy named sticks (styx) uses boats for everything, so yeah, 14th century bible fanfiction references abound.
@@G-Cole-01 good catch, i didnt even think of that. aqer is another reference to underworld rivers, acheron being the entrance to the underworld, or charon being the one who ferries souls to the land of the dead. considering aqer has enabled both zeemyth and sticks to enter the world file, the parallels are pretty on the nose.
Ok so, we have:
Sticks, which is a homonym for Styx, a River in hades, who uses boats and water to get into the nether (basically hell)
References to Sisyphus.
Aqer (Acheron), another river in hades.
References to Dante’s Inferno.
And chthonic, cyclopean architecture made entirely of the deepest stone in the game.
I thinks it’s clear that we’re in hell, or at least some sorta underworld.
Stick Inferno.
dude forgot f5 which would have given him and whole new perspective
this was written in 16:49
"But then i had a very good idea, i used f5, see using f5 gave me a whole new perspective and i was able to see a chest i couldnt have seen before"
Good ol meme that one
ong
he js tryna make this content without using such mechanics.
29:50 but then I had a very good idea
I TURNED OFF AIRPLANE MODE IN MY FLIGHT TO WATCH THIS 🔥🔥🔥🔥
WE'RE CURRENTLY HURTLING TOWARDS A FUCKING LAKE RN 🔥🔥🔥🔥
gRINDset
dawg is not surviving 😭😭😭
bro I was on that same plane, happy I used f5 to see a whole new perspective, giving me the advantage of when it falls, and the safety I need.
@@BreadWithPlant bro is in a simulation
@@MateiFun4Matei frfr-
Thoughts:
-The lights, which for thematic consistancy I will refer to as minotaurs, are acted upon but notspoken of.
-Bedrock is an indicator of non plus ultra. nothing more beyond. go no further.
-The world takes pieces from those that seek it
-What are the minotaurs? Are they servants of the world or extensions of it.
-The world presents resistance to those that seek it while providing resources with which to overcome. It wants people to find it.
-Something about preservation, taking pieces and freezing them in unbreakable bedrock.
-Does aquer serve it willingly or is it a matter of direct control?
Really love the parallels to Sisyphus and how whenever Sticks gets close to answers he ends up in some sort of hole to climb out of yet again. Sometimes he willfully goes down only to realize he needs to go back up
Sicksyphus.
he just. keeps. falling.
Not seeing many people talk about this but at 25:35 Aqer joins at the exact time that Sticks is about to investigate deeper into one of the buildings. And is then lead on a wild goose chase around to put him further off the path. As he said, misdirection.
Yo thats genius
22:40 "How can you ever focus on this thing in the middle of your view when all around you are distractions?" He says while I've been keeping my eyes on the background minecraft chat thinking I was being clever, this video is too good.
Ehe
@@Zeemyth ...?
I didn't even realise that. Damn, Zeemyth is good 💀💀
Ehe
@@Zeemyth "WHAT DO YOU MEAN EHE?" XD
I figured out what this story best reminds me of, concept wise.
The repeated themes of "The Flytrap" gave me a sorta Jimmy Neutron 'brain blast' moment. As I recalled reading something a long time ago as a child, having discovered such thing in middle school.. I believe. The "Dionaea House". A living impossible space, in multiple locations at once, accessible to many beings despite not directly interacting. An impossible trap, a *hungry* trap. Designed to keep you trapped for as *long as possible.*
I know it says it's inspired by the House of Leaves, but I can't help but draw connections.
good find!
OH MY GOD THIS IS SO FIRE HELLO??? DEFTONES??? UNEXPLAINABLE HORRORS??? A STORY??? UNDERLYING ELIMENTS??? THE ROUSE THAT UR JUST "TRYING TO DEBUNK IT" OH MY GOD THIS IS BEYOND A MASTERPEICE
I am obsessed
It’s quite funny how, just like a flytrap, struggling just makes it’s grip tighter on you. The more you search for answers the more doomed you are
What's also funny is that some bugs can eat through the fly trap and escape hopefully they can do the same
@@helloimnice1234 "Eat the path" - Greg Kirkpatrick, Marathon Infinity
D:
zeemyth casually falling in the background and having the most fun is iconic
"/effect zeemyth idek"
"one must imagine downloading a minecraft map" "lol"
and water
"*wrigthing some random things for yuri*"
@@bcbox2159 who is Yuri?
/effet zeemyth
Two things that I haven't noticed anybody mention yet, although I'm not sure if they're intentional or just conincidences.
As Sticks approaches the pyramid and walks into the flytrap room (7:48) Zeemyth starts to punch the air, almost as if he's trying to warn Sticks not to go in.
When the light appears down the hallway during the Minostaur section (11:50), Sticks appears to log onto the server, even though he's already online.
i wish the ending song lasted longer so i can sit there and process what just happened
I was so close to doing that tbh, you should check out the acoustic version (deftones - change)
fun fact: Zeemyth falls about 207,000 blocks in the "Flytrap" video
How did you count
Probably used maths@@user-mw7yc8bq5f
@@user-mw7yc8bq5f math
@@user-mw7yc8bq5ffalling speed (blocks per second) x falling time…? Idk
I think it's made with Cubic Chunks mod...?
best written and executed minecraft horror arg video on the platform. pushing the medium forward in the best ways possible. incredible work as always.
well said garfilled
Yes, indeed...
your videos never fail to distress me and interest me garfilled
Do you know about retrogamingnow
Please collab with him and make an ARG
I know it will be very good
YOU! WHY DO I KNOW YOU? I remember meeting you somewhere? I'm scared now...
As a bedrock player I can confirm that this is almost as threatening as the wither
I like that this video is basically people struggling to figure out your arg so much you created a third person analysis of it
I swear it was always the plan 😩
@@Zeemyth 🙏😭
I like how Zeemyth is basically solving his own arg and playing it off as solving another youtuber's riddle. Really cool touch to the video
Lmao bro went so deep into the lore he started to view himself as a different person 🌚
bro is gatekeeping the mistery solving youtubers by being it's own mistery solver
he solved it? I didn't even know what was going on I was just immersed watching it
I noticed that when Sticks reached the roof Zeemyth typed „/say this is“ and Sticks says „this is different“ as if Zeemyth was controlling Sticks.
i noticed it too, sticks also has a brief pause after saying this is, like its him giving into zeemyth's control, or regaining control of himself
i mnean youre not wrong
Those arches he found in the flooded place looked like a venus flytrap's teeth...
Let me tell you something: I just got house of leaves for my birthday, and seeing that the FIRST GODDAMN WORDS are “this is not for you” hit me with such whiplash I can’t even describe it.
Its a nice detail that sticks starts with really high confidense but then he starts to lose it he becomes desperate for answers
kinda like a fly? desparete to escape a fly trap
styx goes insane over having to use boats for everything
@@naglislinkevicius9143 and that's exactly when the flytrap begins closing around him, after all, when their prey panic, they close completely
alright since this is a CONFIRMED arg:
i'm gonna write some stuff that seem visibly notable that is too sketchy.
(to those who remember me from flytrap welcome back)
as soon as Stick (minecraft username: Sticks25) starts to dive in to the mystery: "the flytrap" video starts playing behind the main footage: this can be seen throughout the video until the event of 21:05 (look below).
21:05 - a popup of a picture of a bedrock island and an unknown person/entity is on it;
subsequently there are many of these popups with words on it, showing the word STICKS.
21:36 - a bunch of variations of the popups show with various other words and images, those words being:
- STONES (a person? (probably Stick) looking up against a bedrock wall)
- VEILS (a person (probably Stick) looking towards a gap in the wall, crouching)
- RIVERS (an unknown person (clearly because of their skin) crouching and looking towards a red light on a bridge)
- STILL (unknown, might need to brighten the image)
- WATER (unknown, might need to brighten the image)
- STILL (pic of Stick crouching from the back)
FROM 21:43 onwards:
the secret video "the flytrap" is played in the back ontop of Stick's video,
i.e. the translucent trapdoor is seen when he enters the main base (in the flytrap video, zeemyth pulls out the trapdoor at 22:47, meaning that this was deliberately edited in the video as we're +-30 seconds behind in this current video)
22:29 - the chatlog opens on the flytrap video (in the flytrap video the timestamp for this is 23:10): where he types "things keep freezing"
22:54 - the chatlog opens once again on the flytrap video (timestamp for this in the flytrap video is 23:36): where he types "noises get louder"
with these two instances of zeemyth using chat: it seems like the flytrap video is ahead of the main video by 41/42 seconds.
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somewhere between 24:04 to 24:06, the chatlogs open once again with a message: take my ears and burn them in the river (probably philosophical or related to the noises)
25:35 - Aqer joins (!!!!!!!) as Sticks enters the bedrock box. weirdly, it gets foggier, and it's yellow fog too). as he mines down, it turns green?????
25:47 to 26:26 (39 seconds)- the glowing open doorway is seen seeping into the video
26:55 - sign that says:
> there 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
followed by a sign that says:
" are "
followed by ANOTHER sign that says:
" places "
27:15 - shows us coming across a sign that says: that
27:21 - sign that says: you
27:30 - sign that says: just
27:36 - somehow teleports? or edited, to this part of the map and has a sign that says: shouldnt
27:43 - sign that says: be.
coherent sentence using the signs: there are places that you just shouldnt be. (in? lmao)
27:46 - sign that says: not
27:53 - sign that says: you.
28:03 - sign that says: but
28:06 - sign that says: your
28:11 - sign that says: footprint
28:13 to 28:17 - "your" "8"
28:19 - "billion"
28:23 - "pieced"
28:25 - the flytrap video's chatlogs open up once again (timestamp in video: 28:59 when he was reacting to a long freeze): saying "wtf"
28:27 - empty sign (i brightened the image)
28:36 - signs that say (from nearest to furthest): "in" "still" "sand"
28:47 - sign: "still,"
28:56 - sign that says:
> send
> ^
> ^
> ^
29:05 - flytrap chatlogs open (timestamp 29:45 in the video, insanity starts): saying "if there were water..." (check the flytrap video)
29:59 - the narrative shifts; Sticks is punched off, and the video cuts to the background video of flytrap. "i might have an idea..", then cuts back.
that's the first 30 minutes. i'll try to add more when i have time. adios for now :)
in the time stamps i the desc with the listed songs, Bully by Ezco, has a highlighted time stamp of 10:52 which has our protagonist "Sticks" placing a sign and saying "With a strong message sent, all I could do was keep chipping away at my "Sysiphusient" task". It then fades out and into a clip of Zeemyth falling in the "Flytrap" video. Idk if ur familiar with the story of Sysiphus but he basically cheated death and his punishment was to forever roll a boulder up a cliff. This may be a poke at that maybe Sticks is descending into madness over this search for an answer, it's consuming him and driving him mad. Also, 10:52 is the only highlighted timestamp in the whole list of songs in that section in the description. All other pointed timestamps have a period "." instead of a colon ":". This might be put there for a viewer to be able to see this.
Or it's just a mistake and im diving way too deep into this and it means nothing. But it's just so perfectly put there so i had to say something.
Since you seem like a guy with a cind eye, what doe the bolded leters at 1:08:58 meen.I only got this from them
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the sign under 'send' appears to be '/t[s?] [something]'
On the flashing images at the end of THE ROOF, there are overlays of text in Gold-Bug cipher. Surprised people haven't caught on yet, it's so glaringly obvious in the way its presented. Unless its just a misdirection....
Edit 1: Tried to decode the first one STONES, all it does is return gibberish, none of the ciphers seem to result in anything I feel like I'm so close its killing me T-T
Edit 2: At the end of RedArchRedArch...there is a list of 3 things that seem to be keys or keywords? Since they both occur at the end of chapters/when the screen starts glitching out they seem related but I can't quite get how....any help guys?
@@HungerGamesFan88 Maybe /tp Stick25 or /tp Zeemyth
this youtuber has been underrated for far too long, i'm glad to see his cinema and short films/short movies are improving. i didnt even know how he did his first works, and he's improving rapidly. glad to see he's getting the subs and views he deserves.
Yeah sticks has so much potential
Getting real House of Leaves vibes from this and I mean that as a huge compliment. Large spiral structures, a living hungry space, some strange entity lurking within, the straight dark hallway filled with doors down to the scene of them slamming shut. Even the "this world is not for you." Interested to see how this plays out.
ending on deftones was such a good move, especially with the echo and filter. this is insane. halfway through the video i got interested and looked at the description and saw it at the end of the music list. so glad i never skipped ahead.
HA this needle drop took days, it turned me into a deftones fan
thank god ur a normal person. I FR thought you were demented 😂 @@Zeemyth
the idea of a piece of architecture using people's curiosity to lure them in, acting as a kind of venus fly trap is so cool. i just finished watching for the first time and haven't done any sort of real analysis yet, so take this with a grain of salt, but i feel like there's no big secret actually hidden under the red arch. all of the clues, all of the things drawing people in are like the sweet scent of sugar coating strips of paper. they go through, and then they disappear, and leave behind a mystery that some poor soul just can't help but want to solve. adore your videos, man. so many cool ideas here, and great execution. there's so much clear effort and thought put into this series, as well as love for the genre. big shoutout to fucked up minecraft locations.
This reminds me one theory about the House of Leaves (one of the inspirations of Bedrock.Zip). This theory says the House doesn't doesn't have anything of special, except the Unknown. And, since there is nothing inside the house, it uses actually imagination and curiosity of anyone who entered through a certain hall to build rooms and events, with the goal of keeping its victims inside its walls for a very long moment. And since the place is nonsensical (with the non-euclidean geometry, the ambient darkness, etc...) and since the Unknown is beyond any knowledge, it makes its victims wondering more about what actually it hides (and like this, the House generates more rooms again and again because, there is currently nothing).
Seeing the parkour tower appear was fucking nuts. I also really liked that section underground with all the huge pillars, reminds me of the foundation from CONTROL!
FAVORITE COMMENT!!! AND WE ARE BEING LURED IN BY THE MYSTERY OF THIS VIDEO!!!!
@@machtalaterrouge Is that a theory? Seems more like text than subtext to me. I'm currently reading House of Leaves and so far like three separate characters have railed about how the House's labyrinth is a Nothing-place, a void that devours not for a purpose but because it can, rambling off in random directions with increasingly bizarre shapes because, for some forsaken reason, we think it SHOULD. Heck, the first couple of pages are filled with various warnings against curiosity for curiosity's sake, against digging too deeply and scratching the surface too hard. The first encounters with [REDACTED FOR FUTURE READERS] heavily suggest that it's being actively created by fear of the unknown.
In short: the House doesn't exist. By existing in it, we force it to become. Once it has begun, once it has tasted of existence, it cannot abide nonexistence any longer. It craves existence no matter how much it hurts and will do whatever it takes to retain it. You.
Now
If you're actually referring to the part in the book where Old Man Zampano describes the Navidson Record and analyzes the House as containing Nothing but the Unknown... I apologize. You're absolutely right that that's the running in-universe theory.
holy fuck dude. thanks for leaving this comment. this explains everything. I finally get it now after reading this and piecing it all together
You know what disturbs me the most? They're alone. Except for the headlights and a creeper or whatever, they are absolutely alone. Also the half doors section is so house of leaves I love it so much
i love how much he made the half doors his own thing too, with the half doors being tie-ins to the veil smp, and how it conveniently allows a block above to be filled to remove an easy exit
Tne reason the lights chased you is because you didn’t play by the rules.
Since the very beginning. You didn’t go into the stronghold. You didn’t solve the puzzles. You broke through them, thats why the lights came after you. Thats why the world wasn’t “meant for you”.
And thats why it hurt you.*
THE LORE CONTINUES
OXY?!
Yoooooo, second comment
He also said “One must imagine downloading a Minecraft map” at 18:53
Sorry, wrong comment to reply on
I just realized sticks isn’t a TH-camr is he
I like how he just completely doesn't address the glowy eyes hunting him until the third time he sees them
what even are those things
maybe it represents digestion in some way @@ukulelepichu4484
@@ukulelepichu4484 that is the question, yes.
@@lasercraft32 but is it one of the *_right_* questions?
@@ukulelepichu4484 eyes? no. lights. we see them from both sides - flashlights. who is holding them?
At Veill SMP 111, you can see his tool bar and item in his hand have a sort of “ghost” effect, other items like a trapdoor are overlapping. His health bar is also taking damage, and in the chat box there is a conversation going on, Zemeth says that “everything keeps freezing”, “Noises get louder”, “----- burning in the river”
i wonder if Veill SMP 111 is an actual map tha you can enter lol
Burning in the river? Interesting. I wonder if it's either Greek or Dante's divine comedy folklore.
@@jarielwilliams9856 he's called Sticks after all ;)
Omg it's the flytrap in the background it's over lapping with very low opacity 😭😭😭
the last part is actually "take my ears and burn them in the river"
Once again, fantastic work
The worldbuilding is some of the strongest most immersive out of any Minecraft ARG out there, the visuals are absolutely stunning just like last time, the horror is top notch and I spent the entire video wondering "How did they pull this off?"
Sticks is an extremely well made character, he's exactly how any of us who watched the first video would percieve the mystery, skeptical at first, always pointing out the tiniest little details and trying to prove to ourselves that we know better, but as he swims further below he starts to drown, so desperate to find answers that he gets caught in his own flytrap.
This is, no doubt, a horror masterpiece in the genre, and it deserves nothing less than praise.
Love how you took the inconsistencies and plotholes from the previous video (intentional or not, idk) and used them as plot points for this one. I was invested the whole way through!
Some of them were which was such a pain to hide but there were def some genuine fumbles
i like to think that the white door breaks down the people that tries to find it then rebuild them to how it sees fit, i also like how sticks commisioned for a flashlight instead of using full bright
Beautiful. Commands betraying you, bedrock everywhere, random damage, exploits/glitches about bedrock (which already felt wrong), hopeless parkour jumps, skyblock imagery... Minecraft in ANY depiction has never felt more hostile.
That skyblock clip near the end and the music played through that whole scene (and other tracks too) were just incredible touches and fantastic choices for the immersion tbh. Amazing work with this entire video!
At 17:35, background zeemyth typed "/say this is" and sticks says the word "this is"
i'd like to add that while this one's a lot less direct compared to what you pointed out, at around 21:00, zeemyth types "what was that wtf", and just seconds later sticks gets those odd popups
During the pop-ups (towards the end) zeemith types "I feel colder too."
yeah i saw that to
when sticks is saying how zeemyth had an advantage, zeemeth types in chat "fu"
i'm not the only one who noticed?
"How could a Minecraft world ever possibly be frightening?" as soon as you stepped into the preasure plate an ad pops out....
A fate worse than Bedrock.Zip
The game:wholesome relaxing fun even
The fandom:
I absolutely love this format, it is an ARG that feels like a movie or a theater, there's flaws like the experience it's not as immersive as a classic ARG, but it leads to more potential in storytelling.
10/10 series, the best one i've seen, i can't wait for the next part.
Yeah there’s def sacrifices with making it movie like but it’s just such a good time so it’s worth it
we've asked "what happens when a hhouse gets sick" but now I want to know, what happens when a world gets sick?
it rots
Wood and Sticks Rot...
But Bedrock...
Bedrock is eternal...
When a world is ill, its wardens listen: with a glow eternal, and heart beat arrythmic. You can hear this worlds pulse, its shuddering breath. Wardens turned hostile, the immune system reflects. The player, the invader, the system assaulting in every measure, it listens and adapts, outside tools providing clues, a flashlight from physics creates moving parts, all of this performed with a single, dying, heart.
big
@@synsastral2753 yo that actually bangs, nice job
There is a very strong "House of Leaves" feeling in this serie, places changing, multiple points of view, it's incredibly well done !
The description says that was an inspiration
lots of "House of Leaves" inspired stuff lately, this, the "MyHouse.Wad" DOOM arg thing (Idk if ARG is the right word for that one in particular but whatever lol)
The doors the doors the doors
One of the chapters is titled "Ash Tree Dim," like the house 's ash tree lane
i am never gonna be able to listen to change (in the house of flies) the same way again. the way you told it, the perspective of story telling, narration while also in context like you're experiencing the sight for the first time. the way your movement gets more frantic, more anxious the longer it goes on makes it feel, real.
you sir, are amazing.
you have made an absolute masterpiece.
This is such a cool arg
The whole file, Bedrock.Zip, reminds me of "Blame!", like if you asked an AI to build a house with only bedrock and gave it only the most basic idea of a house with no restrictions. And the lamp eye face thing? That's creepy. I already got PTSD from the projector head from BATIM, this is that jacked to the max. If it's even possible, I'm begging you to make this a world for people to play and try their own crack at. I wanna play this!
Actually so cool that it feels that way 🥲
the thing i love about the bedrock.zip video is that the video zeemyth finds at the start is an exact replica of what he does at the end
👀
His inventory even changes to match Veil's... probably important
@@randomrhino4371 mayhaps a metaphor for how Bedrock has taken everything tangible from him, including him losing his last boat at the end of the second spiral, and now his hope of solving the mystery (the only thing driving him forward) is gone too
its a link
-Hears about this zeemyth guy and how the narrator doesn’t seem to believe how cheesy his stuff is
-check the channel of this video
-zeemyth is talking about himself
😎
Yea he is
Okay yall. I think I found something. At 50:21 the image that’s being highlighted is an illustration of The Panther from Dante’s Divine Comedy, art by Gustave Dore. TLDR: The panther is one of 3 beasts that prevent Dante from returning to the path or righteousness, instead driving him further into darkness. It’s thought that the Panther represents greed, avarice, or fraud. Below I’ve attached a quote from professor Guy Raffa on the topic, but be aware that interpretations vary.
“The uncertain symbolism of the three beasts--a leopard (or some other lithe, spotted animal), a lion, and a she-wolf--contributes to the shadowy atmosphere of the opening scene. Armed with information from later episodes, commentators often view the creatures as symbols, respectively, of the three major divisions of Dante's hell: concupiscence (immoderate desires), violence, and fraud (though some equate the leopard with fraud and the she-wolf with concupiscence). Others associate them with envy, pride, and avarice. Perhaps they carry some political meaning as well (a she-wolf nursed the legendary founders of Rome--Romulus and Remus--and thus came to stand as a symbol of the city). Whatever his conception, Dante likely drew inspiration for the beasts from this biblical passage prophesying the destruction of those who refuse to repent for their iniquities: "Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions strengthened" (Jeremiah 5:6)”
Something interesting about aqer's base is, despite the base obviously being recently occupied, by aqer, the ladders are in a pre release or early release formation due to a bug, which i might be overthinking, but that might mean something, i also have an additional theory in which i think maybe the cones of light that periodically show up are simply alternate versions of sticks himself.
I love how sticks basically starts the video being all like “a flytrap usually means something that gives the idea of something valuable but it’s merely a trap to lure and eat/kill its prey and that map is probably somehow hungry” before immediately switching to “I NEED to see what’s beyond that glowing door in the haunted Minecraft map”.
Anyways off to go watch the entirety of flytrap to achieve the illusion of a coherent answer to the narrative and spiral deeper into madness as I fail to do the impossible
Edit: figured I should also give my brief theory on what’s going on. But the flytrap connection is pretty on the nose. This map is some sort of parasite within the world on Minecraft (potentially memetic). It has some ability to affect the other worlds but its main domain is bedrock.zip. What it does is that it creates a mystery, leaving weird clues in someone’s world that lead them to trying out the map to try and solve it. Then eventually it leads the player deep enough inside that it eventually consumes the player (maybe even trapping them inside of Minecraft itself) but the player is left as a puppet. Bedrock then uses its puppet to create a new mystery about its world on an online forum which then attracts new prey allowing for the cycle to endlessly repeat. By searching for an answer you’ve already lost. It seems Yuri tried talking about this point with potentially starting to say that just because you can go somewhere doesn’t mean you should and that somethings are just better left as mysteries.
I feel like I can finally start properly understanding the story now by reading this lol
I never thought of it that way....
Zeemyth and sticks also have a strange.. connection ig. Zeemyth will sometimes directly reply to statements made about him in this video, as he's become aware of everything all at once. When Sticks says something about Zeemyth's dive being pure luck, Zeemyth types "fu" (fuck you), and Zeemyth even types out "/say this is", immediately followed by sticks saying those words exactly, and then pausing because he can't think of anything for a second. Also, the most damning evidence is Z and S practically having a damn conversation when talking about how cold they feel.
At about 28:26, in the bottom left, zeemyth's whole chatlog becomes visible. he then starts spamming "and water". Later, he says, /give sticks dirt.
He also says lots of other things at different times, even predicting what was about to happen seconds before it does
Zeemyth continues to use /give, causing sticks to be flung. Somehow, they are interacting. My theory? Zeemyth might never have left.
@@AidenWilliams-xc9jo bro sticks was typing in the commands you goober
Can you give the timestamp for the other one?
zeemyth isn’t the one using the ‘/give’ command, it’s on stick’s screen
I really tried to see every little detail, connect everything together, make it make sense, but I just couldn’t, this is so perplexing
Perfect. Most digital horrors that use youtube as its canonical device that try and show those who try and investigate it are obvious to be a part of the world. This, thankfully, immerses you to a point where you forget this analysis is a part of the creator's channel, and you get surprised by such a reveal. And the music. The music is not just the suger on the cream, its a whole new layer on the cake. Amazing work, one of the most underrated channels ive seen.
But what Sticks doesn't Realize is that he was in the Flytrap's Maw the whole time.
He says he is but ignores it
Is it me or does the roof looks like a Venus fly traps head???
He didn't realize that the moment he began going angry for clues, the flytrap began closing on him, holy mother of god, i love this
I just wanted to point out that the 3rd last section is named Ashtree Dim and it's just so similar to AshTree Lane from The House of Leaves.
EDIT: Yeah that's another The House of Leaves video game adaptiation
I absolutely loved this short movie, The twist was great but the theme of this story, or the moral, was the thing that caught me. I paused the ending part just to read what he had to say. Keep up the good work Zeemyth!
"so, a youtuber named zeemyth found out about this a few months ago" says zeemyth.
you cant. watch the first video.
@@DreerKarler ok, i'll edit my comment to something better.
@@randomig152 ok
Thank you totally real and non-Zeemyth person Sticks for making and uploading this video for your own channel about this amazing ARG not made by you at all. You can tell you’re not Zeemyth because right after you get the map DM at 11:53 a second you joins, which makes it twice as much made by you.
Hey what the heck someone uploaded on my channel 😡
If this ever gets continued with more "perspectives," I feel like a modder would be a good protagonist.
They decide they're less interested in exploring the world, and focus moreso on installing mods that are meant to test the limits of this "sentient" world before decompiling the data itself and exploring THAT.
We need a new Voyager Golden Record cause this whole 'creation' is humanity's magnum opus
real
22:37 ironic how sticks talks about the answer being in your peripheral vision while you can literally see zeemyth’s(?) perspective in the corners of the screen…
That is honestly the best minecraft cinematography i have ever fucking seen.
This isnt a video, its an experience
It's a masterpiece even
This actually made me shed a few tears at the end, all i have to say is that your cinematography for a funny block game is truly astonishing, even though i may have missed alot (and probably will have to rewatch this); i am impressed and seriously want to see more of this amazing content
i love the wasteland references in this. im still putting together a comment with all my findings but there is so much shit here to put together it's absurd haha. love this stuff, im hoping im not wasting my time translating the bedrockzip picture file text by hand hahaaa
community tab.
@@DreerKarler what about it? im assuming you're talking about zee mentioning the wasteland as an inspiration for bz2?
@@Ahnock ebyae?
@@DreerKarler what's ebyae? tried looking it up and only found stuff on "the bumblebee project" from the smithsonian?
@@Ahnock how do you not know?
I had to go back to the first part, but I knew I remembered Ordisi9 popping up before-
They feel like some sort of gatekeeper, handing over a one-way key to those who dig just a little too deep.
Curiosity is a dangerous thing, and if you're not careful, it will swallow you whole.
This has been a phenomenal series so far, its criminal that you're still under 100k subs honestly, your writing and story telling are incredible. This is some of the best minecraft horror content I've ever seen.
that’s why it’s called the flytrap
59:09 "Then you had to spoil it all by saying something stupid like Good question is playing Turing Complete"
Bruh, i was so focused on the pillars that i didn't see the notification XD
Good question
why did this comment made me remeber Frank Sinatra's song "Something Stupid"
@@Zeemyth Left question
There are so many cuts throughout the video. If he wanted us to not see that he could’ve.
This world is clearly portrayed as being alive. Could it even be… turing complete?
Good question.
This was gas, I've never had a youtube video ever capture my interest like this before, one of the best ARGs I have ever had the pleasure of watching imo
Props to the people behind this. When I heard the classic "the world is alive," I rolled my eyes a little, but it really is a lot more intriguing than that little cliche. My cursory interpretation is this: Minecraft is turing complete. A computer can be built inside with logic gates and algorithms. If a computer could be built in Minecraft, could we make it think? Could we simulate intelligence, or more, create it? That seems like the wrong question. More importantly, would it love us? Would it lead us on thrilling chases, fascinating mysteries, and dark corridors? Or would it hate us? Hate what we made it; a playground for us, the parkour background of shitty tiktoks, or the setting for poorly written args. Would it taunt us with immutable bedrock mockeries of our worlds, trap us in frustrating and terrifying labyrinths that our own nature would not let us escape, and hold the truth just out of reach like Tantalus's fruit? The correct question is not who leaves the sign, what lies behind the doors, what is the spotlight, or who created bedrock.zip. The right question is why it was created. And that will determine if we should stop.
I wish you luck in future videos, and Ill be right there to puzzle over them.
Very glad I changed your mind :) this is also a great analysis
15:16 zeemyth typing out "/give water_bucket"
15:38 "/effect zeemyth"
at 26:05 an entire chat log is visible, stuff about "taking my ears and burning them", "where is the bottom", etc
15:16 is hidden lol
At 22:29 you can also see the chat log or the messages in the corner, which are basically all the stuff zeemyth said before but also"local game hosted on port 52084".. it might be just a usless detail tho lmao
Wait.
"This world is not for you."
I'm consulting House of Leaves for answers as soon as I possibly can. I'll check back in ASAP.
And he never came back...
Deadass thought this was a documentary in the 1st video, and now im hooked. This is amazing bro. Props to you Sticks and not Zeemyth for being brave enough to venture down this very scary arg made by Zeemyth who is a different person than sticks
bro 8 days later and i'm still re-watching some parts of the videos to try to figure it out. Hands down best Minecraft ARG script ever
Thank you for releasing this video man, ive been waiting for a while because this Minecraft arg got me curious and interested into the story.. So thank you for the 1 hour vid man
LORE! During the moth section, his hotbar showed he was on the crafting table of his hotbar, not a boat. but a boat was in his hand.
:D Hopefully the whole thing is worth it
@@CorMikeYTHe was on the boat in the first slot, it's just that zeemyth had his trapdoor selected which is underneath sticks crafting table
@@Zeemyth no way Zeemyth!! I'm actually working on a vid about bedrock.zip rn, I'm gonna try and join the server to hopefully find a clue. I have a 'fake' bedrock.zip world set up in case I can't find the original.
@@OreoOrSmthn also, ur right. it just looked like he was selecting the table.
AAAAAA Thanks for involving me :)
Still waiting for that thunderstorm...
Storms a comin😤
@@Zeemyth😤
@@Zeemyth 1:27 music pls :D
@@Mr.ribs_69Check description. List of songs and when they appear are in there.
Hey mate, just discovered your channel today and I have to say, you are one of the most talented storyteller/writer/editor I've seen on this entire site. This channel is criminally underrated, but you earned my sub! Good luck on your future projects, I'm looking forward to whatever you do next!
🥲Thank you so much, really means a ton. I’m gonna be trying to hone in and heighten my style over the next while or yknow that’s the goal ofc
@@Zeemyth If you're already this good, I can't even imagine how much you'll improve over time. You got this man!
@@Zeemythbedrock.zip III when
There are so many themes and quirks about this video that have me constantly on the edge of my seat. The fear of the unknown, the themes of Zee in the past. Looping fall, and looping tunnels that could be from the use of clever command blocks *or* liminal portals. The portion where Zee typed "Say This is" only to then hear Sticks say 'This is" had me going back a few times to listen to it again. The idea that a recording could influence the future, either subconsciously or completely is a pretty great idea that I don't think I've ever seen before. And I think the only thing that would be even better, aside from the subtle similarities between the recordings' trapdoor slowly lining up with the Games' trapdoor. Would likely be if the actions, words, and interactions of the player *currently* interacting with the world, somehow were to affect the actions, words, and interactions of the player *recorded* from the Flytrap.
ohhhh im loving the flytrap footage in the background, the "/say this is" at 17:30, im getting big johnny truant vibes from sticks.
hehehhe true [the good parts at least hooowee]
@@Zeemythyou wouldnt be implying our lovely protagonist sticks25 would go on a november binge would you
"and water
and water
and water
and water
and water"
Give this man some water
/give yarik1024 water_bucket
I love how this video is made, and I love how in these types of videos you can look at every tiny detail and wonder if its part of the overall experience, or if its just a random mistake.
For example I think it was the in the Ashtree Dim section theres a second or two when a Steam notification saying "Good Question is playing Turing Complete" where the name Good Question could relate to the video, or I could be making random connections, the game Turing Complete is about using coding for GPUs to solve puzzles, which could be a reference to how Sticks uses his own methods to solve the puzzles.
This might be, no joke, my favorite minecraft video on the platform.
The first bedrock.zip was already pretty good, and it kept me glued to my screen the entire time. What I really liked about that video was the exploration aspect, really felt like discovering some strange and alien location alongside you. This video doubles down on the exploration angle even more than the first one it feels, which I enjoy greatly.
This type of video, the "house of leaves feels" kind, are pretty rarely well done, and horror in minecraft is especially fickle when it comes to quality. They'll usually go very well and then faceplant in the middle, but this video avoids the pitfall (mainly by not having random obnoxious jumpscares). It's a bit hard to describe in detail what I like specifically about the video, the words do not come to me, but that's also something I enjoy about it, it's a very specific feeling that has been conveyed perfectly.
im a huge fan of how "curated" bz1 is compared to bz2, bz2 is almost messy at times, and especially with how sticks breaks walls with boats it feels like you've clipped out of where you're meant to be even more
"their biggest mistake, was letting sticks in on the game" 4:52
The flytrap running commands and text in the background is so interesting.
This feels like a fever dream. More people need to learn from you dude! Absolute masterpiece!!
I dont know if it was on purpose, but it was a small detail I noticed, whenever sticks starts holding a trapdoor during THE MAZE at about 35:16, the same thing Zeemyth is holding, that is when things start going weird and the strange "Minotaur" or "Watcher" Things get revealed.
15:53 Zeemyth types in idek as Sticks says "I Dont Even Know"
infinite challenges of the infinite bedrock, there is no escape but a horror.
This video step closer to meta breaking by our protagonist attempting to use command and the bedrock response in the resistance. Love this stuff, hope there’s more step in the next video! since the mod is working, he could try using datapack/mod/texture pack/shader to get advantage and the bedrock could respond in many creative ways!
maybe using a mod where it is possible to break bedrock with a pickaxe made by himself.
Now that I think about it, remember when Sticks talked about the flashlight the first time? He said it was part of a *physics* and lighting mod.
Look at Ashtree Dim. That's not normal block behavior, even with command blacks to shift things around when ur not looking.
Bedrock *Was* using the mod against him. Sticks was so focused on being able to see with the flashlight, he accidentally gave Bedrock another way to mess with him (and more).
There is only more to find it goes on for generations -Infinite Dimensions
so wait there is more to come? i better hit the bell then
This is insanity in the best way possible. I stumbled upon this vid randomly, started watching it and then just binged it in one sitting haha
It’s really cool :)
And the music is not only fitting but just awesome in general 🔥🔥🔥
This showed up in my recommended. I have no idea what is going on or what the background of it is. But it is giving me ideas for the cosmic horror stories I write.
This is so good man. I love the fly trap imagery! Waiting for flies, like Sticks, into their impending doom. I think Sticks still going in despite knowing what kind of doom awaits him makes him more of a fly, like he describe "irresitible nectar", he's a shit stirrer, smug and prideful. I love the contrast of his character to zeemyth! It was an odd thing for his character to suddenly talk about "worthiness" of going through the door of light, and how "its so much bigger than us". Im guessing that's the fly trap's effect
Who else wants Zeemyth to put fly trap in public and not private (not like baiting or comment baiting)
It’s unlisted, public would tank my channel ahahhaha
lol
If it was me, i would have broken the sign and placed it down and said "this world is not for you either"
No mobs.... how did I not notice that? That actually makes this even creepier
Right.. thats true, he's alone
But... he isn't
He was never alone.