The Unnerving Secrets of Minecraft's Illagers | Deep Dive
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- Illagers are perhaps the most mysterious group of mobs in Minecraft. Who are they, and what are they doing? Join me as we take a deep dive into their many secrets...
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"Illager Overture"
"The Totem of Undying"
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You should do Piglins and Fossils
You should do ghasts. They have some very interesting secrets, such as the “uneasy alliance” achievement. It’s very intriguing.
Can you do a wither theory?
what the arch illager
arch illager from Minecraft dungeons
"Huge wool animal statues, such as a duck"
Sir, that is a chicken.
You know, I've been getting them confused since alpha. I can't believe I made that mistake again.
Edit: I seem to remember there being some splash text about this..."Is it a chicken or a duck?" or something along those lines.
The statue looks more like a duck than a chicken though.
@@SkatePunkBanana There are no ducks in Minecraft...
@@TylerYoshi while true i still think the statue looks more like a duck, even though its meant to be a chicken.
@@TylerYoshi there is no war in ba sing se
*Illagers and Traders show their hands*
Villagers: S L U T S
To be honest that weirdly makes sense. It might be just like the weird ankle thing in the past
Lol
@[REDACTED] “Sorry, shirts that show hands aren’t allowed in school. They’re too distracting to the boys.”
“B-but it’s so hot out! it’s like 79 degrees!”
“Boys will be boys!🤪”
I don't get it
im-
Remember that in 1.17 we almost got Iceologer that would have expanded the lore, but youtubers said that squid reskin was better.
Yeah it's a shame that the iceologer didn't win though what will be there Story? Illagers that was kicked for using ice magic as such all of them are kicked to the mountains peaks? Lost illagers who learn ice magic? Illagers that couldn't live with extreme freezing temperatures? Illager outcast?
Whhhhhy?!?!? F&$@ the glow squid
@@flamethereploid1352 blame dream
And we also had a flower cow which is also cool but who needs new squids?
I'd be more inclined to blame the 12 year olds who follow the opinion of whoever they like to watch.
The idea that the Illagers succesfully do a summoning experiment everytime a Steve spawns in a new world is pretty sick
Yup! And it blows up in their face when their own creation destroys and loots them
But player spawns thousands of blocks away from mansions. But rarely near mansions.
I think they kill a village when it gets too advanced. This also explains why the illagers only attack villages with the player, because those villages are likely to be more advanced under the player's influence. This would make it so the illagers could secretly trade and get XP, and so the villagers don't get advanced enough to overthrow them.
Yea actually i prefer this more, instead of killing them as an exp farm. Illager could "Trade" for exp, and raiding the village when it's too advance. Cool, someone actually think exactly the same thing as i do.
@@aoki9440 also notice how there are no beings in the overworld who have the same items as the player, usually they are stronger by leaps. Diamond tools, diamond armor, crossbows with harming arrows. Bows with power 5. the illagers fear that if the player breaks through 1 village, he will break through another, and then begin to operate the villages as a collective. This explains why they only have raids when you kill them or patrols are only present nearby you, because the illagers need to keep an eye on you and stop you from advancing the village
Or maybe you guys are overthinking a simple mob used to spark intrigue in an otherwise bland set of adversaries.
The whole village theory is cool, and if the glove fits-sure. But Mojang probably crafted no backstory to it.
If you add enough ambiguity to something, people who want answers will find them and fill in the gaps with wishful thinking.
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Damn I love your idea. I once found a HUGE village. But it was already getting raided before I came so.
It's also quite interesting that wandering traders often use invisibilty potions. This could the reason that they are able to travel to around the world without being killed by the Illagers.
One of two mobs to use potions, the wandering trader, witches are the other.
That's because traders have cover it self with so much clothes (for hide from the villagers)?
@@adrianorohdennicoletti9842 I personally believe the clothing has no deeper meaning than just providing good clothing for hiking around the world. His clothing provides good protection from the sun (since he wanders through the desert), but at the same time it also keeps him warm (when he wanders through the mountains etc.) But his clothing could very well also have a deeper meaning.
@Miles Sharpless how do you mean find a woodland mansion? Why would a villager go to a woodland mansion
@Miles Sharpless oh now it makes sense. Thanks for your explanation.
Honestly, my (probably far fetched) theory about the Illagers is that they're *literally* ill. They're diseased. That's why they've got the grey skin. Between the totems and the ability of evokers to summon what look like spirits, as well as a number of the rooms scattered throughout the mansions, it feels like, to me, they're desperately searching for a cure to this disease they've been infected with.
There's also the supporting idea that the illagers were driven out of their villages when they got sick, which is why they harbor such a hate for the villagers. Tie that into this idea of a farm you've got going on, and the idea of experimentation with life and death- as well as the presence of the ravager, whose head looks uncannily like an Illager- And what might've started out as hate and a desire for revenge could now be nothing more than a desire to find this cure at all costs. Even to the point of kidnapping or killing to harvest experience. To the point of working out some of the fundamentals of death, and learning skills and creating things (like the totems) to try and circumvent it.
And now for another probably large leap- what if the Illagers are sick with the same disease that might've caused the extinction of the Builder race? What if this disease never died down, but instead laid dormant until being unearthed and infecting the populace again? We know that the undead disease is something that can infect both the Builders *and* villagers, given both types of zombie, so what if this is another form of that same apocalyptic disease? Or it could be another sickness that's going down the same course as the one that killed the Builders, except this time its victims are far less advanced.
That's such a cool theory! It lines up too! Good job!
Great theory
Wow thats a good theory
The disease is the wither, and there was a theory I saw a while back that the ancient city builders went extinct and had to go under ground because they accidentally summoned a wither.
Here is the video th-cam.com/video/lWBQKX71Ke4/w-d-xo.html
15:22 Have you ever stopped to notice that the illagers built an imitation beacon (inside this lava there is a beautiful blue diamond block)? this means that in addition to being interested in the end they are also interested in nether's star and beacon.
Holy crap you’re right. I always wondered what that thing was. It’s 100% a beacon. Amazing observation
The fact that illagers only raid villages that the player enters after killing a captain implies that they're targeting villages that they think are strong enough to stand up to them. Squashing the possible rebellion in the process.
dictatorship 100
That's really nice to think of
Indeed but they underestimate the power of Stīv.
Stīv also doesnt drop mana (exp), I say this is because he does not die he loses all his items and all the mana he has take from others but his default self just respawns that is why killing the default Stīv gives you nothing because you did not kill him.
Apparently, they forgive you if you drink milk XD
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 u drop exp though.
"villagers to illagers are nothing more than farms"
Hello welcome to episode 15 today we're making a villager farm
Illagers:you had my curiosity now you have my attention
Wow, the player is very evil
So does that mean we are secretly illagers too???
Yes
Illager Gaming
Honestly, the Illagers have such neat culture and personality, despite being violent and raiding innocent villages. A group with advanced technology, vast and detailed mansions, and a deep connection to magic. They must be more than just violence. They are definitely intriguing.
@@user-qn9zn3rw4ulook let the guy has his opinion
As of 1.18, I believe the "Villagers are Pillager XP Farms" theory is even more likely, since Pillagers were updated to not attack baby villagers in 1.18.
**Laughs in 1.17**
Yeah or because it’s to messed up for a gaming rated e10plus
@@masonstroup1048 its not
Or maybe they have pity of a defensless, innocent villager.
@@Havolli every villager is defensless
This is super terrifying, honestly imagine stumbling upon a woodland mansion in real life and slowly discovering the truth
Me waliking upon a woodland mansion: "doom soundtrack starts playing in the background"
Then you find out your NOT the main protagonist
@@pineappleproductions1696 without plot armor
Minecraft doesn’t give the player plot armor, you can literally play the game for years with leather armor. Which i love a lot, Minecraft’s lore used to be nonexistent but it’s being uncovered somewhat
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I always thought the Illagers were just some sort of mafia
They are
yeah😂 they are
😂
Well they still kind of are
Haha
I always thought the illager name was meant to be an ill villager, like a sick villager. Which was why they were gray
That's a great point. That might also be why illagers mostly target villagers, just how zombies target villagers
@@kes6016 maybe the illagers are sick villagers trying to create immortality so their disease doesn't kill them
Watching this video I came up with my own ideas, what if the illagers are cursed & use magic to keep themselves from turning into the undead, thats why undead mobs ignore them, or the opposite, that they use magic to keep themselves from being attacked by undead mobs but it cursed their skin grey.
It's simple but I don't think every mysery needs to be a complex web about dimensions & portals
It would certainly explain why they aren't attacked by zombies or skeles
@@sideways_chip_eater6420 maybe they have wither effect on lmao
"The totem of undying is a philosopher's stone" was not what i expected to learn today but here we are
why harry potter in this game ???
@@MonkeyDLuffy-wn7kd wrong philosopher's stone. Think a little bit more anime
@@scarlettefoxx5585full metal alchemist?
@@amanda3673(in a slightly different tone of voice:) fullmetal alchemist!
I’m glad that people are finally paying attention to the Illagers! They’re extremely interesting lore wise, and some of the most unique mobs in the base game.
Yeah. They're really underrated, even though they're literally one of the most unique features of Minecraft with really cool mechanics (raids, totems of undying and evoker summoning). There really isn't any other game with a fantasy race like the illagers.
Its hard to take you serious with that picture lol
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I was soooooo disappointed when people aren't finding illagers interesting
What about the illusioner?
Imagine Illagers being able to summon Herobrine in the future
dont scare me like that
What if hirobrine was a failed experiment of them trying to make steve
Imagine illagers are villagers that had an illness that why there color gray and why the witch was kick out maybe because she was the one who created the disease
Oh no
Stop ✋ 🛑
The Illagers were trying to summon Herobrine, but instead summoned a Builder from the time before the plague, making Steve the last of his kind. A later second attempt could be what summoned Alex to the future as well. Or maybe, instead of from the past, they're from whatever home dimension the Builder's are from, and them being new to the Overworld explains why their crafting books are empty; they've yet to discover what can be done with this dimension's materials. Given the physiological differences between Steve and the villagers/illagers, it's possible they aren't the same species, and that Builders aren't native to the Overworld, but another world entirely, and found their way to the Overworld. Maybe the plague that wiped them out was so bad that they cut off access to their homeworld to protect it, leading to Steve and Alex needing to be summoned in order to appear.
Theory: The "alternate dimension" is real life
Idea: the lapis in their head must be a sign with enchanting. Maybe they have something to do with enchanting. Maybe they written the language. It's just an idea. But think about it.
yo if he makes this a series, like legit (idk how to explain the excitement)
That's the plan!
@@RetroGamingNow #Roadto100k
Agree, his style is more relaxed than MatPat and his theories are good, really excited.
@@RetroGamingNow yooo im subbed, excited for the next video
@@piesilhouette yeah I feel like matpats videos are kinda overedited and filled with stale memes
I never knew something so simple was so complex
It’s all based off of perception, regardless of how it was intended I love Minecraft’s lore ideas
The wandering traders are the few villagers that travel between villages consistently
maybe that's why they're invisible so the illigars can't find them and kill them
Sounds like tempting reasons to use a mapping tool to locate illager mansions, gear up and bring some friends, and give the illagers a taste of their own medicine by raiding them.
I like to imagine that Ravagers are a type of failed Illager experiment. Their minds have been melted due to overexposure of magic, turning them into submissive war beasts.
Horrifying.
@ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ but it cannot be summon.
@ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ dang you predicted his new video lol
Think again
docile war beasts.
If Steve is made by the illagers, we're the frankenstein's monster of looters, That's kinda cool
Or maybe. Maybe they attempted to make a Steve many times but ended up making a zombie
@@FirestoneAnimation I'd recon they tried to remake the old masterbuilders that became zombies by coping them, the same way we cure zombie villagers, made herobrine and needed the player to stop him
If that the case
They accidentally made there creation alot more powerful than them
First rule of creating a thing:
Don't make it way more powerful than you for it could just leave if he want a and do anything he wants for
You basically could not stop him for he way stronger
Steve is clearly a Frankensteins' monster. Proof? we are missing a nose. Fell off somewhere around initial spawn. Maybe going nose-less is what 'awakened' us as an Ancient Builder reborn (eew sub theory- they arent noses, they are Builder suppression tumors)
Have you seen black plasma's
Animation about minecraft
The dual mind make him herobrine
Or steve
At 11:29, there is a brief text screen that pops up, and for those of you who didn’t catch it, here is what it reads:
It’s worth pointing out that perhaps a more fundamental source of magic is destruction - killing, mining, smelting and harvesting could all be interpreted as destructive actions. For the purposes of this video, focusing the the magical power of death is enough for us. However, I would like to do another video explaining this idea more fully, if you are interested (I am)
Sorry for doing another one of these single frame texts (yeah, thanks a lot)
Also sub plz :D
epic
I personally suspect that it's called the "Totem of Undying" because using it the way the Illagers use it turns you undead, like a proper undead Lich, as opposed to the zombies and skeletons that are more like... embodiments of evil that spontaneously form in the dark and take the form of things that frighten you. It would at least explain the Illager's complexions and the total disregard for Villagers' lives...
This is something you watch at 3 am
@Sloth Gamer in the morning?
I am literally watching this at 3 in the morning
Lol I'm watching this at 3am, and I just found this comment
Watched this at 2:30 in the morning
Gonna bing watch these type of videos at night lol
Illagers: we built this mansion for years now
Steve: hahaha flint and steel go brrrr
Illagers: :(
You mean *click* right?
You will burn the loot that way
Godzilla had a stroke trying to read this and fucking died
Lol
You mean lava?
I know I’m late to the party but here’s a small theory. Remember when you were talking about how the illagers were trying to figure out how different dimension to work and open portals, how they want to kill villagers to gain xp, and the light and dark blue wool that is supposed to represent Steve? Well here’s my take on it, what if the moment a new player spawns into a world, they had spawned from a dimensions that the illagers had just opened. And as the player goes around killing mods, mining, and trading with villagers, the illagers are tracking down the player’s move in finding their location. So then when a player meets up with some wandering illagers and kills the leader and get the bad omen effect, the effects automatically gives the illagers enough time to find the player as they go into a village in a surprise rage. There the illagers kill the villagers for the xp, but they also get a change to kill the player. As the player as been around for so long, they would obviously had gain so much xp that could be very useful to the illagers and their totems. They even have one on stand by so when the player dies, the totem of undying can be used right there to collect the player’s xp and become even more powerful. Long story short, villagers are just a sit up to bring the player in and the wools is to represent Steve’s normal colors as an reminder to the illagers that Steve is the most powerful being in the Minecraft world and his xp is so valuable. But that’s just me.
11:29: It's worth pointing out thatperhaps a more fundemental source of magic is destruction - killing, mining, smelting and harvesting could all be interpreted as destructive actions. For the purposes of this video, focusing the magical power of death is enough for us. However, I would like to do another video explaining this idea more fully, if you're interested.
Sorry for doing another one of these single-frame texts:it's a little bit harder to get ever since I transitioned to 60fps...
Also sub pls :D
This makes sense
thank you so much I couldn't pause in time
this is a lot darker than i thought it would be, and as someone who doesn't play a lot of minecraft and has never really explored the mansions, all the hidden rooms feel really ominous
Illagers: “I fear no villager, but that thing...”
*flint and steel.*
“It scares me.”
I don't get it
@@enricograsso5983 just burn down the mansions and outposts it kills them all quick
@@kingchris9167 big brain time, never thought about this.
But i like to kill them by hand and conquer the mansion turning it into my house
@@enricograsso5983 i see we're the same
@@enricograsso5983 Illagers build all of their stuff out of mostly wood.
my heart goes out to that one villager who lives alone with their "village" which is one house and one group of crops. they seem to be in very world. I'm praying for them bro they will never live in a raid, plus they rarely have a golem. rip my guy.
One weird thing is that illagers in general are, compared to villagers, also ignored by undead mobs.
Honestly, what we already know about Illagers is pretty horrifying. You'll notice they don't raid or steal from the villages they attack, their priority lies solely with performing genocide on every single one.
Perhaps Illagers are not entirely "human", as in they were genetically modified or mutated by an ancient disease?
@@jorgeramirez6060 I'd suspect they may have been the result of dark magic and experimentation on young villagers. You'll notice that Witches, another outcast group, are created similarly- by striking a villager with lightning. It is also worth noting that the mobestiary claims that Illagers are a completely infertile group, further adding room for speculation.
@@ethanotoroculus1060 I forgot you could turn villagers into witches, it definitely makes sense to asume some sort of dark magic
@@jorgeramirez6060 Even more so given that Mojang seems to have implied multiple times in the past that they're outcasts, and the fact that Illagers appear to wield it much more effectively than Villagers.
@@ethanotoroculus1060 yeah I think what they do is they kidnap the villagers then bring them to the mansion where they kill them to harvest their experience then put some sort of lapis implant into their brain (hence the big wool illager head with a lapis block in the middle) and give them a totem which somehow brings them back to life as an illager, this would solve the infertility issue that the mob bestiary talks about
"Why risk death just to go on vacation?"
Remember that this year, people.
Technically the survivability of Covid19 is high, but it's still very bad to spread it because there are still a lot of disabled people who will struggle a lot more through this pandemic
@@verdantmischief7092 Id rather have illagers tryina gun me down
Tbh I love going on a vacation in minecraft
This comment aged terribly well
You don't want Covid. It sucks
Now the timeline were the Illagers created the player and it was so perfect, that the player was sentient and turned out to be the thing the villagers nedded to save themself from the Illager
The totem of undying looks like a villagers with wings, possibly a villager angel. Since the totem gives you another life after a deadly blow and since it looks like a angel mabye theres a reason why it looks like that.. also they seem to be made of gold and emerald eyes. Since it uses magic to keep you alive after dying.. mabye since the evocer uses magic as well mabye they make it, because since when they die they drop the totem.. but if the totem is made of gold, emerald and XP. Then why cant the player make it?
Also love the vids! Its so fun and interesting to watch your deep dive into my favourite game mystery also if the villagers and the illagers built the villages and the mansion, then why dont they build blocks? Like more farms, houses e.c.t
New video idea!
Went in expecting some tinfoil hat conspiracy, came out a changed man.
Why don’t you believe in Christianity
@@Q_reezy everyone has there own opinion on religion considering it’s terms and conditions not all ppl will believe in the same god and even then not all Christians and Catholics think alike but they worship the same one Christians and other Christians don’t think alike (I myself am a Christian raised by born again Christians) now not all Christians are homophobic or transphobic or hypocritical if you ask her why she doesn’t believe in god remember that you don’t know someone’s life story so they might have formally believed but lost faith my advice is too help them but if they don’t wanna be helped or if they don’t wanna be taught leave them be...
@@unholythoughts1912 I disagree with your terminology "transphobic" and "homophobic". Just because you disagree with the lifestyle of someone doesn't mean you hate the person. Many and I will dare to say most Christians will rather agree to disagree and just walk away. Please don't try to make everyone look like monsters.
@@spets234 I’m sorry if you felt offended by anything I said all I said was that Some Christians don’t mind homosexuality other Christians do I’m expressing the fact that everyone portrays Christians as hypocritical and homophobic and/or transphobic I’m simply implying that not every Christian thinks alike
@@N1ch0lasH I’m a she and non taken
Everyone gangsta till he say, “What if the player is the result of the illagers successful experiment?”
Hahahahah
Successful? We players kill them for fun...
They accidentally created a unstoppable force, which is the player.
Maybe that's why we never die and just keep on respawning in minecraft.
@@mubarkazia1015 They went rogue and ran away.
This could be why vindicators do so much damage they use a strength potion
Wow such a thought provoking video! If the illagers made Steve, it would be so full circle for him to be their own destruction. I hope more secret rooms or illager related content comes out soon
The villagers are like the people from the Viking age British isles. Their development was stunted by pillaging invaders
You know what as a Scandinavian who found myself wanting to be one of the illagers (because the villagers look pathetic and dumb) I find this hilarious.
@@likira111 dang we got a pillager in the comments
Imagine playing in peaceful mode, and making the woodland your “starter base”, after lighting it up!🤣
Hahahaha i raided a mansion and used it as my home but I forgot where the chest room was, it was too big I regret it
Omg thx for 4 likes
Omg thx for 7 likes
Omg thx for 9 likes
@@Horsey-jo3qr i blew it up 😖
Do you think it's possible that the Totem of Undying is a totem used by the Illigers to ensure Steve never truly dies when killed, so they can endlessly farm him for experience? Zombies would be early trials that were unsuccessful.
On the other hand, if you clear out all the Illagers and light the place up, those mansions are fantastic bases for you. You can start repurposing the rooms with farms and make a completely self-sustaining base for you and all your friends.
"villages don't communicate, trade, or leave their cities"
>Wandering Trader
wandering trader was probably a normal villager until he tried scamming.
the village kicked the wandering trader out because of that
@@penguin4650 >implying villagers don't already scam the player
@@-AAA-147 i mean sharpness 5 for 30-64 emerald is pretty good deal.
wandering traders trade cactus for 1 emerald
I dont think wandering traders are related to villagers, like they obviously are of the same specie, but they dont behave in the same structures, maybe they were normal villagers that wanted some adventure or were interested in the world or helping their villages with rare items, while also benefiting economically.
@@penguin4650 sharpness v for 1 emerald and a book
Imagine the illagers knew about the ancient extinct civilazation or even lived alongside them and after they got extinct the evocers tried to recreate them, this is how the player entered the world. So Steve is from the same species as the ancient civilization but was recreated after the extinction of them
EXACTLY what I had in mind. They knew about the ancient builders, and maybe even colonized their old homes, aka the mansions (which kinda resembles ocean monuments ? 🤔)
And WHAT IF Illagers competed with the Builders for resources ? When the Illagers achieved « death magic », the Builders were overpowered, buried their resources and fled to ocean monuments, but that wasn’t enough and they went extinct.
Since then, the Illagers have been trying to re-invoke the Builders because they didn’t manage to « unlock » some of their science like the heart of the sea, or complex redstone contraptions ?
...ok I’m WAY too much into these theories right now 🤯
my life was a lie
then why would the illagers attack steve though?
@@adageorgescu8630 Because he is dangerous, think about it, who else is capable of killing an entire mansion but steve? Maybe when you spawn you actually just finished running away from a mansion, and the simple fact that you managed that made them worry
OOORRRRRRR STEVE IS THE LAST SURVIVOR OF THE OLD CIVILIZATION AND IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN TAKE INFINITE EXPERIENCE POINTS. That's the reason why they send patrols after you and when you kill one of them you get the bad omen effect.
This theory might also have to to with emeralds as the eyes of the totem have the same colour and maybe villagers are the only mob who knows how to get emeralds as they are extremely rare. Im thinking of that cuz evokers which are spellcasters carry emeralds and they might be using that as a material for their magic. This is just a though. Enjoyed the video keep up the good work!
The illagers trying to summon Steve is something I’ve never thought of
"Why do they construct statues of their heads and animals?"
Humans: Busts and statues of animals in almost every culture
This is true
We were furries all along... ;3
@@SupersuMC humans are animals... so everyone is a furry... wait only if it is a hairy person...
@@JellyAntz AroAce people arent furries then
@@magpietheclown lol true
Heres a weird fact, Villagers have armor and weapons, but they just dont use it no matter what happens
I'm think they make armor and weapons purely for trade.
Who's gonna use it then?
(Forget the player's existence)
they are pacifists
@@hanknewman54 why would pacifists make weaponry and armour?
That would explain the armorer and the tool smith. They keep it safe because, like the totem of undying is too rare to use for the Illagers, the armor is too rare for the villagers to use.
Illagers always reminded me of Orcs. I think they operate independantly but will come together to raid a village
I bet Notch is just watching this shit like: “Damn Bro…”
He straight up didn’t even make an origin story for the mobs and we’re all just like “screw it”
*Clicks Video* 😂
"have you ever wondered why we don't see villagers travelling?"
Wandering traders: am I a joke to you?
Miracle I saw once: a wandering trader.
INSIDE A VILLAGE.
@@omgem3669 😳😳😳😳
We don’t talk about them
@@omgem3669 bro they spawn in villages more often than anywhere else. Proof: I made a very compact village in a cobblestone house, and wandering traders spaw inside the house. The house is only 7 by blocks or so. Every time the trader died, a new one spawned in exactly the same corner, so...
I always see them in villages. (And other places, but less.)
@@kokoslegend4850
Oop. I thought it was rare. Sorry!
The time when he used the sound wololo is taken from a game Age Of Empires in which priests say it when converting other units
I have an opposing theory on why villages are so small: mojang doesnt want to improve villager pathfinding. Adding cities/nations ran by villagers without improving their pathfinding would mean more villagers walking around corners at night and more green robed villagers roaming all over the place because they cant properly locate their work stations
17:26 so nobody’s gonna mention the baby that fell in the gorge
the little sucker just walks right off the edge-
i’ve been laughing at this for the past 5 mins
Omg 😭
No.
Press R to pay respects
@v's melodies SPEK ENGLESH
Illagers: were the strongest ever now, we have a totem which means we have a second life!
Steve after dying for the 638th time: hahaha respawn go brrrr
The funniest thing is they never use their own totem lmao
@@LuisFlores-tx4ee lol
Steve:I CAN SPAWN FOREVER AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME
HARDCORE:hehe time to ruin this man career
That just lends credence to the "the player is summoned by the illagers" theory.
100th like lol
3:57 the abyss that villagers build their communities around results in close calls, they are in serious need of some city planning lol.
If the player was the experiment it must be a failed one as the illagers clearly don't hesitate to eliminate the player on site however they don't actively hunt the player perhaps they identify the player as a threat but not a major one and perhaps they are more focused on something far more powerful or a project far more beneficial when conserving their efforts to attempt to complete it, this project may be interdimensional travel and the player was meant to unlock the key to this travel however they doubted his efficiency or he/she was failed in some way so the player was abandoned although it's more likely the player was not the grand experiment the illagers completed.
Or they were too successful. Kind of like Mewtwo from Pokémon. Or the experiment is still on going. Now they're in the testing phase. Wait! Could this be why we can respawn?
I was going to say the ability to continue to respawn would be nuts but since he doesn’t drop any exp (if you haven’t done anything) he would be useless. But I don’t understand why they would take aggressive action against him, he is an undying madman. Being aggressive would only promote his anger and there is nothing they could do because he can continue to respawn, continue to grow, continue to try again. A fatal mistake for the illagers is death but for him, it’s a joke. That’s the only thing I can think of that is against your theory.
The player being one of their experiments is a really stupid theory since its obviously clear that we are just a human survivor of some sort of apocalypse, zombies literally look like steve but green, and skeletons are just that, long dead steves that came back to life.
There is so much mystery linked to evoker..... That guy might be the mastermind of all the sinister activities....
Yeah I didn't say that explicitly but that's what I was thinking
@@RetroGamingNow @Anjali Jasrotia
Then i am curious, what is the Ravager?
They surely aren't normal mobs. And they clearly hate villagers and also used by illagers for mounts. And that means other than the Vex, the Ravager is one of the mobs that clearly helps illagers and are both hostile to villagers and the golems. But the point is, do you think that Ravagers are modified mobs?
In Matpat's video he said that in Ravager noises do have some villager like noises.
And this maybe mean that ravagers are perhaps villagers that are buffed with a large amounts of xp and some evocation magic, so much that they turned into horrifying creatures.
But i am not sure : /
@@JustARando01 MatPar stayed they were regular villagers turned by Black Magic.
@@randomnessanimation6831 Oh Boy
1. Matpat
2. stated
3. black magic (there wasn't supposed to be any capital letters in an ending of a sentence except if describing thr name of someone or place/location or a title of something )
@@AstroxonAnimates They might change the appearance of the Illusioner to be more dark and menacing like the one in Minecraft Dungeons
13:02
RetroGamingNow: But the totem of undying has a much brighter tone, it's a similar color to something we talked about a few minutes ago...
me: emeralds
RetroGamingNow: experience.
me: ah
same xD
Same
DUDE LITERALLY THE SAME THING I THOUGHT ABOUT WITH THE SAME WORDS WTH
same
Love your camera and background music. These make your videos more of a documentary than a simple youtube video. Subscribed!
What's more interesting is the _names_ of the Illagers. The definitions of Vindicator are "a person who clears someone of blame or suspicion" and "a person who shows or proves something to be right, reasonable, or justified." Which implies that they're not just evil, but rather they feel they are in the right and justified in their opposition.
The name Evoker comes from the word evoke, meaning "bring or recall to the conscious mind" and "invoke (a spirit or deity)." Of course named this because they summon (or invoke) vexes and evoker fangs to attack. What's really odd though is that even though they drop Totems of Undying, they don't actually use them... even though they can (like all mobs) use them if you use commands to put one in their mainhand or offhand.
Another interesting thing, is that in Minecraft Legends (although its still unsure if anything in the game is canon or not) Villagers and Illagers are considered one and the same. They live together and act the same, and the Illagers are just Villagers with gray colored skin. But later on in the story the Illagers get curious about the war going on with the Piglins and want to help fight after finding one of the piglin mace weapons... Knowledge, Foresight, and Action are very reluctant, but decide to grant their wish and give them iron axes, transforming them into Vindicators. They actually help you as one of the troops you can use in battle, but in the final cutscene of the game it implies that they're grumpier and begin to be less friendly with the Villagers. If Legends is a myth/story told by the Villagers based on an exaggerated true event, then perhaps this is part of their canon origin somehow (but again... we don't know if its canon yet).
For those wondering, the single frame text at 11:29 says:
It's worth pointing out that perhaps a more fundamental source of magic is destruction- killing, mining, smelting, and harvesting could all be interpreted as destructive actions. For the purposes of this video, focusing the magical power of death is enough for us. However, I would like to do another video explaining this idea more fully if you're interested.
Thank u so much I even tried .25 speed and it was still so fast lol
Thanks so much for telling it here
Dear God this guy must've suffered to make this
But breeding is also a source of XP
@@someguy9421 that's a really good point, maybe its energy and you get it out of things, so a baby animal being born releases the life energy or something
Illagers: *Mysterious, raids villages, hiding in the woods, deadly*
Redstone Engineers seeing their outpost and Mansion: It's time for TNT Cannon!
It's time for another farm to get those totems
>:D
Mansion= cannon shooting range
Farm builders: "Today we shall build a raid farm to get infinite Totems of Undying."
Pyros: My time has come
what a video man! this is what I call quality content, I'm gonna binge watch all his deep dive videos now.
I have to say that I love your compositions for this videos. You have an interesting style, and it's rare to meet such a person, who composes in a classical styles and applies them to these essays. This whole video is a fantastic job.
i just thought of something you missed in the video.
I've noticed that whenever you go to kill a wander traders, they sometimes throw an invisibility potion. Maybe this relates to them "camouflaging" from pillager outposts when they pass by them, therefore allowing them to travel between places unharmed? All in all really detailed video and i enjoyed it.
they dont do it because u kill them its a thing they do at night
Dude they use the invisibility poison to hide from threats they do at night no be making things that don’t even make sense
No no hes got a point. This is actually a great theory
They do that in my modded world all the time it so annoying cause I have to follow the lead to kill him
@@moritro just sleep and then they wont use the invisibility
This makes so much sense. I think you're on to something here.
I'd never thought of smelting as destructive, but you are absolutely right. I'm watching this a year after you made it and I'm glad I found it. Great video! Subscribed.
These deep dive videos really change how I see the game while playing it
"illagers and villagers both have green eys"
*sad vindicator noises*
I think it's important to note that the player's ability to attract EXP, along with their seemingly unlimited capacity to store it, are HUGE anomalies. If the player is the result of the illagers' efforts, it'd make sense they'd only managed to make the one, as it'd either be some huge drain on their resources or take some exotic material. The player is an EXP magnet unlike anything else in Minecraft, the stuff being drawn to them even from long distances, and even being able to pull EXP out of villagers while they're alive. This would also suggest that villagers normally have much weaker EXP attraction and/or storage than even other mobs. Perhaps the illagers' grey skin is the result of them increasing their own capacity for EXP?
I'd also like to posit that the Totem of Undying's use as a death defiance may actually be entirely unique to the player, and could be caused by their wildly high EXP stores overloading and destroying the Totem as it releases one last spell imbuing life into the nearest entity, i.e. the player.
Maybe the way experience interacts with the player is unique. The illagers need the totem to gather experience from the "good" things!
I mean good like when you trade or breed animals, there's some experience involved.
You don't see anything like breeding or trading in woodland mansions or outposts.
Maybe the token is how the suck the good from the souls of their victims.
Well, that got dark pretty quickly!
@@ZetaFuzzMachine That's another possibility, but the strength/weakness of one's ability to attract and store EXP could still account for that... in an even darker way with regards to breeding, which I didn't consider. Ever notice how the EXP doesn't come from either grown animal, but instead shows up in the middle under the baby? What if the player's EXP attraction is so strong that it sucks the soul out of the newborn baby, the new body too weak to resist it?
tl;dr
@@basilschuman7159 totems of undying arent just for players maybe mobs that hold them gain the affects too (such as foxes holding them in their mouths)
Grg
I think the Illagers are just a complex society that sees themselves at higher level then us or villagers, and believes they can raid villagers with ease and no punishment.
"To them, villages are nothing more than farms"
Players with iron farms and trading halls: *laughs maniacally*
I thought the green in Totems was emeralds... It looks exactly the same
Me too.
Same here
same
maybe Emeralds power the totem of Undying along side XP which should make sense why vindicator's drop emeralds when killed they Fight of villages to get Emeralds and they get XP by farming and killing off other mobs n maybe they not trying to make Steve but they trying to summon someone or find someone through inter-dimensional travel n made the player Steve by accident which would explain the hostility towards players the someone they're trying to summon or find might just be herobrine
Same, at first i thought they raided villages for emeralds, and the evoker used some of the emeralds to decorate their totems
meanwhile in the mojang offices we're being laughed at for taking a cool update too far
I realize that this video is almost a year old, but I’d rather think that the eyes of the totem of undying are emeralds, powered by experience. The hull and the chassis is made out of gold, which has a special attraction to this magic and rather the experience is combiners with that gold and rare ore as the eyes. That’s my take on the totem of undying
I never thought I’d be creeped out by virtual Lego but here we are,
good video and footage!
“There’s a 1/50 chance of seeing a dead village.
Me who always find them: wow, never knew.
YES GUYS, I FINALLY FOUND ONE AN ALIVE VILLAGE IN SURVIVAL. 😭
Bedrock
Dead villages are more common in bedrock edition
@Kali Guglielmo that only adds up to 50%...is the other 50% not in villages?
Yeah whenever get to see a dead village It got raid😭😂
Me too
"so what do you do for a living"
*"i use towns as farms and make cursed totems that stops the inevitable"*
I LOVE the idea that the player is the result of Illager experiments. Explains so much with so little! Of course theres many other theories out there, bit that is one of my favorites
i enjoy listening to these deep dives, ur theory's are actually interesting, nice thinking :3
RetroGamingNow::
"they're the only mobs that are known to actively summon entities for help"
*Sad bedrock edition wither noises*
Also villagers in both editions summon iron golems
@@danielebarello212 villager don’t spawn in iron golems villages do
@@drunkenhighlord3198 nope the villager population do
"To the illagers, villagers are nothing more than farms"
This is like the promised neverland
Indeed it is,
Yup your right :D
Lol but what if the player is like the kids from Lamdo in Season 2 but the player was killed by the illagers, then experimented on to give them a different appearance, and then when they were brought back to life you were awake and the illagers to protect what they were doing erased your memories of them and told troops to drop you off a random location which is why sometimes *cough* most of my survival worlds I decide to do *cough* you spawn close to a village because the illagers put you there because they felt bad for the villagers and wanted to secretly help them.
This is just my brain going off and crazy into the theory that the player is or was.... part of the illagers plan
I WAS THINKING THAT TO MY GUY ISABELLA WHY ARENT YOU PLAYING MINECRAFT GRRL!
This documentary style stuff is awesome to put on in the background while doing math :) thank you for them Retro
10:48 "They're the only mobs known to actively summon other entities for help"
Zombies: Am I a joke to you?
This mans every time he decides to make a video:
“It’s big brain time.”
-insert galaxy brain wojak meme here-
small*
RetroGamingNow: **Makes whole theory on how the illagers are advanced**
Mojang: **wasn’t thinking of a lore when making them**
I know right , they should make a site of these things. This channel answers some questions which I never thought about it with reasonable theories unlike Mojang itself
I think this every time I watch a Minecraft lore video, are we reading too much into things lol
I dont think so i think the creators thought just as much if not more tha n you; that's my theory
@@Fusion7857_ RLLY so you mean that structure naturally create themself How is there a shipwreck And There Even. fossil
and soul and I don't think they are far. fetch. like at all even the mobisatry said that there
somthing with enderman so they definitely some lore
@@hassanhussain2310 don’t have to be so rude I just made a joke
I am truly amazed by your theories as I also imagined some things like that .
How did I not notice until now, the Totem of Undying is the shape of a villager with wings
This is why I like Minecraft.
So much mystery
Ye
An interesting thing to note is that cartographers sell maps leading to woodland mansions. This can easily show how, if not powerful, intimidating the illagers are. If the villagers were braver, or if the illagers were weaker, then the villages would immediately send iron golems to invade the woodland mansions.
I was just thinking about cartographers, maybe villagers are planning a rebellion, and the wanderer traders are spies that look for the illager structures, however, they are also interested in the player, so that's why wandering traders also randomly arrive at the player's base. (Sadly, they soon get killed for two pieces of lead)
@@malta9726 people don't realize putting the llamas into a boat will drop the leads 😭
I really like what you brought up with the XP and the Totems of Undying. I never realized how they were trying to build some End portal with wool. Makes me wonder.
I really like the theory that the illagers managed to resurrect an ancient builder (Steve) but he somehow escaped them.