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Throughout the world we can find evidence of a forgotten past. What are these structures, and how do they fit into the fabric of Minecraft's lore?
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Make certain you credit the TH-camrs whose video footage you used. I recognise a snippet - which started around 9:20 - as Grian's. (I'm still currently watching this video, however.)
Edit: Just got close to the end and saw "Other Sources" in your credits. I know one of them is Grian's video, however I suggest you place the video's title and the TH-camr who made that video beside (in front of or after it) the link you provide. Otherwise, the video is rather nice.
@@Raytay286x Yes, all sources are credited. I can put it as it happens next time to make it clearer.
@@RetroGamingNow when you pointed out the fact that ships are too small for endermen, you forgot that both jungle temples and pyramids don't have enough space too. The entrences are 1x2.
@@RetroGamingNow I just wanted to ask you why did you choose endermen as candidats of the once advanced species? Is it because you didn't want to theorize about humans being the builders to not being in the shadow of matpat?
I ask you because to be fair most of the structures you presented in your last videos are not built for endermen, the entrances are 2 blocks talll and the fact that endermen, the great powerful builders, couldn't defeat a dragon while a dude came out of nowhere can, is just ridiculous, plus the egg doesn't make the dragon respawn, the crystals do. Not only that but the fact that they can spawn in the overworld even tho you they were trapped in the end, as you said, disprooves the whole idea of them being defeated by a dragin tyrant
I don't want to insult your theories, it's just it feels ... to not make much sense
@@puffersaur6422 yea
When your entire security system is counteracted by milk.
And axolotls
Bruh i though your joke was about people who are allergic to milk
@Egg Egg egg egg yep. 3 Tnt and a trident solves it all.lol
Happy Dani noises
@@h3ftymouse i think dani cant be poisoned, at this point his blood is milk and orange juice
I’d like to point out that a nether portal is three blocks tall, perfect for an enderman
On the topic of nether portals, I don't believe he mentioned ruined portals or Piglins.
Same for mineshafts
Jit
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@@James-fg3ed the theory alrd mention that Enderman might or might not be had contact with them. And they don't need Minecart cuz the can teleport anyway.
i love how the guardians sound terrifying underwater but once on land you realize the water was just working as almost an amplifier.
17:10 The sponge is the real treasure. The gold is a red-herring, a distraction. The sponges are hidden in a room, so as not to be found as you have mining fatigue, as well as being stored inside the toughest mob in the temple
"Some big extinction event that destroyed this species." God who accidentally used / kill @e: sweats profusely
Lol
"so we just have to code the water... Noah you got this?"
Oh no, please God, don’t do that again plz
He actually would have used /kill @p, because only the builders died, no other animals
@@pandalla114 He actually would have used /kill @a since the whole race died.
Id like to see the extinction theory tbh.
Would be interesting
Im sure it was the tusken raiders.
It's the Phantoms! They hunt Steves with insomnia! They are also undead!
I would as well, I love Minecraft lore.
same bro
i like to think the ancient builders are the players from back in beta/alpha
A verified youtuber with no replies.Imma just reply
The salami lid fit bitch
LMAO THAT COULD BE CANON
theorists: ancient builders. yes, entities with the same, maybe even greater capabilities compared to the player. geniuses responsible for the historical man-made ruins.
ancient builders: *arm go brr*
i think they are those steve mobs that spawn in very very old minecraft
I feel like there’s still a mystery around prismarine. Prismarine can only be obtained by mining it from temples or from Guardians. This implies that the Guardians may have come first (the temple was built from harvesting them), but that they are also artificial. Or maybe they were built at the same time, just with a raw material we can’t access yet.
According to RGN’s theories, the Ancient Builders were not always here, which means they need to have came from somewhere. Maybe Prismarine came from that somewhere.
@@CALKULTIK According to Matpat, Prismarine has resemblance to oxidized copper blocks, which would make sense for a structure that has been around for a while. Then it was used to built the Guardians
Game mechanic or lore point?
That's something you always have to ask, for example, would you say that putting 2 water sources next to each other making infinite water a lore point?
No, cause it's a game mechanic
I'm one year late, but Prismarine can also be found in the small Drowned structures, as well as buried treasures. Maps to the latter are found in shipwrecks, yes, but also in the aforementioned Drowned sanctuaries by the way.
A thought: doesn’t the “heart” of the Ocean Monument bear resemblance to the “Heart of the Sea”? Dark blue/green exterior, golden interior. Perhaps the Ocean Monument is an attempt to make a bigger conduit?
Mega mind
BIG BRAIIIIN
My brain looks like does and tours look like caow dfruit
@Joshua Gribbin the lost city of Atlanta
@@JamesCharIes Do you mean atlantis or was this a joke?
When I saw the “includes paid promotion” I was like, “aw he got a sponsor that’s amazing good for him”
I couldn't believe it haha
I think the gold in the centre of the ocean monument is supposed to look like the heart of the sea when the eye is open.
@@justsomeguywithaforeheadmu6209 The heart of the sea came afterward... Do you mean the other way around?
Are you insane?
@@RetroGamingNow how. i qm minecraft theorised but no sponso
"since villagers still exist in the world today wouldn't they still be sailing and exploring?"
For anyone who has seen the movie Moana (I have, my sister spent a year watching it twice every three days), there is a logical explanation for that - dangers of the ocean. Perhaps they stopped sailing because their ships never returned...
Just an alternative theory I don't really think so myself but I would like to put that out there.
Maybe the ocean dangers explain the fossil bones which can be found. These could've been big creatures who broke the villagers ships, hence shipwrecks, and are the ancestors of current ocean mobs like guardians. However, some evolved to be peaceful and became squids, later finding glow ink sacks, consuming them and generating a glow effect on their skin, forming glow squids.
Sailing in MC means you run the risk of drowners and guardians beaming you so yeah agree
thats what i was thinking
then why don't the villagers have as advanced gear in the ships or at least some close thing?
BIGGG BRAIN
"...both subtle and hidden in plain sight."
So, subtle and subtle
Mojang when they see this: *yeah yeah lets go with that*
"Write that down, write that down!"
@@joshuaburrows2426 woah, a recent comment
@@joshuaburrows2426 Lmao, I died
me explaining the lore of minecraft:
My mom who just asked me how my day was:
LOL
I like That civilization screenshot
@Sathish Kumar ?
Same man
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In the enderman video, you noted how there was a flaw in why there was certain loot in the chests that are located in end cities. But the theory at 6:50 would explain that. If they were learning about enchantments, the ancient people would most likely teach or show them with armor as to not look like they were going to attack, and not give them any weapons to attack them with. Also, trade is one of the first things developed by people, so I’m going to assume that went on in the over world. That would explain the unenchanted items in those chests.
this has almost certainly been brought to you attention but in the minecraft bestiary art guardians are visibly mechanical
"Some mass extinction event killed them all off"
/kill @e
whatever did it must have had some high af chunk loading capabilities
That's what the E stands for
Legofan 98 e stands for entity.
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@@gilSPl The aoaoaoaoaoao isn't necessary.
L: laughing
M: my
F: f******
A: Ass
O: off
There's something I think hasn't been addressed by anyone about these shipwrecks. The armor in their chests seems to have a pretty high chance of being cursed. Maybe there's something there.
i'm 100% sure you're onto something
More people should see this, where did cursed enchantments come from?
(the vanishing curse)Maybe its a reference that when you die your riches and belongings doesnt go with you in the after life.
Because other than magic in minecraft existing, nen exists from hxh. Remember when they said that nen is stronger when the user dies and leaves a strong emotion like hatred so maybe most armor cursed was bcus their owners died cursing smthn? But then that leaves the question: who were they cursing, anyways L O L
@@bryleivanomay9265 something related to the monster i thinl
Who would've thought that a game where you literally just build stuff would have so much lore
1, its all speculative, nothing is set in stone and 2, its a sandbox survival game, what do you mean youre surprised it has lore? Have u ever seen subnautica?
In the end, even mojang said that it’s up to the player to create their own lore
@@Vize_David0404yeah, it was confirmed
It's a game where you literally just build stuff. The lore is one of the things that you build, and the game sensibly provides you with resources to build it from - just like it provides you with resources to help if you ever want to build your own video game (like command blocks).
I personally saw the sunken ships from pirates and looters, they're cursed and full of treasures, maybe they're trying to find heart of the sea's to loot the ocean monument, the drowned are simply the dead cremates cursed to be undead. Of course anything is possible and your theory is pretty cool! This was a really good video.
Yeah they are just humans, whether they are player-like humans or villager-like ones, it doesn't matter, i mean we already got illagers and witches so
The Illager, Pillager, and Villager family needs explaining. The piglins also seem to suffer from a plague similar to whatever killed the builders.
Could you elaborate on the plague? I dont understand where you are coming from.
I think the nether had the plague first and that it was the Builders' forays into the nether that brought it to the surface and killed them off
@@The_Jovian well to support your plague, let's say that it was caused by pigmen or pigs' consumption of nether warts. Since the main use of nether warts is for brewing, its more likely that it has mutagenic properties that changes to make new stuff out of it. And since pigmen are supposed to be inhabitants of the village, you might guess why the builders took them to the nether with its very rich gold deposits. So, plague broke out (either by meat consumption or pigmen go crazy and must kill) and it reached the overworld, making zombies(variants took more time to appear). The current piglins and hoglins are the pigs creatures that adapted to their environment. The reason probably from their zombification is from uv exposure from the sun, triggering the "brewing" part. Skeletons are probably soul sand stuff.
@@erisniles435...
If you take a piglin into the Overworld (or End, but without cheats thats not possible without crossing the Overworld) they turn into a zombie; which to me at least suggests that the virus was created as a bioweapon against them.
@Nikolay T ...
You could, but said Piglin would still be exposed to the Overworld, even if briefly and as such is contaminated.
Honestly with this I think we're close to a full timeline. From the beasts that became fossils all the way to spawn
Yeah the fossils are something I'm not sure I've covered yet. But it does seem to work well with this theory now that you mention it - good thinking
@@RetroGamingNow there also in the nether which is the mantle in this minecraft world
+ if you think about it the piglin maybe the desendents of this bouilders + not to mension sea monster as in kraken like beast so glow squid
@@piglin469 I find it hard to believe that piglins are decendents to the builders, I don't think that much evolution can take place in such a short amount of time (which is why the matpat theory to me doesn't really make that much sense), but i see where your coming from.
@@litteral2x497 I haven't spent the time to really sit down and think about the Piglins - but that will probably be a future video.
@@litteral2x497 Maybe there ther own species the nether may have its own evolotionary treee but they just look like pigs
Something else to support this theory:
During the event where the players could vote for a mob to be added, where the Phantom won, there was an actual Sea Monster, much like some kind of giant squid, that would most likely work as a Miniboss or even a full fledged boss.
Again,
SEA MONSTER
"Maybe we don't know the recipe for it yet."
Que thousands of people now trying to place prismarine and make guardians.
they drop fish to.
I feel like this is all leading to a glow squid boss
Spirit squids in the new Minecraft update
I knowwwwwww XD
Yeah
It already exists. It's called Dream
I think that might be a future update, maybe harder then the ender dragon!
How do we know the player isn’t the last of the builders? Perhaps when you create a world, the player was already there...
Then how come we can go into multiple worlds and why does the player not age if that is the case
Well, the player kinda wakes up in the middle of nowhere with practically no knowledge on anything, similar to a newborn. I don’t think an edvanced species would leave what’s pretty much an infant to die in the wild
Player was part of the builders but suffered some form of amnesia from whatever happened before. Exploring through the lands and finding the ruins and structures, they slowly learn about the truth and what went down before??
Multiplayer
@@haroldfleming2249 if you consider it, you’d have to play minecraft for years to even run through the same lifespan a human would go through if we consider a Minecraft day as a human day
One of my main problems with this theory is where did the prismarine come from then if not found anywhere naturally? I also think there’s too much coincidences going on with the Enderman for them to not have a larger role in the story.
We also now have a lot more to think about now with the ancient cities and soul remnant things.
Another thing, the ancient builders worked so hard to make underwater temples and just to hide mostly gold and sponges right. Gold being the most important thing there, maybe it’s related to the piglins somehow.
2:35 Funny you should say that, in the ocean monument level in minecraft dungeons, statues that eerily represent villagers are seen throughout the monument, and even follow you if you have a conduit.
Me being the little idiot I was originally thought that the heart of the sea could be crafted with a stick to make a lollipop. I also realized that you began to talk about a squid who’s eyes had magical properties, The glow squid is going to come out soon and maybe that’s the evolved form of squid that the ancient builders hunted long ago?
@Amulya T well that was wrong
@Amulya T wth are you even talking about
I found glow squid in a little river
we can all agree that Glow squid is the absolute worst, Dream made our lives a tiny bit horrible and he did a horrible thing and he only did it for fun which is bad and Amulya T is a child
matches your pfp
It's like I'm watching a Game Theory video except you don't make unfunny jokes every few minutes
MatPat is ok, but tbh it really does feel designed for humor. I'm not bashing it, but I prefer the slower-paced, thoughtful approach
@@RetroGamingNow i like both styles tbh. Though i think the gametheory style of animation / description does a little bit more to make people understand the "idea" MP is talking about by showing it and describing it, instead of just describing your ideas and putting up background footage like most people would.
Not to say that i think your style is crappy, not at all! You do a better job with your theory crafting than a lot of other channels do, and i love it. I just think gametheory has had more time to figure out more powerful ways of getting viewers to understand what's being said. /shrug
Yes, I have really had a problem with his 'jokes' and whatnot. The jokes are quite cringeworthy, even when he's self-aware about it. I don't think MatPat is a terrible person, he's a good man. I think he's... well, a kinda good-but-can-do-bad-person (Coronavideo virus as evidence).
I still really like his videos on Minecraft, and other games.
it’s like I’m watching game theory but it’s not shit
It does have some of the same problems as GT in my opinion. Just because two things share qualities doesn’t mean they necessarily are connected. For example: A. end cities have been built by someone. B. endermen can move blocks. Therefore endermen must have made the end cities despite there being nothing in the actual game that supports this. Endermen are never seen to built these cities, collect the resources used to built these cities or even have any type of interaction with the end cities. It’s just endermen live in the end, end cities are in the end therefore end cities must have been built by endermen. It’s kinda like how he said in his previous theory that shulkers make enderpearls. Nothing in the game supports this, he just made a connection to serve the theory. If there isn’t anything in the actual source that supports the theory the theory doesn’t hold up.
Here's a thought:
What if the oceans were once dry in the enderman built the Ocean monuments during that time only for them to be inhabited by guardians and their elder guardian counterparts resulting in the flooding of the oceans. What if the reason enderman as a species are allergic to water is because they were cursed by the elder guardian(s)?
So the ocean were dry and they made guardian with no legs and made it a fish even though there is no water?
This theory doesn't make sense, even because endermans don't know how to build, they wouldn't even need temples to inhabit considering the limited space.. Yes, I know of the theory that the Endermans built everything, but it just doesn't make sense, how could such an intelligent race have originated in such an empty place and with nothing? How could anything originate in the End? I believe that not even the dragon is from there...
@@vitoremanuel4374 well enderman are local to the end.
@@ItsMeWindmill This is not to say that they developed there. I am a firm believer in Matpat's theory of endermans, in the case that they are the ancient race of builders long lost and enslaved.
@@vitoremanuel4374 Yeah, but the problem is that in Minecraft dungeons there is the heart of the ender which is the orb of the dominance and in the newest update there are different varieties of the enderman. Which means the enderman are native to the end
Dude I swear if a “Minecraft” school ever existed, you would be that #1 teacher we all know
I wonder why nobody has done a theory about the end poem (the thing appears when you defeat the dragon and return home).
That thing is so mysterious, it is even messing with real life you, not only your minecraft character.
Game theory did it is called the ending of minecraft decoded
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@@redsky4016 but didn't they explain it with something like "they are gods so advanced that they know that they're inside a game" or something? I mean it would make perfect sense, I'd just like to have a more "in-universe" explanation
HOLY- I just searched it up on Google and that is DEEP. Mojang had NO RIGHT going there lmfaooo
Your right someone is talking to someone else to
Ide like to point out that villager cartographers have maps to the ocean monuments
And also that the guardians have unibrows similar to villagers
I'm almost certain that villagers are descendants of the builders. After all, they have both ocean maps and brewing stands (which are Nether-native)
@@internetperson9813 also if you consider mc dungeons canon there are villager statues in the sea
@@algerianmonarchist8017 what if the guardians are mutated villagers? Kinda like MatPat's theory where he talked about Ravagers being mutated villagers experimented on by the illagers
@@weirdcorequipo2942 maybe they could be cursed villagers, but then again they do seem mechanical in nature, similar to golems, you know who also makes golems, villagers
I agree with your theory that the ancient builders had something to do with the ocean monuments, but if that's the case where'd the prismarine come from?
You can't find it naturally in any of the three dimensions. The only place you can find it is in the ocean monuments and the guardians.
I believe this could hint at an undiscovered dimension, but this is only speculation. Unless they add a way to get prismarine naturally in a new dimension or way to craft it without shards it will remain unanswered.
That ancient civilization was in fact much more advanced, they probably learned to make these blocks with local resources... Let's face it, for a civilization that built guard fish robots, making an 'abnormal' block is easy.
Yeah, as said, the ancient builders might have had advanced science that Steve just hasn't learned yet. The elytra being a prime example, on a lesser scale how diorite, andesite, and granite used to be uncraftable but Steve eventually gained knowledge how to
The ancient builders made the ocean monuments for the purpose of making it as a sacred place where they worship some god. It was state on game theory by matt pat
I also think there's some interesting things to be derived from the construction motifs and block palettes; the overall architecture of the monument looks very similar to the jungle temple combined with the desert pyramid, and they all seem to favor blocks that have a cobbled texture. Almost like different peoples made the temples and then the later civilization took inspiration from them in building the monument...
Personal head canon: the Nether was used for resources (mainly potion related) but was evacuated after the spawning of the Wither (which is why the portals were broken). Those killed by the Wither became Wither skeletons, whose only motive is to protect their fortresses from the Piglins (the Nether’s native species). The Undead plague/curse spread into the Overworld anyway, leading to the extinction level event and explaining where everyone else is. The cells in the Strongholds might have been used for quarantine. I like the idea that the plan was to escape into the End, but since only one in 1 billion portals is ever actually open in-game this seems unlikely. Our character has to know what he’s doing, since the odds are low that you would happen to coincidentally open portals to other worlds. So here we go: Steve is a shipwrecked sailor during the Undead apocalypse who is trying to gather resources to survive and open an End portal in search of his friends while learning the truth about the Wither. Along the way he must descend into the deepest caverns, seek out the terrible Woodland Mansion, and venture into the fiery depths of the Nether. And all the while he is being watched by a nearly identical replica of himself who lacks eyes.
Probably just described a better Minecraft movie than the one we’ll end up getting.
That's epic.
Imagine this animated into a ninety minute movie (In the plastic blocky style Mojang uses for their update trailers). Maybe incorporate Alex in there somewhere as well. A companion of Steve would be a wolf, as he recruits it early in his journey. Eventually his furry mate dies during his fight with the Ender Dragon or a village raid. Still lots of ways to go, as I am semi-concerned of how the Minecraft Movie will take place.
Ok, I agree with your theory, but what about this: Herobrine is the last surviving Builder, and years of isolation have caused him to hate players. The Enderman are builders that evolved, but over time forgot their building techniques. They attack people who look at them because they consider themselves superior. A new race was born, but they are very simple, and therefore rely on the guardians that were created by the Builders. (Think about it. Iron Golems are covered in vines and are clearly ancient.) From them, another race is born (The Players). The Player is then spotted by Herobrine, who thinks they are one of the long lost Builders and is angry because he thinks he was alone. He attacks the Player using long-forgotten magic, and the two battle for years. The Illagers are servants of Herobrine who are a subspecies of Villagers and are far more evolved. They 'raid' villages hoping to find and kill the Player. During the battle, the Player discovers the temples and learns about the history of the world. Now the Player goes to the Nether and finds the fortress. All over the fortress are signs of life, but the only life forms here are Blazes and Wither Skeletons. The Blazes are spirits of war and are commanded by the Wither Skeletons, who (I agree with you on this) are Builders who were infected. The infections spread to the overworld, losing strength in the portal. After defeating the Wither, the Player finds another clue. An Enderman (Because in the new update Endermen are in the Nether) some of the Endermen found a way out of the End, but are still stuck in the Nether, and can only travel to the Overworld when the moon is up. The Player travels to the end, hoping to free the Endermen only to find that they are serving the last surviving Ender Dragon after they slew the rest of the species. Now, after destroying the last Dragon, the Player regains all the knowledge of the past (What if exp. is knowledge?) and attempts to subdue Herobrine, and now we're at the present...
...Yes. Good. Very good. God I hope the movie is as good as this.
@@drakebloodknight7981 me too
Fun fact: there are disturbing noises of a possible sea monster when exploring deep underwater in Minecraft and that explains why there are so many shipwrecks in the oceans. That also explains why many of the shipwrecks are destroyed like broken in half and why guardians are so protective of their monuments.
Edit: perhaps the sea monster looked similar to the common squid but much bigger as guardians are very hostile towards squids. The sea monster had to be at least as big as the biggest shipwrecks you can find as the monster had to be powerful enough to sink these ships. These squid titans could also have caused the demise of the ancient builders.
My theory goes that as the ancient builders were carrying cargo across the ocean plenty of times and at any given moment, there are at least a few hundred ships sailing. Their economy was booming when the thing arrived. It was massive. Bigger than anything the ancient builders have ever seen before. It destroyed any ship that passed by, often ripping the ship into small bits. Not even the guns on board the ships did anything to the creatures. Sea travel became impossible as more and more of these creatures appeared. The ancient builders were stuck. As the creatures learned how to mutate squids in some way that is unknown, they turned squids into minions. The creatures even learned how to slightly mutate the squid minions and mutated the squids into ultra aggressive spider-like creatures. These can still be found today as spiders. Anyway, the mutated squids started to attack the ancient builders and spread a desease across the ancient builders. I would presume that the virus would then go on to kill all ancient builders, turning them into either undead versions of the ancient builders, or a live skeleton. Some ancient builders tried to flee to the nether, but the virus followed, turning the ancient builders into wither skeletons or killing them altogether, releasing their soul energy in the air and ground causing some sections of the soul sand Valleys to be created. Eventually, the creatures died out as their main food source died out or simply wasn't enough to sustain them. Anyway, the guardians kept on protecting the ocean monument and killed any squids nearby, fearing that these squids would kill their masters, elder guardians. This is where we are today.
Thank you for all the replies. They encouraged me to make this theory. Anyway bye. Feel free to give your opinions on this theory in the replies.
Yes i didnt heared that yet. And what could the cave sounds be? Maybe some myterious entity.
@@nether322 The wardens cry?
@@LetThereBeChaos That would be the most terrible crying I have ever heard.
@@LetThereBeChaos but... *the wardens haven't been in the game yet*
There could have been actual sea monsters in the game, but people voted to add Phantoms instead
As the first video I watched from your channel, I was immediately invested in your videos, thank you for making them and keep up the good work
I'll be honest, been watching some of your theories right now... I think you and MatPat are on the right track. For example, your theory on villagers and illagers works a lot better and makes a lot more sense than MatPat's take on the illagers but MatPat's story surrounding the ancient builders and enderman I think is a lot stronger and more concrete than your own (due to the loot and structure design throughout all three dimensions telling a long overarching story).
So, glad both of you shared ya thoughts.
Theory: The Heart of the Sea came from ancient large Glow squids or that unused mob in MineCon Live that used to roam the seas
Makes sense
My canon now is that there was a kraken that went extinct.
Imma just say something real quick, 8 gold blocks and an apple used to make an enchanted golden apple in older versions of minecraft and there are only 8 blocks of gold in each monument. There could be a theory that the prismarine combined with an enchanted golden apple could create the guardians and elder guardians, or it was used to revive a long dead species for more hearts of the sea.
actually there is only 4 blooks of gold in a monument
@@shardydean1697 two squares of 2x2 gold blocks makes 8 soooo
@@alansheng815 yeah just figured that out thanks for pointing it out
ThaAAAAaat is a good theory I’m impressed
Im pretty sure he referenced that in a future video of the builders using god apples to curb the undead virus, nice prediction!
Also, remember one of the possible mobs from the mob vote a few years ago? One was the “Monster of the Deep”. Fits pretty well.
One other thing. What about the fact that guardians drop fish when killed?
super intelligent cod that have big mech suits.
I think you forgot something. Why do guardians and elder guardians drop raw cod? It's not supposed to happen in mechanical beings unless if guardians are semi-mechanical like in Banjo-Kazooie where there's a live shark being transformed into a mechanical thing.
10/10 for you sponsored post actually being interesting. Like it’s a cool gadget that you would already use, and you didn’t talk about it for 5 minutes. 👏🏼
Have you seen the price 😟😟
@@jurxhlive7814 no but im sure its £42
Here's an idea: the players inhabited the world, but factions of them grew greedy (especially for gold). Those who went after gold were cursed to look like pigs, and exiled to the nether.
I would like to think gold was used as money because of how useless it is in actually crafting.
I think they were just some mammals who went to nether and evolved there but they were not nether inhabitants That's why they are not fire resistant, they evolved into two hoglins and piglins, piglins were intelligent and they know how to craft do they created armours, weopons and bastions when ancient civilizations meeted them they become friends and ancient civilizations gave them iron and diamond, which was helpful for piglins, thay can craft crossbow which was more powerful than golden swords(it wasn't crafted ancient civilizations because skeletons don't know how to use crossbows) and diamond gear can be used in emergency but some people starts destroying bastions and stealing stuff, some Piglins and hoglins even went to overworld and they become zombies, no one wants that there species become zombies and zoglins were hostile to everything so our species was a problem for them but piglins were blinded by greed so some strong and brave piglins became piglin brute and that's why they are always hostile to player and
I just wanna say that prismerian blocks aren’t found any where else besides ocean monuments so where did those blocks come from, another dimension? A type of ore that isn’t in the game yet?
Perfect. Another lore idea for my Minecraft survival series
i still think it's unfair to rule out villagers like that. reminds me too much of how many pre-20th century archaeologists denied that many ancient ruins (mesa verde, cahokia, and other mounds/cities in the US; great zimbabwe, mwenemutapa, and others in southern africa, etc) were built by the ancestors of the local indigenous peoples and were instead built by lost phonecians or vikings or romans or whatever.
perhaps whatever event created the undead hordes destroyed a villager civilization that has only reverted to an agrarian lifestyle out of pragmatism? it happened in north america and southern africa at the onset of the little ice age in the 1300s, as both of these civilizations largely abandoned their cities to become farmers and foragers. it happened to the maya of central america, to much of medieval europe after the fall of rome, and to much of the eastern mediterranean at the end of the bronze age collapse. civilizations come and go but many of the people still remain.
That’s an interesting point - I don’t come from a history background so I honestly don’t know much about archaeology. I still think that the physical differences seem to be an issue, assuming we do think that the zombies/drowned are the ancient builders.
I agree, after all, the desert piramids are extremely similar in construction style and building materials to desert villagers. The undead do get unexplained, but there are illagers capable of controling them, so may be artificial creatures similar to iron golems, guardians or ravagers but made with raw meat and dark sorcery. After all, illagers are the only mob seemenly capable of actually casting some sort of spells. The evoker do generate undead with one, after all.
@@RetroGamingNow Also know the illagers are the same species but different race as the villagers, and show advanced tech skills. Maybe the villager ancestors built these structures, and than this plague event broke down their development and only now they're like reaching a medieval type timeline of recovery. The zombies are are human like the drowned, so maybe they came to this "new world" that's what we see, and discovered it through these sunken ships, from the "Old world". They discovered resources which made them make the mineshafts, and they discovered the monuments and found out the key to getting through them; the heart of the sea structure. The monuments and underwater ruins likely were there long ago in the ancient times, but flooded with rising sea levels, which caused the villager race to move to higher levels, and become a peaceful, isolated society. They do connect however through the wells and the wondering traders so there is an economic system plus emeralds. Maybe gold used to be the ancient currency. Interesting theory though...
Villagers can build since you can see how they break wheat and place new seeds, they just simply don't feel the need to build anymore. I think the temples are simply ancient abandoned villager societies.
Perhaps the villagers appearance and clothing style are the result of a particularl group surviving the extinction event, and the traits became more common as the communities progressed. Kind of reminds me of the story behind Tazmilly village too.
Ocean monuments could have been made with only such little gold to show how unadvanced the civilization was at the time of construction. The monument could have been built before there was ocean. Since there were eventually crashed ships and other temples above surface and nether fortresses, it seems like 8 gold blocks seems a bit too much to build a whole monument for them (as you said). It could represent how primitive the civilization was at the time of constructions, and the ocean monuments are older than everything else. Could even go as far to draw the connection that in nearly every culture in the real world, a great flood came and destroyed everything before it. Though ofc this doesnt explain guardians, shipwrecks, and such. Just a comparison I drew
Lol
Or... The biggest treasure in the monuments is SPONGE
like really, u can't find it outside the monuments
@@benismann that's true I forgot sponges were in there
@@ShadoZP everyone forgets about sponges
it shows that the worth of gold could have been much greater because gold may have been very scarce.
It's also interesting that the top level of the dessert pyramids is perfect for a full beacon that can give similar effects to a conduit
I have a theory that underwater monument is actually a gigantic mobile submarine, and those gold blocks in its heart is actually its core, used to operate it. Underwater monument is their peak in technology.
That also explains why they could so easily create robot guardians
17:05 the monuments dont just protect the gold blocks - but also the sponges which are stored in a secret room in the monument and are used to drain water (also a limited and very rare item, and the elder guardian also drops them)
but now you gotta think - which one of these species would need sponges? enderman?
Perhaps a civilization that was literally being drowned and needed a way to escape
I miss the day where people claimed herobrine is the reason of every structure exist
Honestly, he could become apart of lore
@@chillfactory9000 he may
Herobrine has existed but is deleted in the 1.15.3 update or something
@@ritsh_ Correction: Every update
7:40 Tnt also spawns in the mansions in secret rooms.
Of course Illagers might have discovered the ocean monuments but they probably didnt make it as there is no clear reference of that whatsoever in the game
I really enjoy how serious all of these are
Bro the freakin Ancient Minecraft would be more fun than the one we spawn in.
I would pay someone to make a mod about that
Actually if your being honest if we went backwards by like 10,000 years we would spawn in a world of empires and domination. With builders and netherite being easier to mine. Think about how connected the world would be
truuuuee bro that actually sounds sick
@@doges_6864 that would be freaking awesome!!
@@australium7374 so cool
One thing about the End cities and End ship is that they have rooms and doorways too low for an Enderman to walk through or inside of, which is the only reason why I think the End structures weren't built by the Endermen themselves. You took the low height of the rooms in shipwrecks into considerations in this video so I'm going to also assume that the build sizes aren't just some artistic liberty.
I don't really think that Endermen being originally builders or vice versa are any more likely than each other since they both have glaring holes, I'm leaning more to the possibility that Endermen are something else completely different.
Very fascinating angle with the Heart of the Sea actually being some sort of navigating tool. If that's what they are they're almost like the Eye of Ender with how it can navigate the stronghold. While obviously not being an actual mechanic in-game, it would be interesting if they were used to find your way towards an ocean monument in addition to it being a key (just like how the ender eyes are keys to the End portal).
I guess the guardians are one of the two hostile mobs without object permanence alongside Ghasts. Nice spot with the resemblance to underwater mines, I never noticed that and that's probably one of the developers' inspirations for their design now that I look at it. I'm not sure if guardians are really attracted to conduits explicitly, I'd have that tested that thoroughly in a controlled environment before claiming it's a game mechanic. It's also possible that Guardians are just attracted to the light emitted by the conduit and they'd do the same with sea lanterns?
I'm definitely looking forward to your take on what the apocalyptic event is. I have a small theory that the purpose of the 8 gold blocks at the center of the ocean monument might serve some sort of healing function. This is related to how the Golden apple is a healing item and the healing potion uses glistering melon which is crafted with gold nuggets. The totem of undying is also gold in color despite being uncraftable, though the same is true for bells.
Also, 8 blocks of gold is what you needed to craft the now uncraftable Enchated Golden Apple, it might be a coincidence but it's a pretty interesting connection.
Perhaps the original builders visited The End before the whole Dragon mess happened? Who knows, maybe the ships are meant for both Enderman and Builders to use
@@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard Then the builders underestimated the height of Endermen, or they didn't , since an Enderman can't get in the storage room, without teleporting
There was this youtuber which basically made the theory that an apocaliptic event could be related with the invocation of the wither and how an ancient civilization was trying to find a power source but failed and created it instead and thus were wiped out by him, until the player kills him and is able of using it's power o rebuild civilization.
As a Dutch person, I approve of the image from the ship replica in Amsterdam. There are a few in different museums built by different shipyards and stuff around the country for people to visit and as a way to teach history. Never been to one myself though haha
Just stumbled upon your channel with the enderman video. Its good shit man! I subbed.😅 Just got back into Minecraft after a year or so off. Your videos are really gettin me back into it and making me wanna play even more.
i luv the part where u put a coronavirus image over the underwater bomb. lol. I want more of these vids pls :D
I bet if mogang watched deep dives they would be like "wow I didn't think of that"
I mean Mojang is pretty clearly adding these things to give flavor to the world not because they are telling a story.
@@hedgehog3180 ik lol thats kinda the point of the joke
@@hedgehog3180 I mean, I doubt there’s a defined story but they’re definitely giving items similar appearances to each other to make the player come up with different theories
I've compiled a bunch of theories and questions about this series so I'm just going to repost them in one on all these videos to increase the odds of them getting answered or maybe even made into videos
1. Do you think somewhere in the minecraft world there's a lost disk called disk 12?
2. something I want to know is what a respawn anchor is supposed to be because respawning is not something that actually happens in universe but with the bed its obvious that the actual in universe use is just for sleeping but the respawn anchor only sets a spawn point so what's it actually doing in the context of the world?
3. What are the differences between different forms of undeath? We see Zombies, husks, Zombie villagers, zombie horses, zoglins, zombie pigmen, and drowned who all just have decaying skin. Skeletons, wither skeletons, strays, and skeleton horses who just keep their bones then we see Phantoms who have a more ghost like appearance. Also as an addon to that what is a ghast because I always thought it was a ghost but it isn't so maybe it conveniently evolved like squids or something.
4. Something that I find interesting is that other creatures when inflicted by the zombie virus seem to become mindlessly violent but when horses and piglins become zombified they act mostly normal, with piglins specifically the only differences are they seem to not have the full intelligence of normal piglins because A they don't still trade and B they only spawn with Swords and don't use cross bows. Another weird detail is that zombified piglins are immune to fire which is a huge red flag for a couple of reasons because one normal piglins aren't fire immune but most other undead creatures are particularly weak to fire. Another undead mob that has weird contradictions to most undead mobs are the zombie and skeleton horses which also keep their normal friendliness and seem to be the least far gone of these undead mobs not only being still domesticatable but being even easier to domesticate. I originally assumed that the undead virus only makes humans violent but that is simply not true because Phantoms and the wither are also not friendly. The biggest weird detail in all of this is that other undead mobs seem to still see these creatures as natural allies with skeletons riding skeleton horses and withers never attacking anything that is already undead.
5. I think that the fox is most likely the most intelligent and possibly important mob that's completely a wild animal (meaning it has no building ability, doesn't exist in its own structure, can't trade, and doesn't have the ability to create a full society) I think that because they are one of 6 mobs that sleep (you, villagers, foxes, 3 illigers) which as you established in the Phantoms video is already important they also have the ability to do several other things that very few can do including using totems of undying, enchantments on weapons, and chorus Fruit, and also can sometimes be seen holding emeralds that weren't given to them and seem to care about them a bit more than other non food items which may have even inspired the villagers to hold a similar appreciation for emeralds although that and the rest of this is just speculation I think two possible explanations for this are that they could be some sort of ancestor to either villagers or ancient builders although it's kinda hard to place because they have the emerald connection to villagers but can do other things like defend themselves although it could be a common ancestor for both and then my second idea take a trip even further through speculation town and a bit into the early stages of creepy pasta Avenue with the possibility that they once were villagers or ancient builders (again it's kinda hard to place) who were turned by a magic enemy with the most likely culprit being the illigers but another possibility is that the illigers themselves might have accidentally turned some of there kind into foxes although that's unlikely because foxes are only hostile when something attacks it first and even then tend to prefer running away. Anyway foxes have a ton of weird and specific properties that I'd love to see your interpretations on.
So those are all my pitches.
Maybe the guardians used to have legs? Now they only have those little pokey bits on the sides, or something. If they had legs/hands then they could have built the underwater temple, which would explain the sponges dropped by the wisest and oldest of the guardians that might have been the original builders? If they weren't able to breathe under water already. Just a thought. Great video by the way! ( I know I'm late lol)
I’d never think I’d spend my 16th birthday watching Minecraft theories but here we are
happy late birthday
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Happy late birthday!
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The thoery of the guardians being mechanical was comfirmed by the minecraft devs
Omg, what if the guardians are controlled by the cod fishes (because the guardians Drop cod fishes)?
@@deliriushunter lol it can be true :)
@@deliriushunter what about elder guardian
@@kingmystery8425 Hmm, not sure about them. Maybe they are controlled by a guardian, who is controlled by a cod, or maybe its just a cod.. But the elder guardian is an odd one.
@@deliriushunter maybe a salmon which is bigger or maybe a *"glow squid"*
Really loved that Civ6 tech tree reference!
My villager army is growing, We are almost ready.
Can you please do a theory about the ancient bones and fossils found underground? What kind of creatures lived before the player spawns?
Giant
It may be giant zombies fossils
It's likely that it's the Giant Zombie, which is a secret hidden mob with no AI on the Java Edition
@@phoenixgaming-plakadrakes6235 that’s a good thought, maybe it is
Maybe nether dinos?
New subject in school: minecrafthistory.
I saw you on recommandion, now i'm in love with your channel.
Been watching your minecraft teories for more than a hour feeling curious
"These aren't little boats made up of 5 wood"
Mobile players: no there not made up of five wood. There made up of five wood and one wooden shovel.
Not mobile players, but bugrock players
Bedrock you mean?
@@drev9728 I call them bugrock
@@amxpc Minecraft pocket edition and bedrock edition are the edition with different name tho
@@redrealite They were pocket edition but now its replaced by Bedrock Edition. The edition that is pretty much in every single platform. Maybe not Linux, and I don't know about MacOS either
I thought I'd mention: The heart of the sea texture looks like an enderpearl that was cut and put back together
I mean it's just a sphere.
@@Azarilh true, they do have that as the main feature XD
But look at it, it kinda does. Though a problem is it's a bit brighter color than an enderpearl, so maybe enderpearls are filled with a darkness or the end gateway stuff normally, but when removed it's brighter? idk but something worth wondering
@@orbismworldbuilding8428 No. We know that the heart is actually an eye, as we can see the pupil when it's open. Thus it can't be a cut sphere as the line is just the eyelids.
And when it's open there is no cut sign.
@@Azarilh It was a hypothetical, atleast as to how it's made. Think of eye of ender, it's made from an enderpearl and is an eye, the heart might be constructed from an enderpearl and opens/looks like an eye after, like the eye of ender does.
There isn't a crafting recipe for the heart, but it might have a similar way of crafting it in the first place by the civilization that made it
5:15 as a Civ player, I love this.
Many of these theroies line up well with MatPat's theories.
The endermen experimented with interdimensional travel and got an immortal dragon
The ancient builders experimented with life and death and got undead
Two reflecting stories of hubris
seems like a really solid theory. i never knew the guardians were attracted to conduits, that's definitely a major key
Finally! Someone cares about the lore!
I care about it too >: (
Game theory also does
Game Theory: 👀....
so we aren't going to talk about how the desert temples literally have a creeper icon on the front entrance....ok
There some so interesting theories of the Combinagion from Different Items of Minecraft... It's so cool!
I am impressed!
I never thought of Minecraft as a world with its own traditions, history, and lore. I was under the impression that Minecraft was only for building and other things were only there for visual appeal. But after watching two videos, you have changed my entire opinion of the world, and it makes me want to learn more.
Outstanding job, and I look forward to watching more.
Well it's all especulation tho. Officially they are meant to serve as a mystery, but it does have consistencies
"It's an orb"
And no matter what perspective you look at it from, that's strange
I'm binge watching this series I discovered last night through your last video about these "ancient builders"
I have a theory of that extinction event: It would've been the wither curse. The nether shows many signs of having been wiped out in some way, perhaps some catastrophic event that changed it from a very different cave system to how it is now, as evidenced by the ruined portals having been shattered and imbued with the portals' energy, and the nether spreading around them (seemingly cutting off as the portal itself was also destroyed). Ancient debris, of structures made from netherite, one of the strongest materials we know of, barely survived this, and the immensely heated, soft rock of the nether lead to it sinking to the bottom of the caves (I believe the original end portal to have been rediscovered, but a different yet similarly destructive event might've shattered the end dimension into what it is now). Afterwards, a different civilization rebuilt the portals and found the dimension in its current state, eventually building the fortresses and bastions. They then would've eventually been corrupted by the lingering effect of whatever exactly happened previously, and turned into the undead we see. Some of those undead locked in the nether when the portals were closed again or eventually more slowly destroyed by that lingering corruption would have changed into wither skeletons, a form of more potent undead that can afflict those they contact with a lingering decay. Piglins could be a surviving version of that race, devolved from their former glory, leaving their once proud bastions crumbling. The undead of the overworld are those who remained there, having spread their curse and overwhelmed the entire race. The villagers may be a similarly devolved version of these, having been driven back to this state by the constant siege, though it seems to have eventually also slowed - illagers may be a force who stopped the attacks, and helped to turn zombified villagers back, but due to their knowledge they may have attempted to go further, causing them to have been thrown out as they were. Ravagers might be a result of this. Alternatively, the villages might have survived by being small enough settlements to not have a nether portal, sparing them from the initial swell in undead through the portals. They have docks, which though not big enough to build and launch ships of the size of the wrecks, might be big enough to support trading with one. Villagers also are shown to have had some knowledge of golems, shown by their iron ones (though it seems they cannot do so anymore), and the wither itself is one of the few golems that can be made, supporting the ancient race having some connection to the villagers. If the ancients were the ones to become the undead of today, it makes sense that they built the underwater ruins - drowned are said to be those who once lived in them. Guardians also appear to be some kind of golem, given their properties - made of a type of block, unaffected by many things (they don't suffocate in air, similarly to how iron golems are unaffected by enchantments and the wither is unaffected by some damage at times), and aggressive with a single purpose towards select targets. Guardians, to me, sound like stone grinding, or air rushing through a tunnel, and they are known to be hollow. Their above water sounds seem like their moving parts losing the constant lubrication of the water. As such, they'd be related to those of the villagers' as well.
UltmateRagnarok woahhh
This is a great theory
These theories:
smart
good
interesting
What I though minecraft was:
*A square dude killing weird monsters that want to kill him and he somehow punched wood because of yes and got to be a pro at surviving*
me too...^^
the story of S Q U A R E B O I who decided to break his knuckes on a tree and go up the food chain to fight an interdimentional dragon
I think you should also put this out as a podcast on streaming platforms like spotify
Yes! I'm really exiting for more theory!
" Villagers dont spawn in jungles. "
Rare Jungle biome Villagers : " am i a joke to you. "
yeah, but villages don't naturally generate in jungles. the only way to get naturally generated jungle villagers are to have a village overlap with a jungle
I usually avoid these kinds of videos because they are cringe but this is just calm and collected and not overly energetic to the point of cringe.
Your voice is straight forward and soothing.
Im glad you got a sponsorship, bro! You deserve it!
Matpat
@@uhh5137 Imo he's kinda cringy.
@@snakeyman5560 yes
@@uhh5137 yes
Literally me half an hour ago :/
I like the internet historian nod at around 5:19 perfect gentleman pirate Retro
I have a few theories on the end itself. The boats in the end have masts too, so what was pushing the sails? Is the end actually incredibly windy?
I’ve always thought of it as still, but what if it’s a windy void?
If it is very windy than the purpur blocks used to build the end cities must be incredibly strong to have been able to stand the winds
When you said powerful squid 10:27 I thought, "what if they were looking for the glow squid?" That's coming to the newest update and the Heart of the Sea Comes from the Eye of the Glow Squid?
Glowsquid useless asf
@@clorox3595
Cope
@@jamesbhollingsworth5452 they kinda right tho. I hope the devs add something cool and useful to the mob. We will see. If they listen to the players maybe they will be cool idk
@@clorox3595 lmao my uncle who really likes video games said the exact thing and I have not found when yet so idk
Do you guys think if we (respectfully but forcefully XD) spammed this to the devs they'd be like WHY DIDN'T WE THINK OF THAT? WE'LL DO IT RIGHT NOW.
“there are only two places tnt can naturally generate, shipwrecks and dessert temples”
what about woodland mansions?
Dessert temples..
Yum
Woodland mansions aren’t part of this theory because we already know that they were built by the illagers not the ancient builders
@@tenthbasilisk88 correct
@@tenthbasilisk88 Im excited to see...how did the illagers even learn? They dont seem like they can talk
Thought: the monuments used to be on land but ocean levels went up absorbing them In water
a correction i mentioned in previous videos. Villagers can spawn in jungles (and swamps) with their variant skins if a village partially spawns in a jungle (or swamp)
EDIT: Note that this has only been seen in bedrock, and does not change the type of wood used in a village building.
You missed the fact that if you build a full conduit, with full power, the heart in the centre opens its eye...
Retro: in this video we will figure out who built those buildings
Notch: well first i had to type some numbers into a computer
I have watched almost all of the Deep Dive series and my conclusion on Minecraft lore is, according to RetroGamingNow, it teaches us that investing everything we've got in gold leads to the civilisation's collapse instead of producing safety from inflation.
10:13 Looks suspiciously similar to an Eye of Ender...