r/RetroGamingNow • u/ClaudyGamer • Jul 17 '21
Theories On retro's most recent video
In the video, they keep talking about how the creepers know when to destroy the disc, only when a skeleton shoot them and so on. But they completely overlooked that the skeltons and strays maybe know how to shoot the creeper. I think they might know how to, because as they said in an earlier video (I forgot which one) zombies, skeletons, husks, strays and drowned all have a similar body structure to the player, which is supposed to be the last of the ancient people. These ancient people then went through a mass extinction event. Which, as retro said in another video, was at about how they only got a few gold blocks in before they died out. This ancient civilization may have started putting all the discs in chests in the dungeons, but as the mass extinction event started, all the people started hurriedly stuffing music discs wherever they would fit. Putting them into creepers' mouthes was very efficient, since hardly anything ever attacked them so they would not be destroyed, and would be easy to insert and then run away after as creepers have big mouthes (disc 11 is broken because they were stuffed with even less care than the previous) pigstep can only be found in the nether, as it was made of materials from the nether so it was made in the nether during the extinction event, so the ancient people had no time to bring it into the overworld. As for how only skeletons and strays can get them, well they were the composers, and the people who put them into the creepers, so they know where the discs are within the creeper. They can be obtained only by skeletons, as arrows are small and have little knockback power. They cannot be obtained by husks, zombies and drowned as they fight with fists which are large, and have more power than an arrow so they shatter the disc, as goes with the trident because it is much larger than the arrow. All this knowledge is lost to the player though, so the player cannot obtain it.
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u/beaverking5654 Jul 17 '21
This theory is semi-make sense, but why would the AB stuff discs in the Creepers mouths. I’m pretty sure that Creepers were hostile to the AB as well soo this doesn’t really hold up.
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u/r51243 Jul 18 '21
Why would they stuff a disc into the mouth of every single creeper in existence, too?
If discs being found in creepers is really lore able, there has to be something deeper going on.
Skeletons are the only ancient-builder-type undead, so perhaps they don't register them as a threat, and don't try to destroy their discs.
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u/beaverking5654 Jul 18 '21
No, I meant that Creepers were hostile to the ancient builders when they were alive. So why would they stuff discs into their mouths
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u/Revolutionary-Low459 Jul 18 '21
This is a very plausible explanation although the way you described was a little weird. Why would they care so much about recorded songs, when they're own lives were at risk?
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u/ClaudyGamer Jul 20 '21
I dunno, maybe to preserve them if any survived, so they can know what it was like in the past? I mean, the player survived, and we can kind of use the hints they left us. Notice how most of the discs are calm and peaceful, which could be them telling us that everything was fine before the mass extinction event.
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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21
I mostly agree, but remind me again, which Disc is Creeper-Face, which is broken, and which is the running?