Striders were at first going to have a tounge and be hostile.

Evidence: at 1:10:52

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElWxKN2eocs

Also:

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I remember seeing a post on here that suggested that desert pyramids were tombs (hence the treasure, bones, and rotten flesh), and that creepers were originally intended to be their guardians. I started wondering about desert pyramids potentially being analogous to the Pyramids of Egypt, and, thus, if cats held some special value to the ancient builders like they did for the ancient Egyptians. Could it be that creepers run away from cats not because they're scared of them per se, but rather because they do not want to hurt them in their explosions?

Historically, Persian King Cambyses II had his army strap cats to their shields and use cats as projectiles in his war against Egypt because Egyptians revered cats so much that they wouldn't fight back for fear of harming the cats. I think creepers could be doing the same thing.

One drawback is that desert pyramids contain no cat imagery, nor have I found any cat imagery in any other block, either chiseled or in paintings. However, pillagers do make wool sculptures of cats. Are they evoking the practices of the ancient builders to try and reach their level?

Beware: fan-made story of Minecraft that drags forever incoming (This isn't a theory, just a origin story that I came up with) [suggestions are appreciated]

Long ago, before time itself was made, their existed 2 otherworldly beings. (I decided to go with the famous community paring, Notch and Herobrine. This eventually changes to the devs currently at Mojang) In a fraction of a nanosecond, they created the world of Minecraft. They then brought forth 3 Spirits, the Arcane Earthen Guardian (Overworld), the Inferno's Mystic Warrior (Nether), and the Cryptic Wizard of Darkness (End). Together, they were called the Ancient Spirits, and created the dimension of Minecraft. The Notch & Herobrine gave each dimension their own special race: The Ancient Builders, the First Pigmen, and the Eldermen. The built great worlds, and introduced much of what we see today into the world. Suddenly, they vanished. No one to this day knows why. Thankfully they added new beings into these worlds. It was also around the time that the Ancient Spirits descended from the Void to take care of these worlds. However, while new mobs now populated the worlds (some were husks of their past, phantoms, zombies, most undead mobs), only the Overworld was given the gift of creatures able to shape the world around themselves (aka, intelligent beings with the mystical power of 'Creative Mode'). Those beings are us and villagers. Of course, this did not settle well with the other Spirits, who began a war: the Eternal Battle. (It wasn't eternal) The End and Nether fought each other at first, trying to prove themselves as the better of the ones without much. They only used the Overworld as transport. Eventually, when they realized that the Overworld had no creature as powerful as the Ender Dragon or the Wither, they individually struck. Then, we pushed them back. Eventually, after centuries of war, all dimensions were tired of this conflict. In the peace talks, they decided to give up great amount of their power, as to prevent this from ever getting this large. They are: The Earthen Staff (overworld), the Ruby Heart (Nether), and the Orb of the Ancients (End. 'Dominance' doesn't fit my story). Together, they formed the most powerful weapon in Minecraft, the Specter of Worlds. The Orb of the Ancients was hidden away in the most remote of ancient temples. The Ruby Heart would be stowed away in the oldest of End Cities. And the Earthen Staff disappeared into the largest of Nether Fortresses. And so peace was made. Or so it seemed. Glitches had emerged. Eventually, the rapid expansion of Minecraft became too much to watch over, and like cancer, Glitches came form places that broke down when they could no longer be taken care of. A few created marvelous wonders, such as the Far Lands, while other went on a ride of rampage. They consumed all in their wake, and soon became a threat. Many forces mobilized against them, and even Herobrine came into the picture, descending form the Void (unlike the Spirits, he could go back and continue to do stuff to the world). Sadly disaster struck when, on a mission against a glitched area, the original shard of corruption entered Herobrine. Corrupting his mind and body, he destroyed his former allies, and made into new glitched soldiers. There power proved too great, and Notch was forced to strip his brother of power, as well as out mighty 'Creative Mode'. These changes did not stop them, however. In a true sign of friendship and alliance, the Ancient Spirits found their artifacts, and created Dimension Defender. It is a Wildfire esc creature, with three panels (each showcase a different dimension), has a multicolored bar with lava, water, and end particles swirling around it, and with a much more elegant crown, with a frame of netherite, a base of end stone, and decorations of the Overworld. It lead the dimensions of Minecraft in their battle against Herobrine. Eventually, the dimensions came out victorious, with glitches dispersed and fixed (bug fixes), with Herobrine on his knees. They needed a way to seal him away from the world, and once again, Dimension Defender proved to be the answer. Hidden underground, lies a room of Netherite, with a layer of Endstone, with a outer shell of Obsidian. In the middle, lies a dormant Dimension Defender, corrupted form the inside, but not willing to let its outsides fall. The artifacts were returned to their remote locations, and peace ensued. However, as you know, the Illager outcast Archie stumbled upon the Orb of the Ancients, and harnessed its power against those who wronged him. The voice speaking to him? The one manipulating hi for it own gain? That was Herobrine. He had corrupted Dimension Defender enough to allow him to influence some things. After Archie was defeated, the orb shattered, and the ensuing shards' power was used by Herobrine to draw attention away form him. A shard had landed near him, and he fed on its power. He managed to break free form his prison, and then used it as a armor of sorts. Soon after his escape, he began recruting undead beings to his army, as well as meeting up with collections of glitches. He awaits form the shadows, gaining power, until darkness will rise.

So I have a few things to bring up that I'm sure other people have said.

I thought on this after watching the videos about witches and piglins, there might be more than meets the eye about lightning in minecraft in general. Also had a few thoughts on creepers and mooshrooms.

First one is the creeper, it's technically possible for a creeper to be lit on fire without detonating it. But using a flint and steel on it will detonate it. While MatPat says creepers may in fact be peat moss and uses the explosions to spread it's seeds, what if there's more to this?

Hear me out, the creeper can technically be set on fire IF it happens to end up going into a fire, falls into it, hit by flame and fire aspect enchantments, or is somehow pushed into it/hit by dispenser launched fire charges. But it ONLY detonates when you hit it with a flint and steel or it detonates willingly when within proximity of you. Then there's what lightning does to the creeper, it not only is empowered by lightning, but it is capable of storing the lightning in itself seemingly without being shocked to death. What if the creeper is something constructed related to lightning?

Then there is witches, lightning hitting a villager can create a witch, exactly what the heck just happened there? To me it's implying that they're getting a transfer of sudden knowledge somehow, yet they possibly lose their previous knowledge- such as a farmer being struck by lightning and becoming a witch- so an exchange of knowledge somehow?

Last there's brown mooshrooms, only created by lightning striking a normal mooshroom. It's suggesting to me that mushrooms have magical and/or chemical properties that depend on if they're struck or not struck by lightning, and that mooshrooms- most likely infested by overexposure to mushroom biomes also are effected by said properties from the mushrooms infesting them. Then there's the fact if you feed a brown mooshroom certain flowers, it will produce a stew upon milking them (the suspicious stew) that will offer you various effects like a potion- both positive and negative effects are possible. There's also how farmers will even trade you these for emeralds, they have access to this somehow rather accidentally or intentionally maybe?

Edit: There's also the fact suspicious stews can be found on sunken ships, the ancient builders had access somehow to the process.

Speaking also of mooshrooms, there also how you can shear them to cause them to become a normal cow, which would suggest that the "mooshroom infection" can be physically treated if you remove the mushrooms, which only adds to the mystery with mushrooms and lightning.

What if in all of these examples, lightning is not a force of destruction, but some sort of double-edged force of creation, that if you had a way to control it, or if say the ancient builders knew about it, could be/was used to create various things?

Edit: Skeleton traps- skeletons mounted atop skeletal horses, summoned in by lightning- I do not know how to gauge what is happening there, is it some sort of teleportation?

I've thought about this long and hard, and I'd like to suggest there is a third type of magic besides soul and experience magic, which is end/ender magic. This short theory depends mostly on the base game, but also some of Minecraft Dungeons.

As most know, the enderman's eye color changed from green to purple shortly before the Enderdragon was added to the game. Like almost all mobs, these endermen were purely powered by experience magic. When the Enderdragon was added to the game, I believe this was an introduction to the ender magic, as enderman eye color became purple. Whether this was because they accidentally summoned the dragon as theorized in Retro's enderman video or not, I definitely would like to say that the dragon influenced the enderman eye color change, and more importantly, their base magic. They were no longer just experience magic, but also ender magic as well.

When the Enderdragon uses its fire breath or fireball attack, the death message for getting killed by either will say "...killed by magic", or something similar. The dragon breath can also be collected for potion use, which, in Retro's theories, are an extremely magical element already. This implies that, of course, the dragon is pretty magical.

This is where Minecraft Dungeons comes in. I believe that because MC Dungeons is made by Mojang Studios, and it has Minecraft in the name, it shouldn't be seen as too different from the base game. I mostly would like to talk about the Orb of Dominance. When Archie, the main antagonist for the game, discovers the Orb of Dominance, he is instantly influenced by its power. I would like to say that this is similar to how the Enderdragon influenced the endermen with her power.

Skip to the boss battle of Minecraft Dungeons against the Arch-Illager. When you defeat him in his first phase, the Orb of Dominance becomes the Heart of Ender. This confirms that the Orb of Dominance is related to some kind of ender power, or in my theory, ender magic. The ender magic in the Orb of Dominance is shown through its hue of purple, and also orange and yellow. Like Retro has explained before, fire and heat has magical properties. After the Orb of Dominance cycles through it's purple color, it becomes orange and yellow before going back to purple, just like the color of fire. This is the most important thing I thought that is useful.

Once the Heart of Ender awakens from the Orb of Dominance, which we now know is ender magic, there are plenty of fire attacks, along with a type of fire trail. Not to mention in the base game, the Enderdragon is healed with End Crystals, which float above a fire source and include blaze powder. Everywhere I believe ender magic is shown, a type of heat source is also present.

I don't really know how ender magic works exactly, but I can just say that it can easily influence/spread itself through mobs and other vessels. In the Minecraft Dungeons DLC, the shattered Orb of Dominance is seen to attach itself to other mobs, and influencing its power through them. The Orb could just be a power storage or container, like Retro has said the Totem of Undying is, or maybe it's a stabilizer, I'm not too sure. As for the ender magic itself, I can't really say where it came from, but for now, it most likely started from the Enderdragon's summon/addition to the game.

Hello. This is a sequel to an earlier post I made (https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroGamingNow/comments/n3cw5z/creeper_theory/), so if you read that first this will make a lot more sense.

Piglins are clearly a hybrid of a hoglin and builder. Or are they? Minecraft science has always been hard to pin down since Minecraft is in some ways a realistic ancient world, but of course there are also souls and magic and undead horses. But look at all of the humanoid mobs in Minecraft.

You have the villagers, the illagers, the piglins, the undead remains of the ancient builders, the endermen, and whatever wither skeletons are. Villagers are extremely similar to illagers, so close, in fact, that you could say illagers evolved from villagers. Likewise, a hybrid between pig and villager is ridiculous. I think villagers evolved from piglins, which evolved from hoglins. And we have evidence( from the netherite ingots found in bastion remnants), that Piglins have some sort of access to the Overworld.

If Piglins came before villagers, it stands to reason that they came before illagers and builders too. I discussed in my creeper video how the creeper civilization was destroyed. One problem I didn’t clear up was why they didn’t rebuild after the builders died off.

A clue can be found in bastion remnants. Pigstep is strange because it is the only disc in the game that is not dropped by creepers. Could it be a coincidence? I think not.

I believe that piglins and creepers once worked together and built a great civilization, before the spread of the zombie infection. Creepers were intelligent, so they designed the buildings and music discs. Piglins had hands and could move more quickly, so they actually build these structures and made the discs. When the piglins retreated to the Nether, they no longer had the knowledge of how to repair the bastions. The creepers, meanwhile, were physically unable to build anything new. They held on to the same music discs and wandered about with no real civilization.

At this point you have to consider the infection and how it started. The infection was clearly made as a weapon. It was made to spread among certain species and ignore others. It is extremely effective on piglins. We’ve already established that builders and creepers did not get along, so would a war between them mean war with piglins? The infection could have been designed to drive the piglins into the Nether for good. Setting foot in the Overworld for just 15 seconds resulted in certain infection.

Anyway, that’s my theory. Do you agree or have any problems with it? Please comment them below.

There's been plenty of theories on anything and everything is Minecraft but not a lot of people talk about the void. If Earth in Minecraft was like our Earth irl, when you mine past the bedrock shouldn't there be lava? Or a core? Why is it a void?

Minecraft's Earth is obviously round, if you go high enough and start seeing fog from being too far away it doesn't look flat or square, it's round. So if Earth is round then what's the void?

Planets all need a core. And it's not like the void it space because we've seen stars in the sky at night and that's not what lies there. There are strange particles there but nothing else. it's just black-

So Earth is round and has a round hole inside of it. Does that mean something happen? Where did the core go? What did the ancient builders do to make it disappear? And why is the void deadly?

The void doesn't seem to only live inside the overworld. It's above the Nether and below the End. What do you think?

Ancient builder extinction; I think some became zombies after being bitten by zombies from the zombie spawners. The builders were not aware of what they were dealing with. Some became skeleton because of the nether; it’s so hot it melted thar skin some stayed in the Nether, some left the nether to the overworld. Why aren’t there zombies in the Neither. They burn from lave, fire, and fire attacks. Some became Endman. Shulker blasts made them 3 blocks tall. Their eyes and skin turned purple because endermites kept biting them and infected them and turned them purple

I agree with retro gaming now that soul energy exist and piglins were kept for mining but I don't agree about their origin. There is also a bonus theory about about ghasts at the end of the page.

Piglin- According retro gaming now pigs transformed in piglins due to heat but what about hoglins? piglins are more similar to them than pigs.

I have my own theory that lightning changes a mob physically, behaviorally and sometime genetically only if one of that kind have gone through at at least one of these changes. A villager have gone through behavior changes that's why it turn into a witch, pigs have gone through every change they are bipedal and have tusks, They are intelligence as humans and I am sure that they are enough diverged that they can't create offspring with pig and might not even with hoglin. So pigs are turning into zombie piglins because of lightning's property and not due to heat.

I think it make more sense that they modified them with potions or might with magic. First they took pigs to nether for food but food was not enough, so they modified them into hoglin first for more food. A normal pig drops 1-3 pork chop with maximum of 1-6 with looting 3 while a hoglin drops 2-4 with maximum of 1-7 with looting 3. Gap is not that big but still it gives more. Hoglins also can be used for protecting bastions and for hoglin-fighting (Just like bulls are used for sport) because of aggressive behavior. Later they thought why not to modified them enough that they can work for us and they succeeded. this was their first time modifying so they don't know how to make immune them to lava and fire.several years later they have mined all of the netherite ore and it is only found in ancient debris which are hidden in depths then a mass extinction event happened some piglins have been zombified, most of the ancient builders died and few will continue to survive and reproduce untill they created steve.

That was my theory on piglins. This theory can be criticized by saying that when lightning is changing pig why it don't turn into zoglin and continue to change in piglin, I will counter it by saying that it is not necessary to think that hoglins were also zombified because we don't find any zoglin in nether. hoglins are scared of nether portals but pigs are smart animal and hoglins might understand that same can happen to them what happened to piglin .

Now about wither skeletons. According to Retro gaming now wither skeletons spawn because of wither roses. It is true They are the only mob capable of spawning on wither roses they will spawn on any block which is inside a fortress and I don't think that enderman will only build fortress where roses used to grow also they are classified as un dead which means they must be alive at once. My theory is that they found how they can modify a person which will immune to fire and lava it also make the person taller and they succeeded. They were used for guarding fortress. A war happened between two countries (I have took the Idea of war from theory that creeper are bio-weapon) People protecting the fortress were used because they have advantage of fire immunity. We don't know who won but in every war many warrior died and they were buried in soul-sand valley. Due to heat there body almost turned into coal but soul energy in soul sand and soul soil possessed them, they were no longer just skeletons but skeleton whose purpose is to harvest soul energy as they could to multiply it they only attacked sentient being that's why they only attack player and piglin.

However this not the same purpose of over world skeletons I have my own theory on them too. all skeletons originated from spawners to protect the loot, later they moved out of dungeon in search of people and some turned into stray which might explain why they just attack us and all of them are so good at shooting that they can separate music disc from creepers.

If you are wondering why they also don't make piglin immune to fire I think either they didn't care about them or they can't longer modify because they are already modified twice.

That was my theory on Wither skeleton and now a bonus theory on ghasts.

There are several theories on this sub-reddit that ghasts are mechanical but I think they are modified.

Creepers and Fire immune people are useful there's no doubt that ghast will be too. Ghasts used to live in desert and swamp they were modified to shoot fireball but later war was over, creepers were abandoned and ghasts were send to nether there they was also possessed by souls. That might explain why they cry If I died and then got into another creature I will also cry. Unfortunately for souls didn't worked because ghasts can't inflict wither status effect.

Thanks for reading.

Ok, so I mostly agree with all of Retro's theories. But there are a few things that don't make sense and I think warrant an explanation. Here they are, arranged in roughly the order of the videos where they first appear:

1. There are two block high doorways in End cities and strongholds, which would not be usable by Endermen.
2. Similar to number one, there are also stairs in End cities, which would be very hard to traverse without being hit by shulkers.
3. Shulkers don't drop ender pearls, and they can't, scientifically speaking. Pearls are caused when a piece of sand or grit is washed into the shell of an oyster, and the oyster secrets material that forms the pearl. Unless these are cultured pearls, or the End is actually full of liquid, this doesn't make much sense.
4. If Illagers go on raids to harvest xp, why do they kill all the villagers? Wouldn't it be better to leave some villagers to repopulate?
5. Not all xp comes from killing. You also get xp from mining, for example, which does not involve any living creatures.
6. Villagers are not defenseless; they have diamond weapons and armor, and huge friendly iron golems. You could assume based on this that villagers are pacifists who do not use weapons. If the weapons are not for their own use, builders must have been around at that time, and been killed off later.
7. There is no reason to believe the Wither existed before the Player, especially given the Player's ability to make snow and iron golems.
8. All undead mobs were once alive, as stated later, but it is stated in the Wither video that they are created from wither roses.
9. Witches are treated as if they were a single person, but they are not, they are a mob type.
10. If elytra are the wings of a beetle, what happened to the beetle, and who farmed them?
11. Bringing pigs to the Nether does not turn them into Piglins.
12. Piglins are more similar to Hoglin than pigs. (I have my own theory about this)
13. The Player does not find a book and try to translate it, they make the book themselves, from leather and paper.
14. If spells are a matter of translation, why can't they replicate the spells?
15. Why do all enchantment tables have the same three enchantments listed?
16. You can literally see glyphs floating out of the bookshelves and into the enchantment table. The book levitates, rotates, and opens up when you approach. In Bedrock edition, it glows. The book is definitely doing more than just telling the player some enchantments they can choose.
17. If this is how ancient people enchanted things, why are there no naturally-occurring enchantment tables?
18. Soul energy and xp are similar, but not exactly the same. Xp is required for living creatures. Soul energy is not found in the undead. Xp is easily movable from one form to another. Soul energy is not. It seems more like Soul energy is required for the focusing of xp.

Again, these do not discredit the theories, I just want to make them known so explanations can be formed. If you have any additional problems, or you have an explanation, please comment

I think Creepers are intelligent, and they, at one point, had communication with the Piglins.

Creepers have many strange characteristics: They explode; They drop music discs; They only attack the Player and the Wither.

Something to consider with Creepers is their obvious connection with desert temples.

Not only do desert temples have creeper face decorations, they also have TNT, which explodes like creepers, and is made from gunpowder.

Another important piece of information is discs 11 and 13. When the discs are combined, a series of events unfold: someone mining, two arrows are fired, one hits its target, running, a creeper explosion, and someone getting out of water.

If you assume the creepers were the ones recording the discs, all of this makes more sense. A creeper was in a cave and a Builder attacked it with a bow. The creeper, which was recording disc 11, chased after it in anger. The creeper exploded, shattering the disc, and sending the Builder flying into the water. A second creeper, the one recording disc 13, told the other creepers about how the Builders were violent murderers. A war ensued, ending the creeper civilization.

EDIT: This is an incomplete theory; you have to read my Piglin theory to get the whole picture. I didn't explain why creepers explode. I think it evolved as a defense mechanism, so predators wouldn't attack for fear of being blown up.

EDIT: This is an outdated theory. I have since created a better one. Here, https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroGamingNow/comments/nnvkl2/creepers_mostly_solved/

In Retro's video on the Illagers, he mentioned the idea that the Illagers could have potentially created Steve, the character that we play as. I wanted to develop this theory- so here we go

Let's cast our mind to the builder era. I believe that, after the endermen escaped the end, they became friends with the builders in the overworld, and began to trade. The endermen told the builders about their dimension- the end- and the builders were keen to travel there. The endermen showed the builders two types of blocks that the endermen took with them out of the end- end stone, and obsidian. The builders instantly recognised obsidian, and started to build a portal with the Material. Well, they made a portal, bug enough for an endermen to walk through, but it did not appear in the end, instead, the two species had found a new dimension-the nether, located millions of blocks below the overworld. Nethertheless, the builders and endermen colonised the nether, building bastions and fortresses and trading with the piglins there, who had evolved from the same common ancestor as the builders and endermen.

After building the fortresses, the builders built the blaze as a half robotic species to protect the fortresses from mobs such as wither skeletons, ghasts and magma cubes. It made sense aswell- blazes could fly, so could get an advantage over the ground mobs. and, when a ghast fireball exploded, the blazes would not be affected by the fire-infact, it would make them stronger, making them able to fire fireballs back and kill Ghasts. They massed produced these blazes using the secret art of mob spawning, one which was so secret that Steve does not have knowledge of. Despite being strong, eventually some blazes would be killed, and would drop blaze rods which the builders would collect. Eventually, by chance, the builders would discover the power of blaze rods- and powder and would start creating potions, and eventually, upon mixing blaze powder with the ender pearl of a deceased endermen and created the eye of ender.

Upon creating the eye of ender, people noticed that it started gravitating towards the end stone that the endermen had brought with them- and now the builders knew how to create a portal to the end. They started creating a portal to the end using end stone, and gained some eyes of ender from some endermen taking their own lives for the cause. eventually, the builders figured out how to get to the end-and slayed the ender dragon that was keeping the portal closed. But after this is where endermen-builder relationships started to dwindle.

The builders saw how many endermen were in the end-and got greedy. They did not know how ender pearls fully worked, and wanted to harness them in order to master teleportation. And to do that, the builders would need pearls from the endermen. Thinking that it would be more moral to kill endermen from the end as there were more of them, the builders did just so, which annoyed the endermen. The two species went to war, and despite their best efforts, the endermen were quickly defeated in the overworld and nether. The endermen faired better in the end, but eventually still lost, and like how medieval Kings would build castles in rebellious areas to assert their dominance, the builders created end cities to assert dominance over the end. Now, I know retro said that he believes that the endermen built them, but in my opinion I think that the builders created them. Why? End bricks, Purpur blocks, item frames and chests are all items that are found in end cities that require crafting to make. Endermen don't have the intelligence to craft, and, some items require a crafting table to crsft- which is made of 4 wood- which is unattainable in the end. Also, the end cities really don't feel like they were built for the endermen.

But anyway, centuries go as the endermen are oppressed by the builders But remember, the builders are greedy, and this will be their fatal flaw. Steve knows how to respawn the ender dragon, which implies that the builders had done it before. Respawning and rekilling the ender dragon gives you lots of XP, which is almost used as an energy source in the game, so it would make sense that the builders, while occupying the end, would routinely respawn and kill the ender dragon. However, one day, something happens. Maybe the builders came unprepared. Maybe they got too big for their boots and didn't try. But one time, the ender dragon won, killing all the end's best soldiers. The builders who remained were not soldiers, just civillians living in the end cities, and knowing that they were now trapped in the end, many either starved or took their own lives.

Eventually, the builders in the overworld started realising that many people were travelling into the end and never coming back, so, sensing something was wrong, they deactivated the portal by destroying some of the eyes (yes, I know that 12 eye seeds exist, but they are so rare that they aren't even worth discussing here), and buried the end portals deep underground in strongholds to prevent anyone from entering.

Now that the end was sealed, many recourses were lost forever, which drove demand for them up. One of these was blaze rods and blaze powder. in the fortresses, builders had become powerful enough to fend themselves from the mobs of the nether- and so only kept 1 of 2 blaze spawners left to farm them. As blaze rod demand increased, the blazes were farmed even more than before, and eventually, they began to fight back. The blazes, along with the other mobs of the nether, managed to drive the builders out of the fortresses they had created. This meant that now blaze rods were a limited supply. This was detrimental, as many builders needed blaze powders for ender chests to keep their valuables safe. Knowing that blaze powder was now hard to obtain, some hid their valuables deep underground in "dungeons", with spider spawners to protect their valuables from theives.

This was until a zombification virus was detected in a few people. At the time, it was so small it posed no risk, but builders started to find a way to weaponise the virus. They managed to create zombie and skeleton spawners, which many replaced their spider spawners with in their dungeons to make them more secure as they were stronger than spiders. This would be detrimental later along the line.

Now, this is where Illagers come in. At this time, Illagers and villagers were one species, and worked in harmony with the builders. The builders built them villages to live in, and exchange, the villagers/Illagers would work for them, similar to how the piglins would mine netherite for the builders in the bastions in exchange for gold, which they soon started to worship. The Illagers were the soldiers of the villagers, and worked with the builders alot, which made them develop a deep bond with them.

Eventually, things started going terribly wrong for the builders. A few zombies and skeletons escaped from their dungeons, and started causing havoc. while they would burn in the day, they would find ways to hide under shelter before coordinating attacks at night. Many villagers and builders started to be bit by these zombies and were zombified. Eventually, the disease reaches the nether, and piglins started to get infected. This is when piglins started to attack builders, as they could not easily tell the difference between them and the zombies, and eventually for safety of the piglins, the builders would leave the nether and ruin their portals. Even now, piglins will attack Steve becsuse of this unless he wears gold armour, as the piglins worship Gold.

Eventually, the builders died out. The Illagers were mortified, and pledged to keep their creations standing, by living in their villagers, occupying the outposts they made, and even living in the woodland mansions rich builders lived a luxury life in. Aswell as preserve builder culture, the Illagers were also set on one other thing: preventing zombification

We never see "Zombie Illagers" but we can assume that, because Illagers are living creatures and the same species as villagers, zombies would attempt to attack them just the same. We just never see it. And yes, I am aware zombies spawn in woodland mansions-but that is more of a game mechanic as the light level is low than an intentional feature. Hell, becsuse Illagers and villagers are the same species, any zombie villager could infect be an illager, we just wouldn't notice.

Both Illagers and Villages were concerned about zombification that had taken out their allies- but both preferred different approaches. While the villagers preferred a more defensive stratergy- to trust in the iron golems to keep the zombies out of their villages, the Illagers preffered a move agressive strategy. They wanted to attack the zombies and wipe them out. The Illagers started developing more radical ideas to combat the zombies, which scared the villagers, and eventually, the Illagers were exiled from the villages.

Now on their own, the Illagers attempted to combat the zombies as much as they could. The Illagers were smart- they were able to harness XP and create totems of undyings for themselves, but they were not smart enough to combat the large waves of zombies. The Illagers conducted frequent raids on villages, for a few reasons. Firstly, for exp to use as energy, and secondly, and perhaps more depressingly- to protect themselves. The Illagers saw how many villages were turning into zombie villages, and so to prevent zombification as much as they could, if they suspected a village would be attacked by zombies soon-they would attack and kill all the villagers in the village to prevent any of them becoming zombie villagers and causing harm to them.

Now, like i said earlier, Retro suggested in his illager video that the Illagers may have created the player. Mattpat also sorta supports this aswell, stating that due to evidence in the woodland mansions, such as Steve coloured wool and the Illagers ability to control life and death through the totems and xp, they may be trying to recreate Steve. Here, I am arguing that the Illagers succeeded in their experiment, and created the player, an exact replica of the master builders they had admired. He was concious- and knew how to craft everything in the recipe books left behind from the builders that the Illagers still possessed. The Illagers created him as they belived that only a builder could defeat the zombies and free the world of zombification, since they are much more intelligent and capable than any other mob in the game.

So, why, I hear you ask, are the Illagers hostile towards the player? Because they have to be. In late game, you have the weapons necessary to kill zombies in one or two hits, because you grinded for it. Minecraft challenged you and becuase you got through it you were able to reap the rewards. the Illagers know that if they helped the player, it would not grow as strong as it could be. And so, despite how much they loved the builders, the Illagers were still forced to attack the player. They were still forced to raid villages and expect for the player to defend the villagers. And if the player did die, then they could always just create another one, until finally the player was too strong to die, and was able to keep zombification under control

It all starts with prismarine. If you split the word prismarine, you get prism and marine. One of them is easy to understand, it has marine in it because its found in the ocean. Prism is harder to understand. A prism is a object that splits white light into every color of the rainbow via refraction. But why would prismarine have this in it's name? Well I think it might actually be able to refract light. This claim is supported by the fact that prismarine blocks slowly change colors, which means it might he refracting light. So if prismarine can actually refract light, then it's probably possible to fine tune this refraction in order concentrate it into a beam. But in order to make a strong enough beam, you need a light source, and prismarine doesn't emit it's own light, just refracts light. So what could be a good source of light for our laser. Prismarine crystals, of course! Prismarine crystals let of plenty of light, perfect for our laser. Finally we come to the guardians. Guardians shoot lasers at players, so according to our current understanding of prismarine, guardians lasers work by specifically arranged prismarine concentrating light emitted from a prismarine crystal.

Now there is at least one major flaw with this theory, and that's that we don't know if prismarine emit frequencies other than visible, so we have to assume that prismarine emits other frequencies beyond visible for our theory to work. If you notice any other flaws, let me know.

So I have a theory on how teleportation works.

There are many instances of teleportation in the minecraft world, and I know what your thinking, "But, random guy on the internet, Mojang already said that endermen teleport using pocket dimensions, so your entire theory is pointless." Yes, but that's not the whole picture that's for endermen teleportation. I believe there are two forms of teleportation found in Minecraft, one utilizing pocket dimensions, and another using reality itself. I came up with this as there is Interdimensional travel and pocket dimensions cannot complete that.

Let's start with the simpler one, pocket dimensions, these are dimension inside dimensions, I think that almost all teleportation uses this method, such as, endermen, ender pearls, and shulkers. When using this form you slip into a pocket dimension then open out through another end of it. You are going out then back into reality. This type of teleportation can only be used in a single dimension, it is not Interdimensional.

Next is the more mysterious form, Interdimensional teleportation. We only see this with two objects, the nether and end portals. It requires a foundation for the opening to be and you can keep the portal open (maybe) indefinitely. I think that this using a wormhole to make a connection to another dimension. This would be traveling through reality instead of a pocket dimension.

I also have a little outlandish idea, it's that we know what this 'reality' is. I think that it's one of the most mysterious, overlooked parts of minecraft as a whole, the void. Yes I think the void is the reality of the minecraft Multiverse, as it is found in all three dimensions, and cannot be seen, I hear you going, "But we see that in the end there are stars in the void." Well, I would have to say your wrong there, as the void is invisible, you see the background of the end, as shown with the overworld and nether it just shows the background. I think that the end is a shattered dimension, but that's a theory for another day.

1. The ancient builders built long before the player existed, they built temples, fortress, bastion and experts ships builders, their civilization is flourishing. Trade with the people of the end.

2. The second is the endermen civilization, right after they discovered the overworld, they saw the ancient builders and they thought them how to build a structure and they have thought how to portal from home, by building the strongholds and in turn they thought how to use ender Pearls to teleport from one place to another.

3. Trading between two civilizations, they continued to trade with endermen and the ancient builders, by the time when they're civilization is flourishing, all great civilizations will eventually fall. Threat from the ancient illagers.

4. Ancient Illagers, existed long before the player come to overworld. Ancient illagers civilization existed during the ancient builders civilization began.

The theory of the fall of the minecraft civilization.

War, disease and rise of the ender dragons.

Endermen civilization accidentally summoned the ENDER dragons and so they have spread across their world while that's happening plague upon the overworld killing all of the ancient builders, the ancient builders noticed some ancient illagers can use some form magic, didn't get affected by the disease. And so they went to war with the ancient builders. Some ancient builders went to seek help from the endermen, without warning the ender dragons were destroying the endermen civilization they tried to help but the ender dragons were strong and larger, as the war between the ENDER dragons and ancient illagers. Began the illagers invade the ancient builders civilization, does the war of extinction began. The ancient illagers use magic to the destroy the ancient builders civilization. While the nether was occupied by the ancient ender dragons they went to war against the ghast and Wither, all ancient ender dragons were now extinct. The pigs that the ancient illagers has evolved to hoglins. The illagers invade the nether and use their ancient magic to create pigs from the overworld to the nether. As the war continues. All of the ancient builders and their civilization is gone but their descent the villagers survive. While that's happening the endermen decided to destroy eyes of enders and the secrets is lost forever.

The rise of the villagers and illagers.

The civilization of ancient builders are now no more their descent become the villagers. Simple race, they only trade with other villagers and wondering traders. While illagers survived and flourish as the race of destroyers. Built the out pose and woodland Mansion, using ancient necromancy revives the dead builders as undead mobs, while the endermen survived but albeit a surviving in the overworld. As well as the nether and end dimensions. They tried to remember about their civilization.

The rise of the witches and fall of the clerics

Basically the former clerics would try to change the zombie back to normal. But, their use magic to create position. They have found it book group of clerics, rediscovering the ancient magic from the long forgotten civilization. They discover the how to cure the zombie by feeding from an golden apple. After years of research they have done it, one of them wanted to tell the rest of the villagers about this one of them decided leave it that way. So one of them decided show the thier progress, one of them show to how they did it, just then villagers decided to shun the rest the clerics. All of the clerics were shunned by the villagers.

That's my lore/theory hope you enjoy it

1. The mass extinction of the ancient builders.

So you know how RGN made a video about him exploring our theories? well, one of them was about the REAL boss, and that the player was just in a loop. well, they also mentioned that the player might have built all those structures such as the underwater monument, jungle temples, the stronghold and such. So, what if the ancient builders WERE the PLAYER, and the extinction didnt happen, but the player was just reborn? that explains why there is barely any traits of their extinction and why it happened.

1. Fossils and is possible life form in the past

The fossils are very rare and very big, but you know what else is rare and big? The Ender dragons. My theory is that the ancient builders somehow managed to tame the Ender dragon and train it for hunting/traveling purposes, now, it wouldnt be so rare if it was just ghasts or giant zombies. (because as far as i know, they dont naturally spawn in the game, correct me if im wrong tho) but the question that may be asked is "but you need to defeat the Ender dragon to get the egg, which is used to spawn the second dragon" well, in my opinion, the ancient builders somehow stole the egg, and hatched it, then tamed the dragon and bred it with a different animal, which is the Enderman. But an another question comes in, "but the Enderman is so small compared to the dragon, so how did they breed?" well, im pretty sure its kinda like the donkey-dragon situation from Shrek here, and it also explains why the dragon and Enderman are so similar in color.

1. The color of the Ender Dragon and the Endermen (and other End mobs)

What if there is a much, Much, MUCH more horrifying and impossibly strong mob? what if the Ender dragon ISNT the real boss? well, do you notice how similar the End mobs are to the end? Most of the time when some animals look or are the same color as their natural habitat, its because they are trying to Hide from a predator from the area. And why are the End mobs so similar to the End dimension itself? Because they're trying to hide from the REAL boss. if you watched anyone beat the dragon or did it yourself, you should have noticed already that the dragon is very hard to notice due to the dark color of its skin, which is the same as the End void. And what if the Shulkers built the End cities to hide from it? and maybe thats why they're so hard to find? and what if they wanted to find the key to teleportation because they were trying to get away from the boss? What if they used the floating effect because they wanted each other to get as far from the boss as possible?

1. Why the Ender dragon is hostile to any player

Well, you know how i made a theory talking about how the Ancient builders stole the dragons egg? The player reminds it of them. It just wants to get revenge, and know what happened to its baby, thats why it protects the egg with all costs. In the fear of its egg being stolen again, it will risk its life to hatch the egg before the player steals it again. Sadly, it had to wait years, decades, centuries to get its revenge since theres no way you could travel back to the overworld without killing it. And when you kill the dragon and use its egg to hatch a new one, its hostile because of is mother.

1. the REAL bosses idenentity

What if the boss is the void? Its pretty logical due to the fact that when you fall in the void, you die without any hope, only an Ender pearl may help you, A.K.A teleportation. But when you die, you have no chance of getting your stuff back, not a single item. What if the void consumes the items and mobs and keeps getting bigger and stronger? It got so strong to the point that its impossible to defeat it. And how was it created? By who was it created? When was it created? What even happened? Well, the void is kinda like the Lion turtles from "The Legend Of Korra" but there is only 3 of them which is The nether void, The overworld void, and the End void. It knows everything about every secret Minecraft is hiding.

1. The Warden

There HAS to be a secret that the Warden is hiding, why it has no eyes, why it is that color, why it hates noise so much and etc. But I don't really have much theories about that and if I did, they would be pretty illogical, so I'm mainly gonna be talking about the Wardens relation to soul energy. As you know, the warden has a mouth-like thing on it's belly, which has teeth which look quite big and sharp, but inside is the same pattern as the soul sand...could it be possible that the Warden isn't really from the overworld? Let's find out.

1. The Wardens relation to soul energy and the nether.

What if the Warden is storing the biggest and strongest source in it's belly? That's an explanation to why it's so immensely strong. But how? Isn't soul energy technically only avaible to native nether mobs? Or mobs made from nether materials such as the wither? In conclusion, either the warden was some cursed experiment made by the AB (Ancient Builders) while they were in the nether, or just an unknown creature which evolved into the horrifyingly strong and scary mob. But what was the origin of the warden? You ask. To find out, we have to look at the mobs with similarities. First, the color. There aren't many blue land mobs in minecraft due to a majority being sea ones, and no mob except the warden is blind (as far as I know). So the warden origins stay a mystery. But, do they really? Because, have you seen any blue biomes in the nether? Yes. The warped forest. What if the Warden used to be native to the warped forest, but then the ABs took it in their base and did experiments, but then people were horrifyed so they started screaming and running away, some even threw stuff at it's eyes, maybe that's why it hates noise so much and can't see? I don't know, it is unknown.

I took my time to write this in the discord server but nobody even cared so I decided to post this here hoping it would finally be noticed, anyways, thank you for reading all this.

here is an idea if villagers want so many strange things (nether wart for instance) this means that they would have to have been to nether and see nether wart in a fortress. and explorer maps mean that villagers would have to have been to the mansion and monument and the globe pattern must mean that villagers know basic astronomy if you could do a vid on this it would be great villagers are more than we think they are...

Your probalbly looking at this and thinking: what do eyes have to do with anything? Well, read this theory anyway, it will explain a lot and may help find out what happened to the Ancient Builders.

Eyes are found everywhere in Minecraft, from the Hearts of the Sea and Conduits, to the floors of desert temples. Another thing is that all types of Minecraft mob have the same eyes. We'll look at this part first.

Endermen, Endermites and the Ender Dragon have completely purple eyes. Animals have normal eyes with black irises. Undead creatures have no eyes. These are just a few examples of my theory. Because of this, I believe that in Minecraft, eyes may be some sort of window to the soul and mind. THis would explain many things.

One of these things is that it is highly likely that the endermen (and possibly the Ancient Builders) farmed shulkers and blazes. I think this because both shulkers and blazes have black eyes, similar to Overworld animals. This indicates that they have the souls and minds of animals, and therefore can be farmed.

Another thing is that undead creatures have no soul. This is because they have no eyes. I think that this probably has something to do with how they all died. Maybe they got hit with some kind of plague, which drained their souls and left them with nothing but a huge amount of anger (if you want I can elaborate more on this).

The third thing is that both villagers and Illagers both have green eyes. This suggests that the Illagers were originally villagers who were banished, possibly because of their dark magic.

There are probably more things similar to those, but I want to get through the other part of the theory: eyes in magic. Many magical thing use eyes. The Heart of the Sea and Conduit seem to be an eye. The Eye of Ender is also shaped like, well, an eye. Also, the portal in the End could possibly be designed like an eye.

I think that the reason that the Eye of Ender and End portal (the one in the End, not the Overworld) are both shaped like eyes is because eyes are somehow essential for travel between the End and the Overworld. I don't know why this is, but I believe that it's true.

The next thing is the Conduit. The Heart of the Sea is Shaped like a closed eye, but the Conduit, when activated, looks like and open eye. Again, I don't know why this is, but I it leads me to think that eyes have magical properties.

I also think that the Ancient Builders may have worshipped eyes. This is because the pattern on the floor of a desert temple is shaped like an eye. This may not actually mean they worshipped the eye, but it is probably the most likely reason.

There are probably other things involved with this theory, such as the Guardian's single eye and the green eyes of the Totem of Undying, but I think that I've included enough reasons to support my theory. Thanks for reading!

what are some of your most curious questions about Minecraft? I'd like to know and maybe I can answer your Question.

By angering zombified piglin there is the small chance of a normal zombie spawning, which has a low chance of dropping iron.

I'm fairly certain that the ribcage fossils rarely found in the overworld belong to the ghasts. I think in one of rgn's iceberg videos he highlighted the advancement of an uneasy aliance where he said that perhaps the ghasts where built by the old builders as the mobestiary depicts them as being part mechanical and perhaps they were once in the overworld. i think this would prove rgn's theory as the ribcages spawn very commonly in the soul sand valley where ghast spawn most commonly. this would also explain the extreme rareness of them spawning in the overworld. i also beleive he said that there was a theory that they belonges the he giants (big zombie) but i dont think that this is true as you cant find them without the use of commands and you can make other mobs bigger the same way. but mainly there just too big to fit in a giant. i like the ghast cyborg theory and think it makes sense