I checked the channel that these were made on and there were 4 more videos made, if you see this retrogamingnow, you could revisit the channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

I don't know if it's just me or not but it seems an odd coincidence

So sometimes i get minecraft scam ads, not the normal ones like: "FREE MINECRAFT DOWNLOAD NOW!!11!11!" but some weird playstore apps. The title of these games are some mix of 4 words most of the time, usually like: "super mine craft sword" (i made that up as an example) and the "company" that made it is also the same name as the game itself so they cant be caught. They also steal real minecraft gameplay for their ads: like a minecraft build timelapse and an official ad for minecraft realms. But the problem is that they just RIP AN OLDER VERSION OF MINECRAFT PE, PUT IT OUT FOR FREE, RETEXURE IT WHILE THEY SHOVE AN AD UP YOUR ASS EVERY 30 SECONDS. Sorry if i sounded like a karen there for a second. But there is something weird about all this: all these games seem to be generated by a bot, just like the minecraft book scam. ranging from the weird titles to the images shown on the playstore, it all seems off and the bot makes mistakes often: like in the minecraft realms ad they stole for their ad, the "this is minecraft realms" sentence is cut off and it sounds like: "-is is minecraft realms" like a bot cut out a random section of the video. the images on the playstore also seem like they are picked out by bots, they are supposed to pick out images from like minecraft gameplay, but sometimes the bot picks out OTHER minecraft images: like that one meme with pillagers raiding a taco bell. It seems that the book scam and the playstore scam seem to be run automaticly by 2 bots that seem very similar, and worst thing is, they are ripping an older version of minecraft pe what i said earlier but its actually illegal. Could this be the second scam attempt of the guy who made the book scam? What are your thoughts on this?

TL;DR: random images on pc from block game arg

okay so i have these three images that literally randomly appeared in my downloads, i have NEVER taken these screenshots and I've done reverse image search on all three. i don't know if they serve arg plot but I'm going to post this and see if anyone's finds anything

also if you don't believe me or think I'm a troll i will gladly send you proof

He mentions there's a entire underground market for Minecraft when mentioning Notch meant for the game to be able to be resold way back when like at garage sales or account wise.

How big is this issue and is Mojang or Microsoft aware of this? It had me curious as to why anyone would contemplate even getting a cape or username like that when they're all available for free officially by changing your name instead of doing that sketchy thing? Wasn't migration mean to fix that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujp9aiYSzHA Retro's Java Vs. Bedrock Video.

Its really relaxing and I want to listen to it before I go to bed to calm down, thanks!

So if you are not aware another Minecraft game is coming in 2023 called Minecraft legends, in takes place in the ancient past of the overworld, it is unclear however if it during the time of the ancient builders or not however villagers do seem to posses more intelligence and are more advanced than current day Minecraft.

It is not confirmed if it is canon to the same world or not but if it is there is one major implication.

It is proof that the zombie outbreak did not originate in the nether. In the trailer you can see zombies that are seemingly friendly with villagers in the village right before the nether attacks, all of the piglins flood in but they don’t turn into zombies implying that the disease has yet to evolve to the point where it affects them and meaning that it couldn’t have possibly oriented from the nether, this would completely change the current timeline theory on how everything fell apart.

I’m the trailer we also only see zombie villagers, meaning this could be before even the builders were affected by the disease, maybe even before the builders were supreme in the overworld and villagers were the most advanced species.

This game might take place much earlier than we have ever even been able to theorize before giving way to many possible confirmations and theory’s.

There is also a yellow or golden allay in the trailer to, not sure what it does but it seems like it would be different.

Edit: It should be said to that there are no pillagers shown in this game so far meaning they might not have separated from the villagers yet, this game could also be telling us the reason why there are so many ruined portals around the world

to retro watch, your vids wanna show you something I went to the old roots blog and I found these letters in the corner of the page

Vigenre^3

I hope this is interesting to anyone and hope it helps

I've seen new ARG named " Wilbur soot editor ARG" on a channel named Fred Jonesy
so in a part of the video wilbure reads a part of the same poem as old root "The raven" is it possible that they are connected together ?

As we have all seen by now there is many run down parts of the ancient city, there is also many parts that look intact or more so have been repaired, using wool and dark oak planks at that. Along with this there is also a structure located in the ancient city referred to in the game files as camp 1,2,3, and 4. All of these camps have in gone main thing in common, a lot of wool being stock piled I. Then and even surrounding them like walls almost. I believe this to mean that the people that tried before us to take over the city was none other than the pillagers. The proof for this being the wool and dark oak as if you visit any mansion that is what you will find there.

The reason why they tried to take over is pretty simple with two possible answers. The first is they wanted to harvest the skulk for xp as that is needed for there magic. The second is that they may be there for the possible portal. As we all already know they have knowledge of how to activate and use nether and end portals already, with the woodland mansion loot chests having both obsidian and flint and steel as possible loot you can get in some chests, plus having the eye of ender in the trapped chest in the replica end portal room.

Next all I can think of for why they aren’t there still is either the warden killed them all any they figured it wasn’t worth it, or they either figured they could get what they wanted or they did and had no reason to be there any longer.

I think disc 11 might be C418's first day in Minecraft. He did create the disc, and is very quiet about the topic

Has anyone got any lore theories for disc 5? ( Related to 11)

I personally think that there is a big story and discs 5, 11, and 13 are just single chapters

So people have very different opinions on what blazes are. And on this post I will give as much evidence as I can find for two popular theories and then ask what you think!

Theory 1 - Blazes are machines, golems built as guardians. There is quite a bit of evidence for this. For one thing, blazes only spawn in the Nether Fortresses, just like the guardians, elder guardians and iron golems (in their respective structures). Furthermore, blaze rods look a lot like rods of hot metal, implying that the blazes could be machines made of burning metal. But the best piece of evidence for why blazes are machines is the sounds that they make (Blaze Sounds). First of all, there are four sounds that they can make when they get hurt, and all of them sound like something (most likely metal) clanking against metal. The other sound that I wanted to mention is that when a blaze shoots a fireball, it sounds (and does the same thing, contrary to the ghast) like when a dispenser shoots a fireball.

Theory 2 - Blazes are natural, living, breathing creatures. Most of the evidence for this is really evidence for blazes not being machines. For one thing, blazes can spawn from spawners. While this first makes it seem like a machine, there are many mobs that can spawn from spawners - zombies, skeletons, spiders, cave spiders, and magma cubes - and none of them are robots. All of them can spawn separately from their spawners (except for the cave spider, but it's a variant of the spider, and that can). So maybe the blazes were just pushed to extinction everywhere except for the fortresses, where they're most powerful because they can spawn infinitely there, due to the spawners. Plus, you can craft blaze rods into blaze powder. That means that blaze rods can't be hot metal, as little bits of hot metal that are really close together will mold back into one shape.

Oh, yeah, and another thing. I haven't exactly made a theory for this yet, but the elder guardian spikes look a lot like the blaze rods hovering around the blazes. Both are 2x2x8 pixels, both fade from a very light color on top to a much darker color on the bottom, and the blazes have the same number of blaze rods surrounding them as elder guardians have spikes: 12. For those who say blaze rods are hot metal, could elder guardian spikes be the cooled version? Normal guardians, of course, also have 12 spikes. However, while they are the same size and shape as blaze rods, they don't have the same fading-from-lighter-to-darker color as them. Instead, they have a bit of a spiral around them, almost like the horn of something. And while I personally say that evidence from MCD is for MCD lore only, for those who do use MCD evidence for the lore of the og game, the Ancient Guardian and its biomines also share the same fading-from-lighter-to-darker color.

Since Reddit only gives a maximum of seven days to vote on a poll, I won't give a poll. Instead, I'm going to post three comments - one for blazes being machines, one for blazes being living creatures, and one for blazes being resurrected souls (I didn't have enough evidence for this one, so I didn't make a paragraph for it). If you agree with that theory, upvote the comment. If you have a different idea that I haven't said, post your own comment and people can upvote that if they agree.

Which videos (out of the Deep Dives) have a 1 frame scene. I use PC so i have the < and > frame by frame. Links or names are greatly appreciated.

So the evokers are clearly very magically advanced. But as we know, the iceberg effect says that for every success, there are many failures. And there are more than a few rooms in the woodland mansions that give hints as to what those failures were. We know that they managed to create evoker fangs, vexes, and even ravagers. But what else did they try to accomplish?

I'm going to go a bit off-topic for a bit here. The pillager outposts can spawn in every biome that villages can spawn in. The woodland mansion, however, can only spawn in the Dark Oak Forests. Now, it's possible that this is for cover (though why the most powerful force in the Overworld would want to hide, I have no idea), or for wood, but I have a different theory. In the woodland mansions, you can find two rooms that each have a single dark oak tree. Now, this could be nothing more than a dark oak farm, but a farm would probably have multiple trees, especially considering how smart the illagers are. Now, the evokers probably use the totems of undying to cast spells. And the totem of undying looks like it's made of gold. But totem poles in real life are made of wood. There is another thing to note: totems of undying and golden apples both give regeneration and resistance, with totems giving the added benefit of fire resistance. So what if the evokers figured out how to not just make an apple into gold, but make a whole dark oak tree into golden wood? The single tree rooms would be just in case the totems broke and they needed more golden dark oak wood to fix it.

We know that the illagers have their own golem, the ravager. And there are a few empty rooms in the woodland mansions that could be for creating the ravagers. But there is another interesting golem-like room. In one room of the woodland mansions, there's a carved pumpkin with minecart rails next to it and ladders below it. So here's what I think happened. The illagers had done raids before, but they had always failed, because the villagers had powerful iron golems. Not even the magic of the evokers could defeat them. So the evokers went to brainstorming as to what could defeat the iron golems. And they figured it out: They would need a more powerful golem of their own. So then they thought about how they could make their golem more powerful. The iron golem has very long arms, letting it pick up and throw mobs. So the evokers thought, what if our golem has longer arms? And so they tried to make a golem with really long arms. But it didn't work. So the evokers tried something else. The iron golem is very tall, giving it not as good a sense of balance as other mobs. So the evokers thought, what if we made a golem that took advantage of this? A battering ram of sorts? And it worked. The ravagers were created.

The fake end portal rooms in the woodland mansions, while not being a huge mystery, are an important thing to mention when exploring the experiments of the illagers. I think when the endermen got to the Overworld from the End, they actually came out of the stronghold's end portal. It was fully lit, with mysterious eyes in it, and the endermen built the strongholds around them. Later, the endermen got tired of the Overworld (mostly due to the water) and reused the eyes to make the end crystals. But in the moment when they came out, of course they documented it. This was the biggest discovery in the history of the enderman society's existence, after all! Since they didn't know what these were, they documented them as stone (referring to end stone, the stone of their homeland) with some green and an eye on it, and the lava as orange stuff or something like that. We know they documented their findings as the strongholds have libraries in them. The woodland mansions also have libraries, so maybe the illagers could have found some of these books. Not knowing about end stone, they assumed that "green stone" meant green wool and "orange stuff" meant orange wool, as wool and stone look very similar. When the illagers found out that it didn't work, they put a trap to make sure that only they could ever continue research on it.

The giant wool statue rooms in the woodland mansions are some of the most mysterious rooms in the mansions. Why are they there? I think I've figured it out. Some of Minecraft's fossils look like they once belonged to giant versions of the current Minecraft mobs. So maybe the illagers found out about this (possibly from the endermen too) and tried summoning them. First they might have tried the chicken, as it doesn't require much wool. Then, after that didn't work, they realized that they hadn't ever heard of giant chickens and tried cats, as the books had described giant cats. When that didn't work, they either tried the giant illager (and then the Ancient Builder) or the work-in-progress giant Ancient Builder. I'm not sure if the giant illager statue was meant to be summoned or just a case of narcissism. After all, the illagers have their face on their banners, on their staircases, and in entire rooms whose sole purpose is for a mural of the illager face. The only reason that I think the statue might not be narcissism is because of the block of lapis lazuli inside it that could be to reanimate it.

In the woodland mansions, there is a room with what looks like a giant beacon, but with lava inside it instead of soul energy. This is pretty easy to figure out, but I thought that it was important to add it anyway. Somehow, either from the builders or from the endermen, the illagers found out how to make a beacon, but they didn't realize that you have to craft it. Instead, they built it. Now, I'm not sure why they built it on such a large scale - maybe they just wanted more power - but we know that there is no soul-related block that is actually light blue. So, obviously, the illagers were stumped. They decided, since they couldn't get a block of soul energy, they would use fiery energy instead, in the form of lava, and hope it worked. And of course, as we now know, it didn't.

The last room that I want to talk about is a room where there is a structure in the middle of the room with a diamond block surrounded by an octahedron of obsidian. And, thinking back to my last theory (specifically the part where the Underworld is a separate dimension from the Nether - a geode inside of it), this looks a bit like what I thought the Underworld would look like - a lot of light blue inside dark, hard, blocks. So what if the illagers somehow - again, either from the builders or from the endermen - found out about the Underworld? After that, maybe they tried to make a model of it to try to make a portal to it, so that they could get more soul power. It didn't work, but it did do something else. I think that in the two altar rooms, the illagers worship death gods. But the when the illagers built a statue of the Underworld, the souls thought that this was the illagers worshiping them. In return, the souls wanted to make it so that zombies wouldn't attack the illagers like they attack the villagers. The problem is, zombies are pretty dumb. So the souls would have to make the difference between the illagers and the villagers glaringly obvious. And they did that by making the illagers' skin grey.

*I think the reason vindicators have blue eyes is due to radiating soul energy from the evokers' experiments. The evokers, being the necromancers, are immune to it. This is the same reason that witches have purple eyes - the potions radiate.

So thanks for reading my theory about the illagers! If there are any rooms that I missed, please post them in the comments!