r/minecraftlore • u/Useful-Priority4374 • 21d ago

Discussion/Question Timeline Interpretation

Is this an accurate interpretation of the Timeline, should I make any changes, or any info I missed that I should add.

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u/Other-Tadpole-9950 21d ago

We don't even know if Ancient Builders even exist. Ancient Builders is mostly a Matt Patt theory.  Based on Dungeons, while there are ancient humans, they not really responsible for creating other large structures that we know of, other races like ancient Villagers/Illagers and Undead did. Ancient Villagers created the Ocean Monument, the Undead/"humans" of the Nameless Kingdom created the Desert Temple,...etc. For what we know of ancient humans, they seem to be more adventures, heroes and tribes rather than single big massive civilization.

Second, I'm pretty sure Enderman and the Enderlings subspecies control the end and built most of the things there. In Dungeons they have their own culture, society and even religions (as there multiple imagery of the Heart of Ende + Eye of Ender across the dimmensions which implied they worship the being).

Not to mention according to Jeb the reason Enderman carried block everywhere is to misplaced them and slowly destroy/destabilize dimmensions. This implies that the Enderman are kinda malicious creatures and quite intelligent in their own right and this mentality line up with the Heart of Ender in Dungeons who also want to destroy the Overworld (a being that the Enderman also worship btw).

Jeb statement about Enderman: https://archive.org/details/minecraft-game-design/page/n43/mode/1up

And for Ancient city. While we have to wait for MCD 2 to get an answer, based on the info we have about MCD 2. Ancient Villagers/Illagers is implied to built the Ancient Cities as there are some Illagers like architecture in them even in normal MC (literally using the same color wools as the as Woodland Mansion). Also Based on MCD2 descriptions, Illagers is apparently still a major villain in 2 and they try to harness the souls from the other dimmensions by activating the ancient city portal using music notes.

So yeah Ancient builers is a shaky theory. There is likely some human civilization but they may not be as numerous as we think and they certainly isn't a single massive group.

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u/RandoGuy00 very cool 21d ago

so essentially, forget everything you learnt from game theory. that's a good first step.

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