A Deep Dive Into My Minecraft Enderman Theory

With the exception of the creeper the enderman is minecraft’s most well-known mob but there’s far more than meets the eye to the dark and lanky figure few things in minecraft have as much mystery and ambiguity to their origins and reason for being who are these shadowy figures and what

Do they want to find the answer we must examine the clues both subtle and hidden in plain sight in doing so we can learn about the true story of minecraft welcome to deep dive the first of a series of episodes where i try to learn about the strangest and most obscure

Parts of games the enderman is a great place to start they are an ocean of mystery join me for a dive beneath the waves Endermen are different from other mobs in many ways they’re neutral mobs that only attack if provoked they can pick up blocks and they spawn in all three dimensions perhaps nothing is more interesting than their teleportation capabilities seemingly it will they can almost instantaneously move up to 32 blocks away

When we look at the other minecraft mobs this is such a unique ability zombies skeletons and their variants can walk spiders can climb but so can real life spiders and several mobs can fly although these are typically more advanced enemies such as the phantom of the gast

But in the over no other mob can teleport if we can figure out a way to understand how teleportation works then perhaps this will set us on a path to understanding who the endermen are to do so we must travel to the end this place is dominated by the endermen

But they’re not the only life form here in fact they’re not even the most populous in terms of sheer numbers chorus trees vastly outnumber endermen but retro that’s not fair you say because coarse trees are plants and you’d be exactly right but i’m going to make the argument that the chorus

Tree is the root to solving the mystery of the enderman soon you’ll see why that’s important Let’s take a look at some properties of the chorus tree it was based off the joshua tree endemic to a small region of the american west chorus trees have multiple branches and can grow to very tall heights they also produce coarse flowers planting a coarse flower on instone is

Enough for a new tree to grow this is not too atypical there’s a phenomena called vegetative reproduction where a new plant grows from the fragment of a parent plant so everything is good right well not quite the strangest thing is the chorus fruit which comes from the plant body when broken

Not from the flower as we would typically expect this fruit also does not contain seeds we can’t craft coarse tree seeds from the fruit in the same way that we can with melon or pumpkin again this can happen in real life so nothing we’ve seen so far is strictly out of the question

The course tree is just a plant that happens to have some unusual characteristics but everything changes when we actually take a bite out of the chorus fruit we then discover its most important property it allows the player to teleport short distances randomly my theory suggests that this right here is the

First place where teleportation occurs in the minecraft universe as it’s the only non-sentient life form that allows this to happen since right now we’re trying to understand teleportation i’m going to make a list called the teleportation pyramid the bottom of the pyramid will have the most simple types of teleportation

Those which have the fewest requirements and are the most common in minecraft as we work our way up we’ll find more and more complex types of teleportation with fewer and fewer natural occurrences hopefully this will create a picture of how teleportation works so i’m going to put chorus root

Teleportation at the very bottom of the pyramid for several reasons within the end it’s by far the most widely available form of teleportation but it’s also the weakest there’s no way to decide where to go and its range is only eight blocks my argument is that all other forms of

Teleportation are either enabled by or inspired by the chorus fruit it’s the common ancestor if we go far enough back we’ll always end up at the chorus fruit and there’s a big piece of evidence for this in the end the shulker shulkers can teleport when breaking the

Block they sit on they’ll teleport up to 17 blocks away to land on another block this is actually pretty important for a few reasons first it seems fairly likely that their teleportation is based upon coarse fruit cooking coarse fruit results in popped coarse fruit which can be used to craft

Purple blocks which look very similar to smokers it’s not a stretch to think that shulker shells are actually derived from chorus fruit and that this has something to do with their teleportation capabilities the second interesting thing is that it’s implied that shlokars have some level of sentience they can choose whether teleportation

Takes them since they’ll always land on another block if they can find one this is the first place we see control teleportation somehow shulkers have managed to harness the properties of the chorus fruit this puts them squarely above chorus fruit on the teleportation pyramid but how what are they doing that allows

Them to control their teleportation instead of just randomly zipping around we’ll get to that soon This is all well and good but you may be wondering what shulkers have to do with enderman after all you clicked on this video to learn about enderman not chorus fruit so let’s switch gears for a little bit and talk about them i think it’s clear that the endermen are the most

Intelligent mob within the end and perhaps in all of minecraft i mentioned a few of these features in the iceberg videos including their human-like speech but one of the clearest indicators of their intelligence is their building capability this is one of the things that makes minecraft well minecraft

It’s even in the name fundamentally we can boil the game down into destroying things in the world mining and building things in the world crafting lots of mobs can destroy things such as the creeper the endermen are the only mob which can do both by picking up and placing blocks

Enderman are creators at heart the mob which is the truest embodiment of what minecraft is their home of the end however is a very limited place there’s an extremely small number of blocks to work with they can use in stone and create purple blocks from chorus trees but beyond that there’s

Just not much so being the creative beings that they are they tried to find unique ways to use their limited materials somehow the inner men were able to develop the ender pearl a much much more powerful teleportation device than chorus fruit the word pearl is very important what is a pearl

Well it’s a hard object produced by mollusks such as oysters or mussels these animals often have hard cells with a soft fleshy interior and the pearl develops on the inside does that remind you of anything we’ve seen in the end that description sounds very similar to the shulker

What if ender pearls grow naturally in shulkers and it’s the reason that shulkers can control their teleportation abilities could the endermen have recognized this and figured out a way to harvest the pearls this happens in real life as cultured pearls are commonly produced using mussel or oyster farms

We can only find shulkers in inn cities perhaps the inner men built these cities as farms for strokers there’s a massive center column full of them and they’re also found scattered about the various rooms the endermen farmed thousands of shulkers removing enough ender pearls so that every innerman could have the

Ability of controlled teleportation so let’s take a look at the teleportation pyramid again i’m going to put ender pearls at the same level as shulkers i think they’re very closely connected and it’s hard to know for sure which came first the endermen are a bit tricky i’m inclined to think that they actually

Cannot teleport naturally they need an ender pearl as a tool the only reason that they can teleport further away is because they’re more intelligent than the shulkers but both are using inner pearls to control their teleportation so i’m going to put them on the same level but connected to the pearl

If my theory is true then this is what we’ve got now intelligent endermen who can build structures they’ve used these structures as massive shulker farms allowing them to teleport between islands in the end but even with this capability they’re still stuck in a barren wasteland so inevitably they start to think about

The potential of teleportation is it possible to use this newfound power in a way that can give them the resources they need to build more things is there more to see than just the wasteland of the end i think that these questions led them to the development of the portal technology

That allowed them to travel to the overworld they cleared out a massive island in the inn for safety then created inn gateways to ensure that they would be the only ones who could teleport to and from the island then they constructed the portal in this safe zone a thousand blocks away from

The rest of the islands i don’t think they knew exactly how this technology would work which is why they were so cautious but somehow they figured it out and their portal worked they sent some brave scout inner men into the portal equipped with pearls and other supplies

The scouts teleported to a very strange world indeed with mysterious terrain plants and creatures they were also shocked to find that there was no portal back home to the end these endermen were trapped in a bizarre dimension with no clear path back and more importantly no way to

Communicate to the others that they had survived however the dimension they spawned into was rich in resources hundreds of blocks they had never seen before were suddenly available if only they could figure out a way back to the end but it was a dangerous world too this new dimension was rampant with a

Mysterious blue substance that burned their skin even worse it fell from the sky sometimes the endermen needed a safe place to live while they figured out what to do a stronghold if you will so that’s what they did the internment got to work deep underground away from the rain and

Various beasts that roamed the surface strongholds have a very similar block composition to in-cities including bricks stairs and slabs the endermen quickly learned that stone was the most common material and they built their strongholds accordingly the interment spent a lot of time in this stronghold researching their new world and learning everything

That they could they began work on a portal back to the end but no matter what they did they could never quite figure out how to activate it this was of course only their second time using portal technology and they still didn’t have a clear idea of what the requirements were for

Interdimensional travel at some point one of the endermen discovered a mysterious purple portal in the overworld this connected to a different dimension and unlike their portal to the end offered a two-way connection back and forth the endermen studied this portal trying to figure out why it worked when theirs didn’t

They knew that the portal was made of obsidian and extremely hard material found in the overworld they also realized that there was another important element heat the nether portal would only work if it was increased to a high enough temperature perhaps this was the secret that was

Missing in the return portal to the end so the endermen tried heating the in portal using lava but it still wasn’t enough it somehow needed to be even hotter they explored the nether more looking for something that was hotter than lava eventually they found it blazes when killed they dropped blaze rods which

Could easily be ground up into a powder and that was the key the final piece to their puzzle combining blaze powder with ender pearls produced a new more advanced teleportation device an eye of ender finally the endermen were able to complete their portal back to the end

Upon return the scouts were lauded as heroes they had proven that interdimensional teleportation was possible remember the endermen in the end still had no idea whether their portal actually went to another dimension or just killed whoever entered but now there was proof live endermen returning from the overworld

This allowed vast numbers of endermen to leave the end and explore the overworld and nether they developed their strongholds more fully adding cages for experimentation on mobs and libraries to store the secrets they had learned they also built massive nether fortresses as a way to easily obtain blaze rods which were

Useful for all sorts of things as they began to discover blaze rods could be used to create end rods a source of light in their shulker farms they were also crucial to potion brewing a new technology that the endermen experimented with in their cities the endermen also discovered that isa

Vendor could create ender chests allowing for easy interdimensional travel of riches from the over world to the end the intermen were flourishing as a society and they grouped stationed in all three dimensions some in the end some in strongholds and some in other fortresses they had limitless creativity and limitless resources

What could go wrong Let’s take a step back and update our teleportation pyramid the end gateways are a little bit above indoor pearls allowing much further teleportation above that is the in portal and the nether portal allowing for teleportation across dimensions it appears as though a few things are necessary for interdimensional travel

Heat and extremely hard materials now the portals are built from obsidian and are clearly activated using the heat of fire in portals also use heat in the form of lava and eyes of ender furthermore in portal frames are indestructible in survival much like bedrock the hardest one to explain is the exit

Portal which the enderman used to leave the in for the first time it clearly satisfies the density requirement but where does the heat come from some people are going to disagree with me on this part of my theory but i think it’s possible the end is much hotter than the overworld

Although probably not as hot as the nether there’s never any day night cycle just constant light from the harsh sky in stone also looks bleached almost like an asteroid or the moon so maybe the heat requirement wasn’t quite as strict when they built the exit portal i’m not completely sure so if you

Have any ideas about this let me know anyways the enderman at least had a speculative recipe for interdimensional travel i think it’s only natural that they began to wonder how far it could take them they discovered the overworld and the nether and now they had many more types of resources to play with

Would it be possible to use the recently discovered obsidian and heat to find a fourth dimension a fifth dimension a tenth dimension even their minds raced with anticipation perhaps they were only at the surface level of a very deep iceberg of possibilities so they began to look for new ways to

Build a portal using the requirements that they discovered someone realized that a gas dropped a tear which when combined with an eye of ender produced a mysterious new crystal could this be the breakthrough they needed they got to work minding obsidian from the overworld and building massive pillars in the end

Hoping that this amount of dense material would be enough to create a portal to a new world after weeks and months of construction they were finally ready one by one they placed the in-crystals on the obsidian pillars lighting them on fire as they went the enderman waited with nervous excitement

Until the final crystal was placed but disaster struck instead of a portal to wondrous new riches a terrifying beast appeared it was a dragon fueled by the cosmic energy of the inn crystals it destroyed the exit portal severing the connection between the end and the overworld and nether

It broke the end gateway trapping the inner men on the main island in an instant the inner men were suddenly a fractured species split between dimensions endermen in the overworld realized that they could never return to the end so they removed eyes of ender from their portals in order to keep the overworld

Safe from the ender dragon they destroyed their stashes of gas tears and sealed off the stronghold from the surface to prevent anyone from accidentally returning to the end the endermen were exiled but they knew that they could at least keep the overworld and its inhabitants safe time passed and the interment thought that

They were forever separated from the other dimensions but that wasn’t true the dragon was not immortal eventually it died of old age opening a portal back to the overworld but it also dropped an egg which would quickly spawn a new dragon like a phoenix from the ashes

Empowered by the inn crystals the dragon head was used on in ships which would allow the enderman to quickly travel for the brief moments in time when the dragon was dead no matter what they tried however the dragon would always respond they were never truly safe

So they lived in this cycle trying to take advantage of the few moments where the dragon was dead and the portal opened this was a purgatory of their own design they tried to play god but it was their downfall This is the state of the minecraft multiverse when the player starts a new game so many years have passed that the nether portals have become broken and only a couple inner men remain in the overworld with even fewer in the nether new societies have developed the simple-minded villagers the scheming

Pillagers and illiterates and the jealous piglens strongholds have decayed and nether fortresses are overtaken by wither skeletons over time the enderman slowly lost their ability to build vast structures only remembering how to pick up a few blocks but somehow in some way the player appeared the player was like the enderman

Capable of creating and destroying blocks in the world the player was intelligent unlike villagers and the player was curious exploring the world and building contraptions endermen in the overworld recognized this only attacking if provoked and even trying to communicate with the player it was no use however they could only

Hope that the player could figure things out on their own slowly the player did building vast structures figuring out how to get to the nether brewing potions enchanting weapons and eventually discovering the in portal the player knew what they needed to do they entered the portal destroyed the end crystals and killed

The dragon once and for all freeing the end from its eternal domination so is the player a god i’m not going to go that far but i do think that in some ways they’re the embodiment of the fundamentals of minecraft creating and destroying the world from a

Lore perspective we don’t know why the players spawn suddenly in the same way we don’t know why chorus trees started growing or why enderman started in the end at the end of the day however i think minecraft is about the player the player does everything the enderman can do but better

And ultimately the player defeats the dragon freeing the enderman from their crucial mistake and that’s my theory there’s a lot there so let’s recap enderman began in the end as intelligent creative creatures they discovered that shulkers produced ender pearls with teleportation properties they created cities using the resources

In the end but they wanted more so they developed a portal to the overworld however it was one way the scouts learned more about interdimensional travel using nether portals and discovered that blaze powder could allow them to return to the end with this knowledge enderman built huge structures to protect the portal back

Home and to farm blaze powder but they got greedy trying to build a bigger portal which accidentally spawned in enderdragon it wasn’t until the player came that they were freed from the cycle of death and rebirth i think my theory explains the biggest mysteries of minecraft where does teleportation come from what

Is an enderpearl who built the strongholds etc i know that this is going to be compared to map patch theory so i might as well explain what i think the strengths of my theory are compared to his matpat approaches it from an intermittent first perspective which initially makes sense as the endermen

Are clearly very important however i’ve chosen a teleportation first perspective this solves the biggest issue with his theory where does the indoor pearl come from now at his credit he recognizes this as a problem but in my opinion it’s too big of a problem to ignore

I just can’t find a way where the endermen could develop teleportation in the overworld at least in the end there’s precedent the progression from chorus fruit to shulkers to ender pearls has a lot of evidence as i’ve explained however i’ll be the first to tell you that my theory isn’t bulletproof

The biggest problem is figuring out how the endermen were able to make the portal out of the end i’m not sure where the bedrock or even the torches came from honestly though neither of us really has a good answer to how the intermittent discovered portal technology in the first place

In my theory the enderman learned through trial and error it’s like fire humans have used fire for hundreds of thousands of years but it wasn’t until relatively recently that we discovered exactly how it works the chemistry the chain reactions and the specific components necessary for flame similarly the endermen built their first

Portal without knowing exactly how it worked but eventually they got much closer to learning the ingredients still they didn’t fully understand what they were doing and they accidentally spawned the dragon another minor problem with my theory is that shulkers don’t actually drop ender pearls in game

If they did then i’d be just about a hundred percent confident in my inter pearl origin theory one more question is why would the inner men need diamond armor and the like in the end why bring it over if they couldn’t use it i don’t really know

There are a few odds and ends that i should mention first i think that endermites are a type of parasite that grows in shulkers alongside inner pearls that’s why intermittent attack them this happens in real life as well pea crabs can infest oysters and mussels but what about silverfish

Why is there a silverfish spawner by the portal my best guess is that it comes from some sort of a reaction with the nearby eyes of indoor in the portal maybe a silverfish or a mutated version of endermites spawners are a pretty complex topic from a lore perspective so i’ll save them for

Another video also what are the elytra why would endermen need them if they could just teleport i don’t think these questions necessarily conflict with my theory but they just might take some more thought to figure them out so that’s it what do you think does it make sense or am i completely insane

Did i miss something important let me know in the comments let’s figure this out together oh by the way i’m starting a discord server check out the link in the description if you have theories or other interesting things this would be a great place to discuss them

Also tell me if you enjoyed the deep dive format there’s a lot of mystery to minecraft and i think deep dives are a great way to discover what’s beneath the surface some of them will be more speculative like today and others will be more about obscure facts that people may not know

Anyways i hope you all have a great day and i’ll see everyone in the next video You