Animagician – This Minecraft Server has a Dark Secret..

Grian’s newest HermitCraft video was CRAZY. Not  only did it basically CONFIRM most of my theories   from *this* video, but it also opened a WHOLE new  can of worms, ways for the story on the server to   progress, AND is coincidentally…really well timed?  But we’ll get to that, because Grian literally  

Just confirmed the existence of a MULTIVERSE on  HermitCraft – or at the very least, hinted at it. Okay, uh this video took longer to make  than I expected and Grian has already   posted another video – and…I think he  was watching my video? Or at least,  

He calls Grumbot “Grumbot PRIME”,  for no..real.. reason?? I did call   the new Mumbo “Mumbo Prime” in my previous  video, so that’s interesting. Anyways, uh In his newest video, Grian shows  us a robot emerging from the Rift,   a familiar face from Season Seven – Grumbot,  the…um. Robot? Child? of Mumbo and Grian,  

That was created to help run Mumbo’s campaign  for mayor of that season. Now, however, Grumbot   has come through the rift to our current season,  travelling through time, space or maybe even both,   and is significantly different. It’s not just  the fact that he’s been mega upgraded, with  

Sculk blocks, a new chassis and copper galore,  but also the fact that the bot itself says.. Which…raises a few questions, but we’ll get into  those. You see, this Grumbot, Grumbot Prime,   if you will, immediately poses a few implications  to the server. One – although in reality Grian   was the one who built this, as you can tell  from the unfinished back – the storyline that  

Everyone’s favourite waffle head is trying to  portray is that Grumbot Prime came through the   rift of its OWN ACCORD. Grian didn’t summon it,  didn’t even try to go through the rift – indeed,   it looks like the rift kinda just dumped Grumbot  Prime into Grian’s base like a tired parent asking  

You to hold their baby. That raises the question  though, if the Rift can’t be controlled from   Grian’s side…will it ever take this new Grumbot  back? Is it here to stay? Can this Grumbot go  

Back to its reality, even if it wanted to – and  if not, will that lead to more of a storyline? BUT – there’s something else I noticed, something  that you may have missed on the first watching of  

This video. You see, when this Grumbot that it  isn’t OUR Grumbot, the one we know and love from   Season 7, it further explains that it comes  from a Season where Mumbo became mayor. Now,   if you watched season 7, you’ll know that  Mumbo did not, in fact, become mayor – and  

Scar actually won the race, with BDubs as his  right hand man. Let that sink for a second,   while I remind you of something else.  You see, Grumbot was the unofficial child   of Grian and Mumbo, and its entire purpose  was to make Mumbo win the race for Mayor.

Grian and Mumbo, being…concerned parents? I guess?  If not guardians, didn’t want Grumbot to lose its   entire purpose in life, and so constructed  an artificial reality cage around Grumbot,   to hoodwink him into believing that Mumbo was  indeed mayor. It’s very, very possible that  

Grumbot Prime, the one we’ve seen in Season 9,  had the exact same thing done to him – and again,   this raises a few possibilities. What if  one – Grumbot Prime has no idea that Mumbo   didn’t actually become mayor in his timeline,  and because his purpose there was fulfilled,  

Is now expanding his reach to others, to try  and find a sense of purpose again – to try and   make Mumbo mayor, just in other places.  Or TWO, and perhaps even more sinister,   and I guess, less likely – what if Grumbot  Prime DOES in fact know that it was hoodwinked,  

And now is out for revenge against the creators  that abandoned it in an older season, stuck in a   cage of lies. What if this Grumbot…doesn’t  have Grian’s best interests at heart? But wait, bear with me here, but Grumbot was  built in Season 7 – no matter the universe,  

The timeline was similar enough that it was  built during the mayoral election of Season   7 – a season with no frog lights, no copper,  and sure as hell, no sculk. Now…that could just   be Grian adding some clever 1.19 flair to his new  build….or it could be a sign. There are two ideas  

Here – one: Sculk generates around death. The  death of mobs, in particular – and that makes   me think of the artificial Sun in Grumbot’s  cage. Is it possible that Grumbot was in that   cage for SO LONG that the sheer amount of mobs  that randomly wandered, broke his immersion,  

And died thanks to the sun – created that sculk  around him? Sure, there were no catalysts,   but it could also explain the colour shift from  the original Grumbot’s grey concrete to copper,   from the white sea lanterns to the tinted green  frog lights. If enough zombies die to keep you on,  

And powered, with your very essence coming  from them..maybe you turn a bit green?   Maybe..you’re not the same as you were before.  Maybe…you’re more zombie-like. More malicious. BUT, there’s another possibility – what if the  change wasn’t because of any timeline differences,  

But instead was because of the rift –  what if the rift itself changes those   who pass through it to help them fit into  the place they’re going to better, or worse,   ages them up as they travel to the future  to make them fit in? What if the space time  

Hopping effect of the rift has a much MUCH worse  side effect than any of us could have imagined? Keep that in mind then, as we bring up the fact  that in BOTH seasons where there’s been a well   defined leader, the only common thread has  been..Bdubs. Bdubs was Scar’s right hand man,  

When Scar became Mayor in Season 7,  and is now the liege to Ren, the King,   the holder of the diamonds and the  quest giver on the server. Given   BDubs’ track record with helping OTHER PEOPLE  – people who AREN’T MUMBO – become the mayor,  

It’s possible that Grumbot sees Bdubs as  the ultimate threat, as the anti-grumbot,   of sorts, and hence it’s very possible  that it’ll try to mess with him, in a way. Also – this is a little off topic from the  Grian video, but I was in my discord server the  

Other day when one of the members brought up THIS  screenshot – a snippet of Bdubs’ newest adventure,   titled: “Dragon Bro Remains”. Now this alone  has a ton of implications – because of the   group of Iskall, Grian, and Mumbo from Season 6 of  HermitCraft. Does this mean other old HermitCraft 

Groups might return – like the NHO, for  example? It’s possible that this plus   Grumbot coming as well implies other seasons  returning – and this ALSO could be tied into   the rift within bdubs quest itself. Maybe  the remains that got reanimated into the  

Dragon hybrid we see in Keralis’s  video came THROUGH the rift – maybe   they got reanimated by Grumbot, as well  – but I have a more outlandish theory. What if, by defeating this dragon hybrid and  effectively getting rid of the false dragon  

Bro on the server, Keralis and Bdubs could  use the power of the tree of whimsy – which   is bdubs magical tree he built to give  out quests from – to SUMMON BACK MUMBO?   It would be a great way to integrate  our favourite moustachioed hermit back  

Into the server after his irl break, and he  WAS a dragon bro…the pieces are all there. BACK TO GRUMBOT, THOUGH – if we go forward in  the video, we see that Grumbot also has these   little vats next to him, that Grian reveals as  “content generators”. Bit on the nose, but hey,  

I know what burnout’s like. Not fun – anyway,  these content generators are “controlled” quote   unquote by Grumbot, but of course they’re actually  completely random in reality – but..the way they   work is by dispensing an item, a hermit and  an action on pieces of paper, with the content  

Having to be made around that. Now, again, this  is pretty unlikely and of course the dispensers   on the server are completely random, but if we  were going full story lore mode, and Grumbot   actually DID control these vats… wouldn’t it stand  to reason that it would just give everyone pranks  

To do on BDubs, try to convince everyone it could  to sabotage the King’s right hand man – not just   because of this season, but to try and make sure  he doesn’t make anyone but Mumbo a leader again?

But..wait. Hold on a second – Grumbot’s purpose  in life was to make Mumbo MAYOR. Not King,   not a Cult leader like he was with the Mooners  – MAYOR. Although HermitCraft season 9 has a   king..that might not be what Grumbot Prime wants  to fulfil it’s purpose..hmm – hold on a second.

Grian currently has a little rock in his base  where he’s uh..Not starting a revolution against   the King. It’s been done too many times before,  it’s boring, let’s move on. Right? Surely Ani   won’t suggest a barely plausible theory to make  Grian start a revolution? Ri- Right (cut off)

OKAY, SO HEAR ME OUT, RIGHT. Grian HIMSELF has  described this new Grumbot as like an 8-Ball,   who he can ask for help with decisions, and  – let’s just think about the story for a   second here – if I was Grumbot Prime  and I wanted Mumbo to be mayor…well,  

I’d see what I could do to overthrow the monarchy,  right? AND, in the very same way, if I was Grumbot   Prime and I wanted revenge on Grian for keeping  me in a false reality…well, it seems so easy to  

Just make him do the one thing he’s desperately  trying not to – to make him start a revolution. Thinking about the content generators again,  they’re EXTREMELY similar to something else   on the server: the quest system that Ren,  the King, has going – which, by the way,  

Is so interesting I’m making a whole other video  about it, so get subscribed for that – but…this   kind of contrast. The orderly, claim your quest  and gain points and diamonds compared to Grumbot’s   ehhh here are three things just kinda..wing it –  that contrast sets itself up perfectly for…well  

Another civil war, of sorts – Grumbot versus  the King, Order versus Chaos – and wait..there’s   another thing that we should mention here. Although Grumbot’s purpose is, of course,   to make Mumbo mayor, we have to bear in mind  two things. One.. it’s – in the story of course,  

Not in real life – a sentient AI, and therefore  can think for itself, and TWO…Mumbo isn’t back   on the server yet. No dw, this bit could  all go out the window, because Mumbo said   on twitter that he was thinking of coming back  around September, but if there’s no Mumbo on  

The server, the next closest thing is…well,  Grumbot. Grian LITERALLY says in his video – “I missed my friend so much I built a new one” What if Grumbot tries to become mayor as a  stand-in, a substitute until Mumbo is back,  

And thus leads the revolution, but  lets the power get to its CPU? What   if this story starts as a civil  war to revolt against the King,   and ends in the ENTIRE SERVER banding together  to take down Grumbot. That..despite sounding   like a goddamn Marvel..honestly isn’t  as implausible as you might think.