Can Mobs Beat Minecraft?

This is a skeleton missing a snow golem and  killing the ender dragon all by itself with   no players. But let’s backtrack a bit. Mobs in  Minecraft are inherently random, driven by certain   code that makes them do what they do. But is there  a Minecraft world where those random series of  

Movements eventually come together to beat the  game all on their own. Can Minecraft beat itself   without any players, at all? Today we’ll be seeing  if it’s even possible for mobs to beat the game on   their own, calculating what the probability of  it is, and finding out if there’s a Minecraft  

Seed where you can watch it happen yourself.  I mean there’s no way right, or is there? This is the team that’s going to beat  Minecraft. We also have this guy on the bench,   but he’s kind of a wild card. The enderman’s  role on the team is pretty obvious. They’re the  

Only mobs in the game that can place and remove  blocks. Granted this selection is pretty limited,   but it’s essential to beating Minecraft without  the player. It allows them to build structures the   other mobs can use. They can also teleport into  whatever structure they’d like to snag a few extra  

Blocks. So let’s assume that in this Minecraft  world, a group of enderman decided to randomly   pathfind to the nearest stronghold. Woah woah  woah woah woah woah that’s not possible, or is it. Before we actually start looking for  a Minecraft seed where this happens,  

We have to understand how it would even be  possible for mobs to beat the game on their own.   Mobs at their core are driven by target  code. They select a random block, a target,   in an area around them, walk to it, wait,  and then do it all again. This gives them  

The random motion that we’re used to. So  let’s say for instance we had a pig here.   It can pathfind to any of the blocks around it,  but there is a certain chance, albeit very low,   that it chooses this block, then this one,  then this one, allowing it to pathfind straight  

To the edge. Unlikely, but technically  possible, especially given enough time. So again let’s assume that in this Minecraft  world, a group of enderman randomly decide to   pathfind to the nearest stronghold. Again, the  probability of this is extremely extremely low,   and it would take years. But we’re  not considering what is probable,  

We’re considering what is possible, given infinite  time. And given infinite time, a group of enderman   could absolutely walk to the stronghold. But  here we run into our first barrier, digging. The enderman can remove dirt and grass  but they can’t excavate stone. Nor can  

They actually even dig down. And as end  portals generate pretty deep underground,   we’re going to need a way to dig. Enter, the  creeper and the snow golem. If a snow golem and   creeper were to join our party at just the right  distance, the snow golem would agro the creeper,  

Which would then explode. Digging into the  ground. Have this repeat a bunch more times,   and our two kamikaze miners have  dug a path right to the portal room. But if you’re observant, you might be asking  something. How on earth did the snow golem  

Get here? These guys don’t just spawn  naturally, a player needs to build them   to life. Well that’s almost true. While snow  golems don’t just appear in the wild, anymore,   they don’t have to be built by a player.  This introduces the, debatably more useful,  

Mechanic of the enderman. Their ability to bring  snow golems to life. Enderman can pick up snow,   and they can pick up pumpkins. Carved pumpkins  can naturally generate in pillager outposts   and woodland mansions. All an enderman  has to do is place two blocks of snow,  

Steal a pumpkin and complete the golem.  Now we have a working mining system. It’s worth pointing out there is another  way to do this. TNT provides a stronger   explosion than creepers, and endermen can pick  up TNT. Naturally generating TNT is a little  

More rare to come by. As you may already  know, it’s abundant in desert temples,   but enderman can’t pick up the sandstone  to uncover it. Instead, the only place to   go would be the fake portal room hidden in  woodland mansions. As for the activation,  

That’s where our wild card comes in. Skeletons  have a chance to generate naturally with a   flame bow. If one of these skeletons tries to  shoot our snow golem and misses, it can hit an   enderman placed TNT, and start digging that  way. So does it matter which method we use?

Now I’m not going to sit here and tell you that  I’m not using the TNT and skeletons method because   it’s more unlikely and rare than the creeper  method. Because frankly it would be disgusting to   say any one of these methods is more likely than  the other when they are both infinitely impossible  

And unlikely to happen. Instead, the main reason  I’m using creepers is because about a year and   a half ago RetroGamingNow made a really similar  video that inspired this one, and he mostly used   skeletons. And I’m not trying to make an exact  copy of his video. So after you finish this one,  

Definitely check out Retro’s. It’s different,  it’s awesome, and it’s totally worth the watch. So perfect, we’ve made it to the portal.  One more problem. How do we get in? This   is a multi-layered problem. The first, and most  obvious layer, is the eyes. None of our mobs can  

Place eyes of ender. And as a result, the only  way mobs could beat Minecraft is if they were   playing on a 12 eye world, where the portal  is already lit. But don’t worry, this 1 in   a trillion chance pales in comparison to the odds  of literally anything else in our plan happening.

The other layer is a bit more challenging. Chunk  loading. Anything that goes into the end can’t   just load the end. Stuff can’t happen in another  dimension, if a player isn’t there to look over   it. Even worse, mobs don’t act independently.  The thing with mobs is that they actually don’t  

Do anything on their own. They have to be within a  certain radius of the player in order to actually   move around. So without a player, our mobs can  definitely jump into the end portal, but nothing  

Will happen and they will never exist on the other  side, unless we find a way to load those chunks. That’s where this guy comes in. You may have  noticed I’ve been neglecting one part of our   team. The goat. And it has arguably one of the  most important roles of all. Moving the player.  

Our player isn’t allowed to do anything in  this mob playthrough, but in order for the   world to even exist and load in the first  place, he does have to be there. And goats,   do 9 blocks of knockback to AFK players. So a safe  distance away from all the creepers and enderman,  

A goat will be continuously headbutting our player  towards the stronghold, and into the end portal,   loading the chunks on the other side.  Technically you’d actually need two players,   one to load the overworld, and one to  load the end. Both headbutted by goats.

But wait, because just like mobs working together  to beat the game, you can all work together   to build an insane mansion. Whenever someone  subscribes to the channel, this code will find   the average color of their profile picture,  map it to the most similar minecraft block,  

And add it to the outline of this giant mansion.  My most recent subscriber was PerkiSystem, and   their average profile picture color mapped to blue  terracotta, and now the first block is placed.   So subscribe to claim your own unique block,  and let’s build the weirdest looking mansion  

Ever. When the mansion is done, I’ll post the  results in my discord, so join there to see them. But with the goats and chunk loading problem  settled, we yet again, run into a roadblock.   The initial end spawn platform. There are two  problem scenarios and both of them are not  

Ideal. Scenario one, we spawn inside a cage, and  the mobs have to dig out. This may not seem bad,   but then you realize, the player has to be there.  We could theoretically excavate with explosions,   but our end loader will absolutely die if a  creeper or TNT explodes on him point blank.  

Problem scenario two, a gap. If the mobs spawn  on a void platform sufficiently far away from   the main end island, they obviously won’t be able  to make it across. Endermen can’t bridge over air,   so making a bridge to cross the void is out of the  question. It seems like both of these scenarios  

Just result in an instant loss. Do we just have  to bank on a convenient end portal? No, actually. The problem stems from understanding what  exactly we need. We need to kill the dragon,   and for that we need to kill the end crystals.  This may seem like we need to get a skeleton  

And tnt or a creeper to pillar up to the crystals  and explode, but that’s actually not true at all.   All we need is a snow golem. A snow golem  won’t willingly fire at an end crystal,   but if an enderman builds a snow golem then  just walks to the other side of the crystal,  

The snow golem won’t realize there’s something  in the way, and fire, exploding the crystal   for us. The cage situation is a bit more  difficult. But all an enderman has to do   is make a staircase of blocks going upwards,  spawn a snow golem on a platform like this,  

Teleport inside the crystal cage, and  the snow golem will eventually hit the   crystal. This completely bypasses the problem  of the void. An enderman holding a snow block   and pumpkin can just teleport the gap and build  as many snowmen as it needs on the other side.

The problem inside the endstone is solved with  just a little bit of knowledge about explosions.   Explosions do damage to players based on the  distance to their feet. If an enderman just places   a few blocks of dirt in between the player and the  TNT, a skeleton with a flame bow and a good old  

Snowman can detonate the explosive and it’ll do no  damage at all. And just like that, we can continue   this process to build a tunnel. The enderman  can surround the player with blocks each time,   so that the skeleton doesn’t agro onto him. And  just like that, we’ve solved our issue, and we’re  

Onto the final step of beating the game, killing  the dragon. In the cage scenario, this isn’t much   of an issue. A creeper walks into the end portal,  you wait for the dragon to perch, and you either  

Bomb it a good hundred times or you stockpile  TNT and bomb it a few times with a skeleton. The gap scenario though, is a challenge, we  can’t use creepers or skeletons because the   platform is too far away and we can’t bridge.  Snow golems can’t deal damage to the dragon,  

Nor can they detonate TNT. Again it seems like  we’ve totally lost, but we haven’t. All we need   is a fuse. If an enderman makes a gargantuan TNT  monstrosity, and then a little fuse made out of   TNT blocks, all it takes is one bad arrow  from the platform and the dragon is done.

Just think about how awesome that is. Given  the right random numbers doing random things,   mobs could beat Minecraft entirely  on their own. That’s insane.   But what are the chances it actually  happens? Is there a Minecraft world   where we can watch this happen? Well,  to answer that, consider this simple  

Snowman building 24 by 24 grid. Let’s  say there’s an enderman in this corner,   and we want him to build a snow golem over here.  What are the odds that it happens? This part is  

Going to involve a little bit of math just so you  can see where I’m coming from, which for the sake   of the video length will be a little rushed, so  if you wanna skip, go to this time on screen.

The first thing that needs to happen is  the enderman needs to grab snow. For that,   he needs to pathfind or teleport to any one of  these 58 blocks. He can teleport to any of the   576 blocks in this grid, so the chances  he teleports to one of those is 58/576,  

Or roughly 10%. He can also walk, but since he can  only pick a target 10 blocks away, he’s limited to   this space. So first he’ll have to walk somewhere  here, that’s 1/100 for each of these 70 blocks,  

And then he can pick his second walk target,  here’s the math for each section. I’m taking   the probability that the enderman walks to a  given row blocks from the total region they   can walk to and summing that for all the rows  in this red rectangle. That is a 2% chance.

They grab a snow block, without walking away.  To be nice to the enderman I won’t even account   for this. Now they have to walk OR teleport  to the placement location, I’m just gonna   give them two teleports because walking is  exceptionally unlikely. Place the snow here,  

And not anywhere else along the way. Again, going  to calculate wayyyy in their favor. Teleport back   to the snow patch, do it again. Teleport  to any block in this rectangle. Come back,   place scaffolding, grab a pumpkin, you get the  idea. So biasing the math in the enderman’s favor,  

The chance of a single snow golem being  constructed on this block is 1 in 286 billion.   That’s one snow golem. The chance of the mobs  beating the game is so astronomically low it’s 0. But don’t count it out just yet because on this  seed it actually happens. As Retro pointed out,  

Per the infinite monkey theorem, if you let  monkeys type randomly forever, they’ll one day   write out the complete works of Shakespeare,  and if you let mobs move randomly forever,   they will one day beat Minecraft. On every single  Minecraft seed. It’ll just take a little while.  

So don’t ever be discouraged by low chances, no  matter how bad the odds. For it’s those exact   low odds of random particles colliding with other  random particles that created something even more   beautiful and amazing, you. And the chance of you  existing, 1 in 10 to the power of 2.7 million,  

Makes mobs beating the game look like  an everyday occurrence. And you exist,   don’t you? So who’s to say anything is  really impossible. Thanks for watching,   but even more so, thank you for  existing, peace out, see you next time.