Chucker Marsh – Minecraft reacts to game theory full

No one literally no one oh come on you gotta be kidding me Hello Internet welcome to game theory call it nostalgia call it a return to a more innocent time call it a desire to trend right off of qtpie success playing the game that just overthrew fortnight rest in peace Jurgen but I have been digging through a lot of Minecraft lore

Lately oh and you absolutely heard that right according to Google Trends minecraft is now on top of fortnight both in terms of web search and here on YouTube it’s like the Grover Cleveland of video games and by that I mean a game that was King gave up its crown to

Someone else but then snatched it back just like old Grover seed did when he was elected president histories only doubled President for that matter honestly it’s like the only thing Cleveland’s known for pectus ten fascinating facts article on and couldn’t even come up with anything remotely interesting cool let alone

Fascinating what was I talking about again oh yeah minecraft on the other hand is endlessly fascinating because for a game that’s now ten years old happy anniversary by the way its lore still hasn’t been cracked oh sure there’s plenty of speculation and lots of really good ideas but my knowledge no

One has truly been able to piece together a final all encompassing all mysteries of this world tied together lore Saul and so today I don’t really plan on doing that not even gonna pretend I’m starting to learn that people take it really seriously when I say stuff like today we’re solving this

So instead say this quite honestly to you I’m gonna do my best to start us on a journey to solve this thing I want to start a conversation with all of you where we can pool our knowledge and figure this out together I want to put together my thoughts on pieces of

Evidence that stood out as particularly interesting to me propose to you what I interpret that to mean and then leave further discussion in our collective communal hands it’s a theory it’s always a theory and like any Theory it’s meant to be discussed canalized criticized added test it and because it’s a theory about

Video games it’s men most importantly of all to be fun and if along the way we solve some deep-seated lore mysteries great more power to us these games at the end of the day are puzzles to solve and so I’m gonna do my best to leave that charge and solving those puzzles

But I want you to be there with me every step of the way and so our first step when it comes to solving minecraft is tackling the Enderman originally programmed into the game as a joking reference to Slenderman these tall dark and handsome creatures well just tall

And dark I guess have become the cornerstone upon which all other lore in this game is built solving what the Enderman are is essential if we have any hope of truly coming to the definitive solution as to the hidden backstory of this game and after exploring the design

Of survival mode – gameplay decisions even ancillary canonical content and books like the mop bestiary surprise surprise I have myself a theory as to what they actually are admittedly it’s not a new theory but what it lacks for an originality it more than makes up for in evidence and observation it is my

Proposal to you today that the Enderman aren’t aliens they’re not ghosts I almost thought that they were insects but that one didn’t pan out no what they are is human they’re brilliant humans humans who are in trouble a literal fight for their lives and needed an escape but in the process they suffered

On reducing them to the moaning shadows of a fallen civilization that they are now so in the true spirit of Minecraft let’s start building ourselves a theory shall we what do we know about these creatures well first we know that they’re one of the game’s neutral mobs meaning that

They’re not going to attack you unless they’re actively provoked this is already interesting because it means that in many ways they come in peace I mean look at the list of mobs and all of their behavior patterns anything else that’s nice to you is either an animal a

Villager or a zombie pigman which is weird and honestly merits an episode of its own for another day everything and I mean everything else is hostile except for the Enderman so already there’s a bit of an odd tenuously peaceful relationship between us and the Enderman but it gets even weirder when you

Consider that they’re the only other creatures other than Steve or Alex able to move blocks sure they’re kind of picky about what blocks they pick up but carrying blocks is an ability only shared between our character and the Enderman as the mob bestiary says quote

They will not just pick up any block but will choose only clay dirt and sand flowers and other plants and rather oddly TNT some claim the Enderman is indulging in a form of play or attempting to communicate speaking of communication we also know that they can

Talk or at least had the ability to talk listen to some of the sound clips from when Enderman are idling near you hear it there’s clearly a language here a real language that we as humans can understand listen again you should be hearing hey hello this next one is

Really clear what’s up and look for the AI which presumably is referencing eyes of ender the items that allow you to find strongholds where they’re used to activate a portal to the end home of the Enderman and the game’s final boss the ender dragon so we have ourselves neutral creatures who are able

To move blocks just like us and have language abilities far beyond what we hear elsewhere in the game from characters like the villagers it’s certainly a lot of odd similarities to be sure but far from airtight evidence that the Enderman are somehow related to men men but now let’s take a

Minute to actually look at their home the end the end is a weird final dimension for Minecraft it honestly feels to me like where the game started to run out of money that it could ever run out of money with the whole thing just being a bunch of n stone and perper

Blocks ugly purples and yellows everywhere huge chunks of landscape missing and giant cities that you can visit far off in the distance all of which are eerily empty this is the home of the Enderman sure even the mob bestiary says it but look closer and you see that while the underman may call

This dimension home and they certainly wander around in the empty open landscapes these giant looming fan o’s purple buildings aren’t for them what do i mean by that well let’s take a look inside the N cities there’s tons of great loot hidden all over the place inside the chests you can find

Everything from enchanted swords to saddles and armor for your horse the Minecraft game pedia breaks down everything that we can find here but something’s wrong with that list none of these items are actually useful to the Enderman they don’t wear armor that you don’t attack with swords and they

Certainly don’t write animals heck there are no animals in the end to ride even the fact that the items are kept in chests should be a huge red flag here remember Enderman are only picking up certain blocks and none of those blocks entail chests they can’t use these

Things or the thing that stores those things all of this points to the idea that the ends cities weren’t built by the Enderman they were built by and for someone else some other ancient people who managed to get to the end but who when you start up a new survival mode

Game you enter a blank world immediately you notice that you’re the only one of your kind oh sure as you adventure you’ll come across NPCs like the villagers but they’re not like you they don’t look like you they can’t build like you you and the villagers are fundamentally different it’s almost as

If you’re a different speed this fact is even supported by zombie attacks when bit a villager doesn’t transform into a normal zombie it turns specifically into a zombie villager regular zombies and zombie villagers are different in fact the only times that you ever really see anything that looks

Even remotely like you it’s always in the form of undead enemies zombies drowned husks it implies that once upon a time there were other humans here but they all died on mass it’s a strange detail that you probably noticed but you shrug it off and you continue on your

Journey then you start discovering pre-existing structures mineshafts temples in the desert anja mints underwater all abandoned all of them lost to time again you’re the only person who can build things in this world and you certainly didn’t build any of these things so where did they come from making things even more suspicious

Is the fact that ruins like desert temples are protected by cleverly designed booby traps elaborate fake floor is complete with pressure plates and grids of TNT it all points to one thing an advanced society of builders once lived in the overworld but have since disappeared so that begs the

Question where did they go maybe they all died which in turn led to the armies of the undead mobs that we have to guard against every night and while I certainly think that that’s part of it spent the whole story because we know that they went somewhere teleported

Somewhere and while they could have gone any number of places we know for a fact that one of the places they ended up was the end how can we be so sure strongholds strongholds are the hidden ancient ruins that contain massive portals to the end whatever this ancient

Society was they were so advanced that they could figure out how to build these things which in turn makes them more advanced than even you the player in survival mode you can’t craft the end frames necessary to construct this thing in order to travel to the end you must find these

Portals hidden within the stronghold and let’s stop there for a minute I mean have you ever thought to question that name stronghold it’s a pretty odd choice personally I would think it to be like the portal room or the Gateway room or the altar or something anything like

That but instead the designers of Minecraft named its stronghold a term that refers to a highly secure structure built for defending against attacks and there’s that idea again an ancient civilization of advanced builders that was quickly dying a group of builders just like our player who were being

Threatened in the overworld and needed an escape and what they created was a portal to another dimension to end where wouldn’t you know it they built cities to store the items and armor from their previous world but there was one thing that they didn’t expect that this would

Be a one-way trip that the portal would close up behind them leaving them stranded in a strange and barren wasteland sure they were safe from whatever was killing him in the overworld but now they were trapped in a wasteland a wasteland guarded by an unstoppable dragon and they came

Unprepared based on what we see in the chests they came in with swords and armor and horses effective weapons to be sure but not against an otherworldly foe a giant foe that flies around and attacks with towering beacons that restore its health they couldn’t defeat this thing hence why it’s still living

When we arrived and as we know from the game the only way out of the end is through defeating the ender dragon and since they couldn’t they were stuck trapped there for generations they learn to live in harmony with the dragon they make a new life with whatever limited

Resources they have they’re building homes using the strange end stones and purpur blocks they run out of food and soon have nothing to eat so they turn to the strange chorus fruits found their chorus fruits which funny enough have teleportation properties and over time they begin to change they adapt to their

New surroundings oh sure they retain some human features according to the diagrams in the mob bestiary their brains are very human-like and they have the flat faces and wide eyes indicative of humans they still do vaguely look like our player character but they evolved to grow taller which makes

Picking the tall stalks of Korus fruit easier similar to how giraffes necks got longer to more easily reach higher up leaves the fruits teleportation abilities starts to rub off on them so instead of having to rely on ender pearls to teleport around the instead natural we gained the ability from their diet

Over time they slowly forget their ability to build I mean why build when there’s no escape when there’s not even many resources with which to craft but they still retain the ability to pick up blocks though their skill for speech gets forgotten they do retain a rudimentary language still speaking in

Those distorted words this once great builder society slowly generation after generation transforms into the Enderman even some of their memories may still remain one odd detail of the Enderman is that wearing a pumpkin on your head prevents them from becoming aggressive maybe it reminds them somewhere deep

Down of a simpler time or of the friendly golems that they would construct back on the overworld regardless the civilization is stuck there oh sure some are able to teleport out into the overworld or into the nether but most are forced to live there under the rule

Of the Dragon and we know this isn’t by choice because when you finally arrive in the end when you finally defeat their oppressor the achievement we receive is free the end the Enderman at this point are so far gone from the people they once were that they’re no longer able to

Appreciate what’s happened but in defeating the dragon you as the player have brought closure to this oppressed civilization one that was forced to flee to a new dimension in order to survive only to wind up trapped yet again and that my friends is the story of Minecraft you’re a builder and you

Follow in the path of the great builders who came before you discovering their work learning of their enemies unlocking their technology and ultimately freeing them from their greatest oppressor now admittedly there are some difficult things to explain here like how this ancient civilization got access to the

Ender pearls necessary to craft the eyes of ender required to build a portal to the end if they themselves become the Enderman it would require some sort of time loop which honestly there isn’t a whole lot of evidence for instead my thought here is that the ender pearls

Are items that they learn to create before becoming Enderman before going to the end I mean think about this we know that this ancient civilization was able to access the nether end rods and I fender both require believes related materials to craft so this civilization had definitely visited that dimension

And thus knew how to access the powers of teleportation so maybe they learned how to harness that in a smaller portable form ie enderpearl before ever making it to the end I’m not 100% sure it’s honestly just speculation to try and solve for this Theory’s biggest

Problem anyway I want to know what do you think did you like it did you not let’s build it out from there why do they hate endermite where the villagers come from and seriously what is the deal with the zombie pigman civilization like I said the Enderman

Are just the start to the puzzle that is minecraft but there are still plenty more here for us to discover so until then remember that’s just a theory a game theory thanks for watching hey if you enjoyed that start picking away at the box on the left to check out my

Video on what minecraft creepers really are it’s an older video and it’s more scientific but it’s one of my favorites okay chip away at the Box on the right to watch as I prove that Minecrafts block world is actually round I’ll see you all next weekend for that fine atha

So do you requested joy