[Applause] So Hello internet welcome to game theory the show that’s taken another dive into the deep end of minecraft’s hidden lore my friends we are long overdue for a discussion of the netherlands i meant the netherlands the nether space lands the lands of the nether the nether regions Oh you know what i mean the nether is in my estimation one of the most misunderstood parts of the minecraft canon and it all stems from the widespread misconception that the nether is located deep beneath the overworld now don’t get me wrong i get why everyone thinks this the nether is Located entirely underground with no sky above it dig up and you’ll only hit a bedrock ceiling and the fact that distance traveled in the nether translates to a much greater distance traveled in the overworld makes a lot of sense if they’re concentric circles around a single core even the fact that They named the game’s starting position as the overworld seems to imply the existence of an underworld a dictionary definition nether actually means lower in position under or below all the evidence is pointing to this one conclusion like it is a slam dunk of a theory at least it would be if it wasn’t 100 wrong don’t shoot the messenger here friends minecraft’s technical director nathan adams confirmed this in a tweet saying that the nether is a quote separate dimension while the idea of the nether being below the overworld is a common belief it’s not what they’re going for well you know what mojang you Could have fooled us anyway knowing that the nether has its own separate world connected to the overworld only through portals has some shocking and unsettling implications for the minecraft universe first off the idea of the nether as a completely isolated underground ecosystem is fascinating it is quite Literally a world with no sun in gameplay terms this means that there’s no day night cycle but on a more basic level it leaves us with the fundamental question of how would a world like this actually be able to function like where is it getting its energy from after all Here on earth pretty much all our energy originates on the sun think about it either it’s a plant who performs photosynthesis to draw energy from the sun or it’s an animal that gets its energy by eating those plants or it’s a carnivore that gets its energy by eating Those animals which is just getting energy from the sun with extra steps so how do you sustain life in a world with no sun the nether proposes an answer fungus in the nether we have no plants only fungus instead of trees we have huge fungi instead of grass we have Nilium even the weeping vines which may at first appear to be plants must be a fungus based on their red color variant plants are green because of their chlorophyll which is how they use photosynthesis fungus on the other hand doesn’t get their energy from the sun Which is how they’re able to get colors like red and teal but all of this leaves us with a big question if the fungi aren’t getting their energy from the sun like normal plants would where do they get their energy from well in the real world fungi leech the nutrients that They need from the environment around them it’s why mushrooms are often found attached to rotting trees and logs even when mushrooms aren’t directly attaching themselves to decaying organisms they’re able to get what they need from the soil which is filled with nutrients from the creatures and plants that died and Decomposed there when you look at it like this it would seem like the nether should be a sustainable ecosystem where various mobs like the piglens are able to survive by eating fungi and when the piglens die their bodies decompose and the nutrients are absorbed back by the Fungi it’s all part of the circle of life but there’s one big problem with this system it just doesn’t work that way the way humans and piglens and fungi and minecraft steve and alex work is that we get nutrients in a really inefficient way it isn’t like the water Cycle where there’s a fixed amount of h2o that gets cycled around overworld works the same way as earth lots of plants and the sun constantly pumping in new energy but the nether doesn’t seem to work that way it’s a closed ecosystem there isn’t energy coming from an Outside source so how can the nether survive well when you think about it the nether actually is chalk full of an abundant energy source a much darker more disturbing and sinister source of energy souls like seriously there is nothing subtle about the horror of souls trapped in the sand beneath your feet in The nether but the idea that these trapped souls might serve as a source of energy for the biome is actually well supported within established minecraft lore in the newly released minecraft dungeons the souls that you obtain from killing mobs can be used as a power source for various artifacts probably Even harness the energy yourself if you’ve ever run a soul sand farm it’s the best way to grow nether wart for making potions in short the body of a dead mob spawn might not have much energy in terms of raw calories but apparently the power of the soul does But that still leaves us with the important question of how even if souls are the thing providing a renewable source of energy to the nether where did they come from in the first place elders who came from the overworld saw the nether as a hostile environment and Sought to terraform it transform it into something more like the over world that they came from there’s a dark side to all of this too regardless of how life in the nether may have gotten started it’s currently a system that’s reliant on the energy of souls to sustain it in Order to beat entropy it has to pull energy from some renewable source and unlike the overworld it doesn’t have a sun conveniently located overhead flooding the world with energy every day in other words the nether has two possible fates one is to fade away as all its useful energy gradually gets Converted to heat and it’s no longer able to sustain life the other possibility is that it draws its energy from somewhere else the constant influx of fresh souls from arrogant overworld adventurers after all the nether seems practically designed to harvest the souls of overworld adventurers it seems That the only way to prevent your soul from being ripped from your body is to remain in a constant state of vigilance allow yourself to grow tired and nod off in the nether and well you know what happens the bed blows up the moment your eyes Shut and your mind starts to drift into dreamland that’s the end of your worldly existence just another fresh soul to feed a dimension that’s hungry for energy now that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase soul food I just need to clear my mind Bye Video Information
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