Minecraft’s Most Disturbing Puzzle

Of all the Minecraft rabbit holes I get stuck in on the internet I don’t know any quite as interesting as old root a Minecraft mystery that led a whole group of Internet investigators on a world goose chase but did they actually solve the mystery and how did it all start

Well it all began with a simple Reddit message linking to an image so dark that the investigators had no choice but to brighten it revealing a creepy Minecraft figure along with a link leading to a SoundCloud page with wobbly sounding tracks but the investigators realized pretty quickly that by passing the audio

Through a spectrogram two different things would come out of it the word silent Raven from the first track and a link to a darker image in the second with the words The Raven is watching so where did this lead well by going back to Reddit a user named toxic popcorn

Posted a message from old Drew with yet again another dark image investigators were starting to see a pattern here but instead of a code the image shared a link to a Tumblr block titled Shadows of the past now I couldn’t find the blog but at the time it was reported to be

Completely protected with a password that the investigators already knew leading them to a dark new image with a simple line of text above a weirdly looking Steve reading we are the answer but that wouldn’t be all as a morse code signature was also found on the image later translating to uldru confirming

That this was actually him but although it didn’t just disappear after this in fact he sent another image link this time with what looked like a blurred out Steve with the jumbled text above their head later discovered to be Caesar Cipher a way to encode messages by

Shifting each letter in the alphabet by a fixed number of spaces and with the combined efforts of the investigators it was solved in no time revealing the message we are waiting although this image had more to give because below blurry Steve was a string of numbers and

Letters that when put in the correct order at the end of an image link sent the investigators further down this Rabbit Hole to a new clue but this one was unique you see the clue contained text from an odd poem within the word Raven but some words were changed from

The original in such a way that by combining the altered words it gave the phrase the hidden truth is or the truth is hidden so what was odru hiding well this would remain a mystery to the investigators as fake old roots and clues started popping up trying to

Mislead them altogether but this didn’t slow order its progress as another weirdly coded message magically appeared this time in binary code which could be translated into letters using an 8-bit sequence however the image was so distorted it was difficult to even read so when an investigator named crate

Muncher brute forced the codes revealing a unique pattern of seven characters it was no surprise that when put in the correct order it would give a link leading investigators to their next clue an image with a dark figure but a completely different code hexadec decimal code a way of writing numbers

That makes it possible to use fewer digits for larger numbers and with the right values it led the investigators to the next clue but something was different Steve was no longer in the dark instead standing on some sort of bridge with the first piece of text the investigators would spot translating to

We are the answer along with Morse code translating to a shortened version of deception but what was so deceptive this would remain a mystery leaving the investigator stuck again waiting for their next clue and surely enough a day later a new clue had appeared a puzzle with numbers encrypted in multiple

Layers making it much more difficult to crack but an investigator named jealous 12 figured out each encryption that was used now I have yet to understand how he jumped through all of these encryption hurdles but after converting the code through multiple different functions a new image was finally unlocked the

Investigators were back on the goose chase with the next clue wishing them good luck above a string of letters and numbers that later turned out to be the end of another imager link taking the investigators to what they thought was a dark blank page but aldru wasn’t going

To end things here he stepped in sending a less blurry version with code to a secret message reading you are deeper down the rabbit hole false prophets will deceive you those who are pure will see what hides in the darkness The Raven is always watching we are the answer this

Was Then followed up by three words scattered around the image doctor lady and a word to distorted to properly read that the investigators decided to leave this clue behind and dive deeper for themselves now this is where it gets crazy because an investigator would eventually come across a YouTube video

By old Drew with Tiptoe Through the Tulips playing in the background and text flashing on screen with the words he stole my face and the Raven is watching however the video didn’t finish there for the investigators as the song had a little more to give as Audrey and moscow’s signature would reveal itself

When putting it through a spectrogram as well as the video also containing various locations a typical cave a mine shaft and what looked like a melon Temple and who was that was that old root this would go unanswered as an investigator named purple plant received a message on his SoundCloud from an

Account named Nevermore reading watching from the Shadows waiting then a couple days went past and another message was then received containing a type of image never seen before this time of a real person and text reading hello friend this mystery was escaping Minecraft and the investigators wondered how far it

Would truly go but there was only one way to find out they continued their Chase eventually leading them to a page with the word perception occasionally glitching and shifting to deception but here’s where the mystery takes a real twist because investigators would use an inspect element on the web page

Revealing the phrase We Are The Divine answer and by highlighting specific letters in the code it would reveal a familiar symbol ordered symbol but it didn’t stop there investigators continue to read the block source code until they found a link leading to a dark image with the phrase what am I along five

Jumbled words that connected back to a missing painting the storm on the Sea of Galilee but the painting and the image shared one thing in common they never led to anything new or at least for now so investigators started wondering if these large gaps includes were some sort of diversion were the investigators

Moving faster than older they wouldn’t get much time to speculate as yet again purple plant received a message a Caesar Cipher reading if you wish to know the future you must know the past this was an obvious attempt to get the investigators looking at older puzzles but there wasn’t enough evidence until

An investigator would send an image with the words the fun has only begun and a fainter message on the image that read hidden inside and as it turned out odru wasn’t joking he’d used a clever trick allowing him to hide one image inside of another and once opened would lead the

Team of investigators to some sort of grid that allowed previous puzzles to slot in perfectly but this only stumped the investigators as there simply wasn’t enough to go off and Order had clearly been watching because another message was received this time in a type of binary code base64 that once figured out

Gave access to a glitched GIF with the word remember but Audrey would send another message where the slashes used in the place of letters aligned perfectly with the phrase the storm on the Sea of Galilee but what about the second part well it turned out to be the

Answer to decoding the grid puzzle leaving the investigators four different codes with the correct one opening up to a new image if you wish to know the future you must know the past good luck Audrey had sent this before so it wasn’t anything new but by brightening the

Image it revealed symbols in a certain order and by rewriting the correlating symbols to numbers and then the alphabet a secret message was uncovered become void of your material senses open your mind’s eye the investigators were ecstatic finally a serious lead and before they knew it old root had once

Again delivered he won’t be able to see he’ll communicate he’ll be practically brain dead this pushed the investigators further to multiple layers of text reading who is odru why is he doing this what is the Raven I’ll show you joined by hexadecimal code that would have to

Be solved later because old root was about to go on a flurry sending messages to multiple investigators eventually ending with audreyu posting to Reddit himself with a video with the words become void become faceless the investigators were truly wondering where this would lead however older didn’t give the investigators a single moment

To think posting what would later be known as the final image leading to a puzzle that to this day leaves this mystery completely unanswered