Steven Z KILLER – Game Theory: Minecraft’s BURIED History (1.20 Update) #Minecraft REACTION!!!

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Um and we’re apparently going to be undercovering some buried history because that’s what this episode’s all about Minecraft buried history uh update 1.20 this just dropped yesterday a lot of you guys have been asking me to check this one out I’ve been really busy with a bunch of stuff some upcoming

Awesomeness uh for this October and uh you guys need to look out for a lot of things when it comes to this October because not only is this happening where I’m doing a member-thon and the marathon is hopefully going to be from the 28th to the end of a Halloween or even

Further Beyond depending on things uh if you guys don’t wanna miss out on that long three-day to four day to five day however long uh member-thon live stream will be then hit that notification Bell and don’t miss out on anything check back on the channel daily and uh

Yeah I’m excited and I can’t wait to announce something big at the beginning of October so look out for it all right let’s get into this the sands of time Slowly cover up what remains of the birthplace of civilization a people once driven by creation Now left in ruin

Erosion and hubris casting a shadow over what once was the crumbling buildings and Scattered fragments of society leaving a puzzle to the Past hoping that someday someone will pick up those pieces of this Fallen land to reassemble the story of their downfall well that day is today and that’s someone is me

Okay let’s see what this theory is all about oh internet welcome welcome show that’s always happy to brush up on some Minecraft you know I get super excited every time Mojang drops us a new update new updates mean new Mobs new locations New Mechanics for us to mine through for story and that

Was doubly so for 1.20 because they were finally adding something that had been teased all the way back in 2020 archeology archeology is literally a flowering history it is putting together the lore of real so much more there’s an anticipation and finally finally when the trails and Tails update

Came out we got a camel there was also a sniffer a new Cherry Grove biome then a handful of Armor Designs and broken pots not exactly the most groundbreaking stuff at least at first glance sure there was no big exciting entity like the warden or a mysterious structure

Like an ancient city but as with most archeology while the surface might seem largely pointless and empty if you dig a bit deeper you start to uncover the real story behind everything in fact I believe that this update gives us the most comprehensive look into the Society of ancient builders that we’ve been

Theorizing about for years their daily lives their tribal disputes and ultimately where it all went wrong with the origins of the Wither grab your archaeological brushes there loyal theorists it’s time we dust off the Lost pieces of Minecraft’s forgotten civilization and I do mean that literally because this whole thing

Starts with one of the seemingly smallest new additions to the game that’s ever happened the pieces of pottery otherwise known as Pottery shirts these shirts are scattered throughout the Minecraft world at five archaeological logical sites the desert temples desert Wells both the warm and cold ocean ruins and the newly added

Trail ruins there are 20 Unique Designs for these shirts and when combined together you can actually create a pot that can hold various items and no you haven’t been missing me this entire time I am indeed saying shirts and not shards it turns out that A Shard is actually

The technical term for broken pottery found at an archaeological site it is so weirdly specific but hey good on you Mojang for being historically accurate it tells us that they had big plans for these small pieces of pottery let me tell you looking at these shirts they

Reveal a lot you see Pottery plays a huge role in helping historians learn about the lives and beliefs of ancient civilizations food Fabrics people Yep they’re all going to Decay over time and fairly quickly I might add but Pottery can last a lot longer and so it’s often

One of the only remaining evidence points that historians can use to think about how these ancient cultures behaved and operated sure great megalithic structures like the pyramids can tell us a lot about the Kings and the religious Customs but Pottery was an integral part in the daily lives of everyone and while

Today we might think of ceramic pots as just vessels for carrying stuff around like liquids or plants ancient societies gave these much more important and prominent roles in their lives the ancient Greeks used to decorate their vases with elaborate ornamentation allowing them to pick different aspects of the day-to-day life from work to

Parties to sports even showing their rituals for religious events like funerals one of the most famous examples of this is the Eritrea painter name base which depicts images of a bride in wedding scenes along with characters from mythology that represent marital bliss from this one pot alone archaeologists were able to learn so

Much about ancient Greek marital traditions in short finals of pottery are often the best and only view that we get into the day-to-day lives of long gone ancient forgotten peoples and given that these 20 new Minecraft shirts are all decked out with various symbolic imagery I think Mojang is trying to do

Exactly that the other important thing to note about these shirts is that the 20 specific shirt designs can all be found in the same place different sets are designated to different biomes and different ruins which means that while we might have been right about an ancient Builder race they weren’t a

Single monolithic people like we’ve been assuming instead what we’re seeing drawn on these shirts isn’t just telling us about the daily lives of the ancient Builders but of their specific societies and their Clans each location had its own set of values its own culture its own daily tasks and when you stop and

Think about it that actually makes a lot more sense in the real world all of humanity started off with one common ancestor that left the African continent sometime between 60 and 90 000 years ago but eventually Humanity spread them they spread all across the globe which meant

That they had to adapt to new environments and as a result they built amazing wonders of the world that were specific to the region where they lived which meant that things like religion defense entertainment they all took different forms depending on where they were in the world and we see this

Influence in the differences of some of the great structures that we find across the Minecraft world the Ocean Monuments for instance were designed to look like ancient Mesopotamian ziggurats buildings meant to connect the Heavens to the Earth which is noticeably different from the jungle temples which are more

Similar to the ancient Hindu and in Buddhist temples found in the jungles throughout Cambodia like the Beng Malaya and top Rome it therefore makes a lot more sense to say that these were all created by different groups of people spread out over vast distances for their own needs rather than created by one

All-powerful super civilization even the new edition of armor trim seems to point in this direction these items allow players to add decorative enhancements to their armor which alone doesn’t seem like all that much but when you once again consider that they’re spread all across the Minecraft world including

Some in the Nether and some in the end you start to reflect what we’re seeing in the real world different tribes with armor made of symptoms that was super creepy the way the face looked right there hold up that is odd real world different tribes with armor made of similar materials but

All with different designs that reflect their local culture now that we know that there were indeed different tribes spread out across the Minecraft world what were the differences between them and what can they tell us about the ancient Minecraft culture well let’s start off with what I believe to be the

Oldest tribe ironically from the newest of the archaeological sites the trail ruins found in forest biomes like the jungle and Taiga these things are almost completely buried with only the tallest buildings peeking out of the surface to find and that already is Mojang telling us something it’s telling us that these

Buildings are old like really really old it takes a long time for sediment to completely bury something like an entire Village for a real world example just look at the moai commonly known as the Easter Island heads they were created between the 15th and 16th centuries and

For a long time people thought that’s all they were giant big brained heads sticking out of the ground but they’re not there are actually bodies under each of those heads but over the centuries sediment built up around the abandoned statue used to only the heads were visible above the surface just like

We’re seeing with the trail ruins but it goes beyond just being buried underground the shirts and armor trims found specifically in the trail ruins show us a lifestyle that in the real world we would consider to be part of the birth of civilization the whole shirt for instance shows us a wolf an

Animal that was once considered to be a threat to early humans later domesticated during the late Mesolithic period used to help out with everything from hunting and protection while we were still in the hunter-gatherer phase the chief shirt depicts a bundle of wheat wheat is the most common crop in

Minecraft but it’s also one of the first plants that we as humans ever domesticated again during that same Mesolithic period but the thing that really proves that this is coming from the oldest Group by far is some that we’ve seen not only in the real world

But also in the lore of Minecraft itself in the trail ruins you can find yourself a variety of different armored honestly I didn’t know that the this update was going to be like I heard about the update but at the same time I didn’t know exactly like what they added and

All that stuff because I know people have been asking me to go back and play my Minecraft and all that stuff but I just haven’t really uh wanted to play Minecraft and also I’ve been working on a bunch of other things and one last thing if you guys haven’t already

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Things and also just don’t miss out on anything brims but one of them in particular caught my eye the host armor trim now the hosts were the Godlike beings found in Minecraft Legends the characters yeah they were talking about I remember that being talked about help save the day at

The end of the game when peace has been restored to the Overworld the hosts they just dip they piece out they’re like we’re good here so we theorized that the ancient civilizations did all they could to bring them back this host armor trim being here I remember that from the last

One yeah and history because that’s what the whole portal like thing says as far back as the middle Paleolithic Windows between 45 and 200 000 years ago this was indeed the first tribe after the events of Minecraft Legends a tribe of people that were trying to call upon

The old gods for help a tribe of people who while they were waiting decided to set up some basic farming hide in dense wooded areas and domesticate animals giving rise to the first ever civilization like we’ve talked about in a previous episode But as time goes on

And the hosts of old don’t immediately return the ancient Builders continue to develop they continue to spread out to other biomes in order to gather resources in one of my earliest Minecraft theories we talked a lot about the underwater temples another one of the megastructures but this one found

Under the sea we hypothesize that the people who created these submerged pyramids were either fishermen or perhaps Pirates by trade and now thanks to the shirts we know that both of these ideas were right just a little bit more nuanced than we expected one of these

Shirts is the angler shirt angler as an upperson who catches fish a fisherman and as this shirt is only found in the war motion ruins it likely means that just like the trail ruins relied on basic agriculture this group relied on fishing for survival in their trade but

Once you head on over to the cold ocean ruins you get yourself a very different civilization we find shared fragments like blade Explorer plenty sound a wee bit like Pirates don’t you think in fact the shipwrecks which have been a part of the game since 1.13’s aquatic update are

Chock full of plundered booties so it seemed like the cold ocean ruined civilization I don’t even know they added pirate stuff like that who use these ships to terrorize other civilizations still I don’t remember them even talked about that in the last video but final two archaeological sites located

In the desert and this is where we see things taking a dark turn this is where we see the fall of these once great civilizations the desert temples have always been a place packed with mystery for us theorists but now we’re getting some idea of what these people were

Doing when they weren’t sourcing hundreds of TNT blocks for their death traps with shirts like the miner and prize it tells us that these were the people who built the mine shafts that you find throughout the Overworld these were the ones that truly pioneered the idea of mining the Earth for resources

Especially in places like the Badlands or the Red Sand deserts then they bring all of these resources back to their base these giant temples and then they booby trap them so no one would actually steal them sounds like most Minecraft players in a public server except I don’t think that these Treasures were

Strictly from the mine shafts alone although let’s be honest the booby traps could have been way better when Isis expect that the desert people and less unless obvious all were the first civilization to cross over into The Nether now that might seem like a stretch just from me talking about a

Bunch of pottery but hear me out the other desert archaeological site is the desert Wells and considering they share a biome it’s not unreasonable to believe that these were the same group of people in this site we can actually find the Brewer shirt depicting a potion but

Remind me how do you make potions again you need blaze powder and the only way to get blaze powder is to grind down blaze rods from Blaze which are only found in you guessed it the nether there’s also a shirt found in the desert temple that makes sense that’s good

Connection the head of a skeleton or you could suggest a wither skeleton it’s small and it’s pixelated so it’s hard to tell but we also know that red Sandstone like you can find in the mine shaft that we just talked about can be chiseled and once you chisel it what image appears on

The Block the Wither itself which ties in nicely to the final shirt from the desert well the arms up shirt it’s a very vague image just a humanoid figure with its arms up is it celebrating is it I guess I can kind of see what they’re talking about of worship many religions

Have you raising your arms wait a second he’s praising the sun he’s a Dark Souls fan out of that fate and I suspect that’s exactly what we’re seeing here but I also don’t think they’re worshiping the hosts like the other factions of ancient Builders instead they’re worshiping the Wither a man-made

Creation these people were people of science they built TNT out of the remains of creepers they built themselves portals to another dimension all to find the perfect fuel to build their super powered potions they were tired of waiting for the hosts to save them tired of watching The Creepers

Zombies and skeletons turn from Ally to enemy after the events of Minecraft Legends and so they turned to science they continued to explore the Nether and saw the life-giving properties of Soul Sand vegetation giving life with no water or sunlight those they lost to pigland’s raised to life again in the

Form of wither skeletons this was exactly what they needed they brought back the soul-powered sand and experimented designing the ultimate creature to be their new God one that could protect them like the hosts couldn’t or wouldn’t I doubt that they actually got protected I feel like that

Thing was just gonna murderize them but just like everything else they knew it too would turn on them the damage caused by yeah lost to its unending rage what few people are able to survive flee to the only place they believe the Wither won’t find them underground those that fled to

The deep dark corners of the Minecraft Earth meanwhile create the ancient cities a grand complex that would serve as their new home at least for a little while they would try to make a difference portal to take them to a new world they would experiment again with

Soul Sand combining it with the science of redstone but they did all of this with heavy hearts knowing that they had doomed their once great world and when the time came to open the portal it didn’t offer them a new chance only more pain out of the portal came the warden a

Creature built of souls summoned by their regret and their loss which is why his Pottery shirt the less in the game is known as the mourner a lost Relic representing the fall of a once great people whose Story Only remains in broken pieces of pots all but lost to

The literal sands of time but hey that’s just a theory a game theory thanks for watching honestly really good theory like the lore building everything that he’s been able to take out of the the simple of the of the of just the the pottery broken pieces all that stuff the the

Shirt uh or the shirts and everything like that honestly connecting the dots like that pretty damn good I agree with a lot of stuff I hope you guys enjoyed this reaction stay tuned for more and of course you have suggestions coming down below or join the Discord personal extra

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