Reacting to Game Theory: The Forgotten History of Minecraft Villagers

So we wanted to react to some game theories and we did record one a few minutes ago and now i wanted to say this i’ll be honest i wanted to see this the forgotten history of minecraft villagers made by the game theorists i wanted to mention really quickly that we

Made this channel with the purpose of teaching my friend felipe english and so we decided to do that through various methods such as reacting and commentating and playing video games and just doing whatever really yeah cause i didn’t speak english i have a really great deal for

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To even more people we hope you guys enjoyed the video and we love you lots there they are my people masirka’s villagers that’s the other thing we we chose this video because felipe loves villagers oh man funny joke oh no oh no die oh no it was just a funny job Hello internet welcome to games these are such creativity as relentless as an iron golem defending a village from a hostile mob and about as effective as a snow golem trying to do the same thing so last year around this time we started to do a big series of videos on minecraft lore

And while we’ve covered way too much for me to summarize here shameless promotion to go watch all the episodes that came before the overall narrative that we’ve been constructing was that once there was an ancient civilization of builders who created many of the abandoned structures that we see sprinkled throughout the overworld

Everything from the desert temples to the forgotten mine shafts to the strongholds that housed the portal rooms required to reach the end the only other remnant of that ancient race is you the player being somehow a descendant of the builders now this isn’t something that’s explicitly spelled out in the games it’s

Something that we’ve had to figure out well at least um guessing after all this channel is game theater your main character felipe facts also doesn’t have nearly as good of a ring to it but thus far the ancient builder theory has provided the most reliable and consistent explanation for

Many of the questions that we have about the minecraft universe and today we get to add a bit more evidence to the pile by talking about something completely new the iron golems their history and how it all plays into the wider ancient builder lore the iron golems

Stick out from among the many mobs in minecraft for a good reason first off they’re friendly which gotta say is a good thing considering that they’re among the strongest mobs in the game literally only by the wither and the ender dragon in terms of total hit points

Note however when i say that they’re friendly i would like to kill the end of dragon with the golden lead can i kill you of course oh be sure you’ll probably get along fine with most iron golems if you play nice they’ll attack hostile enemy mobs like zombies and illagers and well

Pretty much anything that isn’t a neutral mob however their true loyalty seems to lie with the villagers first and foremost which means that if you attack a villager you’re no longer a friend in the eyes of the golem you better be not if you’re in creative namely the fact that iron golems will

Spawn in a village once it grows large enough specifically once the village has more than 10 villagers and 20 beds now let me be clear it doesn’t seem like this is the result of the villagers creating that iron golem i didn’t know that nothing we see shows villagers creating golems or even

Suggests that they’d be able to do it we can turn to my favorite resource the ma bistieri to confirm that the golems just kind of show up writing about the iron golems the researcher in the book tells us quote it’s not exactly understood how villagers summon their iron golems but sooner or later

One is sure to appear interesting again the villagers aren’t building these golems no they are being summoned perhaps it would be even more accurate to say that they’re literally being like magically evoked just show up all of this leaves us with a lot of questions where are the iron golems coming from

Why do they seem to be drawn to the village out of pretty much anywhere else in this game the answer to these questions can be found by examining the origins of the iron golems in minecraft and by origins i’m not just talking about their in-game origins but the origin

Story that led to the iron golems being added to the game in the first place you see back in 2017 the development team made a post on the official minecraft blog which included a note from gem chief creative officer for minecraft which said the following we were thinking about how to get the

Villagers to defend themselves since they don’t have arms the designs very much by the japanese studio ghibli movie with the giant the castle in the sky we made it look like the villagers because obviously the villagers would create oh well i guess they don’t have use of alarms

Okay so there’s a lot to address there first and perhaps most importantly the fact that villagers don’t have arms okay so obviously that’s not true while it is true that the vast majority of villager types keep their arms covered from view we can see certain villagers like the mason and

Wandering traitors either wearing gloves or with their hands fully exposed so while their arms don’t move we know that they least exist yeah their arms just being big meat loops in front of their bodies would be a convenient explanation for why they seem incapable of building anything

No matpat no that’s a bad theory bad map because they are close to you i think what jeb means here is that the villagers don’t have the editing is they don’t have weapons with which to defend themselves i hope so those things being just weird meaty loops on their fronts just a weird

Weird thought no what i want to start with here is the studio ghibli reference gems specifically calls out the 1986 animated film castle in the sky as a key inspiration for the golems and after watching the movie you can immediately see how in the movie there are these giant

Robots with distinctively long arms very similar to the robotic long arm design of the minecraft golem but the similarities are more than just visual in the movie the robot has an iconic moment where he offers a small delicate flower to a little girl which is the exact same thing that the iron

Golems do when they offer poppy flowers to the villagers so already you can see that we have some visual similarities some behavioral similarities but the most interesting comparisons you know these things the ones with implications for minecraft’s lore you should try giving them a flower when you look at the

Story of the movie the movie revolves around a legendary floating castle built by a long forgotten ancient civilization and not just any ancient civilization but one that had highly advanced technology far beyond what the surface dwellers have in the movies modern times the robots are one such advanced creation protecting the

Innocence just make sure you don’t attract now mostly activated and only being called to action when the civilization or innocence on board are being attacked we join a young girl who comes to learn that she is a descendant of this long forgotten we race along with her that the castle’s

Power seems to stem from one giant magical blue crystal in the center though we’re never told why the castle’s abandoned early drafts of the movie said that the civilization became dependent on their technology so dependent that they became physically weak when a disease breaks out it kills most of the population and

Them having to abandon the city oh yeah and there’s also a lot of mining in the movie as well as cube-shaped blocks i mean there’s more to the actual plot than that but that’s the bulk of what’s important to today’s theory and honestly a lot of that summary

Sounded pretty darn similar to what we’ve been seeing in minecraft yeah ancient race with advanced technologies is forced to abandon their creations when some mysterious tragedy hits this ancient civilization has some connection with magical blue crystals which in minecraft would be lapis lazuli that’s awesome i mean there’s a lot of history

Here in both movies and in minecraft we would presumably be in the shoes of history and lastly we’re presented with giant robots with long arms that were built as a defense mechanism but lie dormant until members of the ancient civilization return or innocent lives

Are put at risk and let me just focus on that last part for a minute because the way that the iron golems seem to spontaneously spawn doesn’t make much sense if you assume that they’re just being built every so often whenever enough villagers are gathered together but it makes a lot

More sense if you assume that these iron golems were constructed ages ago and are somehow now being awakened or reactivated in the presence of the villagers these were indeed true the golems would be a defensive measure built by the ancient race and waiting to be called

Action but then how do we explain this going back to that jeb quote from earlier we made the iron golems look like the villagers because obviously the villagers would create a golem which way they don’t look like each other no this outright says that the iron golems were made by the villagers

And not the builders and just to be clear the villagers and builders aren’t one in the same for one thing the villagers aren’t capable of using weapons or defending themselves we already went through that whole arms debacle earlier this episode but we know from the fact that weapons are

Among the loot that you can obtain in containers in the overworld that some ancient race at some point built and used them and it wasn’t the villagers so it had to be someone so how do we reconcile this apparent difference do we just i don’t think see it starts to make

Sense if we assume that the villagers and the builders the secret building this entire time is felipe ancient history at a time that the iron golems were built so i’d like to tell you a story that i think explains how the iron golems happened and how the paths of the

Builders diverge from the paths of the villagers a story that explains why one group continues to exist in the overworld while the other has seemingly vanished admittedly this is getting into game speculation rather than just game theory but i think it offers some ideas for all of us to

Chew on as it regards to the lore consider the following long long ago there was no distinction between villagers and builders as a civilization they evolved and progressed as they would expect builders to based on everything we know about steve they started with basic crafting creating tools to better interact with

Their environments basic weapons to deal with the mobs that they encountered and eventually progressed to the point where they could begin building homes for themselves as we’ve talked about in past theories they became obsessed with progress testing the limits of their ingenuity they colonized land sea desert jungle when they conquered

All parts of the overworld they needed something more they started to explore the nether obsessed with progress they even experimented with giving life eventually giving rise to oh my start new ones whenever they were pursued by a threat too powerful to take on directly the iron golems were more powerful than all

Others to build or not to build only could the builders now build villages it was no longer necessary for them to carry weapons everywhere in order to defend themselves strong golem to defend you with punches that can inflict way more damage than your sword ever could fighting became less necessary and so

The villagers no longer taught themselves how to fight this was the start of a divide within the community certain people saw building only as a means to an end you encounter an enemy so you build a weapon to defeat it you need a place to live

So you build a house as the old saying goes necessity is the mother of invention and once they had built up a sustainable life for themselves complete with golem protectors the need to continue to invent was just gone these people were content to simply live with the level of

Technology that they had but not everyone was content and willing to stay complacent others longed to continue striving further to continue to build and invent and discover new technologies and thus a million steves were born for the sake of giving them the tools to protect against threats they might not

Even know about yet and it was here that the paths of the two groups diverged one civilization suddenly became two as some stayed behind in the villages to maintain a simple life as villagers others went out looking to explore the limits of human potential forever looking to build the next great thing

Over the generations the villager community complacent in their livelihood would grow to forget the secrets of building those skills would eventually be replaced with local trades farming masonry butchery baking meanwhile not content with building mere simulations of life with the robotic iron golems the builder society pressed onward pushing their limits even further

Conducting experiments that as we discussed in a previous theory would eventually result in the creation of the withers it was here that their catastrophe struck much like the civilization in castle in the sky the builder society had created their own worst enemy a foe even more powerful than their most powerful iron

Golem protectors the builders were doomed by their hubris forced to flee to the end eventually evolving to become the endermen and the complacent villagers would continue to stagnate living on this very day i mean i can’t process that is that the ability to build those iron golems

Maybe we should have watched the other nine four seconds maybe it was like story behind those legions of the robots back in the days well the people that had the drive and ingenuity to create them in the first place were eventually undone by their own

Pride it can be easy to look at the minecraft villagers and wonder why it is that they’re able to survive despite the fact that they seem to be defenseless and incapable of basic building but that is the very thing that’s allowed them yeah but they’re allowing them to survive the more grisly

Fate that befell the builders who weren’t content with the simple life of them to try and connect some of these dots but regardless it’s very interesting to me that jeb would outright say that the villagers built the golems despite us never seeing them build anything

Ever the only way for that to be true is for the villagers to somehow forget the skills over the generation and my theory is that villagers create the golems that’s all for me that’s all that i needed to know i’m sorry but that’s all that i needed to know

I had a thought like near the end of that which was you have a you’re a fan of villagers and you literally have like buildings stacked to the room with beds and everything to me actually i have like 200 villagers not even for iron golems either he literally just likes having villagers

Like a boatload of villagers i enjoy creative mode a lot don’t kill me for that but i enjoy it i have my own place where i build yeah and i have like 50 golems that’s a lot for me