ThePhoenix Flame1 – Minecraft – Reaction Video To “The Musky History of Minecraft’s Underwater God’s” ( Ep 7# – Part 1 )

Tonight Tomorrow Is Ah the ocean a beautiful blue crystal on this cuboidal planet we call home home to sea creatures large in small is a majestic squid the playful dolphin the reborn souls of the dead waiting to drag into your watering curve all today on game theory hello internet welcome to game theory

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We’re getting our little mermaid on and going down where it’s wetter downwards better under the sea in minecraft the underwater biomes just don’t seem to get enough love sure everyone is always excited to make songs dedicated to the fiery death planes of the nether or to discuss the

Otherworldly void of the end but the watery depths of the overworld offer just as many breathtaking sights unusual creatures and head-scratching mysteries and yet no one really seems to care it’s kind of like art imitating life because here in real life we’re so focused on space exploration that most

Of our undersea biomes here on earth have gone completely unexplored i think we’ve only seen like five percent of them so today i’m gonna change that not the five percent thing heck no that water is cold no i’m just gonna sit on my butt and talk about

Oceans in a video game for about 18 minutes what’s the deal with the guardians and elder guardians where did they come from are they just giant fish creatures that really like hanging out in ocean monuments did they build the ocean monuments seems pretty unlikely and speaking of those buildings

What’s the deal with those massive underwater mazes how did the drowned fit into all this what are these trident-wielding mer people are they just zombies that fell into the water get ready to take the plunge because today and next episode we’re diving straight into the deep end

What first started me down the path of ocean mysteries were the guardians and their bigger granddaddies the elder guardians from a mob standpoint i mean sure they’re giant sea creatures with one eye and spikes nothing super weird there right off the bat but what initially got my theorist senses tingling was the way

That they attack with a literal laser beam an underwater eye beam that requires time to charge up before it launches at you and causes massive amounts of damage that’s uh that’s pretty weird for a fish or really any sort of natural organic living creature i mean minecraft

Is a game full of fantastical creatures don’t get me wrong but attacking with eye laser cannons just felt out of place for me so i just kept swimming just kept swimming and stumbled across an even more unusual detail their inability to die you see if you

Take a guardian or elder guardian out of the water it just flops around on the dry land like a cubic magikarp but why this matters is what doesn’t happen you see it doesn’t suffocate when exposed to the air it literally just keeps flopping around until you carve it up to make sushi

Well it’s just a video game mechanic i hear you saying and you’d be right if only other fish behaved the same way for every other fish in the game you take it out of the water it flops around and eventually dies take a squid out of the water it suffocates and dies

Take a salmon out of the water it suffocates and dies take a puffer fish or a cod out of the water they suffocate and they die if you can’t tell there are a lot of cuboidal animals that were harmed during the production of this video anyway the guardians and the elder

Guardians are the only undersea creatures that can live indefinitely on the land so between that and the laser eye thing there was just something pardon the pun fishy about them or actually that’s completely the wrong pun because it was something that didn’t feel fishy about them

Something that felt a bit less like an animal and a bit more like a machine let’s look closer at the design of the guardian notice the colors of its flesh and the cracked patterns across its body it’s nearly identical to the prismarine blocks that form the ocean monument around them coincidence

I think not and that isn’t just my observation either in minecraft’s official mob bestiary the in-depth guide written from the perspective of an animal researcher in the minecraft world they specifically allude to this fact quote their skin is cracked as if carved from some ancient rock and their

Single white eye is somehow both unknowable and cruel end quote ancient rock you say like perhaps prismarine the very same stone that serves as the primary building block for all ocean monuments the only place in the game where they spawn further supporting the idea that the guardians aren’t made of flesh but

Rather of prismarine stone is their drop behavior when killed the guardian has a 40 chance of dropping prismarine crystal which for a fish doesn’t make a whole lot of sense i mean if you kill a sheep it drops your wool if you drop a cow it drops you like cow

Flesh but if you’re a non-organic creature built from the nearby rocks and minerals well that could certainly explain a whole lot and speaking of their drought behavior the mom beastiary does a drop of its own another interesting tidbit about the guardians quote again elder guardians will also drop a water

Absorbing sponge if killed by an adventurer and if it doesn’t drop a prismarine crystal one will find raw fish of some kind in its place some scholars think that this is evidence that its diet consists of fish and other natural watery food stuff but guardians have never been seen to wander

Far from their temple homes to catch them so we cannot be sure end quote it’s an odd detail to include there at the end right to specifically call out hey they drop fish meaning that they might eat fish but you know considering the fact that they never leave the ocean

Monuments they spawn in they probably don’t eat the fish again all the evidence seems to be pointing to these creatures not being animals as i’m sure we’ve all assumed them to be but rather some sort of artificial creation a defense mechanism built of the surrounding materials somehow mixed with real life fish or

Real-life fish dna to protect the very monument that they spawn inside even the creature’s anatomical design inside the mob bestiary seems to contain some level of secrets for most other mobs in the game the book has this incredible illustration of their inner workings the dense skeletons of the creeper the humanoid brains of

The endermen but for the elder guardian we get ourselves a piece by piece dissection of the eye with components that look kind of like wires leading to panels meant to charge up its laser and underneath that thick rocky skin nothing much a thin layer of pink with a gray area

That appears to be stone it’s certainly not any sort of bony structure it’s not anything that resembles the inner workings of a fish and it’s certainly not anything that looks remotely organic lastly it’s worth noting that the elder guardian’s eye will still have the ability to track a player who’s

Invisible seeming to suggest that this mob is dealing in the thermal spectrum tracking your heat signature rather than any sort of visual sign of your movement patterns so again another weird interesting detail about these creatures i mean even the name seems to allude to it guardian considering they only spawn

Inside ocean monuments and they’re called guardians if they were indeed man-made well clearly they were made to act as some sort of security mechanism but then what are they supposed to be protecting well despite ocean monuments being massive complexes there’s really only two unusual rooms worth calling out

Inside of them the sponge room and the treasure room the first is fairly self-explanatory it’s the sponge room it is a room full of sponges there’s not much more to say there i’m personally more of a loofah man myself but still it’s odd that whoever built this enormous

Building deemed it necessary to dedicate a room to this one oddly specific item more on that in a minute because it’s the treasure room that i i think the guardians want to focus on you see while every monument may not necessarily contain itself a sponge room all monuments

Do contain themselves a treasure chamber a central area with a tall ceiling and eight gold blocks located in the middle gold blocks that are encased or hidden behind a layer of dark prismary and it’s this right here that is perhaps the most oddly specific design choice hidden in the entire game

Here we are in the middle of this massive underwater complex made entirely of one material just varieties of prismarine everywhere that’s it and yet smack in the middle the designers decide to include this massive golden box all right that alone would make some kind of sense i guess displaying your prized treasure like

It’s a core to the entire building but it’s the fact that the gold is hidden under another layer that the gold is literally encased within a box of dark prismarine within a box of another stone hidden away that really strikes me as noteworthy here and it’s those details coupled with the overall design

Of the structure that leads me to believe that the ocean monuments were made to be religious buildings first let’s just start by looking at the overall design of the ocean monument it’s a classic ziggurat structure a staircase-like building with wide flat landings that get narrower each level up basically it’s like a big

Pyramid but with some stopping points as you get higher whereas a more traditional pyramid like those in egypt consist of a smooth continuous line all the way to the peak ziggurats were famous in ancient mesopotamia basically the first place you learn about in world history class and never fully understand

Or care about cradle of civilization have no idea what that is let’s just get to ancient greece and egypt already those are the cool ones or at least that’s how i felt when i was learning those units so i went back refreshed myself and all that

Information and let me clear it up for you mesopotamia back in the day was where modern-day iraq and part of syria are today so basically it’s an ancient civilization located in the middle east that is where you would find structures like the one that we see depicted here in minecraft

So knowing the real-life structure that these monuments are based on we can start to get clues as to what their intended use was in the minecraft war you see in ancient mesopotamia a ziggurat’s main purpose was religious it was meant to connect heaven and earth they’re thought to have been built to

Literally house the gods as such only priests were allowed to get inside of the ziggurats and this hypothetical religious use seems to be supported by minecraft you see one other key feature of the ocean monument is the fact that underneath the monument are 23 giant pillars

That stretch down to the ocean floor and it’s always 23 unless of course there’s some weird spawn hiccup but that 23 number i’ve said it so many times this episode it seems so oddly specific right it has got to mean something and wouldn’t you know it i think it does

You see the number 23 is just one of those numbers that’s considered to be really important to humans it’s a prime number which already makes it special it’s the number of chromosome pairs that we have in our body it’s basketball star michael jordan’s number there’s a really bad jim carrey movie

All about the number 23 so you know really important stuff here but all joking aside there’s even something called the 23 enigma essentially a belief that the number has some sort of magical or mystical significance because of how much it shows up in our day-to-day lives so when it comes to numbers

23 is kind of a big deal just behind top 10 lucky seven and i guess unlucky 13 but when it comes to religion 23 is an even bigger deal you see in the islamic faith there’s the quran it’s the islamic sacred book just like christians have themselves the bible and judaism

Has the torah the quran is believed to be the word of god as dictated to the prophet muhammad and it took get this 23 years for the entire book to be revealed to muhammad it’s also muslim belief that the first verses of the quran were revealed to the prophet muhammad on the 23rd

Night of the ninth islamic month so again in the islamic faith the number 23 matters a lot meaning that those 23 pillars in the minecraft ocean monument could very easily be referencing important pieces of religious architecture found around the middle east no ziggurats aren’t mosques where islamic faith is currently practiced but they

Are connected by geographic region and religious connotation now here is where everything comes together if minecraft’s ocean monuments were indeed places of religious significance where an ancient race of people believed gods could come down onto the earth and live it could explain the box of gold encased in

Dark prismarine with sea lanterns in each of its corners but to understand why you have to be familiar with the kaaba the kaaba is a black cube building at the center of islam’s most important mosque the great mosque of mecca it is the most important place in the islamic faith

So important that practitioners of islam are almost required to take a pilgrimage to see this once in their life and give worship there why well it’s thought that the kaaba is the house of god the sacred house the connection between heaven and the earth the kaaba is a sacred

Place with an inside of golden marble but on the outside it appears to just be a large black cube of dark granite just like we see in the game with the dark prismarine being on the outside of those golden cubes in each of the corners in minecraft is a sea lantern

And what you know at each corner of the kaaba also has itself a special symbolic significance most often pointing to one key location from islamic history so could it be that the guardians of minecraft are protecting the most sacred treasure of all the location or at least the perceived location of god himself

It sounds crazy but remember the ending of minecraft does indeed have two godlike figures speaking with each other about your gameplay the fact that gods exist in the canonical universe of minecraft is an established part of the lore i mean a lot of the details really line up here the ziggurat

Structure connects us to the middle east in islamic tradition the 23 pillars and their importance to islamic faith covering up the golden important interior of a building with a dark stone exterior just like the kaaba the perfect cubic shape of both of those structures the importance of each of the corners

The need to have the guardians protecting this place at all heck even the name this is the ocean monument it isn’t a ruin it’s not a temple it’s a monument monument is a word used to honor a place of historical significance a place of the dead

Or an important figure like a god you don’t call the building that houses your sponge room a monument oh yeah and it’s worth mentioning here as one last final note the one practical function of the ziggurat was actually to serve as just a high place on which the priests could

Escape rising water that would flood the mesopotamian areas every year rising water huh maybe the underwater monuments weren’t quite so underwater so we have ourselves the heat seeking laser shooting fish that might have been man-made to protect an underwater monument dedicated to what may or may not be an ancient god

Now the only question is who built it why is it here underwater and that my friends is explained through two words the drown but that theory will have to wait for another day in the meantime remember that’s just a theory a game theory thanks for watching me French You