Uncovering Sockaloupe Minecraft’s Giant Fossils

Minecraft is full of exciting features Minecraft presents itself as a game of endless possibility advertising every new addition in newsletters and conventions the developers want us to see what they’ve added and rightfully so these new features have kept the game interesting to veteran players as returning players are a big part of what

Has kept Minecraft the most successful video game of all time there are hardly any aspects of gameplay that the average player isn’t at least somewhat aware of though I’d like to put an emphasis on my use of of the word hardly there are a few features of Minecraft that are

Mysterious and essentially never spoken of by Minecraft’s developers while I like to make videos about all of these mysterious features today we’re going to look at a particular one one that puzzles even the most educated players the feature in question fossils more precisely what they are Minecraft has

Almost never dropped any hints or insight into who or what they’re the remains of this silence leaves the ever creative Minecraft community in question and as is human nature we must know the answer in this edition of Minecraft classified we’re going to look into the ancient mystery of Minecraft’s giant Fossils Overworld fossils are a feature that players became familiar with way back in the 1.10 Java Edition update prior to their official Edition Professor Mobius had tweeted out an image of a fossil-like structure made of quartz to get people talking Minecraft fossils were very cool at the time this was

Years before the C and cliffs update so the these fossils provided some much needed spice to the then dull underground even with cave changes becoming more and more common now these fossils still remain just as exciting to find there are eight types of fossil structures exclusive to the Overworld

Four rib variations and four skull variations the largest of these fossils is spine 4 which totals 121 blocks huge imagine being a 2016 player and coming across something like this for the first time not only are their sizes impressive they are also pretty fruitful bone block can be crafted into nine bone meal

Meaning a 121 block structure made primarily of bone blocks equates to uh well a ton of bone meal as needed as those Overworld fossils are you have to search pretty hard to find one according to my math which is scary I know fossils have just a 0.03% chance of spawning per

Chunk this means finding a fossil in the Overworld in a given chunk is rarer than finding a pink sheep and rarer than a blue Axel being born as some someone who’s been playing Minecraft for over 10 years reading those numbers was very surprising fossils just don’t feel that

Rare maybe they don’t feel that rare due to the commonness of nether fossils nether fossils are much more common than their Overworld counterparts spawning everywhere in the Soul Sand Valley biome they are also much different instead of being large and extravagant nether fossils are small and messy out of the

14 variations fossil 14 is the largest yet it’s only made up of 26 blocks making it 80% smaller than the largest Overworld one nether fossils were also added much later than the Overworld fossils it wasn’t until 20120 that they added into Minecraft six major updates after the Overworld ones came to be as

Much as we can look at fossils and appreciate them before looking patch them to hunt for diamonds or fortresses we can’t forget their mystery what are fossils the remains of as I’ve mentioned the largest Minecraft fossil is spine four in the Overworld totaling 121 blocks this giant fossil is 13 blocks

Long 9 blocks wide and five blocks deep as you can already guess this fossil trumps the size of nearly every mob in the game while there are many variations of fossils as I’ve said what mobs could have been giant enough to leave these huge fossils behind if you’re less privy to the game

You may not even know that Minecraft once added an actual mob called Giants if you didn’t know this it isn’t too late to see them you can actually still spawn giants into your world but wait how can Giants being in the game if they aren’t in the game something strange

About Minecraft is that there are a few mobs that aren’t naturally spawning or featured in gameplay but are still technically spawnable such as the Lesser known iser unlike the iser though the giant has been a part of Minecraft since the very beginning Giants were added super far back in infdev 0.31 a

Mindboggling 14 years ago which is older than some of you Minecraft as a whole wasn’t even close to being fully released at the time but Giants were toyed with a lot by Minecraft’s creator Notch nonetheless testing of the Giants were uploaded to the Creator’s YouTube channel around this time and he seemed

To take an extreme liking to them the giant throughout most of inad had a zombie skin was 12 blocks tall and did a lot of player damage they were able to kill a player and just one hit despite Notch’s Fascination Giant’s ability to spawn naturally had been removed from

The beginning why he did this is not a mystery Notch once said quote they are too overpowered and on why he didn’t remove them completely he said quote they are just too cool to remove a year later Minecraft 1.0 was released a culmination of over 2 years of the game

Being constantly developed the release came with lots of fanfare as its official launch was done via Notch pulling a giant lever live on stage at Minecon while Minecraft Saw many new things added in order to meet up this 1.0 release the giant got a new damage sounds this minuscule Edition the giant

Received despite such huge updates to everything else would be a sign of what was to come for the Giants in the many years following the giant got another damage sound update in 1.4.2 and in 1.7.2 were easier summonable thanks to command updates but by then Giants had already been quickly forgotten about

Though I can still recall seeing them getting spawned and showcased in server lobbies many years ago at that point Giants could still make their way over to attack you and summoned something an unexpecting player at the time found in their horr was that Giants could run too

How could they do that though aren’t giant zombies actually they’re very diff while they have the exact same texture zombies they are not categorized by the game code as being Undead for instance a harming potion works on Giants whereas on zombies they have the opposite effect zombies burn in the sunlight Giants do

Not zombies turn villagers into zombies Giants don’t let’s hop into a 1.20 world and I’ll show you uh actually we can’t this is because since the 1.8 Minecraft update giant AI is removed completely Giants are completely motionless and more of a relic of the past than a part of the

Game giants can’t turn their heads walk look at a player or strike a player nor respond to anything in any way you can kill a giant after summoning one but you won’t get the Monster Hunter achievement why were the Giants suddenly removed in 1.8 the 1.8 update came just 2 months

Before Minecraft’s big sale to Microsoft in the sale Notch stepped away from the game and no longer was involved in its development once Notch who was a cheerleader for the Giants since the game’s creation left Mojang the Giants fate was left to the remaining Minecraft team it’s possible that the developers

Felt they could finally take them out of the game now that Notch wasn’t protecting them perhaps deleting its AI from the Minecraft code was an easy way for them to do this there was a tiny blip in time between then and now however where Giants were temporarily

Brought back to life so to speak and snapchot 18 w5a 10 years after the giant was added and 5 years since its AI was removed Giants were given unique zombie AI instead of well no AI Giants now were Undead they used zombie noises they burnt in the sun they infected villagers

Took damage from healing potions and could even spawn as chicken chalky babies this snapshot was being tested for the 1.14 release which was the village and pillage update Mojang was introducing raids to us and in doing so they added a couple of new Mobs the ravager and the Pillager witches

Ravagers evokers pillagers and vexes would now be a part of an action-packed Raid Battle inside Villages Mojang wanted to add giants into this mix too and therefore had made all those big changes to them but Mojang almost immediately removed all those giant changes the giant was now dead again put

To rest like they’d been following 1.8 why would Mojang make all of these changes just to take them back right away in the years after Mojang was sold to Minecraft notch stirred up racial controversy online which all culminated in Mojang removing any mention of not from Minecraft Mojang spent the better

Part of their upcoming updates development trying to watch the game of of Notch’s fingerprints and when did Minecraft do this that 1.14 update just when the Giants were being considered again perhaps smudging felt they needed to be re- removed as they may have Associated the giant internally too

Close with Notch the Giants were very much his baby after all now that I’ve told you everything there is to know about Giants and fossils I feel I can properly present this connection I believe that they share here’s a timeline that I made showing all giant updates alongside all

Fossil updates Through The Years from the time that they were both added to the last time they each tinkered with in 1.8 we had that killing of the Giant when they return from sentient to dead just one major release later the fossils were added into Minecraft I look at the

Fossils addition to the game shortly after the Giants AI removal as a main component of my theory I see the fossils of Minecraft’s way of putting Giants to rest for good meaning the fossils are essentially a type of Easter egg if you think that this is only circumstantial

Look at the Giants history I just described when I give you the context of what’s Happening inside Mojang Studios the sale the possibility of something else happening becomes more reasonable Memorial Easter eggs aren’t new to Minecraft either look at the toast name tag Easter egg which was added as a

Tribute to developer girlfriend’s rabbit another example of a tributary Easter egg would be typing a developer’s name excited Z into the recipe p search bar doing so triggers the game language to change this was added shortly after the developer had left the game yet another example of a tributary Minecraft Easter

Egg would be a hidden Banner design of Mojang’s old logo that can still be obtained when Giants were suddenly being worked on later during 1.14 snapshots those changes were taken back almost immediately maybe it’s because it wouldn’t have made sense to Mojang to add Giants back it’s possible that they

Had already put the giant back to rest in their minds back in 1.10 with the fossils addition the Easter egg if the timeline isn’t really enough to convince you of a possible connection between fossils and Giants maybe these mysterious quotes about fossils taken from Minecraft’s official website can

Once Upon a Time perhaps millions of years ago there were huge creatures in Minecraft bigger than a house we can only speculate on their lives diets habits or why they disappeared all that’s left of them is their skeletons strown across the world later in the article this writer also states keep

Your eyes peeled for a flash of white in the walls you might be uncovering new evidence of the oldest most mysterious creatures in Minecraft what could this Minecraft writer be referring to in stating that fossils are quote evidence of the oldest most Myster creatures in Minecraft I certainly believe Giants are

The main culprit of his description and I can’t see any other mob fitting it an old mysterious creature he says earlier in the article that we can only speculate why these creatures disappeared Giants essentially being removed twice was certainly never made clear to us and has left us speculating

Indeed this article was written when fossils were first being introduced as is typically done with all new features added into the game while the point of the article was to introduce the addition I look at those quotes as the single best hint we get from m Minecraft about the fossils truth while it’s

Possible that fossils could just be an addition to the game made just for the sake of adding in more realism into Minecraft I like to believe in what I’ve been trying to prove to you in this video consider more than just what’s in the game the context of what’s happening

Within mojen Studios Notch’s fascination with the Giants and his departure Minecraft is a game full of surprises full of things that both entertain us and scare us there are always Mysteries that will be found and in a lot of cases ones like this that may very well always

Leave us puzzled what do you think Minecraft fossils are the remains of if that’s what they’re intended to be let me know what you think about Minecraft’s giant fossil Mystery hey everyone I hope you enjoyed that video I just want to give a quick thank you to everyone for 4,000 subscribers it seems like yesterday that I hit 1,000 and that was a super big day for me this is just as exciting as is every Milestone that I hit I don’t want

To hold you up too long I just really wanted to say thank you once again uh yeah all right bye guys