What Were Minecraft Fossils?

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  • čas přidán 20. 06. 2021
  • There aren't that many features in Minecraft that scream "this has lore". But fossils are definitely one of them. I mean SOMETHING had to die to result in a fossil, but what were minecraft fossils before they died? This is my scuffed game theory about just that, I hope you enjoy!
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    This is a series called Minecraft VVSauce where I explore random features of Minecraft. Not Minecraft, but the water rises or Minecraft Manhunt but a more research based series dedicated to over-answering questions you never asked.This video was inspired by game theory! who just happened to do a collab with dream about the warden, the new 1.17 mob
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  • @Bisquit_
    @Bisquit_ Před 2 lety +10644

    In reality the minecraft devs were probably like: eh this looks cool

    • @zoeypongo7765
      @zoeypongo7765 Před 2 lety +646

      "oh the neather is an undead looking biome? and souls are known to come out of things so why not have some bones. let the theorists have fun with it lol" is what im guessing they said

    • @epicchristian3541
      @epicchristian3541 Před 2 lety +103

      There old mobs form like 1.2 idk but they got removed

    • @jayyden
      @jayyden Před 2 lety +173

      @@epicchristian3541 zombie giants yeah that's what I thought cause they were removed and the r like technically a long time ago if we consider how fast time travels in minecraft since they were alive

    • @lightyboii4961
      @lightyboii4961 Před 2 lety +90

      In the archeology showcase they said that there is a story but they won’t tell us
      We have to figure that story out

    • @kareemgobrrrrrr2918
      @kareemgobrrrrrr2918 Před 2 lety +15

      No they meant smth with skull three: discord is dead.

  • @donovanmacatee5501
    @donovanmacatee5501 Před 2 lety +3462

    He makes a friendly Block game sound like a horror game

    • @zetaswoop670
      @zetaswoop670 Před 2 lety +159

      when you kill a passive mob in the game, after the first hit, it makes a sound in fear before attempting to run, moving in random directions to evade you, before you hit it again, to kill it...

    • @skirmantevaitkute8890
      @skirmantevaitkute8890 Před 2 lety +22

      True but caves and cliffs update does the same thing

    • @skirmantevaitkute8890
      @skirmantevaitkute8890 Před 2 lety +54

      6:20 AN AMOGUS PICTURE BLINK NO CAP BUT FOR A SPLIT SECOND WHAAAAAAT

    • @takeizo
      @takeizo Před 2 lety +18

      @norcobick ✓ there is a among us character

    • @LostArcadeMachine
      @LostArcadeMachine Před 2 lety +14

      @@skirmantevaitkute8890 kinda sus

  • @4737Studios
    @4737Studios Před rokem +379

    Best theory I’ve heard about the fossils. When I played Minecraft with my friends, I found a fossil, and I was so fascinated, but my friends didn’t seem to care at all. Fossils are so overlooked in this game. Mojang needs to add more lore behind that.

    • @zimap
      @zimap Před 11 měsíci +18

      pov : it's been 7 years i play minecraft and i saw them only on nether

    • @TASTEGROUND
      @TASTEGROUND Před měsícem

      i wish i ​@realismEdition

  • @matthewmitchell3871
    @matthewmitchell3871 Před rokem +631

    With the addition of the Sniffer, I’ve heard rumors that these are the fossils of a giant species of Sniffer

    • @tearex8688
      @tearex8688 Před rokem +15

      Perhaps...

    • @lysterjose435
      @lysterjose435 Před rokem +5

      Perhaps if creepasaurid

    • @Marc007rj
      @Marc007rj Před rokem +16

      They are the fossils of Minecraft Legends bosses

    • @blackmesaenjoyer
      @blackmesaenjoyer Před 11 měsíci +2

      sniff sniff l

    • @gardenerguy2.065
      @gardenerguy2.065 Před 11 měsíci +7

      I thought of an idea like this. There where once giant Sniffers called Whifferbeasts that where basically Bewilderbeasts from HTTYD.

  • @Phantom_Zone
    @Phantom_Zone Před 2 lety +2011

    "Add them all, let the theorist figure them out."
    - Some Unnamed Developer.

  • @gunlyrics
    @gunlyrics Před 2 lety +2882

    What if Mojang saw this, they'd be like:
    "Huh, never thought about this."

    • @astraygalaxy2765
      @astraygalaxy2765 Před 2 lety +33

      ஃFree the endஃ

    • @traceinvader264
      @traceinvader264 Před 2 lety +5

      @@astraygalaxy2765 .

    • @h0ll0w456
      @h0ll0w456 Před 2 lety +5

      @@traceinvader264 Free the end?

    • @Scre1mingcat
      @Scre1mingcat Před 2 lety +4

      So your just saying he is wrong or what

    • @gunlyrics
      @gunlyrics Před 2 lety +23

      @@Scre1mingcat no, I mean Mojang never thought about this idea from Wifies. Like your friend says something smart and you, as an example so I can explain it to you, could have said: "Hey good idea bro, never thought about this."

  • @ValueofE
    @ValueofE Před rokem +192

    This actually makes sense, and gives a reason for why in The Game Theorist theories the ancient builders couldn’t kill the wither while one descendant of them could. The one we fight is far weaker.

    • @pierre-alainrivas-siedel8966
      @pierre-alainrivas-siedel8966 Před rokem +10

      Imagine if we couls make one of these ancient withers to figth them, that would be so epic! But i have a theory that the wither storm from minecraft story mode is pretty close to these ancients withers.

    • @WorldWeave
      @WorldWeave Před rokem +11

      I chose to believe that this ancient wither that the Ancient Builders summed was closer to a Wither Storm…at least in terms of destructive power, not necessarily behavior and powers

    • @greasycheese8095
      @greasycheese8095 Před 2 měsíci +1

      The reason why one descendant of them can beat the wither is because we aren't a descendant of them. We are a creation of the illagers, just as the illagers managed to create a much more powerful version of themselves, so too did they of the ancient builders, Steve.

    • @cjplayz9387
      @cjplayz9387 Před měsícem

      I think skull 4 is the witherstorm, skull 3 may be the sniffer, skull 1 would be the giant, and skull 2 is giant people..

  • @WorldProgression
    @WorldProgression Před rokem +47

    Interesting fact: Assuming minecraft evolutions functions as real world evolution, if mobs were previously giant, there was likely some kind of predator that made them evolve smaller

    • @thecatjall7848
      @thecatjall7848 Před 2 měsíci +5

      Or just food grew less and less through out the years

    • @TeaMollie11
      @TeaMollie11 Před 2 měsíci +10

      Or changing atmospheric conditions like an oxygen surplus in the past when we had huge bugs, although im not sure how mammals would be effected

    • @thecatjall7848
      @thecatjall7848 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@TeaMollie11 as far as I know, that's something exclusive to arthropods, the size of vertebrates is not affected by the level of oxygen in the atmosphere.

  • @amimm7776
    @amimm7776 Před 2 lety +795

    "This skull matches with the silverfish"
    But... silverfish are invertebrates...

    • @onebilliontacos3405
      @onebilliontacos3405 Před 2 lety +60

      Yep, if it was a silverfish it would have to be imprinted into a rock rather than having minerals imprint in itself.

    • @ILIKEOTTERS
      @ILIKEOTTERS Před 2 lety +51

      Maybe he just built different

    • @artastic_friend
      @artastic_friend Před 2 lety +9

      That’s what I was saying!

    • @owenbaer9712
      @owenbaer9712 Před 2 lety +10

      @@ILIKEOTTERS facts

    • @spyshot3448
      @spyshot3448 Před 2 lety +7

      Just means no backbone. Doesn't mean it has no skull!

  • @ness6714
    @ness6714 Před rokem +53

    With the idea of Soul Valley being the corpses of Mega Withers, let me add the idea of Ghasts being ghosts of them, specifically their heads, since Ghasts spawn there a bunch as well.

  • @realPlanetb
    @realPlanetb Před rokem +34

    Skull 2 can actually be "Dormaalocyon latouri". In our world this animal was common ancestor fot both felines, and canis (cats and dogs). That means that earlier, before player appeared this animal roamed the world, and later this animal would divide into two seperate groups of animals, cats and dogs as we know them today.

    • @bacongoose8820
      @bacongoose8820 Před 10 měsíci +2

      Is too big to be it... Probably a fictional ancestor of felines

    • @osmiumGE
      @osmiumGE Před měsícem +1

      Dormaalocyon was not that big

    • @VisceralFossa
      @VisceralFossa Před 21 dnem

      Interesting proposal, I really love Dormaalocyon and ngl it’s a really underrated creature
      One small problem: Dormaalocyon was nowhere near that big.

    • @osmiumGE
      @osmiumGE Před 20 dny

      @@VisceralFossaneither are bees and silverfish so its not completely off the table

    • @VisceralFossa
      @VisceralFossa Před 20 dny

      @@osmiumGE Yeah but I thought that too tbh.
      Bees and silverfish don’t even have bones.. they are invertebrates idk why but my autistic animal nerd brain is freaking out cause of it lol
      I mean technically bugs DO have skeletons, but it’s on the outside and it’s their “exoskeletons” lol
      I feel like a lot of these fossils may be their own thing entirely.. the sniffer exists, so maybe these are sorta “unknown” creatures
      Watched Kurzgesagt and they talked about how most extinct animals won’t be discovered, and there are so many we don’t know.
      Maybe these fossils are part of that. Idk, just my thoughts

  • @businessburd2071
    @businessburd2071 Před 2 lety +655

    "I think you're thinking what I'm thinking"
    NETHER SERPENT DRAGON?
    "Wither."
    oh...

    • @adiloncu8107
      @adiloncu8107 Před 2 lety +7

      lol

    • @lunezrath
      @lunezrath Před 2 lety +9

      I thought that to ngl

    • @Xernia
      @Xernia Před 2 lety +11

      Same I thought a snake dragon like it makes sense too? There are small caves or burrows in the nether

    • @blueramen
      @blueramen Před 2 lety +4

      "i think you're thinking what im thinking"
      "that it doesn't make sense?"
      "AN ANCIENT WITHER"
      "oh"

    • @crystallyons3588
      @crystallyons3588 Před 2 lety +3

      honestly, i was thinking human.

  • @moseptyagami606
    @moseptyagami606 Před 2 lety +2207

    Creators: *just adds Fossils without any intentions just for fun*
    Everyone: theory!

  • @velvasthecrossfox
    @velvasthecrossfox Před rokem +37

    My head canon for the Nether bones is that they belonged to the unused Red Dragon which was supposed to spawn in the Nether. The differing sizes of the bones could indicate the age of the dragons before their passing. I will say, the idea of an ancient mega Wither sounds gnarly as heck too

    • @Adaedon
      @Adaedon Před rokem +5

      Red dragons were supposed to spawn in the overworld not the nether.

  • @flamesofgames3986
    @flamesofgames3986 Před rokem +29

    The one issue with trying to compare the skulls to mobs is that most parts like the eye structure and mouths aren’t made of bone but flesh. If you were to look at an elephant skull you would think it is a cyclops so I believe skull 4 probably has 2 eyes. Oh he mentioned that it think.

  • @me8551
    @me8551 Před 2 lety +723

    "You guessed it, a wither."
    Me: Yeah...I definitely guessed wither...

  • @IEmeraldM
    @IEmeraldM Před 2 lety +446

    "Well, I think you're thinking what I'm thinking"
    Everyone who wasn't thinking of the wither: Mhm yeah I was thinking that

    • @salti3155
      @salti3155 Před 2 lety +9

      this is way too accurate

    • @adiloncu8107
      @adiloncu8107 Před 2 lety +1

      @@salti3155 i agree

    • @davibestho1452
      @davibestho1452 Před 2 lety +1

      What about the big zombie when the game was first added

    • @-donutholediovanna-7036
      @-donutholediovanna-7036 Před 2 lety

      @@davibestho1452 they only spawned in overworld, but none of the fossils were matching up

    • @loonyspangles8173
      @loonyspangles8173 Před 2 lety

      @@-donutholediovanna-7036 But the first big fossil could be giant zombie ribs, right?

  • @godzillakingofthemonsters54

    I have three questions.
    1: who built the sunken ships?
    2: why could they move when our boats can't?
    3: most importantly, what sank them?

  • @tuc-kaankaraayan
    @tuc-kaankaraayan Před rokem +14

    To me it always seemed like some fossils were made spesifically to be a refrence giants as they actually never remove them and they keep getting changed again and again meaning creators of minecraft still think about them even to this day. I for one also connect ghasts to giants too since they feel like dismembered giants heads with tendrils or just souls of giants who are stuck in a state of agony and burning because of the way nether is.

  • @jadedragon3291
    @jadedragon3291 Před 2 lety +307

    I don’t know why it’s so funny that a wither couldn’t kill a strider

    • @yeet2440
      @yeet2440 Před 2 lety +30

      My man’s aim is worse than a stormtrooper

    • @DyingSimulator
      @DyingSimulator Před 2 lety +3

      And the fact that the baby strider is just floating

    • @gigachad3614
      @gigachad3614 Před 2 lety +3

      @@yeet2440 yes I spawned a ghast and a wither and the wither just couldn't kill him and he died to a ghast

    • @TheMultiRaphael
      @TheMultiRaphael Před 2 lety

      @@gigachad3614 really?

    • @gigachad3614
      @gigachad3614 Před 2 lety

      @@TheMultiRaphael yes lol

  • @PankajKumar-hw9ri
    @PankajKumar-hw9ri Před 2 lety +2883

    I love how he matched a real skull with a shape of a among us character

  • @trevorhague6603
    @trevorhague6603 Před 3 měsíci +4

    After just seeing Matt Patt's goodbye video, this one brought a big smile to my face

  • @pigeonhead9139
    @pigeonhead9139 Před 10 měsíci +6

    i think its important to note that the nether fossils line up with geniune paleontology, with netherrack being a very weak and easy to mine block, so it makes sense that whatever the fossils belong to sunk in to the ground due to its softer texture

  • @SuperChez_
    @SuperChez_ Před 2 lety +1488

    That intro was better than a bounty hunter arresting a guy with a samurai sword

  • @proffesser_s8403
    @proffesser_s8403 Před 2 lety +602

    Fossils: are named by number
    Wifies: _wait, thats lore_

  • @foolishball9155
    @foolishball9155 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Spiders? Spiders don't have bones

  • @evanderminecraft7381
    @evanderminecraft7381 Před rokem +3

    8:32 I made a booklet at school detailing the Nether going from a flourishing over-under world to the hellish dimension that we know it as today.

  • @bruhnish598
    @bruhnish598 Před 2 lety +1784

    I love how Minecraft has little to no history but this man here is making up a legit history ffor literally everything.

  • @McMakistein
    @McMakistein Před 2 lety +10461

    That intro is the most brilliant thing I've ever seen in my entire life!

  • @lxllipop.
    @lxllipop. Před rokem +3

    THEORY: The Warden also most likely has soul energy too because there are many soul-like things, such as, sculk spreading as it sucks the SOULS of death around it, The Warden, and sculk shriekers having circling SOULS inside of them, the ancient city having the same blue SOUL FIRE scattered around some places, AND not to mention all of these thing have a dark-ish BLUE color. I am almost POSITIVE that the whole ancient city and all of the things that relate to it have soul energy. Just a theory.

    • @Vingus
      @Vingus Před rokem

      I think that mojang confirmed that the warden does have souls in its chests too. So this theory doesnt sound too off

  • @0nullnil
    @0nullnil Před rokem +49

    I think the fossils are just mobs that aren't ones that we know. Like something completely new or unique.

    • @dragonwarriorkungpoo
      @dragonwarriorkungpoo Před rokem +1

      More like something very old

    • @Marc007rj
      @Marc007rj Před rokem +2

      I think they are the fossils of Minecraft Legends bosses

    • @bacongoose8820
      @bacongoose8820 Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@Marc007rjhummm no the skulls don't fit for any boss oh yeah and also fossils came out before Minecraft legends but maybe they can decide add lore to them only now but no the fossils arent from Minecraft legend bosses there is no cyclops boss and also the bosses head dont fit inside the skulls... Or spines at all... Sorry but your theory is.......
      THE MOST WRONG THEORY ive ever seen!

    • @dominusanuli3595
      @dominusanuli3595 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@bacongoose8820You're definitely a small child

    • @Sonic.exe_uwu666
      @Sonic.exe_uwu666 Před měsícem

      NULL!?

  • @403_not_found.
    @403_not_found. Před 2 lety +232

    so basically what I got from this: *Wither Storms are now part of Minecraft's lore*

  • @alansmith6310
    @alansmith6310 Před 2 lety +1462

    i think the ghasts could tie into this theory aswell, they are basically giant ghosts that look the shape of a minecraft head. if this theory is correct, perhaps the ghasts are the severed heads of the giant withers hence why there are only ribs and no skulls.

  • @atqawardhana4627
    @atqawardhana4627 Před rokem +3

    Minecraft mysterious fossil: Exist
    The Sniffer: that's where I get introduce

  • @shadowbaconwarrior5604
    @shadowbaconwarrior5604 Před rokem +6

    Here's a huge theory the bones are Sniffer Bones

  • @Zer0mcyt
    @Zer0mcyt Před 2 lety +127

    Wifies: the ancient withers made the soul sand
    Mojang: we thought it looked cool

    • @opxx6910
      @opxx6910 Před 2 lety

      czcams.com/video/gLDZkRzhR1g/video.html

  • @nwithatilde
    @nwithatilde Před 2 lety +462

    Mojang: Let's make fossils!
    The Minecraft Theorists: OK so what were they?

  • @xenomorph_636
    @xenomorph_636 Před rokem +3

    bro you have the best theorys while dark it seems very plausible

  • @technicolorphantomart4356
    @technicolorphantomart4356 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Watching this immediately following MatPats goodbye video was like a gut punch lmao

  • @Nerded
    @Nerded Před 2 lety +186

    "there aren't that many features in Minecraft that scream 'this has lore'."
    matpat: *observe*

  • @anthonyle2506
    @anthonyle2506 Před 2 lety +187

    0:18 yoooo the new game theory intro looks cool

  • @bloodwolf2609
    @bloodwolf2609 Před rokem +4

    All Wifies research for everyone to be like "guys the big fossil is the Sniffer"

    • @osmiumGE
      @osmiumGE Před měsícem

      All that research and he doesn't know that something called an invertebrate doesn't have vertebrae...

  • @TheAverageSonarian
    @TheAverageSonarian Před rokem +4

    Mojang has revealed this. The fossils are… the sniffer!

  • @dblockjumper6929
    @dblockjumper6929 Před 2 lety +296

    Mojang: adds fossils because they look cool
    Wifies: is that a challenge

    • @fateerah851
      @fateerah851 Před 2 lety +4

      I know that this is a joke don’t hate on me but I’m pretty sure they won’t just add fossils because they look cool there has to be some lore or at least think of a creature that later because of fossil.

    • @RG_Rizzy
      @RG_Rizzy Před 2 lety

      @@fateerah851 dude, its minecraft

    • @ayubconvlogs2444
      @ayubconvlogs2444 Před 2 lety +2

      @@RG_Rizzy he literally said "im pretty sure"

    • @severinportmann6641
      @severinportmann6641 Před 2 lety

      @@RG_Rizzy 😂

  • @hiddendesire3076
    @hiddendesire3076 Před 2 lety +720

    Is everyone forgetting that Giants used to be an enemy in the game?

    • @gameswithpeachcord7498
      @gameswithpeachcord7498 Před 2 lety +7

      Nope

    • @monke6912
      @monke6912 Před 2 lety

      yes

    • @theinsomniacleader509
      @theinsomniacleader509 Před 2 lety +11

      Are you guys serious Giants are obviously still in the game

    • @thebyte0f879
      @thebyte0f879 Před 2 lety +39

      well yes, but the fossils we see are not THOSE type of giants. Notice how the spine is positioned more like it's going _into_ a skull rather than _up_ in the skull? Animals and creatures who have this are 4 legged, they have to walk on four legs, but if the spine is going up into the skull, that means they can walk on 2 walks. The fossils that we see in game are not doing this

    • @adithyam6120
      @adithyam6120 Před 2 lety +3

      I think the largest fossil belongs to the giant

  • @sheraberry3280
    @sheraberry3280 Před 3 měsíci +1

    That intro was EVERYTHING!!!

  • @guybayo2002
    @guybayo2002 Před 8 měsíci +1

    The Game Theory intro alone has earned the like and sub, the rest of the video is just a bonus after such a great start

  • @hollowrift
    @hollowrift Před 2 lety +219

    10:55
    “megawither”
    this gave me *crazy* story mode vibes

    • @Wifies
      @Wifies  Před 2 lety +94

      WITHERSTORM CANNON???!/1/?! (not clickbait)

    • @user-vh8wn8sx3z
      @user-vh8wn8sx3z Před 2 lety +25

      @@Wifies what if the witherstorm is actually canon to minecraft. it would explain even matpats theory on what happened to the ancient builders

    • @thenoobypro790
      @thenoobypro790 Před 2 lety +5

      @@Wifies I wish there was a way to summon one :c

    • @shallow_night7046
      @shallow_night7046 Před 2 lety +3

      10:54 not 10:55, 10:55 is just "wither" lol

    • @patcvam499
      @patcvam499 Před 2 lety +3

      Same

  • @GiftyA-YT
    @GiftyA-YT Před 2 lety +164

    "theres not that many minecraft features that screams : this has lore"
    Matpat In Game Theory : Oh Really?

  • @DivaLenne
    @DivaLenne Před rokem +2

    Your intro was spot on. I thought I was watching game theory for a second.

  • @idekidek4715
    @idekidek4715 Před 9 měsíci +1

    I just love the fact we are talking about how powerful the wither is, yet fails to destroy a simple strider 12:33

  • @hakki-st7nz
    @hakki-st7nz Před 2 lety +462

    “Ancient Huge Withers”
    Me: *thinks* Wait, the wither storm

    • @andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780
      @andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780 Před 2 lety +21

      ya one of the skulls looked like a wither storm head

    • @nonoqt7393
      @nonoqt7393 Před 2 lety +2

      :0

    • @gorethereaper9193
      @gorethereaper9193 Před 2 lety +14

      If these ribs were ancient wither storms there must be a strong connections with the nether and command blocks, what if command blocks were powered by soul energy and one day there was so much energy flowing a command block was made. Once the command block was made it started sucking blocks in and made a wither, with this it kept sucking in blocks making the wither bigger and bigger till it became a storm and it sucked in tons of blocks, once the nether builders made bastions and fortresses the storms started breaking these structures, the builders had enough and they killed the storms, but with this the builders and withers were killed there was no one left to fix up these structures.

    • @andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780
      @andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780 Před 2 lety +4

      @@gorethereaper9193 and the only way to kill a wither storm is by killing the comando block so thats why theres no block in the ribs

    • @thesovietunion5862
      @thesovietunion5862 Před 2 lety +1

      i also theorise its the wither storm we be talkin bout

  • @Bristol_Lively
    @Bristol_Lively Před 2 lety +1139

    If Netherack used to be called Bloodstone, and there are giant fossils in The Nether, that could mean that Netherack is a combination of rock and the flesh of the dead fossilized organisms.

    • @scottghost6274
      @scottghost6274 Před 2 lety +63

      Thats creepy

    • @satnus3388
      @satnus3388 Před 2 lety +7

      @@scottghost6274 ya

    • @user-kg2lp8jz2r
      @user-kg2lp8jz2r Před 2 lety +43

      @@scottghost6274 ya heard oil?

    • @rachdarastrix5251
      @rachdarastrix5251 Před 2 lety +16

      @@user-kg2lp8jz2r I'm pretty sure that's the thing that the price of will be up 80% before next autumn?

    • @cxnnectivity6889
      @cxnnectivity6889 Před 2 lety +39

      Also, netherack sounds kind of squishy. It also makes an ear ringing noise sometimes when you jump on it.

  • @ParthF1
    @ParthF1 Před rokem +1

    Man, you are just turning a cool game into a thriller suspense movie.💀

  • @blueninjaproductionsandcon7795

    Those mega withers are what brought life into the zombie/undead outbrake and destroyed the civilization and brought the builders to exinction and the player was in ice on till you spawn in

  • @ad4m_ash
    @ad4m_ash Před 2 lety +221

    Wifies: it's a wither ancient
    Minecraft: wait we haven't though about that

    • @aym_gei9708
      @aym_gei9708 Před 2 lety +10

      zombie giant

    • @tesstickle6974
      @tesstickle6974 Před 2 lety +7

      @@aym_gei9708 Agreed. Every single one of the GZ's died that's why there are no GZ's left
      Me right now: intellecc

    • @Maxea_on_paws
      @Maxea_on_paws Před 2 lety

      I usually make small comments like 'ok' but you know what am going to say 'ok'

    • @spidersus8849
      @spidersus8849 Před 2 lety +2

      @@aym_gei9708 yeah that's what I was going to say

    • @adamwilson395
      @adamwilson395 Před 2 lety

      Wither storm

  • @blackiee9501
    @blackiee9501 Před 2 lety +770

    The fossils were zombie giants. They got removed, so everyone of them is dead.

    • @C003
      @C003 Před 2 lety +27

      Yeah everyone guessed that

    • @PickledEggMan
      @PickledEggMan Před 2 lety +36

      Yeah I thought this ever since I knew the zombie giants used to be things

    • @sweetysingh7716
      @sweetysingh7716 Před 2 lety +10

      😂😂Good theory

    • @Dora_jane
      @Dora_jane Před 2 lety +20

      People with the /summon command:

    • @l-3832
      @l-3832 Před 2 lety +1

      @@C003 I didn’t

  • @avery-mj3gl
    @avery-mj3gl Před 11 měsíci

    i very much agree with your theory on the nether side, but my personal idea for the overworld fossils is that they were ancient leviathan beings, maybe used by the ancient builders, it could be that one of them is the origin of the heart of the sea.
    also i just love your theory's

  • @khalifstigler7493
    @khalifstigler7493 Před rokem +5

    0:26 Game theory old intro but a remake

  • @VikingerOnYT
    @VikingerOnYT Před 2 lety +3408

    I haven't played Minecraft in years, but this was honestly so interesting to watch. Didn't even know they added fossils haha.
    Imagine if they added a "Age of Goliaths" dimension or something, with giant, new, mobs.

    • @KorOf
      @KorOf Před 2 lety +45

      Wow im the first one comment

    • @lizgreen5060
      @lizgreen5060 Před 2 lety +31

      e

    • @redtata9468
      @redtata9468 Před 2 lety +10

      No your second to last

    • @aiko4371
      @aiko4371 Před 2 lety +5

      Hello

    • @sarahmoynihan4570
      @sarahmoynihan4570 Před 2 lety +19

      you must leave for your crimes
      Your crimes inclueded:
      1 count of stopping playing mincraft

  • @thatminecraftguy6219
    @thatminecraftguy6219 Před 2 lety +298

    "Ancient giant withers"
    Me who has played minecraft story mode and the titans mod: Now this looks like a job for me

    • @YeetusDelete
      @YeetusDelete Před 2 lety +2

      Wouldn’t they have more heads or it’s head is already a skull so it wouldn’t make sense

    • @andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780
      @andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780 Před 2 lety +3

      @@YeetusDelete one of the skulls does looks like a wither storm head it did gain skin like stuff wen it turned giant

    • @antimemes520_kvgdaily3
      @antimemes520_kvgdaily3 Před 2 lety +1

      I think it's the giant zombie ribs

  • @someguy1894
    @someguy1894 Před měsícem +1

    given minecraft had an "ancient" time with Sniffers, it's not hard to say the 02 levels were lower just like real Earth, causing this, and in the Nether I imagine it's just giant ghasts.
    Glad I found this, always wondered about the first time I saw fossils.

  • @notasherflynn
    @notasherflynn Před rokem +2

    I think it would be cool if they added a new dimension called "The Ancient" that has giant mobs roaming the land that could perhaps explain the fossils, perhaps being transported to the overworld where they died off.
    And imagine an ultimate wither boss being added! Wither Serpent? The Skullless? Summonable by making a skeleton out of bone blocks with a beacon as the heart and surrounding it with soul sand/soil?

  • @TimeBucks
    @TimeBucks Před 2 lety +794

    This actually make sense.

  • @Dystopia-uu9be
    @Dystopia-uu9be Před 2 lety +347

    Almost all nether fossils: variety of ribcages
    That one nether fossil: *F*

  • @mr.slappii513
    @mr.slappii513 Před 8 měsíci

    I just love the idea that at some point in Minecraft's history, there were massive titans roaming the earth. And the idea of Titans at some point roaming the earth is completely possible because of the existence of the giant zombie (I know it was removed just bare with me here). The Giant zombie could have served as the reanimated corpses of the titans that used to exist.
    Also I have a theory on what wiped out the ancient wither titans. The Nether dragons. My guess is that Nether dragons were far more abundant in the past and had a massive rivalry with the ancient withers. They would constantly fight and eventually they had Faught each other so much that both of their numbers had dwindled to the point where the piglins were able to step in and take both sides out.

    • @higueraft571
      @higueraft571 Před 3 měsíci

      Consider:
      No "Ancient Withers", instead Big Fuckin Snake

  • @dafilmqueen556
    @dafilmqueen556 Před 6 měsíci

    Bro, I can tell you are definitely a MatPat fan. He's been doing this for as long as I have been middle school even though its only now in good old 2023 that I found out who he is and already I love him. Plus, the intro karaoke song is absolutely on the nose..

  • @beatbiest2895
    @beatbiest2895 Před 2 lety +295

    Mojang: adds fossils because it makes mining a bit more special
    Minecrafters: this is a sign we cant ignore

    • @pablogomesoliveira2677
      @pablogomesoliveira2677 Před 2 lety +4

      I mean…….I would like myself to fight a mega either

    • @scorchercast8366
      @scorchercast8366 Před 2 lety +5

      I literally never found a naturally spawning fossil. I was pretty sure I was being fucked with when my friend kept insisting they were in the game. Overworld fossils that is

    • @bingusdingus3999
      @bingusdingus3999 Před 2 lety +5

      @@scorchercast8366 that's because they're really rare and only generate in deserts. You'd think mojang forgot about them, but they changed them in the new update (not in 1.17 though, they will change it in 1.18). They made it so that fossils can generate with diamonds instead of coal. So once 1.18 comes they'll actually be worth looking for.

    • @kaboomgaming4255
      @kaboomgaming4255 Před 2 lety +1

      @@bingusdingus3999 wait in the desert only? why?

    • @Exetior_Jina_Lover
      @Exetior_Jina_Lover Před 2 lety +1

      @@kaboomgaming4255 bruh

  • @poptat
    @poptat Před 2 lety +256

    "Ancient Wither"
    **thinks in story mode wither storm **

    • @claymoura2484
      @claymoura2484 Před 2 lety +6

      I think it’s called the wither storm? Which makes less sense then mega wither since it’s a literal being not a storm

    • @comradplatypus3127
      @comradplatypus3127 Před 2 lety +12

      @@claymoura2484 well the "wither storm" caused a storm and a storm of chaos.

    • @sarahmoynihan4570
      @sarahmoynihan4570 Před 2 lety +2

      *coughs*wither storm :p *coughs*

    • @fabianobortolon3025
      @fabianobortolon3025 Před 2 lety +3

      @Faith Wadhams sometime I call it “big boy wither”😑

    • @p5a_518
      @p5a_518 Před 2 lety +2

      damn minecraft story mode and dungeons do reveal a lot about minecraft's lore

  • @cesaremeeks409
    @cesaremeeks409 Před 7 měsíci

    I'm pretty sure why the structures are ruined is because when they died, they'd released a lot of sold energy, also corrupting some of the blackstone and after some time, the black stone rotted away well sol sand rotted away

  • @44ZSZ
    @44ZSZ Před 9 měsíci +1

    Skulls that could be that big are megalodons, mammoths.
    Spines, that could be that big are sauropods, mosasaurus, and megalodons.

  • @Rand0m_Anon
    @Rand0m_Anon Před 2 lety +371

    For the Overworld fossils, it would make sense as there was a time in prehistory where there was so much oxygen that animals were gigantic.

    • @joltzzyt4325
      @joltzzyt4325 Před 2 lety +5

      That's so big brain

    • @Morningstar_37
      @Morningstar_37 Před 2 lety +25

      @@joltzzyt4325 It's just how it was in the real world

    • @opposition1489
      @opposition1489 Před 2 lety +19

      I think this is an actual phenomenon called 'Gigantism'. Thats why the dinosaurs were so big

    • @darkspxder
      @darkspxder Před 2 lety +4

      i was looking for this type of comment lol

    • @darkspxder
      @darkspxder Před 2 lety +4

      glad to know someone thinks the same as me

  • @littlechickeyhudak
    @littlechickeyhudak Před 2 lety +660

    I think the nether as we see it today is in the recovery process from the ancient withers. The ancient withers obliterated nearly all life in the dimension and fizzled out since there was no longer any prey, leaving the nether in a state that probably looked like pre-1.16 nether. A few life forms survived and slowly began regrowing, eventually becoming the forests we know today. The dimension is still healing, however, hence the nether wastes that are still barren from this ancient genocide.

    • @zagabeg
      @zagabeg Před rokem +35

      woww, this theory makes so sense. do you imagine what the nether might've looked like before the whiters?

    • @littlechickeyhudak
      @littlechickeyhudak Před rokem +47

      @@zagabeg in my head I sort of picture it as looking somewhat like the planet Felucia from Star Wars--full of very alien and bizarre vegetation and strange creatures. Basically VERY different from the overworld, but still obviously teeming with a wide range of life forms that comprise a balanced and diverse ecosystem.

    • @4Rgames
      @4Rgames Před rokem +4

      @@zagabeg whiters?

    • @mecraft1323
      @mecraft1323 Před rokem +18

      I made a video where I featured what looked liked a dried up riverbed in the Nether. Very plausible that the Nether could have been teeming with life at some point.

    • @Dinoboy3060
      @Dinoboy3060 Před rokem +3

      @@mecraft1323 Most likely just a Lava bed i dont think the nether ever had water

  • @obsidian_citadel437
    @obsidian_citadel437 Před 2 měsíci

    My theory is that the fossils (at least two of em) originate from 2 specific mobs…
    1] The Sniffer: only main evidence we have of sniffers is from the eggs we bring back from the ocean ruins. Sure their size definitely shrunk but my argument is that back then the environment had abundant clean oxygen and giant sized insects and rodents.
    Skull 2] shows possibly two nostrils and a mouth, with spine 4] to match its large back… just a thought
    -
    2] The Giant: Yes a currently not “in-game” mob however could be summoned without AI via commands.
    Just think about it their undead, meaning that they must’ve have been alive at one point.
    Maybe they lived peacefully with the ancient builders till one madman summoned the Wither into the overworld… the only place of shelter for them to access quickly would be the Nether (recall the Large ruined portals) but wandering the Nether wastes without a sustainable food supply caused them to wither away their body forming the very ribs we see in the Soulsand valley.
    I think Skull [1] or [3] would suit a player head and spine [2] or [3] would fit the giant.
    -
    Maybe the Arms up Potery Sherd could reference the Builders seeking aid from the giants for builds and the fact that it’s found in dessert wells is one cool factoid.
    -
    I just don’t think a Mega Wither is a plausible creature cause it’s already super powerful and doesn’t necessarily NEED to be gigantic to be a historical threat.
    The sandstone carvings are enough to prove that one was set loose in the overworld at one point.
    Great vid tho I enjoyed watching, thanks to those who read this 😊

  • @quertage5048
    @quertage5048 Před rokem

    bro this man is just a god to make minecraft teory i would never think about these

  • @oldETHANEXP
    @oldETHANEXP Před 2 lety +592

    real question: who used the ships before they became shipwrecks?

    • @turtlesarecool
      @turtlesarecool Před 2 lety +90

      0.o good question. Probably the "ancient race of builders"

    • @DonutDelivery
      @DonutDelivery Před 2 lety +166

      Maybe drowned? They must have been alive at some point, and the name implies they died from drowning, which would fit with the shipwreck

    • @sandwich4704
      @sandwich4704 Před 2 lety +22

      Madpat answered that it’s the drowneds

    • @Artificial_Idiot
      @Artificial_Idiot Před 2 lety +7

      And How Stupid Are AI In This Game? At Least One Ship Should Be Able To Survive

    • @rehabbesheer1366
      @rehabbesheer1366 Před 2 lety +3

      @@turtlesarecool bruh ancient builders, lol no they were pirates from the Caribbean

  • @theknightwhosaysni6318
    @theknightwhosaysni6318 Před 2 lety +186

    "There's not many minecraft features that scream lore"
    Matpat: hold my DIET COKE

  • @Lemon_Animations
    @Lemon_Animations Před 11 měsíci +1

    I have a theory on about how the wither died. According to the theory of Game theory that the nether was once a cold place, we can assume what ever made the nether hot, it killed of the Wither, whether Lack of prey or the heat itself

  • @WalkingBlock
    @WalkingBlock Před rokem +2

    The rib cages in the nether remind me of the wither storms's ribs.

  • @Mogi.
    @Mogi. Před 2 lety +47

    6:19 Amogus.

  • @afoxinafoxhole7891
    @afoxinafoxhole7891 Před 2 lety +366

    I like to imagine it’s what happened to the “giant” mob

  • @nicky_kitty_777
    @nicky_kitty_777 Před rokem +1

    Now that sniffer is in, we now have new fossil lore

  • @Shock_Treatment
    @Shock_Treatment Před 26 dny +2

    Yes, I'm sure the spider, an arthropod, could've left that skeleton.

  • @speedycrow
    @speedycrow Před 2 lety +315

    A possible explanation of why they where so huge could be like the history in earth when there was a lot more oxygen and organisms where much bigger.

  • @IEmeraldM
    @IEmeraldM Před 2 lety +215

    Just adding something to think about: Lightning striking pigs makes piglins.

    • @Alvionalx
      @Alvionalx Před 2 lety +8

      @Cindy Lopez zombie pigmen were retextured not removed and added a new form btw, if u want clarification go to texture packs and choose Programmer Art (this is 1.14 and above)

    • @IEmeraldM
      @IEmeraldM Před 2 lety +9

      @@Alvionalx 👁️ 👄 👁️

    • @DumPixels
      @DumPixels Před 2 lety +6

      @@Alvionalx That person said they *used* to make zombie pigmen, like when *lightning* struck. They didn’t say anything about them being removed. Chill.

    • @Look_Behind_You666
      @Look_Behind_You666 Před 2 lety +6

      Another one: Soul sands have souls trapped in it if u look closely

    • @silentotaku8
      @silentotaku8 Před 2 lety

      Actually Jeb said he wants to remove lightning making Pigmen. He said it’s more of an Easter Egg now than anything else.

  • @Tubby_2
    @Tubby_2 Před 8 měsíci

    when I found my first fossil, prob 2014 while playing on my Ipad with my brother, we found one and thought it was quartz, we freaked out as we knew quartz couldnt spawn in the overworld, my brother suggested we report it to mojang, but as we were typing up our bug report, we kinda realised what it actually was and stopped lmao

  • @Mapper_Space
    @Mapper_Space Před 9 měsíci

    Skull 1 is an ancient creeper, skull 2 has no living descendants, skull 3 is an ancient turtle, and skull 4 is an ancient spider

  • @CalamitasCalliope
    @CalamitasCalliope Před 2 lety +379

    "Some sort of Mega Wither."
    Somehow, Minecraft story mode is relevant again.

    • @drakewhite4610
      @drakewhite4610 Před 2 lety +16

      Wait a minute that makes sense what if that was the original withers

    • @Xelaria
      @Xelaria Před 2 lety +6

      Hmm sooner or later someone gonna make a theory saying that the People from mc story mode is the ancient builders.
      But I already got evidence saying otherwise

    • @zombie2401
      @zombie2401 Před 2 lety +9

      Whats Minecraft Story Mode? I only know of door simulator 2000

    • @duykhangtran4406
      @duykhangtran4406 Před 2 lety +4

      @@zombie2401 Ah I see you are a man of culture

    • @gameinglad6148
      @gameinglad6148 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Xelaria what is the evidence against it? I genuinely want to know the evidence against that theory

  • @jaoaqui
    @jaoaqui Před 2 lety +182

    Just imagine a difficulty called prehistoric times on Minecraft that adds all those monsters
    And everything is abandoned

    • @poopiedoopie9029
      @poopiedoopie9029 Před 2 lety +3

      that would be pretty cool

    • @mecmcgoson
      @mecmcgoson Před 2 lety +6

      someone can make a mod for us

    • @DryWallEater1874
      @DryWallEater1874 Před 2 lety +2

      Would be ark with no tech upgrades and non polygonal models, which would be really cool

    • @Svetlec
      @Svetlec Před 2 lety

      That would be awesome

    • @jaoaqui
      @jaoaqui Před 2 lety

      @@mecmcgoson thats a good idea :D

  • @AIRCAV006
    @AIRCAV006 Před rokem

    a nother great theory wifles 🙂 and i subed

  • @SSnipxrPugYT
    @SSnipxrPugYT Před 8 měsíci

    this video is obviously an elaborate plan to tell us about the wither storm

  • @paleozoey
    @paleozoey Před 2 lety +129

    silverfish: *literally an invertebrate*
    wifies: yeah this skeleton belongs to a literal insect

    • @yourmincemeat5233
      @yourmincemeat5233 Před 2 lety +5

      But the exoskeleton might be made of calcium carbonate

    • @ScubaShark--8964
      @ScubaShark--8964 Před 2 lety +2

      @@yourmincemeat5233 Right-

    • @sniser360
      @sniser360 Před 2 lety

      @@yourmincemeat5233 chiton

    • @yourmincemeat5233
      @yourmincemeat5233 Před 2 lety

      @@sniser360 chitin

    • @yourmincemeat5233
      @yourmincemeat5233 Před 2 lety

      @@sniser360 also sometimes invertibrates incorporate inorganic elements to their body as protection.
      Also chitin rapidly degrades in sediments so most of them are only found a few hundred hunded years old.
      Most fossilized arthropods were fossilized because of fats in the chitin, the fats served as scaffolding when the chitin has degraded.

  • @zoeycooke1503
    @zoeycooke1503 Před 2 lety +223

    Theory: skull 4 looks like an endermite, right? What if they were something like enderworms? And they could wormhole through demensions like endermen do? It seems kinda far fetched but it just sounds cool lol

    • @germanpickle
      @germanpickle Před 2 lety +3

      ya it would be super cool to see in Minecraft

    • @zoeycooke1503
      @zoeycooke1503 Před 2 lety

      @@germanpickle thx lol

    • @puzzlepuddles6712
      @puzzlepuddles6712 Před 2 lety +3

      skull 4 looks sus

    • @thejoker2846
      @thejoker2846 Před 2 lety +4

      I was thinking the same theory as you. These worm like creatures would be perfect for the desert biome trapping there pray under the sand until they can't breath anymore

    • @zoeycooke1503
      @zoeycooke1503 Před 2 lety +2

      @@thejoker2846 that kinda reminds me of the great devourer from lego ninjago. Ik it’s a kids show but I love it lmao

  • @user-bt1cu4jg6t
    @user-bt1cu4jg6t Před 8 měsíci

    There could be a chance that piglins actually took the wither down.
    Maybe piglins used all the netherite to fight the wither. Netherite mixed with gold is already strong enough, so using the pure counterpart could made it possible to win.

  • @intuitionedits2.032
    @intuitionedits2.032 Před 11 měsíci

    The Game Theory style of this video is kinda funny 😂

  • @azurethoth984
    @azurethoth984 Před 2 lety +273

    "What could have caused these giant monsters to go extinct?"
    *Doom theme intensifies*

    • @peacefullolvitp7893
      @peacefullolvitp7893 Před 2 lety +14

      *RIP AND TEAR UNTIL ITS DONE*

    • @brick4353
      @brick4353 Před 2 lety +6

      @@peacefullolvitp7893 here is a shotgun. Your only instructions are as follows. If its moving, it probably shouldn't be. Good luck.

    • @biscuitboy0833
      @biscuitboy0833 Před 2 lety +2

      @@brick4353 that made me chuckle lol

    • @brick4353
      @brick4353 Před 2 lety +6

      @@biscuitboy0833 just remember, violence is not the answer, it is the question and the answer is "how much?"
      The answer to that is *ALL OF IT*

    • @biscuitboy0833
      @biscuitboy0833 Před 2 lety

      @@brick4353 💀

  • @austofix4754
    @austofix4754 Před 2 lety +82

    Finally, someone brought this up, I remember when I and my friend talked for hours about Minecraft lore, in which fossils were one of those things.
    Minecraft is a sandbox game with no written lore, but I think that this game has the potential for one of the greatest lore of sandbox games

    • @justpancakes6852
      @justpancakes6852 Před 2 lety

      I completely agree lmao, Minecraft story mode gave us a taste with the Without Storm (that big, one eyed Wither if u forgot abt that game like me)

    • @YoshiLikesFate
      @YoshiLikesFate Před 2 lety

      @@justpancakes6852 *Wither Storm

    • @nightmare3711
      @nightmare3711 Před 2 lety

      Technically, Minecraft does have written lore in the form of the Mobestiary. I have yet to read it, but it seems very interesting and insightful as to the nature of Minecraft's mobs

    • @austofix4754
      @austofix4754 Před 2 lety

      @@nightmare3711 Never heard of that, but that sounds interesting
      If mobs have some lore then we have covered most things
      But still, who build those structures, why the builders are gone, what happened to them
      Why are villagers only living form, that is close to human, etc
      I still think, that endermans and ender dragon killed everybody and ran off to end, and our steve wants revenge
      Bruh, there Is so many things about lore, that we could talk about for hours

  • @skyler_thepatato9125
    @skyler_thepatato9125 Před rokem

    I loved the game theory intro🤣 ✨ Perfect

  • @davehanley9512
    @davehanley9512 Před 4 měsíci

    I really like your vids Wifies.

  • @eclipse_animations
    @eclipse_animations Před 2 lety +276

    Theory : the soul sand was formed when the bones/organs crumbled into dust