What Happened to Minecraft's Ancient Builders?

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  • čas přidán 5. 09. 2021
  • Minecraft lore is tricky, however out of all the many mysteries one stands out as arguably the most important in the whole game. A crucial detail that doesn't seem to be solved any time soon. This is Minecraft's Biggest Unsolved Mystery , What Happened to Minecraft's Ancient Builders?
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  • @Sorecere7
    @Sorecere7 Před 2 lety +2720

    Considering the zombie plague, i think matpat’s interpretation would make even more sense probably. After the illagers left the village, they started to do what they liked without the villagers shunning them, eventually discovering magic. With this knowledge, the evokers make totems that save you from dying. It is important to mention that they were also obsessed with their bretheren the builders, and wanted to return some fallen warriors from the dead, you can see evidence of their obsession with these rooms that they made filled with wool matching steves clothes. So they tried to use the totem to bring people from the dead, but instead they rose up not healed just dead like they were eventually infecting everyone. Anyways this was matpats theory, at least thats how i read it from him. I also think Wifies one is viable as well and it doesn’t make much of a difference in the end. Thank u for reading this to the end!

  • @nahimgudfam
    @nahimgudfam Před 2 lety +535

    2:06 "The structures don't just appear randomly"
    Java programmers and speedrunners be like, "yeah, it's pseudorandomly."

  • @thegunnitgamer5716
    @thegunnitgamer5716 Před 2 lety +403

    Here's my interpretation:
    The ancient builders died off in stages.
    Firstly: Zombies. The virus came- they ran. Some fled to the Nether, some to the End, via the Stronghold, all who escaped were likely immune anyway, as they had been keeping zombies to try and turn them back.
    Skeletons come as the remains of those who fled to the nether. Forced to contend with Piglins, they created grand fortresses to protect themselves in, and attempted to raid the bastions of the piglins, to little success. Supplies finally dwindled, and as such the skeletons were born. Those who had been afflicted by the wither, whether in combat with it, or fleeing it, became withered skeletons, those who didn't, decayed into normal ones.
    Endermen came from thos who ran to the end, forced to flee the dragon, they built their cities and hid. Food ran scarce, so they resorted to chorus fruit, which eventually turned them into the endermen we know today.

    • @glassofwater281
      @glassofwater281 Před rokem +22

      I love this theory. Reminds me of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

    • @TheTrollsComingForYou
      @TheTrollsComingForYou Před rokem +1

      I think this is true

    • @TheTrollsComingForYou
      @TheTrollsComingForYou Před rokem +9

      I think blazes were sacrifices, or those who died in lava

    • @afly8983
      @afly8983 Před rokem +13

      How could they summon the wither if there weren't any wither skeletons before the ancient builders died?

    • @vali.s5109
      @vali.s5109 Před rokem +11

      but u need wither skulls to create a wither, the in game boss predates the builders themselves, the skeletons were either even more ancient or the wither was a result of a research or experiment for which human sacrifice/experiment was required

  • @entropy616
    @entropy616 Před 2 lety +305

    There was an ancient race but there were only two builders, their names were Steve and Alex, and they doomed everyone in exchange for the ability to respawn.

    • @echoisaway
      @echoisaway Před rokem +25

      So Steve and Alex are Frisk and Chara 😂

    • @recycledwaste8737
      @recycledwaste8737 Před rokem +15

      Your idea is now officially canon in my world.

    • @MarloTheBlueberry
      @MarloTheBlueberry Před 6 měsíci +3

      Why does that give me undertale genocide vibes

    • @doctorjay8673
      @doctorjay8673 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@MarloTheBlueberry It gives me more, Full Metal Alchemist vibes with the Philosophers stone

    • @Cyclone3603
      @Cyclone3603 Před 4 dny

      What about all the new default skins?

  • @hannesdrumss
    @hannesdrumss Před 2 lety +305

    These are questions I never thought to ask, this is so good!

    • @mzadro7
      @mzadro7 Před 2 lety +1

      @your rage get a life

    • @Chickenyummynuggies
      @Chickenyummynuggies Před 2 lety +1

      @Not RickRoll 👇 2 omg you lied

    • @zikopro7369
      @zikopro7369 Před 2 lety

      @your rage ty for the quran شكرا على القرأن

    • @Alex-hs4ii
      @Alex-hs4ii Před 2 lety

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    • @elvpse
      @elvpse Před 2 lety

      @@Alex-hs4ii sthu

  • @ieatgrass20r86
    @ieatgrass20r86 Před 2 lety +532

    "The wither isn't that hard to kill"
    We will assume the ancient builders are in Bedrock edition

    • @Actually_Paradox
      @Actually_Paradox Před 2 lety +13

      Do you mean aren't in Bedrock edition?

    • @mctablet1885
      @mctablet1885 Před 2 lety +25

      that will explain them getting killed by one wither

    • @seungfilbae4797
      @seungfilbae4797 Před 2 lety +2

      haha thats pretty good

    • @mctablet1885
      @mctablet1885 Před 2 lety +67

      @@bergamount actually the bedrock wither is harder to kill than the java wither as bedrock wither has 2x as much health and gives wither 2 for a longer time and explodes when it is at half and 0 health while also spawning wither skeltons it also has a dash ability which basically makes it so that cant kill it easily by fighting it underground

    • @ElkyXAnimations
      @ElkyXAnimations Před 2 lety +16

      @@mctablet1885 exactly when it was my first time killing the wither in bedrock edition i was so surprised to see a wither skeleton in the overworld

  • @Heartless.142
    @Heartless.142 Před rokem +63

    Considering the zombie plague, it could be true as some zombies spawn with armour and tools like the players.

  • @DeCaptainOfFireFish
    @DeCaptainOfFireFish Před rokem +22

    9:28 I have an idea. The skeletons were neutral until a builder attacked one of them and they reacted like zombified piglins. However, unlike zombified piglins, there's no way to calm them.

  • @theycallmeflipper4515
    @theycallmeflipper4515 Před 2 lety +399

    Wifies: "the wither isnt that hard to kill"
    Bedrock edition wither: *laughs in double the amount of health*

    • @somerandomperson4143
      @somerandomperson4143 Před 2 lety +2

      @Not RickRoll 👇 2 hey

    • @andrew-0000-
      @andrew-0000- Před 2 lety +48

      and a more lethal wither effect, And the ability to summon wither skeletons, AND a charge/dash attack. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    • @TheActualAqua
      @TheActualAqua Před 2 lety +17

      And more attacks. And summoning wither skeletons

    • @user-jy5dg5vs3r
      @user-jy5dg5vs3r Před 2 lety +21

      Also the wither in bedrock: oh no I’m suffocating in bedrock what will I ever do? I know! SPIN

    • @Mafuu_1
      @Mafuu_1 Před 2 lety +6

      @@user-jy5dg5vs3r no lol it just explodes thats on java

  • @danschrute5646
    @danschrute5646 Před 2 lety +803

    I feel like instead of just a normal wither being created, it was a series of giant withers that eventually died off and left behind those giant skeletons found in the overworld and the nether, those would be much harder to kill and would have probably killed off all the builders

    • @monochr0matic127
      @monochr0matic127 Před 2 lety +44

      finally someone said it

    • @drbladerz5530
      @drbladerz5530 Před 2 lety +76

      Aka the bedrock wither lmao

    • @emmettcongleton1445
      @emmettcongleton1445 Před 2 lety +8

      I agree

    • @hmmmok9441
      @hmmmok9441 Před 2 lety +18

      Not all of them. Some escaped to the end dimension where they slowly evolved into endermen

    • @hmmmok9441
      @hmmmok9441 Před 2 lety +24

      The wither during that time was seen as a cyptid. Noone was really sure of its existence (for eg irl: bigfoot). So when it was created it the existence was confirmed but not the power. The explosion it made when it charged all the way up might have been enough for the builders to think it was incredibly strong.

  • @siennameadowhook
    @siennameadowhook Před rokem +105

    I know this is older but I really like the idea of builder summoning the wither and defeating it, while they did defeat it they were left weak without enough materials or strength to defend against the zombie plauge so they fled to the end and were turned to endermen over time.

    • @Hunter_The_Mubter
      @Hunter_The_Mubter Před rokem +5

      He talks about how the wither dies, if you’ve fallowed the warden Disk lore you know that the wither kills the wither during the disc

    • @art-games6230
      @art-games6230 Před 10 měsíci +4

      @@Hunter_The_Mubterthe wither kills the wither??? Why would he kill himself?

    • @dignatius4444
      @dignatius4444 Před 10 měsíci +5

      @@art-games6230 i think he meant to say that the warden kills the wither but made a typo

    • @art-games6230
      @art-games6230 Před 10 měsíci +2

      @@dignatius4444 oh ok

  • @eridani648
    @eridani648 Před rokem +11

    I think for the skeleton theory maybe the ancient builders tried to revive long dead people and maybe use them as sentinels, but then they used them on freshly dead people and created the zombie plunge? Super fun video! Really cool!

  • @blablabla4794
    @blablabla4794 Před 2 lety +165

    the fact that he just made a nutshell version of the whole game's lore is just, amazing

    • @ModernReapers
      @ModernReapers Před 2 lety

      Search up game theory Minecraft theory’s

    • @blablabla4794
      @blablabla4794 Před 2 lety

      @@ModernReapers i know but he made it in one video

  • @treyvantalsma928
    @treyvantalsma928 Před 2 lety +658

    I’m 100 percent sure that the ancient race of builders is the the old builders for MC story mode

  • @kingpaddy9009
    @kingpaddy9009 Před 2 lety +11

    In my head canon i have two theories mostly interconnected: I imagined the old builders as a group of unbelievable advanced crafters, they were able to construct even the ender portal, a thing we can't, wo only can activate it, we have no possibility to reverse engineer or recreate the portal-frame blocks for example. I think their civilization advanced enough and was greedy for progress so they first explored the nether and found there ingredients, that they combined with artifacts they gathered from the enderman a species from a other dimension able to do dimension travel. So they used these to power a new variant of portal, expanded there civilization beyond it and get trapped there cause of the dragon or reached transcendence.
    This sometimes get blurred with a other theory, more likely developed from the lore of my own minecraft world, that faced (the world existed since Beta-Days) mutliple occasions of "Ruin" so "Ruin" is some sort of arch devil opposing to the creative forces, that created the World and we as players inherit some of its creative, crafting powers. Ruin symbolizes corruption (to see in old minecraft worlds getting more and more unstable or damaged by changing versions or even mods installed and uninstalled in the flow of time) and Wither or Decay (the world degrades in mining or griefing) one player after the other left and left his creations on own terms, abandoned settlements, lonely unfinished or damaged mega builds etc... the world get forgotten, outdated or in the worst case lost or deleted. So it's a fight for a world and its people to face "Ruin" of some sort and is agents like the wither or the ender dragon. So the Old Builders of my world seeked a chance to overcome or flee ruin and took great deals to find a way out. Seeked other dimensions to avoid death in their world and left behind, what they had created and found death or transcendence in the end for at least one group to give possibiliies for other gouops of old builders to have other ideologies and prefer to settle in alternative dimensions or leave their old world behind and settled on a new seeded world.

  • @jurassicpeter
    @jurassicpeter Před 2 lety +2

    I don't even play Minecraft anymore but you get me to sit down an watch hours of content about the game. Props for that subbed!

  • @thathatguy1151
    @thathatguy1151 Před 2 lety +66

    I would love if Mojang created a Progression update which could have storytelling elements and subtle world changes when the player gets achievements.

    • @lilywalker7499
      @lilywalker7499 Před 2 lety +8

      or possibly a progression mode a bit separate from Minecraft itself, where it gives out story hints without giving the entire thing away to those who want to just play normal Minecraft?

    • @amitasrivastava493
      @amitasrivastava493 Před 2 lety +3

      I doubt that's gonna happen
      They themselves said they wouldn't, because it hinders the player's creativity, and they want to give players the chance to make thier own story

    • @lilywalker7499
      @lilywalker7499 Před 2 lety +1

      @@amitasrivastava493 hence the reason I said a separate version/mode that only gives out hints

  • @fmt950
    @fmt950 Před 2 lety +97

    I was here before the "Introducing amazon dream 75k special" and i am so proud of your improvement in making quality content. Keep it up man. Ur manhunts were legendary and i am glad i stayed for that, because i found something more remarkable in ur channel overtime. Srsly, u r an absolute GOAT

    • @Wifies
      @Wifies  Před 2 lety +21

      Thanks for sticking with me since :D

    • @alexwilks12
      @alexwilks12 Před 2 lety +1

      I’ve been there since like 5k

    • @_TriGN
      @_TriGN Před 2 lety

      @@Wifies yoooo sub 15k gang

    • @Dr.Manhattan11
      @Dr.Manhattan11 Před 2 lety

      @@Wifies i got feeling of movies.

    • @itzmeB2
      @itzmeB2 Před 2 lety

      Ikr

  • @mintwolff.-jellybeansquad-4920

    Are we not gonna talk about how much AWSOME EFFORT WAS PUT INTO THIS. (Another great video Wiffls)

  • @dusanmiljkovic2
    @dusanmiljkovic2 Před 9 měsíci +1

    i abosolutely love these types of videos i would love a minecraft movie that covers EVERYTHINGG!

  • @Sesquipedalia
    @Sesquipedalia Před 2 lety +41

    Unsloved mystery: who made paintings

  • @randaranatunga7259
    @randaranatunga7259 Před 2 lety +252

    Wifeory is probably one of the best Minecraft lore series I’ve ever watched

  • @nicovespruzzi6963
    @nicovespruzzi6963 Před rokem +4

    I have a theory about the Illagers:
    They and the villagers were actually one and the same, the Illagers were actually the military force of the villages, and the inventors of the Iron Golem, who would attack any threats to the village.
    And one day, the Golems started attacking the Illagers, knowing they were a threat because they were conspiring against their villages and they ended up being banished from their villages.
    They tried to get revenge, but the Iron Golems were too much for them to handle and were forced to flee to the forests, were they found a creature that they knew could equal the Iron Golems in power:
    The Ravager.
    They found a way to tame these and started to plan coordinated attacks on the very villages that shunned them in the first place.
    After some time, they started to split up.
    Their potion brewers settled in swamps and became the modern day witches that we know.
    Their archers and foot soldiers stuck together and became the current Vindicators and Pillagers.
    The wizards started studying forbidden magic like summoning Vexes and conjuring large rows of jaws out of the ground, and became the Evokers that we know, and started settling in woodland mansions, were after some time the Vindicators and Pillagers started coming as well.
    Since then, they have been raiding the villages that shunned them, still hungering for revenge.
    What do you think?

  • @FOXYANDBOXYMOONSTAR
    @FOXYANDBOXYMOONSTAR Před 2 lety

    Congrats on one mil! we ALL wish you a happy new year!

  • @Felix-rz2jz
    @Felix-rz2jz Před 2 lety +163

    1:55 The builders probably just used cobblestone to build the temples, and the moss grew over it after some time. They probably didn't use already mossy cobble to build them.

    • @genuine1941
      @genuine1941 Před 2 lety

      Lol

    • @SafiySafOne
      @SafiySafOne Před 2 lety +13

      @@arougeelectron Then explain copper block oxidizing

    • @Namerco
      @Namerco Před 2 lety +1

      @@SafiySafOne thats a rare case of when mojang adds something realistic

    • @sumreensultana1860
      @sumreensultana1860 Před 2 lety +2

      @@arougeelectron let's assume minecraft moss takes 100 real years to grow

    • @dark72472
      @dark72472 Před 2 lety

      @@SafiySafOne mojang added that in only for that block lol

  • @pedrohenriquerocha7336
    @pedrohenriquerocha7336 Před 2 lety +474

    "The wither isn't a hard mob to kill"
    Me, a bedrock player: He says things that he doesn't understand

    • @danielkara6339
      @danielkara6339 Před 2 lety +5

      YOUR TELLING ME THAT HAS BEDROCK

    • @bayuleksono2854
      @bayuleksono2854 Před 2 lety +27

      Even with full diamond armor and 2 god apples i died in like 5 hits. They are crazy.

    • @saatwik4848
      @saatwik4848 Před 2 lety +4

      It isn't that hard like time the hits have good armor and food and potions. I have beaten 2 withers at same time in bedrock

    • @craftergaming392
      @craftergaming392 Před 2 lety +1

      @@saatwik4848 just do tunnel in which you can go. Withers have 2.1, you have 2.0

    • @danielkara6339
      @danielkara6339 Před 2 lety +1

      @@saatwik4848 your telling me

  • @vixengypsy
    @vixengypsy Před rokem

    Good theory! Loved the in-depth look . Thanks, glad I subbed!

  • @jesaishall7453
    @jesaishall7453 Před rokem +3

    I think these theories and MatPat's tie into each other, making a generational long story, incorporating ALL of the ancient structures to date.

  • @orangeoctopus6466
    @orangeoctopus6466 Před 2 lety +396

    The ancient builders are just us playing hard-core(probably on Realm)

    • @derpothecaptilist1453
      @derpothecaptilist1453 Před 2 lety +31

      *Your Realm subscription has expired.*

    • @olaselfjordlangrgen2206
      @olaselfjordlangrgen2206 Před 2 lety +11

      @@derpothecaptilist1453 LoL

    • @jayjenkins9151
      @jayjenkins9151 Před 2 lety +2

      What's Realm?I Mean I Have Never Signed In So I Dont Know Whats Different on Realm.

    • @jayjenkins9151
      @jayjenkins9151 Před 2 lety +1

      Hardcore is only in 1.16

    • @plant_
      @plant_ Před 2 lety

      A realm is a world thats always online run by minecraft its basically a server with a player 3-10 player limit

  • @RealBriereMagician
    @RealBriereMagician Před 2 lety +77

    What I think is it’s a mix of all three, there was a war where one side was desperate enough to summon one or more withers. This backfired and brought the builder population to its knees. While the wither threat was indeed defeated the zombie virus emerged from wither effects and destroyed the already crippled race of builders, this explains the strongholds and nether fortresses

    • @jarredapolloniego6228
      @jarredapolloniego6228 Před rokem +3

      Same for me

    • @jarredapolloniego6228
      @jarredapolloniego6228 Před rokem +1

      But some zombies survived

    • @RealBriereMagician
      @RealBriereMagician Před rokem +3

      @@jarredapolloniego6228 obviously, but what I want to know is how did Steve and Alex come to be? Are they the Adam and Eve of Minecraft?

    • @recycledwaste8737
      @recycledwaste8737 Před rokem +6

      ​@@RealBriereMagicianIsn't it strange how every world starts with Steve awakening in the middle of nowhere with no recollection how he got there?
      Even stranger is where Steve awakens is the exact spot the fountain in the End leads to after defeating the dragon.
      Whatever happened to the ancient builders and where Steve came from may be more related than we thought.

  • @gudu8432
    @gudu8432 Před rokem

    OMG please make more please I love watching these kind of videos

  • @SneakyNinja148
    @SneakyNinja148 Před 9 měsíci

    Keep making videos man I LOVE IT!😀

  • @Seltsamisierend
    @Seltsamisierend Před 2 lety +27

    In german there is a saying: "Mir sind die Hände gebunden" which translates to "My hands are tied" It means that you can't do a favor for someone, because you must do something else. So my thought is: what if being a Villager is actually a punishment? Never being able to build again, being restricted to go anywhere else. And maybe even having a different or no language.

    • @oi-cj1pz
      @oi-cj1pz Před 2 lety

      Maybe they brought that punishment upon themselves, to atone for their sins.

    • @KaiAbebe
      @KaiAbebe Před 2 lety

      there hands are together

    • @godswillotonye6519
      @godswillotonye6519 Před 2 lety +1

      a stretch and a half

  • @kingpickle7552
    @kingpickle7552 Před 2 lety +127

    “The wither isn’t that hard to kill”
    Me on bedrock: (‘-‘)

  • @rosedelight1287
    @rosedelight1287 Před 2 lety +2

    Hi! I love the effort you put into making your videos! I have a comment tho XD When the ancient builders built the jungle temple, wouldn't it make more sense if they used only regular cobble stone and not mossy cobble stone? It's a small detail, but I think it would make more sense if the cobble became mossy over time.. 1:49

  • @Cyclone3603
    @Cyclone3603 Před 4 dny

    Ok couple suggestions/additions.
    The illagers were always bad at portal technology, which was the builder's forte. They tried to recreate the portals as evidenced by the wool end portal in the woodland mansions. The jealousy at portals could have been one of the catalysts for the war. The illagers were, however, very good at experimentation with life and death. Their magic made their skin bleached.
    The green eyed illagers are normal villager outcasts, vindicators have blue eyes for they were lapis brainwashed villagers, and ravagers are genetically modified villagers.
    Love the rest tho, fleeing to the nether and the end was a great touch. It could also be said that the ancient city was their first attempt at an escape that wasn't the Nether, but that ended up summoning the sculk to the world.
    Skeletons are just builders who died of causes unrelated to the zombie and/or wither. Wither skeletons are those who died to the wither.
    When the builders entered the nether, they saw the piglins who had fortified their bastions with Netherite. Wanting an edge over the illagers in combat, they raided the bastions. This explains why the bastions are so destroyed, and why piglins hate us.
    Eventually, the builders formed the wither in an attempt to match the illager's expertise in life and death, but they created a monster. It did destroy the bastions further, but also killed them, as evidenced by wither skeletons and the destroyed bridges. The Wither was only ever in the Nether.
    I'll edit this if I find anything more.

  • @salam-peace5519
    @salam-peace5519 Před 2 lety +26

    I think skeletons could actually have their origin in the soulsand valleys in the nether. In soulsand valleys, a lot of skeletons (exclusively skeletons, no zombies) spawn, and there are giant bone structures there as well. This combined with the faces in the sand and the name "soulsand" could mean that the ancient builders used soulsand valleys as a mass graveyard where they buried large amounts of human corpses, possibly after some catastrophic event. After all these corpses were buried, their souls formed the faces in the soulsand and gave soulsand its "magic" properties, while the soulsand also turned the bones of these corpses into undead creatures, the skeletons. The skeletons in the overworld could have wandered there through abandoned portals. Maybe besides humans, some giant unknown creatures were also buried there which formed into the giant bone structures in soulsand valleys.
    This theory would explain why skeletons don't infect/attack villagers, unlike zombies, as this means that skeletons probably aren't just further decayed zombies, as the zombies seem to be infected by some kind of virus that the skeletons don't have.
    For the wither skeletons, if you look at their height difference and their color I think they are actually the skeletons of endermen. Maybe a lot of endermen corpses were buried in the nether fortresses and this is why the wither skeletons are there.

  • @eliito8237
    @eliito8237 Před 2 lety +124

    This is a great theory, and i totally agree with this HOWEVER! I do believe that the wither may still play a part in this, maybe in an effort to bring back the dead from the plague they accidentally summoned the wither! Thats just what i think, and again this is a great theory! You’ve earned a sub!
    Edit: i had no idea i would get this many likes! Thanks. And all this theories are great!

    • @ECL24
      @ECL24 Před 2 lety +6

      This is my theory
      There was once two civilisations the endermen and the ancient builders the builders build many temples mineshafts etc everything was going on fine. Here the enderman wanted to go to other worlds to get more meterials so they made an portal made from bedrock and went to the overworld they but didn't find the portal back to the end so slowly they Co-operated with the ancient builders and helped them with ships etc
      The builders introduced them to the nether then they did some research in the nether there to get food they brought pigs which after a lot of time turned into piglin and hoglins and so they used them to mine all visible netherite and told them that gold is very valuable. They started to live in the bastions made by the builders.
      The builders and enderman built fortresses to experiment and trapped anyone's soul inside metal and they started to grow blaze rods then the enderman realised that to make a working portal they needed to take an extremely strong frame and some heat to ignite it so they used end portal frames and Lava around it to make portals to the end but something was missing so they combined blaze powder and ender pearls to make eyes of ender end used to activate the portal and boom they came to the end
      Sometime later suddenly a kind of infection spread which turned the builders into zombies and skeletons in the nether some hoglins and piglin into zombiefied piglin and zoglins then remeaing builders and enderman fought the ancient withers which were extremely strong and all the undead skeletons which came in contact with it turned into wither skeletons but against all odds they won and where ever a wither died a soul sand valley formed in which there is soulsand and wither skeletons. The current wither has just a fraction of power of the ancient wither as it is made from only a small percentage of the remains of the original wither. The soulsand and wither skeletons contains the souls of all that got killed by the wither. The remaining builders so accompanied enderman and they made the strong hold to research about the plaque but it was of no use so they escaped to the end. Later on to find a cure they tried to make another portal which was made from gaint pillars but all it did was summon the ender dragons.The builders and enderman tried to hold up but most of them were killed also all Dragons except for one. Even the portal to the over world was closed by the enderman as to not risk the destruction of the over world

    • @ECL24
      @ECL24 Před 2 lety +1

      I knew you would get triggered
      It happens to everyone 😂

    • @darththanos9084
      @darththanos9084 Před 2 lety +1

      Maybe the wither was some sort of defense against the zombies but something went wrong and it also killed some of them ( the ancient builders) so they had to leave

    • @theskeletomgamer8292
      @theskeletomgamer8292 Před 2 lety +1

      I think it's a deeply entangled combination of all 3

    • @bruhvideos4943
      @bruhvideos4943 Před 2 lety

      I think that last builder that get to the end stole the power from the dragon and turned into herobrine and he visited player in the owerwolrd to protect the for the plague herobrine created steve and alex my theory

  • @jay_tribute_0750
    @jay_tribute_0750 Před 2 lety

    Very true showing how there are mineshafts in minecraft showing people(ancient builders) have been in caves or ravines we now explore

  • @Glitch_Px
    @Glitch_Px Před 2 lety

    I just started watching Minecraft lore tonight, it's really cool!

  • @ItsCforCattail
    @ItsCforCattail Před 2 lety +103

    “The wither is weak”
    Bedrock wither: imma end this mans whole career

    • @sweetcorm
      @sweetcorm Před 2 lety +4

      It would be cool if bedrock wither was added to Java

    • @TheHFamSubscribe
      @TheHFamSubscribe Před 2 lety +5

      I am bedrock if It was weaker I would kill it more easily

    • @sweetcorm
      @sweetcorm Před 2 lety +11

      @@TheHFamSubscribe you are bedrock. Wither can not break you. Wither can suffocate in you. You can kill it.

    • @TheHFamSubscribe
      @TheHFamSubscribe Před 2 lety +5

      @@sweetcorm I just said it would be easier if it worked like java

    • @randomgamer7193
      @randomgamer7193 Před 2 lety +2

      Ok, now I want to try to kill it the hardest or one of the hardest ways possible while on bedrock.

  • @unavailableun
    @unavailableun Před 2 lety +310

    “A technologically advanced race doesn’t just disappear”
    Ancient_Builder left the game

    • @Born_to_kill_crabs
      @Born_to_kill_crabs Před 2 lety +6

      Ancient builder has left the sever

    • @limonlx7182
      @limonlx7182 Před 2 lety +7

      @@Born_to_kill_crabs if I were in a sever, I would leave too, it probably smells bad there.

    • @jeremycyrecuaresma6511
      @jeremycyrecuaresma6511 Před 2 lety +1

      for me their name would be like:ancientbuilder23442

    • @user-cv2hh2ot4b
      @user-cv2hh2ot4b Před 2 lety +1

      Stolen

    • @maxblox4409
      @maxblox4409 Před 2 lety

      I have 447 subs right now!
      Let’s see how much I have after this comment!

  • @therealilikecats
    @therealilikecats Před 3 měsíci +1

    My theory about why soul sand makes bubbles is that the souls in the sand are bored, so when you put water over them, they blow bubbles, creating the bubble column.

  • @Youdontknowme547
    @Youdontknowme547 Před 10 měsíci

    i like all the theories because they make me keep wandering which ones right

  • @jinux8297
    @jinux8297 Před 2 lety +197

    This guy is like Newton, standing on the shoulder of giants and completing the work oncebleft behind.

  • @_Funtime60
    @_Funtime60 Před 2 lety +56

    I personally feel that the "real" one should somehow involve the ender dragon, since the whole goal is to kill it.

    • @cjanthony9806
      @cjanthony9806 Před 2 lety +4

      I really like this one. It makes every come full circle and gives the players purpose/endgame much more meaning

    • @bobolumumba5148
      @bobolumumba5148 Před 2 lety +1

      Endermen punch Steve when he looks at them cuz he did something wrong

    • @wallamazoo01
      @wallamazoo01 Před 2 lety +1

      Go full Chim and the strange stories in Morrowind, let's assume that in lore, Steve was offered up to the End Dragon to be eaten back to life through means of magical re-spawning. Rather than becoming an egg, Steve was given eternal life but only at a time so far after the extinction that there would be any help to end the crisis. Even if there was a cure to end the zombie virus, the bodies are so rotten and decayed that it would only kill the zombies in the process. Easier to kill them outright as they become an immediate threat. In this way, Steve realized his sacrifice was for nothing, and uses the eternal power of respawning to commit revenge against the Dragon.

    • @ninjago4ever69
      @ninjago4ever69 Před 2 lety

      Matpats enderdragon video theory

  • @raptormage2209
    @raptormage2209 Před 2 lety +2

    A quick hypothesis on how skeletons could've appeared: I believe skeletons were reanimated by the enemies of the builders perhaps they were fallen warriors mainly archers who were reanimated by some sort of necromancer ( perhaps this could've been a prototype for the totem of undying ) the newly revived skeletons were given a new mission to slay any builders they could find. skeletons do spawn quite a lot in soul sand valleys so maybe soul sand was used to create them ?

  • @akendop
    @akendop Před měsícem +1

    The Minecraft Timeline of the Ancient Builders(Humans)
    1. Ancient builders get smarter,stronger and discover more things.
    2. Start to discover how to use magic and learn about new dimensions.
    3. Introduction of zombification virus.(aka the downfall of everything)
    4. Ancient builders divide into 4 tribes
    (the ones that went to nether, the ones that went to the End, the one that made the ancient cities and the villagers)
    5. The Nether Tribe constructs millitary bases(nether fortresses) to fight piglins, ghasts, hoglins and die in the process. Thus creating remnants of what they once were such as wither skeletons and soul sand.
    6. The last of the Nether Tribe try to revive their lost soldiers with magical recipes and succeed but in a bad way. Introducing the Wither.
    7. The wither slaughters what was left of the Nether Tribe and travels to the overworld.
    8. The Wither eventually finds its way to the Ender Tribe and bestows fear and anguish upon its people.
    9. They soon create strongholds to hide deep down from the monster up high and the zombie virus that was getting worse day by day and flee to the end.
    10. The End Tribe starts to eat chorus fruit and hunt ender dragons for food and survival. Only to start to get infected by a transdimensional parasite, The Endermite. Explaining their hostile nature towards the player and endermites.
    11. The Deep Dark Tribe went underground and constructed cities since they had no where to go. The Wither also eventually found them and the ancient builders tried making a portal to escape the overworld once and for all. Some of them had sacrifice themselves to power the portal, explaining the soul sand under the portal statue. They open it but it takes a bad turn, an exotic mushroom-like organism starts crawling it way through the portal. While this civilisation was fighting the wither. Some of the dead soldiers were absorbed by the sculk, including their souls. Thus creating the Warden.
    12. The last of the human race are the villagers and illagers. Who are less intelligent than before and have developped antibodies against the zombie virus, but are still vulnerable as they can still turn into zombie villagers.
    I am aware that there are a few flaws with this timeline theory. But aye, i just felt like i should express my opinion on this.🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

  • @dragondraco2645
    @dragondraco2645 Před 2 lety +631

    Who built these structures? “Proceeds to show a woodland mansion”

  • @samathakondapally1575
    @samathakondapally1575 Před 2 lety +17

    Wifies a month ago: The ancient builders turned into endermen.
    Wifies now: I think I should change the story...

  • @nogravity1675
    @nogravity1675 Před rokem

    I love your Theorys

  • @dantheemperor5228
    @dantheemperor5228 Před rokem +1

    I don't think the wither completely caused extinction to the ancient builders, but I think that the wither made the ancient builders retreat to the either the mines and create strongholds and eventually make the end portal, or retreat to the nether. I'm only gonna talk about the end, the only problem is that the portal sound when the end portal is created, it's so loud that the wither can hear that from the surface of the over world. Then the ancient builders went through the portal in time, there was no Enderman but there was a dragon that might kill them. So the ancient builders collected endstone and placed blocks into somewhere away from the ender dragon. They found land but the only living things were Shulkers and chorus fruit plants, they built endcities and sometimes a ship in the air with a dragon head on them and the elytra wings on a picture frame on the inside. The ancient builders prepared for longer than they expected because time passes much faster in the end than in the over world than in the nether. Because of that, the ancient builders that were in the endcities shape shifted from only eating chorus fruit and had parasites in them, so they transformed in a species called endermen. Even though if they didn't transform yet, they had to face the ender dragon and they have to study this creature quick before transforming into endermen.

  • @DiamondKingStudios
    @DiamondKingStudios Před 2 lety +70

    I'm imaging a sort of multiplayer server where "generate structures" was turned off and the players started building things identical to Mojang-generated structures, often in the same places and conditions, right down to the locations of each and every Stronghold.

    • @tyler1673
      @tyler1673 Před 2 lety +1

      Still there are things to build that have been lost to time without mods. That also sounds terribly dull for an adventurer. I doubt a lot of the monsters that exist today would be around in this ancient theoretical world.

    • @thumtak_
      @thumtak_ Před 2 lety

      And hardcore

  • @jadimatic1096
    @jadimatic1096 Před 2 lety +50

    This theory nicely wraps the previous theories together, I feel like outside of a direct explanation from mojang we arent gonna get much more cannon than this.

  • @SapphicWombat
    @SapphicWombat Před rokem +1

    Here's my full theory, It's a LITTLE bit stretchy, but I think I have a decent explanation of it
    I think a series of ALL THREE events occurred, a Zombie Outbreak, The Wither summoning, AND An all out war, not at once, but in order, a calculated, but destructive end to the most intelligent and technologically advanced species.
    In order, the zombie outbreak happened, the remaining hundreds of ancient builders survived that, bunkered down and did some tests on how to cure it, hence why there are bookshelves in the strongholds, they were conducting research on curing their brethren, but something far worse happened... After the zombies were mostly gone (at least temporarily) the villagers that wanted to claim back their land, and do it by force, went to great lengths, and discovered hieroglyphics in one of the sandstone temples, wanting to put an end to the rivalry, they hatched a plan and unleashed absolute obliteration onto the overworld, spawning in the wither, being consumed by the thing they summoned, the final survivors herded their way to the end portal where they knew nobody would go, at least those who didn't know about it, they jumped into the portal, and the environment, much like the nether and the overworld for nether born creatures, shifted the shape of the surviving people, gradually, and slowly, they would become shells of what they once were, people, people who had purpose.
    I think all I need to say for the last part to make sense, is...Endermen are the ONLY mob in the game that can take your blocks, they're also passive, unless you look at them.. and I think the reason that is.. is because they're seeing who betrayed them, and left them helpless, and ultimately, who sealed their fates.
    They are by extension, us, just warped, abominations of us The worst part is.. it wasn't their fault... They didn't deserve ANYTHING that happened to them, they made it to the other side of the portal, but at what cost huh? They lost their way back home, and the ONLY way to get back home before being transformed into abominable creatures, was to fight the dragon, and go back home, but that wouldn't work. their home was a hell-scape, a warzone, they couldn't return home, they were better off succumbing to their less than unfavourable fates.

  • @mfknbumblebee
    @mfknbumblebee Před 11 měsíci

    I ADORE that idea of wither creation being discovered via a mysterious painting. Like the dormant wither's spirit manifested that painting to trick them into summoning it

  • @TheChillestEver
    @TheChillestEver Před 2 lety +584

    The “ancient builders” are still alive. They’re on a different plane of existence (my guess is the aether). They’re talking to you when you complete the game. If you read the entire of the end dialogue it actually reveals a lot of lore and how they’re still alive. (This is just my guess)

    • @janaeb2005
      @janaeb2005 Před 2 lety +7

      I don't like that one cus how come we don't see them?

    • @lindacruz662
      @lindacruz662 Před 2 lety +34

      Cause *we* sent them to a realm nobody could find. THEY DONT FOLLOW OUR RULES so they get banished

    • @janaeb2005
      @janaeb2005 Před 2 lety +7

      No they are probably dead due to the fact Steve never talks in the end or see pic of them

    • @tufab3494
      @tufab3494 Před 2 lety +8

      Bruh minecraft never had a lore yall tweakin 🤣

    • @TheChillestEver
      @TheChillestEver Před 2 lety +84

      @@tufab3494 mojang came out with a book of lore a few years ago

  • @lethanh90
    @lethanh90 Před 2 lety +45

    “A race of ancient builders with diamond armor could defeat the wither.”
    NOT ON BEDROCK EDITION BABY

    • @werd_6078
      @werd_6078 Před 2 lety +1

      True

    • @unequivocalsuffering2734
      @unequivocalsuffering2734 Před 2 lety +1

      Strength II potions and Smite V, trust me it helps

    • @oi-cj1pz
      @oi-cj1pz Před 2 lety +2

      Try beating them on bedrock, while are 10 blocks tall, shoot atomic bombs as explosives, have so much more health, and can summon armies of the undead, AND with a plague on the loose. That is probably what the builders went through.

    • @aimbot4arrowz982
      @aimbot4arrowz982 Před 2 lety +1

      @@oi-cj1pz so the ancient builders had the harder bedrock wither?

    • @oi-cj1pz
      @oi-cj1pz Před 2 lety +1

      @@aimbot4arrowz982 Or just made a bigger one than the one we can make normally, so it would have enhanced abilities. Something like that.

  • @jakukuja7736
    @jakukuja7736 Před 2 lety

    MatPat: mentions ancient builders
    Everybody else: *L O R E*
    (and I love every second of this)

  • @jmsartwork6125
    @jmsartwork6125 Před 2 lety +6

    This is my theory:
    The piglins wanted to discover a new dimension since the nether was kinda getting boring. They finally constracted the portal and entered. The place was filled with life and nature, but then one of the piglins started to get dizzy and the piglin turned green, its because piglins have a sensitive body and can get easily infected, but why they cant get infected in the nether. Well its because due to the extreme hot temperature viruses and parasites cant survive long and die and since the overworld isnt really that hot unlike in the nether the piglins got infected and all of them turned to zombie piglins. Some went back to the portal and infected other piglins
    And the others in the overworld began infecting the ancient builders and of course the villagers.
    Mean while the ancient builders were developing a cure they decided to do it in the cold snowy biome underneath their igloos. They manage to make the cure but it wasnt enough to cure all the infected.
    The illagers or what i like to call them the illager tribes developed a body paint, it wasnt a cure but it help prevent the zombies infecting them. They created a grey-ish body paint and thats why zombies dont attack illagers.
    Now the ancient builder weren't able to coop up the rise of the zombie pandemic. All of the ancient builders died and a very few survived. Everything went back to normal, but for what did it cost?

    • @Fififoop_Foo
      @Fififoop_Foo Před 2 lety +1

      But how did they get obsidian?(l'm not saying ur theory is bad)
      Let's all remember in the end minecraft is just a whole bunch of code

    • @jmsartwork6125
      @jmsartwork6125 Před 2 lety

      @@Fififoop_Foo A scientist created a portal to a new dimmension. after the piglins revolted against the ancient builders players were forced to leave the nether and so thay did. The king of the ancient builders ordered to destroy all the portals so no one can activate. Mean while in the nether their was a portal that wasnt damage and can still be actived, some curious piglins wanted to know whats beyond the portal so they lit it up, they entered then suddenly they started to get sick. You probobly already know what happened but anyways the virus inside the piglins mutated inside them making it impossible to cure and to be invinsible. Then the infected piglin started spreading the virus and thats why!

    • @Fififoop_Foo
      @Fififoop_Foo Před 2 lety +1

      @@jmsartwork6125 Oh ok nice theory!

    • @jmsartwork6125
      @jmsartwork6125 Před 2 lety

      @@Fififoop_Foo thanks

  • @thegoldenlion4082
    @thegoldenlion4082 Před 2 lety +404

    Nobody:
    Wifies: ,,For one thing the Wither isn't that hard to kill."
    EVERY Bedrock Player: ,,Something's wrong, I can feel it."

    • @whathehellisthis
      @whathehellisthis Před 2 lety +43

      "look i summoned a wither and im fully geared and ready to kill it, wait why my FPS suddenly became 10? Wait why my phone starting to get hot? Wait what ha-"
      - Based on my real life experience

    • @oi-cj1pz
      @oi-cj1pz Před 2 lety +17

      Java players just don't know our pain.

    • @nicholasplays7688
      @nicholasplays7688 Před 2 lety +8

      I'm A bedrock player and I get this it spawns wither skeletons and it has x2 health

    • @Oddish_Kid107
      @Oddish_Kid107 Před 2 lety +2

      i play java and bedrock

    • @bxbysocool1313
      @bxbysocool1313 Před 2 lety +2

      So true

  • @TheAdvertisement
    @TheAdvertisement Před 2 lety +27

    2:28 Yo using pressure plates to hide item frames is a cool effect.

  • @dwszanto1429
    @dwszanto1429 Před 4 měsíci

    Wifies: The Wither is not that hard to beat.
    Bedrock Wither: You underestimate my power.

  • @thetwelthdrongo
    @thetwelthdrongo Před rokem +3

    I think it could be a combination of all three. There was a great war between two races, the ancient builders and another race. The ancient builders discovered how to create the Wither, and unleashed it on their enemies. However, this didn't go as planned, and the wither that they created was bigger, stronger and much harder to kill then it is nowadays. It wiped out all of the ancient builders, but the more advanced other race was able to defeat it. However, with so few survivors, a zombie virus was able to wipe them out in a matter of months.

  • @no_face1
    @no_face1 Před 2 lety +49

    Mojang : * Just makes a simple blocky game *
    Theorists : "OOOOOOOO NEW LORE"

  • @waterduck1266
    @waterduck1266 Před 2 lety +30

    For the last theory. The woodland mansions have a prison/dungeon like room. So that could be where the zombie virus was tested and created.

  • @lazy_person1
    @lazy_person1 Před 2 lety

    Good job dude :)

  • @rahulsah6865
    @rahulsah6865 Před 2 lety

    The ancient city opens so much possibility now. The lore is gonna be more intense

  • @thepuffin4050
    @thepuffin4050 Před 2 lety +46

    It's interesting to me how multiplayer worlds are still possible within the lore. Not being the only remaining descendant of the builders has certain implications within the story which I would love to see being explored further.

    • @greypoint000
      @greypoint000 Před 2 lety +1

      Yeah that would poke a hole in his theory

    • @shadeslayer1592
      @shadeslayer1592 Před 2 lety +3

      In multiplayer let's just say that instead of just one person multiple ppl find the word together

  • @derekstryder2281
    @derekstryder2281 Před 2 lety +13

    As someone who played since 1.7.2, the zombification theory has always been my headcanon even if I never really thought about it too much. Heck, I even thought that each zombie was a player's corpse returning to remind them of their mistakes.

  • @TheDegeneracyConfederacy

    I think that the Wither was the reason for their demise as many people would die in the nether when it was first discovered, the souls of the dead would merge with the ground to become soul sand and the corpse would reach an advanced state of decay due to the smoldering heat which would char the bones of the skeleton. The builders were happy to find the soul sand as they believed that if the soul and body were combined alongside a bit of magic from their advanced wizards who were responsible for enchanting and brewing, the people could be revived. The wizards and known about the possibility of this creation from their studies (which were saved in paintings and carvings) and they decided to go through with it. Due to their advanced magical capabilities, they were able to create a Wither that was much stronger than anything steve could have created with his primitive knowledge of science and magic, and after all, Steve is likely just some random guy who survived, not an almighty wizard or genius scientist. Anyways, the “Mega Wither” caught the builders off guard and began to level their society, some survived in the over world and devolved into the villagers (and some became illagers) who lacked the same knowledge that their ancestors had. Others decided to retreat to the nether as a zombie plague had started to assist the Wither in taking over the world, the zombies were people who got infected by the plague that was being released into the air from the Wither and the skeletons were soldiers and weapon owning civilians who died fighting the Wither which is why they still carry bows and why they are so much more decomposed (the enchanted bows are from skeletons who were originally soldiers). The rest of the military and civilians left to the nether as they would be safe from the airborne virus. They guarded their portals with all their might against the infected who who shambled in and started trying to help take over the nether for the Wither. The builders fought against and lost against the onslaught of the infected and eventually turned into wither skeletons due to the nether conditions, these wither skeletons were taller than their normal skeleton brethren as the wither skeletons were elite sword wielding warriors who had to be stronger than the normal skeletons due to them being dead soldiers and being melee fighters. The wither skeletons finished reanimating after the builders had already fled the nether fortresses as reanimating takes time. The builders had fled to other parts of the nether while being chased by the undead mob. They fought in certain areas which soon became the soul sand biomes as so many soldiers fell in those parts of the nether that all of their souls melted into the floor in that spot. Some souls couldn’t fit into the ground anymore as the soul sand biome had became saturated with souls and thus the souls merged together to become the ghasts, the ghasts were only able to feel pain and despair as those were the last things that the builders felt when they were fighting for their life while watching their entire civilization collapse. The soldiers who had survived long enough to reach the soul sand biome were only those who had experience in traversing the nether and thus they were made up primarily of nether fortress guards, these dead soldiers marched back to the nether fortress to join their comrades again in the afterlife no to continue their sworn duty in life, defend the fortress. The skeletons who remained in the soul sand biome were the previously mentioned dead civilians and over world soldiers who stayed there after the builders managed to escape back into the over world. Their escape was assisted by a new prototype invention which is now known today as the elder pearl, the pearl was magically fused into the bodies of the surviving builders and mutated them into the endermen, the builders had technically died out now as they had turned themselves into the endermen, some of these endermen stayed in the nether due to accidentally breaking off from the main groups of builders and then decided to try living in the warped forest due to its peaceful conditions and they would occasionally leave the forest in search of a way home, these endermen didn’t have to worry about food anymore as the energy of the ender pearl inside them would keep them fed. Some endermen decided to stay in the over world after the builders returned there due to the over world still being their place of birth and they believed that with their new powers, they could stay away from the Wither and it’s army. Most of the endermen used the power of the ender pearl and the power of pure flame (which was found in the nether) to create the ender eye while other endermen worked on creating the end portal frame, their project was complete, the endermen had entered the end and had closed off the portal by having a timed removal for some of the eyes that would take place after they entered the portal, they didn’t want anything to follow them after all. The endermen entered the end and were greeted with the ender dragon, it was a much weaker creature than the Wither and thus the endermen weren’t troubled by it as the dragon was somewhat scared of the endermen, the endermen eventually looked into the distance and saw massive islands that they could live on, they used all the power in their bodies and managed to teleport to those distant islands. Once they reached those islands, they noticed that after all this time, they had finally found somewhere safe and peaceful to live. They built cities that they guarded with a creature that was made by the surviving scientists and wizards, the shulker. The endermen had finally found peace, the endermen had actually found too much peace and found themselves with nothing to do other than to build cities and stare into the endless void. The endermen began to lose their minds, started forgetting how to talk, and finally just began wandering around as a shell of their formed selves. Some may ask, why do the endermen attack us when we look into their eyes? They are likely taking it as a form of mockery, a normal and happy builder is looking into their eyes, looking at what they have done to themselves just to end up in a state worse than death, malformed, insane, bored, and depressed. So, why do the endermen let us look into their eyes if we are wearing a pumpkin? They simply see it as a nice and calm reminded of the olden days when they would relax with their family in a warm house, they would sit there and share their pumpkin pie, everyone was happy and the people who weren’t were often unhappy for the funniest of reasons like losing a tool, tripping and hurting themselves, failing at making a pumpkin pie, seeing that your neighbor was richer than you, or even seeing their loved ones die. None of these things mattered to the endermen anymore, most of them were contemplating on killing themselves so not even death mattered. So when they look at steve wearing a pumpkin, they see the good old days, how funny their troubles used to be, and how comical it was to see someone wearing a pumpkin which was something funny and new as nothing else in the end was funny and nothing ever changed, this was a change, a nice change.
    Thank you for reading this garbage, a lot of it was head canon mixed with a bit of logic. I hope it was fun to read though!

  • @zaxx7157
    @zaxx7157 Před 2 lety

    Third reign theory is more likely for me I don’t know why but it fits my head perfectly

  • @warwolver5359
    @warwolver5359 Před 2 lety +83

    The wither was probably a god of destruction as they are engraved in sandstone which probably says they were prayed to

    • @GhostW1thTheMost
      @GhostW1thTheMost Před 2 lety +4

      Or its the way they wrote down the stories, like cavepeople

    • @mdbgamer556
      @mdbgamer556 Před 2 lety

      *That's an interesting theory*

  • @chickwonoverlord6050
    @chickwonoverlord6050 Před 2 lety +28

    I'm with the wither theory because the fossils in the game can be formed to make a huge wither which could of been what ended them, i mean 1 regular wither is hard enough, but a mega wither that killed everything would be tough. And since they are fossils maybe it killed to much and couldn't "eat" anything anymore.

    • @happypotato--2646
      @happypotato--2646 Před 2 lety +1

      my answer is, till the ancients builders joining to defeat the plague was true, after finding the cure, they had to find a way to inject it without getting affected, so they looked forward to the creature that was in the painting which was made by their ancestors and entered the nether to collect wither skeletons heads to make the wither but encountered the MEGA WITHER. Which was what their ancestors saw in the nether and made the painting. and the mega wither killed the builders in the nether and the builders who were in the overworld escaped to the end. and without any more food for the mega wither it died or the creatures of the nether killed it.

    • @lilywalker7499
      @lilywalker7499 Před 2 lety +1

      It could be like the Wither Storm in Minecraft Story Mode?

    • @thatpersonthatexists8416
      @thatpersonthatexists8416 Před 2 lety +1

      Yeah, but how did they summon the mega wither if they found out about the beast from a painting, where it highlights the four soul sand blocks and three skulls

    • @chickwonoverlord6050
      @chickwonoverlord6050 Před 2 lety

      @@thatpersonthatexists8416 maybe tried to supersize the thing because it only showed 4 soul sand and 3 heads and they couldn't tell scale so maybe thought it was 4x4x4 for each 1 soul sand block

    • @RealNightmarish
      @RealNightmarish Před 2 lety

      I think since the player is reincarnated. He forgot the knowledge and only knows how to summon a baby wither

  • @singingcat02
    @singingcat02 Před 2 lety +3

    In your video about the fossils, you talked about nether fossils and listed them as being giant wither fossils. That seemed very likely to me and I completely agree with this theory. But then why didn't you use it in this video ?
    First, the wither can't go through the nether portal, can it ? So why would they have needed to protect themselves from the wither with the fortresses, when it couldn't follow them ? Unless of course, there were *already* withers in the nether, and way more dangerous ones. To me the builders didn't go to the nether to flee from the wither, they were there in the first place and then they were attacked by giant withers. Besides, you can't argue the fact that withers of this size, especially in herds, would have had no problem eliminating a whole human race. I'm not going to go on a theory of the builders origins, I don't say they would necessarily come from the nether, especially because that would be a nonsense. But I don't think the nether fortresses were built to protect their inhabitants from overworld withers.
    Btw about the illagers, they are officially considered as villagers banned from villages because they were using dark magic. If the ancient builders were as smart as the player is, it seems unlikely that mobs with the same intelligence level as villagers (which is pretty low compared to ours) would have won the war. Illagers may have the ability to build structures and coordinate attacks, but they obviously don't get out of their mansions and outposts, and they always stay in small groups, not trying to trade with illagers from other mansions or raid groups. They don't look like they once were a united race - and let's be realistic, how could they have defeated the ancient builders by staying in small, separate groups ? No way.
    BUT, I admit that the idea that they were at war with the villagers, and created the zombies in this goal, and the zombies accidentally infected the ancient builders is not completely unlikely. Though it doesn't explain the zombies' look and clothes, and why would they need zombies to defeat the villagers, they are already defenseless once you have killed the golem.

  • @ahmetsamikurt4479
    @ahmetsamikurt4479 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I watched some of your theory videos and in those videos i saw mobs randomly teleporting after getting hit what does that mean and is it intentional that you added it in to give us a hint

  • @gabrielbarros493
    @gabrielbarros493 Před 2 lety +15

    If the "ancient builders" were so strong as a normal player, i don't think they would easily die for normal zombies, and i was thinking, a good theory would be that there was the mob "giant" in the past, and some of those would had killed most of the builders and transformed them into the normal zombies, them, after decades they would have eventually died. That theory would work with the zombie apocalipse theory, answer the fossils mistery (It would be their body and heads), as the question of why this mob exists at all
    (for the ones who don't know this mob, its a giant zombie, that you can summon with commands, but don't do anything. In previous versions, it moved, and had an enormous health and damage)

    • @tuff9486
      @tuff9486 Před 2 lety +2

      or they where simply not immune to the zombie virus yet. Thus a single scratch or hit would cause them to become zombies too

    • @HammadKhan21384
      @HammadKhan21384 Před 2 lety

      Maybe after the war all gaints are killed and normal zombies are not that difficult so ancient builders turns to villagers because after a big war they also don't want to adventure anymore and steve is the exception

  • @ianstadtlander9736
    @ianstadtlander9736 Před 2 lety +13

    Everyone: sees minecraft as a block game
    Wifies: now THIS is some deep, heart wrenching lore
    btw love the content keep it up wifies

  • @Destroyer94100
    @Destroyer94100 Před rokem +1

    "The Wither isn't even that hard to kill"
    Bedrock Wither: *And I took that personally*

  • @HYDROCARBON_XD
    @HYDROCARBON_XD Před 7 měsíci +1

    So I think there are 3 or 4 main intelligent races in Minecraft:
    Ancient builders (overworld)
    Piglins (nether)
    Illagers and Villagers (overworld)
    Endermen (end,they could be the descendants of the ancient builders)
    So we know that the llagers (I will call both villagers and illagers like that) built the mansions,outposts,villages and possibly other structures that we think were built by the ancient builders like trail chambers or even possibly ancient cities (this is unlikely but there are some theories of why that),but likely before that,the piglins and ancient builders were the only inteligent races,piglins built portals,bastions and perhaps other now destroyed structures,they discovered netherite and used it so much there is none now (not real netherite),the ancient builders separated in different civilizations (maybe the piglins too but that could just be division of works in the bastions) like the jungle ones,desert ones,the aquatic ones and that as they progressed,the jungle one built the jungle temples and possibly the trail ruins,the desert one built the desert temple AND,possibly created the wither and the nether fortress,they were the first to enter the nether,they discovered potions,made blazes and probably traded them to other civilizations like the aquatic one,which with the help of water breathing potions made the monuments,but the desert civilization also made contact with the piglins and possibly started a war,the wither didn’t help much and most of the nether builders became wither skeletons or just skeletons,that’s why the piglins kill the wither skeletons,and with all the dead piglins and builders they made the wither,likely the piglins killed the wither and this is why they absolutely hate the wither skeletons,then the wither virus evolved into a variant in the overworld which made everyone turn into zombies,this is why piglins become zombies when entering the overworld,the ancient builders what survived entered into the end and found a dimension,according to your theory the ender dragon is a robot in which I agree,so they made the ender dragon but the ender dragon became aggressive and they fled into the outer islands in which there was possibly very little food,only the chorus fruits and possibly other extinct plants that won’t exist anymore,they created the end cities and shuckers and then slowly became endermen.
    After that the llagers evolved or descended from the ancient builders and created their civilization,then the Pillagers became evil for strange reasons and created mansions,outposts and possibly other structures.

  • @HerrscherPuppet
    @HerrscherPuppet Před 2 lety +98

    The ancient builders died out because there were more than one of them and that creates a society and society creates politics and politics destroys all.
    The player is immune to politics because the player is on their own in single player.
    However what do we see in multiplayer? Let’s take a look at 2B2T, the oldest anarchy Minecraft server that is still going. The ancient builders were not as strong as our Steve is, but there were no mods, making ancient Minecraft anarchy

  • @Bee-uh2zm
    @Bee-uh2zm Před 2 lety +100

    Another theory about the skeletons: The skeletons were part of Steve’s generation and that’s why they are immune to zombification. They may be hostile to Steve as he may have done something bad we don’t know about prior to spawning.

    • @DesperateEnuf68
      @DesperateEnuf68 Před 2 lety +1

      What?

    • @jessdoesstuffx
      @jessdoesstuffx Před 2 lety +2

      Hm yeah

    • @justice1806
      @justice1806 Před 2 lety +1

      I dont get your point

    • @Bee-uh2zm
      @Bee-uh2zm Před 2 lety +6

      @@justice1806 What I’m saying is why the skeletons aren’t zombies is because Steve did something such as an experiment turning the rest of his kind into skeletons, leaving him as the only human left ever (in single player). And they have a bone to pick with him in their afterlife

    • @akiraotoishi5756
      @akiraotoishi5756 Před 2 lety +4

      Are we all going to forget the fossils of giant amogus people. Idk man sounds kinda sus. Sounds like we have an imposter amogus. Look up fossil skull #4

  • @Bogdanol1
    @Bogdanol1 Před 2 lety +4

    I have a theory about how the wither appeared:
    Once upon a time,a person dreamed a weird three-headed creature in their dream. In that dream,the creature would destroy everything in its way. The person became obsessed with the creature they saw in their dream,everything they could think of was that creature they kept dreaming. The person grew with their thoughts on that creature,and so,the person decided to become a painter and share the creature that haunts their dreams with the world. This painting became popular and it came to the attention to the researchers. The researchers investigated the person which kept dreaming the wither and they decided that they should conduct research on this weird creature. Eventually,the researchers managed to develop dimension travelling. As soon as they entered the portal,they saw a brown block. This block was weird looking,with weird faces on it and making weird sounds. After some research,the researchers found out this block was full of souls. They thought what would happen if they would use these souls to create the creature in the picture. But one thing was missing. They needed the black skulls. After conducting some research,they found out something weird. They managed to create a weird potion that turns humans into alive skeletons. This discovery was terrifying. The researchers locked the skeletons up in some cells. But then,they realized something. They were planning to burn the skeletons in the lava that was existent in the Nether. But they noticed that as soon as the skeletons entered the nether,some of them changed shape. They became taller,stronger and most importantly...their color changed to black. The researchers were shocked. The found the black skulls. They quickly murdered the black skeletons but something was not right. The black skulls dissapeared as soon as they would be de-attached from their original bodies. The researchers were troubled by this issue. Finally,when they were so close,their dreams were shattered. But then,when they killed the last black skeleton,it happened. The skeleton's head did not dissapear. They realized that few of the heads do not dissapear. They started turning more and more people into black skeletons and they established the Nether Fortresses to make their research easier. But something started going wrong. The normal skeletons stopped becoming black. The researchers could not understand why. But then,they nailed it. They figured out the skeletons were growing familiar with the harsh conditions of the nether,that being the reason why they stopped changing shapes. The researchers left the fortresses and returned to the overworld to continue their research in proper conditions. After years of trying,they finally had the 3 skulls. They decided to summon the weird creature in the Nether. However...things went bad. After placing the 3 skulls on top of the 4 soul sand pieces,they were shocked that it actually worked.
    After a tough battle,the researchers not only managed to learn the attack patterns of the wither,but they also managed to beat him.
    They noticed that,after the wither died,it left a weird star behind. They conducted research on this star and found out it can be used to craft a beacon. This beacon helped the civilization grow rapidly,and the popular painter which had the dream with the wither became even more popular after making a picture of how the wither was made. Four soul sand pieces and 3 wither skulls. But,the greed struck the humans. After seeing this painting,they wanted the beacons all for themselves. They started turning other people into skeletons and forcing them to die just to get wither skulls so they can summon the wither and get their own nether star. Nether Star being the name given to the weird star. The researchers named it "Nether Star" because it was all thanks to the nether they managed to get it. Soonly,the nether was full of withers,some of them going wild. The most elite researchers restricted anyone who is not a royal warrior/researcher to enter the Nether. But this filled the greedy humans with hatred. They started crafting withers in the overworld. And so,chaos began...
    Anyone want part 2?

  • @kingjoey1898
    @kingjoey1898 Před 2 lety +7

    Also gotta take into account that the player of the world is the games anime protagonist. We are capable of not only defeating every mob in the game but also create technologies the ancient advanced civilizations probably didn't even come close to (redstone computers, different types and sizes of missiles, giant slimeblock mechs/robots, flying machines/bomber planes,working tanks, nuke missiles, command blocks, can farm almost every mob including wither for loot, probably more) and the fact we can make mega structures and build/collect resources alot faster. We can easily beat pillagers and consider raids fun. The ancient builders are technically NPCs the player doesn't see. We are OP asf compared to any other thing in Minecraft (considering we probs singlehandedly advance much quicker and would most likely singlehandedly win a war against either side.) With how powerful the actual player is in the Minecraft world in mind, all of these theories (especially the one you made combining the other theories) make alot more sense when you think of it like that.

  • @traealele
    @traealele Před 2 lety +91

    Nice slo-mo effect for when the wither killed Steve! "The ancient race"

  • @jenanimatesstuff8702
    @jenanimatesstuff8702 Před 2 lety +87

    Wifies: says the wither isn't that hard to kill
    Bedrock Players: "ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?!"

    • @finntherealone447
      @finntherealone447 Před 2 lety

      Relatable.

    • @marudhvathibalabhadrapatru5954
      @marudhvathibalabhadrapatru5954 Před 2 lety +1

      @@toco1449 I too play on bedrock edition but on phone so it's even harder

    • @EzraEpic
      @EzraEpic Před 2 lety +2

      He has 600 health actually which is double the health of java withers.
      Thank you Mojang

    • @kut1657
      @kut1657 Před 2 lety

      im a bedrock player and i think its really easy on hard mode

    • @dmpltd1
      @dmpltd1 Před 2 lety

      Scoop true

  • @hubguy
    @hubguy Před 2 měsíci +1

    I think the Wither didn’t kill them off entirely but still very much didn’t help things. Perhaps the Wither is what causes the split between Builders and Villagers. After the disaster that it was, many of the survivors broke off to settle down, understanding very well that this pursuit would only lead to ruin: Illagers creating a zombie virus, the Builders escaping to the End only to morph into Endermen, and those who escaped underground indirectly succumbing to the Warden in an attempt to keep it satisfied after its victory over the Wither

  • @ChaoticWatcher
    @ChaoticWatcher Před 2 lety +271

    This is honestly my favorite series to look forward to every week xD keep going
    Just finished watching, I agree with your...idea of there instinction, as it makes sense and I think u should do one based on how the end was made- like how was it made and where the creatures came from like the dragon, as it's the only mob like it in the whole game, or the shulker, as no other mob is like it either.
    Also WHAT THE- HOW IS THERE SO MANY LIKES- well ill use it to my advantage xD, I have a small channel if yall wanna check it out xD

    • @pandanarian7625
      @pandanarian7625 Před 2 lety +1

      Yeah actually, matpat only explained how they made the end portals. He didnt say anything about how they knew

    • @UnrulyThickxums
      @UnrulyThickxums Před 2 lety +1

      Wow love it

    • @UnrulyThickxums
      @UnrulyThickxums Před 2 lety +1

      Love itttt

    • @vxrlie4698
      @vxrlie4698 Před 2 lety

      parasites probably infected the purpur blocks idk, seems like it

    • @ChaoticWatcher
      @ChaoticWatcher Před 2 lety +1

      @@vxrlie4698 me either xD

  • @reelreamy
    @reelreamy Před 2 lety +124

    Minecraft Lore, ahh yes we love these series.

    • @ClearAimQ
      @ClearAimQ Před 2 lety

      Yee monke

    • @rengoku2786
      @rengoku2786 Před 2 lety +1

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    • @rengoku2786
      @rengoku2786 Před 2 lety +1

      Yup

    • @mzadro7
      @mzadro7 Před 2 lety +3

      @@rengoku2786 you’re the reason why “not for lactose intolerant people” is written on milk cartons

  • @noahmeyers3537
    @noahmeyers3537 Před rokem

    Super cool content!

  • @lightfiendish
    @lightfiendish Před 6 měsíci +1

    i like the idea that there's no actual lore and Mojang is just kinda putting whatever in

  • @Lord_Drakostar
    @Lord_Drakostar Před 2 lety +111

    "Then how would those structures get here?"
    *_"Proceeds to show off the second worst example of a structure with unknown origin in the game"_*

  • @HansGunterVelesPhilips
    @HansGunterVelesPhilips Před 2 lety +86

    3 things that are very entertaining: Game Theory, Dive Theory (by RetroGamingNow) and Wifeory

    • @kingt1286
      @kingt1286 Před 2 lety +3

      Yeah but you know that’s just a theory
      !!!!A GAME THEORY!!!!

    • @daviddunn12
      @daviddunn12 Před 2 lety

      Omg guys there is Google

    • @phazer5514
      @phazer5514 Před 2 lety

      Wife-ory

    • @teenalifawaz6698
      @teenalifawaz6698 Před 2 lety

      Also Google, minecraft manhunt and minecraft but

    • @teenalifawaz6698
      @teenalifawaz6698 Před 2 lety

      Like the content famous youtubers like me and Dream, Wisp, Jaygo etc.. Make

  • @mrtea2553
    @mrtea2553 Před 2 lety +2

    9:30 my own trash fact that I just created : the skeletons are the builders that converted into skeletons because they didn't eat for a long time and they couldn't even try to search for food because of the zombies that always waited for them, while about why they still attack us: well, idk

  • @isaacdillon630
    @isaacdillon630 Před 5 měsíci +1

    “The wither isn’t super hard to defeat”
    Bedrock edition wither: Imma end this man’s whole Minecraft world

  • @tanmaypandey4028
    @tanmaypandey4028 Před 2 lety +43

    Not a fun fact: Steve/Alex's species is functionally extinct.
    It's a fact....only on singleplayer........

  • @TheAdvertisement
    @TheAdvertisement Před 2 lety +84

    Really cool how this connects all the different theories together into one different storyline!

    • @aguy710
      @aguy710 Před rokem +1

      Why are you everywhere? I find you everywhere.

  • @Spitfire-Acid
    @Spitfire-Acid Před rokem +3

    Here’s how things might’ve probably played out, considering the Wither theory and a bit of the Zombie virus:
    During a zombie virus outbreak, a Builder paints a depiction of three white-eyed heads atop four brown blocks, he then falls very sick and turns into a zombie. The player, Steve, sees the painting and decides to replicate it, making some sort of ceremony out of it. No one had come prepared for a battle, and when the Wither was summoned, it killed hundreds. Our character and others survive, running and seeking escape and safety in the Deep Dark. They build cities under the ground and began experiments on the nearby Sculk and its redstone capabilities. It didn’t take them long to find the Shriekers, of which they didn’t pay much attention to. But eventually, booms were heard outside the cities from explosions: the Wither had found them. Again, hundreds were killed, but then, a huge beast arose from the ground. It slaughtered the Wither and the Ancient Builders began to worship it. They made statues depicting the Warden’s head, but it wasn’t long until more chaos found them. Builders started dying, but, still seeking the safety of the Warden, the Builders continued to stay, lining the floors with carpets so their footsteps wouldn’t alert the Warden. They used snowballs to distract it, but still, the Warden eventually found the Builders and chaos broke out. The Builders, now being massacred, fleed to the Stronghold. They built winding passages to make sure the Warden would have a hard time chasing them in such a maze. Still fearing the Warden, they constructed a portal to a new dimension. Without checking that everyone was there, they jumped through to the End, accidentally sealing Steve on the outside. Steve ended up jumping into the lava once the portal deactivated, he died but the Gods were displeased. Meanwhile, the Builders are turning into the Endermen thanks to the parasites: Endermites, swearing revenge on Steve for starting all of this. The Gods bring Steve back, giving him the power to respawn constantly, so he could finish what he had started. The Builders were trapped by the dragon, and when Steve eventually kills it, he finally frees his ancestors from the End. During the dragon fight, the others that Steve left in the Stronghold, leave the Stronghold to go and do their own thing I guess? Probably turning into the Villagers?

    • @scxrpion3828
      @scxrpion3828 Před rokem

      only thing i dont get is where does the nether come in?

    • @Spitfire-Acid
      @Spitfire-Acid Před rokem

      @@scxrpion3828 I’m guessing that the Nether is where the Builder who was shut out of the End with Steve might’ve gone there before going to the villages? To be honest, I don’t really know where the Nether fits into this theory. It’s the odd puzzle piece.

  • @EtherealPhantom
    @EtherealPhantom Před 2 lety +1

    If there is one thing I'd like to see... is why the Dragon even exists and prevents escape as it is. Not to mention it's resistances and seemingly otherworldly power and strength. Not to mention the unholy amount of experience dropped, however that last one could just be attributed to gameplay rather than lore but it's up to you how you wish to see it.

  • @shoty_x1693
    @shoty_x1693 Před 2 lety +48

    I think that the ancient builders were scared of the plague and builded the stronghold. Then they went to the end,got trapped there and adapted to it. Turning there eyes purple to see better, getting more hearts to protect them selves from the dragon, and got teleportation by harnessing the power of the end dimension. Which explains why enderman can pick and place blocks.

    • @shrekky-sama9761
      @shrekky-sama9761 Před 2 lety +1

      @Flare99 pissed off chimera twins that obtained the power of death itself to kill those who bullied it

    • @justwhy4450
      @justwhy4450 Před 2 lety

      @Flare99 it could be the same for the wither

    • @baka5145
      @baka5145 Před 2 lety +1

      The got teleportation from probably eating chorus fruit. Chorus fruit turn them into endermen maybe

    • @aderpyaxolotl
      @aderpyaxolotl Před 2 lety +1

      @Flare99 Well, another comment pointed out that it's engraved in sandstone so it was probably a god that was prayed to. Gods in mythology are just kind of there. no real origin story for them. Unless you look at, like, greek mythology. The titans were born from the earth and sky, did the do, and boom gods.

    • @aderpyaxolotl
      @aderpyaxolotl Před 2 lety

      @@shrekky-sama9761 thank you for blessing me with this comment