Solving the Minecraft Warden
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- čas přidán 21. 05. 2022
- The Warden is the newest addition to Minecraft and with the developers outright confirming it has lore to be discovered, obviously it had to be investigated. Enjoy this exploration as we uncover the deep dark secrets of the warden, and the unsettling story hiding behind its blocky features.
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This is a series called Minecraft Wifeory where I explore the lore of the different parts of Minecraft to piece together a story of the game. Not Minecraft, but the water rises or Minecraft Manhunt but a more story telling based series dedicated to solving the lore of the game. - Hry
Sorry for the lack of videos until now but luckily most of my final exams are over which should hopefully mean more uploads more frequently :)
Np! I'm glad you finished your finals
Imagine being done with all of your final exams
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maybe a mistake make it a portal? when never should be? a new dimension or other deep cities?
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the spinning axolotl glitch was intended, if they spin enough the centrifugal force elongates them into wardens
they litarly become helicopters!!!!!
and they combine into a singularity of pure matter and axolotl, becoming dark and void
HELICOPTER HELICOPTER 🚁
It all makes sense now
ahhh how did i miss it
I always thought that the Warden looked and moved like it was a bunch of corpses stitched together, And I'm glad that I'm not the only one who suspected it too.
Yes
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Warden, The Grafted: 500HP
The warden is such a strange mob, it changes the entire game when it comes to minecraft. When you enter an ancient city it becomes a whole new game, a borderline horror game. Sneaking around, hoping to not summon this beast. It has so many detailed animations, including a summoning animation. It feels like it’s from a different game, which is what it is supposed to be, a being from somewhere else
incredible how versatile a game made of blocks can be.
really goes to show how a little ingenuity can make for such interesting results.
True, I was there 1 hour ago and I shit myself.
The screen fading effect might as well be from a horror game
kinda sad how it won't drop anything, maybe a super rare chance it drops something? it has to drop something lie *bruh*
@@catgaming2210 its a force of nature, its not supposed to be killed
We always ask “What is the warden?” But never “How is the warden?”
we need to know about its day
Yea bro he’s probably just really lonely and is super anti-social from living underground 😢
*sad warden noises*
@@keithmarshall1824 "The grumpy grandpa of the monsters".
Or when is the warden?
I love how Mojang is adding lore to the game. It gives Minecraft so much to think about.
it makes minecraft so radical!!
THEY REMOVED FIREFLIES AND BIRCH FOREST UPDATE
@@sn3p3r everyone know that
@@havnmartin knows*
Yessss
My headcanon for the sculk is that it's one huge living organism. The catalyst acts as a brain of sorts, sensors detect and warn of possible dangers, and shriekers scream to try to scare away the danger. If that doesn't work (hence why you need to activate the shriekers 4 times), the sculk deploys its last resort, the Warden.
Let me guess, you watched matpat's video?
@@GnomeWarlord No, Thats just fairly obvious based on gameplay and common sense
I think devs sed that the skulk is alive
@@dessirangelova2676 it pulses, like a heartbeat, its definitely alive, also the warden conveniently has a heartbeat
@@maddie1478 yes it is three times but the warden spawns on the fourth activation
IMO, I view the sculk as a parasite. Based on how old designs look like parasitic mushrooms, and how it spreads. I’d like to think the old civilization viewed the sculk as a wonderful shroom with many capabilities. Over time they became infected and merged with the sculk. That’s why we have bones and why the warden is hostile, it is the collective consciousness of the people who merged and want to protect their work.
Mushrooms would still check out tho…
In real life, mushrooms and fungi are responsible for the decomposition of dead creatures, which essentially become a part of more fungi. The spreading of skulk upon death doesn’t seem so far removed when you think about it in terms of mushrooms, so maybe that parallel is responsible for those parasitic mushroom looking designs.
flood.
That's actually a really good theory 😳
This doesnt account for the fact they have carpets meaning that the builders actually knew about the warden and built around it
Ur right mate
I love how at 5:21 he's trying to convince us that sculks are natural and not manmade like redstone, while redstones are pretty natural since they're also found in caves in the form of ores
😂😂😂
i mean with that logic everything in the game is natural and nothing is manmade. pretty much everything is either natural itself (like dirt, ores, stone, wood) or comes from one of those natural materials
he means redstone materials such as comparators and repeaters. those arent natural. they are manmade.
In Bedrock, skulk appears in the “nature” section of the creative inventory. Just thought that would be a helpful detail.
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@Mela💋 bot moment
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Also, in Bedrock Edition, a gang of Wardens can definitely beat the Wither, what you said on 11:32 was correct. The Wardens get aggravated when hearing the Wither, therefore on a mission to kill it.
A single Warden can beat a Wither, especially if the Wither gets low enough for the Warden to hit it normally instead of just using the sonic blast
Interesting observation here: The Wither and the Warden are thematically linked while being vastly different
Consider this: Both the Warden and the Wither rely on bones and souls to function and there's a theme of "spreading an affliction" within both. The skulk which is spread on death and consumes all forms of matter and the withering which kills all that lives in regards to vitality and thus spreads death and probably even help release Souls and both kill everything they find. And of course, both are triggered into being by players: Withers by being built directly while Wardens are passively generate by out presence and actions.
Where they divert is curious: The Warden is also somewhat "fleshy" and more confined to the ground. It doesn't need to break blocks to move around when confined it can simply burrow itself, it also reacts more towards sound.
The Wither is mostly bone and is more often in the air, when it's confined it or can progress it breaks blocks. It also has three heads meaning it can see things more easily.
It's almost like they are by nature direct opposites while thematically congruent. Like Zombies and Skeletons (except those don't try to kill each other).
I had been wondering about the souls with both of these creatures, but I never got this far into it. It's very interesting how all of these things link the both of them, and how similar, yet different the two of them are. I hope someone makes a lore video based off of this
Matpat after watching this be like:
*"Hello Internet, welcome to Game Theory. The show that keep the viewer in deep dark about everything"*
The chances of this comment being true is lower then the chance of this channel looking at the full update **looks at disk 5**
Yeah i was very weirded out of how he said it like the knock of version of game theory
@@jellyyoutuber407 jellymid 🗿
Ngl I liked this more then mat pats theory
I think they are both good theories just wiggles has more stuff in it and expands on matmats
You, sir, are a genius.
I never thought of The Warden being _formed_ out of sculk.
I thought it was _covered_ in it.
The idea of people taking advantage of this natural stuff to defend them
is interesting and this is my favorite theory on what The Warden and City are.
Although, I don't understand why the souls of the builders seeking revenge is necessary.
I would rather think it's a tragedy, and the player stumbles upon activating it.
I'm also not giving up the possibility of the middle _also_ being a portal. They didn't have that word on the small Statue for no reason.
Exactly, you can't ignore that the structure was chosen to be named "portal" at one point, and the fact that it's made out of unobtainable blocks.
Yet for some reason the fact that warden was once called "hollowed" seemed more important..
But if it was supposed to be a portal, why remove the name? Why cling on to something that has basically been denied?
@@Quid0pher Is it denied, tho? I see it more that they gave us a clue, saw it was found quickly, and decided to hide it.
The change may be just them changing their mind, but if they had a portal in mind, and kept the portal-block attributes to the Reinforced Deepslate, I don't see the change as denying us a feature, I see it as trying to keep it more mysterious, like an "Are they doing it, or aren't they?" situation.
We'll have to wait on what the next 2 updates are before we can say for certain that they aren't.
@@Quid0pher I doubt Mojang would make a giant city with the most noticeable part being a giant portal in the middle of it, and then change their mind in one week.
@@Quid0pher In addition to Jansen's point, how can you explain the music disc?
I personally think that Sculk and The Warden are from another dimension. I agree that the Ancient race of builders did hide underground from the Wither, but they made a portal to try to escape but ended up bringing something much worse to their dimension.
Very possibly
Issue with this theory is the the portal itself
Think about it
Its warden shapped, even tho they could later have decorated the portal making it a warden statue its still the most important part of the statue itself
Second very important point is how is the portal made, the frame of it, using reinforced deepslate blocks, which uses some bones exactly like the warden and the shrieker
So it doesnt feel like the portal could have been created before the sculk and the warden
More like it was there before and somehow they manipulated it and tried stuff one it, eventualy created that portal.. hope we'll get more lore on that one days
I think it is possible that the Illagers decided to set up camp in the deep dark because they wanted to research soul energy.
And maybe they learned about it, after all we have the ravagers, which not only in appearances but also in noise files, is similar to a normal villager, they even drop emeralds.
@@joaopedroferronbravin there's also the vex that evokers use, which are definitely corrupted allays
I like to think that the giant structure is actually an attempt at a portal, like the End portals, but it didn't work.
no its amongus heheheheh
i think that the portal is where the sculk came from, since it doesnt look natural and more alien looking
same
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@@theeyeofgaming8983 true
Love this theory, but if that frame isn’t eventually going to be a portal, people are gonna be mad for sure lmao
Didn't a dev confirm it wasn't? They said it was an among us joke but mainly the fact that it wasn't a portal
@@NetheriteMiner no I’m pretty sure they haven’t, but I’ll look for it and if you have the tweet where they said it could you maybe link it?
@@NetheriteMiner I swear to god if it’s *JUST* an Among Us Joke it would be pretty funny
I started a channel long time ago... I put a lot of effort into my videos but never see much success :((( Anyways, nice video! I’ve been watching you for a very long time and your videos make me happier! :))))
So why is the frame made with the special block, the fact that it is undestructible and cant be moved or crafted sugests that it is a portal block .
ur closer and closer to 1.5m, congrats you deserve it wifies!
Ty!
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@@CapedClunk🧐
the reinforced deepslate "portal" looks like a warden with the ears and the rectangle shape, could be a hint that if we get a new dimension in 1.2 we would go inside the wardens "heart" where we can see and fight all the souls inside it or smth like that
but the devs said they aren't adding a new dimension- nvm
The devs said they were not gonna add another dimension- nvm
Instead of being a dimension it could be a place in the world, all connected by these portals
@@ididntaskverified3663 sadly thats never gonna happen :(
could be done by a mod, like inter dimensional portals
Out of all, this turns out to be the most appealing theory, and the way you always explain the theory whole at detail in the end makes it more easily understandable.
He didn’t cover the music disc that indicates that the big structure is a portal and they came through from somewhere
getoutofherewhateveryouare
also
I kind of love how people are only focusing on the deep dark and the warden while they are also overhauling swamps and adding mangrove swamps
@Mela💋 if you're gonna be a bot atleast make what you want to say understandable
@@antonryelund7344 they put random pieces of content in their comments so youtube cant detect it as a bot, but theres no point in doing that since youtube is dumb anyway
@@antonryelund7344 It's best not to @ bots. I think they can track your activity on CZcams if you do. Idk, just something I heard, but I think it's probably true.
@Ethan Jordan yeah i agree
I mean all about the ancient city and the warden is bc of how scary and amazing it is AND bc of lore
Swamp revamp and the mangrove swamps is just cool in nature but has no lore
Your videos have made me decide: I'm going to fix the ruins and finish what the Ancient Builders started.
Thank you for this motivation.
Also, I just had a thought: what if the Allays are a kind of souls? What if there is something connecting the Allays to the Warden? Can you look into this?
The allays do resemble the vexes. The allays could be failed attempts at summoning vexes
@BR_SAL FIRE 11 that’s what everyone else thinks.
@BR_SAL FIRE 11 yeah that’s what I said, I think the allays were failed vexes. Everyone else think the vexes were failed allays
@BR_SAL FIRE 11 you need to read more carefully next time
Considering allays were a mob vote, we could have gotten like the copper golem and then what would be the soul then? So I’m assuming allays are just there to be cute
My head cannon is that the ancient cities were built by ppl seeking immortality and built a portal to the afterlife (kinda like the nether is hell but instead just a death dimension where the souls go after passing) but instead of being able to go through the portal, the dimension spilled into the overworld and spread like fungus, feeding on the fresh souls of living things. The ancient builders decided to study this fungus and encouraged its growth, until the warden spilled out of the portal. A being whose sole purpose is to recapture and maintain souls in the dead dimension, it quickly did away with anything that moved or tried to run, sensing their living souls and eventually destroyed all the ancients. The random patches of skulk to me is just remnants of the portals opening and contaminating the overworld. Also, I just like the idea of a new dimension cus id love to see a new one! its been years lol
The warden is such a cool way of making players raid the ancient city the “intended” way instead of just cheesing it.
I'm still going to dump _ridiculous_ amounts of CGM shotgun shells into it when it turns up. 1.19 will learn I don't play Minecraft for survival horror or mechanical railroading.
@@JFirecracker have you dumped _ridiculous_ amounts of CGM shotgun shells into it when it turned up yet?
I mean I just pearl around the achient city summoning wardens left and right and using my totem’s of undying when they actually manage to touch me but like that doesn’t happen also if I feel like I will bow them easily and cheese it getting ez god apples
They actually explained that there was more for the ravenger way back when it was scared of rabbits but removed because it didn’t fit with the lore
This is interesting because there exists concept art of the Warden that includes an idea for the Warden: it being friendly towards bunnies.
@@TSwany The Ravager bullied the Wardens friends and got taught a lesson the hard way
@@TSwany so the ravager got beat to shit after it killed a bunny, got it
Ravager
@@minute0420 Certified Doomslayer moment
ok, so this one BIG problem, if the damage was caused by withers, then how come the stronghold was unaffected
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Probably because they built a portal and left, so the wither didn’t follow. They didn’t stick around in the same dimension
11:22 😂 the player looks like he’s a nerd being protected by a big guy 😂
Fun Fact: The sculk related things that have bone texture (Warden, catalyst, shrieker) are the only ones that relate to souls. Maybe sculk didn't have the power of turning souls/xp to itself at first and it was only able to detect vibrations, but when it spread to fossils of ancient creatures it got its powers.
(Btw sculk also has he sense of touch, because when you place/break a block on sculk the sensor will get activated even if there is wool on the way.
The name 'Warden' now comes together in three ways!
1. The Warden as it is to its creator, the sculk with the purpose to guard the catalyst and assist in its growth of sculk infestation by killing everything that is alive.
2. The Warden as to the ancient builders who utilised and worshipped it as it guarded themselves against the dangers that caused their extinction and to kill intruders.
3. The Warden as to the illagers and the player who explore Deep Dark, for them it is guard of the treasure left behind by ancient civilization. (Though this time the Warden does not help...)
12:23 I'd argue that hopefully it is a new dimension?
Hopefully. The early file data (whatever it's called) calls them portals. I really want another dimension and I'm sure many other do
5:34 also a good note is that redstone itself is natural, so perhaps there's an in-universe interaction there, or a coincidence where they both use the same types of signals
11:33 the wither is way too weak to drive them beneath ground, i've said this before and i'll say it again. its a boss mob that doesn't even spawn naturally, and in the Mobeastiary, a book _by Mojang_ it says it was summoned by a few foolish adventurers who fought it and eventually defeated it. if a handful of adventurers defeated it so could an entire species.
Thank you, I'm glad someone finally pointed out that one wither couldn't wipe out a species.
also, the warden was not planned to have a ranged attack until recently (confirmed by kingbdogz). Therefore disproving this entire theory.
hmm makes sense but what if the wither was a stronger mob back then? you have a solid point you please tell me if im wrong
@@thetruetrident getting to meele phase is easy. After that, they might have used the Warden, because phase 2 is harder, espacially on Bedrock Minecraft.
what if mojang adds another powerful boss mob ?
This actually makes sense as in the early concept art of the warden others look like withers as if they were trying to make something similar to the wither to protect them.
I agree
This is actually the biggest proof right here
Those are just concepts, concepts aren't canon
0:31 game theory
I personally like the theory that the ancient cities were giant enchanting centers, using the Wardens as giant 'soul batteries'.
I also love how all these clues also tie in to the gameplay, like you find snowballs in chests and you can use them to distract the warden yourself, or how there are carpet pathes so you dont have to sneak for 10 minutes just to get to the other edge of the city
I remembered this video after seeing LTN’s post about making a machine to kill the warden and apparently harming potions HARM the warden meaning the warden is an alive mob and not undead.
And don’t forget the warden is alive because it has souls too so it does make sense
The devs said its alive
You can kill the warden with a trap where it is trapped in water, with thousands of health potions. It’s undead, so it takes damage from healing arrows/potions. It is alive but undead
@@AmethystAster9 I thought it was eventually fixed and no longer considered an undead mob?
Assuming it only uses bones for its "structure" just like the reinforced deepslate blocks which have the same bone texture on them
It elad to think bones are just part of the structure while the thing itself is sculk, so its kinda alive and not undead, its made out of some reamnent of dead but himself isn't undead
I remember watching this video back when I first started playing minecraft, and I still thought bedrock edition was the "main" version of minecraft, and it's so weird to look back at that time... I just recently found your channel again because of a video by Parrot! I'm so glad I found that video too! Keep it up!
this guy creates the most vivid detailed stories that are kind of sad, from a game i didnt even thought had lore. bravo
Bro never watch GameTheory's minecraft lore intact the only reason he know about ancient builders is cus of MatPat(GameTheory)
Wifies: "you know what both of these statues also resemble?"
My brain at 2am: AMOGUS
get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head
so quirky
AMOGUS
Nobody laughs at among us anymore bro. morbius is funny now. Get with the times 😂
@@t-eehee7057 Ikr, this ain't funny at all
Just saying he is insane at finding lore that we don’t even need the Minecraft movie when we have Wifies and Seawattgaming
How does seawattgaming help the lore?
@Sidеmеn Shorts 🅥 like his "lore" is just absolute nonsense hoenstly
@@ItIsJan no its just a story
@@ItIsJan his older vids had actual lore
Matpat says hello
Here's a theory: What if the builders fled underground to escape the zombie apocalypse and a wither they made and then found the deep dark, where they built an ancient city and sacrificed axolotls from any nearby lush caves so that the axolotls were turned into wardens to protect the builders from any undead that dared enter the city. And yes I completely agree with how the wardens were formed. Piles of axolotl bones and souls (souls were held in shriekers) held together loosely by sculk. But the wardens weren't enough. Other hostile mobs, like withers were getting in and slowly diminishing the population. So the builders made a portal in the center of the city with deepslate pathways leading up to it, made to purposefully attract the warden. Why? Because the builders needed experience energy for enchantments to fight off the mobs. That is the main purpose of the warden. They would lead a warden up to the portal and it would somehow activate the portal through sacrifice of a player or something stronger... like a wither. A player would lead a wither and a warden to the portal where they would fight and the warden would win, resulting in the portal opening to a dimension entirely sculk where the builders could get all the enchantments and xp they wanted. There was probably a block in that other dimension that was unbreakable and the builders couldn't bring back that enchanted their items. But the wardens weren't exactly cooperative with the builders and they killed anything that made noise. Mobs or builders. Later after the builders all died the pillagers found the ruins and set up camp there to continue the ancient builder's operations but it wasn't too long after that the same thing happened to them.
woah
are you notch in desguise or something?
I was thinking that the warden killed all the population in the city, and became sculk blocks, or that maybe the population discovered a new portal with reinforced deepslate, and attempted to escape through the portal, abandoning the city and become as we know it now. But what I am sure is that the people that did this cities traveled through the nether before, because of the soul sand under the portal, also theres some basalt blocks in the city, maybe the people who did the nether portals are the same people who built the city. In case the structure at the center of the city is not a big statue of the warden and its a portal, I think this people maybe had elytras because there is no stairs to go up, or maybe is a statue just because of that fact.
Nonsense
1. No elytras are found in the city, or membranes to fix them up; moreover horse gear, stairs, ladders and pathways suggest ground movement was modus operandi
2. Basalt can be made via lava, soul soil and blue ice (all available or indirectly acquireable from local pools, campfiring soul sand from barracks/portal underside or hacked off icebox storage)
3. Nether portal gold-filled loot doesn't remotely connect to ancient city loot that lacks any gold outside of enchanted apples, any flints, conventional tools other than hoes
4. Soul sand may be possible to create artificially but technology has been lost; like echo shard, swift sneak, enchanted golden apple, music disc, horse armor manufacturing technology was lost
5. Neither ready-to-use obsidian nor any nether portal housing structure is found in ancient cities
6. City is filled to brim with statues resembling warden head, including big central one; for whatever reason denizens liked or revered the warden rather than seeing it as existential threat.
My theory - wardens were friendly to city denizens, who for protection memorialized wardens via statues
Wardens could only tell friend from foe by smelling them; wool, swift sneak and snowballs were developed as methods of tagging enemies and hiding allies from sound detection;
Denizens also had very advanced soul-related technology and could manufacture soul sand/soil, manipulate sculk very well (and develop related technology), and had some means of tampering with death itself considering echo shards and their use for compasses.
Denizens however were massacred by illagers (evidence: camps, towers, bridges seen in the city); player character is outlying descendant of the civilization with only partial knowledge and unfamiliar scent to wardens.
Possibly allays are another shred of old civilization, given how amethysts, being present as loot solely in ancient cities, are used to duplicate them (again time made their scent unfamiliar to wardens)
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Game Theory at home;
Game theory at home is pretty good ngl
@@bfrxcrpgfhanzux Arguably better than the "Real" stuff. Narrator sound more humble.
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Ngl game theory fell off a bit, some of the new theories make no sense
I remember once hearing something about the lore of the updates going backwards.
After all those sacrifices to the warden, there's nobody to wake him up so the withers destroy the city. [1.19 --> 1.18]
Something like a force destroyed the world and you travel back in time to look for hints and strenght to stop that force from destroying everything.
right and what crazy machine made it so that all the caves under y0 disappeared
If there is a new dimension created this could still line up with the other lore ideas. All you’d have to change is that the builders who stayed on the surface were successful in making a portal to a new dimension which led to the endermen and the player. The others that went down to build the ancient cities were able to build a portal but decided to stay due to the protection the warden provided and the the rest of the video would fit in just fine.
My personal theory is that the sculk is small leaks from another dimension, like how the random nether portals you find around the world have netherite and lava around them. The ancient builders found these sculk infections naturally growing in the deep dark. The ancient builders then made these city’s in order study the sculk and experiment with it and find out what it is and where it came from, but this was before the sculk absorbed enough souls to make shriekers. Now that the skulk had more living beings around dying either from killing mobs, mobs killing the builders, or builders dying of old age it was able to make the shriekers and summon the warden where it attacked the builders. It was only then that they started using wool to line their floors to keep quiet. It was also possible that some began to worship the skulk and make it into a religion like the unitoligists in dead space and make sacrifices or ritual suicides because they thought of it as a next step of human evolution and to become a hive mind of souls, that would explain all the candles covering the area and why the portal is set in the middle of the city like an alter. Eventually they were able to figure out how to make that giant portal to where the sculk comes from and all the worshippers went through only for it to close and never be seen again. As for the rest of them/non believers they either went through the portal due to curiosity, killed by the warden, or just left. I prefer this theory because I’m tired of the old “oh they built this to hide/fight the wither” theory. I like to think that the builders weren’t all just one United nation and rather there were multiple tribes I guess you can call them. Like there are the ones did the desert temple and ones who did the jungle temple and the ones who did the nether fortress and the ones who did the ocean temples and ones who did underground stuff like the mine shafts and this ancient city stuff. But I 100% believe the pillagers making the zombie virus theory.
With the release of 1.19, shriekers and sensors can be activated by other mobs. Still, a very interesting theory. Perhaps the warden had always been there and fed off of the death it caused to any unfortunate mobs that wandered into its lair. When the builders arrived, they built the city and worshipped it, using its sense of sound to protect them from the dangers outside like the wither or the undead plague that was spreading like wildfire on the surface (as proposed by RetroGamingNow).
Aside from that, pretty solid theory!
I kinda find it really funny that mojang acknowledged that the snowballs felt out of place in the loot tables, really tried to do something else, but in the end they couldn't come up with a better alternative and just ended up adding a new room that justifies the existence of snow instead.
theory : the ancient city was actually inhabited by mysterious warden like creatures that I would call Sculklings. Sculklings consider this home but when the ancient builders discovered this. They raided and looted the ancient cities and they fought a brutal war which was The Sculk War , The ancient builders won and only some. of the Sculklings survived and were forced to evacuate and leave their ancient city and those who survived evolved into what we now know as The Warden. The Warden is hostile to us because we look like the ancient builders who destroyed their home. 2 years after the ancient builders raided the ancient cities. The mass extinction event happened and the ancient builders died. Also the reason of the shriekers is because it was a defense mechanism and was left there because ancient builders didnt know how to get rid of it without summoning the warden. Also the snowballs in the chest prove they were at a war. Look at the animation of the warden , Its like it is injured. Possibly the shriekers summon the same warden over and over again and when it keep getting summoned. They fought and the warden got injured
What if the ancient builders lit the ‘portal’ and left to another dimension to escape the wither and the warden stayed behind to protect the leftover structures. This could mean the wither breached the ancient city and all the ancient builders left in a hurry leaving behind some items which we see today in the chests. Skulls also can be found around the ancient cities meaning some ancient builders didn’t leave in time. And finally, the warden could be blind from a fight with the wither. But that means the wither left without killing the warden. Meaning it could come back a second time….
Imagine if mojang adds a new dimension in the future, we can see our first look at the ancient builders or something like that?
The fact that this is all in the overworld is scary enough, I can only imagine what a new dimension would hold. But regardless, wonderful video!
He's advancing,guys. He's getting too smart. Soon,he'll be able to use 50% of his brain. Worst of all,he'll solve the mystery of where my dad went. He must be stopped.
I can tell you where your dad went, he’s just searching for the perfect milk to pair with the cigarettes he went to get
@@smartaleckduck4135 who the devil pairs milk with cigarettes,what sort of taste does it even have
Umm smoky milk… I guess it smells like camping
Your dad when he finally comes back from getting the milk:
wait a goddamn minute...
Hi Wifies,
I love to watch your game theory videos.
Just wondering, does the Ancient Wither have anything to do with the painting of a wither? Then if so, an ancient builder must've travelled to the nether before anyone else and came back and painted a picture of the Ancient Wither. Then a few generations later, someone finds out how to go to the nether (and the Ancient Wither has died by then) and finds the soul sand and wither skulls, then saw the painting of a wither and created a wither.
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Is that pair of candles floating (bottom left)
Ancient City: Whoooo I'm being released and I'm gonna be a whole city!
End City: Don't get excited. Mojang doesn't know what a city means.
Ancient City: *actually a city*
End City: HEY NO FAIR
My personal theory is that, following what you said, that the Warden is an amalgamation of bones, skulk, and souls. The shrieker seems to be where the souls to power the warden come from. When something dies, the “soul” is used for it. Also, the other theories talk about how the builders and evokers were interested in “soul technology”, so they could have stayed here to study it as well. Just my personal theory.
I don’t know if y’all know the book The City of Ember but the builders making the city there gave me such a solid connection
This has me so hyped for a new dimension in minecraft, i havent fr played it in forever but if they add a new dimension im definitely coming back
I think the name is important. Warden means “ a person responsible for the supervision of a particular place or thing or for ensuring that regulations associated with it are obeyed.”
Is it possible that the ancient cities are more like prisons, with the warden being a guard?
Hey, he has got a point
Next Update: Jails And Cops!!!!!!!
Watch out for that update on 10.7.23
Warden being a guard for the people of the town seem more likely considering the saunas. He was guarding them from the outside world. Perhaps the portal esq structure was a portal FROM somewhere... Would explain how the villagers and illagers are so different from the players - the player isn't native to Minecraft Overworld, just as MattPat theorized regarding the End Portals and Strongholds. The Ancient Cities are were the players' people came, Strongholds are were they left.
@@SlashCraftJack nice theory 👍
@@SlashCraftJack perhaps whatever the portal like structure came from is where the skulk actually came into the overworld? like it somehow crossed over into the overworld
Judging from the structures, I believe that it's a prison as well. Death row kind of prison if that makes sense. The guards are armed and protected. They even get saunas meanwhile the prisoners have to be sacrificed, and possibly even went insane and created their own mini shrines. Perhaps the main statue is also some sort of slave labor. It has some SCP vibes from this description.
Here's another interesting connection between the warden and the skulk shreikers: in order to summon the warden, you must activate a shreiker 3 times. The warden can be seen with 3 souls in its chest. Maybe for each time a shreiker gets activated, a soul is moved from the collection that the skulk has stored to the creation of a warden
Wow nice
Maybe he’s just tired and doesn’t want to get up
@@diogenes5850 its like when I don't wanna wake up when my brother knocks on my door and when he does it for a third time I get mad and throw something at him
I like the idea that the ancient builders were tampering with something they shouldn't have (like the portal maybe?) and when something came that they didn't expect, the sculk now covering the city is them. Of course, there were survivors trying to get out of there for a while thus the loot corresponding to the warden.
10:14 diamond in the top left
I feel like the AB Destroyer must be something less block-destroying and more dangerous than the Wither, because the landscape isn't broken and it's quite easy to kill the wither especially if your an entire socity
I think the theory is that the wither was alot stronger back then. That kinda explains the skeletons in the soul sand valleys. As for the lack of destroyed landscape... idk.
In fairness if the Destroyer happened ages ago the landscape has time to recover
@@markfreier7194 even stronger than bedrock wither? what difficulty are they playing on?
I started a channel long time ago... I put a lot of effort into my videos but never see much success :((( Anyways, nice video! I’ve been watching you for a very long time and your videos make me happier! :))))
@@markfreier7194 yeah, that gives. And maybe the ABs weakened it, universally
My takes on this video:
Most of the waterlogged skulks sensors are alone and doesnt seem to have been spreat, so i reckon the water was a way to resist and contain the skulk from spreading.
And the war part i think its "wrong", my take on it is that the warden and the builders didnt win and the whiter(s) destroyed the ancient cities, also killing the builders, and this explain the overgrowth of skulk in random areas
@Mela💋 no
I agree
Okay so is no one gonna acknowledge how chilling it is when Wifies talks about the sacrifices of the builders? Like thats great storytelling right there
I find the deep darks incredibly fascinating and theory videos like these make me think that maybe I can get interested in Minecraft 1.19. I might even work on my own theories regarding the souls in Minecraft.
Wifies: “Why would they set up camp next to such a dangerous mob, well-”
CZcams: *A D*
L I have yt premium
@@C4TB0T Pov: you caved in.
relatable
heh no, I use opera GX and have adBlocking software all over my WiFi network because I got tired of this happening
@Mela💋 consigue una vida
This is actually a very well thought out theory tbh, there are a lot of wither references so this theory fits in well
While you do have a good theory, I have one where the pillager and axolotl theory combines, so here’s my theory:
Because the ancient city has the same wool, and wood as the pillager mansion, I think the skulk and the warden are just mutated axolotls and coral and the souls are souls of pillagers. While the mansion was their home, the ancient city is their testing place
Bro when you started talking about sacrificing people to please the warden I was like, "oh it's gettin' dark now."
Random person: "Minecraft is a kid's game"
Mmm you sure about that buddy?
Seriously though, great video, as always. I love how detailed you are in explaining your thought processes. Can't wait to see if you were right!
Lol it doesn't feel like a kids games (just a bit)
@Mela💋 bots are the WORST
The story you've come up with is super spooky and interesting, and the narrative is also awesome! Mojang really wants us to dig deep and not be shallow, which is something you generally should do in your life.
Lol
This remembers me of subnautica
_WE NEED TO GO DEEPER_
Bro, I LOVE your lore videos!
OH MY the OST from Ordem Paranormal gave me the chills, it fits so well the narrative (btw there's a monster that resembles warden a lot in this RPG)
this breakdown is super detailed at first I thought it was a portal like most others but now I feel completely different about the lore behind the warden, I hope Minecraft dev's add more and more exciting and intriguing lore in the future updates.
What an incredible theory, I really think it's spot on in a lot of areas. I think the statue worshipping the Warden could still be a portal and go along with the core idea of this theory, though. Perhaps sculk came through the portal, or it was another attempt to flee into another dimension like the end? Disc 5 certainly seems to hint in it being a portal.
But yea, I really love this, thank you for exploring the lore in this way! I think it makes a lot of sense and is definitely very spooky. Don't forget, not just the wither, but the ancient human civilization was also facing a zombie plague that was seemingly threatening their kind as well, given the absolutely endless hordes of zombies we see today.
high as hell rn and watching this opened my whole mind bro love ur vids im subbing
I agree with this but I think the warden is actually protecting the ancient builders from the endersent. Its idle sound is heard right before the peaceful music section. This is possibly a forgotten battle that happened a millennia ago. The endersent was probably disrupted by the open of the portal and had to protect the end. Btw the pillagers probably came there to check out the area to study the structure hence the name “camp”. And from dungeons perspective, the enderlings and the endersent are probably extinct. Minecraft dungeons to me is the past of the Minecraft universe but in between. After the ancient builders went extinct but not as modern as Minecraft itself. So something happened that made the endersent disappear.
This update just has so much to offer… I can’t wait
I started a channel long time ago... I put a lot of effort into my videos but never see much success :((( Anyways, nice video! I’ve been watching you for a very long time and your videos make me happier! :))))
If only it was offering what it needs to in order to live up to its name...
Apart from the city centre not being a portal, and the whole overly sacrificial phase.
This is probably the best Warden theory so far.
He said it wasnt a portal, you deaf?
@@eeurr1306 yes I heard, I just don’t agree with that one part of his THEORY, he doesn’t write the official lore for the game.
And you don’t need to agree with every single aspect of a theory, it is possible to mix and match different aspect for it to make the most sense to you.
As for me, it really have a hard time believing that it’s not a portal, and how they all died because of sacrifices is a bit unlikely.
However like I said, the rest is basically the best I’ve HEARD when it comes to theories about the warden.
@@marxiplier4322 Well than I missunderstood your formulation it wasnt really clear.
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Alan Becker actually pokes at this in the Animation Vs Minecraft episode "The Warden" as the music that Orange plays through a flute reminds the Warden of the old villages that used to live there that it protected, with the warden basically being their Iron Golem(s).
This is very good you have made such a good point this could be a small breach through
16:30
you had the *perfect* opportunity for a jumpscare there and you missed it dude
a small detail in the texture of the cracked deepslate bricks is that it looks like theres punches in the center of the block. hence forth it may seem like the warden was attacking something but it may just be me who thinks that
This was told like a god damn legend bro. Someone needs to make an animation of the history of all of wifies’ wiftheory about the builders
i think of the Skulk as a hive mind of sorts, using the sensors as its ears and catalysts as ways to grow or repair. The warden is its defense mechanism.
The builders had a symbiotic relationship with it, where the Skulk protected the builders and the builders provider it with "food".
7:08 Finnaly someone said it! I was thinking the same thing when I saw the dark oak and birch bridges scattered around the ancient cities
when you asked why the people of the ancient cities didn't just leave, my immediate thought was to ask this question.
why are there many many human populations that exist in very deadly areas when they could just leave?
I know its not as simple as that
Truly amazing I love these types of videos
I think that there is a lot of lore, for one I think ancient builders were trying to study skulk, and maybe an axolotl got corrupted by the skulk and turned into the warden, or maybe there is more to that, the music disk 5 is called “Samuel Åberg” which may be the name of one of the people who created a red stone
An in the first place, or it could even be the researcher who recorded them when they were getting defeated by the warden. Maybe they were trying to make strong enough red stone ( powered by skulk) to re-light the portal on the middle. Also they could have gone to the deep dark to flee from something, and if they have observers in that reasearch lab there has to be a place where they went to the nether. Like then ruined portals. Also they had a lectern which,eans they had to get wood somewhere, and there was metal in the recording that sounded like an iron golem foot, maybe it was barracks ( this barracks idea was from another CZcamsr).
15:41 when you are talking about the warden being a protector, you missed that it can sniff. sorta ruins the entire consept.
I really like the ideas in this video.
I do think that it is a portal in the center. An attempt at an End Portal, that failed and then was decorated.
I also believe the shriekers are man-made. They were designed to summon a warden, mixing souls and skulk to create a beast to destroy the Wither (which was created long before the end of the Mojangians, contrary to popular belief).
Unfortunately, it turned against them. It had no eyes, just bones. It attacked everything it heard, destroying them easily. They tried appeasing it, but failed. It resulted in the deaths of all the people in the ancient cities who didn't escape. The deaths spread the skulk, which then covered the city.
Those who did escape and survive described what had happened. The ancient builders never returned beneath the deepslate layers. Many of them said they did not want to continue technology, since it could lead to many more meaningless deaths. The descendants of these are the villagers of today. (I'll stop now, so I don't end up going through the entire story.)
This is weirdly close to my own theory. Almost exactly. And everyone called me crazy. I guess we're both crazy.
The end portal is a horizontal facing greenish framed portal with a 3x3 block gap where the portal stuff is, the ancient city portal is a vertical facing grey-framed portal with who knows how big the gap in the middle is, I 100% doubt this theory
my theory is that the skulk isnt manmade nor natural, its not natural in the overworld, but natural in another dimension, the areas where they exist are rifts between our dimensions and the skulk managed to leak out when something dies in close proximity of this rift making the skulk go to our world, the ABs studied the skulk and the areas where it exists, found out it was from another dimension and found many applications in redstone and other things that they built their bases there for research, however it needed a sacrifice to make more specimens and skulk, this led them to try and make a portal to the skulk dimension so that they just have to go to the other side to harvest the skulk they need than get pigs and sheep, or their own to get some skulk,
Now the skulk had a defense system which uses the bones and souls of the dead to form golem like mobs to protect itself, now these arent like the ones we see today, i suspect that the rifts got their souls via mobs, maybe a spider died after falling from the ceiling of the cave, and due to the small amount of souls it got before the ancient builders, it could not fight back or can only spawn weak entities that too too much energy for so little, however due to the ABs, they fed the skulk enough souls and bones that it could make early versions of the warden, now this could have led to the downfall of the ABs, but i think not, as they could have used these early wardens (these wardens are weaker as not enough soul energy, yet) for defense and due to the vast carpets of the city,
Eventually they managed to open the portal, knowing that it wont be easy there and that the skulk may fight back due to the early wardens, they made the portal big to fit an army which was to set up camp for future operations and so that they wont lose too many people, but they greatly under estimated the power of the skulk in its home dimension, the army was killed and with all that new skulk energy and so much bones, well, a warden much stronger than what we have today came though the portal, so strong and so fierce that the ABs were massacred and with all that soul energy, overtook the city.
@@justawarper8397 This was an attempt at making a portal to the Void dimension (End), but it didn't work because, as you said, it's made completely wrong!
Eventually, of course, they succeeded in the Stronghold rooms which we now use ourselves.
@@Living_Murphys_Law I don’t know, but I feel like the building material would be more similar in the stronghold to the material in the ancient city.
you probably should talk about disc 5, it gets more
in-depth with the story of the wither, ancient builders and warden.
Bit of a design flaw to have a security system activated by ground contact against a monster that can fly.
theres one plothole in this theory though. why is the warden the same every time? if the collection of souls grew larger and larger according to your head canon then why didn't the warden change in appearance? you can summon the same warden with less than a dozen sculk blocks to hundreds of them
The same shrieker can spawn multiple wardens so when a warden is created, it's just a small collection of souls and bones from a much bigger pool of the dead
you dont want to spawn in a giant warden and use all of the limited soul energy you have, nor waste your soul energy for a weak golem that could easily be defeated by an intruder
Because...
Mojang wanted so.
(Love your redstone btw)
It kind of does look like a deformed axolotl too, there's so much to consider when theorizing. Glad to see you back at it again with the Game Theory style videos. This and the Vsauce style videos are my favorite.
It's pretty clear to me that they built those portals in hopes to escape the overworld but the portal they opened went to the 'otherside', home to to the skulk. The builders were pretty smart and studied the stuff and built cities designed to avoid alerting any skulk sensors that would spawn, then opened the portals. The cities were probably just giant labs to study the stuff that came through the portals to maybe devise a way to see if going through the portal was even worth trying since the nether and end were dead ends.
Would be nice if the otherside is introduced later as a real biome.
I agree with everything but the sacrifice part lol. I think that it would made more sense if wardens strengh and soul it's fuered by mobs since there's any other agressive mobs in this biome.
And the ancient civilization disappeared by constant wither attacks and withering poisoning and also warden accidents during construction and time living there.