Game Theory: The Forgotten War of Minecraft (Minecraft 1.19 Update)

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    With the Minecraft 1.19 update going up, I thought it was time to return to the mystery that is the sculk, the mysterious discs, and how they BOTH connect to the Warden. Today, we are focusing our eyes and ears on Disc 5. We are going way, WAY back in the history of Minecraft for this one, Theorists! Hold on to your diamond sword!
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  • @Memetastic
    @Memetastic 2 года назад +29113

    The reason why the ancient builders weren’t able to defeat the wither is because they forgot the combat system changed after the 1.9 update

    • @birdy9243
      @birdy9243 2 года назад +1

      @King Longface finally! Your dad's back with milk.

    • @Daltonisntabot
      @Daltonisntabot 2 года назад +600

      Wait it did? When? I'm playing on bedrock and it isn't really any different.
      Edit: Someone already explained the difference and that Bedrock didn't receive the update.

    • @Space_Shuttle
      @Space_Shuttle 2 года назад +73

      lmao

    • @ChefMonke07
      @ChefMonke07 2 года назад +235

      @@Daltonisntabot Yeah, Bedrock didn't exist when the old combat system was still used.

    • @night_hat4948
      @night_hat4948 2 года назад +132

      @@Daltonisntabot bedrock doesnt have a combat change its just java that has it

  • @sunday7984
    @sunday7984 2 года назад +8627

    Ancient Builders: We're saved! The Warden freed us!
    Warden & Skulks: We wouldn't say freed, more like... under new management!

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 2 года назад +6537

    From cave noises to Sculk shriekers, who knew that a simple block game could introduce the most disturbing noises ever.

    • @benito23453
      @benito23453 2 года назад +1

      MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео🇷🇺):...
      ruclips.net/video/eMvZPV5acww/видео.html

    • @benito23453
      @benito23453 2 года назад +2

      Ж

    • @benito23453
      @benito23453 2 года назад

      Ш

    • @p0p765
      @p0p765 2 года назад +80

      Now imagine if they added in ocean noises O.o

    • @reneejump4939
      @reneejump4939 2 года назад +6

      Yea well

  • @ASingleApe
    @ASingleApe 2 года назад +4106

    Consider this: When a mob dies near a Skulk Catalyst it spreads more skulk and ancient cities are covered in it. You could even say... a populations worth.

    • @aceofspades9640
      @aceofspades9640 2 года назад +383

      And the patches of skulk leading to the city are the remains of the dead builders and maybe even some dead wardens

    • @superstarbros1.0superstarb38
      @superstarbros1.0superstarb38 2 года назад +45

      Ooohh man

    • @ewangray8111
      @ewangray8111 2 года назад +90

      Or skulk could be a form of mold that festers from dead organisms, so yeah they could be the remains.

    • @MaximNinja01
      @MaximNinja01 2 года назад +46

      Makes sense there are skulls in the city

    • @BisexualPlagueDoctor
      @BisexualPlagueDoctor Год назад +28

      @@ewangray8111nope, you literally see the souls being absorbed lol

  • @Deck-of-Aces
    @Deck-of-Aces 2 года назад +5424

    Warden: drops sculk catalyst
    Players: That isn't very rewarding
    Matpat:LOREEEEEE

    • @TaMarvio2129
      @TaMarvio2129 2 года назад +97

      lore overload: self destructing in 5 seconds

    • @Nuala0808
      @Nuala0808 2 года назад +56

      Lore is mats only prize in the warden lol

    • @rebeccarosales5792
      @rebeccarosales5792 2 года назад +18

      Lukethenotoble:not worth risking my
      hardcore world

    • @limonlx7182
      @limonlx7182 2 года назад +38

      It's not supposed to be rewarding, because warden isn't supposed to be killed.

    • @brandontaylor6677
      @brandontaylor6677 2 года назад +2

      Mmmm. Sweet juicy lore

  • @fityfat
    @fityfat 2 года назад +1802

    Anyone else gonna mention how the soul fire under the “portal” helps keep the biome contained since mojang made a feature where sculk can not spread past soul fire. coincidence? I think not!

    • @rahemeenimran8583
      @rahemeenimran8583 2 года назад +168

      Maybe the ancient builders used it to close the portal

    • @kitkat25195
      @kitkat25195 2 года назад +97

      Yeah, to prevent more wardens from coming, they tried to block it.

    • @Nerium_Oleander13
      @Nerium_Oleander13 2 года назад +72

      Which means that's the reason why the portal is not open anymore

    • @Dual2212
      @Dual2212 2 года назад +68

      @@rahemeenimran8583 that would also explain y the warden went through the portal
      Not only is it incredibly strong but its also immune to fire (not sure if it's immune to soul fire tho)
      Maybe the warden wasn't a failed experiment by the ancient builders but a conquering experiment from creatures on the other side (like precursors and kiju from Pacific rim)
      The warden was sent through bc it can withstand this world and its death helps terraform this world into something more inhabitable for this unknown species

    • @QuinnOfGilead
      @QuinnOfGilead 2 года назад +15

      Nice also the only light sources are soul fire related objects

  • @ToaDrakua
    @ToaDrakua 2 года назад +2918

    The "sirens" are probably goat horns being used as a signal, likely for whomever is on the other side of the door to pull the lever and open it up. The "Phantoms" are also probably the Wither, given the pitch and tone.

    • @Endonium1
      @Endonium1 2 года назад +101

      Before this video I thought those sirens were the warden but this actually makes a lot of sense cause they're new additions

    • @CrystalWings12
      @CrystalWings12 2 года назад +19

      This makes more sense, ngl.

    • @calebadam2576
      @calebadam2576 2 года назад +33

      If I recall correctly there's a chance for the Redstone experiments door underneath the portal to require a loud noise to be played in order for it to open for a moment. Could be related.

    • @calebadam2576
      @calebadam2576 2 года назад +9

      @just i c e Don't spam.

    • @PotatoTimeYT
      @PotatoTimeYT 2 года назад +13

      I don't know. To me, the 'Phantom sounds' sound a lot like walking or breaking soul sand to me.

  • @raslunari8666
    @raslunari8666 2 года назад +5266

    You know, that would explain why End portal is positioned as it is. It's set so anything that comes from the other side falls down into lava to prevent another breach like the Warden.

    • @jestfullgremblim8002
      @jestfullgremblim8002 2 года назад +189

      I think that they would not actually just fall on lava. It all depends on the direction you enter it from and how much momentum you have, right?

    • @chasecorner8392
      @chasecorner8392 2 года назад +330

      Gotta disagree. We know the two things needed to make a portal are dense blocks (end portal blocks) and heat/energy. The lava was meant as a means of lighting it

    • @Sandra-zu4ff
      @Sandra-zu4ff 2 года назад +96

      though, the warden is immune to lava and fire damage

    • @Hund335
      @Hund335 2 года назад +129

      @@Sandra-zu4ff well they probably didnt research the warden and thought lava should do the trick

    • @Nhatanh0475
      @Nhatanh0475 2 года назад +62

      @@Hund335 Like we used to do till realize Lava does nothing.

  • @RoebuckGarrett
    @RoebuckGarrett 2 года назад +2843

    Mojang: *"Opening the Warden Portal is a bad idea."*
    Mod Makers: *"That Sign can't stop me because I can't read."*

    • @solalabell9674
      @solalabell9674 2 года назад +123

      There’s literally already a deeep dark dimension mod making that portal work for it is just natural

    • @vtvortex2546
      @vtvortex2546 2 года назад +65

      “That’s a lot of words, to bad I ain’t reading them”

    • @justarandomalt255
      @justarandomalt255 2 года назад +8

      Is it just me or are we ignoring that mojang said that thing isn't a portal

    • @Zaxster_-3-
      @Zaxster_-3- 2 года назад +11

      @@justarandomalt255 did they though?

    • @dextreme7186
      @dextreme7186 2 года назад +15

      Trust me, it's basically gonna be the Deep End

  • @goldencyanrod64
    @goldencyanrod64 2 года назад +5049

    Dang, it just shows us that even if the end was a bad place to be in, if the warden is that powerful, that new dimension must be extremely dangerous. If they went through the portal, it most definitely would have killed them.

    • @thedragonwarrior5861
      @thedragonwarrior5861 2 года назад +142

      Aye, they wouldn't have lasted a month, and even that's with a lot of preparation

    • @zombifiedpariah7392
      @zombifiedpariah7392 2 года назад +229

      Imagine The Warden is powerful enough to kill the Wither AND kill off an entire race of ancient demigods all by himself but he's STILL one of the WEAKEST things in his home dimension...😱

    • @ashenshield1712
      @ashenshield1712 2 года назад +118

      @@zombifiedpariah7392 or maybe the sculk is one of the more powerful things in the dimension, since it's invasive it probably has a fairly strong foothold in that dimension

    • @monkiehater445
      @monkiehater445 2 года назад +66

      @John Spoelder the whole video is proof that its a portal

    • @bunniotomia
      @bunniotomia 2 года назад +62

      @@ashenshield1712 Maybe 🤔. It brings to question did that world start off normal too and the sculk just evolved to create and summon an OP mob boss for protection or are there things worse in that world that the Warden needed to be that strong to fight against whatever it was summoned for?

  • @hecker69
    @hecker69 2 года назад +15481

    A block game with this much lore

  • @parkerproductions4124
    @parkerproductions4124 2 года назад +450

    To further the theory of the sculk being sentient, I noticed that if you listen close to the audio of breaking the sculk, you can almost hear a scream

    • @DoggosGames
      @DoggosGames Год назад +54

      Maybe the sculk is sentient because it's absorbed and torn apart souls mixed into a parasitic lifeform?

    • @wolflarntz7970
      @wolflarntz7970 11 месяцев назад +11

      I agree with both of you
      I think the Skulk is from another dimension where it's a hivemind. It got taken over into the Overworld while the portal is open and started to get experimented on so it started to act to protect itself and try to grow stronger which lead to the creation of the Warden as a last ditch effort to do that @@DoggosGames

  • @starsilverinfinity
    @starsilverinfinity 2 года назад +2796

    This theory makes alot more sense when you consider that ruined Nether portals seem to have bits of the Nether seeping in around them, implying portals left open long enough will begin to transmutate the world around them into the world within (I imagine the reasons player portals dont is due to age/Mojang not wanting peoples builds ruined by such a thing)

    • @LukiKruki
      @LukiKruki 2 года назад +68

      Ehem, the ruined Nether portals, Bastion remnants and zombified Piglins is what left of Piglin-Village war from the new game Minecraft Legends

    • @starsilverinfinity
      @starsilverinfinity 2 года назад +157

      @@LukiKruki That doesnt exactly contradict my point that stuff can come out of the nether portal (and other portals) and corrupt the landscape, does it?

    • @nevanada2961
      @nevanada2961 2 года назад +65

      @@LukiKruki there's no way to definitively say which games are and aren't canon to the main Minecraft "lore" (If they even have a set story.) Likely none of it, as the games they make could all be considered spin-offs.
      The definition of a spin off according to Merriam-Webster is, "something that is imitative or derivative of an earlier work, product, or establishment". These games, such as Legends and Dungeons are imitative in the sense that they replicate the art style, by using the same assets, and are derivative due to their origin being from Minecraft. Spin-off do normally take place in the same universe/world of the previous media, but can often be like marvel's "What if" in which they are a non-canon hypothetical event.
      All that aside, the fact that dungeons uses mobs not in Minecraft means that there's an evident divide between the two. Similarly, the trailer for Legends uses several creatures not in Minecraft. For these games to be canon to whatever semblance of lore there is, things would need to be a lot more uniform

    • @meemeleem
      @meemeleem 2 года назад +24

      ngl this would be so cool as a toggleable option, kinda like terraria

    • @preciousmariepenuliar209
      @preciousmariepenuliar209 2 года назад +33

      It can also be that the reason the player portals doesn't do it is because the other world itself is not as powerful as it used to be

  • @DuoHaptism
    @DuoHaptism 2 года назад +1342

    This would also explain the lava pool under a horizontal portal. They learned a vertical portal could let stuff out, a horizontal anything came out would go right into the lava, and not be able to escape.

    • @vivianm1204
      @vivianm1204 2 года назад +123

      But that thought process likely also got them trapped because they can’t walk back into a horizontal portal that they dropped down from, they couldn’t fly until they got their hands on dragon wings. Maybe that’s why they wanted the dragon wings?

    • @fadistrauss4523
      @fadistrauss4523 2 года назад +27

      Omg that's so genius

    • @opreacodrut8011
      @opreacodrut8011 2 года назад +5

      i don t quite get it, perhaps i m not imagining it right could you explain this more? i can t see how their shape changes anything

    • @DuoHaptism
      @DuoHaptism 2 года назад +38

      @@opreacodrut8011 vertical portal: “|” up and down
      Horizontal portal: “_” flat on the ground.
      It not so much shape as in build orientation.

    • @opreacodrut8011
      @opreacodrut8011 2 года назад +2

      @@DuoHaptism i know what vertical and horizontal means i just can t see how it changes anything in functionality

  • @RomaniFenix
    @RomaniFenix 2 года назад +2989

    Disk 5 serves as a warning about opening a new portal.
    Modders: So I took offence to that and built a whole new world based on that theory

    • @manpersonthehuman2681
      @manpersonthehuman2681 2 года назад +156

      Disk 5: Says what happens when you add new dimensions
      Aether supporters: I'll ignore that.

    • @CeraphineLuna
      @CeraphineLuna 2 года назад +48

      Modders are doing gods work lol

    • @yunyang9532
      @yunyang9532 2 года назад +7

      @@CeraphineLuna nice pun

    • @KitTheAnkafolk
      @KitTheAnkafolk 2 года назад +5

      @@manpersonthehuman2681
      Aether for life

    • @carlycchapman
      @carlycchapman 2 года назад +4

      LMAO did they really? If no one has yet, I kinda want a modder to make a mod for 1.19 that gets you to the dimension the Warden is from.

  • @DVCMiller
    @DVCMiller 2 года назад +223

    Its interesting to think that the builders didn't escape to the end to escape the wither; but rather because the thing that killed it was coming for them too. It adds in an entire section of story in between the 2 main theories

  • @sealink129
    @sealink129 2 года назад +593

    A fun little detail or two: a warden at partial health is able to fight and defeat the wither without dying, and unlike every other mob that requires the skulk sensors to detect movement/vibrations, the moment the wither is being summoned, the warden immediately attacks, even when the wither has yet to move or even act (though it’s mere presence does set off the sensors)

    • @dashyburd
      @dashyburd 2 года назад +4

      idk about that, the few times I pit a Warden against a Wither it didn't go so hot for the Warden. But if it managed to get the Wither down to half health and keep it there so it would go melee then it was over for the Wither. Unless that happens, the Wither just kept flying right above the big guy bombarding it constantly till it died. It's mostly because the Warden waits to get angry enough before shooting the sonic booms.

  • @cybo_vampire9145
    @cybo_vampire9145 2 года назад +1909

    Here's another point to make. Consider this: the most common animals and lifeforms in an ecosystem are plants and prey. It has to be this way due to the concept of entropy (as you've talked about in the past). If the warden came from another dimension and considering how easy it is to spread, it may suggest that the Skulk and the Warden are not near the top of whatever food chain exists on the other side, as well as how quickly the warden passed through. If the portal opening briefly was enough for the Warden to immediately cross through, it suggests that it's near the bottom of that world's food chain, hence why it was able to find the portal so easily. It didn't need to find it cause it's so prevalent in its world. If the Warden's native dimension becomes accessible, I expect to find a world that is far too dangerous for anyone, to survive, putting other dimensions like the Nether and the End to shame in terms of deadliness.

    • @nealio6458
      @nealio6458 2 года назад +249

      Excellent logic! I’m forced to hold back my hopes, however, until the devs reopen the possibility of another dimension.

    • @universalisfan969
      @universalisfan969 2 года назад +180

      Now if that happens, Minecraft’s gonna have a new final boss, and I personally do not wanna know what that might be.

    • @PyroActive
      @PyroActive 2 года назад +20

      @@universalisfan969 red dragon maybe?

    • @darkreaper7256
      @darkreaper7256 2 года назад +77

      @@universalisfan969 maybe a skulk dragon

    • @henryrobert5917
      @henryrobert5917 2 года назад +179

      I like how you think, however here's a differing idea inspired by yours: we know the skulk is an invasive species. What if it took over its dimension, killing anything getting too close to its sensors, which provides it xp/souls to grow?
      Honestly we can't tell which could be correct. And they are not mutually exclusive. But yours does seem more interesting in terms of gameplay

  • @TheOrigamiGenius
    @TheOrigamiGenius 2 года назад +2486

    Minecraft community: The Warden is terrifying, kill it
    Mojang: Try not to kill it
    Warden: I'm just trying to protect my species

    • @Planet.Xplor3r
      @Planet.Xplor3r 2 года назад

      Well, the skulk is an invasive species if is theory is correct.

    • @idoodooo3988
      @idoodooo3988 2 года назад +79

      Redstone community: Makes a farm

    • @mygachaphase
      @mygachaphase 2 года назад +27

      @@idoodooo3988 also the red stone community: im so stupid

    • @SketchUT
      @SketchUT 2 года назад +11

      Warden: bro wtf did I do

    • @callmecei9246
      @callmecei9246 2 года назад +13

      The one bot in this comment doesn't think I won't report all 13 comments.

  • @tylerchristensen1484
    @tylerchristensen1484 Год назад +465

    I’m a 30-year-old man and this is my third Minecraft lore theory video in a row. It’s making me want to play Minecraft, but it’s Sunday and I’ve got work tomorrow.

    • @FlopgamingOne
      @FlopgamingOne Год назад +8

      sad

    • @trpororo5452
      @trpororo5452 Год назад +12

      Hey quick question! Did you ever get around to playing minecraft?

    • @tylerchristensen1484
      @tylerchristensen1484 Год назад +20

      @@trpororo5452 yeah and I hated how difficult it is.

    • @givemeadollar-k6o
      @givemeadollar-k6o Год назад +3

      @@tylerchristensen1484hey maybe you could try easy mode/peaceful mode also could you tell what was hard about it?

    • @tylerchristensen1484
      @tylerchristensen1484 Год назад +6

      @@givemeadollar-k6o Peaceful mode is boring to me.

  • @joshbenjiferrell5472
    @joshbenjiferrell5472 2 года назад +1986

    I feel like this also helps to explain the random silverfish spawned always in the end portal room, the silverfish would squeak and crawl around providing a distraction to mask the builder’s footsteps

    • @Lushy-Nights
      @Lushy-Nights 2 года назад +80

      *hmmm.. I should place a silverfish spawned in the deep dark..*

    • @dannyfoxboi
      @dannyfoxboi 2 года назад +15

      @@Lushy-Nights Too bad spawners and spawn-eggs aren't obtainable in survival mode.

    • @Lushy-Nights
      @Lushy-Nights 2 года назад +10

      @@dannyfoxboi itd be a creative mode thing ->-

    • @dannyfoxboi
      @dannyfoxboi 2 года назад +14

      @@Lushy-Nights I know, I didn't say it wouldn't be. All I said was that it's a shame you couldn't in survival- I didn't saying anything about creative.

    • @Lushy-Nights
      @Lushy-Nights 2 года назад +4

      @@dannyfoxboi -_-

  • @cyanproductions4517
    @cyanproductions4517 2 года назад +3278

    Here's a small theory: something interesting is that when killed Iron Golems don't spread skulk, this confirms that they are robots without a soul (something kind of well documented already) and makes me speculate that perhaps the real reason they built iron golems wasn't protection against miscellaneous threats but specifically as foot soldiers to fight the spreading skulk, something big and bulky enough to be able to take on wardens and something that couldn't make the skulk worse. In Disc 5 when we hear those soldiers mark we hear their footsteps they are all human footsteps, not even a little of the iconic iron golem walk sounds can be heard (the metallic footsteps are without a doubt player armor) which indicates to me that Golems were not built until after the wither attack ruined their civilization, it also goes to show they never learned their lesson about playing with life which ties into the idea that their downfall was caused by not really knowing their own limits.

    • @brummen_4520
      @brummen_4520 2 года назад +148

      This makes sence, tf

    • @benecrim1724
      @benecrim1724 2 года назад +44

      @@brummen_4520 sense*

    • @mrdoomguy345
      @mrdoomguy345 2 года назад +123

      this really makes sense i mean u can heal them with iron this means that they're robots

    • @danielstuart6455
      @danielstuart6455 2 года назад +15

      ye but the problem is neither do villagers

    • @ilovereadingwuxiaxianxiaat8994
      @ilovereadingwuxiaxianxiaat8994 2 года назад +44

      @@mrdoomguy345 Wait you can heal iron golems with iron?

  • @quagmoe7879
    @quagmoe7879 2 года назад +1069

    Given all we know about Minecraft lore now it really gives some “I am Legend/Last man on Earth” vibes. Steve/Alex, and the Villagers are the only survivors in a world of undead, the diseased, mutants, evil spirits, and abominations that come out at night.

    • @enhanceddeath
      @enhanceddeath 2 года назад +78

      The lack of ambient sounds and creatures also suggest the Wither was a mass extinction killing off practically all wildlife.

    • @UltraAryan10
      @UltraAryan10 2 года назад +49

      @@enhanceddeath Yep and passive mobs respawn so slowly compared to hostile mobs suggests how much more monsters there are compared to animals.

    • @p1tis485
      @p1tis485 2 года назад +4

      thats not wrong

    • @gachaacc662
      @gachaacc662 2 года назад +2

      And the best way to save them is to literally just block their doors at night

    • @HYDROCARBON_XD
      @HYDROCARBON_XD 2 года назад +4

      @@enhanceddeath only a few survived like some fish,some mollusk and arthropod (bees,squids,spiders,fireflies,silverfish and endermites,but endermites are from another dimension) chickens,,axolotl and frogs,also some mammals

  • @Dotexclamationmark
    @Dotexclamationmark 2 года назад +2545

    I hope they don't add a new dimension; instead I hope that add more invasive creatures coming through from that dimension. I WANT ELDRITCH HORROR IN MY CUBE GAME

    • @beardeddawg8509
      @beardeddawg8509 2 года назад +233

      It would be cool if we could go in that dimension, and we can explore the dimension and maybe even fight a new boss. I feel Minecraft is lacking on its bosses and mobs, maybe even we can have more added on to that dimension as the entities “warp” and evolve and we have to create new weapons to defeat them

    • @RZ302
      @RZ302 2 года назад +95

      Well I do hope they add a new dimension. There could be stuff coming from that portal if active anyway, just like zombified piglin come from active nether portals. But a sculk dimension with a boss fight themed around that would certainly help the game by setting another goal.

    • @rngnodal9316
      @rngnodal9316 2 года назад +2

      Lmfao

    • @heartfulharry2185
      @heartfulharry2185 2 года назад +34

      It's better to add the new dimension after some others mobs from the dimension. The lore of the dimension is huge ans epic, It would be cool if they add new one to explore also it would be really cool if they add more specialised weapons and armor

    • @nojuscat1583
      @nojuscat1583 2 года назад +10

      Just play terraria

  • @JetDarkKnight44
    @JetDarkKnight44 2 года назад +1412

    This actually explains why you can't find the wither that was summoned way back when, it was already defeated

    • @noahperkins4716
      @noahperkins4716 2 года назад +38

      That was something that I was wondering up until now

    • @wooow8543
      @wooow8543 2 года назад +3

      I think they made a few hundred withers

    • @breakfast.431
      @breakfast.431 2 года назад +51

      @@wooow8543 Few hundred? Highly unlikely. Since the wither was most likely to have killed its creators, I doubt anyone would want to summon more of this highly destructive being that is impossible to kill.

    • @asoggytaco
      @asoggytaco 2 года назад +2

      Or is there another at play, that summoned the wither to get rid of the builders?!

    • @scrublord2615
      @scrublord2615 2 года назад +15

      But it also makes me think maybe the players wither is an inferior version??

  • @gaidencastro9706
    @gaidencastro9706 2 года назад +535

    Ancient Builder 1: "How do we bring back the dead?"
    Ancient Builder 2: "Build a statue with their remains and give them two more heads?"
    Builder 1: "Let's try it!"

    • @JamesTheChronicler
      @JamesTheChronicler 2 года назад +28

      Builder 1: Uh...Bob?
      Bob: Yeah, Jimmy?
      Jimmy: I think we have a problem
      (Sees Wither destroying there city and blowing up the royal capital)
      Jimmy and bob: ...Sh*t.

    • @richela68
      @richela68 2 года назад +7

      Maybe the two extra heads where supposed to represent the devil and angle on their shoulders? It would explain why they are smaller than the head in the middle.

  • @FionaAnimatesBagels
    @FionaAnimatesBagels 2 года назад +791

    I know this one's a little obvious, but I love the environment storytelling of the skulk. It only spreads when exposed to death, and the sheer quantity of it around the ancient cities suggests something truly tragic.

    • @thecanadiandane7262
      @thecanadiandane7262 2 года назад +62

      Oof I didn’t even make the connection til you mentioned it. Haunting.

    • @UltraAryan10
      @UltraAryan10 2 года назад +33

      Probably a lot of them is from the hostile mobs that tried to invade the ancient city while the builders were still there. Hence why there are no hostile mobs spawning today in deep dark biomes.

    • @avicennaren1053
      @avicennaren1053 2 года назад

      as they flee the desperate builders trigger shriekers which summon the warden which then kills any living being in its hearing range?, those that didn't escape now part of the city they created and the being they brought to this world

    • @thetruetrident
      @thetruetrident 2 года назад +3

      @@UltraAryan10 there is a reason why no one is living in the cities nowadays.

  • @owlstar_cherryblossom8326
    @owlstar_cherryblossom8326 Год назад +67

    While I have been working on restoring an ancient city in Minecraft I noticed that skulk, if you look close enough at the texture, appears to have the souls of animals in it and it made me think that, along with how skill spreads, exp may be similar to soul remnant, and the warden may not be just a defence, but the way that skulk was able to cover a city leads me to believe that skill may be similar to a carnivorous plant, and the warden it's cool for gaining the exp it needs to spread

  • @wilsonweiseng6485
    @wilsonweiseng6485 2 года назад +513

    apparently his story checks out. a warden can actually tank a wither's attack and finish it before the final explosion takes it with it,and since they're in a cave system the warden could actually reach the wither without being carpet bombed. if im taking this correctly then the warden not only defeated the wither, but as it was taken out by the wither's final explosion it dropped the sculk block, which would explain why after the warden defeated the wither it didn't stayed long enough to be considered a threat by the ancient builders, and how it brought the sculk block into the city in the first place

    • @leonewashere
      @leonewashere 2 года назад +8

      I’m confused because with what I’ve seen, the warden can’t defeat the wither as long as the wither is flying. The warden’s range attacks aren’t powerful enough and don’t occur often enough to take down the wither, it dies before the wither actually comes down in its second phase.

    • @drakewahl7609
      @drakewahl7609 2 года назад +33

      @@leonewashere But in a cave, the wither wouldn't be able to fly away.

    • @tanimation7289
      @tanimation7289 2 года назад +1

      @@Physicalplxne What do you mean?

    • @DatJaneDoeArchive
      @DatJaneDoeArchive 2 года назад +8

      ​@@tanimation7289 Mojang added a shockwave ranged attack to the Warden. Ever since it was added the Warden can solo a Wither

    • @tanimation7289
      @tanimation7289 2 года назад +1

      @@DatJaneDoeArchive Wow. So is it possible for them to make another kind of world (as in another Nether World)?

  • @boazburger3846
    @boazburger3846 2 года назад +1262

    its also a possibility that the ancient builders were split in groups, and some groups built ancient cities with a giant portal to escape, but perished because of the sculk, and another group built the strongholds, with the end portal, but got trapped in the end. They aren't necessarily 1 group.

    • @planderlinde1969
      @planderlinde1969 2 года назад +118

      I wonder how exactly they tested these inter dimensional portals. I imagine they would tie a lead to one guy have him stick his upper body through the portal then ask him "Are you dead?" "What's on the other side?"

    • @oddbirdMusic
      @oddbirdMusic 2 года назад +60

      I like this theory. Multiple different things going on at once.

    • @casualsleepingdragon8501
      @casualsleepingdragon8501 2 года назад +21

      That would explain why they didn't lay down carpet

    • @SpadesG
      @SpadesG 2 года назад +2

      Every infinite world has 3 strongholds too. So would every world have 3 wardens?

    • @larry5676
      @larry5676 2 года назад +3

      @@SpadesG no.
      there is inf warden per cities

  • @monikakavaliunaite8017
    @monikakavaliunaite8017 2 года назад +497

    Damn these ancient builders couldn’t catch a break, huh?
    Portal #1 : Hell
    Portal #2: Warden invasion
    Portal #3: End with no escape

    • @ChuckSploder
      @ChuckSploder 2 года назад +68

      Portal #1: Hell
      Portal #2: Warden invasion
      Portal #3: Doesn't exist because Valve can't count to 3

    • @Lyron279-i5t
      @Lyron279-i5t 2 года назад +5

      I fell dumb asking this and i feel like a boomer but who is Valve

    • @hakeemv6737
      @hakeemv6737 2 года назад +19

      @@Lyron279-i5t creators of a game called portal

    • @onepointtwo500
      @onepointtwo500 2 года назад +2

      @@Lyron279-i5t the developers of artifact

    • @ChuckSploder
      @ChuckSploder 2 года назад +8

      @@Lyron279-i5t They made Portal and Half Life, I think they also developed the Source engine and Steam

  • @Greasy2240
    @Greasy2240 2 года назад +469

    It would be awesome if in the future you could activate the portal and then something just absolutely awful comes out. Like a new boss mob.

    • @modranklob5085
      @modranklob5085 2 года назад +34

      A mod does a similar thing, the mod Deeper and Darker adds a new dimension that you can enter through that unused portal by killing the warden, go check it out!

    • @Jude724
      @Jude724 Год назад +26

      Uhhhh idk man I’m just a villager

    • @Glacorite
      @Glacorite Год назад +10

      Since we already have the Ender Dragon Respawn Mechanic,
      I'm quite confident that they could create this new boss one day!

    • @xavierthomas5835
      @xavierthomas5835 Год назад +3

      How strong would the boss of the warden be? Ridiculously strong

  • @unknownvariable9239
    @unknownvariable9239 2 года назад +2117

    Builder 1: “Remember when we built a creature out of bones and souls that is causing our extinction?” Builder 2: “Yeah what about it?” Builder 1: “Let’s do it again”

  • @FufflesTheLion
    @FufflesTheLion 2 года назад +1023

    This actually solves everything;
    Why the city is covered in sculk and wool, why the portal is unlightable, the motivation, the shapes, it all makes sense

    • @peacefulchild2570
      @peacefulchild2570 2 года назад +29

      It can also explain why the Enderman are smart enough to pick up and place blocks. Those Enderman could be the Ancient Builders who were transformed in the End; Possibly by the Ender Dragon.

    • @FairyCRat
      @FairyCRat 2 года назад +20

      @@peacefulchild2570 that's actually what MatPat's first Minecraft lore theory was about

    • @paquitotorrrijas6292
      @paquitotorrrijas6292 2 года назад

      *#SI**ruclips.net/video/EdEGPw516mM/видео.htmlесли** порorcoño* 👇

    • @paquitotorrrijas6292
      @paquitotorrrijas6292 2 года назад

      *#SI**ruclips.net/video/EdEGPw516mM/видео.htmlесли** порorcoño* 👇

    • @paquitotorrrijas6292
      @paquitotorrrijas6292 2 года назад

      *#SI**ruclips.net/video/EdEGPw516mM/видео.htmlесли** порorcoño* 👇

  • @Ralyx0
    @Ralyx0 2 года назад +698

    Let's all take a moment to appreciate the true hero of this story: the absolute madlad who was running around recording all of this on a music disk.

    • @PhysicsChan
      @PhysicsChan 2 года назад +52

      _damn_
      Never thought of that

    • @Super_saucy_bros
      @Super_saucy_bros 2 года назад +25

      Yes let’s commend him for his work

    • @benito23453
      @benito23453 2 года назад

      MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео🇷🇺):...
      ruclips.net/video/eMvZPV5acww/видео.html

    • @uncanny3637
      @uncanny3637 2 года назад +38

      They have advanced technology to make portals to other dimensions and weapons but they can't make a simple camera to record stuff.

    • @Daltonisntabot
      @Daltonisntabot 2 года назад +13

      @@uncanny3637 Minecraft bedrock had a picture camera. It's gone now.

  • @GhostHauntingz
    @GhostHauntingz Год назад +44

    12:46 is officially the COOLEST part of the audio omfg i love the sounds of reversed glass breaking and the soul's echoey whispering

  • @anchovybushwack472
    @anchovybushwack472 2 года назад +523

    I seriously love the direction this game is heading

    • @rockiecraft
      @rockiecraft 2 года назад +23

      Bro these bots are getting so annoying

    • @zer0-26-0
      @zer0-26-0 2 года назад +5

      @@rockiecraft ikr

    • @KeitieKalopsia
      @KeitieKalopsia 2 года назад +5

      I don’t think much about Minecraft lore, but when I do look into it, I find awesome stuff like this disc and the possible origins of sculk! This game really is feeding the lore pigeons!

  • @Zet22.
    @Zet22. 2 года назад +1329

    I used to think that Because the Wither is gone why won't they just get out from the underground and just leave the Warden behind, But until i realised that the virus thing is still going on so they can't

    • @UltraAryan10
      @UltraAryan10 2 года назад

      The next 'intelligent' species to evolve would have a big nose to survive the virus!

    • @CatFIB
      @CatFIB 2 года назад +2

      Jir Bang Jet22

    • @JeremyLionell5
      @JeremyLionell5 2 года назад +2

      Awokawok, Abang orang indo, nyasar ke channel bule

    • @animationcity8178
      @animationcity8178 2 года назад +16

      What is that virus thing?

    • @Travminer123
      @Travminer123 2 года назад +13

      @@animationcity8178 sculk

  • @slushylemming1321
    @slushylemming1321 2 года назад +1160

    Who else wants this to be animated?
    Just imagine the warden jumping out of the portal and punching the wither in mid air.
    That would be awesome.

    • @manwithgun9768
      @manwithgun9768 2 года назад +18

      Bro that would be amazing

    • @manwithgun9768
      @manwithgun9768 2 года назад +49

      @Fezerved [Best videos] pov: didn't care, didn't ask, cry about it, stay mad, get real, L, seethe, cope

    • @pineappleudh6561
      @pineappleudh6561 2 года назад +20

      Honestly I'm picturing it as ripping of two of the side heads and clapping them into the main head as they explode.

    • @manwithgun9768
      @manwithgun9768 2 года назад +12

      @@pineappleudh6561 same, I can picture a city in ruin, the sirens blare out, but nobody is left as the army approaches

    • @amiecollins74
      @amiecollins74 2 года назад +4

      Look at Alan becket

  • @noahcampbell4127
    @noahcampbell4127 2 года назад +611

    I don't think that the ancient builders fled to the end because of the Warden. The Warden is just too stationary for the ancient builders to ditch an entire dimension. If the shulk only grows when things die around it, then one could simply close off all access from the ancient cities and booyah! No more Warden. I think that some of the ancient builders built the end portal before the Warden killed the Wither. There is no implication that the ancient builders stuck together. We've seen the drowned civilization staying away from the rest, as well as the not-so-ambitious relatives of the ancient builders, the villagers. If the first experimental portal brought the nether, and the next brought the Warden, who the heck would be stupid enough to make a third portal? I think that the civilization that became the Endermen were completely oblivious of the Warden's existence. Those who tried to live in piece with the Warden either was the cause of more shulk being created via devoured souls or fled to the caverns which would have almost certainly killed them. This also still leaves the question of how the shulk got up to the broken nether portals. The Minecraft legends game will probably be stuffed to the brim with LOOORRREEE! as MatPat calls it. A theory for another day my friends, a theory for another day...

    • @DeathHelper420
      @DeathHelper420 2 года назад +29

      They fled because of the Wither
      ... Have you been listening to the video? Lol they had to LIVE with the warden when it escaped. That's why wool is placed after the fact. That's why we hear the Wither Die when the Warden comes out the portal they thought was a safe zone

    • @liilxc7596
      @liilxc7596 2 года назад +39

      I personally think the ancient builders split up in two when they were trying to escape the wither. One that went to the end and the others that stayed in the over world and made the ancient cities

    • @jamiealisson8298
      @jamiealisson8298 Год назад +22

      @@liilxc7596 ye that's what I think too. I think different groups split up in to different colonise and started to build their own portals. Which eventually ended up in the creation of the end portal and the warden portal or whatever its called. But the question is. How many of these colonies were there? And if so, how what other portals did they build. Must be a lot of dimensions in minecraft. The end portal colonies must of been completely oblivious to the warden portal colonies existence. And I find it hard to believe that there were only two colonies.

    • @theo1856
      @theo1856 Год назад +2

      @@DeathHelper420 The wither can easily kill the Warden. It's ridiculous to believe the Wither just rocked up one day too.

    • @DoggosGames
      @DoggosGames Год назад +8

      @@theo1856 Obviously some outlier created the Wither, possibly Steve far before the events of Minecraft?
      Also, I'm assuming the wither had already been attacked a few times to try to save the city, the warden came outta the portal and saw this random thing making tons of noise and beat the living hell out of it.

  • @aahijustalice8112
    @aahijustalice8112 2 года назад +39579

    Theory: the warden actually has the spirits of 5 children in it and the ancient city is a pizzeria
    Edit: I just wanted to watch a game theory video then I found out that not only did this get over 20k likes and 483 replies, but it got into a video 🗿🗿🗿

    • @shmebulocck
      @shmebulocck 2 года назад +3908

      five nights in the deep dark

    • @unspeaky
      @unspeaky 2 года назад +824

      oh no

    • @Lorenthrall
      @Lorenthrall 2 года назад +462

      @Amber Heard 🅥 DON'T Click on the link, it doesnt lead to YT plz

    • @milkuetea
      @milkuetea 2 года назад +515

      *it's been so long intensifies*

    • @desertRACER619
      @desertRACER619 2 года назад +58

      Nahhh

  • @phantom557
    @phantom557 2 года назад +2137

    Wither: You can’t defeat me!
    Ancients: I know, but he can!
    *The Warden has entered the chat*

  • @the_vik_king
    @the_vik_king 2 года назад +746

    With so any different horrors out in minecraft, it makes Steve look like the doom slayer for being able to deal with them, when his peers couldn't.

    • @dylancook2612
      @dylancook2612 2 года назад +134

      Not even his peers, the ancient builders were so much more advanced, the fact that they could make portal frames and other things like that probably mean they had better weapons and armor. Steve is even more of a chad because he’s killing these things with probably primitive stuff compared to them.

    • @scout1710
      @scout1710 2 года назад +85

      @@dylancook2612 fr these builders were smart but weak. steve is technically dumb but immensely powerful in that his fighting ability is unrivaled

    • @LeatherKing6688
      @LeatherKing6688 2 года назад +26

      ​@@dylancook2612 like mass effects commander shepherd fighting reapers right in front of javik who calls them "primitive"

    • @cheesygubbins5322
      @cheesygubbins5322 2 года назад +1

      mf lone survivor from fallout 4

    • @CityWokChicken
      @CityWokChicken 2 года назад +39

      @@scout1710
      I wouldn’t say he’s necessarily dumb, perhaps in the light of the builders he is a mere shadow. But he is capable of building damn near anything from scratch, making portals to new dimensions, alchemy, enchanting, and cartography.

  • @leviathanliar1840
    @leviathanliar1840 2 года назад +116

    I really wanna see someone animate scenes based on these theories

  • @Mark-S_Boyd
    @Mark-S_Boyd 2 года назад +433

    Another reason the builders might've stayed in the city: instead of there being one Wither, there are actually multiple, and if the Warden was shown to be able to kill one of the Withers, then the Ancient Builders would have wanted to stay near something that could kill their most dangerous enemy. They laid down candles to help see in the darkness effect, they laid down carpets as to not alert the Warden, but the longer they stayed down in the Ancient Cities, the more sculk was made from the slaying of mobs and the natural deaths of the citizens. Eventually they couldn't contain the sculk or the Warden anymore, so they left.

    • @Pstreleckii
      @Pstreleckii 2 года назад

      MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео🇷🇺):...
      ruclips.net/video/eMvZPV5acww/видео.html

    • @Voltboy1449
      @Voltboy1449 2 года назад +27

      I feel like you should be able to light the portal and either A you seem to see the portal malfunction then you are transported to another ancient city or B it spawns TONNES of wardens and skulk blocks leading to chaos just a suggestion

    • @proganerxdave6720
      @proganerxdave6720 2 года назад +23

      and the wither is the mob that gives the most sulk once it dies thats probably why there is so much in the ancient cities.

    • @soup7694
      @soup7694 2 года назад +12

      ​@@Voltboy1449 think of gameplay wise since this game is not just for lore, how exactly would that affect the playerbase if multiple wardens came out of it or the diff dimension. they made it so it's "hard" to get lore from this game and thereby making those 2 (which mind you may be VERY wrong since they haven't confirmed or denied this tbf) very easy lore things to get. think of it like a FNAFs little brother type trying to get lore game.

    • @dwoods3244
      @dwoods3244 2 года назад +10

      I thought the new disc represented someone trying to escape from the warden but ended up failing. The random music representing someone playing music to distract the warden but then it stops so they break amethyst because it’s loud and makes a run for it then they try to pillar up but the warden uses it’s ranged attack the sculk screech and knocks the player down making them fall to there death and also breaking the disc into 9 fragments

  • @averyjohnson5794
    @averyjohnson5794 2 года назад +367

    This is honestly one of my favorite series by the Game Theory team! Thank you for fueling my obsession with this block game.

    • @mago_malvado96
      @mago_malvado96 2 года назад

      @Amber Heard 🅥 NO.

    • @minimal1581
      @minimal1581 2 года назад +1

      So many goddamn bots nowadays

    • @chewy99.
      @chewy99. 2 года назад +1

      Six bots already…

  • @wildcard2117
    @wildcard2117 2 года назад +264

    One small thing I would like to add to this theory is an idea I heard that the pillagers found the Ancient Cities before the player did. We can see Dark Oak wood bridges and outposts which stand out from the rest of the city but is a staple of pillager outposts and woodland mansions. The carpet that lines some of the Dark Oak Bridges is also a distinct purple compared to the grey wool as the pillagers likely had an encounter with the Warden or at least understood why they had to keep quiet. The small outposts that line the cities were small bases for the pillagers to make camp and we can even find piles of wool similar to those found in woodland mansions lying around the city. Judging by the fact that the outpost’s chest still have loot, however, it’s clear that despite their attempts, the pillagers didn’t make it out alive. Like I said, this wasn’t my theory but just something I heard although it does make the world feel a bit more lived in as the player isn’t the only one to explore the ancient ruins left by the builders.

    • @averyblurryduck749
      @averyblurryduck749 2 года назад +11

      you have a solid point!! its not like the wool found in the ancient city, it looks like these structures were build long after the city was in shambles, none of the dark oak bridges and outpost have any skulk on them, they dont look nearly as destroyed as the ancient city itself, they just seem out of place in the entire city, all tho i do feel like the pillagers did make it out alive as none of their loot can be found anywhere in the ancient city chest, they prob build these outpost and bases to start on their raid in the city, but had to cancel and evacuate quickly for...obvious reasons

  • @SearingAstra
    @SearingAstra 2 года назад +176

    Funny sidenote: The ONLY piece of music that plays in the Deep Dark, and by extent, the Ancient Cities, is called 'Ancestry'

    • @peabrain6872
      @peabrain6872 Год назад +5

      Innnterestinnng

    • @Tobythefirst1
      @Tobythefirst1 Год назад +4

      So the player is the descendant of the ancients?

    • @gxact
      @gxact Год назад +16

      @@Tobythefirst1 perhaps the final creation of the builders, a clone of their best builder but with the power of immortality (or a failed version for hardcore :P)

    • @Psilomuscimol
      @Psilomuscimol Год назад +1

      ​@@peabrain6872. That weird word translated to "internal interest".

    • @GuyChooo
      @GuyChooo 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@Tobythefirst1well yeah, where do you think his/her crafting skills came from?

  • @piolewus
    @piolewus 2 года назад +1128

    Ah, the ancient builders. So smart that they can open portals with redstone, yet so pathetic that they can’t just spam harming potions

    • @Redcyral
      @Redcyral 2 года назад +34

      Ah yes,Isn’t the ancient world a wonderful place

    • @sarahvanrooyen7280
      @sarahvanrooyen7280 2 года назад

      Lol

    • @ReintGerts
      @ReintGerts 2 года назад +35

      Well maybe making potions isn't something the builders did, but the witches.

    • @Jason75913
      @Jason75913 2 года назад +9

      @@ReintGerts illagers could have only learned magic and chemistry from the stronghold libraries, I think

    • @Nokyyyyy
      @Nokyyyyy 2 года назад +1

      @weibo coiu the game has no real lore tho

  • @didosauce6008
    @didosauce6008 2 года назад +1677

    Here me out: what if Steve has an echo shard inside of him? We know the builders were desperate to prolong their survival as a species. We know that they performed experiments with death and used the skulks weird post death properties to craft things like recovery compasses which stay in your inventory when you respawn and point you to your place of death. We also know that with the wither and now the warden there were 2 looming threats to this species.
    So what if, In the last few days of the builder civilization, they created the player by embedding an echo shard into one of their own and using its death bending properties to allow that builder to respawn infinitely ensuring even death can’t truly stop them.
    Maybe this ties into the illagers, maybe the illagers saw this process somehow and tried to recreate that series of events. since illagers can’t reproduce this ability to ignore death would’ve been very valuable to their kind. But their inferior science and lack of access to the deep dark caused them to mess it up. Maybe they used lapis instead of echo shards cause hey both are bluish lookin crystals they have to be interchangeable right?

    • @galexian5842
      @galexian5842 2 года назад +208

      I just want to mention something similar about the illagers. Matpat theorized that illagers try to replicate things and accidentally make things. Allays are literally prisoners in the dark forest mansions. They also look quite similar to vexes. What if illagers we're using allays to create or accidentally create vexes?

    • @Vv-cm6st
      @Vv-cm6st 2 года назад +104

      I think echo shards are corrupted form of amethyst shard, cause you can get both from Ancient City loot chests.

    • @JaTa_
      @JaTa_ 2 года назад +48

      That my friend, is a great theory

    • @AstralNightmareOfficial
      @AstralNightmareOfficial 2 года назад +40

      @@JaTa_ Well, they did get ONE minor thing incorrect. The player still drops the recovery compass upon death so it in fact doesn't stay in your inventory upon respawn. Other than that I agree with your notion.

    • @mcrobinyt2003
      @mcrobinyt2003 2 года назад +43

      Hardcore mode: I'm gonna destroy this whole mans theory

  • @Bella-xe6wr
    @Bella-xe6wr 2 года назад +257

    I love how he really doesn’t have to be right for it to work, since minecraft has always been a great tool for stories whether theorising lore or just creating stuff

    • @thegamecinema444
      @thegamecinema444 2 года назад +4

      @Fezerved [Best videos] Most likely a bot, but wtf is up with these comments? They’re all over Jacksepticeyes videos, and now here?

  • @doodleghost6225
    @doodleghost6225 2 года назад +65

    here’s an idea: the end portal was made to escape the Warden/Skulk. They accidentally let the Warden into their world and were terrified to not only find an entity that could kill the Wither but also spread and grow. Maybe they used the souls from the skulk to create the end portal frames -hence the very similar colors. Maybe the labs under the City Center were made to create conditions where they could try and create these frames away from the threat of the Warden. Just a theory based on the color palettes :)

    • @DoggosGames
      @DoggosGames Год назад +4

      That's exactly what the video says

    • @cactichris9829
      @cactichris9829 Год назад

      End portal frames are the same colors as ender pearls and endstone 😢

  • @adamxei9073
    @adamxei9073 2 года назад +804

    Hypothesis: The two entities that converse in the credits after you defeat the ender dragon are two ancient builders that have ascended to a godlike paragon ultimately achieving the goal the ancient builders sought after, immortality.

    • @jessecrafts2630
      @jessecrafts2630 2 года назад +50

      it could also tie in with the admins from Story Mode. Yes I know Story Mode is non-cannon but that doesn't mean things from it can't exist, non-cannon means it didn't happen it doesn't mean it couldn't happen.

    • @bluepineappleguy
      @bluepineappleguy 2 года назад +67

      steve also has achived it in a way, through respawning. he comes back to life whenever he dies.

    • @wabc2336
      @wabc2336 2 года назад +7

      Nirvana moment

    • @wabc2336
      @wabc2336 2 года назад +24

      @@bluepineappleguy He is stuck in samsara. The two entities have escaped to nirvana

    • @dontreadmyprofilepicture7187
      @dontreadmyprofilepicture7187 2 года назад

      D o n t r e a d m y c h a n n e l
      n a m e

  • @Twigs929
    @Twigs929 2 года назад +2048

    I like to imagine the wardern the the weakest and smallest creature from its dimension, and the reason nothing worse came out was because everything else was too big

    • @icantthinkofaname-by2kz
      @icantthinkofaname-by2kz 2 года назад +108

      Imagine what the others will be

    • @black_smiles
      @black_smiles 2 года назад +128

      Nope
      I hate that idea
      Just imagine the other species

    • @tjslyfe5785
      @tjslyfe5785 2 года назад +78

      This would be a great idea for a mod

    • @thegamerwhocould5800
      @thegamerwhocould5800 2 года назад +64

      This is perfect we got fighting and sneaking now we need running and hiding from the things we could never beat

    • @shahanibarrientos6494
      @shahanibarrientos6494 2 года назад +20

      That would suck but what would they look like?🤔

  • @GavinatorQA
    @GavinatorQA 2 года назад +418

    I think how they went from the Ancient City to the End is pretty obvious. Some Ancient Cities just got completely destroyed, some went the way you described, & some strongholds got created without the knowledge of the Ancient Cities. It's interchangeable.

  • @nuzayerov
    @nuzayerov 3 месяца назад +2

    Strongholds, Ancient Cities, Trail Ruins, and modern Villages and Pillager Outposts + Woodland mansions. This game has so much lore. Not to mention we honestly don’t know who built the Nether fortresses cuz its certainly not the Piglins cuz they already got Bastions

  • @Boosharoo
    @Boosharoo 2 года назад +778

    Lore theory: The deep dark is a different dimension the ancient builders opened up using the giant nether portal looking structure in every ancient city, this explains how the city’s are destroyed and why skulk is only in these areas as if it is bleeding into our world. When the builders found out there mistake they quickly decided to try again. This action lead to the creation of strongholds and the end. Proof that dimensions bleed into the over world is when you find ruined nether portals. These small structures have nether rack around them suggesting that they are also spreading. :)

    • @Pstreleckii
      @Pstreleckii 2 года назад +1

      MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео🇷🇺):...
      ruclips.net/video/eMvZPV5acww/видео.html

    • @mago_malvado96
      @mago_malvado96 2 года назад

      @@Pstreleckii STOP

    • @MrBreadstixs
      @MrBreadstixs 2 года назад +21

      Yea that makes sense

    • @edwintrinidadperazacaraban4650
      @edwintrinidadperazacaraban4650 2 года назад

      I think you are into something if we take in count that we already see a "world mutation or infeccion" in the nether whit the warped forest being confirmed that is a tumor caused for a enderman over teletransportin there

    • @blackwatch2516
      @blackwatch2516 2 года назад +27

      you know that your comment is gonna get a lot of likes when bots start to replying to you

  • @heavenrobinson211
    @heavenrobinson211 2 года назад +616

    I just need to say: the "sirens are probably goat horns, since there aren't real sirens in Minecraft. But for real, these Minecraft theories are the best!

    • @doctordogelordtmg9637
      @doctordogelordtmg9637 2 года назад +17

      They may add sirens to Minecraft or something like that because it doesn't sound like a goat horn at all but with all seriousness they probably just made up a sound regardless of what was in the game

  • @thetalantonx
    @thetalantonx 2 года назад +614

    15:13 - DUDE! This is probably your best Minecraft theory to date, and compellingly told.

    • @raygagnon4809
      @raygagnon4809 2 года назад +27

      Finally it’s not here. There is no video. Stop looking at this now.

    • @roaringthunder115
      @roaringthunder115 2 года назад +1

      Yeah

    • @al_insan
      @al_insan 2 года назад +1

      They will come, eventually....

    • @nicoleascher5950
      @nicoleascher5950 2 года назад

      agree

    • @GBMoises
      @GBMoises 2 года назад +2

      @@raygagnon4809 yeah what is up with those comments are they like bots?

  • @KingHakeem94
    @KingHakeem94 2 года назад +91

    This actually gives credence to the new Minecraft game coming out. This is a great theory as always.

    • @winno8744
      @winno8744 2 года назад +2

      Whats the new minecraft game? :o

    • @clairesmelody
      @clairesmelody 2 года назад

      @@winno8744 maybe look on the website?

    • @clairesmelody
      @clairesmelody 2 года назад

      @@winno8744 nvm it’s minecraft legends

    • @clairesmelody
      @clairesmelody 2 года назад

      @@winno8744 and it’s coming spring 2023

    • @thorveim1174
      @thorveim1174 2 года назад +3

      we'll see.. because legends is all about a piglin invasion countered by mystical beings and wel, players that dont seem tied to any civilisation. Note that with the broken portals surrounded by nether blocks and the presence of GOLD around it found through the overworld, its safe to assume the events of legends will be canon and that the worls of minecraft happens in the future of legends, after the piglin invasion was thwarted and their civilisation fell.

  • @lightningdragon666
    @lightningdragon666 2 года назад +1585

    If they are from some other dimension, then if we imagine that Warden and skulk are at the bottom of food chain in their world, and there are even stronger entities there, it becomes way more terrifying.

    • @SirLeetMan
      @SirLeetMan 2 года назад +163

      Shades of Lovecraftian horror there

    • @a-can-o-beans8340
      @a-can-o-beans8340 2 года назад +40

      @@SirLeetMan that’s my kind of horror!!

    • @godfilms
      @godfilms 2 года назад +23

      @@SirLeetMan It's where Azathoth resides in.

    • @legendaryfaptributes5795
      @legendaryfaptributes5795 2 года назад +7

      @@godfilms that guy doesn't know how to scale

    • @ChaosDestruction100
      @ChaosDestruction100 2 года назад +18

      The challenge seekers: "Hell yeah, dude!"

  • @GamerX-2000
    @GamerX-2000 2 года назад +503

    notice how they use very strong blocks to make their portals. The portals only work with stronger blocks. maybe this means that any attempts to use weaker blocks have backfired and resulted in the portal imploding or something; leaving builders trapped in other worlds. and they also continue to use stronger and stronger blocks. the obsidian was natural, but the rest they made themselves- that's how the deepslate got reinforced and how the end portal was made despite the blocks being unmovable. once they found that obsidian, the strongest natural block besides bedrock (a block they can't move and therefore can't use), could be used to make a stable portal, they proceeded to make even stronger blocks to make new portals. the only problem is they couldn't all be lit the same way. the lighting methods were somehow related to the dimensions the portal led to (fire for the Nether and ender eyes for the end). The ancient city portal to the skulk world was somehow lit using souls of the deceased, possibly VIA soul fire, to light the portal in an ancient technique we are no longer in position of.
    note: I'm behind on theories, so if by sheer luck I happen to mention something previously stated here, please do not ridicule me for it.

    • @sebastianwatches7095
      @sebastianwatches7095 2 года назад +38

      so the aether isnt a thing bc glowstone is too weak of a block to sustain a portal

    • @ZachManSM
      @ZachManSM 2 года назад +15

      This makes alot of sense.

    • @EmperorProtects1
      @EmperorProtects1 2 года назад +8

      @@sebastianwatches7095 What if someone invents reinforced glowstone huh?

    • @sebastianwatches7095
      @sebastianwatches7095 2 года назад +9

      @@EmperorProtects1 maybe... its like glass and realistically obsidian is volcanic glass, but virtually indestructible in the minecraft universe
      though how would you reinforce glowstone? kinda looks like they used bones to reinforce deepslate

    • @davidjuhl3699
      @davidjuhl3699 2 года назад +2

      intersting theory tbh

  • @cerbonface138
    @cerbonface138 2 года назад +183

    Makes sense, especially if the deepslate portal was first that would explain why lava is underneath the end portal just in case something came through.

    • @thepouncinater1762
      @thepouncinater1762 2 года назад +25

      y'know that making some sense!

    • @vollgereat
      @vollgereat 2 года назад +5

      it would also explain the silver fish spawner - a small defense to flee, if something comes through AND survives the lava

    • @higiniomendoza6863
      @higiniomendoza6863 2 года назад

      @@vollgereat And a chest with a golden apple at the center of the ancient cities

  • @frogg1223
    @frogg1223 2 года назад +18

    It’s crazy how MatPat can take a sandbox game with no official timeline or really events at all, and can make a whole entire standing theory about it

  • @aarongaul3424
    @aarongaul3424 2 года назад +347

    You could interpret the Enderdragon as a last safety mechanism so that even if the warden finds his way to the End he still has to beat the final boss. I think with a liddle fiddeling you could also explain the dialog at the end of the game.

    • @cosmicsilhouette3858
      @cosmicsilhouette3858 2 года назад +8

      Nah just drop the warden into the void. No way it's surviving that.

    • @artoriasgameing6601
      @artoriasgameing6601 2 года назад +2

      I mean those two could just be some sorta outer gods

    • @sergiocruz7335
      @sergiocruz7335 2 года назад

      *#Si**ruclips.net/video/EdEGPw516mM/видео.htmlесли** порorcoño* 👆

    • @sergiocruz7335
      @sergiocruz7335 2 года назад

      *#Si**ruclips.net/video/EdEGPw516mM/видео.htmlесли** порorcoño* 👆

    • @Skvat69
      @Skvat69 2 года назад

      @Joshua EdwinRoehl wtf

  • @HeroNotFound05
    @HeroNotFound05 2 года назад +440

    The fact that Minecraft Legends has just been announced, and that it features a war between the overworld and the nether lends a lot of possibility to this theory, which is cool

    • @Catplays_glg
      @Catplays_glg 2 года назад +8

      I wonder if they we two different civilizations

    • @Legend-Of-The-Sun
      @Legend-Of-The-Sun 2 года назад +5

      ​@Fezerved [Best videos] reported for spam

    • @nachoferrari240
      @nachoferrari240 2 года назад +5

      Minecraft spinoffs (like Dungeons and Legends) and the base game have different lore

    • @mssagim
      @mssagim 2 года назад +3

      @@nachoferrari240 they still are in the same universe

    • @TheUnderscore_
      @TheUnderscore_ 2 года назад

      I had no idea about that, so thank you :D

  • @gardenshed6043
    @gardenshed6043 2 года назад +355

    Imagine just going through the new portal and there are a bunch of wardens just walking around casually.

    • @Woopor
      @Woopor 2 года назад +7

      Or maybe even worse.

    • @KyuuDesperation
      @KyuuDesperation 2 года назад +1

      Why is no one talking about the Endersent TwT

    • @mygachaphase
      @mygachaphase 2 года назад +1

      @@KyuuDesperation ?

    • @CrystalWings12
      @CrystalWings12 2 года назад +6

      @@mygachaphase The Endersent from Minecraft Dungeons, the ones who hold the ender eyes to keep the end portal unlit.
      Or should I say, they were sent by the Vengeful Heart of Ender to keep any intruders away from their dimension.

    • @KyuuDesperation
      @KyuuDesperation 2 года назад +1

      @@mygachaphase there are 2 Sounds in Disc No. 5 of the Endersent.

  • @BertBrad-ftw
    @BertBrad-ftw 2 месяца назад +2

    The theory of the warden coming from the portal is honestly probably the most common theory ever now

  • @RetroDestroyer
    @RetroDestroyer 2 года назад +357

    Ok Matpat, Have you noticed the similarity between the warden and the allay?
    The allay death sound slowed down and the shreiker to be specific :)

    • @dangdao8068
      @dangdao8068 2 года назад

      Dead child?

    • @haydenweck2956
      @haydenweck2956 2 года назад +20

      I think the Allay is like a released spirit since it has that blue floating look to it like the soul particles and vexes. So when the shrieker makes the noise a spirit is released similar to what happens when the Warden dies.

  • @random_dude3413
    @random_dude3413 2 года назад +388

    Minecraft in 2011: "Haha, blocks go brrrr."
    Minecraft now: "The souls of the dead power this entire species that came from another dimension."

    • @Pstreleckii
      @Pstreleckii 2 года назад +1

      MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео🇷🇺):....
      ruclips.net/video/eMvZPV5acww/видео.html

    • @Pstreleckii
      @Pstreleckii 2 года назад

      🤍💙❤️

    • @david-rf7tf
      @david-rf7tf 2 года назад

      @@Pstreleckii 😦

    • @david-rf7tf
      @david-rf7tf 2 года назад

      @Ppp Kk 😦

    • @tripleastacz372
      @tripleastacz372 2 года назад +2

      Minecraft had lore back then as well...

  • @Eternal7288
    @Eternal7288 2 года назад +796

    Something else that's interesting is that in Bedrock edition, there's a new shirt/top that came with the wild update that's supposed to look like the warden's open chest, but instead of being called something like warden's chest or warden's torso, it's simply called "Keeper's Promise", so that might be something.

    • @RGC_animation
      @RGC_animation 2 года назад +61

      That would make sense since Wardens in real life guard prisons and prevents prisoners from escaping. So the Warden might be a keeper.

    • @priinglescafe
      @priinglescafe 2 года назад +44

      huuuuuge potential that the Warden and Builders had a symbiotic relationship. that seems to be the general consensus at this point

    • @timdrugge907
      @timdrugge907 2 года назад +5

      @@priinglescafe At least for a little while.

    • @grapejuice3943
      @grapejuice3943 2 года назад +3

      Oh i got it its rlly pretty

    • @ArcXDZ
      @ArcXDZ 2 года назад +5

      ​@@RGC_animation he's a keeper 😍

  • @WatermanUSA
    @WatermanUSA 2 года назад +63

    So, what if Allays are ancient builder spirits that escape the sulk, hence the blue. That leads to part 2, what if the ancient builders used sounds. They made music discs to record their history and the instrumental music is them singing. Also they would record events which would explain disc 5. Which leads me to believe that the ancient builders were about to make a giant achievement and that's why they were recording. And some one sinister spawned the wither to stop them. Also what if the guy with the cough has wither sickness from the wither and also why the disc is mixed up is your piecing it together.

  • @VocalEcho
    @VocalEcho 2 года назад +637

    Regarding the "monster" at 10:37 - that's the sound of an Endersent, a larger and stronger type of Enderman from Minecraft Dungeons tasked with guarding the eyes of ender required (in that game) to access the End. You can hear it for yourself by finding the Minecraft Dungeon Wiki's Endersent page and checking the Idle sounds

    • @killianobrien2007
      @killianobrien2007 2 года назад +33

      Minecraft Dungeons portal?

    • @chompybanana
      @chompybanana 2 года назад +27

      Oh snap, you're right! Idle 1

    • @BamHurgr
      @BamHurgr 2 года назад +72

      that brings up a question: is Minecraft and Mincraft dungeons canonically connected? (and story mode too i guess)

    • @seantheuser
      @seantheuser 2 года назад +54

      Next step: minecraft multiverse

    • @kaiserredgamer8943
      @kaiserredgamer8943 2 года назад +16

      But why would End creatures be involved in this theory? I thought the ancient builders became the endermen

  • @physicsgamer5141
    @physicsgamer5141 2 года назад +504

    I’d like to see a video responding to the sound of Disks 11, 13, and 5 being played together, since it oddly flows together really well.

    • @frenziedyeti8277
      @frenziedyeti8277 2 года назад +26

      There is one, I just came here from it, it’s by enkvadrat, from two months ago

    • @manpersonthehuman2681
      @manpersonthehuman2681 2 года назад +4

      I actually tried playing all 15 disks at once. Do not try it. It is very loud

    • @johannlefering3345
      @johannlefering3345 2 года назад

      Here they are put together in a cohesive way, on Taboo Groundhog channel. Enable caption to see the interpretation as the records go on.
      ruclips.net/video/adiDikvBuVA/видео.html

    • @sdfrch
      @sdfrch 2 года назад +2

      @@manpersonthehuman2681 there's a trick to play the discs so they fit together,
      what you need to do is: put a timer of 15 seconds, then put the discs at the right second according to its number, for example disc 5 at second 5 and disc 11 at second 11

    • @ShizuruNakatsu
      @ShizuruNakatsu 2 года назад

      Do the weird discs all have to be prime numbers, or just odd numbers? I imagine their could be a 7, and a 17, but possibly not a 9 or a 15?

  • @henrycervantes249
    @henrycervantes249 2 года назад +733

    Going by the ideas presented in this theory, this can even explain the new enchantment in the wild update, speed sneak i think it was, as the ancient builders who stayed in the Deep Dark cities developed, or rather conjured up a new enchantment to help them live with the Warden, but it was probably too late by then, and they only got a few enchantments out to everyone who needed them, maybe they even destroyed each other for this enchantment, maybe they fought amongst themselves so much they ran out of food, allowing the Warden to easily finish the job…

    • @aspongebobwithablackbackgr9539
      @aspongebobwithablackbackgr9539 2 года назад +2

      🤨

    • @KeitieKalopsia
      @KeitieKalopsia 2 года назад +6

      I like this twist that you’ve added!

    • @3v1l73ddy
      @3v1l73ddy 2 года назад +9

      I see this as an extension to the wool. They tried placing carpet and wool to dampen their steps but even placing the blocks triggered the sculk. So they developed an enchantment but it didn't help with their chests triggering the sculk.

    • @LazyLoonz
      @LazyLoonz 2 года назад +6

      Neh they had room size fridges, bunch of potatos inside those places

    • @rydinger7051
      @rydinger7051 2 года назад +1

      Or your character in the game is the only person who managed to get the prototype of the enchantment, and so is the only one to survive the wither? I like that theory since it adds to the loneliness when interacting with the villagers.

  • @chovongulous
    @chovongulous 2 года назад +42

    Play 13, 11, and 5 together, it sounds different, almost like a puzzle put together

  • @theaprentice6437
    @theaprentice6437 2 года назад +655

    I would love to play a story mode based around these theories, like going through the different ages of the builders and seeing the rise of the Pillagers and such.

    • @theaprentice6437
      @theaprentice6437 2 года назад +6

      @@unvaders1403 could imagine a story line of the Builders arguing wether or not they should intervene in the fight between Pillagers and Villagers and eventually make the iron golem.

    • @spinalicemightbeacat4589
      @spinalicemightbeacat4589 2 года назад +1

      @Fezerved [Best videos] but thats just a theory

    • @heisenberggaming6548
      @heisenberggaming6548 2 года назад

      @@unvaders1403 MineWars:Rise of the villagers
      MineWars:pillager wars
      MineWars:the wither phantom

    • @kilerless616
      @kilerless616 2 года назад

      @@spinalicemightbeacat4589 A GAME THEORY

    • @Amp-north
      @Amp-north 2 года назад

      Rip

  • @func_e
    @func_e 2 года назад +495

    The sculk catalyst being the warden's only drop is actually implemented for the sole purpose of lore. Literally. Devs confirmed that. I love lore

    • @heidic2472
      @heidic2472 2 года назад +18

      The devs said it was for technical players that would want to farm catalysts, I’m not sure where you saw them directly say it was for lore.

    • @func_e
      @func_e 2 года назад +10

      @@heidic2472 I could've sworn I saw it "was for the wardens story"

    • @heidic2472
      @heidic2472 2 года назад +24

      In a tweet from kingbdogz on April 27th, he said, “The key is that the Warden should never drop something that is important or hard to get that would be worth going through the trouble of fighting it. In this case though, fighting a Warden is not worth a Sculk Catalyst. This change is only made for renewability farms/tech players”

    • @Alexmow
      @Alexmow 2 года назад

      Who confirmed this? I all remember is the developers saying it was implemented so players could farm it.

    • @func_e
      @func_e 2 года назад +2

      @@heidic2472 huh. could've sworn he said something about story... well, thanks! I'll find something else to comment about...

  • @Blockinstaller12
    @Blockinstaller12 2 года назад +312

    If the skulk is so focused on defending itself, even evolving a desperation move like making their strongest weapon drop a catalyst, I'm less afraid of the Warden and more so when pushed it to evolve it to be this defensive.

  • @eliargumedo4728
    @eliargumedo4728 Год назад +8

    Remember this: skulk spreads wheb something dies near it. So when the warden came through, there barely any skulk and maybe even no skulk sensors or catalysts. However, because the Wither is made up of souls, when it died, it spread so quickly so much that it then made it very difficult to maneuver around the city quietly, which costed many of the biilder's lives and caused the skulk to spread even more

  • @depth1576
    @depth1576 2 года назад +188

    Great theory and video but heres a clarification: reinforced deepslate isn't actually indestructible, it just breaks VERY slow and doesn't drop as an item

    • @rkpyi8616
      @rkpyi8616 2 года назад +10

      But it is strong enough that wither can't break it

    • @LivingAlkalineSolution
      @LivingAlkalineSolution 2 года назад +13

      It isn't indestructible, but aside from bedrock it's the strongest block in the game

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      @paquitotorrrijas6292 2 года назад

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      @paquitotorrrijas6292 2 года назад

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  • @coolandepicguy
    @coolandepicguy 2 года назад +534

    I love how you don’t need to know the lore to enjoy Minecraft. But learning about it is fun as well :D this was a cool video mat!

    • @cyberfox7249
      @cyberfox7249 2 года назад +3

      @FeZerved [Best videos] be gone bot

    • @I_Hakai_I
      @I_Hakai_I 2 года назад

      @FeZerved [Best videos] shut up bot

    • @Ragingknight12
      @Ragingknight12 2 года назад +1

      ​@@cyberfox7249 just report them that's all we can do

  • @some_sygrob
    @some_sygrob 2 года назад +105

    You know that the sculk spreads when someone dies, the sight of those ancient cities is terrifying…

    • @Vesleif
      @Vesleif 2 года назад +6

      I didn’t even think about that and that realization is kind of terrifying yet interesting

    • @DLxxx
      @DLxxx 2 года назад +4

      Yeah, there was definitely a massacre at some point.

  • @intel_coar6844
    @intel_coar6844 2 года назад +7

    If you think of the numbered disks as part of a set and assume there are more numbers that just haven't been found yet, you can play the disks in order. Start counting up from 1 and play disks 5, 11, and 13 at the respective times. It's eerie to see how they line up and I'd love to hear MatPat's take on this

  • @ben_s_stop_motion
    @ben_s_stop_motion 2 года назад +446

    theory: years after this the illagers found the ancient cities built outpost looking structures, rebuilt some broken parts of the cities with dark oak (which only appears in illager related places), possibly studied the skulk which is how they made the vex, allay and totems as well as bringing some of their steve colored wool because of the its sound resistant properties.

    • @alphaomega6678
      @alphaomega6678 2 года назад +14

      I was thinking the same idea

    • @yohanneludwigquezon1671
      @yohanneludwigquezon1671 2 года назад +25

      considering we kinda know that Illagers have this thing for playing with souls, yeah they might have done some antics with those skulk blocks that are made from souls, and even may contain souls.

    • @justaguy6173
      @justaguy6173 2 года назад +5

      But it’s just a theory,a GAME THEORY!

    • @kinglolmon6453
      @kinglolmon6453 2 года назад +6

      I'm still laughing about that one guy in this comments that gives a theory that the pillagers was the ancient builder's! 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Nicknema18
    @Nicknema18 2 года назад +382

    The dark oak wood and the colored wool makes me believe that illagers found the ancient cities at some point. Those blocks are the same used in mansions and pillager outposts, even the building style is similar and they don’t seem to fit in the ancient cities.
    The wool is the same color as Steve's and zombies clothes and piles of it can also be found lying around in mansions… so maybe the warden has something to do with that theory?

    • @trufoosxd
      @trufoosxd 2 года назад +31

      Yeah perhaps the illagers found the ancient cities while they were patrolling, and it could also mean that they took some for the evoker who has things with magic to observe it, mainly the sculk and catalyst, and with the allay and the souls in them the vex is born

    • @Goknub
      @Goknub 2 года назад +19

      It would explain why the Illagers are so obsessed with carpet to the point of storing stockpiles.
      The sound trap can also be seen as a trap for Pillager raids.
      I think this makes sense. The dark wood and blue carpet clearly don't fit the original aesthetic and look more like a later addition by Illager expeditions.

    • @SoulFlameXil
      @SoulFlameXil 2 года назад +3

      Or perhaps this is when the split that matpat theorized in the Illiger episodes. Some anchoring builders left for the end, some got banished for trying to harness the soul technology to resurrect the dead.

    • @_Fizel_
      @_Fizel_ 2 года назад +3

      @@SoulFlameXil "the illiterate episodes." WHAT

    • @SoulFlameXil
      @SoulFlameXil 2 года назад

      @@_Fizel_ fat thumbs sorry. It’s corrected now.

  • @lexcentrique2554
    @lexcentrique2554 2 года назад +719

    I rather imagine that the ancient builders got divided: Builders went into the end and became the endermen, the ones who preferred staying in the overworld under the ground got either destroyed by the warden and became skulks, either joined the builders in the end.

    • @charlesevanshughes3638
      @charlesevanshughes3638 2 года назад +71

      Some factions probably chose to stay in the overworld, and fell into a sort of "dark ages" where the lost their connection to their past. This group further splits into the villagers, the witches, who were banished from their villages for experimenting with alchemy, and the illagers, who embraced some sort of occult magic.

    • @matthewdavidproductions9615
      @matthewdavidproductions9615 2 года назад +13

      Chorus fruit would have made them "mutate" into endermen.

    • @zeenoash.8805
      @zeenoash.8805 2 года назад +9

      @@charlesevanshughes3638 Now I really wonder where WE come in.

    • @charlesevanshughes3638
      @charlesevanshughes3638 2 года назад +13

      @@zeenoash.8805 The player seems to be a different being altogether. We can respawn; they cannot. We can play across servers; they cannot. We can use cheats and enter creative mode; they cannot.

    • @memedew6677
      @memedew6677 2 года назад +5

      @@zeenoash.8805 steve (the last human to be alive) never went into a division and just survived by himself

  • @lasercraft32
    @lasercraft32 2 года назад +62

    13:16 It sounds kinda like the Ender Dragon death sound too (specifically the firework-like noises echoing in the background).

  • @flamestorm1468
    @flamestorm1468 2 года назад +41

    Warden- (Defeats Wither) Ancient Civilization- You have freed us! Warden- Oh, I wouldn't say "freed", more like "under new management."

    • @flamestorm1468
      @flamestorm1468 2 года назад

      Lmao, His latest video of the Allay has this in 2:14 XD

  • @thezman9001
    @thezman9001 2 года назад +473

    It always confused me how a single wither destroyed an entire civilization of builders, even wiping most of their existence from the world, it's also weird how overly protective the Shulk is of itself, my thought is that either the Shulk was only a single species with what could have had a predator, and that's what destroyed the builders, or more simply it's an ambush predator, like a spider waiting for it's prey to step into it's nest

    • @Pstreleckii
      @Pstreleckii 2 года назад +1

      MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео🇷🇺):...
      ruclips.net/video/eMvZPV5acww/видео.html

    • @victorygamer713
      @victorygamer713 2 года назад +21

      3 bots already

    • @joshuaded1052
      @joshuaded1052 2 года назад +26

      Have you seen the bedrock wither

    • @KrystianZieba-kc8tx
      @KrystianZieba-kc8tx 2 года назад +40

      1. There might have been multiple withers, not to mention the undead plague, and the fact the wither can be quite scary,
      2. It's not weird, it spreads by killing, the warden defends it and helps it spread,
      3. Doubt the skulk had a predator, if it did then where exactly IS it.

    • @ThatGuyRNA
      @ThatGuyRNA 2 года назад +7

      Maybe they used something exclusive to enhance that first wither

  • @loganentertainment1814
    @loganentertainment1814 2 года назад +205

    What makes sense, is that not all the ancient builders didn't go through the end portal. Maybe when the others that stayed behind, realized that the ones who left won't come back. So the remaining builders closed the end portal, which explains why we find it closed when we discover it.
    The City Center is a portal that's another attempt for the remaining builders to escape. The idea that The Warden is the guard to the sculk wouldn't be far fetched, but we'd have to wait and see what will happen in the future.
    Edit: I'm surprised Matpat didn't notice that in the game files, there are 2 sentences that say the Axolotl and The Warden are "Not what they seem."

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    • @sir_zech13.7
      @sir_zech13.7 2 года назад +2

      I like your theory

    • @derth9230
      @derth9230 2 года назад +18

      maybe the warden is a twisted golem. and what the heck i never thought axolotl would be a part of minecraft lore.

  • @jacobricottone3337
    @jacobricottone3337 2 года назад +9

    This is honestly one of my favorite series to follow. Thanks so much for all the work you put into these videos!

  • @TerraLyte47
    @TerraLyte47 2 года назад +310

    “You could say the sculk is in general sentient.”
    So… if I use sculk to get a ton of exp and enchant my sword, does it become sentient?

    • @petrusv8752
      @petrusv8752 2 года назад +26

      about as sentient as any other enchantment that uses the power of souls. (EXP) so that is probably a no.

    • @theshoobananamaster8245
      @theshoobananamaster8245 2 года назад +1

      obviously

    • @everyone4352
      @everyone4352 2 года назад

      @@theshoobananamaster8245 The sentient skulk is killed when you break it so it means it's no longer sentient any more

    • @TerraLyte47
      @TerraLyte47 2 года назад

      @@petrusv8752 perhaps exp is sentient, you’d never know because your enchanted tools probably never showed any signs of being sentient, considering that pickaxes can’t talk… or move on their own…

    • @petrusv8752
      @petrusv8752 2 года назад

      @@TerraLyte47 I'm just imagining the sentient EXP screaming in terror as Steve approaches the anvil.

  • @elonkelsey9744
    @elonkelsey9744 2 года назад +245

    Heres a theory, we’ve talked about all these ancient builders. They’re everywhere, on the surface, in the end, underground, hell, they even managed to make the nether live able. So this led me to think that there are factions of ancient builders, or kingdoms. Like an underground kingdom, different kingdoms on the surface, and their colonies would be in the nether.

    • @Deadpool-ri3rq
      @Deadpool-ri3rq 2 года назад +19

      I think we proved that already actually with the drowned civilization being separate from the rest

    • @arcticflames6932
      @arcticflames6932 2 года назад +1

      Nether fortress

    • @adelandjj1721
      @adelandjj1721 2 года назад +4

      @@Deadpool-ri3rq I think the desert, Jungle and oceans definitely were seperate but the underground most likely was combined forces a last stand.

    • @chaosgamer016_5
      @chaosgamer016_5 2 года назад +1

      I got an beter idea what if all kingdoms have there own bioms and civilazatons which lived in harmony and one day they created an portal which is an total oposit of the green world we know today and they let the demons out which made them almost extinct they created an portal to excape to an nother dimention but let the warden out and the sculk spices they prob turned of the portal off and realised they need sound to find there foe so they used carpets to be quiet and excaped in a final stand they created the end portal to excape the monsters when they got to the end they were cursed or turned in to Endermen and Il ceap it short they got back to overworld killed the demons and closed all portals

  • @ethancooper4154
    @ethancooper4154 2 года назад +389

    The presence of the wool in the ancient cities confirms a lot of this for me, it means that whoever lived in those cities was threatened by the warden and that they were trying to avoid it. The skulk is totally an invasive species and resulted in them being killed off. I think this theory totally fits

    • @crimsonhxney754
      @crimsonhxney754 Год назад

      but where would the skulk come from? there isnt any portals/places that match the colour palate of the skulk

    • @crimsonhxney754
      @crimsonhxney754 Год назад

      the skulk catlist and shrieker are sort of similar to end blocks but skulk dont naturally spawn there

  • @toffitagufa8777
    @toffitagufa8777 2 года назад +6

    I love how this video not only explained the origins of the warden but also how the original wither that destroyed the ancient builders died.

  • @znameless1
    @znameless1 2 года назад +322

    Now imagine if we had a disc that played a different track depending on the biome or realm you're in, that would be something special.

    • @Legend-Of-The-Sun
      @Legend-Of-The-Sun 2 года назад +4

      ​@Fezerved [Best videos] Troll detected.

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      @chaotic_ghost6930 2 года назад +2

      @@Legend-Of-The-Sun *bot detected

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      @SolsticeVanitas 2 года назад

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    • @x3Lilly
      @x3Lilly 2 года назад +1

      @@SolsticeVanitas misunderstanding detected

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      @SolsticeVanitas 2 года назад

      @@x3Lilly Irony detected opinion rejected

  • @Huskycar399
    @Huskycar399 2 года назад +551

    Matpat is basically an English teacher, always finds the meaning in everything even if it doesn’t have one

    • @AnjiMitoGGST
      @AnjiMitoGGST 2 года назад

      @ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 can't say the same about your father

    • @rooodis456
      @rooodis456 2 года назад +21

      Minecraft devs definitely think about lore if you’re saying they don’t

    • @monke6912
      @monke6912 2 года назад

      @@rooodis456 same for me when i find new gf to sleep whith

    • @rooodis456
      @rooodis456 2 года назад +8

      @@monke6912 you think about your gf’s lore💀

    • @ammarosmani913
      @ammarosmani913 2 года назад

      @@rooodis456 They do now. The stronghold wasnt planned out with a lore. They just went with the flow

  • @champion3433
    @champion3433 2 года назад +388

    Food for thought: The scrapped archology update had a feature where you could build clay jars out of fragments you can find that have pictures you can put together almost like a story. The feature seemed pretty flushed out and didn't seem like there was any reason to scrap it. BUT if they're updating the games lore, it would make sense to put that on the backburner until they can fit it into the lore better. Have jar fragments depicting the warden, like we see the dragon on one of the fragments and a steve fighting him (from what I rmemeber)

    • @443MoneyTrees
      @443MoneyTrees 2 года назад

      Probably not since it probably was a full disc and then got destroyed

    • @stayuptoolatedog528
      @stayuptoolatedog528 2 года назад +20

      Well they DID say that they weren’t fully scrapping it, but more like postponing it to work on bigger features. There is confirmed lore with the deep dark but they refuse to tell us, so I’m hoping that once the archeology stuff comes in that as you said, we can see some depictions of the Warden and possibly other mobs present in game or maybe even unreleased mobs that we won’t see until further down the line.

    • @botondzoltannagy8849
      @botondzoltannagy8849 2 года назад +1

      Wait they are scrapping that update? I thought it was coming soon.

    • @ozzy424
      @ozzy424 2 года назад +2

      @@botondzoltannagy8849 no. Mojang is just postponing the update

    • @wheatyes2104
      @wheatyes2104 2 года назад +2

      wait, how did they come back to make the pots with the ender dragon? Some may have come back from the end...

  • @Stoneyg
    @Stoneyg 2 года назад +62

    actually that "explosion" you heard in the disc was really the wardens heart beat and when the warden spots someone the heart beat becomes faster just to let you know. I love the warden and I'm trying to understand the lore behind it

    • @DoggosGames
      @DoggosGames Год назад +23

      I don't think the warden's heartbeat blows holes in walls