edit: looks like i started something, also someone got mad so i moved this sentence to the top of the reply u still reading this? this reply is too cringe but i refuse to delete it for archive reasons if u continue to read this, you acknowledge the cringe and are responsible for your brain damage ok here it is fact: notch is no longer part of mojang he left years ago
A few things I think you should have explored and added into the theory: - Regular skeletons also spawn in fortresses, although much less frequently then wither skeletons; - Wither skeletons and piglins are hostile towards each other. The same does not happen between piglins and blazes, which only attack each other when provoked; - Piglins become zombified when going to the Overworld, and are strangely more tame when zombified. Hoglins also become zombified, however become extremely agressive in the process, attacking every other mob in the game; - Even more curious, piglins and hoglins are not immune to fire despite being native to the Nether, but their zombified counterparts are. Other than that this is a good video.
And one more strange thing, Blazes attacks the Wither, and so do the Wither, it's strange since most mobs have to be provoked to start attacking the Wither, this makes me think that apart to being a farm to make potions, they also were made to protect the fortress agains't the Wither
Just to build on this slightly, undead mobs take damage from potions of healing. One of the only places you find naturally generating brewing stands (besides villages) is in the End ships. And of course, every single one of those brewing stands are stocked with potions of healing. This leads to my theory that the ships were constructed in a last ditch effort to return to the overworld and eradicate the zombies by raining those potions down from above.
So is it possible that the ancient builders went to the Nether but eventually their fortresses fall and they had to flee back to the overworld. Then using their knowledge of potions they went to the End as a final desperate attempt. This is also the general route the player would go in survival...the nether then they visit the End. Quite litteraly, the End for the ancient builders
From game theory and what I’ve seen in comments they needed to make a cure for a virus which was turning people into zombies so they made the igloos and tested cures on villagers then they conducted experiments on blazes, killing people to make them and using the skeletons left over the souls in soul sand make wither skeletons which would explain why both are hostile then fearing the creations they tried to make a guardian. The Wither which is also why you get The Beginning because this is the beginning of the end for the builders, so then running was their only options and using scraps from their tests before they made a portal and then they ran through using some other scraps to make the Warden including souls stored in soul sand then using the ships they made the end cities using scraps to make it which would also explain the elytra because that was their most prized possession, the only way back to the normal world but then after a diet of chorus fruit they became enderman
I like to think Blazes are melted-in-lava Wither skeletons, with their teared up ribs becoming the 12 floating rods (like the 12 pairs of ribs on a human skeleton). Melted enough to fusion into really hot and strong material, it explains this metalic sound to their breathe and the nature of their fire throwing abilities.
@@TotallyNotMangoFruit Nah nah nah, I meant why isn't he writing this in a book. The blaze rods are so clearly obviously melted rib bones that became crystalized under the heat, while the skull took longer to do so as it was a cursed black skull that was hollow within. The crystal like features is how I explain the metallic and ultimately scorched surface breathing If I ever write a story featuring the Nether and it was about a Nether Fortress, this is the lore I'd be looking for right here. Hell, why not even throw in a familiar foe you know all too well? The Wildfire can be it's own hostile, but the Hovering Inferno would be a boss worth reaping the rewards However... I've got ideas that you might not agree on though that's not stopping me from including them into the hostile itself either way (Hint: "Nelo Angelo")
Mojang: Let's add a cool structure in the nether which has some loot and offers the player a challenge Lore theorist: As you can see here... This is what I like to call *L O R E*
To me, the lava well could very well be some sort of altar. Kind of a sacred room at the core of their fortresses, dedicated to the worship of some deity. Maybe its purpose was to protect the fortress against external attacks, by placing it under the protection of a god or goddess.
My thoughts is that the fortress was originally just made for potions (blazes are natural and the ancient builders farmed and put them into a spawner) but then they found out about the ancient giant withers. They then made it into a fortress to defend and all of the wither skeletons are ancient builders who died from ancient withers.
yeah but heres the thing. How would blazes come to? Like, how did they even originate cuz clearly they have an NPC coding but like you cant really make fire just become a l i v e
Heres a theory on the wither skeletons: the skeletons are the reincarnated (by the wither effect) remains of the casualties of war against the withers. The wither effect changed their bones black, and also drove them down a violent path. Also the fact of the wither skeletons are undead mobs would support this theory. This also makes me think of the wither effect as a virus, that takes control of its host, and "withers them away", brining the dead player into the vast armies of the wither skeletons. This theory would also support the fact that both the wither boss, and the skeletons give the wither effect upon getting damaged. As if they are trying to infect you, so you enter the endless horde of skeletons.
i just think its because of the ashes in the air, they drop coal when they die so its likely (ik coal and ash are different things but you get what i mean)
Just to add to that, based on the design of the nether fortress, I think it’s likely it started as a nether hub. The long isolated pathways were designed not as protection from zombies, which could be accomplished much easier with much shorter platforms, but as protection from ghasts and piglin raids. Ordinarily you would want to concentrate the forces of a fortress, make them easier to defend, but on a nether fortress, the paths are important, they’re roads in another hub. At the end of each path was probably a portal that they destroyed when the zombies attacked.
I wonder How nobody saw your comment. This reminds me of the fact that If you build a portal in overworld at long distance, the spawning location in the nether also changes. This is incredible. There definitely something at the end of each pathway.
I thought about this too If all the path ways and such were for safe and quick transport in the nether. It could explain the horse armour and the saddles being the chests since the pathways are big enough for horses
You’re definitely right but I still think it’s worth drawing attention too because it’s a very unique sound nonetheless and I think it’s interesting they would even add a breathing sound to a mob like this
while this does seem like a pretty good theory, I feel like it could be possible that all the Wither Skeletons are just the fortress' members who were killed by the Wither, since mobs killed by the Wither drop Wither roses, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch if the ancient Withers could turn things they kill into Wither Skeletons. The current Withers are much weaker than the theoretical ancient ones, so their power of doing this would have weakened to a point of only turning things into Wither roses
Wifies: "The Tragic Story of Minecraft's Nether Fortress" Speedrunners: "KIll blazes, wither skeletons suck unless you are doing an all bosses speedrun."
Mini-Theory for the lava well! The builders could've used the lava to smelt netherrack and to make netherrack bricks. This leads to the "But they could just get it outside". They couldn't. It was much too dangerous. (Considering the giant withers theory) They used the well to safely get lava while staying away from the withers. The well, as any normal well, would refill with time. So they had a safe way to gather fuel.
It’s like when witches have water cauldrons, they have it for the purpose of not dying while trying to leave (for example: a human just appears there and kills the witch) to take water to make their potions. Also it could be that the swamp water is just too dirty and they just wanted pure water instead ._.
That video was just amazing... especially the end bit... "An inhumane never-ending process, truly a terrible fortress" It all makes sense. Thanks Wifies :)
3:15 Who said the piglins made the bastions? It's called "Bastion Remnant" but if they are built by the piglins, it would still be a bastion, and not just a remnant. I think that the ancient race made them, but the piglins found them and inhabited them.
I think piglin society collapsed after the builders left, probably because they had no diamonds to infuse with netherite anymore, causing them all to panic and eventually just hoard the closest thing to pure netherite they had: Gold. Also without any pickaxes or good access to blackstone (because bastions cant spawn in basalt deltas) the piglins cant repair them.
I thought there was a theory that the piglins used to be much smarter and more advanced, but over time they became consumed by greed and ended up just hoarding gold and losing their intelligence as the fail to maintain their own buildings and aggressively attack anyone who takes their gold or even just opening a chest near them that wasn't even theirs.
fun fact: The Blaze's name in Hungarian is "Őrláng" that stands for Guard Flame. this leads to them being created and mass produced by the spawners to defend the fortress from the withers
well, withers are black, so they are already as burnt as they get; they are pretty much ashes, so they can't be burnt any further. immune from the beginning.
12:12 People volunteered themselves to be brutalized and have their bones charred? That sounds pretty messed up. I take it these ancient builders never had the ability to respawn after death too.
@@chickensandwich5096 when spawned in the overworld, ender dragons can destroy every block except obsidian, bedrock, and command only blocks like structure blocks and command blocks.
5:37 I would like to mention that the lava well _does_ have a purpose. As it is mentioned in the video, lava can be used to smelt things. Netherrack can be smelted into nether brick, which is (of course) what nether fortresses are built out of. Additionally, the extra space in the large room could be used to smelt large quantities of netherrack into nether bricks in a single area. This could also explain why wither skeletons are black, as the skeletons of the ancient race were likely charred or burned during the process of transforming netherrack into nether brick. Another thing worth mentioning is that the nether fortresses were built with corridors tall enough to let wither skeletons move freely, indicating that they most certainly played a role in the construction of the fortresses.
This joke is so overused now but Mojang: hmm, let’s add a structure to beat the game for gameplay purposes Wifies: DID I HEAR AN INDICATION OF LORE? Also this is unrelated but my theory is that everytime a backup is loaded, the progress made was all a dream
I like that this hypnosis briefly addresses the fact that the Wither Skeletons are 2.4 blocks tall. This feels like an important detail, something intentional.
My theory is that nether was once much like the over-world and lava was scarce, once a cataclysmic event (volcanic eruption?) Wiped the flesh off the innocent humans, changed water into lava, and the lava turned lush green into the brutal red. EDIT: Some people have been asking me about some of the nether features and what theories did I made for them, well I did make them but I didn't include it in the original comment because I thought it would make the comment even larger and hard to read. Here are them: Bedrock roof: If anyone knows how pressure works, you know that diamonds form because of pressure (The element carbon gets crushed under immense pressure and they form diamonds.); Similarly The bedrock roof formed because of Pressure, Temperature and Time, The volcanic eruption melted rocks below the Ground and turned Stone into gas, they get spewed off into the atmosphere, The gas solidifies at the "Edge" of the atmosphere and are not attracted back to the ground because, well Minecraft doesn't attract blocks to the ground except gravel, sand and other blocks like that. That solidified mass hardens over time to make the unbreakable bedrock roof. Ancient Debris: An Ancestor of bedrock. They will turn into bedrock in 4.2 Billion Years, Also they are mixed in with iron rust. Bones: Those dead animals fossilized by soul sand. Soul Sand: Ashes of animals Life on earth: The volcanic eruption formed Obsidian and the humans used it to make nether portals all across the nether, They couldn't escape in time, but the Plants did, The nether portal remains are the now popularly known Ruined Nether Portals That should solve all your questions!
I think the blazes spawning from spawners should have a bigger role on the theory, they could have just spawned naturally like wither skeletons, I think spawners are canon
I think you're on to something. Most spawners (with the exception of cave spider spawners) such as blaze and magma cube spawners, dungeon spawners and even silverfish spawners are indeed so prominently placed as to suggest this is the case.
I believe spawners are an important piece to solve the mystery of 'what happened to the builders' , cause remember, if it were a plague, there are SPAWNERS THAT SPAWNS ZOMBIES AND SKELETONS! (also spiders but that's not as interesting as the others)
My theory is that the nether portal is a time machine. U travel to the future where everything is radioactive, because when u travel underground u can sometimes here a radioactive meter thing sound. The piglins are villagers that mutated. Also they call netherite as ancient debris, which can be actually old rusted metal of the previous world. Or modern day.
a mojang developer confirmed that the nether is simply a separate dimension. it is not deep below the bedrock, neither is it the future or past of the overworld. but dont let that stop you from getting creative
1:10 The end with a goddamn dragon and void everywhere: "ExCUSE me?" Also, obsidian can't be made in the nether, so it was the overworld people going to the nether.
@@fumothfan9 that doesnt change anything. you still CANNOT naturally obtain obsidian in the nether. just because you can get blaze powder from villagers doesnt mean blaze rods come from the overworld-- it means there was a surplus of resources being exchanged from the overworld and nether.
To be honest the combo of blaze and wither is just op, when you are hitted by a wither Skele and get black hearted meanwhile a blaze shoots fireball at you, your hp gonna down with an insane acceleration.
Theory: The ancient huge whithers killed the some of the builders. They are obviously undead, what killed them? Considering how similar they are to the actual wither, could dying to the wither affect be similar to the zombie plague but with skeletons this time?
To me the blaze has always been a defensive mob that hovers high above enemies(while not wandering far) that snipe you from extremely far distances (zombies are susceptible to fire as well). And they infinitely regenerate from the spawners.They’re a two in one defense system and farmable component to potion brewing. The “lava wells” may just be the easiest light source to to make. Make a bowl of heat resistant material and dump the bright lava in.
I love how complicated minecraft lore is, but when you take a step back its like: enderman? ancient builders. skeletons? ancient builders. zombies? ancient builders. 90% of all structures? ancient builders.
Dear Wifies I would believe that the ancient builders discovered nether wart from crimson forests because the "leaves" on a warped fungus tree are nether wart blocks.
"Those Were The Days" being an advancement name really makes you think sometimes. I don't think Steve is necessarily human. He might be some kind of dark soul taking on a friendly form. He knows how to play with souls and if you read Achievement and Advancement titles, you get enough to make you point to official lore even if it's very little. Your avatar was doing something before spawning into the world for us. Up to something that we don't know about.
It’s pretty safe to assume that the Wither Skeletons now own the Nether Fortresses and maybe they were normal skeletons from the over world at some point - hence the over world items and black colour, being charred by the heat. But about blazes - they don’t spawn naturally. As you said, if the Nether Fortress was a defensive base and the blaze are there for potions, I’d say the Wither Skeletons or original inhabitants made the spawners to get potion ingredients. Still on the topic of blaze, it may look like the rods are randomly spinning around it, but if you focus on one you can see that they’re actually very linear - they are obviously imprisoned. Also the zombie theory is pretty much canon. They’re wearing ragged clothes of Steve and we see zombies convert villagers. Maybe when a pig enters the Nether, it becomes a Piglin or a Hoglin - then when the virus travels through to the Nether and takes it, they become the zombies versions of those. INTERESTING THEORIES HERE!!
11:52 "Under develop brains" you really gonna hit one of the smartest creatures like that, to be fair when the ancient builders existed the villagers where probably primative and kept as that since the buildermen (Ancient Builders) where already the ruling mobs.
It is also interesting how blazes drop blaze rods, which can craft eyes of ender, leading to a dungeon. Though if this theory is right, the dungeons would be built after blazes. Does this possibly mean the blaze's rods can follow the builders? Or is this a sign that the dungeons were there before the humans?
I have a theroy. Steve was once an Ancient Builder. I think he was one of them because he clearly knows how to cure zombie villagers. Something this video theroyizes that the Builders invented. I think during the Whiter Skeleton attack. Steve fled through a portal. One of which he fled the scene of. (Probably causing broken portals to be made) Steve than ran many blocks away from the portal towards the direction of "spwan". This is where the game begins. Steve would probably realize that he had to free the souls of the Blazes and Whiter Skeletons. So he would grind for recourses. (Diamonds, Iron, ECT) And than, after finding a ruined portal, he would repair it and find his way to the fortress. Killing the Blazes and Whiter Skeletons. He would eventually realize that he should kill the whiter, thinking it would free the Skeletons souls. After the battle, it wouldn't work and he would eventually leave the nether. Get ender pearls, combine with blaze powder, and locate the stronghold. Which would result in him beating the " Game". But that's just a theroy. A comment theroy. Thanks for reading. Edit: I also think the end credits might be the Whiter Skeletons and Blazes souls congratulatoring him for ending everything, the game.. And their suffering.
5:31 I mean, why do we like indoor plumping instead of just going to a stream outside? It's probably just more accessible in the fortress. 6:15 you know potions being made primarily from two non-natural items actually makes a lot of sense. 9:06 Darth Vader! :0 13:48 You just had to do the advancement name drop didn't you Wilfies?
Also for 5:31 I thought, "Why do we like fountains so much? There has to be at least one mansion or hotel with an indoor fountain." For us, water isn't just something we drink, it can also be something we look at because it's pretty. What if in the Nether, the lava is the same way? I can't explain why it's a well, not a lava fountain, but it's an idea
I had an interesting idea in relation to this theory Considering the experimental aspects and the idea of trying to evade a plague I immediately thought of for some reason, Halo's Forerunners and the Flood. Sounds wild yes, but hear me out In Halo Lore the Forerunners tried to escape the Flood by digitizing themselves, so that they could basically become the one thing they thought immune to the Floods influence and regain their organic forms later. This however did not work as intended as those they tried to bring back came back. . .wrong. They stopped doing it, until the Ur-Didact used the knowledge of this product to make Prometheans, soldiers that purposefully were digitized so that they could pilot robotic bodies into battle safely. This however did not stop here, as the Ur-Didact used the Composer, a weapon capable of digitizing a large amount of people at once, onto the species he hated - the Humans - and turned them into unwitting Prometheans aswell. That Lore dump aside, I hope what I'm getting at makes more sense What if the Blaze's were the Ancient Builder's idea of the Digitization process used by the Forerunners? Think about it - they can respawn freely, they can fly, shoot fire balls, and are immune to fire damage in Minecraft's hell. Perfect for exploring the Nether, or even the Overworld if you're careful However it didnt quite work out as expected so they found another use for these captured souls instead. .. they ended up helping their people against this plague sure, but not in the way they probably signed(assuming they werent prisoners) up for. This also tied in the Wither Skeletons as perhaps the undead remnants of these soldiers - the process of transfering life into something else in a realm saturated with soul energy brought their corpses to life aswell, blackened from the energy that had ravaged them. I dunno I just thought it was a potential parallel and a cool one at that Another idea was the Blazes instead being used to perhaps explore the Nether at first only to turned in a last ditch effort into a tool to fight the plague, since everyone knows flames are the est way to fight the undead, though since the Overworld is so hostile to them clearly they found another way to make use of the Blazes Though Im not sure how the Wither fits in with this idea Maybe early experiments into trying to use their bodies directly instead of porting them into some sort of vessel?
I actually had a similar take, using the flood as an analogy for the plague but not for the nether. I suggest that the real purpose of the sea monuments was a massive halo weapon, an activated conduit with enough range to eliminate all vectors of the plague alongside deactivating the protective machinery. The fact that the conduit does not attack the villagers and the endermen to me suggest that the builders never warred with the endermen or else they could have just deployed modified conduits protected by obsidian walls to commit an enderman genocide and wipe the species out. Not to mention, a conduit with that much range and perhaps instead many overlapping conduit pillars could wipe out the withers too considering the wither skulls (only normal ones) can't penetrate obsidian. A wither attack could definitely be repelled by the *marine halo hypothesis* (what I'm calling this idea). A fleet of floating ships with conduits could definitely be used as a way to clear out withers with continuous damage or a massive condiut superweapon could be fired at short range to deal tremendous damage at them so it would be a confirmed that the wither hypothesis is false if the ocean monuments are indeed massive conduits that was designed to amplify the conduit effect over several hundred blocks and establish safe zones where the undead die en masse. A counter evidence would be the lack of the conduit weapons in the Nether but I could argue the plague's nether origin to be true and say that the builders were driven out by the infected from the nether and that the portals were broken by the ancient builders to prevent more from swarming in. The ancient builders then began to slowly move to the coasts as they lose land to the infected and eventually went under the sea, building their monument weapon and protecting it with immensely powerful fleets. Now, there's one hole in this idea. Why didn't the weapon activate? Why didn't the weapon establish massive conduit power zones and wipe out the infected? My best guess is two possibilities. Either something like the 00 installation exists and the ancient builders were wiped out there, failing to activate all zones at the same time or the monuments were built automatically and either finished after the builders died out or the activation group failed to arrive and so the weapons went unactivated.
Hey wifies! loved the video! I had a suggestion.. maybe make a binge-able playlist of all your lore videos? I was looking for the playlist and couldn't seem to find it. It would be amazing if you could make one!
You guys know how the wither creates the witherose when it kills mobs? Well maybe when the "Ancient Wither" killed the ancient builders, it created the wither skeleton
This is what I was thinking. If we take the previous theory that ancient Withers are the fossils we see, the theory that the Wither wiped out the ancient builders, and this theory that ancient builders built nether fortresses to fight against them, then it makes sense that wither skeletons are the product of that battle. Plus we already know that the Wither can imbue withering energy into whatever it kills through wither roses.
My favorite thing about minecraft is that even though there's extremely little evidence to prove any of this, it's fun because you also can't be disproven either. What grounds would you have to stand on to shoot down a minecraft theory when that's what the game is meant for
I have a theory that the spiral on the bottom of the ancient debris, on the bottom of a shulker, the small moving spiral on the sea lantern, and the Nether portal spiral are all linked or maybe just the sea lantern spiral and the nether portal spiral are linked. Maybe like some sort of other energy, spiral energy I'd call it. If you have anything to comment on, please do
The debris shulker link could explain why you get two 'flakes' when you smelt the debris... It's the petrified shells... So maybe the builders took shulkers with them to the end (rather than them being native)?
Honestly i think the saddles and horse armors (not including leather horse armor) was made with a special material only obtained from nether fossil creatures.
I believe the Blazes are kind of like "fire golems" who served the ancient builders as part of the defense. The wither skeletons, however, may be the corrupted (withered) skeletons of ancient builders.
I think the chiseled blocks show mobs that have been accidentally created by the ancient builders: Chiseled nether bricks: Wither skeletons Chiseled blackstone bricks: Piglins Chiseled red sandstone: Wither Chiseled sandstone: Creeper
I’m like 100% positive the only reason blaze rods are used in brewing stands is to make them more expensive especially before it was in villages and needed blaze powder.
um if youve read the mobestiary youd know that blaze rods hold "unlimited amounts of heat energy" and theyre used to heat up the metal burners on a brewing stand.
@@itap8880 Blaze rods are the best form of heat, and heat has a lot to do with magic in Minecraft along with souls and hard material like obsidian. Every time we brew we’re using souls (netherwart growing from soulsand) and have to temper it with heat (blaze rods) to extract the physical attributes of whatever it is we’re brewing.
4:27 I was thinking Maybe The ancient builders Built fortress And then Died from the heat and there bones dried and withered turning them to wither skeletons
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Imagine Notch watching this and being like: this is just a cool building that has loot for the players........
edit: looks like i started something, also someone got mad so i moved this sentence to the top of the reply
u still reading this?
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if u continue to read this, you acknowledge the cringe and are responsible for your brain damage
ok here it is
fact: notch is no longer part of mojang
he left years ago
@@PotatoTheProgrammer yes, but when fortresses were added he was still the developer
@@PotatoTheProgrammer he was still the owner when fortresses were there
@@PotatoTheProgrammer fact: Minecraft is a game
@@oneasiangirl no way really I thought it was a religions
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An IP grabber????? My tiny brain is confused
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MatPat, RGN, and Wifies: This is clearly an indication that all hostile mobs work for the Illuminati.
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A few things I think you should have explored and added into the theory:
- Regular skeletons also spawn in fortresses, although much less frequently then wither skeletons;
- Wither skeletons and piglins are hostile towards each other. The same does not happen between piglins and blazes, which only attack each other when provoked;
- Piglins become zombified when going to the Overworld, and are strangely more tame when zombified. Hoglins also become zombified, however become extremely agressive in the process, attacking every other mob in the game;
- Even more curious, piglins and hoglins are not immune to fire despite being native to the Nether, but their zombified counterparts are.
Other than that this is a good video.
also, wither skeletons are taller than regular skeletons
And one more strange thing, Blazes attacks the Wither, and so do the Wither, it's strange since most mobs have to be provoked to start attacking the Wither, this makes me think that apart to being a farm to make potions, they also were made to protect the fortress agains't the Wither
I also want to note that hoglins are hostile toward allays
yes this is truth
Skeletons only spawn in Nether Fortresses if the Fortress spawns in a Soul Sand Valley.
Edit: I am wrong, please ignore this comment.
Cool video! I thought the story you presented was well-told and quite enjoyable!
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Just to build on this slightly, undead mobs take damage from potions of healing. One of the only places you find naturally generating brewing stands (besides villages) is in the End ships. And of course, every single one of those brewing stands are stocked with potions of healing. This leads to my theory that the ships were constructed in a last ditch effort to return to the overworld and eradicate the zombies by raining those potions down from above.
So is it possible that the ancient builders went to the Nether but eventually their fortresses fall and they had to flee back to the overworld. Then using their knowledge of potions they went to the End as a final desperate attempt. This is also the general route the player would go in survival...the nether then they visit the End. Quite litteraly, the End for the ancient builders
From game theory and what I’ve seen in comments they needed to make a cure for a virus which was turning people into zombies so they made the igloos and tested cures on villagers then they conducted experiments on blazes, killing people to make them and using the skeletons left over the souls in soul sand make wither skeletons which would explain why both are hostile then fearing the creations they tried to make a guardian. The Wither which is also why you get The Beginning because this is the beginning of the end for the builders, so then running was their only options and using scraps from their tests before they made a portal and then they ran through using some other scraps to make the Warden including souls stored in soul sand then using the ships they made the end cities using scraps to make it which would also explain the elytra because that was their most prized possession, the only way back to the normal world but then after a diet of chorus fruit they became enderman
The brewing stand in the hidden rooms of igloo: *allow me to introduce myself*
I like to think Blazes are melted-in-lava Wither skeletons, with their teared up ribs becoming the 12 floating rods (like the 12 pairs of ribs on a human skeleton). Melted enough to fusion into really hot and strong material, it explains this metalic sound to their breathe and the nature of their fire throwing abilities.
That's what I thought 2
Victor JOZEK, why aren't you writing your own your story with that theory/lore of yours?
@@TotallyNotMangoFruit Nah nah nah, I meant why isn't he writing this in a book. The blaze rods are so clearly obviously melted rib bones that became crystalized under the heat, while the skull took longer to do so as it was a cursed black skull that was hollow within. The crystal like features is how I explain the metallic and ultimately scorched surface breathing
If I ever write a story featuring the Nether and it was about a Nether Fortress, this is the lore I'd be looking for right here. Hell, why not even throw in a familiar foe you know all too well? The Wildfire can be it's own hostile, but the Hovering Inferno would be a boss worth reaping the rewards
However...
I've got ideas that you might not agree on though that's not stopping me from including them into the hostile itself either way (Hint: "Nelo Angelo")
I like the thought of blazes being nacho dipped wither skeletons - I'm going to call blazes nachos from now on
That actually makes sense
"saddles can only be found in chests"
leatherworker villager: am I a joke to you?
Ravager drop: *am I a joke to you?*
Fishing: you guys may not be a joke, but I sure as heck am.
Sad ravager noises
@@masterfakeio4736 no
Pretty sure he meant the ones that are iron, diamond etc saddles
Mojang: Let's add a cool structure in the nether which has some loot and offers the player a challenge
Lore theorist: As you can see here...
This is what I like to call *L O R E*
*monjang*
monjang
Mineyang
MONJANG
why monjang tho?
Notch: Bruh, I'm too tired to do interior of the Fortresses, let's just keep it simple
Wifies: But why they're empty? Clearly this is indication of...
@about you ip grabber
LORE
clearly the author was trying to indicate some sort of emptiness within the souls of the inhibitants!!!!
@@Wifies hi
@@Wifies and it makes good content
To me, the lava well could very well be some sort of altar. Kind of a sacred room at the core of their fortresses, dedicated to the worship of some deity. Maybe its purpose was to protect the fortress against external attacks, by placing it under the protection of a god or goddess.
I just thought it was a safer way to produce nether bricks
nononononono
Or *hear me out*
Lava in the nether is the equivalent to water in the overworld. They basically plumbed some into the fortress.
@@MrHydra12 makes sense, considering theres literal oceans of lava in the nether
@@MrHydra12 for some creatures but not the people from the overworld
My thoughts is that the fortress was originally just made for potions (blazes are natural and the ancient builders farmed and put them into a spawner) but then they found out about the ancient giant withers. They then made it into a fortress to defend and all of the wither skeletons are ancient builders who died from ancient withers.
Yeah
That's what I was thinking as well.
Wow, I see plenty of us had the same idea
yeah but heres the thing. How would blazes come to? Like, how did they even originate cuz clearly they have an NPC coding but like you cant really make fire just become a l i v e
@@dysop skeleton falls in lava?
wifie: “something, is missing”
random ad: GET THE WHOLE TEAM TOGETHER
Bro,this happened when i read your comment
XD
@@doubleziv Lol that’s amazing
Was it the main event ad?
@@Xiphius it was for chocolate
@@illbeinmycoffin PERFECT TIMING
Heres a theory on the wither skeletons: the skeletons are the reincarnated (by the wither effect) remains of the casualties of war against the withers.
The wither effect changed their bones black, and also drove them down a violent path.
Also the fact of the wither skeletons are undead mobs would support this theory. This also makes me think of the wither effect as a virus, that takes control of its host, and "withers them away", brining the dead player into the vast armies of the wither skeletons. This theory would also support the fact that both the wither boss, and the skeletons give the wither effect upon getting damaged. As if they are trying to infect you, so you enter the endless horde of skeletons.
i just think its because of the ashes in the air, they drop coal when they die so its likely (ik coal and ash are different things but you get what i mean)
@Patrick Lu exactly
@@yeeyt464 good theory on the wither skeletons. It also makes sense with ash falling on them and turning their bones black.
that was what I was thinking!
@@EliEnby bro same
Just to add to that, based on the design of the nether fortress, I think it’s likely it started as a nether hub. The long isolated pathways were designed not as protection from zombies, which could be accomplished much easier with much shorter platforms, but as protection from ghasts and piglin raids. Ordinarily you would want to concentrate the forces of a fortress, make them easier to defend, but on a nether fortress, the paths are important, they’re roads in another hub. At the end of each path was probably a portal that they destroyed when the zombies attacked.
I wonder How nobody saw your comment. This reminds me of the fact that If you build a portal in overworld at long distance, the spawning location in the nether also changes. This is incredible. There definitely something at the end of each pathway.
I thought about this too
If all the path ways and such were for safe and quick transport in the nether.
It could explain the horse armour and the saddles being the chests since the pathways are big enough for horses
Now im curious about where you would end up if you made portals in the spots that seem like portals should go there
“The blaze breathing sounds eerily similar to a human”
Lots of mob sounds in games are randomly taken from irl humans or animals
@BLU Engi yup
The blazes didn’t have to breath tbh, but they decided to add that detail
Yup, my ex's snoring contributed to the zombie sound
@@idontreallyknwo no they talk but their voice is groggy
You’re definitely right but I still think it’s worth drawing attention too because it’s a very unique sound nonetheless and I think it’s interesting they would even add a breathing sound to a mob like this
Now the "a terrible fortress" achievement makes even more sense
while this does seem like a pretty good theory, I feel like it could be possible that all the Wither Skeletons are just the fortress' members who were killed by the Wither, since mobs killed by the Wither drop Wither roses, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch if the ancient Withers could turn things they kill into Wither Skeletons. The current Withers are much weaker than the theoretical ancient ones, so their power of doing this would have weakened to a point of only turning things into Wither roses
The bedrock wither spawns wither skeletons.
@@Treble453 yes but only on hard mode
@@Jeremonkey90 still something to consider.
I agree
Yeah, their flesh got withered.
"Lava has no real purpose"
Obsidian: Am I a joke to you?
But that's all you can do with it. When you're already in the nether you don't really need it, unless you're using them for teleportation
Wifies: "The Tragic Story of Minecraft's Nether Fortress"
Speedrunners: "KIll blazes, wither skeletons suck unless you are doing an all bosses speedrun."
Lmao whenever I go
to a fort I just kill blazes and I’m out
true
Hehe lol
@@zhainos260 me too lol
*remember to not break the freaking blaze spawner*
Mini-Theory for the lava well!
The builders could've used the lava to smelt netherrack and to make netherrack bricks. This leads to the "But they could just get it outside".
They couldn't. It was much too dangerous. (Considering the giant withers theory) They used the well to safely get lava while staying away from the withers. The well, as any normal well, would refill with time. So they had a safe way to gather fuel.
Or maybe putting the arrows in flames?
Shooting an arrow through lava makes the arrow burn.
Idk it makes sense to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s like when witches have water cauldrons, they have it for the purpose of not dying while trying to leave (for example: a human just appears there and kills the witch) to take water to make their potions.
Also it could be that the swamp water is just too dirty and they just wanted pure water instead ._.
I thought it was once water until the place heated up and witherd
@@wmmbl it is positioned in fortresses in ways where you literally cannot use it for that method. It is fully enclosed with 1 opening.
@@Savariable plus almost every enemy in the nether is immune to fire
The "This is truly a terrible fortress" with the advancement was a perfect ending. Chefs Kiss
That video was just amazing... especially the end bit... "An inhumane never-ending process, truly a terrible fortress" It all makes sense. Thanks Wifies :)
3:15 Who said the piglins made the bastions? It's called "Bastion Remnant" but if they are built by the piglins, it would still be a bastion, and not just a remnant. I think that the ancient race made them, but the piglins found them and inhabited them.
I think piglin society collapsed after the builders left, probably because they had no diamonds to infuse with netherite anymore, causing them all to panic and eventually just hoard the closest thing to pure netherite they had: Gold. Also without any pickaxes or good access to blackstone (because bastions cant spawn in basalt deltas) the piglins cant repair them.
i think that the piglins RULED the Bastion not made it. though its still a mystery
I thought there was a theory that the piglins used to be much smarter and more advanced, but over time they became consumed by greed and ended up just hoarding gold and losing their intelligence as the fail to maintain their own buildings and aggressively attack anyone who takes their gold or even just opening a chest near them that wasn't even theirs.
watch the main lore video (the ancient builders one)
fun fact: The Blaze's name in Hungarian is "Őrláng" that stands for Guard Flame.
this leads to them being created and mass produced by the spawners to defend the fortress from the withers
Interesting.
but withers are immune to fire; so blazes are usless against withers.
??
@@snicklick701 then the wither adapted to be immune to fire
well, withers are black, so they are already as burnt as they get; they are pretty much ashes, so they can't be burnt any further. immune from the beginning.
12:12 People volunteered themselves to be brutalized and have their bones charred? That sounds pretty messed up. I take it these ancient builders never had the ability to respawn after death too.
Nah more like votes
"Why is it black? That's weird"
-Wifies 2021
@about you ip grabber
@@thundere.b2314 nah it’s just some religious crap ignore it
@@YourLocalNobody420 ip grabber disguised as religious crap
There's a dot in the video link, which means it's an ip grabber
thats what she said
@@yapflipthegrunt4687 im pretty sure the dot is normal might be wrong tho
"you can only find saddles in chests"
Fishing and the leatherworker villagers: am I a joke to you?
Killing ravagers: am I a joke to you?
@@soupser7188 yes
"Wither is the scariest and most destructive mob in the game"
Enderdragon: Am I a joke to you?
@@uniwolfgamer1094 I play bedrock so, yes, the Ender Dragon is a joke to me, the Wither is the most destructive mob in bedrock.
Maybe it was before the update
"to summon the wither the most horrifying and destructive mob in all of minecraft" ender dragon in the overworld: are you sure about that?
bedrock wither: Am I a joke to you?
Ender Dragon in overworld ?
Huh ?
@@jitendrasoni4639 You can use commands to spawn the Enderdragon in the overworld.
ender dragon isn't destructive dragon only attacks the players
@@chickensandwich5096 when spawned in the overworld, ender dragons can destroy every block except obsidian, bedrock, and command only blocks like structure blocks and command blocks.
9:05 it's Darth Vader no arguments
The wither Skelton and blaze are like the game “close your eyes.” Their soul gets put in the blaze and their bones get re animated,
Oh yeah, their souls are put into robot bodies and their remaining parts looks creepi
You'll be here soon
@@oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo00 : |
That also makes sense
Makes sense
5:37 I would like to mention that the lava well _does_ have a purpose. As it is mentioned in the video, lava can be used to smelt things. Netherrack can be smelted into nether brick, which is (of course) what nether fortresses are built out of.
Additionally, the extra space in the large room could be used to smelt large quantities of netherrack into nether bricks in a single area. This could also explain why wither skeletons are black, as the skeletons of the ancient race were likely charred or burned during the process of transforming netherrack into nether brick.
Another thing worth mentioning is that the nether fortresses were built with corridors tall enough to let wither skeletons move freely, indicating that they most certainly played a role in the construction of the fortresses.
Notch: lets just make a rlly cool build for players to loot and make potions with no lore intended
Wifies: or is it?
Alt title: picking apart things that were never, ever meant to be given a thought
THATS THE PLAN
@@Wifies *THE* *PLAN* *IS* *SIMPLE*
This joke is so overused now but
Mojang: hmm, let’s add a structure to beat the game for gameplay purposes
Wifies: DID I HEAR AN INDICATION OF LORE?
Also this is unrelated but my theory is that everytime a backup is loaded, the progress made was all a dream
Blazes: *Breaths*
Wifies: THIS IS IT! CONTENT!!
I like that this hypnosis briefly addresses the fact that the Wither Skeletons are 2.4 blocks tall. This feels like an important detail, something intentional.
My theory is that nether was once much like the over-world and lava was scarce, once a cataclysmic event (volcanic eruption?) Wiped the flesh off the innocent humans, changed water into lava, and the lava turned lush green into the brutal red.
EDIT: Some people have been asking me about some of the nether features and what theories did I made for them, well I did make them but I didn't include it in the original comment because I thought it would make the comment even larger and hard to read. Here are them:
Bedrock roof: If anyone knows how pressure works, you know that diamonds form because of pressure (The element carbon gets crushed under immense pressure and they form diamonds.); Similarly The bedrock roof formed because of Pressure, Temperature and Time, The volcanic eruption melted rocks below the Ground and turned Stone into gas, they get spewed off into the atmosphere, The gas solidifies at the "Edge" of the atmosphere and are not attracted back to the ground because, well Minecraft doesn't attract blocks to the ground except gravel, sand and other blocks like that. That solidified mass hardens over time to make the unbreakable bedrock roof.
Ancient Debris: An Ancestor of bedrock. They will turn into bedrock in 4.2 Billion Years, Also they are mixed in with iron rust.
Bones: Those dead animals fossilized by soul sand.
Soul Sand: Ashes of animals
Life on earth: The volcanic eruption formed Obsidian and the humans used it to make nether portals all across the nether, They couldn't escape in time, but the Plants did, The nether portal remains are the now popularly known Ruined Nether Portals
That should solve all your questions!
Kind of a far stretch. Cool idea, but not as good of a theory as other people have thought of.
and some plants turned into ancient debris
@@t2mptedd Now that's dumb.
But how does the nether roof generated/exists? It also has a bedrock layer on the most top layer
Sounds like a doom invasion
I think the blazes spawning from spawners should have a bigger role on the theory, they could have just spawned naturally like wither skeletons, I think spawners are canon
I think you're on to something. Most spawners (with the exception of cave spider spawners) such as blaze and magma cube spawners, dungeon spawners and even silverfish spawners are indeed so prominently placed as to suggest this is the case.
@about you stop ramming calming music into people’s faces
@@hindigente these are also places the community believes were made by the ancient builders...
except for the bastion...
I believe spawners are an important piece to solve the mystery of 'what happened to the builders' , cause remember, if it were a plague, there are SPAWNERS THAT SPAWNS ZOMBIES AND SKELETONS!
(also spiders but that's not as interesting as the others)
@@Pablo-rg7ge it's an IP grabber, meaning he has your location, name, date of birth now etc
0:08 when Europeans discovered Africa.
Lmao nice one 😂😂
No man, just britain to south africe
Him: “hello internet”
Me: i know that from somewhere-
Nice game theory ref!
My theory is that the nether portal is a time machine. U travel to the future where everything is radioactive, because when u travel underground u can sometimes here a radioactive meter thing sound. The piglins are villagers that mutated. Also they call netherite as ancient debris, which can be actually old rusted metal of the previous world. Or modern day.
Big brain
Or it’s just a different dimension
a mojang developer confirmed that the nether is simply a separate dimension. it is not deep below the bedrock, neither is it the future or past of the overworld. but dont let that stop you from getting creative
@Aditya vk clouds that are light and solid, they are held up somehow by the netherack
1:10
The end with a goddamn dragon and void everywhere: "ExCUSE me?"
Also, obsidian can't be made in the nether, so it was the overworld people going to the nether.
It can be traded via pigmen. Also ruined portals exist now and crying obsidian is like obsidian that has some magic in it
@@fumothfan9 that doesnt change anything. you still CANNOT naturally obtain obsidian in the nether. just because you can get blaze powder from villagers doesnt mean blaze rods come from the overworld-- it means there was a surplus of resources being exchanged from the overworld and nether.
@@audrey2658 you can in the base game but not in lore
You can build a portal in the nether didn't you see the nether update?
"who leaves a skeleton here and why is it black?"
Skeleton: *so you have chosen death*
racist skeletons
5:49 Mabye they use this lava to tortue others for info, they dangle them over it
To be honest the combo of blaze and wither is just op, when you are hitted by a wither Skele and get black hearted meanwhile a blaze shoots fireball at you, your hp gonna down with an insane acceleration.
Go in nether trade with piglin get fire resistance go to a fortress ez as that blaze are no problem
Theory: The ancient huge whithers killed the some of the builders. They are obviously undead, what killed them? Considering how similar they are to the actual wither, could dying to the wither affect be similar to the zombie plague but with skeletons this time?
To me the blaze has always been a defensive mob that hovers high above enemies(while not wandering far) that snipe you from extremely far distances (zombies are susceptible to fire as well). And they infinitely regenerate from the spawners.They’re a two in one defense system and farmable component to potion brewing.
The “lava wells” may just be the easiest light source to to make. Make a bowl of heat resistant material and dump the bright lava in.
"The nether is the most mysterious biome in minecraft"
The end: am I a joke to you?
also it isnt a biome, it has multiple biomes
'dimension'
Aither: you guys are even a dimensions???
@@Gunslinger832 *aether*
@@OverOmni i dont give a shit
I love how complicated minecraft lore is, but when you take a step back its like:
enderman? ancient builders.
skeletons? ancient builders.
zombies? ancient builders.
90% of all structures? ancient builders.
3:17 ...and if you carve sandstone it reveals an image of a creeper face
The creepers built the desert temples confirmed
9:50 this is starting to sound like a movie
Wifies: What are the Nether Fortresses?
Speedrunners: …..Blaze Rods?
Infested with a ton of annoying skeletons?
Dear Wifies I would believe that the ancient builders discovered nether wart from crimson forests because the
"leaves" on a warped fungus tree are nether wart blocks.
Wifies: “Why is it black?”
Wither Skeleton: **intense taco bell sound**
Elder guardians love Taco Bell, confirmed
Matpat’s theory: Robot blazes and reanimated skeletons Wifie’s theory *souls of the dammed trapped in artificial body’s for all of eternity*
"Those Were The Days" being an advancement name really makes you think sometimes. I don't think Steve is necessarily human. He might be some kind of dark soul taking on a friendly form. He knows how to play with souls and if you read Achievement and Advancement titles, you get enough to make you point to official lore even if it's very little.
Your avatar was doing something before spawning into the world for us. Up to something that we don't know about.
I forgot what you have to do to get that achievment 💀
"The only way you can get saddles is from a chest." Yes, because ravagers and fishing don't exist.
As wells as strider jockeys
@@bingusdingus3999 yea
@@bingusdingus3999 yes, they live in the Nether. So it doesn't count.
both of which have to be done in the overworld
A yes the floor is made out floor
The most tragic thing is that it didn't get updated in 1.16 :(
Mojang: adds absolutely no hidden meaning
Wifies: is that so...
@Naturobot P r/wooooosh
@@starredgaze neckbeard lol
@@catboyneilcicierega I don’t even have a beard lol
Also appearance doesn’t matter
@@starredgaze neckbeard lol
The Breeze seems to confirm that Blazes were created to be defense against any invaders to the fortress.
It’s pretty safe to assume that the Wither Skeletons now own the Nether Fortresses and maybe they were normal skeletons from the over world at some point - hence the over world items and black colour, being charred by the heat.
But about blazes - they don’t spawn naturally. As you said, if the Nether Fortress was a defensive base and the blaze are there for potions, I’d say the Wither Skeletons or original inhabitants made the spawners to get potion ingredients.
Still on the topic of blaze, it may look like the rods are randomly spinning around it, but if you focus on one you can see that they’re actually very linear - they are obviously imprisoned.
Also the zombie theory is pretty much canon. They’re wearing ragged clothes of Steve and we see zombies convert villagers.
Maybe when a pig enters the Nether, it becomes a Piglin or a Hoglin - then when the virus travels through to the Nether and takes it, they become the zombies versions of those.
INTERESTING THEORIES HERE!!
Wifies is like an English teacher, while an English teacher finds hidden meaning the author intended, wifies does that to minecraft
11:52 "Under develop brains" you really gonna hit one of the smartest creatures like that, to be fair when the ancient builders existed the villagers where probably primative and kept as that since the buildermen (Ancient Builders) where already the ruling mobs.
*developed
*were
*primitive
*stayed not kept
*were
Why does Wither Seleton use Stone Swords ?
11:15 nether wart existed way before crimson and warped roots.
we're talking lore-wise not gameplay-wise
alternate title: Making Minecraft Lore So Mojang Doesn't Have To
Mojang themselves said that there IS lore to minecraft.
9:45 I agree with this that seems the most reasonable.
13:03 wait XD why is that wither skelly just glitching though the wall and teleporting?
You just rescued me out of an endless rabbit hole of RUclips shorts
Lol
He got me out of reporting comment bots
@TommyInnit 🅥 .
@about you .
Lol same
It is also interesting how blazes drop blaze rods, which can craft eyes of ender, leading to a dungeon. Though if this theory is right, the dungeons would be built after blazes. Does this possibly mean the blaze's rods can follow the builders? Or is this a sign that the dungeons were there before the humans?
My theory about the lava well room is that they are almost like a forge for turning netherack into brick
I have a theroy.
Steve was once an Ancient Builder.
I think he was one of them because he clearly knows how to cure zombie villagers. Something this video theroyizes that the Builders invented. I think during the Whiter Skeleton attack. Steve fled through a portal. One of which he fled the scene of. (Probably causing broken portals to be made) Steve than ran many blocks away from the portal towards the direction of "spwan". This is where the game begins. Steve would probably realize that he had to free the souls of the Blazes and Whiter Skeletons. So he would grind for recourses. (Diamonds, Iron, ECT) And than, after finding a ruined portal, he would repair it and find his way to the fortress. Killing the Blazes and Whiter Skeletons. He would eventually realize that he should kill the whiter, thinking it would free the Skeletons souls. After the battle, it wouldn't work and he would eventually leave the nether. Get ender pearls, combine with blaze powder, and locate the stronghold. Which would result in him beating the " Game".
But that's just a theroy. A comment theroy. Thanks for reading.
Edit: I also think the end credits might be the Whiter Skeletons and Blazes souls congratulatoring him for ending everything, the game.. And their suffering.
Why does Wifies sound so much like Veritasium lmao.
Their voices are so identic sometimes I dont know who im watching.
@about you shut up
@about you stfu
@about you
I want you to turn into a blazeeee
I definitely like the idea of "builders" being a race of people in minecraft. Like players are some of the last remaining builders of the world
I love this minecraft lore, espicially when Wifies does it!
5:31 I mean, why do we like indoor plumping instead of just going to a stream outside? It's probably just more accessible in the fortress.
6:15 you know potions being made primarily from two non-natural items actually makes a lot of sense.
9:06 Darth Vader! :0
13:48 You just had to do the advancement name drop didn't you Wilfies?
Also for 5:31 I thought, "Why do we like fountains so much? There has to be at least one mansion or hotel with an indoor fountain." For us, water isn't just something we drink, it can also be something we look at because it's pretty. What if in the Nether, the lava is the same way? I can't explain why it's a well, not a lava fountain, but it's an idea
6:26 the sprite shows it's made of a blaze rod aswell
Wifies: saddles can only be found in chests
Me: fishes for saddles
Anyone else think the “blaze breathes” audio-file sounds like Darth Vaders breathing mixed with a hint of Zombie sounds?
yes lol
yes lol very funny
I had an interesting idea in relation to this theory
Considering the experimental aspects and the idea of trying to evade a plague I immediately thought of for some reason, Halo's Forerunners and the Flood. Sounds wild yes, but hear me out
In Halo Lore the Forerunners tried to escape the Flood by digitizing themselves, so that they could basically become the one thing they thought immune to the Floods influence and regain their organic forms later. This however did not work as intended as those they tried to bring back came back. . .wrong. They stopped doing it, until the Ur-Didact used the knowledge of this product to make Prometheans, soldiers that purposefully were digitized so that they could pilot robotic bodies into battle safely. This however did not stop here, as the Ur-Didact used the Composer, a weapon capable of digitizing a large amount of people at once, onto the species he hated - the Humans - and turned them into unwitting Prometheans aswell.
That Lore dump aside, I hope what I'm getting at makes more sense
What if the Blaze's were the Ancient Builder's idea of the Digitization process used by the Forerunners?
Think about it - they can respawn freely, they can fly, shoot fire balls, and are immune to fire damage in Minecraft's hell. Perfect for exploring the Nether, or even the Overworld if you're careful
However it didnt quite work out as expected so they found another use for these captured souls instead. .. they ended up helping their people against this plague sure, but not in the way they probably signed(assuming they werent prisoners) up for.
This also tied in the Wither Skeletons as perhaps the undead remnants of these soldiers - the process of transfering life into something else in a realm saturated with soul energy brought their corpses to life aswell, blackened from the energy that had ravaged them.
I dunno I just thought it was a potential parallel and a cool one at that
Another idea was the Blazes instead being used to perhaps explore the Nether at first only to turned in a last ditch effort into a tool to fight the plague, since everyone knows flames are the est way to fight the undead, though since the Overworld is so hostile to them clearly they found another way to make use of the Blazes
Though Im not sure how the Wither fits in with this idea
Maybe early experiments into trying to use their bodies directly instead of porting them into some sort of vessel?
Big brain time!
I'm glad I'm a halo lore buff
I actually had a similar take, using the flood as an analogy for the plague but not for the nether. I suggest that the real purpose of the sea monuments was a massive halo weapon, an activated conduit with enough range to eliminate all vectors of the plague alongside deactivating the protective machinery.
The fact that the conduit does not attack the villagers and the endermen to me suggest that the builders never warred with the endermen or else they could have just deployed modified conduits protected by obsidian walls to commit an enderman genocide and wipe the species out. Not to mention, a conduit with that much range and perhaps instead many overlapping conduit pillars could wipe out the withers too considering the wither skulls (only normal ones) can't penetrate obsidian. A wither attack could definitely be repelled by the *marine halo hypothesis* (what I'm calling this idea). A fleet of floating ships with conduits could definitely be used as a way to clear out withers with continuous damage or a massive condiut superweapon could be fired at short range to deal tremendous damage at them so it would be a confirmed that the wither hypothesis is false if the ocean monuments are indeed massive conduits that was designed to amplify the conduit effect over several hundred blocks and establish safe zones where the undead die en masse.
A counter evidence would be the lack of the conduit weapons in the Nether but I could argue the plague's nether origin to be true and say that the builders were driven out by the infected from the nether and that the portals were broken by the ancient builders to prevent more from swarming in.
The ancient builders then began to slowly move to the coasts as they lose land to the infected and eventually went under the sea, building their monument weapon and protecting it with immensely powerful fleets.
Now, there's one hole in this idea. Why didn't the weapon activate? Why didn't the weapon establish massive conduit power zones and wipe out the infected? My best guess is two possibilities. Either something like the 00 installation exists and the ancient builders were wiped out there, failing to activate all zones at the same time or the monuments were built automatically and either finished after the builders died out or the activation group failed to arrive and so the weapons went unactivated.
“But there is something missing, spectrum internet..” Bro I cracked up when that add played perfectly
Hey wifies! loved the video! I had a suggestion.. maybe make a binge-able playlist of all your lore videos? I was looking for the playlist and couldn't seem to find it. It would be amazing if you could make one!
Bet
Glad you enjoyed it
Meanwhile me: casually making wither skeleton farm
I always assumed the end wasn't so much an alternate dimension as it was the future.
You guys know how the wither creates the witherose when it kills mobs? Well maybe when the "Ancient Wither" killed the ancient builders, it created the wither skeleton
I guess but it would make ancient wither rose
Right?
This is what I was thinking. If we take the previous theory that ancient Withers are the fossils we see, the theory that the Wither wiped out the ancient builders, and this theory that ancient builders built nether fortresses to fight against them, then it makes sense that wither skeletons are the product of that battle. Plus we already know that the Wither can imbue withering energy into whatever it kills through wither roses.
Wifies: "Minecraft is no stranger to-"
Me: "LoOoOoOove"
This needs more attention-
"You know the rules, and so do I"
@Aiden Otero you wouldn’t get this from any other guy
@Aiden Otero Gotta make you understand!
@Aiden Otero Never gonna let you down
@Aiden Otero Never gonna make you cry
My favorite thing about minecraft is that even though there's extremely little evidence to prove any of this, it's fun because you also can't be disproven either. What grounds would you have to stand on to shoot down a minecraft theory when that's what the game is meant for
I have a theory that the spiral on the bottom of the ancient debris, on the bottom of a shulker, the small moving spiral on the sea lantern, and the Nether portal spiral are all linked or maybe just the sea lantern spiral and the nether portal spiral are linked. Maybe like some sort of other energy, spiral energy I'd call it. If you have anything to comment on, please do
Maybe a disaster happened which crushed the Shulkers which then by time became ancient debris debris and the other Shulkers then escaped to the end
The debris shulker link could explain why you get two 'flakes' when you smelt the debris... It's the petrified shells... So maybe the builders took shulkers with them to the end (rather than them being native)?
Honestly i think the saddles and horse armors (not including leather horse armor) was made with a special material only obtained from nether fossil creatures.
Then how are they in the overworld?
I believe the Blazes are kind of like "fire golems" who served the ancient builders as part of the defense. The wither skeletons, however, may be the corrupted (withered) skeletons of ancient builders.
I think the chiseled blocks show mobs that have been accidentally created by the ancient builders:
Chiseled nether bricks: Wither skeletons
Chiseled blackstone bricks: Piglins
Chiseled red sandstone: Wither
Chiseled sandstone: Creeper
You did not only solve the mystery of the nether fortress, but also Zombies, the igloo and the stronghold. Now THAT is impressive!
Yeah, no
Moreso speculated than solved
4:06
This is very true
But doesn’t the fact that piglins have iron nuggets as a trade have a say in this part of the theory?🤔
That's what I was wondering
since piglins cant go into the overworld and neither can the brutes i thought they stole the iron from the fortresses??
In my opinion portal remnants are the best in-game explanation for why there are Overworld materials/items in the Nether.
maybe they think there scamming the traders and just throwing away unless iron for precious gold
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S A C R A F I C E
P I T
*sacrifice
nether: “im the most mysterious dimension full of mysteries!!”
end: *”wanna bet??”*
"The nether is the most dangerous place in Minecraft"
The end: Am I a joke to you
I’m like 100% positive the only reason blaze rods are used in brewing stands is to make them more expensive especially before it was in villages and needed blaze powder.
um if youve read the mobestiary youd know that blaze rods hold "unlimited amounts of heat energy" and theyre used to heat up the metal burners on a brewing stand.
@@parallax256 That doesn't explain why the brewing stand needs to be fueled with blaze powder.
@@itap8880 well...
The blaze rod cooks the ingredients
And the blaze powder boils the water
That's the fun thing about creating a game though. The best feature is when you can connect a gameplay mechanic to the story
@@itap8880 Blaze rods are the best form of heat, and heat has a lot to do with magic in Minecraft along with souls and hard material like obsidian. Every time we brew we’re using souls (netherwart growing from soulsand) and have to temper it with heat (blaze rods) to extract the physical attributes of whatever it is we’re brewing.
4:27 I was thinking Maybe The ancient builders Built fortress And then Died from the heat and there bones dried and withered turning them to wither skeletons
watch the main lore video, don't comment theories lime that without watch g the main ancient builders lore (also on wifies channel)