@@Dude-vq3oe, The lore tell different, the Ancient Builders(the most advanced sapient species in Minecraft) are the dominant species in Minecraft, they had tribes and they're technology is crude but unremarkable, they allies, the Illagers are just fairly advance but has great knowledge in Magic, both Civilization collapse because of the Wither, the Ancient Builders became the Enderman after the Endersent(Non-technologucal beings who cares they're world( that is they're niches in the End ecosystem)) turned them into Endermen, the Endersent force the Enderman to made the End Cities into Shulkers reservation site and they force the Enderman to make the pillars to make sure the last Ender Dragon survive because the End ecosystem is dead, barren because of the Ancient Builders. The Illagers just try to bring back they're allies but they fails, they're appearance is forgotten but in they're legend, it stays. The Illagers hate they're ancestors species, the Villagers, they think the Villagers are just religious pacifist primitives( the Villager religion will be found in Minecraft Legends) that need to die, but the problem is, the Villagers has knowledge on technology and they made Iron Golems(robots so advance in they're Era).
@@feliciastaldotter5168true, but minecraft lengends (which you don't need to play,) supports those theories making the ancient builder theory a hypothesis
People forget guardians and elder guardians are literally robots to maintain and guard ocean temples, they are not fish and they utilize lasers to hit you. Minecraft civilizations ranges from primitive(villagers) to highly advanced(Ancient cities) or possibly left this planet before you. I would say this world is around centuries beyond us after an apocalypse.
Would be interesting if they would ever add a different ancient City deep underground. One that has Sky Scrapers and modern Roads. But I doubt they'll ever add that
Minecraft is a post apocalyptic world for centuries so yeah but the recipies we currently got in game are the knowledge of steve and what he finds throughout the world. My personal headcannon is the updates are Steve discovering new things and gaining knowledge. Steve is most probably a person born at the very end of civilization and somehow got immortality but it came at a cost of losing his own consciousness. After wandering the world for centuries we players somehow got the power to control him as vessel for ourselves to immerse in Minecraft.
Steve when he discovers that bedrock layer at y=0 is not bedrock after all, and finds copper and different ore distribution, and new biomes in the nether, and (actually the aquatic update is fine as the ocean is barely explored in the real world anyway) but good point!
Almost like a loreless Vintage Story if Vintage Story had underdeveloped mechanics and lame progrese system like minecraft does (yes it does considering how long it has been here compared to VS which already has better things to provide than mc)
@@JackRogers-x9e the game isn't for everyone, but those who appreciate a game that can't be completed in less than 20 minutes will have a great time with it. yes, it took me ages to do some things for the first time but I know that it can be done much faster if I do things more efficently
Remember, mojang refuses to add mining helmets to the game because they’re too modern, even though they predate the jukebox. As for additions, I think a netherite crossbow that uses echo shards as ammo and fires a beam similar to the warden’s sonic shriek would be awesome.
Don't know when those were invented and I'm too lazy to look it up, but they could just make a Iron Helmet or something similar that has a Torch at the Front
I always thought it took place in an alternate world because you have things like flying machines and music discs but then you have two guys outside fighting each other with magical weapons and potions
Amazing video, it seems to me that minecraft is like a post apocalyptic world so maybe that explains how there are so many advanced things and so many unadvanced things
Ahhh that's a great thought - smatterings of knowledge here and there but other things are lost to time! I still want hot air balloons and zeppelins! -Stephen
Wait that explains a lot unironically. Especially the lost to time portal rooms with the strongholds that look like they've just been abandoned for decades, some places in the world straight up being zombie villages, like an outbreak happened, at least that's what it would suggest, things like the nether, etc, it all suggests doomsday, some sort of event took place in the past.
Agreed! It also explains the tame environment and docile wilderness at daytime, with rare, friendly animals and small, recent trees with lack of ecodiversity and flat, familiar terraformed terrains; and the advanced civilisations, buried underground with the deepdark, and underwater with the prismarine temples, and the stark difference between players and villagers, even seen in zombified villagers and the vast majority of Steve like zombies. Even the end message of Minecraft hints at gigantic jumps in time and history.
Considering Minecraft has fantasy elements and a lot of fantasy can have a mixture of features from multiple time periods, I would say that Minecraft is either really post-apocalyptic with civilization starting over OR it’s set in a High Middle Ages sort of setting with anachronistic technologies.
2:38 that doesnt count. computers theoretically could have been built at any period of time if the people new what they were doing. just because you CAN build a computer with redstone doesnt mean anything since just with wires you can make a simple relay which you can use to make logic gates which you can use to make a computer
In that case, Napoleon could’ve been driving around in a Mercedes Benz texting king Alexander of Russia on his iPhone, anything could’ve been made at any time if we had the knowledge of it. That only comes with experience, time, and education.
@ no your missing the point, he’s trying to look at minecraft from the standpoint of what’s in the game. If you use redstone to create industrialised technology it is in a sense cheating since “when minecraft is set” should be in reference to the technology and evolutionary status of the current game before its interacted by the player
I think around 1600~1800 because of the music discs that can be found in almost every structure, music discs should be very popular in the minecraft universe, and I would add catapult, it would be funny :)
Minecraft is sandbox, your world is yours, everything this world belong to you. Even time and history of world is yours, that means past, present and future of world creating by you.
How I’ve always interpreted it is that Minecraft takes place during the mid-late 15 century, as gunpowder existed at that time, and while handheld firearms did exist, the crossbow was generally preferred, and most combat was still hand to hand, just like how we see it in the game.
I always saw minecraft as no set time in particular, but the new trial chambers update feels like some sort of techological enlightenment to the game's era. There's also technically some form of wireless wifi using skulk and redstone. So that puts us in the 1990's.
It’s more likely to be post-apocalyptic set centuries or millennia into the future and the surviving humans just reinvented random technologies they remembered from their past civilization so there aren’t guns but there is flight and I’d also think guns aren’t that far away from being reinvented because the humans in Minecraft have crossbows now and gunpowder, someone will put gunpowder in a crossbow and use something other than fireworks
Technically, since adders don't appear in the game in any structures or blocks/items and because you are building them the size of skyscrapers. it would be before that, like when the lightbulb was created.
That's a very good point - basic computers the size of whole rooms is a very old thing so its definitely not modern! I think 1880s is a good bet - although that still makes me want hot-air balloons! -Stephen
This has puzzled me since i first started playing in the early 2010s. Theres medieval technologies like crossbows and swords but then theres highly advanced things like the end crystal and inter-dimensional travel
3:28 As soon as you said "wot" I immediately thought of the Wheel of Time and how there were different ages of technological progress that gets "reset" every Age. I thought it was a sort of reference to the series but alas no. Still a pretty great and informative video though!
@@GoodMorningGames_ The book series is extremely long and if you have the patience, I definitely recommend it if you're into fantasy. The TV show is pretty good in it's own merit (it deviates from the books significantly but still good).
A thing to note, if minecraft wanted to be accurate historically they would need to add guns (musket, revolvers,wagons.etc) if they wanted to stick to a specific time period
Finally!!! after years. I found a satisfying answer. I had this question for years, but everytime I try to find the answer on the internet it always said the release date . THANK YOU SO MUCH
Stop calling them ROBOTS! They are GOELMS A golem is a creature sculpted from inanimate material and then given life through magic. It is a living creature made from inorganic materials and magic, not a mechanical automaton.
I’m pretty sure Game theory’s theories allude that the game is set in a post apocalyptic future because of the small Easter eggs and clue in the game. Their vids always made a ton of sense to me so I really just accepted them as headcanon.
I’d say Minecraft’s time period is set in the future after a terrible apocalypse. Just villagers and creatures trying to recover from it and remember what they once created
Imagine if Minecraft is actually set thousands of years in the future where humanity has gone extinct except you and a couple of villagers. It can’t be medieval times because robots didn’t exist. So I’m think around 10,000 AD
I like the idea that the overworld takes place in the future after civilization collapsed. And there's proof in the game that the nether is the extremely distant past and the end is the extremely distant future.
Oh my god. This explains why it's called the end@ I've never thought of it like this before! (Yes ik it's actually called the end bc it's the end of the game. Leave me alone)
Since we are getting different weapons like the Mace, they should add a baton that shortly stuns its target upon hit, people that are reading this, balance the baton.
Mincraft is set in the future where people learn to travel dimensions into the end and nether and create life like the iron golem also all the animals evolved to a Single gender and the villagers don’t do much pollution so live grower faster and makes some animals bigger like spiders and chickens are almost half the size of a human
@@boslyporshy6553 i know. You can set up stasis chambers but that is very difficult and you can forget, hence why i want a full on tele-porter. It could take xp or something to balance it. Waystones mod is a good example of this.
@@boslyporshy6553reminds me how before day-light sensors were developed. People had to to rely on the villager Goin in and out of home mechanic. Or in order to fly in minecraft. Once the elytra came out, but before they had the rocket propulsion. You needed to shoot yourself with a high knockback bow. I think having a simple invention or a set of blocks to teleport the player from place can help wonders. We kinda already have this with the end beacons. I think a device like this should be somewhat hard to get to earn or aquire though. Like an underwater conduit or a beacon. And obviously like the eleytra. It's a post game thing. Plus. It already fits with the end. With the theme of Teleporting and what not.
3:05 Iron ingots, tools, armor and blocks all appear to be made of steel. The only exceptions are anvils, hoppers, and cauldrons, which appear to be made of cast iron. Low-carbon steel is the purest form of iron that's widely produced. It is closer to pure iron than many iron alloys historically referred to as "iron", such as wrought iron and cast iron. If we assume iron in Minecraft is close to pure iron, as the name and texture suggest, that would mean it is steel.
The interchangeability of iron and steel in Minecraft seems to be supported by the "flint and steel" item, which despite being made from a piece of flint and an *iron* ingot, translates to an item referring to this component as "steel". The recipe lacks carbon (coal) to otherwise convert the iron to steel, so this means that iron and steel are considered the same thing in Minecraft
It's part post-apocalyptic (ruins everywhere), part steampunk (redstone). Therefore, it's in some kind of future compared to when the ruins weren't ruins.
I think you forgot to mention the jukebox, which was technically invented around 1880, but the modern jukebox (which is more like Minecraft’s) was invented around 1950
You need to realize. Minecraft does not have a "set time date". It is a sandbox. It is completely random until you, the player, decides when and where it is taken place in. It is up to you that says what exactly happens. It is up to you to decide the lore of this randomly-generated world. It is up to you to do anything. That's why this game is a sandbox game.
I always thought rope should be added. Imagine attaching 1 end to a block or a tree and then throwing the rest down a cave so you can climb down and climb up. Using water to climb doesn't make sense. With rope imaging making ziplines to travel from a high mountain and down a valley. Maybe have it to tie up wolves to have a certain distance they can run and protect an area.
I never really thought of this. But I feel like I needed it. Thanks! I also have a record player and I quite enjoy it, along with like 100 records. I don’t really know what I would add, but most likely something along the lines of Valkyrien Skies
The discs in game are proportionately large enough to be EP’s or even full 33-1/3rds, those definitely weren’t around in 1857. First 33-1/3 was introduced in 1948. But still Minecraft is set in the distant future.
Iv always seen it as a fresh world and the player is able to combine elements to make certain things. Anything the player makes shouldn't be an indication of the time because there's nothing to say that the player is from the same time period as the game, we clearly have some outside knowledge as we are able to craft things that are not naturally in the game world. It would be interesting to see this video again but only focusing on naturally occurring items and blocks. Still a great video btw
Minecraft is a game that TVTropes might describe as "Schizotech". The game kind of feels very medieval in a lot of ways. There are no advanced computers, no cars, no planes, no guns, etc. You fight with swords and shields or bow and arrow, and you wear forged plate armour to protect yourself. But there are a few technologies and aesthetics that do appear somewhat modern. There are music boxes that play phonograph disc records, which are a 19th Century invention. Some of the default player models, wear modern clothing styles. Steve seems to be a guy wearing a T-Shirt and Jeans. TNT is weird, because while TNT is a 19th Century invention, the block that Minecraft calls "TNT" cannot possibly be actual TNT. It's made of gunpowder, which TNT isn't. What Minecraft calls "TNT" would really be more of a powderkeg. Redstone is hard to categorise, because it does superficially resemble electricity, and some redstone contraptions function as circuits, but how redstone actually works seems to be more magic than real world physics. In the end, the devs have stated that Minecraft is meant to be timeless in its setting. The devs intentionally avoid featuring modern technology in this game, so as to not limit the player's creative freedom. If a player wants to build a modern city or a medieval castle, they can, and there are very few elements in the game that will really conflict with those building styles.
Honestly, I'd be happy if Mojang stopped trying to turn the game into what it's not for a few updates, realizes their core market isn't gamergaters who want to pvp and fight things, and just works on the available blocks, like adding slabs, walls and stairs for all the blocks that don't have them... I mean, the whole appeal of concrete irl is that it can be any shape...
I'd prefer a tonne of behind the scenes changes to the engine etc (make distant horizons part of the base game, better mod support etc) I think we have enough blocks at the moment to build pretty much anything!
Well in my theory Minecraft set in future millions year from now if you count command block, structure block, & other block that has ability to manipulate atom and it can create something, copy/duplicating, get data, etc. Also guardian and elder guardian are a robot and it has unlimited source of energy without recharge/refuel
"where are the hot air ballons and the planes" well there's this ambience sound when you go underground and you'll hear a sound that sound like a plane
minecraft is sort of this mix of time and geneas. there's redstone and disks and even computers, yet there's enchantments and potions and a whole dragon
Well actually it's based on the players you can make a futuristic street with solar pannels or you can make a medieval town, you can even make it wild west. The truth is Minecraft is never boring the only reason why people get bored of it is because they follow the purpose of the game too much which is making houses, gathering supplies & surival which doesn't need to be that way Notch made the game as a sandbox game do what you want that's it's purpose.
It personally feels post apocalyptic, maybe even millions of years in the future since all traces of modern civilization are nonexistent, and we only have villages and ruins that are likely to have been built many thousands or even millions of years after the collapse of civilization by the survivors of said collapse, the villagers and the ancient builders.
i saw minecraft as a world that suffered from extiction of intelligent life,because according to matpat there used to be ancient builders that built all the structures we see in the game and that life form suddenly disappeared we also have monsters such as zombies and skeletons implying a post apocalyptic reason and the only life we see close to inteeligence is villagers and ender man and the neder dragon is likely to be las t of its kind since the egg doesnt hatch and so my conclusion is that minecraft is a world where intelligent life died to extinction and you as a player needs to rebuild it
Long ago, there were these "Ancient Builders" who were the ones who set foot in this "young" world. A tragedy happened which wiped them out, leading to other dimensions as a failsafe gone south. We the player, are the remains of that civilization long ago. Rediscovering technologies, structures, culture and even the creatures. As updates go by, we slowly unravel the past's secrets for us to understand what happened to the ones before us...
Note about redstone, you can make computers, but even the most compact redstone is allways huge, so I would say the game takes place in the eria of those giant vacumetube-based computers.
For me, Minecraft is set in a Distant Future after a Big Catastrophe took place and the Earth was transformed into a Cube, reshaping many continents and leading to the end of humanity.
I've always thought of Minecraft as being a post-apocalyptic world that's recovered and rebuilt itself, much like the Adventure Time universe.
Yeah, Adventure Time is a great example to compare it to!
@@Dude-vq3oe, The lore tell different, the Ancient Builders(the most advanced sapient species in Minecraft) are the dominant species in Minecraft, they had tribes and they're technology is crude but unremarkable, they allies, the Illagers are just fairly advance but has great knowledge in Magic, both Civilization collapse because of the Wither, the Ancient Builders became the Enderman after the Endersent(Non-technologucal beings who cares they're world( that is they're niches in the End ecosystem)) turned them into Endermen, the Endersent force the Enderman to made the End Cities into Shulkers reservation site and they force the Enderman to make the pillars to make sure the last Ender Dragon survive because the End ecosystem is dead, barren because of the Ancient Builders.
The Illagers just try to bring back they're allies but they fails, they're appearance is forgotten but in they're legend, it stays.
The Illagers hate they're ancestors species, the Villagers, they think the Villagers are just religious pacifist primitives( the Villager religion will be found in Minecraft Legends) that need to die, but the problem is, the Villagers has knowledge on technology and they made Iron Golems(robots so advance in they're Era).
@@ArmandoEnfectana-bp6jo thats theory not established lore
@@feliciastaldotter5168true, but minecraft lengends (which you don't need to play,) supports those theories making the ancient builder theory a hypothesis
yeah like the music discs for example may be modern, but you can in no circumstance build one
People forget guardians and elder guardians are literally robots to maintain and guard ocean temples, they are not fish and they utilize lasers to hit you. Minecraft civilizations ranges from primitive(villagers) to highly advanced(Ancient cities) or possibly left this planet before you. I would say this world is around centuries beyond us after an apocalypse.
Would be interesting if they would ever add a different ancient City deep underground. One that has Sky Scrapers and modern Roads. But I doubt they'll ever add that
@@drakepancake2903 golems no robots its not sci-fi😆
also, when did a fish be able to curse you with mining fatigue
Aren't they fishes? They definitely don't seem or sound like robots but I'm not too familiar with the lore..
@@drakepancake2903 bruh golems made of prismerine
Minecraft is a post apocalyptic world for centuries so yeah but the recipies we currently got in game are the knowledge of steve and what he finds throughout the world.
My personal headcannon is the updates are Steve discovering new things and gaining knowledge.
Steve is most probably a person born at the very end of civilization and somehow got immortality but it came at a cost of losing his own consciousness.
After wandering the world for centuries we players somehow got the power to control him as vessel for ourselves to immerse in Minecraft.
Steve when he discovers that bedrock layer at y=0 is not bedrock after all, and finds copper and different ore distribution, and new biomes in the nether, and (actually the aquatic update is fine as the ocean is barely explored in the real world anyway) but good point!
Almost like a loreless Vintage Story if Vintage Story had underdeveloped mechanics and lame progrese system like minecraft does (yes it does considering how long it has been here compared to VS which already has better things to provide than mc)
@@WolltazarVintage Story sucks though. Takes hours to get anything done 😂
@@JackRogers-x9e the game isn't for everyone, but those who appreciate a game that can't be completed in less than 20 minutes will have a great time with it.
yes, it took me ages to do some things for the first time but I know that it can be done much faster if I do things more efficently
This is so cool
Like ibxtoycat said, Minecraft is set in the distant, distant future.
Apparently there's a comic for that too!
What's the name of the comic? @@GoodMorningGames_
@@GoodMorningGames_ What's the comic called?
I think Minecraft is set on an almost identical planet
@@ThrowawayAccountToCommentI can relate but it doesn’t make sense
-Advanced civilizations
-some destruction
-people recovering
-small villages form
Remember, mojang refuses to add mining helmets to the game because they’re too modern, even though they predate the jukebox. As for additions, I think a netherite crossbow that uses echo shards as ammo and fires a beam similar to the warden’s sonic shriek would be awesome.
That is a great idea, even if its super late game it'd be awesome
-Stephen
Don't know when those were invented and I'm too lazy to look it up, but they could just make a Iron Helmet or something similar that has a Torch at the Front
@@Firestar-TV Or a candle on top
I think "too modern" is just an excuse for them to not change the lighting engine
Fair tbh@@HellCromeE
I always thought it took place in an alternate world because you have things like flying machines and music discs but then you have two guys outside fighting each other with magical weapons and potions
Yeah it's quite the contradiction in terms of timelines!
Amazing video, it seems to me that minecraft is like a post apocalyptic world so maybe that explains how there are so many advanced things and so many unadvanced things
Ahhh that's a great thought - smatterings of knowledge here and there but other things are lost to time! I still want hot air balloons and zeppelins!
-Stephen
@@GoodMorningGames_ I can't wait for Create: Aeronautics
@@triacontahedron Me too, I'd love to do a create series with it!
-Stephen
Wait that explains a lot unironically. Especially the lost to time portal rooms with the strongholds that look like they've just been abandoned for decades, some places in the world straight up being zombie villages, like an outbreak happened, at least that's what it would suggest, things like the nether, etc, it all suggests doomsday, some sort of event took place in the past.
Agreed! It also explains the tame environment and docile wilderness at daytime, with rare, friendly animals and small, recent trees with lack of ecodiversity and flat, familiar terraformed terrains; and the advanced civilisations, buried underground with the deepdark, and underwater with the prismarine temples, and the stark difference between players and villagers, even seen in zombified villagers and the vast majority of Steve like zombies.
Even the end message of Minecraft hints at gigantic jumps in time and history.
Considering Minecraft has fantasy elements and a lot of fantasy can have a mixture of features from multiple time periods, I would say that Minecraft is either really post-apocalyptic with civilization starting over OR it’s set in a High Middle Ages sort of setting with anachronistic technologies.
You have zombies, and that puts you at 2027.
2027.... do you know something we don't????
@ maybe.
Wrong timeline mate, here we got WW3, go back to your baka
Someone in the near future will probably say „Bro had a vision”
2:38 that doesnt count. computers theoretically could have been built at any period of time if the people new what they were doing. just because you CAN build a computer with redstone doesnt mean anything since just with wires you can make a simple relay which you can use to make logic gates which you can use to make a computer
In that case, Napoleon could’ve been driving around in a Mercedes Benz texting king Alexander of Russia on his iPhone, anything could’ve been made at any time if we had the knowledge of it. That only comes with experience, time, and education.
@ no your missing the point, he’s trying to look at minecraft from the standpoint of what’s in the game. If you use redstone to create industrialised technology it is in a sense cheating since “when minecraft is set” should be in reference to the technology and evolutionary status of the current game before its interacted by the player
I think around 1600~1800 because of the music discs that can be found in almost every structure, music discs should be very popular in the minecraft universe, and I would add catapult, it would be funny :)
A catapult could be amazing! Would replace TNT cannons nicely and could even be used in raids!
-Stephen
But a lot of the music discs have chiptune in them, idk about you, but I don't think people in that time were listening to "8-bit" like music
Hmmm, yeah the music style on the discs would suggest later - especially Pigstep...
But music disc exist in ancient Minecraft, just look at relic found in trail ruins
@@HellCromeE and you think Mozart had the same instruments heard in that track?
The time frame is clearly "nuh uh"
😂😂
The wheel would be a great idea. Not anything super advanced but a early invention that would change the way transportation works in minecraft. 3:47
IDK if I agree with the gunpowder one with the creeper. Creepers straight up drop gunpowder fully formed, it doesn't need to be made.
This is a good point! It is naturally occurring not invented!
Scrolled all the way to find this point
@@GoodMorningGames_ firewrk would be a good item instead of gunpowder
This
Notch confirmed that Minecraft has no plot; therefore, it has no timeline either.
Minecraft is sandbox, your world is yours, everything this world belong to you. Even time and history of world is yours, that means past, present and future of world creating by you.
I personally believe that Minecraft was in an apocalypse before we appear in the world
How I’ve always interpreted it is that Minecraft takes place during the mid-late 15 century, as gunpowder existed at that time, and while handheld firearms did exist, the crossbow was generally preferred, and most combat was still hand to hand, just like how we see it in the game.
correction: Compasses don't point north, they point to World Spawn
Very true! Although if spawn is at the north Pole of the world, and the world is infinite - then it will always point north no matter how far you go 🤣
@@GoodMorningGames_ Eh, you'd have to make every 0,0 a Cold Ocean biome then lol
@@Iliadica pole is basically wherever the earth rotates on so it could be pointing at the sun
@@ex8800 Well most of the time in-game it isn't
muskets, cannons, crude air balloons, and phonographs
YES!
I always saw minecraft as no set time in particular, but the new trial chambers update feels like some sort of techological enlightenment to the game's era.
There's also technically some form of wireless wifi using skulk and redstone. So that puts us in the 1990's.
It’s more likely to be post-apocalyptic set centuries or millennia into the future and the surviving humans just reinvented random technologies they remembered from their past civilization so there aren’t guns but there is flight and I’d also think guns aren’t that far away from being reinvented because the humans in Minecraft have crossbows now and gunpowder, someone will put gunpowder in a crossbow and use something other than fireworks
Technically, since adders don't appear in the game in any structures or blocks/items and because you are building them the size of skyscrapers. it would be before that, like when the lightbulb was created.
That's a very good point - basic computers the size of whole rooms is a very old thing so its definitely not modern! I think 1880s is a good bet - although that still makes me want hot-air balloons!
-Stephen
@@GoodMorningGames_ my bad, i forgor autocrafters. which would require primitive computer logic to work ):
I completely forgot these too! Yeah auto-crafters would definitely need quite a bit of logic in them, I feel like observers would too!
-Stephen
This has puzzled me since i first started playing in the early 2010s. Theres medieval technologies like crossbows and swords but then theres highly advanced things like the end crystal and inter-dimensional travel
3:28 As soon as you said "wot" I immediately thought of the Wheel of Time and how there were different ages of technological progress that gets "reset" every Age. I thought it was a sort of reference to the series but alas no. Still a pretty great and informative video though!
I have not seen that! Is it worth a watch?
@@GoodMorningGames_ The book series is extremely long and if you have the patience, I definitely recommend it if you're into fantasy. The TV show is pretty good in it's own merit (it deviates from the books significantly but still good).
minecraft was always abstract and was never supposed to represent the real world.
Absolutely, was still a pleasure to do some reading into a bunch of history and bust the medieval feeling I always got from the game!
-Stephen
A thing to note, if minecraft wanted to be accurate historically they would need to add guns (musket, revolvers,wagons.etc) if they wanted to stick to a specific time period
3:23 i was waiting for the vsauce music to kick it 😂😂😂
Hey, Vsauce. Stephen here. Wot?
True
Finally!!! after years. I found a satisfying answer. I had this question for years, but everytime I try to find the answer on the internet it always said the release date
. THANK YOU SO MUCH
people often call villagers primitive but they can will a literal robot of iron that never drowns or takes fall damage just by being distressed.
That's very true, either some sort of magic - or they're very good engineers!
-Stephen
Stop calling them ROBOTS! They are GOELMS
A golem is a creature sculpted from inanimate material and then given life through magic. It is a living creature made from inorganic materials and magic, not a mechanical automaton.
3:00 depending on your definition of an airplane a redstone flying machine with wings could qualify
I disagree, cause that means you have to build it, the reassurances to build airplanes exist for millions of years on earth we just built them now
I’m pretty sure Game theory’s theories allude that the game is set in a post apocalyptic future because of the small Easter eggs and clue in the game. Their vids always made a ton of sense to me so I really just accepted them as headcanon.
I think everyone thinks of it as post apocalyptic, but its funny every video talking about minecraft becomes philosophical lol
If you think this ones bad, you should see my newest Thursday thoughts on whether Minecraft is a planet!
Hope you enjoyed it!!
-Stephen
When RUclips recommendations finally hits hard
Thank you so much for commenting! Hope you have a Great Morning!
-Stephen
the orbital strike railguns people make:
I could sleep to this guy's voice anyday.
Definitely watch MorningCraft, it's super chill!
-Stephen
@@GoodMorningGames_ Ok I will
3:23 well uh... hard to explain...
I’d say Minecraft’s time period is set in the future after a terrible apocalypse. Just villagers and creatures trying to recover from it and remember what they once created
The, once created?
might be set after some sort of apocalypse where only specific items were recovered
Oh wow this is definitely one of my favourite theories so far
Imagine if Minecraft is actually set thousands of years in the future where humanity has gone extinct except you and a couple of villagers. It can’t be medieval times because robots didn’t exist.
So I’m think around 10,000 AD
Not a small medieval village being modern 💀
Exactly! It's confusing time period wise!
But isn’t Steve a god, not the villagers god though, but wouldn’t he be able to bring in modern things into a medieval town?
I like the idea that the overworld takes place in the future after civilization collapsed. And there's proof in the game that the nether is the extremely distant past and the end is the extremely distant future.
how
Oh my god. This explains why it's called the end@ I've never thought of it like this before! (Yes ik it's actually called the end bc it's the end of the game. Leave me alone)
It's a post post post apocalypse like castle in the sky
Since we are getting different weapons like the Mace, they should add a baton that shortly stuns its target upon hit, people that are reading this, balance the baton.
Mincraft is set in the future where people learn to travel dimensions into the end and nether and create life like the iron golem also all the animals evolved to a Single gender and the villagers don’t do much pollution so live grower faster and makes some animals bigger like spiders and chickens are almost half the size of a human
You know, for some reason. I want tele-porters that you can set up around your world to instant travel.
I think there's a mod that adds these, would be pretty cool!
Ender pearls can do that. Though the set up requires portals and a number of other inconveniences.
@@boslyporshy6553 i know. You can set up stasis chambers but that is very difficult and you can forget, hence why i want a full on tele-porter. It could take xp or something to balance it. Waystones mod is a good example of this.
@@boslyporshy6553reminds me how before day-light sensors were developed. People had to to rely on the villager Goin in and out of home mechanic. Or in order to fly in minecraft. Once the elytra came out, but before they had the rocket propulsion. You needed to shoot yourself with a high knockback bow.
I think having a simple invention or a set of blocks to teleport the player from place can help wonders. We kinda already have this with the end beacons. I think a device like this should be somewhat hard to get to earn or aquire though. Like an underwater conduit or a beacon. And obviously like the eleytra. It's a post game thing. Plus. It already fits with the end. With the theme of Teleporting and what not.
Many structures exist so probably like a lot of time ago which is why there's so much nature
It’s a “fantasy world” specifically based on the gameplay
3:05 Iron ingots, tools, armor and blocks all appear to be made of steel. The only exceptions are anvils, hoppers, and cauldrons, which appear to be made of cast iron.
Low-carbon steel is the purest form of iron that's widely produced. It is closer to pure iron than many iron alloys historically referred to as "iron", such as wrought iron and cast iron. If we assume iron in Minecraft is close to pure iron, as the name and texture suggest, that would mean it is steel.
That's really good point, the colour of the items would suggest that! Thank you for commenting!
-Stephen
The interchangeability of iron and steel in Minecraft seems to be supported by the "flint and steel" item, which despite being made from a piece of flint and an *iron* ingot, translates to an item referring to this component as "steel". The recipe lacks carbon (coal) to otherwise convert the iron to steel, so this means that iron and steel are considered the same thing in Minecraft
This is a great point!
my friend : minecraft is a medieval game....
*me building an intercontinental nuclear missle*
It's part post-apocalyptic (ruins everywhere), part steampunk (redstone). Therefore, it's in some kind of future compared to when the ruins weren't ruins.
I think you forgot to mention the jukebox, which was technically invented around 1880, but the modern jukebox (which is more like Minecraft’s) was invented around 1950
You need to realize. Minecraft does not have a "set time date". It is a sandbox. It is completely random until you, the player, decides when and where it is taken place in. It is up to you that says what exactly happens. It is up to you to decide the lore of this randomly-generated world. It is up to you to do anything. That's why this game is a sandbox game.
I always thought rope should be added. Imagine attaching 1 end to a block or a tree and then throwing the rest down a cave so you can climb down and climb up. Using water to climb doesn't make sense. With rope imaging making ziplines to travel from a high mountain and down a valley. Maybe have it to tie up wolves to have a certain distance they can run and protect an area.
Oooo sort of like the opposite of scaffolding!
I think it’s an evolution game where you start at the beginning of time and as you get better you go farther forward in time
I never really thought of this. But I feel like I needed it. Thanks! I also have a record player and I quite enjoy it, along with like 100 records. I don’t really know what I would add, but most likely something along the lines of Valkyrien Skies
Woah, now that's quite the collection! I thought of the idea when I was doing some history research for a recent video - glad you enjoyed!
-Stephen
I would add wands or staffs to the game. Maybe different types depending on what you want to use as ammo (fire charges, wind charges, etc.)
Minecraft is set during the events of Minecraft
It’s weird how there’s medieval technology but also modern electricity, but electricity was invented somewhere in 1950-1900 if I can remember
It's always when is Minecraft, never how is Minecraft..
I would imagine its set at the 1800s- early 90s
It isn't set in a particular time period. It just has what Notch and others thought would be best.
All this does is further prove my theory that Minecraft is set in a post apocalyptic world
Redstone isn't electricity, it doen't act the same way. Redstone is magic
Hand cannons that do more damage than bows and crossbows but take longer to load
Yes!
Hundreds of thousands of years in the future
i like to say around 2500-3400 A.D as i believe it is a post-apocalyptic world with nearly zero remnants of the old world.
The discs in game are proportionately large enough to be EP’s or even full 33-1/3rds, those definitely weren’t around in 1857. First 33-1/3 was introduced in 1948. But still Minecraft is set in the distant future.
Iv always seen it as a fresh world and the player is able to combine elements to make certain things. Anything the player makes shouldn't be an indication of the time because there's nothing to say that the player is from the same time period as the game, we clearly have some outside knowledge as we are able to craft things that are not naturally in the game world. It would be interesting to see this video again but only focusing on naturally occurring items and blocks.
Still a great video btw
Minecraft is a game that TVTropes might describe as "Schizotech". The game kind of feels very medieval in a lot of ways. There are no advanced computers, no cars, no planes, no guns, etc. You fight with swords and shields or bow and arrow, and you wear forged plate armour to protect yourself.
But there are a few technologies and aesthetics that do appear somewhat modern. There are music boxes that play phonograph disc records, which are a 19th Century invention. Some of the default player models, wear modern clothing styles. Steve seems to be a guy wearing a T-Shirt and Jeans. TNT is weird, because while TNT is a 19th Century invention, the block that Minecraft calls "TNT" cannot possibly be actual TNT. It's made of gunpowder, which TNT isn't. What Minecraft calls "TNT" would really be more of a powderkeg. Redstone is hard to categorise, because it does superficially resemble electricity, and some redstone contraptions function as circuits, but how redstone actually works seems to be more magic than real world physics.
In the end, the devs have stated that Minecraft is meant to be timeless in its setting. The devs intentionally avoid featuring modern technology in this game, so as to not limit the player's creative freedom. If a player wants to build a modern city or a medieval castle, they can, and there are very few elements in the game that will really conflict with those building styles.
Plot twist: Minecraft takes place long after an apocalypse. Things have mostly recovered, but there are various anachronistic spikes in technology.
I always imagined it as modern times but steve is a castaway
…I had this thought like a few months ago and was too lazy to do research, thank you for making this!
You're welcome! I hope you enjoyed it and the info was well presented!
-Stephen
@@GoodMorningGames_ It’s very well thought out and is very well edited and is just **chefs kiss**
3:32 it's up to the players to build big cities in minecraft
Don't I know it! I've been building a city for over a year in my survival series!
I think Minecraft is set in our current time
"why not guns or rifles?" What about dispensers with fire charges?
That's more like a cannon I'd say, but its a very good point!
Honestly, I'd be happy if Mojang stopped trying to turn the game into what it's not for a few updates, realizes their core market isn't gamergaters who want to pvp and fight things, and just works on the available blocks, like adding slabs, walls and stairs for all the blocks that don't have them... I mean, the whole appeal of concrete irl is that it can be any shape...
I'd prefer a tonne of behind the scenes changes to the engine etc (make distant horizons part of the base game, better mod support etc) I think we have enough blocks at the moment to build pretty much anything!
I think it's during the industrial revolution
Well in my theory Minecraft set in future millions year from now if you count command block, structure block, & other block that has ability to manipulate atom and it can create something, copy/duplicating, get data, etc. Also guardian and elder guardian are a robot and it has unlimited source of energy without recharge/refuel
"where are the hot air ballons and the planes" well there's this ambience sound when you go underground and you'll hear a sound that sound like a plane
thank you mojang very cool
I always thought the game was post apocalyptic, where you’re just picking up remnants of technologies from the past that are still available
flintlock would go hard tbh
I always thought it was a tudor era kind of thing perhaps 1600s maybe but with just added technology.
Me who plays Minecraft with car and weapons plugins to get that modern experience
Minecraft takes place in a post apocalyptic world that's why there is recent stuff
3:53 I NEED A CAMERA IN MINECRAFT
Muskets is a thing i would add because there are gunpowder and tnt so why not add more gunpowder weaponry to make the game a real 19th century game
minecraft is sort of this mix of time and geneas. there's redstone and disks and even computers, yet there's enchantments and potions and a whole dragon
Yeah it's a real mixed bag!
genres
Well actually it's based on the players you can make a futuristic street with solar pannels or you can make a medieval town, you can even make it wild west. The truth is Minecraft is never boring the only reason why people get bored of it is because they follow the purpose of the game too much which is making houses, gathering supplies & surival which doesn't need to be that way Notch made the game as a sandbox game do what you want that's it's purpose.
It personally feels post apocalyptic, maybe even millions of years in the future since all traces of modern civilization are nonexistent, and we only have villages and ruins that are likely to have been built many thousands or even millions of years after the collapse of civilization by the survivors of said collapse, the villagers and the ancient builders.
It’s actually an alternate reality according to the movie
Whenever you want. It’s a sandbox. Yes there is lore. But *you* can make any lore you want.
small groups of nomadic hordes
Steel does exist in the form of the flint and steel, but somehow no way to turn iron into steel and make tools or weapons.
You should have mentioned the lightning rod after the spy glass
it could just be a final fantasy situation. Medieval and Future-tech merging
i saw minecraft as a world that suffered from extiction of intelligent life,because according to matpat there used to be ancient builders that built all the structures we see in the game and that life form suddenly disappeared we also have monsters such as zombies and skeletons implying a post apocalyptic reason and the only life we see close to inteeligence is villagers and ender man and the neder dragon is likely to be las t of its kind since the egg doesnt hatch and so my conclusion is that minecraft is a world where intelligent life died to extinction and you as a player needs to rebuild it
Long ago, there were these "Ancient Builders" who were the ones who set foot in this "young" world.
A tragedy happened which wiped them out, leading to other dimensions as a failsafe gone south.
We the player, are the remains of that civilization long ago. Rediscovering technologies, structures, culture and even the creatures.
As updates go by, we slowly unravel the past's secrets for us to understand what happened to the ones before us...
Minecraft is set wherever you set it
Very true, you can build a futuristic city, or an ancient one!
Note about redstone, you can make computers, but even the most compact redstone is allways huge, so I would say the game takes place in the eria of those giant vacumetube-based computers.
For me, Minecraft is set in a Distant Future after a Big Catastrophe took place and the Earth was transformed into a Cube, reshaping many continents and leading to the end of humanity.