#Minecraft game theory

[odiabonecessario]

What or who is Ender? Assuming the Orb of Dominance is the "sealed" form of the heart of Ender and everything related to The End has the Ender prefix and the full blown form of the Orb of Dominance is... well, this

or even this

yet it's only its heart, what kind of being/entity or even incomprehensible force is the Ender?

[illmoraineakoi]

So, I know I'm a little (very) late to the AvA stuff, but I was rewatching AvM Season 3 for the seven hundredth time and, well, I noticed something and I'm curious to know if it's been discussed before.

AvM Episode 29, Purple's story, specifically, Pink's death.

Her color changes as she dies, or is represented to have died.

It fades to grey.

Now, the question is, can we, or rather should we, use this to infer anything lore-related? Was this just an artistic choice to depict the act of becoming unhealthy/dying, or could this be what actually happens to stick figures that die over a period of time? Are their colors linked to their health?

Let's have a bit of fun with it, and presume that the fading of one's color can happen to a stick figure for health-related reasons, as the scene could imply.

This fading seems to involve loosing the saturation of one's color into grey. Saturation is how vibrant a color is, and the complete lack of saturation is greyscale.

The World-of-Alan reason for Pink's death is that she 'got sick', which is where the health connection of this theory comes from. If she did loose her color as she was dying as the notes depict, that loss of color was likely a result of her failing health rather than any other factors, like age or outside variables. A whole bunch of human body stuff are indicators for good vs poor health, including skin color (jaundice and cyanasis are good examples) so why not a stick's color for them?

What if, when they fully die, they lose all of their original color?

Now, let me propose this…

Who else do we know of who has had their color loose vibrancy?

What if Victim's color has lightened because he's ill?

[unhinged-as-hell]

Alright here's most of the theories I've seen for ghasts:

Gonna be real with you, crying over ghasts was not on my 2025 bingo card-

Bonus because people were feelin bad bout all the ghasts they've killed:

Edit: there's more in reblogs

[xesnox]

I thought about the concept of gender in Minecraft.

Canonically, there is no gender. According to notch it wasn’t “important to the game”, so they chose not to include it; which is honestly an extremely valid point to make.

(He also mentions Steve is non-binary but we won’t talk about that now.)

In the 2019 Guidebook Jeb mentions something similar.

Not only does this discuss the lack of gender in mobs, but also hints at the idea of players taking on pronouns without a preexisting gender-identity, rather than having one assigned based on their biological sex by default.

Considering how mobs like cows and villagers work breeding wise it is easy to assume there is no sexual dimorphism within any species in any dimension.

it implies that even mobs with names / pronouns like Jean (Enderdragon), Simmons (Wither) and William (Warden), the latter two of which don’t even have canon pronouns, are also still genderless.

This includes aforementioned humanoid mobs like the illagers, Villagers (which actually have another similar developer statement attached, didn’t screenshot it but it’s on the wiki.) and Builders like the player as well as many of the undead.

So what does this mean?

Due to how breeding works in universe: requiring two parties involved, which cancels out asexual reproduction.

It leads me to believe that each and every species in this universe is unisexual: meaning a species of only one sex.

Which with the example of how turtles and chickens work in the game, means that every individual would have both male and female sexual characteristics: as both are capable of laying eggs.

In less scientific terms, being agender and intersex is the baseline in the Minecraft universe.

Also probably makes everyone omnisexual by default.

[ungurth]

I think the MCD void has finally reached Mystreet… Imma be honest I wasn’t expecting the Void to be the enemy in MyStreet s7 lmao. Are we also gonna get MCD Laurance back with VP Aphmau, Tommy, Polly and Leila? 👀 Tbh I doubt it, even though they seem like the most appropriate ones to be present. Irene won’t be there cuz she’s dead. At least have Toby. Nobody remembers him but I feel like he’d be very invested in stopping it. It’d be out of character for him to not be present. S7 might be the Infinity War of the Aphmau Cinematic Universe lmao.

[h1llzy]

MUMBO JUMBO S10 LORE THEORY/OVERVEIW: immortality

Right I have a lot of things to explain, you may be wondering…does mumbo even have lore? And I’d have to tell you yes yes he very much does and it’s stuck in my brain like a worm.

And I believe he has planned it since episode 9 of his hermitcraft series…

I’ll start in chronological order.

Firstly: when mumbo is planning and drawing out his base he has a small box at the bottom with numbers. That is what is going to be the data base in episode 20 , where he talks about him / all his inventions… living on forever. (This will be a major theme)

Now that in its self is not enough to prove anything… but in episode 25… the laboratory we learn about what a certain company is trying to achieve in their endeavours.

It talks of a couple major things: red stone research…artificial intelligence…preservation of the lived experience…

But the biggest of all “soon we will be living forever..”

And they are going to “start human trails shortly…”

Also in this same episode, Mumbo changes his skin and starts to grey.

It goes from this…

To this… and it happens midway through the episode:

(Both taken from episode 25)

So we know that the mined labaratory is testing with artificial intelligence and red stone to attempt to create some sort of immortality situation. And mumbo is being directly effected by it via aging.

But the MOST DARNED evidence is within episode 29 at the very beginning!!! He made an entire cinematic sequence…

(I can’t place the clip but seriously go watch it it’s sooo good!)

From this… we are able to see testing cells… that have chicken noises and villager noises coming from them.

Where we can sort of tell:

- one: the chickens have been tested on in order to possibly experiment on their entire life cycle. (Egg, embryo, chick, chicken..)

- two: the humans within the cinematic…talk in villager noises. So human trials have definitely started.

Then the dialogue shows even more…

“I got the notification, is it done?”

“It’s done…” and then we see this…

A mind… is 100% mapped…

THEN! Midway episode 32 he changes his skin again to grey even more!

(You may say that is because he is literally being sued but that kinda just speedens the process a bit)

So here is the basic parts I have put together in a small synopsis theory:

Mumbo is essentially patient zero, the mined company want to preserve intelligence , to see if after they die they can live as an ai. They have tested on animals, and villagers/ humans (not too sure) but now want mumbo’s intelligence via documenting it all onto a computer. Where it gets trained into an ai that is a replica of the person mind, their personality…every little bit about themselves…that why the brain is 100% mapped..because it is 100% copied… the data base, is also apart of this.. and is actually connected to mumbo in some sort of way, storing all the inventions and red stone ideas he has ever made to be placed into the ai algorithm.

This is very much having a bad effect on mumbo himself, as he seems to be aging much quicker….as if in trying to preserve life they are making it fade more quickly…

But the real question is what is going to end up happening well I have two theory’s for you there….

Silly theory: Grumbot.

You see when mumbo changed his skin it no longer had the waffle…so that possibly means that when minded was mapping out mumbo’s brain…it picked a up a bit of an anomaly..such as….someone’s soul…

Grians… (mwahhaa). So while trying to obtain a obedient ai that could persevere all of mumbo’s intelligence of red stone and inventions forever through the data base. They have also inadvertently picked up a bit of Grian within the ai (which is why the waffle from mumbo’s skin disapeared, due to the fact it’s now in the ai)… creating the famously charming Grumbot!!!

Angst theory: Ai after death

Mumbo is going to die due to the rapid aging that the mined company has placed on him…in which causes them to create basically an ai replica of mumbo, placing him in a robot body where he is essentially “replaced” by his robot version, and that ai is just now him (kinda like Astro boy)

So yeah….this took 2 hours…I need help, the brain rot is bad. Um thanks!

[athencrys]

The Worlds of Minecraft gone past

there are theory's about the natural spawning builds in Minecraft that were clearly build by someone of higher intelligence than the natural spawning entitys.

Things like ship wrecks, Ocean Monument, especially the ancient city's and most recently the trial chambers.

Theres the apocalypse theory of a long lost civilization leaving these thing as traces of their former glory with us never knowing who build these.

But it may be simpler than that

Minecraft at first, was an empty world. Then some Players joined and filled that empty World.

When new Players joined a while later, the World was not quite as empty anymore.

We were our own lost Civilization.

At least i have lost one big world where i build City's, Escape Rooms and Temples.

How many more have been forgotten or abandoned?

[mauv-the-bluest-cat-ever]

collect my "them"s

[tompiexd]

ancient freaks

[toridoesartstuff]

My theory on how Victim came back.

You remember in AVA 3 I think it was where at the end, TCO and TDL did that stupid move at the end creating a portal to suck in all of Alan’s apps on his PC?

You know, photos, his files, etc etc were sucked in. You know what else was sucked in?

THE RECYCLING BIN😱😱😱😱😱💥💥💥💥💥💥

Yea basic HC that like that portal lead to Stickcity, meaning that TDL and TCO assisted in Victim’s revival.

[odiabonecessario]

According to the official leaked book from Mojang, Endermen are trying to fuck our dimensions? Now I think it's a moral obligation to beat the shit out of every single Enderman

[ganondoodle]

(while i am crumbling into pieces from cramp pain)

back when they announced the totk masterworks book i said i wasnt happy about it bc it would either

prove they thought all this was good from the start and everything went as planned

show us that they had unbelievable better ideas and plans but for some unknow reason scrapped it all

as it stands now with the concepts i have seen ... they somehow did both, some things seemed to have been planned fro mthe start (the whole focus on sonau/zonai stuff for example, which i personally just dont like bc i liked them better as an unkown mystery you never get to meet) and other stuff (like ganondorfs concepts, or the infinitely cooler castle in the sky esque concepts for the sky islands, instead of some nonsensical, meaningless little stone crumbs) was much, much more interesting initially (together with the interviews that said they initially planned to have the battery be a magic meter and make the sonau more magic than tech- but then decided to build their stuff around modern electrical devices just so players would immediately know what it was an what it would do -why????? thats so boring?? and unecessary ?? and they still give you tutorials for it anyway, multiple times??!!- for some ungodly reason)

it makes me more and more sure that this game, that took 6 years to make with most assets already being there (the same time that botw took to make?????????), went through a similar development hell as that one final fantasy game did where the director decided to make it an entirely different game every few weeks bc he saw something cool in another game-

its the only thing that makes sense to me, why else would it be so weirdly ... unfinished, its full of grand ideas badly executed, or like i said in a previous post, like an alpha build (weird! did someone in charge also see cool stuff every few months and decide they wanted it in there too no matter what so everyone had to scramble to try and put it in making the whole jenga tower fall over and over??), just to test how far you can push things, with placeholders everywhere, the same cutscene pasted in where another should be and a placeholder reason to get players to go soemwhere (fake zelda) and rough ideas for puzzles etc, that was never finished, jsut highly polished (in looks, sounds and presentation) in hopes of it being 'good enough' or players not noticing (like, take the underground for example, the idea itself is fantastic and cool as fuck, but its feels like an idea that was never finished and just barely fileld with some things to try and cover up the fact that it was never done, like a statue that wasnt done being carved but ran out of time so they painted it anyway- take the base map and invert it, put some easily accessible points of jumping down into it in random spots to test if the game can handle it- no time left to actually get that idea anywhere more specific and well thought out/put together, so its left like that, put the same texture everywhere, barely modified copies of the same enemies, and some little reward spots that make no sense, modelling three types of trees and an enemy camp is way quicker to do than actually making an entire new map (they didnt have to make it the same size btw, just make it big but unique caves, put the gravity effect down there in enclosed spaces! makes it less weird to have randomly happen in the sky! etc) but its there!! its in the game and if they are lucky most players wont go down there enough to notice how meaningless and unfinished it all is)

knowing they would most likely never admit to it though, probably bc of their reputation, is just addign to the frustrations i have with it :I

(i just hate to not know the reason for things, if the devs, who are usually the ones being worked to the bone for things they know arent good, where put through that bc some executive big shot threw their tables around every so often or neglected their project bc they wanted to focus on something else first ... id like to know, i dont enjoy making up these conspiracy (?) theories .......... but i cant shake this feeling, its jsut makes no sense)

[xesnox]

The term ‘Ancient Builder’ is really just a fandom term used to describe an otherwise unnamed group of characters,

sure they’ve been referred to as “ancient explorers”, “ancient adventurers”, “ancient scholars” and just “the ancient race” in canon content since, but the term itself actually originates from reddit theorists in 2017 before being popularized by the game theorists YouTube channel a couple years later.

In retrospect I don’t think it really fits, other races like the V/Illagers and Piglin are clearly shown to be able to build aswell, and even the endermen have been referred to as Builders, outside of the context of theory content, for sharing that ability.

I think Ancient Artisans fits better.

Also clarifies some otherwise confusing terminology I think,

since in the Minecraft fandom the term builder by now refers to like 3 different things.

[therekinperson]

A minecraft oc based off the ancient builder theory along with an ancient Sniffer??? Truely shocking

[phantomley]

i'm most definitely basing this off of the miniseries from the game theorists about endermen but

imagine how horrifying that must be? creating a portal to escape something only to be met with something greater, something even worse, with no resources and no way out. wishing so badly that you hadn't gone through that portal, wishing you had the resources to defeat the dragon looming overhead. so what do you do? the only thing you know how to, you build. you build and build these massive structures, surely anyone passing through wouldn't have the will to get to your treasures. no, you wouldn't let that happen, not again. so you build. and then you run out of food. you know the cold endstone beneath your feet isn't farmable not that you brought anything to farm anyways, your only option is the mysterious purple fruit in the trees your elders told you to absolutely not eat. this strange fruit, it doesn't taste very good, and you have to be careful you're not to close to a ledge when you eat it, because you have no idea where it's teleportation abilities will drop you off. but it's your only option, and the more you eat it, the more inhibited your skills are. you can feel yourself changing, becoming taller, lankier, speech changing. the words coming out of your mouth don't feel like yours anymore. the worst part was when you realized you could no longer build, desperately trying to grab at any block you possibly can just to feel what it was like. you can't build anymore, you can't fight anymore. you look at your friends and family around you, completely changed, dull looks in their eyes, shells of who they once were. they don't like being looked in the eyes, it's too embarrassing. honestly, you don't like it either. i don't want anybody to see me like this. imagine how horrific that must be. having all these thoughts flowing through your mind with no way to communicate them. some of the others--the endermen--have teleported out of here. you wish you could too. hell, you almost kill yourself trying to.

all hopes of the defeating the dragon have gone away. you're trapped here. forever. your fate lies in the hands of one human don't end up like us and who knows what their motives are.

[puppys-teeth]

Very funny that people label certain games as Cozy Games but I find them stressful as fuck sometimes.

Unpacking: what the fuck is this blue box where does it go?? oh my god there’s so many fucking boxes I’m tired just looking at it

Minecraft: A bit more on the fence but kinda just mind numbing running around to do this and then I have to do this and let’s go mining and let’s make potions and I hate the nether but I need potions and

Stardew Valley: haven’t played it yet but it kinda just looks like more Minecraft except I get to kiss people so that’s cool

Meanwhile, an actually cozy game for me is fallout 4. It definitely helps that FO4 is my special interest but,,, I love going around and shooting and building in my settlements and exploring the world despite having done that a hundred times before. I literally have 1,300 hours on this game

Silent Hill 2 is a close contender until I get to a boss fight and I feel like I’m abt to shit my pants but it’s mostly cool and fine. Puzzles aren’t hard, normal enemies aren’t hard, and the atmosphere is awesome