#ancient builder

[odiabonecessario]

I've already said it but I'm still unsure if Withers were that much of a threat in the past

Assuming the loot we get in Nether Fortresses and End Cities were from humans before us, I don't know exactly how they wouldn't be able to defeat a Wither. I can imagine some explanations like Wither's strength in lore not being 1:1 with their in-game strength, older Withers being bigger and harder to kill than what we know currently or even that it was spawned merely by accident which could also mean there were more than one Wither at the time

Honestly, it could be all of these but something still doesn't fully fit in my mind and I can't really point my finger to what's bothering me. I mean, we kinda have some confirmation of Withers being a threat at some point with disc 5 but I don't exactly know if it/they're The Big Bad

[tompiexd]

i'm sorry but the illagers would doxx the villagers.

[xesnox]

@illwilledomen had pitched this idea to me on insta a little while back, so here’s my personal interpretation on some of the Enderlings! The concept art for this isn’t the best but I think people would see the vision.

Lore, warning badly written, I’ll get back to it later.

The endermen were the first, and therefore act as a kind of umbrella species to the other end-humanoids.

The enderlings are a subcategory of what is known as a secondary enderman. A secondary enderman is a humanoid that did not originate from a human person, meaning they were born an enderman, not made one. Even if they originally appeared human, they were always biologically intended to appear the way they do now, were born in the end, and have completely adjusted to the environment within the dimension. Meaning they can for an example sustain high radiation levels without any long term damage.

There are different types of secondary endermen, but the enderlings specifically mark a time within history where thought to have been long lost gods returned to their people.

The hosts eventually grew bored of watching their creations. No longer did they start wars or build funny creatures, they just sat around doing nothing. Sometimes one or two of them would break down, but such a thing wasn’t interesting.

The Testificates were unlike the artisans had been. They didn't start wars, the people of the cult tried to, sometimes, but their most powerful people preferred to reside within mansions too far from civilization to cause any real trouble. And they had no plans on letting the old artisans out of their celestial time out corner just yet.

So they decided to see what would happen to the increasingly desperate becoming, hopelessly religious grouping of former protectors would they give them children that were, to them, objectively disturbing to look at. The concept had been funny to them.

They were gods, they didn't understand the concept of human suffering, or the moral and ethical implications of splitting the human race into multiples whilst they believed they were living through their darkest hour, it was all just play. Like watching a show that had gotten so boring overtime they wished for conflict.

Atleast that’s what scholars think.

The enderlings are deformed humans, biologically. It might’ve been radiation, it might’ve been some Devine beings doing, whatever one chooses to believe. They’re a hypothetical species that hasn’t been sighted in over two millennia, we only have verbal accounts to go off of.

I hadn’t thought of the enderlings much in terms of Ancient Ruins before so this interpretation was a little harder than usual. The species is now largely extinct, but other secondary Endermen still exist, I also feel it is important to mention that there are different types of endersent! This isn’t every single one, it’s just the one that fits this biological niche.

If you have any questions ask me, I’ll try my best to answer.

[illwilledomen]

Princess Rana’s project.

[illustratus]

[therekinperson]

Omg a minecraft redesign???? This time in a way where i can actually draw her??? Aswell putting more indigenious elements??? Omg????????????

-and also a reredesign because she looked too much like my other oc?????

[sunny-ha]

Top 2 silliest creatures in mc

[your-ne1ghbor]

What if 2nd gen Endermen adopted baby drowned from Minecraft

(quick render)

(And I blame you mimi)

ANYWAYS Thats Mason Derulo (the last name is a joke PLS) the endermen, and idk his kids name I literally came up with it today with @xesnox

She is in a baby carrier covered in moss because she needs moisture so that she doesnt burn up and I forgot to give Mason gloves since he would get hurt if he touches wet things, but idc this is cute and I'll stand by that until the day I die.

Spruce wood Mask, and a crimson cape he got from the nether before some parts of the forest was warped due to the endermen's appearance or sum idk his color pallet

Also he wraped up some of her exposed bones in bandages since he doesn't want her to feel a lot of pain and make her condition worse.

Idk when he would adopt her, but yk its better than bringing her to the Nether where he spawned from so his dad can eat him and toss the child into the lava (I hate his dad I swear) so in the overworld he'll stay

Some more doodles of the 2

found family is just sighhhhhh I love them so much

Steve: "AHHH WHAT THE DOG DOING-" Mason: "She don't bite 🥰" Steve: *continues screaming*

[theworstmemoryintheworld]

that moment when a baby from another species gives you a flower (it’s the most thoughtful thing a stranger has ever done for you)

[jayceispathetic]

RANIA THE ENGINEER - A woman of brilliance, determination, and more than questionable ethics. Very lazy and technically still a w.i.p. and she's basically OC-ified but y'know

At first she was legit just Abiogenesis Rana but now she's the cousin of Ellegard and assistant to The Order Of The Stone, the players were built as a Plan B incase anything went wrong in the plan to bring the Overworld back to its glory daysss

(Please ignore the shitty proportions my phone broke and now I'm trying to get used to drawing again on this new one)

[jetra4ivor]

I’ve been going down the rabbit hole of old Minecraft ARG’s and CreepyPasta stories. And somethings I’ve stumbled across is that a lot of theories about what happened to the Minecraft world to leave behind so many ruins and abandoned temples/cities is that there must’ve been a race of…

… ancient builders.

Given that season 2 of MCSM was made before the Aquatic Update, I find this history of theorizing about ancient builders to be fascinating!

Makes me appreciate the Old Builders in Season 2 a lot more given that there were theories that they existed in Minecraft Lore according to players even back then!

[katiesautisms]

drops this at your feet and flees

[tompiexd]

i'd like to think that the hosts actually heard the ancient builders' cries for help, but instead of doing anything, they were just watching the downfall of them, as if it was some of the best movies they have ever watched in their entire existence.

foresight: *is wearing 4 movie glasses* "i like where this is going"

knowledge: "the wither is coming to get them!! i don't think they'd make it??"

action: *hides their eye* "ahh!! so scary ○[ "

[xesnox]

Some Minecraft hand comparisons using my Ancient Ruins designs.

This isn’t a linear lineup, there’s no particular order.

“Testificate” stands for both villagers and Illagers, but depending on the Illager rank they do have averaging body types that might differ from the model. Villagers usually have more meat on their bones because they live pretty sustainable and do most of the physical labour themselves, which means they often build more muscle, same with pillagers.

Might do one with face shots as well, but I’m not too sure. Always get a little too frustrated (perfectionism) when it comes to actually finishing faces.

More:

Spoke about this before already but Neo Artisans are based on a visual mix between ancient artisan and ancient villager. It was meant to be a PR thing.

Don’t have much to say about the piglin, they have two ball jointed thumbs, only have 2 joints per finger of which the nail replaces the upper half. (Sorry I do not have the English vocabulary for this)

Ancient artisans were lazy and made allays and golem do all the heavy lifting so especially after all their fields withered they started looking like starving artists housed in their mothers basement, which all things considered isn’t that far from canon. Only thing they still manually practiced were indulging in creative efforts and fighting (sometimes). They were also old and greedy so I just went with whatever. Hosts made them tall.

Endermen don’t really have a physical form because they kinda just glitch through people’s visions due to inter dimensional space-time warping but anything that looks like a mix between a radiation poisoning victim in a zombie apocalypse game, some distorted divine abomination and a human thrown through a black hole spaghettification stretcher should work.

[sarafangirlart]

Now that’s just some bullshit

So you’re telling me that this director got mad at a guy in his mid forties for developing a dad bod for the character WHO IS A DAD???? Honestly I feel so bad for Sam Worthington, this made me realize it’s not his entirely his fault that his depiction of Perseus was so bland, he wanted to have a more human and flawed portrayal, he didn’t want to get constantly typecasted as a stoic emotionless protagonist, he’s just given nothing to work with.

This is just another problem with these movies, not only do these characters not act like their mythology counterparts, they don’t even act human, why get so angry over an actor letting himself go when the character himself has done the same thing? Ppl love mythology bc of how flawed and HUMAN these figures are, not bc they are constantly beautiful and strong like Greco-Roman statues bc they’re not.

I doubt the belly was even that bad bc he looks fine in the movie.

[citrous241]

1.21 is looking fire, but 1.22 has got to be an End update.

Minecraft has always had really good lore and story-telling, but does anyone else feel like the End is just missing something?

It's to be expected, it hasn't been updated for the last 7 years and the last update added more questions than answers. I feel like it's just on the cusp of being as clear as the rest of the game.

It's a dimension that's supposed to feel off, and uncanny. Literally the only track that plays is 15 minutes of warped mash-ups of Overworld tracks. End stone is just inverted Cobblestone.. etc. But even then it's still wrong.

I just have to know, Minecraft lore is built off of head canons but I'm just unable to form one that makes sense regarding the End. Endermen make sense, I believe they're warped and "evolved" humans. Eating only chorus makes them teleport, their long arms and bodies to reach the high snaking chorus plants, their larger eyes to see in perpetual darkness, etc. Their aversion to water is a wrench in that but I'm not perfect and my head canon isn't right. Endermen could have nothing to do with humans.

Shulkers and End Cities are what confounds me. Are Shulkers natural living organisms? The Dragon and Ender-men both have black skin and dark purple eyes but this thing has yellow skin and an almost magenta shell. I think they're some sort of automatons, but built by who? The ancient builders, the ones who evolved into Endermen? But the spiral staircases in the End Cities don't seem designed for humans (or maybe I just suck at climbing them) and the ceilings aren't really high enough for Endermen. Maybe Shulkers are another protector mob of their area. But protecting what? Protecting the means of personal flight maybe, but that looks nothing like the rest of the end - its literally made from the wings of the Phantoms of the Overworld.

End Cities themselves do kind of make sense to me, their architecture mimics the branches of a chorus plant. But whilst chorus seems to be the only natural thing in the End, the cities very much aren't. There's no way that structure would work under normal gravity. But surely the End just has weak gravity? Nope, it's the same as the Overworld.

Everything in the End just feels so artificial. The central island; with Obsidian pillars punching through the whole thing, a material that can only be made using 2 fluids that don't exist in the End, topped with a crystal made partially from the tears of a creature in another dimension and some sort of Eye which we can only make by killing an Enderman and fusing it's remains with the ground up remains of another creature from said other dimension. Also, it is so far away from the rest of the End, as if someone destroyed or moved these other islands away. The Dragon itself to, she works like no other mob. People say that she's a machine which I don't agree with, her erratic behaviour is because she is the only mob of her type and hasn't been updated like ever. I don't think she's native to the End though; Endermen, the only other creature in existence that looks like her, can be hostile to her.

Trying to piece this together as I'm writing this is making me think of a new head canon: The End is just a melting pot of travellers who got lost and stuck. Think of something like the Void from the Loki show. I think the End was initially just a mass of floating islands with the chorus fruit, in the Void between dimensions. Then the ancient builders arrived, constructing the obsidian pillars and the bedrock portal frame. I think they found something, maybe it could be whatever made the End Cities. But regardless, something dangerous. Something that made them separate the only way out of the dimension by several kilometres of Void, that made them create a Dragon to guard said way out. Something that made them sacrifice themselves by sealing themselves into the End.

There are a few holes in this. Maybe the ancient builders did build the End Cities before/after becoming Endermen. Maybe the danger was the Dragon, but why would it guard the exit portal? And I've kind of ignored the fact that Endstone is inverted Cobblestone, maybe the whole dimension if artificial? Built by the ancient builders entirely? Or maybe the End was spawned from ancient humanities collective mind, like a sort of yin to their yang.

I would love an End update to add a few things. I don't like most popular ideas or mods for an End update, as they often stray too far from what the End is. I would like to be able to find whatever gravity-defying sentient race built the End Cities, maybe they could also be warped into Endermen like the ancient builders were - but could still have a sense of self and humanity, or maybe they're some sort of Phantom People. I would like to find this danger that caused the ancient builders to sacrifice themselves, a new huge boss at the edge of the End would be awesome. I would also like, if they made them less annoying that is, for Phantoms to spawn in the End just normally. They feed on Insomnia right? What's more insomniac then an entire dimension where it's always night and nothing can sleep?

I would also like purple chorus wood lol.