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The Host World acts like the Sun in our solar system, with all the other dimensions circling it independently of one another. Each dimension is on its own plane, allowing them to pass through eachother. When two dimensions occupy the same space, things bleed through and blend together, allowing for some odd occurrences such as sculk showing up without an Ancient City in sight, or how the End warped the Nether by seemingly hybridization the crimson forest with their own fauna. Sometimes the dimensions become too far away to interact, causing the connection to be severed between these worlds. Between these world is a space of horrors never described—except the Endermites—and serves as the realm teleporting entities travel to so they can near instantly warp wherever they want.

I’m still working on the ins and outs of this little headcanon that I have about the game, since I think there’s a lot of lore potential to consider, but I really like the idea that all of the hints of a higher being are talking about the GAME ITSELF.

Let me explain! Looking at the game in a vacuum (outside of the fact that, of course, it’s a video game CREATED by a person), it makes sense. Within its confines lies trillions of worlds, every block placed by the game. Every tree, river, mountain, flower is decided by it. 

The game controls everything within itself, in its worlds that it creates. It decides who lives and dies. It decides what animals and people are brought into its massive worlds and where. I like the idea that it is sentient, a deity in a way, that its creatures are dependent on. 

There are some implications about the Hosts from Minecraft Legends, assuming the two games are one in-universe. I think the Hosts are merely vessels for the game to cloak itself in, vessels that its inhabitants can comprehend so as to listen to it without fear.

But this also calls into question lots of things. What of the autonomy of mobs? Where did aggressive mobs come from? Were they the work of a benevolent or neutral world? If the game is alive and dictates all of this, wouldn’t it simply smite every ‘evil’ thing off the face of its worlds? And what connection could that have to the role of the player/Alex/Steve? I’d love to see what others have to say about that.

whoever built the trial chambers also built the nether fortress. they built the blazes and the breezes in a similar method. ive seen some people online say that the trial chambers could habe been built by pilligers, and i like that.

this also means they likely went to the end, as blaze powder is necessary to get to the end and theres an end portal room in woodland mansions.

igloos were also built by modern day pillagers (bc who ELSE would build them? they had to be built recently bc of the basement)

mineshafts were built by (or at the very least utilized by) the ancient city folks. they had a dual purpose: first to make mining natural resources in other layers easier, but more interesting as mini highways to facilitate trade between them and the surface, sending things like diamonds and riches up, and getting seeds and food sent down.

they probably traded with pillagers? pilligers seem to have a LOT of wool things.

ancient cities may have been built to escape the zombie apocalypse. until it got skulked. either that or they came through the giant portal, trying to (and failing) to escaping the skulk.

the dungeons (or monster spawn rooms, as called by the wiki) are tombs. by looking at the loot there, we can tell that the society of whoever buried their people this way valued horses, music, food (thats mostly gone bad now), riches (both in metals/ore and magic), and possibly trophies of combat.

jungle and desert temples may have also been originally built to be tombs. the loot seems to be pretty similar to the loot in dungeons, so likely the same or similar culture or religion. at least for dealing with the dead. id guess the people buried in these places were a lot richer though.

pilligers and villigers used to be one united people, but at some point they split. when? idk. anything i say was made by pilligers or anythijg done by pilligers may have been a joint effort. besides igloos for obvious reasons. trial chambers were probably also after the split though.

the tombs, ocean ruins, ocean monuments, and ancient cities may or may not have been built by the (p/v)illiger nation people. im leaning not.

like. ub. lets ignore the guardians, and the sponges, and the structure itself. and talk about prismarine for a little bit.

prismarine is found only in 2 places: ocean monuments and ocean ruins. these places must be connected, right?

it is primarily a decorative block, but using it to build a little structure around a conduit powers it.

conduits are made from a heart of the sea, which is ONLY found buried among other treasure

treasure is buried bc it is meant to be returned too and retrieved later. the heart of the sea wasnt meant to be forgotton. maps to it are found in ocean ruins and wrecked ships.

conduits damage guardians. (and other hostile mobs underwater but still)

prismarine shards and crystals is found by killing guardians.

ok. back to the structure itself:

gold??? SPONGES??????

filled with guardians, and elder guardians. that shoot lasers???????

its HUGE.

wait wait i have a crackpot theory:

guardians are biological. prismarine crystals and shards are like scales or something

they are intilligent, but extremely xenophobic. they build a large colony, and thats what the monument is

whoever built the ocean ruins did not like the guardians, which is fairly understandable as they attempt to kill anything that isnt a guardian on sight.

they develop tools and weapons just to fight them, including sponges and the heart of the sea

the guardians raid the towns. they steal the sponges, but some people escape via boats with the heart of the sea and treasure!

they bury the treasure. hoping to come back and avenge their fallen people

the guardians find them, and destroy their ships

also the guardians like gold bc it doesnt oxidize underwater.

in all honestoy i have no idea whats goong on with guardians and the ocean monument. why are they guarding sponges?? maybe the sponges are a diversion and theyre really guarding the prismarine? whats it a monument towards? whys it so big? are guardians related to puffer fish? can puffer fish learn how to shoot lasersare guardians from the overworld or is there another possible dimension? (actially thatd be sick they should add that). lots of people theorize theyre like iron golems and built, but built for what? to guard sponges? of so, whered they get the prismarine?

actually the more i think about it the less the theory of them being constructed to guard something makes sense. like they can age (as there are elder ones), and learn to project images of themselves into your mind and prevent you from damaging the monument. but maybe elder guardian is a misnomer and its like just built different? but the source of prismarine is still an issue.

Happy ghast are ancient ghasts, who knew only of a world completely different from what it is now. The normal ghasts in the nether now are probably very different, due to how much the species had to change to survive. They don't even have gills anymore, since there's no longer any liquid water and the open gills were becoming more of a detriment. The ability to spit fire likely developed as a way to expel heat and cool off.

Ghasts, as they once were, became extinct. With the exception of the babies that went into a stasis and managed to avoid dying throughout the years. By rescuing them, you are reviving an extinct ancient species.

several months ago prior to the proper release of the Happy Ghast (soon after it's announcement) I made a short post theorizing about Ghasts.

So, I really like Ghasts from an outside perspective. They're really interesting mobs and they've got a lot of lore going on especially with this new update. That being said I still fucking DESPISE their existences with every fiber of my being going into the nether and being victimized by the quantum ghast (bedrock edition) is infuriating. To start at a baseline here is what we know CONCRETELY about Ghasts (Only stuff DIRECTLY in the game, no speculation yet) [ESTABLISHING EVERYTHING WE KNOW FOR CERTAIN] 1. Ghasts have regenerative properties. Ghast Tears are used for regen potions & Happy Ghasts are able to passive regenerative overtime without the need for food (Which is counter to how almost every other regular mob needs food to heal). 2. Ghasts have a full life cycle but we only see Adult Ghasts in the nether. (Because the Dried Ghast turns into the Ghastling then the Adult Ghast / Happy Ghast) 3. Ghasts are capable of flight because of their body structure, not because of the nether itself*. This is because the Happy Ghast was made for over world usage so can be used as direct confirmation of their flight being biological instead of the result of a nether properly (Such as riding air currents.) *I would otherwise be inclined to stay neutral on such an idea. Because Ghasts are nether creates and taking them out of the nether does not actually tell us if them still being able to fly is lore intention or just a hold over of them being in the nether and not having special coding for the overworld. But the Happy Ghast proves it's a biological function. 4. Dried Ghasts seem to require soul sand to be created.

5. Dried Ghasts ARE NOT rare, as such Ghast Reproduction (However it is done) occurs commonly. Piglins are willing to give the player Dried Ghasts at a roughly 2% rate (So they're uncommon but not exceptionally valuable to the Piglins like magical items such as Potions and Enchants.)

They also have a fairly high spawn rate of 1/3 at nether fossils. Given how common these fossils are in the soul sand valley you're likely to find several Dried Ghasts in any given biome.

6. They drop a music disc, sometimes. Okay so, Dropping the purely scholarly tone for a moment. I do not understand music discs as drops for mobs. Why do Creepers drop them ONLY when killed by a skeleton lore wise? Idk! Why do Ghasts now drop a music disc when killed by a fireball? Idk! Ghasts seem to be biological (or biomagical) entities, not constructs. So them having discs inside them does not make sense. As such I really just have to scratch music discs off as an easter egg thing and not a directly important lore thing. If you disagree feel free to proper an alternative. (I do love the track though Tears is a really good music disc) 7. Happy Ghasts and Ghasts have drop variances which means the regular Adult Ghasts' drops are a result of living in the nether. Ghasts drop Gunpowder, but Happy Ghasts do not. Ghasts drop Ghast Tears, Happy Ghasts do not. [SPECULATION] So what can be established from this information? Well first we can establish that the Ghast in the Nether drops tears because it's a survival mechanism. The Ghast has noticeably more pronounced facial stains than the Happy Ghast. Due to the name ghast 'Tear' and the facial markings beneath their eyes resembling Tear stains, I believe it's safe to assume their tears come from their eyes like other animals. Tears have regenerative properties. Notice how the Happy Ghast still has tear stains? This actually does make sense given it's regenerative properties. We can assume a Ghast is able to heal itself naturally using the fluid that turns into Ghast Tears while it's inside it's body, but it can speed up it's healing by crying; This is why Nether Ghasts have so much more pronounced tear stains than Happy Ghasts (who do not actively need to cry to heal themselves as often). But I also think the tears serve a secondary purpose. They're also reproductive fluid. It's a VERY well established Minecraft lore tidbit that Gender as we have it in the real world just does not exist in Minecraft. Any two creatures of the same species are able to reproduce (given they reproduce in sexual pairs) but Ghasts aren't able to. You can not breed Happy Ghasts together to create a Ghastling. This means Ghasts do not reproduce Sexually AT ALL. As previously established you can craft a Ghastling.

Since Dried Ghasts are always found in soul sand valley biomes it's more than safe to assume Ghast reproduction is tied to this mechanic. I believe the ghast reproductive cycle goes as such; 1. Adult Ghast goes to a Soul Sand Valley. It cries and releases tears into the sand beneath. 2. The sand soaks up the tears and the tears use the energy of soul sand to grow. (Because soul power is a well established energy source in minecraft due to the skulk, enchanting, exp, soul sand, etc)* 3. After consuming enough energy from soul sand a Ghastling (or perhaps the stage of life prior to the dried ghast) comes out of the sand. 4. The Nether Ghastlings are then subject to an immense amount of competition both from other creatures in the nether and their fellow Ghastlings. 5. The Ghastlings that survive early life turn into full Adult Ghasts and the life cycle continues. *This process is forcefully stimulated by the Player adding ALOT of tears to soul sand, which is how Ghasts can be craftable and still biological. Note how Ghasts are not hostile towards each other in game. I believe this is because once a Ghast has reached adulthood it no longer needs to see other Ghasts are direct threats to it's survival. Another thing to note is that Happy Ghasts do not drop Gunpowder. I believe this is due to their environment. Ghasts use their fireballs, for some reason? It's not very clear aside from attacking the player. Maybe they use it for self defense, or to fight other Ghasts? Hard to say. But I think they're able to create their fireballs due to their diet. Ghasts don't show many signs of being carnivorous. Happy Ghasts feed on snowballs and require water to become Ghastlings. I don't think the snowballs are because of a temperature requirement; I think it's because Snowballs are the most easily accessible form of water to feed to a Happy Ghast. The other options would be glass bottles (which aren't really made for non-humanoids to drink from.) So I think Nether Ghasts' diets consist primarily of nether fungus, which is where they get their water from. Since fungus is the primary source of food in the nether it's also safe to assume it's the primary source of water. I could also see Ghasts eating loose rock deposits such as gravel or netherrack (If you subscribe to the theory that netherrack is actually a fungus infected stone block) as a basis for the explosive materials in their fireballs. Now for the main question; Did the ghasts come from the overworld or the nether? Well to put simply, They're from the nether; Just the nether from before it's modern collapse state. I'm not a subscriber of frozen nether theory (I think it's more likely it was something more temperate, perhaps something like a humid jungle with fungus taking the place of regular plants). I think Ghasts are original inhabitants of the nether which fed on the natural foliage of the pre-apocalypse nether (Soul Sand probably? still existed at this point in time). Due to their regenerative properties they were able to survive the nether's mass warming. I imagine the pre-apoc nether would look reminiscent of the lush caves biome. The Lush Cave has similar structural conditions to the nether, being underground, capable of sustaining life, and having it's own semi-enclosed eco system. But the nether would obviously be a far more extreme form of this. There was probably Lava in the nether beforehand and with the modern nether we know fungus isn't a very flammable block, which is why I lean towards it being a fungus based jungle-ish area instead of a plant based one.

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

(before going into it: afaik killing evokers is the ONLY way to get the totems of undying, highly implying that theyre the ones to make them. anyways theory time:)

evokers are already dead and only brought to life via the totem of undying thats been placed inside them. its already doing the not dying thing on them you just kill them again.

2. evokers are liches who gained immortality by placing their soul in the totem, but by destroying their body and taking their soul we can make it work for us or offer it instead of our own when dying.

3. totems require blood sacrifice to work. the evokers havent done it yet but killing them counts

4. they need both hands to cast spells and are dumb

5. the totem is an effigy or symbol of a villager diety. the pillagers dont have that deities favor so it doesnt work, but the player does.

6. the totem does different things for different species, evokers can use it to cast spells while we can use it to live again, but they cant use it for a second life while we cant use it to sommon vexes and the teeth thing

7. it would work but (unknown to them) their dark magic interferes with it and prevents it from working.

personally, i like the villager diety and will probably incorporate it into my singeplayer world lore. but even though it lines up with what we know about villager religion, the fact that ONLY evokers have them kind of means the theory itself is unlikely in base game.

id probably say #2 is the one i think is most plausible. ive seen theories that i like saying pillagers created the trial chambers, which have zombie and skeleton spawners, so them doing necromancy lines up with that.

hey guys. I'm being an autistic biologist about minecraft again....

Texture and structure

The three principle minecraft lore assumptions are as follows: First, the Nether was blatantly oceanic and/or cooler in the deep deep past, as evidenced by the prevalence of basalt which can only form when lava cools, enormous sand banks, and hydratable jellyfish-like ghasts. Second, that Minecraft souls are analogous to heat and will constantly be compared to energy cycling (consumption, magic, heat loss). Finally, I consider the Nether a closed-loop system with minimal energy inputs/outputs, and the perpetual heat output of lava is due to drawing from soul energy sequestered in soul sand banks.

Soul sand. SAND. It’s about percolation baby! Due to grain size and porosity, the souls can quickly percolate into the soul sand and become sequestered. I assume souls take a very long time to percolate if soils of different textures such as clay or silt have minimal sequestration. (This will be returned to). Furthermore, soul sand banks are where all that juicy organic matter from the oceans accumulated in massive banks of necro-mass/souls. Side note the giant skeletons were nether equivalent whale falls.

Now, the very evident high organic matter in soul sand would drastically affect the structure of the soil. But would you look at that. In sandy soils, organic matter aggregates increase water and nutrient retention. Only further increasing their soul/Organic matter sequestration!

Anyway at this point I started considering soul sand similar to histosols. Similar color, pluuuuuuuus:

Hmm. That is shareing quite a lot of the characteristics we theoriezed about, doesn't it?

Anyway, I'm putting a read more line here. Click if you want to read the following sections: Vegetation ||| Nether Decomposition ||| Nom Proceeds to Lose Their Mind About Coal Formation ||| The Dimensional Warp of Space, and thus Time, in Minecraft Dimensions (which explains the coal problem, and invents several new ones) ||| The Apocalypse

I was randomly thinking about the Sniffer for whatever reason and it dawned on me just how weird they are.

Design wise and their in game 'lore'. The thing that got the gears in my head turning are their legs. Unlike every other passive mob in the game, sniffers have 6 legs. Every other standard terrestrial mob has 2-4 legs (cows, pigs, llamas, etc) with the only real exceptions being insects (spiders and bees), and mobs that fly or swim (squids, phantoms, guardians etc.) It also lays eggs, which if it's a mammal, makes it the only monotreme in Minecraft, which is neat, but still very weird. Now beyond the oddity of being a monotreme (which isn't too insane considering we know the Sniffer is meant to be an ancient mob, thus is probably from early into mammalian evolution), the real weird thing is that their eggs are still good? Like they're able to hatch? And like-

They're on a pottery sherd??? which means they co-existed with one of the ancient civilizations?? Which is WILD because that has several potential implications. IMPLICATION 1. The sniffers genuinely did just live with the ancient civilization and were pretty standard farm animals for them. IMPLICATION 2. They PREDATE the ancients and were brought back BY them in the same way the player brings them back, which is why they're on the sherd. Personally, I think this option is FAR more interesting because it aligns with what we see with the rest of the sherds. The number of mobs on the sherds is incredibly limited as they only contain mobs with a notable connection to the ancients, which means the sniffer's existence was NOTABLE to them. The mobs shown by sherds are;

Breezes (Assumably created by the ancients, being a construct mob only found in the trial chambers.)

People (Duh.)

SNIFFERS ? ?

Skeletons (Not sure if we should count this as the mob itself because people still have skeletons, it could be standard death iconography.)

'The Mourner' (Warden seems most likely though it's not 1-1. The warden would be incredibly notable to preserve.)

Wolves (Nest friend, makes sense they get a mention)

Everything here is notable enough to be preserved. If they had discovered a literal ancient mob pre-dating them, that would be notable enough to mention. So I think the sniffer pre-dates the ancient civilization (or civilizations, hard to say if it was one giant civilization or a bunch of disconnected ones throughout time but I'm NOT getting into that here.). Another thing that backs this theory up is the six legs. It's INCREDIBLY weird for a Mammal to have 6 legs, this is because all mammals evolved from the same original 4-legged ancestor. This means Sniffers are from an entirely separate evolutionary branch of land-dwelling animals that went extinct. Which is fucking CRAZY RIGHT??? The fact there was an entirely separate evolutionary tree in minecraft's past is completely fucking nuts like that is such a mind boggling implication to throw into the game. Them being from another evolutionary tree also explains their oddities such as their weird yellow-faces that resemble beaks (but clearly aren't due to how elastic they are) and their aforementioned 6 legs + egg laying. So, next question, Whats up with the green?

The sniffer has nothing textured beneath it's green layer, and there is nothing else shown in game that could refer to what's beneath it. Additionally due to it's green facial markings, I believe it's safe to conclude the green is apart of the sniffer. So what is it? My initial thought was; ''Maybe it's moss.' something along the lines of a sloth, essentially. It does align, sniffers are slow and docile, they'd be able to grow something like moss or algae. I think this is a very valid possibility. But the main thing that sways me from this line is thought is the egg.

The egg is also green. Eggs usually have their markings for; 1. Camouflage, a brown egg in a brown environment is harder to find and thus eat. 2. Distinction, the more complex an egg is, the harder it is to mimic and thus makes it harder for other species to replace with their own. 3. Structural integrity, sometimes markings just make the egg sturdier. I believe the main reason the eggs look like this is camouflage, and the main reason for this is the sniffer's green back and, well, stick with me here; Podzol.

Sniffers are a rather weird red-color. With other mobs we know their colors are like that due to real world influence, (ex. pigs are as pink as they are because of human influence despite it not being good camouflage, but pigs don't have a predator in Minecraft so they don't need it regardless.) but with sniffers the red is weird. I think it's there to blend into their natural environment. It's clear the sniffer has undergone little to no evolutionary changes since it's original environment vanished, so I think originally, Sniffers were from an area with Podzol comprised of brush materials from the biome, which gave it a more reddish-tint than it's brown/green from spruce adjacent biomes. See, Sniffers having green only on their tops reminds me of aquatic camouflage. In the ocean certain animals have darker tops and lighter bottoms because the sun makes water lighter while looking up and darker while looking down. I think the sniffer's green backs are a means to camouflage with the foliage of their original environment. Their diet is comprised entirely of seeds, and due to their VERY large size and slow speed, we can assume this does not give them much energy. They spend a lot of their time just loafing around, they even have a dedicated sitting animation. I think they were originally a large herbivorous prey species, with their main predators being avian. Green backs would let them blend into the foliage and reduce the chances of them getting snatched up (Also these birds would have to be ridiculously huge to carry off a sniffer oh my god can you imagine, that's terrifying). Their eggs are colored this way for the same reason, they're much harder to spot if they blend into the ground and the foliage. Alright time to wrap this together.

[HISTORY OF THE SNIFFER]

recently, I painted steve and alex as these nature gods based on this theory… and then I thought: well what if herobrine was the nether?

so i painted that too :3 enjoy!

I have gotten many an ask, so I give a single answer in this form.

When they first woke up, Steve knew nothing but their own name and basic survival skills. With time, they met creatures, developed skills, created recipes and discovered strange structures scattered around the world.

Structures that they hope would fill in their apparent 'amnesia'. Temples, Strongholds, Fortresses, Trail Ruins, Bastions... and the creatures themselves too.

Zombies, that wear the same clothing and resemble their anatomy. Endermen, that they swear they could've heard speak but unsure if they've imagined it (Endermen tend to make their mind go fuzzy...). But no attempt at curing works and no attempt at communication is recognised.

Even the V/Illagers recognise this, in their clothing and in their deep purple eyes. Some have dubbed them the 'Living Zombie'.

Where did the structures come from? Where did everyone go? Why can't Steve recall anything? Major extinction event? War? Natural catastrophe? The Dragon? They seek the answer. In the world residents, in the engravings on pottery sherds, books of the Stronghold, the portal...

Everything leads to The End. Because everything ends. Surely.

i haven't seen anything about this on my dashboard, so i wanted to share. ICE gestapo killed another human being on tuesday. he leaves behind three sons and his wife, who he has spent the last 35 years building a life with

there is a gofundme supported by the league of united latin american citizens set up to help with funeral costs, legal fees, and supporting his family moving forward.