Ender mites!

Also hiiiii Loki <3

Hi Leaf!

I hadn't actually given much thought to endermites and this point, but you made me think about it, and I'm not sure if I like endermites the more I think about how they work.

Because they can spawn when you break an ender pearl (teleporting). And ender pearls come from endermen. But what are ender pearls? They look like eyes, but you need to mix it with blaze powder to get an eye of ender.

My thought is that ender pearls are a sort of core that allow the endermen to teleport. They don't break whenever an enderman teleports, but there is always a possibility that it will, especially with older endermen. When it breaks, the enderman dies, and an endermite takes its place. So essentially, an endermite is an infant enderman

Hiiii Loki :)

Hi Jade!!!

3 random bits of lore coming right up!

1. Trial chambers were likely created as a test of skill, a final challenge if you will

2. In a Minecraft world, time continues to pass, deteriorating structures, until the first player joins the world, which freezes the world so that the structures don't change any further

3. Trail ruins and ocean ruins are likely from a similar time period, and would have had interactions and trade with each other

So I'm looking at the the sherds and the trims right now, and I feel like I got a lot of wayfinder trims (5 of 12). I also got a good number of heartbreak sherds (4 out of 15, this is relevant later). Now, one of the definitions of wayfinder from Oxford Languages is: "a person navigating to a particular location."

So, given that there were a large number of wayfinder trims found, we can assume that a good number the people of the Artisan Settlement were explorers or went to other settlements to trade (trade was most definitely a thing in these settlements, but that's another post). And you might expect that sometimes these people would go out to the other settlements, and just not come back.

Here's where the heartbreak sherds come in. I theorize that the heartbreak sherds are their way of symbolizing grief in art. Now this could absolutely be romantic heartbreak as I imagine many might jump to. But it could also be platonic or familial or any other types of heartbreak that could happen.

The idea of spawners has been bothering me since this project first sprung up in my head, and I think I've figured it out!

So, spawners form because there's been a lot of one mob spawning in one particular area of the world. So like, for example, say zombies spawn in this one particular cave a lot, for a long period of time. After some amount of time a spawner forms, and that's what the player finds in the world when they join.

However, you may be asking, 'okay, that's how spawners work, but what about the room around it, and the loot in the chests? Those aren't natural' And I have an answer! It's not a full one, because, again, I haven't completely figured everything out yet, this is just stuff that came to me in like, 5 minutes.

But, you would be right, the room around the spawner and the loot in the chests are not natural! The inhabitants that built the dungeons didn't know that there would be a spawner there, but they noticed that zombies (if we're using the example above), kept spawning in that area, so they blocked it off and used it as a makeshift xp farm or something! (again, haven't figured everything out)