Surely the torches will guide me back

immediate thoughts on this.

1- it looks bad. like visually. the environment is lovely and imo as good as it could get but the animals look gross and “humans in a cgi environment” never looks good

2- yet another case of whitewashing steve despite him being dark skinned in game?!? why is jack black here. hes better as a voice actor than a screen actor imo

3- “group of normal humans enter a magical world with video game mechanics” has already been done. this is just the jumanji reboot again

4- why are the antagonists seemingly the. piglins? they become neutral harmless mobs in the overworld. theyre ALREADY neutral mobs in the nether if you wear gold! the ender dragon would have been MUCH more interesting to see in a teaser

And most importantly …

alex is gonna be that one “badass strong girl” and have no personality outside of it

actually nobody is gonna have a personality

“there’s only one person who could’ve done this… herobrine.” *DRAMATIC MUSIC*

half of the plot is basically just captainsparklez’s fallen kingdom saga

and the other half is those minecraft isekai books by mark cheverton (did anyone else read that as a kid)

10 years and this is what they finally cooked up

i know covid and strikes and what not but just wow

Yes I have played Minecraft since 2011 and love the game and what I can see from the trailers it looks like an adaptation that I cannot see myself enjoying

But above that. It is infuriating to see yet again a movie that clearly displays the movie industry's worst practices regarding animation.

A Minecraft Movie is an animated movie. It is not Live Action just because it features human actors and it is stylized to accomplish a hyperrealistic look. To achieve its visual identity it is solely dependent on computer-generated images. A team of humans has to use their technical knowledge in design and animation to create this world while using digital tools. This movie is dependent on artist. This movie depends on animation to exist.

I saw the Deep Dark for the first time. It’s the very first time I’ve ever stumbled into it in my own game. Completely accidental, I built my base in a little savannah valley cupped by mountain peaks on all sides, so maybe I should have guessed what was under the mountains when I settled there… but it still caught me by surprise when I went caving and I peeked over a sheer edge into a ravine and I saw skulk at the bottom.

Wish I knew how to draw, wish I had taken screenshots, because words alone are not enough. Picture me, a mediocre Minecraft player, never beaten the dragon or set foot in the Nether, armed with just basic iron armor and a bunch of torches and cobble for emergency pillaring.

See that player, way deep underground in a pitch black ravine, both walls covered in skulk, wading through waist-deep water on a slippery obsidian floor. No mobs, no sounds other than flowing water and skulk sensors going off every time I place a block and plant a torch on top of it. (To light my way back, I get lost easily. There’s a long line of cobble blocks with torches behind me like floating lanterns.)

And I know I’m not being careful enough, but I can’t bring myself to turn back. I want to see. I want to forge ahead recklessly and see this biome that I’ve never seen before. Even though I’ve seen it already from the perspective of others, it’s something else entirely to see it with your own eyes, in your own game. The words heretical and profane echo around in my head, and I can’t remember where I heard that before, but it feels very apt.

You can probably guess what happens next.

I place block.

Skulk sensor chirps.

And somewhere very close by, somewhere in the pitch black, I hear the shrieker.

And I thought it would be exciting, and it was. I got legit chills as the blindness closed in and suddenly all I could see was my torch and the glow of a nearby lava fall. And I huddled on my single cobble block and listened to the heartbeat and my own breathing and waited and waited and waited until the blindness lifted.

And it was silent again. Just flowing water and bubbling lava.

That was so cool, I whispered.

…and then I turned tail and bolted out of that ravine like a looney tunes character. Straight back to the sunlit valley, back to my house and my farms and animals, with only two diamonds to my name and a circle of bookshelves still waiting for an enchanting table. But every time I think about going back down to find more diamonds, I hear that godawful shriek in the back of my head and I see that ravine with the lonely trail of floating torches that come to a dead stop, and I can’t bring myself to think of what lies beyond.

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spawn point on some beautiful terrain with a deep dark + lush cave located directly under

spawn point is right on the verge between a birch forest and grove

biomes around the spawn:

• jagged peaks

• frozen peaks

• dark forest

• taiga

• forest

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coordinates:

112, -197 deep dark city

Ok, so, we all know there is what appears to be a portal in the Deep Dark. The Warden’s job is to guard it, and it seems likely that the devs intend to add a new dimension. 

So what could be on the other side of this portal? 

Well, we know that whatever it is, it is intended to be a late or post-game challenge. Considering how difficult the Warden is to fight, whatever its guarding must be an even bigger threat. A warden’s job is not necessarily as a protector, but to keep something contained. There is something on the other side of that portal that must be contained at all costs. 

The Warden itself is blind, and I think there’s a reason for that. I don’t think its solely the fact that it adapted to a lightless environment - I think the Warden needs to be blind. Why? 

Well, what if what lies on the other side is something incomprehensible? Something so ancient and powerful that any that lays eyes upon it would surely perish? A being so boundless, primordial, and inconceivable that the creatures designed to contain must be without sight so that they do not ever perceive it? Something that lies outside of time and space as we know it, in a dimension all its own? 

Something like an Outer God.

Azathoth, also known as “The Deep Dark”. 

A being believed by some to be a sentient, supermassive black hole. Something that even light cannot escape from. 

How would this work as a game mechanic? Well, keep in mind this is completely baseless speculation but I think it would be neat! I’ll put it under the read more cause this part is pretty rambly. 

With more information im finding out with the sculk and warden, I might have to contradict this earlier theory about it.

Perhaps it was never really related to the end at all, maybe it relates more to necromancy and undead.

According to this tweet here, It turns out sculk blocks have more in common with bone blocks than endstone. Which is fitting, because you can find bones in places like soul sand valley, and we all know sculk has something to do with souls. Now, it seems like both bones and souls might have connections. Because, you know, the dead.

Here is the visual comparision of the following blocks:

and audio comparision here, in order:

Bone Block Placement.mp3

Sculk Catalyst Placement.mp3

Sculk Shrieker Placement.mp3

If you listen closely, the sound of the sculk blocks resemble the sound of bone blocks, proving it may be made of bones, or bone-like material.

So if it is bones, then what is it the bones of? Was the civilizations in the deep dark trying to revive some huge creature with the sculk filled with soul energy? Is it the bones of the warden, or something bigger?

Furthermore, to prove it has relations to life and death; sculk spreads when a mob dies near it.

(In courtesy of the zombie who sacrificed themselves for research.)

This could mean the sculk consumes or collects the soul of the mob that died next to it as a way to spread; allowing it to have a wider range in collecting more unfortunate souls to continue spreading.

The spread is presumably caused by the soul energy's power.

As you can see, souls are seen to come out when the spreading happens.

EXP Orbs can also be collected when you mine the sculk blocks.

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Personally, I think EXP and souls are not the same thing. This is because you can collect EXP from mining things like coal, or trading, not just from slaughtering mobs.

But instead, maybe souls do contain EXP and your soul collects them. Hence why the sculk drops them when mined. The soul that was acting like a container for EXP is completely broken, so the EXP inside it instead drops out.

The EXP you collect are the remains of whatever entity that has fallen victim to the sculk. It was theirs and now its yours.

(What exactly EXP is will be a post for another day, but here's a link to a post about EXP having something to do with revival, aka could be related to necromancy; which is the craft of reviving something)

Speaking of EXP, it is said the amount of sculk that spreads is directly related to the amount of EXP collected.

Maybe souls containing more EXP have stronger energy, causing the spread to be further.

Next, the sculk shrieker has the ability to darken the surroundings.

This is very much a stretch, but it does remind me of the darkening ability the wither has when you summon one. ((Bedrock))

Sculk Shrieker's Darkening Effect: (x)

Wither's Darkening Effect: (x)

Again, this part is a massive stretch. The sculk shrieker darkens the surroundings but not the sky, whereas the wither darkens the sky.

In another post, I mentioned there that it was more of the wither's power to manipulate weather and giving its curses into lightning.

But I thought it was still a bit relevant to put it here as comparision; as both candidates have soul-related things about them and somehow have this similar darkening ability when it comes to surroundings.

TLDR: Because sculk has a lot of relations to souls, death, EXP and bones, this makes me think it has links to the topic of necromancy.

Candles are found in the deep dark cities. It is a known concept that candles are commonly used in rituals and religious affairs, so what if that is their purpose?

I wonder if the art of necromancy had started and was discovered in the deep dark cities, with either soul experiments or spiritual rituals being conducted down there. Did bodily sacrifices occur to spread the sculk more?

Perhaps they were done deep down, because toying with souls was considered unethical at the time?

Maybe its where the undead curse/virus originated, considering it acts like an infection spreading?