Game Theory: The COMPLETE Lore Of Minecraft

The story: Preserving the environment. The actual gameplay: Industrialization.

her: "i'm coming over, you better not be an allegory for colonization in the form of a sandbox game targeted towards children" me:

This doesn't even feel like a theory, this just feels like confirmed lore of the game with how in depth this is, frankly Amazing theory, like genuinely

Maybe the reason why ender man attacks you when you look into its eyes because they get a little flashback of what they used to look like before and what they did to the places they explored, killed and looted everything. So, the ender man gets afraid that we will do the same thing and then they attack the player.

I love how illagers were able to control the powers of life and death but weren't able to figure out how to make a bed

Honestly really sick that Minecraft legends came out and confirmed 70% of what matpat's been theorizing about for years

Truly the end of a saga Just one question though, Matpat: How did the builders make the end portals in the first place?

Matpat: "...Burning fossil fuels..." Shows cooling towers at a nuclear power facility

Illagers: can't figure out how beds work, but know the secrets to creating life from nothing

See, that's why I build farms. Instead of mining like a peasant, I harvest the souls and organs of the dead in massive machines.

I too have a theory I don’t think the villagers created the zombies. I think they created Steve. They actually succeeded in re-creating one of the ancient builders, but what they didn’t know is that they won’t be on their side.

“Ruining your childhood since 2011” That one hit home. Thank you, for everything Matpat. Everything.

Don’t be sad it’s over, just be glad it happened. Thank you MatPat. ❤️❤️❤️

This has been a legendary 4 years of theories, thankyou for making our childhoods MatPat 🙏

So who's Alex then ?

Great timeline and great video as always! The one thing I gotta point out though is that zombies were already present in Minecraft Legends, so I prefer to think that the Illagers succeeded in creating an ancient builder - the player, just that they had no control over them. That would also explain why we're the only ones left.

One last part of Minecraft's lore missed out on here is who exactly Steve and/or Alex are. There's one theory I found on Reddit I personally like, and I was surprised MatPat got so close to it but went the zombie path instead. So this theory is basically that the illagers were trying to bring back the builders from zombies (not counting MatPat's theory around zombies yet), and eventually succeeded in their experiments. They took a zombie and fused it with a totem of undying. By imbuing it with new life, they succeeded in reviving an ancient builder and bringing him back to full consciousness. But the illagers quickly realized how dangerous this had become. They had an uncontrollable force loose in their base, and he remembered nothing about who they were, attacking them and attempting to escape. They killed him to protect themselves and ended these experiments, realizing how close they had come to destroying themselves. However, they didn't realize the Totem of Undying had done much more than bring this zombie back to life. It had changed him. Imbued with its power, he had become truly undying. He blinked into existence, far away from the cursed tower where they had first brought him back to life. He knew nothing of the past, but he opened his eyes and saw the world. And he turned, and began to punch a tree.

Builders: eats fruit to survive MatPat: "They were brought down by their own pride."

For all my beef with a few of this channel’s theories, your Minecraft theories have always been some of my favorites

To quote Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." Thanks Mat Pat for your videos and endless dedication and for this final piece of awesome Game Theory.