Unsolved Mystery of Minecraft's Disc 5

Last month, we dived into the decade-old mysteries of Disc 11 & 13. Apparently, Mojang wasn't done just yet. Earlier this week, Mojang's Samuel Åberg released Disc 5, the newest addition to Minecraft's music and the first lore disc in over 10 years. In today's episode of Minecraft Uncovered, we're taking a look at the lore behind Minecraft 1.19's mysterious new music disc.

0:00 - An introduction to Disc 5.
0:48 - Sound-by-sound analysis.
04:54 - My theory on the Disc 5 lore.
11:32 - Have a good one!

Credit to MakerCraft for a portion of the introduction.

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[UpsideDownCycle]

I personally believe that the small part of an actual song we hear on Disc 5 is actually the *original* song that was on the disc, and everything else was recorded on top of the original disc, erasing it.

[lrgrztq]

Finally, SOMEONE acknowledges that disc 5 is literally made from disc fragments that probably didn't go together perfectly.

[yndranth]

What's interesting about the new deep dark underground biome, and the city within, is how insanely similar it is to a mod known as extra utilities. In said mod there's a portal which leads you to "the deep dark", in the deep dark you can also find weird structures, and another interesting thing is that deep dark from extra utilities really resembles the caves of 1.18

[karlemil]

If you play disc 11 and disc 5 at the exact same time. When disc 11 stops, it seems like disc 5 is a continuation of disc 11. The sound is so alike, and the music from disc 5 even stops right when disc 11 stops.

[Placidpalace]

Theory: Sculk is something special it’s not just another dimension to be explored, it’s a creature of its own. The sculk only spreads when creatures or entities are killed near it, and it converts the blocks into sculk. Suggesting it feeds on the life force (Exp of other mobs). There is no doubt in my mind that it’s from another dimension however this substance is not just existing in the overworld. It is consuming the overworld, this dimension in essential slowly hunting and killing the overworld. It is a parasitic realm seeking to spread and ingulf our own, and like most living things it has a means to defend itself aka the Warden. The Warden is merely the sculks self-defense mechanism and a form of feeding itself. The souls in in its chest are the mobs the sculk consumes, reused into a type of energy that gives life to the warden. Now although this is all very scary there is one important thing to keep in mind. To the luck of the overworld these sculk growths appeared underground in caves places were there is very little to feed its growth. It would take a long period of time for sculk to spread to from a cave system to the surface. This does present players with the opportunity to find these sculk breaches and eliminate them. That is if they can bring down the warden first…. (Sorry about all the text I get really into this stuff o-0).

[big_axolotl_]

I love the Endersent and hope they come to regular Minecraft:)

[hatty_hattington.]

Awesome! Thanks for uploading so consistently these past few days MCBYT! Love this is style of content

[arpolos]

The disc 11 has a wierd creature noise around the end, that makes me think that it is either an endersent or the warden. I feel like they share a connection.

ALSO: I feel like the piano music just randomly being placed in a recording of a city being destroyed by the warden is really creepy.

[sboy]

First of all, there is probably a special reason why we don’t see endersent in the base game. In the introduction to the End-themed Minecraft Dungeons DLC, we see two endermen carry the largest fragment of a sentient artifact called the “Orb of Dominance” (which has an obvious connection to the endermen and the End in general) to an end portal. When one of the endermen enter the portal with the fragment (the other one teleported away), 6 endersent and a bunch of endermites come out of the portal. Seemingly following the Orb’s orders, 6 of the eyes of ender fly onto each of the endersent’s chests, who teleport away. In the areas we find the endersent, we see void liquid and void block infecting the area, with the endersent probably being the cause of it, which is most likely the mission the Orb sent them to do. (Also, does a goo-like substance infecting large area with a big monster guarding everything sound familiar to you?) When we get to the End, we not only find that endermites are spawning naturally, but there’s a new category of mobs called enderlings. When I first played this DLC, I concluded that both the endersent and the enderlings were directly created by the Orb, but now with Disc 5, I don’t think fully the case anymore. Now I think that they come from the same dimension that the endermites come from, a 4th dimension that endermen go through when they teleport, which has been confirmed by a developer to exist in the lore. For what any of this has to do with the deep dark, I’ll get to that later.

In an official Minecraft article describing the warped forests, it’s heavily hinted that they were crimson forests that were corrupted by the endermen, with it saying that it’s where “the Nether meets the End”. The Orb and endersent have been shown to have corruption abilities, so it’s not that far-fetched to say that that could be the case for the endermen too. In another article describing the soul sand valleys, it states that the endermen that spawn there could be “looking for something”. With this information combined, I think that the deep dark is the result of the endermen spreading their corruption through warped forests to the Overworld. It’s even popular belief that the Nether is below the Overworld, so the endermen could be using the Nether ceiling as a trans-dimensional gateway of sorts, and it would explain why the deep dark is underground. (I don’t believe that the Nether is physically below the Overworld, I just think it sort off might be below the Overworld in a different plane, and that the two can’t interact with each other unless inter-dimensional energy is involved) Every deep dark would start with one warden, more specifically a baby warden (which in my head canon is just a little blob of sculk with a mouth. It would massacre every mob it detects, allowing it to grow and evolve over time, with it eventually being able to “lay” sculk catalysts. The endermen would send more wardens to each deep dark over time, allowing the sculk to grow and expand. Eventually, an ancient civilization discovered the sculk, and they built giant cities where they can experiment with the sculk and test its capabilities. They eventually found out that the sculk was partly made of inter-dimensional/ender energy, which made them believe that they can build a portal to the dimension that endermen use to teleported. While bursts of energy sometimes occurred, the portals were never successfully fully opened. The sculk was eventually ticked off, and every resident in the cities was secretly killed off one by one, until there was no more left.

Now, for Disc 5, here’s my interpretation:

One of people who live in the cities tries to light the portal, and nothing happens. They then add more soul fire under it, and they back away (it could be that there was some guards will them, but they probably would’ve helped them at the end since they’re probably experts at dealing with wardens, and the whole atmosphere of the disc makes it sound like he’s alone), some endersent sounds can be heard, but once again, nothing, and the flame in the portal itself dies out. They relight the flame, but this time, they can her endermite sounds (which are identical to silverfish sounds), and unlike endersent, they know what endermites and they know they live on the other side of the portal. This gives them a bit of hope, and they add more soul sand to the bottom. While doing so, the portal begins to charge up again, and they add more soul sand and soul fire, but the charge once again dies out. The sculk then gets ticked off, and a bunch of nearby sculk shriekers shriek, and a warden is summoned. The person that tried to light portal digs into another cave through a nearby wall, but the warden is already there and precedes to roar and kill them.

Side note: I don’t remember there being any definite proof that there’s any time travel in the disc.

[TheStealthyOne]

I love the Aether reference. I've wanted the Aether in Minecraft since the old days, and I still do. Maybe the dimension through that portal holds the key to getting to the Aether, after all these years. The Aether could even be untainted by the undead and other challenges made by the Ancient Builders, and there are only a few hostile mobs. Another dream is for a dimension consisting of things from the old days of Minecraft like Alpha and Beta. Maybe you can't even take your stuff into the dimension, and you can only go through the portal if you have no stuff. This could be the same for the Aether, and the portal can only load in on an island with trees in the older biome. Some changes would have to be made, some biomes added, new portal spawning requirements, and more, but this would made it new content. Back to the "Old Dimension, " it could just be a biome in the overworld or something. The main thing, however, is the Aether and any other dimensions added. Hopefully the Youtubers don't spoil it though... but that might happen anyway.

[paperpopper]

I never wouldve caught the endersent noise or the reversed sound effects, good stuff

[greysoncrowe]

this is so well put together. great work. what's interesting about the endersent in particular is that aside from guarding the ender eyes to activate the portal, they are also known for terraforming the land of different dimensions to something that fits the desires of the Heart of Ender, which I have to assume is the god of the end dimension (but that could very well br a stretch). maybe the reason why the army had to fight the endersent was because they perhaps were trying to access the portal to the sculk dimension?

[baba]

My theory about the warden is that it used to live in the deep dark and it was all friendly until a virus broke out, the skulk, and infected the wardens brain and parts of the deep dark making the warden aggressive, also covering its eyes.

[koot]

YES THE ENDERSENT and other mc dungeons stuff finally being recognized

[iTrapa]

But remember, The only dimension lacking rework is the End.
The End was originally the Sky dimension during it's early development, and the Aether is likely inspired by those sky islands.
Perhaps... the ruined portal has something to do with the end? The first two-way end portal?

[XXavierSin-XXs]

The music discs 5, 11, and 13 played at the same time actually make a coherent story. My theory is that they are updating the End biome specifically to add a new disc that adds to it. Likely number 7. At which point it should be complete. If you listen to all three of them at once, it sounds like they light the fires, and charge the portal with amethyst. At which point disaster hits. Very cool, very interesting.

[maccaswam]

I have a more interesting theory. If you see the numbering, you see 5, 11 and 13. I think that originally there were more. From 1 to 13 or more. Some of these were lost. 5 was found, made in a strange way different to the others, similar to pigstep. This could mean that it was crafted by a different character to all the others. The 11th is cracked, meaning that some could be lost and we don't have the full story. Both of these are other worldly, apparently older than the rest due to style and condition. Then, thirteen is in better condition than the other 2. The reason we only have 5 now is because we found the location it was made in, the deep dark. It was made in a fourth reality, different to the first three. Maybe something from minecraft dungeons, maybe time travel. This would explain why the cities are ancient. This person arrived in the portal to our minecraft world a very long time ago, and had many recordings of their discoveries. Disc 5, them arriving. Disc 11, them encountering some unknown entity that could have been brought with him/her/'it' and the pursuit of the unknown beast. The beast then roars in disc 11, but they lost the rest of the recording due to something unknown. This beast could be anything. Then, thirteen, a better quality disc, but still different... as if the character is still settling in to this world, with its own style and culture. However, due to the age the disc was scratched and we couldn't hear everything, meaning we don't know what happened at the end... and the fate of this person is unknown. Likely, he set up the basic cultural idea for civilizations in the overworld, and was not accepted by the piglins who were trapped there. He arrived in the nether and exchanged ideas, but the stay was not forever. Teaching them about netherite, he left after acquiring the materials for a nether portal and built portals around the nether and overworld. He visited the end and was trapped there, for ever after attempting an escape through a new portal in the end. He took 2 recordings of these adventures, and found a primitive race of 'endermen', which may have been endersent. After making friends with them, they gave him food and supplies necessary to survive. After realizing that he would never escape, he made a final disc about this, lost in the void of the end forever... he taught the endersent to build great cities, but after the character was getting old, the endersent were being overrun by endermites, parasites that were infesting their shulker technology, which was derived by a misinterpretation of the skulk, some virus brought to the overworld by this character and heard through the ramblings of the hermit character. This character realized his destiny and trapped the endersent, who had evolved to become endermen. The character became the enderdragon. And for many centuries, the overworld was off balance, overrun by monsters. The ancient builders built ancient cities to attempt to scare away the beast from disc 11, and they used the warden to protect them. Then, they trapped the beast in the other dimension and shut the portal on the other side, all the warriors of the ancient race entering the portal to keep the evil beast trapped for all eternity, shutting the portal to the fourth dimension where the original character came from. The ending is unknown, and the rest of the ancient race split forever. Some made new civilizations. Some tried using the skulk to create advanced technology in the cities. Some tried to tell them not to, but it was too late... the city was no longer protected by the warden, protector of the portal. The experiments went wrong, the warden thought everything living was evil and trying to reopen the portal. The race tried using carpet to muffle their foot steps and built structures to pray the warden wouldn't kill them. But, over time, they realized they shouldn't live like this forever... some attempted to escape, but were killed by the warden. Many did escape, affected by the skulk which was now growing. These escapists died due to too much sunlight, as they had evolved to not survive such radiation. They lived in caves, becoming zombies and skeletons and even... creepers? Well the other side of the race which had survived were making civilizations. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the cities where making labs and new technology. Up on the surface the civilizations developed new ideas, splitting into different people - intelligent witches, peaceful villagers and bloodthirsty illagers and pillagers who pillaged and conquered the world, leaving only several villages to survive, the rest decaying due to the skulk plague. The illagers went into caves to mine gold and emeralds, after exhausting the villages of them. They went deep, finding the cities. Quickly, they realized this place was wrong. They found survivors, exterminating them all. Then they encountered the warden. It was too powerful for them, so many fled. Those who fled died, making the cities spread. The surviving illagers built on the cities, but they didn't last. They were killed off, and the warden was at peace. The villagers made music discs, using a branched culture from the original character. However, this was before they were villagers. It was before the cities. When the ancient race were dividing. The piglins also made a disc, but they could not maintain their world after the character left. The builders entered the nether and build fortresses to prepare for something... wrong. And then, they failed. Something powerful, more so than the wither, which was a simple boss... more so than the enderdragon, the evil character. And the warden was just the keeper. More powerful than him, and more powerful than an elder guardian, also just guarding something. Some part of the underwater structures was important, worth protecting. There was a key there, prismarine, to reopen the portal. The breath of the dragon, the wither star, the prismarine shard, amethyst, netherite, gold... all part of something bigger. The beast. Then, we awake, not knowing where we came from. But after discovering the music discs, you know that you are similar to the creator, maybe from the same race and an experiment to bring you here went wrong. You are the last one, a race older than the ancient builders. Something that knew it all. But... you are missing your memory, and you have a long mission. And the advancement how did we get here is a good clue. It gives an image of a heart of the sea. This is important somehow, a key... but you have to open it?

[trashmemer]

Im half Greek, and Half a Cypriot, and whats crazy is that, In cyprus history, there was a warden called, digenis, was guarding a city in cyprus, called Kerynia, and warriors from another country attacked, they got scared and started running as he chased them, he tried to catch them but he missed and hit a mountain and printed his fingers to the mountain, in cyprus we call it, O pentadaxtylos, the myths said that he was big, and a warden, so minecraft might be refrencing to a Greek myth...

[bluepineappleguy]

something i noticed is that mob heads fit perfectly on the reinforced deepslate top square. also, imagine if lighting the portal turned it into its former glory, the huge frame around it becoming red, and a white portal appears...

[krzysc]

Maybe this is a story how Warden was summend by the Player using the frame