Game Theory: The Murky History of Minecraft's Underwater Gods

The world of Minecraft is vast and pretty well explored... except for one place. You see, we've covered a LOT of Minecraft on this channel, and in doing research for all of that I've noticed that one place remains mostly undiscovered - or at least un-theorized! The underwater biome of Minecraft is FULL of weird creatures and tons of interesting lore, if you know where to look. Spoiler alert, I do! Today we are diving into old Gods, ancient ruins, and more! Get your scuba gear ready, Theorists!

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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick
Editors: Danial "BanditRants" Keristoufi, Josh Langman, Tyler Mascola, and Koen Verhagen
Assistant Editor: AlyssaBeCrazy
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman

[karamitchell]

Matpat: "the ocean monument is a sacred place!"
People who make guardian farms after destroying the whole monument: uhhh...

[thatannoyingperson]

"The majestic squid"


Shows squid trying to swim through sand.

[lolglolblol]

"The illustrations of the guardian's insides do not look organic"
*ignores the tnt block inside the creeper*

[steamjaw]

The fact that matpat manage to connect the biggest religion in the world to a blocky sand box video games is just mind boggling

[bugsnachs]

hey, did you ever think about Steve himself? Whenever you first spawn into the world as a player you're automatically spawn as an adult. So what happened before you spawned? did these so Minecraft God's put you there or was there something else that put you there may be something knocked Steve out? Or Steve's memory was wiped?

[natelublin]

What’s funny is that matpat uses almost everything he learned in school

[frost]

Me: So you’re telling me that guardians are sentient blocks

Also me: see’s every other mob in Minecraft

[thomash]

I read a theory that Steve and Alex were Builder Demi gods, and that’s why they can’t die and why they’re capable of breaking anything but the very crust of the earth, and why they can kill monsters other civilizations were destroyed by.

[commando_barrage]

Game: Makes a small detail

MatPat: Oh yeah, it’s all coming together

[senseikitsune-sama]

"Defenestration"
:verb: the action of throwing someone out of a window

[mrleinad]

Jeb just making a cool structure with coincidentally 23 pillars:

[dafilmqueen]

I love it when he says "THE REBORN SOULS OF THE DEAD WAITING TO DRAG YOU TO YOUR WATERY GRAAAAVE". At this point you can tell his insanity is on full display..

[whiteskull]

Matpat : "23 is an even bigger deal."
Me : "No it's odd."

[adam]

“Defenestration”
noun- the act of throwing someone out of a window.

[notkorean]

Imagine Jeb coming into the comments and saying it’s just a coincidence

[splaty]

Theory: the guardians orange protrusions are made of copper, which is why the elder guardians variants are blue, because they oxidized. Why did they oxidize in water? Because the elder guardians weren’t MEANT for the water. The ocean monument wasn’t underwater originally yes. The elder guardians were the original protectors, since yknow they weren’t as needed because the ancient humans could also assist. But as the ocean slowly flooded the temples, newer, yet less weaker guardians. We’re made and taken to the monuments in large numbers. all the guardians, including the elder ones were given tails and underwater enhancements to aid in the protection of the holy monument, thus the newer guardians never oxidized, since they were always underwater.

[viltekuliesiute]

"23 is very important to humans"

Me, born on the 23 day: ahhh yes, my time has come

[caterace]

Also the fact that when a guardian hits you, you get a debuff which prevents you from mining. Most players will find this as a slight nuisance in their quest to get to the gold. But what if it was actually the guardians mechanism to stop you disturbing whoever they are worshipping, if that was perceived to be the house of their ‘God’ it would make sense to do everything you could to protect it? I mean it doesn’t seem to have much affect on the player so it wouldn’t be for attacking prey or defending itself. Unless they are there for the sole purpose of protecting ‘Gods house’

[kecofleon]

Matpat: *puts drowned in thumbnail*

Also Matpat: *only talks about guardians*

[hafplace]

12:35
correction: we don't know when the first verses were revealed except that its either on the 21, 23, 25, 27, or 29 of Ramadan, and many believe it is more likely to be on 27th or 29th