Game Theory: The COMPLETE Lore Of Minecraft

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Today is the day, after years of theorizing it's time for me to attempt a full and complete Minecraft lore timeline! We've solved the ending, we've learned about the ancient builders, and hopefully saved some ender dragons along the way. Now it's time to put our story together into one comprehensive timeline... at least until the next update!
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0:00 - Hello Internet!
2:41 - In The Beginning
5:18 - Westward Expansion!
10:27 - It's Getting Hot In Here!
12:49 - I Can't Hear You, It's Too Dark
16:03 - Is It All Over?
18:02 - I'm One Ill Villager
20:43: Back To the Future
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[ツッ]

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

[kanekosuiiki]

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

[thatonedudefurryrights]

Ancient Builders: You've freed us!
Warden: I wouldn't say freed. More like... Under new management.

[leoneyamada]

Its kinda cool how steve is this godlike figure, the last of a long since dead race, a being of infinite strength and endless wisdom, and yet even with all this power he chooses to simply live a life of peace in a humble cottage in the woods with his dog, his cat, and farming happily and content with his existence

[Riseo]

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

[ternovnik]

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.

[RdstoneTco]

If the Mojang devs ever add a skulk dimension, I would love to see journals from those poor lost souls who entered the portal before it closed, never to return again. It'd be an interesting way to add to the lore directly, if only in the scribblings of a mad man

[KaleSalad]

It’s incredible how coherent this is through all the different structures and dimensions, like the soul sand under the Ancient City portal. Wow.

[gunkrock]

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

[notevenhuman]

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

[Serge]

“Ruining your childhood since 2011”

That one hit home.

Thank you, for everything Matpat. Everything.

[XenterFlow]

Matpat: *closes the theory sad*
Me: *sad*
Matpat: "BUT THAT'S JUST A THEORY!"
Me: Um, no? That, uh, does not sound like a theory but a proven fact.

[Toastdey]

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

[aditya.k]

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.

[YhugYug]

Something I find interesting which was probably unintentional was that the two main characters' names are Alex and Steve and it sounds similar to Adam and Eve

[winternap]

3:46 sorry to ruin your imagination, but greenhouse effect happens because of the sun; the earth reflects the sunlight partially and the greenhouse gas re-reflects it back to earth and that's why it's heating up... considering the nether is underworld why not rather say the nether got hotter and hotter due to glowstone, blazes, and magma from some kind of tectonic movement?

[poweringpperrr]

I love how the intros are getting older and older, as the videos progress to his retirement, absolutely epic.

[CGJournalist]

Been watching through all of the minecraft lore videos. This is the last and only one with the full game theory intro. Literal chills. What an epic timeline of work for the channel. nice touch!

[gannonkendrick]

There are several holes.
1. "builders" don't become drowned, zombies do.
2. Villagers can become zombies, indicating some kind of prior relationship... indicating some relationship between Steve and villagers.
3. The way zombies work in-game indicate that they are undead, and the item enchantments reinforce this. If they're simply a failed woolen experiment of the illagers, why do they have that power?
I also think it's a stretch to say that the ravagers are the results of experiments on villagers just based on their cosmetic similarities. Where are the indicators that these experiments took place at all?

[patrickstokesbary]

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