I have been loving the new lore approach the Minecraft updates have brought up. It's very very much Dark-Souls-y: Nothing is telling you about the lore directly, you have to observe it from the world itself. On that note, I believe that the new Nether biomes have told us more than one might expect.
What we knew before 1.16
Firstly, the first obvious clue that there is more than just one race/civilization was the addition of Zombie Villagers.
These fellas differ from the regular Zombies, hence they are likely two different species. The more Steve-looking ones have since been regarded as the members of the Builders civilization - a colony able to bend the world around them just like the Player. They are likely responsible for all the ruins and structures (other than villages) we see around the world. But then there are the questions:
What happened to them? Why can't they be cured?
Why don't the villagers possess the same building powers?
Are all the members of the Zombies (Drowned and Husks) part of the same colony of Builders? Did they just hail from different kingdoms?
What about the Skeletons, Wither Skeletons, or even Enderman?!
Well, I would suggest you go watch the Game Theory videos for that:
Not necessarily that they are correct, but they certainly can give you some perspective.
What we know now
The update has shined a light on a civilization that we had known about before, but didn't know where exactly to put them. Zombie Pigmen (or Zombie Piglings if you prefer). It seems that they are the undead of the Piglin race wandering the Nether. But what are the very-much-not-undead Piglings doing in the Nether? Well, since it's basically a Minecraft version of Hecc, they are likely being punished, punished for their greed and obsession with gold. But...
Did the Piglins ever exist in the Overworld? Did they build any of the structures?
What is their relation to normal pigs, or Hoglins?
The two other biomes and the implications that stem from them are even more curious.
Soul-sand Valley: A place of buried dead, where their Skeletons or souls in the forms of Ghasts rise to traverse the Nether. Are these being punished for anything, like might be the case with Piglins? From the shape of the Skeletons, we could conclude that these dead/undead are members of the Builders. But the last biome, I believe, has the greatest meaning of them all.
Warped Forest: The only mobs that really spawn there are the Endermen. What does this mean, though? Has the biome been 'warped' because of the corrupting essence of the Endermen? A theory is that they are the Builders, who tried to escape something terrible in the Overworld and so went to the End; the dragon later enslaved them and they slowly transformed into their new form by consuming the chorus fruit. Then what are they doing in the Nether? Did they choose to be there, or are they, once again, being punished for something - if so, then for what? Selfishness? The Builders only tried to escape alone, after all, leaving the other civilizations to their potential demise. Or maybe, just maybe, are the Endermen an entirely different civilization. The Piglin biome is a different civilization from the Enderman one. Going by this logic, the Endermen could also be a different species from the Skeletons of the Soul-sand Valley (who are likely to be of the Builders).
This is where the [Discussion] part kicks in. I would love to know your opinions. I'm going to leave a few terms here, so if you could match those, that you think do connect, that'd be amazing. I just love how the Minecraft lore is expanding now.
Steve/Alex, Zombie. Husk, Drowned, Skeleton, Villager, Pillager, Enderman, Piglin, Witherskeleton, The Guardian, The Wither;
Desert Temple, Jungle Temple, Ocean Monument, Abandoned Mineshaft, Stronghold, Nether Fortress, End Cities, Ocean Ruins and Shipwrecks, The Villages (perhaps the Builders were the ones who originally created them and now that they're gone the villages moved in...?);
The Ancient Debris, Soul-sand Valley, The End crystals and Towers, The Beacon;
(Just how many civilizations are there? Do they have any sub-kingdoms {ex.: Villagers and Pillagers}?)
The original idea for endermen teleportation says that they travel through a separate dimension to arrive directly at their transdimensional target. Using traditional descriptions of teleportation across the genre, the Endermen are more likely from this separate dimension and have arrived at our three dimensions to explore new worlds. Doing so probably keeps a personal link open for them, constantly providing them power for their teleportational abilities as they blink around. When they wish to go back, they probably close the link in a proper way and get "pulled" back to wherever it leads (almost like they were sucked through a portal by force instead of choice). When we kill an endermen, we sever this connection in a rather improper way but due to the imprecise nature of our efforts we sometimes do not destroy the link at the proper point and we don't get an ender pearl as a result.
It could be that it's just easier to travel to the warped forest, or perhaps something there has a mystical element that reaches out to intercept planes-travelling endermen...effectively crash-landing them in the warped forest instead of where they intended to go. Then again, it just might be that the Nether is just so much more interesting to the Endermen sensibilities and they're simply going there more often for more study.
I have been loving the new lore approach the Minecraft updates have brought up. It's very very much Dark-Souls-y: Nothing is telling you about the lore directly, you have to observe it from the world itself. On that note, I believe that the new Nether biomes have told us more than one might expect.
What we knew before 1.16
Firstly, the first obvious clue that there is more than just one race/civilization was the addition of Zombie Villagers.
These fellas differ from the regular Zombies, hence they are likely two different species. The more Steve-looking ones have since been regarded as the members of the Builders civilization - a colony able to bend the world around them just like the Player. They are likely responsible for all the ruins and structures (other than villages) we see around the world. But then there are the questions:
Well, I would suggest you go watch the Game Theory videos for that:
Not necessarily that they are correct, but they certainly can give you some perspective.
What we know now
The update has shined a light on a civilization that we had known about before, but didn't know where exactly to put them. Zombie Pigmen (or Zombie Piglings if you prefer). It seems that they are the undead of the Piglin race wandering the Nether. But what are the very-much-not-undead Piglings doing in the Nether? Well, since it's basically a Minecraft version of Hecc, they are likely being punished, punished for their greed and obsession with gold. But...
The two other biomes and the implications that stem from them are even more curious.
Soul-sand Valley: A place of buried dead, where their Skeletons or souls in the forms of Ghasts rise to traverse the Nether. Are these being punished for anything, like might be the case with Piglins? From the shape of the Skeletons, we could conclude that these dead/undead are members of the Builders. But the last biome, I believe, has the greatest meaning of them all.
Warped Forest: The only mobs that really spawn there are the Endermen. What does this mean, though? Has the biome been 'warped' because of the corrupting essence of the Endermen? A theory is that they are the Builders, who tried to escape something terrible in the Overworld and so went to the End; the dragon later enslaved them and they slowly transformed into their new form by consuming the chorus fruit. Then what are they doing in the Nether? Did they choose to be there, or are they, once again, being punished for something - if so, then for what? Selfishness? The Builders only tried to escape alone, after all, leaving the other civilizations to their potential demise. Or maybe, just maybe, are the Endermen an entirely different civilization. The Piglin biome is a different civilization from the Enderman one. Going by this logic, the Endermen could also be a different species from the Skeletons of the Soul-sand Valley (who are likely to be of the Builders).
This is where the [Discussion] part kicks in. I would love to know your opinions. I'm going to leave a few terms here, so if you could match those, that you think do connect, that'd be amazing. I just love how the Minecraft lore is expanding now.
Steve/Alex, Zombie. Husk, Drowned, Skeleton, Villager, Pillager, Enderman, Piglin, Witherskeleton, The Guardian, The Wither;
Desert Temple, Jungle Temple, Ocean Monument, Abandoned Mineshaft, Stronghold, Nether Fortress, End Cities, Ocean Ruins and Shipwrecks, The Villages (perhaps the Builders were the ones who originally created them and now that they're gone the villages moved in...?);
The Ancient Debris, Soul-sand Valley, The End crystals and Towers, The Beacon;
(Just how many civilizations are there? Do they have any sub-kingdoms {ex.: Villagers and Pillagers}?)
The original idea for endermen teleportation says that they travel through a separate dimension to arrive directly at their transdimensional target. Using traditional descriptions of teleportation across the genre, the Endermen are more likely from this separate dimension and have arrived at our three dimensions to explore new worlds. Doing so probably keeps a personal link open for them, constantly providing them power for their teleportational abilities as they blink around. When they wish to go back, they probably close the link in a proper way and get "pulled" back to wherever it leads (almost like they were sucked through a portal by force instead of choice). When we kill an endermen, we sever this connection in a rather improper way but due to the imprecise nature of our efforts we sometimes do not destroy the link at the proper point and we don't get an ender pearl as a result.
It could be that it's just easier to travel to the warped forest, or perhaps something there has a mystical element that reaches out to intercept planes-travelling endermen...effectively crash-landing them in the warped forest instead of where they intended to go. Then again, it just might be that the Nether is just so much more interesting to the Endermen sensibilities and they're simply going there more often for more study.
Hum.... That is actually quite interesting.
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