I have a feeling that there are a million people who have similar ideas to mine, but I've been thinking about Minecraft and how odd it is that a survival game with such primitive technology (swords,armor, primitive farming) but at the same time have access to incredible feats of engineering and physics defying situations (portals, floating islands, monsters , etc.) and I came to the conclusion that there must have been life before the beginning in the game. Maybe there were other humans who lived in the over world and built it on it (fortresses, Mineshafts, and dungeons) and advanced their world so far that they were able to teleport themselves to new dimensions to find new resources for themselves.
My thought is that maybe at one point the over world was a peaceful, happy place, but with the constant race of technology and new discoveries people grew less guarded about what they tried to mess with. Somehow this led to the creation of many of the monsters in Minecraft, with many of them being mutated versions of the people they once were (zombies, zombie pigman, walking skeletons, etc.) and others were experiments gone horrifyingly wrong.
Of course, not everyone would die. There's be survivors, the villagers would be the wiser people who left as soon as the disasters were starting. They might have studied farming skills and survival techniques (we've all met 'preppers' in real life, haven't we?) and they survived. As the zombies and mobs took over the cities would have fallen and eroded into nothing, frequent storms causing most of the damage.
If the land was once this prosperous, why doesn't Minecraft have computers or smartphones to aid the player? Well, like any other person during the apocalypse, most of us don't know how to build a computer or smartphone, and they certainly wouldn't survive long. Swinging a sword is easier than trying to recreate electrical generators or the wires and infrastructure needed to bring electricity to a majority of builds. This isn't saying that it can't be done, there are tons of talented builders who do it, but just by looking at the vanilla game itself leads me to believe that the player's (i.e you're) only goal at the moment is survival, but after you satisfy your immediate needs, just as humanity did before, the player would go through stages of discovery and enlightenment, building and expanding their world and starting things over anew. There's a quote I think that would fit this "Life will find a way".
So Minecraft, being a 'sandbox game, is essentially the story of a survivor (or survivors) who have been given the gift of being able to start the world over. This is where the player begins.
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I like that theory, but calling the villagers intelligent is a stretch. They act more like neanderthals than humans, and how they're still alive is a mystery, since they aren't capable of combat and zombies come knocking on their door every night.
Not to forget the thing, that every now and then (atleast I have) we have found villages, which has atleast 1 derpy villager in it that doesn't go inside when night falls. He's as stupid as stupid can be. Just stands there doing nothing.
Anyways, that's quite good theory, and kind of plausible.
I have a feeling that there are a million people who have similar ideas to mine, but I've been thinking about Minecraft and how odd it is that a survival game with such primitive technology (swords,armor, primitive farming) but at the same time have access to incredible feats of engineering and physics defying situations (portals, floating islands, monsters , etc.) and I came to the conclusion that there must have been life before the beginning in the game. Maybe there were other humans who lived in the over world and built it on it (fortresses, Mineshafts, and dungeons) and advanced their world so far that they were able to teleport themselves to new dimensions to find new resources for themselves.
My thought is that maybe at one point the over world was a peaceful, happy place, but with the constant race of technology and new discoveries people grew less guarded about what they tried to mess with. Somehow this led to the creation of many of the monsters in Minecraft, with many of them being mutated versions of the people they once were (zombies, zombie pigman, walking skeletons, etc.) and others were experiments gone horrifyingly wrong.
Of course, not everyone would die. There's be survivors, the villagers would be the wiser people who left as soon as the disasters were starting. They might have studied farming skills and survival techniques (we've all met 'preppers' in real life, haven't we?) and they survived. As the zombies and mobs took over the cities would have fallen and eroded into nothing, frequent storms causing most of the damage.
If the land was once this prosperous, why doesn't Minecraft have computers or smartphones to aid the player? Well, like any other person during the apocalypse, most of us don't know how to build a computer or smartphone, and they certainly wouldn't survive long. Swinging a sword is easier than trying to recreate electrical generators or the wires and infrastructure needed to bring electricity to a majority of builds. This isn't saying that it can't be done, there are tons of talented builders who do it, but just by looking at the vanilla game itself leads me to believe that the player's (i.e you're) only goal at the moment is survival, but after you satisfy your immediate needs, just as humanity did before, the player would go through stages of discovery and enlightenment, building and expanding their world and starting things over anew. There's a quote I think that would fit this "Life will find a way".
So Minecraft, being a 'sandbox game, is essentially the story of a survivor (or survivors) who have been given the gift of being able to start the world over. This is where the player begins.
Why are guinea pigs called guinea pigs when they are neither pigs or from guinea?
http://i.imgur.com/oDP7Nau.jpg If only minecraft had generation tools like this....
"Personally, I don't care how large the oceans are. I just want them to still be ocean. I want "land in water", not "water in land".
I SUPPORT BRINGING BACK ACTUAL CONTINENTS AND OCEANS.
Not to forget the thing, that every now and then (atleast I have) we have found villages, which has atleast 1 derpy villager in it that doesn't go inside when night falls. He's as stupid as stupid can be. Just stands there doing nothing.
Anyways, that's quite good theory, and kind of plausible.
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Why are guinea pigs called guinea pigs when they are neither pigs or from guinea?
http://i.imgur.com/oDP7Nau.jpg If only minecraft had generation tools like this....
"Personally, I don't care how large the oceans are. I just want them to still be ocean. I want "land in water", not "water in land".
I SUPPORT BRINGING BACK ACTUAL CONTINENTS AND OCEANS.