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I usually build a small basic house and then dig a two block wide staircase down until I either hit a cave or hit diamond level. If I hit a cave then I explore it. If I hit diamond level then I just start digging a 1x2 shaft until I finally hit a cave.

Silverfish are actually just a parasite that was kind of like what fleas would be to actual people and when the Proto-Villagers were turned to Endermen, they were converted as well. As for why the Silverfish live in the Strongholds, it's because they lived on these Proto-Villagers and when they fled into villages the Silverfish weren't adapted to live in the sunlight so they died off. Eventually, Some Silverfish adapted to live off of the stone and remnants of food that were left behind. Thus, the only surviving members of the species happen to live in Strongholds. The reason they don't appear much in Abandoned Mineshafts is because they were hunted to near extinction by their natural predators, the Cave Spiders.

I would love to and probably will if I have the time. There is actually a ton more stuff to this theory that I didn't put in because it sounded out of place or just kind of made the whole thing more long-winded than it should have been. I'll probably put up a thread for it and I'll send you the link with the WHOLE story. I would love if an animator picked it up but it's not something I want to actively pursue right now.

My theories about the dungeons and what not has always been this.

Long ago, villagers were much smarter than they are now. Rather than just wander around aimlessly, they built great structures near oceans, temples in jungles and deserts, and subterranean cities. Eventually these villagers started toying around with going to different worlds. They're first experiments did not yield good results, as they sent pigs into the Nether where they mutated and became terrible creatures due to the harsh environment. They then tried going to a completely different world, one that they learned to fear and hate. They named this world The End. Soon, the dragon that lived there began infecting the people with her essence, turning the people dark and giving them unnatural powers. They became unstable beings, bent on taking apart the world that they had once known and bringing it back to their queen, the Ender Dragon. The villagers began fleeing but it was too late. Having opened portals to worlds that were no longer safe, they attempted to destroy all portals to the Nether, though not before building Strongholds there. Unfortunately, they couldn't destroy the portals to The End, only deactivate them and rob them of their power source. This was not enough to prevent the downfall of the Villager Empire though. They had unleashed a force greater than any they had known. Wildlife began to attack them, the dead rose from the ground and hunted the villagers to the brink of extinction. They abandoned their once great temples and forgot the great knowledge that they contained. Soon, the last of the great Villager Empire's people were regarded as charlatans and witches, though they alone cast spells and used potions so that the skeletons and spiders would leave them be. But the zombies were relentless. The witches themselves could not make a potion great enough to stop them and soon, even the witches had gone into hiding, far away from their aggressors, both the monsters and the other villagers. Soon, they changed from the beings they were. They became bald, their noses grew all due to the inbreeding they were now facing. Through this all, a child slept deep in the underground. Forgotten by his people, Steve awaited the day. The last of the True Villagers, found him and raised him. He taught him how to make tools and gadgetry, imbued him with the power to move matter with little more than his will. But sadly, the last True Villager was dying. He cleaned Steve's memory of his past but allowed him to retain the knowledge he had gained by the True Villager's teachings. His memory was not perfect however. Steve forgot many things he had been taught, such as the exact workings of many redstone machines but one thing had been imbued into Steve's very being. A hatred for the thing that had brought down the Villager Empire. He hated the Ender Dragon more than anything and made it his life's goal to destroy her.

And that concludes our tale. The sea had swallowed monuments, temples in deserts and jungles lie forgotten, entire cities lie hidden underground, infested by a parasite. And yet the Endermen wander. They gather and they repress the urge to slay the last of their kind. But it won't hold for long. Even looking into the eyes of Steve will send them into an uncontrollable rage, slaying him without haste.

But Steve will live and he will fight. He will slay the Ender Dragon and with it, hopefully finally cleanse his fallen brethren of the curse that has infected them. But Steve doesn't know this. He doesn't know anything.

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