minedcraf lore

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Endermen, villagers, and the player all share a common ancestor. This common ancestor (I’m going to call them humanoids) built the Nether fortresses and possibly even the villages, since there’s no evidence that suggests that the villagers built them.

These humanoids traveled the land and sea, settling in villages to farm, sailing the seas, building temples to unknown gods in the jungles and deserts, learning how to open portals to the Nether and making homes there.

Long before the player, a group of humanoids traveled to The End. Whether they found or created the portal is unknown, but they did build the stronghold around it. Once in the end, they couldn’t beat the Enderdragon (or perhaps Enderdragons?), and resorted to living there. Perhaps they built bridges over to the End Islands that have long been destroyed, or perhaps the islands were much closer to the central area back then. They built the End Cities, and over time, their sunless lifestyle and diet of choral fruit transformed them into what we now know as Endermen (it should be noted that choral fruit teleports the player, and after generations of living off of it, perhaps the humanoids mastered this skill).

The humanoids that settled in villages to farm and raise livestock grew soft. They avoided the creatures of the night and stuck to peacefully practicing agriculture. Over time, they became adept traders and amazing farmers, but the ability to remove or place blocks was lost. They became what we now know as villagers.

But some villagers were displeased with how placid they believed their people had gotten. They left the villages to build their own homes before the skill was lost forever. They made their homes in dark forests, and filled their magnificent mansions with everything they could ever need (woodland mansions always seemed oddly apocalypse-shelter like to me). As tales of the “soft” villagers were passed down through generations, they became cold and hateful of the peaceful farmers.

The humanoids that traveled to the Nether built immense fortresses to shield their people from the fire and hostile mobs outside. They grew huge and tough to cope with the harsh world of the Nether. And when these imposing creatures died, their scorched skeletons reanimated.

And now we come to the player. Are they a direct descendant of the humanoids, or are they one themself? Are they the random resurfacing of a long-lost race?

It should be noted that the undead mobs, such as zombies and skeletons, look the same as the player. It should be noted that a zombie villager is different from a normal zombie. So, clearly the humanoids could and did die, but somehow their corpses reanimated themselves.

Perhaps the player is identical to this ancient race in all ways but one. For where the humanoids were transformed into living dead, the player can respawn.