not to be fake deep about Minecraft on main but. anyone else ever get the feeling that Minecraft is a post-post-apocalyptic sort of world that, with each update, is starting to heal? we start with skeletons and zombies and giant spiders and weird mutated things, but life slowly returns – scary things live in the ocean, yes, but coral reefs came back, diverse fish populations returned, there are dolphins and squids and stuff. in 1.16 the nether goes from a blighted hellscape to still terrifying, but a place that can sustain life. there’s new types of trees, animals, flowers, bees were added. basically the Minecraft game universe feels like a place that, with each update, is healing from something terrible, and that’s just neat
Maybe minecraft Steve and Alex are exceptions and weirdos to villagers like. maybe villagers ARE the true average “normal” of the world of Minecraft, and the actions us as players do are weird and eccentric, even “neurotic” to them.
Maybe villagers and other creatures can’t ACTUALLY see Endermen at all, to the point of probability ensuring they rarely directly face towards them?
What if Endermen are only visible because, we, players – beings higher and above the base reality of minecraft are looking at minecraft … and that’s what They sense and hate… being seen by things from Beyond?
And – just as a thought experiment – what if things like shadow people that people see due to sleep paralysis, PCP, DXM, etc IRL… are approximations or impressions of real things, things that are fundamentally outside our normal viewing perspective, but to a higher dimensional viewer, are as clear as crystal?
I like this! I imagine villagers and some mobs cant even hear the endermen, they can only see the purple particles, and think the creature is just a swarm of tiny creatures that love to try to take blocks (like faries or something). They don’t become aggressive with other mobs because they never can truly look at them. But when the player makes that direct eye contact, the endermen are like “uh oh, this one can see us” and apparently thats not a good thing.
EXACTLY this … ALSO priests can trade for enderpearls which implies SOMEWHERE along the line at least some of their ancestors could see and slay them and they’ve been passed down like holy relics,,, like freakin dinosaur skulls or something.
I love mineblr because you get amazing posts like this and then this monstrosity immediately after:
cornfield: The only plant or tree is corn. The only resource is corn. The corn is 2 and a half blocks high and you can walk freely through it but you can’t see anything without jumping above the corn. You can collect corn, which becomes popcorn when cooked. terrible things spawn in there
meat: the ground is made of meat blocks, which can be broken to get raw meat and which make a squelching noise when you walk on them. like the badlands biome, the meat is in strata that lie over top of each other: mutton, beef, salmon, chicken, pork, cod. It is cooked in areas where it contacts lava, and there are random patches of rotting flesh that spawn maggots. there are bone blocks where stone would begin in other biomes.
kudzu forest: a variant of normal forest where everything in sight is covered by kudzu. You can clear it but there’s nothing to do with it but plant it again. It grows faster than anything else in the game. It will cover your house. It will cover your crops and kill them. It will cover your bed and suffocate you while you sleep. There is no escape. TNT and fire both temporarily kill it, but only temporarily.
Chernobyl: there’s probably cool loot somewhere, and you can see villages in the distance, but you’ll never find them because you can’t go 50 blocks into this biome without taking radiation damage and dying. Anything you collect in this biome is so radioactive you can’t carry it in your inventory without it killing you.
Walmart: a (nearly) empty Walmart. the fluorescent lights glow in the day, and switch abruptly off at night. There’s sometimes cool loot and all sorts of food. something horrible lives here…
the North Pole: just a bunch of ice. He spawns exclusively here. he knows your sins. he sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He sees all. He knows what you have done. There is no escape.
hot springs: it’s just the plains but the water kills you when you touch it
trailer park: actually just variants on normal biomes where the villages are replaced with trailer parks.
candy cane forest: self explanatory. You can eat the trees but you take diabetes damage.
Endor: Iike giant tree taiga but there are Ewoks
southern gothic: a forest biome but the colors are washed out, pale girls in dark dresses wander about, and abandoned churches spawn
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