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The COMPLETE Lore of Minecraft!

Game Theory

The Game Theorists

Games, Leisure

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Join Game Theory Host MatPat as he explains the ENTIRE Minecraft Timeline!


*Credits:* Writers: Matthew Patrick, Tom Robinson, and Eddie “NostalGamer” Robinson Editors: Dan "Cybert" Seibert, Tyler Mascola, Warak, Brandon_n_motion, KL Allen and Shannon (Bomb0i) Sound Designer: Yosi Berman

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today we end the horror four years three games 35 theories all leading up to this moment

0:08.6

hold on haven't we done this intro before that was for f f f f fNAF this is Minecraft it's totally different. Oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show that's been building Minecraft's

0:41.5

lore one block at a time.

0:43.4

You know, for as much attention as Fennaf gets on the channel, it's easy to overlook what we've done

0:46.8

for other game franchises.

0:48.6

46 Mario theories, 31 Pokemon theories,

0:52.4

three Hello Neighbor theories, which doesn't seem like a whole lot, but let's be honest with ourselves, it's probably too many.

0:58.0

But of them all, I would say that our Minecraft series is probably the most important, 35 episodes in total and it's a pretty impressive

1:05.4

collection. Can you punch a tree to death? What's a creeper? Is the overworld a sphere or a cube?

1:10.7

But I think our biggest contribution to this franchise has to be figuring out that there

1:14.1

was an actual story hidden inside this seemingly storyless game.

1:18.2

For as long as Minecraft had been around and for as many videos existed about the topic, we were able to crack into something that no one had noticed before that the placement of the blocks the treasures hidden inside a chest the spawn locations the item drops all of them told a story and so the next four years, we chipped away at that story,

1:35.0

bit by bit, mob by mob, the enderman, the drown, the wither, the warden.

1:39.0

And over the years, a story came into focus,

1:41.0

a story of an ancient civilization's rise in their tragic fall, a tale of hubris and excess,

1:47.2

a tale that serves as a warning to us, the player, out here in the real world.

1:50.8

Except there is just one problem.

1:52.3

35 theories, it's a lot to keep track of.

1:54.6

And just like we often see with FNAF, I started seeing a number of comments over in the

1:57.7

subreddit begging me to set the record straight to make one up-to-date definitive resource compiling all of our theories into one coherent location.

2:05.2

So I've put all these theories onto the crafting table and enchanted them with efficiency five to turn those 35 theories into this,

2:11.6

one easy to digest 25 30 minute is video not exactly sure where it's gonna land

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