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The Unanswered Questions Of Minecraft

Published Dec 27th, 2013, 12/27/13 12:20 am
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Introduction:Minecraft is a game that revolves around you setting your own goals. When you first load up a world, there's no princess to save or enemy intelligence to capture. There are no set goals whatsoever that you must accomplish. What you do is truly up to you! And that's the beauty of it.
This being the case, Minecraft has a lack of a proper storyline. The vagueness behind this sandbox game has provoked the community to come up with their own ideas and speculations behind the lore of Minecraft. But are they asking the right questions?
Below you will find a collection of some of the most popular and intriguing unanswered questions behind Minecraft.

1. Who is Steve?
*Several popular theories: Steve is a coma patient, Steve is the last human or Steve is a genetically modified super soldier.
2. How did the world of Minecraft come to be?
*Several popular theories: Minecraft is a post-apocalyptic version of our Earth, Minecraft is a figment of a coma patient's imagination, Minecraft is the result of nuclear war or the world of Minecraft is another planet in our universe.
3. Why do pumpkins grow with faces already carved in?
4. Who built the abandoned mineshafts/dungeons/pyramids/jungle temples?
*Several popular theories: The ancestors of the villagers or the ancestors of Steve (the player).
5. Who built the strongholds and what is their purpose?
*I decided to make this a separate point from #4 because there is one thing I would like to explain. Although there are many theories stating that the strongholds were built by the Endermen, there are many points against this. For starters, the majority of doorways are to short for Endermen to pass under. Fountains can also be found in strongholds, and we know that water is a big no no for Endermen.
6. Why do creepers fear ocelots?
*Several popular theories: Ocelots may at one point have preyed on creepers or ocelots have a natural self defence mechanism that wards off creepers in particular.
7. What is the Nether?
*Several popular theories: The Nether represents hell, the Nether serves as a prison or the Nether is a failed version of recreating the End.
8. What is the End?
*Several popular theories: The End represents heaven, the End is the polar opposite of the Nether or the End is the moon.
9. What are the Villagers?
*Several popular theories: The villagers are the results of human exposed to radiation or villagers are humans following evolution down a different path.
10. What are the hostile mobs and how were they created?
*Several popular theories: The are failed versions of cloning the player, they were made as weapons, they are the result of radiation exposure or they are native species to the minecraft universe.
11. If the Minecraft world is perceived as infinite, how does the sun and the moon rotate around it?
12. Why do creepers drop records only when slain by a skeleton?
13. How do enchantments work?
*Several popular theories: Enchantments represent the player become more experienced and skilled with certain traits.
14. What is redstone and how does it carry energy infinitely?
*Several popular theories: Redstone was created to solve a worldwide resource loss panic.
15. How are pumpkins able to summon golems?
16. Why are the oceans so barren?
*Several popular theories: The water is heavily polluted, making it inhabitable for most life.
17. ---It's up to you!---

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05/26/2019 8:21 am
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justanotheruser
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Before the apocalypse, three strongholds were in the overworld. Humans were trying to connect with the Future (The End). They built strongholds to protect themselves. They opened the portal with Eyes of Ender. Some Endermen already were in the Overworld because they were the result of an experiment with humans, which failed because of an inundation (that's why Endermen hate water). But after the apocalypse, the Strongholds were covered by dirt and materials, and now they're underground. So The End is basically the Future World of Minecraft.
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06/14/2014 6:49 pm
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WanderingTheInternet
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7. What is the Nether?

The nether is all hot and there are a ton of pigmen with swords and ghasts, right? So... What if... The Nether was once a peaceful OTHER minecraft, and then something terrible happened, and it created a massive explosion that somehow mutated pigs or villagers to create zombie pigmen, and that is also why ghasts cry. Maybe, they were once good creatures that were terrible mauled and killed, and stayed around instead of going to the afterlife?
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03/25/2014 2:08 pm
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fritzfun123
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I think the ones that have to do with Steve having a coma are the most likely, as for at the end of the End Poem it says "You are the player, wake up." and there are many other elements suggesting that he's in a coma and Minecraft is his imagination.
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01/07/2014 12:30 pm
Level 16 : Journeyman Lumberjack
tylermark2001
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A. to 1-17 Notch created it who knows
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01/03/2014 10:28 pm
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Cool_Time22
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3. Why do pumpkins grow with faces already carved in?
Pumpkins are born with the ghosts of dead Steves in them...
15. How are pumpkins able to summon golems?
...which can be transferred into iron to make golems.
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05/15/2014 12:36 pm
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owlcool
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3. Why not the souls of the villagers slain? That would also provide why iron golems spawn in villages. Dead Villagers. 15. Do not forget snow.
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01/03/2014 5:15 pm
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creepershurt1995
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5. Who built the strongholds and what is their purpose? I recently read this book called The Invasion of the Overworld and it is a possibility that the villagers (modern) do it
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10/12/2014 5:50 pm
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nicolink
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Read the book too. I liked it
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05/15/2014 12:37 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
owlcool
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Maybe it was Pigmen, not Zombie Pigmen, Pigmen.
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01/02/2014 9:58 pm
Level 16 : Journeyman Toast
WanderingTheInternet
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5. Who built the strongholds and what is their purpose? *I decided to make this a separate point from #4 because there is one thing I would like to explain. Although there are many theories stating that the strongholds were built by the Endermen, there are many points against this. For starters, the majority of doorways are to short for Endermen to pass under. Fountains can also be found in strongholds, and we know that water is a big no no for Endermen.I have a differnt theory, It is true Enderman cannot get into the Overworld because of a lack of 'doorways to it' but that may not be true, what about them falling into the VOID? I mean, whenever the player falls into the VOID they die and go to the Overworld right? What about Enderman?

11. If the Minecraft world is perceived as infinite, how does the sun and the moon rotate around it?My theory is that perhaps the Minecraft world is FLAT! So instead of a BLOCK world or a SPHERE world there is a FLAT world (Lol) that is like a long long long long long long long long VERY VERY LONG stretch of Minecraft that is very wide, and the sun and moon go around it easily! Also, you know how when you fly REALLY REALLY high up in creative mode and you see the sunset? See how the sun is setting over some type of platform or line? Get what I'm saying? X3
12. Why do creepers drop records only when slain by a skeleton?My theory is.... No idea xD
15. How are pumpkins able to summon golems?No idea xD
Just some of my answers/theories! X3
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