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If you play Minecraft for long enough, you begin to notice certain things pertaining to enchantments and to souls… These are often weird consistencies… or coincidences that seem almost too convenient to really be a coincidence…
Minecraft has a total of 30 different enchantments. There are also some cool conceptual enchants that are featured in the Java Combat Test snapshots, but I don’t count those as canon, as they aren’t actually in the proper game. I’ve found that these can be split into several different groups, those being:
This isn’t about those though. This blog is about Minecraft Dungeons. “[Illager has] become the MatPat of MCD”. This blog is about souls.
Souls exist in the base game. They can burn, creating painful blue fire, and they can grab at you while you tread on their sand. But in Minecraft Dungeons they are much, much more. They are able to power weapons, making them very very overpowered. Popular items like the “corrupted beacon” use souls, eviscerating monsters within seconds. Souls can be harvested by killing monsters. It seems as though certain types of spells get their power solely from souls, like how certain spells get their power from the water.
But why? Well, it is a common idea in lore, mythology and general games to use the power of life to end life. I think that’s what is going on here. I spoke before about how the totem of undying is getting its power from death, and I think it is a prime example of this. It has been established that souls are able to be harvested, but where do they go if they aren’t? Not all souls are gained from mobs. If a Hero from Minecraft Dungeons kills a mob without the Harvester book, he/she will not be able to get the soul. Presumably the mob still had a soul, but the Hero doesn’t have the means to get ahold of it.
This is where the soul sand valleys come in. This gets into scientific stuff, and I’m considering having made this a Science Theory, but nonetheless, here I go: Souls act as energy. I’ve previously established that magic only works if there is energy, a conduit, a sacrifice and a recipient. Here souls act as the energy. But energy can change forms. In the real world kinetic energy can easily become mechanical energy just by a shift of circumstances. If the souls really are in the Nether, it would help explain the heat as well. See, the Nether is a closed ecosystem. There is no sun to get light from, and no outside place to get energy from. Eventually it makes sense for all the food to be eaten, and the soil to become infertile from use, and for even the lava to eventually all stop being hot and solidify. There is no reason for the Nether to keep energy like this. It doesn’t obey the rules of science to assume that the Nether is creating thermal energy. And it would be absurd to think that there is enough energy to simply go around (the fungi trees certainly aren’t doing them any favours). But if souls are energy… And if energy can be changed from soul energy to thermal energy…
What if the souls that don’t get used in weapons, go to the Nether‽ The Nether is considered by many to be Hell, and where do things go when they die? They go to Hell! The souls of the dead are going to Hell when you kill them! You either steal their souls with your Harvester books, or you damn them to Hell. The creatures in the Nether hate you because they know you were the one who put them there. The Ghasts cry and sob because of your actions. The Wraiths all wish to burn you because you were the one who sent them to the Nether, sent them to a place of eternal burning!
This also explains Johnny Vindicators, who are not hostile toward Ghasts. Johnny Vindicators aren’t hostile towards Illagers and oddly enough Ghasts. My theory is that the Ghasts are Illagers who were killed by you, and somehow the Illagers know that enough to not wish to kill them! …That’s assuming the Johnny easter-Egg is canon.
The only creatures that aren’t damned are the Piglins. I’ve talked about them before, HERE.
And I believe they are something else, a mutation, an abhorrent creature created through radioactive habits. They are the only ones in that place who aren’t dead, who aren’t stuck there through death. And yet, ironically, should one of them leave, they do die…
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy”…
That is all for this blog. I hope you enjoyed it. This one was kinda all over the place, first talking about magic, then souls, then literal Hell. I hope it wasn’t too hard to follow, and I hope you enjoyed it. Remember not to take my word as canon, and to theorise for yourselves! Keep on LOOOOOOORING! S’ya nexttime!
Minecraft has a total of 30 different enchantments. There are also some cool conceptual enchants that are featured in the Java Combat Test snapshots, but I don’t count those as canon, as they aren’t actually in the proper game. I’ve found that these can be split into several different groups, those being:
- Bane types (Those that do extra damage to enemies)
- Protection types (Those that add protection to the user)
- Water types (Those that get power from water)
- Moon (I’ll talk about this later, but it’s related to slimes)
This isn’t about those though. This blog is about Minecraft Dungeons. “[Illager has] become the MatPat of MCD”. This blog is about souls.
Souls exist in the base game. They can burn, creating painful blue fire, and they can grab at you while you tread on their sand. But in Minecraft Dungeons they are much, much more. They are able to power weapons, making them very very overpowered. Popular items like the “corrupted beacon” use souls, eviscerating monsters within seconds. Souls can be harvested by killing monsters. It seems as though certain types of spells get their power solely from souls, like how certain spells get their power from the water.
But why? Well, it is a common idea in lore, mythology and general games to use the power of life to end life. I think that’s what is going on here. I spoke before about how the totem of undying is getting its power from death, and I think it is a prime example of this. It has been established that souls are able to be harvested, but where do they go if they aren’t? Not all souls are gained from mobs. If a Hero from Minecraft Dungeons kills a mob without the Harvester book, he/she will not be able to get the soul. Presumably the mob still had a soul, but the Hero doesn’t have the means to get ahold of it.
This is where the soul sand valleys come in. This gets into scientific stuff, and I’m considering having made this a Science Theory, but nonetheless, here I go: Souls act as energy. I’ve previously established that magic only works if there is energy, a conduit, a sacrifice and a recipient. Here souls act as the energy. But energy can change forms. In the real world kinetic energy can easily become mechanical energy just by a shift of circumstances. If the souls really are in the Nether, it would help explain the heat as well. See, the Nether is a closed ecosystem. There is no sun to get light from, and no outside place to get energy from. Eventually it makes sense for all the food to be eaten, and the soil to become infertile from use, and for even the lava to eventually all stop being hot and solidify. There is no reason for the Nether to keep energy like this. It doesn’t obey the rules of science to assume that the Nether is creating thermal energy. And it would be absurd to think that there is enough energy to simply go around (the fungi trees certainly aren’t doing them any favours). But if souls are energy… And if energy can be changed from soul energy to thermal energy…
What if the souls that don’t get used in weapons, go to the Nether‽ The Nether is considered by many to be Hell, and where do things go when they die? They go to Hell! The souls of the dead are going to Hell when you kill them! You either steal their souls with your Harvester books, or you damn them to Hell. The creatures in the Nether hate you because they know you were the one who put them there. The Ghasts cry and sob because of your actions. The Wraiths all wish to burn you because you were the one who sent them to the Nether, sent them to a place of eternal burning!
This also explains Johnny Vindicators, who are not hostile toward Ghasts. Johnny Vindicators aren’t hostile towards Illagers and oddly enough Ghasts. My theory is that the Ghasts are Illagers who were killed by you, and somehow the Illagers know that enough to not wish to kill them! …That’s assuming the Johnny easter-Egg is canon.
The only creatures that aren’t damned are the Piglins. I’ve talked about them before, HERE.
And I believe they are something else, a mutation, an abhorrent creature created through radioactive habits. They are the only ones in that place who aren’t dead, who aren’t stuck there through death. And yet, ironically, should one of them leave, they do die…
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy”…
That is all for this blog. I hope you enjoyed it. This one was kinda all over the place, first talking about magic, then souls, then literal Hell. I hope it wasn’t too hard to follow, and I hope you enjoyed it. Remember not to take my word as canon, and to theorise for yourselves! Keep on LOOOOOOORING! S’ya nexttime!
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