Game Theory: Minecraft and The Power of The Dead

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, the show that was taken. Another deep dive into the hidden history of Minecraft. It's also time for me to remind you that it's now the end of the 10th anniversary month here at the channel, which means this is your absolute last chance to continue. the once-in-a-lifetime anniversary commemorative hoodie or t-shirt with gold printed references to the last 10 years of theories available below this video only for the next few days it's been almost two years since we started traveling towards this bunny of lore hole, but there is one area of ​​the Minecraft universe that I have yet to cover in depth, my friends, we should have had a discussion about the netherlands a long time ago, it meant the netherlands, the lands of nether space, the lands of the regions bottoms, oh, you know what?

I mean, in my opinion, the Abyss is one of the most misunderstood parts of the Minecraft canon, and it all stems from the widespread misconception that the Abyss is located deep in the overworld. Don't get me wrong, I understand why everyone thinks this chasm is located completely underground with no sky above it, dig down and you'll only hit a rock ceiling and the fact that the distance traveled in the chasm translates to a much greater distance traveled in the overworld makes a lot of sense if they are concentric circles. around a single core, even the fact that they named the starting position of the

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as the overworld seems to imply the existence of an underworld, a world associated with Hades, the dangerous hexagon landscape full of fire and full of

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souls, which is exactly what is the abyss, I mean you.

You don't even have to go that far according to the dictionary definition. Nether actually means lower in position below or below. All the evidence points to this conclusion as if it were a safe

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, at least it would be if it weren't 100. Wrong, don't shoot the messenger here folks, Minecraft CTO Nathan Adams confirmed this in a tweet saying that the abyss is a separate dimension, while the idea that the abyss is beneath the overworld is a common belief, it is not what they seek. Well you know what mojang you could have fooled us anyway knowing that the nether as its own separate world connected to the overworld only through portals has some shocking and disturbing implications for the Minecraft universe?

First, the idea of ​​the nether as a completely isolated underground ecosystem. It's fascinating, it's literally a sunless world in game terms, this means there is no day and night cycle, but on a more basic level it leaves us with the fundamental question of how a world like this could actually work like where this? After all, it gets its energy from here on Earth, almost all of our energy originates from the sun. Think about it, either you are a plant that performs photosynthesis to extract energy from the sun or you are an animal that gets your energy by eating those plants or you are a carnivore that gets your energy by eating those animals that only gets energy from the sun with extra steps then, is it?

How is life sustained in a world without sun? The lower one proposes an answer: fungi in the lower one we do not have plants, only fungi instead of trees. we have huge mushrooms instead of grass, we have nilium, even weeping vines that may look like plants at first must be a fungus based on their red color variant, plants are green because of their chlorophyll which is how fungi use photosynthesis , on the other hand. They don't get their energy from the sun, which is why they can get colors like red and blue-green, but all of this leaves us with a big question if fungi don't get their energy from the sun like normal plants would.

Do they get their energy right in the real world? Fungi extract the nutrients they need from the environment around them. This is why fungi are often found attached to rotting trees and logs, even when the fungi do not attach directly to the decaying organisms. able to get what they need from the soil that is full of nutrients from the creatures and plants that died and decayed there. When you look at it like that, it would seem that the abyss should be a sustainable ecosystem where various mobs like pigs can survive by eating mushrooms and when the pigs die, their bodies decompose and the mushrooms absorb the nutrients, it's all part of the circle of life, but there's a big problem with this system: it just doesn't work the same way humans and stephen alex's piglens and mushrooms and

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work is that we get nutrients in a really inefficient way, it's not like the water cycle, where There is a fixed amount of water circulating when you eat plants, burgers, mushrooms, or whatever for food.

It's true that some of the calories in that food will help your body grow, so when your body eventually expires and breaks down, it will provide food for the worms and the energy cycle continues, but think about the idea of ​​burning calories, those are the calories. What you eat is converted into other forms of energy like movement and heat, even when you are sitting completely still, your body is still burning calories to do things like pump blood through your veins, keep your lungs breathing air, even the process of digestion. of food. First of all, it burns a certain amount of calories and that's all the energy that plants and animals can't use.

In short, the nutritional cycle of the ecosystem is losing energy, leaving the lower one with a dwindling supply of useful resources needed to sustain life if necessary. A good visual example of all this is a 2008 article that looked at what's called the feed ratio for different animals like cows, pigs, and chickens. Cows, for example, have a 25 to 1 feed ratio, meaning that for every 25 calories of feed given to a cow, we only get one calorie of usable meat, this is actually one of the environmental arguments for vegetarianism, cutting out the inefficient middleman of these animals and simply eating the plants ourselves or at least switching to meats that have a more sustainable feed ratio like Chickens that have a four and a half to one feed ratio follow being quite inefficient, but not as wasteful as beef.

However, in summary, under no circumstances is one calorie in and one calorie out, the system is constantly. Energy leakage is the basic principle of entropy, so how can it be overcome well on Earth? We have the advantage of not being a closed system. We import most of our energy from outer space. That may seem like a strange thing, but it's completely true. We constantly receive new energy from the sun at a rate of 173 million gigajoules per second to put that number in perspective, that's about 12 times the annual energy consumption of New York City that reaches the earth every second and that means that while the nutritional cycle is constantly losing energy, it is also gaining a ton of energy as plants capture it from the sun and, keep in mind, it takes a lot of energy from the sun to sustain this.

The only way the circle of life really works is literally for 99.9 of a lifetime. the earth to be plant plants can harness the sun's energy the rest of us basically take advantage of your hard work so with all that context let's talk about

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the overworld works the same way as the earth lots of plants and the sun constantly pumping out new energy. but the abyss doesn't seem to work that way, it is a closed ecosystem, there is no energy coming from an external source, so how can the abyss survive well? If you think about it, the abyss is actually filled with chalk with an abundant energy source.

Darker, more disturbing and sinister source of energy. Seriously, there's nothing subtle about the horror of souls trapped in the sand beneath your feet in the abyss, but the idea that these trapped souls could serve as a

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source for the biome is a really cool one. Backed within established Minecraft lore in the recently released Minecraft dungeons, souls obtained from killing mobs can be used as a

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source for various artifacts and several months ago when I made a video analyzing the Guardian Mob reveal with the dream, we point out that the guardian seems to be powered by caged souls that are trapped in his chest, heck, you've probably even harnessed the energy yourself if you've ever run a soul sand farm, it's the best way to farm warts In short, the body of a

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mob spawn may not have much energy in terms of raw calories, but apparently the soul power does, but that still leaves us with the important question of how, even if souls are what provides a renewable source of energy to the lower.

Where did they come from in the first place? After all, they are the souls of something or perhaps more accurately someone. Well, there could be a big clue in the nether portals to build another portal. You need obsidian and one of the easiest ways to make obsidian. is by mixing lava with good water, except there is a problem, while lava is certainly abundant in the bottom water, in fact, you can't even pour water at the bottom, which gives us really solid evidence pointing to the fact that that the overworld portal was the first to be created and it was the abyss that was being invaded, in fact, the more you look at it, the more sense it makes.

Consider whether you want the existence of deformed forests. Well, the word warped probably makes you think of things like twisted. or incorrect, the word deformation actually has a very specific meaning in the world of botany and agriculture, specifically deformation refers to the process of taking sediment-rich river water, letting it flood agricultural land, and then draining it all, thus transforming an area that was once dry and barren on now nutrient-rich soil, and while it may seem strange to me to mention it in a Minecraft video, it might help explain why the warped forest feels like an outlier compared to the rest. from the abyss the word warped here is not so much a reference to the strangeness of the forest but rather to the way it was created, think about it, dry soil transformed into rich soil, I mean, that's the definition of these little pockets found in the background and what's more, the warped forest is relatively safe for us because the only mobs you find there are striders and endermen, think about that for a minute, striders are apparently so tamed that they will let you ride them, they are naturally friendly With the race of Minecraft Steve and Endermen who, as we've hypothesized in previous theories, are actually our ancestors, the descendants of ancient builders who left the overworld long ago.

The warped forest, both in its name and the very nature of what it is, could suggest that it is not a natural formation but something generated by outsiders, the builders who came from the overworld saw the abyss as a hostile environment and sought to terraform it, transform it. into something more like the overworld they came from. There is a dark side to all of this too, regardless of what life is like in the outside world. The Nether may have begun. Currently it is a system that depends on the energy of souls to sustain itself and be able to overcome entropy.

It has to draw energy from some renewable source, and unlike the overworld, it doesn't have a sun conveniently placed high up to flood the world. with energy every day, in other words, the lower one has two possible fates: one is to fade away as all of its useful energy is gradually converted to heat and it is no longer capable of sustaining life; the other possibility is that it draws its energy from somewhere else, the constant influx of fresh souls from arrogant overworld adventurers, after all, the abyss seems practically designed to harvest the souls of overworld adventurers, it seems that the only way to To prevent your soul from being torn from your body is to remain in a constant state of vigilance, to allow yourself to get tired and fall asleep at the bottom and well, you know what happens, the bed explodes the moment you close your eyes and your mind begins to float into dreamland, that is the end of your mundane existence, just another fresh soul to feed a dimension that is starved for energy.

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