Theory Suggestions [Megathread] - r/GameTheorists (2024)

Channel : Game Theory

Topic : Minecraft Lore

The Great War - A Minecraft Theory

So basically, it all started when I talked to another theorist (reddit user u/HumbleHerald) and we were trying to find things to theorise on.

Then we realised how mushrooms and fungi are… weird.

They are magical and powerful in a way that just feels out of place.

Really, think of it. They all have a both parasitic and symbiotic form to them.

The Greater Mushroom Theory :

Look at the Mushroom Biome. First you find the mycelium. Mycelium is a block that infects grass and turns into mycelium. It is a permanent and incurable effect. It is a **parasitic** relationship.

Now look at the Mooshroom. This mythical creature is simply a cow covered with a layer of mushroom that mixes with it to make it better. It becomes a much better food source and now it can live in the mushroom biome. This allows the mushroom to move around. It is a **symbiotic** relationship.

This also applies to other fungal life forms.

Take the skulk growth. It infects non-animate blocks, being **parasitic**, but when meeting whatever the warden was before, it morphs and gives the creature “sight” in a place with no light.

The nether wart.

From MatPat’s theory on Zombie Pigmen, they were pigs that ate nether wart and morphed, giving it fire resistance, immortality and a hive mind. We can see again that pattern of turning an animate creature by morphing, making a symbiote.

Now look at its magical properties. Nether wart is the BASE to ALL POTIONS. It just feels weird. Some random mushroom or fungi being the base of all potions. Why not lapis lazuli ?

This is a clear red flag ! Mushrooms must be important in some way.

The Greater Illager Theory :

We saw that mushrooms live in isolated places, the deep dark, mushroom biomes, the Nether…

But there is an exception, the Roofed Forest.

A perfect environment for mushrooms, a dark and damp place with slight humidity.

What do you also find in Roofed Forests, Woodland Mansions.

We can establish from different sources that the first Illagers were banned from the villagers for “unspeakable crimes”. Those being experimenting with life and death and from what MatPat concluded, transforming villagers into illagers and ravengers.

If they were baned, why would they pick the roofed forest. Any other biomes would be better. There would be food and more isolated places with a better environment than a roofed forest.

Maybe, they were looking for the mushrooms.

We know they experiment with magic and souls.

We know that from the totems of undying and the vexes they summon.

We have established that mushrooms have magical properties, both symbiotic and parasitic.

A known theory is that Illagers made the hostile mobs we fight today. Zombies, skeletons ....

We can see a parasitic pattern in those mobs.

Take the Zombies. They have a parasitic method of attack. They have a virus that can infect villagers, turning them into Zombie Villagers, joining the army of the Illagers. Slimes, when killed, split into more and smaller creatures, overwhelming the player. Wither skeletons have a bigger system.

The wither skeleton can be used to make a Wither.

The Wither kills mobs that drop wither roses. Those wither roses spawn more wither skeletons that restarts the cycle. This is a complex parasitic system to expand the army of the Illagers.

Illagers are making parasitic mobs that recycle dead humans to increase their army.

The Villager Theory :

We have established the Illagers’ evil plan. To make a parasitic army that infects and takes over enemies.

We know that the Illagers’ enemy is the Villagers.

But why!

Villagers are defensless and dumb. They can’t do anything productive and if they do, they will do it at unbelievably slow speeds.

They are soooooo easy to kill.

How can Illagers, people that harness the power of life and death, be fighting Villagers and still haven’t won.

Simple, the villagers are fighting this war, **passively**.

First of all, Iron Golems. They have the Iron Golems, one of the most powerful creatures out there, to protect them.

Secondly, some villagers are immune to the zombie virus. Only some villagers will turn into Zombie Villagers.

Finally, Villagers have a system.

During nighttime, they will automatically go into their homes, close their doors and sleep.

If they don’t face danger, they won’t get hurt.

We see how, behind the thoughtless faces of villagers, there is a system to protect them.

The Final Theory :

We have talked about the properties of mushrooms, the plans of the Illagers and the defence of the Villagers. And this has all led me to a final theory. The Great War of Minecraft.

We saw how all intelligent mobs and life forms are fighting a war to take over. Whether it is about taking over a biome, turning others into a mob or withering them till they become a wither rose, everyone is fighting a war to take over the world.

Finding more elaborate ways to kill, inventing things to infect or making alliances, everything and everyone is part of this war, and you are the one to end it. Everywhere you go, you will find something to kill you, someone attacking you, someone coming for you.

Everyone has changed to fight. Even axolotls.

They should be passive and cute creatures but they are killers, engineered to fight in the water, where they live. No one is truly safe, and you are the only one to end it all.

But that’s just a theory, A GAME THEORY!

Thanks for reading.

- Just a small note. I know that this theory has quite a few holes, but I truly believe that it could be a big theory that with the help of multiple other Theorists and the Mind of MatPat, can become something greater. It truly explains Minecraft as a whole and is what I think the closest we can get to a theory of everything (pun intended to those who understood).

I also believe that if this is right, it could unlock a whole new array of theories and could be a tool to discover more of them. So yeah. Hopefully you'll take it in and make something great out of it.

Thank you.