Yeah, maybe it is. But I think it's fun to create these sorts of stories, and Minecraft just throws so much potential at you lore-wise.
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Jayden Cox
Gavin Powell
what about vindicators and the under sea ruins?
Jace Peterson
Vindicators/Illagers are a separate race of Testificate that evolved after the collapse. There's a sort of Indo-European/Old European thing with them and the Villagers. The Vindicators are pastoralists (evidenced by their taming of Ravagers) and they raid the pacifistic proto-communist agricultural settlements of the Villagers. The Vindicators are more skilled in magic and warfare, but the Villagers are more skilled in machinery, farming, and toolmaking, which they use to build the Iron Golems. Because they are pacifists they will not ever fight against or harm anything directly, so they rely on their powerful Golems to do that for them. So they're sort of like Old Europeans mixed with Jews, also being merchants.
The Undersea Temples were clearly made to worship some sort of deity, perhaps Notch or Jeb. Since the drowned are so prevalent, and normal zombies can become drowned, I think that because there were many different human civilizations all interconnected, some of them had to have been underwater at least partially, evidenced by the other, more common Undersea Ruins. The Guardians are artificial life forms created using magic to guard the temples and the sacrifices of wealth (and maybe humans/animals) made there.
Chase Campbell
Easton Lee
I honestly dig MatPat's theories for the game
Jack Baker
Minecraft is a post-apocalypse game.
Charles Jenkins
holy fuckin based
Christian Sullivan
aw, shucks
Bentley Brooks
what about her?
And for Herobrine I'd like to think he's related to the creation of Minecraft But no one source tells the same tale(Notch's brother, random mod, isn't real) but he is around but slowly he started appearing less and less. Maybe it's because enderman started showing up in the overworld. Maybe it's the death of the enderdragon. Maybe it's just cause more and more people start watching out for him cause his tale is now spread far and wide. Who knows?
Ryan Barnes
Holy fuck user, you just completely changed the way I see Minecraft.