I have two ideas as to how the skulk could've emerged:

1:

It's a zombified hivemind:

The skulk to me resembles a fungus. Even the warped fungus just looks a shade or two lighter than the skulk. Only that in the nether, maybe it's too dry and hot from the fungus to deep into the ground and infect everything. Which is why it turns into something more like wood and can be crafted into such.

This is where the zombified part comes into play. It seems that anything with flesh coming from the nether zombifies once it hits a the overworld. And the reason why is because all the pig mobs of the nether are infected with the skull already. It just lays dormant till it's host dies. And like with any fungus, getting a warm, damp environment is a recipe for fungus to thrive. And kinda like the real lfie fungus that the Last of Us zombies are based off, the zombiefied pigs are linked to a hivemind.

Here's the big part of my theory. Once any pig of the nether is exposed the overworld, the fungus aggressively takes over its host. This is due to the intense dry heat of the nether not being present anymore. This is basically turning the warped fungus into skulk.

And the reason I'd say pig mobs turn faster than the skulk spreads to blocks. Is due to flesh being way easier to overtake than natural blocks. And practically impossible for skulk to affect certain blocks. Like how wood doesn't turn into skull and just gets veins covering it. Maybe that's since the skulk turns to wood if it's too dry so either it's not damp enough to overtake or the skulk doesn't want to take it over since maybe it recognizes being woody is not good for the spread.

And as for infecting other mobs, maybe the skulk infects the piglins and turns them rapidly since they've had a long exposure to it in the nether while in the overworld, it's so deep underground and away from life that it cant spread itself well. And since it's only really surrounded by stone, the spread is even slower.

Since the skulk is associated with the ancient city. That makes some form of sense as to how it created the Warden. With the length of time it was festering underground, maybe it was able to take over an overworld mob or even find a way to evovle into its own form. Which explains why we don't see why other skulk related mobs and instead just sensors and shriekers.

I personally like this since it adds more world building.

2:

The illagers created it. Basically, they saw mooshrooms and became fascinated with how the growth took them over and changed their biology. Since they can be milked for mushroom stew and have properties where they change with struck by lightening. The illagers begin implementing with mushrooms into their soul based life creation studies.

Then with some concoction of lapis, mushrooms and souls, they create skulk.

I don't really like this one cause yeah, mooshrooms being part of this kinda support my theory of the skulk being a hivemind fungus, it being created instead of a dormant nether spore that thrives in the overworld just isn't very intresting.

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hes the one on the left in that red skin. Any idea?

Earlier today I was playing on my minecraft world. Keep in mind this is java. While running through a village I saw some sort of mob at the edge of my view. It went out of view, I noticed it, turned back around and it was gone. Has anyone had anything similar to this? I dont remember having any mods installed and frankly im a little worried of going back into that same world. Please let me know if you guys have any ideas as to what this is.

So way back in the day there used to be this youtuber I would watch all the time that went by the name redsoxboy2013, also known as David. You may know him from either his lets play series where he dug a hole in a hill and made his base there, his survival island series that he played with the mo creeps and weirdos mod, or some of his call of duty minecraft videos. You may also remember him because he owned a small minecraft server around the time of release 1.8. I'm searching for anyone who can bring up something on this guy because nostalgia wills it to be so. I've tried to be as specific as I can. There is actually one small clip of him still on the internet and I hope someone recognizes him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHzw_s-f36I

Are the builders in minecraft story mode the ancient builders?

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We can actualy gather a lot from these ruins by studying them, and I believe that these might have been akin to villages in aincents times. Sort of like the under water ruins. And combining what we know of these two and new things in the update, I would like to show what we know of aincent Minecraft, I would also like to hear your own theories

1. The ocean level used to be a lot lower than it was today. Seeing as ocean ruins were built in such a way that makes them clearly meant for land usage,( such as stairs) we can presume that possibly, these were the aincents builders first settlements, and began leaning into their culture of color and art that sort of... went off the rails in later years it seems. From my calculations based on sedimentry deposits and that a block in mincecraft is roughly 3.3 feet in size, and the ruins are generated typically under at least two blocks of sediment, we can determine that they have been sunk for roughly 9,000 to 11,000 years. For more info on this, look into my previous post here on that subject where I explain the math and what not.

2. Based on that, the ocean ruins were not built around the same time the ocean monuments were built, or something else ocured to explain the anomaly being monuments were very clearly designed to be navigated by swimming. Even though guardians are clearly some sort of fish gollem, because of their design it still makes no sence they would be stationed above water.

3. Creatures in Minecraft past seems to have been undergoing gigantisum and was radicaly difrent judgeing by the sniffers sheer size, and the fact there seems to be fossils resembling even larger sniffers. It is my theory that aincent Minecraft flora and fauna used to be absolutely massive to support such gigantic creatures, Think the mega taiga as an example. All this probably occured a long while before the aincents built their first settlements which leads to my next point.

4. Simular to us, Minecraft suffered a mass extinction event, something, some where, up set the balance of the primordial worlds ecosystem, and cause creatures to become a lot smaller across the board, it is unclear what caused this, but it seems the sniffers species managed to adapt for awhile before they eventually went extinct, I would like to hear some theories and research regarding this. But on any note, this lead to the rise of minecrafts aincents, which is understandable considering they probably would have had trouble competing with predators the size of modern day houses.

Any how what are your thoughts? I hope you all have a wonderfull day. -pr0mc

hey is this place still active??

Admittedly I think we can all agree the structure looks, well rather ugly. Only some what resebleing a ounce very colorful building. But how about this, what if this structure is not actually a building at all? There is the chance this could be a minecraft aincents equivalent of a block dump. I mean we do find a lot of pottery shards there, and where else to cast away your pottery shards and other uneeded blocks than a dump? But even if this is a dump, we should not get disappointed. As a dump can be the most valuable find a archeologist can hope for. As it tells a lot about aincent life, what they were like, what they are, what kind of tools they used ect. I propose when the update oficialy drops we block to these ruins and sift through their loot tables carefully. If it is not a dump, perhaps it might have been religious in nature, considering how many decently expensive blocks it includes. Thoughts?

Modern History

The Minecraftian human migrated to the nether a few hundred years after The Nether Ice Age.And so the migrants were able to colonize the area more easily without much difficulty thanks to the fact that the heat would not be extreme for a few thousand years. During this trade with piglins increased, Netherite is so rare in modern times because the piglins gave everything to humans in exchange for the most valuable and rarest gold at the time. And similar to the Native Americans and the colonists gave them gold that was basically a pittance for the most powerful material in the world. This previously said is what is the reason why they do not use it, they do not need it, the piglins only want gold since they see it as something sacred, and whenever they can get it for a material that they consider useless they would give in into their demands. Contrary to popular belief I do believe for myself Hoglins are completelly native to the Nether and aren't mutated pigs or domesticated in any way, which explains their Piglin similarities. I propose a different point of view to this piggly problem, you see I here by propose that Hoglins and Piglins are more of a Chimpanzee/Human situation, as in the Hoglins branched off the Piglins ancestors millions of years ago and are now coexisting. I also do propose their comon ancestor must have been something like a convination of Hoglin and Piglin, like a halfway point, a missing link if you may, like Australopithecines being our last ever relative with chimps and other great apes.

Somewhere before that the ancient Piglin civilizations built bastions. Generations later their modern counterpart would use the now destroyed bastions as main power centers and traiding hubs where to store their gold, paying armed Piglins we call Brute Piglins to guard the riches. Today after their overlords have died and the ages of peace between man and pigmen have ended, this took over the bastions, striking any visitors.

The humans, in counterpart, built their fortresses with Netherrack bricks. The humans harnested the Netherite. After the gold ran out, conection with the Over world was cutted and gold expeditions where beginning to raid in into each other's, inevitable confrontation happened. Becouse no humans where comming back to the nether colonies due to disconnecting from human colonies in the Over world the humans quickly starved and died, with the power of souls reviving them as undeath Wither Skeletons which are actually covered in Netherite. This is the reason the Wither's body is made out of Soul Sand, the skulls are just a place for the creature to maneuver the real energy comes from the Soul Energy in the Soul Sand that is able to bring the creature to life, as it contains actual souls, think of this process more of a possesing or a haunting more than a revival or bringing something back to life frankenstein style, think of this process as like the Five Nights at Freddy's universe's rules of possetions and hauntings.

Natural History

Hoglin and Piglin first earliest relatives where probably from the nether itself, and naturally evolve to look something like an Over worldly pig, but during the Ice Age their snout got longer and thiccer to more easily breath in cold air and warm it up for better survival, their fangs grew longer as to lurk amids the snow and ice.

(Note): A lot of fungi and Warped forest science is explained in other theories like here but the following will include new and inproved information about the rest of the Nether's flora and faunistic evolutionary traits such as adaptations and habitads.

The nether is a naturally dark place, with the only light being the glowstone and the lava oceans. This makse the Nether's soul energy filled enviroment with little to no light a prime real estate for Fungi. This little "plants" if you wanna call them like that feed on Soul Energy, even Overworldy species. This seems to be a universal common since most to all Fungi and Mushrooms feed of the Energy of the Souls. Which the Nether's catalogue of flora have learned to exploit and use in favour across the generations of adaptations. Such as the giant fungi from Warped and Crimson forests. Only other giant fungi that exist are in the overworld in the Mushroom isles. The former are so thick in fact they can be used as wood and are comparable in size, usefulness, weight, density, etc. which makes surviving the Nether way easier. Creatures benefit from said fungi by eating them for breething and feeding themselves. Which creates the life cycle in the Nether, with the Soul Energy being absorved and used at it's fullest by the fungi species like plants in the Over world use the energy of the sun to grow, than the fungi are eaten by mobs like Hoglins and Striders, latter of which don't do it as comonly and becouse of their lava linked life ways can't actibly pursue eating fungi, than the Hoglins are hunted by the Piglins, who then die, which's soul energy feed the fungi, restarting the cycle.

The fungi in the nether is one of the biggest cases of Convergent Evolution as their Soul Energy rich enviroment alows them to become "tree like" and objectibly far more succesful as they have an unlimited source of Soul Energy rather than their Over worldly counterparts that can only absorb light energy during 24000 ticks.

Sources:
What are striders and the origin of the strider
The Warped Forests and the Soul Sucking Sculk
Soul Energy, on it's Uses, Abilities and Others
The Nether Ice Age and it's Effects on the Basalt Deltas
On the Piglins and Piglin Civilization

honestly, I think we Arnt going into dimensions but the nether is just the core of our world the end dimension is probably just an asteroid belt. the only thing that doesn't support this theory is that why is there a void below our world?

A few parts of Minecraft could point to Steve actually being in a coma over the course of the game and having to face his past. Most of the undead mobs in the game share Steve's face, for instance. He also doesn’t dream when he goes to sleep, probably because he’s already in one himself. The strongest piece of evidence, however, is the End Poem; besides comparing life as a long dream vs the short dream of the game (See: End Credits Poem), the last line of the End Credits instructs the player to “Wake Up”.

The dimensions in Minecraft could also represent different stages of subconsciousness. The overworld is surface-level subconsciousness, where imagination thrives, and memories are kept in order. It represents the present. The nether, on the other hand, represents the traumas and regrets of our past. It symbolizes the chaotic part of our subconscious, housing our fears, instincts, motives, and urges. The last dimension, The End, is the most naïve and unknowing part of our mind; it represents the future. Challenging and slaying the Ender Dragon, the final conflict, is what allows Steve to accept his past and move on. The dragon drops an egg, a symbol of creation and rebirth, of getting another chance at life.

Hello everyone! For a long time I have been pondering what I saw when I was a kid. It was around 2012-2013 when this happened. I just got the game and I was figuring out how it worked. I was in a jungle biome and it was night time in the game. In the game, I was right between a jungle biome and a planes biome. I placed down my bed to fast track to day time when a low hanging cloud passed by me. It was like no cloud I have ever seen. It was super low and reachable if you built up to it. On this cloud there was a small white house with a oak door. Around the house was glow stone. Being curious, I started to build up to it, but as soon as I was about reach it, it flew away. I remember what I saw and I recall this happening in a single player game. Also, at the time I am 100% positive I did not have any mods on. Yet I am 100% this happened. If anyone can help explain this, that would be great!

Iv heard people talk about a theory where Minecraft is post apocalyptic, you the sole survivor travel around and explore the ruins of dead civilizations, but an interesting take on this I havn't been able to find anywhere else is: What if every update is a little bit further into the past.

With most of the updates in Minecraft, more structures and more lore related elements gets added. Like the piglins who used to only be the zombie remains of the race with some empty fortresses that had no connection to them. Now we have bastion remnants where they reside in the ruins of their old glory and most of them can be seen alive. The Nether biomes are lush and growing instead ot the barren wasteland we are used to and the same can be said about villages and villagers in the Overworld, now they got jobs and decent looking places to live rather than what they used to have before their knowledge was lost to due to the constant attacks from zombies and time.

I might just be looking way much into this but a fun little thought I was playing with.

I have had this one world of mine for about two years and there has been a significant change. Specifically in snow. Snow has been disappearing over time. And I know this is happening in a large area due to how I have a map wall (wall with item frames containing maps that connect into one massive one.) and there has been a significant change. Anyone know what’s up with that?

This theory was actually my first theory on reddit, my first post on this sub and also my first post on reddit in general, because of that it was short and just put out a theory not mentioning much, so I wanted to remake it, but better, so what is a strider?

WHAT IS A STRIDER?

Striders are a mob added in the 1.16 version of Minecraft, they are bipedal creatures, they are practically a cube with a sad face, some "hair" on its head and two legs, some parts of the Strider body, such as its legs look like burns, what are those? I try to answer it later, anyways it lives in the lava oceans of the Nether in groups, with also little striders following the adults and with some even staying on the adults head. Sometimes they will have on them a Zombiefield Piglin on them with a warped fungus on a stick to guide the strider. Because you also can go on a strider with a saddle and control (in a similiar way to a pig) with a warped fungus on a stick, warped fungus are also the food that makes two striders make a little strider. Outside lava they feel cold and move really slow and in water they die. Its confirmed by the achievement The Parrots and the Bats that Striders are in fact animals, but what are they? How did they evolve?

STRIDERS FOOD:

As said before Striders feed on warped fungus, but why them in specific? Well its pretty simple. The warped forest is one of the safiest place in the nether, the Hoglins, which could easily hunt a strider on land, escape from warped fungus, Piglins, while not afraid of the fungus, hunt the Hoglins so they dont go there, the perfect place to eat food, i mean no Hoglins (which could hunt striders for food) and no Piglins which hunt striders for their drop, their hair which is a string, used by Piglins to create their crossbows. So thats solved.

WHAT ARE THE BURNS?

While they might just be something not important, maybe just a case or a way to hide with the envirorment, they might also be not burns but damages left by going to much on land since they need to get food, but I find unlikely, i prefer the hiding theory.

WHAT ARE ITS ORIGINS?

How could such a creature evolve, but wait, dont you think it looks similiar to.... us? Two eyes formed by two pixels, we both have hair and the striders are also bipedal, not to mention the face in general and how its also a social creature. But how could they be related to us? I think everyone here knows about the builders/ancient civilization, they also arrived in the nether, what would you recommend in the nether: a fire potion, but what if it still didnt existed? They needed to create one, so they used potions on kids born with malformations, tumors and other anomalies, its possible a common anomaly was the lack of arms, so they tried, some potions didnt work and some did, the survivors of that time were the ancestors of the Striders.

Let me know what you think, im writing this late and im also not english (im italian) so there might be errors, but I tried to do my best.

Ok, ne my past theory present my opinion on the origin and functioning of the warden, today it's time for PART 2! the evidence, now there is evidence that they "suck" the energy of the souls of the nether, now that means they come from the nether?, in fact no, they only imitate it, now the skulk sensor and channel detect when a nearby mob dies to that the fungus uses it to feed itself, feeding on their souls, now I would say that the "energy of souls" is not exclusive to the nether, it is channeled there because it is the literal hell but it could be found in the overworld, for example it is probable that as with every mob that dies the catalyst will be activated, that means that the energy of the soul is in all living beings, it is therefore, their "soul", another thing that I mention is that they are linked to the nether, this can absorb the energy of soul, and I don't think they come from there but I don't doubt that they can connect with it, since not many mobs die in the depths where the skulk avoids, so it is most likely that it uses the underground to connect to the nether in some way (not saying that the nether is ta in the center of the earth, that's for another time), "But, if the nether has so much soul energy and they can connect to it, why don't they inhabit it?" that is simple, for two reasons, one, for them it is uninhabitable and two... they already spoke there, now I know it sounds contradictory but listen to me, first, because it is uninhabitable for them, it seems to have the right conditions, dams, energy that they need and a closed room, but I ask you, do you know where the skulk lives? Exactly! in the deep dark biome, now this biome has two main things that are reflected in its name, dark and deep, the nether is not dark and there are not as many caves as in the overworld, also, they remember those sounds that are heard in the nether, with so much noise it would be impossible to inhabit and differentiate between prey or lava (or what the hell is doing those nether sounds), and the second, they already inhabit there!?, yes, the warped forest could be a subspecies which spores adapted to life here, they stopped feeding on souls by predatory means and use "raises" or a system similar to photosynthesis to acquire soul energy, it is no longer a colony, but more like simple plants, this theory would indicate that, perhaps and like the Pando (a forest in utah) that is curious that the entire 106-acre forest is a single tree, here it would be the same with all the "giant trees/mushrooms" of the wapred they are one or at least for each forest , I will talk about the other forest of the nether and In another theory that I am preparing, in short, the skulk "over world" (normal skulk) and the wapred (skulk of the nether) basically, after what could have been millions of years, they are no longer the same species, and have adapted to two different habitats/dimensions. So, summarizing everything, the warped and the skulk are related, somehow they connect from the overworld to the nether, and the common skulk does not go to the nether because it is not a correct habitat for it, and together we could see that in minecraft there are 3 main classes of mushrooms, the skulk mushroom, the ward mushroom and the overworld, this and much more I will talk about in the future, stay tuned for more

So I think the piglins were a large empire sprawling the nether until some strangers aka the ancient builders or whatever you call them came to the nether and there was a big war between them so the bastions were created these big fortresses capable of stopping any attacker or so they though but it was built with vanity showing off there wealth and that’s where led to there downfall andthe piglins lost and were enslaved until these builder fell and whatever killed them there skeletons were left back from the dead the piglins escaped but from generations of being enslaved they devolved turning into partially nomadic community’s until they found the bastions ruins of the old world and the piglins brutes guard them not valuing gold only protecting the ruins of there old society

Ok, I have seen too many times the fact that the skulk and the warden are connected to the end and others, and I want to give my opinion because I think I cracked it, ladies and gentlemen, the warden and the skulk are not connected to the end, but to the nether, and that all, ALL the skulk is a living mass, constantly expanding and feeding on the souls of dead mobs, ok it's not the theory with the most evidence, nor the most convincing but I think it's more credible than the fact that they connect to the end, so here's the evidence; first things first, let's talk about the skulk, what is it?, I think it's a fungus, why?, well, it expands and grows, also thanks to the catalyst skulk detects when a nearby mob dies, just like real mushrooms possibly feeding on their nutrients, but speaking of this, in the animation of the skulk catalyst, you see something very well known, they look like souls, now if you remember in the nether, if you use boots with soul speed an animation will come out when you run with the souls of the soulssand, the same is observed in the catalyst, I think that as MattPatt from game theory said, there is an "energy" of souls, from which the skulk feeds like real fungi that feed on the nutrients of the soil and dead animals. Also, because I don't think they have a connection to the end? The texture looks alike, right? Well... not so much, I say it looks in color but I compared it and they are not the same, besides if it were a reference to the endstone it should look like its texture, instead for example in the skulk catalyst it looks more like a trunk, just like the giant mushrooms of the mushroom biome, but then, why is the mob called warden? (warden means protector or guardian), that is because if it is a protector, but not from the end, what it really does is protect the fungus, just as in ant colonies each one has its role, here a part of the fungus is dedicated to extracting nutrients, the other to detect dangers, and the warden basically the main protector of the colony, where does the warden come from, I think they are the former miners who were possessed by the fungus, and now they serve for the colony..., or maybe not who knows, I will talk about this and other things in the future because this is already being putting very long, questions, things to add evidence or deny it I will be reading it and I would love to know your opinion

Ok, so you know that basalt is made by ice and lava, so than there is the question, how where the basalt deltas created? so in the nether you got the lava, obiously, but what about the ice? my theory, the nether, thousands if not millions of years before the arrival of any civilization, was on an ice age, and the whole of it was covered on a frozen thundra, more less the same age that fossils of the overworld lived, and then by an unknown desaster, the temperature heated up and the ice melt, when the lava arrived with the small left ice caps, created basalt deltas (Now I know that they are based on something real but this is a IN WORLD explaining), that could explain two things, first the arribal of wither skeleton, desendant from the firts humans to populate the nether and the piglin and hoglin, couse they could have settled, arriving at the ice age's end with a less extreme climate and adapting to it, also the nether fossils could have been nether tundra animals that with the growing heat and over hunting by humans and other civilizations of the nether went extinct, srry for any typos and or mispellings, and any poin in favour or against I'll be glad to read

Back long ago in indev 0.31 they lived peacefull lives sprinting around frolicing they built up structures devoted to their god the almighty notch but at some point they vanished between updates leaving behind all their creations with only 1 of them remaining