Chapter 1: What if the Minecraft mob vote had different outcomes?
What if the Minecraft mob vote were different? Year after year, Mojang had us vote on the game's next mob. This shaped the game and the lore as we know it. But if one of these votes turned out differently, it wouldn't have just affected the yearly updates. It would have changed everything.
hello internet welcome to game theory the show that answers questions like what if things were different last year we did a video theorizing about the copper golem a mob that lost pretty dramatically to the la during the mob vote of 2021 but then we got the copper age update which resurrected the copper golem officially putting it in the game and it's great people have been super creative with them from using them to run their entire base to pranking their friends but all of this got me thinking
Before this, we thought every losing mob was gone forever. Because, well, Mojang said that's how it worked. But clearly, we are able to bring back these mobs, so what if the other losing mobs were added back to the game? And more importantly, what would their lore be? You see, mobs are more than just silly little guys who populate Minecraft's blocky world.
they're also valuable clues that help us unlock the game's secrets. In the past, they've played key parts in helping us track down the mysteries of the ancient builders and the overworld they left behind. If a different mob was chosen, it could set off a butterfly effect, changing the way we see the world of Minecraft forever.
So we are going to do something a little different today, loyal theorists. We are going to jump in our Theory Time Machine and revive three rejected mobs, exploring all the blocky implications that come with it. It's time for us to go into the Minerverse. No, not that.
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Chapter 2: How did the Copper Golem change Minecraft gameplay?
The Crafterverse? For now, let's just go with the Mojangverse. Allons-y! The first stop on our journey through time is to 2022. The Sniffer won that particular mob vote. Totally legitimately, I might add. So we did a whole episode on this big boy. But while I too was drawn in by the Sniffer's promises of ancient secrets, I was also intrigued by one of the underdogs in this race, the Rascal.
This mischievous little guy captured my heart with his gifts and never-ending games of hide and seek. But I quickly had to say goodbye to him because 55% of people voted for the Sniffing Dinosaur. So today, I'm bringing it back. Based on the teaser Mojang shared, Rascals are small creatures that would have been found deep underground, specifically in mineshafts.
Once you see him, you'll embark on a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek. Find them three times, and they'll give you a prize, like an enchanted pickaxe, for example. And that is pretty much all we know about the Rascals. So, how on earth can we figure out how the lore would have changed with them included? Well, first, let's look a little closer at what we do know.
The Rascals call the mineshafts home, and we've believed for a long time that these mineshafts were built by the ancient builders as they mined for materials. it would only make sense that a mob who specifically spawns in those mines and carries tools must share a connection with those ancient builders. But contextually, it also makes sense.
The Rascal would have been added to the Trails and Tales update, the update that's all about excavating and finding a lost civilization buried underground. In that update, we saw all of the pottery sherds, which led us to realize that the ancient builders were not just one monolithic culture, but consisted of multiple different tribes.
The Sniffer, the true winner of the mob vote, actually appeared on one of these shirts. Look how cute he is! But in the timeline where the Rascal wins, this cute shirt would likely have been replaced with an arguably cuter shirt, the Rascal shirt, or something similar, implying that they too would have had a relationship with the ancient builders, much like we've theorized about the Sniffer.
Although, unlike the Sniffer, which is more of a I actually think the rascals would have been more than friends. They'd have been more like equals. More than any mob we've seen in the past. And it all comes down to mythology. Listen, I come from Europe and there is no shortage of strange little mining creatures in our folklore.
And this one hit even closer to home because I began looking into something I've always loved. Knockers. No, not like that. Knockers, these dwarf-looking guys. Get your head out of the gutter. Anyway, knockers are supernatural creatures native to Cornwall, England, and its many ancient tunnels. They're ambivalent little fellows. Sometimes they're super helpful, and other times, not so much.
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Chapter 3: What would the lore be if losing mobs were added back?
When they're having a bad day, they hide miners' tools or lead them through confusing tunnels to nowhere. But on a good day, they would lead you to valuable ores. Sounds familiar, right? We only know of one prize that they would give you, the pickaxe. But who's to say they wouldn't give you other valuable ores as a reward?
And maybe the ancient builders failed that little hide-and-seek game, so they stole the tools from them, which they would now give to us. Or maybe it's actually something much worse. If you go back and look at the knockers, they too were often depicted with pickaxes. And it wasn't just because they enjoyed hanging out in the mines. The real reason is actually much darker.
According to legend, knockers were actually the spirits of fallen warriors.
miners after dying their spirits would remain in the mines haunting or helping future miners for the rest of eternity this means the rascals definitely weren't just friends with the ancient builders they were the ancient builders they are all the poor souls who died in the mines either to the many dangerous mobs that were down there or maybe they were some of the many who lost their lives to either the wither or the warden when those mobs came and invaded the ancient cities all those years ago
Now they live on as supernatural mobs, helping Steve to find the treasures that lie below the surface. In 2021, the mob vote was between the Allay, the Copper Golem, and the Glare. The Allay won that vote, and as we spoke about earlier, the Copper Golem was recently added to the game, leaving the Glare all alone out here in the Minecraft-less void.
So I figured we'd give him his moment in the spotlight, which, based on his mechanics, he'd probably quite enjoy. The Glare was supposed to be another helpful mob on Steve's journey. It would fly around caves, letting you know when it's dark enough to spawn mobs. Mainly by looking a little bit grumpy. And now I know, even at the time, we joked about how this felt a little pointless.
But regardless of its mechanical usefulness, lore-wise, it definitely would have been an interesting addition. You see, the winner of the 2021 mob vote was going to be implemented during the Wild update. This update was huge, especially for lore reasons.
We saw the addition of the ancient cities, giant underground structures seemingly built by the ancient builders, and we have talked about those things a ton in previous theories. But this update also included a new biome that we haven't really talked about. The mangrove swamps. A new area that was waterlogged and covered in overgrown leaves, roots, and most importantly, moss.
Now take a look at the glare and tell me that this little guy wouldn't fit right in. Just imagine sitting there in the middle of this biome and suddenly out from behind a mossy tree, this thing pops up.
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Chapter 4: How do Rascals connect to Minecraft's ancient builders?
The Barnacle would have solved this mystery. When I first saw the Barnacle, the thing that came to mind, of course, was the Kraken, a sea monster from Nordic folklore that's described as a giant, tentacle-wielding monster that loves to tear ships apart or drag them down into the depths of the ocean.
This was the Vikings' explanation for the harsh waves or massive whirlpools that destroyed their ships on voyages. They believed the Kraken would create these huge whirlpools by swimming in circles. The Barnacle is clearly supposed to be this ship-wrecking Kraken.
Another cool thing is that since these myths were made, scientists have researched the real world explanations for the huge waves and whirlpools that were terrorizing the sailors. Scientists believe these were the results of tectonic plate movements.
Earthquakes and underwater volcanic eruptions created whirlpools that sucked down ships, which is exactly what we see in the aquatic update when they added underwater chasms with magma blocks at the bottom that would cause the player to be sucked down. So even though we didn't vote the barnacle into our Minecraft timeline, some of the science for the barnacle still made its way into the game.
So I count that as a win. That being said, a lot of the shipwrecks don't even generate near the magma blocks or underwater chasms, so we still don't truly know how these ships got wrecked. Unless the barnacle was added, then the wreckage would all finally make sense.
These boats were desperately searching for the one thing that could save their families, only for them to get lost at sea with their ship's hull serving as their watery grave. Now to me, all of this sounds pretty cool, and it's always fun to jump into the theorist's time machine to go back and see what could have been. But as with any time travel, there's a catch.
Adding these mobs, at least back then, wouldn't have just added to this world's cool lore. The butterfly effect, these little changes, could have affected so much more. If the rascal had won, the sniffer would have been banished to the shadow realm instead. From a game perspective, let's be honest, these guys don't do much. much other than look cute.
We would have lost some decorative plants, although I don't think people would be that upset about it. But from a lore perspective, the sniffer was the answer to a bunch of our questions.
It appeared on one of the ancient sherds, showing that it was alive at the same time as the ancient builders, and showing us that the timeline was over thousands, if not millions of years, instead of just, say, hundreds.
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