Mojang hit me with that sweet sweet Minecraft lore

Daniel, 23, He/Him pronouns

[ender-ghast]

[minecraft]

so much of minecraft gamer boy culture is about rocking that one skin of the cool dude wearing all black with the hands and eyes that are flame and ice colored respectively, so i’m kinda surprised there arent more todoroki kins out there tbh

[minecraft]

this bitch

[bumpscosity]

Ok but you’re missing

I only ever had 2 Minecraft boyfriends, both when I was like 13 and they BOTH had this skin at some point

[minecraft]

this post was never meant to be a comprehensive list of minecraft gamer boy skins but yeah also dont forget discount ben 10′s, though if i see someone with one of these today i generally assume they are pretty good at pvp

[algaeguy]

you know i had to do it to ‘em

[mccraftyboi]

dirt?

dirt: how long have you been playing minecraft? why did you start?

Oof, thats hard to say! I believe it was around 2010 or 2011 that I first started playing, and I started because I had some friends that introduced me to it. Over time thought they all kinda dropped out of playing it and eventually I did too. I would still play it occasionally, but I didn't get back into it full force until around 2018! I got back into it then because I was looking for a casual game to play while listening to podcasts, and I fell in love with all the incredible updates and new things you could do since I last played. I then got back into watching a bunch of Minecraft youtubers again and before I knew it I had made this blog and was playing all the time!

Thanks for asking!

[acaciaboat]

MINEBLR ASK GAME

dirt: how long have you been playing minecraft? why did you start?

birch: boats, minecarts, llamas, or horses?

oak: survival, creative, adventure, or cheats?

dark oak: do you carry extra cheap tools or just make really expensive, long-lasting ones?

acacia: what’s your favorite underused/unappreciated material/block?

spruce: what’s your favorite unintended decoration block, ie trapdoors for tables, etc?

stone: stone bricks, stone, cobblestone, or mossy cobblestone?

coal: do you like resource gathering? or do you just make farms for everything?

iron: armor or decorations first?

gold: would you rather build something practical, ie a redstone piston house, or something detailed and beautiful, ie a large ship?

diamond: is diamond overused or not used enough?

compass: are you a cautious explorer (pack everything, inc a spare bed) or do you just go and worry about finding home later?

map: do you like playing on a server and meeting new people, or making a server with friends?

hoe: do you go for quantity or aesthetic when farming?

shovel: favorite color of stained glass?

pickaxe: mine to bedrock in a staircase style or level everything?

axe: which tools do you hotbar immediately?

sword: is night too risky or perfect for hunting?

shield: least favorite hostile mob?

[minecraft-inspo]

A small houseboat I designed. The proportions are a bit unrealistic, but they give it a cartoonish, exaggerated feel that I really like.

[aeonlamb]

Oh this is VERY useful

[aeonlamb]

NEW ORE?!?!? NO WAY

AND IT’S BETTER THAN DIAMOND?!!?!??!

[andyisyoda]

Minecraft Badlands Town

[teathattast]

Found my first abandoned mineshaft in which I found my first golden apple B-)

[teathattast]

Ok so spider webs... tf is that shit

[punjab-official]

dont forget cave spiders :) theyre like spiders, but they poison you

[teathattast]

QHAT THE FUCCK

[light-blue-glazed-terracotta]

the first thing to your left and your birth date is your new minecraft username and you're only allowed to build your base out of blocks starting with the same letter of your name, how's your minecraft experience

i'm guitar22 and can only build things starting with L

[evocation-illager]

Wandering trader girl

[programmerhumour]

true

[fullymechanized-consoomer]

this isn’t a joke 

[hellsite-yano]

[heirdragonair-deactivated201911]

Reminder that someone programed pokemon red into minecraft using redstone and it was completely playable

[hellsite-yano]

[gay-limulus]

HE DID WHAT????

[picsthatmakeyougohrrm]

hrrm

[minecraft]

Maybe minecraft Steve and Alex are exceptions and weirdos to villagers like. maybe villagers ARE the true average “normal” of the world of Minecraft, and the actions us as players do are weird and eccentric, even “neurotic” to them. Maybe villagers and other creatures can’t ACTUALLY see Endermen at all, to the point of probability ensuring they rarely directly face towards them? What if Endermen are only visible because, we, players - beings higher and above the base reality of minecraft are looking at minecraft … and that’s what They sense and hate… being seen by things from Beyond?

And - just as a thought experiment - what if things like shadow people that people see due to sleep paralysis, PCP, DXM, etc IRL… are approximations or impressions of real things, things that are fundamentally outside our normal viewing perspective, but to a higher dimensional viewer, are as clear as crystal?

[shatteredsavanna]

I like this! I imagine villagers and some mobs cant even hear the endermen, they can only see the purple particles, and think the creature is just a swarm of tiny creatures that love to try to take blocks (like faries or something). They don’t become aggressive with other mobs because they never can truly look at them. But when the player makes that direct eye contact, the endermen are like “uh oh, this one can see us” and apparently thats not a good thing.

[minecraft]

EXACTLY this … ALSO priests can trade for enderpearls which implies SOMEWHERE along the line at least some of their ancestors could see and slay them and they’ve been passed down like holy relics,,,  like freakin dinosaur skulls or something.

[minesnapped]

I love mineblr because you get amazing posts like this and then this monstrosity immediately after:

[mccraftyboi]

Do you know if there's any lore about why we kill the ender dragon to beat the game? :0

Minecraft doesn't have clear canonical lore in the base game as far as I know, but piecing together a story and lore for the game is something I find super interesting, and is actually the reason I started this blog! As for why we kill the ender dragon to beat the game, my loose and unfinished theory is that we as the player are following in the footsteps of a people who came before us. I think those people got to the End, but never managed to beat the dragon. The achievement you get for killing the ender dragon is called "Free the End", which tells us that something or someone is being freed by our action, though who or what that is is unclear. I think you beat minecraft when you kill the ender dragon because you have achieved what your predecessors did, and furthermore have surpassed them by killing the dragon that they did or could not. That could also be why the game doesn't "end" once you beat it, because you can still play and do stuff in that world. You haven't finished the game, you have only beaten what your predescessors achieved, and thus there is still more to do after that. I do think theres a lot more complicated hidden lore and theories to think about behind all of this, like the history and nature of the End dimension and dragon, but essentially I think that we beat the game by killing the ender dragon because in doing so we beat our predecessors by succeeding where they failed.

[gay-herobrine]

[yourfavewouldtreatyouright]

Enderman from Minecraft would treat you right!!!!!!!!!!!

[dirt-slab]

I’m cryign right now at the “Meet the Illagers” articles

“Family”....,,.. and the devs themselves just confirmed that they aren’t really serious/evil my GoD

Pillagers are just dumb. Absolute idiots who try to be badass but are just completely, utterly incompetent

Ravagers are “spicy cows” and grumpy babeys...,,, I love them