#jake mc lore

[kozykricket]

okay thats some nice revisiting old posts and stuff. uhm. hm. ill prob post about my old ideas on the nether lore (regarding nether fortresses, piglins, nether warts are at the center of it all) and then... what else. what is there. i think allays are from the deep dark 'portal' succeeding. the warden was always a thing

[kozykricket]

soul ramblings that i think ive mostly abandoned?

okay!! so! wild minecraft lore "AU" idea (i say this because i dont see how it can really be canon, but i like the base concept)

so, soul magic. if you're reading a post on mc lore i dont need to explain that souls are in a lot of places in minecraft lore. spawners, soul sand valleys, deep dark/sculk. yknow. but ... apparently in minecraft dungeons, theres this. big bad guy behind a kingdom of undead or something. i like to think that maybe the undead were co-opted as like "oh this is a good thing actually ahah" but anyways The Nameless One, his name is. right? and hes. green. there are necromancer enemies, they have glowing blue eyes and some light blue clothes, like soul stuff is usually colored! but the nameless one is green.. and theres lotta magical green fire in some levels, too. which, you can sorta see undead represented via green magic ... in ONE spot in vanilla. phantoms. they got green eyes. now, i think... while it might be more fun to make phantoms *not* undead, and i also think... its pretty clear that everything undead probably has souls, since sculk. which in general are blue souls. i think

but okay what if, hear me out. souls decay. and as they do, they ... do a reverse process of copper oxidation in coloring. you get me? copper with full oxidation is light blue, whereas copper is orange. fire with many pure unaltered souls in it... is light blue. whereas fire without souls at all, is orange. what could that make green fire? either decayed/infected souls (cool idea tbh) or artificial/altered souls now, artificial souls or decayed organic souls... while its cool, i think its hard to make work because... uh. deep dark. but okay, maybe the sculk was the one way they FINALLY found to make souls not decay. sure. but what about soul sand valleys. maybe those are just, unaltered and raw, i suppose. but i think considering the wither, those souls would be pretty decayed, yeah? its all withered away. but, i wanted to throw it out here, in case someone wants to take the concept, or just. spin around their own ideas im spinning the idea in my head still, and thinking... okay, maybe green soul magic can work, just as... soul magic but specifically with intention of Evil Undead Army, which was from soul magic being co-opted by Evil People. and the deep dark and stuff is separate from other undead soul magic. which might be true. but this vaguely goes against the idea that whatever was going on at ancient cities led to the creation of spawners... because then those definitely arent separate factions, right? another wild idea i had was if like, making the portal to The Soul Dimension. in a deep dark biome. ended up having the sculk feed off of the very afterlife itself, which then led to the closing of the portal... is why souls are just kinda fucked up and all angry now? like imagine you try to gain access to HEAVEN and then you let loose a fucking virus mold spore in there, and now everywhere that communed peacefully with the afterlife, is now being destroyed by the fury of confused and angry souls idk i like some of these ideas but i also lowkey wanna start a new canvas on it all. i do also have an older post about deep darks that i still agree with, gonna tag it with #jake mc lore ... but the tl;dr about what i think of ancient cities is that they were built purposefully in deep dark biomes for the fact that theres a sort of "rift" between dimensions in those places. think uhh... gravity falls. yeah. the barrier between worlds is kinda loose there, or maybe it isnt and thats just what the old ancient people speculated based on the sculk.

[kozykricket]

minecraft phantoms are just crows to me. in terms of behaviour. they've gotta be sweet goofballs at the end of the day. mischievous but fun (well okay thats just one of my takes on them . the less angsty/dramatic one of them despising you for taking over their last bastion of hope, the darkness)

[kozykricket]

deep dark headcanon that explains deep dark biomes INCLUDING those without cities in them

here goes so, for context, i like to believe that the "portal" is not actually much of a portal per se, or at least not to another dimension. I believe calling it a "gateway" would be more apt. The way the nether and end are different dimensions entirely is not what I imagine is on the "other side" of that portal. I think its another plane of the overworld, the astral/spirit plane. Thats my headcanon right there. That you... may not even be able to go through, and its more of a way to interact with an afterlife of sorts, or a... more dreamy, non-matter... parts of the overworld anyways, heres what i think: sculk is a fungus-mold that forms in certain areas of the world (deep dark biomes) that are weak points (potential access points), where the plane of the spirit world is almost overlapping, almost accessible and becoming tangible. the overlap of the spirit and material realm causes strange anomalies to happen, such as the growth of sculk if you wanted to look at it ANOTHER, similar, adjacent way, you could say deep dark biomes are where its actually... that instead of things being able to pass on to the spirit plane and become non-matter, their souls stay as physical matter in the world, not quite being able to ascend to the spirit plane, which results in the growth of sculk. It feeds off of the souls that cannot make it to the afterlife, giving them a cruel afterlife of sorts, to help expand itself but hey... at least the wretched afterlife of becoming part of the sculk means that you can hear well... and you're certainly well protected, by the most strong willed of the souls... (though tbh, i really do prefer sculk being some sorta lab accident (i love when lab accidents make really fucked up things in games a la true lab undertale, and other games i wont spoil)