Summary
When it comes to open-world sandbox games,Minecraftis certainly one of the best, if not the best there is. This is a game so dedicated to being a vehicle for the player’s imagination that it has seen incredible builds ranging fromelaborate mansions to working calculatorsand even accurate recreations of real-world locations.
Though the player may just be wandering through the infinite open world with no intention of uncovering the game’s secrets, they are likely to experience a whole slew of exciting and yet mysterious phenomena.Minecraft, as an open-world sandbox game, has no defined narrative to speak of and, as such, raises many questions about the world the player is exploring. There is a plethora ofmysteries surroundingMinecraft, but not all of them have been solved.
7Music Disks 5, 11 & 13
Never Mine Alone
Most disks inMinecraftwill play lighthearted and calm music when placed in a music box. Not disks 5, 11, and 13, however. These disks don’t even really play music; instead, they play a series of ambient sounds that range frommildly creepy to outright horrifying, which seem to be telling a story, especially when played together in some way.
Listening to all three disks in a certain order seems to tell the story of a person encountering something while mining alone underground before they’re abruptly cut off with a muffled scream. Various distorted mob and cave noises can be heard throughout all three disks.
6Pre-Built Structures
Derelict Wonders That Only Raise More Questions
Minecraftfeatures an abundance ofprocedurally generated structuresfor players to find and explore for materials. Virtually every biome has one or more that are specific to it in some way, such as desert temples for example, which is self-explanatory. There are also jungle temples, strongholds, Ancient Cities, End Cities, abandoned mineshafts, and more.
The one thing that ties all of these together is that nobody knows who built them or for what reason. Many have theorized about this, but no one is obligated to agree. Thus, the origins of these structures remain unknown.
5Who Were The Zombies?
Minecraft Is In The Throes Of A Zombie Apocalypse
It’s rather noticeable how different the zombies look compared to every other living mob in the game. They are visibly distinct from bothillagers and villagers, though there are zombified forms of the latter. Even these, however, do not look like regular zombies. Where then, do the default zombies come from? Was there another group of people that lived alongside villagers and illagers who became zombies?
Interestingly enough, zombies actually look quite a bit like the player’s default male skin, Steve. This might be a hint at their origins, as well as the origins of the players themselves.
4The End Poem
The Gods Impart A Few Words Of Wisdom
As a reward fordefeating the Ender Dragon, upon exiting The End, the player is met with a very long poem written from the perspective of two seemingly omniscient beings, who speak about the player in reverence.
The dialogue between the two seems rather straightforward on the surface, but it raises many questions about who or what the player is. It also indicates a mysterious higher form of power inMinecraftthat is just waiting to be discovered by the player, with the two beings even referencing that they still have more to learn.
3Fossils
There Are Big Implications In These Old Bones
Fossils are a rare yet awesome sight to behold. Not only are they a great source of solid blocks of bone, but it is possible for them to contain useful loot likecoal ore, iron ore, and even diamond ore. Some fossils are downright massive as well, with even the Ender Dragon being dwarfed by a complete set. Fossils will generate underground in either desert or swamp biomes.
So far, it is not known where these skeletal remains come from or how long they’ve been buried. Some players have theorized as to who they once belonged to, but there is no official confirmation if they belong to any existing mob. It is clear, however, that whoever these bones belong to were enormous in scale and used to roam the overworld freely.
2Who Is The Player?
The Player Is Unlike Anything Else In Minecraft
The player is one of the biggest mysteries in all ofMinecraft. They don’t look like any other humanoid mob native to the game, are stronger, faster, and possess a level of agency that is utterly unrivaled. Sure, villagers and illagers are implied to make structures and will perform certain duties, but none of them do so with the amount of freedom that the player has.
On top of this, the ending poem the player sees after defeating the Ender Dragon indicates that they have some sort of grand place in the universe that they are on the cusp of fully realizing. Of course, the poem is also extremely meta and talks to the person playing the game as much as it does their in-game character. Nevertheless, it all serves to build an aura of mystique around what the player is and represents in the world ofMinecraft.
1Where Do Baby Mobs Come From?
Certain Baby Mobs Have No Origins
How are some ofthe various hostile mobsofMinecrafteven a thing? For passive mobs like cows, chickens, and pigs, they will mate with each other, either on their own or by the player’s hand, and create babies that will grow into adults.
Certain mobs, like husks, piglins, and zombies, clearly aren’t able to mate with each other to make children. What’s more, baby versions of these mobs don’t ever grow into adults, which indicates that there’s no actual life cycle that’s even necessary. Who is making these baby mobs and for what reason other than to just be a thorn in the player’s side?
