What Happened to Minecraft's Ancient Builders?

Considering the zombie plague, i think matpat’s interpretation would make even more sense probably. After the illagers left the village, they started to do what they liked without the villagers shunning them, eventually discovering magic. With this knowledge, the evokers make totems that save you from dying. It is important to mention that they were also obsessed with their bretheren the builders, and wanted to return some fallen warriors from the dead, you can see evidence of their obsession with these rooms that they made filled with wool matching steves clothes. So they tried to use the totem to bring people from the dead, but instead they rose up not healed just dead like they were eventually infecting everyone. Anyways this was matpats theory, at least thats how i read it from him. I also think Wifies one is viable as well and it doesn’t make much of a difference in the end. Thank u for reading this to the end!

2:06 "The structures don't just appear randomly" Java programmers and speedrunners be like, "yeah, it's pseudorandomly."

Here's my interpretation: The ancient builders died off in stages. Firstly: Zombies. The virus came- they ran. Some fled to the Nether, some to the End, via the Stronghold, all who escaped were likely immune anyway, as they had been keeping zombies to try and turn them back. Skeletons come as the remains of those who fled to the nether. Forced to contend with Piglins, they created grand fortresses to protect themselves in, and attempted to raid the bastions of the piglins, to little success. Supplies finally dwindled, and as such the skeletons were born. Those who had been afflicted by the wither, whether in combat with it, or fleeing it, became withered skeletons, those who didn't, decayed into normal ones. Endermen came from thos who ran to the end, forced to flee the dragon, they built their cities and hid. Food ran scarce, so they resorted to chorus fruit, which eventually turned them into the endermen we know today.

There was an ancient race but there were only two builders, their names were Steve and Alex, and they doomed everyone in exchange for the ability to respawn.

"The wither isn't that hard to kill" We will assume the ancient builders are in Bedrock edition

Wifies: "the wither isnt that hard to kill" Bedrock edition wither: laughs in double the amount of health

Considering the zombie plague, it could be true as some zombies spawn with armour and tools like the players.

9:28 I have an idea. The skeletons were neutral until a builder attacked one of them and they reacted like zombified piglins. However, unlike zombified piglins, there's no way to calm them.

I’m 100 percent sure that the ancient race of builders is the the old builders for MC story mode

"The wither isn't a hard mob to kill" Me, a bedrock player: He says things that he doesn't understand

I know this is older but I really like the idea of builder summoning the wither and defeating it, while they did defeat it they were left weak without enough materials or strength to defend against the zombie plauge so they fled to the end and were turned to endermen over time.

I think for the skeleton theory maybe the ancient builders tried to revive long dead people and maybe use them as sentinels, but then they used them on freshly dead people and created the zombie plunge? Super fun video! Really cool!

1:55 The builders probably just used cobblestone to build the temples, and the moss grew over it after some time. They probably didn't use already mossy cobble to build them.

Wifeory is probably one of the best Minecraft lore series I’ve ever watched

In my head canon i have two theories mostly interconnected: I imagined the old builders as a group of unbelievable advanced crafters, they were able to construct even the ender portal, a thing we can't, wo only can activate it, we have no possibility to reverse engineer or recreate the portal-frame blocks for example. I think their civilization advanced enough and was greedy for progress so they first explored the nether and found there ingredients, that they combined with artifacts they gathered from the enderman a species from a other dimension able to do dimension travel. So they used these to power a new variant of portal, expanded there civilization beyond it and get trapped there cause of the dragon or reached transcendence. This sometimes get blurred with a other theory, more likely developed from the lore of my own minecraft world, that faced (the world existed since Beta-Days) mutliple occasions of "Ruin" so "Ruin" is some sort of arch devil opposing to the creative forces, that created the World and we as players inherit some of its creative, crafting powers. Ruin symbolizes corruption (to see in old minecraft worlds getting more and more unstable or damaged by changing versions or even mods installed and uninstalled in the flow of time) and Wither or Decay (the world degrades in mining or griefing) one player after the other left and left his creations on own terms, abandoned settlements, lonely unfinished or damaged mega builds etc... the world get forgotten, outdated or in the worst case lost or deleted. So it's a fight for a world and its people to face "Ruin" of some sort and is agents like the wither or the ender dragon. So the Old Builders of my world seeked a chance to overcome or flee ruin and took great deals to find a way out. Seeked other dimensions to avoid death in their world and left behind, what they had created and found death or transcendence in the end for at least one group to give possibiliies for other gouops of old builders to have other ideologies and prefer to settle in alternative dimensions or leave their old world behind and settled on a new seeded world.

I have a theory about the Illagers: They and the villagers were actually one and the same, the Illagers were actually the military force of the villages, and the inventors of the Iron Golem, who would attack any threats to the village. And one day, the Golems started attacking the Illagers, knowing they were a threat because they were conspiring against their villages and they ended up being banished from their villages. They tried to get revenge, but the Iron Golems were too much for them to handle and were forced to flee to the forests, were they found a creature that they knew could equal the Iron Golems in power: The Ravager. They found a way to tame these and started to plan coordinated attacks on the very villages that shunned them in the first place. After some time, they started to split up. Their potion brewers settled in swamps and became the modern day witches that we know. Their archers and foot soldiers stuck together and became the current Vindicators and Pillagers. The wizards started studying forbidden magic like summoning Vexes and conjuring large rows of jaws out of the ground, and became the Evokers that we know, and started settling in woodland mansions, were after some time the Vindicators and Pillagers started coming as well. Since then, they have been raiding the villages that shunned them, still hungering for revenge. What do you think?

The ancient builders are just us playing hard-core(probably on Realm)

I feel like instead of just a normal wither being created, it was a series of giant withers that eventually died off and left behind those giant skeletons found in the overworld and the nether, those would be much harder to kill and would have probably killed off all the builders

I don't even play Minecraft anymore but you get me to sit down an watch hours of content about the game. Props for that subbed!

i abosolutely love these types of videos i would love a minecraft movie that covers EVERYTHINGG!