A Deep Dive Into My Minecraft Enderman Theory 

What I heard from this video: “... tried so hard...” “... got so far...” “... in the end...” “... doesn’t even matter...”

Endermen are the epitome of the "He looked at me funny" punchline.

Would be awesome, if after killing the dragon you could look enderman in the eyes

Enderman: I am the only creature that can teleport Minecraft Dogs: let me introduce myself

Imagine finally getting a chance to leave the end,surviving a speed runner and then get transported into smash to be 2 blocks tall

Ever since chorus fruit was added, I always thought that ender pearls came from Endermen as a biological byproduct through them digesting and processing the fruit. Sort of like a kidney stone.

"Endermen are the most intelligent because of their building capability." Endermen: "Yes this is a good place to put this grass block." *grass block literally in the middle of an empty cave.

Maybe there's a possibility that pearls grow inside endermen who eat chorus fruit, making the pearls a highly refined form of the substance inside chorus fruits. That means endermen did in fact evolve to have natural teleportation due to their diet. I don't think Shulkers can make pearls because they don't drop pearls on death

This lore is so cool, but it also makes speedruns more funny. Imagine being an enderman trapped in the end, having been there your whole life, then one day a square dude shows up out of nowhere and nukes your eternal jailor to death with some beds

In the official Minecraft novel "the end" many things related to endermen are explained, for example endermen pearl is the heart of enderman and endermen cities were not built by endermen but by a much older ancient civilization

I once heard a theory that said that Endermen communicated by telepathy, and whenever you looked into their eyes they couldn see the human's thoughts, which pretty much ended up hurting them because of how incompatible they were :')

"in the overworld, no other mob can teleport" Dogs: am i a joke to you?

Enderman: "exists" Steve: "you are being rescued, please stop resisting"

There’s a popular theory out there that Endermen were once a race of Ancient Builders who got trapped in the End. The theory is that long ago some Ancient Builders were experimenting with portals when they stumbled across the discovery of the End Dimension. They sent some scouts to the dimension to explore it, but something went wrong and they got trapped on the other side in the End. Being in a strange new land out in the open with the constant threat of the Ender Dragon over their heads, the trapped explorers fled to the outer islands for safety. With limited resources the Ancient Builders made due with what they had, building structures out of surrounding materials. Despite living in such a barren waste land they still found ways to make astonishing accomplishments. They created new light sources using Blaze Rods they brought with them through the portal and Popped Corus Fruits. They also found two new forms of storage, using Blaze Rods, Ender Pearls, and obsidian they found a way to make a chest that could teleport their items anywhere they wanted. They also used Skulker Shells and chests to make boxes that could hold large quantities of items that they could carry wherever they went. And perhaps their most impressive achievement was their invention of the Elytra which allowed them to fly and travel great distances across the End. However when it came to food all they had were some beetroot seeds, but without soil to plant them, they ended up storing them away. Instead they had to live off the native Corus Plants and ate nothing but Corus Fruit, however the fruit had the unfortunate side effect of teleporting whoever ate it. This meant ever time the Ancient Builders needed to eat they also teleported at random. With nothing but Corus Fruit to eat and the exposure to constant darkness over time they eventually began to go mad. Their bodies began to change, they became tall, dark, slim armed creatures with glowing purple eyes. The once peaceful Ancient Builders had now become an entirely new race and dubbed themselves the “Endermen.” Eventually the Endermen developed the ability to teleport on command without the aid of the fruit and spread quickly across the End hopping from one End Island to the next. At some point the Endermen learned how to not just teleport great distances, but between dimensions. After countless years of being stranded in the End, the creatures the were once the Ancient Builders had finally returned to the Overworld and also found ways to teleport to other dimensions like the Nether. While some chose to leave the End Dimension most of the Endermen decided to stay because it was the only home they had known for so long. Today Endermen are found in every dimension. They are elusive, mysterious, and are often seen picking up and placing random blocks without a real objective other than them reflecting on the creative intelligent race they once were. They know about us and normally want nothing to do with us other than occasionally steal our building supplies. But for the most part they just wanna be left alone and hate being looked at. If you stare at an Enderman directly in the eyes it will attack you. The theory is that when we look at them, we remind them of their past life and what they once were which drives them into a blind rage as they know they can never get that life back.

21:00 I think the reason why they need elytars is because they're teleportation range is limited and the island are spread apart sometimes. Have you ever tried navigating the end with only pearls? Sure it works most of the time but not only is in ineffective, there's some situations where am island is too far away to teleport

I’ve read a tumblr theory that the reason Endermen attack players is because they’re actually terrified - they communicate telepathically through looking at eachother, and the sounds they make are just the sounds of that psychic phenomenon to our ears, maybe the endermen trying to get our attention. But when they have it - when the player actually looks them in the eyes, they can’t comprehend the thoughts the player is having because… well, it’s an avatar for a human player that’s playing a video game. And whatever that looks or sounds like to the endermen is SO confusing and scary that they try to kill us immediately.

“The player was intelligent, unlike villagers” The villagers: ;-;

Fun Fact: Endermen are VERY introverted Proof?: eye contact scares them

The goal of a seed is to get far away from its plant and start a new one, so causing teleportation if eaten (especially from an otherwise stationary shulker) would be very beneficial

Endermites are mentioned in the Minecraft official book on creatures and they apparently are an infestation that can catch a ride as a stowaway when something teleports. As according to the book, when something teleports it passes through an area between spaces and thats where the endermites come from. Maybe the endermen discovered that there were other worlds by their copious need to teleport, they teleported, kept going through strange space and then figured out that there may be other dimensions. That is combining your theory with the official book on Minecraft mobs and where they come from.

Is this why, ender dragon's defeat achivement call: "free the end"

"They tried to play God, but it was the downfall" Among the most powerful phrases

One slight problem with the analysis of shulkers, it could be that their teleportation is random, the simple chorus fruit also never teleports you to a location with no block below you

13:16 to back this part of the theory up, both in the nether and the end do beds explode (unlike in the overworld), which I assume is due to the heat, but water doesn’t evaporate in the end, implying that it’s not as hot as the nether! I really love your theory btw

this guy is like when history teacher meets fanfic writer and I absolutely love it

After 12 years, I have a moral obligation to kill the dragon

11:21 couldn't find any comments mentioning this, but those endermen must have marched Carolina Crown lol, noticed it immediately

Something tells me that this all started when the egg was hatched and the Ender dragon appeared. That's why some structures and "plants" look like deformed versions of houses and trees and such, but in a more diseased form from the spawn of E.Dragon and probably plagued everything. The sky even is all purple-blackish.

Enderman in Minecraft lore: Intelligent, sentient human Enderman in Minecraft: “What’s up?”

Since you get an achievement for killing a ghast in the overwold that states that the ghasts originally came from the overwold I think that the endermen locked the ghasts away in the nether to prevent someone to resummon the dragon.

The Stronghold is a great theory for the protection of water, although there is a fountain in the stronghold, clearly a decoration. Why would they place that in there? Could they be using water to craft essentials materials?

When he talked about the brave enderman who traveled to the world and learn about it step by step, I felt like a child sitting on his fathers lap listening to a bedtime story. Aweee

“The jealous piglins” is the best phrase

The dragon explodes when it dies. That's the heat that opens the portal back to the overworld when we do it as the player. Perhaps there used to be many dragons in the end, and the endermen sacrificed one to open the portal. This would also explain where the dragon heads came from. They were trophies from kills they made using their flying ships. Its possible the dragons were hunted to extinction for trophies and perhaps elytra being crafted from their wings. They couldn't beat the dragon that closed the portal due to its protective crystals.

Since frogs born in the end turn out green, that means that the end is probably more on the colder side.

13:12 I think the torches are enough heat: End portal needs lava because even if the portal is indestructible it is obviously made from endstone that is not so hard that's why it needs so much heat as the obsidian is much harder and to go to nether you need only flint and steel. So as it is made from bedrock the hardest block it only needs torches as the heat source.

"attacks only if provoked" me: ending the dragon to free them enderman: and i took that personally

This explains the endermen saying, " look for the eye". They are telling the player how to get to the End, to free them and their friends. They see the player's intelligence and know that the player is its only hope

I'm surprised not many people notice, but In 17:20 2 end portal frames are flipped, which would prevent it from working

Also the enderman do communicate with the characters. We know the enderman are people saying "hi" or "how are you." But if you listen closely, you can sometimes hear them say, "look for the eye" as in, "look for the eyes or ender" that may have been the closest they have to communicating with humans though :)

Here's a thought. Notice how ender pearls stack in units of 16? Know what else stacks like that? Chicken eggs. What if Enderpearls are actually the eggs of shulkers. Might explain how they were farmed by the endermen and why they have the teleportation effect. This might also explain why endermites are produced from throwing the pearls. They may not be parasites but the larval stage of shulkers

None of us have finished this yet but we are all hyped.

One thing to mention, is that in real life, pearls are caused inside clams when an insect walks inside the clam, it gets trapped and around it forms a hard material, and at the end of the process the insenct ends up in a pearl, in the game, the same thing happens, that would explain why endermites have a chance of spawning when a player throws an ender pearl, which sort of explains why endermen hate endermites, because it messes with their teleportational expirements with ender pearls. A similar thing kind of happens with nether portals, because if you light a portal and it remains lit, there is a chance of zombie pigmen spawning.

This video was obliviously made before the deep dark existed, but in the deep dark city there is that “portal” which beneath it and around it has soul fire, which checks off the check for heat, and for the hard material it is the reinforced deep slate.

Also, I think Endermen get angry when looked at because observing quantum superposition events locks them in place a.k.a. preventing endermen teleportation. Imagine if a dumb player whose speech you can't even understand clipped your elytra by looking at you without even realizing.

We have apples, but you can’t craft apple seeds. I want to grow actual apple trees ;-;

I really like this theory, but with how hostile Endermen get when you look at them, I figured they were at worst some kind of invader, or at best really obsessed with secrecy, to the point that someone looking at them is an immediate death warrant.

This makes sense with music disc theories I have heard where each relates to a different overworld or nether mob. The theory states that endermen are the creators of the music discs as they learned more about the different mobs from the other dimensions. Kind of cool

Sometimes I wish I never knew how to play Minecraft so I could just sort of figure things out on my own

Endermen: we've been here for too long... how are we gonna defeat our ruler? Green block guy with an MS paint smiley face: *bed*

Just thought of this but the elytra and armor and weapons found in end cities could have been the endermen trying to replicate the dragon flying to take him down

Love the idea that the Enderman are behind everything

What are Ender pearls? Well we have official answer, from book Minecraft: The End. In this book it's said that Ender pearls are hearts of Endermen. It even says that endermen are capable of thelepathy but only with their own kind, and that they are more inteligent in groups (if they are alone they act as a mindless beasts).

I’m surprised you didn’t address that the Dragon Egg teleports at all.

I like this theory. I also think I figured why there's no rain, enough heat, no day/night and mostly bleakness in the end: It either resembles existence after the heat death of the universe (or plane), or before the creation of life.

I think most of the ‘errors’ with this theory can be fixed by the idea that the Ancient Builders worked with the Endermen. This explains the Elytra and armour appearing in End Ships, as well as the doors in strongholds. Also, as for shulkers not dropping pearls, it could be that they are harvested another way by Endermen, and killing them also destroyes the pearl. This could also be explained by the egg theory mentioned in other comments

"Besides the creeper the endermen are minecrafts most famous mob" sounds a lot better than "endermen are minecrafts second most famous mob"

Enderman: sees Steve Enderman: Look it’s a player! He will save us from the dragon and we’ll finally be free! Steve: Looks him in the eye Enderman: That sin cannot be forgiven

You have really good cinematography and are very talented at giving unique and detailed narratives. Very good storytelling

Me: *desperately tries to aggro them by looking at them* Enderman: _Teleport_ Me: *accidentally looks at them for 137.4 milliseconds* Enderman: *_angery_*

Damn this makes enderman xp-farms so much more cruel

4:38 Already wrong. Consuming chorus fruit also land player on solid blocks, therefore it's not "controlled" teleportation by any means. It's just the basic principle of teleportation. The fact Shulkers do not drop enderpearl also indicates that enderman did not harvest it from shulkers. The pearl is crafted using other ways or literally grown within enderman. Enderman also cannot pick up end blocks, therefore it make no sense that enderman built the structures. They don't even seem to have any relationship to the end cities if at all. If enderman do rely on player to save them, it made no sense that they will be provoked by just looking at them in the face (communication always comes with looking into each other's eyes) It's already explained by the devs that the ender mites are habitants of another dimension that enderman or in this case player using ender pearl will travel through when teleporting. It's very clear that every structure we've seen in game is built by ancient builders and none by enderman. The fact enderman only pick up overworld blocks indicates that they have high relationship to overworld. There's also no crafting table anywhere to be found near enderman which indicates they do not know how to craft therefore build. All the loots left behind end cities and nether fortresses all belonged to the ancient builders as it's materials are often from overworld. The fact that the end ships have trace of beacon characteristics, perhaps ancient builders brought over a beacon to help construct the structures or simply when traveling in ships (speed boost?). If enderman knows how to build and craft and still exists today, they should have very high civilization by now instead of gearless and just wonders around within zombies seemingly mindlessly. As well as the structure doors are all 2 blocks tall, clearly not made for enderman. I'm sorry to say this, but this entire theory just makes 0 sense. The foundation of the theory is already flawed to begin with.

Got chills so many times while watching this...i truly believe that your theory is probably accurate. Please do more videos like this!

Interesting theory indeed! Something I think should be taken into account with this as well are these few facts, 1. Bedrock actually burns forever, if heat is required specifically for inter-dimensional travel, could it be that fire was somehow able to be struck from bedrock? 2. The strongholds main doorways are always two blocks high, if the strongholds were built by Enderman, why would they make doorways so small? A small gripe, but an interesting thought 3. The Warped forest is the only place outside of the end where the Enderman are most common. How did the Enderman warp this forest? Why would they be more common there and not at fortress? 4. As an aspiring biologist and paleontologist, I believe that considering how the chorus plants also came into existence and why teleportation may have been a good idea for their survival and spreading. 5. Jeb has mentioned that when he thinks of naming new things for Minecraft, he thinks of their names as how an adventurer would name things. This being the case, ender pearls could very well not actually be pearls, the same as how humans sometimes call our eyes pearls perhaps?

It's actually cold enough in the End to snow, but there's no weather there so it can't.

This makes me very curious of what that giant portal thing in the ancient cities will lead to

As Endermen only drop pearls upon their death, we have to assume that they murdered eachother to get enough pearls to create the End Portal. Grim. Btw, this is by far the BEST thought out theory I've ever come across. Wonderful work. The only thing you didn't touch on is WHY they get mad when we look them in the eye

Theory: The enderman are the people speaking in the end poem

17:03 the quote "look for the eye" may be the endermen trying to encourage the player to experiment with the eyes of ender as a "hint" so the player has more chances of discovering the portal and eventually reactivating it

man I really hope your channel grows, this is amazing

Good vid. Only problem is that the end isn't really hot. On many console editions (PS3 for eg) you could modify the biome a superflat world would be and one of these options was the End. The description for this was that it was a cold desolate biome. From the end > overworld portal is only activated when the dragon dies so maybe that is the heat producer

"You clicked on this video to learn about endermen not chorus fruit" Me: oh yeah right.. tbh I forgot this is interesting

me : *looks enderman in eye* enderman: "and i took that personally"

Very interesting! It occurs to me that the pillars and portal on the middle island are built in a symmetrical style that one might find in a place of ritual or worship. What if the Ender Dragon is worshipped as a god by the Endermen? If the Endermen can communicate telepathically as some people propose, then what if they are able to read Steve's thoughts when he looks into their eyes? Thoughts of murdering their beloved diety, perhaps...

Excellent format. Thanks for this video.

“Why would endermen make elytra if they can teleport” Why do humans still use trains if they have planes? My point is that sometimes one is better depending on the situation

There is a plothole. That being that the stronghold has 2 block doors. The endermen are 3 blocks tall

This series is a fantastic and entertaining idea that is so well put together

I love your Minecraft Lore videos and this spooky music!

its a cool theory, just one thing that doesn't fit. if the endermen build the stronghold why would they use doors too small for them to walk through.

They "blink" forward. The pearls name symbolic, as it is their eyes. They know how to use them without throwing, but Steve does not.

I believe that the elytra are the fallen or broken wings of the dragon, it is a stretch but with so little concrete evidence it could just be possible! I stumbled upon this series on the warden video and it’s an amazing and intuitive dive into a relatively unexplored lore of a game!

just discovered this series and i gotta dsay for this vid, made sense this was very neat

Steve: *exist* Enderman: “ Now you see me now you don’t, shoving a dirt block down your throat”

Fun fact: The chorus fruit is the enderman's favorite food.

I really really like this theory, starting with simpler components like plants is a perfect way to come at this idea

"Enderman are different from other mobs in many ways. They're neutral mobs, that only attack when provoked" Llamas: Am I a joke to you?

Actualy it makes sense that the end is hotter than the overworld. And water being too cold for them to touch.

This is my favorite enderman theory. It’s more convincing than most other theories, and I also think it works really well with Wifies' theory.

This is incredible. Thank you for making this game fun for me again. +1

Player: "Kills the ender dragon" Enderman: Our hero! Thank you! Also player: *Build a mob farm that creates melon and pumpkin farms that provides the genocide of many endermans*

Imagine taking the time to learn interdimensional travel just to play with some new blocks

For the items in end cities I think endermans could have found the player's items and brought into the end so they could potentially make researches on it. Maybe some endermen still knew how to read as there's a libraries in the strongholds and some of them maybe learned the dangers of the overworld but also the things endermen have learned before. These endermen stayed on the islands far from the ender dragon to stay safe and made researches with their brewing stands (maybe on the items of the player. The elytra might just be the dragon's wings that dried because of the heat of the end. As you said, the end might be really hot and the first portal was activated by this heat. For the bedrock endermen had the abillity to create purpur block so they maybe created bedrock with endstone and an ability that the player doesn't have maybe a really big strengh to compact the endstone or the ability to create objects from really tiny particles which would explain why players can't craft bedrock or endportals like endermen can. And the player might just be a villager that got intrrested by the world that he/she lives in, vormal villagers already some form of intelligence as they built their houses farms and villagers have different jobs, maybe the player was the builder of the houses, that would explain why villagers doesn't have a proper builder villager. Here is my theory about the things that you didn't theorise :)

This is by far my favorite theory and the one to make the most sense to me.

imagine how cool it would be if you could "tame" an enderman, just have this buddy walking around with you

"The player was smart unlike villagers" **sad villager noises**

I'm inclined to believe that the endermen are actually what results from the people there before you evolving after being trapped there by a cataclysm that turned all the other people into zombies and skeletons (wither skeletons and soul sand being two parts of a person), the dragon being the native species of the end, hunted to almost extinction by the humans (as shown by the heads on the ships), the dragon we fight is the last one, preserved with the crystals and kept alive forever. That's why the achievement for entering is "The End?" because, lore-wise it's only the beginning.

Just found your channel and subbed... Now it is 1 in the morning and I just started binge watching this deep dive series🤦🤦🤦😂😂😂

My question: how did they get bedrock? It had to have come from somewhere, and bedrock can’t be picked up

The two theories ahould be combined, the teleportation part in this and most of MatPats. The weakness of this video is the origin of enderman. Good work though, keep producing