Game Theory: Minecraft and The Power of The Dead 

"The nether is full of an energy source" Lava? You mean the pools of lava everywhere that vent heat energy nonstop? "Souls." Oh okay.

As a dutch person, i can confirm that we feed ourselves with souls

Theory about Steve, he was the one ancient builder who actually managed to harness the power of death and life, which is why he always respawns after death, never losing his soul, and is destined to go from parallel universe to parallel universe freeing his own people from the end over and over again.

That fits with soul speed. The boots draw the souls in as energy, and it makes them move fast

In his search for theories, matpat forgets geothermal energy exists.

Film theory: an episode examining how strong Tom and Jerry are

In "Ask Mojang #14" they confirm that minecraft and minecraft dungeons lores are connected

What about Ghasts? I’ve heard that they might’ve been taken from the Overworld and trapped in the Nether, and I was curious about if they have a backstory as well!

Matpat must discover all the lore. It doesn't even matter what the lore is about. If there's lore, he'll find it.

MatPat: The Nether is chalk full of an abundant energy source Me: Geothermal energy and chemosynthetic bacteria MatPat: Souls Me: (o.o)

Digging down, I would have assumed it was an underworld. We always went through portals to get there, I always thought it was another dimension.

I love how he is doing lore but also he's giving us a geography lesson

MatPat: "...nutrients get used in an inefficient way." Austin a DAY prior: "Steve uses the nutrients in food with perfect efficiency."

"Even when youre sitting completely still youre still burning calories" Me: fitness is not just a hobby, its a lifestyle

The beginning reminded me of how awesome the D&D Underdark would be in Minecraft. Also, there are literally oceans of evidence (in the form of lava in the Nether) that imply there is enough geothermal energy to keep all that lava really hot. And it's possible that the geothermal power is what keeps the Netherblocks (Syblocks but in the Nether) floating. In addition, my friend and I came up with the "terraforming" idea a while ago with an important supplement being new species of fungus based on the sculk stuff... Not just that but many quartz colorations (green, pink, yellow) are caused by iron impurities. With nether quartz appearing to be slightly pink when in nether quartz ore, it's safe to say that there are at least trace amounts of iron wherever you find nether quartz. Also, you find skeletons and fossils in the soul sand valleys... who's to say the area isn't made of fossilized fungi and decaying animal meat from an ancient era? That would make it quite healthy, and maybe the ancient fungus had caps resembling wailing faces. That would scare some creatures away! And MATPAT YOU FORGOT TO SAY "BUT THAT'S JUST A THEORY"

This sort of explains the whole update to begin with. At first the nether was empty with just lava but after the portal was made and the builders died, their souls began to start the circle of life in the nether witch eventually made forest and stuff.

I find it funny that Austin JUST PROVED that Steve and Alex have super efficient bodies

Y'know, I've always wondered, Herobrine is shown various times in this game theory series, but we've never really seen a theory ABOUT Herobrine.

Game theory: the theory of the illagers testing and experimenting on villagers and the zombies under igloos connection. Igloos are definitely isolated, and I feel like they eventually had enough outcasts they band together to start their own cult in the mansion, trying to convert villagers with the use of mind control with the red mushrooms they are growing and then implanting the lapis after.

6:40 Just like how you watch The Game Theorists' videos on your computer while the computer is charging

Fun fact: Minecraft started out as “Cave Game.” The name was soon changed to Minecraft: Order of the Stone, and, ultimately, just Minecraft.

“The action of digestion burns calories” Me eating a whole bag of Cheetos: Fitness is my passion

Can you please do lore about structures (especially fossils)

This feels like those serial killer documentaries and I'm in for it.

So the Nether is basically Monsters Inc, but instead of making kids scream, they literally have to kill them.

I like how he says a “potion “ but shows dragon’s breath in a bottle.

id love to see them make another minecraft theory with the same intro style as this one

Can you do a Game Theory on the phantoms that attack you when you don’t sleep for too long? In my mind they are both the coolest & creepiest looking enemies in Minecraft plus I’m very curious about how they “exist.”

"They get energy from souls" huh I would have thought it might be something like, you know, the abundance of geothermal energy as the Nether is literally filled with oceans of lava

Can we get a mini theory about the fact that hoglins are scared of the warped fungus?

I just realized he glanced over the fact (on basically every episode about souls) that dying to splash potion equate into "killed by magic" and most potion recipes require the nether wart made on soul sand really just keeps suggesting souls really are a source of power.

9:50 Why do his eyes look like that?

“A more disturbing source of energy” MAT GEOTHERMAL.

game theory: *talks about how souls are the nether energy source* me, screaming: *GEO-THERMAL*

You should look into igloos as well, because you can cure a zombie villager on one side, with a plain villager on the other

Matt: " There is no source of energy in the nether" Lava: " Am I a joke to you?"

The amount of wandering traders I've killed could energize the nether for eternity.

Mat pat the one that can make Minecraft a string of lore in one chronically timeline

MatPat. Do you know the bones found in the nether. Their all ribcages and bones and stuff but when you put them all together it is the shape of a wither but way way bigger! CAn you do a theory on that next? Thanks :)

Hi I just want to propose this theory idea on a game called Rimworld, its mostly sandbox but there were a few bits of "lore" like the Insect War or where the mechanoids came from or the reason on why the ship crashed, Im a HUGE fan of your videos at a young age and even until now, keep up the good work and do what you love best Mat

MatPat: *Comes up with a plausible scientific theory about The Nether being the Underworld* Mojang: Eh it's just a different dimension

Matt: The Nether is actually chock full of energy. Me: Geothermal! Matt: A much darker, more sinister energy. Me: G...geothermal? Matt: Souls. Me: oh.

I still think of the Nether being under the overworld, but even if it was, it's still completely secluded by unbreakable bedrock. Even if somehow, something gets through, above is just deepslate, which can easily be assumed is harder than stone since it takes much longer to break. So, there's probably no practical way to have energy and nutrients coming in from the overworld. No idea if that's how that works, but it's just a thought.

We also can't forget that piglin's probably do have souls as well so they probably help keep the ecosystem going

Matpat be like dora the Explorer saying "where is the energy" while surrounded on all sides by lava

"The only possible source of energy in the Nether is souls." *cries in hot lava*

At this point, Mat is creating the canonical lore for this game. Everything so far has been piecing together perfectly.

I've always thought that the Nether ran a lot off of the immense amount of heat in the area, the red coloring of the mushrooms might just be chlorophyll but instead of sunlight its heat

Thank you MatPat for my daily dose of 5am dad jokes 😂

as a dutch person the dutch national anthem caught me hella off guard lol

Mat pat:Nether is underworld Austin: Nether is a planet on space.

Minecraft Story Mode explains why the Nether travels the player more blocks because of the world beneath the bedrock which could relate to us below as Steve and Alex's head are found in the game as targets for the admins games oddly enough. We then find no signs of illagers yet and according to Matpat's theory it suggests that mcsm took place before the events in Minecraft Legends with playing of gods, trimmed armors, portals, experimentation. Just lore I gathered hope this helps!

4:40 meanwhile, 2 days ago: Austin: Steve absorbs nutrients perfectly.

Right after Young MatPat explains that it is impossible to pour water in the nether, he then goes on to say that the warped forest was created with the use of water itself.

MATPAT! Here's a crazy theory for ya on the origins of skeletons. Your zombie disease video makes sense, but doesn't explain the skeletons. No disease is going to keep a pile of bones floating around. You'd need magic to do that. Here's a quote from the Mobestiary, " Some have proposed that skeletons are ancient adventurers raised from death by an evil sorcerer." In the game Minecraft Dungeons there is a group of ancient necromancers who live in a desert temple. They have blue glowing eyes (the color of souls) and when they summon skeletons, you can see small blue souls float away from the summoning area. They even shoot soul fire blasts! But why are they themselves undead? Maybe because when they (or some other humans) summoned the wither, they noticed that it doesn't attack undead things, and they turned themselves undead to protect themselves. I hope you read this!

I just realized something: When you kill an evoker, they don't pop the totem, but when you kill it it drops it, so maybe the reason the illagers do raids is for souls that in turn are used for totems that would give them immortality. like this so matpat can see

When a fictional video game world make you claustrophobic

The power of the dead in a game that never dies

Ok… soul energy, I’m on board. One thing that was nagging me though, it might not just be those who died after coming from the overworld but there is an entire biome contributed to souls aka the soul sand valley, what do you find their? Giant skeletons of dead creatures and… well regular skeletons so the soul sand valley somewhat acts like the nether’s sun

I always thought that lava of the nether provided the light an energy needed since it seem like an almost endless resource there

You may have overlooked geothermal energy, from the literal tons of lava that flow through the nether.

Matpat: even just breathing burns calories. Me: *breaths while eating cake* ✨fitness is my passion✨

12:02 Mat:"no joke that is my schedule" The schedule: "Analyze Mario's toes"

What about gaining energy from heat? Like the Yeti Crab, or other creatures that gain energy from underwater thermal vents?

Title: the power of death Intro: Piglin is trading with Matpat *Confused screaming*

now that ive seen how these videos are made i can’t pay attention to the animations and can only imagine matpat sitting in a room talking to himself

Hi Matt! I have a theory to propose. What if... The player got infected with a parasite that made the player go insane, the player gained powers to fly and manifest items on demand (now known as creative mode). He saw his species as evil and planned to kill them all (explains abandoned structures), the others fled in to the end, hoping for safety, they built battle ships with creatures that lift things only to destroy them, but they were found. They got punished, they transormed in to ugly, tall creatures that were once them (now known as endermen). The player made a dragon to keep the prisoners there and locked the portal, but now the parasite was meeting the end of it's life. The parasite made sure this player won't see the structures of his kind, The parasite destroyed every structure there was, but before he could finish the job... You wake up, in a new world, having lost your memory, your language, your people, you try to make sense of what was happening, you only remember the trip to the underworld before fading and going black. You make tools, wandering around the world, seeing the villages occupied by a less advance species, but some structures looking familiar too you. You see monsters, seeking revenge from their creator, attacking you with all their might, they look like you, still wearing the armour they had before you cursed them to travel the world with one goal, kill the player. As you advance, you notice the fortress, a labyrinth you made to keep you from reuniting what's left of your kind. You put the final keys in place, destroying the spawner filled with worms that suck your health out of you... You enter.. The rest it up to you Thank you

legit felt my heart drop when he said "the end" before realizing i still have to watch like 15 more videos

I'm just confused as to why lava heat energy wasn't even mentioned

Heat Energy: "Am I a joke to you?"

This is my theory about how steve (the player) was created. Steve was created by the evoker and illagers because they have the type of wool that steve has on him, and they can control life and death so they were trying to create an intelligent species but they kept making zombies that's why zombies have the same clothes as us so they finally created the player. The reason why the player can respawn is that the player has a stronger totem of undying that can't be destroyed. Idk how he has it on him but he does. (I did see the video that Wifies created about this, I just wanted to make a new one similar theory)

Man literally jumped direct on soul energy in nether 'Sad lava noises'

Next thing we know, the end dragon is the last of her species protecting her egg

This also gives a reason to why endermen live in the warped forest, they created it and have memories there.

Learning biology in a minecraft video and not at school, great

The idea of the nether being a closed system means it never looses energy as energy can neither be created nor destroyed and the bedrock marks the edge of reality as the nether is a separate dimension so no energy leaves none enters keeping it stable. While I agree souls may be a thing crucial to the nether the energy never changes as it’s never destroyed

That line from the Muse song finally makes sense now: “In an isolated system, entropy will always increase”

MatPat: Soul fuels the Neather The People: *GEOTHERMAL*

6:35 The Sun is A DEADLY LAZER

I straight up nearly laughed to death from the "I am firing my laser face" on the sun

pretty interesting. I always knew that it was a different dimension because you go through portal.

Therapist: Minepat isn't real he can't hurt you. Minepat:

I’m stuck in Minecraft lore/deep dive fact vids these are so addicting I don’t even play this game I love these vids either way

The trades that the piglins give may seem like a rip off to you, but consider that they live in the nether and seemingly dont know how to leave. So all of the "junk" that they give you is probably incredibly valuable to them, and in their eyes a gold ingot for a piece of string is incredibly generous. That string could be used to make a bow to shoot down ghast, blazes and wither skeletons as well as hunting hoglins. They cant get That naturally in the nether.

Game Theory: Steve perfectly absorbs his food Also Game Theory: Wait that’s illegal

"stuff that music food into your earmouth" is officialy the most cursed thing ive heard matpat say now

Maybe for the next video you could do a theory about those weird mossy cobblestone chunks in the spruce forest biomes, but hey, That's Just A Theory, A Game Theory!

Why are these theories always so good?!

I think the whole "Nether being a separate dimension" thing is because Doom depicted hell as a dimension that can't be accessed on Earth, rather being accessed by an ancient portal on Deimos, and most Minecraft nerds (like me) already know that Notch, while creating Minecraft, had Doom as the main inspiration.

You know this makes the fact that they literally made a Soul Capturing device in the Respawn Anchor to allow you to reconstitute yourself in the Nether more interesting

A nether dive. Wow, Matt, just wow

I always thought that the bedrock nether ceiling was the bedrock that you hit digging down in the overworld and the nether was under that bedrock

The idea that the Nether's ecosystem runs completely on soul energy is awesome! I love how these ideas fit so well with lore, now even terraforming the Nether!

I'm still waiting for that Herobrine theory that Matt himself said he would cover whenever this whole journey started back in 2016

6:00 takin a trip down memory lane with scribblenughts

MatPat needs to go back and look at this episode and consider some of the facts with regards to his Wall-E cannibalism theory. Like around 5:00, where he talks about “burning calories” and the fact that you need to intake energy from somewhere and convert it to calories, or it will simply deplete. Probably at a faster rate than anticipated.

“in order to beat entropy, the nether has to pull energy from souls” boy do I have a magical girl anime for you edit: it’s madoka magica for anyone wondering.

I would’ve thought that the Nether’s ecosystem draws energy from the endless lava ocean because it’s hot.

Earth core: Am i a joke to you Sun: Yes

While many have asked if the lava could be useful, it actually raises even more questions. While lava in Minecraft seems to be a lot cooler than real lava, it still must be pretty hot. But, the thing is the lava in the nether must be cooling down for the same fundamental reasons, namely that heat would slowly leak out into the void around the nether. So, how is that lava still flowing? Why has it not cooled to stone and rock? One answer is that something is using souls to keep it hot.