Minecraft's Most Disturbing Puzzle 

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Oldroot is personally, one of my favorite minecraft themed arg’s. (next to don’t look at the moon) It’s still one of my favorite parts of arg history to this day.

Fun fact: The creator of OldRoot also created the “DON’T FEED THE MUSE” ARG.

2:18 “Farting” 💀

There is more to this ARG that what the video showed us. As far as I know, the creator (who was later revealed to be Alex Bale) decided to abandon the project due to the convoluted story and having to keep posting clues cuz investigators couldn't solve them. This is not to say that the ARG is bad, as it did have somewhat of a story at the start. However, that story was soon lost and the ARG turned into a waiting game for the next clue. Kudos to the creator for the effort, though.

The fact OldRoot came from the same person that later on gave us "Don't Feed The Muse" amazes me. Congratulations to Alex Bale for making 2 AMAZING ARGs. Hopefully once DFTM is over he'll come back to this mystery and deliver more.

i loved this ARG, as well as the dont look at the moon and mark101. i find that these turn minecraft into no longer a sandbox block game, but a darker horror game

The best part about oldroot, is that he adds deception. Unlike most ARG’s, oldroot would trick people in ways that are hard to decipher. Which is one of my favorite things about this ARG

Nice video, you summed up the mystery well, but I think you missed something. The melon temple in the video was found on an actual Minecraft server. Several signs were found in different locations on this server, which lead to more clues

Alex Bale’s Creations -OldRoot -Pizza Time Pizza -Promos -Don’t Feed The Muse -What The Heck Is Going On? -Much, MUCH more. And he has graduated college only two years ago.

Vigenere cipher! The Vigenère cipher is a classical encryption method that uses a series of interwoven Caesar ciphers based on a keyword. It was invented by the French cryptographer Blaise de Vigenère in the 16th century and is considered one of the strongest manual encryption techniques of its time. Here's how the Vigenère cipher works: Keyword selection: Choose a keyword, which is a word or phrase that will be used to encrypt and decrypt the message. For example, let's use the keyword "KEY". Key repetition: Repeat the keyword to match the length of the message or the part of the message you want to encrypt. If the message is longer than the keyword, repeat the keyword until it covers the entire length. In our example, if the message is "HELLO WORLD," the keyword "KEY" will be repeated as "KEYKEYKEYKE" to match the length of the message. Conversion of letters to numbers: Assign each letter of the keyword and the message a numerical value based on their position in the alphabet (A=0, B=1, C=2, and so on). In our example, "H" is 7, "E" is 4, "L" is 11, "O" is 14, "W" is 22, "R" is 17, and "D" is 3. Encryption: Add the numerical values of the corresponding letters in the message and the keyword. If the sum exceeds 25, wrap around to the beginning of the alphabet. Repeat this process for each letter. In our example, the encrypted message would be: Message: HELLO WORLD Keyword: KEYKEYKEYKE Encrypted: RSTKU NIDLP The first letter "H" is encrypted by adding 7 (H) and 10 (K) to get 17 (R). The second letter "E" is encrypted by adding 4 (E) and 4 (E) to get 8 (S), and so on. Decryption: To decrypt the message, use the same keyword and subtract the numerical values of the corresponding letters in the encrypted message from the keyword. If the result is negative, add 26 to get the correct value. Repeat this process for each letter. Using our example, the decryption process would be: Encrypted: RSTKU NIDLP Keyword: KEYKEYKEYKE Decrypted: HELLO WORLD The first letter "R" is decrypted by subtracting 10 (K) from 17 (R) to get 7 (H). The second letter "S" is decrypted by subtracting 4 (E) from 8 (S) to get 4 (E), and so on. The strength of the Vigenère cipher lies in the fact that it introduces variability and complexity by using different Caesar ciphers within the same message. However, with the advent of modern computers and sophisticated cryptographic methods, the Vigenère cipher is relatively easy to break using statistical techniques if the keyword is short or weak.

0:25 i got a soundcloud notification at this moment

3:15 there is a hidden line of text in the top left corner

This is 100% something i would do, ive been into code making and breaking, i used to (and still sometimes do) hide chipers and codes in my journal ( codes like the acsension code form Ark and obscure drawings of artifacts from games)

hmm... i love unsolved/unanswered mysteries. This video gives me chills now.

This just explained how smart people actually is.

This is one of the most amazing mysteries someone has made

this minecraft video sent a SHIVER down my spine

This video is so well animated, that I couldn’t fall asleep! Yes, i always fall asleep on documentary videos.

This is better than those clues you get in a horror movie

this is so instructing, I wonder what Old root means by become faceless. Who is behind this mask, what does the symbol mean? What is this new mystery? Is it something from the past? That's returning? How deep does this rabbit hole go?

the third word the detectives left behind was "torn"

Faceless Steve has the scariest past by far

The whole stylish part of the mysteries video is maybe amnigram

My theory: The phrase (7:21) "He won't be able to see, hear or communicate, he'll be practically brain dead" is somehow related to the film "Johnny Got His Gun". It's about a young soldier who gets injured during WW1 and loses his sight, speech, hearing and limbs. His only way of communication was by moving the only movable part of his body, head, and hitting it against a pillow, in a Morse code pattern, begging those around him to spare him the suffering and kill him (the previously had thought he was simply brain dead). Some of you may be very familiar with this topic, because this is the film which inspired Metallica to one of their most popular songs, "One"

0:26 I could make out the phrase “OPEN THE PORTAL”

i watched retrogamingnow's video on oldroot, but i'm about to watch your's now because to this day, oldroot is my favorite ARG

I recently watched a different video about Oldroot’s puzzles, and I thought of you, wishing you would make a video about it. I didn’t have to wait long, apparently xd

I have no idea how you edit this well this fast

just a thing, caesar cipher, not ceases, but, it just amazes me, everything, about this is, I don't have words

AMAZING. UNDERRATED. ABSOLUTE PERFECTION. Nice.

i feel like im having a fever dream watching this and i love it

4:04 foul

These videos are truly amazing. The editing and storytelling is very nice!

It's good to come back after ten years

"Farting" 🗿

nice video and editing man want more vids like this❤

2:41 It is also used in progressbar 95 AND I NEED HELP WITH THIS TYPE OF CODE!

Official minecraft book, The Shipwreck seems like a less dark version of Oldroot.

Kunai how have you been I see quality improvement in the videos good job 😃

i found one that might be more disturbing called old minecraft reuploads

Alex made it then made 3 more args and forgot about it 💀

2:46 bfdia 5b

Yoooooooooooooo you always impress me with these videos bro keep going man ❤ 👍

4:04 It looks like the word torn.

CAPCHA watching this: You guys are hired- in fact you're taking over our company. they keys are yours!

More like my nightmare puzzle but a perfect video

7:53 (something) AN AUTHOR LIES DEAD AN AUTHOR UNKNOWN REMAINING UNREAD REMAINING UNTOLD (somethig)

personaly my fav minecraft arg is the mark101 one it just hit me different

7:57 I'm like 98% sure that's the final image because OldRoot was like cancelled or something.

Love how you have such a professionally edited video and then there is 2:21 😂

This could have been the biggest rickroll in internet history

The "Raven" Part, In Google, is a large heavy built crow with mainly black plumage, feeding chiefly on carrion, they might be saying this large heavy built crow is watching or something else named raven is watching...

0:17 just for a theory

I'm really mesmerized by how the ceaser cipher works

I never thought Minecraft had a dark side

no one thought minecraft could get that dark...

Wait bro I just searched it and aaw that the vigenere written with the ^3 symbol If you just take the vigenere word and get its meaning , it is vigenere cypher And it showed a graph on which vigenere cypher is used So cant they just solve the vigenere cypher first and then go and figure out what the ^3 means ? I mean you showed a graph with random letters a little behind in the vid At like 6:24 mark And solve the cypher and then check what the power 3 or ^3 has to do . Right ?

Clues leading to new clues, leading to newer clues.

Honestly one of my favorites other then the generation loss one

Wait is this the end!? Will you please make a follow-up vid if more is discovered?

0:40 my user has theraven in it :/

Song #1 : "perched, sat, and nothing more" Song #2: "watching waithing"

"A clever trick" is steganography. 6:15

whoever made this is an absolute genious

4:11 that either is Raven or Torment shortened, idk what letters

Nice this is such a big mystery

Y’all we all gotta work together to solve the last un answered clue

4:06 may be "Idaho" from my prescription

The defintion of: Lol yeah loool i knew all that because i was all that

Saw a screenshot from it in the intro, but you have GOT to make a video on the bottom of the void art (commonly known at mark101, TBOTV is just the actual name)

we can't leave a unfinished leaf pill un turned (unfinished arg)

I like how alex bale was the creator of this arg i really surprised at how he made arg way before don’t feed the muse arg

i love ur editing style

dont know if the morse code (i think) at 1:43 has something hiding but it translated to: EÐENĤN

I wonder if the story is of that guy in the image saying hello friend becoming faceless by being deceived by who we know as oldroot

bro had been planning that for 8 YEARS

I love these mysteries!

I love how that code at 2:22 spells farting

Theory: a group of scientists transferred the person we saw on the consciousness into minecraft

That oldroot guy had like 100 codes up his sleeves 💀💀💀💀

Where am I ?

"He stole my face" -whithred bonnie

This gave me chills

Imagine that ur the one who sloves this mistery

They Missed Something. About what he said about the prhase "Past" the ill show you image had words behind the white stripes, There also could be 2nd images in each picture sent

The thing I found is about the reddit post name and by using ceaser ciper it turned into "What really happened"

Some smart detectives

the letters are farting

wow the installation is amazing

Now we wait for newroot

matpat should do a theory about this arg immediatley

I just saw the toast miner bro on the three player suitting as addictive suit

hi @kunai what song is at 0:02

This is insane. Nevermore.

bro gave me goosebumps

Dam Minecraft is too creepy and has many secrets we all thought minecraft is a fun sandbox game

Old root Netflix and cartoon linked are same way...

This really reminds me of the zodiac mystery, its really cool and of course mysterious

Bro took Learning to a Whole new level