Why I went PAST the FARLANDS in Minecraft... 

I love the focus on the coords when you respawn. You're back in minecraft proper, but it's followed you home now. Cornered you in a single chunk of normalcy, it's boxed you in and looms over you, overshadowing the land you have left. You're too deep in it, and it won't let you back out anymore.

11:48 this part terrified me. i grew up with a similar experience, living in the country. a 2-acre haven of trees, dirt and weeds, with trails running through and cornfields surrounding the house. perfectly square. my ex-stepdad mowed the trails for me, but i was always too afraid to go in them alone being an only child kindergartener at the time. the forest seemed to be a lot bigger on the inside than what the aerial photo of my house showed it to be, so they often went unused before i grew out of this fear around 3rd grade age (with the help of a nerf gun and some cats to give me a false sense of security). most of the trails were exhilerating to wander, especially when the many stray cats were about, but there was always this one trail that made me feel a little uneasy. most of the trails were surrounded by scattered coniferous trees, and the path was always laden with grass. this specific trail had pine trees lining it, and there was no grass; only years worth of dead pine needles and little cones, with the occasional corn leaf. a dense, brown carpet of history. where all the other paths would wind through my little forest, this one would be perfectly straight, with the pine trees on either side perfectly mirroring each other and uniformly spaced. it was also on the very edge of the 2-acre haven. on my left would be the giant oak tree in the middle of the tamed yard, the house about 30 yards away and a garden shed lined with rhubarb and the mole tunnels my ex-stepdad just loved to complain about. on my right would be the cornfields. the very end of my great green world. a sea of unknowable catastrophe. every time i walked that hall of pines it felt like a close call, that threshold between the familiar and unfamiliar. the strangest thing to me at that time? my ex-stepdad never mowed it. now i know the dead pine needles just prevented the grass from growing, but back then it was an eternal trail. it wasnt my stepdad that kept it tidy; something else keeps that trail. of course, little kid me probably didnt think too deeply about it then. it was just a little bit of a queasy feeling i felt in my gut, a scratch at my mind's door. and besides, those cats were always there to help me feel better. guiding me back home... there were a good amount of them. about 4, and then 9 when one of them got pregnant. i remember the original 4's names. Kidiot, Cooler, Scaredy-cat and Mother. didnt really have a good name for Mother until she got pregnant obviously. Scaredy-cat was the first to go. one day i ran at him to scare him, and he ran into the forest never to be seen again. probably ran off to the next farm over, or died in the cornfields. i didnt know, and i still dont know now. only difference between then and now is that I've accepted that I'll never know. Child me couldn't; had to come up with grandiose stories where that cat ran off to some other world, where it was safe or at least had some purpose to run off to. I liked to dream Scaredy-cat became a member of royalty, the king of a paradise far away, even further than the reach of the cornfields. Scaredy-cat would be happy, feasting every evening and sleeping in a gold-embroidered, silk clothed bed… anything but a decomposing carcass just beyond the haven. We gave all the others away to a family friend when the ex-stepdad broke the news; we were moving away. The process of moving away was a lot longer than we expected. The place we were moving to was a 2-hour drive away, and we had an ungodly amount of power tools and classic cars and equipment to move by van. Bastard of a step-father was a mechanic and house flipper. We started moving away in my 4th grade year. I still remember the last day I ever went back to that house, in 7th grade. At that time I was a little more mature and had little brothers to take care of. I'd be on babysitting duty while my mom and not-stepdad transferred stuff to the back of a moving van or a green dodge truck. Everything felt so surreal, watching myhouse go from a home to a husk over the course of a few years. Like I was watching it all somehow rot away. Beds to matresses, matresses to blankets and pillows, blankets and pillows to nothing but dust and ash collecting on the wooden trim. The remnants of a rarely happy family. On the very last day I stayed there I decided I would go on the trails. I asked my mother if I could go walking the now slightly overgrown trails alone, and she approved. I was bored, and I wanted to see if I could find that excited fear in the trees again. I couldn't. Even with the cats and guns gone, kept in the past, the fear was absent. I was bigger then, and the forest was now just a nostalgic little patch of grass and dirt in the sea of corn. Until I came back to the pine hallway. I purposely saved it for last, because despite the feeling it gave me it was my favorite trail. How absurd, how unique, how dangerous it felt. Walking the hall one last time, I didn't feel fear. I felt this wave of finality hit me. I was walking this hall for the last time, and I wouldn't be coming back. I almost wanted to cry as I came to the end of the pine hall. Then I felt something crunch beneath my feet. At first I thought it was a pinecone. Maybe a toy the brothers left out here, or just some dried leave. I was hoping it wasn't anything of importance, just an inconsequential object of nature. I was expecting that. What I wasn't expecting was a skeleton. In a bit of a shock, i stepped back. when it was over, I bent down to inspect it closer. I must've been standing over it for a few minutes at least. What I had stepped on was a relatively large shoulder plate. The bones were in a bit of a jumble, but I could tell it was the old structure of a cat. I decided I'd take a piece. A section of the spine, to take as a keepsake. Really, I just took it out of impulse. a crack of a cornstalk being snapped as a kid, im sure youve woken up in the middle of the night. maybe you were thirsty, or had to go to the bathroom, but either way you would have to venture to a faraway room in the house. you open your bedroom door, peering into the darkness of your own domain. eventually, you muster up the courage to venture out into that dark place. feel and grasp your way through the hallways, tiptoe. being as quiet as you can. your nerves steeled by the safety of the light behind you; if something went wrong, itd be easy to retreat. you make it to the bathroom or whatever other room and do your business, and then you take your first step out. you begin to feel paranoid. a presence looms over the back of your head. at first you walk carefully. trying not to engage a chase with the -Mi- unknowable, immortal beast that is given power through your fears. in your childhood home, im sure you know that one point within your home. the beginning of a long hallway. the start of a stairwell. at this point, you might be able to see your bedroom door, or the light emanating from it. at this point you can see safety in front of you. its at this point you fully accept the reality of there being a living, breathing, snarling, hungering beast behind you. you sprint to the door. to the light. that unfathomable creature follows, just on your heels. silent. wanting. every leaping step forward a deciding factor in your fate. you want to scream but you cant, for fear of the beast cutting it short. this feeling, this ancient, primal fear is exactly what i felt in that moment. as i grabbed ahold of the spine, it seized my mind. stumbling through the overgrown pine branches that reached out to hold me back, i ran toward the house, tripping over myself in a frenzy. i didnt look back. i didnt dare look back. when i finally reached the moving van, thats when it was safe to turn around from the safety of the light and... and... Nothing. The cornstalks swayed in the wind. I still think on this a lot. Why did I feel so afraid when I was way past that stage of fearfulness? Was there really something in the cornfields? Or was it really nothing that was stalking me? Was nothing stalking me? How had a cat skeleton appeared on a path I had walked not too long before this? Whatever it was, it's all ancient history now. Mostly. I still have the cat spine. It's in the very back of my shelves, still sitting there reminding me of that place. Whispering, calling me to come back to smell the grass and the rain on the wind. I know that today nobody's bought the place. It just sits there, abandoned, waiting. The grass is probably feet long, the trails overgrown, everything overgrown. Reclaimed by entropy. Reclaimed by the sea. But I bet the pine hallway is still there, just the way I left it. I want to see it for myself. i need to see it for myself *on sunny days, with clear skies and nothing to do, i loved to stare at the blank, vibrant blue sky and dream. i found that the longer i gazed at the heavens, the blank blue canvas, the more it seemed to fade into a deep, dark grey. the type of grey that meant a storm was coming. sometimes i thought that maybe, just maybe, the skies were decieving me. a storm was coming. the storm was coming and the sky didnt want to acknowledge its arrival; it would rather veil itself in a sickeningly perfect shade of blue. then i would blink and, in an instant, the veil would lower once again. such a pretty, perfect, agonizingly blue s k y* . . . . - - - . . . Edit: i rlly got carried away with this lol. what i mean to say is that i rlly fucking love this video. somehow these types of videos and games and books find just the right ways to scare the shit out of me. ig i also wanna say that this story is true, and that it plays a part in what makes the video so horrifying to me.

I really like how you incorporated the end poem into the story.

I’m curious what y’all’s theories about this one are, this is probably my most surreal story yet

I really wonder if the Cyan and Green voices are the same ones from the End Poem, two higher beings watching over the world and it's creation aiming to create the perfect dream. A dream that you cannot wake up from, a dream that traps you within it's walls, restless walls. 4:58 What could these things be? They do look a little bit like villagers there was even a path indicating this could be a village. I wonder what could have happened if they noticed him sooner.

Region 1 "Farlands": Unstable terrain, Strange terrain structures, Eerie atmosphere. Region 2 "Regrowth": Somewhat stable terrain, Abundance of trees, Safer than Region 1. Region 3 "Unnamed, As of now.": Almost too short to be called a region. Region 4 "Falling Walls.": A massive wall, That swiftly drops away to reveal a... Normal forest. Region 5 "Layers.": I... I can't even describe this layer. Just, Layer after layer after layer going infinitely up and down. Region 6 "Flatlands.": Ever-expanding flat terrain. Strangely, No matter can exist on top of the Flatlands. Region 7 "Fibonacci.": Again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again Region 8 " ": Almost there. Almost there. Almost there. Almost there. Almost there. Region 9 "The Fringe.": Recordings recovered via some of the black magic s--t our research team uses, Show that, For all intents and purposes, The Fringe, Is just... The end. Nothing has been able to get past this point. Some think the world just ends, With anything going past being deleted.

2:30 "Timmy! What did I tell you about scaring other people! Its very very bad of you and very very mean!!!"

10:21 "There's no knife like silence." Woah, what a powerful line. This guy surely majored in creative writing

7:52 The furnace. THE FURNACE THE FURNACETHE FURNACETHE FURNACETHE FURNACETHE FURNACETHE FURNACETHE FURNACE

The farlands seem like the holes of space and time. The code of the game compiled into one emotion, one feeling, one sentient being that no longer wants to feed on whats left, but on what is already gone. A wall that drives even the most sane creatures to madness. Trying to find one answer... Why was it created in the first place? The player, forgetting what he once was, travels through the infinite chaos because he, has the answers the farlands desire.

Almost felt like you were repeating yourself, "restless walls" But, I suppose when you're alone at the edge of sanity, You start humming a tune to try and stay afloat.

Real Weird how this is only episode where the clock isn’t a part of Zee’s inventory. Side note carrots, clocks, and ender pearls in almost every episode. LOVE THE SERIES

I think the best part of this all is the leaves in the chest are called "leave" and not "oak leaves" which implies someone renamed them.

the fact that the leaves were renamed to leave is very funny to me

"There's no knife like silence" As a selectively mute person this hits home hard

I don't know what to say, Zee! This is one of the best videos i have seen! P.S. I think imma have to sleep with the lights on 😂

3:22 it was at this moment he was locked into the loop his fate collected by he himself who is the only one that ever walked those lands he whose twisted home became their torture until it became his tomb ơ̴͖̲͇̻̭̞͇͇̈́̓̂͑̈̇͜͝r̶̬̬̟͈̖̅́̽̒̈́̉ ̴̭͊̚d̵͉͎͗̎͊̓i̶̛͎̝͙̰͈͖̇̑́̽̈͘͝d̷̙̺̭̲̰̍͋ ̷̥̍̃i̵̯̯̓̑̽͋̅̃̚͠t̶͕̜̪̭̻̋͐͜͜ͅ personally i think he became two then became them in the poem "i will tell the player a story but not the truth"

i saw the thumbnail and thought this was gonna be a brain rot video to pass the time with,but no it was a retelling of brain rot when you see nothing but dark insanity for miles you can't help but adjust to your surroundings. awesome video :)

This is an amazing story, especially with most of them connecting into eachother. Some sort of other gaming/theory channel should totally pick this up for theories. You are the most underrated channel I've ever seen. Keep up the good work! :D

I like the mandela catalogue style narration. Really good storytelling!

13:33 i love how the touch is a suposed creepy sound meanwile the origin song is a magnificent song (dream sweet in sea mayor, miracle musical / introduccion to the snow, miracle musical)

Normally I wouldn't really comment on anything but this video had me blown away! The setup of each part of the Farlands was done in such an outstanding way! Every shot of these places felt like a writers dream to be honest (but that could just be me) And here I go on a long 'rant'- (ill try and keep everything as short as I can lol, im not really digging into the lore much since I can barely comprehend anything as it is) The first thing I'll say is the End Poem being written into this video was amazing, not only did it share the actual real lines, but it also changed things up and even in some ways gifted a little personality (even if just a smidge) to the two voices. I told this to someone before but I'll say it again. The first few first-person shots of the sun beams casting into a place such as the Farlands is a thought in itself. Such a distorted place having such a normal thing such as sunlight coming in is alot to think about. Its illuminating pieces of a path one is not normally supposed to traverse under normal circumstances. Already the player is somewhere they are not supposed to be, wandering in a plane that was not meant for them, but meant for something far greater that (in any lore itself outside of just the game being weird) we are unaware of and may never be able to comprehend. "whats at the end of everything natural?" is such a question here, as they have already passed what could be considered natural, yet natural elements still persist (the grass, sun, rocks ect) The Jukebox is really when things pick up a little. Music in such a place seems out of place, but its the Farlands, everything is out of place. Just imagine though, hearing the echoing of music in such a distorted place, its once calming melodies coming off as eerie as they bounce off the various walls. Region Two is just a bigger version I'd say, a wide canvas for the player to create and destroy. It offers space for the player to make a house, and it also offered something ELSE the ability to destroy (cutting a piece of the house). Region Three seems like a waterway. It is unknown what the voices are going on about in terms of what worked, but I would like to assume it has something to do with the structure of the Farlands and its regions still being safe enough to traverse despite being on the 'edge' of the world itself or 'beyond' it at this rate. Region Four takes us to a split, one side is normality while the other is a flatland. It gives us a good idea of what the world may look like in two different perspectives (two voices eh?) One sees the world as vibrant, colorful and full of things to interact with, and the other, a flatland where only an empty canvas lay, it has yet to be forged into something more complex. Peeking into this flat world through the other side gives us a glimpse into the distorted inhabitants of this world in a majority (ill assume those are the villagers) Region Five. A lovely flower, giving a sense of calm in such a place, but alas this flower is distorted too, reminding said player that normality isnt something that can be achieved so easily anymore, as they have traversed farther than they ever should have. The suns light supposedly takes 8 minutes to reach through the gap, not even the suns glow can be obtained very 'normally' anymore. Region Six. A mix of the flatlands and Region 2 in a sense. Traversing this area looms to be very risky, although the payoff of the player going through such an area with carrots really kind of sets a tone here. You have to work hard to obtain the simplest of things here, and even then its just by chance. The house in this Region feels like it is a piece of the players inner dreams coming to life, never ending, confusing, a maze yet a straight path forward no matter what. The house collapsing feels as though it could symbolize the players inner mind slowly falling apart, or the idea of dreams being shattered by reality. Region7. It is here where things really start to break apart (as if they havent been already). Cut up chunks of the world being separated into little boxes, now its cut up into neat little squares, but for what? The player also seems to be going a little mad here, perhaps the distorted spaces are finally getting to them just like the 'static' music. A Beginning. Now the player has moved past the bounds of survival mode. Now they are in creative mode, being able to fly and move freely without the care of hunger to stop them, or the steep hills possibly draining away their hearts as they jump from wall to wall. The area is boxed in, a jukebox with two discs? Thats nice. Despite being in creative it is same to assume the player is still not safe. Their constant mention of normality signals that perhaps they are becoming scrambled. Region Eight. Now they are chasing after the sunlight, it is guiding them forward, a sense of normality, it looks just like the first Region. They are losing their mind but this strive for normality pulls them onward, deeper and deeper into the Farlands, and deeper into in the inner workings of their scrambled mind. The Fringe. Looking into the eyes of a higher being, the player has gone too far. They were never supposed to be in such a place. They are told it is a dream, they need to wake up. Pushing on any further would yield possibly horrifying results. The last image is the most normal thing one could see out of this entire video. Well I hope atleast somebody enjoyed that mess of text I just spout out. The lore itself could be taken a million different ways, but its still safe to say this was one of the most unnerving, thought-provoking and interesting videos ive ever seen! Theres alot more I wouldve talked about but you know how it is, most of it would be nonsense TwT

The use of generated voices, the whispers, the beautiful sound production in this. I adored every moment on the edge of my seat man. I love seeing where you take these concepts! You do such amazing working with them >:3 Keep up the stunning videos man!!!

This is amazing, I could spend hours thinking about this story. Heres what I've thought of so far. The artificial voices follow a script very very similar to the poem that you see after beating the ender dragon and going into the portal. The disc which he find is "blocks" not sure if that has any meaning though. The deeper he goes, it seems the more weird things get, from the infinitely spiraling house to the shadow figures above the village. Though I think that they might have been the result of Zeemyth being pushed to far, maybe how he images the voices he hears? The fringe is the most interesting part to me, though. The eyes opening and the screen shaking, I think this is an entity of some kind. In the transcript at 13:39 faded words can be seen that say "What will WAKE UP when the world is gone." I think that Zeemyth somehow woke up something, and perhaps the normal world was destroyed which is why he ventured into the farlands in the first place. To me this is very reminiscent of the story of Azathoth (A monster created by H.P. Lovecraft who wrote The Call Of Cthulu) how this story goes is that Azathoth is what is called an "Outer God" and that we are simply the product of this beings dreams. And once Azathoth wakes up, the universe will supposedly end. Though I do think that the words Wake Up also can be taken in the Literal sense. Like maybe Zeemyth was dreaming this, and it is the product of his dreams, and maybe he didnt want to wake up because he would have to go back into the cycle. Or maybe the eyes opening are catualy his eyes opening, like he is looking at his eyes from inside his head. This may be my favorite Roothouse video next to the Dead Ships. Amazing work as always! (Also what is that song at the very end it goes so hard.)

The use of Miracle Musical (one of my favorite (ex) band was crazy. That and the use of the poem at the end of minecraft. For a reason, I find both the things absolutely comforting to myself. What do they both have in common though? The end of the world, and perhaps the start of something new. The motif of an end coming no matter what, via the farlands, music, etc, is crazy and has had a lot of thought put into it. It's turned something I find very much comforting and twisted it to be uncanny, and unnerving

7:45 house of leave

These videos just keep stepping up in quality, I absolutely loved this!! Who knows whats out there, outside the fringe, who put the voices there? Was that the fringe? Who knows…

Just found this channel. The distorted voices of two Gods from end credits and they unorthodox cuts and music....It was so good and this guy is seriously underrated...

The house from "Why you never see herobrine", the picture from "surviving 100 days in backrooms" I wonder how it all plays out I'm far from watching all of your videos, but I really want to see what comes of it and how many crossreferences there are The best minecraft videos out there, definitely Reminds me of the many russian series there were that were just plain unoriginal horror, and I appreciate them still. Made by kids for kids This channel seems like a direct continuation, playing on my worst fears, yet comforting enough to keep me watching non-stop Love it

I’ve just rewatched this video for the nth time, and I wanted to put my own interpretation of what may be happening throughout the video. Like the video itself, I’ll try to separate my analysis based on the different regions of the farlands. *REGION 1: The Farlands* Though we begin the video exploring this region, I think we should consider how we get to this region in particular. The Farlands is what happens when the player travels far enough into the world to the point where, as Soren from Minecraft: Story Mode puts it, “logic gives way to chaos” (I know I’m quoting MC:SM, but its a line that i think really applies here). It only occurs when you the player decides to push the world to its limits, forcing it to work to the point where its natural processes collapse into absurdity. It’s this line of thought that leads me to believe that the mere act of traveling to The Far Lands is an antagonistic act against the world itself. The sole reason the world is generating this way is because you forced it to. You are making it operate In a way it cannot function normally at, and it does not like it. You are further hurting jt by traveling further inside, like a blade pressing further into a wound. You press further on, into and across the world’s limits, leaving your own gashes into the world as you go. At 1:10 you see that the hole Zeemyth made to reach the music box repeats itself seemingly forever, like a puncture stabbing infinitely into the universe’s flesh. This region ends with the breaking of a music box seemingly left there for the intruding player to find. The world is aware of what Zeemyth is doing, and is trying to stop him from going further down this path. An attempt at communication that goes over his head. REGION 2: Regrowth At this point, the world is trying to recover from the chaos it was forced to process. Perhaps this is why the world tried to deter Zeemyth from going further, trying to give itself the time it needed to heal and mend back to the norm of traditional world generation. But alas, the journey continues as Zeemyth pushes the world further on, and making yet another mark of his own in the form of his field base. The base itself is a unique build, built to fit into the geography all the way up to the overhangs created from the chaotic world generation. It sits right in the middle of an otherwise clear pathway laid out, almost like a clot or tumor. As Zeemyth establishes his base in the second region and goes to bed, he wakes up to a slice straight through his base and the world itself, narrowly missing his own resting spot. He then goes outside to find what I will call “The Figure,” which stares at him before teleporting elsewhere. I believe that this is a more threatening way of the world telling Zeemyth to turn back. The impossibly large gash that could have had him falling to his doom, yet it didn’t. Instead, he was warned with what the world could do if he presses onward, coupled with the ominous stare of The Figure to get the message across: “leave now.” Now, why doesn’t the world in its seemingly absolute power kill the player and prevent it from ever accessing the farlands? I believe that it is one of two possibilities: 1. As indicated by the End Poem from the game’s credits, the player is “the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code.” You are just another piece of the universe, and like any part of a greater system, the removal of you could be devastating to the world’s “body” as a whole. Remember, you are the primary instrument of change in this world. Without you blocks wouldn’t break, resources wouldn’t be harvested, building: wouldn’t be built, and items wouldn’t be crafted. Without you the world would be unchanging, in a sort of comatose state. 2. You are deep enough into the “wound” called The Farlands that attempted removal would cause far greater damage to the world than healing, and such a move would be too risky. It’s like trying to remove a blade from the body. Sure, removing it could help the healing process and make way for treatment, but its removal will also give way for the increased risk of bleeding to death. Even when trying to warn Zeemyth, the world leaves a gash in itself, indicating that this act in of itself left it damaged. Either way, this warning is left unheeded as Zeemyth goes further into the wound. REGION 3: Deeper and Deeper Like the video itself, i won’t spend much time going over region 3, as it seems to be more of a transition between region 2 and 4 more than anything else. Despite the world’s warnings, Zeemyth pushes forward, deeper and deeper into the world as the portion of the video labels it. He keeps pushing until the world seems to force him further into the next region. REGION 4: Falling Walls I will admit, this is the region that confuses me the most, but nevertheless I will try and explain its significance to the best of my ability. Though it appears that the world has returned to some sense of normalcy with the seemingly normal terrain generation, looking underneath shows that it is still just as damaged as it was before. Even looking further into the “normal” terrain reveals that the trees aren’t trees, and any attempt at interaction shows no result. This terrain is nothing more than the scab tissue over a grievous wound. The village and its “inhabitants” further solidify this theory, as even when the world tries to generate what many players see as a symbol of natural comfort and structure in an untamed world, it generates empty and half of it is lost in the infinite wall, with the other half being the flat plane on top of the wall inhabited by what is can only assume to be the world’s attempt at creating villagers. Just more incomplete, distorted tissue desperately trying to cover up a mortal wound. REGION 5: Layers At this point the world is stacking layer upon layer on top of the wound that the player is inflicting upon it, but as Zeemyth pushes on, he finds a way to push back and pierce through, making his way to the sixth layer and reopening the wound once more. The world makes another attempt with The Figure staring straight into Zeemyth’s eyes, desperately pleading “let’s go back.” REGION 6: Melting Houses After Zeemyth makes his way to the surface, he finds what appears to be the base he made back in region 2, only more developed with a farm, basic workstations and storage, and an infinitely upwards stairway. The double chest contains 12 stacks of 64 leaves all named “leave.” With these leaves being the only natural blocks within the house, likey another desperate attempt from the world to convince the player to leave it to heal. At this point, though, Zeemyth’s influence has spread too much, His base has copied itself deeper into the world’s wound, and like a tumor, it has developed itself and grown more complex, digging its way even further into the world as indicated by the flight of stairs. The house is an extension of Zeemyth’s influence, so no wonder he does not grow hungry while inside it. He is in control within the walls he has built, and is able to live longer because of them. As he travels further into the house, it branches into different directions as it spreads further into the world, and though he is forced to leave when the world seemingly tires to flood him out of his shelter and the house breaks in half, the pathway further inside is already exposed, and Zeemyth takes the plunge. REGION 7: Fibonacci’s Sifter The world is being taken to its absolute limit. Like Fibonacci’s Shell and the infinite spiral, the world itself is constricting in on itself infinitely tight, barely being able to keep itself together as it desperately tries to generate what little it can. Mobs no longer spawn, and the surfaces that generate contain but a few flowers and fewer trees. The world is generating less than less than less than less than less of the bare minimum. Zeemyth pushes ever onward until he dies of fall damage. ????????: A Beginning. Zeemyth respawns at what is implied to be his world spawn, only it has been trapped on all sides by what seems to be the first region of The Far Lands. The wounds he has inflicted on the world are already too vast, and any return to the natural order has been cut off. Only these “courtyards” echo what remains of what the world used to be. Zeemyth has respawned in creative mode, indicating his increased power within the world, being able to maneuver around with much greater ease and being able to conjure any resources he needs, at the cost of the world itself, The world is on its last legs, and alongside it Zeemyth goes towards the light at the end of the tunnel. Region 8: Chasing Flickers Deeper, deeper, and deeper yet, Zeemyth and the world reflect on the nature of all things. Maybe this is how things were meant to end, maybe this isn’t. In a way, life is flashing before both Zeemyth and the world’s eyes as they move closer to the light. The Fringe This is it. This is the end of all things. The player has pushed the world to its end. Nothing lies beyond the darkness that Zeemyth gazes upon, except for the world in its purest form. Like an infection, the player will die with its host, and whether it be from sorrow, anger, of a mix of the two, I think it wishes to truly look at the player one last time before the end of all things. the world is gone. what will wake up afterwards? if you’ve read this far into my analysis, thank you so much! i would like to restate that this is purely my interpretation of the video’s story, and is in no way claiming to be the definitive narrative. i hope you enjoyed reading this! i’m really proud of how it turned out and wish to do more of these in the future! :D

the fear, light confusion, and hint of distain(?) in his voice when he says "the farlands are no place for houses" probably makes that chapter my favorite.

Fire 🔥

Now this is good horror! It's not just some jumpscares and whatever like the dwellers running around these days, this is unnerving. It's unsettling, it throws all common sense out and like- I love it! Amazing writing :>>

The storytelling in this was INCREDIBLE!!! it felt like a movie, amazing work!!

I'm commenting on something I'm speculating that for as far as I know no one has commented on yet, though a lot of them are mentions brought up by other people though (Spoiler warning for the Roothouse series lore & Huge Word wall incoming): I believe that the entity narrating everything throughout the video is also Zeemyth, but that Zeemyth is in the future. Because there was a loop in the future, this can be more evidence for the loop theory. I remember the House at the end of the video being day 2583 of what is presumed to be the loop as it is day 529 in the latest installment in the Roothouse series. Now relating to the Farlands, this video seems to be the prequel to the Roothouse loop. In the Infinite House videos, the house is described to be a hell of some form. The description of this video quotes "I went farther than the farlands and found many things some would deem incredible, and others would call hellish" I believe that there are an infinite amount of Zeemyth's always going through the loops at the same time but interacting with past/future Zeemyth's, but there are 4 notable ones that I spotted so far: The 2 we see in the Infinite House series with the POV Changes (With one of the Infinite House Zeemyth's being the Shipwreck Zeemyth), Editor Zeemyth and the entity narrating over the present Zeemyth in this video One Zeemyth in the Infinite House series refers to it as hellish whilst another finds it incredible, see the connection to the quote from the description of this video? Now I believe that Editor Zeemyth is very far in the future as they were able to present the day 2583 footage of the loop whilst the Zeemyth's in the videos are towards Day 1-529 (100 Day series). I feel that the farlands were only the entrance to the loop and the ending shows a part of that with the thumbnail photo. The difference between the Shipwreck Zeemyth and the others is what I noticed to be the awareness of the loop, only that Zeemyth commentates on it actively. I think that in reality Shipwreck Zeemyth is one of those who are found in the Infinite House series as there was a week long gap in Infinite House Zeemyth whilst the Shipwreck looting only lasted 7 days, and also paired with the slight nuance to the Shipwreck video during a scene in the Infinite Prison video where Zeemyth is breaking through the ice like the previous explorers had done in the shipwreck. With what is revealed at the end of the Shipwreck video, I'm not surprised if Zeemyth is those explorers and thus would have the past experience of breaking through ice. Another thing I noticed in the series order is that Kat was only befriended during/after the Backrooms series. I believe that Kat had also experienced the same thing and is in quote "The future" of their loop This can explain why they know so many superficial details, especially during the Infinite House video with the 23 day warning. Last thing I want to commentate on is the timeline of all the Zeemyth's listed above. The first one would be the Farlands/Infinite House/Shipwreck Zeemyth, the one we always watch and see their adventure. The second Zeemyth would be the one seen in the Infinite House series and exists 23 days after the current Zeemyth, we see their POV once. The third one would be Editor Zeemyth, this one is far into the future and makes rare appearances in most Roothouse videos as a popup or a quick voiceline (Also they commentate on things found in the videos that either don't exist or just simply are very farfetched) The last Zeemyth is assumed to be the Entity in this video, this entity would be at the end of the loop/cycle and refers back to the first Zeemyth and commentates on what they did. I believe that they are the eyes opening at the very end of this video. This Zeemyth would be the end of the timeline and that could be why they lined up with what the Zeemyth was saying at the end of this video, because they already experienced this and know what they're going to say. I also believe that them quoting Minecraft's End quote symbolizes the end and beginning of the timeline as the Zeemyth in the video and the entity both quoted it, just like how Minecraft either ends or begins with The End. Anyways these are all my theories that I could think up of as of now. I know a lot of these are phrased obscurely and may not be consistent with one another but I hoped you enjoyed reading through this list I practically sent. (P.S. Zeemyth if you're reading this, thank you so much for these videos! They are amazing and I always loved lore intensive stuff like this and this is the perfect conceptualization of this. Thank you for this amazing series and I hope you keep up the outstanding work!)

2:44 ok but that parkour jump was insane ngl

5:09 DAMN that is creepy! also I noticed that most of these whispers were from the minecraft end screen when you jump in the portal in the end (I read it all a couple years ago) Great job! I've always loved the farlands even before I played minecraft, I thought they were very interesting

The farlands has a certain quality to it that I can’t quite grasp. Imagine traveling millions of blocks away from spawn, only to see a towering wall of stretched terrain and warped land coming closer in the distance. It’s almost like a warning that you’re not supposed to be there, that if you went any further something bad would happened. Very intimidating as well, seeing something that large approaching in the horizon makes you feel like you have little control and you’re just a small speck with no real effect on what happens. It doesn’t really make you feel trapped, but it hints to the “you don’t know anything” type of narrative. Reminds me of the dead god dormant in the Mariana’s trench. Something as old as time waiting to be discovered beyond the boundaries of where you were never supposed to go. A threshold between what is meant to be and what is beyond your understanding. That’s the best way I can describe it, not some eldritch horror, but an eerie [liminal, maybe?] feeling. Like seeing a cactus in the middle of a barren desert, except that cactus is 150 feet taller and who knows how long wider.

I was just trying to enjoy some spooky videos but nooo, my family just kept going in to my room and being loud disrupting my experience. A real bruh moment.

even more tiny details (that are probably useless) 11:32 - the discs look like eyes and the juke box is like the mouth

This. Amazing. And I'm not just talking about this video. I'M BASICALLY ABOUT ALL THE VIDEOS ON THIS CHANNEL. Initially, I thought they were all almost unrelated to each other. But then, after watching them separately, and then in the order in which they are placed in the playlist (Three times!) I realized the scale of this story. I UNDERSTOOD (perhaps) THE PLOT THAT THESE VIDEOS TELL. And I want to say that the visual part also helps in the narration. For even I, a non-English-speaking person (Привет из России!), understood (after three views of ALL the videos) what these videos tell. Zeemyth, you are amazing, I wish you to continue to create and develop creatively. And thank you.

This video was just fantastic. Im surprised you don't have more of a following. The story was really crafted, and not only that, but it was extremly well told. The editing was by far some of the best I have ever seen, especially with the voices, corrupted footage, and some of the effects really gave me chills. Never have I watched something that really makes me feel unsettled, and I did not expect the thing that did to be a Minecraft video. What Im saying is that this is one of the most impressive peices of media I have seen. Amazing work, I really hope I see more content from you soon!

i love this ARG horror story stile and liminality. im just in love with the concept and its so well made. I love your work for some time but i sometimes have to take a brak from horror but i'm still in love with that video. you make such good stuff

i love this story. Its so beautiful. So deep. So, how do i say i it? mysterious? Dark? No. I cannot say with words how i feel about this story. But i know one thing. I need more. And i know there is a time when this story shall warp you back to the friend you thought you lost. It shall warp you back into the house. Whether you like it or not.

9:30 THAT SCARED ME bruh this video literally gives me backrooms vibes it's so creepy very well done

13:23 Good morning ancient deity!!!! :D

holy shit how are you this underrated this is one of the most well made videos ive seen on this game i got a weird sense of nostalgia watching this.

Voices: 0:07 Null: 2:32 YKS EHT NI SEYE: 6:32 Unknown Ghosts: 4:58 SREHCTAW: 6:09 STIAWA ERANTHGIN EHT: 13:19

First off, excellent work! I never expect to see this kind of surrealist story made in Minecraft, let alone of this quality. It makes me tempted to go into artistic analysis mode, but...I can see that coming off as pretentious, given how I've practically written essays analyzing art like that before. Just know that, without hyperbole, your work in this video (and others) is the work of a writer who is a true artist. As an aside, I am a BIG fan of both existentialism and surrealism (most of my favorite franchises heavily involve both), so naturally I loved this. I find it fascinating that this was placed at the top of "The Roothouse" playlist. Assuming that the playlist is ordered chronologically, that would make this the earliest part of that overarching narrative and setting. Despite that, we don't happen to see the visuals of the structures that we're familiar with in the entire rest of the series. That leads me to believe two possibilities: 1. The events of this video are what lead to the structure the rest of the series focuses on, perhaps being created a result of...Whatever the thing opening its eyes near the end was, or perhaps sending the character of "Zeemyth" there and trapping him. 2. This video takes place even further back, a time before the beginning of story, where a different, yet connected story took place. Possibly something starting as innocent as genuinely exploring to see the "Fringe" of the Farlands, but discovering something greater, something oppressive and powerful...Something older than the game as we know it. Not the start of the series, per se, but the thing that would lead our protagonist, one way or another, to the discovery of the structure. Beyond that, however...I cannot say much of the exact significance this video has in the whole series. It's a great starting point, almost acting as an "introduction" to the rest of your creative work in this series; giving enough of a separate feeling to feel welcome to those who aren't familiar with the greater narrative. Still, there's so much mystery, so many questions unanswered...Maybe we will get some answers in the next entry, whatever it might be.

1:37 The cavernous area inside the Far Lands (region 2) is cool. I will build similar "caves" in my map's Far Lands.

6:07 got me so good i was expecting him to get punched off, not to get stared back at 😭

I'm shivering. This video got me super excited for the Redacted SMP and what it can add to the lore of everything you're making.

The introduction to the snow at the end is possibly the best use of that song I have ever seen.

I lived in a similar area, surrounded by woodland with old overgrown trails from the turpentine craze. Until the trees were sold, and the land was plowed. All the memories, all the trails, everything. Erased. Regrown. A twisted mimicry of what it once was. Every artifact of what once was, twisted and shredded beyond recognition.

Anybody else notice how "the voices" were reciting The End Poem at points?

That house collapse takes me back to the first time I thought to myself "what if trees actually fell over in this game?" which is a thought that's well over a decade now. Fuck dude, this game has come so far. It's grown just like the rest of us; the core of it is still there, and clearly visible, but the experience is so much different.

The endgame text… what a good detail! Amazing work, zeemyth!

Nice new thumbnail, it's definitely better than before (and needs a little close looking to tell that the eyes are cursed, kinda like the dog in the previous one)

I love this, amazing storytelling, perfect use of voices and sound effects, the visuals, everything ties together perfectly, another masterpiece from you.

i loved how you turned a terrain bug into this cool horror place thing

I love the fact that the music disc "blocks" perfectly represent the farlands. It's just endless blocks in a tunnel shape, as far as the eye can see

when you’re by yourself you start to see eyes in everything but youre watched and feel like a possessor in your own body and you believe theres a place somewhere hard to reach out there for you but when you reach out and you stretch for nothing, you think you will get nothing back but when the eyes touch your outstretched hand you will not scream nor cry and will be only able to watch as the crash happens

Your videos are wild...it's so weird,creepy,unsettling and WHAT WHY WHO WHEN WHERE I love the creepy mystery it's like those movies that really capture the concept of "unsettling" absolutely flawlessly

this has to be the same thing happening in redacted SMP, melting houses, strange creatures... this world has been generated before. worn out. stretched, like region 6

I don't know why but I always click on these videos expecting something that fits into the normality of everyday videos, to amaze me every moment that passes. The choice of music, sounds, structures, voices, mods, is simply unmatched.

I survived 100 days in minecraft without my meds

7:06 for a second while jumping the air bubbles apear on his hud

this man is cooking up a minecraft ARG i swear

Wow that was unironically terrifying. I loved it

Just watched all the way through the video! Honestly your editing and cinematography is getting better and better every video. I’m about to watch it a second time it’s so good.🙏 (Can’t wait to see what your bring next!)

9:03 "It's like singing miracle musicals on loop" I'm not sure if that is what you said or if that was a reference to Hawaii: Part II but it was silly

Probably the best Minecraft horror episode I’ve ever seen, especially at moment 13:35 where I felt literal shivers down my spine. You really deserve an award. Keep up the good work.❤️

0:00 farlands 1:39 likely some kinda custom world 2:48 not enough information to have an answer for this one 3:33 farther lands or smth 5:44 another custom maybe 6:48 looks like the sky farlands 9:50 what it would look like if you went 2 billion 147 million blocks from spawn in modern versions (farlands patch stops working) 11:12 high coordinate scale 12:44 farlands 13:17 the end of the caves and the start of thin structures

2:22 the doors were open when you closed them before

This really reminded me of the Wheel poem from DDLC, really enjoyed watching this thank you! Subscribed and hope to see more soon :)

You should add these as Spotify episodes. They would sound so good as a podcast

are these actual things you did cause man its really convincing and the quality is perfect

For those who wonder what the quote is at the end, its a "Mark Twain" quote that goes as follows "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

very trippy using only some editing, the farlands and the ending credits dialogue no way can compete even if I tried XD

This video is SO well put together! I love how you tied Minecraft lore into it! lovin it!

so far i still havent had a grasp of what the roothouse series is really about, but it's still a very entertaining series to watch. im glad i came across this channel today cause im about to binge watch everything

Dream Sweet in Sea Major is the song that starts playing at the end of the video, check out the full song on RU-vid if your interested.

These videos are so balanced between scary and entertaining, it’s great!

"He's dreaming now," Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. "And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?" "Where I am now, of course," said Alice. "Not you!" Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. "You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!" "If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out-BANG! Just like a candle!" - Alice Through The Looking Glass

Interesting use of the end credits for the non player dialogue. Very much gives it the vibe that this is the after the end, after all is said and done, after the world becomes too full of it’s own code to keep going, after the world’s own rules stop existing, after all sanity has left, after being able to turn back becomes an impossibility. Even at the end’s end does the player keep going.

Zeemyth with yet another banger of a Minecraft horror video

im binge watching your content right now, and i genuinely just noticed your not in the millions for views? these are so carefully crafted and cinematically made... im glad im part of the group that was able to find your videos, keep it up im looking forward to the many more scary stuff you have coming for us

1:04 The comparison to echoes was a really striking choice, I think. I don’t know if it’s intentional, but it calls to mind the delay of an echo in a large, enclosed space like a canyon, where you’re there to hear it long after its source came and went; the idea that what you’re hearing now was said eons ago, long before you ever set foot here, but because of the way time dilates in between realities you’re only hearing it now… does that make sense? Idk. Major Interstellar vibes. Love your work btw.

This video is a banger, just wait until it goes viral… I am telling you at just over 1k views.

The reinterpretation of the End Poem, something I normally see as beautiful, turning it into something horrifying and eldritch... fuckin' genius man. I have shivers, but they're good shivers.

WELL THATS WHY YOU'RE GETTING HAUNTED, YOU DIDN'T REPLANT THE CARROTS!

Truly an amazing video, great job!

One question can we get something wholesome like a wholesome part of the story like I don't know you finally kill one of those freaking insects going inside the house and they're probably invincible but still there's probably a way to kill them kill them kill them kill them kill them kill them kill them kill them kill them kill them kill them kill them kill them kill them kill them kill them kill them

it’d be cool if mojang made the farlands an actual biome, just like as or more rare than the mooshroom islands

The miracle musical references are golden

I like how he almost always lands in water since one of his videos he says he's scared of water/the ocean I like to interpret it as a constant realization that it won't leave him alone It's weird but shhh. let me theorize dumbly.

this is insane, @WitherRage posted your videos in his discord and i've watched some of em. They're all really really good but this one is just beyond the others, it is sooo good. glad wither found em and recommended them. :D

dude this is like my second video of you that I have watched and I gotta say I. Am.Hooked!! Its so cool!

God such a beautiful map.. Anything storywise has already been said, so if I can speak from a liminal photographer point of view the work put into this is stunning. As far as I'm aware this isn't normal farland generation, it just becomes separated repeating chunks rather than.. Well, this. First, the texture pack was a great choice. Natural sunlight in a place this off lets it maintain its familiarity. You can pause the video at certain places and without context it would just look like a normal minecraft world. Letting the viewers maintain some form of normalcy to hold onto throughout the journey makes its distortion hit that much harder. A feeling that you know this place. You've been here. We've all played this game, we've all been in these locations. But a simple turn of the head and suddenly its all gone. What you once knew has rotted away, morphed beyond recognition. The house is really the last point of liminal space, past that is dreamcore. I would love this map file if you could share it. So much I could do with this literal artwork.

Came in thinking this was some fake minecraft video, came out amazed