Those who traveled to the End never came back to tell the tale, judging from the lack of loot and the cobwebs in the stronghold. Why else would you plunge into fire or into void, if not to find what lies on the other side at any cost?Īnd yet, the dangers that the ancients found on the other side of every door they built were likely their undoing: netherrack and lava creep like a fungus out from the ruined remains of nether portals. Assuming that those ancient people were beings like the player, why would they have been any different?

When you make that step, you make it from a need and longing to know what lies beyond. Every time you dig deeper into the universe, it becomes more dangerous. As the player, why do you build portals? Why do you go through them? Why do you burrow to the bottom of the world? Is it to get away from the creatures of the overworld, when the monsters and dangers you encounter once you leave that grassy surface are far worse? No. Mostly, I get a sense of hunger and hubris. When I picture those unknown, long-gone ancient inhabitants of the Minecraft world that the game implies to have once populated the overworld, I don't get a sense of fear and the need to escape. While musing on that post about Minecraft and the constant presence of portals and themes of escape, I found that I had come to an entirely different conclusion from the same information.

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