Game Theory: The LOST History of Minecraft's Enderman

This is a possibly pointless detail, but when you look from the enderman's eyes in spectator mode, the colors are reversed. So end stone looks like cobblestone.

Villagers: huuh
Pigs: oink
Creepers: hiss
Endermen: eyo wassup

"Endermen were normal humans"
**Me, killing hundreds of Endermen in my Endermen farm**: Say sike right now

*theory*: In regards to the ender mites, they might’ve been a catalyst for how the endermen ended up how they did. Some mites are known to infest foods, what if the ender mites infest the chorus fruit the ancient builders ate when they arrived to the end, mites are also known to give deseases to those infected, the ender mites could’ve passed on a desease that turned the ancient builders into ender men, could be a reason why they hate them so much

just adding to the adapting part of the theory:
No one ever said the end was particularly warm, so their skin could have turned black to attract more heat
also about the "how did they get to the end" thing, I think thats where wardens might come into play

Enderman: "Look for the eye."
Steve: *looks at eyes*
Enderman: NOT MINE!

Game theory: *Starts talking
Mojang: *Write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!*

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 have something to say to you. I have seen Endermen activate Sculk Shriekers. Now if you watch Wifes theory on the Warden, he said that Sculk Shriekers were player activated, or person activated. So for Endermen Activating Shriekers might just prove your theory correct.

I feel sad for killing them then :(
"what's up" *get's murdered*

“they came unprepared..”
player: *kills the dragon using snowballs and 3 beds*

Since their biomass had to be rearranged their arms got longer to catch the fruits but got weaker too, thats why they can only pick light blocks and never pick something heavy like a rock or a metal block

Came back after todays theory about the nether being frozen, the fact that the endermen only move soil and flowers (with no Steve intervention to give tnt) shows that these ancient builders that became twisted after ruining two dimensions have learned their lesson. While they cannot fix what they had broken, they can continue to move and make beautiful our overworld, planting flowers after teleporting hundreds of meters away.

Enderman: Look for the eye.
Me: *looks at its eyes*
Enderman: Die.

Enderman: look for the eye
Me: looks at it
Enderman: And I took that personally

Three years!!! Three magnificent years of Minecraft lore theories!!! Truly marvelous indeed!!! And i'm still coming back here... Who's with me???
Edit: i absolutely hate this comment nowadays but this is probably my most liked comment so i ain't deleting it

I have noticed something in game, I don't know if it was meant to be that way but I think it's something worth discussing about it: if you look at enderman through glass block, glass pane, iron bars, fences, doors and trapdoors, they won't attack you despite the fact that you see their faces.
My theory here is that the enderman will only be triggered by you staring at them if your sigh isn't refracted or stopped by something, example: if you look at a window you see your reflexion a bit, which means your sight is reflected a bit by the window, meaning you don't FULLY see what's on other side of the window. So that means if your sight isn't fully focused on the enderman, they won't be triggered. Here's another detail that I can give to prove this: when an enderman are in front of you in your peripheral vision, (you don't see things distinctly in your peripheral vision, but you see them enough to know those things are here) they won't attack you unless you really stare at them, so enderman will only attack if your vision is fully focused on them, when you directly look at them with no obstacles between you and the enderman.
But of course that's just a theory
*A g a m e t h e o r y !*

Everyone’s asking who’s Enderman,
but no one is asking how’s Enderman.

mojang is gonna watch this and say "huh. never thought of that"

Theory: Enders pearls are teleportation “glands” of storage (similar to the gallbladder) than endermen evolved to have in order to control the fruit’s property. They still eat the chorus fruit, but instead of immediately teleporting it stores the energy so they can use it themselves. The reason that some drop it while others don’t is because you, they player, might’ve damaged it while you were hitting them, and without Looting 3, there is NO way you’re going to be able to successfully not hit all 4 glands

Theory:chorus flowers weren't always in the end, after the builders entered the end and started to run out of food, they tried planting seeds, but instead of growing into a normal crop, it switched to chorus flower.

did matpat really just mine a grass block with an axe

Theory: The endermen are picky about the blocks they interact with because *those blocks* are the ingredients necessary to craft enderpearls. The player, obviously, doesn't have the capacity to follow such instructions (similar to end portals and enchanted apples), but the Ancient Civilization must've been so set on using this recipe that they still have the instinct to do it - saying things like "look for the eye" (Also see: Headcrabbed HL2 Combine Soldiers repeating lines and callouts that they often said) - and potentially picking up those blocks either out of a fruitless instinct or a deliberate effort to continue successfully making enderpearls.
The end portals are partially filled because these endermen managed to put together a few eyes - which can also explain why only some are in active possession of pearls - but almost never completely fill it because it takes thousands of years for them to do so.

Its cool to think that the Enderman pick up blocks that remind them of the overworld. Kinda adds a humanity side to them.

THE WITHER!!
When you defeat the Wither, you get the achievement called "the beginning". The thing that was killing the people in the overworld was the wither! It is the beginning of the end. The beginning of people going into the end, being trapped there, turning into endermen and the beginning of the lore of minecraft. When they went inside the strongholds, while the Wither was kept outside, people still had the "sickness" (the wither effect), so they went into the End seeking something that could stop their sickness, and while they succeeded, they transformed into the endermen that we know today. The most skilled teleporters eventually managed to teleport to other dimensions, the overworld and the nether.

Petition for Matt to explain why beds explode in the Nether.

Something that interests me a lot but I haven't really heard anyone else talk about is eyes of ender. We can infer that ender pearls are essentially the "heart" of an Enderman, but why, when combined with blaze powder does it create some sort of "eye"?

I love rewatching this video after the confirmation that there actually was an ancient civilisation in great danger.

Notch: this theorist is starting to scare me.
Scott Cawthon: first time?
Edit: You expected a annoying edit BUT IT WAS ME, DIO

MatPat: “Minecraft is now on top of fortnite”
Everyone: *happiness noises*

A small detail here, it is safe to say the end has lot lower atmospheric pressure since endermen evolved to be more than twice as tall as they once were.

So I'm rewatching this series and just had a thought. MatPat makes a theory later about there once having been lots of ender dragons and the reason this last one was protected the way it was when our character arrives was to try to keep it alive so that it wouldn't be completely extinct. So what if the ancient builders that went to the End to escape what they were running from knew how to get out but didn't because they didn't want to kill off the last Ender Dragon?

Player: "frees the end"
Also player: makes endermen farm

Me: going to bed
Game theory: Enderman is actually Steve?
Me: I don’t need sleep, I need answers

This is the first video I watched of Matpat and now I can't contain my tears

still love that Minecraft holds such interesting lore/ theory and its unfolding little by little

Enderman: "look for the eye".
Me: Okay. *kills Enderman*

And when you kill them, the noise they make sounds like they’re screaming “WHYYYYYYY?!”

5:09 when you've been playing Minecraft for, probably over a decade, and never realised this

Also, if they evolved, that would take millions of years and strongholds would be so ruined that they're basically like natural caves with an end portal frame in them.

Disc 11 may Be the sounds of a previous human turning into an enderman, the man in the disc flips through a book desperately trying to figure out what’s wrong with him. you can also hear mining sounds which most likely means he’s in a cave, which would explain why some endermen are found in caves. Edit: there’s also short endermen sounds as if he’s trying to maintain his human form but can’t.

3:43 You broke a grass block with an axe, disgusting

I think the ender pearls are some kind of precious jewel, that everyone had one with them.
Maybe they kept it even after becoming endermen, and those pearls became imbude with teleportation abilities due to those of their owner.
Another thing about that: that mean the space travel allowed by the end portal is not imbude BY the ender pearl but by the portal frame.

MATPAT basically predicted the Minecraft movie plot

When you accidentally explain the plot of the Minecraft movie.

Mat pat if you listen to disc 11 you hear a person runing away from what sounds like zombies the person is breathing heavy because he has been running for a long time at the end the music cuts out because i think he jumps into a portal. Edit: while i was listening to disc 11 i was trying to figure out who made it and it points to your theory of a ancient civilization and when they recorded the discs in landscapes and different biomes which would explain the different music in each one

Who else is rewatching game theory before matpat leaves

Bro if i had a game and had absolutly no lore whatsoever i would turn to matt pat for sure

Instead of “what’s up” it could be “help us”

This takes Endermen farms to a whole different level of messed up...

Wow… after watching the warden theory he did recently, it came full circle, they escaped to the end to get away from the sculk…

MP is the only one who can make me somehow *feel bad* for an enderman.

Player: frees an entire civilization from its dragon oppressor
_builds enderman farm_

Guy: I need you to find the difference between these two pictures * Steve and enderman*
Mat pat: they’re the same picture

I just wanna say most blocks they pickup (besides tnt) are natural that may remind them of home

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

Steve: [Walks through forest]
Endermen: What’s up?
Steve: ...Grandpa Joe..?

Ancient Humans: Intelligent
Can’t beat a dragon
100s of years later: Kills it with a bow

Love coming back to this after a while

There’s evidence that the ancient builders can craft enderpearls since villagers have a profession tied with the brewing stand that trades enderpearls, but villagers can’t wield weapons, and unless they drop armor then they can’t dmg.

The enderman is the only other mob that can hold blocks!
*Iron Golem* :Hold my flower

Steve : Let me guess, your home?
Enderman : It was, and it was beautiful

One thing being overlooked is that the villagers are obviously able to build the way the player does, the villages itself are built by the villagers

One thing to note is that the endermen do get aggressive with the enderdragon if they’re attacked by it. Whether that’s because they’re not fully human anymore, or they know it’s not an ally, remains a mystery. Some detail worth noting I feel.

“Look for the Eye” can make so much sense, if the Enderman were really corrupted by the dragon, then they’re saying “Look for the Eye” so you can find the stronghold, enter the End, and slay the dragon, freeing them.

"They Came with swords, Armour,And Horses. But none of them were able to defeat the dragons"
>Beats Ender Dragon with Beds

Little detail, in the official Minecraft book "The end" The ender pearls are actually enderman hearts.

This would explain the more friendly behavior from enderman... You know, if they wanted us to get the to the End using the ender pearls, they could easily give them to us. At least they have the decency to say "hello" to me and ask how I'm doing. Feels a lot worse knowing these guys were once an advanced civilization who we know murder for sweet, teleporty pearls!

I can just imagine Mojang watching this video and being like "wow hey that makes sense"

Game theorists: It all had a meaning!
Notch and Mojang: Nah... we just did it

I love the 2 full minutes at the beginning trying not to get crucified by your own community xD Love ya Matpatt, and I love the theories

2:39 I love how he calls them 'tall dark and handsome creatures'. It's my favorite phrase now. I shall now refer to them as our favorite 'tall dark handsome creatures'..😂❤

Enderman: look for the eye
Player: sure
Also player: *aggressively kills enderman*

Petition for Game Theory to make a video about disc 11 and 13!

“how could we be so sure?”
**ad pops up** “PLAYSTATION.”

I wonder how Mojang feels about this theory. I know it might not have been intended, but I feel like they would love it, especially when it's getting them more fans hooked on Minecraft more so. They'll probably play along with it, or at best, they enjoy it but won't confirm making it canon as the game is. Hopefully, we've been on the right track these past 4 years with Minecraft..

“Hey” “hello” “what’s up” “look for the eye”
Now i can’t unhear them😫

Bonus theory: Maybe the Enderman turn aggressive when you look at them, because your appearance is similar to the zombies & other monsters they had to face in the overworld.

What if they used they're enderpearl technology and the end fruit to accidentally turn into enderman as a firm to escape the end and travel back to the over world they just paid the price for that chance

Just wanted to point this out, but I think there was once an abundance of ender dragons, but they eventually died off because they were hunted by the ancient builders, hence the dragon heads on the end ships. I believe they tried to protect the last remaining dragon before something happened that caused them to turn into endermen.

Probably the best evidence that another civilisation travelled to the End and built structures there are the doors.
All the doors in End structures are two blocks high - Endermen are three blocks tall, and can’t fit through them.

"The endermen language is actually English in reverse."
-Minecraft Bedrock Edition, one of the tips while loading a world

1.They have never gone to sleep after going to the end as well since you can't place beds in the end and beds are the only way to sleep in the game
2.They attack you when you look at them probably because they don't want you to see what they have turned into
3.The reason why they say look for the eye is probably because they want to be freed from the end

My theory is that the Endermen don't like to be looked at because they are upset about what they have become, so they kill the player to get rid of the witness

"When you create a new survival world, you are the only one of your kind"
Thanks now I'm depressed because of minecraft

Me: looks at endermen.
Endermen: *is that a personal attack or something*

Matpat: it's almost like you're different species
Also Matpat: PLAYER AND VILLAGEERS ARE RELATED

I've watched every minecraft video and every FNAF video you have. I'm scared of how right you are about all of this. You're a freaking GENIUS

I also want to add that when actually fighting endermen, they teleport to flank you. They also know to dodge projectiles. They’re obviously more intelligent than most mobs.

Is it just me or does them saying “hello” sound like “help me”

About the pearl inconcensty i think that there was an ancient ore that the ancient builders completly extracted. It came from the end energy and also they learned to create it by themselves when they becme endermen

something building a bit off the crafting ender pearls and using the known knowledge of teleportation from the nether portal ideas:
one thing that’s bugged me for ages is the nether portal.
endermen, their particles, the enderdragons breath, purpur, chorus fruit, all purple.
the nether, lava, nether rack, nether bricks, nether wart and magma cubes, all red.
why are the nether portal, the particles that come off it, and crying obsidian found in ruined portals all purple like end particles? why doesn’t crying obsidian, something usually formed from lava, like the majority of the nether, cry lava and instead cries some purple substance? what’s the relationship there?

All of this would have never happened if they just went into peaceful mode...

*MatPat* : "Strangely it means, they come in peace"
*Enderman stealing my flowers* : "What's up?"

Another piece of evidence that points to this theory is the name of the chorus fruit in "pirate speak", which is a language option in base Minecraft (basically speaking pirate). Interestingly, chorus fruit is named "Tall ones' fruit".

I’ve been playing Minecraft since 2013ish and be watching my elder sibling for ages. I was here near the beginning, but not the nearest beginning. I remember a lot of the earlier updates as well. Random, but I love it. I actually now someone whose friends dad helped create it.

Endermen talk english backwards
Mojang have confirmed it

Endermen phrases:
“Hey”
“Hello”
“What’s up”
“Look for the eye”
“I’m dead”
“Oh shoot”

So, Late to the Party, but I think why beat seeds are in end fortresses is because that is what corise fruit stemmed from

my friend and i came up with a theory that both endermen and iron golems are ancient builders: Both are tall, both only attack when provoked and both can pick up poppies. We believe that iron golems are ancient builders that were captured by pillagers to make a killing machine, this is backed up by matpats theory that evokers attempted to create life. This backfired in the end and the iron golems went to the villagers. Iron golems attack endermen because they dont realise that those are there bretheren. Both endermen and iron golems are found in the same place in the dungeons dlc. What do you think of our theory?