It Turns Out, Minecraft Can Beat Itself

so you’re telling me, Minecraft is a multiplayer, single player AND zero player game?

At this point I think its more likely for a random electron fluctuation to flip the bit in the save file marking whether the game has been beaten

A quote from markiplier of all people: In a world of infinites, improbable is just certianty waiting it's turn.

Imagine looking for the stronghold and seeing a baby zombie fly down on an elytra to kill you before you even get to it

The naturally occurring iron farm is like the real life example of a naturally occurring nuclear reactor they found. It was active for 5 million years.

I love how Pippen manages to turn "Can Minecraft mobs beat itself?" into an existential crisis.....

Counter for your ending. The world could just as easily end up creating more and more blocks through cobblestone generation or through endermen continuously making and disassembling portals to the nether infinitely generating obsidian. Resulting in a future where everything is essentially a cobblestone/obsidian cube

My favorite part of this video is that the foxes will drop one of the rarest and most valuable treasures in the Minecraft world because they’re hungry little guys

Just imagine you're in a single player world and go into the end after awhile just to see the dragon has already been defeated. I would be so confused lol.

A very interesting extension! It was cool how you applied the concept to other versions of the game to see what may have been possible then.

I would love to see a TAS run of this. (With manually built seed and mobs pre-coded to do what they should do. And of course, have chunks needed always loaded.) This should be interesting.

This is a certified life after people moment

using datapacks, you can set endermen to be able to pick up any block, combine that with carpet mod tick warp and maybe a command block clock to keep spawning them, you could possibly do such a deep time experiment as described in the end!

Im dying to find a mod that makes a villager society. That can do everything on their own with zero player input. Starting from vanilla villages to eventually expand into cities given enough time and conquering the entire game. Making it a sort of race between villagers and players.

"Stop just standing there! Minecraft won't beat itself!"

Props out to Pippin for recording until the heat death of the universe to make sure we were able to see this all unfold.

The idea of Endermen randomly shuffling blocks to create literally anything, given enough time, is basically the same as quantum mechanics shuffling particles around through random quantum tunneling events to create literally anything. An iron star. A Boltzmann Brain. An entire new Universe in the form of a singularity that immediately experiences a Big Bang.

4 minutes in and the endermen are already the creepiest way a dormant world can change. Just randomly picking up and moving blocks, and then to a point where the ground is just no longer plain grass.

"Alright team, we've got two potential titles lined up for the new video, should we go with: 'It turns out, Minecraft can beat itself'? Or; 'An extensive list of increasingly unlikely and convoluted events that could, hypothetically, result in the requirements for triggering the end credits of the game being met without any player presence or input being required at any stage, in a mostly vanilla build of Minecraft, if run continuously for an incomprehensible period of time.' ? Cause personally I like em both a whole lot 👀"

the amount of serotonin that flooded my brain upon hearing the life after people intro was better than every drug on earth combined. 99% of me getting in trouble as a kid was related to me refusing to leave the tv if life after people was on. it was like the ancestral version of cocomelon for my child brain...i feel it dragging me back into its grip even now....