#i guess make up some minecraft worldbuilding to explain the coming and going of players

[isawiitch]

they should've hired me to write & direct a strange and esoteric minecraft movie about the unnerving loneliness and fear that comes from early game minecraft and while you master solo survival you become an excellent builder with a wealth of resources saved away. Importantly there comes a tonal shift once you like discover the joys of multiplayer and building something with others- again contrasted with the eventual late game like High after you've got all your diamonds and enchanted armor and you're so powerful nothing scares you and you just mine and craft and build and kill endlessly traveling further and filling your huge storage room and you can feel people playing the game less and less and despite being so powerful the world feels more and more empty in a strangely anxiety inducing way, no matter how much you build, and you try to figure out how to get people interested again, the deep dark, the vast wilderness, dark mansions, the nether, you conquer it all, with minimal companionship, and then alone. then you find an End Portal and it clicks. hype is renewed as you all rally around Something- you start to work towards this one goal again and in the end its a huge battle obviously and you get your loot and your elytra and as you fly over the vast kingdom you've created while your friends return to a small base town you built together and you stand atop a faraway mountain and say. huh. the world gets quiet again and in a moment of contemplation you realize minecraft was in fact about the friends we made along the way. so you return to the small town, and use your vast skill and resources to make the base town something really special for your friends and help each other with their projects, but life is slower since they're playing less. new people join and leave, its quiet, then busy, then quiet. but you still build, for them and for yourself, knowing that they may or may not return, but that what you built together will remain regardless. and also herobrine is just like in the background of the shots sometimes.