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Minecraft Has A Zombie Virus INFECTING the Overworld!

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Leisure, Games

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Join Game Theory Host MatPat as he explains the secret virus infecting the Minecraft overworld!


Credits: Writers: Matthew Patrick and Justin Kuiper Editors: Tyler Mascola, Pedro Freitas, Forrest Lee and Shannon (Bomb0i) Assistant Editor: AlyssaBeCrazy Sound Designer: Yosi Berman

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0:00.0

I am so done with literally every game being a zombie survival game. I get it the

0:06.5

Walking Dead was a popular franchise um 2010 called they want their genre

0:11.4

back give me something new you know totally hey you want to go get me something new you know totally hey you want to go gather some resources sure You just can't get into it.

0:23.0

You just can't get into it. Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory where we're all blockheads. So today

0:48.9

we're going to be talking about some of the changes that were added

0:51.1

with the nether update earlier this year and then using that information to go back and again. the of pop culture nowadays that it's easy to overlook them, which is kind of ironic

1:04.0

considering what made them explode onto the scene in the first place was how horrific they were.

1:08.0

And now they're mundane again, such as the Circle of Life, or the Circle of Undead.

1:13.3

It's a Circle of undead.

1:15.6

And of course, the zombie jockeys are just always terrifying.

1:18.2

Those things will mess you up.

1:19.6

Anyway, in all of my exploration of Minecraft lore up to this point, I've tended to skip over them for exactly that reason.

1:25.4

They're just kind of there.

1:27.0

Me generic hostile mob.

1:28.8

In a world full of fire-breathing dragons, three-headed withers, exploding moss monsters, and teleporting

1:34.7

slender men, there's just so many other cooler things to talk about.

1:38.1

zombies are just very easy to overlook, but you know what? That was dumb of me.

1:42.1

Short-sighted, because they are the bedrock upon which

1:44.9

Minecraft is built in a very literal sense these guys have been a part of the game since the beginning in

1:50.5

update 0.2.0. So if anything has an importance to the lore, it's probably them.

1:57.0

And you know what? They do. With some of the updates made to the nether,

2:00.0

I believe we now have some very interesting leads as to what zombies are and how they

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