At this point I think everyone's familiar with the Nether,

Minecraft's version of hichy double hockey sticks, a separate closed dimension

with a bedrock ceiling and floors covered in fire and lava.

Not exactly the most inviting of holiday destinations, but hey, hey least the weather's consistent but

while the conditions have always been dangerous this channel's favorite

Minecraft characters the ancient builders seem to have thought that this was an ideal

location to build big parts of their civilization. Why though?

Always felt like I was missing something there.

What was so appealing about Hell, Fire, and Brimstone

that they thought that this was going to be the perfect escape

from all the horrors that they created in the overworld?

Well, my friends, I started digging, and what I found absolutely floored me.

Buckle up, because the reason for the Nether being such a hot commodity is going to give you chills. Hello internet welcome Welcome to Game Theory. Before the Nether Wars of old, before the arrival of the ancient builders, was a world that looked very, very different. It wasn't filled with lava and barren wastelands, but instead was a thriving ecosystem that contained the most valuable thing to sustaining life, water.

That's right, there used to be water in the nether and I can prove it to you.

And not only that, I'm going to explain why it ain't there anymore.

Put on your biggest puffiest coat theorists.

We're going into the nether and it's going to get cold.

Now I understand that the idea of water existing in the nether is a huge claim.

They can't even place the stuff. It literally evaporates if you even try to pour it out.

But while this is certainly what happens if we go to the nether now,

I'm not convinced that it's always been that way.

And the reason for that is

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