What are the illagers doing in that dank secluded mansion of theirs?

With its redstone jails, elaborate altars, and hidden rooms housing strange obsidian structures,

it really seems like they're plotting something.

That is a quote from Marsh Davies,

former Creative Communications Manager for Mojang

in his introduction to the Evoker mob

back when it was introduced in 2017.

It's a line that is outright challenging us. It's telling us there's something hidden

within the walls of the Iliger's Woodland Mansion compound. There's a mystery to be solved

out there in those dark forests. One that according to my research

has gone unanswered that entire time. But now three years later I think I've done it. I think I

know what the illagers are doing out there and more more importantly, I think I know what they're planning.

Let's just say, after today's video, you will never look at Minecraft the same way again. And Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory.

Over the last year we've been mining for nuggets of lore

to craft together a massive overarching theory

on the story of Minecraft. Here's the thing though,

up until this point you as the viewer and

quite honestly me too have been uncertain what if anything has actually been

planned by the Mojang team working on Minecraft. I mean don't get me wrong I think we have

done some incredible work

piecing together a lore for this game from the enderman being the lost builders to

the drown being a civilization running away from a massive flood the proof has

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