Line #15 EldritchAbomination/Minecraft


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5	''Minecraft'' is a peaceful game about building bamboo huts and fishing on rivers. It's also chock full of beings who are [[EldritchAbomination so otherwordly]] they wouldn't be out of place in a horror game.
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8	* The Overworld, while being by far the most peaceful of the three dimensions, isn't free of some nasty pieces of work, although it makes sense considering it's the homeland of [[HauntedHouse secluded mansions populated by mages]], abandoned portals to other worlds and magical objects.
9	** The guardians and elder guardians are fish-like creatures that live in ancient underwater monuments and seem to guard it. The base guardians already are pretty weird, looking very deformed and being able to shoot energy beams from their eyes, but the elder guardian is an archetypical AnimalisticAbomination. It's very big and looks pale and sickly, yet it can sense the player from a long distance. [[BrownNoteBeing It can induce visions of itself and extreme tiresome by merely being next to you]] and its beams are even more dangerous and weird. Its name implied its been guarding the temple for a very long time. Want to get even weirder? The Mobestiary seems to imply that the guardians are cyborg organisms designed by the original humans and are made of a mixture of normal fish and technology. Yes, they are an AnimalisticAbomination '''and''' a MechanicalAbomination too!
10	** The Vexes and Allays are little [[OurFairiesAreDifferent sprite-like]] beings who shine with the blue light related to soul manipulation. They seem to be made of stitched souls put together by [[{{Necromancer}} the Evoker]], and display some pretty weird traits:
11	*** Vexes have a VoiceOfTheLegion and can [[IntangibleMan phase through walls]], and when angered display red veins all over their body. The developers based them on [[AngelicAbomination angels.]]
12	*** Allays, while more pacifistic, are also even more unearthly. They're an AbstractEater who WordOfGod claims feeds on music, and shows BizarreAlienReproduction where when feeding on music and right-clicked with an amethyst shard, they will duplicate. They're found trapped on mansions and outposts, seemingly implying that Allays are imperfect Vexes that were born good instead of evil.
13	** The phantom resembles a flying manta in decay, and it leaves what seems to be a trail of itself while it flies. It pops into existence when a player hasn't slept for a while, and WordOfGod says it's supposed to [[AbstractEater feed on insomnia]]. The fact that its wings are presumably the same material as the elytra, an artifact found on an alternate dimension that allows flight means that phantoms maybe aren't as earthly as we think. Some players asume that the phantoms are a hallucination brought by sleep deprivation, or a case of MaybeMagicMaybeMundane, but the clues are there to show [[ParanoiaFuel it's very real]]. [[note]] [[FridgeLogic If it wasn't, how would cats be able to bring their membrane? And how would you be able to repair elytra if its wings weren't real?]][[/note]]
14	** The sculk is probably the closest thing Minecraft has to a CosmicHorrorStory plot. Its a [[MeatMoss fleshy]] [[BotanicalAbomination fungi-like parasitic]] [[HiveMind hyper-organism]] that seems to have come from an alternate dimension through the portal frame found in ancient cities. To make matters worse, it's heavily implied that the sculk feeds on the souls of beings that died near it, which are absorbed by the sculk catalysts and make the sculk grow even larger, transforming close blocks into more of itself. After the Overworld's population got wiped out, the sculk overtook the underground ancient cities and began expanding through the deep dark, creating entire biomes of itself. [[ParanoiaFuel And everytime you kill hostile mobs in the deep dark to save your life, you're feeding it and getting it one step closer to devouring the Overworld]] (although fortunately, mobs don't naturally spawn in the deep dark, so they'll need to be brought in from elsewhere). It speaks volumes of just how powerful the sculk is that its defense mechanism is the flippin' [[BossInMookClothing wardens.]] Speaking of which...
15	*** When the sculk senses a menace to its safety through the sonic organs it has, it first shouts some screams to scare away the intruder but if it senses the player is still there it summons '''[[OneHitKO a warden]]'''. Wardens are gigantic [[OurOgresAreDifferent golem-ogre things]] that emerge from the sculk and are the single nastiest beings in the game, sharing traits fitting for a HumanoidAbomination, BotanicalAbomination and UndeadAbomination. They will try to find the player through the aformentioned sonic organs, or their sense of smell, while walking like a Cordiceps victim. Not only do they have 500 HP, but they hit like a truck and move at high speeds, and to top it off they has a sonic attack ''and'' can generate an aura of darkness. If the souls on their chests and their spawning animation doesn't spell it for you, the wardens appear to be sprouts of the sculk [[UndeadAbomination infused with the souls the sculk feeds on]] to briefly defend the organism before fusing again with the sculk. As one gamer puts it:
16	--->What creeps me about the Warden is that considering the Sculk organism is a whole biome, or maybe even a whole dimension, Wardens could very well be just be its immune system. From the Sculk's perspective, we're just germs damaging its body and the Warden, this monster of near-endless power, is just an antibody.
17	** One theory for the [[HellIsThatNoise cave sounds and underwater sounds]] is that they're the noises from [[EldritchAbomination an even more powerful entity sleeping under the Minecraft world]].
18	* The Nether is Minecraft's equivalent of {{Hell}}, so it's no surprise that its the native homeland to some ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles''-type shit.
19	** While not a mob, but a block, soul sand shows signs of being this. It's a block with [[AndIMustScream screaming faces over it]], that when burning shows blue fire that does twice as much damage and that when stepped on with the appropiate enchantment, they free soul-like particles from underneath, the implication being that soul sand is either a cage of souls or that it's solidified souls itself! The fact that it slows you down when you walk on it and you sink a bit has led players to theorize it's the souls trying to drag you down and assimilate you into the sand. Piglins being scared of soul fire and it being the main block in the Soul Sand Valley, an EldritchLocation solidifies even more its Lovecraftian origins. And the cherry on top? It's a component to summon '''[[PersonOfMassDestruction the Wither.]]'''
20	** Ghasts look like [[OurGhostsAreDifferent spectral jellyfish]] that can fly and are constantly weeping, and their screams sound like a child in pain. They vomit explosive fireballs and when they do it, their eyes light up with hellfire for a second. Furthermore, they're particularly common in soul sand valleys, further indicating their connection with the afterlife.
21	** Blazes are a downplayed example. They have BizarreAlienBiology consisting of a floating head surrounded by spinning rods of fire, shoot fireballs and emit weird metallic breathing sounds and seem to occupy a similar role than guardians but for Nether fortresses. Their rods are used as a basic ingredient for alchemy, including the fuel, the brewing stand and the ingredient for potions of strength. Oh, and WordOfGod says they're [[MechanicalAbomination robots.]] While not particularly eldritch, [[StarfishAliens they're very very strange.]]
22	** [[UndeadAbomination Wither]] [[HumanoidAbomination skeletons]] are much taller than their Overworld counterparts, [[BizarreAlienBiology appear to be partially made of]] [[NoodleImplements coal]] and are all but stated to be linked to the Wither. Their skulls are used alongside soul sand or soil to create such [[PoisonousPerson being]], they're the two only mobs that can give the [[MakeThemRot Wither]] effect and the Wither straight up invokes a pair of them in Pocket Edition. This has caused players to assume that Wither skeletons are remnants of the Wither's energy, and by fusing Wither energy with the soul-fest that is soul sand, you're bringing it back to life [[TheUndead (Or unlife)]]. Which brings us to...
23	** The only being that approaches the sculk in terms of eldritchness? '''[[UndeadAbomination The Wither]]'''. Its existence seems to have been theorized by the original humans ages ago judging by one of the paintings and the pattern in chiseled red sandstone, and it could very well be the reason they went extinct. It's summoned by combining soul sand with three wither skeleton skulls, and [[BeginWithAFinisher its birth is heralded by an explosion]] that can be heard from miles away and the blackening of the skies. The Wither is a three-headed beast that seriously wouldn't be out of place in the Cthulhu Mythos. For starters, its only reason to be is to end all life, leaving a [[GreenThumb black flower]] (which can grow on netherrack) in the place of any mobs it kills and [[LifeDrain feed on their souls]] although it won't target the undead. It shoots little emanations of itself as ammunition, and it's a PoisonousPerson BrownNoteBeing that kills or destroys everything near it, to the point where not only does it poison you with [[MakeThemRot the Wither effect]], but it is strong enough to break '''OBSIDIAN'''. The battle with it will result in [[PersonOfMassDestruction acres and acres of explosion craters and Wither roses, showing its nature as a force for the Apocalypse.]] After having killed all life in proximity, it will continue to destroy every block until, presumably, [[OmnicidalManiac the entire world is reduced to ashes.]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu If you manage to kill it]], it will give you a Nether star, which can be used to craft a beacon that gives you a permanent power up as long as you're close to it, and is implied to transform the vicinity into a GeniusLoci. It's not a wonder that some players refer to it as the Angel of Death.
24	* The End is where the FinalBoss resides, so it only makes sense that its population is 100% made of these.
25	** The endermen are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s however you look at it: they're tall, black and apparently slimy, with pitch purple eyes, speak in [[StarfishLanguage surreal gibberish]] and have BizarreAlienBiology where water [[KillItWithWater burns like corrosive acid for them]]. When provoked by being looked at, they will [[TeleportSpam teleport all over the place]] [[HellIsThatNoise while emitting a horrific shriek]] [[ParanoiaFuel that still persists after their death.]] Then there's the fact that their ender pearls are an ingredient for interdimensional travel, which is foreshadowed by the fact that they are also able to travel through dimensions. Their homeland is the End, an EldritchLocation in its own right, but they're also drawn to the Nether's warped forests, an EldritchLocation [[ExaggeratedTrope inside an Eldritch Location.]]
26	** The shulker is probably the most StarfishAlien of all Minecraft mobs, since it consists of a cubic center with eyes surrounded by a floating indestructible shell that they can open and close at will, and they shoot homing attacks that [[RealityWarper send your gravity field out to lunch]]. Plus, they can also teleport, [[BizarreAlienReproduction they reproduce by shooting other shulkers with their gravity-altering bullets]] [[FridgeHorror (which begs the question of what exactly]] [[{{Squick}} are they shooting at you)]] and seem to occupy a similar role as the guardians and blazes mentioned above, who, as stated, are both {{Mechanical Abomination}}s
27	** The endermite is a [[AvertedTrope rare near-harmless example]]. On paper it sounds very scary: a parasite that comes from a VoidBetweenTheWorlds that you briefly access when teleporting with an ender pearl and grabs onto you teleporting it with you to the dimension you were in. There, it will try to kill you and presumably [[OmnicidalManiac everyone else]]... and then you realise it's a two-inch long purple bug with as much health as a one-legged chicken and that after a couple minutes it will disappear, indicating that it either must return to its dimension, or continued exposure to another one will kill it. Not very threatening overall.
28	** The Ender Dragon is a typic DraconicAbomination, fitting for the FinalBoss: She’s a giant jet black dragon who, judging by the name of the advancement you get upon killing her, [[DimensionLord rules an entire dimension.]] She has BrownNoteBeing properties, such as destroying every block not native to the End, as well as being able to [[IntangibleMan phase through End pillars]] and vomiting a corrosive poison. After killing her she dissolves in an explosion of light and her death triggers the opening of a long-closed portal that teleports you back to your spawn point. Oh, and apparently killing her makes you [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend to a higher level where you can read the thoughts of two even larger cosmic beings.]]
29	** [[GainaxEnding It's often overlooked due to its strangeness]] but the ending poem is the dialogue between two [[CosmicBeing entities]] that are [[TheOmnipotent omniscient]], speak in a StarfishLanguage that appears like glitching text, exist in various dimensions at once, and to cream it, are [[FourthWallObserver aware of the fourth wall and the fact that they're characters in a game]] [[MindScrew (or rather, a dream in the shape of a game that's a reflection of your own Jungian psyche)]]. [[BenevolentAbomination And they love you.]]

Context EldritchAbomination / Minecraft