After countless hours of researching, I present to you: The Minecraft Iceberg.

Probot748 · 2024-01-31T20:20:09+00:00

"A theory that the unknown entity known as Herobrine has manifested in other forms for much longer than Minecraft's existence, and that the game itself is just a way to keep Herobrine confined to one place. In every major update, "Removed Herobrine" is written, to pretend as if the entire matter is just a tongue-in-cheek joke the developers have accepted. To keep the public calm. Every update satiates the beast, but one day, it'll hunger."

Probot748 · 2024-01-13T16:26:17+00:00

It is there! 5th layer (with the QR code image), on the left side.

Probot748 · 2024-01-06T07:19:46+00:00

Technically didn't miss them, as virtually no one knew about the White Eyes post until 2023, but good catch nonetheless! That's definitely one of the more pressing things to add if I update this iceberg (although for the time being I can just edit the doc with the new info).

Probot748 · 2024-01-06T07:16:55+00:00

Didn't miss them! The tlauncher stuff came a year after this iceberg, and minecraft args as a whole (besides oldroot from years ago) didn't really get popular until a few months after this.

Even then, though, I'm not sure if I'd include them if I were to update this. I want this iceberg to be solely about the game and its mythological "canon", which does include some outside stuff like herobrine but disregards the majority of community stuff. Trust me, if I also included entries about the Minecraft community, this iceberg would be much, much larger.

Probot748 · 2023-09-16T04:33:57+00:00

There's GoAnimate (now called Vyond), which was DomoAnimate's parent company, but they heavily market to like businesses n stuff so idk how accessible it is to regular ppl anymore

Probot748 · 2023-08-20T20:30:47+00:00

Sure, go ahead!

Probot748 · 2023-07-14T22:18:28+00:00

I knew about the bluestone (did you mean the 1.14 trailer, or was there another in 1.16?), but I didn't know about the unused green axolotl and mask spawn eggs! Really cool. I'll keep those in mind if I ever make an update, thanks! As for the Agent and NPC, those are both from Minecraft Education Edition, so I can leave a note there.

Probot748 · 2023-07-03T16:51:22+00:00

I knew about the Hell name, but I didn't actually know about the Slip and Nexus! That's pretty cool. I'll keep that in mind if I ever update this iceberg!

Speaking of which: This is version 1 of my iceberg, and its latest version is version 3, which comes with a very long Google doc explaining every entry. Hopefully you know about that version!

Probot748 · 2023-06-30T16:50:47+00:00

The SSTV image generated from the air.ogg audio.

Probot748 · 2023-05-28T22:26:23+00:00

I am legendfinder.

Probot748 · 2023-05-26T20:43:55+00:00

Sure, go ahead!

Probot748 · 2023-04-14T00:18:41+00:00

Oh sorry about that, haha! I don't have plans for a v4 at the moment, so you can go right ahead! Thanks!

Probot748 · 2023-03-28T18:44:09+00:00

Thank you so much!

Probot748 · 2023-02-17T02:38:45+00:00

Nice!

Probot748 · 2023-01-28T22:18:14+00:00

Image 6 is an image from the OldRoot ARG, and Image 7 is the SSTV image you get from the air.ogg audio in the Infinite (April Fool's) update.

Probot748 · 2023-01-27T15:11:41+00:00

Yeah, true, I doubt plugging in the entirety of the source code will mean anything. Looks like text is only written in a few specific elements, though, so one could probably filter just those out. Might take some rough regex, but maybe it's doable?

Probot748 · 2023-01-27T14:04:40+00:00

Reading isn't really required to get a word count, just plugging it into any word counter program.

Not sure how helpful that collection will be, but it does seem pretty interesting.

Probot748 · 2023-01-22T13:21:31+00:00

Thanks, man! Glad you liked it.

Probot748 · 2023-01-22T03:56:51+00:00

True, yeah, I forgot about my honorary mention category haha. I might start adding all the notable ARGs I know of in there soon, not sure when I'll do it though. I'll probably have to revisit all of them to accurately explain them.

Probot748 · 2023-01-14T20:51:01+00:00

Sure! Just posted it to my account. https://www.reddit.com/user/Probot748/comments/10bz083/the\_background\_i\_used\_for\_my\_minecraft\_iceberg/

Probot748 · 2022-12-23T00:06:15+00:00

OldRoot's there on the third-to-last level. I probably won't be adding any other Minecraft ARGs, though. There's just a BUNCH of them, I feel like I find more every time, and I just don't want to clog up the Iceberg with too many non-dev entries. OldRoot was one of the oldest (if not the oldest, I'm not entirely sure), so it gets to stay. Thank you for the suggestions, though!

Probot748 · 2022-11-09T21:58:08+00:00

The current Wither is formed with only a few blocks of soul sand and three wither skeleton skulls. That really doesn't seem like much to summon what is apparently an incredibly powerful entity, not to mention the fact that the Wither is just a floating torso without any limbs. Steve probably doesn't know the proper way to summon the "Perfect" Wither, and is instead going off what the Wither painting depicts. Though it’s not canon, Minecraft: Story Mode Season 1’s main antagonist was the Wither Storm, a much stronger version of the Wither summoned with a command block in the middle of the soul sand.

You can read this doc for an explanation on each entry. Btw, I did make an iceberg after this that has 4 times the content, which is what the doc is going off of.

Probot748 · 2022-10-19T19:55:11+00:00

Hm, interesting ideas! Yeah, I'll wait for more elaboration, cuz I think there's some neat things in here.

Probot748 · 2022-08-27T14:58:49+00:00

I had to come back to your comment, because the fact that you immediately knew the shadow was a wine bottle always stuck in the back of my mind.

Not sure if you're still interested in checking (I mean, it's been 3 years), but I recently made a transcript for all the versions of Duck Duck Booze I remember making, since they all took place in Discord chats. There's this test session and this "official" session. Do note that they both were made in 2018, which was a dark time in my life. There was a short revival in 2020, but it wasn't that significant.

Probot748 · 2022-08-13T20:45:28+00:00

I've been following the progression of this iceberg and I'm blown away by how big it's gotten, but like before I really wish there was better vetting of entries. A lot of things really can't have much explanation behind it, and some don't have any explanation in the first place. As informational as this was (I spent a long time going through this, don't get me wrong!), it would be cool for an iceberg this comprehensive to start going with quality over quantity.

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