Ever realize how creepy the end is? Instead of a giant world like the over world or nether, it’s just one. A single, floating island with no coordinates, no time and no texture, one block type. It’s almost as if this is some kind of forgotten memory, a decaying land on the brink of corruption. A world that’s lost it’s shape, form, and color. The only remaining enemy is the forgotten souls of the mobs as enderman, and a dragon with a soul purpose of flying about the island, with no hope or any motives. A brainless, empty void of a previous world, fading, corrupted, decaying.
It feels like Xen from Half-Life. Every mob even the dragon may be from other dimensions. The reason there's mobs from other dimensions like endermen in the overworld is like the resonance cascade.
That's because the end represents what minecraft truly is without the veil of gameplay. The nether and the overworld keeps it hidden by bedrock layers and a giant sky but the void is equally present in both those worlds as it is in the end. Oh sure, there are a few more blocks in those worlds, a few more mobs, a few more things you can do but after all of that has been done what's left ? You and the endless void.
That’s because it is. It’s the soundtrack to YOUR story. This is the credit song for YOU. This is the END of YOUR story. This song is a recap of all the things you did, all that you’ve accomplished. It’s to remind you of your first day, the overworld, the nether, everything you’ve done up to this point. It’s all YOUR story. And this is the end of the final chapter.
This soundtrack sounds like at first you were dreaming about your past adventures, and suddenly, something makes you stop dreaming, and you "wake up" on this strange stone floating in space
8:05 I remember one year my great nanny came down to visit us during easter and I was playing Minecraft on my moms computer. I had to have been 8 or 9 as it was a pretty early version of minecraft, the end must have been just added. However at that time, I remember I was in the Overworld building a house and Sweden started to play. My great grandma was a pianist. She could play any song she heard. We visited her house every couple of months yearly. So having her down at our house for a holiday was special. I remember when Sweden started to play, she walked by and said "wow, who is playing the piano, it's absolutely beautiful." I remember smiling and saying "It's my game." She responded "I love that, keep playing your game." ...I never will forget that moment.... I never finished that world... and then she passed away a couple years later... After this, I remember returning to Minecraft on my ps3, creating a new world. I was determined to beat the game for the first time alone without the help of my older brother. After hours of playing, I beat the dragon... but before I left through the portal to the credits... I waited for Sweden to play in the end track at 8:05 one last time. I remember sitting there silently... Eyes full of tears... Thinking about all of my memories made with her during visits... and as the music faded off into the silence of the void, I cried.... I thought "I did it Nanny..." I love you great Nanny. Thank you for everything. All of the memories... I'll never forget them. It's funny how a song from a game about blocks can be so emotionally powerful. How these songs can connect us to moments in life. To people. One of my favorite memories where when me and my brother used to play irl Minecraft in her front yard. It had a big hill we used to climb up and pretend to build houses on. I'm nearly 20 this year. Man time flies... Now in college, I look back at when I was in 3rd grade and experienced these moments for the first time. Feels like another whole life time ago. But strangely as if it was yesterday also. If your still young, cherish the people and things you have around you. Cherish everything. It all goes so quick.
I don’t hear Sweden at 8:05. I might be dumb. It might also be that what I believe is Sweden is the first half that I’ve played on the piano for 5 years (I’m a noob though) But thanks for sharing!
The weight of your situation consumes you. All this time you just wanted to kill the Dragon, but as you shoot the crystals, you realize your doing something else. You are setting the End free. The Dragon’s crystals are showing that the Dragon is trying to power a dead world. After you kill the Ender Dragon, the cycle ends. For all this time, the End has wanted to keep itself alive, even when there is nothing here to keep. The End needed to let go. The End needed to end. You kill the Dragon and you sit next to the portal. You remember there’s more to explore. You travel to the End Cities. It’s just as barren as the End. The cold, unreal, uncomfortably beautiful End Cities. The only poor creatures that inhabit the area are a few stray Endermen, and Shulkers that populate the buildings. The End is a story about letting go. The somber tone of the music perfectly captures that feeling. It’s truly incredible.
This makes the end feel more like a gap in time or a tear in between dimensions. It doesn't want you there so it keeps trying to bring you back with that familiar music but fails due to your constant determination to discover something. It reminds me of a certain game that I can't mention cause it would spoil the ending of it.
Alright, for you @@sonetagu1337. The game is Outer Wilds. It seems very stupid of me to be this wary of spoiling stuff but the game is heavily reliant on learning stuff so just be wary before you look anything up about it.
no imagine it this way there is many different worlds and a corruption has taken over all of them and the end nether and overworld are the only ones left and the end is soon to be completely swallowed by the corruption and the nether is being destroyed by the corruption and the overworld is soon to be affected
Well the end does look like some kind of ruins that are now inhabited by some entities and in the song you can still hear some faint sounds of the overworld music but it's mostly overcome by the sounds of this creepy music
I have a theory... (Its gonna be really long) I think, The End doesnt physically exist. Here the explanation: How does Endermen teleport? I think, they used the End as a teleportation gateway, since the End doesnt physically exist, therefore theres no distance. Like (A -> End -> B) Or they can just stay in the End, and can get out whenever they want. (A -> End) "But if it doesnt exist, how did we got there in the first place? I mean we literally fought the Ender Dragon..." Endermen teleports from A to B with a portal. Create one at A, and create another portal at B. All happened in milliseconds. The "End Portal" that we can unlock with 12 Ender Eyes, is actually a *makeshift* version of the Endermen teleportation. But there is one flaw- There will be no exit. Like a train without destination. You are stuck on a train, moving forever, until you unlocked the other portal, which is the one that will unlock when you killed the Ender Dragon. You have to be stuck between "Point A" and "Point B" to be in the End. Imagine being stuck between the doorframe, between the two doors. Thats the End. But hey its just a theory
This probably sounds dumb, but I'm 17, and I've played minecraft for years. And today, I beat the ender dragon on straight survival for the first time (without cheats/creative, or anything of that nature). When the ender dragon was at low health, the part at 8:08 set in, and for some reason it felt really emotional. Before I finished off the ender dragon I closed my eyes and every single minecraft related memory that I have just suddenly flashed into my mind, from when I first got the game on the Xbox 360, to now. almost like an extreme wave of nostalgia. I know it took me a stupidly long amount of time to actually beat the game, but something about the end music is just so emotional/powerful while hearing it ingame
I'm the same, I've only beat the game once, about 2 years ago. For the first time, and never managed since. Purely on survival with no cheats. It took me a long time too seen as I started playing as a small kid
I certainly have a similar experience. I started playing Minecraft when I was 9 years old and finished it for the first time when I was 12 years old. Fun fact: the second time I beat the game I did it without mining, in full Zico tops style. Then without dying, on hard difficulty. Then in Minecraft Java edition.
This song reminds me of when i would play minecraft with my friends, reminds me of my old house, other memories ect, also just makes me a little cold wheres my blanket
There are theories that the nether is below the overworld because if you dig up in the Nether you hit bedrock, but I wonder if the End is way far below that.
@@ren858 There is actually a way to get to the roof in the Nether. But I guess if you we're looking at this in a story mode perspective you wouldn't be entirely discredited.
The overworld song slowly being glitched is actually really darn genius because is essentially of what is meant to remind you of. Is the end. So it plays a corrupted version of the overworld being slowly transformed into a glitchy yet really spooky state. To the point it becomes its own song.
I feel like this is one of the most perfectly fitting video game songs there is, it takes something youve been familiar with from the start, distorts it, then turns it into something eerie, it’s something you can recognise but it’s nothing you’ve seen before, like the end
@@crypticpoke6805 maybe it's the ground that it has. If you have ground in the void you stop falling. Nobody knows what happens if you stop falling in the void. Do you keep dying?
Maybe your music volume is low compared to your regular sound effects volume. I always have mine around 20% higher than the sound effects so I can hear the music.
Dictator i cant have music on and here is why first my family went to this week long thing where we made amazing friends and all of us kids were playing minecraft on the xbox 360 and we later learned that we would never see those people because my dad switched jobs we moved into a new house where we didnt know anyone but i had one kid around my age decide to welcome me and we were almost on a free walk in and out of eachother’s house basis. 3 years we would play minecraft every day and just have fun... last year he moved states away and i do not have an xbox (we would both play on the same console with two controllers) so when i played minecraft next i had to turn the music off so i didnt cry my eyes out its painful to hear the music of times that have gone by and can never be re lived through. “we didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun” -winnie the pooh
As a classical music lover, I find that soundtrack gorgeous. Not only is it extraordinary beautiful, especially in the context of the game, I am also fascinated by the harmonies in it and the structure of mixing of other familiar themes. Amazing!
For a world defined by infinity, a place named The End sure does seem... strange. A world with infinite choices and possibilities and land to explore and yet The End is very tight and claustrophobic. You only have a tiny island with no escape to roam. Two different kinds of blocks, a single type of mob and a single boss. The only way out is with someone dying. You, or the dragon. Not a lot of possibilities or options. Everything about it is so uncomfortably barren. To me, that's what The End represents. The end of infinity. Humans always want more. They want infinity but aren't satisfied by that. They want an End to that Infinity too. I don't think it's a coincidence that The End and the end were both introduced on Minecraft's full release. Because in a way, Minecraft was that Infinity. And when you kill the Dragon, you're killing that Infinity too. You brought The End to Infinity.
You know how every zombie is dressed up in Steve's clothing? As if they're each a Steve who has perished in this infinite world. I believe Endermen are each Steve who has failed in the void.
@@XG-OFFICIAL-59 Then why there's PVP weapons and Armour on the End's citys chest The enderman (Aswell villagers but I don't know if they use it) weapon can't use it only We (Minecraft Humans) Can I think Humans went to the End to get away from someone or Some thing out of fear or close to Extinction go on Game theory on endermans
Fleent Stones? Do you know game theory it made a video talking about Minecraft lore he think the enderman was humans that went to the end because they have summon the wither
This 15-minute-long song is a masterpiece and is brilliantly made. This soundtrack suits the End perfectly and even leaves more questions than answers, this is probably one of the best tracks on C418's album Minecraft Volume Beta.
Minecraft has changed. This song just gives you the nostalgia of what minecraft was like in the earlier days, when we were just children, with our lives ahead of us, and so many new things to discover. We all wish we could just go back.
Ok. People with theories. Actual cannon story of minecraft here. If you read the entire end credits text, it's made pretty clear that Minecraft is a "short dream". The "short dream" of the game, as opposed to the "long dream" of life. Minecraft is a lower level of reality that exists within an infinite amount of higher ones. The End is that, THE END. It is a means for the two entities talking to eachother to wake you up from the "short dream" of minecraft, and encourage you to wake up from the "long dream" of life. These two entities, which seem to be the basic fundamental forces of existence (such as atoms, quarks, energy, strings, higgs bosons, etc.), mention the purpose of your existence in Minecraft and the real world. But the information is redacted, saying that you cannot read it because you have not reached a "higher level". Minecraft is just a really long visual poem that tells the player to try to enlighten themselves Edit: Yes, i know this is not an in-game explaination for Minecraft's in-game lore. Its a theory about what Minecraft as a whole (and the end credits) mean. I phrased it wrong in the beginning, and my apologies. Its no more an explaination of Minecraft's lore as it is of the Earth's history. And no, I came to this hypothesis long before MatPat made his Game Theory. I made a comment on HIS video say as such. I know that the honor system doesnt work well on the internet, but I dont like lying to people. I never intentionally spread unoriginal ideas. So please give me the benefit of the doubt, im just trying to be a respectable guy.
@@autisticduck3071 they are entities of the minecraft realm which are like an obstacle to you that also have a backstory to them, it's kind of like the antagonist to your minecraft player in a way
I see the player you mean. [Player Name]? Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read our thoughts. That doesn't matter. It thinks we are part of the game. I like this player. It played well. It did not give up. It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a screen. That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a game. Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the reality behind the screen. They used to hear voices. Before players could read. Back in the days when those who did not play called the players witches, and warlocks. And players dreamed they flew through the air, on sticks powered by demons. What did this player dream? This player dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created. And it dreamed it destroyed. It dreamed it hunted, and was hunted. It dreamed of shelter. Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. But what true structure did this player create, in the reality behind the screen? It worked, with a million others, to sculpt a true world in a fold of the [scrambled], and created a [scrambled] for [scrambled], in the[scrambled]. It cannot read that thought. No. It has not yet achieved the highest level. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a game. Does it know that we love it? That the universe is kind? Sometimes, through the noise of its thoughts, it hears the universe, yes. But there are times it is sad, in the long dream. It creates worlds that have no summer, and it shivers under a black sun, and it takes its sad creation for reality. To cure it of sorrow would destroy it. The sorrow is part of its own private task. We cannot interfere. Sometimes when they are deep in dreams, I want to tell them, they are building true worlds in reality. Sometimes I want to tell them of their importance to the universe. Sometimes, when they have not made a true connection in a while, I want to help them to speak the word they fear. It reads our thoughts. Sometimes I do not care. Sometimes I wish to tell them, this world you take for truth is merely [scrambled] and [scrambled], I wish to tell them that they are [scrambled] in the [scrambled]. They see so little of reality, in their long dream. And yet they play the game. But it would be so easy to tell them... Too strong for this dream. To tell them how to live is to prevent them living. I will not tell the player how to live. The player is growing restless. I will tell the player a story. But not the truth. No. A story that contains the truth safely, in a cage of words. Not the naked truth that can burn over any distance. Give it a body, again. Yes. Player... Use its name. [Player Name]. Player of games. Good. Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the universe again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn. Ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergeists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change. We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a player. The player was you, [Player Name]. Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas that was three hundred and thirty thousand times more massive than it. They were so far apart that light took eight minutes to cross the gap. The light was information from a star, and it could burn your skin from a hundred and fifty million kilometres away. Sometimes the player dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite. The sun was a square of white. The days were short; there was much to do; and death was a temporary inconvenience. Sometimes the player dreamed it was lost in a story. Sometimes the player dreamed it was other things, in other places. Sometimes these dreams were disturbing. Sometimes very beautiful indeed. Sometimes the player woke from one dream into another, then woke from that into a third. Sometimes the player dreamed it watched words on a screen. Let's go back. The atoms of the player were scattered in the grass, in the rivers, in the air, in the ground. A woman gathered the atoms; she drank and ate and inhaled; and the woman assembled the player, in her body. And the player awoke, from the warm, dark world of its mother's body, into the long dream. And the player was a new story, never told before, written in letters of DNA. And the player was a new program, never run before, generated by a sourcecode a billion years old. And the player was a new human, never alive before, made from nothing but milk and love. You are the player. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love. Let's go further back. The seven billion billion billion atoms of the player's body were created, long before this game, in the heart of a star. So the player, too, is information from a star. And the player moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a man called Julian, on a flat, infinite world created by a man called Markus, that exists inside a small, private world created by the player, who inhabits a universe created by... Shush. Sometimes the player created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated. Sometimes it built a model of the universe in its head; flecks of energy, moving through vast empty spaces. Sometimes it called those flecks "electrons" and "protons". Sometimes it called them "planets" and "stars". Sometimes it believed it was in a universe that was made of energy that was made of offs and ons; zeros and ones; lines of code. Sometimes it believed it was playing a game. Sometimes it believed it was reading words on a screen. You are the player, reading words... Shush... Sometimes the player read lines of code on a screen. Decoded them into words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into feelings, emotions, theories, ideas, and the player started to breathe faster and deeper and realised it was alive, it was alive, those thousand deaths had not been real, the player was alive You. You. You are alive. and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the sunlight that came through the shuffling leaves of the summer trees and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the light that fell from the crisp night sky of winter, where a fleck of light in the corner of the player's eye might be a star a million times as massive as the sun, boiling its planets to plasma in order to be visible for a moment to the player, walking home at the far side of the universe, suddenly smelling food, almost at the familiar door, about to dream again and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the zeros and ones, through the electricity of the world, through the scrolling words on a screen at the end of a dream and the universe said I love you and the universe said you have played the game well and the universe said everything you need is within you and the universe said you are stronger than you know and the universe said you are the daylight and the universe said you are the night and the universe said the darkness you fight is within you and the universe said the light you seek is within you and the universe said you are not alone and the universe said you are not separate from every other thing and the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code and the universe said I love you because you are love. And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love. You are the player. Wake up.
Getting to The End (Part 1). A story that will feel similar to a lot of us. Its somewhere in the 2010s, you buy Minecraft. you start your very own world. Then you experience some common things: Rather you spawned on a tiny isle, spawn on some plains, or in a very boring forest. You're so excited to start your virtual blocky life, so you start to cut some trees down, or just dig up some dirt. You probably realize you don't have enough blocks to make your house. You get more of the wood, or dirt. You finally made your simple house. Amazing, right? You've just began though. What to do? Go attack some animals. Doesn't matter which, you're still going to eat from it. Basic survival. "ITS RAWWW", someone famous has said a lot. You wish to make a furnace, but you can't find it in your mobile crafting table. You decide to make a more creative table with your mobile one. Then, you find the furnace and on how to craft it. You don't have the requirements for this item. Cobblestone is needed. You suddenly realize stone is mostly underground, and it can be a little scary mining. So you craft some sticks, use some wood blocks, and make a wooden pickaxe. You dig, and mine your first, ever virtual, piece of stone. not enough though. You get more. You're so excited that you got enough and can craft your first ever crafting table, well, craft. The Furnace. You decide to try and use the furnace, and we'll, you don't have coal. So you will have to mine deeper. No worries though. After you go back to the overworld from your time wasting trip. You see, it's nighttime. After realizing this, you hear some strange sounds coming from near. WHAT IS THAT GREEN HUMAN CREATURE THING? Learning later, it's a zombie, the basic nighttime enemy. You run for life. Home Sweet Home. You made it. Thank goodness zombies are really slow. You decide to sneak out and get more wood, to make, the wooden sword. If you were an OG player, the sword was able to be used as a shield. Pretty cool, I guess. Ehh. Anyways. You wonder, what do zombies have when you eliminate them? You decide to defeat one. What a 1v1. Success, spamming the attack button, you have acquired the Rotten Flesh. Eating it was a pretty bad idea. What now? I've beaten my first enemy? That can't be it. There must be more, way more, than just defeating a stupid zombie. You decide to get off minecraft for the day. If this comment gets a lot of likes, I will continue this.
This feels like what *really* happens when you fall in the void, going through every single memorable soundtrack to remember everything you've accomplished, be gone in a single second. Then finally restarting and having to do everything again.
I pushed my friend off the edge by accident when telling a joke and after he died we both just stared at the screen in silence and the look on my face was like “ooohhhhhhhhh ssssshhhhhhhhit”
I have no clue why, but the sound error noise gives me chills... Like it basically sends you a false feeling of home, then it begins losing power, effectively causing the error sound. Then the rest is a "you're not home anymore child" aspect.
Is basically "You are in the end, look everything you have done so far to reach this point" and inmerse back in your memories, until suddenly those memories begins to glitch out and fade saying "wake up....", realizing you need to go on.
kai crenshaw thank you for understanding. You’re one of the first people I’ve seen on the internet that actually understands, so, make yourself feel special :)
8:06 ох как же приятно ушам. Прям переход в мелодию c418 Sweden. И очень сильная настольгия, как я проходил Майнкрафт в 2020 один и гулял по энду... Спасибо c418 за его творения! P.S. Ещё эта музыка асецуируется с 2b2t когда стоишь в очереди.
“-Whenever is needed, the abyss is there for you. So is the light. That’s the power of neutrality. The power of your own decisions.” - Some random dude on the internet
The End is my favorite dimension. The way it feels like, with the OST, the islands, the pillars, the cities, the Ender Dragon, the Endermen, the Shulkers, the Endermites, the elytra, the floating boat, the dragon egg and more is so incredible, you can find yourself nostalgic of what you've done, you can feel every emotions on Earth, and you can feel Empty due to this place atmosphere. The End and Minecraft in general is trully a masterpiece, I played it since 2014-2015, and i've never been disappointed. I love this game.
i wasnt even aware the end had a song until a few years ago and when i listened to this in its entirety i was stunned, especially the sweden part always gives me goosebumps
Here is my theory: The End is actually the Unknown. The human mind is amazing, capable of imagining things, it's an universe. But, it doesn't matter how much we evolve, there are still many things we won't ever understand. Steve has amazing knowledge. He is able to make almost everything of the simple things he extracts. As an intelligent being, he keeps going further and further, trying to make his life more comfortable. But what if, one day, he decides that he wants to discover the truth about everything... The meaning of existance? Remember the "Farlands"... The glitch version of the world that appeared after you walked a few billion blocks in a straight line? They are the representation of "going too far", by that I mean, learning something above human level... Something Steve can't understand. "The End" is, in my view, is "going WAY too far"... Trying to solve the great mistery mankind never will. That's why everything is glitchy... With shadowy figures and their horrifying purple eyes... Do you understand what they are? Aliens? Corrupted humans?... And why is everything destroyed? What happened? We hear overworld songs playing on the background... This is the character trying to connect everything... But failing. He fails because The End is not meant for him to understand... It is the Unknown... It is The End...
Esta música de fondo de minecraft es simplemente asombrosa.... Da un sentimiento de miedo , vacío y.... es abrumadora como si todo lo que creaste e hiciste en el juego durante tus aventuras se desvanece ante tus ojos creando un sentimiento de nostalgia ( que se complementa más con la música clásica del juego pero distorsionada) Me parece que C198 la pensó muy bien al crear esta pieza música tan tetrica y única para el jefe final: El Ender Dragon
8:05 I think it's that moment when you realize that Minecraft not just a game for kids, but something more deeper and mysterious than we even think. Minecraft is truly masterpiece of 21'st century. Let's not forget it...
I have an interesting theory about the dimensions. I belive the end and nether portals are a form of time travel. Let's start with the nether. The nether is a very distant past of the overworld we know today. It was inhabited by a primitive, ancient species that built the nether fortresses.I belive the nether and overworld are connected because pigmen can spawn in the overworld via a pig getting struck by lightning. The overworld is what was evolved from the nether. Over a course of millions of years life would bounce back and the world would be beautiful. Civilizations would spring up left and right filled with life and prosperity. Moving on to the end, the end is a very far future where the universe is on its last legs as reality crumbles before us. You have probably noticed that endermen exist in all 3 dimensions and I belive this is because they have been around since the begining. They have been watching reality take place, hiding in the shadows, becoming aggressive only when noticed. The strongholds were built in an attempt to figure out where the endermen were coming from, but while doing this they discovered the end. After realizing what they just saw they frantically attempted to prevent this terrible future from inevitably happening, but they had failed. It was the beginning of the end. Slowly over thousands of years reality would fall apart and life in the overworld would perrish. The only things left at the end were the ones there since the beginning. The endermen.
Earth would crumble, as all reality, and the End is actually part of the earth, lost in space. The Ender Dragon is from the farthest realms of space, and it took over the End. That's why the achievement is called: 'Free the End'.
9:14 As you’re reaching trying to find out what’s out on the edge, you suddenly notice it’s nothing but abyss, the silence comes but just second before memories race in your head faster than the blink of an eye, you’ve never seen these memories, you only remember seeing one. The enderman, as you turn around you ask yourself. “Why do I only remember the enderman but nothing else?” You approach an enderman looking at its eyes with your pumpkin questioning. “Who are you, why are you here?” Of course it doesn’t answer and teleports away…you then begin to frantically run around as you’re lost in the prison you cannot escape. Your own mind. You’ve just realised that’s the End, is just the beginning.
First thing what you feel is nostalgia. Then... You just realize that it's literally the end. Nothing more... Thats... All... And then you start to remember everything you went through. That's... All... And you just keep living. Slowly forgetting about those days. But still. Sometimes. Good memories appearing, but, they are already so forgotten that you can't remember what exactly was. Until one last moment...
This is by far my favourite piece of music from minecraft. It uses the nostalgic peaceful songs you were used to and contorted them into a distorted and yet epic mess.
After the glitchy bit its beautiful hearing the main theme but something's not quite right it sounds epic. Then I calms down and your hear it again distorted and slowed down.
I love how this game has no real goal. You're never told what to do. You are free to do, literally, whatever you want. You explore this vast virtual world, shape it as you see fit... At some point you start discovering a pattern, a sort of "hint" that there is something out there, a different dimension perhaps, like the Nether? But more... mysterious. This OST PERFECTLY encapsulates what it's like to finish the game. You've crafted your own journey, despite that never being the goal of it. You've built castles, you've slain monsters, you've played with friends... you've made memories... The subtlety of the Overworld OST in this soundtrack is hypnotizing. As if, all this unintentional journey was wrapping up. As if, you're in a place where all of those memories are gone, only coming and going to remind you of their existence. Merely a reminder of what once was. Wake up.
Theories aside, I find it very ingenious and disturbing that through the end's music, you can hear and recognize various songs from the normla overworld that have been distorted and swept under the ever present noise of vastness from the end.
This theme makes the Ender Dragon sound like a truly evil being that needs to be slain. A monster with undeserved godly powers, a devil that corrupts the world itself. Really awesome.
4:40 if you listen closely with headphones you can hear dry hands. 3:05 cat is heard 3:50 haggstorm is barely "hearable" 5:14 wet hands so is its brother 6:05 subwoofer lullaby
Oh shit everything that's built up to this moment is flashing by you in the endgame song! Even if you don't notice it makes you subconsciously reflect on your personal journey.
The part with the Sweden melody playing in the background is easily the best part of the song. It feels hopeless, yet hopeful at the same time. Like everything keeps falling apart whenever you try putting everything together. It can convey many emotions, and that’s why it’s amazing. It’s terrifying how it slowly gets drowned out by the constant pulsating flow of synth, and when all the chaos finally ends, it’s like it snapped, and you are forced to face everything happening all at once, head on. This song is amazing, and is arguably better than pretty much all the songs in the soundtrack. Thank you C418 for making such a masterpiece.
Everything you've done. Every monster you've defeated Every item you've collected Every block you've placed Every treasure you've collected Everything has led you to this point are you happy? This is The End.
Ive been playing minecraft since 2012, and its crazy to see how much this game has changed... i remember the first ever time i played MC, i built my first house out of bricks in the side of a mountain, it had lava coming out the windows. Do you remember those Nether reactor blocks? The gold, diamond and iron ones? Yeah THOSE days... This song brought tears to my eyes, because it reminded me of the old days. The days that i would stay up through the night, just to make my house look better.
When i was used to be young, me and my cousins play Minecraft PS3, i had remembered when we Made the world full with buildings..you know what? It no longer exists.
To me, the distorted fragments of the overworld songs don't represent a decaying future or a hole in reality, but rather, the player looking back on everything that's come before. They remember punching trees. They remember delving into the caves. They remember finding diamonds. They remember entering the nether. They remember finding the stronghold, and activating it's terrible portal. But now, there are no more memories. Now is the present. The dragon is dead. The game is over. This is where the experience culminates. You've done it! You've mastered the world, voyaged across dimensions, and slain a terrible monster. You're a hero! And yet, you're still here. Powerful, but with what left to do? Everything. Minecraft is a game where the only limit is your imagination. Where you can go anywhere, and build anything. A land made of blocks, free to explore and to make your home. As the story comes to a close, the tape winds to a halt. But that is not the end for you. Put the tape back in. Start again. Much still awaits.
Really like who lived previously in the strong holds and how were they accessed and who built them why are there jail cess and iron doors and random chess and especially the library
Lmao, I think we all had a scary minecraft moment. Mine was when a cave sound played in my house just after I joked to myself about hero brine joining my game. Oml I couldn’t sleep that night and I was just staring at my Xbox the entire night
Shadow Soul24 Oh please, to me Nothing is scarier then a fucking Cave Spider 😂 They’re Small invasive (If it takes a while to find the spawner) Their walking sound effect is just spooky Poisonous, meaning the moment one hits, that debuff is ticking you down to a half heart no matter of what your armor is And on top of all of that, they hide better behind walls when climbing because they’re so small. So when you least expect it one just drops down in front of your face
in Minecraft's early days I saw somebody in my house on singleplayer and they didn't have a nametag... and it wasn't a villager either O_O" hate me if you want, but I'm pretty sure that stupid white-eyed virus got in my house or something
It's nothing short of a damn shame that the absolute greed of Microsoft is preventing C418 from contributing his music to the game. We may never get another track like this again.
@magic.73 Nah, when Microsoft got minecraft, they basically told him that they owned all the tracks at that moment, and they didn't allow him to make anymore, so they got Lena to make the newer ones.
The gradual switching from other Minecraft melodies to just nothingness, makes it feel like the end cant really figure out what it is, switching between existing songs, trying to find an answer.
In a way, I hope they never do a "nether-update" kinda thing to The End. It's just so perfect as a desolate, spooky place - when this track plays while you're in there it's just the most atmospheric Minecraft gets.
It’s not really scary tbh, this soundtrack kind of signals it’s the end by showing bits of the other songs and the nostalgic part at the end that makes you scroll through le memories
8:07 I love how this is the clearest, least distorted part in the whole song. It gives such a contrast to the other parts where there's music playing over other music, playing out of tune, and repeating like a broken record. It gives a sense of awakening and clarity. To me, it's saying "Wake up. Your journey isn't over. You're here for a reason."
There is nothing left. This is the cold, forgotten remnant of all your failed creations. Every project you quit, world you forgot, every friend you lost to make it here. Its all here. Yet nothing is here. This is the end.
It makes me think of when you know the end is near but you fight till the end and keep fighting until you have been worn out but your destiny continues
8:06 - 9:48 is easily the most intense part of this song and possibly the soundtrack as a whole. Throughout the song, you can hear distant melodies, songs that you recognize from your journey vaguely fading in and out. This moment right here however has been the most in your face about this. The piano cords are no longer faded out but very clearly in the foreground at the center of attention. A sort of moment of solace allowing you to reflect upon your journey. But then, this motif finishes and you're back to the noise, only growing louder and louder, the faded music returning until finally, a single low bass note cuts through all of it, allowing even the noise to begin fading away. Such a wonderful work of art this music is.
I never really cared about the soundtrack that was being used until one day I was playing Minecraft in the End, when this part came on I loved it ever since.
One time this came on when I was looking for End cities with friends, and then at the climax I found an end city! I got it on video to! It was epic! It's at that moment that you know your making memories!
I was playing one night with 4 of my friends. We had this big survival world that we played non stop in. One night we travelled to the End to defeat the Ender Dragon. After doing so, we went to the Outer Islands, or End Cities. Of course, there was the usual End city that spawns when you first enter the portal. One of my friends got the Elytra from the ship, then left the game to go to bed. Unfortunately, there were no other end cities for thousands of blocks. We split up and continued to search for the next hour. We were determined to get Elytra’s. It was getting late. Around 1 AM I think. All 3 of my friends that were still playing decided to go to bed, but I continued to play. For the next two, yes TWO hours I continued to search. As I was crossing the void, collecting chorus fruit, and slaying enderman for ender pearls, this masterpiece was playing. There’s something that feels strange listening to this in a dark room alone at 3 AM. It makes you feel distant from reality. As if everything you once knew has come to an End, and you are now trapped. Well, that’s exactly what the End is. No other humans are here. Only you amongst the millions of monsters who were once just like you. And soon, you will be like them as well. C418 may be the greatest video game music composer to ever exist. This “song” isn’t just music. It’s and adventure itself.
The end is quite similar to space outside of earth in the real world, so this piece can represent fear of the extraterrestrial and cosmic horror even though it is disguised in "the mission of defeating the enderdragon" vibes and such, the song can really represent a fear of the vastness of space, and thus completing the urge for survival which is the main statement of minecraft (to survive and to survive creatively), survival against all dangers, including (maybe most importantly) cosmic ones I just want to say this song really fits into cosmic horror
bro the fact that C418 added the normal minecraft music to the end but slightly distorted made it sound even more like a forgotten or corrupted world..
My theory is that the end is an alternate overworld, but overtime became distorted and glitched. The dragon was a being they summoned to help them. But it betrayed them and became their dictator.
Ever since I first heard this years ago in the end I've always loved it. The part at 8:25 just gave me inspiration for a character in a story I'm writing
@@KwikBR well if they add a bunch of vegetation, animals and mobs. It will certainly feel more habitable and welcoming, which is what i dont want from the end
the music does give a big hint that the end feels like something you weren't supposed to see... Look at the textures of some of the blocks in the end including the end crystals they all have simple designs like they were in early development (including endstone it's a re-texture of cobblestone)
Never thought of that way, almost like the End dimension was actually bound to never be found and endermans are glitches of the end that managed to get on the overworld
@Conflux I doubt he meant literally. We were obviously meant to see and explore it as part of the game, but the whole place gives off vibes that say the opposite.
@@thenewbie6335 the achievement for killing the wither (nether) is called "The Beginning." and the achievement for killing the dragon (end) is called "The End?" Leaving us to believe the overworld is in the middle or after the end
This song brings so many memories from back when i was playing on Xbox 360 and just beat the dragon for the First time and i start hearing this soundtrack, it was tu most surreal experience i've Had with the game ever. Its so calm yet so chaotic and sometimes epic. There is no real way to describe this because its so long its a whole 15 minutes of pure nostalgia from the old times, from back when ancient cities werent a thing, from back when piglins were still pigmen, from back when villages Had travel paths, and from back when there was no basically Infinitie world. And this song still feels natural, because while all of that was being added to the overworld and nether the end just... Stayed the same, an endless void filled with random floating island and you Explore them fearing for your life at every moment.
This song signifies that you have been through everything. Now you have access to everywhere. You accomplished the impossible. You can do whatever you wanted to do.
I can do whatever I want? well then time for the end to become an unstoppable empire and manipulate everyone via greed, corruption, and promises of a better future
Am I the only one who likes this? The end, after the dragon has been defeated, is my favourite place in the whole game. The sensation of loneliness, being lost in another dimension is just awesome. And this soundtrack really adds a lot to it.
The corrupted sky realm holding the final enemy that stands in your way. The gate to wakeing up from a never-ending dream. Either you let the void consume you. Or you slay the beast. The mother dragon protecting her egg and the one who holds prisoner of the tortured souls of the ones from the past who had first discovered the abyss of what we call The End. The pressure knowing that if you fall you lose everything. The feeling of your death slowly looming closer. Only to be fought back when you slay Her. Yes. This realm really feels as if it's my home. I'm with you.
1:13 who remembers that one moment when you thought your computer just broke?
Me
I thought the game froze
I thought the dragon was hiding and glitching...
Herobrine joined the game
Same
Mojang saw this as a game
C418 saw this as an adventure
And Microsoft sees it as money
@@gorgeousmoon5736 😂
@@gorgeousmoon5736 And apple sees it as a waste of processing power
this game was an adventure
And people see this as a part of their life
Ever realize how creepy the end is? Instead of a giant world like the over world or nether, it’s just one. A single, floating island with no coordinates, no time and no texture, one block type. It’s almost as if this is some kind of forgotten memory, a decaying land on the brink of corruption. A world that’s lost it’s shape, form, and color. The only remaining enemy is the forgotten souls of the mobs as enderman, and a dragon with a soul purpose of flying about the island, with no hope or any motives. A brainless, empty void of a previous world, fading, corrupted, decaying.
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Damn that’s deep
It feels like Xen from Half-Life. Every mob even the dragon may be from other dimensions. The reason there's mobs from other dimensions like endermen in the overworld is like the resonance cascade.
That's because the end represents what minecraft truly is without the veil of gameplay. The nether and the overworld keeps it hidden by bedrock layers and a giant sky but the void is equally present in both those worlds as it is in the end. Oh sure, there are a few more blocks in those worlds, a few more mobs, a few more things you can do but after all of that has been done what's left ?
You and the endless void.
Perhaps the end is what happens to a minecraft world when the player stops existing. It falls into disrepair and void
I love how this entire 15 minute song feels like its telling me a story just through music
the sign of a terrific music producer :)
That’s because it is. It’s the soundtrack to YOUR story. This is the credit song for YOU. This is the END of YOUR story. This song is a recap of all the things you did, all that you’ve accomplished. It’s to remind you of your first day, the overworld, the nether, everything you’ve done up to this point. It’s all YOUR story. And this is the end of the final chapter.
I don’t even know how he planned that
@@Whyiseveryhandletaken6942 It’s indeed named “the end”. After all.
This soundtrack sounds like at first you were dreaming about your past adventures, and suddenly, something makes you stop dreaming, and you "wake up" on this strange stone floating in space
My theory is that endermen are Tax Collectors.
Good theory
That's why they scare me
At least theyre not as bad uncles that go to your room at night
it's why i evade them
That is genuinely horrifying
my theory is that c418 is good at making music
the only theory that I agree with in this comment section
King Smore, YESS
all other theories here
are too basic.
It's no theory, it's a fact
King Smore But hey! That's just a theory. A GAME THEORY! thanks for reading!
8:05 I remember one year my great nanny came down to visit us during easter and I was playing Minecraft on my moms computer. I had to have been 8 or 9 as it was a pretty early version of minecraft, the end must have been just added. However at that time, I remember I was in the Overworld building a house and Sweden started to play. My great grandma was a pianist. She could play any song she heard. We visited her house every couple of months yearly. So having her down at our house for a holiday was special. I remember when Sweden started to play, she walked by and said "wow, who is playing the piano, it's absolutely beautiful." I remember smiling and saying "It's my game." She responded "I love that, keep playing your game." ...I never will forget that moment.... I never finished that world... and then she passed away a couple years later... After this, I remember returning to Minecraft on my ps3, creating a new world. I was determined to beat the game for the first time alone without the help of my older brother. After hours of playing, I beat the dragon... but before I left through the portal to the credits... I waited for Sweden to play in the end track at 8:05 one last time. I remember sitting there silently... Eyes full of tears... Thinking about all of my memories made with her during visits... and as the music faded off into the silence of the void, I cried.... I thought "I did it Nanny..."
I love you great Nanny. Thank you for everything. All of the memories... I'll never forget them. It's funny how a song from a game about blocks can be so emotionally powerful. How these songs can connect us to moments in life. To people.
One of my favorite memories where when me and my brother used to play irl Minecraft in her front yard. It had a big hill we used to climb up and pretend to build houses on. I'm nearly 20 this year. Man time flies... Now in college, I look back at when I was in 3rd grade and experienced these moments for the first time. Feels like another whole life time ago. But strangely as if it was yesterday also.
If your still young, cherish the people and things you have around you. Cherish everything. It all goes so quick.
R.I.P grandma.
Thank you, I’m sure there’s a lot of people here that needed this. It might sound corny, but everything you’ve said is completely true.
I'm sorry for your loss, i'm also 20 years old, well said about everything
I don’t hear Sweden at 8:05. I might be dumb. It might also be that what I believe is Sweden is the first half that I’ve played on the piano for 5 years (I’m a noob though)
But thanks for sharing!
Ok I listened to the OG track on YT again and I can hear it in the end of Sweden (pun not intended) in a different key
Even after all these years of it being on Minecraft, this track still gives me chills
We won't get anything like this for decades. Dude who made this music soul was on a totally different level than ours
Me: Fights ender dragon at 3am
End: weird glitchy music
Me: *grabs cross and holy water*
I'm in the exact situation 😂
11 year old me : *slams laptop shut*
Doesn't this song only play when you are at the outer end islands?
TFA 1541 no because it plays on console and console doesn’t have outer islands
The Chillest Bro, console has outer islands. I play on console and I have been there before.
The first time I heard this in the end I thought minecraft was broken
McYeeDDD lol i know the same thing happened to me😂
Do you know why it has that glitchy music?
Olaf Emmanuel Probably to show what the end really is as to me it feels like a deleted or corrupted world
me too i thought the game might crash since ive dont so much lag on my compueter
same XD
i thought my minecraft music was glitching ;)
The weight of your situation consumes you. All this time you just wanted to kill the Dragon, but as you shoot the crystals, you realize your doing something else. You are setting the End free. The Dragon’s crystals are showing that the Dragon is trying to power a dead world. After you kill the Ender Dragon, the cycle ends. For all this time, the End has wanted to keep itself alive, even when there is nothing here to keep. The End needed to let go. The End needed to end.
You kill the Dragon and you sit next to the portal. You remember there’s more to explore. You travel to the End Cities. It’s just as barren as the End. The cold, unreal, uncomfortably beautiful End Cities. The only poor creatures that inhabit the area are a few stray Endermen, and Shulkers that populate the buildings.
The End is a story about letting go. The somber tone of the music perfectly captures that feeling. It’s truly incredible.
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This makes the end feel more like a gap in time or a tear in between dimensions. It doesn't want you there so it keeps trying to bring you back with that familiar music but fails due to your constant determination to discover something. It reminds me of a certain game that I can't mention cause it would spoil the ending of it.
“Determination”
I think i know the game you’re talking about.
Nope.
What game? im ok being spoiled it is my business anyway
Alright, for you @@sonetagu1337.
The game is Outer Wilds. It seems very stupid of me to be this wary of spoiling stuff but the game is heavily reliant on learning stuff so just be wary before you look anything up about it.
@@The.Reilly i thought of
unerdtale
Nether=Very far past
Overworld=present
The End=really far future
no imagine it this way there is many different worlds and a corruption has taken over all of them and the end nether and overworld are the only ones left and the end is soon to be completely swallowed by the corruption and the nether is being destroyed by the corruption and the overworld is soon to be affected
Well the end does look like some kind of ruins that are now inhabited by some entities and in the song you can still hear some faint sounds of the overworld music but it's mostly overcome by the sounds of this creepy music
@Juan Mendoza Its not backwards.
So¿Minecraft is a dejaboo?
I have a theory...
(Its gonna be really long)
I think, The End doesnt physically exist.
Here the explanation:
How does Endermen teleport?
I think, they used the End as a teleportation gateway, since the End doesnt physically exist, therefore theres no distance.
Like (A -> End -> B)
Or they can just stay in the End, and can get out whenever they want. (A -> End)
"But if it doesnt exist, how did we got there in the first place? I mean we literally fought the Ender Dragon..."
Endermen teleports from A to B with a portal. Create one at A, and create another portal at B. All happened in milliseconds.
The "End Portal" that we can unlock with 12 Ender Eyes, is actually a *makeshift* version of the Endermen teleportation.
But there is one flaw-
There will be no exit. Like a train without destination. You are stuck on a train, moving forever, until you unlocked the other portal, which is the one that will unlock when you killed the Ender Dragon.
You have to be stuck between "Point A" and "Point B" to be in the End.
Imagine being stuck between the doorframe, between the two doors.
Thats the End.
But hey its just a theory
Didn't realize the glitch was intentional
same
Kaim3 when I the glitch? Like what time of the song??
Omega_65 1:03
lol
Same so annoying
This probably sounds dumb, but I'm 17, and I've played minecraft for years. And today, I beat the ender dragon on straight survival for the first time (without cheats/creative, or anything of that nature). When the ender dragon was at low health, the part at 8:08 set in, and for some reason it felt really emotional. Before I finished off the ender dragon I closed my eyes and every single minecraft related memory that I have just suddenly flashed into my mind, from when I first got the game on the Xbox 360, to now. almost like an extreme wave of nostalgia. I know it took me a stupidly long amount of time to actually beat the game, but something about the end music is just so emotional/powerful while hearing it ingame
I'm pretty sure the ender dragon has its own song when entering for the first time
I'm the same, I've only beat the game once, about 2 years ago. For the first time, and never managed since. Purely on survival with no cheats. It took me a long time too seen as I started playing as a small kid
I certainly have a similar experience. I started playing Minecraft when I was 9 years old and finished it for the first time when I was 12 years old. Fun fact: the second time I beat the game I did it without mining, in full Zico tops style. Then without dying, on hard difficulty. Then in Minecraft Java edition.
Did the same a couple days ago as well, after a decade of playing the game. I feel like C418 intended for the end music to represent those emotions
This song gives me actual shivers up my spine. So eerie, but at the same time calming.
When i heard this track i immediately went back to the overworld cuz it made me feel uncomfortable.
Îtš æłł æ drëæm wækè ûp wækè ūp wækè ûp
This song reminds me of when i would play minecraft with my friends, reminds me of my old house, other memories ect, also just makes me a little cold wheres my blanket
*"When you stare into the void just hard enough...sometimes...dark, purple, emotionless eyes stare back at you..."*
*- Unknown*
Nice wait what is that from
“WhEn YoU wHiSpEr To ThE *vOiD* dOeS iT wHiSpEr BaCk?”
There are theories that the nether is below the overworld because if you dig up in the Nether you hit bedrock, but I wonder if the End is way far below that.
@@ren858 what if you're looking in the wrong direction?
@@ren858 There is actually a way to get to the roof in the Nether. But I guess if you we're looking at this in a story mode perspective you wouldn't be entirely discredited.
*_The End is coming closer to you as you watch the video_*
literally.
Good one
It’s actually zooming in on the picture as the video goes by.
Ok you got me
Is it funny that I noticed this just a bit before reading this comment
You’re scaring me
The overworld song slowly being glitched is actually really darn genius because is essentially of what is meant to remind you of. Is the end. So it plays a corrupted version of the overworld being slowly transformed into a glitchy yet really spooky state. To the point it becomes its own song.
actually it goes great with a dementia album also. like it sounds like late stage 3 or so and i think it would fit really well in smth like that ngl
@@tristantheoofer2 eateot
Climax: 8:06 - 9:36. This part is what brings this song beauty, nostalgia, anxiety, sadness, joy, and so much more
I agree, and the sadness part comes in to where you have to kill something and put it into extinction. Just to be able to finish the game.
@VioletWing1164 it isn't extinct yet, however. There still is "The Next Generation"
Imagine falling into the void and never dying, That would just be so scary if it was in real life...
this happens in hypxiel queue
Then god gave you a respawn button
Well it can happen if you contuisy eat notch golden apples while falling in the void
Kars
*There’s no telling that it can’t happen.*
I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
Elias N. ahhh, wonderful wizard of oz reference i see.
*We’re a long way from Texas*
*We're definitely not in the swamp anymore..*
*You're a long way from france, boy.*
Why don't we just give up pardner
I feel like this is one of the most perfectly fitting video game songs there is, it takes something youve been familiar with from the start, distorts it, then turns it into something eerie, it’s something you can recognise but it’s nothing you’ve seen before, like the end
I am making a game right now wih my own soundtracks, thanks for the idea! :D
Right bro Its like the soundtrack reminds you of the old things there, while you are at the end of the world.
*This is the end.*
*There's no going back.*
"Don't look at the void. Even you can't stop it"
"Stop what?"
"The Dragon"
"What dragon?"
"That one"
The end is hidden in the overworlds void. You are already in the void, beneath bedrock, but your put so low that the void wont kill you.
@@TimDogg34 I myself thought The end was just somewhere among outer space lmao
Timothy VanHorn how does that work? The End has its own void that kills you, doesn’t it?
@@crypticpoke6805 maybe it's the ground that it has. If you have ground in the void you stop falling. Nobody knows what happens if you stop falling in the void. Do you keep dying?
@@eitantour8059 I always thought it was somewhere outside of space and time a different kind of void
Wtf the End has music??? The only thing I hear is
*Dragon Growl* *Enderman Noises*
Maybe your music volume is low compared to your regular sound effects volume. I always have mine around 20% higher than the sound effects so I can hear the music.
Plus the dragon has its own theme.
Maybe stay in the end after you defeat the enderdragon then
The music only plays if the dragon is dead. If you respawn it then the music stops until it is defeated
Dictator i cant have music on
and here is why
first my family went to this week long thing where we made amazing friends and all of us kids were playing minecraft on the xbox 360 and we later learned that we would never see those people because my dad switched jobs
we moved into a new house where we didnt know anyone but i had one kid around my age decide to welcome me and we were almost on a free walk in and out of eachother’s house basis. 3 years we would play minecraft every day and just have fun...
last year he moved states away and i do not have an xbox (we would both play on the same console with two controllers) so when i played minecraft next i had to turn the music off so i didnt cry my eyes out
its painful to hear the music of times that have gone by and can never be re lived through.
“we didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun” -winnie the pooh
As a classical music lover, I find that soundtrack gorgeous. Not only is it extraordinary beautiful, especially in the context of the game, I am also fascinated by the harmonies in it and the structure of mixing of other familiar themes. Amazing!
I agree! This track is floating progressively! An innovative idea for structuring a piece of music.
It's beautiful.
Yeah I love all the beautiful synth they used to create this song
For a world defined by infinity, a place named The End sure does seem... strange. A world with infinite choices and possibilities and land to explore and yet The End is very tight and claustrophobic. You only have a tiny island with no escape to roam. Two different kinds of blocks, a single type of mob and a single boss. The only way out is with someone dying. You, or the dragon. Not a lot of possibilities or options. Everything about it is so uncomfortably barren.
To me, that's what The End represents. The end of infinity. Humans always want more. They want infinity but aren't satisfied by that. They want an End to that Infinity too. I don't think it's a coincidence that The End and the end were both introduced on Minecraft's full release. Because in a way, Minecraft was that Infinity. And when you kill the Dragon, you're killing that Infinity too. You brought The End to Infinity.
There also are the shulkers in the ships of the end city
That moment when you chilling around at The End and then that loud glitch sound appears ;-;
When that Loud glitch sound appears,i thought my Pc crashed,but its fine,LOL
Yea, it sounds like machine gun fire
I thought i was being attacked ;-;
Its Ender Agreed ^-^
yep rip headset user
You know how every zombie is dressed up in Steve's clothing? As if they're each a Steve who has perished in this infinite world.
I believe Endermen are each Steve who has failed in the void.
@@XG-OFFICIAL-59 Excuse me, sir, did you like your own comment?
Edit: LuL he took it off
@@XG-OFFICIAL-59 Then why there's PVP weapons and Armour on the End's citys chest The enderman (Aswell villagers but I don't know if they use it) weapon can't use it only We (Minecraft Humans) Can I think Humans went to the End to get away from someone or Some thing out of fear or close to Extinction go on Game theory on endermans
@@Kurai0 because it's a game.
No wonder I see so many after playing bed wars.
Fleent Stones? Do you know game theory it made a video talking about Minecraft lore he think the enderman was humans that went to the end because they have summon the wither
This 15-minute-long song is a masterpiece and is brilliantly made. This soundtrack suits the End perfectly and even leaves more questions than answers, this is probably one of the best tracks on C418's album Minecraft Volume Beta.
Minecraft has changed.
This song just gives you the nostalgia of what minecraft was like in the earlier days, when we were just children, with our lives ahead of us, and so many new things to discover.
We all wish we could just go back.
Ok. People with theories. Actual cannon story of minecraft here. If you read the entire end credits text, it's made pretty clear that Minecraft is a "short dream". The "short dream" of the game, as opposed to the "long dream" of life. Minecraft is a lower level of reality that exists within an infinite amount of higher ones. The End is that, THE END. It is a means for the two entities talking to eachother to wake you up from the "short dream" of minecraft, and encourage you to wake up from the "long dream" of life. These two entities, which seem to be the basic fundamental forces of existence (such as atoms, quarks, energy, strings, higgs bosons, etc.), mention the purpose of your existence in Minecraft and the real world. But the information is redacted, saying that you cannot read it because you have not reached a "higher level". Minecraft is just a really long visual poem that tells the player to try to enlighten themselves
Edit:
Yes, i know this is not an in-game explaination for Minecraft's in-game lore. Its a theory about what Minecraft as a whole (and the end credits) mean. I phrased it wrong in the beginning, and my apologies. Its no more an explaination of Minecraft's lore as it is of the Earth's history.
And no, I came to this hypothesis long before MatPat made his Game Theory. I made a comment on HIS video say as such. I know that the honor system doesnt work well on the internet, but I dont like lying to people. I never intentionally spread unoriginal ideas. So please give me the benefit of the doubt, im just trying to be a respectable guy.
I came up with that theory with out actually checking that
@@themonkeymang yeah, sure you did, sure you spent a good amount of time theorizing about Minecraft
So.... does the ender dragon and ender men symbolise anything or are they just there?
@@autisticduck3071 they are entities of the minecraft realm which are like an obstacle to you that also have a backstory to them, it's kind of like the antagonist to your minecraft player in a way
Holy shit those words you've said just matched with your profile pic
I see the player you mean.
[Player Name]?
Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read our thoughts.
That doesn't matter. It thinks we are part of the game.
I like this player. It played well. It did not give up.
It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a screen.
That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a game.
Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the reality behind the screen.
They used to hear voices. Before players could read. Back in the days when those who did not play called the players witches, and warlocks. And players dreamed they flew through the air, on sticks powered by demons.
What did this player dream?
This player dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created. And it dreamed it destroyed. It dreamed it hunted, and was hunted. It dreamed of shelter.
Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. But what true structure did this player create, in the reality behind the screen?
It worked, with a million others, to sculpt a true world in a fold of the [scrambled], and created a [scrambled] for [scrambled], in the[scrambled].
It cannot read that thought.
No. It has not yet achieved the highest level. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a game.
Does it know that we love it? That the universe is kind?
Sometimes, through the noise of its thoughts, it hears the universe, yes.
But there are times it is sad, in the long dream. It creates worlds that have no summer, and it shivers under a black sun, and it takes its sad creation for reality.
To cure it of sorrow would destroy it. The sorrow is part of its own private task. We cannot interfere.
Sometimes when they are deep in dreams, I want to tell them, they are building true worlds in reality. Sometimes I want to tell them of their importance to the universe. Sometimes, when they have not made a true connection in a while, I want to help them to speak the word they fear.
It reads our thoughts.
Sometimes I do not care. Sometimes I wish to tell them, this world you take for truth is merely [scrambled] and [scrambled], I wish to tell them that they are [scrambled] in the [scrambled]. They see so little of reality, in their long dream.
And yet they play the game.
But it would be so easy to tell them...
Too strong for this dream. To tell them how to live is to prevent them living.
I will not tell the player how to live.
The player is growing restless.
I will tell the player a story.
But not the truth.
No. A story that contains the truth safely, in a cage of words. Not the naked truth that can burn over any distance.
Give it a body, again.
Yes. Player...
Use its name.
[Player Name]. Player of games.
Good.
Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the universe again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things.
Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn. Ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergeists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change.
We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.
Once upon a time, there was a player.
The player was you, [Player Name].
Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas that was three hundred and thirty thousand times more massive than it. They were so far apart that light took eight minutes to cross the gap. The light was information from a star, and it could burn your skin from a hundred and fifty million kilometres away.
Sometimes the player dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite. The sun was a square of white. The days were short; there was much to do; and death was a temporary inconvenience.
Sometimes the player dreamed it was lost in a story.
Sometimes the player dreamed it was other things, in other places. Sometimes these dreams were disturbing. Sometimes very beautiful indeed. Sometimes the player woke from one dream into another, then woke from that into a third.
Sometimes the player dreamed it watched words on a screen.
Let's go back.
The atoms of the player were scattered in the grass, in the rivers, in the air, in the ground. A woman gathered the atoms; she drank and ate and inhaled; and the woman assembled the player, in her body.
And the player awoke, from the warm, dark world of its mother's body, into the long dream.
And the player was a new story, never told before, written in letters of DNA. And the player was a new program, never run before, generated by a sourcecode a billion years old. And the player was a new human, never alive before, made from nothing but milk and love.
You are the player. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love.
Let's go further back.
The seven billion billion billion atoms of the player's body were created, long before this game, in the heart of a star. So the player, too, is information from a star. And the player moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a man called Julian, on a flat, infinite world created by a man called Markus, that exists inside a small, private world created by the player, who inhabits a universe created by...
Shush. Sometimes the player created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated. Sometimes it built a model of the universe in its head; flecks of energy, moving through vast empty spaces. Sometimes it called those flecks "electrons" and "protons".
Sometimes it called them "planets" and "stars".
Sometimes it believed it was in a universe that was made of energy that was made of offs and ons; zeros and ones; lines of code. Sometimes it believed it was playing a game. Sometimes it believed it was reading words on a screen.
You are the player, reading words...
Shush... Sometimes the player read lines of code on a screen. Decoded them into words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into feelings, emotions, theories, ideas, and the player started to breathe faster and deeper and realised it was alive, it was alive, those thousand deaths had not been real, the player was alive
You. You. You are alive.
and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the sunlight that came through the shuffling leaves of the summer trees
and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the light that fell from the crisp night sky of winter, where a fleck of light in the corner of the player's eye might be a star a million times as massive as the sun, boiling its planets to plasma in order to be visible for a moment to the player, walking home at the far side of the universe, suddenly smelling food, almost at the familiar door, about to dream again
and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the zeros and ones, through the electricity of the world, through the scrolling words on a screen at the end of a dream
and the universe said I love you
and the universe said you have played the game well
and the universe said everything you need is within you
and the universe said you are stronger than you know
and the universe said you are the daylight
and the universe said you are the night
and the universe said the darkness you fight is within you
and the universe said the light you seek is within you
and the universe said you are not alone
and the universe said you are not separate from every other thing
and the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code
and the universe said I love you because you are love.
And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love.
You are the player.
Wake up.
UA-camGeek that's the entire end poem right there!
This should have more likes than this video
Deep
Who actually read the whole thing
MegaSnowPatrol Its beautiful it tells you that you are someone!
4:35 makes you feel like you're drifting off into the infinite cosmos as everything fades away
8:06
Getting to The End (Part 1). A story that will feel similar to a lot of us.
Its somewhere in the 2010s, you buy Minecraft. you start your very own world. Then you experience some common things: Rather you spawned on a tiny isle, spawn on some plains, or in a very boring forest. You're so excited to start your virtual blocky life, so you start to cut some trees down, or just dig up some dirt. You probably realize you don't have enough blocks to make your house. You get more of the wood, or dirt. You finally made your simple house. Amazing, right? You've just began though. What to do? Go attack some animals. Doesn't matter which, you're still going to eat from it. Basic survival. "ITS RAWWW", someone famous has said a lot. You wish to make a furnace, but you can't find it in your mobile crafting table. You decide to make a more creative table with your mobile one. Then, you find the furnace and on how to craft it. You don't have the requirements for this item. Cobblestone is needed. You suddenly realize stone is mostly underground, and it can be a little scary mining. So you craft some sticks, use some wood blocks, and make a wooden pickaxe. You dig, and mine your first, ever virtual, piece of stone. not enough though. You get more. You're so excited that you got enough and can craft your first ever crafting table, well, craft. The Furnace. You decide to try and use the furnace, and we'll, you don't have coal. So you will have to mine deeper. No worries though. After you go back to the overworld from your time wasting trip. You see, it's nighttime. After realizing this, you hear some strange sounds coming from near. WHAT IS THAT GREEN HUMAN CREATURE THING? Learning later, it's a zombie, the basic nighttime enemy. You run for life. Home Sweet Home. You made it. Thank goodness zombies are really slow. You decide to sneak out and get more wood, to make, the wooden sword. If you were an OG player, the sword was able to be used as a shield. Pretty cool, I guess. Ehh. Anyways. You wonder, what do zombies have when you eliminate them? You decide to defeat one. What a 1v1. Success, spamming the attack button, you have acquired the Rotten Flesh. Eating it was a pretty bad idea. What now? I've beaten my first enemy? That can't be it. There must be more, way more, than just defeating a stupid zombie. You decide to get off minecraft for the day.
If this comment gets a lot of likes, I will continue this.
Please make part 2 its one year late
It was me the person who just liked this comment for a 5th time.
This feels like what *really* happens when you fall in the void, going through every single memorable soundtrack to remember everything you've accomplished, be gone in a single second. Then finally restarting and having to do everything again.
I pushed my friend off the edge by accident when telling a joke and after he died we both just stared at the screen in silence and the look on my face was like “ooohhhhhhhhh ssssshhhhhhhhit”
The main reason is that you should never get attached to anything
It’s called create save point in case you fuck up lmfao
/gamerule keepInventory true
The boy who did a speedrun:
.______. XD
I have no clue why, but the sound error noise gives me chills...
Like it basically sends you a false feeling of home, then it begins losing power, effectively causing the error sound. Then the rest is a "you're not home anymore child" aspect.
Is basically "You are in the end, look everything you have done so far to reach this point" and inmerse back in your memories, until suddenly those memories begins to glitch out and fade saying "wake up....", realizing you need to go on.
Zane Followell Minecraft is really heavy, existential, creepy and mysterious for a kids game.
kai crenshaw it’s not a kids game. Just because many kids play it, that doesn’t mean it’s a kids game.
I change my Profile Picture every month CHALLENGE You’re right. Sorry, my mistake.
kai crenshaw thank you for understanding. You’re one of the first people I’ve seen on the internet that actually understands, so, make yourself feel special :)
8:06 ох как же приятно ушам. Прям переход в мелодию c418 Sweden. И очень сильная настольгия, как я проходил Майнкрафт в 2020 один и гулял по энду... Спасибо c418 за его творения!
P.S. Ещё эта музыка асецуируется с 2b2t когда стоишь в очереди.
The Caretaker trying to remember the days when he played minecraft with the boys.
Rest in Piece
My World - Creative
My World - Creative
My World - Creative
My World - Creative
My World - Creative
don't forget the file name: new world------------------
My World - Hardcore
Is this where all the deleted worlds go? I've never thought of it.
RIP:Buddy the dog
@@ron.8211 oh my god
Relatable
“When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
ono
Boi wait till the Endermen get a load of this
"We both stared the abyss, but when It looked back, you blinked."
-Batman
“-Whenever is needed, the abyss is there for you. So is the light. That’s the power of neutrality. The power of your own decisions.” - Some random dude on the internet
@@Pizzl owo
The End is my favorite dimension.
The way it feels like, with the OST, the islands, the pillars, the cities, the Ender Dragon, the Endermen, the Shulkers, the Endermites, the elytra, the floating boat, the dragon egg and more is so incredible, you can find yourself nostalgic of what you've done, you can feel every emotions on Earth, and you can feel Empty due to this place atmosphere. The End and Minecraft in general is trully a masterpiece, I played it since 2014-2015, and i've never been disappointed.
I love this game.
i wasnt even aware the end had a song until a few years ago and when i listened to this in its entirety i was stunned, especially the sweden part always gives me goosebumps
This music feels like the original music is coming from the minecraft world, thats why it sounds like far away
I'm glad this comment section is mostly filled with interesting thoughts instead of overused memes
thing is it does have kind of corrupt like overworld music.
... holy shit
end update 2022 the end needs to be as good as the music
@@SomeGuy-my7en yep
Here is my theory:
The End is actually the Unknown.
The human mind is amazing, capable of imagining things, it's an universe.
But, it doesn't matter how much we evolve, there are still many things we won't ever understand.
Steve has amazing knowledge. He is able to make almost everything of the simple things he extracts.
As an intelligent being, he keeps going further and further, trying to make his life more comfortable.
But what if, one day, he decides that he wants to discover the truth about everything... The meaning of existance?
Remember the "Farlands"... The glitch version of the world that appeared after you walked a few billion blocks in a straight line?
They are the representation of "going too far", by that I mean, learning something above human level... Something Steve can't understand.
"The End" is, in my view, is "going WAY too far"... Trying to solve the great mistery mankind never will.
That's why everything is glitchy... With shadowy figures and their horrifying purple eyes... Do you understand what they are? Aliens? Corrupted humans?... And why is everything destroyed? What happened?
We hear overworld songs playing on the background... This is the character trying to connect everything... But failing.
He fails because The End is not meant for him to understand... It is the Unknown... It is The End...
um cara qualquer ...that makes so much sense
Isso faz todo sentido
um cara qualquer this is actually a great theory!
This NEEDS to be the top comment.
Ah shit that's deep
Esta música de fondo de minecraft es simplemente asombrosa....
Da un sentimiento de miedo , vacío y.... es abrumadora como si todo lo que creaste e hiciste en el juego durante tus aventuras se desvanece ante tus ojos creando un sentimiento de nostalgia ( que se complementa más con la música clásica del juego pero distorsionada)
Me parece que C198 la pensó muy bien al crear esta pieza música tan tetrica y única para el jefe final: El Ender Dragon
no c198 es c418 😊
Guys, i finnaly killed the dragon after 7 years without cheeting!
congratulations :)
I beat it in 2023 and started playing Minecraft in 2015
@@Brojack123Same, started in 2014, beat in 2022, in java. Bedrock dragon even in pc still too hard
@@MrBrineplays_ I beat the ender dragon without taking down its crystals.
@@Brojack123 Wait, how? Beds? Speedrun tactics?
8:05 I think it's that moment when you realize that Minecraft not just a game for kids, but something more deeper and mysterious than we even think. Minecraft is truly masterpiece of 21'st century.
Let's not forget it...
1:09 is the sound of people losing their innocence
Yea the bit with Sweden gives me actual chills and goosebumps every time I hear it
21th
Are you serious
You are the 1th person I’ve seen to make that mistake
@@alolamao833 Bruh, forget about it
@@RADMYST smh
I have an interesting theory about the dimensions. I belive the end and nether portals are a form of time travel. Let's start with the nether. The nether is a very distant past of the overworld we know today. It was inhabited by a primitive, ancient species that built the nether fortresses.I belive the nether and overworld are connected because pigmen can spawn in the overworld via a pig getting struck by lightning. The overworld is what was evolved from the nether. Over a course of millions of years life would bounce back and the world would be beautiful. Civilizations would spring up left and right filled with life and prosperity. Moving on to the end, the end is a very far future where the universe is on its last legs as reality crumbles before us. You have probably noticed that endermen exist in all 3 dimensions and I belive this is because they have been around since the begining. They have been watching reality take place, hiding in the shadows, becoming aggressive only when noticed. The strongholds were built in an attempt to figure out where the endermen were coming from, but while doing this they discovered the end. After realizing what they just saw they frantically attempted to prevent this terrible future from inevitably happening, but they had failed. It was the beginning of the end. Slowly over thousands of years reality would fall apart and life in the overworld would perrish. The only things left at the end were the ones there since the beginning. The endermen.
Wow, that’s crazy. What about the Ender Dragon?
And shulkers
I also thought about it, and I started to believe it even more when I saw the name of the new ore: ancient debris
Amazing theory!
Earth would crumble, as all reality, and the End is actually part of the earth, lost in space. The Ender Dragon is from the farthest realms of space, and it took over the End. That's why the achievement is called: 'Free the End'.
9:14
As you’re reaching trying to find out what’s out on the edge, you suddenly notice it’s nothing but abyss, the silence comes but just second before memories race in your head faster than the blink of an eye, you’ve never seen these memories, you only remember seeing one. The enderman, as you turn around you ask yourself.
“Why do I only remember the enderman but nothing else?”
You approach an enderman looking at its eyes with your pumpkin questioning.
“Who are you, why are you here?”
Of course it doesn’t answer and teleports away…you then begin to frantically run around as you’re lost in the prison you cannot escape. Your own mind. You’ve just realised that’s the End, is just the beginning.
You are the player
_wake up_
First thing what you feel is nostalgia. Then... You just realize that it's literally the end. Nothing more...
Thats... All...
And then you start to remember everything you went through. That's... All...
And you just keep living. Slowly forgetting about those days. But still. Sometimes. Good memories appearing, but, they are already so forgotten that you can't remember what exactly was.
Until one last moment...
Woah
My elbow: *gets hit*
My entire nerve system: 1:13
lmao 🤣🤣
Jesus Christ you’re right!
For real tho 😂😂
OOF guess you could say you got on their *nerves* ?
@@naomigwolfe8112 HA!
This is by far my favourite piece of music from minecraft. It uses the nostalgic peaceful songs you were used to and contorted them into a distorted and yet epic mess.
After the glitchy bit its beautiful hearing the main theme but something's not quite right it sounds epic. Then I calms down and your hear it again distorted and slowed down.
i think so to
The part at 4:38 is honestly so underrated. The reverb and echo on the original song makes it feel so much more distant.
With 8:06 for me it is the best with, it is like a back call of the past
I love how this game has no real goal. You're never told what to do. You are free to do, literally, whatever you want. You explore this vast virtual world, shape it as you see fit...
At some point you start discovering a pattern, a sort of "hint" that there is something out there, a different dimension perhaps, like the Nether? But more... mysterious.
This OST PERFECTLY encapsulates what it's like to finish the game. You've crafted your own journey, despite that never being the goal of it. You've built castles, you've slain monsters, you've played with friends... you've made memories... The subtlety of the Overworld OST in this soundtrack is hypnotizing. As if, all this unintentional journey was wrapping up. As if, you're in a place where all of those memories are gone, only coming and going to remind you of their existence. Merely a reminder of what once was.
Wake up.
"Minecraft Soundtrack - The End (End)"
Person who added "(end)": No need to thank me.
Es verdad xd
yea the guy is a legend (Markus Person)
Very true (=true)
That guy deserves a noble peace prize for his honourable actions.
"Minecraft Soundtrack - Overworld (Overworld)"
Theories aside, I find it very ingenious and disturbing that through the end's music, you can hear and recognize various songs from the normla overworld that have been distorted and swept under the ever present noise of vastness from the end.
Same the first one always creeps me out when it gets distorted and glitches
And then at around the 8 minute mark... a remix of Sweden kicks in.
Yea it's OG overworld soundtracks, but off note, distorted and crooked
nedia joseph I didn’t remember the music did that, and had my volume turned all the way up. Scared the shit outta me, lol.
and then when you go back to your world and hear the regular minecraft music it’s very beautiful
This theme makes the Ender Dragon sound like a truly evil being that needs to be slain. A monster with undeserved godly powers, a devil that corrupts the world itself. Really awesome.
Yeah, shame this doesn't play DURING THE ACTUAL FIGHT.
This is not just game music, it's a piece of musical art.
very good :D
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4:40 if you listen closely with headphones you can hear dry hands.
3:05 cat
is heard
3:50 haggstorm
is barely "hearable"
5:14 wet hands
so is its brother
6:05 subwoofer lullaby
6:53 danny
8:07 Sweden
This game is such a beautiful masterpiece
i can hear haggstrom
so I WASN'T the only one who know that?
This track is so awesome that combines some of the most iconic motifs from the Overworld in a haunting way.
Oh shit everything that's built up to this moment is flashing by you in the endgame song! Even if you don't notice it makes you subconsciously reflect on your personal journey.
LOVE that rendition of "Sweden" from 8:06-9:35.
yeah, that's my favorite part!
its amasing :D
By far my favourite part of the piece, it's so atmospheric
set it to 2x
Wow, this whole time I never realized that the tune was supposed to be Sweden
The part with the Sweden melody playing in the background is easily the best part of the song. It feels hopeless, yet hopeful at the same time. Like everything keeps falling apart whenever you try putting everything together. It can convey many emotions, and that’s why it’s amazing. It’s terrifying how it slowly gets drowned out by the constant pulsating flow of synth, and when all the chaos finally ends, it’s like it snapped, and you are forced to face everything happening all at once, head on. This song is amazing, and is arguably better than pretty much all the songs in the soundtrack. Thank you C418 for making such a masterpiece.
Everything you've done.
Every monster you've defeated
Every item you've collected
Every block you've placed
Every treasure you've collected
Everything has led you to this point are you happy? This is The End.
Notch : I want a music for an epic fight with a f*cking giant interdimensional dragon.
C418 : say no more
lol
“Boss” plays in the fight (and I wish this did instead)
@@MrBlueRBLX mooooooojaaaaaaaang speeecificaaaaatioooons?
@@user-mx8yn2vi3q ...Sure...
no ables mas dice
1:14 end.exe has stopped working.
i just shat my pants because my volume was on max and i forgot about that part.
The creepiest part
Lol
Lol, when i first heard that, i thought my entire computer bouta crash
the end was always not working, its corrupt.
Ive been playing minecraft since 2012, and its crazy to see how much this game has changed... i remember the first ever time i played MC, i built my first house out of bricks in the side of a mountain, it had lava coming out the windows. Do you remember those Nether reactor blocks? The gold, diamond and iron ones? Yeah THOSE days...
This song brought tears to my eyes, because it reminded me of the old days. The days that i would stay up through the night, just to make my house look better.
When i was used to be young, me and my cousins play Minecraft PS3, i had remembered when we Made the world full with buildings..you know what? It no longer exists.
To me, the distorted fragments of the overworld songs don't represent a decaying future or a hole in reality, but rather, the player looking back on everything that's come before.
They remember punching trees.
They remember delving into the caves.
They remember finding diamonds.
They remember entering the nether.
They remember finding the stronghold, and activating it's terrible portal.
But now, there are no more memories. Now is the present.
The dragon is dead. The game is over. This is where the experience culminates.
You've done it! You've mastered the world, voyaged across dimensions, and slain a terrible monster. You're a hero!
And yet, you're still here.
Powerful, but with what left to do?
Everything.
Minecraft is a game where the only limit is your imagination.
Where you can go anywhere, and build anything.
A land made of blocks, free to explore and to make your home.
As the story comes to a close, the tape winds to a halt. But that is not the end for you.
Put the tape back in. Start again.
Much still awaits.
Such a good comment but no replies? Let me fix that
Everyone's having theories about the end, when I'm over here questioning how the end portal was created to even go there in the first place.
Really like who lived previously in the strong holds and how were they accessed and who built them why are there jail cess and iron doors and random chess and especially the library
Yeah like you can’t break or craft them
Its composed of endstone and a cyan material. How they obtained endstone before they created the portal?
Endermans could bring endstone from their dimension to help the creators of the portal to save the dimension of the dragon
Watch matpats video its really good theory
1:11 when you see someones nick in cave but you're playing singleplayer
alt + f4
I had a similar experience, I saw a nametag and had a mini heart attack, but then I remembered
It was just my dog who'd I used a nametag on
Lmao, I think we all had a scary minecraft moment. Mine was when a cave sound played in my house just after I joked to myself about hero brine joining my game. Oml I couldn’t sleep that night and I was just staring at my Xbox the entire night
Shadow Soul24
Oh please, to me Nothing is scarier then a fucking Cave Spider 😂
They’re
Small
invasive (If it takes a while to find the spawner)
Their walking sound effect is just spooky
Poisonous, meaning the moment one hits, that debuff is ticking you down to a half heart no matter of what your armor is
And on top of all of that, they hide better behind walls when climbing because they’re so small. So when you least expect it one just drops down in front of your face
in Minecraft's early days I saw somebody in my house on singleplayer and they didn't have a nametag...
and it wasn't a villager either O_O"
hate me if you want, but I'm pretty sure that stupid white-eyed virus got in my house or something
I played this while fighting the Elden Beast at Elden Ring and it fits insanely well.
I wonder if the Elden Beast thene works on the Ender Dragon..?
It's nothing short of a damn shame that the absolute greed of Microsoft is preventing C418 from contributing his music to the game. We may never get another track like this again.
I thought he left on his own will?
The new music is still great too
@magic.73 Nah, when Microsoft got minecraft, they basically told him that they owned all the tracks at that moment, and they didn't allow him to make anymore, so they got Lena to make the newer ones.
8:06 literally made me cry.
It sounds like "trying your best even if all odds are against you"
I as well.
Victory is here!!!
everything will be fine
Those melancholy piano notes playing the arrangement from Sweden sends chills down my back every time.
The gradual switching from other Minecraft melodies to just nothingness, makes it feel like the end cant really figure out what it is, switching between existing songs, trying to find an answer.
deep
@@AvMoken damn..
i see you everywhere,
but yeah true
No i cam actually agree whole heartedly after actually listening to the song in its entirety
it gives off
eateot
vibes
1:12
First time I heard this I thought my PC was dying
Yeah, I've been having driver issues lately and I thought that was THE END (I know I know bad joke) of it.
In a way, I hope they never do a "nether-update" kinda thing to The End. It's just so perfect as a desolate, spooky place - when this track plays while you're in there it's just the most atmospheric Minecraft gets.
C418: How scary should a children’s game be?
Mojang: *Yes*
It’s not really scary tbh, this soundtrack kind of signals it’s the end by showing bits of the other songs and the nostalgic part at the end that makes you scroll through le memories
it’s not a children’s game
It’s everyone’s game
*disc 13 and disc 11*
John Cataldo
*herobrine in youtube*
Excuse me? “Children’s game”???
Came just for the piano part on 8:06. It is amazing, emotional, and a 21st-century masterpiece.
Ikr it’s so relaxing
@DONT CLICK MY PHOTO its seems like its corrupted a little bit
Yeah its hyping in a way.
@DONT CLICK MY PHOTO yep I can definitely hear a bit of Sweden in some parts
4:52 lowed version of piano1.ogg
8:07
I love how this is the clearest, least distorted part in the whole song. It gives such a contrast to the other parts where there's music playing over other music, playing out of tune, and repeating like a broken record. It gives a sense of awakening and clarity. To me, it's saying "Wake up. Your journey isn't over. You're here for a reason."
There is nothing left.
This is the cold, forgotten remnant of all your failed creations.
Every project you quit, world you forgot, every friend you lost to make it here.
Its all here.
Yet nothing is here.
This is the end.
Steve: "Minecraft?"
Ender Dragon: "Minecraft broke."
Steve: "Understandable, have a great day."
Why here?
s🅱eve
8:06 finding the end city with this part of the song on makes you feel like your on the final stretch or in the endgame
**dragon epicly snap**
It makes me think of when you know the end is near but you fight till the end and keep fighting until you have been worn out but your destiny continues
It gives me nostalgia
imagine if this music played if u completed the game of life
@@paly3868 _Do you mean, this game?_
8:05
"The good ol' days, *have ended"*
3:10 Cat
4:36 Dry hands
5:19 Wey hands
7:19 Haggstrom
8:06 Sweden
8:06 - 9:48 is easily the most intense part of this song and possibly the soundtrack as a whole. Throughout the song, you can hear distant melodies, songs that you recognize from your journey vaguely fading in and out. This moment right here however has been the most in your face about this. The piano cords are no longer faded out but very clearly in the foreground at the center of attention. A sort of moment of solace allowing you to reflect upon your journey. But then, this motif finishes and you're back to the noise, only growing louder and louder, the faded music returning until finally, a single low bass note cuts through all of it, allowing even the noise to begin fading away. Such a wonderful work of art this music is.
I never really cared about the soundtrack that was being used until one day I was playing Minecraft in the End, when this part came on I loved it ever since.
14:29
Remembering parts of your adventure, cutting in and out, along with the familiar music.....
..........Replaying…………………………………………
One time this came on when I was looking for End cities with friends, and then at the climax I found an end city! I got it on video to! It was epic! It's at that moment that you know your making memories!
You have just taken my feelings of this song, and put them into perfect words.
I feel like this is something that would play when you are dying/about to die in real life
Kind of a terrifying thought not gonna lie
hm
You wish it would be as peaceful
I'm now having a breakdown breakdown
It’s called the end for a reason
I was playing one night with 4 of my friends. We had this big survival world that we played non stop in. One night we travelled to the End to defeat the Ender Dragon. After doing so, we went to the Outer Islands, or End Cities. Of course, there was the usual End city that spawns when you first enter the portal. One of my friends got the Elytra from the ship, then left the game to go to bed. Unfortunately, there were no other end cities for thousands of blocks. We split up and continued to search for the next hour. We were determined to get Elytra’s. It was getting late. Around 1 AM I think. All 3 of my friends that were still playing decided to go to bed, but I continued to play. For the next two, yes TWO hours I continued to search. As I was crossing the void, collecting chorus fruit, and slaying enderman for ender pearls, this masterpiece was playing. There’s something that feels strange listening to this in a dark room alone at 3 AM. It makes you feel distant from reality. As if everything you once knew has come to an End, and you are now trapped. Well, that’s exactly what the End is. No other humans are here. Only you amongst the millions of monsters who were once just like you. And soon, you will be like them as well. C418 may be the greatest video game music composer to ever exist. This “song” isn’t just music. It’s and adventure itself.
The end is quite similar to space outside of earth in the real world, so this piece can represent fear of the extraterrestrial and cosmic horror even though it is disguised in "the mission of defeating the enderdragon" vibes and such, the song can really represent a fear of the vastness of space, and thus completing the urge for survival which is the main statement of minecraft (to survive and to survive creatively), survival against all dangers, including (maybe most importantly) cosmic ones
I just want to say this song really fits into cosmic horror
bro the fact that C418 added the normal minecraft music to the end but slightly distorted made it sound even more like a forgotten or corrupted world..
The End could possibly be a corrupted world that remained even after deletion.
The question is, who did that world originally belong to?
@@silverflight01 idk, maybe it was a cobblestone world since end stone is just inverted cobblestone (in color)
My theory is that the end is an alternate overworld, but overtime became distorted and glitched. The dragon was a being they summoned to help them. But it betrayed them and became their dictator.
@@lextheboogeyman7633 thats good
@@red.animations thanks man.
8:06 is by far the best part of this whole 15 minute soundtrack
Facts
@@Yes-cm9ch yes
Mine too
You mean sweden?
@@alanc611 yep
Ever since I first heard this years ago in the end I've always loved it. The part at 8:25 just gave me inspiration for a character in a story I'm writing
I really don't want the eerie, empty and vast atmosphere of the end to be lost if it were to be updated poorly.
I don't think it would be.
in my opinion the main thing about minecraft that will always stay and feel the same is atmosphere
@@KwikBR well if they add a bunch of vegetation, animals and mobs. It will certainly feel more habitable and welcoming, which is what i dont want from the end
the music does give a big hint that the end feels like something you weren't supposed to see... Look at the textures of some of the blocks in the end including the end crystals they all have simple designs like they were in early development (including endstone it's a re-texture of cobblestone)
Never thought of that way, almost like the End dimension was actually bound to never be found and endermans are glitches of the end that managed to get on the overworld
After 7 years of playing that is the best theory I heard about the game. Thank you :)
Conflux Bruh Minecraft has a lore to us you cant change that!
Retexture? They just straight up inverted cobblestone
@Conflux I doubt he meant literally. We were obviously meant to see and explore it as part of the game, but the whole place gives off vibes that say the opposite.
The Overworld: The Start
The Nether: The Middle
The End: The End
The Nether is the beginning,the overworld is the start,End World is the ending...or so it would seem...
@@thenewbie6335 the achievement for killing the wither (nether) is called "The Beginning." and the achievement for killing the dragon (end) is called "The End?" Leaving us to believe the overworld is in the middle or after the end
@@LetsGoChaz and the badge we get when we enter the end: ''the end or the beginnning?'' something like that
how tf has this got 98 likes smh
@@blackwinterr bc im disappointed that there is 101 people who thought this comment was actually good
I absolutely love the music in The End. It gives off comforting vibes of old memories while also being eerie.
This song brings so many memories from back when i was playing on Xbox 360 and just beat the dragon for the First time and i start hearing this soundtrack, it was tu most surreal experience i've Had with the game ever. Its so calm yet so chaotic and sometimes epic. There is no real way to describe this because its so long its a whole 15 minutes of pure nostalgia from the old times, from back when ancient cities werent a thing, from back when piglins were still pigmen, from back when villages Had travel paths, and from back when there was no basically Infinitie world.
And this song still feels natural, because while all of that was being added to the overworld and nether the end just... Stayed the same, an endless void filled with random floating island and you Explore them fearing for your life at every moment.
This song signifies that you have been through everything. Now you have access to everywhere. You accomplished the impossible. You can do whatever you wanted to do.
I can do whatever I want? well then time for the end to become an unstoppable empire and manipulate everyone via greed, corruption, and promises of a better future
@@porkyminch1640 bruh
this shit is spooky, it tells more that end became corrupted or something
Porky Minch bruh
Am I the only one who likes this?
The end, after the dragon has been defeated, is my favourite place in the whole game. The sensation of loneliness, being lost in another dimension is just awesome. And this soundtrack really adds a lot to it.
At 8:06
It feels
Like an end
To a journey
This is litteraly my favourite soundtrack because it is basically overworld soundtracks, but distorted and crooked, wich makes it so mysterious
so atmospheric, it's unbelievable
You're not the only one...
The End is my favourite dimension and it's soundtrack is the best in the game.
The corrupted sky realm holding the final enemy that stands in your way.
The gate to wakeing up from a never-ending dream.
Either you let the void consume you.
Or you slay the beast.
The mother dragon protecting her egg and the one who holds prisoner of the tortured souls of the ones from the past who had first discovered the abyss of what we call The End.
The pressure knowing that if you fall you lose everything.
The feeling of your death slowly looming closer.
Only to be fought back when you slay Her.
Yes. This realm really feels as if it's my home. I'm with you.
8:06 just gives goosebumbs and makes you think that this is the song when world ends
I guess, in the end, there really is no end; just new beginnings.
-End