Name: Game Theory: Minecraft’s SECRET to Eternal Life
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Minecraft's new baby mobs killed the ancient builders.

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because of the flower that helps them stay young forever, which sparked their innovation and ultimately their downfall.

Welcome to Game Theory, the show that's feeling dandy and I ain't lying.

Yeah, okay, that one was pretty terrible, but

I just couldn't think of a good segue to talk about.

It doesn't have a name yet, but it's centered on the adorable redesign they given to baby mobs.

Most people are super excited to see them.

They mostly began comparing them to types of vegetables.

And while I do love me some adorable little guys, I just think it's gonna make me feel bad when I use my chicken meat farm.

Look at those little chicks just sitting there.

But there's one other problem with this idea.

We can't have them be cute and adorable forever.

Thankfully, Mojang saw this issue and so created another item that would solve it.

A golden D. This new flower has the magical power to keep your baby mobs babies.

It's just an item to solve a problem and justify the update.

What else could there possibly be to say?

Well, loyal theorists, I'm here to tell you that what may seem like a random item added to keep your new adorable mobs young forever is actually packed with lore that this dandelion does more than just keep animals young.

It holds the secret that inspired something in the minds of our favorite characters.

An ancient race who built the structures scattered around the Overworld.

And sadly, unlocking the secret of the golden dandelion would spell the beginning of the end for them, as their hunger for answers brought them to their doom.

Am I about to do an entire Minecraft video based on a single plant?

So wake up and smell the dandelions, theorists, and

let me show you why this teeny tiny little update has big implications on Minecraft's lore, understanding more about the ancient builders and their inevitable demise.

But before we can answer the question of how this dandelion can do all of that, we first need to answer the question of why.

Why did Mojang pick a golden dandelion for this magical forever cure?

They don't just add things to the game willy nilly.

And so we need to figure out what that reason is.

Now, we've looked at flowers a couple of times on this channel.

Sometimes we focused on the history and geographical locations.

Other times it's about the science of the plants.

This time I actually wanted to look at the symbolism behind these plants.

You see, all FL flowers have meaning and are used to convey emotions, messages and symbolic sentiments.

This is known as floriography, something you may be familiar with if you've watched our welcome home videos.

By looking into the floriography of the dandelion, we can start to see the story being told by Mojang.

The dandelion's meaning comes from its rapid transformation from a golden flower to the white seeds.

The main thing it represents is change, aging and transformation.

Already this thing tracks with what we see in the golden dandelion.

Feeding it to baby animals prevents them from aging.

It's taking the golden stage of the plant at its most literal.

Because that phase is supposed to represent youth.

It is youthfulness and when eaten can grant that eternal youth.

But if this is the meaning of a regular dandelion, why didn't they just use the dandelions that are already in Minecraft?

Because this new plant isn't any regular plant.

The golden dandelion isn't called that because it's in the early stages of its life cycle.

A golden dandelion in Minecraft cannot naturally occur.

It can only be made by crafting a dandelion with gold nuggets, which means something about that Gold is what is giving the dandelion this magical power of youthfulness.

Fortunately, it's not just flowers that have hidden symbolism.

Gold has many meanings across many ancient cultures and mythologies.

Some of them would simply see gold as a symbol of abundance and wealth, like in Norse mythology.

But almost all of them would connect gold to the gods and their immortal divine power.

Aztecs said gold was excrement of the gods.

Egyptian mythology claimed that gold was the flesh of the sun God Ra.

But most interesting and the most similar to the symbolism of gold we see in Minecraft was from Greek mythology.

In Greek mythology, gold was a symbol of God like power, which makes sense to me.

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But now let's get back to exploring what gold means in Greek mythology.

In many tales, gold was the symbol of divine and pure perfection.

In the story of the golden apples of Hesperides, the primordial God Gaia gives Hera a golden apple tree as a wedding gift for her marriage to Zeus.

The tree is planted in the garden of Hesperides in the far western edge of the world, and

the apples are said to grant the eater the divine power of immortality.

So right here we have a clear representation of what gold means to the Greeks.

This is why the golden dandelion is able to keep babies young forever.

It's a form of immortality, eternal youth.

Gold is what grants the dandelion its power.

It also has another connection to the Greek myth of immortality.

Keeping baby animals young was the main feature that was highlighted for this update.

But there's something else the golden dandelion can do in Minecraft.

Planting an oak, birch or cherry tree sapling within two blocks of a planted golden dandelion increases the chances of that tree growing a bees nest with bees inside it.