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If blazes are robots, how do they come from spawners? Maybe they are living metal, like a silicon-based life form or something. That could be possible, because if my previous post is correct, then pigmen can use magic to genetically engineer that kind of stuff. Also, as I said earlier, they probably created the magma cubes out of slimes to see if they could survive in the nether.
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I think that pigmen not the zombie ones made the nether fortresses. They were turned into zombies because of the corrupting influence of the nether (this is may explanation of the zombie pigmen). The blazes are larval ghasts that hide in the nether fortresses because they offer a sheltered location.
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Metroids are not pets. Metroids are not target practice.
1. testifacates are not humans.
2. iron golems came after blazes.
3. how would smelting an iron golem let it fly, be immune to fire, shoot fireballs, and go to the nether?
how does that work, if the players respawn?
uuum, no there are no genders in minecraft. proof of this: cows breed with cows, chickens breed with chickens, pigs breed with pigs. also, how can a flaming iron creature be a "male" fire squid?
There are no "random" Monsters. everything is there for a reason.
I think that you can be a know it all, keep your critizisim to yourself and let people imagine.
I think that you can be a know it all, keep your critizisim to yourself and let people imagine.
Don't hate on him, he did a good job disproving some theories and validating stuff. As for letting people imagine, this whole thread was made to find out exactly what blazes are, so if you want to imagine it up yourself, get off this thread. Really, the only two possible options for a blaze to be is a magic construct/robot or a metal fire elemental, and there are craploads of stuff to imagine with those options. You could pretend they were built by the pigmen (my belief), or that they had a war with the pigmen and took over the fortresses, or they were tamed by them but turned evil, or anything else that fits.
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Now that I think about it, there are a lot of mobs that we don't know what they are. Maybe I should make a thread about that.
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i don't think blazes are mechanical as such; their rods spin around their bodies without any apparent physical connection to them, right? that's not mechanics, not as i understand it. maybe i don't understand mechanics very well at all! but consider this - the other artificial beings in the game, the snow and iron golems, don't come from naturally occuring spawners, and don't consist of several disconnected objects possessed of the same will; the rods seem to speed up, if i remember correctly, when they're attacking you, so it's not magnetism either; these are demons in hell, arcane beings animated by something other than technology.
as for speculating about their origins and purpose, well that's a whole different barrel of laughs. i personally think that they were created/animated/recruited by an extinct/absent race, who built the strongholds of the nether; yeah yeah, practically everyone else has said that in this thread. i'll try to offer a new idea;
it could have been pigmen, but that doesn't explain why they all became zombies, or why a pig can become specifically a zombie pigman too in the overworld when hit by a lightning bolt, rather then become a nicely grilled bag of bacon. perhaps it was the endermen, who tried to colonise the nether, igniting metals they'd found in the overworld into hellish guardians, but the blazes turned on their creators, and, chastened by the rejection, the endermen resolved never to enter the flaming nether again?
there must be SOME connection between the blazes and endermen, though, because their drops combine to make eyes of ender. ok, the logic is kind of inverted there, since an eye of ender takes you TO an end portal, but whatever, the connection is still there damnit!
Weren't the strongholds with the portals built by the pigmen though? They have mob spawners like the nether fortresses.
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Actually, I think that Blazes were created by Pigman, while creating the Nether fortresses, because they accidentally made magma cubes and were scared of them.
I stick to the theory that they're guardians, maybe guarding something in the Nether fortress or just the Nether itself. But something had to had put them there, right?
So, I think it may have been past players, maybe there were more. In the credits it spoke of only you, so raises the question if there were more. (Of course there are, like 500,000,000.)
So maybe they left them there to warn you of something. Somethin' evil.
Blazes are actually Iron golems that were betrayed by the village blacksmith, who smelted them for materials. They now hate humans, and search them out for revenge.
BOOM backstory. I'm a writer, you know.
Iron golems protect villagers and only attack players if they attack it first...
If blazes are robots, how do they come from spawners? Maybe they are living metal, like a silicon-based life form or something. That could be possible, because if my previous post is correct, then pigmen can use magic to genetically engineer that kind of stuff. Also, as I said earlier, they probably created the magma cubes out of slimes to see if they could survive in the nether.
I think that you can be a know it all, keep your critizisim to yourself and let people imagine.
So, I think it may have been past players, maybe there were more. In the credits it spoke of only you, so raises the question if there were more. (Of course there are, like 500,000,000.)
So maybe they left them there to warn you of something. Somethin' evil.
Or Notch just needed a new mob for the Nether.
Iron golems protect villagers and only attack players if they attack it first...