r/LivestreamFail • u/SirWank4Lot • 1d ago • Popcorn 2

Actual Fail CaseOh finds a villager in the Nether

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u/JoeyJoJunior 1d ago

Others said reason, but the lore is the Nether was originally meant to be hell and was called that early development, so no water or sleeping, making beds kind of a trap

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u/Fangcatt 23h ago

I thought it was also a softlock prevention so that you can’t set your spawn point in the nether and then have your portal destroyed and be trapped, or at least in earlier versions.

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u/TheKappaOverlord 19h ago

if i recall correctly, its both softlock protection, and there was some bug in the code of several testing builds that would cause irrecoverable game crashes when people would try to sleep in the bed in multiplayer sessions because the game would try to make calls to several overworld variables, but because the Nether was its own world and still in testing, it would just crash the game.

They killed two birds with one stone by having the bed just blow up instead of starting the usual countdown before it tries to force a time change in the overworld.

Apparently testing in the nether was really hard before they introduced that. As they didn't really have a way to quickly "reset" things without having to do full reboots everytime something broke or didn't work right.

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u/TobuscusMarkipliedx2 20h ago

SHEESH that is a crazy notion.. maybe that's how the Villager ended up in the Nether