For billions of years, our universe and its parallel universe, the Minecraft universe, existed in harmony. Despite the fact that they both occupied the same physical space, they were both invisible to each other, and could only be united through the creation of a rift in the fabric of reality.
Several million years after the creation of both universes, the people of the Minecraft universe began to evolve, and began to extract iron from ores they harvested deep underground, and to build spectacular monuments in honour of their primitive gods.
But as the people evolved, so did the creatures. They gradually grew stronger and more aggressive over time, and began to see the people as easy prey. On one fateful day, they decided to drive the people out of the strongholds they had spent years building, and did so successfully. In the rush to escape, the people left their strongholds abandoned, and to celebrate their victory, the monsters filled one of the rooms in each stronghold with a sinister portal that enabled them to travel to the dimension that their leader, the Ender Dragon, came from.
In the wake of the destruction caused by the creatures, the people travelled over the vast expanse of land, searching for land in which they could begin new lives. Eventually, they split into groups, and built small villages dotted across the flat, infinite world. Over time, things fell into balance, and although the creatures remained a threat, the resourcefulness and the courage of the people made them little more than a nuisance. Despite the fact that some of the people would occasionally die at the hands of the creatures, the strength of their homes was usually enough to keep them safe.
Things remained this way for some time, but years later a great change took place. A programmer from our universe, who went by the name of Notch, created a rift in the fabric of reality so that the people of our world could travel, through dreams, into the world that had previously been beyond their reach.
The people of our world had different attitudes to the new universe they had discovered – some aimed to conquer and dominate the occupants of the Minecraft universe, while others carefully planned their exploits, and befriended and traded with the people of the villages to further their progress.
In time, the people of our world reached each other within the Minecraft universe, and created elaborate contests to show off the skills they had learnt – some engaged in combat within huge arenas, while others created factions that allowed them to team up and conquer others. Many of them even ventured into the land that held the terrifying Ender Dragon, and were brave enough to defeat it. However, each time it died, it would lay an egg that would later give birth to yet another Ender Dragon to terrorise the people of our universe.
As more and more of the people of our universe entered the Minecraft universe, they began to make it their own. They left huge monuments, much like the people of the Minecraft universe had done so many years ago. But while the people of the Minecraft universe had merely created humble storngholds, the people of our universe created even larger and more ambitious projects. Huge statues, elaborate mechanisms, and detailed structures now littered the surface of the flat land, some of which were good, some of which were bad.
In time, the people of the Minecraft universe accepted the people of our universe, and began to live in harmony with them, though not always. Although the people of the Minecraft universe saw that their once uneventful lives had been made both blissful and terrifying, they acknowledged that without the people of our universe, their lives would be empty.
