Washed Away By The Tide

Introduction

This is the third part of a series of posts in which I create scenarios for how the mob vote losers disappeared within the context of the minecraft world. Like previous parts, I have adjusted the functions and designs of the mobs to better fit the context of this post.

Feathered Divers

Flightless birds that roamed rocky coasts and colder seas, the penguins appear to have been quite sociable creatures, helping early settlements find ideal fishing spots. This friendly demeanor would be what doomed them however, as early civilazations found something they considered even more valuable than the penguins' help, their blubber.

This blubber was harvested by the thousands, and then refined into oil, which the sea peoples employed for a variety of uses, as fuel, to lubricant, to even as an ingredient in their cuisine. This rampant exploitation would lead to the penguin's extinction, with only bottles of oil and sherds left as traces of these curious creatures.

Clawed Marauders

Naturally armored and belligent, the crabs were the apex predators of their time. Armed with massive claws that could crush shell or armor, but also grab chunks of soil or rock to launch them as makeshift cannon balls.

These athropods were the bane of coastal towns and merchant ships, their rivalry with early humans is speculated to have been catalyst for the invention of nautilus riding. As the speed of the cephalopods would allow warriors to outmaneuver the crabs' shots, while the nautiluses benefitted from the protection humans offered against the crabs.

At the end of this conflict, humans emerged as the victors, adapting many of the claws from fallen crabs into claw cannons, which were employed as not only weapons, but as contruction tools as well. Some of the cannons can still be found in ocean ruins, alongside images of these beasts engraved in pottery.

The Sea Peoples

The title given to the civilizations that used to reign over the seas of the overworld in the distant past, understood to have been some of the greastest this world as seen. World spanning trade routes, the creation nautilus riding, and the construction of the magnificent ocean monuments are some of the feats achieved by these great nations.

This would not last however, as their meddling with nature would come with a heavy toll, not only to the animals that were wiped out, but for them as well. Nature can be understood as a net, with each knot being one organism, all connected, pulling and being supported by each other. And if too many knots break, the whole thing starts to unravel.

Their settlements now lie beneath the waves as ruins, haunted by bloated corpses of the denizens, "drowned" as they are commonly called. And even distorted like this, they still fight to maintain their claim over the seas.

The oceans are still recoving from this great collapse, one can only imagine how many other creatures we should been seeing call them home. But we must not lose hope, for we can learn from both the sea peoples' greastest and failings, to achieve a better result for not only ourselves, but this great world we live in.

Conclusion

That is all for penguin and crab, let me know what you think about these scenarios and maybe even ones you could create for them instead. Following are the links for the previous parts:

Part 1, Part 2.