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Have you ever wondered how mineshafts and dungeons were created? Have you ever found house-like structures underground and wondered why they were there? Well, this will answer all of those questions! After long and extensive research, I have discovered how they were all created! The answer lies behind this cave-dwelling miner, and his other fellow townsfolk.
By hiding in caves, mineshafts, and eventually a community structure known as "the dungeon" to players, they remained safe from evil, and were able to survive by the light of torches and lava. All that these miners wanted were materials to mine with. They did not grief, troll, or kill anything. They had a vegetarian diet, and would rather run from danger than face danger.
This skin is a tribute to the miners that were destroyed by the hand of Herobrine. During the apocolypse of 2001, eight years before Minecraft 1.0 came out, monsters destroyed these peaceful miners. Few remnents of these miners remain. But if you look in the correct places, you might just find these remnents.
When Minecraft came out, no one thought to give them thanks. We thanked Notch and Jeb, but not these miners.
Once a long time ago, a village of miners existed. These miners were around long before Minecraft 1.0 ever appeared. They were peaceful, mining during daylight and hid in their homes at night. They explored everywhere possible, creating mineshafts and villages.
AND THEN the apocolyse came upon them. Monsters started to attack them during the daylight as well as at night. The miners, in an act to save themselves, started to build a huge complex to save themselves. It was made of chiseled stone. At the heart of it, they contained a portal in hopes that they might live, that they could summon the heroic force that Notch had promised them. Winding pathways were created to try to trick the monsters.
Though they toiled under all of the hard work that they put themselves through, they did not survive. The monsters managed to sneak in, and the miners slowly died off, one by one. The land was deemed unfit for life. Until...
Steve came to the land. He was the heroic figure that the miners had hoped for. Although he had come too late to save them, he could still save other entities that had not yet been destroyed by the apocolypse. Steve even had the power to stop the apocolypse before it killed everyone! But to do this, he would need to fine Herobrine,...
...and destroy this menace until it could no longer regenerate.