There has always been a question as to whether the villagers of Minecraft have some kind of communication through the medium of "language"?
Because in the history of mankind, language has been an important factor in the conquest of the world and the existence at the top of the food chain.
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Minecraft?
Although you can't hear what the villagers in the Minecraft world are talking about, there must be some kind of "language" in the daily interactions of the villagers.
(1) Encounters while loitering: In the daily social behavior of the villagers, you will often find that two villagers get close to each other, look at each other, and throw food at each other after an unexpected encounter. In the midst of a second-long eye contact, there must be communication information that we don't know about.
(2) Communication with the player: When the player comes to the village, you will find that there will always be some villagers who will suddenly stare at you, as if they want to communicate with you, but you don't understand their language at all. In fact, Mojang has discarded an unused bubble message from a villager.
(3) Speech: Since version 1.14, Minecraft villagers have formed a unique way of behaving - speech. At the daily village center meeting point, villagers will pass on the four labels they have for the player to other villagers through speech. These 4 types of speech include: healing zombie villagers, trading with villagers, attacking villagers, and killing villagers.
The greater the number of people who disseminate the speech, the more weighted number is formed. This has an effect on the player's reputation in the village, for example, if you attack a villager, the villagers will "talk" about your tag to more villagers. At this time, your reputation will be weighted down, and eventually when the reputation is below -100, the iron golem will chase you.
In fact, this "language" behavior of the villagers is very close to the language and thinking of Homo sapiens today.
Here's a practical example:
On this day, all the villagers in Minecraft gathered in the center of the village, and one villager pointed to Steve and said,
"It's him, the little kid named Steve, who just beat me up, and you guys help me trap him!"
When the other villagers heard the news, they raised the price of Steve. Dare to bully my brother?
This is how the villagers of Minecraft communicate!
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In fact, Homo sapiens, the early human being, was born somewhere on Earth in East Africa as early as 100,000 years ago. In the tens of thousands of years that followed, it seemed that Homo sapiens' thinking suddenly leapt to unbelievable heights overnight.
How to explain it, about 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens began to migrate to various regions of the world. According to the theory of "racial extermination" in the evolution of civilization, Homo sapiens actually exterminated other Homo sapiens races around the globe. Otherwise, how could the modern Homo sapiens that is now spread all over the world be born?
Then the question arises:
The first is, how can Homo sapiens be able to exterminate a race that is more powerful than himself?
The second is how Homo sapiens crossed mountains, forests, and oceans. Reach a place where humans have never been?
In fact, the problem is very simple, that is, human beings have learned to use and utilize powerful tools.
This is a reasonable explanation, but it ignores an important reason, which is why ancient Homo sapiens mastered and spread the ability to use tools so quickly.
The most important of these is "language".
With the construction and development of ancient Homo sapiens language, humans learned to create infinite words and sentences with a limited number of voices that were far inferior to those of animals. The most interesting thing is that these simple repetitive words and pronunciations can have different meanings when combined in different ways.
Ancient Homo sapiens used this simple yet complex way to store, record, and transmit large amounts of information.
For example, when a sheep meets a wolf, it will call in a different tone, which means "the wolf is coming". Then the sheep realized that the wolf was coming and scattered. So here, the sheep's use of language is limited to "the wolf is coming". But there is no lesson learned.
And human beings can express a lot of meaning with their own different tone combinations, not only to tell others that the wolf is coming, but also to chat with their friends after dinner:
"You know, last night I met a hungry wolf in the grass at the foot of the mountain to the northeast, and you must be careful there. They often wander by the creek?"
Therefore, human beings can convey extremely complex information with a voice that is rarer than that of animals, which is actually an important reason why human beings can greatly promote the exchange of information with each other, learn to cooperate, share experience, learn Xi knowledge, and eventually become the master of the natural world. Even human beings rely on this highly creative language to spread fictional myths, stories, and even wild imaginations that animals can never understand.
In other words, even one sheep suddenly underwent this kind of drastic change in thinking one day, possessing the thinking ability of Homo sapiens, as well as endless imagination and creativity. But in the end, it will be lonely because of the lack of language and the incomprehension of the sheep around it!
So to sum up, the villagers in "Minecraft" have mastered the basic ability to transmit information in language, and this kind of communication is a manifestation of socialization. It would be interesting if one day Minecraft villagers could create their own speech that could be disseminated.