Solving the Minecraft ARG That Hears You Speak

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Published 2024-08-03
One of the most unsettling Minecraft ARGs is SPCTR.zip due to its unknown origin, so enjoy this part game-theory, part Minecraft world-analysis of a video. I initially discovered this world from a YouTube video which upon watching led me down a rabbit hole of inconsistencies, puzzles, and mysteries to solve. Follow me as I try to unravel the tangled mess that is this ARG as well as share some never-before-seen videos I uncovered on the original YouTuber’s channel.

Yes, I am analyzing my own video but if you bring it up in the comments I will wholeheartedly tell you I have no idea what you are talking about. Comment it. I dare you.

This is sort of a light-hearted update video to get people up to speed on the lore of this world so I can make a more official sequel down the line, the other goal for this video was to see if I could make a video that successfully creeps people out even though it entirely takes place in creative/spectator mode. You can let me know in the description if I was successful or not. To be clear, this world and its ability to access your microphone is not real, but created to make a more interesting storyline.

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Original Video:    • This strange Minecraft world can hear...  

Didn’t mean for this to end up so similar to ‪@Zeemyth‬'s Bedrock.zip but go check out his stuff it’s great

#minecraftarg #minecrafthorror #minecraftcinematic #wifies #renderss

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Assets: Vecteezy.com

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TV SWITCH OFF - TV TURN OFF - TV SHUTDOWN.wav by SkyernAklea -- freesound.org/s/519627/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Tape Rewind - Sound Effect.mp3 by NikPlaymostories -- freesound.org/s/561857/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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Soundtrack:

One Minute to Midnight by Richard Lacy [00:00 - 00:33]
Sheer Drop by Richard Lacy [00:34 - 03:57]
Submersion by Kevin Browne [03:58 - 05:55]
Urgent Questions by Philip Guyler [06:18 - 08:37]
Mysteries by Richard Lacy [08:35 - 11:31]
Mystery Train by David Obrien [11:40 - 13:10]
Flowing Time by Philip Guyler [13:08 - 15:07]
According to Plan by Luke Richards [15:02 - 15:41]
The Monster Within by Luke Richards [15:34 - 16:29]
A Disturbed Individual by Luke Richards [16:30 - 20:24]
Ticking Along by Karl Solve Steven [20:25 - 21:41]
Beautiful Circuits by Glen Gabriel Jansson [21:32 - 24:36]
The Monster Within by Luke Richards [24:45 - 26:22]

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Chapters:

0:00 The Video
9:15 The Theory
13:00 The World
25:15 The End

All Comments (21)
  • @Bob_games9
    Bro was so impatient to wait for somebody to solve his ARG, he did it himself
  • @AAquafox
    making videos on own videos is totally new metaverse
  • @Dood-rp4bh
    "Francis I love you!" Most relatable sentence
  • @thatboy7401
    Okay so, I've got a feeling that in the dawn of dusk video. When the torches are being placed, I think that means that it's people, literally people downloading the world and joining it. The pov is definitely Zachnobuilds, and at the end he realizes what's happening with the torches, as he says "no, you guys can't!" You guys, as in us, the people who want to play the world.
  • @FireOven
    He made a ARG followed it up with a new character that is uncovering the truth… well now this world is getting a lore… like the new character got trapped in the world too… like what… you made a ARG followed up with another ARG that is genius
  • @TheDragonVA
    You know, I was about to give you a bunch of critiques for this being so Similar to Zeemyth's videos. But from what I can see, he enjoys them too. So keep doing what you're doing man. Love the content.
  • @tyronorxy5646
    My guesses: - The vertical stacking of the world is just the teleport command in a datapack. - The visual stuff is just shaders inside an internal (resourcepack folder within world folder) resource pack. - The datapack triggers something in the world that the shader can detect and react to. (Like putting a pumpkin on the player's head.) - I do not know how the world processes audio input.    Perhaps creating a mod inside the shader code? Shaders are code run by the GPU, so perhaps it's possible? Of course if this IS in fact a mod hacked into the shader code, then everything can be done by this mod and there's no reason to have a datapack and a resourcepack. You could just implement immersive portals to create the one-directional vertical world stacking. Toggle/rotate shaders at will. And have creepy, totally not edited in (18:20), ghosts to haunt you. But the simpler option is to just edit all the stuff into the video. Swap shaders manually, and insert the cinematically timed responses of the ghost in post. Which ever it is, it doesn't change the fact that this ARG is really good, and, as far as I'm aware, quite unique. Good work! :)
  • @ila0s
    I think the video did a great job at making the viewer feel unsettled(if thats a real word), maybe not scared but it gets very close. To me i feel the video starts becoming like a movie and this "character" acted differently than i would have(even tho thats probs just some bias) but you did amazingly to respect the realism while still trying to convey an emotion thus having to respect a "script". 10/10 ❤
  • @Skizzors
    I love these args where the video creator is part of the arg
  • @frostiels58
    Just read the description, I really like the video, especially the part where you wrote in the book and it talked back to you, I think you did a pretty good job with all of it, even had me tricked for a bit until I checked the channel and realized it was the same person, I like the video a lot and I do think that you succeeded in making a pretty creepy video even with it not being in survival mode
  • The fact that he made this video analyzing his own video is crazy.
  • This got SO META so fast omg. This is a very cool lore update! I love how you’re doing the format. This is super fun. I will definitely be keeping up with this. I ate up the first one, this is equally as good. You are a very talented storyteller. Highly entertaining.
  • @Jerotero
    18:22 uh whats that thing on the left coming out of the shadows? 23:31 tbe O's are replaced with 0's is that significant anywhere? Like a phrase that could be edited to turn into a link maybe? I think tinyurl allows custom links but I'm not sure 1. Taking, seriously, didn't, signs, real, and blind, are in caps in the book. Might of missed a few but is that importang? 2. There are more numbers and letter messed up in the book in the end
  • @ValArt_cpf
    18:18 The second i saw slightest twitching in the corner, i started going through the bit with muted dynamics & pause more than watch, because i though it'll be some extra-detailed thing, and those give me beetlejuice (the betelgeuse star, not the Beetlejuice beetlejuice) sized fright for some silly reason. (also, at 18:20 - 18:25 it looks like a moving pile of rot, ew) 21:12 I am severly dissapointed in myself, but i genuienly thought A was an among us blob. 22:42 And that was the sound of me getting a heart attack (probably would've been a /srs statement if i was in headphones tbh) 22:59 Yeah, this is the moment where my mind went "Nope, creative mode is not granting him even a sniff of safety lol-' 23:22 I think i am talking for everyone here, we all hope it's Franics, because Francis our beloved friendly, helpfull fella, and one can even talk with him a while, huge friend (ghost)shape potential 24:35 My brain, once again is screaching "OH NO, CREATIVE MODE IS *NOT* SAVING HIS ASS FROM THE DYING" 25:59 That hole that the creepy white thing is crawling out of kinda looks like the talking pit where the book was left for the comunication with the now-dead-guy. Someone should go dig at that spot from all walls and check if there's anything behind that bedrock me thinks Also, the video linked is shorter than the video shown in the video that this comment is on. Sus. I checked the link, it's the same. Even more suspicious now
  • @aphelixon
    its funny how you criticize yourself from a separate perspective but i'm HoH. when i first watched about the ASL i was wondering how the hell you were able to extract those hand signs. i'm glad i wasn't tweaking