Minecraft Clues (The Mojang ARG You've Never Heard Of)

[quick yacht]

what if we just take blue and green combine them but like missplaced i remember a while ago i was doing some puzzle that the solve was seperating the alpha channels but misplacing them to get a code

like offset

@quasi kraken

oh yea

[clever torrent]

ugh that's annoying the new reddit format hid the info in the sidebar that I had written in the past in old reddit
I'm updating the subreddit rn if anyone cares abt it lol

[quick yacht]

@balmy vigil

look at my stream rq @balmy vigil

mate

@balmy vigil

does this look like an eue

ima join on phone hold on

[fallen shuttle]

is this link needed?

http://www.ocean-labs.de/radaway

[pine prawn]

Where is retrogaming? Haven't seen him today

[fallen shuttle]

hes offline

[candid patio]

RGN is prolly sleeping]

isn't he NA

[worldly spindle]

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13S79GjVIFk_5jBzs0lUon1qMBzO1EebmT6gMJYo6ngM/edit#slide=id.g2fc6dea6578_0_301

summary

[pine prawn]

I will try to make python script that makes it more bright

[clever torrent]

made it nicer

that's the docs we made

we made them while solving the original clues

[clever torrent]

The links are here

[quick yacht]

wtf

[candid patio]

blue's clues minecraft edition

[clever torrent]

edit is on for the unsolved one

[pine prawn]

Wait the world we used for image

[quick yacht]

wahts that

[clever torrent]

I'll pin a post on the sub with the links just in case as well

[pine prawn]

Village*

[fallen shuttle]

found this in expired link

[pine prawn]

Wait what

[fallen shuttle]

http://www.ocean-labs.de/far_below_the_rabbit_hole.gif

[quick yacht]

ive even went thru the requests the website exchanges w the host it aint do nun @worldly spindle

[pine prawn]

Do you remember the world we found village on lage biome?

[fallen shuttle]

uhh

idk

[pine prawn]

The seed was #itzlipofutzli

I think

[fallen shuttle]

oh yeah

[balmy vigil]

yeah, and with largebiomes on

[pine prawn]

Can you try visiting nether there

[clever torrent]

what were you guys on about solving phase_05?

[worldly spindle]

i know i did too but at one point i thought mrpingouin was searge undercover so i just took everything for granted

[clever torrent]

we had found it led here

[balmy vigil]

what version was it again?

[pine prawn]

Idk

[fallen shuttle]

1.9 1.8.5

[pine prawn]

What did you found

[clever torrent]

it's in our unsolved doc from 201x something

we already figured phase_05 out at the time

[candid patio]

did searge write that line

[clever torrent]

we solved it somehow

I'm not sure why the solution wasn't written in the doc...

[pine prawn]

Follow white rabbit instead of red queen

[wicked cairn]

alice in wonderland???

[clever torrent]

I might need to review how we got there

[worldly spindle]

naaaah we analized everything in the the stained glass image

[clever torrent]

ah I see, these old itzlipofutzli links went down I'm assuming

[clever torrent]

you think enther was intentional misspelling?

[worldly spindle]

yes i asked searge

also there are several other things in phase4 and /

[clever torrent]

you have links that still work?

[candid patio]

enther

nether?

[worldly spindle]

yea

[clever torrent]

oh I see, the links got renamed since 201x

I'm not sure if the clues in the google doc are still relevant if you can't find them anymore

the links are different though and the comments didn't exist on the original pages

[quasi kraken]

http://www.itzlipofutzli.com/phase_04/0451.txt this one don't exist, but I can't get it to work by changing to things like phase4 and such. It's really odd, because if that was part of phase 4, it should still exist

[clever torrent]

yeah I wonder if searge cleaned up the links and redid it to start from phase5 anew or something

[quick yacht]

look

@balmy vigil

[clever torrent]

I wonder would the answer format be the same? http://itzlipofutzli.com/phase5/solution_code_here.txt

[quick yacht]

nah watch

look

well from my pov the pixels change

slightly

[pine prawn]

I can see H there

[quick yacht]

position change

[clever torrent]

yeah no idea if the irc thing is relevant anymore lol

unless searge is still monitoring it after all this time

darn you can't access it from a webpage anymore, have to download a client

[wicked cairn]

Whats this supposed to be

[pine prawn]

What about these

I mean there is nohing

[quick yacht]

look at my screenshare

[pine prawn]

Wait when you debright the red one something was on middle

[quick yacht]

what

where

[pine prawn]

At middle

Share screen again and do the same thing you did

Yep like that

That look like a square

[worldly spindle]

can we extract the difference in pixels beetween the lowest white level and the highest ?

[quick yacht]

leo

look at my screenshate

[worldly spindle]

i am

yes but after that crossing point there are pixels appearing when you increase the white level maybe we can extract them

[quick yacht]

look when i do it fast

is it just me or is there a white outline

thing

like a lil transparent

[pine prawn]

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

[quick yacht]

any suggestions?

[worldly spindle]

bro i cant upload images

[pine prawn]

I used a thing called string extraction and got :

IHDR gAMA sRGB peI2 h8k8 AKS8 rIB@4Z-@ 4VUy ubbo JRQT RiR1p 67LI dyBU ncY8 IDAT 337g 2IrM hmk0 6P1O wQ4N 8HL4 FIr9 aLhe uhJD xxIr 9XcA >Kb+A<E 0OYv hh81Q IDAT SIRn2 vqsG Lq5To XFo6ME 8X56M 47KR sbbM dY81qA Yvt0 oa0XC pEVj ugFF A2Yv 736va YXmTC Cql4 yrr4 tA5C LsLU 8Ea4V2q@ JCXA A9to IDAT Bxe6 HhPUA CWeb wVQN lqqR Btlyg 4EAps 0D3s UTiY jaVG KS68 IDAT$"Y H97b emKS PToP EIjd yl7g Gh8S BEp5 yKQF 8l_)VUyU Z\dj~ I_" fd2Y 2KUB i633 IDAT b1yn mshQTG QYFKn Wx~n0PHR xu8J L4Vb fut1 EGTuf8 vOMA R!>X.cNO &Ax)IvhZ 26mX B2pA3 saRN 0RuIjR ELTU JwDp 27wH iY~hYT3m aodog2Y a2gY 0Oxu EQnF g84J BDeO 1jA59 YA8L 0CQtR mvcr pm2q BiN9 iy1g MiQf gToB jpGw rTfG hFUo mVKg 5xm6 Jei84 IDAT 8xIUa $S-.-atc IhYO lU05 b1/dDCoc LUJ1u dwoA MYvX 9s6E 2exg LulF2j F71F AIQ6 sQ4L 8Qu<H/Fz Qty2 gY>U{<OU CQdc IDAT xhMQ AQBU 24pP WPKD x2yX yMA8 JeIj i978mR 05Ib g9Mq px8I MIRQU YgYm DdCE wJR7Ip IDATjq JRs4R tL5D lN0e 0DwA nl6K JNuP VXLQd DOUkax 1uEQ q5Lc CAp8 dYMU eWLL CYnp7is IDAT yvQ6 16Qt7 2MAQ uAp5M g8Dm JjNN UjQq 9n735 0kENQY yWPH qbbj0 y9fYo OS0N 4GQP T99_A(/C CApU IDAT qg4B WJ G<K!s Eq2M 2fWY MYVVU IbP8 IDAT iMhn ectk I1-I`Ov vLmI Ogbo0 BDQ3M mBYHDg jTras gaA$[)WeZ+ FQ0W Y4CT YPCB IDAT NMAb Iy<@-b<W<q RbuU X\CYuY}4 N2at 2MS4 Jh8l PU1sr NYv4 1cyx Fdx1 2k3V 269I "cq1%smP IDAT 0gcw a820P3 RiR1 BHr$W}6> IEND

[fallen shuttle]

marker Lol

[quick yacht]

ping me if anything comes up

usefull

[pine prawn]

Idk I found it

[fallen shuttle]

nice

[clever torrent]

flashback to the past

[worldly spindle]

did we try to put the steam game code after the /phase5 ?

[fallen shuttle]

no

only M2XKN

[clever torrent]

enther
h
dormant dince
d
-> hd..

[pine prawn]

What did bro do?

[clever torrent]

?

[clever torrent]

ah I guess this wasn't the solution but the hint to the phase_05 solution, but at this point I wonder if that original path was a red herring due to the 'nice try'. Possibly irrelevant now that the links and clues are different even if also phase 5

[pine prawn]

I can see lines there

[worldly spindle]

can someone run OpenStego on that image?

[quasi kraken]

no apparent stenography

[worldly spindle]

are we even sure that this is for this arg ?

its a dif of 5 years

[quasi kraken]

no, I did propose to find older link working to see if some things are still part of phase 4 or 5.

[clever torrent]

red tiles were a new puzzle I think, but no one continued solving it

it's possible it was related

https://vxtwitter.com/tralomine/status/1246162606936805381/photo/1

i recall looking at that but still didn't know what to do with the info

(there's a 2nd/3rd pic)

[pine prawn]

I did try that

I think he used a normal image and coverted it to pixels

[clever torrent]

oh were the phase4/phase5 links created literally yesterday or so

I saw someone mention it

[fallen shuttle]

yes

i mentioned it

phase5 was 9 nov

and edited 10 nov

and phase4 i didnt check

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 10:53:24 GMT

phase4

[worldly spindle]

on the docs file there is a website file /phase_04/0451.txt what happened to that ?

[fallen shuttle]

it dosent exits says

[halcyon mirage]

something new?

[pine prawn]

[fallen shuttle]

[wintry plover]

what does that mean "if you use full color and not only value"

[pine prawn]

What I see

[wicked cairn]

Password is probably whatever was on the sign in the base64 photo

[quick yacht]

i saw that too

[wicked cairn]

Oops already said

[pine prawn]

Can you send the sign?

[fallen shuttle]

Which photo

[worldly spindle]

I agree even without searges new website the password remains the same he said we can solve it with the info from 2015

[fallen shuttle]

you mean this

[pine prawn]

Yes

[fallen shuttle]

ohh okay

[worldly spindle]

You think we can replicate the sign ?

[fallen shuttle]

kinda

[quick yacht]

yes

il try that rn

hold on

anyone wanan hop in a server and try

@clever torrent

u tryna?

[wicked cairn]

I think it reads xxR5K I can't identify the other two

[quick yacht]

a7wjr

[wicked cairn]

I did that but the image is too low quality to find much

[quick yacht]

xx a7wjr

[fallen shuttle]

is it possible to unpixelete the image?

[wicked cairn]

No

That would take voodoo magic

[fallen shuttle]

mhm

[worldly spindle]

I think it's A7HUR might be a reference to Athur

[wicked cairn]

Damn people really were just breaking the law this morning

It gets wild in this chat 💀

[worldly spindle]

I'll try to find any imgur links with that combo

[worldly spindle]

Yea even searge joined to stop us

[quick yacht]

wait il just

try make a copy

ish

[wicked cairn]

I'm pretty sure it's a T with a reasonable slant, when I checked in MC it was slanted about the same amount

[quick yacht]

can u send original rq

[wicked cairn]

With these Arg things the lines are blurry but maybe it's best to not do stuff you know is wrong

Hows it going chat

[quick yacht]

can someoen send the original of the sign one

[fallen shuttle]

is it snow?

[quick yacht]

wait its a diffrent angle but

this kinda close

[fallen shuttle]

it looks like it

wait

http://itzlipofutzli.com/lotd was working?

[worldly spindle]

there is no P in the dir

[fallen shuttle]

yea yea but was it working or not?

[worldly spindle]

it was he took it down

[fallen shuttle]

wth

[quick yacht]

tried making the closest i could

[wicked cairn]

it wasnt part of the puzzle

[worldly spindle]

nothing for imgur image with xxR5K

[quick yacht]

wait

there

[worldly spindle]

i dont think thats a 5

[wicked cairn]

i can assure you this text reads Athur

or ATHUR

[quick yacht]

its a

a7

j or m

[wicked cairn]

it is not

it is a T

[quick yacht]

or jm

[wicked cairn]

it clearly isnt tho

[wicked cairn]

you can see the serif on both ends it is a T

[worldly spindle]

its not but the O is a U

[quick yacht]

that is not an t

thats clearly a 7

[wicked cairn]

minecraft didnt really have antialiasing at this point so the slant of the T seems abrupt but its normal

[worldly spindle]

any ideas of letters for the second row ?

[wicked cairn]

Ima try something

[wicked cairn]

its not arthur its never been arthur

its athur

[quick yacht]

i belive its A7JMUA or something

first one

[wicked cairn]

why would it be athur

[wicked cairn]

I agree with it being like this

[wicked cairn]

weve had multiple clues point to the word athur

[worldly spindle]

https://imgur.com/A7MUR

its from 2012

[wicked cairn]

i cant tell is searge is just not very good at spelling or if these random typos are important

[worldly spindle]

this is from imgur.com /A7MUR

[wicked cairn]

all of the imgur links with 5 characters are from 2011/2012

[quick yacht]

il remake wait

[wicked cairn]

not relevant

at least they wont have clues hidden in them

[wicked cairn]

Im gonna do my best to recreate the sign thing

[quick yacht]

this

looks close

@wicked cairn im already doing

[wicked cairn]

I just wanna try too lmao

recreating the sign is pretty much fruitless unless you can use the exact resolution, exact position, exact fov, exact rotation

the fov is 70, the window size i have 1 sec

[wicked cairn]

Thats what im gonna try to do lol

window dimensions are 1707 960 (could also be 853 480 but higher is better)

i cant help you with position or pitch because with no crosshair visible its really tough to get a frame of reference

Also when was the pic like made around the version might help too?

1.8.3

alright

im fairly certain at least

i dont know what he did to get that pinkish hue lighting but it cant matter that much

[wicked cairn]

The only that matters is position, resolution, and getting the sign text right

[quick yacht]

thats kinda close

[wicked cairn]

Yea

searge really does have a habit of hiding things and not realizing how hard they are to reverse engineer 😅

[fallen shuttle]

it really looks like it

[worldly spindle]

Is it just me, I see a dot before the M/H

[quick yacht]

and im in 1.8.5 rn

not 1.8.3

anyways

mines the closest

to being it

[worldly spindle]

Try it on /protected

[quick yacht]

my ers got fcked

gotto relaunch wait

[wicked cairn]

my closest shot at recreating the photo although the sign text is not correct

[quick yacht]

first one i put is correct

but

i hope it is

but

second one

i got all expect first letter

it looks like an x

from what i can see

but not sure

A7JMUA XOCR5K

[wicked cairn]

something i find interesting is that sign texts must be centered, so unless the second part has a leading space, it should all be in the photo

[quick yacht]

wait

A7JMCA I R9K?

idk

[wicked cairn]

its athur

[quick yacht]

or

[wicked cairn]

thats 5 characters in the top row

[quick yacht]

its not athur

can't be

[wicked cairn]

please stop doubting it is

[worldly spindle]

its a 7

[fallen shuttle]

is it working for yall? https://itzlipofutzli.com/protected or i have just bad connection

[quick yacht]

its an 7

dude

[worldly spindle]

refused to connect ?

[wicked cairn]

the tail of the "7" is too close to the A to be a 7

[wicked cairn]

and 7s have a much longer skew

and they have a dip

[quick yacht]

its an 7

[wicked cairn]

its not a 7

[worldly spindle]

it is

[quick yacht]

ITS BENDING

ITS AN 7

[wicked quarry]

A "?"

[quick yacht]

nope

A7

[worldly spindle]

@fallen shuttle what error do you get ?

[wicked cairn]

its a T

[fallen shuttle]

cant connect

[quick yacht]

A7JMU or L AND A or R

[wicked cairn]

please stop assuming it is a 7 because we have so much evidence leading it to the word ATHUR and it doesnt even look like a 7

[quick yacht]

alr show some evidence that its athur

[worldly spindle]

yea but Searge might use the 7 to stop the bruteforce

we need the second line solved not the first

[wicked cairn]

this should be reasonable evidence enough, but i can show you the ocean-labs screenshot

[quick yacht]

im convinced ur trying to sabotage

[wicked cairn]

i need you all to understand 3d geometry because in a situation like this the T would be slanted

[quasi kraken]

even if it's either it's only 2 possibilities : it doesn't mater, go come whine the day that lead you to thousand of possibilities.

[wicked cairn]

ive given you reasonable evidence and youre still trying to push this 7 narrative

no more 7s

[quick yacht]

the evidence is ur own sign

wow

[wicked cairn]

oh my sigma

ive shown you how the T will look when scaled down at a similar angle

is that not enough

[worldly spindle]

bro lets just focus on the other part it a 50/50 at this point even if we get it wrong at first

[wicked cairn]

how about this

look at the characters above the dots

[fallen shuttle]

athur

[quick yacht]

follow the outline

[quasi kraken]

where is this? It's from old source or you have a working link that show that?

[wicked cairn]

the minecraft 7 has a dip at the end

where is the dip in this photo

[quick yacht]

dosen't mean the sign is saying the same thing

it does not have a dip

[worldly spindle]

it does not have a dip this is your ss

[quasi kraken]

Stop trolling by using the wayback machine

[wicked cairn]

yes because the 7 has a dip and the T doesnt

ive shown that the T has no dip

[quick yacht]

theres no way his not sabotaging

[wicked cairn]

are you all trolling

be so fr

i need someone here with a little bit of critical thinking

[wicked cairn]

What is this even supposed to mean ???

[quasi kraken]

critical thinking was done : either don't matter

[quick yacht]

you cannot be telling me u see a T

[wicked cairn]

guys please tell me you understand 3d geometry

and how when text is looked at funny angles, it will skew in funny angles

[worldly spindle]

i understand both sides but COME ON GUYS GET OVER IT

[quick yacht]

even at a angle

[wicked cairn]

we need to be on the same page and im presenting my evidence and all they say is "you must be trolling"

like hello??

[quick yacht]

it wouldn't change a 7 to an t

T is the same at both sides

the line

is placed

exactly at the half

[wicked cairn]

im noticing an unusual lack of dip that would be present in a minecraft font 7

[quick yacht]

it cant just

change itelf that way

thats impossible

even with angles

[wicked cairn]

oh my goodness gracious

where is the evidence

you cant just say things

[worldly spindle]

it has a dip at the end but its invisible due to blur

want me to prove it ?

[quick yacht]

u can't just take an T and move the line all the way to the right

[quasi kraken]

Did minecraft had any font changed since 2015? font was reworked

[quick yacht]

its an 7

[wicked cairn]

this is what the 7 looks like in 1.8.3

[quick yacht]

even if it was a T the LINE is TOO SHORT

for it

[wicked cairn]

#1296523073259831296 message ive shown you it isnt

[wicked cairn]

you're disregarding the pixel on the other end

[quick yacht]

its a 7

like 3 people agreed with me

[wicked cairn]

there is a pixel here

[wicked cairn]

ad populum

[worldly spindle]

A7JxUR

what is x

[quick yacht]

wym x

[wicked cairn]

there is only 5 characters in the top row

[worldly spindle]

it cant be an M

so tell me the full code

[quick yacht]

its A7 H or JM or JH then U or L and A or R

[wicked cairn]

ATHCR/A7HCR?

[quick yacht]

cant be c

[worldly spindle]

cant be H or M the lines are overlaping

[wicked cairn]

can we just focus on the bottom row

because thats really what matters

[quick yacht]

my guess is xOCR5K

x for idk

[wicked cairn]

too long

has to be 4-5 characters

[quick yacht]

then without x

[wicked cairn]

if it is 5 characters one of them has to be thinner than 5 pixels

[worldly spindle]

i agree but the 5 is a stretch

[wicked cairn]

So what are we thinking the sign is for

like what the text is for

there really is no telling what the second to last character is

the third to last is def an A or an R

[wicked cairn]

last one 100% a K

[quick yacht]

the one before "5" is an r

can be a but

eh

[wicked cairn]

we think its for the password to the website but if weve been testing all these different password combos for it not to be that would suck

[quick yacht]

try testing all

il try

figure out

[wicked cairn]

Ill still work on that top one while you guys work on the bottom one

[quick yacht]

anything

[worldly spindle]

nah

[wicked cairn]

please work on the bottom one

[worldly spindle]

he said there is a clear answear

[wicked cairn]

I genuinely have no idea on that one

were on the same page my friend

[worldly spindle]

dont bother on the first row the image has been edited

[quick yacht]

wym

[wicked cairn]

wtf did I just find

[quick yacht]

what does that mean

[quick yacht]

?

[wicked cairn]

so these are for imgurs right

[worldly spindle]

no

[quick yacht]

no

[worldly spindle]

i tried everything

[quick yacht]

but what did u find anyways

[quick yacht]

what does the photo u posted mean

[worldly spindle]

on the sign u can see 2 pixels it might have been searge that edited the photo

[wicked cairn]

I was messing with what the top text could be and putting them into imgur and look up imgur.com/A7MUA

just a weird pic I found lol

[worldly spindle]

its 2012

could have been huge

[wicked cairn]

oh?

[fallen shuttle]

its from 7 nov 2012

[quick yacht]

inst tekkit a mod

tekkit is a mod

wtf

thats about minecraft

also java

[worldly spindle]

i mean we can analyze it but not for too long

[wicked cairn]

did I just figure something out 💀

[quick yacht]

might or might not be related who knows

tekkit is a mod

[wicked cairn]

Idk its neat tho

who here is dosing imgur

[worldly spindle]

i did in the past but i stopped

[wicked cairn]

smh

[worldly spindle]

i mean with partial combinations

[wicked cairn]

who is shadyshane

[quick yacht]

look in the other pic

its some 2012 pic

w tekkit

and that user

minecraft related

[fallen shuttle]

.

[quick yacht]

tekkit is a mod

[wicked cairn]

no need to stalk some random guy in some random screenshot

[quick yacht]

i used to play that shi

[wicked cairn]

Lmao fr

[quick yacht]

no this dude found it while trying one of the codes

on imgur

lol

[wicked cairn]

its from 2012

[quick yacht]

i know

just funny

[wicked cairn]

thats 3 years before the puzzle even started

[quick yacht]

that its mc related

[wicked cairn]

let alone this part of the puzzle

[worldly spindle]

so if i stumbble uppon a 5 letter/digit imgur link its from 2012 ?

[wicked cairn]

yes

Just a neat find tho

[worldly spindle]

we shouldnt dos imgur

[wicked cairn]

all of the imgur links in this puzzle arg will be 7+ chars

Kk

[wicked quarry]

Could you try both options?

What is that 5 letter string even for?

[quick yacht]

/paswsword

i mean

protected

pass

prob

this

[wicked quarry]

Oh

[worldly spindle]

i want to see an achive of phase4 does anybody have a archive link ?

[wicked cairn]

we still havent solved the glass puzzle

[worldly spindle]

its a fake

he skipped it

[wicked cairn]

what

[fallen shuttle]

it dosent exist

[worldly spindle]

he just posted another image and never mentioned that again

[worldly spindle]

so why does it say dorment since 2020

[fallen shuttle]

i mean archive link

normal link https://itzlipofutzli.com/phase4

is working

wrong link

now good

[quick yacht]

wait whats the point of solving this again

i forgot

[wicked cairn]

its http

[west onyx]

it's great to see so much activity again around this old side project, I should find a way to welcome all the new participants and once you figure out how to access the protected folder you'll have access to over 100 files that I prepared back in the days no matter if they were found already or not

[worldly spindle]

@west onyx this is not a clue but what timezone are you from ?

[fallen shuttle]

yea he wants the archive link that ig dosent exist

[quick yacht]

searge can u tell us one thing is the password and user 5 chars

[fallen shuttle]

nicee 100

[wicked cairn]

it wont let me archive for some reason

i tried when the link first came out

[quick yacht]

hes swedish

svenskar

i think

[worldly spindle]

ok thanks

[fallen shuttle]

i dont know either

[quick yacht]

never mind

he is not swedish

[wicked cairn]

ill try signing in ig

i thought searge is german

[wicked quarry]

I will not be surprised if mods end up being involved with this. Searge was big in the modding community back then like in Forgecraft.

[west onyx]

german living in sweden

[wicked cairn]

oh i see

[wicked quarry]

Oh snap, did you just join?

[quick yacht]

ah

[wicked quarry]

I didn't see you get here

[quick yacht]

thats why wiki said german

[quick yacht]

kan du ens svenska?

[quick yacht]

hes been here

since 2pm swedish time

[wicked quarry]

Sneaky

[wicked cairn]

had to join to tell us to stop trying to hack the server

[wicked quarry]

(I'm blind)

[wicked cairn]

lmfao

[quick yacht]

yea

me and some others were doing funny stuff

[wicked quarry]

Pulling some actual parallels with tominecon 😂. Dinnerbone had to join to tell people to chill out during that saga

[worldly spindle]

i was actually pretty sure that he had an alt account "MrPingouin" just to help us. even Kaiden agreed with me in dms it would have been like Illumix case

[west onyx]

yes, the new welcome message lays out the rules and please stick to them so I don't have to stop the fun for everyone 🙂

[worldly spindle]

surely there is more to it(hidden meaning)

[wicked cairn]

welcome message?

the one in the GO AWAY file?

[quick yacht]

wait have u ever like spoken at any minecon's

[worldly spindle]

i think there was a welcome.txt file in some point in time

[wicked cairn]

oh http://itzlipofutzli.com/welcome.txt

wait we didnt try the alleged pigpen code did we

[quasi kraken]

"x marks the spot" so yeah we should come back to some old screenshots on twitter

[quick yacht]

x marks the spot

[wicked cairn]

it doesnt really look like pigpen to me but idk

think inside the box is probably something too

dunno what that means entirelyt

[quick yacht]

someone check his twitter

maybe he changed some old stuff

or something

[worldly spindle]

so we should take some things as face value

[worldly spindle]

surely not

[wicked cairn]

on twitter we cant look past like 2020

you can still view old posts but it wont let me search for them

[fallen shuttle]

i can look till 2018 and then it ends

[harsh fjord]

Analyzing these images close up almost never goes nowhere

[wicked cairn]

yeah i mean im pretty certain the top text reads ATHUR but the bottom text is lost media

[quick yacht]

i think its like I R5K or 9k

but wtv

[worldly spindle]

hold on when he says X marks the spot he might be refering to twitter

also we shouldnt use external info

[wicked cairn]

i wonder if searge is just looking at the server logs with a box of popcorn looking at every attempt to sign in

[harsh fjord]

I’m like 99% sure the itzlipofuzli seed was used for the minecon demo

[worldly spindle]

YES i can tell you

[fallen shuttle]

https://tenor.com/view/easter-doe-eating-deer-eating-popcorn-funny-gif-4621167703268332056

[west onyx]

If I still had popcorn left, that would be the case 😉

[quick yacht]

searge typing

[wicked cairn]

also the strange usage of mathy words in his tweets could also be a hint to something, not sure if that was solved though

[quick yacht]

so you can see them

gotcha

[worldly spindle]

he said in the rules on the discord that many things have been missed

[harsh fjord]

If anything this arg made me cry at the fact that the whole time the game went without a proper way to spawn structures

[wicked cairn]

i feel like most the things we missed were just too hard to solve

but maybe there is some secret code in the images nobody noticed

[worldly spindle]

so there is a strange new block in the first second image(the one with the ?)

[quick yacht]

or were blind

[quick yacht]

its a structure block

[worldly spindle]

and i am not refering to the strucure block

[quick yacht]

a

[wicked cairn]

gonna need to dissect everything 😭

[quick yacht]

with one

[harsh fjord]

I’m pretty sure that was still the structure block

[wicked cairn]

i dont see any strange blocks in the ? other than the old structure block

[worldly spindle]

no its like soul sand but dif

[harsh fjord]

Show

[wicked cairn]

are you referring to the black terracotta?

[worldly spindle]

look close at all the wool

[wicked cairn]

or the actual soul sand

[wicked cairn]

MOJANGSTAAAAAAA

lmfao

[worldly spindle]

https://twitter.com/SeargeDP/status/585838892999380992

Searge (@SeargeDP) on X

?

Twitter · Apr 8, 2015, 4:17 PM

[wicked cairn]

dunno what youre looking at all i see is glass and some paintings

[worldly spindle]

this photo there is a dif block under the sword

[wicked cairn]

block of coal?

[worldly spindle]

might be but why and why only one

[harsh fjord]

Dude

It’s a block of coal let’s move on

[wicked cairn]

it was just a bunch oif black blocks to fit the theme of the structure block

idk if its that deep really

its definitely not lmao

its literally just blocks

[harsh fjord]

This thread is half doing actual research and the other half people not caught up yet or over analyzing useless details

[quick yacht]

https://x.com/SeargeDP/status/1268596602765279233/photo/1

Searge (@SeargeDP) on X

Twitter · Jun 4, 2020, 5:32 PM

could this be anything

[wicked cairn]

realizing what is and what isnt relevant is somewhat of a valuable skill here

[young crater]

looking at this chat is same as watching an rgn's vid

[wicked cairn]

weve made some progress here at least

[harsh fjord]

I’m pretty sure this is just him messing with the UV mapping

But I might be wrong

[wicked cairn]

minecraft but somethigns not qute rigt 🥴

oh i didnt see this

#1296523073259831296 message

[quick yacht]

https://x.com/SeargeDP/status/1149325051004641280/photo/1

Searge (@SeargeDP) on X

I almost feel bad for posting this. Almost...

Twitter · Jul 11, 2019, 2:30 PM

[worldly spindle]

"the hints from the past are still valid" we should still look into the past or in searges words we missed a lot

[wicked cairn]

time to pull out the galactic alphabet translator for something that was posted in 2019 and probably isnt even relevant 😔

[quick yacht]

https://x.com/SeargeDP/status/1141691374061936641/photo/1

Searge (@SeargeDP) on X

Another huge step forward towards [............] and another screenshot that doesn't really show how much effort it was to get this far.

Twitter · Jun 20, 2019, 12:56 PM

im just

going thru

anything and everything

[wicked cairn]

do you think this might be too outside the box

[worldly spindle]

yes

[wicked cairn]

i agree leo

[worldly spindle]

and overthinking it

wait did he ever make a complex puzzle for a single phase ?

[wicked cairn]

the thing that concerns me the most about the sign in page is that it basically requires two passwords, we have no way of knowing what the username is really

i mean it could be athur, ATHUR, it could be searge, could be anything really

[wicked cairn]

morse and base64

[wintry plover]

The best way is to create a list of possible passwords and usernames and just try all combinations

[fallen shuttle]

NDg2NTZDNkM2RjIwNTc2RjcyNkM2NDIx

[wintry plover]

Ok that's interesting but it's from 2018 so

[wicked cairn]

was the seed #itzlipofutzli or itzlipofutzli

[worldly spindle]

with #

[wicked cairn]

kk

[fallen shuttle]

with hastag

[worldly spindle]

I FOUND SOMETHING

[wintry plover]

The first line seems like morse code without spaces between characters

[worldly spindle]

NDg2NTZDNkM2RjIwNTc2RjcyNkM2NDIx -> Base64 decoded -> 48656C6F576F726C64

48656C6F576F726C64 -> Hex decoded -> "HelloWorld"

[wicked cairn]

so helpful

[worldly spindle]

I know right :)

[wintry plover]

Ok that's almost definitely not related to anything

[wicked cairn]

all i want in life is to figure out whjat those weird symbols in the glass mean

[quick yacht]

u mean this

[wintry plover]

Wee need the protected folder lol

[quick yacht]

?

[wicked cairn]

can you stand right in front of me

[worldly spindle]

hold on try to recreate the base64 image there

might be the same seed

[wicked cairn]

wait the base64 image was in the church?

i didnt even notice

[worldly spindle]

i think

it could help with the angle

[wicked cairn]

but the snow

[wintry plover]

I wish we knew if we're going in the right direction. I feel like in a well designed ARG it should be obvious that you did something correctly

[quick yacht]

wait go into the church

[wicked cairn]

sending virtual trans-dimensional high fives

[quick yacht]

are the torches broken for u

?

[wicked cairn]

dont think it matters

[quick yacht]

want me to make an server w same world we can brainstorm

there

n shi

also found this

idk if its supposed to be there

[wicked cairn]

is this insanity

[wicked cairn]

lava pit

[quick yacht]

ik

[wicked cairn]

i dont think the natural terrain generation is relevant

especially on a world that was just for thje sidequest

[quick yacht]

i mean u never know

try genning the world but superflat

[wicked cairn]

i think i do

[quick yacht]

and remove dirt and grass

[quasi kraken]

Minecraft don't have seed specific code like that

[west onyx]

I think it's fair to point it out: the side quest was completely independent and did not tie in with the rest

[wicked cairn]

fame you are so sidetracked

[quick yacht]

i know

im going nuts

i thought the path meant soemthing

lmao

[wicked cairn]

its just ur kinda flooding the chat with useless screenshots

is all

[quasi kraken]

yeah but since phase 1 through 3 were removed, it's kinda hard to figure out which part actually matter. Is this the ones only containing the black block?

[quick yacht]

smh

[quick yacht]

a

[worldly spindle]

fair time to make a summary to what happened ?

[quick yacht]

wait u know the sign image its not possible for now to spawn in structures right

what if he placed it with meaning

[wicked cairn]

does anyone know what exactly we've discovered in this chat so far?

like anything that is concrete and not just random ideas

[quick yacht]

uh

@clever torrent update ur thingy

so we can keep track

[fallen shuttle]

HelloWorld in hex code

[wicked cairn]

look

That is not relevant

[fallen shuttle]

ik lmao

[wicked cairn]

I think our best bet is looking through the stuff already existing in the doc https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13S79GjVIFk_5jBzs0lUon1qMBzO1EebmT6gMJYo6ngM/edit?usp=sharing

[quick yacht]

u and me and leo should

make a new one

with everything important

and updated

[worldly spindle]

these are clear
":wq"
"dince"
"enther"
"!"

[worldly spindle]

fair

[quick yacht]

cause the slideshow is outdated

the old welcome.txt

[fallen shuttle]

whitch link was it?

oh nvm

[native warren]

I painstakingly set up an IRC bouncer and you all are here just sitting on Discord?

[wicked cairn]

discord is the texting app

[quick yacht]

no one uses that

discord is meta

[wicked cairn]

where did yo ufind that

[quick yacht]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DwMD9gntOfzGQOXUfnozr06ZHrsE2241eBrOTicREf0/edit?gid=854382651#gid=854382651

[wintry plover]

This mystery is harder to solve than kryptos lol

[fallen shuttle]

Cicada 3301 2.0

[worldly spindle]

now imagine searge and what he is thinking of us 😂

[wicked cairn]

Watch all of this stuff has a really easy way to solve it and we’re all just overthinking 💀

[wintry plover]

Tbh none of the clues he gave are particularly useful

[wicked cairn]

i wonder if the constant insistence of the puzzle being really easy meant anything or if searge was just bullying us

[wicked cairn]

im sure there is some bias at play, when you know how to solve something it seems so obvious

problem is we just dont really know where to look

[wicked cairn]

True

[wintry plover]

He also implied in some 2015 tweet that the solution is in another corner of an already analyzed thing

[wicked cairn]

whats with this one being so unusual

i feel like corner is supposed to be literal but ive checked the corners of every photo and i couldnt find much of anything

[wintry plover]

Those could also be just random shapes

How the hell would you even make those shapes so blurry

I don't think it's painted pixel by pixel

Is this image downscaled

Or what happened

Is just just poorly made

Or is it intentional

[wicked cairn]

all of the images are downscaled

[wintry plover]

But why

[wicked cairn]

🤷‍♂️

[worldly spindle]

what we have missed so far is
23 5 15
24 12 15
Door image with the double ss
Athur and the book

[wintry plover]

And why would you downscale an image after adding some very tiny details

[wicked cairn]

dont forget these numbers

first 6 are powers of 2

[worldly spindle]

lost numbers also the lilypads are wierd

[wicked cairn]

same with last 2 but in reverse order

[worldly spindle]

i like the thinking but that doesnt work

[wicked cairn]

what

[worldly spindle]

also this 11.54.53

[wicked cairn]

thats just the time the photo was taken

[worldly spindle]

it had to be a double ss

i think

[wicked cairn]

yeah

[worldly spindle]

to make 2 ss only to get a timestamp has to mean something

[wicked cairn]

april 15, 2015 at 11:54 and 53 seconds

[wicked cairn]

coulda just been a misinput

[wintry plover]

Yeah

Everything in this arg could just be a coincidence

[wicked cairn]

i wouldnt say everything

the deliberate hidden messages certainly arent

[worldly spindle]

but we have to investigate every single detail because we missed something

this is what the new twitter post says

[wintry plover]

Maybe we should try to go one step at the time from the beginning, from the first post

[quasi kraken]

their tweet hint at a specific post

[worldly spindle]

images are important

[wintry plover]

What post?

[worldly spindle]

do you think its not in the slides made by rgn ?

[wicked cairn]

plain sight

wait is that obsidian

[quick yacht]

is it just me

[quasi kraken]

It should match with a date like that

[quick yacht]

or thats not sand

[quick yacht]

you know what it can be that cause theres obs in this photo too

[worldly spindle]

yea but all posts were made in 2 days so could be anything

[wintry plover]

What does plain sight mean tho? Like literally something visual on some image? Or maybe something a bit more hidden but still very simple to discover

[wicked cairn]

maybe its the position of the structure block in his hotbar in this 90166

[worldly spindle]

if its a visual we will for sure skip it

[wicked cairn]

but idk if the 5 consecutive ones actually are the order

[quick yacht]

here it is again but instead in an enderchest

[worldly spindle]

nothing to decode or get us plaintext

[quick yacht]

obs is used to craft it

[wicked cairn]

stretch

[fallen shuttle]

did anyone used steganography?

[quick yacht]

theres also obs chest particals

[worldly spindle]

i dont want to go down that rabbit hole again but we might have to

[quick yacht]

so idk

[fallen shuttle]

understand

[quick yacht]

the web or whatever it was said follow the white rabbit instead of the red queen

rabbit hole

idk

[fallen shuttle]

rabbit hole yes

[wintry plover]

Yeah sure, but would that be in plain sight

[quick yacht]

he said think inside the box

maybe its supposed to be simple

and were overthinking

[worldly spindle]

were bees added in 1.8 ?

[wintry plover]

No lol

1.15

[quick yacht]

thats minecon thing i think

[wicked cairn]

i feel like the positioning of the structure block in the hotbar could be significant

[wintry plover]

Wow, where is this from, o haven't seen that

[quick yacht]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1296523073259831296/1304601714636095498/Structure_Block_1.webp?ex=6731f6c7&is=6730a547&hm=7c79b1320ec507fe05501dad74d836023930f50f0f30ca2f6b5529dfa23bef4b&=&format=webp&width=1179&height=655

[worldly spindle]

welcome.txt

[quick yacht]

wait swear this is the same seed from the sidequest even tho he said its irrevelent @wicked cairn

[fallen shuttle]

we dont need to overthink all of it

[wintry plover]

On the website?

[worldly spindle]

yes

[fallen shuttle]

yes

[wicked cairn]

... is it though?

[quick yacht]

nvm

i checked

thought it was

[wintry plover]

x marks the spot is the most curious part

[fallen shuttle]

x MARKS the spot

[quasi kraken]

I think x refers to twitter

[quick yacht]

x

maybe

map

something on it that we didn't see

[worldly spindle]

either its a subdir or refers to twitter ?

[wintry plover]

He also insists on the solution something hidden being in plain sight

There has to he reason for that

[wintry plover]

Lol

[worldly spindle]

shi* goes down again

[wintry plover]

I guess just use some tool to automatically try to decode every image with every steganography method ever created

[quick yacht]

€ÇÿÿÿÆØ}(–Ø’I#I&‰È

[wicked cairn]

was this message even worth sending

[quick yacht]

no

i was trying something

[wicked cairn]

i wish we had just a link to all of the searge tweets in order

[fallen shuttle]

fr

[wintry plover]

Yeah

But the TLDR is to not overthink it i guess

[wicked cairn]

wait why not we just archive his twitter

[fallen shuttle]

idk if this will work

[wicked cairn]

idk if its really strong sign in policies existed back then

did ocean-labs have any significance outside of the arg

[fallen shuttle]

uh

[wicked cairn]

why is it g0 away instead of go away in 2016

[fallen shuttle]

what?

really

[wicked cairn]

im looking too deep into this

nvm

[quick yacht]

here is a more clear pigpen thing

i did my best to remove the qr from it

[wicked cairn]

missing a couple

[quick yacht]

there

[fallen shuttle]

oh wow i am red

[quick yacht]

is this better @wicked cairn

[wicked cairn]

ig

[wintry plover]

I hate this, it's just random shapes that are blurry

[potent nimbus]

I want to ask something. Has anyone viewed the videos in the Searge Dp channel? There are 2 videos (Minecraft 1 and Minecraft 2) from before this mistery (2011, to be exact). The name "Itzlipofutzli" appears in a sign in the house at the end of the first video and the start of the second.

[fallen shuttle]

whattttt

[wicked cairn]

What??

[potent nimbus]

YT channel, btw.

[quick yacht]

what

send

rn

[potent nimbus]

Go check. It's not a registered name, but it appears.

[quick yacht]

send it

here

[fallen shuttle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D2RHDCwntU

[quick yacht]

the link

[potent nimbus]

This one. Check when he enters the house at the end.

[fallen shuttle]

he has a playlist too

[wicked cairn]

can you send a screenshot of the text?

i cant find it

[quick yacht]

wait

[wicked cairn]

what does itzlipofutzli mean tho

[quick yacht]

dangit

i thought there might be a mc user

maybe its like

someone

cause it says searge then

Itzlipofutzli

on the other side

[potent nimbus]

Same. But it gives no result when searching the name.

[wicked cairn]

might be some sort of code name or like inside joke

[quick yacht]

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_16w04a

[fallen shuttle]

Oh nvm

i didnt check the chat

[quick yacht]

"our"

its a person

[quick yacht]

which minecon was this

@worldly spindle

[fallen shuttle]

2015

4-5 july

@quick yacht

[quick yacht]

try watching thru it

maybe searge mentions something

if he was there

[fallen shuttle]

https://youtu.be/NPtMh2USIng?si=HJwJ1yAA4w4NIaGy

[wicked cairn]

where did you find that

[fallen shuttle]

http://ocean-labs.de/radaway

i found that one version is with errors and the other without

[wicked cairn]

weird

[fallen shuttle]

yea

[quasi kraken]

that's not the content of the page I have

[fallen shuttle]

bc one is from 9 apr and other one is from 15 apr

[quasi kraken]

if this was a dead arg or a lost media, I would understand, but here, I have no clue how that can be of any help.

[wicked cairn]

at this point in time, im gonna go out on a limb and say archive.org is not necessary

[fallen shuttle]

yea ik i was just looking .

mb sorry

[quasi kraken]

Partial qrcode on their profile picture, but wasn't that old?

[wicked cairn]

wait what

it links to his twitter :P

[quasi kraken]

yeah, that's what you could think at first, but a qr code to link to their twitter would be much smaller, I'm trying to dig for extra data here

[wicked cairn]

would it be smaller?

[quick yacht]

there is a full rq

cant u see it

can u send me the png @quasi kraken

[quasi kraken]

i'm trying to clear it a bit more and find a website that give me the exact data

[quick yacht]

gimme the png i can

[wicked cairn]

Fame

Its literally searge's twitter profile

[quick yacht]

saw

[quasi kraken]

If I generate a qrcode that only contains their same twitter link, I get that. It's much smaller, so that made me wonder if there is some extra data

[fallen shuttle]

hey, so I was browsing reddit and there were chess in Searge's answers, then I went to his profile and in the answers I found a post from 9 years ago and someone in the comment sent such a photo and wrote that it was not solved

[quick yacht]

thats morse code

just

[wicked cairn]

are you gonna decode it?

[fallen shuttle]

me?

[wicked cairn]

yes

you have the text

[quick yacht]

decrypt

[fallen shuttle]

i will try

[wicked cairn]

just put it in a morse decoder

[fallen shuttle]

FJSD0UXTVNPMLZSXAG

[quick yacht]

the qr

[fallen shuttle]

its just his twitter

[quick yacht]

just opens his twitter