Poll: why do creepers exploded?

[Cheesus333]

That's ridic-!

...Wait...

...Actually, as far as Creeper reproduction theories go, that's one of the more sensible ones. Maybe they just stalk you relentlessly because they're so happy about all the reproduction they're about to do and they want to tell you about it, but then they can't wait so they explode instead. Then the Creeplets[footnote]Bear with me here, folks[/footnote], too small to see, scuttle away in different directions until they suddenly pop to full size, and the cycle begins anew.

Now if we can just figure out where all the fucking Skeletons come from, we'll be sorted. Personally, I think the skeletons are all your past incarnations that fell into lava or were fossilised.

 

[Holyeskimo]

They're agents of a hateful god, who sends them to hunt down the people who roam his lands in an attempt to drive them away with explosions.

 

[lordlillen]

i always thought that the creepers were pigs who cot mutated by radiation/redstone and there skin explodes when it comes in contact with the minecraft guys sweat.

 

[Madara XIII]

I think they're just suicidally depressed and happen to hate the world.

Thus the huge FROWN on their face

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[Madara XIII]

Because they've been eating combustible lemons. HURR HURR HURR

GAHAHAH I actually Guffawed while laughing XD

 

[Chaza]

Creepers are green.
Nitroglycerin is seen as green in cartoons.
Nitroglycerin is an ingredient in explosives.
Nitroglycerin is also used to treat heart failure.
Therefore, creepers have nitroglycerin overdose-induced heart attacks that makes them spontaneously explode because they have green skin.

You're welcome.

That makes alot of sense so I'm going with this

 

[Lazy Kitty]

They explode to for their survival as a species.

They're a species with only one gender, producing eggs using only their own genes (basically they contain their clones).
They're really small eggs.
When a creeper explodes several eggs are spread all over the place, each eventually spawning a new creeper. The eggs are vulnerable to light, so they won't hatch while there's too much light.

They try to explode as close to you as possible so that when the young creepers hatch they can feast on your remains.

 

[flaming_squirrel]

They are jealous of the players ability to change the world which they live in, the only answer is mass explosive suicide in an effort to undermine everything you do.

Either that or they're just really stupid and made of gunpowder.

 

[Biodeamon]

*facepalm at your grammar*
anyways....

Does it really need logic? I mean we've got the dead rising from their graves when exposed to darkness(what is this Alan Wake?)....If anything you should be asking that

 

[Andrew_Mac]

thatssssssssssssss a very nice thread you've got there.... would be a sssssshame if something were to happen to it......


I think its cos they find it funny. and they can do it because, like the player character, they respawn where they originally did. so they don't actually die. its a game to them.

100 points if you can get the new person with the wooden pickaxe.

 

[tthor]

Because they've been eating combustible lemons. HURR HURR HURR

*slaps you for using that joke*

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Because they hate you? I don't know. Someone should ask Notch. Though you're reason is somewhat poetic.

 

[Wintermoot]

it,s a self defense mechanism.
they taste really good and to prevent people from eating them they explode.
Or they are suicide terrorist,s.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Because tehy're made of highly unstable gunpowder (or whatever they drop, I just stopped killing Creepers and didnt care)? I'm honestly surprrised tehy dont blow up just by moving one square.

 

[Exterminas]

I believe the creeper is a complex analogy for the folly of any human endevour.
It symbolizes fate in it's purest form, by telling you, the player:

No matter what you may or may not accomplish, I will be there to take it all away from you. No amount of walls can stop me, no matter how superior you fancy yourself to be, I will wait.

In a way the Creeper resembles Death, it is the Minecraft Version of the Grim Reaper.


These to facts are of course reflected in the Creepers design and it's sound. The simplistic form reminds of the plain nature of Death&Fate. They don't need to be complex, their unstoppable simplicity is what makes them horrible.

Then there is the sound, this plain ssssh, like a soothing sound made by the insane murderer that just leaped out of the dark to strangle you. It is supposed to put us at ease, because we can not stop the inevitable and all struggle is ultimately futile.

 

[lacktheknack]

It's like a Dragon from Discworld.

ALL IT WANTED WAS TO GIVE YOU A HUG, YOU MONSTER!

Your theory doesn't explain why it feels the need to rush over to you (and ONLY you) before combusting, taking your whole existence with it.

 

[theheroofaction]

It's all because of the simplistic nature of the minecraft world.

When a creeper approaches a miner a gas that miners emit contacts the creeper, this gas causes the creeper to fart.

The explosion is just the minimum size necessary in this blocky world for a fart to complete.

 

[lacktheknack]

It's all because of the simplistic nature of the minecraft world.

When a creeper approaches a miner a gas that miners emit contacts the creeper, this gas causes the creeper to fart.

The explosion is just the minimum size necessary in this blocky world for a fart to complete.

Then why does the fart emit from the CENTER of the creeper instead of the lower section?

Also, the gas should be pervasive, why does it have a shrapnel effect?

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/images/thumb/9/92/ExplosionRay.png/542px-ExplosionRay.png

 

[similar.squirrel]

Because your writing makes baby Jesus cry, that's why. Proofread before you post, please. Capital letters and punctuation are pretty fly.

 

[MindBullets]

Not only that, but they make sure to explode near something living (i.e. the player) so that it kills them and the corpse will fertilise the seeds better.

This actually works quite well. Should be canon.