00:00A wonderland where anything you can imagine is possible.
00:05As long as what you imagine can be built out of blocks.
00:09Atta boy!
00:10Watch out for piglins!
00:12After 14 years of games, the blocky world of Minecraft has finally hit the big screen.
00:17We tried to find every reference a Minecraft movie makes to the iconic game.
00:21The film begins with a pixelated loading screen, just as it would when starting a new game.
00:32The loading screen shows the dimensions of blocks and loads your terrain,
00:35making the film feel just like the start of a game.
00:38Who are you?
00:39I am Steve.
00:45Jack Black's character is Steve, the game's original avatar.
00:48And he's even wearing the same blue shirt that Game Steve wears.
00:51While Game Steve doesn't have a personality or a backstory,
00:55Jack Black's Steve has a compelling origin story as a burnt-out office worker,
00:59craving a more creative world.
01:01The world where gameplay begins is called the Overworld.
01:04It serves as a hub world that connects all locations in Minecraft.
01:08Garrett the Garbage Man Garrison, played by Jason Momoa,
01:11owns a gaming store called Game Overworld,
01:14which is eventually renamed to Overworld once our heroes return to the real world.
01:19As a child, I yearned for the mines.
01:22But something always got in the way.
01:24Go on! Get out of here!
01:26Steve first enters the Overworld through an actual mine in the real world,
01:30with the Orb of Dominance.
01:32The orb is an artifact in the spin-off Minecraft Dungeons.
01:35Though for an orb, it still looks like a block to me.
01:38The movie stays true to how you begin a Minecraft game.
01:41Steve and Henry create their own world using items they found in the environment,
01:45like trees and rocks.
01:47This is a crafting table.
01:49Here's how it works.
01:51You place these elements in different patterns, and...
01:55The crafting table is the key to building tools
01:58and unlocking your creativity in Minecraft.
02:00And that's true for the characters in the movie, too.
02:03The crafting table in the movie plays a pivotal role for the main characters.
02:06Steve shows off his secret stash of creations,
02:09just like any player would.
02:11This includes the Boots of Swiftness for a four-second speed boost,
02:14TNT, fireworks,
02:16his sword referred to as a sweet blade,
02:19and an Ender Pearl, which teleports the user wherever it's thrown.
02:22Everything will need to make it to Woodland Mansion.
02:25Whoa.
02:26Once you have your craft table and have built your tools,
02:28the next step is hunting for food.
02:30In the movie, the characters do this by stabbing a piglin,
02:33which then turns into a pork chop, just like in the game.
02:36Another way is to cook a chicken in a furnace.
02:39In the game, you cook food by building your own furnace out of mined stone.
02:43In the movie, Jack Black has his own lava chicken shack.
02:47Everyone knows in Minecraft, it can go from day to night very quickly.
02:51Every 20 minutes, to be exact.
02:53In a Minecraft movie, when the human characters first arrive in the overworld,
02:57they react to the quick change from day to night,
03:00which happens a lot throughout the movie.
03:02That feel quick to anyone else?
03:04Nighttime can be dangerous in the world of Minecraft.
03:07You have to watch out for zombies, creepers, and skeletons.
03:11In the movie, the presence of these creatures
03:13is what prompts Henry to begin building a barrier.
03:16This is also one of the essential first steps in the game,
03:19to build shelter for protection.
03:21If the name of the game didn't make it obvious enough,
03:24mining is a huge part of Minecraft.
03:27In order to mine iron, diamonds, and coal,
03:30you dig into the ore of that type.
03:32We can see Garrett punching his way through the ground here.
03:35Another key mission in the game is traveling through the redstone mines.
03:40This is an adventure that Henry, Steve, and Garrett go on in the movie.
03:47Diamonds are an essential item to mine in the game,
03:50and a huge plot point in the film.
03:52Every Minecraft player knows that one of the strongest armors
03:55your avatar can wear is crafted out of diamonds.
03:59In the movie, we see Steve wearing this diamond armor in the final battle.
04:04Diamonds are also useful for building powerful weapons.
04:07In the movie, Emma Meyer's character Natalie
04:09crafts her sword out of diamonds
04:11for the final battle with piglin villain Malgosia.
04:17Malgosia is a piglin from the nether
04:19whose goal is to destroy all creativity in the realm.
04:22Piglins are a popular creature in the game.
04:25The leader of the piglin army is named General Chungus.
04:28The name Chungus is an internet deep cut
04:31and refers to the popular Big Chungus meme
04:33of the Looney Tunes character Bugs Bunny.
04:46In the game and movie, the nether is a world with no joy or creativity,
04:50just a lust for gold.
04:52In order to travel to the nether,
04:54you have to find obsidian and set it on fire
04:57with flint and steel to create a portal.
04:59We see Steve do this in the movie
05:01before a piglin army from the nether
05:03travels to the overworld to rid it of creativity and joy.
05:13Garrett starts a fight in the boxing ring
05:15with what appears to be a baby zombie
05:17riding on top of a chicken,
05:19which Steve refers to as a chicken jockey.
05:22This is something a player can fight in the game as well.
05:29Another form of jockey in the film and game
05:32is called spider jockey.
05:34In Minecraft, a spider jockey is a rare mob
05:37consisting of a skeleton riding a spider
05:39with a 1% chance of spawning naturally.
05:42Once the human crew enters the overworld and meets Steve,
05:45he shows them around and takes them to a village
05:48where viewers meet the gentle villagers,
05:50iconic beings from the Minecraft universe.
05:53They are known for their large, awkward heads
05:55and love for bread.
06:08One of the villagers accidentally ends up in the real world
06:11and starts a romance with Jennifer Coolidge's character,
06:14who points out the size of his head
06:16and what a good listener he is.
06:18One thing to know about the villagers in Minecraft
06:21is that they love bread, which is depicted in the movie.
06:29In the game, in order to make bread,
06:31you put three wheat stalks on your crafting table
06:34and it's essential to survival.
06:36To create more villagers in the game
06:39or create more of any living creature,
06:41you must give them food to make them willing to breed.
06:44In the movie, this is shown when two pandas
06:47eat a bamboo stalk and immediately produce a baby panda.
06:50For a villager to breed in the game,
06:52it needs a certain amount of food in its inventory,
06:55three breads or the equivalent of that,
06:5812 carrots, 12 potatoes or 12 beetroots.
07:01While in the village, Henry spots a pig wearing a crown.
07:05Steve calls the crowned pig a legend,
07:08which references a well-known streamer
07:10in the Minecraft community named Technoblade,
07:13who sadly passed away in 2022.
07:15The Minecraft game similarly added a pig wearing a crown
07:18to the loading screen after Technoblade passed away.
07:21There's even a fun reference in the film's post-credits scene.
07:25Back in the real world,
07:27Steve meets a mysterious red-headed character.
07:30We only see the back of her head,
07:32but she reveals herself to be Alyx.
07:34Gamers will know Alyx as the female default avatar you can play as.
07:38This leaves the Minecraft world open to more films
07:41and adventures with Steve.
07:44Biocon Dios.
07:46It means goodbye, brother.
07:48No, it doesn't.
07:49Don't look at her. It does.
07:51That's everything we found.
07:53Let us know what we missed
07:54and what elements you want to see in a Minecraft sequel.
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