PART 3 - MINECRAFT PLOT

The plot of the game is one that is quite short yet very interesting. Essentially, a guy or girl named either 'Steve’ or 'Alex’ follows their path to do whatever they want. There isn’t a singular linear plot to the game, however, this enables the player to create their own. However, what most players do is firstly, mine blocks such as wood, stone, iron, diamond, (gold is they want), then craft tools like a sword, axe, pickaxe as well armour like the chestplate, leggings, boots, and helmet.

'Iron Sword'

The player then must acquire 10 pieces of obsidian (lava and water mixing, then mined with DIAMOND PICKAXE), and create a rectangular shape, this is then to be lit with a flint and steel (obtained using flint from gravel and iron ingot). The player has then created a portal to the nether dimension, where they must venture to find a nether fortress, where 'Blazes' have to be killed in order to get blaze rods (important for later). Then the player can do 2 things, first get to a crimson forest, or find piglins (easily found in bastions).

'Diamond Pickaxe'

In the 'Crimson forest', the player is exposed to a plethora of 'Endermen', from which any number of 'Enderpearls' can be collected (needs to be ABOVE 12). Or they can trade gold with Piglens to get the needed 'Enderpearls'. The player can then combine these two materials to form an ender eye used to track down and locate the stronghold. Once the stronghold is found, the player can then locate the ender portal, where they can then place 12 ender eyes to open the portal. The portal then leads to the 'End Dimension', where the player will have to destroy crystals and then finally kill the Ender Dragon. After this, the player can collect the 'Dragon Egg' and enter the portal in the middle of the islands, returning them to the Overworld.

'Ender Pearl'

CHARACTERS

Minecraft doesn’t have many characters, the main ones are Steve and Alex, but apart from this the main character is the player himself. The first character was ‘Steve’, then later in 2014, his female addition ‘Alex’ was implemented. Later in 2022, 7 new starter skins were added into the game. If we continue this path, we see that we may be getting newer skins into the game to use and implement.

'Steve'

'Alex'

ACTION 

Minecraft holds too much action to contain, a game of multiple endings and hundreds of openings. From 77 biomes and new ones being added every month, the game always has something prepared to keep their gamers entertained. My personal favorite biome being the ‘Plains’, a classic, original and entertaining part of the game. Holding free building and exploration space, the ‘Plains’ will never bore you. Apart from biomes, the diversified species of mobs leaning from hostile to passive allow players to create special bonds by taming dogs, cats, fish and more. Recently, Monjang implemented ‘Dog skins’ allowing dogs to wear armour and fight your battles with them, creating lasting memories. In 2022, Minecraft released its new update, and one that changed gamers opinion on the game. Mojang introduced the ‘Deep Dark’, a new biome that contained secrets to the best loot in the game, however good things come at a price. The ‘Warden’, a hostile and extremely territorial mob, as well as Minecraft’s most powerful mob. Being even more superior than the ‘Ender Dragon’, the ‘Warden’ becomes the player's newest goal. But defeating it wasn’t easy. It came with powerful attacks, such as the ‘Sonic Charge’ and the ‘Ram’ Attack. Even players with the most powerful gear couldn’t defeat this beast. Until, Mojang introduced the games newest and best armour, ‘Netherite’. Being found in the Nether through ‘Ancient Debris’, having to melt those down into ‘Netherite scraps’ and having to combine FOUR of those with gold ingots to finally craft a singular ‘Netherite ingot’. Using a ‘Smithing table’, players could use their existing diamond pieces to convert them into Netherite ones.

'Warden'

EMOTIONS PRESENTED IN THE GAME

There are many emotions presented in Minecraft; every single moment in the game produces emotions and feelings showing their importance in the game. From animals crying because they were attached to baby animals, whining, because they are lost- to Creepers, sacrificing their own lives to reveal hidden gems entrenched within the rocks. A great example of presenting emotions comes in the Villager - a renowned mob that is known by the entire Minecraft community. For example, as a player ends a ‘raid’, Villagers excitedly lower their prices for their hero with the player gaining the ‘Hero of the Village’ attachment, however, whilst the raid is being executed, the Villagers scream in fear, running around and taking refuge within their homes. If the Villager is attacked by a player, the Villager ends up raising their prices in anger or frustration.