History WebVideo / AchievementHunterMinecraftSeries

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrLgREKD4kk On May 11, 2012,]] five men[[note]]Geoff Ramsey, Jack Pattillo, Creator/MichaelJones, Creator/GavinFree, and Ray Narvaez, Jr.[[/note]] decide to screw around in the then-recently-released ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}: UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} Edition''. Only one of the men[[note]]Gavin[[/note]] has ever played ''Minecraft'' before. What happens within the 23 minutes of the video they published of their game session can only be described as hilarious chaos.

** "Achievement City". It houses their official homes and an Obsidian block (either a dirt or a sponge block for Ray) for whenever they win the Tower of Pimps. They've built several obstacle courses around Achievement City, so the rest of the map doesn't go to waste. Now that the map has expanded out far further in the UsefulNotes/XBoxOne edition, the entire original map that Achievement City was built on could count as this for the rest of the world. However, particularly from the second half of 2017, the Achievement City map is getting so old and buggy that the Hunters have spent months creating a new hub area in the Sky Factory mod pack.

->"As you know, we do a LetsPlay every week, Jack. [L]ately, it's been in ''Minecraft'', and it will continue to be in ''Minecraft'' until we all die, because the people demand it..."
-->--'''Geoff Ramsey''' in ''Achievement Hunter Weekly Update'' (''AHWU'') #123 confirming ''Let's Play Minecraft'' to be a regular Achievement Hunter series.

Since the release of that episode, '''''Let's Play Minecraft''''' has become one of the most prominent shows of Creator/RoosterTeeth's Creator/AchievementHunter division. After a bit of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, the show has settled into a more stable format. In each episode, the main crew of six Achievement Hunters, originally composed of the original five and Ryan Haywood, and later members of the group, compete in some game or challenge within their main world of [[HubCity Achievement City]] to win possession of the "Tower of Pimps", a column of four gold blocks set atop a single block of obsidian. (Although, Ray used dirt or sponge as a base instead.) Occasionally, some episodes has the group visiting other worlds (often in the PC version of ''Minecraft'') or having another member of the Rooster Teeth staff go along with them.

As of 2018, the Achievement City map has officially been retired due to being too buggy to play any more, and episode 307 marks the founding of Achieveland, later renamed Achievement Cove, to replace it. As of 2021, starting with episode 480, the gang has moved from Achievement Cove to Achievement Island, an empty island on a Rooster Teeth-wide shared server with a communal events island and separate identical islands for Creator/{{Funhaus}}, Squad Team Force, and RT Animation.

* Geoff Ramsey's skin is that of [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Master Chief]] and his house is [[TheMonolith the stone Monolith]] on the west side of Downtown. It's so big (going up to the build height limit) that it's used as a landmark for everyone to find Downtown again whenever they get lost or need to reach it in a competition. In Achievement Cove, Geoff, in stark contrast to his previous home, lives in a small, open air hut built into the cliff-side, accessible by a narrow staircase. For When he appears in ''WebAnimation/RoosterTeethAnimatedAdventures'', he just wears the SPARTAN armor without the helmet. Like Michael below, starting in Episode 107: "''Halo'' Mashup", Geoff has switched his Master Chief skin from the one found in Skin Pack 1 to the newer, more detailed skin found in the ''Halo'' Mashup Pack. Said new skin has prominent shoulder pads and a jet pack, the latter especially fitting considering how much Geoff flies around in episodes. His house in Achievement Island is a small shack built at the top of the mountain overlooking the others' homes and connected to the rest of the island via a railcar system that Ky built into the mountain.

Here on TV Tropes, "Achievement Hunter ''Minecraft'' Series" mainly refers to the group's ''Let's Play Minecraft'' series,[[labelnote:*]]The work page's name was actually chosen to avoid using the otherwise generic name of the series to refer to only the AH series called ''Let's Play Minecraft''. Besides that, we've already done "<Creator> ''Minecraft'' Series" once before to refer to [[Machinima/YogscastMinecraftSeries another group's]] ''Minecraft'' videos.[[/labelnote]] but it also refers to two other Achievement Hunter ''Minecraft'' shows:

** Ryan and Michael, in particular, repeatedly referencing ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' to irritate Geoff.

* Joe Lee's skin is a self-described "shitty" Pikachu. He has claimed Alfredo's tree as his home with a railcar system (built by Matt) to access the top.

* Joe Lee's skin is Pikachu. He has claimed Alfredo's tree as his home with a railcar system (built by Matt) to access the top.

* Matt Bragg's skin tends to change from episode to episode to fit that episode's theme, reflecting his GameMaster status. By default, his skin is that of [[VideoGame/FableI Jack of Blades]]. He had no permanent home in Achievement City. In Achievement Cove, he lives in a large, wooden mansion with an interior fountain, a second floor deck, and a boat dock in the back. His house on Achievement Island is a massive two-story mansion built between Trevor's and Jeremy's houses.
* Trevor Collins' original skin was a man wearing an iron golem mask. He had no permanent home in Achievement City. In Achievement Cove, he lives in a modern smooth stone house near the wheat farm, after his old dirt house was annexed by Gavin's woodpile. As of 2021, he has since replaced his iron golem mask with Chuck E. Cheese. His house in Achievement Island is a multi-floor narrow tower.
* Alfredo Diaz has chosen to stick with the default Steve, having spent the first six months as an employee of Achievement Hunter avoiding ''Minecraft'' before getting dragged in for ''Ya Dead, Ya Dead''. He also had no permanent home in Achievement City. In Achievement Cove, Alfredo lives in a spacious but unfinished home on top of the cliff, accessible by a ladder. His house in Achievement Island is an underground bunker with a small hole and pumpkin on top indicating the entrance, and has a giant tree in the middle of it that placed there by someone from the other groups as a prank.

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[[caption-width-right:350:So a [[Franchise/{{Halo}} space marine]], a [[VideoGame/{{Trials}} stunt biker]], a [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie bear]], a [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Creeper]], a [[SomethingAboutARose rose-loving]] [[Anime/SailorMoon tuxedoed man]], and a [[AxCrazy mad]] ManInAKilt walk into a bar...]]
[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrLgREKD4kk On May 11, 2012,]] five men[[note]]Geoff Ramsey, Jack Pattillo, Creator/MichaelJones, Creator/GavinFree, and Creator/RayNarvaezJr[[/note]] decide to screw around in the then-recently-released ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}: UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} Edition''. Only one of the men[[note]]Gavin[[/note]] has ever played ''Minecraft'' before. What happens within the 23 minutes of the video they published of their game session can only be described as hilarious chaos.

Since the release of that episode, '''''Let's Play Minecraft''''' has become one of the most prominent shows of Creator/RoosterTeeth's Creator/AchievementHunter division. After a bit of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, the show has settled into a more stable format. In each episode, the main crew of six Achievement Hunters, originally composed of the original five and [[SixthRanger Ryan Haywood]], later Geoff, Gavin, Jack, Michael, Ryan and Jeremy, compete in some game or challenge within their main world of [[HubCity Achievement City]] to win possession of the "Tower of Pimps", a column of four gold blocks set atop a single block of obsidian. (Although, Ray used dirt or sponge as a base instead.) Occasionally, some episodes has the group visiting other worlds (often in the PC version of ''Minecraft'') or having another member of the Rooster Teeth staff go along with them.

* Creator/RayNarvaezJr's skin is called "Tuxedo Steve", which he wears as a ShoutOut to Tuxedo Mask from ''Anime/SailorMoon''. His north side house is [[ButtMonkey made of dirt]], with a wall of paintings inside that hide a wall of dispensers filled with [[BerserkButton cakes]] nicknamed "Slice of Hell". When he appears in ''WebAnimation/RoosterTeethAnimatedAdventures'', he just wears the tuxedo. His last day with Achievement Hunter was April 18th, 2015. [[spoiler:His house was promptly dismantled the second Ray left and rebuilt into something better the next episode.]]

As for [[Characters/AchievementHunter the gang]] in this series, they can be identified by the following skins[[note]]with derivatives of them for their appearances in ''WebAnimation/RoosterTeethAnimatedAdventures'' and ''AH Animated''[[/note]] as well as the buildings they live in at Downtown Achievement City, Achievement Cove and Achievement Island:

* Matt Bragg's skin tends to change from episode to episode to fit that episode's theme, reflecting his GameMaster status. By default, his skin is that of [[VideoGame/FableI Jack of Blades]]. He had no permanent home in Achievement City. In Achievement Cove, he lives in a large, wooden mansion with an interior fountain, a second floor deck, and a boat dock in the back. His house on Achievement Island is a massive mansion built between Trevor's and Jeremy's houses.

* [=BlackKrystel=]'s skin is Blackfire from ''Teen Titans''. She does not have a home yet on the island as she joined the gang in December 2021.
* Joe Lee's skin is Pikachu. He does not have a home yet on the island since he joined in December 2021.

* Creator/MichaelJones' skin is that of VideoGame/{{Banjo|Kazooie}} and his house is a regular-looking wooden house on the east side next to a rail station. In Achievement Cove, he and Lindsay live in an elaborate birch-and-spruce house (built by Lindsay) across the water from the rest of the Hunters. When he appears in ''WebAnimation/RoosterTeethAnimatedAdventures'', he wears Banjo skin-like clothes, with a bear ear cap on his head, while his ''AH Animated'' depiction removes the hat. In Episode 106: "Bodyguards", it was revealed that Michael has switched his Banjo skin from the one he used for the longest time (that was introduced in Skin Pack 1), to the newer, more three-dimensional Banjo introduced in the free 2nd Birthday Skin Pack. Said new skin has Kazooie in the backpack, which for Michael is a symbol of his marriage to Lindsay. He originally lived in a giant birch box next to Ky's house that Lindsay annexed through their shack, but Lindsay has since remodeled both their houses into in a massive modern-looking black and white mansion next to Ky's house.
* Creator/GavinFree's skin is an anthropomorphic Creeper. His house is a partially-underground cobblestone house loaded with paintings inside on the northeast corner of Downtown. In Achievement Cove, his home is a pile of wood on the cliff-side with a facade making it look like an actual house. When he appears in ''WebAnimation/RoosterTeethAnimatedAdventures'' or ''AH Animated'', it's just regular clothes in the Creeper pattern, with the Creeper face on the shirt. He has yet to appear on Achievement Island, so he has no home on the island and a Creeper face made of gold and emerald is constructed in homage to him. The winners of the Tower of Pimps challenges post signs of their wins on the face.

* Lindsay Jones' skin is that of [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Kazooie]], which reflects their marriage to Michael. They only appeared in the occasional episode early on, but over time, they're more or less a regular player. In both Achievement City and Achievement Cove, they live with Michael in a bed adjacent to his. Given their precedence, and if Ryan was the [[Main/SixthRanger Sixth Ranger]] to the original 5, Lindsay can be considered the "Seventh", in a way. Their house in Achievement Island is a shabby shack appended to Ky's mansion and subsequently annexed to Michael's house, connecting the three of them together. They have since subsequently rebuilt their house into a massive modern black and white mansion with a massive glass window.
* Matt Bragg's skin tends to change from episode to episode to fit that episode's theme, reflecting his GameMaster status. By default, his skin is that of [[VideoGame/FableI Jack of Blades]]. He has no permanent home in Achievement City. In Achievement Cove, he lives in a large, wooden mansion with an interior fountain, a second floor deck, and a boat dock in the back. His house on Achievement Island is a massive mansion built between Trevor's and Jeremy's houses.
* Trevor Collins' original skin was a man wearing an iron golem mask. He has no permanent home in Achievement City. In Achievement Cove, he lives in a modern smooth stone house near the wheat farm, after his old dirt house was annexed by Gavin's woodpile. As of 2021, he has since replaced his iron golem mask with Chuck E. Cheese. His house in Achievement Island is a multi-floor narrow tower.
* Alfredo Diaz has not chosen a skin and remains with the default Steve, having spent the first six months as an employee of Achievement Hunter avoiding ''Minecraft'' before getting dragged in for ''Ya Dead, Ya Dead''. He also has no permanent home in Achievement City. In Achievement Cove, Alfredo lives in a spacious but unfinished home on top of the cliff, accessible by a ladder. His house in Achievement Island is an underground bunker with a small hole and pumpkin on top indicating the entrance, and has a giant tree in the middle of it that place there by someone from the other groups as a prank.
* Ky Cooke's skin is Constable Neyla from ''Videogame/SlyCooper''. As the most recent addition to Achievement Hunter, joining in June 2021, she joined the gang for the first time on Achievement Island. She's also the first one to build a house on Achievement Island, with a stone mansion on a raised platform with a garden underneath.

* Creator/MichaelJones' skin is that of VideoGame/{{Banjo|Kazooie}} and his house is a regular-looking wooden house on the east side next to a rail station. In Achievement Cove, he and Lindsay live in an elaborate birch-and-spruce house (built by Lindsay) across the water from the rest of the Hunters. When he appears in ''WebAnimation/RoosterTeethAnimatedAdventures'', he wears Banjo skin-like clothes, with a bear ear cap on his head, while his ''AH Animated'' depiction removes the hat. In Episode 106: "Bodyguards", it was revealed that Michael has switched his Banjo skin from the one he used for the longest time (that was introduced in Skin Pack 1), to the newer, more three-dimensional Banjo introduced in the free 2nd Birthday Skin Pack. Said new skin has Kazooie in the backpack, which for Michael is a symbol of his marriage to Lindsay. He lives with Lindsay in a massive modern-looking black and white mansion next to Ky's house.
* Creator/GavinFree's skin is an anthropomorphic Creeper. His house is a partially-underground cobblestone house loaded with paintings inside on the northeast corner of Downtown. In Achievement Cove, his home is a pile of wood on the cliff-side with a facade making it look like an actual house. When he appears in ''WebAnimation/RoosterTeethAnimatedAdventures'' or ''AH Animated'', it's just regular clothes in the Creeper pattern, with the Creeper face on the shirt. He has yet to appear on Achievement Island, so a Creeper face made of gold and emerald is constructed on the island in homage to him. The winners of the Tower of Pimps challenges post signs of their wins on the face.

* Alfredo Diaz has not chosen a skin and remains with the default Steve, having spent the first six months as an employee of Achievement Hunter avoiding ''Minecraft'' before getting dragged in for ''Ya Dead, Ya Dead''. He also has no permanent home in Achievement City. In Achievement Cove, Alfredo lives in a spacious but unfinished home on top of the cliff, accessible by a ladder. His house in Achievement Island is an underground bunker-style cavern with a small hole and pumpkin on top indicating the entrance.