Minecraft Legends is an action/Real-Time Strategy Spin-Off of Minecraft developed by Mojang and Blackbird Interactive.
The game takes place during an invasion of the Overworld by the Piglin Hordes. It's up to you, the Hero to reunite the Overworld against this invasion and restore beauty.
Minecraft Legends was released on 18th April 2023.
Minecraft Legends provides examples of:
- Action Bomb: Keeping up with their original counterparts, creepers explode when near enemies, and walls.
- Adaptational Heroism: Every Minecraft player knows that night falling will always involve zombies, skeletons and creepers trying to kill you on sight. In this game, they are friendly to everyone in the Overworld and are more than willing to help you fight off the invading piglins.
- Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Originally, the player can control 20 units. However, by building additional Flames of Creation improvement structures, the player can control up to 100 units.
- Arm Cannon: The Unbreakable has a cannon on their hand that's the size of a boar.
- Art-Shifted Sequel: While the game is a spinoff rather than a sequel, the art style used for Legends is vastly different from that seen in Minecraft, which can be best seen with the cell-shaded appearance of the game and the more chibi-like models of some of the mobs. Legends is also this towards Minecraft's other spinoffs, as they borrow heavily the source game's art style.
- Bad with the Bone: The Beast carries around a large bone club, which it uses for some of its attacks. Interestingly, barring a few alterations to its model and texture, the weapon in question appears to be the bone cudgel from Minecraft Dungeons.
- A Beast in Name and Nature: The Beast is the leader of the Horde of the Hunt who resembles a centaur. He attacks villages at night and will easily destroy your walls.
- Big Bad: The Great Hog is the mastermind behind the Piglin invasion, having united the Hordes of the Hunt, Bastion and Spore in an effort to invade the Overworld for its resources.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: The three Hosts make up one of these. Action is big, Foresight is thin and Knowledge is short.
- Bittersweet Ending: The Piglin Hordes are defeated with the Overworld's peoples slowly restoring beauty to the world which has been badly damaged by the war. On the other hand, it's implied that the events will cause the Illager faction to rise and Action, Foresight and Knowledge leave to explore other worlds.
- Evil Counterpart: Many and numerous, often crossing over with Antagonist Abilities.
- Structures functioning identically: Patcher and carpenter huts both repair structures in an area, Piglin terror horns and kaboomeries both enhance other structures knockback, seigeworks and spyglass overlooks both enhance the range of other structures.
- Structures functioning differently: Blaze rod towers act like arrow towers that set units on fire.
Armoured towers share the scatter towers lack of range and spread shots but also set units on fire and they are invulnerable when not attacking. Piglin pits and spanners are both used to spawn units but in entirely different ways. - Units with similar roles: Plank golems and blaze runts are both easily slain and cheap ranged units specialised against common enemies. Grindstone golems and warboars both possess a Foe-Tossing Charge and high speed and are effective against ranged units. Moss golems and Piglin spore medics both lack any attacks and exist solely to heal allied units.
- Fat Bastard: The Devourer is a giant Piglin with a gluttonous appetite and a few disgusting spore...things growing off his back, you can’t miss him.
- Full-Boar Action: The Beast rides a hoglin, which is essentially a giant pig, into battle. It doesn't naturally have tusks, but it wears a mask made of bones.
- Gluttonous Pig: The Devourer is very fat, eats with his mouth open, and lets food fall out of his mouth. In addition, one of his attacks involves spitting, and another involves vomiting.
- Golem: Not the ordinary golem, but 4 new ones as Allies, there’s the Cobblestone, Grindstone, Plank and Moss.
- There’s also the First ones, they were made by Knowledge from gold to help construct the Overworld. Unfortunately, the gold tarnished over time, causing them to disassemble till the player can reassemble them to fight in the war. There are four of the firsts, the First of Stone, the First of Diorite, First of Brick, and the First of Oak.
- Hellgate: All the piglins are implied to have come out of portals to the Nether, which is a hellish dimension. One of these portals appears near the center of each piglin base.
- Horse of a Different Color: Not only can you ride a horse, but you can ride things are anything but your average horse.
- Jabba Table Manners: Like the other Piglins in the game, The Devourer invades the Overworld through a Hellgate. His villainy is emphasized in cutscenes, where he's depicted eating quickly with his mouth open and letting food fall out of his mouth.
- Modular Difficulty: The Custom Settings menu offers the ability to adjust a variety of Game Mechanics, including Falling Damage, Knockback, the number of bases and outposts in the world, and more.
- Non-Human Non-Binary: The Piglin generals and the firsts are all referred to with “it/its” and “they/them” pronouns, implying this trope.
- Panthera Awesome: One of the mounts you'll use is a Regal Tiger, which is not only the fiercest animal in the Overworld, but it's also the fastest.
- Pig Man: Throughout the game, the player will almost exclusively fight pig men known as Piglins. The Piglins resemble pigs but stand upright. They wear primitive clothing and exhibit warlike behavior, including the use of weapons. They can't speak, but can communicate with each other through various grunts.
- Prequel: Legends is framed as one, given that the trailer shows a villager reading the story to their child within a typical Minecraft village and the story itself is only known as a tale passed down by villagers. The ending also shows how this entire story planted the roots for the creation of the Illagers.
- Rolling Attack: The Pigmadillos are enemies that have a special armor that can allow them to roll for either transportation or offensive purposes.
- Springy Spores: Bouncecaps are mushrooms that let you jump higher when you stand on them. They also make it so you don't take Falling Damage from your jumps, as a Required Secondary Power.
- Villainous Glutton: The Devourer is a very fat Piglin who invades the Overworld. He will attack the player on sight.
- Vocal Dissonance: While Foresight has a feminine voice you might expect from her appearance, Action has the voice of a child, and Knowledge has the voice of a man.
