Minecraft Legends

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Minecraft Legends

Developer(s)	Mojang Studios Blackbird Interactive
Publisher(s)	Windows & Xbox Xbox Game Studios Other platforms Mojang Studios
Platform(s)	Native Backward-compatible Nintendo Switch 2 Other (Compatible devices)
Written in	C++ Bedrock Codebase
Latest version	Steam: 12895632 Xbox: 1.18.19068.0 Switch: 1.18.19068 PlayStation: 1.13
Release date	April 18, 2023
Rating(s)	PEGI: 7 [1] ACB: PG [2] ESRB: E10+ [3] DEJUS: 10 [4] GRAC: 12 [5] USK: 12 [6]
Size	As of 1.18.19068: Windows 11.61 GB (Microsoft Store) ≤ 24 GB (Steam) Other 7.63 GB (Xbox One/Series X|S) 7.4 GB (Nintendo Switch; Standard Edition) 6.6 GB (Nintendo Switch; Deluxe Edition)
License	Terms of Use
Source available	No
Links	Website Standard Edition Windows Microsoft Store Steam Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 United States Canada United Kingdom & Ireland Australia & New Zealand PlayStation 4 & PlayStation 5 Deluxe Edition Windows Microsoft Store Steam Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 US (Digital) (Physical) CA (Digital) (Physical) UK & Ireland (Digital) United Kingdom (Physical) Ireland (Physical) AU/NZ (Digital) (Physical) PlayStation 4 & PlayStation 5 Triple Bundle [note 1] Windows Xbox Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 United States Canada United Kingdom & Ireland Australia & New Zealand PlayStation Xbox Cloud Gaming Information xbox.com/play Steam Deck
Notes ↑ Includes Minecraft, Minecraft Dungeons, and 1020 Minecoins/Tokens.

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Minecraft Legends is an action strategy video game released on April 18, 2023, developed by Mojang Studios and Blackbird Interactive, and published by Xbox Game Studios on Windows and Xbox, and Mojang Studios on other platforms. It features music by Crispin Hands.

On January 10, 2024, it was announced that 1.18.19068 was Minecraft Legends's last update, but it is still available to be purchased, downloaded and played.^[7]

Plot

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Minecraft Legends is a story grounded as a legend lost to time that is now remembered only in a powerful tale passed down from villager to villager. The legend itself tells of a great hero who saved the Overworld by uniting every mob against an invasion by the ravenous piglins and stopped their Nether corruption from devouring the Overworld and everything with it.^[8]

In the Overworld, long ago, everyone was friendly to each other. Zombies, skeletons, and creepers didn’t attack the villagers, wolves didn’t attack the skeletons, llamas didn’t attack the wolves. This peace was shattered when an obsidian portal opened and piglins poured out. The Great Hog, an enormous piglin who ruled them all, was set on corrupting the Overworld with netherrack and harvesting all its gold. They sent the Horde of the Hunt to ravage the place with their berserk ferocity, led by their general, the Beast, a tenacious piglin who rides a giant hoglin.

Dismayed, the Hosts, otherworldly beings visiting the Overworld, call upon the hero to help them drive off the piglins. Action, the strong, childish, outspoken Host, gifts them the Banner of Courage. Foresight, the visionary, gifts them the Flames of Creation, a plank golem, and a cobblestone golem. Knowledge, essentially a sapient crafting table with limbs, gifts them the Legendary Lute. After some training, the hero leaves to grow their forces. They end up destroying a piglin outpost.

In the Nether, the Great Hog punishes the Beast for the loss of the outpost and calls upon the Seer, an elderly and crafty piglin. She corrupts the core of a beacon with a powerful purple cube called the Orb of Dominance. Some piglin runts place the core in an empty beacon atop a portal, creating the Night Beacon. This causes eternal night and strengthens the piglins. Creepers, skeletons, and zombies join the hero in the battle to destroy it.

The destruction echoes in the Nether, startling the Seer. A messenger piglin brings the news to the Great Hog, who orders the piglin be beat to death. Angered, they send troops of the Horde of the Bastion to attack the homesteads of the mobs that helped the hero in the fight. After the hero saves them, they cheer and show eternal gratitude by helping them.

In a crimson forest, the Beast hunts an Ancient Hoglin, trampling underfoot the messenger piglin who attempted informing them another outpost had been destroyed. The Seer attempts using a pink shockwave to get the Beast to give up the hunt, which only makes them send their strongest warriors, the pigmadillos, so ends up resorting to telekinesis to get them through the portal. The Beast travels through the Overworld, searching for a village to destroy, then meets the hero. The Beast battles the hero and loses, ending the Horde of the Hunt’s reign.

In a warped forest, another general, the Devourer, in charge of the Horde of the Spore, is sitting in a soup bath of mushrooms and dead animals, eating it all. When an injured piglin warns them of the outposts’ destruction, they only send their strongest warriors, the sporebacks. After another injured piglin, they travel through the portal, with much vomiting and burping, but die at the hero’s hands.

The Unbreakable is the general of the Horde of the Bastion. Messenger piglins bring news and broken flails to the Unbreakable’s throne, angering them and causing them to take action, battling the hero with their brute strength, but loses.

Some gray villagers travel to the Well of Fate with a mace head and blaze rod, offering their aid in the battle. Though Action is unsure, Foresight remarks they have a choice to battle, and gives them vindicator clothing, confusing them. Action crafts a crafting table on Knowledge, creating for the first time a way to craft aside from Knowledge’s head, and creates iron axes for the villagers, who become warriors and join the battle.

Angered by the losses of their generals and all their militia, the Great Hog calls upon the Seer, who empowers them with the Orb. Pleased, they travel to the Overworld and attempt to destroy the Well of Fate, but the hero thwarts their plan and kills the piglins who followed them, save the Seer, who escaped.

Gameplay

Minecraft Legends is a strategy game with some action elements. In the game, the player takes on the third person perspective of a great hero who must defend settlements & villages, create outposts, make allies with mobs, and fight hordes of piglins to stop the spread of their Nether corruption within a procedurally generated world. The game allows the player character to direct and give directions to allies, as well as to gather resources to build structures. ^[8] The game includes random world generation that is different from Minecraft with mobs and biomes. The player character’s primary objective is to gather resources in the world to build defenses against the piglins. The game supports multiplayer gameplay with up to 8 players, 4 on each team, where they can either challenge other player characters for a battle or team up to defeat opponents.^[9][10]

Minecraft Legends began first as an idea before Mojang Studios decided to collaborate with a Vancouver-based studio called Blackbird Interactive (who also developed Minecraft Earth) to develop the game as a Minecraft strategy game.^[8]

Bosses

Minecraft Legends has a total of 4 bosses. 3 of them appear after the player clears all of the bases of a horde, and one appears after the player defeats all three. They are:

The Beast The Beast is a boss enemy and the leader of the Horde of the Hunt. It can be fought after all of the Horde of the Hunt bases are destroyed. It is fast and highly destructive with it tearing through structures. Sometimes at night, it launches an attack on a random village.

The Devourer The Devourer is a boss enemy and the leader of the Horde of the Spore. It has lots of overgrowth and fungi growths coming off its body and resemble that of a zombie-like life form. It can be fought after all of the Horde of the Spore bases are destroyed.

The Unbreakable The Unbreakable is a boss enemy and the leader of the Horde of the Bastion. It can be fought after all of the Horde of the Bastion bases are destroyed. The Unbreakable is a large Piglin with lots of gold trimming, including a golden Mohawk, shoulder guard, and gauntlet. It also carries a large pack on its back which acts as a flamethrower. It also has an iron jaw.

The Great Hog The Great Hog is the final boss enemy of Minecraft Legends and the leader of all three Piglin hordes. It can be fought after all of the hordes are defeated. This boss appears at The Well of Fate. It has red skin, a magic weapon in one hand, a spear in the other. Defeating it completes the game and results in all remaining piglins and their structures disappearing.

Purchase and availability

The Standard Edition of the game is available for US$39.99 (Can$49.49, €39.69, £34.99, A$49.45, NZ$59.90, S$56.85). It is included with Xbox Game Pass Premium, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and PC Game Pass.

Minecraft Legends Deluxe Edition is available for US$49.99 (Can$64.99, €49.99, £44.99, A$69.95, NZ$79.40, S$72). It includes the base game and the Deluxe Skin Pack.

The game is available on the following platforms:

• Windows 10+
• Xbox One
• Xbox Series X|S
• Nintendo Switch
• Nintendo Switch 2 (via backward compatibility)
• PlayStation 4
• PlayStation 5

The game is also playable on Xbox Cloud Gaming (requires Xbox Game Pass)). For more information, visit the official web page. For a list of compatible devices, visit this page on Xbox Support. For information on how to get Xbox Cloud Gaming on the Steam Deck, visit this page on Microsoft Support.

There are two different editions of the game:

• Standard Edition
• Minecraft Legends Deluxe Edition

The game can also be purchased alongside Minecraft, Minecraft Dungeons, and 1,020 Minecoins as part of the Minecraft Triple Bundle offer.

Supported languages

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System requirements

According to the Steam page:

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	Minimum	Recommended
Notes	Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS	Windows 10 (May 2020 Update or higher) or Windows 11
Processor	Intel Core i5 2.8 GHz or equivalent	Intel Core i5 3.4 GHz or equivalent
Memory	8 GB RAM
Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780, AMD Radeon 285, Intel HD 520, or equivalent DX12 GPU	NVIDIA GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon 580
DirectX	Version 12
Network		Broadband internet connection
Storage	24 GB available space
Additional Notes	Performance increases with higher-end systems. Not supported on Windows 10/11 in S mode.

Videos

Trivia

• Minecraft Legends was first teased in a background poster in a Minecraft Dungeons developer interview.^[11]

Gallery

Official artwork

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  Minecraft Legends logo
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  Minecraft Legends: Deluxe Edition logo
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  Minecraft Legends key art
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  Minecraft Legends: Deluxe Edition key art
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  Key art without logo
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  Deluxe Edition PS5 box.
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  Key art for Minecraft Legends music released as singles
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  Minecraft Legends Deluxe Skin Pack key art, showcasing the exclusive Rabbit skin as well as an exclusive mount skin.
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  UNITE THE OVERWORLD, the Minecraft Legends tagline.
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  A collection of wallpapers for Minecraft Legends.
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  Artwork of the hero alongside their gathered allies.
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  Artwork of the three hosts of Minecraft Legends.
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  Artwork of an assortment of different types of piglins.
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  Artwork of a village with four villagers present.
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  Artwork of the hero playing a melody on the lute for the building allay.
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  Artwork showing the hero arriving into the world of Minecraft Legends.
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  Artwork featuring The Devourer, along with various other piglins of the Horde of the Spore.
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  Artwork featuring The Beast and The Unbreakable, along with various piglins from both of their respective hordes.
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  Artwork of the overworld of Minecraft Legends, showing the hero playing the lute nearby a village.
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  Artwork showing the new mobs from Title Update 2, featuring the Fearless Frog, Witch, Clanger, Air Chopper, and the Cauldron.
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  A piglin runt in Minecraft Legends.
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  The piglins in Minecraft Legends.
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Screenshots

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  An allay flying alongside a golden allay.
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  A mace runt and blaze runt emerge from a Nether Portal.
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  Three villagers in a meadow.
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  The Well of Fate as seen on the Steam page.
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  A hero amidst a dry savanna featured on the Steam page.
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  Screenshot from the deluxe skin pack steam page.
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  Screenshot from the deluxe skin pack steam page.
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  Screenshot from the deluxe skin pack steam page.
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  Screenshot from the deluxe skin pack steam page.
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  Screenshot from the deluxe skin pack steam page.
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  A badger stopping in front of a mace.
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  The Great Hog and his horde leaders in the Nether.
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  The three piglin horde leaders left to right; The Unbreakable, The Beast, and The Devourer.

Development images

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  Spider climbing up a piglin wall.
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  Spider homestead icon on compass development image.
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  Spider Lost Legend development image.
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  Marc Graue giving the Great Hog sounds.
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  The Unbreakable being given sounds.
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  Early iteration of the night beacon base.

In other media

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  Minecraft Legends logo inspiration.^[12]
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  An official meme about the poor living conditions of good living conditions, apparently made by piglins.
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  Minecraft Legends default resource pack icon

References

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