Mojang cinematics

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Mojang cinematics are animated videos or rendered images taken from official Mojang social media platforms or official releases. Many different studios are commissioned to work on them, but the most prevalent are Element Animation and Brikk Animation.

Update trailers

Village & Pillage: Official Trailer

Buzzy Bees: Official Trailer

Nether Update: Official Trailer

Caves & Cliffs Update: Part I – Official Trailer

Caves & Cliffs Update: Part II – Official Trailer

Summary

Steve and Alex are exploring a mountain cave, with Steve feeling intimidated by a cobweb. After cowering behind Alex, she pulls out a torch, and soon they begin mining for copper. Feeling mischievous, Alex makes a shadow puppet of a spider using a dead bush, to Steve's horror. After some facial banter, Alex decides to leave on a minecart, but falls down a long track through a mineshaft into a lush cave. A spring catches her fall, meanwhile Steve continues mining and ends up falling into a dripstone cave himself, suffering great injuries through slapstick.

Meanwhile, Alex dances on big dripleaves. She then stumbles upon an amethyst geode. Steve is not so fortunate, getting burned and stabbed many times while trying to find his way out, as several real spiders apparently sit back and laugh at him. Alex befriends an axolotl, Steve tries to run in fear from a massive clutter of spiders. He falls down a hole and falls right on top of Alex, sending her down a waterfall into a cave full of monsters. In a panic, they use the materials they gathered over their journey to craft a spyglass, eyeing out an exit for them. With the axolotl bucketed, they scurry out of the cave and seal it with gravel, only to realize they are now at the top of the mountain.

To make matters worse, Steve is rammed off the cliff by a goat.

Entities

Credits

Trivia

Small black text is revealed by the splashes from the axolotl at 1:00.

The Wild Update: What Will You Uncover?

The Wild Update Where Will You Wander?

Summary

Noor is eating a glow berry while relaxing on a boat chest in a mangrove swamp, when suddenly an army of tadpoles appear. Taking a liking to one tadpole, Noor decides to put it in a bucket, before reaching into the chest and pulling out a spyglass. With it, Noor spies an allay playing near a Nether Portal, which Alex, Steve, and a frog then emerge out of. Noor takes another liking to the allay, and decides to hand it a glow berry. The allay decides to lead Noor somewhere, passing by Steve and Alex digging a hole, before arriving at a beautiful lush cave where many frogs are playing on big dripleaves. Amazed by its beauty, Noor decides to depart with the tadpole, releasing it into the spring.

Entities

Credits

The Wild Update: Craft Your Path

Summary

Steve and Alex are mining sculk near an ancient city, accidentally setting off a sculk shrieker to Steve's horror. Later, Alex and Steve are fighting a horde of piglins, as an accompanying frog barfs out a froglight. After escaping through a Nether portal, the duo begin digging a hole; the same one seen in Where Will You Wander. The scene transitions into a campsite, where Steve, Alex, Sunny, Noor, and Efe are relaying stories around a campfire. An allay arrives and drops a glow berry below Noor's feet. Inspired, Noor pulls out a second glow berry and recounts the events of Where Will You Wander, eating the berry after finishing.

Sunny and Efe begin reciting a story themselves, Sunny mimicking the Warden to set the mood. The trailer then fades into footage of What Will You Uncover, before Sunny pulls out an egg, presumably the one that ratted them out. Sunny then tosses it away, to the chicken's dismay. Irritated, the chicken then startles Efe and Sunny.

Entities

Credits

Introducing New Default Skins!

Trails & Tales Update: Official Launch Trailer

Tricky Trials Update Official Trailer

Drop trailers

Name	Image	Description	Producer	Release dates
Armored Paws drop - Official Trailer		Noor goes on an adventure in a badland, with a pack of armored wolves.	Filmic Art	April 23, 2024
Bundles of Bravery - Official Trailer		Ari runs several errands across the land, discovering the many uses of bundles.	Brikk Animation	October 22, 2024
The Garden Awakens - Official Trailer		Kai and Efe venture into a pale garden as it awakens, discovering unforeseen consequences.	Filmic Art	December 3, 2024
Spring to Life - Official Minecraft Trailer		Zuri leads an adventure across many biomes full of life, but things turn south.	Brikk Animation	March 25, 2025
CHASE THE SKIES WITH VIBRANT VISUALS – Official Minecraft Trailer		Players ride Happy Ghasts around the overworld		June 17, 2025

Downloadable content trailers

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Title	Image	Description	Producer	Release dates
The Super Duper Minecraft Musical		A musical telling the story of Melissa Benoist exploring the Super Duper Graphics Pack.	Psyop	November 18, 2017
Caves & Cliffs Explorers		A prequel to Caves & Cliffs Explorers, telling the story of the Collapse	Spark Universe	July 17, 2022[verify]
Start a New Minecraft Story – Official Trailer		Several characters explore the wonders of the Minecraft Marketplace.	Brokendoll	January 12, 2023
SpongeBob SquarePants – Musical		The cast of SpongeBob SquarePants perform a	Spark Universe	Twitter: May 4, 2023 Vimeo: May 10, 2023
Minecraft x Marketplace Pass		Efe, Zuri, and Kai explore Marketplace Pass
Change your game, your way!		Steve and the gang discover add-ons.	Brokendoll	May 21, 2024

Event trailers

Title	Image	Description	Producer	Release dates
Minecraft Live: Announcement Trailer				September 3, 2020
Minecraft Marketplace 5 Year Celebration Trailer
Explore the Minecraft Marketplace 5 Year Celebration Sale!
Minecraft Live 2021: Announcement Trailer			Brikk Animation	September 2, 2021
Minecraft Live 2022: Announcement Trailer			Element Animation	September 8, 2022
Minecraft Live is back for 2023!			Element Animation	September 13, 2023
Minecraft is turning 15			Rabbit's Foot Studios	May 14, 2024
Minecraft Live is Coming Soon!			Element Animation	September 18, 2024
Minecraft Live 2025: Announcement Trailer			Brikk Animation	March 5, 2025
Minecraft LIVE Official Trailer – September 2025			Element Animation	September 10, 2025

Shorts

Mojang Presents... An Update Aquatic

Village & Pillage: A Wanderous Journey

VILLAGER (and Pillager?) NEWS

Minecraft Live: The Nether Update Encore

Summary

Animated to the tune of Orchestral Suite no. 2 in B minor, a baby piglin takes the stage. Appearing first under a spotlight, seemingly nervous, many other piglins appear, first with their eyes glowing in the dark, then dancing in the light with gold swords. The baby piglin is quickly approached by four hoglins, inexplicably dancing on their hind legs, alongside a baby hoglin that is pushed off a cliff with the piglin. The two fall on top of a piglin brute, who is intimidated and irritated by their disturbance on their cranium. Seemingly threatening them with an axe, the two dance away in a hurry, leaping across many striders to safety in a basalt delta, and then being launched into the air by magma cubes.

At the top of the delta, the piglin begins riding the hoglin, passing by a random sheep. A barrage of ghasts begin shooting fireballs at them, but they manage to avoid all but the last one, which sends them flying into a minecart. A haunting of endermen are loitering on the track, teleporting away in a panic right before being hit. As the duo reaches the end of the track, many mobs join them in their dance, culminating in them all climbing on top of each other and striking a pose.

Entities

Minecraft Live 2021: Caves & Cliffs: The Musical

Summary

Steve and Alex are meeting up in a village, when they're suddenly approached by a non-corporeal voice, asking if they've discovered everything in part one of the Caves & Cliffs update. They shrug, triggering an earthquake. They fall into a display of many new features, including candles, glow lichens, and amethyst geodes. While Alex is mining amethyst, she's interrupted by a screaming goat. The song continues, stressing those are only a fraction of the new features, listing off dripleaves, more options for dirt paths, powder snow, copper ore, raw ore, and lightning rods. After announcing that last feature, a wandering trader is electrocuted.

The song moves on to explain oxidation and the use of honeycombs to wax them. The song then establishes blocks of raw copper, but Steve notices a goat and expects it to scream. It doesn't, but a second goat next to him does. The song then introduces axolotls, and them being compatible with buckets, before moving onto glow squids and their ambience, as well as their ink being usable on signs and item frames. The song then mentions dripstone caves and deepslate ores. As Steve and Alex climb up a mountain, the song concludes by stressing more content is being added, before a goat screams again.

Entities

Minecraft Celebrates the Community! (Yes, that means you!)

Minecraft Live 2022: A Warden’s Song

Minecraft: Soothing Scenes

A Tale of Two Friends

Minecraft Live 2024: The Monster in the Woods

Minecraft 2024: A year in blocks

A Wandering Trader Springs to Life!

Vertical videos

YouTube

Instagram

• Something stirs in the pale garden...
  
• Fireworks and friends: The perfect get-together!
  
• Adventure out safely aboard a camel!
  
• At Mojang Studios we believe in building an inclusive and equal world through the power of play. So be who you are and wear what you want. Happy Pride!
  
• Someone’s going to have to change!
  
• The camels are waiting for you… find them June 7 with the Trails & Tales Update!
  
• Oh the possibilities to come with cherry wood! What are you dreaming up for the new pink wood type?
  
• How would you react if you walked into a lush cave and saw this?
  
• Where is that buried treasure…?!
  
• Happy #WorldFrogDay! Get out there and make a new amphibian friend.
  
• How the tables have turned, phantom!
  
• An all-star team of allays can get things done!
  
• POV: You’re a busy bee
  
• Something relaxing about the daily life of a village.
  
• Those sneaky chickens, keep trying fox!
  
• The good boi waits and waits for your return…
  
• Explore a mysterious mansion in this year’s free #HourOfCode lesson - Escape Estate!
  
• Oh no, Steve went looking for treats in the wrong neighborhood!
  
• Adventures are more fun when you bring a friend along!
  
• Your friend is in need!
  
• Run Steve and Alex, Run!
  
• Hot, cold, or temperate? How do you like your frogs?
  
• ...if it wasn't for that meddling Steve!
  
• Ah spring! Time to marvel at the blossoms and trees, and tell us what you’ve been building in Flower Forest biomes?
  
• Not all that glows is a squid, but these shimmering cephalopods can certainly put on a dazzling dance!
  
• There ain’t no party like a piglin party!
  
• Need to feel light as a feather, don’t forget to craft with leather! Marching fast or strolling slow, you’ll need it to cross the powder snow!
  
• Splish, splash! A true miracle of nature, the splendid waterfall nourishes lush caves, marine life and children-at-heart alike!
  
• Any minute now! That pickaxe may be nice and shiny, but it’s that unyielding miner’s resolve that's the true tool of the trade!
  
• Wololo! Even the most fang-summoning of foes occasionally need some time to unwind – and what better pastime than the ancient art of large-scale collaborative sheep-dyeing?
  
• Ah, that most marvellous of mazes! Though danger may be lurking around every corner, it does have an oddly familiar comfort to it, doesn't it?
  
• Some say schools of frozen fish sticks scurry freely underneath the ice. We say: let’s build a hut, carve a hole, and find out!
  
• Whether it’s a tower, a castle, or your very own personal realm, this is certainly a place you can proudly call home!
  
• As the old saying goes: you don’t truly appreciate what you have until you’re being ruthlessly hunted down by a vicious phantom! A soft bed; an even softer cat – solid ground, even!
  
• Building a house? Pah! In the Mushroom Fields, your next lodging might just sprout from the soil - and nobody will notice if you smell a little fungi!
  
• Crawl, baby turtle, crawl! That ravenous army of drowned will stop at nothing in their quest for a tasty midnight snack – except for an early sunrise, that is!
  
• Gather, gather, all together! In just 4 short days, you’ll have more blocks than ever to build a welcoming home for your dearest of friends – animal or otherwise!
  
• Up and up the goats do race, For high up lie their glory days, They climb, ever braver, Resolves never waver, To boop someone from a high place
  
• With great reward comes great risk! Alex may have grabbed herself a Totem of the Undying, but she wasn’t exactly planning on using it anytime soon!
  
• Uncurl your tail, treat yourself to a mud bath, and oink your single-most blissful oink: the wonderous desert lakes are the perfect biome to build your own personal oasis!
  
• Ah, one of these days! Human determination knows no greater triumph than that sacred, not-at-all-delusional pursuit: turning the enderman into a pin cushion!
  
• Yee-haw! The badlands may be mostly drought and dead bushes, but there’s nothing quite like the local saloon to put your spurs up at the end of the day. Don’t let the doors hit you on the way in!
  
• Home sweet home! There’s nothing quite like relaxing on your very own porch; bathing in the golden rays of glowstone; taking in the sweet smell of fresh sulphur. What a life!
  

Trivia

• Although they were not formally introduced until Minecraft Live 2022, Sunny, Noor, and Efe made several appearances in trailers for the Wild Update.
• In several trailers, Steve's beard is treated as a smile, emoting in various ways.
• A common running gag is a chicken appearing in various underground locations, such as The Wild Update: What Will You Uncover? and Tricky Trials Update Official Trailer.

Gallery

Development images

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  A storyboard of Craft Your Own Path.
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  A second storyboard of Craft Your Own Path, featuring a mangrove swamp.
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  A storyboard of Craft Your Own Path, featuring placeholders of Steve, Alex, and Noor labeled S, A, and F.
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  Another storyboard of Craft Your Own Path, with Sunny and Efe labeled as R and T.
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  An allay in a storyboard of Craft Your Own Path.
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  "Noor" holding an undecided object in a storyboard of Craft Your Own Path.
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  Ditto., now shaded like an in-game glow berry sprite.
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  Steve and Alex being spooked by a chicken instead of Sunny and Efe.
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  Another storyboard of Craft Your Own Path.
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  A storyboard of Where Will You Wander?
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  Steve in a Where Will You Wander? storyboard in place of Noor.
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  A spyglass in a storyboard of Where Will You Wander?
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  Steve, Alex, and an allay near a nether portal in a storyboard of Where Will You Wander?
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  Another storyboard of Where Will You Wander?
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  "Noor" handing an allay a noticeably round glow berry in a storyboard of Where Will You Wander?
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  "Noor" following the allay, storyboarded.
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  A storyboard of Where Will You Wander?
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  "Steve" releasing a tadpole into a lush cave, storyboarded.
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  Ditto, from the perspective of water.

See also

• Minecraft Mini-Series
• Minecraft Animated Series

References

Navigation

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Main characters	Alex Ari Christina Dani Dinnerbone Efe Jack Jesse Kai Loge Makena Narrators Nitwit Noor Nurm Petra Steve Sunny Tim No. 5 No. 9 No. 15 Zuri
Game trailers	Season One Trailer Season Two Trailer CRAFT YOUR OWN ADVENTURE! Minecraft: Dungeons – Announce Trailer Gameplay Reveal Trailer Official Launch Trailer Minecraft Legends - Announce Trailer Gameplay Reveal Trailer Fiery Foes Official Launch Trailer
Update trailers	A Tale of Friendship Village and Pillage Buzzy Bees Nether Update Cross-platform Caves & Cliffs Part I Caves & Cliffs Part II What Will You Uncover? Where Will You Wander? Craft Your Path Introducing New Default Skins! Trails & Tales Tricky Trials
Drop trailers	Armored Paws Bundles of Bravery The Garden Awakens Spring to Life CHASE THE SKIES The Copper Age
DLC trailers	Super Duper Minecraft Musical A Minecraft Tale of Two Villages Caves & Cliffs Explorers Burberry Start a New Minecraft Story SpongeBob SquarePants – Musical Minecraft x Marketplace Pass Change your game, your way! Dragon Ball Z
Event trailers	WE'RE SORRY! 2015 A Minecraft Adventure 2018 2020 2021 5 Year Celebration Explore the 5 Year Celebration 2022 2023 Minecraft is turning 15 2024 March 2025 McDonald's September 2025
Short films	Types Mojang shorts Marketplace shorts Mojang Presents A Wanderous Journey VILLAGER (and Pillager?) NEWS The Nether Update Encore Caves & Cliffs: The Musical One Trillion Views Minecraft Celebrates the Community A Warden's Song A Tale of Two Friends The Monster in the Woods A Wandering Trader Springs to Life! Happy Ghast
Informational	Safety First! 4 game-changing new features! A Fun Announcement by Dinnerbone A Fun Visit from Dinnerbone AI 101 AI in Action AI for Good Merlin X Minecraft A year in blocks