LEGO Minecraft

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LEGO Minecraft is a LEGO-themed set based on Minecraft. Currently, there are ten sets available, however there was originally four.

One Minecraft block is represented as a 1×1 plate with a tile on top. LEGO states that this is not a perfect cube, but it is "the best approximation at the chosen scale." The surface of the four modules comes off to reveal mines and water beneath. Builders can build their own landscapes, stack cubes on top of each other, and freely build on the world. Each module is 12×12, and the sets may come with several of these modules.

Set information

The Micro World set centers around the Player (Steve) and one of the game's antagonists, a Creeper. The scene is depicted in The Overworld and depicts two biomes, including a mountain, caves, forest and grassland. The Village features structures in the village, and an abandoned mine shaft. It includes blocks for constructing houses, along with the Pig, Villager, and Zombie figures. The Nether is a stylised depiction of the Nether, and contains a lava sea, a lava stream flowing down a hill, Nether Fortress, and a Nether Portal to connect to the Overworld. It also includes two Ghasts and a Zombie Pigman. The End is a stylised depiction of the End, and contains the Ender Dragon, six obsidian pillars with ender crystals on top of them, an exit end portal and endermen.

The "Micro World" sets can be purchased through the websites Jinx and Lego.com.^[1]

Six Minifigure-scale sets will be available by the end of 2014 with 4 more planned for 2015.

Set No.	Set	Price	Release	Pieces	Minifigures	Ref.
21102	Micro World The Forest	$34.99 / €34.99	June 1, 2012	480	Steve, Creeper	^[2]
21105	Micro World The Village	$34.99 / €34.99	September 1, 2013	466	Villager, Pig, Zombie	^[3]
21106	Micro World The Nether	$34.99 / €34.99	September 1, 2013	469	Zombie Pigman, 2 Ghast	^[3]
21107	Micro World The End	$34.99 / €34.99	June 1, 2014	440	Ender Dragon, 4 Enderman
21113	The Cave	$19.99	November 15, 2014	249	Steve, Zombie, Spider
21114	The Farm	$29.99	November 15, 2014	262	Steve, Skeleton, Cow, Sheep
21115	The First Night	$39.99	November 15, 2014	408	Steve, Creeper, Pig
21116	Crafting Box	$49.99	November 15, 2014	518	Steve , Skeleton, Mooshroom
21117	The Ender Dragon	$69.99	November 15, 2014	634	Steve, Ender Dragon, Enderman
21118	The Mine	$109.99	November 15, 2014	922	Steve, Skeleton, Zombie, Creeper, Spider

History

Mojang had started a project on the LEGO CUUSOO program, which requires 10,000 signatures for a project to be approved. With the strong support of the Minecraft community, the 10,000 signature objective was achieved in three days,^[4] and the development of the LEGO Minecraft set commenced after Lego reviewed the project. Mojang will donate 1% of the proceeds to charity.^[4] The first set was subsequently released June 1, 2012.^[5]

The second set The Village and the third The Nether were announced at Comic-Con 2013.^[3]. The fourth set "The End" was announced through a teaser on 8 March^[6] followed by a reveal on 14 March on the LEGO Minecraft Facebook page.^[7]

On the 2nd November 2013, during Minecon, it was announced that The Lego Group would be creating a fully fledged mini-figure scale theme. It is the first time Lego will be working with fans to create the new series of sets, they call this the co-build project.

Trivia

The first set was released on Markus Persson's birthday.
The first page of the building instructions features a paragraph of text explaining what Minecraft is. This paragraph is a verbatim copy of the "About Minecraft" section on the wiki's Main Page.
Also, in the illustration in the first page Herobrine is present.
The Minecraft set introduced new kind of figure, called micromob.
The box for each set is styled after a different building block: "Micro World" resembles a Grass Block, "The Village" resembles Oak Wood Planks, "The Nether" resembles lava and "The End" resembles Obsidian.
Popular on-line Minecraft streamer "CaptainSparklez" voiced one of the commercials advertising LEGO Minecraft.^[8]