Minecraft: The Shipwreck

This article is about the novel. For the generated structure, see Shipwreck.

Minecraft: The Shipwreck

Author	C. B. Lee
Audio read by	Maxwell Glick David Lee Huynh Rebecca Soler
Cover artist	M.S. Corley
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Set in	Minecraft
Publisher	Del Rey Books
Published	November 3, 2020
Media type	Print, Digital
Pages	368
ISBN	9780399180781
OCLC	1133662802

“	It’s the kind of story I’m most drawn to, like, you think you're just playing the standard game and then you realize it isn’t, that someone has made this world and left clues here. That’s the gift of video games, and it’s something that can entirely happen in Minecraft and that’s what drew me into creating this mystery for these kids to fall into. One of my favorite aspects of the game is the underwater monuments and I was just really inspired by that whole aesthetic. The forgotten server all started with the idea of mermaids that were these players’ first clue they weren’t in a vanilla server, and I created the whole mystery from there.	„
	— C. B. Lee, author of Minecraft: The Shipwreck

Minecraft: The Shipwreck is the sixth Minecraft novel. It is authored by C. B. Lee and was published by Del Rey Books on November 3, 2020. An audiobook was released the same day, with narration provided by Maxwell Glick, David Lee Huynh, and Rebecca Soler.

Synopsis

Jake Thomas is always the new kid. His family moves so much for his dad’s work that it’s easier to keep his head down and not get attached to anyone. He’ll be gone in a few months anyway. But when they end up in Los Angeles, Dad promises this will be the last time they move. The Pacific Crest Apartments are home now... which means it’s time for Jake to finally make friends.

Jake isn’t sure he should count the two kids he meets at the apartment’s community center as friends, though. Tank Vuong is a large and intimidating boy who hangs with a tough crowd, and Emily Quesada is a fashionista who’s quick with a sarcastic remark. But when he discovers an old computer lab in a forgotten corner of the community center, with a strange Minecraft server containing cryptic riddles, he realizes he’s going to need help cracking the code—because at the end of the summer, the community center will be demolished, and all hope of solving the mystery will go with it. Following the hints left by an enigmatic figure known as The Wizard, the trio journeys into the dangerous depths of the ocean, where uncanny creatures lurk and untold treasure awaits...

Plot

Chapters 1–7

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Chapters 8–14

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Chapters 15–21

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Chapters 22–28

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Chapters 29–35

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Chapters 36–42

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Trivia

• Counting Minecraft Dungeons: The Rise of the Arch-Illager, this is the third official Minecraft novel to release in 2020, a record number for one year.
• This is the first Minecraft novel since Minecraft: The Island to have multiple narrators, and the first to have multiple narrators on one audiobook.