The Minecraft Players

The Protagonist (any name is player-determinant; with Steve and Alex as the two default characters and models) are the main protagonists of the sandbox survival video game Minecraft (Survival/Hardcore Mode). 
They are the playable characters used by anyone who is playing the game, and can fully customize their own skin by using the two models. They can also be dubbed as Hero of the Village if they successfully protected a village from a raid. They can also have the option to play on either single player, or local multiplayer. 
The players' avatars are mostly mute, or silent like most of ever mobs in the game. Due to Minecraft 's popularity, the player's default character, Steve, is also considered as one of the most influential and popular video game characters and is also widely known in many areas of the world since the game's release back in 2011, and has been featured as cameo appearances (either directly or indirectly) in many countless pop culture and online medias, as well as in video games and tv shows.
In the 2023 action-strategy spin-off Minecraft Legends, the players (known as Heroes) also make an appearance as the main protagonists. Their goal is to build up a powerful army to fight in the Piglin invasion.
They can also be friends with each other if they want, like helping each other build houses or etc., defending each other from the hostile mobs, protect the villagers together from danger, or simply explore and have fun together, as they accompany each other in their own adventures and more. Most players gain tons of friendship with other people whenever they play the game in multiplayer, or in LAN games. However, they can also form a bitter rivalry with each other (depending on a situation).
==Appearance==
There are two default player skins, typically known as Steve and Alex, assigned to each player based on their account ID if they do not use a custom skin.
Steve has dark brown hair, dark skin, nose and mouth, and blue eyes, with a light blue shirt (un-tucked on the left-hand side), a pair of blue jeans, gray shoes, and 4px arms.
Alex has long bright orange hair hanging to the left side, pale white skin, and dark green eyes, with a light-green shirt (un-tucked on both sides, and a dark green belt wrapped around it), a pair of brown pants, grayish boots, pinkish lips, and 3px arms. 
Both player skins are intended to be a genderless representation of a human being, although the player's skin can be changed. Steve is also the shape of a "classic" skin, and Alex is the shape of a "slim" skin.
In the Legacy Console Edition, the player's default skin can vary from Steve or Alex to seven other player skins. Multiple skin packs are also available for purchase on the Xbox Live Marketplace, the PlayStation Store, and the Nintendo eShop. The player is 1.8 blocks tall, 1.5 blocks tall when sneaking in Java Edition, 0.6 blocks tall when gliding/sprint-swimming and 0.6 blocks wide.
In Minecraft Legends, the Heroes take on a more "chibified" appearance, with heads larger than normal compared to their bodies. They are almost always seen on their signature mounts, mainly the horse. There are many options for Hero skins, some obtainable within the Lost Legends mode. Hero shown in most promotional material can be identified as the default skin Ranger, recognizable by their red hair and blue hood.
==Personality==
===Minecraft===
In Survival/Adventure Mode, The players' personalities depends on the one who is/are using them. They can choose to be kind, caring, lovable, trustful, good, brave, merciful, and protective. Sometimes the player can also be quite competitive, arrogant, tricky, and scary, but still the player can show love and care to each other and to other mobs, such as feeding their pet wolves.
The players are also defensive towards the hostile/boss mobs which makes it as their consistent source of grief. They can also do heroic deeds on their Minecraft worlds. Most notable examples like protecting a village and the villagers in an illager raid, save each other's back from a hostile mob invasion in multiplayer, rescuing iron golems from pillager outposts, and free the End dimension by slaying the tyrannical Ender Dragon, the game's "evilest" enemy. 
Some players can also fight against the The Wither, although it must be the player itself who must summon it. Players in multiplayer mode in local areas show that the players can trust and team up with each other in surviving a world. 
===Minecraft Legends===
The Hero is courageous, selfless, and heroic, willing to leave their home dimension to fight for a noble cause. They are fast learners, able to quickly master the tools that the Hosts provide them to use in the Piglin invasion. Able to command an army of twenty to one-hundred troops, the Heroes are great leaders. From saving villages to taking down Piglin outposts, the Hero will stop at nothing to drive back the enemy and restore peace in the Overworld.
==Role==
===Minecraft=== 
====Survival/Hardcore Mode ====
The player first starts with nothing, and are spawned in the middle of a vast, empty world for them to freely figure out and explore on their own, while almost everything in the world are trying to kill you. The player must then gather every necessary resources they can find and hunt down animals for food to survive. The player must maintain their health for as long as they can. They also need to build a sturdy shelter in order to keep safe or to settle within their surroundings, and to secure their items. They can also craft some utility mobs once they've built their home: Iron Golems in warm biomes, and Snow Golems in snowy biomes. The player can also find animals like wolves, cats, horses etc., in which the player can tame or befriend them to be their own companions wherever they go. The player may also need to protect their companions from hostile mobs and deadly hazards. They must need proper strategies in order to do so, and to progress in the game. They can also discover villages somewhere in the land, and will meet the humanoid-looking creatures known as villagers (then known as Testificates). There, players can trade with them for goods, or protect them from zombie sieges or illager raids to earn the title, "Hero of the Village". When Woodland Mansions were added, players can raid the mansion and eliminate all the illagers.
They can also explore cave and mine for ores to get more resources. They may also encounter many abandoned structures in the world. they must be quick enough to go to the caves or dungeons so they can avoid meeting their first obstacle, the hostile mobs. The common overworld hostile mobs that the player encounters are the Zombie, Creeper, Skeleton, Spider, and Enderman. As night time progresses, these mobs will hunt down and kill the player on sight whenever they see one, and will cause destruction in their shelter. The player must have a secure shelter to protect themselves from the hostile mobs. The hostile mobs also attacks animals if the player is a nearby target to them. They also preventing the player from progressing through caves underground when mining any specific minerals. When the sun rises, or if the player reaches the surface, all of the undead hostile mobs will burn to death and mobs that are unaffected by the sunlight will then despawn afterwards. 
As the player progresses in the game, they can also meet the hostile mobs while mining through caves, which makes it so hard to mine at caves. They can also find a village and trade with a villager to get some important resources. During the older versions of the game, one of the player's most well-known main goal was to mine diamonds that are located very deep underground, and will have to go through the hostile mobs or other environmental hazards (lava, steep holes, etc.) in order to quickly mine and excavate the diamonds they've mined. Once they avoided these obstacles, reaching the surface or the player's base will result in a rewarding achievement. Since diamonds are once considered the most "overpowered" item in the game, it can craft some of the most strongest tools in the game, and those tools are helpful against monsters, and most likely, diamond pickaxes gave the ability to mine obsidians, which can either be used for building certain structures or for building a Nether Portal. Players can still continue their own set objectives afterwards, such as reaching the Far Lands, or for a more end game approach, ultimately defeat the monstrous Ghast in the Nether, thus, it is up to them to finish the game entirely to themselves. Though this was the case until the game's official release in 2011, when an official ending was brought to the game. 
While in the Nether, players are greeted with a hellish-like landscape composed of lava and uncommon hostile mobs. They can encounter ghasts, blazes, magma cubes, and zombie pigmen. The player can also find a Nether fortress. There, players can obtain Blaze Rods by defeating blazes. The player also can fight off ghasts to obtain a Ghast Tear, which is useful for brewing. Once cleared, players can find the portal and safely go back to the Overworld. Once the player is fully geared to fight the Ender Dragon, they must find and hunt down Endermen in order to obtain Ender pearls. If the player got all the required materials to open the End portal, they must now find the stronghold and mine underground to access it. When they reach the stronghold and enters the End, they will meet the game's final boss, the Ender Dragon. They will have to slain it to obtain the highest level in the game. Players can also optionally bring companions such as wolves, snow golems, etc. in the End, though they will most likely be just killed by the dragon and endermen, so players are recommended to fight the dragon singlehandedly. Using with the right tactics and strategy, the player may be able to defeat the Ender Dragon with ease. Once defeated, the dragon will then explode in mid-air, dropping many experience orbs into the ground. Once the player has obtained almost all of the experiences, they have obtained most likely the highest level in the entire game. After this, the player will then encounter a large portal at the center of the main island, which they have the option to go to the outer islands, or go back to the main world. As an alternative route, players can keep the dragon's egg as a trophy for their accomplishments. Once stepped in the portal, they will be greeted with either "The End." or "Free the End" achievement while the End Poem scrolls down in slow speed, revealing the end credits of the game as well. Once finished, the player will return normally to their worlds and they can continue playing the game. If they set their difficulty to Peaceful, the hostile mobs will despawn and they can have a peaceful life in their worlds. As an optional final goal, the player may continue to finish their own objectives, such as completing their own builds. 
As a bonus objective, they can optionally fight the most powerful Wither (added in 1.4), which its achievement is only unlocked after killing the dragon, as it marks as a new beginning of their adventure. They will have to kill it before it's violent wither bombs may destroy the player's base and kill all mobs, and also obtain the Nether Star. After defeating the Wither and building a beacon, they have finally beaten the game's achievements and may choose to still continue the game. Players can also find an ocean monument and defeat the Elder Guardian. These are all optional since the game is nonlinear.
They can also access the Multiplayer mode, which they can connect to each other in the game, and can also help each other to survive their worlds and fend off the hostile mobs, and complete the game's achievements more easily. There is no exact amount or limit of the player count, any amount is possible.
=== Minecraft Legends===
After the Hosts discover a growing threat polluting their world, they call upon the bravest and most creative Hero they can find for help. After the Hero gets transported into the Well of Fate, the Hosts introduce them to multiple tools that can help them in their journey: the Flames of Creation, Legendary Lute, and Banner of Courage. They also present the Golems, the backbone to the Hero's strength. After impressing the Hosts with their skills, they send the Hero out into the Overworld to start their quest. 
With the constant support from the Hosts, the Hero saved villages, took down Piglin outposts, and even befriended mobs that are normally hostile in vanilla Minecraft by defending their homesteads. These mobs watched the Hero fight the Piglins, getting inspired and learning how to fight the threat themselves. The Hero reawaken the Firsts, ancient Golems disassembled through time, building even more power in the army. 
The Hero would take down the Beast, Devourer, and Unbreakable, formidable leaders which commanded entire Hordes. This would anger the tyrannical Great Hog, forcing him to charge into the Overworld with the intent of destroying the Well of Fate. After a tough battle, the Hero emerged victorious, driving back the Piglins and restoring peace in the Overworld.
==Super Smash Bros. series==
===Super Smash Bros. Ultimate===
Steve made his Super Smash Bros. debut in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, announced as playable DLC fighters on October 1, 2020 before releasing on October 13. He is the second fighter from Fighters Pass Vol. 2 and the 19th overall Ultimate newcomer, classified as Fighter #77. Alex, Zombie and Enderman make playable appearances as alternate costumes. A set of diamond armor is available to purchase separately as a cosmetic for Mii Swordfighter.
Pulling much of his gameplay style from Minecraft, Steve possesses one of the most complex movesets of any other fighter on the roster. For much of the match, Steve will be required to continuously mine for materials which are used up for a variety of his attacks. Iron is a crucial resource as Steve uses it for his Minecart and Anvil, which are potent KO options. He can also place his mined materials as blocks on the battlefield to change a stage's layout. Steve can use these blocks as walls to isolate and shield himself, to disrupt an opponent's recovery, to extend his combos, or to create traps in conjunction with a TNT block. Steve can also use the resources he mines to craft stronger tools or repair them using his crafting table; diamond tools are recognized for their extreme damage output and KO power.
Clever usage of Minecart, TNT and Elytra can allow Steve to recover from practically anywhere off-stage. He boasts impressive frame data with incredibly swift attacks, in conjunction with fearsome stage control and devastating kill power. He is held back by his poor mobility, short range and a bad disadvantage state, and improper usage of his materials can leave him defenseless without his best tools. In addition, Steve has difficulty fighting opponents that can either outrange him or keep him at a disadvantage. Despite this, he is currently considered to be one of the best characters in Ultimate due to his strong presence in the meta, having excellent tournament representation with high placements.
==Heroic acts==
These are the possible heroic traits and deeds that the players can possess. Note that everything listed here are mostly optional. They can obtain the advancement, "Hero of the Village" once they succeeded in saving a village from an illager raid, and villagers mostly rewards them with goods, and lower down the prices. They can also obtain the advancement "Free the End" after defeating the largest hostile mob, The Ender Dragon, meaning its existence in the game wasn't a good thing. They can also prevent passive mobs, as well as other players from getting harmed from the game world's environments, or even hostile mobs. While not all players possess heroic qualities in some occasions, the player can show and do heroic deeds, and can also show love and kindness in the game, and it's sometimes done in an optional way such as:
===Minecraft ===
* Sometimes, they breed many passive mobs and will take care of them, as well as feed them, and keeping them as their pets.
*Prevent animals, their pets, or other mobs or players, from getting killed or harmed from environmental hazards or hostile mobs.
*Protecting Snow Golems from getting killed by monsters.
*Defeating the Ender Dragon to free the End dimension from its manipulative tyranny against endermen.
*Building iron golems to protect the villagers (or each other) from the hostile mobs.
*Protecting villages and villagers from either a zombie siege or an illager raid.
*Giving the villagers' goods and sometimes renovating and expanding their village.
* Creating more Iron Golems for villages, thus increasing their defense.
*Prevent the Wither from causing more destruction.
*Having remorse for his/her past actions.
*Rescuing Iron Golems or Allays from Pillager outposts.
*Being friendly with Piglins and barter with them.
===Minecraft Legends===
*Selflessly traveling to the Host's dimension to willingly fight the Piglins.
*Befriending the Golems to fight alongside them.
*Save multiple villages from raiding Piglins.
*Take down Piglin Outposts, slowing down the invasion and pollution.
*Inspire native mobs, even villagers, to fight the Piglin threats.
*Forging an alliance with mobs by defending their homesteads.
*Taming different animals to use as mounts.
*Reawaken the Firsts after years of deactivation.
*Defeat the Beast, Devourer, and Unbreakable.
*Defending the Well of Fate by defeating the Great Hog, driving back the Piglins for good.
*Completely drive back the Piglins to the Nether, restoring peace in the Overworld.
===Super Smash Bros. Ultimate=== 
*Defeat and prevent Galeem and Dharkon from destroying the world.
* Freeing fighters and spirits.
==Lore==
The lore of Minecraft is shrouded in mystery, with much of it left up to interpretation by the player. However, there are some details about Steve's history and the world he inhabits that have been hinted at by the game's developers.
According to some interpretations of the game's lore, Steve is a survivor of a catastrophic event that wiped out most of the human population. He is one of the few remaining humans left in the world, and he must use his wits and resourcefulness to survive and rebuild.
In the world of Minecraft, Steve is able to gather resources such as wood, stone, and iron, which he can use to create tools and structures. He can also farm crops and raise animals, allowing him to sustain himself in the harsh wilderness. However, he must also contend with dangerous creatures such as zombies, skeletons, and creepers, which can attack him at any time.
Despite the dangers he faces, Steve remains determined to survive and thrive in the world of Minecraft. He is a symbol of resilience and creativity, and his ability to adapt to his surroundings and thrive in even the harshest environments has made him an iconic figure in the gaming world.
In conclusion, Minecraft Steve is a beloved and iconic character in the world of gaming. Despite his simple appearance, he is a complex and multi-faceted character with a rich history and lore. His resourcefulness, creativity, and determination to survive and thrive in the harsh wilderness of Minecraft have made him an inspiration to gamers all over the world. Whether you're a seasoned Minecraft veteran or a newcomer to the game, Steve is a character that will continue to captivate and inspire for years to come.
== Gallery==
===Images===
SteveSmash.png|Steve and Alex, as they appear in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as one of the playable fighters.
Steve and Alex.png|Steve and Alex, the default player characters.
File:1920px-Minecraft Legends Arrival.webp|The Hero in official artwork of Minecraft Legends.
File:1920px-Minecraft Legends Hero.png|The Hero with their Golems and allied mobs.
Playeringame.png|The player, as they are displayed in first person view in-game.
Playerandwolf.jpg|A player with a wolf.
==Trivia== 
*During the Alpha until the 1.7.10 versions of the game, Steve was the only default character/skin that most new players can use, though his appearance can be altered through launchers. Before the introduction of Alex, Steve was the only usable model and default avatar. Since then, he's been customizable.
*Despite the default player character Steve (or Alex), being popular in the Minecraft universe, he/she never appeared or at least mentioned in the second spin-off game, Minecraft: Story Mode, due to Telltale Games wanting to create an original character that serves as the player's vessel in the game. Although, in the third spin-off game, Minecraft Dungeons, Steve and Alex now appear in the game as a playable character, making Minecraft Dungeons the first Minecraft spin-off game to feature the original characters.
**However, in Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two, heads of Alex appear as targets at the archery range.
*No matter what mode the player is playing, either single-player or multiplayer, their models will always look exactly the same as the other one, and only their skins and names are varied. This also applies in Minecraft Dungeons. 
**In Minecraft Legends, the players have a much different model than they do anywhere else. This is likely to match the art style of the game. Some of the in-game skins even have differing models due to their hair or clothing.
*In Minecraft Dungeons, the player appears to be slightly shorter in height than to some hostile mobs. For example, zombies look slightly taller than the players in-game, as well as the witches and villagers, compared to vanilla Minecraft, where players are the same height as the zombies, witches, and villagers.
* Whilst Minecraft was considered the most successful and most wildly known independent game of all time (as Minecraft was first released back in 2011, when Mojang was still fully independent), Steve is the very first indie game character and protagonist to be included as a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. 
**Whilst other indie game characters were already included to Smash back then, characters like Sans and Cuphead are only playable as Mii fighters, whilst Shovel Knight and Shantae are only assist trophies or spirits.
* The player's background had always been kept super mysterious and vague, since there wasn't any official lore mentioned by the developers. Although, many people considered them to have a tragic past in Survival Mode, since they are the only humans in the game, and many people wonder why they are all alone in a very big blocky world, so many questions to them in why they are always alone and why they are the remaining humans to ever exist in the vast world. The most popular theory about their existence, is they were trapped in some kind of dream, where you decide which path you must take. The closest thing in the lore the game contains is by reading the End Poem. The player is often being described as the loneliest humans in singleplayer Survival. According to Notch, Jeb, and the rest of Mojang, they never wanted to add any background lore to the world, nor include humans to be added in the game in order to maintain the mysterious, lonely atmosphere of the game. 
**Although there is no mention of the game's lore, it is also commonly theorized that the player is somewhat connected to the Wither, the hostile mobs, and the Ender Dragon as a victim from its past actions. However, the YouTube channel Game Theory also made videos about common theories about the game's lore and the player's existence.
* The default characters, Steve and Alex, are supposed to be genderless, simple human beings, according to Notch.
*In the latest version, a player is 32 pixels in height or 2 meters tall (mobile version).
*Based on the message of the End Poem, they are usually considered as the story and the heart of the game, as their worlds completely focus and revolve around them in their adventures.
*In Minecraft, a player's cubic volume is roughly 322,273 cm cubed. Using this logic, a Minecraft character weigh roughly 342kg or 754lb.
*Before 1.11, the closest thing the Minecraft players did something "heroic" in the game was defeating the Ender Dragon (or the Wither) and protecting passive and tamed mobs from the hostile mobs, as the game was focused more of an open-world survival game, rather than an exploration adventure game. Adventure and exploration were only an element rather than a detail of the older updates, but since then, Jeb added more advancements and rewards that many players can accomplish, which involves saving a village or protecting an iron golem from the illagers.
*Their roles in Minecraft Dungeons and the prequel book, Rise of the Arch-Illager, have a more solid and clear explanation, where players are wandering adventurers on a quest to stop an attempted world domination from the forces of evil, wherein Minecraft, their background remains ambiguous. 
**This also applies for the players in Minecraft Legends, being humble adventurers before being chosen by the Hosts for their bravery and creativity, travelling to their dimension to fight off evil and restore peace across the land.
*The iconic Minecraft default character, Steve, is considered widely recognized by fans and gamers, and has appeared as an easter egg and as cameos in movies, television, and video games.
*Before the player's default skin Steve got a name, he was known as "The Minecraft Guy" or "Mr. Minecraft". Even though Notch said that Steve wasn't the original name of the player's avatar, he never had an official name and is commonly known as simply "The Player", as his personality reflects on the players themselves.
*The player's avatar skin can be changed and customized anytime due to their liking. It can be the blocky version of their real-life selves, or from any forms of media and pop culture from television, the internet, TV shows, video games, and more.
*They became popular of YouTube Animation.
* In the 2025 film A Minecraft Movie, Steve will be portrayed by Jack Black.
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