Mojang cinematics

Mojang cinematics are short videos or images taken from official Mojang social media platforms or official releases.
== Trailers ==
=== Village and Pillage: Official Trailer ===
==== Summary ====
The video opens on a shot of the sky, lowering to reveal a first person perspective of Alex on a path. She greets a wandering trader tending to two trader llamas, one a child, all approaching a village in a plains biome. A wolf instigates an encounter with the trader llama, it gets spat on. The scene cuts to a long shot of several villagers dancing throughout the village, singing a song made up of their distinctive hums while joined in the number by several farm animals. A nitwit shows off an iron sword at a smithing table, while another polishes a golden pickaxe with a grindstone, who Alex appears to wave at. A cat tries to take a cod from a fisherman standing beside the grindstone, before a cartographer peeks out of a window and throws several maps to Alex.
From there the scene cuts again to a group of several nitwits and nitwit children frolicking down a road, before getting chased by a pig ridden by a child near a building under construction with scaffolding, which a chicken falls off of. Two other children kick around a slime like a ball near a fountain. Soon, a raid occurs as many pillagers, vindicators, and a ravager emerge and there is much tension. A vindicator swings their axe at Alex, she deflects with a shield and incapacitates the illager with a diamond sword, which she then tosses at another vindicator. The ravager and its pillager rider leap into the air, sending many blocks, items, and chickens flying, before Alex immediately shoots the pillager with a crossbow, causing the ravager to run off to parts unknown. With that, Alex is declared hero of the village, and thus the surviving villagers celebrate with fireworks.
=== Buzzy Bees: Official Trailer ===
The video opens on a shot of three bees resting inside of a bee nest, waking up after being asleep for the night. They fly out to begin pollinating several flowers, and we get a first person perspective of one of the bees. It flies over a colony of rabbits, then flies down a colossal waterfall. Two bees eye a poppy, and playfully race to pollinate it first before the opposing bee knocks into the protagonist one. The bee falls onto the ground, shakes itself, dusts itself off, and then pollinates the flower anyway.
The video climaxes at a diagonal shot of several bees rushing to help out a farm, pollinating dozens if not hundreds of crops. The bees pass by an iron golem giving a poppy to children, fly over a store selling honeycombs, fly under a villager drinking a bottle of honey, sidestep many more mobs, before knocking into a pillager. The collision catches the illager off guard, causing them to fire their crossbow at a witch, exposing them for trying to steal honey. Several angry bees emerge from the beehive to confront the illagers, and they run away horrified into the wheat fields. A job well done, the bees all return to their homes and fall asleep again.
=== Nether Update: Official Trailer ===
Alex and Steve happen upon a ruined portal and decide to fix it up. On the other side, they're introduced to the many biomnes and creatures of the Nether, such as an enderman lurking in the warped forest. Soon, they end up ambushed by a squad of piglins, who shoot them dead with arrows. The two return, now wearing iron armor, and manage to survive long enough to retreat into a crimson forest, as the piglins ambush them from inside the fungi. This time, the heroes came prepared and place down a respawn anchor, only to end up dying and thus losing their armor.
From there, Steve tries to make peace with the piglins by gifting one rotten flesh. He gets killed. He gifts the same piglina gold ingot while wearing gold armor. He gets the piglins' respect. Steve and Alex then proceed to mine Nether gold ore, but are spotted by a ghast. After respawning they notice a hoglin and hunt it for meat. Following a hefty meal, they forge new netherite armor and fight countless mobs on top of a dune in a soulsand valley.
=== Caves & Cliffs Update: Part I – Official Trailer ===
It was a dark and stormy night, many villagers are fleeing inside of their homes to prevent getting wet. Steve just brushes himself off and builds with copper blocks. He is then rammed off the roof by a goat. Cut to daytime, where a vindicator is chasing a chicken for unstated reasons. The vindicator is then rammed into a wall by a goat. A happy armorer seems pleased by this. The armor is then rammed off the screen by a goat.
Several tropical fish are flopping on a beach, trying to get back into the water, before an axolotl emerges behind them. Apparently, it either caught them or they're simply that desperate to get away. In a snowy plains, Alex is using a spyglass and watches as a goat rams into her. Steve tries to make peace with a goat in a desert using wheat, it rams into him. An enderman stands on a cliff, a goat nearly rams into it. Several axolotls swim with a guardian and toss it around like a volleyball. A sheep approaches a nether portal, a goat rams it over to the Nether. Alex is terrified by an impossibly large fleet of spider jockeys, hiding behind a tree before a goat rams into her again.
A wolf tries to howl at the moon, the goat rams into it as well and tries to moo/baa at it instead. A trader llama and cria spit on a kid, what is presumed to be its parent rams into the llama, sending it and their owner flying. A blue axolotl rams into a drowned, as a goat tries to swim in the background. A goat rams a pillager off its outpost. Another axolotl rams into a glow squid. Finally, a large collection of mobs are flung into the air, mimicking the poster for the update.
=== Caves & Cliffs Update: Part II – Official Trailer ===
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.
=== The Wild Update: What Will You Uncover? ===
Sunny and Efe are exploring the underground with caution, when suddenly a chicken appears. Sunny tries to approach the chicken, only for it to run away. The two chase it through a mineshaft, briefly bumping into Steve and Alex, both confused by the encounter. Eventually, they run straight into the Deep Dark, setting off various sculk shriekers before losing the chicken in the ancient city. While Efe and Sunny know to be careful and quiet, the chicken exhibits traits inferring low intelligence and pecks on one sculk sensor too many, summoning the Warden. Engulfed by the shadow of the Warden, Sunny and Efe are terrified but remain calm as it tries to sniff them out. Sure enough, the chicken lays an egg, presumably out of fear, alerting it of their presence. The video ends on a cliffhanger.
=== The Wild Update: Where Will You Wander? ===
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.
=== The Wild Update: Craft Your Path ===
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.
=== Introducing New Default Skins! ===
Alex is building with wool on top of an oversized trader llama statue, before looking down at Steve and waving. Steve starts placing scaffolding to reach her and pass a redstone torch, but trips and falls off. Luckily, Ari arrives wearing elytra and grabs it, flying past a flock of parrots before dropping the torch to Zuri, who is mining resources with Sunny. Zuri runs off to return the torch, but is caught off guard by an emerging creeper, the two running over a wheat farm being tended to by Kai and Makena. Zuri then trips over a cat, dropping the torch once again.
The torch is caught by none other than Noor, who is mining for coal with Ari. Noor then falls into a minecart, and is propelled into the air by an extensive railway while another cat chases potentially the same creeper through a savanna. The torch next lands in the hands of Sunny, who is attempting to fish on the border between biomes. Sunny is momentarily confused by the torch, before getting hit and sunk by Noor's body. From there the torch sinks and is found by Efe, who is fighting a horde of drowned. Efe is also momentarily confused, but quickly manages to swim away and scurries onto the surface face first, before joining the chase with the cat and creeper.
Efe begins riding a pig, before bumping into Makena gliding. Efe hands the torch to Makena, who then finally returns it to Alex. From there, all nine of the heroes appear at the base of the llama statue and light up redstone lamps built into it, using their own torches. With that, Alex places the inciting toch onto the statue, activating a unique dispenser mechanism designed to resemble spitting, and everyone celebrates, but not before the creeper returns and nearly blows everyone up. The video ends on a shot of the full group in a light blue void, with the caption "tell your story, with default skins."
=== Minecraft Trails & Tales Update: Official Launch Trailer ===
Steve is reading a book on a lectern, before leaping off to adventure and putting on trimmed armor. Meanwhile, Ari is walking in a desert with a brush, Alex is wearing a different set of trimmed armor in a desert cave, and Zuri is escorting a sniffer egg through a cherry grove. Steve opens a hidden door from a chiseled bookshelf, rushing off into a waterfall with a trident. He considers riding a camel, before venturing out to a monument and slaying an elder guardian for its tide armor trim.
Ari is then shown brushing suspicious sand and almost excavating a skull pottery sherd, but a horde of monsters emerge from the sand from behind. As Ari runs away, Alex emerges along with them and runs off to her camel. Luckily for Ari, the monsters burn in daylight. In a cherry grove, Zuri has hatched a number of sniffers, and is busy working on a house. Alex then arrives and is greeted by Zuri from the roof of the build, while a calf and snifflet become acquainted. Hard cut to Steve on a cliff in a storm, almost falling off as a creeper creeps behind him. As Steve is creeped out and inches closer to the edge, the creeper becomes charged. In the nick of time, Alex arrives riding the camel, and saves him by dashing off the cliff. Safe and sound, Steve and Alex return to the beach where Steve was based, petting the camel calf. Meanwhile, Ari returns to a desert base with the sherd and crafts a pot, Zuri hangs a hanging sign, and Alex places a skull on a note block.
Steve pulls a book out of another chiseled bookshelf, before pulling out another, opening a door into a dripstone cave.
== Drop trailers ==
Armored Paws drop - Official Trailer
== Marketplace trailers ==
Start a New Minecraft Story – Official Trailer
Minecraft x Marketplace Pass
== Event trailers ==
Minecraft Live: Announcement Trailer
Minecraft Live 2021: Announcement Trailer
Minecraft Live 2022: Announcement Trailer
Minecraft Live is back for 2023!
== Shorts ==
Village & Pillage: A Wanderous Journey
VILLAGER (and Pillager?) NEWS
Minecraft Live: The Nether Update Encore
Java Account Migration: A Fun Announcement by Dinnerbone
Minecraft Live 2021: Caves & Cliffs: The Musical
A Tale of Two Friends
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