Annoying Villagers 58

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**Annoying Villagers 58**, titled **A New Friend** is the fifty-eighth episode of *Annoying Villagers.* The episode is released on May 8, 2021 with the trailer released a day prior on May 7, 2021.

## Description

*"Alex faces Piglins, Wardeb, and other mobs in the swamp."*

## Overview

The episode continues Alex, Boop, and MrFudgeMonkeyz in the swamp. The piglins from Nether Forces begins their conquest of the Overworld, starting with the Swamp, and Alex faces against them while Jev continues his backstory. However, somethings more sinister is awaiting...

## Plot

The episode opens with Jev inquiring his master the two characters who are with her. Alex casually answers that they are her servants and that they should just be ignored, much to their anger and objection. Upon hearing Boop's voice, Jev suddenly remembers something.

In the past, Boop, of whom wearing an outfit similar to the Villager King, was sitting on his throne and reproached a villager general who gave him the wrong potato. The general pleaded for mercy, and assured him to get a new one, but Boop decided to banish him to the dance chamber. A Villager Knight nearby who was kneeling with the Red-Robed Villager Noble, another fellow knight, and two Villager Scouts (one of them being Jev) noted this, and the red-robed noble explaining that Boop had gone mad, and because of it, he must disappear for the "sake of the villagers".

Back to the present. Upon realizing Boop is a prince, Jev knelt respectfully before him, apologizing his unawareness of him being the prince, much to Alex's confusion. Jev then tells Alex that Boop is the "long-lost Villager Prince".

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## Locations

### Flashback

* Villager Kingdom Castle (Boop's throne)

## Key Events

* Boop is revealed to be the Villager Prince, and therefore, the heir of the Villager Kingdom
* The Piglin Warriors part of the Nether Forces begin their conquest in the overworld by raiding the Swamp first.
* Jev completes his backstory on how he met Alex.
* A swarm of Bats and Phantoms, possibly part of the United Mob Association, took Boop and MrFudgeMonkeyz away from Alex and Jev.
* The Warden and the Wither, possibly part of United Mob Association, faces off against Alex and Jev

## Gallery

A teaser of the episode, featuring a swarm of bats flying overhead the Swamp
## Trivia

* It is the first titled episode to feature Boop's story arc in the swamp.
* It is the first episode to feature Bats, Phantoms, and Shulkers, as well as the second episode featuring the Warden since Annoying Villagers 55 and the Wither since Annoying Villagers 50.

### Cultural References

* In one of Jev's backstory, a group of playerswere seen trying to summon Herobrine. The structure they built is a reference to the Herobrine Summoning Shrine, a supposed way to summon Herobrine according to the creepypasta.
* In another of Jev's backstory, a group of players were seen saddened of their failed attempt to create a glowstone portal, which is an obvious reference to many memes regarding the disappointment of old-day players trying to make the portal to the Aether in vanilla *Minecraft* using the same method.