The Crafting Dead: New World Order

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**The Crafting Dead: New World Order** is an upcoming Minecraft Zombie Apocalyptic, Action Thriller Machinima series developed by JonnyWD16. It is based on the Television Series The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman. The series is intended to be a reboot to JonnyWD16's Roleplay series of the same name.

The series is set during the events of SGCBarbierian's The Crafting Dead Roleplay.

## Development

### 2022

In October 2022, JonnyWD16 hinted the possibility of a reboot to his original Crafting Dead series on Discord.

In December 2022, JonnyWD16 hinted the same statement in the community tab on his YouTube channel with a planned update video to address the possibility. However, by January 2023 the video was never made due to lack of motivation as it primarily focused on his inactivity from the platform including Jonny’s working life outside YouTube, and videos ideas that have yet to come to fruition. Jonny then mentioned a teaser for the potential reboot in February.

Prior to the release of the teaser trailer for the reboot which was going by the name ***The Crafting Dead: Odyssey*** at the time, JonnyWD16 told some of his friends via Discord that the reboot will be a new roleplay series meant to replace the original series which was unofficially cancelled and declared non-canon while explaining the concept of the new reboot to them.

### 2023

On June 2nd 2023, JonnyWD16 posted the teaser trailer for *The Crafting Dead: Odyssey* to announce the reboot to his original series. In the teaser itself Jonny stated that some of the footage in the teaser were placeholders which were not 100% accurate to the actual series as it was used to test out to see what the visuals would look like as well as the usage of the NPC mod to present the depiction some characters from the series.

In addition to the teaser trailer, JonnyWD16 created ten characters portraits of the main characters so far confirmed.

On August 1st 2023, JonnyWD16 confirmed the series was being renamed from *“The Crafting Dead: Odyssey”* to *“The Crafting Dead: New World Order”* this was done because previous title didn’t fit the tone of the series as well as several changes to the story overall which led him to change the title.

On September 26th 2023, JonnyWD16 posted a screenshot of script for “Chapter 1: Aftermath” to confirm the development of the scripts for the first season which has six episodes and will act as the pilot season to determine whether it performs well whenever it releases.

On October 22nd 2023, JonnyWD16 publicly announced the cancellation of his original Crafting Dead series from 2016 due to lack of clarity amongst the community whether or not New World Order is part of the original series or is a completely different series. The original series has since been discontinued and declared non-canon by Jonny himself, however many of the elements from the original series including characters and storylines have been incorporated into New World Order.

## Series Overview

### Season 1 (2024)

* *Main article: Season 1 (New World Order)*

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## Cast & Characters

### Main Cast

* JonnyWD16 as Jonny Maverick (S1-)
* TBA as Sophia Paul (S1-)
* TBA as Kimiko Nakajima (S1-)
* XZChaser as Chase Monroe (S1-)
* TBA as Zak Gareth (S1-)
* TBA as Jasper Monroe (S1-)
* TBA as Private David Sanders (S1-)
* TBA as Major Steven Gray (S1-)
* TBA as Mike Brady (S1-)
* TBA as Red Vacktor (S1-)
* TBA as Alison (S2-)

### Recurring Cast

* TBA as Simon Kitt (S1-)
* TBA as Kix Rozycki (S1-)
* TBA as Leroy (S1-)
* TBA as Tanaka (S1-)
* TBA as Henry (S1-)
* TBA as Rick Maverick (S1-)
* TBA as Catherine Maverick (S1-)
* TBA as Natasha Maverick (S1-)
* TBA as Molly Maverick (S1-)
* TBA as Corporal Langley (S1-)
* TBA as Professor Charlie Xavier (S1-)
* TBA as D.J. (S1-)
* TBA as Will Morris (S1-)

### Guest Cast

* TBA as Luclin
* TBA as Ashley
* TBA as Damien
* TBA as Marcus
* TBA as Owen
* TBA as Dennis
* TBA as Archer
* TBA as Gerard Joseph Maverick

### To Be Determined Cast

* OfficialAK/TBA as AK
* NewScapePro/TBA as Sergeant Cory

### Uncredited Cast

* None as Bruce *(Zombified)*
* None as Derek J. *(Zombified)*
* None as Gary *(Corpse)*
* None as Sarah *(Corpse)*
* None as Alex *(Corpse)*
* None as Dan *(Corpse)*
* None as Scott *(Corpse)*

## Deaths

* Derek J. *(Alive, Confirmed Fate)*
* Gerard Joseph Maverick *(Confirmed Fate)*
* 1 unnamed survivor
* More than 3 unnamed Cannibals

## Continuity

* There are several changes to character skins that contrasts the versions featured in SGCBarbierian’s The Crafting Dead series.
	+ The soldiers of Red’s Army in New World Order have gas masks and tactical vests merged into the updated skins whereas the original series had those features as mod cosmetics. This change was due to the Crafting Dead modpack not being compatible with 1.12.2 as Blockbuster mod was needed for the Machinima scenes.
	+ Major Gray has an updated uniform in contrast to the one featured in the original series. Not only does Major Gray have a new skin, this makes it the fourth time Gray’s skin has been changed.
	+ Bruce is given a new skin which is identical to his previous one in SkyDoesMinecraft’s Spin-off with the only difference being his outfit being slightly different due to JonnyWD16 not being able to recover the original skin used for the said series.
* In the teaser trailer for New World Order, Heyworth was designed differently than its original counterpart as noted by its incomplete design. This was because the original map featuring the Heyworth town was never found hence why a replica was being made. However, the replica was never used because JonnyWD16 eventually found the original map on Planet Minecraft and that map was used instead, although the dungeon underneath Heyworth wasn’t included in the original map so JonnyWD16 had to make a replica of it.

## Trivia

* This is the second Crafting Dead roleplay to use the Blockbuster mod created by *McHorse*, the first being *The Crafting Dead: New Horizon*.
* This is the second Crafting Dead roleplay to be shown in full machinima as to using in-game footage.
* This is the first Crafting Dead Roleplay to utilise 3D animations for some scenes inspired by Aphmau’s usage of animations in the later videos of her roleplays.
* The series takes place during the events of Season 5 of SGCBarbierian's Roleplay, as well as the events of SkyDoesMinecraft Spin-Off Series.
	+ Due to the teaser trailer being uploaded prior to the series' release, suggests the series takes place immediately after the events of "ESCAPE HEYWORTH!" in SkyDoesMinecraft's Spin-Off Series.
* New World Order is the first Crafting Dead series to use chapters in episode titles.
* The series was originally going to be called ***The Crafting Dead: Odyssey*** for a time being. However, the title was later changed on August 1st 2023, due to the original title not being suited for the tone of the series.
* The series features some characters from SGCBarbierian’s The Crafting Dead Roleplay.
* The series has four main antagonists.
* The series features some characters from JonnyWD16's original characters such as Jonny, Chase, Zachary (Zak), Jasper, Alicia (Alison), Derek J, and Roy (Leroy).
	+ However, some characters like Mirabelle, Bruno, and Michonne have been scrapped and incorporated into new characters.
* New World Order will feature the return of many pre-existing characters from SGCBarbierian’s Crafting Dead series as well as other projects produced by him. The most notable characters include AK, Red Vacktor, Major Gray, Luclin, Sergeant Cory, Bobby Smith, Corporal Langley, Ashley, and Professor Xavier. There are expected to be more characters returning but remain undisclosed throughout development in the series.
	+ With the return of those said characters however, most of them are expected to be recast and voiced by different voice actors due to the original voices for the respective characters were unlikely to reprise their roles since the original series was discontinued. However, characters like Langley and Ashley despite being pre-existing characters weren’t given voice actors due to them being played by body actors, and Private Sanders was never introduced in the original series.