#an egg's guide to minecraft

[generation-fucked-nostalgia]

Some Old Minecraft animations <3

🟩.🥘||🥚.🎂||🪧.⛏️

[optimisticnuttragedy]

[goqmir]

minecraft movie idea: a cast of kids get sucked into the game of minecraft and have to quickly learn to survive their first night alone without a guide. they find their way into a cave and block it off, not before one of the kids, one who's kind of a jerk, finds a bed and brings it to the cave, and they wait out the night. that kid sleeps in the bed while the others, too scared of the terrifying world they now occupy, choose not to.

the next day they meet and find minecraft steve, who acts as a guide and parental figure to the children. they make a plan; the only way to be sent back to your home bed without dying (which kills the kids forever in real life) is to beat the ender dragon and enter the end portal. so he says that because none of them have set their spawns at beds in the minecraft world yet they can still make it out and return to their families.

the movie pauses for a beat. that one kid slept in the bed. he can never return. they choose to talk little of this.

the adventure continues like normal, with that particular child learning, adapting, and engaging with this new world with unbridled curiosity, softening and protecting his fellow adventurers steadfastly.

after a hero's journey, they slay the dragon and reach the end portal. minecraft steve picks up the dragon egg and goes through first. each of our heroes goes through the portal, and we see them waking up in their beds at home, ecstatic to go back to their normal lives they once took for granted. all except for that one kid, who wakes up in the bed at the cave, alone. minecraft steve appears from around the corner and he hugs the child as the child cries at the life he lost, steve as his new father figure in this exciting but still-unfamiliar world

[mllenugget]

Hello I mcyt fandom-ified la Team du Lundi members and wrote a shit ton of text about it

After exhausting myself on trying to catch up on the current QSMP lore I got a sudden craving for a more familiar and fast paced kind of minecraft content and ended up rewatching all the Team du Lundi's SMP best of's I could find

And while doing so with my brain still hazed in fandom brainrot, I started picking up on minor details or info the players casually dropped, and drew parallels to the French speakers' QSMP counterparts This is going to be a long wordy post I don't even know what I am rambling about and for. Three things you need to be aware of about la Team du Lundi before reading :

Baghera, Antoine and Etoiles are the only QSMP players that are part of la Team du Lundi

As far as I remember the only two elements that suggest that la Team du Lundi's SMP could be canon to QSMP are Antoine being pressured into building another Tower of Shit, and Baghera's infamous fountain being mentioned when she was asked if her character remembers anything from her past before the island

La Team du Lundi's SMP was NOT a roleplaying server, it was just a private survival server for a small circle of friends casually playing together. So whenever I quote someone in this specific post, it is the streamer : there is no character other than the persona the streamer is usually showing on stream, but I just thought it would be fun to interpret certain situations while keeping in mind the QSMP lore. And here goes :

Baghera claims that when she was a kid she strongly believed that she could breathe underwater. The others joke about her having fins

Antoine jokingly tells Baghera he doesn’t need oxygen at all

Antoine claims he will still be alive thousands of years forwards

Antoine’s voice shifts when he wants to appear creepy

Baghera built an aquarium at her place, then helped Antoine build one at his tower, then built a giant swimming pool, then a fountain, then a waterslide- do you see a theme ?

Baghera knows that her skin is actually that of a chick and not a duckling, and calls it so here

Chat said that Baghera has a middle child syndrome, justifying that she bullies Angle Droit because Etoiles bullies her in the first place (Etoiles has also called her « little sister » in a derogatory way)

Etoiles has repeatedly asked people to play Valorant with him at least once

Here's a clip of Etoiles getting languaged in french and owing "a gifted sub in the swear jar"

Unrelated random clip of Etoiles because it creates happy hormones in me brain

Etoiles is regularly refered to as "the warrior"

Etoiles guided the whole group during an expedition to the End and he was literally glowing doing so (enchanted arrows effect) Everyone called him "the guide"

Baghera was the one who gave the final blow to the Enderdragon (and died from magic right after)

Etoiles spent most of his time adventuring in order to bring stuff and gear back to everyone for their builds

Etoiles asked Aypierre for help in order to design a redstone door for his cave which could only open upon solving a puzzle (which was egg & arrow related) (Aypierre was not a member of the server)

Etoiles built a nightclub with the walls and ceiling covered in wardenblocks making it look like a starry sky. He also rehomed Allays holding golden apples inside claiming them to be the souls working for him and that they lived there peacefuly

Etoiles jokingly talks about Antoine acting jealous and violent towards him because Etoiles told him he wanted to go and visit Kameto (who also was not a member of the server)

Baghera (along with Horty) had a rivalry with Joueur du Grenier (host of the server with admin powers) after he decided to build a massive parking lot right next to their house. They countered by covering the whole thing with dirt, followed by JDG building a factory and the two parties went back and forth. Baghera argued that it was stupid because they didnt even have cars to begin with (which is a sentence she reused when talking about Forever's roads) Also she tells JDG that he could've built a seaport instead, which makes JDG contemplate the thought of building an airport (and though he ended up never building it, I am side eyeing the French's plane crash)

At some point JDG wonders about what a roleplaying minecraft server would look like (RPZ 2), to which Baghera replies that she has a hard time picturing the thing "We'd all just build things you see ? I don't think we'd create stories, we would all just be like "I'm a builder, ah you too ? Well awesome, builders, cool"" and I find this to be hilariously ironic (fun fact : Baghera had no idea that QSMP was a roleplaying server when she first joined and often claims she would've taken a different approach with her character had she known right off the gate)

As I was finishing to write this down, these fuckers (/lh) decided to host a closure night for the server as they've never really officially did it, everyone just sort of deserted the server after a while. Baghera, Etoiles and Antoine kept referring to QSMP throughout the night, mostly talking about how weird it felt without mods. Among other meta commentary things

They mentionned Cellbit and Bad multiple times as the group was trying to solve enigmas. Antoine talked about "the cultural sharing" between communities as he taught insults to each others with Mike, Roier and Maximus in their respective languages Multiple more players were namedropped (including eggs) while Antoine was talking about how the server functions

Yes, Baghera and Etoiles kept their QSMP skins. Etoiles with his code corrupted purgatory one, and Baghera with her fading pink disheveled hair (with the addition of her cubito wearing Horty's merch)

Baghera admits that going back to this small familiar vanilla server feels like coming back home to your family during the holidays

Team du Lundi's cameos in QSMP :

Though Pomme has never canonically met JDG (even though most of her parents have talked about him to her at least once), she occasionaly breaks the 4th wall to refer to him. She once compared one of BBH's "vacation" flower shirts with his, and when Foolish and Bad asked her to elaborate (obviously not getting the reference) she proceeded to play JDG's music theme with the flute instead (Also I really feel the need to once more point out how mindblowing it is for your average french speaking viewer to have JDG's intro theme being added to the mod they use in the QSMP because of how anchored it is within french internet pop culture. Like this shit has been existing for 14 fucking years, it's part of the childhood of a lot of us, so to find a clip of British hardcore player Philza peacefuly listening to Mexican egg admin Tallulah play this theme on her flute feels like a multiverse fever dream)

Horty has been on Quesadilla Island through cc!Baghera's account, but neither of them really wanted to justify it RP wise. Baghera just wanted to give her best friend a tour of the island. Horty only got to meet Richarlyson who gave her a tour of Cellbit's castle and made her pick a room (she chose Chaos). She also chatted with Etoiles who tagged along for a bit and (this is obviously justified by it being a one-shot out of roleplay filler episode kind of night) they both already knew each other and were on friendly enough terms to bicker with one another Also she was part of the French speakers Quackity reached out to to invite on the server, but she had to decline because she was very busy at that time (and also not interested) Also also she was Baghera's teammate for that Formula 4 event, and Baghera has discussed it and showed pictures to a couple of islanders, including Richas who was very hyped about it

Another player the viewers were hoping to see on Quackity's server is Mynthos. He exists within the server with the picture of him that hangs in Pomme's art gallery, the cursed animation video that used to play in La France, as well as with Aypierre's health potion factory that bears his name

Angle Droit and Zerator are sometimes namedropped when the French speakers talk with their chat. Angle Droit frequently raids Baghera's and Antoine's streams, and though it has never been confirmed, a lot of viewers theorized that she was the +1 player Baghera and Etoiles wanted to invite on the server had they won the elections.

As for Zera, Etoiles went AFK on QSMP a couple of times in order to test some of Zerator's TrackMania maps (which he later discussed with Pac). I also remember a very trivial conversation Etoiles had with Mouse and Aypierre where he laughed about hurting his back very badly after carrying a fellow streamer during a caritative event, said event was hosted by Zerator (he's also the one judging them with concern from his desk)

I'm done.

Bonus alternative design for Angle Droit because at first I thought she was a fox then it turned out she was a corgi but then she changed it again to a fox and woop

[floweroflaurelin]

~Chill Minecraft Tunes to Write Your Archaeology Thesis To~

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Thanks so much for your help in populating Pix’s office! This is one of the more involved shots from the animatic I’ve been working on and I wanted to pack it with as many details as possible. Any suggestions that didn’t make it into this shot will probably end up in the one set in the Museum!

I painted most of this in the airport on my way to meet up in person with the other mods of @mcytblrsexymen — spent a weekend touring museums and hanging out with @/theminecraftbee, @/magicalmanhattanproject, and like a dozen more tumblr friends and mutuals 😆 It was my first time in the USA! I got my purse stolen and lost all my IDs and money and my epipen! (My first mistake was being too gay in the Smashburger, it’s a long story. It’s okay though, I’m getting things replaced now that I’m back in Canada ✨🇨🇦)

But yeah, I had a ton of fun on the trip and on this painting! Peek under the cut for a full list of the all the Pixlriffs-related Easter eggs I crammed in :P

Easter eggs:

- His classic striped jumper

- Singing fish that’s a cod

- Neptune the ghost cat

- Candle from the Vigil

- Mezalean urn

- Skulk sample that’s escaped containment

- Winchester figurine

- Toy Sheriff

- Lizzie’s Ocean Orb

- Four blue books in his stripes’ pattern

- Survival Guides vol. 1 through 3 on the shelf

- Currently hidden behind him is a framed selfie of ZloyXP

- History and Law degrees on the wall

- Diamond pickaxe

- The guitar from his stream background

- My Saint Pearl painting ^_^

- Copper lamp

- Mug of tea

- Celery growing on the desk (reference to his partner)

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Also one more bonus for you, I made my own sexyman merch to wear on the trip because, as the designer, I have that power ;)

Photo taken by @/antimony-medusa 📸

[conarcoin]

dream smp characters if they were youtubers in-universe except i'm right and i don't take constructive criticism

c!dream: he makes "calling fnaf at 3 am" type shit

c!george: lifestyle vlogger. uploads once every 3 years

c!sapnap: prank videos. i think

c!sam: urban exploration

c!ponk: gardening tutorials and occasionally he uploads a video directed at sam where he cusses him out on camera while having a breakdown

c!bad: baking channel

c!tommy: he just uploads random recordings from his communicator. they get 5 views and 1 dislike and the dislike is always jack manifold

c!punz: also a prank channel

c!tubbo: is banned from all video platforms for posting nuclear bomb guides

c!fundy: he just cries into the camera

c!purpled: uploads recordings of random players and titles them as cryptid spottings

c!wilbur: reviews nation's flags and gets into drama every day bc he keeps giving them all bad reviews

c!schlatt: like mukbangs but for alcohol. also crypto. channel is shared with c!connor

c!skeppy: pranks also but during egg arc it turned into surreal nonsense and everyone is scared of him now

c!eret: fashion vlogs

c!jack: also banned from all video platforms but because he just keeps commenting "youre just a little hater" on all of tommy's videos

c!niki: also a baking channel

c!quackity: HOW TO GAMBLE AND WIN 2022 NEW TUTORIAL

c!karl: hasn't posted in 5 years he forgot the password

c!techno: like the minecraft equivalent of a breadtuber

c!antfrost: just talks about weed

c!philza: building timelapses

c!connor: shares a channel with c!schlatt and posts crypto shit and occasionally sonic the hedgehog rants before schlatt deletes them

c!puffy: she just talks about boats

c!ranboo: also just cries into the camera

c!foolish: also building timelapses

c!hannah: gardening tutorials

c!slime: no one understands what the fuck he uploads. several people are convinced it's an advanced form of shitposting

c!michael: just reuploads radio broadcasts

c!eryn: HOW TO KILL PEOPLE AND GET AWAY WITH IT. somehow not banned

c!tina: just normal vlogs

c!boomer: strictly uploads videos of frogs

c!pk: (dimensional) travel vlogs

c!aimsey: just uploads whatever he wants

[zepay]

Happy mother's day to all QSMP's moms but I'll focus specially on Bagi and Tina.

Bagi is legit a supermom, she's the only mom in Empy's life that's consistent on her life, and I do not say this as a jab against the other moms (there's a divide here between the cubitos and the ccs, you can't expect everyone to take care of a minecraft egg everyday but alas) so she plays a specially important role emotionally for her daughter. Even though that's a lot of responsability, she stayed comprehensible, accepting and always validating Empanada's feeling and guiding her though a not very easy life. I probably mentioned Bagi giving Empanada her headphones a lot of times, but it's such a clear example of how much she loves her daughter and does anything possible to accommodate her.

On the other hand, even though Tina was the only that asked Bagi for a child (weird thing to say to your not girlfriend you met a few months ago, but we all know she's a freak) didn't had motherhood coming to her naturally. She messed up a lot on her first day with Empy, and got very scared of being a bad mom to her, but she kept on trying, and eventually she got the hang of it. She's not perfect, as anyone is not perfect, but I personally love the talk she gave Empy about girlhood, being angry at other and at yourself and mother-daughter relationships after she had a small fight with Bagi.

Happy mother's day to them, and I bet Empy would do something really cute for them, it's a shame we won't get to see it this year.

[jams-sims]

I wrote a whole ass essay for Philza now Im gonna do it for Jaiden. In defense of the lack of content with Jaiden in it (real quick). Being an old goat of fandoms I can explain it (don't worry this won't take long and also it plays into her character's overarching narrative of a grieving mother.) Plain in simple women in Minecraft are notorious for getting shit on by the collective fandom. (Everyone has to take part in making sure that it stops happening.) She is mainly a YouTuber which makes a dissonance between mainly youtube viewers and Twitch watchers. So it's harder to catch her just because you have to go to another site. Also, she doesn't stream as often as everyone else. This makes for a lack of content, just because Jaiden is just a low-key person. This is the recipes for a lack of content BUT that does not excuse people who are being weird to her or think she's in the way of any ships etc etc.

BUT

Narratively speaking all of those things above make for perfect storytelling. (below the cut I go deep into Jaiden character I mean I go DEEP)

Even though Jaiden has the support of the whole island. At the end of the day- she goes back to that same house. Climbs to the very top and she fall asleep on the chair facing the sunset. This means that everyone else has moved on, especially Roier. She is forever stuck in that same place.

I can't be the only one who noticed every single stream, she logs out at the house. BY HERSELF (I think Roier built? Someone corrects me if I'm wrong.) It's so subtle that you wouldn't even notice it at first.

When asked where she was living by Etolies. She doesnt say her and roier house, she doesn't even say where bobby use to live. She specifically says " I am squating in Roier old house". She puts herself on the outskirts of what is further from the truth. Shes not squating in roier house im 100% sure Roier shares everything with her. It is her home too!

Next when it came to the marriage between cellbit and Roier. She was surprised that she was even invite. Its as if as soon as Bobby died all her friendships and relationships died with him. No matter how many people are around her she has this ice wall of isolation and deep lonely-ness.

Her grieiving is less theratical than Charlies its so sudtle that you can miss it. While Roier throw himself into drink and into a relationship. (Which has admitedly worked out in his favor. He gets a husband a new son, a world of love. Something that can lessen the sting of Bobbys death.)

Jaiden on the other hand threw herself into a a impossible task, "protect the eggs." She doesn't know anything about any group or fractions. That is her only wish and the federation saw that and picked her to use. She has nothing everyone else has seemingly moved on of course. They haven't stopped investigating but they death of Bobby mostly everyone has moved on. Besides Jaiden this is her driving force so no one will suffer like she did. (on a side note her and Charlie should team up for lore and to both work for the federations.)

ITS PREFECT! Oh are you greiving has everyone else seemingly moved on? Your friendly neighborhood bear has a book full of instructions. Don't think, I'll guide you.

Before it fell apart the federation was going to secretly use Jaiden and she was going to do everything alone. But because Jaiden can't keep a secret to save her life. This leads to everyone realizing how at risk Jaiden is at being used. They are all with her in an instant. But part of her character is now that she sides with the Fedration and no one sees it yet. While everyone else think they are the bad guy. Her story is shifting because cucurucho is there, because cucurucho is nice to her, because Jaiden is cucurucho favorite.

She is being drawn in whether she knows it or not to be om their side. Think of it this way-

Fit is team: Spy thats off the island

Cellbit and Crew are team: AntiFederation

Jaiden the one that is left alone is the perfect choice to slowly pull her onto the federation side. It's perfect! The self isolation, the want to connect but feeling like she can't. It would be so easy for someone to take advantage of that.

[bitcell]

decided to do a small analysis on the remaining candidates of the qsmp elections based on >>my personal opinion<< and whether i would vote on them or not: 

badboyhalo – no. a good candidate, would’ve been one of my first choices because of his extensive knowledge of minecraft/mods & overall experience on smps, but i found his campaign lackluster when it came to actually taking a step forward and taking ownership of his ideas. i really like bad, i think he has great ideas, but i don’t see him taking a leading role because he’s too nice and easily persuaded by the ones around him. (i also don’t want skeppy to be added, but of all the things, this was at the bottom of my list) 

forever – no. just like bad, a good candidate, good knowledge of game mechanics/mods and experience on being part of smps, but once again, i go back to one of the points i said about bad, although hes very proactive and has done a lot for the eggs and the server, he lets his emotions overtake his reasoning, which i don’t see as a good sign for someone who’s gonna be dealing directly with the federation. one threat against richas and forever will be played by the federation like a fiddle. 

mike – one of the people i will be voting for, easily one of the most compelling campaigns. he has good points, and although he likes to indulge in some illegal activities, you can see that he’s not someone that lets his emotions overtake his reasoning, he guides with a purpose and doesn’t let anything come in between what he wants to accomplish. 

felps – nope. love felps to the moon and back, but that man is more worried about his square than anything. let him keep doing his square in peace. 

etoiles – my other vote!! i think it came as a surprise for a lot of people seeing etoiles development during the elections. at the beginning i thought he was just doing it for the bit, based on the fact that he’s very competitive and wanted to dominate the leaderboards. but his extensive research and knowledge is something that the island needs. i would rather someone like etoiles who leads with his head instead of his heart. 

elquackity – hell no.

[ghoulishrose]

i see your minecraft movie suggestions and I raise my own.

Long post, so it’s under the cut.

The protagonist is Alex, but there’s also someone behind the screen. Let’s call her Alexandra. She finds an old world, with Steve being only a myth.

There’s animated sequences of the actual plot, and live action sequences of Alexandra living an actual life. We slowly learn that Alexandra is making the story herself, to make a whole fantasy.

At least, that’s what we think, until Alex meets Steve. For real. Alex comes back to her base to find Steve rummaging through her chests of stuff.

We see Alexandra playing the game, thinking it’s one of her friends playing a prank on her. Nope, Steve isn’t just a legend. Or a player.

Steve acts as a mentor figure for Alex, guiding her along the world… when he doesn’t know what he’s doing himself. They’re both learning together.

They make a new base for the both of them.

They bond in the game, eventually reaching the Ender Dragon.

We see the End Poem on Alexandra’s screen in the real world, Alexandra and Steve saying the lines.

Then, Alex spawns in her first base. She’s holding the Ender Dragon’s egg, and she looks up at an item frame. She’s happy, and starts looking for Steve.

She runs to their base…

He’s not there.

She spends until nightfall looking for Steve.

In the real world, Alexandra’s mom comes in and ask what’s wrong. Alexandra tells the whole thing, and her mom tries to comfort her. Alexandra then goes to her dad’s office, and sees him playing her world… as Steve.

Her dad reveals that he wanted to spend time with her, playing the game that she loved. They hug and talk.

It fades back to the Minecraft world, in some plains, and we see Alexandra and her dad as actual skins, starting a new world, together. They run off towards the forest, and credits roll.

The credits show images of actual builds that players had created.

There is a post-credits scene of Alexandra finishing up an elaborate build of a house, while her dad comes out of a dirt house and calls her a showoff.

[the-boy-branithar]

Funniest thing about the Minecraft movie is that back in the day there were so many animation channels that made beautiful Minecraft videos, even writing fun, interesting stories (dig build live, egg's guide to Minecraft, etc) but ig the studio had no og Minecraft fans working there so they don't know that that's the kind of stuff people like and would be interested in seeing as a whole movie? But no, some douche was like "what if,,,, Minecraft but Realistic???" cuz ig that's the fashion now. "Live action" adaptations of things that absolutely don't need to be live action. Minecraft fans probably aren't a reliable source on what Minecraft things people enjoy, we gotta be faithful to the Holy Algorithm that TELLS people what to like.

[optimisticnuttragedy]

😊

[fountainpenguin]

"We were born beside this river, and we fill the night with song!" (x)

Herobrine's Guide to the Between Dimension

💙 Read on AO3

🧡 21 chapters - Updates 3 of 4 Tuesdays a month

💚 More Pixels Imperfect fics

The remarks of a well-traveled cartographer on the history, landscape, culture, and biology of the dragons and hybrids who reside in the Between dimension.

AKA - A series of meta essays on Minecraft worldbuilding in a fictional extra dimension where players hatch from dragon eggs and play offline. Enjoy!

[tea-and-secrets]

im so silly /neg for this but i genuinely feel like crying when i think about a minecraft realms i was a part of that got shut down. it was terminated with zero notice or warning bc the map/filesize got too big and the hoster couldnt afford to keep hosting it. all the netherite tools i bought from my friends who grinded for them, the poisonous potato shrine we had built and the ~fifteen-page bible i had written entirely in-game and in latin, the in-game book of prayers, my chicken farm that made a full chest of eggs in a single minecraft day, the museum of rare items everyone in the town collected, the mob head collection, all the houses everyone built, the village one friend built from scratch, my fucking HOUSE i had JUST FINISHED and was in LOVE with man. all gone with no way to see. never got a world download (there was a legit reason we couldnt but i cant remember why). hardly any screenshots/videos because, while some of us did record, most recordings were from at least a week before the shutdown (and everyone was actively playing and building in that timeframe, including my beautiful darling house i built from scratch with no guide I AM NOT A BUILDER AND IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.). a whole discord channel of cool coordinates made obsolete. the world seed was never documented so i cant even see the empty world again. i never play/build/progress on servers and this is why, i feel so sorrowful over it and its a fucking MINECRAFT WORLD. god damn

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[sylvia-songbird]

~Escapism~ (a q!Philza & q!Mumza fic)

UPDATE: NOW ON AO3 WOOO!!

I haven't posted anything like this on tumblr before, and it's been ten years since I posted any fics at all...enjoy! (this may also be a part 1 to something longer...depends on how much time I can devote to writing it)

(for extra oomph listen to either Echo in the Wind from the Minecraft 1.20 Soundtrack or Escapism from Steven Universe while reading)

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On the first night Philza spent in the birdhouse, he couldn’t help but stay awake. The Federation had taken other members before, but he knew that he couldn’t fall victim to the same fate as Quackity, Forever, or any other person they've kidnapped before. As long as he stayed awake, they couldn’t hurt him. As long as he was conscious, they wouldn’t force medicine down his gullet. As long as he didn’t shut his eyes, he could hold onto some kind of hope that someone would be able to find him.

As long as he was awake, his actions would haunt him. He never thought that he could be fooled so easily because his missing eggs - his children - were used against him as punishment for wanting answers, as any parent would want. He had made sure not to leave any clues behind that would suggest his disappearance. Most of his belongings were neatly put away in a secured chest locked away in his basement, where no one could access them. Who would ever figure out that the wise crow that lives in the wall is gone?

Here’s the thing about sleep - it doesn’t matter who or what you are. Whether egg or bird, human or hybrid…all succumb to sleep at some point. So it shouldn’t have been a surprise that even Philza, the famed Angel of Death for all of his vigilance, would drift asleep in his cage. 

The dreams bring a reprieve…at first. 

~~~~~ He’s with Chayanne and Tallulah, gearing up to fly off of the wall to do some exploring on the island. They glide until they reach the coast, piling into the speedboat to glide along the waters under a starry night sky. They dock at the beach, not far from a desert village. A familiar terrifying scene plays out, with his children’s last breaths in his arms under the stars, a familiar Nightmare. This time, he doesn’t wake up immediately. As the life leaves his children, Philza bleeds out on that beach, the Nightmare still on the hunt for any innocent souls that cross its path as his vision fades. 

When Philza opens his eyes again, he’s back at the birdhouse. A familiar, automated laugh echoes through the space, as the other birds huddle together in the rafters. The face of Cucurucho appears in front of him, threatening to seal him away again. Philza screams, trying to reach for that stitched-together bear to get answers, to get anything out of him. Swinging a punch at its face, his fist passes through mist. 

It’s taunting him with visions of Chayanne and Tallulah, seeing them run from something inside of the maze Phil and the others found just a few days ago. A slash of a weapon, and their corpses fall to the ground. He runs to catch their bodies, but they shatter on the ground like glass statues…like fragile eggs in need of protection. The pieces cut up his hands, golden ichor and maroon bleeding down his clenched fists. As fear and anger fill his veins, a flash of white erases the entire scene in front of him. 

~~~~~ Before Philza is the Void. Or at least, what appears to be the Void in all but name. He knows the Void well, remembering its sting and endless darkness from before he had earned his wings. He knows how it feels to glide in the space between the bottom of the world and the Void, surfing past death’s grasp from one piece of bedrock to the next. There are no galaxies in the Void, no asteroids, no luminescence that would help guide his way home. 

Here there are glimmering stars and traces of auroras that shine around him like the midnight sky. Except these auroras stay in similar places, flickering in the wind like gossamer. When Philza looks up, he sees the nebulous vision of a Goddess, reaching out towards him. There is something familiar about that sad smile upon her face, but he just can’t place it. 

“My angel…what have they done to you?”

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Philza wakes up in a corner of the birdhouse, Chayanne’s floaty and Tallulah’s beanie somehow in his grasp. He vividly remembers the nightmares from his sleep, but what happened at the end? Who was that woman? Was her dress actually made from the auroras and nebulas that fill the midnight sky?

Her words to him have melted away as the sun burns through the morning fog.

Philza has boundless amounts of time to wonder about these things, but the anger he feels towards The Federation and the fear of his family being in danger spurs him to try to find a way out of this cage, leaving those thoughts about the nebulous woman behind.

[blueboxbeagle]

Complete guide to the new Minecraft wolves

Note: the new wolf variants were added in snapshot 24w10a for update 1.20.5, this guide will not work for any earlier updates.

Where do new wolves spawn naturally?

Wolves can spawn naturally on grass blocks, dirt, corse dirt, snow blocks, and podzol.

Rusty: spawns in the Sparse Jungle biome in packs of 2 to 4.

Pale: spawns in the Taiga biome in packs of 4.

Black: spawns in the Old Growth Pine Taiga biome in packs of 2 to 4.

Striped: spawns in the Wooded Badlands biome in packs of 4 to 8.

Snowy: spawns in the Grove biome as lone wolves.

Ashen: spawns in the Snowy Taiga biome in packs of 4.

Woods: spawns in the Forest biome in packs of 4.

Spotted: spawns in the Savanna Plateau biome in packs of 4 to 8.

Chestnut: spawns in the Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome in packs of 2 to 4.

How to breed the new variants

If two tamed wolves are bred, the puppy will be the same variant as one of the parents, regardless of the biome the puppy was born in.

What collar colors make it look like the wolf isn't wearing a collar?

Rusty: brown

Pale: white

Black: gray

Striped: brown or yellow

Snowy: white

Ashen: light gray

Woods: brown

Spotted: gray

Chestnut: light gray

How to spawn wolves with spawn eggs

The variant spawned is determined by the biome the spawn egg is used in.

Rusty: will be spawned in all Jungle biomes.

Pale: will be spawned in all other biomes.

Black: will be spawned in the Old Growth Pine Taiga biome.

Striped: will be spawned in all Badlands biomes.

Snowy: will be spawned in the Grove biome.

Ashen: will be spawned in the Snowy Taiga biome.

Woods: will be spawned in the Forest biome.

Spotted: will be spawned in all Savanna biomes.

Chestnut: will be spawned in the Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome.

How to spawn wolves with commands

/summon minecraft:wolf

These will summon the specified variant regardless of biome.

/summon minecraft:wolf ~ ~ ~ {variant:rusty}

/summon minecraft:wolf ~ ~ ~ {variant:pale}

/summon minecraft:wolf ~ ~ ~ {variant:black}

/summon minecraft:wolf ~ ~ ~ {variant:striped}

/summon minecraft:wolf ~ ~ ~ {variant:snowy}

/summon minecraft:wolf ~ ~ ~ {variant:ashen}

/summon minecraft:wolf ~ ~ ~ {variant:woods}

/summon minecraft:wolf ~ ~ ~ {variant:spotted}

/summon minecraft:wolf ~ ~ ~ {variant:chestnut}