I just finished playing Minecraft Legends and it was good! And there was a lot to take away from it in terms of Minecraft lore, which I’ll list here. Spoilers ahead
This not only takes place in a Villager legend, but in an alternate universe to vanilla Minecraft. So we can pick and choose what lore we want.
The Piglins appear to be in possession of the Orb of Dominance from Dungeons (although it could hypothetically be any purple cube of death). So the entire war is the End killing two birds with one stone.
The fossils from the base game appear and they’re much bigger. The Piglins haul fossils to create their bases and the skeletons build their homestead around one.
The zombie homestead is built around a giant corpse flower.
The creeper homestead is carved out of a sulphur deposit.
Hoglins get big. You’ll be mistaking the lava launchers for elephants. The concept art claims this is age though I like to think it’s a different species.
The Piglins themselves obviously get big too.
Legends continues Dungeons claim that Piglin survival versus zombification in the overworld is related to Nether fungus spores.
They divide the Piglins into three hordes: the Horde of the Bastion; of the Hunt (so yeah the usual lore assumption of bastion and crimson forest hunters being separate is confirmed); and of the Spore, from the Warped Forests
Three new Overworld mount species! The Regal Tigers as seen in the gameplay demo, and also Big Beaks and Brilliant Beetles!
Prismarine is associated with the Well of the Fate and the magic dimension within. Ocean monuments are unseen.
Lapis Lazuli is used to make robots (I won’t call them golems) instead of pumpkins.
The robots predate the villagers, and helped the Hosts create the overworld.
Oh yeah, creationism is true in this world.
We see the birth of the illagers as those villagers that take arms against the Piglins
I think it's hilarious how so many people have imagined piglins as these sorta rough and tough almost noble warriors who may not really like violence but feel that it's a necessity.
Then Minecraft Legends came around and smacked em on the head in more ways than one. 😭
Like, respect is still present but it's vaguely there only for the strong and especially intelligent. They're literally just like a bunch of rowdy boys trying to make their way in a cruel world, essentially.
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I would actually like to give huge kudos to mojang for opening Minecraft Legends with a settings screen asking your language, your preferred text size, and if you want text to speech or subtitles enabled.
I would like to give the hugest kudos for them defaulting to having BOTH subtitles and text-to-speech switched to "on".