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Releasing in Spring 2023, Minecraft Legends is an action-strategy game developed by Mojang Studios and Blackbird Interactive. This article will cover everything we currently know about the game- story, gameplay, mechanics, mobs, and more!
I highly suggest watching the video if you haven't. This article is just the rough notes I collected for the video, unformatted.
Very good against structures
Uses stone when spawning
Ranged unit
Shoots arrows
Uses wood when spawning
Has water spray effect
Can heal nearby allies of the hero
Can tank damage?
Most likely long recharge time
Finalized version of iron support golem
Disruptor, knocks back enemies
Makes room for units to come in and help
As seen in concept art, might hoist mob overhead & zoom into battle
Finalized version of the emerald cavalry golem
Uses iron ore when spawning
Living peacefully with the villagers
Arms not joined
Wearing hats, hat design went through multiple iterations
On the player's side
Can blow up, used to destroy enemy structures
On the player's side
Uses coal ore when spawning
Ranged units, on the player's side
Wearing helmets
New mob coming to the game
MC Legend was nicknamed Project Badger
Controlled with the lute
Blue allays gather materials
Gold allays build
Turtle
Llama
Cat
Pig
Crouches into a cube
Rolls while attacking
Has two razor blades on its arms
Most common enemy
Animated to make them feel unbalanced
Most likely easy to take out individual ones, but large quantities are dangerous
Has piston flail, can be used to knock back targets and destroy structures and units
Uses hammer as a secondary weapon
Likely can use the flail to swing around as an area attack after it's been fired
Also called Piggo in the concept art
Might have magma cube spring-loaded catapult as seen in concept art
Charges toward enemies to attack
Seen in the MC Live demo
Long-range attack: shoots magma cubes at you
Close-range attack: stomp attack, destroys nearby mobs
One of the strongest mobs in the Horde of the Spore
The game will have different hordes which look and play differently
Horde of the Bastion: likes to build defensive structures and forts
Horde of the Spore: seen in Minecraft Live 2022 demo
Big open, procedural world
different for each player / randomly generated
Several different biomes, some are new to MC Legends
Jungle & Badlands shown in MC Live demo
Lots of materials you can gather throughout the world
Villages, maybe other types as seen in the trailer
Other special structures like the "Well of Fate"
Enviornmental effects / powerups can be found, running over them will give you effects
Speed weed: boosts your speed
Bounce caps: lets you jump higher
You can run over mushrooms to get a health boost?
The player can find allay chests throughout the world with resources inside
Spawners, built by players
One for each type of mob
Interact with them to recall, remove, or spawn mobs
Uses materials and lapis to spawn mobs
At the “Well of Fate”, the player meets the hosts (start of the game)
helps the player throughout the game
tall one is foresight, larger one is action, and small one is knowledge
Hero character(the player) unites the world
People you meet become your allies and can help you with tasks such as collecting materials
The player has to establish defenses, weaponry, and armies, gradually work up the chain of Piglin invasion points
Story takes place during idealistic time, everything coexisting in peace
Fight the piglins before the nether corrupts the overworld
Player needs to break the portals
Blow up the portals
Might explain where the ruined portals came from
Player must clash with waves of enemies
Not canon
Action-Strategy game
Strategy elements at its core, but its mechanics are inspired by action games
Real-time combat
Third-person perspective
Campaign
Co-op available, both challenge mode(cooperative) and a PVP mode
Cross-platform multiplayer has not been confirmed yet
You can play with up to three other players
Difficulty can be changed
The devs were reluctant to describe them as modes, so the game might offer more granular customization
Clear difference from the mechanics present in Minecraft Dungeons
To progress you have to destroy(blow up) the portals in the middle of the structures
Have to play both offensively and defensively
As you play you learn what to use when, like when to use skeletons instead of plank golems (both ranged units)
According to devs, game can be finished in ten hours, but normal players will take closer to 18-20
Player starts at “Well of Fate”, given a few tools
Flame of Creation: makes it possible for the player to create spawners
Banner of Courage: can be waved in the air to get mobs/allies to follow you
Player can choose what mobs to send, or if they want to send all in
Demo shows 16 mob option icons, most grayed out
Lute: player can play music with it, brings allays into the world
Player is always riding an animal
Different player skins and rideable animals
Different animals have different abilities / strengths
Regal tiger shown in demo
Player will mainly fight by commanding allies, although they can defend against a few enemies with their sword
Allays deconstruct materials into chests as seen in the trailer
Blue allays collect/gather materials
You can open up a selection menu to decide where to collect from, shows you what materials you’ll get
Allays come back to you after collecting, player can only have a set amount of allays out gathering at once
Will stay and gather as you’re travelling
Building system, the allays help you build
Not block by block building, more immediate, snap things down and wait for them to be built by the allays
Premade structures
Bridges & arrow towers shown in demo, arrow towers shoot arrows at enemies within range
Yellow allays build
HUD
Health bar, the demo has ten hearts, goes down by half-hearts
Hotbar, seems to be quick build menu
Material counter, wood, stone, iron ore, coal ore, redstone ore, diamond ore, gold ore, lapis, and emerald
Fire count, maybe related to the flame of creation & might show how many mobs you can spawn?
Book & Map
Compass at the top, shows directions and what direction different important things are in
Way to zoom out and see everything going on
Yellow circles for enemies, blue circles for allies, red outline for targets
Intuitive interface for both controllers and mouse & keyboard
Music sneak peek, song called “A Legend Begins” by Crispin Hands
No preorders available yet
Coming Spring 2023
Coming on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Windows, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4 & 5, Steam
Minimum / Recomended specs on steam
OS: Windows 10 (November 2019 Update or higher), 8 or 7 (64-bit with the latest updates; some functionality not supported on Windows 7 and 8)
Processor: Core i5 2.8GHz or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7870 or equivalent DX11 GPU
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 8 GB available space
Additional Notes: Performance increases with higher-end systems. Not supported on Windows 10S.
English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian (full audio not supported for all listed languages, can be found on steam)
Built on the Bedrock Codebase, rather than Unreal Engine which was used to make Minecraft Dungeons
Made by Blackbird Interactive
Shipbreaker
Homeworld 3
Crossfire: Legion
Minecraft Earth
Project Eagle
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Cinemachine (now in Unity)
has been in development since 2018
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/legends_game
VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/games/minecraft-legends-will-test-how-resilient-fans-can-be/
Windows Central: https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/preview-what-is-minecraft-legends
Windows Central: https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/minecraft/minecraft-legends
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1928870/Minecraft_Legends/
Xbox: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/minecraft-legends
Beebom: https://beebom.com/minecraft-legends/
whatifgaming: https://whatifgaming.com/minecraft-legends-release-date/
YouTube- Nintendo: https://youtu.be/mmhnQdWP9aA
YouTube- Minecraft: https://youtu.be/eo-hfihoaRw
YouTube- IGN: https://youtu.be/RMCaM4dq_PE
YouTube- Nintendo: https://youtu.be/oCL6h3Df0fs
YouTube- Playstation: https://youtu.be/M-cInlc5VAk
Rock Paper Scissors: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/minecraft-legends-is-a-colourful-mix-of-real-time-strategy-and-snappy-building
YouTube- Minecraft: https://youtu.be/cxPfsAEfMmA
YouTube- Minecraft: https://youtu.be/iM9KtHaDcUg