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.

• 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