LEGO Minecraft

LEGO Minecraft is a licensed LEGO theme of sets based on Minecraft. Currently, there are fourteen sets available.

Logo for LEGO Minecraft

One Minecraft block is represented as a 2x2 brick with a tile on top. LEGO states that this is not a perfect cube, but it is "the best approximation at the chosen scale." There are two types of sets - the "Micro World" sets and the normal LEGO scale sets. The "Micro World" sets contain modules which are 12×12, and may come with several of these modules. Since then the "Micro World" Sets have been discontinued.

Set information

The Micro World set centers around the player (Steve) and one of the game's antagonists, a creeper. The scene is depicted in the Overworld and depicts a few biomes, including a mountain, caves, forest and plains. The Village features structures in the village, and an abandoned mineshaft. It includes blocks for constructing houses, along with the Pig, Villager, and Zombie figures. The Nether is a stylised depiction of the Nether, and contains a lava sea, a lava stream flowing down a hill, nether fortress, and a Nether Portal to connect to the Overworld. It also includes two Ghasts and a Zombie Pigman. The End is a stylised depiction of the End, and contains the Ender Dragon, six obsidian pillars with ender crystals on top of them, an exit end portal and endermen.

The "Micro World" sets can be purchased through the websites Jinx and Lego.com.^[1]

The normal LEGO Minecraft sets feature different parts of Minecraft. All the sets include Steve or Alex and at least one mob. The Cave features a cave in Minecraft with different ores and mobs. The Farm features a normal farm in with one cow and one sheep and a skeleton. It includes a crop farm too. The First Night features a basic house in Minecraft and a farm with a pig and a Creeper.

Set No.	Set	Price	Release	Pieces	Minifigures	Ref.
21102	Micro World The Forest	$34.99 / €34.99	June 1, 2012	480	Steve, Creeper	^[2]
21105	Micro World The Village	$34.99 / €34.99	September 1, 2013	466	Villager, Pig, Zombie	^[3]
21106	Micro World The Nether	$34.99 / €34.99	September 1, 2013	469	Zombie Pigman, 2 Ghast	^[3]
21107	Micro World The End	$34.99 / €34.99	June 1, 2014	440	Ender Dragon, 4 Enderman
21113	The Cave	$19.99	November 15, 2014	249	Steve, Zombie, Spider
21114	The Farm	$29.99	November 15, 2014	262	Steve, Skeleton, Cow, Sheep
21115	The First Night	$39.99	November 15, 2014	408	Steve, Creeper, Pig
21116	Crafting Box	$49.99	November 15, 2014	518	Steve , Skeleton, Mooshroom
21117	The Ender Dragon	$69.99	November 15, 2014	634	Steve, Ender Dragon, Enderman
21118	The Mine	$109.99	November 15, 2014	922	Steve, Skeleton, Zombie, Creeper, Spider
21119	The Dungeon	$19.99	August 1, 2015	219	Steve, 2 Zombie	^[4]
21120	The Snow Hideout	$34.99	August 1, 2015	327	Steve, Creeper, Snow Golem	^[4]
21121	The Desert Outpost	$59.99	August 1, 2015	519	Steve, Alex, Wolf, 2 Skeleton	^[4]
21122	The Nether Fortress	$79.99	August 1, 2015	571	Steve, Alex, Ghast, Blaze, Zombie Pigman	^[4]
21123	The Iron Golem	$19.99	March, 2016	208	Alex, Zombie, Iron Golem, Baby Pig	^[5]
21124	The End Portal	$59.99	March, 2016	559	Steve, 2 Enderman	^[5]
21125	The Jungle Tree House	$69.99	March, 2016	706	Alex, Steve, Creeper, Skeleton, Ocelot, Sheep	^[5]
21126	The Wither	$39.99	March, 2016	318	Steve, 2 Wither Skeleton, Wither
21127	The Fortress	$109.99	September, 2016	984	Steve, 3 Skeleton, Sheep, Horse
21128	The Village	$199.99	June, 2016	1600	Steve, Alex, Creeper, 2 Villager, Pig, Baby Pig, Enderman, Zombie, Zombie Villager
21129	The Mushroom Island	$19.99	February, 2017	247	Alex, Creeper, Mooshroom, Baby Mooshroom
21130	The Nether Railway	$29.99	February, 2017	387	Steve, Zombie Pigman, Magma Cube (big and tiny)
21131	The Ice Spike	$39.99	February, 2017	454	Steve, Baby Cow, Snow Golem, Spider
21132	The Jungle Temple	$49.99	February, 2017	598	Steve, 2 Skeleton, Ocelot
21133	The Witch Hut	$59.99	February, 2017	502	Alex, 3 tiny Slime, Witch
21134	The Waterfall Base	$69.99	February, 2017	729	Steve, Alex, Enderman, Zombie, Ocelot, Sheep
21135	The Crafting Box 2.0	$59.99	August, 2017	717	Steve, small Slime, Cow, Horse, Creeper
21136	The Ocean Monument	$119.99	August, 2017	1122	Alex, Steve, Elder Guardian, Guardian, Squid
21137	The Mountain Cave	$249.99	July, 2017	2863	Alex, Steve, Sheep, Skeleton, Zombie, charged Creeper, Wolf, baby Wolf, 2 Bat, 2 small Slime, Slime, Cave Spider, Enderman
853609	Skin Pack	$14.99	September, 2016	25	Skins x 4
853610	Skin Pack	$14.99	September, 2016	28	Skins x 4
21138	The Melon Farm	$14.99	August, 2017	69	Alex, Pig, Villager, Creeper
21139	The Nether Fight	$14.99	August, 2017	84	Alex, Wither Skeleton, Zombie Pigman, tiny Magma Cube
21140	The Chicken Coop	$19.99	January, 2018	198	Alex, Wolf, 2 Chickens, baby Chicken,
21141	The Zombie Cave	$19.99	January, 2018	241	Steve, Bat, Zombie, baby Zombie
21142	The Polar Igloo	$29.99	January, 2018	278	Alex, Stray, Polar Bear, baby Polar Bear
21143	The Nether Portal	$39.99	January, 2018	470	Steve, Blaze, Ghast, baby Zombie Pigman
21144	The Farm Cottage	$249.99	January, 2018	549	Alex, Steve, Mule, 2 Rabbits, baby Rabbit, baby Pig, Skeleton
21145	The Skull Arena	$19.99	August, 2018	198	2 Players and 1 killer Rabbit
21146	The Skeleton Attack	$39.99	January, 2018	457	Skeleton Horseman, 2 skeletons, Steven, Dyed Sheep
21147	The Bedrock Adventures	$89.99	August, 2018	644	Cave Spider, Creeper, Zombie, Bat, 2 Silverfish

History

Mojang had started a project on the LEGO CUUSOO program, which requires 10,000 signatures for a project to be approved. With the strong support of the Minecraft community, the 10,000 signature objective was achieved in three days,^[6] and the development of the LEGO Minecraft set commenced after Lego reviewed the project. Mojang will donate 1% of the proceeds to charity.^[6] The first set was subsequently released June 1, 2012.^[7]

The second set The Village and the third The Nether were announced at Comic-Con 2013.^[3] The fourth set "The End" was announced through a teaser on 8 March^[8] followed by a reveal on 14 March on the LEGO Minecraft Facebook page.^[9]

On the 2nd November 2013, during Minecon, it was announced that The Lego Group would be creating a fully fledged mini-figure scale theme. It is the first time Lego will be working with fans to create the new series of sets, they call this the co-build project.

Six more sets were released on 15 November, 2014. These were the first sets that did not follow the "Micro World" design of the previous sets. Another four sets were unveiled at the 2015 London Toy Fair.^[4] These sets are expected to be released in August 2015.

Trivia

The first set was released on Markus Persson's birthday.
The first page of the building instructions features a paragraph of text explaining what Minecraft is. This paragraph is a verbatim copy of the "About Minecraft" section on the wiki's Main Page.
Also, in the illustration in the first page Herobrine is present.
The Minecraft set introduced new kind of figure, called micromob which only available on first four sets and exclusive to their own set, later set have normal minifigure like other LEGO set.
The box for the first four set is styled after a different building block: "Micro World" resembles a Grass Block, "The Village" resembles Oak Wood Planks, "The Nether" resembles lava and "The End" resembles Obsidian.
Popular on-line Minecraft streamer "CaptainSparklez" voiced two of the commercials advertising LEGO Minecraft.^[10]