Minecraft Dungeons

Minecraft Dungeons

Developer(s)	Mojang Studios Double Eleven Key staff members Jens Bergensten Måns Olson Kristoffer Jelbring Daniel Wustenhoff Johan Aronson Christian Westman Max Herngren David Nisshagen Annica Strand Adrian Toncean Mårten Helander Chris Nordgren Daniel Bjorkeförs
Publisher(s)	Windows & Xbox Xbox Game Studios Other platforms Mojang Studios
Platform(s)	Native Optimized/Enhanced Xbox One X Xbox Series X|S PlayStation 4 Pro Backward-compatible Other (Compatible devices)
Written in	Unreal Engine Bedrock Codebase
Latest version	Windows Internal version no.: 12688467 minecraft.net: 1.17.0.0 Microsoft Store: 1.17.0.0 Steam: 1.17.0.0 Other Xbox One: 1.17.0.0 Xbox Series X|S: 1.17.0.0 Nintendo Switch: 1.17.0.0 PS4: 1.17.0.0
Release date	Windows, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PS4 May 26, 2020 Xbox Cloud Gaming September 15, 2020 Xbox Series X|S November 10, 2020 February 24, 2021 (Optimized) Steam (Windows) September 22, 2021
Rating(s)	ESRB: E10+ PEGI: 7 ACB: PG CSM: 10+ DEJUS: 10 GRAC: ALL RARS: 6+ USK: 12 GSRR: PG 12 IARC: 7+ FPB: 10
Size	Beta ~600.15 MB As of 1.16.3.0: Windows ≤ 6 GB (minecraft.net) ~5.45 GB (Microsoft Store) ≤ 6 GB (Steam) Other ~5.14 GB (Xbox One/Series X|S) 7.2 GB (Nintendo Switch) 4.2 GB (PS4)
License	Terms of Use
Source available	No
Links	Website Standard Edition Windows Microsoft Store Steam Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S Nintendo Switch United States Canada United Kingdom & Ireland Australia & New Zealand PlayStation 4 Hero Edition Nintendo Switch United Kingdom (Physical) Ultimate Edition Windows Microsoft Store Steam Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S Nintendo Switch US (Digital) (Physical) CA (Digital) (Physical) UK & Ireland (Digital) United Kingdom (Physical) Ireland (Physical) AU/NZ (Digital) (Physical) PlayStation 4 Xbox Cloud Gaming Information xbox.com/play Steam Deck

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“	DUNGEONS PRIMER – Dungeons is perfect for any Minecraft fan looking for a brand new challenge. It might look fairly familiar, but it plays completely differently to what you'd expect. For the uninitiated, here's a quick guide to get you up to speed on this epic new blockbuster.	„
	— Guide to Minecraft Dungeons: A Handbook for Heroes

Key art by Mojang Studios

Minecraft Dungeons is a dungeon crawler RPG developed by Mojang Studios and Double Eleven, and published by Xbox Game Studios on Windows and Xbox, and Mojang Studios on other platforms. It was released on May 26, 2020, for Windows (via minecraftdungeons.net and Microsoft Store), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4, on September 15, 2020, for Xbox Cloud Gaming, on November 10, 2020, for the Xbox Series X|S, and on September 22, 2021, for Steam for Windows.

Originally conceived as a singleplayer game for the Nintendo 3DS, Minecraft Dungeons takes inspiration from classic dungeon crawlers. It also features music by Peter Hont, Johan Johnson, Samuel Åberg, Eugnosis, Rostislav Trifonov, and Grant Kirkhope.

On September 28, 2023, it was announced that 1.17.0.0 was Minecraft Dungeons's last update, but it is still available to download and play.

Purchase and availability

The Standard Edition of the game is available for US$19.99 (Can$25.99, €19.99, £16.74, A$29.95, NZ$39.95, S$29.95). It is included with Xbox Game Pass Standard, PC Game Pass, and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

The Ultimate DLC Bundle released on July 28, 2021. It is available for US$19.99 (Can$25.99, €19.99, £16.74, A$29.95, NZ$39.95, S$29.95) and includes all six DLCs along with content from the former Hero Pass.

Minecraft Dungeons: Ultimate Edition also released on July 28, 2021. It is available for US$39.99 (Can$51.99, €39.99, £33.49, A$59.95, NZ$63.95, S$57.75) and includes the base game and all contents of the Ultimate DLC Bundle. The physical version released on October 26, 2021 (released for the Nintendo Switch in Australia and New Zealand at a later date).

The DLC packs are also available separately for US$5.99 (Can$7.69, €5.99, £4.99, A$9.05, NZ$8.70, S$8.70) each.

There are also Adventure Passes that are available for US$3.99 (Can$5.29, €3.99, £3.29, A$5.95, NZ$5.90, S$5.70) each. These allow players to receive more content from partaking in Seasonal Adventures.

The game is available on the following platforms:

• Windows 7+
• Xbox One (Xbox One X enhanced)
• Xbox Series X|S
• Nintendo Switch
• PlayStation 4 (PlayStation 4 Pro enhanced)
• PlayStation 5 (via backward compatibility)

The game is also playable on Xbox Cloud Gaming (requires Xbox Game Pass Ultimate). For more information, visit the official web page. For a list of compatible devices, visit this page on Xbox Support. For information on how to get Xbox Cloud Gaming on the Steam Deck, visit this page on Microsoft Support. The game supports touch controls on Xbox Cloud Gaming.

There are two different editions of the game:

• Standard Edition
• Minecraft Dungeons: Ultimate Edition

Discontinued editions:

• Minecraft Dungeons Hero Edition

There are three available passes for the game:

• Cloudy Climb Adventure Pass
• Luminous Night Adventure Pass
• Fauna Faire Adventure Pass

Gameplay

The game supports up to four players and features various new weapons, items, and mobs, as well as a variety of environments to explore and an overarching quest that sees the player characters, heroes, face off against a main antagonist, called the Arch-Illager. The game has specific quests and locations, along with procedurally generated elements. The player is not restricted to one class, and can pick up more armor or weapons and use them. Players cannot build or mine because the game is focused on action/adventure. The game takes place both above ground and below. Players can replay levels they have previously beaten. There is a camp "hub" that takes place in part of the tutorial mission, the Squid Coast, with shops unlockable by saving merchants. Missions are procedurally generated, and Mojang was considering using level generation seeds.

Players can choose a character from a variety of heroes provided, with additional heroes available as paid DLC. Character creator skins as well as skins purchased in regular Minecraft are not available for use in Minecraft Dungeons.

Hero

The hero is the character that the player controls in the game. When starting a game, the player can choose a cosmetic hero that they can use throughout the game. All of the heroes are purely cosmetic and do not offer special exclusive benefits.

When selecting a hero, all loot, levels, and progress gained stays only on that hero and does not carry over into other heroes that the player plays as. If the player started a game with a hero, but changed their mind and wants to play as a different hero with different loot, they can duplicate the hero with the same loot the original hero had.

Missions

When the player starts up the game for the first time, the hero that they select begins at the Squid Coast. They then progress throughout the other missions, such as the Creeper Woods, until they reach the final mission of the base game, the Obsidian Pinnacle. Sometimes a mission can generate a hidden area containing a scroll that unlocks a secret mission, like Creepy Crypt, Lower Temple, Soggy Cave, Arch Haven, or Underhalls. Other missions can be accessed by proceeding through the missions normally, such as Pumpkin Pastures, Redstone Mines, Desert Temple, and Highblock Halls. Most of the missions of the main story with the Arch-Illager take place on the mainland. Other missions are available only through the DLC packs. The secret mission, ???, requires heroes to collect all nine runes after defeating the Arch-Illager.

Items

Weapons are tools that can be used to damage entities with either melee or ranged attacks. They can be enchanted to increase their effectiveness.

Armor is used to protect the hero from damage and provide additional health. It can be enchanted to increase its effectiveness as well as provide miscellaneous uses to the hero, like a burning aura through the burning enchantment or a chilling aura that slows mobs through the chilling enchantment, both of which don't necessarily boost protection, but provide more utility to the hero.

Artifacts are objects that the hero can use to gain a significant power-up, damage foes, heal allies, etc. They behave like spells which provide an effect and are on a cooldown timer. The effectiveness of artifacts can be augmented through certain armor enchantments.

Consumables are non-equipable items that randomly drop during gameplay to restore health, ammo and provide temporary positive Status effects to the hero as well as deal massive splash damage to foes.

Cosmetics include capes, emotes, flairs, and pets that provide no functional benefit to the hero and are designed for cosmetics and looks. Capes can either be obtained by players who own the Hero Pass, are free or were obtained by completing a set amount of Seasonal Trials. Pet cosmetics are either free, require the player to purchase DLC to be equipped, or by completing a set amount of Seasonal Trials.

Heroes can gift weapons, armor and artifacts to heroes made by other players by interacting with the gift wrapper.

Enchantments

Weapons and armor collected throughout the game possess randomly selected enchantments that, once activated by spending enchantment points obtained by leveling up, augment and alter the properties of the equipment. Equipment can appear with up to three enchantment slots each possessing a maximum of three enchantments to select from of which one can be activated. Enchantments are specific to the equipment type they appear on; ranged weapons enchantments never appear on armor, for instance.

Enchantments can enhance damage output, increase defense, apply positive or negative Status Effects, restore or increase health and speed, spawn consumables, emeralds, bees, escape death, and more.

Mobs

Mobs (short for "mobiles") are creatures encountered throughout the game. Most in Minecraft Dungeons are hostile and attempt to destroy the hero on sight, some are passive and never attack, and few are neutral that attack only if the hero attacks it first. Mobs summoned by the hero are friendly, cannot be directly damaged by the hero, and attack hostile mobs.

There are four broad types of hostile mobs that the heroes fight in the game: mobs, enchanted mobs, powerful mobs, and bosses.

Defeating mobs gives the hero experience and they often drop emeralds, consumables, weapons, and armor.

Throughout the game, mobs ambush the hero and a rising gate blocks further progression until all mobs that spawned in the ambush are defeated. The Arch-Illager can be seen initiating most of the ambushes on the Mainland.

Synopsis

Minecraft Dungeons is set in the same universe as Minecraft. Unlike Minecraft, which is a sandbox, the game features a linear, story-driven campaign, and cinematics. The opening cinematic tells the story of an outcast Illager named Archie, who was rejected by all those who he met. One day, he stumbled upon a powerful artifact known as the "Orb of Dominance," which granted him great powers but also began to influence his decision making. The power-hungry "Arch-Illager" then sought vengeance on all those who wronged him, and soon subjugated the world with his new army, raiding villages, forcing villagers to work as slave labor, and leaving only chaos behind. It's now up to the hero to stand up against the Arch-Illager's tyranny in order to defeat him and save the world.

The hero explores various locations in their quest to stop the Arch-Illager, fighting his army and completing quests in order to pass on to the next mission. Ultimately, they face the Arch-Illager in his castle, defeating him and shattering the Orb of Dominance in the process, which frees Archie from its influence. Afterward, they show kindness to Archie, much to his surprise, and together they celebrate that evil has been defeated and the world saved, though the Orb is later shown to be rebuilding itself and being stolen by an enderman.

All of the season pass DLCs that have come to Minecraft Dungeons.

The DLC packs continue the story as follows:

• In Jungle Awakens, one of the orb fragments creates the jungle abomination and various other monsters out of the jungle flora. The hero manages to destroy the shard and frees the jungle.

• In Creeping Winter, another orb fragment corrupts a wraith, covering the island in an eternal winter. The hero must defeat the wretched wraith, destroy the shard and rid the island of its eternal winter.

• In Howling Peaks, another orb fragment lands on top of a mountain, corrupting the fabled tempest golem. The hero must leap up the mountain and defeat the corrupted protector of the sanctum.

• In Flames of the Nether, the hero travels to The Nether. The Orb of Dominance is not in this DLC, therefore there is not a main boss. The only hint of a narrative in this DLC alludes to the hero's portal breaking, and having to find a new one.

• In Hidden Depths, an orb fragment crashes into the ocean, corrupting an elder guardian. The hero must dive deep into the depths of the sea and defeat the ancient guardian.

• In Echoing Void, it is discovered that the Heart of Ender had survived its assumed destruction atop the Obsidian Pinnacle. With the reborn orb's existence threatening to cause The End to bleed into The Overworld, it is up to the hero to travel to the endless void between worlds and put an end to the Vengeful Heart of Ender for good.

Development

The game was announced at MINECON Earth 2018. It appears as a visually enhanced version of the base Minecraft game, but has a different gameplay style. The game is inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and, according to Marc Watson, was originally "made up of the remnants of the Scrolls team". On September 17, 2019, Double Eleven announced that they are assisting Mojang Studios and Xbox Game Studios with development, particularly with multiplayer and the console versions.

Minecraft Dungeons was given an April 2020 release date in November 2019, though this date was delayed to May 26, 2020, due to the outbreak of COVID-19. The closed beta for the game ran from March 25 to April 24, 2020.

Supported languages

According to this page:

Languages	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	Yes	Yes	Yes
European French	Yes	Yes	Yes
Italian	Yes	No	Yes
German	Yes	Yes	Yes
European Spanish	Yes	No	Yes
Japanese	Yes	Yes	Yes
Korean	Yes	No	Yes
Polish	Yes	No	Yes
European Portuguese	Yes	No	Yes
Brazilian Portuguese	Yes	Yes	Yes
Russian	Yes	No	Yes
Simplified Chinese	Yes	Yes	Yes
Latin American Spanish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Swedish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Traditional Chinese	Yes	Yes	Yes

System requirements

According to this page:

Component
OS	Windows 10 (November 2019 Update or later), or Windows 11
Processor	Intel Core i5 2.8 GHz or equivalent
Graphics drivers	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, AMD Radeon HD 7870, or equivalent DX11 GPU
Memory	8 GB RAM or more and 2 GB VRAM or more
Storage space	6 GB available space
DirectX version	11 or later
Display	800×600
Notes	Performance increases with higher-end systems. Not supported on Windows 10S.

Media

Guide to Minecraft Dungeons: A Handbook for Heroes

Guide to Minecraft Dungeons: A Handbook for Heroes is a guide book for Minecraft Dungeons that was released on May 26, 2020 as a hardcover and e-book.

Minecraft Dungeons: The Rise of the Arch-Illager

Minecraft Dungeons: The Rise of the Arch-Illager is a novel about the background story on the origins of the Arch-Illager by American author Matt Forbeck. It was published by Del Rey Books on July 7, 2020 in North America and on July 9, 2020 in the United Kingdom. It was released as a hardcover, e-book, and audio book all of which were available to purchase on the same day.

Merchandise

LEGO

Minecraft Dungeons also has its own LEGO set called "21163 The Redstone Battle", which features the four main heroes Valorie, Hex, Hal and Adriene along with the Redstone Monstrosity and the Redstone Golem, as well as a Piggy Bank. It was released on June 1st, 2020. Another Minecraft Dungeons LEGO set was revealed which is called "21176 The Jungle Abomination" which features the two heroes of the Jungle Awakens, a Mossy Skeleton, an Iron Golem, an enchanted Creeper, a Poison-Quill Vine and the Jungle Abomination itself. It was released on August 1st, 2021.

Gallery

Official artwork

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  Minecraft Dungeons logo

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  Minecraft Dungeons PNG logo

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  Minecraft Dungeons old logo, still used in-game

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  Minecraft Dungeons png old logo

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  An early Minecraft Dungeons logo, used in the dev build

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  Minecraft Dungeons vertical key art

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  Minecraft Dungeons horizontal key art

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  Minecraft Dungeons vertical key art with old logo.

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  Minecraft Dungeons horizontal key art with old logo.

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  Minecraft Dungeons horizontal key art without logo.

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  Xbox One game disc cover.

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  Xbox One game disc cover.

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  The map of the Mainland where many of the missions and the Tower are located.

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  The old pre-Stronghold and pre-Tower map of the Mainland.

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  The map of the Island Realms.

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  The map of the Other Dimensions.

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  Jungle Awakens DLC map

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  Creeping Winter DLC map

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  Howling Peaks DLC map

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  Flames of the Nether DLC map

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  Hidden Depths DLC map

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  The Stronghold map from the Echoing Void DLC.

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  Echoing Void DLC map

Screenshots

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  The four main heroes of Minecraft Dungeons.

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  A preview of the Desert Temple area in Minecraft Dungeons. This image is also used as the loading screen.

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  A preview of the Redstone Mines area in Minecraft Dungeons.

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  The redstone monstrosity as seen in the gameplay reveal trailer.

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  The Fiery Forge as seen in the gameplay reveal trailer.

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  The Desert Temple as seen in the gameplay reveal trailer.

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  Valorie, in the Creeper Woods as seen in the gameplay reveal trailer.

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  Valorie attacking a skeleton, in the Creeper Woods as seen in the gameplay reveal trailer.

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  A great hammer being equipped on Valorie as seen in the gameplay reveal trailer.

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  A corrupted beacon equipped on Valorie as seen in the gameplay reveal trailer.

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  Hal reviving Valorie as seen in the gameplay reveal trailer.

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  A key golem as seen in the gameplay reveal trailer.

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  Soggy Swamp as seen in the gameplay reveal trailer.

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  Pumpkin Pastures as seen in the gameplay reveal trailer.

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  Archie grabbing the Orb of Dominance and becoming the Arch-Illager.

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  The Orb of Dominance.

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  Four heroes racing across a bridge in the Fiery Forge, as seen on the Steam page.

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  Three heroes fighting evokers and pillagers atop a ship in Pumpkin Pastures, shown on the Steam page.

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  Another screenshot from the Steam Page showing two heroes fighting their way through the Desert Temple as one fires a corrupted beacon.

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  A screenshot from the Steam page displaying a hero slashing through a horde of zombies with the Thundering enchantment.

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  Another screenshot from the Steam page showcasing two heroes with a totem of shielding fending off a horde of enemies in the Pumpkin Pastures mission.