Minecraft 

is a franchise developed from and centered around the video game of the same name.
Primarily developed by Mojang Studios, the franchise consists of five video games, along with
various books, merchandise, events, and an upcoming theatrical film. Microsoft acquired Mojang
Studios in 2014, alongside the Minecraft franchise and its editions.

Spin-off games
Minecraft: Story Mode
Main article: Minecraft: Story Mode
Minecraft: Story Mode, an episodic spin-off game developed by Telltale Games in collaboration with
Mojang, was announced in December 2014.[4][5][6] Consisting of five episodes plus three additional
downloadable episodes, the standalone game is a narrative and player choice-driven, and it was
released on Windows, OS X, iOS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One via
download on 13 October 2015. A physical disc that grants access to all episodes was released for
the aforementioned four consoles on 27 October.[6] Wii U[7] and Nintendo Switch versions were
available in 2017.[8][9] Since 25 June 2019, it is only available on Netflix, where only the first five
episodes are available.[10] The first trailer for the game was shown at Minecon on 4 July 2015,
revealing some of the game's features. In Minecraft: Story Mode, players control Jesse (voiced
by Patton Oswalt and Catherine Taber),[6] who sets out on a journey with his or her friends to find
The Order of the Stone—four adventurers who slayed an Ender Dragon—in order to save their
world. Brian Posehn, Ashley Johnson, Scott Porter, Martha Plimpton, Dave Fennoy, Corey
Feldman, Billy West and Paul Reubens portray the rest of the cast.[11]
Minecraft: Story Mode: Season 2
The second season was released from July to December 2017. It continued the story from the first
season, with the player's choices affecting elements within Season Two. Patton Oswalt, Catherine
Taber, Ashley Johnson, and Scott Porter were confirmed to continue voicework for the new season.
The game supports the new Crowd Play feature that Telltale introduced in Batman: The Telltale
Series, allowing up to 2,000 audience members to vote on decisions for the player using Twitch or
other streaming services.[12] It was shut down along with the original Minecraft: Story Mode, on 25
June 2019.[10]
players who made in-game purchases on the app received a free copy of the Bedrock Edition.[14][15]

Minecraft Dungeons
Main article: Minecraft Dungeons
Minecraft Dungeons is a dungeon crawler video game developed by Mojang Studios and Double
Eleven. It was published by Xbox Game Studios. It is a spin-off of Minecraft and was released
for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One on 26 May 2020. The game received
mixed reviews; many deemed the game fun and charming, with praise for its visuals and music.
However, its simple gameplay and use of procedural generation received a more mixed reception,
with its short story and lack of depth criticized. It is a hack and slash-styled[16][17] dungeon crawler,
rendered from an isometric perspective.[18] Players explore procedurally generated and hand crafted
dungeons filled with new variants of existing Minecraft monsters and also deal with traps, puzzles,
bosses and finding treasure.[19][20]
Minecraft Dungeons Arcade
In early 2021, Mojang announced an arcade adaptation version of Minecraft Dungeons associated
with collectible cards.[21][22]

Minecraft Legends
Main article: Minecraft Legends
Minecraft Legends is an upcoming action-strategy game developed by Mojang
Studios and Blackbird Interactive, announced on 12 June 2022 and set for a 2023 release.[23]

Films
Minecraft: The Story of Mojang
Main article: Minecraft: The Story of Mojang
A documentary about the development of Mojang and Minecraft was released in December 2012.
Titled Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, the film was produced by 2 Player Productions.[24]

Untitled Minecraft film
In 2012, Mojang received offers from Hollywood producers who wanted to produce Minecraft-related
TV shows; however, Mojang stated they would only engage in such projects when "the right idea
comes along."[25]
Two years later, in February 2014, an attempt to crowdfund a fan film through Kickstarter was shut
down after Markus 'Notch' Persson declined to let the filmmakers use the license, the given reason
being that the Kickstarter was set up before any agreement with Mojang had been made.[26][27] That
same month Persson revealed that Mojang was in talks with Warner Bros. Pictures regarding an
official Minecraft film, which would be produced by Roy Lee and Jill Messick[28][29] and was "in its early
days of development" by October of that year.[30][31] The film was initially going to be directed
by Shawn Levy and written by Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney,[32] but they all dropped out in
December.[33]
In July 2015, Warner Bros. hired Rob McElhenney to direct the film. According to McElhenney, he
had been drawn to the film based on the open-world nature of the game, an idea Warner Bros. had
initially agreed with and provided him with a preliminary US$150 million budget for.[34] In 2016, early
production started on the film, including having had given a release date of 24 May 2019 in June,
[35]
 Jason Fuchs set to write the script in October,[36] and Steve Carell contracted to star in November.
[37]

McElhenney's Minecraft film "slowly died on the vine," and due to scheduling conflicts, he left the film
in August 2018,[38] and Fuchs was replaced with Aaron and Adam Nee, resulting in a delayed release
date.[39]
In January 2019, Peter Sollett was announced to write and direct the film, featuring an entirely
different story from McElhenney's version.[40] In June 2019, Allison Schroeder was hired to write the
script and co-write the film with Sollett.[41] The film was scheduled to be released in theaters on 4
March 2022.[42] However, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Warner Bros. removed the film
from their release schedule in October 2020.[43] Sollett instead directed Metal Lords, which was
released exclusively on Netflix in April 2022. That same month, production on the Minecraft film was
announced to be moving forward without Sollett and Schroeder, now with Jared Hess set to direct
and Jason Momoa in early talks to star. The film was also confirmed to be live action.[44] No updates
on the film have been announced as of 2023.

Books
Official novels
The game has inspired several officially licensed novels set in the Minecraft universe:

 Brooks, Max (18 July 2017). Minecraft: The Island: An Official Minecraft Novel. Del Rey
Books. ISBN 9780399181771.[45]
  Baptiste, Tracey (10 July 2018). Minecraft: The Crash: An Official Minecraft Novel. Del
Rey Books. ISBN 9780399180668.[46]
 Lafferty, Mur (9 July 2019). Minecraft: The Lost Journals: An Official Minecraft
Novel. Del Rey Books. ISBN 9780399180699.[46]
 Valente, Catherynne (3 December 2019). Minecraft: The End: An Official Minecraft
Novel. Del Rey Books. ISBN 9780399180729.[46]
 Brooks, Max (2 March 2021). Minecraft: The Mountain: An Official Minecraft Novel.
United States: Del Rey Books. ISBN 978-0-593-15915-6.[47]
 Eliopulos, Nick (5 August 2021). Minecraft Stonesword Saga: Crack in the
Code. Random House Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9780593372982.[48]
 Eliopulos, Nick (17 March 2022). Minecraft Stonesword Saga: Mobs Rule. Random
House Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9780008512385.[48]
 Eliopulos, Nick (28 June 2022). Minecraft Stonesword Saga: New Pets on the
Block. Random House Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9780008495961.[48]
Other books
 Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus "Notch" Persson and the Game That Changed
Everything is a book written by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson (and translated by
Jennifer Hawkins) about the story of Minecraft and its creator, Markus "Notch" Persson.
The book was released on 17 October 2013.
 A graphic novel set in the Minecraft franchise, Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal,
was published by YouTuber DanTDM in October 2016, reaching the first spot on The
New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover graphic books and remaining there for
eleven consecutive weeks.[49][50]
 Gameknight999 is a series of six trilogies about a protagonist who is transported into the
digital Minecraft world and experiences harrowing adventures involving the
antagonist Herobrine. The first trilogy was listed in the New York Times top 10
bestsellers in February 2015.

Tabletop games
Three tabletop games have been produced as official tie-in games for Minecraft. The first two are
both card games, namely Minecraft Card Game?, produced by Mattel in 2015,[51] and Uno Minecraft,
produced by Mattel in 2016.[52]
Towards the end of 2019, Minecraft: Builders & Biomes, a board game version of Minecraft, was
announced.[53] The game was geared towards the family market, catered for 2–4 players, and was
published by Ravensburger. Players explore the Overworld, build structures, and mine resources in
a quest to score the most points.[54] At the end of 2020, an expansion for the tabletop game was
released, titled Minecraft: Farmer's Market Expansion, which introduced a new farm biome that
enabled players to produce vegetables.[55]