Animation vs. Minecraft

Animation vs. Minecraft is the fifth major installment made by Alan Becker. It was announced on April 10th, 2015, released on YouTube on December 14th, 2015, and released on Newgrounds on December 15th, 2015. It is a spin-off of the Animator vs. Animation series.

In November 29, 2020, it was announced that Animation vs. Minecraft would get a sequel, called Animation vs. Minecraft 2 - The Rising of the Block, which would start production in December 2020. In December 4, 2020, it was confirmed that the short would be transformed into a 1 hour long movie.

Plot
The Second Coming is just skipping over the taskbar of ALANSPC, when he accidentally steps on the Minecraft icon. Curious to see what had just happened, TSC picks up the Minecraft Block icon and learns how to place and break blocks. Feeling so excited, TSC quickly builds himself a house to live in.

Green hops by and asks TSC what's going on. TSC shows him the MInecraft cube and how it works, then gave it to Green to try, who places a stone block and a wood block. Green gets so excited, he goes off to build off-camera. TSC decides to sleep but could not break blocks instantaneously. He soon discovers survival mode, how to craft a pickaxe, and how to break blocks easier, feeling victorious.

Green returns and shows TSC an impressively built moving windmill. The two shook hands, and then Blue takes the Minecraft Block. He experiments with farming and trees and gets launched up on top of a tall jungle tree. He tries placing another tree on top of the tree, but Yellow comes by and builds a diamond beacon, along with redstone glass lights, impressing everyone, who all seems to have fun.

Red comes along and admires all of the Minecraft-created stuff. He climbs up the house and greets everyone. Yellow gestures Red to try out the Minecraft Block.

Red walks over to Yellow to take the Block. Suddenly, he stops. He hunches forward towards Yellow, and then punches him down. Everyone is shocked with Red's sudden behavior and tries to stop him, but Red trapped Blue in a cobblestone cage, and blasted TSC and Green with TNT. Red then escapes into the Storage folder.

Yellow wants to get back at Red for his behavior, and then tries to get Blue out of the cobblestone wall. TSC comes and mines the stone out for Blue, then hands it to him. Yellow and TSC go back into the house, and TSC crafts a stone pickaxe. He asks Yellow to mine the iron from the windmill that Green built, and Green passes the mined iron to TSC. He crafts an iron pickaxe and asked Green to mine the diamonds from the beacon. Since you can only mine diamonds using an iron pick or an even more powerful one, Blue couldn't mine the diamonds with the wooden pickaxe. Green mines the diamonds, TSC swipes them away, and when Green races off, he drops the iron pick, which Blue caught.

TSC crafts diamond armor for Green, then orders him to get more supplies from the windmill. Once Green is gone, Blue comes to TSC and brings him the rest of the diamonds. TSC begins crafting more diamond armor and Yellow brings other materials. TSC crafts a bow, a bunch of arrows, fishing rods, TNT and flint and steel, diamond armor, pickaxes and swords. The rest suits up and gathers the tools and weapons, then went into the Storage Folder.

In the Folder, they get ambushed by a bunch of zombies. All four stick figures took them down, then traced its source to the STUFF folder. There, a zombie spawner is placed (to spawn zombies) and gets mined away by Green. The sticks try to continue on and gets ambushed by a horde of skeletons. Blue shields them with a dirt barrier; Yellow uses a dispenser and uses the arrows stuck at their armor to fire back at the skeletons. As the others join in, Yellow throws TNT at a nearby group of skeletons, which explodes and kills them; a Creeper pops out of another folder from the TNT blast. It sneaks right amongst them and explodes, launching all the arrows out in a deadly clouf and killing all the skeletons.

Luckily everyone else is alright. And then another creeper sneaks on Green and nearly kills him, but Green knocks the creeper away and it explodes, revealing a hidden entrance. TSC decides to mine through the entrance together, away from the computer itself.

The group emerges in the Nether, where they find more mobs, break their spawners, and feast on apples to regain their strength. They decided to continue and then suddenly stopped, because they suddenly saw Red... just standing there. This time, TSC goes by himself and asked Red for the Minecraft Block, very gently. Red goes crazy and knocks TSC away with cobblestone. Yellow retaliates and gets knocked back just as hard by Red as well. Green uses a pickaxe to mine the stone Red places, and successfully strikes him down. He was just about to take the Minecraft block, but Red quickly gets up.

Suddenly, Red glitched for a second. Everyone stares in confusion. Red continues to glitch for a few seconds, and for a brief moment, we see a Minecraft player with white blank eyes, Herobrine. Turns out Red got possessed by Herobrine. Red/Herobrine builds a mega stick figure out of cobblestone.

Blue jumps up and fires arrows from the dispenser, but Red/Herobrine breaks the dispenser and catches Blue, then turns the cobble arm into pistons and launched Blue to the wall. Yellow throws TNT at Red/Herobrine, but he diffuses it with water. Its legs got mined out by the sticks, but Red/Herobrine turns the cobblestone into obsidian, which is even harder than cobblestone. He begins throwing the stick figures around.

TSC gets thrown aside and watches in horror as Red/Herobrine beats his friends down to half a heart. In desperation, he grabs two pickaxes and manages to mine one obsidian block. This gets him to keep mining the obsidian to get to Red/Herobrine. Unfortunately, Red/Herobrine quickly rebuilds himself and beats The Second Coming down to half a heart as TSC has memories of his old friend. Before Red/Herobrine can finish any of them, the sticks beat a hasty retreat back to the desktop. Undeterred, Red/Herobrine begins bashing his way through the tunnel. All of the stick figures' swords and pickaxes are broken, but TSC throws down his broken diamond sword, and makes Green equip his fishing rod, Blue spruce saplings, and Yellow a fishing rod. Red/Herobrine comes through with his monster stick figure, but the stick figures have all disappeared.

Green appears behind a folder and tethers Red/Herobrine's Megastick. Yellow does the same; now Red/Herobrine cannot move. TSC then crafts rails and a minecart. Red/Herobrine steps into the cart, slips and falls as Blue uses bone meal on two spruce trees under the giant stick figure, breaking the Megastick apart. A fight for the block ensues, which ends with The Second Coming throwing it into the Recycle Bin, which in turn creates a blast and restores the desktop to normal.

Everyone manages to get up, except for Red/Herobrine. Now, Herobrine cannot survive in Red's body. He tries escapes Red's body, suffocates because Minecraft is destroyed in the Recycle Bin, and dies. Red, now free from Herobrine, has no idea what just happened, and begs his fellow stick figures to forgive him. Thankfully, the others forgave him, and then walks off the STORAGE section. Yellow accidently steps on another popular game's icon, League of Legends, gets a HUD on his head, and everyone gets interested at it.

The end.

Characters

 * Yellow
 * Blue
 * Red
 * Herobrine
 * Orange
 * Green
 * Creepers (first appearance)
 * Zombies (first appearance)
 * Skeletons (first appearance)

Trivia

 * According to the calendar on the desktop, the events of this installment took place on December 15th, 2015.
 * Edited stock footage from Animator vs Animation 4 is used, as well as an edited reused scene from this installment when The Second Coming lapses into memories of Red.
 * This is the first installment where Adobe Flash is not involved in the plot in any way (although its logo can be seen).
 * It is also the second installment not to feature Noogai3 after Animator vs Animation.


 * Alan Becker initially claimed that he had no plans to create an Animation vs. League of Legends installment, despite the implications of the ending. While he eventually went back on this, the Animation vs. League of Legends that came to be didn't directly pick up from where this one ended.
 * All sounds from Animator vs Animation 4 are reused in this installment.
 * Excluding the edited stock footage from Animator vs Animation 4, this is, to date, the only Animator or Animation vs video in which Becker himself is not featured even by a computer mouse.
 * The Required Essay from Animator vs. Animation and Animator vs. Animation 2 is shown in the stuff folder in the storage folder. There is also a backup variant of the same essay.
 * This is the last video to take place on Windows 7.
 * Awesome 68.png League of Legends HUD is actually Garen's HUD, just re-edited.
 * As of November 8, 2021, Animation vs. Minecraft is now the most-viewed Minecraft video of all time, having 268.9 million views currently.