Animation vs. Minecraft

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"AVM" and "AvM" redirect here. For the other episode with the same initials, see Animation vs. Math.

This article is about the episode. For the shorts, see Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts.

Animation vs. Minecraft is the first installment of Animation vs. series. It was announced on April 10th, 2015, released on YouTube on December 15th, 2015, and released on Newgrounds on the same day. It is a spin-off of the Animator vs. Animation franchise.

Synopsis[]

Stick figures on a computer find a Minecraft cube. The cube gives its holder infinite power, which makes it dangerous in the wrong hands.^[1]

Plot[]

Over a year following the incident on ALANSPC, The Second Coming skips over the taskbar of ALANSPC, when he accidentally steps on the Minecraft Game Icon. Curious to see what just happened, The Second Coming picks up the Minecraft Game Icon. He places a block of dirt and breaks it, then places two wooden planks and breaks them both. Exhilarated at the possibilities of the item in his hands, he selects various blocks and builds himself a house.

Green hops by and asks The Second Coming what's going on. The Second Coming shows him the Minecraft Game Icon and how it works, then gave it to Green to try, who places a cobblestone block and a wood block. Green gets excited and he goes to build off-camera. The Second Coming decides to sleep but needs to break the wood and cobblestone over his bed. He soon discovers survival mode, breaking the wood with his bare hands, but he can't break the cobblestone, until the wood that he broke entered his inventory. He tried to use the wood to break it, but failed until it broke into four planks. He tried using one to break the wood, but it turned into two sticks. He then tried using the sticks, before changing his mind and crafting a pickaxe at his crafting table instead, using it to successfully mine the cobblestone block. Green then arrives and beckons him outside.

Green returns and shows The Second Coming an impressively built moving windmill. The two shook hands, and then Blue takes the Minecraft Game Icon. He experiments with farming and trees and accidentally uses bone meal to grow a tree that he's standing right on top of, smashing himself into the air. 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 Game Icon.

Red walks over to Yellow to take the Minecraft Game Icon. Suddenly, he stops. He hunches forward towards Yellow, and then punches him down. Everyone is shocked with Red's sudden change in behavior and tries to stop him, but Red traps Blue in a cobblestone cage, and blasts The Second Coming 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. The Second Coming comes and mines the stone out for Blue, then hands it to him. Yellow and The Second Coming go back into the house, and The Second Coming crafts a stone pickaxe. He asks Yellow to mine the iron from the windmill that Green built, and Green passes the mined iron to The Second Coming. 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, The Second Coming swipes them away, and when Green races off, he drops the iron pick, which Blue caught.

The Second Coming crafts diamond armor for Green, then orders him to get more supplies from the windmill. Once Green is gone, Blue comes to The Second Coming and brings him the rest of the diamonds. The Second Coming begins crafting more diamond armor and Yellow brings other materials. The Second Coming 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 clout and killing all the skeletons.

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

The group emerges in the Nether without the use of a Nether Portal, where they meet a very open space to 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, The Second Coming goes by himself and asked Red for the Minecraft Game Icon, very gently. Red goes crazy and knocks The Second Coming 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 Game Icon, 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, they see a Minecraft player with white blank eyes; Herobrine. Turns out Red got possessed by Herobrine. Red builds a new giant cobblestone stick figure known as the MegaStick.

Blue jumps up and fires arrows from the dispenser, but Red 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 turns the cobblestone into obsidian, destroying the pickaxes. He begins throwing the stick figures around.

The Second Coming 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 The Second Coming 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 The Second Coming throws down his broken diamond sword, and makes Green equip his fishing rod, Blue spruce saplings, and Yellow a fishing rod. Red comes through with the MegaStick, but the stick figures have all disappeared.

Green appears behind a folder and tethers the MegaStick. Yellow does the same; now Red cannot move. The Second Coming then crafts rails and a minecart. The MegaStick steps into the cart, slips and falls. Blue then uses bone meal on two spruce trees under the giant stick figure, breaking the MegaStick apart. The Second Coming grabs the Minecraft Game Icon to try to throw it into the Recycle Bin. Red/Herobrine stops The Second Coming from trying to throw the Minecraft Game Icon into the Recycle Bin, and then tries to get it from The Second Coming, but then Green stops Red/Herobrine. Red/Herobrine hits Green down, and stops The Second Coming from throwing Minecraft Game Icon into the Recycle Bin and tries to recreate the MegaStick with it, but Yellow stops him. The Second Coming then gets the Minecraft Game Icon to try to throw it into the Recycle Bin, but Red/Herobrine grabs The Second Coming's leg to stop him, while Minecraft Game Icon flies through the air away from The Second Coming. Red/Herobrine attacks Yellow and tries to get the Minecraft Game Icon, but Blue throws an arrow at the Minecraft Game Icon to stop Red/Herobrine from getting Minecraft Game Icon. The Second Coming then grabs the Minecraft Game Icon and shoves it into the Recycle Bin, releasing a wave that erases all the Minecraft-caused damage and anything else Minecraft-related on the computer.

Everyone manages to get up, except for Red. Now, Herobrine cannot survive in Red's body. He tries to 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 forgive him, and then walk off the STORAGE section. Yellow accidentally steps on another popular game's icon, League of Legends, gets a HUD on his head, and everyone starts looking at it.

Characters[]

Trivia[]

This is the first episode in the franchise to have an official intro, where the Stick Gang is drawn into existence, and they look at a rapidly changing Minecraft block.
Even though this video took place in 2015, the Chrome browser is the old version due to the taskbar screenshot being from 2014.
According to the calendar on the desktop, the events of this installment took place on December 15th, 2015, the same day this video was uploaded.
Edited 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).
Alan Becker initially claimed that he had no plans to create an Animation vs. League of Legends installment in 2018, 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 footage from Animator vs Animation 4, this is the first installment in which The Animator is not featured even with a computer mouse.
The Required Essay from Animator vs. Animation in 2006 and Animator vs. Animation 2 in 2007 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.
The League of Legends HUD is actually Garen's HUD, just re-edited.
On November 8, 2021, Animation vs. Minecraft became the most-viewed Minecraft video in YouTube, beating "Revenge" by CaptainSparklez.^[2]^[3] After a month, it was later overtaken by "Minecraft Real POV" by Yes Ranger ^[4] and then Cave Spider Roller Coaster - AVM Shorts Episode 14 due to being a YouTube Kids video. ^[5]
There are Easter eggs hidden in some file names, like ‘Ninja Ambush.docx’ and 'pink army.fla'.
The video later appears on a screen in a technology shop in "The King".
The stick figures, noticeably The Second Coming, are significantly smaller than in Animator vs. Animation 4.

Errors[]

At the beginning of the episode, The Second Coming makes sticks using 1 oak wood plank, whereas in the game, to make sticks, you use 2 wooden planks.
The mobs when hit do not turn red like in game.
When The Second Coming is building the interior of his house, he puts two stone bricks underneath the chimney, however the Minecraft icon does not change to a stone brick.
While The Second Coming is crafting a wooden pickaxe, he puts the pieces together for a wooden hoe, but was never given the option to craft it.

The Second Coming assembles a hoe, but cannot craft it.

At timestamp 4:22, when Green dismantles part of the beacon, the beacon deactivates when it should still be active since it still has its first layer.
At timestamp 4:45, Blue drops a full stack plus 44 diamonds in front of The Second Coming, who already had 3 in his inventory. However, when he picks them all up, the other stack still says 44, instead of 47 (if accounting for the three he already had).
When Red hits Yellow with a row of cobblestone, breaking his sword, it continues to appear in his inventory despite the fact that he dropped it and it's broken.
When The Second Coming crafts rails and a minecart for the MegaStick to step on, afterwards the crafting table is gone.
- There's a crafting table in his inventory. However, The Second Coming had that in his inventory while crafting the minecart with the put down crafting table.
The obsidian block that was mined off of the MegaStick had disappeared when it fell to the ground. However, it's most likely it was picked up inside someone's inventory.