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"Hardcore Manhunt" is the 37th episode of the Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts series, being the first installment of Season 5.
Synopsis[]
Good luck with the pop quiz at the end!
Plot[]
The Second Coming has a dream about the Minecraft Overworld being corrupted. Startled by the dream, he wakes up to the other Fighting Stick Figures watching as Blue cooks over a campfire. Purple exits from a nearby Nether portal and joins.
Purple and the Stick Gang then go on various conquests where Yellow uses the command block staff to trivialize these adventures. These encounters include a battle with a witch, an attack from cave spiders, defending a village from a raid and going mining.
Eventually, the stick figures carry their large amount of loot over to a clearing as Yellow places a bed and Purple begins to build a house. Yellow clears Purple's structure and creates a mansion. He teleports Purple, the Stick Gang, their loot and mansion to multiple biomes before deciding to place them in a cherry blossom valley. Yellow then brings a group of armor stands to life as butlers to sort their loot.
The next morning, Green is practicing combat with the armor stands. Suddenly, the Overworld experiences an extreme glitch for a brief moment.
Afterwards Red points out a glitched chest, which Blue and Green try interacting with but to no avail. Yellow then tries to use the command block staff to get rid of the glitched chest but the glitch spreads to the staff and causes them to enter Hardcore difficulty, as well as teleporting King Orange, who was building a house, to an unknown location.
Green test-kills one of the living armor stands, expecting to respawn at the bed, but it dies...permanently. The other armor stands panicked and scared, and decided to equip themselves with weapons and armor to attack the Stick Gang. Yellow tries to fend them off with the command block staff, but it malfunctions and gets destroyed by the glitch.
They run from the hunters for as long as they can, but eventually get surrounded. Struggling to fend off the Armor Stands, they dig down only to fall into a massive chasm. Purple grabs the Stick Gang, but runs out of rockets. Purple attempts to pull up anyway, but his Elytra gets destroyed as it gets punctured by stalactites.
Whilst they fall, Blue manages to hook onto a hanging dripstone with his fishing rod and with the combined efforts of Blue and Red's pickaxe, they barely manage to get out of the chasm. As soon as they surface though, the armor stands spot them and give chase.
Purple and The Stick Gang build a large column of cobblestone to get away, but upon reaching the top notice they are all extremely hungry. Blue pulls out some nether wart. While everyone thinks they're disgusting and chooses not to eat them, Green grabs some, desperate for food. Unfortunately, the Nether Warts don't restore any hunger and actually damage Green, causing him to spit out the Nether Warts. The Stick Gang are trapped by the hunters, who camp out below them all night.
After the day turns to night, phantoms begin swooping down, as the Armor Stands begin to climb up. Thanks to a daring escape by Red and his knowledge of mobs, Purple and The Stick Gang hop onto a Phantom each and fly away.
This tactic manages to lose all but one of the hunters, as Quartz Bolt is able to latch onto the phantom that Green is riding. The hunter kills Green's phantom and Purple rides down to save Green. However, the hunter still latches on and kills Purple's Phantom.
The remaining stick figures try to pull Green and Purple in with Blue's fishing rod but fall off the phantoms and are sent plummeting towards the ground. Luckily they safely land in powdered snow, but are now stuck in the middle of freezing mountainous terrain.
Rematerializing just after he teleported, King Orange confusedly looks around only to see the Far Lands before him.
Credits[]
Directors/Writers[]
- Skim
- Alan Becker
Animation[]
2D[]
- @ARCpersona
- @n8sterAnimates
- @Ellis02Media
- @NotSoProishNoob
- Exceld @doumaki4501
- @Fordz
- @Efan204
- @SimpleFox1
- @ichasedacrow
- @Spacedoughnut
- @Hexalhaxel
- @frankyofl
- https://x.com/magicalotter46
- @robby24anims62
- @ablerai
- @effie2095
- @hatena360
- Terkoiz
- @oxob3000
- rojackie
- @Nemo0501
- @mekatokwa
- @dan_loeb @tjb7345
3D[]
- @Ellis02Media
- https://x.com/magicalotter46
- @st4ticfilms
Minecraft Builders[]
- TheKaemble
Background Editor[]
- iSwimmi
Concept Artist[]
- IMPFORHIRE
Asset Creation[]
- @ablerai
- @Shuriken255
- Double Apple
Sound Design[]
- @dan_loeb
- https://twitter.com/E_SoundWork
Music[]
- @ScottBuckley
Editors[]
- @n8sterAnimates
- @dan_loeb
Thumbnails[]
- Exceld
- DJ
Technical Director[]
- @Shurkien255
Project Lead[]
- @n8sterAnimates
Production Assistants[]
- Sammi Alea https://sammialea.com/
- Gigi
Line Producer/Production Manager[]
- @hatena360
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
Antagonists[]
- Armor Stands (debut)
- Block Corruption
- Witch (cameo)
- Illager Raid (cameo)
- Raid Captain (cameo)
- Ravager (cameo)
- Pillager (cameo)
- Vindicator (cameo)
- Evoker (cameo)
- Illusioner (cameo)
- Cave Spiders (cameo)
Other Characters[]
- Villagers (cameo)
- Engineer Villagers
- Cleric
- Armorer
- Fletcher
- Butcher
- Engineer Villagers
- Hardcore Helper
- King Orange
Errors[]
- The command that Yellow uses against the cave spiders targets "@n[type=spider]" instead of "@n[type=cave_spider]".
Trivia[]
- When Red punches Green, his fifth (and about to be lethal) punch of Green is identical to the one from the end of "Animation vs. YouTube".
- Just like in the original appearance of the punch, it's interrupted before it can be completed.
- The glitches that occur in this episode are similar, if not identical, to the one from "The King."
- Repeated use of the staff caused the glitch.
- This means that this is the fourth instance where Yellow messing around with a command block has caused a catastrophe.
- The first time was "Command Blocks".
- The second time was in It's Alive! - An Actual Short when Yellow attempted to turn a command block sentient before being stopped by the others.
- The third time in Too Close to the Sun - An Actual Short when Yellow falls off his staff due to a malfunction, possibly foreshadowing this episode.
- This is the first episode where Netherite tools and armor are used by the main cast instead of Diamond tier ones.
- It is possible the Witch in this episode is the same character from The Witch, but this has not been confirmed.
- The three battles the Gang had might be references to the episodes where they had said battles.
- The Witch might be a reference to The Witch.
- The Cave Spiders might be a reference to Cave Spider Roller Coaster.
- The Illagers might be a reference to The Raid.
- According to the AVG Reacts Video, the episode was fully planned before the introduction of Copper Golems into Minecraft, which coincidentally also sort items into chests like the Armor stands did in the episode.
- When the Command Block Staff first malfunctions, many commands are executed each second
- Some notable ones are:
- These commands may also serve as a references:
- 3:39 - "place template missingno:porch ~-5 ~ ~ none none 0.2" may be a reference to the glitch Pokemon "Missingno." found in Pokemon Red and Blue
- 3:40 - "effect give @n[type=pig,limit=1] techno_power infinite is a reference to Technoblade
- 3:48 - "wolf send @n[type=bee,name=Barry] beemovie.mkv" is a direct reference to "The Bee Movie," and its main protagonist, a talking bee named Barry.
- Also at 3:48, the command "function:minecart_race:lights/start_cooldown" may be a reference to Ultimate Minecart Race.
- 3:49 - "pardon herobrine" is clearly a reference to Herobrine, but may also be a reference to how Herobrine was a former antagonist towards the Stick Gang, but has since changed.
- Also at 3:49, the command "execute @r run setblock ~ 0 ~ etho_slab" may be a reference to EthosLab, a popular Minecraft Youtuber and also possibly a reference to "Minecraft Java Edition 2.0" (Minecraft April Fools update 2013). This Minecraft snapshot contains a joke block called the Etho Slab (which is also a reference to Etho).
- Multiple commands may be a reference to "A Minecraft Movie," including:
- 3:40 - "execute at @e[type=chicken,sort=random,limit=1] run setblock ~ ~2 ~ lava," a possible reference to Steve's Lava Chicken.
- 3:48 - "summon chicken ~ 1337 ~ {Passengers[{id:"zombie",IsBaby:1b}]}" summons a chicken jockey, a reference to one of the most memed lines from the movie. Additionally, "1337" is referenced as being a classic "funny number" on the Internet.
- 3:49 - "transform into chicken_jockey" is also likely a reference to the same meme.
- 3:49 - "recipe give @a buck_chuckets" is a reference to the Buck Chuckets from "A Minecraft Movie."
- 3:50 - "give Steve flint_and_steel" may be a reference to the Flint and Steel meme.
- Green becomes the only character apart from Blue to consume pure Nether Warts directly.
- At 6:00, the Color Gang and Purple are chased by a Spider, Creeper and Baby Zombie kitted in golden armor and is wielding a diamond sword. This is a reference to how Ph1LzA died in his 5 year Hardcore world in 2019, as the episode's theme is the introduction of Hardcore mode.
- At 9:58, for a brief moment terrain that resembles the wall of The Far Lands is visible in the background while Purple and The Stick Gang are falling, meaning they landed somewhere nearby to a version of The Far Lands.
- This means they may have landed close to where King Orange is currently located.
- More evidence that may support this theory includes:
- The fact that the actual command that teleported King away only claims to have teleported him 256 blocks on both the X and Z axis.
- Looking closely at 1:35, Yellow teleports everyone to a location around 12,500,000 on the X axis. In Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 and below, The Far Lands begin to generate at 12,550,824 blocks out, only 50,824 blocks away from The Far Lands.
- Unlike the story arcs of Season 3 and Episodes 8-14 of Season 1, this arc does not begin on ALANSPC.
- This is the first episode of Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts and the second episode in the Animator vs. Animation Franchise to advertise an exterior website (not including Animators VS Games), the first being Animation vs. Coding.
- The website advertised is "Brilliant," which is the same sponsor present in the aforementioned Animation vs. Coding
- This is the first instance of Alan's sticksona being animated.
- His sticksona did repeatedly appear beforehand in AvG thumbnails, however.
- In the background, Alan has some sort of helper stick figure who assists him by stuffing pop-ups about the commercial into the background. As far as we know, this is the stick's first appearance.
- This stick figure is Hatena, Alans line producer/project manager.
- The pop quiz at the end of the episode is supposed to be related to a future episode.
- 1. The math problem 7+8/2*8 is equal to 39, it might relate to episode 39.
- 2. The switches that need to be closed to turn on the lightbulb are the red and blue ones. It might mean that Red and Blue could be important in the episode.
- 3. The four equations can be solved thanks to red and yellow, which added up are 6 and subtracted are 4. So red is 5 and yellow is 1. That leads to green being 17 and blue being 18. At the bottom, there is a pattern, red-yellow-green-red-blue, so 5-1-17-5-18, in letters, that is E-A-Q-E-R. With a Caesar Cipher and going back by four for each letter, one commenter translated this code to read, "AWMAN," which might mean that this episode will involve a Creeper, (or Creepers) based on the famous phrase, "Creeper? Aw man..."
- This is the third full-length episode where King Orange does not have his crown.
- The scene at timestamp 9:04 when the stickmen are trapped in the cobblestone platform and realize they're being attacked, it shows the stickmen under stress and how each one reacts to it. In other words, another scene containing a pure example of their personalities.
- Yellow immediately tries to look for a solution and even analyzes the environment. He looks for a practical way out to hide his panic, looking for a rational way out and try to get control of the situation.
- Purple pounds on the ground in rage, as he is always brute when met with discomfort. Therefore, anger is his response to panic.
- Blue shakes on the ground in fear, displaying he's stressed and clueless of what to do in panic.
- Red's reaction displays pure dependency, bothering Green about the situation and a possible form of saying, "We gotta do something about this." This is because Red normally relies on someone else for help and support.
- Green is exhausted before getting bothered by Red. The group has been in unknown places, and he has to act as a leader for Red, Blue and Yellow.
- TSC indulges in the ordeal, because he is emotionally charged under distress.
- This info was taken from a video made by @MouchieLikesStories.
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