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Lucky Block Staff is the 33rd episode of the Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts series, being the 3rd installment of Season 4.
Synopsis[]
Red gets a little experimental with the Lucky Block...[1]
Plot[]
Yellow is holding his staff and removes the Command Block from it, passing it onto Red, who chooses to place a diamond block into the staff, hitting a brick wall with it. The next person to use the staff was Green, who chooses to use netherite and destroys the entire brick wall, along with the taskbar as well. Blue's choice was an obsidian block which only moved several of the blocks. The Second Coming uses bedrock and Red uses the staff again, this time with wool, but the result would be placing wool blocks and doing no damage to the wall.
Yellow puts cobblestone in his staff and places cobblestone blocks around him, then Blue uses an oak log that created wood-based structures, The Second Coming uses the staff again, but this time using a crafting table, Green uses a furnace to cook raw food and smelt ores. Yellow used an enchanting table and gave Blue's sword Sharpness V and many other enchantments. The Second Coming was about to place a Lucky Block into the staff, feeling reluctant after remembering an incident from 3 years ago, he decides to pass the staff onto Blue.
Blue uses a brewing stand that threw potions when used, Green uses a note block and created a music sheet while using it. The Second Coming uses an end portal frame, summoning a portal in front of him, he stuck his head through the portal and saw himself. Red's choice was a Monster Spawner and created hybrids of mobs, one of them being a Beeper, it was about to explode before Red gave it a Cornflower that stopped it. Blue uses a bone block, making it easier to grow the crops he has planted, Green uses a magma block, defeating a group of zombies with ease. Yellow uses a piston and uses it as a pogo stick, Blue uses a campfire and attempted to cook a marshmallow, but accidentally burnt all of it, The Second Coming places an anvil and found it difficult to carry the staff. Red uses a dispenser and places 64 arrows inside the dispenser, shooting a target block with many arrows. Green chooses to use TNT and summons four TNT blocks, destroying the taskbar with it, the Beeper appears behind Green and almost explodes, but just like before, Red pacified it by using a cornflower. Yellow uses a Redstone block, sending constant Redstone to two observer blocks, but accidentally sliced off the observer and piston blocks.
Last but not least, The Second Coming uses lapis which gave him the power to fly, he enchanted the taskbar, Yellow uses the command block again, and they all celebrate their discoveries, but Red still seems distracted, wondering what the Lucky Block will do to the staff.
That night, Red plots to steal the staff from a sleeping Yellow. He sneakily replaces it with a bamboo stalk in a pot and sneaks out of their shared house. He replaces the command block with the Lucky Block and spawns another Lucky Block, this one containing spawn eggs. Excited, Red spawns five more Lucky Blocks, the first two containing a set of Netherite armor on an armor stand and a cooked chicken on a sunflower stalk. The third one explodes, knocking Red back. Beeper returns and flies around, about to explode in Red's face until Red gives him a cornflower, which diffuses him. Red tosses the flower away, Beeper flies after it like a dog playing fetch, and Red thinks for a moment, possibly curious as to how the Lucky Block Staff works.
Inside the Lucky Dimension, one of the floating Lucky Blocks becomes electrocuted, as well as the Lucky Block within the staff. This causes a block of dirt under the staff to change into dozens of random blocks. The shocked block in the Lucky Dimension selects a melon and teleports it, causing the former dirt block to finally stop on a melon. This excites Red even more and he begins turning the taskbar into random blocks, one a piece of Netherrack, another a slime block he bounces off of, and three of the house into an End stone, Acacia wood, and a red mushroom block. In the Lucky Dimension, more and more blocks become electrocuted from the Staff's power and Red, while having fun changing the taskbar into more random blocks, notices the Lucky Block in the staff is suddenly malfunctioning. He tries a few more times and bounces it off the slime block onto himself, making him woozy and causing the entire Lucky Dimension to tremble and the Lucky Block sun to spin through blocks like a Roulette wheel.
Red soon recovers and notices the Lucky Block in the Staff also began changing through blocks like a wheel. Confused, he tries it with a spider web and spawns exactly that. He tries it again with the Lucky Block and the web turns into a chicken that rockets into the air, knocking Red over, and then explodes. The Staff stops on TNT, but before Red could try this block out, Beeper returns and threatens to explode. Panicked, Red drops the Staff in order to attend to his new explosive friend.
Back in the Lucky Dimension, more and more blocks become electrocuted, and when one of those blocks passes by the Orb, it takes notice. The Orb uses some kind of suction to attract several blocks to it and managed to get one of those shocked blocks to teleport it into the "real world." It infused itself with the Lucky Block in the staff.
Meanwhile, Red ties Beeper to a fence and lets him fly around a trio of flowers. With Beeper content and diffused for a while, Red returns to the staff and swings it a couple of times, but nothing happens. He shakes it and taps it, trying to get it to work, and finally begins slamming it against the ground. This causes a massive beam to come out of the top of the staff and makes a shock so powerful it causes a flowerpot in Green's room to fall off a note block. This wakes Green up and he notices the empty red bed in the room next to him.
When the light dies down, the Orb is suddenly on top of the Staff and the entire taskbar is random blocks. Red realizes what he has done and tries to grab the Staff back, but the now changing blocks surround it, collect themselves, and point it at Red, proving themselves to be sentient, or under the control of the Orb. Green runs outside, sees the random blocks in the house and realizes what happened. Red reaches for the Staff, seemingly trying to talk the Orb down, but the blocks slither away and, while cornered, shoot Lucky Blocks at him. Red manages to avoid them, but with his back to an anvil, the Orb shoots another Lucky Block at him. Red braces for impact, but Green deflects it away with a shield at the last moment. The deflected Lucky Block explodes onto their house, waking Blue, The Second Coming and Yellow up, the latter of whom soon realizing he's holding a bamboo stalk with a pot instead of the staff. The Second Coming and Blue comes outside, not fully understanding what's going on, then an Enderman with a pumpkin on its head spawns out, trying to takes the pumpkin off its head while screaming. The Orb still shoots lucky blocks, but now changes the floor into blocks, until the Orb shoots shulker's bullets on Red and Green making them both float. While Red just floats and Green just holds a block, The Second Coming takes out a shield but the Orb turns it into XP orbs, then Blue throws TNT and explodes the Orb, but the Orb can restore its blocks, until the Orb changes the TNTs into sand. Red and Green run out of levitation effects, The Second Coming catches Red, and they all takes out a shield, but the Orb turns each one into other items, with Blue's being turned water. Blue then uses a Swiftness X potion, and runs. He takes the water in the bucket, sets Red's position right into place, takes The Second Coming's crossbow and shoots a lucky block that's about to hit The Second Coming and lastly punches the staff and the Orb off the block mess.
The Staff and Orb fall on the floor. Green tries to takes the lucky block off the staff but takes a lucky block out instead. The Orb then turns into the same mess as before and takes the form of a giant hammer, trying to smash the sticks, but a barrier line appears, blocking the Orb from doing so, which Yellow summoned with command block. Yellow traps the Orb in a barrier box, the Orb fighting around within, and Red goes to Yellow, thankful for the assist. Yellow, however, shoots him an angry look and pulls out the bamboo, causing Red to sheepishly admit he replaced the Staff with it. The Orb then grows and activates absorption, absorbing everything including the sticks and Beeper into Lucky Dimension, leaving a lucky block on the floor.
In the Lucky Dimension, everything comes out at once, piling on top of the sticks. The Orb brings the staff over to its structure, which towers up to the sky. Everyone gives Red another look—Red no doubt feeling extremely remorseful—before racing over to deal with the Orb, leaving a melancholy Red behind. Beeper, sensing his owner's sorrow, gives Red a flower, which perks Red's spirits and he joins his friends. The Orb on the top throws out a golden staff to several spawned mobs, but below, The Stick Gang reaches the tower, and Blue tries mining it, but it restores itself quickly. All of them manage to get in by mining together with diamond tools, with Beeper joining them.
In there is a whole cave filled with mobs that want to attack the sticks, with a zombie pigman holding the staff the Orb gave it. They manage to kill them and get a new staff, which Red uses to spawn a huge ghast. They ride the ghast up, but on the top is a horde of mobs that jump down to attack. Red, the one holding the staff gives it to Green and he replaces the block in it with a note block. With Green's power and the others' energy, they kill the mobs quickly, with help from Green's musical notes, until when an iron golem shows up. Green shoots out a music string like cobwebs into the golem and shoots it, killing it and causing it to drop another staff, which Blue collects. Beeper flies around, making the ghast smile, and Blue replaces the block on the staff with piston to punch his enemies and spring himself around.
Green gives the staff to Yellow, then Green and the others kill the mobs. Yellow replaces the block in the staff with an enchanting table to enchants the sticks' weapons. Red's carrot gets enchanted with Flame which produces fire, and he fires a skeleton horse. The Second Coming's golden boots get enchanted with Channeling which produces a lightning bolt to whatever he kicks, and he kills vexes with his boots. Green holds a villager that gets enchanted with Knockback 99 which knocks things hard, and he knocks a blaze out through of the tower. Yellow enchants a dispenser Multishot, Piercing 99, and Knockback 99 which all produces a quick shot of projectiles inside of, with Yellow puts a bunch of projectiles in it and with all the enchantments the sticks fight. The Second Coming with his lightning bolts accidentally charges a creeper, about to made a big explosion, The Second Coming throws it into the wall which drops items, then Beeper went there searching for an item but it wasn't there. The Second Coming kills a zombie with a dripstone staff, giving him a staff, and Yellow kills a mob with two staffs, giving Green and Red a staff. Then Beeper flies to Red giving Red a TNT and he puts it in the staff.
Then, a Queen Bee appears spawning a horde of bees with its staff and commands them to attack. Blue puts a lapis lazuli in the staff making him float and the sticks fight. The bees were starting to sting the ghast making it frown and tear up, only The Second Coming to notice and spawn a bedrock helmet for it. The ghast then shoots fireballs at Queen Bee and kills her, making the bees fly towards in the beehive on the staff that Queen Bee was holding.
Red keeps the beehive, and then a shulker appears with a campfire staff, almost bursting the huge fire into Red but The Second Coming blocks it. Red on the floor jokingly brings a steve head staff up at Yellow and Blue, then Blue brings it down. Yellow with his staff freezes the shulker, then Blue with his staff grinds the ice blocks down and the shulker is gone. Suddenly, an axolotl with a lightning rod staff summons lightning bolts and attacks the sticks, but a lightning bolt strucks into the Steve head in the staff Red is holding, turning the head into a Herobrine head which makes Red float. He uses it to float and one-shot the axolotl giving them another staff which Blue collects. Suddenly, a bunch of mobs appears and the sticks fight, while Blue encounters a villager in a cauldron with a staff. The block changes into an anvil, but it is too heavy and the villager cannot lift it. Blue with the lightning rod staff strikes the villager away, and then a bunch of mobs appear. Blue with his brewing stand staff turns them into blocks, with a zombie pigman holding a sculk sensor staff distracts The Second Coming. He uses the sculk sensor staff which can sense sounds when there is a noise or danger near him, which saves him from a spider web that a polar bear shoots out with its staff. The polar bear jumps down and then shoots out cobwebs and sticks them to the sticks' staffs, but Green manages to uses a magma block and burns the polar bear, dropping down another staff, which Green collects. Yellow kills a wither skeleton which drops another staff and a wither skeleton skull and The Second Coming collects the staff. Suddenly, a cow with an end frame staff comes out of a portal and kicks the sticks into another portal which links into another portal falling down to Yellow. Then Green uses his cobweb staff to act like a grappling hook tries to get to the cow, but the cow keeps looping through portals. Green then grabs The Second Coming's bell staff which knocks the cow's staff away, and Green closes the portals together making the cow loop until the portals get too close, teleporting the cow to space. Then the sticks encounter a boat with an emerald staff which kicks. When the boat gets closer to The Second Coming, the sculk sensor again saves him and they were able to smash the boat over and over, defeating it and claiming its staff. They celebrate their success.
Suddenly, the ghast reaches a huge white lucky block revealing the sticks have reached the top. The temple has turned into a lucky block in a staff, the sticks manage to push the ghast down and they mine their way inside. Inside is the orb with a circling mess of blocks spawning staffs that collect different blocks, then the Orb creates a huge energy shock. The sticks fight the final boss. The Orb spawns an obsidian chunk, but The Second Coming bats it away with his bedrock staff. A wild battle soon begins, with the Orb using its staffs to attack the Stick Gang while they use the staffs they already have on their hands to deflect the Orb's attacks. Red and Blue use TNT and potion smoke to attack the Orb, but it protects itself with mushrooms and obsidian. Yellow tries to destroy the Orb's shield with the laser of his redstone block staff, but it's blocked by a wall, and Red manages to get the obsidian staff by throwing TNT at the shield thanks to Yellow severing it. Green uses his portals to deflect the Orb's wither head attack, and teleports The Second Coming to the other staffs to knock them away and weaken the Orb's defenses, but the Orb's shield rolls him away, and throws some blocks to the gang, but Blue turns the blocks into chests to encase some of the staffs. The Orb instantly gains the upper hand, and uses the piston staff to knock out The Second Coming, imprison him with Bedrock, and steal his staffs for itself, Blue tries to attack the Orb's staffs, but he is also imprisoned in Bedrock, Yellow attempts to attack via the redstone block staff's laser, but the Orb deflects it with a shield made of amethyst, Green is imprisoned as well after trying to attack and avoid the Orb. Red throws TNT and Herobrine heads to the Orb's shield through his staffs, but the Orb, using a cobweb staff, shoots cobweb at Red, rendering him nearly immobile, and when the Orb prepares to imprison him in bedrock, Yellow protects him via a barrier staff and uses barriers to protect himself from the Orb's attacks. When Yellow uses barriers to get to the Orb and his staff, the Orb swipes him away by the feet with two quartz blocks, and imprisons him in bedrock as well, Red cuts through the cobweb and, using his final attack, he uses his fishing rod to get the portal frame staff, the Orb unleashes various beams and fire charges, but Red opens portals to redirect them to the Orb's shield, and opens one final portal to throw the beehive through it before getting imprisoned in bedrock. When the beehive lands right next to the Orb and the staff, the Orb gets swarmed by Beeper and the bees. Beeper notices the Orb and looks at Red. When he nods at Beeper in approval, Beeper sacrifices itself and explodes in front of the Orb. Beeper's explosion causes the Orb and the blocks shield to fly away out of the fortress and neutralize the Orb's control, and the explosion's strength causes the Orb's fortress to slowly collapse. With the bedrock prisons of the Stick Gang being destroyed, Red finds the Lucky Block and Yellow finds his staff. They open the Lucky Block and the gang finally escapes the Lucky dimension via the block's portal before the block gets crushed by the falling debris.
Back at the computer, Red builds a grave for Beeper, mourning over its sacrifice and saluting his fallen pet before turning his attention to his friends, who are still angry at him for the wild journey he made them go through. A guilt-ridden Red decides to accept his punishment. Yellow lifts him with his staff and puts Red inside a barrier box with a bench inside it. Yellow closes the barrier box, putting Red in timeout for what he did and The Second Coming nods at Yellow for making Red learn his lesson for his actions, ending the episode.
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
- Stick Gang
- Beeper (debut/only appearance)
Antagonists[]
- Orb
- Lucky Dimension Bosses (debut/only appearance)
Other characters[]
- Herobrine (head)
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- This is the fifth AvM episode that is longer than the original "Animation vs. Minecraft", the other four being "Parkour", "Monster School", "The King", and "The Chef".
- This episode is the second longest Animation vs. Minecraft video overall, behind only The King.
- Alan Becker stated during his reaction on the Animators VS Games channel that part of this episode was inspired from his fans.[2]
- There are several references to past episodes and even the Actual Shorts.
- While using the staff with a bone block, Blue uppercuts himself with a tree, similar to the original Animation vs. Minecraft.
- The Orb spawns a spider in a minecart, a callback to Cave Spider Roller Coaster.
- The trophy Red won in Monster School can be seen in his bedroom.
- A stack of pancakes which first appeared in The Chef makes an appearance.
- Blue's Master Cookbook he got in The Chef can be seen in his bedroom.
- An enderman with a pumpkin on its head appears, referencing Speedrun - An Actual Short.
- A staff Red holds gets struck by lightning, making the Steve head turn into a Herobrine head and giving Red Herobrine's powers, another reference to the original Animation vs. Minecraft as well as a reference to The King, as both episodes involve Red getting possessed by Herobrine.
- When the Stick Gang mines into the cave in the Lucky Dimension, its very reminiscent of when they mined off to the side of ALANSPC in Animation vs. Minecraft, where they found Red.
- How Red breaks the netherracks from a Zombified Piglin is similar to how Green breaks the cobblestones from Herobrine-possessed Red in Animation vs. Minecraft.
- Blue transforms a zombie, a spider, and a wither skeleton into quartz pillar, polished granite, and obsidian using his brewing stand staff. It looks like he's using the transformation effect from The Witch.
- In the scene where the Stick Gang are fighting the Orb's henchmen, a villager inside a cauldron wielding an anvil staff can be seen, referencing the game Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.
- Green uses a magma block against the polar bear with the cobweb staff to lift it into the air and burn it, resembling Steve’s up smash attack from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
- Yellow's abilities via the campfire staff and redstone block staff during the final fight resemble The Chosen One's abilities.
- The fight scene between Green and the cow is possibly a reference to the Spot and Miles Morales in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, as the cobweb staff acts similar to Spider-Man's webs and the end portal staff acts similar to the Spot's power to create portals.
- This is further implied, as the cow represents the Spot, and Miles mistook the Spot for some type of cow.
- The summary part of this episode was made by NovaMations388, as Alan forgot to add this part on YouTube.
- In the scene when Blue was testing out the staff. The same timing on Animation vs. Minecraft can be seen.
Errors[]
- When Red is first attempting to calm the Orb when it takes over the staff, the time on the PC can be seen as 5:15 AM. But when Blue and The Second Coming are awakened by the commotion, the clock reads 5:16 PM.
References[]
- ↑ Music from 'Lucky Block Staff' - Animation Vs. Minecraft Ep. 33 - Scott Buckley (description)
- ↑ "Oh they're just trying out stuff! Awesome!" "This is what the fans wanted." -DJ Welch and Alan Becker, while watching the Stick Gang experiment with random blocks in the staff. (Timestamp 0:15)