Lush Caves is the 24th episode of the Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts series, being the 5th installment of Season 3.
Synopsis[]
Orange and Red meet someone deep in a cave. And it's not a warden.
Plot[]
After being teleported to a desert, The Second Coming and Red walk through the desert to find a way out. After walking for a long time, Red starves and sits down. The Second Coming tells Red that he's acting like a baby. Red states both of them will starve to death if they don't do anything. The two argue on who was at fault for getting themselves in their current situation. The Second Coming insisted that they should've gone straight home so that no one would've gotten hurt or died. Red complains that they wouldn't have had fun otherwise and that continuing to stay at ALANSPC is way too boring. The Second Coming blames Red, saying that because of him, they got separated from Blue, Yellow, and Green, and don't know where they are. Red blames The Second Coming, saying they got separated because The Second Coming was the one that suggested combining three beacons to transport them to other Minecraft worlds, and now they're lost and separated. Angered by Red's accusation, The Second Coming attacks Red and the two start to fight with each other, ignoring the fact that they are starving. The fight takes place when it slowly turns into nighttime and hostile mobs appear and start to attack the two stick figures as well. The two manage to not only manage to kill the mobs while fighting each other but even start using the mobs as offensive weapons by hurling or shoving them at each other.
While they're fighting, Red runs at an azalea tree, and just as The Second Coming charges at him the ground gave way, and they both fell into a lush cave. However, the two are unfazed by this and continue to fight, tumbling through different caves like an amethyst geode and an aquifer.
They came to a mineshaft and fought in the minecart as it barreled down a set of tracks. Eventually, the tracks ended, upsetting the minecart and dumping Red and The Second Coming into an underground pool of water. The two continue the fight by yanking each other's legs as they swim for the surface through glow squid and schools of axolotls. After emerging from the pool, The Second Coming pursued Red up some conveniently placed dripstone leaves, until they reached a mineshaft bridge, when The Second Coming finally caught up to Red, pinned him down, and began to punch him.
But just then, the two notice their surroundings for the first time and realize that they are in a cave and stop fighting. The Second Coming realized that if they had gone straight home, they wouldn't have seen the beautiful wonders of the cave and decides that Red was right. The Second Coming picks a bright golden glow berry from a nearby vine and gives it to Red, who gobbles it down. (In the full season 3 release, The Second Coming eats a glow berry as well.) The two share a moment admiring the beauty of the cave until a player character in iron armor shows up and sees the two stick figures, whose name is alexcrafter28.
Understandably confused by the presence of stick figures in Minecraft, he tries to attack the two with a bow and arrow, but Red easily catches the arrows and throws them away. The two stick figures soon realize that there's a desktop behind the player's head, represented by a projection.
The two go through it, getting into the player's desktop. The player pauses the game and tries to catch the two on the desktop, but they easily get out by sending an email to Alan Becker with them included inside of it and gets into Alan's PC. Soon after they return home, they see Purple coming out of the portal. He was just getting ready to get the Master Block when he notices the two and is very shocked to see them. To be continued...
Credits[]
Animators
- terkoiz
- Shuriken255
- Kayal
- Activeframe
- YasHGG
- hexal
- Able Rai
- Fav
- oxob3000
- CoreAdro
- Doumaki
- Fox
- Kursura
- JasontheBoring
Sound Design
- Alexander Samarov
- Pepper
- Egor
Backgrounds
- Shuriken255
- WingSun
- Ellis02
Desktop BG
- SolidTheCat
Music
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
Antagonists[]
Other characters[]
- Blue (through visual conversation)
- Green (through visual conversation)
- Yellow (through visual conversation)
- Hostile Mobs
- alexcrafter28 (debut)
Trivia[]
- At the time of the episode's release, the new cave generation, including lush caves, was not yet finalized and available only through a data pack for testing.
- This is the first episode to feature a player character: alexcrafter28.
- Red is to blame for the situation. The Second Coming was rightfully suspicious of Purple's portal, and Red glanced at, and then ran over to, the teleport beacon before The Second Coming, indicating that Red came up with the very idea he blamed The Second Coming for coming up with.
- This is the only episode in Season 3 that does not take place in the Nether at any point.
- Coincidentally, when alexcrafter28 google searches about The Second Coming and Red, one of the search results is the Red page on this wiki, along with a few photos of The Second Coming, King Orange, etc.
- The "Previously..." segment at the start of the video and the credits at the end were later removed, however they can still be viewed here.
Errors[]
- There is a scrapped version of King Orange's staff (Yellow's current staff) in the Previously section. It had the texture of a crimson fence.
- However, the Previously section was later removed.
- When Red looks at The Second Coming taking the glow berries that came from the nearby vine, he is not animated.
- This error is fixed in the full Season 3 release.
- In the original animation, The Second Coming gives the glow berries to Red and eats none himself. In the full Season 3 release, the animation is updated - The Second Coming now gives Red only one of the berries, while he eats the other one himself.
- However, in that same scene, when The Second Coming eats a glow berry with his back to the viewers, his hand can be seen holding the glow berry, even though his hand isn't supposed to be visible through his head.
Original episode - Glow berry errors: The Second Coming gives the whole berries to Red, instead of sharing.
Full series + Real time - Glow berry errors: The Second Coming's hand can be seen through his head, even though his hand isn't supposed to be seen through his head.
- When the screen first cuts to alexcrafter28's desktop, his UI doesn't show the armor bar, despite him wearing full iron armor.
- This error is fixed in the full Season 3 release, but reappears in the real time Season 3 release when the inbox taskbar opens.
Original episode + Real time - UI errors: alexcrafter28's UI doesn't show an armor bar, despite him having full iron armor equipped.
- Blue's food have been moved around. Look at the table. Something feels off, right? Not only is the food from the bowls on the table again, but the cake and a baked potato have been vanished and a random meat item is at the crafting table, though it wasn't there previously.
- This similar thing happened in The Piglin War: Blue's food have all been moved around when Red was checking the mess.
Lush Caves: The melons, cooked chicken, and cooked pork chop are back on the table in their bowls. Also the cake and a baked potato are missing.
