Minecraft Adding Live Event And DLC Tied To Movie, Complete With Jack Black

With A Minecraft Film headed to theaters on April 4, it ought to come as no shock that the sport it is primarily based on is including a bunch of content material linked to the discharge. Minecraft is including downloadable content material from the movie, in addition to a stay occasion and even a free skins pack so you possibly can seem like the film’s characters.

The stay occasion transports you to a customized Minecraft realm that’s the dwelling of Midport Village, the place you work together with the film’s characters, happening missions and incomes unique loot to be used within the sport. The occasion options voiceover from Jack Black, who performs Steve within the movie, and sees the consumer teaming with the characters performed by Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, and Sebastian Hansen to play via a sequence of minigames. The mode additionally options multiplayer motion, so you will not need to face the risks that await alone. If you happen to handle to finish all 5 video games inside the mode, you will earn an unique merchandise, the Yearn cape.

The occasion, which was introduced throughout Minecraft Reside, launches on March 25 at 3 PM PT/6 PM ET and runs till April 7 on the similar time.

Along with the stay occasion, there’s loads of free downloadables ready for you within the sport on March 25. Firstly, a choice of skins primarily based on the film’s heroes is accessible for obtain, permitting you to decorate your character up as Jack Black’s model of Steve, or the characters performed by Momoa, Myers, Brooks, and Hansen. And sure, which means you possibly can put on the candy pink jacket–complete with fringe–that Jason Momoa is sporting within the film’s trailers. In fact, it is fairly a much more pixelated model. That is Minecraft, in any case.

Lastly, there’s a DLC world obtainable for many who wish to dig deeper into the motion of the film. It is free within the Market, identical to the skins, and consists of issues like elytra races, surviving the night time challenges, and even being given the duty of sneaking right into a woodland mansion. The DLC may be performed alone or with pals.

The stay motion A Minecraft Film hits theaters April 4. Additionally within the works is an animated sequence, introduced final yr by Netflix. That present has no launch date as of but.