major Minecraft movie spoilers inbound Consider this your 5-second warning If you choose to continue watching after this point that is entirely your fault and you need to live with your silly life choices So as many of you know I was in the Minecraft movie Some of you may have recognized me Hopefully many of you didn't because oh my goodness did the costume department and the makeup department do a number on me But as many of you may not know unless you were really committed to reading the credits I also helped with the pre-production of the Minecraft movie doing some idea formulation creating concept Minecraft builds and helping Jared's ridiculous ideas actually function in the game By the way Jared Hess is the director of the Minecraft movie He also directed one of my favorite films Napoleon Dynamite which is why I'm wearing my Mumbo for May t-shirt So let's start things off with Midport Village The first scene that I got from Jared Hess was the crew walking through the village and Steve is pointing out various ridiculous builds that he's constructed And the key here is ridiculous These were meant to be fast visual gags things that the camera can hover on for a couple of seconds as Jack Black announces what it is Confused faces from the crew and then move on Wow the last time I opened this world was nearly 2 years ago Oh yeah I forgot about this thing This is meant to be my lightning powered chicken cooker And yeah as you can see it's impractical It is impractical but it's working well So we've got Brian the house robot who is utterly useless in every single way A little pointless machine that a baby villager could be playing with I think this was a squid juggler but unfortunately yeah squids don't survive very long in this contraption This is the chicken fall which is incredibly morbid I actually put in quotes above this video clip This is the overrun from my chicken farm Thought I'd make a feature of it The lava chicken song would have hit very different if this was actually in the movie The donkeys riding bats experiment chamber Minecraft inside of Minecraft and the infinitely hungry monkey So I guess now's a good time to say you don't recognize any of these builds because that scene got completely changed And to be extremely clear that's the point I was hired as someone who would prototype a ton of builds and a ton of concepts and throw a bunch of ideas at the wall and see if any of them stick in any meaningful way knowing full well that 99.99% of them wouldn't But on the topic of things that stick let's take a look at some Minecraft traps Jared and I were talking on the phone and we were spitballing ideas on how we could use cactus in a trap And Jared said something along the lines of "What if we could just shoot the cactus at someone?" Which I personally found hilarious So then I created these two machines here This one's a nice and simple one Someone walks over the pressure plates and cactus get fired out I also gave this alternative which involves slime blocks and fires the cactus at a much higher velocity And this actually ended up in the movie While they're down in the redstone mines Jason Mamoa steps on a pressure plate activates the cactus launchers and gets absolutely nailed And while I was in New Zealand they allowed me to actually test the magnetic cacti that stick to metal plates that go under your clothing Now after Jason Murray gets hit by a bunch of cactus he then walks onto a slime block and gets launched up into the air Now one thing that we did play around with is Jason Mur being bounced off a ton of different slime block launchers before hitting the ground but the single hit ended up working better I did design a few other traps which were almost meant to get Jason Murray but he kind of just about escapes and I think they work well but definitely the cactus launchers are the most fun non-lethal trap How could piglins fly is how the unexpected phone call from Jared began This was one of my first ideas So we've got a piglin in a boat riding on top of a ghast which to be fair isn't far off what they ended up going for Another option that I came up with is a contraption that equips the piglins with elytra Even though they can't put them on themselves the machine can do it or a personal favorite of mine the Piglin fighter jet Not entirely sure how they could have made this work without really breaking the laws of Minecraft physics but if they had gone full Top Gun with it I think it would have been quite a lot of fun Now Jared did also asked me to build some things that could add some spice to the inner air fight sequence Just to be clear I'm not responsible for the man sandwich nose to toes situation So I created these rings which shoot out fireworks as you go through some groundto-air missiles which could have been activated by one of the crew members that were down on the ground These things are always quite satisfying or a cave with moving barriers Now just before the flying starts there's also a little chase sequence on the ground So I made a few potential non-lethal decoys Uh the first one is little pop-up gold towers which would have distracted the piglins or in a similar vein a little gold vault that the piglins get distracted by go inside of the door closes and then a muffled explosion is heard Again none of this stuff really made it into the movie but it was very very fun to work on I think now is actually a good point to potentially talk about scale because as you can see a lot of the things that I'm constructing here aren't massive These aren't mega builds and that's kind of by design When I was getting the storyboards and when I was speaking with Jared a lot of the builds in this movie are kind of based around the idea of a dedicated Minecraft players personal survival world There's nothing absolutely gargantuan in this There's nothing that looks like it's taken a build team months to create It looks like the sort of world that you and your friends would create And that's kind of the key All of these builds here are for a scene that was in the early version of the script that eventually got changed There was a big minecart chase sequence Jason Mamura and Jack Black get split into different minecarts They're going through different rail systems Redstone traps are being activated Piglins are chasing them It's all incredibly dramatic As I say that scene got massively changed throughout the script writing process but I do still have some of the original builds We've got a fairly conventional minecart rail collapse some TNT minecarts being dispensed and traveling alongside the minecarts before eventually exploding You can imagine the facial expressions there A personal favorite of mine is this Minecraft equivalent of the alligator pit trope but instead of alligators it's puffer fish and you're just gradually being lowered down into it We've got the walls caving in the roof caving in a complete chaos machine and of course a traditional minecart explosion I was also asked to provide a few more regular Minecraft traps and little visual gags that could be included So I thought I would include some of the oldest traps in the game anvil droppers a bridge where a section of it just travels off into the stratosphere another puffer fish trap and in the email I said this could cause a strange fishy puffy explosion I don't know why I wrote that And yeah a few other TNT and little trapdo based bits And now it's time to talk about one of the worst moments of my life To cut a long story short I scheduled a meeting with Jared as I was flying to the Philippines I arrived at my hotel Everything was good up until about 3 minutes before the meeting when the internet dropped out I couldn't join I was about 20 minutes late and even when I did join my connection was so bad that nobody could hear me and I couldn't hear them It's been over a year since this happened and I still think about it quite frequently Thankfully Jared and all the producers that were there in the meeting were fine with it and they sent me over the storyboard and a brief summary of what they wanted me to build So for those of you who have seen the movie there's a big battle at the end And Jared wanted me to build a gigantic walking piglin Trojan horse And this is what I created As you can see it matches up quite nicely with the proportions that were sent to me in the storyboard I even included a little piglin for scale And this is what it looks like as it's moving As you can see it's got this really cool sequence through the body It's almost like a rippling effect And then it's got these huge stomping feet It was so fun to work on this thing This was one of the first and only big things that I made for the movie but sadly they just couldn't quite make the scene work and it was changed before they even started filming So the gigantic piglin bot never quite managed to make it into the film However it's not all bad though After building the gigantic piglin bot it then inspired me to make a video on how to make gigantic slime block and honey blockbased machines which finished with large scale legs and massive flying machine And I think this video has had the highest conversion rate of people watching it and then sending me their finished builds out of any Redstone video I think I've made on my channel And that makes me incredibly happy and it was weirdly indirectly because of the Minecraft movie So firstly I just want to say a huge thank you to Jared Hess himself for actually trusting me with this and allowing me to build things for the movie It was an incredible experience Thank you to Torphy for reaching out and getting me involved in this project Thank you to all of the people involved in the Minecraft movie for bringing some of those ideas to reality And thank you to all of the people watching who have put me in a position where people like that would even consider asking me to do something like this That is still completely wild to me So uh yeah thanks for watching and I'll catch you in the next one See you