What is Minecraft Earth? Here’s Everything We Know!

And we are back with another look at some of the crazy stuff that’s been announced over the past few weeks with minecraft specifically looking this time at minecraft earth minecraft earth not to be confused with minecon earth which is now minecon live is the mobile only game that is augmented reality

Focused coming out from minecraft and we got to see the first demo of it from wwdc 2019 which is apple’s developers conference during their huge keynote where they released tons of information about apple products we also got to see the first look at what minecraft earth

Looks like and believe me it is pretty darn cool lydia and sax were got up on stage to demo it so we’re going to be looking through uh their demo and i’ll be walking you through all of the important stuff that they may not have even mentioned so we start off with this

Really really cool view of whatever build this is and sax is in the middle of describing the fact that this is a real minecraft world with real minecraft behaviors so the first thing that he does is turn on a bit of redstone so you can see right

Here barely uh that there is a redstone uh there’s a switch and when it he clicks on his screen now we can’t actually see him click on the screen because this is a a capture of his video but you can barely see a player hand right here flip that lever and then that

Lever activates the redstone which will also activate these fireworks in the game we had learned earlier that this is actually bedrock edition of minecraft so all of the behaviors that you expect to happen in minecraft are going to happen in this version of the game we also get

Our first look at lydia over here holding her phone and her phone has kind of been replaced with a bucket of water and that’s because she places the water into the uh into the build so just from the beginning this is what it looks like all together in real time is

Sex clicks the redstone the fireworks goes off you can actually see a little bucket kind of come out of lydia’s bucket and place water then lydia’s tool changes to a pickaxe and she starts destroying the uh the world the build right there with her pickaxe and breaks it apart

Then she switches to cobblestone and starts placing down cobblestone you can see it kind of come out of her phone and being placed on the ground there now let’s go ahead and pause here because we’ve kind of seen some of the world and i want to talk about what

We’re actually seeing on the screen because this is a pretty important we see a little crosshair thing up in the corner we see three dots we see a touch icon and a inventory icon and then we have our hot bar down here we also have a chest and then this which we’ll find

Out this button which looks like an exit button but we’ll find out what that does uh later so on lydia’s screen which we never really actually get to see she must have this same hot bar of items and we can see that it changed to some sort of egg

Looking creature but you can see on uh saks’s version there’s a bow and arrow flint and steel cobblestone flowers seeds bucket and a lydia head so i can imagine with what happens next lydia goes ahead and places herself on top of the cobblestone and it’s lydia’s actual player minecraft player and so

I’m assuming that that player head is the same thing that lydia has over there now they use a feature of that was kind of discussed during apple’s event which is the uh ar uh ability to track motion body motion so lydia goes ahead and waves and her

Character also waves zach says why don’t we trick it with a double wave and lydia double waves and then the character double waves uh as well so now the next thing that we always knew about uh minecraft earth is that you would have build plates so i assume that this is a

Version of a build plate but you can also expand those build plates into like full sized things in some way and so uh sax clicks that little exit icon that we were trying to figure out what it was before and now we get this animation of uh the

Uh of the of the thing going into of the build going into the table then this border coming around them in real life and then the build popping up also to life size so this is just as big as they are and then in a moment lydia will

Fade through the build just there and she’s life-sized so she’s inside of minecraft life-size inside of the build which is pretty darn cool and i assume that this is what you would be expecting uh to have happen if you were in uh if you’re playing this uh in a uh in a

Normal uh situation now sax says something interesting here and i’m gonna go ahead and just turn up the audio so you can hear it you fit right in with the new people occlusion feature like you can fit right into your minecraft world that only works on ios

That only works on ios he says so this people inclusion feature is only going to be an iphone only feature uh there’s a little bit of dead air so i cut it out of the video but what sex does is he switches over to the flowers and he

Clicks them onto the ground and then lydia is behind the flowers so somehow this people inclusion feature is able to tell how far away they are and place things that should be in front of them in front of them so if they’re behind a wall you actually wouldn’t see

Them and if they’re behind flowers you wouldn’t see them and so lydia peeks out from behind these flowers and you can see that it all works which is actually really really cool and they didn’t really mention it all that much the audience i think there’s like one clap like

Like it was it was really weird um but anyway so that’s really neat is that when lydia’s in the game or anyone’s in the game that if there is an item in front of them they’re not gonna you’re not gonna see them like an x-ray vision through the wall wherever

They’re they’re hanging out he goes ahead and breaks that uh that uh thing and lydia just interacts and now we’ve kind of gotten into the goofiness of uh of the rest of this they uh uh spawn a whole bunch of chickens then sacks put seeds in his hand so that

The chickens will come to him you can see that this is actually happening in real time on the stage and that there’s those chickens there and then they talk about tnt and how lydia’s going to pull the tnt and you also get a little bit of a view

Of sort of this interaction feature it seems like whenever they want to interact with the world and not mine up the world they switched to this uh this like a finger pointing icon and when they want to interact and pick up they switch to the inventory icon totally a guess there

But there we go there’s an explosion and these chickens fall in and whatnot and i almost wish that explosion had destroyed the blocks that lydia is standing on because what would happen how does can lydia walk forward and then fall into into this crevice or if she starts to

Walk is she just going to float around i’m i’m so confused as to what happens here when there’s a a big cave system under them and uh and and you’re walking around in real life i’m so confused as to what actually would happen uh in that situation then

They go in and fight some skeletons he accidentally kills a chicken uh to begin with which is uh kind of hilarious uh and that cursor that uh little cursor pops up as long as he has the uh bow and arrow in his inventory so it goes away

The moment he switches to flint and steel then he does something interesting which is lighting uh fires inside of the cave and he mentions how big the cave goes uh but he is so far away like he is way far away from the uh where he lights the

Fires like that’s that wouldn’t be possible in minecraft uh because of just how far that distance is but to be honest it kind of makes sense why you would have such a huge reach and that is because normally this would be a augmented a tiny little augmented

Reality built and of course you could reach everywhere you could reach everywhere like of course like that’s just part of the game mechanic of playing with this augmented reality build is that you can reach anywhere in it because you’re a weird god creature that floats everywhere so the fact that

He’s in this life-size mode and can reach as far as he does i guess does make sense because all you have to do is i mean it’s just breaking it’s just taking out the step of making this build small again um so he reaches out and he

Uh lights up the cave now we see two pigs uh kind of pop by uh sacks here and these pigs are a little bit dirty but they aim for this mud over here they jump in the mud and they become that little mug mud pig

That we’ve kind of seen in a lot of the press uh around this game so this first pig he’s kind of getting dirty and then he gets uh dirty and he has a little flower on his head and a little bit of mud on his head as well then the demo

Ends with a creeper explosion and they all die like you would expect uh so not a ton we didn’t learn uh an absolute like crazy amount of information um but we have finally got to see it in real life uh we can kind of understand all the things that are

Happening uh with the uh with the app and whatnot and we get a better idea of the build plates in how you can blow them up to life size and whatnot so i think that it’s a pretty cool uh look at what minecraft earth will be my main question for you guys is

Now that you have seen a little demo a bit itty-bitty demo does this make you more excited or less excited about minecraft earth because i’ll be honest for me i feel like i’m a little bit less excited about minecraft earth this seems almost tedious and how much uh you would have to

Kind of move around your build in order uh to make it uh although this may not be everything that is included in minecraft earth so all right so there could be even you know that we still haven’t seen any of the questing we haven’t seen any of the loot

Pickups we haven’t seen any of that we’ve only seen this build uh sort of situation uh which is pretty cool i mean i’ll be honest it’s pretty neat but i will say that it uh it almost takes away from um the whole experience it’s like it looks like oh it looks like complicated

Uh to me like i don’t know if i’d actually want to play a game this way although i you know what i’ll admit people said it about the wii and people said that about uh virtual reality so maybe i’m just old and commodity so let me know what you think in the comments

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