Minecraft:The First Night

The First Night is the premiere episode of Minecraft Mini-Series, introducing the cast of the first season and the overall premise with a take on a game of survival.

Summary

CommuniKate introduces the show by introducing herself, traveling across a railway, the forest by Minecraft:horse, and sea on Minecraft:boat. In each location, Zed suffers an injury. Upon reaching a desired spot in the forest, she uses a command block to spawn the teams and explains the objective of the game, as Zed hands out marked maps. Immediately, conflict brews as Quinn discovers that her belongings were withdrawn by CommuniKate, In spite of this, Durango remains excited and runs off to fulfill his greed.

Rudi asks Sacha to craft a Minecraft:bed, who hesitates before a creeper attacks them. Meanwhile, River helps a sheep down from an Minecraft:andesite ledge. As the focus returns to Team Tundra, they engage in hunting down a chicken, as Rudi discovers a mineshaft. Unfortunately, as CommuniKate eagerly points out, the sun is setting on the island, as a skeleton appears to try killing Rudi and Sacha.

The scene cuts to Toby, trying to punch down a birch with his fists, collecting his tenth birch log. Using the wood source, Quinn crafts several ladders. However, several zombies appear, Quinn sarcastically asking if Toby invited them, leading to a confused back and forth where he thinks she was being serious. Climbing up into a cave with the ladders, Team Stone Beach escapes.

Meanwhile, River and Durango are wandering through the woods, struggling to see anything. In spite of several monsters appearing, Durango runs casually. River ends up trying to fight the incoming zombies with a wooden sword, but can only bring herself to waggle it. After killing a skeleton, Durango is trampled by several zombies, seguing into the first interview segment of the show where he claims he "saw [them] coming!" They ultimately manage to escape the zombies by hiding in a hole under the grass.

In the morning, the contestants begin to emerge from their hiding places. Team Stone Beach slept in a cave. Team Tundra boarded up the mineshaft. Team Mooshroom hid inside a huge mushroom. Durango digs his way out of the Minecraft:dirt, apparently using his head, as does River and her head. Team Woodland emerges from out of nowhere, their solution to the nighttime problem unclear, and strike a conversation with Team Tundra. River begins wondering if the reward would be a Minecraft:poppy, Durango disagrees saying it must be gold or Minecraft:steak or "steak served on gold." However, he quickly notices that they've reached the destination, rushing up to a Sanctuary on the beach.

Having won the challenge, CommuniKate congratulates Team Mesa, mistaking them for Team Woodland. Coming in at second place is Team Mooshroom, Slugger sliding in on her face, and gets yelled at for thinking she won. After being handed their rewards, CommuniKate makes it clear that this was all only the first of several challenges, as the weight of what she's done to the contestants sets in. All they've done is give Team Mesa five points. CommuniKate proceeds to promise "everything you want!" as she reveals the Sanctuary is full of valuable objects, before promptly destroying it. As the episode wraps up, CommuniKate gives them the new objective of preparing for the rest of what's to come, as Sacha chases after another chicken, as does Durango.

Quotes

External

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Thrust into a reality game show, ten players paired up in teams of two must survive their first night on an island of hostile mobs.

Internal

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Greetings fellow lovers of exploration and adventure! I'm your host, Communi-KATE.

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H-Huh? What in the-?!

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TUH BE CLEAR, I saw the Minecraft:zombies coming! River distracted me, though. Ha! She was, TOTALLY freakin' out! HAHA!

Credits

Written by

• Steve Rolston

Featuring the voices of

• Lydia Winters
• Kyle Rideout
• Rebecca Shoichet
• Sarah Edmondson
• Omari Newton
• Diana Kaarina
• Cathy Weseluck
• Bill Newton

Voice Director

• Terry Klassen

Executive Producer

• Christopher Keenan

Head of Production

• Shannon Nettleton

Supervising Producer

• Matthew Drdek

Creative Supervision

• Scott Hart Deman

Line Producer

• Vera M. Hourani

Production Manager

• Susan Shi

Animation Production by

• Atomic Cartoons

Director

• Steve Rolston

Line Producer

• Steven L. Grover

Executive Producer for Atomic Cartoons

• Jennifer McCarron

Animation Supervisor

• Barry Karnowski

CG Supervisor

• Tim Llewllyn

Music by

• Dave Corman
• Ian Prince

Senior Post Production Manager

• Sonia Meza-Leon

Post Production Supervisors

• David Gordon
• Brittney Sherman

Post Production Coordinator

• Angela Robinson Wheaton

Post Production Assistant

• K. Dawson Yukon

Special Thanks

• Amanda Ström
• Nicolette Suraga
• Filip Thoms
• Lydia Winters

Trivia

• Sacha's quote "don't axe don't tell" during the conversation with Vin is a reference to the controversial Template:Wikipedia policy employed by the United States government, which discouraged harassment towards non-heterosexual service members while also disbarring any from openly serving.
• CommuniKate's vulnerable fear of chickens is foreshadowed/established by her jumping away from one at the end of the episode.
• When the episode was released, a link to it was released on Minecraft.net, disguised as an article.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Errors

• While trying to survive, Durango uses a wooden sword to block, and before that Zed's boat breaks into several pieces. These mechanics had been removed prior to the video releasing, as well as before it was conceived.
  • In the same scene as the sword block, a skeleton drops a bizarre looking bow, seemingly displaying several frames of animation overlaid on top of each other.
• The "rewards" at the end of the episode consist of then-normal looking golden sword and axe, and corrupted textures for golden shovel and pickaxe. In the second shot featuring the items, the axe is also messed up.

Gallery

• The first shot of the show.
  The first shot of the show.
• The first shot of CommuniKate.
  The first shot of CommuniKate.
• The first look at Durango and River.
  The first look at Durango and River.
• The first look at Quinn and Toby.
  The first look at Quinn and Toby.
• The first look at Eve and Vin.
  The first look at Eve and Vin.
• The first look at Slugger and Mo.
  The first look at Slugger and Mo.
• The first look at Sacha and Rudi.
  The first look at Sacha and Rudi.
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• The hosts in a mineshaft.
  The hosts in a mineshaft.
• The hosts on horses.
  The hosts on horses.
• CommuniKate on a boat.
  CommuniKate on a boat.
• CommuniKate and Zed.
  CommuniKate and Zed.
• The reveal of the command block.
  The reveal of the command block.
• Zed handing out maps.
  Zed handing out maps.
• CommuniKate congratulating Team Mesa.
  CommuniKate congratulating Team Mesa.

References

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