The series, blending Minecraft characters and features with "the crazy and emotionally angst filled life of today's preteen", focuses on the Slice of Life of then-12-year-old Zombie the zombie, who deals with his conflicts with parents and classmates, pastime of scaring off villagers, adventures in the Minecraft world with his friends: Skelee the skeleton, Slimee the slime, Creepy the Creeper, and Steve the human, and how it feels to be a Minecraft zombie.
In other words, Diary of a Wimpy Kid IN MINECRAFT!note
See also Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior and Gameknight999, which are also published Minecraft fanfic series (and the former is inspired by Diary of a Wimpy Kid too).
Books released so far:
- A Scare of a Dare
- Bullies and Buddies
- When Nature Calls
- Zombie Swap
- School Daze
- Zombie Goes to Camp
- Zombie Family Reunion
- Back to Scare School
- Zombie's Birthday Apocalypse
- One Bad Apple
- Insides Out
- Pixelmon Gone!
- Friday Night Frights
- Cloudy with a Chance of Apocalypse
- Attack of the Gnomes
- Down the Drain
- Zombie's Excellent Adventure
- In Too Deep
The series provides examples of:
- Action Girlfriend: Sally the zombie, Zombie's "ghoulfriend", who was brave enough to face an Iron Golem once.
- Bland-Name Product: In When Nature Calls, there's Creepy World, Zombie Minion Madness Ride, and It's a Small Zombie World.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: From Down the Drain:It's just that, when it's dark I feel like something in the dark is gonna get me.You know...something like...Or a CLOWN DOLL!
- Camping Episode: Zombie Goes to Camp
- Captain Ersatz: In Down the Drain, there's Marco, Loogi, and Sushi (Yoshi).
- Crossover: Captain Ersatz kind.
- Pixelmon Gone! with Pokémon.
- Down the Drain with Super Mario Bros..
- A Dog Named "Dog": Subverted with Zombie, a zombie. His full name is Zackary Julius Zombie, but he is often referred to by last name.
- Lampshaded in School Daze:Steve: Why did you parents name you Zombie? Why didn't they call you 'Joe' or 'Edgar' or something like that?Zombie: Zombie is not my real name. That's just a nickname people call me. My real name is Zack. Zack Zombie.
- Played straight with "a kid named Zombie Zombie".
- Lampshaded in School Daze:
- Fictional Counterpart: The Great Zombie Canyon.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: Zombie Swap has Zombie and Steve swapping bodies and learning how live lives as their opposite species.
- Friendly Zombie: Zombie is rather benevolent and not that different from humans, making good friends with Steve. Though he scares Villagers, he doesn't harm them, though they misunderstand him.
- Great Offscreen War: The most recent Zombie Apocalypse, which was fought by the zombies in the Grand Zombie Canyon. Zombie's ancestor Remus fought in it.
- Jerk Jock: Jeff the zombie, who keeps boasting about his accomplishments and how they are better than Zombie's.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": Zombie's friends include Skelee the skeleton, Slimee the slime, and Creepy the Creeper.
- Nervous Wreck: Creepy, who is easily anxious and tends to shake a lot and hiss a lot, fortunately never to the point of explosion. In Bullies and Buddies, he had to stay home for a day after a traumatic encounter with the villagers.
- Nose Nuggets: From Bullies and Buddies:Well in the middle of Sally talking to me, I think I made her mad.Maybe it was because I started picking my nose cavity while she was talking.Or, maybe it was because I was flinging my boogers in to the air while she talked.Or, maybe it was because I found a really big booger that was connected to a long string of snot.Or, maybe it was because I took that really big booger with snot attached to it, and ate it.But I think the reason she really got mad at me was because I didn't share any with her.
- Only One Name: Steve doesn't know his last name.
- Peek-a-Bogeyman: Zombie's favorite pastime is scaring Villagers, but not harming them.
- Security Blanket: Even though he's a teenager, Zombie still can't sleep without the nightlight, blanky, and his stuffed Minecraft pig Mr. Cuddles.
- Time Travel Episode: Zombie's Excellent Adventure has Zombie and Steve traveling back in time to restore the previous Minecraft update after the recent update Goes Horribly Wrong and corrupts the Overworld.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Zombie likes cake a lot.
- Xenofiction: The books give the viewpoint of a Minecraft zombie behind "the dead expression that we normally see" and if zombies are really different from humans.
- Zombie Apocalypse: Except it's viewed as the Great Offscreen War to zombies.
