A series of three connected Minecraft maps, known for being focused on exploration, and somewhat creepy.
The trilogy consists of:
- The Wizard Burgmund: The protagonist is shipwrecked in a mysterious land where everything is abandoned, and all the clues point towards the castle where the mysterious wizard Burgmund lives.
- The Tree of Life: The protagonist's homeland is being ravaged by drought, famine, and pestilence, so they are dispatched to find the legendary Tree Of Life and bring back one of its magic leaves to heal the land.
- The Return: While the protagonist is returning to their homeland, they are shipwrecked outside the abandoned town of Port Nunos, where they discover a sinister plot that threatens their home.
The series contains examples of:
- Alien Invasion: The Pigmen's invasion of the hometown in The Return is reminiscent of this.
- Battle in the Center of the Mind: The interior of the Mothership in The Return apparently displays Burgmund's thoughts. Or actually is his mind.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Burgmund's records of experimentation with the Pigmen in The Wizard Burgmund are... suggestive, to say the least.
- Evil Is Visceral: The Pigman Pods from The Return have tentacles made of what looks like flesh, and the same stuff coats their interiors. The Mothership is entirely made of the stuff.
- Gotta Catch 'Em All: Loads of secret chests with collectable gold ingots.
- Hell Gate: Burgmund uses Nether portals to summon his Pigman armies.
- Mooks, but no Bosses: The closest it comes to having bosses is the Pigman Pods, which are more like brief platforming challenges and are destroyed by placing a block and flipping a switch.
- One-Winged Angel: Burgmund turns himself into the Pigman Mothership.
- Planet Heck: Part of The Return takes place in the Nether.
- Rule of Three: The 3 keys in The Tree of Life.
- You Can't Fight Fate: In The Tree of Life, The Temple of Trials shows the protagonist that their ship will crash in the arctic during their return journey. This does indeed come to pass. However, it never said they would die in the crash.
