Referenced By / Minecraft

As one of the most popular video games of all time, it's little wonder that references to Minecraft would crop up in various other works of fiction.

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Anime and Manga

• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: In Chapter 82.5, when Haharmes presents a Diamond Axe to the woodcutter, he outright questions if this is Minecraft.
• Chapter 270 of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War takes place almost entirely on a Winecraft server. One character is even shown using an elytra. The first episode of season 3 also has a brief shot of Ishigami having a VTuber's Minecraft stream running while he plays Apex Legends.
• Sgt. Frog: One chapter has both the Hinata household and Natsumi turned into blocky versions of themselves, much to the latter's distress, due to one of Keroro's schemes.

Asian Animation

• SEER: The Season 10 intro depicts the characters in the signature blocky art style of Minecraft and puts them in a world that greatly resembles the kinds you'd see in the game.

Fan Works

• PreCure in a Nutshell: Cure Diamond's parody name is Cure Minecraft.

Film — Live-Action

• Ready Player One (2018)'s opening sequence has a multitude of different game worlds in the OASIS passing by the camera, Minecraft World being one of them.

Literature

• A Boy Made of Blocks is about an autistic boy and his father bonding over Minecraft.
• In Harmony (2016), Tilly and Iris used to be fans of Minecraft. Tilly would make obscene signs and Iris would take them down, or they would do ridiculous things and then put each other in jail for it.
• The Roosevelt: During one of Emmet's early texts to Jeremey in Carry the Ocean, he says that he likes Minecraft, but not on the server, because he doesn't like to shoot things.
• Both Can Be True: When Ash is about to bike fifteen miles to take Chewbarka to Daniel's dad's apartment, they tell their mom they'll be playing Minecraft with Griffey all day.

Live-Action TV

• The Muppets Mayhem: Episode 8 features the Electric Mayhem performing a virtual concert in Minecraft.
• Sesame Street: In Episode 4619, Cookie Monster plays Mecraft: Cookie Edition on his phone.

Video Games

• AI: The Somnium Files has ShovelForge, an unapologetic Bland-Name Product of Minecraft that is often played in Let's Play videos hosted by teen idol A-set. You eventually see it for yourself as her Somnium, with Aiba's avatar changed into the familiar Minecraft-style blocky presence to reflect it.
• The Binding of Isaac:
  • Notched Axe is an active item in the game that looks like an iron pickaxe. Repentance updated the item to resemble what it's based on more closely; it now has a durability system and can be swung as a weapon. If combined with the Book of Virtues, it spawns friendly wisps themed around coal, iron, gold, redstone, and diamond that have thematic effects. With Judas' Birthright, it gains the enchantment glow overlay and gains effects themed after Efficiency, Fire Aspect, Knockback, Fortune, and Unbreaking.
  • Mine Crafter drops a detonatable TNT barrel. In Repentance, the barrel was even updated to look like a square TNT block.
• In Borderlands 2 there is a small cave in the Caustic Caverns. It is made of cubic dirt blocks and stone blocks identical to those in Minecraft, and even contains coal, gold, and possibly rare Eridium ore blocks that will drop ammo, money, and Eridium respectively if you break them via melee attack. Enemy Creepers appear here, and they can drop Minecraft-themed cosmetics and weapons.
• BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm: In the prologue, one of the sailors on the ship hails from Minecraft. Later on, after the shipwreck, you find him on the beach doing exactly what you’d expect a lost Minecrafter to be doing: punching a tree to collect wood. He soon runs off to join the other survivors, but in true Minecraft fashion, the top of that tree remains floating in midair for the rest of the game.
• Chapter 2 of Deltarune features two mentions of a game called Minecrap that apparently includes minable "bubsidian" that can be used to make a multicolor dog; the name "Minecrap" further references Mike Matei's infamous Minecraft With Gadget.
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: The Notched Pickaxe, named for Notch, is an Easter Egg item that can be found at the very top of the tallest mountain in the game.
• The fourth game in the Epic Battle Fantasy series has multiple Minecraft references.
  • An NPC in Crystal Caverns tells the party never to dig straight up or down, which reminds Lance of a mining trip ruined by spiders and exploding monsters.
  • Later, Whitefall Town has a snow creeper near the weapons shop. Interacting with it with Lance in the first slot causes him to have a Heroic BSoD.
  • Bullet Heaven 2 reveals that both of the above are because Lance's father was blown up by a creeper, leaving only his shovel, some wood, and a chunk of coal.
• Garry's Mod has a graphics option called "Minecraftify", available in the Context Menu. It pixelates all of the in-game textures, just as the name would lead you to think.
• In Going Under, Diamond Pickaxes can be equipped as weapons in Styxcoin, a cryptocurrency-themed Wacky Startup Workplace-turned-dungeon, as a souped-up variant of the standard Pickaxe.
• In Infinite Craft, "Minecraft" is a possible crafting recipe.
• Knights of Pen and Paper 2: A Diamond Pickaxe can appear in the Nearby Cave dungeon.
• One of the mook types in Magicka's "The Stars are Left" DLC are Endermen. They look similar and fight almost similarly too including usage of Teleport Spam... and they will One-Hit Kill your mages if they get into melee range.
• Piratez: One researchable tech is literally called Minecraft. It leads to a mining facility, doh.
• Minecraft canonically exists in Life Is Strange 2, and Daniel has hundreds of hours on it.
• The Stanley Parable not only references it, but actually drops the player into the world of Minecraft at one point.
• "Mr. Minecraft" is a playable character in Super Meat Boy.
• Terraria
  • The game has several Title messages for the bar on top of the window. Chosen at random when the player opens the game or clicks the language button. One of those messages is "Also try Minecraft".
  • One of many special cosmetic outfits that can be obtained during Halloween is a Creeper costume.
• There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension: Minecraft appears as a "Ninecraft" Brand X in chapter two.
• Torchlight II has an area called "Notch's Mine" where the only enemies in there are Creepers that look exactly like those in Minecraft and blow up. There's also a chest inside that contains a random minecraft sword (ranges from Wood to Diamond).

Web Original

• SCP Foundation:
  • SCP-4335 is a shadowy figure originating from an Another Dimension who tried to visit Earth to destroy it, but accidentally dropped into a Minecraft server and the foundation's job is to keep it inside the game. The Foundation's attempts to contain it eventually lead Mojang to introduce non-anomalous versions of its spawn into the game as a mob, which we all now know as the "Enderman".
  • SCP-4645 is a computer terminal that writes high demands with benign threats in comparison in a text editor document. In one example, it demanded the residents of some sites to be demolished or everyone's Minecraft accounts will be deleted.
  • SCP-6468 is a Minecraft potion called "pvp potion by dado", if a player drinks it their right index finger starts to vibrate at a rate of 200 Hz in real life.

Web Video

• Dark Secrets of Garry's Mod: Minecraft locations and items appear sometimes in the series. Most notable is a Running Gag where a creeper yells "FUCK YOU" before exploding.
• The first episode of FU DW opens with the narrator saying "Arthur Read is building a model airplane, because it's 1999 and Minecraft won't exist for another ten years."
• Hollywood News Agency: In LEGO Kritika (LEGO Critique), Gergely Szirmai shouts a Big "NO!" in reaction to people comparing LEGO and Minecraft together and rants about why they are not comparable at all.
• Minecraft With Gadget, a video made by Mike Matei as an April Fools joke, has him playing the game with Inspector Gadget. (For the longest time, Mike considered the video an Old Shame and would take down any reuploads of it. It wasn't until some time after SiIvaGunner brought it back into public consciousness that he relented.)
• Stupid Kids:
  • Wongie's shirt has a creeper's face.
  • Boti and Dani use a Minecraft stone and shears in their Rock–Paper–Scissors game in Boldogat és még boldogabbat (Merry and even more).
  • DaniGamer001 is an entire Take That! towards the YouTube Minecraft Let's Play community; especially the Hungarians.
• Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Steve appears as a supporting character and Plucky Comic Relief who is obsessed with chickens. Other Minecraft characters, elements and settings often appear in the series.
• An episode of SuperMarioLogan is entitled Jeffy Plays Minecraft!. In this episode, Jeffy plays the titular video game because Mario doesn't want to play with him. When he smashes a lamp with a pickaxe, Mario finds out that he learned it from playing Minecraft, then he pins the blame on the game and gets it banned.

Western Animation

• Caillou has a video game called "Dig and Build", which involves collecting resources and building things in a cubic world.
• An early pitch trailer for The Raccoons: The New Adventures updates the video game that Cyril plays in the original show's introduction into a Minecraft-styled game.
• The Rick and Morty episode "The Rickchurian Mortydate" has the duo playing the game. When they stop, Rick says that "South Park did it four years ago" in reference to "Informative Murder Porn". (Incredibly, both "The Rickchurian Mortydate" and "Informative Murder Porn" aired on October 2nd, exactly four years apart.)
• An episode of The Simpsons had Bart force Homer to take him to a "Cubecraft" convention.
• The South Park episode "Informative Murder Porn" has the kids' parents get addicted to the game.

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