[[File:Minecraft Experience Villager Rescue Logo.png|thumb|Logo]]
[[File:Minecraft Experience Key Art.jpg|thumb|Key art]]
'''Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue''' is an in-person interactive event. The first event is currently ongoing in Dallas, Texas, which launched on October 18, 2024, with additional locations planned across the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.[[https://www.minecraftexperience.com www.minecraftexperience.com]]["[https://www.minecraftexperience.com/faq/ FAQ]" on minecraftexperience.com] It was announced on May 29, 2024, the final day of the [[15 Days of Minecraft]].[{{Mcnet|minecraft-experience-villager-rescue|Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue|May 29, 2024|Cristina Anderca}}]
== Experience details ==
The event is an hour long, interactive, in-person adventure where participants in groups of 25 go through a mission and scavenger hunt through multiple ''[[Minecraft]]'' [[Biome|biomes]] and dimensions to rescue [[Villager|villagers]]. Mobs such as [[skeleton]]s and [[creeper]]s can be encountered, ore can be mined, and ingredients can be foraged.[{{cite|url=https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/2024-06-04/experience-multimedia/un-studio-quebecois-a-la-conquete-de-minecraft.php|title=Un studio québécois à la conquête de Minecraft|author=Stéphanie Morin|website=La Presse|date=June 4, 2024}}] The world is created using displays in tall projection walls and floors which can be interacted with using orbs of interaction and foots.[{{ytl|9pF_VGP7NVA|Minecraft Live 2024: Minecraft Experience | Villager Rescue|Minecraft|September 30, 2024}} on YouTube]
=== Walkthrough ===
{{Spoiler Warning|section|Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue}}
==== Entrance / registration ====
The experience begins with employees registering Orbs of Interaction to assigned groups and handing them to guests. Guests are then directed to a video led by Tobin and Dayo, two original characters created specifically for the Minecraft Experience, who explain how to use the Orb of Interaction throughout.
==== Forest ====
The first room guests encounter is the Forest, acting as a temporary holding zone and tutorial area for use of the Orb of Interaction. Two displays allow guests to chop wood and fight mobs (in addition to Tobin and Dayo). Adjacent to the display areas is an interactive floor containing cherry blossoms and randomly spawned apples for guests to collect. Within the room itself are several life-size mobs that guests are able to take photos with (said mobs being two pigs, an Iron Golem, a Creeper, and a Chicken).
''Village Gate''
Near the chicken is a sign that says 'Village' and a gate into the next section, referred to as the 'Village Gate'. An employee prevents guests from entering the Village too early, as three groups of guests are allowed entry into the Forest at a time. Every six minutes, one of the groups' Orbs of Interaction turn green and begin to vibrate, indicating that it is time to move on to the next room.
==== Village ====
Guests enter a room containing an interactive table featuring an illustration of 6 different villages. Guests must interact with the screens to gather resources and build structures within the village. As night falls, a [[zombie siege]] begins, and the villagers become zombified. Tobin and Dayo explain to attendees that they must cure the villagers using a [[splash potion of Weakness]] and a [[golden apple]]. They provide a list of items needed and their respective locations:
* The swamp:
** {{BlockLink|Brown Mushroom}}
** {{ItemLink|Sugar Cane}}
* The snowy biome:
** {{ItemLink|Golden apple}}
** {{ItemLink|Snowball}}
* The underground:
** {{ItemLink|Gunpowder}}
** {{ItemLink|Spider eye}}
* The Nether:
** {{ItemLink|Blaze rod}}
==== Swamp, snowy biome, and ocean ====
Attendees enter a room depicting a swamp, where they collect brown mushrooms and sugar cane by stepping on them. The room then shifts to a snowy biome where they gather snowballs, apples, and golden apples by stepping on items or opening chests. Finally, the room changes once more into an ocean, allowing attendees to open chests to collect gold and diamonds and collect fish that spawn randomly on the floor.
;Mineshaft
Next, attendees enter a room depicting a cave where they must mine blocks. Eventually, an explosion reveals a [[mineshaft]], prompting attendees to fight [[zombie]]s, [[spider]]s, [[skeleton]]s, and [[creeper]]s.
;Nether Portal
Attendees move to a room where they must collect lava and water to make obsidian and build a [[Nether portal]].
;The Nether
Passing through the portal, attendees find themselves in a room depicting [[the Nether]]. They must go to the other side of the room by completing a parkour course over lava and then fight piglins and ghasts using snowballs. After defeating these mobs, they encounter [[blaze]]s in a [[Nether fortress]], also using snowballs to defeat them.
;Brewing
In the final room, attendees place their orbs on crafting tables. Dayo and Toby use the collected items to brew splash potions of Weakness, which they throw at zombie villagers to cure them, marking the end of the experience.
;''Minecraft Experience'' shop
Before leaving, attendees walk through the ''Minecraft Experience'' shop. The shop sells ''Minecraft'' merch and exclusive ''Minecraft Experience'' merch.
=== Orb of interaction ===
An orb of interaction is a glowing cuboid object provided to participants that allows them to interact with the experience. It vibrates, lights up, and changes color depending on the action performed.
{|class="wikitable"
! Image
! Action name
! Description on website
|-
|[[File:Orb of Interaction Pickaxe and Guide.png|100px]]
|[[Pickaxe]]
|Gather resources to utilize in your mission to rescue the villagers.
|-
|[[File:Orb of Interaction Sword.png|100px]]
|[[Sword]]
|Face off against hostile mobs in close combat.
|-
|[[File:Orb of Interaction Build.png|100px]]
|[[Building|Build]]
|Create structures for the villagers.
|-
|[[File:Orb of Interaction Pickaxe and Guide.png|100px]]
|Guide
|Lighting and haptic responses help to guide your journey.
|}
=== Cape ===
[[File:Minecraft Experience Cape Promotional Image.jpg|thumb|Cape promotional image]]
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!'''Name'''
!'''Icon'''
!'''Cape'''
!'''Elytra'''
!'''Texture'''
!'''Notes'''
!'''Rarity'''
|-
|Minecraft Experience Cape
|[[File:CharacterCreatorLBECape.png|80x80px]]
|[[File:MinecraftExperienceCape BE.png|170x170px]]
|[[File:MinecraftExperienceElytra BE.png|152x152px]]
|[[File:MinecraftExperienceVillagerRescue texture BE.png|width=64x64]]
|Guests that get their tickets redeemed at ''Minecraft Experience'' in Plano, Texas are sent a code to their email address that can be redeemed to obtain the cape.
| Legendary
[[File:Rarity_legendary.png|70px]]
|}
== Times, location, pricing ==
The event will take place between October 18, 2024 and January 20, 2025[{{tweet|MinecraftExpIRL|1869079978413002808|Surprise! Minecraft Experience will now be open until JANUARY 20, 2025! 🎇 Tickets are on sale be sure to use the link in our bio! 🎟️|December 17, 2024}}] in Dallas, Texas. Parking will be available at 2712 N. Central Expressway in Plano, Texas.
Tickets bought on weekdays cost $32 USD, while tickets for weekends and holidays cost $42 USD. VIP tickets cost $65 USD.
"Friends & Family Multipack" discounts and "Large Group" discounts are also available.
The rooms are 17x17x17 feet. One block in the experience is 2x2 feet.
{|class="wikitable"
|+ Dallas
! Date
! Open times
! Price
|-
|Mondays
|3pm - 9pm
|$32 USD
|-
| Tuesdays
|Closed
|style="text-align: center;" | N/A
|-
|Wednesdays
|rowspan="2" |3pm - 9pm
|rowspan="3" |$32 USD
|-
|Thursdays
|-
|Fridays
|2pm - 10pm
|-
|Saturdays
|10am - 10pm
|rowspan="2" |$42 USD
|-
|Sundays
|10am - 9pm
|}
== Videos ==
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== Trivia ==
* Officially, this was the last thing announced for the [[15 Days of Minecraft|15th anniversary]] event. However, the following day the [[Minecraft Animated Series|''Minecraft Animated Series'']] was announced, using similar branding.
* While Dallas is the first official stop of the ''Minecraft Experience'' world tour, a beta of the event was held in Montreal on June 17, 2024.[[https://www.linkedin.com/posts/supply-demand-group_aimerais-tu-vivre-un-avant-go%C3%BBt-de-la-future-activity-7206690958858465280-08Vi/ "Nous sommes à la recherche de volontaires pour tester une partie de cette expérience interactive."] – Supply & Demand Studio on LinkedIn, June 12, 2024]
* Attendees were originally supposed to go to [[the End]], but the experience was considered too long and had to be shortened.[{{ytl|t3VeWcl9S4g|7 Hidden Easter Eggs in NEW Minecraft Experience!|Rays Works|October 20, 2024}}]
* During the development of the experience, the producers mistakenly placed a [[silverfish]] in the underwater area, confusing it for an aquatic creature due to its name. It was later removed after [[Craig Leigh]] spotted the mistake.