A Minecraft Tale of Two Villages

A Minecraft Tale of Two Villages is a trailer promoting the Minecraft Education map of the same name.

The video opens on the border between a mainland of villagers and a small island with illagers and a ravager as both peoples argue. In order to stop the fight, the agent in between digs a canal, allowing the illager island to dry up a little and connect to the mainland as a metaphor of unity. They continue digging between a fisherman and a pillager fighting over a fish, dropping it onto the canal as other fish follow. Back onto the battlefield, a cleric throws toward the illagers their iron shovel which, with the agent's touch, transforms into three sunflowers that land into the ravager's mouth. On a beetroot farm where a farmer and a pillager are next to, the agent harvests a beetroot and gives it to the farmer, who in turns gifts it to the pillager. They then move on to an apple tree where a nitwit struggles to reach the apples. To help them, the agent gets them on a ravager's back, feeding it an apple, before the video shifts to a demonstration of the map.

Announcing our 2020 Hour of Code: A Minecraft Tale of Two Villages! For centuries, the Villagers and Illagers shared the same valley but never managed to get along. Use the power of code to bring the two villages together! Players will experience empathy for their neighbors, learn about cooperation and inclusion, and embrace diversity while taking their first steps into computer science. This login-free lesson is available for anyone on Windows devices, Macs, iPads, or Chromebooks.