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Minecraft Endventures was an animation series on Willcraft Animations' channel. The series is about a group of players that are trying to survive an enderman revolution started by the evil Endermaster.
In December 2019, Willcraft announced on his now-deleted Discord server that the series was cancelled in 2018, but uploaded a video explaining the remaining plot after Episode 12 and also showed the animation work he did for Episode 13 on July 2, 2021.
Story[]
Colin, an average Minecraft player, lives with his pig Porkey far away from civilization in a forest. One day, they are suddenly attacked by a group of endermen without any provocation and later meet a cowardly inventor named Red Stone. Red used to live in the Main City for players, which is now destroyed by the ender dragon which somehow had gotten into the overworld. They soon learn that all of the chaos is caused by the mighty Endermaster, emperor and usurper of the End. Together, with an additional ally, Shadow, they try to stop the Endermaster and restore order to the world.
They are later joined by three mobs named Click-Clack, Nobraynes, and Boom, whom they have a strong hatred for the endermen as they also attack other monsters aside from humans. The group venture to other places that are safe from the endermen and meet other people along the way. Hardships are faced however, but the group carries on and they would go after valuable materials in hopes of standing a good chance. During their quest, they face losses and end up going into the Nether where they come across an unlikely ally who wants to help them to hopefully win the war and restore peace to the overworld.
Characters and Episodes[]
† - Indicates that the character died during the series
Main Characters[]
- Colin - The main protagonist.
- Porkey† - The deuteragonist, Colin's pet and trusted friend and companion.
- Red - The tritagonist, a cowardly but skilled and intelligent inventor.
- Shadow - The tetartagonist, a half-enderman assassin.
- Click-Clack - A skilled skeleton archer and comic relief character.
- Nobraynes - A dumb zombie and a comic relief character.
- The Endermaster - The main antagonist, a powerful entity that controls all the endermen and the ender dragon.
Supporting Characters[]
- Endreai† - The quaternary antagonist, the Endermaster's blockheaded general and former friend.
- The Triplets - The quinary antagonists, three cunning enderman siblings.
- Wrecker - The secondary antagonist, a dangerous and sadistic but incredibly strong enderman general.
- The Crazy Witch - A local witch that helped the group in one episode and gave them a nearly incomprehensible prediction about the future.
- Boom† - A friend of Click-Clack and Nobraynes that died shortly after his initial appearance.
- Endaria - The tertiary antagonist, the Enderdragon's biological daughter. Later adopted by the Endermaster upon her birth.
- Rebel Leader† - The leader of a city of rebels and resistance fighters.
- Katie† - One of the rebels in the Rebel City and was a supporting character for most of Episode 13, but eventually joins the Endermen and becomes an Antagonist.
- Decay - The supposed leader of the Nether who plans to plunge the overworld into hell. He is also an unlikely ally for the human group when they want to fight the Endermaster.
Episodes[]
Note: Episodes 1-6 are considered uncanon.
2012[]
- Episode 1 - The Beginning of the End: A human and Porkey are attacked by an enderman general and his endermen.
- Episode 2 - The Dark Lord: The Endermaster is revealed, a stranger joins the group, Endreai's name is revealed, and the human's house is destroyed.
- Episode 3 - A New Ally: Colin and Red's names are revealed, and an assassin joins the group.
- Episode 4 - A Poisonous Conversion: Shadow's name is revealed, and the Endermaster tries to turn Shadow into an enderman using a potion, but seems to fail.
- Episode 5 - A Creepy Chase: The group finds a map that shows the way to the rebellion city. It is stolen by the triplets and a pack of bribed creepers. Shadow is reacting to the potion and leaves the group, falling to the floor shortly after this.
2013[]
- Episode 6 - Shadow's Identity Crisis: Wrecker finds and tries to kill the group with his troop of endermen, but fails when they are saved by Shadow in his enderman form. Colin falls into a trap together with Porkey and Red is kidnapped by a skeleton, zombie, and creeper.
- Episode 7 - Witchcraft: Click-Clack, Nobraynes and Boom's names are revealed and join the group. Shadow is cured by the witch and she tells them her prophecy. Boom kills himself when protecting Nobraynes from the triplets that kidnap the witch.
- Episode 8 - All Aboard!: The group finds a ship that the endermen planned to use to attack the rebellion city located in the ocean. They steal the ship, but Wrecker manages to get onboard with them. Meanwhile, Endreai and his endermen follows them with another ship.
- Episode 9 - Naval Battle: Wrecker fails from an attempt to murder Red. Soon, the group is attacked by Endreai's other ship, causing both sides to battle which ends up sinking both ships. Endreai is burned to death by the Endermaster and Wrecker is promoted in Endreai's place.
2014[]
- Episode 10 - Calm Before the Storm: The heroes make it to the rebel city and Colin learns why the rebel leader hates enderman. Meanwhile, Wrecker and Endaria attempt to get to the rebel base.
- Episode 11 - Here Be Dragons: Endaria reaches the rebel city. Fortunately, she is defeated by Red in a large robot. She is teleported back to the End to face her very displeased father and is banished. The Endermaster then has a flashback of about a week before he turned into The Endermaster and when he first went into the End. The episode ends with Wrecker finally reaching the city.
2015[]
- Episode 12 - Under Siege: The city turns into a battleground between the rebels and the endermen with each side trying to outlast the other. As the battle continues, the endermen slowly gain the upper hand and more rebels begin to fall. Porkey is slain, and the others are forced to flee from the island. The battle ends with the rebel city destroyed and many rebels died brutally.
2016+[]
- Episode 13 - Unfinished Work: Unfortunately only 9 and a half mins of Animation Work and a mostly partial complete script for Episode 13 exists but it still shows what would have happened. Pretty much the human group ends up going underground which they stumble upon Abandoned Mineshafts and are hunted down by Wrecker and his group of Endermen.
- Episode 14+ - Rest of the Plot: On July 2, 2021 Willcraft released the plot to the rest of Endventures due to him discontinuing it years ago, it isn't perfect though as he forgot some parts of it and it was hard to keep track of what iteration of the plot he would have gone far because of mental rewrites. Willcraft would also animate a minecraft animation for a final time in August 2017, where he animated a very small portion of The Endermaster's flashback in the Griefer Shadowland.
Errors in the Series[]
Willcraft took a break from Endventures after Episode 5 thinking that the animation and story was bad. And even after some improvements to the story in later episodes, the series is still believed to be overall inconsistent with it's self. Some of the major mistakes in the series are:
- Colin found a book about the Endermaster in his newly built house before anyone knew about the Endermaster. Later, the Endermaster's backstory was rewritten for Episode 11 and then again later on.
- The Endermaster was often observing the group. He shouldn't care that much about them and in later episodes, he doesn't even seem to know that they exist, apart from when Shadow was mentioned in Episode 7. But since then, he only talked about them when telling Endreai how to take the ship back from them in Episode 8. The Endermaster also acted quite differently compared to Episodes 8-13 as he was more childish and more enthusiastic.
- Shadow's spin-like-hell-move in early episodes. The only reason Willcraft ever included that was because he was too lazy to animate an actual fight and it was also advanced and time-taking.
- Endreai being stupid and incompetent. He was supposed to have been an actual threat, but that disappeared somewhere. Later, Wrecker was introduced as the threatening enderman character.
- When Willcraft reflected on Endventures in his closure video, he explained that Endventures was originally a massive idea that was to feature a lot of things that were out of his reach and he also made the mistake of not starting out small and reasonable upon realizing how out of reach the scope was, so he shrunk the size of the scope down until it barely resembled itself just so he could produce it. He took lots of shortcuts when animating, not doing very good video editing for most of the episodes, and also changing direction of the series multiple times which retconned a lot of things in previous episodes. He wanted to write Nobrayanes and Click-Clack better as comic relief characters, do more with Katie in the story, and also give the Endermaster a better motivation for why he hates humans (which he did ultimately do later on). He said he would like to rewrite the entire series and do it all over again, but at this point it's too late for that.
Other Errors[]
- In all of Endreai's appearances, even after his death in Episode 9, he has a pink helmet and chestplate. But in the middle of Episode 1 and in his first appearance in Episode 4, he only has a pink helmet, and in Episode 6, he has only a diamond chestplate.
- During the course of the series, Endreai's armor constantly changes, switching from iron to diamond, etc.
- Due to different video editing programs being used throughout the series, it meant certain episodes sounded different compared to others, and the general resolution of episodes varied. For example, Episodes 5, 6, and 7, and presumably Episode 4, were made in Windows Live Movie Maker, that in Willcraft's words "Did not allow for more than one sound to play at once". Starting from Episode 8, more professional programs would be used, allowing for voice acting/sound effects and music to play simultaneously and producing good picture quality for the videos.
Trivia[]
- Endventures was supposed to be the main series on Willcraft Animations, but instead, Monster School became the well-known series other than it until the Monster School series got cancelled in 2016.
- Endventures was planned long before it was actually made. Willcraft decided to bring the idea to life when he discovered Mine-imator, and the series has gone through many, many changes in the story. In one version, Colin was supposed to live in the Main City and have a family, and the Endermaster was going to be less powerful but able to travel into The Overworld. He would then have been riding the ender dragon most of the time. Characters like Shadow and Click-Clack wouldn't have existed either; the only ones that has been there from start is Colin, the Endermaster, Porkey, Endreai and Red (who was going to be Colin's brother).
- Click-Clack, Nobraynes and Boom were originally supposed to bring the group to a monster tavern where they would get help from all the monsters there. However that was changed, and instead they were the only ones to join them.
- Willcraft stated on his now-deleted Discord server that the main reason Endventures's concept sprung up was "Wouldn't it be scary if endermen, being arguably the toughest non-boss mob, WEREN'T neutral and organized themselves?" Willcraft did state however, due to his impatience in making elaborate fight scenes, that it made it look like one side was a pushover compared to the other and made that concept look like nothing.
- Willcraft stated after Episode 6 that he planned to make a recap video that explained the events of Episode 1-5, though with necessary changes to the story so it flows well with Episode 6-7. Willcraft also said he planned to combine some episodes into a mini movie, both of the planned videos never came into foliation sadly. After Episode 12 released, Willcraft did say in some comments that he planned to remake Episodes 1-5 so that way a more cohesive story could be made, but ultimately Willcraft quit Minecraft animation before he planned to make them though.