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Jennifer Young

Did Mojang spoil its own movie with this Minecraft add-on?

An army of Piglins chase down a Minecraft character .

A Minecraft Movie launches on April 4, 2025 and the stores are already full of new merchandise that looks a little cursed.

There is also now an official Minecraft Movie add-on now available in the Minecraft Marketplace, for free, allowing players to transform their own worlds into the movie's setting.

Some fans have raised concerns that Mojang might be spoiling the movie by including potentially revealing content in the add-on. While it does give us some names of some of the heroes and villains of the movie, much of it aligns with what we've already seen in the Minecraft Movie trailers.

The blurb on Marketplace "Wield the same wacky weapons as your favorite movie character. like Garrett's Buck—Chuckets!" would probably make more sense had they released this after the movie, but alas I guess Mojang are getting ahead of themselves. We do now have some character names and weapons we can expect to see in the movie, however.

Over the weekend, I decided to dive into the Minecraft Movie add-on with my son. Having experienced countless more bizarre and creative add-ons before, this one didn’t exactly blow me away.

Still, there are a few new weapons, new bosses to fight and we had plenty of fun tracking down all the new Piglins scattered throughout the world. Here's what you get in 'A Minecraft Movie' add-on and how to add it to your game.

Two new boss battles

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