Minecraft Media: The Movie, Spin-offs, Books and LEGO
Minecraft beyond the game: A Minecraft Movie and its 2027 sequel, Dungeons and Dungeons II, Legends, Story Mode, books, LEGO and Build the Earth.
Minecraft stopped being only a video game a long time ago. There’s a box-office hit film with a sequel on the way, a family of spin-off games, an interactive Netflix series that vanished, shelves of books and LEGO sets, and fan projects big enough to rebuild the planet. This section explains what each of those things is, whether you can still get it, and which ones are official.
Films, spin-offs and Story Mode
A Minecraft Movie came out in April 2025, starring Jack Black as Steve, and was one of the biggest films of that year. Warner Bros. has dated the sequel for July 23, 2027. On the games side, Minecraft Dungeons (2020) got a sequel, Minecraft Dungeons II, on September 29, 2026, while Minecraft Legends (2023) stopped receiving updates in early 2024 and Minecraft Earth shut down in 2021. All of that is covered in Minecraft spin-offs explained.
Telltale’s Minecraft: Story Mode gets its own page, because “is it on Netflix?” is still one of the most common questions about it. Short answer: no, and it hasn’t been since 2022. What happened to Minecraft: Story Mode explains why you can’t buy or stream it today.
The named characters from these, like Jesse, the Arch-Illager and the movie’s Garrett, don’t exist in the main game. Our page on Minecraft characters sorts out who’s who.
Books, toys and parties
For many kids, Minecraft also means books and toys. Diary of a Minecraft Zombie is a long-running unofficial book series that gets reluctant readers reading. For LEGO sets, plush toys, clothes and birthday-party ideas, see Minecraft merch and parties, which also covers how to spot knockoffs.
Parents who want the full picture of the game itself should start with Minecraft for parents.
Fan projects
Some of the most impressive Minecraft things weren’t made by Mojang at all. Build the Earth is a volunteer project recreating the whole planet at full scale, block by block. Community servers that do something similar are covered in Earth servers explained. And if you’ve seen “Paper Minecraft” on a school computer, that’s a fan game made in Scratch; what is Paper Minecraft explains it.
Official or not?
A good rule: if it doesn’t come from Mojang, Microsoft or a named licensed partner (like LEGO or Warner Bros.), it isn’t official. That doesn’t make it bad. Some of the best Minecraft culture is fan-made. But it matters when you’re buying something, or when a site offers a “download” of a game that no longer exists. Mojang’s own announcements on minecraft.net, and the shows covered on our Minecraft Live page, are where official news appears first.