Story Mode:Unused and removed features

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Note: Many unused designs exist in both pre-release and final builds of the games.

Since the beginning of the development of Minecraft: Story Mode and Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two, there have been several unused and removed features or assets that were never seen in the finished versions of the game. These features may have been replaced, or a developer decided against the feature later on.

Some of these are still in the current versions' files but most of them only exist in a pre-release build of Below the Bedrock that was pushed into the public Episode 4 PC branch. This build can be accessed by users who own the game via the Steam Console, maintained by Valve, or through third-party tools like DepotDownloader.^[1][2]

Characters and mobs

Baby prison zombie

A baby variant of a prison zombie. Its assets still exists in the files of Jailhouse Block.

Cat

Assets for the original breeds of cats were found in the pre-release build of Access Denied and Below the Bedrock. These assets were later removed in the final version of the game, except for the red tabby which still exists in the files of A Portal to Mystery.

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  Red tabby
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  Siamese
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  Tuxedo

Ellegaard's designs

Inside the files of The Order of the Stone, assets for Ellegaard's top hat and her appearance after her death can be found. Her deceased appearance differs from her death in The Last Place You Look, as she is no longer wearing her armor at the end.

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  Ellegaard wearing her top hat
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  Her appearance after dying.

Gabriel's horse

In the files of Assembly Required and The Last Place You Look, a texture and a model for a horse that are named with skM5_horseGabriel can be found. It can also be found in the pre-release build files of Below the Bedrock.

Icy creeper

A creeper variant with the torso of a snow golem. It was ultimately cut from the final version of the game. Its textures and models exists in a pre-release build of Below the Bedrock.

Jesse's designs

In the game files, leftover textures and meshes of Jesse wearing a Griefer mask, as well as Soren and Ivor's armor, can be found. It's unknown what these were meant for.

Llama

The assets of a beige and a grey llama were later removed in the final version of the game.

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  Beige llama
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  Grey llama

Lukas' designs

Inside the pre-release build of Access Denied, early design assets of the texture and the hair and hat model exist. This design also was featured in the 2015 Minecraft: Story Mode trailer.

Prismarine creeper

A prismarine variant of the creeper that went unused in Minecraft: Story Mode. The assets still exist in the files of Hero in Residence. They were meant to come from the Heckmouth in Hero in Residence. They were ultimately scrapped and replaced instead by charged creepers to keep prismarine mobs only in the Sea Temple.^[3]

Like the soldiers and the colossi, the prismarine creeper's design took inspiration from Cthulhu. The development team nicknamed the prismarine creepers as "Cthulu Creepers" due to their appearance.

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  An isometric render of the prismarine creeper.
• Prismarine creepers in-game, replacing the creeper model.

Prison witch

A prison variant of the witch that was ultimately cut from the final version of the game.

Slime

A bouncy, cube-shaped monster. Its texture and model exists in a pre-release builds of Access Denied and Below the Bedrock. The assets are now removed in full releases.

Its file names, however, start with the prefix "obj," a file naming scheme used for blocks and items in the game.

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  An isometric render of the slime.
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  Texture of slime.

Enderman suits

In a pre-release version of Access Denied, textures for both Olivia and Lukas wearing the enderman suit were found. These assets were later removed in the full releases of the episodes.

Sonar

Sonar was an associate and an assistant to Gordon, the Warden of the Sunshine Institute.^[4] She was written to be competitive with Radar and they would later hit it off.^[5] Sonar's design would later be reused in designing Binta.^[6] She was cut in the final revision of the story, her assets can be found in the pre-release build of Below the Bedrock.

Tripwire

Tripwire was an assistant and bodyguard to Stella.^[7] She was written to be tough, stoic, a person of few words, and a complete opposite to Radar.^[7][8] She was cut in the final revision of the story, her assets can be found in the pre-release build of Below the Bedrock. Her name appears in the credits of Hero in Residence.

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  Guest uniform

Villager

The assets are found in the pre-release build of Access Denied and Below the Bedrock. The classic villagers can be found in Access Denied, where they are referenced as skM1_villager. In Below the Bedrock, they appear as skM1_villager201, as indicated by 201 in their file names. The 2 represents the season, while 1 indicates the episode number. This naming pattern is also seen in other files.

One villager was seemingly intended to appear in Fred's Keep, as suggested by the presence of Neathfolk in its texture and model file names. This naming pattern is also seen in the files for Fred's Keep townspeople.

Xara's full Admin design

Although Xara is never physically seen in her admin form, in Below the Bedrock when Xara arrives at her home to find her bed missing, a portrait can be seen on the wall of her in her admin form standing alongside Fred and Rom.

Furthermore, there is an unused texture in the files of Above and Beyond showing Xara in her admin form. Eric Stirpe confirmed that this was originally going to be used in a flashback scene in Jailhouse Block, featuring all three of the admins when they were active, but decided to cut the scene entirely.^[9]

Reuben in armor

Files have been found of Reuben in armor. It is unknown when the armor would have been used.

Plotline

Reuben survives the fall

Reuben was planned to have survived from the wither storm in the Netflix version, and to have him accompany Jesse’s gang through the portal hallway, but it was ultimately cancelled due to the closure of Telltale Games.^[10]

Objects

Prismarine colossus sword

A prismarine sword large enough for a prismarine colossus to wield. Its assets exist in the pre-release version of Below the Bedrock.

Snowy gauntlet

The snowy gauntlet is an unused gauntlet. Its assets can be found in the files of Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two, and has been existing since Giant Consequences. Its intended role in the story is unknown. One of Petra's models include the gauntlet.

Withered slime block

A slime block made of decaying dark-purple slime.

User interface

Hain Lee, one of the user interface designers, has uploaded videos demonstrating prototype UI designs.^[11]

Pause menu prototype

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  Player inventory
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  Journal Ellegard
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  Journal ???
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  Settings

Episode selection prototypes

Early prototype A

Early prototype B

Early prototype C

Trivia

• The prismarine creeper gabriel's horse tabby cat and baby prison zombie are the only scrapped mob known to still be in the files of final releases of Minecraft: Story Mode.

References

Navigation

v t e Minecraft: Story Mode items
Narrative objects Amulet Blueprint Command Block Command Block Enchanted Book Compass Ellegaard's Armor Elytra Enchanted Flint and Steel Enderman Suit Eversource Crown Formidi-Bomb Fred's Gauntlet Fred's Journal Giant Clock Invitation Ivor's Potion Lukas' Journal Magnus' Armor Mind-Control Chip Portal Atlas Prismarine Gauntlet Raw Porkchop Redstone Heart Structure Block Super TNT Transmigrational Headset Ultimate Weapon White Pumpkin Wither Skull Xara's Bed
Building materials Chiseled Quartz Block Clay Coarse Dirt Dark Prismarine Diorite Dirt Glass Mycelium Polished Diorite Prismarine Redstone Block
Crafting materials Cobblestone Diamond Egg Feather Gunpowder Pumpkin Prismarine Shard Redstone Dust Sand Slimeball Stick String Wheat Wood Planks Wool
Weapons Bow Diamond Sword Fishing Rod Golden Sword Iron Sword Stone Sword Torch Wooden Sword
Props Armor Challenge Armor Champion Armor Fancy Armor Glowing Obsidian Gauntlet New Order of the Stone Armor Order of the Stone Armor Regular Armor Tim's Armor Viking Helmet Book The Foundation The Survivors' Book of Secrets Soren's Books Others Anvil Apple Arrow Arrow of Poison Bed Bone Bread Bucket Cake Carrot Cod Cookie Crafting Table Daylight Sensor Decoration Diamond Minecart Diamond Axe Diamond Hoe Diamond Katana Diamond Pickaxe Diamond Shovel Diving Helmet Dragon Egg Ender Crystal Ender Pearl Firework Rocket Flint Flint and Steel Ghast Tear Glowing Mushroom Ladder Lapis Lazuli Lever Minecart Painting Poisonous Potato Potion Potato Prismarine Tool Pumpkin Pie Redstone Repeater Sea Lantern Shears Shield Sleeping Garments Slime Block Snowball Smoke Bomb Spawn Egg Spider Eye Splash Potion TNT Water Bucket White Jack o'Lantern Withered Nether Star
Miscellaneous Unused Items