Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue

Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue is an in-person interactive event. The first event took place in Dallas, Texas from October 18, 2024, to January 20, 2025. A second event is ongoing in London, with a third ongoing in Toronto, and additional locations are planned across the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.^[1][2] It was announced on May 29, 2024, the final day of the 15 Days of Minecraft.^[3]

Experience details

The event is an hour long, interactive, in-person adventure where participants in groups of 25 go through a mission and scavenger hunt through multiple Minecraft biomes and dimensions to rescue villagers. Mobs such as skeletons and creepers can be encountered, ore can be mined, and ingredients can be foraged.^[1] Guests must cure as many villagers as possible using the ingredients they collect in the 7 rooms.^[4] The world is created using displays in tall projection walls and floors which can be interacted with using orbs of interaction and motion detection.^[5]

Walkthrough

Spoiler warning! This section contains detailed information about Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue that may spoil your enjoyment of it. Read at your own risk!

Entrance / registration

The experience begins with employees registering Orbs of Interaction to assigned groups and handing them to guests. Guests are then directed to a video led by Dayo and Tobin, two original characters created specifically for the Minecraft Experience, who explain how to use the Orb of Interaction throughout.

Forest

The first room guests encounter is the Forest, acting as a temporary holding zone and tutorial area for use of the Orb of Interaction. Two displays allow guests to chop wood and fight mobs (in addition to Dayo and Tobin). Adjacent to the display areas is an interactive floor containing cherry blossoms and randomly spawned apples for guests to collect. Within the room itself are several life-size mobs that guests are able to take photos with (said mobs being two pigs, an Iron Golem, a Creeper, and a Chicken).

Village Gate

Near the chicken is a sign that says 'Village' and a gate into the next section, referred to as the 'Village Gate'. An employee prevents guests from entering the Village too early, as three groups of guests are allowed entry into the Forest at a time. Every six minutes, one of the groups' Orbs of Interaction turn green and begin to vibrate, indicating that it is time to move on to the next room.

Village

Guests enter a room containing an interactive table featuring illustrations of 6 different villages, each containing a village within a different biome. Guests must interact with the screens to gather resources and build structures within the village as Dayo and Tobin . As night falls, a zombie siege begins, and the villagers become zombified. Dayo and Tobin explain to guests that they must cure the villagers using a splash potion of Weakness and a golden apple. They provide a list of items needed and their respective locations:

• The swamp:
  • Brown Mushroom
  • Sugar Cane
• The snowy biome:
  • Golden apple
  • Snowball
• The underground:
  • Gunpowder
  • Spider eye
• The Nether:
  • Blaze rod

'Explore' room

Guests enter a room depicting a swamp / jungle biome. Sugar cane grows along the walls for guests to break, which then spawns several sugar cane items that can be picked up. Brown mushrooms also spawn periodically on the floor. Near the exit to the next room, a Hanging Sign depicts how many of either item has been collected. A panda is also interactable within the room, causing hearts to appear when the orb is used near it. After a set amount of time, the room then shifts to a snowy plains / snowy taiga biome. Similar to the previous room, snow blocks generate along the walls for guests to break, dropping snow balls. Snow balls also spawn on the floor for guests to pick up. Chests on each wall also appear, opening to reveal apples and golden apples that drop on the floor for guests to collect. Similar to the panda in the previous area, snow foxes are within the room, also able to be 'pet' by guests, once again causing hearts to appear. Finally, the room changes once more, this time into an ocean. Chests are present that, when interacted with, drop gold and diamonds. This time, fish spawn periodically on the ground, but do not add to a total on the hanging sign. After dialogue from Tobin, an automatic door opens to reveal the next room.

Cave

Guests are led into an empty cavern lined with torches. Dayo and Tobin converse, with Tobin supposedly within the room with the guests and Dayo's voice appearing muffled behind a wall. After the dialogue completes, a worker opens the door to the next room.

Mineshaft

Guests enter a room containing two minecarts, a minecart track, and 5 walls where they must mine blocks. If players mine fast enough, they discover a block of TNT, which, when mined, explodes to reveal a further mineshaft that contains zombies, spiders, and skeletons. TNT eventually appears on every wall, breaking all blocks and allowing all guests to see further into the mineshaft. Minecart chests pass by every few seconds, containing a random number of either spider eyes or gunpowder. After a short time, a minecart cinematic plays, and a new mineshaft appears that contains creepers in minecarts. Pigs and TNT in minecarts also appear, both able to be broken. After enough time has passed, creepers fall from above the screen on every side and blow up, marking an end to the room.

Nether Portal

Guests then move to a room depicting a Lush Caves biome where they must use their orbs to combine lava and water to make obsidian and build a Nether portal within 4 minutes. As the portal becomes more completed, the music begins to ramp up in intensity, until the portal is finished by guests or they run out of time. In either case, the portal fully lights up, allowing passage into the next room.

Crimson Forest

Guests walk into a room surrounded by mirrors and lit by blocky lights (very similar to Weeping Vines). After guests have spent a combined 6 minutes in this room and Nether Portal, Dayo and Tobin explain the next room, The Nether.

Nether

Passing through the Crimson Forest area, guests find themselves in a room depicting the Nether. They must complete a parkour course over lava to make it to the other side, with netherrack appearing periodically to make it simpler. Just before an animated wall of smoke are several barrels containing snow balls (dryer balls) for guests to throw. The smoke then clears, revealing a scene of piglins defending a Nether Fortress. Guests are meant to throw the snow balls at them, knocking them into lava. After some time, Ghasts and Wither Skeletons appear as well, with the former shooting fireballs at guests that can be hit back with snow balls, and the latter being able to be knocked into the lava. Pigstep plays in the background during this initial encounter. After defeating these mobs, the screen then pushes deeper into the fortress, and blazes begin to appear. After some time, a giant blaze appears, which guests must work together to defeat. Around 30 seconds after the giant blaze appears, it will be defeated automatically, and the room completes, with a new Nether portal lighting up next to the guests to enter.

Brewing

In the final room, guests place their orbs in slots surrounding a brewing stand. A cinematic plays, with Dayo and Tobin using the ingredients the guests gathered to brew a potion of Weakness (as a fog machine activates underneath/behind the brewing stand). Once the potions are finished, Dayo and Tobin throw them at the approaching zombie villagers, then throw the golden apples collected in Explore as well, curing all of the villagers. When the cinematic finishes, a total number of villagers saved (determined by the total number of items collected) appears, as well as several achievements with different gilds / naming (depending on how the guests performed). Guests are also invited to enter the trading post, marking the end of their journey.

Trading Post

Just before exiting the Experience, guests walk through the Trading Post, or Minecraft Experience shop. The shop sells regular Minecraft as well as exclusive Minecraft Experience merchandise. Near the Trading Post is a VIP (Very Important Player) area, where guests who payed extra are able to get a few additional gifts.

Adult nights

From November 20, 2024, to January 15, 2025 at the Dallas location, and from July 2 to August 28, 2025 at the Toronto location, every Wednesday and Thursday after 7 PM was considered an "adult night", allowing only guests aged 18 and older. The event served several Minecraft-themed mocktails and held different "side quests".^[6]

The event's first side quest was trivia, with prizes for getting all questions within the experience correct, as well as answering group trivia correctly after the Experience. The next side quest' were Scavenger Hunts, prompting guests to complete certain tasks and find different secrets within the Experience.

Orb of interaction

An orb of interaction is a glowing cuboid object provided to participants that allows them to interact with the experience. It vibrates, lights up, and changes color depending on the action performed.

Image	Action name	Description on website
	Pickaxe	Gather resources to utilize in your mission to rescue the villagers.
	Sword	Face off against hostile mobs in close combat.
	Build	Create structures for the villagers.
	Guide	Lighting and haptic responses help to guide your journey.

Cape

Name	Icon	Cape	Elytra	Texture	Notes	Rarity
Minecraft Experience Cape					Guests who purchase tickets and have them scanned at Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue receive a code in the email used to purchase tickets that can be redeemed to obtain the cape.	Legendary

Times, locations, and pricing

Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.

The first event took place between October 18, 2024 and January 20, 2025^[7] in Dallas, Texas. Parking was available at 2712 N. Central Expressway in Plano, Texas.

Tickets bought on weekdays costed $32 USD, while tickets for weekends and holidays costed $42 USD. VIP tickets costed $65 USD.

"Friends & Family Multipack" discounts and "Large Group" discounts were also available.

The rooms are 17x17x17 feet. One block in the experience is 2x2 feet.

London, Great Britain, U.K.

The second event is currently taking place in London from April 4 to September 28, 2025 at Corner Corner, Canada Water.^[8] Bicycle parking is available at the Canada Water Underground Station.

Tickets bought for children ages 3-15 cost £20 (~$25 USD), and tickets for guests aged 16 and older are £24 (~$30 USD). "Obsidian Package" tickets are also available for £54 (~$68 USD). Children ages two and younger are free, and anyone aged 15 or younger must be accompained by an adult.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The third event is currently taking place in Toronto from June 20 to September 2, 2025 at the Square One Shopping Centre at 199 Rathburn Road West in Mississauga, Ontario.^[9] Parking is available directly at the venue.

Tickets are available for CA$32 (~$23 USD) on weekdays, except for Fridays and holidays, in which they cost CA$40 (~$29 USD). Tickets on weekends cost CA$45 (~$33 USD). Children ages two and younger are free, and anyone aged 15 or younger must be accompained by an adult.

Videos

Trivia

• Officially, this was the last thing announced for the 15th anniversary event. However, the following day the Minecraft Animated Series was announced, using similar branding.
• While Dallas is the first official stop of the Minecraft Experience world tour, a beta of the event was held in Montreal on June 17, 2024.^[10]
• Guests were originally supposed to go to the End, but the experience was considered too long and had to be shortened.^[11]
• During the development of the experience, the producers mistakenly placed a silverfish in the underwater area, confusing it for an aquatic creature due to its name. It was later removed after Craig Leigh spotted the mistake.^[11]
• The Minecraft Experience Cape's design was inspired by Two-Face, a villain appearing in Batman comics.^[11]
• Circonflex, the music agency responsible for the sound design of the experience, had to manipulate, remix, and re-harmonize the Minecraft soundtrack to suit the venue experience. To be able to do so, Mojang Studios provided them a 50 page internal document on the game's music.^[12]

Gallery

Official artwork

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  Larger logo variant used until September 2024
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  Logo with producer information
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  Event poster
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  London artwork.
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  The Orb of Interaction being held in the dark

Promotional images

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  A promotional image with two characters and chests.
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  Promotional image with a bee, a cow, and a pig.
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  Promotional artwork of two zombies.
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  Three people in the experience.
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  Ditto, but without text.
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  An iron golem watching a pig.
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  A pig excited for the Minecraft Experience.
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  A closeup of the pig statue.
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  Attendees completing a quest in a "one week out" teaser.
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  A promotional image from the newsletter.
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  Several players on grass and taking a selfie beside a creeper.
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  Attendees grabbing their orbs of interaction.
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  A chicken statue.
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  An attendee performing a quest.
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  An attendee fighting.
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  An attendee escaping.
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  Attendees hanging out.
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  Attendees taking aim.
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  Attendees celebrating.
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  A Minecraft Live 2024 teaser.
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  An attendee fighting.
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  Attendees collecting resources.
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  A crimson forest.
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  A cave and a mineshaft.
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  Attendees walking through a nether portal.
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  A nether portal.
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  An iron golem.
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  An orb of interaction.
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  Orbs of interaction.

Other

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  The orb of interaction turning green.
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  The orb of interaction turning red.
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  The orb of interaction turning yellow.
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  The orb of interaction turning blue.

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