Scott Buckley wrote music for this episode and it adds so much: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jL14h8-imqzHomw.html

Blue: **Takes off helmet** Piglins: *So you have chosen... Death.*

Blue:makes a good lunch Also blue:throw the lunch Lunch: :(

I really love how, in spite of having full access to EVERYTHING, the characters all take the time to manually make things with their hands. It's nice.

I love that Blue, without any hesitation, leaped into actual lava to save the Piglin child. Absolute legend.

Blue: *puts on helmet* Piglin: "A Blue stickman?" Blue: *take off helmet* Piglin: "Bury him! Kill him!"

Blue: **helmet* Piglins: Ahh, I see you're a pig of culture as well

The decision to make the Minecraft mobs more flexible in their movements and not fixed to their in-game animations was such an upgrade. I think they started doing that before this (definitely around ep 16), but you can definitely tell here.

And now we can finally remember that EVERYTHING that happened until ep 30 was just because of Blue's addiction

Piglins: A blue stickman? Blue: Puts on helmet. Piglins: BLUE THE BLUE STICKMAN?!

Blue: *With hat* Piglins: A platypus? Blue: *Without hat* Piglins: PERRY the platypus!

One small detail that no one is talking about, when Blue was thinking about how to get the Nether Warts, look at the nether. Notice how it has the old textures. Thats because that is how Blue remembered how the Nether was like, until he entered the nether.

Almost all of this happened because Blue was craving Netherwarts, and not ONCE did he consider using the Minecraft Game Icon to get them.

Blue: *Takes off helmet* Piglins: I've never met this man in my life

Blue: wears helmet. Piglin: "A platypus?" Blue: Takes off helmet Piglin: *Le gasp* "Perry the platypus!?"

The way that blue lunged at the baby piglin, no hesitation, not even scared that he’ll hurt him. Absolute legend 💙🩵

Here's a tiny detail: at 1:15 the soul sand in Blue's farm is the updated 1.16 texture, hinting that the Nether is changed. But in the subsequent flashback (which was made for this video, by the way, and isn't an excerpt from an old one), the soul sand in the fortress still looks as it did before it was updated! Love how this little part of the animation that probably went unnoticed to just about everyone was still included for consistency. It really shows the team's dedication to and love of their work, especially in a sort of go-between episode like this. Keep up the good work!

Blue: Almost dies holding baby piglin. Adult Piglin: Come this is no place to die

In an alternate timeline, Blue finds his secret stash of emergency nether warts in the PC and doesn’t go to the nether for more. This leads to the zombie piglins winning the war without Blue to fight alongside the regular piglins, and because the stick figures never encountered the witch, they never got to do Purple’s parkour, so the King never got them captured. The titan ravager continued to terrorize the villagers without Blue and Yellow to feed him, and the pillagers never tried to raid the villagers out of fear of the ravager. Alexcrafter28 continued to play Minecraft peacefully, uninterrupted by two out-of-place stick figures in his Minecraft world breaking into his PC. The warden continued to live in his cave, wallowing in the grief of the loss of his people, never finding a new friend in the Second Coming. The spider, skeleton, and enderman at Monster School lost the race without Red’s guidance, and the creeper, blaze, and cave spider came out on top. As a result, nothing stood in the way of the King, and he was able to corrupt all of Minecraft for good. (We’ll say for the sake of simplicity that Purple found a game icon from someone else’s PC and gave it to the King. C’mon, it’s totally possible given how many portals there have been in the AVM universe.) But hey, at least he finally reunited with his long lost son! But at what cost?

I like how they spend a lot of time trying to find a nether fortress. Nether fortresses are super hard to find so it really put that into perspective.

Blue: Puts on helmet Piglins: A Blue stick figure Blue: Takes off helmet Piglins: Perry the Platypus?!

Blue: *puts on helmet* Piglin: oh hello there Blue: *take off helmet* Piglin: WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!

The episode begins with Blue preparing food while listening to the "chirp" music disc. Blue enjoys preparing food, such as melon, steak, chicken, cake and his favorite Nether warts. However, his Nether warts run out, and he remembers that he harvested them in the Nether fortress. Blue decides to go to the Nether to harvest more. However, his friends initially don't notice that he was going rebuild the Nether portal, so Blue got the obsidian, and the flint and steel and rebuilds the portal. With the rebuilt portal, Blue returns to the Nether to get his Nether warts. Upon entering the Nether, he noticed that it looked different due to the Minecraft's Nether Update. Blue ate some of the crimson warts and crimson fungi because they looked like nether warts, but he did not like them. A baby piglin has some fun with Blue until he discovered the piglin was there. Blue asks the baby piglin if he knew where the Nether fortress was, and the baby piglin took him to the other piglins and hoglins as mounts to take them to the fortress. Unfortunately, the piglins attacked Blue because he did not wear any gold armor. Blue could not continue if the piglins attacked him, so the baby piglin gives Blue a gold helmet so that the other piglins would not attack him. Blue noticed that whenever he took his helmet off the piglins started attacking him. Now that Blue has befriended the piglins, they departed for the Nether fortress. When Blue, the baby piglin and the piglins were leaving for the Nether fortress, they passed the other Nether biomes, such as the Warped Forest, Soul Sand Valley, and Basalt Delta. Baby Piglin shared with Blue some warped fungi, but he didn't like them, so he hid them in his inventory. The baby piglin kept sharing more warp fungi with Blue, but he hid them again. Meanwhile, the Second Coming, Yellow and Green were relaxing on a couch, until the Second Coming realized that the Nether portalhad been rebuilt. When he was about to destroy it, Yellow stopped him because he told the Second Coming that Blue entered the portal. Red spawned a pig to track the scent of Blue with a bottle of water, and they entered the portal with the pig. As the Piglins left for the Nether fortress, Blue stretched a bit until his gold helmet fell into the lava. Without his helmet the Piglins begin to attack him. Blue has no other choice but to fight the piglins. When Blue is about to escape, an army of zombified Piglins and Zoglins started showing up for a war. Blue fights against piglins and zombifield piglins to defend himself. While Blue fought, some zombified Piglins start attacking the baby Piglin. Blue struggles to get to the Baby Piglin but gets pushed by a Zoglin. But the baby Piglin is saved by another Piglin between the war. When Blue is about to fall into the lava, a Strider saves him but does not obey him. Blue found his gold helmet on top of another Strider, Blue tries to control the Strider but it does not move. Blue realizes that two Striders are fighting over a Warped mushroom. Blue uses their Warped mushroom that the baby Piglin gave to them. When Blue has already recovered his gold helmet, he sees a herd of Striders, so he uses them to get to the edge of the lava, Meanwhile, the Piglins are outnumbered so they start retreating. When Blue and the Striders already reached the edge of the lava, the piglins recognize Blue again with his gold helmet. Blue tells the Piglins to get on the Striders to escape from the exerted zombifield piglins, (a hoglin mounted on top of a Strider as a rare thing). The piglins are saved thanks to Blue and his Striders, then Blue got on the Strider with the baby Piglin. But when they are about to escape, a sinking zombifield piglin grabs the baby Piglin so Blue jumps to save the baby piglin. The piglins rescue them, but when Blue's helmet falls into the lava, the Piglins don't attack him due to seeing all the helpful and heroic things he has done for them. They hug making the Piglins celebrate. When the piglins had reached the shore, Baby Piglin grabs a bunch of Warped mushrooms from the chest to thank the Striders for bringing them to shore and they say goodbye. When the piglins arrive at the Nether fortress, they say goodbye to Blue and he says goodbye to the Baby Piglin. When Blue is about to harvest the Nether warts, it is revealed that there are no more, and he becomes sad. While in the crimson forest, the squad follows the pig to find Blue. They walk through the 4 biomes of the game to the Nether fortress. While Blue is sad about the loss of their Nether wart, The Second Coming Doppelganger throws some Nether Wart at him. The rest of the squad is stopped by the Piglins. The piglins are about to attack the stick figures (for not wearing gold armor) until they see Red's pig, which the Piglin befriends. The pig shows the piglins that he is friends with the stick figures, which makes the Piglins befriend the stick figures too. The sticks tell the Piglins that they were looking for Blue and the Piglins were happy about the photo of their new friend. The Piglins tell the stick figures that Blue is in the Nether fortress. The squad entered the Nether fortress but is not there. The pig sniffed Blue's picture of Nether Warts to keep looking for Blue. Blue follows the Second Coming's doppelganger to another portal and the episode ends.

blue: I'm going for some nether warts... what could happen? :D 10 episodes later Blue: I didn't expect that.

blue: *removes golden helmet* piglins: "And I took that personally"

Blue: *takes off helmet* Piglin: So, you have chosen death Blue: *puts back helmet* Piglin: Understandable, have a nice day

6:54 that 3D fall... I'm impressed

I like to imagine when Red pulls out a pig spawn, it's probably the same pig from Potions episode. The whole series defines minecraft physics a lot so it's funny to imagine the pig can just go back into the spawn egg in command

*Piglin* : “You should be careful, addiction is a powerful thing”. *Blue, after getting involved in a war for his Netherwart* : “So am I”

Baby Piglin: Hey guys he heeds some nether war- Piglins: *Execute Order 66*

Can't wait for blue's intervention short, followed by "Blue goes to rehab."

Coming back after watching the finale of animation vs Minecraft shorts epi 30 to rewatch where it all began and where it ends for nostalgia

The real reason why the piglins didn’t attack blue when he lost the gold helmet is because he has a heart of gold

Other 4 colors: *access denied* Normal pig: *access granted*

It all started with blue's addiction to netherwarts

5:15 A legend was born.

Blue: **wears gold helmet** Piglins: We were bad, but now we are good.

two oranges: *exist* Everyone: these are confusing times

Now that I see it, the first and last scenes of season 3 are in the same composition. I was really impressed.

1:56 Little did blue know that he just opened to the biggest mistake of his life.

Blue: *makes friends with a completely different unique sentient species* Red: *Jealousy 100*

Blue: *makes nether portal Everybody: ah sh*t here we go again

There was more emotion from 9:13-9:50 than in many animated movies, and not a single word was spoken. Incredible storytelling

Blue' s my favorite. Very cute episode💙

That random one: **Hits blue's gold helmet** Piglins: *Peace was never an option*

"You may not have gold armor, but you have a golden heart"

Piglins in 2020: Offensive to players without gold armor fighting their zombie versions Piglins in 2023: 💀

maybe the real nether warts were the friends we made along the way

Blue stickman: *eats netherwart* Me: WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE NORMAL Blue stickman: *CHEWING INTENSIFIES*

Piglins: *Attack blue* blue: *wear a golden helmet* Piglins: understandable have a great day

One of the BEST Alan Becker animations out there! Blue doesn’t need to wear gold when has a golden heart!

Achievment Unlocked: Friend of the Piglins

Orange: Shows a picture of blue Piglins: Ayyy We know him too bro come come ill take you

Blue: doesen't wear gold Piglins: And we took that personally

The beginning of the King saga

Man, when I see the blue saving the baby piglin and after loosing his helmet and the piglin hugged him I feel some goosebumps

2 oranges: red: *there is one impostor among us*

Blue: wears helmet The piglins: *this is the way* EDIT 2: I have now finished season 2, spoil away.

Hold on, I could've sworn I saw this ep in a split screen format. Like, one half was following Blue's adventure through the nether while the other half was just watching the rest of the gang chilling

let's take a minute to think for the last time, this all happened because blue wanted some nether warts

I love how Blue was making an entire meal for himself and then decided he was just gonna eat nether wart

I could've never imagined how emotional the story of a group of mutated pigs with a blue stickman could be.

Finaly, after 2 years blue was able to put nether warts in that food

the intro to this episode hits different once you watch ep 30

Mojang: programmes piglins to be hostile to anyone not wearing gold Piglins: ‘the code is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules’

*Me*: “Don’t eat the nether warts.” *eats the nether warts* *Me*: “Okay.”

1:57 the moment when this series extend 10 more episodes 🙃

blue is praised as a hero to us piglins, he frequently visits us and helps us find gold. jokes aside though, this is my favourite video alan has made. i love it.

Batman: No one knew who I was until I put on the mask Blue: Everyone wanted to kill me until I put on the mask

9:30 - **Half of blue is in lava** **Piglin pulls him out** Lava: Understandable.

I love how the pilgrims didn’t attack him after he saved the baby piglin because they realized he had a heart of gold

This is, in my opinion, the most wholesome episode out of this entire series. I love it

The piglins accepting Blue even without the helmet was super wholesome.

Blue when he founds out he lost his nether warts: *MY DRUGS*

It all started in this specific short, when blue was looking for his nether warts

It all started here😊

blue: *has helmet" piglins: "hello friend!" blue: *takes off helmet* piglins: "MORTAL ENEMY! ATTACK!"

Blue’s netherwart addiction is still hilarious.

I like how blue only defended himself against the piglin but actually fought and killed the zombie pigmen.

The new addition of music was AMAZING in the season 3 whole video, but I kinda like episode 20-22 better without music. It makes 23 seem much more... Wrong when the music comes on. We're not used to music in AVM, and the characters are confused as to why the others aren't coming. It's just perfect. But yeah with the music is absolutely amazing, just from a storytelling perspective it seems better without it(not that I wouldn't watch it with the music too! Just a preference, I think the addition of music is really, really good!)

No helmet: *A blue stickman* With helmet: *The Blue Stickman*

blue taking off helmet for 0.000001 sceonds: piglins: yo who this man kill

Blue just snacking on nether wart is so relatable tbh

The legend himself has once again blessed us with a glimpse of his awesomeness!

SC: saves blue Also SC: couldn't find blue Everyone: *Confused screaming*

The fact that Blue could've just used the Minecraft Icon to spawn himself some Warts, which it's use doesn't seem to be regulated at the time, and instead went into the Nether portal is funny to me.

Blue's skills at this video - good at cooking - legend at saving someone

Piglins: it’s an intruder Blue: puts on helmet Piglins: understandable, have a great day

Blue: *literally almost dies in lava trying to save their child * Piglins: k now he worth to be not killed

Blue is such a legend,He jumped into lava just to save the piglin.

0:51 I love how blue throws oww his own cooking off the table.

Blue: takes off helmet Piglin : so you have chosen, death Blue: put's it back on Piglin: *understandable have a great day*

“They realised his heart was golden”

I’m glad blue got a short for himself cause he’s underrated

Piglet: “This is my new friend, blue!" Piglins: "Does he have gold?” Piglet: “I don’t think s-“ Piglins: "Kill them”.

Piglin: HE MUST DIE HE INVADED OUR HOME Blue: *puts on gold* Piglin: Bruh I never met this man in my life

It all started with thisо

Blue is an absolute legend, he almost died for the baby piglin 🎉🥹

Notice: when Blue realizes he has to fight the piglins, he never kills any of them, just knocks them down. That's a really nice touch.

Me: "Gets confused by ending for 20 seconds" Me after those 20 seconds: *"WAIT A MINUTE"*