#minecraft books

[witherking001]

New Minecraft Dungeons Novel In The Works!

As of yesterday, or the day before, cause it definitely wasn't there when I checked on Wednesday, the Penguin Random House site updated to reveal that a Minecraft Dungeons 2 novel is coming September 1st, 2026, which will be called "The Rift."

We don't really know anything else currently, but what do you think this novel will be about?

Did you read the first Minecraft Dungeons novel?

[0ccasionality]

Okay, so make fun of me for enjoying this if you wish, but TIL that one of the peakest Minecraft series ever, Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior, has two more books past book 6 with another on the way???

Been tweaking all day since I learnt that because I love those books so much, I don’t care that they’re technically for like 10-12 year olds- anyways LOOK THEY PUT MY GIRLIE IN A UNIFORM ITS SO CUTESY

[all-hail-trash-prince]

This happened in the books right

[cryptdidnt]

Me reading minecraft the island: wow thats a really visceral description of a minecraft zombie. Its weird how much more described terrifying that is compared to the rest of the book.

Checks who wrote it: oh

[crimson-cha0s]

[robinthevampyre]

I always here people talk about minecraft books and talk about things like Max Brooks’ The Island or those weird and often times shitty unofficial Minecraft comics(still love those villager diary ones tho) but I rarely hear people talk about the real bangers, Minecraft: Wither Without You, the offficial Minecraft(2019) comics, Tracey Baptiste’s The Crash, and Mur Lafferty’s The Lost Journals

I can’t rlly describe why but go read the ones I just listed those are great

[agrafen1]

There’s one massive, infuriating plot hole in the GK999 series that bothhhhhhhhhers me.

In invansion of the overworld, we learn that Crafter is the oldest NPC on his server. But in one of the later arcs, when GK travels back 100 years, it turns out that Smithy was alive during that period—and Smithy is, *ahem*, Crafter’s great-great-grandfather.

Let’s assume everyone there has kids at around age 20. That gives us this timeline:

Smithy → some great-grandfather (20 years)

some great-grandfather → Carver (20 years)

Carver → some parent (20 years)

some parent → Crafter (20 years)

In short, that adds up to about 80 years—give or take. Either way, that would make Crafter somewhere between 20 and 25 years old.

If we bump the age up to 24–26 (which is more realistic), the math gets even worse, as it would mean Crafter was only 13 to 18 years old [at the time of the invasion of the overworld].

I Googled which century the events of Minecraft might theoretically take place in—considering the use of primitive weaponry like swords and bows, along with other living conditions—and the consensus points to the 17th century. Back then, people typically had their first child around the age of 20.

I lowered that age to 16 or 17—which was rare even for that era—and multiplied 16 by four generations to get 64; subtracting that from 100 gives us 36, which is roughly Crafter's actual age. Lol.

In fact, he could easily be the oldest NPC on his server, even at that age. I suspect that, around the time he met GK, the mortality rate on his specific server might have been extremely high. You know—war, and all that.

I like to draw parallels with real historical events in my musings. To put things in perspective: during World War II, the average age at death was around 30—or 20 to 25 for military personnel.

In any case, these are just my own deductions, since the ages of the protagonists—with the exception of the GK—were never stated; however, I’ve come to the conclusion that Crafter is likely 36 at most. (naturally, that applies to the time of the iotO events; for subsequent arcs, I lean towards an age of around 12–13)

Mr. Cheverton/Feynman/Monkey, I have some questions.

[evilwriter37]

The main character of the Max Brooks Minecraft books is autistic confirmed. Confirmation made by me, an autistic person.

Like, it’s not super noticeable in the first book but that’s because the narrator has no other human contact. But in book 2 he meets another person, and wow, yeah, autism. He emanates it.