Movie Mansion Meme Madness
Part 26 ~ 12 January 2026
Played: 20 April 2025
(Spoilers ahead for A Minecraft Movie!!)
I... am STEVE. Wait, no, I'm Ela!
As you're likely aware by now, this charming cubic sandbox game is now the subject of a feature film! At the time of writing (editor's note: OOF!), it's been a bit over two weeks since "A Minecraft Movie" released. Naturally, I absolutely had see it for myself – this game is everything to me! And I gotta tell you, it was an absolute blast! Now was it a GOOD movie? Uhhh... I'm no film connoisseur, but I don't think it's normal for a movie to have this little plot and this many memes XD But lucky for you, Ms Holly Wood, I go to the movies to laugh, and this one delivered in spades – ahem, shovels!
So, about those memes. The most memeable moments were teased months in advance via the trailers, and one of these caught on like nothing else:
"CHICKEN JOCKEY!"
This immortal (and insufferable) scene takes place at the woodland mansion, specifically in the room with the boxing ring. Our down-on-his-luck hero, Garrett "The Garbage Man", finds himself in a fight for his life as a crowd of Vindicators looks on. He thinks he's fighting a chicken until they drop in a baby zombie, prompting Steve to call out the magic words – and thousands of children to throw their popcorn.
I got a wee bit inspired by this memery and decided to recreate it in my world.
"But Ela? Where are you going to find a mansion? Those things are tens of thousands of blocks away!" Oh, I've already found it lol. I saw it off in the distance while I was looking for jungle temples. It's barely a thousand blocks from spawn. The magic world seed delivers again! (I did take a little sneak peek to confirm that it had the boxing ring!) I grabbed a bed and 28 chest-boats, then took off towards the Spooky Woods.
I turned up to the mansion – henceforth, Movie Mansion – and found it in need of some urgent maintenance. First thing – this place is a gigantic fire hazard! We need to install a lightning rod up here, pronto! I can't run my underground boxing ring out of a burned down building! With that panic over, I did a little gardening out front. These guys let the trees grow right up to their doorway! What the heck have they been doing? How can they afford a MANSION but not an arborist? I even threw in some lighting and lawncare (i.e. covering over a cave) for their troubles.
By the way, look who showed up, just after I complained about them not showing up. Yeah, I'm good for dark oak saplings here friendo XD I'll gladly take some gunpowder off your hands though. And leads.
With my outside renovations done, I set about moving in and... relocating the inhabitants. I was immediately greeted by a vindicator, whom I snaffled in a chest boat. One occupant per boat – I've learned my lesson from the villagers! Other than boating the axe-wielding folk, I'm running a standard mansion raid: light up any dark spots, loot the chests, break through the walls to find secret rooms, and kill anything that moves. Anything, that is, but these adorable sprites locked in the dungeon – I promise I'll come back for you guys later!
On the second floor, I had my first encounter with the vaunted evoker, and its corrupted allay minions, the vex. Unlike the friendly blue fairies, this ghostly variant can phase through blocks – something of an unfair advantage in this 3D maze-like structure! The evoker itself goes down quickly though, and the vex expires after a time limit, if I can't shoot it down first. My reward for defeating this menace is the totem of undying, a magical device that enables me to cheat death. Yep. If my health drops to zero while this guy is in my hand, it straight up revives me! Plus it gives regeneration and fire resistance to reduce the chances of immediately dying again. Oh also, I picked up three of these, and apparently I can stack them. I think I might be immortal now??
After pondering the meaning of life for a bit, I continued to the top floor, where I found a structure of obsidian with a diamond block inside. Sweet! Then I rounded the corner to find the room I had come to see: the film studio! Uhh, I mean, the arena! :D It seems I had turned up in time to witness a skeleton duel, spectated by creepers and an enderman. Unfortunately, this crowd didn't like me barging in on their fight club and decided to attack me instead. As I dueled the enderman, I had a terrifying vision of a man with a teal shirt, blue pants, and empty white eyes. When I slew it, I could swear I heard something in its scratchy voice: "HEE-ROO-BRIIINE!" Okay, this world is FOR SURE haunted.
I tried to clear my mind by doing more renovations – this time, breaking down a couple walls to connect the staircases for better access. Then I set out in search of a chicken-mounted combatant. I considered trying for a random spawn at night, but I decided on the more reliable option of a zombie spawner. Pro tip, you CAN get chicken jockeys from zombie spawners! So I hit up Chunkbase and found one about 100 blocks away and at a nice y+34. I made a tunnel, cleared the adjoining caves, and set up a basic line-of-sight farm. And after cutting down plain, non-chicken zombies for half an hour, this fine specimen turned up.
Bingo! I popped a torch down to stop the spawner, nametagged the zombie (and the bird too!), and led the fearsome duo up the tunnel into the mansion. From there, I led them up the modified staircase and into the arena, where they would await the arrival of their opponent. But... who will be our stand-in for Garrett?
At this point, I realised I'd made a critical oversight in my plan. See, I was going to make Garrett as an armour stand with coloured leather clothes and a mob head. Then I remembered that I've turned off armour rendering! That's why you can see my hoodie even though I have a chestplate equipped. The thing about that is, it also affects other mobs – and armour stands. It's okay though – I have another plan, and it's gonna be awesome! But it's also gonna take time.
Grab another bucket of popcorn. This is now a FEATURE LENGTH presentation.
What's a mob that wears pink and has clearly seen better days? That's right – the zombified piglin. Which means I get to shoehorn in even more movie memes! I installed a portal on the roof, directly above the arena, then lit it with my FLINT AND STEEL! And then I went through to THE NETHER! ...Where I was surrounded by soul sand valley for miles, with no spawnable terrain for piglins, zombified or otherwise. With one mansion-sized exception: a treasure bastion.
I snuck in through a connected chunk of nether terrain, then slowly stealth-archered my way through the brutes. The loot here was honestly pants – just one ancient debris, and none of the unique bastion stuff. (Reminder that this is pre-smithing templates!) But the real treasure is sitting in a boat on the middle floor: a crossbow piglin. Which brings me to the next issue: The Garbage Man fights this duel with his bare hands! He doesn't have a crossbow, a gold sword, or – heaven forbid – a gold axe! But we can get around this thanks to a little trick better known for its application to pillagers. For some reason, unlike skeletons and their unbreakable bows, crossbows WILL break eventually in the hands of a mob. Combine this with the fact that boat passengers can't hit the driver with a direct shot, and we arrive at this comical scene:
And some youtubing later, I was greeted with the item breaking sound... and damage? So it turns out, unlike the pillager (on Java), piglins can punch you when their crossbow runs out! I hopped out, improvised a staircase back to my portal, and led the now bowless piglin out to the mansion – where he promptly began his new life as Zombie Garrett!
To complete the scene, I went around freeing the vindicators (14 of them) from my boat traps and luring them into the spectator area. While I was doing this, I encountered ANOTHER CHICKEN in the mansion. Did another chicken jockey spawn in here?? Sadly, no – this one lays eggs, which – fun fact – jockey chickens don't do. This fella just wandered in from outside! I decided to let it stay and roam the hallways :)
And with that, we've arrived at the final scene. It's Garrett the Garbage Man vs the Chicken Jockey. Who would win? Answer: they don't fight each other, they just wander aimlessly lol. But it's for the best – it means I can come back and relive this scene any time I want! :D
And there we have it – my own Minecraft Movie experience. Time to roll the credits and bait the sequel :P
