Minecraft: Survival Mode

This page is about the animation, not the gamemode

Minecraft: Survival Mode is an animated short about the daily life and struggles of a Minecraft avatar when you create a new survival mode. Minecraft: Survival Mode is the first animation made by Illager Animation, and is the animation that postponed The Dark Side. It was produced by Illager Animation, and animated by GregoryPlayz570 and Intrepid

Animation and Scheduling
Minecraft: Survival Mode was animated before The Dark Side because it was a short and because GregoryPlayz570 wanted it to be an "intro to the animations in store." The Dark Side is a three part movie, and would be a hassle to animate, and just wanted to get Minecraft: Survival Mode, an animation GregoryPlayz570 wanted to do for years, out of the way so they could move on to bigger things.

The first part of the animation was animated by Intrepid, who animated up to when the Illager digs a hole and finds a cave. GregoryPlayz570 animates the rest from that point on.

Plot(Spoiler Alert!)
GregoryPlayz570, the main character, spawns in a new world and falls in a pond of cold water. At first, he takes a look around and admires the surrounding landscape, and starts playing with the GUI menus. Then, he suddenly comes to attention and realizes night will be arriving soon. He starts gathering resources to gear up. He first punches down a tree to make a crafting table, and then starts crafting wooden and stone tools. He then starts digging a hole to see if he can run into a cave by chance. Sure enough, he finds one very quickly. He starts to mine iron out of the rocks when a skeleton appears in the shadows behind him. With his haste, GregoryPlayz570 forgot about the fact that monsters hang out in caves during the day. GregoryPlayz570 runs into the darkness, blindly running for a place to hide, arrows whizzing by him. He managed to find a little cove, although it was a dead end. He tries to hide in the dead end, but turns around to see that one of the skeletons had found his cove, and had GregoryPlayz570 cornered. It shot an arrow that missed GregoryPlayz570 by a few centimeters. Enraged with adrenaline, he kills the skeleton, although suffering from a few injuries