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Minecraft: Village & Pillage

Minecraft: Village & Pillage is a major update for Minecraft themed around revamping villages, adding a new subset of illagers known as pillagers, vindicators, evokers, and vexes, and redesigning village…

23 April 2019

Minecraft: Village & Pillage is an adventure developed by Mojang Studios, released 23 April 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Amazon Fire TV.

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What Minecraft: Village & Pillage is

Minecraft: Village & Pillage is an adventure game developed by Mojang Studios and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Amazon Fire TV, Android, Gear VR, iOS, Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Minecraft: Village & Pillage is a major update for Minecraft themed around revamping villages, adding a new subset of illagers known as pillagers, vindicators, evokers, and vexes, and redesigning village architecture to match the biome where it is located. This update also includes many new blocks and mobs, a revamp of the crafting system by moving some functionalities to different blocks, updates the taiga biome with foxes, and berries, and adds a new bamboo forest jungle variant along with pandas, bamboo, and The Texture Update, allowing for a complete retexture of different items in the game.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, open world, sandbox and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Minecraft series

Minecraft: Village & Pillage is the 53rd of 131 entries we hold in the Minecraft series. The next entry was Minecraft Classic in 2019.

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What it launched against

Minecraft: Village & Pillage launched on 23 April 2019, within three weeks of Days Gone, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Anno 1800 and Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Days Gone, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Anno 1800, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced.

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When did Minecraft: Village & Pillage come out?
Minecraft: Village & Pillage was released on 23 April 2019 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Amazon Fire TV, Android, Gear VR, iOS, Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone.

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