Microworlds When asked about Lego Minecraft's beginnings, Mojang chief executive officer
Carl Manneh stated that "it was one of the first things we talked about when we started
Mojang." Mojang started the project on the "
Lego Ideas" program, which required ten thousand signatures for the project to be approved. With the strong support of the
Minecraft community, the signature objective was achieved within 2 days, and the development of the Lego Minecraft set commenced after Lego reviewed the project. The first Micro-World set was released on June 6, 2012. Portions of the sales proceeds went to a charity of Lego's choosing. On July 17, 2013, it was announced that two additional Micro-World sets would be added to the
Minecraft theme based on the "Nether" and "Village" areas of the game. The fourth and final Micro-World set exploring "The End" region was released in summer 2014.
Minifigures Minifigure sized Lego sets were then later announced in 2014. The prototypes of Creepers, mine carts, and sheep were all being developed as part of a Co-Build Project announced after
Minecon, a fan convention. The initial group of 6 minifigure-scaled sets including the First Night, the Mine, the
Ender Dragon, Crafting Box, the Farm and the Cave were released from November to December 2014. As of now, there are 43 Minifig-Scale that have been released with more on the way.
Bigfigs In 2019, Lego introduced Minecraft Bigfigs which are Big brick built figures based on
Minecraft mobs similar to Lego Construction figures like
Bionicle,
Knights Kingdom II, etc. So far there have been five Bigfigs released consisting of Bigfig
Steve with Parrot, Bigfig Alex with Chicken, Bigfig Skeleton with Magma Cube, Bigfig Creeper and Ocelot, and Bigfig Pig with Baby Zombie, with a Series 3 unlikely to be released. ==Launch==