Fun at Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue London

[Ad- gifted experience] Minecraft is one of those video games that have really had it’s moment with every generation. I played Minecraft as a teenager, our children have played Minecraft, Kai even had a Minecraft themed room for quite some time! When we heard that the Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue was coming to London in time for Spring Holiday, we were excited to have a new event that felt perfect for all ages to experience.

The Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue lasts around 45 minutes, if you don’t count the time it takes to get your cube, get a picture taken, and wait for the video that tells you how to play the game. There aren’t any toilets inside, but there is an outside building which has lockers at £3 a pop. We did not feel any of the areas felt rushed and it did feel like a good amount of time, but I do find it strange that so much of their advertisements said it would be 1 hours worth, when it really wasn’t, as all of the areas themselves are set to timers.

Once we got our cubes, which are called the Orbs of Interaction at the Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue, and watched the video which was very engaging, we went into the forest. Here is where you sort of activate your cube using a pig and then see what it does. Placing your cube on things like the pig gather resources and going over to X’s on the floor give you areas that you can chop or fight, depending on what you want to do. It’s a free to explore area that works as a bit of a learning about the cubes themselves.

The next few areas are split into different rooms, with their own different goals and objectives all around saving the villagers and helping them. The first room had us crafting resources using big crafting tables. It wasn’t well explained that we were all on one big team at this point, so many families crowded around each of the crafting benches and didn’t let others use them. We ended up with a crafting table and had each of us get a different resource on our Orb of Interaction, so we blasted through a bunch of resources. Once we had all of our crafted items, we went into the next room to build our village. This was done at a big screen, where you needed to put the orb on X’s and then grab different items that appear, watching the village grow.

Towards the end of this interaction, a bunch of zombies started attacking the village, so we needed to actually memorize a recipe and get the items for a potion, while tapping to get rid of some of the zombies to understand what we needed to do. The next area was a giant room full of interactive screens that we could gather resources at. There was plenty of space in this room, so we were chopping down resources, opening chests, and gathering items on the floor by running around. The room went from green forest to winter scene to under water, giving us plenty of time to collect, which was shown at the top o f the screen.

The next area within the Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue was another interactive room, thought this time in the mines. There were different photo areas which was fun, as well as secret Easter eggs to do with redstone. This helped as the amount of time mining was quite long and there wasn’t really enough spots for all of the children in to do that specifically. We then went into a room where we needed to make a portal by putting lava and water into buckets, using our orb, before adding the obsidian to our portal. Once the portal was made, we were placed into a holding area where we could interact with pigmen, before going into the second to last room.

This was a floor is lava style room, where we then raced across the floor and started throwing balls at the screen to attack different enemies. There were lots of waves of this, which was fun to throw balls on, but again there wasn’t really enough room for the amount of children they let in. Also, standing slightly further back, resulted in losing health, so it was hard to not be dying while waiting. This part felt a little longer and more difficult to explore in the room, then we went to the final area where we placed our orbs on the crafting benches and saw all of our achievements as a team. There was an ending video and we headed out through the gift shop.

Overall, we all really enjoyed the Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue. It felt fun and interactive in a lot of new ways. The staff were kind and helpful – it would just be nice if the amount of people allowed in per time slot matched the amount of interactions. You do get a free cape to wear inside Minecraft, which is neat!

You can check out our other Days Out to see what else we’ve been up too!