Village & Pillage: A Wanderous Journey

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            "field": "April 17, 2019",
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Village & Pillage: A Wanderous Journey is an animated short made to promote the Village & Pillage update, telling the story of a wandering trader trying to sell products.

A wandering trader is restocking the contents of a trader llama's chest in a old growth pine taiga, pulling out a bucket of pufferfish and nautilus shell. They cross through the forest before eventually seeing someone across from a river. The trader pulls out many items with the hopes of selling to them, only for it to just be two foxes stacked on top of each other. Next they approach a pillager outpost, the pillagers intimidate and immediately attack them. Now situated at a campfire, the trader sits down depressed and desperate while their llama eats a sweet berry off the bush and immediately spits it out.

Moving on to a snowy plains, the trader llama hums, creating a loud echo. Moving on to a desert, they stand stoically as the sun sets. Moving on to an eroded badlands biome, the wandering trader hums, creating a loud echo. There is simply nobody around to trade with, it seems, leaving the trader very saddened and hurt. Approaching a waterfall, the trader llama walks over to the edge, and sees something. It goes back and pushes their owner to see what they saw; to their relief, a village.

• The ending of the video was used as the banner for a Minecraft.net article.^[1]

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  A spruce forest.
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  The wandering trader and their llama in a spruce forest.
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  Ditto.
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  The wandering trader holding a bucket of pufferfish and a nautilus shell.
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  The wandering walking through the spruce forest.
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  Ditto.
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  The wandering trader and their llama overlooking a river.
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  The wandering trader is holding many items.
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  A mysterious shadow behind a tree.
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  The wandering trader looks into the spruce forest.
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  A fox family walks out of the forest.
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  The wandering trader holds items once again.
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  A pillager outpost is seen in the distance.
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  Ditto.
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  The wandering trader once again holds their items.
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  The wandering trader stands before the outpost.
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  A pillager holds the wandering trader at gunpoint.
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  The wandering trader, while holding there items, realizes the problem.
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  A plains biome.
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  The wandering trader is walking through the plains biome.
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  The llama follows.
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  Ditto.
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  The wandering trader's face is lit by campfire light.
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  The wandering trader and their llama sits by the fire.
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  Ditto.
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  A snowy biome.
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  Ditto.
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  A desert biome.
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  The wandering trader overlooks a mesa biome.
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  A mesa biome.
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  The wandering trader continues to walk in sorrow.
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  The llama walks ahead.
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  A plains biome next to a forest.
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  The llama looks down the cliff.
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  Ditto.
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  The wandering trader walks towards the cliff.
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  The wandering trader squinting downwards.
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  The wandering trader sees something.
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  A village is seen in the distance.
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  The wandering trader and llama look at each other.
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  The village.
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  Ditto.
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  The wandering trader and their llama run towards the village.
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  Ditto.
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  The end?

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  Concept art for A Wanderous Journey.^[2]
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  Storyboard of A Wanderous Journey.
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  Another storyboard of A Wanderous Journey.
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  A third storyboard of A Wanderous Journey.