The

Box/Instructions

The box is fairly large, considering the amount of pieces. On the front it shows a big pile of all the parts, and on the back it gives a list of all the pieces, and images of the 8 models and 10 inspiration models to build.

The instructions are composed of 2 books. Book 1 gives you the instructions to building the minifigures and the models. But unlike your typical instruction book, this one shows you how to complete all 8 models in chunks. In other words, several mini-models that can connect together to build one scene. It shows you how to build these individual "chunks" in Book 2. So for example, you would build a chunk of terrain using Book 2, then connect it to another chunk of terrain using Book 1. So instead of normally going from Book 1 to Book 2, you get to use Book 2, THEN Book 1. It sounds complicated, but it's quite easy when you open the instructions for yourself.

Parts

With 518 pieces, you can build so many things. Although parts are limited, your imagination can use these pieces to build anything! Here's a brief list of the kinds of pieces you get:

blue water/orange lava pieces/plates

green grass plates

sand pieces/plates

stone pieces/plates

dirt pieces

red mushrooms

torches

furnace

Redstone/Lapis lazuli ores

TNT block

carrot

bread

crop pieces

flower pieces

fence thing

wooden plank/stone brick pieces

glass pane clear pieces

iron door pieces

+much more!

Minifigures

3 minifigures come with the crafting box. Although Brickset says there's only 2, I and the box include the mooshroom. But first I'll tell you all about Steve.

All Steves look the same in these 6 new minifig-scale sets. But each Steve has a unique element(s) to it. What's unique to THIS Steve is that he comes with a diamond pickaxe. Like I said in my last review on 21115 The First Night, Steve's clothing and eyes are a little bit out of color. Also I said that he needed a short sleeve shirt instead of long sleeve.

The skeleton also comes in set 21114 The Farm and 21118 The Mine. It has a normal skeleton body, except for the head. The head looks how the head of a skeleton normally looks in minecraft. It's a white cube, with 2 black lines for the eyes, a gray line for the nose, and a long black line that spans the equal width of the eyes. The skeleton is armed with a bow. The only things I would change are the arms. They are bent slightly. In Minecraft, the arms are straight so that they can stick straight out and shoot arrows at the player, who in this case is Steve. The issue is not a big deal, but you can swap arms if you have straight white "arm" pieces that can attach to the torso.

The final minifigure that Brickset disregarded is the mooshroom. Appearing in Minecraft as a cow that is red instead of brown, has red 3 mushrooms on its back and head, larger eyes, and gives you mushroom stew instead of milk, this is the only PASSIVE mob of Minecraft that does not exist in real life; chickens, cows, sheep, pigs, squids, villagers(humans count), bats, ocelots, horses, donkeys, cats, dogs, and rabbits all exist in the physical world. Anyway, back to the mooshroom, it has the same new head mold as the cow, sheep, pig, and spider minifigures. Like the cow, the mooshroom has the same white patterns as it. It also has the same utters. However, there are obvious differences, like the different colored skin, and that the mooshroom has 2 red mushrooms on it's back and the cow doesn't. The only thing I would've changed is adding a 3rd red mushroom on it's head. The typical adult mooshroom in Minecraft has 3 red mushrooms on its body: 2 on its back(which LEGO included), and 1 on the top of its head. If they'd also added horns to the side of its head, that would make this mooshroom complete.

The build

You can build absolutely anything in this set. I built a small tower over a mushroom biome. It didn't take that long, even though I was flipping back and forth through the books. Making the chunks was fun.

The completed model

There are 8 models to build that the instructions give you. 1 is a crop/flowerland with an oak tree and running water. 2 is a fort I guess with a couple trees and a cropland and a beach. 3 is an area of running water and lava in a grass/sand biome. 4 is the one I built, a mushroom biome with an area of running water and a little structure with a furnace. There is also some cropland. 5 is a grass/sand biome with running water, cropland, and weird oak plank structures with water in them. 6 is a biome with a stone structure with an iron door. 7 is a tower in a grass biome with an iron door, and the little structure from the one I built at the top. Finally, 8 looks like a cave sort-of thing with a sophisticated entrance. Within the "cave" are lapis lazuli and redstone ores, with a magma pit and water area. But you can build absolutely whatever you want in this awesome set!

Overall opinion

My overall opinion is that this set is AWESOME! TOTALLY worth the money! This set is really really a must-have for Minecrafters and more!