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	\| gross = $842.4 million		\| gross = $842.4 million
			\| preceded_by = [[Minecraft (2024 film)\|Minecraft]]
			\| followed_by = ''[[Minecraft: The Legion War]]''
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	Following the commercial success of ''Minecraft'', Mojang Studios, Squared Media, and Northstar Animation began developing a sequel focused on the End, Endermen culture, and the aftermath of Herobrine's corruption. Bennett stated that the film was designed to be larger and more political than the first film, shifting from a quest story into a war story about fear, memory, and the danger of treating an entire world as an enemy. Production took nearly three years, with the animation crew creating new systems for Ender teleportation, crowd battles, fractured islands, void storms, and multi-dimensional combat.		Following the commercial success of ''Minecraft'', Mojang Studios, Squared Media, and Northstar Animation began developing a sequel focused on the End, Endermen culture, and the aftermath of Herobrine's corruption. Bennett stated that the film was designed to be larger and more political than the first film, shifting from a quest story into a war story about fear, memory, and the danger of treating an entire world as an enemy. Production took nearly three years, with the animation crew creating new systems for Ender teleportation, crowd battles, fractured islands, void storms, and multi-dimensional combat.

	''Minecraft: The Ender War'' premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on May 23, 2026, and was released theatrically in the United States on July 17, 2026, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation, darker tone, worldbuilding, action sequences, musical score, and expansion of the first film's mythology, although some criticism was directed at its length and large number of characters. It grossed $842.4 million worldwide, surpassing its predecessor, and became one of the highest-grossing animated films based on a video game.		''Minecraft: The Ender War'' premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on May 23, 2026, and was released theatrically in the United States on July 17, 2026, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation, darker tone, worldbuilding, action sequences, musical score, and expansion of the first film's mythology, although some criticism was directed at its length and large number of characters. It grossed $842.4 million worldwide, surpassing its predecessor, and became one of the highest-grossing animated films based on a video game. A sequel, ''[[Minecraft: The Legion War]]'', was announced after the film's release, with the project described as the first installment in the series to feature the real [[Herobrine]] rather than the lingering Essence of Herobrine.

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	The Essence of Herobrine makes one final attempt to enter Steve, using the command block fragment still buried in the Overworld as an anchor. Steve allows the essence to see his memories, but instead of fighting it with strength, he overwhelms it with every act of rebuilding that followed destruction. Villagers raising homes, piglins trading with farmers, Endermen placing stolen blocks back where they belonged, and Derp planting a single flower in a crater weaken the essence long enough for Alex to shatter the fragment. The white-eyed shadow dissolves into the void, though Luna warns that an idea cannot be killed as easily as a body.		The Essence of Herobrine makes one final attempt to enter Steve, using the command block fragment still buried in the Overworld as an anchor. Steve allows the essence to see his memories, but instead of fighting it with strength, he overwhelms it with every act of rebuilding that followed destruction. Villagers raising homes, piglins trading with farmers, Endermen placing stolen blocks back where they belonged, and Derp planting a single flower in a crater weaken the essence long enough for Alex to shatter the fragment. The white-eyed shadow dissolves into the void, though Luna warns that an idea cannot be killed as easily as a body.

	Varyn survives but is stripped of command by the Obsidian Court and exiled to the outer islands. Solara restores the End's sky and names Luna as the first bridgewarden between dimensions. Nira and Kael help form a council of Endermen, builders, piglins, and villagers to govern portal travel. Oakridge is rebuilt with a small Ender embassy, while Brine opens a Nether trade route and Abigail creates farms designed to grow in Ender soil. Sky completes a safe elytra model and gives the first one to Derp, who immediately crashes into a hay bale. Steve and Alex leave again to map the new portal roads, while Luna watches the repaired End crystals glow peacefully. In a mid-credits scene, a deep underground sculk sensor reacts to the sound of the shattered command block, ~~and~~ a ~~distant roar echoes beneath~~ the ~~bedrock~~.		Varyn survives but is stripped of command by the Obsidian Court and exiled to the outer islands. Solara restores the End's sky and names Luna as the first bridgewarden between dimensions. Nira and Kael help form a council of Endermen, builders, piglins, and villagers to govern portal travel. Oakridge is rebuilt with a small Ender embassy, while Brine opens a Nether trade route and Abigail creates farms designed to grow in Ender soil. Sky completes a safe elytra model and gives the first one to Derp, who immediately crashes into a hay bale. Steve and Alex leave again to map the new portal roads, while Luna watches the repaired End crystals glow peacefully. In a mid-credits scene, a deep underground sculk sensor reacts to the sound of the shattered command block. Beneath the bedrock, the fragment reforms into a human-shaped shadow with white eyes, revealing that the real Herobrine has awakened.

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	==~~Future~~==		==Sequel==
	~~Following the film's opening weekend, Bennett stated that a~~ third film ~~had been discussed but~~ was ~~not yet~~ formally announced. ~~He said that the mid-credits sculk teaser~~ was ~~included because~~ the ~~filmmakers wanted to explore a different kind~~ of Minecraft ~~threat after two films involving command block corruption and dimensional war~~. Feld ~~later suggested that a potential third film would~~ be ~~smaller and more mysterious~~, ~~focusing~~ on ~~the Deep Dark~~, ~~ancient cities~~, and ~~the consequences of the command block fragment awakening something beneath bedrock~~.		A third film was formally announced following the commercial success of ''The Ender War''. The sequel was titled ''[[Minecraft: The Legion War]]'' and was described by Warner Bros., Mojang Studios, Squared Media, and Northstar Animation as the concluding chapter of the initial animated ''Minecraft'' film trilogy. Riley Bennett, Mara Feld, Leah Jansen, Tomas Rydell, and several members of the principal voice cast were reported to be returning, while Northstar Animation began early visual development on new Overworld, Nether, End, and Deep Dark environments.

	~~Mojang~~ and ~~Squared Media were also reported~~ to ~~be developing additional animated shorts set between~~ the ~~first film~~ and ''The Ender War''. ~~These shorts were expected~~ to ~~focus~~ on ~~secondary characters~~, ~~including Brine's diplomatic work with piglin clans~~, ~~Sky~~ and ~~Rain~~'s ~~beacon experiments~~, and ~~Luna~~'s ~~early attempts to reconnect with~~ the ~~End~~. Bennett ~~said that any future feature film would need~~ to ~~justify itself emotionally rather than simply introducing~~ another ~~Minecraft dimension~~.		The announcement confirmed that ''The Legion War'' would introduce the real [[Herobrine]], distinguishing the character from the Essence of Herobrine that had influenced the first two films. Bennett stated that the first film treated Herobrine as a buried legend and the second film treated him as an ideological corruption, while the third would finally show the figure behind the myth. The filmmakers reportedly avoided using the real Herobrine earlier because they wanted his arrival to feel earned rather than reduced to a cameo or a simple final-boss reveal.

			Early descriptions of the story indicated that ''The Legion War'' would follow Steve, Alex, Luna, Sky, Abigail, Rain, Brine, Stella, Derp, Nira, and Kael after the mid-credits scene of ''The Ender War'', in which the shattered command block fragment awakens beneath the bedrock. The film was said to center on Herobrine forming a dimension-spanning army known as the Legion, made up of corrupted mobs, lost builders, ancient city remnants, and entities drawn from failed worlds. Unlike Varyn, who acted from fear and was manipulated by the Essence, Herobrine was described as a deliberate antagonist who understands creation, memory, and command blocks more deeply than any previous villain in the series.

			Feld said that the third film was not planned as another single-dimension adventure. Instead, the story was developed as a war across everything the first two films had built: Oakridge, Sandspire, the Nether trade routes, the Ender embassy, the portal roads, and the Deep Dark beneath the Overworld. The title ''The Legion War'' was chosen to emphasize that Herobrine's threat would not come only from personal power, but from his ability to unite every abandoned, corrupted, and forgotten part of the Minecraft world under one command.

			The sequel announcement also recontextualized the ending of ''The Ender War''. The film's final warning that an idea could not be killed as easily as a body was later described by Bennett as the bridge between the Essence of Herobrine and the real Herobrine. According to Bennett, ''The Ender War'' was about worlds learning to trust one another after being manipulated by fear, while ''The Legion War'' would ask whether those alliances could survive when the original source of that fear finally appears.

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	~~\| image2 = Minecraft The Ender War Luna poster.jpg~~
	~~\| footer = Steve and Luna return as central characters, with Luna receiving a larger role as the conflict shifts toward the End.~~
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	* [[Rowan Ashfield]] as [[Steve (Minecraft)\|Steve]], a veteran miner, builder, and monster hunter who fears that every attempt to protect the world only brings it closer to another catastrophe		* [[Rowan Ashfield]] as [[Steve (Minecraft)\|Steve]], a veteran miner, builder, and monster hunter who fears that every attempt to protect the world only brings it closer to another catastrophe
	* [[Maya Ren]] as [[Alex (Minecraft)\|Alex]], an explorer and cartographer who attempts to rebuild trust between the Overworld, the End, and the Nether		* [[Maya Ren]] as [[Alex (Minecraft)\|Alex]], an explorer and cartographer who attempts to rebuild trust between the Overworld, the End, and the Nether

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	\| name = Minecraft: The Ender War		\| name = Minecraft: The Ender War
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	\| alt = Steve, Alex, Luna, Sky, Abigail, Rain, Brine, Stella, and Derp stand on a broken End island while thousands of Endermen gather beneath a cracked purple sky. A white-eyed shadow glows behind an Ender fortress in the distance.		\| alt = Steve, Alex, Luna, Sky, Abigail, Rain, Brine, Stella, and Derp stand on a broken End island while thousands of Endermen gather beneath a cracked purple sky. A white-eyed shadow glows behind an Ender fortress in the distance.
	\| caption = Theatrical release poster		\| caption = Theatrical release poster

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