LEGO Minecraft Ideas: With Exclusive Mini Model

by Shari Last, Julia March

Level up your LEGO® Minecraft® models with more than 50 building ideas!Use your LEGO collection to bring your Minecraft builds to life. Inspire budding builders to design a diamond sword, build a busy biome, make a micro mob, create a creeper house, and much more. Challenge family and friends to exciting games that combine the best bits of Minecraft and LEGO building. Comes with a diver minifigure and all the bricks needed to build an exclusive LEGO Minecraft mini model of an aquatic scene. Get ready to play!

80 pages, Hardcover

Published June 18, 2024

About the author

I'm a children's author specialising in non-fiction (though I love writing fiction as well).

I write on many topics including dinosaurs, space, LEGO, Star Wars, Spider-Man, the human body, Judaism, and Marvel.

I love reading YA fantasy fiction, religious thrillers, and crime thrillers.

Reviews

[Kaila · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a fun book! My 5 year old daughter enjoyed looking through this book and trying to recreate her own Minecraft characters and figures. She loves Minecraft and Lego, so this was quite exciting for her. I do wish there were more instructions to make the building much easier, however, the book is still great!

Thank you NetGalley, DK Children, Shari Last, and Julia March for such a fun book!

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

I guess I went into this book expecting more instructions or something, and that may be on me because I have not read one of these since my kiddos were little. But it really felt short on so many fronts. While the builds were neat ideas and inspiration, and the instructions or guidance for each was helpful, if I was a younger reader - and this was really targeted to younger readers in my opinion - I would be frustrated. I would want to at least know what parts were used in building the various models in the book or, better yet, having some instructions. That would probably result in fewer builds, so maybe a balance between instructions, parts, and then ideas. And yes, a strong Lego builder could sort through most of these in some fashion, but not every child is a strong builder and many still want some guidance.

If someone is on the hunt for seeing some cool Minecraft builds, then maybe this would work for them. But if it's a reader interested in going beyond the idea to actually try the build themselves, this would fall very short of the mark.

[Wear Bear · Rating 1 out of 5]

No step-by-step instructions, no piece info!

There are a lot of cool ideas here. It’s extremely disappointing with these type of books that they don’t include step-by-step instructions. I’m getting this for my young son who can build complex Lego sets well with instructions. Just seeing an end product or construction, isn’t enough to know how to build it! The most frustrating of all is that these books always have special pieces that you don’t get in the bulk Lego sets that they build. The book doesn’t even tell you exactly what the name of the pieces are. So you don’t include instructions on how to build the constructions and you don’t use pieces that most collections have and you don’t say what the type of special pieces are that you’re using and where to get them. These books don’t seem to be worth getting it all.

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

When you have a child who loves Minecraft you find yourself looking for new books. Add in this same child being a lego lover and you found yourself a great book.
The book itself would be awesome if you knew ahead what exact pieces you need. Because hunting for these pieces you may or may not have is time consuming and frustrating.
While I enjoyed looking through this book, I wish the first page has wrote out which pieces would be needed.