A Minecraft Movie Ending and Post-Credits Scene Explained With Director Jared Hess and Minecraft's Torfi Frans Ólafsson

Are you wondering if A Minecraft Movie has a post-credits or mid-credits scene? We'll tell you right here: Yes, it has both!

Full spoilers follow...

Although the first trailer might have gotten fans riled up, and it changed release dates almost as much as The New Mutants, A Minecraft Movie (review) has arrived relatively unscathed in movie theaters, offering some family-friendly fun to the beleaguered 2025 box office.

The adventure begins when siblings Henry (Sebastian Hansen) and Natalie (Emma Myers) are forced to move to Chuglass, Idaho, after the untimely death of their mother. While both struggle to fit in, they're soon sucked into the Overworld along with their real estate agent Dawn (Danielle Brooks), and a one-time fighting game world champion turned local failing business owner, Garrett "The Garbage Man" Garrison (Jason Momoa). Throughout their adventure they meet the master-builder known as Steve (Jack Black) and battle zombies, pigs, and endermen. But if you're wondering where we leave our characters after they barely survive the evil pig Malgosha (Rachel House) and the Nether or if you should stay after the credits, we've got you covered with a level-up from director Jared Hess and Minecraft head of content Torfi Frans Ólafsson.

A Minecraft Movie Ending Explained

Leading into the release of A Minecraft Movie, the biggest question that fans had was how the filmmakers would adapt something so beloved and instantly recognizable that's also an open world experience. "I think the principle that we had is that we kind of start familiar, and then expand," Torfi Frans Ólafsson tells IGN. "The movie in its first act starts familiar with the first night, this experience that Minecraft players have where they're just in the woods and they have no weapons and no tools, and they're being hunted by zombies and creepers. We wanted to firmly root it and establish it in things that you know."

As the film moves into its second act, all that changes as we meet new characters who represent different aspects of how you can play Minecraft: a modder and a vanilla (unmodified) Minecraft expert. "One of the characters, Henry, he kind of represents the modern new blood that comes in, whereas Jack Black is Steve, who knows everything about vanilla," Ólafsson explains. "He knows everything about how it works today, knows how to make his diamond pickaxe and enchant it, and so on. The movie also kind of talks about how the modder comes in and then adds stuff to the game."

Together the two players take down the evil Nether-dwelling Piglin Malgosha (voiced by Rachel House), her invading War Hogs, and even the kinda chill General Chungus (voiced by Jared Hess). Bringing the Nether to the Overworld might surprise some Minecraft players, but it was something that Jared Hess and the team at Mojang really wanted to bring to the screen. "One of the biggest things when I fell in love with the Piglin characters, it was like, 'Gosh, these are so unique to Minecraft. I've never seen Piglin barbarian dudes that are obsessed with gold, dabble in cannibalism, live in a hot lava hellscape. But how do we bring those dudes to the Overworld?'" Hess recalls. "In the game they'll zombify, right? We spent a ton of time with Torfi and the team at Mojang talking about it."

Luckily the creative team had a plan to explain just how it might work. "It was like, 'Well they could drink some nether wart.' All right, then that's a solution that works within the physics and kind of the lore of the game," Hess continued." It was always kind of problem-solving stuff to make it work for a movie, but honoring the physics and the rules of the game, and then sometimes breaking it, but not really. I don't think we really broke any."

After retrieving the Orb of Dominance and stopping the Nether's encroaching invasion of the Overworld, Henry, Nat, Dawn, and Garrett decide to head back to the real world. And though Steve is loath to join them, Nat suggests that he bring some of his crafting magic back with him, which inspires Steve to return to the world he had once rejected.

Once we return to the real world we see how the Minecraft adventure has changed each of the crew for the better. Dawn and Dennis the wolf — who she met during her time in Overworld — are now running a successful cube-animal zoo. Nat is a professional martial arts teacher, Henry is finally cool at school after finishing his jetpack and showcasing it to his classmates, including the bullies. And Steve and Garrett are now running Game Over World together as the newly renamed Overworld Games, where they have a sick band and we get a great musical moment with the original song "I Feel Alive." Performed by Momoa and Black, the song was also written by Black and features, according to Kerrang, Dave Grohl "on drums, Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, Jellyfish’s Roger Manning on keys, pop superstar Mark Ronson on bass and rhythm guitar, and background vocals from co-star Danielle Brooks."

Could this rectify the injustice of Peaches not getting nommed for Best Original Song at the Oscars?

How A Minecraft Movie Pays Homage to a Legendary YouTuber

When it comes to Minecraft YouTubers there are likely none more iconic than Technoblade, aka Alexander. With his millions of followers and instantly recognizable pig in a crown avatar, the streamer took the gaming world by storm, but sadly passed away in 2022 after a battle with cancer. So while it might be a no-brainer that the makers of A Minecraft Movie pay homage to one of the game’s best known players, just how prominent that homage is might come as a surprise to fans.

In their quest for the Earth Crystal, Steve takes the crew to Midport village where they encounter the nightmarishly-nosed villagers and their protectors the Iron Golems. As they wander through the crowded streets, Henry sees a pig wearing a golden crown studded with gems — sound familiar? — and asks whether or not the creature is a king, to which Steve replies, "That's a legend!" It's a fitting tribute to the streamer and one that has already garnered emotional responses from fans and his fellow content creators.

Does A Minecraft Movie Have a Mid- or Post-Credits Scene?

Yes, it has both! The mid-credits scene of A Minecraft Movie wraps up the film’s major B-plot, which features Jennifer Coolidge as Marlene, a human woman and the Vice Principal of Henry and Nat's new school. She falls in love with a Minecraft villager — who escapes from the very same portal which takes Nat, Henry, Dawn, and Garrett into the magical Overworld — after she hits him with her Jeep Grand Cherokee and takes him for dinner to avoid getting sued.

In the mid-credits scene, which comes rather early, the unusual couple face down with Marlene's ex-husband Clemente, who is revealed to be Henry's overworked science and gym teacher. While he rails at his ex-wife, the villager reveals himself to be voiced by none other than Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows, Toast of London, etc.), whose velvety tones reveal that Nitwit, as he’s called, and Marlene are in love. And not only can he speak human, but she can now speak villager. Also, while the entire movie has only taken place over one 24-hour period, the pair are in love and are getting married. It's a perfectly silly and satisfying way to tie a romantic ribbon around the most unexpectedly hilarious part of the movie. It was also one that Hess revealed was in his original version of the script.