Minecraft: The Village 21128 Review Part 3

In part three of our review, we move on to the farm and corral modules, composed of four detachable sections all from bag eight.  This bag also includes the second villager, this one in a brown coat, a brick built pig and four torches that all get used on a street lamp build.  The first module is a farm, a nice sized rendition of the game version with a central strip of water to provide irrigation and a strip of dirt on each side holding carrots, wheat and potatoes in various states of growth.  This section looks great, offers some great play features and matches the in game version fairly well.  It also includes a street lamp that uses the four torches and a red flower.  The next section is a corral with full fencing and a double door gate.  This also includes a green jumper plate inside to help with posing the pig.  The pig itself is the same build we have seen in previous sets and looks great with a printed head!  Next we have a very simple small plate with nothing on it except another red flower.  Last of all we have a small water plate with a central 2x2 plate of sand holding some sugar cane.  All together, these sections provide you with a great representation of the resource generation and collection for the village!

Bag nine gives us Alex with a diamond pick-axe, a creeper and a brick built piglet along with a section of desert with some basic terrain and a well building.  The terrain is mostly desert with a strip of gravel representing a road.  There is one cactus and three brown grass sections to add detail.  Another street lamp with four torches is also included.  The well is a nicely details little building with four pillars holding up a smooth roof.  The center has a block of trans blue to represent the water and it includes a pail with water in it.

Last of all, bags 10 and 11 build the butcher shop, another rectangular building with peaked roof similar in design to the library.  This building also hinges open down the middle but includes two doors and a small fenced in area to hold an animal.  The interior is very simple with some benches and a table.  The coloring and material usage for the walls is slightly different than the library and there is no attic floor, but the roof is otherwise the same.  No figures are included in this portion of the build.  This building suffers from the same problem as the library in that the hinge construction includes a two green 2x4 plates (one on each side of the hinge split) to hold it all together which runs through the wall and is visible from the inside.

The last bit of instructions shows you how to assemble everything in the default layout using the 2x4 jumpers you built in step one.