Minecraft Legends: Return of the Piglins: An Official Minecraft Novel

Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Prologue For the Zoo The Expedition Heading In Keep Going Rescue Yourself Hello On the Run Finding the Portal What a Bargain Celebration Through the Portal Striding Home The Discovery The Zoo Star Discovered Thinking Salvation If You Build It… Let’s Make a Deal Tricks and Treats The New Zoo Wanton Destruction Betrayal! Strange Bedfellows Get the Obsidian Time to Dig In The Big Fight The Great Uggub The Pit and the Obsidian The Final Betrayal To Rule the Nether Last Chances Illustration Dedication Acknowledgments Other Titles About the Author Landmarks Cover Cover Title Page Contents Start Copyright Print Page List iv v vi 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 1 vii 227 ii 229 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Minecraft Legends: Return of the Piglins is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
 Copyright © 2023 Mojang AB. All Rights Reserved. Minecraft, the Minecraft logo, the Mojang Studios logo, and the Creeper logo are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.
 Published in the United States by Random House Worlds, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
 Random House is a registered trademark, and Random House Worlds and colophon are trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
 Hardback ISBN 9780593355718
 International edition ISBN 9780593724125
 Ebook ISBN 9780593355725
 Illustration: M. S. Corley
 randomhousebooks.com
 Book design by Elizabeth A. D. Eno, adapted for ebook
 Cover art and design: M. S. Corley
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 Contents
 
 Cover
 Title Page
 Copyright
 
 
 Prologue
 
 
 For the Zoo
 
 
 The Expedition
 
 
 Heading In
 
 
 Keep Going
 
 
 Rescue Yourself
 
 
 Hello
 
 
 On the Run
 
 
 Finding the Portal
 
 
 What a Bargain
 
 
 Celebration
 
 
 Through the Portal
 
 
 Striding Home
 
 
 The Discovery
 
 
 The Zoo Star
 
 
 Discovered
 
 
 Thinking
 
 
 Salvation
 
 
 If You Build It…
 
 
 Let’s Make a Deal
 
 
 Tricks and Treats
 
 
 The New Zoo
 
 
 Wanton Destruction
 
 
 Betrayal!
 
 
 Strange Bedfellows
 
 
 Get the Obsidian
 
 
 Time to Dig In
 
 
 The Big Fight
 
 
 The Great Uggub
 
 
 The Pit and the Obsidian
 
 
 The Final Betrayal
 
 
 To Rule the Nether
 
 
 Last Chances
 
 
 Illustration
 Dedication
 Acknowledgments
 By Matt Forbeck
 About the Author
 
 
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 “Where is Kritten?” The Great Bungus’s bellow echoed throughout the crude throne room of their crumbling piglin bastion. “I need their smarts, and I need them now!”
 As the leader of perhaps the largest—and arguably the most powerful—clan of piglins in the entire Nether, Bungus liked to make demands and to have them answered instantly. They hadn’t fought their way to the top of this heap to have people ignore their demands, no matter how ridiculous they might be. The fact that Kritten seemed to be avoiding them once again—if not outright hiding from their entirely righteous wrath—made their blood boil like the lakes of lava that bubbled through the bastion’s broken walls.
 “You don’t need them!” Uggub grunted. “You got me!”
 Bungus side-eyed the massive piglin brute. “You’re not smart! Just strong! The kind of trouble we got now, muscles can’t help with. We need smarts to fix it! Kritten’s smarts!”
 Uggub grunted louder, huffing with indignity at the idea that sheer brawn wasn’t the solution to every issue. “Muscle got you this bastion! Muscle can keep it!”
 Bungus leaped up from the rough stone throne and backhanded Uggub across the floor. “Did your muscle stop that? Huh?”
 Uggub wiped their jaw clean as they pushed to their feet. They glared at Bungus as if their eyes could shoot arrows straight through the piglin boss’s head.
 Bungus snorted at Uggub. “There’s too much out there in the Nether that can kill us! Too many other piglins who want what we got! Muscle’s not enough to stop it! The walls of this bastion can’t last against it all either! It’s too much! We need smarts!”
 Hearing how much Bungus needed their help, Kritten decided it might be worth risking their wrath. The much smaller piglin adjusted their robes, slipped out of their hiding space behind Bungus’s throne, and leaped into the light shining down through the battered bastion’s