Minecraft

Minecraft: Wii U Edition is a Wii U game released by Mojang AB and 4J Studios. It is a port of Minecraft, a sandbox PC game with a blocky aesthetic centered around gathering resources to survive, exploring the randomly generated terrain, and creating worlds and sculptures using a variety of colorful blocks and tools, though the objective is largely based on the player's direction. It was originally released for the Nintendo eShop on December 17, 2015, and later released with a physical edition on May 17, 2016. The original game includes references to the Mario franchise, such as a painting featuring 100m from Donkey Kong (which was based on a painting by Kristoffer Zetterstrand), and the Wii U Edition keeps these references. However, the Wii U Edition also has an exclusive Super Mario Mash-Up Pack that was released alongside the physical edition.

Super Mario Mash-Up Pack
The Super Mario Mash-Up Pack was released as downloadable content on May 17, 2016, though it comes bundled with the physical edition. It was developed in conjunction with Nintendo. Though the mechanics of Minecraft remain the same in the pack, everything has been visually changed to match the aesthetics of the Mario franchise, which includes different skins for the player and every block, item, and mob. There is also a premade world containing several Mario landmarks and multiple enemy gauntlets and jumping challenges.

Skins
Skins are textures that the player can apply to change their appearance. There are forty Mario-themed skins that come with the pack. The skins, as they are titled and ordered from the selection screen, are:

Mobs
Mobs make up the creatures that can be found across the world, both friendly and aggressive. Again, all of them exhibit the behavior of their original Minecraft counterparts (e.g. the Hammer Bros. do not throw hammers and instead charge the players, just as the Zombies did previously).

Mario enemies and characters are listed first, followed by the original enemy in parenthesis.


 * Elder Guardians are Porcupuffers

Building Blocks

 * Bricks become Brick Blocks
 * A Block of Gold becomes a Gold Block

Foodstuffs

 * Potatos are Turnips
 * Raw Salmon is a Cheep Cheep
 * Raw Fish is a Deep Cheep
 * Clownfish are Eep Cheeps
 * Pufferfish are Porcupuffers
 * Carrots are Carrot
 * Apples are Berries (Golden Apples are Berries with a yellow color palette)

Materials

 * A Gold Ingot is a Coin
 * A Diamond is a Super Gem


 * An Oxeye Daisy is a Boomerang Flower
 * A Poppy is a Power Flower
 * A Blue Orchid is an Ice Flower
 * A Cactus is a head of a Pokey
 * A Crafting Table is a ? Block
 * A Nether Star is a Grand Star


 * TNT becomes a POW Block
 * Note Block becomes a Note Block
 * A Jukebox becomes a Super Horn
 * Vines are Beanstalks
 * The Ender Pearls are Shy Guy Masks
 * The Eye of Ender is a Grey Shy Guy Mask
 * Buckets become F.L.U.D.D.s
 * A Cauldron is a Warp Pipe
 * Dyes are Magic Paintbrushes
 * A lead is Chain Chomp's post
 * Hoes are Magic Wands
 * Flint and Steel are Fire Flower
 * Lily Pads are green Super Leaves
 * A saddle is Yoshi's saddle

Paintings
The paintings are often used throughout the map as decoration.

Pre-release and unused content
Unused images (presumably intended for use in the digital manual) in the files for Minecraft: Wii U Edition show that different skins were originally going to be used, rather than the ones in the final version. These include Hooktail as the Ender Dragon instead of Gobblegut, Midbus as the Pigs, and Yoshi as the Horses. Another image shows the Ender Chest with a Mr. I-themed design, rather than the Shy Guy-themed design it has in the release version.

The screenshot showing the Yoshi horses was actually used in the "Horses" section of the "How to Play" menu, prior to the patch adding the Battle Mini Game.