50 Ways to Live in Minecraft is a series of Minecraft Machinima videos made by Jake Eyes, set in the same universe as his 50 Ways to Die in Minecraft series. Smaller in scale compared to the main series, these videos generally focus on absurd satirical situations where almost no one except for the protagonists is reliable. The series was made so Jake Eyes could keep his channel running in the long waits between 50 Ways to Die episodes, and each video of 50 Ways to Live calls attention to this with a timer to Dooms Day, when the channel stops uploading due to a lack of funds.

So far, the released episodes are:

• "The Boy Who Spied Wolves": A parody of The Boy Who Cried Wolf involving killer hyenas, who initially disguised themselves as humans disguised as wolves, attacking a village while the boy attempts to rally the villagers to fight them, only to consistently turn him down with Logical Fallacies.
• "Pitfall": This episode stars familiar 50 Ways to Die in Minecraft characters as they try to rescue jayRiott, who was fed to a Sarlaac Pit by the Server Administration after they mistook him for SnakeTheJaik, all while refusing to set him free.
• "School House Rules": This episode strays away from the familiar cast again to focus on an Education Edition school where politics are banned, with the students, and eventually the staff, getting into trouble with this rule.
• "This is Dragon Country": This episode revolves around a medieval kingdom plagued by dragons, with a king who refuses to fight the dragons to protect his kingdom by repeatedly trying to ally with some dragons who just keep killing the messengers. His daughter begs him to do something productive about it, but refuses even after being given viable options and counters to his reasoning (fighting off the dragons with enchanted Netherite armor and weapons, obtaining potions of Fire Resistance, and funding this by taking just one small donation of treasure from the nobility; allying with another kingdom willing to try the aforementioned plan; getting rid of the dragons because they're an invasive species; etc).
• "Rank Tomatoes": In the second episode with the original cast, Brandon tells a group of kids a campfire horror story about a Mob Vote where the voting system lead to the winner being a vile creature called a Putridge, before revealing that it was real and has been added to the game. A Putridge then appears to the group, before telling a stand-up routine so bad that a tomato monster called Rottos the Astromato begins to descend from the sky to crush everything.
• "Ask Santa Any Thing": A Christmas Episode focusing on the letters Santa receives close to Christmas time and an apparent new hire being instructed on how to answer them on Santa's behalf. The letters seen are far beyond the norm, but since Santa is all-seeing, he'd know it there was any Thing wrong with the elves' handling of them.

An episode released after "Pitfall", "The Noobism Connection", centers around the living jello doctor Rozata Frittole Kichel Sr. and his conspiracy theory linking use of potions to causing "Noobism", leading to the familiar 50 Ways characters attempting to curb this. However, it was later made unlisted after criticism of the video using Noobs as an allegory for autism, with Jake Eyes leaving the episode viewable only from the linked blog post that explains the situation.

Tropes

• Anti-Hero: SnakeTheJaik takes on a more heroic role in this series compared to his generally villainous 50 Ways to Die incarnation, but his trickster personality is very much the same. For instance, in "Pitfall", he rigged the SMPD forces' crossbows to shoot backwards towards them to stop them from killing Stu, jay, Ned and Brandon.
• Apocalypse How: Dooms Day, the day where Jake Eyes' channel stops posting content, which is described as causing the death of the 50 Ways universe.
• Asshole Victim: Just like the main series, death is no strangers to jerks.
  • The bully leader from "The Boy Who Spied Wolves" earned himself a maul from the hyenas, and any sympathy for him is unearned after he pranked the sheepherder and caused everyone to not believing him.
  • Also, all the villagers from the same video were Eaten Alive by the hyenas after they refused to believe and help him.
  • All of the the corrupt SMPD forces in "Pitfall" end up shot themselves to death by their own crossbow, sabotage by SnakeTheJaik after they tried to kill Stu, jay, Ned and Brandon.
• Badass Santa: He's apparently had to fight through NATO airspace and looks forward to Microsoft thinking they could do better against him, may or may not have attempted necromancy before deciding it was in bad taste, and his all-seeing nature allowed him to see the Thing infiltrating his workshop and whip out a flamethrower to deal with it.
• The Caligula: In addition to his Head-in-the-Sand Management, King Jofreece in episode four refuses all other options in favor of sending more and more messengers to a dragon named Bloodwing in the hopes of forming an alliance against the king of the dragons, despite that he sent enough messengers for Bloodwing ran out of fire burning them to ashes, eating them until he's full, and finally to the point he just rips their head off with his teeth. He still refuses when negotiations prove to be off the table and his plan is shown to be counter to his reasoning, to the point of accusing everyone else of being insane. He then gets crushed by a slain dragon that fell through the roof of his shelter.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • While watching the news at the beginning of "Pitfall", Stu mentioned that he got the smell of cottage cheese stuck to his shirt. This would save him when the SMPD tried to feed him into the Sarlaac Pit, as it turns out the creature does not like the smell of cottage cheese.
  • Also in "Pitfall", the NBT News reported mentioned an incident where the firework squad's crossbows were modified by SnakeTheJaik to shoot at their user instead of the other way around. When the SMPD forces attempt to shoot Stu, jay, Ned and Brandon, they ended up shooting themselves instead, with their crossbows having been modified by Snake to shoot backwards.
• Coincidental Dodge: During the attempt to rescue jay from the SMPD, Ned shoots a sleeping arrow at a tower guard at exactly 11:20 p.m. However, at the exact same time, the tower guard he was aiming at fell asleep on his own accord due to staying up all night to play video games. This made Ned's shot miss, alerting the tower guards to Stu, Ned and Brandon's rescue attempt.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Each episode serves as a specific allegory involving real-world politics.
  • "The Boy Who Spied Wolves" references various Logical Fallacies people use as excuses to not participate in political matters.
  • "Pitfall" references the Trump administration's deportation of Salvadoran immigrants to CECOT.
  • "School House Rules" references an incident where Senator John N. Kennedy miscalculated that $1.58 billion dollars spent on the TRIO program per year for ten years meant that "over a trillion dollars" had been spent on it.
  • "This Is Dragon Country" references establishment Democrats, specifically Hakeem Jeffries, refusing to support Zohran Mamdani's efforts to oppose the Trump administration.
• Fed to the Beast: "Pitfall" has Stu being prepared to be fed to the Sarlaac Pit by the Server Administration, who had already subjected jayRiott to this fate beforehand. Both only survive due to the creature's disgust for cottage cheese, which Stu had fallen into a vat of earlier.
• Green and Mean: The only dragon seen in "This is Dragon Country" is colored green, and is part of an invasive species that's slaughtering the kingdom.
• Heinous Hyena: The hyenas in "The Boy Who Spied Wolves" gleefully maul people to death, and are intelligent enough to disguise as humans and pretend to be simple pranksters.
• If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: One of the villagers in "The Boys Who Spied Wolves" uses this as an argument for not fighting back against the horde of hyenas, claiming that the villagers will be no better than them.
• Insane Troll Logic: The villagers make demented explanations for why they won't fight back that. For example, one claims that he alone can't stop the hyena pack, but when the boy says that the man won't be fighting alone, he asks why the boy needs his help.
• Issue Drift: This series is much more political than any of Jake's previous videos.
• Miscarriage of Justice: jayRiott is sentenced to death by Sarlaac Pit by the Server Administration for SnakeTheJaik's crime of tampering with the firework crossbows on the Admin's birthday parade last month.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The main dragon involved in "This is Dragon Country" is named Bloodwing the Relentless, and he's gleefully willing to kill people instead of negotiating.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: In "Pitfall", the NBT News reporter shows an image of the "Gonk Droid" rather than C-3PO when mentioning how the High Court pointed out that the "robot guy" from Return of the Jedi said the Sarlaac Pit digests prey over a thousand years. Some text under the image says "He means this one, right?"
• Self-Deprecation: The NBT News reporter calls 50 Ways to Die in Minecraft "mid, tbh."
• Shout-Out: The one real prankster in "The Boy Who Spied Wolves" says "we're no strangers to love!" upon revealing himself.
• Sound-Only Death: The hyena maulings in "The Boy Who Spied Wolves" are never shown, only heard.
• Stealth Pun: "This is Dragon Country" mentions Namsterdiam, an independent city-state on the kingdom's eastern border, where Sir Zakwani has a plan to slay the dragons (but the King says it won't work). "Namsterdiam" is a pun on "New Amsterdam", the original name of New York City; the episode is a satire of eventual NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani (Zakwani) fighting against the Republicans (dragons), but establishment Democrats (the King) don't take his plan seriously.
• Stylistic Suck: The Putridge's design is intentionally ugly CGI, with body parts that don't go well together and look like stock models mashed together. Brandon even says that it "belligerently refuses to respect Minecraft's visual design rules".
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: The NBT News reporter claims that the High Court's liaison against the Server Administration for jay's release was also thrown into the Sarlaac Pit, with him repeating and putting emphasis the claim that it was a "mistake" several times.
• Take That!: In "School House Rules", one of the rules is "No Meta Knight", a jab at the character's infamously overpowered incarnation in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
• Tempting Fate:
  • In "The Boy Who Spied Wolves", the bully leader mocks the sheepherder by saying that the latter's village isn't going to be attacked by wolves. Immediately afterwards, the bully leader's friends take off their masks, revealing them to be hyenas in disguise. The bully leader gets an Oh, Crap! look on his face before being mauled to death, followed by the sheep and the sheepherder's village.
  • The first villager the sheepherder tries to talk to believes that since he's not a sheep nor a prankster, he doesn't see why he should help the sheepherder deal with the hyenas. He didn't get a chance to finish his sentence before a hyena pounced on him.
• Villainous Rescue: When Stu, jay, Ned and Brandon are about to be shot dead by the corrupt SMPD forces, it's revealed that SnakeTheJaik, who has historically killed the other characters back in the 50 Ways to Die series, had tampered with the SMPD's crossbows to fire backwards at their users. He quickly shows up afterwards to make a Bond One-Liner about it to the protagonists.
• World of Jerkass: With shades of World of Dumbass at times. Most people besides the protagonists tend to be unhelpful in one way or the other, whether it be by making nonsensical excuses to not defend themselves, abusing their power to harm others or just being unpleasant in general.