2023's Dungeons & Dragons movie made a lot of clever references to Dungeons & Dragons the game, like one character being told to hold important quest items because (as we eventually realize) he has a bag of holding, or the moment an NPC walks mindlessly off in a completely straight line once his quest was completed and he had nothing further to do in the story.
A Minecraft Movie is going about things a bit differently. It's not making sly references to Minecraft. Instead, it's whipping out items from the game, holding them up to camera, and yelling their names at full volume.
Take a look at the final trailer and count how many times that happens: I think it's a great strategy, actually. This is a movie for little itty bitty Minecraft fans (some might call them children) so there's no point in being subtle.
In the final trailer we see Jack Black use a water bucket to land safely from a fall, use flint and steel to ignite a nether portal, and give his companions elytra wingsuits to fly, which are all items directly ripped from the game.
These items aren't just shown or nodded to, they're named. Loudly. Black literally shouts «Flint and steel!» while using flint and steel.