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An Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, inside joke, or feature in a work such as a computer program, web page, video game, television program, movie, book or any other form of media. Minecraft features several Easter eggs hidden in the game.
On October 31, zombies, zombie villagers, husks, drowned, skeletons, strays, bogged, parched, zombified piglins, and wither skeletons have a 22.5% chance to wear carved pumpkins and a 2.5% chance to wear jack o'lanterns on their heads. This feature was added in Java Edition 1.4.2 for Halloween 2012 onward, and to Legacy Console Edition sometime after.
The only splash text shown is "OOoooOOOoooo! Spooky!"
From December 24β26, chests, large chests, trapped chests and minecarts with chest have their textures changed to Christmas chests that resemble wrapped Christmas presents. This was added in Java Edition 1.4.6 for Christmas 2012. A texture file called "skis.png" was also added in the same folder as the Christmas chests, but it was added by Dinnerbone as a red herring. This was re-added for Christmas 2013,[1] along with a new "rain feature"βpigs riding chickens, not planned to be implemented. This also happened again in 2014 with a new splash reading, "Merry X-Mas!" and repeated in every Christmas since. The change doesn't apply to boats with chests.[2]
The only splash that can be seen on January 1 is "Happy new year!".
A thing banner pattern can be crafted using an enchanted golden apple and paper. When put on a banner, it displays Mojang Studios' old logo in whatever color dye was used. It is labeled "Thing" in the inventory. The Swedish word "mojΓ€ng" means gadget or thing.
Many chiseled blocks have mobs or references to mobs on them.
Some textures have hidden things in space unused by the game. Some of these are accessible by unzipping client.jar found in the versions folder.
In the texture for the armor stand, in an unused area in the bottom right, the name "Searge" can be seen in a black box. This is presumably put there as a signature by Searge, the developer that implemented armor stands. In the bottom left, the name "Jappa" can be seen. This is likely another signature, this time from the texture artist, Jappa, who was in charge of the Texture Update. Another name was by Chiwi, who updated the Smooth Stone base plate texture.
Some cape textures have a secret on the underside where it is not very visible.
The cloud texture has a creeper face in it, which can be occasionally visible in-game in the sky.
There are five joke languages available at the language menu: Pirate Speak, LOLCAT, Shakespearean English, Anglish (puristic English), and Ι₯sα΄lΖuΖ (uΚoα‘ Ηpα΄sdβ©) (upside-down English).
Minecraft is also translated into tlhIngan Hol, the Klingon language from Star Trek; Quenya, one of the Elvish languages from Lord of the Rings; Lojban, a conlang created by the Logical Language Group; toki pona, a conlang created by Sonja Lang; and Esperanto, a conlang created by L.L. Zamenhof.
If a player types "excitedze" into the search bar in the recipe book, their language is automatically switched to Pirate Speak. "ExcitedZe" is the username of Maria LemΓ³n, a former Mojang Studios staff member.[3]
Several mobs can be renamed by using a name tag to create an effect. These names are all case sensitive.
Any mob (with the exception of the ender dragon, squid and glow squid) named "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" through name tags, commands, or any other method, is rendered upside-down. The mob's behavior does not change.
This also applies to players, allowing Dinnerbone and Grumm's avatars to be rendered upside-down. This can be toggled using the "Cape" button from the "Skin Customization" menu.[4] In Bedrock Edition, if the player names themselves Dinnerbone or Grumm, they are rendered upside-down. This works only if the player did not sign into Xbox Live.[verify]
Naming a sheep "jeb_" using a name tag or a renamed spawn egg causes it to continually cycle through all colors a sheep can be dyed. When sheared using shears, however, the sheep drops wool of the original color of the sheep rather than the color that currently appears on the sheep. If a sheep is named jeb_, and then sheared, the leftover wool on its skin continues to cycle through all the colors.
When Ryan Holtz was developing rabbits, user xyzen420 asked him to make a skin that would look like his girlfriend's lost rabbit, Toast.[5] Now, naming a rabbit with a name tag or a rabbit spawn egg called "Toast" causes the rabbit's skin pattern to look like Toast as a memorial. This also works if the player attempts to name The Killer Bunny; although while the rabbit's appearance uses the Toast skin, it can still attack as it would without the given name. When the player is killed by the renamed Killer Bunny, the death message says "<playername> was slain by Toast". "Toast" is re-textured to have black spots on its fur.
If a vindicator is named "Johnny" or has its Johnny tag set to 1b, it attacks any nearby mobs except other illagers, agentsβ[BE & edu only], and ghasts. It will also try to attack creakings while also running away from them. This references the movie The Shining, where the character Jack Torrance utters the line "here's Johnny," itself a reference to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
With the addition of capes, Notch also added ears for deadmau5. The ears are additional geometry attached to the player's head, with the texture contained within deadmau5's skin file. deadmau5 cannot disable his ears; erasing the ear texture from the skin file would still render them with a solid black color. deadmau5's name tag is also programmed to render ten pixels higher to be above the ears. The ears are set to show up based on the username, rather than the UUID of the player, meaning that if deadmau5 were to change his name, he would not keep his ears.
Within the "texts" folder, there is a text file named splashes.txt. The text file contains all the splashes that appear on the title screen. One of them is "This message will never appear on the splash screen, isn't that weird?" If the text file is modified to only contain this string of text, no splash is displayed. As its text implies, the splash is never displayed. However, in Legacy Console Edition it does display, but it has never been confirmed if it is a bug or an intentional feature.
Special splashes were displayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They include "Wash your hands!" and "Support elderly relatives and friends!"
Following the announcement on June 30, 2022 that popular Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade passed away from stage 4 metastatic sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, Mojang added his skin's crown to the pig on the Java Edition art in memory of him. A splash text "Technoblade never dies!" was also added in his honor in Java Edition 1.19.1 and Bedrock Edition 1.19.10. The launcher art was later changed to reflect The Wild Update, removing the pig and the crown from the launcher.
A Technoblade pig also appears in A Minecraft Movie. Henry asks "is he some kind of king," to which Steve responds "No, thatβs a legend."
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/help in a command block displays one of a few joke messages, one of which is "Oh my god, it's full of stats", a reference to a quote from the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the witty comments of a crash report, there are two other quotes, "I'm sorry, Dave." and "Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about that."feature.missingno, likely a reference to the famous glitch PokΓ©mon known as MissingNo. in the first generation of PokΓ©mon games.
There is a 0.01% chance for the title screen to display "Minceraft" instead of "Minecraft". The beginning of crash logs can have the phrase "You should try our sister game, Minceraft!".
After a crash, the second-to-last line of text on the game output launcher tab says "Someone is closing me!"
The enchanting symbols shown on the enchantment selection contain random words using the standard galactic alphabet from Commander Keen games, but the words in enchanting tables are randomized and do not correlate with any enchantments. This language shows up in 10 Years of Minecraft, as a puzzle.
When ambient sound 14 is put into a spectrogram, a creeper face can be seen. Samuel Γ berg said that he made this sound with a spectrogram program.[11]
If ambient sound 21 is listened to closely or put in a spectrogram, it spells out Morse code: "-... . .... .. -. -.." , which translates to "behind". When Samuel Γ berg was asked about this, he responded with "Creepy π".[12]
Many of the sounds were created using balloons.[13]
If the .ogg file for "11" is turned into a spectrogram in an audio editor, the static at the end displays an image of Steve's face and the numbers 12418. The numbers are a visual signature, where "C" is hexadecimal for "12", and combined with "418" creates "C418".
The killer bunny is a variant of the rabbit that is hostile to all players. This is a reference to the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It can be spawned only by using commands, and only in Java Edition.
When the game runs into a fatal error and crashes, the crash log includes a message such as "Who set us up the TNT?" or "Hi. I'm Minecraft, and I'm a crashaholic."
Debug profile results (triggered via /debug) contain witty comments at the top, much like with crash reports.
Several items when worn on the head (using /item replace) have unique placements. The end rod and spyglass protrude from the head like a horn, the lightning rod sits at the side like a snorkel, fish look like an ear and mic piece, banners display similar to how raid captains wear them, fence gates are worn like glasses, bones are held in the mouth like a dog, leads go around the eye like a monocle, and feathers stick up at the back of the head.
Running "Searge" as the command in the command block without a preceding "/" sets the previous output to "#itzlipofutzli". This Easter egg is case insensitive.
In the language files, the key for the command blockβs βAlways Activeβ feature is advMode.mode.autoexec.bat, a tribute to DOS-based operating systems that made use of the file "AUTOEXEC.BAT" to run commands upon startup of the system.
Several Easter eggs have been removed from Minecraft.
Command blocks have various Easter eggs with messages being added to the previous output.
If the command /help is run via a command block, it gave various messages prefixed with "Searge says: " as the previous output when activated. The following messages existed:
This no longer works in 1.13 or above (MC-124295); instead the /help command now runs normally, but the previous output gives only the last line ("/xp -> experience") due to there being space for just one line.
Before the release of the Java Edition launcher version 2.1.497x, the launcher contained multiple Easter eggs. If the player hovered their cursor over the "Play" button for a few seconds, a random mob would appear in the bottom right corner of the launcher. In the top left corner of the launcher, the player could see a translucent creeper face. There was about a 1β11 chance of the creeper face being replaced with a shrugging emoticon, Β―\_(γ)_/Β―. When the player clicked on either of these, they turned solid white. Clicking them again would return them to their translucent state. In addition, if the player pressed ctrl+b, the experience orb pickup sound plays. These no longer work since the launcher has since been updated.
| Biomes | Desert |
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| Generates in existing chunks |
No |
| Consists of |
{
"title": "Tower of Pimps",
"rows": [
{
"field": "Desert",
"label": "(link to Biome article, displayed as Biomes)"
},
{
"field": "No",
"label": "Generates in<br>existing chunks "
},
{
"field": "\n* <span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"sprite-file\" style=\"\">(link to File:BlockSprite block-of-gold.png article, displayed as 16x16px|link=Block of Gold|alt=|class=pixel-image|)</span>(link to Block of Gold article, displayed as <span class=\"sprite-text\">Block of Gold</span>)</span>\n* <span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"sprite-file\" style=\"\">(link to File:BlockSprite obsidian.png article, displayed as 16x16px|link=Obsidian|alt=|class=pixel-image|)</span>(link to Obsidian article, displayed as <span class=\"sprite-text\">Obsidian</span>)</span>",
"label": "Consists of"
}
],
"invimages": [],
"images": [
"Tower of Pimps.png"
]
}
In the old Legacy Console Edition TU12-TU13 Tutorial World, on the top floor of the sandstone pyramid, there are four blocks of gold on top of a block of obsidian. This is the "Tower of Pimps". It was created by Gavin Free of Achievement Hunter in their video "Let's Play Minecraft Part 2 - On a Rail!" and has become a symbol of the group's Let's Play Minecraft series, mainly as a trophy of their competitions in their Achievement City world within Xbox 360 Edition and Java Edition.[14]
In the Legacy Console Edition TU19/CU7/1.12 Tutorial World, there was an island in the northeast side of the world and it had a remake of several buildings from Minecraft YouTuber Stampylonghead, including his house along with his boat, the S.S. Stumpy, not to be confused with the S.S. Stampy.[15]
Additionally, the boat was seen in the trailer for Legacy Console Edition TU19/CU7.[16]
A world based on the map, containing all of his creations, would later be released by 4J Studios on the Marketplace in 2024 as "Stampy's Lovely World".[17]
In July 29, 2010, after Minecraft got over 1000 sales in 24 hours, Notch decided to celebrate by reuploading Alpha v1.0.13_01 with the Minecraft logo being replaced by "1K IN 24h".
It was since been removed in Alpha v1.0.14 by reverting it to the previous version.
On June 1, Notch's birthday, the only splash displayed is "Happy Birthday, Notch!"
This splash was removed in Java Edition 1.8.5, since Notch no longer works for Mojang.
When the account Notch died in-game, he dropped an additional apple along with his inventory. However, this feature never worked in multiplayer due to a bug.[citation needed] From Infdev 20100327 until snapshot 11w48a, this was the only way to legitimately obtain apples.[18] This feature no longer occurs.[19][20]
In snapshot 13w36a for Java Edition 1.7.2, Dinnerbone added a Super Secret Settings button, which could be viewed in the options screen. Clicking it would blare a random game sound with a lower pitch and change the shader of the screen. These effects would not necessarily work on computers without a graphics card that supported OpenGL 2.1. This was removed in snapshot 15w31a for 1.9.
In older versions, if one were to delete the file splashes.txt without also deleting the META-INF folder, the splash text on the title screen would appear as "missingno". This is a reference to the infamous glitch PokΓ©mon MissingNo. found in the first generation of PokΓ©mon games. This was later changed to a zero-width no-break space, which was originally displayed in Minecraft's Unicode font as a box with the letters "ZWNBSP" within it.
The splash was added in Java Edition Alpha v1.0.12 and it's the only vanilla version with this splash by default since all splashes were temporarily removed.
π Image
π Image
π Image
π Image
In 1.14.2-pre2 and for the occasion of the 10 years of Minecraft's release on May 17, 2019, the cake had a big "10" placed like candles, and the only splash text that appeared was "Turning 10 years old!"[21] This was reverted to the way they were before on May 20, 2019, and is unable to be seen again in-game even when going back to 1.14.2-pre2 and changing the time of the device to May 17-20 of 2019.
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| Full cake |
| 1 slice eaten |
| 2 slices eaten |
| 3 slices eaten |
Before the Texture Update, in the guardian and elder guardian textures, there was an unused area saying "jeb," marking Jens Bergensten as the designer of the texture.
Before the Texture Update, in an unused area for the zombie pigman texture, the words "THX XAPHOBIA" could be seen. This was written by Notch to give credit and thanks to the original creator of the texture, XaPhobia.[22][23]
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