To celebrate Minecraft's 15th anniversary, a MinecraftEaster egg was added to Google search. After searching "Minecraft" in the search bar, a grass block rises from the bottom of the screen. If clicked, the mini-game begins.
A grass block icon appears at the bottom of the screen. It might take a few seconds. Click the icon to start the game.
When the game starts, the grass block icon is replaced with an "x" icon, and Steve's fist appears on the bottom of the player's screen.
The player must click on any of the search results so that they would be broken up like Minecraft blocks. Once a search result is broken up, a Minecraft-themed environment will appear in its place, and from there, players will be allowed to mine down Minecraft blocks.
The "x" icon closes the game and returns to the search result page. When the game closes, a creeper appears, makes a hissing sound, and explodes. The search results page returns to normal, and the "x" icon is replaced with the grass block icon. The game can also be closed by simply closing the browser tab.
On desktop, hovering over any mineable search result on the search page causes the mouse to become a crosshair symbol.
The player can click or tap any search result to mine it. All links and buttons on the page no longer function while playing the game.
While a search result is being mined, a mining animation plays - the player's hand or pickaxe punches or swings at the middle of the screen, and a cracking animation appears on the search result.
Each search result only needs to be clicked or tapped once to be mined and does not need to be held (unlike mining in the real game). Multiple search results can be mined at once. Sponsored results cannot be mined.
A scene from Minecraft, covered in mineable blocks, is revealed after the player finishes mining each search result.
The blocks in the front of the scene can be broken simply by clicking or tapping them. Multiple blocks can be broken at a time by rapidly clicking or tapping them in succession, but tapping using multiple fingers at the same time on a touchscreen doesn't break any blocks.
Clicking or tapping TNT starts its fuse. The TNT explodes after 3 seconds, creating explosion particles and breaking all of the blocks in a 3×3 area around it.
The player gains 1 point for every block mined, regardless of block type. The player gains 7 points for each TNT exploded. After gaining more than 20 points, the score counter appears in the bottom left of the screen. If the game is closed then reopened without leaving or reloading the page, the score will not reset.
Sandstone with some sand on top of it generates in the bottom of the image.
Sometimes the sandstone will generate with orange concrete in patterns that resemble a desert pyramid. Strangely, the desert pyramids contain orange concrete instead of orange terracotta.
The wall also has various holes. Some holes contain dripstone blocks and pointed dripstone. The dripstone holes resemble a dripstone cave, but the shallow cave does not generate with any fully-detailed cave biomes.
Shortened cherry trees, growing on grass blocks. Pink petals appear on top of the grass, but the petals can only be seen if the player scrolls the screen up enough to see the top faces of the grass blocks.
Sometimes 2 small cherry trees will generate right next to eachother, forming a heart shape.
This scene generates with a floor or snowy grass, ice, and frosted ice. The frosted ice generated with a random level of cracking, but does not change or break down over time.
Snow hills, and snow golems can also generate on top of the snowy grass floor. Any snowy grass that generated with another block on top of it is replaced with dirt.
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