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* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: [http://ben-hurr.deviantart.com/art/Minecraft-Ghast-183544320?q=boost:popular%20Minecraft&qo=8 This.]

** The Beta 1.8 update was particularly divisive, since it introduced a hunger bar, experience points, potion-making, the Creative mode, a new method of terrain generation, and more pre-existing structures like strongholds, abandoned mineshafts, and NPC villages.

* [[Cool but Inefficient]]: Gold anything. As in real life, gold is treated as a soft malleable metal meaning that golden armour and tools are less durable than the wood versions. Until the Nether Update, gold was really only useful for decoration, boosters, clocks and apples.

** Potions can also qualify since while they do have some useful effects and the harmful ones can be thrown when brewed with gunpowder, only one potion can occupy a slot at a time. That means that not only can you not carry around that many potions, but the few you do carry around will be taking up more space than that one full stack of cobblestone you gathered while mining.

* [[Colbert Bump]]: From [[Valve Corporation|Valve]], [[Penny Arcade]] and others. These have caused several server overloads. For some sort of reference, only a few weeks after hitting beta and being in development for about six months or so, the game hit one million in sales. Mind you, this is something which even many big budget retail games are hard pressed to do several weeks after release much less an at-the-time one-man crew with no marketing budget to speak of with a game that isn't even finished.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqwSul5YmJ4 It's no secret that Deadmau5 likes to play Minecraft.] So much so that mau5 even asked C418 if he could do a collaboration with him. [http://twitter.com/C418/status/558788297891840 He agreed.]

* [[Demonic Spiders]]: Ironically, the regular spiders are nowhere ''near'' as bad as the following mobs...

** Cave spiders, much like their surface counterparts, can pounce, climb walls, and come in packs. What's more, they can also fit in one-block-wide spaces and even poison anyone dumb or unlucky enough to get attacked by one of them. Fortunately, they only appear in abandoned mineshafts.

*** Good news and bad news about the poison inflicted by these spiders. The good news? The poison can't kill you and will always leave you with half a heart on your life meter if it dips that low. The bad news? If your life meter ever ''gets'' that low from poison, you'll be [[One-Hit Kill|easy pickings]] for any hostile mobs nearby. It gets worse if you're poisoned and have no food to keep your hunger meter full (a full hunger meter restores your health slowly).

*** And now they have been [[Nerf|nerfed]] by the terrible [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Demonic Housecats]]. Creepers refuse to go anywhere near them except to get away from large groups of them, making cats [[Nightmare Fuel]] to Creepers.

** According to Notch, the enemy type called "Ghasts" make "The most unfair mob more unfair". In your first encounter, you learn a few things about ghasts. They look like floating jellyfish. They've very big. They fly. They shoot exploding fireballs. And being that parts of the Nether are made of Netherrack, blocks which never extinguish once set on fire...

*** Some brave explorers have found that you can actually bounce their fireballs back with a sword strike or an arrow, which usually kills the ghast in one or two hits. However, it requires good timing and of course, messing up just once can be bad for your health.

** In a game where most mobs use melee attacks, the skeletons break that mold and become the most evil mob in all of the game. They fire arrows almost non-stop and have a very far range to where they start following you. Their aim is very good, and so more often than not, their arrows ''will'' hit you. Trying to attack them with a melee weapon is tantamount to suicide, since the strategy of "strafe, attack after they shoot" is difficult at best and outright impossible in most caves. It's even worse if one chases you into water, as they can't be approached safely, and will continue to fire a constant volley of arrows from above the water with no change in arrow direction. The best strategy when facing a skeleton is to counter with your own arrows, but unfortunately, not many players will have arrows --- nevermind a bow --- when they first run into skeletons. By the way, they often spawn in packs. Put simply, if you hear [[Hell Is That Noise|the rattling of bones or an arrow being fired]], '''''PRAY'''''. [[It Got Worse|What's worse]], ''they can ride spiders.'' <ref>If you're lucky, the skeleton will end up killing itself. But not the spider.</ref> And that's all before the Adventure Update: after 1.8, skeletons can shoot fully-charged arrows, which means they now have incredible accuracy and projectile speed that makes it nearly impossible to dodge an arrow. They may have a lower fire rate, but that's a small comfort at best.

** There's also [[Cores and Turrets Boss|Blazes]] which can light the player on fire. They only spawn in the Nether, where water does not exist (and any you bring with you evaporates if you try using it). If you don't have armor with Protection From Fire enchantments, you can kiss your toasty keister goodbye.

** The Endermen, at least in groups. They teleport around constantly, making them almost immune to projectiles and highly resistant to melee, they can surround you ''very'' easily, and they do a ton of damage per hit, in addition to having the highest health of any non-boss mob. You also can't run away from them, since they can sync through reality to close in on you ''fast''. They only got worse in recent updates; now, they're nearly impossible to actually hit, due to the fact that they teleport a lot more frequently.

* [[Fan Dumb]] / [[Unpleasable Fanbase]]: Boy howdy, does this game have one...

** If Notch doesn't update quickly, people complain that he's getting lazy, ignoring his work, not doing his job, etc. If he does update quickly, people complain that he keeps breaking mods.

** And this doesn't even begin to describe [[YouTube]]. If a popular channel has a video that contains or references ''Minecraft'', meets one of the above conditions, or even for no reason at all, every video that does not include ''Minecraft'''s comments will be composed 80% "YOU SHOULD DO MINECRAFT" OR "DO MOAR MINECRAFT, (insert whatever the video is about) SUCKS AND IS FOR PEOPLE WITH NO LIFE". This has become a massive issue among YouTube as a whole, making seemingly half the gaming channels deal almost exclusively with ''Minecraft''. See the [[Yogscast]] and their [[Yogscast Minecraft Series|Minecraft series]] for an example.

* [[Goddamned Bats]]: The Piglins of the Nether are pretty passive and actually sort of cute... unless you harm one of them (whether deliberately or accidentally) or forget to put on a piece of gold armor, then they begin to [[Zerg Rush]] you until you're good and dead. The Zombified Piglins, being the Zombie Pigmen of previous versions with a slightly different appearance, are much friendlier in that you don't need to wear gold armor around them, but they'll still swarm you if you happen to strike one of their own.

** Ghasts. They aren't a huge threat, provided you stay away from them and can find or build cover fast enough, but the fact that they fly out of range of your conventional weapons means they take a long time to kill.

** The now defunct "bury yourself in sand and see all the caves" bug. Now, burying yourself in sand or gravel will just block your view.

** Burnable blocks set on fire sometimes never burn down, especially if boxed in when lit, allowing for eternal flames and always-lit fireplaces. This was fixed in Beta 1.3, and nowadays, the only block capable of burning forever is Netherrack.

** What may perhaps be the king of Good Bad Bugs for this game: set your system time ahead by an hour while playing. You'll find yourself digging [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0I3pF-JYuA faster than the Flash on caffeine bullet time].

*** Again, fixed in 1.6.** The Far Lands, caused by travelling too far into the distance of an infinite map, in which you'll end up in strange geometric landscapes. Notch has stated that this is one he ''won't'' fix [[Sure Why Not|because he thinks it'd be cool to have a strange faraway land.]]

** The hissing sound made when the water meets still lava and obsidian starts forming. [[Hell Is That Noise|The Creeper's hiss, on the other hand...]]

** There was one for Ghast ''an hour'' after Notch revealed its design on [[4chan|/v/]]

* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: TL:DR; '''''LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE MINECRAFT UPDATE''''' was criticized by the [[Fan Dumb]] for one reason or another.

** And people wonder why Notch gave up being the Lead Developer...

** Usually every update that does something other than fix fatal bugs (see [[It's the Same, Now It Sucks]]), but with the 1.5 update, Notch fixed the <ref>Placing ladders at every other tile would allow you to climb as if it was a solid ladder in older versions of Minecraft</ref> while doubling the amount of ladders produced per 7 sticks. Not 12 hours later, a mod titled "ladderfix" that adds the exploit back in was made and released.

** People have complained about potion brewing being changed from using a cauldron to a "brewing stand"... [[Up to Eleven|even though brewing hadn't been properly implemented into the game yet.]]

** Notch announced he will step down as head developer of Minecraft and leave the game in Jeb's hands while he will still pop in every now and then to give support or ideas. People have declared to not play ''Minecraft'' anymore purely due to Notch not being in charge of the game's direction and others have wildly guessed that Jeb will remove the Ender Dragon.

** With certain mobs now having a [[Rare Random Drop]], such as iron and golden tools/weapons, people cried the game will become too easy and there would be no point in crafting anything if you can just get tools randomly. Naturally, no one read that these drops would be very rare (not to mention ''nearly broken'') so it would be easier and faster to craft an iron sword with full durability yourself instead of hoping a zombie drops a gold sword with three hits left.

** The 12w16a snapshot had causing people to complain how the game is getting too easy due to how players now have an option to start a new world with a chest at the spawn point that contains wood, wooden planks, wooden and/or stone pickaxes and axes, and apples.

* [[That One Achievement]]: While the game's current achievements aren't that hard, "On a Rail" is pretty tough. It requires obscene amounts of materials just to craft a minecart and 1000 rails, and the rails have to be placed ''in a straight line.'' Unlike other achievements, this one requires lots of engineering to accomplish, which requires that players put even more materials and time into it. But once you've built the railway, you can re-accomplish the achievement as much as you like.

* [[That One Level|That One Cave]]: When you light up a new cave, only to discover a fall into [[Soft Water|water]] -- or worse, lava -- yawning below a series of unlit caves that suddenly begin to rain [[Aliens and Monsters|hoards of nasty beasties]] down onto your head, then you'll understand.

** The Iron Golems are often seen as this mainly due to how they offer kid villagers a red rose.

** Ever wonder why Creepers have those sad little faces? [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Some people have interpreted them]] as lonely creatures who only want to be your friend, but explode with happiness or nervousness once they get close enough to you.

** The passive mobs. Exist only to be shot down by the player character for free resources (Cows drop Leather and Beef, Sheep drop Wool and Mutton, Chickens drop Feathers and, well, Chicken, and Pigs drop Porkchops.)

*** If you depend on alternate resources, then pigs and cows don't need to be killed either. For example, wheat is a much better food source than porkchops, as wheat can be farmed or traded from villagers and used to craft a variety of foods. As for leather, the only piece of leather armor which retains ''some'' semblance of usefulness in the late game is the boots, and that's only if you're planning on spending any amount of time around Powdered Snow.