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{{quote|"''Let's go to a place where everything is made of blocks, where the only limit is your imagination.''"
'''''Minecraft''''' is a 2011 cross-platform, block-based sandbox game focused on [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|mining and crafting]], along with building structures. It has three main modes: "Survival," "Creative" and "Hardcore," that can be played either single or multiplayer.
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''Creative'' is a simple sandbox mode. Players can place or destroy blocks as they see fit, and can switch between various kinds of blocks. For the most part, it's focused solely on building, and can be used to easily make very large structures or pixel art. ''Creative'' removes the health bar, gives the player infinite access to every item/block in the game, lets the player spawn nearly every kind of mob<ref>Ender Dragons can't be spawned due to their ability to destroy virtually every block, which could ruin maps</ref> and gives them the ability to fly.
''Minecraft'' became a worldwide sensation, selling hundreds of millions of copies<ref>[http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/minecraft-sells Over 1 million copies] (GeForce), [https://mojang.com/2012/11/minecraft-has-sold-8-million-copies-on-pc/ 8 million copies] (Mojang), [http://www.gamespot.com/articles/minecraft-console-sales-pass-pc-series-nears-54-million-copies-sold/1100-6420724/ 54 million copies] (Gamespot), [http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60391-over-100-000-000-copies-of-minecraft-sold Over 100 million copies] (Minecraft Forum)</ref> and popularizing [[Let's
Notable for its [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Version_history frequent updates] and famous creator Notch (now working on other projects, having turned ''Minecraft'' and Mojang over to [[Microsoft]]). It was originally intended as a [[Spiritual Successor]] of the free game ''Infiniminer'' and is inspired by ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' as well. The full game was released on November 18, 2011.<ref>Originally slated for November 11, but due to [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|some other game]] launching that day, Notch pushed it back a week.</ref> The game also exists as a mobile version for Android and iOS. Also available for most modern game consoles ([[Xbox 360]], [[Play Station 3]], [[PlayStation Vita]], [[PlayStation 4]], [[Xbox One]], [[Xbox Series X and Series S]], [[Wii U]], [[Nintendo 3DS]], and [[Nintendo Switch]]).
Worth mentioning, one of the texts that can pop up at the title screen is [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|"Less addictive than TVTropes!"]]
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* [[Artificial Stupidity]]:
** Enemies will only attack if there's a direct line of sight to the player. This results in awkward scenarios when groups of Creepers cluster atop a glass ceiling, unable to explode due to the completely transparent material blocking their view. At Minecraft Con 2010, Notch said he intentionally made them stupid.
*** This is acceptable to
** In prior versions of the game, Ghasts wouldn't aim their fireballs at the player character himself, but instead ''at the camera''. Normally this wasn't an issue, since the game is played in first person view by default, but players are able to manually toggle into third person mode; thus, an easy way of dealing with Ghasts was to simply pop into third person mode whenever you saw one and laugh while their fireballs sailed harmless over your character. This has since been corrected, though.
** If you are inside your house and a spider spots you,
*** There is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMQkXoQaZgE a song about their stupidity].
** Tamed wolves like to play in water, but used to have trouble [[Too Dumb to Live|telling the difference between water and lava]].
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** Cookies. They're pretty impractical with the ingredients being extremely rare, and a single cooked porkchop can do better than 8 of them.
*** While ingredients will be not as rare with the addition of Cocoa Beans dropping from Jungle Trees in 1.3<ref>not to be confused with ''Beta'' 1.3</ref>, using them for healing remains a...[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade|poor choice]].
** Exploiting
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbrd7WuwSi0 Cool, but Impractical] [[Cool Train|piston trains]].
** Gold tools create the best enchantments of any material and mine even faster than diamond, but they're even less durable than wood and can't mine any ore except coal.
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*** Obsidian can become even more practical if you pour lava into a hollow mold in the shape of whatever you're building. It's pretty easy to figure out, and lets you bypass the time-consuming task of building a diamond pickaxe and spending fifteen additional seconds on each obsidian block you want to mine.
** If you have a bunch of paintings, a metal door, and a switch, you can get a very useful set up where the metal door is behind a painting and you can still walk through it when the door is open. It's possibly handy for Survival Multiplayer, if you want/need to hide the entrance to something important.
** Trying to use a bed in the Nether or End makes it explode. Not only is this funny as all hell, it's great for mining and offense, due to the fact that's it's more powerful and less expensive than TNT. Expect a [[Speed Run|speedrunner]] to use these in lieu of actual weapons during the Ender Dragon fight.
** With the addition of Enchanting tables in Beta 1.9, bookshelves have jumped to this -- having bookshelves nearby whilst enchanting will increase the level of some enchantments, and if the enchanter is lucky, give the item two (or even three) properties. More bookshelves means higher enchanting levels.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Wolves, when tamed. They follow you, sit when right-clicked, have cute little puppy-dog eyes, shake themselves dry when getting out of water, tilt their heads to the side and beg when you pull out food, and murder anything that you attack with melee. [[Genre Savvy|Except creepers]].
* [[Bandit Mook]]: Endermen have the ability to steal many kinds of blocks. As of 1.0, they can only steal dirt, sand, and similar loose materials, but if you built your walls out of those things.... You also cannot recover the block even if you kill the Enderman that stole it, unless you wait until he puts it down somewhere.
* [[Beating a Dead Player]]: If you died but haven't respawned yet, monsters will keep trying to attack you. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhcT2K2mrOk#t=09m40s\]
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* [[Boring but Practical]]:
** Cobblestone. As a building material, it's relatively durable. As a crafting material, it's abundant. Outside of massive super-projects, you'd be hard pressed to be at a loss as all the stone you mine turns into cobblestone. It's also one of the materials (all derived from wood, water, plants, and monsters) that [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Renewable_Resources can never run out] as you can always create more through a combination of lava and water.
** The fishing rod. Obviously used for fishing, but can also be used to yank mobs toward you (or off tall places), knock mobs back, reel in transports like boats and minecarts and (bizarrely) knock pictures off walls. In the player versus player scene, it's one of the most powerful items due to its ability to knock players back.
** Bone Meal is extremely useful as a fertilizer when you want to make something grow instantly instead of waiting several in-game days. You can make saplings instantly grow into trees, have your wheat/melon/pumpkin farm become fully grown and ready to be harvested, turn ordinary grass into tall grass and flowers, and you can even grow a single regular mushroom into a huge mushroom that can be harvested for over a dozen more mushrooms. Best of all, you can get three bone meal (on average) from a single skeleton, so they're quite plentiful if you're a skilled fighter, and even if you're not, you can usually scavenge a bit at dawn when all the roaming skeletons burn up.
* [[Bonsai Forest]]: This is variable as of the more recent updates. Pine trees in the cold biomes can grow quite large. The standard biomes other trees appear in can also grow to great size at random. It is not uncommon to see a grove of small trees around a much larger tree or two.
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: A bow with the "
* [[Bottomless Pit]]: If you manage to get past the indestructible bedrock at the bottom of the map
** Not to mention The End. God help you if you start off on a floating island there. The Enderdragon can knock you off, resulting in a very humiliating [[One-Hit Kill]].
* [[A Boy and His X]]: Thanks to the tameable wolves.
** And, as of Minecraft 1.2, tameable ocelots (that become cats when tamed).
** In the 1.17 update, there are even tameable axolotls.
* [[Breakable Weapons]]: All weapons, tools and armor have a [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Item_Durability fixed number of uses] before breaking. Bows are somewhat unique in that they lose durability when fired, but not when used to club things over the head; unfortunately, they are no more effective in this manner than fists.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: {{spoiler|The ending directly addresses the player}}.
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** Seananners of [[Machinima Respawn]] also has many videos of Minecraft, some with Deadmau5.
** [[Tobuscus]] has a long-running [[Let's Play]] of Minecraft and has two hit singles, "Safety Torch" and "I Can Swing My Sword", based on it.
* [[Cobweb of Disuse]]: Poisonous spiders have webs in abandoned mine shafts. They can also be found in other structures, most notably in abandoned villages.
* [[Charged Attack]]: A game mechanic for the bow, introduced in the Beta 1.8 update. The longer the bow is charged, the more damage the arrow does and it will fly faster and farther. Luckily, skeletons do not possess this ability for their bows.
* [[Cherry Tapping]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lLI8rYIwtI Someone has defeated the Enderdragon] with ''chicken eggs''.
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** [[Useless Useful Spell|Throwable negative effect potions]]. There's nothing they can do to monsters that [[Boring but Practical|whacking them with a sword]] can't accomplish just as easily. Splash potions can, however, be more effective in multiplayer PvP.
* [[Cool Gate]]. With Obsidian, you can make yourself your very own [[Portal Network]].
* [[Couch Gag]]: Every time you open Minecraft, a different phrase is across the title. Though between the first Beta release and Beta 1.2_01, all it said was "Finally Beta" as well as "Merry Xmas!" and "Happy New Year!" for those holidays.
** Sometimes the phrase will incorporate your own username now.
** One such phrase features
** They can be edited in your minecraft.jar.
* [[Media Research Failure]]: [http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/01/s-inspired-minecraft-takes-online-gaming-world/ This Fox News article] states that ''Infiniminer'' was made by Notch as a prototype to ''[[Minecraft]]''. While Notch was inspired by it, ''Infiniminer'' was actually made by Zachtronics Industries.
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** Just try going back and forth between Minecraft and any game that requires multiple presses of the attack button in order to perform multiple attacks. Neither will end well.
** Going the other way, holding the shift key lets you sneak. This reduces your speed, makes enemies less likely to notice you, and most importantly, allows you to walk right up to the edge of a cliff without falling off. It's not uncommon for someone who plays a lot of Minecraft to eventually take this for granted and subsequently fall to their death in some other game where sneaking/crouching lacks that functionality.
** Sprinting movement in other FPS games is completely swapped in Minecraft. The shift key, usually used for sprinting, is used for sneaking around in Minecraft.
* [[Darkness Equals Death]]: Enemy mobs spawn at night or in the dark.
* [[Dead Character Walking]]: Mobs have a glitch where if you kill them, and exit quickly and on return they will be alive and moving around in whatever position in dying animation they were in when you exited.
* [[Debug Mode]]: Previously, by holding shift and changing the world type in the world create menu, you could create a "Debug World", which is empty void with every block in the game in every state in the game. It has since been removed.
** In the 1.14 update, a "Debug Stick" was left in, only obtainable in creative mode, which could change the state of any block by interacting with it.
* [[Dem Bones]]: There are arrow-shooting skeletons among the many enemies.
* [[Defictionalization]]: [http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/gamer/e847/ Stone pickaxes are available for purchase.]
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** There has been discussion about the addition of megabeasts, sea monsters, and prefix mobs which may make this trope a greater reality.
** It has always been possible, using external editing tools to remove the bedrock layer of the map and literally ''fall out of the bottom of the world'', but the Adventure Update made it both easier and significantly creepier. Easier in that Creative Mode allows you to destroy any block with a single hit, up to and including the otherwise-indestructible bedrock. Creepier in that [[Eldritch Location|The Void]] is now a pitch-black... well... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|void]], glittering with the same particle effects used for the Endermen. And it kills you. (For comparison, the pre-1.8 void still killed you, but it was at least the color of the sky.)
** As of Beta 1.8, the immediate area above bedrock level has a peculiar fog that precludes seeing much beyond twenty meters, so bedrock-level branchmines and caverns are rather difficult to navigate, with the reduced viewing radius, and the reduced viewing distance might hide hostile mobs
* [[Dummied Out]]:
** Inverted; some items appeared long before their function was decided (milk, eggs, fishing rod, slimeballs, bookshelves
** Played straight with sponge blocks, which used to be the means of removing the water in Classic and Indev. They have no more use since Infdev, although the player can still edit them into his inventory.
*** With the addition of Creative Mode in Beta 1.8, sponge blocks can now be obtained legitimately again... well, about as legitimate as a built-in inventory editor can get.
** Chain armor was also going to be used at some point, but was dummied out as well.
* [[Easier Than Easy]]: Peaceful difficulty, which gets rid of hostile monsters and grants regenerating health. Falls and lava remain dangerous, though. Creative Mode removes your health bar altogether, making you invincible, but you can still die by falling into [[Bottomless Pit|The Void]].
* [[Easter Egg]]:
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* [[Emergency Weapon]]: Axes, picks, and [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Weapon#Dealing_damage (most)] shovels deal more damage to mobs than bare hands. That said, they were not intended as weapons, and will break twice as fast as swords.
* [[Endless Game]]: Before Minecraft 1.0 came out, there was no ending to the game.
▲** For that matter, any mob hit by a skeleton's arrow will stop attacking you to deal with its aggressor unless you hit it again to focus it back towards you (and once that mob hits the skeleton, the skeleton will ignore you to attack them!)
* [[Eternal Equinox]]: Day lasts ten minutes, night lasts seven minutes, and they're separated by an intermediate period 90 seconds long. Though the moon has different phases, the moon always rises as the sun sets and vice versa, behavior typically associated with a full moon.
* [[Everything's Better with Cows]]
* [[Everything's Better with Chickens]]
* [[Everything Breaks]]: Oh, yes. ''Except'' when dealing with bedrock
* [[Everything Fades]]: Blocks and items mysteriously disappear when dropped and left on the ground for a few minutes.
** All mobs (including players) follow this trope as well.
* [[Built With Lego]]
* [[Lava Adds Awesome]]: You can collect and use lava in constructions, either as an exotic light source, a trap for intruders, or an incinerator for junk. If you're not careful, it can easily kill you or ignite wood nearby.
* [[Everythings Cuter With Kittens|Everything's Cuter With Kittens]]: The new jungle biome contains ocelots. Ocelots can be domesticated into cats. Cats can be bred to make kittens, which are the first kind of baby animal whose head doesn't look disproportionately large. Whereas tamed wolves will fight for you, cats are pretty much useless, which basically means they were added just because they're cute.
** As of 12w05a, Creepers will run away from Cats if they are within a 6-7 block radius, thus making Cats useful Creeper deterrents.
* [[Everything Is Messier With Pigs]]
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* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Ghasts open their eyes for one reason - to make your life as miserable as humanly freaking possible.
* [[Expy]]: {{spoiler|[[Slender Man Mythos|SL]]}}Enderman
* [[Fast Forward Mechanic]]: The bed feature which can skip the night-time portion of a day cycle.
* [[Fast Tunnelling]]: It helps that a player has a large amount of space in pockets to store all the blocks gathered by mining.
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* [[Floating Water]]: In past versions, water not only floated, but duplicated itself infinitely to occupy all space below the highest point of water. Nowadays, water still has very strange physical properties. You can use a bucket to pick up a water source block and place it somewhere else, where it will create an endless flow of water that travels a limited distance horizontally.
* [[Follow the Leader]]:
** ''FortressCraft''. From the looks of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JPYsmbf__Q trailer] and other videos, it looks like ''Minecraft'' for the [[Xbox 360]] with upgraded graphics. made even more ridiculous and redundant after the announcement that Minecraft itself was coming to the 360. Naturally, ''Minecraft'' fans have already begun ragging on the game, calling it a [[They Copied It, So It Sucks|"ripoff"]], to which a rep for the team responded with [https://web.archive.org/web/20111021020306/http://getsatisfaction.com/fortresscraft/topics/so_what_will_you_do_when_mojang_sues_you?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=widget_fortresscraft this].
{{quote|''"I'm really honestly bemused by all the vitriol about 'copying minecraft'. You *DO* all know that Minecraft (creative) is a DIRECT copy of [Infiniminer]? [[Critical Research Failure|And that both of those games can clearly and directly trace their routes back to]] [[Roblox]], Wurm Online, Voxlap, 3d Construction Kit."''}}
** Before that was ''Manic Digger'', which went so far as to even allow itself to connect to Minecraft servers. Notch was not very impressed with this.
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** ''Minecraft'' itself was a successful result of ''Infiniminer'' clone wave.
* [[For Science!]]: Redstone dust + various mods = [[Back to The Future|"Great Scott!"]]
* [[Fungus Humongous]]:
* [[Gainax Ending]]: {{spoiler|After beating the Enderdragon, you get an 8 minute long scroll of confusing text. It seems to be a pair of sentient cosmic forces discussing '''you''', the player at the keyboard. The conversation implies, among other things, that [[Minecraft]] was [[All Just a Dream]], life itself is a much longer dream, all the monsters you've been fighting are fragments of the darkness in your heart, and humanity is the universe's attempt at understanding itself. This is probably a [[Shout-Out]] to the [[Creepypasta|Herobrine Mythos]] [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/User:Kizzycocoa/Herobrine\], a persistent [[Urban Legend of Zelda]] about a stealthy, undocumented [[NPC]] changing the environment (similar to the later-introduced Enderman mob), and one of whose propagators also posted a hidden message very similar to the ending scroll in content.}}
* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: Mojang doesn't really do a lot (if any) internal beta testing before releasing new updates for Minecraft, leading to a ''ton'' of these every update. What usually galls players is how many of these game-breakers manifest after '''minutes''' of play. This leads to situations where [[Broken Base|some of the fanbase thinks that maybe someone should go over the releases internally before subjecting players to it, while others think that players paid Mojang to find and detail those bugs for the company.]] A prime example of one of these is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NgN3zCsuvs&feature=related this.]
** Fortunately, Mojang has since begun releasing "snapshots" of updates before they release. This has fixed this problem for the most part.
* [[Game Mod]]: ''Minecraft'' has a large and enthusiastic modding community for everything from texture changes to full-blown gameplay overhauls. Go [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Mods here] for a comprehensive list.
* [[Gaslighting]]: Endermen move blocks around at night.
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** Cave spiders are less than half the size of the other spiders, but at twenty inches tall, they're still giant by real-life standards.
** [https://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/168020164120543232 Jeb] recently posted a [http://i.imgur.com/2qQon.png screenshot] suggesting we may end up with bigger spiders, too.
* [[Grave Robbing]]:
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Spiders have glowing eyes in the dark, as do Endermen.
* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress|Gravitational Cognizance]]: Sand and gravel sometimes forget to have fallen down in freshly-generated terrain. Until you disturb the underside. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4PPtwN-y-A Purty!] [[Awkward Zombie|Also shown]] [http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=032711 here.]
* [[G-Rated Sex]]:
* [[Green Hill Zone]]: The default map theme.
* [[Griefer]]: Almost a given in this game when playing on a server. Some servers, depending on who is maintaining them, will allow griefing against other players while other severs will forbid it. If you are running a server for the first time, using the whitelist feature can help cut down on griefing. TNT is also heavily forbidden in many servers since its explosions can easily wreck structures people built or cause lag if too much TNT goes off at once.
** In the early days of Minecraft, the Flint and Steel item was heavily banned in most servers because the fires it created made other things catch on fire ''very'' quickly until a patch slowed down the speed of fire spreading.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Admit it, when players are dropped into a new world, punching a tree is not the first thing they think of.
**
** One game mod
** Even mods are far from immune - IndustrialCraft2, which adds machine components and 3 more ore types, requires more trips to documentation (typically its own wiki) for experts than Vanilla Minecraft does for newbies. And that's not even getting to the [[Made of Explodium|Nuclear Reactors]], which were redesigned from the ground up in [[IC 2]] and will involve some [[Trial and Error Gameplay|trial and error]] - [[Stuff Blowing Up|very painful trial and error]] - even when you do have a rough guide.
*** Nuclear Reactors require your constant attention - unlike every other set and forget power source, you have to replace exhausted cooling cells constantly, [[Inventory Management Puzzle|implement the perfect pattern]] of fuel cells and cooling cells for maximum power without overheat, and if you turn your back to it for even a moment, you will turn back around to find an enormous crater and a blast area the size of Hiroshima carved into your map, that is, if you survived the explosion. But what really tops it is that while Nuclear Reactors are [[Awesome but Impractical|awesome]], their power output can be matched or exceeded by a very large [[Boring but Practical|solar power array]], which won't meltdown and destroy a large area of the map in the process.
** The Aether mod comes with a feature where all you have to do is hit a certain key and a book for the world you're in (Nether, Normal, or Aether) will pop into your inventory.
* [[Hammerspace]]: The items in your inventory, and where items placed in an Enderchest go, or even a normal chest or barrel, considering that you can fit 1700 cubic meters of stone in them.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: [http://www.halolz.com/2011/08/25/and-yet-you-call-me-the-monster/ This] speech by a creeper.
* [[Harder Than Hard]]: Hardcore mode. It's locked on the hardest difficulty, and [[Final Death|death means your save file gets deleted]].
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* [[Heart Symbol]]: These can be seen after taming a wolf, or when farm animals breed.
* [[Hell Gate]]: Thanks to the Halloween update, you can actually build them. It's a difficult task to gather the resources required, and if you aren't careful, the most dangerous flying monsters will be able to escape into the open air, where they'll be nearly unstoppable.
* [[Hitbox Dissonance]]:
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: It is possible to harm yourself with your own arrows, either by firing them upwards, having them recoil off an enemy currently experiencing [[Mercy Invincibility]], or simply ''outrunning your arrows'', which got much easier when bows became hold-to-charge instead of instant-fire.
** This can happen to the skeletons as well, if you have another hostile mob in the way, the skeleton will be attacked by it if its' own arrow hits the mob. Skeletons can even duel each other if one were to shoot another. It's also the only way you can get records.
** The Beta 1.4 updates up the ante with tamed Wolves that attack anything that has attacked you (except Creepers). If you manage to shoot yourself, your own Wolves will attack ''you''.
** Ghasts love to fly out of range of your arrows and shoot fireballs at you that aren't affected by gravity. It's possible to kill them by hitting their fireballs back at them.
** You can even exploit this, by using the "Punch" enchantment to boost yourself forward, and travel extremely quickly.
** One [[Game Mod]] introduces the ability to use elemental arrows, such as Ice Arrows, Exploding Arrows, Fire Arrows, and Lightning Arrows. Lightning can supercharge Creepers. Do the math.
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: The Endermen are very much this.
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* [[In-Universe Game Clock]]: [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Day/night_cycle One complete daily cycle, from sunrise to sunset to sunrise], lasts for 20 minutes. This means that time is compressed at a 72:1 ratio (72 Minecraft days equals one real-time day). The time of day has dramatic effects on gameplay: Nighttime is when the monsters come out. Daytime is when they burn. As you can imagine, being several miles away from your house at sunset is not a good idea.
** Beta 1.8 added moon phases.
* [[Invisible Anatomy]]: When you're not using your fists to punch something, the item you're holding is just floating
* [[Item Crafting]]: With a mostly drag and drop inventory, and a 2x2 or 3x3 craft slot depending on how you're doing it, you spend pretty much 11% of the time doing this.
** This has since been sped up by adding controls that make interfaces much easier to interact with.
* [[Item Farming]]: The villager trading system. Villagers can sell better weapons and tools for you for Emeralds, you get Emeralds by trading items to them or mining. Wheat and paper are the easiest to farm emeralds from, as they are derived from renewable resources.
* [[It's a Wonderful Failure]]: Death in Hardcore mode. The game doesn't automatically delete your world. It ''sits you at the game over screen until you manually activate the deletion process.''
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* [[Just Add Water]]: Crafting is a crude form of pixelated drawing with crafting materials. No actual labor required. Even complicated items like a clock can be made by merely putting the materials together in a vague clock-like shape. To put it simply, a clock and a compass can be made using the same configuration, except the clock requires gold whereas the compass requires iron.
** And it also literally applies to making Obsidian instead of looking for it. Just add water to lava.
* [[Just One More Level]]: Now with its own [https://web.archive.org/web/20130626062939/http://www.jinx.com/p/minecraft_one_more_block_premium_tee.html shirt!]
* [[Kaizo Trap]]: After defeating the Enderdragon, it's still possible to be killed by any nearby Endermen or falling off the edge of the dimension.
** And in Creative Mode, you can ''destroy the portal leading back to the overworld''. Whoops.
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* [[Lethal Joke Item]]: Continuing the proud tradition of fishing rods in this role is, well, the [[Shaped Like Itself|fishing rod.]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Normally, it's used for just that ]] - casting out into a body of water and flinging in a fish when it bites. Most players wouldn't even bother using it for anything else. But suddenly, a whole new world of possibility opens up when the astute player realizes that it doesn't just reel in fish, it reels in ANY creature. With practice, a player atop a wall can heave up monsters into sword range and with a quick switch, slash the unfortunate on his way back down to fall-damage town. The cherry on top? Even Ghasts are affected, which can be used to pull the elusive flying buggers closer so they can't avoid your hail of arrows.
** Snowballs can be thrown at mobs to knock them backward, but don't actually deal any damage, except against blazes and the enderdragon. Even then, they're much weaker than arrows, and the faster rate of fire is offset by the short range. Most people wouldn't even consider bringing snowballs into the final battle against the high-flying boss, whose immense health is daunting even to players with diamond swords. However, the snowball's knockback actually stuns the enderdragon for longer than it takes to throw another snowball. As a result, one of the easiest ways to defeat the enderdragon is to lure it into its normally unstoppable charge, then pelt it with a steady stream of hundreds of snowballs.
** Fishing rods, snowballs, and eggs are heavily used in player versus player to set up "combos", which allow you to hit another player but stop them from hitting you, and to perform a glitch known as a "rod trick", a double damage bug.
* [[Let's Play]]: If the autocomplete feature is any indication, this is the most popular game to LP on [[YouTube]] - and that's not counting tutorials, walkthroughs, demonstrations of building projects and servers, etc.
* [[Level Map Display]]: There's a Map item which you can craft to keep track of the world you explore.
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* [[Lily Pad Platform]]: Relatively small lily pads can be walked on.
* [[Literal Genie]]: The game's creator falls into this occasionally. Fans begged Notch for a way to ride animals, so he created saddles, which can only be found in dungeon chests. This saddle can be placed on a pig, allowing you to ride it. Unfortunately, due to Notch's sense of humor, the pig continues to wander around aimlessly, since most of the fans were asking for a way to ride animals, but didn't specifically say anything about being able to control them.
** You can now control pigs using a carrot on a stick.
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: Zig zagged. It takes less than 10 seconds (barring update downloading) to get to the main screen in the full game, but a map can take a while to fully load, particularly a well-explored map.
** Since the Beta 1.3 Patch, the file format has reduced the total number of files used to store a single map magnitudes less than what it previously required, (Went from 1000+ files to double digit numbers) and has drastically improved this issue. Given that maps can be upwards of 100Mb large, though, this still frequently applies.
* [[The Lost Woods]]:
** Forest map setting in classic, obviously. Likewise, the Forest and Taiga biomes in the full game.
** The Halloween Update introduced the forest biome, which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], as well as the rare
** Literally:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[[Tq YXG]]-t6UB8
* [[Low Fantasy]]
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** Creepers. Pretty much all they do is silently sneak up on you, hiss for a second and a half, and explode. Even on easy, the explosion can kill you instantly if you can't get away in time. It also destroys most types of blocks, which can allow other monsters to invade your shelter.
** Ghasts (found only in the Nether), which shoot fireballs at you, setting the terrain on fire.
** If you have [[Mad Bomber]] tendencies yourself, you can blow stuff up with TNT
* [[Made of Explodium]]: Creepers. They even drop gunpowder when you kill them, which can be used to craft your own TNT.
** Time is irrelevant in the Nether. Clocks malfunction
** Outside the nether, the "respawn anchor", the nether version of a bed, also explodes, just like a bed.
* [[Magic Tool]]: The Furnaces. Stove, smelter, kiln, and steam engine all-in-one combo pack!
* [[Magnet Hands]]: It is possible to climb ladders with a block of sand in your hand. With your back to the ladder.
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* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]: Multiplayer sessions can be this, due to how players can make skins resembling characters from other franchises.
* [[Mechanical Monster]]: The Blaze mob in the Nether appear to be of this. There's nothing in between their rotating rods and their sounds, pain sounds, and death cries sound very mechanical instead of organic.
* [[The Merch]]: There are now official T-shirts on sale and replica stone pickaxes incoming. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110902012732/http://www.minecraft.net/merch.jsp Store here.]
* [[Metal Slime]]: '''Notch himself.''' Killing him in an SMP server drops
* [[Mind Screw]]: The game's ending "poem". [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/End_Poem Seriously.]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2YckuyQC8 Record 11]. What the hell is happening?
* [[Minecart Madness]]: Players can ride minecarts.
* [[The Mockbuster]]: [http://www.insidegamingdaily.com/2011/02/23/fortresscraft-rips-minecraft-on-xbox-indie-games/ FortressCraft,] an unabashed knock-off released on Xbox Live Indie Games. Doesn't help that not long after, the actual Minecraft was announced for [[Xbox 360]]...
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]: [http://tinyurl.com/6n7xgoo "Creeparka"], is a Japanese meme combining the Creeper and a Parka (which is more typically called a "Hoodie" in English slang). Specifically, this meme involves a cute girl wearing a Creeper-themed hoodie (and often little else) and generally looking [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/1072555/1girl-2215-4koma-t-black_eyes-chibi-comic-creepark cute and frustrated.]
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** Swords were quite powerful for a time, but their damage output was slightly reduced by the 1.0 release. This was likely to encourage players to use the Enchantment Table to power up their swords with various effects to compensate for the reduced damage.
** Cake used to be an extremely practical method of healing--just plonk it on the ground and right-click it whenever you need to heal, up to six iterations of 1.5 hearts. With the 1.8 update that turns food into stamina restoration rather than health restoration, it loses a lot of utility. They restore one food point up to six times, but don't restore much saturation, so you'll get hungry fairly soon. They're basically only good at topping off your hunger bar repeatedly so you can slowly regenerate health, but you need a lot of materials (iron, wheat, cow) to get started.
** Golden Apples used to be extremely difficult to make, due to the fact the normal
***
**** Finally, in the 1.9 update, enchanted golden apples were nerfed once more. They now give 8 temporary hearts, 20 seconds of regeneration II, (the same level of regeneration that regular golden apples give), resistance, and fire resistances (5 minutes each). Their crafting recipe was also removed, making them only findable in naturally spawning chests.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Beta, orginally. The /infdev/ update that first allowed the spawning of creatures would often create groups of 5 or 7 monsters ''right next to another group of 5 or 7... during all hours of the daylight!'' Simply going outside for wood was difficult. Fortunately it has been fixed.
* [[Nitro Boost]]: Dash Pad variety is seen in powered minecart rails as the boost the mine cart when it rolls over the set of activated golden rails.
* [[No Arc in Archery]]: Averted; arrows follow parabolic arcs. They also can be slowed by water and do damage according to how fast they're moving.
* [[No Plot, No Problem]]: This can be averted if you download (or create) an adventure map.
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: You're at bedrock level in a nearby mine. Near pitch black darkness, a narrow hallway, limited weapons. No music, no sounds (with the exception of when you mine). And you know that there are zombies, skeletons and spiders waiting randomly around to tear you to pieces, but you haven't found them yet. NOTHING IS SCARIER.
** You just opened up a hole into a cave system. There are no telltale sounds of nearby enemies. (All of the above enemies have idle sounds.) That still doesn't mean you're safe; all it means is that there might be a creeper in there instead. Which would be ''worse''.
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** Did you make it past the bedrock level? Say hello to the void, which is a huge blank space of nothing. Fall down far enough in the void and you will be damaged quickly until you die. Before the 1.8 update, the void was the same color as the sky so it wasn't too scary. After the update, the void's color was changed to black, making it extremely creepy. The purpose of the void is to kill off players that somehow fall through the bedrock level so they wouldn't become stuck.
** Peaceful mode removes the mobs, no ifs ands or buts, but unless you turn off the game's sound, [[Hell Is That Noise|ambient soundclips]] will still play in deep caves, [[Paranoia Fuel|making you question if you're really alone.]]
* [[One-Gender Race]]: Practically every humanoid or animal species in the game. All NPC villagers are male, and their unusual noses have had them [[Fan Nickname|nicknamed]] "[[SpongeBob SquarePants|squidwards]]". The default provided player textures ("Steve") are also always male, however there is an alternate set of textures ("Alex) which appears female. All chickens are hens who lay eggs, and all cows give milk (there are no bulls). It is probable that all pigs, sheep and wolves are also female, but they haven't demonstrated any gender-specific behavior other than that ''any'' two of their species can be bred together, even separate combinations of A+B, A+C and B+C -- and they will all successfully give birth.
* [[One of Us]]: Unsurprisingly, the game and its wide-open nature have garnered fans of all sorts, resulting in seemingly odd or quirky references to ''Minecraft'' in various places. For instance, in [http://htwins.net/scale2/ this] seemingly-serious Flash animation about the scale of the universe - from atom to visible universe, there is a picture of the scale of a ''Minecraft'' world compared to everything.
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: Since the 1.9 update buffed their explosion power, in close range creepers can do this even to players whose armour is in a decent state.
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* [[Palette Swap]]: Many blocks and items are the same models with different colored textures.
* [[Patchwork Map]]: Biomes are all over the place.
** Rivers [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719180051/http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/File:Deep_Oceans_Overview.png have estuaries at both ends and run in circles].
* [[Planet Heck]]:
** The Hell map setting.
** The Nether, as well.
* [[Player Versus Player]]
* [[Point of No Return]]: Once you enter The End, you can no longer return until you kill the [[Final Boss|Enderdragon]], or die.
* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]: The Endermen are going through a phase of this. Notch claims he nerfed them before the official Beta 1.8 release, and then complained that they're too easy, so the next major update gave their AI an overhaul, removed their vulnerability to sunlight, and doubled their health. It also limited the types of blocks they could move to the softer kinds. Time will tell how much of this stays permanent.
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** While sand and gravel are affected by gravity when placed, unsupported blocks that were generated automatically will stay floating... as long as you don't make the game check the blocks again and find out that [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress|sand can't float]].
** Beta 1.8 introduced Hunger. Unlike [[Wizard Needs Food Badly|most games that use a hunger meter]], Minecraft's meter doesn't drain at a fixed rate. Instead, it uses a complicated system where different activities burn calories at a different rate. You become a little hungrier every time you receive damage, break a block, or move around. A running jump is equivalent to two regular jumps, or running four meters, or walking forty meters, or sneaking forty-five meters, or breaking sixteen blocks. When you're full, health regenerates at a rate of half a heart every four seconds. If the hunger meter drops below 30%, you can no longer run. If it reaches 0%, it adversely affects your health, to a different extent depending upon the difficulty.
* [[Recursive Reality]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110902231656/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109144-Man-Uses-Kinect-to-Play-Minecraft-in-Minecraft This mod] shows a game of ''Minecraft'' being displayed on a giant screen... inside a game of ''Minecraft''. You can also use redstone circuits to create a computer inside your computer, though the clock speed [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGkkyKZVzug leaves something to be desired].
** Also, on a smaller scale, if you totally fill it up, you can fit
*** Using shulker boxes, you can fit 46,656 (empty) chests inside one.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Spider eyes glow red. All six of them. Wolves also gain red eyes when they turn hostile.
* [[Retcon]]: Bamboo(AKA reeds(AKA papyrus)) is now sugar cane. Why? Cake. This of course means all your books, paper, and bookcases are now made of sugar. Mm. Tasty, tasty literature. [[Truth in Television|You can actually make paper from sugarcane though]].
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* [[Scare Chord]]: The "ambience" noises in unlit caves could count as this.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The map generator cranks out breathtaking views by the dozen.
* [[Scoring Points]]: On death, a score is displayed that is determined by the amount of experience points you accumulated before dying. However, the scores
* {{spoiler|[[Sentient Cosmic Force]]: Addresses you at the end of the game. Not just your character, but '''[[Breaking the Fourth Wall|you]]'''.}}
* [[Serial Escalation]]:
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** The Iron Golem, introduced in 1.2, resembles the robots from ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]'', and if you watch closely, they occasionally offer a rose to villager children.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: This could be a just graphics bug, but when you look at lava flowing down through water you can see it surrounded by a hazy light-blue glow. This looks very much like steam that should be created by boiling water as lava is flowing through it.
* [[Silliness Switch]]: Minecraft is available in a wide variety of languages: the default English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic... [[The Lord of the Rings|Elvish]], [[Star Trek|Klingonese]], Pirate...
* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Averted thanks to the Halloween update.
* [[Snowlems]]: You can build a golem out of snow with a jack-o-lantern for a head. It'll wander around, spreading snow on the ground. It also throws snowballs at nearby monsters. The snowballs don't deal any damage directly (except for some nether mobs), but they'll knock the monster back and distract it, which you can use to your advantage whether you're trying to fight, flee, or lure it into a trap.
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*** [[Fridge Brilliance|Or is it Herobrine who refuses to stay gone?]]
* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: Tamed wolves. They'll kill for you. They'll die for you. It's in your best interest to keep their health up, especially since you can heal them with zombie meat (plentiful and mostly useless) but taming a new one requires bones (harder to come by and valuable as fertilizer and dye).
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]:
** Using flint and steel to clear leaves can result in massive forest fires. Bad for the wildlife, but convenient if you want to eliminate hiding places for creepers. Also replaces leaves with wooden blocks, which is a net gain resource-wise.
** Making mobs, enemy or friendly, suffocate to death by making a block of sand or gravel fall on their head and prevent them from breathing. Death by suffocation is treated at the same rate as drowning underwater, i.e. very slowly, but nothing can be more pleasurable than watching a Creeper suffocate to death while being helpless. The player can also suffocate the same way but [[Artificial Stupidity|would generally be smart enough to just get out from under it]].
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