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{{quote|"''Let's go to a place where everything is made of blocks, where the only limit is your imagination.''"
|''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}MmB9b5njVbA Official Minecraft Trailer]''}}
'''''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.
''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 Play]]s on [[YouTube]] (like those from [[Yogscast]]) along with attracting a dedicated modding community and launching a multimedia franchise. Countless creations have been made inside the game, from the [[Star Trek|Starship]] [http://www.pcgamer.com/somebody-built-the-starship-enterprise-in-minecraft/ Enterprise] to [http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/07/09/westeros-recreated-in-minecraft portions] of [[A Song of Ice and Fire|Westeros]]. With its addicting gameplay, iconic imagery and intuitive mechanics, ''Minecraft'' is one of the defining games of [[The New Tens]].
Notable for its [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Version_history frequent updates] and
▲'''Survival''' adds myriad features, such as a crafting system, a day/night cycle, and hostile monsters, and unlike Classic, the player must collect blocks manually. Players are dropped into an empty world with absolutely nothing but the clothes on their back. At night, [[Everything's Deader With Zombies|zombies]], [[Dem Bones|skeleton archers]], [[Giant Spiders]], [[Action Bomb|exploding Creepers]], and [[Humanoid Abomination|teleporting]] [[The Slender Man Mythos|Ender]][[Captain Ersatz|men]] roam the land (unless you're playing on Peaceful Mode <ref> prevents violent mobs from spawning; you don't get attacked, but on the other hand you can't get any of the neat items they drop</ref>). The player is forced to scrounge for supplies, building up a base to protect from the nocturnal beasts while also mining deep underground for valuable materials. The landscape is also populated by more docile animals, like cows, that can be killed for their meat (which fills your [[Wizard Needs Food Badly|food meter]]) and other useful items. Even after its official release, the game is constantly updated with many new features and tweaks, and players who have already paid for the game receive these free. For more details about Survival mode, refer to the [[Minecraft (Video Game)/Analysis|analysis section]].
▲The second mode, '''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. It is, in essence, a more full-featured version of Classic.
▲Notable for its [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Version_history frequent updates] and very involved creator, Notch (now working on other projects, having turned Minecraft over to Jeb). The full game was released on November 18, 2011 (Originally slated for November 11, but due to [[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim (Video Game)|some other game]] launching that day, Notch pushed it back a week). The game also exists as a mobile version for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and two official Android apps (one free and one paid version - both of which roughly correspond to the Classic and gold versions, respectively). An iOS version of this was released on November 17, one day before the computer version left Beta. A version for the [[Xbox 360]] is now available.
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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▲The largest third-party [[Game Mod]], [[The Aether]], has its own page. There is also a page reserved for fan-made [[Minecraft Adventure Maps (Video Game)|Adventure Maps]].
▲* [[Abandoned Mine]]: As of the adventure update, you can now find these around the world.
* [[Action Bomb]]: The Creeper.
* [[All Deserts Have Cacti]]: Cacti can grow in any sandy area, but they're most common in the Desert biome.
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* [[Ambiguously Human]]:
** In keeping with the theme of the game, the player character is a very blocky man named "Steve?" whose body is composed various shaped cubes and rectangles. Yes, that's "Steve?", with a question mark.
** Averted with the [[Exactly What It Says
** Villagers look closer to Neanderthals than anything else.
*** Or [[
* [[Angels, Devils, and Squid]]: The extra dimensions. The (former) Sky Dimension, the Nether and the End.
* [[April Fools' Day]]: The 2011 April Fool's Day featured a massive parody of ''[[
* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: You can find a broken, dusty record. If you play it, it details the {{spoiler|final moments of someone being chased by an unknown mob and he cries out suddenly as the record ends.}} It only raises the question, ''who recorded it''?
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Redstone. Putting dust on the end of a stick makes an infinite power source (unless you short it out). It's also magnetic, given that it's used to make the Compass, and, as of 1.0, can be used as an ingredient in brewing potions, extending the desired effect's duration.
* [[Arrows
* [[Artificial Brilliance]]:
** Creepers deliberately wait to ambush you by hiding in alcoves until you pass by.
** Pigmen group into tribes. Just look at the [http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1016&t=71196 research!]
** Tamed wolves will follow the player down stairs rather than leap off ledges. They're also smart enough to not attack creepers.
** Peaceful mobs now have a chance of running from a source of damage, including wolves.
** As of the full release:
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*** Endermen teleport away from approaching arrows.
*** Endermen teleport away from approaching players, if they are in combat with them, to avoid melee attacks. However, if you wear a pumpkin on your head, you can engage them.
*** Mojang recently hired an AI specialist. [http://youtu.be/htBo75pHW7Q This] is the result. The fan base is divided on the zombies, but most people agree giving this pathfinding ability to wolves is a great idea, and giving this pathfinding ability to creepers is [[The End of the World
* [[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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** Most enemies have effectively no pathfinding - meaning they will gleefully jump into bottomless pits, walk through lava, and drown in order to reach the player. The pathfinding is basically only "run at player, jump when you reach a block in your way".
*** This has been since averted by the new pathfinding AI implemented by a new Mojang employee.
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: The trees that grow apples are referred to in-game as oak.
* [[Ascended Meme]]: Endermen can be seen as this applied to Herobrine (see [[Urban Legend of Zelda]] below) - like Herobrine, they have glowing eyes, shuffle around blocks to make strange and unnatural formations, and aren't really aggressive by default but don't take kindly to being watched.
** Every single patch since around Beta 1.7.3 except 1.1 has had "Removed Herobrine" in its patch notes.
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** Clay (and by proxy, brick) - While being [[Captain Obvious|very durable-looking]], the production burns through coal like nothing else, and is extremely space-filling in the inventory- even if crafted into blocks for storage, they ''have to be mined again'' in order to smelt them. They made a comeback from being one of the rarest blocks in the game to being far more common, which used to be one of clay's impractical factors.
** 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
** 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.
** Golden apples used to be this, being extremely rare and requiring 72 gold ingots to craft a single one, but they healed all health. Now they're a more standard item.
** The majority of contraptions involving excessive amounts of TNT. Endless fun for rigging up minefields, self-destruct systems, and even artillery cannons. Almost always requires great caution and planning to set up anything more complex than a basic pressure plate mine. In addition, restocking on TNT requires hunting down considerable numbers of [[Action Bomb|creepers]] for the required gunpowder. And if that isn't enough, [[Paranoia Fuel|TNT remains one of the only artificial blocks endermen can still pick up and place]].
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]:
** Wood. Extremely plentiful, especially if you replant saplings. Essential for workbenches, chests, and tools, but also makes doors, pressure plates, boats, fence posts, stairs, bowls, signs, and even charcoal for torches once you construct a furnace.
** The update which added dye to the game also added the ability to dye sheep. Not only is this endlessly amusing, but it is somewhat more efficient than manually dyeing wool blocks, as shearing sheep has the potential to give more than one block of wool.
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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\]
* [[Big Creepy
* [[Bling of War]]: You can craft tools, swords, and armor out of gold. Gold tools and weapons are [[Awesome but Impractical]] (see above), but gold armor is the strongest armor made from a renewable resource and still has the highest enchantability..
* [[Booby Trap]]: Desert pyramids have treasure rooms with a pressure plate in the middle of it. If the plate is stepped on, it triggers the TNT buried below and will blow you to hell, along with the loot. Jungle temples have tripwires that, when activated, makes dispensers nearby fire arrows at you.
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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, there is a never-ending pit called the void, which mysteriously saps your health, killing you very quickly and then destroying all your items.
** 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]].
▲* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: A bow with the "infinite" enchantment doesn't actually use up any arrows in your inventory. The bow is limited by durability and can't be repaired, but that's still the equivalent of six full stacks of arrows.
* [[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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* [[Canine Companion]]: Wolves can be tamed with bones, and will follow you around and fight for you.
* [[Celebrity Endorsement]]:
** House music producer [[
** One of the game's most popular multiplayer servers is Deadmau5's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNZADE9aTxA own server], which includes several giant statues and effigies of the mouse-headed musician (including one made out of solid diamond blocks) and some pretty amazing architecture.
** Seananners of [[Machinima Respawn]] also has many videos of Minecraft, some with Deadmau5.
** [[
* [[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''.
* [[Commonplace Rare]]: Saddles were like this for a long time when they could only be found in dungeon chests, although this is alleviated somewhat now that some NPC butchers will sell you as many saddles as you want. Apples and cocoa beans were also like this for a while, until they became renewable resources via trees.
** Clay used to be very rare, making building structures of brick an exercise in determination. Clay is a lot more common than it used to be now.
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: Skeletons will spin and shoot you with pin-point accuracy and a reaction time no human could ever achieve. Particularly obvious with the Beta 1.8 update, which introduced bow pull-back. The longer you hold the bow back, the more powerful the shot. Unfortunately, skeletons seem to be immune to this.
* [[Continuing Is Painful]]: Played straight. When you die, you'll drop all the items you're carrying, and all but six level's worth of your experience points are [[Lost Forever]]. This penalty can be softened by having fewer than six levels of EXP, causing you to lose only half of them, and if you died near your spawn point or remember where you were when you died, you can run back and retrieve all your stuff. If you happened to die by falling in lava though, kiss all your items goodbye!
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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.
* [[
* [[The Croc Is Ticking]]: All the monsters make their own distinct noises that warn you when they're near. Of all monster noises, though, the most dreaded is the Creeper's hiss. This is because Creepers don't hiss (or make ANY noise, for that matter) until they're right next to you, and they only hiss for a second and a half before they explode. <ref>The reason for this has to do with how a Creeper explodes. Creepers blow themselves up by burning gunpowder inside their bodies, and the hissing noise is actually the sound of the gunpowder igniting. The Creeper will only light the gunpowder on fire when it's right next to you, because that's the only way the explosion will do any damage.</ref> So when you hear a Creeper's hiss, you usually only have time to think "[[Oh Crap]]" before the Creeper detonates and kills or severely injures you.
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* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: Many, many, MANY gamers, including most of the popular [[L Pers]], are reduced to baby talking hysterics and "awwws" at the mere sight of a tamed wolf.
** Taken even further [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4_VxIzpqeU&feature=relmfu here] when Shawn sees the "wolves" at the end of the Mars Mission.
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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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** Indeed, lava combines item destruction with massive damage, meaning if you die in it you can [[Continuing Is Painful|kiss your whole inventory good-bye.]]
* [[Dronejam]]: Animals can, and often will, block narrow passages, and there rarely is another way to get through but killing them.
* [[Dug Too Deep]]:
** The bottom z level of every Classic mode map is nothing but lava. In the full game, every map has a rough layer of unbreakable bedrock (which can be revealed in Classic with water); if you somehow get past ''that'', you'll find an endless void that quickly kills you.
** In Beta 1.2.0, the rules changed so the deeper you dug, the more light you needed to prevent enemies from spawning, until eventually they could spawn even in direct sunlight. However, Notch reverted it back to the old light rules in 1.2.1, saying it was too annoying and he'd have to come up with a better way to carry out this trope.
** 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
** 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]]:
** If you look in the splashes.txt file, you'll see that the deja vu splash is listed twice.
** "This message will never appear on the splash screen, isn't that weird?"
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: You're only a few well wasted hours of digging away.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Ghasts, house-sized, floating tentacled creatures with an anguished-looking face and the ability to spit burning explosives with pinpoint accuracy. And they sound like little children -- traumatized little children in extreme pain.
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*** Maps do work in the Nether, but only the ceiling will be mapped so it will look the same everywhere. They are still useful for finding your position relative to where the map was made.
** And now thanks to a glitch in the Adventure update pre-release, we have abandoned mine systems. They are generated procedurally underground in small chunks, but because of a bug in their code, any new chunk created while leaving a mine shaft will be another mine shaft. This leads to endless, labyrinthine catacombs that [[Alien Geometries|may not have existed at all if you had tried to tunnel into them from above first]].
** The realm known as "The End." The sky is grey TV-static style, it has a dull green ambience to it, the world is nothing but floating islands in a black void, giant obsidian-like pillars dot the otherwise featureless landscape, and giant black dragons fly above. It's also [[Captain Obvious|home to Endermen]]. And once you enter The End, the only way out is killing [[Final Boss|the Enderdragon]].
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPe8nb3EV4M Here's a video of this place.]
* [[Elemental Crafting]]: Played straight, except see the entry below for [[Reality Ensues]].
* [[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
* [[Everything's Better
* [[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]]
* [[Everything's Squishier
* [[Everything's Deader
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[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.
* [[Filk Song]]:
** A number, one of the most notable being [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIhs8_m5qPc "In Search of Diamonds"]
** [[Yogscast|I AM A DWARF AND I'M DIGGING A HOLE! DIGGY DIGGY HOLE! DIGGY DIGGY HOLE!]]
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* [[Floating Platforms]]: You can make some, too.
* [[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].
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** 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.
** ''[[
** ''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
▲* [[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.
* [[Hyperactive Metabolism]]: Before the Beta 1.8 update, all consumable food instantly restored your health. Food now only fills up your hunger meter, which will slowly restore your health if the hunger meter is at least 90% full.
** Sheep now eat grass to recover their wool nearly-instantaneously.
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* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]
** And, if you want to go that far, [[Terraform|an exterior designer is you too]].
* [[In
** 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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* [[I Was Told There Would Be Cake]]: In an attempt to focus public support, it was announced that cake would be added to the game if Minecraft won [http://www.indiedb.com/games/minecraft Indie of the year.] It did, and cake was added in the first update of 2011.
* [[Jungle Japes]]: The Jungle Biome added as of the 1.2 snapshot updates.
* [[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.
* [[Kill It
** Flint and Steel can ignite enemies. If they were already damaged or not near water, they will more than likely die. If you want to kill non-hostile spiders without them retaliating, you can ignite the ground below them, and they'll take damage without recognizing you as the source.
** Fire as a whole is more or less lethal, unless you conveniently dug into water and lava at the same time.
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** When a pig or a cow is killed in this fashion, the porkchops / steak it drops will already be cooked.
** Blaze powder, gunpowder, and coal can be combined to make a fire charge. This item can be used like flint and steel to start a faster-spreading fire, or you can load it into a dispenser to launch fireballs.
* [[Kill It
** As of the full release, Endermen teleport away when they come in contact with Water.
** This is the standard way to farm slime balls; since slimes can't swim, a drowner trap is very effective against them.
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* [[Ladder Physics]]
* [[Lamarck Was Right]]: When dyes were added, you could colour sheep and recieve more wool (see Awesome yet Practical above). Now that animal breeding has been added, sheep will pass on their (dyed) colour to their children and will even regrow dyed colours of wool. Since the colour passed on to the child is selected at random, you can use one lapis lazuli to create an entire flock of blue sheep, since Minecraft animals have no set gender and can reproduce with any other animal that isn't juvenile. Say goodbye to hoarding your lapis!
* [[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
** 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
** 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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* [[Narnia Time]]: In single player, while you're in the Nether, time doesn't pass in the overworld, and vice-versa.
** This is because only parts of the world where some player is around are simulated, so in Multiplayer it still works when nobody is in the nether/overworld, the time there stops. This also applies to The End.
* [[Nerf]]:
** 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]] "[[
* [[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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* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: The ones featured here have the classic arms-forward walk, greenish-gray skin, and burst into flames when exposed to sunlight. They used to drop feathers when killed, simply because ''something'' had to drop feathers and zombies were introduced before chickens. Nowadays, they drop rotten flesh, which you can eat in emergencies, and the most you have to worry about is food poisoning. You can feed it to pet wolves to heal them without any downsides.
* [[Oxygen Meter]]: When you're fully submerged under water. If you run out of air, you'll start taking one heart of damage per second. Enchanted armor can reduce this rate.
* [[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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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFUjulkzE7U with the help of some explosives.]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFrgDPCgGA Another example, this one powered by a redstone circuit, that was featured on Notch's blog.]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cocXTSgzZDc&feature=related This video] gives us enough flaming arrows to put the [[
* [[Real Is Brown]]: The biomes introduced grasses with more "realistic" hues. The bright green grass ''does'' still exist, however.
* [[Reality Ensues]]:
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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]].
* [[Revive Kills Zombie]]: Beta 1.9 introduced several kinds of potions with beneficial or harmful effects. For every type, you can use it on yourself, or turn it into a splash potion to throw at friends or enemies. Zombies and skeletons are healed by potions of Poison or Instant Harm, but can be damaged with potions of Regeneration and Instant Health.
* [[A Riddle Wrapped in
* [[Right Behind Me]]: Creepers have a nasty habit of doing this. What makes this worse is that if you can hear their signature hiss, it means it's already too late to flee. Also, trying to run away from hostile Endermen is [[Offscreen Teleportation|useless and will only result in this trope]].
* [[Rollercoaster Mine]]: Thanks to the various track pieces, this can result from deliberate player designs. Sometimes players will use this as part of an elaborate transportation system.
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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 Youtube user [http://www.youtube.com/user/kurtjmac kurtjmac] is attempting to walk to the Far Lands. He's been at it for quite a number of hours now (if you take a look at the "Far Lands Or Bust" playlist, he started walking to the Far Lands in the 11th video). Coming just before his 100th episode, he has walked 292202 meters from his spawn (blocks are 1 meter in all directions) ~180 miles, this is about 2.3% the way to one edge. [[Never Tell Me the Odds|He will not look at his data again for quite a while.]]
* [[Sequence Breaking]]: Although the game has no preset sequence to break, it does have a tech tree that's fairly linear. Normally, making an obsidian portal to enter the Nether requires a diamond pickaxe with which to break obsidian. However, since obsidian is formed when water flows over a lava source block, it's possible (through clever use of buckets) to make a mold, fill it with lava, and solidify it into a portal with water, no diamonds needed. If you're really bloody-minded, you can even find a natural lava pool and destroy all the lava that's not in the portal shape by replacing it with dirt, then opening a hole to a pond/ocean above and let nature do its work, no iron (for buckets) needed either. Hope your stone tools are good enough to fend off Ghasts and Blazes!
* [[Set a Mook
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** The yellow text on the main screen often says things like: [[Will Wright|Reticulating splines,]] [[Doom|MAP11 has two name!]], [[The Enigma of Amigara Fault|Drr... Drr... Drr...]], [[Valve|Not on steam!]], [[Persona 4|Switches and ores!]], [[Star Wars|That's not a moon!]], [[Family Guy|Peter Griffin!]], [[Peek
*** "[[The Order of the Stick
*** "[[Cow Tools]]!"
*** It will also recommend ''[[Meat Boy
**** [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Splash The full list is here.] Viewing any part of this page is guaranteed to yield at least five shout-outs. Unless you're looking at the bottom of the page. Or are using a primitively-low screen resolution.
** When placing a painting, you have a chance of placing one of [[King's Quest|Graham]]
*** There's also paintings of 100M from [[Donkey Kong]] and some of the maps from ''[[
** The achievement for making cake is called [[Portal (
** Persson compares the Endermen to [[The Ring|Samara]].
** [[Word of God|Word of Notch]] says that the Enderman is an obvious shout-out to the [[Slender Man Mythos]].
** Beta 1.9 added enchantments to the game, and every enchantment you can select is written in the [[Commander Keen
*** Among the possible enchantment words are [[Colossal Cave|Xyzzy]], [[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)||Klaatu Berada Niktu]], and [[Mythology Gag|The]] [[The Elder Scrolls|Elder Scrolls.]]
** One splash is shout out to TV Tropes itself saying; "Less addictive than TV Tropes!"
** The Iron Golem, introduced in 1.2, resembles the robots from ''[[
* [[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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** That's just the tip of the iceberg; you can drop a kitten's parents into the void, then lock said kitten in a cell made entirely out of TNT and blow it to smithereens; you can place a chicken in a minecart, then proceed to push the minecart into a pit of lava; you can use piglets as target practice; anything to do with animals, especially babies, that doesn't fall under caring potential is usually this.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]]: Originally, sheep dropped 1-3 wool when struck. Nowadays, you're supposed to use iron shears to harvest 2-4 wool without harming the sheep. You can still get wool by killing them, but only one piece, which is really impractical if you're collecting any color besides white.
** Go on, attack a wolf. Their high pitched squeal of pain is amusing, [[Blatant Lies|and their compatriots definitely won't gang-rush you to exact vengeance on you for your unnecessary cruelty to one of their own]].
** Beat up a villager (or worse, a ''[[Would Hurt a Child|baby villager]]''), in front of an Iron Golem. [[Berserk Button|I dare]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|you]].
* [[Wall Master]]: Silverfish. They only appear in Strongholds and one by itself is not threatening, but they are dangerous in swarms. Why? Silverfish hide in the blocks of the Stronghold, and breaking that block, or injuring another Silverfish without instantly killing it, causes the Silverfish in other nearby blocks to awaken and swarm the player. You can't tell, visually, that a block contains a Silverfish unless you try to mine the block without a tool. The stone blocks that appear to break faster by hand than by a tool is the only sign that says that block contains a Silverfish.
* [[Water Is Blue]]: Darker blue in this case. There are plans to implement a biome gradient similar to grass, so water will be a lighter shade of blue in areas with a higher temperature and/or higher rainfall. So far this has only taken the form of murky water in swamp biomes.
* [[Weakened
** Skeletons and zombies are set on fire by direct sunlight, and torches can prevent monsters from spawning underground. Spiders and Endermen become neutral during the day.
** Averted only for the Creepers, who are ready to party at all hours. They become ''more'' dangerous in the daytime, because the player gets complacent, and they can blend in with the sunlit vegetation (though not as much as they used to; see [[Real Is Brown]] above).
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** Deaths that can be easily avoided encompass half of the decisions with bad results (most of the other half is about trying to build fireplaces in wooden houses). Oftentimes lava, falling, or sand/gravel is involved. Sometimes it's a combination of the preceding.
** Nevermind once multiplayer gets involved.
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'''Steve:''' Oh, let me see. *accidental bump*
'''Mike:''' [[Curse Cut Short|FFFFFUUUUUUU*splat*]]
Or just hitting each other with your pickaxes while trying to mine. }}
** A persistent bug due to [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tutorials/Update_LWJGL out of date LWJGL] involves randomly starting to walk in a different direction while walking while clicking. The way to fix it is by hitting that direction key. Which is the very most counter-intuitive thing to do. Cliffs and lava pools become an object of horror due to this bug.
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