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* [[Accidental Aesop]]: Pointed out by one review. You start in a wonderful world. After some time, you look back and realize you have destroyed a large patch of nature and terraformed ground just to make that mega-building of yours. What you once fell in love with is now gone because of your megalomania.
** Some private servers have a "minimal interference" policy specifically to avoid this. (Underground caves are usually fair game, though.)
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: [http://ben-hurr.deviantart.com/art/Minecraft-Ghast-183544320?q=boost:popular%20Minecraft&qo=8 This.]
** While mostly thought of as outright [[Jerkass|JerkAsses]] who exist only to frustrate the crap out of you, Creepers have sometimes been interpreted as sad, lonely little [[The Woobie|Woobies]] who only want a hug and just happen to explode with happiness when they approach you.
** [http://i.imgur.com/4Crdv.png Then there's the view that Creepers' aggression is entirely justified. ],
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** Not just the game itself: Notch was [https://web.archive.org/web/20131106021242/http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4955141617/the-plan-for-mods going to charge for access to the source code later]. 3 guesses what the fan reaction was. Notch reconsidered and changed the price to the outrageous price of [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104044550/http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4955682775/the-cost-of-the-mod-api free.] There are now people complaining about access to the source code being free.
** The 1.6 update pretty much caused players to yell at Notch with all the [[Game Breaking Bug|Game Breaking Bugs]] ''even more than before.''
** The Beta 1.8
* [[Cool but Inefficient]]: Gold anything. As in real life, gold is treated as a soft malleable metal meaning that golden armour and tools are less durable than the wood versions.
** However, golden equipment (besides the hoe) is still more potent than even diamond equipment, so some server admins hack in golden equipment for themselves with infinite durability.
** Potions can also qualify since while they do have some useful effects and the harmful ones can be thrown when brewed with gunpowder
* [[Colbert Bump]]: From [[Valve Corporation|Valve]], [[Penny Arcade]] and others. These have caused several server overloads. For some sort of reference, only a few weeks after hitting beta and being in development for about six months or so, the game hit one million in sales.
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: [[Minecraft/Awesome|Has its own page.]]
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: [[Minecraft/Funny|This too.]]
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] The tracks composed by C418 can really set the mood just right.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqwSul5YmJ4 It's no secret that Deadmau5 likes to play Minecraft.] So much so that
** Bobby Yarsulik, who's made several songs inspired by and relating to Minecraft. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuntw6an9Rc Minecraft: The Song] is his most well-known piece, but he's done other songs, relating to things like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAG4XRuhYuo creepers] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uADmUuA2kg the freedom to create your own story.]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtchxJSiKZ0& The Nether] music mockup makes you wish it was in the game.
* [[Demonic Spiders]]: Ironically, the regular spiders are nowhere ''near'' as bad as the following mobs...
** Cave spiders, much like their surface counterparts, can pounce, climb walls, and come in packs.
*** Good news and bad news about the poison inflicted by these spiders. The good news? The poison can't kill you and will always leave you with half a heart on your life meter if it dips that low. The bad news? If your life meter ever ''gets'' that low from poison, you'll
** Creepers. They [[Action Bomb|explode]], dealing massive damage and destroying anything nearby. They don't burn to death or turn passive when the sun comes up. And they have a nasty habit of appearing out of nowhere '''right behind you'''. They're [[Memetic Mutation|famous for hiSSSSSSSSSSSSing loudly]], but that weakness has [[Oh Crap|been removed]]; they are now utterly silent until the fuse. Not to mention that [[Nightmare Face|their face consists of a gaping, empty mouth and two hollow eye sockets, and is frozen in an expression of]] ''[[Nightmare Face|pure horror]]'' [[Hell Is That Noise|SSSSSSSS]][[Nightmare Fuel|sweet dreams.]]
*** And now they have been [[Nerf|nerfed]] by the terrible [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Demonic Housecats]]. Creepers refuse to
** According to Notch, the enemy type called "Ghasts" make "The most unfair mob more unfair". In your first encounter, you learn a few things about ghasts. They look like floating jellyfish. They've very big. They fly. They shoot exploding fireballs. And being that parts of the Nether are made of Netherrack, blocks
*** Gameplay has revealed exactly how little justice is done with just the descriptions players were given. They have ''enormous'' sight and attack ranges, drift ''far'' above the player, usually a good bit out of bow range, and while it was mentioned that they shot exploding fireballs...well, en masse, they shoot ''lots'' of fireballs that ''[[Department of Redundancy Department|explode.]]'' [[Death From Above]] doesn't really begin to cover it.
*** Some brave explorers have found that you can actually bounce their fireballs back with a sword strike or an arrow, which usually kills the ghast in one or two hits. However, it requires good timing and of course, messing up just once can be bad for your health.
** In a game where most mobs use melee attacks, the skeletons break that mold and become the most evil mob in all of the game. They fire arrows almost non-stop and have a very far range to where they start following you. Their aim is very good, and so more often than not, their arrows ''will'' hit you. Trying to attack them with a melee weapon is tantamount to suicide, since the strategy of "strafe, attack after they shoot" is difficult at best and
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▲** In a game where most mobs use melee attacks, the skeletons break that mold and become the most evil mob in all of the game. They fire arrows almost non-stop and have a very far range to where they start following you. Their aim is very good, and will hit you. Trying to attack them with a melee weapon is suicide, since the strategy of "strafe, attack after they shoot" is difficult at best and suicidal in most caves. It's even worse if one chases you into water, as they can't be approached safely, and will continue to fire a constant volley of arrows from above the water with no change in arrow direction. Basically, the best strategy when facing a skeleton is to counter with your own arrows, chewing up your supply very fast. By the way, they often spawn in packs. Basically, if you hear [[Hell Is That Noise|an arrow being fired]], it's over. [[It Got Worse|What's even worse]], ''they can ride spiders.'' <ref>If you're lucky, the skeleton will end up killing itself. But not the spider.</ref> And that's all before the Adventure Update: after 1.8, skeletons can shoot fully-charged arrows- which means they now have incredible accuracy and projectile speed that makes it nearly impossible to dodge an arrow. They may have a lower fire rate, but that's a small comfort at best.
** The Endermen, at least in groups. They teleport around constantly, making them almost immune to projectiles and highly resistant to melee, they can surround you ''very'' easily, and they do a ton of damage per hit, in addition to having the highest health of any non-boss mob. You also can't run away from them, since they can sync through reality to close in on you ''fast''. They only got worse in recent updates; now, they're nearly impossible to actually hit, due to the fact that they teleport a lot more frequently.▼
▲** Now we have [[Cores and Turrets Boss|Blazes]] which can light the player on fire. They only spawn in the Nether, where water does not exist (and any you bring with you evaporates if you try using it). If you don't have armor with Protection From Fire enchantments, you can kiss your toasty keister goodbye.
▲** The Endermen, at least in groups. They teleport around constantly, making them immune to projectiles and highly resistant to melee, can surround you very easily, and do a ton of damage, in addition to having the highest health of any non-boss mob. You also can't run away from them, since they can sync through reality to close in on you ''fast''. They only got worse in recent updates; now, they're nearly impossible to actually hit, due to the fact that they teleport a lot more frequently.
* [[Disappointing Last Level]]: The game's ending has earned some criticism. After spending ages exploring, digging, building, crafting, and generally soaking up a colossal and oddly beautiful world, you drop through a portal and find yourself in a small, ugly, simplistic world where your only goal is to kill an [[That One Boss|ultra-tough boss.]] And then you read a confusing, scrolling-text prose poem.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: For a [[Ascended Glitch|failed pig model]] and something that [[Demonic Spiders|ruins your work easily]], the Creeper is most likely the most well-known Mob and arguably the face of Minecraft (often literally).
* [[Fan Dumb]] / [[Unpleasable Fanbase]]:
** If Notch doesn't update quickly, people complain that he's getting lazy, ignoring his work, not doing his job, etc. If he does update quickly, people complain that he keeps breaking mods.
** As mentioned on the main page, people have a habit of complaining viciously whenever a bug is found, demanding that Notch conduct more beta testing. Only, he ''was''. Up until November 2011, Minecraft was in open ''beta'', making said bug finders ''beta testers''.
** Check the forums. Does the game have enemies? It's a rip off. Does the game have digging mechanics? It's a rip off. Does the game have a sandbox style gameplay? Rip off. Grass? Rip off.
*** ''[[Terraria]]''. Good god, ''Terraria''. If ''Minecraft'' fans aren't complaining about ''Terraria'' copying ''Minecraft'', it's ''Terraria'' fans complaining about ''Minecraft'' stealing ideas from ''Terraria''. Notch even pointed out how similar ''Terraria'' was while praising it on [[Twitter]], and then based several ideas in response to ''Terraria''.
** And this doesn't even begin to describe [[YouTube]]. If a popular channel has a video that contains or references ''Minecraft'', meets one of the above conditions, or even for no reason at all, every video that does not include ''Minecraft'''s comments will be composed 80% "YOU SHOULD DO MINECRAFT" OR "DO MOAR MINECRAFT, (insert whatever the video is about) SUCKS AND IS FOR PEOPLE WITH NO LIFE". This has become a massive issue among
** In fact, in 2010, people apparently [https://web.archive.org/web/20121010094548/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/104600-Minecraft-Multiplayer-Brought-Down-by-DDoS-Attack DDoS'd the game because they wanted more content]. They're lucky Notch just didn't give them the middle finger and take down multiplayer to show [[Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things]].
** The [[LEGO]] fandom, by and large, is '''''not''''' reacting well to the news of the ''LEGO Minecraft'' partnership. While for the most part people are simply expressing legitimate concerns about how well ''Minecraft'' will translate to physical bricks ([[Reality Is Unrealistic|it's certainly not the perfect, 1:1 conversion people seem to think it is]]), [http://lunacyoflegomanvalues.tumblr.com/post/16504275828 some of the most vocal raging shows a devastating lack of knowledge on the matter to the point of being outright demeaning of fans of the game].
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*** And, of course, if they ''did'', the pitchforks and torches would be broken out in the name of putting Mojang heads on pikes for not carrying out more testing...
* [[Faux Symbolism]]: The alternate realms (Nether, former Sky Dimension, and End) have been interpreted as Hell, Heaven, and Purgatory, respectively.
* [[Goddamned Bats]]: The
** Giant spiders pounce, crawl through 1-block-high passages, and typically spawn in groups. Now with glowing red eyes! Mercifully, they mellow out and become passive in the sunlight, unless they're already after your blood. They can also climb walls now!
** Ghasts. They aren't a huge threat, provided you stay away from them and can find or build cover fast enough, but the fact that they fly out of range of your conventional weapons means they take a long time to kill.
* [[Good Bad Bugs]]:
** People frequently abuse the game's bizarre water mechanics for the sake of comedy. They just got more bizarre and water now resembles a gel-like substance in consistency. Place a good heap of TNT on an island and you can ''blow a hole in the ocean''.
*** As an example, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnnMRJwoGqc&hd=1 this water elevator] which abuses water flowing in a certain direction in a certain way. Add a [[Soft Water|pool of water that negates falling damage]] at the bottom, and you've got the fastest elevator system possible.
** The now defunct "bury yourself in sand and see all the caves" bug. Now, burying yourself in sand or gravel will just block your view.
** SMP has [http://www.flickr.com/photos/masterleaf/6115750365/in/photostream Chunk Errors].
** In the alpha version of multiplayer, you could toss away your about-to-break tool and pick it back up to fully mend it (fixed in beta).
** Burnable blocks set on fire sometimes never burn down, especially if boxed in when lit, allowing for eternal flames and always-lit fireplaces. This was fixed in Beta 1.3, and nowadays, the only block capable of burning forever is Netherrack.
** Sometimes after crashes, parts of old saves are left around, and you can come across parts of your old builds in a supposedly fresh world.
** Fishing poles could be stacked, unlike any other item limited by durability. If you equipped and used a stack of fishing poles, they'd all lose durability at the same time. If you dropped one fishing pole on another, the resulting stack retained the latter's durability. This could be exploited for infinite fishing. The ability to stack them was removed in 1.6, effectively removing the exploit.
** What may perhaps be the king of Good
*** Again, fixed in 1.6.** The Far Lands, caused by travelling too far into the distance of an infinite map, in which you'll end up in strange geometric landscapes. Notch has stated that this is one he ''won't'' fix [[Sure Why Not|because he thinks it'd be cool to have a strange faraway land.]]▼
▲** The Far Lands, caused by travelling too far into the distance of an infinite map, in which you'll end up in strange geometric landscapes. Notch has stated that this is one he ''won't'' fix [[Sure Why Not|because he thinks it'd be cool to have a strange faraway land.]]
*** Sadly, though, [[Too Good to Last|they didn't survive the 1.8 update (or at least the prerelease.)]]
** There was one exploitable glitch that allowed players to climb ladders normally even if they were spaced every other block, thus allowing people to conserve building materials. The game's creators recognized how popular this practice was, so at the same time that the bug was fixed in 1.5, the ladder resource cost was cut in half.
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** So you decide to build your house or fort out of cobblestone (or just plain stone). Enjoy your unneeded cave noises.
* [[Most Wonderful Sound]]:
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** You've just mined out all that clay and step into the pit to pick it up — ''pop pop poppoppoppoppoppopopopopop!''
** The sound of a creeper dying.
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* [[Rule 34]]: Go to Google Images with safe search off, and type in "creeper minecraft." Just remember to keep your [[Brain Bleach|bleach]] handy.
** Can also be done to search for the Rana image.
** There was one for Ghast ''an hour'' after Notch revealed
** Ditto for Enderman and Silverfish.
* [[Ruined FOREVER]]: After Microsoft's E3 event (2011) revealed that Minecraft would be coming to the Xbox 360, [http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/365178-minecraft-coming-to-xbox-kinect-this-winter/ fans reacted predictably to the news], with the phrase "NOTCH IS A SELL OUT" being used the most.
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** There are also people who simply hate newcomers, accusing them of being late adopters and blaming them for [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|Minecraft changing too much]].
* [[Tear Jerker]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw1fkQQn7ec This]. Don't grief, kids. It's cruel.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: TL:DR; '''''LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE MINECRAFT UPDATE''''' was criticized by the [[Fan Dumb]] for one reason or another.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Usually every update that does something other than fix fatal bugs (see [[It's the Same, Now It Sucks]]), but with the 1.5 update, Notch fixed the <ref>Placing ladders at every other tile would allow you to climb as if it was a solid ladder in older versions of Minecraft</ref> while doubling the amount of ladders produced per 7 sticks. Not 12 hours later, a mod titled "ladderfix" that adds the exploit back in was made and released.▼
** And people wonder why Notch gave up being the Lead Developer...
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** The Beta 1.7.3 update fixed the <ref>by setting up a sticky piston so it pushes a block into the path of a regular piston, and then getting the right rhythm going, the piston creates a self-replacing line of blocks</ref> glitch. There was less of an uproar about this, since you can still get large amounts of blocks from inventory editors or op commands, but anybody who wants to build a self-repairing structure that isn't made of cobblestone is out of luck.
** When Beta 1.8 was previewed, one of the major perks of the future update was NPC villages, which are basically premade houses with some of them having a crafting table and some of the fields nearby having wheat being farmed. Cue the cries of [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|some people complaining that this makes starting out in a new world too easy.]]
** Apparently the <ref> an area a certain distance from the spawn that has crazy terrain generation</ref> no longer exist. Spells bad news for those who liked the far lands (kurtjmac has no choice but to keep playing on boring old version 1.7.3 to continue his "Far Lands or Bust" campaign). There's a chance that the Far Lands may return, since their removal was purely unintentional and Notch himself was a fan of them, but for now the glitchy realm is well and gone.
** With previews of new features to be used in the future were shown (how experience points can help build up strengths and NPCs offering quests and the like), people cried that Minecraft was now too much of an RPG and less of a Survival Sandbox game. Then again, people most likely have complained about every single new addition the game since day 1.
** People have complained about potion brewing being changed from using a cauldron to a "brewing stand"... [[Up to Eleven|even though brewing
** Take that 11 and crank it up a few more notches (no pun intended). When Notch and Jeb released screenshots showing off potions, a magic book that enchants tools and armor, building a portal to the home of the Endermen and dragons appearing in their realm, people are crying that Minecraft is now too much like Oblivion or The Elder's Scrolls instead of being a survival sandbox game.
** Baby animals were given [[Super-Deformed|giant heads]]. Cue complaints that the game is "too silly and unrealistic".
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** When pre-release 4 of 1.9 was released, the moon and the sun were given a more rounded look compared to the square shape from before, the moon now has phases like a real moon does, and the moon and the sun now rise and set in the east and west as they do in real life. Guess what people complained about?
*** Reverted back to being square in the full release, though the moon still has phases.
** Notch announced he will step down as head developer of Minecraft and leave the game in Jeb's hands while he will still pop in every now and then to give support or ideas. People have declared to not play ''Minecraft'' anymore purely due to Notch not being in charge of the game's direction and others have wildly guessed that Jeb will remove the
** With certain mobs now having a [[Rare Random Drop]], such as iron and golden tools/weapons, people cried the game will become too easy and there would be no point in crafting anything if you can just get tools randomly. Naturally, no one read that
** The 12w16a snapshot
*** Repeated to the same effect for the 12w18a snapshot where Coca Beans can now be found in jungle tree leaves at the same drop rate as Apples, meaning you no longer have to find a dungeon to get the item. This led people to cry that Minecraft is becoming easier and how there won't be any more items that will be rare.
** The 12w18a snapshot has single player and multiplayer combine its coding, making the coding become as one as a test for Mojang's idea to have players be able to invite friends over on their map without having to set up a new server for it and helps Mojang fix bugs faster since both modes would share the same exact coding. Many people in the fan base exploded in pure rage, crying that strangers can come in at any time and grief them and how the snapshot is horribly buggy and laggy, demanding Mojang to have it all fixed instantly or scrap the snapshot. Considering that the snapshots are basically a beta version of the upcoming patch, the idea of a beta having bugs like anything else is lost on many people.
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** Or if you happen to live in a hilly, tree-filled area and wake up early in the morning, just as the sun is coming up...and start scanning the horizon for creepers.
** Another, more entertaining example, is how some players have adopted the terms "Full Stack," "Half Stack," and "Quarter Stack" as an expression of the numbers 64, 32, and 16. It's usually a good indicator if someone plays Minecraft by whether they understand or use this phrase without a second thought.
* [[That One Achievement]]: While the game's current achievements aren't that hard, "On a Rail" is pretty tough. It requires obscene amounts of materials just to craft a minecart and 1000 rails, and
* [[That One Level|That One Cave]]: When you light up a new cave, only to discover a fall into [[Soft Water|water]]
* [[Ugly Cute]]: For some players, creepers.
** The
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: In a previous version of the alpha, you could only get gunpowder by murdering adorable little black people. If you couldn't bring yourself to kill them, you could just scavenge it from the bottom of a lake; those little dudes can't swim, but it doesn't keep them from trying.
** The 1.8 update introduced edible chicken, watermelon, and [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|giant black creatures]]. Cue jokes and accusations of racism.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: the Sky Dimension was similar to the Overworld, except everything was floating islands. The potential for fun was great. Then Notch converted the whole thing into the End, which is an ugly greenish world with nothing much in it except the boss, and no reasons for anyone to want to stay there once the boss is dead.
* [[The Woobie]]: The player character, arguably. He was thrown into the world with little to no understanding of where he is and has to build a shelter by night time. He can't even go outside his house at night without being ruthlessly assaulted by monsters.
** Ever wonder why Creepers have those sad little faces? [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Some people have interpreted them]] as lonely creatures who only want to be your friend, but explode with happiness or nervousness once they get close enough to you.
** The passive mobs. Exist only to be shot down by the player character for
*** Sheep got a break with the 1.7 update. Now you can get more wool by using shears than by outright killing them, which only sometimes drops 1 wool. And shearing doesn't hurt them. This doesn't stop some sadistic players from killing them out of boredom, though.
*** If you depend on alternate
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