25 Facts About Minecraft You Might Not Know

If you try to see a Nether Portal behind water or ice, it won’t be visible.

There’s about a 1 in 10,000 chance that when you turn on Minecraft, it’ll misspell its own name to Minceraft.

If you get wool by shearing a sheep, the shears won’t take durability damage. They only take damage when hitting tall grass or leaves.

Technically, Minecraft worlds aren’t infinite. The further you go out into them, they get buggy and don’t work as well as they’re supposed to.

Minecraft became such a phenomenon because of word of mouth. Gamers told their friends and the word spread like wildfire. Once it hit YouTube, it got even bigger.

While he was coding the game, “Notch” recalls making a mistake and coding a pig wrong. The result was a creeper. We’re guessing he coded the exploding part later.

Dealing with the Endermen in Minecraft is no fun. But if you want to avoid them all together, you can put a pumpkin on your head and become invisible to them.

Though you might reach bedrock when reaching the ceiling of the Nether, there’s a little trick to give you the ability to break through and reach the roof of the Nether. Of course, there’s not much up there but it’s still pretty cool.

Influenced by Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper, the creator, Markus Persson, just called the early edition “Cave Game.” Honestly, we’re glad he called it Minecraft, later.

While it may sound like an Enderman speaking is unintelligible, the recording is a guy saying “Hi” and “What’s Up?” but it’s backward and at a high pitch.

Players have claimed a human figure with white eyes has followed them around the game. He also is said to create random pyramids and other creations. However, there is no figure like this coded into the game and it’s purely fictional…Or is it?

If you put a normal fence next to a nether brick fence, they won’t connect. You can walk through them but animals can’t.

In an incredible feat, Denmark has been totally recreated in Minecraft by Simon Kokkendorf and Thorbjørn Nielsen. They even pulled public data about roads and buildings to get everything right. Anyone can visit the Minecraft virtual Denmark.

When a dragon egg falls into a non-transparent block or is pushed by a piston, it’ll drop as an item. You can be the owner of your very own dragon egg.

Once you’ve tamed a wolf into a dog, if you utilize the cheat code option, you can change the color of its collar into 15 different colors.

You’d think creating an expansive game like Minecraft would take years upon years. However, the first version of the game was completed in only six days.

After Minecraft was released on PC, Mojang made many updates and fixes and didn’t consider it complete until November 18th, 2011.

One school in Stockholm, Sweden has made Minecraft a requirement in hopes it’ll help improve the thinking ability of thirteen-year-olds.

A strange phenomenon in Minecraft is that it only has cows but no bulls. Yet, the cows still can have babies. Life, uh, finds a way.

If you played in the 1.2.0 version of Minecraft, an algorithm allowed for an easier time catching fish in the rain.

Using a fence post and carpet, you can create platforms you can jump on from one place to the next. Animals can’t jump on these platforms.

If you want diamonds, you’re going to need to dig and dig a lot. The best place to find them is deep in layer 12.

If you have a fully charged bow in Minecraft, it’s more powerful than wielding a diamond sword.

In an AMA on Reddit, it was revealed the noise Ghasts make are from recordings of a cat when its sleeping, specifically when it is disturbed.

Even if you’re in peaceful mode, you can still anger a few mobs. Both Iron Golems and wolves can both be hostile in that mode.