Sorting options
▲
1
▼

▲
1
▼
If a Parrot is near a music box when the player inserts a music disc and plays music then the parrot will dance along with the music by bobbing it's head around.
▲
1
▼

▲
1
▼

During the game's early years, the game's creator Markus "Notch" Persson had heavily promoted the game on a number of websites including 4chan, which its success he partly attributed to the website.
▲
1
▼

Feeding cookies to parrots was also a subtle reference to the song "Polly" by the band Nirvana.
▲
1
▼
On the title screen, random splash text is displayed below the bottom right of the title. One example is "Let's Danec!". This is a typo Notch (the game creator) made while working on "Wurm Online".
▲
1
▼

The partnership that spawned from this is called "Block by Block", which uses Minecraft to help teach young people in the planning of urban public spaces. Haiti, Nepal, India, Rwanda, and Kenya are countries undergoing projects with the help of said program.
▲
1
▼
If the game crashes, a witty comment is placed at the very beginning of the crash report. These comments include parodies of Zero Wing's "Somebody set up us the bomb", lines from "2001: A Space Odyssey", and even Minecraft in-jokes like "You should try our sister game, Minceraft!"
▲
1
▼
If the game's language is set to Australian English, there are a number of interesting changes that occur, including all new names for each type of tree, pigs being renamed wombats, and many more. Many in-game messages are also changed, like if you try to use a bed when a hostile mob is nearby, it will say "You can't sleep. The neighbors are having a party." instead of "You can't sleep. There are monsters nearby."
▲
1
▼
Whenever the player unlocks an achievement in the PC release, the notification will read "Achievement get!" This is a reference to the Japanese release of Super Mario Sunshine, where upon collecting a "shine" the words "Shine Get!" pop up on screen.
▲
1
▼

▲
1
▼
The Enderdragon can be damaged with snowballs.
▲
1
▼
There is a 1 in 2500 chance that a rabbit will spawn hostile, and attack players who come within four blocks. This rabbit is referred to as "The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog" in the player death screen. This is an Easter egg based off of the Rabbit of Caerbannog from the British comedy film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In Peaceful difficulty, the killer rabbit will not despawn and will still try to attack players, but will do no damage.
▲
1
▼
There is an unused enemy in the game called Giant. This mob is a huge Zombie with considerable health and deals heavy damage. They can only be hurt by being hit in the legs. Giants were added in the last version of Survival Test, but haven't been used since. They can still be spawned through hacks, however. Additionally, they can be spawned using the command "/summon Giant" in version 1.7 of the game.
▲
1
▼
Some of the Ghast's sounds were recorded from composer and sound designer C418's pet cat.
Related Games
FIFA 2001: Major League Soccer
Assassin's Creed Rogue
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
Chessmaster 9000
The King of Fighters 2000
Narita Boy
Touhou Seirensen: Undefined Fantastic Object
Beyond Good & Evil
Binary Domain
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
Dynasty Warriors 7
Resident Evil
Shank
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Memoirs of Magic
2002 FIFA World Cup
Antz Extreme Racing
Pac-Man Museum+
Pizza Tower
Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night
F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate
Underhero
Bad Boys: Miami Takedown
Rwby: Grimm Eclipse
Cannon Fodder
Doom
Beyond: Two Souls
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Pac-Man World 2
The Wolf Among Us
The Fairly OddParents: Breakin' da Rules
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
WWE 2K20
Football Manager 2013
Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2
Kid Chameleon
New Trivia!
Ratatouille
Tropico 4
Dead Rising 3
Sega Rally 2
FIFA 23
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
Atelier Marie: The Alchemist of Salburg
Street Fighter IV
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Big Boy Boxing
The Sims 2
Alone in the Dark