The Locked Chest Easter Egg was a naturally generated block that was used for the 2011 edition of the annual April Fools Joke by Notch. If a player attempted to open the chest, they would get a message stating that a key from the Steve Co. was needed.
The Minecraft Store was also modified on April 1, 2011. If one were to go to the site, they would also find many easter eggs such as the following:
Clicking "Proceed to Checkout" would trigger a screamer followed by a dinosaur from Jurassic Park to begin to fly across the screen.
Entering items at a value of over $10,000 would send a pop-up message asking if one were prone to seizures. If a player would say yes, the screen would start to flash.
If one accessed the script to the Dinosaur easter egg, a reference to the Konami Code would appear.
Shoots out Love, which heals the nearby land and causes things to grow faster.
Known bug: Having both a pink wither and a wither in one's world at the same time may cause up to a 200% increase in frame-rate. Will be fixed for launch.
All animals may be fed golden apples to unleash their hidden magical properties (see new Magic section).
File:11ogg.pngA portion of disc 11 when ran through a spectrogram. Some features have been distinguished. There is a main character's face and the number 12418.
When the ogg for disc 11 is converted to wave and run through a spectrogram, an image is created. Several theories for this image exist, but the most popular is that the image depicts the default player head and C418's autograph. C is the hexadecimal of 12, so 12418 is actually C418.
A post was added to the Mojang blog[1] that stated:
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The long-nosed villagers introduced in Minecraft beta 1.9 have become sentient. They have taken over our skin servers and content delivery networks (CDN), so, unfortunately, you will not be able to change your skins until we fix the problem. We are desperately trying our best to pull the plugs, but we should prepare ourselves to serve under our new villager overlords. Singularity may be upon us.
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— The Minecraft Team
In-game, however, villagers still acted the same with their programmed AI; however, they did make different sounds.
Every player's skin was replaced by a villager skin, complete with a trademark long nose. Not all players had the villager skin and skins varied by player. Non-villager parts of the game also included villager noises. All noises were replaced with the sound effects of Element Animation's "T.E.A.V.S.R.P" (The Element Animation Villager Sound Resource Pack). In-game villager music was also added. The title screen music contained a parody of the Game of Thrones theme, due to the new series starting in early April and also because it was included the original trailer for "T.E.A.V.S.R.P.".
The skins were reverted to normal on April 2, 2014.
Grumm released the villager skins on Reddit on April 1, 2014. There were seven variants.
An updated version of TEAVSRP, complete with the new music, was released by Element Animation on April 2, 2014.
15w14a, dubbed as a snapshot for the "Love and Hugs Update",[2] was released as an April Fools' joke for version "1.10", when the next update was supposed to be 1.9. There was also a QR code written in the snow that generated in a superflat world that, when scanned, reads "Java Edition 1.9: The Combat Update".[3]
The new default texture pack was released for Java Edition 1.12 and 1.13. It was announced that all editions of Minecraft will get the new texture pack. The new textures are the original texture using 8-bit color, leading to a drastic reduction in detail. The ability to change to actually good textures through the use of resource packs was also removed.[6]
3D Shareware v1.34 was released as an April Fools' joke. Officially called Minecraft 3D, this version was supposedly an "old version" of Minecraft released on April 1, 1994, of which only "a handful of copies were ever made", one of which was discovered "amongst all the rubble" lying in the basement of Mojang's old offices. It was said to be "a masterpiece of its all time" featuring "cutting-edge technology" which won many awards.[7]
Among the new additions include Red, Blue, and Yellow Keys; a 3D item that, according to its lore, is "tasty"; some codes that activate cheats via typing (not necessarily in chat); and an "Obligatory nightmare mode" that kills the player upon loading the game.
Some changes include randomly-generated barrels with 2D billboard models throughout the world; random pop-ups appearing randomly that say "Next disc required"; a new loading screen that resembles a command prompt; all sounds having been converted to sound more "8-bit"; and a revamped HUD.
The blog post regarding this version can be found here. An official video from the Minecraft team can be viewed here.
On April 1, 2020, Mojang released 20w14infinite, adding 231-1 dimensions that can be accessed by throwing a specifically customized Written Book into a Nether Portal.[8]
Since 2012, between December 24–26, all chests in-game have the appearance of wrapped presents. An unusable skis texture was also temporarily added to the game files in both 2012 and 2013 as a joke. There is also a "Merry X-Mas!" splash text that can appear.
In 1.14.2-pre2 and for the occasion of the 10 years of Minecraft's release on May 17, 2019, the cake had a big "10" placed like candles, and the only splash text that appeared was "Turning 10 years old!". This was reverted to the way they were before on May 20, 2019.
A "Thing" pattern can be crafted using an enchanted golden apple and paper. When put on a banner, it displays Mojang's logo in whatever color dye was used. It is labeled "Thing" in the inventory.
In an unused and unseen portion of the Zombified Piglin's Original Texture, one can see "THX XAPHOBIA". This was written by Notch to give credit and thanks to the original creator of the texture, XaPhobia.
In the texture file for the armor stand, in an unused area, the word "Searge" can be seen in a black box. This is presumably a signature by Searge, the developer that implemented armor stands.
If a player were to delete the file splashes.txt without deleting META-INF, the text on the screen will appear as "missingno". This is a reference to the infamous glitch Pokémon "MissingNo" found in the first generation of Pokémon games.
Another easter egg to be found in the splashes.txt is a line stating "This message will never appear on the splash screen, isn't that weird?"
The line, in fact, will never be shown whenever the game is opened.
File:Minecraft-minceraft.pngThere is a 0.01% chance the title screen will read "Minceraft" instead of "Minecraft".
This is a one in 10,000 chance that the title screen will display "Minceraft" instead of the normal "Minecraft". There is also a splash text that says: "You should try our sister game, Minceraft!"
This message will never appear on the splash screen, isn't that weird? – as the name implies, this splash text is never displayed on the menu screen.
Happy Birthday, Notch! – this splash text appeared on June 1, or Notch's birthday. This is no longer the case as of Java Edition 1.8.5 due to Notch no longer working for Mojang.
COVID-19 Splashes – special splash texts during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic have appeared in 1.15 and snapshots of 1.16. Some of the splashes include "Wash your hands!" and "Support elderly relatives and friends!".
Holiday Splashes – various splashes appear all day on many holidays, such as "Happy New Year!" on January 1, and "Merry X-mas!" on Christmas Day.
Happy birthday, sp614x! - This splash text was shown each 13th of August to celebrate sp614x's birthday.
This splash text is hard to read in default resolution but in 1080p it's just fine! - It's the longest splash text ever. It may occasionally show at the beginning.
If one were to find a way up the Minecraft Logo in the Tutorial World, they will have an opportunity to enter it. Once inside the logo, after doing a little walking, a player will come across a Nether portal. In the new Xbox 360 title update, the floating logo is now empty as there is a separate building housing the Nether portal.
In the Title Update 12 Tutorial World, if a player were to enter the sandstone pyramid, go to the top floor where the hidden music disc is. There will then be four blocks of Gold on top of a single block of Obsidian. It resembles the Tower of Pimps that was created by Gavin Free of Achievement Hunter. In their video "Let's Play Minecraft Part 2- On A Rail!" Gavin first created the structure while drunk by using materials they needed to get the On A Rail achievement. The Tower of Pimps has now become one of the many things that are featured in the majority of their Minecraft videos. Currently is no longer an Xbox 360 exclusive as it also appears on the PS3 and PS4 versions
