10 Years of Minecraft

10 Years of Minecraft
Map maker(s)	Blockworks
Price	Free
Release date	May 9, 2019
Tags	Fun; Adventure; Mining; Historical;
Genre(s)	Action; Action-Puzzle;
Players	Single player (1)
Website page	10 Years of Minecraft in Minecraft Marketplace
Article	"Minecraft 10th Anniversary Map" – Minecraft.net.

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10 Years of Minecraft is a DLC map released on May 9, 2019 on both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Minecraft.

Summary

The Vault

Players begin the map in a desert, outside a desert pyramid marked by the 10th anniversary logo. Right beside the entrance are two chests, containing 54 total unique "Anniversary Golden Minecarts," which the player can use inside on a track that recaps the last ten years of Java Edition updates. At the end of the track is a collection of numbered buttons, with another chest containing a map and book, labeled The Vault and credited to BlockWorks. Inside is an explanation of the surrounding area, an expansive locked door into the Vault itself.

To open it, the code is 170509. Once the combination is input, the door will open between both sets of buttons, revealing a fancy, dimly lit museum with a directory immediately visible. Beside it are two stairways, leading down to another minecart track that takes the player to the Mob Gardens. The first room of the museum itself is split between inorganic blocks, such as stone and gravel, and organic blocks, such as coral and cacti. Chests containing books explaining each block in detail are placed about. In the center of the room is a gray stained glass floor, showing another recreation of the Minecraft 10th anniversary logo below.

At the north end of the room is a large quartz staircase, leading up to the second floor with an array of functional blocks, such as crafting tables and sponges. Unlike the preceding floor, this area is much more angular and adorned with end rods, with stained glass pane railings over holes giving a look at the bottom. Also different on this floor is that the blocks are grouped into categories, in the form of utility blocks and mechanisms. Behind the staircase is a small room, labeled Minecraft: A History, where players can find a condensed history of the franchise surrounding birch trees. These include Minecraft's player count, the release of Lego Minecraft, the release of Minecraft Story Mode, the founding of the Minecraft Marketplace, and various Minecons.

A few blocks away from the first stairway is another, leading up to a slanted display of "manufactured blocks," such as banners. Another collection of blocks reside southwest of this, giving a large view of all three floors of the Vault. Also present on the third floor are large cyan stained glass windows, designed to mimic diamond ore.

Biomedomes

Located to the north of the Vault, the Biomedomes are blocked by an expansive puzzle, where the player must jump across several chunks. If they touch the incorrect chunk, they will be teleported back to the start. In order to cross, players will need to read a book given right before, and memorize the pattern given. Upon completing the challenge, the player will be able to access the Biomedomes proper, and are given a heavy weighted pressure plate that can warp them back to the Vault.

Marching up a grand flight of stairs, players will enter into a recreational plains village, with a puzzle nearby. Inside a chest is a diamond shovel and book named Adventuring Time, tasking players with collecting a poppy, dandelion, melon slice, carrots, lily pad, beetroots, nether wart, red mushroom, chorus fruit, and rose bush. The poppy and dandelion are plentiful throughout the village, while beetroot crops and can be found in nearby farms. Melons can be found in a jungle area not far from the farms, the lily pad in a swamp close to the prompt, mushroom in a flower pot in a witch hut, and rose bush in a forest far from the other biomes. Other biomes featured are dark forests and birch forests, and inside them are chests, containing explanations of the biomes in question.

The plants from other dimensions can be found by swimming down the well in the village, which drops the player down an abrupt tunnel into a stronghold marked with yellow thing banners. The stronghold is split between two paths, the Nether to the right and End to the left. The Nether section is set in a large nether wastes biome, littered with torches. Patrolling the grounds are wither skeletons and blazes, which will chase after the player as in survival mode. The nether wart will be found inside of a nether fortress, which will require a lengthy fight with the mobs.

The End section is a combination of the inner and outer End, beginning with a recreation of the ender dragon arena with the ender dragon egg on top of the exit portal. Beyond that is an end city, complete with shulkers. Uniquely, on the second floor is a shulker monster spawner. Climbing upwards, players will find two chests, one containing two diamonds and a stick, the other two diamonds, a shulker shell and shulker box. At the very top is a chest containing a book on the outer islands of the End. Chorus plants can be found below.

Once all the plants are found, a second chest will generate beside the flower bed, containing an anniversary golden sword.

The Academy

Located to the east of the Vault, players will have to solve a puzzle before entering the building itself. The starting area of the region is a strip of land lined with stone bricks and white concrete, with a chest containing instructions. Players will have to decipher a message written in the Standard Galactic Alphabet, using a codec credited to Herobrine. Pressing a button will teleport the player to a barrier block above the area, revealing a large statue of a book with the text in question. At the very end of the area is a building in the shape of an enchanting table, where they can input the answer using various levers above items, such as turtle shells.

The message on the book translates to "I have a spine, front and back but bones and teeth are what I lack, on me you can write your name but first craft me with 3 sugar-cane." This teaches the player to pull the levers for books and sugar canes, which will open stained glass gates, allowing entry into the Academy. Climbing up dark oak stairs, players can advance up on top of the enchanting table, and climb the enchanting book into the Academy, passing a directory and iron pressure plate that warps the player back to the Vault.

The Academy is a large building modeled after a college, with the first room to the left of the entrance being a cafeteria with a checkerboard floor pattern, and obscured to the right a classroom with oak planks for the floor and a green terracotta chalkboard. In the proceeding hallway are two bathrooms, marked light blue and pink with toilets made of snow layers and gray carpets, and mirrors made of banners. From there is another door into the cafeteria, and a splitting hallway to the east and south. To the east is a large statue of an agent, with nearby exits to roads of dirt paths. To the south is a similar exit, leading to a fountain with a humanoid figure, as well as an indoor stairway lined with anvils. Immediately on the second floor are two more classrooms and bathrooms, though differently designed, with the bathroom being reachable through a one block wide wall.

Returning to the Agent statue, players can make a turn to the left and discover a large assortment of displays on school subjects, including Art & Design, History & Culture, Math, Science, Computer Science, and Language Arts. In front of these is another book, simply labeled Education, explaining Minecraft Education. Above the area is a large recreation of the game's former logo. To the right of the Agent statue are several actual agents, making a "special visit" to vanilla Minecraft, as explained in a book marked "Robot." In this area, players are tasked with programming the agents, leading them to a block of gold. Four of these puzzles are present, with diamond axes and exclusive "Robot Controller" blocks being given to assist.

For the first puzzle, they player will simply need to replace a Robot Controller and rotate it to face the gold, which it is directly next to. If a robot controller is removed with an agent on it, it will die and need to be respawned by a nearby button. The second puzzle will be to the right, and require reorienting three blocks, first to face the south, west, and south again in an L-shape. The third puzzle counterclockwise will be similarly simple, requiring a U-shaped path path to be straightened. This and the fourth puzzle require the agent to be spawned manually, as opposed to the others which have it naturally. The final puzzle will be in a W-shape, requiring a more complicated order, with blocks ordered in the east, south, east, south, and west.

Upon completing the Robot Minigame, a chest will appear below a board listing off many achievements by Block by Block, and reward the player with a book explaining Block by Block. Behind that is a large floor map, telegraphing the locations of Block by Block projects across the world.

Mob Gardens

Located to the south of the Vault, directly behind the entrance, Mob Gardens is preceded by a collection of oversized spawn eggs amongst a badlands biome. Inside players will find a book, explaining a series of riddles that will enable players to enter the garden proper. Inside the parrot, creeper, and enderman eggs are levers, which open the path to the gardens. Players can climb into the eggs via ladders, finding very little beside carpets. Once all three are pulled, players can transcend stone brick stairs up into the true Mob Garden, a modern dome house many of the mobs of the time, adorned with stained glass windows of mobs such as pigs and Steve. Upon entering the garden, players will find another directory and a fast travel back to the Vault.

To the left of the entrance are exhibits of passive mobs, all noticeably larger than normal, beginning with tropical fish, mules, skeleton horses, and villagers. Similar to the Vault, there are chests containing books explaining the mobs' behavior and lore. At the very end of the room are a circular display for parrots and bats, with the chests a considerable distance away from the mobs. In the center of the museum is a large spire of water, surrounded by neutral mobs such as llamas and spiders. The right wing is devoted to hostile mobs, with elder guardians inflicting mining fatigue upon approach. Similar to the left wing, at the end is a circular area featuring flying mobs, in this case the Wither, a phantom, a ghast, and a blaze. Between both wings are spiral staircases up to catwalks above the displays.

Returning to the spire, curious players will be able to discover a hole in the center, revealing a secret basement in the form of a mysterious garden lined with polished diorite. Traveling down a wooden path will inevitably lead the player to collide with tripwires surrounded by skeleton skulls, which summon various enemies such as skeletons, endermites, vexes, and vindicators. Traveling through sections themed around the End, Nether, an ocean monument, the player will emerge in a chamber filled with banners of Herobrine, and be rewarded with eleven enchanted apples, in the shape of the number 10.

The Museum of Redstone

Located to the west of the Vault, the Museum of Redstone is surrounded by a gigantic recreation of a circuit board. In order to enter the building, players will need to activate ten redstone lamps, marked by a spruce device in the center. These lamps are activated by clicking ten levers in the area, on the sides of small structures, which contain redstone blocks and cobblestone walls. Upon opening the door, players can proceed into a polished andesite tunnel into a gigantic piston, climbing a large flight of stairs up past a directory and arrive in a courtyard marked by statues composed of redstone blocks.

The Museum itself is a large, open building made of terracotta and acacia, surrounded by lamp fixtures made of floating pistons. Up another set of stairs, players will find a chest in front of a redstone device, containing a book tasking the player with lighting various blocks up. In the center of the room are several unlit lamps, which light up with your progress. To the left of the entrance room is a large hallway, containing tutorials for various redstone mechanisms, such as redstone torches and T flip-flop. Following a path modeled after a redstone wire will eventually lead to a lower floor, containing the Redstone Grove, a zoo area filled with _Jeb sheep and a redstone environment. The trees are redstone lamps on block of redstone trunks, abundant red tulips, and redstone ores scattered throughout every stone source. At the bottom is a book, explaining the lore of the grove in a poem.

In order to "light up the building," the player will need to interact with each of the tutorials. The lever, locking repeater, and redstone torch, and T flip-flop lights can be completed with a simple use. For the button, they have to use a bow to shoot the button, which breaks in one use. The detector rail requires pushing the minecart on top of the detector, while the daylight detector can be solved by either turning it to detect shade or pulling a hidden lever on the ceiling to reveal sunlight. In the chest of the tripwire chest are 14 coal in the shape of a ten, with the book in the zero. Once all are activated at once, the player can progress to the right wing.

Similar to the left wing, the lever, AND gate, comparator, puzzles can be solved with basic interaction. There are four comparator puzzles, the first requiring filling a chest with coal, the second uses a hopper that requires 160 coal, the third pulling several levers, and the fourth a specific lever out of six. The slime block puzzle needs the player to pull a middle lever and slightly obscured right lever. Also similar to the left wing is an attraction at the end of the wing, in this case an out of order elevator.

Upon completing every puzzle, a large double chest will be revealed, containing anniversary golden armor. Another activity the player can do is climb somewhat obscure stairways in the lobby, which will lead into an attic area with a large redstone contraption held up by cobblestone walls. Proceeding up another, spiral staircase will lead players into an observatory, revealing the device to be a TNT cannon. Before it is another chest, containing a book explaining some lore about the machine and chain boots enchanted with feather falling IV.

Another collection of stairs lie back on the first floor, positioned behind giant claws hung by the lamp puzzles. On the surface, they would appear to be a viewing area, similar to the catwalks in Mob Gardens. At the end are another set of stairs lined with acacia logs, leading up to a gallery of various redstone machines. On the left wing are several "armouring machines," the first simply made of stone blocks, stone bricks, and dispensers. The second, labeled Armouring Machine 2.0, is a plate of blocks of iron, with birch fence posts on the corners, and four dispensers surrounding soul sand in the center. On the right wing is a complex contraption made of multiple wool blocks, marked as out of order.

Golden Apples

In the corners of the map are six Golden Apples, structures in the shape of golden apples that are accessed through railways underneath the Vault. The first available is from the entrance to Mob Gardens, leading to the southwest apple. Inside each of the Golden Apples is a parkour challenge, leading to the top of the apple, where the player is rewarded with an enchanted golden apple. Once all six are completed, as well as any of the primary puzzles across the map, the player will be teleported "back to spawn" on a large platform, filled with cakes and containing a chest with several items.

Inside the chest are two music discs, both of the song Happy Birthday. One is sung in English and sung by the employees of Mojang Studios in Redmond, while the other is in Swedish and from Stockholm. Opposite to those are a Special Anniversary Minecart and Special Minecart Key. The Minecart summons an entity when placed, which possesses an inventory with 12 slots, and can be ridden by putting the key in the saddle slot. While ridden, it allows the player to fly. Also on the platform is a creeper entity that dances, before turning into a large grass block, thanking the player for exploring the map.

Books

(Note: All books are by BlockWorks unless stated otherwise)

Informal

The Vault

Welcome to the Vault!

Here you will find every block in Minecraft, safely under lock and key.

Not really, it's much more high-tech than that. The Vault uses a super secret 6-digit code, which you'll never guess!

Now, what was it again?

Having looked after Minecraft's blocks since day 1 I'm getting awfully forgetful!

I really should write it down somewhere...

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Adventuring Time

Plants, can't live without them.

There is a reward for any traveler who can find these ones:

Poppy Dandelion Melon (just a slice) Carrots Lily pad Beetroots Nether wart Red mushroom (from a mushroom block) Chorus fruit (from a chorus flower) Rose bush

This handy shovel will help you harvest!

P.S

If you're looking for plants from another dimension, why not have a swim in the village fountain!

The Academy

On your way to The Academy? First you'll need to solve these two galactic riddles. You can press the button to get a better view.

When you think you've worked it out, head to the giant enchanting table and pull the levers above the two correct item.

Hint: you might find the 'Galactic Guide' useful in your translations!

Code Translator

(by Herobrine)

ᔑ -> a

ʖ -> b ᓵ -> c ↸ -> d ᒷ -> e ⎓ -> f ⊣ -> g ⍑ -> h ╎ -> i ⋮ -> k ꖎ -> l ᒲ -> m

リ-> n 𝙹 -> o !¡ -> p ᑑ -> q ∷ -> r ᓭ -> s ℸ -> t ⚍ -> u ⍊ -> v ∴ -> w / -> x

Education

Did you know Minecraft is being used in schools in over 115 countries around the world?

35 million students and educators have access to Minecraft: Education Edition, which uses Minecraft to teach, engage and inspire children across a huge range of subjects.

Visit education.minecraft.net to find out more!

Robots

These little fellows are the Education Edition Code Builder robots. They don't normally live in this Minecraft platform, but since it's a special occasion they have made a special visit!

The robots are controlled by the blocks they are walking on. The direction of the arrow shows which direction the robot will move next.

You can break and rotate the green arrows using the pickaxe, but you cannot break the magenta arrows!

It is your task to help guide the robot towards the gold block, which will turn diamond when completed. Complete all 4 puzzles for your reward.

Block by Block

Block by Block began in 2012 with the radical idea of integrating the computer game Minecraft into public space planning to get community members more involved.

A collaboration between Mojang, Microsoft and UNHabitat, Block by Block allows everyone to have a say in the design of their local public space by using Minecraft as a collaborative design tool.

After a project location is selected, a 3-day workshop is held where community members share and discuss different ideas, before building them in Minecraft.

These Minecraft designs are then passed on to architects and local authorities who, with the help of Block by Block, build the real-world public space on the Minecraft model.

The Mob Gardens

Headed to the Mob Gardens?

You'll need to solve the Riddle of the Eggs first!

3 of these eggs contain levers which open the gate to the Mob Gardens - it's up to you to find out which! Here are some clues to get you started:

1. Play a jingle and I'll flap and wriggle, but don't feed me chocolate - for my kind it's toxic!

2. Roses are red, violets are blue, give me a hug and I'll hug you back - BOOM!

3. They travel in hauntings, and are most certainly daunting. These tall chaps will disappear in a snap!

Redstone Museum

Welcome to the Museum of Redstone!

Here we have all sorts of marvelous mechanisms, from the super simple to the devilishly difficult! Unfortunately the Museum hasn't been well looked after, and we need your help to bring the power back on.

Fix all 16 of our redstone machines to light up the redstone dust lamp and claim your reward. The first machines may seem easy to fix, but the further from the redstone dust the harder they get!

P.S.

If redstone isn't your thing and you just want to get out of here, we have a machine for that too! Check out the floor.

The Vault

Natural Blocks

Air

Air is generated in any space not occupied by a block. It is created and destroyed when blocks are removed and placed, so it cannot be kept in your inventory. Air’s presence often gets unnoticed and unappreciated.

Of course, that’s until you start to run out of it while swimming!

Andesite

Andesite is a decorative variant of stone that generates in the Overworld. It can be mined with a pickaxe or crafted with cobblestone or diorite

Diorite

Diorite is a decorative variant of stone that generates in the Overworld. It can be mined with a pickaxe or crafted by combining cobblestone with nether quartz.

Granite

Granite is a decorative variant of stone that generates in the Overworld. It can be mined with a pickaxe or crafted by combining nether quartz with diorite.

Bedrock

Try as you might, this block is impossible to break unless you’re in Creative mode! You can find bedrock protecting you from the Void at the lowest five levels of the Overworld, and at the top and bottom of the Nether.

Bedrock was added to Minecraft on the tenth day of the game’s development. This means that bedrock was added to the game before water, lava, ores, and logs!

Bone Block

I’ve got a bone to pick with you! Bone blocks are decorative blocks that are naturally generated as a part of fossil structures found in desert and swamp biomes. Aside from decoration, they can be used to store bone meal.

Bone blocks can be mined with any pickaxe. If they are broken without a pickaxe, they drop nothing.

Clay

Clay is obtained from clay blocks, which are found at the bottom of lakes, rivers, and swamps. Each clay block will drop four pieces of clay that can be crafted together.

There are many decorative uses for clay, and depending on whether you smelt the entire block or its individual pieces, you will gain different final products!

Coal Ore

When mined with a pickaxe, coal ore will drop a single piece of coal. If it’s mined with a Fortune enchantment, the ore may drop an extra piece of coal per enchantment level, to a maximum of 4 coal with Futune III.

When used in a furnace as a fuel, it will last 80 seconds and smelt up to 8 items.

Can’t find coal? Burn some logs and you’ll get charcoal, which has the same properties as coal!

Dirt

Dirt! Making up most of the Overworld’s upper layers in various thicknesses, it lies unseen below a single layer of grass. It can be obtained by hand, but a shovel is the fastest way to dig it up.

Dirt also drops if you break grass, mycelium, or podzol without a Silk Touch tool.

Not sure what to do with all your dirt? Consider building a farm! Unless you plan on hunting or fishing all day, building a farm is the easiest way to create a renewable source of food.

So, while it may seem like a rather simple and common block, dirt is useful! Besides, how else are you supposed to survive the first night without building a dirt hut?

Coarse Dirt

Coarse dirt is a variation of dirt that grass or mycelium will not spread on. Visually similar to regular dirt, it can be crafted by combining gravel and dirt.

It spawns naturally in the Overworld in all Giant Tree Taiga biomes, Wooded and Modified Wooded Badlands Plateaus, and Shattered Savanna Plateau biomes.

Podzol

Podzol is a variant of dirt that generates in giant tree taiga and bamboo jungle biomes as well as their respective variants.

When broken, it will drop a regular block of dirt unless it is mined with Silk Touch. Podzol allows mushrooms to be placed on regardless of the light level, which allows for the growth of huge mushrooms.

Unlike grass and mycelium, however, podzol does not spread.

Grass

Along with cobblestone, grass was one of the first two blocks added to the game. This iconic block generates naturally in most biomes in the Overworld.

If you right click it with a shovel, it will be turned into a grass path.

But grass is delicate. If a block is placed on top of it, or if it is broken by anything other than a Silk Touch tool, it will transform into regular dirt.

Then there are the mobs! Sheep like to eat it, and endermen like to steal it! At least the endermen will drop the grass block if they are killed - no Silk Touch required!

With all these ways for your grass to be messes around with, it sure is tough maintaining a perfect front lawn! Luckily, grass spreads to nearby dirt blocks, so it will grow back!

Mycelium

Mycelium is a variant of dirt that generates instead of grass in mushroom fields biomes! If mycelium is mined with anything other than a Silk Touch tool, it will only drop dirt.

Endermen can pick up mycelium blocks, and will drop the block they are holding if killed. This is one way to obtain mycelium if you do not have Silk Touch! As with grass, mycelium is capable of spreading to nearby dirt blocks.

While mushrooms normally need low light levels to be placed, they can be placed on mycelium blocks in any light level. Huge mushrooms can also be grown on mycelium.

Cobblestone

You’ve reached the Stone Age! This incredibly common block is gained by mining stone with a pickaxe of any level. It is one tier better than wood, and required if you plan on crafting a furnace or advancing further in the game!

Don’t feel like leaving your home to gather cobblestone? Create your own cobblestone generator with a bucket of lava and a bucket of water! When flowing water and lava come into contact with one another another, a block of cobblestone will be created!

Mossy Cobble

A sure sign of a dungeon! Greener than its plain variant, mossy cobblestone is, well, covered in moss. This can be found in dungeons, jungle temples, the giant tree taiga biome, and in underwater ruins.

It can generate in pillager outpost watchtowers, as well as in plains, taiga, and snowy villages. Alternatively, it can be crafted by combining cobblestone with vines.

Cobweb

Be careful not to get stuck in the cobwebs! If you get caught, you will get slowed down drastically until you are able to wiggle free. You can quickly break cobwebs with a sword to get string, or you can use shears to obtain the cobweb itself.

You can find large amounts of cobwebs in abandoned mineshafts, particularly around cave spider spawners.

End Stone

End stone is a block that generates exclusively in the End. Aside from generated structures, it makes up the entirety of solid ground existing in the End.

With a blast resistance of 45, end stone cannot be picked up by endermen nor can it be destroyed by the ender dragon. This makes it a useful defensive block both inside and outside of the End!

But don’t forget to grab some before you leave! As it is the only block that you can place chorus fruit on, you will need to take some home with you if you want to grow any chorus plants!

End stone can be mined with a pickaxe of any level.

Sand

Sand generates naturally in many Overworld biomes, but it will always be found in deserts, beaches, and rivers. Red sand generates in badlands biomes and its variants. It is also almost always used to cover up buried treasure chests!

Since a shovel is the fastest method of breaking and obtaining sand, make sure to keep a shovel handy if you’re on a treasure hunt!

While sand generally appears in layers that are four blocks deep, supported by stone or sandstone, sand can also spawn floating in the air.

Be careful! As sand is affected by gravity, if you place or break a block near this precariously perched pile of sand, the entire cluster will come crashing down!

Sand that falls on a mob or player will cause them to suffocate. But sand that falls on non-solid blocks, such as tour he’s, redstone dust, rails, or slabs, will break and drop a block of sand instead of piling up.

Sand can be used to craft a number of decorative blocks, and it is also one of the two main ingredients required to craft TNT. When smelted, it will produce glass.

Soul Sand

Covered in tiny screaming faces, soul sand is found below Y level 65 in the Nether or in the nether wart room of nether fortresses. It is used for growing nether wart, but four pieces of soul sand are also required to construct a wither!

Soul Sand will slow the movement of any player or mob that walks over it. If it is placed above ice, packed ice, or slime blocks, the slowing effect will be even stronger!

When it is placed underwater, it will also release a column of bubbles that will speedily lift any players, mobs, and items up to the surface!

Stone

One of the earliest blocks added to the game, stone is an extremely common block that is found in the Overworld. It will drop nothing unless mined with a pickaxe, in which case it will drop cobblestone.

Cobblestone can be smelted in a furnace to transform it back into stone. Stone will also be created if lava comes in contact with flowing water.

Stone is everywhere! So much so that it almost had a place in the very name of the game! Before Minecraft was known as “Minecraft”, the game was nearly called “Minecraft: Order of the Stone”!

Diamonds

DIAMONDS! There are few other blocks with such excitement upon their discovery. Generating naturally in the world below Y level 16, diamond ore will drop diamonds when mined with an iron or diamond pickaxe.

Used to craft the best tools and armour in the game, every player hopes to find diamonds while mining. However, be careful while collecting them! The last thing you want is for your diamonds to fall into a patch of hidden lava!

Emerald Ore

Emerald ore is one of the rarest mineral blocks in the game! Generating between Y levels 4 and 32 in mountain biomes, emerald ore will drop emeralds when mined with an iron or diamond pickaxe.

These emeralds can be used as currency in villager trades, or to power beacons.

Gold Ore

Mined with an iron or diamond pickaxe, gold ore is a rare mineral block that can be found below Y level 32 in the majority of biomes. In badlands biomes and its variants, gold ore generated between Y levels 32 and 79.

Iron Ore

Generating between Y levels 1 and 63, iron is the most common mineral block that can be used to craft armour and tools! Arguably the next best alternative to diamond, you need at least a stone pickaxe in order to mine it.

As it does not generate above Y level 63, you will not be able to find iron ore in the upper levels of mountain biomes.

Iron ore is only useful once it is smelted into iron ingots, which can be crafted into better armour, tools, and weapons!

Of course, you can also craft yourself a handy bucket or a pair of shears.

Lapis Lazuli Ore

Generating below Y levels 31, with the highest concentrations found between Y levels 13 and 16, lapis lazuli ore drops lapis lazuli when mined with a stone pickaxe or better.

Previously used as a dye, lapis lazuli can also be used to enchant items in an enchantment table. Depending on the enchantment level, 1-3 pieces of lapis lazuli will be consumed per enchantment.

Redstone Ore

Generating below Y levels 16, redstone ore will drop 4-5 pieces of redstone dust when mined with an iron pickaxe. Redstone ore will emit light and red particles when it is clicked, updated, or contacted by any mob or player.

Redstone dust is used for brewing and crafting but its primary use is to transmit power via redstone circuitry and wires.

NetherQuartz Ore

Nether quartz ore is the only ore that generates in the Nether, which is also the only source of nether quartz. Generating between Y levels 7 and 117, nether quartz ore will drop one piece of nether quartz as long as it is mined with a pickaxe.

Four pieces of nether quartz can be crafted into its block form.

Purpur

Purpur blocks and purpur pillars are decorative blocks that are naturally generated in end city dungeons and end ship structures which appear on and near the outer islands in the End.

Alternatively, purpur blocks can be crafted from four pieces of popped chorus fruit, and, if you make these blocks into slabs, you can use these slabs to craft some fancy purpur pillars!

End Stone Bricks

End stone bricks can be crafted from four pieces of end stone. As with other brick blocks, it can be mined with any pickaxe, but will drop nothing if broken without a pickaxe.

End stone bricks can also be obtained by disassembling the structures in end cities, which are generated on the outed islands of the End.

Fire

Fire is a harmful non-solid block that will spread to nearby flammable blocks unless fire spread has been turned off with the command /gamerule doFireTick false. Blocks and item that catch fire will burn for some time before being destroyed.

Even with fire spread enabled, all is not lost! Fires eventually burn out on their own. However, fires started on netherrack or magma blocks will burn forever, and will need to be put out manually.

Coming in contact with fire will set you on fire. You can either wait for it to burn out, or you can jump in water to extinguish the fire before it does too much damage!

Tired of waiting for lava, lightning, blazes, and ghosts to start fires for you? You can light your very own fires with a flint and steel or fire charge! Remember, with great power comes great responsibility!

Lava

Ouch! That’s some Hot Stuff! Spawning in pools in the Overworld and covering most of the Nether, lava is a light-emitting fluid block that causes fire damage.

When combined with water, lava can produce stone, cobblestone, or obsidian depending on how the two fluids interact.

When gathered in a bucket, lava can be used as fuel. It has the longest burning value in the game, capable of smelting 100 items with a single bucket of lava!

Items that fall into lava will be destroyed, so hold on to your diamonds and be careful while mining! Yet another reason not to dig down!

Magma Block

Magma blocks are light-emitting blocks that can be found in the Nether between Y levels 23 and 37. It can also be found in the Overworld at the bottom of ocean ravines, in underwater caverns, and in some underwater ruins.

Alternatively, a magma blocks can be crafted from four magma cream. While magma blocks do not destroy items, they will hurt mobs and players that stand on top of them.

Players can avoid taking fire damage from magma blocks by using fire resistance potions, wearing Frost Walker boots, or simply sneaking while walking across them.

Underwater magma blocks create whirlpool bubble columns that drag any items, boats, mobs, or players caught in them at the bottom of the sea. Luckily, you can restore your air by swimming through a magma block’s bubble column.

But be careful! Despite being underwater, magma blocks will still hurt you if you come in contact with them.

Glowstone

Glowstone is a light-emitting block that occurs naturally in the Nether. It generates in clusters that hang from the underside of netherrack.

Unless it is mined with Silk Touch, glowstone will shatter into 2-4 pieces of glowstone dust. If it is broken with a Fortune tool, it has a higher chance to drop more glowstone dust, but it will never drop more than four pieces of dust.

You can craft four pieces of glowstone dust back together to form one piece of glowstone.

With a light level of 15, glowstone produces the brightest possible light level in the game. Use it to light up your creations, or craft it into a redstone lamp for a more decorative alternative.

Gravel

Gravel is affected by gravity! If there is no block beneath it when mined, it will fall until it lands on the next available block. However if it falls on non-solid blocks (such as torches, redstone, rails, or slabs,)

or on soul sand, it will break and drop a piece of gravel instead of piling up.

When broken, there is a 10% chance that a piece of flint will be dropped instead of gravel.

The Fortune enchantment increases the chance of flint dropping to 14% at Fortune I, 25% at Fortune II, and 100% chance at Fortune III.

Netherrack

Netherrack makes up a majority of the Nether’s terrain. Breaking netherrack by hand will yield nothing, but mining it with any pickaxe will shred through it in a fraction of a second!

Once netherrack has been set on fire, it will burn indefinitely, making it a unique decorative block.

Speaking of decorative blocks, netherrack can be smelted and crafted into nether brick blocks, so you don’t even need to find a nether fortress if you want some!

Obsidian

Anyone interested in taking the Ice Bucket Challenge? Running water over lava source blocks will create obsidian, but it will require a diamond pickaxe to successfully mine it.

With a blast resistance of 6000, obsidian has the highest blast resistance a player can obtain in Survival mode, which explains why it takes so long to mine!

But since it’s required to build a nether portal or craft a beacon, enchantment table, or ender chest, it’s definitely worth the wait!

Prismarine

Prismarine is a stone-like decorative block that only appears underwater in ocean monuments. It can be crafted from prismarine shards which are dropped when guardians and elder guardians are killed.

Water

Water water everywhere! Water is a renewable fluid that generated naturally in large quantities to form oceans, lakes, rivers, and springs in the Overworld. In snowy biomes, water can freeze and turn into ice.

Water source blocks can be collected with a bucket. Emptying these buckets of water into a 2x2 space will create an infinite water source! However, water will evaporate when you try to place it in the Nether.

Water will spread downwards endlessly as long as there is available space below it. However, it can only flow 7 blocks horizontally from its source block if it is on a flat surface, washing item along with it.

Item that are dropped in water will eventually float back to the surface.

To get through water, you will need to swim! Unlike items, you do not float. Underwater, you have 15 seconds before you begin to run out of air, so make sure to remember to swim back to the surface to catch your breath!

Sea Lantern

Sea lanterns are underwater light sources that appear in ocean monuments and in underwater ruins. The sea lantern itself can only be mined with a Silk Touch tool. If it is broken by anything else, it will drop 2-3 prismarine crystals instead.

Since it does not drop any prismarine shards when broken, the other material required to craft sea lanterns, this is a very insufficient way to gather sea lanterns.

With a light level of 15, sea lanterns produce the brightest possible light level in the game. However, they can only be used for decoration! Sea lanterns can also be used to activate a conduit by building a structure around it! Decorative and useful!

Snow

Snowball fight! Snow generates naturally in snowy biomes and above Y level 95 in mountain biomes. Snow will fall instead of rain in these areas and it will coat the ground in a thin, pristine layer of snow.

It will not melt in these areas sun, however, placing a block with a light level of 12 or more will cause surrounding snow to melt.

Plants

Grass

Grass is a non-solid block that generates in most biomes with grassy soil. When broken without shears, grass will drop 0-1 wheat seeds.

Tall grass will generate in plains or savannas, and will drop two pieces of grass when broken with shears.

Tall Flowers

There are four variants of tall flowers: sunflowers, lilacs, rose bushes, and peonies. Flowers generate naturally on dirt and grass blocks. While most flowers can be created by using bone meal on grass, tall flowers cannot.

However, if you use bone meal on a tall flower, it will spawn a second tall flower as an item. While they are mainly used for decoration, tall flowers can also be crafted into dye.

Ferns

Ferns are variants of grass that have the same characteristics as grass, but can only be found in jungle, taiga, snowy taiga, and giant tree taiga biomes. When broken without shears, ferns drop 0-1 wheat seeds.

Excluding jungle biomes, large ferns generate in the same biomes as their shorter counterparts. When a large ferns generate is broken with shears, it will drop two instead of one.

Dead Bush

Dead bushes generate on sand, red sand, podzol, dirt, coarse dirt, and terracotta in deserts, badlands, and giant tree taiga biomes. They cannot be grown with bonemeal, but they can be collected with shears.

If they are broken without shears, they drop 0-2 sticks instead of. Ever wanted to add more life and colour into your home? As with flowers and saplings, dead bushes can also be planted in flower pots!

Cocoa Pod

Cocoa pods can be found growing on normal-sized, naturally-generated jungle trees. Jungle trees grown by the player do not spawn cocoa pods. Grown on jungle logs, cocoa pods have three stages of growth.

If a cocoa pod is destroyed before it is fully grown, it will only drop one cocoa bean instead of 2-3 when it is ready to be harvested. The resulting cocoa beans can be crafted into cookies. Yum!

Chorus Flower

Chorus flowers are used to grow chorus plants when planted on end stone. They are naturally generated on the outer islands of the End at the top of chorus trees in their purple, fully-grown state.

Until a chorus flower reaches the age of five, it will attempt to grow as long as the block above it is air. A chorus flower can be broken and replanted to reset its age to zero. Make sure you break chorus flowers separately!

If you break the chorus plant or end stone they are attached to, they will break automatically and drop nothing!

Unlike other crops and saplings, bone meal cannot be used to force chorus flowers to grow.

Chorus Plant

Chorus plants are naturally generated on the outer islands of the End. They can be grown from chorus flowers. If a chorus plant branches off while it’s growing, another chorus plant will grow at the top of the growth.

A chorus plant will drop 0-1 chorus fruit when broken. Chorus plants will break automatically if the block supporting it is broken.

Dead Coral Fans

Dead coral fans are the dead variants of coral fans. They are non-solid blocks that come in 5 variants: tube, brain, bubble fire, and horn. Coral fans die after a few seconds if they are not placed in water.

Dead coral fans are grey and cannot be brought back to life.

Mushrooms

Mushrooms are fungi that naturally grow and spread in dark areas with a light level of 12 or less. They also generate in the Nether and mushroom field biomes. If you shear a mooshroom, it will drop 5 mushrooms and turn into a normal cow.

When bone meal is used on a mushroom, there is a chance that it can grow into a huge mushroom! Planning on making your own mushroom farm so you can make even more delicious stew?

Mushrooms can only be planted in light levels of 13 or less, but directly under the sky unless they are planted on mycelium or podzol.

If the conditions are right, mushrooms will spread randomly onto nearby blocks, but they will only spread if there are fewer than 5 mushrooms of the same type in a 9x9x3 area.

Leaves

Leaves grow as part of trees. Their appearance varies depending on the type of tree they are grown from and the biome they are currently in. When a tree is chopped down, its leaves will spontaneously decay and disappear.

Even if leaves are connected to a log, if they are more than 6 blocks away, they will begin to decay.

Leaves have a 5% chance of dropping saplings. Jungle leaves have an even lower chance of dropping saplings, with a drop rate of only 2.5%! On top of saplings, oak and dark oak trees have a 0.5% chance of dropping an apple.

Leaves can be collected with shears or a Silk Touch tool. Player-placed leaves will not experience decay. Depending on whether you have your graphics set to ‘Fast’ or ‘Fancy’, leaves will appear solid or transparent!

Lily Pad

Lily pads are flat blocks that can be found growing on water in swamps or in the wheat farm rooms of woodland mansions. They can also be obtained while fishing.

You can stand on, walk, and jump across the tops of lily pads and they will not break. However, they will break and drop as an entity if you hit them with a boat or punch them.

Melon

Melon are blocks that are naturally generated in jungle biomes and in the stem farm rooms of woodland mansions. When broken they will drop 3-7 tasty melon slices. Melon slices can be crafted back into a melon block.

As it takes nine melon slices to reassemble a melon block, this is an inefficient storage method!

Melon Stem

A melon stem is grown from melon seeds when they are planted on farmland. When the melon stem is fully grown, melons can grow on any adjacent dirt, grass, or farmland block.

While the stem’s seven stages of growth can be accelerated by bone meal, bone meal cannot be used to speed up the growth of an actual melon.

A single stem can grow an unleaded number of melons, so don’t break it! When a melon stem is broken, it will drop 0-3 melon seeds.

Mushroom Blocks

Mushroom are solid blocks that make up huge mushrooms. They come in three varieties: red mushroom, brown mushroom and mushroom stem. You can obtain a mushroom block by breaking it with a Silk Touch tool.

When broken with any other tool or by hand mushroom blocks will occasionally drop their respective mushroom types.

Nether Wart

Nether wart can be found growing in nether fortresses. It grows on soul sand, and breaking a fully grown nether wart will drop 2-4 nether wart. An immature nether wart plant will drop a single nether wart. Interested in more nether wart?

Fortune tools will increase the maximum number of nether wart dropped by 1 per level! Nether wart’s primary purpose is to brew awkward potions, but it can also be crafted into a nether wart block or red nether bricks!

Potatoes

Potayto, potahto! Potatoes are food items that can be planted, eaten raw, or cooked into baked potatoes. One potato restores 1 hunger and 0.6 hunger saturation, while a baked potato will restore 5 hunger and 6 hunger saturation.

A fully grown potato crop drops 1 to 4 potatoes and have 2% chance of dropping an additional poisonous potato. You can find potatoes generating naturally in the farm plots of villages, as rare loot from zombies, and in shipwreck supply chests.

Pigs love potatoes! They will breed if they are given potatoes. Villagers will also become willing if they pick up 12 potatoes.

Coral Fans

Coral fans are non-solid blocks that come in 5 variants: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn. They come in their respective colours of blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow. Coral fans generate naturally in the coral reef structures of warm oceans.

They can be placed on all sides of a bock except for the bottom. Coral fans will break and drop nothing unless they are mined with a Silk Touch tool.

Dead Coral Block

Dead coral fans are the dead variants of coral. They are solid blocks that come in 5 variants: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn. Coral blocks die after a few seconds if they are not placed in water.

Dead coral blocks are grey and cannot be brought back to life.

Coral Blocks

Coral blocks are solid blocks that come in 5 variants: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn. They come in respective colours of blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow. Coral blocks will break and drop nothing unless they are mined with a Silk Touch tool.

Coral blocks generate naturally un the coral structures of warm oceans. It requires water on at least one of its sides to stay alive.

Kelp

Kelp is an animated underwater plant that generates in all ocean biomes, excluding frozen and warm oceans. While it can be planted on a variety of blocks, it will only grow if it is planted underwater with water above it.

Breaking part of a kelp stalk will cause all the kelp above it to break off as well, and each piece of kelp has a random chance to drop a kelp item. If you smelt kelp in a furnace, it becomes dried kelp, which is edible!

Corals

Corals are non-solid blocks that come in 5 variants: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn. They come in their respective colours of blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow. Coral generates naturally in the coral reef structures of warm oceans.

Coral will break and drop nothing unless it is mined with a Silk Touch tool. If you are in a warm ocean biomes, coral can be grown by using bone meal on underwater dirt, course dirt, sand, red sand, or gravel.

It requires water on at least one of its sides to stay alive.

Carrots

Crunch crunch crunch! These little crops can be enjoyed on their own, no cooking required! One carrot will restore 3 hunger and provide 3.6 hunger saturation. Alternatively, you can stick them straight back into the ground to get even more carrots!

You can find them generating naturally in the farm plots of villages, as rare loot from zombies, and in shipwreck supply chests.

Carrots are the favorurite food of pigs and rabbits, which will breed if they are given carrots. Villagers will also become willing to have children if they pick up 12 carrots.

Feeling fancy? Covering a carrot in gold nuggets will create a golden carrot - an important ingredient in night vision potions!

Cactus

Ouch! Be careful so that you don’t get pricked to death! Found naturally in desert and badlands biomes, cacti will grow to a height of three blocks. Cactus must be planted on sand with space on all four adjacent sides.

If the area where a cactus has been planted becomes unsuitable, such as when a solid block is placed next to it or it’s supporting block is removed, the cactus will break and drop as an item.

Smelting cactus in a furnace will give you green dye. Aside from hurting when you bump into it, cactus will also destroy any items that contact it.

Beetroot Seeds

Beetroot seeds can be acquired from end city chests, dungeon chests, chest minecarts in abandoned mineshafts, and in woodland mansion chests. Village farm plots have a 10% chance of being beetroot.

When placed on farmland, beetroot seeds will undergo four states of growth before they are ready to be harvested. When they are fully grown, they can be broken to produce beetroots and 0-3 beetroot seeds.

Beetroot seeds share the same uses as other seeds, such as breeding chickens and taming parrots.

Pumpkin

Pumpkins are blocks that spawn in random clusters on grass blocks in most Overworld biomes. You can also find them growing in the stem farm rooms of woodland mansions. They can be crafted into pumpkin seeds or carved.

While the fastest way to harvest a pumpkin is with an axe, they can be successfully harvested with anything. One of the main ingredients in pumpkin pie, when carved, pumpkins can also be used to construct snow golems and iron golems!

Pumpkin Seeds

Pumpkin seeds are used to grow pumpkin stems. When planted on farmland, they will undergo seven stages of growth. There are a number of different ways to obtain pumpkin seeds!

They can be found in dungeon chests, chest minecarts in abandoned mineshafts, and in woodland mansion chests. Crafting pumpkins or shearing an uncarved pumpkin will yield 4 pumpkin seeds.

Destroying pumpkin seeds will drop 0-3 seeds. Other that being used for farming, wheat seeds share the same uses as other seeds, such as breeding chickens and taming parrots.

Sapling

After chopping down half the forest, it may be a good idea to replant! A sapling is a non-solid block that can be grown into a tree. Saplings come in six varieties: oak, birch, spruce, jungle, acacia and dark oak.

When broken leaves have a 5% chance of dropping saplings. Jungle leaves have an even lower chance of dropping sapling with a drop rate of only 2.5%!

Seagrass

Seagrass is a non-solid animated plant block that generates in all oceans, excluding frozen oceans. It will drop nothing unless it is harvested using shears. Seagrass can be used to breed turtles!

Using seagrass on a baby turtle will also speed up its growing time. Can’t find seagrass for whatever reason? Turtles will drop 0-2 seagrass when killed. But leave the turtles alone!

Using bone meal underwater is a much friendlier way of generating seagrass!

Sugar Cane

Sugar cane is a block that grows next to water in the Overworld. While it grows next to a max height of 3, there is a rare chance a fourth block will generate on top of the ones that have already been generated.

It can be crafted into paper or sugar. If any of its supporting blocks are removed, all unsupported sugar cane blocks will uproot and drop as items.

Ice

Watch your step! Ice is slippery, and will cause mobs, items, and players to slide across it. This can be used to your advantage though! If you run and jump while on ice, you will travel faster than if you were to do the same on any other block type!

This translucent block is generated in snowy biomes, where it is cold enough to freeze into ice. Excluding sunlight, ice will revert to water if exposed to a light level greater than 11.

It cannot be gathered unless it is mined with a Silk Touch pickaxe. Breaking it with anything will leave a source block of water in its place.

Vines

Vines are non-solid blocks that naturally generated in jungles and swamps. Vines will spread downward and to adjacent blocks over time. They can be broken with anything, but they can only be collected with shears.

Running through vines will slow your movement speed, but can also be used to negate fall damage if you pass through them. As you can climb up and down them, vines are living ladders!

Wheat Seeds

Wheat seeds are acquired by breaking all variants of grass. When they are planted on farmland, they will undergo eight stages of growth. Harvesting a fully-grown wheat crop will yield 0-3 seeds and one wheat.

If they are harvested early, they will only drop one wheat seed. Village farm plots have a 50% chance of being wheat crops.

Other than being used for farming wheat seeds share the same uses as other seeds, such as breeding chickens and taming parrots.

Mechanisms

Dropper

A dropper is a block that can be used to eject items or push items into another container. Crafted from cobblestone and redstone, it has 9 slots of inventory space.

It can be placed so that its output faces any direction, but it will face towards the player when placed.

Chest

My inventory is full! Thankfully, there’s a chest for that! Crafted from eight planks, a chest has 27 storage slots. It can be placed next to another chest to create a double chest, which has 54 storage slots.

If a chest is broken, it will drop all of its contents. Chests, containing a variety of items, are naturally generated in dungeons, strongholds, temples, nether fortresses, villages, end cities, shipwrecks, and more! Lots of loot!

Trapdoors

Trapdoors are solid, partly transparent blocks that can be used as openable barriers. There are seven different trapdoor types: oak wood, spruce wood, birch wood, jungle wood, acacia wood, dark oak wood, and iron.

Each trapdoor type has a different design. Trapdoors can be placed on the top or bottom of blocks, and the way they open will depend on where their hinges are placed. When open, trapdoors can be climbed on just like a ladder.

TNT

Creepers not causing enough explosions in your life? Crafted from four sand and five gunpowder, TNT is a block that can be used to initiate an explosion! But be careful - there are many ways to trigger TNT!

Powdered redstone currents, being hit by a flaming arrow, and other explosions are only a few of the ways TNT will be ignited. While TNT can be broken instantly by hand or tool, primed TNT cannot be broken, so make sure you’re out of the blast zone!

TNT can b found as loot in shipwreck supply chests and in buried treasure chests. TNT traps can also be found, or triggered, in desert temples and woodland mansions. Boom!

Redstone Torch

A redstone torch is a non-solid block that can be used as a toggleable redstone power source, as well as a signal inverter. They can be used as crafting ingredients or as components in redstone contraptions.

A redstone torch will remain active unless the block it is attached to is powered. Effectively, a redstone torch will invert the signal applied to its attachment block.

Rails

Travelling in style! Sixteen rails can be crafted from six iron and a stick. When you string them together, you create a path that your Minecart can travel over!

Rails can be found naturally generated in woodland mansions and along the floors of abandoned mineshafts!

They can be successfully mined by anything, but a pickaxe is the fastest.

Achievement hunting? If you travel by minecart to a point at least 500m in a single direction of where you started, you will unlock the “On A Rail” achievement!

Redstone Block

A block of redstone is a decorative and functional mineral block, which acts as a redstone power source that cannot be turned off. It powers redstone dust, comparators, and repeaters to power level 15. It also activates any mechanism components.

A block of redstone can be crafted from 9 redstone dust. As redstone blocks can be crafted back into dust, redstone blocks are also a compact way to store redstone dust! Unlike redstone ore, which requires an iron pickaxe to mine,

a block of redstone can be mined with any pickaxe. If it is mined without a pickaxe, it will drop nothing.

Buttons

A button is a non-solid block that can provide temporary redstone power. Buttons come in wood and stone. The wood buttons come in each of the wood types. Whenever it is activated, a wood buttons come in will remain active for 15 redstone ticks,

or roughly 1.5 seconds. In comparison, a stone button will remain active for 10 redstone ticks, or roughly 1 second.

Command Block

A command block is a block that executes commands. Due to how easy it can be misused, it can only be obtained through cheats! Command blocks are frequently used on servers and in custom maps.

As command blocks are granted all permissions, some chat commands have been disabled and cannot be run in command blocks. Some of these include: /ban, /deop, /kick, /op, and /whitelist.

Detector

Crafted from wood slabs, glass, and nether quartz, a daylight detector is a block that outputs a redstone signal depending on sky light levels. A daylight detector will activate when exposed to sufficient daylight. Daylight detectors can also be inverted.

An inverted daylight detector will activate when exposure to daylight is low enough. Sources of light, such as torches and glowstone, will not activate a daylight sensor.

Dispenser

A dispenser is a solid block used as a redstone component to dispense items. It can be crafted from cobblestone, redstone dust, and a bow in the crafting recipe!

Dispensers are naturally generated in jungle temples. A dispenser has 9 inventory slots. Dispensers interact differently with various item types. Buckets will collect and place fluids! Throwable items will be thrown!

Arrows will be fired! Blocks will be placed! The list goes on!

Door

Knock knock! Who’s there? A door is a block that can be used as a switchable barrier. Wood doors can be crafted from each of the different wood types.

They can be opened and closed by players and villagers, and they can be broken down by zombies if you are playing on the Hard difficulty. Iron doors can only be opened with redstone power.

Fence Gate

Having difficulties climbing in and out of the enclosure you made for your farm animals? Time to make yourself a fence gate! A fence gate is a block that functions both as a door and as a fence.

They can be attached to fences as well as walls and other blocks. Fence gates can be crafted in each of the different wood types. They can be opened by hand or with redstone power?

Hopper

A hopper is a block that can be used to catch item entities, or transfer items into and out of containers. Crafted from five iron and a chest, a hopper has 5 inventory slots. The “output” tube of a hopper can be oriented depending on where you want your

items to go. Don’t feel like waiting around for your furnace to smelt your ores? Hook up a few hoppers to your furnace, attach them to chests, and you’ll have a simple, automated setup!

Lever

Puuuullll the lever! A lever is a non-solid block that can provide switchable redstone power. It has an 'on' state and an 'off' state depending on its placement.

When placed on the side of blocks, down is 'on' and up is 'off'. When placed on the top or bottom of blocks, 'on' is north or west and 'off' is south or east. Too much to remember? Just flick it on and off a few times!

Just make sure you don't pull the wrong lever!

Note Block

A note block is a musical block that emits sound. Crafted from eight planks and a piece of redstone dust, note blocks play a sound and release a coloured music note when they are hit or powered by redstone.

You can change the note pitch by a semitone, with a total of two full octaves available to play. The instrument played depends on the material the note block is placed on.

Whether you decide to hook up your note blocks to some redstone or punch as fast as you can, get out there and make some beautiful music!

Observer

I think someone’s watching me... Oh, it’s jut an observer! Crafted from cobblestone, redstone, and nether quartz, an observer is a block that emits a redstone signal when an adjacent block is updated.

Observers require a pickaxe to be successfully mined.

Piston

A piston is a block capable of pushing movable blocks when activated by redstone. If slime is added to a piston, you will get a sticky piston, which can both push and pull moveable objects when activated with redstone!

Three sticky pistons can be found naturally generated as a part of jungle temples!

Pressure Plates

A pressure plate is a block that can be used to detect players, mobs, items, and entities. When activated, it will send out a redstone signal. It has four variants, which have different uses depending on the material.

The wooden pressure plate can detect all entities and gives out a maximum signal strength. The stone pressure plate also gives off a maximum signal strength, but it can only detect players and mobs.

Light weighted pressure plates, crafted from gold, can detect all entities, but the signal increases as more entities are added. Finally, the heavy weighted pressure plate, crafted from iron, is similar to the light weighted pressure plate, but it

detects entities in groups of ten.

Redstone Dust

That’s quite the contraption you have there! Redstone dust is a mineral that is primarily used to transmit power via redstone circuitry and wires. Aside from redstone circuits, redstone dust is used for brewing and crafting.

When it is placed in the world, redstone dust becomes a “redstone wire” which can transmit power between various points and redstone components. A single piece of redstone dust placed on the ground will appear as a dot.

Redstone dust can be obtained by mining redstone ore. A single redstone ore will drop 4-5 pieces of redstone dust when mined with an iron or diamond pickaxe. Redstone dust can also be acquired by breaking traps, killing witches, looting chests, and trading

with villagers!

Comparator

A redstone comparator is a block in redstone circuits to maintain, compare, or subtract signal strength, or to measure certain block states. It is crafted from redstone torches, nether quartz, and stone.

Repeater

A redstone repeater is a block used in redstone circuits to “repeat” redstone signals back to full strength, delay signals prevent signals moving backwards, or to “lock” signals in one state.

It is crafted from redstone torches, redstone, and stone. A single redstone repeater can be found generated in the hidden room of a jungle temple!

Redstone Lamp

A redstone lamp is a block which emits light when activated with a redstone signal. Crafted with redstone and glowstone, redstone lamps produce a light level of 15.

Inactive redstone lamps do not produce any light. Even though glowstone will shatter into dust when mined without Silk Touch, redstone lamps can be successfully mined with anything!

Utility Blocks

Crafting Table

The crafting table. Where would we be without it? In a corner punching stone with our fists and not getting very far, that’s for sure! After all, what would Minecraft be without crafting?

The crafting table’s crafting grid is 3x3 and opens up a world of possibilities in comparison to the 2x2 crafting grid in your inventory! Combining four planks creates a crafting table.

Crafting tables also generate naturally in some structures such as village libraries, witch huts, and igloos. Not sure how to craft a certain item? You can access the recipe book to the left of the crafting grid,

which stores recipes for reference and one-click crafting!

Enchantment

Hoarding levels is nice, but do you know what is even nicer? Using those levels to enchant all of you gear! The enchantment table allows players to spend their experience levels to enchant tools, books, and armour.

Despite being created from diamonds and obsidian, it can be mined with a pickaxe of any level. If it’s mined without a pickaxe, it will be destroyed. In order to have access to the maximum enchantment level of 30,

fifteen bookshelves must be placed around the enchantment table. Lapis lazuli is also used in the enchantment process. Depending on the enchantment level, 1-3 pieces of lapis lazuli will be consumed per enchantment.

The arcane glyphs that float from nearby bookshelves to the enchantment table as well as cryptic glyphs in the enchanting table’s interface are from the Standard Galactic Alphabet,

a simple alphabet substitution cipher that was used in the Commander Keen computer game series.

Ender Chest

Great for stashing your valuables for safekeeping, the inventory of an ender chest is unique to every player! An ender chest is crafted from eight obsidian and an eye of ender. Emitting a light level of 7, an ender chest has 27

inventory slots for storage, and can be placed next to other ender chests without joining. All ender chests share the same inventory, so you can easily transport materials between locations in the world.

They even work between dimensions! Be careful though, if you break an ender chest with anything but a silk touch, it will be destroyed and drop eight obsidian. However, unlike chests, if an ender chest is broken, it will not drop the items held inside.

But don’t fret! Simply replace another ender chest and you will be able to retrieve your valuables!

Farmland

Grab your diamond hoe and get farming! Okay, so you don’t need a diamond hoe to farm, but you’d sure look fancy! Farmland is required to plant and grow various crops. When you use a hoe on dirt or grass, dry farmland is created.

It will become hydrated of there is water up to four blocks away horizontally or diagonally. The water must be on the same level or one block above the farmland. Rain will also wet farmland. Crops will grow faster on hydrated farmland.

Farmland will dry up and revert to dirt if it does not have a water source and there is no crop planted. But watch where you step! Regardless of its hydration, farmland will turn to dirt if a player or mob jumps or falls on it.

Even if it is mined with a Silk Touch tool, farmland drops dirt.

Conduit

A conduit is a beacon-like block that provides Conduit Power and attacks hostile mobs underwater within a spherical range of 32-96 blocks. A conduit is crafted from eight nautilus shells and a heart of the sea.

To activate a conduit, it needs to be placed in the center of a 3x3x3 area of water, which is then enclosed in an activation frame built from prismarine, dark prismarine, prismarine bricks, and sea lanterns.

Conduit Power stops the player breath meter from decreasing, gives underwater night vision, and increases underwater mining speed. Conduits also emit a light level of 15, the brightest level in the game, whether it is activated or not.

Anvil

Crafted from a total of 31 iron ingots, anvils are quite the investment of resources! However, as they allow players to repair items, rename items, and combine enchantments by using experiments levels, the investment is worth it!

However, be sure to use a pickaxe when mining it. If is is mined without a pickaxe, it will drop nothing! If for whatever reason, you find yourself below an anvil, be careful! Anvils are affected by gravity and will fall, dealing damage based on the

distance they travel. Ouch!

Furnace

A furnace is a block that is used to smelt blocks and items when provided with fuel. Useful for cooking food and smelting ore, it is crafted from eight cobblestone.

Coal, charcoal, and most wood products can all be used as fuel, but keep in mind that some are better than others!

Beacon

Despite being crafted from glass, obsidian, and a nether star, beacons can be mined successfully with anything. Beacons can be powered by blocks of emerald, diamond, iron, ore gold.

When powered, a beacon projects a beam of light into the sky and provides varying status effects to any nearby players. A level one beacon only requires 9 mineral blocks.

However, a level four beacon requires 164 mineral blocks to be placed in a pyramid beneath it. When broken down, that’s a total of 1476 items! Wow!

One beacon not enough for you? If you widen the base, you can put multiple beacons at the top of the same pyramid to get access to even more status effects!

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A note block is a musical block that emits sound. Crafted from eight planks and a piece of redstone dust, note blocks play a sound and release a coloured music note when they are hit or powered by redstone.

You can change the note pitch by a semitone, with a total of two full octaves available to play. The instrument played depends on the material the note block is placed on.

Whether you decide to hook up your note blocks to some redstone or punch as fast as you can, get out there and make some beautiful music!

Bed

Zzzzzz... Wait, it’s morning already?! The night just zipped by! You can sleep in a bed at night or during thunderstorms as long as there are no enemy mobs nearby.

This will immediately set it to morning and clear up any nasty weather in the process! If you are playing multiplayer, all players must sleep in a bed for it to change to morning.

Beds are also used to set your spawn point! If you die, you will respawn at the last bed you slept in. However, if your bed is broken or obstructed, your spawn point will be deleted and set to the default world spawn instead.

Sleep is good for our health! If you’ve forgotten to sleep for three in-game days, you will begin to attract phantoms that will swoop down and attack! All of this information is exhausting.

Craft yourself a bed, dye it your favourite colour and get some rest. Sleep well!

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My inventory is full! Thankfully, there’s a chest for that! Crafted from eight planks, a chest has 27 storage slots. It can be placed next to another chest to create a double chest, which has 54 storage slots.

If a chest is broken, it will drop all of its contents. Chests, containing a variety of items, are naturally generated in dungeons, strongholds, temples, nether fortresses, villages, end cities, shipwrecks, and more!

Lots of loot!

Brewing Stand

Bubble and boil! Crafted from a blaze rod and three cobblestone, a brewing stand is used to brew potions, splash potions, and lingering potions. It can brew 1-3 potions at once.

Brewing stands require blaze powder as fuel. A single piece of blaze powder is capable of brewing 20 batches of potions. It will break and drop nothing if it is not mined with anything other than a pickaxe.

Brewing stands will generate naturally in end ships as well as in the basement of igloos.

Sign

There are zombies on my lawn! The sign says to keep off the grass! Can’t they read?!

Probably not.

Able to stand on their own, or be attached to the side of another block, signs are a handy way to label your property, to organize your house, or simply write messages to other players.

Crafting together six planks and a stick will result in three signs.

Sea Pickle

Despite its name, this colony of small stationary animals is not edible!

When placed underwater, sea pickles will emit a low levels of light. You can place up to four sea pickles in one place, and the more you have, the more light they will provide!

Each additional sea pickle adds three light levels. They can be placed out of water but they will not give off any light. They generate naturally at the bottom of lukewarm and warm ocean biomes.

If bone meal is used on sea pickles that are placed on living coral blocks, the number of sea pickles will increase before spreading to empty pieces of the coral!

If smelted, it will produce a piece of lime dye.

Shulker Box

Exploring with a full inventory? Sounds like you need a shulker box! Shulker boxes are chest blocks that can store and transport items. Unlike chests, Shulker boxes retain their inventory when broken!

These items can be retrieved when the shulker boxes is replaced. Crafted from two shulker shells and a chest, a shulker box has 27 inventory spaces, the same as a normal chest.

Shulker boxes can also be dyed! So next time you head out for an adventure, make sure to take some shulker boxes with you!

Mob Heads

Mob heads, or mob skulls, are decorative blocks that can be placed in 16 different orientations on top of blocks as well as in four directions on the side of blocks.

There are six types of mob heads: player, zombie, skeleton, wither skeleton, creeper, and dragon. You can wear these mob heads, and wearing the corresponding mob reduces the detection range of skeletons, zombies, and creepers!

However, mobs will drop only their heads a if they die in charged creeper”s explosions. Player heads and dragon heads cannot be obtained based drops, but you can find naturally generated dragon heads on end ships in the End.

Finally, there is a 2.5% chance that a wither skeleton will drop its head when it dies. You need three wither skeleton skulls to construct and summon a wither!

Cauldron

A cauldron is a block that can hold liquids. It is crafted from seven iron ingots. It also generates naturally in structures, including witch huts, igloos, and woodland mansions.

Liquids can be removed and added to the cauldron with buckets and glass bottles. While it is a nice decorative blocks that can, it has other uses, such as washing dye off of leather armour, shulker boxes, and banners. Magical!

Sponge

A sponge is a block that can be used to instantly remove water around itself when placed in water. A sponge can absorb up to 65 blocks of water before it becomes a wet sponge! Elder guardians drop a sponge when killed.

As elder guardians do no respawn, sponges are not a renewable material. However ocean monuments also have a chance of generating one or more rooms containing an average of one of more sponges.

But at least your sponges are reusable! You can smelt wet sponges in a furnace to dry them and turn them back into regulará sponges. Alternatively you can place them in the Nether, where they will also dry out.

Cake

This cake is not a lie! Unlike other food items in the game, cake cannot be eaten as an item in the hotbar. Before being eaten, it must first be placed on top of another block.

Crafted from milk, wheat, sugar, and an egg, cakes can be time consuming to make. Don't fret! Since a cake has seven slices, you can also take your time eating it!

Each slice of cake restores 2 hunger and provides 0.4 hunger saturation. Eating all seven slices restores 14 hunger and provides a 2.8 hunger saturation!

End rods are solid, decorative light sources that emit white particles. They have a light level of 14, equal to that of torches. They generate naturally all over end cities, which are located on the outer islands of the End.

Inside some end city towers, they are placed sideways so that players can use them to parkour to the top. You can collect end rods by any tool or block, or you can craft them by combining popped chorus fruit and blaze rods.

Torch

Ah, torches. The delightful little light sources that keep enemies at bay and make the inside of your home that much cozier! With a light level of 14, torches prevent enemy mobs from spawning up dark spaces.

Wielding torches in your offhand is an easy way to place them while mining!

Manufactured Blocks

Banners

Banners are tall decorative blocks that are highly customizable! They are crafted by combining a stick with six pieces of the same coloured wool. They are crafted colour of the wool used during crafting it will determine the banner’s base colour

Banners are also generated naturally in some structures, such as outside of end cities and in woodland mansions. Banners can be copied by placing a banner with the same base colour in a crafting grid.

No more toiling away over a crafting table struggling to recreate the same design twice! In Java Edition, you can apply your banner design to a a shield by crafting the two together!

Block of Coal

A block of coal is a mineral block that can be used as fuel. It can be crafted from 9 coal. It cannot be crafted from charcoal. If placed, it can be mined with any pickaxe, but it will drop nothing if it is mined without a pickaxe.

A compact way to store your coal, blocks of coal are also an efficient way to use your fuel! One block of coal is able to smelt 80 items. This is ten times longer than a single piece of coal, and, since you used only 9 pieces

to craft a block, it’s like gaining a free coal! Score!

Block of Diamond

A block of diamond is a decorative and functional mineral block. A compact way to demonstrate your wealth to fellow players, blocks of diamond are crafted from 9 diamonds... As with diamond ore, a block of diamond

can only be mined using an iron or diamond pickaxe. Blocks of diamond can be used to power and increase the effects of a beacon when they are placed in 3x3, 5x5, 7x7, and 9x9 layers in the shape of a pyramid.

That’s a lot of diamond!

Block of Emerald

A block of emerald is a decorative and functional mineral block. Due to the rare nature of emerald ore, a block of emerald is a compact way to demonstrate the extreme wealth to fellow players! Blocks of emerald are crafted from 9 emeralds.

As with emerald ore, a block of emerald can be used to power and increase the effects of a beacon when they are placed in 3x3, 5x5, 7x7, and 9x9 layers

in the shape of a pyramid. How did you get so many emeralds?!

Iron Bars

Ever thought glass windows looked too welcoming? Iron bars are blocks that are crafted from six iron ingots. If they are placed without anything on their sides, they will appear as thin vertical columns. However, they will automatically

connect to any blocks or other iron bars placed adjacent to them. Did you know that iron bars placed near a zombie villager in the process of being cured will speed up the healing process? Imprison those zombies!

Block of Gold

Shiny! Like a treasure from a sunken pirate wreck! A block of gold is a decorative and functional mineral block. You can craft a block of gold from 9 gold ingots, making it a compact way to store your excess gold.

As with gold ore, a block of gold can only be mined using an iron or diamond pickaxe. If you’re feeling adventurous, fight past the dangers within ocean monuments to get to the central room where 8 blocks of gold are encased in dark prismarine!

Blocks of gold can be used to power and increase the effects of a beacon when they are placed in 3x3, 5x5, 7x7, and 9x9 layers in the shape of a pyramid.

Block of Iron

A block of iron is a decorative and functional mineral block. A compact way to store your iron, it can be crafted from 9 iron ingots. As with iron ore, a block of iron can only be mined with a stone pickaxe or better.

Blocks of iron can be used to power and increase the effects of a beacon when they are placed in 3x3, 5x5, 7x7, and 9x9 layers in the pyramid. Blocks of iron are also used in the crafting of anvils, and in the construction of iron golems.

Blocks of Quartz

A block of quartz is a purely decorative mineral block. It can be crafted from four pieces of nether quartz. As blocks of nether quartz cannot be crafted back into pieces of nether quartz, blocks of nether quartz are not useful for storage purposes!

These blocks cannot be mined with a pickaxe of any level. However, breaking them without a pickaxe will drop nothing.

Bookshelf

Required to obtain higher level enchantments, bookshelves are decorative and functional blocks! Surrounding an enchantment table with bookshelves will increase the enchantment levels you have access to.

In this case, knowledge really is power! Bookshelves generate naturally in villages, strongholds, and woodland mansions. If a bookshelf is broken by anything other than a Silk Touch tool, it will drop three books.

These books can be crafted back into a bookshelf by combining them with six wood planks.

Hay Bale

Hey you! Did you know that falling onto a hay bale reduces your damage by 80%? Now you know! Hay bales can be crafted from nine pieces of wheat. As they can also be crafted back into wheat, this makes hay bales a compact way of storing wheat.

While hay bales are not edible, you can use them to breed llamas and heal horses, donkeys, and mules by up to 10 hearts!

Bricks

Feel like upgrading the appearance of your house from stone? Bricks are decorative building blocks that can be crafted from four brick items. If they are mined without a pickaxe, they will break and drop nothing.

Bricks have the same blast resistance as other stone-based blocks.

Carpets

Carpets are thin decorative blocks that can be crafted from two pieces of wool. While they are solid and can be stood on, they also allow light to travel through them. Unlike wool, carpets are not destroyed any faster when broken with shears.

Done decorative your house and have carpet left over? Carpet can also be used to give llamas a distinct saddle pattern!

Carved Pumpkin

This is Halloween! Pumpkins can be carved by using a pair of shears on them. While carved pumpkins cannot be used to craft any delicious pumpkin pie, they can be used to construct snow golems and iron golems!

When combined with a torch, they become light-emitting jack o’lanterns. Alternatively, you can toss one on your head! Although you view will be obstructed, you can look directly at endermen without consequence!

Cobblestone Wall

Cobblestone walls are decorative blocks that are centered on top of the blocks they are placed on. They will automatically connect to any solid adjacent blocks. This effectively creates a smooth wall that has posts at the beginning, end, and on corners.

If a torch is placed on top of a cobblestone wall, it will create a post for the torch to rest on. Cobblestone walls are one and a half blocks tall for player and mob collision, but only occupy one block space.

As with fences, this prevents players and mobs from jumping over the walls. If a wall is mined without a pickaxe, it will break and drop nothing.

Grass Path

Grass paths can be created by using a shovel on grass. Placing a block on top of a path or breaking it will transform it to regular dirt. Grass paths can be found naturally generating in villages whenever pathways replace grass blocks.

While these paths are primarily used for decoration, hostile mobs cannot spawn on top of them!

Concrete

Concrete is a solid block that comes in sixteen different dye colours. Its vibrant colours make it a great decorative block! Concrete is formed when concrete powder comes in contact with water or lava while in block form.

If it is mined without anything other than a pickaxe, it will break and drop nothing.

Concrete Powder

Affected by the laws of gravity, concrete powder is a solid block that comes in sixteen different dye colours. It is crafted from dye, sand, and gravel. When it comes in contact with water or lava while in its block form, it turns into concrete!

Dried Kelp Block

Dried kelp blocks can be crafted from nine pieces of dried kelp. As they can also be crafted back into their original form, this makes dried kelp blocks a compact way to store large amounts of dried kelp! However, dried kelp blocks are primarily used as a

fuel in furnaces. Each block lasts for 200 seconds and is capable of smelting 20 items!

End Rod

End rods are solid, decorative light sources that emit white particles. They have a light level of 14, equal to that of torches. They generate naturally all over end cities, which are located on the outer islands of the End.

Inside some end city towers, they are placed sideways so that players can use them to parkour to the top. You can collect end rods by any tool or block, or you can craft them by combining popped chorus fruit and blaze rods.

Glazed

Have you ever looked at the walls and flooring of your home and thought it looked too plain? Glazed terracotta is a colourful decorative block which comes in 16 different colours. It can be obtained by smelting dyed terracotta in a furnace.

Depending on how you place it, glazed terracotta can create a variety of different repeating patterns and designs! Psychedelic!

Fence

Fences are decorative blocks that are centered on top of the blocks they are placed on. They will automatically connect to any solid adjacent blocks. Fences have a collision box of one and a half for player and mobs, but they only occupy one block space.

This prevents players from jumping over the walls. Fences can be crafted from oak, spruce, birch, acacia, jungle, or dark oak wood, aswell as nether brick!

Flower Pot

Flower pots are decorative blocks that can hold flowers, mushrooms, saplings, and plants. You can craft a flower pot from three bricks. Alternatively, you can find them holding red mushrooms in witch huts, holding cacti in the basement of igloos,

or holding various flowers and saplings in woodland mansions. So go on and beautify your dirt hit by bringing a small piece of nature inside.

Glass

Glass is a decorative and functional block that can be created by smelting sand or red sand. Unless it is broken with a Silk Touch tool, it will shatter and drop nothing.

Glass can be crafted into a number of useful items, including glass bottles, end crystals, and beacons! Of course you can always just use it to add windows to your home! Now you can appreciate the beauty of the outdoors from the comfort of your home!

Stained Glass

Stained glass is a decorative transparent block. It is a coloured variant of regular glass. Unless it is broken with a Silk Touch tool, it will drop nothing. While it cannot be used in place of regular glass in crafting recipes,

it can be crafted into stained glass panes!

Stained Panes

Stained glass panes are transparent blocks rafted from stained glass blocks. They are a much more efficient alternative to glass blocks as you can obtain 16 stained glass panes by crafting 6 stained glass panes together. If they are placed without anything on

their sides, they will appear as thin vertical columns. However, they will automatically connect to other panes placed adjacent to them. As with other glass, unless they are broken with a Silk Touch tool, they will shatter and drop nothing.

Ladder

Up. Down. Up. Down? When placed on the side of other blocks, ladders allow the players to climb walls both vertically and horizontally! Three ladders can be crafted from seven sticks.

Grabbing onto a ladder while falling will negate any fall damage. However, if you land on the top edge of a ladder, you will take fall damage as normal!

Lapis Block

A lapis lazuli block is a purely decorative mineral block that is crafted from 9 pieces of lapis lazuli. As with lapis lazuli ore, lapis lazuli blocks can only be mined with a stone, iron, or diamond pickaxe.

While there is no crafting use for lapis lazuli blocks, at least it is a handy way for keeping your piles of lapis lazuli neat and tidy! While you’re exploring, make sure that you check the center of illager statues!

These structures, which generate in woodland mansions, have a lapis lazuli blocks within!

Nether Bricks

Nether bricks generate in the Nether, where they make up the structure of nether fortresses. Red Nether bricks are decorative variants that can only be obtained through crafting by combining nether brick with nether wart.

Nether bricks can be mined with any pickaxe. Don’t feel like finding a nether fortress to obtain Nether bricks? Make your own by smelting netherrack in a furnace!

Planks

Crafted from logs, and required to make a crafting table, planks are common and important blocks used in many crafting recipes! There are six types: oak, spruce, birch, acacia, and dark oak

While they can be broken by hand, using an axe is significantly faster.

Polished Stones

There are three types of polished stone: polished andesite, polished diorite, and polished granite. By crafting together four of the same stone blocks, you will receive four of their polished variants.

These decorative blocks can be used interchangeably with their non-polished variants in crafting recipes.

Chiseled

Chiseled sandstone is a decorative block that generates naturally in desert temples. It can also be crafted from two sandstone slabs. From above, it looks the same as regular sandstone.

But, if you take a closer look at its sides, you’ll notice the creeper faces etched into it! Ssssss!

Wool

Wool is a block that can be harvested from sheep. Another way to obtain wool is by crafting together four string. Wool can be dyed in any of the sixteen different dye colours.

White, light grey, grey, black, brown, and pink wool can be found naturally on sheep in the wild. All other colours will require you to use dye. When you use shears on an adult sheep, it will drop 1-3 wool.

Sheep will regrow their wool after eating grass. If you kill a sheep that has not been sheared, it will drop one wool upon death. While wool blocks can be broken with anything, shears are the fastest method of breaking wool.

Slabs

Slabs are half-versions of their respective blocks. Slabs can be placed on the top half or bottom half of a block. This makes them very useful for decorative purposes!

If two slabs of the same type are placed in the same block space, they will form a double slab. Double slabs act as a single block when broken. As a result, breaking one slab will break the double slab and drop two slabs.

Keep in mind that wood slabs can be broken successfully with anything, but all other types require a pickaxe!

Slime Block

A slime block is a semi-transparent block that you can bounce on! How high you bounce is directly relative to how far you fall before bouncing off of the slime blocks. If you try to jump when you come in contact with a slime block,

you will jump normally instead of bouncing higher. Regardless of how far you fall, you will not take any fall damage unless you sneak upon landing. If you cover slime blocks in carpet, they will retain their bouncy nature.

Slime blocks can be crafted from 9 slime balls. They can also be crafted back into slime balls. This make slime blocks a compact way to store slime balls if you ever find yourself with an excessive amount of slime!

Similar to soul sand, your movement speed will be slowed when you walk over a slime block.

Stairs

Stairs are blocks that allow players and mobs to ascend and descend blocks without jumping. They also have a lot of decorative potential! Stairs can be placed in many different orientations depending on which direction you are facing when you place them.

You can also attach stairs to create inner and outer corners. Wood stairs can be broken successfully with anything, but all other types require a pickaxe!

Stripped Logs

Stripped logs are variants of logs that are obtained by using an axe on a log. This is only a visual change, as stripped logs can be used interchangeably with regular logs in all crafting recipes. It comes in six species: oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia

and dark oak

Stripped Wood

Stripped wood is a variant of wood that is obtained by using an axe on a block of wood. It has the stripped wood bark texture on all six sides. This is only a visual change, as stripped wood can be used interchangeably with regular wood in

all crafting recipes. It comes in six species: oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia and, and dark oak.

Wood

Wood is a block that has the log's bark texture on all six of its sides. It comes in six species: oak, spruce, jungle, acacia, and dark oak. Four logs can be crafted together to make three wood.

This is only a visual change as the wood can be used interchangeably with logs in all crafting recipes.

Stone Bricks

Stone bricks are a decorative block that comes in four variants: stone bricks, cracked stone bricks, mossy stone bricks, and chiseled stone bricks. Stone bricks can be crafted from four stone.

They generate naturally in strongholds, igloos, and underwater ruins. If they are mined with anything other than a pickaxe, they will break and drop nothing. Be careful while mining out bricks in strongholds!

Silverfish have the ability to enter and hide in any variant of stone bricks! This creates an infested variant of the corresponding block type.

Biomedomes

Badlands Plateau

Badland plateaus are rare dry and warm biomes. They feature large hills comrpised of layered terracotta. The tops of these hills flatten out into plateaus that are typically covered in dead bushes.

The sides of the plateau can occasionally reveal exposed mineshafts!

Birch Forest

If you like birch trees, then this is the biome for you! As you may have guessed, a birch forest is a biome that is filled with a forest of birch!

Birch forests are a part of the temperate and lush biome family. Unlike regular forests, wolves will not spawn in birch forests.

Dark Forest

It sure is dark in here! With a thick canopy of leaves, dark forests are a part of the temperate and lush biome family. As the dark oak trees generate so closely together, it becomes dark enough for hostile mobs to spawn during the day!

Huge mushrooms can also grow amongst the dark oaks.

There is an extremely rare chance that a woodland mansion will generate within a dark forest! This is the only biome that woodland mansions can appear.

Desert

Deserts are common, dry and warm biomes that are usually vast, barren, and lifeless. Deserts were among the first biomes added to the game!

Passive mobs do not spawn and trees do not grow in the desert, making it a challenging biome to survive in at the beginning of the game.

Cacti and dead bushes are naturally generated within the terrain.

Deserts make up for their barrenness by generating a number of different structures within them! These include villages, fossils, desert wells, and desert temples!

The End

It may be the End, but it isn't the end! The End is a dark, space-like dimension floating in the void. It can be accessed by entering an End portal gateway portal found in strongholds.

The End's central island serves as the main platform for your boss fight with the ender dragon. Large obsidian pillars and end crystals generate naturally on the central island. There is no way to exit the End unless you die or defeat the ender dragon!

Planning on making the End your home? If you place a bed, it will create an explosion that is 25% stronger than TNT. Yikes!

Other than the ender dragon, endermen are the only other residents of the End's main island.

Forest

Composed of oak and birch trees, forest biomes are a part of the temperate and lush biome family. With an abundance of wood and mild terrain, forest biomes are often preferred by beginners!

Wolves rarely spawn in forest biomes, making forests the only other biome aside from taigas where wolves can spawn!

Frozen Ocean

Frozen oceans have dark purple water. Like other cold ocean biomes, frozen oceans have a seafloor composed of gravel. The ocean is completely barren as nether seagrass nor kelp generates naturally.

The most prominent features of frozen oceans are the large icebergs made of snow blocks, packed ice, and blue ice that frequently generate on the surface of the water.

Polar bears and strays are capable of spawning on those icebergs. Salmon, squid, and drowned are the only aquatic mobs that can spawn in the water in frozen oceans.

Frozen oceans will never generate directly next to land. There will always be at least 32 blocks of a cold ocean bordering it if it happens to generate near land!

Frozen River

Characterized by the icy river winding throughout, frozen river biomes only generate when a river biome enters or comes in contact with a snowy tundra biome.

Frozen rivers are part of the snowy biome family.

Despite the covering of ice over the river, salmon and drowned are still capable of spawning underwater. At night, strays will also spawn above the ice.

Giant Spruce

Similar to the taiga biome, giant spruce taiga biomes are covered in spruce trees. However, unlike regular taigas, giant spruce trees now grow beside the normal spruce trees!

Mossy cobblestone boulders are scattered throughout the biome, along with patches of podzol, dirt, and coarse dirt.

This rare biome can be difficult to differentiate from the giant tree taiga biome, but you can tell which biome you are in by looking at the leaves of the giant spruce trees!

If the spruce leaves only grow at the top of the trunk, you are in the giant tree taiga, not a giant spruce taiga!

Ice Spikes

Characterized by large spikes of packed ice and packed 'ice lakes', ice spikes are a rare variation of the snowy tundra biome.

While most of the ice spikes are 10 to 20 blocks tall, some of the other spikes can reach over 50 blocks in height!

As all grass blocks have been replaced by snow blocks in this biome, no passive mobs other than rabbits and polar bears are able to spawn. At night, strays will spawn as well.

Mountains

Cliffs, peaks, valleys, waterfalls, and more! Mountain biomes stretch high into the sky, reaching heights of Y level 130 and even higher!

With very few trees, this cold biome is grassy, but areas above Y level 92 are dusted with snow.

Mountains are the only biomes where emerald ore and silverfish can be found naturally!

Aside from savannas, mountains are the only bimes where llamas will spawn.

Mushroom Fields

What is that strange land on the horizon?

Mushroom fields are rare biomes that spawn in oceans as islands, completely isolated from any other landmasses.

As the ground is covered in mycelium instead of grass, mushrooms are ablt to grow in full sunlight! It is also one of the few biomes where huge mushrooms generate naturally.

While secluded, these biomes are very safe to explore, as mooshrooms are the only mobs that spawn in mushroom fields! Even the usual hostile mobs do not spawn at night!

The Nether

The Nether is a molten, hell-like dimension that is full of fire, lava, and dangerous mobs! In order to travel to the Nether, you must construct a nether portal in the Overworld.

The terrain of the Nether is almost entirely made up of netherrack and vast expanses of lava. Clusters of glowstone dangle from the ceiling and mushrooms grow abundantly on the ground.

Soul sand and dangerous patches of floating gravel will also generate throughout the Nether. Near the oceans of lava, you can find patches of magma blocks.

Nether fortresses are the Nether's only naturally generated structures. While they provide valuable loot, be careful as they are also the only place where blazes and wither skeletons spawn!

Feel like mining? Nether quartz can be found scattered around the netherrack. It is the only mineral ore that can be found in the Nether.

Traveling through the Nether may be dangerous, but it is great for fast travel! For every block you travel in the Nether, you travel eight blocks in the Overworld!

Ocean

Row, row, row your boat!

Seriously, don't forget your boat! Oceans are vast expanses of water that can cover large swatches of the Minecraft world.

Covered in seagrass and kelp, the seafloor is mostly made up of gravel, although some clay, dirt, and sand patches will generate in shallow water. The seafloor can be fairly hilly, featuring multiple peaks, valleys, and ravines.

If a peak extends above sea level, it forms an island!

Aquatic mobs, such as drowned, fish, squid, and dolphins, frequently spawn within ocean biomes.

Outer Islands

As with the rest of the End, the outer islands are made entirely from endstone. Endermen also spawn throughout the outer islands. The outer islands of the End are broken down into multiple smaller biomes: end midlands, end highlands, small end islands and end barrens.

End cities, chorus plants, and end gateway portals generate in the end midlands and highlands biomes. These two biomes are also the only places where shulkers generate.

The small end islands make up the mostly empty expanse that lies between larger islands. It is populated with smaller, circular islands.

The end barrens biome can be found on the rims of larger islands. This biome has steep cliffs that drop into the void. Watch your step!

Savanna

Savannas are common dry and warm biomes that typically generate bordering deserts and plains. As savannas have a warm climate, it will never rain in one!

These relatively flat biomes are the only biomes where acacia trees generate naturally. Appropriately, the villages that generate in savannas are built from acacia logs and planks. Although they are less common, oak trees can also be found in savannas.

Aside from mountains, savannas are the only biomes where llamas will spawn. As horses also spawn in savannas, this makes savannas the only biome where both llamas and horses spawn!

Snowy Taiga

The snowy taiga biome is a mostly flat biome that is covered in large expanses of spruce trees and snow. Snowy taigas are part of the snowy biome family.

Snowy taigas are one of the few biomes where wolves will spawn. They are also one of the two biomes where you can find naturally generated igloos!

Snowy Tundra

The snowy tundra biome is a flat and expansive biome that is covered in snow.

Snowy tundras are part of the snowy biome family. They are one of the two biomes where igloos are naturally generated.

Very few trees are generated in snowy tundras, making it difficult to acquire wood, and all water sources that are exposed to the sky freeze over time.

Other than rabbits and polar bears, no passive mobs are able to spawn. However, strays are able to spawn at night.

Due to all of these harsh conditions, initial survival in snowy tundra biomes provide more of a challenge compared to other biomes!

Swamp

What are you doing in my swamp?!

Characterized by a mix of flat, dry areas and shallow pools of grey-green water with floating lily pads, swamps are a part of the temperate and lush biome family.

As the water is so shallow, clay can be found abundantly. Mushrooms can also be found growing beneath the vine-covered trees.

While there are no ogres in these swamps, slimes will spawn naturally within swamp biomes. As slimes spawn even more commonly during full moons and drowned are capable of spawning underwater, swamps become very dangerous at night!

Taiga

The taiga biome is a mostly flat, but slightly hilly, cold biome covered in a forest of spruce trees.

Villages are able to generate in taiga biomes, and the houses in these villages will be built from spruce wood. Wolves and rabbits can also spawn in this biome.

With an abundance of wood, mild terrain, and useful passive mobs, taigas are convenient biomes to live in - as long as you don't mind the cold!

Warm Ocean

Warm oceans are beautiful and colorful biomes, where coral reefs of various blue, pink, red, purple, and yellow coral generate naturally. If you take the time to explore, you will find schools of tropical fish and pufferfish swimming around!

Warm oceans have light green water. The ocean floor is covered in sand and sea grass. You can also find sea pickles scattered throughout the coral. Kelp does not generate in warm oceans.

Wamr oceans will never generate directly next to land. There will always be at least 32 blocks of a lukewarm ocean bordering it if it happens to generate near land!

If any underwater ruins are generated, they will be composed of sand instead of the stone that makes up the underwater ruins of cold ocean biomes.

Mob Gardens

Passive Mobs

Mule

Mules are tamable mobs that can be ridden when tamed. Unlike horses and donkeys, mules do not spawn in the wild. They can only be spawned by cross-breeding a horse with a donkey.

Mules spawn with three assigned ‘equine stats’ for their health, maximum movement speed, and jump strength. When a mule foal is bred, it will be untamed. It will also inherit some of its parents’ stats! Mules cannot be bred with other mules

Like donkeys, tamed mules can be equipped with saddles and chests.

Feeding a mule will restore its health, speed up the growth of foals, and increase the temper of untamed mules. They can be fed sugar, wheat, apples, golden carrots, golden apples, and hay bales.

When killed, mules will drop 0-2 leather. If they were equipped with a chest or saddle, they will drop this equipment as well.

Pig (by OinkWorks)

Oink! Pigs are common passive mobs that spawn in the Overworld. Pigs will follow any player carrying a carrot, carrot on a stick, potato, or beetroot. Pigs can be bred with carrots, potatoes, and beetroot.

If you put a saddle on a pig, you can ride it and join it as it wanders randomly throughout the world! Aimless travel not your thing?

If you have a carrot on a stick, you can control where the saddled pig goes! Wait! What’s a zombie pigman doing in the overworld?

When struck by lightning or hit by a trident with the Channeling enchantment during a thunderstorm, pigs will turn into zombie pigmen!

When an adult pig is killed, it will drop 1-3 raw porkchop. If it is killed by fire damage,it will drop cooked porkchop instead of raw porkchop. If it was saddled, it will drop the saddle.

Salmon

Salmon are common passive mobs found in oceans and rivers. Salmon appear underwater from Y level 12 to 32 in cold and frozen oceans, as well as their deep variants. Unlike other fish types, they will also spawn in normal and frozen rivers.

When killed, they will drop 1 raw salmon. There is a 5% chance that they will also drop 1 bone meal on Java Edition, or a 25% chance they will drop 1-2 bones on Bedrock and Legacy Console editions.

If you use a water bucket on a salmon, you can collect it and obtain a bucket of salmon. Salmon collected and placed with buckets will not despawn naturally. Salmon, like other fish, cannot survive out of water.

They will flop around on their side before they suffocate to death.

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Sheep (by WoolWorks)

Baaa! Sheep are passive mobs that spawn on grass blocks in the Overworld. There is a majority of sheep are white, with an 81.836% chance of spawning. The light grey, grey, and black sheep each have a 5% chance of spawning.

Brown sheep are uncommon and have a 3% chance of spawning. The rarest of tall is the pink sheep which only have a 0.164% chance of spawning!

When you use shears on an adult sheep, it will yield 1-3 wool. Sheep can be dyed any of the 16 dye colours, and sheared wool will match the colour of the sheep.

Sheep can be bred with wheat. If the parents have compatible wool colours that can be combined into a third dye colour, the resulting lamb will be a mix of their colours.

If not, the lamb will be the same colour as one of the two parents.

A regular sheep too boring for you? By naming a sheep “jeb_”, you will turn it into a rainbow sheep with wool that cycles smoothly through the different colours!

Alas, this is only a visual effect and it will drop its actual wool colour if sheared or killed. When killed, a sheep will drop one wool matching its colours if it has not already been sheared.

It will also drop 1-2 pieces of raw mutton. If it is killed by fire damage, it will drop cooked mutton instead of raw mutton.

Squid

Squid are common passive mobs that spawn in water between Y level 46 and sea level. When the world is generated, they can be found in any biome. Afterwards, however, they will only spawn in rivers, beach variants, and ocean biomes.

When killed, a squid will drop 1x3 ink sacs. Squid cannot survive out of water.

If they find themselves on land, they will eventually suffocate to death. If they are attacked, squid will release a cloud of black ink and swim away rapidly in the opposite direction.

Guardians will also attack and kill squid. Strange Fact: in the Java Edition Beta, it was possible to milk a squid and obtain a bucket of milk! Alas, this is no longer possible. #SquidMilk

Tropical Fish

Just keep swimming! Tropical fish are common passive mobs found in oceans. Tropical fish spawn in lukewarm, warm, and deep lukewarm oceans from Y level 12 to 32. In Bedrock Edition, they only spawn in oceans from Y biomes.

With a whopping 3,584 different variants of tropical fish, there are far too many to list! When killed, they will drop 1 raw tropical fish. Regardless of the tropical fish killed, they will drop item will always appear as a clownfish.

There is a 5% chance that they will also drop 1 bone meal on Java Edition, or a 25% chance they will drop 1-2 bones on Bedrock and Legacy Console editions.

If you use a water bucket on a tropical fish, you can collect it and obtain a bucket of tropical fish. If you take a closer look at these buckets, you’ll see that each tropical fish has a name!

Tropical fish collected and placed with buckets will not respawn naturally. Tropical fish, like other fish, cannot survive out of water. They will flop around on their side before they suffocate to death.

Turtle

Turtles are common mobs that can survive both on land and in water. They typically spawn in the Overworld on beaches, but not in snowy variants or on stone shores.

Turtles will follow a player holding seagrass. If two turtles are fed seagrass, they will enter love mode. One of the turtles will hold an egg in its inventory and make its way back to its home beach.

A turtle’s home beach is where it originally hatched or spawned. Once it returns, home, it will find a sand block to lay 1-4 eggs on. Turtle eggs will undergo three stages before they hatch into baby turtles.

Baby turtles can only hatch at night if their eggs are on the sand. If you were to use a Silk Touch tool on turtle eggs, you can relocate the turtle eggs and effectively set their home beach wherever you want!

When a baby turtle grows up into its adult form, it drops one scute.

When killed, an adult turtle will drop 0-2 pieces of seagrass.

Bats

Na na na na na na na na na! Bats are flying mobs that spawn in caves. With their little squeaks, they add atmosphere to caves. When they are killed, they do not drop any items or experience.

Neutral Mobs

Hostile Mobs

Creeper

Ssssssssssss... Ah, the dreaded sound of a creeper hissing behind you! True to their namesake, creepers will silently creep up on unsuspecting players before hissing and exploding.

Naturally spawning in the Overworld, these iconic mobs drop 0-2 gunpowder when killed. However, if a crepeer is killed by a skeleton or stray, it will drop a random music disc!

If a creeper is struck by lightning, it becomes charged, amplifying its explosion power!

The Museum of Redstone

AND Gate

AND Gate.

Once you've mastered the basics you can build some pretty crazy contraptions with redstone! This is an example of an AND gate.

To power the lamp, both levers need to be turned on at the same time. This particular logic gate has been used a lot behind the scenes to power this puzzle!

Buttons

Buttons.

Everyone loves to press a good button. Pressing a button in Minecraft will only output a redstone signal for a short period of time however wooden button can be activated for longer periods by shooting an arrow at them. Take a shot!

Comparator 1

Comparator Inventory Detection.

A comparator placed next to a block with an inventory (such as a chest or hopper) will output a signal based on how full the inventory is.

Fill up this chest with enough items to turn on the lamp.

Comparator 2

Hopper inventory fullness detection.

Here we have a hopper and a comparator detecting how full it is. There's also a bit of redstone logic thrown in there, but don't worry too much about that.

The comparator is detecting how full the hopper is so you need to add some items to create an output. Not enough items and the signal will be too weak, too many items and the signal will go too far and disable the redstone clock.

Try and work out the right amount of items to put into the hopper.

Hint: if in doubt, try half. Always go halfsies.

Comparator 3

Normal comparator.

A comparator can look into block inventories using the input on its back (back input), but it also has an input on the side (side input).

The comparator will compare the two - if the side input is more powerful than the back input, then the comparator will not output anything. If it is as or less powerful than the back input, it will output a signal of the same strength as the back input.

Comparator 4

Comparator in subtract mode.

Check out the normal comparator device before giving this one a go!

Comparators have a clever little thing called 'subtract mode'.

In subtract mode the comparator takes the signal going in the back (closest to the redstone block) and subtracts the value of the redstone signal going in the side.

One of the levers will give the subtract comparator just enough power so that the redstone signal will travel the exact distance it needs to!

Detector Rails

Detector Rails.

Detector rails are minecart rails which can detect if something is on top of them, essential for epic roller-coaster building! You might have noticed them in the tunnel that you first travelled through to get here.

Lever

One of the simplest redstone devices, levers are a redstone power source that you can turn 'on' or 'off'.

Light Detector

Daylight detectors.

Daylight detectors detect the brightness of the sun and will output a signal based on this brightness.

They can be connected to a redstone lamp, and with some clever tinkering they can be made to turn on the lamp automatically at night, and turn it off during the morning - it's always good to save energy!

Locking Repeater

Locking repeater.

Repeaters are handy little blocks which can delay a signal for an amount of time, but they can also be used to 'lock' signals in one state. If you power one repeater with another from the side, that repeater will become 'locked', and

remember the input it had before it was 'locked'. You can then change the back input, and the output from the repeater will not change.

This machine has one repeater pointing into the side of another, which can therefore be locked. To power the lamp you will need the output from this repeater to be off, whilst keeping the lever from its back input to stay on.

If you do this in the correct order, the repeater will be locked whilst in its off state, and the lamp will turn on!

Pressure Plates

Pressure plates.

Minecraft has a few different types of pressure plates. Wood and stone pressure plates will emit a full signal with any item, player or creature is on them.

'Weighted' pressure plates will output a signal based on the number of items or creatures on them. These come in two types, 'light' and 'heavy'.

Heavy weighted pressure plates (iron) require more items or creatures than light weighted pressure plates (gold) to output the same strength signal.

Redstone Cannon

No wonder this dangerous contraption has been moved into the museum attic...

It still works, but make sure you grab a pair of special boots before giving it a try!

Redstone Grove

The magical trees of Redstone Grove.

Sway and blow in the voltaic breeze. Alas the sheep that there did graze, Did then absorb too many electrical rays!

Redstone Torch

Redstone Torch.

A redstone torch can be used to activate redstone devices but it also can be used to invert a redstone signal. If the block it is placed on is powered it will turn off and if it is unpowered it will turn on.

Slime Blocks

Slime blocks.

Sticky pistons can push and pull one block connected to it. When a slime block is connected to a piston, it will also push and block any block connected to it (except obsidian and bedrock).

Flick the levers at the base of the three pistons to make the redstone signal flow through the device and reach the redstone lamp. You may want to jump on top of the device to get a better view!

T Flip-Flop 1

Toggle Flip-Flop.

This may sound like some beach-appropriate footwear, but this is a serious piece of electronic equipment so stop dreaming about sand, sea and sunshine and listen up!

This device works like a lever, switching from an on-state to an off-state with a simple pulse input. Although it works like a lever, it is activated with a button input. Pressing the button will switch it between on and off.

T Flip-Flop 2

Chained Toggle Flip-Flop.

Now we're getting fancy. Try fixing the toggle flip device if you have not already before attempting this!

This device is three 'toggle flip-flops' connected together with one button input. Each one will scroll through the combinations of the next one giving a total of 8 ways to light the lamps.

Only one of those combinations will light up all three lamps, which is what you need to do!

T Flip-Flop

This Toggle Flip-Flop design is much more complex than the Java version.

There is a quirk of Java redstone that does not exist in the Bedrock edition (this version) which means that the Java design is unpredictable.

Thanks to /u/PC_Screen for your Reddit post that pointed me in the right direction of observers which solves this issue.

Tripwire

Tripwire.

A tripwire works like a pressure plate except it is very hard to notice. They can be used to make traps and are used in jungle temples. You can trick this particular trap by placing an item on it!

Quotes

“	Celebrate 10 Years of Minecraft with this amazing new map from BlockWorks. Witness the history of Minecraft from its humble beginnings, wander the Mob Garden, explore glorious Redstone Contraptions, and much more. Keep an eye out for hidden Easter eggs and secrets. Available in Java and Bedrock.	„
	— Marketplace description

Sounds

Discs

Item	In-game name	Composer	Track preview	Disc length
	Happy Birthday	Mojang Studios - Stockholm		0:39
	Happy Birthday	Mojang Studios - Redmond		0:18

Video

History

Java Edition
May 9, 2019							The 10 Years of Minecraft map is available for download on Minecraft.net.
Bedrock Edition
May 9, 2019							The 10 Years of Minecraft map is released on the Marketplace.

Trivia

Players in the world are permanently affected by Speed II, presumably to help them traverse the large map.
The Vault's code: 170509, is based off Minecraft's original release date: May 17, 2009.
The Update Aquatic is erroneously referred to as the "Aquatic Update," a common mistake.
- Similarly, the horse update is referred to as the "horses update."
In the Vault, chests belonging to liquid blocks are placed within the floor.
Surrounding the map, every splash text up to that point is engraved.
Many of the descriptive books make references to pop culture, such as the entry on bats beginning on a nod to the theme song of the 1966 Batman television series, and the swamp book containing the line "what are you doing in my swamp," a line associated with the character Shrek.
- Both of those properties would later receive official collaborations with Minecraft, in the form of the Batman map and the Universal Studios Event.

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Special anniversary cake.
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Official artwork

Pack icon.
Logo for the map used on the 10th anniversary website.^[2]
Banner used in the official website minecraft.net celebrating the 10th anniversary of Minecraft.