Is Minecraft accurate or is real life totally
different? Let's test 30 things and if real
life wins, you have to go touch grass. Let's start with axolotls, which play dead
to get a regeneration effect. That's pretty similar to how real ones can
grow back lost legs and even parts of their brains! However, some of their squeaks in the game
are actually heavily-edited dog sounds. Mojang did put a lot of thought into axolotls
because they can only eat buckets of fish, like how real axolotls only eat living fish! So this point goes to Minecraft for accuracy! Cod were one of the first fish mobs added,
but Mojang made a slight mistake. In real life, there are four types of cod
and all of them have three dorsal fins. Cod in Minecraft only have TWO dorsal fins! All it would take is to remove this one pixel
to make them so much more accurate, but for now this point goes to real life because Minecraft
cod is unrealistic. Creepers are real. Well not quite but they're very similar to
real life peat moss, a plant that launches out spores by building up air pressure and
pretty much exploding! This stuff also contains sulphur, which was
the old name for gunpowder! The creeper texture IS based on the leaf texture
too, so maybe they grow out of the ground and use their explosion to spread their seeds! More realistic than you think! Good job Mojang. If the CREEPER is that realistic, I think
I'm allowed to make fun of the other mythical mobs, like the ravager. This one was inspired by something from real
life... mythology, specifically the manticore. Developer Jeb said he was inspired by the
version from Dungeons and Dragons, which has the head of a man, a lion body, dragon wings,
and a scorpion tail. Ah, that's why the ravager has- wait, it has
none of those. Here's an early version of the ravager, with
big legs and Herobrine eyes. Even with the inspiration, this point goes
to real life, because the ravager is too out of this world. 1.19 has added mud bricks, which have been
around for a very long time in the real world. They're made by combining mud with straw,
just like real life! These have been used as building materials
for over five thousand years. This Mosque is the largest mudbrick structure
in the world. Finally mudbricks are in Minecraft, so they
get this point. Although it might not look like it, Mojang
do leave the office sometimes for outdoor research. While making 1.18, this photo was taken of
a developer on a field trip exploring real life caves! This one inspired noodle caves. With that dedication, this point goes to Minecraft! Gold tools are weak because gold is soft in
real life, but you know what's not weak? Steve. This guy can carry over 62 THOUSAND gold blocks
using shulkers. One gold block would weigh 19 thousand kilograms
in real life, so Steve can carry... uh... A BILLION KILOGRAMS. We don't know how small Steve's pockets are,
but shrunk down to this size, all those shulker boxes would collapse into a BLACK HOLE. If you think that's crazy, the facts get even
crazier. Speaking of how much Steve can fit inside
him, I ran the numbers and he shouldn't be able to drink a milk bucket. We can fill a bucket with this much water. A bucket of milk has the exact same amount
of liquid. Separating all of Steve's pixels, there's
less than half the amount of space required to fit all that liquid inside! He either spills it down his clothes, or there's
some kind of portal in his stomach. This point goes to real life. You obviously can't make a nether portal in
real life, but obsidian is a real thing. In Minecraft, it's the second hardest block
to mine. In real life, it's actually a lot like glass. When you rapidly cool lava, you get obsidian,
which is volcanic glass. To break it in Minecraft, you'd need 70 times
the explosive power of TNT, but IRL you could just drop it on the floor, so this is probably
one of Minecraft's least realistic blocks. Diamonds are one of the rarest ores in Minecraft,
but that's not exactly true in real life. They're actually the most common type of precious
stone! Newly mined ones are rough and cloudy. Only the purest get polished into nice Minecrafty
gemstones. The rest get used for cutting and grinding. Diamonds just aren't realistic. But actually, the diamond used in the jukebox
crafting recipe IS realistic! They're not only in there to make jukeboxes
harder to get. The recipe is inspired by how Thomas Edison
started using diamond-tipped needles in his phonographs back in 1910. He influenced Minecraft. That's better than inventing the lightbulb,
right? The jukebox is more realistic than you'd think. Something about the crafting table has always
got on my nerves. It's perfectly normal that you break a giant
chunk of a tree with your fists, then turn that into four blocks, and then back into
one all before the tree falls to the ground but what confuses me is where did all these
tools come from? Where did the leather come from? Don't get me wrong, I love the crafting table. It's iconic. Just confusing how this massive saw appears
out of thin air. Not realistic. Mojang do change things for accuracy! Fireflies were gonna be added as food for
frogs, but the fans let Mojang know that fireflies can be poisonous to frogs in real life. They also made parrots die from cookies as
chocolate is poisonous to birds. I'm glad they're listening to stop people
copying what they see in-game, so this point goes to Minecraft! But if that's the reason, this next one definitely
needs to change. We all know the saying that cats always land
on their feet, so in Minecraft they made it so cats don't take fall damage! But DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME! Even though they can usually flip over just
in time, that doesn't mean they can't be injured by the fall. Mojang tried to make cats more realistic by
having them sit on beds and chests, but even THEY admit that's just more annoying. I don't want anyone dropping their cat 'cause
it works in Minecraft, so this point goes to real life. Mojang! 1.20. Cat update. You'll be rich! The Wild Update's sculk shrieker block might
seem like one of Minecraft's more mythical blocks, but they have a real world inspiration! The shape of the block was inspired by the
human larynx! Ah 'cause it shrieks... Makes sense! Wait. A Minecraft person doesn't have a larynx! THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE A NECK! But this point goes to Minecraft for their
attention to detail. Minecraft TNT won't destroy anything if detonated
underwater. But DON'T TRY THIS IN REAL LIFE either! I don't know why you'd have TNT but if you
did it would not be safe underwater. Or anywhere really. Working underwater TNT can be made with sodium
in the Education Edition because sodium has an explosive reaction when dropped in water
as it's an alkali metal. But normal TNT should be able to explode underwater. The sand in the recipe references dynamite,
which is NOT the same as TNT. Mojang didn't make it realistic, but at least
they're not teaching you how to make it. Steve's a pretty good diver. This guy can high dive from the stratosphere
and land without a scratch. Don't go jumping off a cliff like Steve, though. His pencil diving technique is good, but would
he survive this in the real world? Well, you're supposed to point your feet down and Steve... can't do this, so he'd at LEAST hurt his feet. The world record for diving was set at only
58.8 metres and even that guy hurt his leg and hip doing it. Diving in Minecraft is pretty unrealistic. Villagers all got stylish new outfits in the
Village and Pillage update. With over a hundred outfit combinations, there
must have been some real life inspiration. It turns out most of these robes were inspired
by 2018 fashion shows like Gucci's. The swamp villager designs were thought of
first, even though there aren't swamp villages. Once again, Mojang get to flex their attention
to detail! Rabbit's feet in real life are often believed
to bring good luck. The rabbit's foot item in Minecraft is a rare
drop. You need to be quite lucky to get one, and,
if you do, it increases your luck just as much as it does in the real world! By zero percent. Yep that goes to Minecraft for realism there. Why are small animals so big in Minecraft? Spiders are two metres wide in this game. Silverfish are real creatures, too, and they're
usually about two centimetres long. That means Minecraft ones are 53 times longer! And don't get me started on BEES! I'm surprised fireflies aren't twenty blocks
tall! Silverfish are officially unrealistic! This is a lightning rod, and this is a real
one! You might think that's realistic BUT in real
life, a lightning rod needs a direct connection to ground or it... won't work. You can also put one on your head in Minecraft,
like an antenna, by using commands. So I'm giving this point to real life, 'cause
it's not realistic. The sky in Minecraft is NOT realistic either. Of course, they're trying to keep things simple
by having the sun and moon move in a straight line, but that's just not how the sky works. The moon shouldn't move exactly with the stars
either. Real life definitely wins this point. Turtles in Minecraft can't drown, even though
they need to breathe air in real life. They do last a long time underwater thanks
to their giant lungs and slow metabolism and some turtles breathe underwater using their
butts, which absorb oxygen from the water. However they CAN still drown, though, and
you can't trap a real turtle in a space like this, so real life gets the point for this
one. Speaking of turtles, let's look at their eggs. Arrows won't crack one. Concrete powder does nothing. Dripstone? No match for it. Dropping an anvil on one... doesn't break
it! POUR. LAVA. ON. ONE. Nope, the only thing heavy enough to break
it... is you. I'm giving the point to Minecraft just for
the meme! A sea pickle in Minecraft is not that big,
but a real one can be up to 18 metres long or as small as less than a centimetre. They might not LOOK quite like the Minecraft
version, but they do glow through bioluminescence. However, sea pickles are actually colonies
of really tiny animals and not plants like in Minecraft. I'm gonna give the point to real life 'cause
Minecraft ones look way too much like this type of pickle. Minecraft's horses and donkeys can be bred
together to make a mule, which in real life is made when a male donkey is bred with a
female horse. Swap the genders and you get a hinny, which
isn't in Minecraft. Are all the horses in this game female? It would be cool if this were a random chance. You'd expect to breed a mule with another
mule and get, well, another mule, but this is realistic. Mules don't have the ability to produce offspring
in real life. The material reducer from Education Edition
allows us to put in some made-up items and find out what they're really made of. Glowstone, for example, contains three noble
gases which are commonly used in neon lights! Redstone ore contains uranium, which is used
to fuel nuclear power plants! It would also make redstone radioactive. Netherrack has mercury oxide, which is the
same colour in real life! Even though these blocks aren't real, Mojang
came up with some realistic explanations. In the crimson forest biome, you might hear
the music track called "chrysopoeia", and that title is a word referring to the artificial
production of gold. Yep, you can find nether gold ore here so
that fits! Only problem is the crimson forest is more
like the crimson from Terraria than any real life place. Though, the basalt deltas are based on real
life basalt columns, so I think we can say the nether is somewhat realistic. Rain falls out of clouds, right? So why does Minecraft rain still fall when
there are no clouds above? But that's not all! When you go ABOVE the clouds in Minecraft,
the rain still falls! If you go high enough, the rain does cool
into glitchy snow but there's only ever one cloud layer. I'll accept the clouds are blocky 'cause it's
a blocky game, but where's the rain coming from!? Real life definitely wins this one. What is glow lichen? Is it a real thing? Kinda. There are about 20 thousand lichen species
in the world, and about 6 to 8 percent of the Earth's land surface is covered in the
stuff! Do they glow like in Minecraft? Many types do! Only under a UV light, though. Unlike sea pickles, lichens aren't bioluminescent. Glow lichen's close enough to real life, even
if it shouldn't glow quite like that, so Minecraft gets this point,
meaning our winner is... real life by two points! But in a game with zombies, portals and dragons,
does it really matter? Yes. Now go into the real world and touch some
grass, or you can watch this video about even more facts you probably don't know.
