Think you’re a pro when it comes to Minecraft? Well prepare to have your knowledge tested. These are 37 Secret Minecraft things you definitely
didn’t know, expert edition. But really quickly, we're so, so, close to
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how many facts you knew out of 37, it probably won’t be that many. But with that said, let’s get right into
it and I hope you enjoy Number 1. Did you know that you can actually find the
stronghold, using fossils. That’s right, fossils. If you happen to set up a nether portal and
locate a soul sand valley fossil in the 0,0 chunk, well you’re in luck because you can
predict exactly where the stronghold will be. By looking at the coordinates of the bottom
corner of the fossil, we can match that up to a set of coordinates on our reference sheet
that’ll be linked down below. Once we travel to these coordinates in the
nether and set up a new portal, the stronghold is often very close by. The working rate of this trick isn’t always
perfect but it’s a really cool way to blow your friends minds. It certainly blew mine. If you wanna know how it works I’ve left
a link to Matthew Bolan's video in the description so go check it out. Number 2. Speaking of finding rare resources, pigs. Now that sentence might make no sense at first
however if you bring a pig down into the mines and set up a tunnel covered in slabs, riding
the pig into the tunnel will actually allow you to xray while being able to move. This xray tactic allows you to identify all
sorts of nearby caves and finally find those sneaky diamonds. Number 3. Minecraft 2.0 was one of the weirdest April
Fools updates ever. In this secret update if you fed animals like
sheep enough times they would eventually grow fatter and fatter and finally explode. Not only that, if you gave them a golden apple
they would begin to fly. Furthermore chickens swapped roles with endermen
and would attack you if you stared at them. And if all that wasn’t weird enough, blocks
could talk. Every now and then a random speech bubble
would appear above a block's head. Why, well I have no idea. Number 4. This one goes out to all the builders out
there. If you ever find yourself in need of some
custom mob and block heads, marc has got you covered. A long time ago mojang developer Marc created
some inactive Minecraft accounts with specific skins for map makers. These accounts all have the prefix MHF_ -or
marc head format- and then whatever mob or block you may desire. Here’s a quick screenshot of all the possible
heads, anything from slimes to cake to presents. Just use this command over here with the name
you wanna use and boom. Although since they are old they’re a tiny
bit outdated. Shouldn't be that big of a problem though Number 5. Raids can certainly be tough for the player
but we aren’t the only ones that are nervous. So are villagers. In fact, if a villager notices that something
is off, whether it be a hostile mob or a full out raid, they have a chance to begin sweating. They’ll shake a little bit and emit some
water particles above their head. A cute little motion that you probably didn’t
know about. Number 6. Iron golems can actually kill villagers. I guess these sworn protectors aren’t as
loyal as they may seem. In a previous version of the game there was
a bug that if after a raid a villager shot a firework and harmed another nearby villager,
the iron golem would attack the villager that shot the firework. Eventually killing it to avenge his comrade. Whether this is justified is up to you though
and it was promptly removed from the game. Number 7. Something that you probably didn’t know
about is the beautiful gradient produced by flowers. Now that may not sound impressive at first
but hear me out. Bone Meal patterns aren’t actually random;
each coordinate has a specific flower that will generate each time. And they’re made to produce this beautiful
design. If you bonemeal any area in a flower forest
and take out the grass, over time you’ll see that it will slowly fit to this pattern. It’s a really cool and beautiful phenomenon
that I’m sure you didn’t know about. Number 8. Igloos are one of the most underappreciated
structures ever, and here are a few reasons why. First of all if you either cure the zombie
villager or just free the regular villager, the igloo is actually made to be detected
as a village. Which means that once you do this very simple
task, if you end up getting the bad omen effect you can just trigger a raid on the igloo. This way your main village doesn’t get damaged
and the pillagers will never find their way down the hatch. It’s a really neat way to dispose of a raid. And the pillagers, they won’t know what
hit them. Number 9. But that’s not all the magical properties
of an igloo. In fact igloos are especially constructed
to secretly speed up the un-zombification process. Something you probably had no idea about is
that iron bars and beds are coded to speed up the villager curing process. And since both of these are found in an igloo,
that makes them prime spots to cure your villagers as fast as possible. So the next time you go through with the ritual,
bring with you some stereotypical prison equipment, it’ll go by a whole lot quicker. Number 10. And finally the last secret thing about the
igloo is the placement of the window. You see for one reason or another the devs
intentionally placed the ice window of the igloo in this location. Why, well it’s the one place that will be
melted when you use the furnace. The light from the furnace is perfectly placed
to melt the window and give you a fresh water source. Whether this be for potion brewing or some
other reason is up for interpretation though and you’ll have to ask the developers why
they added it. Number 11. The moon is one the most underappreciated
things in Minecraft, here’s why. In the event of a full moon in Minecraft all
sorts of weird and wacky phenomena can occur. Slime spawns almost double in the presence
of a full moon. Spiders have the chance to spawn with invisibility,
and 50% of all cats that spawn are black. Certainly something to look out for next time
you’re outside. Or inside, I guess. Number 12. Axolotls are certainly adorable mobs and there’s
a secret easter egg associated with them that you probably never noticed. Whenever you pick up a bucket of axolotl you’ll
find the texture of the bucket in your inventory actually drops down by one pixel. No this isn’t a mistake and according to
texture developer Jappa, this is due to the weight of the axolotl. A neat little detail that often goes unnoticed. Number 13. Enchanting table messages are written in the
galactic alphabet but if you translate them you’re met with all sorts of small jokes
and easter eggs. For instance one of these phrases is “the
elder scrolls” like the game. This is most likely a jab at the company behind
the game, Bethesda, which tried to sue Minecraft in its early days. Additionally there's a reference to HP lovecraft’s
cthulhu with these strings of text which I won’t even bother to pronounce. There’s also a few more easter eggs like
Xyzzy, a common cheat code in games; embiggen, a reference to the simpsons; and klaatu berada
niktu, a reference to the 1951 movie, The Day The Earth Stood Still. A bunch of cool easter eggs that now you know
about. Number 14. The zombie horse, while being an unrideable
unnatural mob in minecraft, actually has a hidden texture file. If you open up the zombie horse texture you
can see an unused saddle which when applied looks something like this. Whether this means we can one day ride these
things is yet to be determined though. At least not in the near future. Number 15. If you ever need to transport your Minecarts
across long distances, whether it be for villagers or for loot, try out this super useful trick. If you cram three Minecarts onto the same
rail they actually begin to travel on their own, and don’t need any more rails. Not only that you can even take out blocks
in your bridge and the Minecarts will sail over the gaps. Very handy and very unknown. Number 16. Some of the weirdest secrets in the game are
actually audio related. And I don’t think the devs get enough credit
for all the easter eggs they’ve snuck in through sound, so let’s take a look at a
few in this sound segment. For one thing the sound file called warped
forest mood 9 is actually a slowed and reverberated idle sound of the witch. It sounds something like this. And for reference here’s the witch sound. Number 17. On a similar note the respawn anchor’s ambient
sound, that, is in fact a reversed version of the nether portal’s ambient sound, that. Further linking the two together. Likewise the sounds made by crops when you
break them is just a high pitched version of the dirt breaking sound. Number 18. The main soundtrack of the nether is titled
“so below”, and this name isn’t arbitrary. It's the second half of the phrase, as above
so below. Which is often associated with the philosopher's
stone, and specifically thoth, the egyptian god of death and judgment. This naming is a neat little connection to
the nether and underworld. Number 19. Cave ambience is the only ambient sound in
the game to actually appear in the subtitles. Whenever a cave sound is played it is accompanied
by the subtitle, eerie noise. Nice one mojang. Number 20. If you ever want a way to startle your friends
then take advantage of this unknown feature. If aimed correctly you can actually shoot
an arrow between a path block and the ground. This allows for some very clever and undetectable
traps that your enemies definitely won’t see coming. And your friends won’t either. Number 21. There’s actually a secret biome in the game
that you can only discover under certain circumstances. If you select the buffet world type and set
it to mountain edge taiga, you get a biome combination that can’t actually generate
in the game. Making it the official rarest secret biome
in Minecraft Number 22. Striders have always kind of looked like pitiful
mobs but they used to be a whole lot sadder. In their development, striders had a feature
that once they were out of lava they would retract their legs and bounce around like
a fish out of water. Before promptly suffocating. However this feature was removed because as
you can probably tell, it was far too sad. Number 23. Unless you ever bothered to check you wouldn’t
know that rain actually fell above the clouds too. According to Notch there’s a secret second
layer of clouds above the first one, this allows for some really weird features where
if you go high enough the rain and snow will begin to distort, turning into long noodles
of blue. Number 24. When you use a lead on a mob it actually doesn’t
connect to your arm. It’s coded to attach to a small portion
of your back which looks something like this. And I could not tell you why Number 25. Typing in North Carolina in the seed box gives
the same world as that in the demo version of the game. Likewise in bedrock typing forest glade gives
the same seed as the trial version world. Number 26. The crafting table has a weird easter egg
that could hint at a new feature. On it’s side are for some reason two tools
that don’t even exist in the game. There could have been a pickaxe, there could
have been a shovel, but instead there is a saw and a hammer. Could these be hinting at tools that will
be added later on? Who knows. Number 27. If I asked you to tell me how many bats were
currently loaded in your Minecraft world, could you do it? Probably not without some searching around. However that’s exactly what this line in
the f3 menu is for. If you take a look at all the letters listed
here, it tells you how many of each mob type are spawned in your render distance. M shows monsters, C shows passive mobs, and
A shows ambient mobs like bats. U shows underground water creatures like axolotls
and glow squid, the first W shows the amount of water creatures, and the second W ambient
water mobs like fish. Finally M shows everything else. Not sure how you’d ever use this feature
but hey, now you know. All right the remaining facts are gonna be
rapid fire trivia, see if you can keep up. Number 28. According to Mojang,the main reason that suspicious
stew was added was to communicate to the players that lilies of the valleys are poisonous. Quite the creative PSA if i’ve ever seen
one. Number 29. The fish texture on a fisherman villager is
in fact a reference to the long forgotten texture in older versions of the game. This texture was replaced by cod and salmon
but lives on in the fisherman’s clothes. Number 30. The illusioner is an unused mob but that doesn’t
mean it’s exempt from quirks any less than other mobs. For one thing if you happen to put an illusioner
in a boat it will always shoot backwards. Why this is unknown. Also we’re just gonna brush over the frankly
inexplicable detail that illusioners hold their bows sideways instead of vertically. Number 31. In the files of the 1.12 client the dark oak
block is actually titled big oak. Number 32. When used in the end dimension, night vision
will make everything far away turn pink. Number 33. Between october 20th and November 3rd bats
spawn almost twice as frequently, an easter egg in tribute to Halloween. Doesn’t make them any less useless though. Number 34. The clicking noise in the basalt delta is
most likely a reference to that of a geiger counter, a device used to measure radiation. Maybe Mojang is trying to tell us something. Number 35. Whenever you enter water your fov is actually
lowered by 10 to simulate light refraction. So if you’re gonna be spending a long time
underwater raise your fov 10 higher than usual, it’ll make the whole experience a lot more
normal. Number 36. The background soundtrack is actually triggered
by the time of day. So if you want a certain track to play then
just consider changing the time. Number 37. And finally the last fact of the day. There are 40 pages of trivia in the minecraft
wiki and after long last I have finally, finally looked through every single last one. Meaning for the time being, I am out of secret
things. Marking the end of an era... But that doesn’t mean I can’t do life
hacks.
