Think you know Minecraft? Well not for long. From
using your crafting grid as extra inventory space, to curing 30 zombie villagers with one arrow, here
are 42 Secret Minecraft things you probably didn’t know. And let me know in the comments how many
you knew out of 42, I bet it won’t be that many. Number 1. You can fly faster or slower in
spectator mode by scrolling. By scrolling up or down your hotbar you can adjust
the flying speed to as fast as 87 blocks per second or as slow as practically
not moving. This makes getting around your minecraft world much easier if
you have a lot of terrain to cross. Number 2. Using only a few blocks you can make a
remote control to do whatever you want whenever you want. Like teleport to the complete opposite
side of the map in an instant. By setting up this redstone contraption and mining this cobble
and obsidian in the right order, the moment I switch to my pickaxe the obsidian breaks
instantly, which can activate a stasis chamber or do literally whatever you want it to. For a
detailed tutorial check out this video in the description by jerry lum where he explains
all the restrictions and how to set it up. Number 3. There used to be a secret
easter egg hidden inside the beacon. If you took a look at the texture file
for the beacon beam you could find the map icons hidden inside of it. Why? Nobody knows. Number 4. Everyone hopefully knows that with
a piercing crossbow you can shoot an arrow through multiple mobs at once. But what you maybe
didn’t know was how useful this is for curing zombie villagers. Typically to cure a zombie
villager you have to give it both a weakness potion and a golden apple. But using a piercing
4 crossbow and a tipped arrow of weakness you can cure 4 zombie villagers at once and then
reuse the arrow as many times as you want. All you need are the golden apples and one arrow
is all it will take to cure a whole village Number 5. You can send secret messages with
sculk. Because the slab version of blocks can’t be consumed by a sculk catalyst, all you have to
do is spell out your message using stone slabs, vertical or horizontal. Fill in the rest
of the wall with regular stone and hide a sculk catalyst somewhere nearby. To any other
passerby it’ll look just like a regular wall, but to your friend who knows where
it is, all they have to do is kill something nearby and the message will
slowly but surely spell itself out. But wait, because this is something never before
seen on this scale in Minecraft. For every person who subscribes, this code will automatically
find the average color of your profile picture, map it to a minecraft block and place
it in the shape of this giant mansion. For now the only block belongs
to my most recent subscriber Yon Clarke, who’s average profile picture color is
this one up here, which checks out. So subscribe to claim your own unique block of the mansion
and make it the weirdest looking mansion ever. In a couple of weeks, I’ll be posting the final
finished mansion on my twitter so you can check it out there. Plus every block placed will
be another 10 cents donated to the SFA, with a base donation of $500 and all the ad revenue
of this video. But thanks, and enjoy the rest. Number 6. You may know that if you give
an armor stand armor with thorns on it, it can actually kill you. By punching an armor
stand with thorns armor on any difficulty that isn’t peaceful you’ll take damage from the thorns.
And by setting up a dispenser with thorns armor next to a villager, you can do the exact same
thing, and trick your friends into attacking a villager that will actually fight back. Both
of these lead to a very peculiar death message that will surely leave your friends
confused if they don’t know the trick. Number 7. You can use the crafting grid as extra
inventory space. By changing your minecraft mode to touchscreen and using your number
hotkeys to place items in the crafting grid, you can click anywhere with the mouse outside your
inventory and the items will just stay there. You can still play the game and everything with
four whole extra inventory spaces. Your device doesn’t even need to be touchscreen, just turn
on the mode and enjoy! This trick was patched in 1.19 but works in every version before. And
in 1.8.9 it even bypasses the clear command, allowing you to smuggle items when
you’re not supposed to. This awesome hack was showcased by crafter dark so go
check their video out in the description. Number 8. You can make one way glass using just
maps and item frames. By using this command you can give yourself an invisible item frame,
which when you place it, as you may guess, it’s invisible. Placing these frames on glass and
using a custom map generator or building a giant layout you can place the maps in the item frames
and boom, one way glass. You can see through the back just fine but to any passerby it looks like
a totally normal wall. Well totally normal ish. Number 9. Swift sneak is a very useful
enchantment but you might not even be using it to its full potential. While sure
you can go somewhat fast by just sneaking, if you start with a sprint run up
and then crouch you go way faster, even compared to regular walking. Definitely
a good hack if you’re around the warden. Number 10. Lava lakes can definitely
be a pain to scout out but with this method you can xray underneath them to find a ton of netherite. All you have to do is place
a grindstone on the side of your bridge, apply fire resistance, hold crouch, and swim
upwards to see the nether floor hassle free. Number 11. Ulraf, one of the minecraft developers
hid a couple secret notes in pictures spelled in minecraft enchanting table language.
Translating all of them together results in the message “Allays are afraid of red sheep.”
A reference to the evoker mechanic that turns blue sheep red. And considering allays are
found in mansion cages where evokers spawn, this secret message might just be hinting towards
a deeper lore connection between the two mobs. Number 12. On the topic of allays, they
were previously planned for the nether update under the name wisp or pixie.
They were going to have this texture but ended up being delayed because they weren’t
finished in time for the scheduled release. Number 13. If you’re an OG player you may
painfully remember that boats used to break on impact with literally anything. Well while
you might think this feature is long gone, due to some quirk in the games code boats will
still break into their raw materials if dropped from a height 12,13 all of these numbers, up
to 315 blocks up. Why? Honestly I have no clue. Number 14. Remember that remote control
from earlier, well if you want another easy way of doing that, all you need is a
cat. Something you might not know is that whenever you leave a minecraft world, your cat
will sit down. And when a cat sits on a chest, it can’t be opened. Meaning that using
this redstone contraption you can set it up so whenever you leave a server
your cat will sit down on a chest, and get a redstone pulse to do whatever you
want. And your friends will be none the wiser. Number 15. Something many players forget or
might not know at all is that bee stingers are a visible model. When you get stung by a bee
in minecraft the stinger remains inside of you, and going invisible produces a really
strange and funny looking effect. Number 16. Using leather boots you can
set up an escape route that only you can access by utilizing powdered snow.
If you make a wall of powdered snow, anyone who tries to go inside will instantly
start to freeze to death. However if you wear leather boots, you can scale the entire
wall without any danger of freezing, allowing you to have either a very impressive
base entrance or a perfect getaway route. Number 17. Because axolotls don’t actually make
noise in real life, the noises for the axolotl mob are just heavily edited dog sounds.
Yeah technically some are the accidental burps and hiccups that axolotls make when they
surface but distorted dogs sound way cooler. Number 18. If you use the command to give
yourself a potion, you’ll get an uncraftable potion impossible to get in survival. But that’s
not completely true. There is infact one place in the game where this potion can appear in
survival. Do you know where it is? Well it’s in the achievement window for local brewery. The only
place to find this hidden item without commands. Number 19. Fireworks are a great way to move
around your world, but there’s a little known trick you can play on your friends that might
get them killed. By crafting your fireworks with a firework star, it’ll actually
do damage to the user when they use it, leading to a very dangerous flight
your friends won’t see coming. Number 20. Certain blocks have a hardness
that you might not expect. You may know that glass has a hardness of 0.3, cobblestone
a hardness of 2 and a netherite block a hardness of 50. But do you know the hardness
of bedrock? Is it 100, 30 million, infinity? Well actually the game's code uses the hardness
-1 for unbreakable blocks. The more you know. Number 21. You probably know frost walkers
turn the water underneath you to ice. But did you know that this actually
isn't ice at all. It’s a special type of block called frosted ice that
only appears through this enchantment. Makes sense when you think about it
but something you might not have known. Number 22. On the topic of ice, and snow. Lighting
a nether portal actually gives off a burst of heat that can melt all the snow around it. Not sure
how you would ever use this, but here it is. Number 23. Smooth variants of blocks, like
quartz and sandstone actually have a bigger blast resistance than their regular versions. Meaning
if you’re worried about your base blowing up, swapping in these blocks for their normal
counterparts may just save your valuables. Number 24. Hidden in the files of the busy
bees update are two secret textures. One for a wax block and one for crystalized
honey. However they were later removed and the devs said they had no intention
of ever adding these features back in. Number 25. On the legacy console edition of
the game there is a secret music disc called dog. It plays at the end of the cat music
disc and used to sound something like this: Number 26. There are four secret paintings
added to minecraft that you can only get with commands. These are the earth, fire,
water, and wind paintings. They all look super cool which makes you wonder why
they aren’t possible to get in survival. Number 27. The Minecraft song living mice
by c418 is the opposite, and a reference to, deadmau5. The famous Canadian music producer
who helped c418 design the minecraft soundtrack. Number 28. The advancement “very
very frightening”, which you get after striking a villager with lightning, is a
reference to the line from Bohemian Rhapsody. As the line before it is thunderbolts
and lightning. See what they did there?
Number 29. Arrow shooting has a
neat little easter egg you might not realize. If you shoot a bunch of
arrows, you may notice they cluster a bit to the right of the crosshair. However,
if you change your main hand to the left, the arrows will cluster on the other
side. A super subtle yet cool feature. Number 30. If you’re having trouble taming a
horse, feeding it a golden apple before saddling up makes it way more likely to accept you. This
mechanic actually comes from Greek mythology, specifically the horse arion. A superfast
horse that only ate precious metals like gold. Number 31. You may know that items in minecraft
have rarities. Different color text indicates a different tier of rarity. Golden apples are in
the rare tier, while enchanted golden apples are in the Epic tier, signified by this purple text.
However, if you just manually enchant a regular golden apple, you’ll actually trick the game
into changing its rarity to epic. Granted it won’t do anything an actual notch apple can
do, but it’ll definitely confuse a friend. Number 32. Before emeralds were added to
the game, the currency for trading used to be rubies. However many people complained
that they were too similar to redstone, and developer Dinnerbone, being red green
color blind, also couldn’t distinguish the two well. So emeralds were added
instead, and rubies were lost to time. Number 33. You can probably guess that allays are
the opposite of vexes. But that actually may be more true than you first thought. The word
vex means to anger or worry, while the word allay means to alleviate or relieve. Making
these two opposites in more ways than one. Number 34. Slimes actually move faster depending
on their size, meaning if you summon a slime of size 8, it can completely outjump the player.
And the bigger you go, the faster they become. Number 35. Glazed terracotta patterns can
seem kind of random. And that’s because they were inspired by bathroom floor
tiles in Jeb’s trip to Peru. However the lime glazed terracotta is actually modeled
after a crossbow. If you squint hard enough. Number 36. The warden is supposed to be one
the most difficult mobs out there. However if you do as this reddit post does and just
dig a hole around him the moment he spawns, his buffer period will render him
completely useless and trapped. Number 37. Even when using the invisibility
effect, the player can still be seen by a select few mobs, and an enchanting table.
Yep, even when an invisible player walks past, the book of an enchanting table opens, making
it a useful way to detect potential intruders. Number 38. The deep dark was initially going to be
underwater, minus the water. In the original plans for the update, Mojang was planning on adding
floating jellyfish and ghost looking blocks, with the only lights being bioluminescent,
or alive. It looked super cool but didn’t exactly match the creepy vibes of
the warden and sculk so it was cut. Number 39. On the topic of lava, using commands
you can actually summon an explosion with a blast strength big enough to blow up lava and water.
Nothing naturally in the game can even come close, but these liquids do have a finite
blast resistance and can be blown up. Number 40. A real life trivia fact you may know
is that a group of crows is called a murder, well according to dinnerbone the cannon
name for a group of endermen is called a haunting of endermen. Pull that one out
next time you’re being chased to your death. Number 41. Enchanting a crossbow with a quick
charge level 6 or over makes it impossible to charge, as the time would be negative. If you
did overflow the code however, this crossbow could be fully charged in just around 69.4 years.
That’s not even a joke, it would take that long. Number 42. Minecraft disc 5 actually uses some
sound effects from Minecraft dungeons like the endersent’s babble and the vengeful heart
of ender. And if you want to know what the hardest thing to do in all of Minecraft
is, click this video right here on the left where I try to investigate that exact
question. Thank you so much for watching, subscribe to claim your own block, and peace
out, have a good one, I’ll see you next time.
