- [Skip The Tutorial]
Did you know Minecraft used to have battle axes? Or that this potion is
so rare it only exists in the game's files? And these are 47 Minecraft
item facts you maybe missed. During the development
stages of Minecraft, the axe looked a little different, since back in Minecraft Indev, the axe's texture was
double-sided like a battle axe, which seems pretty impractical when you're just trying to cut down a tree that's right in front of you, which is probably why
the texture was changed just a few days later
and then changed again so that it faced the other way
that we're now familiar with. This is one of the rarest
items in Minecraft. And why is that? Well, the truth is that
even though tall grass as a block exists all
around us in the world, when you break it you
only get regular grass. So to actually get the tall grass item, you'd have to luck out and find it in something
like a villager loot chest, which seems like a lot of
effort to get this item. But if you're trying to get all of 'em, you should remember the stipulation. - [Block Facts] In Bedrock, golden apples are substantially better than they are in Java. In this version, an enchanted
golden apple gives you the regeneration V effect
instead of just regeneration II in Java Edition. Though with how many random ways there are to take damage in Bedrock, the extra regeneration
might be more appreciated. - [Skip The Tutorial]
When armor was first added to Minecraft it looked like this, because on August 13th, 2009, Notch added in plate armor
to the Java Edition Classic, which looks to me like if
you tried to make iron armor out of smooth stone. But this is what it would look
like if the player wore it, and they even tested it out
to see how it would look on zombies or skeletons. Although when first added
it was purely cosmetic and it had no impact on their
actual health and gameplay. Back in version 1.3,
flint used to look 3D. And if you studied it closely, you could see that the item
had a shiny texture to it. But all that changed in snapshot 18W43A where the flint item was changed
to be a little bit more 2D and that same shiny texture
seemed to have gone away, making it look a lot less
like a Minecraft diamond and a whole lot more boring. - [Block Facts] Minecraft's glowstone used to look like this. It had a yellow green color when it was added in the alpha stage and wasn't changed until
the texture update of 1.14. And between that change and
the re-texture for netherrack, 1.14 really made the nether
look a whole lot different. - [Skip The Tutorial] While we
choose to get our cocoa beans from the jungle, in Pocket Edition, the
way they used to get these was by crafting it together
with an ink sack, a red dye, and a dandelion yellow, which is a really peculiar
sight to see laid out like this. But I guess the idea
was that you were trying to mix together different
dyes to get a brownish color. And that much makes sense but
to get cocoa beans themselves, then it just seems so weird, and you can see why they patched it out. If you were to throw out all of your items onto the ground in a specific
order, then you'll notice that as soon as you go to try to pick them up, the items will enter your inventory in the exact same order that
you threw them onto the ground. And this becomes instantly noticeable when you play something like PVP and you have to throw out
different items onto the ground to try and sort through your
inventory in Hunger Games. So if you forgot to pick up that pair of chain mail
leggings the first time around, don't worry, it's gonna cycle
back and all will be clear. In older versions of Minecraft, it used to be possible to
buy the eye of ender item, and this made the cleric
villager indispensable for speedruns, considering that with this trade, you didn't even need to go to the nether to get blaze powder
for your eyes of ender. But during the snapshots
for Java Edition 1.9, this did get balanced so that you couldn't just skip this integral part of the game, which is a bummer, but I think speedrunners are
doing just fine without it. - [Block Facts] This mob doesn't exist, so why is there a spawn egg for it? The truth is that the mask
isn't some secret new mob, but really it's just that this sprite is the base texture Mojang uses to color shift the other
spawn egg textures. I suppose that means we'll have to look for hidden lore elsewhere. - [Skip The Tutorial] While
you get the most experience from cooking ancient debris in a furnace, you know what gives you the
least amount of experience? Well, sure enough, if you're
cooking up your chorus fruit or your kelp in a furnace, as an XP farm you're wasting your time, considering that these items
can give you an average of 0.1 experience points. And sometimes that means
they'll give you no XP at all. And considering dried kelp isn't even that great of a food source, I don't think this is worth
doing in the first place. - [Block Facts] You
can craft honey bottles into honey blocks. That's not a surprise. That's how you get them
in the first place. But with those same four glass bottles, you can craft the honey
blocks back into the bottle. This makes perhaps the weirdest
way to store your honey. And the fact that this can be uncrafted while nether wart blocks
can't, seems even stranger. - [Skip The Tutorial]
Here's why channeling is the most evil enchantment
that you can use in Minecraft. If you were to put this on your trident and then kill one of your friends or foes, then on death, all of
their items will be deleted from the inventory, which
no doubt is devastating. So if you weren't able
to trick your friend into putting curse of
vanishing on their stuff, then I guess you could do this and essentially put curse of
vanishing on their entire kit. - [Block Facts] Can
you spot the difference between this crossbow and this one here? If you can't, don't worry about it. You're not supposed to. Well, it's possible to tell the difference between a crossbow with a firework and one with an arrow while
they're in your hot bar, this sprite change doesn't show up if the item's on the
ground or in an item frame. - [Skip The Tutorial]
While in creative mode, if you were to shoot an
arrow above your head, obviously it's not gonna hit you. But this also doesn't mean
that the arrow disappears, so what you get as a result is that the arrow will continue to try and bounce on top of your head, just glitching there in place, which notably is the
same thing that happens when you try to land an
arrow on top of an enderman. They also can't get hit, so you kind of just get an arrow hat. - [Block Facts] Mojang made
this texture look even worse, but that was the point since as of the texture update of 1.14, the fermented spider eye
changed to look a lot more red and gooey than it did in the past, which is definitely more gross, but that's likely accurate
to how a mix of spider eyes, mushrooms, and sugar would
be in the real world anyway. - [Skip The Tutorial] If you
were to have a Minecraft clock in your inventory and then
change the time using commands, you'll notice that the
clock has to rapidly spin to catch up to what the current time is. And as is in a regular Minecraft day, each of those 64 frames of
animation is only gonna play for about 19 seconds a frame, given that a full Minecraft
day is 20 minutes. Or if you wanted to, you could type in the
time set command like this and that way the clock
will have to catch up and play through all those
animation frames just like that. At this point, you've probably seen the
globe banner pattern. It's not the most visually interesting, but it does have
interesting ramifications, since if you consider the fact that this is how the
Minecraft globe looks, then that would mean that
the Minecraft world is square and not round. So sorry, Matt Pat, I guess that your theory
might not be true, at least according to the
cartographer villager. - [Block Facts] Unlike us, arrows don't slow down while
passing through cobwebs, nor do snowballs or enderpearls, which might just mean that the fastest way through a cobweb trap
is to shoot your shot instead of wasting time with a sword. - [Skip The Tutorial]
While in creative mode, it's possible to add any enchantment that you'd like to any item, including items that can't
be enchanted normally, which means that if you really wanted to, you could get yourself a
fire aspect water bucket, which doesn't make a lot of sense but at least you're
offering both the problem and the solution. Stop using a sword to
try and break cobwebs because instead it's possible
to break these even faster by using a water bucket. So next time that you're stuck
down in the spider's domain, it'd be better to pour
out some flowing water instead of wasting any
durability on your diamond sword. The water's also a lot more reusable, so I doubt there's any objections. - [Block Facts] Unlike the
rest of the leather arm set, leather boots are the only
piece that's named the same as the other armor sets, since the leather helmet is called a cap, the leather chest plate is a tunic, and the leather leggings are called pants or trousers in the UK version. - [Skip The Tutorial] This enchanted book is not supposed to exist because it's enchanted
with, well, nothing. And the only way that it's possible to get such an illegal item
is by using this command to give yourself an enchanted
book with no other NBT tags. And there you go, it's
enchanted yet pointless. The next time that you're
trying to cure your villagers make sure to have this on your crossbow, since by using an arrow that's
tipped in the weakness effect in combination with a
piercing IV crossbow, it's technically possible to
cure four villagers at once. And better yet, when
that arrow hits a wall, because you have the piercing enchantment, you're also able to
pick it up and reuse it, giving you a violent but
perhaps necessary way to cure all of your
villagers in a cheap manner. This flower looks illegal, but it used to spawn in version 1.8. And the reason for this strange sight is that when the game generates where the plant should
be on the plains biome, it does that before the
puddles are actually generated into the world. So while it might have thought that there was supposed
to be a flower there, when it later decides that
there should be a lake there as well, it deletes the grass block and now you've got this
floating flower head like this, which is strange, but it's actually a lot
closer to how the item renders when you place it on the floor, which ends up being a nice coincidence, even if it was an error in the code. Here's how to light up your igloo without turning it into a water waste. Since while it's true
that things like glowstone and torches are gonna melt the snow, if you were to use redstone dust torches or even candles and soul torches, none of those will melt
any of your ice or snow, giving you the perfect way
to illuminate your fortress of solitude and also keep
it a fortress of solitude by making sure no mobs can spawn inside. - [Block Facts] When it was first added, the nether star could be destroyed by the wither's explosions, meaning sometimes you'd beat the boss and wouldn't be able to find the reward. But now it's blast resistant, meaning it can't even be destroyed by a separate TNT explosion. - [Skip The Tutorial]
Obviously you're not supposed to break a crafting
table with your pickaxe, but even Mojang wants
you to know this fact, considering that if you use your tools when they're not supposed to, it'll deal double the
durability damage to said tool, meaning it's not just a
waste, it's a double waste. And considering that certain
tools don't even work better than your fist in this example, it's really just best to
scroll to a different place on your hot bar and do it that way, saving both your tools and
yourself from a headache. Before you try fishing,
you should look up first, since if you're fishing in an area where you don't see clear
sky above the water, that'll double your waiting time. So while it might sound safe and convenient to fish inside a cave, it's not gonna be that convenient having to wait double the time as opposed to fishing up on the surface. Not to mention the fact
that you also get a bonus when it rains outside. So don't waste your time and
just move your bobber upstairs. - [Block Facts] This was the
simplest duplication glitch in Minecraft's history. In 1.8, there was a bug
where if you threw items on the ground and then logged out just
as you picked them back up, you'd return to see double the items, which meant you could repeat
the process again and again. You get the picture, it was a real mess. - [Skip The Tutorial] Why
is this mine cart different from the others? Well, as it turns out, the mine cart hopper has a
slightly different texture as opposed to the other ones. And not just on top, but
if you look at the bottom, you'll see that the hopper
part of the mine cart actually pokes through the
bottom, which makes sense, otherwise the items would
just fill up into the basin and that doesn't seem all that helpful. But if you didn't look
at it from this point, I don't think any of us would've noticed. What happens if you smelt mushrooms? Well, in every other version, nothing. You don't even need to cook
them for mushroom stew. But in Pocket Edition, it used to be possible
to smelt red mushrooms to get, well, red dye, which seems like a lot
of hassle to go through, considering that you
could just craft a rose and get the same results. You might not have noticed this, but I don't know when you
ever would've seen it, but on the off chance
that you were to stand next to a cocoa bean and then let it grow, then it's true that as the
cocoa bean gets bigger, it'll push the player
down into crawl mode, that way you're not gonna be suffocating when you stand next to it. But why you would be waiting right next to a cocoa
bean to grow anyways, I've got no clue. - [Block Facts] In Bedrock Edition, if you put a trident in a dispenser, it'll be shot out as a projectile, which is a lot better
than what happens in Java. Over there, it just
drops as an item would. So for those of you on Bedrock Edition, consider adding this into
your next deadly builds. - [Skip The Tutorial]
Within the game's files, the heart of the sea actually
goes by a different name. And if you go searching for it, you can see that at one
time during its development, the heart of the sea must have
been called the nautilus core which makes sense considering
that you have to use that in combination with nautilus
shells to get yourself conduit. So it's not like they made a crazy leap in changing the name, but considering the fact
that nautilus normally refers to some kind of mollusk, it makes you wonder if this
was ever supposed to be dropped by a mob instead of found in a chest. - [Block Facts] What
would you call this item? Well, nowadays it's named
the glistering melon. Prior to snapshot 18W20B, it was known in the game's
files as speckled melon, which doesn't sound terribly appetizing, but neither does the word
glistering come to think of it. - [Skip The Tutorial] Now,
leaves are a transparent block. You're not supposed to be
able to place torches on them. But back in Minecraft Alpha, if you changed your graphic setting to play with fast textures, then you could place a
torch against the block even if you were to
change it back to fancy. But don't try to place it on fancy first because then it would just crash the game. And while neither graphics
option lets this work nowadays, you could always do it
with the set block command. If you go to enchant your bow and go for a level one enchantment, then if you have no bookshelves nearby, the first level one enchantment
will always be power I. Seriously, try this on however
many bows that you want, you're not gonna get anything else, which might be helpful if you're looking for a low powered enchantment in PVP. It's better to have power I on your bow instead of unbreaking I. So I'd rather go for the
cheaper and simpler option in this case. - [Block Facts] Mojang says
they'll never add chairs to Minecraft, but that's just not true. Since back in the Indev
version of Minecraft there did exist a chair texture
within the game's files, though this was never fully coded in. So I suppose that means Mojang
is also telling the truth. Let's call this one a draw. - [Skip The Tutorial] For a
brief period in Minecraft Java, there was a time where
you were able to craft both horse armor and horse saddles. And oddly enough, there was a unique item just for riding the
horse with this saddle, meaning that even if you
went through all the effort to get five leather and three iron ingots, you couldn't use this on a pig. And even stranger still, it could be stacked up to 32 in a stack, which again made it unique. But that didn't save this or the horse armor crafting recipes from getting patched out
of the game shortly after. - [Block Facts] You
would never notice this in regular gameplay, but
one end crystal is capable of healing multiple ender dragons at once. This becomes quickly noticeable when you summon in multiple dragons, as the crystal splits off different beams to heal the dragons. - [Skip The Tutorial]
When scute was first added to Minecraft, it was originally
called turtle shell pieces, which isn't all that
surprising, it's what they are. But after some players pointed out that it's actually a more technical term to use the word scute,
then it was changed. - [Block Facts] How rare would it be to get all the wither skulls
for a wither in one go? If you do the maths to get three wither skeleton
skull drops in a row, it would be a one in 64,000 chance. That's a 0.0015% chance, or in
other words, highly unlikely. - [Skip The Tutorial] The
copper horn never made it into Minecraft, and it only existed in an experimental snapshot
for Bedrock for a short time. But even though it's been removed, if you used something like
a data pack from this user, there does exist a way to revive the item. Now, unfortunately, that same data pack doesn't
make it very useful, but in fairness, the
item never was anyway, which is probably why it was removed. - [Block Facts] You've
probably seen this item before, but not like this. With the use of commands, you're able to give yourself
a physical knowledge book like this. And by using that item, it'll grant the player access
to new recipes to try out with the other great knowledge book, the one that you find
on the crafting screen. - [Skip The Tutorial] If you
have this potion in Minecraft, you're breaking the rules, because in Vanilla Minecraft, there's no way to craft this potion. But if you use this give command
to give yourself a potion with no NBT tags, it technically has no potion
effect that goes along with it. But even if you can't get
this item within survival, there is still a way to see it, since if you look at the icon for the local brewery advancement window, you'll see it's the same potion. So gone, but not forgotten. Diamonds and spawn eggs
share the same texture. And if you can't notice it from here, maybe this example makes
it a bit more obvious. And it's not just the spawn
eggs that share the same shape as the diamond, but also
the turtle egg as well, which I didn't notice
until it was pointed out but now I'll never be able to unsee it. And with that, folks, YouTube thinks that you
might like this video, so see if they're right and
have a good one, all right?
