Minecraft Facts

Getting hit by someone else (or shooting yourself with a Punch enchanted bow while sprinting forwards) while midair can cause the knockback to propel you over a fence you would not be able to jump over normally.

• #1 Getting hit by someone else (or shooting yourself with a Punch enchanted bow while sprinting forwards) while midair can cause the knockback to propel you over a fence you would not be able to jump over normally.
• #2 Leaves do not prevent chests from being opened.
• #3 Many items crafted using planks or sticks have textures that mostly resemble oak planks, regardless of the species used to craft them. On the other hand, item frames and fletching tables resemble birch planks, cartography tables resemble dark oak planks, barrels resemble spruce planks, while smithing tables do not resemble any planks.
• #4 Saplings can grow without the required amount of light if bone meal is used.
• #5 Rose bushes do not apply damage when walked through, despite roses having thorns.
• #6 Despite being called "White Tulip", the white tulip is used to make light gray dye.
• #7 The fastest way to sprint up a set of stairs in Minecraft is to both sprint and jump at the same time.
• #8 If an anvil is placed on top of exploding TNT blocks, the explosion won't affect the surrounding area. This is because the anvil falls into the space the TNT entity is occupying, and since the TNT's explosion power is not high enough to destroy the anvil, no blocks are destroyed.
• #9 If the .ogg file for the music disc "11" is turned into a spectrogram in an audio editor, the static at the end displays what seems to be the Steve's face and the numbers 12418. The numbers are a visual signature, where "12" is hexadecimal for "C", and combined with "418" creates "C418".
• #10 Flowing water breaks bamboo shoots, but not mature bamboo stalks.
• #11 Disc 13 is a reference to ambience tracks; the name 13 is a reference to the 13 ambience tracks that existed when it was first added. You can also hear a few of them throughout the track.
• #12 Unlike chests, a barrel can be placed below a solid block and still be able to be opened.
• #13 Vexes and the ender dragon can fly through bedrock. Additionally, the ender dragon cannot break bedrock.
• #14 It is possible, but rare, for ore to be found encased in bedrock.
• #15 Beetroots can be used to breed pigs. Pigs also follow a player who is holding beetroot.
• #16 The terminology of a "beehive" being a man-made enclosure for bees is correct, as opposed to a naturally occurring "bee nest".
• #17 Beehives and bee nests have comparator output with a strength equal to the honey level in the block.
• #18 In Java Edition, apprentice-level armorer villagers have a 50% chance to sell a bell for 36 emeralds. Apprentice-level toolsmith and weaponsmith villagers offer to sell a bell for 36 emeralds.
• #19 Banners gently sway as if affected by a breeze, regardless of the dimension or location they are placed in.
• #20 With 16 blank banners, 42 patterns in 16 colors each and up to 6 patterns per banner, there are 1,475,646,641,940,097,552 (about 1.48 quintillion) uniquely craftable banners.
• #21 The Mojang Logo is called "Thing" ingame.
• #22 In Java Edition, the ominous banner's design uses 8 patterns. Because of this, it cannot be crafted or copied.
• #23 Before dyed beds were added, a bed could be crafted from any combination of the 6 wood types and 16 wool colors, giving 3,456 different ways to craft one.
• #24 Concrete is formed when concrete powder comes into contact with a block of water.
• #25 Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive. If commands are used to apply both Silk Touch and Fortune to an item, the Silk Touch enchantment takes precedence over the Fortune enchantment for blocks affected by both enchantments.
• #26 With 37 shulker boxes in a player's inventory, hotbar and off-hand slot, 999 stacks of up to 64 items (up to 63,936 total items) can be held. With 36 shulker boxes and an ender chest with 27 shulker boxes in it, 1,701 stacks (up to 108,864 items) can be held.
• #27 A block of terracotta when one block away from an explosion will protect any blocks behind it, though it will be destroyed in the process.
• #28 In Bedrock and Education editions, placing colored wool and bleach together in a crafting table turns the wool white.
• #29 Unlike other mineral blocks, it is impossible to craft quartz blocks into nether quartz, so it is not possible to use quartz blocks as storage for nether quartz.
• #30 Unlike normal ice, blue ice does not melt when placed near light sources.
• #31 It takes 90 planks, 45 leather and 135 paper to make 15 bookshelves in order to get a level 30 enchantment.
• #32 In 2018, after players had placed 10 million coral blocks underwater in Bedrock Edition, Mojang donated US$100,000 to The Nature Conservancy to protect and restore coral reefs around the world.
• #33 Even when the brewing stand is not in use, there is still smoke coming out of the top of it.
• #34 Brewing stands always face east, no matter what direction it was placed.
• #35 The first appearance of the "brick" block was October 24, 2009.
• #36 Mushroom blocks can be used in the composter with an 85% chance to make a new layer.
• #37 Cacti can be placed in one-block-deep water, provided they are placed on sand, and they grow if they break the surface.
• #38 Cake was added to Minecraft following the ModDB 2010 Indie of the Year Awards. Notch agreed to add cake to Minecraft if it won, which led to a campaign called "The Quest For Cake". Minecraft won 3 of the 7 awards, including the "Indie of the Year" award.
• #39 "The Lie" achievement on Bedrock Edition is a reference to the Internet meme "The Cake is a Lie", which itself is a reference to the video game Portal.
• #40 On May 17, 2019, for the 10th anniversary of Minecraft, the cake model was changed to display a "10" above it, made of white concrete.