Minecraft: Java Edition
Developer: Mojang AB Publisher: Mojang AB Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Released internationally: November 18, 2011 This game has unused areas. This game has unused code. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused modes / minigames. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused items. This game has unused abilities. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

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Minecraft is an indie survival-sandbox game created by Markus Persson, also known as Notch. Maybe you've heard of it? With the release of the Better Together Update of Pocket Edition, unifying the iOS, Android, Xbox One, etc. versions of the game, the original release is now known as Minecraft: Java Edition.

To do: Add all of the unused content from the 1.8 snapshots and earlier versions of the game. Is Minecraft 2.0 worth documenting? Document the massive amount of revisional differences this game has.

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Unused Graphics The rarest ore of all!

Version Differences Watch out for advercows.

Unused Text This message will never appear, isn't that weird?

Removed Content Things that were once in the game that are now not.

Debugging Material Undocumented!

Unused Blocks

Legacy TNT

In early versions of the game, all you had to do to ignite a block of TNT was to simply punch the block. However, in Beta 1.7, TNT was changed so that it would only be activated by redstone, another explosion next to it, or Flint and Steel. However, the old TNT still exists in the game as the unstable block state of the modern TNT. It does not have an item form, and must be placed using the command /setblock ~ ~ ~ tnt[unstable=true].

Prior to the removal of metadata in 1.13, the block existed as data value 1 of TNT and could be placed using the command /setblock ~ ~ ~ tnt 1. In 1.13, it was removed, but was reimplemented in 1.13.1 using the unstable state.

Unused Biomes

There are two unused biomes in the game that haven't appeared in default worlds since 13w36a. The biomes can only be accessed by creating a Customized world.

FrozenOcean

A variant of the ocean biome that has frozen over with a layer of ice blocks. Warmer rivers occasionally appear running through it.

A new biome in version 1.13 was added, also named Frozen Ocean. Generation in this biome is different than in the unused one.

Extreme Hills Edge

A sub-biome that is supposed to appear at the edge of Extreme Hills biomes.

Unused Mobs

Giant

A huge Zombie that has a massive amount of health and deals a ton of damage. As fearsome as this foe may seem, it has absolutely no AI. Have fun wailing on his legs!

Giants were added in the last version of Survival Test but never implemented. They are coded to spawn in a light level both greater than 11 and less than 8, effectively making them unable to spawn naturally and see the light of day.

Interestingly, Giants will only take damage when their legs are attacked; their hitbox doesn't cover their whole body.

Since 1.7, they have been spawnable using the command "/summon giant".

Killer Bunny

This killer bunny is a hostile variant of a rabbit. It can be spawned with the command "/summon rabbit ~ ~ ~ {RabbitType:99}".

Despite being hostile, it does not despawn on peaceful difficulty and will still attack.

Wither Jockey

While technically used, it's extremely unlikely to encounter this mob in a normal playthrough. If a spider is spawned in the Nether, there is a very rare chance that it will spawn with a Wither Skeleton riding it. Because they don't normally spawn in the area, spiders must be obtained via summon commands or (rarely) by using a spider spawn egg in the nether to see this rare mob.

Illusioner

An unused hostile mob added in 1.12. It is one of the three illagers. It wields a bow that has an 8.5% drop rate. It will drop with a random durability. It attacks with its bow and spells with a range of 12 blocks. It can cast blindness (if the regional difficulty is more than 2) that lasts 20 seconds and it can summon duplicates. When duplicating, it makes itself invisible and summons 4 fake illusioners. They move with the real one and can even go through walls. If the real one attacks, they will only make an attacking animation. They will disappear when the real one dies or the invisibility runs out. They can also shoot their bow like a skeleton.

Unused Particles

These particles can only be spawned using the "/particle" command.

Name	Picture	Comment
depthsuspend		Was used when close to the void, but removed for performance. The particle was removed entirely in 1.13.
footstep		Not used in-game, but can be activated with commands. This was also removed in 1.13, although the texture still exists.
cloud		Used as an early explosion effect.
take		Used internally for the item pickup animation, but does nothing when spawned using commands. Removed in 1.13.

deadmau5 Camera

While technically used, but only under special circumstances, there is a special set of camera debugging options enabled in versions 1.9pre5 and 12w08a that were only intended for use at deadmau5 concerts. In versions after 1.9pre5 and 12w08a, these options are disabled by default, but can be enabled by using a mod to reactivate the features. In the code, these features are referred to as "debugCam".

Controls

• F5 causes the camera to go into a free-look mode.


• F9 freezes the camera in place. Pressing any two functionally connected keys (except U and O) at the same time unfreezes the camera.


• I, J, K, and L all rotate the camera up, left, down, and right respectively.


• U and O move the camera forwards and backwards.


• Y and H change the field of view. Pressing these keys at the same time resets the FOV.


• N and M change the camera's tilt. B resets the tilt.

Unused Items

Unused Potion Effects

There are many potion effects in Minecraft, and some of them don't correspond to any existing potion or item. Some of them don't even have their effects properly implemented! However, all of them have have the names of their corresponding potions defined in the language files. As of version 1.5, they can be obtained with the /effect command, using the appropriate effect IDs.

ID	Name	Picture	Comment
15	Blindness		A thick black fog is created around the player, and they cannot sprint or perform critical hits. Also, in most computers, combined with Night Vision the screen will be pitch black.
21	Health Boost		Adds one heart to the health bar. It was later replaced by the Absorption (ID: 22) effect.
23	Saturation	No Icon	Refills the hunger bar by one unit per tick.
27	Bad Luck		Does the opposite of the Luck effect.

Unused Sounds

Audio loops

These audio clips are located in a folder of its own called "loops". They seem to have been intended to be ambience for when a player is in a certain area.
Waterfall

Birds chirping

Cave chimes

Ocean

Silverfish walking sounds

Misc

Ghast affectionate scream

Pling

Successful hit

Wolf Howl 1

Wolf Howl 2

Easter Eggs

Splash Text Error Checking

If the game detects that splashes.txt (the file containing the randomly-selected yellow text that is displayed on the title screen) is missing or empty, or has been modified without deleting the META-INF folder, it will use "missingno" as the splash text instead, a reference to a rather infamous glitch.

Minceraft?

Very rarely (about one out of every 10,000 startups), the Minecraft logo is rearranged to read "Minceraft" instead of the usual "Minecraft". This is the secret that Notch said was not found yet. In crash logs at times, one may see the text "You should try our sister game, Minceraft!".

Upside-Down Mobs

As of 1.6.1, any mobs named Dinnerbone or Grumm (after two of the game's developers) will be rendered upside-down.

Rainbow Sheep

As of 1.7.2, sheep named jeb_ (after one of the main developers) will continuously cycle through all of the possible colors, though this has no effect on the wool blocks they drop when sheared.

Toast Rabbit

As of 1.8, naming a rabbit "Toast" using either a name tag or a named spawn egg will turn it into "Toast". Toast is textured like a black dutch, with a large black & white patch and more black fur around the face than the natural black & white spotted rabbit. Other than its name and skin, Toast behaves exactly like a normal rabbit.

This rabbit is the skin of user xyZenTV's girlfriend's missing rabbit, which Ryan Holtz implemented as a memorial.

Party Parrots

As of snapshot 17w14a, playing a music disc in a jukebox next to a parrot will cause it to change colors (Until 17w15a) and "dance" to the music, a reference to the Party Parrot meme.