Module:DidYouKnow/facts

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p.facts = { "Minecraft was originally called \"Cave Game&#8202;\"", "the Farther Lands existed before Java Edition Beta 1.8", "it is theoretically impossible for the head of a piston to fit inside its body in Java Edition", "the old texture for cobblestone is taken from Notch's unfinished game RubyDung", "C418's skin is the Steve skin, but with a jukebox head", "MC-4 is the oldest bug report that is still standing", "there was a hoax announcement about a Mine & Craft Digital Leisure Device by Mojang", "some of the textures have signatures and credits in unused spaces", "the music disc \"11\" is exactly 1:11.111 long, emits power level 11 via comparator, and displays a Steve face and the text \"12418\" (\"C418\") at the end when viewed through a spectrogram", "there is a splash that is never displayed on the main menu", "in Education Edition and education-enabled Bedrock Edition, combining two units of the same chemical compound in a lab table still produces failed effects", "when in third-person view, the player appears to throw eyes of ender from their feet", "when the ambient sound 14 is put into a spectrogram, it appears to be a creeper face", "getting pushed by flowing water drains the player's hunger bar", "in Legacy Console Edition, breaking a damaged anvil and placing it again would completely repair it", "before Java Edition 1.8, chainmail armor used to be crafted from fire", "creepers were originally based on a failed pig model", "most of the ambience in the crimson forest was made with balloons", "the ghast sounds are actually sounds C418's cat makes when it is disturbed while sleeping", "in Java Edition, a game crash can be forced by holding F3 + C for 10 seconds", "feeding a cookie to a parrot kills it, because chocolate is poisonous to real-life parrots", "cookies don't have any sugar in their crafting recipe", "in Java Edition, there is a 0.01% chance that the main menu displays \"Minceraft\" instead of \"Minecraft\"", "before the release of the bug tracker, bugs were originally reported on this wiki", "the End's original biome name was \"Sky\"", "there is a 10−10% (one in a trillion) chance of an end portal being activated upon generation", "the player's inventory can hold up to 999 stacks with 63,936 items using shulker boxes", "endermen see end stone as bluish cobblestone", "a dropped nether star cannot be destroyed by explosions, and in Bedrock Edition never despawns", "diamond blocks can generate in woodland mansions in secret rooms", "the first 3 tracks of Minecraft - Volume Alpha are connected together", "naming a vindicator \"Johnny\" causes it to attack any nearby mobs", "Minecraft: The Movie was originally going to be directed by Shawn Levy, the executive producer of Stranger Things", "leather armor can be dyed in 12,326,391 different ways", "Java Edition 1.13 was originally going to be called \"Technically Updated\" before it was combined with the Update Aquatic", "Java Edition 1.3.1 was the last major update to not have an official name", "February 29, 2020 was the first leap day to not have an update released", "from 12w19a to 13w01a, there existed a cocoa pod textured like a dragon egg", "as of the Caves & Cliffs update, there are 16,777,216 different ways to craft a chest, note block, or jukebox", "there are 264 (18,446,744,073,709,511,616) world seeds in Java Edition, but only 232 (4,294,967,296) seeds in Bedrock Edition", "rabbits can also be bred with dandelions besides carrots", "there is no music played in the warped forest biome", "hoglins are afraid of nether portals and respawn anchors", "Bedrock Edition is written in the programming language C++", "walking and sneaking do not increase the food exhaustion level", "climbing up scaffolding costs the same exhaustion level as jumping up every block", "when saturation is not at zero, health regenerates much faster in Java Edition than in Bedrock Edition", "the normal jump height of the player is 1 ¼ blocks, instead of 1", "the player automatically stops sprinting after 30 seconds", "villagers made no sounds until Java Edition 1.6.1, almost two years after their introduction", "cakes were added as a response to Minecraft winning the 2010 Indie of the Year Awards", "the original iron sword texture was taken from Notch's abandoned game Legend of the Chambered", "the Nether's original biome name was \"Hell\"", "bastion remnants cannot generate in the basalt deltas biome", "despite the size of the ghast, it can be trapped in a minecart", "before Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4, the sun and the moon rose in the north and set in the south", "villagers can sleep in beds in the Nether and the End, when it is night time in the Overworld", "dead bushes and spore blossoms are the only non-renewable plant-like blocks", "the sound of a minecart falls into the category of \"friendly creatures\"", "in Java Edition, wither skeletons are the only mobs that can spawn inside wither roses", "red dye can also be crafted from beetroots", "cobblestone takes slightly longer to mine than stone", "strongholds try to generate under village meeting points in Bedrock Edition", "the nearest 3 strongholds are on average twice as far in Java Edition than in Bedrock Edition", "the top textures of grass block, dirt, sand, stone, netherrack, bedrock and TNT are randomly rotated", "signs and banners cannot be pushed by pistons in Java Edition", "the obsidian pillars of the End extend through the island all the way down to Y level 0", "there are exit gateways randomly generated across the outer islands in the End", "maps can be used normally in the End", "grass blocks take slightly longer to mine than dirt", "chorus flowers can be harvested by shooting an arrow at it, and the arrow is not consumed", "iron hoes can instantly break leaves", "stone hoes can instantly break moss blocks", "golden pickaxes can instantly break netherrack and nylium", "almost all paintings are based on actual paintings by artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand", "light gray stained glass pane is almost invisible in the inventory in Java Edition", "in Bedrock Edition, using an Overworld locator map in the Nether (and vice versa) shows the player's corresponding location between the two dimensions", "the pattern of slime chunks are always the same regardless of world seed in Bedrock Edition", "the Channeling enchantment works on non-mob entities such as boats, minecarts and armor stands", "in Java Edition, a blaze has the exact same hitbox size as the player", "end rods can be crafted using blaze rods and popped chorus fruits", "smooth stone's existence was originally an unintentional side effect of other slab types, but was eventually officially reimplemented due to player demand", "the first version of Minecraft was created in just 6 days", "the belief that enderman sounds are English words played backwards is just speculation", "fishing in Minecraft is slower when the bobber is not directly under the sky", "the Nether was originally proposed to be called \"The Nexus\" or \"The Slip\"", "TNT slabs existed once, but only as an April Fools prank", "endermen originally dropped diamonds", "if endermen have no blocks to teleport to when projectiles fly to them, they reflect the projectiles", "there was hoglin meat as an unused texture in Bedrock Edition", "before rotten flesh was added, zombies used to drop feathers", "endermen are the only mobs that spawn in all 3 dimensions", "nether portals once could be spawned by pressing F4 ", "iron ingots take place in the most amount of crafting recipes in the game", "planks take place in the second highest amount of crafting recipes in the game", "crying obsidian was originally planned to set the spawn point, but beds were added instead", "ender dragons and withers are unable to go through portals", "the type of boat bought by fisherman villagers depends on their biome outfit", "one can afford a stack of arrows from a fletcher villager by selling it just 16 logs' worth of sticks", "unlike other horse armor, leather horse armor has a crafting recipe", "leaves placed by the player never decay", "dungeons are the earliest added generated structures that still exist in the game today", "the contents of an ender chest is stored as part of the player's own data", "buried treasure chests are always facing east", "buried treasure chests always generate in the same location in a chunk", "the player can jump and climb up vines even if they are not attached to blocks", "besides wool and glass, white carpets and glass panes can also be dyed directly", "there are armor stands equipped with iron armor in taiga villages", "water and lava used to spread infinitely", "the only place to find bamboo outside the jungle biomes is a shipwreck", "passengers of boats take no fall damage", "when used correctly, boats can be used to skip over lava", "dolphins can lead the player to shipwrecks if the player feeds them raw cod or raw salmon", "one can use dye on a sheep to continuously obtain colored wool", "basalt is generated when lava is above soul soil and next to blue ice", "soul soil can be renewably obtained through soul campfires", "bamboo is the fastest growing plant in Minecraft", "furnace minecarts are fully functional in Java Edition, but only exist as an unused texture in Bedrock Edition", "there was an unused texture for a wax block in the Buzzy Bees update", "there was an unused texture for crystallized honey in the Buzzy Bees update", "soul fire inflicts twice as much damage as normal fire", "endermen originally had green eyes before they were officially added", "when wool was added in Classic, it was called \"cloth\"", "before leather was added in Alpha, \"leather armor\" used to be called \"cloth armor\", and crafted using cloth", "wool in Classic had a different color pallette", "before Java Edition Beta 1.7, TNT was activated by punching it", "creepers initially had a melee attack, and exploded only when it is killed", "it takes 1 minute and 14 seconds to slide down 256 honey blocks", "pistons are based off of a Minecraft mod made by Hippoplatimus", "fletching table is the only villlager job site block that has no use for the player", "for April Fools 2014, every player got their skin changed to a villager", "there are four unused paintings in Bedrock Edition", "the Overworld logs are the only blocks that can be used as both input and fuel in furnaces", "crimson and warped planks cannot be crafted into boats", "bats do not drop anything, not even experience orbs", "iron golems and snow golems can be leashed", "planks were added before logs", "mobs do not try to walk over rails", "the sounds of dolphins and pandas are taken from the actual real-life animals", "a stack of coal blocks can fuel a furnace for over 42 Minecraft days", "the textures of prismarine and sea lanterns are animated", "the orange terracotta symbols on the outside of desert pyramids resemble the Ankh, the Ancient Egyptian symbol for life", "the igloo is the earliest added structure to contain signs, trapdoors, beds, and carpets", "honey bottles are the only drinkable item that can stack and restore hunger", "nether bricks is the only block that has both a wall and a fence variant", "buried treasure is the smallest generated structure in the game, containing only a chest", "in Java Edition, fishing rods can pull items", "for a coding contest, Notch made Minecraft 4k, a version of Minecraft less than 4 kilobytes in size", "the beacon's texture went through five different designs before its current appearance", "although the texture of the bedrock block changed in the Texture Update, the bedrock portion of the end crystal stayed the same", "the old spawn eggs for the various fish in Bedrock Edition were supposed to look like actual fish eggs", "in Pocket Edition Lite, the name of the player was \"Stevie\" instead of \"Steve\"", "the range of the note block both starts and ends at the note F♯", "Notch had planned to make a video announcing \"Minecraft 4D\" for April Fools' 2010 but ran out of time due to moving into a new home", "smooth sandstone is more blast resistant, and takes longer to mine than normal sandstone", "smooth quartz blocks are more blast resistant, and takes longer to mine than normal quartz blocks", "beacon beams can go through bedrock", "drowneds are completely passive during daytime to players outside water or in a boat", "many stone-type slabs take slightly longer to mine than than their full-block counterparts", "polished blackstone takes slightly longer to mine than normal blackstone", "hoglins are afraid of warped fungi, even if they are in flower pots", "all variants of dirt can be converted to dirt path using a shovel", "dirt paths can be tilled with a hoe to create farmland", "dirt paths take longer to mine than any other block mined with a shovel", "snowballs and ender pearls have the exact same range when thrown", "mobs inside boats and minecarts do not despawn", "by using bone meal on a moss block, then composting all the foliage created, one gains a profit on bone meal", "stone mason villagers can sell dripstone blocks, a stack at a time", "bees can pollinate flowering azalea and flowering azalea leaves", "axolotls can only be bred with buckets of tropical fish", "slimes and magma cubes cannot spawn in 2-block-high areas", "bone meal can be used on the seabed of warm oceans to create coral and coral fans", "cooked salmon has the same nutritional value as cooked mutton", "shears enchanted with Efficiency II can instantly break vines", "shears enchanted with Efficiency V can instantly break wool", "unlike normal glass, tinted glass can be retrieved with bare hands", "pillagers and crossbows were inspired by Minecraft Dungeons, even though they were added in the base game first", "precious blocks like beacons, conduits and shulker boxes can be retrieved by hand", "the carved pumpkin used to build a snow golem can be retrieved by using shears on the golem", "turtles drop a bowl when killed by lightning", "observers can detect the opening and closing of barrels, but not that of chests", "glow squids can only spawn in complete darkness", "lava cauldrons do not set fire to flammable blocks around them", "golems and withers can be built horizontally or upside-down", "the Frost Walker enchantment creates a special type of ice known as frosted ice", "baby pandas have a 0.1% chance to drop a slimeball when they sneeze", "4 times as much cut copper can be obtained from copper blocks using a stonecutter", "it snows above certain altitudes in taiga, old growth taiga and windswept hills biomes", "in frozen ocean biomes, it rains in some locations and snows in others", "arrows used to be crafted with iron ingots rather than flint", "an axolotl removes a player's Mining Fatigue if the player helps it defeat a mob" } return p