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An Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, inside joke, or feature in a work such as a computer program, web page, video game, television program, movie, book, or crossword. Minecraft features several easter eggs hidden within the game.

Holiday

April Fools 2011

Main article: Locked Chest
Minecraft store april fool 3

The Minecraft store in seizure mode

The Locked chest was a naturally generated block used as the premise of Notch's 2011 April Fool's Day joke. Upon attempting to open the chest, a message would appear stating that a Steve Co. Supply Crate Key is needed , and that one could be purchased at the Minecraft store.

This concept is a reference to the Team Fortress 2 item drop system, where you can pick up an item while playing. One of the receivable items is called Mann Co. Supply Crate, which required a key purchased from the Mann Co. Store, a microtransaction system integrated into the Steam client.

Within the Minecraft store, there were many easter eggs:

  • Clicking on the proceed to checkout button triggers a screamer in which a Velociraptor from the film Jurassic Park will growl loudly and fly across the screen. Once clicked, the Proceed button also changes its display name to 'Fiddlesticks!'.
  • Entering items totaling over $10,000 into the cart causes a window pop-up asking if you are prone to seizures. Entering OK makes the screen start flashing.
  • The script that causes the Velociraptor to appear has a reference to the Konami Code in it.
			//Determine Entrance
			if(options.enterOn == 'timer') {
				setTimeout(init, options.delayTime);
			} else if(options.enterOn == 'click') {
				_this.bind('click', function(e) {
					e.preventDefault();
					if(!locked) {
						init();
					}
				})
			} else if(options.enterOn == 'konami-code'){
			    var kkeys = [], konami = "38,38,40,40,37,39,37,39,66,65";
			    $(window).bind("keydown.raptorz", function(e){
			        kkeys.push( e.keyCode );
			        if ( kkeys.toString().indexOf( konami ) >= 0 ) {
			        	init();
			        	$(window).unbind('keydown.raptorz');
			        }
			    }, true);

Halloween 2012

On October 31st, Zombies, Skeletons, and other mobs will sometimes wear Pumpkins or Jack 'o' Lanterns on their heads. They will occasionally drop these blocks if killed. This was added in version 1.4.2 for Halloween 2012.

Christmas 2012

From December 24th-26th, Chests and their larger counterpart have their textures changed to Xmas Chests. This was added in version 1.4.6 for Christmas 2012. A texture known in the game files as "skis.png", was also added in 1.4.6 in the same folder as the Xmas Chests. Its textures were added by Dinnerbone as a red herring.[1]

April Fools 2013

Main article: Minecraft 2.0

Minecraft.jar

Zombie Pigman

In an unused area for the Zombie Pigman's texture, the words "THX XAPHOBIA" can be seen. This was written by Notch to give credit to the texture's original creator, XaPhobia.[2][3]

Splash

Never displayed splash

Within the "Titles" folder, there will be a document labeled "splashes." The document contains all the splashes you see on the title screen. One of them is "this will never be shown on the splash screen, isn't that weird?" And, true enough, it will never show up on the splash screen.

MissingNo.

If one were to delete the file splash.txt without deleting the META-INF folder, the splash text on the title screen would appear to be missingno. This is a reference to the infamous Glitch Pokémon, MissingNo.

Other

Pirate reference

Go into the menu where you can change your language. Change it to pirate talk. Enter a world. Pause the game and go into the Achievements menu. The achivements will be called different things! "The Lie" achivement is now called "Pirate's dont get portal references." And "The End?" achivement is renamed "At world's End?" Which is a reference to pirates of the carrabein. There are some other ones, so go ahead and try it.

"Minceraft"

There is a one in 10,000 chance that the title screen will display "Minceraft" instead of "Minecraft". Also, the beginning of any crash log has a chance to have the phrase "You should try our sister game, Minceraft!"

Quadruple egg spawn

There is 132 that an egg will spawn 4 baby chickens.

Pink sheep

Very rarely a pink sheep will spawn instead of a normal white sheep.

Upside-down mobs

Naming any mob "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm"[4] using a name tag or a renamed spawn egg will cause it to turn upside-down.

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