On March 31, 2016, Mojang released a hoax announcement for 1.RV, also known as the Trendy Update.[1] 1.RV-pre1 was the first and only pre-release for 1.RV.
Additions
Blocks
- USB Charger Block
- Acts exactly like a Redstone Block, emitting a redstone signal with strength 15.
- Can be used as a decoration block
- Can be crafted with this recipe:
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Iron Ingot + Redstone + Gold Ingot |
Items
- Reality Vision
- Equipped via "helmet" armor slot
- Shows a minimap in the bottom center of the screen (which moves when the player's camera moves).
- Shows the chunks that are currently rendered.
- Shows player location by a green beacon beam marker on the map.
- Will make a sound whenever you equip it.
- Displays vision overlay (similar to the pumpkin overlay).
- The overlay will change to a new overlay if you go into third person (unlike the pumpkin overlay), making the screen appear like an old television screen.
- The overlay is called
cantseeshitcaptain.pngin the assets folder.
- Activates shader when equipped (
scan_pincushion). - Signs display the text "OBEY" while glasses are equipped. This is a reference to the movie They Live.
- Ankle Monitor
- Equipped via the "boots" armor slot.
- Will make a sound each time you get a notification.
- When equipped in Survival mode, you can't take it off.
- Can be taken off in Creative mode.
- Gives Slowness I effect .
- Displays the text "CURFEW WARNING! You are violating your house arrest! Get back by X meters!" (where x is the distance) when equipped at nighttime upon moving too far from the world spawn.
- When player travels to another dimension, it displays various messages from the monitor, in a special order.
- For example: "CURFEW WARNING!" You are violating your house arrest! Uuuh... where are you, anyway?"
- Smarter Watch
- Equipped via the left hand (shield) slot
- Shows the time above the hotbar where item tooltips are shown in human readable format (18:00, and 22:00 for example)
- Will make a sound each time you get a notification.
- Push notifications in the chat whenever a statistic reaches 10, 20, 30 ... 100, 200, 300 ... etc.
- For example: "Notice! [Distance Flown] is now 600!"
- Another messages are shown when you take damage and sometimes even shows item specific information in chat when you craft items.
Changes
- Mobs will now wear the new tech items in the additions section randomly.
- When they wear the reality vision, they will not attack the player, even if the player attacks them.
- However, Endermen with reality vision will still attack when looked at
- When they wear the reality vision, they will not attack the player, even if the player attacks them.
- Signs have a unique texture in this version.
- Sign text is now green.
- Signs read "OBEY" while Reality Shades are equipped.
Trivia
- Sounds are saved in
minecraft/sounds/buzzwords/sound_name.oggwhere "sound_name" is replaced with the actual name of the sound, example "equipvr.ogg". - The update was released before April 1st by the developers.
- The overlay for the Reality Vision is called
cantseeshitcaptain.pngin the assets folder, (which is a reference to a popular meme from the TV show "Star Trek".) - The shader for the Reality Vision can be disabled by using F4.
- However, when you go in Third Person View, the shader is activated again.

