This page serves to list all of the April Fools jokes and give a summary of their features and changes.
List of April Fools’ jokes[]
2010[]
In 2010, Notch wrote that he had planned to make a video announcing “Minecraft 4D” for April Fools', but ran out of time due to moving into a new home.[1][2]
2011[]
In 2011, a fake "Minecraft store" website was created. This was linked to by the locked chest, a block which was implemented for this purpose, as it was implied that keys had to be bought from said store to unlock these chests.
Message displayed upon opening the chest.
The "Minecraft Store"
The store after it goes into "seizure-mode".
The window popup about the "seizure-mode".
How the store appeared after April Fools'.
2013[]
During 2013, Mojang released a pre-release for a fake future version containing numerous joke features to various YouTubers this was not to the public.[3]
The 2.0 version banner.
A pink wither.
A talking block of coal
The "redstone bug" mob.
2.0's "super hostile" mode.
2014[]
A post was added to Mojang Studios' blog[4] for the joke.
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This caused all players' current skin to be replaced with the various villager skins, and caused users to be unable to change their skins unless they modified the launcher .json file. Different career villager skins were used, including the then-unused green robe of a nitwit villager.
In-game, villagers still acted the same, but they made different sounds. All noises were replaced with the sound effects of Element Animation's "T.E.A.V.S.R.P" (The Element Animation Villager Sounds Resource Pack). Mojang Studios also added in-game villager music. The title screen music contains a parody of the Game of Thrones theme, due to the new series starting in early April and also because of its being included in the original trailer for "T.E.A.V.S.R.P." Jeb also claimed the villager got his Twitter account.[5]
Grumm released the villager skins on Reddit on April 1, 2014. There were seven variants, including a base skin.
An updated version of T.E.A.V.S.R.P., complete with the new music, was released by Element Animation on April 2, 2014.
Soon afterward, Element Animation released this video, and the skins and the sounds were reverted to the way they were before on April 2, 2014.
One of the villager skins (at the time, this green-robed villager was unimplemented).
A server that had the villager prank.
The base villager skin.
The butcher villager skin.
The farmer villager skin.
The librarian villager skin.
The priest villager skin.
The smith villager skin.
The nitwit villager skin.
The image that Johan posted on April Fools' 2014.
One of the Pocket Edition developers, Johan Bernhardsson, also shared an image of the player bouncing a basketball in-game.[6]
2015[]
15w14a was released as an April Fools' joke for version 1.10, when the next update was supposed to be 1.9. This "update" is called the Love and Hugs Update.[7] There was also a QR code written in the snow that generated in a superflat world that, when scanned, reads "Minecraft 1.9: The Combat Update". Swords were replaced with "hearts". The only world name available was "There can only be one". Survival was called "Existence". Players were also unable to take damage from The Void.
Showing the modified menu screen. Note that the text reads "Play World" and "Reset World".
Banners, obsidian boat, normal boat, and diamond heart.
An explosion of heart particles from an end crystal.
Zombie pigmen wielding heart swords.
Dungeons were replaced with "houses".
The pink wither returns.
The "Minescreeper" minigame.
The hidden QR code.
2016[]
1.RV-Pre1 shows the tech items and the USB charger block.
1.RV-Pre1 was released as an April Fools' joke for the update 1.RV. This "update" was called the "Trendy Update".[8]
A player wearing this version's new equippable items.
Signs get a more modern appearance.
What signs look like while wearing reality vision goggles.
Viewing a sign through reality vision goggles.
2017[]
The Mine & Craft Digital Leisure Device from April Fools 2017.
The Mine & Craft Digital Leisure Device, a "game console" resembling a Game & Watch, was announced on the Minecraft website.[9]
2018[]
A comparison of some textures.
A version of Minecraft's textures was released for Java Edition. The new textures are available in versions of Java Edition 1.12.x and versions from Java Edition 17w43a to Java Edition 18w11a. It was announced that all editions of Minecraft would get the new version of textures.
The new textures are the original textures using 8-bit color, leading to a drastic reduction in detail.[10] The splash text for this day also shows any of the following:
- Cleaner!
- Simplified!
- Perfected!amazing
- Art directed! (by robots)
- Machine learned textures!
- Not blurry!
- Not bubbly!
- Not cartoony!
- Photorealistic!
- Hand-painted!
The textures and the splashes were reverted to the way they were before on April 2, 2018.[11] However, this update cannot be reactivated by setting the computer's date to April 1, 2018.
For block and item renders of these textures, see Category:April Fools 2018. Archive as a resource pack.
The menu screen, featuring a unique splash.
Some of the textures used during the 2018 April Fools' event.
An example of the way the world looks with these textures.
A village with these textures.
A ravine with these textures including the overlay.
A Java Edition 1.14 village with these textures.
Underwater terrain with these textures.
The inventory with these textures.
A desert pyramid and the sun with these textures.
The chest room in a desert pyramid with these textures.
A jungle temple with these textures.
A swamp hut with these textures.
2019[]
An April Fools' version officially called "Minecraft 3D" was released,[12] containing many references to gaming in the 1990s, primarily Doom.
Cover art.
The title screen.
Difficulty options.
Death screen.
A nerd creeper.
The UI with the default resource pack.
The UI with the programmer art resource pack.
Ingame image of the Minecraft dev team.
2020[]
Snapshot 20w14∞ was released, adding 2,147,483,647 dimensions that can be accessed by throwing a book and quill that was not specially customized or written book into a nether portal.[13]
The 20w14∞ Version banner.
The ant dimension.
The sponge dimension.
The library dimension.
The bridges dimension.
The isolation dimension.
The slime dimension.
The skygrid dimension.
2021[]
Minecraft Plus! for Windows, a screensaver collection that references screensavers from old versions of Windows, was announced on the Minecraft website.[14]
Box art.
A flying glow squid screensaver.
A flying creeper face screensaver.
A screensaver featuring random block textures.
A screensaver featuring bouncing blocks.
A screensaver featuring bouncing items.
A screensaver featuring a rotating block.
A screensaver featuring liquid tiles.
2022[]
The update was released on April 1, 2022. It removes the inventory, and players can right click a mob or block to pick it up and throw it.
Player wearing a glass block.
Footsteps.
Player holding a bee.
Player holding a spyglass.
Player holding a sugar cane.
Player holding a sugar cane from a first-person perspective.
Player holding a sheep.
Player holding a skeleton.
Player riding the ender dragon.
2023[]
For April Fool's Day 2023, fire randomly appears on the Minecraft launcher. Passing the mouse cursor over the flames extinguishes them.
Mojang Studios also published snapshot 23w13a_or_b, titled "The Vote Update", a few hours later. The gameplay of this update revolves around a voting system, where the player chooses from many possible scenarios that will change the state of the world.
Additionally, on the Minecraft website, two chickens will appear on the bottom left and right of the page. Clicking on both of them will cause them to breed and spawn numerous chickens, covering the entire page.
The Minecraft launcher "on fire"
The Minecraft website before...
...and after breeding the two chickens
2024[]
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A Mob Spawner in the new Poisonous Potato Dimension
A Village in the new Poisonous Potato Dimension
For April Fool's Day 2024, the loading icon on the Minecraft launcher was a poisonous potato, instead of the usual two allays spinning in a circle. All the text also changed from the 'Noto Sans' font to a handwritten-like font, and on every click inside the Minecraft launcher, a poisinous potato would fly from the cursor. If multiple clicks were in quick succession, a group of them would spawn.
Also for April Fool's Day 2024, Mojang Studios published the snapshot 24w14potato, titled "The Poisonous Potato Update". This snapshot added over 100 new items, including new mobs, new wood type, new structures and a new dimension.
Some Java Edition users were stating that "A random brown bunny" is always teleporting to the player every time they go far away from it, Currently, There's not much information about it.
A bedrock add-on was also released.
The Poisonous Potato Title Screen.
The Launcher on April Fools
References[]
- ↑ "Stupid move cutting into my April fools’ time. I was going to announce minecraft in 4D. Just prentend like i did or something." – @notch (Markus Persson) on X, March 31, 2010
- ↑ "Announcing the next step for minecraft." (archived) by Notch – Tumblr, April 1, 2010.
- ↑ "It’s finally coming – Minecraft 2.0!" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com, April 1, 2013.
- ↑ "Minecraft is Experiencing Some Problems" (archived) by Jens Bergensten – Mojang.com, April 1, 2014.
- ↑ "They got to my twitter account too :S" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X, April 1, 2014
- ↑ "The new controls work a lot better than the old one. Fun to play with one hand and in portrait. :)" – @jbernhardsson (Johan Bernhardsson) on X, April 1, 2014
- ↑ "Minecraft snapshot 15w14a – The Love and Hugs Update" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com, April 1, 2015.
- ↑ "Minecraft 1.RV - The Trendy Update Pre-Release 1" (archived) by Jens Bergensten – Mojang.com, March 31, 2016.
- ↑ "Introducing: The Mine & Craft Digital Leisure Device" – Minecraft.net, April 1, 2017
- ↑ "Java Edition Textures Finally Perfected" – Minecraft.net, April 1, 2018
- ↑ "April fools! The new Minecraft textures have a few more colours than this ;) If you restart Minecraft: Java Edition then it should all go back to normal now!" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, April 2, 2018
- ↑ "Minecraft 3D Rediscovered" – Minecraft.net, April 1, 2019
- ↑ "Every update imaginable coming to Minecraft" – Minecraft.net, April 1, 2020
- ↑ "Introducing Minecraft Plus" – Minecraft.net, April 1, 2021
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