20 Insane Minecraft Facts You Didn’t Know About

There are tons of insane minecraft facts that help you not only become a better player but also discover more about the game and in this video i’ll show you 20 of them if you’re part of a team in minecraft which often applies to many multiplayer servers this will make your

Name turn a different color if the team is associated with a specific color so for instance i’m part of a team that i’ve added the attribute of red to however what is very interesting is if you get the spectral also known as glowing effect by getting hit with a

Spectral arrow you’ll notice that the outline around us is not the normal sort of yellowish white it’s actually the color that corresponds to our team color and so you can see right here that i was glowing with a red outline there for a second this doesn’t seem like a big

Effect when it is daytime but when it is nighttime that glow is actually quite bright and also the further away you are from something the outline actually stays the same and so it’s very easy to pick up players with this outline especially if it’s colored by a team if

You’ve just defeated the wither and the nether star drops from the wither onto the ground this item floating on the ground whether you pick it up and throw it down again or if it just dropped from the wither has effects that only it and no other floating item has the first one

Is if we light an explosion next to it other items will be destroyed but the wither dropped nether star will not this item cannot be destroyed by explosions the second thing is instead of the standard 5 minutes items usually take to despawn the nether star will actually

Take 10 minutes to despawn and in bedrock edition it literally cannot despawn as an item and of course all this is that you do not lose another star when fighting the wither and so next time you’re getting another star you’ll know why this item does not get destroyed by those explosions roku beans

Are an item that you probably do not give much thought to and i’m sure you would not expect to find them in a dungeon chest however this used to be the only place to get cocoa beans before the jungle biome was added to the game cocoa beans were definitely the rarest

Dye item because they could only be found in the occasional chest at mob spawners around your world especially on some old console worlds with the number of dungeons being very limited having cocoa beans was in most cases actually more impressive than having diamond blocks and so whenever you dye things

Brown next you’ll know that this dye now something very common used to be the rarest in the game minecraft 1.19 added the mangrove swamp into the game however the mangrove roots have a specific feature you probably do not know about that’s the fact that standard mangrove

Roots cannot be placed like a log in the sense at the top and side textures will always be facing the top and the side whereas with a log let’s say you could place them like this with the top on the side well the muddy mangrove roots which

Is simply the mangrove roots with mud in them is actually able to be placed sideways you can tell right here when i placed it these are now going sideways and the top textures on the side and i have literally no idea why mud logging a mangrove root would make it be able to

Do this but it does and so next time you’re building with the mangrove root or the muddy mangrove root remember that you can have that added function to the muddy mangrove roots if you feel like maybe having this texture be sideways and hopefully they’ll add some parody to

This soon so that the normal mangrove roots can also be placed sideways cactuses have been in the game for a long time and they’re basically the only item that is unique to the desert biome however there is a secret texture on the cactus and you can sometimes see it when

Breaking it but where you can really see it is if you put an item frame on the side of something put a cactus in it and if you look up you can see the top of this there’s sort of like an interior log texture right there with sort of the

More plant-like cactus inside with the standard cactus being like a bark it reminds me a lot of the log textures if you have a really tall cactus and you break the bottom block and look up sometimes you can see that upper texture also as an item if you throw them up in

The air you can see that texture but 99 of the time this cactus texture just is not visible very interesting however as you would assume they would just be green on all sides you likely think of red stone as something that involves well redstone certainly not something that can be converted through large

Chains of blocks or even underwater however with leaves and measuring the block state of leaves that can be super simple all you have to do is have a piston connected up to a log and that log touching a series of leaves up to six leave blocks away from the log

And basically when we move this log you’ll notice those lamps turn on the reason why the distance that these leaves are from touching a chain of leaves and a log will affect its block state and so when we change the block state it’ll update through all of these

Be sensed by the observer and turn on that lantern and so because of that you could even have chains of redstone going up through here and you could have a series of these sort of going like let’s say this would touch another piston you could have a massive chain of leaf

Redstone but you can even make a trap out of this let’s say you want an unsuspecting leaf trap simply have an area where people would break some leaves and when they do break that it will change the block state and then this lamp will turn on and that could of

Course be connected to tnt or whatever else you want but overall leaf redstone is definitely a cool way of utilizing the function of leaves and observers this is an abandoned village also known as a zombie or zombified village you may not have even seen these before in the

Game only 2 percent of villages spawn as abandoned villages but whether you knew about this structure or not something you probably did not know is that every single window inside of an abandoned village is brown the reason for this is the idea would be that because the

Villagers are zombies they would not be able to clean the dirt off the windows and so they slowly got dirty and if no windows are broken at very least they would have turned brown and so because of that next time you see one of these you’ll notice this subtle change is

Something to add some realisticness and to show that these villages are not being taken care of and of course the moss and the spiderwebs show this as well if you’ve ever been to a sunflower plane something you might have noticed is that all the sunflowers point the same direction they don’t actually point

Towards the sun although it would be kind of interesting if their face moved towards the direction that the sun is in but they do not but what they do always face is east so no matter what biome you are in bedrock or java edition any version since these were added the

Sunflower faces will always beast the reason is is that in real life the sun always rises in the east and sets in the west although of course that does depend on where you are the time of year things like that what’s nice about this is that in bedrock edition because there’s no

Way of seeing the direction that you’re facing in the f3 menu you can use these to find out what direction something is because if this is east then you can just count up as it being east south west and then north so sunflowers really function as a true compass minecraft

1.18 of course changed a lot about world generation but there’s something that they flat out removed you might not have noticed of course there are these occasional lava pools that you sometimes see generating around your world and if i asked you is there a water counter

Part of these i’m sure you would say yes as of course you will sometimes see the sort of small water pools as well that will generate somewhat exposed in maybe a plane’s biome or off the side of a hill however believe it or not those have actually been fully removed and

This is a lot more of a change than you’d think the idea behind removing these is that we now have the aquifer caves however the aquifer caves only generate near water level they do not generate very very high up or very very low down and so because of that the only

Way of getting water on a high up mountain outside of some bits of ice is on certain mountains of course there is still the generation of having a singular water block or a singular lava block spawn in on the side of a hill but in terms of those nice small water lakes

Those are unfortunately gone forever and you’ll never find a nice little mountaintop lake in minecraft again speaking of liquids there are four types of cauldrons there’s of course the empty cauldron there is the powdered snow cauldron the lava cauldron and the water cauldron however something you may not

Know is that the particles when breaking a cauldron change depending on what’s inside of it so for the standard cauldron we get cauldron colored particles for the snow cauldron we also get cauldron colored particles and even same for the lava cauldron however the water cauldron is different if we break

The water cauldron you’ll see the particles there are actually blue and you can see that again these are gray these are blue it’s interesting it’s the only type of cauldron that gets its own special particle but still cool if you’re breaking a water cauldron you’ll see that little easter egg iron golems

Are known as being village protectors but are they really that good at their job you see if a villager is zombified even right after it’s turned into a zombie that iron golem will instantly kill the zombie villager which i think is kind of too bad i think it’d be cool if the iron

Golem had the ability to tell the difference between the villager and the zombie villager but still apparently the iron golems are not very good at that and so something can actually happen if you do not sleep at night easier villagers will be killed but not by the zombies they’ll actually just be killed

After they’re zombified by the iron golem trying to protect the village and so really does this iron golem do a good job after all now i’m sure you know about horses and probably skeleton horses but if there’s a skeleton horse what about the zombie horse that’s right

There is a zombie horse in minecraft however you cannot get it in survival without cheats and so i’ve summoned this zombie horse and the texture is quite interesting sort of like the zombie with the black eyes and with some other ribs showing however this horse is just not

Able to be obtained in survival when the horse model was changed a while ago you can see the horse model of the zombie horse was as well and so it’s maintained updated for a while but it is kind of odd just to see this strange type of

Horse hopefully one day they will add it to the game and just as the skeleton horse can drop bones if it’s killed the zombie horse can drop rotten flesh if it’s killed and it is cool to have these variants maybe one day in the future there’ll be zombies that can target

Horses and then you’ll have to be more careful with those and you could get the zombie horse definitely an interesting mob variant but i think i’ll just stick to taming horses for now you can plant saplings on a lot of things but did you know you can even plant them on farmland

That’s right even though farmland is not a full-sized block it has one pixel lower than normal blocks you can plant saplings on top of it in fact looking at them at eye level you can sort of see that they are floating above that block and so it’s very strange to see these

Saplings just sitting there we can even bone mill them they’ll grow but of course when they grow you can see that turning into a full-sized dirt block and so although it is very strange to see these saplings floating above the farmland i have no idea why you’re able

To do that especially since it’s so glitched that is an interesting thing to try if you want sort of a glitched looking item in your world and you can see right there that those saplings are just floating but they do work normally on the farmland if you ever want to make

A unique looking tree farm if i asked you what a rare item in minecraft is you’d probably say maybe a disc fragment golden apples or a special enchanted book but something rarer than all of these items is actually tall grass they might be saying well how is tall grass

Rare it’s pretty common but the actual tall grass item is completely unobtainable in survival except through one way through village loot chests now there is the tall grass item there’s also the tall fern item tall ferns can be found through tiger village chests but we are surrounded by grass and tall

Grass so again how can this really be rare well if you break a standard grass you get a grass item that of course is not rare however if you break a two tall grass you actually just get two grass items you do not get the tall grass no

Matter how you break them whether you have silk touch or anything else and so because of that the only way to achieve this rare block is through finding them very very rarely in village chests i’ve seen a lot of players throw away this block thinking it’s useless and it is

Useless although when you place it down it does automatically make a too tall grass because you do not actually have to bone meal the one tall grass to get it and so next time you find this just remember this is one of the rarest items

In the game and one that you would not think is actually hard to get did you know that there are light bulbs in minecraft and no i’m not talking about the new frog lights glowstone or the sea lantern actually it’s this it’s literal light bulbs in minecraft and these items

Are unfortunately not obtainable in survival they’re only able to be found through commands and you can’t even see where they are once you place them down other than a ghostly hitbox but this is actually a light bulb and it’s actually in the game these do provide the light

Level shown on them you can sum them in at any point from 0 to 15. all you have to do is slash give your player name light and that will show you this item and so it’s for invisible lighting in creative builds but still kind of weird

For minecraft a game that’s supposed to be medieval to have 21st century light bulbs in it although really more like old style light bulbs but still very cool there’s a rather strange type of vehicle you can make in survival minecraft and that is a reverse driving

Boat or mine curt simply place down a boat at the corner junction of a mine cart track then place a mine cart here and let it go by picking up the boat it’ll only pick it up if it’s at the corner there otherwise it’s rather difficult then when we go inside of here

And we press forward so i’m pressing w right now we’re actually going backwards if i press s which should be going backwards we’re going forwards if i press a which should turn to the left we actually turn to the right and if i press d which should turn to the right

We turn to the left and so i have no idea the functional use of this but if you ever want to try out a reverse driving boat minecart combo that is sort of like a strangely driven vehicle then you can do that really easily by combining these two items it’s very hard

To get the hang of these controls but it is interesting if you make your way back onto a rail it’ll attach onto there and then just run like a normal mine cart if you thought you knew at all about villages here is something you probably did not know there is a village leader

Sort of like a village mayor in every village now this mechanic is especially prominent in bedrock edition because it has to do with the way that iron farms work for some designs but basically when a village is first made by the player or first generated into the world the first

Villager that interacts with a bed becomes the village leader and this doesn’t really affect anything what it does affect is it affects certain generation of iron golems things like that in bedrock and that villager does work a little bit differently and so next time you want to impress someone

Tell them that you know that there is a leader in every village maybe it’s this one but there’s actually no real way of telling once it’s happened really only the good way of knowing is when you’re first creating your village you’ll know that’s the first villager that interacts

With the beds maybe the first villager that you bring there and of course if a villager dies then a new one is picked as the leader now minecraft is in no way a realistic game however something very interesting is that the way that you make blue dye is

Accurate to how blue dye was made in the medieval times which is of course the time period that minecraft is supposed to be in and so way back in the middle ages corn flowers and lapis lazuli were actually some of the methods that they would get blue dye from for dyeing

Things like books and potentially maps and things like that and so next time you craft blue dye remember this is actually how blue dye was crafted way back in the middle ages and minecraft is trying to historically replicate that and i do like this little fact as it

Shows some of the accuracy and thought put into this game for things like ferns or for grass or even tall grass you can simply place a block inside of them instead of having to break them and then placing down the block secondarily however something interesting is that

This little use does not extend to the water bucket if you right click with your water bucket on the block you want to make it go over it’ll just place to the side we can even use this to place water on top of grass items like that in

Fact sometimes when i’m placing water in a plane’s biome or a bind with a lot of grass i’ll by accidentally place it up on top of one of these thinking it’ll go through and they’ll get sort of a big waterfall shape out of it and so i have

No idea why you cannot place water on these blocks but you can place dirt on top of them instantly deleting them but either way next time you’re placing with water you’ll know why the water is placing weird as this block and side trick just does not work with liquids if

You’re ever playing in creative mode something very strange you might notice is that you cannot get hit by an arrow but not just that you do not get damaged by it it literally cannot land to hit you you can see these arrows are sort of glitching on top of my eye there and

They’re just sitting there shaking around because they have nowhere to land and so their code is glitching out this actually works similarly to the endermen when they’re trying to be hit by an arrow and so if we have all these arrows on top of us and then we suddenly switch

Into survival well we’ll get hit by one of them you can see and the rest just land on the ground but i find this a very interesting functionality and maybe next time you’re in creative you could try messing around with these weird glitchederos hope you enjoyed those 20

Insane things you didn’t know about minecraft i’ll see in the next one and have a great day goodbye you