5 Minecraft Easter Eggs! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide (1.18 Tutorial Lets Play) [S2 E99]

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the minecraft survival guide i hope you’re all having a good day this is episode 99 and it’s kind of crazy that we’re here already but i’m very excited about this and i thought we would do something fun

Because 99 always a fun number one before episode 100 we’ll probably do a world tour for episode 100 and then episode 101 is going to be something that i’ve done in the previous season of survival guide where i ask you folks to submit short questions about minecraft

That can be answered in like one or two sentences so if you want to leave a bunch of those in the comments of this video and i’ll probably make a community post on my community page as well i’m going to try and answer 101 quick questions about minecraft and hopefully

That should be a really good time but today we’re gonna have a good time with something else i want to explain some of the easter eggs that occur in minecraft and i think today is gonna be a really fun day to do that so the majority of

Them require us to get hold of some name tags most of which i’ve already got from fishing i’ve done a lot of fishing in this world so i’ve gathered a lot of name tags already but you can also find these as dungeon loot in a couple of

Different chests you can buy them from librarians as well if you have a master tia librarian and so if you want to try out some of these easter eggs in your own worlds all it will take is a handful of name tags we’re going to need a name

Tag for each different mob that we’re going to plan an easter egg for today but only one of them is not necessarily going to require a specific name for the easter egg we just need to make sure that the mob stays in the world and is persistent and isn’t going to despawn

The rest of them however require name tags to be renamed with some very specific names first of all we’re going to take half of the name tags i had up there so we’ve got six different name tags we’re gonna split those into three and we are going to name half of them

Dinner bone with a capital d and the other half we are going to name grum with a capital g and two m’s grum and dinnerbone are the usernames of two of minecraft’s earliest developers basically as soon as mojang started recruiting more people to join the development team dinnerbone and grump

Were two of those and i believe they both still work on the game but the effect that either a dinner bone or a grum name tag will have on a mob is to turn it upside down and one of the things i wanted to save the mushroom and

The sheep here for is some of the easter eggs we’re gonna demonstrate today so we are gonna name this mushroom dinner bone and from now on this is going to be an upside down mooshroom now the funny thing about this is it just renders the mob upside down but the mob’s behavior

Will still be exactly the same they’ll still move their legs when they walk around they’ll still eat the grass if they need to do that like sheep need to do that to replenish their wool you can still milk a cow like this in fact i would argue that milking a cow is

Probably easier if the others are facing upwards but i don’t know maybe gravity does some of the work there who knows and i personally think one of the funniest mobs to do this with is bees i find bees some of the most delightful mobs to turn upside down the problem

Really is making sure that i don’t let all of these bees out the farm if i replace one of the glass blocks here with a slab to allow us to actually name tag one of the bees i think we might be able to give it a try like so there we

Go and let’s see if we can name one of these bees grom and there we go flip it upside down so we now have a grumby inside of here and the b will still behave exactly the same it’ll still hover at the same height it will still

Be able to produce honey and go in and out of the hives perfectly fine in fact it looks like some of the redstone back here has gone awry because all of these hives are filled up with honey and that should have been collected by the glass

Bottles ah i think i think the system may be full and so it may be that it has no more glass bottles in order to collect them oh well we’ll have to do something about that in a minute here but there we go we can see our little

Grumpy in there kind of getting pushed around by one of the other bees but that’s definitely not a side effect of the name tag it’s just that that bee really wants to get to that flower and right now what i really want to do is

Find a pig there is one over here i wonder if there’s any a little bit closer and i’ll need to grab a lead for this as well it looks like that little piggy came down from the mountainside after all we’re gonna put this one on a

Lead and bring it back to the house as a permanent feature you have to remove the door to fit the pig in apparently the pig is a little bit wider than i was expecting but now if we go upstairs while the pig is attached to this lead

We need to make sure the pig doesn’t follow us up the ladder here but i’m going to attach the pig to this fence post dangling from the top of the house and that’s going to leave the lead coming through the floor like this but it’s also going to lift the pig up to

The height of the ceiling and you know what happens now we’re going to name it dinner bone and it’s going to look like the pig is crawling on the ceiling simpsons movie references for the win unfortunately if we name tag the pig anything else it is going to flip it

Back over the right way but in the meantime we have a spider pig and that’s also kind of a reference to the april fools snapshot from this year with 22w 13 at one block at a time allowing the player to use a pig to walk on the

Ceiling so pretty fun and we might need to put a trapdoor up there just to make sure the pig doesn’t wander up there in the meantime there we go now the pigs should no longer be in danger of getting up here by itself and that could potentially be dangerous because

Unfortunately when animals on leads are suspended in the air like this they start to gather momentum from falling the same way that they would with full damage and so with each bob up and down this pig potentially could take more and more full damage meaning that if we let

Off the lead right now and allow it to collide with the ground it’s probably going to take enough fall damage to die instantly you might have run into this problem occasionally if you ended up dangling a mob off a ledge or if you’ve seen the wandering trader drop a llama

Down somewhere it can potentially be fatal to the animals if they fall after being dangled on a lead for that long so probably best that our little piggy stays up here for the foreseeable future and i think it’s kind of funny having a little pig up there on the the ceiling

Of our house these dinner bone and grum easter eggs don’t just have to apply to passive mobs though you can also turn pillages upside down you can do all sorts of stuff with other mobs i think you can even name tag the wither this way although i’m not

Certain if bosses are turned upside down in the same way i know for a fact that it doesn’t work on the ender dragon but honestly i’m kind of tempted to keep this pillager around now because he seems to be kind of a talented one name tagging a spider this way is always a

Good time have you ever seen a spider flail its legs in the air like that and for an even better effect you can name tag the spider half of a spider jockey so the skeleton looks like it’s riding an upside down spider around you ever wanted a closer look at a creeper’s feet

No me neither but at least this is one way you can do that and honestly i find this even more scary than the regular creeper so uh i think it’s probably a good thing they don’t look like this normally while it seems a shame to kill

These name tag mobs of course i don’t really have anything in mind for them right now and we can buy more name tags or fish more of them up so they’re nice and easy to farm i should be able to get hold of a few more in future our next

Name tag is another very well known one and is the sole reason i kept one sheep over here when we did the 16 colors sheep farm way back in the early stages of the series basically this one relies on us name tagging a sheep jeb underscore lowercase with an underscore

Like so and name tagging a sheep this way will cause it to cycle through all of the different colors slowly like this which is really quite cool looking however the fun part about this is that whatever color you dyed the sheep originally that’s the color of wool you

Will still get by shearing it so shearing doesn’t become any kind of like timing based thing where if you wanted blue wool you would go now or anything like that it’s always going to be the color of wool that the sheep started out as and obviously right now without the

Wool it’s looking like a plain white sheep so it’s kind of a surprise when the wool grows back and you realize that it’s cycling through all of the different colors and i’m not sure if we’re going to move our jeb sheep somewhere a little bit more permanent

But for now i think it’s going to stay tied up here in front of the house and we can look at this lovely rainbow sheep every time we step out of our front door the next name tag is a little bit of an obscure one this is not one that most

People end up using probably because most people don’t end up working with rabbits all that often for a start i’m not sure exactly where the best place is to find rabbits in this world we’re quite a distance from any deserts or any snow planes but i think there might be a

Couple of meadow biomes around yeah here we go there’s a meadow up here and the first thing we need to do is take a look and see if there are any dandelions around because if remember the first trick to catching rabbits in this game is to make sure you have some of their

Favorite food so they don’t end up hopping around everywhere and a dandelion or a carrot is going to work out best in fact we might be able to do this with golden carrots haven’t tried that for a while let’s hold the golden carrots in our offhand and the toast

Name tag in our main hand and let’s see if there’s a rabbit up here that we can name tag there we go there’s a couple over here hopping around let’s clear the grass area out so we can see this a little bit better and toast there we go

This is a name tag that changes the skin of a rabbit to the rabbit of i believe a community member or a friend of one of the developers or something like that from way back in the day so when rabbits were implemented i think in 1.8

This was an easter egg since then and kind of a cool one actually like interesting coloration for a rabbit and you don’t find these naturally anywhere in the game so we can feed this rabbit so that it likes us and we can go on our merry way i don’t believe that this

Color will breed if you breed it with another rabbit either so this is just gonna come out like yeah there we go like a generic brown rabbit like the other ones that we’re finding here in the meadow biome but uh cool to know that that toast bunny is gonna be up

Here for a little while but here is where the easter eggs stop getting whimsical and start getting a little more dangerous for the player these are gonna be fun though i’m looking forward to doing these haven’t done these for a while the next two easter eggs pertain to specifically some illegals namely the

Vindicator and the evoker you might find both of these in woodland mansions but i think the best place to get hold of both of them is going to be by doing another pillager raid and to do that we’re going to actually set up a custom raid environment where we can more easily

Trap a handful of pillagers evokers and vindicators for one of those we’re gonna need the name tag johnny spelt with an h like so and my anvil just broke luckily i’ve got a couple of backups in here and the other one can be name tag basically

Whatever we want it to so i guess we’ll call this one no blue sheep and we’ll see exactly what that means in a second we’re going to keep these last two name tags as backups just in case anything at all happens to either of these two but i yeah i do think we

Should be able to get hold of a couple of those mobs now we’ll need a bunch of rails for this and it looks like i’m gonna have to craft some because i’m not certain where all of my rails are i think they might be over with the

Villager breeding setup that i did in the jungle a while ago so with a bunch of powered rails a bunch of regular rails and a handful of other things that we can use plus a bunch of villager zombie conversion supplies meet me back over by that pillager outpost that we

Were at earlier because i have a plan so right over here we have a zombie villager who we’re gonna try and get in a boat which should be nice and easy to do yep there he goes we’ll need a roof over his head so he doesn’t end up

Burning in the sun but we’re gonna try curing this guy so we can set up a custom area to start a pillager raid so with the splash potion of weakness and a golden apple we can start that guy curing and then we’ll probably need to go and sleep we’re back and once we’re

Done curing this guy is going to form a little village of his own he’s just going to be one villager with a workstation i brought a composter just so we can convert him easily into a farmer and that is going to provide us with enough of a village to start a

Pillager raid out here on the open plains from there we’re going to set up a bunch of minecart rails around him so that we can have some minecarts going around on tracks which will hopefully be able to capture some of the mobs we’re after namely one evoker and one

Vindicator i was considering showing a pretty well-known trick in which you can cause pillagers crossbows to break they will actually fire the crossbow enough that it breaks meaning that the pillagers are relatively harmless at the rest of the time since they don’t tend to melee attack the player but in the

End i decided against doing that in this video because i think it could merit an entire video all of its own and that aside it’s not exactly an easter egg it’s more of an oversight in terms of the pillagers crossbows having durability because like skeletons don’t

Break their bows with use for example so i think maybe we won’t cover that in this video we’ll take a look at that another time anyway this whole trick to capture some of the mobs from a raid is going to work a lot better if we have a

Large flat area to work with so i’m gonna level a bit more of the terrain out here and we’ll get this whole thing set up okay this area now looks flat enough i’m gonna make another little enclosure for our villager it’s just going to be a 2×2 with the corners there

So that hopefully none of the mobs who managed to make it to him will be able to attack him through the walls we’ll leave one side of this open so that we can row him on in although i think if we put a composter in at this range he

Should just wander over here i guess this is going to be the test is getting him out of the boat and seeing if he wanders in that direction looks like he’s taking the bait all right perfect there we go took a bit of wrangling but

He’s in and now we’re going to set up some eccentric looking rails first of all i think we’ll probably just put a couple of rails around the middle point here just to make sure that anything that reaches this stage is going to be trapped in a minecart but around the

Outside i kind of want to make sure that there are as many curves as possible because the minecarts are going to interact more easily with pillagers evokers and vindicators hitboxes if the minecart is turning a corner at the time and obviously we’ll need a couple of levers to power each section of rail

Here but this kind of weird clover shaped thing is probably going to be how we’ll trap the majority of the mobs today so with the rails around this village are all complete and looking a little bit janky and weird to be quite honest with you we’re gonna set down a bunch of

Minecarts that we can set spinning on these tracks and hopefully with all of these powered rails around yeah the minecart should have no problems weaving in and out of these little zigzags that we have built for them we’ll put another one in the center here we’ll have these

Going around and basically when we start the raid the mobs should hopefully wander on in and get caught in a minecart here and there we can also give the minecarts a nudge in the right direction if we need to and hopefully we’ll be able to catch ourselves of

Indicator and an evoker the last thing that’s left for us to do of course is head over to our pillage outpost track down a captain with a banner and start ourselves a pillager raid over here on the plane’s biome there we go we got bad omen there was a

Pillager captain just waiting inside the tower and i sniped him from the roof okay now if we head over to our villager over here we should start a raid as soon as we get into the proximity of this villager and his composter yes there is our raid boss bar it begins i’m gonna

Throw down my ender chest the poor lad in here is panicking but he should be totally fine in there i’m also gonna pop down a bed just in case i run into any issues over here but hopefully this should go according to plan the initial

Waves of pillages are not going to be a big deal we do need to survive until wave 5 though so that we can get hold of an evoker and i expect if these pillagers end up too close to the minecarts they’re probably going to end up getting caught in the minecart before

Long luckily though they don’t seem all that keen on crossing the rails so yeah they end up stopping right there and that guy couldn’t even shoot me from there so it seems like we shouldn’t have too much to worry about until we get to the later waves where we should end up

With a couple of vindicators spawning here comes our next wave and as predicted we do have a couple of indicators spawning in wave two so hopefully we’ll end up with a couple of them getting trapped in the mine carts if the minecarts end up with other occupants we can always stop them and

Take care of the pillagers but probably best to shoot the pillagers before they end up anywhere near it here comes a vindicator let’s see if he ends up getting trapped in the mine cart should be nice and easy to pick him up while he’s on that bend yep there we go we’ve

Got him we can probably take the other guy out because he’s not needed here for this particular experiment and so it says there are two raiders remaining one of whom is a vindicator over here in the mine cart the other one is probably over here somewhere and i

Expect they might have fallen down into this ravine yep there’s one pillager wandering around at the bottom of there let’s see if we can snipe him perfect so we’re gonna stop the vindicator on one of the bends of this little carousel that we have made for them and there we

Go he is all stopped now of course because of indicators don’t have any ranged attacks we’re not in any danger from him at this point and we can redirect the rails into a spot where we can save him somewhere over here i think the one difficult part is gonna be

Getting him moving again but if we flick this on and if i hold up my shield so i can give the minecart a nudge he’s gonna break that there we go and we can send him off on his way he’s going to stop right over there for now at this point

The name of the game is going to be getting this vindicator outside of the radius of where the raid is happening at which point the game will be tricked into thinking he’s been eliminated and the raid should continue over here by our friend the villager now i’m going to

Reclaim a couple of the levers from our minecart circuit over here just so we can get this guy out of the way using the powered rails we’ve got on us and where does the raid boss bar disappear i expect it’s going to be somewhere over here near the shoreline yes right over

Here basically i think if we get the vindicator out over here he won’t count as part of the raid anymore so we can probably drop him off right here by the river and for the moment at least because he is a passenger in a minecart he should not despawn but we want to

Make sure that this vindicator is going to be preserved for a little while longer and so we’re going to name tag him johnny and we’ll see what exactly that does in a few minutes time now hopefully once he is down here by the river our good friend johnny the

Vindicator should be technically outside of the radius of the raid and it looks like even here as the raid bar disappears it still technically counts as within the boundary of the village so i’m gonna try and get this guy over the other side of the river at which point

Hopefully that should be far enough we do need to occasionally check in to make sure the raid is still in progress because raids can time out if nothing happens for a short enough period of time so at this point though i think this guy should be safe enough to go

Over the river let’s see if this does the job there we go he’s off on his way and yes there we go the next wave of the raid has started so we can leave that guy over there for now where he’s staring menacingly at a squid holding an

Axe and we’ll talk about what that means a little bit later for now though we need to head in and defend our villager friend against the attacks of the ravager okay ravager down thank goodness for that let’s take care of these pillagers and stuff as well we shouldn’t

See any other unusual mobs until we get to the next round with the witches and then eventually the evoker gosh they are loading me up with arrows and whoa okay yeah the vindicator went past on his little minecart and i need to get out of the danger zone here for the next wave

I’m considering getting my diamond chest plate out here and actually using it for once because i think while the elytra is helping me get maneuverable i’m potentially suffering from a little bit of extra damage from not having a chest plate attached so i’ll keep the elytra

On me for now but we just need to reattach this lever to the powered rail and we should be ready for the next wave all right this vindicator’s had enough fun on the carousel let’s take care of him and the next wave of the raid can begin and now coming from this direction

I can already see a couple of them right there we should have an evoker or two coming over the hill yep there’s one right there and he’s going to absolutely speed around hopefully he’ll get caught in a minecart yes there we go okay so that’s mission accomplished we have an

Evoker in a minecart who is potentially going to be a little bit dangerous if he catches sight of me but in the meantime we don’t need to worry too much about that we should probably end up taking care of this ravager first okay so we have a couple of vindicators and an

Avoca now in the minecart carousel and that’s what i’m afraid of happening i do not want the avocado spawning vexes near me because vexes are still a bit of a pain to deal with so when the evoker is out of range and it looks like he’s paused in casting that spell i’m gonna

Grab the glass panes from out of here and we need to work quickly oh no there are the vexes there are the vexes okay well let’s let’s try and take care of them before we do anything else here okay what we’re gonna do is jump in here

And swap out a couple of the rails going out this way and then we’re going to place a block here and very quickly some glass panes and along the end of the rail here we’re going to place a few glass panes like that and then we need to get out of the

Way of the vexes once again so that we can take those out at the very end here we actually want to have a regular rail separating the powered rail from one piece of unpowered rail this is a little bit chaotic and i could have been a bit

More organized about this but i think all things considered it’s going surprisingly well our next stage is going to be to throw a minecart down here we’ll send that around and hopefully it should nudge those two out of the position that they’re currently stuck in because the two minecarts got

Connected and there we go the evoker has been delivered although that one glass pane there is making it a little bit hard for him to get in position so we might need to come through and take that out in the meantime we can get rid of the vindicators at least we’re gonna

Leave that one in the center on patrol for now but if we take that out there we go fantastic now this evoker as he is right now shouldn’t be too much of a problem because as you can see he’s not really messing with me that glass pane while he’s in the mine cart

Is perfectly intersecting with his hitbox and that means that he can’t actually see me right now because the very center of that glass pane is going straight through the center of his head and that means that in the position that he’s in at the moment he’s not going to

Bother with us he’s not even going to take a look at us which means that we can stop this vindicator we can kill him nice and easily like so and then we’re going to sneak in here and we are going to break this villagers composter because technically that destroys the

Village and as you can see from the top of the screen the raid ends in defeat this evoker is even celebrating the fact that he has won what he does not realize is that he has lost so our next steps have to be a little bit careful because our evoker right

Here mr no blue sheep is going to be allowed to stay in this mine cart and it’s going to be put in a more permanent box for him and i want to stylize this box a little bit i want to make this box look a little bit fancier and so we’re

Going to color scheme this after the evoker’s outfit right here this kind of black robe they have going on with a bit of gold trim which we’ll represent here with some yellow wool as you can see even having removed those two glass panes this evoker isn’t noticing me in

The slightest and then finally we’ll put the light grey wool over the top we’re gonna remove that glass pane from his head and now we have an evoker trapped inside of a box if i open this up if i take the wall away there is a very high

Chance that this evoker is gonna see me and he’s gonna start spawning in vexes which is not exactly what i wanted right now but with the wool back in position the evoker is going to be nice and passive and this is where we get to demonstrate our final easter egg of the

Video but that’s going to require a little bit of setup so we shall come back to that in a second in the meantime let’s go over here and check on our friend johnny and let’s see if we can bring johnny a friend let’s see if there

Is a chicken around yeah it looks like we’ve got a chicken over here we’ve got a couple of chickens actually let’s see if these two want to be introduced to our new vindicator friend let’s guide these chickens over here onto the bridge and then let’s try and swim around

Johnny the vindicator so that the chickens are encouraged to walk towards him and let’s see what happens when they do yeah he’s targeting me right now he’s certainly paying a fair amount of attention to me once i’m in the vicinity but if we step back a little way once

The chicken has wandered into his radius yep there we go he attacked the chicken and then the squid and now he’s targeting the other chicken so see what vindicators do when you name tag them johnny is they decide to attack basically everything else in the game normally they’re limited to targeting

Either players or villagers johnny vindicators will go after basically everything with i will admit a couple of notable exceptions on java edition even johnny vindicators won’t attack baby villagers because that does seem a little bit cruel when you think about it they won’t attack other types of illegals like evokers and pillagers

Because let’s be real those are their buddies and even the johnny vindicators aren’t going to go that far in fact if a johnny vindicator ends up joining a naturally spawned pillager patrol their aggressive behavior extends to the rest of the pillager patrol as well and the pillagers with crossbows will start

Firing randomly at other mobs that stray into their vicinity and to be quite honest i kind of want to use that as a mechanic at some point because that sounds awesome johnny vindicators will even attack the wither if there is a weather in their vicinity although i

Don’t think they would last all that long because the wither effect is still going to apply to them and the weather hits pretty hard ghasts are the only other major exception because ghosts floating around in the nether they’re flying mobs they’re not really going to have a

Chance of reaching gusts in the first place with a melee attack with an x so they’re going to stay well out of harm’s way and ignore the ghasts but yes the johnny name tag is a reference to jack nicholson’s character in the shining announcing here’s johnny when he breaks

Down the wall with an axe we’re going to leave this guy here for now since he’s name tagged he won’t despawn and we don’t need to worry too much about the raid anymore i think we will have some stuff to do with him in future but for

Now let’s return to our friend the evoker to demonstrate the evoker’s true power we are going to need to make a few fences and bring a few sheep over we’re going to set up a couple of animal pens right here in front of where the evoker stands the wandering trader has shown up

To see this peculiar oddity of an evoker in a box but unfortunately he’s not selling the stuff i need luckily though we have a couple of corn flours around here because we will need some blue dye although now that i think about it i don’t have any leads over here right now

So uh might as well grab a couple of those from the wandering trader and let’s bring one of these local sheep over in fact let’s bring a couple of the sheep if we can find them i’m gonna push this sheep slightly further in towards the center here so that the evoker will

See it when we remove that block and with the two blue dye that we got from the cornflowers we’re gonna dye these sheep blue and now i’ll need a couple of redstone components because i don’t want the evoker to see me when i do this we’re going to set up a sticky piston

Facing towards this wall block here so that we can activate it with a lever like so we’ll attach the lever to the back of this yellow wool block and watch what happens to the sheep when i pull the lever there we go the evoker has turned one of

The sheep red in fact if i open this again after a couple of seconds he’ll do it with the other blue sheep as well and this is one of the weirdest easter eggs in the game but this is related to a game called age of empires

A strategy game that’s been out since i think the very late 90s and in age of empires the different factions are represented by different colors so a lot of people are building with the same kind of technology but they’ve got different colors to identify whether it’s your units or your opponent’s units

And one of the units you can get is a priest whose job it is to convert the enemy over to your side and the idea is that they’re turning from blue to red so they’re going from the blue team to the red team i’ll grab one more cornflower

Right here and i’ll actually log my camera account in in spectator mode so that you folks can see what’s happening from the front because i don’t really want to go around the front of this to show you the evoker otherwise he’s going to attack me with even more vexes so

Here we go hello i’m back here out of harm’s way and our two sheep are in front of the evoker’s trap here now let’s see what happens when i pull the lever there you go whichever way he’s facing he recognizes that there’s a sheep in the vicinity that needs converting and

He converts it into a red sheep from a blue sheep isn’t that weird but that is our fifth and final easter egg that we’re going to cover in this video but we’ll maybe find some uses for this evoker in future i can see him potentially having some interesting

Roles to play but folks that is probably where we’re going to wrap up this episode of the survival guide so i’m going to return to the house where the dinner bone cow and the jeb sheep should be waiting for me there they are my two bizarre friends and folks i do hope

You’ve enjoyed this look at all of the easter eggs that we can get here in survival minecraft there are a bunch of other wacky things behind the scenes about this game that are worth looking up on the minecraft wiki’s article about easter eggs if you want to know a few

More plus all of the april fool’s updates and stuff are on there it’s a wild ride but folks thank you so much for watching 99 episodes of the minecraft survival guide so far we’ll be back for a world tour with episode 100 and then episode 101 once again is going

To be 101 questions so once again leave some comments below with some questions about minecraft preferably some that i can answer in just one or two sentences so we can keep the video short and snappy thank you so much for watching this episode my name has been pixel

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