The History Of Every Minecraft April Fools’ Update

In 2010 Minecraft’s creator Notch announced on his Twitter that he had a special surprise in store for players on April Fool’s Day he claimed that he was playing to announce a 4D version of the game as a prank but he was unable to follow through with it as he was in the

Process of moving and it didn’t give him enough time to actually pull it off now despite the prank never actually seen the light of day it sparked a soon to be famous tradition for Minecraft to release special updates or announcements on April Fool’s Day every single year

The following April Fool’s Day in 2011 saw the launch of a fake Minecraft store that players could access by clicking on a lot chess in the game this chess would prompt them to visit the Minecraft website which featured 16 items for sale each with a very creative name and

Description some of the items were priced at outrageous amounts like the secret Griefer identity for 155 and the response from the support team for 494. for those who went this far to try and actually buy an item they would click the proceed to checkout button only to be muted with a screaming Velociraptor

From Jurassic Park and also adding ten thousand dollars or more of items to the cart would cause a seizure warning to pop up 2012 also saw an interesting change of events as notch announced that he was releasing a new game completely separate to Minecraft called Mars effect the announcement was accompanied by a

Cinematic trailer that caught many off guard but as the trailer progressed it became very apparent that the game was just a prank the game itself was actually a real project that Notch had been working on and it was just a name Mars effect that was supposed to be a

Prank although the game was never actually finished this was also the only every year that the April Fool’s prank had nothing to do with Minecraft and when it came to the 2013 April fools update they made sure not to disappoint on April 1st 2013 the Minecraft Community was buzzing with excitement as

The creators of Minecraft Mojang had announced the release of Minecraft 2.0 the announcement promised a new and improved version of the game that would bring blocky simulation games to the next level for dedicated fans this was big news and many were eager for a change bigger than the updates that had

Been coming out it turned out however that the announcement was just an elaborate April Fool’s Day prank that was hyped up by the developers and Minecraft 2.0 was really just an update to the already existing game which was handed out to a couple YouTubers to Showcase to the public the update also

Included some very strange changes such as a TNT slab called the Ethos Lab which upon exploding would spawn anvils that fell from the sky this was a reference to the popular Minecraft YouTuber Ethos Lab who was very well known for trapping people with anvils and Minecraft’s early

Day the update also added coal blocks and tinted glass which were intended as a joke and did not exist at the time of course as we know now these were both added later into the game the fake 2.0 also included some new Mobs such as horses and ponies which were actually

Just textured versions of pigs and cow it also changed the Wither to turn pink and used a different recipe to build it the pink wither was classified as a hostile mob though Its Behavior was not hostile whatsoever and it would spend most of its time growing roses and other

Flowers as well as healing the surrounding moth while the hyper on Minecraft 2.0 had ended up just being a host it actually did have a lot of value in showcasing potential new features that could be added to the game and more importantly it set the bar for all

Future April Fool’s prey moving into 2014 Mojang decided to take a more passive approach as they posted on their official blog that Minecraft’s famous villager skins had taken over the game’s skin servers this caused every player’s skin to be changed to look like a villager for the entire day and players

Who logged on were forced to use the skin and were unable to change it in any way to further mess with players Mojang also added new villager sounds to the game and updated the in-game music of course on April 2nd everyone’s skins went back to normal and it was like

Nothing ever happened but players weren’t able to move on from some updates so easily and the best example of this is the April Fool’s update for 2015. there was a lot of hype and anticipation around this update as players were waiting for the big release of 1.9 well and see Mojang wasn’t

Exactly ready to give it out as they dropped the love and hugs update also known as version 15 w14a at first glance the fake update seemed like a legitimate announcement for version 1.9 of the game and for those who paid attention to detail it actually kind of was so what

Exactly did this fake update entail well for starters it replaced a health bar with a love meter that filled up when the player took damage or left clicked on Mob what is the meter was full players would unlock a game called minescreeper which was essentially just Minesweeper in Minecraft other prank

Changes included replacing the video settings and the menu options with blank spaces changing clouds and particle effects to be hard and adding a new boat made of obsidian that sank instead of floating useful right now despite this update being a major letdown of players as it was clearly not an ash 1.9 update

Acted as something of an announcement as players who generated a super flat world notice that the snow began to create what looked like a QR code scanning the QR code would leak the real name of the next major update which was known as the combat update and this one little

Addition made players a lot less upset about the April Fool’s update in 2016 the developers announced a trendy update which introduced several new changes such as the USB charger block and reality vision goggles which when equipped in the helmet slot showed a 3D mini-map of the world more importantly

The update added the ankle monitor arguably a very useful addition in the Minecraft Community the update also included changes to mob Behavior zombies and skeletons had a chance of being equipped with the items and if they had on the reality goggles they wouldn’t even attack players having the goggleson

Also caused all signs to say the word obey a creepy reference to the movie They Live the problem with this April Fool’s update however was similar to the 2012 one it was actually released the day before April Fool’s Day which made players question if it was actually a

Prank or a legitimate update the developers however were quick to reassure players that it was just in fact an April Fool’s Day joke it seems after 2016 the developers of the games thought to try something different instead of their usual in-game pranks they made a fake announcement on both

Their website and YouTube channel announcing a new gaming console the console was made to look like a Game and Watch and was called the Minecraft digital Leisure device the announcement claimed that this console was very powerful and had advanced technology to create realistic simulation however to the disappointment of absolutely nobody

The console did not actually exist in 2018 Minecraft’s developers made one of the most significant changes to the game’s visual appearance since it was released conveniently this happened on April Fool’s Day the developers stated that all future versions of Minecraft would use the same textures as this new

Version and they even changed the game’s Splash text to reflect the new look the new textures had a different color scheme called 8-bit color which made them look like old-fashioned video games and this actually made the game look a lot less detailed and realistic some fans were actually excited to try the

New version and enjoyed the Retro feel but the vast majority were heavily relieved when things turned back to normal on April 2nd of course changing block textures isn’t unheard of for Minecraft making this one of the more believable pranks that Mojang has done over the past decade but not all of

Their pranks were quite as convincing 2019 saw the release of one of Minecraft’s more questionable April Fool’s update the update was described by the developers as an old version of the game that was made back in 1994 15 years prior to the release of the actual game in this version the game always

Runs a demo mode making Realms and multiplayer completely unplayable of course April fools updates like these are made on Snapshot versions meaning they don’t work on mainstream multiplayer anyways the demo lasted for five in-game days and the player is required to do certain casts every single day the update also included an

Order sheet where players could order things such as an action figurine set but most importantly a ball had an item called 3D which when eaten popped up a group photo of the game’s developers the developers had gone back and forth over the years for making very interesting

Updates to just small little jokes but in 2020 Minecraft players were in for something absolutely game changing this April Fool saw the release of a new snapshot caught 20w14 infinite and despite being an April Fool’s prank it ended up having a much more lasting impact on the community than any other

Previous update update was called the ultimate content update and really was exactly that as by throwing in a signed book into The Nether Portal players were able to enter a near infinite amount of Dimension one of the most exciting additions from this update was the box of infinite books which generated random

Books for players to efficiently explore even more of the dimension and it also brought many new very strange blocks with it such as the cursor block which changed color every second between green and black and the swaggiest those ever which are stairs that are fully made out of netherray and are only obtainable

From the dimension called missing the snap should also change various aspects of gameplay and despite being an April Fool’s joke some of the features from the snapshot were implemented into later versions of the game but after working so tirelessly on the 2020 update it seemed the developers weren’t really in

The mood for another prank in 2021. instead for April Fool’s Day they decided to make their own screensaver app called Minecraft plus the app still exists to this day and features various screensavers with different designs and styles that are inspired by old computer screensaver while not exactly useful or

Really a prank in any way the app was still quite fun and although it left fans disappointed this disappointment was very soon to to vanish as it became extremely apparent in 2022 that Mojang had been working on something much bigger 2022 saw the release of one of Minecraft’s strangest updates ever one

Block at a time in this update players are faced with an entirely different Minecraft experience where there’s not only no inventory but players can only hold one block at a time hence the name of the update even illegal blocks like End Portal frames can be held and tossed

Around and the update also affected the entity which for some reason let you pick up any mob and hold it above your head by the way holding a chicken makes you fly players are also unable to perform simple mechanics in this update such as swinging the swords as in order

To use them they must be thrown at the Target the update also removes the player’s hot bar making the gameplay even more challenging there is one mistake in this update where you can hold a second Block in your offhand but even with this the game is still a

Nightmare to play while beating this version is close to Impossible anyone who manages to even get close and makes it all the way to the stronghold is greeted with a warm welcome from a portal that is just not there in order to actually beat the game end portal

Frames must be found from nether fortress chess and assembled one block at a time Once In the End players can fight the dragon all they want but clicking on the dragon will only make you ride it into the sunset finally reaching 2023 Minecraft made their biggest change today I’m kidding I

Literally have no idea this was recorded in March