The Mystery Behind Minecrafts Secret LUCK Effect…

Luck when it comes to minecraft what’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of getting lucky maybe it’s getting some nice items from a dungeon or desert temple chest maybe it’s getting a trident from a drowned or with the skulls from a wither skeleton maybe it’s getting some nice

Enchantments straight from the enchantment table or maybe it’s randomly generating that perfect minecraft seed for a speedrun world record either way it’s clear that luck plays a substantial role in minecraft whether we like it or not and there is no way to control it or is there you see little do most

Players know there is in fact a feature or rather i should say effect in the game that can give players the ability to improve their luck granting them a higher chance of getting better loot from dungeon chess desert temples and other in-game structures allow you to get far better

Items from fishing without the luck of the sea enchantment oh and as a counterpart specifically the unluck or bad luck effect which does the exact opposite however what’s weird is that while this feature has been in the game since october of 2015 almost six years now it is still unknown

Or forgotten by the majority of the player base and the reason why it is so unknown is simply because the effect has never been obtainable in survival mode it wasn’t always like this though in fact there was a brief period of time where it was obtainable that flew under the radar but more

Interestingly why has the effect been in the game for so long but was still never implemented properly into survival mode why was it even added in the first place was it too overpowered well today we uncover the mystery behind the minecraft luck effect so let’s get right into it oh and make

Me feel lucky and be sure to hit that subscribe button if you haven’t already it greatly helps me out Luck was first added to the game in minecraft version 1.9 specifically snapshot 15w 44b which was released in october of 2015. the luck effect is green and uses a four leaf clover as its icon functioning similar to other potion effects it can go up to a maximum level

Of 255 if you use commands but how exactly does the luck potion effect work well in technical terms it adds one level to the generic luck attribute making the chance of a player getting items of higher quality from loot tables grader that’s really vague and confusing though

So let me demonstrate how it works in minecraft versions 1.8 and earlier structures such as dungeons and desert temples that also generate with loot would always have the exact same contents in their chest on the same seed so if you found a village and opened the

Chest in a house of that village then got the world seed recreated the world and went to the exact same village chest it would have the same items this would change in minecraft 1.9 though where loot tables were added to the game now naturally generated chess wouldn’t actually generate their loot until you

Open them for the very first time that’s why when you are in spectator mode and are flying around exploring if you try to open a chest that you haven’t opened before that is generated naturally it won’t work for example if i create a new world go into spectator mode and

Then find the dungeon chest or any other random chest that generates with in-game structures it will say unable to open loot not generated yet however even though loot tables were now a feature of the game when a world is generated it saves a loot table seed and

This loot table seed is always the same for the same seed therefore you would still get the same items if you recreated a world and went to the same chest at a structure but it still meant that the loot tables of a minecraft world could now be altered according to the minecraft wiki

Luck is a status effect that makes a player more likely to receive better loot from certain loot tables in generated structures and this applies to any chest that has loot which only generates when you first open it so if you have the luck effect and open a generator chest for the first time

The game will check the level of the player’s generic luck attribute and change the chest loot table thus changing the items in it the luck effect also applies to fishing giving you a higher chance of getting items that are of higher quality such as treasure items like enchanted books and

Name tags and reducing the chance of getting items of lower quality such as junk items like bowls and rotten flesh there is also the bad luck or unluck effect which does the exact opposite of the luck effect decreasing a player’s generic luck attribute so for example the bad luck effect

Decreases the chances of getting higher quality items from fishing and increases the chances of getting lower quality items simple and that’s how both effects work well how they are supposed to work at least according to the minecraft wiki you see while the minecraft wiki states that luck is an effect that makes

Players more likely to receive better loot from certain loot tables and generated structures and many players across reddit seem to believe this as well the luck effect doesn’t actually seem to work like that at all in fact it doesn’t even seem to work properly right now i’m using a command

Block to summon in a dungeon chat that has not generated its loot yet and i’ve also given myself a very high luck effect if what the wiki and everybody else believes was true then i should be getting some seriously amazing loot from these dungeon chests with a luck level

Of 255 like golden apples name tags and great quality enchanted books but actually doing some testing and comparing the loop between opening let’s say 10 dungeon chests without the luck effect and 10 dungeon chests with a level 255 like effect and well the loot is very similar and this is

Also noticeable with a level 255 bad luck effect it seems that the loop between the dungeon chests opened with different luck effects are all of similar rarity as if the luck didn’t even work at all and i’m not the only person who noticed this a few years back

Exumavoid did a myth busting episode talking about luck and found that the loot from generated chess wasn’t actually better fortunately it does work as intended with fishing though and doing some afk fishing with a level 255 like effect without a luck effect and then with a level 255

Bad luck effect you can clearly see the differences in items obtained with the luck effect i got far more treasure items and with no effect and when i had the bad luck effect i got far more junk items so weirdly it works with fishing but not with loot chests

The fact that the luck effect doesn’t seem to work as everybody believes it does only continues to add to the mystery is the wiki’s information wrong or did mojang just never properly implement this feature there was so little information stated about the luck effect in snapshot patch notes so where did information about

Luck even come from well to attempt to understand why it hasn’t been properly implemented into the game we first have to look at the brief period of time where the luck effect was obtainable in survival mode while the luck and bad luck potion effects are currently unobtainable in survival

Unlike the bad luck effect which can only be applied using commands the luck effect actually exists as a potion which can obtain when in creative mode and notably there is also a tipped arrow of luck as well tipped arrows are a version of an arrow with a potion effect applied to them

Giving them the ability to grant the specific potion effect upon contact with an entity one such tipped arrow added to the game was the luck tipped arrow which gives 37 seconds of the luck effect to whichever player it hits however unlike the other tipped arrows this one was uncraftable and therefore

Still unobtainable for many years that being said in minecraft snapshot 19w 13a a 1.14 snapshot released in march of 2019 the luck effect became obtainable in survival mode for the very first time in minecraft 1.14 raids were added to the game if a player beat a raid and saved the

Village they would be given the hero of the village effect which allowed them to get super cheap trades but more importantly gifts from the villagers the gifts they can give depended on their class and in this snapshot the fletcher villagers were now able to give players a luck-tipped arrow as a reward

This meant that for the first time the luck effect could be obtained legitimately in survival mode although quite rare and unconventional but alas only about three weeks later in april of 2019 with minecraft 1.14 pre-release one so close to the version’s full release this change was reverted

So why was this change reverted but more mysteriously why can’t we obtain luck in survival mode why was it even added to the game well there are a few logical theories first of all it could be a similar story to the giant which i covered in the past whereby was a feature added

Experimentally that mojang couldn’t find a way to properly implement into the game the giants have been in the game since 2010 and could never spawn naturally but similar to luck arrows during a 1.14 snapshot they were changed and made functional but these changes were averted soon after

So maybe just like the giants mojang disliked how the luck arrow worked or maybe didn’t know how players should be able to obtain it and change their mind about adding it the other theory i have is that the feature was added but then upon realizing how difficult it would be to

Balance for a large variety of situations they reconsidered let me give an example currently we have three luck modifying enchantments in the game fortune for pickaxes looting for swords and luck of the sea for fishing rods imagine if instead of there being these three different enchantments they were

All combined into one enchantment called fate or something and this enchantment could be applied to all three items this fate enchantment on a technical level would likely work similar to the luck effect increasing the generic luck attribute and since the generic like attribute affects all drops mob drops and fishing

In different ways it would be super difficult to balance it evenly for each scenario and this is the reason why the luck effect would be really hard to balance let’s say that the luck effect was working as a wiki stated and could affect phishing loot chess and you know what

Let’s say mob drops as well mojang would then have to balance the luck effect around three different item systems which as i displayed before would be very difficult the luck would either be underpowered or overpowered in certain situations what would make balancing even harder is the fact that minecraft continuously

Updates and changes so much and having to constantly balance the luck effect amongst the ever-growing additions to the game would be so difficult how would the luck effect work for bastion chess for example the loot there is quite unique and strong it would be so unbalanced

Maybe we are just looking too deep into it and the effect was meant to be a potion equivalent of the luck of the sea or looting enchantment but mojang had second thoughts about it there is almost certainly more theories and other logical explanations but either way mojang has never really talked about

Their intentions with the effect or why it was even added to the game in the first place therefore the mystery behind the luck effect still remains unsolved to this day i hope you enjoyed the video be sure to subscribe and leave a comment if you did

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