Minecraft: Java Edition/Version Differences/April Fools/Minecraft 3D Shareware v1.34

This is a sub-page of Minecraft: Java Edition/Version Differences/April Fools.

On April 1st, 2019, Mojang released a joke update to Minecraft titled "Minecraft 3D Shareware v1.34", claiming this version was found in the "basement" of their "old headquarters". It includes references to Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and the 90's in general.

This is considered a snapshot for 1.14, as all additions and changes made in the previous snapshots for 1.14 appear here, and it also only appears if the player has snapshots turned on.

Additions

Items

Red Key

The Red Key is a new item that has no use. The "lore" of this item states it "opens red doors", but this does not seem to be the case, as there are no red doors in the game. The item is also dropped by the wither.

Blue Key

The Blue Key is a new item that has no use. The "lore" of this item states it "opens blue doors", but this does not seem to be the case, as there are no blue doors in the game. This item is also dropped by the elder guardian.

Yellow Key

The Yellow Key is a new item that has no use. The "lore" of this item states it "opens yellow doors", but this does not seem to be the case, as there are no yellow doors in the game. This item is dropped by ravagers.

3D

3D is a new food item, and states in the "lore" that it is "tasty". Upon consumption, the entire screen will show the developer cast of Minecraft to appear on the screen. They are also dropped by creepers that are summoned by the cheat code "NEEEERD".

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  The new red key item.

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  The new blue key item.

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  The new yellow key item.

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  The new, edible, and tasty, 3D item.

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  The image of the developer cast that appears after the player eats the new 3D item.

General

"Boss Mode"

If the player presses B, a crude drawing of what vaguely appears to be a spreadsheet will appear. This is a reference to many computer games of the '80s and '90s that featured similar "boss modes" for when the user was playing the game at work instead of... well, working.

Screen Size

The screen size can be increased and decreased with F7 and F8 respectively. A border textured with dirt will cover the remaining parts of the screen when the size changes. This is likely a reference to Doom.

Cheat Codes

Typing the following cheat codes in (inside or outside of chat) will trigger various actions.

Cheat Code	Message	Action
POWEROVERWHELMING	Nothing can stop you!	This cheat code makes the player invincible to damage. Hunger will not decrease, and mobs will ignore the player, as if the player was in Creative mode.
PIGSONTHEWING	FLYING=VERY YES	This cheat code allows the player to fly, even if the player is in Survival mode.
FLASHAAAAA	Gordon's ALIVE!	This cheat code gives the player the Jump Boost, Speed, and Haste effects for 1 minute.
MOREDAKKA	Got all equipment!	This cheat code gives the player overpowered items.
IDKFA	Got all keys!	This cheat code gives the player all the keys.
COWSCOWSCOWS	There is a cow level (in corrupted text)	This cheat code has no known action.
HOWDOYOUTURNTHISON	VROOM!	This cheat code summons a very fast horse.
NEEEERD	Special creeper has been spawned nearby!	This cheat code summons a "special creeper". It wears a lab coat and glasses, and drops the "3D" item when killed.

Obligatory Nightmare Mode

Upon loading the game after having selected this in the "Difficulty" menu, the player will constantly lose health until death, and their death message will display as "<playername> was too soft for this world". If the player hovers over the button in the menu, a reddish tint will appear below the screen.

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  The "crude drawing" shown upon pressing B.

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  The red tint appearing in the menu upon hovering over the "obligatory nightmare mode" option.

Changes

Blocks

Barrel

The barrel now has a 2D model with fire above which always faces the player, similar to a fireball.

• When closing a barrel, it will cause an explosion if empty, otherwise the barrel closing sound will stutter endlessly. The explosion will not destroy blocks.
• These will generate randomly throughout the world.
  • Upon generation, this item will have the new "bonus_barrel" loot table, which can contain crossbows named "BFC9000" with an enchantment of Multishot 1–12, and can have various types of enchanted armor and weapons, random effect tipped arrows, and random effect potions (splash and lingering).
• Shooting a barrel will cause it to explode. This explosion will destroy blocks, unlike the explosion produced by closing empty barrels.

Mobs

Elder Guardian

Elder guardians now drop a blue key.

Ravager

Ravagers now drop a yellow key.

Wither

The Wither now drops a red key.

Rendering

All enemies appear 2D, except for the player. However, the player's body always faces the camera.

Gameplay

• The game always runs in demo mode, even if no --demo flag is present, which is why no Realms button exists.
  • Like normal, after a 5 in-game day counter, the player is unable to use, break or place any blocks, at which point attempting to do so will show a message that the demo has expired.
  • Normally, the player can start a new world, but in this case the player cannot play anymore unless they delete their world file and create a new one.
• Higher levels of Multishot now fire more arrows.
• Pop-ups will appear randomly saying "Next disc required", similar to the "Minecraft Demo mode" pop-up, telling the player to "enter a new disc and press ENTER", if the player presses a button besides Enter it will say "I SAID ENTER!!!" in red text below the message. If the player presses Enter the popup will disappear.
• Upon selecting an "episode" and difficulty, the player will be prompted to a traditional Minecraft Demo popup. Clicking "Purchase Now!" will have the game create a text document called "ORDER.TXT" which contains several fake games and merchandise which the player can "order" in the "MOJANG ORDER SHEET" which appears to ship your purchase to "Mojang PC Repair and Software AB" in Stockholm, Sweden.
  • The fake games/merchandise are as follows:
    • "MineCraft 3D - Immersive virtual-reality mining simulation with intense crafting capabilities! Our freshest and radicalest game!"
    • "MineCraft 3D: Deeper and darker - Gigantic expansion pack: 3 new ores, 7 new weapons and 11 new enemy variants. Including Buff Crepper [sic] and Evilshroom II!"
    • "MineCraft 3D: Mines of North Pole - Obligatory holiday map pack. Ideal for X-mas '94!"
    • "MineCraft 3D: Strategy Guide - Only the hottest of tips, guides and cheats! Mandatory for every pickaxe maniac!"
    • "MineCraft 3D: Themed PC-Speaker Set - Collectors' item! Guarantees best sound experience!"
    • "MineCraft 3D: Sticket set - "Better than nothing". Ideal for your younger sibling!"
    • "[COMMING SOON][sic] MineCraft 3D: Action figurine set - You have to acquire them all!"
    • "MineCraft 2 - Classic 2D Minecraft experience. If you haven't played it yet, shame on you!" (possible reference to the Java Edition 2.0 April Fools' update)
    • "MineCraft 2: Swedish Parliamentary Elections edition - Finally, the expansion pack you've been waiting for!"
    • "MineCraft 2: All the guns! - 'Nuff said"
    • "Fermented Herring Simulator VII - Why do you keep asking for this?"
    • "Fermented Herring Simulator VII: Thorium Pack - No! Really, stop!"
    • "Fermented Herring Simulator VII: Scratch and sniff"
    • "Doom 2 - Completely not related to other games named Doom. This one is about gardening."
  • The document has several typos that seem to be intentional.
  • According to the document, "Orders must be received by April 1st 1995 or while stocks last".

Difficulty

• When selecting difficulty in the "Select difficulty" menu each mode is displayed differently than is in-game:
  • Peaceful is "Hello, NoobVille"
  • Easy is "Filthy casual!"
  • Normal is "Lemon curry?" (possibly referencing a Monty Python sketch)
  • Hard is "eXtreme to the maXxXxX!"
  • "Obligatory nightmare mode" functions the same as hard, but the player will continually receive damage.

General

Loading Screen

• The loading screen will at first appear similar to a command prompt, displaying "By 1991–1994 Mojang Repair and Software... Loading Minecraft 3D" and several other pieces of information.
  • Shortly after this prompt the screen will switch to a pure white background, with a version of the Mojang logo appearing in the center of the screen, floating around, rotating and growing bigger as it gets closer until it comes to a halt at the center of the screen, displaying the company name MOJANG underneath it with a person saying "Mojang!" similar to how "Sega!" would be said on a Sega start up screen.
• A prompt above the loading and title screens will display the message "UNREGISTERED VERSION" in green text against a red background scrolling from left to right.
• The game states it is loading "MINECRAF.WAD" which is a reference to the .WAD data format Doom uses for its files, in addition to old DOS versions having an 8 character filename limit.

Title Screen

• As stated before, "Demo mode" is always set to "true".
• The "Play Demo World" button is now labeled as "Select episode"
  • Clicking on it will display a list of five "episodes", only one of which is actually accessible, the others only "Available in registered version". The list of episodes as follows:
    • "The player is you!"
      • This is the only accessible episode.
      • This is a reference to the "A Winner is You" phrase from Pro Wrestling on the NES.
    • "Knee-deep in lava"
      • This is a reference to the name of Doom's first episode.
    • "Not just the endermen"
      • This is a reference to a quote from Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones.
    • "Removing Herobrine"
      • This is a reference to the countless amounts of updates to Minecraft stating that they "Removed Herobrine".
    • "All these worlds are yours except..."
      • This a reference to a quote by HAL from the book 2010: Odyssey Two.
• The "Reset Demo World" button is now labeled as "ModemPlay(TM)" and clicking on it will display "Blip blop".
  • If the player clicks on it again, the game will display "Nej!" (No! in Swedish) until the player reloads the title screen.
  • The button is always available even if the demo world doesn't exist.
• A large image of a rotating 3D logo will be displayed next to splashes.

HUD

• Health and armor are now displayed as percentages instead of hearts and pieces of armor.
• The display slots are empty in Creative mode.
• The player's head and torso is displayed as a portrait, with the head randomly turning left and right.
• Hunger is displayed as a raw beef icon on top of a bone.
• Only the bone is displayed in Creative mode.
• The hotbar is displayed as a 3×3 grid, with the top-left slot being the first and the bottom-right being the ninth.
• Experience is no longer displayed.
• Horse jump bar is displayed at the top of the screen.
• Air bubbles are displayed above the hotbar.

Pause Screen

If the player clicks the "Give Feedback" button, the game will show a message telling players to "send us a postcard" containing the address of the Mojang AB office.

Exit Screen

When exiting the game, an additional screen will appear that displays "Thank you for playing MineCraft 3D" and imitates a command prompt, which can be closed out by pressing any key.

Sounds

• The Mojang jingle heard when starting up this version is a parody of the SEGA jingle, most commonly heard during the early 1990s.
• In place of the traditional clicking sound made normally when clicking on buttons in the menus, a more explosion-like sound will play.
  • This is a reference to Doom's menu playing the shotgun noise every time the player clicks on anything in the menus.
• All sounds have been converted to sound more "8-bit".

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  The screen that displays while the game is loading.

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  The screen that displays when the game is closed.

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  A screenshot of the HUD and how the screen looks.