Minecraft: Java Edition

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Minecraft
Developer: Mojang AB Publisher: Mojang AB Platform: PC Released internationally: May 17, 2009 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused items. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

Minecraft is a brilliant indie survival-sandbox thing.

Gears

This is a gear. It moves.

This is a rod. It doesn't.

Prior to the Redstone update, partially-implemented "gear" objects could be placed with a map editor. They didn't do anything, of course.

After the Redstone update, the object ID was replaced by that of the Redstone wires. However, the textures still exist. Presumably, gears would have been used for complex machinery like what Redstone powers now.

Quiver

This was actually used in early Indev, but is no longer in use. As long as you can carry arrows without a quiver, it wouldn't be very useful.

Chainmail Armor

Stylish, comfortable, and totally unused.

Well, not stylish or comfortable. Still unused!

Chainmail armor was craftable in early Indev, but has since been eliminated. It's basically the same as leather or gold armor. Oddly, if you hack fire blocks into your inventory, you can make it yourself in current builds.

Sponge

In a pineapple under the sea.

The sponge block from Classic is still present in the game, although it has no use and cannot be crafted or obtained through regular means. It can be hacked into one's inventory, given to a player under SMP using /give or obtained semi-legitimately in the Creative mode (introduced in Beta 1.8), however it no longer works, instead behaving like a standard block.

Purple Arrow

Bundled with the standard arrow graphics are these odd purple arrows. These are actually a leftover from Survival Test, where the Skeleton's arrows were purple. In all subsequent versions, Skeleton arrows use the same graphics as the player's arrows.

Locked Chest

The Beta 1.4 update introduced "Steve Co. Supply Crates" that would be created in newly-generated chunks. It was a silly little April Fools' Day prank and a silly little Team Fortress 2 reference! The chests were removed in the 1.4_01 patch, but can still be placed using inventory hacks.

The locked chest block can be destroyed in one hit, and disappears over time. Additionally, it generates light equivalent to a Glowstone block.

Not surprisingly, when the storage chests were updated to use smaller, animated models in Beta 1.8, the locked chests were not changed.