Minecraft: Java Edition

Minecraft: Java Edition
Developer: Mojang AB Publisher: Mojang AB Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Released internationally: November 18, 2011 This game has unused areas. This game has unused code. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused modes / minigames. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused items. This game has unused abilities. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

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This game is still under active development. Be aware that any unused content you find may become used or removed in the future. Please only add things to the article that are unlikely to ever be used, or went unused for some time. If they do get used, please remove them from the page and specify in the edit summary!

Minecraft is an indie survival-sandbox game created by Markus “Notch” Persson wizards from space Hatsune Miku. With the release of the Better Together Update of Pocket Edition, unifying the iOS, Android, Xbox One, etc. versions of the game into the "Bedrock Edition", the original release is now known as Minecraft: Java Edition.

To do: Add all of the unused content from the 1.8 snapshots and earlier versions of the game. Document the massive amount of revisional differences this game has. Leftover "Customized" world type text strings in 1.14.4. Confirm the presence of the Illusioner during village raids. Anti-piracy check for the servers

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Unused Graphics The rarest ore of all!

Version Differences Watch out for advercows.

Unused Text missingno

Removed Content Things that were once in the game that are now not.

Debugging Material Undocumented!

Unused Blocks

Legacy TNT

In early versions of the game, igniting a block of TNT only required punching the block. However, in Beta 1.7, TNT was modified to only become active by redstone, another nearby explosion, or Flint and Steel. This old version of TNT still exists in the game as the unstable block state of TNT. It does not have an item form and can be placed using the command /setblock ~ ~ ~ tnt[unstable=true].

Prior to the removal of metadata in 1.13, the block existed as data value 1 of TNT and could be placed using the command /setblock ~ ~ ~ tnt 1. In 1.13 it was been removed, then got re-implemented in 1.13.1 using the unstable state.

Unused Biomes

There are two unused biomes in the game that haven't appeared in default worlds since 13w36a. The biomes can only be accessed through a Customized world.

FrozenOcean

A variant of the ocean biome that has frozen over with a layer of ice blocks. Warmer rivers occasionally appear running through it.

A new biome was added in 1.13, also named Frozen Ocean. This biome is generated differently than the unused one.

Extreme Hills Edge

A sub-biome that is supposed to appear at the edge of Extreme Hills biomes, but strangly doesn't.

Unused Mobs and Mob Behavior

Giant

A huge Zombie that behaves the same as a regular zombie, except the Giant has a massive amount of health and deals tons of damage, instantly killing Players they touch. As of 1.8 however, their AI was changed and are now harmless.

Giants were added in the last version of Survival Test but never implemented. They're coded to spawn in a light level both greater than 11 and less than 8, effectively making them unable to spawn naturally.

Interestingly, Giants will only take damage when their legs are attacked due to their hitbox only covering their legs rather than their full body.

Since 1.7, they have been spawnable using the command "/summon giant".

Killer Bunny

The killer bunny (previously known as the killer rabbit of caerbannog, which is a reference to the scene in Monty Python's The Holy Grail) is a variant of the rabbit specific to Java Edition that is hostile to all players. Its fur is pure white with blood-red eyes that are horizontal, compared to a normal rabbit's vertical eyes. It can only be spawned using the summon rabbit ~ ~ ~ {RabbitType:99} command. It appears with a nameplate over its head reading "The Killer Bunny".

(Source: Minecraft Wiki)

Wither Skeleton

Flaming Arrows

If a Wither Skeleton is spawned using cheats to hold a bow instead of a sword, it will shoot arrows much like an ordinary Skeleton. However, the arrows that it will shoot always have the Flame enchantment, which cannot be seen in normal gameplay.

Wither Jockey

While technically used, it's impossible to encounter this mob during a normal playthrough without the use of cheats. If a Spider is spawned in the Nether, there is a very rare chance that it will spawn with a Wither Skeleton riding it. However, Spiders don't spawn in the Nether, so the only way of encountering this mob is through either summoning commands, or a spider spawn egg.

(Source: Minecraft Wiki)

Illusioner

An unused hostile mob added in 1.12. It is one of the three illagers. The Illusioner can attack within the range of 12 blocks using either a bow that has an 8.5% drop rate with a random durability, or a casted spell. The spell is blindness (if the regional difficulty is more than 2) that lasts 20 seconds and it can summon duplicate Illusioners. When duplicating, the real Illusioner becomes invisible and summons 4 fake Illusioners, all moving with the real one whilst able to phase through walls. The fake Illusioners can shoot their bow like a skeleton and will disappear when the real one dies or the invisibility runs out.

Unused Particles

These particles can only be spawned using the "/particle" command.

Name	Picture	Comment
depthsuspend		Was used when close to the void, but removed for performance. The particle was removed entirely in 1.13.
footstep		Not used in-game, but can be activated with commands. This was also removed in 1.13, although the texture still exists.
cloud		Used as an early explosion effect.
take		Used internally for the item pickup animation, but does nothing when spawned using commands. Removed in 1.13.

(Source: Minecraft Wiki (Images))

deadmau5 Camera

While technically used under special circumstances, there is a special set of camera debugging options enabled in versions 1.9pre5 and 12w08a that were only intended for use at deadmau5 concerts. In versions after 1.9pre5 and 12w08a, these options were disabled by default, but can be re-enabled using mods that reactivate the features. In the game's code, these features are referred to as "debugCam".

Controls

• F5 causes the camera to go into a free-look mode.
• F9 freezes the camera in place. Pressing any two functionally connected keys (except U and O) at the same time unfreezes the camera.
• I, J, K, and L all rotate the camera up, left, down, and right respectively.
• U and O move the camera forwards and backwards.
• Y and H change the field of view. Pressing these keys at the same time resets the FOV.
• N and M change the camera's tilt. B resets the tilt.

Unused Items

Name	Description	Command
Uncraftable Potion	A potion that cannot be crafted. It has no effects.	/give @p minecraft:potion 1 0 {Potion:"minecraft:empty"}
Tattered Book	In 14w05a, Minecraft introduced book generations. There are four in the game; three used ones, and this unused one.	/give @p written_book 1 0 {generation:3}
Spawn Eggs	In 1.1, edited eggs for Snow Golems, Ender Dragons, XP orbs, Ender Crystals, Giants, and other "unspawnable" mobs/entities produced mobs of their types. This is not possible in newer versions up to 1.12.2 as egg types are restricted to only those present in the creative mode inventory. However, as of 1.13 you can /give yourself working versions of them.

Unused Potion Effects

There are many potion effects in Minecraft, some of which don't correspond to any existing potions or items. Some don't even have their effects properly implemented. However, all the effects have the names of their corresponding potions defined in the language files. As of 1.5, they can be obtained through the "/effect" command using the appropriate effect IDs.

ID	Name	Picture	Comment
21	Health Boost		Adds one heart to the health bar. It was later replaced by the Absorption (ID: 22) effect.
27	Bad Luck		Does the opposite of the Luck effect.

Unused Sounds

Audio loops

These audio clips are located in a folder of its own called "loops". They seem to have been intended for ambience when the Player is in certain areas.
Waterfall

Birds chirping

Cave chimes

Ocean

Misc

Ghast affectionate scream

Successful hit

Wolf Howl 1

Wolf Howl 2

Easter Eggs

Splash Text Error Checking

To do: Check if this has been removed in 1.14 and above. In 1.14, making the splashes.txt file empty makes the game display no splash instead of "missingno", however, it's unknown if this also applies to removing the file or modifying it without deleting META-INF.

If the game detects that splashes.txt (the file containing the randomly-selected yellow text that is displayed on the title screen beside the logo) is missing, empty, or has been modified without deleting the "META-INF" folder, it will only display "missingno" as the splash text, referencing a rather infamous glitch.

Minceraft

Extremely rarely (about one out of every 10,000 startups), the Minecraft logo is rearranged to read "Minceraft" instead of the usual "Minecraft". This is the secret that Notch said was not yet discovered back in 2012. In crash logs at times, one may see the text "You should try our sister game, Minceraft!"

(Source: Minecraft Wiki)

Upside-Down Mobs

As of 1.6.1, any mobs named Dinnerbone or Grumm (after two of the game's developers) will be rendered upside-down.

Rainbow Sheep

As of 1.7.2, sheep named jeb_ (after one of the main developers) will continuously cycle through all of the possible colors, though this has no effect on the wool blocks they drop when sheared.

Toast Rabbit

As of 1.8, naming a rabbit "Toast" using either a name tag or a named spawn egg will turn it into "Toast". Toast is textured like a black dutch rabbit, with a large black & white patch and more black fur around the face than the natural black & white spotted rabbit. Other than its name and skin, Toast behaves exactly like a normal rabbit.

This rabbit is the skin of user xyZenTV's girlfriend's missing rabbit, which Ryan Holtz implemented as a memorial.

Party Parrots

As of snapshot 17w14a, playing a music disc in a jukebox next to a parrot will cause it to change colors (until 17w15a) and "dance" to the music as a reference to the Party Parrot meme.