Mobs
This green, explosive mob is famous for hissing before destroying your builds.
What is a Creeper?
This basic tool is crafted using two sticks and three pieces of cobble, iron, gold, or diamond.
What is a Pickaxe?
These generated structures are home to Villagers and Iron Golems.
What are Villages?
This peaceful Overworld biome is famous for its brown-and-red cows called Mooshrooms.
What is the Mushroom Fields (or Mushroom Island)?
Minecraft's first public version, released in May 2009, was created in just six days under this original working title.
What is Cave Game?
This undead mob burns in daylight and drops rotten flesh when defeated.
What is a Zombie?
Right-clicking a copper block with this tool will scrape off a layer of oxidation.
What is an Axe?
This massive underground structure is guarded by the Warden and covered in sculk blocks.
What is an Ancient City?
Hostile monsters are entirely unable to naturally spawn on the surface of this rare island biome.
What is the Mushroom Fields?
This legendary, glowing-eyed myth was rumored to haunt single-player worlds starting in Alpha, though Mojang repeatedly denied his existence.
Who is Herobrine?
This tall, purple-eyed mob teleports and attacks if you look directly at its face.
What is an Enderman?
This portable redstone power source emits a signal only when a player or mob physically stands on it.
What is a Pressure Plate?
Built from nether bricks, this structure is the only place to find Blazes and Wither Skeletons.
What is a Nether Fortress?
Red sand, terracotta, and dead bushes define this colorful, arid biome.
What is the Badlands (or Mesa)?
This iconic green, explosive mob was born by accident when Notch mistakenly swapped the height and length variables of a pig model.
What is a Creeper?
This icy skeleton variant spawns in cold biomes and shoots arrows that inflict slowness.
What is a Stray?
This tool allows players to pull blocks, flip distant levers, and reel in aquatic creatures from afar.
What is a Fishing Rod?
These towering structures float in the outer End islands and contain Shulkers and Elytra.
What are End Cities?
Introduced in the 1.19 update, this gloomy mangrove-rooted biome is the home of frogs and mud.
What is the Mangrove Swamp?
In 2010, Notch updated the game's code, accidentally transforming the standard Hell dimension into this permanent, fiery realm.
What is the Nether?
This spell-casting illager summons flying vexes and snaps its jaws out of the ground.
What is an Evoker?
This advanced utility item uses echoes to show a visual map of the surrounding terrain on a blank canvas.
What is a Cartography Table?
This underwater monument is made of prismarine and defended by Guardians and Elder Guardians.
What is an Ocean Monument?
Featuring giant pillars of packed ice and blue ice, this is widely considered one of the rarest biomes in the game.
What is the Ice Spikes biome?
This highly anticipated, game-changing update marked the official transition out of the Beta phase on November 18, 2011.
What is the Adventure Update (or Beta 1.8)?