History Minecraft / TropesAToF

** Ocelots used to be tamable: If you fed them fish they'd turn into cats. After 1.14, [[DecompositeCharacter cats and ocelots were split into two different mobs]], and cats were now found on villages or swamp huts, and still retain the ocelot's use of scaring creepers, plus the added benefit of bringing you items when sleeping, rendering the ocelot both overshadow, redundant and harder to get (Feeding it now "gains you his trust", but unlike dolphins or foxes or axolotls, they don't have any added benefit outside of not running away).

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Ghasts shoot fireballs at your character... if you're in first-person mode. In third person, it becomes clear that they're targeting ''the camera''. This was actually a bug, it's been patched out.

** Ocelots used to be tamable: If you fed them fish they'd turn into cats. After 1.14, [[DecompositeCharacter cats and ocelots were split into two different mobs]], and cats were now found on villages or swamp huts, and still retain the ocelot's use of scaring creepers, plus the added benefit of bringing you items when sleeping, rendering the ocelot both overshadow, redundant and harder to get (Feeding it now "gains you his trust", but unlike dolphins or foxes or axolotls, they don't have any added benefit outside of not runing away).

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Compare today's ''Minecraft'' with how it was in Indev, Alpha, and even early Beta. A lot has changed since then thanks to its frequent updates. Early ''Minecraft'' almost feels like a different game compared to current ''Minecraft''.

%%*** Same applies to piglins: They can detect a broken chest/ trapped chest/shulker box/barrel/chest minecart ''even though there's a solid wall in between the piglin and the broken storage container''.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ikda3eQDuI The Mine and Craft Leisure Device]] was announced for 2017, a ''UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch'' clone whose advertisement was done in the style of 90's flair.

** Version 1.5 of the ''UsefulNotes/XBox360 Edition'' (aka [=TU12=]) includes in its tutorial world a hidden [[LetsPlay/AchievementHunterMinecraftSeries Tower of Pimps]] (four gold blocks stacked on top of a block of obsidian), a trophy made famous by the crew at Creator/AchievementHunter.

* DeathOrGloryAttack: The Mace is outright stated by Mojang themselves to have this as one of its abilities. If you manage to drop from above and hit an enemy with it, it'll deal damage proportionate to the height of the fall, ''and'' negate your FallingDamage. Succeed, and that enemy is likely destroyed with you unscathed. Miss, and you go splat.

* DragonsAreDemonic: The Ender Dragon is a Draconic Abomination that resides in [[EldritchLocation the End]], and is a ruthless combative opponent during the player's visit to the End, serving as the FinalBoss. The "music" accompanying its home dimension certainly helps to solidify its status as a villain.

* DragonsAreDemonic: The Ender Dragon is a DraconicAmbination that resides in [[EldrichLocation the End]], and is a ruthless combative opponent during the player's visit to the End, serving as the FinalBoss. The "music" accompanying its home dimension certainly helps to solidify its status as a villain.

* BigBad: The Ender Dragon, named [[TomTheDarkLord "Jean"]], is the confirmed main antagonist of the game, serving as the FinalBoss in a dimension where [[PointOfNoReturn there is no exit point]], and being the only game boss to naturally spawn after entering another dimension. Her death is what triggers the End poem, which is the only scripted sequence in the game.

** It is possible to turn [[BigBad the Ender Dragon]] and [[TheDragon the Wither]] into an experience farm and beacon farm, even though they're the game's two {{Final Boss}}es. Trapping them and getting them into a respawn cycle is the difficult part, but once you succeed in trapping them, it is very easy to continually farm them for resources.

* DisguisedHorrorStory: The game initially seems like a lighthearted WideOpenSandbox game, until you discover [[{{Hell}} the Nether]], [[EldritchLocation the End]], and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou the various hostile mobs that mercilessly attack you while trying to survive]]. There's also the "11", "13", and "5" discs, all of which tell a mysterious story of a cave explorer who died from a mob of some sort. There's also the mystery of why the open world is so barren except for the player, with the hint that [[DragonsAreDemonic the Ender Dragon]] has something to do with it.

** In early versions of the game, oak slabs (then called simply wooden slabs) had weird functionality in that they weren't flammable and needed to be mined with a pickaxe instead of chopped with an axe. When oak slabs were properly given their flammability and tool type, any oak slabs made in worlds before that update retained their original properties, and would later be renamed to petrified oak slabs.

** Early monsters were quite different from the usual now. They were horror classics like zombies, skeletons and giant spiders, while today's mobs tend to be more original, with no equivalent in other media, such as endermen, blazes, guardians, and shulkers.

** Occasionally, during world generation, blocks like sand and gravel which are supposed to be subject to gravity can be placed floating in midair -- though [[GravityIsAHarshMistress they'll fall down if they recieve a block update]]. Instead of fixing the world generation, Mojang opted to add particle effects to blocks in this state, warning the player that they're unstable.

* BonesDoNotBelongThere: Composters can recieve various organic items to produce plant fertilizer. Seems innocuous enough... but said fertilizer is the bonemeal item. What microorganisms are creating pre-crushed bones using organic waste? (In practice, this is TheArtefact from when bones were the only source of fertiliser.)