What are the Minecraft Easter eggs?

  • Halloween - on October 31st, some mobs will have pumpkins on their heads, and may drop a pumpkin if killed.

  • Christmas - between 24th - 26th December, chests are reskinned to look like presents

    Christmas Chests

  • Mobs - naming a sheep or a sheep spawn egg 'jeb_' will result in rainbow sheep (a sheep which cycles through the colours)

    jeb_ sheep

  • Mobs - naming any mob/mob spawn egg 'Dinnerbone' or 'Grumm' will make it render upside-down

    Dinnerbone cowGrumm cow

  • April Fools - Mojang often have special jokes for 1st April, e.g Minecraft 2.0 from Apr 2013

  • Text for the updates/bugfix lists often includes 'Removed Herobrine' as a reference to an urban legend about the game

    Removed Herobrine

  • If you ever kill Notch himself, he drops an apple

  • Crash logs occassionally include tongue-in-cheek statements such as 'Don't do that again' Crash text

  • On the game's main menu, there is a 0.01% chance that it will say Minceraft instead of Minecraft

  • If the file with the list of splash text lines (the yellow text on the main menu) is deleted, it will display as 'missingno' which is a reference to the infamous glitch in the early Pokémon games.

Sources - many, many hours of Minecraft (and this wiki page)


Also Deadmau5 has his trademark ears in game. They are visible to everyone and in the vinilla client. enter image description here


In addition to the previous answer...

The text used in the enchantment table is actually from Doom/Commander Keen and is known as the Galactic Alphabet. You actually can transliterate the text to English (there are many more Easter eggs in that alone)*

The texture for zombie pigmen, in the actual texture file, contains a call out to the original artist.

Making your first cake gets you the achievement "The Cake is a Lie" and popular meme in reference to Portal by Valve.

Getting an achievement displays "Achievement Get" which is a reference to Super Mario Sunshine for the Nintendo GameCube.

While fishing you will occasionally pull up leather boots, which is a reference to Zelda game.

*After they changed the enchantment system to include tool-tips, I do not know if the text is still translatable.

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