List of April Fools’ jokes - minecraft.fandom.com

This page serves to list all of the April Fools jokes and give a summary of their features and changes.

List of April Fools’ jokes[]

2010[]

In 2010, Notch wrote that he had planned to make a video announcing '“Minecraft 4D” for April Fools', but ran out of time due to moving into a new home.^[1][2]

2011[]

In 2011, a fake "Minecraft store" website was created. This was linked to by the locked chest, a block which was implemented for this purpose, as it was implied that keys had to be bought from said store to unlock these chests.

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  Message displayed upon opening the chest.
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  The "Minecraft Store"
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  The store after it goes into "seizure-mode".
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  The window popup about the "seizure-mode".
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  How the store appeared after April Fools'.

2013[]

During 2013, Mojang sent a pre-release for a fake future version containing numerous joke features to various YouTubers. This was not to the public.^[3]

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  The 2.0 version banner.
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  A pink wither.
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  A talking block of coal
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  The "redstone bug" mob.
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  2.0's "super hostile" mode.

2014[]

A post was added to Mojang Studios' blog^[4] for the joke.

“	The long-nosed villagers introduced in Minecraft beta 1.9 have become sentient. They have taken over our skin servers and content delivery networks (CDN), so unfortunately you will not be able to change your skins until we fix the problem. We are desperately trying our best to pull the plugs, but we should prepare ourselves to serve under our new villager overlords. Singularity may be upon us.	„
	— The Minecraft Team

This caused all players' current skin to be replaced with the various villager skins, and caused users to be unable to change their skins unless they modified the launcher .json file. Different career villager skins were used, including the then-unused green robe of a nitwit villager.

In-game, villagers still acted the same, but they made different sounds. All noises were replaced with the sound effects of Element Animation's "T.E.A.V.S.R.P" (The Element Animation Villager Sounds Resource Pack). Mojang Studios also added in-game villager music. The title screen music contains a parody of the Game of Thrones theme, due to the new series starting in early April and also because of its being included in the original trailer for "T.E.A.V.S.R.P." Jeb also claimed the villager got his Twitter account.^[5]

Grumm released the villager skins on Reddit on April 1, 2014. There were seven variants, including a base skin.

An updated version of T.E.A.V.S.R.P., complete with the new music, was released by Element Animation on April 2, 2014.

Soon afterward, Element Animation released this video, and the skins and the sounds were reverted to the way they were before on April 2, 2014.

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  One of the villager skins (at the time, this green-robed villager was unimplemented).
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  A server that had the villager prank.
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  The base villager skin.
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  The butcher villager skin.
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  The farmer villager skin.
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  The librarian villager skin.
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  The priest villager skin.
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  The smith villager skin.
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  The nitwit villager skin.

One of the Pocket Edition developers, Johan Bernhardsson, also shared an image of the player bouncing a basketball in-game.^[6]

2015[]

15w14a was released as an April Fools' joke for version 1.10, when the next update was supposed to be 1.9. This "update" is called the Love and Hugs Update.^[7] There was also a QR code written in the snow that generated in a superflat world that, when scanned, reads "Minecraft 1.9: The Combat Update". Swords were replaced with "hearts". The only world name available was "There can only be one". Survival was called "Existence". Players were also unable to take damage from The Void.

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  Showing the modified menu screen. Note that the text reads "Play World" and "Reset World".
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  Banners, obsidian boat, normal boat, and diamond heart.
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  An explosion of heart particles from an end crystal.
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  Zombie pigmen wielding heart swords.
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  Dungeons were replaced with "houses".
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  The pink wither returns.
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  The "Minescreeper" minigame.
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  The hidden QR code.

2016[]

1.RV-Pre1 was released as an April Fools' joke for the update 1.RV. This "update" was called the "Trendy Update".^[8]

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  A player wearing this version's new equippable items.
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  Signs get a more modern appearance.
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  What signs look like while wearing reality vision goggles.
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  Viewing a sign through reality vision goggles.

2017[]

The Mine & Craft Digital Leisure Device, a "game console" resembling a Game & Watch, was announced on the Minecraft website.^[9]

2018[]

A version of Minecraft's textures was released for Java Edition. The new textures are available in versions of Java Edition 1.12.x and versions from Java Edition 17w43a to Java Edition 18w11a. It was announced that all editions of Minecraft would get the new version of textures.

The new textures are the original textures using 8-bit color, leading to a drastic reduction in detail.^[10] The splash text for this day also shows any of the following:

• Cleaner!
• Simplified!
• Perfected!amazing
• Art directed! (by robots)
• Machine learned textures!
• Not blurry!
• Not bubbly!
• Not cartoony!
• Photorealistic!
• Hand-painted!

The textures and the splashes were reverted to the way they were before on April 2, 2018.^[11] However, this update cannot be reactivated by setting the computer's date to April 1, 2018.

For block and item renders of these textures, see Category:April Fools 2018. Archive as a resource pack.

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  The menu screen, featuring a unique splash.
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  Some of the textures used during the 2018 April Fools' event.
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  An example of the way the world looks with these textures.
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  A village with these textures.
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  A ravine with these textures including the overlay.
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  A Java Edition 1.14 village with these textures.
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  Underwater terrain with these textures.
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  The inventory with these textures.
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  A desert pyramid and the sun with these textures.
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  The chest room in a desert pyramid with these textures.
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  A jungle temple with these textures.
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  A swamp hut with these textures.

2019[]

An April Fools' version officially called "Minecraft 3D" was released,^[12] containing many references to gaming in the 1990s, primarily Doom.

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  Cover art.
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  The title screen.
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  Difficulty options.
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  Death screen.
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  A nerd creeper.
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  The UI with the default resource pack.
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  The UI with the programmer art resource pack.
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  Ingame image of the Minecraft dev team.

2020[]

Snapshot 20w14∞ was released, adding 2,147,483,647 dimensions that can be accessed by throwing a book and quill that was not specially customized or written book into a nether portal.^[13]

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  The 20w14∞ Version banner.
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  The ant dimension.
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  The sponge dimension.
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  The library dimension.
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  The bridges dimension.
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  The isolation dimension.
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  The slime dimension.
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  The skygrid dimension.

2021[]

Minecraft Plus! for Windows, a screensaver collection that references screensavers from old versions of Windows, was announced on the Minecraft website.^[14]

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  Box art.
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  A flying glow squid screensaver.
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  A flying creeper face screensaver.
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  A screensaver featuring random block textures.
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  A screensaver featuring bouncing blocks.
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  A screensaver featuring bouncing items.
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  A screensaver featuring a rotating block.
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  A screensaver featuring liquid tiles.

2022[]

The update was released on April 1, 2022. It removes the inventory, and players can right click a mob or block to pick it up and throw it.

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  Player wearing a glass block.
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  Footsteps.
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  Player holding a bee.
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  Player holding a spyglass.
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  Player holding a sugar cane.
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  Player holding a sugar cane from a first-person perspective.
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  Player holding a sheep.
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  Player holding a skeleton.
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  Player riding the ender dragon.

2023[]

For April Fool's Day 2023, fire randomly appears on the Minecraft launcher. Passing the mouse cursor over the flames extinguishes them.

Mojang Studios also published snapshot 23w13a_or_b, titled "The Vote Update", a few hours later. The gameplay of this update revolves around a voting system, where the player chooses from many possible scenarios that will change the state of the world.

Additionally, on the Minecraft website, two chickens will appear on the bottom left and right of the page. Clicking on both of them will cause them to breed and spawn numerous chickens, covering the entire page.

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  The Minecraft launcher "on fire"
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  The Minecraft website before...
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  ...and after breeding the two chickens

2024[]

For April Fool's Day 2024, the loading icon on the Minecraft launcher was a poisonous potato, instead of the usual two allays spinning in a circle. All the text also changed from the 'Noto Sans' font to a handwritten-like font, and on every click inside the Minecraft launcher, a poisonous potato would fly from the cursor. If multiple clicks were in quick succession, a group of them would spawn.

Also for April Fool's Day 2024, Mojang Studios published the snapshot 24w14potato, titled "The Poisonous Potato Update". This snapshot added over 100 new items, including new mobs, new wood type, new structures and a new dimension.

Some Java Edition users were stating that "A random brown bunny" was always teleporting to the player whenever they went too far away from it, currently, there's not much information about it.

A bedrock add-on was also released.

2025[]

For April Fool's Day 2025, the launcher screen was changed, instead of the loading bar at the bottom of the screen, there is a minigame with different levels and it can change the way your Minecraft launcher looks. This is available for both Java and Bedrock. Also there is some news about marketplace content saying: Let's dive in7o this month'5 Marke7place Pass and Realm5 Plus!!!1! Giving the numbers 75751 but this was on April 4 so this may not be an April Fools joke.

There is also a craft mine update on Java only. With numbers once again. THE CR4FTMINE UPDATE Time t0 go b1gger aNd craf7 it alL!!!1! Giving the numbers AND LETTERS: 401NL1

Youtube link for the craft mine update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ou2HQOxSHU&feature=youtu.be

Minecraft article link: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/the-craftmine-update?ref=launcher

References[]

April Fools' features
Beta 1.4	Blocks Locked Chest
Minecraft 2.0	Blocks Block of Coal Torch (Burnt-out) Etho Slab Tinted Glass Mobs Diamond Chicken Horse Pony Pink Wither Redstone Bug
15w14a	Items Obsidian Boat Mobs Love Golem Pink Wither Smiling Creeper Entities Obsidian Boat Effects Caring Sharing
1.RV-Pre1	Blocks USB Charger Block Items Ankle Monitor Reality Vision Smarter Watch
3D Shareware v1.34	Items 3D Blue Key Red Key Yellow Key Mobs Nerd Creeper
20w14∞	Blocks Box of Infinite Books Funky Portal An Ant Cursor Leftover Swaggiest stairs ever Items A Very Fine Item Footprint World generation Dimension Generated dimensions Easter egg dimensions ant basic blacklight brand bridges busy checkerboard chess Colored dimensions blue green red colors content credits custom darkness decay fleet gallery holes isolation library llama message missing notes nothing origin patterns perfection pillars retro rooms shapes skygrid slime spiral sponge terminal this_is_a_very_long_phrase_that_hopefully_is_not_in_any_dictionary tunnels wall zones Structures 9x9.nbt Bridge command.com.nbt content.nbt desire.nbt house_of_bob.nbt library.nbt llama.nbt Biomes _generated:id Between Biome For Player With No Time For Nonsense Shapes Commands debugdim warp
22w13oneBlockAtATime	Blocks How did we get here?
23w13a_or_b	Blocks Cheese Copper Sink Copper Spleaves Golden Chest Other Portal Packed Air Pickaxe Block Place Block Items Air Banner Pattern (New Thing) Bit Bottle of Entity Splash Bottle of Void La Baguette Le Tricolore minecraft:dupe_hack Moon Cow Spawn Egg Longer String Potion of Big Splash Lingering Arrow Potion of Small Splash Lingering Arrow Tag Name String Byte Short Int Long Float Double Compound List Left Square Right Square Left Curly Right Curly Sssyntax Error Mobs Moon Cow Ray Tracing Effects Big Small World generation Dimension The Moon Structures Lunar Base Other Portal Biomes The Moon Commands transform vote
24w14potato	Blocks Big Brain