Often, it’s the most humble-looking things that go on to be sensations. Back when I was at school, what was the hot toy of the moment? Not some amazing electrical robo-doohickey that spins, flash and does ไyour taxes for you, but the yo-yo.
The yo-yo, friends. Today, it’s hard to imagine a more low-tech toy, but this ancient contraption had one heckola of a res🙈urgence in the nineties, let me tell you. It just goes to prove, you can never judge a book by its cover.
Today’s gamers are all about the flashy visuals. The 60fps 1080p 4K graphical extravaganza. A lot of us would have looked at something like Minecraft, in all its primitive, pixelated glory, and laughed it right out of existence. Nobody could really have foreseen the phenomenon that Minecraft would become.
The appeal here, quite plainly, is not about the visuals. If any game has ever perfectly demonstrated that gameplay is far, far more important, Minecraft is that game. It looks like… well, it looks like this, but it’s more than just a game. It’s an experience, and it’s one that will consume not just hours, but months of your life if iꦦt clicks with you.
At its core, it’s a building and/or survival game, but it can also be so much more than that. Quite literally, the only limit is your imagination. From breaking gravity itself to meeting Slenderman and making your own little Roman Empire, let’s take a look at some of the more unique possibilities Minecraft offers.
24 🔜 Playing Minecraft *IN* Minecraft (🦄Minecraftception)
Eat your heart out, Leonardo DiCaprio. You might have been able to hop inside someone else’s subconscious and implant ideas there, but could you build a little PC inside Minecraft so you can play Minecraft IN Minecraft? No, no you couldn’t.
players have found ways to craft primitive PCs in the game, using Redstone and super-simple electrical circuits. From there, you can (if you know your way around this sort of thing) programme a very, very basic version of Minecraft inside the actual game.
Whether No🔯tch ever saw this coming or not, nobody can say, but it’s certainly impressive.
23 Magical ‘Blocks’ Of Water ▨
Now, I don’t know about you, but I’ve🍸 always thought of water as a substance that’s… well, distinctly on the liꦯquid-y side of things. Just ask any parent, and they’ll tell you that their child has a brilliant way of soaking all four walls of your bathroom at once while taking a bath.
As such, you might think that you couldn’t have a ‘block’ of water. That would be called ice. Minecraft simply doesn’t care ꦯabout the laws of physics as we know them, though, and certainly does allow you to live all your 🌟water-block dreams.
If enclosed by pressure plates, water will indeed remain in block form without spilling. Even if you step on ꦆtho🍰se pressure plates!
22 Not Forgetting The ‘Blocks’ Of Lava
So, there it is, friends. That’s the kind of brilliant creative freedom offered to you by Minecraft. We ⛄live in a world where water can exist in block form, happily jiggling away to itself like a jelly.
It’s one of many odd little things you can do in Minecraft that is totally impractical, buꦉt all kinds of neat nonetheless. ♒And if cubes of water aren’t your thing, how about the even more absurd cubes of lava?
That’s right, the exact same principle applies here. I’m not sur♎✃e who in heckola could ever want cubes of lava, but they are a very real and very frightening thing.
21 Sailing To The Ends Of The Earth
As fans of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies will know, the third movie sees Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann and their swarthy, bearded cronies on their most treacherous voyage yet: to🐽 the end of the world itself, to rescue Captain Jack Sparrow from the legendary Davy Jones𒈔’s Locker.
If they thought that journey was bad, they’re lucky they didn’t have Minecraft in those days. You can do some darn scarജy things with boats in this game.
How about this, for one thing: You simply build a boat and push until around half of it has glitched through the wall. Hop into it, th🃏en back out, and (beca𝄹use you always exit a boat from the front) you’ll be on the other side of whichever wall you were messing with.
It’s a one-way trip, though, so be aware of that.
20 Breaking Gravity Itself
So, yes. As we saw with that shonky boat business, you can do all manner of ridiculous things in this game. Most of which were never intended, of course, but often, that’s t🐲he best re♏ason to do it in the first place.
What waits at the very edge of the world? N✱ot Captain Jack Sparrow and many, many crabs, but another bizarre place you were never intended to visit. As rep💫orted by ,
“After about 12 million blocks in a certain direction, things get weird. The game doesn't have INFINITE terrain. It just goes super far. When you reach the far lands or travel about 12 million blocks, Gravity won't work right, chunks will load and stop and load and stop, blocks will work like air and won't be solid, and sometimes player-made blocks will appear.”
Frightening stuff.
19 Meeting Slenderman
Aౠh, Slenderman. The internet sure does love its creepypasta, and this guy is probably the best-known example of that.
Slenderman (also known as The Slender Man) is a Jack Skellington-esque character, a tall, thin, spectre of a humanoid in a spiffy suit. You’ve probably heard the stories (and watc🍰hed excitable YouTubers play the games), as this enigmatic being has made quite the name for himself.
Fellow pop culture mainstay Minecraft has referenced the character, in the f⭕orm of the Enderman mob. Across the different editions of the game, their spawn patterns and locations have differed, but wherever you encounter them, they’re just as frightening as the originജal Slenderman.
18 Unlimited Mushrooms?
As fans will know, Minecraft isn’t all about the building. There’s another very different aspect of the game, and it’s one𒈔 that you can also sink hundreds of hours into: survival.
In this mode, ❀as the name suggests, it’s all about defeating enemies, keeping yourself fed, the usual gubbins of survival gameꦍs. A nigh-unlimited source of food would be a huge boon, needless to say, but many players may not even know about the Mooshrooms.
These odd cow/mushroom ♓hybrids spawn only on very rare biomes, called mushroom island. you can’t milk these creatures in the conventional way, but using a wooden bowl, you can get yourself some nourishing mu🍰shroom soup.
Play your cards right, and you’ve got you﷽rself a🍸 self-sustaining food source.
17 Making Crop Circles
With these sorts of games, you’ll find that there are all different kinds of player. Some will lack the patience to craft something impressive for themselves, instead of traveling to various servers to check out others’ handywork. Some will make only the most rudimentary structure🌺s, while others will simply go survival-only.
Some are completely dedicated to ensuring that the Minecraft world and the real world collide. Many players try to reproduce real buildings and places in the game, but how about curious real-world p💧♛henomena?
Over on some enterprising players haꦚve taken to making elaborate crop circles on their land. It’s yet ಞanother of those fantastic ideas that you wish you’d had first.
16 The Mighty Wall Of Game of Thrones
Generally speaking, walls don’t tend to be the most serious of serꦍious business. They’re there to, you know, keep people out🎶 of our back yards and such. Necessary? Yes. Dramatic? No.
Try telling that to Game of Thrones fans, however, and they’ll point you in the direction 💎of The Wall (you’d better believe that name gets capitalized). This enormous fortification is said to be 300 miles long and more than 700 feet tall, and was constructed over the centuries to keep the White Walkers at bay.
In any building-centric game, The Wall would be one of the ultimate construction projects. Naturally, then, it’s been done, and as reports, it’s one of the most impressive things you’ll see in Minecraft.
15 Building A Whole New Roman Empire
If you’ve checked out WesterosCraft’s take on The Wall, you’ll know that it’s as awe-inspiring as the Game of Thrones original itself. Even so, though, that’s just the tip of the Minecraft iceberg.
The game was first released wa𝄹y back in 2011, meaning players have had almost a dec🤪ade to hone their construction skills to the absolute limit. For me, the ultimate culmination of this would have to be Empire Legacy’s world based on the Roman empire. describes it thusly:
“…crammed with magnificent buildings. The Coliseum is there, and actually holds in-game events. The basilica is a gorgeous building of domes, filled with healing religious artefacts. But it was the palace that I fell in love with. From the high chandeliered ceilings to the ballroom, the themed side rooms and the main throne room, it's an astonishing space to wander around. It gave me shivers.”