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Minecraft:April Fools' Day jokes

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This is a list of April Fools' Day jokes along with summaries of their features and changes.

List of April Fools' jokes

2010

In 2010, Minecraft: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.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>

2011

Template:Main In 2011, a fake "Minecraft Store" website was created. This was linked to by the Minecraft:locked chest, a block that was implemented for this purpose, as it was implied that keys had to be bought from said store to unlock these chests. It is heavily inspired by the Mann Co. Store from Team Fortress 2.

2012

File:Mars Effect.gif
The logo from the Mars Effect site.

In 2012, for April Fools', Notch created a hoax website for a new game entitled Mars Effect. Template:QThis was a joke referencing a recent lawsuit by Bethesda, developers of The Elder Scrolls franchise, regarding the name of the Mojang game Minecraft:Scrolls. This game was later revealed to be an actual upcoming game, entitled 0x10c, though it was cancelled the following year, and never released.

2013

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During 2013, Mojang released a pre-release for a fake future version of Minecraft containing numerous joke features to various YouTubers.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

2014

A post was added to Mojang Studios' blog<ref>Template:Citation</ref> for the joke. Template:Q

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 Minecraft: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.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

Grumm [[[:Template:Reddit]] 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 [[[:Template:Ytl]] this video], and on April 2, 2014, the skins and the sounds were reverted to the way they were before.

File:Pocket Edition Development April Fools 2014.png
The image that Johan posted on April Fools' 2014

One of the Pocket Edition developers, Minecraft:Johan Bernhardsson, also shared an image of the player bouncing a basketball in-game.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

2015

Template:Main Minecraft: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.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> There was also a QR code written in the snow that generated in a Minecraft:superflat world that, when scanned, reads "Minecraft 1.9: The Minecraft: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 Minecraft:void.

2016

File:Trendy update.png
1.RV-Pre1 shows the tech items and the USB charger block

Template:Main 1.RV-Pre1 was released as an April Fools' joke for the update 1.RV. This "update" was called the "Trendy Update".<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

2017

File:Mine & Craft Digital Leisure Device.png
The Mine & Craft Digital Leisure Device from April Fools 2017

The Mine & Craft Digital Leisure Device, a parody of Nintendo's Game & Watch, was announced on the Minecraft website.<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref>

2018

File:New joke textures compared to original textures.jpg
A comparison of some textures

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A version of Minecraft's textures was released for Template:JE, available in versions 1.12.x and snapshots from 17w43a to 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.<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref> The Minecraft: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 on April 2, 2018 to the way they were before.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> 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 [[Minecraft::Category:April Fools 2018]]. Archived as a resource pack.

2019

Template:Main An April Fools' version officially called "Minecraft 3D" was released,<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref> containing many references to gaming in the 1990s, primarily Doom.

2020

Template:Main Snapshot 20w14∞ was released, adding 2,147,483,647 dimensions that can be accessed by throwing a Minecraft:book and quill that was not specially customized or Minecraft:written book into a Minecraft:Nether portal.<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref>

2021

Template:Main Minecraft Plus! for Windows, a screensaver collection that references screensavers from older versions of Windows, was announced on the Minecraft website. This April Fools joke was inspired by Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP <ref>Template:Mcnet</ref>

2022

Template:Main For April Fools 2022, Minecraft:Mojang Studios released a "One Block At A Time" snapshot (Minecraft:22w13oneBlockAtATime), which replaces the inventory with holding blocks, items or mobs function directly, hence the name "One Block at a Time".<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref>

2023

Minecraft website

On the minecraft.net website, two Minecraft:chickens appear on the bottom left and bottom right of the page. Clicking on both of them causes them to breed and spawn numerous chickens, covering and spamming across the entire screen, sometimes crashing the user's browser.

This joke feature toggled on or off and after breeding and spawning chickens, the "Close" button on the bottom can be hit to return to minecraft.net home page.

Minecraft Launcher

The Minecraft Launcher was set on fire spreading across the screen. On the left sidebar of the launcher, players could click at the Minecraft:water bucket and then click on the Minecraft:fire to extinguish them.

This joke feature can be toggled on or off, players can also mute the fire cracking and water bucket sounds.

April Fools snapshot

Template:Main Mojang Studios also published and released a joke snapshot - Minecraft:23w13a_or_b, which was named "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 change the state of the world.<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref>

2024

Minecraft website

The minecraft.net website was updated to feature several interactable Minecraft:poisonous potatoes across the home page. When clicked, they deplete the Minecraft:health bar below the Minecraft logo, losing 1.5 - 2 hearts per click. When health bar gets fully depleted, the user is greeted with a "You Died!" screen saying "You awoke the Toxifin", showing the score (consuming a potato gives you 1500 score [?] ) and a big "Respawn" button. Clicking the "Respawn" button takes the user back to minecraft.net and resets all the poisonous potatoes.

This joke feature can be toggled on or off by clicking "Turn off potatoes" on the top left corner.

Minecraft Launcher

The loading animation has been changed to a spinning poisonous potato with poison effect particles. RarelyTemplate:Info needed, however, the loading screen can appear as a regular potato instead. Additionally, when clicking in the launcher, 1 to 10Template:Info needed potatoes fly out from where the mouse is clicked and fading out.

The Play & Install buttons, the menu tab, and the headline's text had been changed from Minecraft:Noto Sans to Minecraft:Potatis. Additionally, all the E's, R's, and N's have been drawn backward. This may or may notTemplate:Info needed be intentional, but there has been no confirmation and there may not be.

These joke features can be toggled on or off by toggling the "Enable April Fools 2024" checkbox in the launcher settings.

Poisonous Potato Update

Template:Main Unlike prior years, Mojang Studios released two separate April Fools releases on both Template:JE and Template:BE, under the name the "Poisonous Potato Update." On Java the snapshot Minecraft:24w14potato was released, adding potato-related blocks, food, tools, armor and weapons, as well as the Minecraft:Potato dimension. Players can teleport to the dimension by going into a Minecraft:potato portal. The dimension consists of floating islands made of potato blocks and has naturally spawning potato mobs, animals and villagers in potato villages. They also added potato themed structures. On Bedrock, the Minecraft:Poisonous Potato Add-On, created and released by Minecraft:Jigarbov Productions, was made available on the Minecraft:Marketplace. It adds new poisonous potato themed blocks, items and entities.<ref name="potato-update">Template:Mcnet</ref>

2025

File:Kilometers Prower.jpeg
A screenshot of the change

Minecraft:Gamemode One released a joke responding to a larger April Fools joke by Minecraft:Sega, announcing that Minecraft:Tails would be renamed to "Kilometres" in the Sonic the Hedgehog world, referencing the fact that "Miles" is both Tails' first name and a unit of distance measurement.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref><ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

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Minecraft website

The home page for the minecraft.net website was updated to include a Mob Animator, with the Minecraft:splash text "How does it work? We don't know!". An option to spawn a Minecraft:mob was added and would summon a random mob, which was animated and could be dragged everywhere in the page.

The Mob Animator relies on a Microsoft A/B testing system that includes tracking, which means ad blockers, strict privacy protection mode in Firefox and rejecting cookies on Minecraft.net will cause it not to appear. There are also references to the rollout only being available to 66% users in the API responses, but this is not confirmed to be the case.

Combining a majority of mobs with the "animate mobs" tab by dragging the mobs and placing them in the empty slot would cause the second mob to disappear and the first mob to appear in the output slot, but with potion particles, which then shortly cause the affected mob to explode.

Giant 3D TNT
The giant 3D TNT block

An option to spawn Minecraft:blocks was also included. Out of the Blocks, only TNT can be combined with TNT, which results in a giant 3D TNT block. This can be used to explode other UI elements on the website.

Moving TNT over anything except TNT causes the TNT to explode and both to vanish. Dirt and Stone both have a darker version, with the Dirt having a gradient with darker color at the top and lighter at the bottom, and the Stone looking almost entirely black. The splash text "Conveniently placed!" can be seen in the top left corner under the Mob Animator section in the sky.<ref>https://www.minecraft.net/en-us</ref>

The arrow in the Mob Animator is grey by default, and it turns red when a mob combination is inputted. When certain combinations are inputted, the arrow will turn green, which signifies the combination will go through successfully. It is also possible to obtain larger versions of several different mobs by combining specific variants of those mobs (e.g. rotation direction, walking direction), though not all variants can be combined together successfully.

List of mobs that can be spawned in the Mob tab:

List of blocks that can be spawned in the Blocks tab:

Minecraft Launcher

The Minecraft Launcher has been updated with a new "skill" system, akin to that of an RPG game, where any user interaction increases their Exp Point count. These "skills" can be toggled under the "Select Skill" menu and apply various modifiers to the launcher itself. The higher the level, the more skills the player unlocks.

The launcher is capped at level 30, after which the player is unable to gain any more experience points. It is possible to set it a higher level – up to level 9001, which in itself is a reference to "It's Over 9000!" – by editing the properties in the JSON file. Functionally this does not unlock anything else and anything over level 30 defaults to level "LAUNCHER HACKER", while any level over 9001 automatically rolls back to level 0.

The player can change these properties inside the launcher_prefs.json located within their Minecraft:.minecraft folder:<syntaxhighlight lang="typescript"> { 

   "currentExperiencePointsPleaseDontHackThis": number, // (Current XP Count within Level, the amount required to level up scales per level)
   "currentLauncherLevelPleaseDontHackThis": number, // (Current Level)
   "enabledSkills": string[], // (Currently Applied "skills" to the launcher)
   "formatVersion": number,
   "version": number

} </syntaxhighlight>These features can be toggled within the settings using the "Launcher Leveling System" toggle.

April Fools snapshot

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File:Craftmine in-game 02.webp
A screenshot of the Craftmine Update.

Mojang Studios released the snapshot Minecraft:25w14craftmine, also called the "Craftmine Update". 2025's April Fool's update, the Craftmine update, allows the player to use the new Mine Crafter to craft randomly generated levels, or "mines", to play through. The goal of each mine is to find the exit and craft the next mine. The mines appear to be generated similarly to the dimensions added in the 20w14∞ snapshot released in 2020.

2026

Minecraft Launcher

More baby mobs are on the Launcher, and hovering over a baby chicken spawns a bunch of them instead of 1 to 4, that follow your cursor, which has a seed on it.

April Fools snapshot

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File:26w14a alternate key art.jpg
A screenshot of the Herdcraft Update

Mojang Studios released the snapshot 26w14a, also called the "Herdcraft Update", 2026's April Fool's update. This disables many inventory features and instead allows the player to command "living blocks" using various tools in their hotbar, including Move, Minecraft:Attack / Mine, and Minecraft:Follow Me. Unlike most snapshots in 2026, this one uses the same naming format as 2025 and earlier.

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