prepare your pickaxes and shovels we’re
going digging for some facts welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
minecraft facts for this list we’re
looking at those weird wonderful and
astounding little details about Mojang’s
creations that caught our attention yeah
maybe it’s time number 10 infinite world
so nothing is endless minecraft makes a
noble effort of aiming for that goal the
game loads each individual world based
on your computer’s available ram which
determines the size of the playable area
however the game can use to load chunks
of land beyond what is playable more on
chunks later thus this overworld is
theoretically infinite estimated to be
at least 17 times the surface area of
our real-life planet
if you were playing the game before the
8.1 version of the beta you could reach
the farlands
which technically represented the end of
the infinite world but that would mean a
12.5 million block trip from your
original spawn point number 9 big chunks
speaking of large things even the
building blocks are massive in scope
minecraft worlds consist of singular
blocks grouped together into larger
chunks called chunks this alone sounds
relatively impressive but the exact
numbers are actually astounding
each chunk of a world is made up of
65,000 in-game blocks mostly consisting
of the air around you there’s apparently
no such thing as a vacuum in Minecraft
even the open air is counted as a block
number 8
creeper the coding error one mistake can
lead to great and terrible things so it
was with the creation of the creeper the
green hissing monster with a penchant
for exploding at the most inconvenient
times the story goes that notch was
developing pigs for the game but got the
dimensions all wrong the creature was
tall and thin not short and stout but
notch decided to run with it
they gave the monster a bizarre face and
an explosive property thus ensuring
builders would never have a good night’s
rest
number 6 April Fool’s of throats dude
in the game of fools you win or you
laugh out loud maybe both given how
amusing Mojang’s fake update for April
Fool’s 2014 turned out to be no not that
one
if you boot it up minecraft on April 1st
you were treated to an a cappella
rendition of the opening theme from
HBO’s fantasy series Game of Thrones
partially in honor of the show Stan
impending fourth season and partially a
nod to a resource pack provided by
element animation this was an all round
fun Easter Egg 30-element pack also
provided new sound effects for
everything in the game courtesy of their
own voices we’re sorry we ruined
Minecraft today no we are not number six
the Denmark replica
something might be rotten in Denmark but
this is pretty fresh as a means of
getting youth interested in geography
the Danish geodata agency underwent the
task of building a one-to-one scale
recreation of their entire country
the resulting map took up a full
terabyte of data and stretch for about
four thousand billion blocks with
special attention paid to buildings in
major cities we don’t know how it did it
Denmark but we’re proud that you did
number five
pumpkin of safety move aside great
pumpkin there’s a new squash in town
it’s no secret that the ghoul like
Enderman are among the most unsettling
of Minecraft creatures with their
unpleasant sounds and their tendency to
linger in the dark fortunately there’s a
solution stick a pumpkin on your head
yes wearing a spare pumpkin as your
would-be helmet apparently keeps
Enderman from turning hostile saving you
doodles of stress in the process number
four
Microsoft’s big purchase have you sold
out to the evil corporations yet no not
yet that we hope not to success brings
buyers and buyers bring paychecks this
was what defined the Microsoft
corporations decision in late 2014 to
buyout Mojang and the minecraft IP for a
whopping 2.5 billion dollars yes the
deal is real Mojang is being bought by
Microsoft Microsoft stated that it’s
aunt minecraft as a means of
strengthening its development in mobile
gaming to say nothing of the other
opportunities that may come of the
purchase
though there were doubts about the
direction minecraft would take in the
deals aftermath most would agree that
the game’s quality and sense of
creativity has remained intact we
respect the brand and independent spirit
that has made Minecraft great and will
carry on the tradition of innovation to
move the franchise forward number three
notches success one of us younger didn’t
have a lot of money at all if I ever get
rich along every one of the boring rich
people doesn’t spend money let it never
be said that money is wasted on the
young right now I’m just you know buying
houses in LA imparting departing from
Mojang after the buyout co-founder
Markus notch Pearson sought to distance
himself from game development for a
while and several truckloads of that
sweet sweet Microsoft money certainly
helped notch settled in Hollywood
purchasing a 70 million dollar manor one
that was also being considered by
Beyonce and jay-z which was the highest
price ever paid for a house in Hollywood
cheers knotch
you certainly hit the jackpot you could
possibly never release the game again
yeah but I would be fine with that
number two the education of Stockholm
videogames as education we finally live
to see the day the Victor Rydberg school
in Stockholm has established compulsory
lessons in Minecraft aimed at their
13-year old students the staff believed
that by implementing the game into their
curriculum that can better reinforce the
importance of ideas such as City
Planning and environmental awareness
approximately a hundred Navy students
are instructed to develop virtual worlds
and contribute what details they can
think of electric grids and water supply
networks come to mind it’s inspiring to
see creativity enforced and embraced so
readily before we unveil our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions
hey number one the influence of
infiniminer minecraft was not born of
nothing but rather shaped from something
basic its progenitor was infiniminer a
small-scale multiplayer PC game about
collecting precious minerals and
building structures with them sound
familiar
notch has outright admitted that the
game influenced minecraft development
and it shows throughout its similarities
however infiniminer was unique in its
competitive design and details like
character selection which made it
distinctive in its own right while still
being a cornerstone to Minecraft legacy
do you agree with our list it’s like
we’re you serious what’s your favorite
fact about Minecraft for more crafty top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com grass press
grass grass grass grass grass
going digging for some facts welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
minecraft facts for this list we’re
looking at those weird wonderful and
astounding little details about Mojang’s
creations that caught our attention yeah
maybe it’s time number 10 infinite world
so nothing is endless minecraft makes a
noble effort of aiming for that goal the
game loads each individual world based
on your computer’s available ram which
determines the size of the playable area
however the game can use to load chunks
of land beyond what is playable more on
chunks later thus this overworld is
theoretically infinite estimated to be
at least 17 times the surface area of
our real-life planet
if you were playing the game before the
8.1 version of the beta you could reach
the farlands
which technically represented the end of
the infinite world but that would mean a
12.5 million block trip from your
original spawn point number 9 big chunks
speaking of large things even the
building blocks are massive in scope
minecraft worlds consist of singular
blocks grouped together into larger
chunks called chunks this alone sounds
relatively impressive but the exact
numbers are actually astounding
each chunk of a world is made up of
65,000 in-game blocks mostly consisting
of the air around you there’s apparently
no such thing as a vacuum in Minecraft
even the open air is counted as a block
number 8
creeper the coding error one mistake can
lead to great and terrible things so it
was with the creation of the creeper the
green hissing monster with a penchant
for exploding at the most inconvenient
times the story goes that notch was
developing pigs for the game but got the
dimensions all wrong the creature was
tall and thin not short and stout but
notch decided to run with it
they gave the monster a bizarre face and
an explosive property thus ensuring
builders would never have a good night’s
rest
number 6 April Fool’s of throats dude
in the game of fools you win or you
laugh out loud maybe both given how
amusing Mojang’s fake update for April
Fool’s 2014 turned out to be no not that
one
if you boot it up minecraft on April 1st
you were treated to an a cappella
rendition of the opening theme from
HBO’s fantasy series Game of Thrones
partially in honor of the show Stan
impending fourth season and partially a
nod to a resource pack provided by
element animation this was an all round
fun Easter Egg 30-element pack also
provided new sound effects for
everything in the game courtesy of their
own voices we’re sorry we ruined
Minecraft today no we are not number six
the Denmark replica
something might be rotten in Denmark but
this is pretty fresh as a means of
getting youth interested in geography
the Danish geodata agency underwent the
task of building a one-to-one scale
recreation of their entire country
the resulting map took up a full
terabyte of data and stretch for about
four thousand billion blocks with
special attention paid to buildings in
major cities we don’t know how it did it
Denmark but we’re proud that you did
number five
pumpkin of safety move aside great
pumpkin there’s a new squash in town
it’s no secret that the ghoul like
Enderman are among the most unsettling
of Minecraft creatures with their
unpleasant sounds and their tendency to
linger in the dark fortunately there’s a
solution stick a pumpkin on your head
yes wearing a spare pumpkin as your
would-be helmet apparently keeps
Enderman from turning hostile saving you
doodles of stress in the process number
four
Microsoft’s big purchase have you sold
out to the evil corporations yet no not
yet that we hope not to success brings
buyers and buyers bring paychecks this
was what defined the Microsoft
corporations decision in late 2014 to
buyout Mojang and the minecraft IP for a
whopping 2.5 billion dollars yes the
deal is real Mojang is being bought by
Microsoft Microsoft stated that it’s
aunt minecraft as a means of
strengthening its development in mobile
gaming to say nothing of the other
opportunities that may come of the
purchase
though there were doubts about the
direction minecraft would take in the
deals aftermath most would agree that
the game’s quality and sense of
creativity has remained intact we
respect the brand and independent spirit
that has made Minecraft great and will
carry on the tradition of innovation to
move the franchise forward number three
notches success one of us younger didn’t
have a lot of money at all if I ever get
rich along every one of the boring rich
people doesn’t spend money let it never
be said that money is wasted on the
young right now I’m just you know buying
houses in LA imparting departing from
Mojang after the buyout co-founder
Markus notch Pearson sought to distance
himself from game development for a
while and several truckloads of that
sweet sweet Microsoft money certainly
helped notch settled in Hollywood
purchasing a 70 million dollar manor one
that was also being considered by
Beyonce and jay-z which was the highest
price ever paid for a house in Hollywood
cheers knotch
you certainly hit the jackpot you could
possibly never release the game again
yeah but I would be fine with that
number two the education of Stockholm
videogames as education we finally live
to see the day the Victor Rydberg school
in Stockholm has established compulsory
lessons in Minecraft aimed at their
13-year old students the staff believed
that by implementing the game into their
curriculum that can better reinforce the
importance of ideas such as City
Planning and environmental awareness
approximately a hundred Navy students
are instructed to develop virtual worlds
and contribute what details they can
think of electric grids and water supply
networks come to mind it’s inspiring to
see creativity enforced and embraced so
readily before we unveil our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions
hey number one the influence of
infiniminer minecraft was not born of
nothing but rather shaped from something
basic its progenitor was infiniminer a
small-scale multiplayer PC game about
collecting precious minerals and
building structures with them sound
familiar
notch has outright admitted that the
game influenced minecraft development
and it shows throughout its similarities
however infiniminer was unique in its
competitive design and details like
character selection which made it
distinctive in its own right while still
being a cornerstone to Minecraft legacy
do you agree with our list it’s like
we’re you serious what’s your favorite
fact about Minecraft for more crafty top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com grass press
grass grass grass grass grass
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