81 Best Secret Minecraft Things You Didn't Know

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Don't expect such a good upload schedule lol I only uploaded this one quick because I didn't think it was up to par for a stand alone video
New videos "on the horizon" :p

knowing the phantom secret is def giving me nightmares 😨

I love how Wifies actually tells us stuff that we actually didn't know instead of stuff we've heard hundreds of times.

18:14 I think its because if hoglins get through they turn into zombified hoglins and its also to giv players a chance to go into the nether or respawn before getting one-shot, but there’s probably more lore connections there as well

For the flame tnt looting one, looting must be in the main hand and the bow in the offhand. Otherwise looting will not trigger.

I knew about 33-35 of these. This is one of the best Minecraft trivia and facts video I’ve seen before! I don’t normally learn this much about the game in one video; I may need to rewatch it!

9:11 That sound confused the heck out of me
On the topic of igloos, though, the reason that raids can be triggered at an igloo is not because the structure itself is coded as such, but rather solely because it contains a villager and a bed, the only two things needed to be counted as a village

Wow many of these I actually didn't know, shows how deep this game's mechanics are
Also nice notification sound at 9:10

26:35 End ships weren't made to give the player a beacon. The beacon was a placeholder before the elytra got added. In a chest, you could find a written book saying that something else would be there soon.

The hoglin avoiding portals and respawn anchors is probably for new players who might enter the nether for the first time and would have had to fight a hoglin with basic tools

Wifies is the best at providing facts you don’t know and are actually useful.

Similar to the lightning rod, the end rod positions itself like a unicorn horn when placed on your head with commands.

Let’s take a moment to respect Wifies for never making his thumbnails clickbait

18:10 I think they're programmed to be scared of Nether Portals and Respawn anchors for a good reason, Nether portals probably to prevent them from accidentally walking into it or attacking you as soon as you spawn in, and Respawn Anchors to prevent them from potentially spawn killing you. Piglins also have this same behavior.
25:18 This is likely due to the fact that you can wear carved pumpkins on your head and I could guess that Jack-o-lanterns probably share some of the same code.

I got 60 out of 81! I think I did pretty well, and I learned a lot of new stuff too! thanks for this video Wifies! 😊

I first found your channel around 3 years ago, and I could not be happier to see you finally getting more recognition :D keep it up my g, great content as always

I feel like the Hoglin respawn anchor and nether portal interactions are probably just so that they don’t get to close to where players enter the nether, through spawn or the portal, as that’s when they’d be most vulnerable, the fungus is probably meant to be more of a neat use case though

In #39, another detail about water cauldrons are that they don't prevent fall damage, and neither do powder snow cauldrons.

*_That "secret" sound at _**_9:10_**_ really caught me off guard..._*

Thank you Etho, for teaching me most of these facts and Wifies for the rest

21:54 On Linux you can do the same thing by shortly pressing Ctrl+Shift+U, on some distros an underlined u will appear and on others seemingly nothing will happen. Then proceed to type the character code (with the normal number keys and the a to f letter keys) and confirm with either arrow, tab, space or enter key.Escape will cancel the process.

I got back in MC after a long long time, not sure if it was one of your videos or not but if you put a haystack/ haybail underneath a fire it actually makes it higher. I found this super helpful when doing fireplaces when you want to see the smoke from outside.

I like how Wifies tells us old stuff, but actually explains how it works, which makes it so much more intersting
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I don't know for sure, but I think the reason hoglins are afraid of the portals and respawn anchors is because Mojang didn't want players to be farmed/ spawn killed when loading in.

3:37 as a speedrunner, hearing a youtuber talking about Divine Travel is insane to me for some reason.
That is what finding the stronghold using the bone fossil structures is called in the community.
Alternatively, they are called "boner strats"

I didn’t count how much I knew, but I think we all are agree that Wifies made a great job!

13:02 I think it's because Zombies don't tend to spawn in groups. Whenever you encounter them, they're usually alone, or already in a group.

The reason the turtle helmet has a matching unused turtle set is that the minecraft armor object in the code requires data for all armor pieces

5:40 For those who don't know! This text is a reference to Gravity Falls, which is known for it's encripted messages. More specifically "Stan is not what he seems" and the fact that there is an entity known as the axolotl in the lore.

14:00 XYZZY could be considered the "first" cheat code. It was a magic spell in Collosal Cave Adventure, which was the first adventure game, releasing in 1976. The magic spell allowed you to skip the beginning sections of the game once unlocked. The reason this cheat was implemented was that testers of the game found it boring to have to keep trucking through the beginning sections over and over again. Additionally, the word was meant to be easy to pronounce yet also strange and mystical. It also had to fit under the five letter limit of the game. Because of the 5 letter limit you could often just type the first five letters of a longer word and get the same results, such as inventory. Additionally, words such as northeast would only register as north since east would've been cut off by the letter limit.

5:14 "Axolotls are not what they seem" is a pretty straightforward Gravity Falls reference. The axolotl is the entity Bill called on in his time of need, and "Not what they seem" is a phrase from Journal 3, I think.

If the item frames make the block appear darker.. then you have to increase the brightness/saturation of the map

I wouldn’t call the old fish texture “long forgotten”, but I do wish we had it back.

0:17 I knew about them imitating nearby mob's sounds
0:34 many enough people have said about it already, so I knew this too
0:51 I knew about crouching effects
1:15 this is what I didn't know, that's cool
1:35 I knew that if you one shot a piglin the other horde will not attack you, but I didn't know, that this works on silverfish too
1:59 I knew that fact too. Looks like many people knows about it, but almost no one uses
2:24 I didn't know it, this is cute
2:38 that one I didn't know too, interesting feature
2:55 I knew that score depends on experience, but I didn't know about that glitch. That's funny
3:15 this lifehack I've already seen. I'm not sure that this is really practical, but I didn't play on such servers, so I don't know.
3:38 this is an interesting lifehack, I didn't know it
4:10 I didn't know that, cool trick
4:36 this is not something new to me, I've seen it by myself and I think this is kinda obvious.
4:45 I've heard about that, but I didn't try it, so I don't know if it works on bedrock too.
5:20 Interesting to know this. I didn't know that.
5:31 This is the first time I hear about it, but that's cool
5:46 I knew it, yes. These patterns determined by seed, unless I'm mistaken.
6:11 I didn't know that. It is sad, that this doesn't work now.
6:37 I knew only lifehack with enderpearls itself. The method about which I heard required a second player.
7:04 I didn't know it. This is a funny detail.
7:23 I heard that axolotl somehow rewards you for help, but I didn't know about effects.
7:44 I probably knew it, but I forgot
8:15 Yes, I knew about that. I think, this is useful for maps.
8:40 I knew about that, this is funny. A long ago I didn't know, that portal frames has facing at all and could not understand, why I can't activate the portal I just built XD
9:10 I didn't know, that igloo is detected as village :O
9:35 I knew nothing about that, I'm actually surprised
10:01 I didn't even think, that furnace will melt it...
10:26 I didn't know it, but it is cool
10:41 I heard that lifehack, yes. Pretty useful.
11:07 I knew about that, but anyway these fake blocks are very noticeable.
11:33 I knew about that, this is funny
11:55 I didn't know that, this is really useful!
12:17 I didn't know that, this is very interesting!
12:39 I didn't know that fact
13:04 Yes, I knew about hashtag sorting system, it's very useful
13:29 the only thing I knew is that you can't know which enchantment you will get. I didn't know about easter eggs
14:03 Hm, I probably knew it... Maybe I didn't hear about nametag one. But this is interesting.
14:47 I knew about hat, but I heard about only one of these mobs. This is a cool secret.
15:12 I've heard a bunch of times that cauldrons are broken...
15:40 I probably knew it, but I forgot.
16:00 that one fact I didn't know, especially about code
16:32 I didn't know that
16:50 I knew about that, I find it useful.
17:12 I didn't know that. I guess this is prohibited on many servers.
17:30 I knew, that fishing rod can pull entities, but I never thought, that it can pull even tnt, falling blocks and other ones. That's interesting.
17:55 I didn't know that, but it's funny
18:16 I didn't know that, very cool.
18:32 oh, yes, I heard about these "players"! Thanks to Marc, he made everything much easier.
19:03 Yes, I knew it! I'm watching MystiCat too
19:27 I'm feeling like everyone talking about that...
19:45 I didn't know it, but I have no problem with that.
20:12 I not only knew that, but I watched a video with thousands of them! That looked so cool
20:25

When I saw the thumbnail and title I expected hyper-fast editing, schlock jokes and mostly common knowledge...
But this is really well done, easy to follow, and I didn't know the majority of these. Major props for a quality video!!

Always thought that the rideable animals' hearts were correlated to the player's hunger bar and that the Horse's heart was also its food!

20:20 I think the honey bottle is a little more full because honey is thicker than water.

12:06 The looting enchantment only works if your holding the sword in your main hand. But the tip works, you just have to use the bow in your offhand instead.

the feature with the mob heads would only really be helpful if they completely ignored you
even then, putting on a max'd helmet will be better against the mob, while not being completely useless against other mobs

I knew 26 of these, but still some of the best and most obscure minecraft facts I've ever heard were in this video. Good job as always

Neato! I knew the first fact about parrots but not the second, and I knew about 1-hitting silverfish, (not that I ever manage to.) I'd heard the one about mob heads and detection ranges, but had forgotten it again, so thank you for the reminder. I knew about changing your speed in spectator mode, but I had no clue about the overflow error with the score. I'd never considered that with cake! With my ping, that will probably be very useful.
I love every time someone tells me "here's how to locate this rare structure using this common/easy to spot structure" because I'm always like "cool! I will not retain any ability to use this trick, but cool to know it exists!"
It's on my list of Minecraft skills to perfect.
I actually had noticed the sea turtle fact, for some reason. I don't know why I noticed that, of all things, but I had. And it is a neat little easter egg.
I keep learning and forgetting about the crafting grid hack, probably because it just.. never affects my day to day Minecraft, but it is very cool.
Springs! very neat.
I learned about the flower patterns from Pheonix! It's one of my favorite Minecraft tidbits.
Oh come on, knowing about glass for item transport can't be that old-school knowledge. I mean, I know about it and I've only been playing Minecraft for.... 6... years.... oh. Haha. Maybe it is a little old-school. Also, I think I know why I always know the most about minecraft out of my friend group.
I love that end portal bug so much....
Also, I'd never thought of that use for an igloo, and I personally agree with why that ice window is there.
I've used that building trick myself for a staircase once when I was super low on blocks. Very useful, as always.
...I think I watch a lot of tech minecraft. A lot of these are things from the tech community, and basically all of the ones I've known have been ones I've learned from either the speedrunning community or the technical community. I knew... a lot of these. And I haven't finished the vid yet.

Recently while playing minecraft I found a spawner with natural spawning lava right next to it so no mobs spawned making it very easy to get the chest loot

I love how the phantom noises were from the dev’s son, like instead of comforting him he just recorded it

One time I was in a jungle and I saw a parrot following a panda which confused me on too many levels, now the 3rd one makes sense to me
In an attempt to get closer to the parrot to tame it I accidentally pushed the panda in a deep ravine and it died from fall damage, the parrot still followed it until it died… idk how to feel about this

3:38 This was used in the first ever speedrun world record that was under 10 minutes. It's crazy how this works.

25:15 the reason iirc for the Jack-o-lanterns being able to be cursed is bc you can wear the carved pumpkin as a helmet. It’s likely that when you add a torch to it, the traits of the carved pumpkin are still carried over. That’s my best guess anyway

I remember discovering no.24 in a creative world and being insanely confused lol

The number overflows, not the code.
Minecraft uses a 32-bit signed integer to track the player's score. This means that the value can store up to 31 bits of value (2147483647) and a sign (positive or negative). When the unsigned part fills with all zeroes, adding to it will cause the 32nd bit to flip, which either makes the number negative from positive or vice versa, and because there are only 32 bits, any bits that hypothetically would've been carried over (as they would in mathematics) get discarded instead.

12:05 the looting has to be in your main hand to work. the bow can be in whichever hand, altough you only need 1 hand for this since you can switch to the looting sword while the arrow is still flying

The canonical reason of why Hoglins are scared of warped fungi and nether portals is that Hoglins have both a very sensitive sense of smell and hearing, apparently warped fungi have a foul odor and the noises that portals make scares them.

I'm fairly certain that Dinnerbone created the emerald ore texture by accident because of his red-green colourblindness and it was used instead do to complaints about it being to similar to the redstone texture.

They are scared of nether portals probably because they might know that they can turn into a zoglin. I think they are scared of respawn anchors because they look like nether portals on the top. Warped fungus is probably some deeper lore.
Fun fact: Hoglins had (or maybe still have) a victory dance just like Piglins hidden in the code.

I got all but 15, and I think being a speedrunner helped me know a lot of these things before, as some are used for strats. Of course some other things are just from reading patch notes and watching youtube videos

Wifies' videos are always worth await.

Great vid Wifies! Surprisingly I knew 37 of these, but to be fair I probably wouldn’t have known any of these if I hadn’t watched your other videos!

I didnt know fact #36, #48 and #72. Also, the bed in the igloo is way too far away for the villager to be cured "faster" (9:45). The radius is only like 5 blocks and the time barely decreases.

I'm pretty sure hoglins are afraid of nether portals because going through them will zombify them.

I actually knew the zombie calling other zombies one because of the old minecraft book "the quest for the diamond sword", such a cool feature

I would put a little disclaimer in the description that this is for Java so that bedrock players do not get confused!:)

25:01 You can do the same thing for a carved pumpkin. This is to make players have the pumpkin get stuck on their head until they die with Curse of Binding, which is a classic troll. It's even worse in hardcore mode.

I knew a total of 31! I kind of expected to know more to be honest but still it was amazing to know so many more things I didn't know!

25:20 it’s because you can put pumpkins on your head, and it’s likely that Jack o lanterns have similar source code to pumpkins and so the algorithm that dictates whether or not an item can have the curses identified the Jack o lantern as a pumpkin

1:22 i remember when parrots were first added to pe, I made a world and spawned excessive amounts of them, so that a hoard of parrots would be following around one unfortunate sheep, copying it's baas. Definitely still funny to think about, even if it's also somewhat terrifying lmao

#10 helped me so much as a ps4 player with horrible lag, through cake is hard to get your hands on and it’s a placable items to eat. I would rather food like steak but if it doesn’t work cake is the way to go. Thanks for the idea Wifies!

1. There is a resource pack on vanilatweaks where it will translate the enchantment language.
2. I have a theory that hoglins when approaching a nether portal they get scared of being turned into zombified hoglins (if it gets struck by lightning) (yes it's an actual mob in-game)

3:09 it's because the largest number stored in an "int" data type is 2^31 - 1, so if you add one to that it loops around to -2^31

A cool mechanic similar to #24 is damaging zombies can also spawn in more zombies around it

I can't help but question why Mojang would patch out using the crafting grid as extra inventory space in a game where filling up the player's inventory too quickly thanks to the obscene amount of items you pick up during casual gameplay is slowly becoming a greater and greater issue.

The reason you can curse the jack-o-lanterns and pumpkins with the curses is because it is a wearable block.

you know you’re OG when you know a lot of the easter eggs that wifies tells you about

25:13 I know why. During Halloween mobs have a chance to spawn with a Jack o‘ Lantern on their head.

27:22 can we talk about how that cow just phased through the fence?

I'm pretty sure the extra pixels in the honey bottle is due to honey being more viscous than water.

Thanks for the great video. I'm going to be using #19 a lot. I didn't know 4, 11, 19, 22, 38, and 69. (Gregorian coma?) which means im 75/81 which means i got a 92.5% on a test i didn't study for. That exactly what happened with my math test(no joke).

Wifies I love your videos. However, this video is so cool, it stands out from all of your other videos.😊

I like the hats on hostile villagers. They should've had it used.

The jack o’ lantern probably stemmed from allowing curses on normal pumpkins.

This man makes such great content!

Does anyone remember when Cubfan used to do these? Actual good memories right there - thank you wifies

I knew the spectator scrolling thing because I played pvp legacy so much I found out about it because I was bored while in spectator mode and eventually found out why I was sometimes going slower or faster

So
I didnt know the Shulker and Nylium one
and the Endermen one
Felt hella proud for knowing the repeater one ngl

Re the parrot thing: The problem with that is that they also remember sounds they learned in the past, so there's also gonna be a bunch of false alarms. (Besides, I'm playing with mob griefing off anyway.)
Also, the mob head thing is something I keep forgetting. Do you know if it stacks with the sneak range reduction you mentioned before?
Also, important side note about the fossil thing: I know enough about Minecraft's inner workings to know that literally anything that affects worldgen, also changes the coord mapping completely. This includes both worldgen changes between versions, and worldgen-modifying mods (except those for the End or with new dimensions only because it's Overworld and Nether changes that matter here).
The axolotl stuff, I remember Reddit discussing that. Everyone's been overconspiring on that, when I'm pretty sure all it means is that axolotls are much more powerful than they look.
The villagers panicking is actually not just an animation, it also has a chance to spawn an extra golem.
The intro sound name is a reference to a video where a dude says something like "I can't believe it, it's a barnananar!" (This is the best I was able to transliterate the pronounciation.) Would've linked it if I was able to find it.
I was always a fan of igloos because it's a really neat way to teach players the villager curing mechanic, but all of these extra details are downright genius. I also just realized the trapdoor over the basement entrance also doubles as teaching players from older versions (relative to when they were added) that trapdoors now link into ladders.
The TNT + Looting trick also works with reversed hands, as most tools have no right-click functionality (and the one of those that do is quite situational), so you can use an offhand bow with them just fine. It also makes a design limitation in one of my datapacks (Soul tools that make mobs drop their spawn eggs when killed using them - I couldn't detect the actual killing weapon, so I had to have the loot tables react to the Soul tool being held in the main hand) particularly OP.
While I didn't know that item tags can be used in the Creative menu search, what I do know is that they can also be used in custom recipes and loot tables (and probably predicates). Pretty sure most people who know about them at all know them as datapack tools (apart from the few that are actually used in the code).
If I were to guess, a hoglin's fear of portals is based on the "Overworld smell" from the other side (as they zombify in the Overworld), and a charged Respawn Anchor has a portal-like texture on top which might be actually related to a portal lore-wise.
I actually saw an explanation for the honey and water bottle fill levels as recently as yesterday. Never noticed it before that though. The explanation was wrong BTW - it stated that honey blocks are 1 pixel taller than water blocks, with each bottle containing a quarter of the respective block, but water bottles actually contain a third of a water block. And a third multiplied by 15/16 is actually more than a quarter. But maybe they were planning to have cauldrons give 4 bottles when adding this texture, making it a reference to a feature that ultimately never was?
Jack-o-Lanterns apparently retain their enchantibility from Carved Pumpkins which can be worn (and are an infamous Curse of Binding item on SMPs and similar).

Wifies is one of the few minecraft youtubers that i have stuck with growing up

for the #12 you can shoot through 5 villagers and still pick up the arrow. 4 isn't the limit.

I wish the death message instead of "Wifies was trying to hurt a villager" was something like "Wifies got karma"

can you combine the methods of closeup sneaking to get within a REALLY short distance? or does that not work

Boats also have a chance to break on the impact with everything in bedrock... it happened to me in my 1.17 survival world 3 times

Tbh Wifies taught me more than school ever did 😂

also you can enchant a normal Carved Pumpkin with Curse Of Binding aswell,to put it on heads

#7 is a pathfinding bug. i saw a bee to the same thing with a oak log of a tree and even a fence post

There were only 15 (being generous, because some facts had multiple parts I knew most of) that I didn't know.
Only one that _really_ surprised me was the one about bees attaching themselves to blocks
Not sure what this says about me but I've definitely played the game too much lol

XYZZY is a reference to the ancient game Microsoft Adventure. Awesome dungeon puzzle game, completely played through lines of text.

For the mood tip someone could make a minigame where you need to get 100% mood while doing something or not get mood

The fact that there's already files in the game for an armor set that could bridge the gap in strength between iron and diamond, and Mojang just hasn't used it, makes me a little sad to see.

I actually decided to keep track this time and I knew 51 of them this time! Still an amazing video and I enjoyed watching!

25:31 Probably just a funny joke. You know? Jack-o'-lanterns? Halloween? Curses?

When I first started Minecraft 10ish years ago, I randomly got the same seed for my second and 7th worlds, without even knowing what the box that said “seed” did.

For #25 actually just one villager anywhere counts as a village and will start a raid, its not specific to igloos

The torch-spawner thing is seriously mindfricking me right now. Oh my god.

Just to clarify, charged creepers can only produce one mob head per explosion. Good video nonetheless!