History Minecraft / TropesMToR

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The Ender Dragon in the End, the final boss of the game. It has a similar appearance to an enderman put on the body of a Western dragon, being mostly black with bits of gray on the wings and sporting purple eyes. The Ender Dragon has a ''ton'' of health (complete with its own LifeMeter) and is healed by the nearby End xrystals. It doesn't breathe fire (although its breath is acidic), but can fly and phase through terrain as it is nothing. It destroys any material not native to the central End island. Killing it nets you 20,000 experience points and the Dragon Egg (which does nothing) and opens a portal to exit the realm. However, only one Ender Dragon can spawn per world at a time. You can spawn it in any time with 4 End Crystals, but the new Dragon only drops 500 experience.

* MookMaker: Monster spawners are otherwise inert blocks that produce monsters at a steady clip as long as they're in sufficiently low light.

* OneGenderRace: Practically every humanoid or animal species in the game appears to be this.

* RagsToRiches: The basic goal of Survival Mode is to survive the various hostilities and conditions that target the player while starting out with nothing, and then after mining for diamonds, then creating tools out of it and enchanting it with an enchantment table, progressing to eventually be able to visit the End and kill the Ender Dragon.

* ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'' has a custom difficulty setting that allows for setting several aspects of the game's difficulty separately from each other, like resource scarcity, hostile wildlife's behaviour or the consequences of player's death.

* MagicCompass: A compass points to the world's player spawn point. A lodestone can be used to set a new compass target, and if the lodestone is destroyed, the compass will point back to the origin spawn point, similar to the way bed respawns and resets work.

** Creepers have a nasty habit of doing this, being completely quiet until you hear that tell-tale hiss, which means it's already too late to flee. One of splashes in title screen even compares this mob to the Spy from VideoGame/TeamFortress2.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The general color palette of the Nether is the dark red Netherite, bright orange lava, grey gravel, and the blacks of blackstone and bedrock, which shows how hostile the place is. The Nether update shakes things up a bit, with Warped Forests primarily teal, and the Soul Sand Valleys colored in dark brown Soul Sand/Soil that burns bright blue if set alight, though these colors replace hostility with eeriness.

* RightBehindMe: Creepers have a nasty habit of doing this, being completely quiet until you hear that tell-tale hiss, which means it's already too late to flee. Endermen also have a nasty habit of appearing behind you when they [[TeleportSpam run]].

* MagicWeapon: Enchanting, the process where players grant special properties to tools and weapons at the cost of experience points and lapis lazuli, is a major gameplay feature. Enchanted weapons are an important part of the late game, and can include such things as swords that set their targets on fire, bows that never run out of arrows, tridents that return to the player's hand when thrown or which call down lightning where they land, and weapons that deal increased damage against specific enemy types.