History Minecraft / TropesMToR

* MagicIsFeminine: Despite their appearance, witches are female mobs that constantly throw harmful potions at the player while also using not-so-harmful potions to heal themselves, and Alex, the playable female character, is just as adept at enchanting tools, weapons, and armor as Steve.

* MonsterDelay: All-round {{Zigzagged}}:
** {{Downplayed}} with "Overworld" hostile mobs, since they typically appear several minutes into a given playthrough, either come [[DarknessEqualsDeath nightfall]] or down within [[CreepyCave caves and other dark spaces]] as the player-character goes about his daily survival activities.
** {{Played straight}} with "Nether" hostile mobs, since gaining access to the Nether typically doesn't come about until much later into a given playthrough than establishing one's Overworld home-base, for example.
** {{Exaggerated}} with the [[FinalBoss Ender Dragon]], since gaining access to the "End" requires twelve "Eyes of Ender", along with the discovery of an End portal located down within a subterranean "Stronghold."

** Since beta 1.8, the Adventure Update, food in general has been nerfed. Before, food essentially worked like instant [[HealingPotion health potions]], restoring your health as soon as you eat it; this meant you could go from almost dead to full health in a second. However, the Adventure Update made it so that food restored your hunger instead which then slowly regenerated your health. No longer can one ZergRush enemies and be fine as long as they have a bite to eat.

* MindScrew:
** The game's ending "poem". [[http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/End_Poem Seriously.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2YckuyQC8 Record 11]]. What the hell is happening?

* MascotMook: Creepers are the most well-known of all the mobs.

* NoDamageRun:
** The game has a Hardcore Mode that ''deletes the entire game world'' if the player dies. Since the entire point of the game is to explore the world and shape it through building (and mining, and crafting), this can be a very painful experience if the player has been working on a world for a while, and has grown attached to it. Hardcore Mode also locks the game on the highest difficulty setting, maximizing the amount of damage dealt by monsters, and otherwise making survival as difficult as possible. You'll respawn as Spectator mode after your death instead of simply being forced to delete your world right away.

* OminousCube: While almost everything in the game is made out of cubes, the End Crystals, which explode and can heal the game's final boss, manage to look ominous with their otherworldly appearance and rotating animation.

* MagicMushroom: Though there's not too many magic properties besides some potion possibilities, the mushrooms are mostly just used for food. They can however grow to unusual size, which is pretty magical, and [[BodyHorror they can infest cows too.]]

* NitroBoost: Dash Pad variety is seen in powered minecart rails as the boost the mine cart when it rolls over the set of activated golden rails.

** Ghasts (found only in the Nether shoot fireballs at you which not only punch a hole in the terrain but also set it on fire. This makes them the only mobs in the Nether that can deactivate a Nether portal...but also allows them to reignite one.

* NightOfTheLivingMooks: Some enemies are classified as undead, what means they take extra damage from a weapon with the Smite enchantment and they catch fire under sunlight (although they aren't necessarily damaged by it).

** And that's not it, either. The Nether has one last really nifty feature: one block in the Nether is eight blocks in the Overworld. Therefor, you can use it to get places faster with players building "Nether Highways" as a way to take advantage of this.

* ProngsOfPoseidon:
** The trident. They can be thrown as a ranged weapon or used melee and deal a large amount of damage.
** [[EliteZombie The Drowned]] also have a 20% chance to spawn with tridents. This also makes them effectively the only ranged type of zombie.

** Creepers. Pretty much all they do is silently sneak up on you, hiss for a second and a half, and explode. Even on easy, the explosion can kill you instantly (sans armor) if you can't get away in time. It also destroys most types of blocks, which can allow other monsters to invade your shelter.
** Ghasts (found only in the Nether), which shoot fireballs at you, which not only punch a hole in the terrain but also sets it on fire.

** Time is irrelevant in the Nether. Clocks malfunction. Compasses pick up multiple magnetic poles. And beds? Well, beds just plain ''explode'' when you try to use them.

* MagicCauldron: Subverted -- there are relatively standard-looking black cauldrons located inside witches' huts, but their only practical uses in the game (thus far) are temporarily storing water (up to three buckets' worth) and removing dye from leather armor and shulker boxes. Ironically, witches use potions in combat, yet the tool actually used for crafting potions, the brewing stand, is not present in witches' huts.
* MagicCompass: A compass points to the world's player spawn point.

* MagicMushroom: Though there's not too many magic properties besides some potion possibilities, the mushrooms are mostly just used for food. They can however grow to unusual size, which is pretty magical, [[BodyHorror they can infest cows too.]]

* MechanicalMonster: The Blaze mob in the Nether appear to be of this. There's nothing in between their rotating rods and their sounds, pain sounds, and death cries sound very mechanical instead of organic.

* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: Level 3.

** Despite [[RandomNumberGod inherent randomness]], enchantment has several distinct rules. First off, the material being enchanted determines the variety of enchantments available, and at what levels. Gold is the most magically sensitive metal, able to [[GoldColoredSuperiority get the highest level enchants at early levels]] - but [[RealityEnsues nowhere near the most durable material.]] Wooden tools and leather armor are somewhat less sensitive, iron equipment and chainmail, less so, and diamond even less. Stone is the least sensitive, having the lowest enchantment benefits.

* RealityEnsues:
** Swords can be made of (in order of ascending rarity) wood, stone, iron, gold, and diamond. For the most part, the rarer starting materials result in stronger weapons, except golden swords are functionally identical to wooden swords. In defiance of fantasy genre conventions, gold tools and armor, while effective, have extremely low durability and as such are almost useless except for looking cool. It came as quite a surprise when the players realized the second-rarest material made the weakest weapon, and a lot of people thought it was a bug... until they remembered gold is one of the softest metals in the world; just like in real-life, gold weapons are only good for decorative purposes. They are, however, the best material for holding enchantments. However, gold is also used in conjunction with redstone in a number of craftable items that are considerably more useful, such as powered track. This is because while gold is a terrible material to make armor, weapons or blunt instruments out of it is well known as an integral component in precision electronic devices.
** You actually can [[AnvilOnHead drop an anvil]] on someone's head. It's just going to damage them. A ''lot''. And it might damage the anvil, too.
** Feeding cookies to parrots will instantly kill them, and the parrot will emit poison particles as it dies. You used to have to feed parrots cookies to tame them, but this caused an uproar as chocolate is poisonous to real life parrots and the cookies are chocolate chip, something they tried to address with the addition of the "Don't feed chocolate to parrots!" splash message. Now, you tame them by feeding them seeds.