History ShoutOut / Minecraft

** Another goat horn is named "LetsPlay/{{Dream}}", and the sound it makes sounds similar to the "Oh, Dream!~" SharePhrase that often comes up during Minecraft Manhunt.

** "Not on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}!"

* The [[http://minecraft.wiki/w/Splash splash text]] on the title screen has more than a few:[[note]]Around mid-March, 2020, the splash text was changed to give sanitation tips relating to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.[[/note]]

* The [[http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Splash splash text]] on the title screen has more than a few:[[note]]Around mid-March, 2020, the splash text was changed to give sanitation tips relating to [[{{UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic}} COVID-19]].[[/note]]

* The Iron Golem, resembles the robots from ''[[Anime/CastleInTheSky Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]'', and if you watch closely, they occasionally offer a rose to villager children.

* The End is one big one to Xen from ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''. To wit, the game sees you travel through a portal to [[https://imgur.com/a/Yabum another dimension]] (using components stolen from the inhabitants of said dimension), where you fight the FinalBoss in the form of a giant flying monster with psychic abilities who launches highly damaging purple spherical projectiles at you, and who draws power from various crystals in its chamber to heal. It can't be beaten until they're destroyed. The creature goes up in a huge explosion with lasers shooting out of its body when it is killed, its death teleports the player character to another area where a mysterious otherworldly being rants at them, and it is implied that the monster had enslaved the inhabitants of the dimension you find it in.[[note]]The Achievement for beating the Enderdragon is called "Free The End."[[/note]] Also, the dimension has primitive, OrganicTechnology based cities built into it, but seemingly exists as a bunch of rocky floating islands in a void that can only form any kind of society because the inhabitants have the ability to teleport.

* Both of the Illager enemies have one: the Evoker will turn any blue sheep nearby into a red one while going "[[VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresI wololo]]" and the Vindicator will attack everything on sight when renamed "[[Film/TheShining Johnny]]".

* The "Library" easter egg dimension in the AprilFools infinity update is a shout out to ''Literature/TheLibraryOfBabel''; both feature infinitely expansive libraries that contain an infinite number of books, full of every single possible combination of characters that fit within the books' length -- and most of which is complete gibberish.

** [[Film/{{Frozen}} "Let It Go!"]]

** "Film/IronMan"

** "Star Trader" is a reference to 1974 space trading game with the same name.

** "[[Film/ANewHope That's no moon!]]"
** "[[Film/ANewHope Han shot first!]]"

** "[[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs Gargamel plays it!]]"

* The achievements still available in Bedrock Edition have a few as well:
** The achievement for making cake is called [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} The Lie]]
** The achievement for going to 38 biomes is called [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime "Adventuring Time"]].
* Come the new Advancements system replacing achievements in 1.12 for Java Edition, a few more little shout outs in the names have appeared alongside the existing achievement names. These include, but may not be limited to:
** [[Film/IronMan 'Suit Up']].
** 'Ice Bucket Challenge'.
** [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 'The City at the End of the Game']].
** [[Franchise/StarTrek 'Subspace Bubble', 'The Next Generation']].
** [[Literature/WutheringHeights 'Withering Heights']].
** [[Music/TheLivingTombstone 'Spooky Scary Skeleton']].
** [[Music/DonnaSummer 'Hot Stuff']].
** [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast 'Bee Our Guest']].
** [[Music/JohnDenver 'Country Lode, Take Me Home']].
** [[Music/ElvisPresley 'Return To Sender']].
** [[Music/BlackSabbath 'War Pigs']].
** [[Music/{{Queen}} 'Very Very Frightening']].
** [[Literature/TheHobbit 'Not Today, Thank You']]
** [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter 'Monster Hunter']].
** [[Film/TheKarateKid 'Wax On', 'Wax Off']].
** [[Franchise/{{Superman}} 'Is It a Bird?' 'Is It a Balloon?' 'Is It a Plane?']]
** [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973 'Ol' Betsy']].
** [[Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic 'Sound of Music']].
** 'Star Trader' is reference to 1974 space trading game with the same name.
** [[Franchise/ToyStory 'You Got a Friend in Me']].

* The paintings in the game are pixellated recreations of works by the artist [[https://zetterstrand.com/ Kristoffer Zetterstrand]], who also did the ''Minecraft'' versions. Some examples:

** The first 2-tall-by-1-wide painting is Caspar David Friedrich's ''Art/WandererAboveTheSeaOfFog''.

* The rare blue texture for the Axolotl is a reference to Mudkip from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''

** Woo, [[VideoGame/GarrysMod facepunch!]]

** "[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Lives in a pineapple under the sea!]]"

** [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory 'You Got a Friend in Me']].