Minecraft guides — page 7
Practical write-ups on commands, datapacks, building and server performance — each one paired with the tool that does the work.
Painting sizes: 34 of the 51 are square, and only 5 are taller than they are wide
51 paintings across 9 sizes, needing 321 blocks of wall to hang them all. A 1-wide, 2-tall gap fits exactly three of them — and five paintings credit no artist at all.
Brewing covers 19 of 40 effects — and four potions are not named after what they do
21 status effects cannot be brewed. Swiftness gives Speed, Leaping gives Jump Boost, Healing gives Instant Health — and /give and /effect need the different names.
2,042 recipes and 883 tags: stonecutting is a sixth of them, and one tag lists 449 blocks
26.3 ships 22 recipe types, brewing among them now, and crafting is not as dominant as it feels. On the tag side, mineable/pickaxe alone lists 449 entries and no vanilla tag uses replace.
Recipe yields round up, so a crafting cost is never just multiplication
Paper makes 3 per craft. Needing 4 costs you 6 sugar cane and leaves 2 paper spare. Every level of a recipe tree does that, and the waste compounds downward.
Six version options, four world generators — three of them are the same world
26.1, 26.2 and 26.3 all resolve to one generator in the seed map — though 26.3 added a biome it cannot draw yet. And 1.21.1 and 1.21.3 are different generators, which catches people mid-line.
Recolouring the sky: the moon is eight files now, and the sun has moved
A sky pack replaces celestial/sun.png, eight 32×32 moon-phase files, end_flash.png, clouds.png, rain.png, snow.png and end_sky.png at exact sizes. The old single moon strip is gone.
Spawn eggs cover 88 of 161 entities — and exactly three creatures have none
73 entity types have no spawn egg, but 68 of those are boats, projectiles and display entities. Only Giant, Illusioner and Mannequin are creatures you cannot egg.
454 splash texts, 453 unique — and the one duplicate is "Déjà vu!"
Minecraft ships 454 splashes. Exactly one appears twice, and it is the joke you would pick. 407 end in an exclamation mark and the shortest is four characters.
52 structures: eighteen are abandoned camps, and 23 do not fit the terrain at all
Stronghold spawns in 56 biomes and each village variant but plains in exactly one. 29 of the 52 structures adapt to the ground under them — the other 23 are placed as-is.
Switching skin editions reloads the page, and that is the correct design
Java's editor is built around 64 and Bedrock's around 128. The constant is baked in, so the two cannot hand each other a canvas — which is why each edition is a real URL rather than a toggle.