Q 01/05

Which item do Minecraft players use on saplings and crops to hurry their growth?

A) Sugar

B) Bone meal

C) Water bucket

D) Glowstone dust

Answer · why

B) Bone meal

Bone meal pushes a sapling or crop toward its next growth stage, but it takes luck: each use on a sapling has less than an even chance of working.

Q 02/05

Which hostile mob explodes when it gets close to a player?

A) Creeper

B) Skeleton

C) Witch

D) Enderman

Answer · why

A) Creeper

The Creeper gives itself away with a hiss and a short fuse, so the standard defence is to hit it and back away before it goes off.

Q 03/05

What is the weakest pickaxe that will make diamond ore drop its diamonds in Minecraft?

A) Stone pickaxe

B) Gold pickaxe

C) Wooden pickaxe

D) Iron pickaxe

Answer · why

D) Iron pickaxe

Diamonds require at least an iron pickaxe to mine. Using a lower-tier pickaxe will break the diamond ore block without dropping anything.

Q 04/05

Which white-eyed figure is a fan-made horror legend that was never actually part of Minecraft?

A) Giant

B) Illusioner

C) Killer Bunny

D) Herobrine

Answer · why

D) Herobrine

Herobrine began as an anonymous 2010 ghost story and spread through staged livestreams; Mojang played along by listing 'Removed Herobrine' as a joke i...

Q 05/05

In Minecraft, which item do you get by smelting the raw ore that buckets, hoppers and rails are made from?

A) Iron nugget

B) Iron bars

C) Iron block

D) Iron ingot

Answer · why

D) Iron ingot

An iron ingot comes out of the furnace, but mining is not the only supply: iron golems drop several each, which is why players build golem farms.