100 Minecraft Trivia Questions Only Real Miners Will Get

Only a few video games achieve the kind of crossover pop culture penetration that "Minecraft" has. It's the kind of game that even people who still call all video games "Nintendo" have heard of and could probably identify on sight. But what makes it special is that it has managed to become both a major mainstream property while also still retaining a very hardcore, extremely faithful, and deeply enthusiastic following that can stand toe-to-toe with every other fervent video game fandom.

To that end, we have constructed a "Minecraft" trivia quiz that will challenge those that have been around since pre-beta, but will also have some questions that even the most casual of fans can answer. Ultimately, only those who can count themselves among the most passionate "Minecraft" fans will get all 100 questions, but we still encourage anyone with even a passing interest in the franchise to give it a spin and have some fun. 

The sections go roughly in order of easy questions to harder ones, focusing on history, lore, crafting, and much more, with the exception of the final section, which takes a bit of a detour outside of the core game into the various "Minecraft" spin-off games, book tie-ins, and of course, "A Minecraft Movie." 

1. Question: What is the name of the main developer of "Minecraft?"
Answer: Mojang Studios

2. Question: What is the pseudonym of Markus Persson, the man credited as the original creator of "Minecraft?"
Answer: Notch

3. Question: On which platform was "Minecraft" originally released?
Answer: PC

4. Question: What company purchased Mojang Studios and the "Minecraft" IP in 2014?
Answer: Microsoft

5. Question: What is the name of the mode where players have infinite resources, don't take damage, and have the option to fly freely around the map?
Answer: Creative mode

6. Question: In what country is Mojang Studios based?
Answer: Sweden

7. Question: What major change happened with Minecon between 2016 to 2017?
Answer: It changed from an in-person event to a livestreamed event

8. Question: What role did Daniel "C418" Rosenfeld play in the development of "Minecraft?"
Answer: He was the original composer and sound designer

9. Question: Once "Minecraft" went cross-platform, the original version was retroactively titled what?
Answer: "Minecraft: Java Edition"

10. Question: What is the name of the subscription-based service that allows players to host always-online multiplayer services hosted by Mojang?
Answer: Minecraft Realms

11. Question: What is the first material that most players mine in their opening moments of "Minecraft," as it is required to craft their first pickaxe?
Answer: Wood

12. Question: What happens to a zombie if it gets caught in direct sunlight?
Answer: It catches on fire and eventually burns to death

13. Question: What is the name of the main dimension that players start in and spend the majority of their time?
Answer: The Overworld

14. Question: What is the difference between flowing and stationary water in terms of how it can be collected into a bucket?
Answer: Players cannot collect actively flowing water. It has to be stationary as a water source block in order for them to fill their bucket with it

15. Question: What is the name of the default female character?
Answer: Alex

16. Question: In Survival mode, players start with two meters at the bottom of their screen. What do those meters represent?
Answer: Their health and hunger levels. A third meter, armor, is added once armor is equipped

17. Question: What is the main visual indicator that an animal has been tamed by the player?
Answer: Hearts appear above the animal's head

18. Question: How many of an item represents a "full stack" of that item?
Answer: 64

19. Question: If a player doesn't save their game in a bed or have a respawn anchor placed, where do they respawn when they die?
Answer: The spot where they originally started the game

20. Question: What three main points of view are available for the player?
Answer: First-person, third-person behind the avatar, and third-person in front of the avatar

21. Question: Which console was the first to have its own "Minecraft" release?
Answer: Xbox 360

22. Question: By what name was "Minecraft" known in its earliest phases before it adopted its official title?
Answer: Cave Game

23. Question: What was significant about Minecraft Survival Test?
Answer: It was the testing phase that first introduced enemies and a health bar to the game

24. Question: Which specific Mario game did all of the music tracks used in "Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition" come from?
Answer: "Super Mario 64"

25. Question: What line of smartphones was the first to have an official mobile version of "Minecraft," including the first to offer touch screen controls?
Answer: Sony Xperia

26. Question: One of the first significant official updates to have a unique title was the "Pretty ___ Update."
Answer: Pretty Scary Update

27. Question: In what year did "Minecraft" finally receive its first official major visual overhaul, called the Vibrant Visuals update?
Answer: 2025

28. Question: In addition to bees themselves, what type of block was introduced to "Minecraft" for the first time ever with the Buzzy Bees update?
Answer: Honey blocks

29. Question: Did the Nintendo 3DS version of "Minecraft" feature the option to play in 3D?
Answer: No, it was among the 3DS games that didn't offer a 3D mode

30. Question: What three gameplay mechanics made their debut in the 1.0 version of "Minecraft," the first official release of the full game?
Answer: Enchanting, breeding, and brewing

31. Question: What group are Steve and Alex supposedly descended from/the last of?
Answer: The Ancient Builders

32. Question: Which two music discs feature sound elements of someone fleeing in terror and presumably meeting their end, rather than being regular music tracks?
Answer: Disc 11 and Disc 13

33. Question: Pillagers, Vindicators, and Evokers are what type of hostile humanoid mob?
Answer: Illagers

34. Question: What monster was created out of a misuse of the world's soul energy, and is rumored to have been a major catalyst for what wiped out the majority of the Ancient Builders?
Answer: The Wither

35. Question: What is the largest amount of in-game text within "Minecraft" itself and is the closest the game comes to actually spelling out the story?
Answer: The End Poem

36. Question: What is the only type of humanoid mob that can't be fully classified as either a villager or an illager, as it has traits and characteristics of both?
Answer: Witches

37. Question: What is the name of the mysterious, glowing-eyed version of Steve that was rumored to "haunt" players' "Minecraft" worlds? 
Answer: Herobrine

38. Question: From which realm were the Endermen born after they initially became stranded there?
Answer: The End

39. Question: What two-word phrase at the end of "Minecraft" has led many to theorize that the entire game actually takes place within a dream or coma of some kind?
Answer: "Wake up"

40. Question: What creature do the clerics seem to worship?
Answer: Creepers

41. Question: What block type is required to craft an enchantment table?
Answer: Obsidian

42. Question: What mineral is needed to power a crafter?
Answer: Redstone

43. Question: Which one of the following can you not combine with a minecart: chest, hopper, observer, TNT, or furnace?
Answer: Observer

44. Question: What is the only thing you can craft flower pots into?
Answer: Bricks

45. Question: Which three food items can be crafted into blocks?
Answer: Watermelons, honey bottles, and dried kelp

46. Question: Which is the only type of plank that requires the extra step of the material needing to be crafted into blocks first before the blocks then can be combined to craft the plank?
Answer: A bamboo plank

47. Question: While some animals simply drop leather when killed, there is only one animal whose hide can be used to actually craft leather. Which animal is it?
Answer: Rabbit

48. Question: What are the four main types of ingot?
Answer: Iron, copper, gold, and netherite

49. Question: How do shaped and fixed recipes differ?
Answer: Shaped recipes can be mirrored or arranged any way within the grid as long as they are the right shape, whereas fixed recipes only have one specific configuration within the grid that must be done in that exact way in order to work

50. Question: Besides sugar cane, what else can be used to craft sugar?
Answer: A honey bottle

50. Question: What is "mob" actually short for?
Answer: Mobile entity or mobile object

51. Question: What is a group of Endermen called?
Answer: A haunting

52. Question: What is the name for a type of mob that doesn't attack the player unless provoked in some way?
Answer: A neutral mob

53. Question: What is the only type of villager that performs a job that has an actual physical effect on the world?
Answer: Farmers — they plant seeds, harvest crops, and give food to other villagers

54. Question: What biome is the home to the largest number of passive mobs?
Answer: Plains

55. Question: Which three main biome types never experience rain or snow?
Answer: Deserts, Savannas, and Badlands/Mesa

56. Question: What is the only mob type that spawns naturally in all three dimensions (Overworld, Nether, and The End)?
Answer: Enderman

57. Question: How many biomes are there in the Nether?
Answer: Five — Soul Sand Valley, Nether Wastes, Crimson Forest, Warped Forest, and Basalt Delta

58. Question: Which biome type's underground has more gold ore to be mined than anywhere else?
Answer: Badlands/Mesa

59. Question: What is the name of the mushroom-covered cows that exclusively spawn in the Mushroom Fields biome?
Answer: Mooshrooms

60. Question: The rare Pale Forest biome, home to creaking hearts blocks and the creaking mobs they spawn, is a variant of what other biome type?
Answer: Dark Forest, aka Roofed Forest

61. Question: What is the type of enchantment that allows swords to be repaired automatically — and potentially indefinitely — via experience orbs?
Answer: Mending

62. Question: What weapon deals so much bonus damage in proportion to your fall distance that you can potentially one-shot any enemy in the game with it, even the Ender Dragon?
Answer: The mace

63. Question: What is the only primary weapon that cannot be crafted and is only attainable as an enemy drop or vault find?
Answer: The trident

64. Question: Only available in certain versions of "Minecraft," Underwater TNT can be crafted by combining a block of TNT with what element?
Answer: Sodium

65. Question: Besides various types of arrows, what else can be shot out of a crossbow?
Answer: Firework rockets

66. Question: Before the introduction of shields, which weapon had a blocking function that was removed when shields were added?
Answer: The sword

67. Question: What is the difference in what can be detected by a wooden pressure plate and a stone pressure plate?
Answer: Wooden pressure plates are triggered by all objects, mobs, and other players. Stone pressure plates aren't triggered by objects, but by mobs and players only

68. Question: What is the only type of food that can be rigged into an explosive trap?
Answer: Cake

69. Question: What is the only type of mob that takes actual damage from snowballs?
Answer: Blazes

70. Question: What is the only way to directly use a fire charge as a weapon?
Answer: By setting it up to be fired from a dispenser

71. Question: The poppy is the renamed and slightly tweaked version of what flower that no longer appears as a standalone flower in the game?
Answer: Rose

72. Question: What removed item was crafted from a part of a goat and was used to play music?
Answer: Copper horn

73. Question: What type of large, totally solid, randomly-appearing pyramid was a legendary fixture of early versions of "Minecraft" but was subsequently removed?
Answer: Brick pyramid

74. Question: In early versions of "Minecraft," if a player named their avatar "Notch," what item would they drop when they died?
Answer: An apple

75. Question: In addition to sand beaches, what other beach variant used to exist as a terrain option?
Answer: Gravel beaches

76. Question: Before mounting horses was required to tame them, by what other method could a player tame a horse?
Answer: By feeding them

77. Question: Which two popular featured servers were shut down in 2023 (though one was subsequently revived in 2026)?
Answer: Pixel Paradise and Mineplex (the one that was revived)

78. Question: What type of room did the player start in by default when launching the now-defunct VR mode for "Minecraft," and would stay in that room and play "Minecraft" off a 2D screen unless they switched to Immersive Mode?
Answer: A living room

79. Question: Which two subsequently removed biomes were introduced in the Halloween Update?
Answer: Rainforest and Shrubland

80. Question: What type of removed pillar used to indicate the location of strongholds?
Answer: Glass pillar

81. Question: How much XP does a player get the first time they kill the Ender Dragon?
Answer: 12,000 XP, which drops to 500 XP for each additional defeat if an Ender Dragon is respawned by the player to fight again

82. Question: What can be brewed by bottling up the purple mist from the Ender Dragon's attack?
Answer: Dragon's Breath

83. Question: What happens if a player tries to sleep in a bed while in the Nether?
Answer: The bed will explode

84. Question: How many Eyes of Ender does a player need to gather in order to access the portal to The End?
Answer: 12

85. Question: How does a player get the "Ooh, shiny!" achievement while in The Nether?
Answer: By using gold to distract a Piglin while it is being aggressive toward the player

86. Question: What item, obtained by defeating the Wither, is required in order to craft a Beacon?
Answer: A Nether Star

87. Question: What are the only two ways a player can use water on themselves in The Nether if they catch on fire?
Answer: Jumping into a water-filled cauldron, and throwing a Splash Bottle of water at their feet

88. Question: About how many blocks worth of empty space must a player figure out how to cross by other means if they want to reach an End City without killing the Ender Dragon first?
Answer: About 1,000 blocks

89. Question: What unique type of block, used for decoration and also as a wearable, can only be found on End ships?
Answer: Dragon Head

90. Question: How many stacks of items can be held in a shulker box?
Answer: 27

91. Question: Who voices the male version of Jesse in "Minecraft: Story Mode?"
Answer: Patton Oswalt

92. Question: Which video streaming service featured a since-removed interactive version of "Minecraft: Story Mode?" 
Answer: Netflix

93. Question: What illager is the main antagonist of "Minecraft Dungeons?"
Answer: Archie

94. Question: What area serves as the first/tutorial level of "Minecraft Dungeons?"
Answer: Squid Coast

95. Question: The main goal of "Minecraft Legends" is to stop invading armies of what type of enemy?
Answer: Piglins

96. Question: What publisher put out the "Minecraft" graphic novel series?
Answer: Dark Horse Comics

97. Question: Who wrote the trilogy of "Minecraft" novels "Minecraft: The Island," "Minecraft: The Mountain," and "Minecraft: The Village?"
Answer: Max Brooks

98. Question: In "A Minecraft Movie," what is Steve's job on Earth before he goes off to the Overworld?
Answer: Doorknob salesman

99. Question: What two words does Jack Black speak during "A Minecraft Movie" that went viral and led to crowds cheering and throwing things during screenings of the film?
Answer: "Chicken jockey"

100. Question: What is the name of the Piglin queen that is the main antagonist of "A Minecraft Movie?"
Answer: Malgosha.