Discontinued Features and Rarities

Discontinued Features and Rarities
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”A feature of Minecraft, whether a bug or an intentional feature, that could be acquired in specific versions of the game, and the ability to acquire said feature was, at some point, removed”

~the Minecraft Discontinued Features Wiki

This page is all about things that are now no longer obtainable (e.g. petrified oak slabs) or rare (blank maps for example). Some features have also been removed throughout the numerous updates, such as invalid data value leaves (usually known as "alpha leaves"). Relicts of admin abuse do not belong in the page!

Please include the following info

• Version range (if uncertain, give the version it was obtained / removed)
• Owners (players who posses it / had possessed it)
• Info
• Images

Discontinued features

Items

Dragon egg

(WIP)

• Version range:
• Info:
• Owner(s) / location(s):

Alpha Slab / Petrified Oak Slab

(WIP)

• Version range: Beta 1.3 - 1.2.5
• Info: Wooden slabs used to have the same numeric ID as stone slabs but with a data value 2 instead of 0. Somewhere after version 1.2.5 both the texture and the model of the item were removed from the gamefiles giving it its famous look. In version 1.13 the numeric ID's were removed and the wooden slab got its own name: "petrified oak slab".
• Owner(s) / location(s): oakmarten,

Discontinued enchantments

Infinity and mending bow (/ book)

• Version range: 1.9 - 1.11

• Info: When mending was introduced, it used to be not mutually exclusive with infinity. Nowadays mending and infinity bows are rare and highly valued.

Fun fact: during these versions it was possible to obtain a mending + infinity book in jungle temple and stronghold chests.

• Owner(s) / location(s): Laztec (screenshot above),

Enchanted Jack o'Lantern

• Version range: 1.11 - 1.19.4
• Info: Up untill 1.19.4 it was possible to enchant Jack o'Lanterns with curse of vanishing, binding or both enchantments combined.
• Owner(s) / location(s): oakmarten,

Silktouch shears

• Version range: 1.4.6 - 1.8.9
• Info: Before 1.9 silktouch on shears was required to obtain cobwebs, this is no longer needed anymore.
• Owner(s) / location(s): Korijenkins (screenshot above)

Dubble enchantments on the same item

• Version range:
• Info:
• Owner(s) / location(s):

(WIP)

Diamond knockback IV sword

• Version range: /
• Info: There was once a bug that allowed players to keep their items from an /event, this involved logging out during the event.
• Owner(s) / location(s): willowienal (screenshot above)

Invalid named item

Renaming an item with a specific discontinued character will result in an item with a space as name, resulting in a blank name.

Owner(s): oakmarten

Overstacked Items

• stacked Curses of Vanishing / Binding / or both books====
• stacked music discs
• stacked saddles

(WIP)

No NBT items

• No NBT map

Owner(s): Laztec, oakmarten,

• No NBT enchanted book

Owner(s): Laztec

• No NBT potion (uncraftable potion)

(WIP)

entity.MinecartRidable.name

(WIP)

Zero durability item

(WIP)

Low digit map ID's

(WIP)

Unnatural NBT tags

• Omnious banner
• Compass

Mobs

Pre 1.14 villagers

(WIP)

Mob holding invalid an item

Enderman holding netherack

(WIP)

Weaponless skeleton, wither skeleton, zombified piglin, zombie variants

(WIP)

Mob / player wearing an enchanted Jack o'Lantern on their head

(WIP)

Blocks

Snowy Grass Block

AKA the thermal paste block.

A snowy grass block without the snow layer, leaving behind the base taxture of the top part of a grass block. This bug could occurre by either an enderman picking up a grass block that had snow on it and placing it back down (patched in 1.16.x) or by world generation (similar to floating vegetation) (patched in 1.17.x).

Although this blockstate is rather stable (placing or breaking blocks does not cause any updates) snowfall will update the block and a snowlayer will form on it. Al it takes to prevent this is to place a block 2 blocks above the grass block (as shown in the screenshot).

Owner(s): oakmarten

Moving Piston / Block 36

• Version range: Beta 1.7 - 1.16.5
• Info: Moving piston blocks were able to be made when blowing up the block entity of an extending piston in the same tick that the piston extends. This was possible by blowing up a brewing stand with an end crystal and extending a piston at the right time.

This newly created block, that normally is meant to only exist for a very short period, has some interesting properties:

1. Gravity blocks will fall through it when they are falling. They will stay as a falling entity when there is a block underneath it that normally breaks falling blocks, like a fence for example.
2. Gravity blocks can sit on top of it when they are directly placed on it.
3. Fluids don't go through a moving piston block nor can blocks be places in it.
4. Block 36 can support item frames.
5. Moving piston blocks can still be made by using the world border, the block itself can be found outside and a server sided hitbox is projected on the inside of the border (image needed).

• 

  Sand will stay as a falling entity forever when falling through a moving piston block.

• 

  Fluids can't flow through it and will look stationary.

• 

  Gravity blocks will float on a block 36.

• Owner(s) / location(s): Barrier Town featured some of these blocks.

Removed features

Items

Alpha leave / Invalid data value leave

(WIP)

Mobs

(WIP)

Blocks

(WIP)

Rarities

Items

Blank Map

Blank maps are maps that show no terrain, when placed on item frames they will become transparent and make the item frame larger. There are 2 types of blank maps: ones that have NBT data and ones that don't, they can be distinguished from eachother by either enabling advanced tooltips or by some small visual differences when held.

Owner(s): oakmarten (both)

(example of the other type is still needed, to compare)

Tall Grass / Large Fern (item)

Tall grass and large ferns as items are only obtainable in village chests (1.14+). Tall grass has a 45.9% chance of generating in a savanna village and large fern has a 18.6% chance in a taiga village. Owner(s): oakmarten Tombomb47

Deepslate Emerald Ore

Deepslate Emerald Ore is rare to find, you need to find and mine it with Silk Touch. It only spawns very rarely on levels where Emerald Ore is found (above y = -16) and below where you find Deepslate (Below y = 0).

Owner(s): Sengorn_Leopard Tombomb47 Hijax

Mobs

NoAI Ender Dragon

• 

  The dragon is being resummoned after the blocks were placed to block the dragon's path finding.

• 

  The first dragon is succesfully frozen and can be moved.

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  Moving the dragon.

• 

  Boats with players can sit on the extremely large hitbox of the dragon.

By blocking specific locations with blocks the enderdragon will no longer be able to pathfind it, this results in a frozen dragon. When the dragon is frozen you can push it outside the main end island with a flying mashine. When there is no ender dragon at end spawn during and the dragon battle isn't finished the server will spawn a brand new dragon which will freeze aswell. This allows multiple dragons in 1 world.

A video that ostrich1414 made about the broken dragons event: https://youtu.be/Itqe5GtNs5g?feature=shared

Oakmarten would later also try to clear lavacasts with a dragon and get more than the initial 2 dragons. He succeeded in getting 3 dragons in one place.

Attempting to use the dragon to clear parts of the lava casts around spawn.

Dragons were succesfully moved outside the main end island.

Owner(s): This is a temporary bug, unless the dragon is stored in an unloaded chunk and never loaded again.

Weaponless (zombified) piglin and pillager

(WIP)

Blocks

Headless Piston

(WIP)