Minecraft is generally a very accessible game, where with time and effort, you can achieve almost anything. However, there are still some rare items and anomalies that you might not have encountered even after several hundred hours. And that’s exactly what we’re dealing with today! Minecraft keeps many very rare items, mobs, and landscape features hidden from you. Some of which you probably didn’t even know existed. We’ve already talked about funny Easter Eggs (Discover the Best Minecraft Secrets and Easter Eggs) , and now we’re taking a look at very rare moments in the game itself.
Find an Enchanted Golden Apple
While this shimmering golden apple is not as rare as it used to be, it’s still a great item that you can find in your world. And since you can’t craft this apple yourself, you should definitely look for it. Your best chance is a treacherous vault in a trial chamber, where there’s a 22.5% chance of finding such an apple. It gives you extremely good status effects, including regeneration, absorption, fire resistance, and normal resistance. A lifesaver for tough boss fights.
Breed a Blue Axolotl
Axolotls are creatures that not every player might see. They can only be found in lush caves and can then be brought to your base with a bucket. But if you breed two axolotls, there’s a 1 in 1200 chance that it will have a violet-yellow color! It will take you several buckets of tropical fish before that happens. This rare axolotl is likely inspired by the Pokémon Mudkip, which has a similar color.
Discover Underground Fossils
Did you know you can find extremely rare fossils in caves? Many players have never stumbled upon one. They only appear in the desert, swamp, or mangrove swamps and have just a 1 in 64 chance of appearing in a chunk. There are two types of fossils, one with coal between Y-Level 0 and 320 and one with diamonds between -8 and -63. They come in eight variants, so finding them all seems almost impossible unless you actively search for them.
End Portal Activated with All 12 Eyes
It may sound unbelievable, but yes, an End portal in a stronghold can actually already be activated when you arrive. Many of Minecraft’s seed hunters have taken it upon themselves to find just such worlds. Each of the twelve End portal frames has a 10% chance of already having an eye placed. Overall, there’s a 1 in 1,000,000,000,000 chance that all eyes are filled. Whew, that’s rare! But it’s possible.
Find Monoliths in Alpha
Let’s take a look at a very strange structure from old Minecraft days. Monoliths date back to InfDev and Alpha and are terrain errors that cause the terrain to be raised to the maximum height of a Minecraft world (back then only 128 blocks). A large cavity is created beneath, sometimes even lifting bedrock. This glitch is super rare; if you’re lucky, one might appear every few 10,000 blocks. But with the tool Monolith Finder, you can specifically search for them in Alpha worlds.
Breed a Brown Mooshroom Cow
Mooshrooms can be found in corresponding mushroom biomes and are usually always red. But in rare moments, they can turn into brown specimens. This happens either when a red Mooshroom cow is struck by lightning. Conversely, this transformation works too! When breeding two of these mushroom cows, there’s a 1 in 1204 chance of getting a brown mushroom cow. So, such a cow is almost as rare as the blue axolotl. However, once you have a brown cow, you can continue to breed it.
Zombie Village
You’re looking at a new village from afar and already excited about the villagers, but the closer you get, the stranger it seems. There are cobwebs everywhere, only zombie villagers, and the houses are decayed. Congratulations! You’ve stumbled upon an abandoned village, sometimes referred to as a zombie village. Every village in the world has a 2% chance of being abandoned when the world is generated.
Mine Deepslate Emerald Ore
Emeralds themselves are not easy to find, but an extremely rare variant is emerald ore, which consists of deepslate instead of regular stone. It’s so rare because emeralds can only be found in mountainous and snowy regions, and the rate decreases the deeper you dig. Although the ore is available up to Y-Level -16, the chances become vanishingly small. Your best chances are to search under a windswept hill between levels 8 and -16.
Discover Mushroom Fields on Land
The Mushroom Fields biome is usually found only as an island. They are isolated from the normal Minecraft map and are already very rare to find, covering only 0.15% of the total land area. However, there are some rare seeds where this biome is generated on land. Normally, these islands only appear when the map’s continentality is low, but in very, very rare cases, they also appear on land. Unfortunately, this only works up to version 1.18.
Ride a Skeleton Horse
Skeleton horses sound like a myth, but they can actually be found in vanilla Minecraft! You need to wait for a thunderstorm at night and hope for a so-called “Horse Trap.” During this event, a lightning bolt strikes the ground and spawns a group of skeleton riders. The higher your difficulty, the more likely this event is. If you only kill the skeletons on the horses, the horses become neutral. You can even put a saddle on them and ride them! They can even walk underwater.
Conclusion
Minecraft really keeps some rare things hidden that not every player gets to see. But if you’re looking to do something different, use this list to search for unexpected treasures and rare formations in your world. Rent one of our Minecraft servers and embark on a quest with your friends to find some of the things on this list!
