Easter eggs: Difference between revisions

From December 24–26, [[chest]]s, large chests, trapped chests, and minecarts with chest have their textures changed to Christmas chests that resemble wrapped Christmas presents. This was added in Java Edition 1.4.6 for Christmas 2012. A texture file called "skis.png" was also added in Java Edition 1.4.6 in the same folder as the Christmas chests, but it was added by [[Dinnerbone]] as a [[wikipedia:red herring|red herring]]. This was re-added for Christmas 2013,<ref>{{tweet|dinnerDinnerbone|283385906587652096|Enjoy your fancy gift-chests, minecrafters! They'll look great under a giant tree. (And those skis? They're attached to a rouge fish.)|December 24, 2012}}<br>{{tweet|Dinnerbone|283386906950119424|@Le_flobi I wouldn't consider them christian, just fun. If you still don't like them; two days.|December 24, 2012}}<br>{{tweet|Dinnerbone|283392354851901440|@Crimson5M Bingo.|December 24, 2012}}<br>{{tweet|Dinnerbone|283387224194707460|@MCTheWatershed Certainly not rogue.|December 24, 2012}}</ref> along with a new "rain feature"—[[pig]]s riding [[chicken]]s (this is not planned to be fully implemented). This also happened again in 2014 with a new splash reading, "Merry X-Mas!" and repeated in every Christmas since.

Before the [[Texture Update]], in an unused area for the [[zombie pigman]] texture, the words "THX XAPHOBIA" could be seen. This was written by [[Notch]] to give credit and thanks to the original creator of the texture, XaPhobia.<ref>{{tweet|notch|28832121068|@Micleee thank you!|October 26, 2010}}<br>{{tweet|Kiina_RS|1693649559983980858|i happened to read the mc wiki and ended up on capes page. and poor micleee.his cape got removed according to wiki when other users asked Notch for personal capes.since then there has been 8 more personal capes. and 6 unique capes that more than 1 person has.micleee lost theirs:(|August 21, 2023}}</ref><ref>http://pokeaddicted.deviantart.com/art/Zombie-Pigmen-183701798</ref>

If a player types "'''excitedze'''" into the search bar in the [[recipe book]], their language is automatically switched to Pirate Speak. "ExcitedZe" is the username of [[Maria Lemón]], a former Mojang Studios staff member.<ref>https://twitter.com/{{tweet|DxnnySch|850390981719584768|@MiaLem_n/status/ Whats you Ingame-name?|April 7, 2017}}<br>{{tweet|MiaLem_n|850413607804391425|ExcitedZe|April 7, 2017}}<br>{{tweet|DxnnySch|850588593437515776|Thx ☺|April 7, 2017}}</ref>

* One of the paintings is a reference to the ''[https://www.mariowiki.com/Donkey_Kong_(game) Donkey Kong]'' arcade game.<ref>{{citationtweet|url=https://twitter.com/Zetterstrand/status/|1636470302937952266?s=20 |title=sure Kong. Oil on panel (2003)|website=Twitter}}</ref>

* If an [[evoker]] sees a blue sheep, it turns the sheep into a red sheep while uttering "wololo". This is a reference to the Priest unit from the [[wikipedia:Age of Empires|''Age of Empires'']] real-time strategy game series, which would utter "wololo" while converting enemy units to their side, changing their color. The evoker specifically uses the sound sample from the 1999 title [[wikipedia:Age of Empires II|''Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings'']].<ref>{{ytl|tWKG6Xhp0_I}}</ref><ref>{{tweet|jeb_|781679411200491520|I'm still in LA! Noticed the wololo easter egg has been found! It's exactly the same sound sample as used in AoE2, hehe :D|September 29, 2016}}<br>{{tweet|jeb_|781685008931192832|Ensemble Studios was a Microsoft studio, so it's cleared|September 29, 2016}}</ref>