Removed Content

This is a sub-page of Minecraft: Java Edition.

To do: This page is certainly out-of-date. Things are being removed with every update and not everything removed in the old days is even shown here.

This sub-page is dedicated to the removed content in Minecraft.

Removed blocks#

Locked Chest#

The Locked Chest was a block added for Minecraft's very first ever April Fool's joke back in 2011, when the game was still in its Beta phase of development. After the event was over, however, this block wasn't fully removed, but it would be slowly be deprecated over the coming updates and would eventually be removed by snapshot 13w41a, the details of which are actually somewhat interesting!

Beta 1.4	12w21a	12w22a	13w01a	13w03a	13w18a

Shrub#

The shrub was an unused variant of short grass that did not generate naturally.

Beta 1.6 Test build 3	14w07a	14w10a	14w25a	14w26a

inventory

Beta 1.6 Test build 3	Beta 1.8 Pre-release	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6

In early versions of Minecraft, the shrub existed as a hidden, unused plant block. Although it looked almost identical to the dead bush, it functioned very differently under the hood. Most notably, shrubs used a random visual offset, just like tall grass, ferns, and flowers, meaning individual plants didn't line up perfectly on a grid.

Technically, the shrub shared its underlying block ID with tall grass and ferns (holding metadata 0, while grass and ferns were 1 and 2). Because of this, it inherited their mechanics, including a chance to drop wheat seeds when destroyed.

The shrub was likely an early prototype rather than an accident. Developers gave it a distinct name in the code and specifically programmed it to ignore biome color tinting (unlike tall grass). However, it remained unobtainable in survival mode, while the standard dead bush generated naturally throughout world generation.

When Minecraft overhauled its internal block system in snapshot 14w26a, most invalid or unused block variants were deleted. The shrub survived this cleanup, remaining a valid block in the game code for years. The shrub remained until 17w47a, the version in which the Flattening occurred, that the shrub was finally merged into the standard dead bush and removed as a distinct entity.

Cloth#

Added in Java Edition Classic 0.0.20a, there were 16 different colors of wool, referred to as "cloth" at the time

Red	Orange	Yellow	Chartreuse	Green	Spring Green	Cyan	Capri
Ultramarine	Violet	Purple	Magenta	Rose	White	Light Gray	Dark Gray

In Java Edition Classic 0.28 Gray and light gray cloth are now darker.

Light Gray	Dark Gray

Until, in June 24, 2010 build of Infdev, all cloth are getting remove from the game and one of them get rename as "wool"

Infinite Water/lava Source#

An infinite water source was a block that would repeatedly create water on each of its four orthogonal sides. Added in January 14, 2010 build of Indev 0.31. They could be found in stacks of 99 in the starting house chests.

• The blocks were added to allow for players to create lakes on floating maps.

And an infinite lava source, also referred to as a "volcano block" by Notch, was a block that would repeatedly create lava on each of its four orthogonal sides. Added in January 22, 2010 at 22:51 build of Indev 0.31. They could be found in stacks of 99 in the starting house chests.

• It appears in the player's inventory in a stack of 5.

In February 1, 2010 at 22:27 build of Indev 0.31, they both are get deleted by sponges.

Until, in June 24, 2010 build of Infdev, they both have been removed.

Human Mob#

To do: Get more information about this mob.

The mob was first added in rd-132328 and it used both the skin and model from another game Notch was developing around the same time as Minecraft, named Zombie Town. In later versions of the game (namely, rd-160052) you were able to spawn a Human by pressing G, however this function was removed in 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST. At first, they were relatively harmless, as all they did was jump around while flailing their arms. The animations were inconsistent, however. If your game is running at a high framerate (50-60 FPS), you can see the mob's movement animation start to stutter every once in a while.

The mob was later put back in after the Dock MD3 mobs were taken out, in 0.31 of February 1st, 2010-1 and now drop either string, feathers, or gunpowder. They are also meant to drop flint and steel, however this wasn't working until 0.31 of February 1st, 2010-3, in which you cannot destroy stone and ores with bare hands. They also drown in water despite appearing to be swimming like the player. However, they were replaced by the signature pig, sheep (without wool), zombie, creeper, skeleton, and spider models in 0.31 of February 3rd, 2010.

In 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST, the texture for this mob had its goatee removed. In Beta 1.2, the Mob savegame id was removed. In versions prior to Beta 1.6.6, Monster's AI was fully intact and was hostile towards the player (only accessible using map editors, though). After Beta 1.6.6, this mob was slowly being removed update by update and 1.11 completely removed the mob's leftovers from the game. Prior to 1.11, the leftover AI could have been used to create a mob similar to the Human using mods.

Potions#

These potions all existed in-game, but could not be brewed or obtained legitimately. All of them acted like base potions in that their appearance was a bottle of water and they had no effect when drunk. They would have been obtained by modifying a potion's damage value with an inventory editor, or with the /give command on servers. These were all removed in 15w31a.

Sounds#

Text#

Unused Text#

Splash Texts#

Anti-Piracy Measure#

In older versions of Minecraft since Beta 1.6, this message shows up after a while of playing if Mojang's authentication servers return a 400 response code when verifying the session ID, which occurs when the session ID that the launcher passed to the game itself is either invalid, or doesn't match whatever Mojang's server has, which can occur if the session ID is regenerated as a result of logging in from another location, or the player playing using pirated launcher, which obviously doesn't authenticate with Mojang, making the ID not exist in the first place. This error doesn't appear if the game can't connect to the authentication servers at all, as the game only checks for a 400 response code, which it won't get if the computer it's being played on is offline, and now, since the authentication servers themselves, at least at the address the game checks at, are offline themselves, the message no longer appears on any copy, as the game just assumes it's offline.

Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 Unlicensed Copy :(
(Or logged in from another location)
Purchase at minecraft.net

This watermark seems to have been removed in version Beta 1.8.

Expanding Ghasts#

To do: Has this ever existed in other (Bedrock/Console) editions of the game?

When Ghasts were first added to the game in Alpha 1.2.0, they would visibly expand before shooting a fireball, along with opening their mouth and eyes as they do currently. However, the aggression timer used for this behavior was not networked properly, causing the effect to not work in multiplayer. The client/server split in version 1.3 also broke this functionality in singleplayer, and the code was removed entirely in snapshot 14w06a for 1.8.

Recipes#

Enchanted Golden Apple#

Between 1.3.1 and 1.8.9, the Enchanted Golden Apple used to have a crafting recipe. It was crafted with 8 Gold Blocks with an apple in the center. The crafting recipe was removed in 1.9, likely due to it being slightly overpowered.