Seven days of questions and answers

Minecraft Trivia Answers Archive

Review earlier daily rounds, reveal the correct answer, and use the short explanation to learn the fact behind each question. Page 3 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Which neutral mob can defend villagers by attacking nearby threats?

    Answer: Iron Golem

    Iron golems patrol villages and attack many hostile mobs that threaten villagers.

  2. Which Overworld structure represents the remains of a wooden vessel and can generate on an ocean floor or beach?

    Answer: Shipwreck

    Shipwrecks are ruined wooden vessels that can generate underwater, partly exposed, or on beaches and may contain several kinds of loot chest.

  3. Which potion effect allows a player to see in complete darkness?

    Answer: Night Vision

    The Night Vision effect illuminates the player's view even in areas with zero light level, such as caves or the ocean floor, without actually changing the light level of surrounding blocks.

  4. Which of these blocks conducts a redstone signal and can also act as a wire?

    Answer: Redstone Dust

    Redstone Dust is the primary wiring component in redstone circuits, carrying a signal strength that weakens by one for every block traveled from the source.

  5. Which food item is obtained by fishing and can be cooked for better saturation?

    Answer: Cod

    Raw cod is caught through fishing and can be cooked into cooked cod, which provides more hunger and saturation when eaten.

Daily round

  1. Which armor enchantment reduces damage from many common sources?

    Answer: Protection

    Protection reduces damage from many common sources, while specialized enchantments cover narrower damage categories.

  2. What effect does sleeping in a bed during a thunderstorm have?

    Answer: It advances time to dawn like normal sleep

    Sleeping in a bed during a thunderstorm skips the night and moves time to dawn the same way it does on a clear night, also ending the storm.

  3. Which tall, dark skeleton found in Nether Fortresses inflicts the Wither effect with melee attacks?

    Answer: Wither Skeleton

    Wither Skeletons spawn in Nether Fortresses and can inflict the Wither effect when they strike in melee.

  4. What does a Fermented Spider Eye do when added to a Potion of Swiftness in the brewing stand?

    Answer: Reverses it into a Potion of Slowness

    A Fermented Spider Eye inverts or corrupts a potion's effect, so combining it with Swiftness produces a Potion of Slowness, which reduces movement speed.

  5. Which undead Nether mob is usually neutral but causes nearby members of its group to retaliate when attacked?

    Answer: Zombified Piglin

    Zombified Piglins are normally neutral, but attacking one provokes nearby Zombified Piglins to retaliate.

Daily round

  1. What does Dragon's Breath convert a Splash Potion into when combined in a brewing stand?

    Answer: A lingering potion

    Dragon's Breath turns a Splash Potion into a Lingering Potion, which creates a lingering cloud of particles on impact that applies the effect to any entity passing through it.

  2. Which End mob fires projectiles that inflict the Levitation effect?

    Answer: Shulker

    A Shulker fires guided bullets that apply Levitation when they hit a player or other target.

  3. What does a repeater do to a redstone signal passing through it?

    Answer: Amplifies it back to strength 15 and adds a delay

    A redstone repeater boosts any incoming signal back to full strength of 15 and introduces a configurable delay of one to four ticks.

  4. Which of these blocks can only be found inside a stronghold and is essential for locating the End portal?

    Answer: An end portal frame

    End portal frames are blocks that appear only in the portal room of a stronghold, and Eyes of Ender must be placed into them to activate the portal to the End.

  5. What must a farmer villager have access to in order to compost crops and produce bone meal?

    Answer: A composter block

    A composter block allows farmer villagers to convert excess seeds and crops into bone meal over time, and players can also manually compost plant items in it.

Daily round

  1. What does smelting sand in a furnace produce?

    Answer: Glass

    Smelting a sand block in a furnace yields a glass block, which is transparent and can be broken by hand without tools.

  2. Which of these materials can be used to craft a bucket?

    Answer: Three iron ingots

    A bucket is crafted from three iron ingots arranged in a V-shape on the crafting table, giving players the ability to carry water, lava, milk, and other fluids.

  3. What information can a comparator read from a lectern holding a written book?

    Answer: The reader's current page position

    A comparator reads a signal strength from a lectern based on the current page relative to the book's total page count.

  4. Which Overworld structure is a small cobblestone room containing a monster spawner and loot chests?

    Answer: Dungeon

    A dungeon is a small room made from cobblestone and mossy cobblestone with a monster spawner and loot chests.

  5. What does a comparator output when placed directly behind a full container like a chest?

    Answer: A signal based on how full the container is

    A comparator in measurement mode outputs a redstone signal proportional to how full the container behind it is, scaling from 0 for empty to 15 for completely full.

Daily round

  1. Which Nether mob flies near fortress spawners and attacks by launching small fireballs?

    Answer: Blaze

    Blazes are found in Nether fortresses and drop blaze rods, which are essential for brewing potions and reaching the End.

  2. Which villager trading level comes immediately after Apprentice?

    Answer: Journeyman

    Villager trading levels progress from Novice to Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, and then Master.

  3. What determines whether a redstone signal traveling through dust weakens over distance?

    Answer: The distance from the power source

    Redstone dust signals lose one strength for every block of distance from the power source, reaching zero after fifteen blocks unless a repeater boosts it.

  4. What dimension features a biome composed entirely of crimson or warped nylium and massive fungi?

    Answer: The Nether

    The Nether's crimson and warped forests feature nylium surfaces and towering fungi unique to that dimension.

  5. Which block generates naturally in the Nether and dramatically slows down any entity walking through it?

    Answer: Soul Sand

    Soul Sand reduces the walking speed of any player or mob that moves through it, making traversal across Soul Sand Valleys noticeably slower than on other Nether surfaces.

Daily round

  1. What material do you need to shear a sheep in order to obtain wool directly?

    Answer: Shears

    Using shears on a sheep drops one to three wool blocks without killing the sheep, and the wool regrows after the animal grazes on grass.

  2. What does the Wither effect do to an entity it is applied to?

    Answer: Drains health and turns hearts black

    The Wither status effect deals ongoing damage and tints the affected entity's health bar black, similar to poison but capable of killing.

  3. In which biome do tall natural pillars made of packed ice dominate the landscape?

    Answer: Ice Spikes

    The Ice Spikes biome is named for the tall columns of packed ice that generate across its frozen terrain, a feature unique to this biome.

  4. Which passive mob can be sheared for wool and also provides mutton when killed?

    Answer: Sheep

    Sheep are the only mob that yields both wool (when sheared) and mutton (when killed), making them a versatile resource for players.

  5. Which underground Overworld structure is characterized by wooden supports, rails, and chest minecarts?

    Answer: Mineshaft

    Mineshafts form underground networks with wooden supports, rail segments, and minecarts that can contain loot chests.

Daily round

  1. In which dimension does Ancient Debris generate naturally?

    Answer: The Nether

    Ancient Debris generates naturally inside Nether terrain and is the source material for Netherite Scrap.

  2. Which potion ingredient grants the Water Breathing effect?

    Answer: Pufferfish

    A Pufferfish brewed into an Awkward Potion produces the Water Breathing effect, preventing the player's oxygen bar from depleting while underwater.

  3. Which item commonly boosts an Elytra wearer forward during a glide?

    Answer: Firework Rocket

    Using a Firework Rocket during an Elytra glide provides a forward boost that can extend the flight.

  4. Which neutral mob becomes hostile if you look directly at its face?

    Answer: Enderman

    Endermen turn hostile when a player places their crosshair directly on the mob's upper body or face, provoking an attack.

  5. Which village site is commonly marked by a bell and used as a gathering place?

    Answer: The meeting point

    A bell marks a village meeting point where villagers gather, and villagers also ring it during a raid.