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 5 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Which interface can arrange nine matching ingots to craft a compact storage block?

    Answer: Crafting Grid

    Using the standard crafting grid, players can place nine ingots or other items in a square to compress them into a storage block, and placing that block in any crafting grid decomposes it back into nine units.

  2. Which large floating hostile mob in the Nether launches explosive fireballs?

    Answer: Ghast

    Ghasts are large floating mobs found throughout the Nether that launch explosive fireballs at players from a distance.

  3. Which status effect reduces the melee attack damage dealt by an affected entity?

    Answer: Weakness

    Weakness reduces the melee attack damage dealt by an affected player or mob.

  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. How do you convert a zombie villager back into a regular villager?

    Answer: Feed it a golden apple after weakening it with splash potion of weakness

    Applying the Weakness effect to a zombie villager and then feeding it a golden apple starts the curing process, eventually turning it back into a villager.

Daily round

  1. What block must be placed on the ground to create a railway that minecarts can ride on?

    Answer: Rail

    Rails are the standard track blocks that minecarts follow, and they can be placed sequentially to build connected railway systems across any terrain.

  2. Which passive mob can be ridden with a saddle and guided with a carrot on a stick?

    Answer: Pig

    Pigs can be saddled and controlled using a carrot on a stick, though they cannot jump and are slower than horses.

  3. What does combining an iron ingot and a flint in the crafting table produce?

    Answer: A flint and steel

    Placing an iron ingot above a piece of flint in the crafting grid creates a flint and steel, which can be used to ignite blocks or light nether portals.

  4. Which of these blocks cannot be pushed by a piston?

    Answer: Obsidian

    Obsidian has a blast resistance so high that pistons are unable to move it, unlike the other listed blocks which can all be pushed.

  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. 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.

  2. What brewing ingredient is used to turn an Awkward Potion into a Potion of Swiftness?

    Answer: Sugar

    Sugar is the base ingredient for the Swiftness potion, which increases the player's walking and sprinting speed when consumed.

  3. What effect does drinking milk remove from the player?

    Answer: All active status effects

    Drinking a bucket of milk clears every active status effect on the player, both positive and negative.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. Which status effect comes from eating suspicious stew crafted with a poppy?

    Answer: Night vision

    Suspicious stew crafted with a poppy grants Night Vision for a short time.

  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 listed block listens for nearby vibrations and converts them into a redstone signal?

    Answer: Sculk Sensor

    A Sculk Sensor detects nearby vibration events, such as footsteps, and produces a redstone signal in response.

  4. What block must surround a Nether portal frame for it to activate?

    Answer: Obsidian

    The Nether portal frame must be built entirely from obsidian blocks, with the interior left empty so the portal can ignite.

  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 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 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.

  3. What does a grindstone do when you place two of the same enchanted tool in its slots?

    Answer: Returns some experience and produces a basic unenchanted tool

    Placing two identical enchanted items in a grindstone merges them into one non-enchanted version and returns experience points to the player based on the removed enchantments.

  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 effect from eating a raw pufferfish can reduce health but will not deal the final half-heart of damage?

    Answer: Poison

    A raw pufferfish inflicts Poison among other effects, and Poison stops dealing damage at half a heart.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. What do Shulkers drop that is used to craft Shulker Boxes for portable storage?

    Answer: Shulker Shell

    Shulkers drop Shulker Shells when defeated, and two Shulker Shells combined with a chest at a crafting table produce a Shulker Box that retains its inventory when broken.

  3. Which redstone component toggles between on and off and stays in that state after a player uses it?

    Answer: A lever

    A lever remains on or off after it is used, unlike a button that returns to its previous state after a short pulse.

  4. What block type makes up the natural terrain of the End dimension?

    Answer: End Stone

    The main island and outer islands of the End are composed of end stone, a pale yellowish block unique to that dimension.

  5. Which Nether mob drops Gold Nuggets upon death and is naturally hostile to Wither Skeletons?

    Answer: Piglin

    Piglins drop Gold Nuggets and will actively attack Wither Skeletons if they encounter them, making them useful allies when navigating Nether Fortresses.

Daily round

  1. Which crop grows from seeds commonly obtained by breaking grass?

    Answer: Wheat

    Wheat seeds commonly drop when grass is broken and can be planted on farmland to grow wheat.

  2. 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.

  3. Which curse makes an equipped item disappear instead of dropping when its owner dies?

    Answer: Curse of Vanishing

    The Curse of Vanishing is a negative enchantment that causes an item to disappear when the player dies instead of dropping on the ground, making it the opposite of what most players want.

  4. What is the function of a Composter block in Minecraft?

    Answer: Converting plant-based materials into bone meal

    A Composter accepts various plant-based items and has a chance to fill with compost, which can then be collected as bone meal for fertilizing crops and growing plants.

  5. Which Nether structure contains Blaze spawners and naturally spawning Blazes?

    Answer: Nether Fortress

    Nether Fortresses contain Blaze spawners and fortress areas where Blazes naturally spawn.