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 6 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Which Nether mob can be saddled and ridden across lava?

    Answer: Strider

    A saddled Strider can carry a player across lava and can be guided with a warped fungus on a stick.

  2. Which mob drops gunpowder, a key ingredient for crafting TNT?

    Answer: Creeper

    Creepers drop gunpowder upon death, which is essential for crafting TNT and fire charges.

  3. Which base effect does a Potion of the Turtle Master grant?

    Answer: Slowness and resistance simultaneously

    The Turtle Master potion simultaneously applies Slowness and Resistance, making the player much slower but also greatly reducing incoming damage from all sources.

  4. Which villager profession trades maps, compasses, banners, and other exploration-related items?

    Answer: Cartographer

    The cartographer villager specializes in maps, including exploration maps that point to ocean monuments and woodland mansions.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. Which arrangement creates a renewable water source that refills after one bucket is taken?

    Answer: A two-by-two basin with source water in opposing corners

    In a two-by-two basin, source water placed in opposing corners converts the remaining spaces into renewable source blocks.

  2. What does a cow drop when killed, in addition to leather?

    Answer: Raw Beef

    Cows drop raw beef and leather when killed, and can also be milked with a bucket for a reliable food source.

  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 tool material has the lowest durability of all standard tiers?

    Answer: Gold

    Gold tools have the lowest durability of the four standard material tiers, breaking far faster than even wooden tools despite mining certain blocks faster.

  5. Which passive mob follows a player who is holding wheat?

    Answer: Sheep

    Sheep are attracted to players holding wheat, which is also used to breed them.

Daily round

  1. Which listed biome is a plains variant known for naturally generated sunflowers?

    Answer: Sunflower Plains

    Sunflower Plains is a plains variant distinguished by the sunflowers that generate across its surface.

  2. Which item, when equipped in the chest armor slot, allows the player to glide through the air?

    Answer: Elytra

    Elytra is a pair of wing-like items worn in the chestplate slot that enables gliding flight when the player jumps from a height or is launched by a firework rocket.

  3. Which boots enchantment temporarily turns nearby water into frosted ice while its wearer walks?

    Answer: Frost Walker

    Frost Walker creates temporary frosted ice on water near the boots of the moving wearer.

  4. Which listed ore requires a stone pickaxe or better and drops raw iron when mined?

    Answer: Iron Ore

    Iron Ore drops raw iron only when mined with at least a stone pickaxe; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.

  5. What does a note block produce when it receives a redstone signal?

    Answer: A musical tone that depends on the block beneath it

    A note block plays a musical tone whose instrument type is determined by the block directly beneath it, such as wood for bass and stone for drum sounds.

Daily round

  1. Which status effect deals ongoing damage and can reduce an affected entity's health to zero?

    Answer: Wither

    The Wither status effect deals ongoing damage over time to any entity affected by it, distinct from poison because it can reduce health below half a heart.

  2. Which hostile mob can transform into a Drowned after remaining submerged in water?

    Answer: Zombie

    A Zombie that remains submerged begins converting and eventually becomes a Drowned.

  3. Which item can raise a horse's temper and make a taming attempt more likely to succeed?

    Answer: An apple

    Feeding an apple raises a horse's temper, although the player still completes taming by repeatedly mounting the horse.

  4. What happens when you use bone meal on a grass block?

    Answer: Tall grass and flowers grow on nearby dirt blocks

    Applying bone meal to a grass block causes tall grass, ferns, and various flowers to sprout on nearby dirt blocks within a small radius.

  5. What rare structure in the End contains Shulkers and valuable loot including Elytra?

    Answer: End Ship

    End Ships are small structures attached to some End Cities that house a Shulker-guarded item frame holding Elytra and a chest with enchanted gear and other treasures.

Daily round

  1. Which village building commonly includes a lectern as part of its generated layout?

    Answer: Library

    A generated village library commonly contains a lectern, the job-site block associated with librarians.

  2. What effect does the Regeneration status effect provide to the player?

    Answer: Gradual restoration of health over time

    Regeneration gradually restores a player's health over time, with higher tiers healing faster.

  3. Which mob generally becomes neutral toward players when the surrounding light is bright enough?

    Answer: Spider

    Spiders generally remain neutral in bright light unless already provoked, while darkness can make them hostile.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. Which food item is crafted by placing a gold ingot around a regular apple in the crafting grid?

    Answer: Golden Apple

    A golden apple is made by surrounding an apple with eight gold ingots and provides absorption and regeneration when eaten.

  2. Which dimension is accessed by throwing an eye of ender and locating a stronghold?

    Answer: The End

    The End dimension is reached by finding a stronghold using eyes of ender, then filling the end portal frame with remaining eyes.

  3. 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.

  4. Which block found only in the End can be planted to grow a Chorus Tree?

    Answer: Chorus Flower

    A Chorus Flower is the topmost block of a Chorus Plant and can be planted on End Stone to grow a new Chorus Tree, providing a renewable source of Chorus Fruit.

  5. Which of these blocks can only be mined with a diamond or netherite pickaxe to drop itself?

    Answer: Obsidian

    Obsidian requires a minimum of a diamond pickaxe to be mined; anything weaker breaks the block without dropping it, making it unique among common Overworld blocks.

Daily round

  1. Which status effect hides the player's model from view?

    Answer: Invisibility

    Invisibility hides the player's model, although held or worn equipment can remain visible and mobs may still detect the player nearby.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Which listed mob commonly spawns on the Overworld surface at night rather than from a structure-specific spawner?

    Answer: Spider

    Spiders commonly spawn in dark Overworld areas, while cave spiders, silverfish, and endermites have more specialized spawning conditions.