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 9 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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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. What is the primary food source obtainable from pigs?

    Answer: Raw Porkchop

    Pigs drop raw porkchops when killed, which can be cooked in a furnace or on a campfire for better hunger restoration.

  3. 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.

  4. What crafting ingredient is required to make a compass?

    Answer: Redstone Dust

    A compass is crafted with four iron ingots around one piece of redstone dust, with the redstone sitting at the center of the crafting grid.

  5. 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.

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. Which plant must be placed underwater in order to grow?

    Answer: Kelp

    Kelp is an aquatic plant that is placed and grows underwater, unlike the other listed crops.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Which block provides a redstone signal whose strength corresponds to the time of day in the game world?

    Answer: Daylight Detector

    A Daylight Detector outputs a redstone signal that increases during daytime and decreases at night, and it can be inverted by right-clicking to detect darkness instead.

  4. Which tool is crafted from one iron ingot and one flint and can ignite a Nether portal frame?

    Answer: Flint and Steel

    Flint and Steel is crafted from an iron ingot and a piece of flint and can ignite the inside of an obsidian portal frame.

  5. Which status effect is granted by drinking a Potion of Swiftness?

    Answer: Speed

    The Speed status effect directly increases a player's walking speed and is obtained from potions, beacons, or commands.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  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 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.

  4. 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.

  5. What do you need to craft a beacon pyramid beneath a beacon block?

    Answer: Iron, gold, diamond, emerald, or netherite blocks

    Beacon pyramids are built from mineral blocks of iron, gold, diamond, emerald, or netherite, and the material chosen does not affect the beacon's functionality.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  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 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.

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 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. What material is produced when Ancient Debris is smelted?

    Answer: Netherite Scrap

    Smelting Ancient Debris in a furnace or blast furnace produces Netherite Scrap.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.