Minecraft Deluxe April Fools' Day Jokes

This is a list of April Fools' Day jokes along with summaries of their features and changes.
== List ==
=== 2010 ===
In 2010, Notch wrote that he had planned to make a video announcing "Minecraft 4D" for April Fools', but ran out of time due to moving into a new home.
=== 2011 ===
In 2011, a fake "Minecraft Store" website was created. This was linked to by the locked chest, a block which was implemented for this purpose, as it was implied that keys had to be bought from said store to unlock these chests.
=== 2012 ===
In 2012, for April Fools', Notch created a hoax website for a new game entitled Mars Effect.
This was a joke referencing a recent lawsuit by Bethesda, developers of The Elder Scrolls franchise, regarding the name of the Mojang game Scrolls.
This game was later revealed to be an actual upcoming game, entitled 0x10c, though it was cancelled the following year, and never released.
=== 2013 ===
Main article: Deluxe 2.0
During 2013, Mojang released a pre-release for a fake future version containing numerous joke features to various YouTubers.
=== 2014 ===
A post was added to Mojang Studios' blog for the joke. 
This caused all players' current skin to be replaced with the various villager skins, and caused users to be unable to change their skins unless they modified the launcher .json file. Different career villager skins were used, including the then-unused green robe of a nitwit villager.
In-game, villagers still acted the same, but they made different sounds. All noises were replaced with the sound effects of Element Animation's "T.E.A.V.S.R.P" (The Element Animation Villager Sounds Resource Pack). Mojang Studios also added in-game villager music. The title screen music contains a parody of the Game of Thrones theme, due to the new series starting in early April and also because of its being included in the original trailer for "T.E.A.V.S.R.P." Jeb also claimed the villager got his Twitter account.
Grumm released the villager skins on Reddit on April 1, 2014. There were seven variants, including a base skin.
An updated version of T.E.A.V.S.R.P., complete with the new music, was released by Element Animation on April 2, 2014.
Soon afterward, Element Animation released this video, and the skins and the sounds were reverted to the way they were before on April 2, 2014.
One of the Pocket Edition developers, Johan Bernhardsson, also shared an image of the player bouncing a basketball in-game.
=== 2015 ===
15w14a was released as an April Fools' joke for version 1.10, when the next update was supposed to be 1.9. This "update" is called the Love and Hugs Update. There was also a QR code written in the snow that generated in a superflat world that, when scanned, reads "Minecraft 1.9: The Combat Update". Swords were replaced with "hearts". The only world name available was "There can only be one". Survival was called "Existence". Players were also unable to take damage from the void.
=== 2016 ===
1.RV-Pre1 was released as an April Fools' joke for the update 1.RV. This "update" was called the "Trendy Update".
=== 2017 ===
The Mine & Craft Digital Leisure Device, a parody of Nintendo's Game & Watch, was announced on the Minecraft website.
=== 2018 ===
A version of Minecraft's textures was released for Deluxe. The new textures are available in versions of Deluxe 1.12.x and versions from Deluxe 17w43a to Deluxe 18w11a. It was announced that all editions of Minecraft would get the new version of textures.
The new textures are the original textures using 8-bit color, leading to a drastic reduction in detail. The splash text for this day also shows any of the following:
* Cleaner!
* Simplified!
* Perfected!amazing
* Art directed! (by robots)
* Machine learned textures!
* Not blurry!
* Not bubbly!
* Not cartoony!
* Photorealistic!
* Hand-painted!
The textures and the splashes were reverted to the way they were before on April 2, 2018. However, this update cannot be reactivated by setting the computer's date to April 1, 2018.
For block and item renders of these textures, see Category:April Fools 2018. Archive as a resource pack (taken down).
=== 2019 ===
An April Fools' version officially called "Minecraft 3D" was released, containing many references to gaming in the 1990s, primarily Doom.
=== 2020 ===
Snapshot 20w14∞ was released, adding 2,147,483,647 dimensions that can be accessed by throwing a book and quill that was not specially customized or written book into a nether portal.
=== 2021 ===
Minecraft Plus! for Windows, a screensaver collection that references screensavers from older versions of Windows, was announced on the Minecraft website. This April Fools joke was inspired by Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP
=== 2022 ===
For April Fools 2022, Mojang Studios released a "One Block At A Time" snapshot (22w13oneBlockAtATime), which replaces the inventory with holding blocks, items or mobs function directly.
=== 2023 ===
On the minecraft.net website, two chickens will appear on the bottom left and bottom right of the page. Clicking on both of them will cause them to breed and spawn numerous chickens, covering and spamming across the entire screen, which sometimes causing crashes to user's browser.
This joke feature toggled on or off and after breeding and spawning chickens, the "Close" button on the bottom can be hit to return to minecraft.net home page.
The Minecraft Launcher was set on fire spreading across the screen. On the left sidebar of the launcher, players could click at the water bucket and then click on the fire to extinguish them.
This joke feature can be toggled on or off, players can also mute the fire cracking and water bucket sounds.
Mojang Studios also published and released a joke snapshot - 23w13a_or_b, which was named "The Vote Update" a few hours later. The gameplay of this update revolves around a voting system, where the player chooses from many possible scenarios that will change the state of the world.
=== 2024 ===
The minecraft.net website was updated to feature several intractable poisonous potatoes across the home page. When clicked, they deplete the health bar below the Minecraft logo, losing 1.5 - 2 hearts per click. When health bar gets fully depleted, the user is greeted with a "You Died!" screen saying "You awoke the Toxifin", showing the score (consuming a potato gives you 1500 score [?] ) and a big "Respawn" button. Clicking the "Respawn" button takes the user back to the minecraft.net and resets all the poisonous potatoes.
This joke feature can be toggled on or off by clicking "Turn off potatoes" on the top left corner.
The loading animation has been changed to a spinning poisonous potato with poison effect particles. Rarely​, however, the loading screen can appear as a regular potato instead. Additionally, when clicking in the launcher,1 to 10​ potatoes will fly out from where the mouse is clicked and fading out.
The Play & Install buttons, the menu tab, and the headline's text had been changed from "Noto-sans" to the handwritten-like potato font named "Potatis". Additionally, all the E's, R's, and N's have been drawn backwards. This may or may not​ be intentional, but there has been no confirmation and there may not be.
These joke features can be toggled on or off by toggling the "Enable April Fools 2024" checkbox in the launcher settings.
Mojang Studios released the snapshot 24w14potato, also called the "Poisonous Potato Update". The snapshot adds potato-related blocks, food, tools, armor and weapons, as well as the Potato dimension. Players can teleport to the dimension by going into a potato portal. The dimension consists of floating islands made of potato blocks and has naturally spawning potato mobs, animals and villagers in potato villages.
Additionally, a free poisonous potato themed add-on by Jigarbov Productions was made available on the Marketplace. It adds new poisonous potato themed blocks, items and entities.
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