Things I Learned About Minecraft Recently.. 

I miss the days of old minecraft where you’d just be walking around and just have a squid fly past you and then ping back to where it was supposed to be. Good times

I love how most of this is just Etho wisdom that broke Grian's mind.

Huge respect for anybody that transports dolphins for a pathway in survival

A snow layer hitbox is actually always one less than the stack of snow. That way you still walk on the grass level when snow fell and that's why 4 layers of snow (visually equivalent to a slab) can be crawled on, because it is only 3/8th of a block tall and you can't crawl into the slab one from there! (Also something I learned from Etho from when he was trying to get a really high jumping horse)

1:27 Grian running around really fast while making screaming sounds like a kid in a candy store on a suger rush is the best thing I've seen all week

Whenever an item is on the floor and two players are trying to pick it up at the same time, it's not because of one player being closer, internet speed or hosting. The player who picks it up is whoever logged in first. I like to call this "pick-up priority". If you trick the other player into leaving and rejoining the session, you will now have "pick-up priority" over them. It's one of my favourite minecraft facts, since it actually comes up fairly often.

I think the bowl might be in reference to the days of exploration when discovering large turtles (that they promptly ate) and reuse the shells as large bowls

I can't say how many times I've rewatched the time Etho showed Grian the first point. There's something so precious about a grown man screaming with excitement & happiness. Lol They say us Brits are repressed too! Scar's reaction was great as well. 😁

The brief period where the killer bunny *was* in vanilla minecraft was pretty hilarious. Especially for hardcore worlds. You never expect the bunny inquisition.

The fact that Grian didn't know about the killer bunny despite how OLD it is actually shocked me. I did a double take.

Toast was actually a memorial for one of the player's dead rabbit who was named "Toast" And, turtle eggs and diamonds have the same shape, just re-textured. And the luck effect was edited to only affect the chance of fishing up items from the "treasure category, like bows, fishing rods etc.

The reason crawling in a half-block space with snow under you works is because snow lies to you. When in snow layers, you're actually submerged into the block by one pixel.

Grian screaming like R2D2 is the purest joy I have ever heard

1:25 This whole chunk of Grian just being purely excited made my whole day and made me extremely happy. 😭 This is literally amazing.

So few people know about this and it's one of the most useful things I have learned, especially if you play modded minecraft a bit. There isn't an enchantment limit on your tools and armor, only a limited amount of times you can apply a book, so if you combine the books before applying them, you can get that perfect diamond sword you never seem to reach.

Man I remember years and years ago when you'd suddenly see a flying squid while on top of a mountain with no water nearby and you knew you were gonna crash lmao... Takes me back to this one time when I played a hardcore world all day while recording and on camera I lagged so hard I snapped all the way back to the beginning with none of my items. As if nothing ever happened and it was just a long dream. 8-12 hours of playing only to be reverse lagged all the way to Ohio.

grian’s goblin screeching as he zoomed around ethos place just made my day

grian’s childlike scream of joy while absolutely booking it on the soul speed water was fricking hilarious

Grian’s pure joy about the speed trick was the most fantastic thing I’ve ever witnessed

The funny thing about the squids is that they were designed not to be affected by bubbles because they would be shot into the air too fast and start flying, so by removing that they made it happen another way

Doc and Etho teaching Grian how to break the game Remember kids, the “laws” of physics are really more like ✨suggestions!✨

The fact Etho taught Grian a few of these tricks is funny too me, mainly for the fact that Etho just knows all this random facts about the game but also the fact it doesn’t surprise me he does

Lightning in relationships with mobs have always been a strange one. Creepers become charged. Pigs to Zombie Pigman. Villager to Witch. Mooshroom to a brown mooshroom. Turtles to bowls. Though that's the only case where one dies, at least that I'm currently thinking of. I feel like I'm missing something here, but just not thinking of it. Weird things like this I know because me playing Minecraft is just randomly experimenting in creative mode to see how things work and interact with each other. Or from Minecraft update videos, like from bigB, ibxtoycat, or LogDotZip. Where they would talk about upcoming things. Though when it came to new feature that never got implemented I always got confused. Even more so when it came to Education Edition, not releasing it was just an update or mod, but rather an entire new branch off. So I'm sure there are others I could think of, but I don't seem to be right now, and y'all probably best me to the punch anyways.

1:43-you sounded like R2D2 there for a second, that was beautifully hilarious!! 😂😂

Grian screaming like a gremlin was something I didn't know I needed

You can take a wet sponge, put it in a furnace, then use a lava bucket as fuel. This will leave an empty bucket in the fuel slot, but one the wet sponge gets smelted, THE BUCKET IN THE FUEL SLOT GETS FILLED WITH WATER. I learned this from Etho when he was trying to make an automated brewery in the nether.

The luck potion could also be applied for fishing (It actually increases the chance of getting enchanted books and other good stuff)

The soul sand dolphin trick turning everyone into a cartoon character was hilarious

Here's a fun fact: endermen will only attack when you stop looking at them, so if you stare for long enough, they just give up

Every time grian gets excited he makes the sound that R2D2 makes when he is exited. It sounds so fun! Edit: I GOT 24 NOTIFICATIONS FROM RU-vid JUST IN 20 OURS

Something I have noticed in Secret Life that surprised a few players (including Pearl), so I don't know if you knew or not, but wolves and dogs are always hostile to skeletons and skeletons will flee if they see one. Also powdered snow will prevent fall damage even if they have carpet above them, as long as you're not wearing leather boots

1:30 Guyyyyy Grian going GOBLIN MODE!!

I love the excited Grian sounds when Etho showed him the water trick 😂

A few more fun facts related to what you shared: - The reason you can fit between a block and a slab of snow is because the hitboxes of snow layers are actually 1/8 block shorter than they appear - In addition to the Potion of Luck, there is also a Potion of Bad Luck which does what you expect. In the code, it is referred to as "unluck."

the noises grian makes when excited makes me giggle because they're so silly

There was also a “Potion of Unluck”, that is just the opposite of the Potion of Luck. The little picture next to the effect is a brown and ripped up four leaf clover.

It used to be a one in a million chance that The Killer Bunny would spawn instead of a normal rabbit, but when the game got too big, they realized how many nine year olds would die repeatedly to it, so they removed it.

grians laughs and odd screams are so funny when he's with etho, scar and cub lmao they're contagious

1:32 Bro is a little Goblin

"Because when you're done, you can just fall to your death." -Grain

Fun fact about the bunny: It actually used to be in vanilla around the time of release. It was also named The Killer Bunny of Caerbannog, before it got updated to just The Killer Bunny. The chance to find one was 1/1000 but nerfed and then ultimately removed. I remember running across one in vanilla and l lost my mind. First at taking hits and looking around and looking behind the rabbit, only to find it WAS the rabbit. After I saw the name I ran for my life. I'm pretty sure I heard someone cackling in the distance, but it might have just been my neighbor.

Grian's screams of pure joy are glorious and have made my day

i know a minecraft secret fact! If u press Alt and F4 at the same time u spawn 64 diamonds :3

1:25 LOL That just made my day XD

If you're on fire, you eliminate powdered snow blocks simply by running through them, resulting in the odd circumstance of potions of fire resistance being really useful in snowy mountain biomes (though you do have to re-set yourself on fire after eliminating each snow block/column of blocks).

Anyone else think that the snow scaffolding would be a great maneuver when deployed correctly in a 3rd life series? Just go to build height and no one can trace you

Minecraft had a Fortnite crossover, but not in Battle Royale, an old zombie apocalypse style mode where people chose a streamer in a tournament, getting a minecraft watermelon as a banner, still usable today in any mode.

Fun fact, using commands you can obtain invisible item frames and armour stands Be careful with the armour stands though because you can’t punch the spot you placed them in to make them go away, they’ll always stay there without another command, unlike the item frames

Grians little squeals of excitement when he was running fast was amazing!! Edit: thank you for all the likes :)

If a turtle spawns in the 0 x 0 y chunk you can track it’s movement and predict the location of the stronghold. Same works for nether fossils but you probably knew that

another fact about the luck potion effect is that it will increase your chances of finding treasure while fishing, just like the luck of the sea enchantment there’s actually an internal stat called luck in the game that effects your fishing drops, and the luck potion simply increases that stat. the stat can also be changed via use of the /attribute command

Turtle dropping a bowl is reference for ancient people who use turtle shell as a "bowl".

The reason you didn't find "lucky" loot in this video is because the vanilla loot tables don't utilize the Luck feature. You have to build your own loot tables in a datapack to use Luck. However, the vanilla game does let you get better fishing loot with Luck.

The Toast bunny was actually someone's real life bunny!! It sadly went missing, so the person asked Mojang on Reddit if they could add it into the game to help them remember him

Is there, or can there be a series of these "recently learned" videos? I love this kind of stuff...I always need motivation/inspiration, and seeing the dolphin thing alone gave me like 5 major inspo's so thx, and keep it up

It's funny how much of this is just casual Etho knowledge

The killer bunny used to be able to spawn naturally in minecraft, it was removed in an update. Probably because it just wasn’t fun to be randomly attacked by a rabbit that does a ton of damage

If memory serves, the Killer Bunny was originally added with rabbits in 1.8 back in 2014. It originally could spawn naturally (but had a low chance of doing), but this was quickly removed since Mojang felt that having such a strong mob that could spawn that early was antithetical to fun (and also because the reference has been done to death).

If you use the replaceitem command, you can put any item in a any slot of your inventory, which is how you might see certain servers put a block on your head for example. But if you put an end rod on your head, it will be tilted forwards like if you were a unicorn.

That hermit clip was gold. Hillarious stuff mate.

Re: Crawling in half-block The reason you can do it with snow layers is because 4 snow layers is only 0.375 blocks high, instead of 0.5 like a slab. They just "look" like 0.5 high. This is why mobs can spawn on a single snow layer (0 blocks high) but not 2 snow layers (0.125 blocks high)

Grian’s squeals are too pure for this world

Grian’s goblin squeals were just amazing, he can do so much more now.

Also after bees pick up pollen, they can drip pollen onto any planted crops they fly over and can cause them to grow faster

Luck potions not only have an effect on randomly generated chests but it also makes rare fishing items more common. Another fishing fact is that the tropical fish is the rarest fish to catch while fishing with a 2% chance to be picked up.

The bowl makes sense to me- the turtle died leaving just its shell. People all around the world used to use turtle shells for bowls. Also, when turtles die the shells take a reallyyy long time to decompose. So, I guess it makes sense

1:26 Grian: Waa woohoohoooo!!! Scar: Woooooooooooooohohooo

1:31 these are the happiest, most giddy Grian noises I have ever heard. This is pure joy, I am absolutely cackling at how excited he is to ZOOM

If you put carpet on top of powdered snow, you can fall any height without taking damage. No clue why this happens but it does.

6:59 That "Oh NoOoOOO" killed me lmao 🤣🤣🤣

Also you can make a fountain with arrows of invsibility. All you need is to make a piston that shoots a slime block up and down very fast, then surround the sides above the slime block with obsidian and put water inside. Lastly, shoot loads of arrows of invisibility at the the slime block and it looks like it is spraying water up. Then enclose the Redstone with of your design, what's works best.

You can feed a brown mooshroom a flower and when you milk it with a bowl it gives you the suspicious stew with the potion affect that is correlated to the flower that you fed it, for example lily of the valley will give you the poisonous suspicious stew and the dandelion will give you the suspicious stew with the saturation affect, restoring up to 8 hunger points!

For the ocean monument, I believe you can place tnt directly on the monument, sand on top and ignite the tnt. Theoretically, it should work the same way

Love your videos!! (Just subscribed 😁)

after half way thorugh i loaded up minecraft started a new world and still had this video in the backround. he said i bet your now playing minecraft and doing something new. HOW DID HE KNOW- nice job mumbo u sucsessed to trick me into doing something i love :D

If you’re wondering, Grian had captions at the very start because for pc and mobile devices when you hover over a video it gives you a preview without sound.

Actually the luck effect grants you a higher chance of getting better loot at certain loot tables, like fishing. Luck actually does not improve the loot in chests. [ yes there is controversy on this fact, some wikis say it only improves fishing while others say it affects naturally generated chests] (Fun fact: Luck arrows were once obtainable in survival at 19w13a, a snapshot from 1.14, being obtained from fletcher villagers when the player had Hero of the Village)

1:35 grian just became R2D2 😂 im glad he caught onto it himself 😄

the only thing I can think of is that the operator-only "Light Block" can be shift-clicked while holding any "Light Block" to increase the level it puts off by 1, so you don't have to grab the exact one you want. Once it gets to 15, another click resets it to 1. Edit: resets it to 0, not 1

Etho teaching Grian the weirdest bugs/glitches or most random facts no one has ever seen or known

A weird fact about boats is that after Mojang changed them so they would "always" drop as the boat item instead of a stick and 2 planks, certain times you're still able to make it actually break! One way you can recreate this is falling into scaffolding with a boat (usually you would just land on it but if you manage to cram the boat into the scaffolding on the side whilst falling, it will actually break the boat into sticks and planks.

Grian sounding like a mix of R2D2 and a Labyrinth goblin screaming when extremely excited filled my Serotonin meters!

Not only was there a potion of Luck, there was also a potion of Unlucky. And you could also at on point change the duration of potions. I remember playing on Xbox 360, going into the Crafting interface in Creative and go to the potion section, it told me to press LT to change level or something.

If you use an invisibility potion on a shulker, it doesn't affect the "head".

Seeing Grian learn all this live on Impulse's stream was a treat. Feels like I saw a behind the scenes for this video haha

Hi Grian! I would like to let you know I really enjoyed the video! The part about the luck potion is kind of funny because I just recently did a science experiment for school testing if the luck potion effects chest loot(it doesn't). I'm pretty sure it effects fishing loot but idk and a lot of people have probably told you this. Overall the video made me smile when you started talking about luck. People probably don't really care but I thought that if you saw this it'll hopefully make your day a bit better because you have made my day more than a few times. Thanks for the awesome vids -Rylan

I'm a little hazy on this, since it's been a while, but I recall something about luck in the loot tables. I think, in order for chests to have extra treasure when you open it with luck potion, the loot table had to be specifically designed to account for it. Which most chests in the game probably don't, since it's unused. A datapack with custom structures or that modifies loot tables of existing ones, however, could make use of it. As well as provide actual luck potions in some of the chests for players to find. So it's a usable mechanic, just not in vanilla.

In Peaceful Mode, all hostile mobs are turned off, and neutral mobs like wolves and dolphins don't attack. Except one. Llamas still spit at the player in Peaceful Mode. Which means you actually can die to mob damage in Peaceful Mode :)

4:28 The reason it works is because you actually "sink" into the highest layer of the snow, when you have a 4-layers snow block, it is technically managed as a 3-layers snow for the hitbox.

I love this video so much I did not know half of it also the clip of how Grian learned how to run fast is so funny 😆.

I've got a fun one: youll need a riptide trident, elytra and rain. Using the trident in place of fireworks in the rain allows you to travel thousands of blocks in seconds.

The killer bunny is hilarious as I remember it delaying a Mindcrack UHC episode for about 5 minutes while the players debated whether or not a regular white rabbit was killer or not (it wasn't). It also has an absolute glass jaw as three dogs will take it down with little to no problem.

6:57 He also learned that TNT has the chance to move slightly to a direction during it's lighting animation, making it occasionally not fall down a hole you might've placed it above

Luck is essentially like how luck of the sea or looting or fortune works on anything that has a loot table. In vanilla, structure chests, mobs, fishing, and even block drops now all come with loot tables, and as long as that loot table has certain items rarer than others, like flint from gravel, crimson roots dropping (vs not dropping) themselves, fishing for treasure, better gear in chests, etc, the luck effect gives better chances with these

I recently found out that Grian still has a lot to learn about MC

There's actually also a potion of "unluck" that does the opposite of the potion of luck. There was also "lucky arrows" but they are insanely hard to get as you can only get them through trading with fletchers. They also have a very small chance of appearing in the fletcher's trades.

The Luck effect also increases your fishing luck, and its chest loot buff *does* actually work if the chest's loot table is configured for it! None of the vanilla loot tables have that, though, but you might get more items if you have the Luck effect.

near an early point in the game the barrier blocks at the edges of the world didn't go forever, so if you went high enough you could actually end up behind the edge of the game, which had absolutely nothing and you couldn't build there, but it was still cool to be there.

If you put a Grian in an SMP, it will start a war! Great video btw! :)

At one point in the game, from 1.2 to 1.3 you could milk squids with a bucket. The reason is that to make the squid parts of the code from cows was re-used and the Devs forgot to remove the ability of players to milk them.