Powers of 2 in "Minecraft" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Slab

Slabs can be put on the bottom half or top half of a block. You can also put two of the same type in the same square, and it will look like a normal block of that material (except for stone). However, when you break it, you will get two slabs back, not the original block.

Stairs normally occupy 3/4 of a block (half of it is full height, while half of it is 1/2 height), pressure plates do not occupy any space, and doors, while they can be made of different types of wood, are thin and vertical, and cannot be made of stone or cobblestone.

Answer: Ender Dragon

The Ender Dragon lives in The End, which is the last place you need to go in order to complete the game. However, after completing the game, you can still continue playing. It is common for people joining servers to ask if the Ender Dragon has been defeated, since killing the Ender Dragon can only be done once in each map.

Withers can be created by players, assuming that there are enough wither skeleton skulls that have been found. There are three elder guardians in each underwater temple. Diamond armored zombies, while extremely rare, spawn randomly like any armored mob. Approximately 1 in 500 armored mobs will be diamond armored.

Answer: Enderman

For mobs that can drop up to 2 of something, there is an equal chance of it dropping 0, 1, or 2. This applies to rotten flesh from zombies, bones and arrows from skeletons, string from spiders, gunpowder from creepers, and slimeballs from the smallest size of slimes. Most animals that drop food drop a random number of pieces from 1 to 3, like beef and pork. However, Endermen can only drop 1 ender pearl.

Mobs that have a chance of dropping 1 item sometimes have a 50% chance of dropping it (like ender pearls from Endermen and ghast tears from ghasts), but some mobs have a low chance of dropping an item along with its normal "0-2" of something else. Examples include spider eyes (33%) and any armor that is on a mob (5% for each piece).

Answer: Stone -> Stone bricks

Arranging 4 items in a square can be done in the inventory, and does not require a crafting table. Crafting 4 stone (not cobblestone) into stone bricks results in making 4 stone bricks, while the other crafting recipes make 1 output item. Other crafting recipes that involve 4 items in a square are snowballs to snow blocks and clay balls to clay blocks.

Answer: A baby chicken

If the 1 in 8 chance is successful, it has an additional 1 in 32 chance to create 4 baby chickens instead of 1. Adult chickens lay eggs about every 7 minutes, so it is possible to make a chicken farm from just one chicken. Baby animals become adults in 20 minutes.

Answer: Wooden planks

There are 16 types of dye, resulting in 16 different colors of wool, carpet, stained glass, and stained clay. There are also 16 possible colors of text. Without mods or plugins, they can only be manually put into a book (not into chat). These 16 colors, however, are different from the sixteen colors of dyes.

There are only 6 types of wooden planks: oak (the default type), spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, and dark oak.

Answer: Empty space under layer 32 is filled with lava

Except for caves, air under layer 32 in the Nether is filled with lava. This process is what creates "lava oceans" in the Nether. If your nether portal spawns under layer 32 in the Nether, you are in a cave (they are very common).

The Nether to Overworld distance ratio is 8:1 (another power of 2), not 32:1. The 8:1 ratio means that x=1000 in the Overworld corresponds to x=125 in the Nether.

Nether fortresses have a random number of blaze spawners, but the number is always less than 32. Ghasts can fire at you from 100 blocks away.

Answer: Projectiles

Projectiles, which include eggs, snowballs, and ender pearls, only stack to 16 instead of 64. Objects with durability cannot stack at all, while almost all other items, including food and ore blocks, can stack to 64.

There are a few items that cannot stack despite having no durability. These include but are not limited to minecarts, beds, and cakes.

Answer: Coal

In terrain generation, there is a step that creates ores and a few other blocks. These blocks include the standard ores plus some other blocks listed below. These blocks replace stone, but they do not replace anything else. Out of all of these, 80 is the only maximum layer that is not a power of 2.

16: Diamond, redstone
32: Gold, lapis lazuli (emerald has a maximum of 32 too, but emeralds are not generated the same way)
64: Iron
80: Andesite, diorite, granite (these are all variants of stone)
128: Coal
256 (world limit): Dirt, gravel

In the "customized" world generation settings, these numbers can be easily seen, and they can also be changed for that world.

Answer: The central room of an abandoned mineshaft

Each chunk has a 1% chance of having the central room of an abandoned mineshaft (although the chance is less if you are within 1200 blocks of the map's origin). The paths of the abandoned mineshaft branch out from the central room. The central room is 256 blocks in area (16x16). All abandoned mineshafts have this central room, since it is the starting point of the generation of the structure.