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Sometimes I feel as if there is no surprises in Minecraft anymore. You know everything, and it gets a little boring. BUT WAIT! You spot a abnormal sight something you haven't seen before. It's a rare event!

There are many rare events, none of them really game-affecting. They are simply aesthetic rare events that have a extremely low chance of happening. There is different levels to how rare something is. Common is once a Minecraft week. Uncommon is once every Minecraft month. Rare is every Minecraft year. Extremely rare is every Minecraft decade.

Any rare events that take place in the sky can be seen anywhere you can see the sky. Others depend on whether you can see the area where it takes place. Each event lasts one Minecraft day. To prove having seen a rare event, there is a list of Minecraft rare events that have been seen by the player in the statistics.

Shooting Star: A Dazzling light trail goes through the sky as you watch in awe of it's beauty. Comes in yellow and blue varieties.Comm
on appearance. Increases light level to 5.


Ore shine: Occasionally a single ore will sparkle a bit, being a bit noticeable then others. It would be look like a very bright ore. This never happens on coal. Uncommon appearance.

Mist: In the forest, tundra and taiga biomes, a mist will come around and lower visibility, but by very little. Uncommon appearance.


Cloud shape: A cloud will appear occasionally in a random shape. Those objects would be Minecraft themed. Extremely rare appearance

Nether Blaze: You might stumble upon a odd ring of fire in the Nether, there is a chance a blaze will spawn in the center. Comes in Small, Medium, and large varieties. Uncommon appearance.

Meteor Crash: You might find a smooth stone hill half-buried in smoldering ground. It is per-generated in the ground. A random assortment of ores may be found in the meteor with Iron being the most common and diamond being the rarest. Nether quartz does not appear in meteors. This is the only rare event that once generated, it is always there. Rare appearance.
Year of the Creeper: On the moon, you might find a creeper head on it. Creeper spawning increased 200%. Other hostile mobs decreased by 90%. Extremely Rare appearance.

Blue moon: Simply the moon, but blue. Uncommon appearance.

Leaf fall: In the forest and jungle biomes, you might find a group of falling leaves. Common appearance.

Aurora borealis: In the taiga and tundra biomes, you might see a dazzling array of lights in the sky. Increases the light level to 6. Uncommon appearance.

Close lightning:
A single better looking lightning bolt strikes within 60 blocks of the player. Rarity: common.
Inspired by Gerbilcrap475.

Plain and Savannah winds:
A deep but short gust, blows all tall grass in the biome. Comes with a gust sound. Rarity uncommon.

Rustles of the dark.:
Roofed forest, forest, and mega taiga biomes have a chance of having spooky rustling leaves behind the player.
Rarity:common.

Mesa Sunrise/sunset:
Bryce and mesa biomes have a brilliant sunrise/set . Perhaps the most beautiful sunrise/set possible could be found in this rare biome. Rarity: Rare.

More to come when my creativity returns! Please post your criticism.
Please help by posting better pics!
Credit will go to whom brings them.

Support list:

Still a wish list. Aach idea is a very vague concept.

Quote from UnileggerDripper222

Still a wish list. Aach idea is a very vague concept.

The idea is having rare events to have a something different, that are not game affecting. Why is this vague, I need to see why this is vague so I can improve the topic. No offense, but it seems as if your reply is a bit vague.

Those events are good ideas but some need some work like nether blaze, year of the creeper, black chicken, and meteor crash. Here are my ideas:

Nether Blaze: Should just eliminate this idea (no offense), no point in making.

Year of the Creeper: Keep the creeper moon but have the only monster that spawns that night creepers.

Black Chicken: Maybe it should drop or do something special since it's so rare.

Meteor Crash: Should have a giant crater in the ground and have a rock sticking up from the ground and since it's extremely rare you can find diamonds in the meteor thats sticking up from the crater. Maybe also include alot of ores in the crater like iron and coal. But I give Full Support

seams good but add more detail like for the meteor you can find high amounts stone iron and diamonds. (but diamonds are rare)
ps orangelizedboy post when i was wrighting.

This isn't a wishlist, their all united under the key concept of purely aesthetic things that add surprise to the game, like natural pink sheep.

Support from me.

I like all of these, except the nether blaze, and the ore shine. As others have said, the nether blaze just wouldn't really stand out as anything interesting, and the ore shine is something that should remain in the realms of texture packs.

With the meteor, however, would it just be spawned in already in the ground, or would it actually fall?

Quote from ErasmoGnome

This isn't a wishlist, their all united under the key concept of purely aesthetic things that add surprise to the game, like natural pink sheep.

Support from me.

Same here.

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Why is this vague, I need to see why this is vague so I can improve the topic. No offense, but it seems as if your reply is a bit vague.

An idea is only vague if you don't understand. Each event is a 7 word sentence. That doesn't give us enough info.

Nether Blaze? What does it look like? What makes it an awesome find?

Meteor crash? What is the meteor made of? Is there any benifits from it? What's it look like?

To be honest, when making visual events like these, you should add pictures to give us a good idea of what it's like.

Seems cool I see how you used runescape-like events to make great ideas. Other games can always be a good idea machine.
I support.

I like this idea a lot!
Mayby the black chicken could drop a black feather? Or lay black chickens?
And the Year of the creeper. There should be more creeper spawns or mayby all mobs are creepers.

And idea of my own.

Wash up. where fish and ink sacks litter the beachs. Would be a rare chance of this happening.
Or it could happen after a storm

Quote from UnileggerDripper222

To be honest, when making visual events like these, you should add pictures to give us a good idea of what it's like.

Google images is your best friend, if your feeling a bit creative though you can draw some yourself.

It would be nice to have rare events happen in minecraft. Support.

Quote from Runick

Google images is your best friend, if your feeling a bit creative though you can draw some yourself.

Ok, I'll go search a google image that coincidentally is exactly what the OP had in mind.

Quote from UnileggerDripper222

An idea is only vague if you don't understand. Each event is a 7 word sentence. That doesn't give us enough info.

Nether Blaze? What does it look like? What makes it an awesome find?

Meteor crash? What is the meteor made of? Is there any benifits from it? What's it look like?

To be honest, when making visual events like these, you should add pictures to give us a good idea of what it's like.

Minecraft is really slow for me so that I can't build anything, i will be able to post pictures in febuary. I already said the meteor is made of stone, and there will be no benefits, other then being a awesome find. It's not game affecting.

Edited certain events, and added the blue moon.

Yes I would really like something out of the ordinary in minecraft so I support.

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I like all of these, except the nether blaze, and the ore shine. As others have said, the nether blaze just wouldn't really stand out as anything interesting, and the ore shine is something that should remain in the realms of texture packs.

With the meteor, however, would it just be spawned in already in the ground, or would it actually fall?

It would spawn already in the ground.