A Minecraft player has surprised fans by revealing that he was the eighth person in history to find a block from the middle of a bed, one of the rarest blocks in the game. While players regularly hear of unique Minecraft creations, the game is perhaps just as well known for its many intricacies and oddities.
Anyone who has played Minecraft, especially in Survival mode, you probably know its many mysteries. The game is full of dangerous enemies, secret items, powerful artifacts and much more. Although many of these secrets can be found deep underground or in alternate dimensions, there are several that appear in the outside world as well.
Each game session can be even more unique and impactful due to the fact that the worlds of Minecraft they are procedurally generated, which means that no two maps will be the same unless they share a seed. This procedural generation approach is what allows the game to be both vast and unpredictable, as players cannot memorize a shared map. This variance increases with each passing year, as content downloads like the Minecraft Wild update introduce new staples to the world.
All this random variety can lead to interesting results, as one YouTuber has shown where he explains that he is the eighth person to find a “half-bed” block. He goes on to explain that this block is so rare because it requires a town to be hit by lava at a very precise angle.
Due to the fact that the maps of Minecraft are rendered in real time, and that rendering depends on the direction the player is moving, multiple people could use the same seed as camman18’s world and not be guaranteed to hit the block.
It might seem strange that this block is so rare, but it makes sense when you consider how Minecraft bed assets work. While most blocks are 1×1 cubes, bed blocks are 2×1, meaning they can’t be split into two parts. However, a 1×1 lava block will leave behind a 1×1 destruction trail, so a lava block hitting half of a full bed would produce this rare result.