Shimmering Key

This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.

 

This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.

Shimmering Key

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A shimmering key is an item exclusive to 25w14craftmine in Java Edition.

Beating a special mine spawns a random shimmering key from the mine crafter block.

Beating a normal mine has a 1 in 10 chance to spawn a shimmering key, this gives the player the possibility to obtain keys more than every 5th mine.

Alternatively, a player can obtain a specific Shimmering Key with /give @p minecraft:shimmering_key[minecraft:instant_room={"structure": <structure>}], where <structure> is one of the structure presets created for this snapshot.

Shimmering keys can be used on a shimmering door, which opens a menu. If the given key is valid and there is space behind the door to spawn the room it is trying to create, it then spawns a new room based on the key provided.

The keys tooltip shows the player which room type is created upon unlocking a shimmering door.

When a new shimmering key is spawned from the mine crafter block, it comes with one of these structure presets in its minecraft:instant_door component:

Structure IDs

Name	Description	Image	Structure
barrels	Opens "Storage (barrels)"
boiler	Opens "Boiler Room"
carpet	Opens "Relax Room"
corridor_simple	Opens "Boring Corridor"
fountain	Opens "Fountain"
grassy_h	Opens "Junction (grass)"
hanging	Opens "Storage (hanging barrels)"
house	Opens "Wow, A Whole House? At This Price?"
labyrinth	Opens "Labyrinth"
pool	Opens "Deep Pool"
ship	Opens "Ship"
simple	Opens "Test Room Please Ignore"
stairs	Opens "Stairs"
storage1	Opens "Storage (simple)"
storage2	Opens "Storage (less simple)"
sugar_h	Opens "Junction (cane)"
test	Opens "room.minecraft.test"
tree	Opens "Tree"
trophy	Opens "Vintage Trophy Room"
tunnel	Opens "Line"
useless	Opens "Useless Room"
wheat_h	Opens "Junction (wheat)"
workshop	Opens "Workshop"

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Shimmering Key	shimmering_key	Item	item.minecraft.shimmering_key

Issues relating to "Shimmering Key" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".

• In the creative inventory, the Shimmering Key is in the Functional Blocks tab, despite being an item.
• Manually spawning a new Shimmering Key item with a valid minecraft:instant_room component allows the player to create a new room from a shimmering door, as long as there's enough space to place the room. The room created is entirely dependent on the value of the component; without it, the key does not work.

• 
  An error caused by a key from the creative inventory or if there is no space to put the room.
• 
  An Easter egg above the "Storage 2" structure.