The Moon

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.

The Moon

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The Moon is a joke dimension that can be accessed in snapshot 23w13a_or_b by flying up to Y=700 in the Overworld.

The Moon has a weak gravitational pull. So weak, in fact, that at certain heights the player is pulled back to Earth, "falling up", so to say. The player's oxygen also decreases on the Moon, though much slower than in water. Cheese, which makes up almost the entirety of the Moon, restores both hunger and oxygen, allowing the player to survive here.

The Moon can be accessed by flying up to Y=700 in the Overworld. Conversely, flying up to Y=700 on the Moon brings the player back to the Overworld.

Upon arriving on the Moon, the player is spawned at Y=600 and falls toward the Moon's surface. A player who jumps on the Moon while being above Y=117 gets pulled back up toward Earth, although this can be counteracted with either elytra or Creative mode flight. Strength of the gravitational pull varies with height; while standing on Y=117, player is able to jump about 9 blocks up, and while standing on Y=1, jump height decreases to only 3 blocks.

The Moon is composed almost entirely out of cheese, a reference to the misconception/joke that the Moon is made out of cheese. The surface is covered with craters of various sizes and ravines. The highest naturally generated cheese layer occurs at Y=60. At the bottom of the Moon, there are 5 layers of bedrock, generating in the same way as in the Overworld and Nether. There are no caves on the Moon. Only one structure generates: the lunar base.

There is no weather, but daylight cycle occurs, with Earth visible in the sky instead of the Moon. The sky does not change its color regardless of the position of the Sun, due to the Moon having no atmosphere. Players slowly suffocate, and it takes 5 minutes to use up all oxygen. Neither Respiration or Water Breathing can prevent this. If the player runs out of oxygen and dies on the Moon, the death message says "<player> experienced the dark side of the moon".

Both beds and respawn anchors explode if the player tries to set their spawnpoint, just like in the End and the Nether.

The Moon counts as an ice biome, which means that water in a single biome world freezes into ice.

The Moon has only one biome, bearing the same name.

The following mobs spawn naturally here:

In Java Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Creature category
Moon Cow	1	1–5

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Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
minecraft:the_moon	the_moon	biome.minecraft.the_moon

The Moon is home to only one naturally occurring mob:

Moon cow

Moon cows spawn naturally throughout the entire dimension.

"Naturally generated" includes blocks that are created through the world seed.

• Air
• Cheese
• Bedrock

Same as naturally generated, but these blocks are created only with the "Generate Structures" option enabled. These blocks are a part of the Lunar Base structure.

• Dropper
• Iron Bars
• Iron Trapdoor
• Light Weighted Pressure Plate
• Smooth Quartz Slab
• Lightning Rod
• End Rod
• Iron Chain
• Polished Basalt
• Lava
• Copper Spleaves
• Polished Blackstone Button
• Soul Lantern
• Block of Raw Copper
• Waxed Cut Copper Stairs
• Waxed Block of Copper
• Waxed Cut Copper
• Waxed Exposed Copper
• Waxed Exposed Cut Copper
• Waxed Weathered Copper
• Waxed Weathered Cut Copper
• Waxed Oxidized Copper
• Waxed Oxidized Cut Copper
• Chest
• Green Shulker Box
• Barrier

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
The Moon	the_moon	?

The Moon is saved in the dimensions\minecraft\the_moon subdirectory of the world save. Deleting the directory resets the Moon, including all player-made changes.

Issues relating to "The Moon" 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".

• 
  Craters on the edge of a cliff on the moon
• 
  Two large craters intersecting
• 
  Moon cows in an open area
• 
  A large crater with several smaller craters on its rim
• 
  A single biome world with this biome
• 
  Underwater caves in a single biome world with this biome
• 
  Proof that ice generates in single biome worlds