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The world is obsessed with Minecraft, boasting hundreds of millions of active users as evidence of its viral success. The indie gamer sensation took off in 2011, turning the gaming world on its head like a dinnerbone.
This open-world sandbox game provides limitless creative freedom. Rather than engaging in the typical all-out combat games, Minecraft allows you to explore, build, and create mods, mobs, skins, and add-ons, all with virtually boundless possibilities.
Whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned miner, get ready to dive into the blocky world with our handpicked collection of Minecraft memes. Grab your pickaxe, get comfortable, and prepare for some hardcore Minecraft fun!

#1

“Wandering Traders Be Like: ‘Let’s Set Up Shop Here’”

A Minecraft meme featuring a person standing on a roof with two llamas beside them, as if they are in the game Minecraft. The text above the image reads, "No one: Wandering traders:" humorously referencing how wandering traders and their llamas in Minecraft often appear in strange or unexpected locations.

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Minecraft Can Make You Smarter: Here’s Proof

A 2021 study published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living Journal explored the potential brain benefits of Minecraft playing. The study found that the game improved the memory ability of the part of the brain called the Hippocampus (1).

According to Taylor Wendt, this weird-sounding cerebral structure is a small curved formation deep in the temporal lobes (WebMD, 2022)

(2). This sensitive area is responsible for memory, learning, and emotion. 

Immersive 3D games like Minecraft improve human memory in young adults, but that’s not all. Good news for the Boomers — the same study found that 4 weeks of playing Minecraft improved 60-80-year-olds so much that it matched the memory of people 15-20 years younger!

#5

The Best View in Minecraft

A Minecraft meme combining a real-life photo and a Minecraft landscape. A woman is holding someone's hand, leading them towards a scenic view, with a Minecraft sunset and blocky terrain in the background. The text reads, "Told her I knew a spot," humorously suggesting that the romantic location is actually in the Minecraft game world.

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Minecraft and Autism 

A small 2024 study led by Dr Abi Thirumanickam from the University of Adelaide’s School of Allied Health Science suggests that Minecraft could help autistic children (University of Adelaide, 2024) (3).

The parents of the test subjects and the children themselves reported improved social skills and expanded social networks after playing Minecraft regularly. 

The results could be attributed to Minecraft’s highly customizable game world. It allows autistic children to explore and create freely in creativity mode without being bogged down by the rules of play of the average video game. 

#6

“Breaking Through the Bedrock”

A Minecraft meme showing a photo of a natural crater filled with water that reflects the sky, resembling a hole leading into the void. The text above the image reads, "When you break through the bedrock in Minecraft," humorously implying that the crater is what you might see if you managed to break through the game's bedrock layer into the bottomless void below.

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#7

Minecraft Build in Real Life

A Minecraft meme showing a photo of a lifeguard station built on a beach with a staircase leading up to it. The station appears to be awkwardly jutting out, seemingly defying physics by being only partially supported. The text above the image reads, "Minecraft builds be like," humorously comparing the oddly constructed real-life structure to the unrealistic or gravity-defying creations often built in the Minecraft game.

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#8

Minecraft Players Know No Limits

A Minecraft meme in the style of a Reddit post. The first image shows a Minecraft player’s post titled "I got a friend in singleplayer " with a screenshot of a snow golem inside a small structure, receiving 2.6k upvotes. The second image is another post titled "Jesus Statue built entirely in survival" showing a large statue resembling Christ the Redeemer in a Minecraft world, with only 185 upvotes. Below these posts, an image of Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars saying, "I love democracy," humorously reflects the ironic disparity in upvotes between the two Minecraft creations.

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Markus Notch Persson: The Mastermind of Minecraft

Markus Notch Persson, a Swedish gaming genius, created the Minecraft prototype in only six days and eventually sold it to Microsoft for a whopping $2.5 billion. Statistica states Minecraft’s earnings rocked $49 million in 2024 (5). 

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Markus Persson not only created the game prototype in just six days, but he also didn’t invest a penny in marketing and advertising. The game gained popularity purely through word of mouth and rose to great success.

#10

“The Eternal Minecraft Cycle: Build, Get Bored, Repeat”

A Minecraft meme featuring an image of an intricate and detailed medieval-style village built along a river in the game. The top text reads, "DAMN I'M GONNA BUILD THIS," while the bottom text says, "THEN GET BORED GIVE UP AND DO SOMETHING ELSE," humorously capturing the common experience of Minecraft players who ambitiously plan large builds but lose interest or motivation midway through the project.

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#11

“When You're Ready to Risk It All”

A Minecraft meme showing a humorous scenario where a student is sitting in a classroom wearing a full green Minecraft creeper outfit. The text above reads, "My crush at high school: I love Minecraft!" followed by "Me the next day:" as the image shows the person dressed in the creeper attire, implying they wore it to impress their crush by demonstrating their shared interest in Minecraft.

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How a Coding Error Created Minecraft’s Creeper

Hear that Sssssss? Anyone who has explored Minecraft’s Survival mode has run into that bizarre green monster bomb called a Creeper. But did you know that Notch’s coding error caused the iconic Creeper? 

According to Robert Guthrie, Markus Persson was trying to create a friendly pig and somehow landed up with the bizarre shape of the Creeper (6). Instead of fixing his error, the team colored the weird creation green, and the Creeper was born!

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The Size of Minecraft To Scale Is Mindblowing

According to Robert Earl Wells in a 2022 Lifewire article, one block is equivalent to one real-world meter in the Minecraft game. This means Minecraft has the potential to reach 600 million meters, which is enormous — about five times the diameter of the Earth! (7).

So far, the most ambitious Minecraft project is YouTube creators PippenFTS’s collaborative effort to rebuild the world to scale in the game. COVID-19 derailed the project, but the good news is that it is still underway. 

In 2023, PiffenFTS posted a YouTube video called What Happened To Building The Earth in Minecraft? claiming the project is back on track (8). But the sheer scale of the construction means there is no telling when he will.

#14

“Notch to Creepers: ‘Do You Want to Explode?’”

 A Minecraft meme featuring a scene from the movie "Despicable Me" where the character Gru, labeled "Notch" (the creator of Minecraft), is looking down at a Minecraft pig. The pig is looking back up with a curious expression. The text at the bottom reads, "Do you want to explode?" humorously suggesting that Notch is contemplating turning the innocent pig into a dangerous exploding creature, similar to Minecraft’s infamous Creeper.

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#16

Angry Girlfriend

A Minecraft meme depicting a simple in-game scene with three labeled objects: a dispenser labeled "ME," a campfire labeled "CALM DOWN," and a block of TNT labeled "ANGRY GIRLFRIEND." The image humorously represents the idea of a person (the dispenser) trying to defuse a tense situation (calm down) between themselves and their angry girlfriend (the TNT), playing on the explosive nature of the TNT to symbolize anger.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just one of the many things you should never say when a woman is angry 😊

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#17

Instant Glow-Up

A Minecraft meme showing two side-by-side photos of a person wearing a plain dark outfit on the left and a reflective, colorful, glowing outfit on the right. The text above reads, "When you finally get an enchantment table in Minecraft," humorously comparing the transformation of basic armor in Minecraft to enchanted armor that gains a magical glow, suggesting that the person has been upgraded in a flashy way just like enchanted gear in the game.

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#18

“When Minecraft Biomes Don’t Know How to Transition Smoothly”

A Minecraft meme showing a real-life photo of a landscape where a grassy field suddenly transitions into a snowy area on a hillside, with a clear line separating the two. The text above reads, "Nobody: Minecraft Biomes:" humorously comparing the abrupt change in weather and terrain in the photo to the way biomes sharply transition in the Minecraft game, often without gradual blending.

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#19

Minecraft Music Follows a Different Logic 

A Minecraft meme consisting of two panels. The top panel shows a person playing a piano with the caption, "Minecraft music when I'm fighting for my life," humorously referencing the calm, serene music that often plays during intense moments in the game. The bottom panel shows a spooky black-and-white image of two figures with glowing eyes, captioned "Minecraft music when I'm tryna find some diamonds," implying that eerie, unsettling music plays during mundane or non-threatening activities, creating a funny contrast.

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#20

Enderman: “I See a Dirt Block, I Take a Dirt Block”

A Minecraft meme featuring the "And I took that personally" meme template with an Enderman's face superimposed over Michael Jordan's. The text above reads, "Dirt Block: Exists," with "Enderman:" below it. The image humorously suggests that Endermen, known for picking up random blocks in Minecraft, are triggered just by the presence of a dirt block, leading them to grab it as their personal mission, playing off the original meme's sentiment of taking something personally.

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#21

Villagers Be Like: “Who Took My Stairs?”

A Minecraft meme combining a screenshot of a tweet with an image. The text at the top reads, "Nobody: Minecraft villagers after I take everything valuable in the village." Below is a tweet from a user named CatButts saying, "alright who took my stairs," with a photo showing a doorway that opens directly into a drop-off with no stairs outside. This humorously depicts the reaction of Minecraft villagers after a player loots their village, taking everything, including essential items like stairs.

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#22

“When Your Grandma Thinks You’re Popular”

A Minecraft meme showing two panels side by side. The text at the top reads, "Grandma: 'The girls must be all over you!'" On the left panel labeled "Me," there is an image of a Minecraft torch. The right panel labeled "The Girls" shows various Minecraft mobs, including a zombie, creeper, skeleton, enderman, spider, slime, and zombie pigman. The meme humorously suggests that the "girls" in question are hostile Minecraft mobs that surround the player at night, playfully subverting the grandma's comment.

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#25

"When You Order Your Iron Block on Wish”

A Minecraft meme featuring an in-game screenshot of a small, incorrect-looking block resembling an iron block, but noticeably different and lower quality. The text above reads, "When you order your iron block on Wish," humorously comparing the block to an expectation vs. reality scenario where ordering something from Wish, a discount online retailer, results in a cheap or poor imitation of the desired product.

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#27

Wide Screen

A Minecraft meme with text at the top reading, "Me: mom can we have wide screen; Mom: no we have wide screen at home; Wide screen at home:" Below the text is an image of a setup with a laptop and an old square monitor side by side, both displaying different halves of the Minecraft title screen, humorously suggesting this unconventional dual-screen setup as the "wide screen" at home, playing on the expectation versus reality trope.

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#32

Minecraft Meals To Impress

A Minecraft meme featuring a photo of a stovetop with three pots and pans, each containing pixelated Minecraft food items: a steak, a carrot, and a bunch of green vegetables. The text overlay reads, "Hush baby let me spoil you tonight," humorously combining real-life cooking with Minecraft, implying that someone is preparing a special meal using the game's pixelated food items.

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#34

The Circle of Minecraft Life

A Minecraft meme featuring a "Rock, Paper, Scissors" style diagram. The text at the top reads, "If I don't share this Rock Paper Scissors meme it will haunt me until the grave." The diagram shows a sponge block, a water block, and a TNT block arranged in a circular pattern with arrows pointing from one to the next, humorously implying that each block can counter another in a playful Minecraft version of the classic game.

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#35

Through My Eyes vs Enderman's Eyes

A Minecraft meme with two panels. The top panel is labeled "What I see," showing a typical view of the Nether dimension in Minecraft, with lava, Nether blocks, and a player character. The bottom panel is labeled "What Enderman sees," showing the same scene but with inverted colors, referencing the fact that Endermen in Minecraft are known to see the world differently, with a visual filter that changes the appearance of their surroundings.

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#36

Minecrafters on Top of the World

A Minecraft meme showing a real-life photo of two climbers standing on top of a tall, narrow rock pillar with a steep drop around them. The bottom of the image is edited to include the Minecraft game interface, displaying the player's health bar, hunger bar, and an inventory filled with stone blocks. The meme humorously makes it look like the climbers are standing on a single block tower that one might build in Minecraft, playing on the game's physics and building mechanics.

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Sara Frazer
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how I used to spend a night without a bed over the hostile mobs... Until they added flying hostile mobs, such as phantoms...they made Minecraft scary 😂😂😂😭

#37

Minecraft Naming 101

A Minecraft meme titled "Evolution of people naming things in Minecraft." It features three images labeled with humorous names for Minecraft items. The first image shows lava labeled as "Melted Cheese," the second image shows gold blocks labeled as "Butter," and the third image shows a redstone torch labeled as "Lollipop." The meme humorously highlights the creative and often silly names that players come up with for common Minecraft items.

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#40

"Hand Over the Boat"

A Minecraft meme featuring a photo of an elderly person crouching in a grassy area, with Minecraft elements edited into the image. The edited elements include a pixelated Minecraft pig, a villager, and an emerald floating above the grass, along with a wooden Minecraft boat on the person's back. The meme humorously merges real life with Minecraft gameplay, as if the person is interacting with Minecraft entities and objects in their backyard.

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#43

First Time in a Temple

A Minecraft meme featuring two images of penguins from the animated movie "Madagascar." The top image shows a penguin with a Minecraft desert temple placed over its head, holding a candle and saying, "Kaboom?" The bottom image shows another penguin with a pressure plate on its head replying, "Yes, Rico, kaboom." The meme humorously portrays the common mistake made by new Minecraft players triggering hidden TNT traps in desert temples.

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#44

“True Sadness”

A Minecraft meme showing a scene with a cat holding another cat, both edited to appear within a Minecraft environment. The cat is dramatically screaming while cradling the other, which is edited to look like a Minecraft pig. Various dropped Minecraft items like an arrow, feather, and bone are scattered on the ground. The caption above reads, "True sadness," referencing the dramatic and often humorous moments players experience in the game.

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For me it's when my Minecraft dog or cat I had for a long time dies

#45

“Don't Miss the Waterfall!”

A Minecraft meme featuring Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants lying on the ground with a shocked expression. Around him are pixelated Minecraft items such as armor, a pickaxe, food, and a torch, implying a player's items dropped after missing a jump into a waterfall by one block. The caption at the top reads, "When you miss the waterfall by one block," humorously capturing the frustration of narrowly failing a jump in Minecraft.

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#47

The Big Minecraft Question

A Minecraft meme displaying a humorous YouTube comment questioning the logic of Minecraft's infinite world by asking, "If a Minecraft world is infinite how does the sun go around it," with 4.8K likes and 166 replies. Below the comment, a comic strip features a simple cartoon character looking perplexed and speechless, while another character appears overwhelmed, staring blankly in frustration, humorously reflecting the confusion caused by the question.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Simple, it's a fixed point in the sky, like our sun/ there's mirrors

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#49

“Your Mine Entrance in Minecraft” 

Minecraft meme: A real-life image humorously mimicking a Minecraft mine entrance, showing a rough circular hole in a concrete floor leading down several levels. The text above reads, "Nobody: Your mine entrance in Minecraft," poking fun at the haphazard and often unrealistic entrances players create in the game.

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References


  1. Craig E.L. Stark, Gregory D. Clemenson. “ Playing Minecraft Improves Hippocampal-Associated Memory for Details in Middle-Aged Adults.” Researchgate, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, July 2021. | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352994780_Playing_Minecraft_Improves_Hippocampal-Associated_Memory_for_Details_in_Middle_Aged_Adults
  2. Taylor Wendt. “Hippocampus: What to Know” WebMD, September 2, 2022, | https://www.webmd.com/brain/hippocampus-what-to-know
  3. Jessica Stanley. ” Autistic Children the Real Winners From Online Gaming,” University of Adelaide, May 13, 2024. | https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2024/05/13/autistic-children-the-real-winners-from-online-gaming
  4. Omar Alawajee, Jonathan Delafield-Butt. “Minecraft in Education Benefits Learning and Social Engagement.” Researchgate, International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 29th September 2021 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354532910_Minecraft_in_Education_Benefits_Learning_and_Social_Engagement
  5. J. Clement.“Annual mobile revenue generated by Minecraft worldwide from 2015 to 1st half 2024” Statistica, August 19, 2024. | https://www.statista.com/statistics/972711/minecraft-mobile-revenue/
  6. Robert Guthrie. “The History Of The Creeper, Minecraft’s Most Infamous Monster.” Kotaku, November 24, 2016. | https://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/11/the-history-of-the-creeper-minecrafts-most-infamous-monster/
  7. Robert Earl Wells. “How Big Is a Minecraft World?” Lifewire, January 18, 2022. | https://www.lifewire.com/how-big-is-a-minecraft-world-5212822#:~:text=One+block+in+Minecraft+is,times+the+diameter+of+Earth.
  8. PiffinFTS. “What Happened To Building The Earth in Minecraft?” YouTube, May 6, 2023, | What Happened To Building The Earth in Minecraft?
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