Throughout the years, Minecraft has become an iconic sandbox game that everyone can recognize by its signature aesthetic and gameplay. Simple yet extremely complex at the same time, it's one of those games that can be played and experienced in multiple different ways, yet the core always remains somewhat the same.
As a result, the Internet has come up with memes and resource packs that change the well-known rules of Minecraft drastically. These small yet significant changes are so absurd to long-time players that when looking at these pictures, it's normal to feel a slight sense of discomfort. Something is terribly wrong in these pictures, and they are in fact downright cursed.
10 The Ultra Long Piston
Pistons are such a helpful little tool in Minecraft. Through the power of redstone contraptions, pistons can move blocks around in a small set area. However, what if that piston arm was much longer? In fact, what if it was freakishly long?
This ultra-long piston is the kind of object that puts a slight sense of dread in the heart of any Minecraft player. While arguably useful in pushing blocks extremely far, it's just now natural to see it extended so far off from its base. Thanks, but no thanks, ultra-long piston.
9 Buff Villager, Small Golem
Switching character designs and textures is just another way to confuse players and make Minecraft fans uncomfortable. Villagers and their protector the Iron Golem are a well-known part of the game, so much so that when their textures were flipped around and the villager received a quick trip to the gym, fans absolutely despised the results.
The Iron Golem as a villager isn't really the problem here. In fact, it looks kind of adorable. It's the buff villager with an eight-pack and long arms that go all the way down to its ankles that looks like something out of a fever dream.
8 Steve Farm
Farming is a key feature of Minecraft. To survive and get food, it's one of the most important things to get started on early in a survival world. There's a variety of crops players can farm, some of which are more or less useful as edible foods.
Since almost every important crop is found in the game, someone thought it would be a brilliant idea to be able to plant and farm actual life-sized Steves in the game. Is there anything more terrifying than waking up the day after to see fully grown Steves sticking out of the soil like cursed puppets?
7 Mining Water
Not all cursed Minecraft pictures are highly disturbing. Some of them just give off a slight feeling of "this isn't right", and might make players squint their eyes. When it comes to breaking the rules of Minecraft physics, in particular, it's a subtle artform and the best way to mess with a player's mind.
How about breaking water with a pickaxe? Forget about using a bucket or a glass bottle. Now, mining water with a diamond pickaxe produces, well, whatever this flat water texture block is. One thing is for certain: this wasn't meant to be.
6 Alex The Ghast
A cool prank to pull on a friend who's not looking is to change their Minecraft texture pack and resource pack to produce something as disturbing and cursed as this: Alex the Ghast, with a doll-like contraption of Alex riding on its head.
The shape and design of a ghast is already strange and bizarre enough on its own. Changing the full texture to Alex's face just gives it a terrible appearance. And what's with the doll on its head anyway? When it comes to cursed Minecraft, some questions are better left unanswered.
5 The Long Chest
Another image that radiates chaotic energy is the long chest. Now, double chests have always been a common and normal feature in the game, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with them. However, it's where the lock for the chest is located that makes this picture cursed.
It makes zero sense to have the lock at the front of such a long chest, and the mere sight of is likely to put a cringe on anyone's face. Just imagine opening that chest, and what it would look like.
4 Ultra Realistic Steve
There's nothing that engages a Minecraft player's fight or flight instinct faster than something hyper-realistic in a blocky world. Worse yet, make that hyper-realistic thing sort of familiar, and it's instantly like something straight out of a horror game. Introducing: the ultra-realistic Steve.
Needless to say, this "thing" shouldn't exist. Ever. Under any circumstances. It doesn't matter how realistic a player's texture pack is and how immersive their shaders are, Steve needs to always stay blocky.
3 Lava Generator
The cobblestone generator is a common way for SkyBlock challenged players to generate infinite amounts of cobblestone by placing flowing lava and water into a T-junction and mining the resulting cobblestone block at the center.
Most seasoned Minecraft players will have seen something like this, which is why this cursed version hurts the eyes so much more. It's unclear which one is worse here: the breaking texture on the lava block that should be flowing or the cobblestone on the left that looks to be flowing down slightly, like liquid, when it should be solid.
2 Mining Pigs
Speaking of blocks that should or shouldn't be mined, some players, for a reason that no one can comprehend, thought it would be a fantastic idea to be able to break passive mobs with a pickaxe. What for? Good question, but if one was to use their imagination, perhaps this is the new way of getting food like porkchops.
And yet, seeing this pig with the breaking texture, getting mined with a diamond pickaxe, is probably the last thing anyone would want to see. It makes absolutely no sense, and the sooner this is out of people's sights, the better.
1 The Most Beautiful Of Biomes
Who doesn't love mods that introduce brand-new, cool, and immersive biomes? Given how slow Mojang can be in updating Minecraft's biome selection, mods like Biomes o' Plenty are simply a staple in modding community. However, the difference between those fantastic mods and this awful picture is that this biome is the last thing anyone would want in their game.
End Portal tree leaves? Note block tree trunks? A ground made entirely out of what could be dispensers or furnaces? This is probably the last biome anyone would like to get lost in.