Minecraft Player Has Strange Encounter While Flying Through Their World

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Minecraft is packed with awesome things to discover, but a clip shared by a member of the community highlights their encounter with what seems to be an unidentified flying object, at least at first glance. Even after more than a decade since the game's official release, fans of Minecraft continue to stumble upon and document interesting and often extremely rare occurrences in the game, ranging from the discoveries of extremely small or rare biomes to procedurally generated structures spawning in bizarre, unexpected locations.

This sense of discovery has always been an integral part of the Minecraft experience. Exploration within the game tends to be less about the discovery of new lands and instead more about the uncovering of new phenomena, whether it be a player's first encounter with a mob such as the Enderman, or their first time delving into an ancient city and learning how to safely navigate its grounds. This is why it's important to many players that Minecraft's continued updates largely focus on delivering features that provide memorable experiences rather than just new blocks to build with. Even so, players often find themselves making new discoveries based on some of the game's older features as well.

One interesting clip recently shared by a fan known online as AnxiousShinobi makes for a good example. It shows the player encountering an odd, flying cube as they glide through their world with their elytra, which leaves behind a trail of particles as it travels. Though the player took to Reddit for assistance in identifying this seemingly unidentified flying object, a closer inspection revealed it to be a Wither skull projectile. These explosive entities, fired exclusively by Minecraft's Wither boss, will continue on their path until they collide with an obstacle, and will load in whenever a player is within render distance — meaning that the projectile must have been fired at an earlier point when the player battled the Wither and, remarkably, was