Minecraft Story Mode:Exclusive features

This is the list of features that are available exclusively to "Minecraft: Story Mode". This does not pertain to characters or gameplay. Though features appear in specific episodes and locations, some features are used or reused throughout the game. It should also be noted that all textures that Minecraft: Story Mode used as a base have become outdated due to The Flattening and almost all textures were also additionally modified.

Blocks[]

3D Model

Chest
Crafting Table's bands and tools.
Furnace mouths.

Texture Variation

Many of the blocks have varied textures on the same kind of block to enhance the environment. Some notable blocks that have variant textures include the bookshelf, stone, grass, sand, red sand, stone, and other exclusive blocks. Each texture file for the block using a varied texture is 256 x 256 pixels or 16 x 16 block faces.
- A lot of the files (such as the buildings at EnderCon or the landscape in the overworld) use multiple block type textures in the same file.

Armor Stand

Some armor stands can stand three blocks tall. It holds an enderman suit in Soren's end base.

Armor Stand Light

An unknown block that emits rays under armor stands.

Asphalt

A slightly darkened texture of stone turned 180°.

Banner

Banners have patterns that are almost impossible to create in vanilla. Some notable banners are the Endercon banners and the Item/block banners.

Bookshelf

Other wood types.
Random textures with other book colors.
3D model with shelf sides and is directional.

Bricks

Kitchen Bricks
Town Fair Bricks B
Town Fair Bricks C, Wilderness Mine B
Town Fair Bricks D
Town Fair Bricks E
Witherstorm Bricks

Cobblestone

Skyland Cobblestone. A darker version of cobblestone
Town Fair Building A Cobblestone. Cobblestone with a red tint.
Withered Cobblestone.

Enderman Head on a Spike.

An enderman head atop a spike with the spike being the same texture as an enderman's arms.

Item Frames

Item Frames can be colored.

Coral and Coral Block

As Minecraft: Story Mode Season Two was made before Update Aquatic, they wanted to use coral and oceanic flora for the Sea Temple. They contacted Nandonalt and asked him if they could use his mod Coral Reef in the game. He agreed and they used them with some color tweaks to fit.
Orange Coral
Glowing seaweed. Looks black with white spots.

Diorite

Blue Diorite
Dark Diorite

Door

Doors don't position in blocks as they do in the base game. Doorframes create the illusion that they fit in the wall creating what looks like slabs on top and vertical slabs framing the doors.
Snowy Village Door
Town Fair Door A
Town Fair Door B
Town Fair Door C
Town Fair Door D
Town Fair Door E
Town Fair Door F
Town Fair Door G
Town Fair Door H
Town Fair Door I
Town Fair Door J

Flowers

Blue flower. A blue orchid with a dark green stem and unique bud placement.
Paeonia. A singular flower apart from the peony with the removed peony texture.
Rose. A singular flower apart from the poppy with the removed rose texture.
Sunflower. A singular flower apart from the sunflower from the base game, this is only one block tall with a unique texture. It is also found all over the overworld instead of exclusively in the sunflower plains biome.

Iron Wall

A wall block with an iron texture.

Glowing Obsidian

Used in the Sea Temple as a cage and as part of the structure block: Shield Wall structure.

Glowstone

Orange Glow Stone. An orange variant of glowstone.
Red Glow Stone. A red variant of glowstone.

Granite

Gray Granite. A gray version of granite.

Grass

Grass and grass blocks have color in their texture instead of a biome tint. This creates unique grass colors in certain biomes such as a yellow-green color and an orange variant both in the badlands as opposed to the usual brown; a brown-green color and a dark green color both in the swamp.
Mossy Grass Half.
Shorter Tall Grass. Two versions of Tall Grass that are shorter than regular Tall Grass.
Shrubs. An addition of a removed block which has the Dead Bush texture but is tinted green and can be placed on grass.
Snowy Tall Grass.

Gravel

Red Gravel. Seen in the Badlands. It looks similar to red sand but is lighter in color.
Town Fair Gravel. Gravel with a tan tint.

Ice

Purple Ice.
Packed Ice B. A darker more clean ice.
Polished Ice. Ice with a boarder and two streaks.

Iron Bars

Horizontal Iron Bars. Similar to how carpet is placed.

Iron Door

Some iron doors can be opened with the hand.

Lapis Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli emits light in all forms. It is unknown if this is a separate kind of lapis or not.

Lever

Some levers have a wooden nob as opposed to a stone one.

Light Block

An opaque block that emits light. Some can be found in the building at Endercon.

Marble

Marble A. An alternative texture of andesite.
Marble B. An alternative texture of andesite.

Mushrooms

Withered Mushroom. A purple glowing mushroom found inside the Wither Storm.
Blue Underneath Mushroom A. A teal glowing mushroom.
Blue Underneath Mushroom B. A spotted teal glowing mushroom.
Dark Blue Underneath Mushroom. A dark blue glowing mushroom.

Netherrack

Nether Rack. Unique texture and name.

Painting

Paintings that can't be found in vanilla Minecraft. Notable paintings are Endercon posters, the Golden Apple painting in Ivor's lair, the painting of Reuben, and the paintings in the White Pumpkin's mansion.
The paintings in the White Pumpkin's mansion have peepholes in them.
Paintings similar in fashion to Glazed Terracotta, but act like paintings. These are most likely supposed to represent mosaics.

Shingles

Snowy Village Shingles
Town Fair Shingles A
Town Fair Shingles C
Town Fair Shingles E
Town Fair Shingles F
Town Fair Shingles G

Wood

Dining Room Floor. Gray colored planks.
End Mansion Planks. A classic oak planks texture but darkened.
Lamp Planks and Fence. Planks with the color that chests use.
Oak Planks with the texture from 0.0.14a to Beta 1.8.
Pyramid Beacon Planks and Fence. The fence is used to represent a picket fence.
Snowy Village Planks. A classic spruce planks texture but brightened a lot.
Dining Room Planks. Planks that are white.
Wilderness Mine Bark.
Withered Planks.

Pumpkin

Main Hall Pumpkin. A darker version of the pumpkin.
White Pumpkin. A white variant of the pumpkin. Like the pumpkin, it also has a carved form. In The White Pumpkin's mansion, there is a pumpkin that can change one's voice.
White Jack o'Lantern. The White Jack o'Lantern's texture is actually blue to represent the darkness of the area and so it doesn't become confused with the White Pumpkin. The whole block glows and it's face is a pink color. This suggests it contains a redstone torch or that the inside is pink. These replace redstone lamps hanging from the ceiling after the lights go out.
White Pumpkin Stem. The White Pumpkin Stem is similar to a regular one. It's notably white and grows white pumpkins.

Prismarine

In the Sea Temple can be found various prismarine blocks including some exclusive ones.
Sea Lantern. Alternative sea lantern texture. These are found in the Sea Temple along with sea lanterns but emit a more vibrant light than sea lanterns.

Quartz

Dark Chiseled Quartz.
Dark Quartz.
Dark Quartz Lines.
Order Hall Dark Quartz.

Redstone Lamp

Colored Redstone Lamp. A redstone lamp that emits colored light. Notable appearances are green lamps in PAMA, blue lamps in Ivor's lair and the Sea Temple, and red lamps in Romeo's creations. All lamp colors are: red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, pink, brown, and white.
Alternative Redstone Lamps. There are multiple patterns and colors for redstone lamps.

Redstone

Redstone emits light in all forms unless in an unpowered state.
Withered Redstone.

Redstone Heart

The power source for PAMA. It acts similar to that of a redstone block. This is a reference to the April Fools Trendy Update's USB charger block.

Redstone Torch

A redstone torch that is red without an outline.
A Redstone torch that only has a red band at the "neck" of the torch.

Rocks

A small 3D rock or clusters of rocks made of stone for the overworld, and obsidian for the end.

Rope

Similar to the model of a fence, but has the texture of a lead knot. Minecraft Dungeons has a very similar block.

Sand and Sandstone

Blue Sandstone (which only uses the bottom texture).
Canyon Wall Red Sand. A dark and more contrast red sand.
Carved Sandstone. A blank version of chiseled sandstone.
Gray Sand.
Sandstone the color of jungle planks.
Smooth Sand Stone. A purple brown cut sandstone.
Wilderness Mine Red Sandstone. A Red Sandstone variant resembling a brick tile.
Wilderness Mine Sand. A dull and more contrast variant of sand.
White Sand and Sandstone. (which only uses the bottom texture).
Withered Sand.

Stone

A darker version of stone. There are also dark versions of cobblestone, stone bricks, etc. It looks very similar to the old background on Minecraft.net and on this wiki.
A lighter version of stone. There are also light versions of any block that stone can make. It looks very similar to the new background on Minecraft.net.
Moss Covered Stone. Distinct from mossy cobblestone. Seen mainly in pathways.
Pyramid Beacon Stone. A unique andesite texture.

Stone Bricks

Town Fair Stone Bricks A
Town Fair Stone Bricks B

Terracotta

Stair variants for terracotta (called hardened clay in the game files) and it's colors.
More hardened clay colors. The texture varies depending on the color sometimes resembling concrete or concrete powder. There is notably a proper white, a pine color, and tan.

TNT

Super TNT. A stronger variant of TNT. Can be compared with the charged creeper. It has an orange glow inside of the words "TNT". It was used to craft the Formidi-Bomb along with gunpowder.
Formidi-Bomb. An even stronger variant of TNT. The texture is purple instead of the usual orange and has command block buttons on two sides. The other two have a glowing white "F".

Wool

Because Story Mode Season One was made before the World of Color Update, most of the wool uses the old colors. However; it also uses a much broader spectrum of colors probably similar to how leather armor works, but they aren't often used. Notable colors are dark pink and golden. Despite Story Mode Season 2 updating the wool colors, the old ones are still used alongside the new ones.
Wool similar to Cloth colors are also used in various places.

World Portal

Similar to that of the Funky Portal from the April Fool's update 20w14∞. There are various colored portals that take you to different worlds. This is a reference to the player being able to have more than one world in the base game.

Window

Opaque blocks or textures with different patterns and sizes. These usually have dark and lighted states.

Witherstorm blocks

Black Witherstorm Block.
Dark Purple Witherstorm Block.
Purple Witherstorm Block.
Witherstorm Ribs.

Items[]

3D Models

Amulet

A tracking device. If an order member is near, his/her respective color glows. It can also track a member on a map when used in the Order's Temple.

Armor

Unique armor sets for the game. (See Story Mode Armor)
An iron helmet with a design similar in style to the netherite helmet.
Transmigrational Headset. A headset used to control mobs with a Mind-Control Chip in them. This was based on the April Fools Trendy Update's Reality Vision.

Blueprints

Notable appearance in Soren's end base. He has blueprints for the enderman to build a pattern.

Clock

Giant Clock. A clock that Romeo uses to turn it to manipulate night and day.

Eversource Crown

A crown worn by Eversource Chickens to tell them apart from regular chickens. They are virtually useless.

Book

Openable Book. A book with a model similar to an enchanting table book with the colors of a Book and Quill.

Enchanted Book

Command Block Enchanted Book. An enchanted book that can be put on a tool or weapon to destroy a command block.
Command Block Enchanted Diamond Tools. When a tool is enchanted with the Command Block Enchanted Book it changes its appearance.

Flint and Steel

Enchanted Flint and Steel. A variant of flint and steel that has the properties to open World Portals.

Gauntlet

Fred's Gauntlet. A glove capable of taking an Admin's powers away.
Romeo's Gauntlet. This is a glove that Romeo puts on his champions. It turns red after he takes it off of Jessie. The glove can knock mobs further than a regular fist can. This can be compared with the Power Glove in some of Notch's games such as Prelude of the Chambered and Minicraft.

Minecart

Diamond Minecart

Nether Star

Withered Nether Star. A variant of the nether star that is dropped by the Wither Storm. Once it is crafted into a beacon, it can power more beacons around it. One might make a connection to the corrupted beacon from Minecraft Dungeons.

Potion

Elixir. A potion made by Ivor to stop the Wither Storm.

Portal Atlas

An atlas that will lead you to the home portal with a trail of particles.

Mind-Control Chip

A redstone chip that is implanted in the back of the host's head. This chip gives PAMA control over the host. Water overrides it and causes the chip to fall off.

Sea Shell Soaps

Mentioned by Soren as a joke. There is no in-game soap.

Sword

Some swords have more length.
Prismarine Sword. A sword wielded by the Prismarine Foe. There are also axes and bows.

Mobs[]

Calico Cat.

A texture much different from the calico cat in Minecraft.

Chicken

Eversource Chicken. A chicken capable of laying spawn eggs.

Creeper

Creepers can move their mouth and widen/squint their eyes. They also have an exclusive texture. Additionally, they usually explode upon death.
Creeder. A combination of a creeper and a spider. They can climb and explode with the capability to destroy obsidian.
Icy Ender Creeper. A combination of an enderman and a creeper. They can teleport and explode.

Enderman

Giant Enderman. A giant version of the enderman. It has a glowing mouth similar to that of the Enderall (An official skin by Minecraft). A similar yet unused mob in vanilla Minecraft is the giant.
Icy Ender Creeper. A combination of an enderman and a creeper. They can teleport and explode.

Endermite

An old endermite prototype in Minecraft had a silverfish model. It is used here instead of a regular endermite model. The endermites in the Minecraft Minifigure Series 3 (official merchandise) also look like this.

Ghast

Some ghasts have a billboard sprite instead of a 3D model.
Giant Ghast. A variant of the ghast. It's much darker and has two faces on the sides of its main head. It acts as a boss in-game. It has a red spot on the top of it's head similar to that of the green spot on the top of the prismarine colossus head.

Golem

Giant Magma Golem. A giant magma golem that can launch fireballs and smash players and burn them.
Icy Golem. A combination of a snow golem and an iron golem. There is a larger variant with Snow Golem buttons.
Magma Golem. Similar to that of an iron golem but made of magma.
Prison Golem. A variant of the iron golem. They are black with purple glowing details and eyes.

Horse

A white horse with a dark blue mane and tail, and light blue eyes.

Prismarine Foe

File:PrismarineFoeFace.png Prismarine Soldier. A humanoid golem mob standing at three blocks tall. They are made from prismarine, have a beard that resembles tentacles, and have glowing green eyes. They wield prismarine weapons.
Prismarine Colossus. A giant variant of the Prismarine Foe.

Skeleton

The skeleton's rig has the ability to widen/squint its eyes but skeletons are never seen doing so in-game.

Slime

Prison Slime. A variant of the slime. It is black with a glowing red core.

Spider

Icy Spider. An icy variant of the spider.

Zombie

Zombies can widen/squint their eyes.
Prison Zombie. A zombie variant. they have red eyes, have part of their rib cage exposed, and have gray and black skin. They wear orange prison outfits similar to the inmates, but are worn. Gray and black zombies can also be found in Notch's game Minicraft, but they are not prison zombies.

Wither

Wither Storm. A giant wither created using three wither skulls, three soul sand, and a command block. Unlike the normal wither, it collects blocks to build itself. It can also fire flaming wither skulls (a reference to the normal wither's incapability to do so because it crashed Java itself), split like Slimes when killed, regenerate using blocks, and break through obsidian with its tentacles.

General[]

Light

Light acts as it would when using a shader.
Colored lighting.

Particles

There is a wider use of particles such as the generic smoke particle can be seen used as floating dust, falling dust, and geysers in the Underneath.
Snowball particles when iron golems are created.
Blue Flame. This was made before soul fire and is emitted by blue fireballs.

Non-mob entities[]

Blue Fireball

Fireballs thrown by Romeo in his golem-in-a-box form.

Fire Projectile

A flamethrower effect used by the giant magma golem.

Sounds[]

Ambient Noises

Notably frog chirps in swamps, waterfall rushing, and wind. Similar to the unused audio loops.

Crafting Sound Effect

This sound was played whenever an item was crafted on a Crafting Table.

Mob sounds

Most of the sounds aren't from the base game.

Alternative Lever and Piston sounds

Structures[]

Clock Tower

Sea Temple

Trees

Different from vanilla trees. They are shaped in a much more realistic manner while still keeping them somewhat simplistic.

End Islands

Story Mode Season One was made before the Combat Update. Other than the main island being much smaller, there were other islands floating around it. The other islands have dark, blocky obsidian-like tentacles sticking out of them similar to Chorus trees.

Farlands

A terrain generation error in Java Edition added as a plot location for Jessie and his gang.

Giant Seaweed

Large block-built seaweed can be seen in the background as Jesse swims to the Sea Temple.