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Theoretically Possible Events in Minecraft #4

Minecraft presents numerous absurdly rare occurrences beyond its typical gameplay mechanics. For instance, fishing usually takes 5-30 seconds, but without direct sunlight, there's a 50% chance per game tick for the timer not to advance, making it possible, though incredibly rare (1 in "fish seven"), to never catch anything. Bone meal also has extreme possibilities. While it attempts to spawn 128 plants in a 15x5x15 area, only up to 113 actually appear due to overlapping. A player calculated a 1 in 5.77 * 10^26 chance for only a single block to grow grass. Even more astounding, a specific staircase pattern of grass blocks, when bone-mealed at the center, theoretically allows every block to generate a dandelion, with a chance of 1 in 10^914 – a number far exceeding the estimated 10^80 atoms in the observable universe.