Minecraft Discontinued Features Wiki:Glossary

A dictionary for jargon/abbreviations found in the discontinued community. Does not cover terms directly in other articles
 * Ahsdiufgauweoutnqa: Water over a Soul Sand that doesn't have a Bubble Column. Named this because when it was being named, bluecrab2 said the discoverer can name the feature, clarifying that "if you call it ahsdiufgauweoutnqa it probably won't stick". As a result, it has become the joke name for this feature.
 * Alpha ___: an informal way of declaring Invalid Data Value Item. Originates from alpha leaves and was carried as a misnomer to alpha slabs.
 * B Creative: an overpowered glitch in 11w49a that allowed the player to enter creative temporarily
 * Betacraft: a useful launcher for playing all versions 1.5.2 and earlier
 * BRB: initialism for block replacement bypass, not to be confused with brb (be right back)
 * Bugrock: nickname for the bedrock edition of minecraft
 * b1.6tb3: shortening of Beta 1.6 Test Build 3
 * CWC: initialism for the cross world commands
 * DF: initialism for discontinued features
 * Downgrader: player who allows downgrade discontinued features
 * Duplicate Bug: bug on Mojira that is just duplicating another already reported bug, sometimes bring more insight
 * Exploiter: term for a player who plays a discontinued features world
 * FDF: Future Discontinued Feature, refers to a feature that as of the current version is not discontinued, but is expected to become discontinued.
 * Fixed Bug: bug on Mojira that is verified to be fixed in the game
 * Happiness machine: a joke name to a brute force method involving repeating command blocks that continuously kill any entity that does not have the discontinued NBT sought after
 * IDV: initialism for Invalid Data Value Item, used often in front of the item/block obtained with it, for example, IDV dirt for invalid data value dirt
 * InterWorld Redstone: rare synonym for cross world commands, used in a Tamtam video
 * Invalid Bug: Mojira bug is thrown out for one of many reasons including foreign language, not enough details, or using mods. For discontinued purposes awaiting response, incomplete, and cannot reproduce are often lumped into this category.
 * Jira: the official bug tracker used by Mojang
 * MCW: abbreviation for Minecraft Wiki, the wiki for general Minecraft info
 * Missing Texture: the infamous square or cube texture with purple and black checkers, there have been other minor missing textures (See texture history on the locked chest page)
 * MMC: abbreviation for MultiMC, a popular launcher among the discontinued feature community due to it creating a separate instance for each version to minimize corruption.
 * Mojank: joke term for when Mojang makes a critical and/or obvious bug, we love these bugs Mojang though so please keep them!
 * Mojira: the Jira official bug tracker used by Mojang with the "Mo" prefix from Mojang attached
 * NBTExplorer: a program used to check the NBT structure of MC save files
 * Neg: short for negative items, sometimes used for negative durability
 * PDV: Potentially Dangerous Versions
 * Pre-1.8 Villager: villager from 12w21a (1.3 snapshot) to 1.7.10
 * Pre-1.14 Villager: villager from 14w02a (1.8 snapshot) to 19w09a (1.14 snapshot)
 * Private Bug: a bug that results in a serious problem such as general item duplication and regular bug trackers cannot view
 * Prot: abbreviation for protection
 * Six Sided Log: the name given to bark before its formal addition in 1.13
 * Seamless Double Stone Slab: the name given to smooth stone before its formal addition in 1.13
 * Seamless Double Sandstone Slab: the name given to smooth sandstone before its formal addition in 1.13, also used to differentiate it from cut sandstone that was called smooth sandstone itself at the time
 * Snap: Snapshot, a development version of Minecraft, usually released every Wednesday.
 * Unenchanted Book: synonym for blank enchanted book
 * Unobtainable: synonym for Discontinued Feature, could be considered a misnomer because discontinued features are by definition obtainable just not in the most present version
 * Unresolved Bug: bug in Mojira that has not been closed and either still affects the game or is waiting for review
 * US: short for update suppresion, rare due to confusion over the country
 * Useless NBT: unobservable NBT on item, mob, or block
 * version-1: the first variant of a version uploaded by Mojang. Because the Mojang name remained identical the -1 is community added to the first upload -2 to the second and so on. Also sometimes denoted with parentheses after the version saying (pre-reupload), (reupload), (2nd reupload),...
 * WAI: initialism for Works as Intended on Mojira
 * Works as Intended Bug: Bug on Mojira that was marked as a feature
 * Water Update Suppression: archaic form of block replacement bypass.
 * WIP: acronym for Work in Progress
 * WMEDA: initialism for Wiki Marathon Extravaganza Day of Awesomeness, a monthly event help for editing this discontinued feature wiki
 * Won't Fix Bug: a rare resolution in Mojira where Mojang agrees it is a bug, but declares they aren't going to fix it
 * xxw49a: a superstitious pattern that every 49th-week snapshot will result in a crazy discontinued feature. 11w49a = B Creative, 12w49a = Any Enchant on Any Item, 15w49a = fixing Ender Dragon in Boat but due to the lack of recent discontinued features some have resorted to other patterns like the first number must be divisible by each of its nonzero digits in order for it to occur
 * 20w14~, 20w14inf, or 20w14infinite: alternatives to 20w14∞, often used because the infinity symbol is not on the keyboard