Holiday Stocking

Everyone gets one the first time they join. Right-click it for a sled, candy canes, gingerbread cookies and a gingerbread man, eggnog, cider, pumpkin pie and soup, hot chocolate, chestnuts, maple syrup, wrapping paper, and the Hamster Tips and Animal Dictionary books. It all lands in your main inventory, not your hotbar.

The Sleighworks tab

Press L for 25 holiday goals, from opening your stocking and powering your first Create machine to finding the elf and collecting every disc. Most give a treat. First Snow, for being online the moment winter arrives, also gives a disc.

Wishbones

Naturalist's turkeys drop a sparkling wishbone until winter starts. (Look at a turkey and the info bar at the top of your screen names its mod.) It takes two: hold it and right-click a friend, and they right-click you back within 10 seconds. After a short tug it snaps. The winner gets 20 minutes of Luck plus a wish (diamonds, a golden apple, an enchanted book, a music disc, sometimes a totem). The loser gets a candy.

Harvest Moons

Every full moon before December 1 is a Harvest Moon, and crops drop double. That includes the grapes, nuts, ginger, cinnamon and cabbage from the food mods. Fall crops like grapes, fruit trees, maples and nut trees grow best now.

First Snow

At midnight Eastern on December 1, the server and every single-player world flip from fall to winter at the same moment, with sleigh bells and a message in chat. Then it stays winter: snow piles up to four layers deep and lakes freeze. Be online for it to earn the First Snow challenge.

Advent calendar

Everyone gets one on December 1, and you can craft more. Hang it on a wall and open one door a day for a treat and that day's ornament. The 24 ornaments hang under leaves or any block. Missed a day? Catch up through December 31. Open all 24 for the glowing Tree-Topper Star.

In the workshop A Create schematic for a flying sleigh, for door 24.

Santa's sleigh

On winter nights there's a 40% chance Santa's sleigh, with eight reindeer and Rudolph in front, flies over someone who's outside. Listen for the bells. It drops 3 to 5 presents on parachutes; right-click one to open it. Treats, hats, snowballs, fireworks, sometimes a disc or a diamond, or a lump of coal. On Christmas Eve it comes for everyone, with 8 presents each.

Reindeer

Deer turn into reindeer, and about 1 in 40 has a red nose. Deer can pull Snowy Spirit sleds.

Holiday hats

Craft a Santa hat, an elf hat or reindeer antlers from wool (the antlers use antlers or sticks) and right-click to wear one. From December 1 through New Year's Day, about 15% of zombies and skeletons spawn wearing one and sometimes drop it. Hats and skates keep you from freezing in powder snow.

Blue Moons

Full moons turn blue: Luck, double XP, and half-price enchanting and anvils. Carrots, potatoes, beetroot, ginger, cinnamon, cabbage and onions keep growing at full speed all winter.

Feasts with friends

When three or more of you eat feast servings (roast chicken, honey glazed ham, shepherd's pie or stuffed pumpkin) within a minute of each other and within 24 blocks, everyone who ate is Stuffed for 10 minutes: no hunger loss and slow healing.

Snowball cannon

Craft it from snow blocks, iron, a dispenser and planks. It holds 1,024 snowballs; load it by hand, hopper or Create funnel (a snow block counts as 4). Right-click to fire 64 at once where you're looking. Sneak and right-click with an empty hand to switch to Hail Storm, which lobs 128 high so they rain down on everyone. Redstone fires it too.

Elf on the Shelf

Craft one (red wool, white wool and a cookie) and set him down at home. Every morning at 6 he moves to a new hiding spot indoors, but only when nobody's nearby. The first person to find him that day gets a treat and one of 40 cheeky notes. Name him with an anvil.

Ice skates

Leather boots on an iron ingot. You're 65% faster on any ice, and sharp turns spray it. Once winter freezes the lakes, every lake is a rink.

Gingerbread cottages

A new house in snowy forests and plains: gingerbread walls, candy-cane posts, a smoking chimney, a treat chest and two gingerbread men. They only appear in parts of the world nobody has explored yet.

Holiday music discs

All 11 songs from the title screen as jukebox discs. About 1 in 20 dungeon and structure chests has one, goblin traders sell them, and a creeper killed by a skeleton drops one. Collect all 11 for The Whole Album.

Let It Snow, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, Baby It's Cold Outside, White Christmas, It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, The Christmas Song, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Happy Holiday, The Man with the Bag, Mele Kalikimaka and Sleigh Ride, sung by jschlatt.

Airships that behave

Furniture, copycat blocks, backpacks, graves and waystones all work on Create Aeronautics ships. Gun explosives can't break blocks, Carry On can't pick up machines or ships, and ships no longer freeze the server when they plow through fruit trees.