Minecraft Bingo Item Pools

BingoMC builds every bingo card from item pools. There are four difficulty pools, easy, medium, hard, and grindy, plus a separate nether pool you can switch on as an extra option. Each pool holds individual items and named categories, where a category resolves to one random item from its list when the card is generated. Picking a difficulty above easy merges in the pool one step easier, so a hard card still contains some easy items. This page lists every item and every category in all five pools.

These pools are what a bingo card is built from. For how the card itself works, read how Minecraft bingo works, and for a guided tour of the grindy end of the list, see the hardest items on a bingo card.

How The Pools Work

Each pool has two kinds of entries:

• items: a flat list of materials. Each item listed is a potential card slot.
• categories: named groups of related materials. A category resolves to a single random item from its list when a card is generated. This prevents a card from filling up with several near-duplicate items.

Sampling rule: every pool entry, meaning each item and each whole category, can be picked at most once per card. A category counts as one entry regardless of how many materials it contains.

Difficulty Merging

When a player picks a non-easy difficulty, the chosen pool is merged with the pool one step easier. Difficulty is one of the things players vote on before a public game starts, alongside card size and full card. The Minecraft bingo server guide lists every voting option and what it does.

• easy uses easy.
• medium uses medium + easy.
• hard uses hard + medium, plus 25% easy.
• grindy uses grindy + hard, plus 25% medium.

The two hardest difficulties also reserve a quarter of the card for the pool two steps easier, so those cards are not wall-to-wall hard items. A hard card always contains 4 easy items out of 16, and a grindy card always contains 4 medium items out of 16 (2 of 9, or 6 of 25, on the other card sizes).

At least a quarter of every card is still guaranteed to come from the pool you actually picked. Grindy is the smallest pool, so without that floor a grindy card could end up with barely any grindy items on it, or none at all. If you enable the nether option too, that guarantee comes out of the easier items rather than your nether items.

The nether pool is not a difficulty. It is a separate yes/no option, and when the nether is enabled its pool is added on top of whichever difficulty pool is in play.

Some category names appear in more than one pool, for example BRICK or WOODEN BOATS in both easy and medium. When merged, these stay as separate category entries, one per pool, so a higher difficulty card can roll one item from each.

The Nether Option

Entering the nether is always on as a world rule. The nether option is separate: it only decides whether the nether pool is added to the card. Most of the pool is near any portal you light, some of it depends on which nether biome you land in, and only one item needs a deep dig. Nothing in the nether pool needs a fortress.

Near The Portal, In Any Nether Biome

• NETHERRACK, and NETHER_BRICK by smelting it. The whole NETHER BRICKS category is crafted from those bricks, so it does not need a fortress either.
• The QUARTZ category from nether quartz ore, which is in every nether biome. Quartz also unlocks COMPARATOR, OBSERVER and DAYLIGHT_DETECTOR.
• The GLOWSTONE category from clusters on the ceiling (rare in soul sand valleys). Glowstone also unlocks REDSTONE_LAMP, and four glowstone dust around an arrow make SPECTRAL_ARROW.
• MAGMA_BLOCK, which generates in every nether biome.
• The BLACKSTONE 1 and BLACKSTONE 2 categories. Blackstone is underground in most nether biomes and all over basalt deltas, and the polished and brick versions are crafted from it.

In A Specific Nether Biome

• Crimson forest: CRIMSON_FUNGUS, both CRIMSON categories, and NETHER_WART_BLOCK from the huge crimson fungi.
• Warped forest: WARPED_FUNGUS and both WARPED categories, including twisting vines, nether sprouts and warped wart blocks.
• Either forest: SHROOMLIGHT, near the top of huge fungi.
• Soul sand valley: SOUL_SAND, the SOUL VALLEY category (soul soil, plus the soul torch, lantern and campfire you craft with it), BONE_BLOCK from nether fossils, and DRIED_GHAST, which sometimes generates next to a fossil.
• Soul sand valley or basalt deltas: BASALT, and POLISHED_BASALT crafted from four of it.

Needs A Deep Dig

• NETHERITE_SCRAP: smelt ancient debris. It is most common around Y 8 to 24, never generates exposed to air, and needs a diamond pickaxe.

The fortress items are in the grindy pool, not the nether pool. NETHER_WART only generates in nether fortresses and in bastion remnants, and grindy also holds ANCIENT_DEBRIS, NETHERITE_INGOT and RESPAWN_ANCHOR. A grindy card can send you to the nether even with the nether option off.