Mojang deserves high praises for their commitment to Minecraft. With two spinoffs and counting, the game that started it all just keeps getting better. Recent updates saw great improvements to the game's cave systems, but there were also new creatures added to the surface world for players to fawn over.
Alongside the gameplay updates and improvements, four obscure new trophies / achievements were also added for players to unlock. This guide will help players unlock the 'Birthday Song' trophy / achievement, which requires them to make a tamed Allay mob drop a cake near a note block.
Finding and Taming an Allay
Beating the Copper Golem and Glare in the 2021 Mob Vote, Allays are a cute — and helpful — addition to the game. Finding them isn't easy, but they can always be found:
- Imprisoned inside cages near Pillager Outposts
- In the cells of Woodland Mansions (if the mansion has jail cells)
After freeing the Allay, players will need to give it an item — any item — to have them become 'tamed' and follow the player. While it's following the player, Allays will seek out the items that players gave them, and drop them for the player. Taking the item away from the Allay will stop it from following them. The creatures also love music, and if a note block is 'activated' near them, they will drop the item on top of the note block instead of taking it to the player.
Allays will also dance if a jukebox is playing music near them, which is very cute. If the player gives the allay an amethyst shard while it dances, it will also duplicate itself. Even cuter!
Setting Up the Birthday Party
With the Allay tamed and following the player, they'll to create a note block and bake two cakes. To create a note block, players will need the following resources:
- A Crafting Table to create it on
- 8x Wooden Planks of any kind
- 1x Redstone Dust in the middle slot
To bake a delicious Minecraft cake, players will need the following ingredients:
- A Crafting Table
- 3x Buckets of Milk in the top three slots
- 1x Egg in the middle slot
- 2x Sugar on either side of the egg
- 3x Wheat in the bottom three slots
With the two cakes baked and a note block placed, players simply need to give one cake to the Allay and drop the other on top of the note block. Using the note block repeatedly will then make the Allay swiftly swap the cake it's holding for the cake on top of the note block, making the 'Birthday Song' trophy / achievement unlock.
Minecraft is available on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, and many other devices.