How to make glitched text in Minecraft

Minecraft has quite a few "glitches," and while the game-breaking ones get patched with regular updates, plenty continue to linger. Unlike the Farlands glitch or the infinite duplication glitch, some are often fun and don't add or detract from the game. For example, a creeper is just a glitched pig. It was supposed to be a pig mob but ended up glitching out, resulting in the green explosive mob Minecraft players know and fear today.

One of the more fun glitches in Minecraft is the glitched or cursed text that can appear on named items. It's not something crafters would accidentally implement, so the only way to do it is by choice. Here's how that can be done.

Note: Given the nature of glitches, the steps mentioned in this article may not always work for all users.

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Minecraft cursed text: How to name items with quirky characters

A couple of steps are necessary to pull off this glitch. First, players will need an anvil and an item. Any item can be named, but if players want their cursed text to show up every so often, it should be a frequently used one.

This can be a sword, axe, pickaxe, or even a water bucket that they routinely carry and use. These items will be seen more often, thus showcasing the glitch.

Furthermore, the item doesn't have to be enchanted. Anvils are crafted with three iron blocks, which is 36 iron ingots, and then three regular iron ingots, so 39 are required in total.

The first step is to open up the anvil interface by clicking on it. Here, players can add an item with an enchanted book or any other object they're combining with, but for the purposes of this glitch, only the original item is necessary.

At the top of the interface, it reads "Repair & Name," which will serve the purpose of naming. In that window, crafters can type whatever name they prefer.

Named items can be almost anything (Image via Minecraft Forum)

For the glitch, they need to begin by holding down the "S" key and choosing the fourth option. Follow that up by typing a lowercase "k" and the text will begin rotating wildly.

Players can type whatever they want from there; it will get longer and more random. The text will endlessly cycle through special characters and random letters. This method will work on consoles. On PC, players must type Alt+0167 to get the proper character before adding the "k" and rotating the text.

Once it's been named, the item will continue rotating through the text even when in use. To see this in action, players will need to select it from their inventory. Once it's in hand, the name will flash up.

However, it won't stay there forever. Eventually, the name disappears, so to reimplement it, Minecraft players need to move to another item or slot and then back to the newly named item.