How to find Mystery Cave and solve all puzzles in MCC x Minecraft 15th Anniversary Party

To celebrate Minecraft’s 15th anniversary, the developers have introduced 15 challenges designed to test your skills. One of these requires you to find the Mystery Cave and solve all its puzzles, which then earns you the MCC Crown Character Creator Item.

To help you complete all the MCC x Minecraft 15th anniversary party challenges, here’s how to find the Mystery Cave and solve all its puzzles.

Mystery Cave location in Minecraft MCC Party 2024

The Mystery Cave is in the tall mountain between the Grid Runners and Meltdown, on top of the Toy Vendor. Head to the water elevator toward the left of the Toy Vendor. The elevator quickly takes you to the Mystery Cave’s entrance.

Enter the cave and keep walking until you see the paintings on the left and an NPC (Puzzle Helper). If you missed a particular day’s challenge, don’t worry; you can still complete the puzzles in the second week.

All Mystery Cave puzzle solutions in Minecraft MCC Party 2024

There are seven painting puzzles altogether in the Minecraft MCC Party event. Here’s how to solve all the Mystery Cave painted puzzles:

Puzzle 7

• Puzzle Helper clue: The hands seems to be holding together? Or clapping? Then there’s a frog and a door.

The seventh and final Minecraft Mystery Cave painted puzzle is split in two. The top half presents a wooden door and hands clapping, and the bottom half shows a frog with a crown over its head. Here’s how to solve the seventh puzzle:

1. Use the Teleport Map to travel to Ace Race quickly.
2. Participate in the Ace Race by going past the start line ahead of the big green arrow.
3. You can spot a castle toward the left of the starting area of the Ace Race. Head to the top floorto solve the final Mystery Cave puzzle.
4. Keep running until you reach the castle (around the race’s halfway).
5. Stand in front of the castle’s wooden door and use the Clap emote to open it. If you’re on PC, press B to open your emote menu. By default, the Clap emote is available in one of the four emote slots.
6. Here, the goal’s simple: Navigate to the top floor. You must perform tricky jumps and use the jump and launch pads in the castle to reach your destination.
7. You can see a small frog wearing a crown sitting on a golden throne. Move closer to the Frog Prince and interact with it.
8. Select the third option and kiss the frog to complete the final puzzle.

Puzzle 6

• Puzzle Helper clue: Yesterday’s painting had sparkling numbers! And a mountain!

The sixth and second last Minecraft Mystery Cave painted puzzle presents the number 15 in green color over the snow-covered peak of a mountain. Here’s how to solve the sixth puzzle:

1. Head to the Toy Vendor right under the cave area.
2. Purchase Birthday Fireworks for 40 coins.
3. Take the water elevator again to return to the Mystery Cave’s entrance. While you’re standing in front of the entrance and next to the water elevator, look up in the sky. You can spot the mountain’s white peak, where you must reach.
4. Head right from the entrance and then left to begin your ascent.
5. Keep jumping till you reach the peak. Here, use the Birthday Fireworks to complete the sixth puzzle.

Puzzle 5

• Puzzle Helper clue: The last one is baffling, A black and yellow circle, with a Cake and a H?

The fifth Minecraft Mystery Cave painted puzzle displays a yellow circle with black stripes. The circle is separated from a cake over a yellow H symbol by a black line. Here’s how to solve the fifth puzzle:

1. Use the Teleport Map to get back to the main lobby quickly and head to the area between Sands of Time and Ace Race, where you’ll find the Food Vendor.
2. Purchase a Cake Slice for 20 coins.
3. Teleport to Meltdown and look up to find a platform (helipad) on the highest floor of the mini-game structure, where you must reach to complete the fourth puzzle.
4. Go past the Join Queue controller to find a door slightly toward the right, which leads to higher floors.
5. Take the stairs immediately toward the left of the door and keep marching ahead until you reach the bright orange pillar.
6. You can spot an entrance with yellow and black striped tiles. Perform a couple of careful jumps off the fence to enter the area.
7. Jump on top of the boxes to reach the ladder, which takes you to the roof. To get to the helipad, you have to perform some tricky jumps. We’ve highlighted the path you need to take with the arrows below.

Finally, stand over the helipad and eat the Cake Slice to solve the puzzle.

Puzzle 4

• Puzzle Helper clue: The previous one has a disco ball and a person?

The fourth Minecraft Mystery Cave painted puzzle presents a disco ball in front of a green character with yellow (sparkling) eyes. Here’s how to solve the fourth puzzle:

1. Head to the Toy Vendor below the Mystery Cave.
2. Purchase a Disco Ball for 60 coins.
3. Use the Teleport Map to travel to the Grid Runners quickly.
4. Head to the right side of the mini-game’s spawn and take the stairs to go past the various stages in Grid Runners until you reach the Copy the Painting section.
5. Take either of the stairs and head to the top floor.
6. You will find the green character with the yellow star eyes in the room on the right. 
7. Use the Disco Ball in front of the character to complete the fourth puzzle.

Puzzle 3

• Puzzle Helper clue: The latest seems like a great pool, or perhaps a splash of water?

The third Minecraft Mystery Cave painted puzzle shows a duck wearing a crown swimming over a small pool of water. Here’s how to solve the third puzzle:

1. Head to the main lobby and toward the rainbow bridge. As shown in the painting puzzle, a giant yellow duck is floating on the pond beside the bridge.
2. Swim toward the duck’s beak and look down in the pond to find a trapdoor.
3. Swim toward the black tile next to the trapdoor to open it and travel to a hidden location.
4. There’s only one way forward, which gets trickier as you go deeper. Jump over several structures to find your way to the next door until you reach a library.
5. Here, jump over the shelves to find the final door leading to a water portal.
6. Go through the portal to solve the puzzle.

Puzzle 2

• Puzzle Helper clue: I’ve just revealed a face and a party popper.

The second Minecraft Mystery Cave painted puzzle challenge presents a dark blue face with light blue eyes and green eyebrows. There’s also a party popper next to the face. Here’s how to solve the second puzzle:

1. Head to the Toy Vendor, which is exactly below the cave area.
2. Purchase a Party Popper for 40 coins.
3. Use the Teleport Map to travel to the Sands of Time quickly.
4. Turn left and take the stairs until you reach a grey-faced structure with golden eyes.
5. Head left from the structure to take the wooden bridge. You have to make three tricky jumps now to continue moving forward.
6. Take the stairs to your right, and you will reach a grey-face structure with light blue eyes covered by vines.
7. Stand on the X mark before the structure and use the Party Popper.

Puzzle 1

• Puzzle Helper clue: That first one seems like a waving hand, but I can’t be sure.

The first Minecraft Mystery Cave painted puzzle challenge shows a hand waving over a crown symbol. Here’s how to solve the first puzzle:

1. Return to the main lobby (where you spawn at the start of your session). You can use the Teleport Map to travel quickly.
2. Equip the Wave emote. If you’re on PC, press Esc and open your Dressing Room.
3. Click on the fourth icon on the left for the owned emotes.
4. Equip Wave, the emote with the raised arm, to one of the four slots available.
5. Use the Wave emote while standing on top of the golden crown in the main lobby. To access the emotes on PC, press B.

We’ll update this guide for all seven Minecraft Mystery Cave painted puzzles, so keep checking back to earn the final challenge’s exclusive reward. The Minecraft MCC Party event is live until 5pm CT on Aug. 4.