Radojka Travar
I'm a gaming enthusiast with a strong passion for writing. My expertise lies in creating simple, to the point and clear content teaching you about various features, mechanics and community-based inventions related to Minecraft. In spare time, I love flying around in my Minecraft world and exploring stories of other pixelated games.
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10 Best Minecraft Horror Mods
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Is Minecraft not scary enough for you? Do you want new and properly terrifying mobs in your blocky world? Well then this guide is perfect for you. We've showcased the best, scariest and most unique horror mods you should add to Minecraft. All of these mods introduce scary mobs and entities, like the cave dweller, spider Steve, crooked black figure, large-mouthed nightmares and more. So, check out our guide to see full descriptions, images and download page links.
10 Best Minecraft Realism Mods
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Do you want to make Minecraft a lot more realistic? Well then you should check out this guide. Here we've showcased the best realism mods you should include in your Minecraft playthrough. Some of them include Physics Mod, Tectonic, Serene Seasons, Tough As Nails, Distant Horizons and more. So, no matter whether you want to add more realistic movement, systems and visuals to Minecraft, or you want to make a world more beautiful or gameplay more difficult, you're sure to find what you're looking for.
How to Get Milk in Minecraft
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Milk is very useful in Minecraft and in order to obtain it, you'll need to make a bucket and find a cow, mooshroom or a goat. Select the bucket on your hot bar and get close to the mob. Right-click the mob or use a bucket on it and the bucket will get filled with milk. You cannot pour milk, but you can drink it. This will remove all positive and negative status effects. Also, you can use three milk buckets to make a cake inside the crafting table.
5 Best Rejected ‘Mob Vote’ Mobs Minecraft Should Add
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There are many rejected Mob Vote mobs in Minecraft and in this guide I'll be listing five of my favorites. Those are Copper Golem, oxidizing and button-pressing statue mob, Moobloom, aesthetic cow variant, Iceologer, cool ice-controlling illager, Tuff Golem, item-holding statue mob and Crab, large clawed animal mob. In addition, I'm sharing what they were intended to do and how they would've affected Minecraft gameplay if they were introduced.
5 Biomes I Feel Need an Upgrade in Minecraft 1.22
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Minecraft has a lot of biomes and there are some I feel need changing in the 1.22 update. The first Minecraft biome I think needs to be changed is the forest biome. It is very bland and some fallen trees and stumps will help greatly. Desert is intentionally barren, but it should be also more interesting with new cactus flower textures, palm trees and meerkats. Many ocean biomes are dull and should get more colorful plants and mobs. Keep reading to know them all and my suggestions here.
5 Things I Want to See in the Minecraft End Update
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I would really love Minecraft 1.22 to be the End update and in this article I'll be sharing five features I'd love to see in it. For starters, the End biomes should be improved drastically and enhanced with new blocks, mobs and vibes. The building and decorative blocks should represent the alien world and be filled with colors and patterns. There should be new mobs that have unique characteristics and can teleport. Imagine a new structure over the void with the new mace variant, armored wings, smithing template or an epic music disc inside.
5 Cool Things You Can Do with Minecraft’s New Minecart Changes
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Mojang recently introduced amazing changes to minecarts in Minecraft and the community has already started making epic builds utilizing them. We showcase some of them, including cool rollercoasters, funny mob display, an Angry Birds inspired mini-game, super sonic speed cannons and also a sweet short ride. These creations will make you want to experiment with the minecart changes yourself,
Minecraft Retires Mob Vote Forever, Promises New Updates More Frequently
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Mojang has posted an article explaining new and exciting changes coming to Minecraft updates and events. First, possibly due to the backlash Mojang has received about the Mob Vote, they decided to retire it and bring something new. Furthermore, there will be smaller, but more frequent updates in the future similar to the Armored Paws drop, instead of one major update in summer. Finally, Minecraft Live event will take place twice per year and it will bring all the news related to the new features and announcements.
Minecraft Movie Cast and Characters Guide
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There are currently eight confirmed cast members that are part of the Minecraft Movie, Jack Black as Steve, Jason Momoa as Garrett Garrison, Emma Myers as Natalie, Sebastian Eugene Hansen as Henry and Danielle Brooks as Dawn. There are also Jennifer Coolidge, Jemaine Clement and Kate McKinno who play unannounced characters. The four main characters end up in the Overworld and their goal is to go back home. In this blocky world they meet Steve who will help them master this world and together they will protect it from evil piglins and zombies.
How to Make a Kelp Farm in Minecraft
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You can make a kelp farm in Minecraft with some redstone components, building blocks and kelp. You should make a mirrored wall of pistons and observers that have kelp growing in front of them. When the kelp grows enough, it'll trigger an observer that will activate pistons that break kelp. With some water streams at the top, you can funnel kelp items into another water stream where the items will be collected. You can also stack this kelp farm module upwards to produce more kelp. Kelp can be smelted into dried kelp, which can be crafted into dried kelp blocks.
The Minecraft Movie Trailer Already Has 1 Million Dislikes!
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Minecraft Movie finally dropped its first trailer recently and it's a complete fail, as it got 1 million dislikes on YouTube. This may not surprise you at all, since the mobs, especially pink sheep, are ugly and way too realistic. But the main problem is the real life people who don't fit in with the blocky world and are very obviously green screened in. Mojang and Warner Bros. should listen to the community, delay the movie release and make it completely animated. This would fix the biggest problem and prove to be a lot better-looking in the end.
How to Get Looting Enchantment in Minecraft
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One of the best Minecraft enchantments is looting. It is applicable only to swords and it increases the drop amount and chance of items after you use the looting sword to kill a mob. You can also shoot a projectile and switch to a looting sword and this enchantment will trigger. You can get looting through the enchanting table. Place the sword and lapis in the table's UI and see if looting appears. You may also apply a looting enchanted book to the sword, which you get from librarians, fishing or when exploring in-game structures.
How to Dye Leather Armor in Minecraft
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Leather armor is highly customizable, because you can dye it in many different color in Minecraft. On Java you'll need leather armor, dyes and a crafting table. On Bedrock, you'll need leather armor, dyes, cauldron and water buckets. On Java, you can place the leather armor and the dyes in the crafting grid to change the leather color. On Bedrock, you should use dyes on the filled cauldron to change the water color. Keep reading to learn how to remove color from leather armor here.
How to Find Your Minecraft World Seed Code (2024)
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Minecraft map seeds allow you to generate the same world as many times as you want. To find the seed code of your Minecraft world map, you can access the chat and then type the /seed command on Java edition. Moreover, you can re-create the world and when you view the World options, the seed code will be displayed there. On Bedrock, you can pause the game, go to Settings and view the Game tab, where the seed code will be visible.
Minecraft Seed Map: How to Find Specific Locations in Your World
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To use Chunk Base, you first need to find the seed code of your Minecraft world. Then, visit Chunk Base's Seed Map app, insert the seed code and choose the Minecraft version and below you can enable and disable different icons that represent unique structures or terrain features. Under that section is a map window, which shows the coordinates of biomes and structures in all three dimensions. You can insert a custom location coordinates, enable terrain and highlight biomes to see which one is the closest. This is a very useful tool that you should explore further.
How to Change Minecart Speed in Minecraft
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The default minecart speed in Minecraft is 8 blocks per second, but you can modify that value using the minecartMaxSpeed gamerule command. If you want to decrease the minecart speed, then you should open the chat with the T key and type in the command in our piece. The value in this case should be less than 8, but greater than 0. To make the minecart move faster, then insert the same command and the value you choose should be 9-1000. Press Enter when you're done to apply the command.
How to Enable Cheats in Minecraft (Bedrock & Java)
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When you're creating a new Minecraft world, you can enable cheats by making a creative mode world. On Bedrock, you can enable the "Cheats" toggle, while on Java you can enable Allow Commands. After you've made a world, you can access the settings and turn on the Activate Cheats option on Bedrock. On Java, you can start a LAN world. To disable cheats, access the same setting on Bedrock and turn it off. On Java, you can restart the world if it was in survival mode. If it was creative mode world, you cannot disable cheats in it.
Bundles Are Changing How Minecraft Inventory Works Forever
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Bundles' main advantage is that they can hold up to 64 unique items, but only in stack size of one. Moreover, they are easily crafted and because of this, bundles are changing how Minecraft inventory works both in the early and late game. They also compliment shulker box mechanics very well. The downside is that controls are a bit confusing and currently they can show 12 items only. I think this isn't enough and this number should be increased. There could also be different tabs of the submenu to show all items, but that might be too unrealistic.
How to Make Leather in Minecraft
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Leather is a very important resource and thankfully you can craft it in Minecraft. For its recipe, you'll need four rabbit hide. Open your inventory, place one rabbit hide in every cell of the 2x2 crafting grid on the right and you can craft leather by clicking on it and placing it in your inventory. This item is used in crafting a book, item frame, bundle, leather armor and leather horse armor. You can trade six leather to a leatherworker villager and also repair leather armor in an anvil using leather items.
Minecraft Player Count: How Many People Play Minecraft in 2024
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Minecraft is one of the world's most popular and successful games of all times. The number of active players depends on the month and season. The highest average number of players was recorded in January (182,608,068) and the lowest so far is during May (162,290,196). The average number of players during last 30 days is about 182,097,364. The peak of active players in a single day during the last 30 days is 49,166,288. Finally, the number of players playing Minecraft right now is about 1,127,132.
5 Best Ways to Get Leather in Minecraft
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Leather is very useful in Minecraft and you can get it in multiple ways. The best one includes that you kill cows, horses, donkeys, llamas, mules, hoglins and mooshrooms. Piglins can also give you 2-4 leather when you barter with them using a gold ingot. However, there are multiple other ways to get leather in Minecraft. Keep reading to learn what they are.
How to Make Taylor Swift in Infinite Craft
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Among all blocks you can craft in Infinite Craft, Taylor Swift is interestingly one of them. In order to make her, you'll need Heartbreak and American Princess blocks. First learn how to craft both of them here. Finally, combine these two blocks to make Taylor Swift. You can now make some of her most popular song titles like Shake It Off, Love Story, Bad Blood and other elements.
How to Make Woman in Infinite Craft
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The Woman block in Infinite Craft can be made with Love and Man elements. The Love element is made by combining Dust and Earth into Planet, Smoke and Water into Fog, Planet and Fog into Venus and finally combining Venus and Fog. You can make the Man element by merging Steam and Earth into Mud, Mud and Venus into Adam and finally fusing Adam and Earth. After you make Woman, you can make blocks like Mother, Daughter, Queen, Aphrodite, Widow, Sunbathing and others with it.
Minecraft Snapshot 24W34A: Bundles, Minecarts, and Redstone Get Improvements
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Minecraft 24W34A snapshot brings changes to the experimental features of the last week's snapshots, with the addition of more changes and bug fixes. First of all, bundle submenu or tooltip now shows three rows of four items, instead of two rows. Furthermore, redstone wire updates now have a left-first preference, which will be relative to the source's position. Minecarts snap better to rails, can be stacked using a dispenser and don't tilt if they fall straight down or a short distance. You can also repeat the latest selected crafting recipe from the recipe book by pressing space.
How to Make Skibidi Toilet in Infinite Craft
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Since Infinite Craft allows you to make essentially anything and everything, this guide will share with you how to make Skibidi Toilet. You'll have to first make the Skibidi element, which requires 38 crafting recipes in total. It's made using Ski and Bidibi. On the other hand, you'll also need to craft and combine Talking Head and Toilet blocks in order to make Talking Toilet. Finally, merge the Skibidi and Talking Toilet blocks to create Skibidi Toilet. With this block, you may make terms such as Poop, Toilet Paper, Fire Toilet, Skibidi Meme and others.
How to Make Planet in Infinite Craft
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Planet is a very simple craftable block in Infinite Craft that requires Earth element and Dust to be created. Earth is one of the four primary elements, while Dust is quickly made using Earth and Wind. With both Earth and Dust, you can combine them to craft Planet. This block yields other celestial objects when merged with specific elements. Some of those include Moon, Sun, Venus, Jupiter and others.
Minecraft 1.22 Update: Potential Release Date, Mobs, Biomes, and More
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Minecraft 1.22 is the next major update and it will likely be released in June 2025. Its name is unknown, but most people including me really want it to be the End Update as this dimension desperately needs an overhaul. Moreover, if it is the case, then mobs could be unique passive mounts, scary Enderman-like beasts, flying ranged mobs and more. This dimension already has five biomes, but they should be revamped completely. The features End Update could bring may include cool building blocks, OP gear, redstone additions, food items and more.
How to Make and Use Bundles in Minecraft
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Bundle is a storage item in Minecraft that you can craft by placing one string above one leather in a crafting grid. Pick up the bundle and left-click an item with it to insert it inside. Right-click an empty slot to eject the item. You may empty the bundle completely by holding it in your hand and right-clicking. Bundle can carry up to a stack of items and every item follows its stack rules. You can mix 64 different stackable to 64 items or 16 items that are stackable to 16. Unstackable items fill the bundle immediately.
Minecraft Gets Improved New Bundles with Snapshot 24W33A
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Minecraft snapshot 24W33A brings all sorts of amazing changes and improvements to the game. First, bundles are now available and have been revamped. Moreover, redstone wire has also received some noteworthy changes that should improve its functionality. Minecart movement, behavior and gameplay features have been adjusted to make these entities more reliable. To test these features, you will have to enable the option in the Experiments menu while making a new world.
25 Best Minecraft 1.21 Seeds You Should Try
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Today, we bring you the best seeds for the Minecraft 1.21 update. They are mostly related to the 1.21 update's most important feature, i.e. trial chambers. In this list you will find seeds with many trial chambers, close trial chambers, trial chambers that generated really close to other cool underground structures and even merged with them. Also, you will find some simple and chill seeds, as well as difficult and challenging ones.
5 Best Potions to Bring to Minecraft 1.21 Trial Chambers
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Apart from weapons and armor, you should also bring some Minecraft potions to trial chambers to defeat them more easily. First potion is the strength potion, which increases melee damage. The healing potion restores a certain part of your health instantly and swiftness potion makes you move faster, so you can avoid attacks. The weakness potion lowers melee attack damage and the harming potion deals damage instantly. All but weakness potion can be enhanced to level two with glowstone dust. Weakness and harming potions should be turned into splash potions.
5 Best Optifine Alternatives for Minecraft
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Are you disappointed with Optifine's performance and are looking for a good Minecraft mod or modpack alternative? Well then, you've come to the perfect place as we've prepared three amazing mods and two brilliant modpacks for you to choose from, which also boost Minecraft's performance, add FPS and fix the game's errors and faulty systems. Those include Sodium, Iris Shaders, Lithium, Fabulously Optimized and Simply Optimized. We've included the features they offer, as well as the useful links leading to official download pages.
How to Run Shaders Using Fabric in Minecraft
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Fabric provides an alternative way to run shaders in Minecraft. To make it happen, you need to download and install Fabric, Sodium, and Iris. hen, run the installer, set the Minecraft version, and install Fabric. Sodium and Iris are Fabric mods, so you can simply download them and move their files into the mods folder. After that, find a compatible shader pack, download it, and move its file into the shaderpacks folder. Then, run Minecraft using Fabric, pause the game, and enable shaders in the video settings.
How to Install Iris Shaders in Minecraft
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Iris Shaders is a free Minecraft mod that supports shaders for Fabric mod loader. To download it, you should visit the download page on CurseForge or Modrinth and download the latest file that works for the Minecraft version your Fabric loader is compatible with. Then, make the "mods" folder inside main Minecraft folder if it doesn't exist. Finally, move the downloaded Iris file into the "mods" folder to install Iris in Minecraft. Install some shaderpacks and enable them inside in-game Video Settings in order to use Iris Shaders.
How to Install Sodium in Minecraft
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Sodium is a useful Fabric optimization mod you can download by visiting the CurseForge or Modrinth download page. Find the latest file for the Minecraft version Fabric is compatible with and download it. Now, open main Minecraft folder and create "mods" folder if it's not there already. Finally, simply move the downloaded Sodium file into the "mods" folder to install it in Minecraft. Open Minecraft Launcher app, set Fabric mod loader as the game version on the left and click Play to use Sodium mod.
20 Best Minecraft 1.21 Fabric Mods
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Are you looking for amazing Minecraft 1.21 mods that work with the Fabric mod loader? Well then you're in luck, as this guide will show you 20 best mods you can download right now. You'll find mods from all sorts of categories, whether it's performance-improving mods, quality of life mods, content expansion mods, animation mods, camera mods and also mace mods. So, jump straight into this guide and learn more about these Fabric mods, as well as where you can download them.
How to Install and Use Fabric Mods in Minecraft
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You will need to install Fabric to play with Fabric mods in Minecraft. To do so, visit the official downloads page and click on the download link. Open the installer, select Minecraft version and click on the Install button. Then, you should find the Fabric mods online on websites like CurseForge and download them. It's recommended you download Fabric API mod first. Create and open mods folder in Minecraft's main folder and drag and drop the downloaded mods there. Now, open the Minecraft Launcher and click Play with Fabric loader selected.
What Is Depth Strider in Minecraft?
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The Depth strider is an incredible quality of life Minecraft enchantment that lets you move faster underwater. It goes only on boots and has three levels, with each of them further increasing your swimming speed. You may get depth strider while enchanting boots inside the enchanting table or by combining them with depth strider enchanted book in the anvil. When you equip the enchanted boots, the effect will take place immediately and will not drain the boots' durability.
15 Best Games like Minecraft Worth Playing in 2024
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If you're looking for a game like Minecraft that has iconic features such as gathering resources, crafting, building and exploring, then you're in luck. This guide showcases 15 games that you're going to love if you're a fan of the popular blocky game. Some of the titles we'll be discussing are Terraria, Stardew Valley, No Man’s Sky, Subnautica and Grounded.
Is the Minecraft Mace an OP Weapon? Here’s What I Think
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Mace is the new Minecraft 1.21 weapon that is fairly OP. Its pros include high damage output that's not capped, powerful complementary enchantments and the highly risky but fun and potentially strong combo with the elytra. The cons of the mace are the pure rareness of the heavy core item, the difficulty of mastering it and the fact that it's useful in open areas only. Personally, I believe the mace is very well balanced. It doesn't overshadow the other features nor is it redundant. Overall, the mace is a great addition to the Minecraft 1.21 update.
How to Make Crudites in Disney Dreamlight Valley
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Crudites are one of the easiest to prepare meals in Disney Dreamlight Valley and you can make it with one vegetable and one coal. Though, not all vegetables can be used. Only carrot, zucchini, bell pepper, mushroom, and cucumber can produce crudites. Learn how to get either of these vegetables here. Once done, interact with a stove, put the vegetable in the pot and start cooking to make crudites.
How to Make Pumpkin Soup in Disney Dreamlight Valley
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In order to complete pumpkin soup cooking recipe in Disney Dreamlight Valley, you'll need one pumpkin, one ginger, milk, one vegetable and coal ore. Learn how to get the required ingredients here first. Once done, interact with a stove, combine the ingredients and you'll make pumpkin soup.