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How to Get Prismatic Jelly in Stardew Valley
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If you accept Wizard's "Prismatic Jelly" special order quest, you'll need to venture into the mines, quarry mines or Scull Cavern, find the prismatic slime and kill it. This is a rare slime that you can find on any level. It's much more powerful than regular slimes. Once you manage to kill it, it'll drop the prismatic jelly 100% of the time in Stardew Valley. Visit the Wizard and give him this item in order to complete the special order. You'll receive 5 000 gold and a recipe for monster musk, item that will spawn more monsters around.
Minecraft Snapshot 24w07a Brings Bogged, a Brand-New Skeleton Mob
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Remember the skeleton with a poison arrow from previous Minecraft snapshots that spawned in trial chambers? Well, it got new looks now and even a brand new name - Bogged. Bogged is a skeleton variant that shoots poison arrows. The poison can't kill you, but the damage from the arrow can. This mob spawns in swamps, mangrove swamps and in trial chambers from trial spawners that have mushrooms around it. When you kill the Bogged in Minecraft 24w07a snapshot, you'll get usual skeleton drops and poison arrows.
Stardew Valley Barn Guide: All You Need to Know
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Barn is a farm structure you can purchase from Robin for 6 000g, 350 wood and 150 stone. After three days, the barn will be built and you can put animals in it or upgrade it. To upgrade the barn, you'll need to bring additional resources and select the big barn option in the carpenter's shop. Later, you can do the same for the deluxe barn in Stardew Valley, which can hold all barn animals. These animals include cows, ostriches, goats, sheep and pigs. All of them provide different products, which will be better quality if the animals are happy.
How to Make and Use a Cartography Table in Minecraft
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To make a cartography table in Minecraft, you'll need four planks, two pieces of paper and a crafting table. Place the planks in the 2x2 configuration and add the paper above them to complete this crafting recipe. You'll also find this block in villages, as it's a cartographer villager's workstation block. To use it, you can place your generated map in the upper slot on the left. Then, add a piece of paper in the bottom slot to zoom out the map, another empty map to clone the first map or a glass pane to lock the map.
How to Make a Custom Painting in Minecraft
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Using the Minecraft Painting Creator, you can make custom paintings and import them into Minecraft. Visit the website, select a painting dimension, and then click on the gray square or rectangle that you want. Add an image and crop it to fit your needs. Repeat the process for as many paintings as you want. Click on the Download Pack button, input the name, description and game version and click Download resource pack button. Open Minecraft resoucepacks folder and move the downloaded zip file there. In the game world, open resource packs options and enable your paintings pack.
Minecrafter Shares New Player Cannon Design Using Wind Charges
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Wind charge has so many uses and today we'll be sharing another one. One Reddit user invented a super simple cannon launcher made possible with the wind charge in Minecraft. You'll need four dispensers, seven redstone dust, four solid blocks, one slab, one button and at least four wind charges. Place the slab in the center, surround it with dispensers and place solid blocks between them. Place seven redstone dust on top of the blocks and a button on the eighth block. Fill dispensers with one wind charge, press the button and get launched!
How to Get Pale Ale in Stardew Valley
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Pale ale is an artisan good you'll need for the Pam's quest in Stardew Valley. You can make it by placing hops in a keg. Hops is a summer vegetable crop and keg is a machine you can craft after you reach level 8 in farming. Alternatively, you can buy pale ale form Gus at the Ginger island Beach Resort. It's a rather profitable item, especially if you age it. Moreover, you can give it to many NPCs who like it and if you're playing with remixed community center bundles, you may need pale ale in the brewer's bundle.
Tips & Tricks for Farming Wind Charges in Minecraft 1.21
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Here are some tips to help you more easily farm wind charges in Minecraft 1.21. Create a room around the Breeze trial spawner to stop them from moving too much and jumping too high. Then, bring your tamed wolves to help you kill the Breeze quickly. You can also funnel the Breeze using water. Then, wait for them and hit them with the sword, Furthermore, you can make a semi-automatic farm, by adding a small room on one side, so Breezes can see and target you. They'll hit tamed wolves in the process and allow them to farm wind charges.
How to Get Clay in Minecraft & Make Clay Blocks
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Clay is a common resource that generates in the form of blocks in your Minecraft world. You will find them underwater in rivers, oceans, lakes, swamps and beaches. However, clay blocks generate in large quantities in lush cave underground biomes. You can find these blocks in several other places too. If you mine a clay block without a silk touch tool, you'll get four clay balls, which you can turn into one clay block in the crafting grid. It's also possible to turn mud into clay if it's above a block with pointed dripstone attached to.
6 Best Uses of Wind Charge in Minecraft 1.21
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Wind charge has plenty of uses in Minecraft 1.21, but we listed six of the best ones apart from damaging others. First of all, it can catapult you in the air, thus, making some parkour jumps easier. Similarly to that, you can use the wind charge to move faster. The minigame opportunities are truly endless, as well as the way you prank your server mates. Since wind burst pushes entities, you can use wind charge to move mobs or interact with levers, buttons, and target blocks to trigger redstone contraptions from further away.
How to Get the Wind Charge in Minecraft 1.21
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Wind charge is a projectile you can fire by right-clicking or using a dispenser in Minecraft 1.21. To obtain it, you'll need to find a trial chamber and kill the Breeze. This mob is guaranteed to drop 1-2 breeze rods, which you can then place in the crafting grid to get wind charges. The path of this projectile doesn't bend, but it's straight the entire way. It'll travel as long as it doesn't hit something. Also, wind charge will create a wind burst that knocks back entities, players and can damage them if it hits them directly.
Breeze Now Drops a Wind Charge in Minecraft Snapshot 24W06A
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Minecraft 24W06A snapshot added a drop for the Breeze and it's a wind charge projectile. You can fire it by right-clicking and once it collides with something, it'll create a small area of effect that knocks back entities. It will also deal damage to entities it collides directly with. This item will get used up and does have a cooldown of half a second. Apart from that, armadillo now has new animations and will only roll up for longer time when damaged. Vault's texture changed slightly and the tamed wolves are now much stronger than before.
How to Make a Spyglass in Minecraft
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Spyglass is a useful item that lets you zoom in inside your Minecraft world by decreasing your field of view. To make it, you'll need one amethyst shard, two copper ingots and a crafting table. Open crafting table's interface and place the amethyst shard in any slot of the topmost row. Then, add one copper ingot below the amethyst shard and the second ingot below the first one. This recipe yields one spyglass. To use this item, have it selected on your hotbar and hold the right-click or use button. This will zoom in on whatever you're looking at.
SmallishBeans and Skizzleman Join Hermitcraft in Season 10
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The new Hermitcraft season 10 has started and the two new members have been revealed - SmallishBeans and Skizzleman. SmallishBeans has created many unbelievable builds across various worlds and has also participated in various SMPs and series. Skizzleman has also been part of many series, including the Life series together with SmallishBeans. Skizz is good friends with impulseSV, and they have a podcast where they interview Minecraft content creators. The twist this season is that people who die have to kill others who haven't died. The last person alive will get a big reward.
How to Beat Minecraft: A Step-by-Step Guide
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To beat Minecraft, you'll need to follow these steps: first of all, make a bed, find food, make tools and armor. Then, you'll want to make better gear, like diamond gear and upgrade them with enchantments. After that, travel to the Nether, find a fortress and kill blazes to obtain blaze rods. You'll then need to get ender pearls, by killing endermen, trading with cleric villagers or bartering with piglins. With those materials craft eyes of ender, throw them and follow them to the stronghold. Finally, enter the End dimension and kill the game's boss Ender Dragon.
How to Make a Lava Farm in Minecraft
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Lava farm is quite a useful farm in Minecraft. To make it, you will need inflammable building blocks, pointed dripstone, cauldrons, and lava sources in buckets. Start building this farm by placing a cauldron. Then, place an inflammable block one block above, which lava is resting on safely contained with other blocks. Finally, attach pointed dripstone to the underside of the block above the cauldron, and you have a working lava farm. You can expand the farm as you need. Lava is used as a fuel source, light-emitting block, cool decorative block, trash can, prank idea and more.
How to Romance and Marry Sam in Stardew Valley
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Sam is one of the marriage candidates in Stardew Valley that you can date and marry. To do that, you'll first need to level up your relationship by talking to him and giving him favorite gifts. Once you reach eight hearts with him, you can start dating. Purchase the bouquet item from Pierre's and give it to Sam to start dating. Then, reach ten hearts and you'll be able to marry Sam in Stardew Valley. Purchase the mermaid's pendant from old mariner near tidal pools and give it to Sam and you'll have a wedding in three days.
Sam Gift Guide in Stardew Valley
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Sam is a young guy with spikey blonde hair who's one of the marriage candidates in Stardew Valley. The gifts Sam loves in Stardew Valley are universally loved gifts, cactus fruit, maple bar, pizza and tigerseye. Sam likes the following items: most universally liked gifts, Joja cola and most eggs. The gifts Sam is neutral toward include most neutral gifts, most fruit and all milk items. The gifts Sam dislikes are most universally disliked items, most vegetables, many foraging items and seaweed. The items Sam hates are metal bars, ores, coal, mayonnaise, duck mayonnaise, pickles and most universally hated gifts.
Vault Block in Minecraft 1.21: All You Need to Know
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The vault is a Minecraft 1.21 loot block with special properties. It has a face on the front side whose mouth opens when player is nearby. Vault requires a trial key to be unlocked. Once you do that, the mouth will close and items will be ejected on top of the block. Every player can open the vault with the trial key, but only once. The loot vault gives you varies from basic items like arrows and emeralds to special and rare loot like armor trims, enchanted golden apples and the heavy core.
Hermitcraft Season 10 Start Date Revealed
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If you're a fan of Hermitcraft, then you know that it's one of the biggest Minecraft servers of all time. It lasted for over 10 years at this point and the new season, season 10 is just about to begin. In only couple days, on February 3, 2024 you can expect to see the first episodes come out on YouTube. Moreover, two new people will be joining this season, indicated by the official logo change and some X posts. However, it's still unknown who those people are.
9 Best Uses of Dyes in Minecraft
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There are numerous uses for the green, as well as other dyes, in Minecraft. You may color the sheep's wool and dog and cat collars. Moreover, thanks to dyes, you can add patterns to banners, so they look more unique. Dyes are necessary in some crafting recipes, like concrete powder, firework stars, stained glass, colored terracotta, as well as for crafting other dyes by combining the primary ones. By using a dye on a sign, you can change its text color. Shepherd villagers will buy dyes from the players, so it's also possible to turn them into emeralds.
Raids in Minecraft: All You Need to Know
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Raid is a complex event in Minecraft that can be triggered if you walk into a village with the Bad Omen effect. The raid will spawn illager mobs in a number of waves according to the difficulty you're playing on. These hostile mobs will actively try to seek out villagers and kill them. The beginning waves are easier than the last, which include more and stronger mobs. If all villagers have been killed, you will lose and illagers will celebrate. But if you defeat all the raid waves, you'll win the raid and gain Hero of the Village effect.
Haunted Chocolatier: Everything You Need to Know
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Haunted Chocolatier is the upcoming pixel art game made by ConcernedApe, Stardew Valley's creator. It will look similarly to our favorite farming game, but the gameplay will involve around creating chocolate and selling it in your shop. Also, there are two different worlds, first one being the regular world that is covered with snow and the other one is a magical warm world where you fight monsters. There are multiple main NPCs, who you can get to know. We don't know just yet when the game will be released, but it will probably be during this year.
Mineshaft in Minecraft: All You Need to Know
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Mineshafts are old and iconic structures in Minecraft that generate underground. In most biomes, they are made of oak wood, but in badlands biomes they have dark oak features and can even generate on the surface. The mineshaft tunnels are dark enough for hostile mobs to spawn, but there are also cave spider spawners that spawn this smaller and more deadly variants of spider mobs. You can easily find a mineshaft by exploring, as they are quite common. The minecart chests you'll find contain loot such as food items, torches, rails, enchanted books, diamonds and more.
Amethyst in Minecraft: Everything You Need to Know
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Amethyst blocks, budding amethyst, and amethyst crystals are found inside amethyst geodes that generate underground in the Overworld. You can break fully grown amethyst clusters to obtain amethyst shards. The Fortune enchantment increases the number of shards whereas silk touch allows you to collect the crystals themselves. With amethyst shards, you can craft items and blocks like tinted glass and spyglass. You can use amethyst blocks in building and in combination with calibrated sculk sensors to achieve vibration resonance.
5 Best Uses of Campfire in Minecraft
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One of many campfire uses in Minecraft is that you can cook meat on it by right-clicking. Moreover, since soul campfires deal a lot of damage, they're frequently used in mob farms. You can place the campfire below the full bee nest or beehive and the bees won't get angry when you harvest their products. If a hay bale block is underneath a campfire, its smoke will rise significantly higher. Finally, you can extinguish the campfire with a shovel and then it acts as a safe and amazing decorative block.
How to Make a Minecraft Wither Skeleton Farm
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This wither skeleton farm design was created by ianxofour and requires no spawnproofing. The spawning platform is in the warped forest or soul sand valley and at the highest Y level of the Nether fortress bounding box. The skeletons will get agroed to the iron golem in the center and go through the portal to the Overworld. They'll be there for about 15 seconds and go back to the Nether, arriving above the Nether roof. There, you'll be able to stand on the AFK spot and kill them continually.
How to Make a Cobblestone Generator in Minecraft (4 Designs)
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Cobblestone generator is one of the most iconic Minecraft farms. The simplest design requires just water and lava. It's the machine necessary in the skyblock map where resources are limited. Moreover, the most popular cobblestone generator design requires more resources and it automatically collects the blocks you mine. The third design requires several pistons and it pushes the generated cobblestone towards you. The final and best cobblestone generator is fully automated, as it blows up cobblestone blocks due to a TNT duper powered by a hopper clock and collects them. It is also the most expensive one to make.
Minecraft Piglin Bartering Guide: How to Trade with Piglins
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Piglins can barter with you if you offer them gold ingots in Minecraft. They naturally spawn inside crimson forest and Nether wastes biomes in the Nether dimension. To barter with piglins, throw a gold ingot on the ground or right-click a piglin with it, and they will start examining it. After a few seconds, they will throw an item at you. Some of those bartering items include gravel, string, obsidian, quartz, ender pearls, iron nuggets and more. You can even make a bartering farm that will produce these items automatically if you feed it lots of gold ingots.
How to Make a Wheat Farm in Minecraft
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Minecraft wheat farm consists of several moving parts. The main one is the crop farm that the farmer villagers will tend to. They will harvest the wheat, replant the wheat seeds and they also cannot access the composter, so they won't try to compost the seeds. Below the crop farm, there is a rail track which a hopper minecart travels across. This entity will collect the wheat and then drop them off in a comparator-powered drop-off station. Wheat is a part of several crafting recipes and favorite food for sheep and cows.
Woodland Mansion in Minecraft: All You Need to Know
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Woodland mansions are large Overworld structures filled with illager mobs and also regular hostile mobs. It is divided into numerous rooms. Those can be pretty common, like bedrooms, but they can also include rare secret rooms that you have to uncover, like the fake End portal room. You can locate a woodland mansion by using a woodland explorer map you buy from cartographers, in-game commands or just by exploring big dark oak forest biomes. Loot in this structure varies from mob drops to diamond gear, enchanted golden apples, diamond hoe and chestplate and more.
Minecraft Copper: Everything You Need to Know
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There are various copper features in Minecraft. From items like raw copper and copper ingots, to blocks such as ores, raw copper blocks, copper blocks, cut copper blocks, chiseled copper blocks, copper grates, bulb, door and trapdoor. All of these copper blocks oxidize over time, which means their texture color will change from orange to green. You can wax them by using honeycomb or dewax them using an axe. Copper blocks are used as building blocks and copper ingots are a part of a couple crafting recipes. Copper bulbs are also one of the light source blocks in the game.
How to Get a Wither Rose in Minecraft
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Wither rose is a flower in Minecraft with special properties. In order to get it, you need to summon the Wither boss, which will require three wither skeleton skulls and four soul sand blocks. You will need to choose a suitable location to summon it, as the Wither is destructive. Underground or in the End are the best options. Then, Wither needs to kill a mob for the wither rose to drop, so prepare the mobs before spawning the boss. Finally, gear up for the Wither fight, as you'll need to kill it afterwards.
6 Best Uses of Minecraft Wither Roses
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Wither roses inflict wither effect for a short time when a player or mob touch them. This is why they are used as killing systems in farms. Furthermore, wither roses are crafting ingredients in Minecraft and you can make black dye and suspicious stew with them. Bees will pollinate wither roses and can also be bred with them. These flowers are great decorations in flower pots, as in that state they do not inflict wither effect. Players also use wither roses in various minigames and even as defense against intruders.
How to Get Prismarine Shards in Minecraft
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Prismarine shards are rare and special items that can only be obtained by killing guardians and elder guardians in Minecraft. This means you'll need to find an ocean monument first. Prismarine shards are used to craft various prismarine blocks such as prismarine, prismarine bricks, dark prismarine and sea lanterns. If you want to build with these blocks a lot, you can also farm prismarine shards by making a guardian farm.
How to Make a Hopper Clock in Minecraft
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Hopper clock is a redstone clock created by the YouTuber EthosLab. It requires hoppers, sticky pistons, redstone block, comparators, repeaters, redstone dust, full blocks, slabs and items like sticks. The two hoppers face into each other and swap items. Once one has no items, the comparator detects it and the sticky piston gets retracted, pulling the redstone block. The same thing happens with the other side, so the redstone block constantly gets moved back and forth. You can determine the speed of a hopper clock with the number of items you insert in the hoppers.
Trial Key Will Open “The Vault” in Minecraft 1.21’s Trial Chambers
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The trial key is a special new Minecraft 1.21 item that you can get by completing trial spawner challenges. It is used to unlock the new vault blocks, which look similar to the trial spawners. They have a face on the front side that opens its "mouth" after it's unlocked. It will eject the rewards like armor and tools for players. The vault will reward every single player that unlocks it. But, each of the players will get the loot only once. Updated trial key and the vault block are coming soon to snapshots and previews.
How to Catch a Sturgeon in Stardew Valley
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Sturgeon is a fish that can only be caught in the mountain lake during summer and winter seasons in Stardew Valley. The weather doesn't matter. The sturgeon's fish icon will move rather quickly and will change the direction often. To make it easier to catch the sturgeon, make your fishing green bar longer, by leveling up the fishing skill and using food buffs and cork bobber tackle. You can place the sturgeon in a fish pond and it'll produce roe that you can turn into caviar. Also, sturgeon is required to complete the lake fish bundle in the community center.
6 Best Uses of Glow Berries in Minecraft
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Glow berries are fairly useful items in Minecraft. You can use them as food and they replenish one drumstick and 0.4 saturation points. Also, you can use them to breed foxes, similarly to sweet berries. Cave vines are climbable like other vines and emit a light level of 14 if they're bearing glow berries. Cave vines are also wonderful addition to any overgrown organic build, but if you have too many glow berries, you can always compost them inside the composter.
How to Grow Glow Berries in Minecraft
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Glow berries naturally spawn on cave vines inside the lush cave biome in Minecraft. You can right-click or break the vine with glow berries to harvest it. Use a glow berry on an underside of a block to place the cave vine. After that, you can wait for the vine to grow and give you glow berries or use bone meal to grow glow berries instantly.
Minecraft Snapshot 24W04A Makes Armadillo Tougher, Breeze More Dangerous
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Minecraft snapshot 24W04A brings new changes to the armadillo and new additions to the Breeze. Firstly, armadillo will roll up when a mob or player that attacked it recently gets close, even though they're just walking. Moreover, armadillo's shell will now protect it from incoming damage by reducing it. So, a weak punch won't hurt the armadillo anymore. Moreover, Breeze is now aggressive toward iron golems in the area, but will not attack the other hostile mobs from Trial Chambers. These mobs won't attack the Breeze anymore either, so you cannot rely on that strategy.
Minecraft F3 Debug Screen Explained
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By pressing the F3 key, the debug screen will pop up in Minecraft and show you a lot of data. The left side shows info on the Minecraft version, chunk, and entity data, as well as current coordinates, light level, biome and other values. The right side of the debug screen displays info about the Java version, your CPU, and other hardware components. Below that, you will spot the targeted block, fluid, and mob sections that display data about each of the specific game's features, like sand block, water, and more. Also, you can use other shortcuts that can be used to perform different debug actions.