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Stardew Valley 1.6: A Complete Desert Festival Guide
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The Desert Festival happens in Calico Deserts after you repair the bus in Stardew Valley 1.6. It happens on Spring 15th, 16th and 17th. The festival's special currency is calico eggs, which you can get by completing fishing challenges, Scull Cavern challenges, the Scholar's quiz, guessing the race winner and more. Villagers have their own shops where they sell useful and unique items. The Calico Egg Merchant offers various items in their shop and you can even get free meals and cactus decorations.
Minecraft Iron Ore Guide: Best Level to Find Iron
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In the early game, you're much more likely to mine for iron than to make an iron farm. Iron ores are pretty common in Minecraft, but the best levels to find them are Y levels = 16 and 232. If you're going for the Y level = 16, you can either explore caves or branch mine in Minecraft. Caving is faster but dangerous. Whereas branch mining is safe, but it might take some time before finding iron. If you're lucky, you may find huge iron veins. They generate in the deepslate layers and consist of lots of tuff blocks and deepslate iron ores.
What Are Ominous Trials in Minecraft and How Do They Work
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If you think trial chambers are easy, you should try the ominous trials in Minecraft 1.21. They provide harder combat battles. If you get close to a trial spawner with the Bad Omen effect, the spawner will turn blue and will become an ominous trial spawner. The mobs it spawns will often have equipment and it can even summon projectiles and potion clouds above the player. Once you complete the ominous trial spawner's challenge, you may get an ominous trial key. It can open an ominous vault that yields rare loot.
Hermitcraft Season 9 Map Now Available on Minecraft Bedrock Marketplace
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Hermitcraft season 9 map is now easily accessible for all players and fans via Minecraft Marketplace. You can enter the Marketplace and search for the Hermitcraft season 9 map. Then, click on the Free button and download, as this world is completely free. Download it and then click on the Create This World button. You play in survival or creative modes, and there are even some useful items and details available for you at the spawn point.
How Green Rain Works in Stardew Valley 1.6 (Explained)
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The green rain in Stardew Valley 1.6 is a unique environmental event that takes place only in summer. It usually happens in the middle of the season, but it may also occur before Summer 10th. This rain brings various bushes to the world, which can drop fiber, moss and mixed seeds. You'll also encounter two tree variants. One drops wood and sap, as well as mossy seeds. The other one drops only fiddlehead ferns. Use the mossy seeds to grow these cool tree variants. Green rain is therefore very useful for farming these basic items.
Minecraft Snapshot 24w13a Adds Ominous Trial and Ominous Vault
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Minecraft snapshot 24w13a changes how Bad Omen works. You can now only get it by drinking ominous bottles, which are dropped by raid captains. You may then start a raid or get close to a trial spawner, which will turn into an ominous trial spawner. It will spawn mobs with gear and projectiles and potions. Defeating this spawner may yield ominous trial key, which can open an ominous vault. It gives you rarer and better rewards. The mace has three new enchantments: density, breach and wind burst.
How to Adopt and Remove Pets in Stardew Valley 1.6
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Stardew Valley 1.6 update introduced ability to adopt multiple pets. You'll first need to have 5 hearts of friendship with the starter pet. When this happens, you have to read Marnie's letter from the mail. Then, go to the Robin's shop and purchase bowls. Now, purchase an animal license for the animal you want in Marnie's shop. Pets that love you may sometimes give you various gifts and you can place hats on them to make them even more cute. To remove a pet, use butterfly powder on them, which you can buy from Krobus.
How to Get Fireworks in Stardew Valley 1.6
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Stardew Valley 1.6 update introduces three types of fireworks, which you can buy via two shops. The first one is in the walnut room on Ginger Island. Here, fireworks cost 1 Qi Gem and are unlimited. The other shop is in the casino in Calico Desert, where fireworks cost 200 Qi coins and can only be purchased 20 at a time. The red firework displays a red heart, purple one a purple star and the green one displays a green Junimo. Also, the whole screen changes color for a couple seconds and the size of the display is random.
Meadowlands Farm in Stardew Valley 1.6 Explained
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Stardew Valley 1.6 introduces a brand new farm type called the Meadowlands Farm. It's pretty big and includes lots of grassy tiles where you cannot plant crops. Also, there is a coop and two chicks from the start, so you can raise animals right away. The special blue grass spawns here naturally, which will level up animals' friendship with you twice as quickly. So, focus on raising them, choosing the Rancher profession, building a barn and having barn animals quickly, as they are great money makers.
How to Make a Mace in Minecraft 1.21
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Mace is a new and powerful melee weapon you can craft with a breeze rod and heavy core in Minecraft 1.21. These items are available only in trial chambers. Place the heavy core above the breeze rod and you'll make a mace. It deals 6 damage points, but the longer you fall the mace's damage will be higher. The mace also makes a smash attack which knocks back entities and negates all fall damage. You can enchant the mace with several useful enchantments and repair it with breeze rods in an anvil or with the mending enchantment.
You Can Now Find Trial Chambers with the Explorer Map in Minecraft Snapshot 24W12A
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This week's Minecraft snapshot 24w12a makes trial chambers more rare. Also, journeyman-level cartographers have a chance to offer you a special explorer map for 12 emeralds and one compass. It will lead you directly to a nearby trial chamber. It doesn't have to be the closest one. Moreover, you can now waterlog heavy core blocks and they stop lava flow. Several new advancements were added as well.
Stardew Valley Leah: Favorite Gifts, Heart Events, & How to Romance Her
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Leah is usually in one of these locations in Stardew Valley: in her cottage, in the Cindersap forest, in Pierre's store, Stardrop Saloon, on the beach or north of the blacksmith. Her loved gifts are salad, wine and goat cheese and liked ones are diamond, fruit and various foraged items. Her heart events involve around her art and ex Kel. You can start dating Leah when you reach eight hearts with her and once you give her the bouquet. To marry Leah, you'll need ten hearts with her and to give her the mermaid's pendant.
This Redstone Genius Made an Epic Fireworks Display in Minecraft
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Have you ever seen fireworks display in Minecraft that doesn't even use firework rockets? Well, the design made by a Reddit user towsti functions without fireworks. Instead, it uses beacon beams and different colored stained glass to create the magical colors and a cute animation. Not only that, but there are many more smart redstone systems that make up this machine, like 0-tick delays, usage of copper bulbs, leaves changing state and more.
How to Get Heavy Core in Minecraft 1.21
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Heavy core is an item you can obtain only in the new trial chambers in Minecraft 1.21. For that, you first need to get the ominous trial key by completing ominous trial spawners' challenges. You should then find the ominous vault block and use the key on it. Heavy core is one of the possible rewards from the ominous vault and there is a 7.5% chance of it being ejected. Once you get it, combine it with the breeze rod in the crafting grid to make a mace.
Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition Player Found the Weirdest Village Ever
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There is a lot of examples of crazy terrain and structure generation in Minecraft, but this weird village might just be one of the funniest. Normally, villages consist of various features like houses, villagers, iron golem, paths, farms, animal pens and more. Though this seed has only a small road that leads nowhere. There are no houses nor villagers in the vicinity. The world seed is 14880744008722756659 and you can only find it on the Minecraft Xbox 360 edition. The discovery was made by a Redditor named RaspyAtol20734.
How to Get and Use Breeze Rods in Minecraft 1.21
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Breeze rods are brand-new Minecraft 1.21 items that can only be obtained when killing Breeze mobs inside trial chambers. It drops 1-2 breeze rods by default, but the looting enchantment only increases this number. This item is used in several different crafting recipes. Those include the flow armor trim, wind charges and the mace weapon.
Minecraft Gold Ore Guide: Best Level to Find Gold
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Gold ores generate from Y level -64 to 32 in most Minecraft biomes. The Y level you'll find most gold ores in Minecraft is -16. These ores will mostly generate completely surrounded by solid blocks. You should bring armor, weapon, shield, food, torches, water bucket, bed, perhaps even a crafting table and a chest when looking for the gold. It's better to go branch mining at Y level -16 outside of badlands biomes. But in the badlands biome, you should explore caves, as gold ores generate regardless of air exposure.
Mace is the Brand New Weapon Added in Minecraft Snapshot 24w11a
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Minecraft snapshot 24w11a introduces a mace, new melee weapon that deals damage equal to a diamond sword. But, it's also affected by the height you fell from, so the longer you fall the stronger the mace is. It creates an AOE and negates all fall damage if you hit the target. You can craft it with the Breeze rod and a heavy core. New armor trims, pottery sherds and banner patterns were also added and they are related to the Breeze, chiseled tuff textures, trial chambers and the mace.
How to Ride a Strider in Minecraft And Why You Should Do It
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Striders spawn in every Nether biome usually on top of large lava seas. To ride a strider in Minecraft, you'll need a saddle and a warped fungus on a stick. Get close to a strider, use a saddle on it to equip it, interact with it to get on top and select the warped fungus on a stick. The strider will move in the direction you're pointing the stick at. To make it move faster use right-click. This is quite a fast method of transport in the Nether and with fire resistance potions also pretty safe.
What Is the Minecraft Marketplace Pass and Should You Buy It?
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Marketplace Pass is a subscription for Minecraft Bedrock edition that gives you access to over 150 different content features for the price of $3.99 per month. Those additions include skins, worlds, texture packs, and character creator items. Go to the Marketplace in Bedrock Edition, select Marketplace Pass on the left menu, click on the Start Free Trial button, agree with the conditions, fill out the details, and that's it. This subscription is worth it in my opinion, as it offers safe malware-free content for Bedrock players, you can decide what content you like and it'll probably expand in the near future to include more content.
10 Best Minecraft Seeds for Building
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Building is a big part of Minecraft and the surrounding terrain actually affects which direction you'll take when making building decisions. That's why in this Minecraft guide, we bring you some of the best seeds for building houses and cities. They include different biomes, flat and mountainous terrain, large landmasses, islands, warm and cold climates and more. So, if you're looking for a new amazing seed for your build, you'll definitely find the one you love here.
This Minecraft Player Beat the Warden with No Armor, Weapons, or Totems in Hardcore Mode
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Minecraft player TacticalSlyme has recently posted a video of them killing the Warden in the hardcore mode. How is this possible? Well, they had speed and strength buffs applied, as well as resistance and absorption. They also applied slowness and weakness debuffs to the Warden and constantly replenished health with healing potions. After about a minute of dealing critical damage to the Warden, it is finally defeated.
How to Make a Lodestone in Minecraft
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You can craft a lodestone with one netherite ingot, 8 chiseled stone bricks and a crafting table. Place the netherite ingot in the central slot of the grid and surround it with chiseled stone bricks. It's also possible to find it inside the bridge bastion chests in the Nether dimension. By using a compass on a lodestone, the lodestone's location will be assigned to a compass, so it'll always point towards it. This is very useful in case you settled far away from spawn, but is it really worth one netherite ingot? It's up to you to decide.
All Wolf (Dog) Variants in Minecraft and Where to Find Them
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Minecraft Armored Paws update added 8 new wolf variants, which include the pale, woods, ashen, black, chestnut, rusty, spotted, striped and snowy wolves. They spawn in different biomes and in different pack sizes. You can tame a wolf by using bones. To breed two dogs, you can use any type of meat on them and the baby will look like one of the parents if they are of different variants. You may equip wolf armor by using it on a tamed wolf.
This Minecraft Player Is Building a Large City in MCPE on Mobile
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A Reddit user has recently shared his progress on a large city build being made in Minecraft Pocket Edition. It's a version of the game available for mobile devices, so the controls can be tricky to use. Despite that, this dedicated builder has been working on this impressive project since November 2023. The buildings are clean and the shapes, proportions and architecture are executed basically perfectly. There is a lot more work to be done on this creative mode build and we cannot wait to see the final result.
Minecraft Snapshot 24w10a Adds 8 New Wolf Variants
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The update we've been waiting for is here. The Minecraft snapshot 24w10a introduces 8 new wolf variants to the game. These animals all have unique names and spawn in different biomes across your Minecraft world. The variants are pale wolf, woods wolf, rusty wolf, ashen wolf, black wolf, chestnut wolf, spotted wolf, stripped wolf and the snowy wolf.
5 Best Uses for Bone Meal in Minecraft
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Bone meal has many uses in Minecraft. By using it on a crop,it may mature 2-5 growth stages or get multiplied like bamboo. Bone meal is a part of crafting recipes for bone blocks and white dye. Speaking of which, Bedrock players can use bone meal as a white dye. Also, by using bone meal you may create completely new blocks like short grass, seagrass, logs and leaves, mushroom blocks and more. Dispensers can use bone meal similarly to players, so many farms can be automated with this item.
How to Make Bone Meal in Minecraft
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Bone meal is one of the most useful items in Minecraft, and you can obtain it in many different ways. Breaking down bones and bone block will get you 3 and 9 bone meal, respectively. Using a plant-like item on a composter will slowly increase its compost level until it's full and ready to drop bone meal. On Java edition, you can get bone meal by killing fish, and on Bedrock, you can buy bone meal from a wandering trader.
How to Make Minecraft Wolf Armor
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Wolf armor is an item that you can craft inside the crafting table or crafter with six armadillo scutes in Minecraft. You can obtain these scutes by using a brush on an armadillo. Once you collect them, place them in an H shape with left or right upper corner being empty to complete the wolf armor crafting recipe. You can equip the wolf armor on your wolf by right-clicking it and you can remove the armor by using shears on your tamed wolf. To repair a damaged wolf armor, right-click a tamed wolf wearing it with armadillo scutes.
Autopsy, Grave Rating, and Corpse Guide in Graveyard Keeper
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In this Graveyard Keeper guide, we're focusing on the autopsy, grave rating and how you can improve a corpse. The autopsy mechanic allows you to remove or replace body parts from a body. By doing so, you can remove red skulls and add white skulls. If the body has many white skulls and 0 red skulls, it's a good corpse. This is due to the grave rating. It is achieved once white skulls are combined with the gravestone and grave fence points. The higher the grave rating is, the higher the rating of the entire graveyard is.
What to Choose in Lady Beatrice’s Offer in Graveyard Keeper
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There are three possible endings for the Game of Crone DLC. If you refuse to help Lady Beatrice, you'll get the good ending and the Persistence perk. Also, all refugees are safe and sound. Choosing to help but betray Lady Beatrice will cause refugees to leave and you'll receive the Eloquence perk. If you choose to help Lady Beatrice fully, you'll get both Persistence and Industriousness and the refugees are safe. So, the last or dark choice is the best in Lady Beatrice's offer, as there are no drawbacks to it in this Graveyard Keeper DLC.
How to Dye Wolf Armor in Minecraft
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You may dye wolf armor with dyes, a crafting grid, preferably crafting table on Java or a cauldron on Bedrock Minecraft edition. On Java edition, you can combine dyes with the wolf armor inside a crafting grid and on Bedrock, you may first dye the water inside a cauldron the color you want and then use wolf armor on it. You can easily make a color you want with a special online tool that shows the required steps. If you want to remove dyes from wolf armor, you can use it on a cauldron with regular water.
Hardcore Mode Is Coming to Minecraft Bedrock
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Players have asked for hardcore mode on the Minecraft Bedrock edition for a long time and finally, we're getting some news that indicate it's coming. The post was made by a Mojang developer in a private Discord letting content creators know that Mojang is working on hardcore worlds and is currently fixing bugs. Due to the game having random death bugs occasionally, the hardcore mode couldn't be added earlier. So, developers are fixing as many bugs as possible, but it's uncertain when hardcore will be added to Bedrock.
Sea Pickles in Minecraft: How to Get and Use Them
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Sea pickles are plant-like blocks you can find at the bottom of warm oceans and on top of coral blocks in coral reefs in warm oceans. They sometimes generate in desert village houses and can be sold by wandering traders. You can farm sea pickles by using bone meal on a waterlogged sea pickle placed on a living coral block. Sea pickle colony will expand and any surrounding living coral may also grow them. These blocks emit light when underwater and can be cooked to get lime dye.
Minecraft Snapshot 24w09a Lets You Dye Wolf Armor, Among Other Changes
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In Minecraft 24w09a snapshot, we have an ability to dye wolf armor different colors, similarly to the leather armor. Not only that, but you can combine colors to create specific shades. Bogged's texture and model has changed. You can now shear it to get two mushrooms. Game's UI has been refreshed and made more consistent. When it comes to the vault, its texture changed again to make it even more different than the trial spawner. Finally, player and Breeze-shot wind charges are now more precise.
How to Make Scaffolding in Minecraft
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Scaffolding is a useful block you can use to reach tricky places easily. To make it, you need six bamboo and string. Fill the left and right columns with bamboo and add string in the upper slot of the middle column. You can place scaffolding on top of scaffolding by interacting with the side, or to the side by interacting with the top. While sneaking, you place scaffolding exactly where you right-click. Breaking the base scaffolding will cause all other scaffolding to break. You can ascend and descend while being inside scaffolding.
This Redditor Made the Solar System in Minecraft; Take a Look
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Have you ever wondered how big Minecraft builds can really get? Well, Reddit user bubbaflubba2 wanted to answer that question with a recreation of the solar system in Minecraft. They created the Sun and several other planets. They are all built in trustworthy scale and proportions and blocks used perfectly represent the object's texture and feel. Have you ever seen anything like this done in Minecraft before?
Stardew Valley 1.6 Update Now Has a Release Date; Check It Out
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Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, Stardew Valley creator has recently announced the release date for the 1.6 update. Mark your calendars everyone, as you can expect to play with the new features in a couple of weeks! It will first arrive for PC users. Console and mobile release will follow as soon as possible. The 1.6 update was thought to be a smaller update in the beginning, but started expanding to include new items, festivals, villager winter outfits, dialogue, late-game content, improvements, and so much more.
8 Best Minecraft Bedrock Add-Ons You Must Use
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Minecraft Bedrock add-ons (or mods) are now officially available on the Marketplace. You can easily download and install them no matter what platform you're on. Some of the best add-ons are Gravestone, Another Furniture Add-On, Spark Portals Add-On, More TNT Add-On, Naturalist Add-On, All the Wool Add-On, Spark Pets Add-On (Lite) and Hiker's Friend. They introduce new mobs, blocks and items you can explore, find, craft, play around with and enjoy.
How to Install and Use Add-Ons in Minecraft Bedrock
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You can find add-ons or mods for Minecraft Bedrock in the official Marketplace. You'll see some add-ons on the top, but you can also scroll down a bit to find a dedicated add-ons section. Click on the mod and purchase it with minecoins if they are paid. Then, click on the Download button to get the mod. You'll then need to make a new world or edit the old world. Go to the Behavior or Resource Packs, select Available at the top, click on the add-on and click Activate to apply it to your world. So, that's how you download and install add-ons for Minecraft Bedrock edition.
Minecraft Coral Reef: Everything You Need to Know
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Coral variants include coral, coral blocks, and coral fans in Minecraft. They generate as five different variants in warm oceans as part of coral reefs. If coral variants don't have any water sources or flowing water attached to any of their six sides, the coral will die. this will cause them to turn into dead coral variants, which are fully gray. Moreover, it's possible to farm only coral and coral fans by using bone meal on natural blocks underwater in warm oceans. Coral variants are mainly used as building and decorative blocks,
How to Get Hemp Rope in Graveyard Keeper
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Hemp rope is an item required in some crafting recipes in Graveyard Keeper. To make it, you will need to build the church workbench and four hemp. Church workbench is a workstation you can build in the church's basement. Hemp is a crop you can buy seeds for from Dig. This NPC also sells hemp itself and hemp rope, so you can get it that way easily. Hemp rope is used to craft a sword, which deals 10 damage and two variants of candles that you can put in the candelabras to get temporary boost to the church's quality.