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What Does Piercing Do in Minecraft? Explained
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Piercing is an enchantment that allows arrows to pierce through entities in Minecraft. With it, you can damage up to five mobs in a straight line. Piercing also ignores players blocking with shields and is necessary to unlock the "Two Birds, One Arrow" and "Arbalistic" advancements. Its disadvantage is that you cannot have multishot and piercing on the same crossbow, and it does not affect fireworks. You can obtain piercing through the enchanting table or by using enchanted books you buy from villagers.
How to Make a Hoe in Minecraft
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For crafting each of the hoe types in Minecraft (apart form netherite), you need a crafting table, two sticks and two tier items like planks, stone-tier blocks, iron or gold ingots and diamonds. Making a netherite hoe is different and more expensive, as you need a smithing table, netherite ingot, and a diamond hoe that you wish to upgrade. You can find various tiered hoes in structures like ocean and trail ruins, woodland mansions, ruined portals and ancient cities. Moreover, you can combine two broken hoes or add a tier item to one to repair them.
Armadillo and Wolf Armor Now Live in Latest Minecraft Bedrock Preview
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Armadillo is a passive mob that spawns in savanna biomes. It is pretty rare and does curl in a ball if it feels threatened by undead mobs or fast-moving players. Favorite food of armadillos is spider eyes, which you can use to breed them. You can use a brush on the armadillo to collect scutes form it. With six scutes, you can make wolf armor. Walk up to your tamed wolf and right-click it with the wolf armor selected to equip this item. If you want to take off the wolf armor, you'll need to use shears on the wolf.
How to Make a Glass Bottle in Minecraft
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In order to make glass bottles in Minecraft, you need at least three glass blocks and a crafting table. Simply place the glass blocks in a V shape in the middle and bottom or top and middle rows of the grid and the glass bottles will appear on the right. You may use the glass bottle to scoop up different liquids like water, potions, honey, and dragon's breath. Also, you can sell them to the cleric villagers or craft honey bottles by combining four glass bottles and a honey block in the crafting grid.
You Can Now Stop Time in Minecraft; Here’s How
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The tick command allows you to affect the Minecraft time in various fun ways. You can completely freeze the game by typing /tick freeze and unfreeze it with /tick unfreeze. Also, use the /tick rate <value> command to determine whether the game will run slower or faster than normal. You can use the /tick step <value> to allow the game to run normally for a certain amount of time when it's frozen. Use the /tick step stop command to cancel the /tick step command.
Frying Table Revealed in Latest Minecraft 1.21 Leak
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In the latest video on the Minecraft YouTube channel, we can clearly see a tab open on one of the developer's screen that's called a Frying table. Could it mean a first real cooking block in Minecraft? This would make a lot of sense as the food goes hand in hand with the combat feature of the game. It's also a fairly old system that could use an upgrade. You may be able to cook powerful food items that could provide you with status effects. Frying table is still a speculation, but would be a great addition in Minecraft 1.21.
How to Make a Minecart in Minecraft
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Minecarts are one of the player and mob transportation options in Minecraft. To make them, you'll need five iron ingots that you can get by smelting raw iron in a furnace. You'll also need a crafting table or a crafter. Place the ingots in an upside-down iron helmet configuration to craft minecarts. You'll only ever find chest minecarts naturally generated in your world, so you'll have to craft manually all other variants.
Minecraft 1.20.3 Update Gives Decorated Pots Storage and Changes Bat Model
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Minecraft 1.20.3 update has fixed various long-lasting bugs, introduced brand new changes and features to existing items and mobs and added experimental Minecraft 1.21 features. In this update, bat got a new appearance, Nether portal delay has been changed, decorated pots gained a massive buff, new gamerules and commands have been added, grass has been renamed to short grass, monster spawners now display the mob inside properly, you can remove the splash text on the main menu, clock and compass no longer work inside crafting UI and even more new features were added.
Best Uses of the Crafter in Minecraft 1.21
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Crafter is an advanced redstone block that allows you to craft items automatically. Best uses for the crafter in Minecraft 1.21 include a machine that can easily make simple recipes made by Rays Works, a machine that auto crafts dried kelp blocks made by xisumavoid, which you can later use as fuel and a machine that creates bamboo planks made by Mumbo Jumbo, which you can use to make all sorts of wooden blocks and items.
How to Use Armor Stands in Minecraft
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You can use armor stands in Minecraft in several different ways. You may rotate them in many directions just by positioning yourself properly. Armor stands can be equipped with armor, carved pumpkins, mob heads and elytra. On Bedrock edition, armor stands have arms so they can hold any item. Also, you can easily change their pose by using the secondary action button on them. On Java, you'll have to use commands to do the same. Some enchantments on the armor stand's gear grant properties to the stand, such as depth strider or frost walker.
How Long Is a Minecraft Day?
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Length of a Minecraft day is 20 real time minutes. This includes both the day and the night. Moreover, if you skip the night as soon as you can, the day will last for about 10 minutes. So, to reach the 100 day mark with sleeping through every night, you'll need to play Minecraft for about 16.6 hours. Minecraft translates the time in ticks. One real time second contains 20 ticks. Various events and actions are determined by the time, such as villager work hours, hostile mob spawning on the surface, players' ability to sleep, etc.
Minecraft Igloo: Everything You Need to Know
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Igloo is a pretty uncommon structure that generates in the snowy taiga, snowy plains, and snowy slopes in Minecraft. It contains a bed, crafting table and a furnace which will help you out a lot in the early game. Moreover, some igloos have a basement and it contains a villager, zombified villager, brewing stand with a splash potion of weakness, and all the necessary ingredients needed to make a golden apple itself. The purpose of the igloo is to teach players about the process of curing zombified villagers.
How to Make a Clock in Minecraft (Guide)
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The clock in a tiny but essential item, which tells you exactly what time of the day it is in Minecraft. It does so by rotation of the image between a bright sunny half and a dark starry-night half. Now, if you are wondering, you will need gold ingots, redstone powder, and a crafting table to make a clock. You need to place redstone powder in the center cell and then surround it with gold ingots in a diamond pattern to get the clock.
Every Single Way to Use a Minecraft Cauldron
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Cauldron in Minecraft has various uses. You can store water and lava inside them and even farm them with pointed dripstone. If you place the cauldron in a snowy biome, it’ll accumulate powder snow if it’s exposed to the sky. On Bedrock edition you can dye water in the cauldron different colors by using a dye on it. Also, it’s possible to store potions in them which you can later take out and use. Cauldron can remove dye off of leather armor and shulker boxes and is also a leatherworker’s job site block, redstone component and a decorative block.
How to Make a Cauldron in Minecraft
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In order to craft a cauldron in Minecraft you’ll need seven iron ingots and a crafting table or the crafter. You can get iron by smelting raw iron in a furnace. Crafting table and the crafter both provide you with a 3x3 grid that is necessary for the cauldron recipe. Speaking of the recipe, it looks like an upside-down iron leggings recipe with bottom row filled as well as left and right columns. Apart from the crafting, you can also find a cauldron in witch huts, trail ruins, igloos, woodland mansions and villages.
How to Make Mud Bricks in Minecraft
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Mud bricks is one of the prettiest neutral-colored building blocks in Minecraft. They require four blocks of packed mud in order to be crafted. Packed mud can be crafted by combining mud blocks and wheat. You don’t need a crafting table to make mud bricks, as the crafting grid in the player’s inventory will work just fine. Fill every slot of the grid with packed mud to make mud bricks. You can also find mud bricks and its variants in the trail ruins structures. Mud bricks are mainly building blocks which you can make slabs, stairs and walls for.
How to Get the Trial Key in Minecraft 1.21
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The trial key is a copper key with a spooky skull as the handle in Minecraft 1.21. You can get it in multiple ways: in the chests near the entrance to the structure, in decorated pots in the corridor and by completing the trial spawner's challenge. You're most likely to get the trial key from the trial spawner, which can produce ranged, melee and small melee mobs for you to fight. Not to forget, you'll also encounter the Breeze spawners in this structure. The trial key opens the vault block, which will reward every player that opens it only once.
Breeze in Minecraft 1.21: Everything You Need to Know
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Breeze is a new playful hostile mob added in Minecraft 1.21 update. It kind of resembles the Blaze in a way and can only spawn from the special trial spawners in trial chambers. It moves around by jumping and attacks the player using only the ranged attack - wind charge. This projectile does very little damage when it collides directly with an entity, but can push them back by several blocks. Furthermore, the Breeze drops 1-2 breeze by default, which are used in crafting recipes for the wind charges, flow armor trim and the mace.
How to Easily Find Trial Chambers in Minecraft 1.21
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Trial chambers are massive structures that generate in the deepslate layers. You may find it while exploring these areas in your Minecraft world. Furthermore, cartographers sell a special explorer map that will lead you straight to a nearby trial chamber. If you have cheats enabled, you can also use the locate command to find trial chambers in Minecraft 1.21. Finally, you can use an online seed finder website like Chunk Base to easily and quickly get the coordinates of the trial chambers in the area.
How to Tame a Wolf in Minecraft
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Wolves are neutral mobs you can stumble upon in various Minecraft biomes. Their spawning location and pack size depend on their variation. Moreover, to tame a wolf in Minecraft you'll only need bones. You may get them by killing skeletons or looting many structures. Get close to a wild wolf and use bones on it. They have a 33% chance of taming the wolf. Once tamed, wolves will automatically attack skeletons and any mob or player that the owner attacks. They can also be used inside farms and as a cute decoration to your house.