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Full List of Minecraft Advancements (2025)
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Minecraft Java Edition features a total of 122 advancements that helps you progress through the game and find out everything you can do in it. There are 5 categories of such advancements divided into Minecraft, Nether, The End, Adventure and Husbandry. So, this guide will teach you all that you can unlock in the game while exploring the world at your own pace.
How to Get Honey from a Beehive in Minecraft
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Just like in the real world, bees produce honey in Minecraft, and you can obtain that sweet sweet delight. You need glass bottles, a camp fire, and a beehive to get access to honey in your world. Once you find a beehive or bee nest, place a campfire under it and then click on the beehive with a glass bottle to collect honey. You can use the honey you collect in Minecraft to gain health, remove poison effects, or as a crafting ingredient.
How to Breed Pandas in Minecraft
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Breeding pandas in Minecraft requires bamboo and a special environment. So, check this guide to learn how to breed the pandas, and use a golden dandelion to keep them young forever.
How to Breed Turtles in Minecraft
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Breeding turtles requires players to find them first and feed them seagrass. Then you can get small turtle eggs that can be hatched to get the baby versions. So, check this guide to find how to breed turtles in Minecraft.
List of All Light Source Blocks in Minecraft
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Are you interested in learning about light source blocks in Minecraft? Well then this is the guide for you. We covered each block in detail, showing you where you can find them, how to craft them, what light level they emit, how to break them and how they behave in Minecraft. You'll find a block that can match any style, theme and idea you have, so check out our list to find your pick.
How to Breed Horses in Minecraft
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Breeding horses in Minecraft allows players to create faster and stronger mounts for easier travel all around the world. These spawn naturally in plains and savannas but you can get more of these by breeding two horses. So, check this article to know all about how to breed horses in Minecraft.
How to Get Pottery Sherds in Minecraft
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Pottery sherds are ancient items you can use to make decorated pots. They were added in Minecraft 1.20 update and so far there are 23 different types of sherds. You may get them when using a brush on suspicious sand and gravel blocks in various structures. Also, three sherds are available by breaking decorated pots in trial chambers. Pottery sherds include Angler, Archer, Arms Up, Blade, Brewer, Burn, Danger, Explorer, Friend, Heart, Heartbreak, Howl, Miner, Mourner, Plenty, Prize, Sheaf, Shelter, Skull, Snort, Flow, Guster and Scrape.
How to Make a Saddle in Minecraft
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Saddles are an essential item in Minecraft that are used to ride various animals in the game and thus makes you exploration a bit easier. These items cannot be crafted and needs to be found through loot chests. So dive into this article and find out all the places you can get this item, and how you can use it in the game.
What are Minecraft Smithing Templates and How to Use Them?
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Smithing templates are unique items that allow you to customize armor by adding patterns to it or in the case of the netherite upgrade, upgrade gear from diamond to netherite tier. You can find these items in many in-game structures, including ancient cities, strongholds, ocean monuments, trial chambers and more. Since these are pretty rare, you can also duplicate them with diamonds and a special item in the crafting grid. To apply a smithing template in Minecraft, combine it with a piece of gear and a dying material in the smithing table.
How to Make Smithing Templates in Minecraft
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Smithing templates are unique items you can use to upgrade your diamond gear to netherite or customize your armor in Minecraft. You can also duplicate them using the template itself, seven diamonds, a specific block or item and a crafting table. Place the template in the middle cell of the topmost row, place a special block or item below it and fill the rest of cells with diamonds. After you have the templates in reserve you can use them. Combine a template with a piece of gear and a material in a smithing table to apply it.
Redstone Components in Minecraft: A Complete Guide
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Redstone is a big part of Minecraft and so its components are very important. There are about 40 different blocks that can interact with redstone, by sending redstone signals and receiving them. Those include more apparent blocks like redstone dust, redstone block, redstone torch, repeater and comparators, but some blocks like the composter, jukebox, target block and even decorated pots are redstone components. This extensive and detailed guide will answer all the questions you might have about them and will show you how to make or get each of them.
How to Make a Piston in Minecraft
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To craft a piston, you'll need to make and collect four cobblestone blocks, three planks of any wood type, one iron ingot, one redstone dust and a crafting table. Fill the upper row with planks and then add four cobblestone blocks in each remaining cell of the left and right columns. Add the iron ingot in the middle cell of the crafting table's grid and place redstone dust below it. With that, the crafting recipe for Minecraft piston is complete and all you should do is to click on the piston icon and place the block into your inventory.
How to Set Time to Day or Night in Minecraft
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To use the time command, like many other commands in Minecraft, you first need to enable cheats. Then, open chat with the T key and insert one of the following options - /time add or /time query or /time set. The add keyword allows you to add time to your world's age. The query keyword lets you view the time that has passed in your world from the start. The set keyword is the most useful and it allows you to set the time to day, noon, night or midnight in Minecraft. With it, you can control various in-game events.
How to Use Redstone Dust in Minecraft
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Redstone dust is an important block and item that makes various machines and farms possible. You can use it to craft various redstone components, such as powered rails, observers, pistons, droppers, dispensers, redstone repeaters. In addition, redstone dust is used to create mundane potions and extend potion durations in Minecraft. Lastly, redstone dust is a wire component in redstone circuits.