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Minecraft Winter Drop Release Date and Time (Countdown Timer)
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The Minecraft Winter Drop is just around the corner and set to release on December 3, 2024. Check out this post to know all about the latest additions in this Winter Drop and bookmark this to keep yourself up to date with the release time.

New Minecraft Movie Trailer Reveals Steve’s Origin Story and Ender Pearl
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Want to know if the Minecraft movie actually gets the game right? The new trailer just dropped, and from Steve's backstory to classic game mechanics, it looks like Warner Bros. might have cracked the code on this video game adaptation.

Minecraft Beta and Preview 1.21.50.25 Adds Two New Pale Garden Blocks
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The latest Minecraft Beta and Preview 1.21.0.25 update has added two new blocks to the game along with other small changes. Check them all out here.

Minecraft Needs Redstone Escape Rooms to Bring Us a Cool New Challenge
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Minecraft structures mostly focus on mobs, but I think there should be more structures that include block-based challenges like desert temples. That's why I believe a redstone escape room structure would be a perfect addition to Minecraft. It may include various unique rooms, where some can teach you about redstone components and make you solve riddles quickly, while others utilize mob path-finding and specific in-game utility blocks. The loot may vary, but you can also find some really cool items there, like a unique armor trim.

Minecraft Might Soon Let You Keep Items Even After You Die
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The latest Minecraft Beta & Preview patch adds a new feature to balance difficulty settings for players. According to these changes, all Easy and Peaceful players will now be able to keep inventory items after death in Minecraft. Moreover, enchantment level and achievements will also stay intact if you are on easier difficulties.

How to Make Potion of Strength in Minecraft
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The strength potion in Minecraft is fairly useful and you may make it by placing awkward potions in the brewing stand and adding blaze powder to the ingredient cell in the middle. If you wish to extend this potion, you can add redstone dust in the same cell. However, with glowstone dust you'll be able to enhance the regular strength potion, but it will last for 1,5 minutes. With gunpowder you can turn the regular strength potion into a splash potion and using dragon's breath, you can turn it into a lingering potion.

Minecraft Live 2024 just announced a bunch of super exciting features coming in the future two drops. The first drop is Bundles of Bravery that adds bundles and hardcore mode to Minecraft. The other drop includes a new biome - Pale Garden that contains a new tree type and decorative blocks. The new wood type is of the white color. Also, the Creaking is a new unique hostile mob that only attacks if you're not looking at it. The Creaking Heart is a block that you need to find and break in order to kill Creaking.

Minecraft Bundles of Bravery Drop Announced; Here Is Everything New
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Minecraft Bundles of Bravery is the first game drop of the update cycle and as you can assume, this drop finally introduces bundles to Minecraft. Bundle is a storage item that allows you to store many different items, but only up to a stack. You may also dye it different colors. Furthermore, the other part of this drop's name is "Bravery" and it indicates the addition of hardcore mode to Minecraft Bedrock edition. So, no matter which version you own, you can now enjoy this exciting challenge.

Minecraft Accidentally Leaks New Mob and Biome Coming in Next Update
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Mojang has accidentally leaked the new features that will be announced at Minecraft Live 2024, including the new Pale Garden biome, the Creaking mob, Hardcore mode, and more.

How to Dye Bundles in Minecraft
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You can use bundles to organize your items and by dying them different colors, they will be even easier to keep track of. To dye bundles in Minecraft, you'll need one bundle and one dye of your choice. Place the bundle in the crafting grid and add a dye in any empty cell of the grid. Colored bundle will appear in the result cell on the right. You can re-dye the colored bundle if you don't like the color. Also, bundles exist in default 16 colors only and you cannot dye them like wolf and leather armor.

10 Best Minecraft Anime Mods
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Are you an anime fan? Would you like to enhance your Minecraft modded playthrough with some epic features you saw in your favorite anime? Then, we've got you covered. This list showcases ten best anime mods for Minecraft that allow you to customize your character in a unique way and use familiar and overpowered abilities to cause high damage and insane destruction. Some of the mods we've covered are Naruto ShinobiCraft, Dragon Block C, Mine Piece, Shingeki no Kyojin and others.

Minecraft Live 2024 Announced; Check out the Event Date!
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Mojang has confirmed that Minecraft Live 2024 event date for next week, where it will be revealing the new features coming in Minecraft 1.22.

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 (2025)
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Minecraft map seed allows you to generate a specific world as many times you want, thereby making it efficient to visit the awesome landscapes you had experienced before. Finding a seed code on your Minecraft is very easy however, the steps vary for both the Java and Bedrock versions. With that said, dive right in and we will walk you through all the steps to get the seed code easily.

Minecraft Seed Map: Use This Tool to Find Rare Biomes and Structures
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To use the Minecraft seed map, you first need to find the seed code of your Minecraft world. Then, visit the site, 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. This is a very useful tool that you should explore further.

The First Minecraft Movie Trailer Is Here with Jack Black as Steve
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The first teaser for the Minecraft movie has been released, giving fans a close look at the Overworld, Jack Black as Steve, Momoa, and others. The Minecraft movie will release in theaters on April 4, 2025.

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 2025
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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, season, and nice updates. The highest average number of players was recorded in December, 2024 (236,308,370) and the lowest so far is during June (169,009,011). The average number of players during last 30 days is about 228,722,871. The peak of active players in a single day during the last 30 days is 61,755,175. Finally, the number of players playing Minecraft right now is about 1,013,070.

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.

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.

Minecraft 1.22 Update: Everything You Need to Know
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Minecraft 1.22 is the next large update, but its release date is pretty hard to pinpoint. 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. 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. Also, you may stack the both types of stackable items in the same bundle. 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.