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How to Get Nautilus Shells in Minecraft
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Nautilus shells are rare items that you can get in three different ways in Minecraft. One of them is fishing since the nautilus shells are part of the treasure fishing loot. You can also kill drowned that hold nautilus shells in their off-hand, and you are guaranteed to get it. Finally, wandering traders can sometimes sell nautilus shell for five emeralds each. You can use eight nautilus shells together with a heart of the sea to craft a conduit.
How to Get Mud in Minecraft and Use It
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Mud is a dark-looking block that naturally generates in large quantities in the mangrove swamp biome. You can easily collect it with a shovel. Though you can also make mud yourself by using a water bottle on a dirt block, which will convert the dirt into mud. To make the glass bottle, place three glass blocks in a V shape in the crafting grid. Then, use it on a water source block to make a water bottle. Furthermore, you can use mud in sugar cane farms, to make clay, and other mud blocks like muddy mangrove roots and packed mud.
This Minecraft Mod Will Have You Literally Screaming at Your Screen
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Cave Dweller mod introduces a rather terrifying monster to Minecraft. It is a mix of a baby zombie and an enderman. It's fast and can even get into places you don't expect it to. It can crawl and crouch as it's chasing you and also deals a lot of damage. You can also escape from it, so it's not too OP. This beast can spawn in any light level and has complex animations and smart AI. The presence of the Cave Dweller is indicated by cave sounds, which will get more intense as the monster draws closer.
Here’s Why I Think Vertical Slabs Should Be in Minecraft
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Vertical slabs have been requested for a long time. Thanks to some vertical slab mods, we can play around with them. You're able to place them on the edge of every side of a block and extend that upwards. Vertical slabs would provide a lot of building opportunities, but may also encourage players to not use the already existing blocks like walls. To fix this, Mojang should add more slabs and stairs variants so players have more options. Also, there could a command that lets you rotate slabs, so you can create your own vertical slabs.
How to Make an Item Sorter in Minecraft
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Item sorters in Minecraft allow you to filter items into their respectable chests, which is super useful if you have lots of items. The design from this guide was created by impulseSV and works with items stackable to 64. You'll need some building blocks, redstone components like redstone dust, repeaters, comparators, redstone torches, hoppers, renamed filter items and items you want to filter. One module of the sorter is very simple to build and you can have as many as you need in your storage system.
How to Get and Use Honeycomb in Minecraft
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Starting with the basics, you will need a shear and a campfire to obtain honeycomb from bee nests or beehives where at least one bee resides. To get honeycomb, find a bee nest dripping with honey, put a campfire under it, and use the shear on the bee nest. As for the uses of honeycomb, you can wax copper blocks, signs, and hanging signs with it. You can also use it to make beehive, candle, and more.
How to Make a Beehive in Minecraft
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Beehive is a craftable version of the bee nest in Minecraft, which requires three honeycomb, six wooden planks of any type, and a crafting table. Place the honeycomb in the middle row and fill all the remaining slots with planks. Beehives don't generate naturally in the Minecraft world. Moreover, beehive can store up to three bees at the time and will change texture when the honey level reaches five, indicating it's full. You can then use shears to get honeycomb or an empty glass bottle to get a honey bottle.
Minecraft End Crystal: How to Make, Uses, and More
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To make one end crystal in Minecraft, you'll need one eye of ender, one ghast tear, seven glass blocks and crafting table. Place the eye of ender in the center slot, then the ghast tear below it, and fill the remaining slots with glass. You may also find end crystals in the End dimension, which heal the Ender Dragon. You have to place them on top of bedrock or obsidian and cannot reobtain them again. If it's damaged in almost any way, the end crystal will create a massive explosion and deal a lot of damage.
Minecraft Snapshot 24W03A Updates the Armadillo’s Design
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Minecraft snapshot 24w03A has been released today, and it brings changes to the armadillo, experimental features, and spawn chunks. Armadillo texture now includes eyes on the sides and the base color is lighter. The armadillo scutes and wolf armor textures have also changed slightly. Spiders now run away from armadillos if they're not rolled up. Moreover, the Breeze mob can also deflect all projectiles, not just arrows and tridents. A brand new command lets you change the spawn chunk radius of your world, so you can easily boost performance. The new default value is 2 and it used to be 10.
5 Best Farms to Gain XP in Minecraft
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In this guide, we've covered the best farms for gaining XP in Minecraft made by the creative community members. These include amazing raid farm, gold farm, wither skeleton farm, and a guardian farm, which were all made by redstone genius ianxofour. Apart form them, we've covered a simple but efficient Enderman farm made by Rays Works. You will find all the important explanations here as well as the links to the tutorial videos to make each farm.
How to Use Minecarts in Minecraft
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Minecarts are fairly useful transportation devices for both players and mobs. You can enter a minecart if you right-click it or use the secondary action button. To start moving, hold the forward button or have the minecarts pass over activated powered rails or a downwards slope. Nudge a mob toward the minecart to have it enter the vehicle. Press the crouch button to exit the minecart. If the minecart moves over a powered activator rail, the mob or player inside will get ejected. Minecarts are also a part of crafting recipes for other minecart variants.
7 Things Minecraft Can Learn from LEGO Fortnite
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Unlike Minecraft, LEGO Fortnite has pretty clear quests that let players know what the game is about. Moreover, the villagers make it so much easier to collect resources. They can also fight with you, so that makes them fairly useful companions. Due to the temperature feature in LEGO Fortnite, you always have to prepare for a certain area. The buildings are not just for aesthetic, but make a difference in gameplay. Food items are far more unique and provide various effects. Combat offers more moves and abilities, making it overall much more fun than it is in Minecraft.
5 Best Ways to Use a Minecraft Banner
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There are numerous ways to use a banner in Minecraft. One of them is that you can apply all sorts of different and unique patterns to it. Though, with or without patterns, it's a special decorative block. Furthermore, by combining a shield and a banner in the crafting grid, you can put the banner's pattern onto the shield. Also, you can easily copy a pattern from one banner to the other by combining them in the grid. Finally, if you right-click a placed banner with a map, a marker of the matching color will appear at that location.
How to Make a Banner in Minecraft
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To make a banner in Minecraft, you will need six blocks of wool of matching color, one stick, and a crafting table. Fill the topmost and central row with wool blocks and place a stick in the center of the bottommost row. This recipe will yield one banner of the matching color. It's also possible to find banners in various structures, such as end cities, woodland mansions, savanna villages and pillager outposts. You can also buy them from cartographer and shepherd villagers for three emeralds.
How to Make (and Use) a Barrel in Minecraft
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Barrel is a container block that you can craft with two wooden slabs and six wooden planks of any type and a crafting table. Place the planks in the left and right columns of the crafting grid and the slabs in the center slots of the topmost and bottommost rows. You will then see barrel icon appear in the result slot on the right. You can also find barrels generating naturally in fisherman houses in villages. As for the uses, you can utilize the barrel to store items, turn a villager into a fisherman, and more.
How to Make Rails in Minecraft
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To make rails you'll need six iron ingots and a stick in Minecraft. You can get iron ingots by smelting raw iron and the stick from crafting it with two planks. Fill the left and right columns of the crafting table's or a crafter's grid with iron ingots and place a stick in the center slot of the grid. This recipe yields 16 rails. You can also find rails inside abandoned mineshafts and some rooms of the woodland mansions. Rails are used for moving minecarts and their variants around.
Mending vs Infinity: Which Minecraft Enchantment Is Better on a Bow?
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Mending and infinity are both rather useful enchantments. Mending enchantment allows you to infinitely repair your gear, including a bow with XP. On the other side, infinity enchantment allows you to carry only one arrow and fire as many times as you want, essentially duplicating arrows. Whether you should have mending or infinity on your Minecraft bow depends on your personal preference. Infinity keeps your inventory clean and mending makes your bow last forever. Due to the possible villager trade rebalancing changes, more players may turn to mending, as good enchantments will be harder to get.
How to Make a Flower Pot in Minecraft
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You can make a flower pot in Minecraft with three bricks and a crafting table. Smelt clay balls to get brick and make a crafting table with four wooden planks. Place the bricks in a V shape in the crafting grid and a flower pot will appear on the right. You will also occasionally come across flower pots in structures like witch huts, woodland mansions, igloo basements, and villages. Flower pots are simple but awesome decorative blocks that you can put lots of different plants in, like flowers, bamboo, cactus and more.
Minecraft Legends is Officially Dead
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Minecraft Legends was released back in April 2023 and it was a huge success. With over 3 million copies sold in just couple weeks, the game kept growing. Though unfortunately, due to all the flaws and negligence from developers, many players started abandoning it. The final update blog post was announced on January 10, 2024 where news about Minecraft Legends being discontinued was announced. Even though it's sad, this game was meant to be discontinued sooner rather than later.
5 Best Uses of the Composter in Minecraft
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Composter is an important block in Minecraft as it allows you to create bone meal. You can do so by right-clicking this block with a plant-like item, which has a chance to increase the compost level. Composter can also be used to turn an unemployed villager into a farmer workstation block. Not only that, but it's also a redstone component as it can create a redstone signal that a comparator can detect. To automate composter usage, this block can also interact with hoppers and the note block.
How to Make a Composter in Minecraft
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In order to make a composter in Minecraft, you'll need seven wooden slabs of any wood type and a crafting table. Once you've collect these resources, fill the left and right columns of the grid with slabs and place the final slab in the central slot of the bottommost row. This will cause the composter to appear on the right, which you can craft by clicking and moving to your inventory. Alternatively, you can find a composter in villages, which generate near crop farms.