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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.
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.
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?
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 and Repair a Trident in Minecraft
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Trident is a very unique and epic Minecraft weapon. You can get it very rarely by killing trident-wielding drowned and also looting vaults in trial chambers. Moreover, once you get it, you can repair it by enchanting it with the mending enchantment. Then when you gain XP, it'll mend the trident. You may also combine two damaged tridents in an anvil to get one with higher durability. Trident is both a melee and ranged weapon and it can have mending, unbreaking, loyalty, impaling, channeling, riptide and curse of vanishing enchantments.
10 Best Dripstone Caves Seeds in Minecraft
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In this guide, we have covered some of the best dripstone cave seeds in Minecraft. Thanks to our list, you will find seeds with massive caves, underwater caves, caves with unique structure generation, dangerous dripstone-deep dark cave combos with ancient cities, and many more. So, if you're looking for a challenge or just a great place for building an underground base, the dripstone cave seeds on this list will have you covered.
Minecraft Trapped Chest: How to Make and Use It
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Trapped chest is a chest variant in Minecraft. It looks almost exactly the same, but with red pixels around the latch. Moreover, you'll need a regular chest and a tripwire hook to make it. Combine these items in your 2x2 crafting grid and the trapped chest will appear on the right. This chest is a container block, as well as a redstone component. It transmits redstone power to all four sides and also downwards. You can use to to make some really funny and successful pranks on your server.
How to Make a Jukebox in Minecraft
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Jukebox is a wooden block used to play music discs in Minecraft. You may make it with 8 wooden planks of any wood type, one diamond and a crafting table. Place the diamond in the central slot of the grid and surround it completely with wooden planks. Right-click the jukebox to insert or remove a music disc. Jukebox is also a redstone component that emits redstone signal depending upon the disc itself. Moreover, hoppers and droppers interact with the jukebox, so you can make a simple set up using them to play a disc on loop.
How to Get Beetroot Seeds in Minecraft
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You can get beetroot seeds in three different ways in Minecraft. First, breaking planted beetroot will yield up to 4 seeds. The chances are affected by fortune enchantment. Furthermore, these seeds will generate inside chests of dungeons, mineshafts, end cities, snowy village houses and woodland mansions. Also, wandering trader has a chance to sell beetroot seeds for one emerald. These seeds are used in growing beetroot, feeding chickens, taming parrots and creating decorative beetroot fields in your world.
Minecraft Bogged: Everything You Need to Know
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Bogged is a hostile skeleton mob that spawns in swamps and mangrove swamps during the night in Minecraft 1.21. Moreover, you will also find it in some trial chambers. Trial spawners with bone blocks, podzol, and mushrooms around it spawn this mob. It shoots poison arrows at the target that inflict poison status effect for 4 seconds. Killing Bogged will drop bones, arrows, bows and arrows of poison.
How to Make a Dropper in Minecraft
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Dropper is a redstone component block that can eject items in the direction it's facing or put them in a container like a chest. You'll need 7 cobblestone, one redstone dust, and a crafting table to make it. Place redstone dust in the middle slot of the bottom row and fill every other slot with cobblestone, leaving only the central slot empty. Dropper will activate only once it receives a redstone signal.
New Forest Dweller Minecraft Mod May Be Scarier Than the Cave Dweller
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Forest Dweller Minecraft mod is fairly similar to the Cave Dweller mod, but apart from the dweller, it introduces a scary biome, unsettling dimension, powerful tools, and more. The Biome of Death contains a portal frame made out of glowing obsidian blocks that you can light if you have the eye of the Forest Dweller. This is an item you'll get by killing the Forest Dweller. It's a mob with slender black body and red glowing eyes. It spawns during the night in the Biome of Death. This mob moves quickly and unpredictably, so keep your eyes peeled.
How to Easily Combine Enchantments in Minecraft
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When you acquire enchantments, you can then combine them in Minecraft. You need an anvil and XP levels. It's possible to combine enchanted books, enchanted pieces of gear and a piece of gear and an enchanted book. When it comes to combining the same items, all the adequate enchantments will end up on the output item together. If you're combining two same enchantments with different levels, the lower one will be deleted but if they're the same level, they'll get combined to create a higher level.
How to Make Potion of Slow Falling in Minecraft
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Potion of slow falling makes you fall slowly, so it prevents all fall damage in Minecraft. To make it, you'll need a brewing stand, blaze powder, water bottles, nether wart and the phantom membrane. This item is the drop from phantoms, hostile flying mobs that spawn when you don't sleep for three days. You can brew it the same way you brew other potions. Add a redstone dust to make it last for 4 minuets and gunpowder to turn it into a splash potion. This potion is most frequently used in the fight against the Ender Dragon.
How to Make and Use a Cartography Table in Minecraft
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To make a cartography table in Minecraft, you'll need four planks, two pieces of paper and a crafting table. Place the planks in the 2x2 configuration and add the paper above them to complete this crafting recipe. You'll also find this block in villages, as it's a cartographer villager's workstation block. To use it, you can place your generated map in the upper slot on the left. Then, add a piece of paper in the bottom slot to zoom out the map, another empty map to clone the first map or a glass pane to lock the map.
How to Make a Custom Painting in Minecraft
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Using the Minecraft Painting Creator, you can make custom paintings and import them into Minecraft. Visit the website, select a painting dimension, and then click on the gray square or rectangle that you want. Add an image and crop it to fit your needs. Repeat the process for as many paintings as you want. Click on the Download Pack button, input the name, description and game version and click Download resource pack button. Open Minecraft resoucepacks folder and move the downloaded zip file there. In the game world, open resource packs options and enable your paintings pack.
How to Get Clay in Minecraft & Make Clay Blocks
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Clay is a common resource that generates in the form of blocks in your Minecraft world. You will find them underwater in rivers, oceans, lakes, swamps and beaches. However, clay blocks generate in large quantities in lush cave underground biomes. You can find these blocks in several other places too. If you mine a clay block without a silk touch tool, you'll get four clay balls, which you can turn into one clay block in the crafting grid. It's also possible to turn mud into clay if it's above a block with pointed dripstone attached to.
How to Make a Spyglass in Minecraft
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Spyglass is a useful item that lets you zoom in inside your Minecraft world by decreasing your field of view. To make it, you'll need one amethyst shard, two copper ingots and a crafting table. Open crafting table's interface and place the amethyst shard in any slot of the topmost row. Then, add one copper ingot below the amethyst shard and the second ingot below the first one. This recipe yields one spyglass. To use this item, have it selected on your hotbar and hold the right-click or use button. This will zoom in on whatever you're looking at.
SmallishBeans and Skizzleman Join Hermitcraft in Season 10
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The new Hermitcraft season 10 has started and the two new members have been revealed - SmallishBeans and Skizzleman. SmallishBeans has created many unbelievable builds across various worlds and has also participated in various SMPs and series. Skizzleman has also been part of many series, including the Life series together with SmallishBeans. Skizz is good friends with impulseSV, and they have a podcast where they interview Minecraft content creators. The twist this season is that people who die have to kill others who haven't died. The last person alive will get a big reward.
How to Beat Minecraft: A Step-by-Step Guide
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To beat Minecraft, you'll need to follow these steps: first of all, make a bed, find food, make tools and armor. Then, you'll want to make better gear, like diamond gear and upgrade them with enchantments. After that, travel to the Nether, find a fortress and kill blazes to obtain blaze rods. You'll then need to get ender pearls, by killing endermen, trading with cleric villagers or bartering with piglins. With those materials craft eyes of ender, throw them and follow them to the stronghold. Finally, enter the End dimension and kill the game's boss Ender Dragon.
How to Make a Lava Farm in Minecraft
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Lava farm is quite a useful farm in Minecraft. To make it, you will need inflammable building blocks, pointed dripstone, cauldrons, and lava sources in buckets. Start building this farm by placing a cauldron. Then, place an inflammable block one block above, which lava is resting on safely contained with other blocks. Finally, attach pointed dripstone to the underside of the block above the cauldron, and you have a working lava farm. You can expand the farm as you need. Lava is used as a fuel source, light-emitting block, cool decorative block, trash can, prank idea and more.
Hermitcraft Season 10 Start Date Revealed
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If you're a fan of Hermitcraft, then you know that it's one of the biggest Minecraft servers of all time. It lasted for over 10 years at this point and the new season, season 10 is just about to begin. In only couple days, on February 3, 2024 you can expect to see the first episodes come out on YouTube. Moreover, two new people will be joining this season, indicated by the official logo change and some X posts. However, it's still unknown who those people are.
9 Best Uses of Dyes in Minecraft
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There are numerous uses for the green, as well as other dyes, in Minecraft. You may color the sheep's wool and dog and cat collars. Moreover, thanks to dyes, you can add patterns to banners, so they look more unique. Dyes are necessary in some crafting recipes, like concrete powder, firework stars, stained glass, colored terracotta, as well as for crafting other dyes by combining the primary ones. By using a dye on a sign, you can change its text color. Shepherd villagers will buy dyes from the players, so it's also possible to turn them into emeralds.
Minecraft Raids: Everything You Need to Know
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Raid in Minecraft can be triggered if you drink the ominous bottle and walk into a village with the Bad Omen effect. The raid will spawn illager mobs in a number of waves according to the difficulty you're playing on. These hostile mobs will actively try to seek out villagers and kill them. The beginning waves are easier than the last, which include more and stronger mobs. If all villagers have been killed, you will lose and illagers will celebrate. But if you defeat all the raid waves, you'll win the raid and gain Hero of the Village effect.
Mineshaft in Minecraft: All You Need to Know
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Mineshafts are old and iconic structures in Minecraft that generate underground. In most biomes, they are made of oak wood, but in badlands biomes they have dark oak features and can even generate on the surface. The mineshaft tunnels are dark enough for hostile mobs to spawn, but there are also cave spider spawners that spawn this smaller and more deadly variants of spider mobs. You can easily find a mineshaft by exploring, as they are quite common. The minecart chests you'll find contain loot such as food items, torches, rails, enchanted books, diamonds and more.
Amethyst in Minecraft: Everything You Need to Know
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Amethyst blocks, budding amethyst, and amethyst crystals are found inside amethyst geodes that generate underground in the Overworld. You can break fully grown amethyst clusters to obtain amethyst shards. The Fortune enchantment increases the number of shards whereas silk touch allows you to collect the crystals themselves. With amethyst shards, you can craft items and blocks like tinted glass and spyglass. You can use amethyst blocks in building and in combination with calibrated sculk sensors to achieve vibration resonance.
5 Best Uses of Campfire in Minecraft
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One of many campfire uses in Minecraft is that you can cook meat on it by right-clicking. Moreover, since soul campfires deal a lot of damage, they're frequently used in mob farms. You can place the campfire below the full bee nest or beehive and the bees won't get angry when you harvest their products. If a hay bale block is underneath a campfire, its smoke will rise significantly higher. Finally, you can extinguish the campfire with a shovel and then it acts as a safe and amazing decorative block.
How to Make a Minecraft Wither Skeleton Farm
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This wither skeleton farm design was created by ianxofour and requires no spawnproofing. The spawning platform is in the warped forest or soul sand valley and at the highest Y level of the Nether fortress bounding box. The skeletons will get agroed to the iron golem in the center and go through the portal to the Overworld. They'll be there for about 15 seconds and go back to the Nether, arriving above the Nether roof. There, you'll be able to stand on the AFK spot and kill them continually.
How to Make a Cobblestone Generator in Minecraft (4 Designs)
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Cobblestone generator is one of the most iconic Minecraft farms. The simplest design requires just water and lava. It's the machine necessary in the skyblock map where resources are limited. Moreover, the most popular cobblestone generator design requires more resources and it automatically collects the blocks you mine. The third design requires several pistons and it pushes the generated cobblestone towards you. The final and best cobblestone generator is fully automated, as it blows up cobblestone blocks due to a TNT duper powered by a hopper clock and collects them. It is also the most expensive one to make.
Minecraft Piglin Bartering Guide: How to Trade with Piglins
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Piglins can barter with you if you offer them gold ingots in Minecraft. They naturally spawn inside crimson forest and Nether wastes biomes in the Nether dimension. To barter with piglins, throw a gold ingot on the ground or right-click a piglin with it, and they will start examining it. After a few seconds, they will throw an item at you. Some of those bartering items include gravel, string, obsidian, quartz, ender pearls, iron nuggets and more. You can even make a bartering farm that will produce these items automatically if you feed it lots of gold ingots.
How to Make a Wheat Farm in Minecraft
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Minecraft wheat farm consists of several moving parts. The main one is the crop farm that the farmer villagers will tend to. They will harvest the wheat, replant the wheat seeds and they also cannot access the composter, so they won't try to compost the seeds. Below the crop farm, there is a rail track which a hopper minecart travels across. This entity will collect the wheat and then drop them off in a comparator-powered drop-off station. Wheat is a part of several crafting recipes and favorite food for sheep and cows.