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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.
Woodland Mansion in Minecraft: All You Need to Know
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Woodland mansions are large Overworld structures filled with illager mobs and also regular hostile mobs. It is divided into numerous rooms. Those can be pretty common, like bedrooms, but they can also include rare secret rooms that you have to uncover, like the fake End portal room. You can locate a woodland mansion by using a woodland explorer map you buy from cartographers, in-game commands or just by exploring big dark oak forest biomes. Loot in this structure varies from mob drops to diamond gear, enchanted golden apples, diamond hoe and chestplate and more.
Minecraft Copper Guide: Everything You Need to Know
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There are various copper features in Minecraft. From items like raw copper and copper ingots, to blocks such as ores, raw copper blocks, copper blocks, cut copper blocks, chiseled copper blocks, copper grates, bulb, door and trapdoor. All of these copper blocks oxidize over time, which means their texture color will change from orange to green. You can wax them by using honeycomb or dewax them using an axe. Copper blocks are used as building blocks and copper ingots are a part of a couple crafting recipes. Copper bulbs are also one of the light source blocks in the game.
How to Get a Wither Rose in Minecraft
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Wither rose is a flower in Minecraft with special properties. In order to get it, you need to summon the Wither boss, which will require three wither skeleton skulls and four soul sand blocks. You will need to choose a suitable location to summon it, as the Wither is destructive. Underground or in the End are the best options. Then, Wither needs to kill a mob for the wither rose to drop, so prepare the mobs before spawning the boss. Finally, gear up for the Wither fight, as you'll need to kill it afterwards.
6 Best Uses of Minecraft Wither Roses
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Wither roses inflict wither effect for a short time when a player or mob touch them. This is why they are used as killing systems in farms. Furthermore, wither roses are crafting ingredients in Minecraft and you can make black dye and suspicious stew with them. Bees will pollinate wither roses and can also be bred with them. These flowers are great decorations in flower pots, as in that state they do not inflict wither effect. Players also use wither roses in various minigames and even as defense against intruders.
How to Get Prismarine Shards in Minecraft
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Prismarine shards are rare and special items that can only be obtained by killing guardians and elder guardians in Minecraft. This means you'll need to find an ocean monument first. Prismarine shards are used to craft various prismarine blocks such as prismarine, prismarine bricks, dark prismarine and sea lanterns. If you want to build with these blocks a lot, you can also farm prismarine shards by making a guardian farm.
How to Make a Hopper Clock in Minecraft
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Hopper clock is a redstone clock created by the YouTuber EthosLab. It requires hoppers, sticky pistons, redstone block, comparators, repeaters, redstone dust, full blocks, slabs and items like sticks. The two hoppers face into each other and swap items. Once one has no items, the comparator detects it and the sticky piston gets retracted, pulling the redstone block. The same thing happens with the other side, so the redstone block constantly gets moved back and forth. You can determine the speed of a hopper clock with the number of items you insert in the hoppers.
6 Best Uses of Glow Berries in Minecraft
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Glow berries are fairly useful items in Minecraft. You can use them as food and they replenish one drumstick and 0.4 saturation points. Also, you can use them to breed foxes, similarly to sweet berries. Cave vines are climbable like other vines and emit a light level of 14 if they're bearing glow berries. Cave vines are also wonderful addition to any overgrown organic build, but if you have too many glow berries, you can always compost them inside the composter.
How to Grow Glow Berries in Minecraft
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Glow berries naturally spawn on cave vines inside the lush cave biome in Minecraft. You can right-click or break the vine with glow berries to harvest it. Use a glow berry on an underside of a block to place the cave vine. After that, you can wait for the vine to grow and give you glow berries or use bone meal to grow glow berries instantly.
Minecraft Snapshot 24W04A Makes Armadillo Tougher, Breeze More Dangerous
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Minecraft snapshot 24W04A brings new changes to the armadillo and new additions to the Breeze. Firstly, armadillo will roll up when a mob or player that attacked it recently gets close, even though they're just walking. Moreover, armadillo's shell will now protect it from incoming damage by reducing it. So, a weak punch won't hurt the armadillo anymore. Moreover, Breeze is now aggressive toward iron golems in the area, but will not attack the other hostile mobs from Trial Chambers. These mobs won't attack the Breeze anymore either, so you cannot rely on that strategy.
Minecraft F3 Debug Screen Explained
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By pressing the F3 key, the debug screen will pop up in Minecraft and show you a lot of data. The left side shows info on the Minecraft version, chunk, and entity data, as well as current coordinates, light level, biome and other values. The right side of the debug screen displays info about the Java version, your CPU, and other hardware components. Below that, you will spot the targeted block, fluid, and mob sections that display data about each of the specific game's features, like sand block, water, and more. Also, you can use other shortcuts that can be used to perform different debug actions.
18 Best Villager Trades in Minecraft
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Villager trading is a fairly unique way of obtaining items in Minecraft. The best villager trade offers include bottles o' enchanting, bricks, campfire, diamond gear, enchanted books, glass blocks, golden carrots, name tags, quartz blocks, redstone dust and saddles. The best items to sell to villagers for emeralds are crops, glass panes, gold ingots, iron ingots, sticks, stone and sweet berries. All of these trades require or provide a different number of emeralds.
How to Make Arrows in Minecraft
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You can make regular arrows, tipped arrows, and even spectral arrows on the Java edition. Regular arrows require one stick, one flint, and one feather. Tipped arrows require one lingering potion and 8 regular arrows. You can also make them by using them on a cauldron filled with a potion on Bedrock edition. For spectral arrows, you'll need a regular arrow and four glowstone dust. All of these items require a crafting table for you to make them. When you've made arrows, you can fire them using a bow or crossbow.
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 Defeat the Breeze in Minecraft 1.21
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Breeze is a playful hostile mob that only spawns from trial spawners inside trial chambers. It moves fairly quickly and jumps a lot, which can lead to you getting disoriented. It attacks using the ranged attack - wind charge that you can avoid or reflect. To defeat the Breeze in Minecraft 1.21, you'll need armor, melee weapon, food and other optional items such as a water bucket, shield, etc. You should chase and charge at the Breeze, as well as avoid its projectiles. Use the shield to block projectiles and a water bucket to avoid fall damage.
How to Get 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.