#Minecraft - Page 6
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![Mangrove swamp biome where mud generates naturally in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Mud-Minecraft-Mangrove-swamp-biome-where-mud-generates-naturally-in-Minecraft.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Cave dweller attacking player in a cave](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Cave-dweller-Minecraft-cave-dweller-attacking-player-in-a-cave.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Three different vertical slabs in modded Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Vertical-slabs-in-Minecraft-three-different-vertical-slabs-in-modded-Minecraft.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Item sorter in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Item-sorter-Minecraft-finished-item-sorter-for-several-items-in-Minecraft.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Player hurting the Breeze in order to defeat it in Minecraft 1.21](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Defeat-Breeze-player-attacking-a-Breeze-with-a-diamond-sword.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/How-to-Get-Honeycomb-in-Minecraft.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Beehives on top of campfires and bees happily pollinating flowers around them in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Beehive-Minecraft-two-beehives-on-top-of-campfires-and-bees-pollinating-flowers-around.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Three end crystals on top of an obsidian pillar in the End dimension with the Ender Dragon in the background in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/End-Crystal-Minecraft-three-end-crystals-on-top-of-an-obsidian-pillar-in-the-End-dimension.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Armadillo and a dog with wolf armor next to the wolf armor and armadillo scutes items in item frames in the new Minecraft Snapshot 24w03a](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Snapshot-24w03a-armadillo-and-a-dog-with-wolf-armor-next-to-the-wolf-armor-and-armadillo-scutes-in-item-frames-in-the-new-Minecraft-Snapshot-24w03a-1.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![One of the best farms to gain XP in Minecraft made by ianxofour](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Best-XP-Farms-wither-skeleton-farm-made-by-ianxofour-in-action.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Minecart variants on top of rails and more moving minecarts around them in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Use-Minecarts-minecart-variants-on-top-of-rails-and-more-moving-minecarts-around-them.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![what minecraft needs to learn from lego fortnite](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/what-minecraft-needs-to-learn-from-lego-fortnite.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Banners with patterns, plain banners, banner combined with a shield and maps with banner markers](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Uses-Banner-banners-with-patterns-plain-banners-banner-combined-with-a-shield-and-maps-with-banner-markers-are-all-uses-of-a-banner-in-Minecraft-1.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Different and unique banners in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Make-Banner-Minecraft-colorful-banners-with-and-without-patterns-placed-in-the-world.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Barrel blocks in different rotations and in item form in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Barrel-Minecraft-barrel-blocks-in-different-rotations-and-in-item-form.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Rails in different orientations in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Rails-Minecraft-many-rails-placed-in-different-positions-and-orientations-in-the-world.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Blurry image of a Minecraft landscape and enchanted books and a bow in an item form with text mending vs infinity Minecraft bow](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Mending-vs-Infinity-on-a-bow-blurry-image-of-a-Minecraft-landscape-and-enchanted-books-and-a-bow-in-an-item-form-with-text-mending-vs-infinity-Minecraft-bow.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Bricks in item frames and flower pots with various plant like blocks in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Flower-Pot-Minecraft-bricks-in-item-frames-and-flower-pots-with-various-plant-like-blocks.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
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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.
![Numerous composters that are randomly filled and bone meal items around them, indicating that composter uses are related to creating bone meal in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Use-a-composter-numerous-composters-that-are-randomly-filled-and-bone-meal-items-around-them.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Wooden slabs in item frames and a Minecraft composter block in front](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Make-a-composter-wooden-slabs-in-item-frames-and-a-composter-block-in-front.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
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.
![Player holding best food items in Minecraft and colorful concrete blocks behind them with item frames that hold those same items](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Food-Items-Minecraft-player-holding-best-food-items-in-Minecraft-and-colorful-concrete-block-behind-them-with-item-frames-that-hold-those-same-items.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
10 Best Food Sources in Minecraft (Ranked)
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In this guide, we are covering the best food sources in Minecraft. There are a lot of options to choose from, but we focus on the ones that you're more likely to use, whether it's because they're easy to get, make, or are really OP. Some of the items included in this list are bread, cooked porkchops, steak, enchanted golden apple and golden carrots.
![Golden apple and its ingredients in item frames and golden apple images around](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Golden-Apple-Minecraft-golden-apple-and-its-ingredients-in-item-frames-and-golden-apple-images-around.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
How to Make a Golden Apple in Minecraft
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Golden apple is a very useful food item in Minecraft that requires one apple, eight gold ingots, and a crafting table to make. For the crafting recipe, you will need to place the apple in the center slot of the grid and surround it fully with gold ingots. Furthermore, you can also find a golden apple in many different structures. This item grants absorption I for two minutes and regeneration II for five seconds when you eat it and can be used to cure zombified villagers, feed horses, and attract piglins.
![Multiple smokers placed in different orientations and raw food items oak logs and a furnace inside item frames in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Smoker-Minecraft-multiple-smokers-placed-in-different-orientations-and-raw-food-items-oak-logs-and-a-furnace-inside-item-frames-in-Minecraft.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
How to Make a Smoker in Minecraft
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You'll need one furnace, four logs, stems, wood, hyphae or their stripped versions and a crafting table or the crafter to make one smoker in Minecraft. You may also use multiple types of the wooden blocks interchangeably. To craft a smoker, place the furnace in the center slot of the grid and surround it with the wooden blocks in a diamond shape. Due to the smoker being a butcher's workstation block, you'll find it in villages. Also, you use a smoker in the same way you use a furnace, but it does cook raw food items twice as fast.
![Minecraft hoppers facing into chests and barrels and various items around them](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Use-a-Hopper-hoppers-facing-into-chests-and-barrels-and-various-items-around.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
How to Use a Hopper in Minecraft
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Hopper is a redstone component block that has an ability to pick up, store, and funnel items into container blocks in Minecraft. By right-clicking on the side of a block with a hopper selected, you will place it so that the hopper's narrow end faces into a block, unless it's an underside of a block. Hoppers can interact with chests, barrels, furnaces, droppers, hopper minecarts, chest boats, etc. You can also lock a hopper by having it receive redstone power. If locked, hopper will not collect items nor send them anywhere else.
![Iron ingots and a chest in item frames and a hopper in front of them in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Make-a-Hopper-iron-ingots-and-a-chest-in-item-frames-and-a-hopper-in-front-of-them-.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
How to Make a Hopper in Minecraft
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Hopper is one of the most important redstone components in Minecraft. The only way you can obtain a hopper is through crafting. For this recipe, you need 5x iron ingots, 1x chest and a crafting table. Place the chest in the central slot of the 3x3 crafting grid, add iron ingots left and right of it, as well as below it. Then, add two more iron ingots above the ingots on either side of the chest. And that's it; your hopper has been crafted.
![All the terracotta variants in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Terracotta-Minecraft-all-the-terracotta-variants-in-Minecraft.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
How to Make Terracotta in Minecraft
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Terracotta blocks are frequently used building blocks that you can make by smelting clay blocks in a furnace in Minecraft. If you'd like to dye the terracotta different colors, place the dye of your choice in the central slot of the crafting table's grid and surround it with eight blocks of regular terracotta. The colored terracotta blocks will appear on the right. Furthermore, smelt the colored terracotta blocks in a furnace to obtain glazed terracotta or terracotta with patterns. Terracotta blocks also generate naturally in the Badlands biomes.
![Player wearing a carved pumpkin, decorative pile of pumpkins, carved pumpkins and a jack o'lantern, composter and an iron and snow golem, which all represent uses of a carved pumpkin in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Carved-Pumpkin-Uses-player-wearing-a-carved-pumpkin-decorative-pile-of-pumpkins-carved-pumpkins-and-a-jack-olantern-composter-and-an-iron-and-snow-golem-which-all-represent-uses-of-a-carved.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
Top 5 Uses of Carved Pumpkins in Minecraft
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There are several uses of carved pumpkins in Minecraft. You have an ability to wear them on your head. By doing so, no endermen will get agroed to you if you look at them. Moreover, with a carved pumpkin and a torch, you can craft a jack o'lantern. Carved pumpkins on their own are interesting decorative blocks, but you can still compost them if you don't need them. With a carved pumpkin and four iron blocks you can make an iron golem and with a carved pumpkin and two snow blocks you can make a snow golem.
![Jack Black and his Minecraft Movie role Steve character side by side](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Minecraft-Movie-Jack-Black-and-Steve-character-side-by-side.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
Jack Black Will Star as Steve in Minecraft Movie
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First reported by Deadline, American actor Jack Black has joined the case of the Minecraft Movie and will play the role of the main and original character Steve. Jack Black confirmed his involvement with an official Instagram post. He has joined an incredible cast led by Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, and Emma Myers. Numerous directors have taken on and left the project, so the final storyline is not yet confirmed.
![Regular and carved pumpkins with plenty of shears and pumpkin seeds around them in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Carved-pumpkin-Minecraft-regular-and-carved-pumpkins-with-plenty-of-shears-and-pumpkin-seeds-around-them.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
How to Carve a Pumpkin in Minecraft
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In order to make a carved pumpkin in Minecraft, you'll need a pumpkin and a pair of shears. You can craft shears with two iron ingots and pumpkins generate naturally in plains biomes. Place the pumpkin in the world and use the shears on it. This will turn it into a carved pumpkin and will drop four pumpkin seeds for you, so you can replant the pumpkins. Furthermore, you can find carved pumpkins in some rooms of woodland mansions, as well as outside pillager outposts, as dummies' heads.
![Various different Minecraft art pieces made of wooden cubes](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Cute-Wooden-Minecraft-Creations-various-different-Minecraft-art-pieces-made-of-wooden-cubes.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
This YouTuber Makes Minecraft Items IRL, and They’re Adorable
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YouTuber Celyn Haf has discovered an amazing art form that involves Minecraft mobs and items. She creates them in real life using wooden cubes. First, she collects the cubes and starts gluing them together until the shape matches the one of the item in-game. Then, this YouTuber makes her cute Minecraft creations come to life by carefully painting the cubes in adequate colors. And when that's done, she sticks the object to the wall, so it's nicely displayed.
![Wall with item frames that hold enchanted books and a crossbow and signs that have the name of the best crossbow enchantments written on them in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Best-Crossbow-Enchantments-wall-with-item-frames-that-hold-enchanted-books-and-a-crossbow-and-signs-that-have-the-name-of-the-enchantments-written-on-them.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
5 Best Minecraft Crossbow Enchantments
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Best crossbow enchantments in Minecraft include: unbreaking, mending, quick charge, multishot, and piercing. Unbreaking grants a chance that the use of a crossbow won't use its durability. Mending allows you to restore crossbow's durability with XP. Quick charge lets you reload the crossbow faster. Multishot lets you fire three projectiles at once and consume only one. Piercing is the strongest enchantment, as it makes arrows pierce through entities, allowing you to damage up to five mobs with one arrow.
![Bow and charged bow item images and sticks and string in item frames in the background](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Bow-Minecraft-featured-image.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
How to Make a Bow in Minecraft
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The bow is one of the best ranged weapons in Minecraft. You require 3 pieces of string, and a crafting table to make a bow. The crafting recipe of the bow is simple. In addition to crafting the bow, you can get it using other methods like killing Skeletons and Strays, trading with Fletcher Villagers, and fishing. Furthermore, the bow requires you to have at least one arrow in your inventory to use it.
![Spiders, library in a stronghold, player fishing and piglins bartering are just some of the ways you can get string in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/String-Minecraft-spiders-library-in-a-stronghold-player-fishing-and-piglins-bartering.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
6 Ways You Can Get String in Minecraft
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String is a basic item used in crafting recipes, trading with villagers, and as tripwire. You can obtain strong by killing spiders, striders, and cats. Moreover, if you break a cobweb with a sword, you will get a piece of string. You will also find string in chests of dungeons, desert temples, bastions, and also as tripwire in jungle temples. String is one of the junk items you can get when fishing or when bartering with piglins. Finally, your tamed cat can bring you string when you wake up in the morning.
![Wool blocks, different vines, sheep, snow golem, cobwebs and more, as well as shears in item frames in Minecraft](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Use-Shears-wool-blocks-different-vines-sheep-snow-golem-cobwebs-and-more-as-well-as-shears-in-item-frames.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
5 Best Uses of Minecraft Shears
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You can use shears in Minecraft to shear some mobs and blocks. By shearing sheep, you can get wool and if you shear full bee nests or beehives you'll get honeycomb. You can also remove wolf armor from tamed wolves. Shears are necessary if you want to obtain blocks like short grass, dead bushes, glow lichen, vines and more. By using this tool, you can break wool blocks a lot quicker. It's also possible to have enchantments like unbreaking, mending, efficiency and curse of vanishing on shears, as well as silk touch in the Bedrock edition.
![Iron ingots and shears placed in item frames](https://beebom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Make-Shears-iron-ingots-and-shears-placed-in-item-frames.jpg?w=400&h=248&crop=1&quality=75)
How to Make Shears in Minecraft
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Shears are useful tools that you can easily make without a crafting table in Minecraft. You need two iron ingots, which you can get by smelting raw iron in a furnace, to make a shear. Place one ingot in the bottom left corner of the 2 x 2 crafting grid in the player's inventory and the other one in the upper right corner. Click on the shears icon to craft and move it to your inventory. Alternatively, you can buy shears from shepherd villagers or by searching chests in this villager's house.
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What Does Piercing Do in Minecraft? Explained
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Piercing is an enchantment that allows arrows to pierce through entities in Minecraft. With it, you can damage up to five mobs in a straight line. Piercing also ignores players blocking with shields and is necessary to unlock the "Two Birds, One Arrow" and "Arbalistic" advancements. Its disadvantage is that you cannot have multishot and piercing on the same crossbow, and it does not affect fireworks. You can obtain piercing through the enchanting table or by using enchanted books you buy from villagers.
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How to Make a Hoe in Minecraft
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For crafting each of the hoe types in Minecraft (apart form netherite), you need a crafting table, two sticks and two tier items like planks, stone-tier blocks, iron or gold ingots and diamonds. Making a netherite hoe is different and more expensive, as you need a smithing table, netherite ingot, and a diamond hoe that you wish to upgrade. You can find various tiered hoes in structures like ocean and trail ruins, woodland mansions, ruined portals and ancient cities. Moreover, you can combine two broken hoes or add a tier item to one to repair them.
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How to Make a Glass Bottle in Minecraft
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In order to make glass bottles in Minecraft, you need at least three glass blocks and a crafting table. Simply place the glass blocks in a V shape in the middle and bottom or top and middle rows of the grid and the glass bottles will appear on the right. You may use the glass bottle to scoop up different liquids like water, potions, honey, and dragon's breath. Also, you can sell them to the cleric villagers or craft honey bottles by combining four glass bottles and a honey block in the crafting grid.
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You Can Now Stop Time in Minecraft; Here’s How
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The tick command allows you to affect the Minecraft time in various fun ways. You can completely freeze the game by typing /tick freeze and unfreeze it with /tick unfreeze. Also, use the /tick rate <value> command to determine whether the game will run slower or faster than normal. You can use the /tick step <value> to allow the game to run normally for a certain amount of time when it's frozen. Use the /tick step stop command to cancel the /tick step command.
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How to Make a Minecart in Minecraft
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Minecarts are one of the player and mob transportation options in Minecraft. To make them, you'll need five iron ingots that you can get by smelting raw iron in a furnace. You'll also need a crafting table or a crafter. Place the ingots in an upside-down iron helmet configuration to craft minecarts. You'll only ever find chest minecarts naturally generated in your world, so you'll have to craft manually all other variants.
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Minecraft 1.20.3 Update Gives Decorated Pots Storage and Changes Bat Model
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Minecraft 1.20.3 update has fixed various long-lasting bugs, introduced brand new changes and features to existing items and mobs and added experimental Minecraft 1.21 features. In this update, bat got a new appearance, Nether portal delay has been changed, decorated pots gained a massive buff, new gamerules and commands have been added, grass has been renamed to short grass, monster spawners now display the mob inside properly, you can remove the splash text on the main menu, clock and compass no longer work inside crafting UI and even more new features were added.