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Preface
This book is intended to give instructions on the best ways to gather resources, like diamonds, in Minecraft.
VersionsEdit
The book isn’t meant to be version specific. It gives info regarding older versions as well. For example, the page about diamonds will describe the best strategies for mining diamonds both prior to the Caves and Cliffs update and after.
Amethyst
DescriptionEdit
Amethyst is a new block in Minecraft. It is purple with sparkles.
VersionsEdit
It was added in the Minecraft Caves and Cliffs update Part 1 (1.17)
FindingEdit
If you are lucky,you can find Amethyst geodes,that have some amythest in them.
While you can collect Amethyst blocks, mining Budding Amethyst (the blocks on which Amethyst buds/crystals generate onto) will not drop anything. Also, don't mine the Amethyst buds, or you'll get nothing.
Ancient Debris
Ancient debris is an ore added in 1.16, found in the nether. It's drop (netherite scrap) is used to craft netherite ingots, used in crafting and to upgrade tools and armor.
MethodsEdit
TNT Strip MiningEdit
Ancient debris is most common at Y=12. Strip mine in a straight line for about 50 blocks. Place TNT at four block intervals. Ignite one piece of TNT and return to a safe area. The explosion clears netherrack, leaving Ancient Debris (which is blast proof).
MiningEdit
Enchant a diamond pickaxe with Efficiency IV. Go to Y=12 and and start clearing netherrack: note how it's broken instantly. Ancient debris will be left intact due to it's longer mining time.
This method creates a larger risk of dying to lava. Stand a few blocks away from mined blocks, and be ready to place blocks to remove and lava.
UseEdit
By combining 4 netherite scraps with 4 gold ingots on a crafting table, you can create 1 netherite ingot.
Apple
Gathering methodsEdit
All you need to do to gather an apple is cut down an oak tree and wait for the leaves to decay. You have a 1 in 200 chance of getting an apple from 1 oak leaf. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, typically with an axe of some sort for efficiency.
UseEdit
An apple restores 4 food points,and 8 gold surronding an apple makes a Golden Apple,which give Regeneration II for 5 seconds and Absorption for 2 minutes.
Charcoal
ObtainingEdit
You get Charcoal from smelting Logs in a Furnace. You can use any source of fuel as fuel, including but not limited to planks (sensible choice if you don’t have coal but have access to lots of wood), coal or charcoal, or even lava or blaze rods. (sensible choice if you have decided to build your base in the nether since you have access to very large lava oceans and since the 1.16 nether update there are trees in the nether).
UseEdit
Charcoal is in many case, a valid alternative to Coal. It can be used as fuel. One charcoal smelts 8 items. However, you can’t craft charcoal blocks like you can coal blocks.
Also, it’s used in the crafting recipes of the campfire, the fire charge, the soul torch, and the torch, though in all of them, you can use regular coal instead.
Clay
Clay can be found in riverbeds, lake floors and in shallow oceans, and can be mined with a shovel (or your fist if you fancy drowning) to get clay balls, which can be smelted into bricks, or crafted back together into clay blocks, which can be smelted into terracotta.
It may help to use a potion of water breathing or enchant your helmet with respiration if you plan to mine clay in large quantities.
Coal
ObtainingEdit
Coal is found underground on any level and can be mined with any pickaxe. If you use a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch, it will drop the ore, which is pretty useless exept for decoration. If your pickaxe is enchanted with fortune, you will get multiple pieces of coal.
Coal can also drop from the dangerous Wither Skeleton.
UsesEdit
Coal can be used as a fuel. One piece of coal can smelt 8 items. However a Block Of Coal (crafted with 9 coal) can smelt 80 items. Blocks of coal can also be used as decoration. If you like the way they look, you might want to use charcoal, blaze rods, or lava as your primary source of fuel instead.
Concrete
Concrete cannot be found naturally in Minecraft. You must make it. Here's how.
Concrete powderEdit
There are only three ingredients to craft Concrete Powder: 4 Sand, 4 Gravel, and any color of dye.
Turning it into concreteEdit
You need to put the concrete powder in water to get concrete. And you're done!
Copper
Finding copperEdit
Copper is found underground in the form of copper ore veins.
Mining copperEdit
Players must mine copper with a stone, or higher quality, pickaxe. Mining the block with a wooden pickaxe will destroy the block without giving any copper ore.
Each copper ore drops between 2 and 4 copper.
Refining copperEdit
When a copper ore block is broken, it will drop Raw Copper, which will have to be smelted to be turned into copper ingots.
Crafting recipes that use copperEdit
Putting nine copper ingots in a square using a crafting table will craft a block of copper, while three copper ingots arranged in a vertical line will craft a lightning rod, and putting an amethyst shard and two copper ingots together in a vertical line will craft a spyglass.
VersionsEdit
Copper ore was officially added to Minecraft in the Caves & Cliffs update (1.17).[1]
ReferencesEdit
Crops
There are a variety of crops that you can plant. Some are hard to farm and some are extremely and just take patience. Here are the crops.
CropsEdit
WheatEdit
First of all, there is Wheat, grown from Wheat seeds. Wheat requires Wheat seeds, grass or dirt and a hoe of any kind (most commonly wood, stone or iron). Place the dirt if required and till the dirt using a hoe by right clicking it with the hoe in your hand. then place the seed and either wait for it to grow or use bone meal from skeletons. These are the main ways to use most of these. Farm land also grows quicker when it is near water. Water can reach crops up to 4 blocks which means a 9 by 9 area of farm land with water in the middle creating 80 spaces with one water source. Once it has grown, break the wheat block and you will get Wheat and 0-2 seeds back. Add more seeds and expand your farm to increase efficiency.
BeetrootEdit
Beetroot seeds can be planted the same way as Wheat seeds. 6 beets and a bowl can be crafted into beetroot soup,but Beetroot Soup does not stack.
CarrotsEdit
Carrots can be grown the same way as well, but the whole carrot is planted in. No seeds for it.
PotatoesEdit
Potatoes are planted the same as carrots except a bit less efficient. it gives less hunger points and it has a chance to be a poisonous Potato (has green pieces coming around it) which has a 60% chance of giving you poison for 5 seconds. However, it is one of the few farmable foods that can be smelted to be better. This creates a cooked potato.
MelonsEdit
Melons will be different from everything mentioned so far. Instead of the seed growing the crop, the seed grows a stem that soon grows a crop, the melon block (stem can not be bonemealed to quick melon access). These melon stems will keep growing melons as long as the stem is not broken or the places for it to grow it (the four blocks in each direction of it) are obstructed (block placed there) Melon blocks can be broken. It will drop melons or, using silk touch, drop melon blocks which can be crafted into nine melons.
PumpkinEdit
Pumpkin is grown the same as Melons, except it has different features. You can craft pumpkin pies by putting egg, sugar and carved pumpkin together in a line. To get a carved pumpkin, place the pumpkin and shear it. It will drop another pumpkin seed which you can use to farm again.
BambooEdit
Bamboo is a crop that can be grown using Bamboo. You can find Bamboo in Jungles and Jungle temples. You can plant bamboo on a dirt block, grass block, coarse dirt, gravel, mycelium, podzol, sand, red sand, or the new rooted dirt. Basically any type of dirt. It will grow from 12-16 blocks in the air. When finished, break the block above the block on the ground which will make the whole bamboo stick shatter and the bamboo will fall, leaving the stem still there to grow. Bamboo is the only farming material so far that can be used as furnace fuel and can be turned into stick.
Cocoa beansEdit
Cocoa beans are plants that are very unique. Cocoa beans are planted and can only be planted on jungle logs so be sure to pick some up while getting that bamboo. Fully grown Cocoa beans look orange instead of greenish or brownish. Harvest them by breaking them. then place them back.
NotesEdit
Most crops in Minecraft have real world counterparts, with the exception of Nether Wart, Chorus Fruit, Nether Fungus (red and blue) and Glow Berries
Diamond
IntroductionEdit
Diamonds are one of the most sought-after resources in Minecraft, and is one of the rarest ores. It can be crafted into armor and tools, such as pickaxes.
LocationEdit
Diamonds are found deep underground (levels 5 to 12 are best for in version 1.16 and below, while after 1.17, the best place to find them is -20 to -64).
MethodsEdit
To mine diamonds, you will need an iron, diamond, or netherite pickaxe (2 or more are recommended, in case one breaks), food, and torches to keep mobs from spawning. It’s recommended to bring a water buckets (in case you fall into lava, a common incident while mining), a crafting table, a shovel for removing dirt and gravel, and a sword and armour in case mobs come. If you are further into the game, you may enchant your tool with "Fortune" (maximum level Fortune III) which gives more diamonds per ore mined (Maximum of 4 items per block of ore mined).
Emerald
IntroductionEdit
Acquisition methodsEdit
TradingEdit
A very common speedrunning technique to getting emeralds is using a fletcher for stick trades. The fletcher will request 32 sticks and will offer 1 emerald. To get a fletcher you will need to put 4 blocks of wood in a crafting table just as you would to craft a crafting table and two flint above the wood and place the fletching table beside a villager that doesn't have a job/profession. There is a chance that it won't give you this stick trade, but all you have to do is break the fletching table and re-place it. Another method to trade for easy emeralds is to use glass panes for emeralds on a librarian to get emeralds.
Gold
Gold can be found in Minecraft at levels 32 or below, or at any level in Mesa biomes. It can be mined with a stone pickaxe or higher.
Gunpowder
ObtainingEdit
Gunpowder can sometimes be obtained by killing Creepers or Ghasts. They can also commonly be found in chests in desert temples. Desert temples are a semi rare structure that generates in the dest biome. Desert temples can be lotted by breaking any of the 9 blocks in the center, but have a pressure plate at the bottom that detonates 9 TNT which will almost always result in the players death.
UsesEdit
5 Gunpowder and 4 sand can be used to craft TNT. 1 gunpowder and 1 paper can be used to craft fireworks which can be used to boost your elytra.
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Honey
IntroductionEdit
Acquisition methodsEdit
To get honey, first craft a campfire, place it under a Bee hive/nest. Then right click the hive/nest with a glass bottle to get honey. If you collect honey without placing a campfire, all nearby bees will attack you.
UseEdit
Honey can remove the poison status effect when drank, but keeps other effects untouched.
You can combine 4 honey bottles into a single honey block. This block may be crafted back into 4 bottles. Honey blocks slow you down, half jump height and reduce fall damage by 80%. Fall speed is decreased if you slide on one, and allow you to stand in the same block as it in the way chests do.
Ice
Ice occurs naturally in frozen biomes. It is automatically formed in these biomes when water freezes. To collect it, a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch is required. Mining it with any other tool will drop nothing and turn the ice into water. Any tier of pickaxe can be used, as long as it has the Silk Touch enchant.
Iron
Iron can be found at any level in Minecraft and can be mined with stone-tier pickaxes or higher.
ObtainingEdit
Iron ore naturally occurs in ore veins at any level of the Overworld. It drops raw iron (ever since the "Caves and Cliffs" update. Otherwise, it drops Iron Ore), which can be smelted into Iron Ingots; Silk Touch is required to obtain iron ore after the Caves and Cliffs update. Blocks of raw iron can rarely be found in ore veins in deep caverns.
Iron golems drop 3–5 Iron Ingots when killed. Zombies have a very small chance of dropping a single Iron Ingot.
Iron Ingots can be found as chest loot for dungeons, abandoned mineshafts, bastion remnants, buried treasure, desert temples, End cities, jungle temples, Nether fortresses, pillager outposts, shipwrecks, strongholds, village toolsmiths, village armorers, village weaponsmiths, and woodland mansions. Iron Nuggets can be found as chest loot for bastion remnants, ruined portals, shipwrecks, and taiga village houses. Blocks of iron can be found as chest loot for bastion remnants.
UsageEdit
Iron is mainly used to craft tools and armor.
Lapis Lazuli
You can find lapis lazuli at levels 32 or below, and you must mine it with an iron-tier or higher pickaxe.
Meat
Acquiring meatEdit
To get meat, craft a weapon and kill an animal. The recommended weapon to craft is a sword, but you can also use a bow and arrow if you would like to practice archery. Theoretically you can punch using any tool, item, or even with your bare hand, however a sword is recommended because it deals more damage, meaning you need less hits to kill the animal.
Animal | Droped food | About the food and other tips | Other drops |
---|---|---|---|
Cow | Raw beef | Can be cooked. | Leather, milk can be obtained by using an empty bucket on it |
Sheep | Raw mutton | Can be cooked. Consider shearing the sheep first if you can. | Wool |
Chicken | Raw chicken | Can be cooked. Poisonous if uncooked. | Feathers. 1 Egg laid every 5 minutes if kept alive. |
Pig | Raw porkchop | Can be cooked. | None |
Rabbit | Raw rabbit | Can be cooked. Consider killing rabbits with a bow at a distance to avoid detection. They are a pain to kill | Rabbit's hide, rabbit's foot |
Cooking meatEdit
To cook meat, put it an a furnace or a smoker (for half the exp. points and half the time) with fuel, like coal or charcoal. Cooked meat restores a lot more hunger than raw meat, making it the preferred choice for consumption at a base or settlement, or when preparing for a journey.
It is still possible to eat raw meat in Minecraft for a slight hunger reduction, and this is common when players are on the go and need to eat something immediately (Presuming they are out of superior provisions). This is also fairly common in the early game, when players may not have furnace access. Players are not penalized for eating meat raw, unless that meat is raw chicken, then they will get food poisoning.
Real life inspirationEdit
In real life, any undercooked or raw meat has an increased chance of carrying a foodborne illness. However raw chicken commonly carries the disease Salmonella, and so cooking chicken thoroughly to kill the disease is especially important, which is reflected in Minecraft.
Mob Loot
You can get various types of mob loot. Here is a table showing the mob loot.
Name | Drops |
---|---|
Creeper | Gunpowder |
Zombie | Rotten Flesh, Iron (rarely), Equipped gear (rarely) |
Skeleton | Bones, Arrows, Equipped gear (rarely) |
Spider | Spider Eye, String |
Witch | Stick, Spider Eye, Gunpowder, Redstone, Sugar, Potion (if drinking one at the moment of death) |
Phantom | Phantom membrane |
Pillager | Arrows, Emeralds, Crossbow (rarely) |
Illager | Emeralds, Iron Axe (rarely) |
Evoker | Emeralds, Totem of Undying |
Guardian | Prismarine Shards, Prismarine Crystals, Fish |
Elder Guardian | Prismarine Shards, Prismarine Crystals, Fish, Wet Sponge |
Nether Quartz
You find Nether Quartz in the Nether. You can mine it with any pickaxe.
Nether Wart
Nether wart naturally generates in nether fortresses. It requires soul sand to grow.
Netherite
AcquisitionEdit
CraftingEdit
Netherite is something that can not be found by mining, but gotten by crafting. 4 ancient debris and 4 gold in a crafting table creates a netherite ingot and like other ores, an ingot in every slot creates a block.
BastionsEdit
Netherite can sometimes be found in bastion chests.
UseEdit
You use 1 netherite ingot on a smithing table with a diamond tool, weapon, or armor to get a netherite version, keeping enchantments and durability percetage. Netherite items have higher protection, attack, durability, and enchantibility than diamond.
NotesEdit
Netherite is a fictional material made specifically for Minecraft, and has no real world counterparts.
Obsidian
Obsidian is a block formed by flowing water coming into contact with lava. It can only be mined with a diamond or netherite pickaxe, and cannot be blown up by TNT.
Methods of obtainingEdit
OverworldEdit
Obsidian occurs naturally in caves and ravines, when a waterfall comes into contact with lava. The player can create obsidian by pouring a bucket of water over the lava.
Obsidian generates as part of ruined portals, woodland mansions, and sometimes ocean ruins. It is also found in the chest loot for ruined portals and village weaponsmiths.
Obsidian is created when a player opens a nether portal from the Nether.
NetherEdit
Obsidian generates as part of ruined portals, and in the chest loot for ruined portals, bastion remnants, and Nether fortresses.
Obsidian is created when a player opens a nether portal from the Overworld.
Piglins have a chance of bartering obsidian when given gold.
EndEdit
Obsidian generates as part of the pillars on the main End island, and in End cities.
Obsidian is created as part of the platform that generates when a player enters the End.
UsageEdit
Obsidian has three main uses:
- Explosion-proof structures
- Nether portals
- Enchanting tables
Redstone
You can find Redstone underground at y-level 32 or below. You must mine it with an Iron-tier or higher pickaxe or it will not drop anything. It will drop 4-8 Redstone Dust, which can be used for redstone cirucits.
Witches also drop up to six peices redstone Dust.
Redstone Dust can be used on a brewing stand with most potions to make the potion last longer.
Sand
IntroductionEdit
Sand is a common material and is one of few materials that fall when there is no blocks underneath it. This unique property makes sand somewhat dangerous to collect, but also an invaluable material when constructing some features.
LocationsEdit
Sand can be found in deserts, but more commonly (in less amounts though) beaches and small patches around the world or in small rivers.
UsesEdit
Sand is a key component in Sandstone. Sand can also be melted in a furnace to create glass. Sand can also be used to make TNT, which you can blow things up with.
Sandstone
LocationEdit
Sandstone is a block that can either be found in the desert or created by crafting. Sandstone is found 2-4 layers below the sand of a desert and on the frames of wells, desert temples and some desert village houses.
CraftingEdit
Sandstone is crafted by putting 4 sand in a square like how you would with a crafting table.
For more information on how to get sand (to craft sandstone) visit the page on sand.
UsageEdit
Unlike sand, sandstone does not fall in Minecraft, typically making it a better choice for permanent structures. Common techniques include using sandstone as the roof of a house.
Sculk
Sculk is a new Minecraft resource added in 1.19. You can get Sculk in 1 of 2 ways:
- Going to the Deep Dark and mining it with a Silk Touch pickaxe.
- Killing a Warden to get a Sculk Catalyst, then killing mobs near the Sculk Catalyst.
Snow
Snow occurs naturally in frozen biomes, and forms from snowfall in cold and frozen biomes. A shovel is required to collect snowballs, and Silk Touch is required for snow blocks. You can craft snow blocks using 4 snow balls.
Stone
LocationEdit
Stone is a very easy resource to find. Mine down a few blocks and you will find stone.
AcquisitionEdit
If you break it, you will get cobblestone, a very useful building material. To get the recreate the look of stone that you find in nature, put cobblestone in a furnace and you get a stone block. You can also break stone with a silk touch pickaxe, and get stone.
Tuff
What It IsEdit
Tuff is a soft rock that can be found deep underground in Minecraft.
UseEdit
Finding TuffEdit
You can find Tuff deep underground,or as the outer layer in Amythest Geodes.
Tuff is very easy to mine by accident, similar to Netherrack, so be careful for pools of lava. |
Wood
IntroductionEdit
Wood is a very important resource in Minecraft, as it is usually the first useful item players gather when they start the game.
AcquiringEdit
Wood is obtained by hitting the trunk of a tree, and this can, infamously, be done without any tools, however, using an axe is quicker and easier. This drops a log block, the most basic wood type.
Raw logs are not that useful as they are. To use them for most things, you must turn them into planks. Put your logs in one of the slots of the crafting grid in your inventory, and you will get 4 wood planks (indicated by the "4" beside it) appear in the output slot. Craft it by taking the 4 planks out of the output slot. This will use up a single log, allowing you to craft again. Shift-click (with keyboard and mouse) or press X (with controller) to craft as many as possible.
VariantsEdit
Just as in real life, Wood in Minecraft comes in a number of varieties based on the kind of tree it is obtained from.
Tree variantsEdit
A Tree is where you get Wood from. There are 8 different types of trees.
- Oak
- Spruce
- Acacia
- Jungle
- Dark Oak
- Birch
Two of which are found in the Nether.
- Warped Fungus
- Crimson Fungus
Craftable variantsEdit
You can craft a special kind of log called "Wood". This log has the log texture on all six sides, making it great for landscaping and decoration.
Both log blocks and "wood" can be stripped by holding an axe and pressing the use button when looking at one.
UseEdit
Wood has so many uses, it would fill a whole book just to list them all! Some common uses, though, are explained here.
BuildingEdit
Absolutely not recommended as wood is flammable. You should only build with wood if you have nothing else to build with or you are in creative mode.
Warped fungus and Crimson fungus (in both log and plank varieties) are not flammable, and so make great base decorations.
FuelEdit
Wood makes a great fuel, but charcoal is much better. To make charcoal, smelt a log in a furnace. Charcoal is also used in torches and campfires.
Tables
These are some tables that you can use as a quick reference.
Name | Where to find it |
---|---|
Coal | Underground. Can be mined with any pickaxe. |
Wood | Can be chopped from trees, villager houses, or abandoned mineshafts. |
Blaze Rods | Dropped from blazes. |
Lava | Can be found deep underground or in the Nether. |
Charcoal | You smelt logs in a furnace to get charcoal |
Sapling | Dropped from trees |
Name | Where to find it |
---|---|
Wheat | By breaking tall grass, and also by raiding village farms. |
Carrot | Village farms, rare drop from zombies, certain chests. |
Potato | Same as Carrot. |
Beetroot | Village farms and certain chests. |
Tier | Where to find it |
---|---|
Wood | Get from trees in the Overworld and the Nether |
Stone | Found under dirt in the Overworld. Blackstone, found in Basalt Deltas, in
the Nether can be used as well. |
Iron | Found underground in the Overworld. |
Gold | Found underground in the Overworld. |
Diamond | Found deep underground in the Overworld. |
Netherite | Made from Ancient Debris, which is found deep underground in the Nether. |
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