Megan Miller - Hacks for Minecrafters: The Unofficial Guide to Tips and Tricks That Other Guides Wont Teach You

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Y oure a miner! Youve mined for diamonds, killed a couple or a million zombies, and know not to dig straight up or straight down! Now what? Plenty. Minecraft is a constantly evolving sandbox game. This means the developers of the game add new things each year and there are many ways to play. For version 1.12, also known as the World of Color Update, Minecraft added colorful concrete and concrete powder blocks, patterned glazed terracotta blocks, a variety of parrots, the Illusioner illager, colored beds, and more! You can expect this game to grow and change as you learn, so there are always new things to explore and experiment with.

And each year, thousands of players find new tricks to get things done better, faster, or with more fun. This book will show you lots of ways to help your game, whether you like to fight zombies or build castles, including:

how to save a village from a siege of zombies

what to do first to defeat the Ender Dragon

how to find one of your worlds strongholds

how to make automatic sliding doors using pistons and redstone

how to move between Creative and Survival modes using cheats

NOTE: The tips in this book are based on Minecraft 1.12, Java (PC) edition, so if you are playing a different version or are playing on a console, you may find that some features work a little differently.

M inecraft is a sandbox game, which means there arent any rules for how you play. In a sandbox, you can build a sandcastle, dig a road, or throw a bunch of sand around. In Minecraft, you can build a massive railway system, make friends with wolves and ocelots, explore the oceans, or kill an army of zombies. Or do it all. Theres no goal that you must achieve, but if you like goals, Minecraft has a few you can set your sights on. Its up to you to decide how to play, and you can mix it up any way you want to.

Minecraft has different game modes you choose at the start. They are geared to the different types of gameplay.

Survival and Hardcore: In Survival mode you have to find food and shelter, and you can be killed. If you are killed, you respawn at your starting point without your inventory. (Your inventory items stay at your death scene for five minutes before they despawnso you do have a chance to get them back.) There are four difficulty levels: Peaceful (no mobs), Easy (mobs do less damage), Normal (mobs do normal damage), and Hard (mobs do more damage and you can die from hunger). In Hardcore mode, you play at Hard difficulty, and you cant have cheats. If you are killed, you can choose between respawning in Spectator mode or having your world completely deleted.

In Hard difficulty, mobs are more likely to spawn with weapons, armor, and enchantments, and they will cause you more damage.