Megan Miller - The Ultimate Unofficial Encyclopedia for Minecrafters: Earth: An A–Z Guide to Unlocking Incredible Adventures, Buildplates, Mobs, Resources, and Mobile Gaming Fun

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ACACIA LOGS

Acacia logs are a crafting resource and building block that you can get by chopping Acacia trees with an axe. You can craft them into planks or right-click them with an axe (youll have to place them on a buildplate first) to remove their bark and create a stripped log version.

ACACIA SAPLINGS

Acacia saplings are what you need if you want to grow an acacia tree. Saplings are sometimes dropped when the leaves of the tree decay or are broken, and you can find them in Grass and Pond tappables. Plant them on dirt or grass, and use bone meal on them if you want to speed up the growing process.

ACACIA TREE

Acacia trees, with their gray bark and spreading, gray-green canopy, find their home in Minecrafts Dry Savannah biome. In Minecraft Earth, you can find acacia saplings in grass and pond tappables. Plant them on dirt, coarse dirt, or grass to have them grow into full-fledged trees, or use bone meal on them (you may need more than one) to grow them quickly. Chop them down for Acacia logs, and then you can craft them into orange acacia planks.

ACACIA WOOD PLANKS

Acacia planks are an orangey wood plank crafted from acacia logs. They can be used as a general wood resource in many recipes requiring wood, like sticks and beds and bowls. You can make stairs and slabs from acacia plank, as well as some wood-type specific items, like acacia wood buttons, doors, trapdoors, fences, and gates.

ACTIVATOR RAIL

Activator Rails are a type of rail used sometimes in minecart tracks. They are typically used singly, in between regular or powered rails. Their chief function is to emit a redstone signal when a minecart passes over them, which can then be used to power another redstone component or functional block, like a redstone lamp. They are crafted with 6 iron ingots, two sticks, and a redstone torch. You can find them in some Adventure chests.

ACTIVITY LOG

Your activity log is found in your Profile pages. It lists the tappables youve collected (and time!), in-game gifts youve received, challenges youve completed, and more, for every day youve played the game.

ADVENTURES

Adventures are the battle and looting grounds of Minecraft Earth. Classic outdoors Adventures are located outside in public areas like parks (this has been disabled during COVID-19 quarantines). Crystal Adventures are Adventures you can load in any location. An Adventure is similar to a buildplate, in that it is a digital setting that your mobile device can virtually place on a nearby surface. However, unlike buildplates, you do place these on ground surfaces as you play them at life size. An Adventure will appear at first as a small setting, like a pig sty or a few trees on a patch of grass. When you break these blocks with pickaxes and axes and shovels, youll find a hidden location beneath; one thats possibly filled with skeletons now shooting at you. You must battle hostile mobs with your sword and collect materials with your pickaxe and axe. A few ores like iron, diamond, coal, gold, and lapis are typically hidden behind water flows and other blocks in small veins of 1 to 3 blocks. It can take a bit of searching and breaking to find them. Youll also want to locate and break the Adventure chestit may be hidden behind other blocks, and if you find it, youll get rare loot, including an Adventure crystal. If youre battling mobs, watch your health bar. Each strike against you damages you, and if your health bar depletes, youll be dead and bounced out of the Adventure without any loot, any inventory, or any experience points. You can guard against this by using boosts in your play. There are different levels of Adventures: levels 1 to 3 for outdoors Adventures and common through epic for Crystal Adventures. The higher the level, the more hostile the mobs and the harder the Adventure is to complete.

Outdoor Adventures are displayed with a beacon on your World Map, and you must be within the blue radius to place and play them.

ADVENTURE CHESTS

Inside every Adventure is an Adventure chest of fairly rare loot. Although its often hidden behind other blocks, the chests give off sparkly particles that give away their location. These chests have a few harder to get items which may include carrots, potatoes, rare blocks and ores, as well as weapons, tools, Adventure crystals, and mobs you can store in your inventory and later place on a buildplate. There are five levels of Adventure chests with increasing values of contained loot: common, uncommon, rare, epic, and legendary.