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Breaking a stone block in Minecraft
Breaking blocks. Gameplay screenshot by Dabmasterars via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.

How to Find Diamonds in Minecraft

Diamond ore generates in the Overworld from Y=16 down to Y=-63 and gets more common the lower you go.

How to Make a Nether Portal in Minecraft

Build a vertical frame of obsidian at least 4 blocks wide and 5 blocks tall (10 obsidian minimum, corners optional) and light the inside with flint and steel.

How to Find an Ancient City in Minecraft

Ancient cities only generate in the deep dark biome, with the city floor at Y=-51.

How to Breed Villagers in Minecraft

Villagers breed when they are willing and an unclaimed bed with at least 2 empty blocks above it is reachable.

How to Get Elytra in Minecraft

Elytra come only from End ships: beat the dragon, pearl through an End gateway to the outer islands, find an End city with a ship floating beside it, and take the elytra from the item frame in the ship's treasure room.

How to Enchant in Minecraft

Craft an enchanting table (book + diamonds + obsidian), put an item that is not already enchanted in it with lapis lazuli, and pick one of three offers.

How to Make an Iron Golem in Minecraft

Place 4 blocks of iron in a T shape (3 across the top, 1 below the middle one) and put a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern on top of the center upper block, last.

How to Beat the Wither in Minecraft

Build the Wither with 4 soul sand or soul soil in a T shape and 3 wither skeleton skulls on top (place a skull last).

How to Find an End City in Minecraft

End cities generate on the large outer islands of the End, in the midlands and highlands, where chorus trees grow.

How to Make and Use a Beacon in Minecraft

Craft a beacon from glass, a nether star and obsidian.

How to Make and Use a Conduit in Minecraft

Craft 1 conduit with 1 heart of the sea surrounded by 8 nautilus shells.

How to Build a Villager Trading Hall

Give each adult unemployed villager a job site block, check its offers before trading, and trade once to lock its profession and offers.

How to Upgrade to Netherite

Mine ancient debris in the Nether (most common around Y=16) with a diamond or netherite pickaxe, smelt it into netherite scrap, craft 4 scrap + 4 gold ingots into a netherite ingot, then upgrade diamond gear at a smithing table with a Netherite Upgrade template.

How to Do Archaeology in Minecraft

Craft a brush (feather + copper ingot + stick) and use it on suspicious sand (desert temples, wells, warm ocean ruins) or suspicious gravel (trail ruins, cold ocean ruins) - brushing slowly reveals pottery sherds, armor trims, sniffer eggs and loot instead of breaking the block.

How to Beat the Ender Dragon in Minecraft

Enter the End through a stronghold portal with a bow, plenty of arrows, slow falling potions and a water bucket.

How to Find a Stronghold in Minecraft

Craft Eyes of Ender (blaze powder + ender pearls) and throw them: each flies about 12 blocks toward the nearest stronghold.

How to Fly with Elytra in Minecraft

Wear the Elytra in the chestplate slot, then press jump while in mid-air to spread the wings.

How to Find and Beat Trial Chambers in Minecraft

Trial chambers generate underground in the Overworld in any biome except the deep dark.

How to Get Mending in Minecraft

Mending is a treasure enchantment, so it cannot come from an enchanting table.

How to Get a Happy Ghast in Minecraft

Waterlog a dried ghast block for about 20 minutes: it hatches into a ghastling, which needs another 20 minutes (or snowballs) to grow into a happy ghast.

How to Find a Nether Fortress in Minecraft

Nether fortresses can generate in every Nether biome.

How to Make a Mace in Minecraft

Craft a mace with 1 heavy core and 1 breeze rod.

How to Find a Woodland Mansion in Minecraft

Woodland mansions generate rarely in dark forests and pale gardens, often far from spawn.

How to Find Slimes in Minecraft

Slimes spawn in swamps and mangrove swamps between Y=51 and Y=69 at light level 7 or less (most often on a full moon, never on a new moon), or in slime chunks below Y=40 regardless of light or weather.

How to Get Wither Skeleton Skulls in Minecraft

Wither skeleton skulls only drop from wither skeletons, which are found exclusively in nether fortresses.

How to Get a Blue Axolotl in Minecraft

Blue axolotls do not spawn naturally.

How to Dye Armor in Minecraft

Leather armor, leather horse armor and wolf armor can be dyed.

How to Make a Lead in Minecraft

Craft 2 leads from 5 string in a crafting table: top row string, string, empty; middle row string, string, empty; bottom row string, empty, empty.

How to Make Smooth Stone in Minecraft

Smelt stone in a furnace to get smooth stone.

How to Get Honeycomb in Minecraft

Shear a full bee nest or beehive (honey level 5) to get 3 honeycombs.

How to Make a Campfire in Minecraft

Craft 1 campfire with 3 sticks, 1 coal or charcoal, and 3 logs or wood-family blocks.

How to Breed Horses in Minecraft

Tame two horses, then feed each a golden apple or golden carrot to activate love mode.

How to Make Concrete in Minecraft

Craft concrete powder from sand, gravel and a dye, then let it touch water.

How to Make a Copper Golem in Minecraft

Place a block of copper (any oxidation stage, waxed works too) and put a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern on top - the pumpkin must be placed last.

How to Tame and Ride a Nautilus in Minecraft

Find a nautilus in any ocean biome between Y 38 and 58 and feed it pufferfish or buckets of pufferfish - each one has a 1/3 chance to tame it.

How to Find Buried Treasure in Minecraft

Buried treasure is a chest buried mainly in beaches, and it always holds a heart of the sea, the only source of one.

How to Make Fireworks in Minecraft

Craft a firework rocket from paper and gunpowder: it makes 3 rockets, and up to three gunpowder raise the flight duration.

How to Get Silk Touch in Minecraft

Silk Touch (max level 1, enchantment weight 1) comes from enchanting tables, librarian villagers, fishing books, monster room chests and other structure loot.

How to Make Paper in Minecraft

Craft paper with 3 sugar cane in a row on a crafting table: it yields 3 paper.

How to Get XP Fast in Minecraft

The fastest XP combines a mob farm with furnace banks: common hostile mobs drop 5 XP each, smelting stores XP inside the furnace for one big payout, and quartz mining pays 2-5 XP per ore.

How to Make a Bookshelf in Minecraft

Craft a bookshelf with 6 planks and 3 books: planks in the top and bottom rows, books in the middle row.

How to Make a Piston in Minecraft

Craft a piston from any planks, cobblestone, an iron ingot and redstone dust.

How to Make TNT in Minecraft

Craft TNT with gunpowder and sand (or red sand), in a checkerboard.

How to Respawn the Ender Dragon in Minecraft

Place four end crystals on the edges of the exit portal, one on each side.

How to Make a Snow Golem in Minecraft

Stack 2 snow blocks vertically and place a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern on top last.

How to Make an Ender Chest in Minecraft

Craft an ender chest from obsidian and an eye of ender.

How to Make a Hopper in Minecraft

Craft a hopper from a chest and 5 iron ingots.

How to Make a Compass in Minecraft

Craft a compass from iron ingots and redstone dust.

How to Make a Fishing Rod in Minecraft

Craft a fishing rod from sticks and string.

How to Make Shears in Minecraft

Craft shears from iron ingots.

How to Make Bread in Minecraft

Craft bread from wheat.

How to Make a Cake in Minecraft

Craft a cake from milk buckets, sugar, any egg and wheat.

How to Make a Dispenser in Minecraft

Craft a dispenser from cobblestone, a bow and redstone dust.

How to Make Flint and Steel in Minecraft

Craft flint and steel from an iron ingot and flint.

How to Make an Enchanting Table in Minecraft

Craft an enchanting table from 1 book, 2 diamonds and 4 obsidian.

How to Make a Furnace in Minecraft

Craft a furnace from cobblestone or any other stone-tier block.

How to Make a Chest in Minecraft

Craft a chest from planks.

How to Make a Crafting Table in Minecraft

Craft a crafting table from planks of any type, right in your inventory's 2x2 grid.

How to Make a Golden Apple in Minecraft

Craft a golden apple from an apple and gold ingots.

How to Make a Sticky Piston in Minecraft

Craft a sticky piston with 1 slimeball above 1 piston.

How to Make a Diamond Pickaxe in Minecraft

Craft a diamond pickaxe with 3 diamonds across the top and 2 sticks down the middle.

How to Make a Diamond Sword in Minecraft

Craft a diamond sword with 2 diamonds above 1 stick.

How to Make a Diamond Axe in Minecraft

Craft a diamond axe with 3 diamonds and 2 sticks.

How to Find Gold in Minecraft

Gold ore generates from Y=-64 to Y=32, most likely around Y=-16, plus an extra batch in badlands from Y=32 to Y=256.

How to Make Diamond Armor in Minecraft

A full diamond set costs 24 diamonds: helmet 5, chestplate 8, leggings 7, boots 4.

How to Find Iron in Minecraft

Iron ore generates everywhere from Y=-64 to Y=384.

How to Find Ancient Debris in Minecraft

Ancient debris generates in the Nether, most commonly around Y=16, never naturally exposed to air.

How to Find a Village in Minecraft

Villages generate in plains, meadow, desert, savanna, taiga and snowy plains biomes.

How to Get Emeralds in Minecraft

Trade with villagers: for example 32 sticks for 1 emerald (fletcher), 24 paper for 1 emerald (librarian), 20 wheat for 1 emerald (farmer) or 32 rotten flesh for 1 emerald (cleric).

How to Find Amethyst in Minecraft

Find amethyst geodes between Y=-58 and Y=30 in the Overworld.

How to Get a Totem of Undying in Minecraft

Evokers always drop 1 totem of undying when killed, and Looting does not change that.

How to Find a Bastion Remnant in Minecraft

Bastion remnants generate in every Nether biome except basalt deltas, though parts can extend into them.

How to Find Lush Caves in Minecraft

Look for a naturally generated azalea tree with oak logs and azalea leaves: its rooted dirt leads down toward lush caves.

How to Find Dripstone Caves in Minecraft

Explore underground far inland, away from oceans and coasts.

How to Breathe Underwater in Minecraft

Four real ways: a water breathing potion (pufferfish + awkward potion, 3 or 8 minutes), a turtle shell helmet (10 extra seconds per dive), a conduit (unlimited breathing in range), and the Respiration enchantment (slower air drain).

How to Find Copper in Minecraft

Copper ore generates everywhere from Y=-16 to Y=112, peaking at Y=47-48 - just mine around sea level.

How to Find an Ocean Monument in Minecraft

Ocean monuments generate in deep ocean biomes, at most one per 512x512 block area.

How to Get a Sponge in Minecraft

Get wet sponges from ocean monuments: kill elder guardians yourself, or search for optional sponge rooms with about 30 wet sponges each.

How to Breed Turtles in Minecraft

Feed seagrass to two turtles on a beach - one returns to its home beach and lays 1-4 eggs.

How to Get Blaze Rods in Minecraft

Blaze rods drop only from blazes, which live in nether fortresses.

How to Get Nether Wart in Minecraft

Nether wart grows in nether fortress stairwell gardens (about 20 plants) and in housing-unit bastion courtyards (1, 5 or 6 plants).

How to Get String in Minecraft

Kill spiders or cave spiders (0-2 string, up to 0-5 with Looting III), break cobwebs with a sword, or kill striders in the Nether (2-5 string, up to 2-8 with Looting III).

How to Get Ender Pearls in Minecraft

Kill endermen (0-1 pearls by default, up to 0-4 with Looting III), barter gold ingots with piglins (about 2.

How to Get Obsidian in Minecraft

Pour water over a lava source block: obsidian forms where flowing water touches still lava.

How to Make Glass in Minecraft

Smelt sand or red sand in a furnace: one block of sand plus any fuel gives one block of glass.

How to Get Honey in Minecraft (Honey Bottle)

Use a glass bottle on a beehive or bee nest at honey level 5 (full and dripping).

How to Get Leather in Minecraft

Kill cows, mooshrooms, horses, donkeys, mules or llamas: they drop 0-2 leather (up to 5 with Looting III).

How to Get Bamboo in Minecraft

Bamboo generates in jungle biomes as scattered single shoots and covers entire hillsides in bamboo jungles.

How to Find a Cherry Grove in Minecraft

Cherry groves generate on mountain slopes and plateaus in medium-temperature zones, often next to meadows.

How to Get Pumpkins in Minecraft

Pumpkins generate in random patches on grass in most Overworld biomes (each chunk has a 1/32 chance, rarer than diamond ore), or grow them from pumpkin seeds: plant the seeds, wait 10-30 minutes for the stem to mature, and it keeps producing pumpkins on adjacent dirt.

How to Get Clay in Minecraft

Find gray clay patches in shallow water or on lush cave pond floors.

How to Find a Mangrove Swamp in Minecraft

Mangrove swamps generate in warm, humid regions near sea level, usually bordering deserts, savannas and jungles.

How to Get Sugar Cane in Minecraft

Sugar cane generates in patches on dirt, sand or mud directly next to water in almost every biome.

How to Get Cactus in Minecraft

Cacti generate naturally in desert and badlands biomes (twice as common in deserts), growing only on sand and red sand.

How to Find a Pale Garden in Minecraft

Pale gardens are a rare dark forest variant added in 1.

How to Get Redstone in Minecraft

Mine redstone ore deep underground: it generates between Y=-64 and Y=15, with the densest layer around Y=-59.

How to Get Lapis Lazuli in Minecraft

Mine lapis ore around Y=-2: it generates between Y=-64 and Y=64 and is most common near Y=0.

How to Get Coal in Minecraft

Mine coal ore with any pickaxe (a wooden one works): it drops 1 coal, or 1-4 with Fortune I-III, plus 0-2 XP.

How to Get Nether Quartz in Minecraft

Mine nether quartz ore in the Nether with any pickaxe: it drops 1 quartz (up to 4 with Fortune III, about 2.

How to Get Glowstone in Minecraft

Break glowstone in the Nether: without Silk Touch each block drops 2-4 glowstone dust (Fortune raises the chance of a large drop but never past 4).

How to Get Gunpowder in Minecraft

Kill creepers or ghasts: each drops 0-2 gunpowder by default and up to 0-5 with Looting III.

How to Get Prismarine in Minecraft

Farm guardians at an ocean monument: without Looting, they drop 0-2 prismarine shards and have a 40% chance to drop a prismarine crystal.

How to Get Magma Cream in Minecraft

Kill magma cubes in the Nether (0-1 magma cream in Java, 0-2 in Bedrock, more with Looting) or craft it from 1 blaze powder + 1 slimeball.

How to Get a Straw Bed in Minecraft (26.3)

Craft 3 hay bales in a row to get 4 straw beds - the single-use bed that lets you sleep through the night WITHOUT resetting your spawn point.

How to Get a Golden Dandelion in Minecraft (26.1)

Craft a golden dandelion with 8 gold nuggets around a regular dandelion, then feed it to any baby mob to freeze its aging forever - feed a second one to resume growing.

How to Make a Cushion in Minecraft (26.3)

Craft a cushion with 3 matching wool slabs in a row (wool slabs are 3 wool for 6), in all 16 colors.

How to Get Ghast Tears in Minecraft

Kill ghasts in the Nether: each drops 0-1 ghast tears, up to 4 with Looting III.

How to Get a Nether Star in Minecraft

Summon and kill the wither: it always drops exactly 1 nether star, unaffected by Looting.

How to Get Dragon's Breath in Minecraft

Hold empty glass bottles and right-click the purple clouds from the ender dragon's breath attack or its dragon fireballs - each bottle scoops 1 dragon's breath.

How to Get Nautilus Shells in Minecraft

Drowned holding a shell always drop it: 3% of drowned spawn with one in Java, 8% in Bedrock.

How to Get Wither Roses in Minecraft

Wither roses drop when any mob or player is killed by the wither - one rose per kill.

How to Get Phantom Membranes in Minecraft

Kill phantoms: each drops 0-1 membranes (up to 4 with Looting III), only when killed by a player.

How to Get Turtle Scutes in Minecraft

Breed turtles, protect the eggs, and wait: every baby turtle drops exactly 1 scute when it grows into an adult - the ONLY source.

How to Get Breeze Rods in Minecraft

Kill breezes in trial chambers: each drops 1-2 breeze rods (up to 4-8 with Looting III) when killed by a player.

How to Get Echo Shards in Minecraft

Loot ancient city chests in the deep dark: echo shards appear there with about a 30% chance per chest, in stacks of 1-3.

How to Get Trial Keys in Minecraft

Complete normal trial spawners: a 50% key-reward roll gives one trial key per detected participant.

How to Get a Heavy Core in Minecraft

Open ominous vaults in trial chambers with ominous trial keys: the heavy core is their rarest drop, roughly a 7.

How to Get Slimeballs in Minecraft

Kill small slimes: each drops 0-2 slimeballs (up to 5 with Looting III).

How to Get a Dried Ghast in Minecraft

Dried ghasts generate next to nether fossils in soul sand valleys (a 1 in 3 chance per fossil).

How to Get Wind Charges in Minecraft

Craft them: 1 breeze rod makes 4 wind charges.

How to Get Cinnabar in Minecraft

Cinnabar generates in sulfur caves alongside sulfur, and as part of sulfur springs.

How to Get Poplar Logs in Minecraft

Poplar trees generate only in the dappled forest biome, with red, orange or yellow leaves and light brown logs.

How to Get Bone Meal in Minecraft

Craft it: 1 bone makes 3 bone meal, and 1 bone block makes 9.

How to Get Sulfur in Minecraft

Sulfur generates in sulfur caves alongside cinnabar, in sulfur pools, and in sulfur springs - mine it with any pickaxe.

How to Get Ice in Minecraft

Mine it with Silk Touch: ice drops only when the tool has Silk Touch - without it the block just vanishes (or turns into water).

How to Get Swift Sneak in Minecraft

Swift Sneak comes only from loot chests in ancient cities - it's a non-renewable treasure enchantment you can't get from the enchanting table, villagers or fishing.

How to Get Eyes of Ender in Minecraft

Craft them: 1 blaze powder + 1 ender pearl makes 1 eye of ender (shapeless recipe).

How to Get Sculk in Minecraft

Mine it in the deep dark with a Silk Touch hoe: without Silk Touch, sculk blocks shatter and drop 1 XP instead of the block.

How to Get a Camel Husk in Minecraft

Camel husks spawn only in deserts at night or during thunderstorms, always as a camel husk jockey: a spear-wielding husk riding it with a parched passenger.

How to Get a Sniffer Egg in Minecraft

Brush suspicious sand in warm ocean ruins with a brush - sniffer eggs hide inside.

How to Get Ominous Bottles in Minecraft

Kill pillager raid captains - the ones with banners on their heads at outposts and in patrols.

How to Get Wind Burst in Minecraft

Wind Burst only drops from ominous vaults in trial chambers: open them with ominous trial keys and each has a 5.

How to Get Ominous Trial Keys in Minecraft

Drink an ominous bottle for Bad Omen, then approach a trial spawner to gain Trial Omen and start an ominous trial.

How to Get Smithing Templates in Minecraft (All 19 Locations)

Smithing templates are loot found in structures: the netherite upgrade comes from bastion remnants, and 18 armor trims are spread across outposts, mansions, temples, shipwrecks, strongholds, ancient cities, end cities and trial chambers.

How to Get Froglights in Minecraft (All 3 Colors)

Feed small magma cubes to frogs: when a frog eats a tiny magma cube it drops a froglight.

How to Get Enchanted Golden Apples in Minecraft

Enchanted golden apples can't be crafted - they're treasure loot only.

How to Get Resin in Minecraft (Resin Clumps)

Hit a creaking at night: its creaking heart grows 2-3 resin clumps on nearby pale oak logs, with a 5-second cooldown.

How to Get Armadillo Scutes in Minecraft (Wolf Armor)

Find armadillos in savannas and badlands: they shed a scute every 5-10 minutes on their own, and you can brush them for extra scutes.

How to Get Fortune in Minecraft (Fortune III)

Fortune comes from enchanting tools or books at the enchanting table, librarian trades, fishing treasure and structure loot.

How to Get Looting in Minecraft (Looting III)

Looting applies to swords and spears through the enchanting table or enchanted books.

How to Get Protection in Minecraft (Protection IV)

Protection goes on armor from the enchanting table, librarian trades, fishing, or structure loot.

How to Get Sharpness in Minecraft (Sharpness V)

Sharpness goes on swords, spears and axes (axes need an anvil): roll it at a level-30 enchanting table, trade with librarians, fish, or loot monster rooms and structures.

How to Get Efficiency in Minecraft (Efficiency V)

Efficiency speeds up mining on pickaxes, shovels, axes and hoes.

How to Get Unbreaking in Minecraft (Unbreaking III)

Unbreaking reduces durability loss on compatible tools, weapons and armor.

How to Get Feather Falling in Minecraft (Feather Falling IV)

Feather Falling goes on boots and reduces fall damage by 12% per level, up to 48% at IV.

How to Get Infinity in Minecraft (Infinite Arrows)

Infinity goes on bows: enchanting tables, librarian trades, fishing, monster rooms and structure loot all give it.

How to Make a Spear in Minecraft (All Tiers)

Craft a spear with one material and two sticks in a diagonal (material top-right, sticks down the middle-left) - wooden, stone, copper, iron, golden, diamond, then upgrade diamond to netherite on a smithing table.

How to Get Power in Minecraft (Power V)

Power boosts bow arrow damage by 25% × (level + 1), giving +150% at V.

How to Get Fire Aspect in Minecraft (Fire Aspect II)

Fire Aspect ignites melee targets: 4 seconds of burning per level on swords and spears (maces need an anvil).

How to Get Thorns in Minecraft (Thorns III)

Thorns goes on armor and gives each piece a level × 15% chance to hurt attackers back (1-5 damage) - melee, arrows and projectiles all trigger it.

How to Get Respiration in Minecraft (Respiration III)

Respiration extends underwater breathing by 15 seconds per level on helmets and turtle shells - 60 seconds total at level III, plus a 75% chance each second to ignore drowning damage.

How to Get Aqua Affinity in Minecraft

Aqua Affinity removes the 5x mining-speed penalty from having your head underwater - one level on a helmet or turtle shell.

How to Get Depth Strider in Minecraft (Depth Strider III)

Depth Strider cuts the water movement-speed penalty on boots: each level adds 1/3 water movement efficiency, and level III lets you swim as fast as you walk on land.

How to Get Knockback in Minecraft (Knockback II)

Knockback makes swords and spears launch enemies: +2.

How to Get Punch in Minecraft (Punch II)

Punch is the bow version of Knockback: arrows launch targets nearly 9 blocks with Punch II.

How to Get Soul Speed in Minecraft (Soul Speed III)

Soul Speed turns soul sand and soul soil into highways: up to +61.

How to Get Netherite in Minecraft (Full Guide)

Mine ancient debris in the Nether (most common around Y=16), smelt it into netherite scrap, then craft 4 scrap + 4 gold ingots into 1 netherite ingot.

How to Get Shulker Shells in Minecraft

Shulker shells drop from shulkers in end cities: 50% chance per kill in Java (68.

How to Get the Dragon Egg in Minecraft

Defeat the ender dragon and the egg appears on top of the exit portal - once per world in Java, twice in Bedrock.

How to Get Music Discs in Minecraft (All 22)

The 12 classic C418 discs drop when a skeleton (or stray, bogged, parched) kills a creeper.

How to Get Amethyst Shards in Minecraft

Mine fully grown amethyst clusters inside amethyst geodes - 4 shards per cluster with a pickaxe (up to 8.

How to Make Copper Bars in Minecraft

Craft 6 copper ingots in two rows of three for 16 copper bars.

How to Make a Copper Chest in Minecraft

Surround a regular chest with 8 copper ingots to craft a copper chest.

How to Make a Copper Lantern in Minecraft

Craft 8 copper nuggets around a copper torch for a copper lantern.

How to Make a Shelf in Minecraft

Craft 6 matching stripped logs (or stripped stems / stripped bamboo blocks) filling the top and bottom rows for 6 shelves.

How to Get Nautilus Armor in Minecraft

Nautilus armor can't be crafted: copper, iron, golden and diamond tiers are chest loot in shipwrecks, ocean ruins and buried treasure.

How to Make a Harness in Minecraft

Craft a harness with 3 leather across the top, 2 glass on the middle sides and 1 wool of any color in the center.

How to Make Wool Stairs in Minecraft

Craft 4 wool stairs from 6 matching wool blocks in the stair shape - all 16 colors, re-dyeable with a single dye.

How to Make Wool Slabs in Minecraft

Craft 6 wool slabs from 3 matching wool blocks in a row - all 16 colors, re-dyeable with one dye.

How to Make Concrete Stairs in Minecraft

Craft 4 concrete stairs from 6 matching concrete blocks in the stair shape, or stonecut 1 concrete block into 1 stair.

How to Make Concrete Slabs in Minecraft

Craft 6 concrete slabs from 3 matching concrete blocks in a row, or stonecut 1 concrete block into 2 slabs.

How to Make a Fletching Table in Minecraft

Craft a fletching table with 2 flint on top and 4 planks in a 2x2 below.

How to Make a Crafter in Minecraft

Craft a crafter with 5 iron ingots, 1 crafting table, 2 redstone dust and 1 dropper.

How to Make Scaffolding in Minecraft

Craft 6 scaffolding with 6 bamboo (left and right columns) and 1 string (top center).

How to Make a Jukebox in Minecraft

Craft a jukebox with 8 planks around 1 diamond.

How to Make an Observer in Minecraft

Craft an observer with 6 cobblestone, 2 redstone dust and 1 nether quartz.

How to Make a Dropper in Minecraft

Craft a dropper with 7 cobblestone and 1 redstone dust.

How to Make a Slime Block in Minecraft

Craft a slime block with 9 slimeballs filling the grid.

How to Make a Honey Block in Minecraft

Craft a honey block with 4 honey bottles in a 2x2 square (the empty bottles stay in the grid).

How to Make a Redstone Lamp in Minecraft

Craft a redstone lamp with a glowstone block surrounded by 4 redstone dust.

How to Make a Redstone Repeater in Minecraft

Craft a redstone repeater with 3 stone, 2 redstone torches and 1 redstone dust.

How to Make a Redstone Comparator in Minecraft

Craft a redstone comparator with 3 redstone torches, 1 nether quartz and 3 stone.

How to Make a Copper Bulb in Minecraft (1.21)

Craft 4 copper bulbs with 3 matching copper blocks, 1 blaze rod and 1 redstone dust.

How to Make a Bundle in Minecraft (1.21.2)

Craft a bundle with 1 string and 1 leather.

How to Use Armor Trims in Minecraft (1.20+)

Apply armor trims at a smithing table: smithing template + armor piece + material.

How to Make a Recovery Compass in Minecraft

Craft a recovery compass with 8 echo shards around a compass.

How to Make a Brush in Minecraft (1.20)

Craft a brush with a feather, a copper ingot and a stick in a vertical line.

How to Get Moss in Minecraft (1.17+)

Find moss blocks covering the floor and ceiling of lush caves, or buy two from a wandering trader for one emerald.

How to Get a Creaking Heart in Minecraft (1.21.4)

Mine a hidden creaking heart from inside a pale oak trunk in the pale garden with Silk Touch - or craft one from two pale oak logs and a block of resin.

How to Get Eyeblossoms in Minecraft (1.21.4)

Pick eyeblossoms in the pale garden - they open at night showing a glowing eye and close by day.

How to Get Resin Bricks in Minecraft (1.21.4)

Smelt resin clumps into resin bricks, then craft four into the resin bricks block - an orange building block with slabs, stairs, walls and a chiseled variant.

How to Get a Sculk Sensor in Minecraft

Mine sculk sensors in the deep dark and ancient cities with a Silk Touch hoe - without Silk Touch they drop only experience.

How to Get a Torchflower in Minecraft (1.20)

Torchflowers come from torchflower seeds, which only a sniffer can dig up.

How to Get a Pitcher Plant in Minecraft (1.20)

Pitcher plants grow from pitcher pods, which only a sniffer can dig up.

How to Make a Calibrated Sculk Sensor in Minecraft (1.20)

Craft a calibrated sculk sensor from 1 sculk sensor and 3 amethyst shards.

How to Find Ocean Ruins in Minecraft

Ocean ruins generate underwater in every ocean biome - sandstone ones in warm and lukewarm oceans, stone brick ones in cold and frozen oceans.

How to Make Wolf Armor in Minecraft (1.20.5)

Craft wolf armor from six armadillo scutes in a helmet-shaped pattern.

How to Make a Decorated Pot in Minecraft (1.20)

Craft a decorated pot from any four pottery sherds and bricks in a diamond pattern - each item you use becomes one face of the pot.

How to Find Trail Ruins in Minecraft (1.20)

Trail ruins hide almost fully buried in taigas, snowy taigas, old growth forests and jungles - only the tip of a colored terracotta tower pokes out.

How to Find a Desert Temple in Minecraft

Desert temples (pyramids) generate in desert biomes.

How to Find an Igloo in Minecraft

Igloos generate in snowy taigas, snowy plains and rarely snowy slopes.

How to Find a Jungle Temple in Minecraft

Jungle temples (pyramids) hide in jungle biomes, built of cobblestone and mossy cobblestone.

How to Find a Swamp Hut in Minecraft (Witch Hut)

Swamp huts - witch huts - generate in swamp biomes.

How to Find a Mineshaft in Minecraft

Mineshafts are the most common structure in the Overworld - 3x3 tunnel networks underground in any biome except the deep dark.

How to Find a Fossil in Minecraft

Fossils are giant buried skeletons of bone blocks that rarely generate in deserts, swamps and mangrove swamps.

How to Find a Pillager Outpost in Minecraft

Pillager outposts are watchtower camps that generate in plains, desert, savanna, taiga, snowy and mountain biomes.

How to Find a Dungeon (Monster Room) in Minecraft

Dungeons - officially monster rooms - are small cobblestone rooms underground with a zombie, skeleton or spider spawner and up to two loot chests.

How to Make a Respawn Anchor in Minecraft

Craft 6 crying obsidian + 3 glowstone into a respawn anchor, place it in the Nether and feed it up to 4 glowstone blocks - each charge revives you once.

How to Make a Lodestone in Minecraft

Craft 8 chiseled stone bricks around 1 iron ingot - the recipe used to cost a netherite ingot but was made cheap in the Spring to Life update.

How to Get Horse Armor in Minecraft (All 6 Tiers)

Horse armor comes in 6 tiers: leather you craft, copper/iron/gold/diamond you loot from structure chests, and netherite you smith from diamond horse armor.

How to Trade with Villagers in Minecraft

Give an unemployed villager a job site block (lectern, composter, blast furnace.

How to Fish in Minecraft (Treasure, Enchantments and Loot)

Craft a fishing rod (3 sticks + 2 string), cast into any water, and reel in when the bobber dips.

How to Get Glow Ink Sacs in Minecraft

Kill glow squids - the glowing mobs that spawn in total darkness underwater, usually in aquifers and cave lakes.

How to Make Arrows in Minecraft

Craft flint + stick + feather in a vertical line for 4 arrows.

How to Make a Fire Charge in Minecraft

Craft blaze powder + coal or charcoal + gunpowder anywhere in the grid for 3 fire charges.

How to Make a Chiseled Bookshelf in Minecraft

Craft 6 planks + 3 wooden slabs: planks on the top and bottom rows, slabs across the middle.

How to Get a Spore Blossom in Minecraft

Spore blossoms hang only from lush cave ceilings and cannot be farmed or multiplied - every single one must be picked by hand from a lush cave.

How to Make a Candle in Minecraft

Craft string over honeycomb for a candle, then combine it with any dye for one of 16 colors.

How to Make Tipped Arrows in Minecraft

Surround 1 lingering potion with 8 arrows on the crafting table for 8 tipped arrows of that effect.

How to Make a Hanging Sign in Minecraft

Craft 2 iron chains + 6 matching stripped logs (or stripped stems, or blocks of stripped bamboo) for 6 hanging signs.

How to Get Apples in Minecraft

Break or let decay oak and dark oak leaves - each leaf block has a 0.

How to Make a Beehive in Minecraft

Craft a beehive with 6 planks of any wood (top and bottom rows) around 3 honeycombs in the middle row.

How to Breed Frogs in Minecraft

Feed one slimeball to each of two frogs.

How to Get a Turtle Shell in Minecraft

Craft a turtle shell from 5 turtle scutes in a helmet pattern (3 across the top, one on each side).

How to Start a Raid in Minecraft

Drink an ominous bottle dropped by a raid captain to get Bad Omen, then walk into a village.

How to Make a Lightning Rod in Minecraft

Craft a lightning rod from 3 copper ingots in a vertical line.

How to Get a Goat Horn in Minecraft

Goat horns drop when an adult goat rams a solid block: stand still near a tree or stone block until a goat charges, then dodge.

How to Carve a Pumpkin in Minecraft

Place a pumpkin down and use shears on it - it becomes a carved pumpkin and drops pumpkin seeds (4 in Java, 1 in Bedrock).

How to Make a Jack o'Lantern in Minecraft

Craft a jack o'lantern from a carved pumpkin and a torch.

How to Breed Chickens in Minecraft

Feed any kind of seeds - wheat, melon, pumpkin, beetroot or torchflower seeds, or pitcher pods - to two chickens.

How to Make Copper Tools in Minecraft

Copper tools use the standard patterns with copper ingots: pickaxe (3 ingots + 2 sticks), axe (3 + 2), shovel (1 + 2), hoe (2 + 2) and sword (2 + 1).

How to Make Copper Armor in Minecraft

Craft copper armor with the standard recipes and copper ingots: helmet 5, chestplate 8, leggings 7, boots 4 - 24 ingots for the full set.

How to Make Suspicious Stew in Minecraft

Craft suspicious stew shapeless: a bowl, a red mushroom, a brown mushroom and any small flower.

How to Repair Elytra in Minecraft

Repair elytra in an anvil with phantom membranes - each membrane restores 25% of durability (108 points).

How to Get Glow Berries in Minecraft

Glow berries grow on cave vines hanging in lush caves - right-click a berry-bearing vine to harvest without breaking it.

How to Make Bamboo Blocks in Minecraft

Craft a block of bamboo from 9 bamboo, then turn it into bamboo planks (2 per block), stairs, slabs, doors and the bamboo mosaic (2 bamboo slabs vertically).

How to Make Mushroom Stew in Minecraft

Craft mushroom stew from a bowl, a red mushroom and a brown mushroom - or skip crafting entirely and milk a mooshroom with a bowl for endless free stew.

How to Find Mushroom Fields in Minecraft

Mushroom fields generate as rare islands in deep oceans, almost always far from continents.

How to Make Pumpkin Pie in Minecraft

Craft pumpkin pie shapeless from a pumpkin, sugar and an egg - no furnace needed.

How to Make a Golden Carrot in Minecraft

Surround a carrot with 8 gold nuggets on the crafting table.

How to Make a Glistering Melon Slice in Minecraft

Surround a melon slice with 8 gold nuggets to craft a glistering melon slice.

How to Tame a Cat in Minecraft

Hold raw cod or raw salmon, stand still near a stray cat and let it come to you, then feed it fish until hearts appear.

How to Tame a Wolf in Minecraft

Feed bones to a wild wolf - each bone has a 1 in 3 chance - until hearts appear and it gets a red collar.

How to Tame a Parrot in Minecraft

Feed any seeds (wheat, melon, pumpkin, beetroot, torchflower or pitcher pod) to a jungle parrot - each feeding has a 1 in 10 chance - until hearts appear.

How to Tame a Horse in Minecraft

Mount the horse with an empty hand over and over until it stops bucking you off and hearts appear.

How to Tame a Fox in Minecraft

You cannot tame an adult fox - instead, breed two wild foxes with sweet berries or glow berries.

How to Tame an Ocelot in Minecraft

Since 1.

How to Tame a Llama in Minecraft

Mount the llama with an empty hand repeatedly until hearts appear - no saddle needed or possible.

How to Get a Name Tag in Minecraft

Craft a name tag with 1 paper and 1 nugget of any kind (iron, gold or copper): paper in the bottom-left slot, nugget in the center.

How to Make Rabbit Stew in Minecraft

Combine cooked rabbit, a carrot, a baked potato, any mushroom and a bowl to make rabbit stew - the most filling craftable food in the game at 10 hunger and 12 saturation.

How to Tame an Axolotl in Minecraft

Axolotls cannot be tamed like wolves, but they follow any player holding a bucket of tropical fish and fight for you in water - granting Regeneration and clearing Mining Fatigue when they help you kill a mob.

How to Make a Map in Minecraft

Surround a compass with 8 paper to craft an empty locator map, then use it to record the terrain around you.

How to Ride a Camel in Minecraft

Camels are naturally tame - no taming needed.

How to Find a Ruined Portal in Minecraft

Ruined portals generate in every biome in both the Overworld and the Nether - the only structure in two dimensions.

How to Make Beetroot Soup in Minecraft

Combine 6 beetroots with a bowl to make beetroot soup - 6 hunger and 7.

How to Get a Trident in Minecraft

Tridents cannot be crafted.

How to Make and Activate a Conduit in Minecraft

Craft a conduit from 8 nautilus shells around a heart of the sea, place it underwater, and surround it with 16-42 prismarine-type blocks.

How to Get a Heart of the Sea in Minecraft

The heart of the sea is found only in buried treasure chests.

How to Find a Shipwreck in Minecraft

Shipwrecks generate in oceans and on beaches, sometimes even inland or in ice.

How to Hatch a Dragon Egg

You can't - in vanilla Minecraft the dragon egg is purely a decorative trophy and there is no way to hatch it.

How to Make an End Portal

In Survival you can't craft one - End portal frames are unobtainable, so you must find and fill the portal in a stronghold.

How to Use a Beacon

Place the beacon on a mineral block pyramid, open its GUI and insert an iron, gold, emerald, diamond or netherite ingot/gem to choose a power.

How to Get Level 30 Enchantments

Use 15 active bookshelves around an enchanting table, at table height or one block higher, with a one-block gap.

How to Make an Anvil

Craft an anvil with 3 blocks of iron and 4 iron ingots - 31 ingots total: iron blocks across the top row, one ingot in the center, three ingots along the bottom.

How to Make a Mob Farm

Build a dark room high in the air (or over the ocean) with spawning platforms and water channels that flush mobs into a central drop chute.

How to Make an Iron Farm

Trap 3 villagers with beds and workstations, place a zombie where they can see it but not reach it, and the panicking villagers summon iron golems.

How to Grow Wheat

Till grass or dirt next to water with a hoe (water hydrates farmland up to 4 blocks away), plant seeds from breaking tall grass, and wait - wheat grows through 8 stages in light level 9 or higher.

How to Use Redstone

Redstone dust carries power up to 15 blocks from a source (lever, button, pressure plate, redstone torch) to a mechanism (door, piston, lamp, dispenser).

How to Make a Piston Door

The classic 2x2 flush piston door uses 4 sticky pistons (two per side, facing inward) that pull 2 wall blocks aside when you step on pressure plates.

How to Make a Redstone Clock

The easiest redstone clock is a repeater loop: 2 or more repeaters wired in a circle with a lever to start it, pulsing forever.

How to Use a Redstone Repeater in Minecraft

A redstone repeater does four jobs: it refreshes a fading signal back to full strength 15, works as a one-way diode (signals only pass from back to front), adds an adjustable delay of 0.

How to Use a Redstone Comparator in Minecraft

A redstone comparator has two modes.

How to Use an Observer in Minecraft

An observer watches the block directly in front of its face.

How to Make an Item Sorter in Minecraft

An item sorter uses a hopper filled with exactly 41 of the target item plus 4 single filler items, a comparator reading that hopper, and a redstone torch that locks a second hopper below.

How to Make a Flying Machine in Minecraft

A flying machine is a self-moving engine: two observers facing into each other, each backed by a sticky piston, linked by slime blocks.

How to Make a Sugar Cane Farm in Minecraft

Plant sugar cane on dirt or sand next to water and it grows one block every 18 minutes on average, up to 3 tall.

How to Make a Creeper Farm in Minecraft

A creeper farm spawns creepers in a dark room with a trapdoor ceiling - exactly short enough that zombies and skeletons cannot spawn but creepers can - then flushes them with water to a kill zone.

How to Make a Gold Farm in Minecraft

A gold farm mass-produces zombified piglins and funnels them to a kill zone for nuggets, ingots and XP.

How to Make an XP Farm in Minecraft

The strongest XP farm is an enderman farm in the End: endermen are dropped 43 blocks so a fall leaves them on half a heart, then you finish each one in a single hit.

How to Make a Raid Farm in Minecraft

A raid farm triggers raids against a controlled "village" - often a single villager with a bed and a job block - and funnels every wave into a kill zone.

How to Make a Bamboo Farm in Minecraft

Plant bamboo on almost any dirt-like block - no water needed - and it rockets up: about one block per 68 seconds on Java, up to 12-16 blocks tall.

How to Make a Villager Breeder in Minecraft

Villagers breed on their own when three things line up: spare beds (more beds than villagers), enough food in their pockets (12 food points: 3 bread, or 12 carrots, potatoes or beetroots each), and 2 full blocks of air above every bed.

How to Cure a Zombie Villager in Minecraft

Give a zombie villager Weakness, then use a regular golden apple on it.

How to Make a Shield in Minecraft

Craft a shield with 6 planks and 1 iron ingot: fill the left and right columns with planks, put the iron in the top middle and planks in the center and bottom middle.

How to Make a Crossbow in Minecraft

Craft a crossbow with 3 sticks, 2 string, 1 iron ingot and 1 tripwire hook.

How to Beat the Warden in Minecraft

The honest answer: the warden is designed to be avoided, not fought - 500 HP, melee that two-shots netherite armor, and a sonic boom that ignores armor, shields and enchantments entirely.

How to Get Smite in Minecraft

Smite goes on swords, axes, spears and maces, and adds 2.

How to Get Riptide in Minecraft

Riptide is a trident enchantment that launches YOU when you throw the trident in water or rain - the trident never leaves your hand.

How to Get Channeling in Minecraft

Channeling, maximum I, summons lightning when a thrown trident hits a qualifying target during a thunderstorm with unobstructed sky above it.

How to Get Loyalty in Minecraft

Loyalty is a trident enchantment (max level III) that makes the thrown trident fly back to your hand after it lands.

How to Get Impaling in Minecraft

Impaling, maximum V, adds 2.

How to Get Multishot in Minecraft

Multishot is a crossbow enchantment (max level I) that fires 3 projectiles in a 10° spread for the price of one arrow.

How to Get Piercing in Minecraft

Piercing is a crossbow enchantment (max level IV) that lets arrows fly through multiple mobs in a line - level+1 entities per shot - and they are not consumed, so you can pick them back up.

How to Get Quick Charge in Minecraft

Quick Charge is a crossbow enchantment (max level III) that cuts loading time by 0.

How to Get Luck of the Sea in Minecraft

Luck of the Sea, up to III, raises the treasure category from 5% to about 11.

How to Get Lure in Minecraft

Lure is a fishing rod enchantment (max level III) that cuts the wait between bites by 5 seconds per level.

How to Get Frost Walker in Minecraft

Frost Walker is a boot enchantment (max level II) that freezes water into frosted ice under your feet as you walk, and makes you immune to magma block and campfire damage.

How to Get Flame in Minecraft

Flame is a bow enchantment (max level I) that sets your arrows on fire: targets burn for 5 fire damage over 5 seconds after the hit.

How to Get Fire Protection in Minecraft

Fire Protection is an armor enchantment (max level IV) that cuts fire damage - fire, lava, magma blocks, campfires, blaze shots, flaming arrows - by 8% per level, and shortens burn time by 15% per level.

How to Get Blast Protection in Minecraft

Blast Protection is an armor enchantment (max level IV) that cuts explosion damage by 8% per level - creepers, TNT, ghast fireballs, beds in the Nether, end crystals, wither skulls, even firework rockets - and in Java adds 15% explosion knockback resistance per level.

How to Get Projectile Protection in Minecraft

Projectile Protection is an armor enchantment (max level IV) that cuts projectile damage by 8% per level: arrows, thrown tridents, shulker bullets, llama spit, blaze fireballs and wind charges.

How to Get Density in Minecraft

Density is a mace-only enchantment, up to V.

How to Get Breach in Minecraft

Breach is a mace-only enchantment, up to IV.

How to Get Sweeping Edge in Minecraft

Sweeping Edge is a Java Edition sword enchantment (max level III) that boosts sweep attack damage to 50%/67%/75% of your sword's damage against surrounding mobs.

How to Get Bane of Arthropods in Minecraft

Bane of Arthropods is a weapon enchantment (max level V) that adds 2.

How to Get Curse of Binding in Minecraft

Curse of Binding is a treasure enchantment (level I only) that locks an item into your armor slot - you cannot take it off until you die, the item breaks, or you enter Creative mode.

How to Get Curse of Vanishing in Minecraft

Curse of Vanishing is a treasure enchantment (level I only) that makes the item disappear forever when you die - no death drop, no corpse run.

How to Breed Axolotls in Minecraft (Blue Axolotl Guide)

Feed two axolotls a bucket of tropical fish each and they enter love mode: a baby spawns with 1-7 XP.

How to Make a Banner in Minecraft (Loom Guide)

Craft a banner with 6 matching wool + 1 stick, then use a loom (2 string + 2 planks) with dyes to add patterns - up to 6 layers in survival.

How to Use a Bundle in Minecraft (Inventory Guide)

Craft a bundle with 1 string on top of 1 leather.

How to Use a Crafter in Minecraft (Autocrafting Guide)

The crafter crafts automatically every time it receives a redstone pulse.

How to Get Blue Ice in Minecraft (Fastest Ice)

Mine blue ice with any Silk Touch tool (a pickaxe is fastest) - without Silk Touch it drops nothing.

How to Use a Brush in Minecraft (Archaeology Guide)

Craft a brush with a feather on top, a copper ingot in the middle and a stick on the bottom.

How to Tame an Allay in Minecraft (Find, Befriend & Duplicate)

Allays cannot be tamed like a wolf, but giving one any item (use it on the allay) makes it follow you and fetch dropped copies of that item.

How to Use the Mace in Minecraft (Smash Attack Guide)

Fall at least 1.

How to Make Mud Bricks in Minecraft

Craft packed mud from 1 mud + 1 wheat, then craft 4 packed mud into 4 mud bricks.

How to Find the Deep Dark in Minecraft

The deep dark is a sculk-covered cave biome in the deepslate layer, usually under mountains (jagged, frozen and stony peaks are your best bet).

How to Get Pointed Dripstone in Minecraft

Mine pointed dripstone in dripstone caves with any tool (a pickaxe is fastest), or buy 2 for 1 emerald from wandering traders.

How to Make a Soul Torch in Minecraft

Craft 4 soul torches from coal or charcoal + a stick + soul sand or soul soil stacked vertically.

How to Get Pink Petals in Minecraft

Pink petals grow on the ground in cherry grove biomes - break them with anything (they drop one item per petal in the spot, up to 4).

How to Grow Glow Berries in Minecraft

Plant glow berries on the underside of any solid block and the cave vine grows downward - each new vine block has an 11% chance of carrying berries.

How to Get Calcite in Minecraft

Calcite forms the middle layer of amethyst geodes (between the smooth basalt shell and the amethyst core) and also generates in white strips across stony peaks mountains.

How to Get Tuff in Minecraft

Tuff generates in huge ore blobs below Y=0 - mine deep and you will hit entire caves of it.

How to Make Mud in Minecraft

Use a water bottle on any dirt, coarse dirt or rooted dirt block and it turns into mud.

How to Get the Bolt Armor Trim in Minecraft

Bolt armor trim smithing templates drop from standard vaults and chests in trial chambers.

How to Get Bad Omen in Minecraft

Since 1.

How to Grow a Mangrove Tree in Minecraft

Plant a mangrove propagule on dirt, mud, clay or a moss block - on land or underwater - and wait or use bone meal.

How to Make a Splash Potion in Minecraft

Add gunpowder to any regular potion in a brewing stand to turn it into its splash version - throwable, and it affects every entity near the impact.

How to Breed Sniffers in Minecraft

Feed torchflower seeds to two sniffers and they breed, laying a sniffer egg as an item.

How to Get a Saddle in Minecraft

Craft it: 3 leather + 1 iron ingot on a crafting table (since 1.

How to Ride a Strider in Minecraft

Put a saddle on an adult strider and steer it with a warped fungus on a stick (fishing rod + warped fungus).

How to Get a Spyglass in Minecraft

Craft it: 1 amethyst shard on top of 2 copper ingots in a vertical line.

How to Raid an Ocean Monument in Minecraft

Bring water breathing potions, night vision, good armor and milk.

How to Use Shulker Boxes in Minecraft

A shulker box is a portable chest: it keeps all 27 slots of items inside when you break it.

How to Hatch a Sniffer Egg in Minecraft

Place the sniffer egg on the ground and wait: it hatches in 20 minutes, or 10 minutes on a moss block.

How to Barter with Piglins in Minecraft

Throw a gold ingot at an adult piglin (or use it on them) and they examine it for 6 seconds, then throw back a random item: ender pearls, obsidian, fire resistance potions, quartz, soul speed books and more.

How to Raid Trial Chambers in Minecraft

Find trial chambers underground, activate trial spawners within 14 blocks and line of sight, defeat their waves and collect rewards such as food, potions and trial keys.

How to Raid an Ancient City in Minecraft

Sneak everything.

How to Get the Pigstep Music Disc in Minecraft

Pigstep only generates in bastion remnant chests.

How to Enchant Elytra in Minecraft

Elytra skip the enchanting table: use an anvil with enchanted books.

How to Get the Ward Armor Trim in Minecraft

Loot ancient city chests: the ward armor trim generates in most chest types there (everything except ice box chests).

How to Use a Smithing Table in Minecraft

Use a smithing table by placing a smithing template in the left slot, a tool or armor piece in the middle, and a material in the right slot.

How to Get the Silence Armor Trim in Minecraft

The silence armor trim is found in chests inside ancient cities in the deep dark, in most chest types except the ice box room chests.

How to Activate a Beacon in Minecraft

Activate a beacon by placing it on top of a pyramid built from iron, gold, emerald, diamond or netherite blocks, with a clear view of the sky.

How to Make a Brewing Stand in Minecraft

Craft a brewing stand with 1 blaze rod placed above 3 stone-tier blocks (cobblestone or any variant).

How to Make a Potion of Weakness in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Weakness by adding a fermented spider eye directly to a water bottle in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Strength in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Strength by adding blaze powder to an awkward potion (water bottle + nether wart) in a brewing stand.

How to Get Netherite Scrap in Minecraft

Get netherite scrap by mining ancient debris in the Nether (most common around Y=16) with a diamond or netherite pickaxe, then smelting it in a furnace.

How to Make a Potion of Fire Resistance in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Fire Resistance by adding magma cream to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Water Breathing by adding a pufferfish to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Slow Falling in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Slow Falling by adding a phantom membrane to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Night Vision in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Night Vision by adding a golden carrot to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Invisibility in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Invisibility by adding a fermented spider eye to a potion of Night Vision in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Swiftness in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Swiftness by adding sugar to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Healing in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Healing by adding a glistering melon slice to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Regeneration in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Regeneration by adding a ghast tear to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Leaping in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Leaping by adding a rabbit's foot to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Poison in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Poison by adding a spider eye to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Harming in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Harming by adding a fermented spider eye to a potion of Healing or Poison in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Slowness in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Slowness by adding a fermented spider eye to a potion of Swiftness or Leaping in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of the Turtle Master in Minecraft

Brew a potion of the Turtle Master by adding a turtle shell (the helmet crafted from 5 scutes) to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Wind Charging in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Wind Charging by adding a breeze rod to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Oozing in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Oozing by adding a slime block to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Infestation in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Infestation by adding a stone block to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Potion of Weaving in Minecraft

Brew a potion of Weaving by adding a cobweb to an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

How to Make a Smoker in Minecraft

Craft a smoker with a furnace surrounded by 4 of any logs, wood or stems (top, bottom, left and right).

How to Make a Blast Furnace in Minecraft

Craft a blast furnace with a furnace in the center, 5 iron ingots across the top row and sides, and 3 smooth stone along the bottom.

How to Make a Grindstone in Minecraft

Craft a grindstone with 2 sticks, 1 stone slab and 2 planks: sticks on the top sides, the slab between them, and the planks below the sticks.

How to Make a Stonecutter in Minecraft

Craft a stonecutter with one iron ingot above a row of three stone blocks.

How to Use an Anvil in Minecraft

Put the target item in the left anvil slot and a supported repair material, enchanted book or matching item in the second.

How to Make a Composter in Minecraft

Craft a composter with 7 wooden slabs of any type arranged in a U shape: fill the bottom row and both sides, leaving the top middle empty.

How to Make a Barrel in Minecraft

Craft a barrel with 6 planks of any type and 2 wooden slabs: planks filling both columns and the slab in the top and bottom middle slots.

How to Make a Lectern in Minecraft

Craft a lectern with 4 wooden slabs and 1 bookshelf: 3 slabs across the top row, the bookshelf in the center, and 1 slab below it.

How to Make a Cartography Table in Minecraft

Craft a cartography table with 2 paper on top of 4 planks: paper in the two top slots and a 2x2 square of planks below it.

How to Make a Loom in Minecraft

Craft a loom with 2 string over 2 planks: the two string side by side on top and the two planks directly below them.

How to Make a Cauldron in Minecraft

Craft a cauldron with 7 iron ingots in a U shape: fill the left and right columns and the bottom row.

How to Make a Bow in Minecraft

Craft a bow with 3 sticks in a bent shape: top-center, middle-left and bottom-center, plus 3 string down the right column.

How to Make a Lantern in Minecraft

Craft a lantern with 8 iron nuggets surrounding 1 torch.

How to Make a Bed in Minecraft

Craft a bed with 3 wool of the same color in the middle row and 3 planks of any type below it.

How to Make a Boat in Minecraft

Craft a boat with 5 matching planks in a U shape: 3 across the bottom row and 1 on each side of the middle row.

How to Make a Bucket in Minecraft

Craft a bucket with 3 iron ingots in a V shape: one in the middle-left, one in the middle-right, and one in the bottom-center.

How to Make a Book in Minecraft

Craft a book with 3 paper and 1 leather placed anywhere in the crafting grid: the recipe is shapeless.

How to Make a Chain in Minecraft

Craft an iron chain with 2 iron nuggets and 1 iron ingot in a vertical line: nugget on top, ingot in the middle, nugget on the bottom.

How to Make a Clock in Minecraft

Craft a clock with 4 gold ingots around 1 redstone dust: gold on the top, sides, and bottom, redstone in the center.

How to Make a Glass Bottle in Minecraft

Craft 3 glass bottles with 3 glass blocks in a V shape: one on the middle-left, one on the middle-right, one in the bottom-center.

How to Make a Redstone Torch in Minecraft

Craft a redstone torch with 1 redstone dust directly above 1 stick.

How to Make a Lever in Minecraft

Craft a lever with 1 stick directly above 1 cobblestone.

How to Make a Tripwire Hook in Minecraft

Craft 2 tripwire hooks with 1 iron ingot, 1 stick, and 1 plank in a vertical line.

How to Make a Daylight Detector in Minecraft

Craft a daylight detector with 3 glass on top, 3 nether quartz in the middle, and 3 wooden slabs on the bottom.

How to Make a Button in Minecraft

Craft a button with a single plank (wooden button) or a single stone block (stone button) anywhere in the crafting grid.

How to Make a Pressure Plate in Minecraft

Craft a pressure plate with 2 matching blocks side by side: 2 planks for a wooden plate, 2 stone for a stone plate, 2 iron ingots for a heavy weighted plate, or 2 gold ingots for a light weighted plate.

How to Make a Target Block in Minecraft

Craft a target block with 1 hay bale surrounded by 4 redstone dust (top, bottom, left, right).

How to Make a Minecart in Minecraft

Craft a minecart with 5 iron ingots: 2 in the middle sides and 3 across the bottom row, forming a U.

How to Make Rails in Minecraft

Craft 16 rails with 6 iron ingots in two columns and 1 stick in the center.

How to Make Powered Rails in Minecraft

Craft 6 powered rails with 6 gold ingots in two columns, 1 stick in the center, and 1 redstone dust at the bottom-center.

How to Make Detector Rails in Minecraft

Craft 6 detector rails with 6 iron ingots in two columns, a stone pressure plate in the center, and redstone dust below it.

How to Make Activator Rails in Minecraft

Craft 6 activator rails with 6 iron ingots in two columns, 2 sticks in the center column, and a redstone torch in the middle.

How to Make a Trapped Chest in Minecraft

Craft a trapped chest with 1 chest and 1 tripwire hook anywhere in the crafting grid.

How to Make a Shulker Box in Minecraft

Craft a shulker box with 2 shulker shells and 1 chest in a vertical line: shell on top, chest in the middle, shell on the bottom.

How to Make a Smithing Table in Minecraft

Craft a smithing table with 2 iron ingots and 4 planks of any wood: the 2 ingots in the top-left and top-middle slots, and the 4 planks in the two columns below them.

How to Make Netherite Armor in Minecraft

You cannot craft netherite armor directly: upgrade each piece of diamond armor at a smithing table with 1 Netherite Upgrade smithing template (from bastion remnants) and 1 netherite ingot.

How to Make Stone Bricks in Minecraft

Craft 4 stone bricks from 4 stone in a 2x2 square on a crafting table, or put 1 stone in a stonecutter for 1 stone brick.

How to Make a Torch in Minecraft

Craft 4 torches with 1 coal (or charcoal) on top of 1 stick anywhere in the crafting grid.

How to Make an Item Frame in Minecraft

Craft an item frame with 8 sticks around 1 leather on a crafting table.

How to Make a Painting in Minecraft

Craft a painting with 8 sticks around 1 wool of any color on a crafting table.

How to Make an Armor Stand in Minecraft

Craft an armor stand with 6 sticks and 1 smooth stone slab: sticks in the full top row, one stick in the middle, and the smooth stone slab in the bottom-center slot with sticks on either side.

How to Make a Sign in Minecraft

Craft 3 signs with 6 matching planks filling the top two rows and 1 stick in the bottom-center slot.

How to Make a Ladder in Minecraft

Craft 3 ladders with 7 sticks: fill the left and right columns with sticks and put the last stick in the center of the middle row.

How to Make a Door in Minecraft

Craft 3 wooden doors with 6 matching planks in two full columns on a crafting table.

How to Make a Fence in Minecraft

Craft 3 wooden fences with 4 matching planks and 2 sticks: planks in the left and right slots of the middle and bottom rows, sticks down the center.

How to Make a Fence Gate in Minecraft

Craft a fence gate with 4 sticks and 2 matching planks: sticks in the left and right slots of the middle and bottom rows, planks in the two center slots.

How to Make a Trapdoor in Minecraft

Craft 2 wooden trapdoors with 6 matching planks filling two rows of the crafting grid.

How to Make a Book and Quill in Minecraft

Craft a book and quill shapelessly with 1 book, 1 ink sac and 1 feather anywhere in the crafting grid.

How to Make a Soul Campfire in Minecraft

Craft a soul campfire with 3 sticks, 1 soul sand (or soul soil) and 3 logs: stick on top, two sticks flanking the soul sand in the middle row, logs along the bottom.

How to Make a Netherite Sword in Minecraft

You cannot craft a netherite sword directly: upgrade a diamond sword at a smithing table with 1 Netherite Upgrade smithing template (from bastion remnants) and 1 netherite ingot.

How to Make a Sea Lantern in Minecraft

Craft a sea lantern with 4 prismarine shards and 5 prismarine crystals: crystals in the center and the four edge-midpoints, shards in the corners.

How to Make an End Crystal in Minecraft

Craft an end crystal with 7 glass, 1 eye of ender and 1 ghast tear: glass filling every slot except the center (eye of ender) and the bottom-middle (ghast tear).

How to Make Cookies in Minecraft

Craft 8 cookies with 2 wheat and 1 cocoa bean in a horizontal line: wheat, cocoa bean, wheat.

How to Make a Pickaxe in Minecraft

Craft a pickaxe with 3 of your material (planks, cobblestone, iron, gold or diamond) across the top row and 2 sticks down the center column.

How to Make an Axe in Minecraft

Craft an axe with 3 of your material (planks, cobblestone, iron, gold or diamond) and 2 sticks: two material pieces in the top-left and top-middle, one below them in the middle-left, and sticks down the center column.

How to Make a Shovel in Minecraft

Craft a shovel with 1 of your material (planks, cobblestone, iron, gold or diamond) in the top-center slot and 2 sticks below it in the center column.

How to Make a Hoe in Minecraft

Craft a hoe with 2 of your material (planks, cobblestone, iron, gold or diamond) in the top-left and top-middle slots and 2 sticks down the center column.

How to Make a Sword in Minecraft

Craft a sword with 2 of your material (planks, cobblestone, iron, gold or diamond) stacked in the center column and 1 stick at the bottom.

How to Make a Helmet in Minecraft

Craft a helmet with 5 of your material (leather, iron, gold or diamond): fill the top row and place one piece in the middle-left and middle-right slots, like an upside-down U.

How to Make a Chestplate in Minecraft

Craft a chestplate with 8 of your material (leather, iron, gold or diamond): fill every slot of the crafting grid except the top-middle one.

How to Make Leggings in Minecraft

Craft leggings with 7 of your material (leather, iron, gold or diamond): fill the top row completely, then the left and right slots of the middle and bottom rows, like a pair of pants.

How to Make Boots in Minecraft

Craft boots with 4 of your material (leather, iron, gold or diamond): one piece in the middle-left and middle-right slots, and one in the bottom-left and bottom-right slots, like two shoes.

How to Make Sticks in Minecraft

Craft 4 sticks with 2 planks of any wood stacked vertically in the crafting grid, or 1 stick with 2 bamboo.

How to Make Sugar in Minecraft

Craft sugar by placing 1 sugar cane anywhere in the crafting grid: each cane makes 1 sugar, no crafting table needed.

How to Make a Note Block in Minecraft

Craft a note block with 8 planks of any wood surrounding 1 redstone dust in the center.

How to Make Armor in Minecraft

Craft a full armor set with 24 units of one material: helmet (5), chestplate (8), leggings (7) and boots (4).

How to Make a Fermented Spider Eye in Minecraft

Craft it shapelessly from 1 spider eye, 1 brown mushroom and 1 sugar placed anywhere in the crafting grid.

How to Spawn the Wither in Minecraft

Build a T shape with 4 soul sand or soul soil blocks and place 3 wither skeleton skulls on top - the last block placed must be a skull.

How to Make Glass Panes in Minecraft

Craft 16 glass panes from 6 glass blocks filling the bottom two rows of the crafting grid.

How to Make Bricks in Minecraft

Smelt clay balls in a regular furnace to make brick items, then put four brick items in a 2×2 square to make one brick block.

How to Use an Enchanted Book in Minecraft

Place the item and the enchanted book in an anvil: the item goes in the left slot, the book in the middle, and you pay the XP level cost shown on the right.

How to Make Blaze Powder in Minecraft

Put 1 blaze rod anywhere in the crafting grid to get 2 blaze powder.

How to Make Terracotta in Minecraft

Smelt a clay block in a furnace to get terracotta.

How to Make Stone in Minecraft

Smelt cobblestone in a furnace to get stone: 1 cobblestone plus any fuel gives 1 stone.

How to Get Crying Obsidian in Minecraft

Crying obsidian cannot be crafted.

How to Repair Tools in Minecraft

Combine matching damaged tools in a crafting grid or grindstone for a free repair that removes non-curse enchantments.

How to Make a Cobblestone Generator in Minecraft

Place water and lava so flowing water touches a lava source from the side: where they meet, cobblestone forms instantly and forever.

How to Breed Bees in Minecraft

Give any flower to two adult bees: hold the flower, right-click each bee, and they enter love mode and produce a baby bee.

How to Make a Honey Farm in Minecraft

The safe automatic design: bees fill a bee nest or beehive to honey level 5, an observer watches the block and fires a dispenser holding glass bottles (for honey bottles) or shears (for honeycomb).

How to Make a Soul Lantern in Minecraft

Craft a soul lantern with 8 iron nuggets around 1 soul torch.

How to Dye Wool in Minecraft

Two ways: craft 1 white wool with 1 dye anywhere in the grid for 1 colored wool, or right-click a live sheep with dye to recolor it permanently - sheared dyed sheep regrow their new color forever, giving infinite colored wool.

How to Make Dyes in Minecraft (All 16 Colors)

All 16 dyes come from flowers, plants, sea creatures, smelting, or mixing two other dyes.

How to Breed Animals in Minecraft (All Foods)

Hold the right food and right-click two adults of the same species: they enter love mode and produce a baby.

How to Ride a Horse in Minecraft

Tame the horse by mounting it repeatedly until hearts appear, then open its inventory and equip a saddle.

How to Get Flint in Minecraft

Break gravel blocks: each gravel has a 10% chance to drop flint instead of itself.

How to Get Feathers in Minecraft

Kill chickens: each drops 0-2 feathers (0-5 with Looting III), with a 66.

How to Open a Vault in Minecraft

Use a trial key on a vault block inside trial chambers: hold the key and interact with the vault to make it eject loot.

How to Use a Name Tag in Minecraft

Rename the name tag on an anvil first (1 experience level renames a whole stack), then use it on a mob.

How to Get Turtle Eggs in Minecraft

Breed two turtles with seagrass: one swims back to its home beach and lays 1-4 eggs in the sand.

How to Breed Wolves in Minecraft

Tame two adult wolves, make sure both are standing and at full health, then feed each a piece of meat.

How to Breed Cats in Minecraft

Tame two cats and feed each raw cod or raw salmon.

How to Breed Pigs in Minecraft

Feed a carrot, potato or beetroot to each of two pigs to put them in love mode.

How to Breed Cows in Minecraft

Feed wheat to each of two cows to put them in love mode.

How to Breed Sheep in Minecraft

Feed wheat to each of two sheep to put them in love mode.

How to Breed Rabbits in Minecraft

Feed carrots, golden carrots or dandelions to each of two rabbits.

How to Breed Pandas in Minecraft

Feed bamboo to each of two pandas - but they only breed with growing bamboo nearby: at least 1 bamboo plant within 7x7x3 blocks in Java, or at least 8 bamboo plants within 5 blocks in Bedrock.

How to Breed Foxes in Minecraft

Feed sweet berries or glow berries to each of two foxes.

How to Breed Striders in Minecraft

Feed warped fungus to each of two striders.

How to Breed Hoglins in Minecraft

Feed crimson fungus to each of two hoglins.

How to Breed Llamas in Minecraft

Feed a hay bale to each of two tamed llamas.

How to Breed Goats in Minecraft

Feed wheat to each of two goats.

How to Breed Armadillos in Minecraft

Feed a spider eye to each of two armadillos.

How to Breed Camels in Minecraft

Feed cactus to each of two camels.

How to Breed Donkeys in Minecraft

Feed a golden apple, enchanted golden apple or golden carrot to each of two tamed donkeys.

How to Breed Ocelots in Minecraft

Feed raw cod or raw salmon to each of two ocelots.

How to Get Chorus Fruit in Minecraft

Break chorus plants on the End's outer islands: every chorus plant block has a 50% chance to drop a chorus fruit.

How to Find and Use an End Gateway in Minecraft

End gateways appear floating around the End's central island each time you kill the ender dragon - up to 20 per world.

How to Get a Dragon Head in Minecraft

Dragon heads generate on the bow of End ships, the flying structures next to some End cities.

How to Make an End Rod in Minecraft

Craft 4 end rods from 1 blaze rod and 1 popped chorus fruit (chorus fruit smelted in a furnace).

How to Make Purpur Blocks in Minecraft

Smelt chorus fruit into popped chorus fruit, then craft 4 of them in a 2x2 square to get 4 purpur blocks.

How to Make Lingering Potions in Minecraft

Brew dragon's breath into any splash potion to get its lingering version: when thrown, it leaves an effect cloud on the ground for 30 seconds that applies the effect to anything that walks through it.

How to Make Spectral Arrows in Minecraft

Surround 1 arrow with 4 glowstone dust in a crafting table to get 2 spectral arrows (Java Edition only).

How to Get a Command Block in Minecraft

Command blocks cannot be crafted - get one with cheats enabled using /give @s command_block, or in Java's Creative inventory under Operator Utilities when the Operator Items Tab setting is on.

How to Make a Circle in Minecraft (Any Diameter)

Minecraft has no round blocks, so circles are built by hand from a pixel pattern: pick a diameter, place the pattern for one quarter, mirror it to the other three, and fill or leave hollow.

How to Allocate More RAM to Minecraft (Java)

In the Minecraft Launcher go to Installations, edit your installation, open More Options and change the -Xmx value in JVM Arguments (for example -Xmx4G for 4 GB).

How to Change Your Minecraft Name (Java and Bedrock)

Java: sign in at minecraft.

How to Make a Water Elevator in Minecraft

Build a 1x1 water column of source blocks, then swap the floor block: soul sand makes a bubble column that blasts you upward, and a magma block makes a whirlpool that pulls you down.

How to Teleport in Minecraft (Commands and Survival)

With cheats on, open chat and run /tp @s X Y Z to teleport to coordinates, or /tp @s PlayerName to jump to another player.

How to Find Your Way Home in Minecraft

Write down your base coordinates (F3 on Java, Show Coordinates on Bedrock) and navigate back to them.

How to Crawl in Minecraft (1-Block Spaces)

Crawling is automatic: close a trapdoor over yourself, or swim or fly into a 1-block-high gap, and your character drops to a 0.

How to Make Tinted Glass in Minecraft

Craft 1 glass block with 4 amethyst shards to get 2 tinted glass: a glass variant that blocks 100% of light while staying see-through.

How to Use a Lodestone in Minecraft

Craft a lodestone from 8 chiseled stone bricks + 1 iron ingot, place it at your base, and use a compass on it: that compass points to the lodestone from anywhere in the same dimension.

How to Hatch Turtle Eggs in Minecraft

Turtle eggs only hatch on sand, red sand or suspicious sand, and almost all progress happens at night - on average 4-5 nights, with 90% hatched within 7 nights.

How to Get a Bell in Minecraft

Bells cannot be crafted: steal one from a village meeting point with any pickaxe, find one in a ruined portal chest, or buy one from an armorer villager.

How to Make a Carpet in Minecraft

Place 2 wool of the same color side by side in a crafting grid to get 3 carpets of that color.

How to Make a Glow Item Frame in Minecraft

Combine 1 item frame with 1 glow ink sac anywhere in the crafting grid to get a glow item frame: a frame that makes the item inside it shine bright, visible in the dark.

How to Change Your Minecraft Skin (Java and Bedrock)

Java: upload a skin PNG at minecraft.

How to Get a Cape in Minecraft

Official capes cannot be crafted, bought or custom-made: Mojang grants them for events and promotions (event servers, Minecraft Live, migrations), and once a promotion ends the cape is gone forever.

How to Install Shaders in Minecraft (Java)

Install Iris (recommended) or OptiFine - both free - then drop a shader pack ZIP into the shaderpacks folder and enable it in Video Settings > Shaders.

How to Play Minecraft with Friends (Every Way)

Same edition required: Bedrock players add each other as Xbox friends and join from the Friends tab; Java players open their world to LAN or join the same server IP.

How to Back Up Your Minecraft World

Your world is a folder: Java keeps it in .

How to Update Minecraft (Every Platform)

Java updates itself through the launcher: just pick the Latest Release installation and play.

How to Make a Super Smelter (Auto Furnace)

A super smelter is a row of furnaces fed automatically: hoppers on top load items to smelt, hoppers on the side load fuel, and hoppers underneath pull the results into a chest.

How to Show Coordinates in Minecraft (Java and Bedrock)

Java: press F3 - your X, Y and Z are in the debug screen.

How to Install Mods in Minecraft (Java)

Java: install a mod loader (Fabric, Forge or NeoForge) from its official site, run the installer, drop the mod .

How to Install Texture Packs (Resource Packs)

Java: download the pack .

How to Make a Minecraft Server (Free)

Java, free: download the official server .

How to Install Minecraft Maps (Java and Bedrock)

Java: unzip the download and copy the world folder (the one containing level.

How to Find Your Minecraft World Seed

Java: run /seed in chat (needs cheats or operator).

How to Enable Cheats in Minecraft

New world: turn on Allow Commands (Java) or Activate Cheats (Bedrock) in the creation screen.

How to Keep Inventory When You Die

Run /gamerule keep_inventory true (needs cheats) and you keep your items and XP when you die.

How to Set Your Spawn Point in Minecraft

Sleep in a bed (Overworld) or click a charged respawn anchor (Nether) to set your respawn point.

How to Find Slime Chunks in Minecraft

Slimes spawn below Y=40 in special 'slime chunks' - about 1 in 10 chunks, regardless of light.

How to Play Older Versions of Minecraft

Java: Minecraft Launcher > Installations > New Installation > pick any version from the dropdown (back to the oldest alphas) and play it.

How to Take a Screenshot in Minecraft

Java: press F2 in-game - the screenshot saves to .

How to Install Datapacks in Minecraft (Java)

Java: drop the datapack .

How to Change Game Mode in Minecraft

Run /gamemode creative (or survival, adventure, spectator) with cheats on.

How to Change the Time in Minecraft

Run /time set day (or noon, night, midnight) with cheats on.

How to Change the Weather in Minecraft

Run /weather clear (or rain, thunder) with cheats on - add a duration in seconds, like /weather clear 1000000.

How to Join a Minecraft Server

Java: Multiplayer > Add Server, paste the server address and join.

How to Reduce Lag and Get More FPS in Minecraft

Java: lower render distance and graphics settings in Video Settings, close other apps, and install Sodium (Fabric) for the biggest FPS jump.

How to Change Difficulty in Minecraft

Run /difficulty peaceful (or easy, normal, hard) with cheats on - no cheats needed in Java singleplayer settings.

How to Make a Flat World (Superflat) in Minecraft

Java: Create New World > More > World Type: Superflat, then pick a preset (Classic Flat is the default).

How to Make Your Own Minecraft Skin

Draw or edit a 64x64 PNG in a free skin editor (Blockbench, The Skindex, NameMC), then upload it: Java via the launcher (Skins tab) or minecraft.

How to Zoom In Minecraft

Java: install OptiFine and hold C to zoom (free).

How to Find Where You Died in Minecraft

Craft a recovery compass (compass + 8 echo shards) - it points to your last death spot.

How to Install OptiFine (Java)

Download OptiFine free from optifine.

How to Transfer a Minecraft World (PC, Mobile, Between Editions)

Java: copy the world folder out of .

How to Link Nether Portals (Fast Travel)

The Nether is 1:8 with the Overworld: divide your Overworld X and Z by 8, build a portal at those Nether coordinates and light it - the two portals link.

How to Use the F3 Debug Screen (Java)

Press F3 in Java Edition to open the debug overlay: coordinates, biome, light level, FPS and chunk info.

How to Install Fabric (Java Mod Loader)

Download the Fabric installer free from fabricmc.

How to Record Minecraft Gameplay (Free)

Free on PC: install OBS Studio, add a Game Capture source for Minecraft and hit Start Recording.

How to Play Hardcore Mode in Minecraft

Create a new world and set Game Mode to Hardcore (Java: the creation screen; Bedrock: the world settings since 1.

How to Speedrun Minecraft (Beginner Any% Guide)

The Any% route: village or shipwreck start for food and beds, bucket early, build a nether portal with the bucket method, trade gold with piglins for ender pearls, get blaze rods, find the stronghold and kill the dragon with beds.

How to Use WorldEdit (Beginner Commands)

WorldEdit is a free mod/plugin: get the wooden axe with //wand, left-click one corner and right-click the opposite corner to select, then run commands like //set stone, //replace dirt stone, //copy and //paste.

How to Build a Good Starter House in Minecraft

Day-one house: 7x7 footprint, walls 4 blocks high, a door, torches inside and a roof - any wood or stone works.

How to Add Friends in Minecraft

Bedrock: add friends by their Xbox gamertag - pause > Invite to Game, or Profile > Add Friend.

How to Play Minecraft Cross-Platform (Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, Mobile, PC)

Bedrock crossplay: everyone on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, mobile and Windows 10/11 plays together - sign in with a free Microsoft account, add friends by gamertag and join their world.

How to Manage Your Minecraft Server (OP, Whitelist, Ban)

From the server console or as an operator: /op Name gives admin powers, /whitelist on plus /whitelist add Name locks the server to friends only, /ban Name and /kick Name remove troublemakers.

How to Play Minecraft on PC with a Controller

Bedrock on Windows: plug in an Xbox or PlayStation controller and it just works.

How to Survive Your First Night in Minecraft (Beginner Guide)

Your first day in 10 steps: punch trees for 20+ logs, make planks, a crafting table and wooden tools, upgrade to stone tools, dig a small shelter or build 4 walls before sunset, place torches and a door, and wait out the night.

How to Install Forge (Java Mod Loader)

Download the Forge installer free from files.

How to Mine Efficiently in Minecraft (Branch Mining and Cave Mining)

For diamonds, branch mine at Y=-59: a main tunnel with side branches every 2 blocks exposes the most ore per pickaxe.

How to Make an Infinite Water Source in Minecraft

Dig a 2x2 hole one block deep, place water in two opposite corners - the other two spots become sources too, and you can bucket water out forever.

25 Things to Do in Minecraft When You're Bored

Bored in Minecraft? Beat the Ender Dragon and the Wither, build a mega-base, start a redstone project, complete all advancements, raid an ancient city, collect every music disc, build a villager trading hall, or start a hardcore world - this list has 25 ideas with links.

How to Play Minecraft for Free (Official Ways Only)

Official free options: the Minecraft free trial on minecraft.

How to Build a Castle in Minecraft (Survival-Friendly Tutorial)

Survival castle: a 21x21 stone-brick keep, 4 corner towers 6 blocks higher, crenellated walls (alternating blocks), one gatehouse with a wooden door, and a courtyard.

How to Build a Modern House in Minecraft

Modern style in 5 rules: white concrete walls, big glass windows, flat roofs at 2-3 different heights, one accent material (wood or gray concrete), and clean landscaping.

How to Build a Treehouse in Minecraft

Pick a jungle or dark oak giant (or grow your own 2x2 spruce), build a platform around the trunk at mid-height, walls set back from the edge, a ladder or trapdoor entry, and rope bridges to neighbors.

How to Build a Secret Base in Minecraft (Hidden Entrances)

Three reliable hidden entrances: a painting over a 1x2 doorway (walk right through), a flush piston door behind a waterfall, and a fake floor under a carpet with a trapdoor.

How to Build a Lighthouse in Minecraft

Classic lighthouse: a striped tower 5x5 at the base tapering to 3x3, 20-30 blocks tall, red-and-white (or black-and-white) bands every 4 blocks, a glass lamp room on top with a sea lantern or beacon inside.

How to Build a Greenhouse in Minecraft

Greenhouse recipe: a wood frame, glass walls and a glass gable roof, farmland rows inside with water channels, hanging lanterns, and flowers or crops.

How to Build a Medieval House in Minecraft

Medieval timber-frame recipe: stone foundation, white walls (white concrete or plaster), a dark oak beam frame on the outside, a steep spruce roof, and an overhanging upper floor.

How to Build a Japanese House in Minecraft

Japanese style: a raised wooden platform, dark spruce frame, white walls, a wide curved roof of dark slabs that lifts at the corners, and sliding-door walls.

How to Build a Bridge in Minecraft

The 4-part bridge: stone brick piers every 5-7 blocks, an arched deck that rises 1-2 blocks in the middle, a railing of walls or fences, and lanterns on the piers.

How to Build a Fountain in Minecraft

The classic garden fountain: a 7x7 stone brick basin one block deep, water across the floor, a 3-block central column with water pouring down its sides, and slab detailing.

How to Build a Barn (Horse Stable) in Minecraft

Classic barn: a 11x15 red-and-white building (red concrete or red wool walls, white trim), a steep gambrel roof from spruce stairs, stall dividers of fences inside, hay bales, and a fenced paddock beside it for the horses.

How to Build an Underground Base in Minecraft

Underground base plan: dig a stairwell to Y=10-20, hollow out a main hall (11x11 or bigger) with a 5-block ceiling, then branch into rooms - storage, enchanting, farms, bedroom.

How to Build a Mansion in Minecraft

Survival-scale mansion: a symmetrical main block (19x13) with two wings, dark oak and white walls, a grand double staircase entrance, balcony over the door, and a hipped roof.

How to Build a Windmill in Minecraft

Windmill formula: a tapered round-ish tower (7x7 to 5x5) in stone and wood, a small cap roof, and four wool-and-fence sails in an X on the front face.

How to Build a Watchtower in Minecraft

Watchtower in 4 parts: a 5x5 stone base, a tall shaft (15-25 blocks) with ladder inside, an overhanging wooden top deck with railing, and a peaked roof.

How to Build a Mountain Base in Minecraft

Mountain base plan: carve a big window-fronted room into the cliff face, keep the natural stone as walls, add wooden floors and balconies jutting out of the rock, and connect rooms with tunnels.

Minecraft Interior Design: 12 Ideas That Make Any Room Look Good

Interior basics: wooden or carpet floors (never bare stone), ceilings 3-4 blocks up, lanterns hidden in the floor or ceiling, furniture from stairs and slabs (chairs, tables), and one focal point per room - fireplace, window or bookshelf wall.

How to Make a Garden in Minecraft

Garden recipe: a path of gravel or path blocks, flower beds in drifts of 2-3 types, hedges of leaf blocks, one tree or a small pond as the centerpiece, and a fence with a gate.

Best Sword Enchantments in Minecraft (Ranked)

The perfect sword: Sharpness V, Looting III, Unbreaking III, Mending, Fire Aspect II - plus Sweeping Edge III on Java.

Best Pickaxe Enchantments in Minecraft

The perfect pickaxe: Efficiency V, Unbreaking III, Mending, and Fortune III.

Best Armor Enchantments in Minecraft (Full Set)

The perfect set: Protection IV + Unbreaking III + Mending on all four pieces.

Best Bow Enchantments in Minecraft

Use Power V, Unbreaking III, Flame and Punch II, then choose Infinity or Mending: those two conflict.

Best Axe Enchantments in Minecraft

For a working axe, use Efficiency V, Unbreaking III and Mending, plus Fortune III or Silk Touch.

Best Elytra Enchantments (And the Perfect Trident)

Use Unbreaking III and Mending on elytra, applied with an anvil and enchanted books.

Best Trident Enchantments in Minecraft

Two perfect tridents exist: a Loyalty III + Channeling trident for throwing, and a Riptide III trident for travel.

Best Crossbow Enchantments in Minecraft

Use Quick Charge III and either Multishot or Piercing IV, which conflict.

Best Fishing Rod Enchantments in Minecraft

Luck of the Sea III, Lure III, Unbreaking III and Mending - the god rod.

Best Boots Enchantments in Minecraft

Protection IV, Feather Falling IV, Unbreaking III, Mending - plus Depth Strider III for water or Frost Walker II for walking on oceans (incompatible).

Best Helmet Enchantments in Minecraft

Protection IV, Respiration III, Aqua Affinity, Unbreaking III and Mending - plus Thorns III if you want it.

Best Shovel Enchantments in Minecraft

Efficiency V, Unbreaking III, Mending - plus Silk Touch for grass and gravel blocks, or Fortune III to guarantee flint from gravel.

Minecraft Villager Jobs: Every Profession and Workstation

There are 15 villager professions: 13 working ones that each claim a job site block (from armorer at a blast furnace to weaponsmith at a grindstone), plus nitwit and unemployed, who cannot work.

Best Villager Trades in Minecraft

Useful standard trades include librarian books, fletcher sticks-for-emeralds, farmer crops and golden carrots, and diamond equipment from smith professions.

All 18 Armor Trims in Minecraft (And Where to Find Them)

There are 18 armor trims, each a smithing template looted from a specific structure - from Coast in shipwrecks to Flow in ominous vaults.

All 22 Music Discs in Minecraft (And How to Get Each One)

22 music discs exist.

Best Y Level for Every Ore in Minecraft

Coal Y=95 or mountain tops, copper Y=48, iron Y=15 or Y=232, gold Y=-16 (badlands surface), lapis Y=0, redstone Y=-59, diamond Y=-59, emerald Y=232 in mountains, ancient debris Y=15 in the Nether.

Best Food in Minecraft (Hunger and Saturation Ranked)

Golden carrots are the best everyday food: 6 hunger and the highest saturation of any stackable food (14.

All 9 Wolf Variants in Minecraft (And Where to Find Them)

Wolves come in 9 variants, one per biome: Pale (taiga), Woods (forest), Ashen (snowy taiga), Black (old growth pine taiga), Chestnut (old growth spruce taiga), Rusty (sparse jungle), Spotted (savanna plateau), Striped (wooded badlands), Snowy (grove).

All 11 Cat Variants in Minecraft (And How to Get Them)

There are 11 cat variants: Tabby, Tuxedo, Red, Siamese, British Shorthair, Calico, Persian, Ragdoll, White, Black and Jellie.

All 3 Frog Variants in Minecraft (And How Froglight Colors Work)

Frogs have 3 variants set by temperature: temperate orange frogs from swamps, warm white frogs from mangrove swamps and jungles, and cold green frogs from snowy biomes.

All 5 Axolotl Colors in Minecraft (Including the Blue One)

Axolotls come in 5 colors: leucistic (pink), brown (wild), gold, cyan and blue.

All 6 Rabbit Variants in Minecraft (Plus Toast and the Killer Bunny)

Rabbits have 6 natural variants set by biome: brown, white, black, black-and-white, gold and salt-and-pepper.

All Status Effects in Minecraft (And How to Get Them)

Minecraft has 42 real status effects: combat boosts like Strength and Resistance, movement effects like Speed, Slow Falling and Levitation, utility effects like Haste, Water Breathing and Night Vision, and dangers like Poison, Wither and Darkness - plus raid omens and the new Breath of the Nautilus.

All 23 Pottery Sherds in Minecraft (And Where to Find Them)

There are 23 pottery sherds: 20 found by brushing suspicious sand and gravel in archaeology sites (desert temples, wells, trail ruins, ocean ruins) and 3 (Flow, Guster, Scrape) from decorated pots in trial chambers.

All 7 Panda Personalities in Minecraft (Normal to Brown)

Pandas spawn with 7 personalities: Normal (63.

All 5 Parrot Variants in Minecraft (And Why Cookies Kill Them)

Parrots come in 5 variants: red, blue, green, cyan and gray.

All 4 Llama Variants in Minecraft (Strength, Caravans and Chests)

Llamas come in 4 variants: creamy, white, brown and gray.

How to Get the Best Horse in Minecraft (Speed, Jump and Breeding)

Horse stats are random: health 15-30, speed 0.

All 8 Goat Horns in Minecraft (And How to Get Them)

There are 8 goat horns: Ponder, Sing, Seek and Feel from regular goats, and Admire, Call, Yearn and Dream from screaming goats.

How to Find Every Structure in Minecraft

Every structure has a reliable way to find it: eyes of ender for strongholds, cartographer maps for monuments and mansions, dolphins for shipwrecks and ruins, deep dark for ancient cities, and biome knowledge for everything else.

All 10 Banner Patterns in Minecraft (And How to Get Each)

There are 10 banner patterns: 6 crafted from paper plus an item (Flower Charge, Creeper Charge, Skull Charge, Thing, Field Masoned, Bordure Indented) and 4 found or traded (Globe, Snout, Flow, Guster).

Minecraft Light Levels Explained (Mob Spawns, Crops and Every Light Source)

Light runs from 0 to 15.

Best Enchantments for Hoes, Shears, Shields and More

Hoes take Efficiency, Fortune or Silk Touch, Unbreaking and Mending.

Librarian Trades in Minecraft: Every Trade by Level

In standard trading, librarians offer enchanted books and useful goods such as bookshelves, lanterns and glass.

Why Your Anvil Says 'Too Expensive' in Minecraft (And How to Fix It)

Ordinary Survival anvil work is refused at 40 levels or more.

Farmer Trades in Minecraft: Every Trade by Level

Farmers buy wheat (20), potatoes (26), carrots (22), beetroots (15), pumpkins (6) and melons (4) for emeralds, and sell bread, pumpkin pie, apples, cookies, cake, suspicious stew, golden carrots (3 for 3 emeralds) and glistering melon slices at master level.

Fletcher Trades in Minecraft: Every Trade by Level

Fletchers buy 32 sticks for 1 emerald - the famous emerald farm - plus flint, string, feathers and tripwire hooks, and sell arrows, bows, crossbows, enchanted bows and crossbows, and tipped arrows.

Armorer Trades in Minecraft: Every Trade by Level

Armorers buy coal (15), iron ingots (4), lava buckets and diamonds for emeralds, and sell iron armor for 4-9 emeralds a piece, chainmail, shields, bells and - at expert and master - enchanted diamond armor.

Toolsmith and Weaponsmith Trades in Minecraft (Every Level)

Both smiths buy coal (15), iron ingots (4), flint and diamonds for emeralds.

Butcher Trades in Minecraft: Every Trade by Level

Butchers buy raw chicken (14), raw rabbit (4), raw porkchop (7), coal (15), raw beef (10), raw mutton (7), dried kelp blocks (10) and sweet berries (10) for emeralds, and sell rabbit stew, cooked chicken (8 per emerald) and cooked porkchops (5 per emerald).

Cartographer Trades in Minecraft: Every Trade by Level

Cartographers buy paper (24), glass panes (11) and compasses, and sell empty maps (7 emeralds), village maps (8 emeralds plus a compass), ocean monument maps (13 emeralds plus a compass), trial chambers maps (12 emeralds plus a compass), item frames (7), colored banners (3), the globe banner pattern (8) and woodland mansion maps (14 emeralds plus a compass).

Cleric Trades in Minecraft: Every Trade by Level

Clerics buy rotten flesh (32), gold ingots (3), rabbit's feet (2), turtle scutes (4), glass bottles (9) and nether wart (22) for emeralds, and sell redstone dust, lapis lazuli, glowstone, ender pearls (5 emeralds) and bottles o' enchanting (3 emeralds).

Fisherman Trades in Minecraft: Every Trade by Level

Fishermen buy string (20), coal (10), raw cod (15), raw salmon (13), tropical fish (6), pufferfish (4) and boats for emeralds, and sell buckets of cod, campfires (2 emeralds), cooked cod and salmon, and enchanted fishing rods (8-22 emeralds).

Leatherworker Trades in Minecraft: Every Trade by Level

Leatherworkers buy leather (6), flint (26), rabbit hides (9) and turtle scutes (4) for emeralds, and sell leather armor pieces (3-7 emeralds), leather horse armor (6) and saddles for 6 emeralds at master level.

Mason Trades in Minecraft: Every Trade by Level

Masons buy clay balls (10), stone (20), granite, andesite and diorite (16 each) and nether quartz (12) for emeralds, and sell bricks (10 per emerald), chiseled stone bricks (4), dripstone blocks (4), polished stones (4), terracotta and glazed terracotta, quartz pillars and quartz blocks.

Shepherd Trades in Minecraft: Every Trade by Level

Shepherds buy white, brown, black and gray wool (18 each) and every color of dye (12 each) for emeralds, and sell shears (2 emeralds), any-color wool, carpets (4 per emerald), beds (3 emeralds), banners (3 emeralds) and paintings (3 for 2 emeralds).

Piglin Bartering in Minecraft: Full Loot Table with Chances

Piglins accept gold ingots and throw back one of 19 items: ender pearls (2-4, about 2.

Wandering Trader Trades in Minecraft: Every Offer

The wandering trader buys hay bales, water bottles, baked potatoes (4), milk buckets (2 emeralds), water buckets (2 emeralds) and fermented spider eyes (3 emeralds) from you, and sells biome-rare items: logs and saplings of every tree type, podzol, moss blocks, pointed dripstone, coral blocks, sea pickles, glowstone, slimeballs, nautilus shells, packed and blue ice, gunpowder, name tags, golden dandelions and an enchanted iron pickaxe.

Minecraft Fishing Loot Table: Every Catch with Chances

With default loot tables and no Luck of the Sea, successful catches are 85% fish, 10% junk and 5% treasure.

How Long Is a Minecraft Day? Full Day-Night Cycle Times

A full Minecraft day-night cycle lasts 20 real minutes (24,000 game ticks): daytime runs 10 minutes, sunset 50 seconds, nighttime 8 minutes 20 seconds, and sunrise 50 seconds.

Minecraft Enchantments: Complete List with Max Levels

The big five for any gear set are Protection IV, Unbreaking III, Mending, Efficiency V and Sharpness V.

All Wood Types in Minecraft: Every Tree and Where to Find It

Minecraft has 13 wood types: oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, cherry, pale oak, poplar, crimson and warped stems, plus bamboo planks.

Minecraft Difficulty Differences: Peaceful vs Easy vs Normal vs Hard

On Peaceful, hostile mobs do not spawn and hunger regenerates.

How to Use a Spear in Minecraft: Jab and Charge Attacks Explained

The spear has two attacks: the jab (attack button, a quick thrust with a forced cooldown) and the charge (hold use to lower the spear, then run at your target - damage scales with closing speed, and above 5.

Best Spear Enchantments in Minecraft, Ranked

The best spear enchantments are Sharpness V (or Smite V for undead farms), Lunge III for the launch-into-charge combo, Looting III for drops, and Mending plus Unbreaking III to keep it alive.

How to Find a Dappled Forest in Minecraft

The dappled forest is the autumn-colored poplar biome added in the Drop 3 of 2026.

How to Find Sulfur Caves in Minecraft

Sulfur caves are the acid-green cave biome added in 26.

How to Get a Zombie Horse in Minecraft (Zombie Horsemen)

Zombie horses spawn naturally as zombie horsemen - a zombie with an iron spear riding one - on grass in plains, sunflower plains, savannas, savanna plateaus, windswept savannas and snowy plains, at night or during thunderstorms.

How to Get a Skeleton Horse in Minecraft (Skeleton Trap)

Skeleton horses come from skeleton traps: during thunderstorms, a small fraction of natural lightning strikes spawns a lone trap horse.

How to Find Badlands in Minecraft

Badlands generate in the hottest, driest zones at low erosion, usually bordering deserts near oceans and stony shores - and near cooler zones, savannas, forests and plains.

How to Find the Ice Spikes Biome in Minecraft

Ice spikes generate in cold zones at high weirdness with low humidity, usually separated from snowy plains by frozen rivers and never bordering forested biomes.

How to Find a Coral Reef in Minecraft

Coral reefs generate in warm oceans - the aquamarine seas in the hottest zones, usually near deserts and mangrove swamps, and never touching badlands.

How to Find a Crimson Forest in Minecraft

The crimson forest is the second most common Nether biome (22% of the dimension) - a dense red forest of huge crimson fungi on crimson nylium.

How to Find a Warped Forest in Minecraft

The warped forest is the rarest Nether biome (about 8% of the dimension) - a dense cyan forest of huge warped fungi.

How to Find a Soul Sand Valley in Minecraft

The soul sand valley is the third most common Nether biome (about 17%) - a gray-blue wasteland of soul sand and soul soil with soul fire, giant Nether fossils and basalt pillars.

How to Find Basalt Deltas in Minecraft

Basalt deltas are the second rarest Nether biome (about 16%) - a jagged gray wasteland of basalt and blackstone, shallow lava pools and magma blocks, with ash drifting through the air.

How to Find Nether Wastes in Minecraft

The Nether wastes is the most common Nether biome - about 36% of the dimension - so you almost certainly spawned in it.

How to Find a Jungle in Minecraft

Jungles generate in semi-warm, high-humidity regions bordering forests, plains, deserts, wooded badlands, birch forests and dark forests.

How to Find a Swamp in Minecraft

Swamps generate in flat, temperate terrain near sea level at very high erosion, replacing rivers and sitting between plains, forests, taigas and windswept hills - never directly on the ocean.

How to Make an Awkward Potion in Minecraft

Brew an awkward potion by adding nether wart to a water bottle in a brewing stand.

How to Get a Potion of Luck in Minecraft

The potion of Luck exists only in Java Edition and has no brewing recipe: you can only get it from the Creative inventory or with commands.

How to Get a Potion of Decay in Minecraft

The potion of Decay is exclusive to Bedrock Edition and cannot be brewed: get it from the Creative inventory or with commands.

How to Find Blackstone in Minecraft

Blackstone generates only in the Nether: mine it in basalt deltas, dig below the lava sea level anywhere in the Nether (Y 5-31), loot bastion remnants, or barter with piglins for 8-16 blocks at a time.

How to Make Packed Mud in Minecraft

Craft packed mud by combining 1 mud block and 1 wheat anywhere in the crafting grid.

How to Find Azalea in Minecraft

Azalea bushes grow naturally on moss blocks inside lush caves.

How to Get Deepslate in Minecraft

Mine below Y=0 in the Overworld with any pickaxe.

How to Get Milk in Minecraft

Use an empty bucket on a cow, mooshroom or goat to get a milk bucket.

How to Get a Bee Nest in Minecraft

Find a bee nest on a tree and break it with a Silk Touch tool to collect it intact.

How to Make Planks in Minecraft

Put one log or Nether stem in any crafting slot to get four matching planks.

How to Make a Bowl in Minecraft

Use three planks in a crafting table to make four bowls.

How to Get Rooted Dirt in Minecraft

Dig beneath an azalea tree to find rooted dirt leading toward a lush cave.

How to Make Coarse Dirt in Minecraft

Combine two dirt and two gravel in a checkerboard pattern to craft four coarse dirt.

How to Get Podzol in Minecraft

Find podzol in an old growth taiga or bamboo jungle and collect it with Silk Touch.

How to Get Mycelium in Minecraft

Find mycelium in a mushroom fields biome and mine it with Silk Touch.

How to Dry a Sponge in Minecraft

Place a wet sponge in the Nether to dry it instantly, or smelt it in a furnace with fuel.

How to Get Hanging Roots in Minecraft

Use bone meal on rooted dirt with empty space underneath to grow hanging roots, then collect them with shears.

How to Get Nylium in Minecraft

Mine crimson nylium in a crimson forest or warped nylium in a warped forest with a Silk Touch pickaxe.

How to Make a Snow Block in Minecraft

Put four snowballs in a 2x2 square to craft one snow block.

How to Get Basalt in Minecraft

Mine basalt with any pickaxe in basalt deltas or soul sand valleys.

How to Get Packed Ice in Minecraft

Collect packed ice with a Silk Touch tool from ice spikes, frozen peaks or frozen-ocean icebergs.

How to Get Magma Blocks in Minecraft

Mine magma blocks with any pickaxe, or craft one from four magma cream in a 2x2 square.

How to Get Netherrack in Minecraft

Mine the red rock that makes up most Nether terrain with any pickaxe.

How to Make Sandstone in Minecraft

Put four sand in a 2x2 square to make one sandstone.

How to Make a Quartz Block in Minecraft

Craft four nether quartz in a 2x2 square to make one block of quartz.

How to Make End Stone Bricks in Minecraft

Put four end stone in a 2x2 square to craft four end stone bricks.

How to Make Nether Bricks in Minecraft

Smelt netherrack into nether brick items, then craft four items in a 2x2 square for one nether bricks block.

How to Get Andesite in Minecraft

Mine andesite in the Overworld with any pickaxe, or craft one diorite and one cobblestone into two andesite.

How to Get Diorite in Minecraft

Mine diorite in the Overworld with any pickaxe, or craft two cobblestone and two nether quartz in an alternating 2x2 pattern for two diorite.

How to Get Granite in Minecraft

Mine granite in the Overworld with any pickaxe, or combine one diorite and one nether quartz for one granite.

How to Make Mossy Cobblestone in Minecraft

Combine one cobblestone block with one vine or one moss block in a crafting grid to make one mossy cobblestone block.

How to Make Mossy Stone Bricks in Minecraft

Combine one stone bricks block with one vine or one moss block in a crafting grid to make one mossy stone bricks block.

How to Make Polished Blackstone in Minecraft

Craft four blackstone in a 2x2 square for four polished blackstone.

How to Make Deepslate Bricks and Tiles in Minecraft

Craft four cobbled deepslate in a 2x2 square for four polished deepslate, then four polished blocks in 2x2 for four deepslate bricks.

How to Make Tuff Bricks in Minecraft

Craft four tuff in a 2x2 square for four polished tuff, then four polished tuff in 2x2 for four tuff bricks.

How to Make Glazed Terracotta in Minecraft

Smelt colored terracotta in a furnace with fuel to make glazed terracotta of the same color.

How to Make Stained Glass in Minecraft

Surround one dye with eight glass blocks in a crafting table to make eight stained glass of that color.

How to Make Iron Bars in Minecraft

Put six iron ingots in two full horizontal rows of a crafting table to make sixteen iron bars.

How to Make Dark Prismarine and Prismarine Bricks in Minecraft

Surround one black dye with eight prismarine shards in a crafting table for one dark prismarine.

How to Make Smooth Stone Slabs in Minecraft

Put three smooth stone blocks in one horizontal row of a crafting table to make six smooth stone slabs.

How to Make Stone Brick Stairs in Minecraft

Arrange six stone bricks in a stair-shaped pattern in a crafting table to make four stone brick stairs.

How to Make a Cobblestone Wall in Minecraft

Put six cobblestone in two full horizontal rows of a crafting table to make six cobblestone walls.

How to Make Chiseled Stone Bricks in Minecraft

Stack two stone brick slabs vertically in a crafting grid to make one chiseled stone bricks block.

How to Make Cracked Stone Bricks in Minecraft

Smelt an ordinary stone bricks block in a furnace with fuel to make one cracked stone bricks block.

How to Make a Bone Block in Minecraft

Fill all nine slots of a crafting table with bone meal to make one bone block.

How to Make a Hay Bale in Minecraft

Fill all nine slots of a crafting table with wheat to make one hay bale.

How to Make a Dried Kelp Block in Minecraft

Fill all nine crafting-table slots with dried kelp to make one dried kelp block.

How to Make a Honeycomb Block in Minecraft

Place four honeycombs in a 2×2 square to make one honeycomb block.

How to Make Smooth Sandstone in Minecraft

Smelt regular sandstone in a furnace with fuel to get smooth sandstone.

How to Make Smooth Quartz in Minecraft

Smelt a regular block of quartz in a furnace with fuel to make one smooth quartz block.

How to Make Quartz Bricks in Minecraft

Put four regular blocks of quartz in a 2×2 square to make four quartz bricks.

How to Make a Quartz Pillar in Minecraft

Place two regular blocks of quartz one above the other in a crafting grid to make two quartz pillars.

How to Make Chiseled Quartz in Minecraft

Put two regular quartz slabs one above the other in a crafting grid to make one chiseled quartz block.

How to Make Cut Sandstone in Minecraft

Put four regular sandstone blocks in a 2×2 square to make four cut sandstone blocks.

How to Make Chiseled Sandstone in Minecraft

Place two regular sandstone slabs one above the other in a crafting grid to make one chiseled sandstone block.

How to Make Red Sandstone in Minecraft

Place four red sand in a 2×2 square to make one red sandstone block.

How to Make Smooth Red Sandstone in Minecraft

Smelt regular red sandstone in a furnace with fuel to make smooth red sandstone.

How to Make Cut Red Sandstone in Minecraft

Put four regular red sandstone blocks in a 2×2 square to make four cut red sandstone blocks.

How to Make Chiseled Red Sandstone in Minecraft

Place two regular red sandstone slabs one above the other in a crafting grid to make one chiseled red sandstone block.

How to Make a Purpur Pillar in Minecraft

Place two purpur slabs one above the other in a crafting grid to make one purpur pillar.

How to Make a Mud Brick Wall in Minecraft

Place six mud bricks in two full rows on a crafting table to make six mud brick walls.

How to Make Mud Brick Stairs in Minecraft

Arrange six mud bricks in a staircase shape on a crafting table to make four mud brick stairs.

How to Make Mud Brick Slabs in Minecraft

Put three mud bricks blocks in one horizontal row on a crafting table to make six mud brick slabs.

How to Make Brick Stairs in Minecraft

Arrange six bricks in a staircase shape on a crafting table to make four brick stairs.

How to Make Brick Slabs in Minecraft

Put three bricks blocks in one horizontal row on a crafting table to make six brick slabs.

How to Make a Brick Wall in Minecraft

Place six bricks in two full rows on a crafting table to make six brick walls.

How to Make Red Nether Bricks in Minecraft

Put two nether wart and two nether brick items diagonally in a 2x2 crafting grid to make one red nether bricks block.

How to Make Nether Brick Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 nether bricks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Nether Brick Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 nether bricks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Nether Brick Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 nether bricks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Red Nether Brick Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 red nether bricks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Red Nether Brick Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 red nether bricks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Red Nether Brick Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 red nether bricks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make End Stone Brick Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 end stone bricks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make End Stone Brick Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 end stone bricks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make End Stone Brick Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 end stone bricks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Stone Brick Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 stone bricks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Stone Brick Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 stone bricks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Deepslate Brick Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 deepslate bricks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Deepslate Brick Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 deepslate bricks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Deepslate Brick Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 deepslate bricks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Tuff Brick Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 tuff bricks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Tuff Brick Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 tuff bricks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Tuff Brick Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 tuff bricks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Mossy Stone Brick Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 mossy stone bricks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Mossy Stone Brick Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 mossy stone bricks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Mossy Stone Brick Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 mossy stone bricks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Prismarine Brick Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 prismarine bricks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Prismarine Brick Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 prismarine bricks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Prismarine Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 prismarine blocks in two rows of three in a crafting table to make six prismarine walls.

How to Make Dark Prismarine Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 dark prismarine in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Dark Prismarine Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 dark prismarine in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Cobblestone Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 cobblestone blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Cobblestone Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 cobblestone blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Stone Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 stone blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Stone Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 stone blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Mossy Cobblestone Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 mossy cobblestone blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Mossy Cobblestone Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 mossy cobblestone blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Mossy Cobblestone Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 mossy cobblestone blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Granite Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 granite blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Granite Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 granite blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Granite Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 granite blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Andesite Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 andesite blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Andesite Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 andesite blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Andesite Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 andesite blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Diorite Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 diorite blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Diorite Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 diorite blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Diorite Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 diorite blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Blackstone Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 blackstone blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Blackstone Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 blackstone blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Blackstone Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 blackstone blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Polished Granite Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 polished granite blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Polished Granite Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 polished granite blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Polished Andesite Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 polished andesite blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Polished Andesite Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 polished andesite blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Polished Diorite Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 polished diorite blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Polished Diorite Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 polished diorite blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Polished Blackstone Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 polished blackstone blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Polished Blackstone Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 polished blackstone blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Polished Blackstone Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 polished blackstone blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Cobbled Deepslate Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 cobbled deepslate blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Cobbled Deepslate Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 cobbled deepslate blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Cobbled Deepslate Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 cobbled deepslate blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Polished Deepslate Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 polished deepslate blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Polished Deepslate Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 polished deepslate blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Polished Deepslate Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 polished deepslate blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Deepslate Tile Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 deepslate tile blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Deepslate Tile Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 deepslate tile blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Deepslate Tile Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 deepslate tile blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Oak Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 oak planks in a crafting table (one plank in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Oak Slabs in Minecraft

Put 3 oak planks in a crafting table (three planks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Spruce Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 spruce planks in a crafting table (one plank in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Spruce Slabs in Minecraft

Put 3 spruce planks in a crafting table (three planks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Birch Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 birch planks in a crafting table (one plank in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Birch Slabs in Minecraft

Put 3 birch planks in a crafting table (three planks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Jungle Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 jungle planks in a crafting table (one plank in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Jungle Slabs in Minecraft

Put 3 jungle planks in a crafting table (three planks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Acacia Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 acacia planks in a crafting table (one plank in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Acacia Slabs in Minecraft

Put 3 acacia planks in a crafting table (three planks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Dark Oak Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 dark oak planks in a crafting table (one plank in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Dark Oak Slabs in Minecraft

Put 3 dark oak planks in a crafting table (three planks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Mangrove Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 mangrove planks in a crafting table (one plank in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Mangrove Slabs in Minecraft

Put 3 mangrove planks in a crafting table (three planks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Cherry Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 cherry planks in a crafting table (one plank in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Cherry Slabs in Minecraft

Put 3 cherry planks in a crafting table (three planks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Pale Oak Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 pale oak planks in a crafting table (one plank in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Pale Oak Slabs in Minecraft

Put 3 pale oak planks in a crafting table (three planks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Bamboo Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 bamboo planks in a crafting table (one plank in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Bamboo Slabs in Minecraft

Put 3 bamboo planks in a crafting table (three planks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Crimson Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 crimson planks in a crafting table (one plank in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Crimson Slabs in Minecraft

Put 3 crimson planks in a crafting table (three planks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Warped Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 warped planks in a crafting table (one plank in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Warped Slabs in Minecraft

Put 3 warped planks in a crafting table (three planks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Sandstone Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 sandstone blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Sandstone Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 sandstone blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Sandstone Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 sandstone blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Red Sandstone Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 red sandstone blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Red Sandstone Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 red sandstone blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Red Sandstone Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 red sandstone blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Smooth Sandstone Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 smooth sandstone blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Smooth Sandstone Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 smooth sandstone blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Smooth Red Sandstone Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 smooth red sandstone blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Smooth Red Sandstone Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 smooth red sandstone blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Cut Sandstone Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 cut sandstone blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Cut Red Sandstone Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 cut red sandstone blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Quartz Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 quartz blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Quartz Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 quartz blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Smooth Quartz Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 smooth quartz blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Smooth Quartz Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 smooth quartz blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Purpur Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 purpur blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Purpur Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 purpur blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Resin Brick Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 resin bricks blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Resin Brick Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 resin bricks blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Resin Brick Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 resin bricks blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Polished Tuff Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 polished tuff blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Polished Tuff Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 polished tuff blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Polished Tuff Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 polished tuff blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Tuff Stairs in Minecraft

Put 6 tuff blocks in a crafting table (one block in the top-left slot, two down the left side of the middle row and three across the bottom row) to make four stairs.

How to Make Tuff Slab in Minecraft

Put 3 tuff blocks in a crafting table (three blocks in one horizontal row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Tuff Wall in Minecraft

Put 6 tuff blocks in a crafting table (six blocks in two rows of three) to make six walls.

How to Make Cut Copper in Minecraft

Put four blocks of copper in a 2x2 square in a crafting table to make four cut copper.

How to Make Cut Copper Stairs in Minecraft

Put six cut copper in a crafting table in a stair shape to make four cut copper stairs.

How to Make Cut Copper Slabs in Minecraft

Put three cut copper in a row in a crafting table to make six cut copper slabs.

How to Make Bamboo Mosaic in Minecraft

Put two bamboo slabs one above the other in the middle column of a crafting table to make one bamboo mosaic block.

How to Make Bamboo Mosaic Stairs in Minecraft

Put six bamboo mosaic blocks in a crafting table (stair shape) to make four stairs.

How to Make Bamboo Mosaic Slabs in Minecraft

Put three bamboo mosaic blocks in a crafting table (one row) to make six slabs.

How to Make Nether Brick Fence in Minecraft

Put four nether bricks blocks and two nether brick items in the lower two rows of a crafting table (blocks on the sides, items in the middle) to make six nether brick fences.

How to Stop Phantoms in Minecraft

Sleep in a bed.

How to Make Charcoal in Minecraft

Smelt any log or wood in a furnace with any fuel.

How to Set a World Border in Minecraft

Run /worldborder set <distance> to make the border that wide (width and length in blocks), and /worldborder center <x> <z> to move its middle.

How to Get Cocoa Beans in Minecraft

Break cocoa pods that grow on jungle logs in jungle and sparse jungle biomes.

How to Get Sweet Berries in Minecraft

Find sweet berry bushes in taiga, snowy taiga, old growth pine taiga and old growth spruce taiga biomes, then right-click a ripe bush for 1-2 berries (2-3 when fully grown).

How to Get Gravel in Minecraft

Dig gravel with a shovel from riverbeds, shallow ocean floors, stony shores and windswept gravelly hills, or from stone-level gravel pockets underground.

How to Get Mob Heads in Minecraft

Get a creeper charged by lightning (lightning striking within 4 blocks of it) and let it blow up next to a skeleton, zombie, creeper or piglin.

How to Stop Copper From Oxidizing in Minecraft

Use a honeycomb on the copper block (or craft the block with a honeycomb) to wax it.

How to Get a Mob Spawner in Minecraft

You cannot get a monster spawner in Survival, even with Silk Touch.

How to Get Music Disc 5 in Minecraft

Loot 9 disc fragments from ancient city chests, then combine the 9 fragments in a crafting table to make music disc 5.

How to Use Structure Blocks in Minecraft

Get a structure block with /give @s minecraft:structure_block (or from the Operator Utilities tab in Java Creative), place it, and open it in Creative mode with permission level 2.

How to Kill an Elder Guardian in Minecraft

An elder guardian has 80 HP (40 hearts), and each ocean monument has three.

How to Make a Drowned in Minecraft (Zombie Conversion)

Keep a zombie's head underwater for 30 seconds.

How to Remove Mining Fatigue in Minecraft

Drink a milk bucket: it clears all status effects, including Mining Fatigue.

How to Find and Grow Kelp in Minecraft

Find kelp in oceans (not warm, frozen or deep frozen ones), break it by hand, then plant it underwater on a block with a full top face.

How to Get Sea Pickles in Minecraft

Sea pickles generate on top of coral blocks on the bottom of warm oceans (1 in 6 chance per chunk, colonies of 1 to 4).

How to Get Lily Pads in Minecraft

Lily pads grow naturally on water in swamps, mangrove swamps and woodland mansion wheat farm rooms.

How to Get Vines in Minecraft

Break vines with shears: it is the only way to collect them.

How to Get Seagrass in Minecraft

Harvest seagrass with shears: any other tool or your fist destroys it and drops nothing.

How to Get Glow Lichen in Minecraft

Break glow lichen with shears: they are the only way to obtain it.

How to Get a Big Dripleaf in Minecraft

Big dripleaves generate in lush caves and can be broken with any tool, an axe being fastest.

How to Get Ferns in Minecraft

Break ferns with shears to get the item.

How to Get a Dead Bush in Minecraft

Break a dead bush with shears to get it.

How to Get Shroomlight in Minecraft

Shroomlights generate near the top of crimson and warped huge fungi.

How to Get Twisting Vines in Minecraft

Break twisting vines with shears or a Silk Touch tool to always get one.

How to Get Weeping Vines in Minecraft

Break weeping vines with shears or a Silk Touch tool to always get one.

How to Get and Farm Carrots in Minecraft

Find carrots in village farm plots or as a rare zombie drop (about 0.

How to Get and Farm Potatoes in Minecraft

Find potatoes in village farm plots or as a rare zombie drop (about 0.

How to Get Saplings in Minecraft

Saplings drop from leaves that decay or are broken without shears or Silk Touch: 5% of the time (2.

How to Get Leaves Blocks in Minecraft

Leaves can be obtained only with shears or a tool enchanted with Silk Touch.

How to Grow Melons in Minecraft

Craft melon seeds from a melon slice, plant them on farmland, and wait: the mature stem grows melon blocks on the dirt, grass or similar blocks next to it.

How to Get Flowers in Minecraft (Small and Tall)

Most flowers generate on grass and dirt in nearly every biome, and break instantly with any item.

How to Get Steak in Minecraft

Kill a cow or mooshroom to get 1-3 raw beef (up to 1-6 with Looting III), then cook it in a furnace, smoker or campfire.

How to Grow Beetroot in Minecraft

Find beetroot crops in villages or plant beetroot seeds on farmland.

How to Get Cooked Porkchop in Minecraft

Kill a pig to get 1-3 raw porkchop (up to 1-6 with Looting III), then cook it in a furnace, smoker or campfire.

How to Get Cooked Mutton in Minecraft

Kill a sheep to get 1-2 raw mutton (up to 1-5 with Looting III), then cook it in a furnace, smoker or campfire.

How to Get Cooked Chicken in Minecraft

Kill a chicken to get 1-1 raw chicken (up to 1-4 with Looting III), then cook it in a furnace, smoker or campfire.

How to Get Cooked Cod in Minecraft

Kill a cod to get 1 raw cod, then cook it in a furnace, smoker or campfire.

How to Get Cooked Salmon in Minecraft

Kill a salmon to get 1 raw salmon, then cook it in a furnace, smoker or campfire.

How to Get a Rabbit's Foot in Minecraft

Each rabbit has a 10% chance to drop a rabbit's foot when you kill it, raised by 3% per Looting level (19% at Looting III).

How to Get Rabbit Hide in Minecraft

Rabbits drop 0-1 rabbit hide when they die (50% chance), up to 0-4 with Looting III.

How to Get Ink Sacs in Minecraft

Kill a squid to get 1-3 ink sacs, up to 1-6 with Looting III.

How to Get Rotten Flesh in Minecraft

Kill zombies, zombie villagers, zombified piglins or zombie horses.

How to Make a Baked Potato in Minecraft

Cook a potato in a furnace to get a baked potato.

How to Get Pufferfish in Minecraft

Pufferfish spawn in warm oceans (most commonly), lukewarm oceans and deep lukewarm oceans.

How to Get Gold Nuggets in Minecraft

Mine Nether gold ore with a pickaxe for 2-6 gold nuggets each, kill zombified piglins (0-1, 50% chance), smelt golden tools, weapons or armor, or craft nuggets from a gold ingot.

How to Get Iron Nuggets in Minecraft

Smelt iron tools, iron weapons, iron armor or chainmail armor in a furnace to get iron nuggets, craft them from an iron ingot, or barter with piglins: giving a gold ingot has about a 2.

How to Get Copper Ingots in Minecraft

Mine copper ore with a stone pickaxe or better for 2-5 raw copper (up to 20 with Fortune III), then smelt it in a furnace or blast furnace.

How to Get Snowballs in Minecraft

Break a snow block with a shovel (without Silk Touch) for 4 snowballs, or snow layers for 1-8 snowballs, one per layer.

How to Get Eggs in Minecraft

Every adult chicken lays an egg every 5-10 minutes, about one every 7.

How to Get Wool in Minecraft

Use shears on an adult sheep to get 1-3 wool without killing it.

How to Get Spider Eyes in Minecraft

Kill spiders: each drops 0-1 spider eye with a 33.

How to Get Soul Sand in Minecraft

Soul sand generates mostly in soul sand valleys, and below Y=34 along the shores of lava seas in the Nether wastes.

How to Get Poisonous Potatoes in Minecraft

Harvest fully grown potato crops: each has a 2% chance to drop a poisonous potato on top of the 2-5 potatoes (Fortune does not change it).

How to Get Sand in Minecraft

Dig sand with a shovel in deserts and beaches, where it generates in layers about four blocks deep.

How to Get Red Sand in Minecraft

Red sand only generates in badlands biomes, below about Y=74 in a single layer with no red sandstone under it.

How to Get Dirt in Minecraft

Dig dirt with any tool (a shovel is fastest) under the grass layer in most Overworld biomes, or in underground patches.

How to Get Cobblestone in Minecraft

Mine stone with any pickaxe: it drops cobblestone.

How to Get Stone in Minecraft

Stone needs a pickaxe with Silk Touch to drop itself; a normal pickaxe drops cobblestone.

How to Get Wheat Seeds in Minecraft

Break short grass, tall grass, ferns or large ferns: each has a 12.

How to Get Pumpkin Seeds in Minecraft

Craft a pumpkin in the crafting grid to get 4 pumpkin seeds.

How to Get Beetroot Seeds in Minecraft

Harvest fully grown beetroot crops: each gives 1-4 beetroot seeds (about 2 5/7 on average) and Fortune improves it.

How to Get Melon Seeds in Minecraft

Melon seeds come from melon slices (craft them), from breaking melon stems (0-3 seeds) or from a wandering trader for 1 emerald.