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Minecraft is a voxel game about creating your own world by breaking and placing blocks to defend yourself against monsters. One great and efficient way of defending your house against mobs is by making traps that attract the mobs - then trapping them in a tight hole and killing them quickly. A good, easy-to-make trap is the lava drawbridge.
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Light up the place. Mobs won't spawn when the light level is higher than 7, so place as much light sources as possible in, on, and around your house.
- You can use torches; Jack o' Lanterns; lanterns; glowstone; and sea lanterns, although they are harder to find.
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Build a wall or fence around your house. The wall must be at least three blocks high with one block overhang, a fence must be at least two blocks high with one block overhang. Don't forget to place torches on the wall, so mobs don't spawn on top of it.
- Cobblestone is the best material for the wall, aside from obsidian, since it has a high blast-resistance.
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Sleep through the night. The moment you can use a bed, use it. Skipping the night won't give monsters a chance to spawn.
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Use iron doors, instead of wooden. Though they are a bit more expensive than wooden doors, zombies can't break them, and if you happen to live in a village, villagers won't be able to enter your house either.
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Dig through the entrance of your house. Dig a 4 block long, 2 block wide hole starting from your door. The length of the hole depends entirely on how long you want the trap to be.
- Make the hole 5 blocks deep.
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Make a base for your sticky pistons. In the bottom of your trap hole, make a base for your sticky pistons to rest on. This can be whatever block you want so long as it’s only a block high. Just dig more to the sides if you need some room to work with.
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Place 8 sticky pistons. Make the assembly 2 pistons wide and 4 pistons long.
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Place a redstone repeater behind each of the pistons.
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Create a floor for your trap. On top of the sticky piston, place whatever block you want as the floor of your trap.
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Attract mobs toward your door at night.
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Enter your house through the front door and wait for the mobs to fall into the hole.
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Release the lava. When the mobs are all in the hole, flip the switch to release the lava.
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Watch them burn.
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Flip the switch again to contain the lava and make the hole safe to step on again.
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1Dig out a 3x5 hole in the ground.
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2Fill the second-to-bottom layer with TNT.
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3On the third and second layer, put redstone dust on top of sand.
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4Fill the first layer with sand and then put a pressure plate on the center block.
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5Repeat. Make more of this around your home.
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6Wait. When a mob or player activates the pressure plate the sand will fall, making them fall, and they will be blown up by the TNT.
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1Count along 7 blocks and on the first and last place a block with a dispenser ontop of it. Then fill the dispensers with arrows or fire charges.
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2On the placed blocks put tripwire hooks with string connected.
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3Wait. The reason this works so well with Zombies is because they walk slower than the others what causes then to be hit by the arrows more often.
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1In the air or attached to your building, place a piston and activate it with a redstone torch on a block.
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2Have redstone dust going from ontop the block the redstone torch is and then place a lever where you want it.
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3Test. The way this works is that when you turn on the lever it should turn off the redstone torch and turn off the piston, consequently letting the lava fall.
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1By far the strongest of the two utility mobs is the Iron Golem. He will spawn if 10 Villagers are in a village or your place 4 iron blocks in a T shape the place a pumpkin on top. This means you will spend 36 iron ingots per Iron Golem.
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2Snow Golems. Can only do damage to Blazes and the Ender Dragon and will only push other mobs back. Although they are seemingly useless they can be very good in large numbers, they will keep mobs out until they either die or push a mob to its death. To make these put 2 snow blocks onto each other and a pumpkin.
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3Cats/Ocelots. These scare away creepers and can be tamed by feeding them fish.
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4Dogs/Wolves. Will fight along side you against anything but creepers. Can be tamed by feeding them bones.
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1Make a loop using two redstone repeaters and two pieces of redstone dust.
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2Place four dispensers in a 2x2 space and then build two blocks behind the dispensers.
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3Connect the redstone loop with the dispensers and then fill the dispensers with arrows or fire charges ( arrows = machine gun, fire charge = flamethrower ).
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4The best way to quickly power the loop then turn off the power source is by using a button. This will then cause the activated redstone to turn off and back on rapidly ( because its in a loop ) and will shoot out what's inside the dispensers.
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1No mobs can sink under water to reach your base ( except squids ). A well lit underwater base will be well protected from mobs.
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2Make sure your base has a farm for food. Without this you'd have to keep on going to get food, but fishing is always an option if your surrounded in water.
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Build a tall pillar in your base and make sure it's easy to get to.
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Get the elytra ( in 1.9 ) and jump off.
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This should allow you to escape to safety. The only bad thing is you would have abandoned your base and anything inside.
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However if you do not want to abandon your base you can fly around it whilst shooting arrows. That way you can kill your attacker but your attacker will struggle to kill you.
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Travel to the end an bring any thing else you need. If you decide on not killing the ender dragon before building your base you may have to seek protection against the ender dragon. However if you kill the Ender Dragon you can go to ender cities and ender ships ( 1.9 ). These are pre-made structures that you could use to you advantage.
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Consider making a water moat. The End is teeming with Endermen, the water moat will stop them from getting near your base.
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Remember that you cannot sleep in The End and that food is scarce.
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The Ender Dragon can't break bedrock or obsidian. As if these weren't strong enough building resources they can now protect you from this.
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The Snow Golems can damage the Ender Dragon. Keep in mind it's only 4 health points so you'll need a large army of these to hold of the Ender Dragon.
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Destroy the ender crystals as fast as possible.
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A arrow deals more damage than a sword in a fight with the Ender Dragon.
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Keep potions and golden apples ready. At least 4 times out of 10 the Ender Dragon will hit you if you go on the offensive and she can deal a lot of damage.
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Just keep moving. The Ender Dragon doesn't exactly chase you so if you run out of the way you won't get hit.
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Maybe make a high tower for jumping off with a elytra again. If your close enough you might be able to fly to help if you came with other people.
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QuestionHow do I play the game?Kimi KisielewskiCommunity Answer
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QuestionIs there another way to burn mobs and villagers?Belle K.Top AnswererThe best way to burn mobs would be lava or fire along netherrack. If you want to get fancy, you could set up a dispenser with fire arrows that would go off at them when they stepped on a pressure plate but that is much more difficult.
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QuestionCan Iron Golems protect you from zombies?VerinTop AnswererIron Golems will automatically attack all types of undead mob (except zombie/skeleton horses), as well as slimes, spiders, pillagers, witches, piglins, endermen, The Enderdragon (will attempt if within range), vexes (will attempt if within range), silverfish, magma cubes, endermites, guardians, blazes, and shulkers.
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Tips
- Though this method is the most efficient, it unfortunately doesn't let you collect loot from the mobs as their drops burn in the lava. You may alternatively use water instead of lava, but it takes longer for mobs to die.Thanks
- Water alternatives may be obsolete since Update Aquatic because undead mobs no longer drown. Plus, if you play bedrock, zombies can become drowned, with a chance to wield a trident. Be aware of this, especially if you play Bedrock Edition.Thanks
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- If you get the mobs to drop onto hoppers that are on fire, you can funnel the loot straight into your base.
- Instead of lava, try using netherrack and fire with hoppers underneath.
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