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  • Question
    How do I brew potions with a cauldron?
    Community Answer
    A cauldron is only used for filling up an empty water bottle and for decorations. For brewing, use a brewing stand.
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    What mobs do I need to watch out for?
    Karianna Wood
    Community Answer
    Some of the most dangerous mobs are: endermen, creepers (charged or not), spider jockeys (rare), skeletons, blazes, wither skeletons, and the bosses (Enderdragon and the Wither).
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    How do I get a brewing stand?
    Gerbillover
    Community Answer
    Craft it by placing a blaze rod in the middle of your crafting table (obtained by killing blazes in the Nether) and cobblestones across the bottom.
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    How do charged creepers form?
    Karianna Wood
    Community Answer
    Charged creepers form when, during a thunderstorm, lightning hits the creeper or the ground near it. Charged creepers are very rare, and very hard to fight off. Your best bet is to shoot it with a bow and arrow from a far distance.
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    Which is more powerful: Diamonds or emeralds?
    Community Answer
    Diamonds are considered more valuable and powerful due to the fact that the strongest weapons and armor in the game are created from them. Emeralds are rarer when mining, but you may be able to find a village that will trade items for Emeralds.
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    Why should I never dig straight down?
    Community Answer
    Because you could fall into lava and die, or find a cave and ravine and die from a high height.
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    How do I survive in the nether?
    Community Answer
    Bring at least a iron or diamond sword, iron armor, and lots of food and cobblestone, as cobblestone is resistant to ghast fireballs. If you can, bring potions.
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    Where do you find clay?
    Community Answer
    You can find it in the bottom of a lake or in any body of water. Use a shovel to dig, and don't forget to resurface for oxygen.
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    If, at step 7, you didn't get any torches and it is nighttime, what do you do?
    Community Answer
    Try mining a lot of dirt and making a shelter. It will be dark if you don't have torches, so dig some 1x1 holes as makeshift windows. And monsters will spawn in your shelter due to lack of torches. The safer alternative is to dig a three block deep hole, fall in it, and cover yourself up. Monsters will not spawn in your hole, but the disadvantage is that the only way to see if the night is over is if you have a clock (impossible at this point of your game, and you couldn't see it without torches anyway), or if you dig up the ceiling of your hidey-hole. If it's still night, then cover it back up quickly or you have the risk of having a zombie in your face.
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    Is it possible to dig straight down and find diamonds with only torches, an iron sword and a pickaxe?
    Karianna Wood
    Community Answer
    Sure, but don't dig straight down. You do not know if there is lava, a deep drop, or a creeper beneath you.
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    What is the quickest/easiest way to find diamonds?
    Karianna Wood
    Community Answer
    This article helps: Find and Mine Diamonds Fast on Minecraft . Just remember to be careful, wear armor, and don't dig straight down!
  • Question
    How can I shoot myself in Minecraft?
    Community Answer
    If you aim up while walking forward, you can shoot yourself with an arrow.
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    How do you get diamonds?
    Community Answer
    Diamonds are one of the rarest materials in the game, so they can be very tough to find. There's a small chance of Diamonds appearing in chests such as the stronghold altar chest or the village blacksmith chest. The best way to get a good supply of Diamonds, however, is by mining them. This can be a significant undertaking and may take many hours.
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    What are some ways you can die in Minecraft?
    Community Answer
    You can die from fall damage, creepers, zombies, charged and normal creepers, skeletons, endermen, other mobs, starvation, lava, drowning, the Void, sand and gravel (if you suffocate yourself with it), TNT, PvP (for new players, PvP is Player vs. Player, which only happens in SMP), and the command.
  • Question
    How do I kill a green man? He is growling a lot and I am scared!
    Ollieoxenfree
    Community Answer
    Hit him with your sword. If you don't have a sword you can hit him with an ax, shovel, any block, even your hand, although it will take longer for him to die. You could also run away and hide until morning. Zombies burn to death in the sun, so you will be safe in the morning.
  • Question
    What do I do after going into the Netherworld and Endworld?
    Community Answer
    Nothing. You just keep building and improving, and enchant weapons and armor with the XP you got from the ender dragon.
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    What do I do if it's nighttime and I don't have any torches?
    Community Answer
    The best thing to do if caught in the wild at night is to build yourself a makeshift shelter and wait it out. Many players recommend digging a hole and covering yourself up, while others recommend building a small cabin from wood.
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    How do I survive at the end world?
    Community Answer
    Have good armor, tools and a bow and arrows to shoot the crystals. Set your bed as a spawn point, so if you die you can come back. Don't do this in hardcore mode unless you want a true challenge.
  • Question
    How do I make a good house?
    Community Answer
    Use dyed wool for nice coloration and build with stone as it is a strong block.
  • Question
    What if I'm in a super flat world that only has dirt and bedrock?
    Community Answer
    Then you should create a new world that's not super flat, since surviving in a flat world is hard and will never give you the full experience of the game.
  • Question
    How many total diamonds are in each world or does it vary?
    Ollieoxenfree
    Community Answer
    It varies, since new land is always spawning as you explore the world.
  • Question
    What do I do when I'm swarmed by creepers?
    Happygreengirl12
    Community Answer
    Try to get your stuff safe and keep moving. Creepers are way slower than you, so if you sprint and jump you can probably get through them. They have a 1.8 second delay before they blow up, so move fast and there won't be a problem.
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    At which layers am I most likely to find iron?
    Community Answer
    A few blocks deeper than coal.
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    What is the Blaze's weakness?
    Community Answer
    Snowballs, Since its impossible to get water in the nether, use snowballs. Also, it helps to build a wall with a half slab as the gap for an easy view of their spawner. Then you can just kill ones that spawn and run to grab the rods.
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    How do I get mob heads?
    Community Answer
    You find a charged creeper (a creeper that is struck by lightning) and let it kill a mob by exploding. There is a chance that the head won't drop.
  • Question
    Should I go to nether without the diamond armor/sword?
    AlecassandraX
    Community Answer
    It depends. If you run into mobs like blazes or ghasts, then you'll need armor, a good durable sword, and/or a bow. If you're only mining, you'll only need some basic items. When you run into zombie pigmen, they will not attack unless you attack them first. Be careful not to fall into lava, since there are huge pools of lava all around the Nether.
  • Question
    How can I not be scared of caving?
    Ollieoxenfree
    Community Answer
    Make iron armor and pickaxes and an iron sword. Keep lots of torches and food with you. Develop a system of torch placing so you don't get lost, i.e. placing all your torches on the right so that when you come back up they're on your left. Watch your back and listen for creepers. Don't take anything you don't need into the cave.
  • Question
    How do I improve the basic shape of my house?
    Community Answer
    Well you could try making a 2 story house with an exotic shape like a star or triangle, and you should have specific rooms.
  • Question
    What if I spawn in a biome that is a small island and has no trees?
    Banana Head
    Top Answerer
    You could either pick a random direction and swim that way until you find land, or create a new world.
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    What if I spawn in the middle of a tiny island with nothing but an oak tree?
    Community Answer
    Make the most out of what you have. Oak leaves have a chance of dropping saplings. Then, get your first wood from the tree and start digging down.
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