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i have learned do not jump into lava purposely thinking you can swim in it like water
sarcasm was implied here so get off my ****

i learned that the xbox version is seriously slow and that i should stick to pc :C

That water a majority of the time destroys tracks instead of just picking them up. So mad when my friend poured water down my mine. I lose so much gold and iron.

Quote from Jonerico

i learned that the xbox version is seriously slow and that i should stick to pc :C

How is it slow? What kind of Xbox do you have?

I learned in minecraft that

- While tundra/taiga biomes with large lakes make a wonderful flat surface to build on, The first time it snows all of your city's roads will be hidden!
- Snowballs, no matter how many you use, won't save you from a creeper. . . they only delay the inevitable!
- You can control the blast of a TNT block into a uniform 3X3x3 cube by digging 2 squares into the center of an area of stone then placing the TNT and setting it off.
- This is not true of Dirt and will kill you if you stand too close by and have rigged up multiple holes before you detonate the first!
- Wolves will often kill a nearby sheep leaving you with a mysterious block of wool just lying around.
- Wolves make great companions and help defend against most monsters, but make horrible roommates and like to keep you trapped in long hallways and thin caves!
- Wolves have no patience and will push you into the lake if you spend too long fishing!
- Pigs apparently hate gardens and will spawn inside of them and jump all over your wheat! (as long as you have rows of grass for them to spawn in)

I found out that this game way too addicting lol

1. After dropping a block of lava on a lava lake only the top layer turns into obsidian and lava is still below that layer. I learned that the hard way. I know pretty obvious but I was excited when I instantly turned lava into about 30 blocks of obsidian. That was a noob mistake.

2. You can crouch on a ladder and you stop going down. That has helped me when I need to work on something half way up on a high wall.

3. You can stack sugarcane and make a sugarcane fortress. I stacked it 30 high all around my base and use it as my walls. Looks pretty sweet.

These are probably all pretty obvious but this is stuff I learned.

Quote from DrifterWolf

I learned in minecraft that

- While tundra/taiga biomes with large lakes make a wonderful flat surface to build on, The first time it snows all of your city's roads will be hidden!
- Snowballs, no matter how many you use, won't save you from a creeper. . . they only delay the inevitable!
- You can control the blast of a TNT block into a uniform 3X3x3 cube by digging 2 squares into the center of an area of stone then placing the TNT and setting it off.
- This is not true of Dirt and will kill you if you stand too close by and have rigged up multiple holes before you detonate the first!
- Wolves will often kill a nearby sheep leaving you with a mysterious block of wool just lying around.
- Wolves make great companions and help defend against most monsters, but make horrible roommates and like to keep you trapped in long hallways and thin caves!
- Wolves have no patience and will push you into the lake if you spend too long fishing!
- Pigs apparently hate gardens and will spawn inside of them and jump all over your wheat! (as long as you have rows of grass for them to spawn in)

No kidding on the block of wool laying around. Took me ages to figure out where they were coming from until I finally saw a wolf devour a sheep. I felt bad for the sheep so I punished the wolf and didn't realize there were more wolves around the corner and I became the wolves dessert.

Quote from KiMillion

This can be one of the most annoying things iv'e ever had happen to me. . . iv'e had to make number of worlds due to this!

We've adapted by using glowstone for the center lines to keep snow from gathering there, and having a strip of grass with small trees planted along the outsides to get rid of most of the rest, but still when it first happened i almost bruised myself with an epic facepalm!

Quote from Neckernack

No kidding on the block of wool laying around. Took me ages to figure out where they were coming from until I finally saw a wolf devour a sheep. I felt bad for the sheep so I punished the wolf and didn't realize there were more wolves around the corner and I became the wolves dessert.

Took me forever until i saw it for myself too. It was one of those, 'Aha! Caught you', moments!

Quote from branm008

Slightly on topic: Using signs for air holes underwater has saved my life many times, or a temp air hole with a torch, works well indeed.

I like using doors for this, since you can set them on the ground instead of having to place it on a head-height block

I found out a few days ago that using ice in the bottom of a water slide that you go faster and farther than just water.

Quote from Valdarok

Haha Brilliant, you and me 2, I was playing in the same game as my bro (whos xbox is set up next to mine) and i was like "that skeleton has given me a disease my character is walking slowly!" for ages, until i randomly clicked every button till i found the solution

Same here. I ate food and slept and when that didn't work I went on google to find the cure. Then I found out about the crouch button...