Hey,
I am new to minecraft. Thanks to the wiki and helpful friends I have been doing relatively well but I have a few questions:
I have looked up many times where to get coal and it says you will find it in between stone. However I have looked all around big areas of stone and there is no coal to be seen. I really need it to power torches -- I have a few torches that my friend gave me, but thats only enough to light my house. I know my friend had to get the torches somewhere and if I am not mistaken, you cannot transfer items through worlds so I know it had to have been on my map. Is there anything I am missing?
How deep to diamond/iron/gold tend to be? I have tried mining (though i can only mine so much with no torches) and they seem non existant.
I have heard the only way to get records is to get a skeleton to shoot a creeper. The best way to do this is to make a record farm but how would I do that? It sounds so complicated.
Hey,
I am new to minecraft. Thanks to the wiki and helpful friends I have been doing relatively well but I have a few questions:
I have looked up many times where to get coal and it says you will find it in between stone. However I have looked all around big areas of stone and there is no coal to be seen. I really need it to power torches -- I have a few torches that my friend gave me, but thats only enough to light my house. I know my friend had to get the torches somewhere and if I am not mistaken, you cannot transfer items through worlds so I know it had to have been on my map. Is there anything I am missing?
How deep to diamond/iron/gold tend to be? I have tried mining (though i can only mine so much with no torches) and they seem non existant.
I have heard the only way to get records is to get a skeleton to shoot a creeper. The best way to do this is to make a record farm but how would I do that? It sounds so complicated.
Is there anything else I should know?
Thanks
First the coal blocks are the blocks with block spots and they are abundant. If you have 8 cobble stones you can make a furnace and burn wood with wood as fuel to get charcoal for torches. Also the best place to mind is Y=13 to Y=16. Just above lava surface and you will find gold diamond redstone blue stones and Iron. And lots of coal. To get down there you will need torches but dig down in a 5 by 5 square
Thanks a bunch guys. I was able to find a big thing of coal and now I have a bunch of torches. Didnt know about charcol, I already have a furnace and plenty of wood so I should be able to make it pretty easily.
Good to know about all the precious metals, I will have to look around there. Where exactly is Y13-Y16 though?
Also about the discs, how exactly would I get a skeleton to hit a creeper? Move next to the creeper than quickly move? Sounds really risky.
In addition I have one more questions:
I just went out sailing and I found a very weird island with grey dirt blocks, red cows, and trees that dropped mushrooms. What is that place? Did my charecter have too many mushrooms? (pun intended)
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Oh and at my house, there are two guest bedrooms. One is fine but one, the one one the top, has a glitch in which the game thinks it is outside (i.e. anyone sleeping in it wakes up outside and you cannot sleep in it if there are monsters outside. I tried raising the roof thinking it may help but it doesnt.
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Just put your bed farther from a wall. The height won't matter much, it's the width and how close your bed is to a wall. If you look on your map that you spawned with, there are coordinates at the top. Y is the level you're on. You want to dig down to level so and so and mine there.
Those might be the best places to search for the stuff....
However:
Gold = y32 and below
Diamond = y16 and below
Iron = 60 and below (if I am not mistaken, below the sea/ocean level)
Redstone, Lapis can be found same as gold at those levels.
Coal is generally everywhere near and in stone. So a lot of digging sometimes amounts more. (LIke others said, charcoal is better when actual coal is not available for a time)
That would be depth for roughly the top most Y level each can be found at, even if there are better Y levels to be mining at you will still be able to find some at those others above to the max Y mentioned.
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My First World, always getting back to is a pleasure I enjoy with each new update that brings in more things to add in.
I believe the record farm you refer to is only in PC for now since that update hasn't come into MCX360, but for now you can find them in chest that are found in dungeons or get them from creative mode.
That's Mooshoom Island. I have one and transferred the "red cows" under the ocean to my place. That was a long process. However, they are very useful. Milk them with a brown bowl and you get mushroom stew. Shear them you get mushrooms but they turn to regular cows. Kill them you get beef. Wheat still makes them breed. I heard the island doesn't allow monsters to spawn but not isn't what I experienced.
I believe the record farm you refer to is only in PC for now since that update hasn't come into MCX360, but for now you can find them in chest that are found in dungeons or get them from creative mode.
You can get records from a skeleton shooting a creeper. I have two in one of my worlds because of it. It's kind of hard to do...but it's possible.
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To get a skeleton to shoot and KILL a creeper, you'd have to hit the creeper three times with an iron sword and then get it in between you and a skeleton and literally just walk around backwards and wish for the best haha. Mobs do spawn on any biome.
I have heard the only way to get records is to get a skeleton to shoot a creeper. The best way to do this is to make a record farm but how would I do that? It sounds so complicated.
I haven't actually used this yet but this video was posted recently.
It does seem like a clever idea, very resource friendly and no special skills to construct. Seems like it would be very hit and miss, mostly miss, but easy to utilize.
That creeper trap is a good idea. I'm not sure how to get pistons but everything else is very easy to get. Also I would need to get pretty lucky in terms of a creeper and skeleton wandering in but it may just happen.
I dont have a iron sword but even if I did that sounds very iffy. I would just have to pray the creeper didnt expolde/the skeleton didnt hit me/etc.
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I use this build for records and exp. Overlook explains it well and it works fantastically.
I have so many bones, arrows, and other drops its not even funny. I throw away music disks (double chest full and 2 full sets in my house). It took me awhile to light up the caves (turns out I built mine right above one of the largest ravines Iv seen that was attached to huge cave system. 2k plus torches so far and Im still finding ravines and caves.
I tried mining around a little bit but I had no luck either time -- I only found coal (which I have way too much of now) and cobblestone. I got next to a body of water than digged around 16 squares down -- am I doing it wrong? It would probably be easier with a map but for some reason I didnt spawn with one and it requires iron to make which you have to dig for
Any advice?
Oh and the gravity crusher looks really useful. I think I will try that...
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Dig down until you hit bedrock. That should be layers 1-5. Then go up about 10 steps and start digging a hall. You should get enough iron soon enough to make a compass. Also you should find diamond, gold, and redstone. I don't mind having too much cobblestone or coal, but I hate having so much dirt.
May I suggest you watch a few YouTube videos... basic tutorials on various things you can build and let's plays that walk you through the basic things like finding coal and iron and such. If watching videos from the PC version, focus on those that are over a year old now so that you don't get confused by features the Xbox Edition doesn't have yet.
I'm a newbie myself, but since I don't want to have to wait for someone here to answer a question, I read the Minecraft wiki a lot, studied various tutorials, and watched some useful videos. This has saved me considerable time and occasional embarrassment.
One important thing you need if you're going mining: a bucket of water. I usually carry a couple (and build a pool of water at bedrock level just in case I need a refill). That way, if you break through into a lava chamber (listen for the "bloop" sound as warning) you can throw water on it and not have your passageway full of lava, with the possible side effect of incinerating yourself.
If you just totally can't find any iron, set the mode to Peaceful and visit a cave or two; you should find some exposed iron you can mine easily. Also, study up on what the various types of ore look like and which tools you need to mine them properly. For instance, the only reason you should ever mine diamond ore without a Fortune enchantment on your pick is if you need some to build your enchanting table.
When I'm mining, I carry a supply of stone pickaxes (general purpose, cheap to make) for basic stone, coal, and iron, an unenchanted iron pickaxe to mine gold with, an iron pickaxe with the Fortune enchantment for redstone, lapis lazuli, and of course diamonds, and a diamond pickaxe with Unbreaking to mine obsidian with (see above regarding buckets of water). If I wasn't so lazy I'd build an exp farm so I could get plenty of exp to enchant with and not have to worry about wearing out my Fortune-enchanted pickaxe.
I did get over my laziness enough to build a skeleton farm on a handy surface dungeon (I'm playing a world from the "incredible dungeons" seed mentioned in the seed section) and I wish I'd done it sooner. I'll never run short of bones and arrows again, or at least if I do, I just have to AFK in the pickup area of my skeleton immolator for a while to restock. Of course, just as I was thinking I'd done something pretty cool (complete with a sticky piston-based cover for a skylight to shut off the spawner if I need to go in there) I saw that video of the "Weird Science" roller coaster ... okay, now I feel like a toddler in the Olympics.
Duplicate your world for a creative-mode game (just use the same seed, but set the type to "creative") to experiment. That way you can learn how to do things and keep trying them out until you get the hang of it. By the time I was ready to build my skeleton immolator for real, I'd tried several different options in my creative duplicate and learned how to do it right. (I just wish I'd dug down one block farther in my tests; when I did so in the real game, I fell into a cave and right on top of a creeper! Glad I had some good armor on!)
The skeleton immolator was an easy build. So was the ducken egg farm ... though I don't really know why I built that, because I'm already up to my eyeballs in more ducken eggs than I know what to do with.
IMO, as a newbie it's legitimate to take some easy routes while you're learning things. Experiment on a duplicate of your world in creative mode. Set the game to peaceful to check out the Nether (and grab some netherrack to put in a fireplace). Save before you do anything risky, so you can reload if it goes badly wrong. There will be plenty of time to do everything the hard way once you understand how Minecraft works. The game gives us training wheels for a reason.
I did it! I used your tricks, StruckLake, and I got some good stuff while mining! No to diamond, but yes to redstone, iron, and gold! The question is -- what should I build?
I have already built a iron pickaxe out of iron, so I am down to 3 iron, one short of a compass :/. I also only have 3 gold. I do have 20 redstone though. What should I use it all for?
Youtube vids on minecraft sound like a good idea. I reckon I shall go check some out right now...
There isnt a desert near by me, so that wouldnt work. Also knowing me, the creeper would probably blow me up. I suck at dealing with creepers
A skeleton farm sounds like a good idea as I could always use more bones, but I really want more string (for bows and fishing rods) which is obviously from spiders. How do you set up a spider farm?
By the way, thanks to everyone on here for answering all my questions
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I did it! I used your tricks, StruckLake, and I got some good stuff while mining! No to diamond, but yes to redstone, iron, and gold! The question is -- what should I build?
I have already built a iron pickaxe out of iron, so I am down to 3 iron, one short of a compass :/. I also only have 3 gold. I do have 20 redstone though. What should I use it all for?
Youtube vids on minecraft sound like a good idea. I reckon I shall go check some out right now...
There isnt a desert near by me, so that wouldnt work. Also knowing me, the creeper would probably blow me up. I suck at dealing with creepers
A skeleton farm sounds like a good idea as I could always use more bones, but I really want more string (for bows and fishing rods) which is obviously from spiders. How do you set up a spider farm?
By the way, thanks to everyone on here for answering all my questions
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I am new to minecraft. Thanks to the wiki and helpful friends I have been doing relatively well but I have a few questions:
I have looked up many times where to get coal and it says you will find it in between stone. However I have looked all around big areas of stone and there is no coal to be seen. I really need it to power torches -- I have a few torches that my friend gave me, but thats only enough to light my house. I know my friend had to get the torches somewhere and if I am not mistaken, you cannot transfer items through worlds so I know it had to have been on my map. Is there anything I am missing?
How deep to diamond/iron/gold tend to be? I have tried mining (though i can only mine so much with no torches) and they seem non existant.
I have heard the only way to get records is to get a skeleton to shoot a creeper. The best way to do this is to make a record farm but how would I do that? It sounds so complicated.
Is there anything else I should know?
Thanks
First the coal blocks are the blocks with block spots and they are abundant. If you have 8 cobble stones you can make a furnace and burn wood with wood as fuel to get charcoal for torches. Also the best place to mind is Y=13 to Y=16. Just above lava surface and you will find gold diamond redstone blue stones and Iron. And lots of coal. To get down there you will need torches but dig down in a 5 by 5 square
Good to know about all the precious metals, I will have to look around there. Where exactly is Y13-Y16 though?
Also about the discs, how exactly would I get a skeleton to hit a creeper? Move next to the creeper than quickly move? Sounds really risky.
In addition I have one more questions:
I just went out sailing and I found a very weird island with grey dirt blocks, red cows, and trees that dropped mushrooms. What is that place? Did my charecter have too many mushrooms? (pun intended)
However:
Gold = y32 and below
Diamond = y16 and below
Iron = 60 and below (if I am not mistaken, below the sea/ocean level)
Redstone, Lapis can be found same as gold at those levels.
Coal is generally everywhere near and in stone. So a lot of digging sometimes amounts more. (LIke others said, charcoal is better when actual coal is not available for a time)
That would be depth for roughly the top most Y level each can be found at, even if there are better Y levels to be mining at you will still be able to find some at those others above to the max Y mentioned.
You can get records from a skeleton shooting a creeper. I have two in one of my worlds because of it. It's kind of hard to do...but it's possible.
Okay I have heard about mooshroom island. So monsters can spawn there? It isnt worth moving there then or what?
Okay I will try moving my bed from the wall. Hopefully that will work...
Good to know I will check those areas.
Whats the best way to get a skelton to shoot a creeper? How do you do it?
And lol thanks
I haven't actually used this yet but this video was posted recently.
It does seem like a clever idea, very resource friendly and no special skills to construct. Seems like it would be very hit and miss, mostly miss, but easy to utilize.
I dont have a iron sword but even if I did that sounds very iffy. I would just have to pray the creeper didnt expolde/the skeleton didnt hit me/etc.
I have so many bones, arrows, and other drops its not even funny. I throw away music disks (double chest full and 2 full sets in my house). It took me awhile to light up the caves (turns out I built mine right above one of the largest ravines Iv seen that was attached to huge cave system. 2k plus torches so far and Im still finding ravines and caves.
Any advice?
Oh and the gravity crusher looks really useful. I think I will try that...
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Retired StaffOne important thing you need if you're going mining: a bucket of water. I usually carry a couple (and build a pool of water at bedrock level just in case I need a refill). That way, if you break through into a lava chamber (listen for the "bloop" sound as warning) you can throw water on it and not have your passageway full of lava, with the possible side effect of incinerating yourself.
If you just totally can't find any iron, set the mode to Peaceful and visit a cave or two; you should find some exposed iron you can mine easily. Also, study up on what the various types of ore look like and which tools you need to mine them properly. For instance, the only reason you should ever mine diamond ore without a Fortune enchantment on your pick is if you need some to build your enchanting table.
When I'm mining, I carry a supply of stone pickaxes (general purpose, cheap to make) for basic stone, coal, and iron, an unenchanted iron pickaxe to mine gold with, an iron pickaxe with the Fortune enchantment for redstone, lapis lazuli, and of course diamonds, and a diamond pickaxe with Unbreaking to mine obsidian with (see above regarding buckets of water). If I wasn't so lazy I'd build an exp farm so I could get plenty of exp to enchant with and not have to worry about wearing out my Fortune-enchanted pickaxe.
I did get over my laziness enough to build a skeleton farm on a handy surface dungeon (I'm playing a world from the "incredible dungeons" seed mentioned in the seed section) and I wish I'd done it sooner. I'll never run short of bones and arrows again, or at least if I do, I just have to AFK in the pickup area of my skeleton immolator for a while to restock. Of course, just as I was thinking I'd done something pretty cool (complete with a sticky piston-based cover for a skylight to shut off the spawner if I need to go in there) I saw that video of the "Weird Science" roller coaster ... okay, now I feel like a toddler in the Olympics.
Duplicate your world for a creative-mode game (just use the same seed, but set the type to "creative") to experiment. That way you can learn how to do things and keep trying them out until you get the hang of it. By the time I was ready to build my skeleton immolator for real, I'd tried several different options in my creative duplicate and learned how to do it right. (I just wish I'd dug down one block farther in my tests; when I did so in the real game, I fell into a cave and right on top of a creeper! Glad I had some good armor on!)
The skeleton immolator was an easy build. So was the ducken egg farm ... though I don't really know why I built that, because I'm already up to my eyeballs in more ducken eggs than I know what to do with.
IMO, as a newbie it's legitimate to take some easy routes while you're learning things. Experiment on a duplicate of your world in creative mode. Set the game to peaceful to check out the Nether (and grab some netherrack to put in a fireplace). Save before you do anything risky, so you can reload if it goes badly wrong. There will be plenty of time to do everything the hard way once you understand how Minecraft works. The game gives us training wheels for a reason.
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I have already built a iron pickaxe out of iron, so I am down to 3 iron, one short of a compass :/. I also only have 3 gold. I do have 20 redstone though. What should I use it all for?
Youtube vids on minecraft sound like a good idea. I reckon I shall go check some out right now...
There isnt a desert near by me, so that wouldnt work. Also knowing me, the creeper would probably blow me up. I suck at dealing with creepers
A skeleton farm sounds like a good idea as I could always use more bones, but I really want more string (for bows and fishing rods) which is obviously from spiders. How do you set up a spider farm?
By the way, thanks to everyone on here for answering all my questions
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