I'd say the easiest thing to do would be to speak with Phoenix as there is not a lot this guy doesn't know and even the stuff he's not too sure about he still knows.
Rumor has it that he is worshiped as a god like figure in his home town of Perfectus and as he is carried through the streets by his supplicants the locals bow to him.
20 foot mirrors have been specially molded to every wall in his manor so that the great overlord can view his perfections as he walks by.
He helped me realize that zombies aren't your enemy, they are just misunderstood.
I'm in the process of building my own world. Maybe ten or so hours in.
I haven't been able to play as much as i'd like to due to my tv being broken. So until i find a new one (for a reasonable price) i'm limited to after work with my cousin.
I'm excited to learn more though! Hopefully my world will turn into something good. I'm probably going to suscribe to xbox live again to see other worlds and get ideas and such.
I have read through the wiki on mining, taming animals and a few other odd ball things.
Thanks for the tips everyone!!!
Maybe i should just get a pc since that version seems alot more...well AWESOME!!!
General Farming tips:
Watered/wet land encourages crops to grow faster
Plowed land is harder to trample when watered/wet
Land becomes watered/wet when it is within 4 blocks of a water block. Once plowed it might take a few seconds to a couple of minutes to turn from dry to wet plowed land.
The most space efficient way to create a water/wet area for farming is to make a 9x9 plot with one block of water in the very center.
To make harvesting your plot more time efficient just place a lily pad or half slab over the water so that you don't have to hop in the water to grab your crops.
Alternately, you can put a light source over the water, glowstone, jackolanterns, redstone lamps and even solid blocks with a torch on top will help light the middle of your plot if you are having trouble with that.
Outside Farming Tips:
If farming outside, make sure your farm is well lit! This will ensure crops can continue to grow at night
Also, when farming outside it is helpful to fence off your farm so that mobs (peaceful and hostile) can't trample your crops.
Ranching tips:
When I am ranching I like to breed my animals first, then kill half the adults, this way my population for any specific animal stays the same at all times.
Also, when you have too many animals in one pen sometimes it can look like they've escaped by glitching through the fence surrounding the pen. To check if they've actually glitched or not I usually just punch them (with no weapon) and they glitch back inside the pen.
Keep your sheep safe from wolves (they eat sheep) by ensuring nothing can jump in the pen from outside
Keep your chickens safe from ocelots (they eat chickens) by ensuring nothing can jump in the pen from outside
To save on dye, dye your sheep, then breed them, the baby sheep they produce will be the same colour as one of it's parents
Also, save meat by only feeding your dogs/wolves rotten meat. Rotten meat gives you some sort of poisoning when you eat it, but dogs react to it as if it is any other meat
Thanks for the farming tips. The 9x9 block idea souds good.
But how do i get more wheat seeds? I read bread is an easy food source for pigs.
I'd like to have a pretty large wheat farm.
I made the bed like 5 minutes after my last post lol. I also noticed when i left the door open (newbie accident) that when i woke up my bed was surrounded by mobs. Lol
I also put crafting tables and furnaces near my supple points for wood, mining, home, ect.
I was able to get pretty far with my castle thats on top of a mountain.
Kinda stuck out on mining though. Got quite a but of coal but not much iron, which is what i'm after atm. Did i not go deep enough?
I did the go 3 over then horizontal mine strategy and although it did good at first i eventually was digging longer and longer just to find no pay streak. I did make a habit of removin torches on the way out and marking shafts with 1 block of dirt where i'v already mined so i would get confused.
Once again thanks for the tips on farming and ranching. Very helpful!
I think i may try pit ranching as taming animals seems like quite a process.
Bread use to be my favourite Minecraft food, but after the new update released potatoes, I now live off of baked potatoes. Baked potatoes restore as much hunger as bread if I remember correctly, and you get 3 potatoes out of every plot you you harvest. Compare that to bread, which takes 3 wheat just to make 1 bread, that means 3 plots of wheat produce 1 bread, but the same number of potato plots produce 9 potatoes. Due to this, a bigger field is needed when living off of bread then when living off of baked potatoes. If you don't feel like baking anything though, carrots are a great low maintenance food source. Easiest place to find carrots and potatoes is in a village.
Make animals follow you by holding the food they like eat to breed. Pigs eat carrots, chickens eat wheat seeds, cows and sheep eat wheat. When making an animal follow you make sure you don't travel too quickly, as they stop following you if you get too far away from them. If you plan to breed animals, you only need to lure 2 of each kind into a pen. Once you have two you can start breeding them to increase your population. You don't actually need to lure 2 chickens into a pen. You can get away with only getting one in there. Once you have one chicken in a pen, just make sure to collect it's eggs as often as possible (they drop every 5-10minutes). You can then toss the eggs you collect back into the pen (best to aim at the floor of the pen, not a wall) to get a chance to hatch a baby chicken, once the baby grows up you can then breed your chickens.
Also, a pressure plate on the inside of the door to your house will ensure you don't have to remember to close the door. This way, when you leave your house, as you walk over the plate it will open your door for you, and shut it after you've left. It will also force the door to shut after you come home. Don't put it on the outside though, if you do mobs will be able to open your door.
How deep did you go when you went mining? If your mine is in your castle, on a mountain, you probably haven't gone deep enough. You can look up on the wiki how deep you have to dig for certain ores, but to be honest with you,my best suggestion to help you really get a good foothold on your current save it to start digging at level 12 asap. When looking at your map, your depth on the map is marked by the number beside the Y. If you dig below Y16 you are digging deep enough to get any ore. Most people like to dig at Y12 (myself included) because at level 12 most of the lava you encounter is within the floor and more easy to manage, digging higher reduces your chance of finding diamonds (I think, though I'm not sure).
If you are going to mine at that depth (or close to it) you have to watch out for lava, it can be tricky when you haven't gotten the hang of how to manage it yet. To help deal with lava, don't dig out the blocks directly in front of you, instead stand 3 blocks back, then dig, that way if you do expose lava you have more time to correct the problem before you get lit on fire. Once lava is exposed, my suggestion is to block it off with a building block. When mining you should always have some sort of block in your hotbar so that you can quickly plop it down if you expose lava. In case you get lit on fire, keep a bucket of water in your hotbar while mining, just place the water on the ground and you'll put out the fire, once fire is out just use the bucket to pick your water back up.
A good exercise is to find a village and expand/improve/protect it. Build it up and use it as a base of operation.
The basic structures are already there so I just try to duplicate some of the templates and add some others of my own.
It's a good way to use up some of the extra cobblestone and dirt that I collect while mining for other resources.
By the way, you'll never find iron ore while you're looking for it. However, you'll find tons of it when you're looking for diamonds or coal.
And thanks a whole bunch for tellin me how to check my level depth.
I started mining in the bottom of a canyon. I followed a dead end cave probably ten to fifteen blocks down then started branching out.
I will try to dig down to level 12 an see what i find:D
And i always have either dirt or cobblestone in my hot bar^^
After mining i'll try and build a pen and lure some cows in with the weat i'v been growing. I'm also goin to try and build a light source so crops grow 24/7
I also plan to build a oak farm. Possibly underground. I'v been keeping as many saplings as i can find. Took me a while to figure out what they were for O.o
PixelDaisies is spot on. I've done the same as the advice they've given.
Also, grab some flowers and make different dyes....yellow, red, orange. If you have killed some skeletons and have bones, you can make pink with the bone meal. Go kill a squid for an ink sac for black. I think cocoa beans makes brown dye(just read that in the wiki a few days ago). Breed sheep, and dye different colors. I like 2 of each, that way you can breed more of a color you want. Take some stacks of dyed wool with you in caves. When they start branching off you can get turned around, but if you dig a hole and put wool in it's place, you can have a trail to find your way out. When a cave branches off, use different colored wool.
Best way to find diamonds is around lava pools. Pour water over the lava and dig around the walls on the edge of it. Also dig behind gravel, you usually find ores or caves behind it.
Do you know about infinate water sources? There are a couple of different ways to make them, but my favourite is, dig a 2x2 hole in the gound, make it only 1 block deep. Place water in one corner, then place water in the opposit corner. If you do this correctly, all 4 spots will turn to still water. Now you can fill up your buckets usuing this source, and as long as you dont grab the water too quickly, it will never run out.
Because of this, I never run around with more then 2 buckets of water on me (even if I have to fill in a 100x100 area of water).
Since it seems you have at least 6 buckets at this time, I'd also like to point out that you can collect lava with buckets, I have a chest full of lava buckets that I keep right beside my furnaces for smelting. 1 bucket of lava can smelt 100 blocks (1 coal will only smelt 8 blocks). I use lava for smelting because I don't mine that often, so I prefer to save my coal for torches.
Curious, can you make an infinite lava source the same way you can with water? I've never tried before but just got this idea.
I also like the idea of colored wool for mining different paths. I always get lost and then die trying to find my way out! Thanks for that tip!
I'm so glad they added animal breeding to XBox, I remember when I first started playing I built a million fence pieces and had to make channels to push cows into a pen so I could have cows That was a lot of work for no payoff!
I can't really think of any other tips to add but I love some of the info others have shared. I've been playing for a couple years now and I am still learning new things.
Well one day i downloaded and played the demo for xbox 360. And yep paid the $20 and was hooked!
I can't believe how simple/complex this game is at the same time. So many things to do and until i make a bed i always dread night:/
Juss wanted to see if yal had any tips for a newbie. I already know the basics:p
But any tips for farming/ranching. And mining also.
Thanks for reading fellow addicts.
Stay fluffy~
Rumor has it that he is worshiped as a god like figure in his home town of Perfectus and as he is carried through the streets by his supplicants the locals bow to him.
20 foot mirrors have been specially molded to every wall in his manor so that the great overlord can view his perfections as he walks by.
He helped me realize that zombies aren't your enemy, they are just misunderstood.
I'm in the process of building my own world. Maybe ten or so hours in.
I haven't been able to play as much as i'd like to due to my tv being broken. So until i find a new one (for a reasonable price) i'm limited to after work with my cousin.
I'm excited to learn more though! Hopefully my world will turn into something good. I'm probably going to suscribe to xbox live again to see other worlds and get ideas and such.
I have read through the wiki on mining, taming animals and a few other odd ball things.
Thanks for the tips everyone!!!
Maybe i should just get a pc since that version seems alot more...well AWESOME!!!
Watered/wet land encourages crops to grow faster
Plowed land is harder to trample when watered/wet
Land becomes watered/wet when it is within 4 blocks of a water block. Once plowed it might take a few seconds to a couple of minutes to turn from dry to wet plowed land.
The most space efficient way to create a water/wet area for farming is to make a 9x9 plot with one block of water in the very center.
To make harvesting your plot more time efficient just place a lily pad or half slab over the water so that you don't have to hop in the water to grab your crops.
Alternately, you can put a light source over the water, glowstone, jackolanterns, redstone lamps and even solid blocks with a torch on top will help light the middle of your plot if you are having trouble with that.
Outside Farming Tips:
If farming outside, make sure your farm is well lit! This will ensure crops can continue to grow at night
Also, when farming outside it is helpful to fence off your farm so that mobs (peaceful and hostile) can't trample your crops.
Ranching tips:
When I am ranching I like to breed my animals first, then kill half the adults, this way my population for any specific animal stays the same at all times.
Also, when you have too many animals in one pen sometimes it can look like they've escaped by glitching through the fence surrounding the pen. To check if they've actually glitched or not I usually just punch them (with no weapon) and they glitch back inside the pen.
Keep your sheep safe from wolves (they eat sheep) by ensuring nothing can jump in the pen from outside
Keep your chickens safe from ocelots (they eat chickens) by ensuring nothing can jump in the pen from outside
To save on dye, dye your sheep, then breed them, the baby sheep they produce will be the same colour as one of it's parents
Also, save meat by only feeding your dogs/wolves rotten meat. Rotten meat gives you some sort of poisoning when you eat it, but dogs react to it as if it is any other meat
The most important tip of all.
But how do i get more wheat seeds? I read bread is an easy food source for pigs.
I'd like to have a pretty large wheat farm.
I made the bed like 5 minutes after my last post lol. I also noticed when i left the door open (newbie accident) that when i woke up my bed was surrounded by mobs. Lol
I also put crafting tables and furnaces near my supple points for wood, mining, home, ect.
I was able to get pretty far with my castle thats on top of a mountain.
Kinda stuck out on mining though. Got quite a but of coal but not much iron, which is what i'm after atm. Did i not go deep enough?
I did the go 3 over then horizontal mine strategy and although it did good at first i eventually was digging longer and longer just to find no pay streak. I did make a habit of removin torches on the way out and marking shafts with 1 block of dirt where i'v already mined so i would get confused.
Once again thanks for the tips on farming and ranching. Very helpful!
I think i may try pit ranching as taming animals seems like quite a process.
Bread use to be my favourite Minecraft food, but after the new update released potatoes, I now live off of baked potatoes. Baked potatoes restore as much hunger as bread if I remember correctly, and you get 3 potatoes out of every plot you you harvest. Compare that to bread, which takes 3 wheat just to make 1 bread, that means 3 plots of wheat produce 1 bread, but the same number of potato plots produce 9 potatoes. Due to this, a bigger field is needed when living off of bread then when living off of baked potatoes. If you don't feel like baking anything though, carrots are a great low maintenance food source. Easiest place to find carrots and potatoes is in a village.
Make animals follow you by holding the food they like eat to breed. Pigs eat carrots, chickens eat wheat seeds, cows and sheep eat wheat. When making an animal follow you make sure you don't travel too quickly, as they stop following you if you get too far away from them. If you plan to breed animals, you only need to lure 2 of each kind into a pen. Once you have two you can start breeding them to increase your population. You don't actually need to lure 2 chickens into a pen. You can get away with only getting one in there. Once you have one chicken in a pen, just make sure to collect it's eggs as often as possible (they drop every 5-10minutes). You can then toss the eggs you collect back into the pen (best to aim at the floor of the pen, not a wall) to get a chance to hatch a baby chicken, once the baby grows up you can then breed your chickens.
Also, a pressure plate on the inside of the door to your house will ensure you don't have to remember to close the door. This way, when you leave your house, as you walk over the plate it will open your door for you, and shut it after you've left. It will also force the door to shut after you come home. Don't put it on the outside though, if you do mobs will be able to open your door.
How deep did you go when you went mining? If your mine is in your castle, on a mountain, you probably haven't gone deep enough. You can look up on the wiki how deep you have to dig for certain ores, but to be honest with you,my best suggestion to help you really get a good foothold on your current save it to start digging at level 12 asap. When looking at your map, your depth on the map is marked by the number beside the Y. If you dig below Y16 you are digging deep enough to get any ore. Most people like to dig at Y12 (myself included) because at level 12 most of the lava you encounter is within the floor and more easy to manage, digging higher reduces your chance of finding diamonds (I think, though I'm not sure).
If you are going to mine at that depth (or close to it) you have to watch out for lava, it can be tricky when you haven't gotten the hang of how to manage it yet. To help deal with lava, don't dig out the blocks directly in front of you, instead stand 3 blocks back, then dig, that way if you do expose lava you have more time to correct the problem before you get lit on fire. Once lava is exposed, my suggestion is to block it off with a building block. When mining you should always have some sort of block in your hotbar so that you can quickly plop it down if you expose lava. In case you get lit on fire, keep a bucket of water in your hotbar while mining, just place the water on the ground and you'll put out the fire, once fire is out just use the bucket to pick your water back up.
Lastly, keep the questions coming!
The basic structures are already there so I just try to duplicate some of the templates and add some others of my own.
It's a good way to use up some of the extra cobblestone and dirt that I collect while mining for other resources.
By the way, you'll never find iron ore while you're looking for it. However, you'll find tons of it when you're looking for diamonds or coal.
And thanks a whole bunch for tellin me how to check my level depth.
I started mining in the bottom of a canyon. I followed a dead end cave probably ten to fifteen blocks down then started branching out.
I will try to dig down to level 12 an see what i find:D
And i always have either dirt or cobblestone in my hot bar^^
After mining i'll try and build a pen and lure some cows in with the weat i'v been growing. I'm also goin to try and build a light source so crops grow 24/7
I also plan to build a oak farm. Possibly underground. I'v been keeping as many saplings as i can find. Took me a while to figure out what they were for O.o
Also, grab some flowers and make different dyes....yellow, red, orange. If you have killed some skeletons and have bones, you can make pink with the bone meal. Go kill a squid for an ink sac for black. I think cocoa beans makes brown dye(just read that in the wiki a few days ago). Breed sheep, and dye different colors. I like 2 of each, that way you can breed more of a color you want. Take some stacks of dyed wool with you in caves. When they start branching off you can get turned around, but if you dig a hole and put wool in it's place, you can have a trail to find your way out. When a cave branches off, use different colored wool.
I found alot of iron, coal, and redstone and even some gold, diamonds, 1 emerald and 3 of the blue thingy.
I also traveled a long ways to harvest some oak trees and i was sure to being back some sappling for my tree farm.
I thank you all for the tips as i am doing quite well now!!!
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Because of this, I never run around with more then 2 buckets of water on me (even if I have to fill in a 100x100 area of water).
Since it seems you have at least 6 buckets at this time, I'd also like to point out that you can collect lava with buckets, I have a chest full of lava buckets that I keep right beside my furnaces for smelting. 1 bucket of lava can smelt 100 blocks (1 coal will only smelt 8 blocks). I use lava for smelting because I don't mine that often, so I prefer to save my coal for torches.
I also like the idea of colored wool for mining different paths. I always get lost and then die trying to find my way out! Thanks for that tip!
I'm so glad they added animal breeding to XBox, I remember when I first started playing I built a million fence pieces and had to make channels to push cows into a pen so I could have cows
I can't really think of any other tips to add but I love some of the info others have shared. I've been playing for a couple years now and I am still learning new things.
No. Lava doesn't go infinite like water. Would be nice though!