#minecraft tips

Getting started in Minecraft can feel a bit overwhelming. With so many blocks, mobs, and crafting options, it’s easy to feel lost when you're just beginning.

When in the nether, always use a gold pickaxe

Gold is very common in the nether, making the low durability almost irrelevant

While gold can't mine normal gold ore, it can nether gold

Gold pics mine fast and netherack can be mined fast giving you a cheap insta mine

Gold is one of the 2 tool tiers you can smelt to get some material back. It's not much, but it adds up

Hoard like a goblin, as long as you have a chest to put it in. Yes, you will probably need all that extra stone for something. Yes, you will probably want all that netherrack as a cheap temporary block. No, you will probably not want all that uncobbled deepslate (let's not get crazy here).

If you have emeralds, the wandering trader is actually a decent early-game source of nautilus shells, saplings you don't have, and blue ice (which is good for redstone machines). You can also pop off his leads from his llamas, without killing him, by putting down a boat and letting the llamas sit in it. Please stop murdering the little guy...

I am a major advocate of abiding by The Three Laws Of Big Ugly Holes In The Ground. Which is a law I just made up, but is a common problem in Minecraft worlds where people undertake megaprojects. The Three Laws Of Big Ugly Holes states:

If you spend hours and hours digging a big, ugly hole in the ground for a project, you will now have a big ugly hole in the ground.

If you don't want to look at a big ugly hole in the ground, you may have to spend a lot of time and energy to make it look nice again.

And lastly, if you don't have the time or energy to fix the big ugly hole in the ground, you will have to look at it every single time you're in the area. Make sure you REALLY need that big ugly hole in the ground.

Barrels are excellent for building spruce furniture in Minecraft. But other villager work stations are also really good for building furniture! Cartography tables are excellent for building dark oak furniture and decor, because they look like they're made of dark oak. Likewise, fletching tables look like they're made of birch, so they're good for birch furniture. Bee hives also look like cardboard boxes or oak drawers.

Never underestimate the power of armor stands. They can really liven up a space, and there are some cool mods out there for posing them now. Disabling gravity also makes them less laggy.

Teach yourself just a little bit of redstone. You'll find ways to use it to benefit yourself.

If you're not going to be fighting other players, the Smite enchantment is probably going to be more useful to you than Sharpness. There are more undead enemies in the game than any other type, and suiting your melee weaponry towards them is a good idea. Add Fire Aspect, and you have a sword that can take out most monsters very quickly!

Allays and other flying mobs have difficulties navigating blocks that are not full blocks, such as trapdoors, fences, amethyst, and slabs. If you want your pets to free-range in your house, you may want to remove these obstacles to prevent them from getting stuck.

A complicated storage system will not fix your organizational habits. It might help! But if the idea of making one exhausts you, aim for something simpler, and you may find that any organization at all will help you more.

/execute in minecraft:[dimension] run tp [your username] [coordinates] (not part of the command but if you just want to be tp'd to exactly where you are rn use "~ ~ ~" (quotation marks not included in command))

and to set your spawn point in that dimension (again no mods):

/execute in minecraft:[dimension] run setspawnpoint [coordinates or ~ ~ ~]

dimension IDs are just "the_nether" and "the_end"

if you want to find a nether fortress or end city:

/locate structure (idk the specific ID of these structures but if you start typing them they should pop up and then you can press tab to select them) (and then once the confirmation message with coords of the structure pops up open chat again and click the coords to teleport yourself to them)

Oh my gosh I have so many recommendations

Pixlriffs Survival Guide!

The best I've got is Pixlriffs! He has the most beautiful survival guide <3 if your wanting to get back into unmodded survival he's your best bet! Pixlriffs' survival guide is on its third season now, and is a step by step letsplay showing you how everything works. I mean everything, even crafting!

Xisumavoids Minecraft Updates!

Great in-depth explanations about pretty much every update AND snapshot! <3 He explains what everything does and how it is applicable to how you play the game!

The Breakdown!

He's an absolute sweetheart <3 He's covered everything. From downloading minecraft to creating a server! I can't recommend him enough. He does alot of videos explaining how to install mods but there's still more than plenty about just playing non-modded minecraft!

Just watching people play!

One big thing I'd recommend is just watching people play minecraft! It can help you get a little more caught up on what's happened in the previous updates, and make sure your not so overwhelmed! Some YouTubers I recommend are "ijevin," "joehills," "solidaritygaming," "welsknight," and "xbcrafted"!!

Starting off small!

Going back to minecraft after a while can be very overwhelming, so try to start small. If all the new blocks are too much, go back a few updates until your comfortable! If building a base is too difficult, go live in a village or a cave! If the threat of mobs is scary, change the difficulty to peaceful! Or heck, just play in creative mode!

You know what's best for you

If any of these tips aren't working for you, don't feel like you have to follow them! Everyone experiences everything differently, and if what's works for me dosent for you then that's fine! What matters here is you enjoying yourself!

Fun Fact: the Jungle wood texture is just the Oak texture but sideways and blurred slightly!