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Magic in a Bottle

Magic in a Bottle

Another area in which you can dabble in order to dabble in order to apply some extra effects to yourself or nearby creatures is that of brewing. This allows you to make potions whi ...

A Plethora of Powers

A Plethora of Powers

Having built yourself an enchanting table, you might be interested to know a bit about what kind of stuff you can do with it. Adding enchantments To use the enchanting table, right ...

The Magic of Minecraft

The Magic of Minecraft

Throughout previous posts, you might have noticed references to enchanting your equipment or otherwise adding properties to it in order to make it better. Well, this is the part wh ...

Through the One-Way Portal!

Through the One-Way Portal!

Whenever you're ready, hop into the starry-looking portal and enter the End, home to only Endermen and one other inhabitant, who'll be described shortly. On appearing in the End, y ...

Seeking the End

Seeking the End

Despite being an endless game, Minecraft actually has an ending. That is, you can "complete the game" yet continue playing afterwards. But even if you're not interested in the endi ...

Denizens of the Nether

Denizens of the Nether

Unless you're playing in Peaceful mode, have turned monster spawning off, or your portal has come out in a tiny cave which you haven't yet explored beyond, you've probably encounte ...

Nether Blocks and Nether Wart

Nether Blocks and Nether Wart

Obviously, like the surface, the Nether is comprised of a variety of different blocks. There aren’t nearly as many down there as there are in the world up above, however. As mentio ...

Welcome to the Nether!

So you've stepped through your portal. The screen's gone all wibbly and then changed to a loading screen while the Nether is generated. And then there you are, standing in the wibbly purple stuff of your portal...but on the other side. Now you're in the Nether. First of all, step out of the portal so that you don't get accidentally sent straight back to the surface. But don't step too far! Just enough to ge ...

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A Holiday Somewhere Warm

As has been mentioned here and there in previous posts, there are a couple of other realms/worlds/dimensions you can access. The two are sort of opposites of each other, one being rather hot and enclosed while the other is more sort of open and...spacious. The first of these two realms is the Nether. To get there, you have to pass through a Nether portal. To access one of these, you have to build it. ...

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Pushing Power

One type of redstone machinery you can craft is the piston. These are very useful for moving blocks around. There are two varieties of piston... Piston These aren't too difficult to craft - you need four woden planks, three blocks of cobblestone, one iron ingot, and one little pile of redstone dust. Place the planks along the top of the crafting grid, the iron in the centre, the redstone dust beneath the ir ...

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Sending Signals

There are a few basic devices which can be used to send redstone signals. All of these can be crafted with little difficulty and all work in similar ways. Button Probably the simplest of all the triggers, buttons can be made from either stone or wood. A wooden button is crafted from one wooden plank (placed anywhere in the grid), while a stone button must be made from plain stone, not cobblestone. ...

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Doing Science

Minecraft has its own in-game power source - redstone. You can use this stuff to build all kinds of complicated circuitry and elaborate machinery, but here will be covered only the basics. Redstone Wire When you mine redstone ore, you'll get a few piles of redstone dust. This can be placed on the top surface of blocks - like minecart rails, patches of redstone dust will automatically link up to form redston ...

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