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 which have a variety of effects. Brewing apparatus In order to get started, you'll need to have access to the Nether, so if you haven't already achieved that, you'll need to have done so, and found a Nether fortress, in order to do a ...

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-click it like you would any other usable block (like the crafting table) to bring up the interface. You can enchant any tools, weapons, or armour - place one such item in the box on the left of the interface and you'll see the th ...

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 where you get the explanation of how to do that. You might have noticed, as you gain experience from stuff, that you gain "levels", but that these levels don't seem to do anything - you don't become any stronger or gain extra abilit ...

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, you're likely to spawn in one of three different places. You might spawn simply standing at a random spot in the middle of the land somewhere, on the surface. This is probably the best of the three. Alternatively, you might find yo ...

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 ending part, you might be interested in the huge pile of exp you can get just prior to that. To see the ending, you have to access the End. This is a realm which is sort of the opposite of the Nether - it's a lot more open, and there' ...

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 encountered at least one of the Nether's inhabitants by now. If you haven't actually met any, you've probably at least heard a few weird noises over the burny-fire sounds. ...

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 mentioned, you’ll find lava and (if you go deep enough) bedrock in the Nether. You can also find large veins of gravel. Everything else is unique to the Nether, so unless you want to spawn it in via Creative Mode, you’ll have to go ther ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...