Hello, this is Chezhead. I've been around the Minecraft community and the game for a long while, and have acquired a ton of information about both the singleplayer modes and the SMP modes. Remember, this guide is not just for newbies. I thought I knew everything about the game until someone used a lava bucket to smelt items! There are always new things to learn.
(I may have made this thread before, but I have a horrible memory.)
[b]Singleplayer:[/b]
[u]Starting off:[/u]
1: When starting off, never think about how your house looks, but how it works. I would recommended a simple cliff-side cave, as it requires no resources but the things used to make the tools, plus, it gives you plenty of resources from the stone you dug out!
2: First thing you should do is cut the nearest tree down to the ground with your fists. Work your way to a mountain, chopping each tree down. Immediatly on first sign of night, make a work bench, run to the closest mountain or cliffside, place the workbench, create a wooden pick, and work at making a small 4x4x3 chamber in the side, with a small space for a door. Place a door there. If you are fast enough, you should be able to make this with plenty of time to spare.
3: Always maximize time. Instead of sitting in your house, cowering in fear from creepers, make a tunnel going downwards into the ground, getting you plenty of stone and possibly getting you into a cave.
4: Always have at least two entrances or exits to your house. That way if a spider is camping it, you can exit another way.
5: Never engage an enemy mob until you have anything better than a stone sword.
6. The most effective mines are quarry mines. Make a 5x5 or larger hole in the ground, and dig down, taking away every block in that X by X area except for one to use as a stair. You will get lots of stone, as well as some good materials. When you reach the bottom, dig horizontally to get lots of diamond.
[u]General SP Tips for Aboveground Living and Exploration[/u]
1: A useful tip for making houses with the least amount of resources is to make a square house, but trimming the corners off. You are still enclosed and safe and sound.
2: Beacons are very useful for aboveground travel as well as cave travel. Just do the same as you would for the caves, so you can follow the torches home.
3: Always use coordinates for interesting spots. Pressing F3 shows your current location in a three-dimensional space. I have a folder called "Minecraft Coordinates" with two folders inside: "SP" and "SMP". Inside the SMP one is .txt files named after servers I am on, and in the SP server is the worlds I have. I would recommended this as well, so you can mark down any place you need to go back to, or if you get lost.
4: No matter what you are doing, always have the follow items with you: Food, pickax, sword, some dirt, some cobble, some wood, and torches.
5. Never put your bed against a wall. A glitch causes monsters to spawn at your bedside when you sleep and do this.
6. If you have a wolf that is sitting far away, and need it to come to you for whatever reason, throw an egg, snowball, or an arrow at it. It will stand up and run to you or possibly warp, if it is farther away.
7. Have a dock or boat landing? A stair or piece of wool will not break the boat if it collides with it! [i]-Chekko and MangoJuice[/i]
8. Half wood blocks when stacked on top together create a single, fireproof wood block. It's important for anyone who uses wood as a primary resource in building structures. [i]-BANNED USER[/i]
9. Clickmining is a faster way of mining blocks. Right before you usually break the block, release and click again, quickly. It makes it go a bit faster. There's a better way of saying it here.
[quote=featherblade, MCForums] A little known trick off of the forums is the Click Mining Technique. I have often referred it to speed mining, but that is linked to 'clocking', a glitch in SMP Alpha. The Click Mine is not a hack tool, nor is it able to be considered 'unethical' as far as role-play goes.
Click Mining is a skill. One can use it to boost the speed of mining stone, ores and even dirt.
So, what is Click Mining? Click Mining is just what it is: You re-click after destroying each block. It's not that hard. After you destroy a block, let go of the mouse button and re-click as fast as possible. There are two ways to boost your speed like this:
Let go of the mouse sooner after destroying the block.
AND
Re-click faster after destroying the block.
If you do it right, you can shave off approximately 0.154-0.160 seconds off of your block* destruction!
*Tested with cobblestone and wood, approximation due to error in skill and stopping the timer.[/quote]
10. Torches destroy gravel or sand easily, just put a torch underneath the block holding up the sand/gravel and remove the block. The sand/gravel will then fall down and be destroyed instantly by the torch. Perfect for tunneling through quickly and collecting a lot of sand and gravel in short time. (However flint is not generated this way) [i]-Sobotnik[/i]
11. Setting your clock ahead is a vanilla way to mine faster. Setting your computer's clock ahead makes you move and preform actions much faster while it tries to catch up. It's frowned upon in the community, but is an exploit, not a hack. [i]-Rocket[/i]
12. If you want to get a lot of friendly mobs' items, just place a torch or netherrakk/fire in a dark place near grass. Animals will spawn, and if you use fire, will sometimes kill themselves. Burned pigs = Cooked Pork.[i]-LaTrefle[/i]
[u]Caves:[/u]
1: Always have enough food to heal yourself to the full from only half a heart. There is no way to get pork or wheat underground unless you grow it under there.
2: As from above, if you plan to stay down there for a long time, bring some bonemeal, dirt, seeds, and a hoe. You can grow the seeds on the tilled dirt, and use bonemeal to make it wheat. Rinse and repeat to get as much wheat as you have bonemeal.
3: Lava is the cause of most deaths. When around it, always sneak and watch your back for mobs to push you into them. Block lava off so you can't fall into it.
4: Always, when entering a new area of this cave, look for overhangs first, then potential mobs, then holes in the ground you may fall into. Deal with these threats accordingly.
5: Always listen for mobs, so turn loud music off. Your hearing could save you from a pack of zombies falling from the ceiling.
6: General Checklist for cave exploration: 3 cooked pork, one stack of logs or planks, one chest, iron shovel, sword, and pickax, flint and steel, bow, stack of arrows, and 64 dirt.
[u]Permanent living in caves[/u]
The only things you can't get in caves are wood, flora, and friendly mobs. Here's how you can get everything you will ever need in caves:
1: As for mobs, find a way to track grass into the cave. Make a stairway from the surface made of dirt, and the grass will slowly make it's way in. Once it spreads inside, light it all up with torches, and you will have an endless supply of milk, pork, leather and feathers. Milk is the only thing that does not have a substitute that comes from mobs.
2: Make a farm right away, as well as a tree farm. Wood is the most valuable resource, and is lacking from caves. Once you make a tree farm, you do not need anything else to survive other than food.
3: If you have explored every facet of the cave, tunnel into new ones to start your empire in more caves.
4: Make a spawn trap in any dungeon you find to maximize the amount of things you have. Soon you will have a fully automated empire of mob factories, giving you bones and arrows whenever you please!
5: Here's a checklist of what to bring inside the cave from the start: 64+ Dirt, an iron tool of every kind, an extra pickax, bow, 64+ arrows, 32 seeds, 4 chests, 128 logs, 2 cooked pork, a bucket of lava and one of water, and a bit of coal, just in case.
6. Killing mobs is easy with gravel or sand! If you're above any mobs except skeletons, you can quickly place 2 gravel on top of them to suffocate them, skeletons being the exception here because they can just shoot at you while you do this. [i]-InvisibleTed[/i]
[b]Dungeons[/b]
If you see a dungeon, the first thing you should do is block it off. Then, listen for what sorts of things are in there. If you hear bones clinking together, it's a skelly dungeon. Moans and groans mean zombies. Hisses mean spiders. If you don't hear anything but possibly footsteps, it's probably a creeper dungeon.
a: Skeleton dungeons are easy to handle. Just make sure that you can block off every part of it that enables them to see you at eye level, so they can't shoot you. Then just get torches around the spawner or nab the stuff from the chest.
b: Zombie dungeons are even easier to handle, just dig around the sides, never making any 2x1 spaces for them to get through. Nab the chest.
c: Spider dungeons are even easier, just make a doorway where the chest is and grab it, never making any 1x2 areas for them to climb through.
d: Creeper dungeons are the hardest, as they could possibly blow up the entire dungeon on sight. Fill the place with water, as explosions are disabled in water. Then do the same as you would do for anything else and make a hole where the chest is. These do not naturally exist, but could exist in a future update.
[b]SMP[/b]
[u]Surviving in a PvP setting[/u]
SMP PvP is a difficult setting to live in. Here's some handy tips to settling down in it.
1: Stay in the spawn town until the crack of dawn. In that time, run as far as you can in one direction, until you are at a far away area that many people would never go, but is a relatively easy trek back to spawn.
2: Make your hideout 2 blocks into whatever you want, so no one can find it simply digging into the place one block.
3: The best place to hide this is inside a chunk, never at the edges. This is hard to tell, but if you find a chunk error, create it in the center and never go over the boundaries, so no one can find it by seeing a cross section of a missing chunk.
4: Hide your chest offside, in the middle of a chunk if possible. Place it three or so blocks underground, and don't leave any tell of where it may be. Write down the coordnates for future reference, and never leave a single empty block around it. A person using an x-ray texture pack can't find something unless it has empty air around it.
5: If you see anyone anywhere near your base, SNEAK. Never give them any idea that something is there. Wait until you cannot see their name and be wary for a while afterwards. If you can find a good position to see them without them spotting you, do so. If they don't have any good armor or weapons, stalk them and take them out.
[b]SMP PvP[/b]
This is a guide I wrote up in a separate thread, but applies to this as well.
I present to you a guide on the humble art of Player vs. Player. This is by far my favorite mode, and presents a few strategies. Here is a simple list to start you off. Note that this guide is for solo fighters or small groups, about 1-4.
1. Never, ever trust anyone. Unless it is a close friend you know from real life or known for a while on the internet, don't trust them. Always be suspicious, but never tell anyone these suspicions.
2. Never keep all your valuables on your person, and likewise, never keep all your valuables in one chest. If someone kills you or finds this one chest, all your things are gone. Hide chests in clever places, like underwater or in dirt. Never, ever keep them in an open base. Surround them on all sides with blocks so x-ray texture packs can never see them. For ultimate security, hide it somewhere random, like three blocks down in some random mountain. Write the coordinates down (press F3 to see these coordinates) or put them in a txt file in case you forget.
3. Travel in groups if you are a group person. Let's say you actually have friends that you trust and they trust you. Two people with iron swords and leather armor will likely beat someone with diamond swords and iron armor. Group strategy is key when working in groups, and make sure you discuss any sensitive topics over /msg or /tell.
4. Make outposts everywhere. If you have a base you are going to infiltrate, make an outpost near it, but not too close. That way you can do recon and have a safe place for the night.
5. SNEAK WHENEVER POSSIBLE. If you are building something, sneak. Climbing a ladder? Sneak. Sneaking hides your name when behind blocks, and someone seeing you could attempt to find and kill you. It may be slower, but it pays off.
6. Make bases with an ambush in mind. Create secret shortcuts and tunnels to hide in, or make corners designed for counter-attacking. Branching paths help too, especially when you understand them.
7. If you see someone following you, never let them know you see them or turn around. You can walk around a corner, sneak, then ambush them when they come around this corner as well.
8. Camouflage. Make a skin that is a dark green with plenty of noise, or a dark grey if you mostly work and fight in caves. It will not hide the name tag, but sneaking does make your tag darker and more transparent, so camo could save your skin.
9. Bows and arrows are required. Get them as soon as possible. You can't harm anyone that isn't close to you, except with a bow and arrows.
10. Use recoil to your advantage. Arrows have good knockback, so use them if someone is near the edge of a cliff or lava.
11. Always have food on yourself. When two people come together to murder each other, they both can have full diamond armor and diamond swords, but the only variable is the amount of food or arrows. Stock up on both before a large fight or raid.
12. Always wear earphones or have speakers on. Without them, you could miss someone tunneling into your base and not be properly prepared.
13. If possible, choose the battlefield. If you have someone on their tail, lead them into an area you know, so you can hide in places you know of and such. Even better, combat-prepare your bases or locations of hiding by adding nooks and crannies, as well as shortcuts and secret tunnels, as stated before.
14. Never hesitate to run from a fight. There will always be someone smarter, stronger, or more prepared than you, and it is better to keep your equipment and run then stay and die against some person with diamond armor and swords.
15. When you lose, keep your cool. Never yell at someone and call them a "n00b" or any other insult, but congratulate them and keep your cool. You would be respected by many other users and look more mature than you may actually be.
16. Know thine enemy. If you know someone to sneak around and kill people, use that against them. Find ways to exploit people's strategies.
17. Create fear. People will be more nervous fighting you if you have a reputation for sneaking around and playing with your prey. With enough time and effort, you can get anyone to run away from you on sight.
18. Carry a stone or iron sword if you have the space. Along with being useful for killing friendly mobs instead of wasting diamond tools, you can bluff and make it seem as if you are weaker, causing others to engage you instead of cowering from your diamond tools.
19. Have your battle necessities in easy-to-reach spots. I would say having your sword at 4 on your hotbar, food at 5 and 6, bow at three, pickax at 2, and a shovel at 1.
20. Flint and steel are great for corridor combat. You can place some behind you and run, causing people to have to either spend time to put it out or run right through it, causing a waste of time or health.
21. Create efficient bases. Never make something in the open unless it is a trap. Hide your bases in mountainsides and under dirt, so no one can find it unless they dig there.
22. Making a mob trap is a great idea if you need to get food or leather quickly. All you need to do is place a single log on the ground and light the top on fire. It won't go out (in SMP) and during night, friendly mobs will spawn at it and kill themselves in the fire. Make sure you are nearby so these animals actually spawn.
23. Sneak through enemy bases. Always look for traps. The only way to trigger them is a pressure pad, so keep your eyes on the ground.
24: If you have some sort of room that is blocked off by dirt, put a torch on the opposite side of it than which someone would destroy it. When the person destroys it, the torch falls, and if they replace it, the torch is not there. That way, you can tell which rooms someone has gone through if you are stalking them or being ambushed.
25. WOLVES are the most effective strategy as of 1.5. If you get more than 7, you can pretty much win any fight with someone of your equipment or one step above.
26.Torches can hold up sand and gravel, making it perfect for making a collapsing floor trap to guard your loot in a PvP server. [i]-A Purple Rock[/i]
27. Another trap: The lava trap.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsAY0wPKa5Y[/media]
The most important tip: [i]INTELLIGENCE IS KEY[/i]. A good ambush or trap is better than any diamond armor.
[b]Useful Links:[/b]
[url=http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Mining]Effective Mining[/url]
[u]Ore levels[/u]
[img]http://gyazo.com/f77722d32785e39612d6ee75c9937283.png[/img]
[u]Percentage of Ore by Height Graph[/u]
[img]http://www.minecraftwiki.net/images/c/ca/PercentOfOreByHeight.png[/img]
If you have any questions about SMP PvP, or need some strategy help, feel free to ask in this thread or over a PM.
If you have any questions or things you may want to add, just tell me in this thread or over PM.
Having a stair in the water facing the surface won't damage the boat if collided. Perfect for docks.
[QUOTE=Chekko;29433792]Having a stair in the water facing the surface won't damage the boat if collided. Perfect for docks.[/QUOTE]
Same with wool.
Turns out trying to ride a creeper isn't the best idea.
[QUOTE=Chekko;29433792]Having a stair in the water facing the surface won't damage the boat if collided. Perfect for docks.[/QUOTE]
:aaaaa:
[QUOTE=MangoJuice;29433834]Same with wool.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Chekko;29433792]Having a stair in the water facing the surface won't damage the boat if collided. Perfect for docks.[/QUOTE]
News to me! Added to the OP (with credit), and will likely be used in all my maps forthcoming!
Half wood blocks when stacked on top together create a single, fireproof wood block. It's important for anyone who uses wood as a primary resource in building structures.
This is like the 5th time this thread has been done.
Torches can hold up sand and gravel.
Perfect for making a collapsing floor trap to guard your loot in a PvP server
[QUOTE=apurplerock;29434129]Torches can hold up sand and gravel.
Perfect for making a collapsing floor trap to guard your loot in a PvP server[/QUOTE]
They also destroy it easily, just put a torch underneath the block holding up the sand/gravel and remove the block. The sand/gravel will then fall down and be destroyed instantly by the torch. Perfect for tunneling through quickly and collecting a lot of sand and gravel in short time. (However flint is not generated this way)
I posted a bit about clickmining, a little-known glitch that is actually quite useful.
[QUOTE=Chezhead;29433764]7. Have a dock or boat landing? A stair or piece of wool will not break the boat if it collides with it! -Chekko and MangoJuice[/QUOTE]
Did not know this, will help a bunch. Thanks
I thought Notch had fixed clickmining a while ago? I can't seem to do it anymore.
[QUOTE=Karahaut;29434359]I thought Notch had fixed clickmining a while ago? I can't seem to do it anymore.[/QUOTE]
I can do it, I was just using it before I posted this. It truly is a skill, is possibly just a mental placebo for me.
Don't get fucked in the butt by a zombie. It hurts.
[QUOTE=Ninjarooster;29434312]Did not know this, will help a bunch. Thanks[/QUOTE]
Thank Chekko and MangoJuice, they were the ones who contributed it!
[QUOTE=Rocket;29434472]Don't forget the glitch where changing your OS clock forward will speed up the mining.[/QUOTE]
Whenever I do that it only works for a couple of minutes, then it reverts to normal speed. It does this no matter how much I set the clock forward.
[QUOTE=Rocket;29434472]Don't forget the glitch where changing your OS clock forward will speed up the mining.[/QUOTE]
That's more of a hack or exploit, but I'll add it.
If you're above any mobs except skeletons, you can quickly place 2 gravel on top of them to suffocate them, skeletons being the exception here because they can just shoot at you while you do this.
[QUOTE=InvisibleTed;29434931]If you're above any mobs except skeletons, you can quickly place 2 gravel on top of them to suffocate them, skeletons being the exception here because they can just shoot at you while you do this.[/QUOTE]
Added. Any more, people?
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;29434104]This is like the 5th time this thread has been done.[/QUOTE]
Except this is superb.
I tried setting my clock ahead an hour and examine the effects.
[b]COWS[/b]
[b]COWS ON CRACK[/b]
To get items from animals easily, go to a dark place in night, and put a torch, make a run and come back.
Tons of party animals.
Break half blocks with a pick
[QUOTE=LaTrefle;29442534]To get items from animals easily, go to a dark place in night, and put a torch, make a run and come back.
Tons of party animals.[/QUOTE]
When forest fires used to stay around due to that log glitch, animals would kill themselves on the flames, making a giant party of items and death.
for pvp thieves:
If you find a chest full of single stacks of something (E.G. full of single diamond stacks) you're probably in a trap and this is to distract you. Either break the chest and get everything quickly and then leg it (which may have consequences with a really smartass house designer, in which case you should look for an easier place to steal from), or just leg it.
For hiding chests:
Placing a chest underneath lava does not destroy the chest, but you may still access it and due to lava it is not visible. Random lava in your house may be obvious, but lava pools in your caves are not. Be careful that nobody will be turning your lava into obsidian though, it's pretty awkward when you go to loot your chest and theres a layer of obsidian between you and your diamond stash.
Best place to hide chests is several dozen blocks away from your house under sand.
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