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Update 1.21.30

A new update is here! 1.21.30 is the newest update as of 2025 Jan.2 and has lots of added features! To begin a big one is the new biome called the pale forest. The most noticeable thing in the biome is the new trees called pale oak.

Diary of a Minecrafter

Diary of a Minecrafter

Mar 24 2025 Dear Diary, How are you? I haven't played Minecraft in a while and I'm glad to get back into it! Today we played in yet another survival world, which we have already built some houses and explored. A few days ago, we played

Diary of a Minecrafter

Diary of a Minecrafter

Jan 4 2025 Dear Diary, Today I played in Bedrock Edition, with some other friends. When I joined their world, they asked me to build a tree house and I gladly accepted. I mean, who wouldn't want another house? I started on my house right away, with blue

Bamboo

Bamboo is a plant that grows in the jungle biomes in Minecraft, but not the Sparse jungle. As well as its fast ability to grow, it also is a great material for building, as it offers plenty of things to build and has good looks. Bamboo is a more yellow-ish

Strongholds

Strongholds are essential to the game because they are the only way to get to the End. To find one you need to right click with eyes of ender and they will go in the direction of the nearest stronghold. After a little while, they will go directly into the

Battling Methods

When battling mobs you need the right weapons for the job. Sometimes you can retreat but you must be prepared to fight. Sword and Shield: Sometimes simple weapons are deadly! A sword is a great way to kill mobs quickly, as they do a lot of damage. Use your shield

Raids

To first start a raid you have to get shot by a pilliger with a banner and get the bad omen effect. And then, when you walk into a village (See Villages) you will trigger a raid. A raid comes in waves when hostile mobs like pillagers and evokers will

Types of Mining

In Minecraft, mining is an essential thing to do. You can get many ores and blocks that you need to beat the game and to help with amour and weapons. There are many types of mining techniques. This post will talk about the two common ones. Caving and Branch mining.

How To Find Diamonds

One of the easiest ways to find diamonds is just to walk right into a cave! But obviously its not exactly that easy😭. You need to bring lots of resources (see resources to bring into a cave) and you'll need to get down to about Y= -... about

Ancient debris

Ancient debris is a rare block found only in the Nether. It when smelted they turn into ancient scraps. By crafting ancient scraps with gold ingots you create netherite ingots. You can then use an smithing template to upgrade your best weapons and armour.

Beacons

Beacons are a beam of light that shines infinitely upward. They help players find their way around the world and not get lost. They give players special powers/effect. You have to right click on the beacon, and a inventory screen will pop up. You have to give the beacon

Sniffer

Sniffers are a new update to Minecraft. They do not spawn naturally, but they do hatch from eggs. Their eggs are found in the warm ocean ruins in suspicious sand (sand that when you brush, you get an item out of it). Sniffers dig seeds and natural blocks from the

What is the Strongest Combat Item or Tool?

The most strongest combat item or tool is an enchanted netherite axe. You can enchant it to have special effects, to be stronger, but netherite itself is super strong (stronger than diamond!). Netherite is hard to find/craft. You have to craft gold ingots with Netherite scraps to get one

Mooshrooms

Mooshrooms are a type of cow that lives in the mushroom fields biome, along with mushrooms. This passive mob is helpful to players. If you find one, you can right click with a bowl in your hand, and you can infinitely get mushroom stew. If you shear one, it will

Welcome to Minecraft Blog!

Here you will find techniques, ideas, and tutorials, about Minecraft! These helpful tips are unofficial and are opinions from our team of Minecrafters. Even if they're unofficial, they still are techniques that make the game more fun, and you might even learn things that you didn't

Happy April Fools Day!

These are some funny Minecraft jokes to get you laughing your head off! What’s a Ghast’s favorite country? The Nether-Lands! Why can’t the Ender Dragon read a book? Because he always starts at the end! Why didn’t the Enderman cross the road? Because he teleported instead!

Survival Mode

Survival mode is a mode in which you have to eat, fight, mine, build and craft to survive. Monsters will try to kill you and you have to fight back or run . If you run out of hunger you will lose health points . You have to craft equipment, tools and

Biomes

What are biomes? Biomes are kind of like types of terrain in Minecraft. Each biome has different stuff. Say for example the jungle biome has parrots, bamboo, melons, and ocelots that spawn/grow naturally. Or the acacia biome, which has lots of acacia trees, grass (yellow), and lots of mountains

Survival VS Creative

Survival and Creative are different modes in Minecraft. Survival is when you have to survive! You have get your own food, find resources, craft, and fight mobs. You have to beat the game (killing the Ender Dragon).Survival has stats (health, hunger, experience points). The health can get damaged, hunger

Generated Structures

Villages

Villages are where villagers spawn. You can trade with villagers to get items (see Trading In Minecraft). In different biomes, the houses would look different; materials vary depending on the biome. For example the house would be made out of acacia, in the acacia biome, but in the desert they

Generated Structures

Jungle Temples

Jungle Temples are found hidden in jungles covered in a thick layer of foliage. They are made up of cobblestone and mossy cobblestone and descend below the surface. Inside there are a few traps and puzzles. One trap is a tripwire that fires arrows at you. One puzzle is that

Meet the hostile mobs

These are hostile mobs which means that they will attack on sight. (see Friendly Mobs). Hostile mobs: Zombie: flesh hungry. Hearts: 20. Max melee damage: 3 Skeleton: common and fires arrows. hearts: 20. Max melee damage: 2.5. Max ranged damage: 4 Creeper: Deals high damage. Hearts: 20. Max melee

Different Dimensions

The End

The End is the final dimension in the game. This is because it contains the final boss named the Ender Dragon. To kill it, you first have to break the end crystals atop the obsidian pillars. Then you attack it by bow but when its perched, attack it with a

Resources to Bring into a Cave

* 2 sets of your best armour * 2 swords and pickaxes * 2 shields * 2 or more buckets of water * a stack of blocks * a stack of food * a stack of torches * as many as possible potions of night vision (optional)

Diary of a Minecrafter

Diary of a Minecrafter

March 30 2024 Dear Diary, Today we ventured into the same cave as the last diary entry talked about. We went really deep, and we went up and down, and left and right. We had many tunnels. We placed torches in all those tunnels. There was lots of mobs lurking