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Minecraft guides — page 3

Minecraft Java and Bedrock guides: shaders and mods, FPS settings, survival, farms and running your own server. Each guide states the game edition, requirements and ways to check your results.

Workshop with chests, furnaces, crafting table and lamps

Survival · 3 min

Mending in Minecraft: repair equipment with experience

Why Mending does not repair the pickaxe in the inventory, where to get the book and how to channel experience into the desired item. Compatibility and differences of the second hand.

Java and Bedrock 1.20–1.21, standard rules

A player with a sword and shield fights a mob near a village

Survival · 2 min

Minecraft mace combat: landing a smash attack and surviving a miss

Club recipe, heavy core, fall impact and safe training. Density, Penetration, Gust of Wind and use of Wind Charges.

Java 1.21; basic recipe also Bedrock 1.21

Survival · 3 min

Planning enchantments and avoiding expensive anvil work

How to choose a charm for a task, set up a table with fifteen shelves, and plan books. Differences in tolerance and consumption levels, Mending and grindstone errors.

Java and Bedrock 1.20–1.21; some spells vary

Survival · 3 min

Preparing a village for a raid in Java 1.21

How the launch of the raid has changed, when milk cancels the omen and what to prepare before the bottle. Site, spare kit and wave tactics.

Java 1.21

Survival · 3 min

Preparing for the Wither in Minecraft Java

Challenge T-piece, remote arena and spare kit. Preparation of potions, the transition from bow to sword and the characteristics of milk against desiccation.

Java Survival 1.20–1.21

The player returns to the illuminated house by the river at sunset

Survival · 3 min

Recovering your items after death without dying again

What happens to dropped items, how the active disappearance time works, and how to prepare for returning from a cave, lava, or Nether.

Java and Bedrock 1.20–1.21: regular Survival without keepInventory

Survival · 3 min

Safe mining: descending, branching and working near lava

Miner's set, step descent, fork marks and new cave control. When to return home and how not to lose your loot in the lava.

Java and Bedrock 1.20–1.21: mine of the regular world

Survival · 3 min

Survival progression: from your first base to the End

How to connect the first resources with food, repairs and expeditions. Practical order from stable base to Nether, dragon and elytra without race.

Java and Bedrock 1.20–1.21

Wheat fields, beehives and a pen with animals near the village

Survival · 2 min

Taming a horse and preparing for a comfortable ride

Re-mount, saddle and jump check. How a horse differs from a donkey and a mule, how to transport things and prepare a road through the forest and rivers.

Java and Bedrock; saddle recipe: Java 1.21.6+

Survival · 2 min

The anvil says “Too Expensive”: what you can fix

How does an anvil limit differ from lack of experience, why a new anvil does not help, and how to prepare books without unnecessary operation history.

Java Survival 1.20–1.21

A player at a portal among the crimson forest and lava flows of the Nether

Survival · 2 min

Upgrading diamond equipment to netherite

Where to find and how to copy a netherite upgrade template, how much fragments and gold are needed and what is retained by a diamond item after forging.

Java and Bedrock 1.20–1.21

Survival · 2 min

Using a shield in Minecraft Java and Bedrock

Shield recipe, edition management and tactics against skeleton, zombie and creeper. What attacks bypass defenses and how to monitor strength.

Java and Bedrock 1.20–1.21; controls and combat are different