This is a little homage to the Harry Potter series. I am going to talk about potions. These may not be what you would be taught by Professor Snape but most of these potions could save your life or kill a nasty monster in the night. Potions aren’t just for battling. There are potions that can make you  breathe under water or make you fireproof. Today I am going to talk about the basics of making potions not all the different recipes for the multitudes of different potions.

When getting ready for your first year potions class you will need a brewing stand and if you like a cauldron(a cauldron is mostly for show cause the only thing it holds is water) and water filled bottles. To make a brewing stand you put a blaze rod in the middle middle and cobblestone in the bottom row. To make a cauldron you have iron in the top left and right, middle left and right and the bottom row.

The Brewing Stand has it’s own interface like a crafting table but also different. There are three places where you can put bottles and one spot to put things that are going into the potions. For every item that you use the brewing stand with you can get up to 3 potions from it which is really helpful when working with valuables.

The Cauldron is really mostly for show it just sits there and holds one bucket’s worth of water which is enough for 3 water bottles but you could get the same thing from a hole in the ground.

To start making potions first you will have to make a akward potion that has no effects but is like a base to all other potions. You will need to brew in nether wart to do this. Then the world is your oyster you can make any potion you want.

Just a little tip, if you hold a stick in your hand it looks just like Harry Potter’s Blackthorn and Phoenix tail feather wand. But most wands are a lot more intricate than that.

If you want to find out exact recipes for potions click here or you can just try different things. One little hint is that the fermented spider eye will turn a lot of helpful potions in to hurtful ones that you would use on your enemy.

I hope that you like this. Tell me in the comments what is your favorite Hogwarts Professor mine is Minerva Mcgonagall 

Nerdpie

This is a post about items that have been taken out of Minecraft. There is a lot of things that used to be in Minecraft but the makers decided to take them out in a later version. I think it is interesting to take a look back at what used to be. 

Killer Bunnies.

These were in the game but they took them out. They were white with red eyes and they would jump out at you and could hurt if they touched you. They will not be tamed and will not breed and used to spawn once  and awhile when you bred rabbits and didn’t spawn in the wild.

Horse Saddles.

These are still in Minecraft but they used to be able to be crafted. In version 1.6.1 you could craft it with leather in the top row and middle left and right and iron in the middle middle and the bottom left and right.

The Far lands.

These used to be at the end of Minecraft and there would be lots glitches and mirages These were deleted in 1.8

Beast Boy,Black Steve,Steve and Rana.

These were mobs that wandered around the Minecraft Overworld. When you kill them you will  get some minor stuff like sugar and coal and some cooler stuff will come from Rana but she also has more health.

Humans.

These are like zombie and have the original Steve skin. They walk around aimlessly  and will run into Players to hurt them. If they die they don’t drop anything.

Pigmen.

These were going to be villagers but that never happened.

Rose.

These used to be the only flower in Minecraft other than the dandelion but was taken out in 1.8

I hope that you learn some more about the history of minecraft with this post. Please let me know any thing you want to know more about it minecraft.

Nerdpie

This post is to tell you all about The Nether and the different landscape from the overworld. The Nether is basicly just a bunch of lava and netherrack in a pot. It is a very dark and red place because there is no sun so the only light source is the lava and fire and a little bit of glow stone.

It is the only world that has a ceiling which is made out of netherrack. It can be almost at your head at some points and a 1000 blocks high at others. It is about 20 layers thick and the last one is made out of bedrock so there is no point in digging through it. But if you are in creative and you dig through the last layer you can go through and enter the void. You will die if you go out to far up but if you stay near the bedrock you will be okay. The bedrock actually has mushrooms growing on it which is really neat and interesting. You can also enter the void by digging through the bedrock at the bottom of both the Overworld and the Nether. And in the End there is no bedrock you can just fall through. If you die in the void you can’t get any of your stuff back. 

There are a lot of lava lakes in the Nether that you have to be really carefull. And there a lot of little fire sitting everywhere. My conclusion is that the Nether is very bad for your health and I don’t suggest going there unless there is some thing you need there. I would suggest building your summer home there.

I hope that this helps you get a clear picture of the Nether and I hope you have fun with it. Please let me know any ideas that you have for my next few posts I am going crazy trying to find some new ones.

Nerdpie

This is post is to build on what I put in my horse post so if you haven’t read it don’t worry I’ll wait. You done? If so then you are going to love this one. donkey can spawn anywhere a horse can but you will never find natural mules. Because they are a donkey and a horse bred together and it cannot be bred in Minecraft or in real life, it is the only animal like that.

A Donkey is a lot like a horse in compared to the foods they eat and how to tame them but doesn’t look much like a horse. They all look the same unlike horses which can be all different shapes. They are always gray and have long ears. They are all ways a lot shorter than horses. There is one thing that is different in with a donkey is that it’s got a full inventory. You can put in 30 different stacks of items in there once it is tamed and then you can haul twice as much stuff to wherever you are going. 

In creative you only have one mob spawner for the 3 different mobs; donkeys, mules and horses. So you just have to keep spawning different horses to get a donkey or a mule. And you will get them of all ages but don’t worry a foal ,which is a baby horse, takes only 20 minutes for birth to be an adult. But you can’t tame foals till they grow up.

A Mule isn’t used much in Minecraft but it is worth noting any way. You can breed a horse and a donkey together to get one. There isn’t really a difference between a horse and a mule but they are a sciencentifice marvel.

I hope that this helps you get more into donkeys and mules.

Nerdpie