Today I am talking all about tools! To do pretty much anything on Minecraft that is fun you need tools. There are a couple of different materials you can use to make your tools stronger. A lot of these are in Its So Shiny and Minecraft-y.

I am going to list the materials from weakest to strongest with some tips about them in the tool business:

• Wood: This is what you should start with because it doesn’t take any tool to get but don’t use these for long they are very weak and super slow.
• Cobblestone: This is your normal one because this is pretty strong and easy to get. To get cobblestone you need a pickaxe (look below) and you just dig it out.
• Iron: This is for quick work and you can dig out more precious metals with these. If you want quick fast work this is what you want
• Gold:  This isn’t very good for tools because Gold breaks very easily but it is very good for enchanting
• Diamond: This is the most epic metal and perfect for high danger areas. This is for special stuff not for just grabbing some wood.

Here are all the different basic tools

• Pickaxe: This is pretty much the most important tool in Minecraft. This is used to dig out cobblestone and everything other than dirt in the ground.
• Shovel: This is used to dig out dirt, gravel, clay and sand.
• Sword: This is the main fighting tool in Minecraft but you can’t use it for anything else.
• Axe: This is used for chopping wood and breaking down anything that has wood in it. I used to not use this but it makes everything so much quicker
• Hoe: This is very necessary but you only probably need one. Before you plant anything you need to hoe the ground with, you guessed it, a hoe. Often I make this out of iron because then you don’t need make a new one very often.

These are all you need to know about the basic Tools Of The Minecraft Trade but there is still more tools to discover. Be sure to comment and tell me your favorite tools.          

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This time I am doing every thing else with decor that didn’t go with the other posts. First I am going to give you a couple really cool items that are essential to a great home in my opinion. A quick tip: you can stain glass and glass panes and make them that much nicer.

Flower Pot: These are so cool because you can make a room look so different by changing the flowers in this flower pot. It is made like a bucket but with bricks. Bricks are made by taking a clay piece and putting it in the furnace to make it a brick(neat tip you can make a brick block by making a square with 4 pieces on the crafting interface) and you make it brick on the bottom middle and middle left and right. To put a flower in it right click like you are placing a block

Item Frame: This is like a picture but you decide what is shown. to make it make a picture but put a piece of leather instead of the wool. The item frame is cool because

This is my second post on decor and this one’s a doozy because I am talking about dyes! These are so cool because you can make rooms look totally different with carpet and wool. You can take a regular carpeted room and make it green or pink on your preference.  I am going to talk about the applications for generic dyes then I am going to outline the different recipes.

You can dye wool 2 ways. You can dye the sheep itself then any wool you shear off it will be that color if you breed 2 colored sheep the baby will be one of the parent’s colors or a mix of the 2. Neat trick take a name tag (found in dungeons) and put the name jed_ with a anvil and name a sheep it you will get a cool surprise. Or you can dye one piece at a time by putting a wool block on the crafting table with the dye (unless you only need one dye a sheep). You can also dye harden clay the same way. These are all the different colors and the different ingredients to make them. these are only some ways and some dyes.These are not all of them experiment to find the others.

Rose Red:

• poppy
• rose bush
• red tulip

Orange:

• orange tulip

Yellow:

• Dandelion
• Sunflower

Cactus Green:

• cactus(heat it in the furnace)

Blue:

• lapis lazuli

Light Blue:

• Blue orchid

Magenta:

• Lilac
• Alium

Pink:

• rose bush 
• pink tulip

White:

• Bone meal

Black:

• Squid ink

And these are all the dyes you need to make cool designs. You can also dye leather armour to make lots of colors. And you can dye hardened clay (take clay which you find in rivers and make a block and cook the block in the furnace) to make stained clay. You can use stained clay or hardened clay like cobblestone in building though the colors will be really dark in the stained clay. If you want to know ore about dyes go to the Minecraft wiki. I love the Minecraft wiki because it is my  best resource on anything Minecraft I don’t know.

Be sure to let me know any new dyes you discover.    

Nerdpie