One of the big things in Minecraft is that you get hungry and then you can’t generate health. But when you eat food then you will fill your food bar and not be hungry. First I’m going to talk about the different types of food you can farm.

1)Wheat: This is the easiest one to get seeds for because they spawn as grass every where. When you hit a block of fully grown wheat a wheat piece and possible a seed or two. You can make bread (3 wheat straight across the middle of the crafting table) or cookies (1 wheat and 1 cacao seed) or cake (wheat across the top milk across the bottom and sugar egg sugar in the middle) but you can’t eat it raw. When you feed wheat to sheep and cows they will breed together and make a baby.

2)Carrots: This is my favorite but is hard to get because you can only find them in villages or very rarely a drop from a zombie. The seed is the carrot itself, this does not have any crafting recipes but you can eat it raw.

3)Potatoes: I like potatoes but I always get too many. You find them in the same places as carrots. You can eat them raw but then they fill 1 heart per potato but if you cook them then they fill 4 hearts per baked potato.

Wheat, carrots, and potatoes are all farmed the same way. You need to have a block of dirt within 4 diagonal blocks of a water source. Hoe the block of dirt with a hoe (2 sticks and a cobblestone up the middle and a cobblestone in the right corner). Put the seed (or the carrot or the potato) into the ground. After a while your plant will be fully grown hit it to harvest

 4)Pumpkins: These are delicious and kind of easy to find. They spawn in most biomes and are just sitting there.You can make pumpkin pie( sugar, pumpkin, and egg )

5)Melons: I haven’t had much time with this but they seem pretty cool. When you harvest the melons you get up to three slices.

You farm pumpkins and melons the same ways. You grow a vine and the fruit will grow next to the vine. I grow the vine then dirt then water.

Make sure to tell me any cool farms you make.    

Nerdpie

Today I’m going to talk about minecarts and rails. First lets start with the minecarts the only automated way to travel in Minecraft. There are many different kinds of minecarts and rails.

The Minecarts

1) The basic minecart: The basic minecart is the basis of all other minecarts you make them by putting iron ingot in a U shape on the crafting table. The basic minecart doesn’t have anything special about it except that you can ride in it. But keep in mind that other mobs can ride in them as well, from monsters to animals.

2)The minecart with chest: This is the same recipe but put a chest and a minecart on the crafting table. The thing you use this for is carry in items. You can’t ride in it so make a minecart for you too. It is basically a chest that can go on rails.

3) The powered minecart: The crafting recipe is the same except replace the chest with a furnace. This can work as a furnace and when you put another minecart in front of it it will make the other minecart go.

4)TNT minecart: This will blow up when on an active activator  rail but doesn’t blow up the rail or the block it’s on, which is cool. You make it with a minecart and a TNT block.

Now lets talk about the rails. This is what the minecarts ride on.

The Rails

1) The normal rail: this is like the minecart. It doesn’t have any fancy things but you need it. You make it by putting iron on the sides and a stick in the middle. There is no power on these rails so you need a powered minecart or other types of rails or gravity to go at full power.

2) The Powered rail:This will make the minecart go really fast  but you have to make sure its on or it will stop the minecart completely. To make it you replace the iron with gold and the stick with redstone.

3) The Activator rail: this just makes the TNT go boom and gets you out of the minecart. You make it by putting sticks in the middle, top, and bottom of the crafting table, a redstone torch in the middle, and iron in the sides.

4) The Detector rail: This will act like a button when you ride over them. You make them with a pressure plate in the middle , a redstone in the bottom middle , and iron on the sides.

I hope you can use this to make cool inventions and epic roller coasters! Make sure you come back and let me know all the cool things you build with Minecraft minecarts and rails.

Nerdpie

The Minecraft Nether is the monster dimension. Some people describe it as  Minecraft’s hell but once you get to know it you can have fun there like any other place.There is a lot of flames and lava and every thing is invincible to flames. First lets start with looking at  how to get there. 

Getting to The Nether

1)First you need obsidian. You need lava and a diamond pickaxes. pour water over the lava which will turn it into obsidian. then just dig out the obsidian with your diamond pickaxes.

2) Build the frame. You need 16 to 20 pieces of obsidian to make the frame of the portal. you can put cobble stone in the corners. Put 4 blocks of Obsidian on the top and bottom and 5 on the side.

3)Put a fire with a lighter in the frame and step through and you will be in The Nether. But keep in mind that mobs can come through from  both sides.

Now lets look at a the unique stuff in the Nether!

The Stuff of the Nether

1) Netherrack: Netherrack is the dirt of the Nether it can conduct fire forever and is blast proof.

2)Nether Quartz: Nether Quartz is used for daylight sensors and blocks like pillars and white blocks.

3) Nether brick: Nether brick is found in the Nether Fortress and you can make it (Smelt Netherrack then put it in the crafting table in the same way as a crafting table) and will make Nether brick fence and stairs in the same way as regular items.

4) Nether wart: Nether wart is found in the Nether fortress and is used for potions. It grows on soul sand.

5) Soul sand: Soul sand makes you slower which is good for traps and if you put it in front of door and you can’t go in that way but you can go in. 

6)Nether Fortress: The Nether Fortress is the only structure in the Nether. You can find chests full of rare items but there are monster spawners near any chest. Now lets look at the monsters.

The Monsters of the Nether

1)The Zombie pig-men: The Zombie pig-men are the only mobs in the Nether that don’t start hostile but if you hit one they will all attack you and they won’t stop trying to kill you for days. Their drops are all rotten flesh and gold stuff like nuggets and swords.

2) Blazes: Blazes are really hard to beat. Blazes throw fire balls and if you touch them you will be on fire. But the Blaze will be hurt a lot by snow and water. They drop Blaze powder and rods that can be used for potions.

3) Magma cubes: Magma cubes are rare but if you find one you will find lots of them. They jump around a lot and won’t be hurt by falls. When you hit them  they become  a bunch of smaller ones 2 times. You get magma cream which is used in potions.

4)Ghasts: Ghasts are big floating mobs that shot fire balls.And you can hit the fire balls back at the Ghast which gets you an achievement  You can use a fishing rod to reel in the ghasts. you get ghast tears that can be used for potions.

Now that you know ever thing about the Nether  go out there and have fun. What have you done with the Nether?

This is about the Overworld’s monsters in Minecraft. All monsters drop stuff that can help you from string to gun powder

1) The Creeper: The creeper has become unofficial face of Minecraft but he isn’t a big deal if you know how to deal with him. The scary thing about the creeper is that he blows up but if you just back away after you hit him he will start over his countdown till he blows up. Or you can shoot at him with a bow and arrow. The creeper drops gun powder and if shot by a skeleton it drops music discs.

2) The Zombie: I think that the zombie is the most common monster and one of the easiest monsters to kill. Often the zombies will come in a group so that can be a bit hard to take care of especially if you aren’t planning on battling monsters. The way they hurt us is by touching us but the knock back is enough to make it so they can’t touch you for a couple seconds. Zombies drop rotten flesh and can drop  some strange things like carrots (rarely).

3) The Spiders: The spiders aren’t hostile unless you look at them. spiders can go up walls and make a slithering sound when they move. Spiders drop string and spider eyes(gross right) which can be used for potions.

4)The Ender Man: The Ender Man is like the big mysterious guy. He can teleport and trys to rearange the landscape. He isn’t hostile unless you look at him above the legs because he doesn’t like to be stared at.

5)The Wither Boss: And finally The Wither boss. The Wither Boss is man made and is one of the least known monsters. To make the Wither Boss you need soul sand and wither skelton skulls (both found in the Nether). Put one block of soul sand then three across the top of the first then a wither skeleton skull on the last three blocks.

Did you see that one was missing? Good spotting! The Ender Dragon is in another piece all about the end! Check it out!

What is your experience with Minecraft monsters?