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Minecraft, Swords And Bows
Minecraft, Swords And Bows.
This tutorial will familiarize you with the weapons available within Minecraft and give you some tips when fighting.
Sword
There are 5 swords in Minecraft which differentiate in how much they damage enemies and their durability.
Sword: Wooden Sword
Damage: 2 Hearts of damage
Durability: 60
Sword: Golden Sword
Damage: 2 Hearts of damage
Durability: 33
Sword: Stone Sword
Damage: 2.5 Hearts of damage
Durability: 132
Sword: Iron Sword
Damage: 3 Hearts of damage
Durability: 251
Sword: Diamond Sword
Damage: 3.5 Hearts of damage
Durability: 1562
Although it may seem incorrect gold swords actually do less damage than stone swords also the durability is much less than any other sword even wood. This is most likely because in real life gold is quite brittle.
Bows
There is only one type of bow in minecraft. Unlike swords bows require an arrow to be used. A fully pulled shot takes away 4.5 Hearts and sometimes 5 Hearts only if it hits. There is no Head-shot mechanic within Minecraft so it doesn't matter where you hit.
Tips
Bows fired at Endermen do NOT work. The Enderman will just dodge the shot and attack you.
If you hold right click with a sword in hand you will block. Blocking reduces damage from enemies and explosions substantially.
If you attack or shoot while falling or while coming down when jumping it will make it a critical hit.
If you have a sword with Fire Aspect or a bow with flame and you hit a cow, chicken or pig....
It will drop cooked food.
I hope you can use this to your advantage against mobs or other players.If you enjoyed the tutorial please leave a +1 or if you want to leave a comment. To stay up to date you can follow the next craft blog itself or you can like the NextCraft Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TheNextCraft
Signing off for now.
-Stephenkiwin
Saturday, 12 October 2013
Minecraft, A Guide To Redstone Part 5
Minecraft, A Guide To Redstone Part 5 (Analog Redstone)
This tutorial will teach you how to use analog redstone. Analog redstone is emitted from 4 objects within Minecraft these are (Daylight sensor, Weighted Pressure-plate (Light), Weighted pressure-plate (Heavy) and Redstone comparators with Tile entities (Tile entities: Chests, Droppers, Dispensers, Trapped Chests and Hoppers) as they're inputs.
Daylight sensors emit a redstone signal depending on the time of day so theoretically they're minecrafts version of a solar panel. At midday they emit a full strength redstone signal.
Daylight sensor at nighttime. There is no signal as there is no daylight.
Weighted pressure plates (Both light and heavy) emit a redstone signal when there is items on it. The light weighted pressure plates take less items to make a full strength redstone signal.
(32 Items on the pressure plate)
(A whole stack of items on the pressure plate.) 64 items gives off a full strength redstone signal.
Whereas the heavy weighted pressure plates do a weak signal with a whole stack of items.
6 Stacks of Items on a heavy weighted pressure plate.
A daylight sensor in a chest hooked up to a comparitor.
1 Items only emits a 1 strength signal
The chest must be completely full for a max strength signal to be emitted.
Uses For Analog Redstone!
A chicken farm which alerts you when its full.
The eggs go through a hopper into the dropper where a comparitor senses the eggs. If an egg is sensed it will activate a redstone clock which activates the dropper until is empty and the clock is switched off.
The dropper drops the eggs into a hopper.
Then a comparitor senses the eggs in the second hopper and activates some more redstone.
This is a board which shows approximately how full the hopper is.
When its full it activated a redstone clock which has note blocks on... thus making an alarm.
I hope you can make something cool with analog red stone. If you enjoyed the tutorial please leave a +1 or if you want to leave a comment. To stay up to date you can follow the next craft blog itself or you can like the NextCraft Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TheNextCraft
Signing off for now.
-Stephenkiwin
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Minecraft, The Nether
Minecraft, The Nether
This tutorial will teach you how to get to and what to look for in the Nether.
This is a Nether portal. It is made out of obsidian (Obsidian is found in caves underneath the ground however you need a diamond pick to mine it.)
You activate the Nether portal you need to right click the portal with a flint & steel or a fire-charge. Then just walk through to get to the Nether.
Welcome to the Nether time to start exploring.
The Blocks And Terrain
Time to explore the blocks and terrain within the Nether.
Quartz ore can be found in the Nether. If you break quartz ore you get a piece of quartz and Xp.
Lava is everywhere in the Nether its found just as frequently as water in the normal world.
Glow-stone and gravel are found in the nether too.
Mushrooms are also found in the Nether.
This is soulsand. Soul-sand is used to grow nether-wart on.
There are caves within the nether much like the normal world which have lava in them.
Nether Fortresses
Nether fortresses are the only generated structures within the Nether and they contain many interesting things.
You can find chests within the nether fortresses.
You can find Nether wart in the fortresses which can be used to make potions.
The Monsters
This doesn't show all mobs just the most dangerous ones.
Blazes spawn in nether-fortresses and they drop blaze rods when killed.
Zombie pig-men aren't hosetile however if you punch one they instantly become hostile.
Ghasts are flying mobs which shoot exploding balls. When killed they will drop gunpowder and possibly a ghast tear which can make regeneration potions.
I hope you found this tutorail useful! If you enjoyed the tutorial please leave a +1 or if you want to leave a comment. To stay up to date you can follow the next craft blog itself or you can like the NextCraft Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TheNextCraft
Signing off for now.
-Stephenkiwin
Friday, 4 October 2013
Minecraft, Decor And Furniture
Minecraft, Decor And Furniture
This quick tutorial is all about decorating your minecraft house and the furniture you can make.
Here is a small minecraft house it looks alright from the outside.
But if your stuck on what to fill houses with here is some ideas.
This is a coffee table and sofa. (Tip!: Putting signs on the edge of a sofa makes it look better and flower pots make good mugs or cups.)
A minecraft TV even though the image doesn't change...
Adding a few paintings makes things look really nice. Too many makes it look bad.
So here is a nice living room design. By messing with lighting you can give a room different feels (Calm, safe, creepy or spooky).
Now onto kitchens. Slabs with trap doors on look like great cabinets. You could use chests but you cant put trapdoors on them.
Two chests looks nice and can be used for storage.
A dispenser with an iron block above and an iron door on makes a nice fridge too (Note: put a button on the iron block)
Also furnaces with activator rails above looks like a nice cooker.
With a bit of redstone you can make the activator rail light up when there's something inside.
If you have a comparitor with the furnace as the input the comparitor will emit a signal when there's something inside.
Now place a repeater next to the comparitor and trail it round to the activator rail.
(Device in corner of a room.)
I hope you found this tutorial useful. If you enjoyed the tutorial please leave a +1 or if you want to leave a comment. To stay up to date you can follow the next craft blog itself or you can like the NextCraft Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TheNextCraft
Signing off for now.
-Stephenkiwin
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