This is one of the most important items in all of Minecraft if you have wood, cobblestone and food you will probably never want for anything. If you look around anywhere under ground you will find Cobblestone.

When you cook Cobblestone it turns into stone which is what you mine Cobblestone out of. I really like the look of Stone so I use it a lot. If you don’t care about what your buildings look like at all like NerdDad than you really have no use for Stone at all except to mine Cobblestone from it.

There are a lot of things that you can build with Cobblestone so I am just going to run with the basics. I like to put stairs on me staircases when I have extra Cobblestone which make it so that when I go up my staircase you don’t have to jump you can just walk straight up and it will make you go up a lot quicker. to make it you will put Cobblestone on the bottom row, on the middle middle and right, and on the top right.

I like to use Cobblestone slabs for decorating. They are really good for making pools and fountains because they add a lot of layers that you don’t get with the regular blocks. I like to make the steps into my pool with Cobblestone slabs because you can walk up them like stairs because they take up only half a block worth of space. To make it you just need to put a layer of Cobblestone across the middle of the crafting table.

You can do a lot with cobblestone and I hope you will look around to find out what else you can build with it.

Nerdpie 

This is the first of a series of posts that are going to be all about the Avengers. Today I am going to talk about Captain America and how you can be more like him. He is the easiest Avenger to be like, in Minecraft because you can become stronger with a potion and use a shield and get really good at fighting and “the Avengers might ask you personally to work with them fighting Minecraft crime”. (What? It could happen in some parallel universe)

In the new update of 1.9 they made a shield which is awesome! Before this, the only thing you could protect yourself with was armor. You can make a shield with planks in the top left and right, across the middle and in the bottom middle and with an iron ingot in the top middle. You can craft it again with a banner to get that pattern and colors on it. You can’t make Captain America’s shield  so far but this is pretty cool already.

There is no super-soldier program so far (everyone makes frowny face) but you can get pretty close. I think that you are going to mix a couple of potions to get what Captain America has got going there but I think we can get pretty close. First we are going to use the Strength potion because Captain America is a really  strong guy (But once you get to Hulk he is a regular guy) then we need the Jump potion and the Speed potion because Captain America has super agility. Which is pretty epic.

You can make armor that looks like Captain America but they do not have any stars or stripes on them. You can dye leather armor to make them red, white, and blue so you can look and fight like Captain America.

I hope that this will help you get drafted in to the Minecraft Avengers(if that really exists) and helps you improve your fighting.

Nerdpie

This is a cool biome that I have done a lot with but it isn’t my favorite biome because I don’t like the colors in it. It is a very orange and gray biome which is cool but just not my taste. This is a good place to start out at because it has trees and a good open area for building your house. While the savannah has most of the resources you will want it is kind of mundane because it normally has only one type of tree.

Have you ever noticed that in different biomes the grass is a different color. In the savannah the grass is a very tan almost a brown green. Most animals can be found in this biome and there is often an abundance of  cows and pigs. 

This is a rather good biome for tree houses. Because most of the land is really flat so if you want to have any kind of natural height that is the best way to go.  Acacia trees have sort of a stair pattern in most of their trunk which makes them good trees to build tree houses in. You could even just knock one hole in the leaves and build your house on the leaves using them as floor if you would like.

I think that this can be a helpful biome if you keep near the edge of it. Because it is a very big biome and you can get lost very easily because there is not many landmarks just trees and grass not even hills to keep track of  so be careful out there or you could get really lost.

I hope that this gives you some helpful insight into the minecraft savannah.

Nerdpie

Today we are going to talk about the prairie’s of Minecraft. They are a lot like prairie’s in really life with not much to them other than grass and weeds. I like the prairies for  building a home in but they are pretty much useless when it comes to resources. There are sometimes pools there which help out but if you can at all I suggest you live on the edge of this biome until you get pretty far in the game.

I think that the best place to spawn is in an area on the edges of the forest and prairie biome. Because you can get most of your basic resources from the forest but one of the safest places to live is the prairie. Because there is no shade. There is nowhere for monsters to hide. There might be a lot of creepers around but not really any that hang out at night because they all will burn up. Also you might get a lot of resources for that because when a monster dies then it will drop its items on the ground which can be really helpful.

When you are making a house on the prairie you need to be mostly concerned with the location. If you want to have home that you won’t be leaving for days at a time you need to make a good decision when you place your house. I suggest finding somewhere with an open area and near a forest. I try to be near a pool but that is not so much of a priority. I think that you should try to have a nice area around you if you wanted to get animals that would be helpful.

I hope that this post helps you know what to do if you spawn in the Prairie. Please tell me if there is any biomes you would like to know about.

Nerdpie

This is a post all about living in the woods biome. I think that this is one of the best biomes to start out in because it has all the basic items that you need on a day to day basis. Because you get the wood you need from the trees. You get food from apples that fall from leaf blocks. And you could make a home in the ground or a little plank home on the ground.

I think that the best place to make your home is near a water source. Then when you are ready to farm you can just make a farm next to the water instead of going and finding water and maybe getting lost on the way. 

I like to make a small house above ground to help me find it. But I put a majority of my rooms on a staircase that is going down from my main room. I try to make as many rooms of my central staircase as possible because you can get a lot of cobblestone and precious material just from mining out all the rooms on a stair case.

I suggest that you try to find out what kind of forest you are in when you first spawn. Because if you are in a roofed forest where nearly every thing is covered by trees you better make a sword because that means that a lot of monsters might spawn and not burn up because there is enough shade. Or if you are in the jungle you should start looking for cacao seeds which are a very good resource.

I hope that this is helpful and informative and you want to be making your little house in the Minecraft woods.

Nerdpie

This post is all about Farm animals. I think that all of the animals are important and helpful to have around. But this is all about the most helpful animals that you should have if all possible. I suggest if you can, you find at least one of these animals.

I think that the best animal to have around is the cow. It has four different uses that make it super helpful to have around

• You can use a cow for milk and and the milk is helpful. Because you can use it to heal you from potions and raw meat. And you can use the milk to make cakes.
• You can use it’s leather to make books and a set of dyeable armor.
• You can use it’s meat for eating and and you could eat it raw and follow it with a bucket of milk.
• When you breed an animal with another and it makes a baby you will get quite a bit of experience.

I think that the second best animal is the sheep. This only has three different uses so it is not as useful as the cow but you can dye it different colors.

• You can shear a sheep by clicking it with shears and you will get 1 to 3 pieces of wool. And you can make a bed and carpets and pictures with it.
• You also can eat it  eat it’s meat.
• you can also get xp from breeding sheep.

The 3rd best animal is the chicken. It only has 2 unique items that aren’t meat or xp.

• The chicken will drop feathers when it dies. You can make arrows with them.
• A chicken will drop an egg every minecraft day or so. Then you can make cakes or pumpkin pies

I hope that you learned the different kinds of animals that you want to have around your house.

Nerdpie

This is a new mini series on buildings on Minecraft. There are lots of different styles. Like NerdoDark likes to just make whatever fits his needs. While I like to make buildings that are styled just so and fit my needs to the style. I like to make everything symmetrical and perfectly aligned and NerdoDark makes buildings to suit the purpose of whatever fits and what ever works.

To start a building my way, first you need to have some idea of what it should look like. If you want it to have windows or a back door, If you want it to be able to mine from it or not or if there will be a possibility for you to keep going up and making more floors. Like my latest project is a big hotel but I am not putting a fancy roof on it because then I am going to keep making it go higher and higher so that it touches the sky. 

When NerdoDark makes a building it always has a purpose unless it is a thing from a show or game. Like NerdoDark won’t build a bunch of different houses all at once. He will make one house and use it as much as possible then make another one. He doesn’t care about dimensions  of the space unless it is too small to do what he wants which is cool. Unless you’re me and you want to find a way through all his stuff. But he also makes things that have no use at all but the sure are cool. Like he has made the great Deku tree and a ghost house from Mario.

I hope that this post helps you figure out what kind of houses you like to build.

Nerdpie

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