Tom's Minecraft Notes

With the new features of Minecraft on the PC Version 1.13.1 it has become more dangerous to wander around outside to gather resources.  So, I'm expanding to bring those renewable resources inside where I can access them without getting killed.  The first part was bringing in plant foods, now I'm bringing in animals for eggs, feathers, wool, leather, and food. As you can see in my garden, I have wheat that I can harvest to breed Cows and Sheep, and with the seeds, breed Chickens. I have carrots to breed pigs. First trip out, brought back a couple of cows and a sheep.  This is my preferred method of getting in and out of places. I stack a couple of wooden blocks (they won't hurt animals) and put ladders on both sides. Then I can climb up and over the top. Mobs and animals can't climb them... I don't think.. LOL! Built my Chicken pen, glass walls with fencing inside to keep the chickens from glitching out. And, last of all, I brought i...

Sometimes playing a single player game can get very slow and boring. You wait for crops to grow, you mine hundreds of blocks of cobblestone while repeatedly chopping trees and making stone pickaxes. You fight mobs and all you get is some rotten flesh that poisons you when you eat it (doesn't matter much if you are almost dead... fill up and keep full until you've healed up to nearly full health and then stop eating it.. it IS a CHEAP source of food!) You fish for hours and get a few magical items if you are lucky, some boots and wooden bowls if you are not. You try to explore and end up far away from your base when it goes dark... and a Creeper blows you up! One thing or another can be annoying when it happens at the wrong time.  That is where cheating comes in. You are playing single player, so the ONLY one that cares if you cheat is yourself.  YOU decide if, when, and how much to cheat. The type of cheating depends upon what kind of game you are playing.  Is the game ...