Tom's Minecraft Notes

There are many kinds of food available in Minecraft. One is crops, such as wheat, which can be used to produce bread or other baked goods when added to other ingredients. Wheat can also be used to breed cows or sheep to produce meat and either leather or wool.  Leather can be used to make armor, and books used to hold Enchantments for improving weapons, armor, and tools.  Wheat seeds can be used to breed chickens which will produce meat and feathers used to make arrows. Wheat seeds are gathered by harvesting weeds (or wheat) out in the fields or from village gardens. Another crop is carrots, used for food or for breeding pigs (or getting the flying pig award). Carrots can also be used to make various magical items. Carrots are normally obtained from Zombies or from village gardens. Mushrooms are yet another food, one red mushroom combined with one brown and a wooden bowl will make mushroom soup.  Mushrooms grow many places that are dark or near dark such as swamps under ...

Want to build your own world but having trouble getting started in Minecraft? This Blog will be written to help you do just that. I'm showing the following few screen shots taken in "spectator mode" after getting killed in a Hardcore world. These show SOME of the possibilities for your creations. These cattle are peacefully grazing down on level 12. I brought them down using a grass stairway from the surface. Here you can better see the stairway and the ladder that I first descended.  I plant many gardens, grow trees, large mushrooms, etc... all below ground. Closer to the surface I have Sugar Cane and work areas. First, let me say that I'm a Retired so I have time on my hands to play Minecraft. I can remember watching the Tutorials made by Notch. How to survive the first night by digging a hole and making it so no mob could get you until morning. I'm by no means an expert at Minecraft but I have found a few things ...