150 Minecraft Secrets You've Never Seen Before: The Secrets Handbook (6 page)

Go on, give it a try!

The result is a smooth, modern and vibrant block that'll definitely jazz up your house floor or walls!

Since clay is hard enough to make (you need a ton of valuable clay which is hard to find), you may feel like using wool instead. However, the texture of wool is too…"wooly" if you get what I mean. Basically, wools texture is not as smooth and shiny as that of hardened clay. If you want to add a splash of colour to your house and don't have clay at the moment, you can use wool. But don't count on wool, because hardened clay is so much better!

If you come into contact with a mob spawner, which is in a dungeon – chances are that you'll probably leave it there once you leave the dungeon. Big mistake!

You should break down the mob spawner because you get a TON of experience when you break it. Yeah, I mean a ton. You actually get between 15 - 43 experience points per mob spawner. It's not earth shattering, but it's still a lot more than other items. If you're leaving the dungeon, you might as well take all the goodies while you're there and this definitely one of them.

This experience will level you up so you can enchant tools. The more experience, the better enchant you get. You can break a mob spawner with a pickaxe, and it won't take long – don't worry.

Moss stone is your biggest indicator of a dungeon. All dungeons are surrounded with a moss stone wall, moss stone floor and some walls can be up to four blocks thick. When you're mining, and you see grey stone covered in a green "vein-like" thread, that's moss stone. You can see what it looks like in the image below.

Anyway, if you're mining and then you see moss stone, don't just think it's there by coincidence. Dig into it and look for the dungeon that it surrounds. You're sure to find it by digging through the moss stone. But, make sure that you are prepared for whatever mobs come your way since there is a mob spawner in the dungeon. Until you fight the mobs and put a torch on the mob spawner (to prevent mobs from spawning), you will need to be prepared.

Put one torch on top of a mob spawner, it will stop spawning mobs. This is vital if you don’t want to fight a new mob every five seconds. It can get pretty hellish, and it'll prevent you from getting to the good stuff which are the chests (that can contain super valuable items such as melon seeds, saddles, string, redstone and other awesome goodies).

When you find a dungeon, prepare yourself to fight the mobs that have already spawned. Then, once you've battled them to the death, go to the mob spawner and place a torch on it. This will stop all mobs from being spawned.

If you have to cross a one block deep lake and want to do it fast…since, swimming
is
a little tedious and
verryyy
slow. That's why you can do it a lot more quickly, with this tip.

Simply get an empty water bucket and fill it up. This will move you up further through the lake. Keep pressing the same button to fill it up. Do this frantically, and you'll get across the lake in no time. Remember that this only applies to lakes that are one block deep, not two, three or ten!

As well as dying animals' collars and giving them names, you can also give them a lead! You can then bring them everywhere with you and even bring them across the ocean. But no matter what, you can't bring a wolf to the Nether even if it has a lead.

To make a lead, you will need a slimeball and string. Then, click on the animal you want to tag a lead onto and you can then bring them everywhere you go!

Try out the lead by bringing them into boats, onto minecarts and sprinting. The lead will make sure the bond between you and the animal is unbreakable. How sweet. Pick the right animal to suit your needs. If you hate fighting mobs and need someone to accompany you in the fighting, you should pick a wolf. If you need to gallop across the world, you should pick a horse.

You can regularly dye sheep with a variety of colours anyway, from red (using red roses) to blue (with lapis lazuli). However, the colour remains static and stays the same. If you dye the sheep red, it stays red. Nothing really happens.

Did you know that you can create a rainbow coloured sheep that changes colour every few seconds? You can create a full flock of rainbow coloured sheep! It would be colour madness!
 

All you have to do is name a sheep with the name:

jeb_

That's jeb with an underscore, all small letters.

To name a sheep you will need a name tag which can be obtained from dungeons, abandoned mineshafts etc. You will then need Anvil, place the name tag in the left slot and tehn type in the name into the grey bar on the top. On the left you will see the named name tag, to get it you will need a mere 5 enchanting level. Now just hook on the name tag and you're sorted.

Now this one is great fun.

Simply give the animal this name to turn it upside down;

dinnerbone

It'll definitely creep your friends out since they won't be able to figure out how you did it. You can also call an animal. You can also name an animal this name to turn it upside-down;

Grumm

The same thing will happen. They'll walk around in their own clumsy way but they'll be upside down. You can't get a better Minecraft gag than that.

If you name a pig "dinnerbone" or "Grumm", and look at it whilst it's upside down, you'll see that it has four nipples. Sorry for the gory details, I just had to blurt it out. It
is
a nice realistic touch on Mojang's part though.

You've seen the nether fence trick already, but if you don't have netherack and don't intend on visiting the Nether for a while – you can try this instead.

Place down a carpet on a fence which encloses your farm. Then, you can jump on the carpet when you want to enter the pen, go into the pen and then, jump back onto the carpet when you want to get out. Funnily enough, the animals won't be able to jump onto the carpet so at least only
you
can get in and out of the pen! This is a great alternative to the nether fence tip that I mentioned before. Wool is so much easier to get than netherack, let's face it!