Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

• NetherRack (Red Nether Stone) burns forever just light it with a lighter on top
• You can set mobs on fire with a lighter. Even rock stays lit for almost a couple of seconds before it goes out.
• Creepers spawn on top of trees.
• Always put torches on the left of caverns you explore. Then when you want to go back torches should be on your right.
• You can put ladders on every other block.
• Clouds always move North and you can use this to help navigate and not get lost when exploring without a compass.
• You can use any wood or coal to smelt. Jmandabeast pointed out that you can smelt with a bucket of Lava also.
• Destroying a wood chest with items in it will only make the items pop out like when you die and you can still collect them.
• Smelt clay to make bricks then craft bricks to make brick blocks.
• Dropped items go away after 5 minutes
• Water only flows 8 blocks. If you let it drop down a block before 8 blocks it will go 8 more.
• You can stop water with ladders and pressure plates.
• There is a trick to mining obsidian. I used Effective-Obsidian-Gathering-in-Minecraft-Alpha.