Mojang's exploration and survival based sandbox game in almost endless, procedurally generated worlds.
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Why isn't my Minecraft LAN server working?
My LAN server won't let my cousin join me or me join my cousin. It won't show up on the multiplayer screen - it keeps saying "scanning for LAN servers" but it never finds it. I am at his house and we ...
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Why can't I destroy or place blocks?
I'm playing on a Survival world with cheats on, "easy" difficulty, and at night in-game. I didn't have a sword or anything to make a sword with, and I was starving, so I switched to Creative to give ...
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7answers
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How can I avoid mobs spawning inside my house while I sleep?
The latest Minecraft update now has beds, which is very nice for the first few nights of the game while you establish a mob-resistant area that you can work in during the night.
For reference, you ...
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16answers
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What's the most efficient Minecraft mining strategy?
When I'm not exploring fresh caves or lands in minecraft, I'm busy trying to find deposits of diamond, gold and iron deep in the earth. So far I've just been digging around just above bedrock on a ...
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How do I keep two different versions of Minecraft installed?
When a major version of Minecraft is released, it takes a while before mods are updated to work with it. It can happen that you want to install the new version, but keep a copy of the old version with ...
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Is it possible to turn a Minecraft single player map into multi-player server? [closed]
I've got some funky minecraft maps that I'd like to share with my friends. However, they're, more often than not, far away and unable to stop by my computer and see what I've wrought.
I was wondering ...
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What causes an item to disappear in Minecraft? [duplicate]
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What persists after a respawn in Minecraft?
I've apparently lost my diamond sword due to a death far from my spawn point. Was I just unlucky or do items disappear if you ...
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8answers
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How can I level water?
It may be my inner OCD, but situations like this annoy me to no end. Sometimes, a patch of water is "ruined" for no apparent rational reason and all attempts to restore it to normality are met with ...
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6answers
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What's the point of leveling up in Minecraft?
Starting with 1.8 prerelease, Minecraft players earn XP when they kill mobs!
What are the benefits of leveling up? More health? More damage? Larger inventory?
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7answers
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How can I find my World's Strongholds?
I've been searching for hours in the game to find a Stronghold and haven't seen one. Apparently lots of mobs and treasures can be found there, but the question is where can we find those?
Can we find ...
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7answers
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What can I do to secure my towns/castles/hovels from climbing spiders?
So with the latest patch spiders can climb walls. What can we do to secure our towns/castles/hovels against these new mobile menaces? Does adding a lip to the wall work? Or is there some block they ...
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5answers
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How do I change player name in minecraft multiplayer in offline mode in Linux?
I have a small Minecraft server (beta 1.5), and every time I log in via offline mode from a client, my name is "Player". How can I change that?
I know of a way to do it in Windows but it doesn't ...
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3answers
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How can I host my own Minecraft server?
I would like to create a minecraft server for me and and my boyfriend to play on. Our PCs are networked and on the same LAN.
How do I set it up? Do I need any additional software? Do you have some ...
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I'm stuck underground. How do I get back to the surface?
I'm stuck underground.
I can't mine any further to reach lava. There is no water nearby, and zombies can't reach me.
I can't see to find any blocks to suffocate my character.
NBTEdit and similar ...
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3answers
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Does Herobrine exist?
I've seen videos of a mob named Herobrine being summoned or randomly encountered. He has the default Minecraft skin but with glowing white eyes. Are these videos all hoaxes or is there a way to summon ...
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3answers
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What's the maximum number of powered rails in a row that's useful?
I'm going through my rail network, replacing boosters with powered rails. However I'm finding that unlike boosters, which 'break' the laws of minecraft physics (by giving the cart much more momentum ...
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3answers
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Will new Minecraft features appear in existing worlds?
I'm a new Minecrafter, and was wondering if new updates are backwards compatible. Specifically, will the new "Adventure Update" features (Beta 1.8) appear in existing worlds created with Beta 1.7 and ...
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How do I construct a safe sleeping area in 1.5 version?
Since 1.5 old rules for safe sleeping are no longer working. What are the new rules?
With the addition of weather, sleeping in bed is much more important and old rules for safe placements of beds no ...
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8answers
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What persists after a respawn in Minecraft?
I've died a few times before reaching the point where I can get some action going; after each death I was unable to recover the contents of my inventory.
Is my inventory lost forever after death?
...
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5answers
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What blocks can the Enderman pick up and what blocks can't they pick up?
I have seen the Enderman pick up grass blocks but I want to know is what blocks they can pick up and what block they can't pick up.
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3answers
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How far should I place torches in a planar huge room?
I'm building a very large planar room. How far should I place torches from each other, in order to avoid mob spawning?
In How far do I have to place torches so that mobs will not spawn near me? ...
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2answers
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How do I change player name in Minecraft smp in offline mode on a Mac?
This post pretty much summarizes my question : How do I change player name in minecraft multiplayer in offline mode in Linux?
I know for a fact that Mac and Linux are both Unix based
And the ...
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4answers
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How can I play SMP when minecraft.net is down?
Since minecraft.net is down or at least badly reachable, is it possible to play multiplayer offline? I know I can log in as one "Player" with the server setting online-mode=false, but the second ...
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7answers
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How can I keep monsters out of my nether regions?
In order to find myself some nice lapis lazuli and get away from my current base, I'm building a little tunnel in the Nether to allow me to get into the midst of some fresh chunks fairly quickly.
I ...
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2answers
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How Do I Make a Custom Texture Pack For Minecraft? (16x16)
I've been toying with the idea of creating a custom texture pack for Minecraft, just to see how successful I'll be at it. Problem is, I have no idea how to go about doing this.
Where do I begin, ...
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6answers
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Can I copy part of a Minecraft multi-player (SMP) map to a single-player map?
Is it possible to somehow get the map from an SMP server as a mere player? I did some large Redstone circuitry, and I would like to copy it into my SSP map.
If not, can I extract the loaded chunks ...
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2answers
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How can I randomly power one of several wires in Minecraft?
Given 5 wires (possibly more), I want to press a Reset button, and have exactly one of those wires, randomly selected, become active - and remain that way (until the next button press). What is a ...
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2answers
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What are the properties of fire?
How exactly does fire act in Minecraft? Specifically, I'm wondering about things like:
Which materials are flammable?
Within how many blocks of a flaming block can a block catch fire?
When you're on ...
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2answers
4k views
Do shorn sheep regrow their wool?
Following on from this question on dyed sheep the thought occurs "Do shorn sheep regrow their wool".
I know that shorn sheep stay that way for a while - I see them around and about.
I know that mobs ...
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2answers
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How do I fix randomly moved chunks after a crash?
I was stupid and didn't keep a backup of my Minecraft server. Now, it crashed, biomes changed, chunks were moved around, part of my city of gone, an underground chunk was moved aboveground, is there ...
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3answers
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How do you install Minecraft mods on a Mac?
I've seen videos for Minecraft mods which add features like oil, pipes and guns. Where can I find these mods, and how do I install them on a Mac?
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Why aren't there any passive mobs spawning in my single player world?
There used to be a bunch of pigs and sheep and cows and chickens, but ever since I've been building everywhere, they've vanished. I tried to create patches of grass with torches on them to get them to ...
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3answers
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Can I play Minecraft on a USB flash drive?
I've got a 4 GB SanDisk Cruzer here with practically nothing on it, and I'm about to go house-sit for a friend with a computer but no internet. It sure would be nice to play Minecraft while he's away, ...
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11answers
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What's the most efficient way to get experience?
Now that experience does something besides render regions of a server uninhabitable due to orb lag, what's the most efficient and safe way to get those excellent enchants?
A mob farmer may rank ...
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6answers
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How do I find slimes in Minecraft?
In early alpha I remember Minecraft videos showing slimes deep underground. I think you would attack them then they split into several smaller slimes. But I've never found a slime for myself. In what ...
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10answers
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How can I improve the performance of Minecraft?
I'm a happy Minecraft player. I place my blocks, mine my coal, and generally nobody gets hurt. Lately though, those mean creepers have been sneaking up on me from behind, and killing me. Why? Because ...
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How do I not get lost underground?
I have found a rather large series of underground caverns in Minecraft, and have come close to becoming fatally lost several times. What are some best practices in making sure I get back to familiar ...
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3answers
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Farming using Mob Spawners in Minecraft
I have a couple of Mob Spawners surrounded by torches (thus rendered inert), and I want to try using them to farm enemy drops. What's the most efficient setup to automatically kill spawned mobs and ...
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1answer
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Launching Minecraft lags computer
Whenever I launch Minecraft.exe on my computer, while the Minecraft launcher is loading, my computer starts to lag out. The render rate on my entire computer slows down . This is participially ...
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2answers
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Minecraft crashing - Ubuntu 12.10
When I play Minecraft 1.4.2 on Ubuntu (with and without Optifine), after a while (about five minutes or so) it will crash the whole of Ubuntu, SSP and SMP (frozen interface, no responsiveness).
...
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6answers
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Is it possible in Minecraft to switch over from survival to creative in single player?
This question is regarding the minecraft Beta 1.8 prerelease -- I have a beautiful house in single player survival which I'd like to record while flying.
I want to be able to change the game mode of ...
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3answers
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When do mobs despawn in Minecraft?
I understand monsters only spawn in a 9 x 9 grid of chunks centered on the player, and I assume they stay around while they remain within that distance of you. But do they despawn as soon as you move ...
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3answers
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What is the minimum safe spacing between trees to contain forest fires?
After trying to implement a minor controlled burn to tame the wild forests surrounding my home, I managed to create what I shall heretofore refer to as The Burning Land.
It occurred to me that we ...
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4answers
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How do I check my depth on OS X?
I know that if you want to check your depth on a PC, you press F3, but on my Mac, pressing F3 brings up Mission Control and/or the Dashboard.
Is there a way to check depth in OS X without manually ...
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4answers
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How do I change a spawner's type in Minecraft?
I want to change the type of my mob spawners on my server. My server is a vanilla server, as it has no mods. Is there a way I can edit it without mods? If not, is there a mod I can get to change them? ...
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Minecraft 1.4.6 Force Update Problem
I just bought Minecraft and suddenly my whole Minecraft folder inside is gone; nothing except saves. I tried to Force Update but it said Not Downloaded. I downgraded to Snapshot 12w50a/12w50b, and I ...
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What's the goal of Minecraft and what can users achieve in this world?
I heard a lot about Minecraft and I'm quite curious to know what can be achieved in this game and what's its goal.
What mechanism keeps the game going?
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4answers
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Does lightning strike on an angle?
So, with the advent of weather on my friend's SMP server, two structures have already been burned to the ground by lightning strikes. Miraculously, the current tallest flammable structure on the ...
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5answers
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What's the easiest or quickest way to build bases under water?
What's the easiest or quickest way to build bases under water? Stopping every 15 seconds for air is becoming very infuriating. Are there mods or something I can do to speed up the process or even ...
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1answer
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What items can be farmed fully automatically?
Cacti have always been farmable completely automatically. With pistons in 1.7, sugar cane can now be farmed in a fully automatic fashion as well. Mobs and animals can be farmed as well in giant mob ...
