Mojang's exploration and survival based sandbox game in almost endless, procedurally generated worlds.
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How can I choose the zoom level for my map?
According to both Notch's Twitter (no link) and the wiki, maps have some kind of settable zoom:
A zoom level, which will somehow be decided at the time the map is created.
I have no idea how to ...
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How do I flood a mine?
I have built an aqueduct from what seems to be the sea to the underground level. But the water level never rises above 1 tile of depth. How to make it 2 tiles of depth?
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How do I add plugins to my Bukkit SMP server?
I was wondering how to add plugins to my Minecraft server. I am using Bukkit, and the things I would like to be able to do is spawn stuff, teleport to other players, set home locations, have an ...
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How can I preserve an active redstone circuit when I leave the chunk it's built in?
When I set up a redstone circuit for rotating blocks (with pistons) or flashing redstone lights, everything's fine, but when I exit that zone, the current is not saved, and when I return later, the ...
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How far can mobs see?
How far can mobs see?
I know if I have my render distance set to far then I can see mobs before they see me. Does anyone know precisely how far a mob can see?
This would be really nice to know ...
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How far do I have to place torches so that mobs will not spawn near me?
Since torches prevent mobs from spawning, is it possible to place enough torches within a specific radius to ensure safety during the night? I'm thinking of a situation without any shelter built, more ...
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What's the best way to protect your house from Endermen stealing your walls?
Since Endermen are capable of picking up blocks, they can pick up your blocks from your house.
What's the best way to prevent Endermen from stealing your blocks?
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Any way to round up animals in Minecraft?
I want to farm sheep for their wool. What's the best way to make them spawn or gather them up into one pen?
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Why do I need to delete the META-INF folder when installing mods?
In Minecraft, nearly every tutorial on how to install a MOD tells you to remove the META-INF folder. However none of the ones I found tell you what it is. I don't like the idea of deleting a folder ...
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Why does my character walk forward automatically?
I'm sure that I'm not alone. Sometimes when I go somewhere or build something, all of a sudden, the character keeps going forward just like the W is stuck. But it's not.
To recover from this I have ...
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How do portals and the nether work in Minecraft multiplayer? [closed]
I started a survival multiplayer server for Minecraft, but it's behaving weird when dealing with the nether.
Portals don't seem to work, so I switch to and from the nether by toggling the server ...
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Does length dilation affect the Y axis in the Nether?
It's known that traveling one block in the Nether is equivalent to traveling 8 blocks in the real world, and I can confirm that along the X and Z axes by building four portals: two in the Nether and ...
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What's the best way to fight an Enderman?
When you're looking at one and it's running at you really fast, you know you're in deep trouble.
My question is: What is the best tactic to fight an Enderman because they seem to teleport behind ...
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How do you fix massive holes that appear in the ground?
This has happened in a couple of different places on my server. Does anyone have any idea what causes it to happen?
Some facts about the phenomenon:
other players on the server can't see them, ...
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How can I clone maps in SMP?
So far I was able to create clones of map_0, just by pressing shift while taking the map from the crafting table.
But is there any (ingame) way to create a clone of, say, map_1? If not is there a ...
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Why are blocks respawning in my Minecraft 1.3 SMP server?
The Minecraft forums seem to be filled with threads regarding a "block respawn" bug. I set up a 1.3 SMP server on my LAN, and notice this as well. All blocks respawn a couple of seconds after being ...
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Can I alter the biome of an area?
In part 3 of my adventures, I would like to find out if there is a way to change biomes.
In part 2, fredley said that it is possible to move terrain from one world to another, but the biomes wouldn't ...
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Where do Minecraft texture packs go on OS X?
I play Minecraft on OS X and for some reason clicking this button doesn't do anything.
Where should I be putting my texture packs?
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Self-host a minecraft server with high security
I heard that hosting a minecraft server (public) is super super secure. Like, you'd need a government hacker to hack into it (I'm not talking about client-hacking) to gain access to your system.
In ...
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How Do Hostile Mobs Spawn in Minecraft?
So I found a village near where I originally spawned and I expanded on it. I thought I could keep it safe by building a 3-4 block high wall around the village, unfortunately this didn't help (now all ...
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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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Do Blasts Pass Through Obsidian?
I'm in a bit of a pickle.
It seems someone playing on my friend's SMP server decided that it would be a good idea for him to do some testing with TNT.
Now, he's conscientiously set this atrocity ...
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How do I quickly create a safe shelter?
I've recently started playing Minecraft, and I only have a little experience with enemies (I've been playing with the peaceful setting so I can figure out what the heck I'm doing). When I did play ...
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How do I find diamonds?
The durability of iron tools is really starting to annoy me, but in all my hours of playing I've only stumbled across one deposit of diamond ore that provided around 7 gems.
What's the best way to ...
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How much larger is a Lightning Creeper's explosion radius compared to a regular Creeper?
With the advent of weather in 1.5, lightning strikes during rainstorms can set fire to trees, frankenstein pigs to zombie pigmen, and perhaps most insidiously of all, super-charge Creepers with blue ...
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Can lightning set stuff on fire?
Notch has just implemented lightning. I'm now too terrified to open up my treehouse map in case a storm burns it to the ground! Is this possible?
Update
I've unanswered this question, now that fire ...
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Will monsters spawn on top of trees?
I'm covering everywhere near my house with my torches and building walls (using fences or blocks) around them, to make sure no creepers blow me up as I come out, or trample my sugar cane and wood. (I ...
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Are there any blocks that spiders cannot climb?
I'm building a spider spawner exp farm, and I have everything planned out.
Now the only thing is to build it. But what material should I use?
Are there any blocks that a spider (either type) just ...
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What features differ between the XBLA and PC versions of minecraft?
What differences does the Xbox 360 version of minecraft have compared to playing on the PC?
EDIT: At the risk of this being too localized, I'm asking more about differences exclusive to each ...
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I've lost my portal home. How can I leave the nether without suiciding?
I've gone into the Nether and seemed to have lost my portal out of it, I also can't die in lava or by mobs attacking me, I'm appear to be invincible and can't die.
This is Single Player by the way.
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Is it possible to change your single-player skin?
In Minecraft, is it possible to customize your skin in single-player mode (not just in multiplayer)? How?
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What is gold good for?
I have a good supply of gold; however I do not know what to do with it all! Golden armour and tools wear out too fast to be useful, so what do I do with all my gold?
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Where does Rei's Minimap store your waypoints?
In what file does Rei's Minimap store its waypoint data?
I recently updated a server's modpack (from FTB Beta to Direwolf20's pack) and the waypoints disappeared in the process. I've combed through ...
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Minecraft Biome Modification? (SMP)
I host a SMP server on a VPS and lately there's been a couple of hard crashes at the hosting facility which has caused some interesting biome glitches.
The initial spawn area and the surrounding ...
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Converting Minecraft .lvl to .dat
Is it possible to import/convert a Minecraft Classic server level to a Minecraft server level? I have a really old server, set up in McLawl r55, that I would like to open and explore in the current ...
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How do you set Minecraft offline mode player name and also pass parameters into the jar?
I know how to set the Minecraft offline mode player name via:
Java -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -cp "%APPDATA%\.minecraft\bin\*"
-Djava.library.path="%APPDATA%\.minecraft\bin\natives"
...
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What do the values on the Minecraft debug screen represent?
If you hit F3 while playing Minecraft, an overlay appears. Some of the items, such as fps, x, y, and z are obvious, but I'm curious about some of the other values. What do they all represent?
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How do you create a waterfall elevator?
In Minecraft Alpha Single Player Survival, what are the specifications to create a waterfall elevator to go from the bottom of a long mine shaft to the surface?
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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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In my first game I spawned on a small island. What do I do next?
After seeing a huge interest here and in almost every PC gaming site, I decided to buy Minecraft Beta. In twitter and rss I heard something about zombie, ghosts, cakes, spiders, survive in the wild ...
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What can I do to help orienting myself in Minecraft Alpha?
The current cave I'm working on is becoming unwieldy and disorienting. It's becoming harder and harder for me to keep bearings of where I am and what is the fastest way to my shelter. I'm looking for ...
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What happens when you reach the edge of the world?
In Minecraft, presumably the world is finite. What happens when you reach the edge of the world? Or will the world become too large to reasonably deal with before this happens?
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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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Do positive coordinate locations give more ore in Minecraft?
I've heard that due to a bug in the terrain generation locations in the positive direction (i.e. (3,5),(100,200)) give more materials such as iron. I can't find any proof this claim, however. Is this ...
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What is the best layer to mine for gold in Minecraft?
Now that booster tracks can be created using gold ore, I seem to be getting through my supplies rather quickly.
What is the layer with the highest amount of gold? I'm currently looking around layer ...
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How often is a Powered Rail required to keep going uphill?
When going up a slope, how often must you insert a powered rail to keep your cart going? What is the minimum to keep going at all, and what is a good recommendation for maintaining a reasonable speed?
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In Minecraft how do I randomise the output in a redstone circuit?
I have 5 buttons and only one of these can be correct, all others must be false.
These 5 outputs will go into 2 outputs, in between there needs to be a circuit which changes which single button out ...
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How do redstone torches (circuits) work in Minecraft?
I tried reading the minecraftwiki page on the subject, but without an understanding of precisely how the torches work, none of it makes sense. I have a lot of questions, so even an article explaining ...
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What are some tactics to fortify villages and their population against outside attack?
I recently discovered my homely village has been ransacked by a marauding horde of zombies. They managed to get inside one of my large apartment houses and wiped out all but two (!) of the village ...
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I don't like Hell, can I go somewhere else?
I just opened a nether portal for the first time, and I must say, it's not a very good location, a sort of narrow trench/cavern thingy without any obvious clues as to which direction is "out".
I'm ...
