Mojang's exploration and survival based sandbox game in almost endless, procedurally generated worlds.
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Can't load textures into Chunky?
I am trying to load a texture pack into Chunky, which is a Minecraft rendering software, but when I do so, it simply gives me an error that it failed. I'm trying to load 1.5 Faithful 32x32. Please ...
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Minecraft Graphics Suddenly turned Bad
I've been playing Minecraft for a few years on the same computer and suddenly the graphics have gone bad. I thought it was the 1.5 update and my crappy graphics card wasn't supported anymore but then ...
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What's the absolute minimum number of bookshelves to reach a level 30 enchantment?
When playing survival, bookshelves are rather costly as they cost 1.5 wood logs, 9 reeds, and 3 leather each. I would like to use the absolute minimum number of bookshelves to enchant level 30 items. ...
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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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Can I use dispensers or droppers to auto-replant crops?
I'm working on a fully-automatic farm now that 1.5 is out. The plan is to use redstone to flush fully-grown crops into a channel to be collected by a hopper and then picked up by a cart. The issue ...
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How do I kill the enderdragon?
I've been battling away at this thing for a while, I always end up dead. I'm assuming you need to use some kind of trick or tactic to beat it, any idea what I should be doing?
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When I try to break a block it opens the game menu
Every time I go to break a block in Minecraft it opens the in-game menu.
I don't know how to stop this from happening, any ideas?
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Random Stone Brick Replacement with Worldedit in Minecraft
How does one randomly pattern mossy and cracked stone brick among regular smooth stone brick using worldedit? Is there a script for it or does the "vanilla" worldedit have the capabilities of doing ...
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Java uses all CPU while playing Minecraft
I recently purchased Minecraft, but after I have been playing for about 5-10 minutes, the Java process uses all CPU power, leading to a sudden shutdown.
This is weird, because some months ago it ran ...
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How do you kill an Enderman without them teleporting? [duplicate]
I tried to kill and Enderman by it's leg because I was told that it's easier but they just keep Teleporting away.
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Is it possible to defend your house with iron golems?
I recently read about iron golems in Minecraft and it seems like you can just spawn them anywhere, so this lead me to the conclussion that they should be able to protect your house unless they would ...
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How do I set up a Cow Grinder in Minecraft?
So I'm playing on a server that lets you purchase cow spawners for a whole lot of money. I wanted to make a sort of cow collecter, like a half of a mob grinder just so I can hit them with a sword ...
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Can mobs spawn on glass?
I seem to recall at some point that a glass floor was not a candidate for mob spawning (which would be nice given that one cannot place torches on glass). However, I can't seem to confirm that ...
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Black Screen After Log In
I've been playing Minecraft on a PC and just got a Mac laptop (OSX 10.7.5). Since the server I regularly play on has numerous mods (using Forge ModLoader), I decided to copy over my .minecraft files. ...
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galaticraft mod crash issues [closed]
---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// This is a token for 1 free hug. Redeem at your nearest Mojangsta: [~~HUG~~]
Time: 4/30/13 1:35 AM
Description: Saving entity NBT
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: ...
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How do I find Lapis Lazuli?
I can't find Lapis Lazuli. I've looked it up on YouTube, but I can't find a good video. Any help?
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How can I despawn mobs in Minecraft 1.3.2?
I griefed my sister's creative world by making a really big lag zone. I spawned a bunch of NPCs using dispensers and eggs. Our PC is really bad so I couldn't go close enough to kill them in any way, ...
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Why can't I break blocks on any of my worlds in single player? [duplicate]
I just got Minecraft a few days ago and from the start I could not break a single block except if I used fire or TNT; I even tried all the different tools it just will not work. Please help me?
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Consistently Unable To Connect To Minecraft (Login, Local LAN Server)
My kids have recently started enjoying Minecraft Pocket Edition, and it's a lot of fun to play with them. Of course, being hosted on a phone, the world isn't exactly persistent. We pretty much have ...
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Is there a limit on tamed wolves?
I want to know if I can tame an infinite amount of wolves so I have a giant army of them.
Do they despawn if there are too many of them in one spot, or do they stay forever?
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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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Is Spigot more lightweight than a vanilla minecraft server?
Is Spigot more lightweight (in terms of memory and cpu) than a vanilla Minecraft server?
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How fast do Iron Golems respawn?
I am trying to create an Iron Golem trap as outlined in this wiki entry (Iron Golem), however they seem to be respawning very slowly. I have enough villagers to spawn at least one golem, what else ...
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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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How do you make hunger go down in minecraft but without monsters spawning?
I want to make a Hunger Games LAN world, but I keep getting killed by mobs. I want hunger to diminish, but to prevent monsters from spawning. Is there a command for that? If there is, what is it?
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cant break blocks in creative mode [duplicate]
My daughter has just bought minecraft and is playing in creative mode, cheats are off, we have tried /gamemode 1, also /gamemode c and other suggestions. We have created a new world and still cant ...
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How do you stop vines from spreading?
Its annoying me because I built a room surrounding my city and the vines still came in. The same thing happened to my friends city too. My friend covered a house in vines and it spread to our houses. ...
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Why won't this ocelot do anything but breed?
I have several raw fish and have been trying to tame an ocelot. However, every time I get it to approach and feed it a fish, it simply wants to breed. I am playing on SMP, and have tried logging ...
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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 to import an mcedit schematic using world edit?
I made a very awesome mob arena that I want to put on a friend's server. We've tried using world edit to import it but it doesn't paste in the right location. Most of the arena is underground and the ...
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How can I duplicate my firework rockets in Minecraft?
In creative mode, I can create a firework rocket, and set it off as many times as I want by right-clicking somewhere. However, I want to set up a red-stone circuit with dispensers to set off many ...
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I still can't break blocks
I still can't break blocks. I am on Survival and I checked my controls, and my pick block button is button 1. I tried picking dirt but it still won't work.
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What's the best way to herd sheep?
Since sheep are now persistent in Minecraft, whats the best way of herding them into a pen or farm?
Our current solution is to use a combination of fishing poles, buckets of water, and simply pushing ...
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Preventing item loss after death
I'm really sick of getting all of my items destroyed when I die.
Is there any way, even by cheating, to re-acquire the items or to disable the 5 minute item-disappearance countdown?
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How large a hole will rain fill with source blocks?
From MineCraftWiki.net:
(...) and possibly fill up small holes up with water source blocks.
Does anyone have any information about the dynamics of this functionality? Specifically I'm ...
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What is the Purple grass called near swamps in Minecraft
In Minecraft I was in a server and I saw a swamp with green and purple grass. and the trees were purple with the vines. I know it isn't Myselium because that only uses Mushrooms to use that block. and ...
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What enchantments can books have?
Since books can now be enchanted in Minecraft 1.4.6, I haven't been able to find much information on how their enchantments work. I know you can enchant a book and then later apply that enchantment to ...
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Is there any way to cause lava source blocks to replicate in Minecraft?
You can create an infinite well using two buckets of water and a hole that is one block deep and two blocks by two blocks wide. I'm wondering if it's possible to do a similar thing with lava, now ...
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What really happens when you enter a portal in minecraft? (Or should I say, when you come back?)
In minecraft, I'm about to make a portal and enter the Nether, but I have a problem with this. Supposedly when you enter the Nether, you can be directly above lava. This is fixed by the game sending ...
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How can I create a farm in the Nether?
I just joined a multiplayer server and want to make a village in the Nether.
Is it possible to create farms for growing food and trees there? If so, how could I go about doing it?
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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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Why is my new server not letting me connect?
I followed the minecraft wiki on how to set up a new server (extract zip, add name to admin file and run!) however, when i connect through the local client to the server using 127.0.0.1 as my ip ...
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My tunnel bore has corrupted, what can I do?
My tunnel bore (frame motors, CC chunk loaders) stopped. When I went to investigate, it crashed the server. Then, every time I logged in again, it crashed the server. I only escaped by editing my ...
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What can I power my cropnalyzer?
It works of batteries, but the fourth analysis takes up a whole battery, making it rather tedious to cropnalyze many crops. I tried a lapotronic crystal and that didn't work. Is it just batteries or ...
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Minecraft Hunger Games late-game strategy
I have played several games of Minecraft hunger games, and have been pretty consistently been able to reach the top 10 by dispatching any enemies with a quickly-crafted stone sword, then immediately ...
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2answers
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Will I need to regulate or stop the output of my lava pump if I fill up my storage?
I'm planning to pump lava through teleport pipes. I'll be using redstone engines to do the pumping. I am concerned as to what will happen if there is still lava left to collect, but my tank on the ...
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Turning fullscreen on made Minecraft crash, and now it crashes on start every time
I switched to full screen on minecraft, the screen turned black as if it were loading it took a while so i closed minecraft and reopened it. When I logged on it gave me a program on my taskbar saying ...
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How can I up the quarry chunk loading limit?
When I try and place a quarry with a large area I get the following:
Quarry size is outside the chunk loading bounds or too small 251 (25)
[BUILDCRAFT]the quarry at 28 68 284 will keep 2 chunks ...
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What to bring to end? [duplicate]
Ok so I have decided I am going to go into the end to fight the Ender Dragon for like my tenth time, (have been destroyed every time). I need some help, what can I gather, make or find to destroy this ...
