use a lot of TNT. You can easily get a lot of gunpowder from a mob grinder. for sand it is easy to take down a desert with torches. If you need more sand the worlds on PC are infinite and on Xbox One/PS4 they are effectively but not literally infinite. Therefore [nearly] infinite deserts!

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Use a lot of TNT. You can easily get a lot of gunpowder from a mob grinder. for sand it is easy to take down a desert with torches. If you need more sand the worlds on PC are infinite and on Xbox One/PS4 they are effectively but not literally infinite. Therefore [nearly] infinite deserts!