Questions tagged [minecraft-java-edition]
A 3D exploration and survival sandbox game, based in large generated worlds made of blocks. This tag is for the Java-based edition of Minecraft for PCs. For other editions of the game, please use the tag specific to that edition, e.g. [minecraft-bedrock-edition]
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Over what distance will one coal power a Minecart with Furnace?
When I use Minecarts, I hate having to use Powered Rails to move them. I would like to use a Minecart with Furnace to push my Minecarts, but I don't know how much fuel I'll need.
How far can a ...
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How can I stop being electrocuted?
In Feed The Beast, I have this setup with an MFE, a low voltage transformer, some gold cables, and my other machines. Whenever I touch the MFE, transformer, or gold cables, I get shocked. This ...
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Do you have to buy minecraft if you are running against your own server?
I want to run the minecraft client and server on a local network.
To avoid what appears to be a pile of "free" scam sites, I want to purchase and download it from the official site.
However, on ...
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How can I make my lapotronic charge pad charge faster?
It takes ages to charge my GraviChestPlate while standing on a Lapotronic charge pad. Are there upgrades that will make it faster? Overclocker? Efficiency?
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How to keep track of winners in a spleef Minecraft tournament?
I'm holding a spleef Minecraft tournament for my students. So I downloaded the SuperSpleef plugin. Problem is I don't know how to keep track of score and see which of my students won... I want to ...
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How to farm spruce trees indoors?
I don't understand how to make an indoor spruce tree farm. I know that with regular oak they just need to be next to a torch. I read somewhere that having two spaces between spruce saplings should ...
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How do you create seed oil in Minecraft Forestry 1.6?
I cannot figure how to extract oil from seeds in order to put it into a can.
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Unable to locate Signs problem
What I have been having with my server the last few days is that there are massive holes all over my land; you can try jumping in them but you only go about one block down then you get stuck if you're ...
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How to turn off a TE Redstone Energy Cell if there is no load?
A Redstone Energy Cell (from Thermal Expansion) continuously emits energy according to the rate set in its GUI as long as it contains MJ. If the Buildcraft machines connected to the energy network ...
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How can I select a single bit out of an array of latches?
Let's say I have 4 latches, each representing a bit:
I want to be able to see the value stored at a specific bit. I specify which bit I want to look at by entering a binary number via. switches:
So ...
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Avoiding Wither Projectiles
I am currently fighting the wither and am annoyed that I always have the wither affect on me. I tried to dodge the blasts, but I am in the jungle and it's almost impossible to escape. So, is there a ...
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Minecraft Server: Everyone spawns in the ground
In the MC server I'm in, every player experiences a spawn issue; players spawn in the ground and start to suffocate. After a second or so you then spawn where you would normally spawn.The length of ...
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How do you build an End portal in the Nether?
In creative mode, how can you build an End portal in the Nether?
Placing End portal frames in the usual configuration and putting eyes of Ender in them doesn't have any result. The frames and eyes ...
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Minecraft Modpacks vs MCPC+
I run a private server for my friends and I that started out simple, but has slowly been growing in plugins and mods. What started in vanilla, quickly changed to Bukkit for essentials and permissions, ...
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My Minecraft server doesn't work if the lid on my laptop is closed
I have a Minecraft server set up on Mac OS X. Whenever the lid on my laptop is closed, the terminal says:
Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded?
The entire ...
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A mechanism or CraftBukkit plugin to not allow building or mining in Minecraft?
I'm trying to teach students how to program JavaScript inside Minecraft with ScriptCraft. It's been amazing, except for the fact that even my most focused students get so distracted with playing ...
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Transfer Everything to Another Player
I am running a Bukkit server on my local machine for personal use with MultiVerse plugin. Last week, my Internet went down for a couple of days, so I thought I could just play in offline mode on a ...
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Allowed symbols/characters in Minecraft chat
Is there any list of all symbols/characters you can use in the Minecraft chat?
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Class Stomper in the Walls server [closed]
I got this class on Minecraft The Walls server called Stomper. When I tried to use it, there was nothing in my inventory. Is there a purpose of the Stomper, or is he just the guy you start out with in ...
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How can I break a minecart with the environment without destroying it?
With the upcoming Redstone Update, I see the possibility of improving existing automated minecart station designs. One way of doing so is to vastly increase the storage capacity (or vastly reduce the ...
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How can you get different types of monster spawners in minecraft [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change a spawner’s type in Minecraft?
Whenever I use the give spawner command in minecraft, it is always a pig spawner. Is there a way to get any other spawners like ...
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How can I find carrots and potatoes in an older (pre-vegetable) minecraft world seed
So have been running an older version of Minecraft for a while, which was before the update with carrots and potatoes. Now that I have updated to the latest version of the game, I was wondering how ...
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When the Redstone update happens, will my existing worlds reflect the new version?
Playing on PC, when the Redstone update happens will that make changes to my current worlds?
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I am about to die in lava. How might I save my inventory?
I'm playing the Minecraft Feed the Beast modpack.
During a lengthy mining session, I made a dumb mistake and fell into lava (not for the first time).
I rage-quit the game before I died, and now I ...
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Where is my minecraft server's spawnpoint?
I have a small public vanilla minecraft survival server, and I've decided to build a structure by the spawn point and increase spawn-protection within the server.properties files to prevent it from ...
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Can I monitor a quarry with CraftOS?
I'd like to use a craftOS monitor to display whether my quarries have finished or not. How, at a basic level, would I go about doing this?
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Minecraft keeps crashing [closed]
My sister and I recently upgraded to Windows 8, and yesterday we were playing Minecraft like normal. Then all of a sudden we got this pop-up for Java. I clicked on the popup, then I got kicked out of ...
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Which configuration of armor enchantments gives maximum protection?
Prior to 1.4.6 it was a well known fact that the protection enchantment on armor was strictly superior to the other enchantments and that simply having a few pieces with protection III/IV would max ...
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Do potion effects affect the ender dragon?
I am at the ender dragon and have tons of Potions of instant damage. I never got into range, but do the effects even do anything?
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How Can I Stop Creepers Destroying Blocks On Minecraft [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I disable creepers block damage on my Minecraft server?
Removing some hostile creatures in minecraft
Hello fellow minecrafters, I am making an adventure map with ...
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What are the creative benefits of getting the full version of Minecraft?
I want to buy the full version of Minecraft, but I'm one of those creative types. What are some of the differences in Creative mode in the full version of Minecraft?
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Local Vis Aura maximum dropped?
I managed to find a Silverwood Sapling the other day and planted it on top of my house (which is pretty much just a hole in the ground). After several days, it finally grew into a tree and I noticed ...
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Fastest way to clear out a large area down to bedrock?
I'm thinking of building a large mobfarm (standard spawn on pressure plates, piston pushes the mob off, dies from fall damage and a waterflow collects the drops).
However, to maximize efficiency I ...
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What is the villager breed rate?
What is the breed rate for villagers. I know the requirements of housing and the like. What I want to know is: is it like cattle, one breed every five minutes and twenty minutes to grow up? If so, are ...
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How can I bring zombies down to one-punch kills in Minecraft?
There's something about zombies in Minecraft that if you merely drop them down 23 blocks for the fall damage, they take two punches to kill, rather than one punch like other mobs. (23 ½ is the same, ...
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What's so special about bread?
Why is bread highlighted? It's not lit any differently to the other barrels.
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Is trading a cost-effective way to get diamond tools?
I finally decided to play around with Minecraft's trading system, and wanted to get some diamond tools. So I made a bunch of written books, and went to find a Librarian to trade with. He wouldn't take ...
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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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Are there any advantages between cobblestone wall and regular fence?
In Minecraft, are there any advantages to using cobblestone walls as opposed to regular fences? Besides the higher availability of cobblestone compared wood.
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What happens to items in pipes when a chunk is unloaded?
I have a quarry, which keeps its chunks loaded, outputting into buildcraft pipes. If I were to disconnect from the server, what would happen to the items in the pipes in the chunks that were unloaded? ...
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The Shadow City cools its bones near this water. Where is the next clue?
I have been searching throughout the Shadow City of the Sunspear in Westeroscraft for weeks now and still have yet to find the next clue.
I have read the books and watched the show and do not ...
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How much coal does a Hobbyist Steam Engine use for a full tank of water?
How much coal should I put in my Hobbyist Steam Engine so that the (full) tank of water and the coal run out at the same time?
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What does the Enchantment Vorpal do?
I just enchanted a book. Now it has "Vorpal II" on it and I don't know what this enchantment does. Can someone help?
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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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When copying single player world to server, I lose my structures!
Whenever I try to copy my customized pvp map that I made in single player, I lose all of the structures that I have created. It is very frustrating as I put some serious time and effort into creating ...
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How can I set up a 12 hour timer?
I want to trigger a mechanism once every real-time 12 hours. Is this possible, or well out of the realms of plausibility?
I'm using the Direwolf modpack.
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Is there a way to find where other players are in the Minecraft world without asking them for their coordinates?
Is there a way to find where other players are in the Minecraft world without asking them for their coordinates? I play with friends. We've sort of aligned ourselves in a 2 vs 2 match-up, and since we ...
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Stuck after spawning in Minecraft
A new player spawned on the server for the first time and was spawned inside a tree within the protected area around the spawn. We don't have an admin around, but he is obviously stuck since he can't ...
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How do I upgrade an electrical engine?
The forestry wiki implies I can upgrade my electrical engine, but doesn't say how. What do I do with the electron tubes to upgrade the engine?
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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 ...