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Part of my house is inexplicably gone
Your house probably got struck by lightning.
Even though it is unlikely, it seems to be the only possible theory left, and makes perfect sense. The house probably started burning from the inside ...
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How do I fix 'Invalid JSON' errors?
The 'JSON' (or 'Javascript Object Notation') is the part of the Minecraft command surrounded by square brackets. The square brackets represent an array, and all main objects (curly brackets) are part ...
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How was it calculated that Dream cheated on his Minecraft v1.16 glitchless speedrun?
The Short Summarized Answer
These are the relevant facts.
These were drop rates for two items important to the speedrun attempts over the course of six livestreams.
Ender pearls are obtained 4.7% of ...
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What is the maximum amount of diamond in one Minecraft game?
There is no fixed amount of Diamond per world, but let's do some math...
This is a calculation for the maximum possible amount. This will likely never happen due to the map size and vein & fortune ...
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How did Minecraft's Java/Bedrock split come to pass?
Originally Minecraft (built on Java) was released by Mojang in 2009, for computers that supported Java. In 2011 Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE) came out for mobile devices, which was built on Objective ...
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What are the basics of commands in Minecraft Java Edition?
Basics of commands and arguments
Minecraft's commands system allows players to modify the game in ways besides mining and placing blocks. Commands have different arguments that specify their behavior, ...
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What does turning off mob griefing actually do?
The mobGriefing rule affects the following:
Mobs trampling farmland
Mobs picking up dropped items (zombies, villagers, etc.)
Zombies breaking doors
Sheep eating grass
(sheep will still regrow their ...
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Why is my Minecraft server always using 100% of available RAM?
You're setting these two options:
-Xms14G -Xmx14G
This means that the JVM should start with 14 GB (-Xms) and grow to a maximum of 14 GB (-Xmx) heap RAM usage. The actual RAM usage will be higher, as ...
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Is it possible to detect a player consuming food items?
You can make scoreboard objectives of type minecraft.used:minecraft.<food item name>, for example
/scoreboard objectives add eatBread minecraft.used:minecraft.bread
The only food item this ...
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Trapped in an ocean Temple in Minecraft?
Mining fatigue only slows your mining down, it doesn't completely prevent it. So you can for example bind your mining action to a key on your keyboard instead of a mouse button and put a weight on it, ...
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How do I kill mobs using /kill without them dropping loot?
The DeathLootTable string tag can modify which loot table the mob will use when killed. The "empty" loot table will cause it to drop nothing:
1.12 and lower:
/entitydata @e[type=Zombie,r=40] {...
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Is there a distance limit for minecart tracks?
The limit the minecart will go is the edge of loaded chunks.
In multiplayer mode, a grid with a default inradius of 10 (for a total of 21x21 or 441) chunks is loaded around each player and sent to ...
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Is it possible to trap yourself in the Nether?
According to the Wiki, you can find both Obsidian and Flint and Steel in Nether Fortress chests. Go find a nether fortress and try your luck by collecting chest loot.
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How much data will a 12550824 x 12550824 world take up in Minecraft?
Are you trying to build the Earth (it's actually about 22584607 by 22584607 metres surface area, about 3.2 times what you're asking about)? Well, the block height can take 256 values and each block ...
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Is it possible to eat quietly in Minecraft?
The only way would be a cake, the placement sound is much quieter and eating it makes no sound.
Otherwise only resource packs can disable eating sounds, but of course only for yourself.
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How do I kill mobs using /kill without them dropping loot?
You can simply teleport all hostile mobs in a certain radius 256 blocks down. May they, and their drops, rest in peace in the void below the world.
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How can I prevent griefers from grabbing all my loot in Minecraft?
The Ender Chest is the best approach, but if you don't want/can't use an Ender chest there, here are some solutions I have prevented theft in Minecraft.
Redstone Traps
I have in the past created a ...
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Why can't I craft scaffolding in Minecraft 1.14?
As Dan Bron mentioned in the comments, you're trying to use sugar canes.
What you need to use is bamboo. They appear quite similar.
Here is the recipe you're looking for:
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Links to webpages in books
You can use clickEvent with open_url:
/give @s minecraft:written_book{pages:["[\"\",{\"text\":\"Arqade\",\"color\":\"gray\",\"underlined\":true,\"clickEvent\":{\"action\":\"open_url\",\"value\":\"...
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Why does half of my nether portal lead to a different portal?
Inside of the game's coding, the nether portal itself is merely a type of block, and the different blocks of the same portal are only connected inasmuch as they were created by the same ring of ...
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How can I add the block I'm looking at to my hand in creative?
It is called Pick Block, and by default it is set to MMB (Middle-click).
In creative, it adds the block to your inventory.
Many people do not know, though, that if you're in survival, you can also use ...
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Find home in hardcore Minecraft with reduced debug information?
Маке а compass and a lodestone. Place the lodestone in your home. Use the compass on the lodestone. The compass will always point to that lodestone.
There is also a cheaper method if your home is ...
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How can I prevent griefers from grabbing all my loot in Minecraft?
You can use an Ender Chest to store things that you don't want stolen. The contents of the chest are unique to the person opening it, so a potential griefer won't see anything that they haven't put in ...
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In Minecraft, how can you stop items from disappearing?
In short, you can't, except for circumstances which are difficult or impractical to engineer deliberately. Items dropped on the ground will always vanish after five minutes, subject to the following ...
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How can I prevent players from having a specific item in their inventory?
You don't need mods. Spawn chunks are always loaded, put your command block there.
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How big is a block in Minecraft?
It has been well established that the length of the sides of one solid block in Minecraft is 1m, making its volume 1m³. This is supported by Gamepedia.
The height of the player is 1.8 blocks, thus 1....
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