Minecraft game guides
How the games themselves work, from mechanics to progression, for when your group is playing rather than setting up.
All 12 game guides
Armour trims and unique armour in Minecraft
Where every Minecraft armour trim template comes from, how to apply and copy trims at a smithing table, plus the netherite upgrade and turtle shell helmet.
Build a Minecraft iron golem farm
How villagers summon iron golems in Java Edition, a build checklist for a working farm and the Minecraft server settings that keep it from lagging.
How to get a sniffer in Minecraft
Brush a sniffer egg out of warm ocean ruin sand in Minecraft, hatch it on moss, raise the snifflet and breed more sniffers with torchflower seeds.
Minecraft animal breeding chart
Which food breeds each animal on a Java Minecraft server, plus love mode, breeding cooldown and baby growth times, and which animals need taming first.
Minecraft bamboo: light level, soils, farming and uses
Minecraft bamboo needs light level 9 or higher and grows on mud, sand and more. How to plant and farm it, what it crafts into, its fuel value and pandas.
Minecraft banner recipe: crafting and patterns
Minecraft banner recipe: craft banners and a loom, add up to six pattern layers, and find or craft the ten banner pattern items in Java Edition.
Minecraft Caves and Cliffs guide
What the Minecraft 1.17 and 1.18 update added: copper, amethyst, deepslate, new caves and mountains, the 384-block world height, and how it affects old worlds.
Minecraft Trails and Tales guide
What the Minecraft 1.20 update added and how to start: archaeology, the brush, sniffers, camels, armour trims, cherry groves, bamboo and chiseled bookshelves.
Minecraft Wild Update guide
What the Minecraft 1.19 update added and how to start: mangrove swamps, the deep dark, the warden, frogs and allays, plus a game rule to stop wardens spawning.
Respawn the Minecraft Ender Dragon
Bring the Minecraft Ender Dragon back with four End crystals: what you need, where the crystals go, why it may not start and what a repeat kill drops.
The best Minecraft enchantments
The usual best Minecraft enchantments for armour, tools, swords and bows with their top levels, where each one comes from, and how to combine them.
The rarest animals in Minecraft
Which animals are hardest to find in Minecraft Java, with the spawn weights, biomes and special routes behind each one in the 26.3 game data.