Indholdsfortegnelse for Issue 89 i Minecraft World Magazine

CHISELLED BLOCKS Each chiselled stone block in Minecraft shows a different image, some of which have hidden meanings. Starting from the top of our screenshot: ◼ Chiselled red sandstone depicts a wither. ◼ Chiselled stone bricks – concentric squares (or maybe an eye of ender?). ◼ Chiselled sandstone – a creeper face. ◼ Chiselled deepslate – a warden. ◼ Chiselled quartz – an abstract pattern, different on the top and sides. ◼ Chiselled nether bricks – a wither skeleton skull. ◼ Chiselled polished blackstone – a piglin snout. GLAZED TERACOTTA The patterns on glazed terracotta are impressive on their own, but did you know that they can all tile in certain ways? If you place them correctly, you can create the symmetrical designs seen in this screenshot! Other interesting designs…

Coral! ABOUT CORAL BLOCKS Coral reefs generate underwater in warm ocean biomes. They comprise coral blocks in various shapes, covered in coral fans. The coral blocks come in five different colours with different surface patterns, and the structures generate in five different shapes: tube (blue), brain (pink), bubble (magenta), fire (red) and horn (yellow). If coral is mined, it will die and turn into a grey version of its natural pattern. Live coral blocks placed outside of water will quickly die and turn grey usually after a couple of seconds. In order to keep coral from dying, it must be placed directly adjacent to a water block. USING CORAL BLOCKS Coral is chiefly useful as decoration or a building material, though it is notoriously difficult to keep the block ‘alive’…

10 E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL SPACESHIP JackSkellingtonMC spent two hours and 45 minutes recreating the spaceship used to take E.T. the Extra Terrestrial home. That’s an hour more than the running time of the enchanting 1982 movie, but the effort has been worth every minute. Although there is no interior, you can marvel at the exterior of this spacecraft in one of two different colours: black or silver. tinyurl.com/mcw89topten10 9 PROJECT 2048 THE LAST SPACESHIP–S This beautiful-looking fantasy spaceship created by Pahu02 is supposedly being earmarked for launch in 2048 to install a human colony on Gliese542. Called Last Hope and created for the Project 2048 Build Contest, it has hangars and a dome under which vegetation is growing and water flows. It came seventh overall, but it’s a winner…

BETTER LADDERS Attaching ladders to walls is okay, but what if you want one standing free somewhere that doesn’t take up too much space? There’s a simple hack that involves placing ladders on the back of trapdoors. Start by stacking the trapdoors on top of one another by using the sneak/crouch button while you place them (they should look like they’re floating). Now ‘open’ them so that they appear to form a tall thin board. Finally, go around the other side and attach the ladders to the back of the trapdoors and you’ll have a thin, unintrusive and freestanding ladder! Better yet, if you alternate the directions the trapdoors face, you can place ladders on both sides and it’ll be climbable from either. Don’t open or close the trapdoors, or…

BEFORE YOU START Structure blocks allow you to overwrite sections of your world with saved areas. Take care when using them – it’s easy to wreck parts of your world if you do it incorrectly, so test it in a fresh world before you risk anything important. Remember: always take backups of your worlds! USEASTRUCTURE BLOCK IN JAVA EDITION To use a structure block to load an existing structure, take the following steps: ◼ First, make sure you’re in Creative mode – the structure block won’t do anything in any other mode. If in doubt, open the console and type: /gamemode creative ◼ Now, use this console command: /give @p minecraft:structure_block 1 ◼ Place the block roughly where you want a structure to appear and click on it to open…

Thank you to so many of you for taking the time to write in and tell us all about your fantastic Minecraft creations, collections, cakes and ideas! We love receiving all your interesting letters, so be sure to get in touch about anything Minecraft related! You can write to us via email. Our address is: incoming@everythingmw.com We look forward to hearing from you! Here’s the latest collection of letters… BUDDY’S PICTURE Hello, I am Buddy, or striderfan32435 as my Minecraft username (YouTube channel is Doodlebud and the Magic cookies). I’ve played Minecraft since I was five and I get a subscription to your magazine every year, and I am super-excited when they arrive. I always loved reading your magazines and I liked seeing the ‘your letters’ page, so I decided…

BUILD SPECS Minecraft’s deserts are unforgiving places, with huge expanses of sand and dead bushes interrupted by the occasional temple – but in reality, even the driest areas have some life around their water. That’s why this month we’re encouraging you to create a desert oasis! Here are the things your build needs to have to qualify: ◼ A small body of water from a desert spring; ◼ Plants and trees growing around watering hole; ◼ A tent for weary travellers to rest. Other than that, you’re free to try whatever you want! HINTS AND TIPS Don’t worry too much about makingyour own desert spring – there areplenty of small lakes to be found indeserts everywhere, so use one ofthose as your first port of call. You can place grass…

AZALEA Although they only grow in lush caves, you can collect azalea and flowering azalea plants by breaking azalea leaves with any tool other than shears. There’s a 1 in 20 chance a leaf block will drop a plant. You can also use bonemeal on moss to force it to grow an azalea plant, and to force azalea plants to grow a full-size tree – providing there is enough space! Azalea plants also make it more likely that oak and birch saplings that grow into full size trees within two blocks of them will have an increased (1 in 20) chance of containing a bee’s nest. BAMBOO You can feed bamboo to pandas to put them in breeding mode, but ONLY if there are at least eight blocks of bamboo…

ABOUT THE COMPASS Compasses are tools for helping you navigate around the Overworld. The red part of the needle on a standard compass always points towards the world spawn, which is the place you first appeared when you started the game. This means if you build your base close by – or at least give yourself some pointers from that location – then a compass can always help you find your way home. Alternatively, you can magnetise a compass using a lodestone, at which point the compass will always point to the lodestone regardless of which dimension it’s in. A lodestone is crafted out of a netherite ingot and eight chiselled stone bricks. OBTAINING A COMPASS Compasses can be built quite early in the game and are necessary for finding…

Dear Ask Us Anything, I'm Edward and I play on an iPad with my brother, Ben. I love your mag! I have some questions to ask you: ◼ Can you power a beacon with copper? ◼ How do you make a cobblestone generator? ◼ How does a pet parrot help you? ◼ My friends don't believe me that gold horse armour is stronger than iron horse armour. Am I right? ◼ How do you know if an amethyst shard is fully grown, and what do you need to mine it with? Hope you can answer my questions! Edward, aged 9 Hi Edward! Those are some really good questions. Luckily, we’re got some equally good answers! ◼ Nope! You can only power (and build) beacons with iron, gold, diamond, emeralds, and…

TYPES OF HORSES There are three types of horses in Minecraft, and the best one to use depends on the job you’re doing with it. HORSES can be found in plains and savannahs, as well as any villages that contain animal pens. There are seven different colours and a selection of markings to find, making for a total of 35 different visually distinct variants. Hi owever, each one also has ts own speed, jump height, and health value. They can be equipped with saddles and horse armour. DONKEYS can also spawn in plains and savannahs, but in smaller numbers than horses. They may also spawn in mountain meadows. They can be equipped with saddles and chests. MULES do not spawn naturally, but can be bred from a horse and a donkey.…