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MOAT A moat is a time-honoured tradition for defending castles, and it works just as well for any other base in Minecraft. That’s because almost all mobs find it tough to get across water. Even the ones that are happy to try swimming will be significantly slowed down by it. While they bob about in the water, you can get out your bow and arrow and take out the defenceless mobs before they arrive. A 2 x 2 trench around the thing you’re defending should be more than enough to slow things down, while being also small enough for you to jump over! LAVA DRAWBRIDGE A more advanced version of a moat might be filled with lava, and too long to jump – so how would you get over it?…

COBWEBS ABOUT COBWEBS Although it isn’t solid, a cobweb is technically a block in Minecraft. It has the rare property of slowing down any player, mob or item that enters it without causing them any damage. When inside a cobweb, movement speed is slowed to about 15%. Spiders are the exception – both spiders and cave spiders can pass through cobwebs without losing any speed. Cobwebs can be destroyed in 20 seconds using an empty hand, or more quickly, in 0.4 seconds, using a sword. Note that this will cause it drop a piece of string, but also do two points of durability damage to the sword! It is also possible to break cobwebs using flowing water or pistons. In both cases, cobwebs destroyed by the blocks will drop one…

Dear Ask Us Anything, I love your magazine and I have been playing Minecraft for three years now. I have some questions for you: ■ How do you download mods on Nintendo Switch Edition? ■ How many XP bars does the Ender dragon give you when killed? ■ On Bedrock Edition, how many blocks are the End city islands from the main island? ■ Can you get the Entity 303 skin for free? ■ I ate a Notch apple on no cheats survival mode and I did not get the overpowered achievement. Why is that? Thanks for answering my questions. I hope I get in your magazine! Idris, Age 7 Hey Idris! Your hope has been rewarded! Thanks for your questions; here are some answers: ■ The only way to…

CRAFTING BASIC BANNERS Making a banner is pretty simple. You just need six units of wool and a single stick. Unlike some recipes, all of the wool has to be the same colour. This will create a basic, or plain banner the same colour as the wool. There are 16 different possible plain banners, each corresponding to one of the 16 basic dye colours. These banners can be placed in the ground, attached to the side of buildings, or applied to shields (in Java Edition). You can also use maps on placed banners to add a marker to a map (again, in Java Edition only). Once placed, they will sway gently in the breeze. But that’s only the start… BANNER LAYERS As well as their base colour, each banner can…

WHY BUILD IN THE AIR? Mid-air bases are extremely safe, for a few reasons. The first is that it’s almost impossible for mobs to attack you, as most live on the ground or under it. Also, being high up means it’s easy to look down on mobs and pick them off from a safe range. While it’s not the easiest place to get started, and you’ll spend a lot of time transporting blocks back and forth, it IS worth it. HOW TO GET STARTED You have two choices: you can either find a floating (or nearly floating) chunk of land, or create your own. Existing floating areas are very rare and usually not very big, so expect to have to build one yourself! Creating a floating island is simple: just…

LANDSCAPE GENERATION With the new version, the landscape in Minecraft is going to look completely different in a lot of ways, some small, some large. Hills and mountains will now appear more realistic, and caves, ravines, and other underground features will look a little different too. Badlands biomes will be smaller, rivers have been tweaked so that they merge with swamps rather than cut through them, and lakes are less likely to be placed in hot biomes. DEEP CAVES The big changes, though, are that the new subterranean caves are back – these were previewed in 1.17 pre-release snapshots, but they’re here again, bigger and better than ever. Where you used to find bedrock if you dug straight down, you now find deepslate which continues way deeper and gives worlds…

10 HALLOWEEN WORLD Let’s start our countdown this issue with a brilliant Halloweenthemed town! As you’d expect, there’s no shortage of pumpkins and cobwebs as you walk down the street here. It’s the work of haj imeowari-JP0513, and it’s a really creepy way to start things off…! tinyurl.com/mcw84topten10 9 SKULL BASE Yikes! We had to do a double take when we first saw this one: a massive floating skull! Imagine having something like this to house your base in Minecraft – we doubt you’d get too many intruders heading your way to knock at the door! TAP2010 is the creator behind this one. tinyurl.com/mcw84topten9 8 HAUNTED MANSION You can find plenty of haunted houses in and around the world of Minecraft, and you might even want to try making one…

RITUAL STONE CIRCLE BUILD There are lots of spooky things you can build, and nothing says creepy like coming across the site of a strange ritual. Clear out some space in a field or forest and you can build yourself a ritual circle. We began ours by creating a Stonehenge-style structure – gate-shaped standing stones in a small circle – make yours as big as you like. At either end, we put one larger stone to be the actual gate. In the centre, you can put a number of different things. A Nether Portal isn’t a bad idea, and it’ll heighten the idea that the ritual was one that involved some dangerous magic. You could be less scary and put in a tree or fossil – something that implies the…

ABOUT TRIDENTS Tridents are the only weap on that can be used for both melee and ranged combat. You can use one to hit mobs up close, like a sword, or throw it to at tack mobs that are out of its reach – although you will have to then go and collect the trident again if you want to reuse it! Tridents are one of a few uncraftable items in the game. They have a durability of 250 and lose one point of durability every time they are thrown or hit an enemy. For melee at tacks they deal 9 points of damage. If thrown they deal 8points of damage. GETTING TRIDENTS Since you cannot craft a trident, the only way to get one is to collect it from…

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… MATILDA’S NEW PICTURE You might remember me from issue 63. I drew that end picture Anyway this is my nether drawing for your AWESOME mags! Please say hello to my awesome sisters Nell and Lottie. Matilda Cox (PricyStudent267) P.S. I found a sand pyramids and cut down trees in my survival world. Could that be Herobrine? Firstly, and most importantly: a…

BUILD SPECS This month, the challenge is to build a farm! This is actually a few smaller builds tied together by a fence or wall. Combining food and animals, farms should be relatively large areas of land that has been cultivated into useful space. Here are the things your build nee ds to have to qualify: ■ A barn that houses several types of friendly mob ■ Hay and/or a haystack ■ At least one field of crops ■ A small farmhouse Other than that, you’re free to try whatever you want! HINTS AND TIPS We made our barn out of different types of wood to give it a rustic appearance. The frame can be built out of logs, and the main walls out of planks. You don’t want your…