Minecraft guides — page 4

A shaped recipe that will not craft usually has its key wrong or its pattern padded. Here is the JSON, the tag trick that collapses eight recipes into one, and how to test.

Cave biomes generate independently of the surface, which changes mob spawns, water colour and where structures appear. What that means in practice.

Most scoreboard tutorials only use dummy. The built-in criteria track deaths, blocks mined and custom stats with no commands at all — here is the full shape.

The armour formula includes toughness and the attack's armour-piercing. Here is the real equation, what Protection adds on top, and where the hard caps sit.

Minecraft only plays Ogg Vorbis, and a sound event is not a file. Here is the mapping file, how to add a sound instead of replacing one, and why yours is silent.

Levels are not linear — level 30 is 1,395 XP but level 60 is 6,720. Here are the piecewise formulas, what you keep on death, and the cheapest level for enchanting.

An id is not always what the item is called, and a block id is not the same as its item id. The naming rules, the renames that break old commands, and where states fit.

The hotbar, crosshair and XP bar all live in one texture atlas. Here is how to make parts of it invisible, what cannot be moved, and the font trick for custom HUD text.

Section-sign codes still work in some places and are ignored in others. Here is the full table, the hex syntax that replaced them, and which contexts accept what.

Maps have 61 base colours, not 16 million — but each has four shades set by block height. Staircasing triples your palette and is why good map art is never flat.