150 Minecraft Secrets You've Never Seen Before: The Secrets Handbook (15 page)

The easiest way carrots and potatoes is to get them in a village. Since villagers love growing crops especially the farmers, you'll more than likely find them here. If you turned off "Generate Structures" in your original settings, you won't have any villages. Instead, you can get them in Dungeons, Abandoned Mineshafts etc.

Of course, you're supposed to replant the carrots and potatoes that you stole,
but who gives a crap? There's no need, just vandalize their crops by stealing and not giving back. Not recommended for real life though.

Dig two blocks down, then lay half slabs on the bottom of the pool. Place stairs beside the pool and then place half slabs all around the edge of the pool.

You can make a hot tub or a swimming pool, it's completely your decision.

In Creative, Silvia loves to make lava hot tubs and surround them with moss stone and vines to recreate the "Borneo", tropical jungle feel. You can also make a crushed ice tub by placing ice in a regular water swimming pool and then surrounding it with lapis lazuli blocks.

Everybody loves cake so why not make cake in Minecraft. You'll need: 3 wheat, one bucket of milk, 3 sugar and 2 eggs. One slice of cake will replace one drumstick. You get seven slices. The only bad thing is you'll be craving for cake in real life, after your player whacks down the whole thing!

After eating an entire cake, you will replenish 14 hunger points or 7 drumsticks.

That cream….

If you want to grow Cocoa Beans in Minecraft you must remember that they only grow on Jungle Wood so don't try to grow them on anything else. You don't want to go growing them on oak wood, because you'll only be wasting a lot of time!

Again, this is relatively well known.

Make a 4x4 square and fill it up until the water is still and is not flowing in any direction. Then, you can use the infinite water source by taking water from any four of the corners.

You can restore a wolf's health by feeding him rotten flesh. You can also use rotten flesh to breed wolves, and start an entire pack of them!

You'll know if a wolf is feeling hungry or sad by the position of his tail. If it's low, like in the image below, you need to feed him up!

If you don't have dye for wool, such as Bonemeal to make pink dye for example – try this instead! It's a whole lot easier than trying to find every single possible dye that exists in the Minecraft world.

All you have to do is breed two sheep of different colours such as red and white, and the lamb will have a mix of the two colours. The red and white sheep would mix to make pink, and this works for all colours. If two colours don't "mix" to form a completely new colour, there will be a 50% chance that the lamb will have one of the parent's colours.

Here's a quick overview on all the colours you can make:

Red + blue = Purple

Red + yellow = Orange

Red + green = Brown

Red + white = Pink

Blue + white = Light blue

Black + white = Grey

House of Pistons

You dig a 3x3 space that's two blocks deep. Lay the bottom of the "pit" with redstone.

Then, after that, put your block of choice over to hide that which should be level with the rest of the floor. After that, you dig a one block channel around that pit and you place pistons facing upward. Then, you can put slabs in front of all those pistons so that when they try to jump onto the pistons (to escape), they won't be able because of the half slabs.

Nightmare Becomes Reality

When you wake up from sleeping, you are transported to the block in front of the bed upon waking. You can prank your friends by digging a hole in front of their bed that goes down lava or into a room with tons of lethal mobs. Whatever you can dream up, you can do!

When the player isn't around, you can dig a large hole already and then cover it with one block so they don't suspect anything suspicious. Then, when they go to sleep, dig the one block.

When they wake up from sleeping, they will spawn into the block in front of the bed and fall into the hole. Ha!

The "Where's That Noise Coming From?" Prank

Make a secret room in your friend's house and then leave it dark so mobs will start spawning. For example, you could extend a room underground which they won't see. Then, the mobs will spawn and will cause a load of racket and noise from creeper moans to spider hisses and they won't know where it's coming from. Tons of irritation guaranteed.

Dispenser Prank

Your friend or fellow player walks into their house which has redstone powered dispensers, and then the dispensers shoot flint and steel at them! Classic!

Door Trap

Your friend will walk into this so easily. Walk into the four door trap, and they'll never be able to get back out! They'll have to die, if they want to get back into the game – and in Minecraft, that's not very appealing!

Put a pressure plate on the ground, and then place four iron doors around the pressure plate. Match the orientation of the doors with the image below, that is VITAL to the success of this. If the orientation of the doors is wrong, it won't work.

The person will walk into this, get trapped and will be seriously infuriated!

Bonus tip:

Some players like to jump out of the trap by activating the pressure plate again (by jumping) which opens the doors once more. To avoid this, place an "innocent" glass block above the pressure plate and doors, in the centre. They won't be able to jump then, and will be seriously stuck!