Gold is very common in the nether, making the low durability almost irrelevant
While gold can't mine normal gold ore, it can nether gold
Gold pics mine fast and netherack can be mined fast giving you a cheap insta mine
Gold is one of the 2 tool tiers you can smelt to get some material back. It's not much, but it adds up
While gold mines fast, when mining something that won't drop it loses it's speed, so for the already slowly mined netherite it's very hard to accidentally use the wrong tool
Fight me if I'm wrong (and I'm not) but beacons decorated with multiple types of mineral blocks are the best and my sins are forgiven every time I see one
This is the one from my base, I luv it obviously
An oldie but a goodie :)
This one is one of my fav. A lil on the expensive side, but at least it's classy xD
Simple & more complex designs
The light beam of a beacon can go throught another beacon, so if you have two of them you can bury the actual mineral blocks and still make it seem like the beam is produced by the top one
And it's even better if you get creative with it and pair it with other blocks/stairs! You can also use the glass pane trick (putting a single glass pane right over the beacon to change the beam color without anything being visible)
Seriously. This shit rocks. Give some love to your beacons!! With how expensive they are you deserve to expose them to the world!! Make them a work of art!
All of these are fully powered, of course. And probably less expensive than the usual flex ones since you can put iron or emerald in the non visible parts.
Hi, I’ve been meaning to make a few posts showing off tricks from speedruns to be more approachable to casual players, because I think some of it can be really useful.
This post is about making nether portals from surface lava pools, which can be useful if you’re far away from your base and wanna get back quicker or if you just don’t want to mine obsidian to make a portal.
Step one is just to find a lava pool, this has more than enough to work
Next is to place a block, and then place water on the side of it (I used emerald as a random block, the specific block doesn’t matter)
Next, you want to make an upside down L on one of the sides of the portal, two and then 2 blocks on the ground on the other side of the portal. These two blocks are meant to keep the water from spilling out, make sure there’s no blocks inside this area besides these either. After this is built you should be able to place water and have it flow into the hole you made like this
Once that’s done, you’re able to then take lava from the pool and place the lava in the blocks where the red glass is. When you place the lava it will automatically turn into obsidian.
Once you have all the blocks set, you may need to break some blocks down at the floor to complete the portal, this isn’t always the case but I feel I should mention it. Once it’s all done it should look something like this:
And once it’s like that you should just be able to light the portal and enter the nether!
If you have any questions or things you’d like to see a guide to, LMK :D
Here’s a tip for people who have trouble seeing stuff at night (Java)
* Go to your .minecraft folder (An easy way of getting here is to go to the resource packs menu, click ‘open resource packs folder’ and hit back once to be in .minecraft)
* Scroll down to and open options.txt
* Go to gamma (img)
..and set it to whatever you’d like!
Gamma is brightness, in game you can only go up to gamma 1, but if you edit this txt you can make it so that its a lot easier to see things in dark places, at night, in water, etc. Gamma 5 works to see in pure darkness and underwater, but it can go higher. Also be sure to keep the formatting of that for it to work (gamma:X.X with no spaces and everything).
