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If you are playing Minecraft for free, you know for a fact that the game revolves around blocks to build anything that you can think of.
Other than the blocks, here are some useful items that you can use in order to enjoy the world of this popular sandbox game in town.
The Materials
These materials are the ones used in brewing, crafting and farming. You can get these materials when you kill those mobs or monsters, when you go mining, trading, smelting as well as finding chests with rewards.
• Potions. If you wanted to make potions, you should get the resources needed at the Nether.
• Food. You can find it anywhere in the game or make it when your hunger points run low. These foods are pumpkin pie, raw beef, raw pork chop, raw fish, raw pork, rotten flesh, potato, spider eye, and potato.
• Tools. These tools have different uses such as:
1. Buckets. You use them to transport water, lava and milk since these items are liquid.
2. Pole tools. Tools such as a shovel and pickaxe are used to break the blocks as fast as you can. You use them to get some resources from other blocks as well. A hoe is another pole tool used only to turn dirt into a farmland when you choose to grow crops.
3. Sheers. These are used to get mushrooms from mooshrooms, vines, leaves, tallgrasses, cobwebs, and wool from the sheep.
4. Fishing rods. In order to get fishes, you will need these rods; these are also used so you can pull the mobs closer to you.
5. Flint and Steel. These are used to create fire from flammable blocks, and it is also used to make a portal when you want to go to the Nether.
Items that are Informative
• Clock, Compass, and Map. These items are the ones that you use to navigate while playing as well as used to tell time.
• Weapons. Items such as arrows, swords, and bows are used to kill hostile and passive mobs. You can also get items such as food or other materials in killing passive mobs.
• Vehicles. These items are used when you travel by sea or land. Boats, saddles, minecarts, and carrot on a stick will allow you to travel at your chosen ease and speed.
• Armor. It is used to protect you against mobs, other players, explosions, an encounter with a fire block, and lava. You need to have a helmet, leggings, boots, and chestplate so you can have a complete set of armor.
• Decorations. Items such as music discs, flower pots, wither skeleton skull, and item frame are only used to serve aesthetic purposes.
Being familiar with the use of these items will let you play and enjoy Mnecraft even more.
By learning how to use these items for what they are intended for will help you survive the amazing world of Minecraft. If you want to know how these things function without the need to purchase the game, you can play Minecraft for free first.
Getting Minecraft for free will allow you to encounter these items and have an idea of what the game is all about. Check it out now and experience the world of the different dimensions this game has to offer you.