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Mine Cheat
Mine Cheat
Mine Cheat
Toggle view
While playing the game in Survival mode, press [F5] to switch to third person view.
Rain
While playing the game in Creative mode, press [F5] to make it rain.
To find dungeons easily, make sure you have lots of torches and some weapons, just in case you encounter a
monster. Go to an area that you think may have dungeons. Make sure that area is well-lit with torches, just in
case night falls (if it has not already.) Then, press [Esc] to open up the menu. Enter the "Options" menu, and
change the difficulty from "Peaceful" (or whatever difficulty you are on) to "Hard". Close the menu, and press [F3].
ID numbers will appear on top of every animal or monster in range. Look towards the ground, and search for an
unusually large concentration of ID numbers underground; this is more than likely a group of monsters. It will
either lead you to a cave or dungeon.
This trick works best on slower computers, but it is also not completely reliable. If you are in an area where you
believe a dungeon may be near, press F (you may need to press it repeatedly). Look around while pressing it. If
you see flames showing up while the screen is blue (the sky), it indicates there is a dungeon within sixteen blocks
of you. Note: This method only works when a dungeon is sixteen blocks near, and therefore not completely
reliable.
Avoid getting lost and know when near the ground
Newer players often like to explore, but once they stop exploration, especially in an abandoned mine, they get
lost and end up somewhere totally different, away from home. Short of remembering where you last slept and
copying the X, Y, and Z values for future editing back to spawn/preferred place, use the following tricks to never
get lost:
Explore systematically: If you find a fork in the road, or multiple forks, take them one at a time. When you reach
an end, and mining near it yields nothing, then either mark it or use a common block (like gravel) to seal a path
off.
Set breadcrumbs: While mining and exploring, be sure to mine up bits of the floor, using cobblestone or a block
different from the floor as a pointer to the way out; or an ore block to note an intersection, so you have something
to identify where you began later. While this will damage your pick more, knowing the way back is more valuable
than a tool, especially since the wooden planks in abandoned mines are abundant.
Keep natural landmarks: Scoop up the first source of water that leads to nowhere, but leave everything else.
Some of the water flowing from walls may be useful for exploration. Also, if there is lava out of your way, do not
go out of your way to put it out -- it emits light, which may be encased in a structure with glass (panes) as natural
lighting.
Know the way outside, and know when there is lava: Since Beta Version 1.8 and the revamped lighting engine,
knowing when you are near ground is easy. Torches emit a bright light that fades into warmer tones. Lava has a
brighter radius of light, meaning its brightest point is larger. If you see light that you did not create, then it is
obviously a lava pool. Outside light on the other hand uses cooler tones. When you are near ground, it does not
have the warmth of torch light, taking on a more fluorescent white color near the rock, or at night time, a light
shade of blue.
Making obsidian
Obsidian is a block that takes 15 to 50 seconds to collect. It requires 15 seconds with a diamond pickaxe, and 50
seconds with anything else. If you are wanting to make a near-indestructible building or structure, obsidian the
best choice. Sometimes it is naturally occurring, but often times it must be manually made. First, you will need to
find flat lava that is not flowing. Then, collect water with a bucket, and put the water onto the lava. Alternately, find
flat water and collect lava. A blackish-purplish block should appear, which is obsidian, and requires a long time to
collect. It is much easier to just spawn obsidian, but you will need a mod to be able to spawn it in Single Player
mode.