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Building in Minecraft 1.8

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Do you like building? Getting bored of what minecraft supplies you to make your creations? Well, look forward to the 1.8 update which adds many great blocks that you can use to add detail to some of your builds. These new blocks will brighten up your builds and add small details that will catch the eye to make your build look amazing!

First a good thing to mention about something we’ve been waiting for ages for would be the addition of the ability to craft chiseled stone brick(circle stone), mossy stone bricks and cracked stone brick. These sought after blocks were previously only available in generated structures, now with the easy accessibility of them they are now more survival friendly building blocks.

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Manners on a Minecraft server

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The wonderful world of multiplayer Minecraft, servers are a great place to meet and interact with individuals from all over the world. Every server has different courtesies although most follow a similar pattern. On most Minecraft servers you are required to act a specific way and follow guidelines and rules put in place by the server’s staff. Empire Minecraft is a perfect example of a well-balanced rule system where as long as you follow them you will have a great time. As long as you know how to act on a Minecraft server you’ll do well in the community.

Popular Minecraft servers can get hectic with players who join only to cause grief or cause problems. Minecraft servers have put in place chat filters and hire staff to keep the trouble-doers in bay. Server staff have taken the time and effort to think up code of conducts and guidelines for them to be followed, not broken. There are servers meant for griefing and swearing so please don’t join ones that don’t allow it. Minecraft manners can be tricky to learn due to there being different rules on each server, but as long as you read up on the rules you should be fine. [Read more…]

Tips and Tricks – Gold Farm

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Do you like gold? Gold has many great uses whether you like the taste of golden apples or you need blocks to power your beacon a gold farm is always a great resource to have! A gold farm functions by spawning Zombie Pigmen in the nether in a controlled area, then dropping them to their death by pistons, then their drops are picked up into hoppers. [Read more…]