Minecraft Habits Keeping You Poor

– [Skip the Tutorial] Don’t plant your crops like this. They grow faster in rows. And don’t grow your sugar cane on sand dirt, use mud instead. And these are 29 Minecraft things you might be doing wrong. But first, we’ve got a problem. YouTube tells me that no one has ever subscribed

To the channel using their knuckle. So it’ll be the first, fist bump that red button below. It’s free and it’ll send a ton. Stop using shears to collect your leaves, but instead, you should use a hoe. No joke, because in recent versions

The hoe has gotten a much bigger bump to how you can use it. And while it does cost some extra experience to get the Silk Touch on your hoe to do this, the trade-off is that you’re gonna get a much better durability than using some shears. And considering all the other blocks

That we can break quickly by using this tool, I think that’s more than enough reason to switch out your shears for a new side hoe. If you enchant like this, you’re doing it wrong. Because, as Gnembon lays out, there’s a way to properly use an anvil

To allow us to apply more than 30 enchantments to an item. And considering there are 30 enchantments in the game, this basically means that we can get any enchantment that you want onto that one item without ever seeing the Too Expensive! screens show up. And the reason for this

Basically comes down to a different point system that gives different values to different enchantments. But if I were to list them out for every enchantment right here, we’d be here all day. So I’d recommend checking out Gnembon’s video to see more about how the details are done,

Because while it might take a learning curve to figure out, as soon as you’ve got it, your tools are about to get a lot more powerful, and, more importantly, you’ll still be able to repair them. Whether you plant your sugar cane on dirt or sand, you’re both wrong,

Since, instead, you should be using mud. Odd as it sounds, the mud block is actually the best candidate for one particular reason, it’s shorter than a full block size, which means that if we place hoppers underneath it, we get 100% collection efficiency. So every item that we break from our sugar cane farms

Can go right down to where they’re supposed to be. And honestly, when the alternative is building one of these using the hopper minecarts and a whole other set of hoppers, I think you’ll find that just by using a few water bottles you can get a much more efficient solution.

Never type out this command, but instead, you should just hold on the F3 key and then use the F4 to scroll through. With this simple shortcut, we don’t have to waste the time typing out the command and we could seamlessly switch between the different game modes

That you might be doing while you’re building a map. And if you’re a veteran player, it might take a little bit to get used to, but as soon as you do you’ll never want to go back in the older versions. If your villagers keep escaping from your trading hall,

You need to use honey blocks since, silly as it may seem, no mob’s able to jump off of a honey block to get enough height, meaning, by just tucking a couple of these inside your trading hall, your villagers won’t be able to escape anytime soon. And then, for some added defense,

You could even add in honey blocks around them so that mobs like zombies and, more importantly, baby zombies can’t even jump in to attack them, keeping them safe and in place, both of which are important. If you’re still mining at Y level 11, here’s why you need to change.

Since after the ore generation changes at 1.18, you’ll now need to go down to Y level -58 to have a much better chance of finding your diamonds. Granted, it’s gonna take some time to dig all the way down there, but, hey, that’s why you’re finding the diamonds for anyway,

So you can have better durability to then find more diamonds. It seems like a payoff to me. Do not enchant your pickaxe with Fortune, or, rather, don’t do it yet, since going on your mining trips with the Silk Touch pickaxe is gonna be much more efficient for your inventory space.

And then, after you’ve collected all the ores in the raw form, you can finally return those back to your base, and then use the Fortune pickaxe when you’re up and above, which, in part, does two things, you’ll be able to carry more ores and you don’t have to worry about dying

With literal stacks of diamonds while you’re down there, both of which sound pretty nice. But with that Silk Touch pickaxe, you’re gonna have to remember never smelt your ores in a furnace, because while it might feel familiar for old players like me, nowadays, if you’re smelting iron, copper, or gold,

You’re slashing your profits in half, and, rather, you should be Fortuning them and then smelting the raw materials inside, giving you a much better bang for your buck, even if it does take an extra step of having to break them. If you’re planning on naming your tools,

Do not do it after applying any enchanted books. Since it’s laid out in this example, every time that you go to name your tool after you’ve taken it up a couple levels, it’s gonna get much more expensive to do and that’ll, in turn, bring up the entire enchantment cost of the whole tool,

Which is something we want to avoid entirely. So come up with a name before you do the step one, otherwise, you’re just wasting experience. This cave looks safe, but it’s actually stupid, because this cave is also safe and it took a lot less torches. See, since the changes in 1.18 to mob spawning,

They’ll only ever spawn down here in complete darkness, which is a big change for when they used to spawn in light levels up to seven. And honestly, I have a bad habit of doing this too. It just feels safer when there’s more light. But if you’re low on resources,

Just know that you can take this easy out and it’s not gonna come back to bite you in any way. Here’s why you need to be breaking your crops with a pickaxe, because, odd as this looks, it’s actually possible to have the Fortune enchantment applied

When you break certain crops like carrot or potatoes. And you could see the difference in gains between these two examples. It’s pretty significant. Oh, and you could also use it to get more apples from the leaves that you break. And you don’t even have to use a pickaxe.

This could be any tool with the Fortune enchantment applied. So whichever one you got on hand, that’s now your farming tool. Better start using it. Never take the first horse that you tame, because while it does take a while to finally get a horse tamed and actually start using it,

If that horse ends up being the slowest of the bunch, then you’re gonna be wasting that time anyways. So it’s worth testing out any and all horses around you and taming them to see which of them has the best stats. That way, you can make sure they’re not settling for some subpar steed.

This shovel’s too fast, which sounds like a ridiculous problem to have but it can actually come up in certain instances. Like, say, I have a stack of gravel in my off-hand and I’m trying to mine them with the shovel at the same time to get flint.

But if my shovel has the efficiency to insta-mine, then it breaks the gravel before it lets me place down another block. But instead, by using a slower shovel here, we can just hold down both buttons and completely mine through the stack without interruption,

Proving that, sure enough, slow and steady can win the race. Stop using your obsidian for blast chambers, instead, use waterlogged blocks. Since 1.19 lets us now waterlog our leaves and mangrove roots, that water inside will keep these from exploding. And while this does work with any kind of waterlogged block,

I would recommend using leaves instead, since, at least, that way the water’s self-contained, it’s not gonna flow out of the block, which could be a problem if you’re using something like stairs instead. Picture this, you take the time to build your perfect mob farm, get all the spawning rates right,

And then you ruin it by adding in a viewing window. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an honest mistake. I also wanna see if it’s working properly. But ever since 1.18, even just that little bit of light level that seeps in through the glass can block all of the hostile mobs from spawning.

So to fix this problem, you should be using the newer tinted glass instead. That way, we turn this worrisome window into the one-way glass that you need to do the trick. Stop using bubble columns or, rather, stop using these bubble columns. Since while a soul sand bubble column

Could be incredibly great for getting up fast, using another one with magma blocks could be incredibly slow. And instead, it’s gonna be much faster and simpler for your elevator just to have your player fall into something that breaks their fall, like powdered snow or a water block.

That way, we make sure that we have the best amount of speed going both up and down. Stop building your crop farms like this, but instead, you gotta do it like this. And that’s not just personal preference, but it’s actually coded into the game

Where the crops grow faster if they’re planted in rows. So to fix this problem, what you should be doing in your farms is either alternating your crop rows or leaving about one block of space in between. And no joke, because of this secret feature, you’ll seem immense increase to your growth speed.

And when you go to replant your next harvest, you’ll wanna keep that in mind. This TNT trap works, but we can do so much better, because, by just adding five iron to the base of that TNT, we got ourselves a TNT minecart, it does the job instantaneously.

Since, by mixing together TNT minecarts with powered rails, we can not only explode our victim before they know what’s going on but we can also pack an absurd amount of TNT into that one rail, making our machine a lot deadlier without actually having to scale up the size.

Stop using redstone dust in your builds because the truth is that this is one of the laggiest redstone components in the game, especially when you continue to power it off and on. And in lieu of that, you’ll find it much more efficient to use powered or activator rails instead,

Which, there you go, costs the same amount of redstone. And at least, for that part, it should be an easy transition to make as long as you got a gold farm. If you’ve ever wondered why the screenshots on Reddit looks so much better than your own, here’s the secret,

You gotta use a low FOV. Now, don’t get me wrong, playing on FOV 30’s a nightmare, but when you use it for a screenshot, it gives you a much better flattening to the image. And then if you max out your render distance, you’ll be able to make that shot look so much better,

And then immediately turn off those settings because we actually want the game to be playable. This bridge could be the death of me because even though it’s easy to build over the lava using netherrack, all it takes is one ghast flying by and shooting me with a fireball to completely destroy it.

So even though there’s a bunch of netherrack to use in the Nether to build, I’d much rather prefer using something like cobblestone for a better alternative. In that way, you’ll at least have a chance to survive in the fireball instead of having a definite fall to your doom. Stop crafting diamond gear,

Which sounds crazy, but hear me out. Since diamonds are a finite resource within the world generation, you should really stick to getting any diamond gear that you need through trading with villagers instead, since with a tool smith, an armorer, and a weaponsmith you can get all your diamond essentials taken care of

Without ever having to mine a diamond ore. And that way, you save yourself a mining trip and you save the world from running out of diamonds. If your ender chest looks like this, you’re doing it wrong, rather, I should say, you’re doing it inefficiently. Since an ender chest like this

Has 27 times the storage that we had there. And now that shulkers are renewable in recent updates, by using different shulker box that are sorted in a certain way, we can save ourselves a lot of time, like having one that’s purely for valuables, another for emergency gear, or even just having shulker boxes

Filled with common building blocks could save you a lot of back and forth while you’re building out of trip, all of which is a time investment that pays off. Trust me. If your copper looks like this, I can tell you why it’s not oxidizing. Since the way that it’s coded,

Copper blocks need at least four blocks between them to oxidize at max speed. And if you have the blocks placed any closer together, it’s gonna take much longer, especially if they’re touching. So instead, a pattern like this is gonna be the quickest way to do it,

Helping you to build that Statue of Liberty replica and still get it finished within your own lifetime. This crafting recipe works, but it’s inefficient, since the truth is that if we make our mossy cobblestone using the new moss blocks instead of vines, it still works just the same,

But moss blocks are so much easier to farm, considering they could be harvested through automatic means. While you are technically supposed to use an axe for harvesting chorus flowers, I wouldn’t say it’s the right solution, since, instead, it’s much easier to collect these flowers

By shooting them with a bow, a trident, or even a snowball. And that also eliminates the need to go and pillar up to them, saving you time on both fronts, which, I would say, is a good deal. Here’s why you should never craft lime dye.

Since, while it is technically possible to get this with cactus green and white dye, it’d be so much quicker if you just farmed your sea pickles and did it like this, since if you just bone meal a sea pickle on top of a coral block,

You’ll get a large number of them for cheap, sometimes 10 plus, and then you can smelt those down and get much more dye for your return. That way, you only need one sea pickle farm instead of a way to get cactus and white dye. Cauldrons are a ripoff,

Because if you’re taking the time to fill up each of your water bottles using the cauldron, one water source will only fill up three bottles that it needs. But if, instead, you just take that water source out of the cauldron and place it nearby, then you can fill up

An infinite amount of bottles from that. And when it costs seven iron ingots to get even less return, I think it’s safe to say that the cauldron’s still a ripoff. This small dripleaf is incredibly rare, so you shouldn’t waste it. See, small dripleaf is essentially non-renewable

Since you can only find it within lush caves and from wandering trader trades, meaning that if you were to bone meal a small dripleaf into a big one, you’re wasting it, since that same big dripleaf is actually easily farmable through other methods. So even if it doesn’t look like it,

In the long run, you’ll wanna hold onto the little guys, especially when you can get all the big ones from a setup like this. And with that, folks, YouTube thinks that you might like this video. So see if they’re right and have a good one. All right?