Cheap and Easy Minecraft Hacks!

– [Skip The Tutorial] Instead of this animal pen, try out this diagonal design. Or instead of building a rollercoaster over water, you should bounce it across like so. And today, we’re covering the cheap yet easy ways to upgrade your world. And hey, according to the YouTube King

No one’s ever subscribed to the channel using their right pinky finger. So if you’re up to the challenge, point your fifth digit to that red sub button below. It’s free and it helps out a ton. A secret entrance is a great addition for your house. But with redstone in that it could be an expensive one. Enter the painting. Now I know paintings are the white bread of the secret entrance world. But this user had an idea on how to spice it up.

And by adding simple things like trap door gaps, specific jumps, and slabs to crouch under, we can make this old favorite a lot more effective. And that way we make sure that this painting doesn’t go to waste. And we do it all without needing to learn a full course on redstone. Clearly it’s tough to build anything realistic in Minecraft. But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try where we can. So for a start, let’s take these hillsides and transform them into a classic grassy hill. See, since there’s only grass in the top texture of our grass blocks

Then a simple solution would be to take some moss and place it around the dirt parts of the hill like so, and that way the distracting dark brown dirt gets replaced with a more complementing green. And while it’s probably still too boxy to look realistic up close,

If you zoom out, it’s a marked improvement for sure. And it’ll be worth trying at your next hillside cottage. Lava seems like a pretty expensive fuel to use. But in recent updates it might be more economical than coal. Consider this: if you’re having difficulty finding coal ore nearby, then the simple drip stone set up lets us make a renewable lava farm for a fuel source. And since lava burns for 1000 seconds,

By the time that your fuel’s up, one of these basins should be good to go for a refill. So while it might require some startup iron to get this running, it could be a solid fuel farm for your early game exploits. Beds are a staple of the game, and they won’t be going away anytime soon. Though a little variety would be nice. So, what about a sleeping bag? Well, we can pull this off by solely placing slabs around the rim of the bed, which is super easy

And it doesn’t require a lot of material. And while I’m not saying that this is gonna work out if you place it in a castle, it might fit in for a temporary base in the mines. But for any bedrock players, beware,

Because you might not be able to respawn on top of the bed like we can in Java. You never want your house to feel too cramped. So, to make every block count, why not opt for trap doors instead of blocks for your walls? Now hear me out. The idea here is actually pretty solid, because while the regular blocks fill up the space, trap doors take up just a fraction,

Which makes for a roomy inside without sacrificing the exterior. And as long as no hooligans come by and flip open the trap doors, your base should be just as safe as it was before. By now, you’ve probably seen one of these piano before. And while they’re nice, obtaining just one dragon head in survival can be tricky, let alone this many. So, lucky for us by using looms and some wood, we can save ourselves the trouble. And since the texture of the loom

Looks like piano keys from this angle, we’re capable of building a much cheaper version of the traditional dragon head approach. And while it might lack some of the detail, it is easy to make. And that way we can also save those dragon heads for something extra special. When you’re making a big build it could be common to use any and all blocks as scaffolding, except, oddly enough, scaffolding, because bamboo can be tough to find. But while dirt or cobblestone are the usual suspects, consider snow for a second. Because, with a simple farm like this we can power the system

And let the snowballs flow into our chests. And hey, being able to get all of this without wearing down our shovel is another welcome edition. Just know that this only works on bedrock where the snow layers break into snowballs when they’re moved like so. You know, some say it’s a small world but I think this might be smaller than what they had in mind though. Though, with a cartography table it’s much easier to have a globe in your house. And all you need to do that is some dark oak to go around.

That way, the table itself can fade into the background blocks and let that globe really shine. And even though it doesn’t spin very well, it does make for unique decoration. So without custom player heads in survival this is the closest we’ve got for that. What’s the best way to get sugar cane? Well, this user might have the right idea, and it’s cheap too. See, when you etch out a design like this in the ground and then place one block water in the center, the water will space out evenly throughout the canal.

And that folks lets us plant our sugar cane at maximum capacity. So if we’re playing something like sky block where you need to be real picky on how you use your water, this might be a way to cut back without slashing your paper profits. Baking a mini game in Minecraft can be quite a technical problem. And that’s in no small part thanks to the tremendous amount of command blocks and redstone that these things require. So if you’re like me and you can’t manage to pull that off in your survival world,

This community pick might be a good call. Here we can just use differently colored candles to mark the buildings for a game of monopoly. And then if you just have each player move to the space that they’re on, this might make for a simple yet effective game to play in your realm.

Just make sure you don’t ruin any friendships. Spamming around a bunch of torches is effective, but ugly. I mean, let’s just be honest. But thankfully with the new mob spawning changes in 1.18, we now have a way to spawn-proof our base with a few pieces of glow lichen. See, instead of placing these in the caves

We can use them over the top of the soil like so, to make an effective yet subtle way to keep the monsters at bay. And for the right atmosphere that does offer a nice change of pace. So if you have a farm as efficient as ilmango’s that should be an easy switch. Keeping your animals in the pen could be a real pain. So to cut back on materials and still keep them in place, try this pattern. Apparently when you place down fence posts diagonally it still keeps the animals in. This is because the animals are registered to be one block wide,

But using them diagonally goes less than that space, which will prevent our animal friends from leaving. But if you build this, just keep in mind the babies are still able to escape. So if you do this just make sure to look at out for the little Rascals. It’s tough to make Minecraft feel scary. I mean, this is what the world looks like. What would you expect? But to add that vicious flare to your nether base these nether wart blocks can really sell the image. Taking after this user, we used the block for something of a blood canal

To fill out our altar room. And if anything, it lets us finally have a use for nether wart blocks since we can’t un-craft them into nether wart. And when they’re this is easy to come by in a crimson forest, I think that’s a win-win. Have you ever thought of using a mine cart as a boat? Because, as it turns out, it is possible. See if we were to drop our mine cart track into a roll of soul sand bubbles, like so, we can effectively bounce across the body of water without any rails,

Which is a lot cheaper than building a full track across the ocean, let me tell you. But not only that, but we’re also sure to have a good time while we ride it. What looks different between these two logs? Well, even if you can’t put your finger on it from this angle, you might feel that this one is a bit more realistic. So, how does it work? Well by placing an item frame on the top, like so,

We get a sneaky bit of detail to our tree trunks. And with this, we might be able to get away with leaving a few more trees chopped down like so in the forest. And hey, it looks better than yet another barren forest biome. So, it might be worth trying. Candles are a relatively new creation brought to Minecraft in the 1.17 update. And seeing as they’re new, the capabilities and new uses for them are still being explored. Take this for example. Here, this user found a way to take our candles and put them on a lever for a shelf of sorts.

And while it might seem silly, it definitely is possible. All we need to do is place down a support block and then lay as many candles on top of it as you want. And then, even when you break the block they’ll stay in place, letting us use the lever underneath

For our own kind of decoration. This user used an armor stand as a lamp which sounds ridiculous, but consider the benefits. Now, obviously we need to light up our base but standard torches are just so boring. So for that we’ll create a much more stylish way to light up our home. But instead of using expensive blocks

Like glow stone or sea lanterns, we can do this all with a piston and some slabs like so. And that seems a much more economic solution if you ask me. So, as great as those lamps look this is a welcome replacement, for sure. We’ve all seen chests by this point. And more accurately, we’ve seen what it looks like to have way too many chests. So this offers a way to make that chest monster of yours look a lot more presentable. Using the small space left between the chests, we can place item frames inside

To make it seem as if they’re glued together, which is a subtle fix but it might be all you need to spruce up your standard storage. And hey, the item frame inside might also be a secret hiding spot, if you ever need that too. Wood is a tremendously common building block. But maybe not like this. Though while this seems rudimentary, it might be ingenious. See, by placing in a ring of saplings like so we can bone meal them up to adulthood and all of a sudden have a ready made shack to use.

Now, I’ll admit, it’s by no means a looker, but it’s definitely functional. And for quite a bit of safety before nightfall that might be all you need. And hey, it still technically counts as a tree house, so that’s gotta amount to something Furnaces are functional but they’re not the most interesting. So this offers just the way to turn your bland set up into a top tier grill. See, if we were to place our food into item frames like so and lay out some rails over the top, we get ourselves a head start

Towards getting that family gathering going. And if we want to go a bit further, we can even put some actual furnaces underneath, adding in some extra functionality to boot Trap doors are a solid way to come and go when it comes to a hidden base, but when used on the wrong spot they do stick out. Like, a lot. Which is why this big drip leaf might be a better alternative. See, drip leaf placed like so

Forces us to crawl when it pops back up, which means it works as an automatic trap door of sorts to allow us to enter our secret stash. And hey, since these can be waterlogged as well they’ll look even less noticeable in a local pond,

Letting us swim to safety without any of the complicated redstone or trap door eye sores. And with that folks, have a good one, all right?