The Minecraft Guide – 07 – Red, Gold, Black Smith

Minecraft is an enormous and expansive game built on surprisingly simple mechanics but with the lack of tutorials it can be confusing for many newcomers follow me william strife as i cover the basics to the advanced and crafting surviving and building welcome to the minecraft guide

There are a lot of materials that can be gathered in Minecraft most of them being either building blocks or crafting items following up on the last guide over mining and minerals it’s now time to look at what you can do with those resources and how they play into building and crafting first are

Gold and iron both of which can’t be used as raw crafting materials until smelted into ingots it was briefly covered in the first video but the top slot of a furnace is for what you want to smelt char or cook while the bottom slot is for fuel there’s a multitude of

Things that can be used to heat a furnace but basically anything made out of or pertaining to wood will work however the most efficient fuels are really the only ones worth covering in detail first up are coal and charcoal which despite looking a little different from each other work exactly the same on

Their own a single piece of either will heat a furnace long enough to smell eight units however coal has an extra feature it can be crafted into a block by combining nine pieces a block of coal is 11 percent more efficient it takes nine pieces to craft but it lasts as

Long and smelt as much as 10 pieces of coal the other remaining fuel is also the most efficient a bucket of lava which smells a whopping 100 units to use it you must find standing lava and scoop it up as you can’t put any flowing liquid lava included into a bucket

However there’s a trade convenience for efficiency because the block of coal and lava buckets melt more than a full stack of items the fuels will go to waste if you don’t babysit the furnace filling and emptying it as it does its job luckily though this problem can be circumvented by using hoppers

A hopper is a simple machine like block whose purpose is to move items from one inventory to another by using shift right-click it can be attached to any block with an inventory and subsequently deposit items into it furthermore it will also suck up items

Tossed on top of it or pull items out of any block with an inventory placed above it using a simple dual hopper setup you can easily get around the babysitting problem when using highly efficient fuel sources for smelting this is incredibly convenient when smelting things in mass

But there’s also a sizable drawback when some ores are mined and others melted small green orbs will drop that will fill the experience bar experience is valuable because it fuels the enchanting system its nuances are covered in a separate guide but for now understand that it is an extremely valuable feature

To take advantage of normally when you take finished product out of a furnace you gain experience but when using hoppers the experience is forfeit and it never materializes this is the choice you have to make deal with the tedium at the furnace for the experience or forego

The enchanting fuel and use hoppers for convenience the choice is up to you with the finer points of smelting and the various fuels covered the next thing to touch on is what you can smelt first off are logs which create charcoal and as already stated it’s almost identical to

Normal coal next up are iron and gold after digging these ores up they must be smelted into ingots before they can be used craft tools or other types of commodities there’s also cobblestone which when smelted will turn into normal smooth stone the same normal rock you see all over the place

Stone can also be crafted into stone bricks and stone slabs both of which have nice smooth textures and serve as good building materials something else worth smelting is clay clay is a gray substance found most commonly under water in swamps when you dig it up it will break into several small pieces and

You can smelt the resulting clumps into bricks and then craft them into blocks alternatively however you can also craft those clay clumps back into a block of clay and smelt it into hardened clay furthermore you can combine hardened clay with dye to create a plethora of very colorful

Building materials this can also be done with glass smelted from sand to make stained glass and if that’s not enough glass blocks can be crafted into glass panes sand also has a second non smelting use you can craft it into sandstone which can then be crafted into

Smooth stone and even further you can also combine sandstone slabs to make chiseled sandstone which bears a unique pattern on its sides now moving away from the furnace smelting and building materials it’s time to take a look at some useful crafting recipes involving iron gold and redstone first is the

Bucket which can be filled with water lava or milk by right-clicking on the proper stores with it such as a cow also involving livestock are shears this tool allows you to remove the wool from sheep but it’s also the only way to collect Tufts of grass and shrubbery from the

Ground and remove vines and leaves from trees to be used and placed elsewhere next up is an iron door created with the same layout as a wooden door but with iron ingots instead of wood an iron door is more durable and zombies won’t pound on it in the middle of the night the

Reason for this is because iron doors cannot be opened by hand and requires a redstone signal from a lever button or pressure plate placed next to it to function moving along the smithing guide wouldn’t be much without covering the all-encompassing anvil this leads to the subject of repairing items and while the

Anvil is used to do just that its actual role is to rename items and repair enchanted equipment thus the anvil and all its nuances are covered in the enchanting guide however there is a simpler type of repair that can be done right in your inventory simple repair is

Done by combining armor or tools made of the same material in your craft grid doing so combines the leftover durability in both items and grants 5% extra durability to the resulting tool the only catch is the repaired item will always be unenchanted even if an enchanted item was used in the repair

Process this is the reason the anvil exists so you can maintain enchanted items but again that’s covered in detail in the enchanting guide the last three items are fairly similar first is a clock consisting of four gold ingots and one redstone naturally a clock lets you

Keep track of time even when you can’t see the Sun and if by chance you don’t know how to read a Minecraft clock this is dawn and this is dusk next is the compass made the same way as a clock but with iron instead of gold in Minecraft

The compass always points towards the world spawn point so you can always find your way in some sense a compass is true use though is in making a map by surrounding a compass with eight pieces of paper by right clicking with a blank map it will turn into an item you can

Look at in your hands and the surrounding terrain will slowly be drawn in that’s not all though you can zoom the map out increasing the area it covers by surrounding it in paper using this method over and over you can map an extremely large area additionally you

Can copy a map by combining a complete map with a blink map also if by chance you don’t know how to make paper then check the farming guide in this suite as finding and maintaining a sugar cane farm are covered in full detail there there are a lot more things that can be

Crafted in Minecraft but the usefulness of the schematics covered here are undoubtedly a cut above many other crafting recipes there are more designs to cover in future guides though so stay tuned next time around major uses for redstone blocks that use the magical circuitry and finally a few interesting

And useful machines that can be built out of those pieces until next time i’m william strife of the Yogscast and a minecraft experts I’ll see you later