Minecraft Cheat Sheet

for DUMMIES
Tools There are 5 tools that come in 6 types of material*

● Sword - used for killing monsters and breaking

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items and collecting ores
● Axe - used for breaking wooden blocks and
Wood items, as well as pumpkins
● Shovel - used for blocks like dirt, sand and
Stone gravel as well as on snow
● Hoe - used for farming by preparing the ground
Iron *Tools shown in order of weakest to strongest*

Gold *Other tools include -

● Flint and Steel - used to set things on fire. Can

Diamond
be used to make a fireplace or the nether portal
● Shears - Used for harvesting wool from sheep
Netherite as well as several random blocks for odd things
Tools **TECHNICALLY**
A sword is under weapons and armor and
not considered a tool

The pickaxe is your most important tool. Building a wooden pickaxe

should be your first tool built as you will not be able to mine for stone
with your hands. After mining stone blocks, craft a stone pickaxe to start
mining more precious ores

Other tools you might use are:

● Anvil - to rename and repair items
TIPS
● Wooden Pickaxes can only
● Bowl - to make stews that replenish hunger
mine stone, coal ore, and
● Bucket - to collect and carry water or lava
nether quartz ore.
● Clock - allows you to see what time it when you can’t see the sun ● You can use a stone
● Compass - points towards spawn
pickaxe to mine iron ore to
● Fishing Rod - for catching fish
make an iron pickaxe to be
● Lead - allows you to lead animals (dogs, horses, etc)
able to mine diamonds
● Map - shows are aerial view of the world
Weapons and Armor
There are several ways of damaging mobs including melee, ranged, and in later game play, potions and
contraptions Armor provided
Leather Gold Chain Iron Diamond

Helmet 1 2 2 2 3
Possible to perform a sweep attack from a Chestplate 3 5 5 6 8
still or crouched position when recharge
meter is full - pushes back mob Leggings 2 3 4 5 6

Boots 1 1 1 2 3

Full Set 7 11 12 15 20

Shield

While mostly used for cutting down trees

also has an added bonus of breaking Ranged attacks,
shields several types of
arrows can be made
Block Basics

*works with any wooden block

Mining Basics If you are on a mining mission that will take several
in game days, bringing things such as a bed,
What to bring into the mines- furnace and crafting table to make a small well lit
● Tools safe room you can return to is a good idea. Make
○ Pickaxes sure you keep your paths well lit to avoid hostile
○ Weapon of choice mob spawns
○ Torches
○ Shovel
● Food
○ Cooked meats
● Bundle of sticks (for quick tool If you have the opportunity
and torch making as needed) you should always bring iron
● A bed if you think you’ll be pickaxes as they mine faster
down there for several in game and last longer than stone. If
days you are mining for obsidian
● 2 buckets of water (for lava) then you need a diamond
● Wear armor pickaxe
Mining Basics - Resource Locating
Resource Location

Gravel Can be found at any level

Coal Most common around y= 95 and 136

Iron Most common around y=15 and 232

Copper Most common at y=48, dripstone caves biome

Gold Most common at y=-16, in badlands biome, y=32 and 256

Lapis Lazuli Most common at y=0

Emeralds Most common at y=236, found only in the mountains biome

Diamonds Most common at y=-59

Redstone Most common at y=-59

Lava Excluding lava lakes, most common between y=-53 and -60

Bedrock Most common at y=-59

Mining Basics- Types of mining
Cave Mining (Spelunking)

Simple concept - find a preexisting cave and mine the visible ore. A guaranteed way of finding
large amounts of ore. High return on investment as you need less tools since most of the area
is pre-carved out.

However, caves are highly dangerous. A favored spot for hostile mobs, make sure you bring a
large amount of torches to keep the area well lit. You also need to pay special attention to
navigation as well - missing an unlit pathway can invite monsters to come up from behind you
or you could fall through a hole in the floor, as well as it is very easy to get lost in a cave
system. Cave systems also frequently have lava that is very dangerous.

Pro tip - if reaching dead ends, try mining in the area, frequently they connect to more
passageways that are being thinly blocked by a layer or two of blocks.
Mining Basics- Types of mining
Finding Mineshafts

Mineshaft structures are often found intersecting cave systems. They are premade mines that often
have tracks, wooden supports and minecarts. Mineshafts should be treated much the same as caves,
they often have hostile mobs and may contain cave spiders and a cave spider mob spawner (break
these if possible - very hard). However, mineshafts can arguably be more dangerous than caves as
preplaced torches and items can make it confusing to know where you have already explored.

Despite these dangers there is still a very high risk reward ratio as mineshafts have more resources
than most caves including string from breaking cobwebs, wood from support beams, various pieces
from breaking equipment, chests to loot and any ore you may find.

Protip - if you find yourself getting confused or turned around try breaking everything and leaving
the tunnel bare except torches to know if you’ve already been through that area. If that’s not your
style try leaving signs or something else that is out of place.
Mining Basics- Types of mining
Strip Mining

Arguably the hardest and most time consuming but safest route to mining, creating your own shaft
is an option. Finding a mountain side and digging into it and then down allows a player complete
control over what their mining area looks like. This method isn’t really suggested as you will be
going through a lot of tools removing gravel and stone mostly and there’s no real guarantee when a
player will find the ores they are looking for. It is technically the safest mining method however,
hostile mobs will not spawn in well lit areas so as long as you are putting torches up as you mine
there is almost no chance of being crept up on while in your own mineshaft.

Mining this way may lead to your shaft leading into a cave system that you may have been unable
to reach from a direct surface point however and does allow for further exploration of the map.
Players still need to be careful of opening up walls that may lead to lava, water, or possible hostile
mobs as well as drops from holes in the floor while mining downwards.
Farming Plants need everything IRL plants do, soil, water, and light.
● To get soil hit a dirt block with your hoe. Leaving soil for long
Ways to get seeds: periods of time without planting something will make it turn back
● Break/till grass blocks for into a dirt block
wheat seeds ● To water your plants, one block of water can keep a 9x9 grid of
● Treasure chests crops watered. You can tell if a soil block is watered because it
● Generally breaking the will turn darker.
blocks of crops (melons, ○ The one block method works best for circular plotted crops,
pumpkins, sugarcane for rectangular farmland a strip of water in the center or
● Collecting carrots and every few rows will do the trick *see picture*
potatoes from killing ● Having an outdoor farm allows for maximum light but if worried
Zombies about the crops you can do an indoor farm using torches as a light
source
● Crops should take between 10 and 30 min to grow without
fertilization. If it is taking longer than that check your light and
water sources
● Bone meal can act as a fertilizer if you want your crops to grow
faster *can find by killing skeletons*
● Having mobs or players step/run on your crops will break them so
best to keep them protected somehow
Farming - Animals
Basic Farming Steps:
Cooked meat is the best
1. Round up two adults of the same
accessible food source in the
type of animal into a pen
game. You could go out into
a. This can be done by luring
the wild and slaughter every
them with their food source
animal that comes near your
or a lead
house but don’t expect the
2. Breed them by feeding two
mobs to continue to spawn in
adults their food source until
that area. Instead, capturing,
you have a reasonable amount of
breeding, and slaughtering
adult animals
your own livestock is an easy
3. Kill some adults and gain
and efficient way to insure
resources, DO NOT kill all, you
you have a food stockpile.
need more to breed. (killing
babies gives no drops)
Farming - Chickens
Spawn Drops Behavior Breeding Health Food Source

⅛ chance of Lay eggs Passive 5 minutes 4 Seeds-

egg spawn every 5-10 between - Wheat
minutes Immune to breeding -Pumpkin
Grassland fall damage, attempts -Melon
biome 0-2 feathers can swim -Beetroot
on death 20 min to -Torchflower
Follow for grow (sped -Pitcher Pod
Raw most seeds up by seed
Chicken feeding)

Chickens are slightly different than the rest of livestock. Not only do they breed by being fed seeds
but they will also drop eggs. These eggs when thrown have a chance of producing a baby chicken.
They are the only mob that can repopulate without breeding.
Farming - Cows
Spawn Drops Behavior Breeding Health Food Source

Grasslands 0-2 Leather Will avoid Feed two 10 Wheat

biome biohazards adults wheat
1-3 Raw but not
After beef explosions 5 min
shearing a cooldown
mooshroom Can be Will avoid
milked into a water but 20 min to
bucket will follow a grow to adult
player (sped up by
wheat)

Baby cows will always prefer to follow their parent over the player even if holding wheat
Cows will follow a player holding wheat but will lose interest if you get more than 6 blocks ahead
Farming - Sheep You can dye a
sheep’s wool by
interacting with
Spawn Drops Behavior Breeding Health Food Source them with dye
in hand. It will
retain that color
Grasslands 1 wool of Will feed on Feed two 8 Wheat until dyed again
biome correspondin grass and adults wheat
and babies will
g color turn grass
be that color (or
Can spawn blocks to dirt 5 min
in a variety 1-2 Raw cooldown a mix of the
of colors but Mutton Will regrow parents colors)
white is the wool after 20 min to
most When grazing grow to adult
common sheared - 1-3 (sped up by
wool wheat)

Sheep Color Spawn Stats*:

White - ~78% Black/Light or
Dark Grey - ~15%
Brown - ~3% Pink - ~.2%
Farming - Pigs
Spawn Drops Behavior Breeding Health Food Source

Will spawn 1- 3 raw When a pig Feed two 10 Beetroot

in groups of pork chops or piglet is adults a food Potatoes
3 in any struck by source Carrots
grassy lightening it
overworld will turn into 5 min
biome other a zombie cooldown
than snowy piglin/ baby
plains, and piglin 20 min to
meadows grow to adult
(sped up by
food)

You can ride a pig using a saddle and a carrot on a stick. When ridden they cannot float in deeper
water but can go through water if 1 block deep
Other Animals - Tamable
Horse Llama Wolf

Camel Cat
Donkey

Mule Parrot Ocelot

Tamable Animals - Horses
Spawn Drops Usage Behavior Taming Breeding Food

Plains and 0-2 leather Can be Tamed or You tame a Feed two Sugar
Savannas in ridden untamed horse by by adults a Wheat
groups of 2- horses can repeatedly golden apple Apple
6 Cannot float be led by mounting it or golden Hay bale
while being golden until it carrot Golden
All colors ridden apples, or doesn’t buck Carrot
and golden you off You can also Golden
markings Can wear a carrots or by breed a Apple
combos are saddle using a lead Feeding donkey and
equally helps tame horse for a
likely faster mule

There are 35 color and marking combinations that your horse can have. Foals usually have the coat of
one of their parents but there is a 13/45% chance of having a random coat
Tamable Animals - Donkeys
Spawn Drops Usage Behavior Taming Breeding Food

2-6 donkeys 0-2 leather Can be Unlike most You tame a Feed two Sugar
spawn in the saddled and mobs, cannot donkey by adults a Wheat
plains ridden ride in a boat by repeatedly golden apple Apple
or minecart mounting it or golden Hay bale
Can’t be until it carrot Golden
ridden Unlike most doesn’t buck Carrot
through deep mobs, they you off You can also Golden
water slowly regain breed a Apple
health Feeding donkey and
Can be helps tame horse for a
saddled with a faster mule
chest for
transporting
goods
Tamable Animals - Mules
Spawn Drops Usage Behavior Taming Breeding Food

Does not 0-2 leather Can be Unlike most You tame a Unable to be Sugar
spawn saddled and mobs, they Mule by by breed Wheat
naturally ridden slowly regain repeatedly Apple
health mounting it Hay bale
You need to Can’t be until it Golden
breed a horse ridden doesn’t buck Carrot
and and through deep you off Golden
donkey for a water Apple
mule Feeding
Can be helps tame
saddled with a faster
chest for
transporting
goods
Tamable Animals - llama
Spawn Drops Usage Behavior Taming Breeding Food

Spawn in 0-2 leather Can be Can only be You tame a Feed two Wheat
savanna and equipped with lead by a llama by by adults a hay Hay Bale
windswept a chest lead, a llama repeatedly bale
biomes (cannot with a lead mounting it
remove chest) will prompt until it Trade Llama
Will spawn and a carpet other llamas doesn’t buck babies are
with to follow and you off born with a
wandering create a rug
traders caravan Feeding
helps tame
faster

Llamas can spit which can do 1 damage ( ) to attackers. They will spit at untamed wolves
unprovoked but wolves will run from stronger llamas. They cannot spit through fences.
Tamable Animals - Camel
Spawn Drops Usage Behavior Taming Breeding Food

Will spawn XP only Can be Can step 1.5 N/A Give two Cactus
in the middle saddled and blocks so can adults a
of each ridden by up step over cactus block
desert to two players fences so be
village, they at once careful if Babies grow
will not putting in faster by
respawn if pen being fed
killed cactus

Most standard mobs that aren’t jumping/climbing attackers (spider, slimes,

etc) cannot reach you while riding a camel
Tamable Animals - Parrot
Spawn Drops Usage Behavior Taming Breeding Food

Jungle 1-2 feathers Just a cool pet Will mimic Feed seeds Cannot be Wheat seeds
biomes sounds of bred Melon seeds
hostile mobs, Pumpkin seeds
usually ones Beetroot seeds
that are in the Torch Flower
area seeds

Come in several colors - red, blue, cyan, green and grey!

Feeding a parrot a cookie will poison and kill them

Tamable Animals - Wolf
You can
Spawn Drops Usage Behavior Taming Breeding Food use dye
to
Forest, XP only Will help Will follow Will be Can be bred Any raw or change
Taigas, and attack hostile their owner tamed after by feeding cooked meat the color
grove biomes mobs unless made feeding two tamed (including of the
in packs of 4 to sit, will bones until adults at full fish and wolves
teleport to tamed (can health any rotten flesh) collar
location if be found by sort of meat
you get too killing
far ahead skeletons)

You can tell the health status of your wolf by what angle their tail is at, the lower the
tail the lower the health

There is no limit to the number of tamed wolves a player can have! You can start the breeding process in
other players wolves and the babies will still follow their parents owner. If the wolves are owned by different
players the baby will randomly be assigned to one player.
Tamable Animals - Cat
Spawn Drops Usage Behavior Taming Breeding Food

Villages (1 0-2 string Creepers and There is a Give the cat Give two Raw cod
cat per 4 phantoms 70% chance a raw cod or adults a raw Raw salmon
owned beds) avoid them of your cat raw salmon cod or
bringing you salmon
Black cats Will sit on a gift in the
will spawn in anything they morning if Babies grow
swamp huts can climb on you sleep at faster by
night being fed
fish*

There are 11 possible skins a cat can have and are chosen at random. Babies
will have the color of one of the parents and if parents are owned by 2 different
players will choose randomly who they belong to. The exception to this is if the
cats are bred with one sitting, the kitten will belong to the owner of the mobile
cat
Tamable Animals - Ocelot
Spawn Drops Usage Behavior Taming Breeding Food

Jungle XP only Creepers and Can kill Give the cat Give two Raw cod
biomes phantoms through a a raw cod or adults a raw Raw salmon
avoid them fence, gate, raw salmon cod or
or door salmon
(chickens
and baby Babies grow
turtles only) faster by
being fed
fish*

There are 11 possible skins a cat can have and are chosen at random. Babies
will have the color of one of the parents and if parents are owned by 2 different
players will choose randomly who they belong to. The exception to this is if the
cats are bred with one sitting, the kitten will belong to the owner of the mobile
cat
Common Hostile Mobs
Creeper Witch Slime

Skeleton Spider Wither

Enderman

Zombie The Blaze

Drowned
Hostile Mobs - Creeper
Spawn Drop Behavior Health

Overworld, light 0-2 gunpowder Chase any player within a 20

level 0 except for 6 block radius, silent until
in mushroom fields hissing around 3 blocks
or deep dark
biomes 1.5 seconds before
explosion, will halt if
5 Max player is out of sight or out
of the 3 block range
Hostile Mobs - Skeleton
Spawn Drop Behavior Health

Overworld, light 0-2 bones Chase players within 16 20

level 0 except for blocks, shoot with bow and
in mushroom fields 0-2 arrows arrow from up to 15 blocks
or deep dark away as long as they have a
biomes 8.5% chance of clear line of sight
dropping a bow
Nether - most
commonly in soul
sand valleys

Skeletons will never leave the shade to attack a player, instead shooting from a
distance. Skeletons also have a rare chance of picking up items and using
Hostile Mobs - Zombie
Spawn Drop Behavior Health

Overworld, light 0-2 Rotten Flesh Chase players starting at 16 20

level 0 except for blocks away
in mushroom fields Rare drops:
or deep dark Carrot Zombies will go after traders
biomes Potato even through walls
Iron Ingot
Chance of can break doors in harder
spawning at a difficulties
zombie villager,
baby, husk or
drowned
Hostile Mobs - The drowned
Spawn Drop Behavior Health
Water related 0-2 Rotten Flesh Hostile at night and if a 20
biomes - in groups player enters the water
of 2-4 Rare drops: during the day
Copper ingot
Spawn in with a Armor If holding a trident they can
trident or a fishing throw one every 1.5 seconds
rod 25% drop rate of
trident if they are
carrying one

The drowned can find and smash turtle eggs

Hostile Mobs - Witch
Spawn Drop Behavior Health

All biomes except Witches have the Throws spells as their first level of 26
mushroom and largest loot drop of combat
deep dark any mob, making 1-3 - Potion of slowness if the
drops of 0-2 items player is 8-10 blocks away
each - Potion of poison if player is
Often spawn in at at least 8 health
Swamp Huts with a Stick - If 3 or less blocks away
black cat Glass bottle might get hit with a potion of
Glowstone dust weakness (25%)
Redstone dust - If none of the above
Spider eye conditions are met, potion of
Gunpowder harming doing 6 magical
Sugar damage

A witch may drop a potion if killed while consuming one (witches will drink potions during
combat)
Hostile Mobs - Spider
Spawn Drop Behavior Health

Overworld, light 0-2 String Is hostile to all players in light 16

level 0 except for level 11 or darker - otherwise
in mushroom fields ⅓ chance of will remain passive unless
or deep dark dropping a spider attacked
biomes eye
Spiders can detect players
through blocks and will pursue
even in sunlight and can climb
blocks

Cave spiders are a variation of spiders and have the same stats and
info but are found exclusively in cave systems
Hostile Mobs - Slime
Spawn Drop Behavior Health

Spawn in the 0-2 slimeballs When killed they break into Big - 16
overlord in “slime 2-4 of the smaller versions Med - 4
chunks” below layer XP in relation to Small - 1
40 and in swamp size Unlike most mobs, slimes
biomes usually on a follow a straight path
full moon but never towards a player, not
on a new moon avoiding hazards

You can get a maximum of 28 XP from killing a large slime. When you
kill a large slime they will break into 2-4 med slimes, and each of those
slimes will break into 2-4 small slimes
Hostile Mobs - Wither
Spawn Drop Behavior Health

Player made from 4 1 nether star (only Attack every living thing Easy - 300
blocks of soul way to get one) in its vicinity Normal - 450
sand/soil in a t shape Hard - 600
and 3 wither skeleton When they take damage
skulls on top they break all blocks They have the
within a 3x4x3 space greatest
After spawn there is (there are a few natural health
an 11 second window exceptions) of all mobs
before a huge
explosion (dealing up
When at half health it
to 68 damage)
will spawn 3 wither
skeletons (if not on easy)
Hostile Mobs - Blaze
Spawn Drop Behavior Health

Nether fortresses in 0-2 blaze rods (only Immune to fire and lava 20
groups of 2-3 way to get one) damage

Target players within a

16 block radius, shoot
small fireballs when they
have a clear line of site.
Can do melee damage if
touched