Minecraft World Magazine

Hello, and a very warm welcome to the latest issue of MinecraftWorld! Whether you’re new to us or returning, we’ve got a lot of Minecrafting for you! We’ve gone a bit superhero mad this issue too, as we’ve been exploring putting together a superhero build – one of the features you’ve most requested from us! You’ll also find the latest on Minecraft’s next big update, what you need to know about wardens, the secrets of Minecraft at night, and a lot more! If there’s a feature you want to see in the mag, let us know: email incoming@everythingmw.com. We’re already plotting a whole lot more Minecraft fun for next issue! We’ll see you again for issue 93 – ooh, we’re getting close to 100! – on June 16th. Until then, stay safe,…

IRON MAN ZONE Iron Man is one of the coolest Marvel heroes, so we’re going to dedicate a section of our world to the Armoured Avenger himself. We’re starting with a big Iron Man statue in an 8-bit style. You can copy what we’ve built or google ‘8-bit pixel art Iron Man’ to find a template you can use. Remember to use concrete blocks for solid, texture-free colours! If you want to build something a bit different to represent this character, an alternative idea might be building a large Iron Man helmet that you can go inside, or a huge Iron Man gauntlet coming out of the ground – you could use beacon blocks as his repulsor rays! To make this zone look cool, we’ve decided to give it a technological theme and…

NIGHT & DAY First, the basics: once the sun sets, the light across the entire world is set to level 4, which means that hostile mobs can suddenly spawn anywhere on the surface of the Overworld. A full day-night cycle runs for 20 minutes in Minecraft. Daytime lasts for 10 minutes, bookended by 90 seconds of sunset and sunrise, and 7 minutes of darkness. Mobs can spawn for about 8 minutes of every night. Undead mobs (excluding husks and mobs wearing a helmet) will start to burn in direct sunlight only when the moon has fully dipped below the horizon and the sun is fully visible. MOON PHASES Every night, the moon moves through one of its eight phases, waxing and waning like the real moon does. The phase of the moon has…

VITAL STATS Wardens are extremely hostile mobs that live in the ancient cities found buried deep in the Overworld. They are completely blind and hunt by listening for the sounds of their prey. Wardens have 500 health points and their attacks do anything from 16–45 points of damage depending on the difficulty level – on Hard mode they can kill a fully armoured player in a single strike! Wardens spawn when three conditions are met: firstly, the light level has to be below 11, secondly a sculk shrieker needs to be activated by noise at least three times, and thirdly there has to not be an existing warden nearby. When all of these things are trues, a warden will emerge from the sculk and start to search for the origin of the…

GOAT HORNS First added in an experimental build some time ago, the goat horn has now been properly implemented for the Wild Update. Goat horns will drop when a goat rams a block, though they’ll only ram logs, stone, packed ice, iron ore, copper ore and emerald ore. There are eight different types of horn that can drop, each making a different sound. Four of the horn types are exclusive to screaming goats, and all horns can be used to make a sound that can be heard far away. Goats can drop up to two horns – and when they drop one, the model will lose the horn itself. It’s also possible to find goat horns as loot in pillager outposts. MANGROVE SWAMP The new Mangrove biome has been added, featuring new a variety…

ABOUT THE BOTTLE O’ ENCHANTING The bottle o’ enchanting – short (sort of…) for ‘bottle of enchanting’, is a throwable item closely resembling a potion which, when it shatters, will drop a small amount of experience orbs. It is one of the most unusual items in the game, not least because its rewards are rather small compared to its rarity! FINDING THE BOTTLE O’ ENCHANTING The bottle o’ enchanting can be obtained from a few places. Master-level village clerics sell one at a cost of three emeralds, but the most common way to get hold of it is as a loot item. In the Java Edition, it can be obtained as treasure from pillager outposts (w here there is a 61% chance of finding one) or shipwreck treasure chests (14% chance). As of the…