How To Breed Frogs in Minecraft

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While you can’t tame frogs, you can breed them, lead them, and put tadpoles into buckets. Frogs croak, jump, swim, and (slowly) walk on land. They can jump over five blocks and prefer lily pads and big dripleaf.

Generally, they’re just out here living their best froggy lives!

Read on to learn how to find and tame frogs!

1 – Get slimeballs

To activate a frog’s love mode, you’ll need slimeballs. The easiest way to get them is from slimes! Slimes spawn in the Overworld in specific “slime chunks” below layer 40, regardless of light levels. They can also spawn in swamp biomes between layers 50 and 70 in light levels of 7 or less.

An adorable fact: Baby pandas have a chance of dropping one slimeball when sneezing.

2 – Find frogs

Frogs spawn in swamp and mangrove swamp biomes, in groups of 2-5 frogs. They grow from tadpoles, and their variants are determined by the temperature of the biome the tadpole grew up in.

Frogs have three variants: temperate (orange), warm (white), and cold (green). To get different variants of the frogs, currently the best way is by bringing a bucket of tadpole to a different temperature biome and letting them grow up there.

3 – Breed frogs

Simply give each frog a slimeball and let the magic happen (aka love mode). One of the frogs will head towards water to lay their eggs. In the case of Minecraft, frog spawn will appear over water (similar to how lily pads or glow lichen appear).

You cannot pick up this block and there’s no collision, so you won’t have to worry about stepping on the eggs as you would with turtle eggs.

If you’d like to know more on what else was included in the Wild Update, check out this comprehensive overview!

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How to Breed Axolotls in Minecraft

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Axolotls have quickly become a popular amphibian. Since their addition to Minecraft in the 1.17, Caves & Cliffs: Part I update, axolotl products are everywhere. Even Build-A-Bear Workshop had an axolotl teddy bear! Kids were so entranced with axolotls that their parents were warned not to buy the real versions as pets.

However, inside Minecraft, we all can continue to be obsessed with these adorable and curious mobs. As of 1.18, their spawn location has changed, making them a little harder to come by. So when you finally manage to find two of them, how do you breed axolotls?

Here’s our guide to help find and breed axolotls in Minecraft, so you can create your own axolotl army! Or at least have some wildlife around your home.

1 – Gather Supplies

Before leaving home, make sure you have everything you need! Beside having a place to both breed and maintain axolotls, you’ll need:

• 4 Water Buckets
• Anvil or Name Tags
• Boat

2 – Find Axolotls

In 1.17, you could find axolotls in any deep underwater area. However, in 1.18, that changed. Axolotls spawn underwater in lush cave biomes and when there is a clay block less than five blocks below their spawning space. If you’re having trouble finding a lush cave, check out this guide! Axolotls are passive toward players and can be attached to leads.

The best way to catch them, however, is with a water bucket. Simply right click them with a water bucket in the main hand, and they’ll pop right into your inventory!

Once you’ve located the two axolotls you want, move on to the next step.

3 – Time To Go Fishing

The next stop before home will require sailing the seas. Axolotls require a bucket of tropical fish each to breed. Tropical fish only spawn in the following biomes:

• Lukewarm Ocean
• Deep Lukewarm Ocean
• Warm Ocean
• Lush Caves

Chances are, by the time you’ve found axolotls inside a lush cave, they’ve already depleted the population of tropical fish. Personally, that’s a bit of an oversight on Mojang’s part, but we digress.

Take to the ocean and use F3 or a map mod to find the correct biome. The best way to spot a possible tropical fish location is by looking out for a brightly colored coral reef.

Just like with the axolotls, grab up two tropical fish inside a bucket. Do not kill a tropical fish! Axolotls prefer their prey alive.

Now it’s time to head home and get busy!

4 – Get Down to Business

Before you place down your axolotls, make sure you rename them at an anvil or with a name tag. While usually an axolotl picked up with a water bucket won’t despawn, it’s best to stay on the safe side.

Once your axolotls are placed where you want them, it’s time for them to get…busy. As soon as you hold out a bucket of tropical fish, they’ll become very interested in you. Simply right click each axolotl with a bucket of tropical fish, and they’ll begin breeding!

The coloring of the baby axolotl will be random, inheriting one of their parents’ color. A baby axolotl has a 1/1200 chance to be the rare blue variant. It’ll take 20 minutes for the babies to grow into adulthood, so you’ll have some time to cherish how tiny they are.

There you have it! The beginning of your axolotl army!

If you’re interested in what other changes occurred in Minecraft’s 1.18 update, check out this overview!

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How To Install a Snapshot Version of Minecraft

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Did you know that Minecraft actually lets you play pre-release versions of the game? That’s right! You can explore and discover new features coming to Minecraft before the official version is released. This ability is available to anyone who wishes to try!

These versions are generally unstable, so it’s best to not try to use them with existing worlds. Instead, create new worlds that you can mess around in!

It’s actually incredibly easy to download, install, and play a snapshot version of Minecraft. Follow the steps below to learn how!

1 – Download the zip file

Be sure to save this zip to a location on your computer that you can easily access later. You can download the latest snapshot from Minecraft’s website or by clicking this link.

2 – Unzip the file

To unzip, you’ll need a program like WinZip to do so. You’ll want to export this file into your .minecraft/versions folder.

To find your .minecraft folder:

• Windows: Press Win+R and type %appdata%.minecraft and press “Ok”
• Mac OS X: Ijn the Go menu in Finder, select “Go to Folder” and enter ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft
• Linux: ~/.minecraft or /home//.minecraft/

3 – Start the Minecraft Launcher

Once the launcher is open, navigate to the “Installations” tab.

4 – Add a new installation

Make sure the box for “Modded” is ticked, then click the New Installations button, as shown above.

In the new window that appears:

1. Name it whatever you want.
2. Click the version that matches the name of the file you downloaded and extracted.
3. Click Create when ready.

5 – Play!

You should now see the created new installation listed in the Installations tab. Press Play to start up Minecraft!

Learn about the first 1.19 experimental snapshot, featuring the Deep Dark Biome!

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How To Find Screenshots in Minecraft

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Sometimes you want to share your Minecraft builds or moments with others, while other times you want to access screenshots of coordinates to the point of interest you promised you’d return to. Thankfully, no matter the need, finding your Minecraft screenshots through the Minecraft launcher is easy!

1 – Open Minecraft Launcher

If you launch Minecraft directly through the launcher, open it up and move on to the next step. If you play Minecraft through CurseForge, follow along with our other guide!

2 – Navigate to Installations Tab

At the top of the window, under the game version, click the Installations tab.

3 – Open the Save Folder

Hover your mouse over the game version you want to find and click the folder icon to the right of the Play button. Move onto the next step when the new window opens.

4 – Navigate to the Screenshots Folder

A window will open that shows all the files in the instance you played. Find the Screenshots folder and double click to open it. Within are all the screenshots you made in your worlds!

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How To Craft a Recovery Compass in Minecraft

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With the Wild Update, game version 1.19, new items and blocks were added to Minecraft and the recovery compass was one of them! What does it do? Read here to find out.

The recovery compass won’t be easy to make, mainly because of one type of item in the recipe. Follow along on how to craft a recovery compass in Minecraft, version 1.19.

If you’re interested in what else was added with the Wild Update, check out our comprehensive overview!

1 – Craft a compass

Obviously, the recovery compass will require a compass. You’ll need 4 iron ingots and 1 redstone dust, copy the recipe shown above.

2 – Gather echo shards

This is the trickier item in the recipe, and you’ll need eight. Echo shards are found only in ancient cities, which spawn in the deep dark biome. You’ll have to travel down to deepslate level to find one.

Once you do find an ancient city, check all chests within it. There’s a 29.8% chance that 1-3 echo shards will be within a chest, in both Bedrock and Java editions.

3 – Craft a recovery compass

Once you have the compass and eight echo shards, follow the recipe above!

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How To Make Concrete in Minecraft Java Edition

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One of the most versatile blocks in Minecraft to build with is concrete. However, if your entire build is 80% concrete, it can be tedious to turn concrete powder into concrete. If you’ve ever seen an experienced Minecraft player speed through this process in vanilla Minecraft, then you know it’s possible to improve this tedious work.

While you could build a redstone machine to automatically create concrete, this method is simple, and can be used on any vanilla or non-modded world! Below is a guide on how to cut your concrete conversion time in half. Keep in mind, this trick only works in the Java Edition of Minecraft.

1 – Craft concrete powder

Craft the needed amount of concrete powder using the recipe shown above.

2 – Gather supplies

Before you begin, you’ll need to gather the following supplies in order to prepare an area to mine concrete quickly.

• Water bucket
• Pickaxe (the higher the level the better)
• Shovel

Once you have all the supplies, move on to the next step.

3 – Prepare the area

Find somewhere in your world that you can dig. Mine out a 1×2 space and place down a water source on the farthest spot from you. The space closest to you is the one where you’ll place the concrete powder later in this guide.

Use the above photo as a reference on how this is meant to look.

4 – Place concrete powder in your offhand

There are two ways to do this. The first is to click and drop the concrete powder into the offhand slot. The other option works if concrete powder is in the hotbar. Simply scroll so that the concrete powder is in the right hand, then press the F key.

5 – Mine the concrete

Now you’re ready for the fun part!

With your pickaxe in the right hand and aimed at the space where you’ll place the concrete powder. Hold down both mouse buttons at once.

While your left hand places a block, your right hand will mine it! Simple as that!

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How to Install a Resource Pack in Minecraft

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While shaders make Minecraft look pleasing, resource packs are an additional way to change a theme or aesthetic of a Minecraft world. Because resource packs are separate than shaders, you don’t need to install any mods, which makes them so versatile and vanilla-game friendly.

What is the difference between a resource pack and texture pack?

While many use both terms to mean the same thing, there is a fundamental difference between the two. A texture pack is used for 1.6.1 and earlier versions of the game 1.6.1, and they only changed the in-game textures. Resource packs were added in after 1.6.1, and allow players to change sounds, music, and particle effects. They also can modify blocks, items, and entity textures.

Let’s get into our guide on how to install resource packs to Minecraft!

1 – Find your file path

Before moving into the actual installation of resource or texture packs, it’s important to know where your Minecraft game is installed. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Open the Minecraft Launcher.

2. Make sure the launch option is the game version you plan on using.

3. Go to the Installations tab at the top of the window.

4. Hover your mouse over the game version you want to find and click the folder icon to the right of the Play button. See the image above for help.

5 . Locate the resource pack folder. This is where you’ll place any resource pack you want to use.

2 – Choose a resource or texture pack

Many websites are available to download resource packs, but some are safer than most. We recommend CurseForge or ResourcePack.net. Alternatively, you can download directly from a developer’s website as well!

Make sure it’s compatible with your Minecraft game version and then move on to the next step!

3 – Download the pack

Download the correct game version of the resource pack you’ve chosen and place it within the Resourcepack folder found in Step 1. Make sure you don’t unzip the downloaded file!

4 – Activate the resource pack

Now it’s time to run Minecraft and turn on your resource pack! Once the game has launched, follow these steps:

1. Click Options then Resource Packs.

2. Click arrow button that appears over the resource pack’s icon to move it to the right Selected column, as shown in the image below.

3. Click Done and a loading screen will appear and return you back to the Options menu when it’s finished rendering.

Return back to the main menu and you can start playing Minecraft with a brand new theme! To learn how to install shaders, read our guide to installing shader packs for Minecraft!

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How To Breed Horses in Minecraft

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Traveling long distances in Minecraft can be tiresome (both in real life and the game). Thankfully, there are ways to move around faster through the Overworld! Whether you’re a skilled player or not, in the early game of Minecraft you usually don’t have elytra to fly around. But you can have horses!

Whether you want to gather leather like YouTuber Smallishbeans…

Or maybe you just want a companion on your adventure? Either way, here’s our guide on how to tame and breed horses in Minecraft!

Fun Fact: This method will also work for donkeys!

1 – Find Horses

Horses naturally spawn around the Overworld in the following biomes:

• Plains
• Sunflower Plains
• Savanna
• Savanna Plateau
• Windswept Savanna
• Villages

Make sure you have a spot to keep the horses, since they will wander even if tamed.

2 – Tame the Horses

Both horses and donkeys must be tamed in order to breed or even ride. In order to tame a horse, simply right click one with an empty hand. You’ll now be mounted upon the horse until it bucks you off. Repeat this as many times as it takes. You’ll know you’ve tamed the horse or donkey when hearts appear on the screen.

Horse’s Temper

Taming depends all on the horse’s temper. Every horse begins with a temper between 1 and 100 and an assigned random taming threshold. Each time a player is bucked off earns 5 temper and once it reaches past that taming threshold, the horse is tamed.

Now you can add a saddle and armor! However, there are a few more supplies needed before breeding.

3 – Gather Supplies

In order to activate love mode (aka breeding) you must feed two horses (or donkeys) either a golden carrot or a golden apple. Both can be crafted or looted!

Golden Apple

You can craft a golden apple with 8 gold ingots and 1 apple.

Golden apples also generate naturally in chests throughout the Overworld and Nether. The best places to find a golden apple are in igloos, mineshafts, and desert temples.

Golden Carrots

You can craft a golden carrot with 8 gold nuggets and 1 carrot.

Golden carrots can be looted from chests in bastion remnants and ruined portals. Bastion remnants have the highest chance of spawning 6-17 golden carrots in a chest.

4 – Activate Love Mode

Mojang call breeding “love mode”. Is that important information? Not really, but it’s still fun to know.

Once you have the above supplies, simply feed the golden carrots or apples to a pair of horses. They’ll enter love mode and produce a foal. Typically, the foal has the color or markings of one of its parents, but there is a ~29% chance for a random variation in color/markings.

If a horse and donkey are bred together, they create a mule foal. Mules can’t breed, but you at least will get an achievement for it!

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How To Enchant Items in Minecraft

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You’ve done so much to acquire a full set of diamond (or even netherite) armor and tools. You’re feeling proud! So you go out exploring the world or risk battling the Ender dragon, when you unexpectedly die, realizing that you’re still too mortal.

If you’ve ever experienced or imagined this scenario, then you should consider enchanting your items before heading towards danger. Minecraft provides special blocks which can bind special abilities, or enchantments, to your armor, tools, or weapons.

What Minecraft items can you enchant?

The broad categories of items that you can enchant are armor, tools, weapons, and books.

Bonus idea to save you time: If you’re looking to add a specific set of enchantments to an item, enchant books rather than the item itself to save yourself cost and items!

There are three ways to enchant items in Minecraft:

1. At an enchanting table.
2. Combine an enchanted book and item at an anvil.
3. Combine two enchanted items together.

This guide will go through all three ways to enchant items in Minecraft!

1 – Method One: Enchanting Table

Supplies Needed:

• 1 enchanting table
• 15 bookshelves
• Lapis lazuli

Before you can use an enchanting table, you must craft one through a crafting table.

You’ll need four obsidian, two diamonds, and one book. The above image shows the recipe and formation to craft an enchanting table.

Once placed, right-click on the enchanting table to open up the interface. The above image will show the correct placement of items, as well as an example of what you might see in the GUI.

How do you get better enchantments?

The higher the player’s level, the more enchantments you’ll gain access to. However, to increase the level of enchantment, you’ll need bookshelves! Above is an image showing the proper placement of bookshelves around an enchanting table. The must be a one block space between the bookshelf and the enchanting table in order for it to work. You can also stack bookshelf in a second row to save space.

How to create an enchanted book:

In place of an item like a sword or pickaxe, simply place a book inside the enchanting table. You’ll be able to save this enchantment for later to combine with an item at an anvil!

View our list of the best enchantments to have in Minecraft!

2 – Method Two: Combine a Book and Item

Supplies Needed:

• Enchanted book
• Item to be enchanted

Whether you enchanted a book yourself or you found one in a chest, you can add enchantments to an item by using an anvil.

What are enchantment incompatibilities?

There are a few enchantments that will not be able to be combined on the same item. Enchantments are incompatible if both are in one of the following groups:

• Sword: Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods
• Tool: Fortune and Silk Touch (as of Java version 1.12.2 you can combine these; the sacrifice item’s enchantment is lost)
• Armor: Protection, Fire Protection, Blast Protection, Projectile Protection
• Boots: Depth Strider and Frost Walker
• Bow: Infinity and Mending
• Crossbow: Multishot and Piercing
• Trident: Loyalty and Riptide or Channeling and Riptide
• Books: Silk Touch and Looting or Silk Touch and Luck of the Sea

To start, right-click an anvil and follow these steps:

1. Place an item in the first slot.
2. Place the enchanted book in the second slot.
3. Make sure you have enough experience points to cover the enchantment cost that appears on the screen.
4. Click and place the now enchanted item into your inventory.

You now have completed the process of using an anvil to enchant items. Note that enchanted books are cheaper than using an enchanting table.

3 – Method Three: Combine Enchanted Items

Anvils are handy when you need to not only repair an item, but want to increase the level of an enchantment on an item. You can also combine enchanted books through an anvil to increase their levels as well!

Before beginning, there are some things to keep in mind:

• Enchantments from the second slot are transferred to the item in the first slot, keeping the highest levels of enchantment.
• If two enchantments have the same level, they can combine into the next available level.
• Items must be of the same type and material, unless one is an enchanted book.

Use the image above to help along with the steps for combining enchanted items on the anvil:

1. Place the item you wish to add enchantments to in the first slot. This is the item you will keep in the end.
2. Place the item you wish to get enchantments from in the second slot. This item will be destroyed along with any enchantments that aren’t transferable. If a book has multiple enchantments, only appropriate spells are transferred to the items. Any unusable enchantments are lost from the book.
3. Click and place the now enchanted item into your inventory.

There you have it! Three easy ways to add enchantments to items in Minecraft!

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How To Make Bricks in Minecraft

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Bricks are a staple block in Minecraft for building. Whether it’s the main feature or an accent block, they’re quite attainable to make even in the early stages of survival worlds. Below is a guide to the simple gathering and crafting of brick in Minecraft!

1 – Gather Clay

Clay is commonly found at the bottom of rivers, lakes, and swamps. Mine clay blocks with a shovel or fist to break them into dropping clay balls. Clay balls are the most important part of the recipe!

2 – Make a Furnace

Next, craft a furnace. You’ll need eight cobblestone to do so.

If you have a furnace already, make sure you have enough fuel for the next step.

3 – Smelt the Clay

Place the clay ball in the top slot in the furnace GUI and fuel (such as coal or wood) in the bottom slot. With that, the furnace will smelt the clay balls into bricks!

Bricks can then be used to craft brick blocks or flowerpots!

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