Author: José Zapata

Jose Zapata

Jose Gregorio Zapata Urdaneta is a video game writer and a casually addicted gamer. Jose Zapata has worked as a video game writer for over four years. He focuses on video game troubleshooting, game lists, and game guides. His first console was a SNES in 1994, and his first games were Star Fox and Super Mario. Since he was a kid, he learned he had a passion for playing, sharing, and talking about games, so he pursued the endeavor with a Social Communication bachelor's degree. His favorite genre is RTS (real-time-strategy), so he plays Age of Empires IV, Age of Empires II, Total War: Warhammer III, Starcraft II, and others. He also has a passion for the type of open-world games where he can create his adventures, such as Minecraft and, with tons of mods, Fallout 4. And like every other gamer, he also likes action-RPG games such as Elden Ring or Mass Effect, although he has a soft spot for classic turn-based RPGs like Original Sin II or the Baldur's Gate Saga. He also manages two YouTube channels. One of these features semi-professional gameplay for eSports players (Rocket League, Warzone, and others). Additionally, he has a background as a musician (bass player), and he used to write musical tutorials and reviews for BegginnerGuitarHQ.

There comes a time when every Minecraft player needs metals for armor, weapons, and tool. The game’s progress depends on your ability to craft better items, and some of these items require specific benches. The blast furnace is one of these benches. It’s a single block you can use to smelt raw metals, ores, metal armor, and tools. It’s twice as fast as a furnace, but it can’t smelt anything else. It’s a necessary step towards high-tier gear such as enchanted weapons and armor. Playing Minecraft’s Survival Mode requires using specific resources to create each item. The resources you need for a…

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What can your animal do if you don’t have a saddle? Look cute? You probably want more than that, so we’re talking about the Minecraft saddle, the item that allows you to ride horses, donkeys, mules, camels, pigs, and striders. In particular, you need the saddle to control most of these animals. You need to tame equine mobs (horses, donkeys, and mules) before placing a saddle on their back. You can do it by putting the item on your action bar, and using it on the animal. Lastly, while you can put a saddle on striders and pigs, you can’t control…

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The Minecraft Enchanting Table is a mid-game tool, but if you want to use it as soon as possible, then you should know exactly how it works and how to craft it. The Enchanting Table is a type of block where you can enchant weapons, armor, books, and tools. You can also enchant certain items, although particular enchants require the Anvil. These enchants are buffs you put on the gear, and you can put various simultaneously. To use the table effectively, though, you need various Bookshelves, which are a rare find. Minecraft Enchanting Table Crafting Recipe An Enchanting table requires…

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Minecraft has so many ways to progress your character, and you need all of the help you can get on Survival Mode. If you’re looking for ways to resist extra enemy hits, Turtle Shell helmets present an easy way to improve your armor. You can equip a Turtle Shell to gain 2 armor points, plus 10 seconds of Water Breathing. The breathing timer will reset when you come up to the surface. Lastly, you can use Turtle Shells to create a Potion of the Turtle Master, which gives you two different resistances. So, these items can help you survive longer, and…

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Is it time to set up your Minecraft base? Then you need some key blocks to supply all of your crafting needs. You’d want to have Furnaces, Crafting Tables, Enchantment Tables, Blast Furnaces, and, for today’s guide, a Smoker. Smokers are not as pivotal as other crafting blocks, but they can smooth the process of cooking. Smokers can cook meat twice as fast as Furnaces, but that’s about the only thing they can do. Consider it as an item for speedrunning or customizing your house’s kitchen. What’s the recipe, though? How to Make Minecraft Smoker Recipe? Minecraft worlds may generate…

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Oceanic exploration needs some preparation. Namely, you’d want to extend your underwater breathing, increase your underwater movement speed, and, perhaps, take a Trident weapon with you. The Depth Strider enchantment does one of these three things. It is an enchantment for boots of all materials that increase your speed while underwater. There’re three ways to add a Depth Strider enchant to your boots. You can use the enchanting table, you can use an anvil, or you can use a game command. The Depth Strider Enchant Moving underwater slows characters by 1/3rd of the speed. If you stand still, the water can also…

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Have you heard about Seeds? Seeds identify Minecraft realms, which can help you find the resources you’ve been looking for hours, like diamonds. Diamonds are a coveted item, so it’s hard to find. You need it for diamond armor, weapons, tools, Enchanting Tables, jukeboxes, and others. There’re two ways to find these, generally. You either search for places where they spawn, or you go straight to a Minecraft Realm (a seed) that offers diamonds near the spawn point. We’re looking for the latter and taking you straight to the jackpot. Where do Diamonds Spawn? In either world you visit, there’re…

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These massive landscapes are starting to bore you, so you want something else. How about spawning on gorgeous and interesting islands? Let’s find these Minecraft Seeds. A Seed is the code number that identifies a Minecraft Realm. Every world has a Seed. If you did not pick one, the game would pick one for you randomly. However, you can pick one when you start a new game on Java or Bedrock editions. The benefit of picking Seeds is the starting location. In particular, we’re looking for island starting locations, which give you a unique and thematic playstyle. Explore the island,…

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You’re in the end game, full of diamond tools and gear, grinding your way toward the enchantments, and digging tunnels over bedrock. And yet, you can’t find Netherite to craft and repair the best gear Minecraft has to offer. Netherite is a necessary item to upgrade diamond weapons, armor, and tool into Netherite gear. Netherite comes in blocks, ingots, and scraps, all of which are on the other side of a Nether Portal. So, you’d have to find a Ruined Portal on the Overworld, and repair it, if you haven’t. You can find your world’s “Seed” to check the locations of…

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You may want to become the Lord of the Tides, the Underwater King, or Poseidon himself. But aside from roleplaying reasons, the Trident is one of the most unique weapons in Minecraft. Aside from their hefty damage, the reason why Tridents are so special is because of their signature enchantments. One of those is “Riptide,” which can hurl your character in the direction you throw the trident. It only works if you’re wet, though. It’s as exciting as it sounds, and you’re probably here because you have seen it online. How can you get your hands on it, though? As with…

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