INTRODUCTION If you are new to the game fighting the mobs in Minecraft can be a bit scary But once you get used to the mobs and fighting them and get used to occasionally dying it can be a lot of fun I was not much of a fighter at first but now I stay up at night Minecraft night just to find and kill some skellies zombies and Creepers It’s also a great way to get more expe rience points so you can enchant more weapons armor and tools This book has all the information you need to improve your fighting skills against the different mobs in Minecraft from Blazes to zombie pigmen and some tips to help you in PvP as well You’ll learn more about your weapons and how to enchant them and use potions The mob profile pages exam ine each neutral and hostile mob where you’ll find it how to kill it and what experience points and drops it will give you On each page you’ll also find the number of strikes needed to kill a mob and these are generally the minimum number of strikes needed However you may need fewer strikes if you use the critical hit tactic and more if the oppo nent wears armor heals quickly or if you don’t have a fully charged bow As with pretty much everything practice makes perfect So to become a truly great fighter get your sword and bow out and start taking out those mobs
chapter 1 SWORDS Your primary Minecraft combat weapons are of course your sword and your bow Your sword is for close com bat or melee and your bow is for distance attacks Howev er if you are caught unprepared while harvesting a crop of melons for example you can use a tool if you have one a pickaxe axe or shovel will deal more damage than your bare hands There are other items in Minecraft you can use and build to inflict damage Flint and steel and a bucket of lava are two popular warfare weapons The wooden sword is your first weapon unless you are lucky and can get to stone quickly with your wooden pickaxe One of your first goals in Survival mode should be to upgrade to a stone sword Then continue upgrading until you have a couple of trusty enchanted diamond swords at your side Left-click with a sword in hand to strike and right-click to block incoming strikes
4 Crafting a Sword You’ll need two blocks of a single type of weapons material wood planks stone gold ingot iron ingot or diamond ore and one stick to make a sword If you are making a wooden sword you need to use the same kind of wood for both wood planks and the stick Sword recipe 2 sword material 1 stick You can also acquire weapons from killed mobs and from trad ing with villagers Sometimes a zombie will spawn with a sword in hand or a skeleton may spawn with an enchanted bow There’s a chance they will drop the weapons when they die and then they’re yours Sword Damage The amount of damage a sword can do depends on the ma terial it is made of Wooden swords deal the least damage diamond the most Compare the stats on the next page to us ing your bare hands which causes 1 point of damage Keep in mind that a heart is equal to 2 health points Also notice that Hacks for Minecrafters combat edition
5 the golden sword gives the same damage as the wooden sword It often makes sense to go from an iron sword straight to a diamond one skipping the gold You can in crease the amount of damage you deal by using a criti cal hit which you perform by jumping and then striking as you fall A critical hit increases the damage by up to about 50 percent Material Wooden Sword Stone Sword Iron Sword Golden Sword Diamond Sword Damage Points Hearts 5 points 6 points 7 points or 5 points 8 points Sword Durability Each weapon and tool has a limit on its use called its dura bility Durability is measured in number of uses By far the most durable swords are the diamond swords which can last for Swords
