Building & Resources guides — page 2
Guides to building and gathering in Minecraft: block and material counts, beacon pyramids, mob farm spawn caps, horse breeding and custom paintings.
A trimmed armour set has 1.57 billion possible appearances, which is why the lock button exists
199 states per slot to the fourth power. Rerolling all four at once will never converge on a look — locking the pieces you like turns an unsearchable space into a workable one.
A Bedrock skin pack is four files, and two of its failure modes are silent
Two UUIDs that must differ, a lang file that is not optional, and skin keys that strip punctuation — so 'My Skin!' and 'My Skin?' become one skin with no error.
Bedrock has no standalone cape pack — a cape only ships attached to a skin
There is no cape-only .mcpack format. Every cape must be paired with a skin entry that names it, which is why a cape pack is really a skin pack with an extra PNG per entry.
Biome temperature decides rain, snow or nothing — and 18 biomes get no weather at all
67 biomes in 26.3. Every biome at temperature 2.0 is dry, all six remaining dry ones are in the End, and only 10 biomes snow at every height.
Breeding food: 16 of 29 mobs accept exactly one item, and bees accept 29
Minecraft defines breeding food as tags. Over half the mobs take a single item, horses take eight, wolves eighteen, and the frog has a food tag pointing at other mobs.
Alternating rows grow twice as fast as a solid field — the formula says so
Moist alternating rows give a 1-in-3 growth roll; a dry solid field gives 1-in-13. Planting every block halves your growth points, and hydration is worth more than layout.
Custom paintings and discs need two packs, and installing one of them is the usual failure
The datapack registers the content; the resource pack supplies the texture and the sound. Datapack alone and it registers with nothing to show. Plus the 16×16 limit and what disc length really controls.
Eighteen trim patterns, fourteen places, and only one that drops from a mob
Trail Ruins gives four of the eighteen. Tide is the only pattern that is not loot. And duplicating a template is a crafting table, not a smithing one — with two exceptions.
Eight items have exactly one way in, and three have a way that exists only for them
Nether Star is the only Boss Drop, Dragon Egg the only One-Time item, Command Block the only unobtainable one. Plus the eight things no chest, craft, trade or cat will ever give you.
Horse breeding: two perfect parents still cannot guarantee a perfect foal
The foal centres on the parents' midpoint, but the spread carries a floor of 0.3 × the stat range no matter how identical the parents are. That term never goes away.