How-To guides

Villager breeding from the 26.3 code: what counts as food, the free bed within 48 blocks, the hours they are willing, and why a failed attempt still eats the food.

The mace is two items on a crafting table, but the heavy core drops from just 7.5% of ominous vaults. The recipe, the odds and the smash formula from the 26.3 code.

The cure from the 26.3 code: which potion and apple, how long it takes, why iron bars and beds barely speed it up, and exactly how big the trading discount is.

Every way to leave the ground in Java 26.3, from the code: elytra flight time, what Unbreaking does to it, rocket boost lengths, riptide and the happy ghast.

Nearly every egg comes from a chicken, on a timer in the 26.3 code: the three egg colours and their biomes, the odds of hatching a chick, and what eggs are for.

/locate, explorer maps, Eyes of Ender and dolphins all search a limited range. The real ranges from the 26.3 code, and why /locate misses buried treasure nearby.

The 26.3 banner recipe, the 42 patterns a loom can add and the 10 that need a pattern item, where each item comes from, and how to copy, undo and map-mark a banner.

The 26.3 cake recipe: three milk buckets that come back empty, any of the three eggs, and seven slices with less saturation than one loaf of bread.

Seven sticks make three ladders in 26.3. What a stack costs in logs, where a ladder refuses to hang, and the climbing and sliding speeds from the game code.

The lead recipe dropped its slime ball in Java 1.21.6. The 26.3 recipe, where string comes from, what a lead can hold, and the distances that pull and snap it.