How-To guides — page 2

Where every body part sits on a Java skin, which areas the game forces opaque, why slim or classic is an account setting and not a pixel, and how to put the skin on.

The frame rules from the 26.3 code: 10 to 84 obsidian, what may sit inside, where it lights, how far each side searches, and the End portal's 12 eyes.

Saddles became craftable in Java 1.21.6, and the same update pulled them from five loot tables. The recipe, where saddles still drop, and the 11 mobs that wear one.

Six planks and one iron ingot make a shield in 26.3. What it blocks, what passes through it, why an axe disables it for 5 seconds, and how to add a banner.

Smooth stone is cobblestone smelted twice, and a blast furnace cannot do either step. The 26.3 recipes, the fuel for a stack, and the Silk Touch shortcut.

The official free trial, Minecraft Classic and the Realms trial — plus what the Java demo does, read from its code: 100 minutes, one fixed world and a reset button.

The three ways Java players join each other, as 26.3 has them: the new World Options screen that replaced Open to LAN, running your own server, and Realms.

Ten enchantments fit a sword in 26.3, and three of them exclude each other. The damage, fire and loot numbers from the enchantment files, and the set worth building.