Minecraft guides — page 3
Practical write-ups on commands, datapacks, building and server performance — each one paired with the tool that does the work.
Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 1: Vulkan default, sulfur caves in old worlds
What the first 26.4 snapshot changes, from Mojang's changelog and our diff of its jar against 26.3: 1,525 data files touched, 1,499 of them only a version stamp.
Minecraft sword enchantments: all 10, what each adds, the best set
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.
A Bedrock addon is a zip, and the manifest is why it fails
Most rejected .mcaddon imports are a valid zip with one wrong header line, and the error message never names the field that broke it.
A litematic hides its real cost until you expand the recipes
A schematic lists blocks, not materials. Nine blocks of planks is not nine logs, and the gap between the two is where most gathering plans fail.
A Shulker Box Holds Exactly Half a Double Chest
Twenty-seven stacks fit in a shulker box, so a full double chest is exactly two of them — and redstone timing has a matching trap.
A sphere costs far more blocks than it looks
A diameter-eleven sphere is a hollow shell of a few hundred blocks but a solid one of several hundred more, and the gap only widens.
An mrpack is a zip that lies about being a zip
Renaming a .mrpack to .zip gives you a manifest and overrides folder, not the mods — the jars live on Modrinth's CDN and are fetched by hash.
Exit code is not a crash reason, it is a shrug
The number tells you nothing. The line above it tells you everything, and it is already sitting in your logs folder.
Matching a colour to a Minecraft block is harder than it looks
Two blocks can look identical in RGB and completely different on a wall, because the game shades every face it renders.
Paintings are matched by shape, not by size you pick
Most custom painting packs fail because the artwork's aspect ratio does not match any slot. Here is how matching actually works.