Minecraft guides — page 6
Practical write-ups on commands, datapacks, building and server performance — each one paired with the tool that does the work.
Damage types: which 19 ignore armour, and why shields are the weaker guard
26.3 ships 51 damage types. 19 bypass armour, 30 bypass shields, and the overlap is not what people assume — every type that beats armour also beats a shield.
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.
Enchantment conflicts: only 21 of 43 conflict with anything, and six do most of it
26.3 ships 43 enchantments. 22 conflict with nothing at all, level 3 is the most common cap, and Curse of Vanishing applies to more items than any other enchantment.
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.
Slim or classic: the game reads your account, and a tool has to guess from 24 pixels
The game takes slim or classic from your account's skin setting, not the PNG. A tool given a bare PNG has to guess from two columns a slim arm leaves empty. Plus the full UV map and why legacy 64×32 skins get mirrored.
A map pixel is one byte, and two of its bits are brightness
61 base colours × 4 shades = 244 colours from a 16,384-byte array. Only one of the four shades is the colour's full value; the other three are darkened to 86%, 71% and 53%.
Gold is the fastest tool in Minecraft, and netherite is only 12% faster than diamond
Tool speed multipliers run 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 — and gold sits at 12, above netherite. The upgrade you grind for is the smallest step on the ladder.
Negative coordinates break chunk maths in two places, not one
Truncating division puts block −1 in chunk 0 instead of −1, and a plain % gives an in-chunk offset of −1 instead of 15. Both are off, and both look right until you go west of spawn.
Only the head is a cube — every other papercraft part is three different rectangles
Six parts, 36 faces, 1,632 square skin-pixels of paper. The head's six faces are identical; the body's come in three sizes; the arms and legs in two. That decides how each net folds.