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Survival Roadmap — Start Here
The hub that links every BlockPedia guide in the right order. New world? Begin here.
🛡️Combat & Bosses Hub
The combat-readiness hub: the exact enchantments, potions and mobility you need before the End.
✨The Complete Enchanting Guide
Bookshelf setup, best enchantments for every item, anvil combining order, and how to get Mending without going broke.
⚗️Potion Brewing Guide & Full Chart
Every brewable potion with ingredients, durations and modifier paths — plus a searchable brewing chart.
⛏️How to Find Netherite Fast
The best Y level for ancient debris, bed-mining safely, smithing templates, and exactly how much you need for a full kit.
💎Diamond Mining Guide (1.21+)
Post-1.18 ore distribution, the optimal branch-mining layout, lava survival, and when to use Fortune vs Silk Touch.
💚Villager Trading Guide
The best trades in every profession, the Mending lectern reroll, and how zombie curing stacks discounts down to 1 emerald.
🐉How to Beat the Ender Dragon
Full prep checklist, crystal-destroying order, the bed explosion trick, and what to loot first in the outer End.
🏭Simple Iron Farm Guide
Three villagers, one zombie, hundreds of iron per hour — the classic compact design with a full troubleshooting list.
💀Mob Farm Guide (Gunpowder & XP)
Spawn rules, a buildable dark-room tower, the right AFK spot, expected rates, and what to do with the loot.
🦅Elytra Flight Guide
Grab the wings from the End ship, fly with firework rockets, and repair them with membranes or Mending.
🌀Trial Chambers Guide (1.21)
Beat the Breeze, clear Trial Spawners for keys, open Vaults, and craft the Mace with a Heavy Core.
🐚End City & Shulker Box
Find End Cities, farm Shulker Shells, and build portable 27-slot storage that keeps its loot.
🌾Automatic Crop Farm
A farmer villager that harvests and replants — hands-free wheat, carrots and potatoes.
📊Ore Distribution 1.21
Best Y level for every ore on one depth chart — coal to ancient debris, with a spawn table.
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Actually tested
Every number on this site — Y levels, durations, XP formulas — is verified in a vanilla survival world before it goes live.
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Guides are built around tables and charts you can skim mid-game. Get the answer, get back to playing.
Kept current
We re-verify mechanics after each major update and stamp every guide with its last-tested version.