Operation Manual

Improving Your Tools
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FIGURE 3.3 The Debug HUD provides a lot of cryptic information but can also
help you navigate home .
1. Your location in blocks east of your original spawn point. Blocks west are shown as a negative.
2. Your current vertical height in layers above bedrock.
3. Your location in blocks south of your original spawn point. Blocks north are shown as a negative.
4. The current biome type.
When you need to return, and I should warn you that this can take some experimentation
and a little practice, turn and take a few steps while noting the change in values of your
current coordinates. Shift those x and z values back toward the coordinates you originally
recorded. You’ll probably wander around a bit, but eventually you’ll get there.
Improving Your Tools
Wooden tools wear out fast, so it’s best to upgrade your kit as quickly as possible.
Each type of material has a different level of durability. Think of durability as the number of
useful actions the tool can perform before wearing out completely and disappearing from
the inventory. I’ve included the durability in parentheses after each material’s description:
Q Gold (33)—Although this is the least durable material, a gold pickaxe can break blocks
out of most softer materials in the blink of an eye, and it happens to be the most
enchantable material, so you can imbue it with superpowers (see Chapter 10). But given
that gold is about 5 times as rare as iron and can be used to craft many other useful
items, I wouldn’t recommend using it for tools.
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