Minecraft: guides, crafting, seeds and redstone

From your first night to automated farms: recipes, enchantments, working seeds, redstone builds and explanations of what the game never tells you.

Tools

  • Nether Portal Coordinate Calculator

    Enter your coordinates and the calculator works out the matching point in the other dimension, plus the square the game will search for an existing portal.

  • Enchantment Calculator

    Pick a bookshelf count and the calculator shows the range each of the three slots can cost in experience levels.

  • Circle and Sphere Generator

    Set the diameters and the generator lays out the shape block by block, then counts how many blocks the whole thing takes.

  • Mob Spawning Calculator

    Enter the distance, the light levels and the number of active chunks, and the calculator tells you whether mobs will spawn and how many the cap will hold.

  • Potion (Brewing) Calculator

    Pick a potion effect, its variant and its form — the calculator lays out the recipe step by step and works out the exact duration.

  • Coordinate / Chunk / Region Calculator

    Enter X, Y, Z and the calculator instantly shows the chunk, the region, the save file and the block position inside each of them.

  • Experience (XP) / Level Calculator

    Pick what you're entering — a level or a total XP amount — and the calculator works out the other value, your progress toward the next level, and the gap to a target level.

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