Top 10 Most Useful Minecraft Items
God knows most items are useful but which ones are the MOST useful?
If you want to progress in Minecraft at all, you need wood. Even if you have hundreds of diamonds, if you want to make tools, you need wood.
Wood can also be used to make charcoal, which is a good fuel supply, and wood itself is already a fuel. Bottom line: if you want to get anywhere in Minecraft, you need wood, PERIOD!
When you first spawn in Minecraft, you chop down wood. Why? Because it is the base of EVERYTHING you need in the game (except food).
When you spawn in Minecraft, you don't go picking flowers, do you?
Without wood, you can't do ANYTHING. It's the beginning of the resource chain. It goes: Wood pickaxe, cobblestone pickaxe, iron pickaxe, diamond pickaxe, and then you can mine anything.
It wouldn't be Minecraft without a crafting table.
P.S. You grab wood because you have to make a crafting table. After that, it's planks and sticks. They're pretty useful, but nothing beats the workbench!
No, isn't this first? You really can't do anything in Survival without this. Though after you use wood, you really can't do anything without it.
Although you need wood for it, without a crafting table, wood is pretty much useless. With it, you can make tools, items, and a vast number of other things.
It destroys most blocks in a split second!
Weak, but it is fast and has better enchants.
Not super important. On your first night, a stone pickaxe will do fine for fending off baddies.
A good pickaxe is more versatile, but swords are good at what they do.
Of course, we need swords for protection. We need them to fight zombies or any other hostile mobs.
A sword can save your life and is worth your life. A sword saves you from mobs.
Of course we need chests! When our inventory is filled up, we'll need to put our items in chests. If we find some special things like lapis, diamonds, or emeralds, we won't have enough storage in our inventory and won't be able to collect them.
In case of accidentally dying on a mining adventure, these are absolute life savers.
So I don't have to deal with NIGHT!
Wow, why did I actually think I could survive in Survival Hard? Actually, I was doing pretty well until my sister wanted our mom to play, and she blew up our three-story house and killed the wolves.
A bed and wood! Wood so you can get these going, and a bed so you can easily continue building! Also, beds are really cool when you make bunk beds.
A bed can make another spawn point, but no bed means no making a different spawn point in Minecraft.
Crainer is right - dirt equals life. Trees only spawn on dirt, and without trees, there's no wood. If there's no wood, you can't do anything.
Also, most passive mobs spawn on dirt (the only exception being the rabbit, which can also spawn on sand in deserts).
Wood is #1 on this list, eh? Well, without dirt, how can a tree grow? Without trees, you have no wood.
Good luck surviving without dirt. It sounds dumb, but it is extremely useful.
Tell me, do you want green plants and woods growing on them?
Or do you want them to grow on stones?
Cobblestone is a necessity. You use it to make a furnace, tools, and pickaxes for endless mining!
Wooden Planks are the things you use to make items like Wooden Trapdoors, Wood Stairs, Wood Doors, Beds, Sticks, Wooden Swords, Pistons, Boats, Wooden Pressure Plates, Note Blocks, Signs, Wood Slabs, Wooden Shovels, Bowls, Crafting Tables, Fence Gates, Wooden Hoes, Wood Fences, Jukeboxes, Wooden Buttons, Bookshelves, Chests, Wooden Axes, Shields, Tripwire Hooks, and Wooden Pickaxes.
You can also use wooden planks as fuel in the furnace and as a tool repair item in the anvil.
If you wear Diamond Boots enchanted with Feather Falling IV, you won't take as much fall damage. If your Diamond Boots are also enchanted with Depth Strider III, you'll be able to swim in water much faster. I recommend Depth Strider III over Frost Walker II, but it depends on what you're doing.
The reason diamonds are last is because they aren't necessary. Sure, they make the best tools in the game, but they are the hardest to obtain. I'd rather have iron picks than one diamond pick. The only two main uses of diamonds are obtaining obsidian with a diamond pick and crafting an enchantment table.
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Honestly, they're cool for many uses: healing, fire resistance, jump boost in 1.8, killing mobs, trolling (laugh out loud, so good), poison, and regen - especially.
Iron is very common and about half as useful as diamond. So, two iron picks are about as good as a diamond pick, except that only a diamond pick can mine obsidian.
Iron is somewhat tough. Not as tough as diamond, but unlike diamond, iron is also quite common.
Guys, you are all missing the point! What is one thing you use in almost every cool thing? Iron!
You cannot smelt ore without it and, therefore, never advance beyond wood or stone tools.
To mine diamonds, you need iron, and to get iron, you need to smelt it!
You can't get iron without a furnace unless you find a loot chest, like in a dungeon, mob spawner, or a villager blacksmith's building.
They are the most useful block! If you are in an ocean with no islands in sight, the only thing that can save you is the command block. You don't need anything to get it, and it can give you all items - ALL OF THEM! This should be in the top 2. It even gives you rare mobs and small to huge houses. It can also spawn hilarious mobs and cheer you up.
Minecraft would be awful without the command block.
Command blocks are very useful and can give you almost everything.
I have used command blocks on ALL of my creative maps. Sadly, you cannot use them in Survival. To get one, type "/give @p command_block" in chat.
You can get charcoal by burning wood in a furnace or with a flint and steel in the forest.
Good for enchantment tables and portals, plus it's TNT-proof for houses.
No, no, no, no! I don't want to go to the Nether, but I also want to enchant stuff.
Torches, comparators, repeaters, pistons, hoppers, buttons, and levers are all needed if you want to add automation to a farm.
You will lose track of where your home is quite easily without one.
Look, without the torch, you're going to be wandering blindly around on your first night, riding with zombies, creepers, and more.
Need light? Then get some coal or charcoal (smelted wood) and a stick, and boom! You've got light! Burn mobs!
Why is this in place 19? It should be number 5 or so...
Not for tools! For food! Gold (or butter) can make the glistering melon, golden apple, and golden carrot. It can also be used to craft gold blocks, light-weighted pressure plates, powered rails, and clocks. Phew! That's a lot. And also, gold armor is better than no armor or leather armor!
Gold is one of the most valuable resources in Minecraft, but its name has been hijacked by Sky's fanboys.
Sky: What's gold?
Fanboy: IT'S NOT GOLD, IT'S BUTTER, YOU DUMB SQUID!
With gold, you can make enchanted golden apples, golden carrots (for night vision potions), and clocks.
Water is needed to grow food, and most auto-farming and monster traps work with water and redstone.
A water bucket can save your life from fall damage, lava, fire damage, and it can be used for making stone and obsidian.
The Notch Apple can save your life in almost any situation.
Used for pickaxes to mine iron, which is needed to make buckets and get milk to make cake!
Often underestimated, the stick is used in many Minecraft recipes.
If bedrock didn't exist, trolls would rule so many servers.