The painting of the two martial artists is from the game International Karate+.
Obsidian is a block that takes fifteen to fifty seconds to collect. It requires fifteen seconds with a diamond pickaxe, and fifty seconds with everything else. If you are aiming to make a near-indestructible building or structure, obsidian is your best choice. Sometimes it is naturally occurring, but often times it must be manually made. First, you will need to find flat lava that is not flowing. Then, collect water with a bucket and put the water onto the lava. Alternately, find flat water and collect lava. A blackish-purplish block should appear. This is obsidian, and requires a long time to collect. It is much easier to just spawn obsidian, but you will need a mod to be able to spawn it in single player mode.
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Note: This was done in Minecraft 1.9 Prerelease 3. The added, purposeless ingredients that have been in version 1.9pre1 and version 1.9pre2 can now be crafted into different kinds of potions for version 1.9pre3, which indicates that this system may remain mostly the same on release. However, all information is subject to change. In order to even make potions, a visit to The Nether is necessary. Certain required ingredients can only be had there.
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With the base ingredients obtained, potions now require some explanation. Potions are multi-step items, requiring different ingredients to produce different effects. While there are three different type of bases, the one that matters at this time is the Awkward Potion, which is made by using a Brewing Stand to brew bottle(s) of water with a Nether Wart. Up to three can be made, so you may as well not waste Nether Wart and make three potion bases, every time. To begin making useful potions, you need non-base potion ingredients. Some require even more steps. Below are details of the non-base ingredients, including what they yield when brewed with an Awkward Potion. Additionally, the Fermented Spider Eye can be combined with other potions to produce negative effect potions.
These potions can also be enhanced into Tier II potions by brewing them with Glowstone Dust (obtained from The Nether), and their length of effect can be enhanced with Redstone Dust (obtained from main world). Additionally, without making the Awkward Potion, the (currently useless) Thick Potion can be made from Glowstone Dust, and the (currently useless) Mundane Potion from Redstone Dust.
New players often like to explore, but when it comes to calling an end to exploration, especially in an abandoned mine, they get lost and end up somewhere totally different, away from home. Short of remembering where you last slept and copying the X, Y and Z values for future editing back to spawn/preferred place, use the following tricks to never get lost.
In multiplayer mode, press T to open the talk/chat function. Then type /give
Many Minecraft players like to play a free-for-all game called "Spleef." Basically two or more players create a square stadium (maybe about fifteen to twenty blocks long or wide) that is floating or above lava or water. The object of the game is to destroy the blocks (stone and dirt are best) around your opponents either with or without tools. Players can choose whatever tools to use, however you can set rules (for example, no diamond pickaxes). The players are supposed to try and make their opponents fall through the stadium, and therefore be eliminated. The last player standing is the winner.