How to Build a Brick Fireplace With a Chimney in Minecraft - Making a Brick Fireplace with a Chimney

1. Dig out a 2 brick by 4 brick hole up to the ceiling on an exterior wall of your base.

2. Dig out the 2 bricks on the floor in the center of the hole you just made.

3. Line the hole with brick blocks. Place 2 netherrack in the floor holes and cover the rest of the fireplace 1 block deeper, if you want a fireplace escape route make the fireplace either 1x2x3 or 2x2x3(these dimensions are: height x width x length/back) with a hallway that leads somewhere safe(to be extra safe add a sword or bow and arrows) and a minecart behind where the flame will be.(it will work even if the fire is... flaming, but just in case add some water 7 blocks away)

4. Extend the chimney as high as you want out of the side of your base.

5. Light up the netherrack with your flint and steel to complete your fireplace.

How to Build a Brick Fireplace With a Chimney in Minecraft - Making Brick Blocks for Your Fireplace

While a fireplace has no specific function in Minecraft, it adds a nice touch to your home. Follow this guide to learn how to build a brick fireplace with a chimney in Minecraft.

1. Mine clay blocks. You can obtain clay blocks from shallow water, and you should mine them with a shovel.

2. Break your clay blocks into 4 clay balls. Add a clay ball and a fuel source, like coal, to your furnace, to smelt bricks.

3. Craft bricks into brick blocks by placing 4 bricks into your crafting spots.

How to Bring Your Minecraft World to Life

After playing the same world for hundreds of hours, your house and world may begin to look like the same old stuff over and over again. If your world looks boring and stale, follow this guide to bring it to life!

1. Get a new texture pack. Sometimes, it not your creations that are boring in your world, but simply the way the look. Search a few community websites like Planetminecraft for a texture pack that suits you.

2. Make Furniture. No house or world would be complete without a few personal things for your character to use. Some easy things to build include:
- Couches. Put two stairs next to each other and a sign on either side of the stairs.
- Sinks. Put a hopper down with a an iron block under it.
- Toilets. Put a cauldron down, and a trapdoor on top of it. Put two iron blocks behind the cauldron, and a lever on the side of the top iron block.
- Tables. Put a fence post down and a pressure pad on top of it.

3. Redo your house. Is that one story wood house boring you? Try building a new, bigger one with new supplies! Stone bricks can bring out the detail in houses, and wood blocks look better than planks for corners! Experiment with different combinations of materials until you think the house suits you.

4. Play with other players. You don't spend all your time alone in real life do you? Have a friends or two over and create something together, it will take half the time and will mean a lot more to you.

5. Add foliage. In the real world, houses don't just have a door and then the empty world. Add a few leaf blocks next to your door and some flowers near your garden. Add a path from your front door to a place, add a pond in your backyard, make anything you want!

How to Breed Horses in Minecraft

When you finally get a horse in Minecraft and bring it back to your base, you might be content for a while. However, what if your friend needs one or if yours is hurt? Or maybe you want a horse with better stats. You need to start a horse ranch and breed some more horses.

1. Get 2 adult horses or donkeys that have not bred in the last 5 minutes. Pick them based on traits you want the offspring to have. The stats of the two parents will be averaged along with random stats of one imaginary horse. A horse and donkey can breed, resulting in a mule. However the mule will be sterile and unable to breed itself.

2. Get 2 of either: golden apple or golden carrot. Golden apples cost about 900% more gold (72 nuggets compared to 8 nuggets) than golden carrots, so golden carrots are recommended. Which one you use will not affect the offspring.
- Golden apples or carrots can be crafted by surrounding a carrot with gold nuggets, or an apple with gold ingots, in a workbench.

3. Feed a golden apple or carrot to both horses.

4. Wait for about a minute. Leave them alone.

5. Enjoy your new foal.
- It will take approximately twenty minutes for the foal to reach adulthood (if the chunk is loaded), but this can be sped up. To make the foal grow faster, feed it hay bales, wheat, sugar, apples, golden apples, and golden carrots. To make the foal instantly grow up, feed it five golden apples (20 golden ingots), or seven hay bales (63 wheat), or 60 wheat, or 64 sugar, or 24 golden carrots (21 and 1/3 golden ingots), or 20 apples. There is an intermediate stage between the foal and the adult, which looks like an adult, but you can't ride the horse yet.

How to Breed Animals in Minecraft - Chicken egg breeding

1. Collect eggs from wild chickens. The more you collect, the better but at least 32 are needed.

2. Create an enclosure wherever you want to place the chicken farm.

3. Throw eggs into the enclosure. To do this, right-click with eggs selected. About one in every 4 eggs thrown will spawn a baby chicken. 1 in every 32 eggs thrown can hatch 4 chicks.

4. Baby chickens will grow up to be adult chickens, which lay eggs. Collect the eggs.

5. Please repeat steps 1-4 until satisfied!

How to Breed Animals in Minecraft - Using A Fence

Since Minecraft 1.3.1, breeding animals has been hard. This article will help.

1. Build a fence. The bigger you make it, the more space your animals have to move around. You will also have more space to get in or out without the animals instantly getting out.

2. Get seeds for chickens; wheat for cows, mooshrooms, and sheep; golden apple/golden carrot for horses and mules; raw fish for cats; carrots for pigs; any kind of meat (except fish) for wolves. Wolves can also eat rotten flesh from zombies.

3. Put your fence down in squares.

4. Lure each animal into the fenced area by holding their respective bait.

5. Give two animals of the same species their bait, and they will enter love mode.

6. You will notice that a baby has popped out.

How to Breed a Cow in Minecraft

Breeding cows is a handy skill in minecraft and will make it much easier to obtain beef and leather.

1. Capture two adult cows. You can get them to follow you by holding wheat in your hand.

2. Fence them in.

3. Breed the cows. Do this by holding the wheat in your hand and right-clicking on one of the cows, until one wheat has disappeared. Repeat with the other cow.

4. You now have a baby cow.[Image:Breed a Cow in Minecraft Step 4 Version 2.jpg|center]]