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Minecraft Holy Bible: Guide to Every Achievement

Minecraft had achievements added in its 1.5 update, and while most of the achievements are easy to unlock, a few of the later ones can be tricky. This guide is like a Minecraft Holy Bible and will outline how to unlock every achievement in the guide, with helpful tips and a step by step walkthrough for each one.

Taking Inventory

This is the very first Minecraft achievement that you can get and simply requires you to open your inventory. Press the “i” button and you’ll unlock this achievement. Once you’ve earned this achievement, you can unlock ‘Getting Wood’.

Getting Wood

This is relatively straightforward. Walk up to a tree, and punch it with your hand until you collect a block of wood. Trees can be found pretty much everywhere, and there should be a bunch around your starting area. Once you’ve earned this achievement, you can unlock ‘Benchmarking’.

Benchmarking

This is also pretty easy to unlock. Open your inventory, and place the Minecraft wooden block into your crafting box. It will turn into four wooden planks. Take these planks and fill every square in your crafting box with one wooden plank. This will make a workbench and earn you the achievement, which allows you to unlock ‘Time to Strike!’, ‘Time to Farm!’, and ‘Time to Mine!’, the three paths of Minecraft achievements.

The Time to Farm Path

The first achievement, titled ‘Time to Farm!’, requires you to make a wooden hoe. This can be done by collecting another wooden block and turning it into wooden planks in your inventory. Take two of the wooden planks, and place one over the other in your crafting box to create wooden sticks. Then, on your crafting table, place a stick in the centre box and the bottom middle box. Then, place your two remaining wooden planks in the top middle and the top left box to craft a hoe. This will earn you the achievement, and allow you to unlock ‘Bake Bread’ and ‘The Lie’.
The second achievement, ‘Bake Bread’, requires you to make a loaf of bread. In order to do this, first you must find some tall grass, which is fairly common, spawning on grass-covered dirt blocks. Use your hands or the hoe that you just crafted to break the grass until you have three seeds. Then, use the hoe on three dirt blocks (it doesn’t matter if they are grass-covered or not) to turn them into farmland. Hold the seeds and right click on each block. You then have to wait anywhere from 1-3 in game days until the seeds grow into wheat, which you can then harvest by left-clicking. Place the wheat in a full vertical row on the crafting table to make bread and earn the Minecraft achievement.
The third and final achievement in this tier or this Minecraft Holy Bible guide, ‘The Lie’ is one of the hardest to earn. You must craft 3 buckets out of iron bars, which are made by using a furnace (made out of 8 stone blocks arranged on a crafting table with the centre empty) to smelt iron ore. Arrange these bars so that the middle right and left slots on the crafting table are filled, as well as the bottom middle. Then use each bucket on a cow to fill them with milk. Harvest three wheat using the procedure listed in the above achievement, and then follow a chicken until it lays an egg. Then, you need to find two sugar canes, which can be found on dirt blocks that are adjacent to water. Harvest them with your hands and then craft them into sugar by placing the stack into any single crafting slot. Then, arrange the ingredients on the crafting table so milk buckets fill the entire top row, the centre slot is the egg, with the sugar in the middle left and right slots, and the wheat making up the entire bottom row. This will craft a cake, and earn you the Minecraft achievement.

BONUS TIP: If you want to find more Minecraft guides and tutorials, you should check this The Unofficial Holy Bible for Minecrafters.

Time to Strike Path

Let’s continue with the Minecraft Holy Bible Achievement Guide. The first achievement in this tier is ‘Time to Strike’ and is earned by creating a wooden sword. To do this, collect another wooden block from a tree, and turn it into wooden planks. Create wooden sticks, and then one of the sticks on the bottom middle slot with two wooden planks directly above it in a horizontal column to earn the achievement, and unlock ‘Cow Tipper’ and ‘Monster Hunter.’
‘Cow Tipper’ requires you to harvest some leather from a cow. Find a cow, which shouldn’t be hard as they usually spawn out in the open fairly regularly. Equip your sword, and attack the cow; it should take three hits with a wooden sword to kill it. If the cow drops leather, you’ll earn the achievement and unlock ‘When Pigs Fly’. If it doesn’t drop any leather, keep killing cows until you get leather.
‘When Pigs Fly’ is earned by first finding a saddle. These can be found in dungeons, which can be found underground in caves. Once you find a dungeon, illuminate it with torches so that the monster spawner will stop spawning monsters to attack you. Then, look in the chests to see if you found a saddle. You may have to raid more than one dungeon to find the saddle. Once you’ve found the saddle, put it on a pig that is near a cliff by right-clicking with the saddle. Then, throw a snowball (found by breaking snow with a shovel) on it from point-blank range and ride the pig by right-clicking on it so that the pig will fly off the cliff while you ride it. Make sure that the cliff doesn’t end in water, or you won’t earn this Minecraft achievement.
‘Monster Hunter’ Minecraft achievement requires you to kill any aggressive monster (which means pigs, cows, and chickens won’t count). This is easily done by staying outdoors during the night and repeatedly hitting a zombie with your sword until it dies. Stay away from creepers, which will explode and deal a lot of damage to you. Setting the difficulty to easy is a helpful way to get this achievement if you’re having trouble killing enemies.

Minecraft Holy Bible of achievement guides

Time to Mine Tier

How do you like this Minecraft Holy Bible type of comprehensive guide? Let’s continue, the first achievement requires you to make a wooden pickaxe. In order to do this, collect two wooden blocks, and turn them into wooden planks. Create wooden sticks by placing a plank above another plank to make four sticks. Then, place two wooden sticks in the centre and bottom middle crafting table slots and wooden planks in the top vertical row. You’ll earn the achievement, and unlock ‘Getting an Upgrade’ and ‘Hot Topic’.
‘Getting an Upgrade’ requires you to craft a pickaxe that isn’t made of wood. The easiest way to earn this achievement is to use your wooden pickaxe to mine three stone blocks, and then replace the wooden planks in the above method with the stone blocks to create a stone pickaxe and earn the achievement.
‘Hot Topic’ is earned by creating a furnace, which was needed to earn the cake achievement (‘The Lie’, when creating the buckets). Simply create a furnace by arranging stone blocks on your crafting table so that every slot is filled but the centre slot, and you’ll earn this achievement and unlock ‘Delicious Fish’ and ‘Acquire Hardware’.
For ‘Delicious Fish’, you must create a fishing rod. To do this, you must kill spiders, either during the day or night, to collect two strings. Then, arrange wooden sticks in a diagonal line on the crafting table, with the bottom left slot, the centre slot, and the top right slot filled with the sticks. Place the two strings in the middle right and bottom right slots to craft a fishing rod. Then, catch a fish by casting the fishing rod in the water until a splash is made. Then, right click to reel in the catch. With good timing, you can catch a fish, which is then cooked in your furnace to earn the achievement.
‘Acquire Hardware’ is another achievement that would have been earned in ‘The Lie’, as it requires you to find iron ore and smelt it into an iron bar with your furnace. Simply mine downwards, or look in caves to find iron ore, which is an orange/beige colour and requires a stone or better pickaxe to mine (wooden pickaxes won’t work). Smelt the ore in your furnace to earn this achievement, and unlock ‘On a Rail’.
This is by far the hardest achievement to earn in Minecraft, but with a little effort and a lot of iron, it can be done. In order to earn ‘On a Rail’, you must travel 1000 blocks (the equivalent of 1km in real life) in a rail cart. Sixteen rails are built using six iron bars, with three in horizontal columns on both the left and right sides, and a single wooden stick in the centre slot. You need 378 iron bars and 63 sticks to create the necessary amount of rails. Lay all the rails in a straight line, so that it covers 1000 blocks. Then, build two mine carts by filling the bottom vertical row of the crafting table, as well as the middle left and right slots with iron bars twice. Two mine carts require ten iron bars. Then, build another furnace (see ‘Hot Topic’) and place it in the centre slot of the crafting table. Then, take one of the mine carts and place it in the bottom middle slot to craft a powered minecart. Place the powered minecart behind the regular minecart on the tracks, and power the powered minecart using fuel (any form of wood, or coal, which works best) to push you along the rails. If you don’t earn the achievement once you’ve completed the journey, add a few more rails and try again.

Summary

That is the complete, comprehensive guide, something like Minecraft Holy Bible on unlocking every single achievement in Minecraft, going even further in detail than the Minecraft Wiki and based on personal experience with the game. With patience and the steps and tips outlined in this guide, you’ll be able to unlock every achievement in the game within a few hours of gameplay. You will also be well on your way to discovering Diamonds and making your way to the Nether.

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How to make a Spiral Staircase in Minecraft

Minecraft is a game without clear rules set and in which the player can build anything he wants. You came here to find out how to make a spiral staircase in Minecraft, but this phenomenal game deserved a decent introduction.

In Minecraft you can start in your own world where you can find yourself in a variety of environments: there are swamps, mountains, deserts, forests, plains, rainforests, snowy landscapes, lakes… From the Overworld, your starting dimension, you can jump in to the Nether, a hellish landscape of doom and dimension filled with lava, fire and many hostile creatures. In that terrifying dimension there is a dragon that will try to kill you. Not only the dragon but also many other “bad guys”.

Your progress through the game will be rewarded. You can play alone or with others. You can play in a safe “Creative mode” and enjoy exploring and building, or in the “Survival mode”, where you will constantly fight monsters that will attack you as soon as it gets dark. It’s up to you what kind of adventure you decide on.

In creative mode players have an unlimited number of all kinds of blocks and build whatever they want and how they want. There are no monsters in this mode and the players are immortal. This is a game mode for creativity, as the name suggests. The second is a form of survival that is like a single player game, but with one difference – you are not alone.

Minecraft is constantly evolving

This, of course, reveals a whole new face of Minecraft, in what environment you will find yourself, depending on the type of server you connect to. On some servers the payers are interacting just for the sake of trading, collaborating, and showing off their own talent. This is the most widespread form of multiplayer game in Minecraft and often these servers turn into giant cities and continents of massive and extensive buildings.

Players are divided into teams, even clans on some servers and build fortresses and cities. They fight each other as well. On some servers it is night all the time and all players spend time surviving, fighting or running away from monsters. Minecraft is not easy to describe, and everything it offers is hard to summarize. This is a game that is constantly evolving and getting new content. People who see images from Minecraft for the first time, they only see the bad graphics. People without imagination automatically discard it, however players who give it a chance, and especially younger players and older creative players, once they play Minecraft, they fall in love with it.

After this unusually long prologue, I will help you resolve your issue. You wanted to know how to make a spiral staircase in Minecraft? There are several ways of doing it. There is a simple way, there are some more creative ways and there is an option to build spiral staircase with a little help with some external tool.

Is it difficult to learn how to make a spiral staircase in Minecraft?

Just like in the real life, creating spiral staircase in Minecraft is intention to make something really spectacular. And it requires a lot of planning if you want to make it right. Of course, don’t hope that you will make a masterpiece in your first attempt. You have to practice and be creative. Then the result will be spectacular.

We saw many cases where a novice made even better spiral staircases than an experience Minecrafter. The most basic designs are actually a combination of full size and half slabs. You have to combine it with larger platforms in order to make the turns on your way up.

There is a reason why many people want to learn how to make a spiral staircase in Minecraft and why is so popular. You are aware that these are the worlds where straight lines dominate. And in these worlds spiral staircases are offering some attractive curves that you won’t see much in the game.

Basic Spiral Staircase

✅ You should put support pillar first and go up with it as long as you like. You can use different materials to make your support pillar, you will probably want to take something nice and shiny.

✅ Start placing slab at the floor and continue with block next to it. Then continue with this pattern of slabs and blocks until you reach the top of your stairs. You won’t need to hop on this stairs, just walk up.

✅ When you are building these stairs, be careful about positions. Slab have to be just half block above the block and every combination need to be the same size.

✅You can also start with stairs that the staircase goes up by one on each side and you can leave the corners empty at the beginning.

✅ Then you use upside down stairs against the stairs you already used. It will level up at the corners. You can combine the different types of stairs, it’s up to you.

BONUS TIP: You can use a smooth stone slab in your plan to build the spiral staircase. If you don’t know how to make a smooth stone, we prepared a guide for you.

Advanced Spiral Staircase

Try to build the inner radius of your new staircase very steep. Then build outwards, but you have to make sure each step is the same size. The steps will be larger as you are approaching the outer radius. Make sure they all point towards the centre of your spiral.

Have you ever used a Circle generator? This is the one thing that might help. Create a series of concentric circles radiating out from the center and using that as a guide to place the stair blocks or slabs.

DID YOU KNOW: The creator of this generator said: “Playing Minecraft, I like making circular things. I used a chart while I was building, but wanted to be able to make variable size ovals which is something I couldn’t find a decent chart of or generator capable of, so I created this!”

Also, beside considering the diameter, knowing the vertical distance between the floors is also very important. If you use slabs, the number of steps between the landings will be 2n-1, which need to be divided up evenly. In that case if floor 1 is at Y=70 and floor 2 is at Y=78, you’ll have 15 steps that you need to divide up evenly along the curve sweep. If you have connecting landings at both floors, it could affect the size of the stairs between.

Well, one thing is true – you can make spiral staircase in Minecraft on many different ways, but you have to follow some building rules and to be creative. If you are just starting, go with basic staircases and then try to make something more spectacular. Check the Circle generator, plan wisely and be patient. At the end of the day, you will have the Spiral staircases that leads far in the sky…

How to make smooth stone in Minecraft in 4 easy steps

Last year we received a new interesting addition in our most favorite game. Minecraft smooth stone. As it’s name is already saying – it is a stone block that looks nicer and smoother than other stone blocks. The real question is “How to make smooth stone in Minecraft”?

Perheps you want to give your buildings a new – polished look. Or you just want to import a bit nicer and more modern touch to your creations, the Minecraft smooth stone is perfect for you.

The good news is: It’s really not difficult to craft smooth stone and you’ll learn how to do it in just a few minutes.

Learn how to make Minecraft smooth stone

Basically, you have to find some cobblestones, the most common type of stone in Minecraft, then collect some coal you will need to get your furnace running and, at the end, you will build a furnace to mix a few things up to get a smooth stone. That was really quick explanation, wasn’t it?

Now, let’s get to real business. Here’s a Minecraft smooth stone recipe:

Get a bunch of cobblestone

1. It’s really easy to find cobblestone as it’s basically everywhere in Minecraft. It’s the most common stone you will find in the game. Just go around and take some more with you, as you will need it to make furnace and to make smooth stone.

Build the furnace

2. If you want to build the furnace you will need to craft eight (8) cobblestones in the crafting menu. You need to put each of cobblestone in every block except the centre position to craft furnace

Get some coal

3. Probably you can do this while you still collecting cobblestone, so you can look for some coal before you make Furnace. You can find plenty of it around stone areas, you can’t miss it. When you see block with black marks, just go for it.

BONUS TIP: You can use several things as a fuel for your furnace. It can be any wood, but coal have more efficiency in burning, you can also use blaze rods and lava bucket as a fuel. Lava buckets will smelt 100 blocks at a time.

Turn cobblestone into stone using the furnace

4. You will use your coal to get the furnace running and you will put it into the bottom slot of the furnace. The remaining cobblestone you will use to make regular stone. Just put it in the top slot and use it to get a stone. Follow the arrow in the middle and watch how you receive your stone.

Turn stone in to smooth stone using the furnace

5. Repeat the previous step, but this time just use stone instead of cobblestone. It means you have to run the furnace with coal and use the stone in the top slot. You will receive the smooth stone.

BONUS TIP: If you are interested about other Minecraft tutorials, you can also check how to use stonecutter.

What is Minecraft stonecutter and how can you use it easily

Recently we saw many questions related to the Minecraft stonecutter. How to make a stonecutter? What does the stonecutter do? Is it just a decoration block? No it’s not just a decoration block. Minecraft stonecutter is being used to craft stone-related blocks, but in much smaller and more precise pieces than crafting. After you try it, you will notice how useful this tool can be in your game.

Where can you find stonecutter in Minecraft

The official descrition of the Minecraft stonecutter would go something like this – the stonecutter is an item that can be found in a Village in the Mason’s house. You can use it to craft various stone items as an alternative to crafting them. The stonecutter is now fully functional in Java Edition as well as Pocket Edition, Windows 10, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.

What can you do with stonecutter

Stonecutter in Minecraft will give you more efficient cutting. The stone cutter provides efficient 1:1 ratio of the blocks. If you decide to go with crafting it can give you some different results. Cutting the stone with Minecraft stonecutter is like playing from the Roblox Piano sheets, you can press the buttons and get the results, but you still need to have skills to do the job right.

BONUS TIP: Stairs are very useful for stonecutting, since usually you get some less stairs than blocks when trying to craft them.

Also it is being used as a work station for villagers and it is possible that they can give you some building blocks. That will be useful if you haven’t found many biomes yet.

Well, it is obvious now that the main reason to use stonecutter is because you have cheaper recipes. It is easier to get slabs and stairs. Make it like this – 1 stone block you can get 2 slabs and 6 stone blocks make 6 stairs. Cheaper recipe for stairs and easier to make slabs.

EXAMPLE: “Stone stairs Crafting table” – 6 blocks for 4 stairs vs. stonecutter – 6 blocks for 6 stairs. So, it means stonecutter in Minecraft let you use 1 block for 1 stair. Efficiency at its finest.

Maybe you are playing on your iPhone or iPad, but you might notice that the things are little different than on your desktop. One major difference is that you are not making certain types of items on the crafting table. Because of that you need to gather the ingredience for a stonecutter and then you have to craft it.

Excellent Encyclopedia for Minecrafters

The procedure of crafting is easy – you just need to have 4 cobblestone and need to click on the stonecutter button. Crafting it you will get 1 stonecutter.

If you want to learn many hacks available in Minecraft you can try to find it in resources like guides or books. We can suggest you to check The Ultimate Unofficial Encyclopedia for Minecrafters: An A – Z Book of Tips and Tricks the Official Guides Don’t Teach You.

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