Monday, June 17, 2013

Minecraft: The Beginner's Field Survival Guide: Weapons & Armour

If you are reading this, you need a weapon.
      To survive in Minecraft, to combat the mobs that plague your world, you need a weapon. You need something that can strike first, and end a fight quickly. Prepare, young warrior. Your training has begun.

Weapons & Armour: Sword
       The main weapon in Minecraft is the sword. It can be crafted from five different resources, each variant of sword with it's own power and durability.The worst of the five swords is the gold sword. It does 2 hearts of damage, and has very low durability, only giving you about thirty three. The wood sword does the same amount of damage, but is more durable. You could get about sixty hits.
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The next is the stone sword. It separates the weak swords and the strong swords, doing two and a half hearts of damage, and gives 123 hits. The iron sword is the most commonly used of them all, doing a deadly three hearts of damage. It lasts for about 251 hits. And last, but far from the least, the diamond sword, doing a colossal three and a half hearts of damage, and lasting 1562 hits. Many veteran players find that the diamond sword often outlasts them, rather than the sword breaking from overuse. To craft a sword, place two resources that can be used to make a sword above a stick like so:
Crafting recipie for (iron) sword

Weapons & Armour: Bow and Arrow
     For those of you who have read the Hunger Games, the only reason Katniss survived was because of her skill with the bow. The same can apply in Minecraft. The bow can be used to kill from a distance, which is usefull against mobs like creepers. When fully charged and shot, an arrow can do four and a half hearts of damage, and rarely five.
The usage bar depends on how much you charge the arrow before firing it. The distance varies, depending on the angle you fire from, your elevation, and the power in the drawback.
Crafting recipie for bow.

Weapons and Armour: Axe
      Throughout history, the axe has had two uses. They are chopping wood, and hacking at your enemies like a beserker. In Minecraft, the axe is classified as a tool, but it serves as a good weapon too. If you have an iron or diamond axe, it should serve you well. It can't block like a sword, but it provides you with immediate defense if you are woodworking and you are attacked.


It can't be enchanted like the sword with better combat upgrades, but if you went into battle in the Medievel Times, it was all you needed if you could lift it. A group known as the Men of the Bacc are lethal online players, and use axes whenever they can, only using swords when they have to. If you play the HG servers online and you see a beaver-like creature with an axe, run or proceed with caution. Show no mercy to them.

Weapons and Armour: Armour
        If you know a warrior that has survived and won a Hunger/Survival Games on an online server, I'll congragulate him. Armour reduces the amount of damage done when hurt by another player. The weakest armour is leather. It is the armour equivelent to a wood sword. Next on the strength list is gold. Unlike the sword, it should give decent protection in a fight, but make sure you get the first hit in.
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Chain armour has the same protection as gold, but is more durable. Wear chain instead. It has better camoflauge. Next is the iron armour. If you get a set of this, you have a high chance of surviving and winning a fight against another player. If you are fighting against someone who has gold armour and a stone sword, and you have a wood sword, you should still win if you hit the foe fast enough. And last of all, the most protective, durable armour known to Minecraft, the diamond armour. Diamond armour insanely reduces damage to the player, taking very little damage to even TNT or creepers. If the player blocks an arrow with their sword, and has diamond armour, they will take no more that half a heart of damage. The chestplate will last for over five hundred hits.

Well, now that you know about combat tools, get mad and fight your friends online,
 and kill hostile mobs with precision!

Coming Soon: Minecraft: The Beginner's Field Survival Guide: Tools

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