Minecraft: guides, crafting, seeds and redstone
From your first night to automated farms: recipes, enchantments, working seeds, redstone builds and explanations of what the game never tells you.
Tools
Nether Portal Coordinate Calculator
Enter your coordinates and the calculator works out the matching point in the other dimension, plus the square the game will search for an existing portal.
Enchantment Calculator
Pick a bookshelf count and the calculator shows the range each of the three slots can cost in experience levels.
Circle and Sphere Generator
Set the diameters and the generator lays out the shape block by block, then counts how many blocks the whole thing takes.
Mob Spawning Calculator
Enter the distance, the light levels and the number of active chunks, and the calculator tells you whether mobs will spawn and how many the cap will hold.
Potion (Brewing) Calculator
Pick a potion effect, its variant and its form — the calculator lays out the recipe step by step and works out the exact duration.
Coordinate / Chunk / Region Calculator
Enter X, Y, Z and the calculator instantly shows the chunk, the region, the save file and the block position inside each of them.
Experience (XP) / Level Calculator
Pick what you're entering — a level or a total XP amount — and the calculator works out the other value, your progress toward the next level, and the gap to a target level.
/tellraw and /title Command Generator
Add one or more text segments with color and style, optionally a click action and hover tooltip, pick a target and a command type — the tool assembles the full console or command-block line right away.
Minecraft Color Codes & MOTD Generator
Click any color or style below to copy its code, or build a server message in the editor with color, bold and italic, and get four ready output formats at once.
Villager Trades (Java Edition)
Pick a profession and level, or search by item name — the table shows what the villager wants and what it gives in return, and the planner below totals the emeralds for the trades you pick.
Minecraft Map Art Pixel Art Generator
Pick a file from your device, choose a size and palette mode — the tool matches every pixel to the closest map color and counts how many pixels of each block appear in the image itself (not counting staircase support blocks or the map's north reference row).
Ore distribution by height (Y)
Pick ores and a dimension — the tool works out which Y level has the densest generation for each one, and charts every selected ore.
Stack, Chest and Shulker Box Calculator
Enter an amount of items (or chests, or shulker boxes) and the calculator instantly shows the equivalent in every other container, plus the most compact way to pack it all.
Armor & Damage Calculator
Build your armor set, enter the hit’s strength and type, and see how much health it takes and how many of those hits it takes to kill you.
Food Calculator: Hunger and Saturation
Enter your current hunger, pick a food and see how many to eat and what happens to your hunger bar and saturation.
Weapon Damage & DPS Calculator
Pick a weapon, an enchantment and a target to see normal and critical hit damage, the cooldown, damage per second and how many hits it takes to beat a target in armor.
Best Enchantment Order for the Anvil
Tick the enchantments you want and get a step-by-step plan: which books to combine first and in what order to put them on the item.
Durability Calculator: Unbreaking and Mending
Pick an item and an Unbreaking level to see how many uses it survives on average and how much XP Mending needs to repair it.
Beacon Calculator
Pick a level and a material — the calculator counts blocks per layer, ingots to craft them, the range and the effects the beacon unlocks.
Furnace Calculator
Pick what to smelt, how many, the device and the fuel — the calculator shows the time, the XP and how much fuel to put in.
Crafting Calculator
Find an item, enter how many you need, and get the raw material list and the crafting order.
Fortune Calculator
Pick an ore or block, a Fortune level and how many blocks you mine — the calculator shows the average drop and the exact odds.
Day Time Calculator
Enter the time from /time query daytime and the day number — the calculator shows the game clock, what is happening in the world and how long until night, sleep or morning.
Piglin Bartering Calculator
Pick an item, how many gold ingots you trade and how many you want — the calculator works out the odds and the average haul.
Redstone Delay Calculator
Enter the delay you need in seconds and the calculator picks the repeaters. Or build a chain and see how long it delays the signal.
Chest Loot Chance Calculator
Pick a chest, an item and how many chests you open — the calculator shows the odds, the average amount and how many chests it takes, plus the full loot of that chest below.
Slime Chunk Finder
Enter the world seed and your coordinates to see a grid of the surrounding chunks with slime chunks highlighted, plus a list of the nearest ones.
Latest guides
Minecraft Version on 29 Sep 2026: Java 26.3, Bedrock 26.52
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Gamerule in Minecraft Bedrock: World Rules Without Mods
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How to Survive the Warden in Minecraft's Ancient City
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Cheats in Minecraft Bedrock: how to turn them on
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Minecraft Bedrock Achievements: Add-ons and Gamerscore
Since the update published on 15 July 2025, Bedrock Edition achievements work even with add-ons installed. Here's what's confirmed about Gamerscore
Minecraft Age Rating: ESRB E10+ and PEGI 7
ESRB rates Minecraft E10+, and PEGI rates Minecraft: Java Edition PEGI 7. We explain where the difference comes from, what the descriptors mean
Minecraft Accessibility: The Official Settings
Every edition of Minecraft has a separate Accessibility menu: interface navigation and narration for keyboard, touch and controller. What's in Java
What Is DLC in Minecraft: Marketplace Pass Explained
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Java vs Bedrock: How the Minecraft Editions Differ
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Minecraft Version Numbers Since 2026: How to Read Them
Since 2026, Minecraft version numbers start with 26, the release year. Here's why Bedrock and Java can show different numbers for the same drop.
minecraft.net Languages: 21 Site Versions vs Microsoft Store
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Latest news
Minecraft 26.40 update: what's new
Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 26.40 launched on 4 August 2026: a new Poplar Tree, Red Shrub, Shelf Mushroom, and a fix for the MCPE-240527 arrow-hitbox bug.