Top 10 Tutorial tips
Use buttons on top of fences and walls to add detail
When building 3x3 houses, make walls out of trapdoors for more interior space but a more compact exterior
You can put boat in a minecart. You will get a 2nd seat, and by rowing you will speed up without powered rails (Java only)
If u are ever making a mini scale house you can put a door in an item frame and put 2 snow layers to make it look the like a house with a little spruce door.
Buy an iPhone 4S off eBay for $20, connect it to your WiFi, install Remote Messages (iOS 9), and sign-in to your iCloud/iMessage account. Boom you can now send and receive texts from your PC.
When starting out in a world with no food if there's a village nearby collect the Hay bales, I got this much bread from just one fairly normal sized village
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