Taking Inventory

Luckily, there’s a tasty treat that all striders will respond to – warped fungus. Why they love the stuff, I do not know. Perhaps it’s connected to that aforementioned lack of gray matter. Whatever the reason, wave some fungus around near a strider and it’ll come running striding.

They’re a currency! In the Minecraft world, emeralds are a medium of exchange for goods and services – just like coins and banknotes are in ours. Players, villagers and wandering traders use emeralds to represent the value of those goods and services, because it’s easier to carry around one emerald than, for example, 15 bits of coal or 26 potatoes, as any of you who’ve tried to exchange 50 potatoes for a copy of Minecraft at your local games emporium will know.

Simply right-click with it, and it’ll slow you to a sneaking pace and start blocking attacks that come from the front of you. It’ll also knock back attackers, and stop you from being knocked back. But be careful - some attacks are not blockable, and axes can disable shields.

What’s found deep underground, highly prized by both painters and Egyptian pharaohs, and is a deep shade of royal blue? No, not the leg bristles of a very cold spider – it’s our item of the week: lapis lazuli!

Why did zombies ever drop feathers? Simply because the developers didn’t know what else they should drop! Perhaps someone tried to raise the dead at a pillow factory? I guess we’ll never know...