Your Minecraft combat strategies
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1) Get a bow
2) Get arrows (at least one stack)
3) keep your ears open
4) keep looking everywhere.
5) Identify foe.
6) shoot carefully one arrow at a time until it dies.
7) *fistpump*
8) Repeat.
Works for me, unless a creeper ninja drops me, or I get attacked by a lot of skeletons at once.
2) Get arrows (at least one stack)
3) keep your ears open
4) keep looking everywhere.
5) Identify foe.
6) shoot carefully one arrow at a time until it dies.
7) *fistpump*
8) Repeat.
Works for me, unless a creeper ninja drops me, or I get attacked by a lot of skeletons at once.
Bucket of lava and kiting! That and "murder holes," which are holes in walls that are at the mobs' foot level and your head level. Never build a home without them - unless your home is underwater or in the air 
Usually i'm strafe and slowly close in ont hem, building a vage of sorts around them out of something like dirt and just leaving them there while i put dynamite all around it.
RyuujinZERO said:
The combat is simple, not difficult, do not even COMPARE it to ANY game, EVER.
It's hold left click, hold s and press W every once and a while.
JEEZUS!!!
Melee Enemies: Wack enemy. Wait for enemy to move forward for 0.5 seconds or so. Wack enemy.
Ranged Enemies: Circle Strafe and wack enemy.
Exploding enemies: a) Use bow and shoot until dead. b) Run in. Wack enemy. Run out as fast as possible.
Special Enemies:
Spider Jockeys; Use a bow, or traps. Exploit the fact that the spider can let the skeleton suffocate in a 2 high room, and kill spider like usual.
Ghast; Wait for it to shoot a fireball at you. Punch fireball back at ghast. Use bow and arrows to shoot Ghast.
Helpful Tips:
With the creeper, you have 3 seconds to get in, wack it, then get out.
Always back yourself into the corner of a room that has a roof if fighting melees (If possible, if not, circle strafe and wack whilst stepping back and forth) to avoid getting flanked by multiple foes.
Do not let a Ghast get too high. You will be unable to shoot high enough to hit it.
Ghasts can see and shoot through lava, beware.
Ghasts cannot see through glass.
Ghasts shoot at the camera, not at the character. Go into third person view mode, and angle the camera correctly, and the Ghast will not shoot your character.
If you attack 1 Zombie Pigman, all Zombie Pigmen become hostile.
The reach of your attack is greater than the reach of a mobs. Thus, building a 1 high wall around you (I recommend a 2x2 room inside these walls, and if your feeling cautious, a block one block above [not on top of, but a block higher than that] the wall blocks, so the mobs cannot jump over the wall) will allow you to attack mobs without it being possible for them to attack you, in one of the safest ways possible (Barring staying behind a door or on top of a pillar)
Ranged Enemies: Circle Strafe and wack enemy.
Exploding enemies: a) Use bow and shoot until dead. b) Run in. Wack enemy. Run out as fast as possible.
Special Enemies:
Spider Jockeys; Use a bow, or traps. Exploit the fact that the spider can let the skeleton suffocate in a 2 high room, and kill spider like usual.
Ghast; Wait for it to shoot a fireball at you. Punch fireball back at ghast. Use bow and arrows to shoot Ghast.
Helpful Tips:
With the creeper, you have 3 seconds to get in, wack it, then get out.
Always back yourself into the corner of a room that has a roof if fighting melees (If possible, if not, circle strafe and wack whilst stepping back and forth) to avoid getting flanked by multiple foes.
Do not let a Ghast get too high. You will be unable to shoot high enough to hit it.
Ghasts can see and shoot through lava, beware.
Ghasts cannot see through glass.
Ghasts shoot at the camera, not at the character. Go into third person view mode, and angle the camera correctly, and the Ghast will not shoot your character.
If you attack 1 Zombie Pigman, all Zombie Pigmen become hostile.
The reach of your attack is greater than the reach of a mobs. Thus, building a 1 high wall around you (I recommend a 2x2 room inside these walls, and if your feeling cautious, a block one block above [not on top of, but a block higher than that] the wall blocks, so the mobs cannot jump over the wall) will allow you to attack mobs without it being possible for them to attack you, in one of the safest ways possible (Barring staying behind a door or on top of a pillar)
Get a bow. Use it.
For creepers, instead of the five arrows required to kill them, use three and then close in for a single sword stroke, just to conserve ammo. This works for other mobs too, but you will take damage.
If you don't have a bow, hide behind a door. The mob will obligingly stand outside, allowing you to quickly open the door, hit them and close it again. For some reason, they really struggle across doors so you should have time to hit them, stagger them and close it again before they attack.
For creepers, instead of the five arrows required to kill them, use three and then close in for a single sword stroke, just to conserve ammo. This works for other mobs too, but you will take damage.
If you don't have a bow, hide behind a door. The mob will obligingly stand outside, allowing you to quickly open the door, hit them and close it again. For some reason, they really struggle across doors so you should have time to hit them, stagger them and close it again before they attack.
An admirable strategy, and one no Minecraftian can dis, because we've all done it.TheYellowCellPhone said:
OT: Personally, I'll make a solid tower of stone or dirt on day one, with torches all around and a bed on top, then go into the forest the next day when all the skeletons have burned to death and tame a shit ton of wolves. It seems to do the trick.
in caves which is where i do most of my fighting i often like to throw up little dirt walls real quick to keep the enemy back so i can slap them with my sword.
i had a bow and arrow for a while and whilst it is incredibly op i died and lost all my arrows and couldnt be stuffed making more.
i had a bow and arrow for a while and whilst it is incredibly op i died and lost all my arrows and couldnt be stuffed making more.
Make a doggy door at the back and have them sit there while you go around and pick them up.Bobbity said:Run.
Actually, I like to keep rivers of lava flowing around my house, with very small and twisty safe paths, so that's actually a viable way for me to kill the buggers
Sadly, that means that any wolf pets I like to keep die off pretty quickly