Your Minecraft combat strategies

[mirror's edgy]

I've been playing quite a bit of Minecraft lately... on peaceful mode. I occasionally show my hardcore gamer tendencies by cranking it up to easy, but I've just been really opposed to fighting anything after losing all of my valuable items a dozen times or so. I know that other players have felt the same whiplash when their diamond picks and other hard- earned items get blown to pieces. Everyone probably has a good system to survive in single player, so feel free to share them.

 

[HerbertTheHamster]

hold the left mouse button

 

[silver wolf009]

Zig and zag. Always zag...

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Run.

Spam torches.

Hide.

Cry to yourself.

Wait for mob to despawn.

 

[Mad Hamish]

I find that setting monsters on fire works well. Just start a fire on the ground in front of them and they'll walk into it.

 

[Shadow_Bunnies]

Lure creepers to mobs, jump away from explosion, smile.

 

[Grey Walker]

I use:

- Wolves.
- Bury enemies in sand, suffocating them.
- Circle-strafe skeletons.
- Get lucky with creepers in close combat.
- Run and wall up the cave as I go.
- Torches. Torches everywhere.

 

[Ozzythecat]

Run. If that doesn't work run faster.

If neither of those plans work dig a hole straight down block it off and cry for salvation.

 

[blankedboy]

Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
And so on and so forth.

 

[ilspooner]

Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
Wait for it to run at you again.
Hit with sword.
And so on and so forth.

Agreed. Somehow, it is still addictivly fun. Stupid creepers though. Never dropping gunpowder.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I just stay on peaceful and have fun building things. I don't like the stress!

 

[Engarde]

Get bow.
Get arrows, preferable several thousand.
Right click as fast as you can.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE

 

[nothinghere]

through tnt everywhere and give the creeper a taste of his own medicine
throw punch throw punch
Or I just keep placing cactus in front of the monsters

 

[Sacman]

Spam Arrows... it's worked for me... or run away while lighting the ground on fire so they step on it and catch fire...

 

[Bobbity]

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

 

[Savagezion]

Left click, S, W, Left click, S, W, Left click, S, W, etc.

Skeletons, circle strafe.

The combat/mobs is the cheapest part of the game. I don't understand people being exhilarated by mobs and combat. Creepers, especially. Skeletons can be more annoying than creepers.

 

[Zaik]

Step 1: Make a bow
Step 2: Make arrows
Step 3: Point bow at (insert enemies)
Step 4: Hold right mouse button
Step 5: Win

Seriously, the bow fires off like a machinegun. You have to kill a few spiders to make one, but it's worth it.

 

[emeraldrafael]

If shit gets too real and I dont want to lose something, I'll swtich to peaceful.

Other then that, I run to my house (which is made of sand cept for the roof, which is made of glass and has a cross on it, since its made to look like a spanish mission) which is surrounded by a ring of Lava, which is then surrounded by a ring of water.

 

[kebab4you]

Food, atleast always 3 pieces of cooked pork on me. That and iron armor + diamond sword.

 

[Catalyst6]

For the "melee" enemies it's just a matter of timing. Hit with sword, wait for them to just get back into range, hit again. The trick is to keep bouncing them back. The AI is incredibly dumb, just remember that.

Skeletons are built for circle strafe.

Of course, both of these things can be avoided by using bow/arrow, plus you can generally collect the "missed" shots.