Your Minecraft combat strategies

[FightThePower]

In the Normal world, most of the things I encounter I defeat with kiting - draw the Creeper/Zombie/Spider to me, hit them whilst backing up, and if it's a Creeper, back up further if it starts to sizzle. Doesn't work with Skeletons, so I ignore them until I can craft a bow and arrow, then just shoot at them whilst dodging their arrows. Also, I typically fight only one monster at a time, put torches everywhere to avoid them spawning in the first place, and try and get the high ground. If I come across a dungeon I'll tunnel above it, then attack them from on high, unless it's a Skeleton Dungeon, in which case I'll just tunnel above it and drop some TNT on their heads.

I tend to use sound a lot to tell where enemies are coming from. Listening for footsteps has saved my life against Creepers - they make no idle sound, but they make footsteps. At this point though, I'm almost always wearing a full set of Iron Armour so I'm not that cautious any more.

As for the Nether, I bring lots of Cobblestone, and use it to build walls I can hide behind when Ghasts start spitting fireballs at me, and I'll fire on them with a bow if they get very close as they're easy to hit. And I just leave the Zombie Pigs alone, no need to fight those guys, I'll just bring food with me.

 

[Aidan Novak]

Stand in a tower surrounded by dangerous obstacles that kill them for me.

 

[Pearwood]

Hide then cry. I don't like combat in that game

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

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.

 

[Biodeamon]

arrows. make them into pin cushions

 

[octafish]

I usually have a moat that flows down to a lava blade and collection point, and lots and lots of traps. Wolves, and Bow and Arrows for when I'm wandering.

 

[Zaik]

Step 1: Make a Bow
Step 2: Make Arrows
Step 3: Repeat step 2 as necessary
Step 4: Hold down the right mouse button
Step 5: Win

 

[Kahunaburger]

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

 

[SillyBear]

I just walk backwards, hitting them when they come into range. Rinse and repeat. It's very, very easy.

Set my army of wolves after them, laughing manically.

Zig and zag. Always zag...

Wait- what's your ratio of Zig/Zag? I'm not sure where to lean on that.

Less zag, more zig. Zag is so 2010.

 

[emeraldrafael]

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.

 

[Danceofmasks]

With extreme prejudice

 

[viranimus]

Main Menu > Options> Difficulty = Peaceful.

Then resume mining/crafting/building unencumbered by tedious distractions.

The ONLY real reason to play on difficulty personally is to replenish stockpiles of gunpowder for TNT

 

[Tax_Document]

Theres a couple of quirks you can exploit with the bow:

a) It fires like a machine gun
b) Enemies can only be hit once every half a second, if you hit them again the arrow falls to the floor
c) Missed/deflected arrows can be picked back up.

With this in mind there's no reason to hold back in a ranged fight, just spray and pray a little while strafing/using cover and just pick up whatever didn't get lodged into something living (or undead), there's no penalty for missing.

Also, diamond swords last absolutely forever and drop most mobs in just two hits. If you can spare a couple diamonds it's worth making one, then you can save arrows and just bum-rush creepers and drop them before they even have a chance blow up (and zombies are trivial to anyway, so they're sword fodder)


...is it just me, or for such a cutesy and simple looking game, the whole survival/combat side is a lot more tense and difficult than even some "serious" suvival horrors? xD

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!!!

 

[Joccaren]

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)

 

[Hamish Durie]

clickclickclickclickclickclickclick*aply soothing cream*clickclickclicklclickclick

 

[Tdc2182]

Die once, switch to peaceful.

I get an excuse though, I have to play on a labtop

 

[Valkyrie101]

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.

 

[captaincabbage]

Run.

Spam torches.

Hide.

Cry to yourself.

Wait for mob to despawn.

An admirable strategy, and one no Minecraftian can dis, because we've all done it.

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.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

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.