Tutorials/Getting max gear

Getting max gear is incredibly important especially when you're on a war-type server. Here are the methods that can be used to get max gear.

Using a village
Villages are one of the most important structures in the game as they contain villagers. Villagers can trade many items, ranging from enchanted books to Ender Pearls and even diamond gear.

When we spawn in the world, we can go to a random direction and just wait until we find a village. If you're on a semi-anarchy server though, it's better if you set your camp more than 2,000 blocks away from spawn to prevent other players from griefing your base and steal some valuables. While we go to our village, there are some things that we need, sugarcane, leather, wool and food. Pick up sugarcane when you find them and kill cows, donkeys, mules, horses and llamas on sight. Another method is take the world seed, scout out the world and once we pick a suitable location, go there and while on our journey, loot structures that you might come across while also getting wool, leather, food and sugarcane. Also if you come across either a Taiga, Dark Oak or Jungle biome, take 4 of those saplings as the 2x2 trees give the most wood out of any tree in the game.

Once we got to our village, we need to herd villagers in one area. To do this, break all the beds and put them in your desired area. The villagers will go to the beds when it's night time. After that's done, we need to farm carrots/potatoes, sugarcane and breed villagers (can be done by placing more beds and giving each villager at least 3 bread loaves or 12 vegetables). We can turn some of them into librarians or fletchers.

If you still don't have diamond gear at this point, we can either mine for them or trade with the villagers. For the villager method, trade with the weaponsmiths, toolsmiths and armourers until you max them out and buy the diamond equipment they sell. For the mining method, we need a villager that sells Fortune II or III (we can just combine the level 2 to get level 3) and once we got the book, put it on an anvil and apply it on a pickaxe and we can mine for those either by strip mining or caving. While caving, also mine Redstone, Gold, Lapis Lazuli and Iron ores.

If you now have the diamond gear, we needed this librarians with the following enchantments, Protection IV, Unbreaking III, Mending, Feather Falling IV, Sharpness V, Looting III, Fire Aspect II, Efficiency V and Silk Touch. For our armour, we needed Protection, Unbreaking and Mending on them (Feather Falling IV on the boots to reduce fall damage), Sharpness, Looting, Unbreaking, Mending and Fire Aspect for the sword, Efficiency, Unbreaking, Mending and either Silk Touch or Fortune for your pickaxes and hoes and Efficiency, Sharpness, Unbreaking and Mending for your axe. Aside librarians, we also needed some clerics for either Ender Pearls or Bottles o' Enchanting.

Once we have the gear, we're gonna go to the nether and we're there for 3 things, Nether Wart, Blaze Rods and Ancient Debris. For the first two, they can be found on one structure (the nether wart can also be found on Bastion Remnants "Housing Units type"). The nether wart and blaze rods are gonna be used for potion brewing. When we're going back to the portal, it's also the perfect time to get Ancient Debris. There are 2 ways to get the debris without using TNT, by simply strip-mining at y= 15 along a chunk border or by using beds while being on the same level.

Once we return to our camp, we can finally start brewing potions which will greatly help in a fight. The most important potions in PVP are Strength II, Swiftness II and Fire Resistance (8:00 minutes). However, we are still missing one thing and that is the Totem of Undying and to get those, we can either raid a Woodland Mansion or start a Raid. Starting a Raid is much easier than raiding a mansion due to the fact that mansions are the rarest structure in the game. Once we start a raid, we can get the totems by killing an Evoker. The number of totems we can obtain depends on the difficulty, you cannot get totems on Easy, you can only get 1 on Normal and at least 4 totems on Hard mode. When we acquire the totems we are officially PVP ready.

Without using a village (WIP)
When we spawn in the world, we can go right into caving. And then we need 3 things, leather, sugarcane and food. The fastest way to get leather and sugarcane is just kill the naturally-generating cows, donkeys, horses, mules and llamas while picking up sugarcane near rivers. We'll need around 90 leather while we'll need approximately 7 stacks of sugarcane so it'll require some farming.

At night, we can hunt some mobs, specifically Creepers and Endermen. We'll need 1 pearl and 10 gunpowder to craft 2 TNT (you can craft extra in case you made a mistake later on.