Material

There are over 100 Materials in minecraft, but the most useful but hard to find and sometimes get materials are Coal, Iron, Gold and Diamond. Gold and Diamond can be crafted into blocks by placing 9 of a diamond gem or a gold ingot all around the 3x3 grid.

But before you make these blocks, please take a moment to think about what kinds of other things you can build with plain diamond gems or gold ingots, like the clock or diamond armor and swords and pickaxes and stuff!

If you decide to make one of these, you've probably made a good choice. There are far more choices to build with normal gold ingots and diamond gems than with blocks. As of the Minecraft Halloween Update, along with adding the nether, 4 new materials were added, including soul sand, which can be used to make one-way doors. The only hard thing about making one way doors is getting the soul sand. You can only access soul sand in the Nether, and you can only access the nether by making and mining obsidian (the hard thing is mining it, it can only be done with a diamond pickaxe) You need to mix lava and water to make obsidian, but the whole thing together is just Impossible to get 10 (Or 14) obsidian (not really, it's just very, very hard). To make a portal, put the whole thing in a 3x4 grid (corners or not) and the portal will be activated. just step in and listen to the calm, soothing noise of children screaming -(O.O)-. This is actually the newly added Ghast making its sound. Portals can de-activate if you leave them too long, so don't stay in the Nether too long... Unless you want to use the working (but very hard) trick of making a ghast shoot fire into your portal and not on you. This is also dangerous. There are many materials. This article just covers a few of them. See if you can cover them all!

All us at the minecraft team will keep adding new materials, so keep checking back!