Tutorials/Gathering resources on peaceful difficulty

This tutorial is about how to gather resources in peaceful mode that are usually hostile or neutral mob drops. Because monsters do not spawn in peaceful, sometimes it is hard to gather certain resources.

Bones
Bones are commonly dropped from skeletons, which because they are hostile, do not spawn in peaceful. However, there are other methods of achieving bones and bone meal.

Bones can be found naturally occurring in the chests of desert temples, jungle temples, dungeons, and woodland mansions. Unless you happen to have a jungle near your spawnpoint, or if you're very lucky a roofed forest with a woodland mansion in it, your best bet would be to find a desert or a dungeon. It's best to find a dungeon in caves, but if you don't have many caves nearby, you can just mine underground. Unfortunately, mob spawners can't spawn mobs in peaceful mode, so in peaceful, you can't listen to the sounds of zombies, skeletons, or spiders to find dungeons. To find a desert temple, you will need to find a desert first, and then explore around the desert. The advantage of desert temples is they can be seen from a long ways away. However, when finding structures with chests that could potentially hold bones, remember that there is never a 100 percent chance that a chest will have a bone in it.

There are 2 more ways to find bones. One of them is through fishing. If you fish with a fishing rod without a Luck of the Sea enchantment, you will have a 1.1% chance of getting a bone. However, the disadvantages of this method are that a fishing rod requires string, which is most commonly obtained from spiders, which don't spawn in peaceful, and that you will only have a small chance of getting a bone when fishing. The final method is by finding fossils, which contain bone blocks. Note that this will only be useful if you need bone meal; if you just want a plain bone, this won't work. The advantage of this method is that 1 bone block = 9 bone meal, and fossils usually have many bone blocks within them. However, fossils are rare, and only generate in deserts and swamp biomes. The best way to find bone blocks is to first find a swampland or desert, and then either find caves, or branch mine (with tunnels at least 4 blocks apart from each other), at Y-coordinates 40 - 49.

Gunpowder
Gunpowder is most easily achieved as a drop from creepers, and is also a drop from ghasts or witches. However, neither of the 3 mobs spawn in Peaceful mode, so alternative ways of achieving gunpowder is important.

Gunpowder, like bones, can be found in desert temple chests, dungeon chests, and woodland mansion chests. See the previous section, "Bones," for how to find these structures. Unlike bones, gunpowder does not generate in jungle temple chests. Gunpowder is not necessary in completing anything major, but it is fun and in many circumstances, helpful to use, as it can be used to create fireworks and TNT. Also, gunpowder can be used to make splash potions. However, no potion can be made in peaceful mode, because blaze rods are in-achievable if blazes can't spawn.