User:BrandSPim/Strongholds

Need help finding and exploring a stronghold? This guide will help you.

Finding the stronghold
The best way to find a stronghold is by a stack of Eyes of Ender. The eye will point you towards the nearest End Portal. If there is an End Portal within 20 blocks of you, the eye will travel down to the ground. At this point (being very careful) dig down. A staircase mine is good. Now that you found a stronghold, you can now explore it and also travel to the End! You could also use this stronghold as a base. Be careful when finding strongholds, because each eye has a chance of breaking. You should craft multiple Ender Eyes, and use your remaining eyes to activate the end portal.

To craft an Eye of Ender, you take an Ender Pearl and put Blaze Powder inside it. Since this recipe is shapeless, you can make Ender Eyes in your inventory 2x2 crafting grid.

Rooms found in a stronghold

 * End Portal - One type of room using iron bars as "windows" contains a silverfish spawner and a ring of 12 End Portal Frames. If each frame is activated properly, the portal will activate.
 * Libraries - These are rooms with bookshelves and cobwebs. In large libraries, ladders go up to a upper balcony and fences the center with torches surrounding it.
 * Prison cells - Jail-like rooms with iron bars and iron doors with no buttons.
 * Spiral staircases - Staircases made out of half slabs that often spiral up or down into a dead end.
 * Dead ends - These can be used for storage rooms.
 * Dungeons - Sometimes strongholds may connect to a dungeon.
 * Loot rooms - Contains a cobblestone support beneath it and a ladder leading up to a room with a chest in it. These are often mistaken for libraries until they are entered.

Silverfish
This is one of the main hazards of strongholds. A silverfish spawner is found in every End Portal room of a stronghold, and Monster Egg blocks are scattered around strongholds. These monster egg blocks can be distinguished by their mining time, Mining a regular stone, cobblestone, or stone brick block require a pickaxe. Monster Egg blocks, when mined, spawn a Silverfish. Although they don't do much damage at all (only of damage) using splash potions of poison will cause them to alert other Monster Eggs to hatch as well. If you use a Silk Touch pickaxe on a Monster Egg block, you also get a stone, cobblestone, or stone brick block that the Monster Egg was disguised as. However, the block is a not a Monster Egg. Players are advised to destroy the silverfish spawner when travelling to the End.