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.

Achievable In Peaceful
These materials are usually mob drops, but can be achieved by other means when a world is on peaceful difficulty.

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.

If you want to use the gunpowder to make TNT, you can acquire TNT in a desert temple trap and a trap in a woodland mansion secret room. Be careful, though; they are called traps for a reason!

Rotten Flesh
Fortunately, rotten flesh is not very useful - you will be fine if you never acquire it in a Minecraft world. However, if you do have a certain purpose for rotten flesh, such as to feed your dog, it can be obtained in a few ways without killing any hostile monster. Like bones, rotten flesh can be found in desert temple chests, jungle temple chests, dungeon chests, and woodland mansion chests. Rotten flesh can also be obtained from igloo basement chests, which is useful if you have an ice plains or snowy taiga biome near spawn. Unfortunately, not all igloos have basements, so you may have to go through many igloos to find rotten flesh, or try to find a desert, jungle, or a dungeon. Rotten flesh also has a 1.2% chance of being obtained when fishing. However, like for bones, a fishing rod requires string, which is rather expensive in peaceful mode. However, most of the places where you can find rotten flesh, you can find string as well.

String
String has many uses in survival mode - it can be used to make a bow, fishing rod, lead, wool, or be used in a tripwire circuit. Although no spiders makes it harder to acquire string, there are still many ways to get some. String can be obtained by breaking cobwebs with a sword, so if you have an abandoned mineshaft near spawn, this would probably be the easiest way to acquire string.

Also, string generates as part of tripwire traps in jungle temples, generating a total of 5 string in a jungle temple. In addition, like rotten flesh, gunpowder, and bones, string can be found in the chests of desert temples, dungeons, and woodland mansions. Finally, string has a 0.6% chance of being obtained through fishing. The next paragraph shows how to acquire a fishing rod without string:

All of the crafting recipes of string, except for leads, can be obtained in some other way besides getting string. Wool, of course, can be obtained by killing or shearing sheep. A bow can be bought from Fletcher villagers for 2 to 3 emeralds, as part of their tier 2 trades. A bow by itself isn't extremely useful in peaceful mode, but it can be used to make a dispenser which can be used for many purposes. Finally, an enchanted fishing rod can be bought from Fishermen villagers for 7 to 8 emeralds, as part of their tier 2 trades. The primary use of fishing rods is to fish. Actual fish aren't useful in peaceful mode, unless you want to tame an ocelot, but fishing has a chance of giving the player an enchanted book, saddle, name tag, lily pad, bone, rotten flesh, string, leather, and more. In addition, fishing can even give you an enchanted bow, or another fishing rod.

Ender Pearls
Although endermen don't spawn on peaceful, ender pearls can be obtained by 2 other means. Ender pearls can be found in the chests of strongholds and woodland mansions. Both of these structures are very rare, but woodland mansions can be found using a woodland explorer map, although the nearest woodland mansion could be very far away. You can also get ender pearls by giving a cleric villager 4 - 7 emeralds. If you have a farmer and a large wheat farm, you can gain lots of emeralds by trading wheat with the farmer, and thus gain lots of ender pearls. Despite the fact that ender pearls can't be used to make eyes of ender because of the lack of blaze rods, ender pearls can be used to teleport, which can be very useful at times.

Not Achievable in Peaceful
These materials, sadly, can only be obtained as mob drops. However, sometimes some of their crafting recipes may be able to be obtained by other means.

Blaze Rods
Blaze rods can only be obtained by killing blazes, which is impossible on peaceful difficulty. Unfortunately, blaze rods are essential to going to the End, because there is only a 1 in a trillion chance that an end portal will generate with all eyes of ender in it, and eyes of ender require blaze powder. However, brewing stands, which usually need a blaze rod to craft, can be found in igloo basements, but no potions can be brewed because they require blaze powder as fuel. Even though the player may not be able to go to the End on peaceful difficulty, there are plenty of other things available to do in the Minecraft world.