Other candidate Biomes are places like Taigas and Extreme Hills, which have snow the higher up you are in the biome, though it can be a bit tricky to climb, and falling off those areas can lead to instant death and loss of your items.
Each biome is randomly generated across the world though. You’ll only have to rely on the scenery to determine where you are, so there are no absolute guarantees that a certain direction leads to any of them, meaning you’ll have to explore extensively if you want your farm ready!
Now create a Bucket by arranging 3 Iron ingots in a V pattern on your Crafting Table like so: i = iron X = empty space X X X i X i X i X
Axe m m X m s X X s X Pickaxe m m m X s X X s X Shovel X m X X s X X s X
To craft the Enchantment Table itself, you’ll also need your trusty Crafting Table, and lay out your materials in this format: o = obsidian b = book d = diamond X = empty space X b X d o d o o o
Take your desired tool and place it on the left slot on the Enchantment Table’s crafting window, and on the PC, you also need to put at least 1 piece of Lapis Lazuli (a very rare resource you can sometimes find through mining very deep underground or from trading with villagers) on the right slot, and you’ll see that at the right, there will be three options presented. The topmost option costs the least amount of EXP, and the third option costs the most. Select whichever one looks most promising to you, or the one you can afford, and then the weapon will then start to glow a purplish light, signifying that you successfully enchanted it. It will take you a few tries before you can get Silk Touch, since it’s a rare enchantment.
Sometimes, finding a Priest Villager (purple robes) and talking to him might luckily let him enchant a tool with Silk Touch. This is somewhat unreliable because not all Priests can enchant Silk Touch, and sometimes they require tools and objects you do not have on hand. Occasionally, Zombies will hold an enchanted tool, marked by the purple glow effect on it. Killing the Zombie will rarely give you the tool itself, but this is less reliable than the other methods. In any case, enchanting a tool might be the most difficult due to the rarity of this enchantment and the scarcity of the methods to obtain it.
This is a little ineffective compared to the next two methods since you run the risk of running out of water, or creating an un harvestable flowing patch of water if you’re not too careful.
Slowly place some blocks in an alternating pattern around the top of the pool, which would cover strategic parts of the pool to keep it from freezing entirely. It should look a bit like this: b = base block (dirt, cobblestone, sandstone, etc). w = water X = blank space Pool: b b b b b b w w w b b w w w b b w w w b b b b b b Cover Layer: b b b b b b b X b X b X X X X b b X X X This method is more efficient since it covers certain areas, so that when the ice is harvested, the water flows back in without danger of running out, making the ice an infinitely renewable resource.
One way you can do this quickly is to place water at the corners of your pool then every two or three blocks along the trench, you place your water at the middle until you reach the end. At 2 blocks above your trench, create a capital I shape like so: Pool b b b b b b w w w b b w w w b b w w w b b w w w b b w w w b b w w w b b w w w b d d d d d Cover Layer (must be two blocks above bottom of pool) X X X X X X b b b X X X b X X X X b X X X X b X X X X b X X X X b X X X b b b X X X X X X This streamlines the process considerably without using redstone, but also ensures the production is faster and more efficient than the first two methods.
If your tool is missing from the hotbar, press the inventory button to access your inventory, select the tool, and then place it on your hotbar. If your hotbar is full, click on the item you want to replace, place it in an empty slot in your inventory, and finally place your tool on the free slot on the hotbar.
