Minecraft Construction For Dummies, Portable Edition

Chapter 10

Implementing Gardens into Your World

In This Chapter

Gathering and growing plants

Constructing and furnishing gardens

Adding gardens to a structure

Gardens add a natural flair to your Minecraft world, but creating them is quite a bit different from creating buildings. Plant life follows different rules than building blocks (such as cobblestone) follow. This chapter shows you how to find and gather the proper materials and build gardens of any sort.

Obtaining Plants

Minecraft has many different nature-themed blocks that you can collect and add to your garden — and unlike with stone or metal, you can find most of them aboveground. However, many plants can be found only in certain biomes — specific geographic areas such as plains or forests. So although you don’t have to go underground, you do have to do a lot of exploring to find them.

You can use many different plants to build a garden, as described in this list:

• Grass blocks: Grass blocks are easy to find — they’re all over the place in most biomes. When you give grass blocks enough light and maybe some bonemeal now and then to speed things along, they eventually spread to cover nearby dirt blocks. This is handy because ...