Where are my Minecraft worlds on Android?

The phone in question doesn't have an SD card. The games/com.mojang/minecraftWorlds folder is empty in the phone's filesystem. Where are all the worlds that are clearly being stored somewhere?

The answer turns out that all of the worlds we've been creating for years have been stored under "Application" rather than "External". and this setting stores them in a protected area of the file system which cannot normally be accessed either by USB or even the built-in file browser.

There are apparently three methods of accessing this area. 1) gain root access to the phone. Most people are scared to try this step. 2) For each world, upload it to Realms (using the 30 day free trial) and then download it to external. There are a couple of tricky parts to make sure this goes properly. 3) Some boffins created a tool called "Worlds Explorer" which takes advantage of an android backup utility to pull the data out of the phone and then extract the worlds. This seems the most painless but requires java and there's a whole lot of linked together applications that are needed to make it work.

The links:

The first thread that I found with the clue as to what the issue was. The answers are not great, including misleading once which advise starting to save to "External" (doesn't actually recover previous worlds stored in Applications, just makes sure your new worlds are in the external location) and a terrible write-up of the Realms trick. https://www.trueachievements.com/forum/viewthread.aspx?tid=989031

Another forum thread with a groping understanding of the problem, but then the creator of WorldsExplorer posted a link to his app: https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/311137/where-do-minecraft-pe-can-save-worlds-other-than-sdcard-games-com-mojang-minecra

A reddit thread that explains the problem succinctly but with no helpful answers: https://www.reddit.com/r/MCPE/comments/677n3a/i_cant_find_my_world_folder_on_mcpe_android/

Another reddit thread that explains the issue well. This thread contained a much clearer description of the Realms trick. https://www.reddit.com/r/MCPE/comments/7azwvd/so_is_it_confirmed_that_minecraft_worlds_saved_to/dped2qa/

This angel from heaven posted a YouTube video that simply and unambiguously walks you through how to do the Realms trick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdFIXZ2rfJs

Here is a forum thread that has reports from people who have used both the Realms trick and WorldsExplorer: https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360009322871-Moving-Resources-from-Application-to-External-Storage-bedrock-mobile-originally-but-any-

Here is the link to WorldsExplorer (it's apparently actually called World Exporter): https://tikolu.net/worldExporter/

PC minecraft snow biome seeds

The go-to list of several seeds:

http://minecraftvillageseeds.com/wiki/index.php?title=Minecraft_Taiga_Seeds

A really neat looking seed:

minecraftvillageseeds.com/wiki/index.php?title=Small_Minecraft_1.8.3_village_seed_by_snow

minecraft pe snow biome seed

My go-to link for snow world seeds:

http://mcpebox.com/5-best-minecraft-pe-snow-biome-seed/

Another top list:

http://www.goplay.com/article/5-best-snow-biome-seeds-for-minecraft-pe-snowy-villages-ice-spikes-thunder-731.html

This may be a duplicate, but such a good URL:

http://epicminecraftpeseeds.com/snow-covered-village-ice-spike-biome/

A very good seed and some interesting info about igloos:

mcpedl.com/igloo-snow-village/

Another seed:

https://mcpehq.com/minecraft-pe-seeds/cold-taiga/snow-cold-biomes-pocket-edition-seed/

How to dismount a horse in Minecraft PE

In PC Minecraft it's left shift. In Minecraft PE it's "sneak," which is double tapping the center button of the D pad.

Here's a hilarious click bait article on the subject:

www.goplay.com/article/how-to-get-off-horse-in-minecraft-pe-pc-dismount-horse-guide-1639.html

How do you find your coordinates in Minecraft PE

With cheats on, "/tp ~ ~ ~"

https://mcpehq.com/faq/find-location-coordinates-minecraft-pe-0-16-0/

Minecraft Water Mob Trap

I finally stumbled across a zombie spawner in a Minecraft world, so I was excited to try constructing a trap to run them all to their deaths and get some of that sweet loot. I did a lot of research online, and found that a lot of the water traps shown in videos etc were for such old versions of the game that a lot of them simply didn't work anymore. For some reason, it seems that it just isn't possible to drown mobs. I also learned that it simply wasn't possible to make a zombie trap that produced loot! In the case of zombies, they don't drop loot unless killed by a player. So the key is to use water to push zombies down a drop that causes them to lose most of their health so that they can be slain with single blows. Looking into this led me to a super fun solution, which is to use water to raise the zombies up to the height of the desired drop, then push them over to the drop. This is called a 'Mob Elevator' and it magically uses a feature that mobs have that if they are in water, they jump up. You then use another practically insane feature of Minecraft that a sign will prevent water from flowing past it to create a tube with alternating blocks of water and air. The mob enters a suspended block of water, jumps up until they rise out of the next block of air into the next block of water, and then the cycle continues. The resultant motion beautifully looks like they are simply levitating! Then you put a horizontal channel at the top with water that pushes the mobs to the drop. At the bottom of the drop, which needs to be slightly less than 22 blocks, there needs to be something to block the mobs from escaping, with an opening for poking them with a sword. Here are some links that show the design:

The best design I found. Some designs had wide riser tubes with alternating water blocks, but I found that the tube only had to be one block wide:

http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/survival-mob-grinderxp-farm/

The link that showed alternating water blocks unnecisarily, but still shows a good outlibe of the shape of the elevator connected to the drop:

http://minecraft.wonderhowto.com/how-to/exhaustive-guide-building-mob-traps-minecraft-0131112/



Ideas that didn't pan out for me:

Cactus traps. Pushing mobs into cactii kills them, but apparently they don't drop their loot when they die:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/suggestions/13719-cacti-shouldent-destroy-items-on-contact

Lava Blade: Again does a good job of obliterating mobs but then I don't get the loot or XP:

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Mob_grinder

http://minecraft.wonderhowto.com/how-to/minecraft-monster-slaying-slice-your-enemies-with-deadly-lava-blades-0135146/

Drowning traps that didn't work for me. I couln't get them to drown, but more importantly the zombies didn't drop anything except rotton meat:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Fz7u7hTIw

Where to find coal in the minecraft demo world

T and I have been playing the Minecraft demo over and over. One of our biggest problems is not being able to make torches. I entered the above query in Google and didn't really get useful results, but a couple of the links that I got back were fun reads. They were:

Yahoo Answers: I have downloaded the demo of minecraft and I don't know how to play?

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110612070505AAJoxNv

How To: Get Started in Minecraft

http://features.en.softonic.com/how-to-get-started-in-minecraft

Eventually I learned that the quick method is to harvest a bunch of wood, make a crafting table, make a pickaxe, harvest a bunch of cobblestone, make a furnace, cook a block of wood into charcoal, and make the torch out of that. The second link was the one that taught me that I had to use a pickaxe to get cobblestone, coal, and minerals to drop blocks.

I have been asking other similar questions about the minecraft demo; given the number of times that it has been played you'd think that some wise guy would have published a map of it or something, but I haven't found anything like that online. The minecraft wiki has a list of really major landmarks in the world:

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Demo_mode

Here is another, less detailed batch of information about the demo world:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/seeds/320613-demo-world-seed-now-with-co-ordinates?page=2

EpilogueThe eventual answer to my coal dilemma was obvious in retrospect; it's terribly easy once you have made a pickaxe to mine cobblestone, make a furnace, and reduce some wood down to charcoal which can also be used to make a torch. Duh!

Installing Lucky Block mod for Minecraft 1.8

Notes while I go from no-f'in-idea to hopefully a successful install.

Some nice generic links to installing mods:

The Minemum guide. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to cover my current version (1.8) which I guess has a new launcher. I did find the .minecraft directory and made a backup copy as she described. However I attempted to install Mine Forge and I didn't get a new profile, probably because it doesn't work that way now or something:

http://minemum.com/installing-mods

The minemum guide does have a link to the official Forge download page, here. I actually found this page directly via Google hunts also:

http://files.minecraftforge.net/

Actually, I got my copy of the installer from here, which seems to better indicate compatibility with Minecraft 1.8:

http://files.minecraftforge.net/fml/1.8/

I downloaded the installer and ran it, and it complained that it couldn't find the minecraft folder. I eventually figured out that this was because I have my system set up with a user privs user and an admin privs user. I was installing as my user user, and it was asking me for the admin password to run the installer, then the installer was looking in the admin's user AppData folder instead of my user's AppData folder. I could manually redirect it to my user folder and everything worked.

Some guides, like the following, just give directions on installing both the Forge "client" and "server" but I haven't seen an explanation as to what either of these are. I installed both, and the server installation involved another download and took longer. Then I noticed that the minemum guide only prescribed installing the client.

http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Minecraft-Forge

When I went to get the Minecraft Forge installer, it directed me to adf.ly which seemed to require me to download Open Download Manager with a piece of malware called Search Protect. I eventually figured out that I could directly get the download by clicking "Skip Ad" in the upper right corner, the whole Open Download Manager thing was just a Trojan horse ad. I later realized that this is covered in the minemum guide at step 1 for downloading Forge, but my impatient reading comprehension had skipped that sentence.

Here is what seems to be the definitive guide for installing mods. It has a bunch of stuff at the top for one kind of installation and then a separate section for doing the installation for version 1.8. The instructions for the second section seemed to more closely match the file structure that I found for my installation of minecraft, so I did all the steps listed, including renaming everything to _Modded. I played the renamed installation and it worked. Then I installed Minecraft Forge and it didn't complain and the game still worked, but I didn't see a "forge" profile in the launcher options as described by minemum.

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Mods/Installing_mods

So, what I have done since is attempt to install the client again. The installer complained that I needed to run version 1.8 at least once, so something somewhere still thinks that I'm using version 1.8 instead of version 1.8_Modded. I took the path of least resistance and renamed all my _Modded folders back to 1.8 and the client installed. Now I have a profile option of "FML" which s a funny joke the first 1/2 times. When I play the game and hit esc, there is now a "mod options" button! Still no sign of the lucky block installation, which I had attempted to do on the _Modded directory, so I'm now trying to install it again.

So, while looking for the lucky block mod I kept running into sites that attempted to get me to download other software. I eventually settled on this one which seemed the most clear as to what to click:

http://www.5minecraft.net/lucky-block-mod/

This directed me to the following site which offered just a .jar file:

http://www.dl3.5minecraft.net/download.php?file=7e2819ee5ae679adf64b19afba91acfb

Both the minemum page and a different Lucky Block page (at the link below) say just to put the .jar file in the mods folder which the Minecraft Forge installer created in my .minecraft folder (and I did verify that one has been created). But I don't see Lucky Block as one of the mods when I click the Mod Options button. Also, supposedly in Creative Mode the inventory is supposed to get three lucky blocks and I don't see them either. So, I know I'm getting good instructions from the below site because the author seems to be monitoring comments. So close...

http://www.planetminecraft.com/mod/lucky-block/

Here's an alternative source that seems slightly less scammy:

http://www.minecraftmods.com/lucky-block-mod/

Eventually, googling howls of pain led me to set up the launcher to stay visible and look at the logs, where I found this message:

[14:19:53] [Client thread/INFO] [FML]: FML has found a non-mod file [1-7-10]_Lucky_Block_v5-1-0.jar in your mods directory. It will now be injected into your classpath. This could severe stability issues, it should be removed if possible.

That doesn't sound good. It found the file in the .mod directory, but it distains it as being a non-mod file.

So, despite the fact that a lot of sites seem to indicate that the Lucky Block mod is compatible with 1.8, the .jar files all seem to say 1.7.2 or 1.7.10, so it might be that I have no other option but to play an older version of minecraft. Here is one link which describes this dilemma:

http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/164341/how-exactly-do-i-install-minecraft-mods-and-what-is-forge

Here is one of the sites claiming that this mod works on 1.8 (as well as 1.7.10, 1.7.2, and even 1.6.4)

http://www.minecraftexe.com/lucky-block-mod/

End of story, quickly: I set up a version 1.7.10 profile, installed 1.7.10 Forge, put the 1.7.10 .jar in the mods folder and it all works great. The 1.8 copy of Lucky Block just must not exist yet.