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Minecraft worlds have a ton of diversity thanks to the many biomes players can visit. However, sometimes it's interesting and challenging to limit survival to just one biome, and one of the hardest ones to do this in is desert biomes.
Desert biomes lack most of the basic resources that other, lush and temperature biomes have, such as an abundance of trees for wood and passive mobs for food. That's why players will need to get a bit crafty and follow these tips if they wish to survive exclusively in a desert biome in Minecraft.
5 Getting Sticks And Wood In A Desert
Wood won't be in supply in desert biomes, but players can find sticks fairly quickly by breaking dead bushes which are usually scattered around desert biomes. For more wood, however, players will need to get a bit lucky and find a structure.
Players should look for a village, a pillager outpost that will be completely made out of wood, or take a risk and venture underground to find a mineshaft. Depending on how strict the player's survival rules are, and where they spawn, they can also look for an ocean to find shipwrecks for a stash of wood.
4 Farm Bunnies And Crops For Food
Another key resource is passive mobs, and there aren't many at all in the desert. The only mob players will find are bunnies, which do yield food when killed. If players are ready for a challenge, they can breed these bunnies and start a food farm.
Otherwise, players only need one wheat seed, carrot, potato, or beetroot seed to start farming. Villages, mineshafts, pillager outposts, shipwrecks, and buried treasure can all be found in or near desert biomes and can yield such loot. Killing zombies can also sometimes yield potatoes.
Alternatively, if players manage to find some string or kill spiders for string, they can craft a fishing rod and fish for food and loot. This only works if the desert biome isn't landlocked, however, as organizing an underground fishing farm requires players to have access to skylight.
3 Finding Bodies Of Water
Speaking of fishing, setting up a fishing farm and a successful crop farm will require players to find water. Once players have their hands on a bucket, they can start looking for water in a few different locations.
Lucky players might spawn next to an ocean on a desert beach, which solves the problem. Otherwise, players can look for a village and use the water in villages. Water is also found in pools underground in caves, so it's worth venturing down there to find some.
Finally, players can also take a risk and wander out in search of a desert well, which is a fairly rare structure found in desert biomes that contain water in them. Once players have a little pool of water ready, they can use it to fish for food and various useful items like leather, string, and treasure like enchanted books and better fishing rods.
2 Building A Base In A Desert Biome
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Unless players get lucky and find a pillager outpost or manage to get their hands on a sapling through a wandering trader for example and start a tree farm, it's likely that players won't have access to that much wood. This means that other blocks must be used for building.
The cheapest available is sandstone, which requires only four blocks of sand to craft. Once the player has all their tools available they can upgrade their base to a house made out of cobblestone or stone bricks.
It's also possible to get lucky and set up an early base in a village or desert temple, though the latter needs to be properly lit up due to all of its nooks and crannies where mobs can spawn and ruin the player's survival run.
1 Trading For Rare Items
Deserts are extremely lackluster when it comes to loot, so players should focus on setting up some trades to get their hands on necessities like leather and paper, which will allow them to build an enchantment table set up and access endgame parts of Minecraft. While paper can be crafted easily, leather is trickier to get in a desert biome.
Players can try to find a village and do their trades there, or they can head into the Nether, which shouldn't be a difficult task even in a desert biome. In fact, desert biomes can often spawn lava pools, which can be used to make Nether portals so long as the player has an iron water bucket. Moreover, players can get lucky and find Ruined Portal structures quite frequently in desert biomes.
It's also possible to mine underground and find lava pools and obsidian below. Once in the Nether, players should try to find Piglins and barter with them to get access to leather and string, as well as Ender Pearls.
Another important trade to consider is the wandering trader who appears regularly where the player is. It's possible for him to carry saplings, which means eventually even the unluckiest players living in a desert biome will have access to trees if they wait for him long enough. He will return multiple times with different trades as well, so keep an eye out for him.
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