easier to get the infinity enchantment for your bows. Never have to worry about arrows again. This can also be obtained from villagers if you unlock one that trades for it trap the villager so he wont die to seiges and trade for it over and over again for each new bow.
The last method is to build a room, fill with gravel, use a shovel enchanted with fortune and you will get lots of flint from the gravel.
Flint is easy, Gravel is insanely abundant. all you need to do is gather that, and then convert it by placing the gravel and then breaking it repeatedly untill it turns into flint.
its not hard to do but obviously requires you to actually and pretty literally grind for it. but its Not hard to find...
After spending about 8 hours (real time) yesterday trying to get 3 wither skeleton heads, flint seems like a walk in the park to get for me.
Anyway, just to add to the various solutions to this 'problem', villagers will convert 10 gravel into 5 flint at the price of 1 emerald, they also sell arrows. Personally, i don't use that option, but only because it's so easy to just get flint by myself.
I think that for all of us Minecraft players, we all will have the same opinion on this, FLINT IS TOO HARD TO FIND. For those who prefer the bow & arrows over the simple close combat sword (which I might add, gets used up), the only problem is, most of the time when I go to craft arrows, I say to myself, "Oh great, I have like a million sticks and maybe half a million feathers, but only 5 flint, there goes my chance to get more gunpowder tonight." So I thought a nice alternative for having to dig 20 gravel blocks just to find one peice of flint is, what if you could smelt gravel in the stove to get flint? It would be a nice alternative for those of us who get bored erecting huge towers of gravel and then mowing our way down to the bottom, spending hours a day just getting flint to survive the night. So, what do you guys think?
Joev14
Fortune spades.
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I'm sure he's done that already, as he posted the thread BEFORE enchantments were added, and I'm guessing he's either quit minecraft by now or he's figured it out. To everyone else here, it's no use trying to help the OP, as this was posted almost 2 years ago.
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if you think Flint is too hard to find try getting 3 wither skulls.
Good luck on just finding a wither skelton which only has about a 3% chance of dropping a wither skull. Its not even at 10% droprate with looting 3 swords/axe I bet.
I'm sure he's done that already, as he posted the thread BEFORE enchantments were added, and I'm guessing he's either quit minecraft by now or he's figured it out. To everyone else here, it's no use trying to help the OP, as this was posted almost 2 years ago.
The responses were for the newer members having issues finding flint, check the top of page two to get caught up.
I know, I mean, standing, jumping, and placing gravel blocks under yourself, then digging straight down. it takes forever to do, honestly, do you guys enjoy spending forever trying to find gravel? wouldn't it be so much easier if you could spend 8 blocks of coal to get 64 peices of flint, and it saves you an hour of boring digging and the chance of falling off the tower and killing yourself? (if your a n00b or a klutz that is )
pillering to the top of a stack of gravel and digging down takes no time at all, especially if you have a diamond shovel with fortune/efficiency enchantments to give you flint out of every block. that's how i do it. i have probably over a thousand flint in my chests from doing it this way
I don't know why you need that much Flint, it's uses are limited to begin with. Arrows are easier obtained from a skeleton farm, and how often do you need to make a new flint and steel?
Does everybody really pillar up gravel and mine down to get gravel? I find a corner or wall, hold gravel and hold down both mouse buttons at once. As soon as you break the gravel another is placed. You also pick up whatever gravel is broken and doesn't drop flint. If you need a lot you can tape down your mouse buttons and find something else to do for awhile.
The last method is to build a room, fill with gravel, use a shovel enchanted with fortune and you will get lots of flint from the gravel.
its not hard to do but obviously requires you to actually and pretty literally grind for it. but its Not hard to find...
Or if you put a fortune enchantment on a shovel, you have a greater chance to get flint.
Anyway, just to add to the various solutions to this 'problem', villagers will convert 10 gravel into 5 flint at the price of 1 emerald, they also sell arrows. Personally, i don't use that option, but only because it's so easy to just get flint by myself.
Fortune spades.
I'm sure he's done that already, as he posted the thread BEFORE enchantments were added, and I'm guessing he's either quit minecraft by now or he's figured it out. To everyone else here, it's no use trying to help the OP, as this was posted almost 2 years ago.
Good luck on just finding a wither skelton which only has about a 3% chance of dropping a wither skull. Its not even at 10% droprate with looting 3 swords/axe I bet.
The responses were for the newer members having issues finding flint, check the top of page two to get caught up.
pillering to the top of a stack of gravel and digging down takes no time at all, especially if you have a diamond shovel with fortune/efficiency enchantments to give you flint out of every block. that's how i do it. i have probably over a thousand flint in my chests from doing it this way