NetherCon This Week — October 12, 2026
Two new guides (Magma Blocks, and Crimson and Warped Wood) plus safety and fact corrections to ten older guides, from beds and Ghasts to TNT.
Two new guides (Magma Blocks, and Crimson and Warped Wood) plus safety and fact corrections to ten older guides, from beds and Ghasts to TNT.
Crimson and Warped wood grows from huge fungi, not trees. Why its planks do not burn away, why it is not furnace fuel, and how to grow more with bone meal.
Magma blocks hurt you when you stand on them but do not set you on fire. Where they generate, how sneaking, Frost Walker and Fire Resistance stop the damage, and how whirlpools work.
Two new guides (Fire Resistance, and Dried Ghasts and Happy Ghasts) plus corrections to What Drops from Each Nether Mob and the Nether Wart Quick Brew Guide.
A dried ghast is a harmless Nether block. Soak it in water for about 20 minutes and it becomes a ghastling, which grows into a happy ghast you can ride.
Fire Resistance stops lava, fire, magma blocks and Blaze fireballs for 3 minutes (8 with Redstone). It does not stop a Ghast fireball or a Blaze up close. How to brew it and what to watch.
Two new guides (the lodestone compass and Endermen in the Nether) plus a correction to our Blaze Farming guide.
Endermen turn up most in the Warped Forest. Why not staring is just good manners, what to do if one gets upset, and what they drop.
A normal compass spins in the Nether. Link one to a lodestone (8 chiseled stone bricks and 1 iron ingot) and it points home, as long as you stay in the same dimension.
Two new guides (netherite and the Nether forests’ vines and shroomlights) plus corrections to two older guides: Piglin bartering and ancient debris.