Minecraft

Minecraft MITE Mid-Game Guide (3)

Ni Zai Shang Hai De Ren Wu Shi Shen Me·5/21/2026

Preparations for the Underground World

Before venturing into the underground world, you must stockpile plenty of supplies. The following items are recommended:

  • Food and Torches: Bring lots of food and a ton of torches. The underground is extremely dark, and unless you crank up the brightness, it's easy to get lost.
  • Equipment: Full iron armor (preferably enchanted) and a silver hammer (a must-have weapon against ancient zombies).
  • Utility Blocks: Bring some stepping blocks like leaves and vines.
  • Lifesavers: Prepare (enchanted) golden apples. You can craft an enchanted golden apple at an enchanting table by spending 200 XP—your key to surviving ancient zombie fights or saving your life.
  • Escape Tools: Carry 10 obsidian and a flint and steel so you can build a portal and flee at any moment.

Structure and Environment of the Underground World

The underground world is basically modeled after the Nether's open voids, but filled with cobblestone. Its structure is as follows:

  • Top Layer: Beneath the bedrock lies a layer of cobblestone with a few ores.
  • Middle Layer: This is a vast, open world with mountains, hills, and plains, a relatively flat floor, occasional shallow lakes, and a few lava openings.
  • Special Biomes: Some areas are mycelium zones, where huge mushrooms grow along with brown mushrooms everywhere—a lifeline when food runs short.
  • Spawners: Ancient zombie spawners are usually found on hillside cliffs.
  • Deep Structure: Deep underground, alternating thick layers of cobblestone and bedrock appear. Purple-black Adamantium ore is mainly found around and below the first layer of bedrock. Ore generation increases with depth.
  • Reaching the Nether: Each bedrock layer has a few gaps (where bedrock is replaced by cobblestone). You must dig downwards through these gaps. Below the third bedrock layer is the mantle (you'll earn the "Long Road Ahead" achievement when you dig there). Build a portal (red door) on the mantle to enter the Nether.

Tip: In MITE, your most powerful weapon is often not the Adamantium sword, but smart save-and-load management.

Initial Exploration of the Underground World

Your first step upon arriving is to build a "matchbox" hut around the portal, and encircle it with torches to prevent ancient zombie sieges. After that, bring torches and search the bases of hills for ancient zombie spawners.

Once you find a spawner, don't hesitate—eat an enchanted golden apple, grab your silver hammer, and jump straight into the fight. If you want to play it safer, block the door with cobblestone and kill them by "tickling their feet" or "shaving their heads." After clearing the zombies and breaking the spawner, open the chest; your goal is to obtain ancient metal ingots. Once you have the ancient metal, you can return to the overworld, then seek out Mithril ore and officially enter the Mithril age.

Mithril Age and Advanced Enchanting

Mithril ore spawns both underground in the overworld and in the underground world, looking like pale blue silver ore. It can be mined with an iron pickaxe and smelted in an obsidian furnace using lava.

Crafting Mithril Tools

In the experimental branch, the crafting chain is: Iron Workbench → Ancient Metal Workbench → Mithril Workbench. Only on a Mithril workbench can you craft Mithril tools.

Mithril vs. Adamantium

  • Enchanting Advantage: Mithril is arguably even more practical than Adamantium. Mithril tools can receive top-tier enchantments up to 10,000 XP on a diamond enchanting table, while Adamantium only supports up to 6,500 XP.
  • Durability and Traits: Adamantium has higher durability and is immune to lava. Also, you must use an Adamantium pickaxe-hammer to destroy end crystals.
  • Recommendation: For tools that need the best enchantments later (like pickaxes and hoes), prefer Mithril; for swords and armor, you can use Adamantium.

Diamond and the Enchanting Table

Once you have Mithril tools, you can mine diamond. Diamond is mainly used to craft a diamond enchanting table. Placing two layers of bookshelves (24 total) around the table unlocks the 10,000 XP top-tier enchantments. Any excess diamonds can be eaten directly, each providing 500 XP.

Important Advice: Your first 10k-level enchantment should ideally go on a Mithril pickaxe, save-scumming to get Fortune III. This gives a 30% chance to double yields from ores like copper, silver, iron, gold, Mithril, and Adamantium, as well as increasing diamond, emerald, redstone, and others.

Note: Before enchanting, ensure you have around 6,700 XP remaining (roughly the level 35 threshold) to maintain your level advantage.

Farm and Livestock Management

To secure supply lines, it's recommended to grind XP and enchant a 10k-level Mithril hoe (essential attributes: Harvest V for increased yield, and Fertile which adds a chance to make soil fertile).

  • Planting: Prioritize potatoes, onions, and carrots. For wheat, it's better to use a sickle to harvest (also aim for Harvest and Fertile enchantments).
  • Livestock: Chickens are the primary recommendation for raising. After you have a fertile hoe, you can grow mushrooms for pig feed. For sheep, you can cure zombie villagers and then breed them, shearing wool to trade for emeralds.
  • About Cows: Large-scale cow farming is not recommended. Cows require large pastures and water, need daily grass shearing and replanting, and get sick very easily. It's better to just kill them on sight for leather to make bookshelves.
  • Growth Environment: Crops grow fast in hot regions (jungle, swamp) but are prone to disease; in cold regions (tundra, highlands) they grow slowly but stay healthier. Planting the same crop in contiguous patches accelerates growth, but disease can spread like a chain reaction.

Special Cycles: Blood Moon and Blue Moon

  • Blood Moon (every 32 days): Causes massive crop disease and withering, doubles mob spawn rates, and makes underground monsters spawn on the surface with buffs. It's best to start planting right after a Blood Moon and stop sowing seeds 10 days before the next one.
  • Blue Moon (every 128 days): Replaces every 4th Blood Moon. Animals respawn, plant growth speeds up, mob spawn rates are halved, and the surface is nearly monster-free—making it the perfect time for fishing and taming wolves.

Deep Digging to Reach the Nether

After completing basic infrastructure, you can prepare to head to the Nether. Since night vision potions are currently lacking in the underground world, deep exploration is not recommended; aim straight for the mantle.

  • Carry These: An anvil, a high-efficiency and durable iron pickaxe (mining speed is very slow in MITE), an enchanted sword (for silver slimes), plenty of torches, food, and vines.
  • Digging Technique: You can try digging straight down (watch out for silver slimes). After hitting the first bedrock layer, mine horizontally to find the gap leading deeper.
  • Finding the Mantle: After passing through the gap in the third bedrock layer, you'll reach the mantle (there will be flames nearby). Build a red portal there to enter the Nether.
  • Pro Tip: You can bring several stacks of TNT and blast through the third cobblestone layer to efficiently find Adamantium ore.