10 Secret Video Game Shortcuts You DEFINITELY Missed
7. Minecraft - Get To The Nether With No Diamonds
The progression in Minecraft is pretty straight forward. You start in a mud hut with wooden tools, then you get stone equipment and get slaughtered by skeleton archers at night. Eventually, you work your way up to diamond equipment, you mine some obsidian, and build what can only be described as a pixelated Stargate to leap into hell.
Sequences like this are built by developers to allow for a measured, balance progression throughout games - the same is true for Minecraft. Normally, you need to have diamond gear by the time you reach the Nether, meaning you risk losing precious equipment but are nicely cushioned in the game's most powerful armour.
As you will see with a lot of games on this list, however, sequences are meant to be broken. If you do not have the patience to mine for hours to get the diamond tools and precious obsidian needed to build the portal, you can basically skip that entire part.
Obsidian is encountered underground when deadly molten lava meets water. So, if you want to skip the grind, you can scour the overworld for two things - pools of water and lava. Once you find these, you can bucket them (Even generating an infinite water source with crafty block placement).
You need at least 10 buckets of lava, and the same of water. If you construct a frame, with some swift placement of water on lava, you can artificially form the obsidian, no mining required, getting you straight into the Nether.