How to cheat in survival without cheating
Using any of these methods will NOT affect your achievements, they're not technically cheating. If you're on a colab or role play or something along those lines, these methods may count as cheating, but Mojang doesn't deem them so lol.
If you keep getting lost and need to locate spawn, this can be done by copying your survival world, which will start where you are in your regular world, die in the copy, if you've not been to sleep in a bed in your new location, it will return you to spawn, write down the coordinates of spawn and simply follow them back home in your regular world.
Keeping with the copy world thing, if you want to locate mansions, villages, ocean monuments or any structure in the game, copy your survival world, turn on cheats in the copy world and set it to creative if you want to be able to fly, type in the /locate command followed by what structure you are looking for, so for example if you're looking for a village, type in /locate village, it will tell you where the village is in coordinates like this 'nearest village is at `1422 32 150' write down the coordinates and simply navigate to them in your main world. The 32 or whatever elevation is not important unless you're looking for a stronghold, which are always located underground.
/locate can be used to find these:
Temple (please note igloos and witch huts also show up as temples)
Monument
Mineshaft
Stronghold
Village
Mansion
Shipwreck (I think, or this may show up as a temple, need to check in game)
End City (can only be used in the end dimension)
Fortress (I think this is on the list, and if so can only be used in the nether to locate nether fortresses)
Dying/mob attack trick.
So, you've got your full set of enchanted diamond armour on, three stacks of diamond and some other oddities and you're getting your posterior handed to you in a woodland mansion, accidentally hit a zombie pigman in the nether or maybe a witch caught you without your bucket of milk, whatever your demise may be, if you don't want to die, simply hit 'settings' and quickly change the difficulty level to peaceful, any mobs attacking you will instantly despawn, and your lives will regenerate to full. You can then switch back into whatever difficulty you like and carry on. I often use this trick to shake off endermen when exploring or to stop myself dying from a witch's poison etc. Please note it does NOT work for falling or drowning, falling into lava or explosions, it will slow down your death by drowning or fire but it won't prevent it.
To help prevent death at other times, such as by falling into lava or drowning, I recommend carrying a totem of undying or two or maybe three with you, these can be looted from evokers in woodland mansions. If you want to see how totems work, they can be found in your creative mode inventory under 'totem of undying'. Hold one and get a bunch of mobs to attack you.
Using coordinates is probably one of the easiest things to do in Minecraft, I have heard so many people say they cannot do it, but personally, I find it easier that phaffing around with map making in the early days of your world or when you're exploring. You can always start a survival world with a starter map, but if you lose that, coordinates are just as easy to use.
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