Tutorials

The list below contains tutorials describing various factors of Minecraft.

Newcomers
These tutorials are designed to help newcomers to Minecraft get a basic ground beneath their feet.


 * /Menu screen/
 * /Game terms/

Newcomer survival

 * The first day/Beginner's guide


 * /The second day/
 * /The third day/
 * /Your first 10 minutes/
 * /Hunger management/
 * /Navigation/
 * /Things not to do/
 * Simple tips and tricks

Shelters

 * Building and construction
 * /Shelters/
 * /Shelter types/
 * /Best biomes for homes/
 * /Best building materials/
 * /Desert shelter/

Essential
These tutorials are intended for right after you have a roof over your head and a renewable food source. These tutorials shed light on some of the core fixtures of Minecraft gameplay. As such, you should consider reading them all. • Village mechanics

• Mining

• Defense

• Carrot, potato, and wheat (farming)

• Meat (farming)

• Best biomes for homes

• End survival

• Nether portals

• Colonizing

• How to survive in a single area indefinitely

• Nether survival

• Complete main adventure

• Combat

• Shelters

General
Getting to know the game better. These are for when the player is comfortably established. • /Advancement guide/

• /Colonizing/

• /Combat/

• /Complete main adventure/

• /Creating a village/

• /Dual wielding/

• /Desert survival/

• /End survival/

• /Exploring caverns/

• /Furniture/

• Game terms

• /Gathering resources on peaceful difficulty/

• /Hitboxes/

• /Horses/

• /How to find caves/

• /Mapping/

• /Measuring distance/

• /Mining/

• * /Diamonds/

• * Fossils

• /Multiplayer PvP bases/

• /Nether hub/

• /Nether portals/

• /Nether survival/

• /Organization/

• /Pillar jumping/

• /Player versus Player/

• /Phantom-proofing/

• /Summoning jockeys/

• /Things to do when bored/

• /Thunderstorm survival/

• /Time-saving tips/

• /Transportation methods/

• /Units of measure/

• /Village mechanics/

• /Zombie siege defense/

Construction
• /Adding beauty to constructions/

• /Airlock/

• /Architectural terms/

• /Building a metropolis/

• /Building a rollercoaster/

• Building safe homes

• /Building water features/

• /Creating shapes/

• /Curved roofs/

• /Defense/

• /Desert shelter/

• /Elevators/

• /Endless circling pool/

• /Glazed terracotta patterns/

• /Making nice floors/

• Pig parking

• /Pixel art/

• Ranches

• /Roof construction guidelines/

• /Roof decorations/

• /Roof types/

• /Secret door/

• /Settlement guide/

• /Underwater home/

• /Walls and buttresses/

• /Water gate/

Storage solutions

 * /Shulker box storage/
 * /Storage minecarts/
 * /Organization/

Challenges
• /Acquiring a conduit/

• /Adventure survival/

• /Beating a challenge map/

• /Creating a challenge map/

• /Defeating a monument/

• /Defeating an end city/

• /Defeating a pillager outpost/

• /Defeating a woodland mansion/

• /Defeating a village raid/

• /Defeating temples/

• /Defeating the ender dragon/

• /Defeating the wither/

• /Hardcore mode/

• /How to survive in a single area indefinitely/

• /Hiding chests/

• /Island survival/

• /Nomadic experience/

• /Speedrun/ning

• /Superflat survival/

• /Survival in an infinite desert/

• /Survival with no enabled datapacks/

• /Ultra hardcore survival/

Exploiting bugs

 * /Block and item duplication/
 * /Breaking bedrock/
 * /Headless pistons/
 * /Indestructible end crystals/
 * /Respawning the ender dragon with fewer crystals/
 * /X-ray glitches/

Farming
These tutorials provide information on crop and mob farming.

Items
• Bone meal

• Cactus

• Cake

• Carrot, potato, and wheat

• Chorus fruit

• Cobblestone

• Cocoa bean

• Egg, feather and chicken

• Flower

• Fish

• Honey

• Ice

• Iron

• Kelp

• Meat

• Mushroom

• Music disc

• Nautilus shell

• Nether wart

• Obsidian

• Pumpkin and melon

• Raid-dropped treasure

• Scute or Turtle Shell

• Seagrass

• Sea pickle

• Snow

• Sugar cane

• Sweet berry

• Tree

• Trident

Mobs
• Mob farming

• Mob grinding

• /Monster spawner traps/

• Animals

• Blaze

• Cave spider

• Creeper

• Drowned

• Enderman

• Guardian

• Iron golem

• Magma cube

• Slime

• Squid

• Turtle

• Witch

• Wither skeleton

• Zombie

• Zombie pigman

Enchanting and smelting
These tutorials provide information on how the furnaces and the enchantment system work.


 * Enchanting mechanics
 * Anvil mechanics
 * /Automatic smelting/
 * /Choosing a fuel/

Block breaking
These tutorials provide information on how to break blocks automatically, usually by an explosion.


 * /Blast chamber/
 * /Wither cage/

Mechanisms
These tutorials provide information on redstone mechanisms.

Basic redstone
• /Basic logic gates/

• /Randomizers/

• /Flying technologies/

• /Hopper/

• /Item transportation/

• /Mechanisms/

• /Observer stabilizer/

• /Combination locks/

• /Redstone music/

• /Redstone tips/

• /Rube Goldberg machine/

• /Villager trading hall/

Detectors

 * /Block update detector/
 * /Comparator update detector/
 * /Daylight detector/
 * /Day and night detector/

Minecarts

 * /Train station/
 * /Minecarts/
 * /Storage minecarts/
 * /Minecart start booster/
 * /Digital minecart storage system/

Traps

 * /Snow golems/
 * /TNT cannons/
 * /Trapdoor uses/
 * /Traps/ and /Trap design/

Pistons

 * /Instant repeaters/
 * Piston circuits
 * /Piston doors/
 * /Piston uses/
 * /Quasi-connectivity/
 * /Zero-tick pistons/

Redstone (Advanced)

 * /Advanced redstone circuits/
 * /Arithmetic logic/
 * /Calculator/
 * Printers
 * /Command stats/
 * /Hourly clock/
 * /Morse code/
 * Redstone telegraph
 * /Redstone computers/

Servers
These tutorials provide information on how servers work and how to set up one.


 * /Griefing/
 * /Playing on servers/
 * Spawn jails for multiplayer

Server Setup

 * /Setting up a server/
 * /Setting up a LAN world/
 * /Server startup script/
 * /FreeBSD startup script/
 * /OpenBSD startup script/
 * /Ubuntu startup script/
 * /Hamachi connection LAN/
 * /Setting up a Minecraft Forge server/
 * /Setting up a Spigot server/
 * /Ramdisk enabled server/

Technical
These tutorials provide information on technical matters, such as mods and snapshots. • /Command blocks and functions/

• /Command NBT tags/

• /How to install a snapshot/

• /Creating a data pack/

• /Installing a data pack/

• Installing Forge mods

• /Loading a resource pack/

• /Creating a resource pack/

• /Map downloads/

• /Custom maps/

• /Sound directory/

• /Recover corrupted saved world data/

• Saving your game data to the cloud with Dropbox

• Save game data to Dropbox (world data only)

• /Playing and saving Minecraft on a thumb drive/

• /Run Minecraft through Google Drive/

• /Improving frame rate/

• /Update Java/ to latest version

• /Updating old oceans in 1.13 using MCEdit/

• Falling blocks

Creating Minecraft media

 * /Videos/
 * Live Streaming

Bedrock Edition only

 * /Achievement guide/
 * /Creating resource pack add-ons/
 * Advanced tutorial[Work in progress...]
 * Entity component reference guide
 * /Changing Minecraft entity models/
 * /Creating behavior packs/

Other

 * /Minecraft help FAQ/
 * /Minecraft in education/

Outdated tutorials
The following tutorials are obsolete and intended for older versions of Minecraft.


 * /Custom texture packs/ — texture packs are no longer used, resource packs use new file structure
 * /How to get a crash report (Outdated)/ — no longer works with current launcher
 * /Water tram/ - Boat mechanics have been overhauled
 * /Managing slimes in superflat mode/ — slimes are no longer a plague
 * /Repeater reboot system/ — glitch that existed in Beta only
 * /Update LWJGL (Legacy)/ — current launcher automatically updates libraries
 * Custom lake — these methods are no longer needed, since water is more obliging
 * /Water ladder/ — no longer works as given, water behavior has changed a lot since Beta


 * Installing mods - Modloader — ModLoader is no longer supported by its creator
 * /Far Lands/ — they were removed in Beta 1.8
 * /Instant wire/ — glitch that existed in Beta
 * /Update Minecraft/ — updating and downgrading Minecraft is automatic in the new launcher
 * /Minecart booster/ — Minecart boosters were fixed shortly after the introduction of powered rails.
 * /Building micro shelters/ - The beds shown are not acceptable respawn points.
 * /Door-based iron golem farming/ - Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
 * /Village chaining/ - Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
 * /Villager farming/ - Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.

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