Minecraft Books

Minecraft Books is a series of guidebooks for Minecraft, written for new and inexperienced players while being high-quality enough for collectors. The books are written by Nick Farwell and published by Scholastic. There are five books in the series: Minecraft: Essential Handbook, Minecraft: Redstone Handbook, Minecraft: Annual 2014, Minecraft: Combat Handbook and Minecraft: Construction Handbook. They were first released in the UK in late 2013 (beginner, redstone, annual 2014) and early 2014 (combat, construction).

Essential Handbook
The Essential Handbook contains information on surviving the first few days. It includes tips from Minecraft, experts including Notch and Jeb, on making shelters, crafting tools and weapons, and finding both resources and food.

Redstone Handbook
The Redstone Handbook contains information on redstone circuits, including basic components of redstone, simple circuits like logic gates, T flip-flops and clock circuits, larger circuits like a compact block swapper and a minecart station, and up to complex contraptions like minigames, automated farms, and full scale computers complete with memory. It also contains construction ideas to implement new knowledge.

Construction Handbook
The Construction Handbook was made conjunction with FyreUK. It contains step-by-step instructions on how to build things such as the player's first house and gardens to decorate it, fortified walls for a city, suspension bridges to cross a river in style, floating islands, pirate ships and roller-coasters. It also includes examples of FyreUK's builds and other creations in Minecraft.

Combat Handbook
The Combat Handbook contains armor and weapon stats. For example, the sword durability table on Page 8 states that a diamond sword will deal 8 damage and last for 1562 successful hits. It also contains almost every mob's strengths and weaknesses plus safest combat advice, including advice for zombies, skeletons, blazes, ghasts, the wither and the ender dragon. Later in the guide in includes information on potions, traps with schematics, and enchanting tips and tricks, Lastly, it contains a information about player versus player combat, or PvP, including a pre-battle checklist on page 52 and how to make and raid bases.

Purchasing
These books were sold at Scholastic Book Fairs in the United States of America as well as Australia, and are also available at Walmart. These books are also being sold at National Bookstore outlets in the Philippines. The five current books are; Minecraft Essential Handbook, Minecraft Redstone Handbook, Minecraft Combat Handbook, Minecraft Construction Handbook, and the Minecraft Annual 2014.

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