Tutorials

New to Minecraft and don't know where to go and what to do? On this page, you will find a list of very useful articles that will help you through your journey in Minecraft. May it be surviving in the dark nights or building a Turing machine, there's probably an article here that will be of use to you!

Newcomers
These are for the absolute beginner. They will teach you how to make various redstone powered machines and how to survive your first few nights.


 * The First Day / Beginner's guide
 * /The Second Day/
 * /The Third Day/
 * /Your First Ten Minutes In Minecraft/
 * /Hunger Management/
 * /Hardcore Mode/


 * Building and construction
 * /List of things to do to your shelter/
 * /Mining Techniques/
 * /Navigation/
 * /Shelter Types/
 * Simple tips and tricks
 * /Things not to do/

General Tutorials
Getting to know the game better. These are for when you're comfortably established.


 * /Achievement Guide/
 * /Combat/
 * /Creepers/
 * /Finish Adventure/
 * /Furniture/
 * /Infinite Water Source/
 * /How to find caves/
 * /Mapping/
 * /Measuring Distance/
 * /Nether Survival/
 * /Ocelots/
 * /Time-Saving Tips/
 * /Wolves/


 * /A metropolis/
 * Building Safe Homes
 * /Nomadic experience/
 * /Shelter Defense/
 * /Home Defense/
 * /Organization/
 * /Playing on servers/
 * /PvP/
 * /Transportation/
 * /Underground Home/
 * /What to do if you are bored/


 * /Airlock/
 * /Man-Made Lake/
 * /Secret Door/
 * /Water Elevator/
 * /Water Gate/ (Also see /Floodgate/)
 * /Water Ladder/
 * /Water Tram/
 * /Underwater Home/
 * /Creating NPC Villages/, see also: NPC Village


 * /Beating a Challenge Map/
 * /Super Flat Survival/
 * /Managing Slimes in Superflat Mode/

Farming and Mining
Need more resources? Need food? Make a farm! How? Read the articles below!


 * /Automatic Farming/
 * /Cactus Farming/
 * /Egg Farming/
 * /Mushroom Farming/
 * /Sugarcane Farming/
 * /Tree Farming/
 * Wheat Farming
 * /Snow Farming/
 * /Netherwart Farming/


 * Mob Farms and Mob Grinders
 * /Enderman Trap/
 * /Monster Spawner Traps/


 * /Branch Mining/
 * /Cobblestone Farming/ and /Stone Farming/
 * /Diamonds/
 * /Music Disc Farming/
 * /Obsidian Farming/
 * Quarries
 * /Vertical Mine Shaft With Water Drop/

Mechanisms
Master Redstone! These are guides for players who are difficult to satisfy.


 * /Redstone circuits for dummies/
 * /Rapidfire Piston Clock/
 * /Redstone Machines/
 * /Automatic door/
 * /Block update detector/
 * /Complete Redstone Tutorial/
 * /Mechanisms/


 * /Bank/
 * /Casino/
 * /Train Station/
 * Tricks with Minecarts
 * /Minecart start booster/


 * /Snow golem defense turrets/
 * /TNT Cannons/
 * Waterless TNT Cannon
 * /Trapdoor Uses/
 * /Traps/ and /Trap Design/


 * /Piston Uses/
 * /Piston circuits/


 * /Advanced Redstone Circuits/
 * /Calculator/
 * /Hourly Clock/
 * /Pig Randomiser/
 * /Morse Code/
 * Redstone Telegraph
 * /Repeater Reboot System/

Technical Tutorials
Tired of surviving on your own? Hate the boring colours of Minecraft? Read the articles below!


 * /How to Install a Snapshot/
 * /Installing Mods/
 * Creating Mods
 * /Map downloads/
 * /Custom Maps/
 * /Minecraft Help FAQ/ (IRC Channel)
 * /Minecraft Sound Directory/
 * /Ramdisk enabled server/
 * /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/
 * /Setting up a server/
 * Spawn jails for SMP
 * /Update LWJGL/ to latest version

Texture Packs

 * /Custom Texture Packs/
 * /Loading a Texture Pack/

Creating Minecraft Videos

 * /Videos/

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