Tutorials

New to Minecraft and don't know where to go and what to do? On this page, you will find a list of useful tutorials 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 will teach you the basics and how to survive your first few nights.

Newcomer Survival

 * The first day / Beginner's guide
 * /The second day/
 * /The third day/
 * /Your first ten minutes/
 * /Hunger management/

Shelters

 * Building and construction
 * /Navigation/
 * /Shelters/
 * /Shelter types/
 * /Things not to do/
 * Simple tips and tricks

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


 * /Achievement guide/
 * /Colonizing/
 * /Combat/
 * /Creating a village/
 * /Finish adventure/
 * /Furniture/
 * /How to find caves/
 * /Mapping/
 * /Measuring distance/
 * /Nether survival/
 * /Nether Hub/
 * /Organization/
 * /PvP/
 * /Multiplayer PvP Bases/
 * /Time-saving tips/
 * /Village mechanics/

Challenges

 * /Beating a challenge map/
 * /Creating a challenge map/
 * /Hardcore mode/
 * /Nomadic experience/
 * /Superflat survival/
 * /Adventure survival/

Construction

 * /Airlock/
 * /Architectural terms/
 * /Building a metropolis/
 * Building safe homes
 * Defense
 * /Elevators/
 * Pig parking
 * /Roof types/
 * /Curved roofs/
 * /Roof construction guidelines/
 * /Roof decorations/
 * /Secret door/
 * /Settlement guide/
 * /Underwater home/
 * Walls and buttresses
 * /Water gate/


 * /Adding Beauty to Constructions/

Mining
Need more resources? Dig a mine!


 * /Mining techniques/
 * /Cobblestone farming/
 * /Diamonds/
 * /Obsidian farming/

Item farming
Need items? Make a farm! How? Read the articles below!


 * Cactus
 * Cake
 * Carrot, Potato, and Wheat
 * Carrot
 * Cocoa Bean
 * Egg
 * Flower
 * Fish
 * Ice
 * Meat
 * Mushroom
 * Music Disc
 * Nether Wart
 * Potato
 * Pumpkin and melon
 * Snow
 * Sugar Cane
 * Tree
 * Wheat

Mob farming
Need mob drops? Read the following articles below.


 * Mob farming
 * Mob grinding
 * Monster Spawner traps
 * Enderman
 * Iron Golem
 * Wither
 * Squid
 * Magma cube
 * Iron golem

Enchanting and smelting
These are guides for enchanting and smelting-related topics:


 * Enchantment mechanics
 * Anvil mechanics
 * /Automatic smelting/

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


 * /Beginning Redstone/
 * /Command Block/
 * /Hopper/
 * /Mechanisms/
 * /Passlock door/
 * /Redstone machines/

Detectors

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

Minecarts

 * /Train station/
 * /Minecarts/
 * /Minecart start booster/

Traps

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

Pistons

 * /Piston uses/
 * /Piston circuits/
 * /Simple piston door/
 * Jeb Doors

Redstone (Advanced)

 * /Advanced redstone circuits/
 * /Calculator/
 * /Hourly clock/
 * /Pig randomiser/
 * /Morse code/
 * Redstone telegraph
 * /Repeater reboot system/
 * /Redstone clock telegraph/

Servers
These are guides to running a server.


 * /Playing on servers/
 * Spawn jails for SMP

Server Setup

 * /Setting up a server/
 * /Server startup script/
 * /FreeBSD startup script/
 * /OpenBSD startup script/
 * /Ubuntu startup script/
 * /Hamachi connection LAN/
 * Setting up a Minecraft Forge server prior to version 1.6+
 * Setting up a Minecraft Forge server 1.6+
 * /Ramdisk enabled server/

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


 * /How to install a snapshot/
 * Creating mods
 * /Map downloads/
 * /Custom maps/
 * /Minecraft help FAQ/ (IRC Channel)
 * /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/
 * /Update Java/ to latest version
 * Importing Ender Crystals
 * /Pocket Edition/

Texture packs

 * /Custom texture packs/
 * /Loading a texture pack/

Creating Minecraft videos

 * /Videos/

Outdated tutorials
The following tutorials are those which were intended for an older version of Minecraft.


 * /Managing slimes in superflat mode/ (slimes are no longer a plague)
 * /Update LWJGL (Legacy)/ to latest version (now it is updated automatically)
 * /Man-made lake/ (these methods are no longer needed, since water is more obliging)
 * /Water ladder/ (No longer works as given, water's behavior has changed a lot since Beta)
 * /Water tram/ (ditto)


 * Installing mods - Modloader
 * Installing mods prior to version 1.6+ - Forge

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