Tutorials/Construction

For newbies to Minecraft, fending off for your first night and harvesting materials can already be a very painful if not confusing job. This tutorial will help you construct some of the most useful as well as some of the most impressive buildings available to Minecraft.

Navigational Towers and Lighthouses
Navigational towers and lighthouses can be created to help you find your way home after a trip to say, the beach.

1) Start by using the "gravel elevator" or "sand elevator" method to create a tower, however, it is recommended that you use a more stable material, such as cobblestone. This tower should be built to your desired tower height. Feel free to add a balcony around you. If desired, you can add glowstone, a torch, or a redstone torch to the top, otherwise this can be accomplished later.

2) WARNING: YOU MAY WANT TO SWITCH TO PEACEFUL MODE BEFORE ACCOMPLISHING THIS STEP, AS IT MAY REQUIRE LOSING HEALTH. Yes, this may sound stupid, but you should jump off the tower.

3) Build as many ladders as you need to reach the top of the tower.

4) Build a second tower of a collapsible material. It should be close enough so that you can place things on the first tower you built. As you build your way up on the collapsible tower, place ladders on the first tower.

5) Repeat step 2 to get off of the collapsible tower.

6) You should now be able to access the tower with ease. Destroy the collapsible tower. If you didn't do so already, place some sort of light source at the top.

Cobblestone Generator/Farmer
See Tutorials/Cobblestone farming for a link to a good YouTube video for creating a cobblestone generator.

Mob Farming
See Tutorials/Mob Farm for directions on making a mob farm.

Tree/Cacti Farming
See Tutorials/Tree farming or Tutorials/Cactus Farming for directions on making one.