Tutorials

If one is new to Minecraft and doesn't know what do, they should consult this page for helpful tutorials that will help. 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 the player.

Newcomers
If you're new to minecraft, then that's the place you're looking for. This tutorials below will help you in your beggining steps.

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/
 * /Best biomes for homes/
 * /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/
 * /End survival/
 * /Finish adventure/
 * /Furniture/
 * /How to find caves/
 * /Mapping/
 * /Measuring distance/
 * /Nether survival/
 * /Nether hub/
 * /Organization/
 * /PvP/
 * /Multiplayer PvP bases/
 * /Time-saving tips/
 * /Village mechanics/

Construction

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

Challenges

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

Mining
These tutorials will provide you information on some useful mining techniques.


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

Farming
These tutorials will provide you information on crop farming and mob farming.

Items

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

Mobs

 * Mob farming
 * Mob grinding
 * Monster Spawner traps
 * Animals
 * Enderman
 * Iron Golem
 * Magma cube
 * Slime
 * Squid
 * Witch
 * Wither
 * Wither skeleton

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


 * Enchantment mechanics
 * Anvil mechanics
 * /Automatic smelting/

Mechanisms
These tutorials will provide you information on complicated (and easy) redstone mechanisms.

Basic Redstone

 * /Flying technologies/
 * /Command Block/
 * /Hopper/
 * /Mechanisms/
 * /Passlock door/
 * /Redstone machines/
 * Rube Goldberg machine

Detectors

 * /Block update detector/
 * /Comparator update detector/
 * /Day night detector/
 * /Use a map item as a scroll/

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/

Redstone (Advanced)

 * /Advanced redstone circuits/
 * /Calculator/
 * /Hourly clock/
 * /Pig randomiser/
 * /Morse code/
 * Redstone telegraph
 * /Redstone clock telegraph/
 * /Redstone computers/

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


 * /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/
 * /Ramdisk enabled server/

Technical
These tutorials will provide information on technical stuff like mods and snapshots.


 * /How to install a snapshot/
 * Creating mods
 * Installing mods - Forge
 * /Loading a resource pack/
 * /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
 * /Pocket Edition/

Creating Minecraft Media

 * /Videos/
 * Live Streaming

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


 * Importing Ender Crystals (you can use the /summon command now)
 * /Managing slimes in superflat mode/ (slimes are no longer a plague)
 * /Repeater reboot system/ (glitch that existed in Beta only)
 * /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 behavior has changed a lot since Beta)
 * /Water tram/ (ditto)


 * Installing mods - Modloader
 * /Custom texture packs/

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