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.


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


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


 * Minecraft Survival Guide
 * Note: This is still being developed, so there's only a few pages right now.  Pages will appear as they are made.


 * Controls and Starting Steps
 * Mining Basics

User-made Guides
These are made by the community.


 * MC5025's in-depth Minecraft guide
 * Lobby (Tutorial Hub)


 * Exhelah's Minecraft Survival Guide
 * Controls and Starting Steps
 * Mining Basics


 * Meeples10's Piston Door
 * Piston door


 * Munin295's Tutorials
 * Transmission circuits
 * Hopper clock


 * Pmw57's Minecraft Help
 * Minecraft Troubleshooting/help


 * Simon Mith's Construction and Creepers guides
 * Advanced Construction
 * Architecture
 * Basic Construction
 * Beacons
 * Ceilings
 * Aesthetics
 * Construction Tutorials
 * Creeper Handling
 * Curved roofs
 * Floors
 * Furniture
 * Intermediate Construction
 * Lighting
 * Roads
 * Roof Construction
 * Roof Decorations
 * Roof types
 * Ships and sails
 * Redstone
 * Walls
 * Windows

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


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


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

Constructions

 * /Airlock/
 * /Building a metropolis/
 * Building safe homes
 * /Settlement Guide/
 * Defense
 * /Elevators/
 * Pig parking
 * /Secret door/
 * /Underwater home/
 * /Water gate/

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
 * Cocoa Bean
 * Egg
 * Flower
 * 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

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.


 * /Block update detector/
 * /Command Block/
 * /Day night detector/
 * /Hopper/
 * /Mechanisms/
 * /Passlock door/
 * /Redstone machines/


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


 * /Snow golems/
 * /TNT cannons/
 * /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/
 * /Redstone clock telegraph/

Servers
These are guides to running a server.


 * /Playing on servers/
 * Spawn jails for SMP


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


 * /How to install a snapshot/
 * Installing mods
 * 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 LWJGL/ to latest version
 * /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/
 * /Water ladder/
 * /Man-made lake/
 * /Water tram/

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