Tutorials

The list below contains tutorials describing various factors of Minecraft.

Newcomers
These tutorials are designed to help newcomers to Minecraft get a basic ground beneath their feet.


 * /Menu screen/
 * /Game terms/

Newcomer survival

 * The first day/Beginner's guide
 * /Your first 10 minutes/
 * /The second day/
 * /The third day/
 * /Hunger management/
 * /Navigation/
 * /Things not to do/
 * Simple tips and tricks
 * /Best biomes to play/

Shelters

 * Building and construction
 * /Shelters/
 * /Shelter types/
 * /Best biomes for homes/
 * /Best building materials/
 * Desert shelter

Essential
These tutorials are intended for right after you have a roof over your head and a renewable food source. These tutorials shed light on some of the core fixtures of Minecraft gameplay. As such, you should consider reading them all. • Village mechanics

• * /Trading/

• * /Villager farming/

• Mining

• Defense

• Carrot, potato, and wheat (farming)

• Meat (farming)

• Getting food quickly

• Best biomes for homes

• End survival

• Nether portals

• How to survive in a single area indefinitely

• Nether survival

• Complete main adventure

• Combat

• Shelters

• /Managing slimes in superflat mode/

General
Getting to know the game better. These are for when the player is comfortably established. • /Advancement guide/

• /Best enchantments guide/

• /Combat/

• /Complete main adventure/

• /Creating a village/

• /Downgrading/

• /Dual wielding/

• /Desert survival/

• /End survival/

• /Exploring caves/

• Game terms

• /Gathering resources on peaceful difficulty/

• /Hiding chests/

• /Hitboxes/

• /Horses/

• /Light suppression/

• /Mapping/

• /Measuring distance/

• /Mining/

• * /Ancient Debris/

• * /Diamonds/

• * Fossils

• /Multiplayer PvP bases/

• /Nether hub/

• /Nether portals/

• /Nether survival/

• /Organization/

• /Pillar jumping/

• /Player versus Player/

• /Phantom-proofing/

• /Spawn-proofing/

• /Summoning jockeys/

• /Things to do when bored/

• /Thunderstorm survival/

• /Time-saving tips/

• /Transportation methods/

• /Units of measure/

• /Village mechanics/

• /Zombie siege defense/

Construction
• /Adding beauty to constructions/

• /Airlock/

• /Architectural terms/

• /Building a metropolis/

• /Building micro shelters/

• /Building a rollercoaster/

• Building safe homes

• /Building water features/

• /Color palette/

• /Creating shapes/

• Cruise ship

• /Curved roofs/

• /Defense/

• /Desert shelter/

• /Elevators/

• /Endless circling pool/

• /Furniture/

• /Glazed terracotta patterns/

• /Hiking trail/

• /Making nice floors/

• /Pixel art/

• Ranches

• /Roof construction guidelines/

• /Roof decorations/

• /Roof types/

• /Secret door/

• /Settlement guide/

• /Underwater home/

• /Walls and buttresses/

• /Water gate/

• /Water-powered boat transportation/

Challenges
• /Acquiring a conduit/

•  /Conquering a mountain/

•  /Defeating a stronghold/

•  /Defeating a bastion remnant/

•  /Defeating a dungeon/

•  /Defeating a Nether fortress/

•  /Defeating a monument/

•  /Defeating an End city/

•  /Defeating a pillager outpost/

•  /Defeating a woodland mansion/

•  /Defeating a village raid/

•  /Defeating temples/

•  /Defeating the ender dragon/

•  /Defeating the wither/

•  /Exploring an ancient city/

•  /Obtaining every music disc/

Non-standard survival
• /Adventure survival/

• /Custom maps/

• Flat survival (Bedrock and Java Edition)

• /Half hearted hardcore/

• /Hardcore mode/

• /How to survive in a single area indefinitely/

• /Island survival/

• /Manhunt/

• /Mob switch/

• /Nomadic experience/

• /Speedrun/ning

• /Skyblock/

• /Superflat survival/ (Java Edition)

• /Survival in an infinite desert/

• Survival with no enabled data packs

• /Ultra hardcore survival/

Challenge maps
• /Beating a challenge map/

• /Creating a challenge map/

Exploiting bugs
These tutorials rely on bugs to work and may be fixed at any time. Some servers may consider the use of these bugs as bannable.
 * /Bedrock farming/
 * /Block and item duplication/
 * /Breaking bedrock/


 * /Headless pistons/
 * /Indestructible end crystals/
 * /X-ray glitches/
 * /Update suppression/

Farming
These tutorials provide information on crop and mob farming. In most cases, the player has a choice among a variety of farming methods and designs. While a huge automatic farm may be useful where large supplies of something are needed, it's important to remember that a small, simple farm can easily provide enough resources for an early-game player, or casual use in general.

Items
• Amethyst

•  Armor

•  Azalea

•  Bamboo

•  Basalt

•  Bedrock

•  Blaze rod

•  Bone meal

•  Cactus

•  Chorus fruit

•   Clay and mud

•  Cobblestone

•  Cocoa bean

•  Copper

•  Crops

•  Dirt

•  Dragon's breath

•  Dripstone

•  Egg,  feather and chicken

•  Experience

•  Fern

•  Fish

•  Flower

•  Froglight

•  Glow berries

•  Glow ink sac

•  Glow lichen

•  Goat horn

•  Gold

•  Gunpowder

•  Hanging roots

•  Honey

•  Ice

•  Iron

•  Kelp

•  Lava

•  Meat

•  Moss block

•  Mushroom

•  Music disc

•  Nautilus shell

•  Nether growth

•  Nether vine

•  Nether wart

•  Obsidian

•  Powder snow

•  Pumpkin and melon

•  Rooted dirt

•  Sculk

•  Scute

•  Seagrass

•  Sea pickle

•  Snow

•  Soul soil

•  Sugar cane

•  Sweet berries

•  Tree

•  Trident

•  Vine

•  Villager trading hall

•  Wither rose

•  Wool

•  Duplication

Mobs
• Mob farming

• Mob grinding

• /Monster spawner traps/

•  Allay

•  Animals

•  Axolotl

•  Bee

•  Blaze

•  Cat

•  Cave spider

•  Chicken

•  Creeper

•  Drowned

•  Ender dragon

•  Enderman

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•  Glow squid

•  Goat

•  Guardian

•  Hoglin

•  Iron golem

•  Magma cube

•  Phantom

•  Piglin bartering

•  Raid

•  Shulker

•  Slime

•  Squid

•  Turtle

•  Villager

•  Wandering trader

•  Warden

•  Witch

•  Wither

•  Wither skeleton

•  Wolf

•  Zombie

•  Zombie villager

•  Zombified piglin

OP farms
This section is for farms which are extremely overpowered and produce much more drops than the casual Minecraft player needs, and require their own article to explain it in detail. • End of light mob farms

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


 * Enchanting mechanics
 * Anvil mechanics
 * /Automatic smelting/
 * Smelting

Block breaking
These tutorials provide information on how to break blocks automatically, usually by an explosion.


 * /Blast chamber/
 * /Igniting TNT underwater/
 * /Wither cage/

Redstone and mechanisms
These tutorials provide information on redstone mechanisms.

Redstone basics

 * Redstone tutorials: Roundup of all redstone-related tutorials (some are also linked below)
 * Redstone dust: The core material that enables most redstone devices, being crafted into many of them and also placed to carry signals.
 * Mechanics/Redstone: The basic game mechanics for redstone power and signals.
 * Mechanics/Redstone/Components: The blocks that are used in and with redstone contraptions.
 * Tutorials/Redstone tips: Hints and advice for building your redstone devices.
 * Mechanics/Redstone/Circuit: Lists various types of reusable circuits that can be used to manipulate signals, with sub-pages giving examples of the various types.

Various devices

 * Tutorials/Hopper: Hoppers are key for item handling and sorting.
 * Tutorials/Item sorting: Sorts items.
 * Tutorials/Mechanisms: Lists an assortment of complete devices using redstone.
 * Tutorials/Minecarts: Large railway systems can benefit from redstone at the terminals.
 * Tutorials/Redstone music: Creating music with Note Blocks and redstone circuits.
 * Tutorials/Rube Goldberg machine: Complexity and spectacle!
 * Tutorials/Storage minecarts: Loading and unloading chests and hopper minecarts.

Traps

 * /Snow golems/
 * /TNT cannons/
 * /Trapdoor uses/
 * /Traps/ and /Trap design/
 * /Zombie villager sorting/

Redstone (advanced)

 * /Flying machines/
 * /Advanced redstone circuits/
 * /Redstone computers/
 * /Hourly clock/
 * /Morse code/
 * Redstone telegraph

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


 * /Setting up a server/
 * /Setting up a LAN world/
 * /Hamachi connection LAN/
 * /Setting up a Minecraft Forge server/
 * /Setting up a Spigot server/
 * /Ramdisk enabled server/
 * /Server maintenance/
 * /Griefing prevention/
 * /Multiplayer survival/
 * /Playing on servers/
 * Spawn jails for multiplayer

Technical
These tutorials provide information on technical matters, such as mods and snapshots. • /Command blocks and functions/

• /Command NBT tags/

• /How to install a snapshot/

• /Creating a data pack/

• /Installing a data pack/

• /Custom world generation/

• /How to get a crash report/

• See Minecraft's code

• Installing Forge mods

• /Loading a resource pack/

• /Creating a resource pack/

• /Map downloads/

• /Custom maps/

• Joining a LAN world with alternate accounts

• Custom Minecraft directory

• /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

• Run Minecraft through Google Drive

• /Improving frame rate/

• /Update Java/ to latest version

• /Updating old terrain/

• /Falling blocks/

• Minecraft on Chrome OS

• /Moving structures using structure blocks from world to world/

• /Playing with a controller/

Creating Minecraft media

 * /Videos/
 * Livestreaming

Bedrock Edition only

 * /Achievement guide/
 * Joining and leaving the beta
 * Propelling boats uphill

Other

 * Minecraft help FAQ
 * Minecraft in education

Outdated tutorials
The following tutorials are obsolete and intended for older versions of Minecraft. They are kept here for historical purposes.


 * /Custom texture packs/ — texture packs are no longer used, resource packs use new file structure
 * /How to get a crash report (Outdated)/ — no longer works with the current launcher
 * /Water tram/ - Boat mechanics have been overhauled
 * /Repeater reboot system/ — a glitch that existed in Beta only
 * /Update LWJGL (Legacy)/ — current launcher automatically updates libraries
 * Custom 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


 * Installing mods - Modloader — ModLoader is no longer supported by its creator
 * /Far Lands/ — Only existed before Beta 1.8
 * /Instant wire/ — a glitch that existed in Beta
 * Update Minecraft — updating and downgrading Minecraft is automatic in the new launcher
 * /Minecart booster/ — Minecart boosters were fixed shortly after the introduction of powered rails.
 * /Survival with no enabled data packs/ - Blocks no longer drop items when data packs are disabled with the Village & Pillage update.
 * /Door-based iron golem farming/ - Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
 * /Village chaining/ - Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
 * /Potion farming/ - This method of potion farming was patched in version 1.17.30 as a result of being too overpowered. Witch farms can still give potions however.

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