How to play

How to play is a guide designed to help new and old players to Minecraft. It has many different parts and sections to it.

Movement
Use the mouse to look around.

Use    to move around.

Press to jump.

Press twice in rapid succession or press  to sprint. While you hold, you continue to sprint until you have less than.

Sprinting while in water makes you swim. Use the mouse to control the direction in which you are swimming.

Breaking and Placing
Hold to mine and chop using your hand or whatever you are holding. You may need to craft a tool to mine some blocks.

If you are holding an item in your hand, use to use that item or press  to drop it.

Sneaking
Sneaking is incredibly useful in Minecraft, it keeps you from falling off of a block and hides your nametag. To sneak, hold.

Nightfall
Before night fall, make sure you have obtained some wool by killing or shearing sheep, with three wool (of the same colour) and three planks you can make a bed (Or you can steal a villager's bed). with a bed you can skip night because hostile mobs spawn in low light levels(Creepers, spiders, skeletons, zombies and endermen). If you are playing with multiple people then you need to get multiple beds and to skip night all players need to be in bed at the same time. Once you have slept for one night and you don't sleep again for 3 nights straight, phantoms will spawn.

Chat
Press to open Chat. Type your message and press.

Crafting Table
The Crafting Table lets you craft more complicated recipes.

Place it in the world, then press on the Crafting Table to use it.

Furnace
The furnace is a workstation that can smelt certain items/blocks. The crafting recipe for the furnace is cobblestone surrounding the middle. Furnaces require an item to smelt and a Fuel/fuel source. The fuel goes on the lower left section of the furnace interface and the item to smelt goes on the top left. The arrow that appears shows progress on the item being smelted/cooked and the fire icon shows how much more fuel can be used (will continue to decrease without even being in use). The most common fuel sources that are easily available are Coal and Charcoal; with the best fuel source (individually) is a Lava Bucket and a Coal Block.

Book & Quill
The Book & Quill lets you record your adventures. Tell your story by entering text into the pages. You can even change the title and the author! Sign the Book & Quill to finalize your work. The Book & Quill can be edited until it is signed.

Nether Portal
A Nether Portal allows you to travel to a different dimension called the Nether. Nether Portals consist of obsidian (crying obsidian isn't compatable) in a 4 block by 5 block frame (as shown below).

If constructed correctly, the Nether portal can be lit via flame (from either burning blocks or flint and steel/fire charge) and activated. The inside of the frame should turn purple and you can now enter the Nether.

Examples of portal construction are shown here:



Eye Of Ender
Eyes of Ender are connected to the Stronghold and can lead you to the End. They are crafted with Blaze Powder and Enderpearls in a shapeless recipe

After throwing an Eye of Ender, it will travel a short distance in the general direction of the nearest stronghold structure. When the Eye of Ender proceeds to travel downwards it means you are above the stronghold, you will have to dig down until Y = around about 30 or you might find a nataurally generated cave going in that direction (option 1 is more reliable). In the stronghold you will find many paths leading different directions, you need to look for a specific room which contains the End Portal. When you find the room you will find a Silverfish spawner and 12 End Portal Frames. Using an Eye of Ender on these frames will fill them in. Once you've filled them all in (some should be filled by world generation), You should hear a loud noise and a new block appearing between the frames. Touching this block will cause you to be transported to The End where you can now fight the Enderdragon, You also can't set your spawnpoint in the End (Beds and Respawn Anchors explode) so be sure to set your spawnpoint in the portal room.

Servers
To access online servers on Java, you need to go to multiplayer, then add server (or direct connect) and type the server ip address into ip section, after confirming you should be able to access that server. On Minecraft Bedrock, after pressing play a server tab should be available with a handful of servers being shown, pick one and you can join it.