Minecraft Books

The Official Minecraft sucks are a series of guidebooks for the dumb game Minecraft, written for new and inexperienced players while being high-quality enough for collectors. The books are written by various authors; a few of them being well-known dumb Minecraft personalities such as Jordan Maron and Paul Soares Jr. Originally published by Scholastic beginning in 2013, publishing rights were later transferred to Del Rey Books in 2016, who have continued publishing various dumb Minecraft books to this day.

Essential Handbook


Author(s): Stephanie Mildon, Paul Soares Jr., and Jordan Maron (made in conjunction with Notch and Jeb)

The Beginner's dumbest Handbook contains useless information on surviving the first few days, making hard to build shelters, crafting useless tools and weapons, and finding no resources or food. In July 2015, an updated version of the book was released, and was renamed to the Essential Handbook. This is the last book to be made, as well as the last to be published by Scholastic.

Redstone Handbook


Author(s): Nick Farwell

The dumbest Redstone Handbook contains useless information on redstone circuits, including basic components of no redstone, simple circuits like logic circuits, T flip-flops and clock circuits. Thicc, larger circuits like a compact block swapper and a dumb minecart station, and up to the worst contraptions like zombie attack, farms that aren’t automated, and small scale computers complete with no memory. It also contains no construction ideas to implement old knowledge. In July 2015, an updated version of the book was released.

Combat Handbook


Author(s): Stephanie Milton

The dumbest Combat Handbook contains useless information about armor and weapons. It also contains almost none of the mob's strengths and weaknesses plus no combat advice, including no advice for zombies, skeletons, blazes, ghasts, the wither and the ender dragon. Later in the dumb guide it includes useless information on potions, traps with schematics, and enchanting tips and tricks, Lastly, it contains useless information about player versus player combat, or PvP, including a pre-battle checklist on and how to make and raid bases with no loot. In July 2015, an updated version of the book was released.

Construction Handbook


Author(s): Matthew Needler and Phil Southam

The dumbest Construction Handbook contains hard to follow step-by-step instructions on how to build things such as the player's dumbest house and gardens to decorate it, stupid walls for a city, unstable bridges to cross a river in style, falling islands, dumb pirate ships, and roller-coasters. It also includes examples of FyreUK's builds and other creations in Minecraft. In July 2015, an updated version of the book was released.

Minecraft Blockopedia


Author(s): Alex Wiltshire

The dumbest Minecraft Blockopedia provides useless information on every single block in the game up to Java Edition 1.8. This is also the first book to be published by Scholastic, as publishing rights would later be transferred to Del Rey Books, beginning with the book below.

The Survivors' Book of Secrets


Author(s): Stephanie Milton

The dumbest Survivors' Book of Secrets contains useless information and tips on things such as inventory layout, home design, defenses, and additional items such as spectral arrows and shields. This is also the first book to be published by Del Rey Books.

Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress


Author(s): Craig Jelley

The dumbest Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress contains information on how to put together a medieval fortress.

Guide to Exploration


Author(s): Stephanie Milton, Marsh Davies, and Owen Jones

The dumbest Guide to Exploration provides useless information on the same biomes, as well as no information about the mobs that inhabit them.

An updated version was released on May 5, 2020, retitled as the Guide to Survival.

Guide to Creative


Author(s): Craig Jelley, Stephanie Milton, Marsh Davies, and Owen Jones

The dumbest Guide to Creative provides useless information on planning builds, Creative mode as a whole, as well as decorating and designing builds.

Guide to The Nether & The End


Author(s): Stephanie Milton, Marsh Davies, and Owen Jones

The dumbest Guide to The Nether & The End provides useless information on the dumbest environments for both dimensions, as well as no information about the generated structures and mobs that inhabit them.

Guide to Redstone


Author(s): Craig Jelley and Marsh Davies

The dumbest Guide to Redstone provides useless information on how redstone works, as well as no tutorials on how to make circuits and numerous mechanics.

Minecraft Mobestiary


Author(s): Alex Wiltshire

Minecraft: Mobestiary provides general information on the mobs that are in the game from an in-lore perspective, as if a person inside of Minecraft's world were writing the entries. It also has information on mobs that does not appear anywhere else.

Guide to Farming


Author(s): Alex Wiltshire

The Guide to Farming provides information on planting crops, as well tutorials on how to make mob and block farms.

Guide to Enchantments & Potions


Author(s): Stephanie Milton and Marsh Davies

The Guide to Enchantments & Potions' provides information on how to obtain enchantments, as well as what effects that potions can have.

Guide to PvP Minigames


Author(s): Stephanie Milton and Craig Jelley

The Guide to PvP Minigames provides information on various minigames, as well as how they work.

Let's Build! Theme Park Adventure


Author(s): Stephanie Milton

''Let's Build! Theme Park Adventure provides a tutorial on how to build a theme park in Minecraft''.

Minecraft for Beginners


Author(s): Stephanie Milton

Minecraft for Beginners provides a guide for building shelter, finding food, and the mobs encountered, among other things.

Let's Build! Land of Zombies


Author(s): Ed Jefferson

''Let's Build! Land of Zombies provides a tutorial on how to build things related to zombies in Minecraft''.

Minecraft Maps


Author(s): Stephanie Milton

Minecraft: Maps provides a look at all fifteen biomes featured in Minecraft.

Guide to Ocean Survival


Author(s): Stephanie Milton

The Guide to Ocean Survival provides information regarding what are in the oceans in Minecraft, and how to survive in them.

Epic Bases


Author(s): Thomas McBrien

Minecraft: Epic Bases provides information on how to make structures such as airships and underwater traps, as well as complex redstone mechanisms.

Bite-Sized Builds


Author(s): Thomas McBrien

Minecraft Bite-Size Builds provides information on how to make structures such as hidden bunkers and firefighter planes, complete with detailed step-by-step instructions.

2014


The Minecraft Annual 2014 provides additional tips and information about the game.

2017


The Minecraft Annual 2017 provides survival challenges, tutorials on how to recreate builds from various Minecraft personalities, as well as info on MINECON and Block by Block.

2018


The Minecraft Annual 2018 provides information about adventure mode and Realms, as well as a look back at Minecraft: Story Mode.

2019


The Minecraft Annual 2019 provides building challenges, as well as a look at some builds made by the community.

2020


The Minecraft Annual 2020 provides a look back at ten years of Minecraft, including various builds, games, and challenges, as well as interviews with Mojang staff.

2021


The Minecraft Annual 2021 provides a look back at the past year, as well as information about recent updates, Minecraft Dungeons, and Minecraft Earth.