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 In Minecraft/
 * /Hunger Management/


 * /Adventure Survival/
 * Building and construction
 * /Shelters/
 * /Mining Techniques/
 * /Navigation/
 * /Shelter Types/
 * Simple tips and tricks
 * /Things not to do/

Minecraft Survival Guide

 * Controls and Starting Steps
 * Mining Basics

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


 * /Achievement Guide/
 * /Colonizing/
 * /Combat/
 * /Creepers/
 * /Finish Adventure/
 * /Furniture/
 * /Infinite Water Source/
 * /How to find caves/
 * /Mapping/
 * /Measuring Distance/
 * /Nether Survival/
 * /Ocelots/
 * /Organization/
 * /Playing on servers/
 * /PvP/
 * /Surviving in the Wild/
 * /Time-Saving Tips/
 * /Transportation/
 * /Wolves/
 * /Useless Things To Build/


 * /Hardcore Mode/
 * /Beating a Challenge Map/
 * /Creating a Challenge Map/
 * /Nomadic experience/
 * /Superflat Survival/
 * /Managing Slimes in Superflat Mode/

Constructions

 * /Airlock/
 * Building Safe Homes
 * /Home Defense/
 * Elevators
 * /Water Elevator/
 * /Man-Made Lake/
 * /Secret Door/
 * /Shelter Defense/
 * /Water Gate/
 * /Floodgate/
 * /Water Ladder/
 * /Water Tram/
 * /Underground Home/
 * /Underwater Home/
 * /Creating NPC Villages/, see also: NPC Village
 * /Building a Metropolis/
 * Pig Parking
 * Importing Ender Crystal(s) (MCEdit Required)
 * MicroShelter Building (or if you'd like, a slightly larger MiniShelter.)
 * /City Guide/
 * /Night lights(Lights activated at night)/
 * /Construction Styles/
 * Multiplayer PvP Bases

Mining
Need more resources? Dig a mine!


 * /Branch Mining/
 * Quarries
 * /Vertical Mine Shaft With Water Drop/
 * /Cobblestone Farming/
 * /Diamonds/
 * /Obsidian Farming/
 * /Materials Tactics/

Farming
Need food, items or animals? Make a farm! How? Read the articles below!


 * /Animal Breeding/
 * /Automatic Farming/
 * /Cactus Farming/
 * /Cake Farm/
 * /Cocoa Bean Farming/
 * /Egg Farming/
 * /Meat Farming/
 * /Pumpkin and Melon Farming/
 * /Mushroom Farming/
 * /Music Disc Farming/
 * /Nether Wart Farming/
 * /Snow Farming/
 * /Squid Farming/
 * /Sugar Cane Farming/
 * /Tree Farming/
 * Wheat Farming
 * /Carrot Farming/
 * /Potato Farming/
 * /Flower Farming/


 * Mob Farms and Mob Grinders
 * /Enderman Trap/
 * /Monster Spawner Traps/

Enchanting
These are guides for enchanting-related topics:


 * /Anvil mechanics/

Smelting / Cooking

 * Automatic Furnace

Mechanisms
Master Redstone! These are guides for players who are difficult to satisfy.
 * /Wireless Redstone/
 * /Automatic Time Reseter/
 * /Redstone circuits for dummies/
 * /Rapidfire Piston Clock/
 * /Redstone Machines/
 * /Passlock door/
 * /Block update detector/
 * /Day Night Detector/
 * /Resetting item detector/
 * /Complete Redstone Tutorial/
 * /Mechanisms/
 * /Command Block/
 * /Item Sorter/


 * /Train Station/
 * /Minecarts/
 * /Minecart start booster/


 * /Snow Golems/
 * /TNT Cannons/
 * Waterless TNT Cannon
 * Building the 114.0R4.4MB2
 * /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/

Technical tutorials
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)
 * /Minecraft Sound Directory/
 * /Ramdisk enabled server/
 * /Hamachi connection LAN/
 * /Setting up a Minecraft Forge server/
 * /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/
 * /Setting up a server/
 * /Server startup script/
 * /FreeBSD startup script/
 * /OpenBSD startup script/
 * /Ubuntu startup script/
 * M3tal Warrior's server startup script
 * Spawn jails for SMP
 * /Update LWJGL/ to latest version
 * /Update Java/ to latest version
 * /Pocket Edition/

Texture Packs

 * /Custom Texture Packs/
 * /Loading a Texture Pack/

Creating Minecraft videos

 * /Videos/

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