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/


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

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/


 * /Hardcore Mode/
 * /Beating a Challenge Map/
 * /Creating a Challenge Map/
 * /Nomadic experience/
 * /Superflat Survival/
 * /Adventure Survival/

Constructions

 * /Airlock/
 * /Building a Metropolis/
 * Building Safe Homes
 * /Construction Styles/
 * /Creating Villages/, see also: Village
 * /Home Defense/
 * /Elevators/
 * /Man-Made Lake/
 * /Secret Door/
 * /Shelter Defense/
 * /Water Gate/
 * /Water Tram/
 * /Underground Home/
 * /Underwater Home/
 * Pig Parking
 * /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/

Item Farming
Need items? Make a farm! How? Read the articles below!


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

Mob Farming
Need mob drops? Read the following articles below.


 * Mob Farming
 * Mob Grinding
 * Monster Spawner traps
 * Enderman
 * Iron Golem
 * Wither
 * Squid

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.


 * /Item Counter/
 * /Wireless Redstone/
 * /Automatic Time Reseter/
 * /Rapidfire Piston Clock/
 * /Redstone Machines/
 * /Passlock door/
 * /Block update detector/
 * /Day Night Detector/
 * /Resetting item detector/
 * /Mechanisms/
 * /Command Block/
 * /Item Sorter/


 * /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/

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)
 * /Minecraft 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/

Servers
These are guides to running a server.


 * /Setting up a server/
 * /Server startup script/
 * /FreeBSD startup script/
 * /OpenBSD startup script/
 * /Ubuntu startup script/
 * M3tal Warrior's server startup script
 * /Hamachi connection LAN/
 * /Setting up a Minecraft Forge server/
 * /Ramdisk enabled server/
 * Spawn jails for SMP

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/

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