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.

Bedrock Edition
These instructions can be applied to the Bedrock Editions of the game.

Basics
The basics of Minecraft are very simple, but when you progress, it gets harder and harder.

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.

HUD
The Heads-up display is a feature that appears when players are playing the game. The Heads-up display shows the Health Bar, the Hunger bar, the crosshair, the Experience Bar, the hotbar, and the Oxygen bar.

Inventory
Survival Mode Inventory

The Inventory is the pop-up menu that a player uses to manage items they carry. From this screen, a player can equip armor, craft items on a 2x2 grid, and equip tools, blocks, and items on the Hotbar displayed at the bottom of the screen. A player's Minecraft skin is displayed here as well. The inventory consists of 4 armor slots, 27 storage slots, and 9 hotkey slots. As of update 1.9, there is also an off-hand slot for a Shield. Some items stack up to a maximum of 64 in one slot. Blocks and most food items are stackable but tools (with the exception of clocks and compasses) are not. Snowballs, eggs, signs and Ender Pearls are special and can only stack up to 16. To split a stack, right-click the stack. One way to organize and craft items is by holding L-Shift and clicking on the item; doing so will change the item's position to the Hotbar, the inventory slots, to the armor slots if the item can be worn by a player or if the item is stackable, it will stack along with other equal items. Moreover, holding L-Shift and clicking on an item/pressing circle while a chest is open will immediately move the item(s) into the chest. Also, if a player L-Shift and also allow quick movement of items to Furnaces, Anvils, Brewing Stands and Enchantment Tables in the same way as chests, but only for items that can be used in them.

Creative Mode Inventory

In Creative Mode, the inventory contains all blocks and items from survival, along with others that can't be found, like spawn eggs. A player can pick up blocks from here to use endlessly or drop things right in the menu to remove them. Clicking on something more than once will give them a stack of that block or item. Right-clicking a block or item will give a player a full-stack. The Creative mode inventory menu is sorted into 10 sections labeled on tabs: 'Building Blocks', 'Decoration Blocks', 'Redstone', 'Transportation', 'Miscellaneous', 'Foodstuffs', 'Tools', 'Combat', 'Brewing', and 'Materials'. There is also a search box and a survival inventory tab.

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 slot 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.

Anvil
The anvil is a workstation where you can repair, enchant and name your tools, armor and name tags. The crafting recipe for an anvil is 3 iron blocks on the top, 3 iron ingots on the bottom and 1 iron ingot in the middle. To name name tags on an anvil, Put the name tag on the first slot at the top left, and rename the name tag on the text field. For enchanting your tools and armor, put the tool/armor on the first slot at the bottom, and then put the enchanted book on the second slot at the bottom. For repairing you tools/armor, put the broken armor/tool on the first slot at the bottom, and then choose the way to repair it. There are two methods. Using the same tool and repairing it with that or using the material used to make it. For example, an elytra can be repaired with some leather. Put your chosen method on the second slot at the bottom. And there you go!

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.