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 are for the absolute beginner. They 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/

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/
 * /Time-Saving Tips/
 * /Transportation/
 * /Wolves/


 * /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.)
 * /Night lights(Lights activated at night)/

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/
 * /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/
 * /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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