Tutorials

The list below contains tutorials describing various factors of Minecraft.

Newcomers[]

These tutorials are designed to help newcomers to Minecraft get a basic ground beneath their feet.

Newcomer survival[]

Shelters[]

Essential[]

These tutorials are intended for right after you have a roof over your head and a renewable food source. These tutorials shed light on some of the core fixtures of Minecraft gameplay. As such, you should consider reading them all.

Village mechanics
- Trading
- Villager farming
Mining
Defense
Carrot, potato, and wheat (farming)
Meat (farming)
Getting food quickly
Best biomes for homes
End survival
Nether portals
How to survive in a single area indefinitely
Nether survival
Complete main adventure
Combat
Shelters
Managing slimes in superflat mode

General[]

Getting to know the game better. These are for when the player is comfortably established.

Construction[]

Challenges[]

Non-standard survival[]

Adventure survival
Custom maps
Flat survival (Bedrock and Java Edition)
Half hearted hardcore
Hardcore mode
How to survive in a single area indefinitely
Island survival
Manhunt
Mob switch
Nomadic experience
Speedrunning
Skyblock
Superflat survival (Java Edition)
Survival in an infinite desert
Survival with no enabled data packs
Ultra hardcore survival

Challenge maps[]

Exploiting bugs[]

These tutorials rely on bugs to work and may be fixed at any time. Some servers may consider the use of these bugs as bannable.

Farming[]

These tutorials provide information on crop and mob farming. In most cases, the player has a choice among a variety of farming methods and designs. While a huge automatic farm may be useful where large supplies of something are needed, it's important to remember that a small, simple farm can easily provide enough resources for an early-game player, or casual use in general.

Items[]

Mobs[]

OP farms[]

This section is for farms which are extremely overpowered and produce much more drops than the casual Minecraft player needs, and require their own article to explain it in detail.

End of light mob farms

Enchanting and smelting[]

These tutorials provide information on how the furnaces and the enchantment system work.

Block breaking[]

These tutorials provide information on how to break blocks automatically, usually by an explosion.

Redstone and mechanisms[]

These tutorials provide information on redstone mechanisms.

Redstone basics[]

Redstone tutorials: Roundup of all redstone-related tutorials (some are also linked below)
Redstone dust: The core material that enables most redstone devices, being crafted into many of them and also placed to carry signals.
Mechanics/Redstone: The basic game mechanics for redstone power and signals.
Mechanics/Redstone/Components: The blocks that are used in and with redstone contraptions.
Tutorials/Redstone tips: Hints and advice for building your redstone devices.
Mechanics/Redstone/Circuit: Lists various types of reusable circuits that can be used to manipulate signals, with sub-pages giving examples of the various types.

Various devices[]

Tutorials/Hopper: Hoppers are key for item handling and sorting.
Tutorials/Item sorting: Sorts items.
Tutorials/Mechanisms: Lists an assortment of complete devices using redstone.
Tutorials/Minecarts: Large railway systems can benefit from redstone at the terminals.
Tutorials/Redstone music: Creating music with Note Blocks and redstone circuits.
Tutorials/Rube Goldberg machine: Complexity and spectacle!
Tutorials/Storage minecarts: Loading and unloading chests and hopper minecarts.

Traps[]

Redstone (advanced)[]

Servers[]

These tutorials provide information on how servers work and how to set up one.

Technical[]

These tutorials provide information on technical matters, such as mods and snapshots.

Creating Minecraft media[]

Bedrock Edition only[]

Other[]

Outdated tutorials[]

The following tutorials are obsolete and intended for older versions of Minecraft. They are kept here for historical purposes.

Custom texture packs — texture packs are no longer used, resource packs use new file structure
How to get a crash report (Outdated) — no longer works with the current launcher
Water tram - Boat mechanics have been overhauled
Repeater reboot system — a glitch that existed in Beta only
Update LWJGL (Legacy) — current launcher automatically updates libraries
Custom lake — these methods are no longer needed since water is more obliging
Water ladder — no longer works as given, water behavior has changed a lot since Beta
Installing mods - Modloader — ModLoader is no longer supported by its creator
Far Lands — Only existed before Beta 1.8
Instant wire — a glitch that existed in Beta
Update Minecraft — updating and downgrading Minecraft is automatic in the new launcher
Minecart booster — Minecart boosters were fixed shortly after the introduction of powered rails.
Survival with no enabled data packs - Blocks no longer drop items when data packs are disabled with the Village & Pillage update.
Door-based iron golem farming - Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
Village chaining - Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
Potion farming - This method of potion farming was patched in version 1.17.30 as a result of being too overpowered. Witch farms can still give potions however.