Tutorials
The list below contains tutorials describing various factors of Minecraft.
Newcomers[edit]
These tutorials are designed to help newcomers to Minecraft get a basic ground beneath their feet.
Newcomer survival[edit]
- Your first 10 minutes
- The second day
- The third day
- Hunger management
- Navigation
- Things not to do
- Simple tips and tricks
Shelters[edit]
- Building and construction
- Shelters
- Shelter types
- Best biomes for homes
- Best building materials
- Desert shelter
Essential[edit]
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.
General[edit]
Getting to know the game better. These are for when the player is comfortably established.
- Advancement guide
- Combat
- Complete main adventure
- Creating a village
- Dual wielding
- Desert survival
- End survival
- Exploring caverns
- Game terms
- Gathering resources on peaceful difficulty
- Hitboxes
- Horses
- Mapping
- Measuring distance
- Mining
- Multiplayer PvP bases
- Nether hub
- Nether portals
- Nether survival
- Organization
- Pillar jumping
- Player versus Player
- Phantom-proofing
- Spawn-proofing
- Summoning jockeys
- Things to do when bored
- Thunderstorm survival
- Time-saving tips
- Transportation methods
- Units of measure
- Village mechanics
- Zombie siege defense
Construction[edit]
- Adding beauty to constructions
- Airlock
- Architectural terms
- Building a metropolis
- Building micro shelters
- Building a rollercoaster
- Building safe homes
- Building water features
- Color palette
- Creating shapes
- Cruise ship
- Curved roofs
- Defense
- Desert shelter
- Elevators
- Endless circling pool
- Furniture
- Glazed terracotta patterns
- Making nice floors
- Pixel art
- Ranches
- Roof construction guidelines
- Roof decorations
- Roof types
- Secret door
- Settlement guide
- Underwater home
- Walls and buttresses
- Water gate
Challenges[edit]
- Acquiring a conduit
- Defeating a stronghold
- Defeating a bastion remnant
- Defeating a dungeon
- Defeating a Nether fortress
- Defeating a monument
- Defeating an End city
- Defeating a pillager outpost
- Defeating a woodland mansion
- Defeating a village raid
- Defeating temples
- Defeating the ender dragon
- Defeating the wither
Non-standard survival[edit]
Challenge maps[edit]
Exploiting bugs[edit]
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.
- Block and item duplication
- Breaking bedrock
- Headless pistons
- Igniting TNT underwater
- Indestructible end crystals
- X-ray glitches
Farming[edit]
These tutorials provide information on crop and mob farming.
Items[edit]
- Armor
- Blaze Rod
- Bone meal
- Cactus
- Crops
- Chorus fruit
- Cobblestone
- Cocoa bean
- Egg, feather and chicken
- Flower
- Fish
- Glow Lichen
- Honey
- Ice
- Iron
- Kelp
- Meat
- Mushroom
- Music disc
- Nautilus shell and trident
- Nether wart
- Obsidian
- Pumpkin and melon
- Raid-dropped treasure
- Scute or Turtle Shell
- Seagrass
- Sea pickle
- Snow
- Sugar cane
- Bamboo
- Wool
- Sweet berry
- Tree
- Trident
Mobs[edit]
Enchanting and smelting[edit]
These tutorials provide information on how the furnaces and the enchantment system work.
Block breaking[edit]
These tutorials provide information on how to break blocks automatically, usually by an explosion.
Redstone and Mechanisms[edit]
These tutorials provide information on redstone mechanisms.
Redstone Basics[edit]
- /Redstone: Roundup of all redstone-related tutorials
- 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[edit]
- 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!
Traps[edit]
Redstone (advanced)[edit]
- Flying machines
- Advanced redstone circuits
- Redstone computers
- Hourly clock
- Morse code
- Redstone telegraph
Servers[edit]
These tutorials provide information on how servers work and how to set up one.
- Setting up a server
- Griefing prevention
- Multiplayer survival
- Playing on servers
- Spawn jails for multiplayer
Technical[edit]
These tutorials provide information on technical matters, such as mods and snapshots.
- Command blocks and functions
- Command NBT tags
- How to install a snapshot
- Creating a data pack
- Installing a data pack
- How to get a crash report
- Installing Forge mods
- Loading a resource pack
- Creating a resource pack
- Map downloads
- Custom maps
- Joining a LAN world with alternate accounts
- Custom Minecraft directory
- 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
- Run Minecraft through Google Drive
- Improving frame rate
- Update Java to latest version
- Updating old oceans in 1.13 using MCEdit
- Falling blocks
- Minecraft on Chrome OS
Creating Minecraft media[edit]
Bedrock Edition only[edit]
- Achievement guide
- Creating resource pack add-ons
- Advanced tutorial[Work in progress...]
- Entity component reference guide
- Changing Minecraft entity models
- Creating behavior packs
Other[edit]
Outdated tutorials[edit]
The following tutorials are obsolete and intended for older versions of Minecraft.
- 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
- Managing slimes in superflat mode — slimes are no longer a plague
- 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 — they were removed in 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.
- Villager farming - Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
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