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

General[]

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

Construction[]

Challenges[]

Non-standard 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[]

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

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[]

Achievement guide
Creating resource pack add-ons
- Advanced tutorial^{[Work in progress...]}
- Entity component reference guide
- Changing Minecraft entity models
Joining and leaving the beta
Creating behavior packs

Other[]

Outdated tutorials[]

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.