New to Minecraft and don't know where to go and what to do? On this page, you will find a list of very useful articles 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. Learn how to interact with the world.
- The First Day / Beginner's guide
- The Second Day
- The Third Day
- Your First Ten Minutes In Minecraft
- Navigation
- Mining Techniques
- Things not to do
- Building and Construction
- Shelter Types
- List of things to do to your shelter
General Tutorials
Getting to know the game better. These are for when you're comfortably established.
- Measuring Distance
- Simple Tips and tricks
- How to find caves
- Achievement Guide
- Wolves
- Furniture
- Underground Home
- Building Safe Homes
- Nomadic Experience
- Alternative experiences
- Airlock
- Water Ladder
- Water Elevator
- Underwater Home
- Water Gate (Also see Floodgate)
- Man-Made Lake
- Secret Door
Farming and Mining
Need more resources? Make a farm! How? Read the articles below!
- Mushroom Farming
- Cactus Farming
- Sugarcane Farming
- Tree farming
- Wheat farming
- Egg Farming
- Mob Farms and Mob Grinder
- Dungeon Mob Farming (aka monster spawner farming))
- Monster Spawner Traps
- Obsidian Farming
- Cobblestone farming
- Quarry
- Branch Mining
- Vertical Mine Shaft With Water Drop
Mechanisms
Master the environment! These are guides for players who are difficult to satisfy.
- Redstone circuits for dummies
- Mechanisms
- Block update detector
- Tricks with Minecarts
- Minecart start booster
- Train Station
- Hourly Clock
- Advanced Electronic Mechanisms
- Repeater Reboot System
- Redstone Telegraph
- Morse Code
Technical Tutorials
Tired of surviving on your own? Hate the boring colours of Minecraft? Read the articles below!
- Map downloads
- Setting up a server
- Ramdisk enabled server
- Saving your Game Data to the Cloud with Dropbox
- Save game data to Dropbox (world data only!)
- Minecraft Sound Directory
- Minecraft Help FAQ (IRC Channel)
- Loading a Texture Pack
- Custom Texture Packs
- Update LWJGL to Latest Version
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