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 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
General
Getting to know the game better. These are for when you're comfortably established.
- Achievement Guide
- Colonizing
- Combat
- Finish Adventure
- Furniture
- How to find caves
- Mapping
- Measuring Distance
- Nether Survival
- Organization
- Playing on servers
- PvP
- Time-Saving Tips
- Village mechanics
- Beating a Challenge Map
- Creating a Challenge Map
- Hardcore Mode
- Nomadic experience
- Superflat Survival
- Adventure Survival
Constructions
- Airlock
- Building a Metropolis
- Building Safe Homes
- Defense
- Elevators
- Pig Parking
- Secret Door
- Underwater Home
- Water Gate
Mining
Need more resources? Dig a mine!
- Mining Techniques
- Cobblestone Farming
- Diamonds
- Obsidian Farming
Item Farming
Need items? Make a farm! How? Read the articles below!
- Cactus Farming
- Cake Farm
- Carrot Farming
- Cocoa Bean Farming
- Egg Farming
- Flower Farming
- Meat Farming
- Mushroom Farming
- Music Disc Farming
- Nether Wart Farming
- Potato Farming
- Pumpkin and Melon Farming
- Snow Farming
- Sugar Cane Farming
- Tree Farming
- Wheat Farming
Mob Farming
Need mob drops? Read the following articles below.
- Mob Farming
- Mob Grinding
- Monster Spawner traps
- Enderman
- Iron Golem
- Wither
- Squid
Enchanting and Smelting
These are guides for enchanting and smelting-related topics:
- Enchantment mechanics
- Anvil mechanics
- Automatic Smelting
Mechanisms
Master Redstone! These are guides for players who are difficult to satisfy.
- Automatic Time Reseter
- Block update detector
- Command Block
- Day Night Detector
- Item Counter
- Item Sorter
- Mechanisms
- Passlock door
- Rapidfire Piston Clock
- Redstone Machines
- Resetting item detector
- Wireless Redstone
- Train Station
- Minecarts
- Minecart start booster
- Snow Golems
- TNT Cannons
- Trapdoor Uses
- Traps and Trap Design
- Advanced Redstone Circuits
- Calculator
- Hourly Clock
- Pig Randomiser
- Morse Code
- Redstone Telegraph
- Repeater Reboot System
- Redstone Clock Telegraph
Technical
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
- 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
- Update LWJGL to latest version
- Update Java to latest version
- Importing Ender Crystals
- Pocket Edition
Servers
These are guides to running a server.
- Setting up a server
- Server startup script
- FreeBSD startup script
- OpenBSD startup script
- Ubuntu startup script
- M3tal Warrior's server startup script
- Hamachi connection LAN
- Setting up a Minecraft Forge server
- Ramdisk enabled server
- Spawn jails for SMP
Texture Packs
- Custom Texture Packs
- Loading a Texture Pack
Creating Minecraft videos
Outdated tutorials
The following tutorials are those which were intended for an older version of Minecraft.
- Managing Slimes in Superflat Mode
- Water Ladder
- Man-Made Lake
- Water Tram
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