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
- Hunger management
- Minecraft Survival Guide
- Note: This is still being developed, so there are only a few pages right now. Pages will appear as they are made.
- Controls and Starting Steps
- Mining Basics
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
- PvP
- Time-saving tips
- Village mechanics
- Beating a challenge map
- Creating a challenge map
- Hardcore mode
- Nomadic experience
- Superflat survival
- Adventure survival
Construction
- Airlock
- Architectural terms
- Building a metropolis
- Building safe homes
- Defense
- Elevators
- Pig parking
- Roof types
- Secret door
- Settlement guide
- Underwater home
- Walls and Buttressess
- Water gate
- Adding Beauty to Constructions
Mining
Need more resources? Dig a mine!
Item farming
Need items? Make a farm! How? Read the articles below!
- Cactus
- Cake
- Carrot
- Cocoa Bean
- Egg
- Flower
- Ice
- Meat
- Mushroom
- Music Disc
- Nether Wart
- Potato
- Pumpkin and melon
- Snow
- Sugar Cane
- Tree
- Wheat
Mob farming
Need mob drops? Read the following articles below.
Enchanting and smelting
These are guides for enchanting and smelting-related topics:
Mechanisms
Master Redstone! These are guides for players who are difficult to satisfy.
- Block update detector
- Command Block
- Day night detector
- Hopper
- Mechanisms
- Passlock door
- Redstone machines
- Train station
- Minecarts
- Minecart start booster
- Advanced redstone circuits
- Calculator
- Hourly clock
- Pig randomiser
- Morse code
- Redstone telegraph
- Repeater reboot system
- Redstone clock telegraph
Servers
These are guides to running a server.
- Setting up a server
- Server startup script
- FreeBSD startup script
- OpenBSD startup script
- Ubuntu startup script
- Hamachi connection LAN
- Setting up a Minecraft Forge server
- Ramdisk enabled server
Technical
Tired of surviving on your own? Hate the boring colors of Minecraft? Read the articles below!
- How to install a snapshot
- Installing mods - Modloader
- Installing mods - Forge
- Creating mods
- Map downloads
- Custom maps
- Minecraft help FAQ (IRC Channel)
- 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
Texture packs
Creating Minecraft videos
Outdated tutorials
The following tutorials are those which were intended for an older version of Minecraft.
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