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.
Newcomer Survival
- The first day / Beginner's guide
- The second day
- The third day
- Your first ten minutes
- Hunger management
Shelters
General
Getting to know the game better. These are for when you're comfortably established.
- Achievement guide
- Colonizing
- Combat
- Creating a village
- Finish adventure
- Furniture
- How to find caves
- Mapping
- Measuring distance
- Nether survival
- Nether Hub
- Organization
- PvP
- Time-saving tips
- Village mechanics
Challenges
- Beating a challenge map
- Creating a challenge map
- Hardcore mode
- Nomadic experience
- Superflat survival
- Adventure survival
- Ultra Hardcore survival
Construction
- AFK Spa
- Adding Beauty to Constructions
- Airlock
- Architectural terms
- Building a metropolis
- Building safe homes
- Defense
- Elevators
- Pig parking
- Roof types
- Secret door
- Settlement guide
- Underwater home
- Walls and buttresses
- Water gate
Mining
Need more resources? Dig a mine!
Item farming
Need items? Make a farm! How? Read the articles below!
- Cactus
- Cake
- Carrot, Potato, and Wheat
- Carrot
- Cocoa Bean
- Egg, Feather
- Flower
- Fish
- 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.
- Mob farming
- Mob grinding
- Monster Spawner traps
- Enderman
- Iron Golem
- Wither
- Squid
- Magma cube
- Wither skeleton
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.
- Beginning Redstone
- Command Block
- Hopper
- Mechanisms
- Passlock door
- Redstone machines
- Rube Goldberg machine
Detectors
Minecarts
- Train station
- Minecarts
- Minecart start booster
Traps
- Snow golems
- TNT cannons
- Trapdoor uses
- Traps and Trap design
- Villager trap
Pistons
Redstone (Advanced)
- 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.
Server Setup
- 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 prior to version 1.6+
- Setting up a Minecraft Forge server 1.6+
- 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
- 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 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.
- Managing slimes in superflat mode (slimes are no longer a plague)
- Update LWJGL (Legacy) to latest version (now it is updated automatically)
- Man-made lake (these methods are no longer needed, since water is more obliging)
- Water ladder (No longer works as given, water's behavior has changed a lot since Beta)
- Water tram (ditto)
- Installing mods - Modloader
- Installing mods prior to version 1.6+ - Forge
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