Tutorials

Info

Newcomers

These tutorials are designed to help newcomers to Minecraft get a basic ground beneath their feet.

• Menu Screen This page is a work in progress. Refrain from making major edits to it until this page is finished. This tutorial will help you understand and navigate the menus of Minecraft. Although they are mostly
• Game terms This article is a stub. Please help us by expanding it. Game terms are not officially into the game. They are used by the community and they are usually used as shortenings for chatting faster:

Videos

Newcomer survival

• The first day / Beginner`s guide Created for players who do not know how to begin their Minecraft journey, the Beginner s Guide is a tutorial created to provide a list full of good ways to start! Here, players will learn how
• The second day This guide is intended for those who are unfamiliar with surviving the night beyond the first day. It will be most beneficial for those who have read the beginner s guide first. A brief picture of
• The third day Surviving and thriving! Contents 1 Video 2 General 2.1 The Third Day 2.2 Tips To The Full Minecraft Experience 3 Gathering Resources- Supplying Your Tools And Safety 3.1 Preparation Before Exploring 3.2 Searching for Landmarks
• Your first ten minutes This is a simple starting tutorial For more in-depth info, see the Beginner s guide This is not a game guide, so if you re looking for definitions, you ve come to the wrong place. Contents 1 Dawn
• Hunger management Hunger is a featureSpecial attraction in Minecraft that requires the player to eat in order to survive. Hunger is not used in Creative and Spectator mode, or on Peaceful difficulty, and it s generally impossible to eat
• Navigation In the hunt for new resources or interesting places, many Minecraft players wander absurd distances. It is easy to get lost, but a little forethought makes it easy to avoid wandering for an eternity in
• Things not to do This article may need cleanup to comply with the style guide. Please help improve this if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. The Minecraft community has developed some unofficial standards of gaming which
• Simple tips and tricks Here are some tips and little hints for those who are new to Minecraft. Remember, be that as it may, that there are often tips under the Trivia section of an item s page, and are likely to be more

Shelters

• Building and construction For new players on Minecraft, fending off monsters and harvesting materials can already be a very painful and confusing job. This tutorial will help you construct some of the most useful as well as some
• Shelters Shelters are created by players to essentially pass the night and fend off mobs. A list of shelter design and tutorials are as follows. Contents 1 Some Types of Shelters to Consider 2 Shelters for
• Shelter types Building a shelter is one of the most important parts of playing Survival mode in Minecraft. This tutorial assumes the following: You are not in Creative mode or on Peaceful difficulty Contents 1 Organization 2
• Best biomes for homes One of the most important things about a shelter is where it is. Here you ll learn about the biomes to build your base in and the pros and cons. Please note that this is currently

General

Getting to know the game better. These are for when you`re comfortably established.

• Achievement guide Contents 1 All Achievements 1.1 Taking Inventory] 1.2 Getting Wood] 1.3 Benchmaking] 1.4 Time to Farm!] 1.5 Bake Bread] 1.6 The Lie!] 1.7 Time to Strike!] 1.8 Cow Tipper] 1.9 Repopulation] 1.10 When Pigs Fly]
• Advancement guide This page is a work in progress and needs your help Please help in the creation of this article. The talk page may contain suggestions. Contents 1 All Advancements 1.1 Minecraft 1.1.1 Stone Age 1.1.2
• Colonizing Note: This tutorial assumes that you are playing in survival mode and above peaceful difficulty. You could also use this tutorial as an inspiration for future projects. It s fun to play barbarian! This tutorial is
• Combat This article may need cleanup to comply with the style guide. Please help improve this if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. A mob is any creature in the game, whether hostile, passive,
• Creating a village Villagers are very useful passive mobs. Since 1.3, players can get items that are normally hard to obtain (like melons) or downright impossible (Bottle o Enchanting) via trading with villagers using emeralds as currency. Be that as it may,
• Dual wielding This tutorial will help you become familiar with dual wielding, a mechanic added in the Combat Update. Contents 1 Main hand & off-hand 2 What is it? 3 How to equip something to your off-hand
• End survival See surviving in the end after killing the ender dragon. For killing the ender dragon, see Tutorials/Combat#Ender Dragon. This tutorial will tell you how to survive in the End. Contents 1 Overview
• Exploring caverns Caverns or caves are naturally formed cavities in the stone layer of a map. Most caverns have tunnels branching off as catacombs and winding in all sorts of directions. They are often very deep and
• Hitboxes This tutorial seeks to teach you how to make use of hitboxes. Contents 1 What They Are 2 How to Use Them 2.1 Damage 2.1.1 The Ender Dragon 2.2 Suffocation 2.3 Farms 2.4 Ejecting Mobs
• Complete main adventure Being a sandbox game, there is no true end to Minecraft. However it is possible to complete the game upon killing the Ender Dragon. This tutorial shows the steps necessary to locate and enter the
• Furniture This article describes different pieces of furniture you can construct in Minecraft. Note that the majority of these are just for decoration, with the exception of beds and bookshelf blocks (Bookshelves enhance Enchanting Tables in
• Horses See more: Horse Because of the way new horses are created, it becomes increasingly harder to breed better horses as the horses get better. Contents 1 Measuring 1.1 Health 1.2 Jump Strength 1.3 Speed 2
• How to find caves Caves contain many resources. Some are found on the surface, while others are buried underground. Some caves connect the surface to bedrock. These are the easy ways to find them. A tutorial on most of
• Mapping The map page explains how to craft maps and how they automatically draw themselves as you move through the world. That page also explains maps limitations and pitfalls. For instance, crafting a batch of maps
• Measuring distance Measuring distances in Minecraft can be quite tedious, but with a few simple guidelines you will never make a mistake again! See this page for more conversion details: Tutorials/Units of measure Contents 1 Metric Units
• Nether fortresses This page is part of the Structure Blueprints project. A Nether Fortress is a structure generated in the Nether. This is a tutorial regarding how to build Nether Fortresses. Contents 1 Building a Nether Fortress
• Nether hub This article is a stub. Please help us by expanding it. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Materials 2.1 And These Facts 3 Steps Introduction edit | edit source] Usually when people have outposts in other biomes,
• Nether portals The creation of nether portals can be used for a variety of different means. This page lists some of the implications of these portal mechanics. Overworld portals can go a long way, one way. Nether
• Nether survival Contents 1 Introduction 2 Making a Nether Portal 3 Preparing for The Nether 3.1 Basic supplies 4 Enter The Nether 4.1 Lag 4.2 Protecting your Portal 4.2.1 Special cases 4.2.2 If the portal gets blasted
• Organization Organization is a very important habit to get into in Minecraft. Organization helps with finding things quickly and easily, especially later in the game when you have collected a lot of materials. It takes a
• Pillar jumping Pillar jumping (also known as pillaring, chimneying, towering, jump stacking, nerd-poleing, or constructing a block elevator) is a method of reaching a higher altitude that can t otherwise easily be reached in a map. The pillars
• Player versus Player This article may need cleanup to comply with the style guide. Please help improve this if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. PvP, an abbreviation of Player versus Player, refers to combat in
• Multiplayer PvP bases A server with a factions plugin installed plays quite differently than most any other server. In factions servers, players team up to dominate the map. This can lead to some epic fights, as well as
• Time-saving tips
• Village mechanics See also: Village and Villager If you re trying to spawn golems for an iron ingot farm, or just want a few more noses to trade with in your local villager township, then you ve come to
• Zombie siege defense Staying in a village overnight may result in a Zombie siege: Zombies will spawn near the outskirts of the village, regardless of light level, and attack the villagers. Mechanics edit | edit source] While the

Construction

• Adding beauty to constructions This tutorial is to give aesthetic advice for your home or building. Contents 1 Video 2 Basic things 2.1 Floor 2.2 Windowsis a separate viewing area on a computer display screen in a system that allows multiple viewing areas as part of a graphical user interface 2.3 Ceiling 2.4 Stairs 2.5 Hall 2.6 Exterior 2.7 Safety 2.8 Others 3
• Airlock Airlocks are structures effective at preventing water (and mobs) from spreading into buildings. The airlocks shown here will close in the event of flooding, but will not reopen until the player breaks them. The designs
• Architectural terms This page explains a variety of miscellaneous architectural terms. There are no plans to make it a comprehensive list; only those terms which are usable for featuresSpecial attraction at normal Minecraft scales will be covered. Buttress
• Building a metropolis So you have a stack of diamonds, 15 full stacks of wood, and a huge storage room only for cobblestone, you may have even defeated the mighty Ender Dragon. Already crafted the beacon? Made a
• Building safe homes Unfortunately, there are many dangerous and scary things out there in the Minecraft world that would like to kill you. So here are a few ways to fortify your home and prevent that from happening.
• Defense
• Elevators
• Pig parking
• Roof types
• Curved roofs
• Roof construction guidelines
• Roof decorations
• Secret door
• Settlement guide
• Underwater home
• Walls and buttresses
• Water gate
• Water tram
• Ranches
• Village chaining
• Glazed terracotta patterns

Storage solutions

• Shulker box storage
• Storage minecarts
• Organization Organization is a very important habit to get into in Minecraft. Organization helps with finding things quickly and easily, especially later in the game when you have collected a lot of materials. It takes a

Challenges

• Adventure survival
• Beating a challenge map
• Creating a challenge map
• Defeating an ocean monument
• Defeating an end city
• Defeating temples
• Hardcore mode
• How to survive in a single area indefinitely
• Survival in an infinite desert
• Nomadic experience
• Superflat survival
• Ultra hardcore survival
• Hiding chests
• Island survival
• Mining
  • Diamonds

Exploiting bugs

• Block and item duplication
• Breaking bedrock
• Ghost blocks
• Headless pistons
• Indestructible ender crystals
• Respawning the ender dragon with fewer crystals

Farming

These tutorials provide information on crop and mob farming.

Items

• Cactus
• Cake
• Carrot, potato, and wheat
• Cocoa bean
• Egg, feather and chicken
• Flower
• Fish
• Ice
• Meat
• Mushroom
• Music disc
• Nether wart
• Pumpkin and melon
• Snow
• Sugar cane
• Tree
• Chorus fruit
• Cobblestone
• Obsidian

Mobs

• Mob farming
• Mob grinding
• Battery farming
• Monster spawner traps
• Animals
• Blaze
• Charged creeper
• Enderman
• Guardian
• Iron golem
• Magma cube
• Skeleton and zombie horses
• Slime
• Squid
• Witch
• Wither
• Wither skeleton
• Zombie pigman

Enchanting and smelting

These tutorials provide information on how the furnaces and the enchantment system work.

• Enchantment mechanics
• Anvil mechanics
• Automatic smelting
• Choosing a fuel

Mechanisms

These tutorials provide information on redstone mechanisms.

Basic redstone

• Command block
• Dispenser randomizer
• Flying technologies
• Hopper
• Item elevator
• Mechanisms
• Passlock door
• Redstone machines
• Redstone music
• Rube Goldberg machine
• Observer stabilizer

Detectors

• Block update detector
• Comparator update detector
• Daylight sensor
• Day night detector

Minecarts

• Train station
• Minecarts
• Storage minecarts
• Minecart start booster

Traps

• Snow golems
• TNT cannons
• Trapdoor uses
• Traps and Trap design

Pistons

• Piston uses
• Piston circuits
• Quasi-connectivity
• Zero-tick pistons
• Instant repeaters

Redstone (Advanced)

• Advanced redstone circuits
• Calculator
• Printers
• Command stats
• Hourly clock
• Pig randomiser
• Morse code
• Redstone telegraph
• Redstone clock telegraph
• Redstone computers

Servers

This tutorials provide information on how servers work and how to set up one.

• Playing on servers
• Spawn jails for SMP

Server Setup

• Setting up a server
• Setting up a LAN world
• 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

These tutorials provide information on technical matters, such as mods and snapshots.

• How to install a snapshot
• Creating mods
• Installing mods - Forge
• Loading a resource pack
• Creating a resource pack
• 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
• Improving frame rate
• Update Java to latest version
• Falling blocks
• Making custom game music

Creating Minecraft media

• Videos
• Live Streaming

Pocket Edition only

• Pocket Edition
• Creating resource pack add-ons
  • Pocket Edition entity components
• Creating behavior packs

Other

• Minecraft in education

Outdated tutorials

The following tutorials are 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 current launcher
• Managing slimes in superflat mode — slimes are no longer a plague
• Repeater reboot system — glitch that existed in Beta only
• Update LWJGL (Legacy) — current launcher automatically updates libraries
• Man-made 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 — glitch that existed in Beta
• Update Minecraft — updating and downgrading Minecraft; no longer needed with current launcher
• Minecart booster — Minecart boosters were fixed shortly after the introduction of powered rails.
• Building micro shelters - The beds shown are not acceptable respawn points.

Tutorials
Introductory	Menu screen Newcomer survival The first day/beginner`s guide The second day This guide is intended for those who are unfamiliar with surviving the night beyond the first day. It will be most beneficial for those who have read the beginner s guide first. A brief picture of The third day Surviving and thriving! Contents 1 Video 2 General 2.1 The Third Day 2.2 Tips To The Full Minecraft Experience 3 Gathering Resources- Supplying Your Tools And Safety 3.1 Preparation Before Exploring 3.2 Searching for Landmarks Hunger management Hunger is a feature in Minecraft that requires the player to eat in order to survive. Hunger is not used in Creative and Spectator mode, or on Peaceful difficulty, and it s generally impossible to eat Things not to do This article may need cleanup to comply with the style guide. Please help improve this if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. The Minecraft community has developed some unofficial standards of gaming which Simple tips and tricks Here are some tips and little hints for those who are new to Minecraft. Remember, be that as it may, that there are often tips under the Trivia section of an item s page, and are likely to be more Your first ten minutes This is a simple starting tutorial For more in-depth info, see the Beginner s guide This is not a game guide, so if you re looking for definitions, you ve come to the wrong place. Contents 1 Dawn Shelters Shelters are created by players to essentially pass the night and fend off mobs. A list of shelter design and tutorials are as follows. Contents 1 Some Types of Shelters to Consider 2 Shelters for Best biomes for homes One of the most important things about a shelter is where it is. Here you ll learn about the biomes to build your base in and the pros and cons. Please note that this is currently Building and construction For new players on Minecraft, fending off monsters and harvesting materials can already be a very painful and confusing job. This tutorial will help you construct some of the most useful as well as some Navigation In the hunt for new resources or interesting places, many Minecraft players wander absurd distances. It is easy to get lost, but a little forethought makes it easy to avoid wandering for an eternity in Shelters Shelters are created by players to essentially pass the night and fend off mobs. A list of shelter design and tutorials are as follows. Contents 1 Some Types of Shelters to Consider 2 Shelters for Shelter types Building a shelter is one of the most important parts of playing Survival mode in Minecraft. This tutorial assumes the following: You are not in Creative mode or on Peaceful difficulty Contents 1 Organization 2
General	Achievement guide Contents 1 All Achievements 1.1 Taking Inventory] 1.2 Getting Wood] 1.3 Benchmaking] 1.4 Time to Farm!] 1.5 Bake Bread] 1.6 The Lie!] 1.7 Time to Strike!] 1.8 Cow Tipper] 1.9 Repopulation] 1.10 When Pigs Fly] Advancement guide This page is a work in progress and needs your help Please help in the creation of this article. The talk page may contain suggestions. Contents 1 All Advancements 1.1 Minecraft 1.1.1 Stone Age 1.1.2 Colonizing Note: This tutorial assumes that you are playing in survival mode and above peaceful difficulty. You could also use this tutorial as an inspiration for future projects. It s fun to play barbarian! This tutorial is Combat This article may need cleanup to comply with the style guide. Please help improve this if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. A mob is any creature in the game, whether hostile, passive, Complete main adventure Being a sandbox game, there is no true end to Minecraft. However it is possible to complete the game upon killing the Ender Dragon. This tutorial shows the steps necessary to locate and enter the Creating a village Villagers are very useful passive mobs. Since 1.3, players can get items that are normally hard to obtain (like melons) or downright impossible (Bottle o Enchanting) via trading with villagers using emeralds as currency. Be that as it may, Dual wielding This tutorial will help you become familiar with dual wielding, a mechanic added in the Combat Update. Contents 1 Main hand & off-hand 2 What is it? 3 How to equip something to your off-hand End survival See surviving in the end after killing the ender dragon. For killing the ender dragon, see Tutorials/Combat#Ender Dragon. This tutorial will tell you how to survive in the End. Contents 1 Overview Exploring caverns Caverns or caves are naturally formed cavities in the stone layer of a map. Most caverns have tunnels branching off as catacombs and winding in all sorts of directions. They are often very deep and Furniture This article describes different pieces of furniture you can construct in Minecraft. Note that the majority of these are just for decoration, with the exception of beds and bookshelf blocks (Bookshelves enhance Enchanting Tables in Horses See more: Horse Because of the way new horses are created, it becomes increasingly harder to breed better horses as the horses get better. Contents 1 Measuring 1.1 Health 1.2 Jump Strength 1.3 Speed 2 How to find caves Caves contain many resources. Some are found on the surface, while others are buried underground. Some caves connect the surface to bedrock. These are the easy ways to find them. A tutorial on most of Mapping The map page explains how to craft maps and how they automatically draw themselves as you move through the world. That page also explains maps limitations and pitfalls. For instance, crafting a batch of maps Measuring distance Measuring distances in Minecraft can be quite tedious, but with a few simple guidelines you will never make a mistake again! See this page for more conversion details: Tutorials/Units of measure Contents 1 Metric Units Mining Diamonds Nether hub This article is a stub. Please help us by expanding it. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Materials 2.1 And These Facts 3 Steps Introduction edit | edit source] Usually when people have outposts in other biomes, Nether portals The creation of nether portals can be used for a variety of different means. This page lists some of the implications of these portal mechanics. Overworld portals can go a long way, one way. Nether Nether survival Contents 1 Introduction 2 Making a Nether Portal 3 Preparing for The Nether 3.1 Basic supplies 4 Enter The Nether 4.1 Lag 4.2 Protecting your Portal 4.2.1 Special cases 4.2.2 If the portal gets blasted Organization Organization is a very important habit to get into in Minecraft. Organization helps with finding things quickly and easily, especially later in the game when you have collected a lot of materials. It takes a Pillar jumping Pillar jumping (also known as pillaring, chimneying, towering, jump stacking, nerd-poleing, or constructing a block elevator) is a method of reaching a higher altitude that can t otherwise easily be reached in a map. The pillars PvP PvP bases The Void Time-saving tips Village mechanics See also: Village and Villager If you re trying to spawn golems for an iron ingot farm, or just want a few more noses to trade with in your local villager township, then you ve come to Minecraft in education Breaking Bedrock Wither cage Indestructible Ender Crystals Respawning The Ender Dragon With Fewer Crystals Units of measure Challenges Adventure survival Beating a challenge map Creating a challenge map Defeating an ocean monument Defeating temples Defeating an end city Hardcore mode How to survive in a single area indefinitely Infinite desert survival Nomadic experience Superflat survival Ultra hardcore survival Defeating a woodland mansion Island survival Constructions Adding beauty to constructions This tutorial is to give aesthetic advice for your home or building. Contents 1 Video 2 Basic things 2.1 Floor 2.2 Windowsis a separate viewing area on a computer display screen in a system that allows multiple viewing areas as part of a graphical user interface 2.3 Ceiling 2.4 Stairs 2.5 Hall 2.6 Exterior 2.7 Safety 2.8 Others 3 Airlock Airlocks are structures effective at preventing water (and mobs) from spreading into buildings. The airlocks shown here will close in the event of flooding, but will not reopen until the player breaks them. The designs Architectural terms This page explains a variety of miscellaneous architectural terms. There are no plans to make it a comprehensive list; only those terms which are usable for features at normal Minecraft scales will be covered. Buttress Building a metropolis So you have a stack of diamonds, 15 full stacks of wood, and a huge storage room only for cobblestone, you may have even defeated the mighty Ender Dragon. Already crafted the beacon? Made a Building safe homes Unfortunately, there are many dangerous and scary things out there in the Minecraft world that would like to kill you. So here are a few ways to fortify your home and prevent that from happening. Defense Elevators Endless circling pool Pig parking Roof types Curved roofs Roof construction guidelines Roof decorations Secret door Settlement guide Underwater home Walls and buttresses Water gate Water tram Ranches Glazed terracotta patterns
Storage solutions	Shulker Box Storage Storage Minecarts
Farming	Blocks and items Cactus Cake Cobblestone Cocoa bean Crops (Beetroot, Carrot, Potato, Wheat) Egg Fish Flower Ice Meat Mushroom Music disc Nether wart Obsidian Pumpkin, Melon Snow Sugar cane Chorus fruit Duplication Tree Mobs Mob farming Mob grinding Battery farming Mob Spawner traps Animals (Cows, Pigs, Sheep) Charged creeper Enderman Guardian Iron golem ( Village chaining) Magma cube Slime Squid Witch Wither Wither skeleton Zombie pigman
Enchanting and smelting	Enchantment mechanics Anvil mechanics Automatic smelting Choosing a fuel
Blockbreaking	Lossless explosion block breaking: Blast chamber Wither cage
Mechanisms	Basic redstone Command block Flying technologies Hopper Mechanisms Passlock door Redstone machines Redstone music Rube Goldberg machine Detectors Block update detector Comparator update detector Daylight sensor Day night detector Minecarts Train station Minecarts Storage Start booster Traps Snow golems TNT cannons Trapdoor uses Trap design Traps Pistons Piston uses Piston circuits Quasi-connectivity Zero-Ticking Pistons Instant Repeaters Redstone (advanced) Advanced redstone circuits Calculator Printer Command stats Hourly clock Pig randomiser Morse code Redstone telegraph Redstone clock telegraph Redstone computers
Servers	Playing on servers Spawn jails for SMP Griefing Server setup Setting up a server Server startup script FreeBSD startup script OpenBSD startup script Ubuntu startup script M3tal Warrior`s server startup script Setting up a Hamachi server Setting up a Minecraft Forge server Ramdisk enabled server
Technical	Creating a resource pack Creating mods Custom maps Improving frame rate Installing snapshots Loading a resource pack Map downloads Minecraft help FAQ (IRC channel) Playing and saving Minecraft on a thumb drive Pocket Edition Recover corrupted saved world data Save game data to Dropbox (world data only) Saving your game data to the Cloud with Dropbox Sound directory Update Java Falling blocks Add-ons Creating resource packs Creating behavior packs Changing Minecraft entity models Entity component reference guide Creating Minecraft media Creating videos Livestreaming
Outdated	How to get a crash report Managing slimes in superflat mode Minecart booster Repeater reboot system Update LWJGL Update Minecraft Man-made lake Water ladder Water tram Installing mods Custom texture packs Far Lands

Minecraft Minecraft Author(s) Mojang AB (Credits) Markus "Notch" Persson (Creator) Jens "Jeb" Bergensten (Lead Developer) Jon "jonkagstrom" Kågström (AI Programmer) Nathan "Dinnerbone" Adams Erik "Grum" Broes Michael "Searge" Stoyke Thomas "ProfMobius" Guimbretière Agnes "LadyAgnes" Larsson Maria by Mojang AB, 4J Studios and Telltale Games
Help	Menu screen Controls Options Tutorials FAQ
Technical	Issues Java Edition Launcher Minecraft API Pocket Edition Console Edition Hardware Java Edition requirements Java Edition performance Pocket Edition performance Block entity Commands Functions Crashes Data values Classic Indev Pocket Edition Debug screen Formatting codes