Tutorials Videos

Info

Videos are an important part of Minecraft, ranging from gameplay, to minigames, to tutorials.

Minecraft Video Example

Gameplay

A .gif of a creeper walking up and exploding in front of the player

Gameplay videos are usually recorded and uploaded to sites like YouTube, and generally show off playing the game in vanilla, with mods, or on a server.

There are many programs you can use like:

Xbox GameDVR on (Windows 10)

Fraps

Ezvid

Dxtory

Screenflow

Open Broadcaster Software

RecordMyDesktop

SimpleScreenRecorder

VLC Media Player (Streaming and Recording)

Xsplit Gamecaster

and many more!

Videos

Animation

A slamacow Animation

Animated videos are harder, although still pretty popular, and can range from stories to music videos. These are made in external programs, and rendered to a file. For animating, you can use programs such as @@@#@@@Adobe(adobe.com)###@### Flash, Blender, 3dsMax, Autodesk Maya, Mine-imator, Cinema 4D, or Source Filmmaker.

Tutorials

A piston tutorial

Tutorials are another type of video, ranging from how to use Redstone, to installing mods, to livestreaming or server creation.

Record or livestream

• If you plan on recording the game, you can use video recorders such as Fraps, Bandicam, DXtory and many others. (Hypercam is also an option, however video/audio quality isn`t it`s finest feature) An in-game mod that you can use for recording jerk free Minecraft can be Minema. Be that as it may, it should only be used to make non-commentated videos.
• If you plan on streaming to OwnedTV, you can use Xsplit Broadcaster, however it costs money, and the free version is very limited. See Livestreaming You can livestream directly to Twitch without mods or programs from the game, but you need to connect your Twitch account to your Mojang Account to use it (1.7.4 and up).
• For video editing, you can use @@@#@@@Sony(sony.com)###@### Vegas, 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 Live Movie Maker, or iMovie. AdobeTechnology company Premiere is also an option, with the Elements and Pro versions, depending on your budget. VirtualDub is a high quality open-source editor for those who do not wish to pay for an editing program.
• If you wish to record your voice and the audio from Minecraft in two separate streams to be edited together later, you will need a program like Audacity. Or you can use the DXtory recording program which automatically records sounds in separated streams. Also, Blender can split the Sound and Video streams if you use RecordMyDesktop.

Tips

• If you are doing repetitive/boring tasks, you should either not record doing it, record the first and last part of your boring task and then piece them together, speed up the boring task, or just cut it out. You do not want your viewers to be bored, especially if they are new. Also try to make your videos as exciting and fun to watch as possible!
• Background and a channel image for @@@#@@@YouTube(youtube.com)###@### will help you enhance your page.
• Interact with your viewers, ask them for suggestions, what you could improve and what they want to see!
• Don`t use subscriber exchange, there is a very low chance that those subscribers will actually view the videos, and really just count for a hollow number. Instead, embed your video on a forum, or the Wiki (but be sure to comply with the video policy - people are banned for violating it). Note that replacing someone else`s video with yours won`t get you anywhere, come up with your ideas, or at least try to come up with a better design. If the wiki is giving you a viewing benefit from embedding your videos, then return the favour to the wiki and clean up every article you put a video in, not only will this help the wiki, it makes your video seem better as it is seen in a better context.
• Inbox or contact other Minecraft video creators e.g. tnthost or machinima and discuss partnerships, cross promotional videos and deals with minecraft content creators. This benefits both parties involved, so many channels would happily accept your offer.
• Don`t force yourself to do something. If you don`t like something, don`t do it. Tell your viewers you don`t like it and ask them to suggest something else.
• If you are making tutorial videos, make sure that they are tutorials for things that people will want to know about, and you present it in a user-friendly way. (A tip learned from experience: Know what you`re going to say BEFORE you say it!)
• Don`t spam useless videos, if something can be put in 1 video, then there`s no reason to split it into parts.
• Don`t be greedy, if you want to do this JUST for money then you should quit it. Doing it just for money will show how careless you are, remember, it`s not about the money.
• Don`t go to the popular channels and spam their videos with comments about visiting your channel. People will most likely not visit your channel, and they will get quite annoyed!
• Don`t expect thousands of views when you just start. If you upload high quality content (video and audio) frequently and are friendly, you will start gaining views. Even if it seems like nothing is happening, just keep uploading!
• Try your best to use original or close to the original texture pack, as this will make most viewers comfortable with your videos. Good texture packs are faithful, the ones that change how glass looks, and if you make redstone contraptions, oCd.
• You do not always have to talk in some videos. If you do videos like machinimas you can use royalty free music, on screen text and royalty free sound effects. DO NOT use copyrighted music- it will only get you into trouble.
• When recording, it`s good to go out and buy a good headset, as it will increase the clarity of your audio significantly.
• Make sure you stand out. Don`t do just the generic "let`s play" that just about everyone does. Be creative with your ideas.
• Video oral format. It is important to have a plan when streaming. First introduce yourself and what you will be doing. Then give our audience a reason to stay and most importantly credit everyone who you have used.

Tutorials See user created tutorials. For survival mode tutorial hints, see Tutorial hints. For the tutorial world in the Console Edition, see Console Edition tutorial. The below list contains tutorials describing various factors
Introductory	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 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 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 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 Advancement guide 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 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 Dual wielding End survival 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 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 Measuring distance Mining Diamonds Nether hub Nether portals Nether survival Organization 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 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 The Void Time-saving tips Village mechanics Minecraft in education This article needs updating. Description: Now that Education Edition has been released, this "tutorial" will need to include examples as shown in EE, else, this page could possibly be marked for deletion. Minecraft can be Breaking Bedrock Wither cage Indestructible Ender Crystals This guide seeks to teach the player on how to obtain an indestructible ender crystal and inform you on their uses. Contents 1 How To Obtain One 2 Uses 2.1 The Beam 2.2 The "Indestructible" Respawning The Ender Dragon With Fewer Crystals This page seeks to help you, the player, respawn the ender dragon without crafting 4 ender crystals each time. Each of these methods work in Survival mode without cheats. The following paragraph demonstrates the use Units of measure Contents 1 Time 2 Amount of items 3 Health 4 Hunger 5 Distance 5.1 Metric units 5.2 Imperial/U.S customary units Time edit | edit source] Time in Minecraft Time in Real life 1 minute ≈0.8 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 Airlock Architectural terms Building a metropolis Building safe homes 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