Minecraft:Tutorials

The list below contains tutorials describing various factors and mechanics of Minecraft. Template:TOC

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Introductory

These tutorials are designed to help newcomers to Template:MC get a basic understanding of the game.

• Minecraft:Menu screen
  • Java Edition
  • Bedrock Edition
• Glossary
• Playing with a controller

Newcomer survival

• Beginner's guide
  • Your first 10 minutes
  • The second day
  • The third day
• Best biomes to play
• Durability management
• Hunger management
• Things to do
• Things not to do
• Simple tips and tricks

Shelters

• Best biomes for homes
• Best building materials
• Building and construction
• Navigation
• Shelters
  • Types

General

Getting to know the game better. These are for when the player is comfortably established. Template:Columns-list

Enchanting and smelting

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

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• Template:BlockSprite Anvil mechanics
• Template:BlockSpriteTemplate:BlockSpriteTemplate:BlockSpriteTemplate:BlockSprite Automatic smelting
• Template:BlockSprite Manual smelting

Non-standard survival

Tutorials that involve a non-standard environment.

• Template:BiomeSprite Desert survival
  • Infinite desert survival
• Template:BiomeSprite Snowy survival
• Template:BiomeSprite Infinite ice spikes survival
• Template:BiomeSprite Mushroom fields survival
• Template:EnvSprite End survival
• Template:ItemSprite Gathering resources on Peaceful difficulty
• Template:EnvSprite Managing slimes in superflat mode
• Template:BiomeSprite Nether survival
• Template:EnvSprite Accessing the void
• Template:EntitySpriteThunderstorm survival
• Template:EnvSprite Surviving in a single area for a long time
• Template:EnvSprite Island survival

Advanced

Tutorials that require using exploits or commands.

• Template:BlockSprite Breaking bedrock
• Template:BlockSprite Headless pistons
• Template:EntitySprite Indestructible End crystals
• Template:EntitySprite Summoning jockeys
• Template:EffectSprite X-ray glitches

Challenges

These tutorials are for guiding players through mid- to late-game challenges as well as explaining how to survive non standard survival. Template:Columns-list

Exploring Minecraft:Structures & Minecraft:Biomes

Surface

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Underground

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Nether & End

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Construction

Block breaking

These tutorials provide information on how to break blocks automatically, usually by an explosion.

• Template:BlockSprite Blast chamber
• Template:BlockSprite Igniting TNT underwater
• Template:EntitySprite Wither cage

Farming

Template:MainThese tutorials provide information on item, crop, and mob farming. In most cases, the player has a choice among a variety of farming methods and designs. While a huge automatic farm may be useful where large supplies of something are needed, it's important to remember that a small, simple farm can easily provide enough resources for an early-game player, or casual use in general.

Mechanisms

These tutorials provide information on redstone mechanisms.

Basic redstone

• Redstone tutorials: Roundup of all redstone-related tutorials (some are also linked below)
• Minecraft:Redstone dust: The core material that enables most redstone devices, being crafted into many of them and also placed to carry signals.
• Minecraft:Redstone mechanics: The basic game mechanics for redstone power and signals.
• Minecraft:Redstone components: The blocks that are used in and with redstone contraptions.
• Minecraft:Redstone circuits: Lists various types of reusable circuits that can be used to manipulate signals, with sub-pages giving examples of the various types.
• Redstone tips: Hints and advice for building your redstone devices.
• Sculk redstone: Hints for using sculk sensors and shriekers.

Various devices

• Automatic double doors: Double-wide doors that open for the player but keep mobs out.
• Automatic respawn anchor recharger: Recharges respawn anchors so they can be used again.
• Combination locks: Locks that only open with the right combination entered.
• Command blocks and functions: Making many contraptions using command blocks.
• Crafter: Automated crafting systems.
• Flying machines: Slime block contraptions that can fly.
• Hopper: Hoppers are key for item handling and sorting.
• Item sorting: Sorts items.
• Item transportation: Moves items.
• Mechanisms: Lists an assortment of complete devices using redstone.
• Observer stabilizer: Keeps observer-based contraptions from continuously firing.
• Randomizers: Generates random outputs.
• Redstone music: Creating music with Minecraft:note blocks and redstone circuits.
• Rube Goldberg machine: Complexity and spectacle!
• Shulker box storage: A storage system that relies on shulker boxes.

Detectors

• Block update detector: Sends a signal if a block state changes.
• Comparator update detector: Sends a signal if a comparator detects a change in a block.
• Daylight detector: Sends a signal if the light changes.

Minecarts

• Minecarts: Large railway systems can benefit from redstone at the terminals.
• Storage minecarts: Loading and unloading chests and hopper minecarts.
  • Digital: Digital method of loading and unloading chests and hopper minecarts.
• Minecart trains: Working with more than one minecart.
  • Furnace minecarts: For trains of minecarts that will never reverse direction due to bumping into a mob.

Traps

• Template:EntitySprite Iron golems
• Template:EntitySprite Snow golems
• Template:BlockSprite TNT cannons
• Template:BlockSprite Trapdoor uses
• Template:BlockSprite Traps and Trap design

Pistons

• Piston uses
• Piston circuits
• Quasi-connectivity
• Soft inversion
• Zero-ticking
• Instant repeaters

Tripwire

• Tripwire techniques

Advanced redstone

• Advanced redstone circuits
• Arithmetic logic
• Calculator
• Command stats
• Hourly clock
• Morse code
• Printing
• Redstone computers
• Redstone telegraph
• 360 degree ender pearl cannon

Multiplayer

These tutorials provide technical information on servers and tips for multiplayer.

• Playing on servers
• Multiplayer survival
• Spawn jails for multiplayer
• Griefing prevention
• Hiding chests
• PvP (Java Edition)
  • PvP bases
• PvP (Bedrock Edition)
• PvP (Combat Tests)
• PvP (1.8)
• Joining a LAN world with alternate accounts

Server setup

• Setting up a Java Edition server
  • Setting up a Minecraft Forge server
  • Setting up a Spigot server
• Setting up a Bedrock Edition server
• Server maintenance
• Setting up a LAN world
• Server startup script
  • FreeBSD startup script
  • OpenBSD startup script
  • Ubuntu startup script
• Hamachi connection LAN
• Ramdisk enabled server
• Improving Server I/O utilising memory
• Crossplay

Technical

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

• Moving structures using structure blocks from world to world
• Improving frame rate
• Minecraft help FAQ
• Note Block Studio
• Programs and editors
• Running the data generator
• Update Java to latest version
• See Minecraft's code
• Downgrading
• Creating Forge mods
• Minecraft in VR

Maps

• Custom maps
• Importing and exporting worlds
• Command NBT tags
• Falling blocks
• Updating old terrain

Resource packs

• Creating a resource pack
• Loading a resource pack
• Models
• Sound directory
• Making custom panoramas

Data packs

• Creating a data pack
• Importing a data pack
• Adding a new dimension
• Custom structures
• Adding custom trims
• Adding custom paintings
• Adding custom enchantments
• Repairing a world corrupted by a data pack

Creating Minecraft media

• Videos
• Livestreaming
• Hide server IP

Game installation

• Installing a version
• Installing Minecraft Preview and beta versions
• Obtaining a crash report
• Custom Minecraft directory
• Playing and saving Minecraft on a thumb drive
• Playing Minecraft on Linux
• Recover corrupted saved world data
• Run Minecraft through Google Drive
• Save game data to Dropbox (world data only)
• Saving data Dropbox guide
• Create a Mac OS X startup daemon
• Java Edition on Chrome OS
• Third-party launchers

Legacy tutorials

The following tutorials are obsolete and intended for older versions of Minecraft. They are kept here for historical purposes.

• Custom texture packs — texture packs are no longer used, Minecraft:resource packs use new file structure
• How to get a crash report (old) — No longer works with the current launcher
• Water tram - Boat mechanics have been overhauled
• Repeater reboot system — A glitch that existed in Beta only
• Update LWJGL (Legacy) — Current launcher automatically updates libraries
• Custom 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 — Only existed before Beta 1.8
• Instant wire — A glitch that existed in Beta
• Update Minecraft — Updating and downgrading Minecraft is automatic in the new launcher
• Minecart booster — Minecart boosters were fixed shortly after the introduction of powered rails.
• Survival with no enabled data packs — Since 1.16, this is no longer possible as data packs are now validated before the world is created, and some tags are necessary for the data packs to be valid.
• Door-based iron golem farming — Villages are no longer based around doors with the Minecraft:Village & Pillage update.
• Legacy village mechanics — Villages are no longer based around doors with the Minecraft:Village & Pillage update.
• Village chaining — Villages are no longer based around doors with the Minecraft:Village & Pillage update.
• Bedrock farming —All designs have become unusable following the bug fixes.
• Potion farming — This method of potion farming was patched in version 1.17.30 as a result of being too overpowered. Witch farms can still give potions, however.
• End of light mob farms — Patched in Minecraft:22w12a
• Custom world generation
• Obtaining discontinued features — Information on how to obtain features that could only be collected in older versions but can be updated into future versions.
• Playing and saving Minecraft on a thumb drive with the old launcher