The below list contains many tutorials to help you do various things in Minecraft.
Newcomers
These tutorials are designed to help newcomers to Minecraft get a basic ground beneath their feet.
- Menu Screen (WIP)
Newcomer Survival
- The first day / Beginner's guide
- Setting up a home
- The second day
- The third day
- Your first ten minutes
- Hunger management
- Things not to do
- Simple tips and tricks
Shelters
General
Getting to know the game better. These are for when you're comfortably established.
- Achievement guide
- Colonizing
- Combat
- Creating a village
- End survival
- Finish adventure
- Furniture
- Horses
- How to find caves
- Mapping
- Measuring distance
- Nether survival
- Nether hub
- Organization
- Pillar jumping
- PvP
- Time-saving tips
- Village mechanics
- Zombie siege defense
Construction
- Adding beauty to constructions
- Airlock
- Architectural terms
- Building a metropolis
- Building safe homes
- Defense
- Elevators
- Pathways
- Pig parking
- Roof types
- Secret door
- Settlement guide
- Underwater home
- Walls and buttresses
- Water gate
- Water tram
Challenges
- Adventure survival
- Beating a challenge map
- Creating a challenge map
- Defeating an ocean monument
- Defeating temples
- Hardcore mode
- Nomadic experience
- Superflat survival
- Ultra hardcore survival
Mining
These tutorials will provide you information on some useful mining techniques.
Farming
These tutorials will provide you information on crop farming and mob farming.
Items
- Cactus
- Cake
- Carrot, Potato, and Wheat
- Cocoa Bean
- Egg, Feather
- Flower
- Fish
- Ice
- Meat
- Mushroom
- Music Disc
- Nether Wart
- Pumpkin and melon
- Snow
- Sugar Cane
- Tree
Mobs
- Mob farming
- Mob grinding
- Monster Spawner traps
- Animals
- Charged Creeper
- Enderman
- Guardian
- Iron Golem
- Magma cube
- Slime
- Squid
- Witch
- Wither
- Wither skeleton
- Zombie Pigman
Enchanting and smelting
These tutorials will provide you on information on how the furnaces and the enchantment system work.
Mechanisms
These tutorials will provide you information on complicated (and easy) redstone mechanisms.
Basic Redstone
- Flying technologies
- Command Block
- Hopper
- Mechanisms
- Passlock door
- Redstone machines
- Redstone music
- Rube Goldberg machine
- Flashing Redstone Lamps
Detectors
- Block update detector
- Comparator update detector
- Daylight Sensor
- Day night detector
- Use a map item as a scroll
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
- Command stats
- Hourly clock
- Pig randomiser
- Morse code
- Redstone telegraph
- Redstone clock telegraph
- Redstone computers
Servers
This tutorials will provide information on how servers work and how to set up one.
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
- Ramdisk enabled server
Technical
These tutorials will provide information on technical stuff like 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
- Update Java to latest version
- Pocket Edition
- Falling sand
Creating Minecraft Media
Outdated tutorials
The following tutorials are those which were intended for an older version of Minecraft.
- Custom texture packs — texture packs are no longer used, resource packs use new file structure
- Importing Ender Crystals — you can use the /summon command now
- 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
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