Tutorials

The list below contains tutorials describing various factors of Minecraft.

Newcomers[edit]

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

Newcomer survival[edit]

The first day/Beginner's guide

Shelters[edit]

Essential[edit]

These tutorials are intended for right after you have a roof over your head and a renewable food source. These tutorials shed light on some of the core fixtures of Minecraft gameplay. As such, you should consider reading them all.

Village mechanics
Mining
Defense
Carrot, potato, and wheat (farming)
Meat (farming)
Getting food quickly
Best biomes for homes
End survival
Nether portals
Colonizing
How to survive in a single area indefinitely
Nether survival
Complete main adventure
Combat
Shelters

General[edit]

Getting to know the game better. These are for when the player is comfortably established.

Construction[edit]

Challenges[edit]

Non-standard survival[edit]

Challenge maps[edit]

Exploiting bugs[edit]

These tutorials rely on bugs to work and may be fixed at any time. Some servers may consider the use of these bugs as bannable.

Farming[edit]

These tutorials provide information on crop and mob farming.

Items[edit]

Mobs[edit]

Enchanting and smelting[edit]

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

Block breaking[edit]

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

Mechanisms[edit]

These tutorials provide information on redstone mechanisms.

Basic redstone[edit]

Detectors[edit]

Minecarts[edit]

Traps[edit]

Pistons[edit]

Redstone (advanced)[edit]

Servers[edit]

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

Server setup[edit]

Setting up a server

Technical[edit]

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

Creating Minecraft media[edit]

Bedrock Edition only[edit]

Achievement guide
Creating resource pack add-ons
- Advanced tutorial^{[Work in progress...]}
- Entity component reference guide
- Changing Minecraft entity models
Creating behavior packs

Other[edit]

Outdated tutorials[edit]

The following tutorials are obsolete and 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How to get a crash report (Outdated) — no longer works with the current launcher
Water tram - Boat mechanics have been overhauled
Managing slimes in superflat mode — slimes are no longer a plague
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 — they were removed in 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 - Blocks no longer drop items when data packs are disabled with the Village & Pillage update.
Door-based iron golem farming - Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
Village chaining - Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
Villager farming - Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.