Tutorials
This article is about user created tutorials. For survival mode tutorial hints, see Tutorial hints. For the tutorial world in the Legacy Console Edition, see Legacy Console Edition tutorial.The below list contains tutorials describing various factors of Minecraft.
Newcomers
These tutorials are designed to help newcomers to Minecraft get a basic ground beneath their feet.
Newcomer survival
- The first day / Beginner's guide
- The second day
- The third day
- Your first ten minutes
- Hunger management
- Navigation
- Things not to do
- Simple tips and tricks
Shelters
- Building and construction
- Shelters
- Shelter types
- Best biomes for homes
- Best building materials
- Desert Shelter
General
Getting to know the game better. These are for when you're comfortably established.
- Advancement guide
- Colonizing
- Combat
- Complete main adventure
- Creating a village
- Dual wielding
- Desert survival
- End survival
- Exploring caverns
- Furniture
- Game terms
- Gathering resources on peaceful difficulty
- Hitboxes
- Horses
- How to find caves
- Mapping
- Measuring distance
- Mining
- Mining Diamonds
- Mining Fossils
- Multiplayer PvP bases
- Nether hub
- Nether portals
- Nether survival
- Organization
- Pillar jumping
- Player versus Player
- Phantom-proofing
- Summoning jockeys
- Things to do when bored
- Thunderstorm survival
- Time-saving tips
- Units of measure
- Village mechanics
- Zombie siege defense
Construction
- Adding beauty to constructions
- Airlock
- Architectural terms
- Building a metropolis
- Building a rollercoaster
- Building safe homes
- Building water features
- Creating shapes
- Defense
- Elevators
- Endless circling pool
- Making nice floors
- Pig parking
- Pixel art
- Roof types
- Curved roofs
- Roof construction guidelines
- Roof decorations
- Secret door
- Settlement guide
- Underwater home
- Walls and buttresses
- Water gate
- Ranches
- Village chaining
- Glazed terracotta patterns
Storage solutions
Challenges
- Acquiring a conduit
- Adventure survival
- Beating a challenge map
- Creating a challenge map
- Defeating an ocean monument
- Defeating a woodland mansion
- Defeating an end city
- Defeating temples
- Defeating the ender dragon
- Defeating the wither
- Hardcore mode
- How to survive in a single area indefinitely
- Nomadic experience
- Superflat survival
- Survival in an infinite desert
- Survival with no enabled datapacks
- Ultra hardcore survival
- Hiding chests
- Island survival
Exploiting bugs
- Block and item duplication
- Breaking bedrock
- Headless pistons
- Indestructible end crystals
- Respawning the ender dragon with fewer crystals
Farming
These tutorials provide information on crop and mob farming.
Items
Mobs
Enchanting and smelting
These tutorials provide information on how the furnaces and the enchantment system work.
Block breaking
These tutorials provide information on how to break blocks automatically, usually by an explosion.
Mechanisms
These tutorials provide information on redstone mechanisms.
Basic redstone
Detectors
Minecarts
Traps
Pistons
Redstone (Advanced)
- Advanced redstone circuits
- Calculator
- Printers
- Command stats
- Hourly clock
- Pig randomiser
- Morse code
- Redstone telegraph
- Redstone computers
Servers
This tutorials provide information on how servers work and how to set up one.
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
- Setting up a Spigot server
- Ramdisk enabled server
Technical
These tutorials provide information on technical matters, such as mods and snapshots.
- Command NBT tags
- How to install a snapshot
- Creating a data pack
- Installing a data pack
- 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
- Run Minecraft through Google Drive
- Improving frame rate
- Update Java to latest version
- Updating old oceans in 1.13 using MCEdit
- Falling blocks
- Making custom game music
Creating Minecraft media
Bedrock Edition only
- Achievement guide
- Creating resource pack add-ons
- Advanced tutorial[Work in progress...]
- Entity component reference guide
- Changing Minecraft entity models
- Creating behavior packs
Other
Outdated tutorials
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 current launcher
- Water tram - Boat mechanics have been overhauled
- 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
- 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 — 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.
- Building micro shelters - The beds shown are not acceptable respawn points.
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