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
- The second day
- The third day
- Your first 10 minutes
- Hunger management
- Navigation
- Things not to do
- Simple tips and tricks
Shelters[edit]
- Building and construction
- Shelters
- Shelter types
- Best biomes for homes
- Best building materials
- Desert shelter
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.
General[edit]
Getting to know the game better. These are for when the player is 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
- 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
- Transportation methods
- Units of measure
- Village mechanics
- Zombie siege defense
Construction[edit]
- Adding beauty to constructions
- Airlock
- Architectural terms
- Building a metropolis
- Building a rollercoaster
- Building safe homes
- Building water features
- Creating shapes
- Curved roofs
- Defense
- Desert shelter
- Elevators
- Endless circling pool
- Glazed terracotta patterns
- Making nice floors
- Pig parking
- Pixel art
- Ranches
- Roof construction guidelines
- Roof decorations
- Roof types
- Secret door
- Settlement guide
- Underwater home
- Walls and buttresses
- Water gate
Storage solutions[edit]
Challenges[edit]
- Acquiring a conduit
- Adventure survival
- Beating a challenge map
- Creating a challenge map
- Defeating a monument
- Defeating an end city
- Defeating a pillager outpost
- Defeating a woodland mansion
- Defeating a village raid
- Defeating temples
- Defeating the ender dragon
- Defeating the wither
- Hardcore mode
- How to survive in a single area indefinitely
- Hiding chests
- Island survival
- Nomadic experience
- Speedrunning
- Superflat survival
- Survival in an infinite desert
- Survival with no enabled datapacks
- Ultra hardcore survival
Exploiting bugs[edit]
- Block and item duplication
- Breaking bedrock
- Headless pistons
- Indestructible end crystals
- Respawning the ender dragon with fewer crystals
Farming[edit]
These tutorials provide information on crop and mob farming.
Items[edit]
- Bone meal
- Cactus
- Cake
- Carrot, potato, and wheat
- Chorus fruit
- Honey
- Cobblestone
- Cocoa bean
- Egg, feather and chicken
- Flower
- Fish
- Ice
- Iron
- Kelp
- Meat
- Mushroom
- Music disc
- Nautilus shell
- Nether wart
- Obsidian
- Pumpkin and melon
- Raid-dropped treasure
- Scute or Turtle Shell
- Seagrass
- Sea pickle
- Snow
- Sugar cane
- Sweet berry
- Tree
- Trident
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]
- Advanced redstone circuits
- Arithmetic logic
- Calculator
- Printers
- Command stats
- Hourly clock
- Morse code
- Redstone telegraph
- Redstone computers
Servers[edit]
These tutorials provide information on how servers work and how to set up one.
Server Setup[edit]
- 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[edit]
These tutorials provide information on technical matters, such as mods and snapshots.
- Command blocks and functions
- Command NBT tags
- How to install a snapshot
- Creating a data pack
- Installing a data pack
- Installing Forge mods
- Loading a resource pack
- Creating a resource pack
- Map downloads
- Custom maps
- 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[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 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.
- 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.
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