This article is about user created tutorials. For survival mode tutorial hints, see Tutorial hints. For the tutorial world in the Console Edition, see 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.
- Menu Screen (WIP)
- Game terms
Newcomer Survival
- The first day / Beginner's guide
- 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
- Advancement guide[upcoming] (WIP)
- Colonizing
- Combat
- Creating a village
- Dual wielding
- End survival
- Exploring caverns
- Hitboxes
- Complete main adventure
- Furniture
- Horses
- How to find caves
- Mapping
- Measuring distance
- Nether fortresses
- Nether hub
- Nether portals
- Nether survival
- Organization
- Pillar jumping
- Player versus Player
- Multiplayer PvP bases
- Time-saving tips
- Village mechanics
- Zombie siege defense
Construction
- Adding beauty to constructions
- Airlock
- Architectural terms
- Building a metropolis
- Building safe homes
- Defense
- Elevators
- Pig parking
- Roof types
- Curved roofs
- Roof construction guidelines
- Roof decorations
- Secret door
- Settlement guide
- Underwater home
- Walls and buttresses
- Water gate
- Water tram
- Ranches
Storage Solutions
Challenges
- Adventure survival
- Beating a challenge map
- Creating a challenge map
- Defeating an ocean monument
- Defeating an end city
- Defeating temples
- Hardcore mode
- How to survive in a single area indefinitely
- Survival in an infinite desert
- Nomadic experience
- Superflat survival
- Ultra hardcore survival
- Hiding chests
- Island survival
Exploiting buggy behavior
- Block and item duplication
- Breaking bedrock
- Ghost blocks
- Headless pistons
- Indestructible ender crystals
- Respawning the ender dragon with fewer crystals
Mining
These tutorials provide information on useful mining techniques.
Farming
These tutorials provide information on crop and mob farming.
Items
- Cactus
- Cake
- Carrot, Potato, and Wheat
- Cocoa bean
- Egg, feather and chicken
- Flower
- Fish
- Ice
- Meat
- Mushroom
- Music disc
- Nether wart
- Pumpkin and melon
- Snow
- Sugar cane
- Tree
- Chorus fruit
Mobs
- Mob farming
- Mob grinding
- Battery farming
- Monster spawner traps
- Animals
- Blaze
- Charged creeper
- Enderman
- Guardian
- Iron golem
- Magma cube
- Skeleton and zombie horses
- Slime
- Squid
- Witch
- Wither
- Wither skeleton
- Zombie pigman
Enchanting and smelting
These tutorials provide information on how the furnaces and the enchantment system work.
Mechanisms
These tutorials provide information on redstone mechanisms.
Basic Redstone
- Command block
- Dispenser randomizer
- Flying technologies
- Hopper
- Item elevator
- Mechanisms
- Passlock door
- Redstone machines
- Redstone music
- Rube Goldberg machine
- Observer stabilizer
Detectors
Minecarts
- Train station
- Minecarts
- Storage minecarts
- Minecart start booster
Traps
Pistons
- Piston uses
- Piston circuits
- Quasi-connectivity
- Zero-tick pistons
- Instant repeaters
Redstone (Advanced)
- Advanced redstone circuits
- Calculator
- Command stats
- Hourly clock
- Pig randomiser
- Morse code
- Redstone telegraph
- Redstone clock 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
- Ramdisk enabled server
Technical
These tutorials provide information on technical matters, such as 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
- Improving frame rate
- Update Java to latest version
- Falling blocks
- Making custom game music
Creating Minecraft Media
Pocket Edition only
- Pocket Edition
- Creating resource pack add-ons
- Pocket Edition entity components
- Creating behavior packs
Other
Outdated tutorials
The following tutorials are intended for an older version 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
- 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
- Update Minecraft — updating and downgrading Minecraft; no longer needed with current launcher
- Minecart booster — Minecart boosters were fixed shortly after the introduction of powered rails.
- Building micro shelters
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