The list below 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 10 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
Essential
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
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
- 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
- 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
Challenges
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- Train station
- Minecarts
- Storage minecarts
- Minecart start booster
- Digital minecart storage system
Traps
Pistons
- Instant repeaters
- Piston circuits
- Piston doors
- Piston uses
- Quasi-connectivity
- Zero-tick pistons
Redstone (Advanced)
- Advanced redstone circuits
- Arithmetic logic
- Calculator
- Printers
- Command stats
- Hourly clock
- Morse code
- Redstone telegraph
- Redstone computers
Servers
These 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 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
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.
- 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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