The Ultimate Player’s Guide to MINECRAFT Stephen O’Brien 800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 USA
ii The Ultimate Player’s Guide to Minecraft The Ultimate Player’s Guide to Minecraft Copyright © 2014 by Que Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book shall be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. No patent liability is assumed with respect to the use of the information contained herein.
iii Contents at a Glance Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1 Getting Started 7 CHAPTER 2 First-Night Survival CHAPTER 3 Gathering Resources CHAPTER 4 Mining CHAPTER 5 Combat School CHAPTER 6 Crop Farming 103 CHAPTER 7 Taming Mobs 125 CHAPTER 8 Creative Construction CHAPTER 9 Redstone, Rails, and More 23 47 69 83 137 159 CHAPTER 10 Enchanting, Anvils, and Brewing CHAPTER 11 Villages and Other Structures 195 217 CHAPTER 12 Playing Through: The Nether and The End CHAPTER 13 Mods and Multipla
iv The Ultimate Player’s Guide to Minecraft Table of Contents Introduction 1 What’s in This Book 2 How to Use This Book Crafting Recipes 4 4 There’s More Online… Chapter 1 Getting Started 5 7 Registering and Downloading 7 Registering a Mojang Account Purchasing Minecraft Launching Minecraft 8 10 12 Starting a New Game 14 Choosing a World Generation Style Singleplayer Game Modes 16 Seeding Your World Controls 19 The Bottom Line Chapter 2 18 20 First-Night Survival 23 Survive and T
Table of Contents Avoiding Monsters 55 Hunger Management 58 Your Mission: Food, Resources, and Reconnaissance Food on the Run 61 Finding a Building Site 63 A Resourceful Guide to the Creative Mode Inventory The Bottom Line Chapter 4 Mining 68 69 Dig Deep, My Friend 69 The Mining Layer Cake Guide 71 Lava Lakes and Other Pitfalls 73 Descending to Layer 11 74 The 2x1 Ladder Descent The Straight Staircase The Spiral Staircase 74 76 77 Layouts for Fast, Efficient Mining Staying Safe While
vi The Ultimate Player’s Guide to Minecraft Weapons and Armor Swordcraft 95 Bows and Arrows Armor-All 94 95 98 Color Coordinate Your Leather Chapter 6 The Bottom Line 101 Crop Farming 103 Choosing a Crop 103 100 Establishing a Farm 106 Automated Farms 113 Creating a Piston Harvester Sticky Piston Harvesting 119 Creating a Water Harvester Harvesting Other Crops 117 119 122 The Bottom Line 123 Chapter 7 Taming Mobs 125 Farming and Working with Friendly Mobs 125 Using Leads 128 Breedi
Table of Contents Chapter 9 Redstone, Rails, and More 159 Seeing Red: A Beginner’s Guide 160 Power Sources 160 Redstone Wiring 164 Powered Blocks Modifiers 166 167 Repeaters 168 Comparators 170 Output Devices 171 Automatic Doors 173 Vertical Currents 178 Advanced Circuits 180 NOT Gates, aka Inverters 180 OR Gates, or Any Input Will Do 181 AND Gates, Two True 182 Repeater Loops 184 Rail Transport 185 Have Minecart, Will Travel 186 Rolling on Rails 188 Making Tracks and Stations 190 T-J
viii The Ultimate Player’s Guide to Minecraft Hammer It Out with the Anvil Brewing Potions 207 209 Brewing Up a Storm Enhancing Potions The Bottom Line 211 214 215 Chapter 11 Villages and Other Structures Village Life 217 217 Emerald City: Your Ticket to Trade 220 Hidden Temples and Other Structures Desert Temples 223 Jungle Temples 224 222 Witch Huts 224 Dungeons 225 Abandoned Mineshafts Strongholds 226 226 Nether Fortresses 227 Mapping, or There and Back Again Crafting a Clock 229
Table of Contents Chapter 13 Mods and Multiplayer 251 Customizing Your Experience 251 Changing the Skin You’re In 252 Minecraft Skin Editors 253 Skincraft 253 Minecraftskins Novaskin 253 254 Resource Packs: Change Your World Mind My Mods 258 Installing Forge Mods Too Many Items 261 More Explosives 262 Super Heroes 262 REI’s MiniMap 263 Legendary Beasts More Mobs 259 263 264 Multiplayer Madness 265 Sharing and Joining on LAN 266 Joining a Multiplayer Server Hosting a Multiplayer Serve
x The Ultimate Player’s Guide to Minecraft About the Author Stephen O’Brien is an Australian-born writer and entrepreneur currently residing in Sydney after too many years in Silicon Valley. He has previously written 27 books across multiple editions with publishers such as Prentice-Hall and Que, including several best-selling titles. He also founded Typefi, the world’s leading automated publishing system, and in his spare time he invented a new type of espresso machine called mypressi.
Acknowledgments Dedication To Mika, who at age nine taught his dad to laugh hysterically at the sight of a pig riding up a mountain in a minecart. Laughs and love always, dear boy. Acknowledgments It’s an author’s dream to work with a talented team, and I feel like I’m having a better dream than most. After 12 years away from Que working on entrepreneurial projects, I was incredibly fortunate to step straight back into the fold of a fantastic group.
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Introduction Imagine waking one morning thrust from your soft, cozy bed into a strange new world. A square sun crosses the sky. You have no tools or weapons—nothing but your bare, knobby hands. You briefly survey the landscape. Hills and forests surround you. A cow lows in the distance. On a hunch you look for a Horn of Plenty—anything that may deliver something useful. Every other RPG you’ve played has plenty of stuff lying around. But it’s a fruitless search with no cache in sight.
2 Introduction Before I even thought about writing this book I found it popping up more and more frequently in random conversations among all age levels—everyone from my nine-year old’s best friends going on up…way up. Minecraft’s unique open-endedness offers an equally open-ended fascination to people of all ages. Fifty million of them, and counting. Clearly, Minecraft was enjoying unparalleled success for an independent production, but there was something strange going on.
What’s in This Book Q Chapter 2, “First-Night Survival,” is an essential strategy guide to one of the most challenging times in Minecraft. You’ll learn to craft essential tools and build your first mobproof shelter, all in less than 10 minutes of gameplay. Q Chapter 3, “Gathering Resources,” will fill out the skills you need to build a permanent base of operations, create better tools, store resources, and find food to stave off hunger.
4 Introduction Q Chapter 13, “Mods and Multiplayer,” will show you how to customize the game, from new character skins to mods that add a host of functionality. And along the way you’ll also learn how to access multiplayer games and set up a permanent world on your own server for family and friends. How to Use This Book Throughout this book, you’ll see that I have called out some items as Notes, Tips, and Cautions—all of which are explained here.
There’s More Online… There’s More Online… In addition to the information packed between the covers of this book, I’ve put together a complete guide to all the crafting recipes online. Feel free to download! Visit http://www. quepublishing.com/register to register your book and download your free PDF copy.
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3 Gathering Resources In This Chapter Q Never get lost. Learn the secrets of the HUD and its hidden GPS. Q Improve your tools with more durable materials. Q Safely store your hard-earned resources. Q Learn the easy way to manage hunger. Q Build your first outdoor shelter and enjoy the view. Q Access the full Creative mode inventory. Minecraft is filled to the brim with all manner of resources, and gathering them is the first step toward getting the most out of the game.
48 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources 1 2 4 3 5 6 FIGURE 3.1 The HUD provides key status indications. Health is all important, but low hunger also leads to low health, so keep a close eye on both. 1. Armor bar 4. Oxygen bar 2. Health bar 5. Hunger bar 3. Experience bar 6.
Introducing the HUD but you can use the ability to do interesting things like building an underwater base. An example is shown in Figure 3.2, and I’ll show you how to build your own in Chapter 8, “Creative Construction,” as well as sharing with you some other underwater breathing techniques. FIGURE 3.2 Underwater bases are impervious to mob attacks, even when built from glass, but you’ll need to watch your oxygen bar carefully to ensure you don’t run out of air while building this type of structure.
50 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources TIP Showing Durability Stats in the HUD Press F3+H (or fn+F3+H on OS X) to display the current and maximum durability value of all the tools in your inventory. The value appears in a tool tip when you hover your mouse over that item. NOTE HUD Changes When Mounted The HUD changes when you ride a horse, showing the horse’s health in place of your own. The experience bar also changes to the jump bar.
Improving Your Tools 1 2 3 4 FIGURE 3.3 The Debug HUD provides a lot of cryptic information but can also help you navigate home. 1. Your location in blocks east of your original spawn point. Blocks west are shown as a negative. 2. Your current vertical height in layers above bedrock. 3. Your location in blocks south of your original spawn point. Blocks north are shown as a negative. 4. The current biome type.
52 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources Q Wood (60)—It’s easy to obtain, especially in an emergency aboveground, but think of wood as just a means of getting to cobblestone because, unlike the latter, wooden tools can’t mine the more valuable ores such as iron, gold, diamond, and redstone. You will at least need a wooden pickaxe to mine stone because doing so with your bare hands will just break the stone down into unusable dust, but after that, switch to stone.
Improving Your Tools CAUTION Don’t Let Tools Wear Down to Nothing! Try not to let a tool become so worn it actually breaks down completely and disappears. Instead, place two of the same type of worn tools in the crafting grid to combine their remaining strength into another and give it a second shot at life, or busting blocks. The recipes for crafting tools from all materials are identical, save for the replacement of the head of the implement with the material of choice.
54 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources Chests: Safely Stash Your Stuff Whenever you head away from your secure shelter, there is always a reasonably high risk of death. Creepers, lava pits, long falls—they can all do you in.
Avoiding Monsters FIGURE 3.4 Chests act as an insurance policy for your items so they aren’t lost if you die. Use the inventory shortcuts you learned earlier to quickly move items between your active inventory and the chest’s storage slots. THE CONNECTED CHEST Chests are undoubtedly useful; it’s difficult to survive without them. But you can’t transport a chest’s contents with you. Need to shift your stash of diamonds? That can make for a fairly fraught journey.
56 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources There are 14 types of hostile mobs in the Overworld. These are the ones you might meet on your second day outside: Q Zombies—Zombies burn up in sunlight but can still survive in shadows or rain, or when wearing a helmet, and, of course, in dark caves all hours of the day or night. They are relatively easy to defeat, and if any come after you, just head to a well-lit area and keep your distance while they burn up in the sun.
Avoiding Monsters mouse button. Keep clicking as fast as you can, and you’ve got a very good chance of killing the mob and picking up any items it drops before it lands too many blows. Try to avoid the other mobs for now. TIP Switch to Peaceful Mode to Get a Break Getting mobbed by mobs? Click Esc to open the Options window and change your difficulty level to Peaceful. This despawns all hostile mobs and allows your health to regenerate. But do try to switch the level back to Normal as soon as you can.
58 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources Hunger Management Hunger plays a permanent role in Minecraft, much as in real life. While it’s only possible to starve to death on Hard difficulty, hunger does affect your character in other ways, so it’s always important to ensure you have the equivalent of a couple of sandwiches packed before heading deep into a mine or on a long trek. Hunger is a combination of two values: the one shown in the HUD’s hunger bar, as well as a hidden value called saturation.
Your Mission: Food, Resources, and Reconnaissance FIGURE 3.5 The effects of extreme hunger on Normal difficulty: health depletes to just one point, or half a heart. Your Mission: Food, Resources, and Reconnaissance Your second day is the perfect opportunity to gather food and other resources and to take a quick survey of the landscape surrounding your first shelter, in particular to find somewhere suitable for your first outdoor abode.
60 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources Q Construction resources—You can mine plenty of cobblestone quite safely by expanding your original shelter, digging into the terrain. But some other resources will definitely come in handy. Wood is always useful. If you see any sand, mine it so you can smelt it into glass blocks to let light into your shelter, and provide a view. (There’s no point moving from your first cave into the outdoor equivalent of another!) Also keep an eye out for coal.
Your Mission: Food, Resources, and Reconnaissance Move carefully so you don’t lose your bearings. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and the clouds always travel from east to west, so you can always at least get your bearings. Following a compass cardinal point (north, south, east, or west) using the sun and clouds as a reference can lead you away and reasonably accurately back home again. TIP Finding Your Way It’s easy to become lost in Minecraft.
62 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources That said, unless you are desperate, it is actually much better to take the time to cook all your meat first. In fact, the secondary processing of foods makes them all healthier, restoring more hunger and saturation points. It’s therefore quite handy to always carry a furnace in your inventory, along with fuel. When you’ve finished cooking, break the furnace down with a pickaxe, and it floats back into your inventory.
Your Mission: Food, Resources, and Reconnaissance There’s one final alternative, and this is a pretty neat trick. Assuming you have reset your spawn point to a bed or are still near origin, head to your shelter, place everything you carry in a chest, and then head outside and either jump off a cliff, drown in a lake, or wait for a mob to kill you. You respawn back in your shelter with full health, a full hunger bar, and all your possessions waiting for you.
64 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources TIP Light Those Caves Check for any caves or tunnels close to your site’s location. If they aren’t too big, light them up with torches to prevent mobs spawning inside and wandering out during the day, or just block their entrance for now. So what can we build on this site? Let me show you a basic structure. It takes 34 cobblestone blocks dug out of the first shelter and 12 wood blocks for the roof obtained by cutting down the 3 trees that were occupying the site.
Your Mission: Food, Resources, and Reconnaissance FIGURE 3.9 The finished hut—basic but serviceable. And it’s spider proof. Although there is a large gap above the door, in Minecraft’s geometry the door fills the entire space. Spiders are also two blocks wide, so they can’t fit through a one-block-wide gap. You could actually leave the door wide open, and spiders will just gather outside and make horrible noises, but don’t do that because it’s an invitation for other mobs to enter.
66 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources spacebar to jump and then right-click to place a block underneath you. You land on that block instead of the one below. Repeat as often as necessary. Dig the blocks out from directly underneath you to go back down. Q Hold down the Shift key as you work around the top of tall walls so you don’t fall off. You can even use this technique to place blocks on the side of your current layer that are normally beyond sight. See Chapter 8 for more building techniques and ideas.
A Resourceful Guide to the Creative Mode Inventory TIP Turn On Cheats Turn on Cheats when you start a new world to quickly jump between different gameplay modes. Type /gamemmode creative and /gamemode survival to move between the main types. Q Building Blocks—Building blocks are used, as you might expect, for construction, including housing and almost anything else. Build a bridge for your redstone rail. Construct a dam. Elevate a farm above a level that won’t get trampled by mobs, or put up a fence.
68 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources time you think you’ll be in a tight spot, and you may just be able to make it through that moaning zombie horde. Q Tools—Tools can be wielded as weapons, but not very effectively. They are, however, great at digging, chopping, hoeing, and setting Nether Portals on fire with the flint and steel. You’ll also find shears for stripping the wool from sheep, a fishing rod, and a few enchanted books that can add special powers to your tools.
INDEX NUMBERS 2x1 ladder descent, mining and, 74 A A key, 25 activator rails, 189 ads (pop-up), downloading resource packs, 258 Adventure mode, 17 airlocks, building, 36 Allow Cheats setting (Create New World screen), 14 anchor blocks, 166 AND gates, 182-183 animals, 125 breeding, 126-130 cats, 127 chickens, 127 crafting arrows, 97 fences, 126 cooking, 61 cows, 127 donkeys, 127, 130-133 farms, 125-128 fences, 126 fish, 62 fishing, 134 food poisoning, 61 herding, 128 horses, 127 armor and, 132 jumping wit
274 Aqua Affinity enchantment Aqua Affinity enchantment, 206 architectural plans, finding, 140 B armor, 94 armor bar (HUD), 48 Armor slots (inventory), 27 Bane of Arthropods enchantment, 204 barbeques, building, 146 crafting color, 100 leather, 99 recipes, 99-100 requirements, 98-99 critical hits, 94 damage absorption, 99 enchantments, 205-206 End survival checklist, The, 243 horses and, 132 Nether survival checklist, The, 234 arrows and bows arrow slits, building, 157 crafting, 96 End survival checkl
bowls, crafting blaze rods finding, 234 Nether, The, 234, 239 potions, brewing, 210 blazes in The Nether, 241 blaze spawners, 239 blocking areas off (mining), 73 attacks, 95 blocks anchor blocks, 166 building blocks, 67 cobblestone, 60 furnace, crafting, 38-39 huts, building, 64 Nether survival checklist, The, 234 powered blocks, 166 Command Block, 267 decoration blocks, 67 diamonds, 52 floating blocks, 140 glowstones glowstone dust potion, 214 Nether, The, 238 underwater, building, 148-150 gold (material
276 bows and arrows bows and arrows arrow slits, building, 157 crafting tables, 29-30, 35 decoration blocks, 67 crafting, 96 End survival checklist, The, 243 fighting, 98 dining tables, 142 enchantment tables, 197-201 fireplaces, 146 Nether survival checklist, The, 235 floors (raised/lowered), 145 skeletons, 88, 96 target practice, 98 fountains, 144 frames (item), 144 branch mines, 79-80 griefing, 140 bread, 62 breaking your fall, 75-76 huts, 64-65 item frames, 144 breeding animals, 126-130 br
carts (mine) lighting, 155 mobs, 155-157 perimeters, 153-157 pits, 155-157 pressure plates, 156 towers, 155 walls, 157 shelter, 33-34 doors, 36-37 emergency shelters, 38 heat sources, 37-38 light sources, 37-41 signs, placement of, 141 sites finding, 63 housing codes, 65 walls, 65 sliding doors, 177-179 tables bedside tables, 142 crafting tables, 29-30, 35 enchantment tables, 197-201 dining tables, 142 tennis courts, 145 tool enchantments, 206-207 tracks halfway stations, 192 mobs, protecting tracks from,
278 carts (mine) TNT minecarts, 187-189 trains, minecarts as, 188 underground rails, 188 cats, 127 caves, 222 cave spiders, 88-89 doors, importance of, 85 lighting, 64 mining creating caves, 69 existing caves, 69 shelter, building, 34 chairs, building, 141 character skins, 251 changing, 252, 255 skin editor websites Minecraftskins, 253 Novaskin, 254 Skincraft, 253 superhero skins, 262 Steve, 252 charcoal crafting, 37 furnaces, fueling, 40 chat window (HUD), 50 cheats, 15 Allow Cheats setting (Create New W
crafting combat.
280 crafting books, 200 bottles, 212 bowls, 124 bows and arrows, 96 chests, 54-55 clocks, 229 compasses, 61, 227 Crafting grid (inventory), 27 crafting tables, 29-30, 35 furnaces, 38-39 heat sources, 37-38 light sources, 37-41 Minecraft: Xbox 360 edition, 31 multicrafting, 36 pickaxes, 32 planks, 29 shortcuts, 35 shovels, 33 swords, 32, 95 tools durability, 53 handles, 30-31 torches, 39-41 wool, 42, 43 Create New World screen Allow Cheats setting, 14 Bonus Chest setting, 15 Generate Structures setting, 14
debug screen (HUD) saving crops, 111 water, 107-108, 112 fences, 104, 109, 112 growth cycles, 110 harvesting, 110-112, 115 lighting and, 104, 110 melons, 105 Minecraft updates and, 107 piston farms, 113 crop selection, 116 harvesting, 115 piston harvesters, 117-118 sticky piston harvesters, 119 sugar cane, 122 water harvesters, 119-122 potatos, 105 pumpkins, 105 raised beds, 104, 111-112 saving crops, 111 seeds, 103, 108 self-suficiency, 104 sneaking and, 111 soil, 104 sugar cane, 104-106 automated farms,
282 decoration blocks decoration blocks, 67 defenses.
End, The tools crafting, 53 improving, 51-52 wearing down, 53 wood, 52 dyeing Feather Falling enchantment, 206 Fire Aspect enchantment, 205 Fire Protection enchantment, 206 Flame enchantment, 205 Fortune enchantment, 207 Infinity enchantment, 205 color, choosing, 130 dandelions and, 130 Knockback enchantment, 204 Looting enchantment, 205 Lapis Lazuli ore and, 130 methods of gaining, 196 squid ink and, 135 wool, 130 Power enchantment, 205 Projectile Protection enchantment, 206 E E key, 27 earning XP
284 End, The sleeping in, 242-243 strongholds, finding, 244-245 survival checklist, 243 trading versus fighting, 234 enemies avoiding, 57 creepers, 56 defending against, 102 fighting, 89-90 gunpowder and, 90 swimming and, 90 Endermen, 91, 246, 249 iron golems, 93-94 Legendary Beasts mod website, 263 More Mobs mod website, 264 Peaceful mode, 57 pursuit mode, 57 skeletons, 56 arrows and, 88, 96 as resources, 60 bones, farming benefits, 110 fighting, 87-88 potions, 215 spider jockeys, 89 wither skeletons, 24
fences chickens, 126-127 cows, 127 donkeys, 127, 130-133 fences, 126 fish, 62 herding, 128 horses, 127-132 jumping with, 132 leading, 127-129 mobs and safety, 128 mooshrooms, 127 mules, 127, 130-133 ocelots, 127 pack animals, 133 pigs, 127, 134 riding, 130-134 sheep and wool, 42-43, 127, 130 taming, 127, 130-132 wolves, 127 automated farms, 113 crop selection, 116 harvesting, 115 piston harvesters, 117-118 sticky piston harvesters, 119 sugar cane, 122 water harvesters, 119-122 bones and, 110 carrots, 105 c
286 fermented spider eye potion fermented spider eye potion, 214 fighting armor crafting, 98-100 critical hits, 94 damage absorption, 99 arrows and bows arrow slits, 157 crafting, 96 End survival checklist, The, 243 fighting, 98 Nether survival checklist, The, 235 skeletons, 88, 96 target practice, 98 combat category (Creative mode inventory), 68 critical hits, 94 creepers, 89-90, 102 critical hits, 94 enchantments, 204-205 Ender Dragon, 246-249 Endermen, 91 hostile mobs, 84 iron golems, 93-94 Peaceful mo
gates fishing, 62, 134 Flame enchantment, 205 Fortune enchantment, 207 fountains, building, 144 flint and steel mining flint, quick mining tips, 97 Nether Portals, 236 frames (item), building, 144 free Minecraft demo version time span, 7 Nether survival checklist, The, 235 floating blocks, 140 flooding, building underwater, 152 troubleshooting, 8 furnaces crafting, 38-39 floors (raised/lowered), building, 145 fueling, 40 flying while leading animals, 129 FN key, 20 minecarts with furnaces (powered
Generate Structures setting 288 Generate Structures setting Create New World screen, 14 Hard option (Survival mode), 18 Harming potion, 215 More World Options, 217 ghasts, 237-240 gifting Minecraft, 11 harvesting, 59, 110-112 piston farms, 115 wheat, 62 glowstones Healing potion, 213 glowstone dust potion, 214 Nether, The, 238 underwater, building, 148-150 health food and, 58 health bar (HUD), 48 gold (material type), 51 golems hunger and, 58 heat sources, crafting, 37-38 iron golems, 93-94 snow
inventory huts, 64-65 overhangs and spiders, 64 redstone, 67 HUD (Heads Up Display), 47 armor bar, 48 hydration farming, 107-108, 112 permanent watering holes, digging, 109 water harvesters, 119-122 chat window, 50 I debug screen, 50-51 durability stats, viewing, 50 indoor plants, growing, 142 experience bar, 48 Infinity enchantment, 205 ink (squid), 135 health bar, 48 hiding, 50 installing hunger bar, 49, 58 inventory quick access, 49 oxygen bar, 48 riding animals, HUD changes while riding, 50 h
290 inventory main storage, moving quick access grid items to, 29 L opening, 27, 30 picking up items, 29 placing items in inventory, 29 ladders 2x1 ladder descent, mining and, 74 quick access grid (inventory), 28-29, 73, 235 removing items from, 29 stacking items, 28 storage area, 28 Survival mode, moving items to Creative mode, 68 inverters (NOT gates), 180 Invisibility potion, 213-215 iron, 52 anvils, crafting, 207 Nether survival checklist, The, 235 iron doors, 36, 235 iron golems fighting, 93-94 v
Minecraft farming and, 104, 110 light sources, crafting, 37-41 mining, 70, 73 Nether, The, 235- 239 perimeters, 155 redstone torches, 161, 167, 178-180 underwater, building, 148-150 Linux, downloading Minecraft, 11 logins, 13 loops (repeater), 184 Looting enchantment, 205 lost, avoid getting compasses, crafting, 61, 227 debug screen (HUD), 50 maps numbering maps, 229 REI’s MiniMap mod website, 263 villages, 219 wall maps, 144 zooming in/out maps, 229 lowered floors, building, 145 lumberjacking, 26 M Mac O
292 Minecraft demo version time span, 7 troubleshooting, 8 downloading, 10-11 game modes Adventure mode, 17 Creative mode, 17 Hardcore mode, 17 selecting, 14 Survival mode, 16-18 gifting, 11 launching custom launchers, 11 logins, 13 passwords, 12 usernames, 12 logins, 13 Nether options, configuring, The, 238 new games choosing biomes, 16 choosing world generation style, 16 configuring setup, 14-15 creating worlds, 14-15 naming worlds, 14 selecting game mode, 14 pausing, 25, 74 PC edition, 8, 11 Pocket edi
mobs staircases spiral staircases, 77-78 straight staircases, 76-77 strategies for starting, 69 tools, required equipment list, 70 torches, 70, 73 unlit areas, 73 up, digging straight up, 73 way out, knowing, 73 wood blocks and, 70 miscellaneous category (Creative mode inventory), 67 mobs avoiding, 57 character vulnerability and inventory checks, 30 creepers, 56 defending against, 102 fighting, 89-90 gunpowder and, 90 swimming and, 90 defining, 18 ditches, crossing, 153-155 employing, 155-157 Endermen, 91,
294 mods mods, 251 defining, 258 finding, 265 Forge mods, 259-260 installing, 259-260 .jar files, 261 Legendary Beasts website, 263 More Explosives website, 262 More Mobs website, 264 multiple mods, using, 258 permanent effects of, 259 REI’s MiniMap website, 263 removing, 260 restoring games, 259 superheroes website, 262 Too Many Items website, 261 .
netting Minecraft Realms, joining, 268 multiplayer servers BeastsMC, 269 Hive, The, 268 hosting, 265, 269-271 joining, 265-268 Phanatic, 269 Shotbow, 268 Supercraft Brothers, 268 superheroes mod website, 262 singleplayer games versus, 13 whitelisted (trusted) players, 140 mushrooms mushroom stew, 124 Nether, The, 238 music, creating via note blocks, 173 N navigating compasses, crafting, 61, 227 debug screen (HUD), 50 End, The, 233 maps numbering maps, 229 REI’s MiniMap mod website, 263 villages, 219 wall
296 new games new games biomes choosing, 16 Far Lands or Bust, 16 game modes Adventure mode, 17 Creative mode, 17 Hardcore mode, 17 selecting, 14 Survival mode, 16-18 Nether options, configuring, The, 238 pausing, 25 setup, configuring, 14-15 worlds choosing world generation style, 16 creating, 14-15 naming, 14 night (first), surviving building beds, 41-43 crafting table, 29-30, 35 furnaces, 38-39 shelter, 33-38 crafting axes, 32 crafting table, 29-30, 35 heat sources, 37-38 light sources, 37-41 pickaxes,
potions passive mobs animals as, 59-62 pits, building, 155-157 pixels per texture (resource packs), 257 squid, 135 passwords, 12 pausing games, 25, 74 planks (wood), crafting, 29 plants, growing establishing farms, 108 PC edition (Minecraft), 8, 11 fantasy trees, 144 Peaceful mode, 57 Peaceful option (Survival mode), 17 hedges, 143 indoor plants, 142 pearls (Ender), 91, 234 planter boxes, building, 143 perimeters, building, 36 arrow slits, 157 trees (fantasy), 144 Pocket edition (Minecraft), 8
298 potions fermented spider eye potion, 214 Fire Resistance potion, 21 priests, 220 Projectile Protection enchantment, 206 glowstone dust potion, 214 gunpowder, 214 Harming potion, 215 Protection enchantments, 205-206 pumpkins, 105 Punch enchantment, 205 Healing potion, 213 purchasing Minecraft, 10-11 Invisibility potion, 213-215 negative effect potions, 214-215 Night Vision potion, 213 pursuit mode, mobs and, 57 PvP (player versus player).
security Raspberry Pi Edition (Minecraft), 8 ravines, 222 respawning, 18, 63 cheats, 42 Realms (Minecraft), joining, 268 redstone, 67, 159-160, 170 automated farms, building, 116 spawn points, building underwater, 149 Respiration enchantment, 153, 206 resting, Peaceful mode, 57 piston farms, creating, 116 restoring games, 259 powered rails, 189-190 redstone blocks, 162 reusing destroyed minecarts, 188 riding animals, 50, 130-132 redstone dust potion, 214 rotten meat and zombies, 85 redstone lamps
300 security mobs, 155-157 towers, 155 walls, 157 pits, building, 155-157 pressure plates, 156 housing codes, 65 huts, building, 64-65 towers, building, 155 redstone, 67 underwater, building, 153 walls, building, 157 water, 154 light sources, crafting, 37-41 overhangs and spiders, 64 pillar jumping, 38 tunneling, 34 Shift key ladders, pausing on, 74 seeds farming, 103 sneaking around hazards, 81 Shotbow multiplayer server, 268 planting, 108 servers (multiplayer) BeastsMC, 269 Hive, The, 268 hostin
sprinting Survival mode, 16 Easy option, 18 Hard option, 18 Normal option, 18 Peaceful option, 17 skeletons, 56 sneaking around hazards, 81 farming and, 111 Sneak key (Left Shift), 238 snow blocks, 235 snow golems, 92-93 arrows and, 88, 96 as resources, 60 soft blocks, building underwater, 148, 152 soil, farming, 104 bones, farming benefits, 110 soul sand brewing potions, 209-211 fighting, 87-88 potions, 215 spider jockeys, 89 wither skeletons, 241 skins, 251 changing, 252-255 skin editor websites Mi
302 squid squid, 135 stacking inventory items, 28 jungle temples, 224-225 Large Biomes option, 217 staging points, mining and, 81 staircases and mining Nether, The, 237 mineshafts (abandoned), 226-227 negative structures, 222 Nether fortresses, 227 spiral staircases, 77-78 straight staircases, mining and, 76-77 stations (halfway), 192 steel and flint Nether Portals, 236 Nether survival checklist, The, 235 Steve (character skin), 252 stew, 124 sticky piston harvesters, 119 stone buttons, 162 automatic
tools survival first night survival axes, 32 beds, 41-43 crafting tables, 29-30, 35 first-day tasks, 23-24 furnaces, 38-39 heat sources, 37-38 inventory, checking, 27-29 island biomes, 26 light sources, 37-41 ocean biomes, 26 perimeter structures as protection, 36 pickaxes, 32 shelter, 33-38 shovels, 33 swords, 32 tool handles, 30-31 torches, 39-41 trees, 25-26 wood, gathering, 25-26 Survival mode, 16 Easy option, 18 Hard option, 18 hunger, 58 moving items to Creative mode inventory, 68 Normal option, 18 P
304 tools tools category (Creative mode inventory), 68 wearing down, 53 Too Many Items mod website, 261 torches trading End, The, trading versus fighting, 234 with village inhabitants, 219-221 trains, 159 bedside tables and, 142 activated rails, 189 detector rails, 163-164, 189 crafting, 39-41 farming and lighting, 104, 110 halfway stations, 192 minecarts, 185-189 mining, 70, 73 mobs, protecting rails from, 192 normal rails, 188 Nether survival checklist, The, 235 Nether, The, 237-239 perimeters,
walls tunnels, 34 abandoned mineshafts, 226-227 ditches and, 155 doors, 85 lighting, 64 Nether, The, 237 underground rails, 188 U V vandalism, 140 vegetables, harvesting, 59 vertical current, 178-180 video cards (Minecraft PC edition), 8 Video Settings menu (game options), configuring The Nether options, 238 villages appearances of, 218 Unbreaking enchantment, 207 beds, 219 underground abandoned mineshafts, 226-227 dungeons, 225-226 rails, 188 strongholds, 226 underwater, building, 151 Creative mode,
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